Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1935, Page 10

‘A-10 THE iEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. €, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935, THE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY ........September 18, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St. anc Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 4tnd 8t. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. Engiand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition, e Evening Star___ - ——--45¢ per month he Evening and Sunday Star ndays) ~=-60c per month 2 5¢ per month The Sunday Star. -3¢ per copy Night ght Final and Sunday Star.. ight Final Sta Collection made & Orders may be sent tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, .. §10.00; 1 6008 1 $4.00; 0Oc per month 55c¢ per month t tl ¢ each month, by mail or telephone Na- mo.. 85¢ mo.. blie 1 mo.. 40¢ ada, 1 mo., 1 mo 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to #he use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in th paper and also the local news published All rights of publication of special dispat herein are also reserved. = A Progressive Constitution. One voice, representative of the Roose= velt administration, was heard on Con= stitution day. Secretary Daniel C. Roper of the Department of Commerce came forward with a defense of the sug- gestion that the Constitution of the United States be amended so as to give the Federal Government powers to deal with economic and social problems which it does not now have. “The fir requirement of a progressive society,” gald Mr. Roper, “is a progressive Con- stitution,” and “the right of amend- ment is the heartbeat of our constitu- tional system.” The President had nothing to say on Constitution day. But it seems clear that no member of the President’s cabinet would have ex- pounded ideas on the Constitution— which is rapidly becoming a political issue—without first having those ideas approved by the Chief Executive. Mr. Roper, it is true, did not specify any amendment which he or the admin- {stration considered necessary. The implication of his address, however, was clearly that amendment is needed. It seems to be the part of the administra- tion to stir up antagonism to the Con- stitution as it now stands and as it is now reted by the Supreme Court, without giving to the people any formula for a change in that document. It is a strange attitude for those who constant- 1y reply to critics of the New Deal that unless they have concrete proposals to submit as substitutes for the Roosevelt laws they should be silent. however, is not one of the faults of the New Dealers, Since the Constitution was signed by the representatives of the States at- tending the Constitutional Convention twenty-one amendments have been writ- ten into the fundamental law of the land. The twenty-first amendment re- pealed the eighteenth amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors. The first ten amendments—the so-called bill of rights—were submitted to the States for ratification by a resolution adopted at the first session of the First Congress. ‘They have, indeed, been regarded almost as part and parcel of the Constitution in its original form, and had not some assurance of these amendments been given there were States which might have balked at the ratification of the Constitution itself. These amendments dealt with the liberties of the people— the freedom of speech and press, freedom of religious worship, the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures, all rights of vital importance to a free people. No amendment to the Constitution mbridging the freedoni of the people in their personal rights has been adopted except the eighteenth amendment, and that has been repealed. It may not be considered by the New Dealers an in- fringement upon the rights of the people to have the Federal Government say to them how many hours and for what wages they shall work. Yet that is what the New Dealers have proposed in legis- lation. If they are consistent, it will be the amendment to the Constitution which they will advocate. In reality there are only nine amend- ments to the Constitution in the one hundred and forty six years since the beginning of the Federal Government, when the first ten are considered, as they should be, a part of the original document. The twenty-first amendment nullifies the eighteenth. These amend- ments safeguard the liberties of the in- dividual persons. They gave freedom to the slaves. They gave the right of franchise to all men, irrespective of color and race. They gave the vote to women. They provided for the direct elections of Senators and for the levying of income taxes. A progressive Constitution has a ring- ing sound, and so does “forward with the Constitution,” another of the phrases of Mr. Roper. Much depends, however, upon the direction in which “progress” is made. If it is away from the freedom of the people, so much the worse. s A scientific paper might be made in- teresting showing the ancient and mod- ern vicissitudes of the pork chop as a popular article of diet. e First President. Manuel Quezon's election as the first President