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Evening star., 1928-10-11

Der, should rise to record prices and
that the advances should be in units
much greater than the prices of the
seats themselves few decades ago.
The present condition of the stock
market is giving much concern to some,
who feel that prices are too high and
that a reaction is bound to come. But
this feeling has prevailed for more than
year, and, save for occasional and
comparatively slight reversals, the price
average has kept up. The public" or
professional buyer class, has con-
tinued to demand securities, both for
investment and for speculation. The
brokers have been kept busy supplying
their needs. The fact that a new
high" for an exchange seat has just
been paid may be regarded as an in
dication that there is no grave appre-
hension on the part of the professional
traders on the score of a possible sud-
den and severe slump. This optimism
may be unjustified, but the price of
exchange seats continues to mount and
it is now predicted that before the close
of the current calendar year the half
million point will be reached.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
Long Distance Stage Censorship.

Mayor Walker of New York, who has
recently begun crusade against inde-
cent plays in that city, has a plan to
prevent the presentation of objection
able shows in metropolitan theaters. It
is the practice of producers to try out
their performances in other cities be-
fore presenting them on New York
stages. After privately rehearsing the
shows in New York, they take the COM
panies out to the sticks" for what are
virtually final "Shake-down" rehearsals
before audiences. Some of the cities
that are selected for this procedure OBJ
ject seriously to being classed as mere
try-out towns. For instance, Philadel-
phia has occasionally been used for that
purpose. Its metropolitan spirit is Of
Tended at the implication of being
classed in the theatrical category of
Trenton or Hartford, Utica or Scranton
However that may be, Mayor Walker is
now going to send the secretary of the
Police Department, who was dramatic
critic before taking public Office, out on
the read to inspect shows that are
being thus rehearsed in public, and so
get line on them before they open in
New York. He believes that this will
prevent some Of the more salacious and
objectionable offerings from appearing
in uncensored form on the metropoli-
tan stage. If the managers are dis
posed to make the changes which the
mayors dramatic critic suggests before
the show is brought to Broadway, there
will be no occasion for police interven-
ton. This would seem to be a sensible
arrangement. 1t would cut out the un-
wholesome advertising of performance
incident to police supervision in Man
haitian. The publicity caused by the
giving of police orders to eliminate OBJ
jectionable features has had the effect
of crowding the houses. Mayor Walker
thinks that this is an undeserved pros
perity, and he is going to try by this
method of pre-production survey to
stop box Office rushes inspired by re-
ports Of naughtiness which may escape
official supervision.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

have just had an experience with
dictionary that had lost its soul; the
life of the time had walked past 1t
since its last revision in 1911.
Magnificent product of patient schoi-
arship, its 1911 edition stands as vlvlo
testimony to the rapidity with which
living language can change.
Not only does the choice OF words
change with the years, but the content
of words changes with the years.
II take it that all the departments
of human life have to be rewritten by
men under the influence of the spirit OF
science said F. w. Sanderson. the
schoolmaster extraordinary of Oundle
"Our books have to be rewritten, our
very dictionaries. have often amused
myself with the oxford Dictionary, or
found it necessary to send boy to that
authority for a definition, and 1t has
pretty nearly always been false. Take
such a simple case as the word 'democ-
racy.' The Oxford Dictionary hasn't
a thing to tell you about the meaning
of democracy as we use 1t today. III
tells you nothing of the living use OF
words"
This is not, of course, special crit
icism of the oxford Dictionary; 1t Is
simply a statement of the fact that
language tends always to lag behind
life.
Much of our leadership-in politics,
in education, in religions talking to
us in foreign tongue, not the foreign
tongue of another people, but the for
eign tongue of another generation.
Leadership becomes welded to old
words and resents attempts upon the
part of mankind to get at the meaning
of politics. religion and other fields, in
terms that mean something vital to 1t
at the moment, and yet life grows sterile
if men are slaves of their dictionaries.
There is nothing irreverent in the
Christianized African whose involuntary
Imagination pictures black god. There
is nothing irreverent in the Chinese
mind that pictures the Prodigal Son
with pigtail. I have seen an audience
of rough and rebellious men moved to
tears by the story of the crucifixion
told in the argot of the modern under
world of thieves and thugs.
Words are not sacred.
Words are tools with no meaning
apart from their efficiency or ineffi-
Cheney in what they do to the person
who hears them. A gunshot in vac
uum would make no sound. And just as
a sound that meets no ear to receive 1t is
soundless, so word that meets no mind
to which 1t has no meaning Is meaning
less
We must not become too closely we'd
ded to our words, our slogans, our for
mutations of truth.
(Copyright, Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate }
Evening star., 1928-10-11
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

