Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1934, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1934, THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Fdition. WA!}IINGTON,D.C. IATURDAY.. .December 1, 1934 TH!ODORE W. NOYFS..Edhor The l:vmln‘ Star l\ewzpnper Company | Business Office Pennsvlvania Ave Nex Fort Office” Th0 Fyte 4ong 8t. Chicago Office: Lake Miciigan atildiug European Olfice: 14 Kegent Si. Londoa. Enxland. Rate by Carrfer Within the City. Rerular Kditiy ... 45¢ per month v Goc per month ng IAIA(JI' Star 5 Sundays) . The Sunday Star Nieht Final F ight Final and Sunday Star. isht Final Star Der month Collection made at the ¢ud of eich month. Orders may be sent i by mail or telephone NAtionsl 50060 per month ver coby per month Rate by “-’ul—?zvablf in Advance, LS00 1 e SO0 1 o 3o 0051 mo.. *1.00 ¥ A Bindey oy fue Member of the Associated Press. The Associuted Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of sl news dispatches credited 1o it or not other- wise credited in this psper and slo tne local news published heremn. All righte of publication of special dispatches lLieremn are also reserved Opportuntiy for Correction. The Attorney General has that the 900 revenue agents Alcohol Tax Unit. Bur Revenue, who would have been dis- charged today under the so-called “patronage rider” attached to the last deficiency bill may keep their and await the more definitely pressed will of Congress as to whether they get their pay checks. The Attor- ney General's ruling is eminently fair and goes as far as it could go, The results are twofold: First, the efforts of Secretary Mor- genthau to wage continued warfare on bootleggers by building up an ef- fective force of experienced agents will not be weakened by the immediate loss to the service of the very nu- cleus of that force. Second, Congress will be given op- portunity to study at leisure & pro- posal which it accepted in haste in the .losing days of the past session which not anly placed a great handi- cap in the way of the Government's anti-bootlegging campaign but was wholly contradictory to the spirit of the civil service. This second result is especially im- portant. It has been said that many members of Congress did not realize, when they voted on the patronage rider last Spring, the sisnificance of the step they were taking. It had been represented that the agents in question wer: Republicans “covered” into the civil service presumably without examinations. As s matter of fact, they had all taken competitive examinations, and the spirit of the of ex- merit system in the Federal service is! to forget politics available material. Should the prin- ciple of the patronage rider, which forced men to take new and different examinations, be permitted to stand, & devastating blow at civil service in the Federal Government will have been struck, and ils immediate recov- ery would have been a question. The aim of the legislative and ex- ecutive branches of the Government should be to strengthen, and never to weaken, the protection of the ecivil service—a protection that extends not only to the harassed dispensers of patronage and to the efficient workers in the Federal service, but to the tax- payers who foot the bille and who suffer in more ways than one from inefficiency and waste in government. Inefficiency and waste are the hand- maidens of the spoils system. in seeking the best —— e One phase of the housing problem is providing homes for wage earners without compelling those who pay the wages to go broke. R Japan Scraps the Ratio. Japan has at length formally noti- fied the world thal she proposes to abolish the naval ratio hitherto in force as among herself, Greal Britain and the United States. Announ ment to that effect was made by Fo eign Minister Hirota in the Diet at Tokio on Friday. Claiming to be actuated by “the principle of non- menace and non-aggression,” the Jap- anese would substitute for the ratio system a “common upper limit of ton- nage” and at the same time bring about “drastic reduction and limita- tion of offensive armament, so as to render it difficult for any power to attack. but easy 1o defend itselt.” Amid such language and claims is hidden Japan's demand for equality with British and American ses power, in order that Nippon's national honor and prestige shall be preserved from the “stigma” of mferiority. Mr. Hirota’s declaration, which is, of course, in no sense a surprise, falls in the midst of the lingering tripartite naval conversations at London, There neither Great Britain nor the United States has been moved by Japanese argument for equality. The English- speaking powers adhere to the belief that the 5—5—3 ratio which Japan accepted at Washington in 1922 is etill fair to all concerned, and, from the standpoint of the two Western powers, constitutes an irreducible minimum. Representative Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, proposes thal America’s snswer to Jepan’s abrogation of the ratio should be a program calling for five United States ships to every three laid down by Japan. That proposal, despite Senator Borah's alarmist charge that its execution would be an incitement to war, contemplates not & rivet or bolt more of American naval power than we have professed to maintain, under our treaty rights, for the past twelve years, though we have lamentably failed, in fact, to build in accordance with them. Cer- tainly events in the Far East, since Japan launched her drive for the ecnquest of Manchuria in 1931, have not been of a character to encourage the belief that Western interests in Shat region of the.world need less ) | far off. The Mississippi Senator, it s ruled | the | of Internal | obs | protection than they have hitherto had. | History 1is likely, on the contrary, to record that if a whirlwind had to be reaped, in the form of augmented naval strength, it was not the