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A6 = THE EVENING STAR With Sanday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY...December 12, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company cago Offi c » ropeas Office: 14 Regent & nel Rate by Carrier Wit vening Star B E u ening and Sundsy ndays Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ly and Sunday iy only ... ay only | All Other States and Canada E‘l(y and Bunday...lyr. $1200° 1 mc aily only 1yr. $800: 1 mo junday only 1yr 3500 Member of the Associated Press. The Associat, to the use fo P yr 1vr ma $6.00 34.00 s Press is ex licat or <of & are a pecial Cispatches © - - Congress and the Dist The usual flood of posed for the D, some of Tepr ered tho thorities for improvi tions, some of it represe of sections of the commur 1t representing the personal fancies of individual members gress, has flowed through the nels provided for such matter rests temporarily in the District of Co- lumbia Committees of House and Senate By the end of what promises to b s long and turbulent rict. ting o it whims a session a re tively small part of this proposed legis- | lation will have been enacted into law It remains for the members of Con gress, and especially the members of the legislative committees in both branches, to choose between the good and the bad bills, to separate the rcally important | measures from those that are intros duced merely as pleasant and somewhat meaningless gestures to please a few individuals. The members of this com- munity, unrepresented in the com tees or on the floor of either willing to trust their friends in Con- gress to make the wise choice. The danger, however, s not that unimpor- tant bills will be given too much con- sideration, but that the important meas- ures will not be given enough of sort of consideration that permits ener- getic solution of the problems they rep- resent. This year, as always, there are a number of so-called controversial meas- ures introduced along with the flood of opening week legislation, car merger bill, the bill designed to curb the indiscriminate sale of dan- gerous weapons, measures relating to procedure and regulations to protect investors in securities, real estate and homes and bill for the safety responsi- bility for motorists have been intro- duced or prepared for introduction. Few persons can be found to contest the desirable aims of such legislation But because there is a natural differ- ence of opinion over wording and spe- cific provisions, all of the “contro- wversial” legislation is at once threatened with slow death. ‘To argue that because a bill involves eontroversy, or that, because the people of the District are themselves divided over its provisions, there is little, if any, chance for its survival in Congress, is to take a wholly unreasonable concep- tion of the special obligations of Con- gress toward its ward, the District Columbia. The exclusive power of Con- gress to legislate for the District carries with it an extraordinary re y A willingness by the memb: ocommittees dealing with District of Ci lumbia legislation to undertake the real labor invoived in making a decision a then breasting the natural tide of oppc sition rising to meet “controversial” legislation would indicate, more than any one thing, the fact that this extraordinary responsibility is rightfully being assumed. Senator Capper’s sympathetic and defatigable work as chairman of Senate District Committee is kno and appreciated by the members of th community. The 100d that Mary T. Norton of New . come the chairm; trict Committee is tional interest, not man of this importar be a woman, but has already shown that of her own and is willing great opportunity for constructive work in behalf of the Capital City awaits he Bhe can do 4 ne spirit in the House District Comn will encour 5 consideration and pry District of Columbia I 10use, ar nsibil f 0- the likelf be th develop The average Amer of 43 persons an occasion wt persecuted ‘Willie is convinced he is the decimal. Garages and Parking. Ool. Ulysses S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, sug- gested the obvious soluti Washing- ton's parking problem when, in an ad- dress before the Arts Clu out that the n must go hand ir th on parking. These factors m indubitably be linked any plan to clear the streets of the National Capital of standing vehicles. One of the weak- nesses of other suggestions for attacking the parking problem has been the ig- noring of the question of what to dc with the automobiles if they are not a Jowed to stop. A motor car is certainly of little use if it must be kept in per- Ppetual motion. It s inevitable that soomer or later parking will be banned in the congested section of the city and perhaps all-night parking in the residential section. The trend not only in Washington but in every other large city is distinctly on these lines. But before any such dras- tic restrictions are put into effect there must be sufficient garage space to ac- eommodate the cars. This can be gradually brought about by edding storage space to all consists is construct and restrict in the downtown sections. * | work The street | w| one many | new construction in office buildings and the bullding of garages at strategic points :em Tecent constructions. Many people would undoubtedly prefer to keep their cars in garages the year round rather than expose them to the elements and the vagaries of other drivers on the streets It cannot be argued that the streets are not primarily designed for moving traffic, but there can be just as lit- tle argument against the stopping of | | vehicles on the streets if there is no | other place to put them. Other cities have been faced with the same problem | and attacked | There is no reason why Capital cannot do the The Pre three have success| the National same. v ——— esident’s Program. separate In messages the | er has set forth istration’s ogram for meet- conditions which con- front this country, internally and abroad | Yesterday in a statement to the press the President called upon the American people and the Cong pport his gram for economic recov the fact that the ust take are dome der s President Hoc economi to & ry, stress- major steps the | The Pres mes at tem iis critics t appear nt cc h a care of the