Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1932, Page 4

- A4 THE NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1932. {THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY....February 13, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th 8t. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. ghicaso Office: Lake Michisan Bulldine. uropean Office: 14 Regent St. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. vening Btar . . .45¢c per month ening and Sunday Star (when 4 javs) .. ... .. .60c per month and S Star (when 5 Sunda: The Sunday Star 'S¢ _per copy Collection made at the end of each month ders may be sent in by mall or telephone Ational $000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday.....1yr. £1000: 1 mo. 8¢ iy only . Ly, : 1 mo., 50¢ unday only 136 3600 1 mo.. 4oc All Other States and Canada. {ly and Sunday..l¥r.$1200:1mo. 8100 y SUndeY 137 Y58 00: 1 ma. 78c Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press exclusively entitled to the use for republicat of ail news ?ltch'l credited to it or fled " this paper and published herel t Epecial dispatches herein are Lincoln and Hoover. The birthday anniversary of Abra- ham Lincoln yesterday was chosen by Republicans in every part of the coun- try to launch their campaign for vic- tory at the polls this year. While the Republican orators paid tribute to the great President of the past, they likened the struggle and the crisis which the Nation faced in 1864 to the crisis which confronts the American people taday. Lincoln, they pointed out, carried the country safely through the great emergency of Civil War days. Presi- dent Hoover, they predicted, will bring the American people through the present depression, with its at- tendant unemployment and hard times, to better days. They drew an analogy between the stupendous difficulties which faced Lincoln and those that face Hoover todey. They echoed the vituperation that was poured out against Lincoln in the early part of 1864, when he was to become a candi- date for re-clection, and compared it | to the attacks which have been made | on Hoover. And finally they spoke| ©of the swing in sentiment which later | gave the victory to President Lincoln | overwhelmingly, taking from it an| augury of victory for the Republicans next November. The Republicans, in the present hour of difficulty, have properly harked back to the time when the first Republican President struggled to “hold the Nation. together; to keep inviolate the prin- ciples and traditions handed down to Americans by the founders of the great | Republic. President Hoover in the three | years of his administration has been compelled to face problems of tre- mendous weight and gravity. He has faced them with courage and with a determination that the form of Gov- ernment established in the days of Washington and upheld by Abraham | Lincoln shall not “perish from the| earth.” Mr. Hoover has faced greal odds in this struggle to bring the coun- try back to a sound economic condi- tion, when all the world has been dis- astrously affected and weighed down oy | the costs of paying for the Great War. | He has had to face the sniping of po- litical enemies, not alone in the Demo- cratic party, but also in the party which Lincoln first led to victory in 1860, his own party. The speeches delivered by Republican leaders yesterday in Washington, in West Virginia, in Indiana and, indeed, throughout the country, indicate that the Republicans have at last entered upon an aggressive campaign, rallying back of President Hoover. It is time. Republicans should not and do not de- lude themselves about the seriousness of the campaign into which they are now moving. As a party, they have to bear the burden of the displeasure and criticism of the voters because of hard times. The President himself, although | he made no suggestion of his candidacy for re-election, in a speech broadcast to the Nation yesterday called upon the American people to rally against de- structive economic forces which have threatened the country. Members of his cabinet, of the Senate and the House also delivered Lincoln day ad- dresses, calling upon the American people to rally behind President Hoover to combat these forces. and with his ! lJeadership to march to victory. The Democrats for years have held big celebrations on Jackson day, in | January. This year was no exception, and in Washington and elsewhere they | launched a drive for victory. They, too. spoke at length of the Hoover adminis- tration and of Herbert Hoover, rarely | mentioning their Democratic hero, Andrew Jackson. But what they said ‘was scarcely in line with the addresses delivered by the Republican speakers yesterday. In times of ease there have been de- mands n this country for a truce of | politics. Today, when there is great | need throughout the country, there has been talk of political truce. The battles of the people are not won during truces, however. v ———— Stream seems | pected left turn. | ‘The old reliable Gu fo have made e — st Japan and Russia. A highly interesting story comes from London, where it is published that a secret agreem has been effected be- tween Japan and Russia whereby the former is to have control of all of Man- churia and of enormous tracts of Mon- golia. According to this authority, the agreement the of the Russian interests Eastern Railway, now owr Jjointly by Russia and China. The aty, to give $t that name, is said to have been ar- ranged only after a bitter conflict in the inner councils at Moscow, some of the Soviet leaders favoring a war with Japan, while Stalin. whose voice seems to be the most eff e in Soviet af- ' fairs, decided that Russia could not safely face the highly organized war machine of modern Japan. At the outset of the Japanese move- ment to wrest Manchuria from the con- trol of the Nanking government of China it was cledrly understood that one purpose was to prevent the develop- ment of Russian influence in the “three eastern provinces,” which Russia once controlled by virtue of its overturning of the terms of the treaty of Shimo- nosekl, which closed the Sino-Japanese involves 65¢ per morth | Partners? le to Japan | the Chinese | war of 1894-5, with Prench and German ald in diplomacy. Japan has I]'l’l‘ regarded as & menace the half owner- £hip of the Chinese Eastern Railway held by Russia. That line shortens the route from Moscow to Viadfvostok by many hundred miles and cuts through upper Manchuria in a manner to afford valu- able strategic advantages to Russia in case of a campaign to regain the ground lost in consequence of the Russo-Japa- nese war of 1904-5. An agreement by Russia to sell its half interest in this line to