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: stroyed,” testifies THE EVENING STAR i 3 % loved 1n W : With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.....January 10, 1833 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: St. and Pennsylvania_ Ave. Lake Michigan Building. 14 Rernfi 8t., London, slan Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star. K Evening and Sunday Star T ehen 4 Bundare) : (when 5 Sundays The Sunday Star... Collection made at Orders may be sent NAtional ach month in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and_Virginia Dn“r Iflld Sundi . } ;rfq $10.00: :g' 8¢ Bondayonss” Lii¥re §4.00 1mo.. 40 All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday...1yr. sggg; Jmo. $1.00 Datly only . mo., 75¢ | junday only $5.00: 1mo.. 50c Member of the Assoclated Press. soctated Press is exclusively entitied o T AT St S iieation ‘of nil mews aias tohes credited 10 It OF not otherwise cred- n this paper and also the local news Publ!:hed herein All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = Horrible, Indeed! The Democrats in Congress, having | taken a nose dive into the budget-bal- ancing pool, find the water cool, indeed frigld. They suggested that perhaps after all the general manufacturers’ excise or sales tax might be the remedy most suited to take the Government out of the red. Tmmediately their President-elect, Pranklin D. Roosevelt, was “horrified.” That was that. So the Democrats journeyed to New York | to discuss budget balancing with Mr. Roosevelt himself. After a three| hours’ conference they emerged with al plan, & definite, four-point program, to put an end to the Treasury deficit. It included an increase in the normal in- come tax rates-and a lowering of ex- emptions so as to bring in thousands more yers who are now free from the Federal income tax. Mr. Roosevelt silently consented. This time it was the people who were “horrified.” The re- sult is that the Democratic leaders are back at the starting point ‘and the budget is no nearer being balanced than it was several weeks ago. The income tax boost for the people of moderate means has been sidetracked along with the manufacturers’ sales tax, at least Zor the time. What remains of the Democrats’ budget-balancing plan, which was an- nounced so blithely after the New York conference with Mr. Roosevelt? The Democrats still clutch to their bosom the proposed tax on beer. Beyond that they have nothing except an economy THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUE Senator King in 'The |the bard. It is true that Shakespeare ‘The junior Senator from Utah con- fided nothing new to the Czars of the Kremlin, They have known for a decade, more or lesy the exact price of American recognition. The United States has no interest in the kind of government the unfortunate Russian | Ppeople care to maintain or to condone, even though it makes ‘for that “pro- gressive impoverishment” of them, as it was once so aptly described by Charles Evans Hughes while Secretary of State. Even the fact that the Communist | masters of Russia signalized their| usurpation of power in 1917 by confis- cating American property within their borders on a large scale and by brazenly repudiatig Russlan government obli- gations owed to the American Treas- ury—even such flauntings of funda- mental international law do not bulk biggest in the United States' determina- tion to have no tariff with the Sovlets. The insuperable barrier is Moscow's Inflexible purpose to wage “world rev- olution” against all “capitalistic” ctvil- | izations—not with troops and ships and guns, but by methods that can be quite as deadly, namely, the systematic un- dermining of existing institutions of government, which run counter to the “dlctatorship of the proletariat,” the precious system of Communist tyranny that for fifteen years has held the un- offending Russian masses in its cruel grasp. The moment the Soviet government undertakes, under conditions worthy of credence, not to turn an embassy at ‘Washington into & mere smoke screen for a Communist propaganda center— at that moment, from the standpoint of | the American people, v.::0, despite the vicissitudes they are weathering, have not lost faith in their institutions, ree- ognition of Russia would come within the realm of the debatable. And not before. Sales Tax and Farm Bonus, Most of the curious features embod- ied in the House “farmers’ bonus” biJl, which may be passed this week, are ex- plained by the undeniable fact that the condjtion cf agriculture is so bad that something must be done. And in addi- tion the farmers seem to be pretty well united in their support of this measure or something like it. That, in itself, is truly remarkable, : + But the average citizen, who is neither a farmer, a politician, an economist nor one versed in the theories of govern- mental administration, is perhaps more puzzled by the sales tax feature of this bill than by anything else, Spokesmen in the House for the farm relief, or domestic allotment plan, or “farmers’ bonus,” or whatever one chooses to call the present measure, Yet there is something nmmu‘n.nd strange in the fact. Shakespeare has been dead three hundred years. His life was spent under conditions so vastly different that at first glance it does not seem possible that he can have any- thing of value to contribute to our understanding of the circumstances of the world in which we live. The very motives of mén have changed, psychol- ogists say. Our aims, our ambitions, our hopes, our fears are peculiar to the machine age of which we are part, while Shakespeare, a flower of the Renaissance, a product of the lingering age of chivalry, perforce knew nothing of such intricate themes as the depres- sion, war debts, prohibition, budget bal- ancing and technocracy. Such, at least, is the supposition. | Ben Jonson, of course, is remembered to have said that his friend was “not of an age, but for all time,” but that has been taken to have been only a pleas- ant compliment. Even the greatest of dramatic singers, we are apt to imagine, is