Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1932, Page 6

{THE EVEN With Sunday Morning Edition. ! WASHINGTON, D. C. EATURDAY.......April 23, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor - The Evening Star Newspa Office: iteh s New York : E: icago Office: Lake Mich: ropean Ofice: 14 Regent & England. per Company . London, Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star.. + 45c ver month e Evening and Sunday Star, (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month undays| The Sunday Star S Colleciion made at the end of Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ly d Sunday. .1yr., $10:00: 1 mo., 85¢ unday only 15yr. $4.00: 1 mo., 40C All Other States and Canada. (v and Sundsy...1yr.$1200: 1mo., §1.00 Rily Oniy ... 1yr. $8.00: 1mo. nday only . 1yr. $5.00. 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The associated Pre %o the use for republication of atches credited to it or not ot and also ¢ All rights of s herein sre al hervise cres e Teserved. Our Shakespeare Shrine. Through the munificence of the late Henry Clay Folger and his widow and their selection of the National Capital as its appropriate site, Washington to- day becomes formally the possessor of another jewel in its rapidly expanding crown of architectural glory. The Folger Shakespeare Library Afittingly takes its place among those other sym- bols which venerate America's immor- tals, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. The Bard of Avon was an English- man. but he long since ceased to belong exclusively to Britain. If the English- ‘speaking race, whose seed fertilizes both hemispheres, has a common heritage that may indisputably be claimed by Bll its branches, it is William Shake- ppeare. The American people pay him homage in the proud pretension that he is as much of their cultural bone and sinew as the island that is privi- Jeged to call him a native son. So on this three-hundred-and-sixty eighth birthday anniversary of the genius who did most to breathe power and beauty into the English tongue are opened the portals of a marble | temple whose classic grandeur ideally personifies the splendor of him in whose | honor it is reared. The Folger Library | will be filled with a priceless collection of Shakespeariana—original folios. mar- uscripts, prints, portraits, furniture and other relics authentically associated with the bard. A theater equipped for special Shakespearean productions in | an atmosphere redolent of the best | Elizabethan traditions will permit dev- otees of the eternal “Will” to worship st his shrine in a spirit of true rev- ercnce. The Folger Library is the gift of its generous doncrs to the whole Nation. That it will be a mecca to which \nl)’ stream in plous regard generations c!i Americans yet unborn can be set down | | | 75¢ 80c | time ago and no one has been identified. It is not a reflection upon the police of the city that these crimes have gone on so freely, The force is not large enough to cover the District effectively and, furthermore, the marauders have the advantdge of speed, to make quick get-aways after their depredations. But those that have been caught have not had the swift treatment at the hands of the law that is demanded in the interest of the public safety. The ordinary processes of the courts have not been speeded. Perhaps in the existing condi- tiond of the law they cannot be quick- ened. A drastic amendment of the rules and practices is necessary to effect a clearance of the calendars of court to the end of a prompt application of the Ppenal code. These crimes in which gangsters alone figure are not tolerable because the victims are themselves beyond the pale of the law. The shooting down of a man known to be engaged in nefarious business is not to be condcned for that reason. If the crooks can take the law into their own hands in execi- tion of their own equally crooked enemies they can, and will, sy without check or fear others who fre Innocent j{of any wrongdoing, peaceful citizens, whose only offense is the possession of cash or other valuables that are to be 'had for the taking at the point of a gun. Effective measures must be devised to make Washington a dangerous place for the prosecution of gang opérations, else the Capital will acquire the lamentable disrepute of a city of refuge for the lawless. Time was when a murder was a sensation. Now it is almost a com- monplace. That may be due to causes generally prevalent throughout the country. It is, however, a fact that de- mands consideration, with a view to correction, as a local problem. B Is This Economy? How many so-called economy steps are in principle similar to what is plan- ned in connection with the preparation of plans for the Municipal Center? How many dollars are being put down on paper as “saved” today, merely to pass on added and heavier expenses for the budgets of a few years hence? It is only reasonable to expect that the actual construction of the Munici- pal Center buildings will be delayed. The needs of the community must be considered relatively, and money that might be spent on construction of the | elaborate marble halls of the Municipal Center group can well be turned, now, into other channels. But the preparation of plans is an- other matter entirely. The prepa- ration of these plans meant the as- sembly and the training of a large group of architects end draftsmen at considerable expense, and these archi- tects have practically completed the plans for the first unit. The money was provided in the current appropri- ation bill to complete the plans for the second unit. These plans, it is estimated, could be completed at a cost of about $85,000 and there is available about $130.000. in terms of confident prophecy. To all and sundry connected with its concep- ticn and jts realization Washington | and the American people owe a debt of | endless gratitude. Shakespeare lives on | in the heart of all mankind. To have | this magnificent token of his greatness | in our midst is to be assured that the /qnspiration which flows from his in- ‘comparable ‘muse Wwill be as emxurmg‘h 8s the shimmering stone from l‘hlch| the memorial is hewn. | AR TR R T The Emergency Relief Fund. ‘The Commissioners have acted wisely end in the best interests of the com- munity in deciding to put the weight of their infiuence behind the proposed ap- propriation of municipal funds for aug-| menting relicf and welfare work. It 1s) believed that their recommendations, backed by the undeniable facts sup- porting the seriousness of the existing situation, will impress the Senate Ap- propriations Committee with the need for the appropriation, and it is also be- lieved that members of the House, given more opportunity to investigate, will