Japan would bring about an anomalous situation. Would China agree to this change of Would not Japan be in effect the sole owner, thrcugh dominant man- agement? China is in no position at of control. A peint of importance in this account of the reported agreement beyond the direct effect upon affairs in Manchuria and Mongolia is that there was a violent difference of judgment at Moscow. Throughout the early stages of the Man- churfan campaign launched by Japan there was & constant flow of suggestions that Russia would intervene in behalf of China. Recently, after a period of quiet in this respect, came word of a concentration of Russian forces at Vladivostok, the explanation given being that it was for the purpose of preparing against an uprising of monarchists, so- called “White Russians.” This explana- tion, however, did not carry conviction, as the forces of the “Whites" even in Eastern Asia, where they have harbored in refuge, are pitiably small. There may have been another purpose in the assemblage of military forces at the Eastern port. If so, and if the agree- ment just reported from London has in fact been effected, the chance of their employment in Manchuria, in a dangerous enlargement of the military campaign in Asia, would seem to have been averted. R o S An Ill-Timed .mergency.” Representative Simmons of Nebraska is a little unjust when he intimates that there must be something sinister in the hasty abandonment of the Wilson Teachers’ College Building, at Eleventh and Harvard streets, and in the close watch ordered by the authorities for progressive cracks in the walls of the nearby Ross Elementary School just as hearings on the local appropriation bill are beginning. Of course, and the secret might as well be let out now, the residents of the District, in order to impress the members of Congress with the need for abandoning the old port- able school bui.dings, did hold what the reporters call a “secret conclave” in a cemetery one night at the full of the moon and arranged to have a wind- storm visit one of the portables and take off its roof, and the same residents of the District, it should be confessed, did conspire together for the visitation of rainstorms, snowstorms and other such manifestations of civic indignation in order to show up the weaknesses of portable school buildings. And Mr. Simmons was perfectly right in calling these portables “propaganda buildings. utilized chiefly for securing permanent buildings. But undermine the foundations of the Wilson Teachers' College? Crack the walls of the Ross Elementary? No! Never! Intimations to the contrary notwithstanding, the citizens of Washington and their able school officials had absolutely nothing to do with the defects that for the time be- ing have placed these noble structures under suspicion. They have been up to weightier and more important things. They have been secretly tinkering with the foundations, the walls and the roofs of the Bradley School, the Foree School, the Jefferson School. the Lin- coln School. the Webster School—all of these buildings having been ‘“recom- mended in 1908 for early abandonment"” and they have been quietly and per- trving to make the Tenley ubsequently recommended for abandonment”—and the old Brightwood School, fall down. But they have reli- giously kept their hands off the Teach- ers' College Building and its neighbor across the street, the Ross elementary. In the case of the Teachers' College building. it was the last building in the world that the school officials wanted to have unfavorably publiofzed at this time. The Teachers’ College has just been made a college in order to allow the sons and daughters of local tax- pavers to recelve an education that would place them on a fair competitive basis with out-of-town applfcants for teaching positions in the Washington schools. The Teachers' College, with its four-year course, has no legislative or other standing as a college.” Through the valuable co-operation of Mr. Sim- mons, money was put in the appropri- ation bill, and the school authorities merely said, “This is a college,” and, lo! there was a college. This year the school officials were hoping to have the ‘Teachers' College formally recognized in legislation, giving it a permanent and recognized status among other teachers’ colleges of the United States. And now the building has gone back on them! Since 1920 the grand total of 487 class rooms in the District public school system scheduled for abandonment has been reduced to 204, the reduction made possible by construction of new build- ings. The school building program has been making encouraging progress. But one had been inclined to believe this to be due to the intelligent co-operation of our legislators and not to the “well timed ‘emergencies’ " that Mr. Simmons intimates are arranged just as the hear- ings on the appropriation bill are about to start. Lincoln said “Government of the people, by the people, for the people. shall not perish from the earth"—ex- cept in the District of Columbia. — vt Gunplay Continues. Muysterious shootings continue to oc- cur in different portions of the Dis- trict and the adjacent sections of Maryland, without the development of any tangible clues to the perpetrators of this dangerous practice. Three young men were arrested the other day and after an examination were re- leased. there being no evidence to con- nect them with the outrages. A shot was subsequently fired through the window of an apartment and anotler through the windshield of a motor car. Whether these two cases are attribut- ble to the same source is altogether beyond determination. At first, when these firings began, it was thought that they were the work present, however, to prevent such a shift | of & madman with a murderous dis- position. Such a person was known to be at large, having escaped from de- tention. No further indications sp- peared, however, to point in this di- rection, although the shootings con- tinued in & manner to suggest an utter lack of motive in robbery or assault. It is not to be questioned that these “incidents” are attributable to a spirit of maliclous mischief. Pistol carrying has become so common nowadays and deflance of the law is so rife that it may be that this is just a sort of “pranking"” by youths who have adopted this murderous procedure as a means of self entertainment. The spirit of banditry has spread lamentably in every large community. There are many young people who are on the borderline of crime, sensation seekers, wholly in- ! different to the rights of others. In the circumstances there is little that the police can do save to maintain the most rigid watchfulness. So long as guns can be obtained