Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1931, Page 4

A4 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C 1931 BATURDAY. ... December 5, ES....Editor THEODORE W. NOY The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offic L d Pennsylvania Ave. New otk Ofce et Gandlen icago Ofice: Lake Mic i irobean Office 14 Rex London, Englan L’ Rate by Carrier Within the City. ening Star 45¢ per month (when 4 Sundeys The Evening and Sundey Sia (when 5 Sundays ieaz t 60c per month | Radional Sooc: * Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and Sunday $10.00 16,00 All Other States and Canada $4.00 E_ . nday Member of the Associated Press 8 00 $5.00 ned | not otherwise crec the local news of publication of & also reservec | The “Cause” of the Marchers. Benator Borah gave good advice yes- | |ra | the terda representative of the | *“hunger now on their way | to Wast who called upon him to annou tion of the | delega to the cer of upon Senat different admissi he told the marchers tion and present a tion” The Senator added The people of the United States elect their Representatives and their Sena- tors. If we should adopt a rule of a mitting everybody to the floor of the Senate who had a question to present it would be rather difficult to find time for the duly elected Senators and Rep- resentatives to transact business. If I were you I would leave that out of my program. You have. of course, a | perfect right to come to the Capital and to assemble peaceably and to ably petition yor Government one has any right to interfere with the exercise of this right. I do not presume they will undertake to interfere. And if you are very careful to act in a peace- able manner your c ful to your cause. But if there should be resort to threats or denunciation or violence. or an attack upon the authori- ties, it will be calculated to injure the cause in which you are interested This is not the first time that pro- posal has been made for delegations of aggrieved people to enter the legislative chambers and present petitions and arguments in person. In no case has #t been accomplished. As Senator Borah says, the business of the House and Senate would be impeded, if not completely blocked, by such a practice. It is not necessary. In every instance petitioners have found means of getting their pleas and protests, their prayers and suggestions before Congress. Us- ually an indlvidual member of the House or Senate serves as a 1’ >dium of communication, in his character as a representative of the people. Often the presiding officer of the Senate or the Speaker of the House has acted in this capacity. The very suggestion that the march- ers enter the chamber of the Senate with their petition betrays the mis- chievous nature of their errand in com- ing to the Capital. They are out to make & row, to cause a disturbance, to treate excitement. They have no tangi- ble, practical proposition to make. They have no specific grievance other than that of dissatisfaction with the economic conditions now prevailing, a feeling which is shared by all citizens. In fact, they want no remedy short of revolution, No misbehavior on the part of these radical agitators who are now on their | way here will hurt the cause of the peo- | ple who ask relief through legislation | from the distressing conditions which | cause widespread un:mploymer gress will pass such laws as are wise a practicable, to this end, whether t hunger marchers come or stay away, or ‘whether, if they reach here, they have ill or badly. If their “cause the promotion of communism in United States, it will not be advar by any program they may adopt pursue. Nor be set back be the point of by t the Americar already beer Violence of cc with disregard of t congressional vailed marchers e tha Vice field to go representative of the | and seek elec- icate of elec- cert can it rejectior people fu condemned and here at the C ¢ established e which has pre- through periods of than the present, | resolution of this | nunism and all its uct stre ugh four major bittles but the opening day | got him,” is said year of World War veterans ughout the country. without of sadly scattered a scatcl the deer season every ch the| was only | reclassification | the principle of broaden tion legislation and of ironing out its| office and repudiate reparations, it is inconceivable that Prance would stand by without forcible protest. It would inescapably be a case of the Ruhr Val- ley invasion all over again, in some form, with consequences wholly im- measurable. Hitler declared bluntly yesterday that “bolshevism and chaos™ would result from French insistence on reparations. He did not say that a German Fascist government would op- pose France &t the bayonet's point, hopeless as such resistance might be. but the threat of a confiict not con- fined to words and rioting is plainly ndicated. The inevitable international ifications of another French debt- ecting expedition in Germany, amid the present disordered state of Europe. conjure up a situation disquieting to ontemplate. Herr Hitler is obviously not blind to uses of propaganda abroad. He foreign journalistic callers that if Germany has to pay both reparations d private debts her only recourse wi I 15,000,000,000 worth of | Ty year h tactics, pointed out, would dislocate de and aggravate the depres- under whi-h all countries are now sufering. The Hitlerite ruse of setting up such a boe v to popularize the idea of abolishin. -eparations might be more persuasive were less trans- parent. To dump billions of dollars' worth of German goods fereign markets would call for billions of dol- lars' worth of imported raw materials How would Germany pay for them As often happens when ultra-radicals fleshpots he naively in of responsible power salls. It emissaries is reported have been and French officials Fascism's bark will dangerous than its bite. The reassuring word is passed that Hitlerism will not mean disorder in Germany nor seizure of authority except by constitutional means. Hitler has reason enough, it must be acknowledged, to expect that another national election would see his party in the ascendant. All recent poll- ings in the Reich registered enormous Fascist gains. But with the reparation ue with France so brazenly drawn, a Black Shirt government at Berlin can only be anticipated with a shudder. that confic assuring British that