Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1935, Page 10

"A—10 THE EVENING STAR | With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.....June 5, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor _— The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office and Pennsylvania Ave k Office: 110 East i St cn Office. Lake M an Building. Elropean Office 11 Regent St.. London 11th St Rate by Carrier Within the City. | Regular Edition. §tar nd. ¢ 15¢ per month nday Star lc per month The Evening The F o (when The Eve The c_per month Night Final Fdit uncay Star. 7 0c per J5c per month end of each be sent by mail or Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advance. Marviand and Virginia. < 1 yr. $1000: 1 mo Ty W0 1 mo $1.00: 1 mo. Rae 10¢ Daliv a Da: s All Other States and Canada. oy 1 mo. $1 e $1 Daily 1y Member of the Associated Press. “in o the here:n The Work-Relief and Schools. A ma eulting from Ser v loss 1o nity, re- com ate conferces’ acquies- tinuation of $3.700.000 he pending ool construc- ence the low In sc sum the usion of needed which Senate made possibie t atly school & number toward Most of been ted which d before is faced difficult ever be have represented a fair start # delaved building pr am s now elim able require- mer tem of Rppropri allows reventies Juate maintenance. school items from ild center imme- attention on the plan 1 of local work- and library the school tted to ap- h 1 ich well migh work- relief expend inder- stood. Th divided it tions: Those wi of labor and a minimum grading maximim of matenal, e reral impro of school s: those which would include school d the improtement and repair of which ction &trictures. . would in- clude constr The Library authorities submitted a build- new ! libraries more practical than the ing prograr which v ever b f t the sites for e already owned by ag buildi; mu cipal ranch 1 ects have been the District ithorities are the exact couid be utilized f £ § £ ed pre at cerzoin but. the local a wrmed as to { down by the Pederal work-relief expendi- cal or useful of the work- mprovement and construction program for schools and for the branch libraries, which supplement the the work of the schools The purpose of the work-relief fur v speak- 15 the If ing to take employables off relief rolls and put the ficial to hem to work t bene- does not really ich of the the be repeated. which and nature of the commu or useful lost former mo C. W There ma work delaved men for doing the work would bring a greater community than those vears-—and there are money rett available vh ment Many ftems i have to do with the improve- of school and library facilities. school construction h of the luded in the list of projects to the Commissioners—and included in the needed school projects y Ickes by ates Commissioner of Educa- tion W. Studebaker —were placed District bill by the Senate, but have now been eliminated by the to increase the lump sum They should appropriately be con- which were previously Jist o United of urgentl. mitted to Secret the John the e of conferees along with other school items, as opportunities for and useful expenditure of work-relief fuads, gidered now and library the rational The New Deal still permitting the Rlue Eagle to place a few bets on the side. v o Trailing the Kidnapers. Despite the elaborate efforts of the kidnapers of the Weyerhaeuser boy to prevent pursuit and detection by the marking of the ransom money paid for his return, a clue to the perpe- trators of the outrage has been found in the form of one of the bills. The Kkidnap gang gave specific instructions to the parents of the child that noth- ing be done to permit identification of the currency. There was, of course, no risk in keeping & record of the numbers of the bills, though the kid- | napers gave warning that this should not be done. They could not know whether the numbers were recorded. It was a veritable certainty that some of this money would be spent im- mediately by the gang in their flight after the delivery of the hostage. Thus the pursuit of the criminals becomesa | veritable paper chase. In the case of the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom notes began to appear soon after the money was handed over the ceme- tery wall by Dr. Condon, but many months elapsed before the presenta- | tion of one of the bills led to the ar- THE - EVENING SRTAR, WASHINGTON. | rest of Hauptmann. A search in the more open country of the West may of finding a premier willing to take | be more quickly successfnl than it was in the densely populated metro- | politan area. For a trail is likely to | be laid from point to point—perhaps several trails if the gang separates after a division of the spoils. With | the “G men” on the job chances of successful pursuit are gratifyingly | great, - r———— A Stopgap Arrangement. President Roosevelt's new N. R. A, & mere shadow of its former sturdy self, is announced as a “sStopgap ar- rangement.” This designation by the President of the plan to keep a skele- tonized organization going for the next nine months- minus codes of fair competition—sounds k. ot may be that plan is merely preliminary to a real fight to ize N. R. A. and other parts of the New Deal. Or, again, it may be that the period will suffice to shove the N. R. A.. with its governmental control of business, into the discard The President with the press last signifie the