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A—10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 24, 1935. 0 L S S e 2. INE SNSRI SO i e B B T R . E EVENING STAR L 5 THIS AND TH AT NEW BOOKS BY CHARLES E. TRAC With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. | WEDNESDAY.,..April 24, 1835[\ THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor | The Evening Star Newspaper Company | nia Av | 42nd S an Building. Chicago Office: Lak Yopean Offic St.. London, ke Michi European Office: 14 Regent England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. _ The Evenine Sta: ""45c per month ‘The Evening and Sinday’ & (W] . r Guc per month ng _and Sunday Star 5 " sundays) . c_per month The Sunday Star............oCDercopy Night Final Edition. Nioht Final and Suncay Star Night Pinal Star £5¢ per month Collection ‘made ‘at the end of rach month. Orders may be sent by mail or | telephone National 5000 | | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | | Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. .1 ¥r.. $10.00; 1 mo. 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If there is no interference with existing plans, the treaty Navy will be in commission by 1941, after which the annual cost of our sea establish- ment will rise to $550.000.000 The House now has under consid- eration the largest peace-time naval program in American history. There is happily every prospect that it will be enacted into law without serious opposition. Acting on a belief that some international limitation agree- ment is still possible, despite the breakdown of the Anglo-American- Japanese negotiations. the Appropria- tions Committee cut in half (he ad- ministration’s proposed building fund for next year. The budzet had pro- vided $29.380.000 starting struction to cost altogether $197.4 000 and embracing one aircraft car- rier, two light cruisers, three destrov- ers of over 1500 tons each. destrovers of smalier size and six sub- marines. But the ent will not pre- vent the laving of the keels of all the twenty-four ships in question by July 1 next. Tv is left to the discretion of the President to determine whether to go ahead with them at that time. The Appropriations Committee ren- ders the cause of national defense a timely service in explaining why it is necessary to provide for a peak sum for naval preparedness. It is due exclusively to what the committee describes as the “folly and futility” of the course the United States pursued following the Washington treaty of 1922, While other powers availed themselves of their building rights, this country relatively stood still. The result, was that between 1922 and 1930 we laid down only twenty-one vessels, while Great Britain laid down eighty- aix and Japan 125. The expenditure now required is the price we must pav for our laggard tactics. The Appropriations Committee does well, too, to call attention to the world situation in general and to the “war clouds hanging over Europe.” Tt sets forth how nations across the Atlantic are engaged in the creation of “the greatest war machines ever built.” The committee rightly minds the country that amid preseni- “it is necessary for us for con- twelve Te- hour conditions s0 to prepare ourselves that we may he able to defend America in any emergency that may arise.” That is a plain, dispassionate and Incontrovertible epitome of the sit- uation, At no time since the World ‘War has there been greater need than now for the United States to keep its first line of defense—the Navv—at the arme of efficiency and readiness. There must be no more of the “folly and futility” of the 1922-1930 era. S e Suburban gangsters in this vicinity think that some of them are entitled tn cherish hopes that an enterprising theater manager will come along and offer them engagements. EEE Assembling Relief Machinery. The only significance that anybody ever saw in the original choice of Frank C. Walker to be executive di- rector of the National Emergency Council was the President’s great con- fidence in a devoted. unselfish and able worker. There is the same signifi- eance in his recall, after an absence of about a year, not only to step back into that position, but to assume the new task of presiding over the small | end of a catch-all funnel, which the President has decided to establish as part of the machinery for spending | the $4,800,000,000 work-relief fund. | This funnel is to be officially known | as the Division of Applications and | Information of the National Emer- | geney Council. Into the top will pour | all the thousand and one schemes of Federal, State and local governments | and of other governmental and pri- vate agencies for improving the state | of mankind by spending relief funds. | Mr, Walker’s job is apparently to be‘ the analysis and classification of the | wchemes, according to their practica- | bility, location, usefulness and the number of persons to be employed. | From the small end of the funnel the | schemes will drip, or flow in to the Works Allotment Board, which will be described in a few days in an an- - nouncement from the White House. | cations and Information is in the way | was discovered penditures—Ickes, Tugwell, Hopkins | resolution of censure and condemna- The Works Allotment | and Fechner. | | Board will probably refer the approved | tract the gunpowder from the situ- | ation becomes painfully and glaringly projects to the Government agency which will supervise them or carry them out. But it would appear that | Mr. Walker’s new Division of Appli- | of becoming a lusty infant that will| necessarily grow in strength and stature as the business of sorting ap- plications for Government relief funds really gets under way. The volume of this business will be tre- mendous in itself, and added to the | volume will be the requirements for | close and detailed