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Evening star., 1927-11-16

Despite the hold which the motion
pictures, radio, sports and automo-
billing have upon the American pub
lie, the United States still remains a
nation of book readers.
To the real booklover, books take
the place of foot ball games, long
drives through the country, presenta-
tions in the movies.
Books do not displace any of these,
but simply offer themselves as a sub.
stitute to those who. for one reason or
another, cannot work up much en-
thusiasm about the other popular di-
versions.
When it is considered that this
roster is augmented by hundreds of
thousands of persons who love auto
MODELLING as well as books, who go in
for sports one day and for books the
next, who like a good movie in addi-
tion to a good novel, it may be seen
that reading is not on a decline, as
some seem to think, but is ever on the
increase.
This can scarcely help being true
in country in which the schoolhouse
has held such an honored place for
so long. The number Of newspapers
and magazines proves the same thing.
The love for reading is more wide.
spread than ever, the only difference
being that it has more competition
than ever before in the history of the
world.
To the genuine booklover, a good
book has more charm than any other
activity whatsoever, either mental or
physical. He does not put much stock
in the statement, which he has seen
somewhere, that reading is a form of
lazineSS. He takes this with several
grains of salt He knows that read
ing is often the hardest sort of work,
especially after one has reached the
age of 30 years, that magic point in
life where mental acquisition is no
longer easy.
Perhaps 1t is better to say that
there Is some point about that time
OF life when learning comes harder.
1t may be at 25 years of age, it NAV
be at 30 or 35 or 40. no matter what
the exact year, the fact is the same.
that one approaches something new
with extreme reluctance.
Let the reader ask himself candidly
what new study he has undertaken in
the last year. He may be chagrined
at himself to confess Oo HIMSELF that
life along with fiag.waving at foot
ball games. interest in base ball
gloves and light operas. long telephone
conversations with girls.
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He who persists in reading, then,
may regard himself as a mental ath-
lete, one who does his stint every day,
Or almost every day, in mental gym
nastics even after his intellectual
joints have begun to creak.
Reading is not the easiest thing in
the world, even novel reading, which
is perhaps the easiest form of all.
We would not disparage fiction. 1t
is highly satisfactory and stimulat.
ing mental adventure. There can be
little doubt, however, that the crab
bed gentleman who first made wise
cracks about reading being a form of
laziness had the inveterate novel
reader in mind.
The confirmed book reader finds all
books grist to his mill. He absorbs
political economy along with stories,
history with religious tracts, books
on will power with philosophical dis
Evening star., 1927-11-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

sertations. Nothing that Is printed Is
foreign to him.
He selects books upon no ones rec.
ommendation but his own. He is the
one who is going to read them. so his
tastes come first. He is not awed by
authority nor f1abbergasted by the inn
portunity of the book agent seeking a
commission.
"You need this set of books" says
the agent, with a knowing air.
Il need a dozen other authors first, "
replies our booklover calmly. You
have never heard of their names, but
they are old friends of mine I have
been wanting to meet all my life.
Some day / may get around to your
set. but there is no hurry about 1t.
Good day.
X X X X
He finds in a good book an adequate
substitute for cool ride in the coun-
try. The car-struck man may not un-
derstand this; it is an interesting phe-
nomenon, truly; he should look into it.
To go on a mental ride through the
Roman empire is a feat far surprising
the journey from Washington to Rich
mond on balloon tires, if all facets
of the cases be taken into considera-
ton.
The bOoklover does not feel any spe-
cial need to go to the theater, because
books to him easily furnish anything
that such a building and it's associ-
ated endeavor can. A famous story
is in the movies? Then he gets the
| book itself and forms his own mental
| pictures.
| In doing this, let it be said, he in.
| dulges in no mental snobbery. He is
honest in his preference for books.
| They suit his taste better. He be-
| lieves In the old adages, Every man
to his TASTE" and There is no ac-
counting for taste" If those who pre-.
fer the motion pictures will kindly let
| him alone with his friends. he will
allow them the same privilege. In
| fact, he will allow it them, anyway,
which is more than they will do, often.
DO you enjoy life?" was the ques
ton of a movie fan" to friend when
the latter told him that he seldom
visited the picture palaces.
His query was an honest one. Lik
ing the pictures himself, he could not
understand any one else who cared for
something else to the exclusion Of his
own favorite amusement. SO great is
the egotism of the average man he
| resents as personal blow difference
not only of opinion but of liking!
Love me, love my dog" is wise
saying.
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Let those who love Miss Book stick
to her in the face of competition from
Miss Auto, Miss Movie. Miss Sports
Miss Radio, Miss Anything and Miss
Everything Else.
These charmers do not so much
compete, after all, as interfere! OF
nothing is the old saying truer, 1.-TWO
Is company, three's a crowd" than a
man and his book.
One does not read books to be able
to hold his place in the crowd or
charm the board Of directors or to
save ones self from the laughter of
ones comrades, but to enjoy life in
one of its most diverting ways, that
of reading.
Reading is its own excuse for being.
1t requires no apology, no futile o:
false reasons to make it palatable.
Read a book for profit, il you will
but as for us, let us continue to read
because we enjoy reading.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
PHILOSOPHERS
GLENN FRANK