subject to the immutable law that provides that when a man is dead he ceases to affect the thought of his fel- lows. So there have been those who have ventured to call Shakespeare “a waning classic.” But Francis Bacon, Shakespeare's contemporary, has answered the cynics. In his essay, “Seditions and Troubles,”"| he demonstrates that the era of Queen Elizabeth was not so very much unlike the era of President Hoover as the doubters have supposed. He recorded the problems of the former when he wrote: The malter of sedition s of two kinds: Mueh poverty and much dis- contentment.. The causes and motives of seditions are innovations in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppres- sion; advancement of unworthy per- sons; dearths; Hisbanded soldiers; fac- tions grown desperate, and whatever in offending people joineth them in com- mon cause. Bacon knew whereof he spoke, be- cause he had seen these things. Shake- speare, naturally, also saw them. It follows that the poet had for the back- | ground of his work much the same scene against which modern writers labor. There is a similarity between his wofld and ours, an historic parallel which it might interest some scholar to develop and expand. Americans are not merely sweetly sentimental when they express their love for Shakespeare., He it was who largely made and with as yet unsur- passed genius used the language which they receive as part of their inheritance. They love him as children love a fa- ther. But they are particularly con- sclous of his position as an especially talented parent. The world he knew have said that the retail prices of prod- ucts “need not be greatly advanced by the imposition of adjustment charges” and that the maximum'tax levied on wheat, for instance, would not increase program. They talk, too, of continuing | the price of a pound loaf of bread by the Federal tax on gasoline. But that tax is already on the statute bocks and cannct be regarded as a new. source of Tevenue. Beer and economy today Te- main the hope of the congressional Democrats. It is quite obvious that they cannot possibly balance the budget with only a beer tax and with cuts in the expenditures of the Government. And so talk of balancing the budget in the present session of the old Congress 1s idle. The job will have to be tackled by Mr. Roosevelt and the Seventy-third Congress after March 4. ‘When the Democrats talk of balanc- ing the budget by giving Mr. Roosevelt as much as a penny. “The various adjustment charges will undoubtedly cost the consumer money, but this money will be promptly spent by the farmer in ways which will decrease unemployment and add to the profits of business.” There are others who dispute the fact that the tax will not measurably affect the consumers’ prices, and one of the obvious flaws in the bill is the fact that consumers may turn to substitutes and by refusing to buy cut still lower the prices of the basic commodities on which the bill plans to pay the farmer a bonus. But the fundamental objective of the may have passed, he may be outmoded and old-fashioned, but no one else ever has employed our language as he did. And 1o one, hearing his verse properly read, as it was last evening, can fail to understand the meaning of Dr. Adams’ reference. e — Gifford Pinchot thinks Smedley Butler would make a good Secretary of the Navy. This would be in a sense an in- dorsement of Josephus Daniels’ policy of allowing the ships to be wet only as direct contact with the ocean was neces- sary. ——————— Details concerning transactions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are to be announced regardless of the fact that no further publicity is needed In order to put customers in line. B Bible references to wine are under AY. J AN UARY 10, 193 Talking the other day to a collector of first editicns, we were led to realize anew the great gulf of ;o_?tnion which exists between one who rides a hobby and one who does not ride that par- ticular hobby. Those acquainted with this column for the past 10 years know that the writer here is no collector of rare edi- tions. In the first place, he hasn't got the money and, in the second, he hasn't the urge to do so. ‘To him, as to millions of other book- lovers, the spirit of the book is the thing, not the physical volume itself. It has always seemed to him that mere interest in the cost of a book, or its age, or its binding, is a hobby, pure and simple, and has very little to do with a real love of books. In saying this much we wish em- phatically to add that we cast no re- flections, direct or implied, upon en- thusiastic collectors around the world, of all nations and ages, who have done s0 much for bookdom by treasuring rare books. Just as long as they do not try to “convert” some one else they are all right. It is only when they attempt to force others to consider books as| “first editions” only, and the like, that they become slightly wearisome. In this they are no whit different from the enthusiast in stamps, or trop- ical fishes, or old bottles, who insists on considering what he collects from the standpoint of his collections only and never from the aspect of their real function in life. The specialist, in any line, for the most satisfaction to himself, should never talk about his specialty, except to | other specialists. Then he will strike | spark for spark, feel more at home and gain the greatest amount of satisfac- tlon from his own feelings. Yet this is a lesson mnever learned by so many “fans.” They want you to consider their interest solely as they consider it. 1If, for instance, theirs happens to be books as first editions, they want you to think only of books as first editions, never as books. Their interest, alas, 1s not books, but in something which has been done to books. One may have a suspicion that they are rather overcome by the mone- terv value of their treasures, to the| e:ciusion of the reading value of the ‘works themselves. | ‘What time, and chance, and the laws | of averages have done to certain volumes is what interests them the most. To this viewpoint, of course, they