Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1932, Page 8

HE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY....November 15, 1832 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business : 11¢h St and Pepnsylvania Ave. York Office: 110 East 42nd n‘ge':n e Lake Michitan Bundr opean Office: 14 Regent 8t., London, Ensland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month r | (when 60c per month | e Bvening and (when 5 Sundays) uriday’ Star | ) . .65¢ per month The Sunday Collection 8 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and Sunday....1yr.$10.00: 1 mo., 8 ily only .. yr. $6.00: 1 mo ay only .. .. $400; 1mo.. & All Other States and Canada. | afly and Sunday. .1yr.$12.00; 1mo. $1.00 | ily only . 1yr. $8.00: 1mo. 75 indsy only I1yr. $5.00; 1mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | %o the use for republication of all news dis- | tehes credited to it or mot otherwise cred- | Rec i5 (his paper and salso the local news | publiehed herein. All rights of publication of | pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. — Gov. Roosevelt Accepts. | I a spirit that combines political sportsmanship with patriotic statesman- ship, President-elect Roosevelt has ac- | cepted President Hoover’s invitation to s conference at the White House on the issues raised by Great Britain and Prance in connection with war debts. The Governor proposes that the conver- | sations between himself and Mr. Hoo- | wver shall be “wholly informal and®per- sonal.” To that condition there can and will be no objection, if from no other stand- | point than that the President-elect is almost, if not quite, still a private citi- | wen, and without constitutional author- ity of any sort to enter into binding commitments. That the meeting be- tween the outgoing and the incoming sc | el oc x | seen but a tiny fraction of a moment, | pays higher dividends than honest toil. | have made the same discovery. Their professional star gasers will be up all night on the chance, and it is to be presumed that there will be numerous amateurs to keep them company. The Leonids are worth a good deal 8t trouble. Few, indeed, must be the men and women of our time who have not heard from some aged grandparent the story of the great shower of No- vember 13, 1833, when the heavens “rained fire” and many anticipated the end of the world and acted accordingly. ‘That celebrated spectacle was just such | a meeting with the Leonid debris as is expected tonight. Any “shooting star” may be a thrill- ing experience. Witnessed against the velvet black depths of a moonless night, the innate poetry of the human louli responds to the flash and the memory | remains bright through one's whole life- time. Only a speck of cosmic dust, burning to ashes at contact with the| | atmosphere of the earth, the expiring| “fire ball” receives the tribute of re- membrance for the beauty of its death.| With the whole Eastern firmament| ablaze with aerolites, as it was 99 years| ago, even the most stolid and indif- | ferent creature alive might be justified | in feeling poetical. Ancient man, be- holding such & scene, was terrorized. The progress of the race is exemplified by the fact that modern man has no fear of that kind. The Leonids are not | dangerous. | ————r———————— ‘ The Business of Panhandling. | The experiences of & Star reporter | who for three days made & personal in- | vestigation of the “profession” of pan- handling, which has grown to such pro- | portions h-re during the depression, should be illuminating to the kind- | hearted Washingtonians who are vic- timized every day by these racketeers. The reporter found that panhandling His erstwhile brethren of the street number in Washington today is lggion. Their profits from appealing to the sympathy of generous men and women were recently estimated at $1,460,000 & Ohief Executives will nevertheless be productive of the utmost good is not | to be questioned. Out of their confab- | ulation is bound to emerge something | ©of more permanent importance than an | exchange of views, however “informal | and personal” it is. Gov. Roosevelt is desirous of having President Hoover's ideas in hand when the President-elect meets Democratic leaders at Warm | Bprings later in November, and makes | the sensible suggestion that these lead- | ers be invited to consultation with the White House “at the earliest oppor- tunity.” ‘While the debts question is attracting attention, citizens everywhere will do well“to examine the report just sub- mitted by the “Committee for the Reconsideration of Intergovernmental Debts,” headed by Alired P. Sloan, jr., president of the General Motors Cor- poration, The report is the fruit of a Nation-wide survey of public opinion on the concrete issue of what should be done about the debts—whether they should be eollected in full, reduced or canceled. After plumbing popular sentiment in every stratum of American society, the committe recommends reconsideration and revision of the war debts by the United States in such s manner “as ‘would- best advance the interests of American trade and promote the pros- perity of the American people.” Re- Jectihg complete ecancellation as “neither an economic necessity nor s practical political possibility,” the re- port suggests extension of the mora- torium, to give time for negotiations looking toward readjustment of the whole debt structure. Such readjust- ment, the report contends, is made necessary by the world situation as it has developed since the funding of the debts, the reduced capacity to pay of the debtor nations, the direct economic interests of the United States, and the destructive consequences of failure to Teach an understanding th harmony with the economic and financial factors involved. - ‘The report is indorsed by as repre- sentative & group of political, business, | farm, labor and economic leaders as ever agreed upon a controversial public issue in this country. Republicans like Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank O. Lowden and George W. Wickersham join with Democrats like John W. Davis, James M. Cox and Alfred E. Smith in approving the recommenda- tions. Farm spokesmen like Henry A. Wallace of Towa and Walter B. Mitchell | of Idaho align themselves in favor of | the report with labor leaders like President D. B. Robertson of the | Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen snd Enginemen and President A. F ‘Whitney of the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen. Captains of industry like President Frederick B. Patterson of the National Cash Register Co. and Clarence M. Woolley, chairman of the board of the American Radiator