Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1932, Page 6

A6 THE _BEVESING (8 h THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY. . .August 6, 1932 The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office {3th. Bt and Penpsvivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St g:!tlto Office: Lake Michigan Buildine. ropean Office: M Resent St.. London. neland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. vening Sta Sc ger month ning and (wEen 4 Sundaye! The Evening and Sunday Star (wnen 5 Sundavs) The Sunday Ster Gollection mnde at the end of each monthr S 4 Sunday Star 60c per month 65¢ per month 5S¢ per copy Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. viand and Virgimia. . $10.00: 1 mo.. §5c 1 mo . Soc 1 mo.. 40c 1mo.. $1.00 1mo. 75 1mo. s0c The Associated Prese is eccinsively entil %0 the use for republication of ull news dis atehes creaited (0 it Or not otherwise cred- rl d in this paper and aleo the locel mews Publigned hersin AN riehts of pubiicaiton of cial dispaiches herein are alio reseryed e - tled dis- Back From Geneva. Sepator Swanson, Mr. Norman H Davis and Dr. Mary E. Woolley, who have so long, so patiently and so & yepresented the United States Geneva, are home again after months of participation in the World Disarmament Conference. No blame can be laid at their feet for the ‘sct that the conference adjourned on July 20 with little accomplishment to iis credit except & pious resolution to re- sume in January, 1933, where it left off in Midsummer of 1932 That the Hoover plan for an imme- diate, flat reduction of armaments by one-third of all existing establishments was accepted only in principle was a disappointment to the American dele- gation, as it was t0 the people of this | country. But, as Senator Swanson ex- plains in a picturesque parable, “we had an American trein running on a Euro- pean track and we necessarily ran it slowly. When we return to Geneva next year we hope to have an Amer- {canized track.” Mr. Davis sounds a more concretely promising note when he suggests that the French are “weakening” in their insistence upon ‘“security” as & con- ditione precedent to disarmament. Speaking from the background of many intimate exchanges with Premler Her- riot at Geneva, Mr. Davis is con- vinced that the French nation is com- ing steadily to Tealize that the best form of security it can have is in “con- tented neighbors.” The former Ameri- can Undersecretary of State finds that France “is beginning to realize that a Germany bound by the Versailles treaty is more dangerous than an armed Germany. France's relative se- curity will be greater if she lifts Ger- many out of the Versailles treaty and herself conforms to the Hoover pro- posals. Then only will Germany be friendly to France, and France relieved of the responsibility of maintaining herself and her continental allies in a high state of preparedness.” Events since adjournment at Geneva ere designed to strengthen the readiness of France, which bolds the key to the disarmament situation, to place more faith in “contented neighbors” than in fortifications and army corps. The Prench are fully justified in looking upon Hitlerism, with its unabashed purpose of repudiating all World War treaty obligations and restoring Hohen- zollernism. as & menace which cannot be ignored. .During the week tbat has elapsed since the recent Reichstag elec- tions the world has come to understand that the “Nazis” were repulsed in their supreme effort to seize power at Berlin and run amok in Eurcpe. Unless the unforeseen intervenes in Germany between now and next Janu- ary the resumed Geneva conference should assemble, as the American dele- gation seems confident it will, in an atmosphere far more favorable than the | conditions under which the first stage | was conducted, The Von Papen- Schleicher cabinet’s threat to rearm Germany unless the powers which re- duced her to military impotence fulfill their own disarmament pledges may en- | courage Prench and other hotspurs 10, maintain an uncompromising attitude. But if statesmanship prevails at Euro- pean capitals the Berlin gov ernment’s de- at six known to be under way, for the pur- pose of stabilizing prices and promot- ing industry. Those participating these efforts to effect a better basic con- dition of business are of all parties. There is no political influence at work in that direction. Everybody wants bet- ‘(er times, Democrats and Republicans alike, with the possible exception of |those small minority clements that want to see bad times grow worse in order to bring about a radical change in American government. If there is manipulation in the stock market to boom the list of securities it is probably that of professional traders seeking profits on stocks and bonds early Summer. N the Spring and Local Governments and Relicf. It cannot be known for some time, of course, whether the Reconstruction | Pinance Corporation's fim refusal to | extend Fede: { loans to Penn- I sylvania until nsylvania has | hausted its own :clf-help resources will ’Irnlly expedite the passage | { prolong and embitter the ex- f. It would be | detayed adequa | extremely uniortu to additional suffering in Pennsylvar passing the tin cup at Washington. But if that is the result, the people of Pennsylvania, and not the people of the United States, have the remedy in hand. The rush of the first States to get their allotments of the Federal offers an interesting study in contra: Pennsylvania end twelve other were first in line. But some thi loan -five thus far shown little interest in the Maryland. reliet it as- move difficult But faces a relatively problem than Maryland. assuredly has no greater its hands than New York. If New York, one of the richest and largest States, mansge their own relief problems, why must other States so quickly surrender and throw out their bands to Washing- ton? Some of the industrial States, for tration there of the automobile indus- try, have an acute problem that finds no duplication anywhere. But it is possible that the R. F. Cs poliey of carefully examining the record of the States in their handling of rellef will, in the end, emphasize &s nothing else would the varying efficiency of the State governments. Those that imme- diately confess an inability to do more and admit that the end of their re- sources has beens met are more than apt tp be those which are yet to gain reputations for clean and efficient local government. Sy Mr. Garner*Does