have every right. But why should any ether booklover be forced to view books from that angle? After all, it is a very small angle, despite the enormous sums of money | bound up in it, and annually spent on 1 all parts of the civilized world. “The world of books is greater than you know, gentlemen,” one feels like saying to some of these enthusiasts. Some men become enamored of leather bindings. They rip the honest covers off the books they buy, and bind them all in calf, or morocco, or levant. Perhaps they fancy dark green for every book they own. There is a woman in this town who had her entire home library bound in red and black, to har- monize with the furnishings of her living room. ‘These matters are interesting, but they have nothing at all to do with bcoks, at least with that part of a book which makes it worth while, its spirit. Let any man be interested in such matters, if he pleases, just so long as he does not atfempt to tell me that I must be interested in them, too. He should remember that his interest, | after all, is but one facet of a glitter- ing gem, the gem of the ages, many think, of that purest ray serene which High Lights ont A OPINION, Santo Domingo.— Our newsboys leave the dis- tributing room of La Opinion between the hours of 4 and 5 in the afternoon to make the sales THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. distinguishes man in the animal king- dom. Books are the perfect reflection of mankind. In them the reader may find all that is beautiful, all that is horrible, all that is aoble, all that is nasty, all that is immortal, all that is moral, all that is victory, all that is de- feat and disaster. ‘These books sum us up, as a race, and they sum up all the rest of the known universe, but strictly from our human standpoint. In the face of so much done, such human glory, at ‘its best, is it not a case of blinking at the sun, to pause satisfied with the rarity of a book, or an imprint on the title page, or the fact that it happened to be one of the first thousand copies struck? These are unessentials, in so far as the r;u book, the inner book, is con- cerned. What counts is what the book does to_the reader. If it does nothing to him, then it is not. the book for him, and he well may devote himself to its scarcity or its age, or its binding, or any other related matter. 1f it does nothing to him, it is not his book. In that case he may treat it as & lump of coal, if he wants to, without offense to himself or the vol- ume. A book without the inner light— that 15 what a book is that does not somehow do something to the reader. It is, in so far as he is concerned, a dead book, something lifeless at last. The spirit of such a book has fled. It has left behind only its dusty covers. The enthusiastic collector of “firsts” will interject, at this point, that he, too, as well as any, values the spirit of his books. We wonder if that is, or can be, quite as true as he thinks it is. His first interest in a book is an ex- ternal. An incidental of time and pub- lishing is what interests him first of all. It is this which makes him a col- lector. We do not envision any very con- siderable number of eager collectors rushing to libraries, as the result of these words, falling on their knees and murmuring: “Oh, books! forgive us. We have lllxnnfid in thy sight, and are unworthy of thee.” Distinctly we hdpe that none will do so,lmd we feel quite sure that none will. ‘The world needs these delightful fel- lows too much to spare & one of them. So do the astute gentlemen who sup- ply them. All that one can ask of them is that they do not try to thrust their hobby down the throats of those to whom it is no hobby. The main thing, in regard to a book, is what it has done in the world, and what it can still do. There are some books which could be printed on the worst sort of paper, in a type almost impossible to be read, in bindings which would be somehow would manage to enter into the life of humanity like the sunshine does into this great world. ‘There are other books which might be printed on the most exquisite paper, in type beautiful to behold, and d fit for an angel to touch, yet at the s?lme time be worth exactly nothing at all. Every booklover has seen such books. Some of them, alas, are collectars items.” They arg books, but they have nothing to do with the spirit of booss, with all the inner might and power and devotion to truth and justice which, looking out over struggling mankind, peers into & future wi might be, if only man the sense to make it come true. he Wide World - Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands Poem on Electrical Farm Stirs Interest. . Evening Post, Wellington.—According to a Cenadian farmer who has into verse, “press the button” farming TRISTAN AND ISOLDE; Restoring Palamede. dianapolis. By John Erskine. In- ‘The Bobbs-Merrill Co, “When & poet repeats an old story he always leaves something out,” says Mr. Erskine in the opening chapter of his new novel, a fact which he deplores because of the loss to many genera- tions of the full beauty and strength of the original theme, and which at the same time he welcomes as an in- centive to those of scholarly minds to delve into the treasure chests of other days in search of priceless oddities and antiquities of literature. Isolde” it appears that the poets who first told it, not suspecting that so bold a scholar as John Erskine would cen- turies later trace the legend to its ear- liest days, omitted much that to them may have seemed inartistic, or unnec- essary, or which perhaps they did not comprehend. Certainly had those poets of long ago realized the dramatic pos- sibilities which lay enfolded in the pul- sating romance - of Palamede they would not have consigned him with so little regard to an inconspicuous place on the shelf and left him there. ~Per- haps it was their theory or belief that two lovers for Queen Isolde would spoil a good story. Also they must have agreed that it would never do to give a place in the same tale-to two Isoldes, and that the perfidious Tristan was the lover of