Co., head a galaxy of commercial and finan- cial leaders who recognize that America’s palpable self-interest the debt question merits reconsideration. ‘There is much to be said on both sides of that question. It will assist the open-minded to study the Sloan report before jumpirg to conclusions either way. ——— Game ducks are well guarded and, re- gardless of demands for earlier inaugu- ration, lame ducks are still well pro- bected. e The Sky Tonight. I the astronomers happen to be a grand display of celestial pyro- technics n the sky tonight. Between 11 o'clock this evening and dawn tomorrow the earth should be passing through the historic swarm of Leonid meteors, peregrinating particles of heavenly debris encountered every thirty-third year. Collisions are ex- pected to occur, and the spectacle in that event ought to be memorable. But the sastronomers are not quite sertaln. The Leonids may have disin- fegrated. They have been traveling sround the sun for more than ten cen- turles, and the wear and tear of their Journeyings must have been consider- shle. Last year, when the earth hur- ried past an outer fringe of the swarm, there was “an excellent shower,” and more than a hundred “shooting stars” an hour were reported, but something may have happened during the twelve months since that exhibition. On the gther hand, the best show of the cen- tur ““recast for the present occa- s “re 4 any show at all. The year—almost two-thirds of the total amount sought by the Community Chest. There are two lessons that might be drawn from The Star reporter's story, which appears elsewhere in these col- umns today. | The first is the ease with which these | men escape detection by the police in working their “racket” on the public| streets. The second is the generosity of Wash- | ingtonians when their sympathies are | | that one of us is & bad actor.” is expected to be ready for launching next May. It is said that one hundred feet or more will be added to her length in order that the Princess Elizabeth will outstrip the pride of France, the Normandie. A sister giantess is con- templated, now that the financial sinews are assured. Detalls are with- held as to her dimensions, but it seems | late: a safe prophecy that if it becomes necessary they will be of a character to keep the Union Jack flying at the masthead of the biggest thing afloat. Americans, who are, of course, ex-| pected to do most of the traveling on these mammoths, must contemplate | with a keen sense of national chagrin | that this country has nothing but the | pre-war German-built Leviathan to | match against the growing fleet of fast ships which cross the Atlantic under British, German, French and Italian | flags. Remorse is none the less as Amer- | icans realize that it is their money, | loaned to European borrowers, that to ! a certain extent. at least, makes it pos- sible for the Old World to indulge in | these maritime luxuries and to keep them profitably going once they are put | in service. | ————— A Community Chest program that an- [ nounces the exact amount of each dollar that goes for working expense leaves no excuse for any business man to hesitate about an investment to avert conditions which are unfavorable to health and comfort as well as to clear gonscience. | Charity is at its best when it is more practical than emotional. o Vaudeville performers are imitating Alfred E. Smith. He will no doubt bear the ordeal pstiently and attempt no| repartee such as Sir Henry Irving in- | culged in when he remarked to a player | who had given a gay and much applaud- | ed imitation of him, “I am convinced | The person who made a mistake in registration that deprived Senator and | Mrs. Lewis of the voting privilege in Chicago is one individual who deserves a period of unemployment. However, ballot or no ballot, the genial Senator's constituency will never doubt for s moment that his heart was in the right place. N In addressing a meeting of soldiers Newton Diehl Baker seemed inclined to | poke sly fun at himself as a representa- tive of Mars. In that case he may feel flattered by the suggestion of “cabinet | makers” that he will prove one joke | worth repeating. —————— Cincinnati milk men have gone on | aroused by the sight of human suffering | | | —even when that suffering is counter- | strike. The Queen City may be tempted feit and for the moment simulated. |to solve the situation by imitating other How large, how overflowing, would be | large towns that have decided to reopen | Washington's contributions to the Com- | the breweries, which are expected to munity Chest if the organized philan- Provide revenue, beverage and free thropies therein represented could for |lunch all at once. one day spread before the common gaze S the actual cases of distress and misfor- | tune with which they must deal each | day in the year! How the nickels and the dimes and the quarters and the dollar bills would fill the chest, if for & dsy Washington's helpless and stricken citizens could parade themselves, as these professional panhandlers parade themselves, on the streets! How the Chest would prosper if it could stoop to the physical exploitation of human mis- ery and distress, to touch the hearts of 1ts supporters! Of course, the Chest cannot do that. ‘What organized charity and philan- thropy seek to prevent is the exploita- tion of their afMicted beneficiaries. They seek to shield and to protect the men and women and children, for whom they labor, from the mortification and demoralization that would accompany their exhibition. ‘Thus the professional beggar on the public street has a distinct advantage over the innocent and helpless men, women and children who depend upon the organized charities for their relief. The panhandler, for professional rea- sons, advertises himself and his distress, concocts some pitiful story and makes | his appeal direct. There are fine men and women in Washington who, with their children, are wholly dependent upon charity for food and clothing. They still have pride. Their physical want is even less than the mental ter- ture of helplessness and hopelessness. They refuse to advertise themselves. Is| it not worth while to help them? Is| not the money that in the sweet spirit | of charity, and in the realization of our responsibilities to the unfortunate, is deposited with the Community Chest more sure to accomplish the greatest | good than the nickels and dimes and | quarters that go to bulge the pockets of professional panhandlers? | e A meeting of the President and his successor would be observed with at- The radio charges indicate that it| costs almost as much to elect a candi- | date as it does to put over