Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 8

YHE EVENING STAR _ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. YUESDAY......January 24, 1033 YTHEODORE W. NOYES... . Editor Whe Evening Star Newspaper Company 1in_ s ‘2hd Fenauivania Ave wew "ork Oftee: 118 Erst 4and Bt xo Office: 1 Carrier Within the City. .:F’r Blaryiias mvay %0 POF MORtR ing an Iwhen 4 Sundays) ......60¢ per month The Evening and Su (when 8§ Sundays). The Sunday 8t Collection mad Orders may be NAtional 5000. Rajp by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 17r.,3$10.00: 1 mo.. pauy oty . 6.00: 1 m: inday only All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sanday...1yr, $12.00; Datly only . lyr, 8 Sunday only . he end of eac] 4 ot 1n by mall o telephons T“I Associated Pre: to the use for republication atches credited to it or not other -+ BgRal sever andalio the et nevy ubll d herein. i :DFC‘I dispetches herein are also reserved. ovcll dpetchin horela ary Siso reeived The Twentieth Amendment. The final ratification of the twentieth amendment to the Constitution, doing away with the “lame duck” sessions of Congress, is likely to have a wide effect on Washington life, not to mention the lives of Congressmen and national leg- islation. ‘The annual meetings of the Congress will begin the first week in January instead of the first week in December. Unless they see fit to come to the Capital earlier, there will be no compulsion to bring the Senators and Representatives here before Christmas. This change in the dates may run the sessions later into the Summer, it is true, but Summers in Washington no longer hold the former threat of dis- comfort to the legislators, whose chambers are air cooled and pleasant no matter what the thermometer may say out of doors. g Minority groups, single Senators, who have had in the past vast power in the lame duck sessions of Congress because of the rule of unlimited de- bate prevailing in the Senate, have lost some of this power. They may be able stif to delay legislation that is demanded by a majority. But to de- feat it if a majority really wishes action would be an impossibility for a single Senator or even for a sizable minority, with the session stretching out perhaps for a full two-year period. It has been well understood in the Senate that during a “short session” of Congress, such as the present one, little can be accomplished except by unanimous consent. Such a situation has led to all kinds of bad and ex- pensive legislation in the past. Sena- tors who have had pet projects, de- manded by influential groups in theiri States, have succeeded in getting items “of appropriation placed in the annual supply bills because of their threats to delay and perhaps to kill important legislation unless their requests were granted. The “lame duck” amendment is a part of the Constitution today largely because of the tenacity of one man, Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, its author. No one has been more in- =istent upon the freedom of debate than the Senstor from Nebraska. However, he has been no long-winded filibusterer, and what he has now accomplished has been in the interest of orderly legisia- tion and against “log rolling,” that system of give and take forced on the Senate by the rules and by the short session, The short sessions of Congress have held out hope to minorities oppos- ing legislation sponsored by the ma- Jority in the Senate and in the House even during the first, or long, sessions of Congress. There will be no more of these sessions. may at any time he sees fit convene the Congress in the Fall in special session, thereby starting the legislative wheels to turning before the first of the year, The special session under such circum- stances would merge with the regular session beginning in January and con- tinuing thereafter. As a matter of fact, however, the weeks prior to Christmas in the congressional sessions which have begun in December have largely been wasted in the past. For it has been = habit of the Congress to take a generous two weeks' recess during the holidays, Tt is reasonable to suppose, therefore, that little time will really be lost by the legisiators if they postpane their meetings until after the first of each year, ¥ The present “lame duck” session of | the Congress, with ita ineffectiveness and flibustering in the Senate, will cause no one who has the interest of | the country at heart to grieve at the passing of such sessions. The country is well rid of them. vt So many hold-ups take place that the Tegulations to prevent concealed weapons appear in danger of being hopelessly classified as “blue laws.” Lost Purses. The Washington Railway & Electric Co. Teports that during 1932 no less than three hundred and thirty-five purses containing money were turned in at the several branches of the lost and found department maintained by the company. One pocketbook con- tained more than two hundred dollars, Altogether, the total exceeded five hundred and fifty dollars, an average of approximately one dollar and sixty “cents per purse. Each loss may be presumed 1o repre- sent a astory, tragedy or comedy, as the case may have been, Probably many of the Josers suffered serious embarrsas- ment by reason of the accident by which they were deprived of the neces- sary means of businesy and travel. Money lost in these instances meant money gone forever, and while that %act in itself may not have been finally tragic, may not have exercised eny permanent influence upon the lives of the losers, it must be cbvious that, for the moment, it implied inconvenience and difficulty. And when it is re- membered that not all the purses lost ‘were delivered to rallway employes for transmission to the lost and found de- partment, that many were carried sw>y by finders acting on the ancient prin- | ciple, “Finders keepers,” the prodigal carelessness of the losers becomes a more noteworthy subject for correction, ghn or woman