Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1933, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C April 1, 1933 frewmctlon‘ of emergence, of rebirth. Even in traditionally bleak Siberia | April means the return of the sun. Mul- | titudes feel its attraction, and it is a natural impulse, difficult to deny, to| | escape from cities and return to the THE EVENING T |and always will be a fundamental difference between what is good and | what is bad. | | And, likewise, one of the chief con- | tributions of the depression, with its| widespread disillusionment and cynicism, | TAR, WA HINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THEODORE W. NOYES... . Editor open fields, the clean, wind-swept hills, | has been to expose the neat and n!-i The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Penmsyivania_ Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St icago Office: Lake Michigan Bujlding ropean Office: 14 Regent St London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 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Whatever the reason advanced, it is a step which should be taken and has been too long postponed. The United States Navy is the first line of defense of the Nation. The need of adequate national defense should be apparent to every thinking man and ‘woman in thé country. Events of the past year are not calculated to inspire confidence that the millenriium has ar- rived, and that wars and threats of | war have vanished into limbo along with the extinct dodo bird. ‘This country has properly taken o/ lead for years in demanding arms| limitation. Unfortunately the other nations, in the main, while entirely willing to have the United States dis- arm, have not, because of their own problems of national defense, been so willing to cut their cwn armaments. At the time of the Washington Naval Conference, in 1921-22, the world had recently emerged from a devasting war. The demand for peace was uppermost everywhere. When President Harding called the disarmament conference he struck a responsive chord. When Chief Justice Hughes, then Secretary of State, announced the plan of the United States for limiting naval arma. ments, a thrill went around the world. ‘The United States at the time was in a position to be generous. The Ameri- can Navy, building and projected, was of tremendous strength. At the Wash- ington conference this country gave up this great naval supremacy in the hope that it would lead to a real limita- tion of armaments in the interest of international peace. ‘What happened? Other naval pow- ers continued to build those types of warships that were not limited by the Washington treaty—the ecruisers, de- stroyers and submarines. The United States, however, did little building, so little as to be almost negligible. Then came severa] years later the London Naval Conference. No longer did the United States have anything to offer in the matter of naval disarmament. But after much negotiation agreements were finally reached dealing with cruis- | ers, destroyers and submarines, with the naval strength ratio of Japan ad- | vanced over that agreed to in prin-| ciple at the Washington conference. Still the United States hesitated and failed to enter upon a naval building program which would bring the Amer- | Europe into bloed and tears or would (faced a world in arms. How bitterly and the woodland glades whore the old trees and the young undergrowth are ;lhe golden orb. If a sudden shower drenches the errant pilgrim, the cir- | cumstance s accepted without protest. | The flowers of May never can fill the | cky with fragrant loveliness until the | Susan Coolidge knew the secret when | she wrote: | Every tear is answered by a blossom, rE\'er;l sigh with songs and laughter ent. Shapespeare speaks of the month as sc c | having “put a spirit of youth in every- | thing,” but perhaps he might have pre- |ferred the suggestion of restoration. | The youthful spirit already exists everywhere when April arrives; it is the function of the time spirit forth, to stimulate and encourage |it. Bryant said: | There is no glory in star or blossom Till looked upon by a loving eye; | It follows that April, then, is but the opportunity, the occasion, the summons, 50 to call it, for the resilient, undis- | couraged human soul. It sets the | scene, but the actors are the men and | women, boys and girls in whose hearts | the genius of appreciation lives. And so the philosopher’s circle of logic is completed, and April is visioned |as a herald, attired in gray and silver and equipped with melodious trumpets, bringing the invitation of the year to | Nature's festal board for “all God's children” weary of the Winter and the strife and stress of its discontent. o Nazi Blackmail. Of all the incredible things that have happened in Germany in recent times nothing is more amazing than the plan to carry out the anti-Jewish boycott for one day—this Saturday—and then re- fume it next Wednesday “with full force and vehemence until now un- dreamed of,” if the world does not “re- cant its anti-German agitation.” This, program was cfficially proclaimed in | Berlin last night, on the eve of the anti- | Semitic drive. Only one word can be applied to the conditions under which | this moratorium on Teutonic fury is in- stituted. It is a brazen attempt to blackmail foreign countries, primarily the United States and Great Britain, into humble silence in the face of one | of the most audacious challenges ever offered to humanitarianism in our time. Observe the almost unbelievable lan- guage in which Dr. Paul Joseph Goeb- bels, the National Socialist minister of popular enlightenment and propagand: explains the situation. “Tomorrow,” he declares, “not a German man nor a German woman shall enter a Jewish store. Jewish