His Bit. As a belieyer in keeping the Govern- ment’s budget balanced—as, of course, he must be—Speaker Garner is going to contribute his bit to that end. He i not going to permit a tax-free noti- fication proceeding, but will“get his news of nomination as the vice presi- dential candidate of his party by mail and will send his acceptance by the same agency. The letter of notifica- weight and will require the use of sev- eral three-cent stamps and, likewise, the letter of acceptance. It is prob- able that this exchange of communica- tions will yleld at least a dime in postage over the amount that would have been necessary before the new revenue law was enacted. This will set a good example to those business postage rates by doubling up on their communications and by delivering bills | by hand The notification ceremony is after all & .means of making political capiial, especially in these days of radio. Next Thursday night President Hoover will have the news of his renomination broken to him at a meeting in this city, and will respcnd. The speeches of noti- cation and acceptance will go on the air and will be distributed as well in advance for publication. Mr. Garner will miss the air with his letters, put will probably get space for them in print. His running mate, the Governo: of New York, broke all records in his flance will be regarded as a challenge to the military and naval powers to beat their fine disarmament words into deeds. If they capnot bring themselves to do so. it is painfully apparent that they will usher in a new race in competitive armaments such as made the Ungvdy“ of 1914 inevitable. | ! was denied the priv acceptance. making it in person at the nominating convention, ts which he flew for the purpose, The new three-cent first-class postage rate had not then gone into effect. and so Mr. Roosevelf of making the contribution to the Federal revenues that Mr. Garner now proposes. % - ——— The stock market is beginning to ful- fill the encouraging predictions con- cerning it. Nevertheless the wise man continues to d work more than the chance to spee i - . ‘ 1f Tammany cannot supervise a na-| tional election, it can make it look a little like a tomah which might be used as a threat in Jocal battles. .-t Is the Market Politically Boomed? A few days ago James Roosevelt. son ot the Governor of New York and Dem- ocratic candidate for President, said in a speech at a Massachusetts clambake that there would be a fictitious revival ©f prosperity between now and Novem- ber as a means of aiding the Republican campaign. Now the stock market has suddenly turned upward with a s sion of bullish days, with quotation: vancing on practically the entire with a volume of trading greater than for many months. The question runs whether this is a political manipulation It is hard to conce lican campaign management would make so serious a blunder as to try to boom the stock market at this stage of the contest. If there is no substan- tial cause for the present improvement in security prices in an assured pros- ment throughout the country a rigged” market cannot be maintained.for many days, certainly not for three months. A stock market boom resulting from poli- tical mapipulation without substantial factors of business improvement is sure to collapse in short order. And a collapse of a falsely boomed market be- tween now and November persistence in the adverse conditions of business, would.be most harmful to the Repyhlican cause " Organization of f commodity pools is € that the Repub- | | Prosperity can hardly be expected to | hasten so rapidly as to enable Europe Lo exrlain to Uncle Sam that he should forget nims-lf as a ctediior be cause he does not really noed the mone; casi < - Mayor Jimmie Fires a Du Mayor Walker's appeal to the nicipal employes to vote themse salary cut and thereby make the larg- est single contribution to paring York City's bloated budget char- acteristic of the mayor in more ways than one. His personsl popularity ani prestige with the employe: e him a decided advantage, at the outset, and his appeal to the emploves wes in the ature of those things that the mayor does best. matic And, of course. cutting pay ot | the city employes—and having the pay 1 cut voluntarily ordered by the employes themselves—furrished the easiest way of a tight spot. ‘The mayor has never been known to turn down easiest way out mu- out ‘ihe problem on! and Maryland, one of the smallest, can | example, Michigan, with the concen- | 23] srne i i | Federal relief loans are New York andig..o tripe | | | | | | i | | { | €s a| It was emotional and dra- | the | understand why the proposal to eut salaries was not accompanied by pro- s equally as drastic but affecting Qther municipal functions cear to the WNearts and souls of the politicians. Mayor Walker, fulminating against the {showing of the baliots on the pay-cut proposal, doubtless reads handwriting jon the wall. ——— A Run of Mackerel. New York has just had a modern fall of manna which, while not feeding as great multitude as that supplied in |the wilderness on the way to Canean, | was nevertheless a welcome contribution to the depleted family table. For so bought at the abnormally low levels of 2 J ¢ : - ycdere may Be sent in by mail of l!:rphone‘ - | mysterious cause. perhaps an aitack y voracious bluefish off the coast, the | harbor wis suddenly visited by & run | of mackerel. The bay was literally full of them. The run listed for several hours. Hundreds of fishermen, to whom the word spread by & mysterious process of mass information, hastened to the waterside with all kinds of fich- ing. tackle, fancy, medium. and plain. of reliel Tyere were fly lines and also. b:mboo legislation at Harrisbirg or Will merely wlec and branches of trees for rods. Ale's dis- There were hooks of every variety and mal political wrangling ihat so far has . of all sorts So thick were the fish and so hungry that they snapped e if the laler 0C- g everyihing that touched the water, curred and men and women were pnlvh““"d matches, cigarette stubs and odds and ends of flatsam. Literslly because of the inability of th> SWateiong of ‘gl were taken. ranging from politicians to agree on anylbing except leight to ten inches in length. Aller the run was over there were more fish cddlers in New York and Brookiyn and Jersey City than panhandlers. But the market was a poor one, for it had . |been suddenly oversiocked. It is said that more fish dinners were eaten in the