examination. Tt is a natural Guestion whether parts of | the complicated machinery devised by the Public Works Administration for | the original examination of work-relief | projects will not eventually be trans- ferred intact to the new division | headed by Mr. Walker. | B The Pinch of Taxes. | The Secretary of the Treasury stir- | red the veterans' bonus soup yester- day. threatening to add a pinch of taxes. In the opinion of Senator Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who has been carefully sitting on the lid so far as increased Federal taxes are concerned, | this is just too bad. Like other Demo- | cratic leaders who are looking for- ward to next vear's elections, the Mississippi Senator does not relish the idea of serving boosts in laxes up to the public. It is one thing to distribute Federal funds to an appre- ciative public, but it is quite another thing to take these funds from the pockets of the people. The -ountry has been assured by the administra- tion leaders that the Government can get along without increased taxes—at this time—provided the President’s budget is not exceeded. To Mr. Morgenthau's suggestion that the administration would feel compelled to levy increased taxes de- signed to from $200.000.000 to $600,000.000 a year if any of the bonus bills were enacted into law, both Sen- ator Harrison and Representative Pat- man of Texas, author of the bill which passed the House, demurred. Harris- son’s “compromise” bill calls for the issuance of Government bonds to be exchanged for the bonus certificates of the The Patman bill provides for the payment of the bonus with “greenbacks.” Treasury notes which can be turned the presses of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, based on the sav-so and the credit the Government generally, The Secretary of Treasury, however, in: that nothing must be done to strain the credit of the Gov- ernment. The quality of credit is not strained, apparently, by the appro- Priation of nearly $5.000.000.000 for -relief and other kinds of relief to pile hich the public debt to over $30.000,000.000. The bonus. on the other band, is the straw that threat- veterans. out on of the ens io break the Government's back. And so it may, indeed The credit of the Government needs iealous guarding. If the administra- tion is turning over a new leaf of the ledger, so much the better. In the past it has looked as though administration was intent upon giving ' from the Government Treasury “until it hurts,” and hurts badly. Up to the present there has been no indication that this free - handed spirit was checked. But with some £3.000.000,- 000 still to hand out in any way the President sees fit, perhaps this spirit | can scarcely be said to have faltered much. It taxes. more taxes. are needed to pay the veterans some $2,000.000.000, it may seem strange to the man on| the street that more taxes will not be needed to pay the $5,000,000,000 and other billions already appropriated. ' But the man on the street may rest assured that he will not be called upon to pay these taxes—until after 1936. P the Learn-to-Swim Campaign. Washington boys this week are of- fered free lessons in swimming. The ! Younz Men's Christian Association is sponsoring the campaign and The Star is co-operating. A social ideal is rep- resented in the matter, because swim- ming is conducive of health and a certain indefinable but very stimulat- | ing happiness in living. But the subject might be discussed from another angle. To illustrate, it is fair to cite the recent Morro Castle disaster. The passengers on that un- fortunate vessel were an average com- pany of people. Suddenly the ship to be crippled and afite. Each traveler stood in peril | of death. Those who could not swim were in double danger. The cas- ualty list would have been longer | had it not been for the fact that some of the tourists and crew had | the power and the skill to make | their way through the waves to the | safety of shore. Many of those who | were lost met their untimely fate be- cause they mever had cultivated the technique of that personal variety of navigation. To stress the motive of fear, how- | ever, is not necessary. Accidents at tion, the failure of diplomacy to ex- apparent, That, the powers still prefer to place their faith in force rather than in the panaceas of statesmanship is ex- emplified by the Imminent signature of the Franco-Russian military al- liance. That treaty of “mutual as- deliberately aimed at curb- ing ar aggressive Germany, as was its World War precursor, will be sup- plemented by similar agreements em- bracing the Little Entente states. Great Britain and Italy stand in| something more than sympathetic re- i lationship to these various pacts pro- viding for the use of armies, navies and air forces in certain emergencies. There has just appeared in Lord | Rothermere’s London Evening News | an editorial which breathes the cold | spirit of realism in which the course of European events is viewed, even in pacifist-minded Great Britain. It points out that there is no sense in wasting time over the merits of the case—that Germany's former obliga- tion to remain unarmed and the | obligation of other powers to disarm | are no longer matters of practical | interest. “The fat is geiting very near the | fire.” the Evening News declares. “The | situation which deteriorated at Stresa | went, completely sour in Geneva. For Britain there is only one thing to do. It should break off these disastrous infernational exercises and arm itself adequately in the a We are back to a state of affairs where the peace of Europe is to be kept by a strong arm and in no other way. Ten thou- sand British war planes will produce more security than any number of leagues or pacts or peripatetic states- men can do.” That is a disturbing, discouraging and depressing picture. In the light | of diplomacy’s latest futilities, it can- | not be said to be overdrawn. building program, to go into effect July 1, will give new zest to the Fourth of July orations on how to use ships as a means of avoiding foreign entanglements that might ' come prowling from abroad, . ——— = A State lottery to gaise money for old-age pensions is proposed in the California Legislature. Enough old- age income to permit the purchase of an occasional lottery ticket will as in making life worth living, -~ e - After some conversation with the President, Mr. Moffett decided not to disclosing the fact that he would rather think things over than talk about them on the radio, resign, — —— Russia under Stalin is usually de- scribed as a place where gangsters claim a right to operate under gov- ernment authority. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Fairy Stories, Telling fairy stories Used to be a task Fraught with gentle glories To promise all we'd ask Bringing rainbow vision Of a pot, of gold And a life elysian Fraught with wealth untold. ‘Telling fairy stories— It’s a different job Making inventories ‘That will cheer the mob. Cruel care relaxes As we point the way To grab off the taxes That some nne else must pay. Wisdom of the Plain People. “Do you still trust the wisdom of the plain people?” “When I meet them,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Most everybody now is so bu. with new theories that he considers himself some kind of a fancy article.” | Jud Tunkins savs some politicians | run for office on the strength of a promise that if they get elected maybe thev'll reform, | | | i Early Arabian Highjack. Ali Baba was a lad Of questionable morals. He found the robbers when they had The loot of many quarrels. He watched the robbers, who had proved A group of thrifty jobbers. | At last he said, “It's my next move,” And then he robbed the robbers. ‘I Carefree Art. | “An artist should not have to think about money."” “Perhaps you are right,” said Mr. Dustin Stax. “Every time an artist gries to sell me a picture he wants enough money to keep him from worry the rest of his life.” * Rough and Smooth. With many problems to be mef, With frequency that dazes, | behalf of former Senator Henry ! the oath of office. Men have been shaving every morn- ing for so many thousands of years that one might think they would have learned how to do it by this time. Raw, sore faces, however, show the least critical that hundreds by no means really know how to shave, as | strange as that may seem. “The best way to get a good shave—-" that was the unusual re- quest contained in a letter to this Cepartment the other day. The only reason for attempting to answer it lies in the simple fact that many do it all wrong. ‘While the main fault lies in a poor razor, the man behind the blade too often is to blame, if he shrinks from this morning task. He may let custom and lack of ex- perimentation keep his face red. * oK o ok He should, of course, begin with a sharp blade. He may attain this with either an old-fashioned straight or modern safety razor, but since the vast ma- jority of men who shave at home use the latter. we will consider it alone Real experimentation must be made for the individual to discover the in- i strument with which he, personally, gets the best shave. No matter what his friends, his brothers, even his sisters, use, he must find the best one for himselt. That done, and it may take years, he must see to it that the blade is as sharp as he can make it. The barbers of the ages must be right. They always use a strop, and surely a thin pirce of steel, of wafer proportions, needs some smoothing down E Blades should mnot be sharpened after the shave. This is a mistake. The tiny “tecth” in the edge are out of alignment, and time alone will carry them back to the position when the strop will do good The time to whet the razor is just before shaving It ought to be needless to suggest that scrupulous cleanliness is nece: sary, but far too many persons put blades away without carefully wiping them dry. The best way to do this is fo keep a supply of old towels which are about worn out, and which the shaver may use freely, carefully wiping the blade and edge until every drop of moisiure is gone. * Use of cold water is e<sential “What! Cold water? Why, every one says hot.” That is just the trouble. Every one savs' This great “every one." however is largely rtesponsible for the strain of shaving, and all the raw faces you see Cold water, even icy water, will help as nothing else will From beginning to end. water should touch the face It is true that the_beard will not be quite as soft. but it isn't the soft- ness of the whiskers, after all. which makes the easy shave, but the sharp blade and the tough skin Since hot water is not to be used. however. someihing must be done o x % w no hot | soften things up a bit. and to remove the oil of the skin as much as possi- ble. This is achieved by a preliminary washing of the face with soap and water. just as one would ordinarily do. Then all lather is completely re- moved. All this, as stated, to be done with | cold or at least cool water. so that a |.soap which lathers freely in auch water must be selected. * ok Kk The scrubbling given the jaws and neck with the shaving brush is often | inimical to the tender-skinned and | responsible for much irritation. | Therefore the lather is best worked up with the hands. Any good toilet soap will do, pro- vided it will work up into a thick, | heavy lather, not the bubbly sort. Many | fine soaps are not suitable for shaving purposes. After the hands are piled high with lather, this is applied to the face, | without the fingers once touching the | skin. We conserve the skin, you see, for the razor. There is no getting out of touching | the face with the blade, but the less | fumbling over