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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
Comment ON British Campaign
Centers Around Lloyd George

Welshman." The Leader continues
His mind Is one Of the most fruitful.
his brain one Of the most penetrating
In the world. The solution of the prob
lem he has attacked with his usual
courage would undoubtedly be reached
by the scheme he has sketched. What
Is needed h general employment at good
wages, In order that the purchasing
power Of millions may become q slim
illus to manufacturing and trading
Where four or five million people. work
ers and dependents. are living from
hand to mouth, as in Britain, with q
population Of less than 90. 900 900, bust
ness Is bound to suffer seriously"
1.-THE entire scheme" concludes the
Manchester Union. purposes the de-
velopment of public utilities and the ex-
tension Of agriculture to q point sum
cient to absorb Britain's unemployed
While the Liberals are exchanging con-
gratulAtions over this scheme, even 60
ing 50 far as to prophesy the return OF
the wartime premier to power, the
Tories too. have scored gain. Regional
reports from several parts Of England
indicate q marked improvement in in
dustry and employment during the past
few weeks. Four big steel mills have
reopened In South wales after O long
period Of idleness, and the coal mining
situation In this same region Is much
improved. The Tories have seized upon
these facts as an evidence that their
policies will rehabilitate England, II
they are given time. The turn Of the
road. they declare. has come. and their
economic schemes are already proving
effective"
People may like Lloyd George, or dis
like him; they cannot be Indifferent to
him." concludes the Ottawa Journal
For years now he has been without the
trappings Of ONCE. without the glamour
of power: yet nothing that those who
hold ONCE can do is successful in
crowding him of the stage - There
Is something about this man that chal-
lengeS neutrality-suspicious. that Is
different--and it may be that history
will give him . far higher place than
1t accords to most Of his contempt
rarieS,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
Purveyors of Bonded"
Liquor Are Exposed

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
Nobody knows any better than the
bootlegger the vast length Of the great
American sucker list. The local public
has now been initiated into the secrets
OF the craft through discovery in q
Fort Wayne cellar Of q great stock Of
stamps, labels. seals, caps, water marked
wrappers, etc, which, when afilxed to
bottle Of alcohol and distilled water,
favored with coal-tar essences. are sup
posed to guarantee the beverages as
bonded"
? II you have been paying some booze
merchant half o dollar a drink or IS
a pint for genuine" Mountain Ridge
Brook Hill. Old Kentucky, Old Grow or
Walkers Imperial, kindly consider that
the green stamp marked Bottled at
the DiStillery. Export Consolidated
Distilleries, Ltd, Canada" means only
that 1t was fixed up In the improvised
"distillery' Tor. rather. mixing ROOM
Of some Fort Wayne takers cellar.
OF all the labels In the great stock
seized by Fort Wayne police last week
this one takes the cake: sowing to
fraudulent imitation Gordon's Dry
London Gin Is now supplied in certain
tie, and we hereby guarantee contents
the famous boar,s head and the pretty
red signature" to prove 1t, BY heck!
Everybody with the least familiarity
with the operations Of the rum racket
has long known that this thing was
going on. But It has been q little
dimcult to convince some Of the trust
ing thirsty goofs that they were paying
fancy prices for synthetic hooch. pre-
pared at cost Of three or four dollars
more. wasn't the stuff guaranteed
Didn't It have all the labels and pretty
seals to prove it was the real stuff?
OF course. And you know perfectly
well that your bootlegger wouldn't think
Of foollng you. oh, no-o-o!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
Properly Discarded.
From the Albany Evening News.

