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THE EVENING STAR ‘With S Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY. ...November 22, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Busi £ Newspaper Company o : 110 E: ne . 114 e:mflkefllflch:ll!l‘l B&w}:fl Oftice: 14 Regent St. 3 pazoss !nfllm{ Rate by Carrier Within the City. e lnn‘m’: Blar, i a5 DT OBt ng and Sun J wnen 4 Bundasg) .. gy 80 per month ‘ening_and Sunda TR ehen” s Sundars) 7 .65¢ per month TR SuRdAY Sutl a the enid of ehck month aors may be sent in by mail or telephone Ational 5010. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, 135 TR 1 mo Sae Daly only e Bunday only’ All Other States and Canada. jly and Sunday...1yr.$12.00; lmn.xl_.gg aily only . I1yr, $8.00: 1mo. T8 Bunday only $5.00; 1 mo.. ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively le(fll‘ed to the use for renubllrn(lnn‘oofll:elg"n‘e!:sfledl: patches credited to it or nof e e ited in this paper and also L) d herein. All rights of publi 1yr. The Cry in the Street. omorrow is the final day of the Washington Community Chest drive. oThe last word is used advisedly, for the present campaign, like all its pred- ecessors, is an endeavor to drive poy- erty and fear, suffering and death out | of the city. The campaign solicitors re- generous gifts from all classes, but | %. $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c | he did the White House as the scene for his statement, the Illinois Repre- sentgtive left the President in a posi- tion of allowing Mr. Britten's state- ment to stand, with all its implications, or of denying that he had made any| commitment to the Illinois Represent- ative on the subject. Had no word| come from the White House, the coun- try would have been justified in b!-‘ lieving that the President had made up | | his mind to sign a beer bill and had | | 50 informed Mr. Britten. Undoubtedly the country will know from the Presi- | dent in his own time what he intends | to do about a beer bill, and that may | | not be until the Congress has acted | upon the matter. | The White House steps have been| made a sounding board from which | Senators and Representatives have un- | dertaken many times in the past to broadcast their views. Now and then, as in the case of Mr. Britten, they have | undertaken to broadcast the views of the President. And in many such in- stances the Chief Executives have felt | forced to assert their right to speak for themselves. et No Hitler Autocracy Yet. Herr Adolf Hitler is discovering that there is many & slip twixt the cup and the lip, so far as his cravings to be autocrat of Germany are concerned. He was asked by President von Hl!\denburz | the total is short of the desired goal. | There must be many individuals within | the boundaries of the District of Co- Jumbia who have not been personally asked to give. To those neighbors and friends the newspapers of the ity &P~ | rejected that provisional proffer, though | molished. It is onl; peal at this eleventh hour. The total sum of $2,419.787 needed for the new year's work represents the minimum required to sustain, the efforts of the constituent agencies of the Chest. The same figure was set in 1981, and the purposeful yesterc -y to ccnsider a set of terms on which the old field marshal would con- sent to the formation of a government under the “Nazi” leader’s chancellor- ship. Before nightfall Herr Hitler had | | the door seems to have been left open | for compromises on both sides. The point on which the National soflfl"sli chieftain balked was President von| | Hindenburg's insistence that Hitler as-| | sure himself a Reichstag majority capa- | THE _EVENING ille people * * * has not been heeded.” ‘What a simple thing it would be if calamity could be prevented by heeding warnings! .There is much to be sald in favor ‘of unemployment insurance—and there Will never be such insurance unless it is in some manner made compulsory— but the American Federation of Labor's approach to the problem cannot be said to be entirely logical. As in other insurance’ the insured should, at the time of application for the policy, show | the ordinary signs of sound health and indicate normal prospects for continued THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A national habit of mind, inimical to| an average mortal, human progress and happy living, has | the frailties and ignorance grown up in America of recent years.| humanity, to assume that he, of all This is the tendency, on the part of | God's creatures, is in the right, and all too many persons, to assume calmly | any one who dares to disagree with that the way they think upon any |him, therefore, in the wrong. given question is the only way of think- Abraham Lincoln knew better. He ing upen that question. had charity for all and malice toward They are right, and every one who | none; he saw the light as he was given disagrees with them is, of course, not | to see it. life. The sick man does not make a very good risk, and at this moment labor, along with everybody else, is a rather sick man. Of all the remedial y wrong, but absolutely wrong., and In humble ways lesser men attempt ot only positively wrong, but wrong | to emulate this great man, rather than with malice aforethought. these countless little men who find Hence such persons, in amazing nothing quite so impossible to them, in numbers, tend to express their con- | this world, as to admit the possibilty tempt for ady difference of opinion in | that they may be wrong and some one belligerent tones which ought to mean | else right about anything. a fist fight. | The habit of calling other people Just how any human being, in such | names, especially those who disagree a world as this, can imagine that he is . With you, is very old. Often in the necessarily right, and that therefore | hurry of a lifetime the fair-minded man all who do not agree with him areif‘l::flts 1t difficult to remember this simple y wrong, is a mys to | fact. 2:::??:‘1‘3-m1nde; person. it | Leaving utterly aside the merits of He who has studied the history of |the age-old controversy between the mankind to some purpose realizes that | deists and the atheists, one nevertheless correctness of opinion is & thing of | may quote the ancient sentence, “The buni!neg“flhlfl STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1932. Any reader can the answer to any q | mation Bureau in Wi ), D This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The Bureau cannot give advice on 1, medical and financial mat- ters. It does not attempt to settle do- | mestic troubles, or undertake exhaus- | tive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give | full name and address and inclose SKETCHES IN CRITICISM. By Van Wyck Brooks, author of “The Life of Emerson,” etc. New York: E. P. Dut- ton & Co. THE SECOND COMMON READER. By Virginia Woolf, author of *“The Common Reader,” etc. