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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17

Nothiny is more delightful at the
seashore than the cottage library
Every home one enters has rev
books on shelves, usually in the Dig
living room, lust off the front porch,
We had the privilege Of inspecting
one such book collection recently. ana
while others were absent distracted a
list for future pcrusal.
Among the books present were the
Our Mutual Friend" by Charles
Dickens.
Young Earnest" Canaan,
when JOY Begins" Laughlin.
"Bucking the Sage Brush Stecd-
THE Death of Society,"" Romer VIII
Life story of an otter Tregarthen,
"Denrv the Audacious." Arnold Ben
The Marital Adventures of Henry
and Me" William Allen White.
THE Building Of the organ Dole
"Ghitza." BerCovtci.
Impressions and Experiences" w
THE Bent Twig," Garfield.
THE Secret Victory" McKenna.
THE Day of Glory" Garfield.
THE Woman in White" Wilkte
Collins.
THE Clean Heart" Hutchinson.
I'VE and Our Neighbors," H. r,
Stowe.
Jewels of Memory" Joyce.
A primary arithmetic.
Jude the Obscure" Thomas Hardy.
x X
Another small case held. among
others, the following
The Ruling Passion" Henry Van
Dyke.
The Fruit of the Tree" Edith
Wharton.
Yeast" Charles Kingsley.
Main Street" Sinclair Lewis
Twelve Men" Theodore Dresser.
The Brook Kerith," Moore.
Adventures In Friendship" David
Grayson.
Nights in London" Thomas Burke.
The Eternal City" Hall Game.
Resurrection" Tolstoi.
"Trilby," Du Maurier
My Discovery of England" Stephen
Leacock,
Henry Esmond," Thackeray.
Why Is IL that every such library In
the world has in 1t one or more volumes
of Wilkie Collins? Is it simply because
ne makes good Summer reading or is 1t
because there Is some occult influence
at work?
We have never yet examined q shelf
at the shore without finding THE
Woman in White" in the collection.
Sometimes it is The Moonstone" Per-
haps the best explanation is that these
little Libraries. those available at the
present time. were founded by men and
women whom one would call middle
aged" And most middle aged persons
like a dash of the undisputed classics.
Perhaps 20 years from now when
yoI and are old, Maggie, we will totter
down to the shore and look at yet other
libraries and will find no Wilkie Collins.
no Dickens no Thackeray. but only
such str" as young people of today
pretend to read And II we have the
courage of our convictions We will steal
out in the middle of the night and
dump the stuff into the ocean-and feel
sorry for the fishes
X y u
We were glad to see Dickens repre-
sented by Our Mutual Friend"
Most often the volume included is
Travels in Italy" Just why this par
ticular travel book of the great VIC
torian is brought to the shore is an
other mystery.
Personally we would rather recon-
mend Great Expectations, a favorite
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Serum From Piglet Skin
As Complexion Remover
BY E. E. FREE. PHI. d.

Promising results from new serum
designed to improve the growth a.
human skin. and thus to renew fading
complications from within instead of to
conceal them by layer of cosmetics
applied from without, are described by
DR.. George S. Won Wedelstaedt of Los
Angeles, Calf, IN a symposium on tho
health and disease Of the human skin
recently arranged by the New York
medical periodical, American Medicine
This remarkable serum. suggestion of
which Is credited by DR.. Won Wedel-
staedt to Or. Josef Franz Knapp of New
York City, Is made by extracting tho
liquid part of the outer skin layer OF
Young. healthy pigs. The theory is
that the injection of very tiny doses Of
this pig-skin serum into the body Of
an aging human being will provide
needed chemical substance. like the
sacretions of the cluctless glands. which
substance stimulates the growth Of new
layers of skin beneath the old UNI
healthy LAYERS. This continual growth
Of new skin goes on RAPIDLY in youth,
the older skin being lost from the
surface in thin scales as fast as new
skin is formed below AS age comes
on. this skin-renewing process often be-
comes sluggish. The object of the new
skin serum as DR. Won Wedelstaedt eX-
plains IT., is 10 speed up this process.
much as taking other chemicals pro-
duced by the glands Of animals some =
times benefits persons who are handt-
capped by deficient secreticns Of their
own body glands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