We are practitioners of handto-
mouth craftsmanship.
We have a strange incapacity for
taking long views
l have written again and again in
criticism of our American habit of
legislative improviSing; and yet
there are situations in which wis
dom demands a short time states
manship which is the result of con-
scious design rather than cowardly
drift.
The current farm problem is a case
in point.
There are two aspects of the cur
rent agricultural situation that must
not be confused either in diagnosing
the ills of agriculture or in propos-
ing remedies.
There is longtime aspect and
short time aspect.
Any stateSmanlike consideration
of American agriculture must take
into account and keep in the right
rela ton both the problem of the i'm
mediate situation and the problem Of
the ultimate solution.
The farmer will be ill-advised, ]
think. if he pays too much attention
to the man who overcautiously In.
sists that no legislation should he
adopted to deal with the immediate
situation unless it promises to be
100 per cent economically sound for
all time.
1 am not suggesting that the farm
er should cluth at any fly.by.
night legislative panacea that may be
proposed; l am suggesting only that
it is condition and not q theory
that confronts the farmer.
Agriculture Is operating in
financial and economic order Of
things in which business and in
dustry, for the time being at least,
are receiving benefits and advan
tages from methods of organization
and from legislation in the fields
of banking and tariff that can hardly
be said TO be 100 per cent eco
nomically sound.
So. while we are waiting for the
economic millennium, the farmer may
be pardoned for indulGing, as a means
of meeting an immediate situation,
in at least the degree of economic
unsoundness in legislation that char
acterizes some of the legislation from
which bankers and business men Sc
cure at least temporary benefits.
This Is, / know, dangerous counsel
unless il is taken in the sense in
which L is given.
Any method of organization or any
legislation. adopted TO meet the i'm
mediate situation. that is not wholly
sound socially and economically and
financially Is dangerous unless the
farmer frankly recognizes ii as an
adventure in transition economics, a
halfway measure adopted to serve
the short-time aspect of the agricul-
tural situation.
But his adventures i'm emergency
legislation must not blind him to the
fact that. as | suggested yesterday.
he must in the long run depend upon
research, cooperative organization
and education as the bulwarks of his
permanent prosperity.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndieats.)
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Insanity Defense.

