Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1933, Page 4

A4 THE-EVENING STAR —__With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.......June 24, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office 11th, and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. uropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London. Encland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star.. . .45¢ per month e Fvening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) o 80c per month The Evening and Sunda: (when 5 Sundays) The Sunday Star........ ....5¢ per copy Collection made at the end of each month. -ders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1yr,$10.00; 1mo. 85 Daily only . 15r. $6.00: 1mo.. 50 Star ..85¢ per month | the Catholic Centrists they would have been able to impose a parliamentary check on Hitler in any regularly con- ducted Reichstag, but now they have ! gone the way of the outlawed Com- munists and are blotted from the pic- ture. Aetually they have been out of it all along, their press confiscated. | their leaders exiled and their activities i proscribed, The Hugenberg Nationalists | have also just had warning that, though affiliated with the Nazis, their political independence is at an end. They must swallow Hitlerlsm, hook, line and | sinker, or risk obliteration. The Ba- | varian branch of the Catholic Center | party faces a similar fate. The Nazis plainly are determined to be “ueber alles” in Germany and to | subordinate ruthlessly every form of organized life and thought. including religion, to the Brown Shirt dogma. | At the moment there seems little pros- THE EVENING STAR, works to check the flood. This sum multiplied by ten would be inade- quate to correct the conditions that cause this peril to many millions of people. Meanwhile, the inhabitants in the flooded territory are gathering in great numbers in ancient temples throughout the threatened area, praying and burn ing incense ard in some places Buddhas | the troubie. are being hauled through the streets by | Patiently and persistently it crawled processions in order that the inhabitants | Nere and there over an apparently - *! limitless area of clear glass, in its & may intercede by direct supplication |tempt to get into the great outdoors. for safety from the floods. The window was about 4 feet square, A comprehensive conservation work | ‘"m ‘B :;0"3"&“:‘;921}23‘55 n:x‘;rl?!;“.hnvc in China for protection against inun- |crossed this at any place, the office | dation would, even with the low cost of | window being swung free on all sides ‘There was a dark border. and the in- sect was afraid to cross it. That was WASHINGTON, D. C., | 1abor in that land, run into billions of | bY means of a device in the center. Yet the creature hesitated every time SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. [thoughtless sentence from a companion, but it mars everything. Often such small hurts are unrecog- | nized at the time. Like the scratch | which is not felt, but which one notices | later, such a hurt gnaws and gnaws at 'mind and heart. A dull sort of de- pression settles over one, leaving one wondering what is the matter. * x o % At last the trouble is realized. “Oh, that is nothing,” does not help at all. In itself it may be nothing: but, under the circumstances, with the JUNE 24, 1933. THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. TRAVELLER'S LIBRARY. Compiled nd with Notes by W. Somerset Maugham. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. An ocean voyage or a lorg train jour- ney loses half its possibilities for plea:- ure if the traveller lacks a sufficient | number of books or has had the bad| luck to take the wrong ones. Somerset Maugham is both a persistent traveller and a voracious reader and knows the difficulties of making the right selec- tion and of finding the requisite space in one’s baggage. So he had the idea of choosing the novels, stories, essays and BY FREDER When avail yourself of the service of this de- partment. It costs vou nothing—yvou have only to send 3 cents for postage in reply. Do not use post cards. answered. Address your letter of in- Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Washington, D. C. in taxes to foreign governments?—W. D. A. The latest figures show that the troublesome questions arise, on the personal letter you will Teceive Any question on any subject of fact will be quiry to The Evening Star Information Director, Q. Do Americans pay much money ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IC J. HASKIN. of the house to this remark made him a showman for the rest of his life. Q. What is the medical name for dandruff>—W. O A. The medical term is “sevorrhea.” Q. Wil President Roosevelt's term of office be less than four years?—C. H. A. The period of President Roosevelt's |term will be 42 days short of four years, due to the change in the date of inauguration from March 4 to Jan- uary 20. Q. Who expense. It would require the most it came to the border; the frame was competent direction and would probably | dark, and the bug could not see | cover a period of ten or more years of | through it: it stuck to the glass rather | = | than make the unknown venture. intensive continuous, efficient effort. | s | These present menaces to unnumbered | | millions of Chinese are the result of the other, lured by the light, and no Patiently it crawled from one side to | Bunday only 1yr. $4.00: 1mo..40¢ | ooy that their tyrannical sway can or All Other States and Canada. Datly” and Sunday...13r.. 51 aily only . 1yr. 38 Bunday only 1yr. $500; 1mo. S50c ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news atches credited o it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved = = Consistency and Economy. It would be of some comfort, not only for otherwise disinterestcd members of | this community whose neighbors and friends are employed in @overnment work, but for those worke:s themselves who are being dropped from the rolis, ! if they could feel that all this suffering | and real tragedy are a part of the! essential sacrifices that must be made if = stricken Nation is to pull itself to- | gether again. If one could sincerely | feel that this is true, there would still be suffering, but without bitterness. The bitterness creeps in because of the inconsistencies that become so plain on every hand. Hundreds of men and | women are being discharged with a| ruthlessness heretofore associated only | with the crass and unfeeling em- | ployer for whom the Government would | adopt some sort of code of ethics and | good behavior to make him see the ' light. At the same time, hundreds of | new jobs are being