Eng- lish-speaking powers—least of all, the United States—that sowed the wind. Representative Vinson is on safe . ground in believing that public senti- ment In this country will support any action Congress takes to preserve in- violate a 5-3 margin of American sea power over that of Japan. S — Bonus Compromise ? Is the administration yielding to the pressure for the immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus Since Senator Pat Harrison of Mis- sissippi returned from Wsrm Springs and a conference with the Presidel to make a suggestion of compromise, ; the impression has gained ground | that the end of the bonus fight is rot ! true. did not attempt to speak for the | President. But he is closely tied in | with the administration’s fizcal policy, | being chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, And, furthermore, he de- clined to say, when questioned spe- cifically, whether the President was opposed to the cash payment of the bonus to an extent that he would veto a bill for that purpose. Instead, he msisted that the administration was giving the bonus question | pathetie” consideration and from every angle. The Harrison compromise sugges- tion looked to the payment of the (bonus to all veterans of the World i\\ who could show they were in {actial need. No “pauper’s oath,” Mr Harrison sald, but & sufficient demor stration that & veleran was really in need. “Need” may well have a wide variety of Interpretations. Whether the payment now is 10 be the same in amount as if it were made in 1945 being considered; whether the pay- ments might be scaled down, and whether the which would | have accrued on date of maturity is | 1o be paid to the veterans. Fstimates of the cost of such immediate pay ment are being prepared. The President in the past has taken the position that the finances of the Government do not wairant the cash payment of the bonus. which is not due to the veterans until 1945 under the law. His contention has been that the payment of more than $2000 000.- 000 at this time would sirain the credit of the Government, and that it would diminish the resources of the Goverument for the relief of the many destitute and unemploved in the couniry, whether veterans or non- veterans. 1f the sdminisiration s comproniising on the bonus issue, lml chances sre that it will be forced to | €0 the whole route before the fight in Congress is over. Either the Government can or can- not stand the stram of paying out £2,000.000,000 in cash to the veterans Al this time. Judging from the si of the deficit, the extra strain of this payment might seriously affect | the national credit. Senator Harri- {son said, it is true, that the Presi- dent’s estimate of the Treasury defi- | cit for the fiscal year 1934 had been almost three billion dollars high- er ihan what had been spent. But in the next brealh he revealed the | fact that the deficit for the fiscal year 1935 would in ail probability be | & Lillion dollars higher than the esti- |mate for that year made by tne | President. How much is going to | ke needed for relief, for the care of the millions of persons out of work | and destitute? That is a question which should be determined before “bonus” payments are made. svm- study interest s | Indiscriminate Sale of Arms. In 1933 the British Parliament enacted a law providing stiff jail sentences for persons convicted of using either genuine or imitation arms to avoid arrest or prevent an- other's arrest and also providing | ments, | dynamite. refisters the purchase. The sale | of pistols still goes forward, with | little or no regulation in many of | the States, and clever gangsters of the Dillinger type can fashion a presentable submachine gun from a Colt automatic. We are still far be- hind the British in regulating the small arms traffic. Officers of the law and innocent citizens will con- tinue to be shot down from behind ss long as the purchase of an auto- matic pistol or revolver is as simple as the purchase of a glass of milk | shake. And in many States it is as simple as that, S President Roosevelt has never hm‘ll ihe appearance of soliciting compli- | He manages to preserve the discreet attitude of & man who ac- ,‘ cepts praise as It is offered, lmpmg that it will all come true. —_—r—e—————— i The public reasons by long intel- lectual jumps, assuming that a radio man who is an suthority on tooth paste or shaving cream is naturally | ;-‘qulpprd 10 deliver nccurate uplnmnll on economic questions. .o At all events, Al Smith at least made' & brilliant exit. It was emphatically | declared by his admirers that he “stole the show” during parade, . - After shaking hands with the jurors who freed him Sam Insull faces future trials with a reasonable hope that one or two more ovalions may be coming o ham, .- ‘Truth is stranger than fiction and | shows better continuity. The daily | news shows one crime chapter after | another. T Occasionally a political situation arises which creates doubt &s to whether ballot boxes contain votes or ot An eventual candidate for the dole | is the citizen who thinks he can evade work by purchasing & dream book | and playing numbers, o Dismissal of Government, worke; looks like an economy until the neces- | sity arises of finding competent people 10 replace them, T Santa Claus is generous, but he| seldom brings along enough to re-im- burse the citizen who has paid his | December income tax instaliment, e There is only one danger about “the | voice of safety.” It is so melodious ' that It is liable 1o soothe some dilatory | motorist to sleep. ‘There are occasional remarks in in- ternationsl communications that sound more like repariee than diplomacy. ———————— As Posimaster General Farley pro- ceeds. he finds that philately requires almost as much vigilance as politics, —~e— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Grandpa Whoops It Up. Toward youth we are supposed to