goihg on a journey, \ sc | sclentiously try to be thoughtful are to The President of the United States | tailors have a penchant for construct- ing in men's clothes the kind 6f pockets which are shallow to the point of use- lessness, the major fault appears’to be that of the losers. Like other accidents, the loss of a purse is an expression of | disregard of decent caution. Human progress depends upon the in- creasing control of the accidental in life. Each individual has a responsibility in the circumstances, a responsibility to himself and to others. Those who con- be commended. Those who simply do not care deserve little symbathy, and doubtless will not be accorded even the little they do deserve. . The 0ld Skeleton Revealed. Senator Wheeler has got’his bill for the free colnage of allver, at a atio | of 16 to 1, in the shape of an amend- ment to the Glass bill and the Senate will probably vote on it today. There| is little prospect of anything save de- clsive defeat for this revival of an is- | sue that the American people have so thoroughly repudiated, but such Demo- crats as Senator Glass must neverthe- less feel keen embarrassment at seeing an old family skeleton dragged out of the clcset so eafly in the game. And it 15 to be hoped, for the good of the country, that the Senate's vote to down the 16 to 1 ghost will be by such a large margin that the atmosphere will for the moment be cleared of the currency inflation talk with which at present it | is surchatged. . Senator Wheeler wants the Senate to | make 412'; grains of silver worth one dollar. Four hundred and eighty grains | of silver, or an ounce, are now worth | about twenty-five cents. Under the legis- | lative mindate which he asks from the | Senate the “value” of silver would be Increased more thanefour times and, according to his reasoning and the re: sonirg cf some of the other silver Sen- ators, this remarkable utterance of “Presto! Change!” would cure most of man’s mortal ills within a period of time variously estimated from forty hours to forty days. | This and other inflationary schemes | for debasing the currency have been dogging the short session of Congress, but few have taken them seriously be- cause of the certain knowledge that if, by any chance, one of them ahould pass both Housss the veto by President Hoo- | ver would stand. Senator Wheeler's |offer of his 16-to-1 proposal as an | amendment to the Glass bill is probably mede in the nature of an experiment, the results of which will be watched | with extraordinary interest in order to | earn how the wind is apt to blow atter | | March 4. Should the vote in the Sen- | ate against the Wheeler amendment be | large enough, the country will !neuhe: easier. For, when a favored candidate for the next speakership of the House | is giving out interviews on the merits | of debasing the Nation's currency and there are more inflationary schemes in Congress than anybody can shake a stick at, the matter is serious. The | Senate’s vote today may indicate| whether the Serate is golng to be the | rock. in the next four years, that pre- vents the almost certain disaster threa ened by the inflationary proposals, or | landslide. President-elect Roosevelt stands for “sound money,” but is prob- ably reserving s statement of his specific | views of such currency-inflation meas- | ures as have been introduced until after | his inauguration, when they will huvei more weight. - Secretary Mills' sound discussion in yesterday's Star of the dangers and | false theorles of the various curr@acy | in this statement he sought to point | | out the difference between the infla- tion of credit, or, more properly, mak- ' ing credit available, and the outright | schemes of inflating the currency by free coinage of silver or speeding up the printing press. Appaiently & con- | fusion exists in some of the bzst minds | because of an unforiunate failure to see ‘ the difference- between making credit available and making cheap dollars available. The latter scheme will in the end be defeated. The danger is | that its defeat will not come until the | Nation has been persuaded to under- take an experiment that invariably, brings ruin and disaster in its wake. | Lol Soviet Russia is still following the old | policy of utilizing Siberia as a place to send undesired citizens, B Party Politics at Tokio. In the Diet at Toklo yesterday Japan was treated to one of those parkiament- | ary spectacles with which the residents of Washington and the people of the United Siates—even in these days—are not unfamiliar. The administration | came under heavy opposition fire. The situation in Manchuria, and its effect | | on Japanese-Amiriccn relations, were | the targets at which Mr. Achida, the official spokesman of the Seiyukai pariv. aimed his shafts, with the Minsciwo party, now in control of the govern- ment, as his real objective. Americans can envision the picture in terms of their own, if they wfil cast Senator | Hiram Johnson, say, in Mr. Ashida’s| role and the Hoover administration as i the thing at which the Califo:nian is fandest of tilting. | The oppo:ition deputy went the | length of asserting that unle-s Japan's relations with the United States are improved, they will provoe renewed competition in armaments and “pes- sibly & world wer” Mr. Achida was parephrasing & famous affirmation of Prince von Buelow in the Re'chstag, In the prewar days of frictien end paval | rivalry beiween Cermany and Great | Britain. Amid his ineffectual efforts to thwert Admir:1 von Tirpitz, Von Buelow | ast" up “the doctrine that “pressure, breeds _countercresure, and counter- prascure explosion.” 1t would be idle to deny that Japan's ! Ameri-en friands are progressively chegrined by military even.s in China. But the number of those in this coun- try who think the Sine-Japanese con- troversy is bound, sooner or later, to. can be more lmpofit to & | precipitate an armed clash with -hnlnl‘,.w will cor : ‘accommodal is extrémely limited. It is wholly in- .