From the Albany Evening News.
The Baumes Crime Commission now
has discarded the proposal made year
ago by Gov. Smith that sentencing
board composed Of experts be created to
determine the disposition to be made Of
convicted criminals. It Is well. The
power of sentence should remain with
the courts. It properly belongs there.
and to take from judges any power that
they now have would be to emasculate
the courts.
A board Of psychiatrists. and alienists
and other experts serving the State,
and passing on certain questions as to
sanity, before q trial and not during a
trial, might be of aid but such q board
should not have the power of sentencing.
There Is probably need for some body
to pass on sanity. The present system
whereby alienists for the prosecution
and alienists for the defense give con-
fiicting opinions Is wrong. Moreover the
question Of sanity should not be decided
by a jury. It should be determined
before q trial of a murderer.
Judges are well qualified to deal with
convicted criminals. better qualified
than any board might be. No power
should be taken from the courts. II
anything more power should be invested
in them.
The need Of reforming the system Of
criminal procedure, particularly SO far
as 1t concerns insanity as q defense, Is
obvious. Will the State do nothing in
that direction, when there is common
agreement that something should be
done?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
Seeing Africa From Above.

An American newspaper publisher, an
ardent aviator. Is now engaged In ny
ing trip in Africa, and has just accom-
plished flight from Khartum to Mon
gala. in the upper Sudan, distance OF
725 miles. He made this in less than
seven hours. Flying at an altitude Of
from fifty to one hundred feet. the oc-
cupants of the plane observed a zoo
logical panorama. They saw herds of
elephants, giraffes, antelopes, water
bucks, zebras and gazelles, and some
lions, crocodiles and hippopotani. In
places of habitation the natives ran
wildly for cover, dropping their weapons
as the plane appeared above them.
1t was only a comparatively little
time ago that travel through the upper
Sudan was a matter of the greatest
difficulty and peril. Men risked theil
lives in their explorations. They went
for weeks upon weeks through jungles
and over plains, and at every stage
fought nature and savage humanity
Now the distance Is covered in a few
hours in perfect safety and ease.
Where are the dark places on the
map? The plane is illuminating then
rapidly. Exploration is now possible
over immense areas that heretofore
have defied investigation. Byrd in thu
Antarctic is now mapping that polar
region by means of aircraft.
Cecil Rhodes dreamed Of a Cape-to
Cairo railroad that would link the ex
tremities Of Africa and open the riches
of that great continent to human use
When this vision came to him, and viz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

drove his Golden Arrow at 231 miles m
hour on the beach at Daytona, Fla
Yesterday at Biscayne Bay he hooked
up with Gar Wood, the greatest pro-
ponent OF power-boat racing In the
world and because of broken steer
ing wheel in the American craft was
able to win the heat simply by assuring
full running Of the course. His speed
was at the slow rate Of 50 miles an
hour.
When Wood was forced to quit he
was leading the major by quarter of
a lap. and it was apparent that Miss
America VII was superior in speed to
Miss England, the sleek white craft
brought overseas by the Britisher.
Races, however, are won by the per-
son who finishes them and not by SUI
perior speed which cannot be main
tanned until the end. Consequently, all
that Maj. Segrave must do is to open
wide his throttle in today's brush with
Wood and hope that fortune will smile
upon him sufiiciently to acclaim him
the winner of the Harnesworth Trophy
and the undisputed holder OF the two
world records which he set out to
attain.
Americas hopes rest solely on Wood,
the gray haired pilot who for years
has reisned over the select circle of
speed boat racing drivers. In the Miss
America VII, on the Detroit River,
Wood has done better than % miles
an hour, and is the present possessor
Of the worlds record. Maj. Segrave's
boat has theoretical speed of 100 miles
an hour. Theoretical speed. however,
and actual speed are two entirely diff
ferent matters, and If Woods boat
functions well today the Britisher may
find himself striving vainly to avoid the
Americans backwash. It will be great
battle anyway. and may the best man
win.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

tually at the time Of his death, the air
plane as a means Of research and es-
pecially as means Of practical trans
port was unknown. He would have re-
joiced in the possibility Of flight over
the forbidding spaces. for the conquest
of which he planned o rail line.
It WIN perhaps be long before the ma
tives of Africa will grow sufficiently ac-
customed to airplanes in regular transit
over that vast expanse to understand
their nature. There remain many mil
lions Of men and women in the heart OF
Africa who have no concept Of the
mechanisms Of civilization. Perhaps
Africa flying will become a popular
sport for the sake OF the thrill of glimps-
ing raw nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