show A sympathetic attitude And offer, as we older grow, Full many & joyous platitude, So grandpa shaves his whiskers off And smiles quite iridescently And, trying to conceal his cough, Says “Rah! Rah! Rah!" incessantly. Dear grandpa tries to hold a grin Supposed to be benevolent, But sometimes there comes creeping in | A trace of the malevolent. Boys will be boys, we all admit, Although they may be bothersome. | So why not let grandfather sit And simply be grandfathersome. . Opinion Deferred. | “What would you advise if the Fast- | ern Hemisphere insists on fighting?” “Nothing at present,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “Before venturing an opinion, T'll wait to ascertain precisely | what it is all about. And that will prison sentegces for those possessing firearms or imitation firearms when | arrested, unless there was proof that the owner possessed such objects for | a “lawful purpose.” A recent report of the British Home Office Commit- | tee, organized to investigate crime in Britain, points out that the British gangster or other criminal has al- most without exception discarded his | pistol or automatic rifle or machine gun—they were never prevalent in Fugland—and even the toy pictol. and relies almost entirely on his fist or & club for armament. One of the interesiing features of the pacsage of the British firearms and imitation firearms act was that it was accompanied by a government appeal to the people to hand over their old firearms, for which they lacked a firearms’ certificate. The response was quick and remarkable, even in law-abiding England. Thou- sands of firearms, it is said, poured in to the police, many of them old army Colts and rifles. It was only in the past session of Congress that a law was enacted making it a felony in this country to own & machine gun, submachine gun, “sawed-off” shotgun or short-barreled euns (revolvers and sportsmen’s guns being exempt) unlese registered with the commissioner of Internal Revenue, That law, in addition, placed a tax of $200 on every transfer of ownership, take a long time.” Jud Tunkins says nobody has | other people. Mispronouncements. My Radio! My Radio! You bring me much elation. From ancient history you go ‘To problems of this Nation. Yet when most eloguent you grow You cause new consiernation. I fain would know why you should show Such mbpmnuncls(flnn. Carrying Aleohol. “What did you arrest that motorist for?” asked the traveling man. “Transporting two quarts of liquor,” answered Cactus Joe. “Is Crimson Gulch as strict as all that?” “Yes, occasionally. In this case the man had swallowed them.” “I honor my ancestors,” says Hi Ho | the sage of Chinatown, “not only by ! imitating their wisdom, but by trying to make my own life a respectful apology for their mistakes.” The High Hat of Safety. I shall high hat my fellow man ‘When traveling down the street. For gangsters when you meet with exceptions in the case of military and police. The pensailty for infrac- tion of the law is a maximum fine of $2,000 and ‘or five years in jail, which may be compared with the British penalty of servitude up to seven years for one convicted of having a toy pistol in his possession when ar- rested, and who could not prove its possession was with “lawful intent.” The American law is aimed, of course, at keeping machine guns and other such weapons from gangsters and criminals. The results are not likely to be noticeable, A year ago anybody could buy & machine gun and say nothing about it. Any- body can still own a machine gun if he p the price and Upon the journey now and then At various times and places Puil caps across their faces. When I high hat, pedestrians can Be sure I'm not & hold-up man. “A good many of de folks dat com- plains about bein’ swindled,” said Uncle Eben, “was jes' tryin' to git somethin’ foh nothin’ deirselves.” e King Carol Wins Point. From the Kansas City Star. King Carol of Rumania, uncle of the Princess Marina, has discovered that he has received no invitation to the British royal wedding, and just for that he intends to send no wed- ding present. And if we remember a recent decision by Emily Post on this | point, he has the law on his side, too. | of those who simply 3 | lieve hunselt THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, How dark the earth, how green the grass on & pleasantly wet morning! The gardener in tune with Nature wishes that more precipitations could begin in the night and be steadily at it when he awakes. He has a certain smugness at the thought that thousands of other per- sons will resent the scene, and wish at once for the sun to be shining again. He does not resent the rain, he re- joices over it, happy that he can find good where others find only ill. It is not their fault, they simply are not interested in the growing plant life of the vast world. At least not to the extent that they gladly will put up with rains for its suke. CEEE Everywhere the red clay is black now, under theggood influence of the | falling water. ‘The city would be much better looking all the time if soil everywhere L could look this way perpetually. Surely the is nothing beautiful about the average earth, the red or yellow soils so often seen, Not only are such soils unplensnnl.