one and the husband of the other. Yet they knew there were two women of th> same name, and that the famous Queen Isolde had two suitors. Just why so compelling & character as the pagan knight, Palamede, should have received so meager place in the great love drama as it has been handed down through generations is a question which every reader will ponder over in the light of these rcvelations by Mr. Erskine. For the purpose of this new presentation of an old story is to re- store Palamede to what might be called his “birthright,” which is the center of the romance. The restoration of this gallant knight to his heroic role as rival of Tristan for the love of Isolde is a highly commendable piece of work, for it gives back to the world a charm- ing and noble character of which it should never have been deprived. Mr. Erskine says that the poets had nothing to gain by diminishing the goodness of Palamede, or by “laying on him here and there a mean touch, for then he would have been no different from other knights of Christendom. So they conspired to forget.” And, judg- ing from the story of “Tristan and Isolde” as it is at present known, evi- dently the fearless, impetuous and ruthless knight of a Christian family was given preference as a hero as against the chivalrous pagan of the desert. For Palamede was a pagan in a Christian land, and a pagan was not cordfally welcomed in those days in the places where Christians abode. If the author hds strayed away a bit from the original legend and made changes in some of the recorded events, and he acknowledges that he has, such alterations are to be easily forgiven, for in the remodeling “Tristan and Isolde” has not only not lost any of the beauty and charm which has given it the right to be called the werld’s greatest love story, but it has gained in texture, in substance and in appeal. Palamede, a swarthy son of the des- ert, goes forth from his home, near [Aila, in what is known in these days as the Holy Land, to cross the sea. From early childhood he has been under the tutelage of Jaafar, victim of 8 disastrcus expedition from Brittany to rescue the Sepulcher from the infi- dels, and afterward bought by the father of Palamede in the slave mar- ket at Damascus. Homesick for the things to which he knew he would never return, Jaafar entertained his young charge with stories of the places and people of his former life, tales of Ireland and England, where there were great green forests; of kings and queens, of beautiful ladies and gallant knighits. His imagination fired by these reminis- cences and myths of old Jaafar, young Palamede’s soul yearns for expansion. He must travel to Jaafar’s country. He must see with his own eyes great for- ests of green trees. He must live for a while in the land where there are In this age-old story of “Tristan and | {on his work?—V. B. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ' BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.. relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it de- prives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only 3 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with use post cards. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How much is spent in this coun- try on automobile touring in a normal year?—T. R. J. A. It is estimated that in 1931 more than three billion dollars was spent by Americans on motorized vacations. Q. How many radios are there in Canada?—F. W, A. In the 1931 census, 770,436 were enumerated. The ratio of radios to farm inhabitants was 36.09 to 1,000 population, while in ths cities there were 9827 radio sets to 1,000 popu- lation. Q. Who was the animal hunter who | Thi . customs duties form an im- portant source of our Federal revenue? 1. 8. A. Until 1913 there was no othar duties. Since that time, however, the income tax has become & more im- portant source of revenue. Q. Does Germany's diplomatie rep- resentative in this country rank as a minister or an ambassador?—T. E. A. He ranks as an ambassador. Q. Where is the new Jewish republic ghknh Soviet Russia has started?— A. 1t is called Biro Bidjan and is in that part of Siberia known as the far- eastern region of the Soviet Union. Q. What is a stricken bushel?>—R. H. A. A bushel is a unit of capacity equal in volume to 2150.42 cubic inches. is is lled died in Africa and whose wife carried | bushe! A. Carl Akeley died in the Bel Kongo November 17, 1926. Mrs. Akeley remained in Africa to complete the work of the expedition. Q. Did Lindbergh carry mail on his solo flight to Europe?—N. L. A Heddnot. Q. Are there any of the original textfi ]?'! the Bible in existence?— E A. The American Bible Soclety knows of none. The oldest manuseri) New Testament dates from the fourth century and, except for & few earlier scraps, the oldest Old Testament manu- script is of the ninth century. These are, of course, copies of copies. Q. In applying face powder, should one use a considerable quantity on the nose?—S. .P. A. A beauty expert advises against this. She explains that only a small amount, of powder should be used on tg:dnuse; otherwise it is overempha- 8! . Q. Must an alien pay a head tax on returning to_this country from a visit abroad?—C. 'T. A. Any alien who leaves this country to go abroad under the provisions of an alien permit to re-enter must, upon his return, again pay the head tax. However, aliens lawfully admitted and having bona fide residence in the United States who hate visited Canada, Newfoundland, Cuba or Mexico for a temporary period,” not exceeding six months, may not be required to pay this head tax. Q. Where was glass first manufac- | tured?