of the new Philippine Com- monwealth was a foregone conclusion long before the Filipinos went to the polls. His election was construed as certain after his successful fight against Philippine acceptance of the Hare- Hawes-Cutting independence bill, passed by Congress over the veto of President Hoover; was made doubly certain when, as the head of the ninth independence mission to Washington, he brought back to the islands, signed, sealed and deliv- ered, the McDuffie-Tydings act as the law bringing into heing the independent 4‘ inter Consistency, | commonwealth, After acceptance of the latter the conservative elements of Phil- ippine political life buried the hatchet and formed a coalition with Quezon as their presidential candidate and Senator Sergio Osmena his running mate. Their only opposition came from the more radical leaders, Gen. Aguinaldo and Bishop Aglipay, who have held out for immediate and unqualified independence. ‘The election of President Quezon marks & personal triumph for & man who has devoted practioally his entire life to the cause of Philippine independence. He was one of Aguinaldo's lieutenants in the so-called Philippine revolution; in 1912 he served in Washington as resident commissioner and during that time worked successfully for passage of the Jones law, marking one of the most im- portant steps toward independence, and since 1917 he has been president of the Philippine Senate. Recognized for many years as the spearhead of the inde- pendence movement, he was undoubtedly the logical choice as the Philippine leader who for the next six years, at least, must handle the complex problems attending the launching of a new nation. Among the best friends and well-wish= ers of the Philippine people are those who remain skeptical of their ability to assume the burdens and responsibilities of independence within the time and under the conditions imposed by the McDuffie-Tydings act. When emotional- ism has given way before the hard reali- ties of independence a clear head and a steady hand will be in need. President Quezon's gifts as a leader are yet to face their strongest test. R Peace or War? News from Europe and Africa is & confusing medley of diplomatic bluff, peace hopes and warlike moves. The League of Nations Conciliation Commit- tee is about to produce a report propos- ing certain conditions for settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian controversy. The Italian delegation intimates that if the suggestions are found “reasonable” nego- tiations might be possible, despite last week's declaration by Mussolini that “no compromise” remains his watchword. Though details of the conclliation plan are unknown and its acceptability to problematical, Geneva in these days is in mood to grasp at the drowning man’s straw and trusts to the last that the elusive goal of peace may yet be at- | tainable, More or less authentic indications | point to the offer of an Italian protec- torate over Ethiopia as the proposition that will be put before Mussolini to in- duce him to refrain from war. The pro- | posal is likened to the Morocco settle- ment of 1906. Geneva authorities are apprehensive that no protectorate ar- rangement would appease Mussolini which does not provide for a “military promenade” to Adowa,.as a symbolical wiping out of the tarnish put upon the Roman escutcheon when the Ethiopians smashed an Italian army there in 1896, Further to dampen the prospect that a protectorate offers the way out, Emperor | Haile Selassie proclaims that his country’s “absolute sovereignty and independence must be preserved inviolate” and that Ethiopia “will never permit another League member or other members to dominate her, whether through a pro- tectorate, mandate or any other guise.” While hopes and speculations agitate Geneva as the hour of climactic decision approaches, the Mediterranean is the scene of extensive and ominous naval movements by both Great Britain and Italy. In London the “gravity of the situation” is now freely admitted, with transfer of the bulk of the British home fleet to Gibraltar and the great sea which separates Italy from the African coast. Coincident with dispatch of British men-of-war to the danger zone, fifty thousand troops and formidable air- plane squadrons cleared for action in the greatest British military maneuvers in & decade. Britain has abandoned the pretense that the sending of powerful naval units, including sircraft carriers, to the region of the Suez Canal and its Mediterranean approaches is purely routine. There is no longer any dis- guise of the fact that all these meas- ures ere “definitely precautionary.” Italy on her part is massing her naval strength at strategic points to meet what Mussolini regards as a British challenge. A “Tyrrhenian fleet” 1is patrolling the waters not remote from British Malta, while another fleet is based on the Adriatic, Rome has indi- cated that Anglo-Italian hostilities must be reckoned with as a grave possibility in case British opposition to Italy’s plans is carried to extremes. ‘The stage is being grimly set for a war. But all concerned are filled with such a consciousness of its dread and im- measurable consequences that the world is