Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edl‘f'l“‘ WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. ...December 20, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Rate by Carrier Within the City. o Evening Star 45¢ per mol vening and Sunday 8 e Behing o inday Bidr o oonth ( 4 Sundays) o 1 ¥ ‘Siar Orde: NAtienal 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. i1y Bl i £10.00 All Other States and Canada. + 756,00 fly and Sunday £12.00: 1 mo., §1.00 ily only nday only . 3400 8¢ Member of the Associated Press. s6¢ The Associated Picss | ely ertitled to the use for rep atches credited fo ted In this paper published #pecisl dispatches her only y only . 131 1vr. $8.00i 1 mo., $5.00; 1 mo., tion 0! —_— 7 | this country with his bride, but his present whereabouts are unknown. The effort to get Sherwood before the Investigating Committee began in August, when Mayor Walker was on his European tour. The mayor’s associ- ates insisted that it was only fair to | him to wait until he had returned from abroad before examining Sherwood. It | was at that time that he vanished. Judge Seabury has made it plain that he suspects that the witness is being deliberately kept away by those “higher {up.” and yesterday in court he declared | that Sherwood “has not gone away b | cause he has anything to fear, but be- cause he knows that it is the desire of 3| the mayor to keep him away.” % | The old adage that “dead men tell no | | tales” has in this instance its modern version to the effect that the absent witness can spill no beans. —— 6 } Wanted—A Parking Policy. What the city scems to need as | much as parking space for automobiles, according to the annual report of the National Capital Park and Planning Commissipn, is & parking policy. “In Washington there should be agreement upon and persistent adher- | ence to a self-consistent and far-sighted policy, or group of associated policies, by the several agencies of government vesponsible in various ways for the bandling of automobile storage in the principal business district,” says the report, and it proceeds to list such : agencies as the District Commissioners, Budget Cutting. Budget cutting has become Uncle BSam's newest puzzie p to a couple of years ago it appared as though the Government had an inexhaustible sup- ply of money, which rolled into the Myessury in great waves of revenue from income and r ta Watch- dogs of the Treas so0 called, urged s paring down of expenditures, at no new jobs be created, that Government bureaus and new divisions be not add- ed to the already huge m administration. But the growled in vain. No one heeded them and their warnings. Today members of Congress and the Exccutive are in s quandary, try to make up their minds where the personnel should be out down or if it should be cut down end how to reduce expenditures for the many bureaus and services of all kinds which have developed President Hoover kept heads hard at it, cut down their budget figures last Su and Fall. Millions of dollars were lopped off the estimates, and then the Budget Bu- reau used the pruning knife right and left. But when bucget was sent to the Congress, it still totaled the huge sum of $3,996, This was a re- ducton of $365,000,000 as compared to the expenditures for the currer year. But the American p thinking more seriously todzy than for a long time of what thcir Representa- tives are doing in the way of spending Government money. The reason is a simple one. In these times of peace the Congress is going to raise the tax rates and impose new taxes on the people. The pressure, therefore, upon Congress to cut down expenditures, 50 that the tax burden may not mount higher than is absolutely necessary, is growing constantly. Leading members of Congress on both sides have become convinced that the country demands retrenchment of gov: ernmental expenditures. There have been many manifestations that Sena- s partment tors and Representatives have this in | mind. One of the latest was a demand by Senator Borah of Idaho that all sal- aries paid by the Government $2,000 or over be cut ten per cent. Another was s resolution offered by Senator Harri son of Mississippi pledging the Senate to a reduction of the appropriations for the coming year $300,000,000 below the budget estimates. Just how such a large sum is to be pared from the already reduced esti- mates no one has yet been able to show. the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, the Public Buildings Com- mission and “in the last analysis, Con- gress.” Conspicuous among the agencies not named are the office of the Archi- tect of the Capitol and the Commission of Fine Arts. The policy, according to the com- mission, should be based upon the doc- trine that “it is not a legitimate func- tion of public streets and parks to pro- vide storage for vehicles when not in use for transportation.” It should, if the commission’s advice is followed, ac- cept the fact that the Federal Govern- ment, which provides offices for its workers, also should provide the work- ers with facilities for parking their au- tomobiles. As for the rest of the work- | ing population of the city, the policy | should be so firmly lald down as re- | gards the extension of present no-park- | ing Lmits, and so cleariy enunciated re- garding the plans of the District Gov- ernmeni as to the garage business, that | private enterprise will not be deterred Eb,v any uncertainty s to what the fu- ture d2mands will be. Everybody will agree with the Park end Planning Commission &s to the de- | sirability of adopting a policy on park- |ing. It should have been adopted long 2go. As it Is, nobody knows what plans, if any, are under consideration by any- tody. There is an unwrittén under- standing that the limited parking area, now confined generally to the more congested sections of the city, will ! cventually be extended. The extensions | already made have shoved the all-day | parkers farther north and south, but the congestion in the Ellipse and around ! public buildings, such as the Capitol, | has aroused the ire of the Commission | of Pine Arts. But if there is any policy | it should be thrown open for discussion; ome effort should be made to find vhether private enterprise can be ounted on to furnish the public garage |space so notably lacking now, and, if Fnot, a serious study given to such pro- | posals as that made by Assistant Corpo- | ration Counsel Roberts—that the mu- | picipality go into the garage business | on its own hook. | The disappointing thing shout the Park and Planning Commission report |is the obvious fact that it can report | and