stopgap constitutions the in his conference Friday that under the was posi- tive in his statement decision of the Supreme Court in the Schechter N. R. A the Federal was debarred from said- case Government ing the people to meet and solve ec nomic and social problems of Nation- wide aspect. In announting the pro- posed set-up of a shadow of the orig- inal N. R. A President vest asserted that be done in the Supreme proposes ning along without the hand of Gov- chud the this was all that cou! of the In ntry light Court to let the ng effect try 1 he the co n- ernment control and unfa to prevent labor isiness and without th hours and wages of labor N. R. A codes. After such e of the M Dealers belie country will come to heel tices| mder the a s W he beiieves this, the Preside ndicated 1d the ¢ and agric control not B demand and greater there be a grea from ry, from siness ture, for Government applied to intra- the Pres- be- a cam- te business of all kinds, Apr 1 & positic ident will next . or perhaps 1o star for a con tional me: or for s ective step can be ground d for the battle national e v has ich the given a chence to decide. The reaction to the challenge flung President the old cc order as proclaimed by the Su- people to preme Court has not been as favorable o the White House as it w will be the N. R. A. has virtu the wvas hoped the reaction now that ally been ped by announcem That forward cons| President remains to be seer ready with the M Dealers to a tional amendment is by no me In fact, there is a great dea. dence 9 the cot is to go ew of evi- ne, how- 1ould come contrary 1f there AL A AL ac eason of court decisions hinted, or if the administrati 0 back away the farmers of millions of do to the , will show of the an upse! ities by constrained aid hundreds nther important group might be added | the New Deal demand for a new ronstitutional order In the meantime the N. R. A. is 0 be used as a agency of the Government to be a vear for the constitutionalizing of the N. R. A be avaiiable for feel the gjven 0 is fact-fin If nex there is national campaign of these If they show that industry and labor ere in far better position under the codes than after the of the codes they will be campaign material. facts will use falling In addition, the President’s plan calls contracts with an ds only up to for Government purchases of supplies of all kir from those concerns which the standards of th® codes The President was appealed to fr many quarters to seek to revise the N. R. A. so that as much as possible might be accomplished through volun- tary action by stries to maintain standards and to prevent unfair ness practices. Tt that he would follow such a policy. Appar- ently, however, the President has de- cided to: let things take their course, preparing himself at the same time for battle in the future, »m in busi- was rumored P Suspicious natures are beginning to regard Japan as casting a military eye at nearly all points of the compass AL once, C——— Wanted—A Premier. France is plunged again into one of | its perennial cabinet crises—the sec- | ond Last night th Bouisson ministry was toppled from | power by adverse vote in the | Chamber, after only four days in office. During the life of the present Par- liament the French have seen no fewer than nine cabinets and go. | M. Bouisson was ignominiously divest- ed of authority for the same reason that caused the downfall of his prede- cessor, M. Flandin—the Chamber's refusal to clothe the premier with dic- tatorial authority to balance the budget and prevent devaluation of the franc to a point that might drive France off the gold standard. Inclu- sion in the Bouisson ministry of the veteran financial wizard, M. Caillaux, would, it was thought, infuse Depu- ties with such confidence that decree powers would be granted without ques- | tion, but in & test vote late on Tues- day the cabinet fell short of a ma-/ jority by two votes, and its collapse ensued. The last straw was the declination of M. Herriot's supposedly faithful | radical Socialist cohorts to support the | government's plan to grapple with the | crisis. With that pillar of strength ' demolished, chaos in the political situation became complete, and France now faces governmental confusion comparable to that of 1926, when a Leftist cabinet was destroyed by & violent slump of the frane. President Lebrun f confronted with within a week an come the correspondingly serious problem office under circumstances that are Itogether baffling. The thankl job was offered to the seventy-one- year-old president of the Senate, M. Jeanneney, but he revealed no enthu- siasm to undertake the task. Then M. Lebrun turned to former Premier and lately Foreign Minister Laval, but that seasoned and astute statesman | would have none of it. It may be that | |in his desperation to locate a man capable of marshaling a governing majority, the President may bring about a dissolution of the Chamber and a general election, in the hope of producing entirely new political align- ments. Meantime France, politically and economically, is shaken to its foun- dations. Not only is the public in a state of ferment of feverish anxiety and alarm over the safety of the franc, but civil servants and war vet- erans threaten forcible reprisals against any budgetary tampering with government wages or pensions. The Bank of France has been drained of 5,000,000,000 gold francs ($331,000,000) | in two weeks. Yesterday, due to the Paris political tifrmoil, the franc dropped 47« points on international exchanges, carrying down other gold bloc currencies, those of the Nether- lands and Switzerland, with it. Where and when France's troubles’ will end it patently impossible is to foresee. Her need for a political man on horse- | back grows more urgent from hour to hour. RS Special parking privileges are grant- ed A member of parked anywhere near White House should not be compelied divide his attention with the thought & cop may be writing & ticket for him, to Senators and Representatives. Congress with a car the to that ] The claimed by Andrew tax Melion America’s greatest large list of frozen assets on hands : eSS Prosperity nas been the corner exemptions leave even one of financiers wWith & his referred around one to scare it away is to have a group of to as just way strike picketers in waiting. B ] The Dionne quints are thriving and | happy and giving challenge to the hat parents aiways know best about rearing their own children. theory . v B The author of the Declaration of Independence mentions “pursuit happiness” but does not undertake to deliver it without individual ef- fort - The history of France the sad from mismanagement dist loses that may of the some of results arise elations between ine governmest and | the taxpaver. The old ox hitched typical His value when processed by a Cnicago slaughter house has but recently been revealed. % to a cart primitive davs. is of our e Rome was noted for splendor. But Rome did not hive a Hollvwood to draw upon for tne beauty that dis- tinguishes modern pageantry - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON M. 3. Life is & simple matter when You have a Court Supreme Who will remind you now and then Life is not all a dream When all the revelry is through You penitently trudge Forth to the spot where you are due To say “Good Morning, Judge!’ ‘Whatever theories you hold, Whate'er your earthly pride In level lands or hills of gold, Your wish may be denied. And you must come to earth again Where Truth declines to budge. You're sad, but you are wiser when You say “Good Morning, Judge.” Ear to the Ground. “What do you mean when you say a politician keeps his ear to the ground?” “To be explicit.” answered Senator Sorghum, “the farmer has a lot of say just now and I listen atientively to every remark that comes out of the Department of Agriculture.” Jud Tunkins says radio would have lost some fine talk if all the boys over 60 had been put on old-age pensions. Hold Up. June is smiling brightly, Robin singing gay Tells us all politely Of a jovous day. Happiness is nearing Farth's uncertain lot. Why let idle fearing Put her on the spot? Permanency. “You venture into Wall Street occa- sionally?” “I'm always there,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “My interests are so large that I don’t dare venture out of it.” This Oriental wisdom deep, Which often we recite, Must for a time be put to sleep As human hearts grow light. The frown our faces used to show Has vanished from each brow. Where once we used to say “Hi Ho!” We say “Hi Noble!” now. “When 1 listens to de lawyers,” said Uncle Eben, “I's glad we's got such a simple and reliable a set of rules to go by as de Ten Commandments.” . Almost Fur Time. From the Cleveland News. Occasionally there comes when it is warm enough to wear Sum- | mer furs. ot Definition. Prom the New Haven Journal-Courier. The office clown savs he thought an | oral surgeon was a fellow who made cumum.urh' of | a day| THIS AND THAT | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | Many who are fond of listening to | the voices of Nature learn to distin- | guish the song of one robin from that of all the others, the notes of one bulifrog from those of his companions. There is & supremely noisy, cheer- | ful Robin Redbreast out our way, | whose happy cry resounds at all hours of the day. | His is the first voice at dawn, the last at dusk, and always easily distin- | to fight vigorously for an hour without figured | guished. | Hundreds of feathered songsters vie with him, including several thrushes, sweetest, of all singers, but he easily wins the plaudits by & happy some- thing in tunes. Tune, in the singular, would be better, for he seldom varies it. Yet it is without. monotony, owing to the | bubbling vivacity. ! R More than a month was required for the listener to realize that this was A song supreme, like, but very un- like, all the rest The notes of the ordinary robin are not particularly distinctive. Even when “calling for rain” as one of their cries is dubbed, the robin song lacks the pattern of the thrush melody. Usually there is a sort of quarrel- some quality in it, quite in harmony with the vigorous owners. Although robins do not have the pugnacity of the jays, still they are inclined to bully other birds Somet g of this resounds in their | ordinary song cries. e Attempting to bird into words cuit | The mast successful attempt is that of “Bob White” which does, indeed, convey to the average reader some. thing of the real cry of the bird Almost all other attempts are fail- ures, because there is nothing in com- mon between words and the sounds uttered by the various songsters of the air Yet if we were asked to put the song of our distinctive robin into words, we would try it boldly, as fol- lows Toodle - de - toodle - de-tooodle-de- toodle, toodle-de-toodle-de-toodle-de- toodle!” There is a steady rise in the inflec- tion, from the first . “toodle” to the midway point. then an equally steady decine or fall toward the last “toodle At the same time we must confess that this probably conveys no idea whatsoever of this creature’s daily ef- ris on the air. - * the song of & diffi- put is notoriously - x A very cheerful quality lies in the notes. They are brisk. loud, pleasant, call- ing to mind fresh air and sunshine, n grass and equally green leaves of trees Has this creature been seen in the act of singing? No. he has not; so he may be some other vartety Still, we think him robin, and call him so. Robins are mostly bluff, after all, | Not & feather has been shed. An observer at first may not under- !stand this, but after he has been watching these encounters for some | time he will see how it can be done | ‘The birds are careful not to touch each other, that is all. | Such fighting, of course, has its good | points, If prize ring artists could be taught once coming into actual contact, there | might result as much entertainment | for the spectators as under ordinary | rules of ring showmanship. Sophis- | ticated persons may assert that this is exactly what happens, in many of the bouts, any way. Still, it is questionable whether two men could emulate robins in this re- spect. | The way the birds achieve their | bloodless encounters is to fly into the air, about & foot or two. lunging at each other with their bills. Ordinarily the latter never even rasp. Angel fish in the aquarium fight in much the same fashion The runs they make at each other seem real enough, until one realizes that they always fail to touch each other, L e | One robin fought his reflection in the kitchen window for several wecks earlier in the Spring fvery morning at about the same time he would appear and go through much the same antics with the glass they do in fighting. No doubt he saw his “picture” and thought it a bona fide bird Two weeks of this, however, was enough for him, and he never tried it again. It may have been that the sunshine on the window, at a certain time made a reflection which intrigued him Then when the sun moved farther South the bright spot on the glass did not appear again. Amateur observers will not cease to wonder over the adaptability of all bird life to the inventions of man How can & bird, for instance, ever realize a pane of window glass? Ought he not to think it an open space and attempt to fly through? Yet, as far as we have heard, this has never happened. Perhaps the birds are kept away by the shine and glitter of the strange substance, of which they can have no knowledge whatsoever Man, with his superior knowledge vet often makes this mistake There is & story about & country- man who visited friends in a small town Who were among the first o ! install plate glass windows. This backwoodsman was familiar with window glass, of course. but only with the ordinary kind. which, by slight bends and refractions, plainly indicates to the least observing that it is glass, not air. When this old fellow was con- fronted with plate glass he thought the window was up and prompuy attempted to expectorate into the open. When a huge gob of tobacco juice EW BOOKS AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. KATE CHASE, DOMINANT DAUGH- TER. By Mary Merwin Phelps. | New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Nearly a decade of work has gone into the tuilding of this comprehen- | sive biography of one of the most famous women Wwho have in the social and polit- ical life of the National Capital. When Miss Phelps began the research for material from which the history | of the Chase family was to be com- | piled she found a great muass of docu- mentary and other printed data re- | garding the man who served as Sec- retary of the Treasury under Lincoln and later as Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States, | but it deait largely with Salmon Port- land Chase as a public servant rather than as a private individual, and there was almost nothing from which to reconstruct the life of his bril- liant daughter. It required dili- | gent study of the histoiic records of Pennsylvania, nearly two years of | reading the Chase papers in the Li brary of Congress, visits to the Ch home of the '60s in Washington and Edgewood and to the Sprague estate in Rhode Island to glean the facts and traditions concerning the distin- guished citizen and ambitious daughter, who were to be portraved Jointly from a domestic and personal point of view The result of these vears of appli- cation by Miss Phelps is & notewort dual biography, in narrative form, that gives a newer and clearer picture of the woman who held no price too high to pay for the gratification of ambition to have her fathe elected President of the United States nd whose influence upon him and upon other men of post-Civil War days was far-reaching. The private Lfe of the Chase family and the whirl of the '60s and '70s, in Kate Chase Sprague ruled as & queen for & while, and then descended al- most to oblivion through her unscru- pulous disregard for the inevilable con- sequences of her association w Roscoe Conkling, are set down with- out bias or prejudice. The story of this brilliant and beautiful woman and her distinguished father is a distir addition to the