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A—10 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D, C. October 21, 1936 THEODORE W. NOYES...... .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 11th lz':n"dmr'c'nnmn:nu Ave. ol ded S TR, Buropean Ofmce: 14 Rexent St.. Londor. Engiand. .-80¢ per month r month oDy Fixhl PFinsl and Collcilon mat 3 Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgiaia. yr. $10. 1 3 Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is eXclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this piper and also the local news published hergin, {ll rishts of oublication of secial dispatches erein are also reserved. One Policy or the Other. For the benefit, as it were, of the President’s special committee now en- gaged in a study of fiscal relations, the courts have been asked to rule on two important aspects of that relationship. In one case the preliminary ruling by Justice Bailey has upheld the rights of parents employed in Washington but living outside the District to send their children to the local public schools, de- spite the crowded condition of those schools and the assertion by the school authorities that there is no room for non-resident pupils. In the other case & packing company has petitioned the courts for a writ compelling District officials to issue the necessary permit for construction of a packing house and abattoir in a commercially zoned part of the District. What is the connection between these separate and distinct appeals to the courts and the subject of fiscal relations between the United States and the Dis- trict of Columbia? In the matter of non-resident pupils, the connection may be plain enough. Non-resident pupils originally gained ad- mittance to local schools because of the financial participation, by the National Government, in District expenses. At the time of enactment of the law now at issue, the National Government's con- tribution was fifty per cent of such ex- penses. It has dwindled to the current 126 per cent under the reduced lump &um, although the school admittance law remains the same and the population of Washington and the suburbs in ad- Jacent counties has almost doubled, The appeal to the courts in the matter of the abattoir touches another angle of the fiscal relationship. The opposi- tion to this packing plant from Federal and municipal officials is directly in line with the policy of discouraging or ex- cluding large commescial establishments, because of esthetic and other considera- tions, from the Capital City. Opinions differ whether a modern packing plant, under supervision of the Bureau of Animal Industry and erected on the same site previously occupied by the business for many years, is peculiarly ob- Jjectionable, On one side of that ques- tion is Secretary Ickes’ desire to protect the location for the model housing proj- ect some day to be completed not far away. On the other side is the com- pany’s statement that the usual objec- tions to slaughter houses, notably odor and filth, are immediately removed through the strict regulations of the Department of Agriculture. The com- pany’s building operations, of course, would add to the community’s tax base and the plant would give seasonal em- ployment to about 600 persons. The objections to the plant may be well taken. The point is that if they are sustained and the plant’s erection is halted, the community’s tax resources and employment possibilities are by so much reduced. Denial of the co:upany’s permit would be in perfect accord with Capital City development policy. That policy may be wise. But we cannot have our cake and eat it too. We cannot hope to develop without substantial financial aid from the exclusively con- trolling National Government a Capital City free from large or objectionable Industries, contributing, as in other cities, a large portion of local revenues. If the aid from the National Government par- tially in lieu of such taxation is with- held, then local tax resources must be developed. Under the policy of Capital City de- velopment, heavy local industries are discouraged and at the same time large areas of real estate are withdrawn from the tax list for the Federal Government’s occupancy. The result, under the de- creasing lump sum, is to throw an in- creasingly heavy load on a decreasing source of local taxation. Anne Sullivan Macy. Helen Keller is alone today. Her teacher is gone beyond the summons of her groping fingers. Anne Sullivan Macy, exhausted from the l:bofs of a career dedicated to her fellow creatures, has been released to her reward. But the woman whose soul she freed from dark- ness and silence—a living tomb—denies that she is lost. Rather, it is only her pain, her suffering, that has terminated. The immortality she earned by her self- less devotion to others will protect her forever from the finality which men call death. Mrs. Macy was one of the most re- markable characters of modern times. The noble courage of her mind and the generous charity of her heart won for her the respect and the affection of all who knew her story. Her marvelous gifts of intelligence and sympathy, her gentle- ness, her graciousness and her humility made her s benediction to thousands. s .. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, ‘'OCTOBER 21, 1936. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. She went through the world like a bless- ing, saintly in the inspiration of her example and her influence. Merely to see her was ta.find new reason for being proud of being human.* She worked miracles of iaith and hope for the dis- tressed and heavy-burdened. Miss Keller was but a single proof of her genius. In her was demonsttated & principle of universal significance and application. But the elemental majesty of Mrs. Macy’s spirit was most notably mani- fested in her insistence on her own inconsequence. The ideal teacher, she held, is merely a channel through which knowledge flows from its divine source to its equally divine end. With good- humored modesty she always deprecated well-meant attempts to pay tribute to her achievements. From the beginning she preferred that Miss Keller should be celebrated. Her personal ‘choice was to be simply the shadow of her famous pupil. The truth, however, seems to have been that they were a partnership, friends closer than sisters during nearly half a century of unbroken association. It was Alexander Graham Bell of Wash- ington who brought them together. Once they had met, each contributed to the victory they accomplished over tragic circumstance. And it was their happiness to believe that their experience might be duplicated commonly. No handicap, they argued, is insuperable. ‘The lesson of their triumph, then, must be that of the efficiency of fortitude. Possessed of the power to persist, the péople of this bewildered planet can solve any problem which destiny pro- pounds for their discomfiture. Surely there is nothing that could be said that would please Mrs. Macy more at the moment of her departure nor comfort Miss Keller more as she faces the future without her. Beginning of the End? President Azana’s sudden removal from Madrid to Barcelona, accompanied by three cabinet ministers, strongly suggests that the government has decided to give up the ghost. The President’s departure synchronizes with the ever-tighter in- vestiture of the capital by rebel troops, Wwhose leaders boast that the city will be theirs “within a few days.” General Franco and other insurgent commanders have indulged before in equally bom- bastic predictions, only to have them frustrated by the stubborn defense of- fered by the indiscriminately recruited Teftist fighting forces. Feverish mobili- zation of a “taxicab army” on the famous model invoked for defense of Paris in the first battle of the Marne is tell- tale evidence of the desperate straits to which Madrid has been reduced to stave off the Fascist drive for its possession. The loyalists insist the capital will not be surrendered without last-ditch fighting for every inch of its soil. Reports have been current, as in- surgent successes brought Madrid’s doom ever nearer, that the government as a last resort would establish itself some- where in the coastal area still under its control. President Azana declares that his arrival at Barcelona is only the first step in a “series of tours” to bolster the courage of loyalist troops, but it is acknowledged that his sojourn will be for “an indefinite period.” Semi-autonomous Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, has been the government’s prin- cipal bulwark throughout the civil war, and Senor Azana alleges he wishes to show his gratitude for the province’s “valiant fight for liberty.” The Presi- dent’s wanderings are merely designed, he claims, “to fortify the people’s morale and instill in them courage to continue the struggle.” Despite these explangtions, Senor Azana’s journey will ‘arouse widespread suspicion that it denotes the beginning of the end for the radical regime, Fail- ure to secure needed support abroad is probably the straw that is finally break- ing the back of Leftist resistance. Col- lapse of the Soviet Union’s strong-arm diplomatic efforts to bring about stop- page of supplies to the rebels from Ital- ian, German and Portuguese sources may have been the actual factor that convinced Madrid of the hopelessness of its cause, Perhaps President Azana and Premier Caballero will derive a vestige of en- coutagement from cryptic Moscow an- nouncements that the U. S. S. R. has devised a program of aid that will save the beleagured Popular Front, even if Madrid falls. The Kremlin hints darkly at plans that “will stir the world.” Whether this foreshadows the dangerous recourse of trying to run Russian