report day in and day out without | obteining very tangible results. The | commission “has always” favored the There has been support in a number of quarters for a reduction of Gov- | Inclusion of garage space for automo- biles in the Avenue Triangle group of ernment salaries, while on the other in the Hand the idea has been resisted. If all| Public bulldings. But whay of it7 The salaries, inchuding those of the civil| MCClintock Teport of 1930, made after ! | great study and discussion, recom- service, the Army, Navy and Coast| 5" 5 Guand, wefe cut in this fashion, it has|®ended & number of things regasd been said that the saving to the Gov- | ing parking. What was done with 1 i 4t $150,000,000, | that Teport? ~Can anybody remem- ernment would be about 0,01 ‘The Treasury, Soggestions that salaries be nob cu|Der Whati was in 162 except those above $2,000, as suggested by Senator Borah, or $5,000, as sug- gested by Representative Rainey, Demo- cratie floor leader of the House, would materially affect the amount of the saving to the Government The reconstruction plans to aid the country out of the present business de- pression call for the sef least, of large sums of mor ‘Government, p: y the sale of bonds Recon- struetion Corporation, which would op- erate in a manner si t Finance Corporation during the War, will neecd a half billion dol for example, and the Federal Fa Banks will require a large s these plans. How to cut and where to c out hamstringing the Gove ice, 18 the problem. One t certain, however. TI w the appropriations if the pres of the Congress and the cour con- tinues, with a deficit of $2,000,000,000 impending at the close of the next fiscal year under ext: increased taxes certain to be needed. ———— ere non- be, Here is something to puzzle superstitious people, and, thanks thetr number is growing. Two men doing big business together by cable, but residing on different sides of the “in- ternational date line,” are both fearful of beginning an enterprise on unlucky Priday, or especially, Friday the thir- teenth. When it is Friday with one, it 15 & normal Thursday the twelfth with the other. Stop knocking wood for & moment and figure this one out. - ———— The Absent Witness. A New York Supreme justice has held in contempt Russell T. Sher- wood, financial agent of M Walk and joint holder with the mayor of safe-deposit box, reserving decision as to the penalty to be imposed. Judge Seabury, counsel of the Legislative In- vestigating Committee, has asked. that the penalty be a fine of $100,000, large enough so that those “who are keeping him away will have to raise & substan- tial fund to keep him away.” Sherwood's testimony 4n the course of the investigation into municipal administration to elucidate Mayor Walker's activities and possibly his unofficial emoluments. He disap- peared and was later located in Mexico temper | ing conditions and with | al required | | at some expense, emgaged National | Garages. Inc., to make a detailed study {of the parking problem as it concerns | the new building program. The report | was made. It is large and fat. But the | Treasury officials have made only a small portion of it public. The Depart- ment of Commerce Building is com- Is it “self-contained” as to The Department of Agricul- p is built, building and planned—what about its parking accommodations? The Avenue build- | ings are soon to get under way. Can | the plans, at this late date, be changed to solve the parking problem of each of them? “In the last analysis, Congres the Planning Commission, is responsible | tor the adoption of a parking policy for | the District. And Congress should not pass without seeing to of the many agencies in the parking pie | are directed to f t & policy. Canadians refute the contention, made by tourists who have sniffed the pipes of “habitants,” that her tobacco crop is grown largely for use as an insecticide and vermifuge. e Gandhi's Welcome Home. Mr. Gandhi is finding his loin cloth a chillier article of attire than ever, it would appear from the nature of his welcome home in India after his long absence in Great Britain. His first public address since his return from the round table failed signally to arouse the emotions of fifty thousand of his supposedly fanatical supporters at Bombay yesterday. The Mahatma's | appeal for resistance to British rule, | instead of inciting eager enthusiasm, evoked almost stony silence. The opin- ion of observers on the spot is that andhi has eppreciably lost prestige beceuse of his arrival in India empty- | handed, as far as eny advance of the | independence cause is concerned. Ap- parently the Mahatma's cohorts wanted results. ‘They are acting like most dis- ointed zealots do under such cir- | cumstances and making little attempt to conceal their chagrin “If the fight is inevitable,” exclaimed Gandhi to his apathetic white-capped Nationalist auditors, I will expect | every son and daughter of Mother India to contribute his mite.” He added that | rays of hope, he will “not hesitate to zall upon the people to bear any amount of suffering.” That challenge can be read in two ways. The Mahatma may be re- ferring to suffering by the passive re- sistance route, or the suffering that would ensue if India to any considerable degree risked the folly of trying to cast off the British yoke by force of arms. By a coincidence which may have been something more than accident, Prime Minister MacDonald was issuing at Lossiemouth, Scotland, & statement on India at almost the same hour Gandhi was speaking in Bombay. Mr. MacDonald, who has long ranked as Nationalist India's chiefest hope in Great Britain, did not mince words in describing conditions there as “‘most. deplorable.” He denounced separatist agitation of the Gandhi brand in vigor- ous terms. The premier recognizes the legitimacy of the aspirations of “a baf- fled and oppressed India struggling to be free.” But he has no patience with “a | mischievous movement trampling in its own self-will upon Indian progress.” Mr. MacDonald refers to recent disor- ders in the northwest frontier province and in Bengal. Non-British opinion, in the United | Btates and elsewhere, will be inclined to see full reason in the prime minister's lament that the Indian Nationalists should give themselves over to excesses at the moment the London government is making herculean efforts to find a so- lution of the Indian problem. Mr. MacDonald reminds the Gandhi group that no British cabinet ever struck out more faithfully or constructively in the direction of- & settlement than the re- gime which the present premier has led during the past