Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1932, Page 6

‘With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY......March.12, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office Pennsyivania Ave. %’.‘H.&“:E Sodins 14 nt M., London, neland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ne Star . 45c per month e Banda: Hb'gwm'.fi Sational ‘do0s. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. B 7 and Sunday. sy only All Other States and Canada. 1yr.$1200: 1 mo. $100 1yr. 8800, 1mo. 13 $500: 1 mo.. 50c ..1yr,$10.00: 1 mo.. 85¢ 1yr. $6.00: 1 mo. 50 1yr. $4.00; 1 mo., 40c | Member of the Associated Press. The Assoeiated Press in exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ull news dis- credited (o il or not otherwise cred- his paper and also the local news pul herein. Al rights of publication ol special ispatches herein a iso reserved. Expediency and Reorganization. While the Senate by & vote of 34 to struck the so-called George resolu- tion—giving the President authority to reorganize the executive departments— from the Interior Department appro- priation bill, the vote was not on the ‘merits of that resolution, but on whether it was germane to an appropriation bill. The remarks of the Senators who dis- cussed the resolution after the vote had been taken indicated that a majority favors the principle of the resolution, and it will eventually be reached for a | separate vote. Senator Borah, however, certainly spoke with logic when he interposed the The great drama of life’s ending could be observed in all its minute and deli- cate details. Sooner or later every hu- man being must play the same part in the samse drama. But the human death bed cannot be placed on the stage. It is too intimate and sacred. It is vested with holy mystery. Reporters do not stand and watch. N'gi, in a sense, was symbolic of every man, woman and child who has struggled in the grip of Death. The subconscious recognition of that sym- bolism was responsible for the interest. He stood in an intermediate position between an actual human individual struggling in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and a clearly drawn charac- ter in a well written novel who comes to the inevitable fate of all things mor- tal in the closing chapter. Where lies the difference between a character in fiction and an actual indi- vidual? For a brief time the former may command all the emotions of a close acquaintance. The reader endows the character with life and reality by identifying himself with it. The iden- tification, however, can be withdrawn at will. When the reality becomes too poignant the road is open to escape. The same situation applied in respect to N'gi. His troubles were more real than those of any purely imaginary character. They were less real than those of any actual acquaintance. In- vested in the symbol of this hairy, black baby onme could venture within the shadow of death and escape from the thrilling experience unscarred. Like all mysteries, death appeals to human venturesomeness and mankind is ever on the lookout for a symbol which will enable it to pass through the great adventure by proxy. e — Hoarded Millions Flowing Back. Anti-hoarding committees have been objection that this resolution tends to put the cart before the horse and re- verses the natural order of legislation. Tt does. It gives the President authority to reorganize the executive departments, but at the same time vests with Con- gress a veto power that can be exer- cised any time within sixty days after the executive order. If, within that time, Congress fails to voice its objec- tion, the President’s reorganization ‘would become effective. ‘There is, of course, this to be said in favor of the George resolution: Everybody will grant that to break down some of the bureaucratic strue- tures that have developed in the gov- ernmental organization over a long period of years it is necessary to ex- ercise some dictatorial powers; it is extremely doubtful, ¢s a matter of fact, that any complete reorganization can be effected by the Congress because of the many political questions surely to be involved. The President might cut through knots with one sweep that ‘would involve Congress in futile hours of wrangling depate. There might be more hope for reorganization if the re- sponsibility of treading on delicate toes could be rested squarely with the Presi- dent, making Congress responsible only for negative concurrence. Such & course, however, is plainly dictated by expediency. There is al- ready granted to the President suthor- ity to recommend governmental reor- ganization, and this authority, as the ‘White House statement issued a few days ago plainly showed, has been ex- ercised on more than one occasion without much result. Now that the Democrats in the House have seized the opportunity to capitalize govern- mental reorganization for the partisan eredit involved, and have selected a committee to study reorganization, the wise course might be to give them all the leeway they want and quietly stand by to watch the resuit. One mignt imagine that the President, more than anybody else, would be delighted to see the thankless task of reorganization taken out of his hands. If the House can do something, and its leaders have promised that it can and will, let the House go to it! The award of credit can be made later. e ——————— As an influential demonstration the Bhanghai brawl may as well suspend until it can assert more convincing competition for first page space. ———— The Death of N'gi. | The passing of few great men has been attended with as much popular interest and heart throbbing as that of N'gi, the six-year-old gorilla at the National Zoological Park. ‘Why such concern over the fate of a dumb beast? Scores of human children pass daily through the dark valley and only their immediate relatives shed tears for them. The popular sentiment | hardly can be attributed to humani- tarianism. In past years whole troops of gorillas have been slaughtered mer- | cllessly by big game hunters with | hardly a word of protest. Yet many who never had seen N'gi and were not ordinarily given to sentimentality close- Iy followed the little ape's condition during the closing days of his brief, happy life. ‘The situation affords a difficult prob- fem in social psychology. Most per- sons would rationalize their own senti- | ments. To arrive at a real understand- | ing we must delve below these ration- alizations, We must admit