| who represented Nippon here ai the | cides that the affairs of the amall planet | whether it is apt to join an inflationary | inflatiomary schemes was valuable, for - couraging yet bring herself to have & more decent respect for treaty obligations and the world's good opinion. ‘What has come to be known as the Shidehara school of . thought—which gets ita name from the wise statesman time of the Wazhington conference—is the element in which Japan's foreign admirers place thelr strongest faith. Baron Shidehara would have Japan gratify her legitimate aspirations in China in co-operation with, and not In deflance of, other powers, especially China herself. The Shidehara group at the moment is & voice tn the jungle of Japanese militarism. But it is hardly dcomed to be permanently voice- less and powerless. It will be encouraged to renewed effort to revise and reverse Japan's foreign policy by such happenings as those at! the League of Nations yesterday. Under British lesdership an attempt was made | to accept the Lytton commission’s find- ings oo Manchuria without further action of any sort. That innocuous 'plan was rejected by an overwhelming vote in the Conclliation Committee of | Nineteen, which decided instead to| proceed with the task of formulating a | report of its own on the Lytton findings. That action was demanded by the smaller powers of the League, which from the out-et have feared the peril- ous precedent that would be esgablished if QGeneva did not clearly place itself on record against aggression by a strong member state. Belgium, Czecho- slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzer- | land are represented ‘on the drafting | subcommittee, which is now called upon | virtually to submit a verdict in the | momentous case of China versus Japan. | Geneva cables do not seem to go too far in describing the forthcoming “judg- | ment” as the “gravest state paper the | League has ever been.called upon to write.” The early robin’s arrival is of little consequence compared to the succcess | of an interview with Pranklin Roosevelt | in bringing the first smile that the countenance of Hiram Johnson is said finstance of o have revealed in & number of years. ————— It the international debt situation | grows more acute, it may be detm:d | advisable to start the Prince of Wales ' on another tour as an ambassador of | wood will. | England is requested to get back on the gold standard In two years. What can happen in two years is so much | that an effort toward stmplified finance | may be of much value, Having revised the universe, Prof. Einsteln gets down to details and de- known as “Earth” need re-adjustment. ———— ., In order to suppress crime, the police will work overtime. This fact eliminates At least one factor in the problem of unemployment. ————————— | ‘When Huey Long talks over the radio he can be brief. A hook-up costs| money. e Up to now Senator Borah's position in international affairs is that of a prize winner in an oratorical contest. B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Inauguration 1937. Happy New Year one and all At inaugliration’s call! March the Fourth we’ll next ignore Keeping presidential score. Celebration will be great ‘When we do not have to wait Por lame ducks who cannot fly, Or, who do not.wish to try. “ With no heed of rain or snow To a New Year date we go. Even while we feared the worst— Might have made it April First. Might of the Unobjectionable. 4‘ “How did you manage to be re-elected so often?” asked the constituent. “I think it was this way,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I've always been so quiet and amenable that I think maybe | they forgot I was here.” | Jud Tunkins says the Chinese would | have been one of the richest nations if they had improved their opportunities to give lessons when mah jong was popular. Subtle Rivalry. And very often it may come to pass That audiences feel emotions grim To hear a speaker tryingJo surpass ‘The orator who introduces him. Doom. “What is your opinion of home brew?” | “It's got to go." answered Uncle Bill| Bottletop. fter a few more mortgage foreclosures, there won't be any “A superior intelligence,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is often shown by deference to an inferfor intelligence that has power and means well.” * Continuous Reform. Civil Service Leaves us nervous we pandicg swrm. Meeting ever . An endeavor For some more reform. “Another thing dat looks funny to me.” said Uncle Eben, “is to see & man high hattin’ his neighbors when his shoes n half soles. e ——————— Hold Out Proposed. From the Oklshoma City Oklashoman. The quickest way to raise that $15,- 0CO deficit asvigned to Oklahoma Demo- crats would be to convince the faithful that no appointments will be made . Dipsamaniae Degrees. Fram the Davton Daily News. A college professor says people should be educated in the art of drinking. Those with A. B.'s and other dw’ can take post-graduate courses and wind up with the D. T Time Service. Prom the Lowell Bveniag Leader, - Haverhill pau& bl iiiana. but’the tion to lawbreakers, ; BY CHARLES E. TRACEWEL| One of the commonest faults of young men applying for jobs is that they will not look the person to whom they are talking in the eye. His collar, or ‘his hands, they may watch, while are talking, but only every now and then do they look him in the face, ‘They may gaze out the window, or even “J:“uifi?” floor, & most humili- ating attit: for any one at any time. The plain truth is that Yet noth! gives quite the same im- pression of tion. cerity as this simple ac- cere persons (usually known as “four-flushers”) eagerly avail themselves of this elementary proced- ure, No person will look another more deflantly in the eye than he who is trying to “put something over.” In fact, he often gives himself away by | the steadiness of his gase, Then there are those persons who glare at one, just as there are other