three years. When the {ll-fated round table ended a few weeks ago Mr. MacDonald stated | with the full approval of the House of ! Commons, and not for the first time, that India might some day acquire self- governing dominion status under the new st .tute of Westminster—that is, with complete legislative independence of the British Parliament. Gandhi is dissatisfied with this limited and pre- scribed freedom for India. Unless & miracle comes to pass, it is all he can hope for, even if the “fiery ordeal” he would avoid is precipitated by him and his disgruntled followers. —r——— The 1931 appropriations for Indian education, twelve million dollars, is more than the appropriation for the entirc Indian Service ten years &go. Many of those who pay the taxes for this disbursement would do it more cheerfully if there were still the color- ful end tricky doings of & Carlisle foot ball team to follow through the Fall. B Her admirers generally feel sym- pathy for a movie queen, by reason of a recent motor accident. There is one great comfort for her, however; skinned knees are not nearly the tragedy today that they were back in 1827. JEREE—— The American slang phrase “Sez you” has reached Scotland, it is announced. “Check-grabber” and “Loose as ashes it is feared, will take a bit longer to permeate the “Land o Cakes.” ——— The Navy finds that it san save $1.78 on the outfit of each recruit and wishes to revise its estimates. The item could not be that murderous-looking clasp- knife which a sallor wears on a string, could it? ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Cosmic Speculation. One of these days, there's not & doubt, The coal supply will have given out. We don't say when, but the time will | come When carbon is dearer than radium. 11t makes you shudder and hold your breath! One of these days we must freeze to death! One of these days, in blank despair, { We will look on a landscape parched { and bare | Where once the forest so nobly stood There won't be enough for kindling wood. We'll pant expiring and sore dismayed One of these days for the lack of shade. But in one of thcse days in ages past This old world whirled in a flery blast. Yet it slowly tempered its atmosphere And we journeyed from somewhere else to here. So, maybe, when we can't keep the pace, We'll move from here to some other place. Arresting Attention. “I think,” said Senator Sorghum, “that I shall refrain from public ut- terance and devote myself to private conference with prominent people.” “Aren’t you afrajd you will drop out of notice?” “Not at all. Nothing attracts so much attention as whispering in com- pany.” Take & look in your own mirror be- fore you laugh at the man who is wearing his Christmas necktle. His Next Chance. The man who rocked the boat of late A life of safety must endure, Until the climate lets him skate On ice that's somewhat insecure. Self-Reliant. “That's & fine dictionary you have,” said the city relation. “Yep,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “Mandy thought I ought to have the book in the house so's to help my spellin’” “But your spelling is just as erratic and unusual as ever.” “I know it. I'm one of these fellers that don't believe half they see in print." sefulness. “Did your wife give you a useful Christmas present?” “Yes. A box of cigars. I'm saving them up for Summer, and Il bet no mosquito will dare come within a hun- dred feet of where I'm smoking them.” The Face en the Stamp. Georg> Washington, whose face ‘Serene Upon the postage stamp is seen, Might sometimes lose his look of pride If he knew what was mailed inside. “When you wishes a po’ man ‘Happy he would not abandon efforts to save! New Year,'” said Uncle Eben, “is yout D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Now come January and February, two of the best months in the year. “Home-loving hearts are happlest,” uixdl lfing!eum/, i is 0, now is & great time.| Housekeepers, in particular, enjoy these | two first months of the year. The happy trials and tribulations of | ‘The garden is| Christmas are over. forgot, for the time being. Formal housecleaning is over and will not begin again until Spring. Even the weather usually conspires to make the “home-loving body” prefer to stay in the house rather than breast the winds in search of entertainment | elsewhere. These months constitute a sort of Jull in the rush of life, a yearly respite from too much doing, in which a human being may catch one's breath, ag_it were. In reading, for instance. How many books there are, to be sure, which one has always wished to read, but never has, somehow! Many a householder will be aston- ished at himself when he comes to take up these long-forgotten.volumes to dis- cover that his enjoyment of them is as_acute as he hoped it would be. He may have thought to himself, “Is it possible to remain away from the great old books for years and then return to them as if I-had never been A ‘The answer must be in the affirma- tive. There may be a few moments of | uneasiness, during which the reecalci- | trant reacer discovers that the hinges | of his mind have grown a bit rusty. Even the brain grows rusty with use. But if the reader persists, he find it something like swimming—once learned, never forgotten. There are no months in -the year more delightful for reading good books. And the happy part of it is that one scarcely need stir out of the house to get rew ones. There are few people who have had the benefits of what is called “an education” who do not pos- | sess many volumes which they have not read. Buppose it is an old set of the nov- els of Walter Scott. Did you know that these grand old stories are begin- ning to undergo a revival of popularity? They are being “discovered” by intelli- gent people, just as the game back- gammon was discovered last year. A great Invention is not mere bally- hoo just because some one says it is. It stands on its own legs, and has a lot of life left in it yet, whether it be called backgammon, or ping pong, or Scott's novels, or the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, or the novels of Charles Dickens. One of the greatest discoveries in the world is the personal one, that inimical talk cannot harm anything really worth while or any human being who is hon- est gnd aboveboard. What such talk may do 1s hurt the work or the human being in the minds and hearts of oth- ers who are easily led. Whispering campaigns, of all sorts, whether the result of innate meanness or simply arising from a desire to be thought clever, do their harm by keep- ing others away from a good thing, It may be taken for 2 rule, almost, that whatever is spoken against nas good points, else it would not be spoken against. 