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Evening star., 1928-11-23
Disaster of Vestris
Makes Two Heroes

From the Albany Evening News.
But there is neither East nor West
nor border nor breed nor birth" One
thinks of that much of Kipling's verse
as he reads the story of Lionel Licorish,
negro OF the Vestris. who saved a
score of lives. In all the tale of that
ill-fated ship, in the midst of the
exhibitions of inefi1ciency, indecision,
blundering and cowardice, it is refresh
ing to look at the other side of the
picture.
Lionel Licorish had gone his way
humbly. There was nothing diStin-
guished about him. He was of another
race than ours. The pictures show him
black and f1at-noSed and wide-mouthed.
And the glory Of his deed shows him a
man of men. When the emergency
came he rose to meet it. Untiring.
calm, he saved one after another, his
arm stretching out into the sea and
catching the drowning. He deserves
recognition as hero.
1t is good to read, too, Of brave
OLouglllin. radio operator. who con-
tinued at his post and sent out call
after call for help. His death is one
that towards who live must envy.
The stories Of brave deeds are reas-
surfing, the men below passing coal
above their heads over the incoming
water, obeying orders with death about
them. the men and women helping one
another in the open sea. There is
much to regret, much to question and
to reprove in this tragedy that took
SO many lives that perhaps need not
have been lost. but. as always in dis
aster. there are the brighter glimpSes
of the goodness of human nature. the
courage, even the divinity, that is IN
man.
How far that candle throv'c his
beams! So shines a good deed in Q
naugAty world"
Evening star., 1928-11-23

the taxpayers supported 1t. 1t was or
ganized to supply the communities with
trained teachers and not to experiment
in the field Of general education. All
the professional training possible could
be given in two-year course.
Now. however, new ideals and practices
are being established. The course is
being expanded to four years. Liberal
arts subjects have been introduced into
the curricula. Already there are 10
four-year normal schools in the coun-
try, President Thomas of the University
of Utah told the presidents of State uni
versities meeting in Washington Tues
day. They are usurping the functions
Of the liberal art colleges and granting
bachelor and master degrees.
This expansion has been necessitated
in part by the new conceptions of the
functions and methods of teaching
which have come into educational
thought. There is more special train
ing to be given and more fields Of
general culture are involved in the pro-
duction of competent teacher. 1t also
is due in part to the general demand
for higher culture.
Naturally, the transition is not being
accomplished without some confusion
The fusion Of the normal school and the
liberal arts college involves delicate
questions Of courses Of study, academic
standards and faculty qualifications.
These remain to be solved.
The fact remains that an important
transition is under way which will mean
an elevation of public school standards
throughout the United States.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

