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NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1935. A—S8 THE EVENI 5 " THIS AND THAT . THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . .October 30, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor e The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 31th St. and Pennsylvenia Ave. et TiE T c : chigan Buropean Ofce: 14 Rewent St.. London. Ensiand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. The Evening sm,,d = --45¢ per month ::fvfi;“;'i' Efa‘éuz?:') oy A _60¢ per month " Evenine and sun 65¢ per month b WL e menty ht Pinal and S ight Pinal Star_ Collection made Orders may be sent tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ . "$6.00; 1 mo.. 30c $1.00; 1 mo.. 40¢ d of each month. by mail or telephone Na- 1ly and Sunday. ily oniy ay only. Member of the Associated Press. led to The Associated Press is exclusively entit of all news dispatches e o £ mot otherwise Credited in this : local news published herein. herein are also reserve — Tightening the Belt. Faced by the specter of economic and financial strangulation as a consequence of League sanctions, Italy is preparing betimes to tighten its belt, in token of those heroic sacrifices which Mussolini declares his people are ready to make in order that his Ethiopian war may be waged in defiance of Geneva's boycott. The first defensive measures were de- creed at Rome on Tuesday. They an- ticipate tomorrow’s meeting of tk_xe League Sanctions Committee, which will decide on exactly what date punitive measures shall come into force. November 15 is now mentioned as the gero hour. Postponement of actual sanc- tions for another fortnight lends strength to the belief that Anglo-French-Italian diplomacy has granted itself yet another breathing spell in which the possibilities of & peaceful settlement can once more be intensively explored. All concerned acknowledge the desirability of such a | vesult before recourse is had to the drastic measure of starving the Italians {nto submission. London and Paris seethe again with circumstantial reports of peace moves. As before, they envision wide cessions of Ethiopian territory to Italy, with retention of Haile Selassie’s “govereignty” over his entire country. The League and Addis Ababa will have a good deal to say about any such arbi- trament before it reaches the stage of acceptability. Il Duce, manifestly convinced that sanctions are more closely around the corner than peace, has put his people on war rations. Their duration is provi- sionally fixed at six months. There will be two meatless days a week. Shops, hotels and restaurants are subjected to rigid restrictions on sale of food. All offices are to close a couple of hours earlier, to conserve electricity and fuel. Even use of paper is to be curtailed. Mild as these initial measures are, they serve to remind Mussolini’s countrymen that the world's indictment of Italian aggres- sion is at last about to be translated from a threat into a reality. They now know that a trial of strength with the League will entail genuine deprivations. ‘That these are certain to become more oppressive as time goes on not even the most fervent Fascist can doubt. ‘While enduring hardships, Italy means to fight back to the extent of her powers. She will limit her purchases abroad to products of primary necessity for both home needs and military requirements in Africa. She will trade with other coun- tries only to the extent to which they trade with her. Italy warns that her memory is long and that the nations about to punish her can expect no busi- ness favors from her in the hereafter. “Neighbors like the Austrians, the Swiss and perhaps the Germans may continue to supply Italy for some time. Her own resources, especially food, are still far from the exhaustion point. But the League's program of relentless isolation is likely sooner or later to bring the Fascists to terms, bombastic proclama- tions of self-sufficiency to the contrary notwithstanding. The world is on the threshold of a tremendous experiment in collective ac- tion—an effort which will determine, pos- sibly for all time, whether the severing of a country’s economic jugular vein is capable of causing it to abandon a war of conquest upon which it has embarked in cynical disregard of mankind'’s demand for peace and of covenanted interna- tional law. ———————_ A threat of war is invariably analyzed as a political demonstration. Evolution as it works further from the germ plasm and deeper into the cortex may enable diplomatists to play the most intellectual of all games without so much waste of innocent bystanders. —_————— Like a motor car, a political machine may keep going for some little time after 1t has crashed, still imperiling the inno- cent bystander. ~ ———— For Alma Mater’s Glory. ‘The intimacy of relationship between scholarship and sport in the educational institutions of this country has just been illustrated by a student strike at Glouces- ter, N. J. Five hundred pupils walked out of the high school on Monday to enforce a demand for a shorter school day. Quite in accord with modern prac- tice, they walked out first and explained their position and demand later. The explanation was