it, beforehand, the bet- | ter off the shaver will be. If he cares to apply a good sun- burn cream to the places where shav- ing is most difficult, before he puts on the lather, so much the better. This is another reason for applying | the suds without rubbing in any way. The old-time mostly hokum. It isn't the rubbing, or the soap, or the water, that does the cutting. It is the blade, hence as sharp a blade as possible must be used. * % % o The attempt to shave too closely is | responsible for much of the trouble. Too much attention to too close a shave is wrong. There always will be time to shave again, fortunately. or alas, just as one happens to solve this diurnal problem! After the shave every bit of lather must. be removed Now we are where we starfed, but it is right here that so many of the ! raw shavers fall down. The application of more soap is es- sential. therefore this is the time, and none other, for washing the face. Not every person realized that one of the best remedies for the momen- tary burning which follows even the best conducted, shave is more lather. A good lather placed on the face at this point tends to take out all the sting If it does not. it shows that one is not using the right soap for one's precious skin. | Every complexion different in regard to reactions. therefore some- thing more than chance recommenda- tion is necessary in the selection of the right soap. | Once found, it will be shaving soap and toilet soap at once. as well as emollient for after the shave. is During all these ablutions, cold wa- ter alone must be used Cold water, and a sharp these are the main essentials The third is the soap, the fourth is the method herein outlined. Together they make a shaving team that does the work. When we stop to think of ail the men, down through the ages, who have looked forward with dread to the daily shave, we believe something ought to be done about it, One has but to stand in a public wash room and watch the gentlemen shaving, or in a parlor car toilet room, to observe how so many of them use tradition. rather than their own brains and obsertations. to carry them through a difficult task which their obsolete methods make all the harder, blade— WASHINGTO Soon the Senate may be the scene of a constitutional battle royal over the right of young Senator-elect Rush D. Holt, Democrat, of West Virginia to take his seat, even when he attains the statutory age of 30. on June 19. Matters have been suddenly precipi- tated by the filing of a petition on D. Hatfield, Republican, defeated for re- | election by Mr. Holt last November. | The petition argues that Holt should be barred not only because he is under the required age. but because, “not being a legal or qualified candidate,” he was not even eligible to run for the Senate, and that the vote cast for him was therefore of “no effect.” Hatfield contends that Holt “cannot | now or, until properly elected. at any time in the future legally become a member of the Senate” The p | tion urges that Hatfield, who received the next highest vote, be declared elected in his stead. Holt claims that the constitutional age provision does not apply to an election, but only when a Senator-elect appears to take This is the point on which the issue is now joined. It is altogether likely that the Demo- cratic majority will seat Holt in due course. but. meantime. Hatfield sup- porters hope to set the stage for a historic constitutional field day in the chamber. x Kk ok Ii's vears since any congressional committee chairman had to carry the mountainous responsibilities that now | bear down upon the broad shoulders of Senator.Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The | bonus, N. R. A. renewal and the so- | cial security bill have piled in on the committee all at once, due to the ex- igencies of the session. is loaded with controversy and will require the most astute steersmanship | before final action, with days and weeks of haggling, bickering and com- | promise in certain prospect. Apart from his purely legislative worries, Senator Harrison finds it particularly tough that he has to take arms against | a sea of troubles at the very outset of the base ball season. The Mis- sissippian is a real fan and, naturally, an ardent rooter for the Senators. Pat finds existing conditions on the Hill the curse of the golfing classes, too. e Ambassador Josephus Daniels, who sea are not numerous enough to justify | We find new thoughts which are not | returped from Mexico just in time to panic. Instead, the proponents of the modern art and science of swim- | ming prefer to direct attention to the | physical and mental well-being which | those who swim enje Aquatic cxer-‘ cise is excellent fun, and that prob- | ably is all the excuse required. When | the youngsters of the city are offered instruction gratis it may be presumed that they will take advantage of the | opportunity. N Hitler was absent from Berlin dur- | ng Easter and many families took | occasion to express religious feeling | according to ancestral custom. More Armaments. As the European crisis precipitated | ball garfie an’ do deir hollerin’ in de 1t is understood that Mr. Walker's | by Germany's reversion to pre-war new division will not approve or dis- | militarism takes kaleidoscopically new | approve plans, merely putting them | form from day to day, one thing stands into shape for final action by the out with crystal clearness. That is| Works Allotment Board, which will be | that Europe is on the threshold of a | presided over by the President and |new orgy of competitive armaments. which will include in its make-up the With Hitler preparing to deliver a set In old and proper phrases. How oft, it moves us to distress To find mid scenes that vary Smooth politicians may possess A rough vocabulary. “Some big-voiced men,” said Uncle Eben, “gits