A remarkable instance of differen'
tiation by law is afforded by the course
pursued by the court at Cincinnati,
where George Remus, former bootleg
king" is on trial for the murder of
his wife. Remus is acting as his own
attorney. He is intending, it is eX-
pected, to plead temporary insanity"
in defense Of the killing, which is ad-
mitted. In his capacity as counsel he
participates in the examination OF
talesmen summoned for possible jury
service. The prosecution protests that
defendant who claims mental unbal-
ance as a justification for his deed is
not competent to conduct such an ex-
animation. The court rules that the
defendant-counsel may continue to
query the talesmen.
The insanity defense has been car
ried to great lengths in recent prac-
tice in the courts of this country, but
not until this present instance has it
been made to cover the actions of
both defendant and counsel. The spe-
cific plea in this case, it is believed,
will be not a chronic and present
state of mental disorder, but a mo-
mentary disturbance, rendering the
slayer incapable of reason or appre-
citation Of moral and legal obligations.
This has been often advanced. In one
notable case some years ago the de-
fendant pleaded "brainstorn," which
swept him from his balance and upon
passing left him in full mental capac-
ity. He was, however. adjudged men,
tally incompetent and for a time after
his acquittal was confined to an in.
stitution for the insane. If Remus
persists in his plea he will seek not
such a detention, but absolute free
dom through a positive acquittal.
Doubtless his participation in the ex-
animation of talesmen, in his capacity
as counsel, is designed to lay the foun-
dation for such an acquittal.
L he right Ol d OclcIludIlL " dCl dSs
his own counsel is undeniable. Remus
is a lawyer. having conducted con.
siderable practice before going into
the bootlegging business on a large
scale. He is professionally competent
to conduct his own defense. Never.
theless. there is a seeming inconsist-
ency in the spectacle of an active par
ticipation in the inquiry into the COM
petence Of jurors, when the insanity
defense is in prospect, by the person
whose sole justification for the crime
of which he is charged is that defense.
Yet the court has granted the right
Of the prisoner-counsel to take part
in this examination and the decision
may serve as precedent that will
cause complications in future trials in
which insanity is a defense.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

of as notable a receiving line as ever
was formed, when she and her huS-
band entertained in Washington this
week for the transoceanic flyers.
What hostess in all history could have
given a tea party for SO glittering a
galaxy of world heroes as Lindbergh,
Byrd, Maitland, Hegenberger, Cham.
berlin, Levine, Schlee, Brock. Halde-
man, Acosta, Ruth Elder, Balchen.
Neville. Smith, Bronte, Goebel and
Schulter? Then, to cap the brilliant
climax, the MacCrackens' guests in
cluded the noblest Roman of all the
birdmen-Orville Wright, One OBJ.
served that aviators-no doubt in con.
sequence of intensive training since
fame perched upon their honored
shoulders-have conquered the social
arts as effectually as they subdued
the ether. Col. Lindbergh in particu-
lar has acquired a drawing room man.
ner an Ambassador might envy.
Belroi, birthplace Of DIR. Walter
Reed, in Gloucester County, Va, is
soon to be turned into a memorial to
the famous bacteriologist whose dis.
coveries led to the annihilation of
yellow fever. At present the Walter
Reed Army Hospital on the outskirts
Of Washington stands as the principal
memorial to the soldier-scientist' 8
fame. but the comrades of his youth
and the old friends Of his family think
Belroi should be turned into a national
shrine. Walter Reeds name will live
alongside those of Gen. Gorgas and
Leonard Wood as soldiers of peace" 4"
1t was the achievement Of that trio of
medical geniuses to show the world
that tropical disease could be con.
quered. They made the tropics safe
for white men to live in. Men and
women far from the Old Dominion
will watch the development of the
Belroi project with abiding interest.
~ X
Two Coolidge cabinet officers are
likely to be vacant on March 4, 1928.
The one with which gossip has been
busy for many weeks is the Depart
ment of Agriculture, from which DR..
William M. Jardine is expected to pro-
ceed to employment in private life at
salary twice his present Federal
pay. The Florida citrus-fruit people
are angling for his services. The
other portfolio is one from which its
incumbent, highly respected execu-
tive chief, long has sought liberation.
He has continued in office at the
Presidents earnest solicitation, but
the Ides Of March-if he remains in
his prevailing frame OF mind--will
find him an eX-Secretary.
copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1927-11-16
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Q. Does billboard advertising con.
fiict with newspaper and magazine ad-
vertising?-G. c. A.
A. In most instances the billboard
medium Is employed in a reminder
capacity, supplementary to newspaper
or magazine advertising, which Is usu-
ally employed in a primary way.
Q. Who said. 20 Liberty, what
crimes are committed in thy name!"?-
NJ. j.
A. The words were ussB by Nine.
Roland Immediately before her execu
ton, as she stood before the statue OF
Liberty that had been erected in the
Place de la Revolution in Paris.
Q. Is Rex Ingram an American?-
d. A. r.
A. Ingram was born in Dublin,
Ireland. and was the son of Rev. Fran
els Hitchcock of the Irish Esta ablished
Episcopal Church. He was known as
"Reginold Hitchcock" He attended
Trinity College in Dublin. later COM
| ing to America and working his way
to Yale. where he studied sculpture.
@. Please explain the pneumatic
tube service for mall. F. j.
| A. This service is in operation in
| two cities, namely, New York and Bos-
ton. The New York system connects
| the main post Office, % postal
! stations on Manhattan Island and
the main post office at Brooklyn,
| the system consisting of 26.397 miles
of double lines of tubes, inches in
/ diameter In Boston the system con-
meets the main post office and North
and South Railroad Stations, the
| length Of the system being 1.b5 miles.
The carriers are cylindrical in shape,
| Z inches in diameter by 81 inches
| long, having a capacity of pounds,
averaging 400 letters each. Containers
can be dispatched every 10 seconds
which gives a capacity of 48 pounds
per minute. These containers are pro-
PEELED through the tubes by compress
| ed air and travel at speed OF 81
miles an hour. Tubes have been in
use in mail transportation approx
mately 20 years.
Q. What is cellulose used for?-
E, A. J.
| A. The following are some Of its
uses: Basic raw material for the manu-
facture Of paper; basic raw materia
| for the manufacture of cotton goods
basic raw material in the manufacture
of artificial silk; manufacture of elec
trical appliances and similar articles
after treatment by certain processes
manufacture of the gun cottons, eel
luloid. etc, by the controlled nitratior
of ceilulose.
@. What was the origin of the Aire
dale terrier M. A. II.
A. At first the Airedale terrier was
a cross between the otter hound and
the black and-tan wire-haired terrier
This breed was practically unknown
outside of Yorkshire. England, where
1t existed so years ago as an unkempt
long cared mongrel. But after about
Evening star., 1927-11-16

