Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1935, Page 8

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For‘ the past few days there have been intimations that Great Britain and France are bringing pressure to bear both at Rome and Addis Ababa to prevent the outbreak cf war. | The tremendous pr2parations under way in Italy convinced the British | and French governments that Musso- | lini, while making ready to strike irresistibly in Africa, s weakening his strength to an exgent that would make it imposshile ?:: Italy to play a! major military role ‘n the event of grave developments in Europe. What the Western powers have mainly in | mind is a German move against Aus- tria Addressing the Roman Senate last night, Mussolini uttered a stern hands-off warning to Great Britain and France as far as his quarrel with Abyssinia is concerned. He declared that no one except Italy “can be the | judge in this most delicate matter,” and that she will be governed, in dealing | with it, exclusively by her own inter- | ests. Intervention from any quarter, and on any ground, Il Duce thun- dered, will not be tolerated. The measures taken in Africa are purely | What a great many excellently in- formed persons might regard as highly proper would be condemned immedi- ately by others, as well infouned, as namby-pamby and sterile of juvenile or other interest. The same sort of debate existed in another generation between the proponents of “Tom Saw- yer” and of “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” Tastes in radio, as well as in lit- erature, differ widely. But if the Columbia Broadcasting System and others who may be influenced to take the same commendable steps will do all in their power to hew to the line of good taste and to eliminate the sort of stuff that in any generation would be regarded as cheap vulgarity and manifestly bad taste it will have | search for what young America wants to hear and what older America is willing for it to hear. ) The N. R. A. Resolution. The Senate acted yesterday by an overwhelming majority to extend the life of the N. R. A. until April 1, 1936. | It took this action in the face of the desire of the President to have legis- lation passed granting an extension to this New Deal experiment for another two years. Donald R. Richberg, head of the N. R. A, in a speech to N. R. A. workers not long before the Senate voted, characterized the plan to pass | | grounds he remained and for many | the joint resolution of the Senate as “complete folly.” The Senate, how- ever, has been unable to see any justi- fication for the passage of a new and comprehensive law, to continue for another two years, until it has mm’i kind of guidance from the Supreme | Court as to its constitutionality. The | court is expected within the next two | or three weeks to hand down an opin- ion in the Schechter case, which has to do with the N. R. A. The Senate joint resolution, which now goes to the House for action, ! amends the present N. R. A. in two major particulars. It prohibits any price fixing under the codes of fair competition, except in the case of mineral resources. And it provides that the codes shall not apply in any business which is “wholly” intrastate The N. R. A. has been sharply under | attack because of alleged price fixing | under the codes of fair competition, | arrived at either directly or indirectly | Members of Congress, too, have in- sisted that the law must be amended 50 as to limit the control of business through N. R A. to interstate busi- ness, Congress has no authority over intrastate business under the Consti- tution. The validity of the M. R. A. act has been repeatedly atticked in the lower courts, which in many cases | have held against the Government. In view of these decisions, members of the Senate not unnaturally have come | made a great step forward in its | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT low. Fifty comely housewives, clad in pajamas, will race with rolling pins. Finally will come the icemen’s gal- lop. The icemen will canter along, each carrying a fifty-pound block of ice, the winner to be rewarded by a kiss from an attractive housewife. The mayor takes pains to explain in his announcement of this program that in the second event there will be no throwing of. rolling pins at hus- bands. The dramatization of these domestic affairs thus proposed opens the way for numerous variations of the great American scene in terms of competition. The episode of the noc- turnal ousting of the family cat sug- gests a contest of marksmanship, the shying of such missiles as cakes of soap, shoes and hair brushes at feline | serenaders, or a race from home to & “cash-and-carry” grocery and return with the largest possible package of goods without spilling. Sport can be had from the com- monplace, the familiar, the everyday happenings of life. It is the spirit in | which these matters are approached that makes for success or fallure, —r—t—— The Guard at the Tomb. George Ford was born on the| plantation of Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington, When | the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Associatian | was organized and was given the cus- | | tody of the historic mansion and years served as guide to visitors to that American shrine, esconlng‘ people through the house where Washington lived during his latter | years and where he passed away. About fifteen years ago he was as- signed to duty as guard at the tomb of the President and there he re- | mained, a solitary sentinel, watch- | ful and faithful. Recently illness | compelled the first lapse in his duty and on Wednesday he died. Many millions of people have passed through the home and before | the tomb of Washington under the | eyes of “Uncle George,” as he was| affectionately