“ to the eye, they are especially so Lo the eye accustomed to the rich dark- ness of good loams and humus. If the Government wishes to spend money, & good way to do it would be the inauguration | to experiment with changing the soily ¥ coloration in a given area, let us say the National Capital, Some millions of tons of humus, whic! h might be furnished by Florid: or rmany or Norway, would work wonders in & visual way, besides help- | ing vastly in the ameloriation of the not just a fancy phrase, ltural actualit try in action, * ok ox % Fven this late in the year the occs sional rain makes a vast difference in the appearance of & city. I is interesting o note that this change ‘is simply one from a dry city to 8 wet, bedraggled city in the eyes re not inter- ested in the great outdoor sport of gardening. It is the creation of new beauty, however, i the eyes of the home | ardener, snd he must forever be- blessed in being able Lo see it. Just & way of looking at things,-no doubt, but nlso & sort of philusophy | which, could it be carried as well into | | other depurtments of living, might do i a great deal toward making life more interesting for many. Whatever one does not like should | be investigated by him, in order to find out. pen Lo like it. It is not always possible, of course, nor always desirable, but there will be pursuits and occupations and avoca- tious into which most persons might look with some iden of profit to them- selves, One of the little-regarded profits of such investigations is the turning of an actusl distaste into at least a mild toleration. ok oxow In the case of the rainy day. so actvely disliked by so mauy, wmuch good will come to the individual if he takes up gardening, either in a small | or lurge way. It must, of course, where the rain is. ‘Then in time he will come to feel, without any conscious effort on his part, that & Tain is quite as natural be outdoors, & real bit | if possible, why others hap- | as & bright sunshiny day, equally as necessary, at times. if not more so, and just as pleasant to the beholder. When he arrives at this state of mind he has accomplished a miracle in the every-day life, and will never be quite the same afterwards. Some of his friends even may call him a “garden nut,” but he will not mind. A nut grows, if put in the soil; that is something often forgotten. There is a chance of good growth in & nut. It is alive and possesses the powers of development. " * ok ok x Rain is one of the necessary in- gredients of the garden life. Everything in it, even &t this sea- son of the beginning of the year's resting, 1s bettered by a good down- pour, & rain which really amounts Iw something, especially in regard to ‘ duration. | There is a general feeling among | gardeners that there is no rain quite like the prolonged gentle one. Even | when this is merely & drizzle, if it | keeps up long enough, it delights every gardening heart s there is scientific reason | for this feeling. It is well known that veritable deluges, unless they, (oo, keep up for many hours, tend ln rush away before they do any l‘.spedllly {s this so if a long period of comparative drought has preceded a heavy precipitation. Soils | often are baked as hard as concrete, | 50 that the more flow there is in the | water the less it penetrates. EREE A gentle rain, which at first glance might seem to be doing no “good” at all, really accomplishes wonders, by first softening the baked clay (it usually is clay), then steadily put- ting on a little water, not much in | un hour, perhaps, but & great deal lin 6 hours, 8 hours, 16 hours, 24 hous Surely nothing in normal garden | by | procedure, either &s carried on Nature, or by man, or by Nature and | man together, quite equals this spec- acle of the steady mild rain. | It harms nothing. it does only good. | Not here the danger of the sudden wind. or the merciless hail, but the soothing of all the children of the | | s0il. ‘This necessary moisture, of which tissues, as ours, are so largely com- posed. * ok o o Rain-conscious gardeners will par- ticularly value the continued rain this late in the year. While the mois- ture is no longer needed for growth, it supplies the necessury reserve for the sufeguarding of life tissues. Such tissues rest all Winter, but {even in their rest they must have | vital moisture. There is no telling just | how many plant deaths are | tissues drying up beyond the point of | safety, as the result of dry Autumuns. rdeners are coming more and more to believe that some water should be offered plants, including shirubs, 8t this season of the year, if Nature fails to supply & rain. | Natural rains are better, that is | why the gardener rejoices, when he | awukes to x dull, ¥loomy morning, | others see it. but which to him as to [ his plant friends is a beautiful, gor- grous day, filled with wet, glistening | bark of trees, grecner grass cve as | where. soil dark and fine-looking and, | tissue health. ! beneath all, Camera Ma Ias “A short, spare, middle-aged man named Edward N. Jackson” has the role of the hero in & “profile” of a news photographer by Alva Johnston, on the Néw Yorker. Jackson “has won diplomatic victories over foreign potentates and New York City magis- | trates and gunmen” and “successtully conducted negotiations for pictures with the Big Four at Versailles, with the Vatican, with kings, queens, premiers and Presidents, with three reigning Newport dowagers. with Waxy Cordon, with all the Rocke- fellers and most of the Morgans, with the nursemaids of John Jacob Astor, 4d. and Theodore Roosevell, 3d.” Jackson, his biographer says. a reverence for the camera. le re- cls writers and artists, but feels for them because they use such implements as pens and brushes. His attitude toward them is | the attitude of the mathematician | toward professors of inexact sciences. In his own opinion. Bddie is a his- torian, and a rigidly accurate one; he deplores historical writers and painters, with their loose approxima- tions. Sir William Orpen had some- thing to do with lowering the pho- . tographer’s opinion of artists. The vague | enough trouble of his own to prevent | two men met at Versailles, where the | him from mixing into troubles of Britisher was sketching the Hall of Mirrors before the treaty-signing, while Jackson was investigating the photo- graphic possibilities of the place. Later the cameéraman saw Orpen at work on his celebrated treaty paint- ing. “You're putting Balfour in," said Jackson. “He wasn'l there that day,” “I know,” said the painter, “but I