eventually agree. In nearby Baltimore and in practi- cally every large city of the country public funds are being used to meet the emergency of unemployment. In such cities as Detroit it is no longer a ques- tion of what the appropriation of pub- Yic funds can do to supplement private or voluntary relief work, but of what private charity can do to supplement the work accomplished through appro- prigtion of public funds. Public funds are bearing the lion's share of the load. ‘Washington's effort to take care of the enormously increased burden of relief end welfare work without resort to the us¢ of municipal funds threatens to de- plae the Community Chest, leaving the constituent member organizations facing &he alternatives of abandonment of a darge part of their work or of shutting Bhop. It is unthinkable that Congress will | nullifying the orderly and reasonable | #djourn without taking the necessary Bction to protect the city over which it exercises exclusive control against the glarming prospect of a complete break- down of Bummer Prospe Bust arc and the ancient d next Winter. - ——— described by wets as the corner of Main Street avenue that leads to the brewery. A e e Is the Capital a Crime Center? Heve the Chicago gangsters trans- ferred their activities to Washington? ‘This question is suggested by the nu- merous crimes that have lately been committed in this city which begr the earmarks of the Yepriszls between rack- eteers that have for many months made the Windy City a scene of slaughter. The Jetest is the slaying of & man who | is believed to have been identified with some the underworld enterprises. He was shot te death in his motor car BF =u assassin who had evidently ‘spotted” him accurately and after performing his murderous task efficient- iy fled without leaving a trace, Almost simultaneously a body was found in the wmver with a’ wire around the neck, plainly a case of murder committed perhaps a couple of months ago. ‘That Washington has become a scene of crime beyond precedent within the past year is painfully evident. Crooks, thieves, gamblers, swindlers, house- breakers, footpads, hold-up men in mumbers have been operating here, and ew have been caught and fewer pun- = so-called “sniper” col tted Quirages Liet L] The Commissioners, however, have | decided to abandon work on the plans May 1, in order to save the money that otherwise would be spent on plans for the second unit. This means that the architects and draftsmen, comprising a large force of men familiar with the scheme as a whole, will be disbanded They will leave half complete a job that, at some future date, must be taken up again by an entirely new force. This new force must be assem- bled and trained and then put to work to carry out the second half of the plan. The resulting total cost will thereby be materially increased. With money already appropriated and with the force of trained tech- nicians famillar with the work already assembled, it would certainly represent sound economy in the end to proceed with the completion of the plans. It is difficult to believe that, even with a possible lapse of ten years before the actual construction of the second unit is to begin, the plans now prepared would be out of date, or, as suggested | at the District Building, fail to win the approval of some later Board of Commissioners. If that is true. the plans already prepared for the first | unit might as well be torn up now at | a loss of many thousands of dollars The wise procedure would be to take advantage of the present force of archi- tects and draftsmen, familiar with the work as a whole, and let them proceed. Such action would save, in the end. | several thousand dollars s A man testifies that he sold short | regularly for the purpose of making money. To the bull, the bear and the !Jamb in Wall Street there might be | added the overnourished porker. e From Bad to Worse. Thanks to the interference of a small | coterie in the House of Representatives | who apparently have been successful in administration of the Public Utilities Commission, which they themselves set up, the taxicab situation in Washington | has gone frcm bid to worse. Congress relief and welfare work this|at this session instead of giving the! | commission additional powers to regu- late the chaotic conditions obtaining in the National Capital—authority that was sorely needed and which is pos- sessed by regulatory bodies in every other large city in the country—seeks to strip from the commission every vestige of control that it has, particu- larly relating to taxicabs, by deciding that meters shall not be installed on public vehicles despite the order of the commission and the approval of the court. As a direct result of Congress refusing to back up the commission it created, Washingtonians were treited to the £pecta:le recently of a cab driver being dismissed in court for what his passen- the Federal City alone does not have an official rate scale. In other words, taxi drivers are in effect given permission to charge anything they please and pas- sengers need expect no redress in court. As a matter of fact, the defendant in this case admitted naively that he made his own zones because “his car used up a lot more gas than some of the other publi- vehicles.” Few will argue that in a city the size of Washington control of the taxicab | industry should be allowed to get so far out of hand that drivers cannot only make their own rates, but possess like- wise an immunity to the vital require- ment of financial responsibility for the victims of heir owa neglgence and reck- ger claimed was overcharging because | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ING STAR. large section of the District & short | lessness. Yet that is exactly the situa- tion under which Washingtonians must suffer today because a few members of its legislative body do not desire to sup- port the Public Utilities Commission in its efforts to bring order out of chaos. As long as this condition is permitted to exist local taxicab patrons are protected neither in the amount of fare they are charged nor in event of serious injury or death at the hands of an independ- ent, irresponsible and insolvent oper- ator. It is not a pretty picture, and no credit is deserved by those who have seen to its painting. —_——————————— A Gratifying Decision. | _The decision of the American Power { Boat Association which cleared nine | American outboard drivers of unfair tactics in the Green Trophy race re- | cently held at Miami Beach will doubt- less be hatled with enthusiasm. not {only by the pilots themselves, but by i the American water sports public, which { does not condone unsportsmanlike tac- tics in international or national racing. The charges were