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. We, the average, read pretty much as we A deal of swallowing hard and fast, a mite of tasting faint and vague. ‘With print about the most plentiful of any current day's output, with undi- Tected energy the passion of about every modern pursuit, with the practice of ‘reading source of private personal pride—with all this the average read- er's mind in respect to literature is a rl‘dglg, a litter of unrelated odds and ends. In books the reader goes hunting himself, as he thinks he is or himself to appear. 1In adolescence, therefore, there is a great racing through print for the Cinderella ro- mance on this side, for the heroics of | turn . Do not use post cards. | The 1'3‘1“"‘1!-e sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. How much grass seed does it take to seed the fairways of a nine-hole golf course?—W. W. A. It requires from 50 to 60 acres to build a nine-hole golf cou d- ing somewhat on the shape the property and on the topography. It takes about 135 pounds to the acre of a fairway grass mixture to the 25 to 30 acres of falrway. for uestion by vfl‘t?nl to our lnloa- of | three cents in coin or stamps for re-| steps that must be taken if this coun- try is to survive, and it cannot survive | without widespread employment of | labor at good wages, unemployment | insurance presents itself as the policy to be inaugurated in good times n(her‘ than bad. Its advantages lie in pre- vention, rather than cure. It would be & doubtful expedient, indeed, if regardes | corractness € CEUHAE 8 & opoly. as a restorative. And labor's nmude.' Being “right” is something on a pat as exemplified as recently as a year | with being moral, what is right one 8g0 at Vancouver and this year at|Yyear may be ‘wrong' the next, jus Cincinnati, raises the natural question be viewed with indifference 10 whether a return to good times and |years from now. something like normal employment . % % | would not again prejudice organize labor toward something that, in good times, One may be highly suspicious of the | man who becomes “peeved” if you dis- | fool thinketh in his heart that there is no God.” | _He who takes the other side is lumped off as a “fool,” without more ado. | There was no appeal. He was a fool, and that settled it. Did he not dare to | disagree? * ok % % This thing of calling those who do not agree with you harsh names is a temptation, at times, even to the honest warfare or other adventure on that side. Widening in subjects, the habit of indiscriminate reading grows to a dissipation, to almost a vice that looks exactly like a virtue of intellectuality. That a book is a creation, like arc] tecture, painting, music, does not trude. That it has ancestry, grand- fathers, a father, does not appear. That Q. How long did it take the author to compose the words to “America”?— L. R. A. Dr. Samuel Francis Smith com- the poem when he was 24 years gfiedfle wrote the words to fit the music found in a book of German songs. He is quoted as saying that he com- the eight verses in about half an it has a locale of time and place, these | hour. The first four are the ones usu- " | agree with him. | If he calls you names, in an un- S garded moment, ber sure uhe is afraid i | that he is wrong, after all. ricsMeLronollia Bastes; Nothing quite so upsets one of these The Metropolitan Hotel may never know-it-all persons as to feel, in the have been “the pride of Washington,” |bottom of his own heart, that perhaps t stord - | he is not as correct as he claims to be. as sentimental historians of the hostel: It he were sure of himself, truly there ry have said. but it was conspicuous| yould be no need at all for the descent enough to Jusilty a little warmth in the | to the personalities and_ ill-humored hearts of those its long. | language which so often marks the con- ety ANE Whp remmnber (s iy versational tactics of such a man. bamished grandeur. ¥t is not the What marks him most, however, is house proper that is now to be de- not his words, or his tactics, as the y its bedraggled it has regarded with suspicion. hil use such shadow, long a-dying. :vxrrézoghgngcmrsr?lu m to Seen today, as it is in the hands of | The insensate pride which goeth be- the auctioneer, the Metropolitan is | fore destruction is his. The haughty time-stained ruin. It is difficult to real- | SPizit ‘:m:{-‘“%"f‘:d:“l n’;fi“ K;‘:u;“‘z ize that until a few weeks 8go 1t| Gmiil iater 3 housed human beings, that people ac-| The old Greeks had & name for it, economy of the ple of legislating on normal occasions | tually made their temporary homes | Among the many names they had for | things. It finally got around to nemesis, trustees this season is manifested DY | within the framework of the constitu- | within its batteredwalls. Grime which | and we commonly think of it today as the fact that, although the plight of the poor is undeniably more grievous gnd damnation on parliamentary insti- all its surfaces. Huge in area, ram-| and acute now than it was then, they | tutions and would substitute autocracy |bling in structure, it contradicts every | u have asked only the same amount.