offhand that interest in wild animals as such, interest in N'gi as an engaging person- ality, or scientific interest, had very little to do with the popular concern. Nor was it due to morbid sentimental- ity. It was due to something imbedded far deeper in the human heart N'gi became a symbol of something vast, elemental and mysterious. & few brief days the little gorilla, semi- conscious on his bed of straw, was lift ed in the popular imagination into a symb . of Life struggling against Dee h, of the light of living buffeted by mysterious winds blowing out of the darkness and vastness of extinction. He was a living actor, howsoever un conscious the role, in the most moving of all elemental dramas. N'gi, wild boy of the jungles, combined qualities which made him almost an ideal symbol of mankind's surging fear. He Was near enough to human to have “human” in- est. He was not just an animal with the restricted, standardized, instinctive behavior of his species. He stood out #s an individual. He had a personality {of failures has diminished almost to For | organized in 2395 cemmunities and others are being formed daily. This is the substance of a statement made pub- lic yesterday by President Hoover. He adds that the “campaign is only begin- ning.” He expresses the hope that it will continue until the last dollar that hes been hoarded is returned to work. While no report has been made as to the actual volume of currency that has been taken out of seclusion and put back into circulation. by investment in Government or other securities or by deposit in bank, it is known that the total already goes high into the mil- lions. Examples are given of individual instances that demonstrate that the appeal has been heeded. Cash is being brought forth in payment for bonds and other investments that is in the form of the now discarded currency of the larger dimensions, showing that it must have been kept in hiding for at least a year, perhaps two years. It had been held out of use because of fear of bank failure, and in many instances this withholding contributed to the very failures that were feared. A specific case of a community ris- ing to the emergency is given in a tele- gram to the President from Curwens- ville, Pa., where a bank closed its doors late in November. As a result of the courageous efforts of the people of that town, cash was contributed in such vol- ume that the bank was reopened on the first of March. That was not part of the definite national anti-hoarding cam- paign, but it was & local endeavor, the more commendable because it was re- stricted to the immediate community. The total population of Curwensville is 3,000. Yet there was enough seques- tered currency there to re-establish the bank when the call was sounded. The President has wired his congratulations to the local Chamber of Commerce as an indication of his “feeling toward a community that shows the stamina which Curwensville has displayed.” The example set by that small town in Pennsylvania should be followed by every other community. Indeed, it is evidently now being followed. The flow of currency out of hiding into use has already stimulated confidence in the integrity of the banks, and the number the vanishing point. The millions of dollars now pouring out of safe deposit boxes and household safes and “stock- ings” into channels of usefulness, help- ful as they are in themselves, are even more valuable as a tangible token of the reviving faith of the people in the recovery of the country from its eco- nomic affiiction. Discussion is already beginning as to what kind of bathing suits will be | worn next Summer. It will make lit- | tle difference so Jong as they all look pretty much alike. It is the striking departure in matters of costume that strikes attention and arouses questions. ———— An old question arises: Why have | dramatic critics when there are <o many competent and willing press agents? ————- ~ The Harmon Flying Trophy. The award of the Harmon Trophy for the International Air championship of 1931 and the medals bestowed on fiyers who during the past year have per- fcrmed valiant feats In the sky interest | Americans, although the main honors | were captured by representatives of | Italy and France. Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian minister of air, was given the | highest award, that of the international male championship for aviation. It was Gen. Baibo who led the largest armada of transatlantic planes ever to make a successful crossing. He started out with a fleet of twelve fighting ships to | | demonstrate that it was feasible to move such & large squadron across the | Southern Atlantic. Two of his ships | crashed. but ten of them made the! flight of mcre than five thousand miles, | with intermediate stops at strategic locations for refueling, from Italy to Brazil. Mlle. Maryse Bastie of France was swarded the woman's champion- hip for her remarkable flight which established a new distance record for feminine pilots. Three Americans, however, were recog- nized by the award of medals for out- standing accomplishments, and mention of their names recalls their stirring feats. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Hern- don, who started out after the globe- circling record of elght days of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, and who chai- lenged the disappointment that was with unduplicated and unpredictable #motional responses, At the same time he was not human. There was none of the sanctity at- Wached to him which automatically 1 | theirs when they failed by their deter- | the observant friend. | From the Nashville Banner. | Japan. mination to crown failure with brilliant achievement and who thereupon made THE the men's honors. Seidom has a more dramatic spectacle been staged by any fiyers than that epoch-making flight over the ocean wastes to pancake to & landing in Washington State, a dan- gerous feat which was made necessary by the dropping of their ground gear to give the plane greater speed and cruising radius. Miss Ruth Nichols was awarded the women's medal for this activities in the air, Miss Nichols is the possessor of the speed record and the altitude record for women. Recognition of merit by awation | bodies has a wholesome effect on the development of flying. It stimulates the individual in the flerce competition that is constantly raging among flyers who are seeking to advance the con- quest of the elements. It is human nature to want to do scmething