Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1933, Page 4

- A4 {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.....January 7, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St ‘and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. opean Offce’ 14 Regent St.. London. ngland. Carrier Within ‘;ls City. | Wk Rate by e Evening Star c per month Bt Zning and's |in which they found themselves. them back to a safe distance, but they had a thrilling show, nevertheless. They stood in silence while the long line of flame marched from one end of the frame edifice to the other, a vaulting procession of fire against the sky. Within the skeleton of the structure the firemen struggled with obstacles of peculiarly aggravating kinds. The scene was Dantesque. Newspaper men, entering the turmoil, were struck by the weird darkness of the artificlal pit The crown of light on the top rim of the place served but to accentuate the inda s (when 4 Sundass)..... e Evening and Sunday Star Gven s “sundaye) tar : lection made at the end of cn ders may be sent in by mail o Ational 5000, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1yr., $10.00: 1 mo.. 85c ..157., $6.00; 1mo.. 80c | 1yr., $4.00; 1mo., 40c 60c per month | blackness of the depths. All the lit- 65¢ per month | tered debris of construction lay scat- 5508 | tered about, bizarre in shape and sem- ephone | plance, monstrous forms over which | they scrambled and stumbled helpless- ly. But there was no thought of sur- render. ch tele Instead, rank and file alike | | reach the blaze. No more strenuous task THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON or stone, devised the first rude covering for a pedal extremity. He was an un- doubted benefactor of the human race, that unknown inventor of ages ago. No one can say who he was, where he lived or exactly when, nor how he made his great discovery; but mankind owes him an eternal debt of gratitude for his innovation. ! The peoples of the Near East, of | Egypt, Crete and Greece were sandal- | wearers, as the people of China and Japan are to this day. They originally made the soles of plaited grass, palm | fronds and, later, of scraps of leather. | But where climate manded better protection for the foof the barbarian races evolved a service | able shoe out of a single piece of un- tanned hide, which they laced with a | as this, to miss exactly what we would | to excuse himself. theng and so made a complete cover. ing. In the Jules Jacquemart coliec fought doggedly and purposefully 10|y gt the Cluny Museum, Paris, one | may see the whole long story illustrated THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. literature there are no books to be |Sarcasm, her descriptions, her conver- | sations, her stor found which have exactly the flavor of | Shaon®; Mer Story P the novels written by Jane Austen. They are unique. This column has carried this state- ment, in varied form, from time to time during the past 10 years, and each time as the Bronte sisters have become. She is still, to most of us, a good novel. Her quiet, delightful pages, some say, are “Mid-Victorian.” Usually they sey | less kindly de- | | letters applauding the sentiments. We cite this fact, not because we are roud of such good letters, though we are, mor in any effort to lecture man kind on its failings, but solely to brinj | home how easy g it is. in such a world like if we were acquainted with it. Especially is this true of books. No one reader can read everything. | of modern crime to be “Mid-Victorian. When you hear some one say that,| |in relation to Jane Austen, know one |ol two things: Either that the speaker |is not one born to read “Emma” and | “Mansfield Park" or that he is trying | The joke is that no excuse is neces- | sary. There is another thing the writer D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938 1 | THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. In his latest novel, “Faraway" (Harper On the long, long shelf of English | would have loved her wit, her well-bred | & Bros.), J. B.. Pflufleytfil much of | | the same solid, unsensational realism ots and actions, in |85 in his previcus novels, “The Good | partment. | Companions” and “Angel Pavement,” | opera elements. 1t is a very modern “Treasure Island.” The story opens on a placid, even stupid, scene in the | stuffy sitting room of William Dursley, | has a small malt business and other- | | wise leads an uninteresting, exemplary | life, perfectly satisfactory to himself.| He and his friend Greenlaw, & teacher, | as prosaic as himself, are playing at chess. Into this quiet atmosphere bursts William's uncle, Baldwin Totten, | dissipated South Sea adventurer, re- |turned to die in his nephew's home. | Dying, he leaves as a legacy informa- The more one loves books, the mare | here felicitates himseif upon, and that | tion about an uncharted South Sea sure he may be that he is missing a is in having, for a decade, written al- | island where is a huge vein of pitch- | ‘: BY FREDER | When troublesome questions arise | avail yourself of the service of this de- It costs you nothing-you | have only to send 3 cents for postage Bui, thank heaven, she is not a cult, | together with Gilbert and Sullivan |on the personal letter you will receive in reply. Do not use post cards. Any | question on any subject of fact will be answered. Address your letter of in- | quiry to The Star Information Bureau, |it has been followed by a number of | that with a sneer, as if it were a sort bachelor, of Buntingham, Suffolk, who | Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- lon, D. C. S. }\;nm is the Everywhere League? | A. It is a correspondence club for the hard of hearing. It has about 400 members. It is conducted under the aus- pices of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hear- ing, Inc. IC J. HASKIN. crossed over, and wound around the ankle. This was the sandal of the class to which Jesus Christ belonged. Later sandals were m in a most luxurious fashion, many times gold and silver being freely used in their decora- tion. | Q What percentage of those who take the American foreign service ex- aminations pass them successfully?— RP.T A. Roughly, one-third of those who complete the oral and written exami- nations for the foreign service are suc- cessful. Up to the first of last year every one who passed has been offered an appointment before his eligibility expired. Q. What was McKinley’s favorite H N ' | | * l poem ). Q. Has Rubinoff a particularly good |~ A. “Buf far on the deep there are All Other States and Canada. | could be imagined. The fire seemed | great deal, and some of it just exactly 'ways against the idea that ome must |blende, rich in radium. The latitude| violin?