Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1932, Page 6

A—6 THE EVENING STAR “With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SAWURDAY....January 23, 1932 it | R RS AL SR THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company iness Office Business Office: o l;ie by Carrier Within the City. R’: g::llfis lta 45c per month o § Binday ‘Star The, e ..60c per month G YA g s ey ; nc}lfl“‘w;y ade at i end of ::c&]:‘\’mlzxe exs ‘sent In by m! ;!lflfl‘?%fl. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. - filrfllnfl and Virginia. } yr. Ilg 00 4 in i ‘All: Other States and Canada. Ad Sunday. 1.\'1"“3% lmn.llis 1 . 1mo., 3 P Ml B Member of the Associated Press. ssociated Press is Plrlulhiely:r e for republication of all ni ted fo it or not otherwis o e he | SR At special. dfmatches of publication of erein also reserved. g ‘ Britan Heads for a Tariff. Much political history is being writ- ten in England just at this time that, will later puzzle the students of British affaits’ /It is puzzling even to present observers, jts explanation lying only in the thesis of acute national neces- sity. - Par as long as memory runs, for » good.many generations, in fact, the fundamental principle of parliamentary government in Great Britain has been that of icollective cabinet responsibility. Ministries have stood or have fallen upon_his principle. As long a8 the unity ‘of the dominant party, represent- ed in the ministry by chosen members, with ithe support of & mafjority of the Parliafitent, has been preserved the gov- ernment has been sustained. When the minfstry has divided upon a question of fundaxental policy, or when the Parlia- ment has withdrawn its support to the point; pf leaving the ministry in the minority, a change has been effected through an “appeal to the country”; in other. words, a general election. Just now, however, a crisis has been reachpd, that has been passed by the abandenment of the principle of “col- Jectivg responsibility.” The cabinet has split upop the question of the tariff. 1t is a coalition cabinet, composed of representatives of both the Conserva- tive and the Liberal parties, the latter somenffiat combined with the moderate Labofites, The Conservatives demand tariftr Jegislation, erecting a customs wall for the protection of British in- dustries. Tariff is snathema to the Liberdls, When the pinch of decision cama'the' ministry found itself divided. Undeg .the former and long-maintained resignation of the ministry and dissotution of Parliament, with a gen- eral #lection, would have ensued. To “gave the situstion” to syoid another election clogely. following that which recently swept the Labor party aut of power snd all but disintegrated the Liberal pary, a compromise has been effected. Prime Minister MacDonald annogmees the adjustment thus: that some 1mo. i mo. aily oniy ; § mo Fu- sha Sunday.... jundsy only . 5 | oc 3:3 ‘of impart duties and other cognate attefs are at liberty to express their wiew by speech or vote. The cabinet, being essentially united on all other mat- ters of policy, believes that by this spe- clal provision it is best interpreting the will gf the nation and the needs of the time. There are four cabinet members Who dissent from the tariff policy, three Libergls; and one Laborite. They balk at the Proposal of a general ten or - teen per cent tariff on manufactured goods te be dmposed as soon as possible after Parliament convenes and can pass the necessary bills. There is a majority for thedbills fn Parliament and they will probably pass. Whether the ‘“mora- torium® upon politics will long survive the legislative action remains to be de- termineéd by events, The major fact of fm) ce is that a cabinet split has been by the expedient of the Leboggberal quartet in the ministry Jookifg ‘the other way while the pro- gram is being carried to conclusion. Nobody looks for & long life for this ‘eoalition, which resulted from & high- pressure appeal to the country for a “na- tional” government. The vote cast at the recept election was overwhelmingly Consergative. It is the confident ex- pectation of that party that it will soon be given. a mandate for the formation of s strictly’ Conservative ministry. Just when that will come about is not to be forecast. ‘There are conditions in being | and in the making which may compel the retention for a considerable period of the ‘present government, which is virtually an emergency organization. Meanwhile Great Britain will go on a tariff , which may in itself cause impofant, changes in the political line e is at least one comfort in deal- h a nation like Abyssinia, whose servants were guilty of as- an American diplomatic offi- clal, gnd which promises speedy punish- ment Hor the offenders. In that land| they i1l use those cute hippopotamus- hide ¥hips, and when the Abyssinians punish, they punish r——— Reli#fé5, 1t 1s announced, today faces S$hree great, tbreats: Nationalism, Com- munism and the present economic prob- lems. ‘Think back a little, dwelling on the middie and dark ages, and see if any sich threesome as that, bad as it sounds; Is likely soon to obtain & verdict over & church militant. o Texas Land Comes High. ‘Those members of Congress who have n the"past expressed their righteous indi 5 over the fact that condem- nationgWards fa the District of Co- Jumbia “occasionally exceed many times what might have been considered a 2air prics for the property desired by the Gpvernment will be ssddened by revelations contained in Senate docu- ment No. 37, embracing communica-’ tions frefn the director of the Budget | fish will begin to see again and away Fleld, giving hlm $80,000 for the pur- chase, and telling him, if he could not buy the land for that amount, to have the Attorney Geeneral, who was “here- by directed,” to institute condemna- tion proceedings for the property. The purchase was designed, at the same time, to settle certain damage claims ed by the explosion of numerous bombs. The "Attorney General had to insti- tue condemnation proceedings and the judgment of the court was that the United States should pay $135152.32 for 'the land, plus six per cent inter- est on that sum from June 30, 1931.