|in their stead, Hitler declined office on | latter-day standard of construction. A | retribution, seen’of all men. there are | the effect that their “side” contains all | The circumstance is another argument why the current campaign should not | sented that to assent to them would be |it has endured so long. fail in any part. If those who have not | s negation of the principal plank in the| But Abraham Lincoln, it is said, re- | German Fascist platform. | given would give today, the problem al- most surely would be solved. And it/ would be a glorious thing if the total think of latter-day political develop- |great men signed its roster of guests. appealed for should be exceeded. Wash- ington could take pride in giving more than s sought—but not more than really could be used effectively—at a . time when every income is depleted. It seems that the situation might be dramatized in some such way as this Suppose that one were to hear a chifd's ery in the street at midnight. What would natural instinct prompt the hearer to do? Vision the picture: A starving boy or girl, collapsing at the door of any average home. The cry rings through the quiet darkness of the deserted thoroughfare. Instantly half & dozen doors are thrown open, and at least an equal number of anxious faces peer out into the gloom. How speedily the fallen child is carried in to shelter, warmth, food and gentle care! How many .the generous hands willing to belp in any way—in every way! ‘There would be no necessity for any special appeal if the distress of the poor eould be thus brought home to the peo- ple of the city. The difficulty is that poverty is a furtive, backward, shy phe- nomenon. It does not exhibit itself. Rather it hides. Of the thousands of families alded by the Community Chest sgencies, a considerable number have tried to conceal their condition. Only by accident have they been discovered. ‘The delay often serves but to aggra- | wate their predicament. However, that does not signify that their cases are any the less worthy. On the contrary, their appeal is all the more compelling | when it comes only after every con- eetvable sacrifice has been made and | suthentic suffering experienced. Such people simply carnot be denied access | to the heart of a civilized cmnmunlcyn: —————————— | Marchers who tnreaten to come to ‘Washington, D. C., place a heavy re- sponsibility on neighboring States, who | must face the need of absorbing the restiess surge of humanity thai may eppear. Tact and even stern discipline are needed before the possible concen- tration of disorder which the imagina- tion may easily picture as intended for the Nation's Capital. s The Latest Interpretef. Representative Pred Britten of Illi- | tion. As the “Nazi” creed breathes fire | | the conditions submitted. He repre- | Whatever the outsidé world may | ments in Germany, and it has felt | justified in viewing many of them with |ly bows a reverent head. genuine alarm, President von Hinden- | human tragedy and sorrow, comedy | burg continues to stand like the rock |and happiness, the Metropolitan had |he is against the attacks which the | its place and its function in the city “Nazis” avowedly would level against| the Republic, the constitution and a| stable international policy. The sol- dier-statesman told Hitler in Berlin on | Monday that the chancellorship might | be within the Brown Shirt generalis- |* simo’s grasp if he subscribed to the fol- lowing pledges: No change in the conduct of the Reichiwehr ministry, in order not to appears to be generations old covers | retribution. 7 %% But where there is one spectacular | thousands known only to the few, and | many sensed only by the one person | concerned. In that instructive drama, called “Job,” which comes down to us in our Bible, one of the characters sitting with the fallen man speaks with the exact words, and in the exact manner, of any one of these thousands of positive monument of waste, the wonder is that sided in the house when a member of | the House of Representatives. Other For their sake Washington momentari- A scene of | their opinion—about anything—is cor- | rect and any opposite opinion is, there- | fore, wrong. A younger man, who has listened quietly to the mouthings of the other, finally speaks. “No doubt,” he says, “ye are the peo- | ple, and wisdom will die with you, but | I, too, have a few thoughts on this matter.” In those few words he spoke then, as he speaks eternally, not in defense of his own opinion, so much as to sat- irize, and thus put in their place ail these positive-opinion people of the ages and the nations. * ok ok % as it used to be. It will be forgotten, and that will be kind. But also it will be remembered, and that, too, will be courteous, just and fair, — ] Prof. Einstein told Berlin savants about the expanding speed of the uni- verse just as a timely reminder that there are other things to think about than increasing war debts. Sclence state of mind which puts him into such | | men and women who are so sure that | human beings who value the integrity of their own minds and try their level best to do unto others as they would be done by. Sometimes the blatant arrogance of these Know-It-Alls strikes them squarely in the face, as no doubt it was intended to. They forget that what they really resent is arrogance, in any ®orm: bla- tancy, child of ignorance; ignorance itself, mother of evil. They do not remember, at the time, | that human nature is essentially much the same today as it was millions of years ago, and that the majority of human beings are emotional, rather | than intellectual, and that the emotions, | unless guided by a sense of reason, and, above all, a desire to be fair, simply | unjustly, right or wrong. * ok ok ‘What one faces, then, in all such persons displaying such states of mind, the word “mind” is not too good for ‘em, is simply the age-old emotional | forces. transmuted into words, mas- querading as thinking. And those who sound the clarion to | the wisdom. and that your side only | the “unthinking portion” of mankind, draw their own mental picture beycnd compare. They place themselves on record as unable to win by honest methgds when they resort to the essentially dishonest, the small-boy method of “calling names.” Against such procedure there are but two good answers, a swift poke in the Jaw, preperly administered, and as calm an ignoring 2- one may be capable of. The right to the jaw, it may be added, is worse than useless if not delivered at exactly the proper time. As the average human being most often is held back by training. habits and decency from administering this deserved re- buke, this methcd may be eliminated. * This leaves overlooking, or ignoring, in so far as one may. Answering back in kind is beneath cne's dignity. The retort humorous is more than such | persons merit. (Notice that we do not | call them rascals, but that is what they deserve, more often than not.) shaping it as environment so potently ally sung, or the first two and the fourth. | weighty, but of a purpose. shapes human development, 18 not manifest. That it is part of a com- munity, a school of definite and ain- | Q. nto_the | day?