If the ad ngress flights of of legislatin ractors ! |in C from w clves to the actual the recovery of | | prosperity, the coun be bet- | ter off. Probably this kind of oratory was | bound to come when Congress assem- {bled, but the hope of the country was it might possibly be omitted from and actual work begun orata | 4 5. Hoover lists twelve major proposals ndations for domestic a wide field of effort in the machinery, and government. In recommendations for the | a reconstruction finance | ) furnish necessary credit otherwise for the the Federal Land Bank to the destitute and | unemployed through voluntary contri- | butions; for assistance to the railroads for revision of the banking laws | |and the enlargement of the discount facilities under the Federal Reserve Sys- tem, with proper safeguards; for the | early distribution to depositors of funds from closed banks; for the safeguard- ing and support of the banks through the National Credit Corporation, a half billion dollar agency already estab- lished, and for the maintenance of the public finance on & sound bass, in- cluding drastic economy and a tem- porary increase of Federal taxation. The Congress should proceed to dis- cuss this program, which is entirely | non-partisan, and to make it effective with such amendments as careful con- sideration may find necessary. The critics of the administration, however, have so far given themselves over to | ascaults on the tax increase plan ad- | vanced with a proposal by the President ;nmz there be recreated the World War Foreign Debt Commission to deal with | any problems that may arise over the inability of the debtor nations to meet their payments to this country after the conclusion of the Hoover one-year | moratorium of intergovernmental debts; The recommendation that the War Debt Commission be re-established has been interpreted by Mr. Hoover's op- | ponents as a step toward the cancella- | tion of the debts. A perusal of the Pres- | ident's message, however, shows that this is an entirely incorrect assumption The President reiterates his opposition | | to debt cancellation. But he warns the | | Congress that there is not the slightest ise In playing the ostrich with its head in the sand; that some of the debtor { nations may not be able to pay, and | that this country should be prepared to | | 80 into the matter in a businesslike way. IFnr that work he proposes the setting { up again of the War Debt Commission Secretary Mellon of the Treasury De- | partment has strongly urged the Con- | gress to set up this machinery whereby an into the forelgn debt situa- be conducted. Mr. Mellon | and the President both have stressed | the point that the United States has red the capacity of the debtor to pay in making the debt set- They see no reason why this should be abandoned now. uld it. In his defense of the ent’s proposal to re-examine the | s of Europe Mr. Mellon has called n to the fact that the change the last year in the financial ation of Great Britain, the best cus- tomer of the United States, as well as f largest debtors, has added to the burden imposed by the ments. Because of the de- the pound sterling, Mr. Mel- lon has figured, the obligation of Great ain has increased forty-seven per nprovement business are | corporati not obt | strengtt | System | nquiry s r st | greatly debt cline ¢ 1t is the part of common sense frank- to face this situation abroad. A thorough inquiry into the debt prob- lem, conducted a commission set up by law, may become vitally neces- | sary. e In this vale of tears there are many gratifying sensations. Getting a mes- » Congress off the presidential 1ust be among the leade R Small Package Deliveries. ¥ your own packages! Such is the request made by the merchants of this city of those who are now doing their “Ch Not all | packages but those th ntly and safely be hands or arms. Secretary 1 the Merchants & Mamifac- turers’ Association, in voicing this pe- tition of the vendors of merchandise in the Capital, says that the self-de- livery of small wares is safest and surest, at this season. This is unques- tionable. The bulky parcels and pack- ages are the easiest to deliver. The small ones are the easiest to lose in the course of mass delivery. Conge- quently, despite the greatest possible care on the part of the delivery sys- tems of the stores, there are many de- lays and disappointments and some actual losses. The load on the deliv- ery systems is tremendous. There is no ar or al at conve can N 1 | {are |ward and embarrassing. | de retaining it THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, D ECEMBER 12, 1931. anything in the streets. Some will do it for the sake of immediate conven- fence and need, but resentfully. Some like to take their purchases with them because they ard surer of possession. At such a seagon as this it is better to bear some discomfort and annoy- ance than to suffer loss or provoking delay. True, busses are crowded, even as the stores congested. Parcel carrying in jammed public conveyances is awk- But better that than the anxiety caused by tardy veries and the disappointment of complete failure of receipt. The stores do the best they can for the convenience of the customer. On the other hand, the customer should do a bit for himself. e ing Carol should indulge in many a reminiscent chuckle when he reads Prince Nicholas' formal declaration of renunciation of membership in the Rumanian royal family, stated to be in preparation by the younger brother. However, Nicholas, he were a most unperceiving young man, might have noted his elder’s recipe for re- linquishing cake and, at the same time, unless ——— Four male University of California studgnts have returned from abroad de- claring that the girls of Trieste are the most beautiful in the world. That is pretty bad, and they will hear in the near future from their unchivalry However, that is only comparatively mild treason out in California. Wait and see the fate of some one who comes back with tales of & better climate A dispatch from Switzerland tells how Gandhi, resting in that high little country, “was out at 5:30 in the m ing, walking briskly and enjoying the scenery.” The Swiss walk pretty briskly but 1t is a good bet that the Mahatma if he really was out at that hour in December, gave them a real demonstra- tion s R It has been repeatedly explained that the Volstead act could be radically al- tered, or even repealed, and yet the eighteenth in effect.” to most minds, never hair-spli but the “wets” were A number of American colleges are trying out the “language house plan. which means that therein the foreign language being studied by the inmates 15 spoken exclusively. It might not be a bad idea to have such special resi- dentlal quarters for English. ————— ‘The sun, science has just declared, is something like & monstrous egg with a yolk in the center. In this discovery it has been long anticipated by quick lunch dispensers, judging by their sten- torian cries of “Two fried—sunny side up!” = Foot ball is treated with an exag- gerated seriousness out on the Pacific Coast, according to a Harvard under- graduate publication. Wait a minute! There is some sort of mix-up here Harvard had a good team this year. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Perils of Taik. Oh, bitter yet insidious fate 80 oft the finish of the great! What melancholy mishaps grow From some few sentences which show A heart too generously inclined To educate the public mind! A flow of speech all gratis stirred That waits not for so much per word Promotes & state of feeling sad. Oh, how is glory to be had? One man attains a lofty lot By frequent eloquence, red hot. Another wins Fame's kind caress Because of silent pensiveness— Which seems, indeed, the safer plan, Since all the history of man No sadder tale than this can tell: “He talked not wisely, but too well!” A Question to Be Considered. “Do you consider plagiarism permis- sible under any circumstances?” “Well," answered Senator Sorghum, “Is pretty hard when you find your- sell compelled to make a choice be- tween being interesting or original.” Thoughtless Reminders. ‘Some of our best friends manage to embarrass us by mistaken kindnesses “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne 1 have & loving aunt who insists on get- ting up birthcay partles for me.” Decorative Exchange. Reciprocal thoughtfulness ever sway; We give and we take to the best of our skill. Peris devises new fashions so gay. We make new designs for a coin or a bill holds ‘While A Question Resented. “Were you ever arrested before?” asked the magistrate whose principal business is imposing fines for speeding “What do you think I've been doing | all these years?” asked the chauffeur, “pushing a wheelbarrow?” Instinct. There are numerous fish in the sea And the big fellows swallow the small, And the next in size Seek a weaker prize, And the minnow has no show at all. There are numerous fowls in the air And they chatter and croak and sing, And the biggest swoop On the barnyard coop, Or the bird with a wounded wing. There are numerous beasts in the field, They bellow or bleat or bray; And the stronger strives For the weaklings' lives, And scorns to evade the fray. There are numerous men in the street, And we try to be good and kind; But we'll evolute O'er a good, long route, Ere we leave all the rest behind. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “keeps 50 busy talkin' 'bout how busy dey is dat de’' don’t git time to transact any business wuf mentionin".” ——— 0Old Stuff. occasion for wonder that some things In the are lost. or delayed in transit between residential district gersges should be store and home. placed under new apartment build- Parcel carrying is not popular. There uyuxmbeenuuuulnuv-uammpeopuvhomhm"wuu" 1 s Prom the Minneapolis Star An Argentine hospital is sponsoring radio broadcasts by the insane. A new idea in Argentina probably. But they're Jjust about 10 years behind the United States, as usual, . 13 the strect cars and the | amendment would remain | That seems to be a poser Ideas once may have been inspira- tion, but most of them today come from one of four activities, either talk, read- ing, travel or experience. Did you ever stop to think that the bulk of the thoughts which float in and out of your mi the daily life come from one of th irces? Perhaps it is not surprising, after all for these four constitute, for most of us, life itself If we read, if we talk, if we have ex- periences and if we travel, we have, in- deed, done a great deal These constitute one of the true Big Fours of the world It is not given to every man every day to evolve all by himself a really new idea New twists to old ideas come oftener I but even these so slowly, even to the most mentally active persons, that the gist of our thinking is at second hand Originality is much sought after, but seldom attained. “There is nothing new under sun,” according to Eccle- siastes, and that thought was old when it was set down, several thousand years ago. * * * The best that most human beings can do with thought processes is to make their own as orderly and as honest as they can Talk, in this process, must take pre- nce even of reading, as S the latter bulks to many Life is the al in-all, ingredient of living, wher 1 b may not be, strictly considered. d to himself on a desert nd think his own thoughts f ever, but when he talks he must I some one to talk to. Conversation, then, outranks reading as a gatherer of ideas for decorating the daily life. Fortunate is the man who friend or two with whom he to speak frankly. Only with such people will ideas come ‘into being, idea modifying idea, totally new concepts are grasped both sides to the conversation Such talk is & joy forever. It is only after one knows this sort of conversation that he can realize how pitifully inadequate are the inter- changes of words which commonly are called “talks.” One may feel terribly sorry for those poor diplomats, of all nations, who | have met so persistently and hopefully |in the interest of better international andings. ery one, from his own daily ex- perience even though deluded, men were up ainst: and how brave they must have indeed, to have undertaken dis- with so much held back on s dares | been cussions side the ideal talk nothing is held except what good taste demands. hod taste is the arbiter. ere are certain things which no | two peor |each other. de from ever, much ri here that new slants on life brought to us in the everyday life. Talking to one who knows a thing or wo and is not held back from saying it by the thousand and one petty