poem which looks like poem, but isn't
poem.
easiest way is to consider Poe's Tam
erlane," which is exactly the type of
poetic effort referred to, being in the
form of poem and looking like poem
yet not being such.
In the first place. ''Tamerlane" is
filled with italicized words, showing be-
ycnd doubt that the youthful poet had
not yet mastered his medium. The true
poet has no need of italics. since his
words are so used as to obviate their
necessity.
The only Poe-like quality about the
poem is the deep, underlying tone Of
melancholy. which Poe kept to the end
of his days, and which animates alike
his short stories, his poems and his very
life
The cause of his melancholy we leave
to the psychologists, modern gentle
men who, having built UP ingenious
theories, proceed to back them up in a
manner most pleasing to their own self
pride. Just what sort Of complex" this
shows them 10 be possessed of we leave
to them, since that is their business.
Poe begins "Tamerlane" with the
cheerful line
hllu SOl6Ce IN a QylnR nOuT!
Such, however, he continues, is not
land he puts a now" in parentheses)
his theme. One is left to take his choice
between considering the one at the
bedside q spiritual or real father.
Probably the former.
"I would not deem that power
OF earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly pride hath reverd in."
The dying man continues. in a rather
unkind manner, it would seem:
II would not call thee fool, old man,
But such is not gift of thine
X II X
One is almost tempted to call this
"Pecksniff1an CUFF" to use, in poetical
sense, the interesting phrase coined over
in England recently anent President
Coolidge's now famous speech.
One could apply 1t more fairly, tenn
perately and decently to "Tamerlane," "
because the poem is, from beginning to
end, exactly like the samples given.
The sick man seems to have had a
fair damsel whom he cast over for am
bition's sake, or something along that
line.
"Oh, craving heart, for the lost fiow-
erS
And sunshine of my Summer hours!"
Every now and then. however. one
finds trace of the Poe who was yet
to be:
II have no words, alas, to tell
The loveliness of loving we'll!
Nor would I now attempt to trace
The more than beauty of face
Whose lineaments, upon my mind,
Are shadows on tn unstable wind"
A few more lines are barely quotable:
II know-for Death who comes for me
From regions of the blest afar,
Where there is nothing to deceive,
Hath. left his iron gate ajar,
And rays of truth you cannot see
Are flashing through eternity"
But it is mostly CUFF, not even good
CUFF, at that, except at TIE very end,
where there is fash Of the real
ISRAELI:
How was it that ambition crept,
Unseen, amid the revels there,
Till, growing bold, he laughed and
leapt
In the tangles of Loves very hair?"
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Those interested in books were in
trigued recently by the news item to
the effect that one of the few surviv-
ing copies of the first edition of Edgar
Allan Poe's "Tamerlane and Other
POEMS" published in Boston in 1897,
sold in that city recently for $4,000.
Poe was 18 years old when he wrote
"Tamerlane." He himself is authority
for the statement that most of the
poems in the slight volume were writ
ten when he was but Ia.
BY a Bostonian'' was the way Poe
signed the book. He was, of course, no
Bostonian at all, but merely had been
attracted to that city after a brief and
hectic stay at the University OF Vir-
ginia by the literary authority OF the
Athens of America.
The book was soon suppressed. Time,
in its ample Judgment, knows that wno-
ever or whatever caused the suppress
sion did we'll. 'Tamerlane" is carried
today in the back of the volume OF
Poes complete poems, not because 1t
is worth anything, but simply because
Poe wrote 1t.
Those who will take the trouble to
look up the poem will see again that
"Tamerlane" Is pretty poor stuff. They
will realize more intensely than ever
that whoever paid $4,000 for a copy
did so only on the basis of rarity
First editions are always costly
if the author later turned out to be
a success. One of those few surviving
copies Of "Tamerlane" is worth while.
not so much for "Tamerlane' as be-
cause the author later wrote THE
Raven" and scores of other real lyrics.
"Tamerlane" is not real lyric. 1t
lacks utterly the fire and fancy that
was Poe.
Let us see what stuff a real genius
may turn out when he is trying his
wings for his major flights. Not every
