Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1932, Page 6

['AR | Which is the main point at issue. How | of men and women, boys and girls, who that is to be accomplished is the mut have in their hearts the instinct to ! LA WABHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY. . Novetiber 19, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Ni Per Comphny Business Ofics Y g op 1) &3 Rate by Carrier \Within b} e Even' star ’ e A Beowesich o Enztand. nig Ave. Rulles. ne Cits. bt fon made ot the ehd cf Brrh) MBI nav be sent 15000, Rate by Mait—Pasatile in Advabice. andl ahd V'rginis, 1l Other States an Canada. Tor. 32 00 1m0 v onls 100 B8 uncey only 11 48 Member of the The Associatsd P t the use {0 patches jted in d ardon oF a1l nees die or mot mefierwise tred- <o yhe domal hees hix o ublication ot 1 bre Bl5o roseried esponsibility Already Aczsigned. vefnor Rossevelt hias, of cour-e, scifie knowletge of tha responciblitas he wil fhherit noxt Mareh feom P $toover 2nd the lotig 1iv6 of Prasidentt e precsded h'm. But i for o delegetion of amitators R meined ar ington, v his office, to inform him of pdditiohs! responsibilities alrcedy Incutitd &% Precident-clect “We will hold you résponsible” whatdver happens to these hu their wey to Washin Hoovef 1o let us #le: wernor is b babe as meeting the vi 2! offize is ¢ fa cnough is Must be Wwarhing as (o his respontibilities a8 President-elect romss #5 a bitter fofé- taste of thest other and m résponsibilities to be dtasth to be the Bocomes the President. And perhaps Bresident Hoover, if he still finds com- fort ih philosophical hutmor, réad vith & twihkls in his eves the hdadlines this sorning Which pleinly indieated that whatevér #lns mar ke Gommitied in déaling with thé huhger marchers this Wintér will fiot b his own, but these cf the Piesident-elect, wilfully derelict in reeting that responzibility which 1iés in télling the Président what to do. The Governor fared very well in his conversation with the agitators. He rémoved, in the first piace, whatever glamour and m¥stery fray have bé# attached to their missich when he re chlved thém and allowed them, miich to their Surprice, to unburen thsmselves of what they wanted to \aik about. By invitihg the newspaper reporters to the conference he ¢ full publicity to the views of the agitators, and by thus put- ting them on the Nation's first page held them up for the appraisal of all who read. By declining to give them the assistance they sought from (he State for their march to Weshingtoh 118 set a good examp'e to the Governors of the othcr States and to the munici- PAl authoritics, whose as nce to pre- viovs marchers helped them reach Weshing Furthermore, he drew ffom h's interviewers a definite state- went cf why they want to come to Washington this Winter. Their m's- sfon, 1. is learnad, is to tell the Presi- dent and oher Federal authorities that the Federzl Government must give al Jéest $5) this Winter to every fami than who is out cf K. Kn—.mdng the ission—the cotensibla h, & Jeast—tha people of N fildge as to its reasonablencss. ———— Manchuria at Geneva. While debts occupy the center ¢ Washington next week tonal probiem of world- ill have the limelight The lohg-telayetl consi@- icn cof the report of the League of Nations' Commission on ths 8ih5-Japa- fese co v is the crder of busi- ficss before the Council. With the mountain of data stbmittéd by the Earl of Lytton and his coadjutort, %ho include Mcj. Gen. Prank R. McCoy of the "United St Army, in hand. the Council is now to deterthine the ecourse of action Geneva is called upon to teke, primarily a& to the cecupation of Manchuria. Last Winter's “war” #¢ Shanghai also came under the scru- tiny of the Lytton Coifimission. But #hat. the League and the world are waiting to know is what is done 2bout the accomplished fact with *hich Japan defles Eirope, Asia and Ameyica—the creation of the puppet staté of Manchukuo out of the three n provinces of «€hing tents of the Lytton report have been known for motitls. It con- demns Japanese procedufé ih Man- churia as little shott of outright eg- gression, der for it claim of self-defense action, which is the Jap- anesc justification tha campaign which st in with ths seizure 6f Mukden in Septethber. 1931, #nded a few months later n ths com- Plete subjugation of Xenehuria Japanese authority. China 36% escape scot frec from the comissioh’s findings e is blam-d for chrenic {nability to within her own domain. the neutral i #ave Japan the right to plant th> ban- ner of the Rising Bun over larger than G bined and co inhabitants. Japan has mobilized an frr of dipicma‘ic talent, ree from he: European embassies i lega. tions, for the defending Nipp at Gene Mr. Matsudaira &iid his astute con freves miy be velied upon to exhaus every shred of opportunity to put good face on a bad job. Japan ha already signaled .hat she will not ac the castigation of th League in the Manchuilan by ar indicated that her respense may b the jon may is ng fok But nothing ly sineas in by mail of teleplione sideit re- sy herett on Wash- elved vestorday in one on, bscause You the Président-clect and you can il ng to bo v military and ta ot suard life and property gators could discover an area nany and Francé com- ning 30 000,000 Chitiese impressive ted of arguing and a the world will presently be called upon to crack. It is cne of the toughest nuts statesmanship has ever been re- quired to b¢ak. A world war to re- covet Manehtirla for China I8 unthink- #Ble. Alimoat equeliy so is the subjee- ton of Japet te punitive ecohoinie seneticwd—tns boyeolt of Ber trede. It may Be that vizorous Afrmaticn of the Huovor-Siifson doetrine of fon- réeoomition of ahy pauti-al-teftitorial Be Bbr month Rk e Br tonth tar £5e Bet MDAy T gar roBE oily precties rthod of chufirh pan- tions 145t Me o€l with that prin: e hatd'y refure to 4o so eg-in, toh repsrt BAfore it BT Cheracter Builders, When an cesfiom’e bl orer a couniry ehd P t65 ths spir't cf cf ihe heedts of thess effested. Thet rpirit nat- £ ih practical and vor to Afford relef d 1o Bo in sorest tiavion the Cotmuhity itution threuzh whieh col'estsd for humanita 8871 par eont of tazh Qollar dsburssd to eobstituent sednelds b the Chext i3 sppropriated ta @riet rallof in tAems of rasd. cloth- iy Abd ehziter, abd 1149 per cént of cach ezl tansnst of eliractér-Buiiding asencies. The latter acclanthent has not heen clearly uhderstood by the public 1t 18 for ths solution of the thore cubtld and aiffieult problems of i noor that the Clhest apportions $278.