—S. A. junday...1 yr., §12.00; 1 mo., !I”M H al;l]d’ E 1yr, $8.00;: 1mo, T75¢ sy only 1yr. $5.00; 1mo. B0c | Member of the Associated Press. | Associated Press is exclusively entitled h‘rl')l:e! u“mior republication of all news dis- ted to it or not otherwise cred- | o4 To {ngs Daper and aito the local news published herein. All right s of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are slso reserved. | - = ois The Proposed New Economies. The long-awaited recommendations | from the Senate Appropriations Com- | mittee’s Subcommittee on Economy, now | made after weeks of close study, are distinctly disappointing. To the country | at large they are disappointing in that| they continue to concern themselves | with relatively picayune savings. 1f all| of the steps suggested were enacted into | Jaw the serious business of budget balancing would have received slight | assistance. To , the employes of the| | Pederal Government the rccommenda- | Review reported that in the Spring nnd‘ been asked to give of new or partly| tlons are disappointing for two reasons: | Summer county taxpayers' organiza-|worn shoes. First, the tendency continues to exact | from the underpaid wage earners in| country at the rate of one a day, many uted directly to those who apply for| Federal employ a disproportionately Jarge amount of governmental savings Practically every step recommended will operate to the disadvantage of Federal | ‘workers through loss of pay or through | oas of hard-won privileges. Second, the‘ pronounced inequities of the economy | act, which it was assumed would by this | time have been corrected, receive little, | fortified against its foes. | For a full hour the struggle con- | tinued. The steelwork swarmed with men whos2 forms were silhouetted by a falling shower of cinders from above | their heads. ‘That constituted the | tableau which the spectators will re- | member—the human actors in the flaming scene. The lesson of the incident is ob- vious. Since scaffolding is so particu- larly susceptible to fire, exceptional care must be exercised against the danger. It is tragic that such a loss lhfluld; have occurred, and there never should | be another conflagration in Washing- | ton like it. The possiblity should be | guarded against. R Looking for a Cure. Last August the National Municipal | city’s poor, the more fortunate have | tions were being formed throughout lhe‘ of them spontaneously, many of them under the leadership of paid organizers | with examples gathered from the far corners of the planet. How early shoes appeared in the ex- perience of humanity is made mani- fest by the fact that the origin of the word is unknown. It was universal, in one form or another, but philologists can but guess at its beginning. By | some 1t has been supposed to have a relation to “ska” or *sku,” signifyin a cover, whence the English word “sk; and the Latin werd “scutum,” a shield. | There are thirty-two references to shoes | |in the Scriptures and thirty-four in| Shakespeare. Here in Washington this Winter a most interesting social experiment, a most beneficent charity, centers in the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, with headquarters at 727 Seventeenth street. To meet the need of thousands of the Necessary repairs are made, and the shoes then are distrib- them. Thus adults are guarded against disease and children are kept in school. and many of them responding to the “Shoes for the shoeless” is the slogan, propaganda of the United States Cham- | and it is a stirring phrase. Surely, it | ber of Commerce. Their common pur- | will appeal to hundreds of generous pose was tax reduction. Some under- | hearts. There must be many who may took the direction of movements for|not have money to give, but who, economy in government through reor-!searching cupboards and wardrobes, will ganization, others for mergers of county | find usable footwear which they can : vernments, for th n | if any, attention. The inequiteble pro- | &¢ ents, others for the reductio visions of the economy act are con-| tinued, and to them are added further Sl et e Tah tnequities. B L Legis i | 1atures are convening in regular ses-| It is to be doubted if the proposal t0 | gion gand before the year is out all ex- cut Federal salaries an additional one | cont five of the State Legislatures—Ala- and two-thirds per cent, taken alone, | pams Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi would arouse any great storm of Pro- | and Virginia—will have met. Prohibi- | test from Federal employes. There are | yion may occupy considerable space in | worse things in this world than a total | the headlines which chronicle their | salary cut of ten per cent. and Federal | work. But even prohibition will t e | employes know it as well as anybody | second place. Tax reduction and local | else. The morally hurtful part of the | government reorganization will come salary-slashing business is the Tecog- | first. The taxpayers' organizations have nition by Federal workers that, inad- | beep working hard in preparstion for equately paid to begin with, they are : the sessions of the Legislatures. Many | ecalled upon to render tribute in the members of these new Legislatmsas were form of this high tax on their incomes | chosen as the representatives of these while other and larger holes through | taxpayers' tax-reduction campaigns. which the Federal revenue seeps are | With the depression providing the urge, permitted to go unplugged. And the | many interesting things are going to be same reasoning applies generally to the | done in taxation, as well as in re- economy act as a whole. If as much | organization of local governments. time and effort were applied in other | Kansas, by constitutional amend-| directions as are applied in making the ment, has authorized an income tax,| unwieldy and cumbersome act workable, | the proceeds of which will be used to | there would be larger and more con- | reduce the real estate tax. Indiana| structive economies. | and Michigan have recently restricted ‘While the Senate committee’s recom- | the real estate tax to a top rate of $15 mendation to lift the ban on the so-|a thousand dollars of assessed valua- called automatic increases in salary or | tion—Indiana by special act of the promotions is commendable and will | legislature, Michigan by a constitu- | benefit a large number of employes in | tional amendment adopted in the some departments, it serves to accentu- | November election. ‘Washington has spare. The Star commends without re- of one tax at the expense of another | serve the efforts of the old lady and | her friends. They are doing a splendid