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The President-Elect.

In the election of Herbert Hoover as
President of the United States the coun-
try has made a wise choice. 1t has
given the mandate of the highest Office
to one who by experience and tempera-
ment and by character is exceptionally
fitted for this great assignment.
In the campaign that has just closed
with the most sweeping victory which
any party ever Won in the history of
American politics, the qualifications Of
Mr.. Hoover have been sharply dis
cussed, but not in fact challenged by
his opponents. His performances in
public life have been brought wildly to
national. view and consideration by his
advocates in a manner to demonstrate
that he has during the past fourteen
years of public duty shown exceptional
capacity for dealing with large affairs.
As director of the Belgian relief work,
as food administrator for the United
States after its entry into the war and
as Secretary of Commerce during two
administrations Mr.. Hoover has proved
the possession of a remarkable degree
of administrative efficiency. He has
shown himself to be sound Judge Of
men. He has inspired loyalty and CO.
operation among all with whom he has
worked.
In the campaign Mr.. Hoover has in
his speeches shown deep insight into
questions Of concern to the people, eco
nomic, fiscal, international, political and
social. His treatment of the issues of
the campaign in the course Of these
public addresses has demonstrated a
balanced mind, sound judgment and
an equitable spirit. All Of these quail
ties will make for successful admin
istration of the Nations affairs.
The election of this man to be Presi-
dent of the United States is only the
latest instance of the success of merit
in public affairs in this country. He
has been the engineer of his own for
tunes. BY his own qualifications he has
made his way from youth to successive
achievements of high merit and world
renown. He will enter the White House
next March as well fitted to discharge
the difIicult task that awaits him there
as any other man for whom the Ameri-
can people have ever given their suf-
frage.
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UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

German grand headquarters today re-
uuested allied grand headquarters by
wireless to permit the passage of the
German delegation for armistice nego-
tiations through the lines. Orders were
given to cease firing on this front at
o'clock this afternoon until further no.
tice. A false peace report rouseS
the whole country as news gathering
association perpetuateS colossal news
fake of the signing of the armistice
Secretary Lansing quickly denies the re-
port. First American Army
drives the last remaining Germans out
of Sedan and all but completely bottles
thus achieved one of the most brilliant
victories of the war, and certainly the
most important offensive victory.
American troops set such a Whirlwind
pace in their advance as to break all
communications with the rear.
The horrors of Napol0on'S retreat from
Russia we're trifling compared with the
suffering of the Austrian troops on the
Italian front Many are dying from
starvation, some even eating dead
horses. French troops today adj
vanced irresistibly over the 70-mile
front east of the Disc and north of the
Aisne, pushing forward 10 miles and
liberating 100 villages. The i'm
portant German naval base at Kiel Is
seized by mutinous German sailors and
Soldiers Council takes control. Also big
outbreak at Hamburg One thou
sand and fifty-six names on today's
casualty list, bringing the total for
Army and Marines to 70,599.
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Poe's ''Tamerlane''
Is Sold for $4,000
rrom the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore sun
In Boston one of six known copies
of the first edition of Poe's "Tamerlane
has been sold for $4,000. The price is
said to be a record for an American
first edition. Poe has moved up a
notch in the salesrooms. Like all Such
things, this sale must make any one IN
terested in books wonder about Its
meaning.
"Tamerlane," of course, was enc OF the
first of Poe's poems, and this volume
was his first published book. 1t was
published in Boston just 101 years ago.
1t appeared at the moment when he
was beginning his strange soJourn IN
the Army, to be continued briefly at
West Point. It appeared while he stood
poised upon the edge Of future pow
erty, illness and tragic suffering. 1t
was the book of young man darby
dreaming of things to come" 1t could
not in its time have had large sale.
It certainly did not bring to Poe any
sum of money that could be even re-
motely compared to $4,000.