—S. R. A. It cannot be said with any cer- tainty where glass was invented. It probably originated in Egypt. Q. Between the Civil War and the ‘World War, in what year were the most peo’e on the United States pension roll7—w. D. A. In 1902, when there were 999,446 names on the pension roll. Q. Please give a formula for aquar- fum cement—T. P. A. In the manufacture and repair of its aquaria the Bureau of Fisheries has for many years successfully used a cement composed of five parts of putty, one part red lead and'one part litharge. These ingredients are mixed to the consistency for glazing by the use of boiled linseed ofl and a few drops of dryer. A sufficient amount of lampblack is added to change the color from red to slate. After applying the cement, it is allowed to dry thoroughly before water is put in the aquarium. usual stricken bushel measure "d‘\:; heaped in the form of a cone as high as the article will admit” or “heaped as high as may be without clal effort or design.” The heaped 1 was orig- inally intended to be 25 per cent greater than the stricken bushel. Q. What is the object of the Sentinels of the Republic>—I. R. T. A. The principal object of this or- ganization, which was egtablished in and infringement, public or private, upen to be over 9,000 members, and the head- quarters is in the National Press Build- ing, Wi — Q. How m foreign itries have systems . of gnml or mnnu for old age?—D. 8. lished some form of old age pension, according to data available here. Q. What was the real name of Henry with President Grant, in his second term?—C. B. A. Henry Wilson's name was Jere- such vested rights” There are said ashingtof, D. C. A. At least 39 countries have estab- Wilson, vice presidential candidate miah Jones Colbath. He did not like Q. Who made the famous remark, “Don’t_cheer, boys, the poor devils are dying”?—J. L. V. A. This was the exclamation of Capt. J. W. Philip at the Battle of Santiago in 1898. Capt. Philip was in of the U. 8. S. Texas. His men were for the moment exuberant over their victory over the Spanish fleet. Q. Why was 1932 called a polar year?—R. A. L. A. It is known as the second inter- national polar year because a number of countries have co-operated through the year to send expeditions to make research in the polar regions. first polar year wgs 50 years ago and proved so successful that it was decided to make a similar series of studies beginning August 1, 1932, Q. How widespread is the Boy Scout organization?—sS. 8. A. The latest count shows that there was Scouting in 44 nations and some 73 lands on January 1, 1933, when the Boy Scouts of Afghanistan entered tne ‘World Scout greup. Q. schools —W. N. A. There are ing 8,000 teach many vocational agriculture are there in the United States? 4,500 schools, employ~ ers. Mrs. Moskowitz Eulogized As Woman of Rare Intellect women who are beautiful and men 1 | who worship them. = This pagan son of the desert was not unlimited powers to reorganize the Government and to cut expenditures The death of Mrs. Belle associate of former Gov. Alfred E. bill, the very principle upcn which it is based, is to spread an amount which of their papers. Forty or 50 lads devote discussion, with little result - e than 8 con- | O Ameelves to this work by means of may_ be introduced before 1950, Wi and consistently upon the sage the farmer who will never ('nmd’lo dently advice of woman, whose wisdom they are less definite than ever. No has been estimated from $600,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 among the farmers by the jmposition of a sales tax collected from the processors and passed on to the consumer, who must pay it. ‘When the Ways and Means Commit- tee of the House last Winter reported a revenue bill imposing a manufactur- one suggests just where these billions of dollars are to be saved. Yet $1,137,- 000,000 must go for interest and prin- cipal on the national debt. It is im- possible to “reorganize” the national debt, so that is out so far as the econ- omy program is concerned. The next largest item of Government expendi- ture is for the veterans, $983,000,000. The President and the party which undertakes to lop from the veteran re- lief expenditures is in for a tough time, if all reports are correct, although savings should and could be made with Justice in this direction. Out of the total governmental expend- dtures, however, the money used for the national debt and for the veterans amounts to upward of $2,000,000,000. To this must be added $695,000,000 for the Army, Navy and Merine Corps, the na- tional defense. It seems unlikely that | the Democrats will undertake to ham- | string the national defense by cuts| here. What, then, is left for the prun- | ing knife? The ordinary expenses of the civil government and public works, totaling, according to the budget, about $1,400,000,000. Is it possible that the| Democrats really believe they can knock | | will yield the amount imperatively re- ers’ sales tax of two and a quarter per cent, with exemptions for farmers, staple food products and small manu- facturers, it was argued that the higher cost of commodities thus affected would be so slight that nobody would be hurt. The total revenue to be produced by this sales tax—exempting what might be | called the basic needs of life—was esti- mated at $595,000,000 in the fiscal year 1933. “Your committee,” said the re- pert on the bill, “submits that there is no other source of revenue which quired with as little protest, as little an- noyance and as little disturbance to business as a manufacturers’ sales tax.” Yet few, if any, measures ever brought into the House have resulted in such impassioned defense of the “poor man” as did this sales tax. It was un-Amer- ican. It was everything that was evil. There was no good in it. It was| half a billion or more dollars from these governmental activities in order to bal-‘ ance the budget? | —————————— | Had the use of wooden money in the | ‘West proceeded uninterrupted # might have been necessary to request Mr.