David Lloyd George was quoted re-
Gently as saying that :its better to read
one good book several times than sew
eral good books once"
Interesting, IL true, as Is said Of news
One may suspect that q great deal de-
ponds upon the book. and even more
upon the particular reader.
A sentence dragged apart from It's
context must never be subjected to close
scrutiny. since it Is probable that what
went before modified the statement
under consideration as much as what
came after.
It has become. The fashion. however,
to Gull out such bits of conversation
and serve them up to readers in all
sorts OF publications evidently on the
basis that great men have great
There is nothing the average reader
can do but take the quota tons for their
intrinsic worth. without reference to a
past which is not there or to future
which he is left to suppose.
\ - X
Is 1t better to read one good book
several times than several good books
once?
Well, book dealers probably would not
agree, for one thing, although school
teachers might.
Abraham Lincoln read q few books
over and over. yet on the other hand
Theodore Roosevelt read thousands of
books at top speed.
Every one knows some reader who
lovingly reads and rereads the novels
of Charles Dickens, getting more salts
faction from this procedure than by
madly going through the --latest novels
one after another
The chances are that he will know
some other reader who takes pride in
never reading any book but once.
When read. read" seems to be
the motto Of the latter, who by no
means would browse through the same
book twice. and certainly never thrice.
Just what any one may mean by the
term good book" is left to others and
perhaps no two would have exactly the
same definition.
As a general proposition, q good book
may be said to be q book of any sort
In which the writer achieves what he
set out to achieve.
A novelist wants to tell as good a story
as possible. a mathematician to write
rs good q mathematics as he can, a poet
to make as good poetry as is in him.
Each, however, must meet the appro-
baton Of others, who, although they
may not be creators, at least have large
powers OF appreciation.
1t is probably true that there are few
great books in existence which are not
well known. A disgruntled receiver Of
rejection slips may think that publishers
are a set Of fools and that his book is q
rose that Is born to blush unseen. but
the chances are that really 1t Is not
worth very much II he cannot get It
published.
X X
A good book. therefore. must neces-
sarily be one which meets the approval
Of the discriminating.
This Is about as far as definition can
Co. It Is q common-sense definition
rather than q learned one.
It takes into account both the writer
and the reader Sometimes there Is q
tendency to make the writer q god, but
there can be no great writer's without
great readers, too. as Walt Whitman
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
A Rare Opportunity.

With one heat Of the international
speed boat race already clicked in his
favor, Maj. H. o. D. Segrave, the dar-
ing British racing driver, stands today
close to the pinnacle which he set out
to scale when he left England month
or so ago. Opportunity such as faces
the blond young Britisher seldom falls
to the lot of one man. Provided with
the fastest automobile that human in
genuity could construct and with the
oretically the fastest hydroplane that
ever churned the spray high into the
air, Maj. Segrave was sent from Eng
lan1 to make one-man onslaught or
the Ainerican-held records on land and
water. The first part Of his mission
1as already been accomplished "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
Oil Interpretation
Is Declared Unlikely
From the Fort Wayne News-sentinel.

from the Fort wayne News-Sentinel.
Unless Congress sees at to make the
leasing Of oil lands by the Government
mandatory, President Hoover will dis
continue such leasing. The existing
law Is permissive. Therefore, as q New
England paper remarks, the declaration
Of . new policy Of conservation virtually
by presidential order "foreshadows the
exercise OF decisive executive leadership
during the next four years"
Senator Walsh has voiced the claim
that authority over leasing of public
lands rests with Congress. Actually, of
course, President Hoover has not chal-
lenged that position. He simply takes
advantage OF q congressional decree
which says that he may or may not
lease. according to his own good judy
ment and discretion, and 1t seems
hardly likely that Congress will say he
must.
For several years the oil industry has
sought permission to eliminate wasteful
production through arrangements among
the companies affected. The Govern
ment has hesitated to undertake o So
luton Of this problem by abrogation of
the ANTITRUST laws, but 1t is In posses
sion Of power to remove some OF the
evils OF this situation by means Of clos
ing its own lands to further develop
ment.
There Is now evidence that the ad-
ministration Is determined to apply this
remedy by the most convenient avail
able method. Senator Walsh has ex-
pressed some fear that the closing OF
Government lands might tend to create
. monopoly by closing fields Of oppor-
tunity to the smaller oil companies
Thfl fAaP hnwAuAp -
body an undue apprehension.
Only. q small percentage of American
oil lands are in Government possession,
and the remainder has by no means
been fully exploited to date. And even
with these lands closed to further de-
velopment there appears to be little
likelihood OF interpretation. In any
event, the Government has, as its pri-
mary duty, the fullest possible con-
seryation Of the natural resources of
the United States for future needs. It
Is In that direction that the policy laid
down by the administration has been
pointed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
MICR0T0RIAL.
Spring Special on Time.