muni- tions, supplies or even troops into Spain, or, with Madrid’s connivance, attempt- ing to smash the non-intervention pact, whereby other countries would be at liberty to assist the government, remains to be disclosed. Failing such develop- ments, Azana's desertidn of his capital will seem a signal of distress and a confession that the jig is up. ——————— The title “Life” is to be retained for a new weekly magazine. If it can renew the pungency 6f Metcalf’s cfitical attacks on a commercialized theater, the denun- ciation of vivisection, the graceful drafts- manship revealed by the Gibson girl and the wit and editorial discernment of J. A. Mitchell, Life will indeed be worth living. . Hopkins Place. terday attending the formal wiping out of old London Court, one of the notorious groups of alley dwellings, and its trans- formation into bright and spotless Char- lotte Everett Hopkins Place, recalling the memory of a noble lady who did so much is small, it is true. But the District Alley Dwelling Authority has been eminently wise in feeling its way slowly, exercising great caution in the expenditure of its limited funds, It is going slowly because it is ploneering in risky territory. It is entrusted not only with the expenditure of public funds, but with expenditure by Investment capable of yielding sufficient returns for reinvestment. It is trespass- ing in flelds hitherto regarded as reserved for private 'enterprise and plenty of criticism awaits its first misstep. The Alley Dwelling Authority is wisely choosing a two-fold objective. It is seeking, of course, to remove the alley shacks by converting the land to other use or by erecting low-cost, low-rental dwellings. At the same time, it is at- tempting to/ interest private capital by demonstrating possibilities regarded in the past with considerable skepticism. The first venture is under way. Its prog- ress will be watched with extraordinary interest. ————— Objection has been raised to the use of the phonegraph in political debate. In a comparatively few decades it may be quite usual to employ so simple 8 means of promoting closer acquaintance be- tween an orator and his public. SR T L Another reminder that politics is not responsible for all earth’s disasters is the killing of 25 people by an earthquake near Venice. There are experiences which even the most enthusiastic theorist will not undertake to regulate, Fortunes change and claimants to seats of honor at brilliant dinner parties are soon forgotten. In the bright lexicon of the Social Register there is no such word as “Security.” If the munitions makers of the world should combine, the towns where bomb- ing planes are manufactured may be re- garded as having a margin of safety in case of air raids. —titts Vice President Garner adheres to tra- dition. He speaks in glowing compliment of the President, as all Vice Presidents within modern recollection have done. ———— ‘The suggestion that crow may be eaten is accompanied by asurances that an expert cuisine can render the “blue eagle” palatable. —————— Plays by G. Bernard Shaw are favorites with American amateur actors. If Shaw could observe them he might be tempted to become more sarcastic than ever. ————— Reciprocity means trade and can hardly be provided for in a manner to prevent the sharpest trader from secur- ing the most advantage. A mechanical heart appeals to the imagination, but could be of no service to poets and illustrators who specialize on valentine novelties. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The world is assuming a definite style; ‘We endeavor to follow the fashion, The camera brings a perpetual smile 'Mid the phonograph’s patriot passion. But the auditor joins with the spectator 88y, Though a place costs as much as a dollar, And the part I must play in the splen- did array Is to stand on the sidewalk and holler. Just how I may vote I'm not ready to quote; There may be some pleasant persua- sion That may cause me some logical notion to note That applies to some future occasion. No yniform bright I will bring to the show, Though the sun may be wilting my collar. I shall manfully go, for my duty I know, Is to stand on the sidewalk and holler. Educational. “Have you any desire to visit Europe?