into political arguments because dey ain’ got time to go to a regular way.” e A Ph. D. Makes Good. Prom "h! Louisville Courier-Journal. If it is true, as reported, that there is a doctor of philosophy running an elevator in Louisville, perhaps he is to be congratulated. Not every doctor of | philosophy is competent to run an elevator, et Cultured Canine. From the Davenport (Iowa) Times. Pittsburg, Kans. boasts of a dog that is learning to play bridge. Well, it ought to take his mind off ‘fleas, | and vice versa. ! A hobnob with his brother editors and publichers at New York annual meet- inzs this week, has taken prompt oc. casion to deny rumors that he’s think- ing of resigning. He will spend a few weeks at home in Raleigh, N. C,, then come to Washington for confer- ences with the President and the Sec- retary of State, and return to his post in Mexico City in mid-June. Mr. Daniels indicates that despite the re- ligious controversy, Mexico is generally quiet and comparatively prosperous. He depicts the Mexican “people as deeply grateful for the Roosevelt ad- ministration’s silver policy. *The World War Secretary of the Navy is still hailed as “chief” by President Roose- velt whenever they meet, in memory of the days when F. D. R. was second in command of the department. * K k% Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y., lawyer, banker and 'big-time farmer FREDERIC Each :neasure | SRVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. business organization will denote a close alliance between industry and agriculture. The Sibley farming in- terests are diversified and far-flung, including ranches in western Canada and California and farms in Illinois and New York. The coming Chamber of Commerce executive has taken an active part in the management of his landed properiies, which aggregate some 50,000 acres late Hiram W. merchant organizer of the Western Union Tele- graph Co. Sibley, famed seed * ok ok X Former Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, just back from a Euro- pean tour, is quoted as being among those Republicans who feel sure that Herbert Hoover “is not now and will not be a candidate for President in 1936." Another view attributed to Mr. Reed, when asked whether any Republican can beat Mr. Roosevelt next year, is that “we could beat Roosevelt tomorrow, but we can't beat $4.000.000,000.” Reed apparently re- fuses to take seriouslv a suggestion that he himself is possible G. O. P. presidential timber. Pittsburgh friends are convinced that he never intends to run for public office again, having decided to devote the rest of his life to practicing law. Reed is expected to spend a good deal of his time pro- ! fessionally in Washington, where he ' built a palatial home three or four years ago out on S street, in the former Taft-Hoover quarter.” * x ¥ ¥ Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Tllinois, Democratic whip of the Sen- ate, sharply admonished demonstra- | tive occupanis of the crowded galleries on Easter Monday to remember that they were in the Senate and not in the House. He explained that the practice does not prevail in the Upper Braoch, as at the other end of the Capitol, of “permitting expressions of approval or disapproval in the | galleries.” % Mathematically-minded citizens are still evolving staggering statistics in connection with the Roosevelt, $4.880,- 000,000 work-relief fund. The latest revelation is that it would require | 478 10-ton trucks to move the fund 1if it were assembled as gold coin. | This is how the computation is ar- | rived at: An avoirdupois ton is said | to equal 29,1662; troy ounces. At $35 |an ounce, a ton of gold would be | worth $1,020.833, so it would take a | little over 4,780 tons to be worth | $4,880,000.000. Figuring at 1.200 pounds of gold to the cubic foot, | the same dizzy computation indicates | that the work-relief fund would form {a gold block measuring about 20 feet | in, each dimension. | * ¥ ok ok | What is described as the “official | biography™ of Mrs. James Roosevelt, | the President’s mother, is expectad to | come from the press later in the }yem—. It is being prepared by Rita | Halle Kleeman, well-known New York }mgazine writer and auihor of bocks lon colleges. The biography will deal with Mrs. Roosevelt's life in New | York City and on the Hudson River | during the past half centuiy, includ- | ing the years in which her son be- | came a national figure. (Copyright. 1935.) AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. THE PUMPKIN COACH. By Louis Paul. New York! Doubleday, Doran & Co. Ride with Uan Koe, of Oahe, in the pumpkin coach. Become his com- encountered during two years of wa.dering over the most fantastic country on earth. And then, when | the cover closes on the final chapter, turn back the pages, steam for the second time into San Francisco har- lad and ride the pumpkin coach again. idea of rubbing is| He is a son of the | His grandfather was the | “presidential | about | and rancher, who is slated to be o emee elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in ‘Washington next week, has close per- sonal ties with President Roosevelt. They were at Groton and Harvard about the same time, though not classmates. Mr. Sibley’s accession to the leadership of the hig national Fashion Note. From the Los Angeles Times. ‘The action of the New York Legis- lature in banning heart balm actions makes it rather certain that the Spring outfits of the Gotham ladies will not include breach of promise suits. Innumerable repetitions will but in- | erease a warm-hearted response to ! the translation by Louis Paul of the spiritual significance and the temporal | enchantment of a nation into the | hero of one of the most romantic and | perhaps the oddest novel of the past | two generations. There are no com- | parisons, for the book is unlike any- | thing