metropolitan area yesterday than were ever eaten before in one day. mackerel disappeared with the turn of the tide and now the anglers States have yel to fill out thelr #bbli-| e wopdering when such & happening !cations, Among thece States that have | win reour There is no possible way to determine the strange ways of the These vast schools of fish e o el Pennsylvania has Perlabsigo pither and thither in accordance sufered more from the depression and | yyn some law of their own which man has not been able to understind. Some canny deep-sea fishermen com- ing from long lines of fishiug pro- genitors belleve they know a little about the rhythm of these mysterious move- ments, but after all they trust to luck when they put out wiih their nets in the hope of meeting schools and runs. - ——— In proposing to New York City em- ployes that they voluntarily accept & wage cut, Mayor Walker submitted his | pupularity Lo one of the severest ordeals it has yet been required to undergo. - o Honolulu police are trying to establish more rigorous beach supervision. There are still limits of propriety which do not _permit a necklace to suffice for a complete bathing costume. - —— — If industrial revival goes on to the extent expected, some of the de- parted bonus marchers may look for- ward to finding jobs ready for them when they reach home. S Less attention is paid to Parisian de- crees regarding fashion. But the gay French capital is making an effort. to get even, and better, by setting the fashions in finance. ——— Ir:tunxnant of a combination by Rus- sia and Germany will cause Stalin to study carefully the possibilities as to who will be the real boss in so great a tion will probably, be somewhat over- | merger. PR o> < S s The Reconstruction. Finance Corpo-| ration. finds it necessary. to. contradict any assumption that it can function on lines of “first come, first served.” .. Great industries are proceeding on the theory that employment can be re- sumed and trade restored, even without men who are now avoiding the higher | the renapilitation of the breweries. P ) At present 8 cabinet resignation Jooks less like a departure from public life than a re-assignment in public re- ! | sponsibility. - ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Worlds. Qther worlds up in the sky— We may reach them by and by. In the meantime, don't forget, This world’s not completed vet. Centuries of work to do, As ideals we pursue! Forward strides we boldly take: Oft we make some sad mistake Never mind the telescope, Lets pled on right here and hope, Building high, with no regret. ‘This world isn't finished yet. Studious Consideration. “Are you giving profound thought to the magazine articles you expect to contribute?” “Very profound Senator Sorghum. most studious ¢ indeed.” answered 1 have given the ideration to _ib> ! question of which ghost writer I shall employ.” Jud Tunkins says when men get to New | Quarreling about who has the most brains, they are liable to use ‘em up 50 fast that pretty soon there won't b2 4 any worth mentioning.” High Levels. The marke! takes a lofty flight And every one says it's all right And they who join in the pursuit Won't, later, need a parachute. Every Little Helps. “Do you think agriculture is hen fted by an increase in motor travel? “Of course, I do.” answered Farmer | Corntossel. “The old home can't de- ;pmd entively on Summer boarders. I adverse vote by the firemen can be in- | hope to see so many automobiles that terpreted as pointing the way to the i»\z-n farmer ean have a gas-filling sta- | | final outcome in this ballot—to play tion in his front yard.” |along with the mayor and vote them- | selves out of a month’s pay holds con- siderable significance | enemies in the administration. But it | means more than that. It means that the city employes are beginning to recognize that a lot of what their be- |loved mayor has to say. is mere. hooey | and they refuse to pay a high price for swallowing it! With some of the reve- !Jations of the Seabury investigation in relatively small-salaried clerk or fire- man or policeman should be made the goat, now that hard times have ht.the town. And, finally, they are unable to 1 indicating a mind. they naturally wonder why.the | said Hi Ho, “The public is fickle,’ ip. Swift Tempo. They who dance must surely. pay Thase who fiddle, wise folks say. It will always make us sad That the music was so bad I “Hope,” said Uncle, Eben, “is most liable, tp win out. . Hope s what we permansntly - believes in,.an’ Arouhle, a good deal of de time, is only jes' tem- porary imagination.” - | exponents Mayor Walker | the sage of Chinatown. “but so, too pect of business improvement and re-| attributes the failure to some boring- | often, are those whom the public has | vival of trage and increase of employ- | from-within tactics pursued by personal | intrusted leadership.” ! 1 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Templeton Jomes secured a copy of | “Magnolfs Street” when it was new, | and placed it on his shelves for future | reading. it is a habit Jomes has. to buy new novels and leave them unread until he gets ready to read them. Quite a sensible habit. at that, come right down to it. but the majority of ! human beings seem to think that be- sue they come into possession of a new work they must rad it at once, A member of the household read Magnolia Street” the other day, and embleton asked how it went. The people in it seemed very much alive,” was the. reply. Jones stopped to wender if there is any grester praise of a novel, aft.r all, Fiction is people. People are stor ‘There is no more plot to “Magnolia Ser et than there is in a rabbit. as ihe old expression has it. but.when a novel makes you see and hear real p-opie it s functioning 1ts author has succeeded in he ateempted to achieve This one book may be taken as a type of the counsiderable output of re- cent ycars wierein the old-fashioned plot is dispens-d with and reliance put solely on the presentation of men and women as they are. It is needless to state that this meth- od requires a nice observaiion. an ap- preciation of values. and a great d-al of understanding of the psychology of interest, If one will consider for a moment (he comparatively skimpy material with which all such authors deal, it will be realized by the least analvtical of read- ers that their achievement is consid- | what v have dispensed with the old- Ume ontrances and exits, the hundred and one time-tried “devic.s™ of fiction wrileis vince writing beean. They have belicved that nothing is auite 30 irtere Ling lo human beings as humsn behnes, Thal is be cardinzl point writing creed. Action, with them, is simply inci- dertal to people. Deeds, in these books. come solely as the reactions of human beings placed in certain envircnments and confronted. with certain situations. Offhand. it might seem to the un- wary that a novel of th's type could be turped out by any one. Many bave tried it, failed dismelly. No sort of writing is more decptive as to ils ease of creation, ®s & host of would-be imitators have found out, to their own personal dismay It seems no task at all, to the brave | person who is in the habit of rushing in_where angels fear to tread Such a one will grasp pen, or typewriter, seize a large quantity of paper, and go bravely to work on what vapily proudly calls “a novel,” or per- [ haps “my novel. It is being done every day In the year, in a thousand places, mostly in secret. It looks so eagy! All one bas to do is to write about the people one knows. But right there one of the main difficuilies enters. Actually, the task of writing about | the human beings one knows is one | of the most difficuit jobs in the world, if one is at all fair and harbors any of the ardinary sentiments of a de- cent map. One cannot divest one's self of the feeling, in taking notes, in making ob- servations, and so on, that ome is in- dulging in a process of Spying. “Be careful,” one wants to shout, “what you are saying and doing is goirg to be used. not necessarily against vou, but about you, and the chances are distinct that you will not like what 1s said.” ‘They never do. Most people have ! images.of themselves. In regard to these ego-images they are-grossly. biased—in favor of & pic- | ture of themselves which exists only in their-own imaginations, The fact that one specimen, of their however, and built up exalted for in-! stance, may indul in some constant trivial action which is, nevertheless, interesting material from the stand- point of others is regarded by the vic- tim as unfair, The chances are that most people who unwittingly, “find” themselves in works of fiction are incensed at the re- sult, although the t may be quite a striking one, and one which does jus- tice to the model. It is a real tribute to an author if he is able to see the truly interesting traits of buman beings and then put them on paper so that these shadows retain some of the essential interest which first intrigued him. It may ook easy, but it is one of the most difficult of writing tasks: the novelist who achieves success with no more plot “than a rabbit” has done more, in & sepse. than the man who | happens to be gifted with the old-fash- ioned wgair for clever trances and exits, the interweaving of “threads,” and 50 k. The plotless novel, if one may call it that, works itself out just as life works itself out. Most readers of books have always feit, in the back of their heads, thai there was something artificial, and unreal. in the way things happened in some of the world’s great- est stories, “This stricture in no sense takes away from the greatness of such books; it merely expresses the sense of artific ity which undoubtedly . characterizes many of our classic expressions in the novel form. ‘This business of bringing one char- acter, or group of characiers, up to a certain peint, then leaving them for hundied pages, in order to bring som more characters to the same point, is book stuff, rather than the stuff of real life. Affairs In real life do not siways work out so neatly! The hero does not aopear st just the Tight moment: he may fall down the stairs, and be carted away to the hespital in real life. whereas in the old-fashioned work of fiction he was neyer known to slip up at just the wrong time. In other words, the reader. although ‘haps uncon- sciously, got the idea that things were Lappening, ne. because they did hap- pen so, but heczuse the writer decreed them to happen to for perfecily good reasons of plot, which he called “in- terest.” . = The rebellion against this sert of thing came with the various “realist” and “naturalist” schools of fiction. to various forms of which many of our modern novelists belong. whether they admit their adherence or not. It was seen that if the genuine - terest In types is there, to begin with, human beings alone are sufficient & make a work of fiction “go.” Plot. in the old-fasilioned sense. need not be thrown overboard, but it is not an ential, and only the greatest stickler among readers will demand it. A good story is the demand, and it has been. discovered by most modern rexCeis thal a human being, and espe- cinlly & eollection of human beings, may be & good ctory. A good story. that is. if the autho possesses, in the frst place. apprecia- tion, observation and an wnderstand- ing of the psychology of interest; and, in_the second place. if he is the pos sessor Of the power to use words to creabe living. character. Many & wriicr who ean. use words in other ways in-capable fashion ialls dewn.here.. The ability to weave words to stand. for. men. and women, and. to make the reader see them as men and women rather than mere collections of words, is mot given. to every human being, - although etmt as if every human being_either thought he posscssed that ability or at Jeast hankered to have it. Aliveness is the guality which the good storv presents _above everything else. Whether it tells mu¢h of & “story” .or not, its men and women must be alive, and so impress the reader. If they are. he will feel that he has read a good novel, judged by the standards of 1932. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands MPARCIAL, Montevideo~—The| crimipality now so prevalent in the country is, in our opinion, the fruits of an undesirable immi- gration. A new crime, partieularly brutal, by one who has not .long been, admitted to our shores, has again fixed public attention upon the source of 100 much of our outlawry. And it is | not only erimes of violence which have been trateable to these elements. Vio- lators of the laws againsl narcoties. | smuggling, trafficking _in women and counerfeiling are -also too often charageable to those who, ostensibly | coming to our country to found new | homes. and under voluntary mssurances | that they will obey our laws. imstead ‘:oun seek lo cirtumvens the code, ".0 ‘mdull:- in any flagrancies .which wiil obtain them an easier living than can | be secured through honest labor. When the remedy of deportation is | sometimes invoked it is found that the 1(-mmmevs where these malleasants | originated will not take them back {upon any terms, and thus we are lefi in a truly desperate state of ex to acts subversive of public safety and | tranguillity. | 'x'lg\-ju can no longer be any doubt | put that we have been too M 1 | our immigration policies. | thrown open our doors. | tmity for aliens, but rather for license. | We have ta a coterie of habitual eriminals - une cur protection. who when detected in the performance of some outrageous crime, plead that they were forced to that extremity by in- ability to find any lawful employment. We have till lately been both blind and deaf to all these demiructive phenom- ena, but ‘the time' has arrived when we can be no longer indifferent. if we are to maintain our integrity as a, | nation. Political doctrines which offer us as a prey to foreign machinations can no longer be endured or justified * * Prize Cat Talks In German Lansuage. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna—A feature of the International Cat Show, now being held in this city. is a small Maltese, called Mutzi. which can talk the German language, at least in an elementary respect.- His vocabulary consists of the words “ja.” “nein” and “maus” (meuse). the latter, no doubt, being s favorite article of diet, This cat is also said to be able to sing. in a menner different from the usual | feline vocalizations. There has been some talk of arranging a conceri for him over the radio. at which he will render a selection or two from his repertoire. * x « * Banditry Is Ancient Manchurian Business. | Manchuria Daily Nevs, Politer forms of bandiury- | tion—have bean drive:i aut under the new conditions in Manchoukuo, their reverting to the basic principle of robbery under arms. Peo- ple here will recall, that one of the complaints. leveled at the old regime by the Japanesé was the system of ter ing . Chinese residents in the rail exempted agreement. Here is & typical comver- sation between a 'Chinese policeman. acting for the local tax bully outside the railway zone and a Chinese farmer in the 8. M. R. area. Cop—Here is your tax bill, $50 please. i p | Cough! Farmer—1 am not obliged to pay taxes except those charged by the Japa- nese. 3 Cop—Dan't quibble, The "Japs.don't g0" chough. = You are getting too ch. Your name is on the list. Pay up. | Nebraska may take sometimes. it” would | ! | | | i ' \ .| omy are largely pioneer sins. Dr. Frank Farmer—I refuse. War boo gay chen.' (Maj. Wade please note.) Cop—Dear, dear. You refuse to pay. How annoyirz. So that’s that. well, si jen. . . But, er, by the way. Den't let me see you, or your wife, or your children, or your relatives, Or .your spavined pony -outside the Japanese area. If you wander into our district accidents may happen. . = LoOk oul{ And the po'tceman would stroll awey from the borderline where, the conver- sation had tuken place, until he was re- called Dby~ the panic-stricken -farmer with an off¢r of compromise 20 and I tile at poverty. EREE | Selfish. Job Ho'ding Blamed in Transvaal. The Star, Johannesburg.~To the Editor: Much has been said and writ- ten about unemployment, yet no one seems to have been able 1o get down L0 yijyal wo The effort will have been the cause. worth while if we can but show that every avenue has been explored, and there are many. instances where: con- ceried action is necessary to combat the sélfishness menifested in certain spheres of commércizl activit There is the case of the married woman whose husband is earning suffi- cient to keep the home going. She should stay al home so thal some poor unfartunate could take her pl Then there is the father who probably holas a moinagerial post and whe sees to il that his sons and daughters ure kept on while others, less favored, have to accept reirenchment. A remedy for this lies in compelling employers to en- gage juniors, under the age of 21 male or demale. thieuzh the Juvenile Affairs | Board. As the family hist of such junio:s would b regisiered, billels would only be given to those whose families were in needy circumstances. . Some- thing must be done to help the unem- ployed; ness and greed in this city in the light of present-day distress. HAMISH. WY Knitting for Debutanies Urged Instead of Smokes. Irish Independent. Dublin.—One of the reasons aavanced for the somewhat weneral acceptance of she cigarette in debutante circles is that it gives.the seli-conscious young woman something to do with her hards. . What's the mat- ter with a bit o' knitting? The High Test. From the Columbia State The papers tell about.s man who recovered his speech when kicked by But we’ll bet he couldn't say if it was white mule. a mu'e. “sarsaparilla” George and Will. From the Minneapoiis Journal . The other Will Rogers made the grade_easily in the Oklahoma pri- maries. The other George Notis in heart from the fact. . Optimism. From the Dayton Paily News. An American firm has ordered 250,- 000_Christmas trees from Britich Co- Jumbia. despite. the number of ;peisons who have decided thére no longer is & Santa Claus. | the | meny evils and would inc: “Make: it | £xploit their full implications, mass t ! 1o ‘There is far too much selfish- | | | the biological I8! THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. “This is & sort of book that no single human being on earth is really equipped to write,” says Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, haneatly | of an extensixe organization in Wash- | and modestly, in the prologue of his recent book, “Thunder and Dawn"-—the thunder of all the ominous events of ihe past two decades and the dawn which he hopes he aces ahead. It is, accord- ing to justice and logic that in a debate the burden of J)rool is placed on the affirmative and the presumption in favor is with the negative. The one who argues for & change from existing ! comnditions has the harder task and the one who speaks for the continuance of things as they are usually has the audi- ence with him, at least at the start ‘This is e, in u sense. even when public opinion is most dissatisfied with things as they sre and earnestly desires a change for the better. People are in- | clined to shake their heads and say:, Yes. that sounds very well. We should | like 10 believe that he knows what he | is taking sbout wnd that things. sre | #0ing to change for the better, but, alter all, he is only offering