budding poet does as we'll as Alexander
Pope or William Cullen Bryant did with
their first verses.
"Tamerlane" is by no means in a
class with "Thanatopsis." Bryant per-
haps never cid anything better than his
mastery bit of blank verse, known ana
appreciated the world around.
Poe, on the other hand. after his ini-
tial flight went on to better and better
poetical flying Two years later, in
1929. he published a second volume, this
time in the city of Baltimore, which
thenceforth was to be forever wrapped
around his life.
This volume contained "Al Aaraaf," ="
containing that unforgettable melody:
"Ligeia! Ligeia!
My beautiful onel
Whose harsheSt idea
Will to melody run.
"Ligeia! wherever
Thy image may be,
No image shall sever
Thy music from thee"
"Tamerlane,' however, contains no
such bits. It is curiously involved
thing, plainly patterned after Byron,
with scarcely quotable line it.
Thousands of would-be writer's, both
male and female, in the early days of
the Republic wrote just as good verse as
"Tamerlane."
You will find their "works" on the
second hand bookstalls yet, usually small
in size, and printed in terribly small
type, so difficult to read that it Is a
wonder any one took the trouble to try.
Perhaps few did. Opening such book
today the reader discovers that most
disheartening thing in the world-a
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Did YOU ever write a letter to Fred
eric ]. Haskin? You can ask him any
question of fact and get the answer in
a personal letter. Here is a great edu-
cational idea introduced into the lives
of the most intelligent people in the
world-American newspaper readers. IL
is a part of that best purpose OF a news
paper--service. There is no charge ex-
cept 2 cents in coin or stamps Tor re-
turn postage. Address Frederic j: Has
kin. director, The Evening Star lntor-
nation Bureau, Washington, D. c.
O. What architecture in England
corresponds to that known in America
as Colonial" M.
A. In England it is known as "Geor-
gian." designating the style OF architec-
lure of the reigns of the four Georges,
from TIA to 1880.
O. When was mounted infantry in
troduced into warfare?-R. Z. N.
A. Infantry, mounted for transpor-
tation but retaining the characteristics
of infantry, dismounting in action and
fighting as trained, was introduced dur
ing the Boer War lS99-l90l.
@. Why do so man newspapers bear
the name "gazette"?-A. F. T.
A. The first Italian newspaper was
sold for a gazetta, a small Italian coin,
and it Is generally supposed that the
name gazette" is an application of the
price of the paper to the paper itself.
O. What finally became of Robert
Fultons ship, the Clermont?-M. H.
A. While we find no definite state
ment as to the fate of the Clermont
the Marine Research Society says that
1t was destroyed.
@. When was the expression carry
on first used?-W. A. j.
A. Although the phrase "carry on
was popularized in the World War by
the British Army, its origin can be traced
to a much earlier period. Originally a
naval word of command, meaning con
tinue as before" it was first applied to
war by Addison in his Spectator ir
1712. The first to use it in a nautica
sense was a writer in BackwoodS
Magazine, April, 1882.
@. Why is a janitor so named?-
T. D.
A. The word is derived from the
Latin ''janua,' meaning door.
@. When a post office becomes second
class are members of the postmaster:
family classified without examination;
M c..
A. When a post Office goes from ttirt
to second class the employees in it art
eligible for civil service classification
without examination. But this does no.
necessarily mean that they will bt
classified. The usual practice of tht
Post Ofice Department Is not to classify
the wife of postmaster or member:
of his family, as the post Office i
averse to making the post Office fam.
lily affair.
@. What is meant by saying that the
| present period in world history may bt
known as the dictionary epoch?-J
| w. B.
A. 1t refers to the great interest tha
is now being taken in living foreign
| tongues as well as in our own. Cross
word puzzles. too, have stimulated tn
study Of words.
@. What was Charles Schwab's it'll
| during the war?-T. T.
A. He was director general Of tn,
| Emergency Fleet Corporation.
@. What Is swatch? ?-W. r. s.
A. 1t is trade term for a strip o
square of cloth used as a sample.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Reason Scores Victory
Over Emotion of Fans