easily and without risk there will be danger of an outbreak of the viclous spirit that seeks to inflict harm, whether with the object of gain or not. If a single person is doing these things he will be caught sooner or later. If there are imitators who are just firing shots for “fun” some of them will blunder into the hands of the police. The hope is that no further injuries will be inflicted and no more lives will be lost. The con- tinuance of the outrages is undoubtedly causing somewhat of a panic which should have at least the effect of keep- ing folks within doors at night or going forth only in company and avoiding places that permit surprise attacks. A Wichita, Kang,, gir] receives praise in the public prints because, though she has inherited $30.000, she keeps right on working. It is a difficult problem to analyze, at best, but would she not really be doing her community more g00d by loafing a while and leaving an opening for some unemployed woman? v President Hoover's newest social- official pronunciamento against pub- lic receptions may be bad news to the Amalgamated Association of Ax- Handle Makers, but it has the approval of every person who has even the most remote idea of the burdens of the presidential office. — e A Chicago dispatch states that needy families are getting fuel from “the forest preserves of Cook County.” Few in the East have realized that good old Cook County had any forest preserves ‘That must be where all that wild pork comes from, too. . So-called “national sports” are get- ting all jumbled up. A slim young New | York Jewish boy, who learned his skat- ing in a “two flights up” rink, fis Olympic conqueror of Scandinavians. born to snow and ice. Goliath may be sending sympathetic messages to Val- halla. There is talk abroad of a base ball players’ union this coming season. Such conversation breaks out at intervals, usually about the time the last wise survivor of the previous unionized group has gone into retirement. = —————— In case the couple, man and woman. who are to fly north to rescue valuable furs from a steamer sunk in Bering Sea are successful, the “spiel” of the fake fur “gyp artist” can almost be heard in advance. ———— Down at Pinehurst a fox caught a pursuing hound dog by the paw, causing plercing howls of anguish. The dog was not badly hurt: just a little good, clean fun for the fox. v aee——————— Readers of the “Doubt It Or Not” style of sports cartoon are waiting pa- | tiently for the boy who has neither arms nor legs and is yet a star on some secluded diamond or gridiron. ) A number of persons have gone over | Niagara Falls in barrels or other closed containers. It remain for some even more daring soul to perform the same feat on an Olympic sled run. eee *SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. On Better Acquaintance. Of course the blossom had to fade. The parting brings a sigh. And next to us will be displayed The snowflake from the sky. And if we will but pause to scan This visitor so fine We will admire its fragile plan Of texture and of line! Much which at first with dread we knew Has shown a kindlier pow'r And been on more familiar view As lovely as a flow'r. Try, Try, Again. Diplomacy much speech employs As it discloses doubts and joys. If one talk does not satisfy Another language we may try. In that way we at last may gain Significance succinctly plain. Changes of Scenery. Unto the seashore I shall go Where once they held the beauty show, And find a change of loveliness Where clothes are more instead of less. For beauties tire with their display If they forever look one way And never were, since earth began, Content with just a coat of tan. Overinformed. “I want to tell you where you are making a mistake,” said the True Friend. “What's the use of your breaking in single-handed?" said Senator Sorghum. “Don’t you think I read the opposition newspapers?” Jud Tunkins says anyhow the signs along the highway don't look to him much worse than some of the pictures in the houses. Self-Depreciation. “Has he an inferiority complex?” T'm afraid so.” answered Miss Cay- enne. “He'd almost be willing to pose As an artist’s model for comic valen- tines.” “Peace,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is a thing so precious that, like other treasure, it may need armed men to guard it.” “A man dat'’s easy scared,” said Uncle Eben, “not only hears all de bad news, but imagins twice as much more.” BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. An eminent food scientist has an- swered the question. “What is the best basic food for a growing child if the family budget must be held to an lute minimum?” “:lci‘suflmwer. shorn of all subtleties, is “Bread and milk.” Now there are thousands of people all over the United States who knew that without being scientists, but it is always pleasant to have one's personal opinion backed up by authority. All men and women who spent their childhoods in country towns know a great deal about bread and milk. It was standard there. that the children of the cities, at least in the past, ate as much of this de- Jectable foodstuff as the little ones of the country towns and the farms. This situation was somewhat of an anomaly, in view of the fact that the bulk of the milk was sent to the great where supervision of milk stand- ards was a great deal more strict than in smaller communities. During the early 90s it was no un- common thing for all the members of a small town family to come down with acute nausea, caused by drinking what was called “blue mill Such isolated cases, however, did not prevent every one from realizing the full food valie of bread and milk and ing its delicious taste. P fntreduction of this staple food into the schools of America, especially in the city elementary schools, brought one of the great joys of eating into the full glare of publicity. *oxox Bread and milk is another one of the old-fashioned things. like fried mush. which needs publicity, and plenty of it. to remove the last linger- ing traces of a certain foolish sophisti- cation which tends to look down upon it. The two go together in a most satis- factory way. The milk complements the bread and the bread the milk. The unconscious taste of millions of human beings has sanctified this in the actual eating for scores of years, but it remained for modern food science to show the almost complete character of cow's milk, and how well the proteins of bread supplement the list of food elements in the liquid. The scientist who has advised bread and milk as the basic diet for children during the depression, in such cases as may need some such reduction to a minimum, owing to_ money shortage. might have widened his advice to take in_their