Americans clear Argonne Forest
effecting one of the most notable
achievements of the World War. They
have taken what was regarded as an
impregnable position and one for the
possession of which hundreds of thou
sands of men have died in the last
four years and two months and Its
loss is most serious for the German
command. y Gen. March, Chief OF
Staff announces that the War De-
partment has now passed the 100000
mark in shipping troops to Europe.
Germans retreat on the Doua1 and
Laon fronts and are evacuat1ng the
Chemin des Danes under pressure OF
the converging attack west and south
of it. ~ = The enemy quits the Suippe
front as the French force evacuation OF
81 miles in a emile thrust The Ger
mans are abandoning their whole line
along the Sensee River. Marshal
Haig closes in on Douai and captures
several villages to the west and south,
cutting the German rail communlca-
tions. Travellers arriving from
Germany assert they encountered con-
siderable risks because American and
French heavy guns were bombarding
with real effectiveness the railways con-
Meeting the southern Rhine cities.
Heroic troops stand at attention as
American transport Otranto sinks in
collision in the North Channel. Three
hundred and seventy-two are still miss
ing. Seven hundred and forty-four
names on casualty list given out today,
including 376 dead and BIS wounded.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Above all, the book lover must see
to it that he chooses his. dormant read
ing strictly on the basis of his own
likes and dislikes. He must make sure
that no one selects his books for him
except himself
He should consider himself the best
Judge in the world of what he ought to
read, of what he wants to read, If he
is to reap the full benefit and pleasure
from books.
No one can pick a book for you any
more than they can choose a wife for
you. Tastes never agree on wives or
books.
The happy thing about books is that
a mistake is not very costly, after all.
Suppose you do buy poor book now
and then, what difference does 1t make?
Every one has had the experience
of paying 81 or So for show and
coming away intensely disappointed
with the piece Yet most persons re-
fuse to be turned from their love of
the drama just because they make a
poor pick" as the saying is.
No one is going to make a perfect
selection of books, either old or new
One cannot hit the bull's-eye always.
1t is better to miss it now and then
than to turn the matter over to some
sureS the world of readers that his
choice is infallible.
The reason why every reader must
be his own judge is simply that no other
person can get right into mans mind
and heart and know exactly what he
likes and what he does not like.
49, l. III,
general rule, especially if it be new
one, hot from the roaring press. 1t
behooves the average book buyer to
make as sure as possible that the volume
he selects is actually one he will like.
He can only do this if he refuses to
be lured aside from his own likes and
dislikes by the push and pull of adver-
tising and the urgings of other readers.
What is it to me if Sam Jones likes a
book that / know to be distaSteful to
me?
Why should read a story whose very
title leaves in me sense of diState?
If a novel deals with theme that
bores me, why should I waste my
money. to say nothing of my time, in
reading It?
Even at the best, no reader can ever
be sure that he will enjoy book, no
matter how carefully he has selected it.
Just as the skin changes from year to
year imperceptibly, but none the less
surely, just as the man Of today is not
the same man of 10 years ago, so the
books of ones present selection may
grow cold on the shelf.
A reader must run the danger. That
is why he should not wait too long be-
fore reading most of the reserve VOL
umes He can always keep a futures
section by constantly adding to it, by
keeping ahead of his reading by his
buying.
Thus he may have in his cases un-
read such a volume as the fat Great
French Short Stories" containing.
with other stores, the original Gin
derella," Little Red Riding Hood and
'Puss-in-Boots."
No sooner does he read this tome
than he buys Emil Ludwigs THE Son
of Man" and George Bernard Shaw's
1.-The Intelligent Woman's Guide to
Socialism and Capitalism"
Maybe he comes home the next week
with Bertrand Russells PHILOSOPHY"
and Stark Young's "The Torches
Flare" or a copy of the play "The
Front Page"
Unread but not unhonored, they wait
patiently on the shelves for the explor-
ing hand and mind and the under
standing heart.
Evening star., 1928-10-11