sides of life and living, a human being in fortunate possession of such a friend will find his mental horizons enlarged. He will receive new ideas new ones of his own. They are new to him, they possess the merit of novelty, and he is thankful for them, whether he agrees with them or not. * ok kK Reading is the next great source of ideas Th these inhibitions, how- are o booklover at times may think THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL., can know what those brave, | in the world dare to say to | mains, and it is exactly | and evolve | | that books far outvalue talk in giving him mental steel on which he may strike the spark of intellectual fire. Certainly books hold & major rank. To live without them would be un- thinkable, literally and figurativel: They hold so much of life themselves, and come from so far down within the hearts and minds of humanity. Last week we read one of the most glgantic failures in recent fiction. The book was written by a man who has made a great success in another spe- cialized field of literature. This novel is his first attempt at fiction. It breaks down badly in the middle, and sags_onward to an obscure con- clusion. The reader gets glimpses, here and there, of real human beings, but mostly he is looking as through a veil, darkly | Yet the book is heartening. If one with such equipment and genuine abil- ity may fail so miserably in presenting a picture of life which should ring true but doesn’t, any one with a heart and mind intact should be able to do a bet- ter job. Perhaps this one poor story, failure though it is. will inspire a thousand lesser men to write their “one novel,” as every man is suposed to have in him and thus be the spark idea which shall have brought much good into the world When we stop to consider the wealth of ideas which books have given us, every one of us, We can but be grate- il to the men who have written, those who have printed and those who have sold Some envious persons, in the history ot literature, have seen fit to suggest that the ideas which come to us from books are not our own ideas at all, and therefore really do us very little good. cannot agree with these envious ones. We are eternally grateful to Emerson for his ideas, as Walt Whit- man was grateful to him for many a hought. Whitman's “Leaves of Gra is simply Emerson’s “Journals’ writf in anotber form. | Experience is the great giver of mental sparks, and the source which | best co-operates with all the others. The man who travels may be mute, and give oft few ideas, but he who has had experience—he must talk or write. He must get it off his soul. The School of Hard Knocks Elbert Hubbard called experience. Not all the knocks of life are hard. Some of them are soft, but bump you quite as effec- tively. Experience is the great teacher, in- deed. | One cannot breathe without having experience in the dynamics of breath, without coming to some realization of the universal forces, as_yet unknown, which prompted the psalmist of old tc exclaim, “How mighty are the works of thy hand, O Lord.” Whether we live in a two-room apart- ment or a home with many and elab- | orate bath rooms, experience comes to all of us, and gives us thoughts for | thinking our own life. As for travel, it is the fourth, but by no means last, of the Big Four of thought sources. He who travels, must see; and he who sees, should think, It is as simple as that. Those who have the time and the means to travel, to see this wide world. to glory in strange scenes and to stand | bodily (and mentally) in historic places | have a great stimulus to thought. | And thought is the supreme adven- | ture. He who goes to the Pole, actually, | goes there first in thought. There fs no other way. “I am, because I think,’ said a philosopher. ‘It is a strong, and perhaps arrogant, doctrine, but a great one, nevertheless. To talk, to read, to do and to go—life's fourfold path to something or other. n | | The condition of the raiiroads of the United States continues to engage at- tention with little unanimity as to plans for relief. Recognizing that under its latest order the Interstate Commerce Com- mission has remedied an original effect in its reply to the petition for rate creases and “permits” the railroads to r in their own way the re- m freight-rate increases ol- ecting the 15 per cent flat are not roads or as a res ervoir of loans to them. The comn sion, however, expects the stronger roads will carry out the spirit of their offer to make this pool a lending fund for the weaker lines. The commission reverses its original order in two re- spects, Instead of requiring the ad tional rates to be collected on a p. car basis, they are revised to the ton- nage basis, which better meets the con- venience of rallroad freight operati . the { proceeds a condition of the them commission leaves to the r selves the responsibility of this fund in the interest of the entire railroad structure. The commission not only goes farther than t ds’ 12- quest that the pool be placed on a loan b but admits it h authority to npel pooling uding the cha sion’s policy in cor “gifts” from nally proposed e commis- with the ads origi- y City Journal holds: “The ter uch gift policy, if it been insisted upon by the I C. C., and if it had become a precedent to be followed by State ity and rate-regulating boards all r ‘the country, would have been to ourage efficient management. ‘What's ave become. possibly, the by itility head- quarters; and, knowing that somebody could be compelled by the board to take up the deficit by a gift, economy ideals would have flown out of the window.” | LT “Something of the serious condition to which railroad securities have fallen is brought forcibly to public attention by the Wabash receivership,” suggests the Goshen News-Times, as it remarks that “much has been said concerning the importance of maintaining railroad bond values, because of their wide ac- ceptance as conservative investments by insurance companies and other invest- ing agencies whose holdings must meet certain requirements as to earn- ings.” On this point, the Louisville | Courier-Journal in its discussion states: “The man who has no money invested in railway securities, the man who is not employed by the railroads or by any one dependent upon them, while understanding