Indeed, that first volume today
fetches more than Poe ever could make
for all his greatness-and because 1t Is
a perfect copy, clean and unSoiled''
and so very rare. 1t is very amusing
thing to fix high prices upon the per-
feet COPIES of the first editions of poems
by a true poet. But it is also a deeply
ironic thing, in spite of its irony being
of a stock and common sort. On the
one hand, there was the rare genius of
Poe. wretched, impoverished, struggling
against so much that was not perfect"
or 'unsoiled," never being bought. "
On the other, 1O1 years later, there is
this rare little book of his, perfect"
"clean," being sold for just $4,000, to
lie stupidity in a private library.
This world has two ways OF dealing
with, and in, poets.
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The cumulative effect of reading a
book, especially a narrative. is some
thing which is often overlooked.
Yet nothing so adds to the enjoy
ment of reading as this total mass eff
feet of thousands of words upon the
mind.
Wherefore it would seem that reading
by snatches, as so many do, Is to lose
the grand effect which any good book
offers.
We know a woman who has been
two months reading Ludwig's "Napole-
on and is still only half way
through it.
There is a man in this town who.
if he should tackle so monumental a
romance as Dumas "Olympe de
Cleves." would be until next Spring
finishing it.
Some persons heroically perSevere
through the Bible by reading chap
ter a night, thus finishing 1t in a year
or so, we have forgotten just how long.
X X
1t may be submitted that this way
of reading is all wrong, since 1t loses
the reader at least half of the charm
of work.
Imagine going to great movie show,
seeing 100 feet of film unrolled, going
home, coming back the next night,
watching the next 100 feet, and so on
for a month.
ANY one who should see movie
piecemeal in such fashion would be
regarded generally as bordering on mild
insanity.
Reading a book by similar short
stretches is not quite so bad, 1t may be
admitted, since often necessity forces
such a program but at the least there
can be little doubt that he who reads
a story as the author intended it should
be read will reap the satisfaction which
the writer hoped he would secure.
It must never be forgotten that a
book, particularly a novel, is as much
of a movie" in the best sense, as the
greatest film ever unreeled before the
most brilliant audience in the largest
motion picture theater in the world.
Such superlatives as these fade into
insignificance before the unparalleled
theater of the mind which every read
ing human being owns, manages and
conducts. This personal theater Of the
human brain is lit by God Almighty and
possesses powers of perturbation far
beyond any of those built by hands.
The love of mankind for good story
far antedates the motion picture, the
electric light, the sensitive film. Homer
held listeners spellbound by the power
of his narrative art. Even today the
words which came down from him have
power to turn time backward in its
flight, and to people 1928 room with
strange helmeted figures. moving across
sandy beaches under the towering walls
of Ilium.
The theater, the movie, are but phys
ical expressions of the inner spirit of
man-that spirit which builds with the
mind before mimic actors can strut
across boards or appear in fitting
shapes upon a silver screen.
4 X X \
The cumulative effect of reading ne
cessitateS a continuous effort on the
part of the reader, or as near continu-
Gus as circumstances will admit.
Take Ludwig's monumental Ma
poleon." Written in what might be
called, without disrespect futuristic
style, it is scarcely more than highly
seasoned scenario. Its use of the pres
ent tense throughout strikes many
reader as All affectation based upon
nothing more solid than cheap at
tempt to make the story live in the
mind of the reader. 1t is a pandering,
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLlAM VILE.

let of the electorate for local. State or
national Office.
X X X
The President-elect Is expected to be
the most non-political chief executive
ever sent to that exalted Office. His in-
clinationS, at least, will all be in that
direction. Hoover found himself COM
PEELED to resort to politics, politicians
and political methods to gain both nom
ination and election, but they and all
their works are VIGOROUSLY repug-
nant to him. AS an engineer, the PreSi-
dent-elect will not fail to realize the
necessity of working with the tools
which the rules Of the game provide
him. He will have to work, for in
stance, with party leaders in con-
ton of patronage-the bane of a
Presidents existence. He will have to
work, primarily, with Congress if adj
ministration programs are to become
anything but scraps of paper. Dis
tasteful as the mechanics of hack poll
tics are to him, Hoover has learned
(and unlearnedD a lot of things since
his presidential ambitions crystallized
eight years ago. The strong probable:
ty is that he will not be in the White
House very long before he masters the
tedious art Of managing men as he
mastered 1t at succeeding stages of the
dramatic struggle which has now led
him to the heights.