men who insist on delivering what they fondly think is s sincere hand- clasp, but which is, in truth, a clumsy bone-crusher affair, devoid , of real heartiness or any genuine approach to warmth. One is between the devil and the | deep blue sea, then, in attempting to | look another human dbeing in the eye. Ordinarily the matter settles dial the understanding, the less atten- | tion one pays to this rule, and the less | need there is for it. Again, it must be admitted that look- ing the other fellow squarely in the eye is often nothing more than a physical process, in which some persons are 30 constituted, as to eye formation and location, that they find eminently easy what is quite difficult for others. ° Certain types of animals, in- or stance, have no difficuity in the least in | looking squarely at you, and in keeping | their gaze fixed upon your eyes. It means nothing to them.” They are in- | capable of looking any other way. Fishes and insects can stare one in the face as well as the most intent specimen of high-pressure salesman of the old type. Unless the spirit is behind the pro- ceeding, there is nothing to it in human terms. hysical phenomena. Unless straight looking is sincere looking, it 1s nothing but a trick, mere optical sound and fury, as it meaning nothing. There are individuals who, with the best intent in the world, find such di- | rect gasing extremely uncomfortable. This applies not only to youngsters who are after their first job (In times that try men’s souls), but also to thou- sands of older persons who, in the va- rious contacts of daily life. realize the neceasity of the direct gase, at least upon occasion. The first thing for such persons to do is to keep firmly In mind, all the time they are talking, their own failing in this respect. Unless they do this, they will find themselves looking at everything and everybody except the one to whom they are speaking. An intent, unwavering gase is unnec- essary. This is not the sort of thing meant by “looking one in the eye.” Such looking is only staring. And staring, whether at a stranger, from a ce, or at some one to whom one is talking, is a fighting look. Such intensity of gaze defeats its purpose. Every once in a while you run into High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | | Franklin Roosevelt, the new President of the United States, of the world. The Chief Execu- tive-elect of the American people is to- day in his fiftieth year. He was born in the State of New York, the son of a well-to-do busineas man. Like the ma. jority of his family, he was prepared by training and education for active leader- ship in political and industrial affairs, and soon rose to prominence in botl respects within his Commonwealth. After a brief career in commerce he became, during the Great War, secre- tary of the American marine, and later Governor of his native State, New York. In this most important and con- spicuous post he has developed a char- acter and initiative which made him the logical and, incidentally, the suc- cessful, candidate for the presidency. He has displayed talents for organisa- tion and direction which will undoubt- | edly stand him in good stead in the high position he is to occupy. Durin his public life he has won for himself, and deservedly, a great popularity among all classes. There is in his history the illustration of the reiterated concept that, in the U. S. A., all men are equal. For Frank- lin Roosevelt attained to the highest honors in the land. despite the fact that he is afficted with a great physical handicap. This man, though of larg: stature, mighty shoulders and the as- pect of a fighter, can move himself sbout only with the greatest difficulty. It seems that about 11 years ago Frank- lin Roosevelt suffered an attack of in- fantile paralysis, a sickness which, at that time in the U. S. A, had great prevalence, threatening to become a lague which would devastate the whole nd. Herr Roosevelt was then 39 years old, and the disease affected him even more severely than the usual victims of & much younger generation. It was only by the best of medical skill that he | who had once been noted for his ath- letic prowess was spared not only the partial use of his limbs, but even life it- self. Since then his legs have been straightened by iron splints, but he can take scarcely a step without & cane. Nevertheless, the subsequent career of the man abated nothing in accom- plishment and honcr, proving, as we have already said, that it is not wealth and position which count most in Amer- icd, but rather the will and courage | vhich fights through to leadership and :u}::lce}:ssgdesvlte =ll bodily disabilities and hardships. There sre no dynasties in the United States. Every man has equal oppor- tunity to reach the top provided he has | the first ingredient of mankind—devo- tion to an ideal. Neverthgless, the name of Roosevelt has long beéen potent in American political life. There is & tradition connected with the name, even from the period of the first Dutch colo- nists. That celebrity of the stock de- nominated “Teddy" still remains ronted in the memaor.es of millions of American citizens, and glows with well-nigh a regal luster, No doubt this prior reputation has assisted greatly the later evelt in_achieving “influence “;ng“ :-';u. n:l only in his native country, rough- nln.l’ the world as well. The “Great ‘Teddy,” before he became President, was successively a warrior, hunter, ex- plorer and governor gf the same great State, He was and remains, the dream of young Americans, but who knows but that the name of Franklin - velt, rather than that of Theodore Roosevelt, may gleam with yet brighter radiance. *rox Babeons Have Cause For Feeling Grateful. Cape Town.