| The President and the Director of the“ Budget have asked Congress to make | that sum available, or, to be explicit, | théy have asked Congress to consider | the facts. | There is nothing particularly new or | startling in this situation. It is cited | | merely as ind. -ation of the fact, pos- | sibly unknown to some members of Congress, that property owners in the | District of Culumbia are not alone among the property owners of the United States who will stretch every effort to get as much as they can for their property when they know that the Government wants it. There are only two sure cures for the resulting | embarrassment of high condemnation awards. One is to remove from the human race the root of all evil. The other is to nullify the law of supply and demand. Whether these cures can be accomplished by congressional action is another question. T Motor Clubs. The passing of the Autcmobile Club of America, the oldest organization of its kind in the United States, which! has decided to liquidate its affairs and close its doors forever, demonstrates the change that has taken place during the past twenty years in motor club life in this country. Organized in 1899, the club, although holding road races and motor car shows and promoting touring a5 & sport and recreation, was largely of a social nature. Its board of gov- ernors included men prominent in the social and financial world and its mem- bership was composed of those few who At that time had the means to pur- chase cne of the “speedy” horseless carriages. Gradually, however, as the years have rolled along and the auto- mobile has become a commonplace, the social side of motor club life in the United States has ceased to exist and its place has been taken by practical business administration which gives every member of the thousands of clubs the type of service which is designed to make car owning and cAr operation the least burdensome. No longer, therefore, do-members of an automobile club sit around in the club house and swap stories of their “daring” excursions over uncharted roads to a city fifty miles distant, nor do they expatiate on the difficulties they experience in finding succor when stalled on the highway. If they go to the club at all, which in the ma- Jority of cases is merely an office, they stand in front of a counter and ex- plain to an efficient clerk just what they want in the way of road maps and information. 1If they are in trouble with the law they consult the club's attorney, and if they should by chance break down they merely telephone to the club from the nearest point, and aid s speedily sent to them. Thelr club will perform for them almost any service that is humanly possible. It is a friend indeed as well as a friend in need, but it is efficient and business- like and caters to practical problems rather than to those of social nature. To the American Automobile Asso- clation, with its more than one thousand clubs totaling nearly a million members, must go the credit for building up the modern idea of motor club life. All of these clubs, banded together by affiliation with the central organization, offer, so far as it is possible, the same type of service to their members, and if legislation on behalf of motorists is sought a united front will be presented to the State or national bodies. Europe has already followed Amer- ica's lead, but has done it in a slightly different manner. Instead of giving up the magnificent homes of its “royal” clubs it has retained them for social purposes and established elsewhere business offices in conformity with the system in vogue in this country. The American motorist today, therefore, can | travel in many parts of the world and receive identically the same service that he finds in his own home town. ———— Here is & new one to most people: Champagne has been prescribed for an Arkansas man suffering from hiccoughs and will be administered “if the wine can be procured.” Fond memory gives most people an entirely different idea of the relationship between champagne and hiccoughs. r————— Mammoth Cave, Ky., has been equip- ped with twelve great floodlights and many smaller illuminating projectors. The first g one knows those blind goes another specisl attraction, ————————— Virginia State Policeman Stafford ap- pears to have taken orders from a good many people, including a clergyman and | the proprietor of a nearby saddlery shop. It may well be that soon he will find himself his own boss. —_— e Abatement of Noise. An interesting experiment is being conducted by a dairy company in New York in an endeavor to abate the noise of early-morning deliveries. Rubber cushions are placed on the bottom of milk bottles, rubber tires are put over the iron wagon wheels, and the drivers are shod with rubber-heeled shoes. Ac- cording to tests recently conducted, the new bottle carrier reduces noise by nine against the Government, possibly caus-- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, and one hundred and one other fac- tors contribute their part. At-night, however, and in the sleeping hours of the early morning it should be easy to insure comfortable repose by re- duction of the sounds that interfere with sleep. The dairy company in New York is taking the lead in this endeavor. o One-Way Streets. The creation of eight new one-way | streets by the Traffic Bureau in the | residential section of the city can | hardly fail to meet with approval. The sections of thess streets that have been turned into one-way thoroughfares have been in need of attention for some time, Trafic has moved at 8 snail's pace and with cars parked along | the curb, in many cases double parked, | it was apparent that a remedy for con- ditions must be found. one-way streets and banning parking at | some of the congested points the Traffic | Bureau has adopted the sensible and | obvious solution. i Especially beneficial to the smooth flow of traffic js the order affecting Q and R streets from Massachusetts avenue to Florida avenue. These streets, one-way east and west, will, under the new system, be heavily used arteries, and will probably relieve con- gestion at Dupont, Thomas and Scott Circles to a noticeable degree. Both streets are narrow and with parking on two sides are unfit to carry two-way trafic. The change, therefore, should | harm no one but benefit every one. e Scientists predict perpetual life for| a chicken heart which has just cele- | brated its twentieth birthday anniver- | sary in a test tube. What the country needs right now is prolongation of the existence of the lion-type of heart. e It appears that China may sever diplomatic relations with Japan. Many did not know these still existed; all are of the opinion that they come under the category of “poor relations.” ————— It is not improbable that the manager of the Boston Braves is wishing wist- fully his hired men could steal bases as niftily as they catch thieves. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Skepticism. When in unwonted elegance The timid groom walks down The aisle, 'mid pomp and circumstance ‘That interests the town, And unto his prospective wife He says, “This is, dear Ruth, The happiest moment of my life"— Oh, does he speak the truth? And when the statesman cries aloud, “I crave no further fame. I ask not for position proud. I fain would quit the game And unto private life retire Amid the scenes of youth,” His lofty phrases we admire— But does he speak the truth? The Embarrassing Effort. “Good intentions ought to count for something,” remarked the generous per- son. “But they don’t,” replied Miss Cay- enne. “The most impolite acquaint- ance I have is one who lets you see what an effort she is making to be polite.” s The Gray Matter Market. “I used to think I could hire all the brains I wanted for twenty-five dollars a week,” sald Mr. Pushem. “Well, couldn’t you?” “Yes. But it wasn't long before I had to call in a hundred-thousand-dollar lawyer to straighten out the kinks they put into my affairs.” Changing Fashions. Though curious hats and raiment queer Call forth a protest or a smile, Still, let us give a little cheer. Side whiskers have gone out of style. Extremely Busy. “I think,” sald Farmer Corntossel, “that we ought to take steps to prevent our son from spending so much time in idleness.” “Agaln you are doing the boy an in- justice,” replied the fond mother. “He is the busiest thing on the place. He is coloring a pipe, raising a mustache. and learning to play the guitar.” A Motive Indorsed. “I don’t blame that cook of ours for wanting more salary,” remarked Mr. Growcher. “But you are always complaining of the food she prepares.” “Certainly. She undoubtedly wants a larger income, so that she can afford to eat at & restaurant.” A man kicks about the weather the year round. The only variation he makes is to look at different ends of the thermometer. ———— Tip for Scientists. From the Nashville Banner. Prof. Einstein says reporters Ahouldi not write about science unless they | know what they are writing about, and we think the same thing ought to go for scientists, too. e No Clouds Wanted. From the Manchester Union. Scientists say that babies of the fu- ture will cry for bottled sunshine. It is to be hoped that a plan will be worked out to prevent a lot of wailing on stormy days. . Free Verse Economical. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. The technique of poetry may be lost in free verse, as the president of the Canadian Authors’ Assoclation declares, but it does save the expense of buying decibels—whatever they are—and the rubber tires make only twenty decibels’ worth of nolse, as against the thirty decibles of the iron wheels. When the full program of the replacement of old- fashioned equipment is carried out, the dairy company estimates that more than fifty per cent of the noises of delivery will be eliminated. This is & commendable campaign and could be followed with benefit to the nerves of the residents of every community. Science has shown that, Bureay and the President regarding the purchasé of one thousand acres in the fair Stateiof Texas. yéar -Congress passed o bill - recting the Secretary of War, o buy & thousep [ m;w‘mm range for Kelly £ no matter whether the human being realizes it, the effect of noise on dell- cate brain cells is insidious. It is prac- | tically impossible in & large city to decrease to an appreciable extent the cars, uuwmobu?. bullding operations & rhyming dictionary. ———— Concerning Lions. From the Butte (Mont.) Standard. Zoologists declare a lion can run only a short distance. The nice feature of that, for the lion, is that he doesn’t have to run, ——— A Firm Foundation. From the New York Sun. Some of the early missionaries to the Sandwich Islands would be astonished at the edifice which has been erected on the foundations they laid. —— s D. C, SATURDAY, J ANUARY 23, 1932. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The inability of many people to admit that some one else has discovered some- thing worth while is at once among the commonest and most curious traits of human nature. The reception accorded “Fulton's Folly,” as his steamboat was called by the mass of the people, is a classic instance of this. Every airplane which flies the skies proves that Prof. Langley was right after all. One need not go so far afield, how- ever, to find examples of this strange reluctance on the part of many to admit that some one else might have found a good thing which they knew nothing about. It is part and parcel of the good old human trait of self-preservation. To admit that some one else has found In creating the | something good is equivalent to stating | that he is superior, in that respect, at least. Take a recent invention, something which has been discovered for the good of mankind, but which the majority of mankind knows nothing about, and cares less, and will pooh-pooh if brought to their attention. Only the mentally daring in the popu lace will purchase and use the inven: tion. Yet by degrecs its usefulness will percolate through the strata of soclety. At last some will get up enough nerve, as it were, to ask one of the pioneers of use what he thinks of the gadget, how much it costs and whether it really works. * ok x * The significant thing about this is that seldom will the inquirer be willing to admit that he is interested in the device for himself. Never! He is inquiring for some one elee. He is not going to use it himself— oh, never!—but thinks it will be a good thing for grandmaw, or for the chil- dren, or for the dog Never for anything would he be will- ing to admit any more than an aca- | demic interest in the gadget. To do so might make the one of whom he makes !the inquiry feel that he had somehow been slightly in advance of the times. “Never permit an equal to be in ad- vance of one's self.” Buch seems to be the unwritten law upon which many act, even though totally unconscious of it Thus almost any one is used as an | things) is that so many people imagine | excuse, rather than admjt one’s honest interest in a subject, for the personal interest is what counts. R The trouble with all such persons is |- that they want the backing of the mul- titude. They refuse to be ploneers in the only field in which so many of us— most of us—can function This is the field of mental adventure. | Now it is amazing, one might think, to discover that literally thousands of persons have never found this magic province. / It is the only scope they