lwurk and deserve appreciation. ——————— It was said long ago that the profit on beer was in the foam. Tax collec- tion is at best an expensive process and it will be rendered too costly to be undertaken if a necessity of counting the bubbles asserts itself. ————— The Shubert theatrical enterprises are reported to have gone into a receiver- ship. They have had a long career in the stock market, where the most cruel of all dramatic criticisms have been written on the ticker tape. ————s Japan is manufacturing with success for competition in the United States market and tacitly defies Uncle Sam to get wages low enough or taxes high enough to hold his own at the bargain counter. R ‘The Japanese in proudly declaring that this #s “the year of the cock” may prompt the Chinese to regard them as among those who count their chickens before they are hatched. B ‘The only mystery about Calvin Cool- ate the unfairness of eontinuing at the | same time the ban on other classes of promotiens where promotions are op- | tional rather than mandatory. The | great mass of Government workers in | ‘Washington will receive no benefit. ‘The recommendations of the Senate committee enlargzing the powers of the | President to effect governmental rr-: organization are more far-reaching than at first glance they might appear. The President is given power to abolish | bureaus and agencies by executive | order, as well as to combine bureaus and agencies by executive order, and it is made more difficult for Congress to exercise its power of veto. As it is now, the President'’s reorganization | orders may be nullified by a resolution | passed by either house within sixty | days of their promulgation. The Sen- ate committee would require that a congressional veto be expressed by pas- sage of a concurrent resolution, which means that both houses would have to act. A few administration Senators could prevent Senate action indefi- nitely, thus making certain that the President’s executive orders become effective. The President is thus given significant and broad powers. With a friendly Congress, he would be abie to exercise them without much difficulty. Comera men portray s J. Walker as a happy and care- person, who lets the town pay rolls take care of themselves e Fire Against the Sky. No one who beheld pect last evening's fire at the new Inte Commerce Com: will forget it. O« the city where thc have been accustemed to watch pyrotechnical displ t passed any made-to-order exhi that character that ever was running wild, unquestionab capacity to make the fruits of human ing by comparison The blaze v Bherry-Netherland conflagration of case, too, the same problem of suecessful at tack was a feature of th It contradiction, a defian that fireproof building should before completion, but it does h now and again. The gmgat temporary fabrics of timber which perforce must be erected around the steel armature of the st ture sre susceptible to suct en and, once the flame has begun its de- vastating attack, the ordinary tachnique and the ordinary machinery of fire- fBghting are singularly powerless and in- effective. Both the Sherry-Netheriand fire and last night's blaze burned out ‘they could not be extinguished short of their natural conclusion. All that the firemen could *do was to prevent the spread of the disaster. A multitude watched the drama through its entire course yesterday eve- ning. The streets were packed with people. Men, women and children—it seemed miraculous that could as- segble so quickly. The held 3 ands periodic 1927. In that b 1c- put a tax limit of $40 & thousand on an | idg¢ Was his honest simplicity. Many assessment basis of 50 per cent of true | Politicians who came into contact with value. Other curlous ways of getting | him could not believe there was any at the result of high taxes, without hit- | Such thing. ting at the cause, will doubtless be| exemplified in new tax legislation. And| ‘“Technocracy” is not easy to under- with the Federal Government now Stand, but there may be all the time heavily taxing estates and proposing NeCessary to study it out when the pres- continuance of gasoline taxation and | ent plans for reducing working hours - | seventeen States. possibly higher income taxation, the taxpayer can and will shudder, his fears well grounded. But, with new tax schemes and pro- posals to take one tax off one shoulder and put it on the other, there is ap- parent a growing realization on the part of the taxpayers that a great por- | tion of their tax money is wasted in | supporting numerous and more or less | comes may be necessary, but a limit | useless local officials. In 1930 there were 48 States, 3,073 counties and 52,117 minor | civil divisions, such as townships, elec- | tion districts and other subdivisions, that required elected officials. These | were in addition to 16,598 incorporated places—cities, towns, villages—and also | in addition to school districts and other | districts embracing drainage, flood con- | trol, irrigation and similar undertakings. | During the last year many States were | conducting surveys and studies of how to reduce the number of these establish- | ments. The Brookings Institution of | Washington, for instance, has been | making such studies for Alabama, ssippi, North Carolina and New Hampshire. Definite proposals for county consolidations have been made in New York's Legisla- ture will be asked to act at the regular | ion on several bills for county re- zation and consolidation. Ar- lington County’s experiment in regional county government has attracted con- siderable attention, and has been fol- lowed by San Mateo County, California. A Stanford University commentator has tten that “with Arlington County, ginia, on the Atlantic coast, and San Matco, on the Pacific, the eyes of those erested in structural changes in our will have opportunity to study separated political units ex- perimenting with the same plan of ment under slightly varying con- ‘The depression will probably accom- ¥ more, in the way of scrapping traditional, if outworn, forms of local government than would years of pros- perity. It is encouraging to note that after the first reaction to stringent times, shown in rather blind and aim- less chopping, in which the good suf- fered with the bad, the new trend is to search out the fundamental cause of high taxation and find a cure of the disease rather than a mere soporific temporarily easinz the pain. .