1If it were as bad as some would have others believe, it would not | excite enough attention to demand that any one speak against it. Young people, in particular, should be warned against the easy assumption that they, or their mates, can be the judges, in relation to works of art, espe. cially music and books, and those other works of art, other human beings. The ready sneer and the look in- different cannot really lower the dig- nity of anything or any one worth while, even if such actions seem to do 50 to those who indulge in them. The il | | really worthwhile thing or man, | although spattered with mud, will always be recognized as such by the discerning. It should be realized, in the inter- ests of simple fairness, that too often one does not like a thing because one is not in possession of the mind or heart which will enable him to like it. Thus works of art, including books and great music, more often than not are the judges of those who fondly— and foolishly—think tha. they, mighty souls, are siiting in judgment on them. ‘This gets us back to Sir Walter Scott. Old-fashioned? Not a bit of it! Longfellow. Poor stuff? Not some of his best poems. Herman Melville. For- gotten writer? Not by a long shot! The so-called “intelligents” of America were the first to do him honor and have made for his books, particularly “Moby Dick,” “Omoo” and “Typee,’ & new place in the reading world. There is no predicting what fashion | may do to & writer, long gone, his works apparently forgotten. ~Btephen Crane, an obscure young fellow, who wrote ‘a novel about the Spanish-Amer- ican War, is today regarded as one of the major prose writers America has produced. ‘Walt Whitman, who lost his position in & Government department here be- cause the head of the establishment thought that “Leaves of Gress” was 8 vulgar book, is today classed by most European critics as one of the half dozen genuinely American authors this land has produced. The beginning of a revival of the multitudinous novels of James Feni- | more Cooper Is to be discerned at this | time. Again one may ask, why not? | He wrote some great stories, although | it must be admitted that they are not | written as Ernest Hemingway would | write them. The point of all this, we like to think, is that many a household has these authors and many others on its shelves, and has managed to cling to | them as worthy representations of the | writing and reading arts, despite the fact that the householder himself may not have been a student, and never have realized that books have their ups and downs like elevators and sea waves, have their days of popularity, their dull periods and their return to widespread interest again. The months of January and February, with Christmas activities behind, Spring grass sowing yet to come, offer the home-loving heart the maximum op- portunity to enjoy the fine old books, as well as the fine new ones. He will find many pcople and organizations anxious to help his “taste” in regard to | the latter; but here, too, he must rest | upon the ‘judgments of his own mind, rather than upon the word of others, no matter how largely praised that dic- | tum may be | We are thinking, too, of one section |of the modern populace, which some- how has got the idea into its collec- tive head that there is something | namby-pambyish about staying at | home. Will not other people think one | “old-fashioned” and lacking in that | elemental “pep” seeming so important | nowadays? Well, let them! { About 10 years from now there will |be a revival of Longfellow. When all the “p-ppy"” people, who insist on rush- | ing from pillar to post, discover that | there is nothing to bz found &t the | pillar, and practically nothing at the post. they will revolt against the sense- | less noise and hurly-burly in which they | have lived. Then they will go back to their homes, and stay there, and read Long- fellow, who declared, “Home-loving hearts are happiest.” And they, too, will find that January and Pebruary l'are two of the best months of the very new year. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands HE EVENING POST, Wellington. —“This type of offense has be- come so prevalent that a by-law has been made to try to put a stop to it. Drinking at dances has really got to such an extent that decent people have found it very much spoils their social pleasure,” said Sub- Inspector Lopdell in the Magistrate's Court recently when prosecuting & | and courts were also planted in various | sections of Moscow, besides 37 larger | public squares, greatly adding to the pleasant aspects of the urban scenery. PR French Women Held Not to Blame for Crisis. Le Matin, Paris—The article by M. le Professeur Richet, recentiy published in | in hand. For the undertaking, too, zones NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G. M. THE ADVENTURE OF MANKIND. By Eugen Georg. Translator, Robert Bek-Gran. New York: E. P. Dutton | & Co. It is individual. Matter of personal partaking, this “Adventure of Mankind.” Not easy, however, to make the blend of self with the vast body of humans, roundabout and to rearward. For tne | task nwv concepts must be gained. Imagination must be stretched to its ut- most. Credulity, even, must be opened to its widest. ‘The business of such self-identifica- tion with the whole demands a new time scale. Calls for ages, eons almost, to expand the few millennjums already of climate must be reset. Lands seas must be rearranged. ‘The new historian heading this par- ticplar expedition is the modern arche- ologist, burrower among buried civiliza- tions, restorer of ancient cultures. His apocalypse, the revelation of seientific realism of demonstrated fact. Beside this one, the conventional sur- face historian becomes the diarist, the annalist, reading something like the daily paper, or at most itke a Quarterly Review. They meet different purposes. Education, as such and so far, serves to create shut-ins. The backyard, the front street, county and parish, prov- ince and state, these set the borders of vision and instruction. In the scheme of modern education patriotism has and BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The resources of our free Informa- tion Bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you please. being maintained solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at all, except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederick J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q If one political candidate buys time to speak over the rado, can his opponent be kept off the air by that station?