a little bit better than the other person, and when this urge is combined with the scientific data which is gathered by pioneering in the air it becomes of world value. Who wiil be put on the next Harmon honor list remains to be seen, but those who are already on it can reap the saticfaction that comes from work well done. . The brillant Bicentennial affair ar- rives at a time to enable George ‘Washington to be credited with an- other service to his country. The events in his hanor remove attention occasionally from some of the most serious cares this country has had to consider since the War of the Rev- olution. r———— Humanity is naturally unselfish and needs only to be told of conditions clearly and convincingly to become earnestly sympathetic even with a pet gorilla The sympathy may be un- availing, but its manifestation calls at- tention to the gentler moods of life iIn a manner well worth while. Friends of Al Smith in observing the results in New Hampshire console themselves with the thought that the spellbinding has not, as yet, fairly started. - —————— When Al Capone says the citizens who bought his beer are quite as guilty as he is, he might have added “and not nearly so uncomfortable.” B An underworld chief finds time for a great deal of reading, although he may already know much more about the news than the reporters. The District of Columbia resident is permitted to feel like any other citizen when it is tax-paying time—but not when it is voting time. e In figuring out the causes of de- pression, attention shifts back and forth between the illicit rum traffic to the stock exchanges. ' . After a radio orator has appealed to the intelligence of the people, the next musical number is likely to assume that they have none. Judging from the outdoor parking, there ought to be some relief for un- employment in the work of putting up more garages. et Another hard problem is that of re- ducing a pay roll without adding to the embarrassments of employment. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. New Demands. The statesman in a bygone day Could make an audience vote his way And view with pride or with alarm Because his voice was full of charm. But everybody now proceeds To clamor not for words but deeds. ‘They also say, “Kind friend you must Not bring too many deeds of trust. “We ascertain without dismay What kind of taxes we must pay. We ask you also to explain Just how to manage loss and gain. So, while we're fond of rhetoric, We ask\for cold arithmetic. Much as your elogquence we prize, You must do more than vocalize Opinion Easily Arrived At. “What did you think of Lysistrata?” asked the press agent. “I'm against it answered Senator Sorghum, “and T don't like the author.” “Aristophanes was considered pretty good.” “That may be, but he's a forelgner. | And, anyhow, he has been dead tco! long to have any financial cor political influence.” Jud Tunkins says that as a church- goin’ citizen he felt more comfortable when the near-swear-words didn't dar | go much further than “gol-durn” and | N'GL Poor little gorilla departed from here, You accomplished your task:* You were as distinguished a patient, poor dear, As physicians could ask. Puzzles. “I understand you and your wife never exchange & cross word,” remarked “That's right,” answered Mr. Meek- ton. ‘The crossword puzzle is suffi-| clently interesting the way it is with- | out trying to Teduce it to home con- versation.” “Words of wisdom, said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “seldom fully prove anything except the cleverness or courage of the man who uttered them.” | Origin. Whenever you atiain a thought Which on a wondering world should burst, Your big idea comes to naught— Blll Shakespeare always had it first “Revenge ain’ much use,” said Uncle Eben. “You can't make yohself happy tryin' to make some one else miserable.” —— e——— Stimson Sure to Be Right. A man wants to know if Secretary Stimson has said the right thing to The number of notes and the laws of probabllity and chance make it morally certain that he has. c——— —— ence Comes High. aha Evening World-Herald. the first non-stop Pacific crossing from ““Ml Japan to the United States, were given EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. :C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One robin, two cardinals, two blue jays, one flicker, and a dozen slate- colored juncos hopped around over the snow in Templeton Jones' back yard Wednesday afternoon. ‘The robin, fat and chesty, should have held his attention, as the har- binger of Spring. but it didn't. He rather fancied the little junces. the snowbirds, as they are more popularly 1led. ‘These small American finches had been sampling the Winter chaff in the Jones yard for several weeks, but it took the advent of the snow to make them stand out. That is why they are called snow- birds Several pans of bread crumbs, scat- tered over the glittering expanse, quite won the hearts of the little fellows. They lost no time in arriving at the feast. ing & at the snow, getting heaven- knows-what for their dinner. Now they had some real grub, not long out of the oven. But long in the oven. The way it came about was this: Templeton Jones, being notoriously fond of hot baking powder biscuits, had expressed a desire for a plate full. The biscuits were forthcoming, and in the rejoicing over their delicious quality, as augmented by good butter, the second panful was forgotten. Everv cook knows that the second batch is where the trouble comes in. Either the oven is too hot, and the biscuits brown too quickly, or they are | forgotten and permitted to get too hard. The happy thing is that by the time one has eaten the first batch, liberally | spread with dripping butter, and washed down by copious draughts of cold milk right out of the electric ice | box (see any advertisement), the con- noisseur of such things is willing to let the juncos have the second helping. X 8o it came about that each little junco had more biscuit to eat than he knew what to do with. They were rather hard, but what dif- ference did that make to a junco? With its sharp little bill it drilled a apable hole in each piece of broken biscuit. and shortly surrounded a num- ber of fine crumbs. Each snowbird had plenty, with enough left to fight over. Honest jun- cos could ask no more deed. could ask no more. Fnough to eat, and enough to fight ver? " '77\"! one has all history in & sen- tence. The snowbirds were not as quarrel- some as