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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
HELD IN CHICAGO.
Man Wanted on Grand Larceny
Charge Here Arrested.

Traced to Chicago by Detectives
Kelly and Darnall, Damon Marion,
formerly of 822 Connecticut avenue,
was arrested there yesterday after.
noon on a telegram from Inspector
Pratt, chief of detectives, telling DO.
lice there a warrant for grand larceny
was in local police hands.
A detective will be sent to Chicago
for him today, as 1t was reported he
was willing 10 waive extradition pro.
ceedings. Marion is alleged to have
stolen a wardrobe trunk, a suit, q
bathrobe and camera. together with
cash. valued in all at $145, from Ed
win A. Westland, occupant Of another
apartment at S22 Connecticut avenue
A warrant charging him with passing
bad checks Is also held by local police
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
HELD AS DRUG PEDDLER.

NEW YORK, March 8 LP.-Arrest-
ed as a drug peddler. with the night
clubs as her field of operations,
Ernestine Lewis, %, a model known
to police as the queen of the cabarets,
was held in $4,000 bail today on
charges Of selling narcotics and pos
sessing firearms.
Miss Lewis, a blonde, said she
comes from a good family in New
Orleans. and was reported to have
been winner of several beauty pag.
cant prise competitions in the south
ern city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
SCHOOL PLAY PLANNED.
Adaptation OF "Midsummsr Nights
Dream" to BE Given 1T ahew.

A special adaptation ~ tlta hsspss ~ =
"A Midsummer Nights Dream" has
been chosen az the tlprinK pia y hs
Shaw Junior High Aehoal fhls gsaF
The play In a comedy ~ three att .,
with ia special muaieal heets hY Mhti.
dclsaohn.
The play IN serving az "a sehhni psei
oct. The dramatic alds Is belpa hah
died by the English dsps stmaHt. The
music by the music department, The
dances by the physical training ia
partmcnt. the printing ana nhvastisins
by the print shop and buainsss III
pafttnnht. costumes by ihn dbsnsss r.
art the posters AMI adnrsiv nv the
art department, The sale ~ tick cts tg
tho entire m'huul through ~. STA
tlon organizations Practicable every
teacher and ever. buptl viii hsaist In
promoting the ntuiert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
STOCK SUIT is DISMISSED.
Action Against Wall Street Icono.
clast Editor Falls.

NEW YORK. March tF9.-The
suit filed by the State attorney gen.
eral against George Graham Rice,
editor and treasurer of the Wall Street
Iconoclast, asking for an injunction in
the sale Of stock of the Idaho Copper
Corp. was dismissed today by Supreme
Court Justice Valentine.
Rice made an option with the cop
per concern by which he had the priv
lege to purchase about so per cent OF
its stock at prices ranging from 10 &c
80 cents share. and had the stock
listed on the Boston Curb Market
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
VISITS TRAINING SCHOOL.
Principal of Miner Normal Reads
Paper in Baltimore.

On Thursday@ethe principal of Miner
Normal School. J. Arthur Turner. Wis
tied the Baltimore Training School for
Teachers and the Douglas High School
of Baltimore. Mr.. Turner spent the
morning visiting the schools in the
practice department Of the training
school and the afternoon at the Doug
Las High School. AT the high school
he presented a paper on supervision
to the faculty.
On Monday Miss Annie Williamson
teacher in the normal department.
Of Wiiberforce University, spent the
day making q study Of the organiza
ton OF the theory end practice depart
msnts of the normal school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

Mile. Marianne Henrion, cook for
one family in Nancy, France, for "a
years, welded the frying pan until a
few days before her death at the age
of 9l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Time Helps the Girls.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
Time cures all things. Look what
fashion has done for the girl who
didn't have anything to wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

Bananas. cocoa beans, coconuts. pi-
rnento andN logwood were recently
shipped in large quantities from ia
maica to the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