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I think Europe offers great educational advantages in reminding us of so many political experiments that ought never to have been attempted.” Halloween, In toy stores masks again are seen Prepared to welcome Halloween. Nowhere in the mysterious place Is noted a familiar face! And this relieves the cautious mind Which would be horrified to find Some counterfeit which might impair Official dignity somewhere, Unembellished Elogquence. “Did you hear me speaking over the radio?” inquired Mr. Dustin Stax. ; “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. *“I liked it better than a personal talk. I really think your speeches are better when unaccompanied by facial expres- sion.” “To change your mind,” said Hi Ho, the Sage of Chinatown, “makes you & weather vane unless you change it so rapidly and often that you become a whirligig.” Responsibilities Assumed. There’s & kind of relief that occasions much grief. It works with a motive obscure. It offers hypnotics with formulas brief Writ down with & rythmical lure. And this is the recipe which you will see— “Just leave it to me! Just leave it to me!” It may be a toothache; it may be a purse That shrinks when expected to swell. The medicine man will begin to rehearse Incantations to make the place well. And his solemn advice seems forever to be “Just leave it to me! Just leave it to me!” “What some folks is hopin’ for on election day,” said Uncle Eben, “makes any little thing Christmas can do look like small change.” ,\ NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM . MARGARET GERMOND. A PRAYER FOR MY SON. By Hugh Walpole, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. The name of Mr. Walpole on the title page of a book carries with it the assur- ance that the pages which follow, no matter what the subject may be, will be worth reading. He is an accom- plished writer, whose genius has found expression in several forms of literary output, and a fundamental part of whose ability lies in his broad and sympathetic understanding of many types of human beings as well as of the forces which direct their lives and their destinies, In his deep humanity, plus his skill as craftsman, lies the strength that has characterized the long list of works which have come from his pen. On' previous occasions Mr. Walpole has, with warm-hearted understanding, devoted his talent to stories about chil- dren. And on these excursions into the Jjuvenile mind he has invariably brought back something fine, whol and en- during. He returns to the child theme in this latest novel and presents as its central figure a twelve-year-old boy whose unmarried mother had surrendered him to the care of his paternal grandfather in circumstances which logic always dic- tates as the best policy in the opinion of every one except the mother, whose already battered heart must bear also the anguish of separation. In the years that have passed since Rose Clennell relinquished her child to Colonel Fawcus, life at Scarfe Hall has very definitely molded the thoughts and development of the little lad and kept them strictly within the channels pre- scribed by the agfng colonel. Perhaps the old man does not mean to be a tyrant, but he is possessed of an ego which has for years kept him firm in the belief that he is the lord of the district, The traditions of generations have become gospel. The restraints and convictions of other ages still prevail, and theére is no compromise with a changing order. There is no welcome for strangers, nor is there any attempt to foster in the heart of the boy any love for the mother he has never known. The law of possession and the power which possession brings are the gods of the head of Scarfe Hall, and John must grow up with a firm belief in these threadbare, worthiess traditions and con- victions, The lad is twelve years old when Rose Clennell is invited by Colonel Fawcus to visit Scarfe Hall. What is the reward for those dreary years of heartache and longing and hope? She is a stranger to her son. He cannot accept this unknown ‘woman, who has never come to him be- fore and who has never written to him, as & mother. He has wanted a mother, one comparable with the mothers of the boys of his acquaintance. But he can neither understand the reasons for the long silence nor receive with affection this stranger about whom he has little kndwledge. It is not difficult to foresee the out- come of this unusual triangle of hopes and allegiances, but from the moment that Rose realizes that her son’s love must be won, this fine, strong story ar- rests the attention of the reader and holds it to the end. Many qther inter- esting and entertaining characters, typi cal of the English scene, contribute to the warmth and color of the background. But it is in Rose Clennell’s consciousness of the need of “a prayer for my son” that the strength and the beauty of this splendid novel makes its appeal to the beart of humanity. *xx RETURN OF A HEROINE. By Mar- guerite Steen. Indianapolis: The ‘Bobbs-Merrill Co. - About the kindest comment that can be made about this navel is that Mar- guerite Steen had a brainstorm, and that she is perhaps to be congratulated be- cause it spent itself in the form of a novel and thus relieved her mind of a fictional burden which must have been somewhat unpleasant to carry. It is difficult to imagine why the author of two such picturesque novels as “The Tavern” and “Matador,” staged amid the “color and romance of pre-revolutionary Spain, should move