—W. O. C. gle purpose, does not come 1 mind of the average person, gorged | A. The Pilgrims instituted the cus- with much “reading.” | tom of setting epart one day yearly as A book, romance or whatnot, must | & day for thanksgiving. After they had slip into the mind automatically as a | been in New England nearly a year and thing of definite purpose, trivial or had found that their efforts to raise Else why‘cmps had been successful and that a bother? - That material must be so rich harvest was gained, Gov. Bradford chosen and placed as to support action |in 1621 issued a proclamation that a har- to fulfill such purpose. That charac- | vest feast of thanksgiving should be . When was the first Thanksgiving | ter, incident, episode, animate the ac- want to win, whether or no, justly or | [ess | by direct intent, impair continuity of the national de- | has become a means of relaxation in fense policy. | addition to its other helpfulness to | attitude of which we speak—is nothing | overtake them at last. Arrogance of opinion—this mental Retribution, in various ways, will Not the showy, dramatic nemesis of the stage, but the tion along its way of rounding the o intent to completion. Thlg lma::‘ry. poetic or otherwise illuminating, with beauty and power of word and phrase contributes o lift the whole to the level of literature. This is reading. than this is not reading. Clearly, we, the average, are in need of help. ' And not, by choice, from the | literary critic grown professional. He | is likely to be a shade pedantic, heavy | on his feet, unwieldy. Why not, in-| stead, call upon the creative author to help us in this dilemma? “Sketches In Criticism” s just that— sketches. minute chat. But each big and cover- ing. Together they embrace an out-r look upon American literature, achieved | out of American soil and circumstance as somewhat distinct from the Erglish importation that for two cen- turies served so greatly and still serves grandly, though no longer alone. The author’s book primarily, perhaps, vet the broacly basic outlinear character of the “Sketches” makes it a direct first aid to the over- stuffed victim of indiscriminate reading. Just when and where and why the American art of writing stepped free-est from the English comes out here in the soundest exponents of that pro- gression. The new realism, sourced in the scientific spirit rather than in the tradition of romantic creation, takes on the name and work of this American writer and that one. Noted examples of shortage in actual genius, like Henry James for cause, like Mark Twain for an almost exactly opposite cause— these serve as literary illuminants of the American scene as a whole. Emer- son, on the philosophic level, and Whit- man, in become here the true native sons of Ameritan art. These, pure | pri given and enjoyed by all the people of the Colony and sent four men in e forest to shoot turkey and wild game for this purpose. Priendly Indians were also invil tfa) the feast. 'n;?e came, bringing as their share gifts venison and fruits. Q. Do elephants stand or He down when sleeping?—V. H. 8. A. Elephants do sometimes lie down to sleep, although, like horses and some other large quadrupeds, they can sleep standing up. Q. When were the famous wheat cor- ners, and how high did prices go?— Each no longer than a five- | D. D, 'A. The Leiter corner in May wheat was in 1898 and sent the price up to $1.83 per bushel. The Patten corner in May wheat was in 1909 and, sent the These prices compare | ice to $1.60. with $3.45, which wheat reached in the ng% qur before the Government took control. Q. How many ships can the Panama Canal accommodate?—L. H. A. At the present time the capacity | of the Panama Canal the year round is approximately 48 ships of usual size per day, or about 17,000 a year. Q. When did the United States adopt tAhe Australian or secret ballci?— . M. D. A. In most States it was adopted in 1884. Q. When were “the Ides of March”?— e The word “ides” refers to the Roman system of reckoning time. The Romans divided their month into Ka- lends, Nones and Ides. The Kalends ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘was lon at the e T —— originating in anti 4 After many vicissl- vaded and CW King of Persia, 5| Q How many times was Adelina A Accovdion to bt haearah . Acc to her y, she was | married three times. Her first husband | was Henrl, Marquis de Caux, whom she | married in 1868 she was divorced from : ?!.n‘:am l:lfi,dl‘:den u:nllr'rl.:d Nicolini, the , who ; in 1889 she married Baron Cederstrom, a Swede, | whose title she bore when she dled, Septem!] Mme. Patti war Cyrus, the Q. Is the Cincinnati-Coviagton eus- pension Bridge the oldest major sus- rn‘nvlu;‘ bridge in the United States?— “A.’ The Cincinnati and Covington Bridge was bullt in 1867. It the oldest su: Amer: ica, that of eeling, W. Va., having been constructed by Charles Ellet in 1848. The Niagara Bridge, built by J. A. Roebling in 1855, also preceded it and was the 2rn railroad suspension bridge in the world. Q. Please tell something of the in- stitute with which Dr. Albert Einstein is to be connected —H. L. S. A. Dr. Einstein is to be professor of mathematical and theoretical physics in the Institute of Advanced Study, of Wwhich Dr. Abraham Flexner is director. Its temporary quarters will be in Pine Hall, the graduate mathematical build- ing at Princeton University. It was as a nucleus for this enterprise that Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Pelix Fuld of New- | ark, N. J, donated $5,000,000 in 1930. The institute will be exclusively a post- graduate university devoted to scholar= | ship and research in the interest of pure science. A small number of scholars, teachers, research workers and stu- dents will devote themselves to funda- mental knowledge without outside dis- tractions. There will be no emphasis on numbers, either in teachers, stu- dents or courses. Q. With what coloring matter did the mfi‘;‘ Egyptians color their statu- ary?—L. Z. A. They used copper sulphate for blue, lead for black, ocher lvg red and yellow. Green was obtained by mixing Q. Are the Yaqu! Indians particu- larly warlike?>—H. E. A. A. The Yaquis are one of the most independent and warlike of the North American Indian tribes and have suc- | cessfully resisted efforts of the Mexican government to subdue them for several hundred years. They are still largely | unsubjugated in their native home, in | Sonora, the Mexican state which ad- joins Arizona. Even in this country they are not ward Indians, but go to the public schools of the State and are | counted in the State population rather than with the reservation Indians. Q. How many patients has St. Eliza- beth’'s Hospital for the Insane?—W. B, A. This Federal hospital had a daily average population during the past fiscal year of 4,7 Q. _Would it be correct to say that the Roman Empire sprang out of Greece or Grecian territory?