trade throughout Ger- many must remain paralyzed. We shall then call a three-day pause in order to give the world a chance to recant its antl-German agitation. If it has not been abandoned at the end of that res- pite, the boycott will be resumed Wednesday until German Jewry has been annihilated.” ‘Today, April 1, is the anniversary of the birth of Bismarck. Often during the World War Germans said that if Bismarck had been alive in 1914 Ger- many would never have plunged have at least so molded German policy that the Fatherland would not have the Germany of this hour needs the spirit of Bismarcky who, despite his blood and iron theories, never invoked ican Navy to treaty strength. It has| lagged and lagged, until now—in some | of the categories of naval vessels—this country is actually in third place, with Great Britain and Japan occupying first and second places. The reasons advanced for failure to increase thc‘ American naval strength were several, | among them the desire not to increase | the Government expenses and the plea | that this country should set an example to the rest of the world in disarma- ment. ‘The present Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swanson, who was an Amer- ican delegate to the Disarmament Con- ference in Geneva last year, believes that the Navy should be built up to treaty strength. Probably no one in the country is better able to judge of this question than the Secretary of the Navy. Representative Vinson of Ken- tucky, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee; Speaker Rainey and Majority Leader Byrns all are repre- sented as favoring the naval bullding program, calling for an eventual out- lay of $230,000,000 and the construc- tion of 27 new warships, cruisers, de- stroyers, submarines and an aircraft carrier, plus additional aircraft. Presi- ¢ dent Roosevelt served as Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy during the World War. If the administration will get behind the plans now advanced for| a treaty Navy, that Navy will be con- structed. It should be done. ———— No word of sympathy is found for the individual home brew enterprises American Chemical Society discussing | that will be put out of business by the merging of a great industry in the hands of highly eapitalized concerns. —_————— Congress is claiming the admiring in- terest that always goes to a dark horse Who develops unexpected speed. B April. Rainy though it may be, April never has lacked appreciation. Philosophers have called it one of the kindliest of months, and poets have vied with one another to sing its praises. The burden of the thought of both groups is that, as the old German proverb says, April is “the key of the year,” the instrument to unlock the treasures of the Summer and Autumn. Every child knows the phrase: “April showers bring May flow- ers.” But for itself, too, as well as for its significance as the prelude of con- genial seasons, April is welcomed by the ‘world. ‘When Browning exuberantly cried, “Oh, to be in England now that April's there!” he voiced an aspiration far more | general than might secm on first con- | ficial differences between _whnt is good in Eng- | and what is bad, and ther> was crcated a state of mind cnly too inciined to sideration. For it is not only land that April is a time of cxpa ‘beauty and increasiny jor. Thr the whole Northern Hemisphere of the | without remembering that benath the | {A&hfl.h. the month is a geriod of neat 4.4 attractive coveMng there was bees ding them without counting the cost in terms of world opinion! As an assessor of the dignity of world opinion, Bismarck’s successor now enthroned at Berlin evidences an al- most childish ignorance. Chancellor Hitler can no more expect to divert the world's attention from the sadistic anti-Semitic orgy upon which his Nazi comrades have embarked than he can hope by decree to reverse the current of the Rhine. The world will continue | to watch events in Germany with un- | relaxed vigilance, and to feel free to discuss them as they deserve. That de- termination does not deter peoples | outside of the Reich from indulging in the belief, of which between-the-lines | indications are already visible, that the Nazi autocrats will think twice and ! thrice before resorting finally to action | which will not only shock mankind, but | shatter German economic life to the | foundations. e | Stock market quotations continue to be regarded with interest, although they | still provide little information beyond the assurance that there are people willing to take a chance one way or the other. —————————— Limitations on beer sales may be only fair. The market for soft drinks | has been patiently built up and may demand a certain measure of protec- | tion. — o A Doubtful Contribution. In a speech to the members of the | some of chemistry's contributions to the world, Harry L. Derby of New York, | president of the American Cyanamid & Chemical Corporation, made the fol- | lowing observations: | One of the notable incidents of the | present depression is the demand for \lo\\'»pflced merchandise, quality being |one of the lesser considerations, quite |the reverse of the prosperity type of demand. TIn past generations, the dis- | tinctions between good and cheap mer- ichandise were readily discernible by the most inexnerienced observer. How- ever, modern chemistry has largely climinated the superficial differences by neatly and attractively covering up the inferior quality. Mr. Derby is to be commended for _ his candor, but it is a question whether |many will unite with him in praising |the particular sort of scientific ad- vancement that “has largely eliminated the superficial differences (between good and cheap merchandise) by neatly and attractively covering up the inferior | quality.” | ut faith in zuperficial cppcarance | responding to the developing warmth of | rains of April have done their duty.