Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1935, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY. March 15, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .Editor . . The Evening Star Newspaper Company ; 1tn 8t and Fenntyivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Omu:! lélae;on! St.. London. n i Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Regular Edition. “ he Tvenine Star_ ... ‘45¢ per month The Evening and Sund ar (when 4 Sundays) . 60c per month The Evening and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundays) 65c_per month ¢ per copy Edition. , The Sundzy Star x Star 70c per month Star.. *" 55c per month Zollection ‘mace ‘af the end ‘of each on! rders may be sent by matl or telepnone National 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Baiiy and Sunday. .1 yr. £10.00: 1 mo. R8¢ ly onl. 1yr. $6.00: 1 iy g ¥i mo.. 0 Sunday only. ... 1yr. S4. 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None of the agencies now controlling recreation activities in the District is willing to surrender its identity. . The temporary organization just announced is a compromise that seeks to retain individual direction of recreation facilities now vested in the Board of Education, the Play- ground Department of the District government and the National Capital Parks Office of the Department of In- terior, but sets up a District of Co- lumbia Recreation Commission—on which the three agencies will have equal representation—to co-ordinate and generally to control and pool the use of facilities and personnel. The formation of this commission is cer- tainly the best solution of problems * presented at the outset in any scheme of reorganization. It is the direct result of the President’s letter of last month to Secretary Ickes, and to the Commissioners and Board of Educa- tion, in which he practically directed that such steps be taken, to the end I that “a method of administration be evolved that would provide maximum human use of these properties, thus * making a greater contribution to the + health and happiness of our citizens.” The President’s interest in the mat- ter was based, in part, on the findings of the experts that “under proper unification the same properties and the same staff could secure one-third greater results. Surely this is an achievement worthy of our earnest | efforts.” Under the plan an executive vnllj be engaged to administer the joint | use of recreation facilities under the newly formed commission. His salary will presumably ccme from some of the funds allotted to the National * Capital Parks Office from the P.W. A, dispatches herein | the producer, gave him his chance, and he justified it to the full. Two millions of people Wwitnessed his performance of the part and applauded his interpretation. He won from his audiences both respect and love, and the phrase most frequently employed in reference to his work was that of “reverence and humility.” Not for one instant did he ever pre- sume to distort the role. Rather, he made it a rule to remain within its limitations. And the net impression was beautiful. Mr. Harrison will be remembered. Personally he was ,a kindly and gentle soul, and as an artist he abun- dantly deserved his success. The monument which he would chcose, it may be supposed, would be the con- tinued prosperity of the play with which his name is so notably: linked; and there are many indications that “The Green Pastures” will continue to hold the place which he helpea to achieve for it in the regard of the playgoers of the Nation. —_—e—————— The Spending Program. Lewis W. Douglas, former director |of the budget, has issued another warning tga‘mst huge Government ex- penditures which go far beyond the revenues. In fact, Mr. Douglas, who at the outset of the Roosevelt admin- istration was a trusted adviser of the President in fiscal affairs, painted a gloomy picture of what the American people may be compelled to suffer if |a halt is not called. Breakdown of the Government's credit, he predicted, will result in dictatorship; whether communistic or fascist, Mr. Douglas said, would make little difference so far as the liberties of the people are concerned. Mr. Douglas’ criticism of the admin- istration policies took two directions, money spending and curtailment of production. itself out of debt nor to make itself | rich through non-production. | and more Americans, some.of them in !the national law-making body, are | coming around to this opinion. The | New Dealers have tried both these | courses, and the country has been | willing to go along with the experi- | ments up to the present. There are | signs. however. that the country is | about to balk. The danger, as Mr. Douglas pointed Government expenditures and mount- | ing deficits is of the eventual crea- tion of money by the Government to pay its debts. This means fiat money, printing press money, with nothing back of it save the demand of the Government that it be accepted as | money. In the opinion of Mr. Douglas, if such a course is finally 1adopled the great middle class of | the country will be wiped out and the stage set for revolution, for the upset | of the political system of the Nation. Since the early days of the present administration Mr. Douglas’ has been a voice crying in a wilderness of ‘spendlng. It was inevitable that Mr. Douglas should retire as budget dli- irector‘ The reckless disregard of the relation between disbursements and | reverue proved too much for him, and | istration’s course proved too irksome to the President. The demand of the President for a $4,880,000,000 relief and work relief appropriation at the opening of the present Congress has done more to shock the country into a realization than all the criticisms voiced by op- or else from funds of the quasl-pubuc‘ Welfare and Recreation