entitled to think that the last word for peace has not yet been spoken. e It is freely predicted that many a po- litical machine will be junked while the United States Constitution is still run- ning smoothly. Motors in Bermuda. Strange, indeed, is it to find in the news a report that a certain country has just suffered its first motor fatality. Yet such is the case. A dispatch from Hamilton, Bermuda, states that & cor- oner’s jury has held as guilty of man- slaughter the driver of a public works de- partment motor truck which recently killed a deatf girl cyclist. And the jury furthermore recommended that the law permitting that department to use motors in the otherwise autoless island be repealed. Bermuda once had & motor car, & good many years ago, when the con- traption was in its first popularity else- where. One day it was driven sharply around one of the numerous curves on one of Bermuda's perfect roads, and so frightened a horse driven by a young and highly esieemed physician that a runaway resulted and the beloved doc- tor was desperately hurt. The reaction was immediate. The insular Legislature banned the motor car definitely, and with the exception of a recent enactment permitting the public works department to use trucks—that which the jury now recommends for repeal—there has been no ylelding to the demand that the visi- tors to the island, who are a large source of revenue, be permitted to bring their cars with them. This issue has been solemnly debated biennially at the ses- sions of the Legislature for a long period, and with the one exception of works trucks the motors have been kept under the ban. Now the trucks will probably g0. And Bermuda will be just as happy and much safer, For Bermuda is a small place, with only twenty square miles of land surface in all its many islands, the largest of which is fourleen miles long and one mile wide at the maximum point. And there is no occasion for haste. Life is pro- porlioned suitably to the environment and is not hustled and jostled in & need- less rush. Therefore Bermuda has the enviable distinction of having sacrificed only one life to the motor moloch in all the years of gasoline supremacy in the world of haste. And it may be con- fidently predicted that there will be no more. For Bermuda is in a position to conduct a safety campaign on the prin- ciple laid down in the “boarding house rules” enunciated by the late beloved minstrel Lew Dockstader: “Fruit must not be taken from the table; to prevent fruit beink taken from the table, there will be no fruit.” ———— s ——— Relief funds will be expended with a view to getting the money into circula- tion as rapidly as possible. As conditions vary, speed may seem more desirable than control, ————— e The right of peaceful assembly is guar- anteed and is threatened only when some agitator asserts himself as a one-man mob who does not care what becomes of his audience, e e —e——— Fascism represented by a bundle of big sticks is in danger of being reduced by the League of Nations to something resembling a dish of spaghettl. — Ethiopia throws out the thought that | an invader must not depend so much | on glittering array as on overshoes and’ either Italy or Ethiopia is more than | an umbrella. ———— Abyssinian women say they will fight. This is something that many feminists of other countries would not permit even their boy friends to do. e The United States Constitution devel- oped in & crisis compared with which the crisis which now passes is small. It was built to withstand storms. > T As a conservationist, Postmaster Gen- eral Farley has shown distinguished abil- ity in making one resignation rumor last a long time. r——— Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Doleful Song. Dat doleful song! Dat doleful song! You hears it high an’ low. De bullfrog wif de gre't big gong Keeps boomin’ deep an’ slow. An’ somewhere in de branches hid, Where leaves mus’ fade so soon, Dat misery-makin’ katydid Keeps scoldin’ at de moon. De screech-owl wails jes’ like its heart ‘Was broke fur good an’ all, De old dog reckons he’ll take part, An’ lifts his grievin' call. An’ not a one of 'em has found A thing dat’s really wrong. Some folks jes' likes to hang around An’ sing dat doleful song! Dependent, After All “What is an independent party?” asked the student of politics. “An independent party,” replied Sen- ator Sorghum, “is one that is entirely dependent on discontent in the other parties.” An Attitude Resented. “That neighbor of yours up the road seems very contented.” “Yes," replied Farmer Corntossel. “He's one of those selfish people that keeps on farmin’, instead of listenin’ to speeches that tell him to wait for some one to come along and uplift "im.” In Transit. Dis life is like a railroad train A-rushin’ on its way. Some of us ride in coaches plain, ‘Where smoke and cinders play, An’ some a parlor car kin take, All cushioned an’ complete, An’ some de best is 'bliged to make Of quarters not so neat. ©Oh, some in comfort go to sleep An’ some mus’ stay awake. But whut's de difference if you keep De track you wants to take? So don't git off an’ wander 'round An’ git left by de way, But stick close ¢o de train dat’s bound Foh