want to have him in. In six months uobody will remember wheth- er he was there or not.” Jackson, with his austere feeling for history, shuddered at the time, and still shud- ders when he recalls the conversation His history-msking 2eal has sus- tained Jackson through many trials Most of his camera subjects prove un- | grateful for the chance he gives them .0 make figures in the eyes of posterity. Eddie’s feelings have been wounded many a time by the thanklessness of persons he was helping to belong to the ages. The humiliations he has un- dergone for the sake of history cover a wide range. One of the greatest orators of the time pauged in the midst of & set speech to bawl Jackson out before 15000 people, One of the most famous Newport queens gave him a tongue-lashing, and one of the fore- most girl bandits punched him on the jaw. Jackson, kicking and fighting. has been carried away bodily more than once by his good friend Big Bill Star- ling of the Secret ice because Jackson was attempting to snap for- bidden pictures of First Ladies. He has been insulted by a king and by | underworld gorillas. Half & century hence William Gibbs McAdoo may live | in history only as a pictorial item | illustrating early twentieth century msanners; Jackson has a magnificent study of McAdoo rushing at him with distorted visage and uplifted cane. ‘The orator who arraigned Eddie was Elihu Root, then keynoting at the Republfcan convention of 1912. Photo- graphing had been forbidden because of the smoke of flashlights. In order to get the picture he wanted Eddie had to let off an explosion Wwhich lighted the entire auditorium. It interrupted Senator Root in one of his elaborate periods. “I wish,” cried the Senator, “that that man had stayed at home.” Part of Jackson's greatness is an in- stinctive knowledge of when to go; he shot out of the convention hall so rapidly that he left behind his pocket- book, which he had placed on a rail in order to increase the elevation of his_camert has | , as Accurale Historian, More Victor es Than Defeats his second-best denunciation was the lute Mrs, Hermann Oelrichs. Eddie | cluims a decision over Mrs. Oelrichs. |10 is a long story: by tying up with | Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, he and other | photographers gradully wore Oelrichs down, xnd_finally had her | oreanizing the Oelrichs set into yroups aud marching them up to the cameras. | The pholographers, however, have not yet completely won the battle of New- | still excluded from In order 1o take pic- have to use long- port. They sare Bailey's Beach | tures there they focus lenses and work either from CLff | | Walk or from small boats. The girl | bandit who wounded the dignity | Caught after a long series of robberies ‘sne said, “Shoot your picture; it may get me m the movies.”" But as Jac ct supplies them with the | their | aused by | abnormally | Mrs. | of | the camera historian was Jane Logan. | THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. SUN YAT-SEN. His Life and Its Meaning. By Lyon Sharman. New York: The John Day Co. A China lover, through childhood memories and dreams colored by yeuth, Lyon Sharman, when first he studied the writings of Sun Yat-sen, was disappointed. “This thinking is not great enough to save China,” he thought. But to understand modern China he felt he must understand Sun Yat-sen, so he began his study and this book is its result. “At first I did not find a real man; I found a hero already stiffened into an idol. ‘The making of a lacquered god out of human flesh and blood has prob- ably never been accomplished with! such speed and thoroughness as in | the case of Sun Yat-sen.” But as he worked the human Sun Yat-sew emerged from the cult and became | really great, the idealist who kept his dream alive through impassable diffi- culties, the practical leader who influ- enced the ideas and inspired the en- thusiasm of countless men and wom- en. Mr., Sharman found that much | of the material for study of Sun Yat- sen’s life was more accessible to out- siders than to his fellow countrymen, because so much of his life was lived | away from China. The forces which made Sun Yat- sen a revolutionary, involved in the crumbling of the old China, and the growing vigor of the new, assisted by the student movement, were the first step in his evolution. Then his dream of a new order through revolution began to come true too soon. Ching was not ready for it and the revolu. tion was not won, optimism was de- feated, and the revolutiona were confronted with Japan’s counter- dream of a Nipponized China. Then there was “dream chaos"—Yuan | | Shih-kai’s dynastic dream, Sun Yat- sen’s dream of a constitutional south, the Communistic dream. Russia also shuftied down from the North into the already. crowded dr: Before the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, at the age of 58, the Kuomintang had defi- nitely turned toward Communism. | Sun Yat-sen was responsible for ad- | mitting the first Communists to mem- bership in the party and during his | |last iliness he signed a message to | Soviet Russia beginuing “Dear Com- | rades.” and urging that the U. 8. S.