Association, | for no appropriations for that purpose exist. In this fact there may be found evidence of a trend, already manifested in previous steps. toward eventual, complete federalization of the District recreation facilities. But as basic control over all these facilities now rests exclusively with Congress, " possessing the appropriating power, control by citizens of the District, deprived of representation in Congress, is little more than a figure of speech. Local citizens do not possess the power that comes with ability to spend the money they pay in taxes. The hope of a unified recreation system is that * there may be accomplished some of the desirable improvements which --divided administrative control has failed to accomplish in the past; that a vigorous, centralized. administration —responsive to local sentiment through citizen-representation on the con- . trolling agency—may meet the objec- tive which was held out as the aim of unification: By the adoption of a unified plan for the administration of its expand- ing recreational system Washington, the Capital City of the Nation, can serve itself best and can at the same time set an example to other cities in the country in intelligent, adequate and sensile management of its recreational system. March blizzards are dreaded, but not so much in some circles as this pink slippery day. “De Lawd.” Richard Berry Harrison, Negro actor who played the role of “De Lawd” in more than sixteen hundred ™ presentations of “The Green Pas- _tures,” is dead. He was seventy years of age, but had been ill less than a < fortnight and intended to return to *_his company as speedily as restored health would permit. Fate, however, ruled that he should be disappointed in his ambition to bring the number .of his appearances in the sacred character to two thousand, and in- stead he launched cut on the final adventure yesterday morning. Mr. Harrison was born at London, * Ontario, the son of a runaway slave. The stage attracted him in his early youth and he studied dramatic art . in a school in Detroit in preparation for the career of his choice. But fame *did not come to him until 1930, when .Marc Connelly’s reverent comedy was “placed in rehearsal at the Broadway Theater and he was afforded an op- portunity to display his matured and _disciplined genius. Rowland Stebbins, ponents of Government spending. It 1s the feeling that when the next year rolls around another huge sum, perhaps equaling the present requi- sition, may be demanded. Mr. Douglas, discussing the “theory of becoming wealthy by producing less,” said that if such a theory were carried to its final degree “we can | become fabulously wealthy by pro- ducing nothing.” His proposal, as an alternative, is to produce more and to distribute the production at mod- erate prices. More production means more jobs and more wealth. The Senate has still before it the huge work relief bill. It is not too late, if it desires, to give heed to the increasing danger of huge appropria- tions of public funds that do not exist but which must be borrowed some- where and which must be repaid somehow at some time. —— e John D. Rockfeller, sr.; enjoys his birthdays heartily and conveys genial reminder that life is worth living if you have the executive capacity to know what to do with it. —_—————————- ‘While America is making an earnest effort to secure relief from economic depression, a number of nations abroad are apparently desirous of making it an- epidemic. ——————————~ Germany's Air Force. On the eve of Sir John Simon's newly planned visit to Berlin, now fixed for March 25 and 26, another disturbing development in the Euro- pean situation threatens to thwart all efforts to bring about that “appease- ment” and “pacification” in which Great Britasin and France have lat- terly been taking the lead. Blunt ad- mission by Gen. Goering and other Nazi authorities that Germany, in vio- lation of the prohibition of the Ver- sailles treaty, has equipped herself with a military air force, including bombing squadrons, is the rpvelation that crashes into current “peace” moves and seems likely to doom them to futility. Goering’s disclosure has produced two immediate and concrete results. One is the intention of France to sound Britain and Italy as to the ad- visability of calling Germany to ac- count for brazenly flouting the Ver- sailles military clauses, The other repercussion is Radek’s announce- ment at Moscow that if the Simon negotiations in Berlin lead to any ma- terial armament concessions to the Reich, the Soviet will increase its own “defensive measures.” In addition to seeking a three-power protest against Germany's air force, France contem- D] To Mr. Douglas’ mind it | is not possible for the country to spend | More" perhaps his eriticism of the admin- | of what the future may hold for it | A—10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, : THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. plates an extension of the period of compulsory service for her conscript army as an answer to the augmented menace from the other side of the Rhine. That Germany has steadily been making herself formidable by air is, of course, no news to the general staffs of other ' European military powers, least of all to the French. The British have avowedly revamped and expanded their own aviation pro- gram because of the German air threat. But for Gen. Goering and official organs of the government openly to proclaim that, in defiance of Versailles, the Reich has equipped itself with air armaments on an ex- tensive scale gives the situation an entirely new guise and one that the allled nations are not minded to accept without remonstrance. Protest is about the only recourse to which they are likely to resort. It is out of the question that they can force the Germans to abolish or