English sparrows, which they resemble. but they did a rather good | job of chasing after each other, espe- cially when one dropped a large chunk of biscuit in flight. Even the pair of cardinals, the two jays and the big flicker found a crumb or two to their liking. But the snow- birds got most of them. Delightful little fellows they are, and Templeton Jones was glad that they had some snow to make them feel at home. What is the use of being & snowbird it you have no snow? % Bk X After Jones got tired of watching the banquet of the juncos he turned his attention to the spectacle of the unequal melting of the snow. Just why snow will melt one place in a yard and not another must for- ever remain a mystery. At least to the non-scientific mind. Perhaps the hard-boiled scientist, un- willing to revel in mystery. would ex- plain the whole matter by variations in depth_ hours of exposure to the sun, windbreaks and similar factors. He would show to a hair's breadth just how impossible it was for the snow in one portion of a yard to melt at pre- Previously they had been peck- | Mankind, in- | cisely the same rate as the fall in an- ’omgpua He would see nothing pe- culiar about any inequality. Templeton Jones, however, being a very unscientific sort of person, in- isted on seeing s mysterious quality about the way the snow melted—off here, but not there, two inchies thick one place and a quarter of an inch in_snother. } We are not sure that Jones badn't the better of the argument. For there is mystery in snow. If any one doubts | it, all he has to do is to get & copy of | & book published recently, “Snow-Crystals.” ' Here there are scores of photographs of beautiful crystals, taken in New England, where they have snows which |are snows. And every one of those | patterns, it is revealed, is based upon the nun;l:er 6. Why 62 If that isn't a mystery, then nothing |is & mystery. and the scientists are right in pushing back the unexplain- able with a few surface explanations, and standing back to ask, “See?” | Frankly, Templeton Jones didn't see, any more than when he was a kid | in “school, and the smug young fellow |out of college “solved” an elaborate | problem in algebra on the blackboard, | then turned the class and asked, “Bee?™ Not a soul in the class understood— | including the smart young teacher. He saw no more than the rest, probably less, because he did not know that he did not see at all. | He thought he.did! The dumbest boy in the class knew that all teacher was doing was giving a memory demonstra- tion, that he honestly didn't “see” any more than they did. that they were ahead of him in sheer intellectual ability, because they knew that they didn't know, and he thought he did when he didn't. Their demonstration of intelligence came when they chorused, “Yes, sir, | we see.” After all, what difference did | it make whether they saw or not? But by declaring that they did, they ended the memory demonstration. terminated their own boredom, and pleased teach- | er. who had to be pleased or he would know the reason why. Jones had won- | dered since if he ever knew the rea- |son why. The answer is, “No." That teacher was as dumb they come, despite his brilliant feats in memory. L 1 The prevailing high winds of the early part of the week did considerable damage to evergreens. Templeton Jones had several tall varieties which were given a list to starboard, and he noticed that those of neighbors suf- fered in the same way. Blowing . constantly at high speed from one quarter, the wind seemed to make a permanent bend in the trunk of the conifers. Most of this came out, however, in a few days, with the end of the blow. A good way to protect such tall things from possible wind damage is to anchor them with a piece of clothes- line or similar material, passed over | padding of some description around the main trunk, and then fastened to a lattice or some other support. This aid should be aimed to give the | tree support against prevailing winds, usually from the north or west in this | vicinity. The rope should be fastened around the evergreen at the point of | stress, rather above it than below it. The only way to determine this point |is to waich the specimen during @ | high wind, and see just where the | “break” comes. Often this will show | permanently in a bend. The support point shouid be just above this bend, not too tight, but tight enough to pre- vent too much listing. When Nature | finally brings the evergreen almost up- | right again, the clothesline may be | drawn tighter for better guyiSg in fu- ture winds. Critics Defended as Guides To Selection Editorial writers of the country pro- test against the suggestion of Repre- sentative Willlam I. Sirovich of New York that dramatic crities of the news- papers arbitrarily contribute to the failure of plays which might other- wise have recelved the approval of the public. His proposal for a professional license is believed to lack merit or legal authority, but the call of the critics to Washington resuited in no protest. Proposals of the sort made by the New York Representative are classed by the Walla Walla Bulletin as “a con- stant threat to an unmuzzled press™ ard by the Springfield (Mass.) Repub- lican as “challenging the guarantees of free speech and a free press.” While it agrees that “there is much incompetent and smart Alec criticism, no doubt,” the Republican points out that “the observation applies to many other fields than that of the theater,” and main- tains that “Mr. Sirovich has not found the cure for it.” The Asbury Park Press contends that “it is impossible to improve the theater business by con- | cealing from the public how bad the plays are.” With satirical reference to Dr. Siro- vich's picture of the critics as “assault- ing instead of defending the drama, beating it down with savage ridicule; and holding an unholy high carnival every time a victim is carted off to the storehouse.” the Baltimore Evening Sun replies: “They have brought things to cuch a pass in New York, for example, that there are oniy about 40 legitimate theaters open, and & new show can take in only about $44,000 a week, while a comedy, after 15 weeks, has to scrape along with $25,000 for nine perform- ances. Indeed. the drama critics have made it practically impossible for any other than reputable, first-rate plays to make money.” * x % “There is hardly any exception,” n!o' the Columbus Ohio State Journal, * the rule that stage productions live or die because of