- Shoes. ‘The earth is carpeted, an old proverb says, for him who walks in shoes. By implication, the world is a hard place for those who, perforce, go with un- protected feet. Deep in antiquity, beyond the reach of the historian, shoes began. The imagination conjures up the picture of the primitive genius who, perhaps to guard & foot already injured by thorn 1 are completed. e A further slash in the Government pay roll cannot be expected to go far enough to reduce the number of ap- plicants for positions when the new administration takes charge. B As times are going, a tax on low in- will be reached when the citizen is ap- proached who has no income at all. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. Compulsory Idleness. | In mornings gone by when the sun in | the sky A silvery splendor had spread I said, “It's too bad! me sad. I'd rather be dozing instead.” At present I say, “It’s hard holiday When a person's commanded to shirk With no pay day at all to give power to a eall To get up and Lc going to work.” Lobby Fashions. “Do you remember the old-fashioned lobbyists.” i “Yes.” answered Senator Sorghum. “They differed from the new-fashioned lobbyists. They hadn't so much power and were therefore inclined to be polite instead of peremptory.” Jud Tunkins says a really good poli- tieian is & man who knows how to be right and still remain popular. Amateur Economics. No benefit can be exact In any world condition Until we get more simple fact And not so much suspicion. Origin and Destination. “Do you believe that marriages are made in heaven?” “Of course,” answered Miss Cayenne. “But 1 sometimes fear that they often fall to finish where they started.” “History,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “reveals & sad number of instances where obstinacy in a neigh- | bornood quarrel was mistaken for | patriotism.” Makeshift. We'll see two chickens in the pot, ‘With reasonable luck; But for the present what we've got Is only just lame duck. . “Another thing I likes about inaug- | uration,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat it | takes our minds off of more serious | froubles and lets us cqueentrate on de weather predietions.” This toil makes | | what he would love the most. | Now there is no intellectual disgrace | attached to this state of affairs | It is highly proper, indeed, to say ! nothing of being eminently natural | The man who seriously tried to read all the books in the world would go crazy before he got started If he succeeded, he would be little more than a walking encyclopedia. The thing to do. especially with fic- tion, is to read what appeals to one. for any number of a variety of go Teasons, Down through the ages certain authors, in all Jands, have written for each one of us. Something or other about their minds and hearts just clicks with the same element in our own make-up. Often enough there is a great lati- tude here; the books of one author make instant appeal to thousands of persons, varying widely to all outward appeai ances, but surely united in some degree upon certain fundamentals of human nature. ‘Thousands of pages have been de- voted to a consideration of this matter; there is little hope of adding much to it at this date, except to say that it is not wrapped in mysticism or even in the high-sounding technicalities those dreary persons, the professional critics. There is no such a thing as a com- pletely universal appeal. For every one who loves Shakespeare there will be another who does not, although he may not say s0. Many readers proclaim Dante divine, but others—of equal men- tality—find him a weariness to the reading flesh. world, we will consider ourself to have rendered a real service by attacking at all times the intellectual snobbery which would draw up a list and proclaim, This is what you must read; if you do not. you are a fool.” The only fool is the one who draws up such a list, and who makes, either openly or covertly, that statement Every man reads from his own mind and heart, and no one else can get in- side to see what he must or must not have. Yet the world is full of know-it- alls, here as elsewhere, busily engaged the literary law. In regard to the novels of Miss Jane Austen, not every one will like them but those who do will like them very, very much. And they will find them so, whether they discover them at the age of 10 years, or 40 years, or 70 years, or 100 years. No doubt hundreds of thousands of readers have departed this life without ever hs\’ln% discovered Jane Austen, hundreds of thousands, we mean, who, VENING POST, Wellington— Phosphorescent hair - dressing, which enables a woman's head to glow in the darkness, is the latest thing in fashions. Women may choose between pale blue, red, and green, so as to match most_dresses. It is done with a spray and a harmless powder, the invention of a famous hairdresser. ‘The hair is first dressed in numerous loose-curled locks above the temples and at the neck, and afterward painted with a slightly glutinous liquid. Then the phosphorescent powder is sprayed on. The effct is extremely striking. The powder will not fall off, but can be removed by brushing or washing. %43 King of Siam Bars Birthday Celebration. Bangkok Daily Mail—It is learrfed that his majesty the King is anxious to avoid all celebrations this year on the occasion of his birthday, and has in- structed the lord chamberlain of the Royal Household, H. E. Chao Phya Varabongs Bibadhana, so to inform the executive committee of the Senate and all governmer't departments, as well as the general Lublic. His Majesly desires to cancel the usual decorations even in the compound of his palace, This desire on his maj- esty’s part, it is stated, is due to his keen sympathy with the distressed con. dition of the people in this time of eco- nomic depression, and he wishes to postpone all expenditures on this occa- sion until & more suitable time. X % % Uruguayans Fear Communist Immigrants. Imparcial, Montevideo.—The follow- ing paragraphs are quoted from our | contemporary, El Bien Publico, and they richly deserve to occupy the earnest at- tention of the national government: “Two or three days ago, the Uru- guayan consul at Colon, in the Province | customs _authorities there that_certain | foreigners, supposed to be of Commu- nistic proclivities, were seeking to pass from that country into Uruguay without any kind of passports whatsoever. The local officials passed this information on to the captain general of the ports, who found it impossible, it is said, to fective to prevent the departure of these intending immigrants. It appears that the Argentine authorities do not care to place any obstacles in the way of undesirables who have first found a haven in that country, and then wish either to change the scene or enlarge the scope of their activities. In this particular case, the would-be travel- ers to our shores were refused admit- tance, but the.vigilance of our immi- gration officers cannot al pended upon to thwart thus the ambi- tion of those whose arrival among would surely increase the dangerous factors in our heterogenous population “In addition to the peril contained in this threat of permanent residence, there is also the fear, founded upon far more than mere suspicion, that this lenjency of port officials contributes too descritpions. It is sheer burlesque to employ maritime police and large stafls of customs agents if their functions are to be impaired by absolute failure of co-operation on the part of correspond- ing authorities in neighboring coun- tries.” We agree with El Bien Publico that these evasions of the law should be stopped at once. Those disposed laugh at our laws should not be per- mitted to come and go with such im- munity. { * ok k% Equipment Lacking To Save Water Victim. Imparcial, Montevideo.