restrict their air armaments, except to the extent that such action is part and parcel of a general disarmament agreement, which the Reich will consider only on |the basis of “equality.” Goering is reported to have blurted out the con- fession that he heads, as “general of fiyers,” Germany's officially acknowl- edged air eervice as an answer to the British white paper blaming European tensity mainly on the Nazis' aggres- sive military preparations. Sir John Simon is famed for his skill in pouring oil on troubled inter- national waters. The astute lawyer- tourist from Downing street has his work cut out for him in Berlin at the end of the month, in light of the sud- | | diffused throughout Europe by cor- roborating what long has been sus- | pected—that from their standpoint the | treaty of Versailles is a dead letter |and a scrap of paper. | vt As a free country Cuba may find | Spain sending a warship to protect 1 Spanish residents threatened by revo- ‘luuon. The possibility of history’s | taking a fresh start would cause ‘a.nxicty should some of the Havana long jump, back to Weylerian rule. N Archeologists discover buried cities, one piled on top of the other, prov- |ing that the wisdom of the ancients was not great enough to lead them out, which lies in ever-increasing | to build skyscrapers in the first place. | e The farmers' problem is not dif- ferent from that of other systems ‘in demanding the privilege of buy- | ing cheap as well as that of bargain- [ ing to sell dear. r———————— If filibustering must be endured | there might be a generous effort to | | music, such as the song, “It's a Long, | Long Trail” | e —rae—————— The protest against the pink slip serves as a reminder of objections to the income tax itself as an inquisi- | torial institution. | — e Some of his friends may advise him to turn off the radio for fear of | scaring the fish. -t SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sure Finish. | Since old Sherlock Holmes was by hope 50 bereft That his needlework soothed his de- spair, tectives have turned from the trail that he left And followed romances with care. | Though his manners seem slow when he’s running the show, And he looks like a bit of a churl, You cherish him fondly, indeed, for we know The Detective will marry the girl. So ladies beware. Of your step have a care. A bandit may blacken your eye } And contrive, even though you escape from his lair, To leave social prospects awry. You are taking a chance on the rules of romance Which novels so freely unfurl. At Dukes, Earls or Barons in vain you will glance— The Detective will marry the girl. Thrift. “What are you going to talk about next?” “Daylight saving,” answered Senator Sorghum. “If taxes don't permit us to save anything else we can at least save daylight.” Jud Tunkins says one of the things that begin to look like a waste of words is opening a session of Congress with prayer. Please, Professor. Professor, Professor, please bring your high hat And vary your magical habit, | And bring us a plump little pig out of that With the ease that you once brought a rabbit. Please make it produce vegetation of use To aid in the market confusion, And take a new bow as a crop you produce From seed that's a dainty illusion. A Candid Hoodoo. “Do you object to disclosing your in- come to the public?” “No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “It has sunk in such a way that in- stead of encouraging racketeers it would warn them off.” Queering the Confetti. We used to scatter joy around Where marched the serenader. We'd shower paper on the ground To greet a proud parader. Stock markets may let gloom escape ‘Mongst rumors large or petty. When ticker tape is made of crape It's no good for confetti. “I got dis much to say foh a mon- key,” said Uncle Eben. “He may act funny, but he don’t talk foolish.” T ) den new distrust the Germans have | | revolutionists decide to make it a | relieve the monotony by introducing | | President Roosevelt will go fishing. | Since our last article on tropical fishes we have received several more inquiries about feeding. These are the standard questions: “How much shall I feed?” “How often shall I feed?” ‘The usual answer to these questions is that there is no standard answer which will do in all cases. While this is quite true, in the main, it does not tell people what they want to know. They want something definite, something they can go by, since every one who fools around with fish in any forms realizes that the food used is at once the least expensive and most important matter in their daily care. Fortunately, a rule-of-thumb an- swer may be given in this matter. Manufacturers of prepared dried foods have attempted to answer it by such statements as the following: “Feed as much daily as the fish will eat in five minutes.” “Feed them once a day as much as they will en- tirely consume in 10 minutes.” “Feed as much as fish will eat in 15 minutes a day.” * * k% The answer must lie somewhere in between, so we select 10 minutes as the proper eating time for the aver- | age tropical fishes. When we have said this, however. we have by no means said enough. The “how” of feeding is even more important than the length of time the aquarium inmates should be per- mitted to eat or the number of times | & day they should be fed It is in this “how” of proper feed- | ing that most keepers err. | “All they will eat” in a certain time depends absolutely on how the | food is put into the aquarium. If as much as they might eat in 10 min- | utes, let us say, is dumped on the | water surface at one time, the very “amount of it will force too much of it to fall to the bottom. If, on the other hand, n very small pinch is given them, to begin feed- ing, and this small amount spread out along the front line of the tank, neither the jostling of the animals