a brand of coffee or shaving soap. In spite of the | frivolous accompaniment, the presi- dential office is still regarded with popu- | lar respect and affection. President-elect Roosevelt has fin- ished a grueling experience with noth- ing more serious as a result than a cold in the head. Nevertheless, some meai should be found to render a presidential campaign less of & physical ordeal. ————————— Should Alfred E. Smith undertake the reorganization of Government de- partments he will be heard with even | greater attention than before when he says, “Well, let's look at the record.” et It was in a magazine founded by Ben Franklin that Calvin Coolidge's obser- | vations on public economy were printed. It must be adraitted, in all deference, | that Ben's philosophy was the more convincing. —e———————— Naturalists and statesmen agree that | it is not falr to expect & lame duck to | fly fast. | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Don't Expect Too Much. We welcome the leader ‘The ballots have named— ‘Whom listener and reader Have loudly acclaimed. To joy we'll awake him With songs and applause— But do not mistake him For old Santa Claus. He can't be expected To bring in a night The gifts you've selected As just about right. He comes in November To further a cause. E in | be | France with the super-liner Normandie. | correct in their predictions, there should | John Buil's answer to the Normandie, | tentive interest by the White House| news correspondents to ascertain | whether Mr. Hoover did not mingle a certain element of condolence with his congratulations. | e If the British newspapers are sure | that & further moratorfum has been ar- | ranged, it is possible that “Prof. Skin- ] ner,” traveling for the Bank of Engiand, | | did find something worth talking about. T | The Atlantic Blue Ribbon. | | Great Britain quite zvidently has no | | intention of surrendering the Blue Rib- e | bon of the Atiantic. That trophy of | Hard to Please. mercantile marine supremacy having | They offer us a choice each day. | passed two years ago to Germany, | Taxation’s kinds are many. | when she commissioned the Bremen| -The people hesitate and sa: | and the Europa, the laurels of the big | “We really don’t like any!” | herring pond are now challenged by FAR R, A Hesitant Wish. “Don't you wish you were a motion | 8o try to remember He's not Santa Claus. Always Extant. “What do you think of debt cancel- lation?” | “In my opinion,” said Senator Sor- | ghum, “debts are like the sun and the stars. They are always there, no mat- ter how you pull down the blind and | try to go to sleep and forget them.” They say that silence is golden— | maybe for the reason that, like the yel- | low metal, it gets scarcer every year. | which in its turn was Prance's reply to | |the two German greyhounds, is the | announcement that London bankers | have offered to lend enough money to | | the Cunard Line for rushing to com- pletion the two monster ships designed | several years ago to regain the cham- | Depression conditions required the | Cunard 1o cease work on the half- finished 73,000-ton giant “534.” Even the British treasury, which in the past has been accustomed Lo make generous grants in ald to shipping companies, did not find it feasible to help the Cunard Line to go on with what is planned to be the most colossal craft that ever left shipwrights' hands. | plonship of the Atlantic for Britannia. | picture star?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “and yet I don't like the idea of a press agent. I can get plenty of people to talk about me behind my back without having to pay them.” “A careless word or an inadvertent | glance,” sald Hi Ho, the Sage of China~ town, “may speak more plainly than | the most carefully studied oration.” Who Should Worry? ‘When debts we discuss The remarks will run thus, In words that are small And get nowhere at all. ‘The creditor sighs, | Now, with cheap money rates prevail- | |ing in London, the great Liverpool| concern has been able to obtain the| necessary financing without govern- ment assistance. “You're in debt to your eyes.” ‘The debtors then say, “We are happier that way!" “Times is sho' gittin' better,” said DAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Dark comes earlier now, and light T A trite statement, perhaps, but one which means a great deal to all those who find the seasonable changes inter- esting. Not every one can be amused so ly. Many men and women today require the most elaborate artifices to intrigue their fancies. Usually their amusements are thor- oughly expensive; at the same time they hold little genuine, permanent satis- action. He has a great advantage in the ceaseless struggle to avold- boredom who enjoys the simple but complex, the common but mysterious, natural dis- plays free to all. » % Sundown comes earlier and sunup | preciate, whether one's hands could put | opportunity to all. comes later now, in relation to the usual habits of mankind. Times_of reporting for work do not change because of the seasons, even in cities ‘where the so-called “daylight saving” is put into effect. Daylight saving never fooled any one yet, not even the chickens. In Summer many men get up and go to work in the light, even though they leave their homes very early. In Winter they arise in darkness, eat breakfast by electric light, and leave their homes while the first glim- mers of daylight are appearing. The time by the clock is just the same in both cases, but the appearance of the landscape, including the home and garden, is quite different. * ok x % Thus Nature takes a hand in the affairs of men; she brings changes of landscapes to those who live by time- pleces, whether they realize it or not. She unrolls a panorama for them, whether they look at it or not. She is large, she contains multitudes of pic- tures, not being like niggardly artists who paint one a year, and even that with trepidation. There is a fresh picture in Nature every morning, but few people get up | early enough to see it in the proper “light.” “Getting up early” seems to be a mystery to many city folks, who simply do not go to bed early enough to enable them to want to arise in time for the best of natural shows. John Nance Garner has no difficulty in getting up early, one may wager, because he goes to bed every night at ® o'clock, and hence wants to arise at first Ught. 3 ‘There are thousands of persons in his class in this respect, hundreds of them living in the large cities. Mostly they are people from the States, prob- ably from small towns where it was the custom to “go to bed with the chick- ens,” as the saying has it. x ok ox % Many city people invariably