known. Kings and queens and other potentates of high rank from many lands, dignitaries of all degrees of eminence and great throngs of others without titles and | without especial distinction have seen | him in his solitary vigil. He was| always courteous, informative and re- | spectful. He had become a figure in | the national scene. He had noted the | placing of countiess wreaths at the tomb and had seen the smaller but sincere floral tributes of visitors laid at the threshold of the sepulchre Not a remarkable career in terms of | achievement, but what a record of fidelity to a trust! If traffic officials would deliver more lectures on street deportment a num- ber of accidents might be averted by of “precautionary” nature and will to expect that the Supreme Court will | Persuading people to stay at home be continued without stint until Italy | take a similar view of provisions of | and listen to the radio. | five pounds recently, nothing would feels that her position is impregna- ble. The premier did not conceal that his military activities are being in-| tensively prosecuted. He disclosed candidly that the nation’s “war in- dustries” for some time have been working or full schedules. The net result, Mussolini explained. {s to make quite unnecessary the fear that Italy might not be able to give | an adequate account of herself in “de- plorable sudden eventualities.” It is precisely because Italy wishes to be | “tranquilly secure” in Europe, he argued, that she intends to be “well guarded” in Africa. He assured the Senate that three classes of troops— the N. R. Aact and its administration. | Anyway, the Senate has definitely | gone on record as being unwilling at this time to indulge in a general re- | drafting of the N. R. A. The attitude of the Senate is that it it is deemed advisable to extend | the N. R. A. further Congress can! take such action when it meets in January, 1936, after it has had the advantage of the Supreme Court’s de- cisions. Administration leaders in the House are inclined to follow the Pres- ident and amend the Senate resolu- tion so as to carry the N. R. A. until | June 16, 1937, and otherwise to modify the law. The present N. R. A. law Alexandria, Va,, is a city with so many points of renown that its con- servative citizenship hesitates to add | the fame which a large abattoir would bring. s | The high cost of meat might tempt many citizens to become vegetarians if the cost of vegetables were not rising in proportion. —r———— Mussolini may decide on the sub- jugation of Abyssinia as & method of preliminary practice in case he should desire his troops for larger enterprise. B — Gertrude Stein has made enough those of 1911, 1913 and 1914—would | €xpires on June 16, one month from n,,nev t5 g0 into retirement and em- be kept under arms and that the 1912 class is being held in reserve. The 800,000 or 900,000 men these vari- | ous classes represent, Mussolini as- serted, suffice to guarantee Italian se. Ministration can expect at this tme. much interested in the first robin as curity, “Perfectly organized” and faultlessly equipped, they constitute & force equal to any emergency and will enable Italy to continue her policy of | collaboration with all European powers devoted to preservation of peace. There is no evidence that the Brit- ish and French have actually moved | diplomatically to prevent an Italo- | Ethiopian conflict. They are now on ‘ notice that any such action would not | only be highly distasteful to Musso-" tini, but would be definitely ignored. | As it is altogether .mprobable that | either of the Western powers would | seek to thwart Italy’s purposes by | forcible means, the prospect grows stronger that Mussolini will now pro- ceed to use his mighty war machine to expand his coloniai empire at Abyssinia's expense. His warning to London and Paris is, of course, also directed to Geneva, for any inter- vention by the League of Nations would be as unwelcome in Rome as from any other region. — e Radio operators have not been in- variably successful in overcoming a financial depression by means of com- edy relief, s Radio Programs for Children. Long-suffering parents of America who have helplessly seen their chil- dren gleefully partake of the rich, over-stimulating diet of blood-curdling, hair-raising programs dished out for their special benefit by the broad- casting companies will note with ap- proval and high hopes the statement from the Columbia Broadcasting | System of a forthcoming change in the nature of such programs oyer which it has control. The company, according to William S. Paley, its president, proposes to outlaw certain types of children’s programs which tend to create undesirable reactions in the youthful audiences and to en- deavor, by following the advice of the experts, to find a suitable type of program. The search for what is suitable is a puzzling one. But the company will go as far as it is humanly possible for it to go if it lives up to Mr. Paley’s conception of “editorial responsibility to the community” and makes a sin- cere effort to fulfill that responsibility. The broadcasting company has discov- ered what others have found—that there exists a wide difference of opin- lon between individuals and groups as | the hotel menu will give them an op- | | philosopher, “a little foolishness is a tomorrow. Unless there is a decided | change in sentiment in the Senate. the extension of the N. R. A. until April 1 next year is all that the ad- | If June 16 passes with no new legis- | lation dealing with' N. R. A. on the statute books, that governmental | agency goes out of existence. | Perhaps some compromise more | satisfactory to the administration may | be worked out, which will have suffi-| cient backing in the Senate to enable | it to pass. The Senate Democratic | leaders