that a British entry had been ‘“lured” across the starting line by Americans who were not ad- verse to disqualifying themselves if they could be sure that the foreigner met the same fate, leaving the race to be won by one of their number. The other and more serious charge was that the motor of an Italian driver had been tampered with so that he could not compete. In announcing the incident closed, George Townsend, president of the as- sociation, said: Foreign drivers when they honor us by their visits are going to be assurea as square a deal as we expect them to give our pllots who enter overseas events. Drivers who act contrary to this principle will be driven perma- nently from the sport. It is to be hoped that the association will be successful in its efforts to elim- inate unfair practices in motor boat racing. It is thoroughly an amateur sport and should be conducted on the highest standards. One of the most conspicuous cases of recent years in which charges of trickery were -lodged, but were vigorously denied, was that of the Harmsworth Trophy race in Detroit for world champion speed honors be- tween the famous Gar and George Wood of the United States and Kaye Don, the English driver. Don had whipped the Wood brothers decisively in the first two heats. On the third and final heat, however, Gar Wood “beat” the start- er’s gun for the first time in his quar- ter of a century of racing and Don in | Miss England II followed him, both of them being automatically disqualified. George Wood in Miss America VIII then went ahead and won the race without competition. This was an un- pleasant affair and probably nwked the era of close supervision over th, conduct of drivers by the Power Boa vestigation conducted after the race at Miami. To win for America s fine, but to win by tricky practices reflects no sredit on this Nation. L SO Hope is now entertained that Ireland, having made the customary assertions of dissatisfaction, will also show the customary readiness to proceed, for a time at least, to adjust to the situation that presents itself. No country, how- all the time. Even the spirit of inde- pendence requires its periods of repose. e e With some gentle expressions, Gen. Dawes mingles a little rhetorical brim- stone; perhaps in kindly recognition of the fact that this is the season when old-fashioned people put faith in sul- phur and molasses. R Gangsters are described by students of crime as excessively vain. Perhaps | like some of the bad actors in the thea- own undoing. ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Furlough, the breeze was warm and the sky was blue | We'd wish for nothin' at all to do; | Nothin' to do the livelong day, | Except keep loafin’ the hours away! ‘When When nothin' to do came drawin' near It left us lonely and feelin' queer. We rose in the morning’s early glow And waited to hear the whistle blow. Nothin' to do, from day to night. The dog won't play and the fish won't bite, holiday, strife,” Is a crisis in economic life. This “free from care and Tnsufficiency. “Have you never tried to placate vour enemies?” “Oh. yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. ‘But there were never post office ap- pointments enough to go 'round.” Jud Tunkins says that efter marriage many a young feller is surprised to see how suddenly a gal can lose her fond- ness for fishing and base ball. Trritation. My Radio! My Radio! Why are you so erratic? | When telling what I want to know i You always start the static! Finance in the Gulch. “I'd kind o' like to start a bank." said Cactus Joe “A national bank?" asked the travel- ing salesman. “No. I don't want to have to 'tend to all that bookkeepin'. What I want to start is a faro bank, where the boys can come in and leave their wages and then forget about ‘em forever.” “Politeness under all circumstances,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is |a veluable commendation. It assures act business without | complications.” Proposing Another Constitutional Amendment. So many favorite sons on call Create a complication, For plans have they, both great and small, To benefit the nation. None should be totally forgot In national expression. | Why cen we not elect the lot, ‘With furloughs in succession? “Noise counts for sumpin.,” said Uncle Eben. “A good checker player may have more brains dan a good banjo player, but he don't git invited tr =oor »x many parties - Association which resulted in the in-| ever valorous and sincere, can quarrel ter they have been glorified to their | men that you may be trusted to trans- | temperamental | Flowers have their ups and downs, the same as the length of women's dresses. The hibiscus is now reveling in a revival, after many years of confine- ment to swamps and the like. A few gardeners, here and there have grown this interesting cousin of the althea all the time, but most home owners have been without specimens in their yards. is now taken in hand by the hybridizer, with the result that specimens of in- creased floral beauty have been developed These, in turn, being “played up” by country, have caused interesting arti- cles to appear concerning them popular magazines. So little is_the hibiscus grown, how- ever, generzlly speaking, that even these articles contain misinformation. One of the best of these discussions appearing in a recent number of a great wom:a's magazine, was illus- trated with a most misleading photo- graph in colors. Although the author had taken pains, in his article, to state plainly that the hibiscus blossoms, for all their size and beauty, are not good for cutting, a very fetching illustration in colors showed a vaseful! They can be cut, of course, and placed in water, but they will not last more than a half hour, at the best; in moment they are withdrawn from the bush. It is one of the poor points of this unusual specimen that its great flowers, the largest of their type in the world, last only about a half day. Opening at dawn, or thereabout—we have never been ahle to catch the exact time, and doubt if there is any—the hibiscus flowers are at their best for a few | hours only. By noon, if in full sun, they are almost closed again and are good for nothing thereafter. next day, but some gardeners make a practice of pickin, off the faded blos- soms each evening. The hibiscus, therefore, must not be rown with the expectation that it will urnish cut flowers. It will not. When one stops to realize that it is a pure wilding, for all its cultivation at the expecting cultivated qualities from it. It is a wild thing. and must be ac- cepted as such. The sort grown in | gardens is a rose mallow, rather than a true marsh mallow. It's flowers are of an elementary type beloved by most fiower fanciers. Their distinguishing