biograph! and his- torcat literature of social and offi- cial Washington. * THE ALLEGED GREAT-AUNT. Re- gun by Henrv Kitchell Webster In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. | When Henry Kitchell Webster died work on “The Alieged Great- had barely begun. He had given his characters form, brought them to the small town in New York State where the major events of hi plot were to take place, and had p developed the complications in which | they were to be involved. His usual procedure in composition of employ- ing a blackboard diagram of charts « x ¥ his Aunt” despite their chesty breasts and de- smote the pane, running down in a and graphs had not been followed fiant. attitude toward the bird world Several of them have been staging mimic fights for the past month, with- out any casualties brownish stain whether the housewife or greater. it was a question dismay of the good of the visitor was the WASHI BY FREDERIC >TON OBS RVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. | Senator Borah's challenge of Pres- | ident Roosevelt’s position on the Su- preme Court's N. R. A. decision set promptly in motion a new Borah-for- sident boom of no inconsiderable dimensions. All over Washington politicians can be heard saying that if Borah were 10 years young would have an almost irresistibl claim on a 1936 nomination by some | party. What they have in mind is that, as the Idahoan will be 70 on June 29, he is probably eliminated by the unwritten law of American pol- ities from serious consideration for White House honors. Nevertheless, the father of the Senate was at the top of his old-time fighting form in his broadcast calling upon President | Roosevelt to carry the constitutional | issue squarely to the people. Senator Borah's office has been inundated with telegram: letters, newspaper editorials and long-distance telephone calls acclaiming his address and, in | numerous cases, voicing the view that | he is the ideal person to lead a cru- sade for defense of the Constitution Borah's onslaught is not likely to soften the determination of the Dem- | ocrats to “get” the western veteran when he runs for re-election next vear. The man they're relying upon o do the trick is Idaho's Democrauc Governor, C. Ben Ross. | ok It's inconceivable that the G. O. P, at least under Old Guard domina- tion, would ever nominate Borah for President, yet there'’s no Republican who measures up to him in power to dramatize and personify the consti- | tutional issue, should the party make it the battle cry next vear, as Herbert Hoover and Frank O. Lowden seem to think it will do. Borah is at his best in crusading for constitutional- ism. His recent utlerance was not only a masterly exposition of the issue now uppermost in the country’s mind, but was made with a clarity that a schoolboy could grasp, and | with notably dispassionate calm. One | of Washington’Aoremost judicial au- | thorities predicts that the broadcast will Tank with the historic constitu- | | tional utterances of all time. | ok oxx \ Mr. Borah appeared before the Su- | preme Court at its farewell sitting | under the Capitol dome in order to present & member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars, Lionel Glenn Anderson, for admission to { practice in the highest tribunal. Just | before entering the court room the | Idahoan encountered Mr. Justice | Stone, who greeted him cordially and with apparent assurances of the grati- fication and gratitude which Borah's defense of the N. R. A. decision in- spired in Chief Justice Hughes and his colleagues. o Suggestions are current, apropos the presence in the United States of Mme. Albert Lebrun, wife of the President of the French Republic, | that Mrs. Roosevelt one of these days may decide to return the visit by a | trip to Paris. Hitherto the indefati- | gable mistress of the White House has | refused 10 entertain the suggestions | to extend her far-flung travel activi- ties outside of North America. Her | globe-troiting has been Puerto Rico and Canada. Mrs, Roose- | velt is scheduled to speak in Mont- real, at the end of this week. before the American Public Welfare Asso- ciation. But nothing so ambitious as a trans-Atlantic expedition has been contemplated by her. Mrs. Roosevelt in earlier life frequently toured abroad. The precedent for foreign | travel by an American President’s | wife was set by Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son, when she accompanied her hus- band to Furope for the Paris peace conference in 1918. * & ek If more extensive use of the Stars | and Stripes is any criterion. there's | boom in patriotism. Statistics re- [} limited to | cently issued by the Chicago Asso- cistion of Commerce indicate that three times as many United States flugs are now being sold us in 1934. The development is regarded as note- worthy bec there has been no sales drive by flag manufacturers or any crusade by patriotic bodies that would explain the heaily expanded investment in Old Glory | % With the conclusion of a deal grant- ing the Anglo-Fgyptian Sudan exten- sive rights at the headwaters of the Blue Nile, which lie within the bound- aries of Abyssinia, the United States indirectly gets a little finger in the Fthiopian pie. The contract to de- velop a vast engineering project in the region in question has been given to the J. G. White Corp. of New York. | There is no fear in Washington that the