that the carriers are ‘having a hard time,’ may not believe he is affected nor realize just how seriously the situation disturbs the en- tire economic structure of the Nation.” The Courier-Journal pictures this con- nection in its comment: “Almost every man has an insurance policy on his life or that of some member of his family. He knows that these pay annual dividends which reduce his premium or add to the ultimate value of his policy. But does he know that these dividends may be reduced or eliminated entirely - because of the railroads’ financial distress” due to the fact that “'of the $10,000,000.900 of railroad bonds outstanding, life insurance compani own one-third.” Unfair competition is listed by some Newspapers as one of the main causes of the financial difficulties of the rail- roads. On this subject, the Lexington Leader declares that “at present the railroads sre bearing an unjust burden. They are being seriously and adversely affected by unfair competition. r Tevenues are falling off and their credit is being impaired.” The Leader sug- gests that “the Government should promptly provide for two things: First, the consolidation of various systems, on the basis already agreed upon by the Eastern lines; second, for the regula- tion of competing carriers.” Insisting that “railroad mansgement will con- liailroad’s l;light Discussed, But Solution Unagreed Upon Newark Evening | Instead of making the pooling of th: | | tinue to face abnormal conditions so long 2s it has to face unrestrained and | unregulated competition from various | other carres that have in the past | been favorcd by public bodiss at the | expense cf th~ railroads,” the Charles- [ton (8. C) Evcning Post affirms that “permanent rellef will not be had until their competitors are put on a basis of | regulation and control that will at once make their competition with the rail- roads fair, and insur to the public the kind of service that the railroads are compelled by law to give.” * koK K On the question at issue between the | railroads and their employes on the subject of reduction of wages, the Yakima Morning Herald observes: “The executives have told the brother- hoods that a wage cut is necessary to save the roads. The workers mey throw the question into the hands of the Government Board of Arbitration, but the chances are strong that this | board would eventually order reduc- tion: The Oshkosh Daily North- western thinks that, “in view of the present financial plight of most of the | lined, " either mediation or arbitration would be rather likely to bring the same wage reduction that the em- ployes are now asked voluntarily to rc- cept. But there would be this differ- ence.” it points out—"A cut could be hedged with stipulations for a restora- | ton of the old higher scale as soon as | business conditions might justify.” | The St. Louis Times says: “Any on | familiar w'th the character and ear- | nestness of the men who make up the great railroad brotherhoods probably feel that they are giving very sericus | attention to the problems that con- | front their employers. Thousands of these men have been in the railroad families so long that they feel, as they | | are, a real part of them, w will have a sympathetic influen Referring to the several s~apegonts | blamed for the rail crisis, the Baiti- | more Evening Sun recalls: “The rail- roads have blamed the employes, the employes have blamed the investors the investors have blamed the Inter- state Commerce Commission, —some members of the commission have blamed trucks and busses—almost everything imaginable has been blamed by some one.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram finds much at fault in the ‘recapture clause | of the transportationy act of 1920. This paper says: “The elause requires the roads to give up all profits in excess of | 6 per cent. Its purpose was to empha- | size the community interest among | railroads and to provide funds for the | benefit of the weaker lines. It was ap- | proved by the courts, but has proved a disappointment in practice. It has hampered and discouraged the stronger lines without benefiting the weaker, sinee there have been few instances of excess profits. In times of prosperity the recapture provision has operated as a bar to accumulation of reserves for use in periods of adversity. It is di- rectly responsible for a large part of the railroads’ rate troubles at this time.” i | "o That Would Fix It. From the New York Sun Peace meetings in Paris and in New York's Chinatown have broken up in rows. The only way to have a nice serene meeting is to organize an asso- I h fact | r, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Several years ago Clemence Dane, whose real name is Winifred Ashton, wrote a novel in four parts, which was the chronicle of as many generations of an English country family, a family steadily declining, until it became ex- tinct. “The Babyons” is a piece of fic- tion of unusual distinction, such as it is difficult for an author to duplicate, yet Clemence Dane has this Autumn produced another family novel equally well done and of greater intricacy, “Broome Stages.” Six generations of a theatrical family move through its pages, and in the end the family does not die out, but shifts its interest from the legitimate theater to the motion picture industry. “The first Richard Broome was born in 1715 and spent his childhood making brooms. He sold them to the lazy gypsies and brought the half-pence to his mother.” Chance and inherent dramatic taste led him from poverty to czardom of the stage. One day the ragged boy saw a crowd gathered before an old barn. huge barn door was bar locked, and the children of the village, among whom he was already an outcast and a man, crowded round the crack talking their | nonsense. They said the actors had come. What were actors? He had never heard the word. He wrenched a slobbering farmer’s youngest from the door-post, peered through the crack | himself, and saw a fairy queen” So began the stage life and domination of | the Broomes. This Richard became a | successful actor and the owner of the Gloriana, or Glory Hole, the Broome theater through = succeeding gener- ations, X % xok Richard Broome the First was fol- lowed in both acting and management by the son of his second marriage, Robert, stage