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The Associated Press is exclusively eutitled to the use for republicat o n this paper the Shished "eretn Al Fiehts of Bubfic special cispatches herein are also rese 10m of rved. The Democratic Enigma. One by one Democracy’s stars making their appearance in the politi- eel firmament. The names of Ritchie, | Reed, Murray, White and now Roose- | velt have blazed forth in lights more or | less bright across the heavens. There | 15 one Democrat of planetary size, how- ever, who still holds back—Alfred E Smith of New York. He is the Demo- | eratic enigma of the day, a potential eandidate at any time. If former Presi dent Calvin Coolidge kept a large par of the Republican party guessing even after he had issued his famous "I do| mot choose to run” statement, former Gov. Smith is keeping an even larger part of the Democratic party in a state of uncertainty by failing to say any- thing. Perhaps, now that Ciov. Roosevelt of New York has made his formal an- nouncement, declaring that he will ac- cede to the wishes of his Democratic friends to run in the presidential primary in North Dakota, Mr. Smith will make his own position more clear. But it is by no means certain that he will break his silence on his future po- litical plans. Four courses are open to Mr. Smith, certainly, and perhaps otbers. First, he can become & candi- te himself for the presidential nomi- nation. Second, he can support the Roosevelt candidacy. Third, he can throw his support to some candidate other than Roosevelt—to Ritchie or Owen D. Young or Newton D. Baker or any one his fancy chooses. Fourth, he can remain aloof and take abso- lutely no part in the preconvention are | 1 ate lawbreakers, with mawky sentimen- talizing over their cruel fate, with weeping women walling at the feet of hard-hearted ‘Governors pleading fu- tilely for pardon or reprieve, with last- minute agonies of farewell and with even the scenes of execution indicated if not actually presented. Some of these pictures have shown '2gainst Japan. It has been employed | cently of the use of the word “contact” | revolts in prison, growing out of the intolerable cruelties of the warders, the convicts cunningly put in the right and authorities in the wrong. The effect of these scenes has been abominably in- jurious to the younger people witness- ing them. Whatever may have been the effect upon the Dartmoor convicts, to whom these depictions have been conveyed by report, it has been unmis- takably bad upon the impressionable beholders In American places of enter- tainment. Sentiment for the convict is senti- ment against the law. Whatever the extremities of the motion picture pro- ducers for fresh material for the screen, they should not go to the length of evoking the spirit of revolt and lew lessness by their offerings in tho guis of drama - The Government Still Lives. A reader of The Star interprets the proposals to slash Government salarics as a sign that “the Government is no longer solvent . . . the next step will be the suspension of inierest payments and next a repudiation of Government bonds. I have some liberty bonds. which my Iriends advise me to sell at once and save the money in a deposit | | ) | | mains to be seen | as distinguished from the “three eastern i provinces,” which constitute Manchuria. 1t Is evidently Japan's intention to take edvantage of the weakness of the Na- tionelist government at Nanking to I secure guarantees of fheedom of trade in China. < The boycott has been used s an effective woapon of reprisel on other oceasions, to the serious in-| jury of Japan's econcmic interests. It| | is definitcly known that it is fostered, | it not actually directed, by the Kuo- { mintang or National party, which up |to very recently was the sole power of | administration in China, and is even' | yet, though somewhat weakened by the | | dissensions of factions, the dominant | authority. But whether it can be sup- | | pressed short of civil war in China re- | Evidence is not lacking that the mlli-? | tary leaders of the northern and west-, ern provinces of China are preparing to renew their attack upon Chiagg Kal | Shek in case he returns to power at | Nenking. | toncse leaders in quitting the govern- ... . caq the hope that Vizetelly would | o | ment in the face of the Japanese de- | appreciate his effort to keep the Eng- The example of the Can-; mands is likely to act as a stimulant to these almost periodically rebr’llluu.\" factors, who have now been quiet for 1 about eighteen months, 1t js hardly to be believed that Japan will proceed with an ive polizy in China proper if the other powers which are represented in the inter- | national sottlement at Shanghai in- | terpose objection. Seizure of Shang- | |hai would inescapably entail a protest | | by those powers. No international guarantees, however, can avail to force | box, for I am not very young.” lthe abandonment of the anti-Japanese | Well, dear reader, one cannot blame you or your friends for feeling a little bewildered. With the Government ap- propriating $500,000,000 with which to boycott. The question of moment now is whether Japan has determined upon | | forcing the issue to the point at which ! | int THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Our interest in all this lies mainly with a sentence from our correspond- ent’s letter in which he states “we found an sbundance of high authorid for the usaged.” etc. . It is amazing to one who has not made the search to discover how much rea'ly high authority there is for vari- | ous usages which off-hand may strike a reader or hearer as poor or to be condemned wholly as wrong. Split infinitives, for instance, often inveighed against, are used by the best writers who ever wrote whenever they wish to emphasize a_particular word. he writer here recalls a most inter- esting article which he read many years ago in which many striking examples of the use of the split infinitive by Woodrow Wilson, a master of 8 classic sort of English style, were given, to- gether with his favcrite use of a par- {iciple to finish a sentence with. —(Heh, heh!) All this comes around to a favorite theme with us—that language is for the user, not the user for language. Words are things—things to express thoughts. That is their basic inten- tion. In the course of the years they have come to express many & playful thing in which thought is not espe- clally defined, but their basic intention remains, nevertheless. It is the thought