German be found more Not a Battle, but a Truce. No matter where one's pathies lie and no matter what the merits of the controversy, the split between the | Federation of Federal Employes and the American Federation of Labor, which by vote of the former now re- sults in complete severance of rela- tions, can only be regarded as un- fortunate. The vote for severance, in the first place, won by a relatively small majority. Sixteen thousand, three hundred thirty-five members of the Federal Employes' Union voted for it But there were more than eleven thousand against it, and this will obviously result in a difference of opinion within the ranks of the Fed- eral employes over procedure that will last for many years. In the second place, the issue which divided an alliance of more than fourteen years' standing arose over a question that on its face was one that could have been compromised. It is a matter of regret that the efforts to effect a compromise were unavailing. The die has been cast, however, and the leaders of the Federal Employes’ Union have been supported in their be- lief that withdrawal was wise. It is possibie that the sentiment in favor of withdrawal gained much of its strength from the belief, heid by many for years, that the alliance between these two organizations was never a natural one; that the Federal Employes’ Union represented a different personnel from the skilled artisans who make up the vast majority of the American Fed- eration of La But the value of the alliance is to be discounted. If each organization had its own specific problems with which to deal, they found a common bond in the mutual aim of improving the status of those who la- bored, whether they labored in white collars or in blue shirts Now that there has been a dissolu- tion of this formal alliance, it can only be hoped that this unwritten bond be- tween two nizations will remain effort by the Federal employes to tter their tus as to pay, hours of , retirement, etc., should find just as much sympathy and support from Federation of Labor as ever. Re- dless of its source, any move in thi o not or b 1 should always find ready help | the Federation of Labor, bill supported by the Federation Federal Employes is. after all a bill. Its specific provi- sions may find specific opponents. But g reclassifica- from The of T inequalities should find united support The splic between the Federal loyes and the American Federation ould not be the signal for & battle the g of a truce dictions are more clearly outlined Jout destroying a common objective —tee. A dog in a Chicago factory dis- butes the weekly pay envelopes to sves, cach of whom he knows according to an item City. That implies that he so. Probably by next year keep books ———— Laughter and the Mind. is a sure index of a man'’s Such is the dictum of Gaum of Rutgers Uni- g at a conference held em- p but sign Jur wit Laughter Carl G versity, spea! Laval won | under the auspices of that institution the | The dean a program that breathed t Germany before squ system of political wi course, o er was, of rusting at France Whether by design or accident, the “Nazi" manifesto synchronizes with the departure for Basel of the Berlin gov- ernment’s delegation which is to lay the Reich’s economic plight bare before the Bank for Iniernational Settlements. The purpose of this exposure is to per- suade Germany's creditors that con- tinued payment of reparations is a com- plete impossibility Hincenburg-Bruening government sees eye to eye with the Hitlerites. Perhaps cynics will read a certain German method in the coincidence of the Hitler blast with the Basel meeting. pay | | moron, a _ | 1augh | man who can laugh at a supes | a On that score the | has elaborated upon the Tell me what you laugh at and I'll| tell vou your mental age. Laughter is indication of the intelligence, and of the degrees of la , the laugh- er at one's self rates the highest. A f-wit, even an idiot, can at other people's mishaps; the istom. a_tradition must be an observer; by | can genuinely laugh ‘at himself is truly intelligent. ‘Whether or not the highest and most intelligent form of laughter is that which is self-provoked, there doubt of the fairnet in general of the scale of measurement which rates the c n institution | objects of his vocal mirth, tae “sense of humor” of even a highly wherein | | from tition, | he man who is little mental quality of the individual by the Yet often intelligent person will get the better of the moral jucgment and evoke instant and hearty laughter at some misfortune that presents a comical aspect. Again this laughter springs from a reaction I the German Fascists should attain of relief from strain. Sometimes it is THE EVENING i festation of sorrow. “And if I laugh at any mortal thing,” said Byron, “'tis that I may not weep.” And Coleridge spoke of laughter as “Oft but an art to drown the outery from the heart.” Yet the yammering of the empty pate, the buffoonery of the clown, the loud laugh of the vacant mind are un- mistakable evidences. Subtleties of wit make no appeal to sych as these. They are as of a strange language. Yet the pun, which has been celied the lowest form of wit, has brought roars of la r to countless genefations and from persons of intelligence Dean Gaum, as far as he is reported, | not discuss the lack of laughter as |a means of mental measurement. Is | the one who never laughs at himself or at others or at any jest, however clever, of supermentality? He is truly a person to be pitied, even though he may be an intellectual giant. revealing quality of laughter is t to be measured by its volume. The ud guffaw, whatever the subject, is no e indicative of humor than the 1Tps even a. smile, he silent laugh There is, however, som~thing provoca- | tive about the ringing laurh that rises spontaneously and instantly at a worthy object. The contagion of humor spreads | from caccination, | Whether it was Ella Wheeler Wilcox |or Col. John A. Joyoe who first wrote | that immortal line, “Laugh and | world laughs with you, weep and weep alone,” it is ce tainly true that aughter makes for kinship and sile | for solitude. the you Engineers are hard at work on the problem of successfully g g {opera from the New York Met over the radio. The feminine 1 {can, as she pleases, listen in all dressed { up and wearing tiara, diamond dog col- | 1ar and lorgnette, or can be fi and eating peanuts opiltan | tener at ease A former Senator, Ambassador and Secretary of State comes all the \u\_v\ from Minnesota to Washington to have his portrait painted by an artist who came all the way from Hungary. Well | the American ralroads get a break on | the transaction, at any rate. — King Carol of Rumania has issued a royal statement, in connection Prince Nicholas' goings-on, that | prince should be allowed to make a with “no fool | of himself.” It is too bad that it is impossible for this to be made retro- | active. AT | Front bumper motorist A device wherewith a gives a slowpoke predecessor a gentle hint to get going. Rear! bumper: Protection against an incon- | siderate, incompetent and careless driver | traveling just behind one. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Progress, The base ball score Which we have cheered 8o oft of yore Has disappeared; The drama great Which raised a row Is a sedate Back number now; Buggestions bold In politics Which we were told Were Satan's tricks We now observe With tolerance And brace our nerve To teke a chance; Despite the powers Of voice or will This world of ours Will not stand still 5o let's m He fails who sleeps, The day that's gone Is gone for keeps. Y& on. A Conditional Opinion. “Do you think it is honest for a man to accept money for a campaign fund ‘Why answered Senator Sor- ghum, “if he really turns it over to the fund.” S | Considering Artistic Temperament. “By the way,” sald the architect, “we’ll have the star dressing rooms made sound-proof, of coursz?” | ecp the prima donnas from | being distressed by hearing the ap- | plause that any one else may reccive.” A Mendacious Age. is plain that Truth must rise again, As s3id in many a song, | But when she does she'd better take A parachute along Sincere Approval. “The piano sold you, merchant, “was it satisfactor; “Perfectly,” replied Mr. Cumros | "We've had it tested and it's all right | My daughter and three music teachers | tried out all kinds of Wagner on it, | nd it stood up in a way that shows regular tunes won't be any strain at we said the An Impression. “You t she married him for his money? | didn't ding as Teplied cem to m Ca > 2s much seculation.” ‘It ke a wed- Miss enne. Favorite Topic. When on his hobby once he moun He'll chatter by the he | His eloquence is not what counts; | It is his staying power. s, “Some folks,” Uncle | “prides derse't on bein' foresig i t dey ain’ got no Tespec a after tomorrer.” Eben d so ——— Nor of Aviators. Prom the Toledo Blade ! It is obvious that the W is not operated in the int ball. M her Bureau v Hoover’s Turn. From the On a World H d. Maybe Mrs. Hcover can get housecleaning done, naw that all the visitors from atroad have d:paried. = ——— Grid Stars Go West, STAR, i foh comes any near-der dan day | st of foot | WASHINGTON, self-defense against an outward mani- | Elevator reform is necessary. The cars are just lifts, when they might be a great deal more. All a modern elevator does is take you up and down, when it might as easily entertain you The hospitable elevator, the friendly elevator, 1s coming. It may take some time, but it is on its way—up. The old-time lift is on its way cown—and out. About all the most luxurious elevator presents one with now is a mirror, and some have even banned that in the interests of efficiency. * X ok % W:ith the ladies, however—and l?*.e men, too, for that matter—and you will see that every one of these escalators ought to have a looking glass. But that 1s not all well be a small shelf, preferably of clear glass. . On this shelf the ladies could rest thelr rouge boxes psticks while indulging in a little refurbishing. The nonchalance of the ladies in their public toilets will always remain a mystery to men, who sneak when th look into the glass to see if their tles sit right. “I'm not really trying to look at my- self,” a young man seems to be saying. o happen to see myself and will look away shortly.” A woman, unafraid, aloud “Well, boys, watch me! A little touc to my lips, a touch or two to my hair, a little color here, and then you will <ee something!" X ok ok ok If men must take off their hats in elevators, there might as well be a row of friendly hooks around the interior of fairly cries i the car to get the hats out of the way. Whatever one may think of the merits | or demerits of this custom, it happe: hat 99 out of every 100 men still ob- serve it. Maybe 50 of them do not believe in it, but men do a great many things they do not believe in 1t 15 the custom—others are doing it; v are ashamed not to do it 1e result is in elevators that men hold their hats over their hearts gal- lantly, and thereby crowd the car still It has been estimated that the hats ne small woman Three hats, of either felt or straw, prevent the entrance of a large lady the sort called fat behind her back). W Now, this is a terrible waste. If there were a Tow of hooks pro- vided, at about the 6-foot level, say, all hats could be parked there for the dura- tion of the ride, There they would be, snugly on their entirely out of the way of the flic Men could save themselves deal of trouble by the moment waiting until { getting off. Some men cpposed to removing their hats in elevators, on solid principles, they claim, have a notion that they can escape when they find no woman presen: hy a great anging up their hats they entered instead of just two floors before k hey are in error. No ele- any modern building can rise s three floors, cr four at the without taking on one or more ere is nothing more distressing to male passenger than to look into the see that his hat is on straight d his tie well tied, and then to be a Is Surprise in the victory of Richard M. Kleberg, pus Chrisii Democrat, over the Re- publican nominee for the congressional scat of the late Harry M. Wurzbach, Republican, in the recent Texas elec- tion. Hardly lest surprising was the fact that a second Democratic nominee polled a larger vote than the Republi- can cancidate. Considered as signifi- cant factors in the election were the popularity of the issues sponsored by Mr. Kleberg: a general opposition to administration policies, particularly the high tarifi; the outspoken wetness of the successful candidate, while his Re- publican rival avolded declaring himself on prohibition, though he was generally beli-ved to be dry, and the personal popularity of the new Representative