their own merits, ‘or lack of them. Habitual theatergoers are never unduly influenced by critics. And If from certain performances whi'h are | unspeakably bad the critic can get the | inspiration to be more entertaining, even if destructive, than the perform- | ance could ever hope to be, then that is a ‘break’ for that part of the thea- tergoing public which reads the crit. cisms.” “If the opposition to the critics had its way.” according to the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, “there would be a tragic weakening of the sentinel forces which warn the public against the spolled partridge under the spiced brown sauce in which many current offerings are bathed.” ‘The Manchester Leader de- clares: “Dr. Sirovich must realize that if a vehicle has true merit, or if i possesses those qualities which endear it to the public, it will survive, whether or not it pleases the reviewers. Further- more, it would be gracious of him to admit that these critics have made a study ol the drama: that, by and laige, they are qualified for the positions they hold, and that they write what they | believe to be honest’ words. He will find it difficult to prove that they ‘pan’ for the sake of ‘panning.’' " * % % % “Dr. Sirovich was not content,” re- marks the Spokane Spokesman-Review, “to describe the critics as ‘destructive.’ He called them ‘graduate describers of Rflufllhu and horse races,’ which is ostile language indeed. A dramatic critic is a sensitive soul, living in the higher stratosphere of the intellect, and should be treated with tact. No doubt some of the critics are glad to meet with the Patents Committee, as they | Although their skill | were asked to do. lies in manipulation of the written word, they must have a certain amount of skill of oral disputation, and welcome the opportunity to be part of an all- star cast. They theater quite as ardently as any mem- ber of and consider themselves the drama’s preservers, not its destroy- ers. 'numvm;nhblymmw be a competition in saving the stage, profess to love the | of Good Plays and the stage can use any amount of | saving.” “It is mainly the New York critics,” observes the Cincinnati Times-Star, “whom Dr. Sirovich wished to confront. ‘kt it be said in their defense that a play is lke a tart, and one sickens of tarts as a steady diet. In the height of a New York season, with each week | witnessing a number of first nights, | there is something like a case of criti- cal indigestion in all the best aisle seals. Let it be said also that the New York critics see a number of unsatis- factory plays which never reach prov- inces to afflict the critics there. These | considerations may explain, but they do | not_excuse, the ruling vice of metro- | politan criticism. Its exponents tend to | ba exhibitionists, writing about them- selves rather than about the show, and scattering vicious wisecracks—the kind sure to provoke an admiring giggle—in- stead of aiming at a measured opinion.” “It is flattering to the critics,” thinks | the Providence Bulletin, “to attribute | such powerful influence to their opin- ions. We doubt if even the proudest of them has suspected himself of such power. And it is very decent indeed of Mr. Sirovich to invite them down to Washington to spend & day with him at | the public expense. They might, to help pay back the expense of the journey, give us their devastating opinions upon the show which Mr. Sirovich and his 434—count 'em—434 fellow Representa- tives are putting on for the dear publié." — v Farmer’s Lot Better Than Those Who Left From the Atlanta Journal. Despite his load, the man who stuck to the farm has a happler lot today than many who followed the lure to industrial centers when employment abounded and wages were high. He has at least a livelll L, if he uses his land and his wits: whereas thousands who went to seek fortune in cities have not s0 much as & crust of their own. He has a job, standing_ sturdily between him and hunger. may never amass mcney, but he will scarcely want for bread nor ery in vain for the 1r‘llm to work and the simple means to ve. Noting these contrasts in its own State, the Detroit Free Press wonders whether the boys and girls now grow- ing up on farms will learn a lesson from the experience of those who have flocked to cities or will follow where 10 fail to every 1 who succeeds? ‘“The trek from the land, which has turned the American people in the last hun- dred years from 10 per cent urban to more than 50 per cent urban, accounts | for innumerable personal as well as for some of the Nation's serlous problems. but not so hard as work in many in- dustries. The farmer is taxed in many cases beyond what he thinks is fair, but so is the city man. If mcre yoi people in the country realized this an realized with Cleveland that there is ‘a dignity in honest toll,’ & larger number of them would remain on the land in- stead of sinking themselves in cities and having but two weeks out of the year in which to seek recreation among scenes frcm which they have fled.” This is not mere cant from a moralist in an easy chair; it is teaching of grim economics. e does offer opportunity for the essentials of living and for the deeper contentments of life which few other vocations afford. And in a land like Georgia it offers to the competent and resourceful an oppor- tunity for attalnments and satisfactions hardly to be found in even the luckiest of city adventures. ——— Wasted Words. From the San Antonio Express. Dr. Boris Sokoloff, world-famed psy- chologist. tells the leap year girl that these four words will win any man: “You are so wonderful” Not if he fortifies himself with a lie detector, Work on the farm is hard, | | SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1932, THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH 6. BOWBRMAN. In real life the excitable, opinionated, -conscious, 's movel, “Without My altogether delightful. The are not merely a fam- lly; they are a clan: they are a busi- ness which draws into itself all the relatives and the “in-laws” for their good or ill, whether they are eager, willing or unwilling. The family was founded by a horse thief, Anthony Con- sidine, who one evening led the beautiful roan horse he had stolen out of the Gap of Storm, across the Vale called | of Honey, through the crumbling gates of Mellick and up its lighted main street. The horse thief married the owner of & potato and crubeen (pig's feet) shop, & widow, and was killed in a fight over his