theories. He can’t prove what the results will ac- tually be.” For this reason the “thun- der” part of Glenn FPrank's book, In which he diagnoses present-day condi- tions in the Western World, is perhaps more convincing than the “dawn” part in which he suggests remedies. Most docvors will probably agree that it is easier. in most cases. to diagnose a dis- ease than to cure it. However, Glenn Frank's remedies sound so reasonable and sor possible thet we hope in some way they will assist in & cure. He dis- claims all rosy optimism, based on tem- perament or on social or philesonhic heorizing. and believes that the first | lep Lo & cure s to face the most dis- couraging facis without evasion. xoxox % | In the prologue of “Thunder and Dewa” ve are toid ibai what the West- ern World needs is & new. Renaiss:nce, 4 new Reformalion. and & new indus- | trial revolutiony The divisions of the first chapter indicats the changing ideals which have dominated the Twen- Py | | chapter Prophets of Doom Speak,” the vario fears which haunt different groups of thinking people - wilh regard ta the future of civilizatton are diccus not casu:lly dismissed. “The liierature of despair, however, can haid- | Iy be dismissed as the gloomy rational zations of tived prophets” ‘There is fear that rapid growth in population may soon leave sianding | toom only and that the “colored races f the Orient” may, overwhelm the white psvehological fear is that individval mind is b:coming swamped by the crowd-mind. The no- Htieal fear is eoncerned with the pos- sible failure ef democraey. The eco- nonde fear i« for the safetv of caviialism. . The adminitrative fe'r je that “the scsle and comvlexitv: of the organized enternrises of- Western life have outstripned fhe existing mana- gerial capacity of Western man.” The . moral fear “freezes the heirts of many students of the individual and- insitu- | Honal conduet of the contemmorery ' —the feer that the new fresdom om old troditiniic means onl a new Atv and a new epece. FPlowine the.chapter on (> “Pranh-'= of BDoom.” #s an antidoyt “The Lit- eraiure end Le hin of Hope. % x 2 . One of the most suggestive chapters in “Thinds® and D*wn” is the one called “Hum-nim Throvgh Technol- ogy.” In it Dr. Frank first di-cusses the philosophy of-Gandhi. and of many ' others even in the Westery World: that | the only -salvation for manity s | through desertion of modern machine industry and & retwrn to hand crafts. This philosophy. of social mystics .must | remain theoretical, because few would | consider i -practieally. possible. | chine economy, however bad, is likely | to continue; conscious reversion to a nrimilive tvpe is not easily accomp- | lished. But the sins of machine econ- | thinks, as-machine economy “is a mere | fledgling among the socfal schemes of | history. It is less than 200 years old.” His belief .i¢ that ‘the machine economy is a tool of .emancipation that western ! man bas not yet-mustered the wit to | use wiseiy.” It mav become the most valuable instrument we bave for human , betterment. It may be . argued -that he true champions of the masses are encineers and inventors; -rather ihen the soei2l reiormers,” -Decentral- ization of industry. doing awsy with congesied indusirial - centers, - and- & “functional correlation of industry and egriculture” would . help to el tha ahora | ‘nate ! te the ! farm problem with the industrial prob- | lem. . Utoplan as it may seem, i Frank thinks i ! centralization = ¥ possible that with de- 0. the. hands of & busi- s and ndustrisl leadership that will distribution ‘may our -seemingly - cont nents at one: and G ) iligher wages: (3) lower pricas; and (4) larger total profits.” Such a program sems in (nese days like a charming fairy tale! If jt could be accomplished then would follow that abundant leisure for the industrial wofker of which the aduli-educationists have for long been planning to make uce, and the effect of specialized - routine - work - would - no longer be so deadening for the indi- ker. Almest any one could endure four howrs a day of routine work, if the icmainder cf the day wera free foi chescn Pursuits, creaii.e tu'll.on where capacity for it m.zht Cxist, | I | I * X % ok A street may have nality, de- teimined by the por.aos whe GBIt 1o Louis Golding, perbaps influencsd by psychopathic studics, has created a | street with a dual personality in his novel The real = thepros e > fictitious Magnolia sireet is sali to be in Mo Eng’and <. inhabited by Jews on one side 2nd gentilss on the other. The stol the street and its deniz>ns eor ers the period from 1910 to 1930. Rommce. trogedv and some comedy are mingled in the life of the street Aany of its men take up their shere of the burden of the World War &nd -pay the penaily, partial or entire, of doing their duty Domestic ioys and sorrows are somsiimes as important to the dwellers in Magnolia sireet as the larger ones which are aflecting world. The character erson wh ed to b the . whole | perhaps in- Berman, who | to marry Jchn Cooper. but un. selfishly postpones her marriage because i she will not cause unhappiness to her old mother, vh»-holds strict ideas about mixed marria Wien her mother dies, she hoves that she may. marry John, who will shortlv be at home leave. from the Nerth Sea mine swecper. where_he is doing his war service. But a seemingly 1uthlessfate makes it her duty to care for a sister and her child when the husband whese job it was to care for them has deserted. So. Rose £0es on waiting. and we wonder wheth- er the relatives for whom sh> has sece rificed her:elf were socially and morally worth the sacrifice. . f e v . Warden Lewis F. Lawes in his book | “Twenty Thousand Years.in Sing Sing.” , though he believes in psyehology and psychiatry as accessories in the ‘treat- | ment. of criminals, says that more re- liance may often .be . placed upon the fudgment of a trained and experienced person accustomed to dealing with erip« inals. He finds that prisoner: uSually impressed with great r-spect for psychalogical tests. “Few ‘persons will respond freely to & formal oral question- ing. Priconers are- especially on their quard with any one .who. asks. theni things, This attitude wi expressed nointedly * ¢ * by & prizovr tho was Uing of his -risncss before the yehiztrist. ‘He ask-d m» why I went wrong. 1'answered him, “Don't ask me, tell me.”*® | Ming Tombs cons 1 { near. Peking, W | are met I stlence all talk of poli F. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is & special department devoted solely to she handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposs] the services ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This service is free. .Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to whieh you are entitled. Your obligation is only 3 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Adoress Tne Star Information Burean, Frederic J. Haskin, Direc or, Washington, D. C. Q. How much must & world's record mark be broien bofore there is F. A. The American Olympic Associa tion says tha & be'ier performance according to time would create & new record. Q .Is it true that & postage stamp | is not & stamp’—D. E. A. The term postage stamp. as used t the present time is romething of a misnomer. Wken the adhesive stamp was first intrcduced it was known as 2 label, ‘The stomp Is really what we call the posimark. Q. Are the stock exc York London P: crument con rol¢—J, . A. The siock exchuinges of New York and London are noc under: govern- mental- contrcl, but the Paris Bourse is subject to government control and supervision, ges of New under gov- . children Giseases?— Q. What per en.age ba.e the usual chiluie MM A. The commiitee on the ccst of wedical cara 1eports on & siudy of 400 0 persons, showing that by the tme they had reached 20 vears of age 39 per cent had hid measles: 77 per cent had had vhooning coush: 63 per cent, mump:; per ¢ent, chicken pox; 11 cen* riet fover, and 10 per . diphtheria ol Q. When was the gateway of the ? B. A. The gateway of the Ming Tombs, constructed n 1540, catedlv revaived: ihe It hos been rep: zde in 1785 by order last repairs were of the Emperor. Q. Can a man be forced into bank- rupicy?—J. S. W A. Therg, are two kinds of bank- ruptcv—voluntaty and involuntary. At any time the resuirem-nts of the law the eredt ois mav force a man into involuntary bank'upt:y Q In wht Stifes are marriages performed . without licens23?—.J. McC. A. A license of some kind i< re- quired in everv. Sia‘e and toni oiv in the Uni‘ed S'a‘=; before a marrese ceremony may be p-rform: Q. Comosred * iih 2 row, how much dces a_sheen e2t2—V. F. A The B're'u of cats thAt the vesl ra‘io of ford eaten by theen to food €at'n by ca'tie is en_sheep to on* cow. Q. What was Stamtoerd, Conr *—D. G. A. It was sl sons.and was kpown for the first year by the Indlan name of Riphowam. cmpoced the “Stabat K. madievl Latin hvmn been written by Jacepone. a Pranci-c:n mank, in the thirieanth tury. Amerg the many seitings of the pr*m by emi- nent compossrs tre those of Josquin des Pres. Pelestina, Haydn, Rossini, Verdi Q. How much fertility is wasted by erosicm of ol i canpavicon with whet iv!"tskes t> make an aver:g: crop?—C. A that' approximately 21 tim s as much pant food s wash:d awsy by ercsion rly as is taken cut of thé soil by p.ants, and furthermore 4his plant feed can not be put back”s'n:s it has been washed complctely cff the scil. - Q. What was the name of the ship An‘m:1 Indvstry | in 1641 b¥ 29 ver- | C. . The Division of Soil Erosion says | | in which Jison Fleece>—P. S. R. A. The Argo. e LT Q. What are the first known celebra- tlons of a Christian- sacrament in the territory of -the 13 original United | Btates?—N. M. | A The ba of Manteo, friendly | chief of the Hatteras Indians, and the baptism of Virginia Dare. | <«Q. How many pepple live on the Aleuttan Islands?—P. S. A. The population is about 3,000 ‘This group is & chain of about 80 small | ialands belonging - to Alaska Territory, | separating the Sea of Kamchatka frcm the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, and extending nearly 1.600 miles from | east to west. The total area is 6.391 | square miles. Q. Where are the Government navy yards located?—P. T. A. A. The Government has navy located as follows: Boston. .. 2 Charleston, S. C.: Mare Island, Calif. New York, Brcokiyn, N. Y., Norfolk, Portsmouth, Va.; Pear] Harbor, Hawail; Philadelphia, Pa.. Portsmouth, N. H.. Puget Sound, Bremerton, Wash, and Washington, D. C. Q. Why is Liverpool a leading wheat market?—S. L. F. A. The reason for the importance of Liverpocl as a leading wheat market is the fact that Great Britain is one of the principal industrial nations of the world and consequently needs a great cupply of wheat to fezd her population, ce practizal'ly no foodstuff of this kind is grown in Great Britain. Q. When was the Order cf the Lion founded?—E. A. F. A. This Czechoslovakian order was founded in 1920 and is awarded only to foreigners who have merited recognition from the Czechoslovakian Republic in the field of civil activities. It has re- cently been bestowed up-n Edward-A. Pllene following the translation into Czech of his bouk, “Successful Living in This Machine Age.” Q. Is the will of Mary Washington in existence?—M. C. L. A The will of Mary Washington, mothier of George Washington, is on record in the Court House at Fred- ericksburg, Va. It is dated May- 20, 1778, ‘and admitted to probate October Q. Does it impair the flavor or food value of peaches to use a lye solution in peeiing them?—L. 8. A. The use of lye salution does not impair the flavor or food value of tbe fruit. The peaches remain in the .lye batih enly from 30 to 60 secoads and are well washed to remove the alkali The action of the lye merely loosens and partiaily dissolves the peel. sailed for the Golden Q. Where was the first country club n Amerfca?—W. L. A. The Country Club of Brookline, Mass., has_ this distinction. - It was establisted *in 1882 and in celebration | of its fiftiethr anniversary has-brought out a volume on its development hy Frederic H. Curtiss and John Heard cailed “The Country Club, 1882-1932. Q. Which State has the largest num- ber of broadcasting stations?—C. M. A. New York State leads with 52 sta- tions and Califcrnia is second with 43. Q. Does Lowell Sherman come of & family of actors?—R. A. A. His father, John Shermsn, wis a theatrical produder, associated {or many years with the Baldwin The-.>r in San Francisco.. His mother, J:lin Louise Gray, was an actress, whil grandmotner, Kate Gray, s lea lady -for Jundus Brutus Booth, fat of Edwin Booth. Q. Who offered I:emhI “‘l’ln by his solo flight to Fa: A.' Coh Lindbergh wom the O:t-'g Prize when he flew from New York to Paris on a non-stop fiight. Q. How man; Georg> V?—H, A. TFour; i Albirt; Duke Gloucester, y.living sons hes King B..X d, P:ince of Wales; ovie; Henty.