feature is their diameter, often described as of dinner- plate size. This is true and people who have never seen the hibiscus at close range often gasp at the size of time close up. Hundreds of these plants grow along the Speedway in Potomac Park. Large, natural plantations are to be seen nei North Beach. Commonly these do not | grow such large blossoms, and the fact mass, from the side of the road, and while passing in a car, tends to render | the size of the flowers of lesser im- | portance. | carefully tended, especially in regard to sufficient water, the hibiscus will grow enormous blooms for anybody— large, but in no sense coarse. A curlous feature of the modern gar- den varieties is that, although a water- loving plant, growing wild with its roots practically in water, it does not repine when placed on dry, very dry, land, but increases the size of its tap root and makes itself quite at home in any one’s garden. Its habit of growth is somewhat sprawly, which some gardeners profess to dislike, but which really has a cultivated places. A garden of rigid formality, where not a blade of grass was suffered out of place, would scarce- 1y do for the hibiscus, but most gar- dens, whether large or small, have The hibiscus, Jike many other plants, | nurseries and seedmen throughout the! fact, the blossoms begin to fold up the | ‘They fall by the| hands of plant breeders, he will stop | place in all but the most meticulously | D. C.,. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932. spots where half a dozen or more would fit in nicely. ‘This is not to be wondered at, after all, when the fact is taken into con- sideration that it belongs to the great apple family, that glorious group of trees and shrubs which include so many genera, including apple trees, rose bushes, the Japanese quince. the althea, and hosts of others, so different |and yet all belonging to the family Most gardeners go out of their way to make the pronunciation of “hibiscus™ a difficult matter, when it is one of the casiest of botanical names. It is pro- nounced exactly as it is spelled. The accent comes where one instinctively wants to put it. If the gardener will think of “high in | piscuits” he will never have any more | difficulty with “hibiscus” The “hi” is | pronounced “high.” the “bis” receives | the accent and the “cus” is pronounced | “euss.” B | And there you are, surelv nothing to | shy away from. or be afraid to at- tempt to pronounce, as so many home gardeners cre. It is particularly un- fortunate that anv one should be | frightened away from this plant, which is so easy to grow and which, with ordinary attention, will do such won- ders in the way of giant flowers in any garden. Its great root system is its salvation in the average place. Only one Who has transplanted a hibiscus in the Fall can have any idea of the length and thickness of those big roots. It is almost_impossible to get them all out The plant makes no protest. It just grows some more, and in the Spring has enough Toots to take care of its canes, grown anew each season. These may reach a height of six, seven or eight feet. A heavy wind and rain | storm in Summer may do them some damage when planted in the garden without the support of each other | which their thick growth in their nat- ural haunts affords them. It is a point of garden wisdom, there- fore, to stake the bushes, just about blooming time, with a stout stake such as is used for dahiias. Painted dark green and placed to one side of the | clump of canes, a band of cloth may be passed around the entire group, hold- ing them securely against possible damage. On the other hand, if the hibiscus to take their chances with the world. They probably will come out all right, anyway. One thing that he must be sure of. however, and that is to give them | plenty of water during the hot weeks of | Summer, especially at blooming time. | As this is a requirement of most plants, | however, there is nothing noteworthy or troublesome in this regard. One who remembers their marsh ancestry will the flowers, when seen for the fisst | not begrudge them their drink, but will | rejoice with their leaves at a plentiful | supply of moisture, Yellowed leaves will turn a bright, irmn green overnight, after a heavy watering in the evquing. The hibiscus | likes & plentiful supply of bonemeal for that the beholder sees them in the | food, although it will do very well with- | plays: “We thus learn something about | | out it, too. There is no more happy-go- lucky plant than this, and few so likely to be a source of pride to the gardener. Say what one will, there is always some- Grown in the garden, however, and | thing intriguing to the gardening mind | maturity and fu!fillment.” | in showing one's friends flowers which | are larger than any they possess in their own gardens The hibiscus blooms about the mid- dle of July, and keeps it up for 3 or 4 weeks, after which there is a foliage dis- ‘ play which begins to get poor about the | end of the Summer. Altogether, this is | one of the best novelty plants the aver- age home owner can grow. Despite the publicity it has received, it stil a | novelty to many gardeners. Once plant- ed, it comes up every Spring and makes new canes, on which its huge flowers, dearly loved by bumblebees, appear for their few brief hours. In Autumn these canes may be cut back to the ground, | as they are no further use to the plant | They are light and strong. and may be | | used the next year to stake gladiolus | and similar light things. Mellon Attracts Broad perspective is seen in the ad- dress of Ambassador Andrew W. Mel- lon belfore the Pilgrims’ Sagiety in Lol don. His philosophy, as applied to re- covery from the cepression, offers a subject for debate. His belief that the world is entering upon a new era is discussed in the light of his long pub- lic service. “Mr. Mellon detached himself from the present and put this generation into historical perspective,” thinks the Detroit News, attributing to the Am- bassador the view that “we are work- ing out a new orientation, and having plenty of trouble doing so; but we shall finish the job, and when we have done 50, it will be found that we have ad- vanced another step.” The News con- cludes as to the spirit of his address: “Such is the Mellon philosophy, the fruit of observation and study. He may be wrong. but the chances are he is right. The machine age is still young, and we have not yet mastered its com- plicity. ‘In the light of past history it is not unreasonable to expect that op- portunities greater than any we have vet known will come as a result of forces now at work and constantly be- ing discovered.’ that work is proceeding, and no one can even dream of its results. That is the lesson of history which Mr. Mellon has eloquently set bzfore us.” Crediting to Mr. Mellon the theory that “there can be no satisfactory restoration unless it is based upon a thorough housecleaning,” the Provi- dence Journal says: “From his experi- ence of a. long lifetime he offers a word of encouragement to those Who, baffied by the force of this depressiol have sunk deeply into despair. He re terribly severe crises, the products of the same economic elements that have wrought the present depression, and that their ending was effected by the same processes of readjustment that are now being applied in varying degrees in countries the world over,” R “Mr. Mellon holds out,” according to the Buffalo Evening , “the vision of a new and better era, built not upon the ruins of the old, but by the, con- tinued ~development of the basic strength of individualism, which has created all the best in civilization.” The Spokane Spokesman-Review feels that the address “was charged with courage, faith and wisdom,” and re- vealed understlndinf and cross-currents of human nature and history.” Describing the picture that he presented, the Spokane paper re- marks: “He recalled that during his lifetime he had passed through many crises that followed wars. e de- ficiency in many of us is that we can- not see or think in terms of the cycle When it is fair weather we venture too far. hoping and bringing ourselves to believe that there will not be another storm in our time. When the storm comes to awaken us from our folly, we fall into depths of pessimism and bring ourselves to believe that there will be no more sunshine in our lifetime.” “He made his British debut auspi- cious and memorable when he told the Pilgrims that we are in the beginnings of a new epoch in history,” says the Newark Evening News, with the con- clusion that his talk “was fllumined with the optimism that each crisis taught us a little lom!thln,, and civili- zation went on, not from its old level, but winning a little ground despite the periodic reversals.” The Evening News adds: “We wish our Ambassador told his audience that we in America not only ‘are facing our difficulty frankly’ and plugging ahead certain that our difficulties are not insurmount- able, but that there is & widespread $esling thal ouwr taombies were plexities and reduced them to sim-| In obscure laboratories | calls that he has lived through other | of “the currents | had | nied Attention In Comment on Depression |able. We are learning that money is not a commodity. as we were once taught: we begin to understand that humanity is a unit, with common prob- |lems and common aspirations, which should be able reasonably= to eliminate | war, either by bayonet or by tariffs. | We "are not learning as quickly as we | ought to. perhaps, because it is hard to | discard old credos and moldy maxims, but neither are we as dull and stupid | a5 our ancestors who invented them.” | * e on | _ The address arouses the satire of the Baltimore Sun, which, observing that “he said he did not believe in ‘any quick or spectacular remedies.’ " com- ments on the fact that one who “had taken us to the rose-tinted verge of the abolition of poverty in a_ decade’ should “talk like that.” The Sun con- cludes: “Our Ambassador to the Court of St. James finally brought all his wisdom to a point in the flat, un- equivocal declaration that we are liv- ing in ‘the beginning of a new era.’ So there you are, the same old, unterri- fied genius and prophet, standing his ground. Let those who will ask, ‘What kind of a new era?’ The old ‘new era’ that Mr. Harding and Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover (up to 1929) talked about. or a new kind of a ‘new era'? Anybody who wishes to quibble may do so. Mr. Mellon said it was a ‘new | era’ before and Mr. Mellon says it is a ‘new era’ now. It is some kind of a }‘nnw era’ and he knows it and he says it." | “Mr. Mellon is serenely records the Roanoke Times, “that the | world will right itself. Ii always has; | then, it always will. ‘We y_experience,’ he told the at- tentive Pilgrims, ‘that such catastro- phies never completely wipe out the progress which has been made, and that when the world begins to mend the many gains of recent years will not be lost, but consolidated.”” A hope- ful and comforting philosophy, that It is not hard to hold such a philoso- phy when one has just caten a good dinner and when one knows that a comfortable bed awaits, with a good job | on the morrow. It is especially easy to hold such a philosophy, w2 should think, when one has millions on top of millions in the bank.” — e confident,” Sinitzin Says Chapin Statement Was Wrong To the Editor of The Star: In The Evening Star of April 8, that has just reached me, I have found an article describing my misfortune, in which my relation to the democracy was represented in quite a wrong way According to the words of Dr. E. A Chapin quoted by the article, T “failed since the Red revolution in Russa to adjust himself (myself) to the demo- | cratic order of things," while during the czarist regime “he (I) was free to follow his (my) science without inter- ference.” Everyone who knows me, in- cluding the authorities of the Ameri- | canization School Association, kiows | also that I hate every kind of dictator- | ship, whether it is called czar, or Mus- | solini, or proletariat; that I came to America in quest of the democratic re- gime to which I always felt a deep sym- | pathy. The only thing that I could not stand, and for which my beloved | wife has paid with her life, is such an | order of things when a scientist is de- his right to a free expression of his_opinion within his specialty. But such an order of things is not necessar- ily connected with democracy: like a eancer it can develop within every gov= ornment though othe healthy. - - gardener thinks this too much trouble, | he may forget about it and permit the | THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. ‘The dedication of the Folger Shake- speare Library today, a library which will be a treasure house for scholars, brings to one's mind the question: How much is Shakespeare read now by the general reader; that is, by any one ex- cept the high school boys and girls who must read selected plays as part of their English courses? They are familiar with the rising and falling action of |“Macbeth,” the triple plot and fairy Ipoetry of “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” the essentially Italian romance and tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet,” the race hatred in “The Merchant of Venice,” the double comedy of satire and intrigue in “The Taming of the Shrew,” the forest atmosphere of Arden in “As You Like It," the deviations from history in “Julius