March 20.)
An hour or two hence bringing pleasure
immense,
The train bringing Springtime draws
near.
1t speeds on its way with its Passenger
gay
Toward skies that are sunny and
clear.
The bird songs delight and the blossom
ing bright
Make us really glad we're alive.
With JOY well prepare for a journey SO
fair
All aboard for the Nine Thirty five!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
High Cost Of Hospitals.

The Board OF Trades public health
committee Ia to be commended for TAX
ing up the problem OF the high cost Of
hospital treatment In washington. The
problem Is by no means purely local
Every city must wrestle with 1t. But the
only solution lies along the path fol-
lowed By the Board Of Trades commit
tee. First all the facts must be obtained
and public attention and interest CEN
tered on conditions as they are. After
that is done, there IL no reason why
scientific and economic solutions can
not be found.
The Board OF Trades survey OF
Washington hospitals already has de-
veloped some interesting points Of view
from the hospitals. Four of the hos
pitfalls asserted that worthy citizens"
are deprived Of hospital treatment by
reason Of prohibitive costs, while four
other hospitals declined to admit that
such Is the case. But there can be no
disputing the fact that the man Of aver
age salary, whose social position has
lifted him out Of the class Of charity,
finds hospital treatment a luxury which
will either drain his pocketbook or
which must be given up. possibly at the
cost Of his health.
The blame for this condition cannot
be placed upon the hospitals. The con-
dition merely represents another one
Of those problems that commune
ties with an enlightened sense OF social
responsibility have not reached on their
calendars. Every hospital. except those
maintained for private gain, performs q
varying amount OF free clinical and
hospital work, and the cost of this must
be paid for by somebody. The some
body is Tom, Dick or Harry, who can
not accept charity and who pays when
he enters O hospital, not merely the
cost Of his own care but an amount
that. prorated among other paying pa
tients, covers the hospital overhead.
The overhead ID naturally increased by
charity work. The resulting picture
shows the free hospital work Of . COM
munity paid for, BY the eommunitys
sick. The sick represent not only . rel
atively small proportion Of the popula-
ton, but q proportion that should DO
spared extra expense.
The broad aim Of those who seek to
remedy this condition should be to put
hospital costs on the basis Of services
rendered for those who can pay for
services and to treat charity cases and
free clinical work Is o separate item
OF expense to the community. This moi
only would have the effect Of lowering
hospital costs to paying patients. but
would eventually extend the BENEFITS Of
charity work.
The American Medical Association has
promised It's cooperation to the Boarc
of Trade committee, and this committed
begins It's researches ct time wher
the community is awakening to the po'
tentialities of the Community Chest. NJ
undertaking by the Board Of Trade II
recent years will be watched with sucf
wide interest on the part Of the com
munity and none is more deserving O.
success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Ex.rresident Coolidge is said to be
anxious to buy the automobile he used
while in the White House. II is an
axiom of psychology that q man always
prefers the kind OF trouble to which
he has grown accustomed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Tammany may develop a tiger fight
that will be almost as impressive as
that Of the Kilkenny cats. which, tied
over q clothesline by their tails, car
ried on the fray until nothing was left
of either.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Absolute perfection is nowhere TO be
expected, philosophers say. This rule,
according to some critics. cannot apply
to the Washington, D. c., police or
ganisation. which is expected to be an
example Of righteous exactitude for the
Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Next to beauty prize competition at
coney Island. New York Is thrilled by
the Tammany popularity contest be-
tween Mayor Walker and ex-Gov.
Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
The Robot Firehy.