make it & rule to go to sleep early, whenever possible, although they likewise make it a rule to say nothing about it. The truth is that human beings, in the mass, are ruled, not by their own likes and dislikes, so much as by mass opinions. One of these is that it is old-fashioned to go to bed before 11 o'clock or midnight. No doubt there are scores of sleepy persons, who ought to be in bed by § or 10 o'clock, who nevertheless yawn away two more hours every evening simply because it is the national habit of certain other city folks. The wise person simply makes his own rules of conduct, in this life, and adheres to them whenever it is pos- sible for him to do so without harm to others. Only benefit will come to him, he knows, from his faithful adherence to sane laws of living. Here every one must be his own judge and jury. . There are three topics the wise man never discusses promiscuously. They are religion, politics, and his own per- sonal habits. These are sacred things, and not to be bandied about. Getting up ought to be, and mostly is, a matter of having had sufficient l»le,x!% and actually des to e early riser by the clock msy forgiven for thinking that he has much the best of it, in comparison with the multitudes of hurrying, sleepy human beings who protestingly haul themselves | from the covers at the latest possible | moment on a Winter’s morning. | He who retires early naturally gets {up early. Anybody would! That is a | simple fact not altogether understood | by the many who lament their failure to see sunrises and the like (if there is anything similar to sunup). | . Some of the most amazing color com- | binations in this latitude come in | winter time. Then dawn is a thing of | beauty, indeed, one which the artistic | eye can see, and the artistic spirit ap- it on canvas or not. | The happy thing about these early | morning pictures is that they are so unconscious in effect upon the beholder. | He does not, at least at the time, realize that he is looking at anything in_particular. 'I;he solemnity of the gallery is ab- sent. itself between him and the spectacle. All that there is, in the way of light, is there before him, increasing in in- tensity every moment. The entire spectrum is doing its best for his benefit. There is no effort here, no striving, no straining. If the spec- the spectacle. If he does not look, likewise it makes no difference. The sun does not call man a fool, because man may not happen to agree with its way of coming up or of not coming up. Happily for the Divine forces, they are in nowise subject to the tempera- mental will of mankind, else they would function one dey and not the next, perhaps. * o ox % |is done to electric light now. This gives an entirely different complexion | to the meal. Breakfast ought to be, in many respects, the best meal of the day. This does not mean that it neces- sarily include so-called heavy foods, but simply that it be relished the most. Yet here the late riser finds himself hurried through as little breakfast as possible, with consequent inability to enjoy what he does eat. By contrast, he who gets up in time to eat a lelsurely breakfast also, by the same token, has enough time to enjoy the meal, not only in & physical sense, but also in its esthetic aspects. Dining by artificial light is always an interesting process, if the lights be correctly placed, and of sufficient power to give proper illumination. What is more dismal than an inadequately lit room? A room in total darkness is a much more cheerful place than scores of our modern living rooms, wherein a dingy appearance is given to everything simply through lack of wattage. Breakfast in the dark by the fire- side lends a particular enchantment to the day’'s most important meal. Such a NuV Not even a catalogue obtrudes tator looks, it makes no difference to| Eating breakfast, for the early .riser,| bR 15, and Plo- bree. _Illus- Dol Houghton Miffiin WILLIAM PENN: neer. By Bonamy ted. Boston: THE LIFE OF ANDREW CARNEGIE. By Burton K. Hendrick. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Two and a half centuries of Ameri- can life stand in between these two. A straight line of development, how- ever, marks the long period, with only here and there points of danger, signs of breakage. Political disunion, & war | of secession, industrial unrest, material | self-seeking, these greatest of the | threats against the new adventure of a free government on this side of the | world. ~Freedom, individual freedom |in religion. politics, business, social am- | bition, these united, mount high as ‘These, too, a bul- | wark against encroachments of Old | World _institutions. | Outstanding among those early ad- venturers in the new life is William Penn, Quaker founder of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Under him -ind others uka-mlna;d ‘t:’ equally | sagacious a great _continen - sion began, stretching, -lly,”‘?‘n coast to coast, its boundaries the two great oceans. With him began the pio- neer life that, since him, has expanded, | largely through a development of the natural resources of the earth into a vast industriaiism, upon one of whose | mountain tops appears Andrew Car- negie, another son of the British Isles, another pioneer of American industrial- ism as Priend Penn was of political and religious freedom in lonial America. ok ox % Why another blography of William | Penn? The man has already been written and overwritten. A question relevant to most of the great ones of the earth. We are coming to see, how- ever, that worth. eminence, greatness |in any fleld or line must accept the penalty, or the glory, of lical resurrections. A man who dies with his time is left to a quiet and unmo- lested grave. A man who lives beyond his time must upon occasions of de- manding importance come out from his sleep in support of that ‘hour, or in rebuttal of this movement. So it is in complete propriety that the truly great ones emerge again and again into the open of vital events calling for vision and wisdom. 1t is in this respect largely that the new blogrlghy differs in purpose from the old. — mueremr form vxn, l.nh 'v.r!'