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Evening star., 1928-12-02
Do You Know the Best People?
BY BRUCE BARTON.

THE other night my friend
Ferrero and spent few
years with Julius Caesar
l. in ancient Rome.
We went with him on his
campaigns in GauI. Those were
wonderful b 1T s-wonderful
fighters.
From a hilltop we could watch
the whole battIe-thousands of
men driving at each other with
their swords, hurting their iave-
lins at short range. No smoke,
no trenches; just priAitive,
hand to hand conflict.
We came back to Rome. The
city was in a turmoil. Our great
chariots thundered through the
streets in triumph; our captives,
our spoils, our banners made a
magnificent procession. The
crowds cheered wildly.
| had a fine time with Napo-
leon a few nights before.
| met him when he landed
in France, after the escape from
EIba.
Up through the southern prov
inces he came, gathering a few
troops there, winning over by
the force of his eloquence the
regiments sent to capture him.
We arrived in Paris. Hur-
riedly, but with supreme conf
dence that the Little Corporal
could never fail, we got to-
eether a makeshft army and set
out to strike the winning blow
at Waterloo.
That battle-l shall never for.
get it.
Another day went over to old
Concord and spent the whole
afternoon with Emerson.
We talked about representa-.
tive men.
Well, we'll, you say, what fool
ishness is this? What do you
mean by saying you lived with
Caesar and Napoleon and Emer-
son--alI centuries apart, all long
since dead?
If you do not know what ]
mean, then ! pity you.
(Copyri
Evening star., 1928-12-02

Have you never come home
tired from your office and with
a book transported your foolish
little mind clear out of the pres
ent day?
Have you never learned the
joy of surrendering yourself to
the companionship of the great
men of the past?
Hav eyou never sat in the
little London Club and heard
Sam johnson thunder his phiIos-
ophy of life?
Have you never sat in the
down the American coast with
Capt. John Smith, lodging the
Indians and opening up a new
continent?
Are you one Of the wretched,
poverty stricken souls who have
never learn% to escape from
yourself through the blessed
magic of good books?
Have you contented yourself
all your life with the compan-
ionship of good pinochIe players
when you might have been a
familiar friend of Socrates and
Milton and Napoleon and CO.
Iumbus and Shakespeare and
Lincoln and Rousseau?
If so, cut out this paragraph
from a great man and paste il in
your hat:
"a would rather be a beeuar
and dwell in a garret than a
king who did not love books"
There are some marvellous ex-
periences coming to you.
You can in the evenings to
come jar yourself out of the
petty rut where circumstance
has placed you and become a
familiar of the inmortaIs.
You may learn to face the
world with a new confidence, a
new poise, new self-respect,
because you have made yourself
citizen Of the ages.
Do some real reading.
Do it for the joy it will give
you; do it for the good it will do
you.
"Show me family Of readers"
said Napoleon, "and ! will show
you the people who rule the
world"
1923)
Evening star., 1928-12-02
BY SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER.

LIZ 0A14NA Wv AAt NEAA AASb
Member of the Foreign Relations Committee,
United States Senate.
~ ERHAPS the most beautiful OF
- all the magnificent structures
that adorn Washington, our Ma
L tional Capital, is the building Of
the Pan-American Union. The
guidebooks designate it as 1.-The home
of the great principle of pan-Ameri-
can unity of interest and a practical
office for the development of pan-Am-
erican commerce and friendship"
1t is, in fact the symbol of a very
great idea and ideal-the friendly and
peaceful relationship of the 81 repub-
lies of the new world.
The organization which 1t houses,
the Pan-American Union, has labored
diligently, efficiently and intelligently
to promote amity and true friendship
between the nations and the people of
North, South and Central America.
Yet the first effort of our President
elect, Mr.. Hoover, is not concerned
with our domestic or internal problems
but with the problems of our Latin
American relationship.
Why?
The answer is that there never has
been a time when there was greater
need for better understanding between
the republics of the three Americas.
And so Mr.. Hoover has in effect
designated himself as ambassador ex-
Evening star., 1928-12-02
The Story the Week Has Told