From the Des Moines Tribune Capital.
Chicago University alumni still re-
gard Coach Stagg as "the grand old
man." Is the word from Chicago, and
attribute the university's record of de-
feat in the Big Ten Conference this
year not to want of coaching ability,
but to absence of the right material.
That, If wholly true, is a triumph
of reason over emotion that ought to
lead to building tall monument to
Chicago University alumni.
The annual debate about whether the
coach or the material is to blame for
bad foot ball season-or should have
the credit for a good one--is about as
easily settled as the question of whether
the hen preceded the egg or the egg
preceded the hen.
The truth, of course, is that both
coach and material are big factors. If
victory is the only thing that counts,
that one truth Is all that need be said
or can be.
OF course. victory is not all that
counts, except in some minds and for
q season.
Coaches have hard row to hoe. ad-
mittedly Occasional recognition of the
real service to youth that Is given by
an exceptional coach like Stage is a
highly desirable thing. If it came 10
times oftener, or 100, it would be
desirable.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Railroads May Fight
WATERWAYS Program

From the Portland tOreg) Daily Journal.
The Railway Age is looked upon as
a spokesman of the railroads. 1t speaks
now of claims advanced in support OF
the development of inland waterways
which the public seems eager to ac-
cent and, which must be refuted II the
Government is to be prevented from
adopting a transportation policy which
would be highly injurious to the rail-
ways and cause enormous losses to the
public"
A copy of the complete text Of the
editorial in which the Railway Age at
tecks waterways Improvements Is sent
for reproduction to the newspapers OF
the country.
If the railroads intend to open a
vendetta on waterways Improvement
they are ill-advised. In the pending
rivers and harbors bill are these pro-
posals:
To deepen the channels Of the Great
Lakes to "a feet, which will enable the
deepest draft freighters to load to their
full capacity.
The completion of the Mississippi
River for through transportation. by
improvement of the section between
Grafton. ILL.,, and st. Louis.
Congress to complete all river and har-
Dor projects within six years after their
adoption, where it is physically possible
to do SO.
There is also to be included an item
Of $1,366,000 for the Willamette and
Columbia rivers below Portland. where
the deepening of the channel from 80
to 35 feet and its widening from 800 to
500 feet are to accommodate the grow
ing commerce of a world port.
President-elect Hoover has committed
himself to program of waterways i'm
Drovement. He includes the Mississippi,
the ST. Lawrence and the Columbia. It
will be strange If the railroads seek to
undertake war on the next adrninistra-
ton and waterway program of i'm
mense benefit to the people of the
United States.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Fears, together with hopes are enter
tanned that horse-racing will be stopped
in Maryland. The fivver may yet sue
ceed in banishing the "hoss" from even
the small roadway represented by the
race track where reckless persons risk
their money, but not their lives.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

The vestris has served great purpose
m demonstrating that sinking at sea
can no longer be dismissed as passing
mystery. With modern systems of in
formation, the public assumes the right,
when anything Of great interest arises,
TO know all the details.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

A brokers' seat on the New York
Stock Exchange is worth a great deal
Of money. The "Tammany tiger" is
tossed over the back fence. The Wall
Street kitty" is still a pampered pet.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Patriots profess solicitude for the
interests of posterity. Posterity always
manages to take care of itself.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Rumors circulate to the effect that
one of our most eminent aviators is in
love. An aviator, wings and all, is only
human.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

The convening Congress will be con-
fronted with many responsibilities to be
passed on to the next session.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

His power over the popular imagina-
ton is shown by Gov AL Smiths abil-
ity not only to start an ovation, but
to tell it when to stop.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Friends Of the genial AL Smith hasten
TO inquire on his behalf, What is the
good of shaking hands with a tired
man, after the campaign is over?"
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Or Most Any Town.

From the Detroit News.
Too little attention, we feel, has been
paid to the fact that as New Ashford,
Mass, went SO went the Nation.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Going fishing is an old device fire.
quently employed by men who wish to
get away to themselves and think hard.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Big Ride.

Big Ride.
Old world swinging on its way,
Sometimes grim and sometimes gay.
Through the stars it goes along
With a sigh or with song.
On this old world we must ride
In humility or pride,
Travelling with foes or friends
Wondering where the journey ends.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Caddies hear many things that indi-
cate the truly human side of great per-
sonages. 1t is against the ethics of their
profession to talk for publication.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Sort Of Old.Home Run.

From the Hamilton Spectator.
Babe Ruth has created trust fund
of $l30.000, the principal of which he
cannot touch. This is the sock that
sock built,
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Oyster.
The oyster is noble brute
Whose life Is ordered well.
He deigns no comrade to salute,
But sleeps inside shell.
The cook who sends him to the stew
Apologies may make:
He just sleeps on. He never knew
That he was quite awake"
Evening star., 1928-11-23

The visits of President-elect Hoover
constitute reminder that Good viii"
is the Big Asset in big Business"
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Standard Oil of Indiana promotes the
old Hoosier State as power in finance,
no less than in literature.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Distance Lends Enchantment.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
With a German colonel selected to
train the Chinese army it will be deter
mined whether the goose-step can travel
some thousands of miles and still look
the same.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
FO0leries.