New Yorkers' connection with the enterprise will involve the United Stales in the Italo-Abyssinian conflict, sithough Emperor Haile Selassie un- doubtedly thinks it & timely siroke of business to give the British a stake in his country. George C. Hauson, recently appointed United States | charge d'affaires to Abyssinia, has been undergoing treatment at the Naval Hospital in Washington, but is now fully recovered and will take up his duties at Addis-Ababa later in the year, prospectivelv just about the time the end of the rainy season would permit Mussolini to embark upon military operations in East Africa. ! * * % ¥ Despite his peace-loving propensi- ties and pacific foreign policy, Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull has a stir- ring military record. An article in the June number of the American Foreign Service Journal contains some interesting sidelights on Judge Hull's career as captain of Company | H in the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-Ameri- can War. He saw active service in Cuba, surviving not only the ordeal of batiie but the rigors of tropical pestilence. The magazine reproduces a martial portrait of the Secretary of State, vintage of 1898. depicting him as a dashing officer, with a luxuriant | handle-bar mustache of the style epidemic in the gay nineties. * ok ok % John W. Studebaker, Federal com- missioner of education, has just been telling a convention of school teachers in New York City that adult educa- | tion disseminated through open fo- | rums of the Washington Town Han! type is the most effective antidote | with which to combat the various “disintegrating forces” at work in the United States and to ward off “dic- tatorship by default.” Mr. Stude- | baker, who pioneered at Des Moines !in the organization of public forum: which he terms “the American way, outlined his plan for a system where- by 10,000 trained persons would be available to lead community discus- sion of current political and economic problems throughout the country. (Copyright. 1935.) —r———— Lo, the Shrewd Indian! From the Sacramento Bee. Many a property owner entertains A sneaking suspicion after he gets ' his tax bill that the Indians knew what they were about when they sold their land to the white man for beads. | Definition. Prom the Salt Lake Deseret News. Gradually we are getting Hitler | pinned down to a definite position. At present we are certain that he | | stands either for peace or for war. i Conscience. | Prom the nd Rapids Press. Your conscience is something which | hurts you when you gamble, if you lose. : A | the request of a steadily | being to another. perhaps because of his illness, and when the task of completing the story was entrusted to Janet Aver Fairhank and Margaret Ayer Barnes, warm friends of the weli-loved and popular author, they had no outline to cate how the novel was to progress or what climax it was to reach. The story of their ambition to finish the novel and the course of study in which they engaged to fit themselves—both of them have distinguished repu tions as writers of serious mnovel for the carrying on of the work that Mr. Webster his best is almost as interest fascinating as the tale which produced by a trio of autk The character from which the book takes its tit an ancien d dv- namic woman, once a famous s and the toast of both Eur America. Young Gilbert Meade & suspicion that his father has tricked into paving a fortune to lawyers of the old woman upon the presentation of & claim. after the death of his Uncle Gilber*. that he had | married her forty years ago. By a rules of normal life old Lily should be dead, and the young man believes that she is dead. Upon the pretext of writing & biography of the woman who is alleged to be his great-aunt, ' he goes to Stanwix Falls in the hope of proving his theory that the hundred thousand extracted from his father had been paid to crooks To his amazement Gilbert that old Lily is alive, though not at the moment occupying the once pala- | tial home that his infatuated uncle had given her. Inquiries as to he whereabouts bring only vague swers from the representatives to whom the money has been paid. She is abroad. not within range of com- munication, and there is no word as to when she will return. Then, through the clumsiness of a secre- tary's fumbling hands, a sheaf of papers falls on the floor, and in help ing the girl pick them up Gilbert sees & letter addressed to the object of his search at a hotel within a block of his own home. The plot thickens rapidly from this point, involving Gilbert and a mys- terious girl who has been engaged by Lily De Long &s a companion, in a series of adventures that race along at top speed, with the dominant old lady never losing the center of the stage, even in the closing scene. In addition to the intensely inter- esting love-mystery combination, for which Mr, Webster had a particularly distinctive talent, there is the second mystery of trving to determine just where the Ayer sisters taok up the work which death cut short Mr. Webster's pen was stopped in the mid- dle of & paragraph. Mrs. Fairbank and Mrs. Barnes hope that their se- cret will remain undiscovered. o THE PARTNERSHIP. Bentley. New York: millan Co. The popularity of “Inheritance” and “A Modern Tragedy” has created a demand for this earlier novel by Phyllis Bentley, which was published first in the United States