into the back streets of London for & subject that has noth- ing to recommend it and much to con- demn it. Briefly, the story makes an unintelli- gent effort to present the practice of euthanasia as & problem of major im- portance. No sane person can today make the prediction that the subject will never become a matter for serious’ consideration. But it is safe to say that it will not reach proportions of concern in the near future, and that when it does its foundations will not rest upon this exposition of the affairs of the Jordan family or the return of one of its members to the wide-open world. Phoebe Jordan, the heroine who re- turns to unfettered civilization after two years im prison, finds the whole of Eng- land divided into two camps concerning the act for which she was tried, convicted and sentenced. To one group she is a heroine, a symbol of courage and strength, the hope of a humanitarian cause. To the other group she is a criminal for whom no mercy should be granted. Her family belongs to the latter group. The net result is an ac- cumulation of venomous hatred that breaks down the slender barriers of family decency and flows freely through a series of episodes which drive Phoebe into the arms of the other camp, where she flourishes amid adoration and luxury, Cold, calculating and utterly selfish, Phoebe nurses her grudge against those whose hatred for her is no stronger than her contempt for them, until she de- velops an overwhelming passion for power over those who have befriended her. Eventually she becomes the com- plete egomaniac. And having put her through the paces to the heights of this unlovely state of mental and moral de- generacy, Miss Steen leaves her to make her own way into the tastes or distastes of readers of fiction. The New German Food. From the Eigin Courier-News. If Germans do start to eat food made of wood by the newly-discovered process, frauleins will just have to bear it if their husbands bark at them. 'mAmerlm Many persons nowadays will be able to sympathize with a famous old English- man who had an eye to numerical ar- rangement ia almost everything he did. It is said that he regulated everything according to methematics, ever. to the stropping of his razor. “Beginning with his minimum,” an old account says, “which was two strokes, he added one more stroke each day succes- sively till he got up to & number fixed on as & maximum, on reaching which he reversed the process, diminishing the number by one each day, till the lowest point was touched.” But this was far from all: “His staff was put down on the ground regularly at each fourth footfall, and the number of its descents gave him a pretty accurate measure of the space over which he walked. “Habit had rendered the counting of these descents an easy, indeed almost mechanical, operation; so that though meeting friends and sustaining an ani- mated conversation it still went on.” LI B . There are, perhaps, many more persons who so regulate their lives than the average person has any comprehension of, because most people are acute enough to realize that the revelation of such habits simply permits thoughtless ae- quaintances to lump them off as “nuts,” or, at the least, eccentrics. A modern psychologist would label such habits compulsion neuroses and place their blame on something which hap- pened in the early life of the subject. It is being seen plainer every year that psychology, as modernly interpreted, is still very much of a theory, and, like all theories, may or may not be supplanted or greatly modified in the years to come. The man who has read his Freud and Jung often feels that, at best, they and their disciples simply have pushed the unknown back to a new, frontier of words; that we are as far from a genuine under- standing of mind and soul processes as ever. PR Such small mathematical habits as in- stanced above are not things to worry over in any sense, no matter what their interpretation. As one of the latest popular expositions of psychology shows, an average person may profit from such mental quirks by carefully cherishing them and working with them. ‘There is a satisfaction to numbers, for instance, in many apparently unrelated SSes. A gentleman in this town always gives his small safety razor blade exactly 48 twirls with his left hand, then 48 more with his right. It would be difficult to explain this on any basis of high-sounding words and terms, no matter the authority behind them. May it not be, simply, a tuning of the mind through mathematics to the small task in hand? Every one has a “favorite” number. ‘With many persons this number is 12, or some multiple. ‘Thus 24 with such persons is almost always a secondary favorite number, as it might be termed. Usually the preference is based on favorite primary numbers, such as 2, 4, ete. Our subject who gives 48 twirls to his whirly-gig stropper is partial to even numbers, with the exception of 7, which also is a prime favorite. 