process, and the thought process alone, which gives words their power. With sounds we do marvels, The animals talk with each | other, too, in their way.” There can be | little doubt that every species has its “language.” but the thoughts which they so express are limited to funda- mental nec: Cats have expressions (words, if you The consideration in this column re- as a verh has given rise to considerable | discussion. Every one seexs ty be in- terested in words, almost as much as in things to eat. It is human nature, one suppeses. “Your discussion of ‘contact’ as a verb ted me very much,” wrote one correspondent. “We have had a series of arguments m our cffice on the sub- Ject lately. Although I do not like the usage, I have defended it on the ground that the language is growing all the time and that we need many words— the more the merrier. “Several weeks ago, according to & news story in the New York Herald Tribune, Mr. F. W. Lienau, an official of the Western Unicn Telegraph Co., at- tended a luncheon, at which Dr. Vize- telly was also present. Lienau told of an order he had issued to officers under his direction forbidding the use of ‘contact’ as a verb, and he humorously lish language pure. Dr. Vizetelly sur- prised him by stoutly defending the usage as well established and as ful- filling a present-day need In the com- ial world, “I am sending you & copy of January | Correct English. which prints an extract from the Western Union order on the subject, with a brief editorial com- ment. 'T. P. A in the Herald Tribu recently criticized our Undersecretary of Treasury Ogden Mills, for ucing a verb and ‘verbal’ instead of “ral’ in a prepared speech delivered in New York. Both of these usages, I be- | lieve, are frowned on in most news- | will)»which express their anger. Squir- paper snd magazine offices, yel W= |rels clearly resent human beings, dogs found an abundance of high authority |and cats, and express this resentment for the usages, and the editor has ad- or anger by a curious chattering noise. mitted in a letter that they are un- | Monkeys sometimes make almost the tedly established beyond any crit- same noise when offended at a certain icism. With all good wishes, | color. JANUARY i | which is empowered to borrow another | posit box {it will be compelled, in pursuance of | | the policy of applying military pressure upon China, to carry out its program, which fs indicated by the presence at Shanghai of a fleet of warships, aug- mented, according to latest dispatches, to a formidable force. set up a great financial corporation billion and a half dollars, one of the chief purposes of which is to restore confidence that will prevent the very sort of hoarding that your “friends” suggest, and with some of the influen- tial leaders in the same Government talking about cutting salares, the only possible result of such talk being to en- courage hoarding, uncertainty and & panicky fear that everything is shortly ! going to smash, you may think that the safest place for your cash is a de- ] But has it occurred to you that your Liberty bonds and other good securi- ties are worth a whole lot more to you right now than to anybedy else? If you let them go at a loss now, do you not realize that your loss will be some- body else’s gain? And why let some- body else, who has & little more faith in the future than you have, capitalizz that faith at your expense? Go up to the top'of the Washington Monument on one of these clear, bright mornings and look around at what you A big Alaskan brown bear about to molest an expedition of collegian- scientists was routed by a variety of traditional college yells, including a few “Hoyasl” Had these failed, re-| liance woul have probably been | placed on & few unofficial collegiate | track records. ! s A young man and a young woman are sald to have held hands for seventy- two hours, establishing a record. It is a | cinch that neither will ever henceforth joln any fraternity, sorority or other secret organization employing a fancy “grip.” o It is rumored that duying the ap- proaching Olympic games on the West Coast the Prince of Wales may be the guest of “Doug and Mary” at their esidence; Pickfair. What an over- see and ask yourself whether it is rea- o s sonable to belleve that the steel snd whelming international honor fus Al- “F. de 8. R." *ox A Under the heading “We ‘Contacted’ " the magazine article re- d to follows: “We ere indebied to Mr. F. W. Lienau Western, Union tariff expert, for calling to our dttention in a letier of protest addressed to the eight general man- agers of Western Union the growing use of ‘contact’ as a verb. Mr. Lienau ve- hexently writes: “ 'S mewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in eafly childhood. He is the criginator of the hideous vul- arism of using “contact” as a verb— We contacted Mr. Smith.” ““Some new words and new twists of old ones that have found their way into common_use can be justified on the | ground that they are cleverer or pithier or more to the point than any other expressions of the same thought, but so long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview, or talk to people, there can be no such apology for “con- tact.” “While we are heartily in sympathy with Mr. Lienau's ‘effort to discourage the use of ‘contact’ in the sense of ‘to get in touch with a person,’ we must point out that ‘contact’ is recorded as a transitive verb in Webster's, the New Century and the lew English (Oxford) dictionaries. It's meaning is ‘to bring into_contact, to enter into contagt to touch.” It is, however, clearly restricted * ok ok x ‘The thoughts of human beings, com- pared with the thoughts of cats, monkeys, squirrels, dogs, are 50 tre- mendously complex that there is no comparison at all. A 6-year-old child is as far ahead of a monkey in this respect as the monk is superior to a mollusc. Human thoughts are so many and varied that there is no enumerating them. Our wants are multitudinous, and each want, physical as well as mental, spiritual as well as mental and physical, calls for words to help ex- préss it | The great satisfaction of language, | 1t sometimes seems, is that with all its | ability it perforce leaves something | yet to be expressed. No matter how well |'one may understand words and their ! uses, no matter how much a master of | the use of the language he may be, he { stil] will feel in the depth of his being | that something has escaped him which | he may yet capture. (Verb form split | in order to emphasize the