that the school’s foot ball squad, which lost by a humiliating score to the team of a nearby town on Saturday, was handicapped by the lack of time for practice. So the student body demanded that the hours for class ex- ercises should be shortened by an hour and eight minutes daily, in order that the pigskin pushers might have more chance to toughen themselves and learn signals and otherwise prepare for the real battles of life. The strikers were somewhat weakened by the stern attitude of the faculty and the school adminis- tration and gradually returned to their class work, while parental influence later brought to bear served to reduce the ranks of the obdurate to a handful. The strike, in short, fizzled, and the prospect is that the Gloucester foot ball squad will have to get along as well as it can with the shorter time for practice. Whether the sixty-eight minutes that were demanded by the students for the sake of the foot ballers are more profit- ably spent on the Latin, algebra, history, science and literature that comprise the greater part of the curriculum of the high school is hardly to be considered a question solely for the determination of the students themselves. Of course, they are possibly better judges of the value of the prestige of victory on the fleld as against a more thorough training within walls. Values have gone rather awry in latter years and there is no telling just what the adolescent ratings in educa- tlonal work actually are. Rivalry for feld glory is certainly one of the most potent factors in the course of juvenile training, affecting virtually the entire student body and not confined merely to the participants. The problem of the educator is to find a way of persuasion that is not drastic or harsh to convince the student body of the futility of grid- iron triumphs as a factor in preparation for the foundation for a successful career in adult life. ———— John Adams. ‘The bicentenary of the birth of John Adams, second President of the United States, today brings back from unde- served obscurity a figure of far greater and truer attraction than the people at large seem to realize. Perhaps it is because the period to which he particu- larly belonged was overrich in distinctive personalities, but, be the cause what it may, it is unfortunate that so substantial and useful a character as his should be forgotten. Adams was one of the master builders of the Republic. His contribution to the elevation of the American Colonies into the first self-governing federation in the world was inestimably notable. He repre- sented the yeoman element of the popue lation and it was his purpose and funce tion to weave their ideology into the elemental fabric of Western civilization. The success of his efforts from 1758, when he was admitted to the Boston bar, until July 4, 1826, when he died at Quincy, is manifest in the unlabeled monuments which he left in the basic institutions of his country. His name is indelibly associated with the Declaration of Independence, a doc- ument which reflects his mind as it does none other of its authors. As Jefferson said, he was “the pillar of its support on | the floor of Congress, its ablest advocate | and defender against the multifarious assaults it encountered.” Still earlier, by moving the appointment of George Wash- ington as commander in chief of the Continental forces, he had taken the earliest primary step toward national union. In both those vitally significant regards he proved his claim to be remem- bered as an architect of stable, organized and durable freedom. But he also earned the gratitude of posterity by his services abroad. As the initial envoy to Britain after Yorktown he established the mode or fashion of American diplomacy in Europe. He sym- bolized the fundamental tenet of “no entanglements” in the face of constant temptation to compromise for temporary advantage. Then, returning home after a decade of grueling labor under foreign skies, he took up the duties of Vice Presi- dent at a moment when a less unselfish man would have demanded opportunity for rest and recreation. In that post, likewise, he set an example which his successors generally have adopted. The story of his career as Chief Ex- ecutive is marred by his struggle to pre- serve existing principles against the machinations of Alexander Hamilton and his pro-British friends on the one extreme and the agitations of Thomas Jefferson and his pro-French followers on the other. It would have been easy to cater to either group, but the result would have been war and sub- serviency; and Adams would not stoop to such unworthy expedients. Of course, he paid for his integrity with his po- litical life and reputation. Yet be did not fail in his major ob- Jective. Instead, he achieved an ever- lasting victory. He preserved as well as helped to make the United States. And he lived to see his son formulate the Monroe Doctrine—a policy which de- termined for all time the position of America among the nations of the earth. Moreover, it was his privilege to know be- fore he passed from the human scene that his choice of John Marshall for the Supreme Court had been abundantly wise. To Washingtonians Adams should be especially dear. From beginning to