| Gifford Pinchot to, resume his expert | attention to problems of reforestation. | The Price of Recognition. | In Monday's Star there was published | & symposium representing the views of | thirty-one United States Senators on the subject of the diplomatic recogni- tion of Soviet Russia by the American Government. dertaken because of what is described as the “virtual certainty that recogni- | tion will be considered seriously during | the Roosevelt administration.” Twenty Senators declined to commit them- selves. Twenty-two went definitely on record in favor of recognition; nine ex- pressed opposition, some with reser- vations. Senators King, Democrat, of Uteh and Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi- gan go straight to the point of the United States' basic refusal to engage in official intercourse with Soviet Russia. That point is the Communist government’s stubborn and concistent unwillingness tp pledge itself to abstain from subversive propaganda in this country. Senator King, when he visited Moscow four or five years ago, told “Stalin and the rest” that if they would disassociate propaganda of the Third Internationale from their gov- The symposium was un- | uproariously defeated. An effort was | made in the Senate to reinsert the sales tax in the revenue bill by lowering the rate to one and three-quarters per cent while extending the list of exemptions to include all food and all clothing— except expensive wearing apparel— workers’ tools, agricultural implements, | medicine, etc. This new sales tax, it| 000. The “poor man” was saved. A few cays 2go a mew move in the | But the Senate turned it down. | | House for a sales tax to balance the; | Federal budget was nipped in the bud when it was learned that the President- | elect was “horrified” by such an idea. | Yet the President-elect is reporied as | generally favoring the House farm bill | —at least its basic principle, which is | the principle of a specialized and high sales tax on basic agricultural com- modities, affecting the price of food and | clothing. The only difference between the two | sales tax plans is that one would raise | possibly half a billion dollars as Fed- | eral revenue to balance the budget, | while the other would raise possibly a billion -dollars as a bonus to the farm- |ers. How the same House of Repre- sentatives can oppose one and shout for the other is merely one of those little things in life beyond the ken of | human understanding. Our Shakespeare. At last evening’s meeting of the Washington Shakespeare Society Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, research director of the Folger Library, referred to the fusion calculated to emphasize the quo- tation “Wine is a mocker.” o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Back to the Sublime Incomprehensible. | A little baby came one day; ©One of the Heavenly Troop. And all that infant had to say— It was a very simple lay— Was “Oogle boogle gloop.” A wondrous poet it became, One of the radio group. As interest he sought to claim His words were very much the same, As “oogle boogle gloop.” ‘We asked him what he really meant By his mysterious whoop. He said, “In times of discontent Our thoughts by words we represent, Like ‘cogle boogle gloop.’” If: economic light we see, Our Pride must learn to stoop. Like little children we must be And tell our intellectual glee With “oogle boogle gloop.” Taking to Cover. “Are you glad to be back in Wash- ington, D. C.2” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “You never miss the old folks at home?” 3 “No. I'm glad to be where I can create an impression in print without | giving the neighbors & chance to look | me over.” | | was estimated, would produce $335,000,- | Jud Tunkins says & person who has a large following isn't necessarily a leader. He may be a misleader. Patient Readers. The libraries are filled with books, Still we are getting angry looks From patient readers who declare They'd rather read a bill of fare. Professional Persenality. “What is your boy John doing now?” “Studying medicine,” answered Farm- | er Corntossel. “How is he doing?” “First rate. Every time I get a cold he can talk about it in a way that'll scare me nearly to death.” “A sudden and excessive manifesta- tion of friendship,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should be carefully studled. It is one of the ways in which enmity betrays itself.” Intellectual Beauty Contest. That Truth is beautiful we know. Just now our hearts are all aglow. So many Congressmen draw near To make a situation clear That we attention must direct To an endeavor to select, As thoughts diverse are brought to light, ‘The two or three that may be right. “What I learns on Sunday,” said | nisc which, without great effort or any in- gredient of deception, they are sble to earn daily a sum sufficient for their own support and, in some cases,,for their families. We regret to say, however, that there are some people in this community who are so lacking in a sense of char- ity to these small vendors, and really so destitute of shame and conscience, that they have devised an ingenious method of reading the paper without buying it, and so deprive the newsboy of his sole means of making a humble living. This plan is that of renting the paper. The circumstance that the boy obtains his papers in the afternoon, and is not expected to return unsold copies for credit until the next morn- ing, gives these “leasers” of periodicals ample time to digest all the printed in- | formation they desire. The newsboys | really have no alternative these days‘ about consenting to the arrangement, for, in many instances, they must| either rent their papers, or obtain no'| remuneration at all, so many of the public are refusing to buy copies, though they can well afford to do so. | In our opinion, and no doubt in that of other newspaper publishers, this is a detestable, if not a criminal practice. It interferes drastically with business and tends to demoralize youth. | The boys naturally prefer a return of 1 centavo on each copy to no sale, | and the unblushing clientele, who can | well afford to invest in a newspaper dally, retain the other 4 centavos in their miserly pockets. Unless we are able to abolish this reprehensible custom within the imme- diate future, we shallrefuse to offer our periodical for sale through any re- | tail dealers. Then those that dasire to| know what is transpiring not only in Santo Domingo and in the republic, but throughout the world as well, will have to peruse coples on file at our office, and we can assure these parasitical niggards that they