—T. D. A. The Radio Commission says that the Congress was particularly careful to refrain from imposing anything like a general censorship on radio. Obscene language may be ruled off, and if a sta- tion rents its facilities to one political candidate, it cannot refuse time to an opponent. Beyond that, and except for deliberate setting of instruments to trespass on other wavelengths, the law permits little interference. Q. What foot ball team was known as the Iron Team?--H. 8. A This nickname was given to a ‘Washington and Jefferson College team in the early 20's. It represented the East in the tournament of roses game at Pasadena against the University of California and did not make a single substitution during the entire game. Q. If all the gold in the world were melted into one block, how large would the block be?—W. J. A. The monetary gold in the world cast In one solid block would form a cube 31 feet in each dimension. become, in essence, a fetich, set h. Yet, in effect, patriotism 15 but a battle cry, a call to arms. Bunker Hill, Waterloo, Marathon, and the rest, are but cherished registers of bloodshed and death—to the young ones out in front. High heroes are but clanking men-on-horseback, supervis- ing the slaughter. Nationalism is but a system of ri- valry and emulation, country-wide, in the fleld of materialism. International- ism, only a self-guarding expedient{ A. In surfacing roads with cotton against passible, and quite probable, as- | fabric, the road is first scarified and sault and slege from the enemies all | given the desired grade. When the roundabout. surface becomes firm it is swept clean Education is quite engrossed in these | of loose particles, and a prime coat matters of public sentiment, duty,|of light tar applied. While the tar is citizenship and so on. still sticky the cotton fabric is spread The product of this modern system, |in longitudinally overlapj strips and average man or woman, knows just|covered with hot asphaltic ofl applied nothing at all about the millions upon|by means of a pressure distributor. millions of humaps, just like himself,|This is covered with coarse sand gravel gathered into anclent’ communities not|or finely crushed stone, which is then essentially different from the familiar | carefully rolled and evened. cities under his eyes. He does not = know of these widely separated peo-| Q. Who were the most famous Vene+ ples, separated by time and place, who | tian violin makers of all time?—P. T. rose to power and distinction and then| A. Montaganang, Serafino and Fran- ;uccumbledmw one ox gnother of ithe| ceat Gobettl. orces of life. Natural forces, maybe. o ]lrlr:yiosed tyrannies and extinctions, as (Al w::‘}’x fisl‘:’o’}‘fix‘l’:‘tfixfi?;gfi: ikely. - Tt is the modern archeologist who|Of Physics is sald to have begun. An today is telling us the astounding story | 3nclent fragment says, ‘Thales, Who of man's adventure in life. Under the | %ent to EgYpt, first brought sclence Into jungle growths of Yucatan, all through | Greece. Much he discovered himself: Central America and in ‘many parts 9 much. however, he transmitted the of South America, old cities are being | PEEINNINGS to Mmoo, S found and brought into the open.|!BINE= he made more general, some Cities built in grandeur and in archi- Q. Can you give me the name of the :;cturnl s?ence, dwll,h art decorating e temples and other structures.| third book b : Painting, ceramics in tile and pottery 3} 5‘&;;,1,,,3"1:‘,’8?:";5"7“ ’;x:x:;h:oladutg:{ and mural adornment still deciphera-| this also was a best seller.—I. J. Y. ble. Trrigation systems, efficient and| A, The three books by John Bunyan, serviceable. Among the Mayans a cal-| a)l of which had an enormous sale, are endar as exact and comprehensive as|the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Holy War” the one that came in yesterday to|and the “Grace Abounding to the Chiet meet our New Year. Warring peoples|of Sinners.” This last was Bunyan's autobiography and was written in 1666 Q. What is the phrase on the Wash- ington Arch in New York City?—W. A. A. “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hands of God.” Q. When the White House was burned, in 1814, was it totally destroyed?—F. F. A. Only the walls were left standing. RQS How 15 cotton applied to roads?— Q. Has the head tax pald by immi- grants ever been $17—C. R. W. A. Section 1 of the act of August 3, 1882, imposed a head tax of 50 cents on an immigrant to this country. This was increased to $1 by an act approved August 18, 1894 and has been raised at various times since until it is now $% Q. What animals besides the giraffq can make no sound?—V. B. A. The giraffe is unique among mam- mals in this res| . All other mam- mals, practically all brids, some reptiles and amphibians and some fish have the power of making seme sound with the vocal cords. Q. Is there a reproduction of Sule ave Manor, the home of the ashingtons, in ond, Va.?— 8. D. R. A. There is a building called Virginia House at Windsor Farms, just outside of the eity of Ricimond. The building is constructed of material from the ancient Priory of the Holy Sepuichre, comfleud in 1565, at Warwick, Eng: Jand. It was purchased, packed &l shipped outright to Windsor Farms in 1925-1926: e structure represents three historic English houses: The ‘Tudor portion of Warwick Priory; part of Warmleighton, the home of the Spencers, and the original portion of the present Sulgrave Manor, the an- cient home of George Washington. Q. How Is the gum made which is used on envelopes?—L. H. A. Heat 38 parts by weight of water to boiling and stir into it 58 parts of dextrin (preferably cassava dextrin). When solution is complete, again heat to boiling and stir in 4 parts of glucose eruF. The mixture is then ready to apply. Q. What is the widest street in the world>—W. V. A. The Champs Elysees in Paris, 250 feet amcross, is often spoken of as the widest in the world. Canal street, in New Orleans, is 200 feet wide in some places. Other wide streets are Unter den Linden in Berlin and Pennsyl- vania avenue in Washington, D. C. Q. What causes the fog known as London fog?—F. L. H. A. It is due principally to the con- densation of aqueous vapor upon the immense number of nuclel floating in the atmosphere as smoke from the soft coal fires. Q. What is the ceremony connected with crossing the line?