have, and they know nothing about it! Hence they drool along in their petty physical round, overlooking one of the real possibilities of life. = The chance for most human beings to be physical adventurers is very, very slight. One might as well be frank about it, and admit that for an untold many there is no chance at all. For them there is no North Pole, no London, even. Literally, there is no North Pole for anybody who has not been there, or near there. The man who has not gone to Eng- land, and stood in the streets of Lon- con, cannot be sald to know London at all, can he? He may listen to lectures about it, and u-dybookl about it, and in this way—the mental way—come to feel that he knows something about the place. But it is his only chance. In any | other manmer there is no London for | him, and he does not know it. | * K K K | Any one can be a pioneer in his thoughts by making an honest attempt to keep abreast of what is being thought in the world today. | Too many peop! along on the assumption that man is )muc, and that somehow he is not | getting anywhere and never will get | anywhere. | Maybe he won't, but how does any- body know? No one does, that is plain. In the meantime much is being thought and | much achieved and there is little sense in any one deliberately staying outside the work of the world by refusing to think about it, Yet that is precisely what is being done by all too many. And when they do not exactly act so, but make a hesi- tating, reluctant step toward some- hing about which they know little, they become ashamed of their temerity | and attempt to make others believe | that they have no “personal interest, | as they call it, in the thing or matter about which they are making inquiries, FEh There is, after all, little need for this | strange reluctance to permit one's in- terest to be associated with something about which one knows little. | It is the sign of the active mind to make inquiries, Few people ever suffered any harm | under civilized conditions by asking questions. It is one of the best ways of finding out things! | When automobilists want to know exactly where they are on the road, | they stop and ask some one, | 80 on the road of life it is expedient | at_times to ask others the way. There is little reason, however, for covering up one’s evident interest and | pretending that one is not inquiring for one's own sake, but for the sake of | some one else. Buch ‘a policy fools no one. One of the funny things about hu- man beings (there are so many curious that they are fooling other people simply because these latter do not let | on that they are “onto” them. ‘ * k¥ X It is safe to say that perhaps 75 per cent of the time no one fools any one else about anything. Most people are too polite, as we #ay, to give any indi- cation that they fully comprehend the devious ways of others In all fairness it should be said that most of these cases are of a simple, harmless nature, and do no harm to any one, and thus there is no particu- lar occasion for the wise person to show any resentment or even the fact that | he has “caught on.” | In fact, to permit such people to think that they are fooling others is a sort of kindness to animals; in other words, it does the others no harm and may exalt the pride in one's self of the secker for information. It might be well for many people to admit to themselves, first of all, that | they do not know everything and that | even the most humble people might be | able to stumble onto a thing or two | which they should know. Thereafter, in seeking information of | these persons, they might honestly ad- mit their own personal interest and let them have the honest, satisfaction of | supplying a need. Cardinal’s Indictment of Crooners Has Wide Support Condemnation of crooners by Car- dinal O'Connell of Boston strikes an answering chord in most American newspapers. His judgment in calling this form of vocalization “a degenerate form of singing” and “crying vapid words to impossible tunes” is applaud- ed in press comments, many making the indictment even stronger. Ob- jections are also raised to the quality of the songs used by the crooners and to the amount of time on the air given over to them, while others recog- nize that this form of entertainment has its appeal and point out that it is & result of popular demand. “Cardinal O'Connell's characteriza- tion of these vocal sounds as ‘bleating and whining,’'” says the Springfield, Mass., Union, “is apt and accurate, but that, bad as it is, is not their only mode of offending. Far worse, in the case of a large number of them, are the ideas conveyed by the words they moan, groan or whine into the microphone, almost without ex- ception cheap and vulgar and in many cases indecent. The cardinal seems well justified in referring to it as ‘a degenerate interpretation of love.'” “The crooners do have a wide appeal to adolescence, which is the generous way of expressing it concedes the Spokane Spokesman-Review, adding that “others say the appeal is mo- ronic.” The Abilene Reporter makes the vigorous contribution to the dis. cussion: “Many long-suffering radiots will say ‘Bravo’ to the cardinal’s cas- .| tigation, but where there is one who is disgusted with crooners and crooning there are probably two who figuratively “‘lap it up.’ It is part of the price we must pay for living in what someonec has Jjocularly called an enlightened age. Nine-tenths of the modern songs are silly beyond belief as to lyrics and theilr ‘melody’ is cribbed almost bodily from the classics, jazzed up and glori- fled by Tin-Pan Alley.” x % % K “More power to the cardinall” ex- clatms the Cincinnati Times-Star. That paper states further: “One hears fine voices and real songs over the radio, but only enough of them to show up the crooners and their warmed-over tunes, who and which constitute the bulk of so-called musical entertain- ment that comes through the air. Wl:in one can't be certain whether a man or woman is broadcasting, the Shakespearean ‘modesty of nature’ is violated, Such ambiguous vocal ex- hibitions wouldn’t be tolerated in a variety hall, and somehow most of the songs fit the voices. They lack punch and originality. They are cheap imi- tations of other cheap imitations of still other imitations of popular songs of a vanished generation, and the words are as flat as the musical setting.” Assuming that broadcasters use the crooner “because of the belief that he gives more pleasure at lower cost than would some other form of auditory entertainment,” the Brooklyn Daily Eagle