legal age to rule. In fact, according to
the Hungarian legitimiSts, of whom old
Count Apponyi is chief, he is actually
today King of Hungary. Unfortunately
Otto, now at school in Luxembourg,
is just an ordinary boy, with no quail
ties calculated" to arouse enthusiasm,
unknowing of and unknown to
Hungary.
Otto's chief rival to the throne of
st. Stephen is the Archduke Albrecht,
son of the wealtiest of the Hapsburgs,
and whose mother, the Archduchess
Isabella, has in her veins the blood of
the ancient native Arpad dynasty.
This latter card Albrecht, who is said
to be an able and engaging fellow, is
playing for all it is worth. He has
so to speak. repudiated his paternal
strain; he would be known as pure
Hungarian Legitimate" Quotha,
what's a Hapsburg to an Arpad? The
Evening star., 1928-12-02
BY WILLIAM III. p. FAUNCE,
President Of Brown University.

If I were entering college today, I
certainly would not attempt to choose
o life career before entrance.
What does boy of II or 18 know
about his own latent capacities or the
changing spheres of private opportunity
and public service? The Limitation Of
objectives" is common error. Between
l8 and % young man is discovering
himself and acquiring wholly new no.
rizons.
The college course is voyage through
strange seas of thought. Before the
voyage begins no sailor can select the
single island on which to make his
future home.
Many Regret Training.
I am told that scores of young men
in New York business offices, trained IN
a business college" deeply regret their
own narrownesS of outlook. Competent
in bookkeeping and banking methods,
they are yet unable to talk with men
who know history and politics and mod
ern science. Trained to run in one
groove, they are bored by libraries ano
music and art, and are strangers in
large sections of American life. A
liberal education should liberate man
from spending his life in a groove.
If I were entering college I would
try not to join everything in sight
Many college organizations seem bril-
liant only to outsiders. They offer the
student a pin, a foolish ritual. his pic
ture in the college annual-and
chance to fri.ter away his evenings.
AS q freshman 1 would &c in heartll!
for some form of outdoor sport-no
only for physical development but fol
release of the play instinct, for resting
tired nerves, for learning to make qulcl
decisions, Judge distance end time anc
chance, to face opponents unterri1et
and be a gentleman and good sport
But the moment any game becomes {
species of war, it ceases to be play anc
becomes a useless grind.
Selection Process Difficult.
The process of selecting students fol
the freshmen class Is now one of TIT
most difficult Id delicate before ou
crowded colleges. No longer can WI
RELY on a mere number OF points" Al
certifying that a man is fit to prof
BIZ a college course. He may preSen
points without number, but if he is laz.
or vicious, if he is loud-mcuthed nou
veau richie, if he is destitute of the in
Stincts Of a gentleman or loyalty t.
Truth and honor, we do not want him
Evening star., 1928-12-02
Raided by Autoists.

Two of the best of our wild native
shrubs that are readily transplanted
into almost any type of soil are the
Towering dogwood and the beautiful
redbud or udas tree, says the Nature
magazine. Both of these delightful
species were formerly exceedingly plen-
tiful, but they are now becoming scarce.
due to the depredations Of automo-
bilists.
Evening star., 1928-12-02

adherents of Albrecht are for an elec-
tive monarchy, they would have "free
elections" (rather a jocular expreSsion)
decide the succession. One hears that
Albrecht has been travelling about in
gratitating himself at Rome, ETC.; let
ting it be known that other countries
would have nothing to fear from an
Hungarian monarchy with such a King.
and that he is favorite at the Hum
garian military messes.
On the other hand, the Cardinal
Primate of Hungary, who is an ex-
tremely important factor in the contro-
VerSy, has declared himself unalterably
for Otto. 1t is the primate who places
the crown on the Hyacinthe brow, and
unless so crowned one wouldn't be sure
enough King.
Count Bethlen, premier of Hungary,
is unhappy as between the two charm
ers, there is the most dreadful pressure
Evening star., 1928-12-02
Premier of Determination

has all the certainties, just as the no.
blest of French spirits, Blaise Pascal,
had his own-with those tragic pangs
of doubt and faltering that only a
heroic stoicism knows how to hide into
the receSses of tormented soul.
Evening star., 1928-12-02

Hungary.-On November "a Arch
duke Otto, eldest son of the late
Emperor of the Austro- Hungarian En-
pire and King of Hungary, became 16
years of age, and so, according to law
of that enlDirs and that kingdom, of
Evening star., 1928-12-02
BY JAMES L. BUTTS.