tooth paste in order to remain amateurs.
OF course, 1t is not polite to break
engagements for anything without good
reason, but it would appear that Miss
Wills had ample excuse for declining
to play. Even If she did not-and those
who know her cannot conceive of this
young lady being anything but cour-
teous-the tennis club makes a spec
tacle of itself when it attempts to hold
her in an unfavorable light for the
breaking of an engagement which has
the dollar sign written all over it, from
its own selfish standpoint 1t is prob
able that lack of public sympathy for
the clubs stand will cause the initial
outburst to be the last on this subject,
but there are probably plenty more
sport controversies of all kinds in the
offing, and boredom is still a remote
possibility for the public.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
Borah's Part as Campaigner
Subject of Political Debate

candidate for the presidency. Why not
talk about Mr.. Smiths record as gov
ernor? Where does Tammany appear
in that record? Where is the graft in
that administration? No man
in New York was compelled to ask for
public subscriptions to pay back tainted
money received by Mr.. Smiths party, as
Mr.. Borah himself was compelled to ask
for public subscriptions.
mo grating has been charged
against Tammany Hall during Smiths
connection with that organization" :"
states the Sioux City Tribune (inde-
pendent), with the added comment,
MANY New York critics of Tamnany
Hall, on the other hand, have cred
tied him with helping to improve the
political standards of the city Demo-
cratic organization"
"It would have been fairer of Senator
Borah," urges the Canton Daily News
independent Democratic), ito compare
the administration with which Secre-
tary Hoover was connected with the
administration of Gov. Smith. He was
the 'Tammany' Governor of New York.
Was there any scandal? Miraculously,
not a bit. New York has had honest
and notably efficient government. Mr..
Hoover was a part of the Harding
Coolidge administration at Washington.
Was there corruption in that adminis-
tration? The most fearful the country
ever saw"
Referring to Senator Borah's cam
paign, magnificent in its bravery and
its idealism," to collect $160,000 for re-
turn of corruption money which Sin
clair had paid to the Republican
party" the Omaha World Herald dn-
dependent) suggests, Not as an i'm
pertinence, with not the slightest desire
to embarrass him, but that the people
may know, we most respectfully Sug-
gest that Senator Borah reconcile his
partisan pleas with his brave denuncia-
tions."
Taking up responsibility for "the
fixing of the price of wheat during the
war, while other prices were permitted
to 60 sky high" the Great Falls Trib-
une (Democratic) says: Congress in
tended to guarantee that the farmer
should get no less than 50 a bushel
Herbert Hoover used his power SO that
the farmer could get no more than
1920"
Evening star., 1928-10-11
Hazing Death Blame
Imputed to Faculty

To the Editor of The Star:
Recently your paper published news
items and photographs of hazing or
initiation pranks, perpetrated by some
of our college students.
One can only have revulsion OF
feeling when reading or hearing about
such actions on the part of young men.
who, we are led to believe, are seekers
after cultural knowledge.
Such conduct is neither clever nor
amusing, rather it is stupid and pa
thetic.
However, let us place the blame where
it belongs. The faculty body-in its
entirety-of any institution of learning
in the country, that permits hazing, is
blameful and deserving of condemna-
ton from self-respecting citizens of
America, who desire all that is best for
their sons and daughters.
An effort to elevate the morale Of
students through suppression Of hazing
would be a laudable one, to say the
least.
When we read of the death of a youth
from hazing in Texas college and re-
call similar tragedies, 1t does not seem
possible the thinking people of the coun-
try, who patronize colleges, are going to
countenance these outrages against law,
order and helpless youth.
1. G. DEXTER.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
On Their Way.