a granddaughter, Hilaret, who had a rocket success, but left the stage to | become a duchess and to produce 12 stage tradition. Robert was more in- | tense than his father, who became the substantial founder of a family. He made a religion of the stage and. when his son Willlam made his first appear- ance as Shylock and he realized that Willlam was a better actor than him- self, he shot himself in the rear of his box. - “In the mad letter he left be- hind him he very clearly avowed his intention, which was to put a bullet through his son should William fail as Shylock and so disgrace the Broome tradition. But should William indeed | prove a finer actor than his father, and the greater man, then Robert knew even better what he intended to do.” It will be seen that Robert was “‘tem- | peramental” Willlam was also “tem- peramental,” for he always blamed himself for his father's death, and at his own death, in the Broome box in the Broome theater, he saw his dead father smiling and beckoning him. To have averted tragedy on his first night as Shylock, William would have had to achieve success, but a moderate suc- cess. If father and son were cursed with tmperament, William's wife, Let- tice (daughter of that Hilaret, grand- daughter of the first Richard, who be- came & duchess), was a very practical person, both in youth and extreme o'd age. Lettice always knew what she wanted and always managed to get it. She separated from William for some years because she found him too exas- perating, but took him back when he needed her. Her domination over her son Harry was usually perfectly satis- factory—what she had always hoped for but never entirely attained in the case of her husband. * X x % ..There are many other Broomes in ‘Broome Stages”—none of them unin- teresting. Domina Broome, daughter of Harry, was one of th of the Broomes and carried on a con- test with her father which ended only Wwith his death. A famous actress in tragedy parts, a successful manager and business woman, she was yet really happy for only three years of her life— | i the years she spent with her elderly first husband, whom she married when she was 16, and his two old sisters on his run-down Irish estate, She was happy because for the first time in her life she was not criticized, she was never popular with her own family), because she was admired and loved. So| in middle life, when she was far too| young to leave the stage, she retired alone to the Irish estate, kept a diary, learned to think, and found a philoso- phy. Another very interesting Broome woman, really a Broome only by mar- | riage, is Elinor, wife of Edmund, the | son of Domina. Though Elinor eloped | with Edmund while the guests were | waiting in the church for her marriage to Lewis Wyblrd, her guardian, she long | outlived her romance, ceased to forgive Edmund his infidelities, won all their | children away from him, and was still & popular actress in light, mischievous comedy when he died alone one night in his big house. At the close of “Broome_Stages” Richard and John, sons of Edmund and Elinor, have Jjust formed a partnership to operate the old Broome theater as a cinema house. The Broome tradition has passed. * ok X % Son of a cloth finisher of Leeds, Jo- seph Priestley had probably :mall chance, at his entry into the w of becoming famous—that is, it would seem s0. But for some reason, as yet unex- | plained by biologists or psvchologists, he had an unusual mind. Ho we school and while other boys were ing “a little L tin and less G- acquired a good knowledg Latin, Hebrew, Syrioc, C Italian, Dutch, and so aitainments marked him for te.m istry and in 1755 he became a dissenting | m)mster. Later. as a teacher. he ‘ote his first seientifi treatise, a “Histery cf Electricity.” ¢ Acquaintance with Ben- jamin Franklin in Londcn gave an im- | Detus to his career of c-ientific discov- | ery, already begun fame today | sts chiefly upon his discovery of oxy- | gen. His blography, “A Life of Joseph Fricstley,” by Anne' Holt, emphasizes the diversity of his interssts. | * ok ok x “The Letters of John Wesley,” col- lected and edited by John Telford, fill eight volumes, which have been pub- lished in London. The letters are ac- companied by many annotations. The first letter 1s dated November 3, 1721, Wwhen as a youth Wesley had just fin- ished the Charterhouse School !und o= going to Christ Church College, Ox-| ford. As the years pass and the let- | ters become more numerous, they show more and more the ardor of this apostle | to the common people for what he con- (;eivedmuz b:krrus mission. He was no narchist, stirring up be people to re- volt against their rulers, bgz rather offered to the poor and suffering a hope of compensation in a happier future existence. That this form of comfort this doctrine of escape, helped many is proved by the numbers of his followers x K Kk ok ne?ld;rgu(ihm'u ",9% Marcus Cook Con 0 or of “The Green Pastures. began his dramatic career in 1915, when he sold some lyrics to a musical comedy producer. He wrote other plays before ‘The Green Pastures,” most of them in collaboration with George Kaufman, Dulcy,” “To the Ladles,” “Beggar on Horseback,” “Merton of the Movies,” Helen of Troy, N. Y."; “The Deep Tangled Wildwood” and “‘Be Yourself.”" ‘The * Wisdom eeth,” a success of 1926, was his first independent play. He collaborated with H. J. Mankiewicz in ciation for the promotion of violence. ———————— Use Ditto Marks! From the Oklahoms City Dlmkllnhun;:: hy not avoid a lot of n plat- forvrln yw-rmns by readopting the plat- forms the two parties advanced in 19282 Neither platform would be second-hand, for neither has been used. N Best Farmer. lendale News-Press. "m":r‘;mx man has won the title of the Nation’s champlon farmer. We don't know whether he won it by hav- ing the best farm or by getting most relief, Writing “The Wild Man of Borneo.” Mr. Colll‘ne y also directed the production of “Berkeley Square” in 1929-30. e * K ok ok 1 Barbusse, whose book, “Under Fire,” published in 1916, was not ac- ceptable to the French government nor to any of those responsible for carrying %nfl:lhe Wor]dlw?r.n?:cnuu of its too yal of sordidness and dem&?h?:u‘nfluenw of life in the trenches, is the son of a French father and an English mother. He is described as being both French and English in :floe-nnoe and characteristics. He is 1 and gaunt, like many English liter- ATy men we can recall, but he has long, Prench hands, He has practical the gray eyes and an English chin, but & thinkipg high French forehead, In his “The | e most dominant | | seems to be the Wall Street attitude, The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau main- fined in Washington, D. C. This val- uable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get | an immediate reply. Write plainly, in- | close 2 cents in coin or stamps for re | turn postage, and address The Eveniny Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Which foot ball game has had the largest attendance?