advises that “when and if it be- comes apparent that he has ceased to please he will have to do his crooning in the employment agencies.” The Toledo Blade offers the judgment: “Unquestionably the end of crooning | would have come long ago had it been left to men. Cardinal O'Connell has hit the mark. ind in doing so has per- formed a service with vigorous language for many who might have preferred to use different ammunition.” “The thing is, of course,” suggests the Birmingham Age-Herald, “already overdone, which is the sole ray of light in the darkness. The craze is bound to subside as countless crooners butcher songs which should never have been written. Soon the remorseless law of diminishing fads will be in evidence. How to Stop Gandhi. From the San Antonio Evening News. But what could Gandhi do if the d acres in Bexar County, "Tex, din that occurs in the daytime. Street pewspapers adopted “non-co-operation” and took him off the front pagep, - i i w 1t is a day to be hailed by all lovers of music.” %ok Declaring there are “plenty who will Boise Idaho Statesman feels that be- | cause of his indictment “radio crooners | | were repaid, in part at least, for months | of suffering, which they have inflicted |upon the Nation's radio audiences.” | The Scranton Times calls the speech | “a masterpiece of plain speaking,” and the Indianapolis News, analyzing the situation, makes the comment: “That | women enjoy crooning and men do not |has been” demonstrated. Whether a | woman crooner would be pleasing to parently do not attempt to croon. They sing blues, and such performances | arouse the ire of feminine listeners. Meanwhile the male crooners, multi- plying in number, attaining greater | popularity and becoming more of a problem, threaten domestic peace and happiness.” Pessimistically voicing the thought that “one is haunted by the suspicion | that despite everything the cfooners | will go on, into the dim stretches of the future, crooning,” the Omaha World- Herald offers the advice: “All those ‘true men’ whom the cardinal exhorts | must rush the assault, not with lances | shaped of fine sentiments and glitter- | ing ideals, but with swords flashing the dangerous blade of contempt. Every | pomaded and moaning crooner must | be buckled into a pair of stocks, there |to be insulted with eggs—not the bad, bad_eggs which Mr. Vallee encountered |in Boston—but with eggs of ridicule, squashy tomatoes of derision, cabbages of scorn. For those of an especially | obnoxious vintage some such punish- ment as the anclent drip-drip torture | would not be too severe; let them be lashed to a bench beneath a tap which | should loose upon their loathsome heads at regular intervals a single drop of water, the water of unrelenting mock- ery.” | { Motors. | From the Meridian Btar. ! The Gulf, Mobile & Northern Rail- way asks the Mississippi Railroad Com- | mission for a permit, to operate a mo- tor freight and bus line system to par- allel its present railway from Mobile, Ala., to Jackson, Tenn. | _Good! At least one railroad seems to appreciate sound economic sense. | ght fire with fire — railways can | best fight rate-cutting bus and freight |mmc through putting in their own motor transit agencies. The motor truck is here to stay. The railroads must endure. Common sense,| rail and highway co-operation instead of cut-throat knifing. The public has been furnishing mo- tor routes with publicly constructed and publicly maintained roadbed rights- of-way. The railroads have been com- lled to expend their own private mil- ions in maintaining their own railway tracks. With free rights-of-way, touched | &cuher by governmental regulations or exactions; with a minimum o operating costs, the truck and bus have | become sharpshooters of the transport business. Flexible, cheap and convenient, the | truck and bus have won a certain place. Small use to argue with mere words. Many years ago the weavers demanded the abolition of the spinning jenny. Nevertheless, the textile mechanism trilumphed and the world progressed and prospered. “Throw the trucks out!” has been the railroad cry. Even so, the trucks wil stay. At last the railroads are awakening to the fact that the place to fight the public-subsidized bus and truck com- petition lies in the use of public high- ways—the motor sharpshooter “stamp- ms{ ground.” eretofore. railroad interests have | been fighting motor traffic in legisla- tive halls, Now they seem inclined to_adopt the saner course. Not to fight the truck, but and to adapt the motor SCi things, We fondly hope that Mississippi State authority will give this railroad apnlieation ths due consideration the to adopt heme of le are content to go| | men is not known. Women singers ap- ! suggests & combination of the two—| f | in the mountains, | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover In his last novel, “Maid in Waiting,” Galsworthy has left the Forsytes, though Fleur and Michael Mont com2 into the story as minor characters and Soames is mentioned as being since his death. The new family in- troduced in “Maid in Waiting.” the Charwells (pronounced Cherrell), has not the solidarity, the clan character- istics of the Forsytes and none of them is as personally interesting at Soames. the two Jolyons, Irene, June and all the older generations which preceded. The “maid in waiting” is Elizabeth Charwell, usually called by the absurd name of “Dinny,” who, while walting | for the right husband, plays the part of manager in the affairs of her brother and some of her friends. Her efforts remind one of at least the title of the play “When Bunty Pulls the Strings” They seem rather frantic and scattering and to depend for their success upon the willingness of several {men to do her bidding. There is an- | other managing woman in the book. i Jean Tasburgh, who marries “Dinny brother Hubert and promptly takes over his affairs, so that the poor fel- low then has two kindly, unselfish, ef- ficient, women in charge of him. The women in the book are very forceful and resourceful, but the men are rather nerveless creatures, especially the two | bothers of “Dinny” and Jean, Hubert Charwell and Allan Tasburgh. L™ “Maid in Waiting” is a double-plot no The main plot is as thin and improbable as the scandal imbroglio of Fleur Forsyte Mont in “The Silver Spoon.” It is unthinkable that the British government would even for a moment consider the extradition of a British army officer to Bolivia because of the unsupported charges that he had beaten natives for mule-sticking and | had shot one native who