30 years Of careful breeding most OF
the hound blood has been bred out OF
IL and today We have the well built.
well "larked animal.
O. What was Lindhergh's time in
crossing the oCean?--G H.
a. The flying time for Lindbergh's
transatlantic flight was S3 hours 29
minutes. 4
@. Which Of the national parks was
the first one set aside?-D. B.
A. Hot Springs Reservation at Hot
Springs, Ark, was the first national
park in the United States. This park
was created April 20. 1882.
O. How many demands for r. o. T.
c. organizations are now being made?
Il. f.
A. The War Department has receiv-
ed approximately 500 requests for r.
%. r. G. units. At this time the de-.
partment maintains 325 units in 2.5
institutions.
@. Where is the CITY Of the Hun.
/ dred Towers" "A. W. D.
A. The name is applied to Pavis,
Italy.
@. What was the "Bannatype Club?
#. w.
A. 1t was a Scottish literary club
named from George Bannatype, found
ed under the presidency of Sir Walter
Scott in 1928 and dissolved in 1859. 1t
was devoted to the publication OF
works on Scottish history and litera.
ture.
ries first known? Are there many va
rietieS?-O. J..
A. Canaries were known in a do
mesticated state at the close OF the
fourteenth century, though they may
not have been common, as Gesnsr,
who wrote in 1855 said that he had
never seen one. Variation among them
began early, as partly yellow birds
were known at Nuremberg in 1914
and in 1917 wholly yellow canaries
talso a white variety were recorded
from Augsburg, in Germany, an early
center for the fancy. The various
forms have had their origin in dis
tinct geographic areas, and though
some are almost extinct at present,
all at one time or another have had
a devoted following of fanciers. At
present at least IA distinct strains,
with a, large number Of varietiessysFe
known. =
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Evening star., 1927-11-16