—The Cape baboons down Noordhoek and Simon’s tself | | among acquaintances. The more cor- | It is merely another | were, | = one of these fools' who believes in what might be termed “eye wrestling.” His big ides, as he would put it, is to stare you out of countenance. that, A time at his feet, as if detecting some grave social error there, ‘The chances are, 10 to 1, he will remove his gaze them, as far as he can see, y so disconcerted that he will forget all | ll!l)ul his campaign of staring you into smi ithereens. That is the trouble 'l:h such w;':‘.‘;; be hypnotists—they make a camj out of something that ought to be nat- ural and unforced. Hence the best way for the mortal, who likes to feel at home in hid world, is to refuse to carry this eye-business too far. ‘This will not prevent him to whom eye steadiness jes hard from keeping well In mind the desirability of it, es- peclally in his own case. He will know, from some experience, that the average person puts a great deal more stock in eye steadiness than 1t deserves. ‘The crooked man often escapes de- | tection by realizing this, and malici- | ously operating “fl his knowledge, and the ‘uncritical belief that it is possible to tell a truth-teller from a liar merely by the straightness of his gaze. Such men, and women, too, can “out- face” anybody or anything. To the dis- criminating their very determination may speak volumes. Hence, often enough, the most honest | person, through some lack, is more con- | fused, In trying to tell the truth, than the liar who tells a crooked story with a very straight fage. This fact 18 well known to crime de- tection forces of ajl sorts. And every institution, and every person, indeed, | must be a crime detection force at some time or other, and ugon occasion. ‘We recall the method used by a very clever old professor of mathematics at | college to unravel a situation having to do with the misdemeanor of one of’ the students. | Some culprit had placed a “stink | bomb” in chapel, so that when the stu- | dent body filed in one morning, as was | customary, 4t was greeted with a most | horrible smell. | The authorities had discovered the | deed during the night, but knew that | | unless unusual measures were resorted | to, nothing would be learned of the | perpetrators. Prof. Jones, we will call him, was | brought into the case. He advised that | nothing be done about the matter, but that chapel be held as usual. | While the student body was filing in, he stationed himself at the door, as if nothing had happened, but kept & care- | ful eye on the young gentlemen. | ANl who genuinely knew nothing about the affair gave exclamations of | disgust, upon crossing the doorway, but | those who “were in the know” slunk to | their seats without a single “phew!” | " Mostly there is no “plan” of life to | take the place of being above board and | genuine with all. 1If it calls forth re- | sentment, upon neenlo:n.. Naunl mr; tain persons may operate on & plan of semi-crookedness, in which they often | include themselves, even going to the | extent of fooling themselves as to their | own motives and acts, it cannot be h.gd. | e ought to be able to look another | human being in the eye, as the saying ! has it, when talking to him. But if it comes hard, for any reason, here is | practical solution: Look at the side of his nose. It is not quite the same, but | the chances are he will not notice the | difference. | away the farmers’ cobs. | But fortunately the friends of the the 1 went through. ~And rightly; a few ravished mealie lands |cannot be turned into a prétext for withholding protection from _the | Peninsula’s tribe of baboons. They | be_the | volume es—: “will it upside down, and loop- mefl;o'w, and slow-roll and whip- in black letters ““The FI t. The next step was to find a pilot- engineer. Moye Stephens, young pilot, who for three yea d been carrying alrline passengers over the Rockies on daily schedule without mis- hap, was.appealed to. “Stephens, I have just given myself | an airplane. I want to fiy in it to all the oufllndhl‘:ngheu on earth. Will you ca) “Certainly, I'll go.” "AH. right—we're leaving in half an| ir., rs hour. | “l1 can't do that—not in half an hour.” After a bit of persuasion young Ste- phens asked, “But where are we " “To Turkey and Pasadena and Persia and Jerusalem, across deserts and over | mountains,” Haliburton replied, mean- | ’Lnue pushing his newly acquired. pilot | a taxi. ‘Well, for heaven's sake, wait till I get my hat, will you?" | They did not start in half ‘an hour, but on the following morning they were | off, headed straight for Africa and | Timbuctoo. Leaving California, they | flew to New York, shipped to France, | and, again taking air, headed for Africa, Where they went, and how they reached | all the outlandish places they set out 10 see, and their varied adventures along | | these thousands of miles is like reading the “Arabian Nights” in modern set- tings and conditions. Travelers who trot the globe again and in regulation style ma: sputter. Litterateurs who adhere to nfi’l the rules governing the supreme art of writing may ahudder. Adventurers who | penetrate into the strange places of the earth only after making the most care- ful preparations may rave. But the great mass of readers will lose no time | in_begging, borrowing or buying & new | volume by Richard Haliburton ss soon s it makes its appearance in the book stalls—and for the very good reason | that this young vagabond has found the keys to the magic doors and entered to bid the tales of the “Seven e Boots,” the “Magic Carpet” and er such dreams come true. His experiences on these trips of adventure have been | those which every normal child has' yearned for and hoped for, to find on ' growing to maturity that the fairy | tales come true only to those who dare | | to seek. Haliburton is dynamic, fearless, effer- vescent and a dozen other adjectives expressive of the personality and ability which every individual ~aspires to . Characteristically American in in everything he does, he has collected more adventures and traveled more miles in the seven years since he started on his first “Royal Road to Romance” than the