Happiness, some day. The remark “Children should be seen and not heard” receives no consideration from the man who regards himself as “a child of destiny.” Danger of Oversupply. A little nonsense now and then May be of benefit immense; But it becomes & nuisance when It crowds out plain old Common Sense. “De man dat tries hard to look wise,” said Uncle Eben, “shows dat his mind is on de right track whether he manages to coax it =long very far or not.” Gas in Rome. Prom the Buffalo Times. “Cheap” gas is selling in Rome at 87 cents a gallon and high test at 95. Folks in Rome ought to get & lot of free wind- shield wiping at that price. Ethiopian Complication. From the Davenport (Iowa) Daily Times. ‘The news that Ababa is pronounced Ah-wah-wah rather complicates things. It looks as if the Ethiopian struggle would be fought with wayonet and wullet. N o) | render to the other. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Maurgaret Germond. FOR LIFE. By Nathalie Colby. York: Willilam Morrow & Co. A conservative New England village is the scene of Mrs. Colby’s new novel, re- leased today, in which the eternal con- flict between family and money, the aris- tocracy of birth and the aristocracy of achievement, is the major design, and the love of a cultured woman for a man of the underprivileged masses forms the fine tracery of filigree separating the two extremes of mental attitude toward what constitutes the equality of man. The snob is a common product, born of & common impulse, nurtured by the com- mon instinct for self-preservation. Of all the traits to which human character is subject it is the most easily developed. It is a screen behind which the weak- nesses of intellectual or material equip- ment may for & time be concealed from public view, an armor erected as a defense against the uncomfortable knowledge of a specific grade of inferiority. There are many varieties of this species of the human race, the most common of which is the rich man without a family tree, And of this steadily increasing product of American opportunity only a few ever learn that the screen is too transparent, the armor too thin for safety, and that no earthly heritage or unearned position can approach the superiority of a natural pride in individual achievement. Mr. Josephus Prendergast is the snob incarnate, a self-made man entitled to the admiration and respect of the coun- try as a shining example of success. But to his wife he ceased to be & hero when he emerged from his natural, honest heritage and with kis millions attempted to kill and bury all semblance of the man for whom she had forsaken her family and eloped “for life.” Elley Sewell and Jo Prendergast were the ideal couple over whom the ultra conservative small town loves to wag its head and predict a future that will come to no good end. Elley had been the joy of the home of her adoption and the idol of the village. She had beauty, ani- mation, & lovable nature and an intense zest for the gladness of life. Her engage- ment to Phil Sewell, her lifelong play- mate and companion, had been an- nounced when Jo leaped over the hedge, strode across the Sewell lawn toward Elley and Phil to ask a direction, At- tracted by the handsome physique and the crude energy of the man, and piqued by Phil's inexcusable rudeness, she in- vited him to sit down. In five minutes she knew that she loved him. That he came from Oil City, that his parents belonged to the under-dog class, that he had waited on Phil at Harvard and that his future was uncertain were items of information arousing responsive emo- tions and welding a bond of understand- ing between these two extremes of experi- ence. Within a week Elley had forsaken her family, broken with all of her tradi- tions of birth and culture and eloped with this man of a strange world. As Elley and Jo they had loved and married, toiled for each other amid neigh- bors as poor as themselves and been happy. But that was nearly twenty years ago. Now they are back in Silverbridge, richer than any one else in the com- munity, no longer Elley ‘and Jo, but New Elingr and Josephus, and both of them | desperately unhappy. They are fighting for love, but each of them wants love on a different plane and neither will sur- The burden of this story is the struggle of Josephus and Elinor against Elley and Jo. Mr. Jose- phus Prendergast, with his questionably earned millions, wants his wife to love him for his money, for his importance in the world of affairs and for the adula- tion heaped upon him for his charities and philanthropies. He is determined to make complete the death and burial of young Jo of Oil City. But Elley cannot love Mr. Josephus Prendergast, million- aire, benefactor and snob. It was Jo to whom she pledgdd her love “for life” and it is the sole purpose of her life to revive and restore him to a position of honest pride and true superiority. Mrs. Colby has done a remarkably fine piece of work in the interpretation of human souls torn by the results of the colossal egotism which blinds men and women to the real value of themselves and of each other. The story is excep- tionally interesting and conspicuously forceful. * x x ¥ VIOLA. By Katharine Read Lockwood. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc. More than seventy years ago Miss Lockwood was prominently identified | with Washington as a writer whose work was warmly received in many quarters. She had spent a great deal of time abroad and had produced numbers of stories drawn from experiences on both sides of the Atlantic when she undertook the shaping of this full sized novel covering that particularly stirring period of his- tory between the early 1850s and the end of the Civil War. Its revival now is of importance only because it recreates for younger generations a colorful picture of the social customs and activities in offi- cial life in Germany and in Washington three-quarters of a century ago. Viola is typical of many beautiful American girls with ambitious mothers who lived in an age when it was more creditable to be a social parasite than to earn a living. For by some perverted sense of reasoning, beyond the compre- hension of modern minds, young women who displayed & spirit of independence and became self-supporting were deprived of their social status and ostracized by lifelong friends and acquaintances. Viola Ppossessed the equipment and undoubtedly could have earned a comfortable living for herself and her mother, for she was an accomplished singer. But she was easily persuaded by her managing mother to live upon others as long as possible and thereby maintain the much-to-be- desired social status of families of wealth and culture. And so they went abroad, where Viola might study music and where, they felt sure, they would be able to move from one place of invitation to another until hospitality had been stretched to its limits and until a wealthy husband of suitable social position could be safely snared in the carefully hidden net of ambition. Mother and daughter are pictured as constant participators in the social life of Dresden and Berlin in the early 1850s, living from hand to mouth and praying that the next invitation as house guests would materialize before the state of their poverty became too evident to their immediate hostess. Eventually the girl is persuaded to marry a wealthy Ameri- can politician and assume a position of social importance in Washington's offi- cial life, The scene shifts to the National Capital in Civil War days, where lavish sums are expended upon entertainment and where the girl, who has no love for her husband, lives her own life until tragedy awakens her long' dormant sense of responsibility and fairness. The novel has some historical back- ground, and its reprinting this year will serve to revive memories of & Washing- ton that is now almost forgotten., —_———— Stationary. From the Roangke (Va.) Times. Elsa Maxwell, in naming the world'’s 10 “greatest gentlemen,” bemoans the fact that there are so few gentlemen left. Elsa obviously doesn't get around much in these United States. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL., Traffic jitters, that terrible new dis- ease which afflicts both motorists and pedestrians, probably was to blame for it. The bright young lady refused to heed the warning of the kindly gentle- man. “There is a car coming around the corner,” he said. They were standing in the center of E, at the corner of Eleventh street, where a street car comes around the bend about once an hour. s So no one could blame the girl, per=- haps, for not realizing her danger. ‘When the warning voice impinged upon her ear, however, she should have paid some attention to it. Instead, she stuck her fool head up in the air, and stood still on the track. “All right,” resumed the voice of her would-be benefactor, “get run over, then.” And she almost did. N If she had, maybe it would have served her right, for being so uppity. She was one of the thousands of per- sons who do not seem to be at home in their city. She was unable, evidently, to dis- criminate between friend and foe. Those who sought to help her, in the ordinary walks of life, she treated as if they were Permns who were seeking to injure her. Probably she was perfectly sincere in this. She simply was unable to tell the dif- ference, and so adopted, as a sort of protective device, the pose generally dropped by women a decade or so ago, of “How dare you speak to me, sir?” * X X *x We like to see a woman who can hold her head up in the world and .be able to tell the difference between man and man. But women aren’t the only persons who find certain immobility of feature in public the best defense where none is necessary. There are an amazing number of men who act the same way, with even more absurd results. Consider the gentleman who is drop- ping a quarter in the fare box of a local bus every time he takes a ride. The fare is only 20 cents, cash, or 5 tickets for 75 cents, but the gentleman doesn’t know that. The rate used to be 25 cents, straight, several years ago, but has been lower for many months. Evidently the man doesn't know it, however. Men, and women, too. seeing him drop in a quarter, have thought to tell him about it. But his demeanor is so aloof. his atti- tude is so uncompromising. that no kind soul has got up the courage yet., ¥ Surely, every one ought to be able to talk straight out, when the occasion