—In our edi- tion of the day before yesterday we gave an account of the lamentable ac- cident of the Playa de Pocitos in con- sequence of which died the Senorita Olga Gomez. It was then reported that this young lady had fallen down in the water and been drowned. This report was substantially true, but at that time we had no information regarding the of | If we never do anything else in thxs} in the self-satisfaction of laying down | of Entre Rios, Argentina, informed the | take any measures immediate and ef- | s be de- | ample opportunity for these elements to | ply a lively trade in contraband of all | to | | have read, or | read, all the “great books.” | Nothing could be farther from the | truth. No one has read all the great books, nor should one. And there is gn use in any one pretending that he as. Above all, one should never feel that the real bockman is casting reflections |upon him by asking if he has read | so-and-so. | Just because some persons specialize |in asking this question, in order to heap ridicule upon another, is no rea- son for fearing the question. To all such persons, reply, “Oh, of course,” if you will, but when the gen- uine booklover asks it, feel sure that h: is not. luzlng to “get sol In a literary way, but simply aski because he is interested. Mostly e e | want to direct your attention to some- thing ne has discovered himself. The | chances are that he has miss d so many “great ones” that he is unwilling, having run onto something, to permit a fellow to miss it, once he has found it. Sir Walter Scott said of Jane Austen, as quoted in E. V. Lucas’ article in the En(‘_};;lupedia Brittanica: “That young lady had a describing the in\'a]\'emenbs,h Ileenetllt:;: ‘Hmi chara%ers of ordinary life which is to me the most wond Nel:rmelmw”-h. nderful I have “The big bow-wow I can do mysell like any one going; but the quti‘lle; touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the descriptions and the | sentiment is dented to me." High praise that, and just. Mr. Lucas (who, by the way, was in | Washington not long ago), says that critics are generally agreed that Miss Austen “has never been approached in her own domain.” He points to her ironical humor, the dramatic progres- sion of her stories, and her flowing prgsae M.vl!e o acauley, he says, idolized her. :‘hot;":(thb “Mansfield Park” her il‘Elu}!is? The great Disraeli read “Pri Prejudice” 17 times. Mr. Luc:fie I:?l(i that “Emma” is the best, a Jjudgment in which the present reader concurs. It is our hope that a few more per- sons, who at present do not know they like these novels, will find out that they do, as the result of reading the present article. The best minds are extremely | easy to communa with, after all. All one has to do is not to be afraid of them. Miss Jane was a | she combined a c at least pretend to have “best mind,” because ertain lightness and deftness with a certain solidity and u:u:rimmtyd Ehe did what she set out 0. and she cid it well. What can any reader ask? S High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands cause of this sudden failure of Senorita |ever, from Senor Jose P. Martinez of ‘;'he departmental council, which has | been investigating the sad occurrence, that Senorita Gomez' was accompanied |to the beach by the youth Cesar de Medina Garcia, who heroically swam out and rescued the unconseious girl from ‘the waves, but subsequently found his effort vain for the reason | that there existed no Tesuscitatory ap- ‘Ea“m. At the beach. When the victim ad been transported to the nearest | too late. In reflecting upon this avoidable tragedy, it occurs to us that the Con- cejo Department might be far better employed p; our beaches during the bathin than occupying itself with absu | aganda seeking to mold public opin- {fon in favor of & minimum bathing suit, or none at all. While a provision to fur. nish aid to half-drowned bathers is now absolutely non-existent at the various strands, the council is still seeking to |implant the idea that bathing and | SWimming at these places of resort in a state of complete divestiture is some- | thing entirely proper and desirable for this country. It is more like] of this European £0 sure of the the practice, (Town Council) rotecting g season rd prop- Iy that the proponents snphls!l(‘nlmnopa‘;t not propriety and benefits of granting the thera, 2 advantage of exposure to sotar reae e | they are of revenue from perverted i- | osity of tourists who may be attrucc“tl:d to our shores to witness these spec- tacles, and perhap: same themselves. There are other better ways of attracting vmmrs":g | Uruguay, it seems to us, than by mak- ‘mg ourselves immodest and notorious. —_— e Confidence, From the San Jose Mercury-Herald. ; !:(any bu: m;]d small investors who ost money in the markef seen their dividend eotiestimel qor, have to the vanishin themselves ma | three years | Rockefeller Foundation | the storm and what s spread upon the troubled waters. The Finance Committee Tesponsible | for the investment policies of the fund | is composed of John D. Rockefeller, jr.; | Raymond Fosdick and W. W. Stewart, | the latter of whom once served as re. | g point must have asked search expert for the Federal Reserve | Board and as economic adviser | Bank of England. e This committee has held fast to two main policies—to hold on to every se- | curity held at the end of 1930, and to invest funds made available during 1931 entirely in bonds selling close to par and moving upward. Under the latter policy the committee gave preference to railroads, industrials and utilities, in the order named. \ Only one deduction is tenable, and that is that the committee has com- | plete confidence in the future of the raflroads, American industry and the public utilities. Certainly its policy does not reflect the pessimistic outlook of