have at least achieved a dis- | tinct advance toward N. R. A. legisla- tion when, in an incredibly short time, they passed the joint resolution. An attempt to pass the administra- tion’s N. R. A. measure through the | Senate would have resulted in a long | debate and a real struggle, for the N. R. A. has many critics on both sides of the chamber. The quick and almost unanimous action of the Senate, however. should be a sufficient warning to the House not to “monkey” too much with the buzzsaw of Senate unlimited debate. —— e A. A A. is approved by many farmers because it is giving them what looks like the first chance they ever had at easy money. A glance at portunity to observe where the ulti- mate consumer comes in. — e “Lawrence of Arabia” has been seri- ously injured in a motor cycle crash. The commonplace accident does not spare even the greatest of heroes. oo Foolishness. According to Mayor Charles L. Smith of Seattle, who is described in the news dispatches as a race-track delightful thing for the citizens.” And urdoubtedly he is right. Foolishness is a good thing for everybody when times are strenuous and especially when the stress of mind over economic troubles is severe. As an antidote to worry over the current stringency Mayor Smith proposes a sporting com-- edy to be participated in by the pop- ulace, having been encouraged to the belief in the popularity of nonsense by the recent great success of a “spavin derby,” a race between broken-down nags, which drew thou- sands to the track. And so the mayor declares a civic holiday for next Sun- day, when the populace is invited to Seattle’s public park to witness the following program: Fity gentlemen attired in night- shirts will spring from bed and run ploy the most expensive experts who undertake to cure stammering. e : Some phases of sentiment are not as in the last of the Blue Eagle. B S m— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDE; J;HNSDH Tobacco. Since ladies took to cigarettes We have experienced some regrets Which soon were serious indeed Concerning this tobacco weed. The Indian smoked his pipe of peace To show that quarreling must cease. White paper weaves a subtle spell. ‘Tobacco does not work so well. The pipe a vapor strong turned loose. | The cigarette for ladies use, i ‘Though weak in flavor, seems to bring More gossip and more bickering. Conclusion. “Why do you not bring your inves- | tigations to a conclusion?” | “The trouble with an investigation,” said Senator Sorghum, “is that it seems to work upside down. I have always formed my own conclusion be- | fore I start it. Then it usually proves to have no finish whatever.” All for the Best. The optimist proceeds with zest ‘To help himself. He says that all is for the best— This happy elf! And in his egoistic dream The best is he. He vows “the best in all life’s scheme Was meant for me!” Relief. “Do you enjoy hearing your wife make public speeches?” “Very much,” answered Mr. Meek- ton. “I consider it a favor when Henrietta consents to lecture the pub- lic instead of me.” ¢Shrewd men accumulate much money,” said High Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and men still more shrewd ‘ake it away from them.” They Do Not Flee. The wicked flee when none pursue. This proverb very old Does not apply to manners new, As sinners grow more bold. For when you book them for a jail The sinners who abound ‘Will show that proverbs often fail. They simply stand their ground. “De trouble wif & mischief maker,” | said Uncle Eben, “is dat he allus seventy yards, each carrying a cat. to what constitutes the proper type of eommercial pmgm for children. The cat will be heaved out of the park. mmllfiplnnlqvllllol- manages to charge so high foh his work.” 5 BY CHARLES E. Mrs. Wulcat dropped in to see Tem- pleton Jones. “How are you?"” she asked, brightly. s was 8o bright replied Jones, who wasn't quite so gay. ““How are you?" “Oh, great,” she beamed. “When are you going to write your book?" “Book?" Jones had a manuseript in his desk, of course, Every one has a novel or two hid away some place. Office boys speculate on novels. Everybody writes now or intends to write some time. | LR B B Still, Templeton Jones wondered, and answered, none too enthusi- | astically, “Oh, I'm not golng to write any book “Why, of course you are going to write a book,” nodded Mrs. Wulcat, with undue enthuslasm. “You cer- talnly could write a better book than most of them.” Jones couldn’t help nod his ap- proval. It was entirely involuntary. If ke couldn't have written a bet- ter book than some of ‘em, he hoped | somebody would take him out on Pennsylvania avenue and kick him clear down to the Capitol. | Yes, right past the series of ba racks widely known as the new Gov- ernment buildings, with their poor little pretense of front yards, oddly out of keeping with the huge bulk of themselves. | * ok ok % | Mr. Jones judicously regarded an ornament on top of Mrs. Wulcaf's hat. And replied, with what was intended to be finality: “Oh, I am writing no book at all.” “I scarce can believe that,” went on Mrs. Wulcat, brighter than ever. “I simply cannot imagine you not writ- ing a book some time. “‘Oh, some time, maybe—" “Then why not now?" The lady ! smiled significantly, then added a few words to the effect that there is no time like the present, after all. * ook x Jones smiled wryly. “You see.” he explained. “I do not want to add to the already too long list of mediocre books.” “But I am sure yours would not be medlocre, m any sense.” “Thank you. But I don't want to add to the list of books, far too long now. which sell only a few thousand coples, and then are pushed off the stands by the oncoming aspirants to fame and fortune.” Mrs. Wulcat indicated that no book signed “Templeton Jones” possibly could be other than a best seller, that it was that gentlemen's duty to the world, if not to himself, to project his ideas between book covers. The great Jones tried to switch the conversation. The weather was nice, wasn't it? The state of the world was interesting. The- “Yes,” enthused his listener. “I fully expect to see you publish that * ok ox Jones groaned inwardly. Mrs. Wulcat beamed some more. “You are getting fat,” she an- nounced. Jones groaned more than ever. Despite the fact that he had lost do her but that he had gained. The next thing, he feit sure, would be a word of advice about exercise. | D. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 1935. TRACEWELL. Sure enough. “What you need,” said Mrs. Wulcat, “Is exercise. Do you play golf?” Jones confessed that he didn’t. He knew, of course, that he should. Mrs. W. sald so immediately. Yes, | he should take up golf at once. “I met a man on the bus,” replied Jones, “who said he gets up four times n week at 4:30 am. makes himself & cup of coffec and begins to play at 6 sharp.” “A nice Mrs. Wulcat. “Horribly fat,” retorted Templeton ones. thin man,” volunteered J * ko % “And I do believe you are getting gray, too!" Mrs. Wulcat's eyes expressed even greater astonishment than her voice. “Most people do, my age” Jones sald it without heart, for he knew it would do little good. Mrs, W. had her own ideas. Among them was the plain fact that gray hair, at any age, was something of a disadvantage; she wondered Why men never seemed to mind it, even at times acted as if they were proud of it. Mr. Jones expressed mildly enough the opinion that men probably didn't mind gray hair much because they felt it to be eminently natural, “But so many things are natural!” was his visitor's reply, as if that ought to settle it—and it did. * * x x After he had bowed his visitor out, he closed the door, sat down, and said “Phew! Why was it, he wondered, so many persons think that to be pleasant they must be so personal? Or was it that some folks are of such an intense personality that they compel others to talk about them? Il so, he mused, they were some- what cursed, especially if of retiring temperament. Modesty is much praised, but evi- dently it is something like exergise, always for the other fellow. Templeton Jones any one, visiting him, would have to keep the conversation entirely about . when the entire world was in a ment There were scores of topics, hun- dreds of topics, local, national, inter- national Never, not even in the awakening of the fifteenth century had there fe: been so many topics of vital, compel- ling interest as this very hour. He wondered why anybody would insist on talking about Templeton Jones when the end of the great American experiment possibly was at hand. Any serious-minded person ought to be able to find a thousand themes for conversation, any one of them far more interesting than whether some- body or other were growing fat or even gray. 3 ‘Templeton Jones wished his over- powering personality would let the world alone, so that the latter, with all its billions of persons, might out- weigh his increasing waist line. He reached in his desk, took out his novel, looked it over carefully. | then began tearing the sheets of paper into small bits. after which he put them all carefully into the waste paper basket. The world would never know the debt of thanks it owed Mrs Wuleat. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. At Fond du Lac, Wisc., next Sunday the La Follette brothers’ Progressive party will hold a “birthday party” in celepbration of its foundation on May 19, 1934. Washington politicians will watch the love feast with interest be- cause of the possibility that from it may emerge a third party ready to take the national field next year and designed to attract left-wingers of all hues. That is not the avowed purpose of the conclave, but it is taken for granted that plans for the 1936 presi- dential campaign will be its conspicu- ous feature and that certain decisions will be made. There are many in the La Follette camp who would like to see what ‘s now merely a Wi-consin proposition corverted into a Nation- wide movement. The views of Senator Bob La Follette and Gov. Phil La Follette on this score have never been formally avowed. Among those in- | vited to Fond du Lac are Senators | Costigan, Democrat, of Colorado; Nve and Frazier, Republicans, of North Dakota; Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska, and Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, ‘along with Farmer- Labor Gov. Olson of Minnesota and Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Mayor La Guardia of New York has also accepted an invitation. In a Mil- waukee speech last Fall La Guardia sald that the Progressives are destined to Yecome a national party and re- cruit their strength from among pro- gressives now in both Democratic and Republican ranks. * e Norman Armour, until recently American Minister to Haiti, is to succeed the late Warren Delano Rob- bins as our envoy to Canada. Now on a vacation tour in Europe, Mr. Armour is expected to assume his duties at Ottawa during the Summer. His promotion is fresh recognition by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull of the career principle in the diplomatic field, Mr. Armour. gradu- ate of Princeton University and Har- vard Law School, has been in the foreign service continuously since 1912, including successive tours of duty in Austria, France, Russia, Belgium, The Nethetlands, Uruguay, Italy, Japan and France. He became Minister to | Haiti in 1932 and made a notable record there in negotiating the treaty which ended American occupation of the island republic by the Marines. | A strenuous siege of diplomacy con- | fronts Mr. Armour at Ottawa in con- nection with the St. Lawrence Water- way and reciprocal