in 1928. It has been out of publication for several years and is reissued now at increasing and now beer finds By Phy The Mac- number of Bentley admirers. Two women form the partnership that is indicative of many such sit- uations that mark the unfair and often hopeless positions which grow out of the relationship of one human And it is a strange characteristic of this sort of com- bination that the naturally stronger and more dominant personality is always the loser. It is worth believ- ing that in most cases the loser does not deserve defeat, but in Miss Bent- ley’s figurative partnership sympathy for the loser vanishes. Lydia Mellor, (0o self-righteous to be attractive to either men or women, takes home as a servant & girl who is jobless, homeless and friendless. Annice Lee is merry, good-tempered, unselfish and tolerant, though she is too ig- | | norant to know much about the value | of these assets. Lydia undertakes | to reform the girl, believing her to be wayward and sinful, and the con- flict between conscience on the one hand and happy serenity on the ofher is the theme which Miss Bentley draws upon with deftness and sure- | ness of zwoko. had believed would be | ! vises ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washington Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. How many times has Helen Wills Moody been women's tennis champion of the United States?—T. Y. B. A. Miss Wills (Mrs. Moody), has been seven times winner of the singles for women. Q. Do termites look like ants with wings?>—C. T A. To a close observer there is quite a difference. Winged ants have very slender waists and one pair of wings is larger than the other. Termites have no slender region in the middle of the body and the two pairs of wings are about the same size. Q. Does the Post Office Department pay rent to the Department of the Treasury for the buildings it occupies? MW A. No Government department pay rental to the Treasury for the use of buildings. Q. In what ways senger service been -D. L. A. Three principal developments have been streamlined trains, air con- ditioning and increased speed. nas railway pas- improved lately? Q. How can the same information be found in several books, all of them copyrighted?”—A. M. G A. Copyright is not for literary forms. Wi is the compiler's arrangement long as the work as a sents original effort, it can be copy- Hied, Q Where tweeds come for whole r oes the wool for Ha G. G. D he southern of Lewis-wit moest northerly i Hebrides. a gro and Harrs, the the O off the nor The e made a great on account Q How manv guns are fired as & salute on of July A The sa o memorative of the Dec ependence and co; for each State July 4 at table artil and rofter rey of ed ever pro Q. How much do the b adult A person weigh? f skeleton with bor bo kelet ies would weigh & pou Q. What s of Muine’—1 A. Owing to coast line, wh lands and the shore i more the length of the coast G F he irregularity of the ged With is many bay 486 miles Q. Did Theodore Roosevelt support Taft for the Republican presidential nomination?-—F. D. §. A He supported Taft for the nom- ination in 1908, but opposed h for renomination in 1912 ish moss and rasin. and on Europe. This is said to e first ship constructed in America Q How old was Je she died>—J. H. G A Lind was born and died in 1887, giving her at the time of her death Q. When were ships first s country?—J. I A. Jean Ribaut a company nots. on Parris Carolina coast here Lind when b landed Hugue- 1 the South He built a and on returning to France { he ench) of Frenc land [ - Green Is Roundly For Making Threats by William Green, president of the American Feder of Labor that strikes ight low tF ailure of Congress to enact legisiation d sired by labor brought ch disapproving comment from the press. “Such a the Nation a st er give on recover (Mich ) Dx oon-Salem that public 0se of eit the that has the nment of is the Chronicle one power th trol the Gover States. and that the whole pec “Organized labor of the Charl N. C “needs to make nds of those who are either indifferent to its objectives or who are hostile to iis purposes Such leadership as Green is showing in this instance turns public opinion to the other direction. One of the more troublous problems ahead of America just now originates from the ruthless determinaticas of mere mi- norities to ram their will over the majorities which are made up of all the other separate minorities.” “The American people,” observes the Nashville Tennessean. “are sic and tired of efforts str arm Congress into enacting legislation sought by minorities. Mr. Green and his organization would not. by & long shot, be pioneers in such efforts, But the fact that other groups have been guilty of attempting to bring undue pressure on Congress would provide no excuse for another group to do xo." The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury Herald says that “any member of Congress who, vielding to pressure or threats, votes for a measure he knows, or has reason to believe, is opposed to the public ntegest false to his oath.” Assailing the personal attitude of Mr. Green. the Grand Rapids Herald makes the argument: “If we are to have Government by threat, whether the threatening group is labor, agri- culture. Legion, banker, utility or an thing else, it is time to let the threat be made manifest and have a real showdown on it, whatever may be the