end, as the record shows, he was an un- wavering apostle of the truth that “tax- ation without representation is tyranny.” For that, if for nothing else, he should be immortal. e — Communism has developed so many different plans for wealth distribution that a student trying to understand them all would have scarcely sufficient time remaining to peruse Dr. Eliot's five-foot book shelf. ————————_ The boycott may take different forms. There were moments when Mussolini was inclined to boycott anybody not a Fascist, The Busses at the Circle. The battle of the busses at Chevy Chase Circle has reached the point of draw, as between the transit company and the State of Maryland. The company has changed the route of the busses, slightly shortening it to permit a turn-around within the District territory, and thus avoids the necessity of paying a large sum to the State, estimated at about $14,000 a year, for licenses and tags. The third party to the controversy, the patron, whose fares make the operation of the busses profitable, loses slightly in that those who heretofore have ended their rides at the circle terminus and walked thence to their homes, or the other way . ' about in the morning, must now walk a block farther. The congestion at the circle is avoided, but it is repeated at a point farther south, along the curb line of Connecticut avenue below the circle. Thus the other users of the street are likewise losers, for they are deprived of a good many feet of driving space, whereas the congestion at the circle was relatively immaterial. In these circumstances the public hope is that a spirit of reasonable adjustment will prevail between the transit corpora- tion and the Maryland authorities. There is a divergence of opinion between the Maryland Public Utilities Commission and the law officers of State and county. The commission is willing to compromise. The attorney general and the State’s at- torney for the county are not, holding that the use of so much as a foot of State territory by any bus renders it subject to license and tag requirement. Of course, it is not a matter of the wear and tear on the State highway. It is, equally of course, not a matter of rev- enue. It is just a matter of principle and law. And the passengers pay the price in terms of needless exertion. The present arrangement for the turn- ing of the busses at the District bound- ary is not a good one. Some other system must be found. Meanwhile the suggestion always remains in order that much of the trouble would be avoided by extending the through service to the lake terminal, which would give the fare payers in both sections better accommo- dations. & — A strong library trend to Mark Twain is noted. As he approached his three- score-and-ten. Samuel Clemens decided to assert himself as a philosopher, and demonstrated that even his own superb fun could not obliterate the basic intel- lectuality which enabled him to calcu- late with deft accuracy the popular response. ————— The President’s homecoming address did not undertake to dispose of many of the pressing questions which are up for consideration in world affairs. He contented himself with the remainder of a basic and eternal truth, “the poor always ye have with you,” which is now especially timely. e A few gunshots awoke the geese that were battling for life in the Niagara cur- rent to the power of their own wings. Geese, being of a low order of intelli- gence, progress slowly toward civilization. — Mussolini mentions possibility of some- thing like a vendetta. France and Ger- many in any crisis make it clear that such an idea has already occurred to them. ————— The interchange of smiles between President Roosevelt and Governor Nice tends to efface suspicion that there may be jealous fears of Republican rivalry in Maryland. e Conscientious effort is being made to convince motorists and pedestrians that there is no joy in a course of conduct that relates closely to deliberate suicide. ——————— Fortunately, real straw is not necessary for a “straw vote.” Otherwise problems relating to agriculture might be further complieated. ———————— A political machine sometimes gives an imitation of grandfather's clock and stops short, never to go again. — e Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Art Ascendence. Oh, gather round both low and high, Wherever you may be, You're something that the human eye Is longing for to see. And whether in the haunts of style Or swimming in a brook, Step out and wear a pleasant smile And get your picture took. It doesn’t matter what you say, Or even what you do, The camera man is sure some day To take a shot at you. In ways of honor or of guile The world demands a look, And each must wear a pleasant smile And get his picture took. Fuss and Feathers. “Why don’t you throw your hat into the presidential ring?” “My friendly Indians presented me with a war bonnet,” said Senator Sor- ghum. “I'm afraid to throw all those feathers into the ring. My critical and sophisticated public might expect a fan dance.” Jud Tunkins says he approves of an athletic college professor. It may yet be necessary to use the old birch rod on Communistic students. Stop Fooling! A simple, honest laugh is good, It pleasantly surprises ‘With its reminder that we should Sometimes leave off disguises. Full many a sinner might repent And aid his man and brother, Could we by general consent Quit fooling one another. Unsteady Aim. “Has prohibition repeal worked well in Crimson Gulch?” “To some extent,” said Cactus Joe. “The boys shoot more than ever. But they can’t hit anybody.” Art’s Linear Measurements. The teacher prim From earth has flown, But, plump or slim, To fame she’s known. The college prude To art inclines. Not heard, but viewed, ‘We scan her lines. “Some o’ dese politicians talks loud,” said Uncle Eben, “but dey makes a rally sound like nuffin’ but an amateur camp meetin".” 