tariff treaties. ke Today marks the seventeenth anni- versary of the United States airmail, | founded in 1918 on the occasion of | the first postal flight over a regularly | established route —the New York- ‘Washington run inaugurated by Army planes and pilots. The event is being | commemorated at Newark airport in/ conjunction with the dedication of a | new $500,000 airmail administration building. Airmail rtoutes in the! United States today total 28.967 miles, in comparison with a frag- mentary 218-mile service in 1919. In/ the service are now 408 modern planes and 645 pilots. Existing flying sched- | ules, the House of Representatives has just been informed by the Post Office | Department, provide for 40,000,000 flying miles a year. Seventeen years | ago the first planes took from two, to hours to negotiate the stretch between New York and Wash-' ington. Today the route is covered in 80 minutes, and mail planes travel it several times a day. * ok x X ‘Wall Street is evidently persuaded | by the fact that the price of seats’ the New York Stock Exchange | on has just reached a new high for the vear. with transfer of a memoership for $105,000. The previous high was $95000. Brokers envision \et an- other harbinger of happy days in the increasing list of applications for per- manent new listings on the bi¢ board Seats on the Cotton Exchange are also going up in value o ox ox This is the season when eminent Wasbingtonians, all the way {r'm the cabinet down, are in active demand as college commencement orators, with an honorary degree, usually IL. D, dangling in the offing Donald R Richberg. chairman of the National Recovery Administration, is hiled to speak at Knox College, in Galesburg, I, on June 12. Mr. Ricaberg's ‘ather, John C. Richberg. long prom- ment at the Chicago bar, was a student at Knox in Civil War days. The N. R. A. chief will discuss *Scien- tific Sources of Public Policy ' -which sounds like a justification of brain trusts. * * ¥ x While some of his detractors pro- fess to believe that Huey Long is “slipping,” there’s no slump in his drawing powers at the Capitol. Ad- vance announcement that the Senate last Monday would devote itself to debating the Louisianan’s resolution | he once hoped to marry has ceased | for investigation of Postmaster General Farley produced another capacity audience. including heavy attendance yre there has been only one source | of members and packed galleres. Standing room only was the rule on ' Thrcugh her he has learned that| the floor itself because dozens of Rep- resentatives strolled over from the House to see Huey perform. One of the high spots of the day was when Long came to the rescue of Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina. who was smiting him hip and thigh. Bailey had previously been reading realisti¢ portrayal of modern America | from a letter on which for the mo- ment he wasn't able to lay hands. wondered why | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. ‘THE MAN WHO HAD EVERYTHING. By Louis Bromfield. New York: Harper & Bros, ‘When a man or a woman has every- thing the answer is certain to be unhappiness. The reason for un- happiness may be obscure to the in- dividual and to the mass mind it is entirely beyond understanding. But to a thoughtful few the explanation 15 simple. Meditation and repose are unknown arts. That is, they are un- known in modern Western civilization. There seems to be no room in the the acquiring of mental and spiritual strength through these everlasting sources of wisdom. Yet it is the very | lack of these essential elements in the education and preparation of youth for the responsibilities of life that has produced a generation to which the definition of happiness is thrills. ‘Tom Ashford is symbolic of the age, the product and the victim of its temperament and its speed. | an exploding shell on on¢ of the back roads of France a few weeks before the end of the Great War. His crum- pled body and his wrecked motor cycle had been found in the ditch near an ancient country dwelling, and | he had been carried in and nursed | back to health by the lovely, whole- | some daughter of an old Frenchman. | He was too young then to realize that the sense of stability and peace which he experienced during those weeks | would have an influence upon the re- | mainder of his life, and though he crowded hours of living to devote to! Tom had been badly damaged by" ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washington Evening Star Information Bureau, Fre@eric J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D, C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Are the books of Maimonides now on exhibit in the Library of Congress on loan or do they belong to the Library?—G. D. . Dr. Israel Schapiro says that they ezre the property of the Library of Congress. Q. When was the Committee on Economic Security formed?—F. P. A. The Committee on Economic Se- curity was established by Executive order No. 6757, June 29, 1934, to “study problems relating to the eco- | nomic security of individuals and to make recommendations to the Presi- dent.” Q When did George Catlin, the {llustrator of American Indians, die? ‘Where is his collection of portraits? —H. E W. A. George Catlin, the famous American artist, died at Jersey City, N. J, December 23, 1872. His 500 portraits from the life of Americen Indians are now in the National stituting what is known as the Catlin Gallery. About 400 sketches are in the possession of the -American Mu- seum of Natural History, New York City. Q. Is the Canary Journal a new publication?