| R. and the Kuomintang work to- | gether for “the final liberation of China and other exploited countries | from the yoke of imperialism.” Sharman’s work is critical and inter- pretative and is a history of the rcv- | olutionary movement in China since | 1880, as well as a biography of Sun | Yat-sen. In an appendix are given sources and authorities. chapter by | chapter, variable in their value. * * & * I DERBY DAY AND OTHER ADVEN- | TURES. By A. Edward Newton. Boston: Little. Brown & Co. A. Edward Newton is the most mel- low and gay of dilettantes, though that word seems 0o frivolous to be applied | to one of his genuine scholarship. His dearest hobby is book collecting he ) extracts the k i from travel and from his books, his travels and people. He {has without apparent effort, for he writes only what pleases him, won for himself a place of distinction among the few genial essayists of the ! twentieth century. This volume tak its title from an essay on Mr. New- ton’s attendance at the Derby. in a “white plug hat which. were I to wear {it at home, would be the cause of | instant riot.” There is a picture of | him as he appeared on that gala d: An essay follows on Ascot. which “was royal to start with and has remained 50.” Then he was off to the Grand National, at Aintree near Liverpool, he sportiest horse race that nas | ever been run in the world.” Having Ihad his fill of racing. Mr. Newton found some adventures in London and | visited the melancholy Bronte coun- | try, & dingy part of Yorkshire. which | strangers would never visit except for | intel in Charlotte and Emily and | Anne. Other visits which have helped to produce these delizhtful essays were to Vienna. Budapest. San Fran- 0 and to the Hearst Ranch at San meon, Calif *x K % HITLER. Whe By Wickham Review of Reviews Corp. Wickham Steed. former editor of the London Times and of the London | Review of Reviews, has an established reputation as an authority on Central European affairs. He is at present lec- | turer in Central European history at| King's College. London. His book on | | i * and Whither? | eed. New York | the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Please give some information about the monument being construc- ted in Mexico to the revolution—E. M. A. The Revolution Monument is 180 feet high. The square base measures 100 feet each way and is to be the | center of a park area to be known as | The | Plaza of the Revolution. monument is simple in style bearing the inscription: “To the Revolution of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and For- ever.” sculptured groups at the heads of the columns representing four epochs dur- { ing the last two centuries. The in- terior and exterior will be perpetually lighted, the whole crowned by a power- ! ful searchlight. The dedication will take place early in 1935. Q. When was the International So- ciety for Contemporary Music estab- lished?—S. C. A. This organization was ruunded at Salzburg in 1921 Q. How much ‘money does the Bu- reau of I«_m,ra\mg and Printing print each day?—S. P. A. It prints Bbout $17,000,000 in crisp, new bills each day. Many of these are to replace bills which have been worn out in service. Q. Who is the inventor of bakelite? —T. S. K. A. Dr. leo Hendrik Backeland of New York 1s the inventor of bakelite. He is noted as a research chemist and is president of the Bakelite Corp. Q. What is the Roosevelt Legion of Honor?—C. H. A. The Roosevelt Legion of Hm'ur Adornment is limited to four | Q. How much loss by fire is suse tained by railroads in this country?— A. D. A. Fire losses on American raile roads lasi year amounted to $3,744,« 949. Q. What is the percentage of illit= | eracy in Chile?—J. T | A In 1934 the percentage of illit= | eracy in that country was 3. | Q. What is a Strandlooper?— H. M. C. A. The term Sirandlooper is ap- plied to the extinct people whose remains are found in caves, shelters | and kitchen-middens along the East- ern .coast of Southern Africa from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. They were probably the purest variety of | Bushmen. Q. How many births and deaths occur daily in the world?’—T. C. G A. It is estimated that 150.000 | births occur in the world daily and | 100,000 deaths. Q. How is the number seven uscd in Catholic devotion and doctrine?— D. K. | A. This mystical number recurs | frequently. There are seven sacra- | ments, seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, seven last words spoken on the Cross, seven penitential psalms, seven rows of Mary, seven joys of Mary, | seven deadly sins. Q. Who is president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute?>—M. K | A. Julian A. Burruss is preside of that college. Q. Who makes the balloons Macy's Thanksgiving day parade’— A. H. Tony Sarg, the been making marione! e them for ecight years. assisting and supporting na- | tional defense, suppression of agita- tion leading to communism, vice and crime, and devotion of mutual help- fulness among the American people. The organization has headquarters at Jucksonville, Fla. Q. What is the origin of the Briar- cliff Trophy-—T. M. C. A. The cup was originally offered by the late Walter W. Law in 1908 It was withdrawn, however, after that year due to the dangers of road racing Westchester County. This year, ¢ H. Law, son of the donor and mayor of Briarcliffi Manor, put up the cup again for amateur competi- tion, arranging for a closed course. Q Where are birds of paradise found?—] A. The finest species of the bird of paradise is found in the Island the most beautiful B. | of Celebes. Q. Where is Elihu Yale buried?— A. R.N. A. The grave of whom Yale Wrexham, Elihu Yale, for Wales, Q. What is the route that has been for the connecting link be- the Shenandoeh and Great Mountains National Parl chosen tween k; so-called North Carolina west from Blowing Rock, City, along Mitchell and which lie east of thence into the Mount Pisgah Range, bending northwest on a line along the range west of Waynesville, with an entrance into the park at a point where it will connect with the Newfound Gap Highway near Cherokee, N. C. runs . south of Linvilie Asheville College is named, is in | ! Q. What ship won the grain race from Australia to England this year? —D.S. B A. The Australian grain race of t year was won by the Swedish F Abraham Rydberg, which reachr Falmouth, England, April 27, 1934, 108 days after leaving Aust Q. Where is the famous peach-bloom vase?—W, C. A. It is in the Walters Gallery Baltimore. It is displayed in a and marked for identification. Q. What does S. R. O. H. McC. | A. It is an abbreviation for star ing room only. It is used to that the seating capacity of a bt ing has been reached. Q. Whose dying words were the:e “A million of money for a moment of time?"