| to draw that| There is no fragrance in April breezes | Till Ereathed with joy as they wander | One of the chief contributions of the recent boom was that it served to cover up “neatly and attractively® the super- | tractive covering as the sort of veneer that does not stand up. When it is removed there is the same old shoddy. | If the science of commercial chemistry | or any other science aims at setting new standards on the basis of appear- | ance only, such contributions to the welfare and happiness of mankind should be closely examined. They might turn out to be counterfeit. ————— Statements are made that the reason Franklin D. Roosevelt proceeds rapidly and confidently is that long experience has enabled him to observe closely the | processes of government. The same thought would apply to the citizen of the District of Columbia as a respon- | sible and discerning voter. —————————— There are many able railroad men. It may be that all they need to do to | insure prosperity is to get together and decide in explicit terms the simple question of who is to be boss. | —_—t——— A man who has gone as far as Hitler has creates astonishment by crashing |into the ancient fallacy of supposing | that nothing matters if it can bs kept ]out of the newspapers. o Uncle Sam has always shown a wil- | lingness to study foreign problsms, but | this fact should not encoura’ - sn in- | clination to render them as compli- cated as possible. s — | Another kind of inflation which in- | terests the economy expert is that | which may be based on some of the | securities which went up like hot air balloons. e Stocks are no longer skyrocketing, | although it is beclieved they will be in form to resume some of the old bril- | liant demonstrations in time for a safe and sane Fourth of July. —————— No longer mentioning “Der Tag,” political elements in Germany show an |inclination to turn civilization back | y millions of days before yesterday. Posterity is burdened with many cares. Reforestation may at least pro- vide a valuable asset with which future generations may go on. R ———— It would be a sad shock to the brew- eries to find that a public so long de- prived of beer refuses to be weaned away from its soda water. —— e England is having new trouble with the “bear that walks like a man” but can not be trained not to play rough. —— e Chinese bandits are reprehended even though they have had little success so far in kidnaping Japanese generals. —e—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Merciless Mike, My Radio! My Radio! To you I am a debtor, As you enable me to know My neighbor somewhat better. Yet let me hear by his own voice Of all his kindly measures To help this weary world rejoice In simple well-earned pleasures. Although my neighbor you exalt, You make sad revelations Of grammar now and then at fault And mispronunciations. No Filibuster Inspiration. “Do you feel inspired to make a speech?” “Not just now,” answered Senator Sorghum. “There is no legislation of- fered which I feel the slightest interest in delaying.” Jud Tunkins says when prosperity is Just around the corner you mustn't be in such a hurry to turn the corner that you skid. Bubbles. Of beer we talk while fancies play In agile iridescence, And wait the day not far away Of sturdy effervescence. And as we turn to quaff once more A stein to soothe our troubles, Will we discover, as of yore, It's mostly made of bubbles? Things Are Cooked Up. “Women in politics have not yet abol- Ished the so-called pie counter.” *No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “I sup- pose another generation will be talking about the political pies mother used to make.” ‘“Patience,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is of little value when it takes the form of comfortable indiffer- ence to the sufferings of your fellow man.” As Civilization Marches On. As evolution goes its way We rise in Nature's scale each day. None could foretell what Jife would be ‘That first came crawling from the sea. Although the prospect seems a bore, We've got to evolute some more, And 50 we pause and shed & tear And ask “Where do we go from here?” “Gimme dat old banjo,” said Uncle Eben. “Tain’ much foh classical mu- sic, but it ‘never yet played any ‘com- paniment foh no hymn of hate.” e —r———————— {Rents and Phone Rates Should Now Be Lowered To the Editor of The Star. How much longer before apartment house owners are to reduce rents? It is terribly unfair to the people ot Washington, who have had tremendous salary cuts and very little, if any, re- duction in rent. I have a two-room, kitchen and bath apartment with another girl and have to pay $65.00 a month rent. When I asked for reduction in_rent due to a large cut in my salary I was refused. What are the working people of ‘Washington going to do when they have not the money for moving ex- penses and the apartment owners will not reduce rents? Why are not telephone charges re- duced? With the extremely large cuts in salary which practically every work- ing Washingtonian is taking they must have more reductions in living expenses in order to live as healthy, happy people. CLAIRE R. CLARK. SR S e A Sign of the Times. n the Louisvile Couricr-Journal. SO Judging from the smokestacks of ths breweries, Where there’s &moke there's T E——— ] If the ambitious home gardener now | feels the urge to renovate the old lawn, he should do so, no matter how much the experts say that Fall is the best | time to sow grass seed. | There can be no doubt about it, | Autumn sowing is best, but that plain | | fact should not prevent any one from | attempting a little extra care at this | time. Even if it is somewhat late for put- ting