had attacked | him while he was on an exploring ex- pedition in Bolivia. His sister's efforts to save him from disgrace as an army officer and from extradition furnish | the details of the main plot, which is at no time very convincing. The sec- ondary plot is more interesting and real than the main plot. The tragic story of the insanity of Capt. Ferse, |its recurrence, the suffering of his beau- tiful wife, Diana, who is determined to do all she can to save him, yet fears him and no longer loves him, is in- tense, but free from exaggeration if compared with real life, The unsel- fish devotion of Adrian Charwell; mu- seum curator, for Diana through many years, always ready at her need, ask- ing nothing, is in harmony with his whole character of old-fashioned chiv- alry. The most dramatic scene of the whole book is a part of the secondary plot, the scene in which Adrian Char- well and his brother ‘Hilary, rector in a slum parish of London, pursue the insane Capt. Ferse over the South Downs in_an attempt to prevent his suicide. The stillness of the Downs as the sun wears on toward setting is made to suggest, not peace, but some= thing einister. “The sun wore on due west, till it was almost level with his eyes; the sheep had ceased cropping and wer: moving slowly together over the hill. as if waiting to be folded. Rabbits had stolen out and were nib- bling ths grass, and the larks, one by one, had dropped from the sky. A chill was creeping on the air; the trees down in weald had darkened and solid- ified, and the whitening sky seemed | waiting for the sunset glow. The grass, | too, had lost its scent; there was no | dew as yet. * * * In the wood above birds rustled and chirped, on their way to bed. The dew had begun to fall, and | into the blue twilight the ground mist ‘of Autumn was creeping. Shape was all softened, but the tall chalk pit face still showed white. Though not 50 yards from a road on which cars were pessing, this spot where Ferse had leaped to his rest seemed to Adrian g:;:)l_::\ce, remote and full of ghostli- | { * o % % In “Maid in Waiting," as in some of his other books, Mr. Galsworthy rather drags in American characters in order, apparently, to “show the defects of Americans in general, or, at least, their Jnferiority to the British. Prof. Hal- lorsen, an American explorer and anthropologist, is given prominence in the story as a decent sort of fellow, but entirely incapable of comprehen ing the subtleties of English culture. He talks in a way that Galsworthy may have heard in the United States or in listening to Americans in England, but in a way most of us would rardly recognize as common to educated Americans. Surely our college pro- fessors are mot in ‘the habit of b ginning all their sentences with “Well or of freely using such expressions “Gee,” “Bunk,” “Bully” “Hell of a, {and “God-darned.” Hallorsen is repre- | sented as good-natured, but very thick- | skinned. He does not know it when his British hosts and fellow guests make fun of him to his face at a week end house party. There i{s no suggestion on the part of Mr. Galsworthy that per- haps the British manners displayed on that occasion might be open to eriti- cism. Hallorsen is made the excuse for much discussion of American char- acteristics, and their differences from British characteristics, always to the advantage of the British. Perhaps this is to be expected from a patriotic Bri'on, or perhaps Mr. Galsworthy has been embittered for some reason, or perhaps he agrees with George Bernard Shaw that the best way to become pop- | ular with Americans is to abuse them. In fairness to Mr. Galsworthy, however, it must be admitted that he does not handle his own countrymen too gently al times. -British officials as such do not stand high in his estimation if we may judge from the following: *‘My child’ said Michael, blowing smoke at the Ysrnktct. ‘it's got to be much more subtle than that. You don't know public men. The thing is to make them do of their own accord out of high motives what is for their own good. We must get Walter (the home secretary) to do this from a low motive, and feel it to be a high one. That'’s indispensable.” * * * Young lady, no- body in any official department ever says anything. He always thinks it over. ~Administration has to be like that.” * xR ox A new novel by Maristan Chapman, “The Weather Tree,” is, like p“'l'he Happy Mountain” and “Homeplace,” a story of the Tennessee mountains, spe- cifically of the remote little community of Glen Hazard and its inhabitants. Some of the characters of the earlier books again appear—Wait-Still-on-the- Lord Lowe, Rashe and Barsha Lowe, Fayre Jones, Chad Lane and Ed Gil- low. An outsider, Lynn Clayton, comes to the settlement and attempts to im- prove it, with results which may usu- | ally be expected to follow attempts to improve people. A love interest, of course, intervenes. Mrs. Chapman was born at Chattanooga, near the moun- tains which she hes chosen as her set- ting. Her father was a minister and as a girl she taught in a mission school During the World Wer she went to England, was secre- tary to & member of Parliament, served as 'a nurse, lectured in war training| schools, was a secretary in the British aircraft service and finally married an engineer. After the war she returned to her native Tennessee and in a house- car designed by herself and her hus- band spent two years leading a gypsy life, studying people and writing. Then they bought a rundown old house at Se- wanee, called it Neverland, and there “The Happy Mountain” wes written. Explnk}}nx her subject matter, she has said: "I have bcen haunted always by the Southern highlanders’ need of & recorder.” * ok kK In the collection of essays “The Tempo of Modern Life” by Jame: Truslow Adsms, some of the irends of today here and in other countries are listed as the substitution “of self-ex- pression for self-discipline, of the con- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Expert researchers, who can get you any information on any subject, are at your command, without charge to you. A 2-cent stamp will bring you a per- sonal answer to any inquiry of fact you may make. Thousands of newspaper readers use this great service. Try it today. Make your inquiry easily read and easily understood, and address The Evening tar Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. What cities have had the Demo- cratic and Republican national conven- tions in the last 30 years?