—W. A, C. A. It cannot be said that the Roman Empire sprang out of Greece or out of Grecian tel . There is no doubt that Greek ci’ ition and Greek cul- ture had an important influence in the growth and development of Rome. The came on the first of the month. In March, May and October the Nones fell on the 7th and the Ides on the Roman Empire at its greatest extent, about 117 A.D,, included all Greece. No ¢l in the conduct of the foreign office, 8o as not to disturb pend- | ing international negotiations. | Continuation of the program of eco- | nomic revival begun by the Von Papen cabinet and, therefore, no abrogation of the emergency decrees on economic | |and social service matters. | Avoldance of currency experiments | that might strain Germany's economic | system. | No change in the Reich's interven- tion in Prussia. Legislation by the Reichstag ity in a normal constitutional no longer Article 48. No restriction of the President's pow- | ers, especially no legislative attempt to | limit his emergency powers under Ar- ticle 48. The purpose of the President's seven points is plain. He means to thwart, to the extent of his powers, the ex- treme radicalism to which the “Nazis” are committed, should they contrive to obtain control of the Reich govern- ment. On its face, the Hitler program would plunge Germany into civil war and directly menace the peace of Eu- | rope. The fire-eating leader of the country’s largest political party, who | rejected the chancellorship earlier this vear unless he could be “another Mus- solini,” would turn the treaty of Ver- sallles forthwith into a scrap of paper. He would by that token reassert Ger- ‘many’s claim to her lost colonies, to Alsace-Lorraine and to the Polish Cor- ridor. He would de-legalize reparations and cancel all right on the part of the allied powers to collect any (ur(h?ri portion of them. He would insist, with- | out the formality of negotiations, upon Germany's privilege to arm to the teeth, if she desires and is able to do so. by emergency decree under | | humanity. more than that, as it can be nuthmx‘ private little elf of every human mind the two perhaps, upon whom Van Wyck | 15th. In the remaining months the | na | scientific question of whether there is | any such thing as voluntary amnesia. | less. VSRS 1t is the state of mind which permits Explosions over here during the war are to be made the subject of litigation. | Sensational incidents are likely to make New Jersey a more consequential State than New York itself. By continuing to deny his identity Col. Robins brings up the interesting A OPINION, Santo Domingo.— Through the indefatigable ef- . | tary of state for labor and cam& If beer can bring the immediate pros- muxucntit?ns. and, we are prou perity predicted, Old Man Gambrinus | !0, ¥, ouf distinguistied friend, Senor will be rated in modern mythology as a | speaker” has been installed in the bigger man than Santa Claus. “Parque Independencia,” another in the e “Parque Enriquillo,” and a third in the Plaza San Cristobal. Thanks w these . . “m;:' Uncle Sam | mitters, the public will all be able Shylock,” seems rather inclined 10|t enjoy the concerts and other pro- treat him like a poor relation. grams of the radiographic station HIX e Even in national transactions inability | other sources. Outside the capital forts of our progressive secre- as well as entertainments relayed from | Becretary Pina Chevalier has effected, | to pay is often confused with disincli- nation. e BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, ange event i | after considerable trouble and expense, | radio service for the pleasure and in- | struction of the people at San Jose de las Matas, at Santiago and at San Cristobal. ~ Secretary Pina Chevalier has been very active and tireless the last few weeks in securing the means d authority for these installations of 50 benefical and progressive a nature, nols, ardent supporter of beer, is the He would maintain his personal army | latest visitor to the White House seek- ing to interpret the intentions of the one time this Summer were mobilized | President with regard to legislation near Berlin for “direct action” pur- | which has not reached him. Mr. Britten, poses. He would make life a burden emerging from the presidential office, | for Germany's large and important | told the world that the Presicent would | Jewish community, if he did not actually | sign a beer bill if'it were presented to proscribe its continued presence on ! him. And promptly from the secre- :Gam.n soil. | tary to the President came a state- | The grim old Prussian soldier, whom | ment declaring that the President had | Dr. Julius Curtius likens to one of the| declined to discuss the subject with!stately big trées of the Yosemite vm-{‘ Mr. Britten. ley in his imperviousness to external| Too often members of Congress, advo- influences which would uproot his | eates of special causes, visit the White | ryndamental principles or bend him House and undertake to act 85 inter- | from his sworn duty, has set up a new preters for the Chief Executive. The 'H.mdenbun( line.” The field marshal President of the United States, if he has| helq its predecessor against more | & statement to make on an important ormigable forces than Hitler can fling subject, quite naturally prefers to make | gzaingt the defenses the President of i in his own time, in his own way and | tne Reich has erected in the name of in his own words. Mr. Britten seems 0| German domestic tranquillity and Eu- have been a victim of his own enthu- yonean Jaw and peace. | siagm. It is quite likely that Mr. Britten | may have laid before the President his Many arys have pecome wet on the | views on beer and its possibie value &5y, that & competent politician can & revenue raiser and a stimulant o ¢,ye his pronibition or let it alone. temperance. The Illinols Representative z gt went to the White House intent upon . telling the Chief Executive what he| Ubemployment Insurance. | thought about the matter. But it is| The Executive Council’s recommenda- | quite as reasonable to suppose that the tion that the American Federation of President declined to tell Mr. Britten | Labor commit itself to compulsory un- what he would do about & beer bill if it | employment in:urance through action | came to him. Indeed, according to the | by the States probebly overshadows, in | White House statement, that is just public