- 7 of ity t3tel colifetion of 82.410.- 787 to “tie hoivé defénss guard.” An apneal for bread tefuires no apelogy. I. i primtive and fundamenta). and n%eds no crplanatin. for the moans to cevel £24f-rzspect ih an individual is not £ obvious. It deserves hterpretation. Cousider & tvpical case: Th A fataily of fivk, the father is uhémployed. The mothiel has pert-tme tork. -The in- cotme of the group I8 just fnsuen to sp body And sovl togsther. The e1dest child..a Boy twelve years of agh. A% gob into fiechiet Ahd 18 being whtched by the police. The Second child. & girl“ten yests old, ts frail of heaith #nd in-ithed to b morbidly ir- trospective; she has told misre th oné paredh that sho “would be glad” if sh® were dead. Thé youhgset child. A boy six years of age, & Backward 2nd slow, pathologically sensitive. Ths family 1ivés In two small roemis. 1he place i8 cf*fn and neat, vut unatirac- tive. At présent thert 1§ ehougn plain food and A kindly lahdlord has been tolerant about the rent. Acute phystcal suffering 18 fot the major proble. The difficulty 1 psychological. What | is to be doite? | Suppose the thaglc wand coild bs whved: The twelvé-vear-6ld boy, who prefers a nortorius gangster to George Washington 4s & hero and who thinks “the chahces that you #on't gét caught fre pretty good” would besome &n s ive And useful membér of the Boys' Clup, the Northeast Boys' Club of the Boy Scouts. His lelsure .woald be agreeably occupied ahd supbrvised. He would be guided into mbré eonstructive ideals. He would be cultivated into decent citizenship. The littie girl would j6in a club at Priendship iolise or at Neighbothood, of would becori a meiii- bar of the Qifl Scouts. Hetr innate appreciation of beriity would b4 sti: ulated. She would be taught to ma beautiful things. 8he would b> initiated into the privilegé of helping to make others happy. She would he persuaded to forget herself in co-operstive activi- ties, lik> group dancing, group games and group reading. Her smsll brother would attend the neighborhood settie- ment house clubs suitable for his age. Ee would find a comrade handicapped | more of 1885 llke himsell Ahd they vould be pals, helping each other a sianding up to the world together. It might take a long time, but in the right environihent and, with the aid of his brother and sister, he would 1sarn thet life 18 not just a suscession of thréats and blotws, It is to work of this sort that the chatacter-buildihg agéncies are dedi- cated. 1Is it worth while? Sociologi Ay thal it is impsratively hecessary Physicians declare that whatever pro- motet happiness promotes health, and peychologists affirm that whatever inakes people happy makes them effi- clent. These are genetalities, of course, Eut they are measurably sclentific. Social order and 8ocial progréss are not accidental growlhs. They have to be cuitivated. That is what the char- actet-building agencies are doing. Be- caus: this is true, every contributor to the Community Chest this year may justly feel that his giit is not only feeding the hungry, but also is bringing jey to humian hearte. Men dess nol e by bread alone, and the troubls of {he poor cannot be solved in every in- c> mprely by the gift of the mate- rial necessities of life. 1] .- “Tony™ Chairs. Bevond the limits of Randolph County, North Carolina, “Tony” chair; may be unknown or undppreciated. Bu. withith those confines they are famous They were made in three types or var roc! ight armchairs, and children's r They sold for 5350, 83, and $1.25. respectively. And, since that was mor2 than hall a céh- tury ago, they brought “a good price” as prices wenit. Today they #ze worth many times their original value “Tony” ®&§ a Negro carpenter or cobinct-maksr. His real neme was 1t 15 said that he owned a , “but took 1o delight in it, preferring to ‘make thihgs.'” Few thought of him as a genius whil e lived; but since hi demise five s of him hes grown until now it is a veritable passion. He was a great de- signer end builder of chairs. He be- longed to the art which Inigo Jones, John Wiebb, Grinling Gibbons, the Adam brothers, Thomas Sheraton and Thothas Chippendale adorned Was he their peer? Cerlainly not. He was ouly & peasant With an artist’s hands But suppes® hie had been hceerced their advantages, their opportunities— who shall say he luevitably would have tailed? Grantsd that h: might not have succeeded, is it not a matter for e a e withdrawai from the League of Nations. | regrét that he did not have the chance? Withdrawal from the kesgue = ‘hfluw-l from Manc] ol | The world ko Rlled with “mute ln- . glorious Miltons” Th~"= #re thrusanids 1a slipeatsd to the main-¢ Bencht of samé plight. e | - vét | decades have passed and appreciation STAR. WASHI NOVEMBER 1 ! create lovely and useful things, yet lack the training, the experience and the capital to develop that Icnging. It is from among them that cultural stand- MArds rise, arc establichad and arc mdin- tained. have that elemenial “finius of apprecietion” which is the foubdation of cultiiral progress. Pos= +iBly that i their function, their valuz in the vorld Bit the ezample of “Tony” is worth reselling for Ancther reaton—his ca- pacity to db excéadingly well the hA was qualifisd to citempt, the wo {68F which h& Was prepared. Every divicual has a similar power. It i in- nats The difficulty is that nct all cottscioisly endeavor to reach approx- maie pérfection. Too many ave satis- f2d to be slipshod and care That may bs Becauss they really arc not in- tare~téd in thoir work. If so, it ma bt of rervice to eall attention to fect that such ah attitude of mind réncers labor more arduous pieazent than ever it ought to be “Tony™” loved his work. That is cvi- deist from his story and from the iur- viving preducts of his toil d his chairs fre serfnons, hiftsclfl was a teacher ashat, then, vhel the Co his handicraft con r——e—s 12 and Peace 10 his they may lie in h of Randolph al monument, utes his memorial. have been hout the Préctical arrangements tade to bring Insull b he molli, tie oh publ named Grover Bergdoll ed fot failing in 1 Now hobody knows o ¢ et was once Wa ‘es where he is. 1t is not hecessary for victims of un- tmployént to come to the Nation's