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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29

Recent accessions to the Public
Library and lists Of recommended read
ing Will appear in this column every
Sunday.
Voyages.
Andrews: r: c. Ends Of the Earth,
Ashton, j. M. Ice-bound. G14-As3ei.
Davis. R. H. Bob Davis Abroad. Gl2-
D29.
Green, Fitzhugh. The Romance of
Modern Exploration. (Ref.: does
not circulate). Gl2-G82.
Par1la aE ne, Maurice. The Krassin.
stre etsrct1 p W. An Arctic Rodeo.
wetherell. j. E. Strange Corners of the
World. 1927. G12-W53s.
Photography.
Gillies. J. w. ,Principles of Pictorial
Photography. 1923. WRL-G413p.
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, st.
L L1gis. voc Chemistry of Photography.
Reeves, D. McC. Aerial Photographs.
1927, WRK-R25.
Snodgrass L. l. The Science and Prac-
tice OF Photographic Printing.
4eHndnC, d. "A "A chemical Dictionary
for Photographers. WRE-5T2.
Studies in Literature.
Fairchild, H. N An Approach to Lit
erature. zY-F 16.
Knowlton, e. G. An Outline Of World
Literature. zY-K765.
Martin, w. c. outline Studies in Eng
lish Literature. zY-M35s.
Mornet, Daniel. French Thought in
the Eighteenth Century. zY39-
Ms2E.
Muir, Edwin. The Structure of the
Novel ZY-M894s.
PAUL, H: M. Literary Ethics. zY-
P2e7 /.
Typewriting.
Blackstone, z. @. Typewriting for Per-
sonal Use. ZHW-B56.
Glenn, ]. z. The Technique of Teach
ing Typewriting. zHW-C59..
Crooks, Maxwell. Touch TypewritinQ
for Teachers. ZHW-C876.
Eldridge, e. H., and others. The New
Expert Typewriting. zHW-EI 27n.
Harmed. w. E. New Typewritinr
Studies. INV H226n.
Student Activities.
borough. A. .. comp. How Students
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Basque Give Police
All Sorts of Duties

Unique is the miguelete. Everv-
where In Spain, from the gates of the
royal palace in Madrid out to the re-
hottest, humbleSt hamletS, the civil
guardsmen have the right Of way
except IN the Basque province Of Gui-
puzcoa. The BaSques have their own
ponce. called migueletes, who wear a
Jaunty uniform of baggy red trousers,
a blue tunic with a cape fixed to the
shoulders and a red boina on their
neadS "a contrast to the civil guards
yellow trappings and gray or black uni
forms and shiny cooked hats, triangu-
lar and of oilSkin). Although a soldier,
armed and trained as such, the migu-
elete, instead Of parading about in idle
ness, has many civilian duties. He car
rleS all the official mail in the province,
conveys lunatics to the modern asylum,
inspects the roads, teaches the illiterates
to read and write, collects telephone
tolls and also taxes A Basque is always
ready with bet. which is the COM
mon way OF ending q dispute about
hand ball. tree telling, grass moving,
stone lifting, swimming, about what
weight his pair OF oxen will drag or the
hghting powers OF q ram from his herd.
On every bet percentage Is due and
Is collected by the migueiete. It is the
miguelete also who takes charge of the
savings bank accounts. and so great
is the confidence he inspires among the
peasantry that old and young hand
over their hard-earned reales and
pesetas to this red-legged cop. What
prestige! Indeed, 1t has been proposed
that the League of Nations study the
organization.
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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Crafty Portrait Busts Exhibition the Corcoran Gallery
of Art-Water Coors by Elizabeth Sawtelle.
Other January Exhibits.