EDUCATIONAL.
GRADUATED FRENCH TEACHER GIVES
lessons Of practical or grammatical French or
Spanlsh; very reasonable prices. Phi. Franz
Evening star., 1927-11-20

worthlessness. had stolen the wife Of
Menelaus, surly brother of King
Agamemnon? Suddenly, amid the
hustle Of the camp, sounds the voice
Of the common man, Thersites. pro.
testing against war. Homer ridicules
him mercilessly:
Of the multitude
Who came to Hum, none base rs he
suuint-eyed. with one lame foot. and on his
A lump, and shoulders curving towards the
chest
But Thersites argues his case well:
What wouldst thou. more.
Atr1des 'Agamemnoni In thy tents arc
Thy tent. are fun Of chosen 4amsers. given
w. rn thee before FL Others by the Greeks.
Hanker, for, gold brought BY some Trojan
4 ransom for his son. whom shall lead
II it heseems a prince like thee to lead
The sons of Greece, for such cause as this,
into new perils, o ye coward race
lIs ne AFFECT Grcekllngs Greeks no longer. haste
rms man at Troy to win his tronhns here.
~-t BRYANT ii, aS1296)
It is true that Ulysses, a man of
powerful wind, succeeds in talking
Thersites down:
He sent from his full lungs his mighty voice,
ANA words came like a fall of winter snow,
NO mortal then would dare to strive with him
For mastery in speech BRYANT iii 275-9
But the mighty Agamemnon makes
q sorry figure both in this brawl and
In the story, so that the reader does
Evening star., 1927-11-20
The Story of Civilization

tive lore was transmitted and ancient
deeds recorded and glorified, Every
nations literature begins with such
epics, sagas or vedas, Mahabharattas,
Nibelungenlieds, Beowulfs, or Chan
sons de Roland; they are the natural
| literary expression of nations child
| hood, as of the Individuals and they
| take something of the place or our
patriotic narratives. Who knows but
| that our own heroic history is as full
of legends as Homer's ''Iliad"? Litera.
| ture begins as mythology. telling of
gods; graduates into legend, telling of
heroes, and at last distinguishes fic
| tion from history, telling of men.
1t is probable that the 'Ilad" was
/, Bible as we'll as all history to the early
| Greeks, and carried down their the
ology and the stories of their gods
| IT we may believe Herodotus, Homer
and Hesiod made the Greek religion,
and assigned TO the deities their titles,
| honors and crafts, and told what they
were like in body and soul. 1t is
| true that the poem handles these ce.
| lestial worthless with a blasphemous
| freedom. Even the finest of them are
but deified ancestors, great heroes
who. after their earthly toll, are now
| freed from the tasks of earning liv-
ing or staying with one wife. The
| mightiest Of them is Zeus Uupite)
the god of the sky; and yet he is al
most the clown of Homer's story
hoodwinked at every step. quarreling
with Hera {Junol like any earthly hus-
band. and surrounded by minor deities
who intrigue with the assiduity of an
Oriental court. So there are two
levels or stories In the ''Iliad"; the bat.
lies of the Greeks and the Trojans are
duplicated by the war of the gods in
the air.
No wonder that with this double
conflict it is the liveliest epic in all
literature. 1t is not complex art or
thought, like the plays of Shakespeare
or Euripides; these men were far
deeper souls than Homer, and their
work is of higher and maturer
kind. But the "Iliad" was addressed,
not to the mind, but to the ear; it
could not afford profundity, since it
had to be understood as rapidly as
ii was heard. Above all, it had to
be popular, and therefore it had to
be story.
Our literature today is a literature
Of analysis. motive and thought, for
we lead intricate and subtle lives. in
which action as the early Greeks
knew it is rare exception, found
chiefly in the press. We have lost
the unity of primitive behavior, and
we ask for introspection and mental
conflict in our fiction; man has be-
come an animal that looks within.
hesitates. doubts and thinks. But in
Homer's day life was action. and
Homer was actions prophet. And his
verse and Sty1e are also diCta ted by
the action; through his Incompatible
hexameter the story runs on like
some broad and majestic stream; so
that those who are prepared to un-
derstand the mythology of the gods
and the genealogy of the heroes are
caught and held as by the river that
rushes to make Niagara.
X X X x
Almost at the outset Homer re-
minds himself how incredible it is
that great army should go so FAR
to fight 10 years for even as fair
a lady as Helen. What II the Trojan
Paris. handsome to the point OF
Evening star., 1927-11-20
NURSE RECEIVES KEY
TO GARDEN OF KING
Director of Home Where Royal
Family Have Been Patients
Is Honored
Correspondence of the Associated Press

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
LONDON.-To have a key to the
private gardens of the King and
Queen is the honor which has been
.>>ssU"ed upon Sister Agnes Kevser.
who is called the Florence Nightin-
gale sof today.
Sister Agnes has nursing home In
Grosvenor Crescent and Prince Henry
and Prince George and other members
of the royal family have been listed
there as patients.
The key which Sister Agnes pos,
sesses gives her access to Bucking-
ham Palace Gardens at any time she
sees fit.
Sister Agnes, age 75 is present at
every major operation in the nursing
home. whether the patient be prince
or pauper.
She arises at I o'clock each morn
ing, and 1T Is she herself who pours
the breakfast tea for most of her pa.
tients, and, if she finds time during
the day. she plays bridge with the
cOnValeScentS
Evening star., 1927-11-20
Continued from Third Page.)