—J. A. W. A. They are credited to Queen Elizabeth of England. Q. How many different combi | tions of cards can be held in poker?— R. C. A. There are 2598960 possible five-card hands in a pack of 52 cards. Of these 1,302,540 do .ot hold even one pair. Q. When was Central Park, Y started?>—A. M. G began on Central Park in Waltr stand for indie 11d- New Q. Please give me the name of a book on sex education for children in the form of questions and answers. —M. B. A.“New Patterns in Se by F. B. Strain, pub ton, is tten in thi x Education,” 1ed by Apple- form. Nation App]auds Appointment Of Fried for Ship Inspection The appointment of Capt. George Fried. famous master of ships and hero of rescues a as head of the Steamboat Inspection Service at New York is accepted as meaning that the Government does not inten to let the lessons of the Murro Castle dis- aster wo unhceded “Capt. Fried is dely known an y officers in the American me marin: says the Kansas Cily & with the conclusion that bis appe ment “to the key position of & visor of steamship inspection in the district that includes the chiet port of sea e of the most enera son shot she knocked the camera out | Hitler is a brief and unprejudiced | {he country is said to be ihe begin- of his hands and punched his jaw. Women think faster than men in the | | face of the die. Jacl | pletely sm done in bn's camera has been com- | hed only once. 26 by William Phillips, a ' witness in the Hall-Mills murder case. | to separate as a part of his Ger- Evening News, “that Capt. Because newspapers had quoted Phil- lips as claiming to know something about this case, he had been thrown | into jail as a material witness. He had | spent three months in a cell nursing | | his grievance against newspapers. On the day of his liberation Phillips caught Eddie snapping him, and left | the camera in bits. Immediately after | that ckson started on his regular gymnasium workouts. o Trade Body Praised For Pedestrian Aid To the Rditor of The Star: I tnink the Board of Trade is en- | titled to the everlasting gratitude of the pedestrians for taking their side in the controversy about traffic acci- pear to think that they have no rights regardless of what the law is. 1L has been my experience during a period of wbout one year that I the streets of Washington gets less consideration than he does in any one of a number of other cities of comparable size that I have lived in. The law, for instance, says he has the right of way at crossings, but just let him try and get it. Take any he gets when he tries to make his way across. And if one motorist is considerate enough to stop to let the pedestrian get across, the cars behind immediately set up & loud “honking.” eration from the officials? |quently cross the intersection of | Seventeenth and H streets northwest |in " whe morning when an officer is directing traffic. The pedestrians start | to cross witih his signal, but im mediately there are loud ‘“‘squaks’ from a string of cars turning the corner and drjving those on foot back on the sidewalk. Does the officer make any move to help them to get across? 1If he does, I for one would like 10 know when. The same con- dition exists at Fourteenth and H northwest and at any one of a dozen other intersections. So I say, more power to the Board of Trade. JAMES C. JENSEN. ————— e Poetry and Realty. Prom the Lincoln, (Nebr), State Journal. ‘Writers are so imbued with the no- tion that any South Sea island is an ideal place to live that they still speak of an ‘“equatorial paradise” when writine of the place in the Galapagos wher~ {20 persons died of hunger and ocial arbitress who gave him | thirst, dents, because all of the officials ap-| have lived here, that & pedestrian on ! busy corner and watch the reception | ‘| work and play. Jil.lltment of the sources of Hitler" ideology and a carefully weighed judg- | | Hitlerism. It is in addition a plea {and the French, whom Hitler seeks| | manic superiority policy, “the Third | Empire and the Totalitarian State.” German Nazism, Mr. Steed says. “is‘ the outcome of a morbid national | mood, and of propagandist suggestions | \working upon mass ncurasthenia. It .1s a thoroughly unhealthy phcnomv- non.” It is the enemy of true democ- | | racy. which “is not a system devised lo‘ { assure the economic or social pre-| dominance of any one clas: LR ART IN AMERICA IN MODERN TIMES. Edited by Holeer Canill | and Alfred H. Bair, jr. New York: | Reynal'& mitenco This brief survey of all the arts of America since the Civil W sored by the General Fede Women's Clubs, the American Fed- | eration of Arts, the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Arl, the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and | several other organizations and the material included has already served Lin a series of broade The arts covered are painting, sculpture, archi. tecture, industrial arts, mural paint- ing, theater arts, decorating, photog- raphy and the motion picture. The contributors know their subjects and | write of them compactly and informa- tively. The book, profusely illustrated, is an excellent inexpensive reference book. * Xk % METROPOLIS. An American City in Photographs. Assembled by Agnes Rogers with Running Comment by Frederick Lewis Allen. New York: | Harper & Brothers, H First a synopsis was drawn up by{ the collaborators, then a photographer | was engaged to take pictures, a great many of them, to fit the plan. The theme is metropolitan life and the pictures show people at all kinds of | The scene is New York, but it might be any one of a number of other cities. The comments, | by the author of “Only Yesterday,” are filled with interesting facts. humor and sidelights on city life. This is one of the best of the popular picture