nor the juxtaposition of the particles of food will cause much of it to fall down. It is the food not eaten that causes most of the trouble. Although gold- fish may be overfed, and often are, it is almost impossible to do the same with the tropical specimens that find their way into the modern home, * kK % The advice of “10 minutes” is nct | given on account of real fear of over- feeding so much as fear of putting toc much food into the aquarium to go to waste, to spoil and foul the water. It has been found, by long experi- ence, that unless some such minirum | fls stressed the average keeper will | feed too much for the good of the water. It must never be forgotten that an aquarium is a miracle, and the more one keeps them (it usually |is plural) the more he realizes this. Fish never. in nature, live in such | small amounts of water. Even the smallest puddle is vastly larger than ' the largest artificial aquarium in a living room | It has been found that if food is { mals will get enough nourishmeant, provided the foods have been well | no waste to pollute the water. fan” whether there can be much real food value to foods which will not | hurt the water if uneaten. Attempts to take up uneaten food It begins to look as if the admin- | ities over the holding companies bill hottest congressional contests in re- cent history. All signs indicate that | it will wax fast and furious before the fate of the Rayburn-Wheeler measure is decided, with the utilities fighting every inch of the ground. President Roosevelt's message pro- testing against the “private socialism of concentrated private power” is the | most militant communication he has yet sent to Congress. Never has he expressed himself with more com- bative firmness than in his assertion that certain types of utility holding companies “must go,” and in his thrust at the “tyrannical power and exclusive opportunity of a favored few.” Mr. Roosevelt's sledge-hammer blows at the propaganda in progress to thwart his program remind Con- gress of Woodrow Wilson's frontal attack in 1913 on the lobky that op- posed the Federal Reserve bill. The President’s emphasis on propaganda is obviously intended to strengthen the backbone of Senators and Repre- sentatives, who find themselves sub- jected to one of the most intensive bombardments of letters and tele- grams on record in connection with the holding companies bill. * * x % Philip H. Gadsden, who, as chair- man of the Committee of Public Utility | Executives, is leading the battle for the interests he represents, is a South Carolinian by birth. A lawyer by pro- fession, he has been a public utility | executive for the past 35 years, be- | ginning that career as vice president of the Charleston Consolidated Rail- way & Lighting Co. For five years (1893-1898) he was a member of the South Carolina House of Represent- atives. Since 1919 Mr. Gadsden has been vice president of the United Gas Improvement Co. of Philadelphia and a power in utilities throughout the country. During the World War he served as chairman of the National Committee on Public Utility Condi- tions, He is a Democrat and 67 years old. * k ko Referring to congressional mail on the holding companies bill and men- tioning that he had 15,000 letters on the subject last week, Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri told the Senate that he understands that “each utility in his State has notified each of its employes that if he cannot get 40 let- ters sent to the Senators and Repre- sentatives from Missouri he will be * ok ok X When President Roosevelt returned from his Florida fishing trip last year | he told a welcoming congressional del- egation that since members last saw him he had become “a tough guy.” An impression prevails that F. D. R. plans to turn up in Washington next month similarly seasoned after an- other siege with the tarpon and bar- racuda and in ringside mood and form to deal with an obstreperous Capitol Hill. On the face of things Mr. Roosevelt will need all the combative- ness he can muster if he desires'to secure enactment of his major meas- ures at the present session. He hopes to be able to start South with at least the work-relief bill satisfactorily dis- posed of, and that this will pave the way to successive approval of other P D. C, TRACEWELL. are s great nuisance, and can be avoided by feeding the right way. * % k¥ What is this right way, then? It consists of close adherence to the following rules: 1. Small pinches at a time. 2. Do the fishes like the food? 3. Does it float? The first of these is perhaps the most important. If you tell an inexperienced aqua- rium fish enthusiast to use & “small pinch” he will take up as much as he can hold between thumb and fore- finger, which in most cases will be about four times too much. The right way is to take just a bit, 0 little that it strikeshe feeder as a shame against fish life. ‘This amount, in all likelihood, will still prove too much. The thing to do is to dump this pinch into the palm of the left hand, in order to see if it is small enough. What is “small enough” is this: Just enough to sprinkle thinly along the front edge of the aquarium. Only enough should be put in to keep the fishes busy for about & min- ute, or perhaps 2 minutes, at the most. This means that such particles as fall down through the water will not be too many for some of the fishes to catch as they float downward. If there is a shower of them, on the other hand, even a crowded tank can- not handle them, and too many of them hit the sand. If only a comparatively small num- ber fall, these undoubtedly will be found after the main feeding is over. * kX k ‘The way the fishes go after this preliminary, what may be called sam- ple feeding, should guide the food giver. If they clean it up, & similar amount may be given again, and so on until