Continued from Third Page.)
| loveliness, and bade them set sail to
capture Troy.
But here the story belongs to Homer.
X = n X
, Homer.
II seems so irrelevant that the tale
as Homer tells it is not true, and that
his men and women, and doubtless
some of his gods, are apparently the
creatures of his lordly imagination
it is so we'll invented, and SO vivacious
ly recounted. that il the facts were
different, so much the worse for the
facts. Beauty has its rights as wei
as truth, and the "Iliad" is more I'M
portant than the Trojan War.
Nor does 1t matter that Homer is
only name. made vivid for us by
Hellenic sculptors as a blind and med
itative bard but otherwise as mythlca
as the HELEN to whom the Greeks as
crihed the first settlement of their
land No one knows where the poet
was born, and
Seven critics claimed great Homer dead. ;,
Where living Homer begged his daily bread
The oldest and latest dates assigned
to his birth vary by some 46O years,
so that his variability in time rivals
his uncertainty in space. Before the
age OF Pericles innumerable poems
were laid at his door; one by one they
were taken from him by the critics of
Athens and Alexandria, until only the
"Iliad" and the odyssey" remained;
and now these. too, have been stolen
from him by merciless research. The
denudation of Homer is complete
1t is followed with his dismember.
ment. The Odyssey" it appears is not
hv the same hand or hands as the
"Iliad", it belongs to a considerably
later age. and complains that too much
poetry has already been written, and
that most great themes have been
worn to death. None the less, its
vivid theme wears well; and the story
of Ulysses wanderings is one OF the
delights Of classic literature. Let us
read it in the simple flowing blank
verse of Bryant, or in the excellent
prose of Myers, Leaf and Lang: and
let us take it as the Greeks heard it,,
in small installments, one book or
episode at time. Only so shall we
relish it.
The "Iliad" lie, the story Of Illium,
or Troy remains the first great cul-
tural production of Greek life. 1t
came into being long before men
thought of putting it into written
form; writing had been taught to the
Greeks by the Phoenicians about 900
b c.. but many generations passed be-
fore the new art passed from the uses
OF commerce to the luxury of litera-
ture. The poems were carried down
in the memory of bards who wander.
ed from city to city reciting parts of
the immortal story at games or feasts.
adding to it, apparently. from age to
age Not until the sixth century be-
fore Christ were the various parts
woven together into one poem and
committed to writing: and even then
their form was so different from ours
that 11schines $40 B. ca quotes ex-
tensive passages which cannot be
found in our editions.
Such bards and recitations were to
ancient Greece what writing and
books are to u.s. They were. first of
all. the vehicle through which prim-
Evening star., 1927-11-20
ONE MOTHER SEES
MENACE IN MOVIES
Portland Woman Forbids
Daughters Acceptance of
Attractive Contract.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg. - Found a
mother who declined to let her daugh-
ter accept an attractive motion pic
ture contract.
Mrs. Z. H. Whitney. wife of the as
SIS ant superintendent of Portland
schools. came to the difficult decision
only after wrestling with the problem
for two days. In that time she did
nothing but attend movie shows.
Then she sent a telegram to Miss
Caroline Whitney adverse TO tho
daughters becoming q screen star
and the reply came. 20 X. Beauti-
fully busted. Love and kisses-Caro-
line"
Miss Whitney won a screen beauty
contest For two weeks she was feted
a Hollywood before her mother made
mp her mind that she preferred her
daughter to finish her education
rather than to try for possible fame
and wealth before the camera,
Addressing an audience of women
at Portland. Mrs. Whitney revealed
how she had reached her decision:
at is easy enough to say, I never
would LET my daughter go into the
movies but I want to tell YOU you
would think of many things if the OPP
portunity actually came--for in
stance, the wealth.
Perhaps there are no more temp
tations in this than in other work.
II a daughter has had the proper
background, she's not going to fall
among the wrong companions, as a
rule
"Ert when this offer came. and |
had to help to decide, | spent two
days ic going to the movies. l have
never been much of a movie goer
but for two days I didn't do much
else. Of course the heroine always
was rescued from harm. and the
moral was good-but couldn't vision
my daughter taking such parts in
some of those scenes"
Miss Whitney has returned to he"
studies at the University Of Southern
California.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
GIFT NOT PRESENTED.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BERLIN.--One amusing incident of
President Hindenberg's eightieth birth
day was a visit to the presidential
mansion of ''the cuckoo man." we'll
known Munich street character, who
is 72 and sells newspapers for liv-
ing. He had been delegated by a
number of humble Hindenburg wor.
Slippers OF. Munich to deliver a parcel
of cakes and sausages to the Presi-
dent as a birthday gift.
So affably did the President receive
him that the cuckoo man" was quite
overcome with the emotion of it all
and forgot all about the present. He
went home again with the parcel
under his arm
Evening star., 1927-11-20
APPEARS UNVEILED.
Wife of Egyptian Editor Sets
Precedent at Ceremony.
Correspondence of the Associated Press