—J. D. A. Beginning with 1896, Chicago has had five Republican national conven- tions, one Democratic, and one Pro- gressive, and will have both the Re- publican and Democratic conventions this vear. St. Louis has had two Demo- cratic and one Republican; Kansas City, one Democratic and one Repub- lican; Philadelphia and Cleveland, each has had one Republican; Denver, Baltimore, San Francisco and Houston, each has had one Democratic, and In- dianapolis has had one Gold Demo- cratie. what does their manufacture cost?— J.E G. A. There are practically 18 billion stamps made each year. The approxi- mate annual cost of making these stamps is $1,500,000. Q. What is the dignified name for the college head covering called a mortar board?>—E. V. R. A. It is an Oxford cap. Q. If a 1-cent Federal tax were levied qn each gallon of gasoline, how much revenue would it produce?—S. M. H. A. In 1930, 15,761,400,000 gallons of gasoline were consumed. If a 1-cent tax were levied on each gallon the revenue collected would have totaled $157,614,000. “Taby,” filmed?—C. L. A. It was filmed in the South Seas, partly on the Island of Tahiti. Q. Does the Mormon Church main- tain an old folks’ home?—J. M. 8. A. The Mormon Church does not maintain an old folks' home, but it does take care of its members who are in need either through age, disability or poverty. Each parish or ward cares for its own. Q. Is bear meat palatable?—8. J. A It is considered quite savory and palatable. It has always been a favorite article of diet among American Indians in regions inhabited by bears, and is relished by sportsmen and hunters in bear country. Q. How much money s spent in Cam%fl léy American tourists in a year? A. The amount Is estimated at $300,- 000,000 annually. Q. Why are the s daytime?—M. P. A. Stars are not visible during the day because the superior light of the sun and its reflected rays from objects on the earth are so strong as to oblit: erate the tiny rays from stars so th: they make no impression on the retina of the eye. Q. What is meant by the mark of the beast?>—M. G. A. The mark of the beast as it ap- pears in the twentieth verse of the nine- teenth chapter of the Revelations of St. John, the Divine, refers to following the path of evil as distinguished from following the path of good. Those who take the latter course are said to have the seal of the lamb, in contradistinc- tion to the mark of the heast. . Is sugar made from canc sweeter than sugar made from sugar beets or corn?—R. R. S. A. Sugar from any plant source, such invisible in the AILY MAIL, London.-— Thou- D from the continent to forestall the imposition of tariffs by the British government continued to arrive in every English port. The docks and wharves in which steamers come from Belgium, Holland and Germany were busier than they have been for many years. A cargo from Hamburg included: 159 cases of electric goods and wire- Iess. 1,142 cases of glassware. 164 cases of clocks. 40 bales of woolen goods. A cargo from Rotterdam contained: 435 cases of electric goods and wire- less. 943 cases of electric bulbs. 11,572 packages of straw boards. Twenty-four timber-laden vessels, in- cluding four from Russia, arrived in the Port of London during the week ending October 30. Arrivals in Hull included 300 bales of cotton manufactured goods from Ham- burg, glassware, earthenware and bot- tles. At Manchester huge quantities of textiles have been landed. The imports arriving at Cardiff in- cluded toys from Germany and Antwerp and 92,000 hundredweight of wheat from Russia. The effect produced by the expecta- tion of tariffs is seen by comparing three days at the end of October with three days at the end of September. The figures are for arrivals in London. The wireless parts and sets for Octo- ber 28, 29 and 30 totaled £0,400. On the corresponding three days in Szptem- ber they totaled £1,380. Of batterles, the arrivals were £7,680, as against £5,200. 1 arrivals were £10,400, as against £5,800. It is not expected that these propor- tions have been maintained, but the figures for November are expected to be very much in excess of those of Sep- tember. The announcement that in the week 1 weight of potatoes were imported into this country, chiefly from Germany, Holland and Belgium, has come with something of a shock to home potato growers. They are asking whether they are ever to see the just reward of their la- bors. There was & chance this year, owing to a smaller crop and the unfor- tunate incidence of disease in some areas, for the growers to get a return showing them a reasonable profit. But if this dumping should go on unchecked it will mean that eventually there will be a loss. The government might easily save the situation by a scheme of regulating imports. Potatoes are one of the essen: tial foodstuffs of which Great Britain could easily grow every pound that con- sumers need. This fact was recently emphasized by Sir Charles Howell Thomas, the ministry of agriculture’s permanent secretary. . Depression Brings Debt Payments. La Prensa, Buenos Aires.—Peculiarly enough, the depression seems to be a time for paying debts. The reasons for this, though various, are not hard to ascertain. For one thing, creditors, often hard pressed themselves, are gen- erally more insistent. They are more likely to threaten dire and immediate consequences unless the obligation to them is balanced. Then naturally, the firm or individual which settles an ac- count out of a depleted exchequer feels entitled to the same consideration from others. At such times, too, debts are compromised and yeduced until it is.a cept of prosperity for that of liberty, of restlessness for rest, of spending for saving, of show for solidity, of desire for the new and novel in place of af- fection for the old and tried, of de- pendenc2 for colf-rolj- cf g 1~ agree hearilly with tae cardinal,” the |situation most empiatically deserves. —Ougness for solitude, of 1 = plicity, of ostentation for restraint, of success for integrity, of national for lo- cal, of easy generosity for wise giving, of preferring impressions to thought, ! to id223, of democraey for aristoc- ¥, of the mcdflcre for the excellent.” | | | as cane, beet or corn, is the same chem- ically. The basic element in thq raw sugar from whatever source is known as sucrose, which is a definite chemical compound, and is therefore always the same. Raw sugar, of course, has vary- -ng degrees of sweetness, depending on the impurities. Raw sugar cane is sweeter than raw corn. Q. How was the named?