The tragedy Of teaching is that 1t so
easily Slumps from passion into a pro-
fession
VIGOROUSLY niggard in it's reward of
teaching. society Is evolving all sorts Of
devices. 10 safeguard the teacher at his
post
We try to protect the teacher from
becoming a Serf to the political powers
that exercise legal control Of the school
system.
We set up varied limitations upon the
autoCratiC power Of boards to hire and
FIRE teachers at the whim of the dis
gruntled.
The danger is that we shall succeed
only in assuring the teacher OF poverty
and security.
These two-poverty and security-are
dangerous gifts; both distill a subtle
poison that makes for submission and
sycophancv in the teacher.
r. would be better for the future of
education if, instead Of poverty and Sc
curity. society gave to the teacher pros
ocrity and risk.
Under the stars Of prosperity and
risk. the teacher would be more likely
TO rise to the challenge that the great
Johann Ficfte flung to his students at
Erlangen. when he said
Il am priest of Truth: l am III her
pay: /. have bound myself to do all
things to venture all things. to suffer
all things for her IF should be perse
cuted end hated for her sake. II should
ever meet death in her service, what
wonderful thing is it shall have done
what but that which I clearly ought
to Go?
Il know that an etTeminate and
generate will tolerate neither
these feelings nor the expression of
them: but l know. too. where 1 speak.
speak before young men who are at
present secured by their youth against
this utter enervation.
II would contribute something TO eX-
tend in every direction a more manly
tone of thought. stronger sense of ele-
walton and dignity. more ardent zeal
70 fulfill our destiny at every hazard
so that when YOU shall have left this
place. and are scattered abroad in all
directions, / may one day know in
YOU. wherever you may dwell. men
whose chosen friend is Truth. who ad-
mere to her in life and In death. who
receive her when she is passed out by
all the world. who rake her openly UNI
der their protection when she is ira
duced and illuminated. who for her
sake will ioyfully bear the cunningly
enmity of the great, the dull
sneer of the coxcomb and the compass
sionating shrug of the fool
Teachers, by and large. will not rise
to this challenge while they are kept
on spare rations.
The great teacher has something of
prophet and pioneer in him.
Copyright Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17

them eighteen of the incumbents faded
out of the picture when informed that
they must undergo this test.
1t was promptly explained by the
officials that most of these young men
who were formally rated as life guards
we're, in fact. only taken on as first
siders, TO assist in rcsuscitation when
hathers overcome by the waves were
brought to shore by the official and
volunteer life savers. But this expla-
nation did not entirely satisfy those
conducting the inquiry, and it was
finally admitted that 1t is getting very
hard to find competent life guards for
the public beaches at the rate of pay
granted by the municipality. inaSmuch
as the supply is nearly exhausted by
the demands Of the private beaches
and pools. This implication that there
is a shortage of competent swimmers
is somewhat surprising in view of the
development III natation
III recent years, especially since Chan
mel swimming became the vogue.
1t is now suggested that the landlockcd
life guards be given a distinctive uni
form, so that the public will not be
led to expect assistance from them be-
yond the shore line.
In this connection the president of
the borough In whose jurisdiction most
Of these matters arise remarked in
commenting on the general situation
When Mayor Hylan, back in 1921,
said, / am giving you fifty jobs, told
him, You are giving me Just lot of
trouble. To Hylan these places were
patronage. To the public they were
safeguards. Now the New
York Civil Service Commission Is
going to try to make them both jobs
ana guardians of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Forecast of Postal Deficit
Brings Advice From Country