Caesar” and “Antony and Cleopatra” and the fate element in “Hamlet” and “King Lear.” But to what extent do the men and Women |who read for pleasure or for purposes |of “adult education” now read Shake- | speare? Probably if the statistics of | public library circulation and reference work over the country were consulted it would be found that Shakespeare is Istill a living author and not merely a | “classic.” His plays, when well pro- | duced by gcod companies, still fill the- aters. They may not cause as crowded houses during a single season as ; “Mourning Becomes Electra,” but their Hasting quality is better. * K K X Shakespeare undoubtedly meant his plays for the theater, not for the library, to be acted, not read; yet the person who knows the plays only as they are presented on the stage has missed a large part of their rare poetry and subtle characterization. Such pas- sages as the description of Queen Mab, and the lovers' lyric meetings in “Romeo and Juliet,” Oberon's accept- ance of the magic flower from Puck in “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” Pros- pero’s renunciation of his magic in “The Tempest,” Hamlet's many solilo- quies. and Claudio’s soliloquy on deatl in_“Measure for Measure” are to be fully appreciated only by reading and rereading. Years ago Edward Dowden wrote a “Shakespeare Primer” in which he classified the plays of Shakespeare according to their probable date of production—the chronological method. This primer remains one of the | simplest guides for the amateur student | of Shakespeare. Dowden’s method of arriving at_probable dates includes evidence wholly external, such as entries in the Stationers' Co. registers, presentation by certain companies, mention of or allusion to plays in con- temporary documents, such as dieries, of known dates; evidence partly external and partly internal, such as allusions in plays to historical events of known | date; and evidence wholly internal, | such as style, taste and judgment, | structure, characterization, reflective | | power, imagination, humor, pathos, | human sympathy and moral signifi-| | cance. Dowden says in defense of the | | chronological method of studying the | | | their origin, their connection one with! ! another, and their relation to the mind of their creator, as that mind passed | | from its early’ promise to its rich Sk * Dowden divides Shakespeare's career of authorship into four periods—the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many ligiti- mate questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in constant touch with Ped- eral bureaus and other educational enterprises it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. In contract bridge is it a reflec- tion upon the system of bidding when a slam is made which has not been bid>—L. B. A. Probably 75 per cent of slams which are made were not biddable. The opponents use different tactics {against slam bids, setting the contract he 4 at once when possible. With a lower contract, in an effort to defeat the bid, tricks are sacrificed which may lead to a slam. There are many other contributing factors to explain the dis- crepancy. Q. How thick and high is the Chi- nese Wall>—H. 8. M. A. The total lengtheof the Great Wall is 2550 miles. It is 17 feet 6 inches thick and 16 feet high. Q. When were newsboys first em- ployed>—C. E. K. A. Apparently they have been em- ployed from an early period and were known in Great Britain in the eight- eenth century. In Scotland paper criers or caddies sold newspapers and also provided news gossip. At the close of the seventeenth century they were incorporated in Edinburgh into nuisance and was dissolved in 1710 The word “newsboy” appears in Eng- b | lish literature as early as 1812 Q. Has a bullet more penetrating power at 30 feet than at 2 feet>—R. K It has. This is because it has “gone to sleep” like a top and the “wobble” is gone. Q. What has become of the old Surratt house in Washington?—K. T. A. During 1925 the famous old Sur- ratt house, which was located on H street, was remodeled into a store and apartment house. It was in this house that the conspiracy to assassin-t~ Lin- coln was discussed by John Wilkes Booth and, others. The structure had stood intact for nearly 60 years. It was here in the parlor, on the second floor, that some of the conspirators met and held conferences. ~ John Wilkes Booth went to this house on the afternoon preceding the assassination. There he arranged for horses and guns to use in his flight. The house was the residence of Mrs. Mary Surratt. She conducted it in Civil War times as a boarding house for theatrical people, one of her patrons be! ol pa ing John Wilkes Q Does the Prench expressiop belle mere mean grandmother?>—E. H. B. na It does not. It means mother-in- Q When was 8t Louls, Mo., " oy Mo., found | years of dramatic apprenticeship and experiment, from about 1580 to 1595-96. (the period of the English histcrical |plays and the joyous comedies. from | about®1595-96 to about 1600-1601; the | period of the more serious (sometimes | | bitter) comedies and the great tragedies, | | from about 1601 to about 1608, and the | | period of the serene and philosophical | | romantic plays, from about 1608 to about 11611-13. These four periods are called. | symb-lically, i the World, and “On the Heights." To the first period | {belong the first part of “Henry VI” with its villification of Joan of Arc.| probably not entirely the work of Shakespeare; the light, fantastic comedy | of “Love's Labours Lost”; the farce of | “The Comedy of Errors” and the “strange and beautiful web woven | delicately by a youthful poet's fancy,” “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” In the | | second period were produced “Henry V, !in which Shakespeare presented his ideal of the English kinghood, “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” said to have been written at the command cf Queen Elizabeth, who wished to see Falstaff in love, and the sophisticated comedies of | | “Much Ado About Nothing." You | .Like It” and “Tweifth Night The | | third and greatest period is that of the sericus, ironical, bitter comedies, almost tragedies, “All's Well That Ends Well,” “Measure for Measure” and “Troilus jand Cressida,” and of the big fate | tragedies, “Julius Caesar,” “Hamiet,” “Othello,” “King Lear,” “Macbeth” and “Antony and Cleopatra.” The two poetic, romantic pays of “The Tempest” and “The Winter's Tale,” with their | charming young people, Ferdinand and | Miranda and Flrizel and Perdita, are Ithe work of the last period. Some | | eritic has suggestzd that Prcspero, the magician of ~The Tempcst,” is Shake- | | speare himself, end that Prospero's | breaking of his staff and dismissal of | | his airy spirits