interest, the other points 1n‘ what happened. lllbol'l program as outlined at Cincin- | Mr. Britten, when he said at the nuwtt For the recommendatlon is & ‘White House that he was confident that | reversal of the policy laid down at Van- the President would not veto a beer |couver, only & year ago, when President bl if it were sent to him, carrying Green construed unemployment insur- proper safeguards sgainst return of |ancé asa “death blow at unionism” and, the mloow, was expressing his own|in accordance with organized labor's hope. But coming, as it did, immedi- | traditional stand on unemployment in- ately after his visit to the President and | surance, opposed it. No iess interesting | on the threshold of the White House |is Mr. Green's own explanation of the "offices, Mr. Britten's statement had all | reversal of policy. It was made, he| the weight of an announcement of the |says, because “our waming that the | President's stand in this matter. If | Nation must provide work for the un- Mr. Britten had risen on the floor of | | or unempioyment relief in- !n—uwwwuuvmmmh R | | of Black Shirt “storm troops,” who at|And we perhaps were never meant ol Hnoron e & which in & forceful manner will elevate As it becomes today the plane of the country’s culture and The promise that seems heaven sent | civiliaztion. Will often go astray. | We vow in indolence and pride | Mexican Expert Sees That life is all secure, Jfiveulla Frobicm. ] El Universal, Mexico, D. F.—Prof. Then fondest hopes may be denied Manuel Velazquez Andrade has writ- And nothing seems quite sure, ten a mos. interesting and timely article for -ur paper upon juvenile de- | linquency. :liat problem which, perhaps more the : any other confronting pres- ent day soclety, is crying for satis- | factory solution. We give below a synopsis of his views in order that many of our readers who might not take time to real the longer article may glean | something from the professor’s preg- | nant reflections upon this vital subject. “Free us,” wrote Shakespeare, more thf.n tw{o l:lsicl} centuries ago, “rr]or‘n‘ delays of the law!” The same evil is “Do you think you can lead the way | temi2 o (ORS8N0, The sale et 8| to fmmediate prosperity?” thing else encouraging law breaking. | “I'm not so sure,” answered Senator | In }:he Shoiiolithe iuteriie foflenier, p : | each one knows wel ause of | Sorghum. “But we can at least find |y, o his offense will be viewed | some new corners to turn in searching | with’ leniency, purged of punishment for it.” | and in most instances anointed with a | species of character and magnanimity. | Youth is the time of adventure, of ex- citement, of finding out Everything is novel and alluring to the young, and particularly those pleasures and experiences which partake of the bizarre and the clandestine. Youth does not care to pursue a sedate and normal path. Departures from the routine and commonplace of life offer far more attraction. In an age when even the parents | ure wont to rebel against many of | the traditional restraints of law and | religion, it is logical that their fin-| fluence with_their_children should be | weakened. They themselves no longer = oo | have any inclination to set the proper | Resunisles than bavs't colieyer | example, or attempt control when they “Of course, I do,” answered Miss | are given over to equal licenses. Under | Cavenne. “They can't play foot ball, | such conditions, how can the children S e time to study.” be better than their parents? = The fo7hoy hvermpre e i home and socicty at large thus all make their contributions to the de- moralization which is cventually con- doned by the law when the proclivities of youth reach a degree of disfavor that engages the formal attention of the Xk And yet another dawn may bring A time of true delight, Porbidding shadows dark to cling 'Neath skies serenely bright. To sce quite clear the way— Each 'morrow is a strange event As it becomes today. Around the Corner. Jud Tunkins says you are entitled to | your own opinions, but yor» mustn’'t ex- pect them te work miracles. Betting on a horse doesn't make him run any | faster. Fair Question. Airship, radio, train express— Promising such joys. Were you built to ald distress, Or are you only toys? i | | | Enforced Advantage. “Do you think girls have better op- | | “When there is no work for men to do,” said Hi Ho, “th:y are forced to try to think for themselves, only to find too often that they are doing it badly.” courts. | It is futile to attempt a few feeble Advice. and meager reclamations through the | 'and heart, called Conscience. High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | gain its once high standards of pre- cept and behavior? If not, then both age and youth are doomed, for de- generacy gains fresh momentum every day! 5 * % % % Health Program Urged for Children. The Cape Argus, Cape Town.—Of the 30,000 school children attending primary | schools in Johannesburg 70 per cent are indigent, declared the mayor of Jo- | hannesburg, D. F. Corlett, in opening | the Transvaal Dental Society's fifth | annual congress in the Municipal| Buildings this morning. The mayor said he had rather doubted the figures at first, so alarming | genuine Americanism in literature. To Brooks counts as the beginning of a current writers about whom there is| much of dispute Mr. Brooks gives frank and fair appraisal, wisely appreciative | views that are finely helpful to one try- ing to bring something of order to ti sad state of his reading store. Deeply interesting personalities serve as literary texts here. From Whitman to Upton Sinclalr, with Jack London and James Huneker, Ambrose Blerce and a host of minor critics flashing candle lights along the way. An exer- clse to the average reader, “ es. in Criticism,” as stirring as it is re- organizing. both to the stuff with which | his mind is loaded and to his methods | of further approach to the subject of | all reading. ok ok ok “The Second Common Reader” par- takes definitely of the purpose of “Sketches in Criticism.” Each consti- | tutes an informal overlooking of the | literature of its own country. A dif- | ference in mood appears, naturally; | ways of approach are not the same, | points of emphasis vary. But, never- theless, here are two distinguished au- | Nones came on the 5th and the Ides on the 13th. The “Ides of March,” therefore, was the period from the 15th to the 1st of the following month. Q. What was the tempera the elevation to which Prof. ascended?