Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1932, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY January 16, 1932 110 East 42nd 8t. Michigan Building. M., London, Bate by Carrier Within the City. ening Star 45¢ per month 60c per month ! .65¢ per month The Sunday Star Sc_per copy Eollection made at the end of each month ‘ders may be sent in by mail or telephone [Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. fly and Sunday.....1yr.$1000: 1 ily only ... 1yr., $6.00: 1 nday only . All Other States and Canada. {fr ang Sunday...tyr. s12.00: 1 mo. 51,00 A MR nday only 11l YE. §8.00: 1mo. js¢ $500. 1mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated P 1 %o the use for 1 patches cre Tied in published e Epecial dispa mo.. 80c $4.00: 1 mo.. 40¢ 1yra also the lo s of publi Divided Police Responsibility. Col. Grant suggests as an amendment to the pending bill broadening the ad- ministrative powers of the Comm sioners a provision to give the Com sloners police property and land of the Federal Gov- ernment lying outside the District of Columbia. He prefers, however. that this suggestion be adopted only if ap- proved by the Commissioners, preferring that their views of the matter be given first consideration. No matter how the proposed amend: ment is worded—whether it gives the Commissioners the authority or fixes responsibility on the park police, who come under Col. Grant's office—definite action is certainly needed to clear up & muddled and entirely inexcusable con- dition. The famous Baker surder case emphasized the deplorable division of suthority and responsibility in furnish- ing adequate police protection for only one of several Federal properties on the Virginia side of the Potomac. With the virtual completion of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, the increasing patron- age and importance of the airports south of Highway Bridge and the open- ing within & short time of the new Mount Vernon Boulevard, extensive areas owned by the Federal Govern- ment are being used by the public with- out any definite arrangements for ade- quate police patrol. The Mount Vernon Boulevard itself is to be under the Jurisdiction of the park police, but this fact, considered in relation to the lack nis- of specific jurisdiction over the bridge | approaches on the Virginia side of the river—the Highway Bridge, the Key Bridge and the Arlington Memorial Bridge—merely serves to emphasize the existent confusion. The park police force, an efficiently administered body concerned princi- pally with the patrol of the public parks, is not primarily constituted for the prevention and detection of crime. And when the park police call on the metropolitan police for assistance out- side the District the question of juris- diction, as interpreted by existing laws, leads to confusion. Responsibility s divided between Virginia and the Fed- eral Government, and in the case of the Federal Government, between the War Department in some areas and the park police, provided the park police voluntarily give their assistance. The matter should be definitely set- tled and responsibility fixed. Of course, if the jurisdiction and duties of either the park police or the metro- politan police are broadened, the mat- ter of furnishing additional personnel, st some expense, to carry out in- creased work must be considered. ——— = No matter what the ladies—God bless them—may think, ninety-nine per cent of the males in this broad land will applaud Cardinal O’Connell’s de- scription and characterization. of the so-called musical efforts of the gargling *“erooner.” e Representative Britten wants House of Representatives to have a new and up-to-date gymnasium with Bl the latest “exercise-by-electricity Roechines. Including, it goes without Pving, one of those self-restraint ex- Orcisers. o — An Ambassadorial Candidate. Henry P. Fletcher, former American | Ambassador in Rome and more recently chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, is & candidate for ap- pointment s Ambassador to Great Britain, & post soon to be vacated by Gen. Cherles G. Dawes. In a telegram to members of the Pennsylvania dele- gation in the House, Mr. Fletcher says that he would appreciate their urging upon President Hoover his appointmen to the Court of St. James, adding that the honor of having an American Am- bassador to Great Britain has not fall- en to the lot of Pe ania since before the Civil War d Mr. Fletcher's open candidacy for ap- pointment to an ambassedorial post is novel. But it is certain.y no more than other candidates for diplomatic office have done in the past, secretly and without publicity. It is to be hoped that the publication of Mr. Fletcher's telegram to members of the Pennsyl- vania delegation in the House will not militate against his chances of ap- pointment, Probably no man in the country with more experience in dipio- matic affairs, better versed in the for- elgn relations of this country, could be found for appointment to this most important post in the diplomatic serv- ice of the United States. After serving in the “Rough Riders” in the War with Spain, Mr. Fletcher entered the diplo- matic service, beginning as second sec- retary of legation in Havana. Since then he has held many diplomatic of- fices, including ambassadorships to Chile, Mexico, Belgium and Italy. It { was during the World War that Mr. Fletcher served as American Ambassa- dor to Mexico and came into wide prominence. Later he was appointed Undersecretary of State by President Harding and helped to reorganize the foreign service of the country. When it came time for President Hoover to reorganize the United States Tariff Commission he selected Mr. Pletcher to head that commission. Mr. Pletcher agreed to take the office for & year, mtumd;m:obumerd encouraging delinquency by extensions up his mind to* risdiction over certain | the | of the commission has been attested to many times, He resigned after com- pleting the period for which he had promised to take the office and more recently was offered appointment by President Hoover as a member of the American delegation to the Geneva dis- armament conference. There is no office in the foreign serv- ice of the United States which is more closely scrutinized than that of Am- bassador to Great Britain. The Amer- ican people like to take pride in their representatives at London. They like, t00, to be assured of the complete Amer- |icanism of their Ambassador there. ;wuh Henry P. Fletcher in that post ! the country’s interests would be in good ! hands Japan Submits Her Alibi. Japan has replied to Secretary Stim- | Manchuria with a communication which s