the group in this exhibition. has been
invited by the American Federation of
Arts for its annual rotary exhibition and
will be shown during the coming sea-
son With the so best works selected from
the New York exhibit. in some of the
leading art museums of the country.
Miss Lent, 1t will be recalled, is a mem
Der Of the Washington Water Color
Club and her work is frequently shown
here in local exhibitions at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art and the Arts Club.
She comes of talented family, being
the daughter OF Ernest Lent, widely
known in musical circles. and the sis
ter of Sylvia Lent who as a violinist
has likewise won distinction.
THE Society of Washington Artists
will open its thirty-ninth annual ex-
hibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
a week from today. The jury of selec-
ton. consisting of officers and members
OF the executive committee of the So
ciety, will meet at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art Wednesday and Thursday. and
all works to be passed upon must be
delivered at the New York avenue en-
trance to the gallery Tuesday, Deem
Der 81, between the hours of 9 am. and
pm. Four bronze medals will be
a oA0CO AOA Vic DCSI WOIk III DUEbTdlL-
ure, landscape, still-life painting and
sculpture. The awards will be made by
jury composed Of out-of town artists.
Mrs. Charles w. Hawthorne, N. C.
Wyeth and Hans Schuler.
~
DURING the month of December
there was held at the National Arts
Club, Gramercy Park, New York, a most
and comprehensive exhibi-
ton of American decorative arts, in
which were included four silk murals
by Lydia Bush-Brown, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry K. Bush Brown of
this city. Two OF these were Syrian sub
jectS, one a purely imaginative theme,
The Fairy CaStel," and the fourth a
series of murals entitled 1.-THE City of
Towers" picturing in unique manner
New York. This series. lent by Mrs
Enrich, attracted special attention and
called forth high commentator both
for its decorative quality and extremely
skillful treatment. The exhibition at
the National Arts Club comprised APP
$50 exhibits-pottery, wood
carving, silhouettes, embroidery, Sculp-
ture, book ends, andirons and other dec
orative pieces, silver and pewter, jewell
ry. mural painting, drawings and a
few wood-block prints. It was assembled
under the leadership of Maud Mason,
one Of our foremost painters Of flowers
and still life, who is also an accom-
plished craftswoman, and 1t was most
beautifully arranged. More and more
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busts, which complete the group, are
all STRAIGHTFORWARD pieces of work, ex-
cellent in likeness, spirited. vital.
Charles Crafty was self-apprenticed
at the age of IT TO the largest stone
carving establishment in Philadelphia
in which city he was born in 1862. His
first training, therefore, was with mallet
and chisel. Accident incident to labor
troubles gave him opportunity to do
larger work, almost at the beginning
than is as q rule intrusted to appren-
tees. and he did it well. When he was
admitted as student in modelling Ia
the schools of the Pennsylvania Acad-
envy of the Fine Arts in 1884 he was
therefore, already a trained workman.
His masters at the academy were
Thomas Eakins and Anshutz Later he
studied at the Academy Julien and the
Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1890
he exhibited at the Paris Salon "Dae-
dalus," now in the permanent collection
of the Pennsylvania Academy. In the
early COS Mr.. Crafty returned to the
academy as an instructor in sculpture,
q position which he held to the end Of
his life. He contributed largely to the
enrichment of the Buffalo and st. Louis
Expeditions.
A we'll known writer has said that
Graf1y's portrait busts reveal him a
master more subtle than Houdon, more
SculptureSQus than Saint-Gaudens, ri
valing Rodin at his best in delicacy and
adding to the sensitive surface model
ing Of the great French master re-
markedly vigorous and powerfully
truthful appreciation of the underly-
ing logic of nature" It was his habit
TO 60 TO the very bottom of things.
He worked swiftly. Occasionally he
executed portrait bust in a single day.
Yet at his best he is said to
have worked with the eager watch
fitness OF the earnest student and
with a poets profound disregard fol
time. If untrammeled by contract OF
promise he rejoiced in long reaching 70:
perfection. Holding himself always u
a rising standard he viewed his vision
from increasing ATTITUDES Of beauty"
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REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS
Exploring Strange Fields With the Nomads-The American
Forests and Some Essays in Understandings
The Newest Novels