chance which remains of realizing the ultimate ex- | pression.) | There is no great literature from which the good reader does not arise | with & wistful feeling that, despite its | greatness, a certain something is lack- ing. Perhaps some one in the future | will find the missing thought, the pure idea, which will turn our greatest | dreams to reality. This is the hope of | mankiad, and it is thrilling to all of | us to think that if this should come true it will come true through the One thing is quite clear, The Rooee- | welt camp would very much like tof know just what Mr. Smith's plans are. It Smith should come out in support of the man who in former years sup- ported him for the presidential nomi- nation, the Roosevelt people believe there would be no further question whatever regarding the nomination of Roosevelt on the first ballot in the stone of this city, symbolizing the ma- terial strength of your country, and the beauty and the grandeur of the Capital, standing for the spiritual side of America, are going to crumble any time soon. And if you stiil are doubt- ful, go home and sell your Liberty bonds. But you will be the loser. The loss jof such faith. and the hoarding that | follows it, is one of the causes of the growing-pains that have become known as the depression, and the pain has given some of the members of Con- gress what, in common parlance, is known as the “jitters,” which in turn leads them, in their high-strung mo- ments, to invite the pecple to make things worse by putting their cash under the mattress or In a safe deposit box. All of this, of course, will pass away, | as it has passed before. But the surest way to delay it passing is to destroy eoming National Convention. On the other hand, if Smith Is to oppose the Roosevelt candidacy, they hold that he should do it openly, whether he is a candidate himself or intends to sup- port some other man. | 1t §s possible that Mr. Smith will elect to make no move whatever, merely sit- ting tight and, like Mr. Micawber, quiet- 1y wait for something to turn up. It is » question whether a candidate for & presidential nomination can better help himself by going out aggressively after the nomination or by holding aloof, let- ting his competitors set the pace. After | all, comparatively few of the States bold presidential preferential primaries, and there is always the chance that other candidates may destroy each other and themselves in these primary fights The report comes from Albany that within & short time Mr. Smith is to visit Gov. Roosevelt, at the exscutive mansion. Perhaps at such a mecting there will be some discussion of their political plans. Roosevelt is out In the open now, as & candidate. His cards are on the table. This meeting may rve to prove that there has been no | break in the friendly personal rela- | tions which existed between the two | men for a number of years, gr it may emphasize such s break. Until Mr Smith is heard from, however, the | Democratic hosts will Temain in & | state of great uncertainty. The London County Council Commit- tee—the daredevils—are going to per- mit the erection in Britain's capital of buildings 120 feet high, and in some extreme cases even 150 feet. It will not be long now, probably not more than two or three centuries, before the towers of Westminster Abbey and hall will occupy the same relative position in the akyline that the spire of Trinity Church does in that of New York ———— American Films of Crime. a revolt at Dartmoor | Prison, in England, somewhat surprised American teaders of the news from abroad, for it has long been believed in this country that the British penal in- stitutions were exceptionally weli man- aged and that the discipline of the in- mates was superior to that which pre- vails in similar establishments in this eountry. Escapes from Dartmoor have occurred from time to time, but in only the rarest exceptions huve they been successful. ‘The spectacle of a veri- table riot within the prison walls in that stronghold of the law was hardly t be credited. It is now declared in London that part of the responsibility for this outs break rests upon the recent oceur- rences of the same kind in America, accounts of which have been com- municated to long-term prisoners by newcomers. One of the London news- papers prints an article signed by a “released Dartmoor convict,” who de- clares that some of the new men at the “big house” on the moors had seen an American motion picture film drama- tizing & prison revolt. It Is not to be denied that the picture sudiences in this country have lately Report of the value of your money by hoarding it in a deposit box. r———— Tardy Motorists, Again the trafic office has issued a warning to motorigts that the time is short before the dendline for the use of 1931 tags and has urged that im- mediate application be made by delin- quents to prevent the loss of use of bert Edward! e An Englishman claims to have bought & cheap foreign suit for 62 cents and then pawned it for $2. In this case the lender must really have been his uncle. The sun has no effect on cosmic radi- ation, according to Dr. Robert A. Milli- ken, famous physicist. Not so with cos- metic radiztion. ] SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. With the Statuary. Oh, sweet is the lay of the long-ago day, The world was s young as a schoolboy at play, In that long-ago day. The groves and the streams held a won- derful race. With marvelous gifts and of beautiful grace, They were kind to the mortals and bade them be gay— In that long-ago day. How fair the array of that long-ago day! { How innocence reveled in joyous dis- play In that long-ago day! to technical and sclentific usage, as in the sentence ‘The spark amd the gun- way. We cannot think without words. powder contacted, and, acting together, | Without words, with all their implica- produce the egplosion,/ The use of the | tions—implications greater than their verb ‘contact tweef persons is to be | very meanings—we should know littie condemned, as it is not in accord with ‘more than physical sensations. Words the usage of the best speakers. It con- |are too precious to permit ourselves to notes bodily contact, and suggests the | be offended easily at those we do not type of high-pressure salesman who | like. Every ugly duckling word may grabs his prospect by the coat lapels.” !turn out to be a beautiful swan, Highlights o1 the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands medium of words. There is no other RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin—|likely to be brought simultaneously in Irish painters have joined forces|the normal course of human exigency. in an effort to solve the problem of | It Is a barbarity and an imbecility to the trade, the unsatisfactory di-|allow these companies to take money vision of work over the year. Dur- | away from the people of Guatemala and ing the Spring and early Summer there | to nvest it in enterprises outside the is & hectic rush of orders. This period | country. ~Such methods cannot be is followed by a few months of moder- [sanctioned by any justifications of ate demand, and then business peters | economy. out until the arrival of Spring again.