books for adults. * % 2 x DIAMOND JIM. The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady. B Parker Morell. \New York: Simon & Schuster. The gay '90s were, according to Henry Seidel Candy, an “age of con- fidence”; to “Diamond Jim Brady,” father of Broadway's night life, they were a dazzling, naughty period, when unlimited money could be made from people’s pleasures. Mr. MurelL mem- ber ofgp family d Jewelers, first ning of a general reorganization of the service.” The Star feels that “the amera, according to Ed- | ment Tegarding the ultimate end of | fuet that he was drafted for the work | plainly indicates the importance that That was | for co-operation between the English | {3 ‘attached to it in Washingion.” thinks the Buffalo Fried will {be able to give the personnel of the “It is possible.” | American merchant marine a newer and better moral, although much will | depend upon the co-operation given him by the operators. mendations for reform will undoubt- |edly be given due consideration by | Congress when it mext meets. It would be a great pity if the lesson of the Morro Castle were to be lost. That dismal occurrence showed conclu- sively that the officers of too many ships are intent mainly on company property, the members of the | crews animated mainly by the desire to safeguard their own necks.” ‘Our guess,” remarks the Milwaukee | Journal, “is that the President has picked the right man to make steam- | boat inspection in New York Iarbor | something real, and if that proves true, lives will be saved.” The San ancisco Chronicle, conceding that “other men could do the job as ably and efficiently as Capt. Fried.,” yet maintains that “there is none other who could infuse into the service the Diamond Jim through business, but later knew him so well and became so enthusiastic over his spectacular ca- reer, combining solid capitalism, wild plunging, gargantuan eating. and amazing soft-heartedness, that this biography is the result. Starting as a poor Irish boy, Jim Brady became “the Cophetua of the Mauve Decade.” “Manhattan’s Sultan.” say: “If yowre gonna make money, vou've got to look like money,” as he swung his cane whose ferrule was set with a 3-carat diamond. He paid $90 for his first ring and when he died he owned 30 complete sets of jewels, one for each day of the month. He blazed | with No. 1 diamond set in his coffin. | In an appendix Mr. Morell describes Diamond Jim's jewel collection and gives its estimated value, * x x x K-7: SPIES AT WAR. As Told to Burke Boyce by George F. Zimmer. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co. Mr. Zimmer tells 16 true spy stories, with World War, which came into his own experience while he was a special agent of the United States Naval In- teiligence. An introduction authenti- cates each narrative and the illustra- | tions are from the author’s collection of photographs. “Spy Against Spy shows how Germany spied on her own spies. “The Flying Spy” tells how an enemy spy landed a plane on a British flying field and was invited to dinner. Mr. Zimmer is known to radio His recom- | saving | He used to| tlings on all the fronts of the | spirit and the best traditions of the sea as the man whose and per- formance have so nobly exemplified them.” The New Yo! S feels that his “acceptance of such a berth is complime! to the Steamboat " while the South Bend is convinced that “the c will have com- piete confidence that the work is being done oucht to be dons ding rec nt honors from his own and foreign govern- ments for courage and seamanship,” the Newark Evening News adds: “No doubt Capt. Fried will miss the sea, which he has followed for more than 30 y but it may be even in his case that a feeling of ‘an acme of things accomplished’ should spur the desire for service in another and quieter, though no less important, field ‘No ship that he commanded ever went to sea lacking a disciplined crew or with any of its life-saving appara- tus in bad shape.” avers the Portland (Me.) Press Herald. The Miami Her- ald records expectation of “more rizid safety regulations, which are needed along with better inspection and en- forcement of existing rules.” The Port Arthur (Tex.) News predicts “an overhauling of the ancient sea laws and the Federal agencies charged with | enforcing the The New Castle | (Pa) News feels that he “should prove of even greate rvice in preventing | future disasters at sea than he has been in the past in lending his aid | to ships in dist “Not even Capt. staff of men of opinion of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald, “could achieve the hoped-for improve- ment in maritime safety without whole-nearted co-operation from the shipping interests and the support in Congress of men who will be on the alert to detect and correct weak spots in the system of Federal supervision But this appointment is a welcome indication that the Federal Gove ment will do its utmost to effect im- provements all along the line.” in ime his- h F‘I ied or s First Aid to Queens. From the Kalamazoo Gazette An Illinois University has three popularity queens. That ma it all right, for one queen can alwa be on the job while the two others are getting a new permanent. ——— Plenty of Steam, Too. From the Boston Transcript. In Germany they're getting sugar out of wood, and in Russia they have succeeded in extracting gasoline from peat. United States scientists are still working on the problem of getting the country out of hot water. ——o——s Where Are the French? From the Cincinnati Times-Star. “Germany Could Put 5.500.000 Men in Field. France is Warned."—Head- line. France, of course, can always get out those 50 million Frenchmen, A Ripe Field Overlooked. rom the Burlington Hawkeve Gazeite »me of the cities are starting drives against mediums and fortune tellers, | but not doing a thing about profes- sional economists, business analyat and prognosticators ~ p