the 10 or 15 minutes of standard feeding time is over, but if they show | any reluctance about cleaning up the first portion, an even smaller amount should be given next. If the day is cloudy, of the sort which depresses humans, the fishes will be depressed, too, and usually off their feed, as they used to say of barn animals. Hence | every meal must be its own standard. It means little to a fish to miss a meal. | What is more important to it is that it likes what it must eat. * K ok % ‘This brings us to the second point: Do the fishes like the food? It is true that we may place in one tank ani- mals from all parts of the world, but this does not make them prefer the | same food. ‘When we come to think about it, it is a wonder that they will eat the | same thing, even when pressed by | hunger. Every one who has experi- mented with different brands of food knows that one species of fish will | greedily consume one food. while others, maybe in the same tank, will | eat it reluctantly. The thing to do is to study the feed- ing reactions and attempt, within reason, to satisfy the consumers, who, after all, are being fed. The question of float is an impor- tant one in feeding the prepared foods, upon which, by the way, if properly selected, fishes may be kept for a long time in good health. The food that put into the tank in such small | floats is easier to handle in every way; |early and romantic history of our amounts as require the fishes to eat it | it enables the keper to gauge how |country. As one of the patron saints all up before they get more, the ani- | much to put in by keeping track of it ' of the Democratic party, after it is in. The important thing, however, is selected, and above all there will be | to feed in small pinches, much smaller | his birthday It | at a time than most persons believe. | worthy of remembrance. must remain a question with the “fish | The main thing is to make sure that | dered his country great and unselfish He also unwittingly, - but4 the fishes actually consume all that is put In. If they do this, the ques- tion of feeding more or less takes care of itself. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. White House proposals. Members of istration’s duel with the public util- | Congress read between the lines of | military 1l“‘§ :oldmzdf:mwnits message Roose- | litical campaigns, and of his great I = | veltian readiness to go to the mat all | physical suffering during so long a is destined to become one of ‘h';filong the legislative line. Adminis- | period of his life and to its end, his t tration leaders in both Houses are |exploits are forgotten, and the blem- | Siam arouses the interest of Ameri- | sponsibility toward the people of the FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935. Improper Displays for The Day of St. Patrick To the Editor of The Star: Every year at the approach of St. Patrick’s day certain manufacturers and retailers seem to enter in a con- spiracy to place on the market articles supposed to be particularly and strik- ingly appropriate to the Irish festival and which, instead, insult and disgust not merely people of Irish blood, but every one with a normal sense of de- cency. They dress their windows with green pigs, with gorillas and apes with green pipes in their mouths, with foully offensive caricatures of human beings and they label all of these Irish and print “St. Patrick’s Day” in large letters all over them. This is their idea of humor—of real Irish humor. It these business concerns want Irish trade, if they want Irish em- blems, if they are sincere in their de- sire to honor a day which is honored the world over, they would not so out- rage the feelings of Irish people. In- stead, they would give us reproduc- tions of the typically Irish Round Towers, the Tara Broach, the Cross of Cong or the Irish wolf hound. Why descend to the grossest depths of vulgarity when there is so much that is fine, so much that is gallant, 50 much that is really Irish? There are St. Patrick's day cards, which come here from Ireland. They are beautiful cards, illuminated with scroll-work from the Book of Kills, the Book of Durrow and other famous and immortal Irish manuscripts which bear living and eternal witness to the genius of the Gael. They come with greetings in Ireland’s own language, with scenes of Irish hill and glen, with verses that breathe the soul of Ireland. Why cannot these mer- chants sell these things? They im- | port goods from remote corners of the | earth, but not from Ireland. And | these Irish cards and Irish souvenirs | would not compete with anything pro- | | duced in this country, while other im- | | portations are daily putting Ameri- | cans on thegrelief rolls. Radio programs supposed to be ap- | propriate to St. Patrick's day are | equally repulsive. Instead of choosing from among the thousands of beauti- | ful Irish songs and melodies, which | breathe the true spirit of St. Patrick’s | | day and of Irish nationality, radio | stations inflict on their listeners vul- | gar doggrell originally sung in de- graded London music halls, which | picture Ireland as a land of tumble- | down shacks and Irishmen as a race of buffoons with pigs and goats as | their boon companions. Such pro- | grams, far from adding to the pleas- | ure of the Irish festival, make self- respecting pedple of Irish blood turn off their radios in disgust It is time that people of Irish blood took active notice of these things. It is time they expressed their feelings | in no uncertain terms. SEAN O'DOHERTY. ——— | Anniversary of Birth Of Andrew Jackson| To the Editor of The Star: The 15th of March is the an- | niversary of the birth of Andrew | Jackson, victor of the battle of New | Orleans and seventh President of the | United States, who saw the light of |day on that date in 1767. He was | an active participant in the stirring |drama and momentous events of the and a | worthy and valiant citizen of our | Nation, which he helped to build, does, indeed, He ren- | services. with noble purposes, did it some dis- service in the realm of economics, and, perhaps, politically. But there was one phase of his life and char- acter which is particularly deserving of comment in this age of loose marital relations and appalling di- vorces, which should be emphasized, namely, his devotion, love and loy- alty to his wife, Those who read the story of his stormy life, with its personal encounters, its brilliant victories and heated po- seem | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Is there any memorial at the spot where King Albert of the Bel- gians was killed?