that has ever been written about these incomparable United States of | America Equipped with a letter of introduc- I tion from old Father Francis Renoir | of his native island and the savings of | himself and his brothers, the educated and cultured Samoan lad presents himself at the office of the eminent | | San Francisco attorney to whom the recious letter is addressed. He has walked miles over the city, entranced by the magnificence of its tall struc- tures, until his feet are sore, but at last he has found the right building and the office of Mr. Willard. “Go back to Oahe” is the advice of that brusque gentleman from whom the lad 1s expecting his welcome to America easily to be persuaded to give up his rosy imaginings and his lovely dreams of the strange land that, like a mag- net, has drawn him to its- shores. America. to him. is not merely a nation, but an ideal. It is his ambition to absorb it and to become absorbed in it x5 ox % For a beiter understanding of the spirit of this voung alien it seems wise to let Uan speak for himself: “But has not Father Francis ex- plain?” “Explain? Exactlv. Those pants you've got on are rather funny.” It is very easy to buy clothes.” “Come now. Out with jt. You look ke a bright, intelligent boy. What- ever did you come here for anyway?" ther Francis he procured for me the entry here in this country that I may stav. 1 am wanting to learn everything that is American. the hear- ing of music players and to see the acting-plays. and pictures of the siiver i screen which I am reading like in booklets, and to learn all what is here." “What will you do when vour money s out?” “T am good for work. too, sir. can ketch fishing splendid. “But you're a naked savage in funny pants. You don't know how to get th Your crude culture and the fine subtleties vilization, a world that’ll applaud no matter by what method vou succeed and swipe your shoes if you don’t put them under your pillow at night.” “Ah. but no, Mr. Willard. Your boys, too. that I read historically, they -go out into new and strange countries, and they are not so much afraid. T am as big courage as American boys.” “They suiler.” “Can I not do this, too? * * * See! I want to know and see all that is excitingly I watch the peoples look up and won- der with my eves at the beautiful tall houses of straight stone. I am afraid only a little, but. too, I love them. The rich great somethingness of the always happening—oh, can vou understand this?> How I cannot talk such things well in English?” “You'd better go back. new ru and “We'll compromise. After a monih. if vou decide the land of the very brave and the completely free still intrizues you. we’ll talk about it lagain. In the meantime give me | enough of your moneyv to buy you a safe passage home. Il put it in my safe. and you won't be sorry.” “But I am not going back to Oahe. | From when I am a boy I think to come here. Father Francis tell me all about San Francisco, and I learn my studies most well as I can. so I shall be American. Why, then, should ‘ouTe a dark boy in a white country. Do vou know what that means? Do you know what prejudice is? * * * Why couldnt Renoir have told vou all thi “He did.” In the face of such determination. with the boy smiling and insisting that he is “afraid only a little.” the at- torney surrenders and Uan enters upon his first lessons in the ways and customs of America. * % ox % Two vears of adventure in the pumpkin coach, and John Coe still hugs to his breast with worshipful | reverence the ideal which no experi- | once, however tragic or bitter, has | been able to destroy. His friends and acquaintances include artists, phi- losophers, men of letters,.composers, poets. vagabonds, farmers, prize- fighters, salesmen, newspaper men, priests, physicians and an interesting assortment of street and highway casuals. He has been received and weicomed into homes of culture and of wealth. He has been beaten into ‘insvnsxmmy by ruffilans with an | imagined grievance. He has been | jailed for offenses that he did not commit. He has been robbed by sharpers and befriended by strangers. His has been destitute, hungry and | ragged, and has worked on farms, | studied art, read fine literature and | served as an orderly in a hospital. | He has listened to master musicians, | washed dishes in a hash house and | been loved by a beautiful American | girl. All this and more has been his | lot during the long months of vaga-| | bonding across the country from San | Prancisco to New York. and still his | poetic, gentle, sympathetic nature has | lost none of its trust in the goodness | and in the beauty of the country he | loves. of its author to write into a mnovel something of the beauty and | splendor of America and of the hungry | welcome that it has always had for him. It was to assume the role of hero in his story. In a prefatory note he writes: “It was to be more than merely a story by an author. It was to forget that it had a writer. If I talked through its pages, it was to be under- stood that I was merely a tale that my story had to tell. * * * I was to write of the sky and sea and granite | buildings and the brown dirt of America, and the book was to be the color and pulse and life of that. I was to put down, as well as I might, the autoblography of the ideas that came out of its air. * * * The country is fecund, heart-warming, un- critical—like a mother.” Through the spiritual and emotional reactions of Uan Koe to the many and varied adventures he encounters Mr. Paul has revealed the romance and the significance of America. The story unveils & magnificent pancrama of exquisite tones and fine shadings. {1t is magnetic and inspiring. panion and share the adventures he | | bor with the brown-skinned Samoan But the young man is not so | The book is the result of the desire | the | BY FREDERI A reader can get the answer to | any question of jact by writing | The Eveming Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D. Please inclose stamp for reply. e | Q. How many transient camps are there in the United States?