—M. E. A. In the modern ceremony of cross- ing the equator Neptune appears carry- ing a trident with his attendants, among whom is the barber, carrying & huge razor and tub. Neptune is ac- companied by Amphitrite. A sheep pen lined with canvas and filled with water is prepared. The victim is seated on & latform laid over this and blindfolded. rst he is shaved by the barber, then plunged backward into the water. It was formerly the custom to attach the victim to a rope and dip him into the sea. Q. How long has the Soviet govern- ment been established and what date | marks the termination of the five-year plan?—H. T. T. A. The Soviet Union entered its fif- teenth year on November 7, 1931. The five-year plan was entered upon Oc- t;gg;r 1, 1928, and ends September 30, Q. What are sippets, frequently men- tioned in English cook books?—H. A. A These are small thin fingers of toast, dry and erisp, served with wine, lhm,b:mé ukeTu&b Religions of their own, besides. To be sure the gods of | while he was under rison - these ancient races, Mayan, Tarascan tenc:. 3 . 3 and others, demanded their “due meed seup or as a garnish to make dishes such as ragouts end minces. of innocent blood.” And human sac- rifice was common. A wicked and heathenish practice from the high ground where we moderns stand. And yet, and yet, names obtrude—Chateau Thierry, Verdun, the Marne. A va- garious and unfair obtrusion. So let us on with the ancient peo- ples who, under cultures not so unlike our own, lived their little days much as we are doing. Long before Colum- bus, long before the marauding and destructive congquistadores these thriv- ing races existed to the south and southwest. In our own Southwest besides. And, right here, we smile a { bit shamefacedly at our own easy dis- position of the Indian, the “savage red man.” We laugh yet over his rites and ceremonies, his powwows and other rituals, ignorant of the long lineage of these as propitiatory to the | old gods of ancient races. And we marvel at strange likenesses of word, or custom, among peoples Defeat for the Labor government of Australia, at the hands of the voters, |is viewed by Americans as similar to the political turnover in Great Britain. | The new premier, Joseph A. Lyons, is held to be seeking more conservative | methods than those of his predecessor, | James Scullin, although Lyons was a member of the Scullin cabinet. The parallel to MacDonald’s campaign is “The decision to have done with the young man, Neil Lonsdale, on a charge | our columns, recommending the with- of carrying liquor into the Adelphi|drawal of women from industrial pur- Cabaret. | suits as the most effective remedy for ‘When entering the cabaret to at-|the current economic crisis, is but an- tend a grivate function, Lonsdale was | other contribution to suggestions, di- stopped by the police. He was carrying | verse, contradictory, and for the most a bottle of liquor. “This is "the |part purely Utopian, to which the hope first case brought under the by-law.” of eventually triumphing over our man- said the sub-inspeetor, “but I think it |ifold difficultics gives birth. But besides is pretty well known to the young people | its futility, to blame women so cruelly who attend these entertainments.” | for all our ignorance, misery and im- * ok K X | morality seems to us scarcely less bru- separated by half the earth around. A case in point, “the soft, lisping Chinese sound of certain old Mayan words.” Then the archeologist in- forms us that lands and seas had dis- tributions much different from the ones of which the modern geography tells. That there were island cross- ings where now only vast and turbu- lent seas intervene. Climatic zores, too, have changed places, accounting for certain misfits, Labor government was emphatic,” says the Buffalo Evening News, recalling that “affairs have been in bad order for some time, primarily because of ex- tensive ventures in public ownership.” That paper points out that “the rail- roads ‘and all other kinds of utilities | are in the hands of the government” !and that | also, and even hotels, are there pub- | licly owned.” The Evening News adds “many factories and stores | New Zealand and Hawaii Exchange Ideas. Honolulu Advertiser —Twelve-year- old Arthur Keeping of Auckland, New Zealand, has a new friend thousands of miles away from his home. So, for that matter, has Robert Young, one of the junior police officers at the Lincoln School. It came about this way. The post office department found a letter from New Zealand addressed to “Any Boy (12) Who Speaks English, Honolulu, Hawaii.” The post office people sent it up to Lincoln School. Robert, who is 11, was on duty at the principal’s office The principal turned the letter over to Robert to answer, and he did so, with the result that in an interchang: of letters the pupils of Std. 5 at Welles- ley Btreet School in Auckland will learn more about Hawaii than they know now and those in the sixth grade at Lincoln School here will undoubtedly get a more intimate knowledg= of rugger, and cricket and other British games. * K k% One-Way Streets Bring Protests of Merchants. Evening Times, Glasgow —Traffic ex- perts are of the opinion that one-way streets have in many cases solved the congestion problem, but in London at Jeast there has been an unexpected re- sult of the one-way method. At the Eastern end of New Oxford street, where begins the great shopping avenue, the traffic flows In a solid stream toward the west, while the east-bound traffic is diverted through another thorough- fare. Now the shopkeepers in the sec- tion of the street affected are voicing their grievances loudly and claiming that as & result of the one-way innova- tion their takings have fallen by any- thing from 20 to 50 per cent. No passengers are now set down on one side of the street by the busses, while those alighting on the other side are afraid to dare the crossing. L Moscow Builds Streets, Parks and Playgrounds. Soviet Econimic Review, Mcscow.