de- mands, but surely it often is a very dif- ficult thing. After the man who had tried to tell the girl a street car was coming around the bend had received a perfect cold shoulder for his kind intentions, no one could blame him for freezing up in his turn. The next woman he met, he vowed to | himself, could get run over, for all of him. If the fool girl had looked at him, he flattered himself, she would not have thought he was speaking out of school. She would have followed his pointing finger, seen the oncoming car, and stepped back. But, no, she chose to put on the high- and-lofty, and as a result came near to getting run down—and it would have served her right. * ok ' The man who put 25 cents in the box when 20 would do, paid the price of un- friendliness, but not often is the pay- ment made so pointedly. Had he unbent even a little, some one or other, with a kindly disposition, would have told him the correct fare. Maybe the driver should? Well, drivers have many things on their minds, and perhaps are forbidden to give change, in such a situation, after the fare is in the box. Maybe they have some form of traffic jitters, too, hence find it necessary to put as much of their attention on the road as possible. If a passenger wants to pay more than the fare, that is entirely his lookout. We can conceive the driver saying to himself, “Well, here comes that old boy who thinks the fare is still a quarter. Heh! Heh!” * X X* % What lesson can we learn from this? Yes, let us insist on a lesson. There is just as much need for “les- sons” from things and happenings today as ever in the history of the world. Maybe more, it is up to you to say. The sure thing is that William Cullen | Bryant and the rest of the Nature poets did not exhaust the possibilities of wresting lessons from what they saw and heard. Nor did ordinary human beings, who may or may not be poetic, in thought or word, dispense with the necessity for | lessons from things, sermons from brgoks and stones. If we see something, in the daily life, and it makes an impression on us, even a very small one, the lesson is there, whether we admit it or not. It may be a very small lesson, a sort of unconscious one, which, nevertheless, bores into the mind in an unforgettable way. If we see a person nearly run over through his own carelessness, we make a mental resolve, whether we realize it or not, to refrain from committing the same error. The wise man—and he need be no scholar nor highbrow, but just an ordi- nary human—is helped thus by every- thing he sees and hears. His profit may not seem to be large, est in all that goes on, and the other in real benefit to him, if, by seeing others in dangef, he is able to avoid like dangers to himself. Our lesson, then, is this: as you can, to your fellow man, because ke might be wanting to help you, if you would give him a chance. Keeping one’s nose stuck up in the | air is all right, under certain circum- stances, but it is sort of tough on the neck muscles, after a time. And ordinarily it keeps you from see- ing the glint of humanity in the other | fellow’s eye, or even the gleam of devil- | try there, for that matter. It is a good thing to know, instead of guess. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. With removal of the Huey Long left | famous father and the rest of the Roose- wing menace and the growing belief that | velts, Col. Theodore Roosevelt is aboyt Father Coughlin will eventually be found in the administration camp, speculation | revolves once again around the possi- bility that President Roosevelt may now indulge in that turn to the right which has been periodically heralded. theory that such a detour may be immi- nent was strengthened by F. D. R.s “breathing-spell” gesture to business, although Republicans and many finan- cial leaders persist in the conviction that a “breathing spell” merely means fresh New Deal blows at commerce and in- dustry. The President’s utterances on his Western expedition will be micro- scopically scrutinized for straws showing | whether the ship of state in the imme- diate future is to steer to port or star~ board. Any decided shift to the right might arrest the trend of conservative Democrats away from the administration cause, although New Dealers insist the danger from that direction has always been exaggerated. Y John H. Kirby of Texas, chairman of the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, certainly conveys the im- pression that he and the 50,000 Demo- cratic adherents he claims mean business with their plans to prevent President Roosevelt's renomination. Although the crusade is his first venture in big-time politics, Mr. Kirby, lumberman and law- yer, is a veteran in business organization and the hero of many & hard campaign in the timber, oil, banking and railroad fields. He has served at different times as president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the Southern Pine Association and the Southern Tariff Association. He pioneered in interesting Eastern capital in Texas timberlands, thus laying the foundation of a great industry. Mr. Kirby sat in the Lone Star House of Representatives for a couple of terms. Enjoying wide acquaintance and