—F. D A. Foot ball's largest crowd was 125,000, which assembled in the Chicago Municipal Stadium (Soldier Field) on the occasion of the Army-Notre Dame ! foot ball game played in 1930. The crowd inside the stadium was estimated at 125,000 with about 25,000 additional outside listening to the game with megaphones over the walls Q. What is the avera; {ating an automobile? A. The American Road Builders' Association, from detailed cost records reported on about 800 automobiles oper- |ated in various parts of the United | States over all types of surfacing, finds | the cost in cents per mile to be: Light | fours, 6.02; medium fours, 6.42; heavy fours, 7.20; light sixes, 7.38; medium sixes, 8.40; heavy sixes, 9.45, ge cost of oper- W. L How do they clean office build- ings on the outside?—C. R. R. A. They are now usually cleaned by sandblasting. Q. Please name some of the men and organizations who have plans to end the depression.—S. H. S. A. Economic stabilization plans have He also contributed to the been projected by the following indivi-'| duals and organizations: Gerard Swope, United States Chamber of Com- merce, American Federation of Labor, | children, many of whom pursued the}Forum (Jay Franklin), Stuart Chase, Matthew Woll-James W. Gerard plan for National Civic Federation, Prof, Charles A. Beard, and the Associated General Contractors of America. . What does the United States pay for battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines?—L. K. A. Battleships cost about $27,000,- 1 000: cruisers, $12,500,000; .destroyers, | $1,750,000, and submarines, $5,600,000. Q. Which State in the Union leads |in apple production?—K. L. H. | A In 1930 Washington led with 37,- 1 850,000 bushels. New York was second with 27,683,000 bushels and California third with 11,644,000 bushels. Q. Is a rat a grown mouse?—S. E. A. Rats and mice are two distinct types of rodents and are not different sizes of the same individual species. True mice belong to the genus Mus; true rats to the genus Rattus. Q. Which States will lose and which ones gain representation in Congress according to the 1930 census?—R. L. E. A. Seats lost—Missourl, 3; Georgla, 2; Towa, 2; Kentucky, 2; Pennsylvania, 2: Alabama, 1; Indiana, 1; Kansas, 1; Maine, 1; Massachusetts, 1; Minnesota, | 1; Mississippi, 1; Nebraska, 1; | Dakota, 1: Rhode Island, 1; Carolina, 1; South Dakota, 1; see, 1; Vermont, 1; Virginia, 1, and Wisconsin, 1; total, 27. Seats gained— California, 9; Michigan, 4; Texas, 3 New Jersey, 2; New York, 2; Ohio, 2 | Connecticut, 1; Florida, 1; North Caro- lina, 1; Oklahoma, 1, and Washington, | 1; total, 27. Q. Where is the island upon which Robinson Crusoe lived?—W. M. A. The scene of Robinson Crusoe’s exile is one of the Juan Fernandez Is- lands, which are in thé South Pacific, about 400 miles due west of the coast of Central Chile. Q. Is Eugene O'Nelll's “Mourning Be- RISH_INDEPENDENT, Dublin—To the Editer: This isie of ours seems to be the open arena for the display of anything and everything foreign, from cured, or half-cured bacon from China to Soviet shoddy, plus boots and blasphemy thrown in, knowing that the Irish are too busy wrangling about “safety measures” to care which. A vile and well organized campaign of anti-Christ preachers and scoffers are abroad in Catholie Ireland today. In country towns and villages the full fury of hell's hurricane has not yet been felt, but if we have patience they, too, will have a generous taste of the poison- ous vapors that it carries. Methods of this kind have bén tried among the Russian and Spanish peo- ples for years, and in Portugal, Italy and France, also with success. Docirines contrary to the teachings of Holy Church’ have been thundered from plat- forms, spiced with mockery and denun- clation of all that Catholic peopie,hold dear and sacred. And now, with “method in his mad- ess,” the modern anti-Christ, the free > agent, the preacher of immorality, of the Redeemer, 1 ivcland—the bulwark of the -as the congenial field for his ic and demoralizing doctrines. He me to s+ n Ic the seeds of discontent, | _——_—% ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. comes Electra,” a play within a and is it based on ?—LG,&M complete plays, compatible in cone tinuity, which make one very long play. | Hunted” and “The | 1s based on the Greek legend War, his murder by his wife, Clytem- estra, who is killed by her daughter, | Q. Wwhat honor did Alexander bestow | upon Apelles?—H. S. ist the exclusive privilege of painting his | portrait. | Q What is khadar?—M. G. A. This name is given to the coars( | of India who are determined that, by | boycott of British goods, forelgn ruli | Q. Where does Portugal rank in for A. Portugal has some 930,264 squan miles of colonial possessions and rank | sessions are greater than those of and the Netherlands. | Q Is Dr. Montessori an M. D.7— |7 oM of medicine. She was gradusted in | medicine from the University of Rome ;mown in medical work throughout | Ital | Q. How many varieties of birds are | there in the world>—A. L. birds in the world, about 800 of them | being in the United States. musician known as Blind Tom?—P. C. A. His mother's name was Charity to Gen. Bethune. Afterward he was known as Thomas Green Bethune. He | when about four years old, and was permitted to play on ft. | country, was born in 1846 and died | 1908, A. Station XER Is owned by IJohn R. Brinkley, de station and is located just across | border at Villa Acuna, Mexico. cheaper than it has ever been?—D, | 'A. Highwsy officials say construce | been since 1922. In 1931 six miles road could be built for the cost of Q. Where is the oldest microscopd in existence?