Cavital th order to defhonstrate their uhemplormeiit th Congre: Benators fhd Reptéséntatives have large families and circles of friends in fear of the [ Gov. Roosavelt starts with estraor- dinary modetn distinetion. He will be the fitet President of the United Stetes +ho ever rode th an alvplanc. His fir eir journsy madc hih popular. An fote would Merely ealise uscless worry. = b eee o = The country teént the way Maine did, although later Maine did not go the way the eountry dld. thereby holding presiige as a significant point in the great guessing contest. a4 3 Président Hoover, welcoming Bresi- deiitzelect Roosevelt, will, by himesif, conistitute About the most distinguithed Reception Comtinities an eminent cam- phigher has had the honor to meet. O - Much Brewery stock 8 sure to be offered in view of the prokpect of dry repeal. Bxperlence sibuld remind in- veators that stocks have thelr bubbles well as their water. Mrs. Roosevelt is proud of her work 85 & school teacher. Her influence will inevitably astert itself and may eventu- ally prove more valuable than that of many college professors. - The Community Chest compels ex- traordinary ipterest. This is one holi- day season when the useful gifts are more important than the toys. e Ih connection with a salés tax econo- mists frankly recognize the fact that Wages must be pald out in order to pro- vide purchasers. - o Hindenburg is a remarkable example of a successful man having passed over B0 years of & life that grows more in- teresting every day. ———e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Uncertain Future. ‘The pine tree waits quite humbly there. We pass it by with little care; 1t seems to us of little need, We view it almost as a weed. If you are patient for a while Youll view it with & radiant smile. ‘When holidays invit> our giee 1t will become a Christmas tree. So let us, gentle friend of mine, Be patient a8 & stand ih line; Some still must face the chilling breeze, But others will be Christmas trees. Open Door. “What is your opinion of the open- door policy?” said the interviewer. “At home or abroad?” asked Senator Sorghum. “I don't quite understand you.” “I am thinking of my constituents on farms. What they want is some kind of an open docr for a foreclosed mort- gage.” . Jud Tunkins says you can at least give to the Community Chest the equivalent of what a year's cigarettes cost, and if you don't smoke you can give twice as much. A Mathematicized Civilization. Those thighty debts we contemplate And patiently we figger. It's sad to state that while we wait The debts ketp growing bigger. Our poetry and pletures fade, Our minds they fail to nourish Expert accounting is the trade Which seems alone to flourish. Shutte of Perpelual Unrest. | “What do you think will be the re- sult of gotting aleshol back?” “It'll seem like old times,” said Uncle Bill Bottletop. “People will immedi- ately begin hunting for some practical metiod of gétting rid of it again.” “Each has his responsibilities,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Think hot 80 Murh of what you would do in a greet man's place and more of what he would do in your place.” Legislation Demanded. Sifce we assume to legislate On matters small and matters great And never give the slightest heed | When laws perchance o not succeed, Why not demand conditions gay Upoh inzuguratich Day? | Let’s pass a very drastic law ¥hat on March first we'll have a thaw. “It looks to me,” sald Uncle Eben, |“like T was cne of dese ona-way |nnu\-rm dat don't git now] but in dobt.” THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One of the queer Birds aguatium i& the weather flsh. This small, collike creature is guar- anteed to give lady spectators | creeps,” as It writhes its way thiough the water, At the samhe time, howevef, it ré- fiifins of the greatest Interest. owit fo its odd appearance #And unusua habits 1t Ia8 4 tall and fibs feSemblin those of a gentine fich, at least v mos g to think of as a fich; but t emblance ends. It has hiskers, something like those of a catfish. mall, round, and a lithe body of extreme | j ility. When' it w:nts to it can tie itself into a knot, almosi, being able to slither its way through the water at a speed almost bayond detection by the human eye. flex; iteelf quickly or nd apon Whether it compor slowly, however, its mocd Ard its.mood, like its habits, are un- usual. Where it gets its hathe we have no idea and of the works e have conculted geems to have any idea, either, but thére is one tHing to b2 said for this fish—it 13 not lik# oths! fishes. Now. this world of the touch of the unusual er_world of human beings s a If anything, however, the ‘finny habitants accept the unusual, boih in creatures and conditions, with a bit more practical philosophy 3 is right parium responds to the st as t Whatever is, With them: do not resent the diffcient. &s So many human creaiures Go. Fish do no: sneer, or mock, or de- ride, or do aity of the other despicable and cntireiy senséless thihgs which so commonly mar human conduct. Hence a weather fish some 2 inches I rightfully at hore in the six-gallon world with the angel fish, the red moons. the pearl danios and the other tropicals one finds in the well equipped anuatiuih. It makes nb apologies to any other fish, but keeps on its own way, its curious, snake-like 5 frantic. lashing v One of the so-called scavengers, use- ful for cleaning up the bottom, it takes sand into its mouth. busily separating the cdible from the inedible, with much chaking of itz whiskers. and then elects the sand and other unwanted porflons | through its gills. This is a feat unigue in the aguarium, and as such Invariably proves of fhterc cst to watchers. Various members of {he goldfish tribe. inciuding the lively shubunkins, or calico fish, take sand into their mouths, but they eject it via e same. ical fish ordinarily pay liitle at- tent of such a creatire s the weather fish is helpful in various ways. We have seen our friend. the tadpole. maligned by well meanihg writers, who hav cd that his valie 4s a scaven r is largely overrated, due to the fact ihat he soon leatns to eat “fish food” with the fish. The truth is tifat the weather fish learns even quicker, and. once he ac- quires the taste, proves himself a master sweeping the surface of the water for umbs. : Standing on his tail, his bewhiskered mouth glides