Postmaster General News forecast OF
a deficit in his department for the cur
rent year has resulted in many sugges-
lions as to the problem of meeting eX-
penses. Defenders of the deficit main
tain that the Postal Service Is not
intended to produce revenue but that
the chief consideration is service. Some
writer's believe that the books should be
properly balanced. and others comment
on the excessive cost to the taxpayer
Of the franking privilege. II Is pointed
out that large items in the financial
statement are accounted for by increased
nay for employees and the Interstate
Commerce Commissions retroactive
decision that the railroads should have
greater compensation
Does Secretary Davis worry because
the War Department does not pay eX-
penses?" asks the Hartford Courant.
IF he does. the fact is not generally
known. We cannot imagine that the
Department of the Interior is in q posi-
ton to declare a dividend out Of its
earnings or that anybody cares whether
IL does or not. The public does not care
as to the postal deficit chiefly because
the Post once Department performs
service which intimately concerns all
Of us"
Waterloo Tribune, which also contends;
while the Postmaster General doesn't
saw so. part of the deficit for this year
will be caused by the tons of campaign
material coming out of Washington and
under frank of Government officers.
The taxpayers are paying for this po-
htical propaganda" The Meridian Star
insists that las a matter Of fact the
deficit is no deficit at all. About sixty
million of the hundred million must be
paid TO the railroads because Of In
creased rates. Several million more so
to increases III pay for postal workers"
Well hurrah for Congress-" exclaimS
the Greensboro Daily Record, as IL re-
fers to the charge that passage of pay
increase bills was partly responsible
That paper continues; The postal
workers have shaved for years on mis-
erly wages, and 1t is time they be given
recognition, even If there will be
deficit We do not recall that
the Postal Service ever has been pay
ing proposition. and there Is. so far a.
We can see, no reason why the deiicit
should not be handled in a deficiency
bill. as in the past.
"Underpaid workers" also have the
sympathy of the Akron Beacon journal,
which, in addition, points out that the
lowering of postal rates had been the
subject OF many petitions TO Congress,
and continues AS long as these
things are granted II must be expected
that a reduction of receipts Will follow.
If Mr., New wants to gain the favor of
the Nation let him attack some OF the
real wastes that are sapping the Gov
eminent resources"
The New York Herald Tribune, after
referring 10 the greater compensation
for the railroads. states, 1t Is true
that the effect of this increase In ex-
pense. along with the granting of sub
ventienS to ship lines operating under
the American flag, recent pay advances
10 postal workers, and a reduction of
some $4,000. 1000 In revenues from Sec
end, third and fourth class material
has temporarily unsettled the rost
once Department budget, How the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Germany Builds Shins.

Fifty thousand enthusiastic men
women and children crowded the docks
at Bremen yesterday. singing 'Deutsch-
land Uher Allies and cheered as a new
46,000-ton ocean liner slipped down the
ways and took to the water The DAY
messed the American Ambassador, Mr.
Schurman. ChriSten sister ship, In
two days Germany has launched $4,000
gross tons of merchant ships, establish
ing record that is unique in the ma
rine annals of the world. The patriotic
enthusiasm displayed at Bremen yester-
day was a notice, served to the world.
that Germany is coming back" while
the participation Of the American
Ambassador in the Hamburg launching
the day before is emblematic of the
good will with which a nation, ten
years ago seeking to defeat Germany in
war. now regards Germsny's recovery.
Germany is building ships Deprived
By the reparations clause in the YER
ssilles treaty of her merchant ships of
over 1000 tons. Plus many of her
smaller ones, and compelled in addition
10 build ships for the allied powers
Germany paid the price of a loser in
the Great War and, in the reconstruc-
ton OF her once-powerful merchant
feet, had to start from the bottom
The tr,ryaarr II, I,ey v,1erct,art Aen% ~,
1927 was exceeded only by Italy. One
may sympathize with the patriotic
feryor which stirred the crowds at
Hamburg and Bremen as they watched
two more fine ships, the largest of the
new feet, take to their element. AS
President Won Hindenburg recalled
yesterday at the launching of the
Bremen, the real birth of the German
merchant marine took place seventy
years ago. Its growth, at the time Of
the World War, had been prodigious.
Then it was cut down Now it is ex-
periencing rebirth and from an economic
standpoint this is healthy thing. An
idle, impoverished and unproductive
nation in the worlds community of
nations is as demoralizing as an idle.
impoverished and unproductive man In
community of men. The launching
of Germanys two merchant ships yes
terday is only one of many other signs
that Germanys cog in the worlds
machinery again is functioning.
The two ships, the Europa and the
Bremen. are modern products of a
nation that has always turned out fine
ships. They represent the latest de-
yelopments in the construction of the
ocean greyhound of today. They are
equipped with devices for launching
airplanes from their decks and by this
method 1t is hoped to cut down the
schedule Of transatlantic mail from
/ European ports to New York by one
day BY the combination of fast
steamer and airplane. experts are pre-
dieting that Germany will soon be able
10 boast OF new records for speed In
scheduled trafic across the Atlantic
Both ships will ply between New York
and Germany
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Plea for Quieiude
Strongly Endorsed