in a district which for 10 years had been kept in the Republican columns t} he esteem in which the late Mr, Wurz bach was held The result is “like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky” to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which thinks that have expressed a hope anywhere acj cent to the election figures would have been to make one'’s self appear ridicu- lous. The average Texan,” continues that paper, “regarded the candidacies of two Democrats against one Republi- can as making certain the election of a Republican successor to the late Re sentative Wurzbach. * * * W, turns disclosed one Democt. didate with more than three votes to one over the lone Republican and an- other Democratic candidate with more | than two votes to one over the concen- trated effort of the opposition, the fole lowers of politics conceded a complste ignorance of the situation.” The & Telegram observes that the “brings into the lawmaking cou the Nation a man of special k concerning an important istry of the soil—that of live stock production.” * * “The most interesting thing” says the Schenectady Gazette, “is that it emphasizes the fact that the deceased official, by his personal popularity, kept the district in the Republican column for 10 years. There are few men in | public life who are so much stronger than their part t can be re-elected constant y ag: g odds. When suct one of the greatest tributes that can be paid a man.” Refer ful idate, the Akron Beacon Jour- lls that he is “a former cow- boy,” and_adds es | volved: “The new Representative is an nti-prohibitionist, who campaigned pon that issue and upon opposition to policies of the Hoover administra- tion. The defeated Republican nomi- |nee. who was opposed by three Demo- crats, pleaded for a Hoover indorsement In spite of the division among the Democratic candidates, Kleberg won, largely because of the Vigor of his cam- paign and the popularity of the issues presented by him.” “The fact that Mr. Kleberg is wet is not significant of any change of senti- ment,” advises the Texarkana Gazette, ting that “the district itself is wet, his Democ d im the y vote, was e The Gazotte offers the a ner fact “Kleberg's in a measure to the born of blood beloved Texas. Doscenced from e son of Robert J i inheritance may be jucged from the fact that Kleberg County’s capital is Kingsville. The two names of the honorable history of Representative Kleberg is keep- ing up a tradition. It would be unfall owever, to Tepresent Mr. Kleberg as litically advanced by hereditary en- tailment. His own qualities of leader- ship and address have carried him to { popularity and success. Admittedly un- | tried in pc L . in that he is still unentangled | nal reca lig | with wet.” due, n the district and the comparative From the Rockford Reister-Republic Westward the star of foot ball em- pire has laken its way, as far West as it can gew npotence of the Republican party it- self there is showif by the fact that Mr. Kleberg's Republican opponent, seems to | Beneath each mirror there might as | of two men take up as much room as | Overturn in Texas Elec A distinct political upset is registered , overwhelm- | is the case it is | ng to the success- | cs, he has the greater op- | amazing hold that Wurzbach had | D. C., BATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | forced to remove the head covering a | floor or two before he gets off. | Fortunately for sartorial perfection the tie escapes | * ok ok ok | A smoking stand of some sort might | be installed, too. Since men ins out of season, | equipped for it | "A neat stand would take up little room and would offer a modern note. If our living rooms cannot get along without ash tri and the like, how | can our elevators remain so much be- the times? As it is now, men who are smoking cigarettes when they enter are forced to hold them down at their sides, and | thus run the risk of burning holes in their own or their neighbor's overcoat. Their neighbor does not take kindly to this_process. He, too, would be in | favor of an ash try. | And it is, of course, a great incon- venience when one enters a lift full of strangers to find one’s self without the st on smoking in and elevators should be T DECEMBER 5, 1931. THE LIBRARY TABLE ) By the Booklover When George Bernard Shaw was a young man of 36, author of five novels, which were little read except by kindly fellow authors expecting return in kind: when he Was a music critic, with a red beard instead of the patriarchal white affair which he now wears—he and Ellen Terry began an intimate correspond- ence, although they had never met each other. Ellen Terry was then 44 A famoue cnd popular actr in her fourteenth scason at Henry Irving's Lyceum Theater in London. The cor: respondence then bogun, over an opin- ton of & young composer {riend of Ellen Terry, lasted for many years, and was of the hature of what one critic calls “aflirtation on paper”” The corre- spondence, with & preface by Bernard Shaw and edited by Christopher St. John, has been recently published un- der the title “Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: An Intimate Correspondence.” In his preface Shaw says: “Let those who may complain that it was all on Ppaper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue and abiding 8id_of a match. Unlit cigars may be chewed, but cig- arettes in a similar state must be held sillily in the hand, g ey The hanging bookshelf, popular with interior decorators, might as well be | mpplied to the inner wall of an elevator. | There are any number of small books | which would go well in elevators. A | foke or two per ascent or descent would e rnough. In time this library privilege might |come to be abused. There might be some risk of the reading passenger be- coming A nuisance. Interested in a | story, he would be tempted to stay | aboard until the bitter end. This could be mitigated, however, by | furnishing only very small books, pre- ferably filled with jokes, so that the reader would not be tempted to take them too seriously. * ko¥ox | Automatic stops for every floor, both | up and down, might prove to be a handy | gadget. This would prevent operators from fiying past a floor and would save & | great deal of hard feeling all around, or all up and down. There is nothing more disconcerting than to push the bell, wait for the car, and then to watch it