to make you see and feel and resolve.
A beautiful writer, so quietly beautiful
that one Is taken into possession by him
without parade or performance, Just
taken by right Of the true artistry of the
matter in hand.
MEMORIAL TO GEORGE: BY Him
self. Edited by the author of Miss
Tiverton Goes Out" Illustrated. In
dianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Co.
A FORE-HANDED sort, George, who
looks after a memorial to himself
while he is around to see that 1t is made
right. Like many another, George
makes this testimonial to his own pow
ers by way of words. He simply writes
and writes about himself from the day
of his earliest recollections up to the
latest minute Of his conscious career.
Little things and big, bright days and
cloudy, success and failure, these are
blended here in the very engaging adj
venture of being alive. Hard spots APP
pear now and then, but these concern
George not at all, for is there not that
competent Miss Tiverton to help out at
any tight place where editing is the only
next step to be taken? Between the
two they make stirring matter of this
memorial, one that all Of Georges
friends-hosts of these-will be glad to
lmger over in affection and apprecia-
ton. Fine pictures of George-James
Reid took them-accompany the rest of
the enterprise Of concentrating the
hero. Natural as life, the pictures.
Georges tail never looked thicker and
bushier than 1t does here, curving over
his back. His eyes were never brighter.
Indeed, George was never more up and
coming than he is in this memorial,
made by himself and Miss Tiverton.
Great friend of yours and mine
George.
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1t seems our American painters are
turning to the decorative arts, partly
for recreation and partly as a medium
OF expression. 1t is a hopeful sign.
THE foreign section of the interna-
tional exhibition at the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh, will be shown at
the Baltimore Museum from January 6
to February IT. The exhibition opened
in Pittsburgh the last of October and
remained on view until the early part of
this month. The American section has
been dispersed, but the foreign section
between now and May will make tour
OF some of the leading art museums,
Baltimore being the first on the list.
y
The American Society of Miniature
Painters announces its thirty-first
annual exhibition to be held at the
Grand Central Art Galleries New York,
from January 81 to February q Works
will be received January IS and entry
blanks may be obtained from the secre-
tary, Miss Grace H. Murray, 1872 West
F1fty-eighth street, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE BOLT. BY p. r. Shore. New
York: Z. p. Dutton d Co.
THE SONG OF SONGS. BY Hermann
Sudermann. New York: The Mod
ern Library.
THEIR FATHERS SHADOW. BY
George c. Foster. New York: The
Macaulay Co.
HIS OWN PEOPLE. BY Leon w. Rog-
ers. New York: Laidlaw Bros.
SKY HIGH: The Story of Aviation. BY
Eric Hodgins and F. Alexander Ma
goun. Illustrated. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
WHERE THE EAST BEGINS. BY
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of
Foreign Affairs. New York: Harper
g. Bros.
WILD HONEY. BY Samuel scoville,
jr. With reproductions of etchings
by Emerson Tuttle. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
American Phase. Being the Second
Volume Of q History of the Found
ing Of the American Republic. BY
Claude H. Van Tyne, professor of
history in the University of Michi-
gan. Boston: Houghton Miffiin Co.
OUR CHANGING HUMAN NATURE.
BY Samuel d. Schmalhausen. New
York: The Macaulay Co.
A SEvEN-DAY CHURCH AT WORK:
The Story Of the Development and
Progress OF Wesley Church, Wor-
ceSter, Mass. BY William s. Mitch
ell. D. d. New York: Funk q Wag-
nails Co.
ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT
AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE
MANUFACTURES OF MEMS
CLOTHING. BY Martin e. Popkin,
consulting engineer, formerly manu-
facturer and director of research. j.
Schoeneman, Inc, etc. New York:
Isaac Pitman 81 Sons.
THE BLACK CHRIST: And Other
Poems. BY Countee Cullen. Deco
rations by Charles Cullen. New
York: Harper g. Bros.
WE BEREAVED. BY Helen Keller.
New York: Leslie Pulenwider, Inc.
THE SHAKESPEARE SONGS: Being
q Complete Collection of the Songs
Written by or Attributed to William
Shapespeare. Edited by Tucker
Brooks. With an introduction by
walter De La Mare. New York:
William Morrow q Co.
ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN NEGRO
LITERATURE. Edited, with an in
PRODUCTION, by v. F. Calverton. New
York: The Modern Library.
NAKED ISLAND: A Romance of the
West Indies. BY Geore EDWARD.
Translated from the German by Ar
thur J. Ashton. New York: The
Macaulay Co.
LETTERS TO WOMEN. Nv ,Joseph
AuSlander. Frontispiece woodcut
ana decorations by Glare Leighton.
New York: Harper d Bros
TEMPERANCE-OR PROHIBITION?
by Francis j. T1etsort. editor New
YORK: The. Hearst Temperance Con-
test Committee.
ADVENTURES OF THE SCARLET
PIMPERNEL. BY The Baroness
ORGY. New York: Doubleday, Do
ran & Co.
OF SAND: And Other Stories.
BY Wilbur Daniel Steele. New York:
Harper & Bros.
NIPSYA. BY Georges Bugnet. Trans
lated from the French BY Constance
Dawes woodrow. New York: Louis
Carrier q Co.
FOURSQUARE: The Story of a Four
Iold Life. BY John Rathbone Oil
,,,,v yer; New York: The Macmillan Co.
AHE LOST SHIRT. BY Joseph An
tnony. New York: Brentano's.
RELIGION IN HUMAN AFFAIRS. Bv
CIlnord Kirkpatrick. Pho, assist
s SnG professor OF sociology. Univer-
Slty OF Pennsylvania, author of an
teLigence and Immigration. New
York; John Wiley q Sons, Inc.
THE DESERT OF LOVE. BY Francoi.
Mauriac. Translated from the
French by Samuel Putnam. New
York: Covici, Friede.
is SEX NECESSARY; Or, Why You
Feel the Way You Do By James
Thurber and Z. B. White. New
York: Harper & Bros.
LOVE. BY Victoria Cross
author OF Lies Shop Window"
New York: The Macaulay Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29