beloved horse on the night when his son John was born. John, indebted to his mother for his natural thrift, perhaps to his father for his acquisitiveness, and to the hard conditions of his life for his early learn- ing of the lesson of the value of hard work, becomes in his mature years the leading forage merchant in Ireland, known throughout his district as “Hon- est John.” en he is seventy he is surrounded by & numerous family, very proud of themselves, forming a large part of the aristocracy of Mellick. “There was no portrait snywhere of Honest John's father, who had died in 1790, and his grandchildren often won- dered what he was like. Though they talked little, and never in public, of his unedifying history, they knew its out- lines.” When the story opens Honest John is about to retire from the man- agement of his business in favor of his son Anthony, not his oldest, but his best loved and most capable son. “John Considine, forage merchant.” is to be- come “Considine & Company,” with Honest John as first chairman, Anthony as managing director and all the chil- dren and children-in-law shareholders. * % x % ‘There 15 no_genealogical chart at- tached to the back cover of “Without My Cloak,” as is the case with so many of the family novels of recent years, but the reader has no difficulty in re- membering and recognizing all _the members of the Considine family. They are too Individual to be confused or forgotten. Honest John has had thir- teen children, of whom five sleep with his wife in the family vault in St. Stephen's Cemetery. His eldest son, Joe, is a doctor in Mellick, rather pom- pous. not so shrewd as his father, too fond of the races. His second son, Father Tom, is a priest, sensitive, al- most morbidly conscientious, not always tactful, devoted to the family as well as to the church. Another son, Eddy, & bachelor whose life is not too closely investigated by the family, is the Lon- don representative of ‘“Considineis.” The last son, Anthony, has been des- tined from childhood to succeed to the management of the business, and in his business acumen, dominating per- sonality and satisfaction with the ma- terial things of life seems admirably sulted to the role prepared for him. The daughter, Caroline, her father’s fa- vorite and the most beautiful of his children, is the unhappy wife of the leading lawyer of Mellick. Theresa, plain and stubborn, is the contented, if not enthusiastic, wife of Danny Mul- queen, for whom a comfortable berth has been made in “Considine’s,” though all the family recognizes him as a men- tal light-weight. Mary is a nun. The youngest daughter, Agnes. is her fa- ther’s companion and housekeeper while he lives, and after his death is trans- ferred to her brother Anthony's house- held, where she grows more and more critical and acrimonious with the years. Honest John has also twenty-five grand- children, “and possessed the means to provide well for all of them. Above these advantages, he had the love of his eight children, who had feared him in youth and now, in their riper years, gave him a great affection.” * ok x % Book T of “Without My Cloak” pre- sents “Honest John and His Children." Book II, “Molly, Caroline, Denis," se- lects three of the Considines for the | for harseback riding are there in Chi- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. as an agent for its readers. He will quiry. 8 and, inclosing 2-cent stamp for & letter in reply, ad- dress The E’:munl.n' Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Q. How did Waiter Lindrum make the sensational run of 4,137 points in billiards?>—S. C. A. The National Billlard Association of America says that this record run was made at the English style of bil- liards. which 1is played with three small balls on a 6x12 6-pocket table In this game making caroms, pocketing balls, and driving the cue ball into a pocket after first striking an object ball, all count a certain number of points each. It is not uncommon for English professionals to make runs of from 500 to 1,500. This game is played very little in America, but is the out- standing game in England and Eng- lish territories. Q. Is “Black Patti” still living?— N. T A.'She died about five years ago. Her real name was BSisseretta Jones and she was born in Eastern Ohio about the end of the Civil War. In her concert tours she sang the grand arias from opera with a technic and inter- | pretation equaled by but few of the operatic singers of today. Q. agates besides their use as ntarbles?— W. E. A A. They are used as valve seats, centering balls, gauging balls, light re- flectors, indicator buttons, plate grain ing balls grinding balls, and, when fused with an electrical element. as electric light bulbs such as used on Christmas trees. Q. Is it true that the Japanese look upon their Emperor as a god?—F. A. H. A. According to Japanese traditions the Mikado or Emperor of Japan is the direct descendant of Amaterasu (or sk‘:ln Goddess) and is an object of wor- ship. Q. Is red cotton grown in this eoun- try?—W. C. J. A. This type of cotton is grown in Alabama and Mississippi. It was in- troduced into this country because of a supposed immunity it possessed to at- tacks from the boll weevil. This i3 er- roneous since it is not so immune, but the theory arose from the fact that red cotton is a late flowering cotton and boll weevils seem to prefer early flow- ering varieties, Q Who were the pallbearers at George Washington's funeral>—T. C. H. | A. The funeral of George Washing- ton was conducted by the Masonic or- der. of which he was a member. The palibearers who served were Cols. Lit- tle, Simms, Payne, Gilfain, Hamsea and Marsteler. Q. How many springs are there in Hot Springs National Park?—W. C. A. It comprises 912 acres and has 46 curative springs, also a number of cold springs of medicinal value. The Government maintains an Army and l‘{avy general hospital in the reserva- tion. tasteless and odorless and contain over 20 constituents. Q. How many miles of riding-track cago?—E. T. A. About 175, Q. What are the political parties in England and who are thelr leaders?— l A. They are the Conservative, the centers of interest—beautiful, dreamy, ' capricious Molly, wife of Anthony, who while still in her youth is a sacrifice to too frequent maternity; handsome, | haughty Caroline, longing for romance &nd color in her life, but tied to a stiff, prosaic husband, and Denis, much loved eldest son of Anthony, too much loved for his own happiness. Book III is en- tirely devoted to Denis, the destined third ruler of the Considine business, It is the character of Denis which ex- plains the title of the novel, taken from one of Shapespeare’s sonnets: “Why didst thou promise such a beau- teous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?” 