set up; the money | saved by discharging personnel, cutting | salaries by a euphonious fifteen per cent n relation to reduced costs of living while imposing additional lay-offs with- out pay, is a mere fraction of the hun- dreds of millions that are belng spent in other directions. The merit system is undergoing the | most vicious attack on the grounds of pure partisanship since the days that a | Peopfte, wearied and disgusted with the demoralizing influences of the spoils system, set up the Civil Service Com- | mission in the hope that once and for | all Government service would be placed above politics. While there are opti- mistic and assuring statements that new jobs in Washington will be given to those cast out elsewhere in the name | of economy, everybody knows that many of these new jobs are regarded as the spoils of victory and were removed from the Civil Service requirements for that reason alone, and the rush for them is on. Spending millions to “stabilize” agri- culture with one hand, the Government brushes aside with the other an agri- cultural marketing service in order to save a couple of millions, thus wiping out at one stroke a system established in the past to protect the farmers 8gainst the racketeers of the wholesale markets. Spending millions to estab- lish machinery for the control of in- dustry and the adoption throughout in- | | | understandings, the Government gocs ! through the Bureau of Standards with ' & fine-tooth comb and cleans out the | agencies set up there for the establish- | ment of standards in industrial products. | The “forgotten man” in Washington today is the average, hard-working government employe who long since left politics to the politicians, who has been interested ch.efly in his job, secured on the basis of merit through competitive examination; who has chosen government work for a carcer and who stuck to his lean job while others were fattening on the “outside” in the days when work was plenty and pay was high. A brave President has set his face toward a goal in reducing government | costs, and achieving that goal is not | & pleasant job that can be accom- plished without hurting an:body. He has the support of the country and must continue to have the support of y loyal American to be successful. the ruthless reorganization and my now going forward in Wash- must the end have been demonstrated to be for the benefit of and not confused, as it is d. wih the creation opportunitics for the spollsmen. The fewer the of Congressmen who organize raiding parties and call age dispen-e for action, suppo:t of the coun- been led to believe that in Washin war in delegations the 1 is the tory diplo- ross the instead of It might be ec mats who go back and forth books to provid B Hitler's Autocracy. as suppressed ' Jands and replace the banks, thus lo\u‘r-‘ . the sec- decrecd stock that the The only cex's decree against 1 reve- m the and Hitlerism preme, and Tt the auto: s s existen parliamer party HL hstag the consistent op- fescion of the Hohen- the important anization in Ger- It was the principal a revolution, which the and of the ensuing Wiemar position a zollerns single many 1918 monarcl Cons Wazi eyes Uatil last Spring became most po overthrew tion -ism swzmped the count. dis- | the Socizl Democrats held 120-0dd seats in the Reichstag, and even | will be checked. A German war lord ¥ | once safd that a conquering army should eyes to weep with. is about all that is to be left to the old German; { Hitlerism. Yesterday a leading spokesman of the | Nazi oligarchy boasted to foreign cor: | respondents at Berlin that Hitler “is | now so firmly entrenched that only a world ccalition against us can disturb the stability of his regime.” S Footnote to Tragedy. It was announced yesterday that the Sourland Mountain property of ol. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh is to become a center for children’s welfare work. The five-hundred-acre estate amd the beautiful house which the fiver and his | bride developed as & haven of rest and ‘ peace, and from which they have been expelled by one of the most tragic events in modern history, is to be dedi- | cated to the promotion of the health | and education of other parents’ sons and daughters. Dr. Abraham Flexner | and Dr. Owen R. Lovejoy, long cele- | brated for their constructive labors for | the youth of the land, are named as trustees for the place, and their identi- fication with 1t indicates that the pur- poses of the sponsors are entirely idealistic. It is characteristic of the liberal attitude of all concerned that the statement given to the press spec- ifies that the objects of the newly or- ganized corporation are to be inclusively | philanthropic, “without discrimination ' in regard to race or creed.” The story will touch the hearts of thousands of readers. It will revive | memories of the cruel events of the Spring of 1932. It is an echo of an atrocious crime. Clouds of mystery still surround the facts, and it may be | that they never will be dispelled. But | all the world knows that it was from his nursery in the house which now is to shelter other children that the Lind- | bergh baby was stolen to be murdered | by persons as yet unapprehended by the machinery of justicp. indignation was aroused by the mali- clous nature of the deed and universal sympathy was extended to the bereaved father snd mother. Civilization had | been indicted, and the Nation mourned. | But what shall be said of the deci- sion which Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh now have reached? It is difficult to put into words the charity, the mercy and the love which their present action in- dicates. Robbed of their own child. they dedicate to his contemporaries the hearth beside which he was to be reared The lawns over which his baby feet once ran they give to be the play- The flowers Universal | they pledge to blossom for other boys and girls. The room in which he was not safe they consecrate to new tenants. The hermitage which fate made hideous for them they rescue from the shades of death and sorrow. Their Gethsemane by grace of their benevolence becomes a heaven. If there is on record a more impressive demonstration of practical Christian loving kindness, it has nct| had adequate publicity. | The Lindbergh baby's home will be his monument. So a foot note of for-| giveness is written to a tragic chronicle. | e - | Students at the University of Mary-! land are warned that they must, in a| case of patriotic necessity, be able to hold their own in a regular fight as well as in & foot ball game. Contentions in Europe arising among groups distinguished by various colored shirts might seem to afford