sail by, banners | fiying, smoke roaring out the exhaust, | bell clanging, whistles blaring. It is too much! “If I were the President,” exclalms | the irate would-be rider, "I know what I would do.” | Sure! | He would install automatic stopping gadgets. oa v x As a final concession to the great riding public owners of elevators should see to it that all operators are phi- | losophers. There is no man who sees more of | the ups and downs of life than the elevator operator. His is a more diffi- cult task than it looks The perfect elevator man of the fu- ture will be a real philosopher, one who preferably has come to discount the | mad rush for money and power which characterizes humanity and who is will- ing to sit and brood upon the vagaries of mankind. Our philosophic elevator man will be a little Socrates without the old man's sting, a rising and falling Plato with- out his profundity. Quips and jests he will know not, only the broad aspects of the human problem. And his passengers will come to believe at last that he coes as much | 800d, talking up and down, as many an- other who claborates hot air in a more showy fashion. tion to Both Parties Richard Kleberg has already much time to the public welfare,” r cords the Houston Chronicle. “He may be expected to take in national affairs the thoughtful interest which he has heretofore exhibited in the affairs of his native State. In local respects his selection may be regarded as generally fortunate. No doubt Corpus Christi, with her f: that she would be benefited by an im- e Representative in Congress, and ncw realizes that ambition. San Antonio has always felt that the Army post and of most recent years the very large Army flying field ‘gave her the need of having the most able and inter- ested representatio Congress. With the best local intent, San Antonlo to this has heretofore made the grave mistake of backing a Republican. She felt that to send a Representative of the party in power was the wise thing to do. “Mr. Kleberg will take his seat,” in the opinic of the an Antonio Eve- ning News, “at a particularly cifficult time, when momentous, delicate prob- lemws press upon the Federal Govern- ment for solution. However, that ve circumstance will enhance the new Rep- resentative’s opportunities to serve, not only his constituents and his State but all Nation.” Viewing the election a5 s roaching a landslide,” the Roanoke World-News contends: “It | cannot escape observation that every- where the people have had a chance to express themse at the polls they have rejected the Hawley-Smoot tariff monstrosity and the log-Tolling way in which it was prepared.” “It appears,” according to the Spring- fleld (Mass.) Union, “that C. W. Ande son_of San Antonio, the Republican can- didate, dodged the prohibition question, though he was commonly regarded as dry, while both Democratic candi- dates declared for submission of the question of repealing the eighteenth amendment to the people.” The Scran- ton Times observes that the election “adds to the strength of the modifica- tionists in the Lower Hcuse of the na- tional Jawmaking body and gives Texas a solid Democratic congressional delega- | tion for the first time in 11 years.” “Mr. Anderson undertook to duck the prohibition issue.” declares the New York Herald Tribune. “He made no definite declaration on the subject, whereas his Democratic opponents stood squarely for submission of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the peo- ple. It is becoming more and more ap- parent everywt that the public is tired of straddle For ‘two years no | wet, Congress seat has been captured by a dry. On the other hand, the web | caus given Te is becoming too ap- parent to be longer denied by the drys or ignored by party leaders and candi- | dates.” | - Only Drugs, From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. It should be explained that the Lon- don drug store proprietor was not just prosecuted for selling drugs and medi- cines, but for selling these after the 8 o'clock closing limit. r—om Why Not Marconi From the Des Moines Tribune. How about doing honor to the memo- ry of the eminent late inventor, Adolphe Sax, with a one-minute silence of all saxophones every so often, or oftener? - Keep 'Em on Ice. From the SBavannsh Morning News. Science is said to be seeking “polar weather secrets.” They would come in right han too, in the middle of the next Summer season. ‘e | A Sure Thing. | From the waukee Sentinel. 2 George Arliss thinks this would be a have received about onc-fifth the vote | stupid world if everybody told the truth. that went to Wurzbach in 1930 at the general election.” No immediate danger,of its brilliancy being dulled, however. tegrowing young port, felt | | other people.) | Mr. Garland is always keen in rea lov The correspondence, . begun in June, 1892, was particularly active be- tween 1895 and 1898 (the year of Shaw's marriage), and was kept up at inter- vals until May, 1922. In the volume are 200 of Ellen Terry's letters, fewer of Shaw's, but she did not keep all of his letters. The form of address in the letters changes rapidly. In the earlier onas she is “Dear Miss Terry”; later she becomes “Ellenest,” “My Blessed, Dar- ling Ellen” He is at first “Dear Mr Bernard Shaw,” and becomes “Bernie,” “You Dearest Fellow” and “Blessed Dearest.” Both were born letter writers, and one feels that what each chiefly gained from the correspondence was the opportunity for self-expression to one Who would be sympathetic. Neverthe- less, they were probably of tangible benefit to each other, SHaw, when he had become a dramatic critic, gave her fdvice on her acting of Shakespearean parts, and she helped him in securing producers for his plays. X x ox X The subject matter of the Terry-Shaw letters is not greatly varied. The thea- ter interested them both and was their favorite subject in the correspandence. Shaw continually expresses—with con- fiderable violence—his ideas about the stage, especially his antipathy toward the old-fashioned theatrical tradition and his disappointment in Henry Irv- ing, who might have been an innovator and was content to remain conventional. He was further indignant with Irving because he considered that he was re- sponsible for wasting the talents of Miss Terry. He says in his preface: “To me, however, Irving's 30 years at the Lyceum, though a most imposing episode in the