In a day of dashes and races and
contests and nonstop flights of one
sort or another there is something OF
assuring and solid comfort in the
rather prosaic start yesterday of Comdr
Richard E. Byrds expedition to the
South Pole. There was cheering and
the ships in the harbor dipped their
colors in salute as the big whaler c. A.
Larsen, mother ship of the expedition,
left her berth and headed out from
San Diego for the cpon sea. But that
is all over now, and today the c. A.
Larsen is sailing over the ocean, SLOW
but steady" while her crew takes up
a daily and monotonous routine of hard
work that will last for more than
year and half.
Some time next month the c. A.
Larsen will pick up the fleet of three
other ships of the expedition at Dune
din, New Zealand, and this expensive
and completely equipped armada of
present-day exploration and discovery
will continue its leisurely voyage to the
Hbottom of the world" After a base
is established in the Antarctic the ex-
pedition will begin its real work of
scientific exploration, operating from
there. Comdr. Byrd in his farewell
message yesterday took pains to en-
phasize the fact that this trip is in
no sense a dash to the Pole" as the
headlines will have it soon, nor will
there be any racing. From the start
the expedition has been arranged and
planned on business basis. There
may be adventure and thrilling tales
may come out of this voyage. But the
adventure and the thrills will be mere
incidentals. The less there are of them,
the greater will be the credit to Comdr.
Byrd and his associates for their eff
cheney and careful planning.
The expedition is not seeking to "dis-
cover" the South Pole. That has been
done before-twice. Comdr. Byrd plans
to fly over the Pole, but he is not
guided In this hope by sentiment alone.
The chief aim of the expedition is to
procure scientific data for a dozen or
more scientific societies and to make
: accurate maps of region that, rela-
lively speaking, is unknown. This task
cannot be accomplished by haphazard
methods. And from the first the plans
have been drawn with an eye to detail
never approached by any other expe-
dition of discovery. The cost alone has
been staggering. Equipment and the
maintenance and salary of the eighty
two men who make up the party's per-
sonnel require $1,15o,o0O. The fact that
the money was raised by public SUBJ
scription and came from thousands of
large and small contributors in all parts
of the country indicates the Nations
faith In Comdr. Byrd's ability and the
soundness Of his scheme.
r The progress of this expedition will
be followed by world that has grown
blase from watching a succession of
miracles, but will always clothe with
romance the experiences OF brave men
in strange land.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
Helen Wills Feet.

Whatever else may be said about
amateur sports, it cannot be asserted,
that the American public suffers from
ennui in contemplation and considera-
ton of the various controversies that
envelop them. Having just finished
with the strange case of Tilden, who,
according to the United States Lawn
Tennis Association, violated the anna
teur rule and yet is not a professional,
the public is again edited by the hula
baloo raised in California because Helen
Wills, the champion of champions, al
legedly broke an engagement to play
before a crowd that would have netted
tennis club some thirty thousand dol
lars. It appears that the Wills exhi-
bition had been well advertised and
many tickets had been sold for the
event. Miss wills, however, found that
injuries to her feet would prevent her
playing on the concrete court on which
the match was scheduled and wired the
club Of her decision. At this point the
villain enters the plot. A club scout
followed Miss Wills wire with his own,
in which he stated that he had seen
her playing tennis the day before the
proposed exhibition. And then the scan
dial broke, Notwithstanding the fact that
the mother of the woman champion
explained, logically, it would seem, that
Helen played an experimental set to
ascertain whether she could participate
in the exhibition.
Dispatches from California do not
state what detective agency was en-
ployed, if any, to shadow Miss Wills
in her home before the match was to
take place. They, likewise, do not state
whether or not the club took out in
surance on her appearance in order to
make sure that it would not lose the
estimated thirty thousand dollars which
this amateurs appearance would bring.
Neither do they explain the conception
of amateurism that will permit club
to fill its Golfers to overhowing by
the efforts of those who almost have to
account for the money they spend on
Evening star., 1928-10-11
Record Price for Exchange Seats.