— The paving of 587,900 square meters of Moscow streets was completed by the end of October. The plan had called for the paving of 575,000 square meters. _ln connection with the extensive plant- ing of trees and shrubs throughout the city, 266,000 trees and over a million shrubs were planted within a period of six weeks. More work was accomplished in this respect than in the 50 years prior to the November revolution, and fully as much as in the 14 years since. More than 112,000 persons volunteered their services to help achieve the program. Among the incidental accomplish- ments are 12 new squares and children’s playgrounds near some of the largest factories: a 12-hectar> (30-acre) orch- ard park near the Kleituk soap fac: tory; a protected ‘‘green-zone” in the Stalin district, and a 78-hectare (195- City, where a summons was served upon the country from a “fiery ordeal,” but serious enough to perduce $wo bits $0 gcre) park in the more central portion m“mm.mmwuduumtmmmwuum-myohmmwr" of the city. Hundreds of small squares tal than the destruction of hoarded supplies of wheat, coffee or of cotton at a time when the unemployed wage- | earners of the world total 18,000,000. | "We do not attempt to_refute today those arguments of M. Richet which | are based on sentiment—for, after all, a proper sentiment, or rather sensi- | bility, is the driving force of justice. However, in periods of economic or other disturbances = intelligent people |are always avid for exact facts and | figures. Each one of us feels that if he | really knew what was wrong he would be able to find and apply the remedy. Unfortunately, however, the facts are generally ignored and efforts at reha- bilitation fail because of the false prem- ises upon which they are based We would like to give the readers of Le Matin some precise data. Well, be- fore the war—that is, in 1903—no less | than 6,382,000 women were already | working in France. In 1926, the latest computation, out of a total feminine population over 21 years of between 12,000,000 and 13,000,000, and not | counting those employed in farm labor, 4,500,000 were employed outside their homes. If we include those engaged in domestic work 7,800,000 women were | engaged in productive effort, either di- | rectly or indirectly. This great indus- trious throng in recent years has been employed in offices, in _factorles, in | shops ‘and in the fields. Yet there was no economic derangement and the nor- mal mean of unemployment Wwas not) | transcended in France |~ But now this has all been changed, |and without apparent or sufficient | cause. In recent months grave finan- | cial perturbations have been produced: every sort of business h: kened and the “trade balance declares a deficit. | With other countries already heavily afflicted, our own begins to suffer wita them. Of course, there are a few visible and | definite factors which have added to | the general disease. First of these is a | system of relief for the unemployed, wrong in theory and most unsatisfac- tory in practice; second. extravagance with public funds: third, a tightening up of credits; more remotely, perhaps, a new practice of ‘“dumping” and finally, the formation of markets re- stricted to a falsely conceived national or political expediency. All these subordinate obstacles which |bave so far frustrated the return of | normal business conditions are plain to the vision of all who do not keep their eyes shut. Still, in M. Richet’s opinion, the troubles of France have come from the fact that French women are en- deavoring honestly to earn their own livelihoods! R Maybe Too Mu Prom the Altoona dirror Universities and colleges that lost { money on the foot ball season are be- ginning to think that perhaps the game was overemphasized, after all. ch Stress. e Get Together! From the Charleston Eveniag Post. Now that the Government announces perfection of & cotton-picking machine, the Southern goyernors ought to hold another conference. kere and there, in the flora and fauna | that “in its endeavor to rehabilitate nfjgh region. e story is absorbing, engrossing— chiefly, T take it, because it is our own story, chiefly because we, too, are on the way to an issue no different from the ancient issue. Sitting in, are we, upon the most stupendous drama of time. Eugen Georg is a German scientist, an archeologist, who in both sympathy and knowledge tells the epic tale-to us in a simplicity that is dramatic beyond appraisal If here we localize the main movement a bit to meet the high activ- ity at present in our own country, that, | T'am sure, can be overlooked. This book of learning separates into two parts. The first one through the perspective of remote periods consid- ers the Asiatic movements of conquest and great kingdoms and mighty pow- ers. “The Decline of the Orient” opens tke ages of decay and ruin, Here the| “Tragedy of the American Indian” hasi place, a story near and importunate to Americans. ~ Then _follows *“A Short Story 2,000 Years Old,” one that em-| bodies the “Hypothesis of Atlantis,” of | that capturing island lying off the shores of Europe, on the one hand, of | America on the other. The “actuality” | of Atlantis follows the theory concern- ing this elusive “lost continent.” Here is pictured the work of floods, of land subsidences, of glacial reconstructions and, finally, a picture of the denizens of the lost island, a story of the At- lantides. Fascinating, either as fact or fable; inspiration to Plato and many another of lesser vision and power. And beyond this period of the Atlan- tides, coming this way, we meet our- selves, modern man. The American,| when he arrives at this distinction, puzzled at many a point over likenesses between the Old World and the New,| so widely separated in space and time. And the bewilderment fades, in a meas- | ure at least, over the theory of a sunken Atlantis, breaking off into distinct units that which before had been & united earth area. If we could push America and Europe together, as we can the parts of a broken bowl, the mysteries of geology, plants, animals, human speech, and so on, would cease to be $0_mysterious. The second part of the great story comes closer, while it remains at the same time of a fundamental signifi-i cance. Here is “The Law of the World” —and this is the law of rhythm. Whether it be in the body of the atom or in the bulk of the earth itself. The rhythm of matter, of mind, of soul, this the essen- tial of growth. First the growth of self, of man’s unity of capacity and true power—this the essential also of an ulti- mate unity in general aspects of human life, in governments, in reciprocal com- prehensions, among nations, in all things of the spirit entering into every phase of material life. A long way off? Maybe. Looking backward, and then around, the human has been a slow grower, an easily destroyed world ele- | industry and finance the new govern- wmlr(xt" enters upon a long and difficult | “As in England,” observes the Louis- | ville Courier-Journal, “a coalition of | the moderate forces inflicted an em- phatic defeat on the radical element. As in England, the champions of ‘sound and sane’ financing were led by a former Laborite, Lyons, however, was not the Ramsay MacDonald in the contest. He might bett be compared with Philip Spowden. He was the treasurer for a time in the Scullin cabinet. He was the orthodox econ- omist in a doctrinaire ministry and he led the fight in the government for sound financing against the infla- tlonists on the ope hand and the debt repudiationists on the other. It was due to him that a huge conversion loan was successfully carried out to meet obligations of $104,000,000 that were maturing, and Australia did not default on its London and New York debts because of this action. Lyons was virtually in control during the absence of Pr aer Scullin when the latter. attendcd (he imperial confer- ence in Lond: ). and he kept the gov- ernment in t> ways of moderation until he quit the ministry some six months ago.” * kX “Australia has strengthened interna- tional confidence,” in the opinion of the Hartford Times, which sees “an- other illustration of democracy in action and profiting by the experience of loss.” ‘The Times continues: “The temptation is strong to heed radical advice when conditions become unfavorable, but when the new thecries have been tried and found to be bitterly disappointing there is an even more pronounced return to conservatism.