in seed, it is not too late, fortu- nately. | Where is there a finer feeling, horti- culturally, than that of swinging home | some evening with a few pounds of | fresh grass seed securely under the | arm? | Even straitened budgets will ! mit this, for seed is very cheap this year, ( * ok ok ok An uncalculated amount of seed is sown every year to help bare spots in_lawns. | such ‘spots will cover over during June | anyway. This does not mean, however, that Jjudiciously sprinkled seed will not help. Decidedly it will, as every home owner knows, There are few pleasures in gardening more durable than this of watching the growth of new grass in the Spring, whether from old roots or new roots. This homely pleasure is intensified | | erly managed, is the one perfect back- ground for house, trees, shrubs, ever- greens—plants of all sorts. it is like the aquariuni, which may exist without plants, but not as an artistic creation—so the home grounds but certainly not as well. ¥ K And if there is to be grass, it might manage. For it must ever be kept in mind that the lawn is the background, the perfect complement of all the rest. This is one of those facts every one knows, but too often tends to forget. No doubt there are fort®nate mortals whose lawns never need patching. Every year they grow luxuriantly, and beside regular cutting, never need fertilizing or care of any sort. Maybe there are such lawns, but we_have never seen one. The lawns we have had anything to do with, during the past 10 years or 50, have needed to be coaxed. * K K Sometimes grass which does well all Summer tends to become brcwn or even gray during the Winter. In the Spring there will develop bare places where one feels that more seed should be sown. ‘There may be tufts of longer-grow- ing grass, here and there, which render the total effect unsightly, whereas tie remainder scarcely needs mowing S0 early. Those interested in such matters have been awaiting the oncoming of the first really warm days, so that they would find it possible to give the lawn the much-needed raking without shiv- ering in the process. It would seem that the warmer days are at hand with the opening of the new month, the usually smiling month of April. too late for effectiveness. * ok ok X Everything taken into consideration, the planting of grass seed during March is preferable. If it has not been put in, April will do very well. | per- It is true that many, perhaps most, | by the realization that the lawn, prop- | can manage to get along without grass, | as well be as good grass as one can While this is just a little late, per- | haps, for lawn work, it is by no means | It simply means that the seed will require the usual four to six weeks for | germinating and growing into grass | capable ®f being cut. This is normal, of course, but it puts off the customary first cutting until some time in May, rather late. ‘Therefore it will be found helpful if | a cursory mowing be given the lawn at | this time to take down the high spots, ;;r which there probably will be a num- er. - Then the entire lawn may be raked, if this has not been done previously (and, hecause of the prevailing raw weather, the chances are that it has | not_been done). The necessity for this preliminary mowing arises due to the fact that after fresh seed is sown in the bare spots the | newly sprouting blades should not he | disturbed until grown tall encugh for | cutting. | * X x X All this is bothersome, true, but a | good plot of grass is worth some worry. And if one does mot care to make | such a task of it, it is possible to do | nothing, simply wait until more rains, | time and chance, under nature’s excel- | lent care, have grown the grass until | mowing cannot be put off any longer. | " One of the delights of grass culture |is that even an ordinary lawn looks | remarkably well after the first reai | mowing. | ure? Here is a yard which looks rather ragged, some tufts of grass sticking up like feathers on the heads of the leg- endary Indian, while over here are bare | spots ‘with earth showing plainly. After the grass is cut, especially if | most of it is left lie, the whole has | smocthed itself out in a wonderful way. Ever the spears of the wild onions, spouting up all over the place, have largely disappeared. | No subsequent cutting will cause a | greater improvement in the appearance of a lawn, and the one who does the cutting may well take an honest satis- faction in his task. * Xk X % _The return of the robin, trusty har- | binger of real Spring, is not without its counterpart in the flower world. We discovered the first dandelion the other afternoon, nestling half-opened in the grags. It was like greeting an old friend, in a sense, despite the fact that its ap- pearance meant that scores of more dandelions would appear, in all proba- bility, within a few weeks. Fortunate is the amateur gardener who is able to classify these and other “weeds” as interesting in themselves, despite the injury which they may do his lawn, and regardless of the work which they cause him. He accepts all Nature, not just part of it. It would seem that some amount of worry is inseparable from ownership, here or elsewhere. There is always something happening, so perhaps it might as well be dandelions as any- thing else. » B One’s thoughts keep returning to the grass, at this time of year, It is, before everything else, the primary gardening. Often grass is taken for granted, on | the f1,he<:ry that it will take care of itself. Usually it does pretty well, in that natural way, but there can be little doubt that a little help, at the right time, is a real aid to it. r helps himself Besides, the gardene: when he helps his grass. He helps himself to a real part in the pageant of the Spring. Subjected to While the President’s