~ EKING-In spite of the Ma
- tionaiiSts' continued optimistic
| announcements, which their
Il propaganda system effectively
Evening star., 1928-12-02

Continued on Fifth Page
Evening star., 1928-12-02
by PAUL WRIGHT,

Who has Just completed three years stu
of conditions in India
Evening star., 1928-10-15
European Medical
Centers Surpassed

From the New York World
Europe led the way in the creation
of medical centers to combine care OF
the ailing scientific research and medi-
cal instruction. But Europe has Moth
ing to compare physically with the
immense center to be dedicated uptown
this week In 1925 the vision of a few
far-sighted men began to be realized
in the construction of the new Pres
byterian Hospital and College of Phy-
sicians and Surgeons. The last three
years have seen one of the most I'M
preSSive architectural groups In the
world rise above the Hudson. II Is an
astonishing feat in the location. rehous-
ing, re-endowment and interrelation OF
whole series of institutions.
The unsurpassed equipment Of this
center should be challenge to the
practitioners and research workers who
will give it vitality. The very size of
this group of hospitals, clinics. insti-
tutes, laboratories and classroonls has
its dangers. There is the risk of ex-
cessive Capitalization, of loss of indi-
vidual enterprise and dehumanization.
But the theory of the center is sound
that medical research is best carried on
where many patients are being treated
in a highly specialized way; that the
treatment benefits in turn from the re-
search, and that medical education re-
ouires both the research and the extern
SiVe examination OF patients.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
Walter and Bucky as Managers.

announcement that Stanley Harris,
who until the close of the late base
ball season was manager of the Wash
ington team, will occupy the same posi-
ton with the Detroit team of the
American League is gratifying to his
friends in this city, who deplored the
prospect of "Bucky" passing out of the
managerial picture in the major cir
cult. His selection to succeed Manager
Moriarty appears to be contingent only
upon the laying down of the reins by
the Wolverine leader, which is conf
IDENTIFY expected. 1t Is somewhat of a
striking coincidence that the announce
ment of Harris contract comes almost
at the same time as the selection of
his successor in this city in the person
Of Walter johnson. Between these two
players, one much the senior of the
other, there was the warmest friend
ship during their association here.
When Harris was manager and Walter
was under his direction it was generally
uALdCAOOOQ I4Adb O1kC NCbGA oil Wuo do
amenable to guidance as the newest
rookie on the team. Harris has now
had five years of experience as man
ager and Johnson one, Harris expert
ence being in the American League
and Johnson's in minor organization.
Harris goes to fighting team" which
for period Of many years has had
but three managers, Jennings, Cobb
and Moriarty. That team has played
an important part in base ball history
in the past quarter century, having had
its ups and downs, and including many
famous players. Harris task will be
to infuse the old fighting spirit into
team that has become somewhat
complacent and quiescent. Johnson's
task in Washington will be to rule by
persuasion rather than compulsion.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

In the cold rain of the clammy mid
October of northern France the dough-
boys of the American Army again hit
the German line north of Verdun.
Against a concentration of machine
guns never before equaled, Pershings
men drive their wedge deeper into the
Kriemhilde line. Machine-gun nests of
masonry and steel. resisting shellfire,
are wrested from the enemy by bitter
fighting, The allied offensive
in Flanders grows more successful as
the Germans are forced back on a 25-
mile front and their lines of commu-
nication are cut. Twelve thousand
prisoners are taken in two days. More
than 100 guns are captured by the
British at the outskirts of Courtrai
British forces are only miles
from Lille and the French make gains
north Of Laon and in eastern Cham
pagne. The allied capitals
indorse Presidents rejection note and
newspapers indicate their approval.
Paris is iubilant over his reply.
Eight hundred and ninety-hve names
on casualty list today, with 226 killed
in action, $50 wounded and 30 missing.
Grand total now 81 $50.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
New Bedford Strike
Vote Given Praise