softly in comparison with Amer- rugged remonstrance. Divested of face-saving verbiage and diplomatic cir- cumlocution, Tokio's message boils down to two cardinal points—(1) s0 far as Jape1 can control the sit- ustion, the open door will be main- tained “in Manchuria, as in China oper,” and (2) that abnormal condi- tions in China, which could not have been anticipated by the framers of either the nine-power treaty or the Kel- logg pact, required the extraordinary res to which Japan recently found compelled to resort. Presumably the United States will ent itself with Japan's assurances {and refrain from prolonging a contro- | versy which could result in little except | piling up fresh sheafs of diplomatic correspondence. The cardinal demand stressed in Secretary Stimson’s protest— the requirement that nothing in the de facto situation created by the occu- pation of Manchuria shall prejudice American rights there—is categorically conceded. The Japanese cannot Now exploit their dominant position in the conquered territory to the disadvantage of foreign trade without committing ancther flagrant breach of international good faith. The Tokio government is at great pains to justify the legality of the ar- rangements the Japsnese military com- manders made as they plunged through | Manchuria, whereby new local officials | were set up under their direction to carry on a semblance of continued Chinese authority. Foreign Minister Yoshizawa pleads that when Nippon's soldiers took possession of Mukden, Kirin, Tsitsihar, Chinchow and. other Manchurian centers, they found that local officials had “either fled or re- signed.” It was the behavior of these Chinese functionaries, Japan insists, that “was calculated to destroy the working of the apparatus of govern- ment” and make necessary ‘“replace- ment of administrative personnel.” Japan would have us understand that these “replacements” are purely of Chinese origin and occurred in & spirit of inallenable “‘self-determination.” The Japanese note, which is not de- void of arguments and language fre- quently Gilbertian in flavor, “repeats” that “Japan entertains no territorial aims or ambitions in Manchuria.” What has been done, the United States is asked to believe, has solely in mind “the welfare and safety of Manchuria and its accessibility for general trade.” 1t is not difficult to imagine the twinkle that must have agitated the eye of Forelgn Minister Yoshizawa as he wrote these lines to Secretary Stimson: The government of Japan is well aware that the Government of the United States could always be relied upon to do everything in its power to support Japan’s efforts to secure full and complete fulfiliment in every detall of the treaties of Wash- ington and the Kellogg treaty for the outlawry of war. * * ¢ At the pres- ent juncture, when the very existence of our national policy is involved, it is agreeable to be assured that the American Government is devoting, in a friendly spirit, its sedulous care to a correct appreciation of the sit- uation. Once it was written that the pen is mightier than the sword. Japan now gives the world a perfect demonstration of the deadly effectiveness of both weapons. According to “authoritative Tokio quarters,” Secretary Stimson’s citation of the nine-power treaty “upset” serious overtures being made to Japan by the Nanking government. In other words, | and to continue the musical metaphor, the island empire seems to charge our | Department of State with a “sour” !mv w finale business seems to be that the was played first. RSO L | The Senate has authorized a portrait | of former President Coolidge to hang in | the White House. American painters | are wondering whether the termination of the name of the favored artist will | be “oft.” “owskL” “ovitch,” or “opoulos.” Delinquent Motorists. | With fitteen days remaining before the dead line on 1931 tags is met, it | behooves the delinquent motorists to |get busy. Most of them have already {filed application for titles, which will | be mailed out from the Traffic Bureau as fast as the clerical force can certify |them. More than six thousand appli- | cations are now in hand. The tag situ- ation Dowever, is entirely different, the Traffic Bureau estimating that thirty thousand motorists have failed to send in the necessary documents. Applica- tion now for tags can be made with the greatest convenience, but Mr. Van Duzer warns that the inevitable last- minute rush will cause delay and in- convenience to those who put it off too long No leniency need be expected on either titles or tags after midnight Jan- uary 31. As a matter of fact, a dis- tinct feeling exists that delinquent mo- torists, those who failed to get titles and tags by December 31, should not have been excused by the Trafic Bu- reau with the extension of time to January 31. Six months were permit- ted for the securing of titles, and the tags were made easy to purchase by the new mailing system’ recently put into effect. Naturally those whd' re- sponded promptly to the bureau's an- nouncements on these two matters and who promoted the smooth running of the bureau’s activities by avoiding pro- crastination feel somewhat miffed that those who did not were mollycoddied and put on the same plane by & thirty- day extension. In the old days there was so such thing as destroying motorist morale and that in | ‘The principal trouble with the! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. of time when the limit had been made known months before. Any car ap- pearing on the streets the morning of January 1 without the tags of that year wss promptly nabbed, while the Maryland authorities went & step fur- ther and posted policemen at Chevy Chase Circle, where a minute after midnight any District motorist caught in Maryland found himself in trouble. Absolutely no excuse exists for fail- ure to comply with the regulations, and it is hoped that the 1932 extension will mark the end of such practice on the part of the local traffic authorities. ——————— Washington's Wild West Show. While there was no reason to expect immunity from such performances, the robbery of a local bank yesterday by a | band of armed men struck the com- munity with surprise. Such things had mo.. 85 | son’s Tecent note on her conquest of {been happening elsewhere. but it was | somehow felt that Washington would | be exempted from crimes of this character. There was, of course, no reason to expect that. The lawless spirit knows no boundaries Now that this has happened, fortunately without fatalities, the ques- tion comes squarely: What is to be done about it? Is it possible to catch the thieves or to recover the loot? Of