—G. A. A. This is the new jtitle of the Roller Canary Journal and Bird Y\;;;ld. It has been published since | often remembered, after his return to | America, the happiness of the days | with Elsine and her father, he soon passion for a successful career to regret the loss of that bit of heaven, Success crowns his every effort. His genius as a playwright brings him for- tune and renown. His home is pa- latial in size and furnished with the best of everything that money can buy. He likes people with brains and ability, and he keeps his house filled with guests whose names represent distinguished achievement. He at- V| tracts the affection and admiration of men, and wopen adore him. He has a capable and reasonable wife, two splendid sons, and his parties are the most brilliant that New York has ever witnessed. Life is teeming with the thrills of possession and achievement. And in the midst of a joint celebra- tion of his thirty-seventh birthday and the last night of his latest popular play Tom suffers a sudden attack of nostag- lia. For what, he does not know. He has | everything that a man could wish for. But somehow the knowledge that he has missed the true meaning of life dawns upon him while the celebra- tion is in full swing, and memory re- turns to the old house and garden in France. Aware at last of the emptiness of mere success built upon ambition and pride of achievement, Tom burns his bridges, takes his family to France, buys the old house and endeavors to reshape his life. He discovers the | cause of his failure and finds that success i the pursuit of happiness does not come on wings so swift as thase bearing material gifts. How he \ recaptures some of the idyllic dream of his first days in the old house. through the influence of Elaine and meditation upon the trué values of life. makes a story that is distinctive !'in its human interest and in its im- port. It should find as many friends as did “The Green Bay Tree” and ! “The Farm.” THE SECOND PRINCE. By Thomas | Bell. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. * * this novel has had a wide popularity in England and it possesses several outstanding qualities which will give its author a definite place in American modeln novelcraft. It concerns a likable voung Midwesterner named Striker Godown, who leaves his home of comfort and security to search for adventure and beauty. He goes to ! New York, where he finds little of beauty and where adventure does not overtake him until his money is gone and hunger drives him to work as a day laborer at all kinds of menial tasks until in desperation he ships on a freighter, where food of a sort and shelter is fairly certain. Unfortunatelr, he is not equipped to meet adventure and the necessity to live saps his immature mind of the ability to recognize in the variety of experiences which he encounters any- thing but hardship. His concept of beauty is as vasue as his understand- ing of adventure. and even after sev- eral years of sailing the seas and be- coming acquairted with the world he | 1s sure that h= has failed in his quest. He returns to the old homestead and tries to pick up the threads broken with heedless indifference at his unheralded departure, only to find that he is a misfit in the community, that his friends of former days no longer interest him, and that the girl to attract him. In all of his heart- | breaking years of hardship and fail- of happiness—a girl in New York | there is beauty in companionship and comradeship, but it is only when he | is miles away from New York that he | appreciates her courage and her wisdom. Striker Godown is typical of the youth of today and his story is a in searth of a footing in the chaos of a world that has no place for a .man became too deeply engrossed in the | Under the title of “Striker Godown.” | “Page 3,121 of the Record,” chirped or a woman without money and that | Huey cheerfully, as the galleries tit- | for several years has held no oppor- | tered. “I thank the Senator,” said tunity for those who have the ca- | Bailey as he resumed his lambasting | pacity to earn it. But there is some- | of the Kingfish. thing still deeper than the condition * K X X of the world that lies behind the Addressing the American Law In- | feverish restlessness of the present g, How Is Manchukuo governed? —R. R. A. Manchukuo was proclaimed an independent nation February 18, 1932 by a Chinese Northeastern Executive Council, end came into official ex- istence on March 1, at Mukden. Henry Pu-Yi, born February 1906, the former Manchu “boy” Emperor, Hsuan Tung, who was deposed in the revolution in 1911, was installed as head of the government on March 9, at Chang- chun, the new capital, renamed Hsinching. He nemed a cabinet of Chinese headed by Cheng Hsiao-hsu, with Chinese government and army heads. Behind every key position stands a Japanese adviser; their number exceeds 600. A constitution was proclaimed, providing for a cabi- net or state council. an advisory Senate and a Legislative Council to indorse all legislature bills and the state budget. Q. What are Newman Clubs?—J. O A. They are organizations in the verious colleges of the United States where the memory of Cardinal New- man is honored by the work and prin- ciples of the student members. Q. What school in the United States was the first to use class rings?—C. T. A. It is believed the United States Military Academy, at West Point, was the first. Q. What were the names of Alex- ander Hamiltor’s sons?>—M. D. H. A. Alexander Hamilton had six sons: Philip. born 1782, killed in a duel; Alexander, 1786, law and mili- tary career; James Alexander, 1788. law, Army and author; John Church, 1792, law. Army and edited his father's works: William Stevens, born 1797. Philip Schuyler, born 1802, as- sistant district attorney of New York. Q. How many beauty shops are there in the United States?