—A. D. A. There are at present about 250 | transient camps and 280 transient | centers located in cities. Statistics are not available differentiating the | number of persons in the eamps and cente: but the total is, roughly, 315,750 persons. ! | Q. How much did the national for- | | deat Theodore Roosevelt's adminis- tration?>—W. B. A. They increased from 43,000,000 | to 194,000,000 acres. Q. Can penguins be brought to this country and bred here?—F. McK. A. Penguins never thrive in tem- | | perate climates such as that of the | United States and breeding them is | quite out of the question. Specimens | of penguins have, from time to time been seen in various zoological pa:ks and they sometimes live fairly long periods, if properly cared for, | Q What is the total of foreign in- | vestments in Japan?—W. B. A. It is estimated at $1,000,000,000, | Q. When was George Cohan's songz, | “Over There,” first sung in public? |—B. 8. A. It was first sung by Miss Nora Bayes in New York City April 8, 1917. It was sung later by Gus Ed- wards at Fort Myer, It was published in April, 1917, Q. Is it true that Chinese dentists can ull teeth without the aid of forceps?—A. C. F. A. It is true that until recently Chinese dentists were trained to ex- tract any tooth from a patient’s mouth without using instruments and solely by the strength in their fingers and were so trained for this by repeated extraction of wooden pegs driven into a board. The muscles of their hands and fingers were so developed that this was possibie. Q. Why is a child called a brat? —R. O, A. The word is der from Middle English “brat meaning coarse garment or apron and probab! came to be applied to a child through the sense of the child’s bib or pina- fore. d the a Q. Who were the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?—L. S. A. By some authorities thev sim- bolize Conquest, Slaughter, Famine and Death. They ride white, red, black and pale horses, respectivel They typify the evils of war. By other authorities they symbolize Famine War, Pestilence and Death. Q. Where is the quotation, “The pen mightier than the sword found?—I. H. W. A. It is from the drama, “Riche- lieu,” act 2, scene 2, by Bulwer-Lytton. Q. Can there be a tidal wave with- out a tide>—P, F. A. The term is apr tide at all, but to any u high water, however caused. Among the causes of such high water are: A distant strong wind, an earthquake at sea (the worst tidal waves are ¢ this origin), and rapid local changes | in the atmospheric pressure. Q. Is quicksilver a elecirieitv? Can it —A. M. L A. The National Bur ards says that quicksilv ductor of electricity charged. not conductor be of charged? r is a con- and can he Q. Please define landscape garden- inzg and architect:re?—C. A lLandscape gardening and arch Boon-Doggling But Stirs Some Animosity “Boon-doggling™ is hailed by the country as a new type of activity, and its discovery, in the course of an in- vestigation of relief work in New York, has produced another debate as to the value of the lighter forms of made work. It also has caused a wide study books of reference. Some taxpavers rebel at the thought that money might be paid for trivial forms of labor. | "It would be unfortunate” thinks the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Ga- zette. “if the derision fired at ‘boon- doggling’ (which turned out to be a kind of handicraft) and similar ac- tivities were to convey the idea that relief work must necessarily be done with pick and shovel.” The Gazette quotes a statement from Prof. Moley that 35,000 of the 120,000 on relief | work in New York were so-called ‘white- collar workers,” who would have been of little use building roads.” That paper concludes that “the worker | should be given the relief job nearest | that for which he or she is best fitted.” | Explaining the publicity given this | word at the aldermanic inquiry in | New York, the Flint (Mich.) Daily | Journal states: “The aldermen were | deeply concerned because some $3. 1000,000 of the city's relief funds was | spent in keeping people busy on re- search in archeology, for making | topographical maps of distant islands, on classes in eurythmic dancing and on boon-doggling. It was this last item that sounded particularly ridicu- lous, especially because few knew what it is. An investigation ensued. And what is boon-doggling? Boy | Scouts would explain that it is what they call braiding hat bands, belts and neck ornaments out of leather scraps. All this strange kind of work | has kept 35,000 ‘white-collar’ workers busy when the depression suddenly took their highly specialized jobs away.” “Seriously considered,” thinks the Huntington (W. Va.) ) | patch. “this is much less futile and foolish than many of the relief under- takings have been. We are most of us too far away from the knowledge | that was essential in the lives of the pioneers. Thrown on their own re- sources, the vast majority of Ameri- cans, among them the learned and cultured, would be helpless. This, however, is aside from the fact that many of the projects under relief have been improvised in order that people might have relief employment.” Quoting the officials as stating that “the beneficiaries had to live, even though they could not be provided with anything useful to do,” the ‘Yakima (Wash.) Daily Republic holds that “this is the best that can be ests increase in acreage during Presi- | of dictionaries and other ! ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKI! tecture is a profession of recent growia and recognition. It is applied not only in the development. of home gardens and private estates, but more and more in town and city planning, in the development of civic centers, parks, reservations, cemeteries, play- grounds; in the arrangement of resi- dential sections, farm lands, factory lands. The profession combines ele- ments of horticulture, forestry and il engineering as well as architec- ture. A landscape architect uses na- ture as his first textbook. Q. Please give the correct way to eal gravy. Is it permissible to place a bit of bread in the gravy and take it up with a fork>—R. W. G. A. Etiquette, Jr., says: “Gravy must never be acquired by sopping or by using & piece of bread as if it were 2 blotting paper. Gravy must also not be eaten with a spoon. If gravy can- not be acquired in the natural course of events along with the meat o vegetables with which it is used as dressing, then give it up as hopeles: The rules for anti-conservation of gravy apply to sirup, sauces, salad dressing and to any other soft, sem:- liquid food whose appeal is sirong, but whose consistency is unstable, * Q. What -J. G. Q A. Tt refers to Federal legislation enacted in that year which om'‘ted the provision for coining the standard silver dollar. was the ‘“ecrime of 732 Q. What territory does the Tennes- see Valley Authority include and what _is ~the population therein? B ] A. The region selected for the Ten- nessee Valley Authority experiment is the territory which drains into the Tennessee River and its tributaries. This water shed. somewhat inac- curately termed the Tennessee Val- ley, takes in a great part of Tennesses and portions of six other States: Vir- ginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala- bama, Mississippi and Kentucky. Iv. area is about 42,000 square miles On! 000.000 people live within the valley area, but 6.000.000 are to be found within its sphere of influence, Q. How fast has any one gone on water skis?>—F. G, A. Georges Ducros, European water- skiing champion, has done 68 miles an hour on water skis. Q. At what time of vear is gulf weed the thickest over the Sargasso Sea?— T. H A. The maximum amount of weed 2ht in October, November and December. Q. Is it true that Rhode Island abolished capital punishment because of the execution of a man for murder evidence that many people hought was not conclusive?—D. R. A. Capital punishment was abol- ished in Rhode Island in 1852 because of the great resentment taken against the hanging of John Gordon, alleged murderer of Amasa Sprague. Q. Please give a biography of Capt. Anthony Eden —E. G A. Capt. Robert Anthony Eden. son of the late Sir William Eden. was born June 12, 1897, and married in 1923. He was educated at Eton and at Ox- ford, where he took honors in Oriental languages. During the World War he served with his reziment. the Royal Rifle Corps. and received distinction. He became private secretary of Sir Austen Chamberlain and was made lord of the privy seal in 1934. Sir Anthony has recently attained great prominence on account of his close study of European politics. Q. Will Miss Joyce Wethered of England play golf in Washington dur- ing her visit 10 the United States?— S. N. A. She will participate in an exhi- bition match at the Columbia Country Club on Sunday, June 9. Is D;fel;dc d with ggests acquaintance office. factory or shop.” the Winston-Salem «N. C.) Journal, “it may be assumed that vou know something about the well-established art of appearing tn do something when in reality moth- ing is being done. Not that you would practice the art, but that you have betimes observed the business going on, naturaliv. Memory brinas up the picture of a very capable foreman who encouraged his crew 1o practice this art when the Summer season came and the danger of having his force reduced arose.” Defenders are of the opinion,” ob- serves the Bergen (N. J) Evening Record, “that those who are receiv- ing relief money from the City of New York and are engaged in boon- doggling and what not are learning esthetic subjects, though they may be derided by the public and the press. Hard times are hardly the best pe- riods for producing esthetes. Stark reality is never shown in plainer re- lief than during a depression. A man should realize that his services have a commercial value and that this is a material world. Boon-doggling and eurythmic dancing are hardly calcu- lated to afford this realization.” “The real trouble will come when some fabricator of cross-word puzzles puts the boon-doggles into the com- binations.” says the St. Joseph (Mo.) | News-Press. The Buffalo Times be- | lieves that the word is “a mellifluous expression to enrich our rapidly ex- panding language.” and adds: “Sum- marizing the information asailable, we conclude that a boon-doggle, in very truth, is a cross between a riga- majig and a thingumbob, and as such we believe it merits its place in our American speech. In a world grown too intense over its seemingly insolu- ble problems. the boon-doggle may ve contribute its mite toward recovery.” e r——— A Rhyme at Twilight By Herald-Dis- | rrirude Brooke Hamilton 0ld Masters He has but one absorbing passion in | his life— { His store. | Long since he gave his heart to it, an More and more It has enthralled him by its treasured stock | Of objects purchased from the auctio | block, | Long galleries of portraits done in oi Rare paintings brought to life b arduous toil. Yet when the sun and shadows inteq] i lace said for any of the work-relief pro- 1 At dusk he visions an idyllic face, grams.” The Schenectady (N. Y.) |A woman, whose rich tints he mig Gazette, however, advises that “of the | adore $3,000,000, more than half would | Even more raptly than his old a have to be spent to give a dole to the | store. families of those who are now given | His eyes are wet as in the mellow the teaching and supervisory posi- | light tions.” | She smiles at him, and drifts out “Provided you & nodding the night. i have