}e‘ main, a e) rom to death, ‘m&nx mn of im- portance and summing in the ful reund praise, or blame, of the character under consideration. Eulogy on the one hand, condemnation on the other | stamped these relatively self-contained exhibits of individual life. ‘Today the subject is investigated from another angle. Interpreting him in general terms of his , or day, or year, or period, this is the business of the new | biographer. Else the job is not worth | | breakfast, of course, is not in the dark, | the undertaking. How much was this since the flickering flames of the logs man a part of his day, how clear was cast their roseate and largely illumina. is vision and influence in respect to tive lights all over the room. | the future, the near future and the This is a pleasure unknown save to | far? those who practice the habit of rising| It is in such purpose and power that early in Winter. There is no other |Bonamy Dobree approaches the life of way. The dancing, light-giving flames | William Penn. Leaving praite or blame give a “cheer-up” effect second only to|to time, where they so clearly belong, the modern sunlamp. As a matter of fact, there is just a bit of ultra-violet in the log firé, not enough to do any real good, perhaps, but still sufficient to lend its helpful beneficience to the | watcher. | "By getting up early, in both Winter | and Summer, one adds many new pic- tures to one’s personal gallery treasures, sees Nature in different moods, and finds sense of kinshi] with natural things strengthened. And. |since every one of us is a_ part of all there is, early rising makes us feel more at home in our own universe. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L MERCURIO, Santiago.—Tomor- row, for the first time, Santi- ago will have a chance to Wi ness the thrilling drama e titled “La Cabana del Tio Tom’ (“Uncle Tom's Cabin"). The play will be produced by Juan Domenech and his Compania de Melodramas, at the Tea- tro Reina Victoria, during the afternoon | and evening. This spectacle, treating | of the time when human slavery was | an institution in the United States, is said to have precipitated the North | American Civil War. Bk X German Inscriptions in Crematory Forbidden. La Suisse, Geneva—M. Baxa, mayor of Prague, hereafter urns deposited in the halls of the crematory of that capital must not bear any inscriptions in German. Recently, the family of a German jour- nalist who died at Prague desired to inscribe on the urn of the deceased, in addition to his name, simply the lword.s, “Ruhe sanfit” (“Rest peaceful- y”). sent, and stated that he purposed to extend the interdiction to German epi- | taphs in the cemeteries as well. * k% % Sleep on Brick Stoves in Northern Chi-a. Fu-Jen, Pefping.—In the north of China the na’'.cs sleep on brick stoves or ovens known as k'angs. Under the empire men were divided into the following classes in order of importance: The scholar, the farmer, the artisan and the merchant. The scholar still occupies the first place. The temple bells of China are not equipped with clappers or tongues but are struck with pileces of woed or beams. The game of chess is said to have been invented by the Emperor Wu Wang in 1120 B.C. When an eclipse occurs, the Chinese have an old custom of beating gongs and drums to keep a certain monster dog from swallowing the sun or moon. A Chinese shakes his own hand and not yours when he greets you. The Chinese regard the carving of meat at table as & barbarous practice. Everything must be adapted to the manipulation of the customary chop- sticks. The three great social ties in China are thcse of superior and inferior, father and son, husband and wife. The Chinere have no weekly day of rest. They have, however, many fe:! val days. The New Year celebration lasts at least several days. * ook % Carrying Gun Brings Harsh Penalties. the | has directed that | But the mayor refused his con- | repeating, quite recal®ant. Borne along, however, he finally arrives with the others at the ccrner where they are to await the vehicle with the proper number. His protestations, less vehe- ment, are now more lachrymose. The fresh air has now made it neces- sary for papa to employ his handker- chief. What a seasonable fortuity. His hand releesed, in just that inctant, the youngster makes a demi-whirl, and with all the speed cf which his short legs are capable, he is scampering home to mamma and his toys. But papa can run faster. Catching ugildhe tries to soothe and pacify the cl “You won't have to go to school this morning.” he promires. With face brightening up, the little one asks, “Tu dis blen la verite, papa?” (“You are really telling the truth, papa?”) Just then the tram arrives, and car- ries them away. Merging Short Lines. From the Altoona Mirror, An important development in the way of an improved and more economical rallroad service Is indicated in the an- nouncement by high officlals of the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads of | plaris for merging the two railway sys- | tems operating in South Jersey. | It will result in a much beiter, more frequent and quicker service for the | patrons to and from the seaside resorts, which may be said to be the first and | as this study demonstrates; the author puts at least half of the study of Penn upon the uneasy and dissatisfied Eng- |land where Penn's youth was spent and | where his beginnings were laid in pro- test and dissent. Government, religion, class distinctions were receiving many rest and open rebellion found expres- sion in many fresh experiments toward social loosenings, toward religious inde- pendence, toward government expan- sions. 1t is the effect of this unsettled daily life around him, acting upon the special character and temperament of Penn, that the author builds plausibly, consistently and temperately into his .later years of activity and leadership. So, in the New World, William Penn carries on as one has reason to expect him to do, having followed his essential | life in its formative and most important years. The building of the great State according to his views of individual freedom, his methods of inviting set- tlers to it, the sincerity of his offers, the honesty of his pyactical p , these come out as emanations of the living man himself rather than as repetitious gleanings of other writings turned off in the older fashion of biographic ac- count. One steps out of the book, not as from a reading, but as from actual con- tact, from an experience with human wisdom, imperfect at points, but wis- dom, nevertheless. And from it he | looks around upon the most manifest of the work of William Penn in the New World. An industrious people sprang from his example and advice. peace-loving people settled here and there in modest groups throughout the country. Upstanding folks, giving and taking from honest and sturdy life, while at the same time deprecating vio- lence and war. Relying upon the documented facts of Penn’s life, already gathered, Mr. Dobree expends himself upon the living character and continuing influence of lines of human behavior under the urgencies of a changing environment. A profoundly interesting book, either as reading or as study. This, in