2} . labor are talking of however, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. As the date named for the annual ob- servance of Children’s Book Week draws near, it brings with it the dawn of realization that the holiday season is now only seven short weeks away from actuality, The time is indeed at hand to think of books for the little ones, whose minds are ever athirst for new stories, for thrilling adventures' into make-believe lands, for better acquaint- ance with true tales of heroism and ro- mance or for a broader highway into the realm of wholesome independent reading. And there is no dearth of new volumes this Fall from which to make selections for the juvenile’s corner of the family library. Many old friends move forward to new experiences and adventures, and many delightful new humans, fairies and creatures are ready to become friends and companions of happy young owners. *® k¥ X From the house of Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, New York, comes “Babar the King.,” a continuation of the now famous elephant stories that have won the hearts of children every- where. It is a book of large pages, some of them covered with bril- liantly colored pictures of elephants engaged in all sorts of occupations, with other pages carrying marginal and half-page color prints descriptive of the accompanying text. There elephants at work and at play, in school and on tour. transforming the wilderness into a colony where splendor, happiness and contentment reign supreme, building their own amusement hall and enjoying the entertainments within it, attending the opera attired in fine raiment, feath- ers and diamond tiaras, and having a good time at gay parties. It is a book destined to furnish a never-ending source of entertainment. The text has been translated from the French of Jean de Brunhoff by Merle Haas. * ox x x Another book for the very young is a little volume entitled “The Golden Chick and the Magic Frying Pan,” by Jeanne Chardon. It is a collection of nine charming old French folk tales which have been known and loved in France for generations. It has been translated with all of the fancifulness of the orig- inal tales by Ruth Peckham Tubby and illustrated and decorated by Emma Brock. From the same publishing com- pany, Albert Whitman & Co., of Chicago, there is another collection of fanciful folk lore tales from widely separated sources. These are called “The Crystal Locket,” and each of them centers about the decorative heirloom that is still in existence, and is reputed to have had a very interesting life. The stories are by Nellie M. Rowe, and are {llustrated and decorated by Elizabeth Enright. “Over the Castle Walls,” by Caroline Mabry, is also from the Whitman house, and it tells an authentic and entertain- ing story about the castles of England as discovered by Peter and Doris on a sightseeing tour of England. This is a companion book to “Castles in Spain,” by the same author, and is attractively illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young. * % ¥ % An outstanding volume in the output of books of knowledge about the creature things that have inhabited and do in- habit the earth is the “Parade of the Animal Kingdom,” by Dr. Robert Heg- ner, a publication of the Macmillan Co. A New York. The work is a natural history of animal, bird, fish and 1nsect life, with nearly eight hundred illustrations of the subjects covered in the text, selected from the best available photographic material. It is not a publication for Jjuveniles, but an encyclopedia of knowl- edge for all who wish to know some- thing about the modes of life and the activities of the animals and the crea- tures of nature that they see about them and those of other lands. It answers all the questions that little tots as well as grown-ups can ask, however, about the great and the small life that exists outside the kingdom of human beings. Dr. Hegner is professor of pro- tozoology in the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity and has spent forty years as a student and teacher of the science of animals. He was assisted in the pro- duction of this volume by Jane Z. Hegner. L For its conception of the idea of adapt- ing for young readers the immortal | musical comedy productions of Gilbert and Sullivan, the L. C. Page Co. of Boston should be heartily congratu- Iated. “H. M. 8. Pinafore” or “The Lass That Loved a Sailor” is the first to be so treated and the result is eminently successful. Here in all of their original atmosphere of song and mirth are the beloved characters so long enjoyed by