FO0lerieS.
"You may be able to fool the people
some of the time"
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum,
"but the people have comeback. 1t
is surprising to observe how, in the re-
cent election. the people fooled me-"
Evening star., 1928-11-23
The Fearsome Sneeze.

Germs through the air are hurled anew
And, as they get us on the run,
Whenever some one says. "Atchoo!"
He may prove deadlier than a gun.
Evening star., 1928-11-23

"A winner in crap game" said Uncle
Eben, mot only takes de money but
gifts credit when he goes home foh wis
dom and economy"
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Demonstration of Power.

DCLuUNStEdtIUH UA AWWNFs
What do you think of farm relief?"
well" answered Farmer Corntossel,
"the politicians must acknowledge this
much--at least we've got 'en guessing"
"The listener who holds his ear to the
keyhole," said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, may never hope to become mas
ter Of the key"
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Add Airplane Accidents.

From the Dayton Daily News
st. Joseph (Mich.) couple, married
in an airplane three years ago, have
fallen out.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
Cautious Inquiry.

CdutIUUS inquiry
Are you in favor of prohibition en-
forcement?"
which are you talking about" in
quired Uncle Bill Bottletop; personal
thirst or politics?"
Evening star., 1928-11-23

Jud Tunkins says we have to evolute
a little. Otherwise we'd remain in
childhood and think circus parade was
the sum Of human happiness.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
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Evening star., 1928-11-23

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Evening star., 1928-11-23

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Evening star., 1928-11-18
RADIO ADVOCATES
RETURN TO CONGRESS
Senators and Representatives Par
ticularly Interested in Broadcast
Regulation Were Reelected.

Members of the Senate and House OF
Representatives who have taken a lead
ing part in the enactment of laws reg
ulating broadcasting will be in the
Seventy-first Congress.
Among members of Congress re-elect-
ed are Senator Dill, Democrat, of Wash
ington; Representative Wallace White.
jr., Republican, of Maine, and Repre-
sentative Edwin Davis. Democrat, of
Tennessee, authors of the radio act Of
1927 and of the Davis-Dill amendment
Of 1928. Two other Senators, Couzens,
Republican, of Michigan, and Wheeler,
Democrat. of Montana, who were par
ticularly interested in radio legislation
will also be in the new Congress.
Couzens' term does not expire until
March 4, 1881, and Wheeler was re-
elected.
Representative White is chairman of
the House committee on merchant ma
rine, which has charge of radio legls-
lation. Senator Dill and Representative
Davis took prominent parts in the fight
for passage of the amendment to the
radio law providing for equal alloca-
ton of radio facilities.
Representative Davis has vigorously
opposed the granting of high power TO
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Three Radio Chains
to Carry Foot Ball
Games Saturday

Three chain broadcasts, two OF
them of intersectional games, will
feature foot ball on the air Sat-
urday. The other chain will carry
the annual Yale-Harvard clash.
The stations follow, the time be.
ing Eastern standard:
Yale VS.. Harvard--1:45 pm
WEAF, WEEI, VITO, WGY,
WRC, KSD, WGR, WCAE,
wCSH, WIFI, WSAI, WHO,
WRHM.
Princeton VS.. Navy-1:45 pm.
WIZ, WBAL, WHAM, WBZ,
WLW, WHAS, KPRC.
Dartmouth VS.. Northwestern
2:15 p.m.-WABC, WOR, WNAC,
WFAN, WEAN, WMAK, WAS,
WADC, WKRC, WAIU, WGHP,
WBBM, WOWO, KMBC, KNOX,
WICC, Wink.
Other broadcasts include:
Dartmouth VS.. Northwestern
2:45 p.m.-KYW, WMAQ.
Minnesota VS.. WisconSin-2:45
p.m.-WCCO; at 3 pm. KSTP.
California VS.. Stanford-5:30
p.m.-KFI.
Carnegie Tech. VS.. New York
U.-2 pm.-KDKA.
Among other stations coming
on the air with games will be
WRVA and WGN.