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
After about six months of strife. the
New Bedford mill operatives have voted
to return to work. 1t is an exhibition
of sober second thought and common
sense. The result of the second ballot,
reversing the decision of the first. was
not unexpected. 1t was felt that if the
wishes of the great majority of the
strikers were properly expressed the
strike would come to an end. The
operatives were weary after six months
of struggle. Winter approached, with
its prospect of suffering from cold and
hunger. The mill owners offered a re-
duction of instead of 10 per cent in
wages.
A public which had been largely SYM
pathetic with the workers evidently re-
garded this as a suitable basis for
bringing the war to an end. and aliena-
ton of public support would have been
a heavy blow to the strikers. This
change in the public attitude was a
factor of decisive Importance. 1t may
be said with fairness that in New Bed
ford, as has happened in many cases
elsewhere, the strike was settled by the
force of public opinion.
The strike which is now thing Of
the past was an impressive object lesson
in the fact that such methods of bring
ing about changes in industrial condi-
tions should be relegated to barbaric
past Where responsibility for it rests
may be subject of discussion, but it will
impress outsiders that there was blum
dering somewhere when such a COM
promise as that now reached was not
effected without struggle continuing
for six months and costing millions of
dollars. If it is urged that, after all,
the strike merely did its part in curing
overproduction, a view that may be
taken by some. the answer is that cur
tailment of production by that means
is remedy worse than the disease.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
President Irigoyen.

Senior Hipolito Irigoyen, elected to
Office by landslide majority last April
has just been inaugurated President OF
the Argentine Republic. Like Grover
Cleveland in this country, 36 years ago,
Senior Irigoyen resumes after an in
filled before His first term in the Ar
gentinian presidency was from 1916
to 1922. A dominant figure in national
affairs for more than a generation,
President Irigoyen is hailed as Argen-
tina's most popular living citizen. The
people of the United States, as Presi-
dent Coolidge has assured him in a
message of congratulation. bespeak for
Senor Irigoyen a successful administra-
ton, and for ourselves a continuance
OF agreeable relations with South Amer
ica'S second largest country.
The Buenos Aires government was
the stormy petrol of the Pan-American
Conference at Havana last Winter It's
spokesman there, Senior Puerryedon,
former Argentinian Ambassador to the
United States, eventually retired from
his post at Washington under circum-
stances more or less directly due to
differences with his government over
procedure at Havana. The organization
of the Pan-American Union, inter-
American tariffs and the right of the
United States to intervene in Latin
American affairs were among the is
sues over which the delegations of Ar
gentina and the United States did not
always see eye to eye. At present Ar
gentinian public opinion is exercised
over possible increase in our tariff on
corn and flaxSeed and consequent dis
advantage to Argentinian export trade.
The adherence of Argentina to- the
Kellogg multilateral pact for renuncia-
tion of war has not yet been proclaimed.
There is thus no dearth of material
for issues and incidents between Presi-
dent Irigoyen's government and our
own. Happily for both countries, the
new chief executive is an apostle of
close pan-American friendship. He and
his political associates represent that
school of thought which apparently
sees greater salvation for the ideals OF
the Western Hemisphere in pan
American fraternity than in the League
of Nations. It was under President Iri-
goyen's first administration that Ar
gentina withdrew from Geneva. Like
the United States, she is now repre-
sented there only unofficially The
Chamber of Deputies only a few days
prior to President Irigoyens Inaugural
ton reafirmed Argentina's divorce
from the League by eliminating from
the budget an item providing for pay
ment of the republics dues. The cham
Der is dominated by Irigoyenistas.
The Monroe Doctrine does not enjoy
universal popularity in Argentina. Even
now there are rumblings that any at
tempt on the part of the United States
specifically to reserve the doctrine from
the anti-war commitments of the Kel-
1I7g pact would encounter disapproval
Buenos Aires. President Irigoyen's
influence is not likely to be cast on the
side Of any Argentinian policy inimical
to the United States.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
Washington Talks With Madrid