—G. B. quartz found in the ruins of Nineveh, now in the British Museum. The during the Middle Ages. A spectacles maker of Middelburg, Holland, named build a compound microscope, in 1590, and presented it to Charles Albert, Q. Is it true that in a church in France a woman was set up on the A. On November 10/ 1798, the revo- lutionists entered the Cathedral of elaborate ceremonies, an actress from the opera named Mlle. Maillard, dressed | tri-color, on the high altar, installing | her as the Goddess of Reason. The son and it was not restored as a shrine of religious worship until by the order A. It is a trilogy cor of three | They are entitled, “Home “The | Agamemnon’s refurn from the Trojan Electra, and her son, Orestes. A. Alexander conferred upon the art- white cloth worn by all the people | will be terminated. eign possessions?—A. F. after England and France. Its o taly | A Dr. Maria Montessori is a doctor in 1894, and has become very well | | A There are about 20,000 species of Q What was the last name of the Wiggins. He was sold with his mother | was born blind, was first led to a plano | who gave concerts throughout Where is Station XER?—A. K. eposed medico-broadcaster. It is a 75,000~ Q Isn't road building consideral tion costs are lower than they ha five miles in 1929. A. The oldesi recorded nucruew: in existence is a plano-convex lens simple lenses came into greater use Zacharias Janssen, was the first ta Archduke of Austria. altar in place of God?—J: K. L. Notre Dame, in Paris, and placed with in white with a phrygian cap and the | church was named the Temple of Rea- of Napoleon in 1802. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands unbelief and irreligion in the hearts of the simple and unthinking. Much of our energies and strivings arg | wasted on weather-beaten political ace | tivities and uneconomic matters, while the enemy of our country's prosperity |15 using his opportunity to profit by ousr | carelessness; as is also the enemy of our | faith, who is intrenching himself in our | midst, with a view to robbing our chil. cren, and the children unborn, of thay | precious gift. | A strong, virile public opinion, in the Irish capital at least, should be power= ful enough to rout this enemy of our | country and cur creed before his blase phemy dces irreparable harm. FRANCIS PHILLIPS, P. C. (Cashel), | e i | Danish Officials | Intend to Stop Poaching. |, Berliner Tageblatt—Telegraphic ade 1i°°s from the Danish fisheries inspec= tors 2l Esbjerg, in Jutland, announce & Moty maritime warfare betweey | English end Danish trawling fleets 1§ | the'North Sea. between a Danish cuty ter and an Engiish fi smac] has already come to a regular battle, i= thf cl'lmgs: l?rrx which the Englishmag cut all his lines and escaped. Dar authorities intend to nopm = Tritorial waters even if somew hurt in tke process. | their te: body is Revolutionary Rail Rate. the Texarkana Gazette. Next Tuesday the Texas & -Pacific Railroad will institute a low-rate ex- periment in its passenger service that may have & far-reaching effect on transportation affairs of the Nation. On ijts line between Texarkana and Fort Worth by way of Paris and Sherman, and on certain trains west of Fort Worth, a rate of 13, cents per mile will be put into effect. This s less than one-half the stand-- ard rate of 3.6 cents per mile prevail- ing on_the railroads of America. It | will be®ried for an experimental period of six months, with the outcome, of course, dependent upon the volume of m:mc that is attracted by the new rate. With 100 pounds of baggage free, and half fare rates for children between the ages of 5 and 12, this is termed by off- | clals of the railroad as the “cheapest | ng;am of transportation in the world today.” From the public’s point of view, it is an interesting experiment, which will be watched closely. If part of the traffic now on the highways can be in- | duced to return to the railroads, thése mainstay’s of America’s transportation stem will see brighter days—they have had lots of cloudy ones in recent ars—and there will be less congestion on the principal highways. — e Waste By-Product. Prom the Buffalo Evening News. Ranchers say sheep aren’t worth saving after they are sheared. This also. ———— Cosmic Silence, From the Hartford Daily Times. Prof. Einstein’s strange secrecy with regard to his return to America seems positively sixth dimensional. has has French logic and lish taste for hard facts. e * Kok % Toward the end of the World War, | in Paris, Sarah Howick, wife of a gen- eral and a war nurse volunteer, is placed in the difficult predicament of choosing between her lover, John Gay, who is badly wounded, and her hus- band, who has been deprived of his command and needs her, though he is | too proud to admis it. Mary Borden tion in her novel, | Eliminate Luxuries and Prosperity Will Return To the Editor of The Starx There is a great deal of talk nowadays about hard times being caused by peo ple hoarding their money and refusing to spend jt. “If you have any money, spend it seems to be the great panacea. But is it that simple? Idon' think so. We must change our attitude toward life in general, “m(}c "balcik to 1927, ‘a8, 29, es. very one was working wanted to work. Practically all %3 ness men were making money. Most corporations = were expanding thetr plants and it was loosely predicted that prosperity was here to stay. And, mark you, everybody was spending. A new. ((,')ar-;the old one wasn't 7 r two cars, one wasn't en new and lafger housethe o onn wasn't in a classy-enough section. A new country club—the old one wasn't exclusive enough. New clothes every year. More trips abroad, more vaca- tions, more shows, more night clubs and golf clubs. More pleasure and less work. Something for nothing, or next fo nothing. = People wanted a good time without working for it. filb‘%‘re;‘s and craftsmen worked 35 and ours a week for ages. Why is it that no — 60 hours a week for half the money? Their changing and the; S “go0d all pleasure, but don't expeoct life of ease. A little cake u'b we don't want the whole meal cake. Spending? Yes, but be careful what you sentials and when good as they surely will, save a for a rainy day. Don’t “h save a little. Spend, but and when we eliminate +0Ren.