over the surface or under the surface of the water. This all-im- portant “water surface” as aquarium “fans” like to think of it. proves itself | exceedingly handy for a weather fish. at er ‘Hurricane Damage in Cuba Major Disaster Ranked as While hurricanes have been expected in the Caribbean region, the recent lashing of the island of Cuba productd Such retilts that the Tanked in comments printed in this country 48 one of the world's major dis- asters. With a tidal wave and other foris of violence which took the lives | cf hunareds of persons and destroyed a vast amount of property, theé event holds a spectacular pli of the public | “Imagine, Toledo Blade, idseku deep as t “a wall of water 20 feet he main channel in the Maumee River—impelied by & hurri- g the city of Toledo. persons, Wrecking | cane, _engulfini drowning hundreds of | buildings, destroying food supplies and | mérchandise, lea¥ing i its wake 2 Cevastated city strewn with bodies of humans and animals. Impossible? Yes, at least a most Temote danger in our naturally favored and protected locality, but exactly that has occurred in beauti- ful and fertile Cuba—the world's sugar powl. Read the unhappy history of Cubé since its discovery by Columbus. Soft climate and natural riches made it | most desirable. Likewise these advan- tages brought upon it the most troubles | feuds, mutinies, wars, the horrors of the slave trade, piretes, thisgovernment t was the bon 1‘ hish-American War of the late | 1800's, Since that time it has enjoyed | comparative peace prosperity. At pres | politicai situatioh is & | Littie ?mm n sufi':‘pr!b ;mm! its business, Unel 5 | unrest culminating in some disorder and #n occasional murder. These conditions can be, and will be, corrected, but man's control stops At the shore. He vaunts his power but stands heipless against the cruelties of nature. 1In such terrible | emergéncies he can only give sympathy | and assistance.” ent its economic and gain unfortunate. X wThe storm itself was terrible enough.” | timore Sun. “Those who | Jacall the wreckage caused by the tropi- ‘{‘:!l'.sl.olrms ‘which struck Florida in 1926 | §hd 1928 will understand what appall- ing consequences such visitations may entail, But when to the horrors of the “ind and rain are added the blind Vengeance of the sea, the result is al- {08t too shocking to conceive. The only reason. this disaster did not take as heavy a toll of life a3 the Florida storm | of 1928 or the Dc{lnl‘l]\\nn b:‘:r:d!ixaeniag{ could seem to have 1930 would B bie resided in its path. Santa Cruz is a small one of the less populated of Cuba, The locality did not 4 which the city of Santo city of Miami presented { the earlier visitations. But In - 1.:‘1’"10!1\'! violence, the cyclone wmc[h visited Santa Cruz would appear to | have enjoyéd a memorable and unique | 4&ifiction, A more ifipressive example |of tropieal fury no one would care to ! imagine.” | A reminder says_the Ba in | provinces | ofter the targe! | Domingo or the of the T to r&u:xelh‘s the Onkland une, W e :m;flh‘ym“ of the disaster in Cuba &nd ritbances on the mainiand. including ‘Bigards in the Middle West, high \ges and floods on the Eastern Coast nd snow plows in Ilinois.” The Lin- oln State Journal remarks: “In addi- tion_to_the 4t loss of life, hundreds n‘fonth'rr's Weré seriously injured. A lirge amount 6f property tls‘deslrn_ved and | mai tes are homeless. E::"of""s‘fmu Cruz was literally an- Mibilated. Nature in her sterner moods | is terrifying to mere human beings for | T are almost entirely defenseless | sgainst her onslaughts.” The Miami Daily News emphasizes the neighborly interest th of this country have in the relief of the sulfebers, with the comment that “there |5 no border line when t man Qistress is heard” The San An- totilo Expréss, ebserving tne extent of ine loss measured by millions, adds: | “Aviators flew over the devastated prov- ! jfces as soon as possible, They found great d:mage had been done buildings crops, trees and communication line§ betwesn Ci Avila—near the | SRR ~go de 4 4 hous: was i siinding r the home, “the’ well, for the miniature’ ion to the sand, so the introduction | visitation is | ace in the minds | you can,” suggests the | e of contention in the | and some periods of | he mainstay of | Political | at the people! he cry of hu- | -&ntl Clara_provincial bor- 118 REARIIA 18 Wetsrn_ Dri- | shemie have trisd Most of the focds avallable for aquarium fish are eéasily knocked down. to some extent, froth the surface, and end to fall unheeded upon the sand t §5 Here tHat both the tadpol~ and the weather fleh find them later, after help- inig the mote rishlike fish eat “upstairs. Another interesting habit of the ceather fich i8 that of Burying iteelf ih the rand, mostly with its head sticking out; but one may suspect that at tim it completely disappea : the sand is of the larger plenty of air per nes one will search the aqu e of the crcature. Has the cat got it? Or has it jumped out of the tank? Facts prove that the cat cid not get it nor did it leap out: for in an hour or so it is dn;{nr:‘r‘l calmly reposing exactly wheis the cbe knows it wag hot a few s e, The otly tenabl is that the odd fellow was completely out of sight beneath the sand. % ‘The friendship of the we: tadpole is striking s each rceogniz>s in its dutnb t i “gueer bird” and de- 5 the comradeship of the other. s easy. of course, to read {riend- shin into animals wiich possess it not The temptation to humadnize th creatures is one known to all Nature lovers. Often enoug done, the attempt does no h: and sometimes proves of vast benefit to the creatures concerned BEven “Nature-faking” at its woret increased the sim of huran detency and kind- liness. There ean be no question. of the ¢ tain rqua: In this class on® and the weather fish 244 The texture of their coverings and their colorations resemble each othe ‘Their duti re similar and t habits very much elike. Their movements differ, that of the taddy being clown-like. and of the weather fish extremely snake-like. The | Iatter is a more temperamental créatur | however, and for hours st a time sel £ k is in- jured and therefore it cannot swm. In such moods it snuggles up to its old friend taddy. and seems to want the latter to commiserats with it Often enough the tadpole lies side By side with the tiny “ecel,” as if listen- | ing_to its tale of woe. Wheh