course search is being made. | being followed. The belief is entertained | that the thieves are still in town, per- haps that they are local men. They worked skillfully, as though they had at least carefully rehearsed their parts East Capitol streets, whether profes- sionals or otherwise. Just why the raiders chose the par- ticular bank which they attacked is a question that they only can answer. They might possibly have secured a larger gain from another institution, but it may be that they selected it be- cause of its comparatively remote posi- tion, in a quiet neighborhood. Or they may have had intimate knowledge of the conditions there by reason of their own location. It is of no comfort to reflect that the bank's losses are protected by in- surance and that the institution will not suffer in consequence of the raid. A crime has been committed and if the perpetrators are not caught and punished its success will encourage other crimes, in the course of which heavy losses will be entailed and quite probably lives will be lost. A R IR, It is too bad Lewis Carroll could not have known Seaman Jones, U. 8. N., stationed at Honolulu. Addressed by a representative of the territory’s legal authority in the words “I am asking you” his pat reply was “Neither do 1" What a companion-character for the Red Queen. ———— The great new Department of Com- merce Building is declared already to show signs of being overcrowded. How about putting a clerk-or two into each of those commodious tanks in the handsome but unused new aquarium? e 1t this country could eliminate mu- nicipal graft, one tax dollar could do the work of two. But then, it would cost the other dollar to eliminate the graft. So there you are, and let everybody go fishing. = e Probably there will be little future difficulty about Uncle Sam's finances, now that Signor Mussolini has so kindly taken over the burden of regulating them for him ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Between Times. Sort of in-between times, the January days Give a glimpse of sunshine through the frosty haze. No more Christmas through the night; No more “happy New Years” ringin’ gay an’ light Only jes' remembrance of a holiday! Had our share o' pleasure. Now we've got to pay, Thinkin' of the springtime, with its skies aglow Journeyin' on to meet it, as the short days go. Ground hog will be with us in a little while, Lookin' fur his shadow in the usual style. We'll draw a little picture an’ we'll pen a little line To give a proper greetin’ to our friend St. Valentine It won't be many weeks from then until we hear once more The melody of birds above the bluster an’ the roar. : The past is surely pleasant an’ the future claims our praise, But they're sort of in-between times, these January days. carols soundin’ Hearts and Hands. “I want a place in the hearts of the people,” said the patriotic young states- man. “Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, “it'’s & fine ambition. But I'm not sure you won't get on faster by forgetting about the hearts of the people and putting yourself in the hands of your friends.” Once in a while you meet a reformer who wants the general public to be so good that his own particular vices won't count for much in the average. Vernal Anticipation. ©Of Spring we sing in merry rhyme; And yet the thought that seems most g8y Is that which hails it as the time When all the hens begin to lay. A Generous Attitude. “Is your wife going to wear her dia monds to the grand opera?” “Of course,” answered Mr. Cumrox “We can't all appreciate music and we ought to try to make grand opera inter- esting even for those who go merely to look on.” No Financier. Oh, Johnny has a pret#y little bank all made of tin. We thought that it would give him ways of thrift, beyond a doubt. But every time his father drops a shiny nickel in Dear Johnny makes a racket till he shakes the nickel out. “De man dat goes lookin' foh trou- ble,” said Uncle Eben, “doesn't most always git de easy kind he had mads 3 Clues are | inthe drama they enacted at Ninth and | i Scientist, writer, clerk, coal merchant, Why is it that the best greeting in the world, an honest, plain “Good morning,” said with a smile, is so often perverted? Many people nowadays, especially among the young, find it necessary to make cute additions to a phrase which is quite enough in its bare simplicity. Instead of saying “Good morning,” they reply: “Good morning, sergeant,” or, paying greater tribute, say, “Good morning, judge.” No doubt these ornamentations are meant in the best way, but somehow they fall very flat. The fact that the Police Department seems to be singled out for the honor points to a curious familiarity on the part of these jocund greeters with the orderly processes of law. Not all such salutations, however, are confined to the police administrations. Often one is addressed as a ‘“general,” and sometimes as a “Senator.” “Good morning, captain,” once was the favorite among those addicted to much_banter. But, like most misuses, that began to seem tame to them, so they advanced rapidly to “general.” Y ‘The sergeant, however, seems to have held his own. Smart young fellows between the ages of 16 and 18, perhaps the most dm- portant of all years, at least in their own eyes, find nothing quite so good to accompany their “Good morning” as the rank of sergeant. “Good morning, sergeant,” they in- variably declaim, despite the obvious fact that the one spoken to may obviously be unfitted for such a duty. it makes no difference to him, when he is exchanging “Good morning.” “Good morning. sergeant!” he sings. The best reply, of course, is no reply at all. One has made the customary and decent salutation, a plain “Good morning.” That is enough. Now this bird has to spoil it all by scream- ing his silly addition. One is torn between desire to reply in kind, a desire to look disapprovingly, and a desire to ignore the flippancy— the insult to the honor of the perfect salutation, “Good morning.” If one is very wise, one ignores him. If one is only moderately wise, one re- plles in kind. If one is not wise at all, one looks disapprovingly. “Good morning,” as & phrase, is of such ancient usuage, so common to all, that sumetimes the careless and in- different fail to understand its per- fect quality. In the first place, it is old enough to be habit. In the second, it suffices. Many words, many phrases, many sen- tences, even, fail to be enough. In- variably there must be explanatory | words. The good phrase, “Good morning,” needs nothing else to help it go. Around the world_its qualities are highly re- garded. When one has said it one has said all there