>—H. K. anniversary of his death, stands on the spot where King Albert's body Ardennes. Q. What is the name of the island whose inhabitants talk by whistling? —F.R. M. A. In Gomera, Canary Islands, the natives use a language without words which is whistled. It is said to have developed because of the physiography of the jsland with its impassable gorges. The aboriginal inhabitants discovered that whistling would carry farther than shouting and a whistling code grew from necessity. Q. Is it true that a new kind of cabbage has been grown which does ing?—H. M. A. Dr.C.H. Myers of the department {of plant breeding, Cornell University, after six years of experimentation, has succeeded in producing a plant minus the characteristic odor and ?ore digestible than ordinary cab- age. Q. How long have inventors toyed with the idea of perpetual motion?— W.J.C. A. Exepriments for the purpose of gun many centuries ago and innumer- able devices have been suggested. As early as 1775 the Paris Academy of Sciences refused to receive schemes for perpetual motion, believing it to be impossible. Q. How long has Mardi Gras been celebrated in Mobile, Ala.?—H. E. A. Mardi Gras was observed in Mo~ bile almost from the beginning of French colonization. In its present form the carnival dates from the fourth decade of the nineteenth cen- tury. Q. Is Oscar De Priest still in Con- gress?—C. E. T. A. He was not eletced to the pres- ent Congress. He was succeeded by | Arthur W. Mitchell, who is also a Negro. Q. What kind of a vessel is used to force a passage through ice?—T. N. A. An icebreaker is especially built for this purpose. It is heavily built, as it must run up on the ice and break it by sheer weight. Such a vessel has an overhanging bow. Q. Does England ever have earth- quakes?—R. H. A. Occasionally. A series of sohcks was felt in the midland counties of | England in August, 1926. Q. When will the Shakespeare Fes- | tival at Stratford-on-Avon begin this year?—D. B. A. It opens April 15 and will con- tinue into September. Nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays wil be presented. Q. Is there a University of Hawaii? —P. H. A. The University of Hawaii was founded in 1907 and is located at Honolulu. known photographer who takes pic- tures exclusively of men?—L. C. M. A. Pierle MacDonald of New York City, a photographer since 1883, has since 1900 been exclusively a pho- | tographer of men. He has won nu- merous honors and decorations for his artistic work, among these being the A. A cross, dedicated on the first | was found on the hillside in the | not have an offensive odor when cook- | producing perpetual motion were be-j Q. What is the name of the well Cramer grand prize cup, grand prize for portraiture, diamond decoration, the laurel wreath, and seven gold and two silver medals of the Photograph- ers’ Association of America. Q. How old is the average sugar maple tree when it is tapped?—FP. G. A. Prof. J. A. Cope says that it takes about 50 years for a maple in a sugar bush to grow big enough to be tapped for maple sirup. The amount of sugar in the sap varies from 2 to 4 per cent among individual trees. The sap is reduced to one-fortieth of its volume to become maple sirup. Q. What is the medical term for sleeping sickness?—H. W. A. 1t is called encephalitis, Q. What was the size and weight | of the largest German gas mine used |{in France? How were these mines shot off?—A. H. A. The Chemical Warfare Service of the War Department says that the largest gas mine used by the Germans in France was the 25 cm. heavy Min- nenwerfer bomb fired from the rifled barrel of the 25 cm. trench mortar (Minnenwerfer). It weighed 134 pounds and contained 51 pounds of liquid chemical. Q. How large is the Isle of Elba?— C. A S | A. It is 18 miles long, from 3 to 10 miles wide, and contains 86 square | miles. It is mountainous and un- | wooded. | — | Q. Please name some elegies besides | Gray's famous one?—H. D. | A. Other such tributes to the dead are Milton’s “Lycidas,” Shelley's “Adonais,” and Tennyson's “In Me- moriam.” | Q. How long has England had an income tax?—D. M. A. It was introduced in 1799, during | the Napoleonic Wars, and lasted with | a short intermission until their end. | It was revived in 1842 and has re- | mained a part of the British financial structure. | . Q When will Hamilton Field be | dedicated?—C. H. | A. The o cial dedication of Hamil- | ton Field, San Rafael, Calif., is set for May 5, 1935. Q. Of the automobiles used in Switzerland, what per cent are Amere~ ‘ican-mnde?-—s. L. A. For every 100 cars in Switzer- and 45 are of American make, 21.5 are French, 19 Italian, 9 German, 3 English and only 1 is made in Switzerland. | Q When did the waves of immi- { gration from Ireland reach this coun- | try?=—M. L. | _A. There were three main periods. | These were known as the Colonisl, | the early nineteenth century and the | recent. Q. In examining fingerprints for |use in court are creases considered |as good characteristics in making comparisons?