taddy makss one of his clumsy vet inherent gracsful sailies un an dcross the tank the weatiier fish accom panies him, keeping pace. of step. or fin, or whatever it is that fishes do in such cases. ther fish however, of cer- es the tadpole * k% It would secm to a new observer of slich ereatures that the weather fish i3 one of the real prima donnas, as it were, of the aguaritin. Other denizens act much the same way ih any bowl or tank one puts them, but the weather fish has a way of act- ing for each. he same specimeén put in a flat- <ided, drum-shaped aguarium keeps the ! water ih a turmoll By it8 ceaseless and lashing pilgrimages up and around. up and around, whereas in a very much jarger tank he seems to find difficulty in getting to the top. and bécomes a much more sedate creature in every way. The same veasel invartably pro- duces the same effect on him. Evi- dently he is a consistent fellow who knows his own mind. ‘w ~an‘s Crux del Sur, which probably will not bé rebuilt. Camaguey's princi- L. puii, Nuevitas, is on a North At- lantic inlet and 18 supplemented by neighboring Puerto Tarafa. Those two comitunities—cotinected with all parts of the protineé by reliroad and high- way—are only 350 miles southeast of Key West.” “The warm, seas eastward and south- eastward of the Guif of ico.” states the Asbuty Park Evening Press. “are the | birthplace of these violent winds. They are the creatures of atmospheric | prestire and temperature. and these two factors are varied by the sun beat- ing down upon the expanses of Atlantic water and the land mass of the Ameri- | can continents. Man is powetless to prevent these devastating winds. but | every season brings more knowledge of | their courses and eccentricities. which | means warnings in time to save life and property. 'The United States is rela- | tively safe from hurrieanes, the Galves- toh storin in 1900 and the Florida storm in 1926 having been the most dis: e e = A Gallant Figure! From the Schenectady Gazette When the time comes to write the history ofNthe campaign of 1932, free from partisan bias, we may expect a justified tribute will be paid to Presi-| dent Hoover. Regardless of what he did or falled to do during his administration, re- gardless of agreement or of dishgree- ment with his policles, we must recog- nize him as a gallant commander in chief of an army whose defeat was! unavoitlable from the outset. And the valiant chief who gamely fights a losing | battle deserves as much praise as his ' succetsful adversary. | ‘The depression which swept over the countty altost before President Hoover had time to get settled in his nmw‘ produced a tidal wave of resentment that would have overwhelmed any man, any party. The man who is President | at a tine like this, be he Democrat or | Repub’lenh, is the target on which the | wrath of the Natlon toncentrates. | President Hoover, during most of his campalgn, was deserted by the lieu-| | tenants who should have served him faithfully. Ih one State after another | they cast him overboard, realiging his cause was hopeless, selfishly bn{l!lng solely for ‘themselves. Many seeking! re-election refused to mention the Pres- | ident in their campaign: As a result, Mr. Hoover had to go forth himself to battle. It cannot be believed that he was deceived, any more | than his lleutenanis were. He must | have known what every reasonable voter | knew—that his cause was doomed from | the stert. | Some men would have said, realizing | | the hopelessness of his tack, that there | was no use struggling against the tide | Mr. Hoover plunged inlo the fray, he defended himself vigorously, he attacked | the opposition aggressively. And, as was obvious from the outset, he lost, But_he has the satisfdction of know- |ing hé went dowh fighting, yielding | hothihg. battling to the last momment. His friendt may, and will, take pride in his courageous fight. N The Real Tssue. From the Louisville Times In Lincoln County, Ky. where two ren killed each other because one said the other had his ignition switch key, the iseue of the times must hot be pro- | hibition of the tariff, but transportation. B Relieved.” asadenn Post s considerable misuse of the A man may be res } his eels | From the | "fhere | word “relieved.” lieved of an aching tooth, but whey pocketbook is snatched away he no serise of relief whatever. The Real Peril Trail, | Fram the Boanoke Thities. | e dirplane pllot who committed | suieide Bscquse, he Asserted, there are | fio thrills 1eft made a mistake Hs to fl“sw-t town in | | ‘& taxi | portrayals of English country life of ! Clintons’ THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. ., Democtat, treats J. Boveriage, Progressivé Reptib- pethetically in his blog- ridge ‘and the Progressivt Bowers explains his cheice of Beveridg as a subject: “During m¥ bovhood in Indiarapolis, Albert J. Bev- eridge, even befdte his Election to th? Sengte, was one of the gods of m¥ idolatry. Though not in syipathy with much of his political philosophy, there wes no resisting the lure of his brilliant eloquence nor the charm of his person- Y & cves also to explain the inteesting quality of the book. Whether e agree with Beveridges po- litical views, we are captivated by hid red personality and his whirlwind cs. He was born when th? people of the North fere rejoicing over at Cotinth, in 1862, and r of al y. the clash of steel, fing of tattered flags” wert symbolic of his career. His boy- d was typical of that of so many of reat men—poverty, hard- ed from society . every step toward ement won by almost unaided persorial struggle. At 15, ‘ Beveridge was in charge of a logging camp, where He “was entrusted withi the manago- nient of a rough group of illiterate men, physically powerful, and impatient of scipline or restraint.” He settled one jot of the drunken, fighting men by giving them such a “tongue-lashing’ {hat they ended in laughter—his firet speli-binding oratory. He worked his way through De Pauw University, put- tinz both his meager funds and his time on a budget system. ~ While others played he worked, and at graduatioh Iie ‘was alteady récognized as an un- usual orator, had taken part in the Blaine campaign. and had almost com- broken down his health. But vas young. and a few months in n Kansas as partner to a cowboy hat he was able to ¢ prepdration for the goal he hitseli—to become a first-class