- Fortunate is the nation which reads history at more than a | chapter at @ time. The laws of eco- nomics, as these apply to the science of government, have become so fully es- tablished that a nation can do them violence only at its own peril.” “When people are scared,” observes the Newark Evening News, “they be- come conservative, but the retiring premier, Scullin, could not become con- servative enough for the panicky publie, which deserted the impractical idealism of Australian Socialism for hard-boiled, strait-laced John Bullism. Today Aus- tralia is enormously in debt, forced to find money for current expenses, as well as for interest and retirement payments, or old borrowings from a market that cannot buy its wool or wheat, beef or mutton. Australia’s really hard times are scheduled to begin only now, with the rew government’s need to cut salaries and raise taxes, postpone improvements and generally to revere farthings where once sovereigns were tossed about.” oA “For some time,” declares the Balti- more Sun, “it has been recognized that ment—but “a thousand years in Thy sight are but a single day.” So time may be the solution of the human prob- lem, a problem that lcoks like an im- Passe in these modern days. No one can tell another about this book. It is adventure to read it, an ex- citement of rather indescribable inten- sty and effect. Scullin was doomed. He has been open to slashing attacks from not only the regular Nationalist gpposlunn, but the extreme Laborite, J. T. Lang, premier of New South Walc:. and the ex-Laborites like Lyons and Jenton. The deficit of the federal government and the six 'Labor Defeat in Australia Classed With That in Britain world-wide depression, to rehabilitate the national finances were futile.* * * It is not likely that in Australia the Laborites have suffered quite the eclipse which they seemed to have experienced in England. Before the Scullin victory of two years ago they had thirty-one members in the House; at the outset of the period of their government they had forty-six; now they have sixteen. They are out and ‘natfonalism’ is tri- umphant, but there 1s no indieation that their power has been broken in any decisive or permanent way.” Development of resentment among the voters is emphasized by the New York Sun, which sees, as the reason, “the government’s attempt to compel the banks to make available $40,000,- 000 for unemployed and farm relief, in addition to the $80,000,000 they had undertaken to provide to balance the budget,” The Providence Journal holds that “the financjal adversities which finally necessitated guarantees by the Brit] government that Australian financial cbligations would be met cause a wave of deep dissatisfaction to sweep the eountry.” “In spite of the opposition of Labor radicals,” records the Philadelphia Eve- ning Bulletin, “a program of rigid economy was made effective in both the states and commonwealth this year and debt-carrying charges were re- duced by a successful conversion loan. But last month the government was defeated by the union of some of its own recalcitrants with the opposition and the country has now turned Labor out. Prime Minister Scullin, in a_po=- sition of great difficulty, has made & sincere effort to make effective finan- cial reform and economies. He was | hampered by the wild men of his own gany and Labor’s unity was weakened y factional and personal quarrels. The party, as a whole, has paid the penalty or s positive offenses against sound economic policy, and for its general in- effectiveness in a time of stress.” Greely’s Arctic Work Stirs Blood of World Prom the Portland Oregon Daily Journal. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, 83 years old, erect, hale and hearty still after half a century, steps out of his ro- mantic past to become again identified with plans for Arctic exploration. ‘The news grips the imagination and stirs_the blood. Fifty years ago Gen. Greely, then a lieutenant in the United States Army, led a party of 24 other intrepid men into the desolate Arctic regions. Three years later, after terrible privation and hardship, Gen. Greely and six of his party were taken aboard a rescue ship at Cape Sabine. Eighteen of the party had starved or frozen to death because they could not notify civilization of their plight when an expected relief ship failed to reach them. Despite their suffering the survivors continued to make meteorological observations up to 40 hours before their rescue. They had taken from the British the far- thest north record, held for 300 years. The ill-fated Greely expedition of 1881-84 looms heroic, grim and stark in the annals of early Arctic discov- eries. Now Gen. Greely is co-operating in an advisory capacity with Capt. Flavel M. Williams, who with 20 men will sail in June to spend two years at Fort Conger, Ellesmere Island, north- ernmost land on the globe, where the Greely party Wintered. Significant of civilization's progress during Gen. Greely’s life span, Capt. ‘Willlams expects to be in constant communication with the United States by radio, and hopes to fly in compara< tive luxury over the ice fields across mhw mgr;.“lg' survivors dragged er w toward thelr rucugrs. s it s Modern ingenuity and sclence have conquered the poles. and unlocked many of the secrets of the Arctic and Antarctie regions, but modern con- quests fail to dim the glory of the achievements and the sacrifices of the Gen. Oreelys and the Capt. Scoits and their brave companions who state governments continued to mount | and the effomts of Labor, in face of | ploneered into the treacherous un= known and blazed the trails. ¥