shall pay much | more for the opportunity of thus keep- | ing abreast of the times than the piti- | ful 5 centavos they should now pay the newsboy for a copy of La Opinion. LT Old Hay Market Still Busy in Berlin. the usual thing is it becoming to see¢ | horses mingled in the processions of automobiles and street cars which hur- riedly thread their way through the streets of the city. Instead of water-| troughs at -the street corners, there loom at every intersection parti-colored | gasoline pumps. JInstead of “Hu und | Hott” (“Gee and Whoa"), the atmos- | phere is far more frequently vibrant with “Daemme” (“Confound it's”) and more potent abjurgations. | Nevertheless, Berlin still has so many | horses that in the northern part of the city, on the Cartenplatz, twice every week a great hay market is held, in every respect the same as 50 years ago, long before there was even the remotest thought of motor cars. Fresh hay for the Berlin market is exhibited upon horse-drawn wagons, which stand in| long rows on either side of the square. | Buyers chew at samples just as if they were to be the ultimate consumers; they are assisted by bridleless horses, which heartily approve, if their eager- ness is any sign, of the fodder they have brought to market. The farmer and the hay merchant of the capital conclude their bargain wif help > selves to a mouthful from the loads that brush their noses. hay mar- Uncle only Eben, “ a six days is & Welt Spiegel, Berlin—Less and less | o touch a button at his bedside and will hfive only to make out his paying-in slips. ‘When I wake up in the morning I roll around the bed, And press the little button in the wall beside my head; The vacuum cleaners in the barn begin their daily chores, Currying the horses and sweeping up the fioors; The automatic milker gets busy on the cows, While conveyors pass the hay around for bossy’s morning browse. The Leghorns' grain is scattered wide to make 'em use their legs, As the button sets the counter to add- ing up the eggs; A click, a whirr, the rotary is plough- ing through the snow, ‘Which melts like magic off the steps as | than thos: the fans begin to blow. The twenty-horse power saw and ax will, uncomplaining, chop The firewood for the kitchen stove until the switch says_stop: Hot water fills the bathtub, and my nose imparts the news, The electric stove is glowing and the good Mocha brews. T stretch, and feel that zero is not with- out its charm Since Dad at last consented to electrify the farm. One of our readers requested re- publication of this jingle, which first appeared in the Farm and Stock- breeder (Canada) and was reprinted in the Kilkenny Post. * ok ok ow Movies Gain at Expense of English Stage. The Daily Mail, London.—The growth of the cinema at the expense of thea- ters and music halls in the county was commented on by County Councilor Fenton, the chairman, at the annual meeting of the Middlesex Committee for the Granting of Cinema, Music and Dancing Licenses. He said there were now 99 cinemas in regular use, but only two theaters—the Golders Green Hippodrome and the Kew Theater, Kew. Music halls had entirely disappeared with the recent changeover of the Chiswick Empire to ms. At the cinemas and theaters, count- ing three performances a day, there were 315.000 seats available daily for the population of 1,638.728, or one per | five persons. ————— Put Heart Into It! From the Miam! Daily News. A Memphis department store Santa Claus recently was fired for absent- mindedly kissing a 17-year-old girl Serves him right; that's no way to kiss a girl. ———— An Astronomical Item. From the Louisville Times. Albel? Einstein is No. 3,555,666,895,- 464 in the list of persons who have felt that they were insulted by consuls when seeking for passports. Likely Source of Bologna. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. A learned doctor writes a book to prove that mental effort s governed by diet. Maybe that accounts for a con- siderable amount of bologna. rtenplatz. You e | g Mr. worrying & few persons, but the mfm‘ country is what the first youth to go adventuring into far-away lands in search of a life which he believed to be more attrac- tive and beautiful than that which he enjoyed at home. Nor has he been the homeward disillusioned in mind and broken in spirit. There have been many other youths, those of the flesh as well as those of fictlon, who have made the same quest, only to learn that the beauty and peace which they believed dwelt elsewhere existed more wholesomely by the fireside at home. Intrepid and hopeful youth, however, craves the experience of learning at first hand about the exhilarations and despairs, the heights and depths to which mankind must submit. And that is as it should be, for this seeking after the higher and better things e already possessed is what life is all about. So Palamede begins his quest for great forests of green trees, and for women who are beautiful and men who worship them. On this theme John Erskine has built a powerful novel of love and hate, strife and bloodshed, life and death, as he carries the adventur- ous knight of the Arabian desert through the tortuous highways and by- ways of experience which ultimately lead him to the threshold of the castle of King Mark of Cornwall, where he finds the beautiful Isolde, already the bride of Mark and torn with love for Tristan. . Several beautiful women have been encountered by Palamede on the long journey from Aila to Cornwall, but they were not beautiful enough, and he found no desire in his heart to wor- ship them. There is another beautiful woman at King Mark's castle, Bran- gain, cousin of Isolde, but it is only the latter who awakens love in his breast and to whom he wishes to offer his worship. There is no room, however, in Isolde’s heart for this dark, hand- some and chivalrous knight. She loves only Tristan, and it is with a sense of shame at his own inadequacy that | Palamede acknowledges the wisdom of the teaching of his father that men and women are the same the world over, and that there is no joy in the worship of e beautiful