lawyer and spoaker. * X %% Ten vears after his admission to the Indiena bar Beveridge was elected to the United States Senate at the age of 36. He was politically ambitious; he knew his power as an orator: he had formed some very decided opinions about public affairs. He was an ardent iinpetialist and immediately after hi clection went to the Philippines to learti all he could about the new pos- cession of the United States, which he was determined should be kept. His act Yeareer in the Sehat® was a succession of fights—against the admiscion of Territories to statehcod for political reasons. for packing-house inspectiobh iegitlation, for a child labor amend- to the Constitution, for Roosevelt’s battleship program, for a taril b —and it mattered little to him if the fight was a head-on one against one of the most powerful political bosses, in fact he probably liked it all the better on that account. His duél with Quay ended With a visit of Bev- cridge to Quay’s sick room. As the visitdr was_departing the old politician said: “1 shell be dead in a few months, and the papers will v, ‘Matt Quay, boss, d my life differently eath of Matthew 8. 3 Teke warning by me, young man”. A person so decided in both personality and opinions as Beveridge could hot fail to make enemies, and in 1910 he was defeated for re-election to the Senate. His com- ment was: “Fortunes of war. It is all they would say. Quay, statesman.’ | right; 12 years of hard work, clean record; I am content.” PR Those who believe that the literature cf & country I8 as important as its poll- tics will not think Beveridge's defeat & misfortune, for had he continued in the Senate he would probably never have become a historian. While in the Fenate he had written magazine articles and two bgoks, “The Russian Advance” and “Thé Young Man and the World.” As & very young man Beveridge had been an enthusjastic admirer of Chief Justice Marshall and it had been what he called “the one real ambition of my life” to write & bicgraphy of this great maker of legal precedents. Shortly after his retirement from the Sen: he set to work on it. and, after the collepse of the Progressive party, of which he was one of the leaders, de- yoled himself to it almost completely He was opposed to our eiitering the World War, which he considered pri- marily a Furopean quarrél, and throughout its duration was in his writing, emerging only occasion- ally {]nr a patriotic speech. Soon after the United States entered the war he offered his services to President Wilson for any needed task. Much of the writing of the “Marshall” was dohe in | a one-room small stohe house adjoining the Beveridge house at Beverly Farms, Mass, on the table he had used ih the Senate, marked witn the burns from | \ls cigarettes. Wheh the biography was | completed it was, to the surprise of |even his friends, welcomed by histo- rians as-a work of scholarship, though Beveridge had had no orthodox his- torical training. Criticiem came in, however, from many sources because of his obvious antipathy toward Jeffer- son, but “his anti-Jeffersonian feeling was of the very fiber of his mature.” After the publication of the “Mar- shall” Beveridge declined two ambassa- dorships, offered by President 'flmung, and began his biography of Lincoln. He planned it “on exactly the same scale, oh the same plan, and by the satme method that I did the ‘Marshal’ ”'; but, when the second volume of the four projected was nearly finished. death put an end to his work. “He had not grotn old with the years and had not greatly chahgéd. Always he had seemed as he was when first he went to the Senate—youthful, brilllant and colorful. For he had not rusted in !tx‘mcgl\n,\', and Oio the end he had con- nued a marvel of industry, eager for the adventure of high uhlevem?nl)‘ * % % K Archibald Marshall has added an- other of the dull-blyé cloth volumes to | the long row which he has aiready beén responsible for on many library shelves. They look very well on the | shelves. but when ohe comés to read them it seems that most of the later ones could be spared. They are all/ the nineteenth century, that lelsurely yet altogether responsible life on gen- erous estates which is now Almost a| thing- of the past. The early novels| also have characters which impress us | with their vitality and quiet action, in | keeping with this t; of fictlon, Per- | haps the best are the four of the Clin ton series—"The Sguire's Daughter,’ “The Eldest Son,’ e Hihour of the and c Old Order Changeth” —but “Watermeads” ~and “The Graftons” belong to the’ period before staleness began. Marshall's last novel, “The Lady of the Manor,” take: us to Mapleden Hall, where lives Cath- arine Ockham, 2 pleasant, healthy | young woman, conversationally limited to local gossip. Sheds An heiress, how- ever, which adds to her charm among the young men of the couhtry gentry. Difficulties betwéen Catharine and her mother, whom, under her father’s will, she supersedes at M!nled:} Hall, sup- p{r{nent Catharine's love affairs in the ot. 3 * % k Xk er Scarsdale, hero of Warwick 's recent novel, “Old Wine and New. iad béen a sentimentalist. He had believed in love and thé lamb and the lly.” War service in Frante opentd | his eyes upon & world of realities and teft him destitule of a creed. A “vam- pish” youig woman also hnlrd in the destruction of his xenum?;r ity by de- ‘riving him of most of his sa: 3 ie had intelligence ard energy enough o start life over agaln and found a womai of charaeter and understar Spenc D | of Chile the full exercise of the right t | political betterment. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI There is no other agency in the world that can answer as manv legitimate questions as, our free information bu- reait in Washington, D. C. This highly oranized inttitution has beeh built up | and is undet the personal direction of Fredefic J. Haskin._ By keeping in eon- | stant touch with Federal burcaus and other educational entefprises, it is in A position to pass on to you authcrita- tive information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of ex- perts, whose services are put at your fres dispozal. There is no charge ex- cept+3 cents in coin or stamps for re- turn postage. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Star Information Burtau, Frefari- J. Haskin, Director. Was@ington, D. C. Q. Which radio announcer won_the medal for good diction t A. The American A< and Letters awarded the medal to David Ross. Q. Is “Hail to the Chief” played when a governor enters a hall or audi- torium?—J. H. A. “Hail to the Chief” is reserved to mark the entrance of the President of the United States. Q. What is the best.combination for trafiic signs?—G. F. A. It has been determined that a black legend on a yellow background is the easiest to read at all distances ex- cept very short distances. Q. Wheére is the Hejaz?—J. W. J A. The Hejaz is one of the new Arab tates which becare intependent after the World War. It was one of the fitst of the Arab natiohs to be recognized by the great powets, and it was reprs- | sented at the Peace Conference and adiitted to the League of Natlons. Tt is located in Northwestern Arabia. ex- tending along the Red Sea for several | huhdred miles. It includes the impor- tant cities of Mecta and Meditia, both sacted to the Mohaminecan faith. The Hejaz i8 now a part of the dominions of Sultan Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, the leader and king of the wat-like Wahabi sect of Afabs who live in the interior of the peninsula. Abdul Aziz ibn Saud ceptured the Hejaz in 1925, and on Jenuafy 11, 1926, was proclaimed in Mecca Ring of Hejaz and Sultan of Nejo. He now eonirols practically all the interior of Arabia, as well as a good deal of the coast. Q. Was formet Vice President Dawes a deseendant of Paul Bevere?—H. H. K . Mr. Dawes is a descendant of the William Dawes who en the might that Paul Revere made his celebrated ride also rode to warn the Americans of the coming of the British. Q. Did the early Greeks pay for military service in war?—A. D. A. They cid not. The custom of paving Athenian citizens, for example, pmbagly began with the growth of Wealth. A hoplite received a drachma # day: a cavalryman is thought to have received more. Q. Is it bad luck to kill ‘crickets?— . M. A. Crickets are often considered an emblet of good luck and cheer, and for | this reason it may be considered bad luck to kill them. ~There is, of coutse, no more truth in this than in ahy other superetition. Actually, however, cricksts | are not harmiul insects, since they will | not hatin clothing or other articles of | value unless driven to it by the absence of any other food. ’. What Russian empress was orig- | Inally & peasaht?—C. G. A Catherine, the wife of Peter the | Great, was the daughter of & peasant. | @ Wrhen was the pony express used? | —K W. K A The first April 8, 1880 Mo., and San_Francisco, Calif. ed through Forts Rearner, Lafainie, E’l&dyser. Great Salt Lake City, Camp loyd, Carson City, Washoe BSilver | Highlights on t y express Mtarted on 'roim bothy’ St. Jusep}lt.‘ C J. HASKIN. | Mines, Placerville and Sacrameénto. The schecule provided for an eight-day trip. The regular pony express service was discontinued upoh thé complétion of the line of the Pacific Télegraph Co. in October, 1861. Q. How many of our Presidents lived to be 70 years old>—N. F. A. Thitteen. John Adams lived to be 90, Thomas Jefferson 83, James Madison 85, Jafries Montoe 73, John Quiney Adams 80, Andrew Jackson 78, Martin Van Buren, 79, John Tylér 71, Millard Fillfiore 74, Jatnes Buthanan 71, Rutherford B. Hayes 70, Grover glrltlel;':m 71, and Willam Howard aft 12, Q. What was Caruso singing when fie had a hemorrhage of the throat, 1rom which he never entirély recovered? . R. M. A. Enrico Caruso, famous obpera inger. was singing in the opera “Pag- Hacel,” playing the role of Canio Pun- chinello), when, just as the opera bes gan he noticed the welling of blood in his throat He tried to go on, mapping the blood from time to time. but figally had to leave the stage. He had buist & blood vessel in the back of the throat, and he never recovered, although hé dic not die for some time afterward. Q. What toys do children prefer?— c.C.8 A. A comprehensive survey leads to the conclusion that building blocks are | the favorite toy for children up ‘to the age of 7. Drawing and painting mate- rials rank high. With little girls dolls and holsekeeping equipment arefavor- ites. Sand and clay for modeling re- tain the interest of most chilcrén. Mechanical toys, on the other hand, are soon discarded. Adults usuaily en- joy the mechanical toys more than the children for whom théy are purchased. Q. Does second Summer mean the same as Indian Summer?—F. L. A. Indian Summer was first used during the last part of the eighteenth century. In the next cecade the term was supplanted by second Summer. In- dian Summer became established about 20 years after ifs first appearance, which was in Western Pennsylvania. and spread to New England by 1798, to New York by 1799, Canada by 1821 and England by 1830. Q. Where did boxwood trees come from?—R. P. A. They are native to India and Africa. Q. How many .Washington Bicénten- nial stamps have been issued?—B. W. A. Up to the present time these 1932 issues. ', cent to 10 cents, inclusivé, have numbered 7,168,143,100. Q. What is the Bratt system of liquor control?>—C. E. W. A. Legislation controlling liquor in Sweden is known as the Bratt J]ynem. Under the 1917 law private trade lflz the right to retail wines or spirits, an since 1919 the home retail trade has become the monopoly of the system companies. 1t then bécame necessary to thonopolize the wholesale trade alsd and to eliminate all private pecuniary interest from both branches of the liquor trade through limited dividend companies, ‘There were in 1928 1 local companies, whose policy was éon- trolled by the local authorities, t%\'ue giving a measure of loeal optioh. Boards of the system comparies aré composed of two members & ted n | the parent society, two appol by | municipal authorities, and a Afth mem- ber, the chalrman, nrpolmed by the stafs board’ of control. These boArds cupervise all the companies afd have | general responsibility for the enforee: | ment of the law. . Q@ What is_the difference in levél between Lake Erie and Laké Ontario?— L.T.C A The surface of Lake Erie where the Niagara River ins 15 326 feet | higher than the levél of Ontario wheré | it ends. The Niagara 18 33 milés long. he Wide World Excetpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A_OPINION, Santo Domingo.