some slight | Justification for the nudist fad. | e Government dismissals will increase | the supply of American statesmen if | the old definition of a statesman as l; politician out of a job is correct. i - | China’s Perennial Flood Menace. | The Chinese rivers are again on a| rampage and once more the possibility | of devastating floods in the two great drainage systems of that land, the| Hwangho and the Yangtze, is causing | anxicty. The dykes that restrain the | mighty streams within channels as they | approach the sea are crumbling in places. Their banks are merely crude ridges of earth, piled up without revet- ment or other protection against the scouring tide, and when, as now, danger menaces the to remove soil from the adjacent low- or ing the level of the plain, to invite even indation hereafter. There is no comprehensive, efficient en- system and there can long as the government of China is inefficient One the greatest risks present situation is that the rict the G orse i fact gineer: none as in this Hwangho, er into of s 2 vast volume of wa of Pechihli its present course and from a short dis- tance above Kaifeng revert to its old bed, which carried it to the Yellow Sea below the Shangtung peninsula. The vagaries of this river have been a serious preblem to Eastern China during the centuries. It has shifted its course to the sea seversl times. When it wes deflccted to the northeast the area back rofthe of and below Shangtung, fertilized by, its repeated floods, became highly productive. Now the great triangle be- threatened with an with incalculable loss lives. The legislative council at Nanking inundation, of property and of In the March elections which landslided | is meeting the emergency in a char- Hitler into power they polled seven | acteristic manner. It has appointed a million votes, or more than one-seventh | conservancy commission of eleven mem- flpu entire electorate, Allied with bers and has appropriated $150,000 for Dickens of a way to punish him. by #he irresistible forces of | only means of defense is| be | may deflect from | the past. Legalized 3.2 beer is regarded by the | Attorney General as reducing the ex- pense of anti-bootleg law enforcement | of frivolous finance a 50 per cent over- | head saving by means of & 3.2 invest- 1 ment looks like one of those hopeful though matical problems in government. oo So long as human subsistence is a first consideration of civilization, busi- ness must go on in some way or an- other. It may be necessary, however, to provide against too many toll gates and traffic regulations. ———- A new and highly important question scems to have been raised; that of whether gold in any capacity is en- tirely responsible for the happiness of mankind. - Foreign travel finds a further dis- | couragement in the necessity of listen- ing to the polite salesman explain at length what a price tag means in American money. ——r—e—— Prof. Moley is a man of authoritative knowledge who may be expected to find little difficulty in at least calling ‘he‘ class to order. o Govermment ownership will not in- crease its favor among the populace by the frank avowals that now is the time to decrease pay rolls. ———— Having cornered most of the world's gold, France is confronted with the | problem of how to unload on an erratic market. S The Woodin resignation rumor goes on a vacation, with the Hull rumor | | acting as understudy. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON A Proud Possessor. I know a queer monopolist. get a chance To tell your hard luck story when he's busy with his own. He never notices the flowers. gives a glance At all the bits of beauty which into each path are thrown. He does not boast of hoarded gold nor | of his bonds nor stocks. He even says his interest In life is rather small. He never talks of treasure guarded safe by bolts and locks. But when it comes to trouble—why he thinks he has them all! We're all collectors in a plain or sci- entific way; Some gather mighty dollars; are hunting butterflies; Some seek for wisdom; others are alert for stories gay. And some are always busy just col- lecting tears and sighs He's gloomy, my tale of woe In search of human sympathy on him T chance to call He doesn’t brag of riches nor of power to make a show. But when it comes to troubles— he thinks he has them all. some why In Agreement. “Do you think your agree with your views?" “Yes.” replied Senator Sorghum. “I made it a point to have my views in agreement with theirs before I said a word.” constituents A Songster of the Night. “What makes you say I am fonder of dogs than of human beings?” “Because,” replied the nervous per- son, “if you cared anything about hu- man beings you wouldn't keep a dog.” Quick, Merciful Finish. And there are officeseekers, too, Whose words were often quoted; ‘wi‘.l)fil‘ names in brave array we'd view When campaign funds were noted. | Their plans for honor or for gain No longer we remember | Fate made it plain their hopes were vain | Away back in November A Pretender. Bliggins is a great fisherman. He reads everything he can get hold of on the subject of fishing.” “Yes. A man who sits around and reacs as much as he does can't fish | much.” The Farmer's Reflection. This is the greatest source of care Among our tribulations many— When is cheap we've lots to wheat spare. And when it’s d we haven't any | “Dah is two ways o' w | said Uncle Eben. “One is ter spend it {so fast it coesn’ hab time ter do no { good: an’ de yuthuh is ter hol' onter it so tight it nebber gits a chance.” e Varicties of Water. the Juckson Sun ne kinds of water are now known From Ni science writer. Many more, however, | e -t Proper Penalty. Prom the Miami Daily News. A Detroit man who W young boys to steal has s teaching | about one-half. Contemplated in terms | complicated modern mathe- | centuries of neglect and incompetence |doubt by the sense of fresh air out- | - & ide. in government, and the great tragedy | is that there is no present prospect of | feet, never venturing over the frame, { leave a vanquished country nothing but| redemption from these fatal errors of | It looks as if that| | It must have traveled hundreds of when at any time it could have flown away safely if it had known how human windows are constructed. | How long the pale gray-green insect | trudged there is no record, but it was still trying to find the outer air when the man closed his desk for the night. It was the Dark Border. Men and insects know it in many | forms; it may be that always it is a way out to life and light, if only we had enough faith to see it so. * % * * In everyday life one will find him- | self often”in the position of the futile creature