symbolize Shakespeare’s | return to Stratfcrd and farewell to the ! world of the stage. % F % “The Contrast,” the play by Royall Tyler, which the Cue and Curtain Club of the Georgz Washington University | will present at Wardman Park Theater, | Friday and Saturday evenings, April 29 {and 30, under the direction of Miss | Constance Connor Brown, director of dramatics at the university, has a theme 1n which the patriots of Revolu- tionary days found delight. The “con- | trast™ is that between the rude sincerity of the Colonial lover, Col. Manly, and the insincere affectation of “the odlous | Mr. Dimple,” whose native virtue has been corrupted by life abroad. Both are suitors for the hand of Maria. On one side is the simple American citizen, | manly and straightforward, an officer in Gen. Washington's army, attended by his Yankee servant, one Brother Jonathan, who disdained, indeed, to call himself a servant and must be dubbed a “waiter”; on the other side is the poser end dilettante, Mr. Dimple, at- tended by his foppish valet, Jessamy The play is supposed to have been | prompted by the author’s chagrin at |teing jilted by Miss Abby Adams. daughter of John Adams, in favor of| | Col. Smith, then serving on her father | staff ‘at the Court of St. James. We | know on the authority of Royall Tvler's wife what a hit the play made in| New York. She was only 14 at the time of the first production, young Mary Palmer, nearly 20 years younger than Tyler. Living in the home of the Elbridge Gerrys in New York in 1789, the Winter of Washington's first inau- guration, she heard her elders talking about the play to which the world of fashion was then resorting. At the age | of 88, when her husband had long been dead. she sct down for the benefit of | her children her memories of early days. “Grandmother Tyler,” as posterity knew her, did not altogether aporove the jok=s | which her Revoluticnary husband intro- | duced into his play. She wrote: “The ladies frequented the theaters constant- ly, and your father’s play, ‘The Contrast.’ iwas acted every night for some weeks | s0 that I heard Mrs. Gerry and the other ladies constantly talking about it, and telling of its wonderful success. Char- lotte and Jonathan were the favorite characters. It certainly tells well for the improvement in manners. I know no ladies in these days who would relate and laugh over those broad vulgar jokes. ¢ ¢ * We in the nursery uxed‘ to_have the benefit of the delight those ladles and Mr. Gerry enjoved at the theater. W= had to sit up for them and keeo a fire, and, when they came, they all ecngregated there and acted o'er again Billy Dimple and Jonathan. night after ul’gl. to my great delight, because they praised the wonderful genius of the author in hitting off the Yankees in such masterly manner. They criticized the play, T remember, ® * ® but I can- 00t Femember What- shey saich” | | L A. Tra original (first thirty) settlers | of St. Louis first arrived at the foot of | Wwhat is now Walnut street on Februa 14, 1764. The City of St. Louis, ho:{ 7\5;3 was not incorporated until April, Q. How is gold foil made?—C. H. D, A In making gold leaf or foj the bar is flatier>d out into w riblhn of about 1-800 of an inch in thickness by “In|passing it through steel rollers. This |of 1,250,000 is annealed or softened by heat snd then cut into pieces approximately 1 |inch square, which are placed between leaves of vellum or tough paper, placed upon a block and beaten with a ham- |mer. The squares are then placed be- ibuilt up and is under the personaltween layers of goldbeater's skin and again beaten with a lignter hamme.. The beating may be repeated if thinner leaves are desired. Attempts have been made to apply machinery to goldbeat- ing. but its application is limited and most is still prepared by hand Q. Many people attribute the author- ship of “Rules of Civility and Decent [Brhn_vmmr (En Company and Conversa- ion George Washington. corrects—N. D filgg g A. Tt is not. Helen Nicolay, the dis- tinguished biographer of Washington, says: “The book really comes down from the days of Erasmus, having been trans- lated back and forth between Latin and French and finally into English." Which star bigger, Betel or Antares’—W. L. R . . The Naval Observatory says that iameter of Betelgeuse is generally given as between 200,000,000 and 300,- 000,000 miles. The diameter of Antares is about 400,000,000 miles. . Q Who is the Benny Havens re- ferred to in the West Point song?—P. G. A The song was composed about 1838. Benny Havens, prior to 1832, oc- cupled a cottage on the post and sold to the cadets ale, cakes and cider, and in Winter buckwheat cakes and cider flip. As stronger drinks were added, Havens had to leave the reservation. He set up a shop just off the post, \’Ahxr‘h was frequented by West Pointers for generations. He died i 1897 at the age of 88. From time to time verses have been addd to the original, until thore are at least thirty-seven. born American? He was born in Chicago. Q Is Johnny Weismuller & native- T. He is {a society, but it eventually became a Of Austrian descent Why was March 4 chosen as Ine auguration day’—D. D. A Th of United s;me: choice dates bacl 38. The first Wednesday in Janu- ary, 1789, was fixed upon for the choice of the electors; the first Wednesday in February for the voting. and the first Wednesday in March, which came upon the 4th, for the inauguration. The twelfth amendment makes this the con- stitutional day. | _Q How many glaciers are there in | Glacier National Park?—P, L There are about 80, some of an area of 5 square miles while some cover only & few acres. Q. Please name some of the unusual uits of the tropical zone—G. C. _A. The sequidilla, the chayote, the akee. breadfruit. jackfruit, mangosteen, sapodilla and durian are some of the tropical fruits that are not yet com- mon in the markets of the temperate zone. Tomatoes, eggplants, pomegra- nates, limes, oranges. lemons, grape- fruit. banenas, r'neapples, figs. dates - alligator pears are as familiar &ny of the native fruits of the tem- | L-rate zone. Q Wha is a counter tenor?—J. 8. P, A This term is used to indicate s high voice of a male with a female i production. fr Q. How many candle power is the largest s2archlight on the West Coast? —M. McG. | _A. The Department of Commerce | says_that the largest searchlights on | the West Coast of which it has any | record, are those owned by the Stan- | dard Oil Co. These lights have 10.000.- 000 sandlepower each. They are lo- cated at Los Angeles, San Diego, Mount Diablo and Seattle Th- larges’ bea- cons belonging to the Airways Divison on the West Coast hava a candlepowsr ( They are locaked between | San Diego and San Francisco. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A RAZON, La Paz—The regime of ex-President Siles was not an ted fact. nor the only phe- nomenon of its kind in Bolivian history. It was but a link in | derstands is the welcome or disturbing fact that he will or will not get a divi- {dend. If he does, he is happy. If he does not, and, putting his faith in fig- | ures alone, he tries to learn why he a long political chain, and the inevita- | is I tle development of era. One man does not make history. It is rather that man is guided and moided, swayed and affected by the trends, opinions and gavironment of the age I which he ves. If we study dispassionately ex-Presi- dent Siles and his political colleagues in the light of the circumstances in which they live and worked, there can be discerned methods and virtues even in their errors. Neither they nor any of us can be rightly judged apart from the influences and conditions which surround us at the time we acted for good or for bad. according to the ulti. mate decisions rendered upon these ac: tions. In the case of ex-President Siles, against whom accusalions are now pending in the national chambers, we should remember that most of us Lging and doing today contributed sub fan- tially to the characteristics of the ghlit- ical epoch in which he rose to<f,wer. In all justice, we should take our'stand beside this man, and answer to the same indictment, and be vindicated or condemned with him. ' x American Girl Helps “Save” German Nation. The War Cry, London.—All lovers of little folk will thank the Children's Newspaper for telling the story of Dor- othy, an American girl, who heard her elders talk about the saa condition of affairs in other lands. So often did Dorothy hear how near the whole German people were to star- vation, if something were not done about it quickly, that she began to feel very troubled and to wonder more and more whether she could not do something. One day she asked her daddy how many people there were in Germany. Daddy did not know for certain, but he believed there were about 65,000,000 That, Dorothy realized, must be a fearful number and a lot of money would be required to keep them all fed. She said nothing, but began to save up her pocketmoney. Little by lit- tle she put it by, denying herself all the delightful things she had been wont to buy with it, till she had a whole dollar. That. she thougnt, must surely be enough: so she put it in an envelope addressed to President Hindenburg, with a line inside begging him tribute the money among the German le. She put the letter into a letter- x and then, relieved of the burden that had so long weighed on her mind, straightway forgot it. She was as surprised as her elders when, a month or so after, a letter ar- rived for her with President Hinden- burg’s photograph, and on it words of the most fri>ndly appreciation Thus did_little Dorothy, aged 6 (or is it 77) help to save the German nation. oo o Don't Add to Dazzling Unemployment Figures, tian Gazette, Cairo.—The air is full of figures, enormous figures, stag- gering figures, appalling figures—figures that multiply themselves while you wait. So, indeed, it must appear to the reader whose eyes are led by end- less ions of numerals and noughts set forth to inform him of the way of the world in which he has to live. Observe that dull expression on the face of the average shareholder with a balance sheet in hands. How soon the faint flicker of pretended wisdom fades away in the presence of those serried rows and marshaled columns of which he can make neither head nor tail until the chairman of directors has delivered the speech which the secre- tary wrote for him with the account- o dbaaasaicices el 4o to dis- | ost. | Millions! There are more than 20,- /000,000 unemplofed in Europe alone. | But what do millions mean to you? From some mental notebook there | emerges possibly a youthful memory of the missionary who tried to explain the size of China §y an imaginary march | past begun before history began and | still going on! Since then you have | seen the same sort of comparisons in blue books and comic papers, and they | hardly help you at all. There are fig- | ures everywhere, and you are foozled by them. The reparations and war debt figures dance before your eyes like & hideous dance of death. They dazzle you. They bewilder you. You cannot | master them. You cannot count them. ‘There is little good in trying. If there |are 20,000,000 unemployed in Europe tand another 10000000 in America, | there are some in Egypt, too. And the | best that any individual can do is to | try to help one of them to a job—or, janyhow, to do nothing which can put another man out of work. Echo of Turkish Rule Heard in Land Court. Palestine _Bulletin. Jerusalem.—An echo of the Turkish regime in Palestine, when no property could be registered in the name of a corporate body, was heard in the Land Court last week. When the Convent of the Rosary | (near the American consulate, on Ma- | millah road) was built, many years ago, | although erected by the sisters out of | their own money, it could not be reg- istered in their name and the title | deed bore the name of the spiritual |head of the order. a priest named | Yousuf Tannous. The brother of the | priest, one Khalil Tannous, was | overseer in the service of the sisters, by whom he was paid a salary, and he was allowed to build a small house adjoining the convent for us> of himself and his | family. The priest died"in 1892 and | Khalil Tannous in 1917. After the British occupation the sisters wished to register. the property in the name of the order, but the Tan- | nous heirs claimed that as it Was regis- tered in the name of their uncle, the | convent and the small house belonged to them and should be registered in thelr names. After a prolonged sitting and the hearing of several witnesses, the Land | Court, presided over by Mr. Justice | Tute, dismissed the Tannous claim and | ordered that the convent and sll build- | ings within the boundary wall sheuld be | registered in the name of the Order of the Rosary. The order was represented by Abcarius Bey. ———— French Daylight Saving. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. France has already insugurated day- | light saving for 1932, which seeros con- | tradictory. to the general h‘fl&:’hlt | there is much more to see over at night than in the day time. .- Some One Else Buried Him. Prom the Columbus Ohio State Journal The doctor who a few yeafs ago personally ?nuflu his a) ix has passed on , any, but 'he did not attempt to bury himsell. ———— An Irish Child Votes. From the Hamilton (Ohio) Bvening Journal. No steps are to be taken against the 2-year-old child who voted in the recent Irish election. It to have voted huznnu,mddo\m'uhmtw i