To the Editor Of The Star.
/ want to thank you for the editorial
on noise. nuisanccS and nerves, In the
Monday evening paper.
With all the advances in science there
has been great increase in noise,
There is said TO be greater inventive
genius in Americans than in any other
people. | wish some inventive genius
would invent street cars that could run
with less noise 1t seems to ME the
washington cars are the noiSeSt I ever
heard anywhere.
What you say of radio is very true
A great many enjoy it, but TO some of
their neighbors it is a bane. So many
have radios and keep them going all
the evening they are very trying and
weariSomr to tired or sick people.
There are no quiet hours any more,
/ wish more might be said and done
10 help the public TO be quiet and to
remember that there are many neigh
bors who need quiet,
MARY J. WARREN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17

subtitle, however, is fully informing 1t
reads. Translated From the First Lat
in Edition of 1856. with Biographical
Introduction. Annotations and Appen-
dices, Upon the Development of Mining
Methods, Meta1lurgical Processes, Gs-
ology. Mineralogy and Mining Law
From the Earliest Times to the Six
tenth Century But il Is the rest of
the imposingly type-set title page which
riVetS attention; BY Herbert Clark
Hoover, A. B., Stanford University,
Member American Institute of Mining
Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical So
ciety of America, Societe dies Ingeneurs
CiVils de France, American Institute OF
Civil Engineers. Fellow Royal Geo.
graphical Society, etc. and Lou Henry
Hoover, A. B.. Stanford University:
Member American Association for Ad-
vancement of Science, the National
Geographical Society, Royal Scottish
Geographical Society. etc Printed for
the TranslatorS by the Mining Maya
zine, Salisbury House. London. r.. c.,
1912"
This Hoover book is not destined to
be reprinted and circulated as q cam
paign document It's size precludes
There are 637 large pages of closely
set type enlivened with reproductions of
dozens of old wood cuts illustrative of
the text Nor is II easy 10 procure
copy, for only few thousand were ever
printed, and these have found their way
into libraries. public and private. the
world over, and into treasured hands
of book collectors. In typography and
hinding-the covers are vellum. after
the fashion of sixteenth century bind
ing--it is fine example of the book
makers art. It's wrtting~-for the trans
lation of the old Latin text is but
small part of the entire "opus'~is said
to have occupied the spare time OF the
HooperS, husband and wife, working
side by side. for q dozen years of their
carly married life as they moved about
IN far quarters OF the globe. II was a
Hoover hobby.
Five projects of the local Federal
building program north and south of
the Mall will he finished, or nearly so.
by 1882. according TO present estimates,
These are the Department Of Com
merce Internal Revenue, Department
OF Labor and Department of Justice
buildings IN the triangle north of the
Mall, and the Department of Agrieul~
ture building south of II. The site for
the Department Of Commerce structure.
the first to so up. Is now ready, and
bids will be called for next month, Com
pletion of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge, OF the boulevard Ia Mount Yer
non, and Of the Capitol Union Station
Plaza are also scheduled for 1882. COIN
cident with The George Washington BIZ
centennial celebration.
(Copyrieht, lo2e1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17