proposal to lighten the burden of farm indebtedness by a_ Federal bond issue will doubtless travel a much smoother road than his major farm relief plan, there is evident, nevertheless, a widespread diversity of opinion upon this subject. “As vitally important as have been all “of the reformative programs engi- neered by President Roosevelt since as- suming office, none will touch more sensitively or effectively a vast body of the American people than his project of relieving farms and farmers of the burden of their indebtedness,” says the Charlotte Observer, while the Spokane Spokesman-Review even pre- dicts that “agriculture may receive more substantial relief from President Roosevelt’s supplemental plan to scale down its mortgage indebtedness than from his major plan.” ‘The Youngstown Vindicator is of the opinion that “refinancing farm mort- gages is a necessary step toward Tecov- ery. Unless this is done farmers will have to give up their farms and vast quantities of real estate will be thrown on the market, to sell at prices ruinous to all concerned. The whole country has a stgke in this, for the mortgages are wide?y distributed and held largely by life insurance companies and other na- tional institutions. A farmer who is unable to carry his present mortgage would find decided relief in a plan which would first reduce the amount of his loan, lower the interest, and then allow him twice as much time to pay. It would not require a very great in- crease in the price of farm products to enable the farmer to meet a debt of this kind and set him on the way to prosperity again.” A question is raised by the Lexington Leader as to the necessity for both the farm bill and mortgage relief. “Either the farm bill is not expected to do what it promises,” it declares, “or the Gow- ernment intends to put the farmer on a pinnacle of prosperity and treat him with a favoritism beyond anything dreamed of by the farmer himself. If his income is to be increased 100 per cent and his debts are to be scaled down at the same time, he will soon be ‘on top of the world’ The whole scheme,” adds the Leader, “is an at- tempt to put the burden of one group on the shoulders of another, and with- out their consent.” The Baltimore Sun likewise looks with disfavor upon the project, stating: “For those farmers whose mortgages at present exceed the value of their farms, there is obviously much to be gained from a plan of scal- ing down the indebtedness and having the Government underwrite the pay- ments of interest on the balance. But for the 60 per cent or thereabouts who have no mortgage indebtedness, but Who will inevitably be called upon to help defray the cast of governmental relief of their too heavily indebted neighbors, there is a certain lack of charm in such an undertaking, as there must be for those who are indebted by mortgages in ‘very moderate amounts’.” charges” appeals to the Scranton Times, which is convinced that “the ideal way would be for creditor and debtor to sit down and agree upon a compromise that would be helpful to both sides.” The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin is of like opinion and avers that “the voluntary co-operation of real estate interests, landlords and loaners, util- izing such agencies as are available, is even more important and may prove more effective and beneficial than would be the enactment of new law.” The measure is described as “of doubtful value” by the Buffalo Evening News, at least in so far as it “involves the as- sum[t;tlun of mortgages by the Govern- ment.” Of the opinion that “whatever may be said of the method, the objective is a sound one,” the Cleveland News declares: “It is likely to take drastic action to get the farm-mortgage situ- ation thawed out, and until it is, agri- culture may not emerge from the depths.” The News also points out: “It was action, not cnly in the farm mt.unuonl but in the matier of economy, legislation, veterans’ compensa- tions and other “A voluntary cut in high lnuruv.‘ Method i ofv Mortgage Relief Wide Analysis | wanted. Action is what it is getting.” | The Des Moines Register thinks “there | never was a time, during this generation, at least, when the prospect for win- ning vital and basic victories on behalf of agriculture—victories that will be consequential not only in the depres- sion but long after the depression is over—were half so good as they are now.” That paper cautions, however, | that “sober counsels of restraint” be | listened to whenever “in any locality there arises the suggestion of outright coercion of the courts.” The New York Sun utters the wamn- ing: “A solution could be found more speedily if agriculture could be induced to make up its mipd that there is no way out except the one through which other forms of business must go, namely, |that of patience, thrift, labor and profitable production and the elimina- tion of individual enterprises which have become impaired beyond hope of recovery. No business can go on in- definitely by borrowing new money to pay old debts. Agriculture has no more Tight than has any other industry to do 1933 business on a 1919 basis. If the farmers and their professional friends at Washington cannot be brought to realize this, care at least should be taken to make sure that in refinancing State and Federal aid shall be confined to sound undertakings for {ed‘lzi:lng interest and postponing ma- urities.” Congress Should Cut Its Mileage Before Salaries To the Editor of The Star: eral employes have been forced to bal- ance the budget, I think it would be vastly encouraging to see some signs of patriotism shown by those in the high positions of our country. When are the Congressmen who think it fair and equitable to cut the low- salarfed man the same as the high going to decide it is not fair