history of the English theater, were an exasperating waste of the talent of the two artists who had seemed to me peculiarly fitted to lift the theater out of its old ruts and head it toward unexplored regions of drama. * % * This correspondence shows how. because Irving would not put his pecu- liar talent at the service of the new and intensely interesting development of the drama which had begun with Ibsen, (and because he wasted not only his own talent but Ellen Terry’s I destroyed her belief in him and gave shape and consciousness to her sense of having her possibilities sterilized by him.” Th~ following extract from one of the let- ters shows how he carried on the proc- ess of alienation of Miss Terry from Irving: “Your career has been sacri- ficed to the egotism of a fool. ife has |warmed his wretched hands callously | at the embers of nearly 20 of your price- | less years, and now they will flame up. scorch his eyes, burn off his rum-bathed ir and finally consume him.” X aiale ‘The preface to the “Intimate Corre- spondence” is one of Shaw's clever es- says. The opening sentence warns off all persons who are prepared to be shocked. “In allowing everybody who cares about Ellen Terry to read this correspondence I must warn them not to judge it according to the code of manners which regulate polite letter writing in cathedral country towns. As a correspondence between a church warden and a deaconess, its implica- tions would make its publication im- possible. But the theater, bdhind the | scenes, has an emotional freemasonry | of its own, certainly franker and argu- ably wholesomer than the stiffness of suburban society outside. The differ- ence is less than it used to be; for actors, like the members of the other professions, have made their way into the general body of society and been accepted as ladies and gentlemen of the professional class rather than as {players. * * * (He explains that the actor normally expresses himself more { emotionally and with less reserve and | consideration for conventions than the average person, and that such som | times extravagant _expression means lit- | tle more than milder expressions from * * * I adored Ellen and did not tell her 50 by halves. And it never occurred to her to say ‘Sir, how dare you insult a respectable female by such expressions?’ Honi soit qui mal y pense.” Shaw tells Terry accordingly, Terry with the American actor James Carew, who had been engaged to play in_“Captain Brasshound's Conversion." “‘Who is that?' said Ellen, locking at him with quick interest. “That’s the American captain,’ T answered. With- cut an instant's hesitation she sailed across the room, put. Mr. Carew in her pocket (so to speak), and. married him. “he lucky captive naturally made no resistance, and some of the letters in | this vclume show how far the marriage was successful, though I cannot believe that James had any choice of his own in the matter. I was awestruck for I had not believed it possible for even the most wonderful of women to choose her man at a single glance and bear him Ooff before he had time to realize who she was. Shooting a lion at sight is child’s play in comparison, because it cces not matter which lion it happens to be. 1If you do not kil it, it may kill you, so—bang! But it matters very much which man it is when marriage is in question, and so swift a decision by a huntress who, far from being pro- miscuous in her attachments, was highly fastidious, made me marvel and say to myself, ‘There, but for the grace of God, goes Bernard Shaw.' " X X ok % r"Minn(e Maylow’s Sto; is the title of narrative Verse. In addition to the title poem there are other poetic tales and scenes in the vclume. The story of Minnie has for its setting primitive England, but the nlot is borrowed from an Orlental tale cf a king who ordered an endless story, with the hand of a as the penalty if the story came to an end. The reward was won by & nai rator who told of a granary with a hole in its roof, through which locusts car- rled away the grain, kernel by kernel, and the kernels lasted forever. Mase- original tale, * X ok K Hamlin Garland has reconstructed for in his autobiographical books, “A Son of the Middle Border, “A Daughtor of the Middle Border” and “Back Trailers From the Midcle Border.” A recent on the Trail” which is illustrated his daughter, Constance Garland. Dur- ing his life of pioneering in the West and literary study in the East, of radi- calism turning into conservatism, of love divided among the prairies, Chicago, New York, Boston and England, Hamlin Garland has known intimately many interesting and distinguished pl the ‘“companions” of his “trail.” The book 1s full of reminiscences of chance meetings and longer friendships, and lizing the significance of people in their periods, of events as causes or effects, and of literary movements. A v a Colorado tavern, called McCoy' 1902, where a typical picneer woman, gaunt and worn, presided, appealed to him as the drop of the curtain upon the pioneer period. koK oW C. F. Andrews, Gandhi worshiper, has edited another book of Gandhi’s own Stop a mnnute and think about this fact: You can ask our Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in & personal letter. It is a great educational idea, introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers, It is a part of that best pur- pose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. Addres letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Why has the Navy charge of all the blimps and dirigibles?—J. G. A. The Joint Board of the Army and Navy decided that the Navy should have charge of the construction and develop- ment of lighter-than-air craft so that the work would not be duplicated by the two departments. general election preserved as the ones cast in this country must be?—A. L. A. After a general election the voting papers used in each constituency are placed in sealed bags and taken to the monument room in the Victoria Tower in the House of Parliament. Here they remain for a year and a day. They can be produced by petition under the cor- of the first and fateful meeting of Ellen | ohn Masefield’s latest volume of | princess as the reward and beheading | fleld has made many alterations in the | us the pioneer days of our Middle West | addition to the series is “Companions | rupt practices act. Q. How far from Los Angeles is Sequoia Park?