The timorous rabbit is pursued by
the hunter with as much ardor as If
the game We're worth a fourteen-hour
working day plus ammunition. The
rabbit illustrates one Of the mysteries
of that irresistible influence known
as sport.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

Rum sleuths are attending schools
School days, once matters Of joyous
reminiscence, become subjects for
serious reflection.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
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Evening star., 1927-11-16

The season for meteoric display re-
turns. Meteors have lost some of
their interest. The eye turned sky.
ward is content with nothing less than
an airplane or a dirigible.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

If there is anything he cares for
that has not yet been presented to
Col. Lindbergh, all he has to do is to
mention it.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

A flyer does not have to reduce his
weight like jockey. He is free to
enjoy himself and please others by
unlimited banqueting.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

It begins to look as il no Chinese
army would consider peace so long as
there is an innocent bystander left
with a checkbook and a fountain pen.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

Trouble brewing in the Balkans"
Is one Of those mid-Victorian phrases
that refuse to go out of style.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

cities are Chicago. San Francisco.
Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, Omaha.
Seattle. Philadelphia. San Antonio
and Kansas City. Minneapolis also
has made tentative gesture for the
convent0n.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Many i'm the Running.

From the Boston Transcript.
Some men are born reputed. some
achieve regulations and others try
hard to get away from theirs.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Conversation.


Where long ago the world admired
The art, as one to be desired,
OF conversation, as a wit
With some slight phrase might score
a hit,
A speaker now strives to unfold
A thought. His audience is cold.
He finds, with terror undisguised
He's being psychoanalyzed.
We hear the words and look behind
To study the unconscious mind.
A pleasant interchange of thought,
All frank and free, Is vainly sought.
Most anything we say or hear
May ferret out some secret queer.
We live uneasy and surprised.
We're being psychoanalyzed.
II you remark, "Why, howdy do?"
You place your inmost soul on view,
Disclosing with unerring truth
The complex Of your earliest youth.
Your tone, your glance, your frown
or smile
Reveals your bent for good or guile.
Beware the gesture ill-advised!
You're being psychoanalyzed,
Discoveries.
"Did you find out anything in your
previous investigations"
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum.
"What?"
"a lot of things that can keep us
busy investigating for years"
The Sport Of Sports.
Used to try to roller-skate.
Then motors brought a thrill.
Now, IL you cannot aviate,
You're simply standing still.
Jud Tunkins says woman used
to be the one to have the last word,
but now it's the bicycle cop.
Relief.
"You want relief"
81 do" answered Farmer Corntos.
sci.
What kind?"
II want big enough loan to enable
me to quit farmin' and become a
realtor."
"He who knows much" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, lis not wise
unless he knows when to tell but
little"
| The Excepted Ego.
My uplift sense is ever warm,
| When friends ! see.
Most everybody needs reform
Excepting me.
Hope foh de best" said Uncle
Eben. "but don't let yoh hope make
Iyou neglect reg'lar woSk an depend
on Santa Claus"
Evening star., 1927-11-16
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Hope foh de best" said Uncle
Eben. but don't let yoh hope make
you neglect reg'lar woSk an depend
on Santa Claus.
The Coconino sun., 1927-09-16
REMARKS OF THE GANG

Do they spend money lavishly :?
They do not! Do they swill cham
pagne by the bucket? They do not!
Do they eat their heads off? They
do not! Do they make jackasses of
themselves by overlapping They do
not! Are they careful with their
money? Yep! Do they want to find
out what thing is going to cost be-
fore they order it? You betcha?
All wrong, men and brethren, all
wrong. You are giving an evil repu-
tation to America. You are soiling
the fair name of Americans.
List to the plant of one of the Lon
don hotel managers:
Il have found that many of our
American visitors are careful with
their money this year. They want to
go out and have good time, but they
don't want to spend a whole lot of
money on it.
"Only the other evening party of
four came in for supper and / had to
give a detailed list of what it would
cost them before they would order
Then again Americans order a COM
paratively cheap wine or even lemon
ade for dinner. We do not call that
spending money!"