—L. F. A. The temperature at this elevation was 36 degrees below mero, Centigrade. ture at Piccard Hoover and Roosevelt Raise Hopes of Co Public conviction that in dealing with the subject of European debts the outgo and incoming administrations should be made as nearly continuous as possible has given force to the confer- ence between President Hoover and Gov. Roosevelt. In the country-wide debate, the attitude for or against modification of the debt agreements ap- pears to be unchanged, but it is felt that full disclosure of the: facts is de- pendent upon harmony between the parties, while it is pointed out that final action will be dependent on Congress. While assuming that “it is Congress, thors deing the good service of talking | and Congress alone, which can decide about literature straight across to |the immediate question involved in the did they appear, but he had since had | them confirmed. The definition of | indigency given to him by Dr. Nathen | was that indigent conditions arose when the parents of a child or children | were earning less than 15s per week per child. These figures alone, he said, were enough to show the absolute | necessity for a scheme of systematic | control in the interests of the health | of children. * % % Italy and Egypt To Exchange Sites. | Egyptian Gazette, Cairo.—The Italian | government, as previously reported, ex- pressed to the Egyptian government its willingness to give a site in Rome | for the construction of an Egyptian academy of fine arts in exchange for a similar site from the state domains in Egypt for construction of an insti- tution for archeological research. | It is now stated that as a result of the communications exchanged between the two governments the Italian gov- ernment has agreed to give the Egyp- |tian government a site about 2,000 | square meters in the suburbs of Rome [ | al a nominal rent of one lira per annum. The Egyptian government in exchange will give the Italian govern- ment a site of 8,000 square meters in the Agouza district of Giza Province. A note to this effect will be submitted to the council of ministers at its com- ing sitting. e Give Dollars, Not Dimes, | To the Community Chest To the Editor of The Star I once received a letter from a good church member from whom I had solicited a contribution—he sent it, by the way—who wrote | “Too many good church members go down through a pocket full of dollars | to find a nickel to give to the Lord.” | I am convinced that there are too | many good Samaritans in Washington | do the same thing. In fact, this is true | in every other city. Let the Govern- ment ask for a 90-day loan at 3 per | cent and it will be subscribéd three or | four times over. If those who have would do their full duty the Community Chest would be filled to overflowing. There are some with wealth who are giving their share, while there are oth- ers just as able who could give enough to_make up the call. Don't go do for nickel contribu- tions; dig out dollars! You won't know | Elizabethans beside her, as alive &s she readers. | British and Prench notes” the Rock Simple, forthright, individual, each|Island Argus concedes that “Gov. out of a widely recognized competency Roosevelt and the leaders of his party of achievement talks of literature and | will not be without influence abroad.” its creators. Mrs. Woolf, going back | The Nashville Banner holds that “the three centuries, comes briskly forward | stipulation that the conference was to with one and another of the great| be informal did mot deprive the ex- herself is in this current year and day. The survival is iif no case suggestive of the museym exhibit. Here is a certain case of “bringing them back alive,” and | that is what survival means. Some- times it is the writer, sometimes it is the writer's work, stepping into line, but in either case the clear aliveness of the movements is its invigorating stamp. All along in between old Donne of long ago and Thomas Hardy of to- day stand, or walk, or run, Robinson Crusoe, whose other name is Diniel change of views of their usefulness,” while that paper advises: “The cre- ation of a bipartisan commission to make a survey, to consider the whole question, and the granting, meanwhile, of a short postponement of the debts which fall due December 15 are two steps which, it would seem, Congress should and must take.” The Oklahoma City Oklahoman feels that “‘our foreign relations are large enough to call for the best services of both the President and his successor,” while the Salt Lake Deseret News predicts that “the best | To give advice I'm very glad | Whenever you desire, Although I find with feelings sad It’s little to admire. You are entitled to my views, | Voluminous and free. |80 you can take them as you choose; tion of religious and educational | the difference a hundred years from rg:tl;:umns. whug we flaunt on every | now, and you might just as well give to hand. innumerable opportunities for |Lhe poor as to die and leave it for some- idleness and dubious pleasure. ‘The|body else who probably will not need it. law, through some perverted doctrine Dig, brother, dig, and relieve your of expediency or profit, permits many | conscience as well as the hunger and a vile resort to flourish though the Want of ‘those around you. sole purpose of its existencé is to take | T. H. BAKER. away the scanty, hard-earned money | = of the thoughtless, volatile and imma- | They're not much good to me. ture. Modern theories must undergo | a thorough scrutiny and a radical re-| vision if our Nation does not follow in the courses of Bh-‘bylon lnd'me, “A good deal of de big talkin’,” said Uncle Eben, “Is like hollerin’ at de dice A th is in & crap game. It don't exercise much | WHeR one youth is lost all s lost, ang mmmu-&-;«m‘-;,.,.“’.fl‘.m and mo’ interestin’.” 