many. Administering the $191,000,000 prin- cipal of the Reckefeller fund is a grave responsibility under present conditions, and it is nothing short of remarkable continue its great humanitarian labors throughout the depression. Had its administrators proved less prudent in- vestors, the world would have suffered irreparable loss, r———s. He Asked for It Prom the Oakland Tribune. Illustrating another way in which a crimp may be put into romance, a wife sues for divorce because her mate marcelled his nair. ———— Marquis Has Horse Kick. From the Irdienapolis News. A Frenci marquis kicks on pay a bill for his former wife's horse, but that's not as serious as if the horse did mething on you,” | Gomez's faculties. We now learn, how- | station of the Asistencia Publica, it was | S participate in the | ections diminish | ny times during the last | how_institutions” like the | are weathering | ort of oil they | that the foundation has been able tg | and longitude of the island he has sent | to two other persons who have been kind to him, Comdr. Ivybridge, retired, ‘nnd P. T. Riley of San Francisco. Wil- liam is instructed to find these two and | | with them to go to the island and make | | their fortunes. He at first reacts to the | idea as any sensible person would, that | | is, he laughs at it as altogether ridicu- | lous. Then the romance of the scheme | seizes upon his starved imagination and he suddenly decides to abandon his| routine life, where everything can be| | predicted in advance, and to follow ad- | | venture. Here we have the theme of | the story—the longing for romance | which often lurks in even the seemingly most prosaic personality. * ok % % The first part of the narrative con- cerns William's search for Comdr. Ivy- bridge and P. T. Riley (who turns out | to be a woman of the Hollywood type); | the addition to the party of Ramsbot- tom, wealthy grocery merchant, who i nursing poor health at a seaside resort | and gladly agrees to finance the com- | mander and to try cure; and the lat'pz\rl\u'v of all for | | Tahiti. Willlam goes by way of the| United States, to San Francisco, to| | find P. T. Riley, and the descriptions of | | his journey across the country and of | San Francisco are full of Mr. Priest- | | ley’s characteristic humor, and give us & view of the United States as seen by a perhaps average Englishman. Wil- liam has passed Chicago: “It was not | long before the landscape became larger | and untidier than ever, and gradually | men began to disappear from it. Dusty plains followed the cultivated fields, only to be followed in their turn by | sheer desert, leagues of fantastic rock end hills as uncompromisingly barren | and as wrinkled in the sun as an old man’s brown gums. * * * There was something alternately maddening and depressing about the way in which the lives of these people refused to | change, as if God had ordained that | they should carry with them into these wildernesses an Ark of the Covenant icomaimng specimens of Chesterfield and Lucky Strike cigarettes; the uni- versal life-savers, chewing gum and Coca-Cola, and a model of a Ford car. * * * It was incredible that this | now familiar interior of hot, dry air, | magazines and dollar novels, ice water | | and steak and apple pie, had Just | | shaken him out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and | | was even now climbing toward Ogden, | | Utah. On a Sunday morning of crisp | | sunshine he stood among a group of | | his fellow travelers, all busy photo- graphing, in the observation car at the | | back of the train, and gaped at the | Great Salt Lake, & vast sheet of blue | glass, across which the train went | rattling for more than an hour. He told himself firmly that now he was actually crossing on a cut-off that re- treated into a knife edge the famous | Great Salt Lake, around whose en- | crusted shores, where the salt seemed | to sparkle ready for the cruet, were spread those legendary and sinister creatures, the Mormons.” % * & ¥ | bers of the party find so much satisfac- tion in this stage of their adventure that | they almost become lotus-eaters and | forget Faraway—all except the stern moralist Comdr. Ivybridge, who knows that his code is outworn, but continues to believe in it nevertheless. William evolves from a staid bachelor into an eager man of pleasure—and back again. The vulgar, licentious Ramsbottom feels that he is getting full value for his capital in the unaccustomed dissipations of the tropics, but as months pass gins to think of the joys of Simpson's restaurant in London, with its under- done sirloins, Yorkshire pudding, goose- berry tarts and ripe stilton. So long is the stay in Tahiti that we begin to | fear that Faraway is a myth. But Faraway is real and is finally reached. | Then comes s denouement which is a mixture of intrigue and farce. In the end William returns to Buntingham, with a wife—not the one he wanted. The book ends as it began, with Wil- liam playing at chess in his stuffy sit- ting room with his friend Greenlaw, only now his wife also sits by the fire- side, and he himself has changed. He glances from the chess board to the phnuyraphs of Tahiti on the walls and sees ¥isions of warm, dusky nights and dreams of the romance which Terry 50 briefly promised him. According to the point of view, his life is either spoiled or enriched. “His wife and Greenlew sat there like a pair of lump- ish warders. He looked at them and bated them. Then he looked at them again; at his wife, whose wide, clear glance met his, and who smiled, prob- ably because the baffled expression he wore was rather droll; and at his old friend, sitting back there like a benign ant and scholarly walrus, and then he hated himself.” ¥k What was really a religious war be- tween “Chinese” Gordon and the Mahdi | of Allah was one of the most intense episodes of the reign of Queen Victoria The whole story is retold in “The Mahdi of Allah,” by Richard A. Bermann. The | famous Mahdi was originally a mendi- cant, begging food from one village to another; eventually he was master of the Soudan. He succeeded in building up a body of followers, fanatical in the extreme, who believed that they were immune to bullets. These fanatics | Gordon faced, and at their hands met | his death. The Mahdi continued to live on, but gradually lost his prestige with his followers. His successor was re- duced to subjection by Kitchener. To- day a son of the Mahdi lives in Khar- toum, by & strange coincidence, in Gor- don avenue. RN Religion as interpreted by Di Emerson Fosdick, in s | essays “As I See Religion y immeasurably different from the reli- glon of the early Christian fathers or | even from that of the most orthodox