average giobe trotter accom- plishes in a life time. From the first word to the last in the “The Flying - Carpet” is as thrilling and as dramatic as its three predecessors. The same gayety and free- dom pervades it, and its profuse photo- graphic illlustrations add to its charm and beauty. . Haliburton has become, ATERLAND, Lucerne. — Arbund , night into the mealie lands and carried | despite criticism and praise and argu- ment, the most popular author of | works of world travel simply because centers itself today the interest | baboon outnumbered his enemies, and | he has remained true to the spirit and | the letter of the nomadic urge within himself which finds happiness in a | recklessness surpassing the understand- ing of the average individual. Let's hope he never reforms. re aristocrats. They are not common | | bal of the mainland: | indeed, they have had no dealings with | the upcountry baboons for more than | a century. . When the whife man came along and n to build & town at the foot of ‘Table Mountain they retired, barking. | southward toward Ospe Point. The | spread of Cape Town has cut them off | eptirely from the interior, and they | have lived thelr own little lives, aloof, the United States of America ‘unonl human nations. from interna- | tional cynocephalic politics. Who knows? If the tribe Survives long enough it may develop into a highly lrdll(ld type of baboon; it | may evolve a type of government en- tirely different from that of all other baboons; it ‘may, by imitation of the distant cousins in the valleys below, evolve a system of economics, it may even learn new ways of barking curses | at the hair-kneed hikers who disturb its ) Sunday rest—and how all this will ;plnu the anthropologists! * ok x % | Panama Needs Horses | For Highway Work. Diario de Panama, City of Panama.— The department of agriculture and | public works has notified us that it is {in need of 100 horses for the ro:d building and other improvements which it is carrying out between the towns of La Chorrera and La Venta. Thirty ad- ditional men will also be required for the work on these projects, as drivers 1and grooms for the animals. It is not desired to buy the horses, but only to rent them from the owners for the du- ration of the work, and any persons who wish to profit from this oppor- tunity and have robust quadruj either horses or mules, suiteble for th: | service, are ssked to make application to the secretary of the department within 10 days after the appearance of | this notice. et | Idaho's Animals. From the Idabo Statesman (Boise). Idaho's population is much larger, it | would appear, than shows on the | United States census records, for the records of the Government census do not include our wild animals, A news story reveals that there were 58,857 deer within tbe boundaries of the State; 9498 ‘elk, 2.367 mountain goats, 1594 mountain’ sheep, 447 moose, 4,851 bears, 2,734 antelope. Despite the casualties inflicted by hunters and the animals killed by re- cent rigorous Winters, Idaho's big game hes been Increasing consistently dg- ::lthcpmtevnnn. This is gratify- | ing. | Music at Bread Lines. From the Lincoln State Journal. The demand in Seattle for music at the brexd lines is in kecping with the best traditions Music is always sooth- ing at meal time and the - better rectaurants supply it. Of course, the county has a legitimate Prom the Minneapolis Journal. President-elect Roosevelt tonndsontmnemocnutzll:u & B 5 ROMANTIC REBEL: .The - Story of Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Hilde- | sarde Hawthorne. Illustrated by | W. M. Berger. New York: The Cen- | tury Co. | Salem, Thursday, Dec. 9, 1813, | Dear Uncle: e I hope you are welljand I hope Rich- |ard is too My foot is no better Louise i has got so well that she has begun to | | 8o to school but she did not go this | forenoon because it snowd Maam is | going to send for Docter Kittredge to- | day when William comes home at | twelve oclock and maybe he will do some good for Doctor Barstowe has not |1 dont know as Doctor Kittredge will | |it is know four weeks since yesterday | | since I have been to school and I dont know but it will be tour weeks longer | before I go again I have been out in | the office two or three times and have | set down on the step of the door and jonce I hopped out in the street yester- | day I went out in the office and ate a | | cake Hannah carried me out once but ! not then Elizabeth and Louisa send | their love to you. I hope you will write *to me soon but I have nothing more to write so goodbye dear Uncle your af- | fectionate nephew Nathaniel Hawthorne | Here is a letter penned when he | was nine years old by a lttle New England boy who hated to go to school, who rebelled against the hours of study which kept him from a full enjoyment of the great out-of-doors, which he loved: who found himself house-bound because- of a serious injury to one foot acquired while playing bat and ball, and who was destined eventually to have his name indelibly graven in the halls of fame as & man of letters. A rebel indeed was this lad whose acquaintance with misfortune began before he was old enough to under- stand that his fathor had died in far- off Surinam, and by the time he was nine years old had marked him for a cripple. All his inclinations were far removed from the stern and uncom- promising heritage which character- ized those New Englanders of the early dllly; of uu‘“ ur;p“?