woman whose love is given elsewhere. | accrediting to his resurrected pagan knight more grace of manner and Be that as it may, the wonder grows as to why the poets “conspired to for- get him” and to give to Tristan the crown of sole hero. For Palamede's love was more tender, more faithful and more beautiful, and he was always a gentleman, but he was unbaptized, an unbeliever, a pagan. Tristan, on the other hand, was selfish, unreason- able, unfaithful and seldom a gentle- man. He was, however, accepted as a Christian in good standing. And so, here is the story of Isolde,” with Palamede restored to honor, though he may never attain the place of fame to which he is undoubt- pen Erskine, speculation immediately began as to whether the whimsical modern- ably Mr. only such adventurer who has turned | & In relating the love of Palamede for | | Isolde, Mr. Erskine may be guilty of | highness of purpose than he deserves. | in New York affairs, brings to public at- tention & brilliant career and one which left its mark on American life. Her co- ration with the former State execu- ve and candidate for President is de- bitions other than to serve her State and generation,” according to the New- ark Evening News, which records that she was & real force in New York State politics, to all appear- ances for the love of State service and with self submerged.” The New York Evening Post pays the tribute: “In the newspapers of late they have been mak- ing lists of American women whose “for some country at large owe a vast debt to her beczuse her vision opened the eyes of one of our t leaders, Alfred Smith, to corridors of humanitarian in- terests that he knew not of. He was on their verge when Mrs. Moskowitz first introduced him to the suffrage cam- paign in 1918. He had come a good way ‘up from the city streets’ But eny one who knows Al Smith will say that he never hesitated to give to Mrs. Mos- kowitz . all credit for broadening and raising his understanding of life just as his career reached that need. It was a splendid service, given quietly and ab- solutely unselfishly. In Belle Lindner Moskowitz New York loses one of its few finest citizens.” * X ¥ *x “She was a real leader in the poli- tics of her State and country—more of & leader, by far, than any woman who held office,” declares the Youngstown Vindicator, while the Roanoke Times says: “A talented, able and unselfish woman, she was the former Governor's ‘right-hand man’ during the most im- rtant and fruitful period of his pub- ic cageer.” The Birmingham Age-Her- ald as her contribution to the as- sociation with tae former Governor “a cultural background, the social worker’s knowledge and intellectual acuteness,” and, recording that she had “an excel- lent education which supplemented beautifully the native power of Mr. Smith,” that paper asserts: “They were a magnificent team.” TPhe Hartford Times avers that “both were children of the tenements and humble origin, and were fired alike by the will to self-bet- terment and to social service.” “The great record that Alfred E. Smith made as Governor of New York.," says the Louisville Courer-Journal, “was in large part due to his sponsor- ship of the many social reforms Mrs. Moskowitz advocated and which became laws that are models for the rest of the country. These reforms alone attracted to Al Smith's banner in 1928 some of the country’s highest types of intel- lectual and cultured men and Women— was no dow softened and jrradiated by a true womanly intuitich, which flies to its goal, where men grope and crawl on the surface of . With the thought that “the world of men need not yet despair of another golden age of the great Matriarchs,” the State declares: “They might give to the world, these women, last at the the ; and dictators have not been able to give — tranquillity, charity, neighborli- ness and contentment.” “Her extraordinary abilities, her de- votion to public service, unrequited and unsung,” states the Rochester Times- Union, “make her death not only a crushing blow to her many friends, but & real loss to the people of this State. . Ungquestionably she will go down in as the force behind the social program of far-sighted legislation char- acteristic of the administrations of Al- fred E. Smith. While Mrs. Moskowits alvays retorted to those who spoke of her influence with the former Governor, that he was well able to do his own thinking, there is little doubt that much of her thinking as well found its way into the statute books. It is safe to say ‘no woman in recent years in this State has exercised so much influence upon the course of legislation—and it was invariably : hlppy‘lnfluenoe." * X Referring to the records of other able political advisers, the New York Herald Tribune remarks: “To what ex- tent did this woman, of whom Mr. Smith was to say that she ‘had the atest brain possessed by anybody he ew,” mold his career? This much is certain. Alfred E. Smith was a Tam- many politician who had shown hints of bri ce in the State Assembly; Mrs. Moskowitz, a graduate of Teach- ers’ College, stage director, social worker, labor adjuster in the garment industry, was in intimate touch with groups and policies which from that day forward played an increasing part in the Governor’s career. She held no public office (unless director of pub- licity in a national campaign can be rated such); but many a seasoned Tammany _politician came to pay tribute to her canny understanding of political values. She had something of Mr. Smith’s own happy kinship with the sidewalks of New York, and she knew them in parts of town then une familiar to him; she had his instinc- tive sympathly for the underdog and also a clear-headed aversion to be- muddled pleas for feverish action in his behalf. She proved herself a natura] executive. Cynics sometimes suggest that women in politics have proved s fallure. Mrs. Moskowits's career is g crushing answer to that suggestion.” ————— Merely a Chance, FProm the Roanoke Times. It was just a coincidence, of course, that a nationally-famous clinie, an- -nnunoedltwummn‘;mynf hiccoughs at 'nwmstm:‘"he