—0. C. | A. Inasmuch as creases appear |and disappear within a short period of time, no attempt is usually made to place reliance on them. Q. Why is slaw called cole slaw?— |H. L. A. The term derives from the cab- bage’s older names of cole-cabbage and cole-wort. Q. What is the longest city in the world?—E. M. | A. Honolulu, with a length of | 2,260 miles, is the longest city in the world. -Most of the city's area is water. For administrative purposes | Midway Island, 1300 miles to the | north, and Palmyra Island, 960 miles | to the south, are included within the | city and county of Honolulu. Hailed for Abdication of King Prajadhipok of likely to model their tactics |1 y r on that | ishes that marred his character are | cans because the monarch, well-known cue. * x x % Representative Dewey Short, Mis- souri'’s lone Republican member of Congress, enhanced his reputation as a vitriolic phrase maker with his recent diatribe against the recovery act. Here's his blistering peroration: “Let this blue buzzard, which never had a tail and consequeatly could not fly, whose pin feathers were plucked by Clarence Darrow and his commission, breathe its last on June 16 of this year. I am bitterly opposed to granting the | N. R. A. any extension, and I do not believe in giving it even a decent burial. It was never more than a foul mixture of colossal stupidity, haughty inso- lence, meddlesome interference and rapacious arrogance. It will go down in history as a dismal and egregious failure. Let us now put an end to these un-American practices and break the deadly shackles which en- slave American business. Complete and immediate abandonment of N. R. A. is one of the surest and quickest roads to recovery.” * Kk % ‘This is sure enough the season of the New Deal's discontent. so far as its batting average in United States district courts is concerned. During the past 30 days Federal judges in no fewer than five widely scattered juris- dictions—Delaware, Kentucky, Louisi- ana, New Jersey and Rhode Island— have in one form or another cracked down on the constitutionality or valid- ity of various phases of N. R. A. or A. A. A, Generally the basis of all their findings was that purely intra- state commerce is not subject to Fed- eral jurisdiction. * ok % % Evelyn John St. Loe Str British writer and lecturer, vha:fl,!ehye‘ Department of Immigration seeks to deport as an alien Communist, mar- ried a New York lady, Miss Esther Murphy, daughter of Patrick P, Murphy, famous after-dinner wit, Mr. Strachey has about the most aristo- cratic educational background an Englishman can boast—Eton, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was elected to Parliament as a. Labor member from industrial Bi ham in 1929. He officially describes him- self as & journalist. His first book, published in 1925, when he was 24 year ol‘_: was entitled “Revolution by Reason.” 1In 1928 Mr. Strachey pub- lished a volume dealing with workers’ control in the Russian mining industry. e Although the State Department is adhering to a vigilant but resolutely hands-off attitude toward the present uprising against the Mendieta govern- ment in Cuba, there is con- ¢ern in administration quarters over the possible turn of events at Havana. How long British owners of Cuban railroads and other extensive foreign interests in the island wili be content to let things boil without precaution- ary measures of some kind is one | forgiven in the story of his romantic and chivalrous love for his wife, Rachel—a love of unvarying loyalty and ineffable beauty. If love, as has been said, endureth all things. | lieveth all things, hopeth all things, and is kind, its every virtue was | exemplified in the love he bore his | wife, for there is no record of & | love more tender, more loyal, so chivalrous, or that grew more beaus tiful with the passing of the years, or that burned like a vestal flame to the end of his own life, or that survived with unabated ardor long after its object had passed from all earthly scenes. To his bachelor friend, Sam Dale, have made one mistake in life. You are now old and solitary, without a bosom friend to comfort you. God called mine away. But all I have achieved—fame, power, everything— would I exchange if she could be restored to me for a moment.” Well and truly did it exemplify the state- ment: “And now abideth faith, hope and love, These three, but the greatest of these is love.” ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER. “Fishwives” of Radio Should Keep Off the Air To the Editor of The Star: I listened Monday night for the first time to Father Coughlin, and | while his address gave the “natural man” in me a keen satisfaction in having some one take the hide off my bete noir, the “Chocolate Sol- dier of the N. R. A.” it is indeed to be regretted that these two “fish- wives” of the radio must carry on their encounter within the sanctity of the “upper room,” or stage their cat-and-dog fight within the sacred precincts of the church. It will be a happy day for this be- | he once said with deep pathos, “You | | in this country, fought for the intro- duction of Occidental ideas among his Asiatic people. Some newspapers feel that he has |been a pawn in the game between while others find a parallel between his situation and that found in Eng- ‘lish history when the ruler fought ‘wn,h the common people against the power of reaction. There are predic- tions that, while his young nephew has taken the throne, under the guardianship of local statesmen, Pra- Jjadhipok will later return to his old Ppost. “Within King Prajadhipok’s own life span,” says the New Orleans Times-Picayune, “he brought a medi- eval monarchy, whose people were little better off than 600 years before when they were slaves of the Cam- bodians, fairly abreast the modern world, with a constitutional govern- ment, schools mcdeled somewhat on those of England