—W. C. A. In 1930 there were 65,000 beauty shops in the United States, the sales of which amounted to more than $500,000.000. Q. What is the seating capacity of the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Filii)ino Rt;volt About Capacity for Freedom Recent disturbances in the Philip- pine Islands, with loss of life. are raising doubts in American minds as to the ability of the islanders to achieve harmony and establish an in- dependent government. “A wholly unexpected revolt by ex- tremists,” says the Los Angeles Times, “indicates that the new set-up, which was expected to have plain sailing after the May 14 plebiscite, may have serious difficulties after all. The Sak- dalistas—who demand immediate in- dependence and somebody else for President than Manuel Quezon— seized several towns uncomfortably close to Manila, and in the fighting with constabulary which followed some fifty or more Filipinos met death. The revolt has some commu- nistic inspiration, according to reports, | but government investigators are said to declare there is no truth in rumors that the Sakdalistas are assisted from Japan.” “The outbreaks would not seem to be very formidable, thinks the At- lanta (Ga.) Journal, “particularly in view of the fact that the numerous | tribes speak no fewer than 43 lan- guages and dialects and, as an Amer- | ican observer recently remarked, ‘rep- | resent stages of culture from head hunter to college man.’ The wonder | is that the history of the islands un- der the United States flag has been, in the main, so tranquil. Prior to the early 1900s there had been a long suc- cession of revolts. The recent dis- turbances are generally supposed to have been in protest against that part of the congressional act of 1934, which provides for an interim of 10 years before Philippine independence shall become complete. Nothing short of | immediate and unconditional sov- | Museum at Washington, D. C., con-| stitute dinner in Washington the other | night, former Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, in the course of some critical allusions to the New Deal, made frequent references to public statements of Andrew Jackson. He explained, “I quote Jackson fre- quently nowadays in order to remind myself that I am still a Democrat.” A E ok Mrs. Atlee Pomerene, wife of the former Democratic United States Sen- ator from Ohio, was a recent visitor to Washington. Shé put in part of her time here trying to secure posses- sion of a certain souvenir of her hus- band’s career as chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation just prior to the advent of the Roose- velt administration. The object in question is a note for $1,000,000,000 executed by Mr. Pomerene in favor of the United States Treasury for funds advanced to the R. F. C. Mrs. Pom- erene thinks history cannot contain many examples of billion-dollar prom- ises to pay, so she would like to re- trieve the big I. O. U. for préservation in the family archives. In these more spacious days a $1,000,000,000 note is & mere chit. (Copyright. 1935.) —————————— Eyes and Beanty. Prom the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. A gentleman declined to serve as | generation, and with refreshing and | forceful candor Mr. Bell reveals the | rottenness of the political agd indus- trial shams that exploit the helpless and make parasites of others. Through romance is the salvation of Striker Godown accomplished. Un- fortunately his experience in the dis- covery of the one woman suited to his | needs is not the fate of many young adventurers in quest of the meaning | and the beauty of life. But if it were not for the expectation of romance there would be no hope, and without hope there would be nothing. . Marriage Memories. | Prom the Los Angeles Times. | A California couple has the mar- | | riage ceremony recorded for the pho- | nograph. Upon any occasion the other | one can run the record off as a re- minder. Still Bothering. Prom the Louisville Courier-Journal. ‘The Egyptologist, Dr. Breasted, says the Egyptians discovered conscience 5.000 years ago, and the plaguey thing has been annoying us ever since. A Shift in Aspirations. and destroy the souls of some men | | | ereignty will satisfy some of the fac- t tainly the more business-minded ele- ments, appear to be for the gradual |and prudent course. An immediate cutting loose from American tarift concessions and other aids would | prove, economically at least, disas- trous. “It is evident that when the Stars and Stripes are hauled down, the sit- uation will invite the attention of aspiring foreign governments,” in the | opinion of the Providence Journal, which foresees “foreign. intervention in case of a serious uprising.” The Dayton (Ohio) Herald feels that “it remains to be determined whether any native force can control,” while the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot suggests: “If it should appear that self- determination will bring revolution and chaos, the United States Govern- ment should not hesitate to halt that This Government has a re- ing loose its greatest insular posses- sion for sentimental reasons.” “The news must be disquieting to those who have predicted a happy and prosperous future for the islands,” avers the Boise Idaho Statesman, but the New Orleans Times-Picayune takes the more moderate position, with the statement: “The prospect nesd not From the Indianapolis News. and probably will not frighten the ons. The majority, however, and cer- process. sponsibility higher than that of turn- [ that the goose hangs high in the | judge in a bathing beauty contest brokerage world, despite the rigid reg- because he had a sore eye. The big ulations of the Federal securities law. | chump. Aren't bathing beauts sup- Melfiquot optimism are ieflected | posed jp be good for a sore eye? ' There has been a considerable ' advocates of Philippine indepeadence, change In the ambition of graduates but it warns them to tuild their struc- | i the last five or six years. Not 50 ture of self-government on foundations | many young men want to be bond broad enough to win the approval and steady support of & decisive : » BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | Sciences in London? | opened?