X X u X
Hoover cabinet-builders will now be
to the front. If Charles Evans Hughes
had not so unequivocally renowned a
further career in public life, no one else
would be in the running with him for
the secretaryship of state. Borah could
undoubtedly have the Hoover premier
ship, If the Idahoan weren't more
enamored of his present job as chair
man Of the Senate foreign relations
committee. There's general agreement
that Hughes and Borah did more than
any other two men, and vastly more
than all other Hoover stumperS COM
bined, to clinch the Californians vic
tory. Mellon can unquestionably re-
main at the Treasury under President
Hoover If the Pittsburgher cares to do
so. Wilbur. Secretary of the Navy, en-
tered the Coolidge cabinet at Hoover's
suggestion. They are great friends and
Wilbur would not be displaced except
at his own insistance. He's said to pre-
fer a Federal judgeship. The bench
is his profession.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-07
M. Poincare's Fall.

The Poincare cabinet, which has
ruled France since the celebrated franc
crisis" early in 1925, has gone the way
of so many Partisan governments and
has fallen, Disruption within the
ranks of M. Poincare's National Union
cabinet ensued upon the resignation Of
its four Socialist members. AS the pre-
mier had previously declared his deter
mination to bring about the retirement
of the entire government, in case any OF
its constituent members laid down their
portfolios, M. Poincare acted accord
ingly.
The French Radical Socialists-Messrs
Edouard Herriot, Albert Sarraut, Henri
Queuille and Leon Perrier-were re-
ouired by the dictates of their recent
party congress at Anglers to leave the
Poincare ship 1t became sinking ship
in consequence, and before another
week is past French national destinies
will be in charge Of new skipper.
The dramatic collapse of M. Poin-
cares power on the Quai d'Orsay brings
once again into prominence the ire
pressible figure of M. Joseph Caillaux
for more than fifteen years the stormy
petrol Of French politics. Despised. dis.
trusted and feared by turn, and publicly
charged with traitorous conduct during
the World War, M. Caillaux now turns
up anew as the arbiter Of affairs al
Paris. It was his domination of the ex-
IRENE Socialists at their Anglers con-
vention which directly paved the way
to the breakup of the Poincare minis.
try. It is not likely that M. Caillaua
will be called to the premiership BY
President Doumergue. But he is bound
to be a power behind whatever throne
is now set up to succeed the Poincart
dynasty.
The particular issues on which thu
Radical Socialists and the Poincart
regime split revolved around domestic
French affairs. The Caillaux party de-
manded changes in the budget, reduc
ton of military appropriations, organi
zation of government employees init
unions and abandonment Of concession
about to be made to certain religious
orders. If their representatives in tn
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carry the State. AS time went on, how
ever. it became more and more evident
that the city majority for Smith would
be less than half a million and that
the upstate majority for Hoover would
approach and perhaps pass that figure.
Finally the calculations showed that the
Hoover rate Of gain upstate was great
enough, If continued to cover the re-
naming voting precincts yet unreport-
ed, to overcome the Smith margin in
the city. The concession" of the State
to Hoover by Gov. Smiths leading news
paper supporter was promptly made
and sounded the death knell to his
aspiration, inasmuch as without the
electoral vote of New York he could
not win.
Meanwhile from Texas came reports
that greatly puzzled and interested
those who we're watching and analyzing
the returns. With each additional group
Of newly reporting precincts the figures
ran meek and neck" sometimes with
but a few votes difference between the
Smith and Hoover totals. This phe-
nomenon of an "eyelash finish in the
Lone Star State, where Democratic ma
jorities have for years run into the
hundreds of thousands served to slim
ulate a keen interest in the returns
long after the major result was assured.