To Robot age we are drawing near.
A Robot FREELY gives light so clear.
Wen have Robot cows to milk each day
And a Robot hen our eggs will lay.
Mechanical pigs will be heard to squeal
When the Robot freely his rays reveal.
And all Of the work in this wondrous
plan
WIZ be done by the Robot hired man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Time necessarily Is the essence of q
truly good book. Unless IL Ia able IA
stand the strain of time, and 10 sell over
the years, 1t scarcely deserves the des-
ignation Of good, In the sense In which
we use 1t here.
This Is why, to our way Of thinking
an attempt to keep up with the new
books" as they are issued Is rather toe
much Of a good thing No onc--not
even the publisher-knows which book
will 1e good" two years from now.
n he did. he would never publish the
others!
| Each reader must remain the cri-
terion for himself since some benefit
from reading book over. others finc
1t boresome.
The first grand flush Of reading q
good book can never be exactly dupli-
Gated. While this II particularly true
Of the novel, 1t holds good In some de-
gree OF all other creative works
A certain elation of the mind Il stir.
red up on the reading Of lne boob
which subsequent readings canno,
reach. At best. later readings are only
pale images Of the first This Is tanta-
mount to saying that the FIRST never
1 NOhACc UoV SAhtNp tthUb tAAEAC No VAuJ VAAt
| first time.
In some sorts Of books q second read.
| ing enables reader TO get" fine points
which escaped his attention the first
time.
| The pace of the reading has nothing
to do with it, or very little, at the best
He who reads slow or he who reads
fast may discover exactly the same good
points. and miss exactly the same ones
These certain subtle lines or thoughts
these clever conceits--they are like the
arias In an opera. so good that often
they pass completely over the head al
the reader.
At the second reading he wonders how
he missed them the first time.
1t Is impossible, therefore, to wholly
agree with Lloyd George that Its better
to read one good book several times than
several good books once"
Acceptance Of that dictum would put
too great a premium on the accepted
good books, not that premium should
not be put upon them, but that there is
danger OF putting too much on them
The point Is that there are too many
good books. There are 50 many good
books that the book lover can never get
| through them all In o lifetime. Should
he give up half of them and 10 over
and over q few?
| We doubt It,
4 +
Read good book several times. by al
means, but read some Of the others
| tool
It's good TO read some good books
! several times and several good books
| once. It's good to have favorites, but
also fine to discover new favorites.
The picture of the ambitious young
man concentrating on his Bible and
Shakespeare is beautiful, but there IL
nothing to be said against some other
young fellow who keeps his mind and
heart open for more.
The Oliver Twistian attitude Is to b
commended, not because numbers are
laudable, but because the open mind Is
| While one may better understand
some books by reading them over and
get more pleasure and profit from them
there Is o certain pleasure and In
estimable gain tn . first acquaintance
with something or some one great.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

There Is admiration for the heroism
that faces hardship; even more than
for expert science in observation. For
every polar exploration, either north or
south, there must be rescue party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Sentiment is still supreme. Discus
sions involving national prestige and
prosperity remain less conspicuous than
inquiries Is to the exact date of the
Lindbereh- Morrow wedding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

It was comparatively easy to settle
the question of who was to be Presi-
dent of the United States. The ques-
ton of who is to be the real boss OF
Tammany Hall may require long, hard
argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
SHOOTING STARS.
by rHYLANDER JOHNSON.

Art ana Fashion.
A lady tore her clothes apart
= And posed with great composure.
Then, everybody said, That's Art!"
Admirins the disclosure.
Then. more demure, in gown arrayed,
As clothes became her passion.
We saw her out upon parade
And murmured, THAT is Fashion,"
And 20, with our opinions tanned,
Until they seem the oldest,
While Art, with great respect Is named
Fashion seems much more modest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
+ They'll Say 1t, Too.

From the Nashville Banner.
One interesting thing about Mr.. Hoo
yer's inauguration Is the fact that peo-
pie all over the world can truthfully
say, Wei, knew him when"