and equit- able to allow themselves the exorbitant mileage to and .from their homes be- tween sessions of Congress. How many went to their homes between the last session of Congress and the present ses- sion? Yet all of them are allowed 20 cents per mile even if they do not leave the Capitol. Thus a Congressman whose home was three hundred miles away would receive sixty dollars every time Congress meets or adjourns. Think what the ones from California receive when there are two sessions of Con- gress in one fiscal year! Twice as much as many Federal employes receive for one year'’s hard work. I believe the raillway fare is about three cents per mile now. It is such things as this that should be cut down before men are deprived |of the bare necessities of life. Any |one must have a verted sense of Jjustice who can think that a fifteen per cent cut to & man, with a family, receiving $2,000 will not work any greater hardship than the same cut to a man receiving $10,000 for six months’ work and, in addition to his salary, al- lowances too numerous to mention. It is “class legislation” to give the veterans their just dues. Then what is it to place the burden of balancing the budget on two classes of ? Now that the veterans and Federal employes are making this sacrifice, a large sum is to be appropriated to relieve unem- ployment. There is just one thing that will re- lieve hard times and that is more money in circulation. Bank fallures and lower salaries are & great help in this respect! There 18 fust one thing that will re- lieve unemployment permanently and that is to control the population,and Con- gress is too narrow-minded to permit, what it should compel. Ovarpopu'ation is the cause cf all warc. A few popu- | Intlon conferences would do more to promote world pu, than many arms o8, 7, JBAN ALLEN, | | | their ‘planting, — germination, | herbs are used, all of which have hcen | these recipes have most interesting | Who has not experienced this pleas- | in | | glossy leaves and breathe in their spicy | | scent, they seem like such old friends | | economy, with the lopping off of un-|ipe Now that the veterans and the Fed- | wiy, | mystery s solved |and to & certain extent of the commu- THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. GARDENING WITH HERBS; FOR FLAVOR AND FRAGRANCE. By Helen Morgenthau Fox. New York: | The Macmillan Co. . Mrs. Fox, expert gardener and au- |a ther of “How to Grow Lilies in tht;inm the lives of the most intelligent Garden” and “Patio Gardens,” has grown at her country place the herbs for which she could obtoin seeds in this country or abroad and has for three seasons kept accurate records of culture, growth habits, appearance, taste, smell and practical uses. Prcm these records she written her book, which is il- | lustrated with delightful _drawings made from the plants themselves. | About sixty herbs are thus described | and all are suitable for small Amer- | ican gardens. At the end of the ook | are a number of recipes in which these | tried in the author’s kitchen. Some cf names, as Balm Wine, Maydrink, the King's Mead, French Herb Soup, Tansy Pudding, Nasturtium Sauce, Marigold Custard, Rcse Geranium Jelly, Rose Petal Jam, Sesame Cookies, Seed or Saffron Cake, Anise Seed Cookies, Fresh | Curd Cheese with Caraway Seed. Of value to the gardener and offer- ing pleasure to the mere reader, “Gar- dening with Herbs” owes much of its fascination to the fact that its author 50 heartily loves her garden and her herbs. She says: “As I weed and cul- | tivate the basils, savories and thymes | my garden, touch their furry or | it is difficult to realize that only three | years ago these aromatic herbs, except for the parsley, sage and mint, were quite unknown to me.” Three years ago she kgl:cnvered a new joy in life, a very 'n_one. Something of the history of herbs is given, the‘tr trans- Pportation by men in their wanderings, the myths and legends associated with them, their employment from the ear- liest times as medicines, their han- dling in the medieval convents and monasteries, their use for love potions, the superstitions regarding different herbs. Under “Dramatis Personae” the different herbs of Mrs. Fox's garden are introduced, alphabetically, and for each is given its botanical classifica- tion, description, habitat, culture, his- tory and legend, and uses. There is an atmosphere among some of them of a witches’ cauldron, among others of a very old-fashioned, Old World or Colo- nial garden. 1, poppYy, Tue and wormwood suggest the dark- ness of a night without a moon and old women brewing messes over dull fires in lonely huts or gloomy woods. But angelica, balm, cowslip, dill, rose | geranium, lavender, marjoram, pepper- mint, rosemary, savory, sweet flag, thyme and wintergreen make us think of Shapespeare’s garden at Stratford- on-Avon. ARRANGING FLOWERS THRO! OUT THE YEAR. By Katharine Thomas Cary and Nelie Dryden Merrell. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. To make an effective garden, flowers must be arranged in their planting not only so that there will be some- thing in blossom at all seasons, but also so that flowers will not clash with each other in form and color. But in their growing, on stalks, bushes and trees, they are usually left to arrange themselves, except in the case of care- fully trained roses. and rarely make mistakes. When flowers are cut for decorative purposes, they are at the mercy of any artistic or inartistic per- son who chooses to attempt to arrange them. Some amateur church decora- tions and many vases of flowers in private homes bear witness to the in- eptitude of the hands which have placed them. Garden clubs all over the country have done much to teach the art of arrangement as well as the cul- tivation of flowers, but “there are countless persons who have yet to be mads aware of the decorative possi- bilities of the flowers they put into thelr homes if cly they would give the :ubject intelligc™t attention.” Mrs. Cary and Mrs. iicrrell have laid down some principles of flower arrange- ment, necessarily very general and uite capable of giving little assistance; , after all, taste is the chief requisite in ability to arrange anything well. They find freedom, grace, naturalness and beauty the essentials in flower ar- rangement, as well as the expression of individuality. Rooms have personality, too, which must be considered when flowers are chosen for them. The con- tainers must, of course, harmonize with the flowers. Sturdy zinnias look well in a copper bowl, but would be unhappy in a French vase. i 3 lem must idered material, lor combinations, perfection of bloom. It is advised that a line arrangemen be not attempted when minds are “filled with domestic problems” or the children down with whooping- It seems inconcelvable that as . }i’"&m'“ uuk“ rs coul cantankerous at the crucial moment. are cough.” “a gest the form they g:nun( them a will of their own.” the ‘%flm d Ml"‘l." .lf.ryll. - ers an errell photo- s other ‘books gardening, both e T on 3 old and new, for the gardener of action and the gardener of reflection only are the following: “Down the Garden Path,” by Beverley Nichols, tells of the author’s first adventure with a seed catalogue. “The Gardener’s Bed-Book,” by Richardson Wright, is a collection o rlt}-ly. clever, gtzgm and philosoph- ical essays an rt paragraphs—just the thing for bedtime rndmg. “!n“ Ignoramus Garden Book,” by Mary W. Rush, is for the person who does not know too much about gardens and rec- ognizes his ignorance. “Adventures in a Suburban Garden,” by Louise B. Wilder, tells of what was done in a one-acre garden, so that something beautiful was gwm' every month of the year. ‘The Garden Month by Month,” by Mabel C. Sedgwick, is very practical and gives in tabular form information about all the flowers and hardy plants. “Gar- den Maintenance,” by H. Stuart Ortloft and Henry B. Raymore, is also practi- cal and contalns much wisdom about acid and sweet solls, planting and fer- tilizing. “The Outdoor Living Room,” by Leonidas W. Ramsay and Charles H. Lawrence, tells how to plan and plant a backyard garden so that it will provide outdoor living with privacy dur- ing t\e Summer. Several books on the popular rock garden are “Rock Garden | Primer,” by Archie Thornton: “Natura] oy A ,” by Fred * k ¥ % Maristan Chapman, in h last, novel, “Glen Hazard,” has run gto l‘h‘z myst - S oy el o e o re Barsha Lowe, feminine autocrat of the Lowe family nity, while th> euthorized officer of | reau any question of fact and get t {lumbia and Hawaii. | children in them range from 2 years ;was no specified number of days of it |1y Stop_sa minute and think about this fact. You ean ask our Information Bu- answer back in a personal letter. It is | great educational idea introduced people in the world—American news- paper readers. It isw part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge, except 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not | use post cards, Get the habit of ask- ing questions. Address your letter to ‘The Evening Star Information Bureau, Predel_l;lcc.!. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. When did Claude Graham-White make airplane flights in this coumry?i‘ —A. 8. A. The English aviator toured Amer- ica in 1910. Q. How many cities have nursery schools>—D. R. A. They have been established in 121 | cities of 35 States, the District of Co- | The ages of the | 8 months, to 4 years 2 months. | Q. How long has Lent been observed? | —G. L. A. Such an observance began within | 150 years after Christ's time, but there | fasting. It was extended to about 40 days by the fourth century and in the eighth or ninth century it was fixed to commernice with Ash Wednesday and | end with Easter Sunday. Forty days are thus observed, since fasting is not observed on the intervening Sundays. Q. Of what material is cigarette paper made?—T. T. W. A. Although it is called rice paper, it is not made from rice. It is made from flax and hemp trimmings, only new material being used. The flax and hemp is cut into small particles, thor- oughly mixed and ground almost to a dust. Then it is put through a wash- ing process, crushed into a pulp and rolled out into paper. Q. What is the purpose of the Com- mittee for the Nation?—V. B. _A. The full name of this organiza- tion is Committee for the Nation to Rebuild Prices and Purchasing Power. Its purpose is to review the existing situation and suggest remedial meas- ures. It is not connected with the United States Government. Q. When and where was Mary Pick- ford born?—C. K. A. She was born in Toronto, Canada, Apri! 8, 1893. Q. In what way is the Chinese civili- zation superior to the Japanese?—B. M. A. Chinese civilization and culture is several thousands of years older than that of Japan and, in addition, the cm‘nrm :.‘.-vu n:iu'n :‘hemulm to have an ive and creative power superior to that of the Japanese, whose facility in methods and adaptation, in turn, is superior to that of the Chinese. hQ. zhatm is the name of the leading character Synge's “Playl of the Western World”?—T. T. s A. The Irish hero is Christie Mahon. Q. Did Gen. Pershing coin the g;m}.;e,n"hnyem, we are here”?— A. In “My Experiences in the World ‘War” Gen. Pershing says: “Many have attributed this striking utterance to me and I have often wished that it could have been mine. But I have no recol- lection of saying anything so splendid. I am sure that these words were spoken by Col. Stanton and to him must go the credit for the coining of so happy and felicitous a phrase.” Q. How did 1d Amundsen meet his death?