‘hun He wls‘h‘a changeling, everything it bound him to the idéas and activities of his forefathers and the living rela- tives upon whom he was largely de- pendent. As early as twelve yéars of age he wasg writing verse, but for fear of ridicule shared his secret with no one save Bill Simms, a lad of his own age to whom he became fondly at- tached during the first Summer the family lived Maine. His ambition to write was not made known until to- ward the end of his college experience, when in a letter to his mother hz con- fessed that he could not fulfill her wish that he become a minister. Nef ther did he desire to become 4 lawyer, nor a physician. In the same letter he wrote: “Oh, that 1 were rich enough to live without any ! What thor, and relying for upon my pen? Indeed 1 think 1llegibility of my writing is very auf e. How proud you would feel to see my works praised by the reviewers as equal to the proudest pmduulml"ui the scrib- bling sons of John Bull, | As much of an enigms to himself as to his family, he struggled on after well past 30 sue- do you think of my becoming an au- | o ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Lauschs in Germany, snd it is almost entirely a home industry.' Lametta (tingel), cotton, wood, papler country, but they were not entirely suc- cessful. Q How many manuscripts are re- ceived daily’ by the Saturday Evening Post?—J. C. B. A. About 200, Q. What is the difference between a checker board and a chess board? —P. McK. A. There is no difference. The pieces used to play the games differ. They are called checkers and chessmen. Q. Can a buzzard smell>—A. C. A. The sense of smell in buzsards and other carrion-eating birds is almost | as keen as their sense of sight. They are among the keenest of birds in both | these respects. | Q. Can an individual secure a patent | without employing an attorney?—L. P. A. The Patent Office advises inven- tors to employ a competent patent at- torney to aid in ‘procuring patents, be- | cause generally an application cannot be prepared Properly except by some one trained in this work. It is also advised that great care be exercised in | this selection. The value of a patent depends largely upon ‘skillful prepara- tion of specification and claims. Q. What color is Lenin's hajr>—P. L. A. Lenin's body lies exposed to view | in & marble tomb on the Red Square in Moscow. Lenin is described as a little r:ln with a bald head and red whis- ers. Q. Who was the first President to veto an act of Congress?>—J. D. | A. George Washington. His first veto conceined “An act for the apportion- ment of the Representatives among the several States.” | et i Q. Are bullion and gold colns ‘of the same purity?—A. B. A. United States gold coins have 900 parts pure gold and 100 parts alloy. Bullion is about: the same, but some- ‘umu falls to 898 in 1,000. Q. How much sugar and pineapple do we import from Hawaii?—M. L. A. More than 1.900,000.000 pounds of sugar and 484.276.079 pounds of canned pineapple were imported from the Ha- walian Islands in 1931. Q. Where did most of the German immigrants settle?—C. 8. A. Theydid not all setile in the large cities; many pioneered into the open Western areas, settling along the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, forming large Rights Voted to Phifip];{nes | vember 21, average human voice octaves. Q. On what dstes @id the Republican and Democratic National Conventions open last Summer?—B. E. R. A. The Republican National Conven- tion convened June 14, Democratic National Convention con- vened June 27, 1932. Q. Was Col. Lindbergh equipped with rn:ljo’on, his fiight to the Orient? A He carried two radio sets, one for use in the plane, with a range from |3.000 t0 7,000 miles, and the other an emergency set for use in case of acci- dent afield or afloat. The latter was crash-proof and water-tight. Q. What is the story of how English- men helped Americans win a battle in the Revelution?—N. A. B. A. Reference probably is to the sea fight between the Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, and the British warship Serapis, under Capt. Pearson. The Richard’s guns had exploded, her sides had been rid- dled by the heavier guns of the British vessel. She was rapidly sinking. Jones had aboard a large number of British prisoners, taken in previous encounters. He set them to man the pumps. The efforts of these Englishmen kept the Richard afloat until the Americans were able to lay the Serapis aboard and take her by storm. The Richard sank alongside. The French frigate Alliance, which was supposed to be helping Jones, under French command, also fired on the Richard. Q. How accurate are the time signals ur’;!. ;U'- from the Naval Observatory? A. The signals sent out from the Ar- lington racio station are accurate to 0078 second. Q. Where is Bobby Jones' - “perfect” golf course?—E. W. ‘A It is the Augusta National Golf Course at Augusta, Ga., which was laid out by Bobby Jones and Dr. Alister MacKenze, Q. Do many people motor from the United States to Quebec.—E. B. A From January 1 to October 31, 1932, 637.326 automobiles from the United States entered the Province of Quebec. Of these motorists more than one-third entered for a stay of 24 hours or less. Q. Had balloon ascensions been ac- complished in other countries before Blanchard’s memorable ascension in the Un States in 1793?—R. K. A. On October 15. 1783, Jean Pran- cois Pilatre de Rozier made the first ascension in a tied balloon. On No- 1783, De Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes first trusted them- selves to a free balloon. On December 1, 1783, J. A. C. Charles ascended in a gnlloon filled with hydrogen gas. The revious. ones were filled with heated air. Within the next 10 vears several ;\. :nu were made in France and Eng- and. Q. How was oil used by old sailing vessels to calm the sea?