respect throughout Dixie, he is well equipped to line up Jeffersonian Demo- crats. Rooseveltians are sure to keep an eagle eve on the activities which the big Houston woodsman has undertaken. x X X x Apropos New York's anti-noise cam- paign, which Washingtonians devoutly hope will find its counterpart hereabouts, & new Carter Glass story is going the rounds. Just before the Hoover admin- istration faded out, in March, 1933, Gov- ernment building operations were in full blast on Pennsylvania avenue opposite the hotel in which the veteran Virginian lives. Riveting machines and other ear- splitting devices were making night and day hideous. About 2 o'clock one morn- ing Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Federal con- struction, was aroused from his slumbers by a telephone call. For the moment Heath could only make out that static with a Southern accent seemed to be sizzling over the wire. Presently it developed that the senior Senator from Virginia was remonstrating in pictur- esque diction against having his rest destroyed by the volcanic eruptions across the Avenue. * x ok X As Republicans think they must make & bid to labor in 1936, as well as to agriculture, there’s a suggestion that John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, would be an ideal candidate for Vice President. Native of Iowa and resident of Illinois, Lewis has been a consistent supporter of New Deal labor policies, but rates as a Republican. He has never aspired to public office and there’s no indication that he would approve any movement to thrust him into the national political arena. . R Following the literary bent of his 8 The | to enter the publishing business. will join Doubleday-Doran at Garden City, Long Island d identify himself actively with its affairs. Young Teddy's new connection will not require him to | quit politics, in which he is now active as president of the National Republican Club. Doubleday-Doran have been iook- ing for some one to take the place of the late Walter Hines Page. who left the Britain. Believing that readers’ interest in matters of Government is growing, his new associates think Col. Roosevelt's national and international experience will bring a useful touch into the pub- lishing field. LR Most Constitution day oratory, both of the partisan variety sponsored by Republican organizations, as well as that which was heard under non-political auspices, had an unmistakable anti-New Deal tinge, Speakers as a rule refrained from sailing into President Roosevelt by name, but there was ample indication that the administration is under far- | flung fire on the issue of tampering with the Constitution and that reverberate with discussion of the sub- Jject. expect Mr. Roosevelt to take the wind any intention to seek changes in Uncle Sam’s Magna Charta. * % *x *x Col. Edwin P. Thayer of Indiana. for- mer secretary of the United States Sen- ate, has submitted to Works Progress Administrator Hopkins a project to take 10,000 men immediately off the relief mineral survey.” Beginning with the gold and silver fields of California and Oregon, the survey would eventually ex- tend to other Western States and Alaska. Col. Thayer believes that not only many unknown veins and mineral deposits of value would be brought to light, but that important ore-producing bodies, not alone of precious or common metals, but of rare metals and non-metallics, would be discovered. Mr. Hopkins was informed that at the cost of a relatively few mil- lion dollars many thousands of men now on relief could be transferred to useful, healthful and steady work in exploration of our mineral domain on a scale never before attempted. Since he left the Cap- itol, in 1933, Col. Thayer has been in the mining business at Los Angeles. x* x * % Dr. Alfred Bihlmans, just sappointed Latvian Minister at Washington, is & newspaper man_ by profession and for- merly headed the press section of the foreign office at Riga. In 1929 Dr. Bihl- mans visited the United States with & group of European journalists under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (Copyright, 1935.) - ———- Education. Prom the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror. Ohio Education Survey Committee ac- cuses colleges of making the educational process a “painless” one. So being spiked in a scrimmage is painless! ——— Answered. Prom the Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal. That old gquestion, “What would you do if you had a million dollars?” has lost its appeal since the only answer is, “Pay it to the Government.” Slip-Noose. From the Helena (Mont.) Independent. The marriage knot in Hollywood. is what the cowmen would call a “half- hiteh.” firm to becomé€ Ambassador to Great | 1936 will | Long before then some authorities | out of opposition sails by a denial of | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin, A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The W 1shing= ton Evening Star Iwformation Bureanu, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D.C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Where did the late Will Rogers take his degrees in Masonry and to what Blue Lodge did he belong?