—J. M. L. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Ua in its to reach g North pn;k. He kl.tm Bergen by June 17, 1928, and was never again heard from. QN What does “picaresque” mean?— A. The term is lied to & class of literature which deals sympathetic- ally with the adventures clever and amusing rogues. Q. Why is Rome called the Eternal City?—L. R. H. A. The t;rm “Eternsl City” has been applied to Rome from a very ancient period. The city is so called by Ovid, | virgil, and in many official documents of the empire, Legend stats that Rome was raised by or under the immediate supe vision of the immortal gods. This is git -1 as one of the reasons for the use of (e sobriquet. Q. How are croutons made?—H. T. H. A. Bread is cut in small cubes and toasted. Place the cubes in a large pan and brown them in a hot baking oven. Q. Where are the pes grown, from which the finest ‘Hr.lnch cham- pagne is made?—W. N. A. The department of the Marne is in the heart of the champagne country. The vineyards closest to the river pro- duce the finest wine grapes. Q. What was Sing Sing Prison called | before it was given this name?—C. J. M. A. It was first known as Mount Pleasant Prison, and was bought in 1825 to take the place of the old prison in New York City. About the middle of the last century the name was chat from Mount Pleasant to Sing Sing Prison. ‘The old institution was built on low land close to the river. The new institution has been built on the hill above the old prison. Q. What pictures will be on the Cen- tury of Progress postage stamps?—T. B, A. The one-cent stamp will be green, | and bear a replica of Fort Dearborn, on the site of which Chicago is situ- ated. The three-cent stamp will be purple and will depict the Exposition. Q. In poker with all deuces wild does five o‘!“ kind beat a straight flush?— D. B. F. A. Five of & kind is the highest hand, Q. When were diamonds first used as jewels>—C. B. A. No date has been set. The stone which is now known as the diamond was probably unknown to the anclents, It may have been known at about beginning of the Christian era, and in the British Museum are small, uncut, octahedral diamonds set in Roman rings which date back to the fourth century, Q. Is the president of an organization privileged to attend committee meete ings?—K. R! A. A president is an ex-officio mem- ber of all committees. He is | to attend, but does not vote nm takes an active pert in debate. Q. In what year did the Victoria sink belng rammed by the Camper- down?—M. B. A. The Victoria was sunk by collision with the cam}aerdmm while maneuver- ing off Tripoli on th Syria June 22, 1893. The accident occurred as a result of an error in judgment, the vessels being 6 instead of 8 cables . The commander of the Cam wn took all the blame. Twenty-two officers and 336 men were lost. Q. If an automobile is going swiftly enough around a corner to have two of the wheels leave the ground, are they the inside or the outside wheels>—A. K. u of Standards says that A. He went in search of the airplane Excerpts From Newsp months, What disposition is made of this plunder, no-one is able to find out. Cerwn.lly t-{ll;l invidious na:;:r have no use for equipment in own hovels and there is barren- ness of opportunity to dispose of it elsewhere because of the with which the police are wa pawn- brokers' ts second- hand they less and outrageous per- * X % % s formances. in the bay grave disasters were narrow- ly averted. ‘The Santa Barbara, which arrived two days ago from New York, was at the customs dock, but as soon as storm signal was displa; shortly fore the tempest, from the staff of 's office, cast off and sayed to put out to deep water. unfortunately, directly in her there rode at anchor three submarines, the Fresia, Guacolda and the Araucano, besides the transport Leucoton. To make matters worse, the violence of the wind caused all these vessels to drag rted action part of all boats and terse orders in- stantly obeyed by crews proved them all to be at the very pinnacle of action. Perfect maneuvering, despite the lashing fury of wind and waves, enabled all the ves- ppe: the submarines instantly submerged to a depth below the keel of the Santa Barbara. The other and the transport weighed anchor and on signal from the or, with bare masts and tches. The fact that no boat, large or small, was lost, nor a sin- gle life, is indicative of the seamanship of our officers and mariners. | ma e the law, Sheriff Joe Marks, muddles apd bungles things, in true So m ccording to all local opinion, quit of his fate and the two A. The Burea the inside wheels are the ones which will leave the ground. High Lights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands “Indeed?” returned the lady. “When, m, lll“tvhll not lhek best plan to fol- ? '€ you ever known, Pituto, an: that ;:lflered because they imitated mz “Yes, senora; Wkl ora; the falsifiers of bank el AL Protests Cuts in District Budget To the Editor of The Star: I have just read with much pleasure your timely editorial, “The Budget Recommendation.” I quite agree with you that while it is our duty to go along with the administration for the public good, it isn't fair to 1 the budget down to nothing while Temain the same. I fail to see the Wisdom of making paupers out of the District employes to balance the or hdf employment through the re- forestalion projeet. As it is necessary 0 keep factory life apart from the city in order that it may be a model resi. dential city for the Government offi- cials and employes, it is unthinkable ' that it can prosper when allowed such pittances to carry on ————e————— To Make Time Pass Quickly. From the Dayton Daily News, In scme States the sale of be delaved 90 days, but this is a men think "fi': all 3 Ao o o ey ey e