on the window pane. Patlence and persistence are not al- ways virtues; sometimes they are doing what the bug did, merely walking one | way, then turning about and walking | another. A little intelligence, a little use of brain power, and one might more easily and quickly come to a desired haven | Even more important, one might not |be disheartened as he goes along, as Iso many countless thousands are now, | partly because they do not realize that they are crossing & Dark Border at the time. X x4 % Everyday life has a number of these window frames to cross. It is well if a man will remind himself, when some- | thing goes wrong, that this may be a Dark Border, through which he can see nothing at the present time, but | on_ the other side of which he may be | able to see a great deal. | Ennui and boredom. so common, are borders of varying thickness and in- | tensity. At times they tend to seem |endless, and so human beings shy | away from them, preferring to stick to | | the seemingly limitless areas of freedom | and light. | Often the borders are much more | interesting, if one finally sees them in | | that light. Especially do they become | so, if they are crossed at last, and one does come into the perfect air of a | better day. ok | Thus the border experiences are to| persons concerned as they are, it is a | great deal. It is a border, or frame, across which one must travel to come to a better poems which he found it hardest to say good-by to when he started on a journey | 'and_publishing as many of them as possible in one fat volume. Here they designed the Royal Palace in Berlin?—M. N. A. Andreas Schulter. Q. When did Constantinople cease to largest amount paid in recent years to | forcign_governments was $2.845.291 in | } 1929. In 1930 this had declined to $2,- 270,023. | state of mind. As small as it is, it re- veals the possibility of a better state of mind, and also of its desirability. There has been a great deal said are, with a delightful general introduc- | tion and long notes on the authors and | | the reasons why they were selected. In| be the capital of Turkey?>—L. E. S. A. Constantinopie, or Istanbul. as it is called in Turkish, ceased to be the capital of Turkey when that country Q Why does a President use more | than one pen in signing treaties and about thought, and thinking, and the power of words. as things, but much still must be said by every human being to his best audience, himself, if he is t0 understand the necessity for a better | state of mind. e Those philosophers, through the ages who have insisted that negation is be ter than affirmation seem to have | something to say to us at these times. The better state of mind craved is mostly an absence of hurt of one sort or another. The wounded pride needs to be soothed, perhaps. Whatever it may be, it is a mind not at ease, and | mere easing of it is removing the hurt. | A lack of something, therefore, and | this resolves itself down to a movement | of the individual across this dark bor- | der of his into the light. Many think | that moving back to the clear pane of | glass is better than plowing on. Others | use their persistence to good purpose, and finally cross the border itself. Whichever method one uses, the chief | thing is to understand the desirability of a better state of mind, and its pos- sibility. Until these are firmly got in | mind the mind can do nothing, except by accident. Accidental betterment is better than none at all. but is not so hkell_v to occur as one planned deliber- ately. There is a big field here, in the per- sonal life, for the use of the intelll- gence. After all, the mind need not be confined to one's business, or to read- ing. or to any other department of living, but may browse at will over | everything. Thinking one’s self out of a difficulty seems strange to those who have not practiced it much, or who somehow have got the idea that the task is futile. Such persons tend to use their brains only in a few directions. A candid ex- amination of one’s habits, in this re- spect, may show a great many illumi- | nating things. * ok ok ok A man who will use his brains on re- pairing his motor car often never thinks of attempting to use them in fixing a broken disposition or a hurt spirit. The thing is not easy, of course. Mr. Maugham humorously remarks.| for cards.” They are the ones, it is| | implied. who are almost driven to read! a book when the time must be wasted | in some way. The little essay of = couple of pages on card-playing versus | “horror to social intercourse,” is as good | as any of those selected for reprinting. The complete novels included in the volume are “The Old Wives' Tale,” by Arnold Bennett; “Nocturne,” by Prank Swinnerton; “The Happy Hypocrite,”| by Max Beerbohm; “Lady Into Fox,” oy | David Garnett; “Trent’s Last Case,” by E. C. Bentley, and the novelette “Youth,” by Joseph Conrad. There also selections from about 50 other| books—short stories by Osbert Sitwell, | Norah Hoult, Katherine Mansfield, | Harold Nicolson, Saki (H. H. Munro), | E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells; essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, Max Beerbohm, | Aldous Huxley, John Galsworthy, Vir-| | ginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, Julian | | Huxley and J. B. S. Haldane; poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Hilaire Belloc, John | Masefield, Robert Bridges. Alice Mey- | nell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Francis ‘Thompson, Rupert Brooks, Walter de la Mare. The compass of the volume is; packed, but one could wish that Mr.| Maugham had found room for a few| more of his own notes. They are so| discriminating. For example, he finds irony in Arnold Bennett's writing his last novel about a huge hotel. “But that Arnold should have spent the last of his energy and determination in the description of a hotel seems to me to| have a symbolic significance. For I| feel that he was never quite at home in | the world. It was to him perhaps a| sumptuous hotel. with marble bath| rooms and a marvellous cuisine, in| which he was a transient guest.” THE NEW ART OF WRITING AND SPEAKING THE ENGLISH LAN-| GUAGE. Six volumes. By Sherwin Cody. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. i ‘This set of little books would do much for the person who desires mastery | of our language, but has passed the! | | ! | | | | | | the first sentence of his introduction, | other important documents>—A. S A. Such pens are prized as souvenirs “There are people who have no head and a President often uses several so that he may present them to people especially interested in the document. Q. Does a fish have a tongue?