2 ‘The number 9 in the gyes of this person is a very ugly one. It may be realized that when he stropd his razor he selects pleasing n and that is the whole extent of it. ‘Why psychology? Likes and dislikes in numbers run back through the ages; a most extensive re- search would be required to show the religious, superstitious, magical or-other influence which brings such states mind about. i All in all, what difference does it make whether one strops a razor a certain definite number of times or just does it out-of-hand, without any idea at all of the number of strokes? The methodical stroker, let us say, is & more methodical person. Isn't that enough? * % % % ’, It such precise habits suddenly w fastened upon gne they might prove wor- risome, but that is the point; they are a gradual growth. One may feel sure-that few youths have such habits, but that many middle- aged persons will own up to them, They are gradual, as most habits, and, like gnany habits, no more harmful than prior states, when such small peculiari- ties do not exist. People who live methodically often find that practically all their habits tend to run in grooves. They arise at the same moment in the morning, spend about the same number of minutes bathing, descend to the dining room at almost the same minute, eat breakfast in about the | same time, require the same number of minutes, almost to the dot. to walk to the public transport, etc., etc. ‘They may not consciously count theif steps, either with or without the benefit of cane, but do take the same number on identical missions. There is, you see, method in their madness. L Probably the greatest inroad on daily life of mathematical counting “was in fletcherizing, or chewing mouthfuls of food a certain set number of times before swallowing. At one time this was a popular diet “fad” in this eountry, but it probably died out more because such counting is repugnant to. most persons than because fll\ere was more hokum than fact in the' plan. Fletcherizing (named after Horace Fletcher, its propounder) was simply a sensible plan of requiring people to eat slowly. To carry it o the extreme of counting chews was to make it a great bother. It is a strange thing, perhaps, that people who fall into the habit of counting their steps and in other ways permit numbers to so enter into their daily lives are usually persons who have an aversion to mathematics as a science. As a rule they were boys and girls who were “good” in English literature and history in school days, but “poor” or “fair” in algebra, etc. Perhaps their turning to mathematics, at last, is a simple confession on theif part that great is mathematics after all, and that thus, in a humble way at least, they will pay tribute to a great factor in human thought and life. It will be just as well for all persons with such habits to keep them to them- selves, as the saying is. Such matters are commonly misunderstood, especially by ignorant people, who find in them food for their favorite diversion, poking fun at others. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘This is the eve-of-battle phase which finds the Democratic and Republican high commands watching each other like hawks, to guard against guerrilla attacks. It is the anything-might- happen stage, which always fills cam- paign managers with jitters. The situa- tion is like the last tense minutes of & foot ball game, when a forward pass, & long end run, a fumble or a triek play suddenly leads to a surprise victory. In other words, it is the hour for boners and breaks, lucky or otherwise, depend- ing on whose ox is gored. Somebody might make a fool speech—a modern Dr. Burchard, whose “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” beat Blaine in 1884—or a sensational disclosure, development or indiscretion, reflecting directly or in- directly upon either of the presidential candidates, might come along. One of the fears that gives the Farleys and the Hamiltons headaches' is the possibility that the enemy might trot out some- thing damaging so close to election day that there would be no time for refuta- tion and retaliation. The campaign has become so bitter that there'd be little surprise if a devastating bombshell were to be sprung at the last moment. * ¥ Xx x ‘There’s still time for outbreaks of im- portant mugwumpery., If the Jeffersonian Democrats, for example, were to be joined at the eleventh hour by Senator Carter Glass, the New Deal would suffer a major disaster. It is, of course, not in sight. Were Democrats of the caliber of Glass, Byrd, Newton Baker and Owen Young tardily to desert Roosevelt, as Smith, Reed, Ely, Colby, Breckinridge, Bruce et al. have done, Democratic confidence would receive a terrific jolt. Party defections to date are regarded wholly negligible, as far as any effect on the result is