part, by virtue of its personality. In larger part by its fine appreciation of the tenure of this man’s life and by his concrete dem- onstration of such continuing existence. A fine contribution did Quaker Penn and his followers make to the citizenry | of the United States. A matter of fact to this day, and for days to come, a jar in those years of English unrest. S of | These cross-currents of concealed un- A | Birmingham Age-Herald (Democratic), Penn along recognized and accepted | | primary consideration, for service is| b W the function of any rallway. On the| An enthusiastic biographer here turns other hand, it will result in the elim- | Andrew Carnegie, ironmaster and steel | ination f 117 miles of trackage that | king, into a spectacle, a pageant. And, |is no longer needed, a reduction in|following along, breathless, under the operating expenses estimated at $1,- | speed and complexity of the progression, 700,000 a year and the elimination of approximately 237 grade crossings. One project that will be carried out, according to the announcement of the railroad officlals, will be the construc- tion of a respectable Union station at | Atlantic City. All visitors to the sea- side resort will be gratified to hear this. Elimination of grade crossings is like- wise good news, wherever carried out. There are a number in that section that have been regarded as dangerous | and many lives have been lost because | of tneir existence. | The trend of the times has been to- | ward consolidation of railroads in the interest of economy and better service. | Much time is likely to elapse before any general plan of merging roads can be - | carried out, but in the meantime such | projects as the consolidation of the | Pennsy’s West Jersey and Seashore line with the Reading’s Atlantic City rail- road need not awalt such general mergers. La Opinjon, Santo Domingo.—In the Tribunal of Justice of PFirst Assizes yes- terday, charges against Juan de la Rosa Mendez of carrying & pistcl with- out the corresponding permit and authority were sustained. Despite what might in many cases have been considered extenuating circumstances, Mendez was centenced to pay a fine of 1,000 pecos gold, and to suffer the further penalty of a ysar in prison. * % ok % Small Boys Much Alike Over World. Le Soir, Brussels—A walks along & street leading to a tramway station. The hour is autumnal and matutinal; the sky is gray and the air is fresh. On his right, the gentleman leads by a hand his little girl—in reality, she considers herself a big one, for she is already 7 or 8 years old. At his left, little fist firmly clesped in the paternal palm, trots a much younger child, a “garconnet” (small boy), sulky {ll-resigned, plaintive and very mi demurring. Quite evid they "are The “534,” which will take the water | Uncle Eben. “Right after 'lection de as the Princess Elizabeth, is to cost in | paper begins to tell bout dg immediate the neighbollhood of $26,400,000. She prospect of gettin’ jobs shovelin' snow.” cn their "l{uw school. without doubt, is being escorted for the first time. “No—I don't uch | ducted an auction tle brother, | The there ‘want tol" he keeps' trades e “Swap” Day. Prom the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Toppenish, in the Yakima Valley, has adopted an innovation in the mercantile business. It is called “swap” day. The | first one was held Wednesday. Ranch- | ers from the surrounding region brought | their products to town, and on a vacant lot in the business district made deals with other ranchers and merchants A Toppenish correspondent reports that nearly everything .raised on the farm was brought in, and many unusual trades were made. Farmers with po- tatoes traded with other farmers for rutabagas. Several sheep were traded with a hardware dealer for pots and guu. One rancher exchanged chickens or & load of straw. The “swap” at- tracted several hundred persons. At the close of the trading Jeff Davis, chairman of the Commercial Club | Committee in charge of the affair, con- reported the day a suc- cess, both ranchers and residents of the town vt puriiies 3t BasEain priss. responds in . | particular to big matters and vital one does not wonder at the clear en- | thusigsm of Mr. Hendrick under so imeplling a theme. Four volumes would have been as easy as two, or so it seems, under the imeptuous headway of this amazing Scot’s man through iron into | steel, and on into great riches, great foundations and countless minor phi: lanthroples. One of the surpassing ad- ventures, that of accumulating stores of | gold for the sake of scattering it, of set- ting it off upon new errands. | But, instead of the possible four vol- | umes, here are two packed to their | uttermost with Andrew Carnegle, with the history of steel in the United States, with the impact of this man upon the huge industrial field of the twentieth century, with his overflow into the nearby fields of fipance and philan- Bhr‘:gy. Clearly eulogistic from start to nish, | been even more engrossing with a shade |less of ardor on the part of its author, with a larger measure of withholding here and there. In his own right, and beyond dispute, Andrew Carnegie topped the industrial and financial heights of American enterprise. And that is doing well, indeed, for any one mortal man. ‘To set up claims, sufficiently obscure to elicit prompt and vehement denial from watchful observers and ready critics takes general readers away from the into mazes of denial from one source and another. However, the current reader is not disposed to cavil at the disagreements over minor matters in any great man’s life. Here, certainly, is a great man in American industry. Here slso is the And here, best of all, is, indubitably, -the lifting personality of a highly com~ manding Whether . Mr. Hendrick has, or has not, overplayed the game of friendly adulation, he has, all the same, created a living character that, in the main, every situ- ations in a consistent manner, and cer- tainly 'in an engaging sympathy and I do not, at the monient, recall a the absorbing study might have | true substance of the engrossing theme | Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write us again. If service, begin for your benefit. to send your | name and address with your question | and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps | “for return pmug‘ Do not use post| cards. Address The Evening Star In-| formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. | Q. Is an autogiro easier to learn to fly than an airplane?