—H. O. A. The tongue is present in fishes, | conversation (what is left of it in these | but is a hard and immovabie swelling | s) and other games invented to add | in the flcor of the mouth and is prac- | tically devoid of muscles. In a few species, teeth are developed on the tongue. Q. Why is bottled wine stored with the bottles on their sides?—J. McC. A It is necessary in order to keep the corks moist. This prevents their drying out, which will permit the pass- age of air and thus cause the wine to spoil or become sour. Q. When and where will the national archery tournament be held this year? Also the tournament of the Eastern Archery Association?—H. A. D. A. National Archery Association an- nual championship tournament at St. Louis, Mo., August 7. 8, 9, 10 and 11 Eastern Archery Association annual tournament at Deerfleld, Mass., June 29, 30, July 1. Q. What age do insurance companies use to figure averages in costs and policies?>—L. V. G. A. Thirty-five is the age at which most insurance companies figure costs nd averages for policies. Q Was_the Liberty Bell rung on July 4, 1776, upon the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence?—F. P. A. The Declaration of Independence | was taken up on July 3 and, as amend- P was passed on the evening of July Liberty Bell was rung upcn the occa- sion of the proclamation of the Declara- tion of Independence. Q. How old was Edwin Markham when he wrote “The Man With the Hoe"?—F. 8. A. This poem was written in 1886 when the poet was 34 years old. Q. Ts the oldest building in St. Augus- It was not until July 8 that the be welcomed, particularly if they lead | Often the engine of thought seems a | a man or woman into understanding |Poor one when attempting to run a the value of them. | human being into the haven of a bet- days of schooling or—a bare possibility— " Tiéi; now occupled? “F.B. has found that in school he has not | strect, is the headquarters of the St. learned all that he needs in order to|ugudtine Historical Society and Tn: Whenever any situation in the daily ter state of mind. It seems to func- Yet it may speak and write correctly. The author | stitute of Sciences. |life leaves a bad taste in the mouth, | tion poorly, or not at all. regard it, if possible, as a dark border. be questioned whether any such effort Feel sure that if one is not able to | toward self-help is ever wasted. One see the light vet, it will show in time. is dealing here, not with nuts and This is & faith of the everyday. In | bolts, but with intangible values of times of perfect light we incline to heart and mind, and it is not easy to| forget it or undervalue it, but later put one's finger on the exact spot, and | | may be privileged to see it again as we | say, “Here it is. this is where I have | should have seen it all the time. | been helped.” One may feel, however, | Life is not chary in serving up these that the help is plain, neverthless, and | experiences to most of us. Everything | that the Dark Border of a given situ- | will seem plain sailing, upon a day, ation may have been crossed the more | is director of the Sherwin Cody School Rt i of English. He has known how to con-| Q. When did Buffalo Bill make his | dense essentials and to eliminate the | first appearance on the stage?>—C. D. S. merely academic in this practical boxed | A. His debut took place in Chicago on library, each volume of which can easily | December 16, 1872, as the star of Ned | be slipped into a coat pocket or a hand- | Buntline’s “Scouts of the Plains.” Not | bag. The subjects of the volumes are|a line of the original play was spoken, grammar, word study and punctuation, |the cast ad-libbing all evening. The composition, story writing and jour- | riotous affair was climaxed by Buffalo | nalism, how to do business by letter and | Bill's spying his wife in the audience | dictionary of errors. The last volume and shouting ello, mama. Oh, but | is especially interesting for dipping into i became a republic in 1922. Since that time Ankara, formerly spelled Angora, | has been the capital of the Turkish Re- | public. Q. Did Barnum & Bailey, the circus owners, leave large fortunes?—E. L. H. A. Phineas Barnum is said to have left one of the largest theatrical for- tu:{s. 1,000,000 pounds, while Jame A. Bailey left 400,000 pounds. Q. Was scalping a practice among | the Indians before the white people ar- rived’—H. G. S A. The practice of scalping was not common to all the American tribes as is so often supposed. It was confined originally in North America to the territory in the lower St. Lawrence region held by the Iroquoian and Musk- hogeen tribes and their immediate neighbors. It was absent from New England and much of the Atlantic Coast region and was unknown until comparatively recent times throughout the whole interior and the Plains region. It was not found on the Pacific Coast, in the Canadian Northwest, the Arctic region, or anywhere south of the United States with the exception of an area in the jungle in South America. Through- out most of America the earlier trophy was the head itself. Q. How many waltzes did Strauss. the composer of “The Blue Danube Waltz,” write?—A. P. S. A. He wrote 400 waltzes, countless light operas, and conducted orchestras in all the capitals of Europe, as well as in Vienna. Q Who discovered palladium?—J. R. A. This metallic element was discove ered in 1803 by Wollastono. Q. What is the purpose of the New | York Community Trust?>—A. W. K. A. The trust has grown in response | to the need of a mechanism to safe= | guard philanthropic funds from obso= lescence. Its Distribution Committee— | containing members appointed by the | senior judge of the Circuit Court of iAppeaL!. the presidents of the Bar As+ | sociation, Chamber of Commerce, Med= ical Academy and other similarly | placed officials—has authority to amend the purposes to which a fund is dedi- cated if the original designation should become antiquated or impractical, though the committee is, of course, cau= tious in the exercise of its broad powe ers. The irust's consistent growth, evie denced by its enlarging appropriations, even through depression years, testifies to the need of such an agency. Since its organization in 1923, over $1,000,000 has been disbursed by the New York Community Trust. Q. What is the palindrome attributed to Napoleon?