| As for local companies, the total of The painters contend that the system | their capitals and other finances rep- 26, 1932 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M. LINCOLN: The Unknown. By Dale Carnegie. Illustrated. New York: The Century Co. Within that perfect temple beside the river great Lincoln sits, body and face graven with lines of deep world-weari ness. Before him, the Capital, Wa: ington, saved to an undivided coun Behind him, a vast bivouac of the dead, watchful by day, by night, lest the in- stinctive ferocity of man again override | | the legacy of humanity, the obligations | of manhood. Those silent boys at Ar- lington, and many another where throughout the land, price of that Union, cost of the slaves set free A monument to Abraham Lincoln and | to human freedom, that perfect memo- rial beside the Potomac. * K In “Lincoln: The Unknown" Dale | Carnegie has gone back gwer the life of | Lincoln in a fine fidelity of interest and painstaking. His particular quest that of fact and picture and revelation that escaped the formal biographer or was st aside as negligible beside the large and momentous public acis of the Pres- ident, the war chief, the guardian of the Union, the liberator. Historians, many, have looked after these high points in a great career. But a man, any man, is made essentally of innu- | merable little things, of 'an inter- ! weaving of each day’s trivialities. These are the warp and woof of him, of every man. Now and then some great pattern is traced across the fabric. Deeds out- standing for good or ill. Out of such overlayings of heroism, of far vision and pursuit, come the heroes of the world, the leaders and, sometimes, the martyrs. But to know the man, the true weave of him, is to follow the homely trail of all the days from youth on to achieve- ment. Such is the path so_earnestly defined and set out here by Dale Car- negie in respect to Abraham Lincoln One honored of all men, Lincoln. President of the United States. His home, for a period, the White House, mellowed, beautiful, impressive. * Come on. Let us go with Dale Car- negie. Go back 116 years, where we come upon Tom Lincoln moving from Kentucky out into Indiana, a wild place then. Nothing new about this, for Tom Lincoln was always moving. But for the time being we are inter- ested in him only as he stands, pro- vider and providence to his boy, Abe, and to his wife, Nancy. Tom came to & halt in something Ike a wilderness. He usually did, There he built a “three-fenced camp A /shed, we call it. “No floor, no door, no windows—nothing but three sides and a roof of poles and brush. The fourth side was open to wind and snow and sleet and cold.” Not much in the way of & domicile to current account- ing. But Tom thought it was “good enough for him and his family.” That was like Tom. “Nancy Hanks and her children slept there that Winter, like dogs curled up on & heap of leaves and bearskins dumped on the dirt floor, in a corner of the shed. As for food, they had no butter, no miik, no eggs, no fruit, no vegetables, not even potatoes. They lived chiefly on wild game and nuts.” “For years there in Indiana Abraham Lincoln” endured more terrible poverty than did thousands of the slaves whom he would one day liberate.” * kX X Then Nancy Lincoln fell ill of the “milk sickness,” scourge of that time end locality. And, along with many another, Nancy died of the malady. “And Tom Lincoln put two copper pennies on her eyelids to hold them shut, Then he went into the woods and felled a tree, hewing it into rough boards. These he fastened together with wooden pegs,” Nancy's coffin. TWo years before he had brought her into this settlement on a sled. “Now, again on a sled, he hauled her body to the top of & thickly wooded hill and buried her without service or ceremony.” “So perished the mother of Abraham Lincoln.” | i * K K K . We are not going far with this writer in any deliberate painstaking of report. For readers having an interest in the man and the conditions in which he lived will choose to go along with this sympathetic and easy-talking Dale Car- niegie as he moves through the Indiana and Illinois country, linking up its past with the present, linking up Abraham Lincoln with the essentials of boyhood and youth everywhere. Let us go to school with Lincoln. Educators will be interested at this point. For here is a chapter in the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS This s a special department, devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services ington to serve you in &ny capacity that relates to informaticn. This serv- ice is free. Fallure to make use of it | deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only cents in coin or stamps, inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Fiederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. In playing Winter rules at golf is it permissible to improve the lie of the ball_everywhere, even on the green?— F. Q. H A. Under the rules the lie may be improved only through the fairway and on the green. Under local rules or by agreement among the players sometimes lies are improved everywhere save in the hazards. Q. What was the first play presented by the Theater Guild?>—G. E. L. A. In its first season, the Spring of 1919, it presented two plays, * Interest” and “John Ferguson.” of Intercst” was produced first, not a success. The guild had its be- ginning in the earlier Washington Square Players, and the guild project originated with Lawrence Langner, who called the initial meeting, December 10, 8. How much money has been re- funded by the Internal Revenue Depart- ment because too large an income tax gna been paid in the last four years?