—A. K. | A. It is believed by people interested | in autogiros that they are easier to fly | than airplanes—that a man with no flying experience would find the, auto- giro easier and safer to fiy. Q. How far does forest fire smoke travel>—sS. 8. | A. The Forest Service says that the distance to which the smoke of a forest fire will travel depends of course | on the size and duration of the fire. In 1889 there was a great fire in the Rocky Mountain region of Idaho, which covered over two and one-half million acres and which burned for several weeks. Smoke from this fire was seen over the North Central States as far east as Ohlo, a distance of more than Middle West actually necessitated the| use of artificial light during the day- | | time. | | a | What State is called the Mother of Governors?-—J. W. D. A. Kentucky. It is claimed that she has been the native State of the most men who have served other States as Governors. Q. In cassino, 21-point game, A has 17 points and makes cards and one ace, while B has 17 points and makes | spades, big casino and little casino, | Which' one wins?—J. W. A. | "A. B wins. If both players reach 21 on the same deal the points score out in the following order: Cards, spades, big cassino, little cassino, aces and sweeps. A could not score his ace be- | fore B had scored points and won the game. Q. How long does it take tdffly the mail from coast to coast?-—M. B. T. A. The present flying time over the transcontinental airmail route from east to west is 27 hours and 8 minutes. ‘The trip, due to prevailing winds being from the is a few hours faster. Q. Do Germany, France and Eng- land have free public schools, as the term is understood in America?—C. H. A. In Germany, France and, until recently at least, in England, public education not , and is not even now, generally free, since, though most of the expenses have been met from public or institutional cusually religious) sources, each pupil, unless a pauper, has had to pay school fees. Q. What was meant by the expres- sion “sons of the wild jackass”?—E. B. A. Benator Moses in his reference to “sons of the wild jackass” added the prefix “jack” to the reference in which the former is spoken of in the Old Tes- tament. In an interview Senator Moses stated that he meant simply to imply independent-) persons unusued to restrajnt and impatient of control. In Job xxxix.5-9 the wild ass is rather praised for his independence, - fearless- ness and initiative, rather than criti- cized. Other references are Jeremiah 1i.24, Hosea vill.9 and Job vig. Q. Is the Prench spoken in Canada the same as that spoken in Paris?—A. B 2,000 miles, and in some portions of the | —S ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Canada differs in several respects, prine cipally in the matter of certain collo= quialisms, from the French of Paris. Q. Is the Mediterranean Sea as salty as the Atlantic Ocean?—M. 8. 5 A. The salinity of the Mediterran Sea is slightly greater than that of Atlantic, probably the result of greater evaporation. The proportion of the .tllllné!zy’ of these bodies of water is 1.029 to . Q. Where is the Washington memo~ |rial carillon?—A. C. W. A. The Washington memerial na- tional carillon is at Valley Forge, Pa. Q. Who was the first Ambassador sent to the United States from Eng- land?—E. S. A. Sir Jullan Pauncefote was the first Ambassador to the United States from England. He came as a Minister to the country and was elevated to the ambassadorship April 11, 1893. Q. How many elephants are there in the United States?—M. A. C. A. The National Zoological Park says that the number of elephants in this country s approximately 150, most of them in circuses. Q. What §s the Pan American Union? S A. The Pan American Union is the official international organization of all the republics of the Western Hemi- sphere, founded and maintained by them for the purpose of exchanging mutually usefu! information and foster- ing commerce, intercourse. friendsh and peace. It is supported through the! joint contributions, each nation annu- ally paying that part of the budget of expenses which its population bears to the total population of all the republics. Its general control is vested in a gov- erning board made up of the diplomatie representatives in Washington of all the Latin-American governments and the Secretary of State of the United States. Q. Which was tlte."flx:t State ad- tted to the Union?—J. 8. mA. Vermont, admitted to the Union in 1791, was the first following the 13 original Stater. Q. Can heat mirror the same as E P. A. 'x!“he B“m"l"h of they can. e 1oss that they s Tays be reflected with & light rays can?— ds uj the infra-red (heat) rays. tion of visible light varies range, but may be from 90 to 98 per cent for highly polished silver. Q. Where is the k’:zome of Death Val< ley Scotty?—J. W. R. 'yA, Dn{h Valley Scotty, whose real name is Walter Scott, lives on & ranch in Grapevine Canyon, Inyo County, Calif. Why do storms in West Virginia mg' Ohio usually come from the west? —N. H . The Weather Bureau says that it is because the general mosphere in middle latitudes is from the west, and that in turn is owing to two things: the circulation of the at- mosphere between the h equa and the cooled polar regions, and the rotation of the earth from west to east. Q When was the first open-alr con- cert by the Marine Band ‘Washing- ton, D. C.2—M. M. A. The first was an informal concert on August 21, 1800, when Washing- tonians thronged the Marine camp on the Hill—the present lgcation of the United States Naval Hospital—to hear the band led by Willlam its fArst 1 drift of the at- “A. The French language as spoken in leader. ‘}F ree Hand for Chief among the election comments is | that which is based on the national character of the Roosevelt victory, with the conclusion that he will enter office as President with practically no obliga- tions to any group of people, but will have the single obligation of serving the welfare of all the people of the country. In this regard it is believed that his mandate differs from others in the history of the country. Along with this belief is the conviction that popular sentiment favors reform. “The Democral majority in Con- gress is so commanding and the presi- dential victory won by such a margin | 28 to relieve Roosevelt and the party of ' any obligation to any group, no matter | how large or important, or to any sec- tlon,” says the Columbia (S. C.) Record (independent Democratic), while the recalling that President Harding “failed to make good his boast of & cabinet of the best brains of the Nation,” suggests that “it is President-elect Roosevelt who can give reality to such & promise in utter freedom from the pressure of po- litical _considerations.” The Spring- field (Mass.) Republican (independent) agrees