theater-goers, presented in a form to delight and entertain the boys and girls not vet old enough to grasp the full libretto. The volume is of handy size, attractively bound, and illustrated by Griswold Tyng. Later editions of the series, which will be uniform, will include “Mikado,” “Pirates of Penzance,” “Pa- tience,” “The Gondoliers,” “Iolanthe” “The Yeomen of the Guard” and “Rud- digore.” * % X * ‘The author of the “Little Indian Books,” David Cory, now offers his young readers an altogether pleasing story which he calls “Cowbells and Clover,” a down-on- the-farm story in which Jimmy and Jane, who live in the city, find & full measure of adventure and happiness on Uncle David’s farm. First of all, Uncle David himself is far more entertaining than any story book could be, and his rich store of tales and information about the things that grow and thrive on and in the earth is constantly being called into use to satisfy the pleadings of his inquisi= tive little visitors for more. The book is profusely illustrated with photo- graphs, collected by Mr. Cory over a period of years, that include every- thing from kittens, bunnies, dogs and fowl to horses and cows. The book has a decorative binding and is published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap. * K K % No holiday season would be complete without a new book in the famous saga of the kingdom of “Oz,” and this year's addition to the series will be particularly pleasing to the young fans who look forward with increasing zeal to new adventures with their old friends in the mythical realm founded by L. Frank Baum. “The Wishing Horse of Oz,” by Ruth Plumly Thompson, is a faithful continuation of the happenings in the fantastic kingdom in which in this story great consternation is wrought when fat and ugly King Skamperoo and his extraordinary wishing horse usurp the throne of Oz and the fairies, gnomes and pigs with wings lead him a merry chase. Tokens. From the Shreveport (La.) Journal. Missouri is using milk bottle tops for midget money with which to pay the State sales tax, but we're still waiting for an explanation as to what they use when they pay the milkman. —_————— Mutteringe. Prom the Wichita Easle, Secretary Perkins foresees a peaceful industrial recovery. Some segments of applying sanctions, | = BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. In connection with the mention of milk toast in a recent article here, the following letter will be of interest: “Dear Sir: The editorial page of The Star is always retained by me so that 1 may see just what you are writing of every night. You give me joy. “Since you know so well what the inner man requires in the way of sus- tenance from dewy morn till eve I can't refrain from relating an episode that occurred in the life of a friend of mine. “His place of business was in Phila- delphia. His children’s mother had been a native of Indiana so when she died he placed them with their grandmother for bringing up. He had been home for the Thanksgiving holidays and had to return to his tasks on the big day. “He had been well regaled, of course, with the viands that are current for such occasions, and feeling contentment within him had boarded the train for his destination in the city of brotherly love. “When meal time came around he betook himself to the diner, knowing full well that he wanted but a tidbit or two after the abundant repast he had had at home. All around him were plates piled high with the ‘good old bird’ of historic usage, and the sight of any more of that rich fowl served but to prove his desire for something less hearty. ® Kk k¥ “8o he ordered, of all things, bread and milk—a bowl of it was his request, with the bread to arrive separately so that he could crumble it to suit himself. “He was a man of real personality, magnetic and virile, and his voice was full of resonant and ringing tones. “It is easy to get the picture—the pic- ture of dismay and distress that formed | on the servitor's countenance at such unheard-of desires; in point of fact, it | seemed as though the waiter never had | had any one ask for bread and milk during his period of service. “At any rate, he demurred, and my friend grew more insistent, finally telling the whole car, ‘I have just come from Grandma's—she fed me and filled me with all the turkey and fixings that I could possibly devour in one day. Now | I ask only for a simple thing, I don't inquire the price, please bring me bread and milk, half milk, half cream.’ “And it reached him at last, but not in a bowl—in a glass with the bread already in it, but having spent such efforts, he took what presented and downed it. “Later a gentleman who had been in the diner with him passed his seat and said, ‘Well. when you want good old bread and milk, you want it, don’t you?' “The only thing I regret was that I couldn't have been present and seen the | various emotions aroused over the te- merity of such ordering on a festive holi- | day in a well provisioned diner of one heard the rising wrath of my friend's wonderful voice when he was met with apparent inability to comply with his | simple demands. Sincerely, S. T. H.” T Our correspondent further expresses the belief that “you will be in full accord with this since you are such a devotee of bread and milk.” The devotees of bread and milk, as a | {in a sort of silent grace, unwilling to | single dish, are legion. Their faith in this fine old simple combination has not been shaken in the | least by the promulgation of theories | to the effect that the two do not “go” together, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. With the next session of Congress little more than 10 weeks away, New Dealers will soon be concentrating on the legislative problems to be tackled in the months immediately preceding the 1936 presidential campaign. It was with a view to clearing the decks that the Government made its recent unsuccess- ful attempt to induce the Supreme Court to speed up the Hoosac Mills case, which may spell the doom of A. A. A. processing taxes. Budgetary problems will bulk conspicuously in the House and Senate program. With unceasing Republican emphasis on Roosevelt expenditure and eventual tax burdens, the administration is anxious to avoid supplying the op- position with arguments that appeal too vividly to voters’ pocketbooks. As signs multiply that the New Deal is going to the country with “recovery and pros- perity” as its battle cry, Rooseveltians will see to it that nothing is done on Capitol Hill between January and June, if they can help it, to mar the “happy- days” picture they are preparing to paint. Most everything that happens in Con- gress during that period will be with an eye to the ides of November. * Xk ¥ X Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky Is sailing for Russia this week for a two months’ sojourn, which he says is ex- clusively for vacation purposes. Natu- rally, current Soviet-American questions like debts, credits, trade and our objec- tions to communist propaganda will be discussed while the envoy is in Moscow, but none of these subjects is officially concerned with his trip. Following our protest against certain proceedings at the recent congress of the Third Inter- national, suggestions were heard that revocation of Soviet recognition was only a question of time and might not be de- layed beyond the 1936 presidential elec- tion. There are no indications that any such step is actually in contemplation. Some authoritie$ believe the desirability of cordial relations with the U. S. S. R, in view of possible Far Eastern compli- cations] is a consideration which out- weighs all other factors, except Red agi- tation, to which the administration re- mains unalterably opposed. On that rock Soviet-American relations might easily go to smash. * x ¥ ¥ Townsend Planners have apparently adopted a national anthem of their own. At a recent New York rally of the old- age pension leader’s adherents they chanted a paraphrase of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” the chorus of which runs as follows: “Onward pension soldiers, Marching as to war, With the plan of Townsend Going on before. This great pension leader Bids depression go. Join him in the battle; Help to fight the foe.” * x x x With what a bafling complexity of liquor laws and regulations Uncle Sam has to cope is graphically illustrated by & summary just issued by the Distilled Spirits Institute at Washington. Assoon as Texas acts in accordance with its re- cent repeal vote, forty-one States and the District of Columbia will have statutes and rules of widely varying nature cov- ering such matters as local option, meth- od of control, license fees, bonds, excise taxes and type of containers. North Carolina presents a novelty with 16 wet counties, while the rest of the State is arid. The seven dry States are Alabama, Georgla, Kanses, Mississippi, North De- | had one good point in it, which simply ‘b | let him eschew, not chew, bread and | is a dish for those particular occasions , beings. of our best railroad lines, and have | Bread and milk go very well together, provided one pays some attention to common sense. The greatest of these requirements is that one consume the combifation slowly. The fact that bread or crackers are “slicked” by the milk makes the swal- | lowing of the carbohydrates exceptionally | easy. It may be believed that when such combinations are eaten hastily they go without the necessary preliminary term in the mouth. | Slow eating also makes certain that one will not eat too much, out of very boredom. The idea of fletcherizing, or the chew- ing of food until all taste was out of it, | was that, if one so ate, he seldom ate too much. ‘Too much is too much, especially when it comes to food. The real result of many diet “sys- tems,” no matter how much they are damned by the orthodox, is that they do secure the elimination of much un- necessary food. ‘When we stop to recall that perhaps nine out of ten persons do eat too much, as is easily ascertained on every hand, we are better able to see that some of the better diet schemes are not as bad, after all, as some would have us believe. They are good, in fact, if common sense is used in connection with them. Even good things may be bad if common sense is left out of the prescription. * x ¥ X The greatest requirement, if one is both to enjoy bread and milk and to get the greatest good from an essentially wholesome and nutritious combination, is that