—C. K. | | | You never | He never but superior, when with | money,” | when plop! here comes the rain. It may be no more than a foolish and Announcement by the Government | that it will spend $228,000,000 in build- | ing 32 warships. using funds allotted to the work of re-employment, arouses some controversy because of its rela- tion to national defense. Some Ameri- cans welcome the proposal because the country has failed to keep up to its treaty strength; others view it as likely | to be regarded as a challenge by other nations. ‘There is_ however, general agreement that industry will ~derive much benefit through these expendi- tures, which will be largely for labor. “It marks an end of the long vacil- lation on this national policy,” says the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, ob- serving . that “the Navy has been al- lowed to fall far below the strength it | should have for national security.” The Post, argues further: “It is imperative that we should maintain an adequate Navy and our right to do so is fully conceded by other nations which have kept their sea strength up to treaty | limits. In the program of public works which the administration is laying down it is eminently proper that this naval construction should be included Only the most fanatical pacifist could see in it any threat of a warlike pur- pose.” P Secretary Swanson is quoted by the San Antonio Express as stating that “85 per cent of the money used in naval construction is paid for labor, | and that “the warship building will be | distributed among as many yards as | possible and will be pushed rapidly. The Express also explains the situation as it now exists: “Should all those ves- sels be completed by 1937, the United State Navy still would be below treaty trength by 177,000 tons, divided amonz 88 ships. Those ships would include two aircraft carriers, three light cruis- ers. numerous destroyers and 18 sub- marir The country should adopt a| comprehensive naval policy and—sub- ject to international agreements—main- tain an up-to-date fleet equal to any on the seven seas. Spasmodic navy building is heavily costly and easily may excite suspicion and resentment road.” A" developments indicate to the Peoria Star that “President Roosevelt is going to be ready for any even- tuality in his diplomatic negotiations | | with the world at large. A big stick | continues that paper, “may hasten an agreement and save Uncle Sam his shirt. It is to be hoped there will be no need of these fighting ships, but{ if there is Roosevel is going to have them on hand. Their construction will bring needed employment to every | shipvard in the country and that will stimulate pusiness, to a certain degree at least.” The Lowell Evening Leader suggests that “It looks as if we are; going to have some construction that ' might not have been undertaken but { for the administration’s determination to set men to work.” Of the opinion that “to strengthen our naval forces in a period when such activity will assist in conquering an unparalleled business depression is action of a very commendable charac- ter.” the Providence Journal holds that “it' is long past the time when we should have undertaken the building | program.” The Cincinnati Times-Star contends that “none of the projects made possible by the Federal public works appropriation will pay more lasting dividends than_ this Navy pro- gram.” The Times-Star avers that “we owe a debt of gratitude to Japan if, as seems likely, it was her arma- ment demand at Geneva that has aroused in Washington a realization of the Navy's plight” The Springfield ) Republican also comments on | apanese demand and points out the Washington treaty must be | I that Both were “crimes’ in | tween the old and the mew courses is|to scientists, reports Dr. David Dielz, revised three years from now,’ while, | !“in the meantime, the Geneva Arms| ¢ | are known to Wall Street stock brokers. | Conference seems to be stalled.” The Baltimore Evening Sun calls it/ "'n formidable program unless war were | a possibility—an outrageous waste of | | money.” The Evening Sun declares| that “nations organize their industries n sentenced | on a national basis because they believe to read “Oliver Twist,” which is ® | it necessary to present a united front to other’ nations® The Morgantown | :Building P;'ogram fo;' Navy Arouses Defense Discussion easily, not for persistence, or even pa- tience, but for knowing how. Dominion-News sees an “alternative to success at the London Conference.” and “evidence of ir‘ention to support the policy of isolation with ample military preparedness.” With criticism of “the spectacle of the foremost advocate of disarmament preparing against a future war, the Newark Evening News argues: “Mr. casually. There we find lists of errors | in the use of words, in pronunciation | and in spelling. For example, “capacity” means one thing, “ability” another; “aggravate” does not mean to annoy. “allusion” and illusion” are mental worlds apart, and “like” is not a con- junction, so it is incorrect to say “like do.” Even the most thoroughly educated people must often consult the dictionary for the pronunciation of some tricky word in our tricky language. Mr Cody has listed a number of words most often mispronounced, as ‘“abdomen,” “condolence,” “indisputable,” “‘indis- soluble,” “heinous,” “romance,” “salmon," “explicable,” and dozens of others which we can all recall. Then there are the proper names, always pitfalls. How do you pronounce “Chicago,” “Concord,” | “Ambherst,” “Los Angeles,” “Buenos | | | I'm a bad acto: ‘The roaring response A. Able was I ere I saw Elba. High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands E SOIR, Brussels—Buy Belgian! Such a policy will do more to restore our national propserity than any other. If we buy only agricultural commodities and manufactured merchandise produced in Belgium, the impetus transmitted to our internal economy and public finances will be both immediate and notable. | pected one or two inflated foot balls of | containing cigarets, but the nplayers, | wishing to acquire the maximum of | profit from their ingenious venture, car- ifled with them a foot ball for each | regular and substitute; that is to say, the team was provided with no less than 6 foot balls, each and every one of | them stuffed with the contraband. | Such an assortment of globular Swancon’s statement that naval build- | Ajres?” In many cases, especially in | ing puts 85 cents of every dollar SO those of proper names, there is authority | spent into labor's pockets is as mis- | for other pronunciations than thcse! chievous as the cry that disarmament | given by Mr. Cody. One of the com- | would destroy the munitions industry. | pensations for the difficulty of _the | We could save a bilion a year in a|English language is the kindliness of disarmed world committed to pacific ar- | the dictionary-makers, Who often permit | bitraments—enough to finance indus-!two or three alternative pronunciations The farmer, the