is to be said at the moment. These two words, taken together, in- dicate that the speaker is kindly dis- posed for some commonplace but decent ex- pression of greeting, and that he is not content to merely look at the other, as if he were some sort of animal. It is amazing, sometimes, to note how careless human beings may bo- come in the little courtesies of whe | that he realizes the necessity | SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932. unless they take an especial care to see to it that they observe mormal courtesy, one Wwith another, whether they feel in the mood for it or_not. There is not an office in the land which does not harbor one or more people, called “old grouches,” if male, heaven knows what, if of the other sex, who usually find it extremely dif- ficult to become polite before 10 o’clock in_the morning. Normally they will enter their office without & word, take their seat at their desk and remain in a sort of surly stupor for an hour or so. § Afterward they may “snap out of it to & surprising degree, 5o that by lunch time they become almost, if not quite, human. Such people never offer & cheery “Good morning” themselves, and, if they are so greeted, either reply with a mumbled offering or none at all. x x K The person who believes in the necessity for the ordinary forms of po- lite usage should feel sorry for such indifferent persons. ‘They mts.flp:omethlng from life which others secure by no greater work than a few words, pleasantly spoken. And this something is not difficult to define. It simply is respect for others. Respect for others not only increases the esteem of others, it also makes one’s own respect for one’s self grow to fine flower. How it is possible for those who have no respect for the essential dig- nity of human life to have any respect for their own life will remain a mystery to many. They will prefer to believe that it simply cannot be done, that much of the woe and misery in the world is caused by people who, having no re- spect. for others, have none for them- selves, and thus work evil through a very real sense of despair, B everyday, The young fellow who wishes to im- prove his status in the world would do well to take thought of such a simple matter as how he greets his associates. If he finds it natural to him to say, ~“Good morning, sergeant,” to & man who never saw the inside of & police station, he might find it profitable to question himself somewhat as follows “Now, why did I add the ‘sergeant” Surely, the old ‘Good morning’ was quite enough. Guess I must have been trying to be funny. Maybe I was em- barrassed, and wrongly felt that some- thing unusual was expected of me. May- be I am just a young fool, and the next time any one greets me decently, as one honest human_ being to another, I will try to salute him decently in return.” ‘There are always two sides to a ques- tion. The older person who finds him. self greeted as “sergeant,” or “general,” or “Senator,” or “Governor,” is some- what t6 blame himself if he doesn’t like it. He has been too pleasant. Now there is such a thing as being too pleas- ant—to the wrong people. Familiarity breeds contempt, truly. Many a “ser- geant” will find, upon careful examina- tion, that he has not yet reached that practical wisdom which tells one plainly to keep others at some distance. The | trouble is that one is not always sure. | Many breezy people are at the same | time™ extremely courteous. It is just | here that the adequacy of “Good morn- ing” is complete. en_one has said it, he has said enough. If others have as much sense and manners they will feel the same way about it. Long Struggle Is Predicted As Britain Imprisons Gandhi Imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi produces. varying reactions in this country, both as to the prestige of the prisoner and as to the merits of the British_sttitude toward those who are involved in the campaign of passive re- sistance. “The viceroy had no choice but to imprison_the rebel and to proceed to enforce the laws,” in the opinion of the Newark Evening News, which believes that “to have done otherwise would have resulted in & total loss of order and government, in civil war and in- surrections in other British _Asiatic possessions.” The Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator feels that “the wonder is that Gandbi is permitted to carry on his propaganda from his place of imprison- ment,” and that “it is a further sign of British tolerance that he can do so." The Oakland Tribune says that ‘“the issue in India can no longer be handled | with silk gloves or at the conference table,” and concludes that “John Bull, having seen all his offers of compro- mise refused, and despairing of the chance to move the independence pro- gram forward by gradual steps, is to apply his colonial lavs to the Na- tlonalists.” “Mahatma Gandhi's _arrest, the fourth,” according to the Cleveland News, “probably presages a more de- termined policy of repression on the part of the British government than formerly.” The News adds: “‘Gandhi might safely and conveniently be re- moved from the scene while readjust- ments were being made. There is Tea- son to belleve that his following is more personal than political. There is no assurance that the Nationalists have another leader in reserve who could command unquestioned loyalty. With Gandht out, the leaven of conciliation might begin to work.” Observing that “it seems that the policy of Great Bri- tain in the handling of this remarkable man is to make of him a loyal subject or else to keep him in jail,” the Davenport Democrat declares that “Great Britain has shown him more lenfency and con- sideration than has been the case with other insurrection leaders.” * ok % % “Men of his type,” avers the Atlanta Journal, “have their mission in the world, no doubt, but when they tamper with affairs of government they usually do more mischief than good. Having power over the imagination and con- science of a crowd, they are tempted too often to wield it through politics rather than through morals, which course is as if an astronomer, who could do great service by reading the stars aright, should insist upon seizing the helm of a ship, about which he knows nothing.” A change in the situation is pointed out by the Cincinnati Times-Star with the suggestion: “The rebels now have to deal, not with sympathetic Lord Irwin, but with a sterner viceroy in the person of Lord Willingdon, who reflects the more vigorous Indian policy of the new home government. In his pictur- esque way, Gandhi describes the cam- palgn now beginning as ‘India’s trial by bullets’ And Gandhi has shown himself