—J. A. B. A. The grand secretary of the Ma- sonic Temple in Guthrie, Okla., says that the late William Penn Adair Rogers was & member of Claremore Lodge, No. 53, Claremore, Okla. He was 1nitiated Feb- ruary 18, 1905; passed to tHe degree of Fellowcraft on March 10, 1906, and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason on March 13, 1906. In his petition he gave his occupation as that of farmer, ranchman, cowboy. He was a member of the Holland Chapter of De Molay Ad- visory Board from 1921 until his death, He was also a Mason of the Scottish Rite, being a member of Indian Consis- tory, No. 2. Valley of McAlester, becom= ing a member in 1911. Q. Please give the ages of the chil- dren of the late Queen of the Belgians and King Leopold—A. M A. Princess Josephine Charlotte ic T years old; Prince Boudoin, Duke of Bra- bant and heir to the throne, is 5. and Prince Albert, Prince of Liege, is 15 months, Q. How many wrecks have there been off Sable Island?—M. P. A. Sand bars extend into the ocean 20 miles at each end of the island More than 200 wrecks have occurred | here, since it is on the travel route be- tween America and Great Britain. Q. How many grapes does it take to make a ton of raisins?—W. P A. About 4 tons of grapes having a 24 per cent sugar content. Q. Was P. T. Barnum ever a mem- ber of Congress?—A. T. 8. A. He was once a candidate. but was defeated. He was elected to the Con- necticut Legislature four times, Q. What is the composition of Glau- | ber’s salts?—E. R. A. This is the name for hydrated sodium sulphate, a compound of sodium sulpnur and oxvgen with 10 molecules of water, so-called for its discoverer, Johann Rudolph Glauber, a Bavarian alcnemist, Q. What position does Walter Dam- rosch hold with a broadcasting com- | pany?—P. R. at times. but it is twofold, one in inter- | Be as kind | | owne! A. He is musical counsel for the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. Q. How many lay?—L. S, A. An average ovster lays about 16.- 000.000 eggs; a verv large oyvster some- times produces 60.000.000. . eggs does an ovster Q. Are there mountains in the Sa- hara?—L. J. A. There are three regions of the Great Desert where the mountains rise to more than 10.000 feet. The highest | peak is aboui 11,000 feet, Q. Where did the famous Downing street, in London, where the prime min- ister's residence is, get its name?— R.PF.G. A. It was named for Sir George Down- ing. Bart.. who formerly lived at Salem, Mass.. and who married the sister of Gov. Winthrop. Q. Who was the first Jew to become a member of the British House of Lords? | —H. B. He | A. Baron Rothschild was made a peer by Prime Minister Gladstone in 1885. the first British peer of his race. His father, however, was an Austrian baron. Q. Was the “Arabian Nights" tale of the roc ever widelv believed?—V. M. A. It was so widely believed that ex- peditions were sent out to find its haunts. It was believed to nest on the Island of Madagascar. Tremendous fronds of the giant raphia palm. which grows only there, were brought back to Europe and said to be feathers of the roc. Q. Who was Jonathan Wild?>—R A K. A. Probably the most famous and suc- | cessful fence. or receiver of stolen good | He flourished in the eighteenth cen- tury. He conducted what he call “lost property office.” In league with thieves, he took their loot, informed the . and sold it back to them. paving He hired thieves of He the thieves a part. his own and ran a large business. was hanged at Tvburn in 1725. Q. Do people in other countries “sleep on wedding cake"?—B. B. A. This superstition is known in al- most all European countries. The cus- tom was known to the early Britons. Q. What is the origin of the ambu- lance service in war?>—R. W. J. A. During the Napoleonic wars cer- tain soldiers were assigned the duty of stretcher-bearing, under the direction of Larrey. From this developed the | modern ambulance corps as a part of rolls and employ them on a “national | the army. Q. Was there a real character namead Fra Diavolo?>—F. C A. Fra Diavolo was an Italian bandit\ whose real name was Michele Pezza. Having been expelled from & monas- tery. he gathered a band of brigands in Calabria and terrorized the surrounding country. He was later made colonel in & war against the French, but in 1806 he was executed in Naples for having tried to incite Calabria to insurrection. The name was used for a comic opera in three acts, the plot of which is in no respect historical. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton No Cry-Baby The knock-out shouldn't have made him weep. No longer a kid. A tempered man. « The blow?—nothing to rob him of sleep He had his true friends—a jolly clan; Nor was he growing maudlin, or old. Long years had he laughed at life and weather, Surmounted rough cracks that left him cold, Swallowed the good and bad together. ‘Why was he taking this so to heart? No more sand than a sensitive boy! A man, seasoned, accredited smart, Blinking as if he had lost a toy! Hot tears. What irony to blubber! Nobody held the earth in his palm. Good Lord! A heart could snap like rubber! Big, husky sobs—head flat in his arm. Queer, how some knock that he might pass by May make a strong man break down, and cry! L]