one eat nothing else with it. It must be the entire meal. “What! The entire meal?” If any one feels that way about it, milk, or crackers and milk. Such combinations are for all persons who are willing to understand the mean- ing of the old phrase, “Much in little,” as applied to dietetics. ‘The nutritional value of a good bowl of rich milk, with plenty of bread crumbled in, is such that little if any- thing else is necessary at the same meal. A succession of such meals, long con- tinued, might lack certain vitamins and other elements essential in a complete diet, but surely few persons, even its advocates, would be likely to eat many such dishes, one after another. Bread and milk, or crackers and milk, when the mind calls for them. It is the mind, we insist, that demands bread and milk just so. It is the in- tellectual dish, par excellence, the gas- tronomic ideal of the person who likes books and music and gardens and human What greater delight, indeed, than a foaming bowl well filled. but not too full, with rich yvellow milk and cream | into which one slowly breaks, bit by bit, fine slices of bread? Room must be left for the bread, that is why the bowl must not be filled close | to the brim. The displacement of the 1 bread will bring the level of the milk near the top. Then one meditates a minute or two, | rush in too hastily at the glorious dish. It is the better for the bread to receive a quiet soaking. When the first spoonful | comes—ah, is there anything quite like that first spoonful? kota, Oklahoma and Tennessee. They are supposed to enjoy the protection of the Federal Government against impor- tation of liquor into their respective Jjurisdictions. Some dry leaders com- plain that Uncle Sam has not done his | {full duty in this respect. * x % x Speaking of prohibition, the view was widespread that repeal would spell the doom of the soft drink industry. A lead- ing concern in that trade is about to de- clare a three-to-one stock bonus affect- ing 4,000,000 shares, in consequence of the prosperity the corporation has en- Joyed since the country went off the water wagon. The company's stock con- | tinues to share, with a famous Western gold mining security, the distinction of being in the highest brackets of equity quotations on the New York Stock EX- change. Another thirst note of current interest is the declaration by Jacob Rup- pert, New York brewer and base ball magnate, to the United States Brewers' Association, of which he is president, that if beer taxes were low enough to permit the five-cent glass, annual con- sumption would be nearer 100,000,000 than 50,000,000 barrels. Mr. Ruppert ob- viously believes that what this country needs is a good five-cent glass of beer. * kX & Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, of Kansas doesn’t think A. A. A. should | be made a partisan political issue in 1936, because it corresponds substantially to the farm plank in the 1932 Republican national platform. “It may be true” says the Topeka statesman-editor, “that since then the Roosevelt administration has stolen that Republican idea and tried to make it work. But I have never seen any good reason why we Republicans should abandon principles laid down in our platform just because the other party has been guilty of political larceny. Unless and until something better is pro- duced, the Republicans next year should not take sides against the A. A. A, but hang on to our own farm program.” * * x x Under auspices of the Propeller Club of the United States and with the indorse- ment of President Roosevelt and Secre- tary of Commerce Roper, an American merchant marine conference will be held in New York City on November 18 and 19. Its purpose is to provide common ground for discussion having for its objective “the improvement of condi- | tions within the industry and the enhancement of American shipping’s status in the public mind.” * % % Denmark has become the first Euro- pean nation to comply with provisions of the securities and exchange act requiring permanent registration of for- eign securities as a condition precedent to their legal listing on the New York Stock Exchange after March 31, 1936. As the Copenhagen government isn’t in debt default to the United States, our money market is wide open to it. The Danes have three separate issues of bonds nominally outstanding here, aggre- gating roundly $104,000,000. Argentina is the only other country which has so far sought 8. E. C. approval of its national obligations for American flotation pur- poses. (Copyright. 1935.) Less Liquor. Prom the Indianapolis News. A University of Pittsburgh survey shows that less liquor is being drunk now than before or during prohibition. Some people must be using it as & liniment. A ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin. A reader can get the answer to any qQuestion of fact by writing The Washing= ton Evening Star Injormation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D.C. Please inclose stamp for reply. / Q. How many people are killed yearly in the United States by criminals?—G. M. A. A total of 12,000 lives is the toll taken by criminals annually. Q. Has Italy a large airport in Fri. | trea?