— . B. A. The following are the total re- funds, including principal and interest, that have been mace since 1927. These figures are for the fiscal years: 1928, $142,393 567.17; 1929, $190,164,359.48 1930, $126,836,333.22; 1931, $69,476,: 930.26, making a total of almost $529,000,000. of an extensive organization in Wash- | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. wars, lasting for 30 years; the present economic situation. Q. How long a time elapsed between the birth of the present Prince of Wales and the birth of a royal prince in direct | succession to the throne whose parents were British born?—W. W. A. The birth of Edward VI (1537), son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was the latest instance. Q. Which painting by Whistler was the first which the artist sold to a public gallery in America?—E. A. A. “The Sarasate.” In 1896 the Car- negie Art Institute bought this paint- ing. The price paid was $5,000. Q. When were postage stamps first used in Africa?—J. H. A. Postage came to the Cape of Good Hope in 1853 in a series of triangular stamps designed by Charles Bell, sur- veyor general, showing an_emblematic sealed figure of “Hope.” Primitive post= age stamps appeared in Natal in 1857. In 1859 New Caledonia had stamps bearing a crude effigy of Napoleon III, done by Sergt. Triquerat. Q. On the spot where the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, there stands a monument and three tablets. The tablets are placed betwesn the spurs of tracks. There are two small ones and one large one. On tre large tablet there is an inscription written in one sentence, and 1 wculd appreciate it if you will give the translation.—A. L. P. A. It seys: “Here on the 1lth of November, 1918, was laid low the crimi= nal pride of the German Empire, con- quered by the free peoples which it hoped to enslave.” Q. How old is Paulina Longworth?— G. L. "A" She will be 7 years of age on Feb- | ruary 14, 1932 | Q. What is meant by “loose” milk?— poren |D. K. Q. What animals are considered | A. The term is applied to milk which beasts of burden?—E. M. A A beast of burden is any animal demesticated for use in transportation, draft cr egriculture. species which have been used for this practically all parts of the world, the camel in the desert countries of North Africa and Southwestern Asia, the dog in countries where larger draft animals do not exist, the reindeer in the Arctic regions, and the alpaca and l'lama in Scuth America. Q. What is the longest tclephone heok-up now in use?—H. D. A. It is from San Francisco by way of New York to Australia, more than half way around the werld. Q. How much ground an 2rpen of land?—M. A An arpen was an old French measure of land, roughly equivalent to an acre. is contained in J. wich or standard time?>—C. D. C. A. It is the mean solar time of the meridian which runs through Green- wich, England. Q. Who were the “free soilers"?— A. This was a political party opposed to slavery. It became a part of the Republican party in 1854. Q. When James M. Beck referred to the four major catastrophes of the world what were the events?>—C. C. P. A. They were fall of the Roman em- pire, requiring eight centuries before Europe was restored to an appearance of sLabillI.]y; Thirty Years’ War, requir- ing a full century before civilization was enebled to resume its former func- tions; the period of the Napoleonic The outstanding | purpose are the ox and the horse in | the mountainous countries in Western | Q What time is the basis for Green- | | is not sold in sealed bottles—milk which | is sold from large containers Q. How much does the Pyramid of Cheops stand west of south?—W. F. | _A. The azimuth of the Pyramid of | Cheops is 3 minutes 43 seconds west. Q. Where is the gold reserve of France kept>—V. W. A. A. Specially consiructed vaults have been provided to house the gold reserve of France. These vaults are in a big | chamber, covering 2% acres, 200 feet below the earth’s surface. Above the ceiling is first 40 feet of water and then 50 feet of solid rock. This safety de- Dposit has been built since the World War. A place was planned which would not only be safe from bombs but where the bank force guarding it would be safe from gas attack. A supply of fresh | air s drawn into the vault chamber through a secret source. The fact of the vaults being under water is ex- plained as resulting from the flow of a river beneath the City of Parls. This ¥as discovered when the Opera House was built, just before the War of 1870, Q. What was the gross revenue re- cefved by the United States Treasury {rnm tariffs in 1930 and in 1981?—E. ST A. The United States customs reve- nues in 1930 equaled $587,000,903; in 1931, $378,354,005. Q Is it true that old gun barrels were used for the first gas pipes in | England?—J. M. B. A. Turned and bored cast-iron pipes were used for gas as early as 1868, In Norman's “Romance of the Gas Indus- try” reference is foaind to the fact that n overstock of gun barrels were screwed w‘:‘:.her and used for pipes for dis- tributing illuminating gas in London early in the nineteenth century. Dawes Inspires Confidence In Reconstruction Project Announcement of the transfer of | considerable reputation as a politician, Gen. Charles G. Dawes from the post of | favored by the agricultural element of Ambassador to England to that of direc- | that section, his appointment will serve tor of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- | to quell suspicion tfit the Reconstruc- poration is followed by earnest expres- | tion Finance Corporation is to be domi- sions of confidence. The selection is | nated by ‘Wall Street” Gen. Dawes declared to have been the best that| won great rerown in helping to create could be made, while definite results are the Dawes rlan. Together with that expected from the work of giving aid | distinguished Democrat Owen D. Young, to business. The selection of Eugene |he shares a comprehensive grasp not Meyer as chairman of the board also is | only of national but international bank- approved. | ing problems. America trusts Dawes to “The Reconstruction Corporation | function in brilliant fashion in the new is unfair to both the trade and the pub- lic, involving, as it does, rushed:work resent, for our country, a very appre- ciable’ sum. When these deposits are | Nistory of American methods of edu- cation. at one period and unemployment at an- | in the possession of Banco Central they other. will contribute in an important respect They hold that a much more eco-|to the necessities of business, stimulat- nomic and satisfactory arrangement for | ing trede, and