3 the of vice, Can age re- greatest More Pointing With Pride. Prom the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman. | Nearly every time one of our presi- | dential candidates mentioned a two- | billion-dollar deficit there was wild ap- plause from the audience. Can it be that we pride in having the on earth? Defoe, or Dean Swift with “Stella” at his heels, or Lord Chesterfield dealing out fine behaviors to his son, or the impeccable Beau Brummel or De Qlainry‘s self-avowals.I A most inter- esting pair, so greatly unlike, Ma: Wollstonecraft so filled with zeal fg her “rights” and Dorothy Wordsworth so buried in her beloved brother, the greatest of nature’s poets. George Gissing stands in a fresh light under the vigorous championship¥of this in- seeing and gifted woman. An adven- ture, to go along with Virginia Woolf, passionate defender of her own right to solitude, to personal independence of thought and literary behavior. It might have been just as well if Mrs. Woolf had omitted from this volume its last chapter, “How Should One Read a Book?” Cer- tainly & good thing to know. Yet about it there is the savor of instruc- tion, the atmosphere of the school room. And this comports not at all with the true spirit of adventure which the rest of the book so truly carries. Still, with learning to read all over again as the wisdom of this county will be as- cembled in Washington in the near fu- ,:ure to lay out a permanent course of The President’s invitation, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal, was “a patriotic act which rises to staf manship” and is “the prelude to im- ‘pona‘ ng cmopt;{lnon’ in the considera- lon of a matter of non- na- tional concern.” The Rum calls it “the practical and common- sense method of considering such prob- lems,” while the need of co-operation and teamwork between parties is em- phasized by the Youngstown Vindicator, the Pasadena Star-News, the Lowell Evening Leader and the Spokane | Spokesman-Review. “The Phi) Iphia | Evening Bulletin points out that the | incident “may be historic,” for the problem is one in which there is no distinctly party policy identified and in which there should be no partisan | consideration.” The Boise Idaho States- | man sees a purpose on the part of the President “to make no move between now apd the time his term expires imperative need of the day, as a rea- | Which might be inconsistent with the son, in fact, for consulting here with | course the ats are desirous of Mr. Brooks and Mrs. Woolf, to cavil at | P .” ‘The Jersey City Journal so slight a falling off from the high | advises that “if a review of the debt design of the whole is neither a grate- | question is to be undertaken at all, it ful nor a ing thing to do. So let | Will have to be completed under us take it back, Let us, instead, express | Roosevelt administration.” sincere gratitude for the good service| The Baltimore Sun looks for formu- of these two to ye, sverage readers. Let | lation of “a policy that recognizes the us, moreover, fofécast the deep benefit, | truth and tells the truth,” while the coupled with keen plessure, that lies in | Newark Evening News would “like to the reading of this pair of books and in | see, not only these two men, but the reading them over again. brains of the Naton, regardless of party or pro'pg_ct of office, study the problem O ctgress will have the pper hand, i ess ve uj augmge New York Sun, Chronic. Prom the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post. It would be just the hard luck of those Western farmers who are. pre- paring to use corn instead of coal to have a mild Winter. Mo Still Objectors. From the Cleveland News. Relieving agricuiture by authorizing a still on every farm, as a_ Wisconsin judge suggests, might be hindered by | conscientious objectors here and there. | Opportunity for Distinction. Prom the Louisville Courler-Journal. It may not be long before Congress- | must exercise leadershi that issue will be obl limited information on subject, formulates the American position.” The Oshkosh Daily Northwestern would “submit the British and Prench notes | to Congress.” The Rochester Times- Union, however, suggests that “if the the | ¢ ntinuous Policy united recommendation would ubuvz g!nnuwz‘m vtth_?.h: mo! Tmes that o e fact that Gov. not yet the authority either to formulate or t0 enforce policies,” and ‘Times looks debt advisory,” while the Charlotte avers that “Mr. Roosevelt meets Hoover in the capacity of counselor and respectful listener.” Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post it “a gesture of L Hart{ Times comments: “Can it be hel ordinarily, that an incoming shall venture to act as an informal | viser or consultant with the outgoing | Chief Magistrate? Overwhelming hue man experience answers that query im the negative.” The Buffalo Evening News avers that there is significance in the language employed by Mr. Roosevelt, as to which it declares: UHe expressed willingness ‘to rate.in every appropriate way." However, it would have been just as well if he had not interjected the gra- tuitous observation that ‘in the last analysis, the immediate question raised by the British, French and other notes creates a responsibility which rests upon those now vested with executive and legislative authority.’ In that ob- servation there is some suggestion of political consciousness, perhaps inspired by consideration of the uncompromising position taken on the debt question by 8 section of his suport.” “It is an issue upon which our Nation must develop a pplicy to which it must adhere, regardless of who is President,” advises %Alwonl Mirror, while the Roanoke es believes that “the head of the next administration should have an unity to acquaint himself with the , of the problem and the Hoover administration should proceed in the matter with some knowledge of what the policies of the Roosevell ad- ministration are to be.” The Omaha World-Herald concludes: “It will ap- peal to the American people as a most admirable step—providing Hoover and Roosevelt views can be reconcile? and harmonized. It will be highly d-s:oble that the existing administration ond the administration which is coming in on the 4th of March should work in harmony. It must be admitted tha’ we face something of a crisis in interna- tional matters, if not in domestic poli- cles. Never before in the history of the world have great nations, who have made solemn treaties and financial promises, been forced to admit their in- ability to keep their obligations. No matter how :diplomatically the actual act 15 concealed, the plain truth is that some, if not all, of the nations indsbted to the United States are, at this time, unable to meet their payments.” g - Premature. Prom the Indianspolis News. A rattlesnake appeared in the heart fi;vamsnvm& tpresmmbly under the ressiol prohibition : had been Abbreviated Alternative. om the Roanoke Times. Changed Two Months Late. Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The country went as Maine went in men will be seeking distinction by prohibitionists President and the man who is to suc- claiming to be the only ceed reach in the session. can ”Inmfl ber, even though the Down- easters their own minds