! budget is 10 BE- made 70 balance Is en-
other problem. 20 which the Postmaster
General has already turned his atten-
ton. The main point for the moment
Is that it should not be accomplished
at the expense Of fair return to the
railroads"
There are too many subsidies for
educational purposes 10 expect the de-
partment 10 run on a profit basis, and
this is as 1t should be" says the Hsr-
risburg Telegraph, while the San Fran
cisco Bulletin sffirms that no ons COM
, n0unced. It is expected Service Is
the essence of the postal contract. and
the public is willing to pay for 1t. II
revenues are insufficient. the taxpayer
does not mind making up the loss"
Giving attention 10 Postmaster Gen
eral News announcement that under
the law he must increase parcel post
rates If that branch ceases TO nav It's
way, the Detroit News argues The
purpose of the statute Is to give the
country the greatest possible service a.
the lowest possible cost. and certainly
that is not To be done by driving parcel
post business 70 the express companies
ana other carriers. II would seem that
instead of being critical Mr.. New ought
to thank Congress for giving him an
opportunity such as no Postmaster
General has ever had He can reform
the parcel post alons the best business
lines, aided by the Commerce COMMITS
sion. and without interference from
Congress"
Somehow the Postal Service ought
70 be put on Self-Supporting basis
contends the Evansville Courier and
Journal. with the suggestion that no
one in this day OF efficiency and econ
omy should accept permanent defeat n
TINS matter The Manchester Union
holds that lit ought not GO be difficult
70 make readiuStmentS that viii brsns
the balance OF revenue and expenditure
closer To sound business procedure.
me Fargo Forum complains that Con-
gfeSS ran wild on appropriations" ard
suggests the possibility az n deficit IN
the national budget, As 20 the pOstel
situation, that paper suggests: The
department may be able Ia meet u Nv
increasing parcel post rates, but that
Is a matter which will have 10 be- de-
clded after thorough Investigation and
careful consideration
Campaign documents INSURE denun-
cation trom the Toledo Blade, which is
wanted by the public and that tax
naSers "eonSIgn It to the waSlebasket."
Inc Binghamtaa Press offers the mds-
ment that the post ONCE oefNcit ouSht
TO call emphatic attention Of the couu-
Try 10 the argument that il offers
against the extension of Government
ownership, The pest once has beer
held un by advocates OF Government
ownership OF public utilities as an eX-
ample OF successful governmental opsr-
alton"
however. the Bellsnghana Herald
looking upon air mail as an aid in ulti-
mately solving the problem. remarks
Many years may elapSe before thF
first -elaSs mail is carried almost eScm-
Siyely by air, but n is reasonable to he
lieve that In time railroad service will
be supplanted almost entirely by aerial
delivery"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Motors and Business brands.

Terre Haute. Ind, takes a step for
ward In meeting present-day traffic
problems that deserves cumulative at
tention. Finding that many Of It's Gus
toners have been seriously discom-
moded by street congestion and the
difficulty Of finding parking space for
their motor cars while transacting busi-
ness, one Of the largest banks Of that
city has adopted an expedient that viii
greatly facilitate affairs. II has pro-
vided cage window in the court Of
the building which is accessible from
the street, so that motor patrons can
drive In and without leaving their cars
can make their deposits or cash checks
or meet or renew their notes.
This innovation reflects a problem
that has of late years greatly concerned
business establishments and those Uho
have relations with them The average
business errand occupies only a few
minutes. But 10 transact 1t calls, in
these days. for the expenditure Of a
much longer time in finding parking
space. The motor car IN these cir
cunistanccs becomes a nuisance rather
than a convenience, time wasteI
rather than time saver Actual tests
/ viii demonstrate that 1t takes longer
TO park and tinpark car In the bust
ness section of large city than it does
to do any errsnd or to conclude an5
! transaction of the ordinary kind.
In the present circumstances the
wise course for the business man who
drives his own car and uses II for his
daily movements is To- store it in tbs
morning and rely upon his own motive
power or on street cars or taxicab!
during the day, That Is, II lac has re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Listenin' In.

Listenin' In.
Listenin' in to the Singin'
OF bird over there in the tree.
Every tune he is bringin'
Is new kind o. pleasure to me.
Listenin' In to the hummin'
OF the bee as he goes on his way;
Listenin' in TO the strummin'
OF the locust, with jazz all the day.
No use o. trying TO change EN-
Greetins that sound through the air
Think you could well rearrange EN-?
Effort lis not worth the care.
Melodies. modest or mighty,
Soften or hetghten the din
Of moments so serious or fiighty-
An l ies keep listenin' in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Famous ThOroughfsres.

Your name will echo down the cor
ridors OF time" remarked the admir-
ing friend.
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum,
but corridors of time pertain to the
future and aren't good for as many
actual votes as sidewalks OF New York,
or something like that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17

II is now Trotsky's ambition to live
for awhile in seclusion and write. In
the cycle of events he may yet find
himself back in a hall bedroom con-
tributing unmolested to radical publ
cations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
Agin' the Rustical0r.

Agin' the RusticatOr.
We don't want them outsiders" said
the boss OF the rural community.
Who don't want emp"
Everybody, except the hotel keepers
and the realtors"
If dess here campaign funds keep
CROWN" said Uncle Eben, 1T looks 10
me like hard times problems ought To
be solved fob dis Summer. anyhow"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17

Efforts to end wars have recently
proved successful in avoiding the lines
of alteration often provoked by we'll
meaning attempts which end in threats
Of new conflict.