elders. Bread and milk is just as good a food for “grown-ups” as for children. Perhaps better. It has the advantage of furnishing about as complete a meai as one dish can, and at the same time | giving a sense of fullness which is essential. This sense of having eaten some- thing is necessary if any sort of meal is to do one any good. The old-style remark about certain foods “sticking to the ribs" meant just about that. It is no longer considered wrong to enjoy one's meals. Science has shown that the epicure of old was about right. Digestion is better when one's mouth waters at the sight, smell or even thought of certain foods. As & matter of fact, the mind plays a great part in food selection among civilized beings. It is probably true that 8 out of 10 dishes selected by persons who stand in front of cafe- teria counters are merely a matter of mental selection, gulded by a basic craving in the blood stream for certain needed elements for growth, repair and energy. * ok ox x Milk alone, if enough of it is taken, Somehow it is impossible to betteve | | will give the consumer a sense of physi- cal wellbeing, which is what one means by the phrase “a sense of fullness.” | The same sense may be acquired, how- | ever, by less milk when bread, in some form, is added. The scientists say that | an approximation to the ideal diet might be had by supplementing this tandard of bread and milk with fresh | vegetables and fruits. This is tne so- | called “lacto-vegetable” diet. | Being “fussy” about what one eats is merely being sensible about it. No automobile owner would regard himself as being finicky when he selected the fuel and oil for his car, but unfortu- nately all too many human beings seem | to feel that a similar use of the mind in selection of fuel for one’s own God- given engine is entirely wrong, or at | least rather “cranky.” Common sense, however, is never cranky. And certainly its use cannot be wrong. It is only when common sense, trying a line of attack, refuses | o admit fallure and go on to another line of attack that this excellent basic | thought of mankind goes astra; |, This is all that certain spokesmen for orthodox methods of healing mean when they advise the general public i to “stop experimenting” with food fads ‘and fancles. They can have no real | grievance against the average man of ordinary intelligence who uses his head a bit. That's what docters do. * % ok ox Millions of mothers all over this great {land didn't need to be food sclentists | to sit their children down to bowls of bread snd milk for supper. They thought it was “good for them,” and they were right | In many cases the bowls are not bowls at all, but simply glasses or tumblers. | The technique of eating bread and milk jout of a tumbler is one which needs to | be learned. Just cramming bread into | the milk won't do. | One may eat it that way, of course, but not so well. The reas:n for this is |that bread (and especially crackers) needs to be well chewed before being swallowed, ‘This is the requirement, but when wet with milk it is seldom ob- served. The substitute. therefore, is to | get the bread thoroughly soaked by the milk before it is swallowed, To achieve this seemingly small ob- jective, but in reality a large one, in the art of eating bread and milk the bread must be crumbled up very fine and pushed down to the bottom of the glass with a spoon, This process is kept up until abso- lutely no more bread can be put in In order to do this job pr.perly some space must be left in the glass for the | bread—that is, the glass must not be filled to the brim. Nor should eating begin at once. This is a requirement commonly overlooked, especially by children. The milk should be served ice ccld, but be permitted to warm up just a bit. The bread in sozk- ing up the milk helps in this warming process. This is according to the laws | of common sense as well as of physics. | A slight wait, too, helps in the process. | The proper integration of the milk and the bread brought about by this process gives the whole an entirely dif- ferent flavor from bread crumbled hastily and in large pieces into milk | and the dish eaten voraciously. | By using the proper method the eater will find that the bread gets tastier and tastier the farther down into the tum- |bler he goes. The last two or three | spoonfuls, just as the exicess milk has practically run out, will be found to be the most delicious of all. What more could any one ask? In- stead of being good, as Oscar Wilde said of a cigarette because it leaves one dissatisfied. bread and milk is good be- cause it satisfies. Roosevelt Arou ses Friends And Foes of World League Franklin D. Roosevelt's stand in op- position to the League of Nations, fol- Jowing the statement of Newton D. Baker that the League this year, has produced spi ments throughout the country. some indorsement for his views and sharp criticism as well, the subject has awakened a discussion of the League aside from its bearing on the Demo- cratic nomination. “By other ways." ys." says the Atlanta Journal (Democratic), “this country guidance, bear its proper part in con- serving the peace and promoting the good will of the world. But the time when it might have done so through membership in the League of Nations has gone the way of lost caus ted to make it an embarrassing ‘!](;r(!}sxzwg to Gov. Frankhn D. Roosevelt in his candidacy for the nomination. however, they have simply proved again his characteristic good sense and rwardness.” "Tf‘%'fll‘r’c" are too many vital questions to be considered, on which the Demo- crats can unite,” declares the Schenec- tady Gazette (independent Democratic), with the statement of its view of the situation: “Theoretically the League of Nations is a splendid instrument for furthering the cause of world peace. Great men of both the Republican and Democratic parties have long advo- cated our entrance into it. Opposition likewise has been manifested toward it by members of both parties. Any litical party fi»"ndmz is‘:ue of a question where mer'r is not a reasonable degree of harmony. It s harmful to the party itself, and to the matter under consideration as well, Indorsement of the league by the Democratic party, or a candidate, at this time would bring it to the fore again as a political issue, for the oppo- Si#on dominates the Republican organ- izatior S nsi rotest of Joseph P. e S PTo the iate Presi: dent W the Roanoke World-News (Democratic), states: “Mr. ‘Tumulty may call it political expedigncy if he wishes. Perhaps it is, but the League cannot be made an issue when Lhelte are so many other more pressing ques- tions which engage the public atten- tion.” The World-News also offers the conclusion