in the past a pretty good Ernphel, As leader of the Indian cause, owever, Gandhi has lost in prestige since he set sail for London and the Round-Table Conference. One result of that meeting, perhaps the chief re- sult, was the widening of the age-old gap between Moslem and Hindu. The deadlock between these two factions over the question of representation in the Indian Federation was even more significant than the deadlock between Britain and India.” “Meanwhile the world looks on with apprehension, realizing that the Indian situation is growing worse and becom- ing very dangerous” remarks the Salt Lake Deseret News, while the Portland Oregon Journal, with a different point of view, states: “In his principles of non-violence and only pacific and peace- ful measures in striving for & mighty end he sets an example to make statesmen of all time realize what can be accomplished without bloodshed.” * oK ok x “As for stamping out the desire in India to be free of England,” advises the Columbus Ohio State Journal, “that hope has been proven time and again to be impossible. Indeed, by subject- ing the people to such tyrannical meas- ures as imprisonment without trial, suppression of all semblance of free speech and free assembly, dictation of political beliefs, confiscal of prival property and all the other age-old and barbaric disciplines Engllhnd is only in- suring the life and the vigor of the revolution. The greater the oppression the more likely it is that India will establish her independence by force in- stead of by arbitration.” “Meantime,” says the Charlotte Ob- server, “the British government re- minds that the Round-Table Confer- ences are not ended, the determination being to forward the word of the com- mittees appointed to continue the round-table investigations. This com- mittee is to sail for India the middle of this month. The government of India stands accused of a flagrant violation of sections of the Indian penal code. Gandht is to be given an open trial, but the British government is deter- mined on checking outbreaks and law- lessness, and, in the present mood of Gandbi's following, that means armed suppression. The day of peace for | India appears remote.” “Abstract questions of policy should not prevent our realizing,’ ates the Worchester Evening Gazette, “that, in a small way, and yet in a very real way, it is war that is being waged now in India.” e Musical Prodigies. Prom the Schenectady Gazette. On either side of the Atlantic, the past week, a “wonder child” has as- tounded old and seasoned musicians. At Berlin, a 6-year-old girl, Ruth Slenczynski, a native of California, gave a performance of difficult classics that ‘was little short of marvelous. Grisha Goluboff, 9 years old, made his New York debut as violin soloist with an orchestra of 100 young musi- cians. Small for his age, two years ago, he appeared with the Los Angeles Phil- harmonic Symphony and with the San Prancisco Orchestra. The effect of his music the other night at Carnegie Hall was enhanced by his childish appear- ance, as he before a great au- dience at the initial evening perform- ance of the National Orchestral Asso- ciation and played his ‘“undersized” Stradivarius violin. ‘The Berlin press declared little Ruth in some respects the most astounding of all prodigies heard in recent years on either side of the ocean. ‘Those who think deeply on such mat- ters must pause to wonder what it is that sets two children apart from their mates in such manner as this. Why is it that one child must be driven to iano or violin practice and becomes ut & mediocre musician, and oftener than not no musician at all, while another, one in a thousand, perhaps, will play as easily and naturally as it will eat or sleep and will astound the world with its genius? The small Grisha and the little Ruth may have been encouraged by parents or guardians along their chosen path of sweet sounds, but genius was there or it could not have been developed. It was extraordinary genius, too, to have been developed to such an extent so early in life. It is & wonderful thing, a precious gift that should not be exploited to a child’s hurt. Yet, to keep it hidden would be to err just as far in the other direction. The very fact that these children, and others like them, can make such music, and give and receive pleasure in its making, means something. In grati- tude, they should share that which is 8o freely given them. Sometimes it is contended that musi- cal prodigles do not amount to much in adult life. This is not always true. The great Mozart, who played in public at 2 and toured Europe at 6, left 624 musical compositions and is said to be second to none in opera and symphony. Joseph Hofmann, piano virtuoso, of our own times, had been playing in Eu- rope for some years when he came to make an American tour in 1888 at the age of 11, and was compelled to aban- don it by the Society for the Prevention of Crueity to Children. He has since made many concert tours through Eu- rope and America and is onme of our outstanding musicians. —— e Can’t Place Congress. From the Glendale News-Press. Even yet you can't tell whether Mr. te or on his bands, ¢ Hoover will have Congress at his back THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover There is great advantage in reading & fiction trilogy one part at & time, in- stead of as a whole after publication in one volume. In this way each part of the trilogy has the freshness of & new novel and a reader is not as likely to become bored with the prolonged doings of the fictional family. The second part of Hugh Walpole's tetralogy (a trilogy was not sufficient for his plan) dealing with the Herrles family of Cumberland, “Judith Paris” ap- peared in the Autumn. The third vol- ume, “The Fortress,” is promised for the Autumn of 1932, Because the char- acter of Judith Paris is not as striking as that of her father, “Judith Paris” is not as original a novel as “Rogue Herries.” But it is sufficiently interest- ing and well done to be worth reading. To many the charm of the Cumberland or English lake region setting is by itself sufficient to justify time spent on the book. The period is & generation later than that of “Rogue Herries,” so that the events narrated take place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Sometimes the scene transferred to London, when the story promptly lags, because it belongs in- herently to Cumberland. Judith is the child who is born in the last chapter of “Rogue Herries” to the “Rogue” and his gypsy wife, Mirabell, boh of whom die & few moments after the child's birth. The last sentence of the former novel is the first sentence