—R. 8. A. What may be Africa’s largest air- port is now being leveled in Eritrea, The new field is named for the late Col. Umberto Maddalena, who with Air Mar- shal Balbo led Italy’s air armada across the Atlantic to Brazil in 1931. This airport is located at Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. Q. What is the size of the largest crowd which has attended a horse race in this country?—S. E. B. A. The crowd of over 75000 which saw the sixtieth running of the Ken- tucky Derby on May 5, 1934, is believed to be the greatest to see a horse racing event in the Americas. Q. Are Egyptian cigarettes made of Egyptian tobacco?—A. W. B. A. Tobacco is not raised in Bgypt. So- called Egyptian cigarettes are made of Turkish tobacco. Q. Who is the oldest man in point of service in the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States? —W. C. D. A. Adolph J. Sabath of Tllinois is the oldest member of the House of Repre- sentatives in point of service. He has been there for 15 consecutive terms, and has served from March 4, 1907, to the present. Q. Is there any flag used to denote that the captain is aboard his ship? —A. McC. A. There is not. However, naval vese sels of the United States display the international third substitute flag at the port main (on some vessels at the port fore) yardarm when the captain is absent, Q. When was the National Recreation Association established?—E. G. A. It was organized in 1906 for the purpose of uniting efforts to provide safe and adequate areas where children might play under experienced leadership, Q. Are there countries where the foot measure is not exactly 12 inches?— A. M H. A. In certain parts of the world & foot differing slightly from the standard foot of the United States and Great Britain is still in use. Canada, in some localities, uses the French foot of 128 inches. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in parts of South Africa, the old measure of 11.147 inches is used. Q. Please give some information about Barro Colorado Island—W. H. A. It is located in the Gatun Lake in the central part of the Panama Canal Zone. It is over 6 square miles in extent and has a shore line of over 25 miles. It is the headquarters of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, where in the past eight years scientists from more than 50 institutions have availed themselves of the island facilities for research. The Executive Committee of the institute is now headed by Dr. ‘Thomas Barbour, Museum of Compara- tive Zoology at Cambridge. The island is a splendid site for biological research because of the tropical paradise which it constitutes and the very rich fauna and flora it possesses. Q. Which races have the least hair? —B. I A. The least hairy peoples are the yellow and red races, the men often scarcely having even rudimentary rds, such as many American Indians and the Mongols. Negroid peoples may be said to be intermediate, but usually inclined to hairlessness. The amount of hair is, of course, somewhat related to its type. Q. Was typhoid fever the greatest scourge of the Civil War?—A. J. A. Two diseases with which the diage nosis of typhoid fever was often cone fused, diarrhea and dysentery, prior to and during the Civil War were a greater scourge to armies than even typhoid fever and extracted even a more dreadful death toll from our troops. During the Civil War they occurred with greater fre- quency and produced more sickness and mortality than any other form of disease, Q. For whom is Tulane University in New Orleans named?—H. D. A. It is named for Paul Tulane, a merchant and philanthropist, who do- nated New Orleans property and over a millions dollars for purposes of edu- cation. Q. Where did camp meetings origi- nate?—L. F. A. The camp meeting originated in Kentucky early in the course of what is known as the Second Awakening or the Great Revival. Q. For whom was the Prince of Wales given his Christian names?>—M. A. P. A. The prince's name is Albert, for his great-grandfather; Edward for his grandfather; Christian for his maternal great-grandfather; George for his father, and also for the patron saint of England, St. George; Andrew, the name of the patron saint of Scotland; Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland and David, the patron saint of Wales. Q. What are the seven cardinal prin- ciples of secondary education?—M. R. A. They are: Health; command of fundamental processes; worthy home- membership; vocation? civic education; worthy use of leisure and ethical char- acter. Q. What is the average salary of & Government employe?—T. D. A. There is no official figure. An un- official estimate is that in normal times it is about $1,600 a year; that it is now between $1,600 and $1,800 a year. This would give a normal salary of about $31 a week, and during the emergency, be- tween $31 and $35 a week. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Pledged As I drive my car with safety For pedestrians in the streets, Careful of the turns and crossings, Cautious in the motor fleets; So I pledge my heart to prudence; Curbs and highways in the run Of my life at even going; Rational pace in storm and sun. And I pledge my thoughts in starlight ‘To some moments of calm prayer In a speed-mad world where God is, Despite wreckage and despair.