of any church today, but it is not | merely a state of mind or an “escape | mechanism.” Religion, he says, is omething stronger than mankind that has laid hold on mankind.” personal experience. Christianity has, in the face of an “overwhelming cos- mos,” stood for ‘“personality, for its divine origin, spiritual nature, infinite worth and endless possibilities. X For the title of his volume of essays “A Half-Day’s Ride: or, Estates in Corsica,” Padriac Colum is indebted to Charles Lever, Irish novelist of the first half of the nineteenth century, one of whose novels is entitled “A Day’s Ride, a Life's Romance.” Both books lntefiprn life unconventionally, roman- tically. Padriac Colum say: 1 have resolved, well, now and again, to break through my habitual round by going to places that my friends don't take me to and by reading that nobody wants me to read.” ok re from the “flaming youth” type of novel of A. Hamilton Gibbs is “Undertow,” & story of the late discoy- ery of himself of Philip Jocelyn, aged 35, who is the disconten?:d occupant of a position in an unimportant school for boys in a small English town. He is r. Harry A-de) adventure as & new | 1 A. His violin is valued at $10,000, Q. Does the adoption by United States citizens of a foreign-born child confer citizenship on the child>—A. P. A. A minor child of foreign birth and parentage does not acquire United States citizenship through legal adop- tion by a citizen of this country, Q. As a signature on Christmas cards where should the wife’s name appear?—B. M. B. A. Authorities differ on this subject One says: ‘“Although whenever the titles Mr. and Mrs. are used together, as name or address, Mr. comes first, the wife's name comes first as a signa- ture.” Q. How many times was the lame- duck amendment submitted to Congress before it passed?—E. P. A. The so-called lame-duck amend- ment passed the Senate six times, as follows: February 13, 1923; March 1 1924; February 15, 1926; January 28, June 17, 1929 and January 6 . It never came to a vote in the House of Representatives until March 9. 1928, when it lacked a few votes of the two-thirds majority necessary for its passage. On February 16, 1932, the House passed the Senate joint resolution of January 6, 1932, with amendments. 8, 4, billows That never shall break on the beach; And I have heard songs in the silence That never shall float into speech; And I have had dreams in the valley 7., lofty for language to reach.” Q. What is the calorie content of skimmed milk?—L. J. W. It is so slight as to be negligible. Skimmed milk s recommended for per- sons who wish to reduce, as it contains no fat. Two quarts of skimmed milk could be consumed a day without in- creasing the weight. Q. Where was the first social settle- ment started?—S. D. A. The first one in the world was founded in 1884 by Canon Samuel A. Barnett, vicar of St. Jude's, White- chapel, East London. It was named ‘Toynbee Hall, in honor of Alfred Toyn- bee, who while a student at Oxford interested himself in the poor in the Whitechapel district. | | Q. What was the immediate cause | of the financial crisis of 1837?—M. L. B. A. President Jackson, after he had vetoed the act of Congress Tenewing the charter of the United States Bank, directed the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit no more Federal revenues in the bank and to withdrew the Govern- ment’s cash from its vaults in payment of bills. The national funds were dis- The conference report was accepted on | | on the edge. | part of the foot bare, and was fastened | When they reach Tahiti, the mem- | by means of straps stitched to the sole, | 1t involves | March 1 and 2, 1932. Since it is not necessary for a constitutional amend- ment to be signed by the President, the amendment was then presented to the State Legislatures. During 1932 this amendment was ratified by the following States: Virginia, New York, Missis- sippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Caro- lina, New Jersey, Michigan, Maine, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Illinols, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana and Alabama. Q. How many Americans and how many Frenchmen took part in the Revolutionary War?—H. C. A. It has been estimated that there were 300,781 American soldiers in the Revolutionery War. The number of French soldiers who took part varied from 4,803 to 5350. On September 2, 1781, it was estimated that there was a French fleet at Yorktown of 3,000. Q. Where is the oldest art colony west of the Mississippi>—A. D. K. A. At Taos, N. Mex. The Taos So- clety of Artists was formed in 1912, Q. How many guests will the gold table service at the White House sup- ply?—J. T. 8. A. The service is said to be suffi- state dining room holds no more guests the service is ample. The gold service originated with President Monroe. Q. What did people wear on their feet at the time of Christ>—E. A. A. At the time of Christ the foot- wear of the Jews was a sandal, com- posed of leather or a thick sole of thin wood resembling cork, covered above and beneath with. leather and stitched The sandal left the upper cient to serve 100 guests, and since the | tributed among certain State banks. Q. How much value has the mineral output of Alaska had since the discov- ery of gold?>—H. T. A. Since 1880, when gold was discov- ered at Juneau, the mines of Alasks have produced minerals valued at ap- proximately $652,000,000. Q. What will the line-up be in the House of Representatives in the Sev~ enty-third Congress?—E. M. V. A. According to an unofficial list of the members, there will be in the House of Representatives 312 Democrats, 117 Republicans and 5 Farmer-Labor. In | the Senate there will be 59 Democrats, | 36 Republicans and 1 Farmer-Labor. Q. What was the parallel case cited to uphold the Supreme Court decision to return the Arlington property to the heirs of Robert E. Lee?—H. T. T. A. The action hinged on the suprem- acy of the law and the ability to sue the Government for the return of the property. “A miller in Germany built 2 mill adjoining the palace of Frederick | the Great, most despotic of monarchs, | and replied to threats of eviction and | dispossession: ‘There are still courts in | Berlin, sire.’” mill still adjoins the royal palace. Q. What is maraschino?—N. 8. | A It is a liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the marasca cherry and flavored with the broken kernels. Q. Was Queen Elizabeth a great pa- tron of literature?