concerned, but the Presi- dent has always had a healthy respect for the X represented by the independent vote and habitually warns party leaders not to leave it out of account. Com- parable with & Glass_defection from Roosevelt would be a Borah bolt from Landon, But the Idahoan evidently means to remain regular—more or less. * K K K Despite the critical state of the world beyond our gold-plated shores, foreign affairs have been amazingly conspicuous by their absence in the campaign. Bar- ring reciprocal trade, international ques- tions have been virtually ignored. Even the tariff agreement issue has stirred the emotions of only a handful of farm States along the Northern border. In both camps there have been sporadic Pro or con references to stabilization, but on the broad proposition of the United States’ interests and obligations as a world power, mum has been the word. Foreign diplomats, who thought the Roosevelt-Landon duel would shed light on American intentions amid the chaos and conflict oppressing Mother Earth, have been dhppolnwd; * * ¥ Reuter’s, famous world-wide British news agency, has just completed the European straw vm ever taken in velt 314 electoral votes & s Democratic _majority college and & Roosevelt Landon. ‘The Londoners -| Landon all the States which Hoover car- ried in 1932 (totaling 59 votes) and 158 additional votes, including Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mis- Kansas, Massachusetts, sourl, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wyoming. r coming out for F. D. R. on the reciprocal trade issue, the Warburg dynasty is a banking house divided against itself. Felix M. Warburg, uncle of the author of the anti-Roosevelt “Hell Bent. for Election” and “Still Hell Bent” preach- ments, has declared for Landon. The coincidence of young Warburg’s jump onto the administration bandwagon and Amos Pinchot’s hop off the same chariot causes politicians to reckon that, by and large, bolts are pretty well cancelling one another out. * %X x X Visitors who caught a glimpse of Presi- dent Roosevelt, while he camped out at the White House for a few hours this week found that, as usual, he’s weathering campaign wear and tear splendidly. Newspaper men who survived his 5,000-mile swing across the country and reported his 50 speeches, say that the President rart true to form by always being the least fagged member of the party. By sleeping late and not begin- ning the rear platform ordeal too early in the morning, Mr. Roosevelt conserved his strength and carried out untiringly his grueling day and night schedule. * * k X Like his neighbor, Borah of Idaho, Senator McNary of Oregon continues to refrain from any aggressive support of the Landon candidacy. So far the G. O. P. Senate leader has confined himself to the local Republican campaign. Pos- sibly, his masterly inactivity is due to the certainty that Oregon is safe for Roosevelt. The Senator’s own re-election is no less assured. The Canadian trade agreement hits the Oregon lumber in- dustry and is correspondingly disliked, but prospect of a New Deal Columbia River project on T. V. A. lines offsets the tariff treaty's disadvantages. Mc- Nary identifies himself with that view. . * ok ok X In an article on New Deal propaganda appearing in the November Farm Jour- nal, Herbert Corey, veteran news writer, paints a breezy picture of Washington at tHe Hawn of the more abundant life. Describing the days in which Capital correspondents had their bewildered be- ing, Corey says: “Their imaginations were seized by the $5,000,000,000 kitty and Hugh Johnson's blackjack rhetoric and Wallace's scheme to harness farmers to his push buttons. Mrs. Roosevelt was popping in and out of mines and Mr. Roosevelt was holding his big-time press conferences and Mme. Perkins was lift- ing her old-fashioned skirts in a new- fashioned dance, and Honest Harold and Honest Harry were in-fighting, and sena- torial witchfinders were dunking business men, and Postmaster General Farley was shelling out rare stamps to his persomal friends, and Dr. Stanley High was try- ing to catch the clergy, and Dr. Rex Tugwell was running the wrong way of the fleld, and Ambassador Troyanovsky was passing out platters full of caviar. Of course, the New Deal got friendly publicity in those early days. The town his voice in public he was drowned in the shrieking.” (Copyright, 1936.) Good Imitation. Prom the Grand Island mmmn&“ e A prominent musician says b= ing is dying. Maybe it just sounds that way. g Neglected Millinery Idea. n'ntnnn -t;;t" h:zm designers haven't model in brown, shaped like sunflowers. ' turhied out & & derby and adorned with ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. How much money is made in college foot ball?—L. W. A. It is estimated that college foot ball brings in a net profit of more than $14,« 000,000 a year. Q. How long has the drug ephedrine been known?