—W. H G. A. Its seating capacity is between six and seven thousand seated, with accommodations for two thousand ad- ditional. It was erected as & me- morial to the Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria, and was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871. Its cost | was about one million dollars. When was it Q. Are there more people on farms now than there were a year ago?— B.C. D. A. The last estimate is that of Jan- uary 1, 1835, when there were 32.- 779,000 persons on farms. This was 270,000 more than on January 1, 1934, Actually, thers was a net movement from farms to cities and towns, but a surplus of 481,000 farm births over deaths more than offset it. Q. Who is the new president of the Pennsylvania Railroad?—H. B. A Martin W Clement succeeded William W. Atterbury as president of the Pennslyvania Q. Is a rare stamp more valuable if it 15 on its original envelope?—R. E. L. A. A tied-to-cover stamp is worth much more than the same stamp by itself. Q. When was military training made a part of State university re- quirements>—N R. A. The Morrill act, passed in 1862 and signed by President Lincoin. pro- vided for military training in land- grant colleges. Q. Please name some members of Congress who are naturalized citi- zens—J. L. A. There have been a number of naturalized citizens who have become members of Congress. Among them are: Senator Couzens of Michigan Senator Davis of Pennsylvania and Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York: on the House side of the Capi- tol are Representatives Kopplemann of Connecticut, Vincent Palmisano of Maryland, Johnson of Minnesota and Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois. Q. Who were the Sethites?>—E. T.S. A. This was a sect in the second century that worshiped Seth. the son of Adam. as the son of God. and maintained that he had reappeared on earth in the person of Jesus Christ. Q. How many daily newspapers in the United States have a circulation of 10.000 or more?>—W. W. K. A N. W. Aver & Son says that there are between 550 and 600. Q. Is the marker for the Charter Oak on the exact spot where the tree stood?—L. N A. The Charter Oak was a white oak tree in Hartford, Conn.. computed to be about a thousand years old when it was biown down in a heavy wind- storm August 21, 1856. A rough shell of stump was left standing about 10 feet from the ground. On the follow- ing day people crowded to see it, and a guard was placed to preserve it from “relic hunters.” Colt’s Armory Band played dirges and patriotic music over the fallen monarch for two hours at noontime. At sundown all the bells in the city were tolled. A few years later Charter Oak avenue was laid over the site. The remaining roots were dug up and a simple slab was placed in the retaining wall by the give a short biography of Winship of Puerto Winship was born in Georgia on November 23, 1869. He received his A. B. at Mercer Univer- sity in 1889 and an LL. B. at the Uni- versity of Georgia four years later. He served in the Spanish-American War and in the World War. In March, 1931, he became judge advocate gen- eral of the Army with rank of major general. He was retired im Novem ber, 1933 Raises Dmibt 1of the people to be governed. After 30-odd years of instruction and prac- tice under competent American teach- ers, they should be qualified for their task. But time alone can tell whether that qualification is actual or only theoretical.” “More than one of the self-anpoint- ed leaders,” states the Boston Tran- script. “asked for freedom tc run the government as they saw fi' with the additional provision that the United States would ccme to cheir aid if they found themselves in trouble. This very suggestion of oblLgation without authority should have caused Congress to throw the demand out of the nearest window. It is, of course, too late to apply corrective measures. But we still have a re- sponsibility in the islands. In spite of any and all promises to cal. our armed forces home gradually, we must make sure that American lives and American property are adequatzly pro- tected We can, if we will. leave the Filipinos to their fate, but we cannol desert our own citizens.” “Illiteracy and factionalism” are blamed by the Tulsa (Okla.) World, while the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune finds that the depression has been a factor. The Flint (Mich.) Journal points out hopefully that Manue: Que- zon “does not take the situation seri- ously.” - The Pacific Maneuvers. Prom the Roanoke (Vi..) Times, That naval game the fieet is play- ing in the Pacific is all right, pro- vided Japan doesn't take it into her head to challenge the winner, Cwem ! Varnishing Day. From the Detroit News. | While a local young matron was painting her face, whitewashing her | arms and lacquering her nails Satur- day her husband varnished a hall. —_————— ! Education in Germany. | From the New York Times. | The next move in Germany is to set |up separate schools for non-Aryans. Will they be allowed to take with them | the alphabet which they invented? | | A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. Free Things The dragonfly skims lightly o'er the streamlets, And the cardinal gives its mate-call from the glens, And the eagle soars on high, And the wild deer dashes by, Where the free things have their lairs and forest dens. Oh, the rover's feet would ever follow after— To the forest and the hilltops and the sea. But the wild heart and its quest Only racks the human breast. It belongs alone to things tha fiod keeps free. 23