—W. W. G. A. Bacardi 1s a Cuban liquor in- liquor called bacardi Q. How manp'-v;flue stamps are | I'made each year In this country and Q. Where was the motion piczure,‘ sands of tons of goods sent on to Of electrical machinery, the | po; ending October 24, 466,342 hundred- | | vented by a well known Cuban by that |name, a native of Santiago de Cuba, Province of Oriente. The liquor is called ron bacardi in Cuba, while the drink made from it is called Daiquiri cocktail, Q. Who visited American shores be- fore Columbus?—W. G. S. | A. According to the old Norse sagas, | America was discovered by Leif Ericson, |who in 100) A.D. visited the north- | eastern coast of America. The continent | of America was therefore rediscovered | by Columbus, Its existence was not known to the world at large nntil «fier | the visit of Columbus. Recently, how- ever, there has been considerable re- search made on this subject, and authorities are of the opinion that it is | possible that the continent was visited | even bafore this time. Some state that | the Irish probably preceded the Norse | in reaching Newfoundland. The Atlantic | may also have been crossed some time | before the Christian era. Herodotus states that the Egyptians eircumnavi- gated Africa before Christ was born. This, however, is merely a matter of conjecture. Q. Is there a difference between pimento and pimiento?—C. R. | A. Pimento, as used for flavoring, is |an allspice obtained from the dried, unripe, aromatic berries of the pimento | tree. Pimlento is a Spanish sweet pepper. Q. What is the difference between a storage and a dry battery?>—F. P, | A. The storage battery merely stores |up electricity which is put into it and gives it out as needed. A dry battery makes electricity out of chemicals. It is not really dry. It contains a watery | solution of the necessary chemicals, but this is absorbed by charcoal or some other ous substance so that it will not spill or leak out. Q. What is the estimated amount of forcign bonds floated in the United States since the World War?—A. W. S. | A. About $5,000,000,000 worth of for- | eign bonds have been floated and about one and one-half billion dollars’ worth, of such bonds have heen retired. Q. With what acid can one write or print on celluloid?—A. J. 8. A. It is possible to write on cellulold with a solution of asphalt in solvent | naphtha, xylol or other solvent. The pen must not be too full, or a blur will result. . This writing remains on the | surface of the' oellulojd and can be | wiped off with a bit of absorbent cot- |ton or a rag moistened with benzol. The solution will tend to in the celluloid if glacial acetic acid, or pos- sibly better, acetic anhydride, is used instead of part of the naphtha or xylol. A solution of nitrocellulose is said to be used instead of oil for making ink with which to print upon celluloid. As the celluloid itself is chiefly nitrocellu- lose, ink of this kind will adhere to it very firmly. Q. What is the value of the Cuban tobacco crop?—B. A. A. It is worth from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 yearly. Q. 1s_Alaska Tepresented in Con- gress?—J. L. A. Alaska has the status of a Terri- tory in the United States Government and is represented in Congress by a Delegate. Citizens. of Alaska do not at f;“ th-l\;‘em :E right to vote for esident, ve a_Legislature of - their own. . eyl Higlflights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Otbe}; Lands wise stroke of business policy to pay them and get them removed from the books. Through such processes, pur- chases made in the height of prosperity at inflated prices, gnd without thought of the future's p‘sflbmnes. reach a saner valuation, more comparable with present. gncen which undoubtedly rep- Tesent. the proper and basic worth of property or commodities. us even when we are spending what available funds we have in banks or J)ockeu. we are really saving money, and there are many who see clearly that when these economic clouds lift again, and the sun of general prosperity shines once more, they will begin the new day, not with a greater burden of indebtedness, but perhaps with no debt at all. This emancipation, of course, is chiefly for those who have some money, either in savings or in con- tinued earnings. Those now unem- ployed, who spent every centavo of their salaries or wages when their services were in demand, must now, because of their fatuous complacency and impru- dence, forego this opportunity to arrive at a healthful economic balance. * % ok X Ship Flyhfl Red Fl Brings Soviet Oil #%hlnl North China Herald, Shanghal— Flying the Soviet flag the motor tanker Norvinn docked recently at the plant of the Kwang Wha Petroleum Co. Ltd., with the first complete shipment of Soviet kerosene ever brought to China. The Norvinn arrived here 34 days out from Batum, on the Black Sea, where her cargo, said to total 3,100,000 gal- lons, was pumped aboard from the vast so;;m petroleum installation at that In addition to her arrival markin, the invasion of Russian ruleufi‘: products in the Orient, the Norvinn is the first vessel to arrive here flying the red flag since diplomatic relations be- |tween ‘the Soviets and China were | severed in 1927. That the invasion of Soviet oil even- tually may participate a price war in China in the petroleum market is & 'pofilb\llty feared by interests in close | touch with the situation. At the pres- | ent time, however, this shipment merely serves to replace monthly imports of 1,500,000 gallons of independent Ameri- can kerosene formerly brought from | California by the Kwemg Wha com- | pany. which,” hereafter, as the sole rep- resentative in China for the Soyuzneft, | as the Soviet Naptha Trust is generally known, will handle the Russian product exclusively. The cargo of the Norvinn will be pumped to tanks provided for this pur- se by the Kwang Wha concern, after which it is expected that the oil will be | cased in five-gallon tins for transport into the interior of China, where the company operates numerous agencies. —.— Proposes Bridge Law. Prom the Oakland Tribune. If the amount to be saved by playing the Culbertson system would pay the | war debt, as Culbertson says, the next | thing which may be needed is a tax bill | to see that the right people contribuf G. 0. P. Strategem Seen. Ffom the Ashland Daily Independent. Perhaps the Republican Natlonal Committee chose Chicago for the nae tional convention as an easy way to Ao smiton e e Large Families Exempt. From the South Bend Tribune, Not more than five persens may con= gregate in India under a new British ordinance. ~Parents with more than three children probably will be granted exemption,