operative, the la- equipment naturally aroused first the borer, the buyer and seller, of every | curiosity and then the suspicions of the kind and class, all our native officers. One of the balls was forthe markets and enterprises will feel the with examined, and with careful scru- healthful currents of a new vigor ani- | tiny. The upshot of the matter was mating their industry and their voca- | that the«balls and their contents were tions. Especially will the smaller busi- | promptly confiscated. They were found nesses prosper, and it is far better toto contain not less than 50,000 ciga- h tries and arts of peace that would | absorb all the labor the piling up of | armaments employs, and more.” While | agreeing that the program “will stimu- | late employment,” the Lincoln State | Journal points out, “So will the build- ing of roads, bridges, power dams and other industrial projects “While the Navy construction will be of a non-self-liquidating character from one point of view,” according to the Los Angeles Times, “it violates the principle no more than some of the other projects to be undertaken, and will certainly help greatly to make the for a word. FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN CHINA By C. F. Remer. New York: The MacMillan Co. In 1931 the United States had invest- ments in China totaling 3,300 million. | | To ascertain this fact and various other | | related facts, such as the types of in- | vestment, influence of tariffs, methods | of payment, balances, loans, geographi- | cal distribution, Dr. Remer, professor | | of eccnomics in the University of Michi- | gan, made a study for our country, in | | co-operation with a number of other ave thousands of proprietors of humble shops and garden plots acquiring small profits than to have all the trade con. fined to the brokerage houses, whose only concern is to see how great a vol- ume and variety of goods they can move, either in or out of the country. In the opinion of many local cham- bers of commerce, as well as the Comitie Central Industriel, it were expedient also were our people to pat- ronize only Belgian physicians, attor- neys and other practitioners in the professional groupings. Aliens in these vocations, no matter how capable and United States secure from attack, * * * In view of the slow progress of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva and of disturbed conditions generally, this program should be well received by every citizen. It is regrettable that it is necessary, but the necessity is forced by conditions not under Amer- ican control. The expenditure is in the nature of insurance.” | economists making similar studies for | other countries. | series of investigations were furnishe | of New York and the Facuity Research | written. of China is involved in her foreign in Dam Experiments, Prom the Boise, Idaho, Statesman. Civilization owes a mighty debt to the engineers who conceive and build dams. In the intermountain West there are millions of acres of land under rich cultivation which would still be desert were it not for the storage dams which supply the thirsty lands with | | of general interest. | will China secure capital for her fur- | ther economic growth? What will be he security she will be able to offer? unlikely that she will be able to find any large surplus at home. Her social it abroad. The kev to China’s economic | | The funds for the|gaged only when the services of no | by the Social Science Research Council ' ence are available. | “The poverty of her people makes it | come back to some aspect of normality. | curved water. Indeed, there would be neither cities nor towns of any size in the country between the Rockies and the Coast range were it not for irrigation, which is dependent to such a great | extent upon dams. And industry also leans heavily on power developed from artificial waterfalls. With few excep- tions, cities derive their water supply from man-made reservoirs. We of the West are particularly inter- ested in dams and their construction, not because dams are confined to the West, but because the part which they have played in the development of our country is more noticeable, more ap- parent. It is interesting to read, there- fore, of the discoveries resulting from a seven-year study of arch dams, reported the other day by the Engineering Foun- dation Arch dams are built with their walls upstream, Arrowrock being a good example of the horizontal-arch type, of comparatively recent founding, for though dams have been constructed since before the earliest dawn of history, almost without exception they were built straight across the stream from bank to bank With an appropriation of about $120,000 raised by the Engineering Foundation and contributed to by inter- ested organizations and capital, the engineers in 1926 constructed on Stev- | enson Creek in California an arch dam | 60 feet high, equipped with every device | and gadget known to engineering sci- ence designed to test theories flgeady in use and to make new discoveries con- cerning better modes of construction. l_! is the report of this foundation which was made the other day, and judging {rom press dispatches the ex: periment has been highly successful— “holding.” to borrow the phraseology of the Associated Press, “possibilities of economy and increased efficiency and | safet in power development. irrigation water supply projects and flood control.” One draws the conclusion that the $120,000 was money well spent, for we shall continue to build dams and it is well that they be built not only eco- nomically and to serve their purpose with a maximum of efficiency, but|is here confessed. has recently been|smooth, idiomatic English, but reiains soundly and safely as well. | relations may well be found in foreien investment?” This is to place the risk with the pritate investor, but he is ac- customed to ri: at home and abroa The careful study of Dr. Remer and hi associates might well be consulted by all investors in Chinese enterprises or in | American companies carrving on busi- | ness in China. As a corollary, there is much material concerning Japanese business and economic cenditions, THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT: ITS ORIGIN AND PROBLEMS. By J.| Laurence Laughlin. New York: The MacMillan Co. When the Federal Reserve act be-| came law there was much random talk- ing among people who knew very little about the provisions of the act. and even among those who knew something, to the effect that the new Federal Re- serve System would prevent future busi- ness panics and depressions. So. in a sense. this !s a timely book, tbough it comes fome years after the enactment of the legislaticn it discusses The au-! thor is emeritus fescor of political economy in the Universitv of Chicago. Part 1 gives the background in politics and business of the Federal Reserve act—the Bryan csilver campaign. the Aldrich bill, the Glass bill (1912. 