especially restoring the every one concerned would be to spread | confidence of the public, which natu- the Work over the year. This would be |rally wants to be assured. before sign- better for the masters and men, better | ing a policy, that the underwriter is re- for the clients—who would get better|spongble and has assets immediately and cheaper work—and better in the | available for the payment of any legiti- national interest | mate claim. Then life was a picture or maybe a song, And Wisdom and Skill to the need of the throng automobiles after February 1 The traffic office closes on Saturday after- noon at 1 o'clock. The limit for 1931 tags is Sunday midnight. More than twenty-three thousand moto.ists are | Would answer, nor think of preferment still without 1932 license plates. And or pay, even should all apply immediately, the| In that long-ago day. task is & difficult one for the bureau to ! complete in the allotted time | It has been definitely stated mn; g there will be no further extension of | ; From that long-ago day. time, 50 it behooves the tardy motor- | Ist 0 get his ear in order to drive next| THE StOTY is told in immovable stone, month and the following months of the| Thelr thoughts and their figures and hair were thelr own, year. To paraphrase an old expression, 2 ¥ "Now 1 the time for all good men to |ADd they knew not the wiles that at come o the ald of their cars.” Ang | Present hold sway, must be done before Saturday. In that long-ago day. But far, far away is that long-ago day, And muteumarble figures alone toward ! A Scare for the Wolf. The well known slogan of praise, “It | gois vou there: At ‘fels! you! heckir|| Do, you think'T bould keep the wol | y 2" asked may soon be applicable to the Do.x,i{;“m "‘:’c ‘i"";u:? ;‘:nsmflni asl Her “skipper” promises a far better 'N® Musical young man. ok | “You could,” replied Miss Cayenne, return voyage than she had coming!, “OU SO Temel MU RRERER over from Europe. In fact, she may| .. the wolf had any vet be the heroine of a thriller en- Music” titled “Around the World in Eighty| Months." | e Japan's Threat at Shanghai. Japan’s latest move, directed against the government of China, may cause an entirely new alignment of the situation in the Far East and broaden the issues of the Manchurian question into inter- national proportions. Demanding the suppression of the boycott directed against Japandya Chinese semi-official organization, Japan has landed troops and assembled warships st Shanghai. ‘The government at Nanking has di- vided on the question of policy and is now in process of reorganization, two of the leading Cantonese leaders who recently assumed control of the ad- ministration resigning and leaving the = way open for the return of Ohiang Kai | oT¢ {00 valusble at ":"_""“’d o l":_ Bhek, former president. Eugene Chen, | 1Ur¢ Bureau rates to e KASteR iRy who became minister of foreign af- | FUCh fashion fairs in the Canton reorganization, in | quitiing that post asserts that the pas- sive policy of Chiang Kal Bhek, “in whom all power resides,” will logically lead to “acceptance of the Japanese demand for the forcible guppression of the national movement which exists throughout China entirely as a result of Japan's acts of brute force and in- v——— Advice. “That man always seems willing to give advice.” “Yes. He's one of those people that you esteem much more highly for the kind of advice they give than for the kind they take.” Modern Pastimes. Poker is a game of chance; In bridge the risk’s not smally But get-rich-quick is the sporty trick, ‘Where there is no chance at all. Economy. “Did you tell that man exactly what you thought of him?" Y “Certainly not,” answered Senator Sorghum; “even my indignation did not | cause me to forget that my opinions Universal Activity. Everybody does his best. Human life is void of rest. ! Bome strive to do some simple thing, And they who shun endeavoring, E'en though they strike a restful pose, Are ever busy, Heaven knows, From early morn to set of sun, Still knocking what the rest have done. been regaled with some decidedly per- micious material, virtually heroising the eriminal. “Sob stuff” has been splat- ver the sereens, with go-called = the vole of dumer- tolersble violence against China.” Chiang Xai Shek has made no reply. “Dar ain’ no such thing as real Danger exists that & conflict may oc- | loafin’,” said Uncle Eben; “if you doesn’ cur between Japansse forces and Chi- ummo‘v«wm Rsse Notionalist sreops in Chine proper sroum' lockin foh ¢ e It is to bring this about that, for the| first time on record, a joint advertising | scheme has been launched by the Na- | Nations Are Paying for tional Association of Master Painters and Decoratrs of Ireland, the Amalga- mated Socicty of Operative House and Bhip Paintcrs and the National Paint- ers and De-orators' Trade Union. * % Even Scotland Has Hlicit Liguor Stills. Evening Times, Glasgow.—The ing of & complete illicit still in find- the house of Thomas Harkness at Glasgow | brought upon him a fine of £100, with the alternative of six months’ onment—and no time to pay—at Glas- gow Sheriff -Court recently. The accused, a middle-aged man, ad- mitted the triple charge of having made “wash,” having had a still for distilling spirits and having deposited spirits In his_house with intent to defraud his majesty of the duty. When a rald was made on the ac- cused’s house, said Dpute-Piscal J. C. Petterson, gallons of “wash” and two bottles of spirits were found, in ad- dition to a complete still. There were all: the implements necessary for the making of whisky, and the still had obviously been recently in use, The penalties to which the accused Wwas liable were very heavy, said Sheriff Robertson, but, of course, they were proportioned to the offense. Chengfu Women Take Up Military Tralning. Yenching Gazstte, Chengfu—With scores of men students, newly sprouted into dominating, gray-clad scldier boys, a number of Chengfu women, growing restive, have organized a corps of their own. These young ladies, some 40 in number, and with anti-Japanese con- victions, have applied to the Yenching University authorities for permission to ]::;.flncég;lf lnullhe classes lnd]g;flll and or the men's compulsory mili- tary ‘training work. The feminine Sroun turned out in full force for the irill recently, and after the session voted to adopt the same style of uni-|fl form as that worn by the men stu- dents. Thelr uniforms will be ready in two weeks, and are eagerly awaited by the new auxillary. The new lighting system for the parade grounds will be finished about the same time, and both day and night drills will be carried an, Concurrent with the introduction of military training into Yenching Uni- versity, g fi fered to Yenching women students, who are just as anxicus as the m-n to show their patriotism. More than 150 have signed up for this course. * % Insurance Companies Must Deposit Gold in Guatemala. Nuestro Diario, Guatemala. — The ministry of commerce has determined that all insurance companies doing busing in Guatemala deposit in gold securitles, either with the Banco Cen- trsl or any of its branches, sums in certain measure equivalent to their lia- bilities. The exact percentage of these AT o c, 8 guarantee the immediste payment of sy elekins d course is being of-| * ok ok % | Orgy of Unwise Spending. El Nuevo Diaro, Caracas.