Correspondence of the Associated Press
PARIS. For tins first time i'm his.
tory an Egyptian woman appeared
unveiled on Il ceremonial occasion in
the presence of the King of Egypt
This record was established by Nine.
Hackel. wife of the editor of the
Egyptian newspaper Al-Siassa, at the
reception given recently in honor of
King Fuad at the Elysee Palace by
President Doumergue.
Whatever the monarch may have
thought. he received Nine. Hackel
most graciously, but other Egyptians
present openly expressed their disap-
proval of her advanced ideas AS she
was wearing one of the most striking
of the latest Partisan models, the
photographers were anxious to get
pictures of her, but her husband re-
fused permission. observing that they
might give offense to many of his
COuntrVmen
Evening star., 1927-11-20
THIRTEENTH WOMAN
CANNOT FIND HUSBAND
Berlin's 100000 Superfuous Wom-
en- Force Them to Look Out
side City for Mates.
of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BERLIN.-There are 500. 900 super.
fiuous" women in Berlin. which means
that every thirteenth woman must
look elsewhere for husband.
But the Berlin women are employ
ing their time otherwise. Every third
one is engaged in a Eaintui occupa-
tion outside the home. Ir the ianol
market there is one wcrrai. to every
two men.
Only one-tenth of the Berlin homes
have servants. so that another 1,200,
900 women are engaged in running
their own domestic establishments it
is estimated. This brings the number
of working women up to around
100000. as against only 400. 900
working men,
The Berlin woman is not super.
fluous." it is claimed. She is the most
Industrious part of the German Re
public.
Evening star., 1927-11-20

'Twixt the black ships and the river of
Xanthus glittered the watch fires
Built by the horse-taming Troians by
fliunl. -
Meanwhile the war-wearied horses, champing
spelt and white barley.
Close by their chairots waited the coming
of gold-throned dawn. (viii end.
lCopyright 1927 by win Durantl
Evening star., 1927-11-20

not thrill very warmly to Homer's care.
full acceptance of monarchy as best.
The real hero of the drama is Hector,
Achilles is tolerable, despite his petu-
lance. because he loves his friend
but no scene into which he thrusts
his plaintive tongue or murderous
spear compares with the parting of
brave and quiet Hector from
Andromache or Priam's broken plead
ing for the body of his son bryant
vi 5oS-6o9: xiv. GOO ~ Is it any
wonder that Euripides was to find
in these moments the core and summit
of the tragedy
And in the midst OF it all such
poetry as this. beautiful even in lame
rendition
Thus made harangue to them Hector. and
roaring the Trojans appauded;
Then from the yoke loos'd their war steeds
Te.hered his horses with thongs. And then
they brought from the city
Hastily, oxen and goodly sheen and wine
honeY-heartfd.
Firewood they gathered witha: and then
from the plain to the heavens
Rose on the winds the sweet SAVIOR. And
-, these ny hea The highways Of battle
their watch fires burning
round tho night orb
Wondrous to see ald, the winds are laid and
the peaks and the headlands
Tower to the view. and the glades come out
and the glorious heaven
Stretches itself to its widest and sparkle the
stars multitudinous
Gladdening the heart Of the tol-wearied shep-
herd. even as countless
Evening star., 1927-11-20

Persia still has practically no radio
sets
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