TINE Corcoran Gallery of Art has
recently placed on view in its
upper atrium a notable group
Il of portrait busts of well known
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
Less Red Literature
Trickles Into Canada

More red propaganda has been barred
rom enterlng Canada in 1899 than dur
ing any year In history. accordino RI p
w. Breadner. commissioner of c,istoros
The federal authorities, however. try To
De oroadminded regarding the entry of
alleged salacious" novels and periodi-
Gals into the Dominion. Seditious and
indecent literature are prohibited and
roman Catholic Church authorities in
the Province Of Quebec are particularly
yignant Is regards indecent literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
Earned Income.

A greater measure Of distinction be-
tween earned" income and 'unearned''
income is to be made in any tax-reduc-
ton bill that the Hoover administration
proposes. This IL economically both
wise and just. President Hoover, 1t is
said. realizes that earned income, so far
as the great mass of citizens is con-
cerned, must bear the burden of provid-
ing for . rainy day. The income which
comes from bonds, stocks, real estate or
other property holdings, If the property
is wisely purchased and wisely held, has
no such extra burden placed upon it..
It viii run on and on whether the benz
efactor of this income continues to
work or becomes incapacitated for work.
Under the existing law q credit OF
twenty-five per cent Of the tax on earn-
ed net income may be claimed by the
taxpayer, provided the net earned in
come Is not more than $50, 900. That IS
the maximum amount Of net earned
income upon which such a credit Is
permitted. The law also provides that
where the total income, from whatever
source, is not over 5000, it shall al
BE considered earned income for the
computation Of the tax. Earned income
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
Disarmament Illusions.

with the preciseness OF expression TO
which he is addicted. President Hoover
has Just taken occasion to clear up
some misapprehensions about the
forthcoming meeting at Geneva OF the
preliminary commission" on limitation
Of armament. The United States VIII
be represented there by Ambassador
Gibson and Admiral Jones. Both Of
them bear the scars Of service at preyi-
GUS Geneva meetings, including the
abortive coolidge cruiser conference
Of 1927.
Mr.. Hoover wants the country to
understand that nothing Is cnntem-
plated, or win be attempted. In switzer-
land later in the Spring except an ex-
ulcration Of the innumerable angles
involved IN any eventual scheme OF cur
failing armament. With respect to the
NAVY. limitation is not merely a ques-
tior, Of tonnage. There are questions
ot guns. Of armor, Of speed and OF .
s;een country's flel bases or coalinS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06