In other States of the South the same
showing of closeness, unexpected and
significant, was made. Virginia proved
to be a "horse race" North Carolina,
after a reduced but sufficient Demo-
cratic margin maintained for some
hours finally turned Republican. Flor
ida, with small Republican gains,
showed Hoover .preponderance early
and maintained it to the end of the
count
For all that the election was so one
sided in its final showing. the returns
from the ballot boxes made most inter-
esting reading during a night that will
long be remembered for its political sig
nificance.
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Foreign Criticism
OF Americans DeplOred

From the Chicago Daily news.
lust now. for some reason, there is
renewal in Europe of the discussion OF
the character of Americans. one dlS-
tinguished British captain or industry
says in a speech that Americans are
selfish, aggressive, unscrupulous ana not
to be trusted. A reviewer in Leading
Iih araI weekly of London tells of the
astonishing "infantilisu1" of the Amerl--
can people. And British writer OF
philosophy and ethics, in an article con-
tributed to the Forum, draws a forml-
dable indictment against Americans.
According to this apostle of lnterna-
tional amity, Americans are like nocK
of sheep, because they hate originality
and demand strict conformity to single
conventional standard. Also, Americans
surpass even the British in hypocrisy,
protesting to be vastly superior to OLD
World peoples, yet acting no better than
the alleged interiors. Further, Amerl-
cans prize only material things, have no
interest In spiritual and artistic values,
do not know how to live and destroy
beauty everywhere by their mama Ior
speed, comfort and mechanical! EN-,
cheney. They are bad-tempered and
bully the weaker nations. They have
no conception of reciprocity or fair play.
If a philosopher and ethiciSt believes
all this, what is one to expect of the
average Englishman's or Frenchman's
estimate of Americans? And how are
friendly relations to be maintained or
built up on basis of such beliefs and
such mental images? Is it not the duty
of intelligent persons of every land to
avoid absurd prejudiced congratulations
and to endeavor to understand men and
women of other nations?
American writer's of certain cynical
and self-styled superintendent schools
are not without responsibility tor Ola
world caricatures of Americans. These
s,,narcilious critics are shallow ana pro-
virc.ai, but Europe takes them seri-
0ftSlV
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Gilbert Struggling
On Preparations Issue

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Both Germany and America must
consider very carefully the possible po-
litical and financial effect of repara-
lions settlement which obliges Germany
to pay the allies what they owe us.
France, Britain, Italy and Belgium
would welcome such an arrangement:
It would adjust their huge financial
burden and would leave the United
States investor to suffer the loss If Ger
many should find herself unable to bear
such a staggering load.
In Germany there has been a change
of sentiment about the PREPARATIONS set
Element. The leaders of German politl-
cal and financial thought are begin
ming to believe that the transfer SAFE
guards of the Dawes plan are worth
more than any final settlement sutt1-
GENTLY favorable to France to win ap-
prevail from the intransigeant Poincare.
They do not believe that France Is Will
ing to fix a reparationS total which they
can afford to accept.
S. Parker Gilbert, agent general Tor
PREPARATIONS, is keenly aware that the
prospects for prompt settlement are
not good. He has just had interviews
with Premier Baldwin and Chancellor
of the EXcheQuer Churchill, and is now
struggling with Premier Poincare. He
has persuaded them to create COM
mittee of experts, with unofficial Ameri-
can representation, to work out settle
ment.
While this country must recognize
sooner or later that debts and repara-
tlons are related. our refusal to relate
them leaves us in a good trading posi-
ton. Thus far American investors have
supplied Germany an amount equal to
that paid in reparations. Europe would
like to have us supply another billion
to liquidate the final settlement. We
should be foolish to respond If there is
any doubt that Germany will be able
to meet her obligations, There will be
such doubt unless France makes con-
cessions which she has thus far refused
to consider.