—F. T. A. It was first prepared by Nagal in 1887 from the Chinese drug ma huang. Q. In what year did “Samson and Delilah” have its premiere in New Orleans?—F. J. H. A. The opera was produced in that city in 1893. Q. Who was known as the Chrysostom ‘of the English pulpit?’—K. R. W. A. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), English divine, was so called. Q. What is a Parthian shaft?>—H. W, A. This is an unexpected and satirical witticism. The phrase refers to a cus- tom of the ancient Parthians, who in battle would feign retreat and then shoot backward with unerring aim. Q. Where did Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, die?—W. J. A. He died at his Summer residence, in Nova Scotia, in 1922. Q. Please give a biography of Harry Elmore Hurd, author of “Possessions of a Sky Pilot."—E. H. A. Harry Elmore Hurd was born in Goshen, N. H., April 23, 1889. Previous to receiving degrees from Harvard and Boston universities, he was one of the first wireless operators in America, copy« ing distress messages from all of the early wrecks. After serving as chaplain of the 33d United States Engineers in France, he became a cowboy in the Far ‘West, drifting from Colorado to the Pa« cific. His stories, essays and poetry have appeared in 166 magazines and in 30 anthologies of poetry. He is author of “Possessions of a Sky Pilot,” “Mountains and Molehills,” “West of East,” and co= author of “Christ in the Breadline.” Q. Where is mica produced in the United States?—C. L. F. A. Over 90 per cent of the mica in the United States comes from New Hamp- shire and North Carolina. The other 10 per cent comes from Connecticut, Maine, South Carolina and Mexico. Q. Were the soldiers who fell at the battle of Little Big Horn buried on the field?—L. H. 8. A. All who fell at the battle of Little Big Horn were buried in one great grave on the battlefield, except Gen. Custer, whose body, although at first interred there, was later removed to the United States burial ground at West Point. Q. Who wrote under the pen name of the Busybody?—A. R. A. Benjamin Franklin under this name wrote a series of papers modeled on the Spectator. Q. Please give a list of mythological names associated with love—F. R. A. The following names are associated with love: Aphrodite, Astarte, Cupid, Dione, Eros, Freya, Hymen, Kama and Venus. Q. Please give some information about the founding of Sears, Roebuck & Co. ~H. K. A. The mail order house of Sears, Roe= buck & Co. was founded by Richard W. Sears, who, about 1866, while a railroad agent in a small Minnesota town, began selling watches by mail, securing his customers through personal correspon- dence. His early venture proving suce cessful, he moved to Chicago as a more central location and joined forces with A. C. Roebuck, organizing the Richard ‘W. Sears Watch Co., which later was sold. Not long after they branched out in a more general line, constantly adding a greater variety of merchandise. In 1893 a corporation was formed under the name, Sears, Roebuck & Co. Q. Who invented the kaleidoscope? ~H. R. A. It was invented by Sir David Brew= ster in 1817. Q. What city is called the Venice of the North?—D. N. A. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is called the Venice of the North, as is also Stockholm. Q. How many tons of steel are there in the armory at Springfield, Ill.?—W. K. A. The armory at Springfield, Ill.,, cone tains 2,074 tons of structural steel. Q. Please explain the terms introvert and extravert?—H. W. A. The two words literally mean a turning inward and a turning outward. In general, introvert implies one who is preoccupied with his own mental proce esses and attitudes and with the way he is regarded by others. An extravert is one who is interested in things and people outside himself. Q. Of what is the atmosphere come posed?—J. W. A. The atmosphere is about 1-5 by volume oxygen, % nitrogen, 1-2,500 car- bon dioxide, and a variable proportion of water vapor. Q. What is meant by the Kailyard School?>—M. G. A. The term is applied to a group of modern Scottish novelists who write of the life of common people with a copious use of dialect. Examples are Ian Mac- Laren and Sir James Barrie. The Janitor’s Hypothesis. From the Roanoke Times. A Dphysiologist claims that if one freezes long enough he gets deliciously warm. That's just the principle on which the janitor of our apartment house operates the furnace, A Rhyme at Twilight ' Gertrude B:ayfl:e Hamilton Nostalgia. The town I've known and loved so long Is still my fixed abode; I have not changed my dwelling place, Sought no new street or road; Thru the same windows every dusk I watch the daylight wane— And yet I'm homesick, homesick, In a great surge of pain. For in the crowds that throng the town I miss your high-held head; - 7 o hnme-eomln:‘tr::d ‘Your light, E The songs you sang as twilight fell & memory;