—C. D. A. A canvas bag used. It was cone-shaped, with a small hole at the peak of the cone to allow the oil to drip out. It held about five galions, and was suspended by a rope from the bow of the vessel. Arouse Little Enthusiasm Pinal passage of the bill for Philip- pine freedom by both branches of Con- gress over th» veto of President Hoo- ver arouses very little enthusiasm in this country. Most comments indicate doubt that the islanders will gaifi any advantages from the freedom which may be obtained by favorable action in the islands, and suggest that commer- cial losses and lack of financial stabil- ity may subject them to impositions by other nations. Supporters of the bill nold that the pledges of the United States have been fulfilled. The San Jose Mercury-Herald ad- vises that “a stable government cannot exist without both an economic and a political foundation in the islands. and neither exists.” The Rock Island Argus, holding that the bill “would cripple Philippine commerce.” declares that “it is poor policy to turn the Philippines loose and ‘on their own' until they can | take care of themselves.” The Dayton | emphazizes the point that rs before independence are | years of increasing barriers to Philip- pine trade,” and believes that “there is great reason to believe that the thing we are doing is so done as to threaten the economic ruin of the islands.” * % ok x “It is to be hoped.” declares the Fort | Worth Star-Telegram, ‘that the Fili- pinas will be explicit about their atti- tude towarl the measu'e. If the United | States is destined to go over there ip a few years and pull the little brown brothers from beneath the heel of oth- ers, we should know whether we are going to the rescue of our own property or exercising the Missouri insult of re- senting our ‘dog’ being ‘kicked around.’ | even though it had allowed itself to be :‘his"l!d away from our bones and ennel.” “Internal chaos will certainly be the consequence of independence, and t| work of more than a generation will be wiped out within a few years,” in the cpinion of the Boise (Idaho) States- man, while the Newark Evening News remarks that the measure, ‘‘camou- flaged to look like a proud vessel of in- cependence, is only & dingy little cargo boat.” That paper, however, adds that “at best it will probably be some 13 years’ before the bill goes into effect, and that “it may be that American sentiment will rally to the responsibfl- ity of dealing with the: fate of 13.000.000 people with some show of statesmanship.” In dcfense of the bill, the Yakima Dally Republic holds that “we never should have taken the islands over; we don’t want them; we have no responsi- bilities, and they want to be independ- ent. The Salt Lake Deseret News ar- gues that “the alternative seems to be the permanent policy of Colonial - lons,” and that “no serious school’ of thought in America advocates this.” The Lincoln State Journal feels that “the issue has been before the people and Congress so g that Congress should be familiar with every argument for and against independence.” That rper concludes with the hope “that he new freedom will answer the prayer of a liberty-loving pzople, and that it will come to them as a bless- m even though it is not instantly | OPin eved.” * ko x ¥ \ of lmk; assures any -nation ! -ggzs i LG Meridian, Miss., Star argues: “Lat our Oriental islanders work out their own salvation. We seem to have trouble aplenty at home.” The Scranton Times agrees that “the bill undoubtedly has some imperfections.” but contends that “at Jeast it is & gesture in showing that the United States has kept faith with the Pilipino le.” Rejecting the thought that any future Executive of the country “would ever approve a Constitution for the Philip- pines which left a large dependent pop- wlation in jeopardy of life or lberty.” the Jersey City Journal states: “The bill itself provides the most adequate safeguard. If the Filipinos decide to ac- cept the offer of independence with all its stipulations, they will have to sub- mit to the President of the United States within two years a proposed con- stitution for the P’hmrptne Island gov- ernment republic in form and aceept- |able to the President of the United States. If the President doesn't like it, he shall send it back, and the islanders will have to negotiate with him until he is satisfied. This clause of the bill surely provides more chance for putting off the day of independence until con- ditions warrant its accomplishment | than any other device.” * ok ok % “We think,” remarks the Altoona Mirror, “the 10-year provision in the law granting independence is a wise one. It is a little too much to expect 8 people governed by other nations for many years would be capable of self-government at once. After all, the Filipinos will be really self-governing during the 10-year transition period and | they might find it quite to their advan. to have the guiding hand of the United States assisting in the direction | of their affairs. The best way to prove | that they are ready for self-government 1is to establish the fact during the decade of trial” ‘The objectiondble character of the measure is set forth by the Philadel- phia Inquirer, the Richmond Times- Dispatch, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Baltimore Sun, the Spokane Spokes- man-Reviéw, the Goshen News-Times, the Roanoke World-News, the Rockford Register-Republic, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune. The Hartford Times suggests that the islanders should “look with an utmost of care before they embark upon a change which may in reality have ad- vantages for none,” while the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern suggests “repeal of the legislation, if injustice to the Fili- pinos, is clearly demonstrated.” The Abilene Reporter is informed that “the people of the islands show very little interest in the proceedings,” while the Hartford Courant asserts: “It is dan- gerous to the Filipinos, who face pov- erty and dissension;: dangerous to the United States, since it leaves responsi- bility for the protection of the islands in our hmdsxlu? authority has been delegated to dihers, and dangerous to the peace of the Par East.” Possibili- tles of a change of action at a future time are seen by the Haverhill Gazette, the Cleveland News and the Buffalo Evening News. technical ability and the enectady Gazette, “are all essential before the Philippine Islands can become a nation.” e Ly ol Twinocracy, om the Roanoke Times. An Indians family reporis six sels ———p———— A Job for Piccard. Prom the Arkansas Gasette.