of the latter: “The old woman and the new-born child were the only living things in the house.” * Kk Kk K In “Judith Paris” we meet many of the characters familiar to us in “Rogue Herries.” There are David Herries, son of the “Rogue”; his wife, Sarah, and his children, Francis, Deb and Will; | Deborah Sunwood, daughter of the “Rogue”; her husband and sons, Hum- phrey and Reuben. One part of the double plot centers about the unhappy marriage of Prancis, son of David Herries, and the pursuing hatred of him by his brother Will. _The other part concerns Judith, her French hus- band, George Paris, and her illegiti- mate son Adam, who is, we feel sure, to be the chief character in the next volume. In fact we are inclined to feel that his existence is due rather to Mr. Walpole'’s need of him for this next volume than to any demand of Judith’s temperament. Judith combines many Herries traits, the practical, man- aging urge and the dreamy idealism which brought to the “Rogue visions of the great white horse plung- ing into the lake. She is capable, heroic and has a strong protective impulse toward those whom she loves, but she loves only a few—her husband, who is entirely undeserving; Francis Herrles, Reuben Sunwood, Charlie Watson, her Cumberland neighbor and friend, Emma Furze, and later her small son Adam. Adam’s father she never loves. Of Judith’s ability to manage the affairs of others Mr. Walpole says: “She asked no questions. She hated Lpeoplar:em asked tiresome questions at an crisis. * * * She was beginning %o ‘manage’ him (her husband) as she ‘managed’ old Ritson’s rheumatism, Mrs. Ritson’s bad clumsy sewing, Tom Ritson's carelessness about money, young Alice Ritson’s love affairs, and, like all managing people, she always a little despised those who succumbed to her management.” PR An interesting feature of ‘“Judith Paris” is the introduction into its nar- rative of certain famous authors of the Romantic Age who were living at the time of the action of the story. We have glimpses of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, Coleridge and his Wife and Hartley, Southey and his wife at Greta Hall, Keswick; Shelley and Sir Walter Scott. Walter Herrles, the arrogant son of Will, lives near the Wordsworths in_Cumberland and de- spises them as half-crazy poets. “He had been slowly riding by Grasmere Lake when he encountered that crazy old poet, William Wordsworth, and his mad sister as they walked along. Wal- ter, with his accustomed genlality, had stopped his horse to speak to them, as a king might to his subjects. Every one knew that Wordsworth, as a poet, Was & mock and a derision, and his | sister Dorothy was as mad as a hatter. Wordsworth wrote poems about don- keys and daffodils, He was a joke to the neighborhood, and that little sister of his, with her shabby clothes and fiery eye. * * * And yet, speaking to them with all cou;&esy, h‘l'eh h-dc otfi?n 1m fi“l;!l way rehuked. e Wordsworth was going fishing: his sis- ter sald something about & bird on & tree. They did not seem at all grati- fied that he had spoken to them. ‘Good day to you, Mr. Herries—good day to yow' Wordsworth had said, as though he were impatient to be gone, and his sister had wandered about the Toad, following some bird with her glittering_eye. * * * Oh, mad, mad both of them! But mad or not, they should have been impressed by his greeting.” In Paris, after the battle of Waterloo, Judith sees Sir Walter Scott. She attends a ball, where Blucher and Wellington meet and Shake hands, but for her that is not the climax of the evening, for she ‘saw standing quite close to her whom but Mr. Walter Scott? His expression was one of rapt and intense fervor. His eyes, from under their heavy eye- brows, glittered with emotion.” She thought there were tears in them. As he leaned forward, his high-domed forehead rising into an odd peak, his strong shoulders set, the nobility of his mouth speaking of all the kind- ness (and yet firmness and stiff ob- stinacy, too) that a Scottish gentle- man is capable of, she felt that she must speak to him, wisdom, folly or no. ‘Is it not wonderful to be present at such a moment?” He turned and saw a modest, stout little body in & white gown. As he greatly preferred modest and simple people to any other, he smiled like s brother and gave a little bow. ‘It is indeed, madame.’ He turned his eyes back to Wellington and - Blucher. She did not venture any more.” When Judith goes with Francis and his wife Jennifer to_tea with the Southeys, with whom Mrs. Coleridge is staying, “Mrs. Southey was the conversational one; Mrs. Coleridge had a tendency to peevishness (which you could understand * * * if it were true that her husband was always away from her and was a slave to opium).” * X X X The French writer, Paul Morand, showed great powers of observation and considerable acuteness of interpre- tation in his book, “New York.” Even New Yorkers could not fail to recognize themselves in his pages. In his book, 1900 A.D.” translated by Mrs. Romiily Fedden, he describes Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, when it was still the unquestioned capital of art and fashion. The Paris EXposi- tion of 1900 was an epitome of the end of a century. There all nations dis- played their achievements. In that ear Paris still bitterly discussed the reyfus affair, and every unfortunate event was attributed in some obscure way to the Dreyfus party. Zola had passed the zenith of his influence, but was still reverenced by some followers. Socialism was as yet a dilettante af- fair. M. Morand ‘apostrophizes 1900: “Why did you eat and drink so much that we suffer from gout? Why did you make us believe in microbes, in electricity and the white race? * * Why did you show your teeth at every %ggormnlty, yet leave the war to us? y were you so ugly, so rich and so happy?” * kX X The character of the Duke of Wel- lington is subtly interpreted by Philip Guedalla in his biography “Welling- ton.” Naturally, the whole period of the Napoleonic wars is covered by the historian-biographer as background, The book opens with a description of the Irish country home of Wellington's parents and the parents themselves. Their family name was Wellesley, or Wesley, and they were collateral rela- tives of John Wesley, founder of Meth- odism. The career of the conqueror of Napoleon is followed from the time ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the answers appear in the newspaper. The space is limited and would not ac- | commodate & fraction of such requests. | ‘The answers published are ones that| may interest many readers, rather than the one who asks the question only. All questions should be accompanied by the writer's name and address and two | cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send | your to The Evening Star In- | formation Bureau, nedefl8 J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Was Frankenstein the name of | the monster or of the man who created it?