-Duke of Pomeréve for Relief Is Subject of Lively Debate The cutstanding sbility of foriner Senater Atle> Pomerne has praved a barrier to any aitack; upon him per- sonally in relation-io his racent ap- paintment by Presideni. Hoover .to the Reconstruction .. Finanwe Gorporation, with the des'gnation that he be eleoted ohairman .of the .board. But- manv questions are being raised as-to whai really inspired the rpnoiniment. “President - Hoover s . reconstructing the Reconstruction Finance Corporp- tlon-on a Demmorstic basie coui Republican | been less -partizap-minded in making selection cf men for imoor(ant positions in Governmsnt 2 tion 't seems to have combined good bu:ingss wiih good poli- | fics,” in_the. opinion. of .the Lincoln State Journal «independent . Repub- Hean). dent) states: “This $3.800,000,000, car- poration, the mo:. gigantic finaneial .in+ stitution ever, coacziyad, is net and political foot ball. It the procuct af the President, He wants it to be a uc the Nation s it will be & su How: s nt's course in making ex-Senzio: Pomerene a member of the corposation, thus giving four of the seven places to the Demoera(s” is labeled “most unu:ual” by the Hart ford Daily Times (independent Dem e natural hat- the -Republican vme responsibility for cenduct of bureaus and depart- and not dclogate that authority e Times contend nhip. It is com: par the me! mon sense. pendent Democra ic) inquires “But does Mr. Hoover y that in all the Republican party thore is no”man of betier traiming than Senator Pomerene for this office? We had not supposed that disappearanze of brains extended from Republican siatesmen to Repub- lican authorities on bonds. X x oK % According to the estimate of the Ap- ion Pos.-Crescent (independent), “it move that s administratio been with 4 misun 1bl'c oninion and a cluttered as it has derstanding ol | seeming “attitude of desicing .to do only | dull and_proszic thing The Cin- cinnati . Times-Siar (Revublican). be- lieves that “if Hoover's purpose was to C.. he could -not' have made a beiter choice.” The Abilene Reporter tindependent Democratic) Sugges! “ItJooks at first blush as if the President has scored pretty heavil in hig seleetion of R. F. C. menibers The Birmingham Age-Herald (Demo= cratic) sces the President as having “won out in the little tug of war which hes been_geing on botween himself and Senate Democrats with regard to the composition ~of the R, ¥, C. beard.” Continuing-its discussion. this paper ré- calla: “Before Congress adjourned Mr. Hoover sought a rearrangement Which would have served to fend off- eriticism by making- the board ' bi-paftisan through being equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. This of- fer - was -turneg--down by BDemocrasie leadezs, who mace mo secret of their unwillingness ta share rasponsibility for ihe R. F. C. activities with the Presi- dent. - The Newport News Da'ly*Press (Dems ocratic) hold tha‘ the President “is pagsing the buex bes2fill holding it by & string, In order that he may call it L3 with the R In this selec- | TFhe AN.ona* Mirrar (indepen- | 8 | The Baltimore Sun (inde- in connection | back “should it prove-to be of “vaiue” The Spartanburg Herald (Democratie) views the selection as “an act 30 gen- erous that it recalls the story-of the Trojan horse.” The Milwaukee Jour- nal (independent) - advises that ‘s Harding or a Coolidge would have known that there aré times when the best politics of all is not to play polities.” What. were some of the criticisms that had already been directed at the corpo-ation? Some of thém weré voic- ing the ruspicion “that the tremendous power the R. F. C. wie ould be Uscd. for campaign . purpases—that is to say, that the Republican campaign would be financed out of loans made by the corporation. asserts the Provi- dence Evening Bulletin tindependent), as it declares “no such contingency can be assumed now with control in the hands” of the opposing party.” The Gary Post-Tribune (independent) con- tends: “There may have been. some Justified criticism of the corporation’s loan to Gen. Dawe:’ bank, but even that is very doubtful. The failure of a bank of that size might have set us back many months in our struggle cut of this economic situation.” The Buf- falo Evening News (independent Re- publican) is satisfied that the President has removed “any possible warrant for atiriouting to the R. F. C. partisan- ship of the Republican stripe at least.” And the Roanoke World-News (Demo- cratic) thinks “President Hoover has quite obviously acted to forestall future criticism of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its policies by Demo- cratic members of Congress, constantly seeking some pretext on which to at- tack the present administration.” ) Of Mr. Pomerene the New York Sun (independent) says: “He has sur- vived numerous political battles and bas done the_ prosecuting where Gov- ernment interests required. He should know how o steer the Reconstruction Finance Corporation clear of faveritism and unnecessary waste.,” The tribute |of the Lima News (independent) to the appointee is that “he seems to have established himeelf as an eviremel useiul citizen for Uncle Sam to cail cn when there i1s a hard Job of Woix to be done.” To the Columbia (8. C . Recard (independent Democratic) M Pomerene’s acceplahce “is an ecr. of the fact that the task will be at 2st honestly handled, alihovgh h- is no specialist in high finance.” ‘This opinion is echoed by the Houston Po:t- Dispatch (Democratic). The Akron Beagon Journal (independent Repub- liean) dec'aves “Mr. Pomerene has many qualifications for the place,” while the Hamilten (Ohio) Evening Journal (independent Democratic) is sure that “the whole Nation has the fullest confidence in former 'Sepator Pomerene, and at this particular phase of-our business life confidence is most essential” it asserts, A thought also expressed by the .Charleston (W, Va.) Daily Mail (independent Republican). | The Minneapolis Journal (independ- | ent Republican) sees. as the greatest | value in the appeintment “the | tage gained by the country at large— ;the advantage of having the Recon- struclion -Finance Corporation - in a | position to do business with delibera- tion and businesslike prudence, umhar- ried by vawping politicians, eager to criticize its every loan as an aet of | faveritism.” This thought is echoed by the Haverhill Evening Gazette (in- dependen* Repub'ican) when it de- elares: “The p-ople are mere inter- ested in having the corporation in capable ds than they<-ase in the partisan affiliation of its directors