as to the Roosevelt posi- tion: “Circumstances of the ?aker pronouncement made it necessary }hal Roosevelt take his stand one way or the other, and he is too good & poli- tician not to see the propriety of the Baker position, Hence he followed suit.” . Indorsement is given by the Lexing- ton Leader (Republican) to “the de- tached position which America has al- ways occupied and which gives her far greater influence than she could exert as but one of a concert of nations in which she would have been outvoted hopelessly,” while the Ann Arbor Dail News (independent). remarks that “it is extremely likely that Mr. Roosevelt has taken heed of recent political ut- terances concerning the undesirability of ‘internationalism’ in high national | offices and is maneuvering into a posi- | tion to escape criticism on any such grounds” The Cincinnati Times-Star (Republican) holds that “no political leader who values his party's chances in 1932 could now wish to adopt the discredited League.” - Taking up Gov. Roosevelt’s theory that the lack of American membership caused the League to lose force, the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (in- dependent Republican), replies: ““There is no reason to believe that the United States could have transformed it Cer- tainly, no proof,” while the Boston Transcript (independent Republican) commends “Gov. Roosevelt’'s hind- sight.” i The two statements by the candi- dates are subjects of comment. Mr. Baker’s was: “I do not think the Demo- cratic party should advocate our en- trance into the League just because Wilson favored it.” Gov. Roosevelt stated: “But the League of should and doubtless will, under liberal | ertheless, there are a few who have at- | Democratic | Far from troubling nim, is unwise in making a | Nations today is not the League con- ceived by Woodrow Wilson.” The New York Times (independent) fecls that Gov. Roosevelt “steered his course more | carefully,” and adds: “Neither could | possibly “have mentioned the League without naming its founder. But how | delicate was the business of reference |can be judged by the results—the re- sentful newspaper comment. Mr. Tu- multy’s protest. Wilson has been dead for nearly a decade. But, even though Democratic conventions dodge or for- swear the League, the late President is a living issue within his party. “To dismiss the League,” declares the Dayton Daily News (independent Democrat), “it wgs not necessary to kick the League. In doing this Gov. Roosevelt has sent a chill to the heart of a very large and important section of American people of all parties and classes who, through all the mutations of politics, have mever lost their con- viction that only through world co- operation such as the League of Na- tions attempts can humanity escape the unending sufferings and cruelties in- | cident to a world of permanently hos- tile, often warring parts.” * ok ok % | “Gov. Roosevelt didn't need to turn! renegade to the cause,” asserts the Fort Worth Star-Telegram tindependent Democrat), commenting on his posi- with the statement: “He might ve told the story of the League's | birth and rearing—and he might have placed some of the blame for its not be- | ing ‘the group conceived by Woodrow Wilson' where it properly belongs. There never has been—and is not now | —anything wrong with the ideal League of Nations. What is wrong is the man power constituting it, and | tion | have that is entirely the fault of the group which defeated the idea here in the jand of its birth for petty partisanship and personal animosity reasons.” “It is doubtful if the net result is to win him many votes,” thinks the | Hartford Times (independent Demo- crat), adding that he “would far bet- ter have left the League issue to take care of itself than to attempt such specious reasoning as he offers”’ The Columbus Ohio State Journal publican) draws the conclusion that “the greatest leaders of history have been leaders only because they cast personal safety and popularity aside and carried their supporters through to victory against obstacles” The Des Moines Tribune (independent Repub- lican) calls his stand “a piece of men- tal contortionism in which he executed | |a flip-flop while trying to fool the spec- tators into thinking it was he that stood still and the world that leaped.” “The League's record,” according to the San Jose Mercury Herald (Repub- lican), “flatly contradicts Roosevelt's statement that it has concerned itself with ictly European national dif- ficultic ‘The Oakland Tribune (Re- publican), observing that “the United States has been apparently effective in backing the League in its commend- able program for international har- mony.” adds: “In the meantime the original sponsors, believing they feel the public pulse, prompted by political expediency, are deserting the cause of the great Democrat whom they loyally | supported when he was in the zenith of his power."” “It is much to be feared that Gov. | Roosevelt will be charged with too much inclination to trim his sails to |every wind that blows.,” avers the | Lynchburg News (Democrat), and the | Chattanooga Times (independent) asks: “If the League's failure to | measure up to the ideals and expecta- | tions of Woodrow Wilson has been due |to America’s refusal to join, as Gov. | Roosevelt admits it may have been, has not the obligation of America to become |a member been thereby emphasized, if |not increased?” This conclusion is voiced also by the Charlotte Observer (Independent Democrat). The Okla- home City Daily Oklahoman (indepen- dent) suggests that “it would be one of the ironies of political history if the Lel&: should win its greatest victory in after-hour of jts condemnation by Gov. Roosevelt.”’ (Re- | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ‘Two valuable and interesting books on Colonial architecture, one text and illustrations, the other entirely plates, are ‘“Interiors of Virginia Houses of Colonial Times” and “Colonial Inte- riors,” both by Edith Tunis Sale. In her preface to the former volume the author expresses her appreciation to the owners of Virginia's old Colonist houses who have “generously opened wide their historic doors in order that generations of the future might see and love the interiors revered by them.” The most thorough research has ;zne into the making of these books. “Both text and jllustrations have been gath- ered from nal visits to these ancient .mnflin where precious hmuyl papers and rare records were graclously placed at the disposal of the author. }Though much has been written of Virginia's historic buildings, of her romantic old gardens, this is the first time the interiors of her true Colonial houses have been seriously considered, !though it is in the interiors that one sees clearly what the daily life of the Colonlsts was. Both the founders and their master-workmen were con- servetive artificers and they have left us @ heritage that can never be du- licated.” The Virginia houses discussed E1 the former volume are classified geo: graphically and listed under the high- ways by which they are reached. Trall, King's Highway, Tidewater Trall, Jefferson Davis Highway, James River Road, Jeffer- houses whose interiors are described are: Carter’s Grove, the George Wythe House and the Peachy House in the Williamsburg section; York Hall, the Shield House and Rosegill in the Yorktown section: Mount Airy. Sabine Hall and Stratford Hall in the Rappa- hannock section: Kenmore and Gay Mont in the Fredericksburg section; Gunston Hall and Mount Vernon in the Washington section: Brandon and Claremont in the James River section. section, L ‘The second of the volumes by Edith Tunis Sale. “Colonial Interiors” has a classification of its plates according to interfor architectural features. The divisions are halls, stair halls, stair- ways and balustrades, interiors, in- terior-drawing rooms, dining rooms, music rooms, rooms, kitchens, chimney breasts, mantels, mantels and doorways, doorways, windows and de- tails. The Colonial haliways reproduced in these pictures have so much charm that one can easily understand why | they were often a center of family ac- tivities. The large square hall at Bran- |don, with its wide center arch flanked , by two smaller ones, one of which spans | | the staircase, has both stateliness and | homelikeness. The two long windows | at the rear give abundant light and, except for draughts, which the early residents of Brancon perhaps did not feel as keenly as do dwellers in over- | heated apartn:ents today, the great hall |is an adequafe reception room. At | Rosegill “the long river hall presents the uncommon specta~le of a stairway rising from each end,” both of walnut in natural color and of the same design. Guests could easily run up to their | reoms. at whichever side of the house they might be located. At Stratford the rather bare hall shows the tastes | of its owners, for it is furnished with built-in bookcases in recesses between Corinthian pilasters of walnut. Clare- mont Manor has unusually be-utiful paneled library, dining room with | arched recesses and music room. R The bed rooms of the large Colonial houses, though usually not as spacious |rcoms as those for family use, are; Cignified and uncrowded. They often have sloping ceilings and dormer win- | dows. A fireplace in a bed room was a luxury. almost a necessity for com- fort, in those days before central heat- | ing. The bed room fireplaces are usually very simple in design, square openings ' with plain mantels or no mantel at all. Occasionally, as at Claremont, a bed room mantel shows beading and simpl> decorative designs. The servation or restoration of the Colonial furnish- ings—the tester beds, bedside tables rush chairs, hooked rugs, chests ¢ | drawers—helps to give to these b rooms the real atmasphere of their da: The kitchens of Colonial houses we: | roomy affairs, capable of staging gen- erous meals, in the days before diet | became fashionable. Where they have been kept from decay or restored to something like their original condition they tempt a visitor to linger today, with their huge, deep fireplaces, hung full of kettles; their artistic hand- wrought andirons, wooden tables and | chairs, often much scarred, and roughly | matched stone floors. Interesting old | kitchens are to be found at Old Lynn- | haven. Princess Anne County: Rose- gill, Middlesex Ccunty: Brandon, Prince George County, and Tuckahoe, Gooch- | land County, The kitchen at Old | Lynnhaven has a wooden floor of wide | boards, a deep bricked fireplace, and tall windows, It dates from 1634 and was restored in 1926. ok ok ok In Knut Hamsun's “August,” sequel to “Vagabonds." the irresponsible, but | likable, vagabond August continues his not always creditable adventures. After vagabonding about many coun- tries, he returns to his native Norwe- gian home, Polden. In the 20 years of his absence, there have been many changes and a new audience has grown | up to listen to his badly inflated tales. Polden is an isolated fishing village above the Arctic Circle and its only |normal excitements are the fortunes of the fishermen and the vital statis- ties of the community, so the arrival of a story-telling adventurer who knows their life and tastes is a bless- ing from the blue. August is not con- tent, however, merely to amuse his fellow townsmen; he tries to reform them. He sees, in the light of his travels, that Polden is still a village of the middle ages and thinks that it should be brought into line with the advances of the twentieth century, He first secures a post office, then a bank and a herring factory. ~He starts a ! Teal estate boom by cutting up farm land to make building sites. The dif- ficulty with it all is that the toom does not come as advertised by Au- !gust. The Poldeners do not write let- ters. so there is no mail for the post office. The bank fails, because it loans its money on worthless security. The factory does not run, because there is no power for it. Building lots, of course, do not sell, because there is not enough population to buy them. With the farms cut up, fewer potatoes are planted and less grain, so when a poor herring season comes, famine | comes with it. The popularity of Au- gust wanes as does that of a broker when the securities he has sold to customers begin to default. It is pos- sible to discover in this novel of Knut Hamsun a satire on modern industrial expansion. The satire is much more obvious than the four satires of Swift in his “Gulliver's Travels"—the voy- ages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the Country of the Houyhnhnms. ¥ oxox % Napoleon probably loved Josephine as much as he loved any one not him- self, yet he discovered her because his inordinate vanity demanded an heir to establish a Bonaparte dynasty. Ex- cessive sympathy for Josephine is modi- fied when one reads the story of her life, with its selfishness and its amours. She seems to have led & comfortable enough life after her divorce and to have followed the career of Napoleon without animosity until her death at Malimaison seven years before the death of Napoleon at St. Helena, After divorcing Josephine, Napoleon mar- ried Marie Louise, daughter of Francis 1, Emperor of Austria. The results of the marriage were ironical. The heir was born, but after Napoleon's down- fall he became an officer in the Aus- trian army and died young, so there was no Bonaparte dynasty. Marie Louise married her husband because she was told to do so for Austrian state . When he was exiled to Elba- sent messages to % her te him, but she and Monticello in the Charlottesville 1 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN, ‘What do you need to know? Is there some point about your business or personal life that pussles you? 1Is there something you want to know without. 