and many public institutions on a par with those of Europe. When he came to the throne as Rama VII, his people were good 2oldiers, elephant drivers, rice planters and hewers of teakwood. Through the introduction of Western culture he turned them, alas, into politicians of the Western school, and as such they began to apply, to king and country alike, the Western brand of absolutism.” Observing that both the ex-King and the new boy King have spent much time abroad, the Dayton (Ohio) Herald comments: “The dapper little | monarch is accounted a benevolent autocrat, but his benevolence does not run to condoning any infringements upon his prerogatives. He has threat- ened abdication several times in the past, for the same reason. It is a bit unusual to find a monarch, at least 80 it seems in these days, who feels s0 independent that he would prefer giving up his throne to making con- cessions proposed by his subjects. Can it be that the ‘possessor of 24 country when the raucous voice of the general is heard no more in the land, and as for Father Coughlin, the spirit that came breathing over the radio would seem to indicate that his place is indeed at the altar, not so much, however, as a priest as in the capacity of & penitent. ’A‘i‘B’ERT JgQSEPH McCARTNEY. e Torments of Crowded And Jerky Street Cars To the Editor of The Star: I think the Washington street cars are perfectly terrible! For us women to be cooped up in the aisles and on the platforms like sardines is humili- ating and positively immoral! The motormen show absolutely no con- sideration for the passengers and start the cars with a jerk, stopping abruptly, throwing the passengers helter skelter. In the name of de- cency, can you not have the number of passengers limited? Why should the citizens of Washington tolerate the present conditions just to swell the profits of the street car company? to | I will positively not permit my daugh- ters to ride on street cars during the rush hours. CAROLINE CALHOUN, A umbrellas’ is tired of playing king?” “Where a man has been of great | service to his country,” Kansas City Times, “some effort will be made to keep him in office even against his will. In the United States this patriotic practice is known as ‘drafting’ a candidate. In Siam it takes the form of a revolution, and King Prajadhipok is inherently op- posed to violence. He, therefore, hopes that no disturbances will be created in that country on his behalf. And he has announced that if apy one so far disregards his wish as to start a revolution for the purpose of making him king again, ‘it must be under- stood it would be without my agree- ment, approval or support.’ As we understand it, if such an unhappy development took place, the King must be considered simply a victim of circumstance.” ‘The Portland (Me.) Press-Herald concludes that “the former King is happy in the enjoyment of all the things London offers and well content to abandon the cares of state,” while “the Siamese don't appear to mind it any, but perhaps think they will be tully as happy with a schoolboy King who hasn't any progressive schemes.” ‘The Lincoln (Nebr.) State Journal as- sumes that the new figures in the gov- the larger nations of Europe and Agia,| 'Siam’s Abdicating Monarch Liberal Policy | ernment “are not going to let any re- | country interfere with their acquisi- | tion of personal power.” The fact | that the retiring monarch was too | modern for his associates is empha- | sized by the New Haven (Conn.) Jour= nal-Courier and the Charleston (8. | €.) Evening Post “We shall be free.” advises the Port- | land Oregonian, “to turn for {llus- | trations of despotism in government | to Russia and Germany, where execu- tioners do not stand beside the ruler as he rules, but where the ruler rules the courts, and the heads of those who oppose him roll just as certainly in the dust as in any barbaric kingdom that ever was.” | “The contest in Siam,” thinks the | Grand Forks (N. Dak.) Herald, “ap- pears to have been one not between King and people, but between the King and the uninstructed and in- | articulate masses on the one hand and a powerful and compactly organized governing group on the other. The situation is paralleled in a way in cer- tain episodes in English history in which the King of a particular period was arrayed in the interest of the | common people against a compact | group of powerful nobles.” | “There may be seen,” according to the Danville (Ill) Commercial-News, “the hands of English and French diplomacy, meddling with the situa- tion in the Far East. This time the European powers have Japan for an adversary in the game of chess, with Siam as a pawn. For the past few | weeks, almost months, London and Paris have been playing the same same with Italy, with Ethiopia as the | pawn. It has not been so many years since England and France reduced the Siamese Kingdom to its present limit- ed area by slicing off rich areas, ceded by a helpless Siam. It is not likely that Siamese statesmen have forgotten | these losses, and the sympathetic counsel of Japan has not improved the friendly feeling toward the Euroe pean countries.” ——— Up to Abyssinia. | From the Burlington (lows) Hawkers The Italian government. denies that it is going to spend $849,000,000 in the campaign against Abyssinia. That probably depends on how much ?:ngbymnhm think their country’s A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. Day’s End Dusk everywhere within my house | Save v;ll:rre firelight plays upon your | And on the amber coffee that I sip In an old easy chair. | Dusk in the avenue outside Save where sunset casts a saffron glow Over a scene whose every spire and tree I love and know. | Lean to me in this transitory dusk, | While everygarduous hour slips out of Routing the shadows in my heart as da; Drifts into ni~ht, 5. _" 3 \