—A. K. A. In Mrs. Shelley's book it was the name of the young student in chemistry and anatomy who created the monster. | Frankenstein is now a synonym for & man whose own works bring him to disaster or destruction. And, as the monster of the romance bears no name, the name of his creator has often been | transferred to him, 0 that “a Franken- | stein” popular usage, & being of the most ap- pelling ugliness and brutality, having no trace of the moral sense whatever. | Q. Has any playwright won the Pul- itzer Prize more than once?—F. R. N.| A. The only playwright who has won | this award more than once is Eugene | O'Neill, who has been so honored three times. The plays by this author which have won the Pulitzer Prize are “Be- yond the Horizon,” 1920-1921; “Anns | Christie,” 1921-1922, and “Strange In- terlude,” 1927-1928. Q. What is the difference in old- nyvl‘e. dry, and extra dry ginger ale? W B | A. Old-style ginger ale refers to the | original ginger ale, which was decidedly sweet and contained a larger percent- age of sugar than the ginger ale used today. The word dry simply means that less sugar is used. Extra dry means still less sugar is used than in the dry ginger al Q. How many publications are there | in the library of the Government Print- | ing Office?>—T. W. A. A. P. Tisdell, superintendent of | documents, says that the library houses the most complete collection of Gov- ernment publications extant. On June 30, 1931, there were 495,723 publications and 35,781 maps, making a grand total of 531,504. Q. What kind of money was roa- noke?—E. 8. A. . A. This was one of several variants applied by the Virginia colonists to| the shell beads employed by the neigh- boring Indians as articles of personal adornment or media of exchange. It is a case of substitution of a familiar word for one that was ill understood and probably more difficult to pro- nounce. Capt. John Smith (1612 and | 1624) gives the Powhatan name for | shell beads in the form of rawrenock and rawranoke, and William Strachey | defines rarenaw as & chain of beads.| The original word may have been | rarenawok, smoothed shells, plural of | Tarenaw. | Q. Why does a child complain of & | pain in the side after running?— B H. 8 A. It is usually due to overexertion of the muscles. Q. Are the quarters for the crew of the Akron inside or outside the dirigi- | ble?—A. L. M. A. The crew's quarters, the radio cabin, the galley, mess rooms, etc., are | placed inside the hull of the Akron. The control car is placed forward pro- jecting below the stream line of the lower half and is built as an integral part of the structure. Here the com- mander and his staff are stationed di- recting operations. The car has been | has come also to signify, m‘D made only large enough comfortably to take care of these operations, thereby reducing the air resistance to a minimum. Q. Were Washington's hands large? —M. M. A. Helen Nicolay quotes Lafayette as saying that Gen. Washington had the largest hands he ever saw on a | human being. Q. Are any two snowflakes of exact- 1y the same pattern’—L. B. A. Wilson A.-Bentley, who has de- voted years to the study of snow crys- tals, says that duplicates are x found. Q. Did Luther Burbank renounce I atheistic views?—O. H. A. Luther Burbank did not at time before his death ren hi§ m terialistic views. He was not, stric speaking, an atheist, having, as he sai an open’ mind. Q. When was sugar first made frc sugar beets in the United States A. The first factory was erected b Edward Lee Church at Northampt Mass.. in 1838, and the following ye it produced 1,300 pounds of sugar. A , but all were failures. In 187 Dyer_erected at Alvarado, Calif., a factory which be- came successful in 1870 and marked the beginning of the modern sugar- making from sugar beets. Q. Whose duty is it to install the new officers in a club>—W. S. A. It may devolve upon the past president, but it is becoming_increas- ingly popular to elect, or to have ap- pointed, what is known as the officer of the day. This is one person who acts as master, or mistress, of cere- monies and who is charged with the proper conduct of the installation exer- cises and the transfer of the badges of aathority, such as the gavel, pin, ete., from the past official to the in- coming administration. Q Have ships or_trains ever been lost in_quicksands?—W. S. A. Historical records show that ships have been engulfed in quicksands. In 1703 13 warships were lost in a night and the wrecks entirely swallowed. The effects of quicksands were well illus- trated in 1875 by the sinking of a loco- motive and train at Pueblo, Colo. The train sank beyond discovery though probed for to a depth of 50 feet. Q. Why is it said that one should not | die without seeing Carcassonne?—M. A 8. A. This is a remarkable walled city n the South of France which has a | very medieval aspect and is a fasci- nating place to tourists. Q. What is tupg oil used for?—L. D A. For centuries the Chinese have grown tung oil trees in a primitive way and menufactured ofl from their fruit by the crudest methods. Yet this oil has been the chief paint oil of China and has become the basis for some of their finest lacquers, for the water- proofing of their fabrics and the main vehicle for their paints. From the soot of tung ofl has been made the finest “India” ink. The oil has been used for dressing leather, for waterproofing silk and for oiling and calking junks. The tung ofl tree is a beautiful ornament. It has large leaves like the catalpa and a profusion of white blossoms in March. 1t grows rapidly, giving a pleasant shade while still young. The tree was Introduced into the United States in 1905. Q. How many acres are there in the | cemeteries in Greater New York?—A. 8. A. They comprise 4,074.2 acres. Q. Upon what date will Easter fall this year’—M. J. B. A. March 21. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands VENING = TIMES, Glasgow.— “While I am personally all for the completest freedom for com- mercial intercourse as between | nations, actual events force one to realize that the only hope of a complishing any measure of interna- tional commercial freedom for us can | only be gained through tariffs lnd} their power to bargain.” 