— We aré inforined by the thinistry of labor and communications that post office messengers and mail carriers are to be fur- nished with bicyclés to assist them | in the more rapid delivery of corre- spondence. These messengers and car- riers are also to be fitted out with new uniforms. This newS has ecreated a wave of enthusjasm in the department, And Secretafy Pina Chevalier has again demonstrated his indefatigability in any congspt that makes for progress and jmprovement in the department under his care. £ Scottish Courts Harsh With Drunken Drivers. Evening Tinfes, Glasgow.—The de- | termination of the Scottish courts to stamp out offenses committed by drunk- en motorists Was expressed by the Lord Justice-Clerk (Lord Alness) High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow, When he sentenced Alexander Powell, & Blantyre butcher. to two years' impris onment and disqualified him from hold- ing a ariving license for four years. ‘The charge against well was oné of culpable homicide. He was coh victed by & majority of the jury of driv- ing a car negligehtly while under the influence of drink, with the result that & passenger in the car lost his life. * o % % Canadian_Sect Finds Site for Mexican Colony. El Universal, Mexico—A promi- nent merchant of Chiluahua, has in- formed our correspondent there that 1o Jess then 30,000 Doukhobors will soon arrive to colonize an area allotted to them near the town of Santa Clara, in the same state. These people are now located in Canada, but are anxious to migrate to a country where they can enjoy yet greater social and religious liberties. The Doukhobors practice doctrines something similar to those of the Men- honites, who already have a colony in San Antonio, in Chihuahua. * % *x ¥ roposed Woman's Vote in Chile Argued. El Mercurio, Bantiago.—The an- nounced intention to give the women o vote, in recognition of their ample in- telligence, faithful performance of duty, and capacity for discriminating wisely in all matters of public_and private concern, has let loose a flood of Argu- merts pro and con with reference to woman's enjoyment of the franchise. Some assert that such a grant is sub- versive of the fundamental propesitions | on which the republic was established. | Others have pointed out clearly in our columns the benefits which would ac- crue to the nation were women empow- ered to vote. We do nbt care, at this moment, to support eithét side of the coptroversy, hot becausé we feel we could not, in some degree, influence the ultimate de- cision, but rather for the reasen that we believe the proper decision will toon | be reached without our ascistance. The feminine vote is incvitable, not only in Chile, but L evely ctounlry wheré any Ppretense is iinde of representativé gov- erument. Weineh vete in all most ad- vanced and cultured states. Ih Chile | e have simply lagged belind in this It is an absurdity to maihtain that fiur country would be adverscly affect:d n matters of pollli' economics and #ocial progress when it fas srvived so| long with no higher ideals or bettr ob- | jectives than those set up by the me 3 to help 5 is intereat] 5 Barvte Buley” snidng "l A l, B Jia # same b i at the | (and perspéctive—from her 1 senses of order, fitness and & | * % x % | Lawyers Too Clever, | Berlin Editor Believes. Béiliner Tageblatt.—Among the vo= cational groups in our body politi, those pertaining to the legal profess assume a particularly privileged an in some tespects, an unconscionabl Yosuinm This gentry knows too muc} law. eney. | We do not contend that acquaintancé | with_the statutes. even in every para | graph, is a superfluous philosophy, whefi | properly invoked and applied in eve | case wherein a man_has been brought | to book by those whose duty it is to note infringements and enforce obedi- ence. We do maintain, however, that | intimacy with legal ramifications and | judicial technique can be, and is, too | often exploited by esperts either to | mitigate the prescribed penalties very | substantially, or to evade them alto- | gether. The success lawyeis have had in getting their clients out of the nét | serves them in too good 4 stead in ex= ]tr{cnung themselves frofit similar pres dicaments. In these days w most businessés | are finding it so difficult to maintain | an equilibrium, it would be an irra= tional impulse which would seek to add all the !am&rs to the rostér of the un- employed. Not s abSurd is the sugs | gestion that this spécies be restrain: from driving automobiles. When a law= | yer drives into an omnibus he can al- | ways show the fault was the city of Berlin's. Either the omnibus had no | business whatever subjecting itself 8 | the impact. or else was operating with defective brakes or steering mechanism. These contentions are ted Wi point and vehemence and when they fail to absolve from guilt or obligation, ot are not suceessful in winning dam- | ages for the damager, there is always the twelghty allegation of faulty paves | ment. | Such a suit 15 now pending against | the City of Berlin and the municipali will, int*all likelihood. lose it. How muc | more are private citizens, less versed | the ambigulities and machinations | procedute, to fare? And lawyers are obstructive not only in these aggressive actions. They are equally alert on the passive side. They know to a hicety, of course, what theit minimum license fee should be. but that figure does not please. Plenty of rea- sons can be adduced to show that they | are entitled to still lower rates than other pesple. Sieh muitiple discrima | Ination in favor of themselves by thé | Iegal gentry is certainly an injusticé | meeting with more and more disap- proval from other drivers and from Jthe public at large. e Tampa Vs. Washington. To the Editor 6f The Star: I am very much amused at the letolk |from Mr. John J. Lydecker, who ha$ imovrd here from Tampd, Fla. Hi§ statethent about the strééts of Ta being well cleared after 12 at m‘h;n%? ‘5‘,’”"{'}.‘”“ is ;l wet; he knows better | than that and does not v] e know whatof he l}halre 4180 lived ift Tathpa, Fla., a pirked my tar every night, ighit, I Tront of \?mualt nt:‘g r.dlr inohiths; just like thuugdhds of otheét ‘anipans, and m\l had the Polics Departinent to uT my ecar, or y other car, into & garage of ugon & and I iived next to the THinpa Chami- ver of Commerce. As far 8s our Stteets are cnncemfi s and fl (have lved in man &rfih&al strests A 8&'1\"’ kept, cleafi and far superior to the Tampa whers the grass docs grow in plenty mm-‘