2 Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, director of our Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Eve Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Direc- tor, Washington, D. C.. and inclose 2 cents, in coin or stamps, for return Q. How many bull ri are there & Spain? How long dots " SuiiRent mxr 1: w. . There are about 250 bull rings in Spain. About 1,500 bulls -namu’.noo horses are killed each year in the bull- fights. Six fights usuaily form the pro- gram for one attendance. Q. Do the rules of auction or con- tract give » player the right to demand & new deal if he has neither an ace nor A face card?—M. O. M. A. Under a chapter called “Absurdi- ties," Milton C. Work writes at length about this notion. He says that there has never been a rule in whist, or auction, which makes such a provi- sion. Contract, the newest form of the game, does not have such a rule. Q. Is the Yenisel River navi — J. R R S A. This Siberian river is navigable up to Turukansk. The steamers are paddle steamers, which often draw es. son Highway. Among the finest of the | barg Q. How many Federal prohibition of- ficers are there in the United State H. S M. A. The Prohibition Bureau says tfat there are approximately 2.500 prohibi- tion agents and 3.800 employes of pro- hibition forces in the United States, Q. What Is considered the coldest part of the country the year ‘round?— ‘A. The Weather Bureau says that it cannot state the exact location of the coldest points in the United States. but it is belleved that the northern portion of North Dakota and the eastern tion of Montana are the places, on the Whole, having the greatest cold. Q. Who was the leader :heA o) mewnmu?w. R. l?:. riving . The modern revival was due to a Frenchman, Baron de Coubertin, and was made possible by the munificence of a private citizen, M. Averoff. The games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896, ' Q. Has the Germ v st % police dog wolf 3 dogs of whatever bre remately related to wolves, sln:g the wolf is the ancestral form of the do- mestic dog. In the German shepherd dogs, ularly called German police dogs, this wolf blood is more apparent than in any other breeds and it is likely that this breed of dog is more directly descended from the wolf. Q Who is Abbe E e M ; Ernest Dimnet?. . He Is & French divine and author. His best known work is “The Art ool Thinking.” Q. Did the M-2, which sank in Janu- ary, carry torpedoes and guns?—C. G. A. The British submarine M-2 car- ried one 3-inch gun and was equipped { with four torpedo tubes. Submarines necessarily carry ammunition and are euipped for war, as this is the purpose for which they are built. Q. Please explain the manner in which nemadic tribes of Arabs are or- ganized —G. I, A. The organization of the nomadic Arabs is represented by the tribe under the control of a sheikh, an office nor- mally hereditary, but some..mes elec- tive. Within the tribe are a number of sections with patrilineal descent, themselves often formed by smaller groups. Each. section has its own sheikh, subordinate to the tribal sheikh, and much importance is at- tached to the preservation of and sectional genealogies. The stze « & tribe or section may fluctuate fror time to time with the popularity an strength of its leader: a strong and Jjust man will attract to his unit fam lies or groups of families from othe tribes. and these in time may give ri to sections or lose their identity in ths of their adopted unit Q. What is the instrument calle which tests the sensitiveness of the skin to Reat and cold’—C. W. B, | A It is called a kinesimeter. |, Q. Which race predominates in nur bers, the white or yellow?—G, A, | A Acording to recent estimates, th Caucasian or white race numbers ap proximately 725000,000 and the Mon Rolian or yellow race 680,000,000, Q. When was ofl developed in OK! homar G w B CCreloped n OXia A. Wild cat wells were drilled for c In remote sections of Kansas, India Territory (now Oklahoma), Texas ar California as early as the 1880s, but was really not until the beginning ¢ the twentieth century that the wionin. of oll on a commercial scale extende into these sections, The Bartlesvills and Glenn pools, in Oklahoma, discor :‘1:2 !ln] lg‘().'.‘rullly gave the Mideor ntal district its start - troleign industry e Q. Is Hans Kindler an Americar citizen? N B, A. The Bulletin of the Americaniz tion School Association says that Har Kindler was naturalized about 10 year ago. This famous cellist, conduct and composer was born in HollanA an recelved his musical education in the Conservatory of Rotterdam trib: Q. Were the republics of Centra | America ever united in one govern- | ment?—p, C. | A In 1823 the five Central American states were united into a national fed iprnlh‘n which subsequently adopted » | constitution modeled after that of the | United States. The federation was par tially ended by 1833, practically dis | solved in 1839, and completely dissolved by 1847. Q Who nvented the - machines?—D. T. i A. Joseph J. Schermack invented the | machine for dispensing postage stampe \?m‘oergnucn!ly.beur. Schermack has per ected & number B of automatic vending | @ wny | WA R, | A, The are plumbers so called?— word plumbing is deriy from the Tatin plumbu'm. m‘:rri‘;fi lead, since the early plumbers worked in lead, providing pipe systems for water supply and applying sheet lead | for roof coverings, also setting window glass. The word appears in the Eng- lish language in the fifteenth centuty. Q. What is the insignia that denotes U‘;nb;’d States military airplane?