—This eco- | nomic nightmare through which the Jworld is passing, though less perceived {"In this country than ir. many others, possibly because the bulk of our popu- | lanmL!l hardy stock and simple tastes, | does ndt | comforts necessary and so estesmed in other lands—to many of which, in- deed, we are yet but strangers, The orgles of spending during the |last decade among more wealthy and ‘modernistic” nations has virtually | brought civilization to the brink of de- struction. Not to put too delicate and | considerate a gloss upon it, the world | has attemped, consciously or not, & | moral and intellectual :uicide. Greed has run rampant. Appetite has domi- nated principle; every evil cause has found eager and vociferous justification: every good cause has been derided, im- peded and annihilated. The more money was available, the less wisely |1t was spent, and the less satisfying | and beneficial the privileges and indul- gences it purchased. Vices became the fashion; | virtues | were mostly viewed as obsolete—the ex- | | pedients. perhaps, of a less sophisticat- | ed age when man could not veneer his | baser nature with the false refinements | of specious arts and sophisticated doc- trines. It was when the people of the world lost their grasp upon the finer. saner and better things M life, and began to seel out only what was easier and more | agreeable for the moment, that the de- scent to pain and distress began. They |are all paying now, In degrees appor- tloned to their delinquencies, for the inferlority of their chofce in matters affecting the true health, welfare and stability of themselves and of the race. Warlike trends have dominated pacif- ism; capital has enslaved labor: ex- travagance has displaced thriftiness, and a fancied practicality, or transient plen’.‘uure the proper discipline of the s There is little evidence any longer of a civilization moral. We have | civilization material. | - - | Not Far Wrong. | From the Florence (Ala) Herald. Explorers discovered in Arizona an unfinished dam 1,000 years old. Per- haps an ancient Muscle 8hoals. 8 B et Doubt Nero's Fiddling. From the Toledo Blade. We'd rather believe that Washington crossed the Delaware standing up than Nero fiddled before the violin was in- vented. ot ———— Problem in Derbies. From the Boston Evening Tnnu;pl:. Resh “Al” Smif Iy ought to m"hMm” Mli" s lot of the (i i ¥ miss as much the luxuries and | | plunged from the crest of & genuine | wealth of such detail as clearly helped rectitude and now grovel in the mire of | to fashion the character of Lincoln, “When Lincoln was 15 he knew his alphabet and could read a little with difficulty.” Along in the Autumn of 1824 a travel- ing teacher drifted into the neighbor- hood of Pigeon Creek and opened & school. Abe and his sister were among the first pupils. Four miles going, four miles coming. Eight miles a day, the considerable footwork required for the brainwork sought. Azel Dorsey kept & That, the method of his day, quite generally. Thé¢ children studied aloud. All together and not softly. Azel thought that by this method he could tell whether they were really studying or not. And he marched | around the room, switch in hand, to | wake up the silent ones. And “the uproar | could often be heard a quarter of a mile " Lincoln did not mind this. His great trouble as time went on was to get books—but that is an old story that you have read many times. Just as you have read about the early start of this youth as a lawyer, defending al- most any one who needed his services and with an indifference new to folks roundabout in the matter of fees. This you know already. But read it again, since it is part of a finely fresh ap- proach to Lincoln’s slow and laborious headway along a road that, in time, was to be & highway for only the greatest in courage, in endurance, in world-wide achievement. Once young Abe became a traveler. By now the Lincolns had moved many times. Once, from the Indiana days, the young man had helped to float a raft of logs down to New Orleans. This | huge adventure fired him for outfarings away from the pioneer farm, and not long after Abe Lincoln was on his way to professional life as a lawyer, as local | politician, as State legislator, as mem- ber of Congress, as President, as liber~ !ator of the slaves in this country, as martyr to the idea of human freedom und equality. * Sketchy sud inadequate, this bare beginning of Dale Carnegie’s admirable study of Abraham Lincoln. But, as I've already said, you will prefer to read the story yourselves. And why, since there are already so many books on the sub- Ject of Abraham Lincoln? Primarily, it seems to me, because of the writer's keen sense of the relation between early years and the ultimate understanding of any man in whom the world has wide and deep concern. Therefore, into these years that nurtured Abraham Lincoln in the pioneer period of the Near West, this writer has given a “blab™ school. * Many items are here which others have either neglected or failed to find. But 50 human, all of them, so comporting with the outlook and habit of that par= ticular day and locality that these bes come, simply and naturally, a part of the substance of Abraham Lincoln, And the important point today is that Lincoln be understood, £s this is the point with any great figure. And not for the sake of Abraham Lincoln him- plan,” according to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “already has made a strong appeal to the Nation. Imple- mented by such a directing perscnnel as the designation of Ambassador Dawes and Gov. Meyer incicates it acquires new effectiveness.” The Chicago Daily News