cost. Govermment by threat is not and cannot be an orderly, sane, useful Government. If, because anv single group demands legislation which is not in the interest of the general welfare, the Government is to vield to the threat of that group and pass that legislation, then we have no Govern- ment at all, but anarchy.” “Self-respecting Senators and Rep- resentatives,” in the judgment of the Seattle Daily Times, “will give due weight to this utterance, for the peo- ple expect them to act in this, as in all things, on behalf of the people.” The Miami (Fla.) Herald suggests that “it is time¢ Americanism reasserted itself.” The Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican makes the further comment: “It is extremely doubtfni if Mr. Green could put his threat into effect. It is hardly likely that even enough of organized labor would back him up to make his threat successful.” Pointing to one of the handicaps in the way of general action by or- majority in the ju is did not come back within the ex- pected time, the garrison built & ship, with the aid of Indians, caulking it Q. Have the appropriations of Con- gress gone under the billion-dollar figure within recent years?—F, G. H. A. 1t depends upon what is meant by “recent” Not until 1907 did the appropriations pass the half-billion mark, and not until 1917 was the billion-dollar mark passed. Q. When is the wheat harvesting season in Argentina?—W. D. B. A. In December, January and Peb- ruary, according to latitude. Q. How many words are there in the Russian language? In Chinese :;npanPu, Turkish and Arabic?—M. L. A. The number of words in the most generally used Russian diction- ary is 140,000; the terms defined in the principal Chinese dictionaries number about 43.680: in the Japanese 72.825; Turkish, 111,200. The Arabic terms number some 12,520, Q How large are orange groves usually?—J. V. H, A. The Bureau of Plant Industrv says that, although there are a fe orange groves in Florida and fornia. particularly the latter nge growing is to a considerable nt an made up of r 10 20 acres. Ca Q If man and ape descended from a common ancestor, how long ago did ke place E. J. S today accept tf man and the ape are de- m A common ancestor to Dr. Hrdlicka of the n Institution, the diverg- between the two branches prob- ably occurred as long ag 25.000.00¢ ears ago. ence is pre 1 look out e can not see half-silvered s given a light When viewed from de, one sees onlv the reflectina When viewed from the the glass appears transparent face n- side Q What is the average age of loen motive engineers engaged in reg: passenger service in the Unies ates’—H. F. M A. According to the Brotherhood n Locomotive Firemen and FEnginemer the average age locomotive r in the is slight!: above 50 years application of ect on the dif senior men ord er runs P ers the passer Vhen and where was the fi United States paper money prinied M. F. B, A. The issue of paper mone by the United States under the pree ent form of government was der sut he acts of July 17 and 5 1861 the money bheing by bank note companie contract, although complered #t the Treasury Department. lLater the work was taken over by the De partment and the Bureau nf Engra: ing and Printing was establithed under Q Has a Roman Catholie ever been a Representative in gress?—H. W, A. Not strictly el Richard to Congress from Michig; served one term prie Con- speaking. The Rev is the only one sent d he came as a delegat Territory in 1823 describe the personal the Jate Lawrence hair was his compl and _rather fine and xion fair, cored trike Threat labor, the Buffalo s The A. F. of L. deals through fts which enter into contract with by collective bargainin ans that whenever a craft fa. 0 reach an agreement and decides to rike t do so on its own; and fts, which have a ed sympathy v feel Spe cr acts, do no here shoul E miners the building trac not walk out because, if t hey would be abrogating their contracis.” The conclusion is drawn by the Lo le Courier-Journal that a strike of the kind it is assumed Mr Green i mind would be im practicable. at paper adds as tn 1e position of organized labor: “It because of the labor union’s irresponsi bility thai Senator Tvdings of Mary- land sought to amend the Wagne: bill. A union's officials cannot be sued for the damages resulting from an illegal strike. When a union breaks its agreement there is no recourse Even under the codes labor contends t the agreements may be voided." ~« - Mules and Cars, W A town in Missouri discovered that it has more mules than it has auto- mobiles. And that doesn't :nclude he mules that drive cars, either. ster (Mass). Evening B @ A Rhyme at Twilight Bv Gertrude Brooke Hamilton An Old Gentleman hour of relaxation now and For an then I go driving on some pleasant motor one of God's old - fashioned gentlemen Who is apt da to reminisce of other With his shapely hands at ease upon his cane, In his blue eyes gay old deviltries revive, As his faney mounts his tandem team Again 7And he puts his bavs with spirit through a drive. Ah, the promenade of fashion was most fair! In the taverns where the beauties came to sup It was gossiped of the wasplike waists seen there That the gay boys of the decade laced 'em up! As he fills the hour with mellow quip and truth All the rush of modern living ebbs from sight And I watch the same old stars that knew his youth Usher In another glamorous June ; night. A