1 Mr. J. Gibson Jarvie, managing di- rector of the United Dominions Trust, expressed this opinion in an address on the economic future delivered to mem- | bers of the Glasgow City Business Club | recently. | “The biggest, although a perhaps| selfish, argument in favor of a closer | relationship with all the component parts of the empire is the measure of | freedom of trade which it would bring | us,” he continued. Tariffs and anti-dumping legislation, he said, must not be used as an excuse for inertia. Under no circumstances must we permit them to be used as a bulwark for efficiency or for the pur- pose of artificlally mxsl;m prices. * % Decree May End Wholesale Shooting of Ducks. El Universal, Mexico, D. F.—Presi- dent Ortiz Rubio has signed a decree to regulate the shooting of wild ducks and geese in the various states of the republic Heretofore extensive and systematic methods have been used to afiuzhte\' these valuable birds, with the result that there was danger of their extinction. The peons and hunt- ers in many rural districts have fre- quently surrounded the lakes where the birds generally congregate with a| cordon of fowling pieces fastened to standards. At a giver signal the “armada” (broadside) is fired simul- taneously by a mechanical contrivance to which the guns are attached, the result generally being indiscriminate destruction of all the ducks or geese on the pond: or lake. There has long been an agitation about this ruthless practice which (re-; quently renders the game unfit for | food, but it is only lately that the mat- ter has received the definite attention of the authorities. The action above | referred to, now ratified by President Rubio, m be depended upon abolish this cr\:el pncti’ce. * * Danish Trades Now Feel Economic Crisis. Den Danske Landmandsbank, Copen- | hagen.—During & crisis as serious as the one now experienced by Danish agriculture, it s unavoidable that dif- fculties must arise for other trades, to| when the young lieutenant donned the cavalry uniform, through his service in India as colonel, then major general, where his older brother was governor general, through the Peninsular cam- paign, to Waterloo. We see Wellington as & man not burdened with modesty, but that was not the quality needed to conquer Napoleon. He is quoted as saying on the peninsula: “I could lick. those fellows any day, but * * * as this is the last army England has, we must take care of it”; and after Water- loo: “By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there.” History is in agreement with him about that p‘;m‘ * Jo Van Ammers-Kuller, Dutch nov- elist, passed her girlhood in the quiet town of Delft, where her masculine relatives had been doctors and lawyers for generations, Her family did not | approve the writing propensities which she early developed, and marriage at | 20, followed by two babies, also offered | no encouragement for authorship, Later | she lived in London, where her hus- | band’s work took him, and there she wrote seriously and published several novels and three plays, which were produced. Since then she has had | steady success in Holland and her books | have been translated into German, | | work throughout the world in 1930. | thousand, including the manufacturing industry, the selling chances being reduced either for the reason that only a smaller quantity of goods can find a market, or because only a reduced price is ob- tainable for the goods produced. Ac- cordingly, the number of our unem- ployed has been rising, though it is as yet far from giving cause for serious anxiety. Generally speaking, it must be said that the difficulties experienced by Industry are due’ to outside in= fluences, while the internal affairs of industry on the whole are in good order after the financial and technical | reforms which have taken place in the course of the last few yeal When further it is taken into con- sideration that the balance of trade is in good order, and that the agricul- tural production’ has exceeded all pr cedents, it is not unjustified to main- tain that conditions in our economic community as a whole are far from unsatisfactory, even though a trade of the importance of agriculture has come into a critical situation owing to an unforeseen decline in the prices of near- ly all its produce Ok K K Camaraderie of English Sailors Is Charming. Le Soir, Brussels—A sailor from an English ship, the Montcalm, coming ashore at Antwerp without proper au- thority to do so, was being escorted to the police station for investigation, when six of his companions, beholding his predicament from the deck of the vessel also came on the wharf and liter- ally assaulted his escort, taking him away from them despite all their efforts. When police reintorcements arrived the seven marires were all back on the boat, from which it was im- possible to take agan the original offender, inasmuch as the vessel was considered the same as British_terri- tory. The camaraderie of English sailors is very charming. LR Circulation of Bible Increases In European Countries. Central European Observer, Prague.— The annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, recently pub- lished, gives interesting details of their In Central Europe we find that in spite of the prevailing economic depression the circulation showed a considerapl increase. One hundred _thirt two hundred and sixt copies were circulated in Germany, 34,435 copies in Austria, 73,536 coples in Hungary, 39,389 copies in Poland, 34,606 copies in Switzerland and 47, copies in Czechoslovakia. Of the 47,000~ odd books issued from Prague and cir- culated in Czechoslovakia 34,220 were in the Czech and Slovak language 4,915 in German, 4.119 in Hungarian, 1,340 in Russian, 911 in Polish, 320 in English, 298 in Hebrew and the re- mainder in 23 other languages. The Bible Society's total circulation was 11,888,226 copies and translations in 14 additional languages were published. The total number of languages on the soclety's list is now 644 Among the 14 new versions we notice a translation of the Gospel of St. John for the Gipsies in North Germany Though primarily for the German Gipsies the translation can also 32 understood by many located in Czecho- slovakia. The increased circulation of the Bible not only in Central Europe but elsewhere, for instance, in Great Britain is rather a surprising fact in this modern scientific and materalistic age. The _well-known second-hand booksellers Foyle .of London have re- cently stated that whereas two or three years ago they were sending old Bibles away to be pulped, today they can even sell second-hand copies of the cheaper Bibjes. e The Family Skeleton, From the Meridian Star. It's all right to have a family skele- ton, but you shouldn't dress her up in an’ evening gown.