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New-Type Living Cells
Found i'm Human Blood
BY E. E. FREE, PHI. d.

Use of the worlds most powerful mi
croscopa to unnaSk the mysterious
"blood platelets" as living creatures. cir
c,,Iatino bv billions in human blood to
keeo men and women from bleeding to
death. was disclosed by Mr.. F. F. Lucas,
world famous microscopes OF the 6eil
Telephone Laboratories OF New YORK
CITY. In an address to the Brooklyn In
stitIlte of Arts and Sciences on Novem-
Der l 1923. A crop OF human olooo no
larger than a pinhead contains fve OF
;ix million of the familiar red corpuScles,
each living cell about one three-tn ou-
sandth of an inch across. Blood also
contains a few white corpuscleS, also
living cells and responsible for protect
ing the body against germs. In addl-
ton. ordinary high-powered microscopes
disclose, in thin layers OF blood treated
with chemical regents, some much
timer objects about which scientific
controversy has long ragged. These are
the plateletS, fiat bodies much Smailer
than the red corpuscles. Never before
have these been seen clearly enough 10
show what they are or even that tney
are alive.
Using the invisible ray of ultraviolet
LIGHT according to new methods deVel-
oned by himself, Mr.. Lucas has now
heen able to photograph these mysteri-
ans platelet cells. He has even examined
different layers of their interior, as one
might lift off the piled-up layers OF a
CAKE. A central dark body is seen in
each platelet. like the nuclei OF other
living cells. and it is apparent that the
surfaces of the tiny platelets are naked
and stocky, which helps to explain
how they act to stop bleeding. When
ever small hole is made In the wall OF
an artery or vein these platelets gather
bv millions, psychologists have observed,
and seem to stick fast to the edges Of the
rent like animated sandbags trying to
close hole in a dixie. 1t IS the naked
sticky surfaces of these tiny cells dis
closed by Mr.. Lucas photographs which
make them so suitable, he believes, for
this vital duty of gluing themselves and
any Outstanding red corpuscles into the
protective blanket that stops the bleed
ing and allows the blood to clot.
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Millions of Votes.

Although full figures will not be avail
able for some time, there is reason to
believe that the 100000 mark was
reached in yesterdays balloting. This
is an unprecedented total. 1t exceeds
by 1000, 900 the record-breaking vote
of 1924. 1t is only about 100000 less
than the total registration. Even II
the final tabulation of the returns
shows a total lower than 100000 II
is assured that this election Of 1928
will set the mark of highest public
response TO the injunction put upon
the people to express themselves at
the polls.
With so great a volume of votes cast
the results in general were known at
remarkably early hour last night. This
was partly due to the fact that In
many more places than ever before the
voting machines were in use, permit
ting the almost immediate counting anc
tabulation of the votes. 1t was due
also to the fact that the new lines Of
cleavage had established certain for
mulaS of computation that were sat
isfed by the returns from the States
which were most prompt in making in
dicative reports.
Some strange phenomena occurred
however. One was that presented b!
New York State, with its strikingly di
vergent preponderance Of Republican
votes in the upper portion and of Dem
ocratic votes in the city. On the ear
lest showingS it appeared that Gov
Smith had very heavy majority "be
low the Bronx majorj7 that woul'
perhaps rise to half million. At tina
time no clear indication was given O
the size of the Hoover majority up
State. The result was that from thes
early returns the prospect appeared t
aome minds to be that Smith woul
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Poincare cabinet could not impose these
propositions on the premier they were
under party orders to leave the cabinet
They failed to prevail, and they took
the consequences.
M. Poincare has accomplished little
short of a miracle in rehabilitating
French finances. He proved amid fiscal
chaos at Paris a genuine tower Of
strength. His unrelenting attitude to-
ward Germany and German reparations
has been popular with the country.
French cabinet Vaccinations and poll
tics are so kaleidoscope that it would
be pcrilous to predict that M. Poincare
has now reached the end of his political
career.