1913), the McAdoo bill. the Newlands plan, Wilson’s part in the passage of the act. Part 2 describes the problems now con- | fronting the Federal Reserve System | chiefly the problems of inflation and | politics. Prof. Laughlin was formerly | chairman of the Executive Committee | of the National Citizens’ League for the Promotion of a Sound Banking System, | and in part 1 draws largely on his pei sonal experiences with legislators and | Government officials and business or- ! ganizations in his promotion of a sound banking law. * % % “Adolfe,” the ncvel of Benjamin Con- stant made famous because in it the two chief characters were drawn from | Benjamin Constant himself and Mme. | de Stael, both bril'iant figures during | the reign of Louis XVI. whose liaison translated by Mrs. W. Lalor Barrett proficient they may be, should be en- Belgians of equal ability and experi- | If it should bz urged that there| Fund of the University of Michigan. js a demand among our countrymen | | The collected material was brought to- | for many wares and goods not pro- | gether and from it this book has been gyced within our borders, let us not/ The whole economic situation | forget the Belgian colonies, which are so well appointed, both in climate and vestments, and her economic fortunes | resources, to supply 21l that wé need, | Il to a large extent determine her | poth in aliment and in the necessities ! future, so Dr. Remer’s book should be|of other comforts and manufacture.| How and where | our industry, which has sustained as| great a setback as that of any other| nation in this far-reaching economic | debacle, is making a heroic effort to | But even a measure of this recovery | cannot be attained unless we all co-| organization makes it dificult to secure gperate in faithful obedience to the governmental appeal so concisely ex- pressed in the patriotic watehword, “Achetez belge!” This course and strategy alone will cure our economic ills. * X % X Chinese Girls Take Police College Course. ina Press, Shanghai—Up to yes- tevdoy “evening 40 ginl students had registered for the entrance examination of the Peiping Police College. Only 20 | will be admitted, as owing to llmlted: accommodations the college cannot ad- | mit more than that number. H The decision of the college to throw opex its doors to woman students came as the result of instructions from the ministry of home affairs in Nanking. When graduated. these woman students will be given work in the local police force. ¥ & Tk Football Team Tries Smugsling in Balkans. | Berliner Lokal Anzeiger —Nowhere in this wide world is smuggling carried on with so much poise and charm as on' the Balkan peninsula. Little is thought | of it as an opprobrium. Indeed. there is a sort of honesty enveloping it which is rather disarming. Quite recently a Bulgarian foot-ball team, traveling by | boat on the Danube to a certain town in Rumania. to particinate in a match. | improved the opportunity to engage in some lucrative smuggling. Knowing | that the foot balls which they were tak- ing with them were not lkely to be inspected at the frontier, a few of the Bulgarian athletes concocted the no- tion of filling them with cigarets, in- stead of wind. They were amateurs, let it be vnderstood, both in their favorite game and in the finesse of smuggling. ‘The original scheme was well planned, and had they adhered to it, no doubt would have proved emincntly success- ful. No customs officer would have sus- | (The Dial Press). formerly a resident of Washington. The translation, though literal rather than imaginative is in | the spirit of the French original. rettes. These were transferred to the government warehouses and the pig- kins to the customs museum. This !latter fact shows that the people and authorities of the Balkans appreciate ! the quaint or comic in such circume | et | ether the foot ball game took | place or not is left to the pgzsumption | of our readers. Let us hope, at least, that the customs officers showed some consideration and did not hold the players as well as the foot balls. * T | Egyptian Locusts May Find Market. cuf&ypttan Gazette, are now being used for feed: pouitry and pigs in Belgium and L\ll’;! e'mhurg. and this possible new market for North African locusts is being watched with interest in Algeria. oo D. C. Intangible Tax A Protection to States To the Editor of The Star: Referring to the letter of Mr. ‘Whit= man in Tuesday's Star, the District of Columbia intangible tax law was orig- inally enacted by Congress as a means of protecting the States from the loss of revenue caused by their citiz establihing a residence here. Of courser | with a high intangible tax here it was | no longer to the advantage of a per- | son with considerable property subject to this tax to claim a D. C. residence when he could secure as good or better | terms in his own or another State. | . As the District of Columbia intangible law admits of no exceptions, the asses~ sor tries to aprly it to ali, including those with only a little intangible prop- erty, who cannot readily escape by establiching a_tax residence elsewhere to secure the benefit of a more favor= able rate The local intangible tax law is most #nreasonable, particularly as it applies to persons dependent on a limited in- come derived from taxable securities, and if the residents of the District will press the matter before Congress an income tax law, which is much fairer, will be substituted. J. F. SMITH. e Down With Titles. From the Des Moines Tribune. With the Princes Lennart of Swe- den. Nicholas of Rumania, Wilhelm of Germany and Asturias of Spain all re- nouncing their royal prerogatives (or what there is left of them) within the year to marry commoners, the Holly- wood fad of corraling marquises and princes and whatnots with lonz titles but depleted purses becomes an even more absorbing burlesque. Surely this is a topsy-turvy age when European gentlemen with ripe titular _appendages hanging from an- cient family trees don't want them, and the movie quecns and millionaires’ daughters can’t get along without them. Being inborn democrats, however, we should make a rough guess that Lennart would make a better gardenel than the average Peoria girl does a marchioness Alexandria.—Lo- — e A Doubtful “Risk.” From the Roanoke Times A mining town in Ponnsylvania has erected a chamber of c-mmerce build- ing with walls made of coal. Is it & fireproof building?