holds that “financial and business interests will applaud the selection of Ambassador Dawes as logical and emi- nently fitting,” and that “his record and International prestige should in- | position he has assumed.” Referring to the project as “a great experiment,” the Toledo Blade offers | the appraisal of the task: “Having neither precedents to follow nor text books to guide them, they take charge | of a laboratory in which they will at- tempt to transmute the base metals of the depression into the gold of pros- perity. It is true that the alchemists g( the Middle Ages failed in a somewhat | gimilar undertaking, but they did not spire confidence in the institution whose | have $2,000,000,000 at their disposal.” functions and activities he will deter- | The Birmingham Age-Herald eoncludes: mine in large degree,” “Mr, Dawes,” in the opinion of the New York Herald-Tribune, “presents the, fortunate combination of a profes- siohal banker who also has had a long career in public life, while the color and magnetism of that energetic per- sonality are admirably calculated to launch the new corporation upon the wave of public confidence which it de- mands for its success. That confidence will be fortified by the fact that Mr. Fugene Meyer is to serve as chairman of the board.” Xox k% “As head of this corporition he is one of those rays shining through a loud,” declares the Ann Arbor Daily ews, observing that ‘he is entrusted with the task of bringing back pros- rity.” ‘The Providence Journal be- feves that “if the President holds to this high standard of selection in desig- nating the other appointees, one may feel confident that all that the cor- poration can reasonably be expected to do in relieving the depression will be done with a minimum of delay.” The Scranton Times concludes: “Wherever it is possible we may be sure that Gen. Dawes will take a short cut to reach an objective. He will, we feel, set the wheels in motion with very little delay, and if the measurc is as workable as friends and supporters maintain, then QGen. Dawes will get the best out of it.” “Ger. Dawes is an old hand.” avers the Akron Beacon-Journal, “in this business of llfllng the national finan. clal ox out of the pit. Back in the late nineties, when the country was still suffering from the backwash of five years of panic, he was chosen by Presi- dent Willlam McKinley to be the Fed- eral Controller of the Currency. All the measures then taken had for their object the restoration of public confi- dence. Runs on the Federal Treasury and the banks came to & halt with the knowledge that the American Nation would not abandon the gold standard. Funds came out of hoardng and back to the banks. Pretty soon the mills be- gan to reopen and the country was re- stored to a prosperity that without | notable interruption continued until the market crash of two years ago.” Bk k% “Dawes and Stimson both have big jobs ahead of them, both will do their | best, and en their su-cess will depend the highest hoves of all Am ' says the Houston Chronicle, referring inel- | dentally to the sending ¢f the Secre tary of State to Geneva for the dis- armament meeting. The Chronicle also comments on the selection for the self is such comprehension imperative, It matters not a straw to this man whether he be counted great or less than that. It does matter vitally, how- ever, to those who have come after and will come after him. That which he did for the world out of that limited and sordid sourcing in pione and ways, that is the point of awakening for youth everywhere. That it, in the fresh circumstances of and to- P, i, Finance Corporation: “As head of one of Chlcago's largest banking institu- tions Gen. Dawes holds the respect and confidence of the banking world. Be- cause he is a Middle Westerner and has | “There is in his homespun approach to things, in the violence of his speech | and in the restraint of his actions some- | thing which endears him to a public that pri~cs human values.” “Hc and will do as much as any |other myn to inspire confidence and get things moving," declares the Nash- ville Banner, but that paper adds as to | bublic policy: “Appropriate though President Hoover's disposition of t!:e Dawes talents and energies seems to be, one rather grieves at the fact that it will keep him away from Geneva. There are other men who can explain to European nations the atti- tude of the American people toward debts, disarmament and reparations, but Gen. Dawes promised to do such a forceful job of it that it is a pity tc see him transerred on that account.” ———— Calls Dance Marathon Degrading to Capital To the Editor of The Star: Is there no legal way, or none by arousing public opinion, to prevent the continuation or at least a repetition of | the sordid and pathetic spectacle which | has disgraced Washington during the | last two months? I mean the dance marathon. If a sensation-hunt- | ing impresario should offer a reward of fiva thousand dollars to whoever would commit suicide for the'pubile entertain- ment, both he and his victims would presumably be enjoined and summa | dealt with by the law, The mmc;:i are strictly parallel—with this differ- ence, that in regard to the hapless dancers, their ordeal {s more prolonged and ignominious, Exhausted in body and nerve, miserghly shuffiing night and day, hour g hour, over & of two months, numb to every consider- atlon except the lure of a check to the survivor, these burned-out girls and boys are allowed to exploit themselves for the amusement of visitors and the profit of the Auditorfum managers. If no other means of livelinood are available for the contestants except to drag them- | selves to death in public, it would be infinitely worthier if they starved. There can be no 1uesnon of interference with individual liberty In preventing such displays of imbecility and greed. It is amazing in a civilized communi~ ty, the Capital of a Christian nation, that such barbarities are not only per- mitted, but advertised, and that we con- done among ourselves what, if reported as the practice of savages, we would treat with pity and ridicule. I believe that I am expressing the cpinion of many pecple in Washington in protesting against this show as de- grading not only to the participants themselves, but to the city and to our common humanity. SAMUEL SHELLABARGER. that is the of Abraham And that u“&'m that nat- v ——— It’s Time She Did. Prom the Janesville Dally Gasette, urally out of this 1y mu;:re'd and moat. : The 2 ot R B S