2 Denis, beautiful as child and young man, spoiled by his unwisely doting father, loving the woods, the fields, the river flowing past his father's home, the garden which he has himself made over, and above all loving his freedom, sees life spread out before him like a “beauteous day.” But from his birth he has been set apart by Honest John, by his father Anthony, by the whole . clan as the third manager of Considine & Co. He is made to “travel forth” into a world that seems to him beaute- ous, without the cloak of practical com- mon sense and materialism which would have sheltered him from the ‘base clouds” of the business life into which he is forced. Rebellion and submission alternate in Denis’ youth. The submis- sion always follows the rebellion, be- cause of his recognition of his father's great love for him and the reluctance of his sensitive spirit to hurt that love. But there are times when he hates his father, for he knows that the great love has enslaved him. The climax is reached at his coming of age. After an act of wild, supreme rebellion Denis is brought back on a silken leash, this time not that of his father's love. As the story ends we can see in imagination Denis going through the so frequent process by which dreaming, fiery, freedom- loving youth becomes adapted to the demands of an organized, conventional society. Perhaps in the process a genius is suppressed, a poet or a painter or a musician is lost; perhaps a self-centered dilattante is merely transformed into a responsible, useful member of soclety Society in this story is represented by the united Considine clan, which at the first sign of eccentricity or rebellion against tradition gathers its forces for the suppression of the unruly member. * ok ox % Richard St. Barbe Baker, assistant conservator of forests in British East Africa, has written an interesting book for those who lave forests, whether real forests or literary forests, in his “Men of the Trees. e "‘hfi:’y Forests of Kenya and Nigeria." introduc- tion is by Lowell Thomas, who says: “You sense the singular turn of poetry and exultation In & man who is in love with trees.” Capt. Baker, who served in the World War, is as interested in men as in trees. The primitive black men with whom he has worked have been to him human subjects for most thrilling laboratory study. One Bantu tribe in the East African mountains he succeeded in changing from tree mur- derers to tree saviors. They had been in the habit of cutting down or burn- ing area Wfter area of forest in order to secure in the easiest way fresh soil for agriculture. By this process they were rapidly reducing the watershed which they inhabited as nomads to a desert. Capt. Baker succeeded in edueating the tribe so that they became conservation- ists. Familiar with the various festival dances of the tribe, he assisted in estab- lishing a new one, the dance of the trees. at which each warrior should plant & new tree. In connecticn with by Capt. Baker, and now millions of structed made trees are there grown. Hence title of the book, “Men of (-lla'h"u‘&u 1 the celebration reverence for trees, old | consider it to be the focal and new, was gradually taught. A!epidemics “l}:twn‘ nursery for the young trees was started | capital. prison as originally con- What uses are there for glass | The waters of the springs are | leader of the Labor or Socialist party | At the present time this 18 headed | by Arthur Henderson. Liberal leader is David Lioyd George and the Conservative leader is Stanley Baldwin | Q. Why i the word " pro- nounced as though spelled “ i N. —L | ”A. The correct pronunciation agree: | with the l&fllfll The word “pre- [ | seription™ frequently mispro- nounced. Q. Why did Lincoln have both Rkpus lieans and Democrats in his Cabinet? . 8. A. Lincoln selected the members of | his first Cabinet principally from the | point of view of their abilities to mect | the emergencies of the grave situstion | which obtained at the time. His de- sire was to give important positions not to his personal friends but to the men | of the greatest abilities. He also de- sired to see the different sections of the country represented. Q. How many postal savings sta- tions are there in the United States?— | C. L. N. A. The Post Office Department sa; that at the close of the fiscal year 1931 there were 7,450 postal savings deposi- torfes. Q. Was Natural Bridge, in Virginia, formed by a river which has since been | “lost"?—A. N. A. This is not the explanation. In | limesone formations rain water perco- | lates through the soil, enters the cracks ‘ and crevices in the rock and gradually | enlarges them. It often follows some plane of stratification, hollowing out | large, irregular rooms, then, finding a lower level, repeats the process. In laces the intervening floor of rock reaks down and a lofty hall is formed. Then, if the roof of this hall falls in, there is a valley bounded with steep cliffs. In some places the floor between the two original levels is left, forming | such a natural bridge as the one in Virginia. Q. What are the nearest substi- tutes for ethyl alcohol?—W. C. P. A. The Bureau of Standards says that chemically and in their general solvent power methanol and propazol (methyl and propyl alcohols) are near- est to ethyl alcohol. Acetone 8 an equally good solvent for many sub- stances. Other excellent .soivents isopropyl alcohol, the butyl ethyl acetate and related acetates, #n some of the ethers and esters of ethyl- ene glycol and diethylene glytol. Q. How many retall stores of all kinds are there in the United States, and what is the volume of their busi- ness?—G. H. A. Bureau of the Census show that there are 1,550,000 res in the United States doing an annual busi- ness in excess of $50,000,000,000. Q. To whom does the “free the Treasury belong?>—C. K. H. A All gold in the Treasury belongs to the United States. That referred to as “free gold” is the metal which has not been specifically set aside as re- serve against currency. For example, for every $10 gold certificate in circu- lation there must be $10 in actual gold set aside. This “free gold” is gold not yet called for this purpese, and is free to be used as backing for paper money. Q. What was the minimum weight | of soldiers act in our Army dur- ing the World War?