—F. C. A. It is 270 miles, and on account of the good road is considered an easy day’'s automobile ride. Q. Please give the story of the Lost Battalion in the World War.—J. W. B. A. The Lost Battalion is the name given to the 308th Regiment, United States Infantry, commanded by Lieut Col. Charles W. Whittlesey. Whittlesey was ordered to advance through the densest part of the great forests of the Argonne during the World War in order to take a certain point and hold it. Far in advance of the other troops, he was soon surrounded by the enemy and at- tacked for four days and nights. More than 100 hours passed without his men obtaining any food and only a little water. The majority of his command was killed or wounded, but Whittlesey refused to surrender. He was eventu- ally relieved. Q. What were the popular dances in the time of Washington?—I. D. A. The minuet and the waltz were among the popular dances of Washing- ton’s day. So also was the jig. Among the unusual names of dances were “The Successful Campaign,” “Burgoyne's De- feat” and “Clinton’s Retreat.” Miss Peggy Champlain chose "The Success- ful Campaign” to open the ball when she danced in Newport with Gen. Washington, Q. What does “Singapore” mean?— C. M. Straits Settlements is Malayan, and means “lion’s town.” Q. In what year was “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” written?— H. D A. It was written in 1822, Q. Are pigskin gloves really made from the skin of pigs?—U. S. E. A. They are made from the skins of wiki pigs, such as the peccary of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. The bramble scratches on these gloves are supposed to be an indication that he skins are actually from wild animals. Q. How many men have been em- ployed in building State roads this year?—sS. E. A. More than 350,000 men have been thus employed in 1931. | URJER PORANNY, Warsaw.— At the mass meeting called at the City of Torun by the Pom- eranian chapters of the Union for Defense of Western Polish Frontiers, a unanimcus resolution was adopted expressing emphatic protest against the amazing and heretofore un- heard-of utterances of the American Senator Borah, in which he supported German attempts against Polish Pom- erania. The resolution expressed regret that Senator Borah could be so short-sighted and thoughtless as to make statements | well able to strain, if not actually to | destroy, the historic Polish-American | friendship, sealed during the American Revolutionary War in the blood of thcse heroic champions of liberty, Kosciuszko and Pulaski, and further declared that the views of Senator Borah gave evi- dence of a disposition on his part to |lead the American Nation away from | the path of its historical mission. This has ever been a mission of defense for { the liberties and rights of weaker na- tions, and it was in interpretation of this mission that President Wilson and a contemporary American Congress rec- | ognized Pomerania as a geographical and racial entity, In the course of the discussions at the Torun mass meeting assurance was given by all attending, both for them- selves and for the people whom they represented, that they are all prepared and willing to defend Polish territory, wherever found, with every drop of their blood. nations, urging that henceforward such dangerous and inciting enunciations be prohibited, or at least so restrained in sentiment that chaos may not replace order in our country, and national ideals and values perish in the midst of spiritual and material unrest. For few but Poles are qualified to interpret Polish duty and prerogative. ¥k Castle Occupies Site of Montezuma's Palace. El Universal, Mexico, D. F.—The historic castle of Chapultepec, with its surrounding park, crowns a rocky height where once stood the palace of Monte- zuma. ‘The anclent building is en- circled by a grove of gigantic cypress trees, and from its terraces there is a magnificent view of the Valley of Mexico, and of the towering volcanic peaks which dominate it. Tradition and old records prove that for untold centuries stupendous_structures stood upon this elevation. Before the coming of the Spanish conquerors it was the home of the Aztec emperors, but those cat edifices have ed, and the present building is not more than two centuries old. Under the Spanish regime it was sdded to nd altered by successive viceroys and was occupied also by Maximilian dur- ing his brief reign. Today it is the residence of the Presidents of Mexico This mount and its buildings were assaulted by the North Americans dur- ing their war with Mexico in 1847, and defended by an intrepid band of young cadets belonging to the military ‘acad- emy. The gallantry of their resistance to the United States troops is com- memorated by a beautiful marble monu- ment at the foot of the hill. e | Headmaster Has | Right to Punish Pupils. | Daily Mail, London.—A caning inci- dent St. Andrew’s School, Sidney road, Enfield, had a sequel at dedle-‘ sex_Sessions. | The headmaster, Ernest Bernard | Barnes, appealed against a magisterial | order to pay £1 7s 6d costs in con- nection with a charge of alleged as- sault on Patrick Howard, nearly 12 rs of age. Mr. F. Levy, for the boy's mother, story,” “Gandhi at Work.” It is an autobiographical narrative, written in the first person. This volume is chiefly conce™ "% with Gandhi's struggle agaips ¢ Wace discrimination and ill- | o A in South Africa. For this he nofx‘ e Boers responsible. Gandhi | was im| ed by Boer leaders, Q. Are_the ballots cast in a British | A. The name of the capital of the | Appeals were made to | America and to all other peace-loving | long since. disap- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. What is the origin of the name of the ancient Greek city Sparta?—M. S. | _A. It is derived from a Greek verb meaning ‘“to scatter,” connected with English “sparse” and “disperse.” The name was given because of the scat- tered, irregular form of the old City of Sparta. Q. When was “Pomp and Circum- stance” written>—G. F. F. A. This musical composition by Sir Edward Elgar was prepared especially for the coronation of King Edward VII of England. Q. Which s the larger city—Lenin- grad or Moscow?—G. H. Y. A. Leningrad has a population 1,676,800 and Moscow 2,154,700, cording to recent Soviet figures. i Q. If a tree is stripped of its leaves, | will it still be able to live?