Yfterday seat on the New York
Stock Exchange was sold for new rec
ord price, $780, ,oo0 This was an advance
of $4,000 over the last previous sale
of week ago. There being 1,100 seats,
or, in other words, members of the
exchange, the value of the total men,
bership of that body is now rated at
$467, 500 600.
The advance in Stock Exchange seat
quotations during the past few years
has been remarkable. In 1924 the price
was $I01 900, in 1925 it was $150,000
and in 1925 it was $175,000. Thus it
is to be observed that the rate of in
crease has grown extraordinarily. The
reason is to be found in the figures of
the transactions on the exchange. In
1924 the total transactions for the year
from January l to October 10 amount
ed to 186,628,872 shares; in 1925, dur
ing the same period, the sales involved
325, ,722,881 shares; in 1926 they totaled
354,oo4,507 shares; in 1927 the total
was 431 ,824,843 shares and during this
current year there have been dealings
involving 647,118,277 shares. Thus
nearly three and a half times the vol
ume of business has been transacted on
the exchange this year over that of
four years ago.
The value of seat on the exchange
Is measured by the opportunities for
the transaction of business. For each
share of stock sold the broker gets a
commission. When the trading is dull
the brokers make small profits. When
1t is active they make big earnings. A
two-million- share day in 1924 was ex-
oeptional. Now two-million-share day
Is regarded as exceedingly dull. Four
million-share days are the rule rather
than the exception. And the brokers
rejoice in consequence. 1t is no wonder
therefore, that the price Of exchange
seats, which are strictly limited in num-
Evening star., 1928-10-11

A mans library is to be measured
not by the books in it he has read, but
by the books he has not read.
The store of reading matter in re-
serve is what counts with the discrimi-
mating.
Let no man boast of the books he has
read. but point rather to the works he
has purchased to read some time or
other
Unread books are the true measure
of collection, yet many a good house
wife nags at her husband for bringing
home so many books to lie unread on
the shelves.
Such erring husbands are right.
They know one of the greatest salts
factions of bookdom-the having good
store of reading matter as yet unread,
to which one may turn on those
querulous evenings when nothing else
will do.
The radio sounds distinctly below
par. Maybe the owner has new elec-
trio set which requires 110 to 120 volts
to operate it, and the dear electric light
company is giving him "a volts from
5 to pm.
Perhaps conversation is tagging, as
it will now and then. Maybe bridge
sounds Improbable and stale. 1t re-
ouires too much energy to go to the
theater. Ones friends are all out OF
town.
In such a situation what good is a
set of Dickens if one has read all OF
Dickens?
On such a night a good book still
unread is a Godsend. This is better
than any Dickens that ever was written.
So. of course, until read!
After that it may prove better or
worse. One has to take a new book as
one takes bride.
X X \ X
When one is in that apathetic. state
when it is almost too much trouble to
raise a hand, book in the house is
worth 10 in the book store.
No one is going to go downtown at
night to buy book. AS matter OF
fact, the stores are closed. If one pines
for a certain volume, he must wait
until tomorrow unless he had the fore
sight to have purchased it yesterday.
To keep ahead of the reading game
one must do two things:
l. Get over the idea that unread
books are an extravaganza.
2. Purchase on a basis of likes and
dislikes.
An unread book in shelf is no more
extravagant than 10 gallons of gaso-
line in the automobile tank.
You must have the gas to get any,
where, and you must have the book to
get somewhere.
1t Is all a question of reserve power,
only most of us are not so used to
looking at books in the light of mileage.
There is a mental mileage, however,
quite as important in its way as the
sort which is measured off by reeling
miles of road and little numbers show
ing up at intervals in a round instru-
ment called a speedometer.
Our mental mileage may be meas
ured in more ways than one. Ideas are
its speedometer. Many thinker who
never moves from his seat travels to
the stars and back in single night.
There is mileage for you!
Good books also measure the mental
miles.
Theodore Roosevelt not only was a
great physical traveller; he was an even
greater mental traveller. His recorded
and unrecorded intellectual mileage was
tremendous.
Some temperaments must fight against
the temptation to let the miles stay
entirely in the books.
Every book must be read some time.
Let no book, therefore, remain too
long unread; Too long unused, 1t might
as well have stayed in the book shop.
Evening star., 1928-10-11
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

in 1912. Its main purposes are to
procure adequate copyright legislation,
protect copyrightable material and as
sist its members in the disposal OF
their work.
@. What means Of propulsion does
the porpoise use when swimming
S. w.
A. A porpoise propels itself by means
of its tail. The dorsal fin Is used IN
guiding.
@. How many boilers has the Levia-
than?-E. E. B.
A. This steamship Is equipped with
46 boilers.
@. What part of cork remains above
water?-S. NJ.
A. Cork is so buoyant that 70 per
cent Is above water.