—J. D. P. ot A um of uo" e Regiatrants of lighier weight were re- gold" in Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands ORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS, Shanghal (letter to the editor). —Sir: In your leading article this morning, and also a few days ago, there seems to be a deliberate attempt to excuse banditry in Manchuria, and at the same time to blame Japan for it. You say that men who “were soldiers once were deprived of that status by the deliberate action of the Japanese Army. Being no longer soldiers, they could not help remaining men and, consequently, could not exist without resources. Banditry became their only means of acquiring these re- sources. “Is it true that defeated soldiers are | deprived of their status and forced to | become bandits, merely because they are defeated? This seems to me to be a serious reflection on the Chinese Army and government, In' what other country are men who are honorably de- feated, on their own home base, for- saken by their own authorities and forced to steal for a livelihood? 1t is hard to believe the Chinese government is so callous. “Sir John Simon, speaking in the House | of Commons, said: “Undoubtedly there is a great deal of very ill-organized banditry in the neighborhood.” He does not, as your article does, place the blame for banditry upen the action of the Japanese, nor charge it to the disgrace- ful neglect of its own servants by the Chinese government. “I. MASON. *oxox Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.— Neues derived from investigations Statisties conducted by the German government | { show that Germany may very prop- erly be desi ted as the “Land of the Short-sighted.” Nowhere else in the whole world is there a country where there is & larger percentage of near- sighted people. Of the German states where visional defects are most pro- nounced, S8axony was discovered to be at the head of the unenviable list. ‘There, out of every 1,000 adults. more than 200 are affected with myopia. * X % % The Palestine Bulletin, Jerusalem— The Pan-Islamic Conference has closed at Jerusalem. Its deliberations have been notable chiefly for non-con- structive decisions. Part of the Egyptian delegation withdrew on the second day of the conference after noisy demonstrations following their declaration of loyalty to King Fuad. The resolutions passed by the con- ference include sympathy with the idea of a Jerusalem-Moslem university, refusal to accept the League of Na- tions’ decision allowing Jewish praying rights at the “Wailing Wall," refusal to sell land to the Jews, refusal to buy Jewish products. Discussing the British mandate over Palestine, one of the Indian delegates urged the adoption of Indian extremist methods, stating that “non-eo-opera- tion and nen-payment of taxation would soon bring England to her knees.” The conference decided to call the next congress two years hence. During the session the local Moslem opposition leaders staged a itic counter-demonstration of 1,000 sf 3 headed by Je! lem's mayor and in- cluding members of the Supreme Mos- lem Council and mayors from the prin- cipal cities of Palestine. The demon- strators protested against the self- established leadership of the grand mufti, Haj Amin Husseini. * ok ok x El Universal, Mexico, D. F.—The department of public health has pro- posed tearing down of the old Belen Prison for the reason that they point of throughout the little sanitary provisions for the inmates, and few l,1.mpn:rv¢- ments in the original scheme in respects have been practicable. Dis- astrous contagions have been rampant in the prison at different times, and discha, inmates have frequently carried infections away with them, ex- posing the entire population of the municipality to the same dangers. The latest mic in the Belen was ons of meningitis, and its origin was traced directly to the conditions under Which the incarcerated had to live. The prison doctors insist that no sat- isfactory systm of hygiene is possible in this old fortress, and that consign- ment there is but little less formidable | than a sentence of death. Neither the site nor the structure, in the opinion of physicians familiar with conditions there, is any longer suitable for the purposes used. | * x ko | Deutsche Verkenrsblaetter, Berlin.—A stone bearing the date AD. 732 has g:v:c hth?drh in thed wllluo! the old Eder River, near Siegen. in Wstonais | Research the age of which is definif having stood 13 eenturies. <" O™ * k% x The War Ory, London—Eight - tries are combining in a u‘hem:w!gr making an internati Ringe & 0?‘! highway across 1t is probable that a 24-hour customs service will be arranged in each ‘:fl the ;l(hl. col'.:-nm .‘;ng new customs of- icers _es the scheme is carried l:fl‘te e I | Al this is good news. The more we see of our neighbors the more we anou‘l‘?n ux’l:ienundt them, and under- standing is one of the most powe peace-makers in the world. L * ok X | Japan Advertiser, Tokio.—The wi of aiding the 100 needy Iamme‘esui: Yokchama has been carried forward during the week. One kwamme of ect potatoes has been given to each | family reported to the committee by the district advisers and a second kwamme has been sold to each famf At 5 sen. The next distributions bo_‘%idz llfi sen a kwamme. e yen is nominally half | dollar. “The sen is half & cemt o land it is probable that eve 11 reported will be included soo;y .:nélfi | committee has been able to get rice through government channels in Tokio at 913 sen a sho, which is much less than was estimated. Used clothing |and toys, received through the Union Church White Gift Christmas have also been distributed to the needy families, The committee is receiving contribue Hons of rice from Japanese families; small bags which will ml one sho of rice have been distributed among the members of the churches and other Iriends, who take them hame and then t in a little rice each day until the h'od and taken to the el = n centers and are to ed Tor Cs be used for those families who the rice. cannot pay snything for * ok x % The War Cry, London.—A of | the famous Gutenberg Bible h?’;m been sold for a sum approaching £30,000. ’l'hg exact figure is not disclosed, but it is “very considerably in excess of the previous record,” which was. £21,000, | paid for another copy in New York not long ago. Only 14 108 ago. ‘Qnly of this Bible these | berg of Mains,