>—M. C. R A. The leaves of a tree correspand to | the lungs or other breathing apparatus of an animal, since a large part of the tree’s respiration is done through the leaves. A tree stripped of all its leaves would die if unable to replace them, | although under ordinary circumstances at least part of the leaves would frow back. A plant may be said to die from lack of moisture during a dry spell, which is equivalent to the dying of thirst of an animal. Q. If it is known that John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln, was captured, why was the reward never paid?—D. S. A. It is known positively that John Wilkes Booth was shot and captured after the assassination of Lincoln. His captors recelved the reward offered by the United States Government. Be- cause of dissatisfaction among the 51 persons found eligible to receive the reward, the money was not allocated for six years. There were two com- | wittees appointed by Congress to ap- portion the money, but the decisions of these committees did not prove ac- ceptable. A third committee was then appointed by Congress, with the provi- sion that the decision of this group of men should be final. One hundred thousand dollars was divided among the 51 men. The largest amount, $10,- 500, was awarded to Lieut. Baker, chief of the Secret Service. The smallest amount was $200. Q. How old is Brig. Gen. Glassford, the new chief of police of Washington? —U. C. D. He was born August 8, of ac- A. He is 48. 1883, at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Q. When eggs are dipped in mineral il need they be kept in cold storage?— |N. L. Y. |, A. This process seals the pores in | the shell and thus prevents to a large extent the evaporation of water from the egg. Most of the processed eggs | are placed in cold storage if they are to be heid for any length of time. The process, therefore, is not primarily de- | signed to replace cold storage; but rather to prevent deterioration in the quality of cold-storage eggs. b Q. Please explain the Union Pacific scholarships —G. K. A. The Union Pacific system offers | agricultural scholarships in the follow | ing States: California, Montana, Ne- vada, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wy oming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Wash- ington. Annual scholarship awards are made to students of agriculture in vo- cational high schools. A $100 scholar- | ship award and a $50 award are made. Q. What proportion of the national business is done by check?—E. B, A. It i5 estimated that 95 per cent of the business done in the United | States is done with checks and credit instruments, Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | | said that during a Scripture lesson | Howard was shining a piece of mirror jon the wall. Mr. Barnes made him | lean over a desk and gave him one stroke with the cane. As Howard was | walking away he exclaimed to Mr. | Barnes: “You are a big coward to have | two men on to one boy.” He was then | given six or eight more strokes. Mr. Cassels, for the headmaster, said | that it was an ordinary case of cor- | g{;nld punishment reasonably admin- ered. | " Mr. Barnes said he gave the boy ons | cut with the cane. The boy was insolent | and declared that he should not cane him again. When told to lean over the | desk again he said, “Shan’t,” and added {the remark about a big coward. The strokes were no harder than were given | to other pupils, | Mr. Levy asked if during the first | four months and seven days of this | year Mr, Barnes had beaten 36 boys, as against 41 during 1930, making a total of 77 since January, 1930. Mr. Barnes—I! it is in the book. | “Is that the way you carry on dis- cipline in your school?” “Yes, sir.” The court unanimously allowed the, | appeal, but without costs. Sir Montagu‘ Sharpe (the chairman) said there was no aspersion at all on Mr. Barnes' char« acter. It was only right that a head- | master should inflict punishment, X ok ok X Chocolate and | Sausages for Ticket Purchasers. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna— Theaters in Berlin have had to resort to many peculiar methods to allure the public. In one of them on the Rollen~ dorfer-platz, chocolate bars are offered to the purchaser of a ticket as an in- | ducement to attend the performance, while in the popular and much fre- | quented Rose Theater every person buy- | Ing a ticket receives a couple of small sausages which he is at perfect liberty to eat during the show or in the buffet. One sees there during the intermissions | many people devouring “hot dogs.” 1 Hope for Southeast Seen in New Industries From the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post. | Gov. Russell of Georgla does well to | call attention of the other cotton-grow- |ing States to the fact that Georgia | farmers have, during the past 12 years, | reduced their’ cotton acreage by nearly a million and a half ‘acres. South Caro- lina has also reduced its acreage of cotton planting. The economic law is working in both States toward the re- duction of cotton growing, as it will continue to wock, perWaps until it reaches the vanishing point. Gov. Rus- sell points out tnat it is in the States of the Southwest, in Texas and Ar- | kansas and Okiahoma, that the great increase in production of cotton is taking place, and it is up to those States | to curtail the yield of cotton rather | than the States of the Southeast. | _And it is unlikely that this will come about. Instead th® Southeastern States, formerly the great producers of cot- ton, will gradually be driven out of the cotton-growing industry by the natural advantages of the vast producing ter- ritory of the Southwest, and will find in something else—in diversified agri- culture, in manufacturing, in intensive industry—a new economic conditien, sounder in all probability and more stable than the growing of a single staple, It is a slow process, but the only cer- tain way of accomplishing permanent results. Al the other devices which gre proposed will prove futile, Until the people see for themselves and feel the necessity of finding their way out of the impasse into which they have come there is little good in special sessions of the Legislatures to enact compulsory laws against any form of industry or employment. » ———— Fertile Highways. From the Meridian Sta No matter where a service station puts a pump, they always seem to strike gasoline.