— A. The insignia is round, with a five-pointed star and a red circle in- | side ‘the star. The specifications stats | that the inner circle shall be red and that portion of the star not covered | by the inner circle shall be white, and that the portion of the circumacribed circle not covered by either the star or the inner circle shall be blue Q. When the Pennell collection of Whistleriana was first exhibited at the ibrary of Congress was it as well re- smi;d as was the London exhibition?. A. Joseph and Elizabeth P gave the collection to the Library written: “When the Whistler morial Exhibition was held in 1 it was visited by thous nds daily | King and Queen asked to come. | opened by Ambassadors and sup by the press. Here (In Washin~ '~ in the first weeks not a thousand peo- ple visited the exhibition. Bu Ambassador has come nepr {t—n-firal- ly, M. Jusserand, the Frenth Ambas sador; but one Minister, M. Feter, the | Swiss' Minister.” a w. Tt Highlights on the Wide World I ot nt i | Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A RAZON, La Paz—Patrona Ma- mani was under the necessity of making some purchases and attending to some other errands coincident with the holiday sea- son and, as some of them were con- cerned with Christmas gifts for her daughter, a child of 5 years, she de- parted down the street, leaving that one at home with injunctions to play quietly in the habitation and not to get into mischief. She also put the sulphurs (matches) beyond the lttle girl's reach. Some one apparently observed these arrangements and determined to profit by them. For when the mother re- turned she was surprised to see that the child was regaling herself with candy and cakes, quite contented with loneliness. The mother asked her daughter where she had acquired the dainties and the little one signified that a “nice lady” had bestowed the confections, at the same time pointing to her ears, whereupon Senora Mamani suddenly realized that her small daugh- ter's earrings were no longer in evi- dence. This low instance of thievery was reported at once to the police. ® ok xy Students Seeking Self-Rule Flee Before Police. Japan Advertiser, Tokio—A demon- stration of students at the Tokio Im- perfal University, which at one time threatened to become serious, broke up without incident upon the appearance of police officers on the scene. The agitation started when about 1,000 stu- dents of the law depariment gathered near one of the lecture halls in order to hold a meeting of protest against the pressure of the university authori- ties against the self-governing activi- ties of the students. Some of the leaders of the demon- stration distributed handbills, printed on red paper, urging their fellow stu- dents to take definite action in their campaign against the oppression of the university officials and to gather in the students’ section of the university for a further demonstration. A large flag was produced and the crowd started to follow this in a pa- rade around the campus. Speeches were delivered advocating direct action and the crowd threatened to become violent, to such an extent that the uni- versity authorities became alarmed and | called in the police. The students fled as soon as the officers arrived. S Chile and Russia Trade Nitrate for Oil Imparcial, Montevideo.—After pre- viously failing to come to an agree- ment in the matter of shipping nitrates in exchange for petroleum, negotiations | have finally taken a more satisfactory turn, and the Chilean government has now arranged with the Soviet authori- ties that crude oil may be shipped di- rect to Chile from Russia any refine- ments of the product desired to be in the former country. Natural ————————re never came. During the hundred days she was in the party of his enemies, hoping for his capture and renewed exile. She had also by that time found a lover, Count Neipperg, her gentle- man-in-waiting. A recent book about Marie Louise, “Empress Innocence. The Life of Marie-Louise,” by M. E. Ravage, excuses her for her lack of devotion to her husband (excuses are abundant and good) and her sympathy for his enemies, She s represented as & very ordinary princess, trained in the school of ndence and obedience. she lived with Napoleon she obeyed when misfortune overtook him ransferred her obedience her father. And she was al- ngt Prench. back to ways Al [\ ) nitrates will be exchanged for the pe- | troleum upon a basis not yet fully de- |termined. Reciprocity in this case seems to be a very feasible matter % | American Public Informed on War Debts. Evening Times, Glasgow.—A letter to the editor: : | Sir—I was very interested in “Ochil- | tree's” logical (?) article on the war | debt question. I oan assure him, how- | ever, that the American public is much better informed on this subject than he |seems to think. After 10 Joars of European propaganda they ow &t least as much about both sides of the | question as “Ochiltree” does. | * 'The allies had exhausted their credit early in 1917, and without American |loans they would have been defeated There was no nonsense then about war |10ans “being logically dependent on reparations,” was there? Some people will say that, as the munitions bought with these loans were used against the common foe, America should not ex- But out of a 2,000,000,000 lent by America only about $2,443,610,000 were actually spent on munitions, and s bas forgiven her late allies more than that. | " The net cost to America of her part in the war was $36,360,232,063. So it cannot be said that she did not spend her own money. ‘As regards reparations, all the allles, with the exception of America, have got “loot” of some sort. Britain got | Germany's colonies, France the so- | called “lost provinces” and so on; &0 | why not let it go at that? I am quite sure America would agree to this proposal. She has more respect for Germany than for some of her iflmes. but Europe will have none of it. 1f Germany cannot pay for the ar, then America must Maybe “Ochiltree” can see the logic in this attitude, but I cannot. This is looking at the matter from a purely ethieal standpoint, which is not usually done in_Europe. It may be said that America should come down to earth, that war debts are the cause of all the unemployment and trouble which the world is experienc- ing and that it is all in Amrrica’s interest to cancel them, This, in my opinion, is “tripe.” I am only & work- ing man, but I can see many other causes for the present crisis besides war debts. This is obviously not a question for politicians of the “Hang the Kaiser"” type. Britain and America are the world’s bankers, and there is no man living who could say where cancel tion would stop once it had started. 1 have lived for some years in Amer- jca and I know the average American | working man's views on this subject. I | am sure he will go as far as any one | to settle this question, but he is no fool, and he has no {llusions regarding his late allies, and unless Europe’s “states- men” change their tactics and use straight thinking instead of their usual sophistry, they are going to get nothing from him but advice which, while it may be good, will certainly not be pleag« ant. T am, etc. R. W. Q. Helping the Vanquished. Prom the Portland Oregon Daily Journal. When we were helping defeat Ger- many we had no idea how much it was going to cost us to help Germany stand up after the defeat. ——— High Cost of Killing. From the St. Louis Times.