The opening of direct telephone COM
!nunication between this country and
Spain Saturday with an exchange of
messages between President Coolidge
and King Alfonso is but the latest step
in the spread of the great network of
wires linking all parts of the world
closer together. There is no longer any
marvel in the transmission uf the hu-
man voice under the ocean and through
the air over thousands of miles. Trans
atlantic telephony has been established
on a practical basis long enough to
demonstrate the feasibility of the wire
and wireless" method of direct COM
munication. And these services are
now being availed of by large numbers
in the transaction of business.
Saturdays ceremony of inaugura-
ton was particularly felicitous. The
day itself was especially appropriate.
following Immediately the anniversary
Of the discovery Of America by Christie
pher Columbus. Four hundred and
thirty-six years ago the great navigator
touched land after long voyage into
the unknown. Saturday the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the Nation whose establish
ment grew out of that discovery talked
at length with the ruler of the land
from which Columbus sailed, each at
his own capital.
Columbus made his way to the West
on his great voyage of discovery through
the assistance of the Spanish King and
Queen of that time. Today an empire
flourishes here, closely linked with all
the world, power for the good of
mankind. From this land came the
inventions that made for quick COM
munication. The steamboat, the tele-
graph and later the telephone. Now by
means of this last-named device,
brought to a remarkable pitch of per-
fection and efficiency, the two execu-
tives of their respective countries ex-
change greetings and compliments and
thus inaugurate a service that will draw
more closely together the peoples of
the two worlds.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
Waiting for the Graf Zeppelin.

All day yesterday great throng of
people waited at Lakehurst for the ar
rival Of the Graf Zeppelin. They went
out by motor cars, by busses and by
trolleys. So many of them went in
motors that there was a traffic jam
that kept thousands of them long dis
tances out on the road for hours The
line of waiting vehicles was so extensive
that the available refreshment re-
aZ&ces were exhausted and great num-
bers of the people returned to New
York in famished condition.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect
of this demonstration of American
curiosity is the wide range of the esti-
mates made of the size of the SSsem-
blage at and around Lakehurst. The
New York Times conservatively COM
putes the crowd at $4,000 The New
York Tribune puts it at 10000. The
New York World, perhaps taking into
account the folks who never reached
Lakehurst, but were on their way, sets
the figure at 25o,ooo, or approximately
four times the lowest estimate. This
shows how hard it is to figure on
crowd in these days of rapid individual
transportation.
1t is not surprising that so large o
number, whether $4,000 or 250,O0
should have wanted to be on the field
when the Graf Zeppelin arrived. She
is the biggest thing in the air. She is
the first veritable passenger aircraft to
cross the Atlantic. She is undoubtedly
the forerunner of an important addi-
ton to the transatlantic transportation
service. Her misadventures in cross
ing have been such as to increase rather
than diminish interest in her arrival.
Late reports of the exhaustion of her
food supplies, down to mere champagne
and caviar came little after the crowd
at Lakehurst had dispersed, but enough
had been received yesterday morning
to indicate that the Graf Zeppelin 5
company had been subjected to some
what rough treatment in the air, had
passed through anxious hours and were
receiving less than their scheduled
Quantities of nourishment. ~
The great size Of the Graf Zengelir.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
Mr.. Vile Alleges Error
In Writer'S Statement

To the Editor of The Star:
Your correspondent. Maria W. Carter,
in Fridays Star writes:
"Mr. Frederic William Vile in his
broadcast on Wednesday evening gave
decided emphasis to the fact that Sem
ator Shipstead ca Progressive) is OPP
posed to Mr.. Hoover's election"
To keep the air record straight may
/ cite, from the notes from which the
broadcast in question was delivered the
one and only reference to Senator
Shipstead contained therein:
THE Democratic senatorial nominees
in both Minnesota and Wisconsin have
retired in favor, respectively, of Ship
stead and Young Bob La Toilette.
There is some indication that their
action is by arrangement with the
Democratic national management and
is intended to help Smith carry Min
nesota and Wisconsin"
AS Miss Carter is manifestly a
stickler for accuracy, am sure she will
not mind having the exact facts thus
brought to her attention.
FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.