—F. §. A. She was neither a great patron of literature nor particularly cultured. She had a good knowledge of both Latin and French and a fundamental knowl- edge of Greek. She was not particu- larly fond of poetry and was not & great reader. | An aftermath of the investigation of conditions in New York City appears in national discussion of the report by Judge Seabury suggesting changes in the city charter. Non-partisan voting is one feature generally commended, while proportional representation is be- lieved to offer an opportunity to defeat machine politics. “The proposed new charter,” accord- ing to the Springfield (Mass.) Union, “offers suggestions for permanent im- provement provided only that the peo- ple insist upon the right type of offi- cials and support them by public opin- ion. A citizenry can have the kind of government it insists upon. Judge Sea- bury’s great service was-to reveal the sort of misgovernment the city was get- ting, and that is as far as he can go. Having revealed Tammany in its true colors; the people of New York City | must do the rest. They now have it within their power to change condi- tions if they will” The Scranton Times describes the proposed new charter as “a combination of plans outlined by former Gov. Smith, Acting Mayor Me. |Kee, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler an | some others. While primarily intended | better form of government, back of the Seabury plan is a purpose also to | weaken the control by Tammany of the | Nation's greatest city.” * Kk ok Finding evidence that the Cincin- nati form of local government had re | ceived some attention in making plans for New York City, the Youngstown | of non-partisan methods, and makes the comment on the results achieved: “The report is of general interest for two reasons. and corruption was presented to the committee in face of opposition of city | authorities and the political organiza- tion. Some weeks ago Judge Seabury visited Cincinnati to study the home | rule charter and operations under the | eity manager form of government, and | appeared to be so well pleased with what he found thet Queen City officials |had strong hope that their charter | would be taken as a pattern for one | for the metropolis. It is plain that he | thought too radical a change in city | government could not be proposed at | this time. A non-partisan ballot for the great city will be looked upon in political cireles as the most radical change that could be thought of as a means to correct abuses found by the Legislative Committee.” Emphasis is placed by the Rochester Times-Union on the fact that “govern- ing authority would be in the hands of the mayor and a single legislative chamber, with independent elected official of impor- tance,” and that “members of the Coun- cil would be elected by boroughs under | | tion.” As to the effect on practical politics, that paper offers the descrip- tion: “Without the difficult process of direct fusion and a coalition ticket, Re- publicans and independents may make their votes effective against Tammany, each of these groups giving its own candidate first choice and the other’s candidate second choice. And probably after its own fashion, even under a new charter. But this preferential vot- ing plan is an excellent idea.” him the opportunity to travel in ;hnce. There he discovers that he | to give New York a more modern and | Vindicator points to the establishment | The evidence of waste | the controller as an | a system of proportional representa- | Reform for New York City Placed Among Possibilities “The salient purpose,” as understood | by the Atlanta Journal, “is.that of | clearing away the undergrowth of | bureaucracy, letting in the light of pub- licity, and seeing to it that money ap- | propriated to public offices shall really | be ‘productive to public services. In | these vital respects, the problem of | New York is no different, we take it, | from that of scores of other American cities. It is the problem of tens of ! millions " of taxpayers, under county, State and Federal as well as municipal | government; and not until it is solved | will democracy have proved itself safe | for the country.” “The reform would be drastic and utterly destryctive of partisan political | machines,” thinks the Louisville Courier- Journal, and that paper adds that “pro= portional voting adds to the concentrat= ed power of every considerable element | in the community, the second, third and | fourth choice of their fellow citizens, | and no ‘slate’ can withstand the impact | of such a popular expression.” Believing | that “New York is in need of a heavy | dose of municipal remedies,” the Balti- more Sun offers the judgment that “the Seabury proposals, on the admin- istrative side, look in the same general irection as those put forward by for- mer Gov. Smith—that is, toward simpli- fication and centralization of respon- | stbility. r——— Their Matchless Record. From the Portland Oregon Journal, Nearly a million American boys and girls were enrolled in the 4-H Clubs during 1932. The number is over 900,- 000. These boys and girls specialize in various farm activities. A 4-H boy, for example, raises blooded pigs. Another raises pure-bred calves. Another grows alfalfa or other field crops. ‘The girls practice household work. ‘They study how to bake the best bread or the best pies. They vie in seeking to do the best sewing, the best fancy work, how to make the home beautiful and how to keep the costs of the home at the lowest level. Under club instruc- tion many a girl has won a prize for the best chickens, the best calf or the best pig. It is a work that teaches boys and girls the science and tke better methods in farm life. It leads them on to splendid endeavor, to extraordinary ef- ficlericy in farm production and in solv- ing farm problem:, It creates in them an ambition to win the prizes offered |in the various activities set up in the | different States. It is raising up a new | and skilled generation on the farms. It makes the farm and farm work attrac- tive to the boys and girls, who have been running away from the old home- stead to become hired men and hired | girls in the overcrowded ecities. In the history of this worid the sure guaranty of permanent government is a contented farm population. Home- owning farmers are the sure defense of freedom. The best bulwark against Communism is the farm home. It was the embattled farmers in the eolonies Wwho threw off the British yoke. A na- tion whose farmers go through the training of the 4-H has an impregnable i i | girls now grown up and on American | farms are America’s rock of safety, the | cream of American population. | And in Oregon there is a proposal {0 | cut off appropriations for extension work | at Oregon State College, which, mateh- | ing extension eppropriations by the Fed- thousands of | eral Government, nefl- Club boys and girls at work in the