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@. How did the homicide rate In New
York compare last year with that OF
Chicago?--G. X.
A. In 1928 the homicide rate for New
York City was 8.S per 100000, and Tor
Chicago it was 1873 per 100000.
@. Please give short biography Of
Pietro, the accordionist.-M. J.
A. Pietro Deiro was born in 1888 At
Salto, Italy, and he came to America
In 1906. To Pietro Deiro Is due the
perfection of the accordion. In 1912 ne
secured an engagement at the Winter
Garden in New York, and while there
he was invited by the Victor company
to play for that company.
u. Wneu was TIC Itot W1toe HeeSaA
made?-G. H.
A. The first Of which there Is record
was New Years gift to Queen Eliza
beth in 1871. It is described as "a rich
jeweled armlet having in the closing
thereof a clocke."
@. To settle an argument, please
state what color milk ISL. B.
A. Milk is an Opaque white or vel.
lowish-white liquid. The amount OF
yellow color depends upon two classes
of yellow pigment found in plants eaten
by cattle, which color the butter TAT.
These pigments are carotins and KAN
throphylls. The whitish color Of milk
serum is due to interference with the
passage of light by the casein in pseudo
solution.
@. Why do we never find dead birds
about unless they have been killed by
accident or design?-L. r. s.
A. The Department Of Agriculture
says that birds bodies disintegrate rap
idly. Dead birds are eaten by predatory
animals and insects.
O. When was the English East In
dian Co. formed?-W. E. s.
A. In 1899 the Dutch raised the price
of pepper from shillings to 6 shillings
per pound, and in September OF that
year the merchants Of London banded
together for the purpose CT joining
company to direct trade to the Indies.
The East India Co. was granted char.
ter by Queen Elizabeth in 1900, and
was first called "Govenour and Com
pany of Merchants of London Trading
with the East Indies" In 1893 William
III incorporated the English Company
Trading with the East Indies" The
two were amalgamated in l708 under
the title 1.-THE United Company Of Mer-
chants Of England Trading to the East
Indies" commonly called Honorable
East India Company"
@. Please give some information
about the Pennsylvania State Forestry
School.--R. D. s.
A. The Pennsylvania State Forestry
School. at Mount Alto, Pa. was estab-
lished in 1908. The school Is author
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stations, as they used to be called be-
fore oil suppianted black diamonds in
warship bunkers. The superiority OF
Great Britain in widely scattered and
strategically situated fuel bases. COM
pared to such facilities possessed by
the United states. enters very con-
spicuously into the determination Of
relative British and American naval
strength.
The question of categories Of ships
preferred by tlais or that country Is an
other issue that bulks considerably In
any effort to arrive at naval linita-
ton basis. Power A may need battle
ships. Power B may require cruisers.
Power C may hold submarines mainly
essential TO It's defense. And 20 on.
Einsteinian relatively. in manner Of
speaking. must be invoked before the
sea nations OF the world can get to-
gether Ia q limitation agreement which
properly conserves the just needs Of
each and all of them. Land armament.
which also figures In pending inquiries,
is OF comparatively little interest to the
United States. The President. reiterates
the obvious statement that our military
establishment already is as limited" as
any limitation agreement could possibly
make 1t.
It is mainly to thresh out the multi
farious and fundamental details of the
international naval problem that states
men and admirals are shortly foregath-
ering again on the shores of Lake
Geneva. They are not holding dis
armament conference. They are only
seeking to turn on the light in dark
corners, in order that, sooner or later,
there may be no darkness anywhere,
and the powers may be convened. as
they were in Washington in 1921, for
a pariey called to perfect pact.
The five-power agreement effected
here provides for another conference IN
1881. 1t would accord with the fitness
of things If President Hoover were to
invite it to the Potomac.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HAsKIN.

lied by the Legislature as q part Of the
state Department Of Forests and
Waters. The course covers four years,
with three Summer terms. The degree
of bachelor of science in forestry is APP
proved by the College and University
Council. The State Forest Service OF
Pennsylvania Is recruited from scholar
ship students at this school. This In
stitution differs from all other Ameri-
can forest schools, in that 1t Is not
part of another college or university.
but Is special forest school In
forest community, with q 23,000-acre
forest attached.
@. Please tell something Of the out
fitting of the Byrd expedition.-C. l.. 8.
A. The Byrd expedition to the South
Pole sailed in a feet of four ships-the
City of New York, the Eleanor Boiling,
the Sir James Clark Ross and the G. A.
Larsen. 1t is the most elaborately
equipped expedition that has ever url-
dertaken polar research. More than
million dollars was spent in out1tting.
Besides the ships crews, there are 81
scientists, engineers, ayiators and radio
experts. The larders contain 1900 Diff
ferent items, including 80 tons Of poul-
try and beef, tons Of ham and bacon
and so tons of groceries. There are
four planes, including a Ford trimotored
plane and three smaller planes for
scout work, as well as snow motors ana
caterpillar tractors. Seventy-nine dogs
were taken along. One plane has been
wrecked and at least one Of the dogs
has died.
@. How is rainfall measured?-L. s.
A. Rain Is measured by exposing q
suitable gauge in a position where It
will catch approximately the fun
amount Of water that falls upon the
earth's surface at the point In ques-
ton. The receiving can Is usually 10
times the diameter Of the small meas
uring tube into which the contents OF
the larger can are poured for conven-
fence in measuring One inch OF RAIN
fall indicates that the rain has fallen
to q depth equal to one inch over the
adjacent territory.
O. How many of the tourists visit
ing Europe 90 to London?-V. r.
A. The World Traveller predicts that
rs per cent Of the people who travel
abroad will go to London.
@. Please list some flowers that win
grow where it is shady part OF the
time-H. B.
A. The following flowers thrive In
partial shade: Basket flower, sweet
sultan, clarkia, platycodon.. godetia,
Drummond phlox, pansy, sweet alyssum,
lupine and forget-me-not.
@. Photograph records look as
though they are made of rubber. What
material is used?-E. g.
A. At one time records were made OF
rubber. A cheaper composition had TO
be found. Shellac, china clay or tall
cum powder, coloring pigments, barium
or barytis, asphalt and cotton flock are
the principal ingredients.
@. What has been Americas greatest
contribution to medicines. P.
A. That would be q matter OF opin-
ion. but one of Americas great con-
tributions was the discovery OF the use
of anesthetics for operations.