that he is “under compelling obligations to no one of his following,” while the Minneapolis Journal (inde- pendent Republican) believes that Mr. | Roosevelt “will rise to the heights of his | opportunity” and that “patriotism will rise above partisanship.” R “The great political overturn,” ac- | | | i | | ville - Roosevelt Put Into Election Returns of proportions such as the party has not known since the election of Frank- 1in Plerce 80 years ago.” The News feels that “those who are to take over the organization of the Government should realize that . they have the most compelling motives for.trying. to be right.” * X k% The New York Herald-Tribune (Re- publican) explains the Hoover defeat as something to which “the prohbiition issue contributed,” for, Mr. Hoover “lagged months behind the sentiment of the Nation.” The necessity for meet= ing the pledge of the Democratic plat~ form is maintained by the New York Sun (independent), the Rock Island Argus (independent), the * Scranton Times (Democratic) and the Appleton Post-Crescent (independent). The New= ark Evening News (independent) as+ sumes that Mr. Roosevelt’s wetness "“was not a minor factor in the election,” and avers that the vote in its own State was “a wet victory greatly aided by the gen- eral national discontent with economic conditions, all well organized by & smooth Democratic machine.” ‘The Rutland (Vt.) Herald (independent Re- publican) offers the judgment that “the Volstead act can be modified by «Congress, but it is doubtful if this Con- gress would pass such a measure.” ‘The economic besis of the Democratic victory is emphasized by the Port Huron Times-Herald (independent), the Louis- Courfer-Journal (independent), the Hartford Times (independent Democratic), the Asbury Park Evening Press (independent Democratic), the cording to the New York Times (inde- | pendent), “reassured the people that | they are still in control of their own | Government,” and that it “anew con- | vinced millions of voters on the verge of | despair that our democratic methods | are still flexible enough to respond to | the popular will.” The Times feels sure | that “this should be a great aid to pub- lic morale in bravely enduring the | needy will surely have to face for months to come.” The Baltimore Sun (independent Democratic) points out that the election victor i3 “a truly na- tional choice” and comes “unbound by dogmatic commitments on many of the most vital issues which his administra- tion must face.” The Sun also empha- sizes that the opposition in Congress “will be depleted in experience as well as numbers,” and that “the Democratic greater responsibility.” The Chi- cago Tribune (independent Republican) | agrees that “he has taken the mandate from a whole people and there are no special services to be regarded as im- {bxosin‘ either moral or material obliga- jons.” That the attempt to restore prosperity should not be a party matter, but that the coming President should have the aid of the whole country in the task, is the conviction of the Gary Post Tribune (independent), the Lincoln State Jour- nal (independent Republican), the New Castle News (Republican) and the Ak- ron Beacon Journai (independent Re- publican). That the national verdict was a definite demand for action is the belief of the Houston Chronicle (Demo- cratic), while the Youngstown Vindi- cator (independent Republican) holds thgt “the change will bring new ho{: and new courage to imilllons who see’ the Hoover administration the cause of their troubles.” Th: Omaha World- Herald (independent Democratic), be- lieving that “a Democeratic Congress will tend to revive hope and stimulate recovery,” T that “Gov. Roosevelt and his party are committed to revival of foreign trade and restoration of ag- riculture.” hasizing the complete control by the Democrats, the Buffalo Evening News (i it Republican) recalls that “ of ibility from one party to the other is such as did not occure in either the Wilsen or the Cleveland elections” and’ that “the verdict of 1932 is a Democretic victory ts | lflll. . story, the story of a prominent and - Mmuut:oleanph ciy :.n..u.s‘e reader in as does Andrew - hardships which the unemployed and | hat majority will have a correspondingly | Rockford Register-Republic . (Republi- can), the Connellsville Courier (Repub= lican), the Dayton Daily News (inde- pendent Democratic) and the Columbis (S. C.) State (Democratic). The Me- ridian (Miss.) Star (independent) feels that “democracy has won more upon the demerits of the opposition than the inherent virtues of the Democratic can- lidates or policies.” The Boston Tran- script (independent Republican) charges tl “the campaign which Gov. Roose= velt conducted was ideally calculated to | capitalize the current discontent,” while, | on the other side, the Portland Oregon | Journal (independent) asserts that “no | statement has cost Mr. Hoover more votes in this campaign than the charge of ‘appeal to discontented voters,’” and points out that “the fact is, the ma- Jjority of Americans are discontented.” * X % x The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (in- | dependent Democratic) sees the election as one of voting for “the redemption of | government from the professional poli~ | ticians,” while the Pasadena Star-News | (Republican) advises that “it behooves the American people to take their minds off politics and settle down in practical, common-sense ashion to attend to the day's work and to grapple with the problems which are beyond the pale of | politics.” The Topeka Daily Capital (Republican) calls for “less preoccupa- tion with the ‘politics’ of government.” The Charlotte Observer (independent Democratic) calls the event “a political upheaval that is the marvel of national itical history and “a house cleaning, contemplation of which the b= licans have geed in amazement,” Des Moines Tribune (independent Republican) sees it as “a sheer letting off of steam,” and the Roanoke World-News (Democratic) emphasizes the fact that “it is apparent that every one whom the people could reach who had anything to do with the Hawley-Smoot act has been overwhelm- ing rejected” along with “the old ‘stand. t’ element.” e Columbia (Mo.) Tribune (Democratic) sees “s re- buke to maladministration.” “In the shadow of the de- pression the coun has known in 50 years, with 11,000, workers unem- ployed and with multitudes in bitter | truth wonderful tribute to his statesmanship end a glory of his victory.” The Journal also recognizes that “ and countrysides, industrial centers and ag- ricultural spaces, intellectuals and 4 he * in of § tos terpreted the all thetr" common- TRUMIN el RS and cause.”