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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TNACEwELL.

| The present preoceupatien with youth
and health IL not only benumbing In
everyday life; 1t goes farther and TENDS
to stifie the gentle, kind things OF life
which blossom in interest, mercy, kind
illness and love. It Is responsible for an
indifference amounting to cruelty IN
many phases Of personal life.
We live in such a hurry burly OF
noise and confusion, filled with cheer
ing and plaudits. that the feeble cries RE
Of those asking aid are drowned out
The old adage, what you don't know
won't hurt you" has been applied too
widely, with the result that, despite
the many noble charities on every hand
far too many individuals are living
Grass, selfish lives, not only without
heartaehe for others, but even without
a mental regret.
This mental indifference, distinct
from the suffering Of the heart. Is the
low-water mark Of the human soul.
It can be noted in the eyes, and espe-
cially the mouths, Of many human be-
| ings who have substituted impatience
| for love and have unconsciously adopted
the notorious sentence, After me, the
deluge."
|
stop in their mad fleeing from the truth
and discover that their whole life's mo-
tive was based on no higher or nohler
phrase.
AFTER me, the deluge" So why be
interested in others, why try to help
| them, why attempt to cheer them UP,
why go out Of ones way to give a beg
gar dime?
$3.50
Patience is one Of the divine gifts.
It is safe to say that only age brings
this heavenly virtue.
Youth is too eager. too ready for sue
cess, to be interested in a virtue which
demands everlasting kindness. unceas-
ing burden bearing, accomplishing
drudgery, though the heart ache and
the hands tire and the eyes go to sleep.
Nor is youth to be blamed. 1t is only
out Of failure that divine pauence comes
into being. It Is only regret that causes
this fine flower of the spirit to blossom
This is why elderly people, and espe-
cially women, have something about
them which young people do not have
and cannot have until they, too, have
gone through the fire Of life.
The solemn lines Of elderly faces are
not there entirely because age the mon
ster has torn away from them their
precious youth, but largely because age
| the refiner has ruthlessly. and 1t may
be cruelty, eliminated from their lives
much Of the old silly foo1ishness.
There 10 no doubt that many an in
curing young man or woman, Watching
the faces Of older people in public
vehicles, has wondered at the apparent
sourness Of disposition as pictured forth
In unlovely lines.
Those lines. young friends, are only
plane with the curving lines Of youth
health-and crude ineXperience. You
too. are but young animal, with much
to learn.
When yourstine comes to give UP the
decisions of youth and face life as God
has made IL. may you bear upon your
brow the noble creaSes put there by
tears, by honest effort to understand;
may your face be drawn by sorrow from
the faulty Of youth; may 1t reflect
loving kindness and patience, gathered
out Of the mistakes Of your youth!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
The Lure of the Big Machines.

Little Tommy Bailey, aged four and
q half, is so devoted to steam shovels
that he literally follows them around
Washington. So ardent is his love Of
the big machines that he leaves home
whenever he hears one throbbing and
hunts It up, or If he hears Of one some
where In the ofnng, he traces it to its
pit. His mother, distracted by this
trait Of her small son, has now adopted
the expedient Of tagging Tommy with
name and address, with a request to
the finder to- return property"
Tommys obsession is not extraordi-
nary Almost every child, especially
every boy child. loves the monsters that
plunge their jaws into the earth and
lift them laden, to drop into waiting
trucks the masses of material that must
be moved to make room for improve
ments. And this fondness for the dirt
diggers is not limited to the juveniles.
Elders have been known to stand along
side and watch them for long p,riods,
fascinated by their maneuvers, their
strength, their hexibility.
Machinery exerts q charm upon most
people, especially machinery that does
complex, humanlike things. There Is
q machine that has come into public
notice during recent years that removes
old asphalt pavement q modification OF
elaboration of the steam shovel" 1t
Ia ~ ID
material, shoves Its teeth around and
under and even over stubborn bits,
rolls them up, turns them over, slides
them along, lifts them, all with the
nicely of human hand. OF course. the
machine Is but an extension or mag
MITIGATION Of the human hand, and the
hand Of man manipulates 1t. The mar
vel Of the thing is the cleverness with
which the muscular reactions and the
intelligent direction of the operator are
transformed into mechanical power.
Then there are the hosting devices,
in use on large new building works.
There is nothing especially spectacular
about them, yet they rarely fail to draw
an audience, keenly interested In their
operation. They work so surely, 50 pre-
cisely, 90 easily, that the people on the
ground marvel ct them and spend
many minutes each gazing at them.
Another machine that lures the tom
mics" Of all ages Is the steam roller
that packs down the newly laid asphalt
in the streets. Even in these days Of
motorized transportation these clatter-
ing juggernauts draw their audiences.
They are not as big and nastodonic as
once they were, but they have their
charm nevertheless even now.
If every person in this city who yields
TO the lure of the big machines were to
be tagged like Tommy Bailey In order
to assure home contact, there would be
a great nuttering Of labels here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
The Panic as a Spectacle.

To many thousands of people who
have been playing the margin game"
the stock market collapse has been a
tragedy. To nnultitudes in New York
yesterday, however, 1t was an entertain
ment spectacle. Great throngs Iamnled
into Wall street and the other narrow
tiaoroughfares of the financial district
to watch what they conceived TO be a
show. There was really nothing to see.
There were no definite outward evil
dences Of the fierce turmoil Of stock
selling going on inside Of the exchange.
Only a few scores could be admitted TO
the strangers gallery" of the ex-
change, and they saw the milling OF the
brokers on the floor without really I'M
Outstanding what was happening. After
time during the day admission to the
gallery was denied. A placard was
posted on the outer doors to that Ell
feet. 1t started . runor, spread first
by an excited messenger boy, that the
exchange itself had been closed.
Just what the crowd expected to see
is beyond easy understanding. There
were, it is true, runors Of brokers COM
hitting suicide by leaping from the
windows of the skyscraper buildings
There were reports of desperate physical
encounters within the exchange and
within brokers' Offices. These reports
spread swiftly and caused thrills, and
the crowd nagnifed the runaors into
even graver happenings. AS a matter
Of fact, there were no suicides, there
were no fights; there was nothing but
lot Of anxious, tired, harisd men buy
ing and selling stocks on the exchange
floors, q volume of telephoning prob
ably exceeding all records, a vast mas:
Of torn paper memoranda and ticker
tape. All the casualties were financial
all the excitement was in terms OF In
tense physical activity in the trans
action of an unprecedented volume o.
business.
But the crowds in the streets were
having q wonderful time. Were they
not present on an historical occaSioni
st stood right across the street from
the Stock Exchange while the srea
panic Of 1929 was In progress" SOM
will say in years to come, long -memorieC
veterans trying to revive the thrills o
the past. Asked what happened within
the scoops of their vision. and they viii
be unable to detail anything out Of tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
Miss Macdonald Classed
'All.Around Good Sport
Hrom the Schenectady Gazstta.

from the Schenectady Gazette.
The impression left upon the minds
Of the American people by their recent
honored guest, Miss Ishbel Macdonald,
Is that OF an all-around good sport of
the finest type:
Whether Miss Macdonald is a typi-
cally English, or more correctly Scotch,
girl, at all events she has proved an at
tractive change from the American type.
which, II we may believe the fashion
magazines and many Of our shop win
dows, is the accepted ideal In this coun-
try of the beautiful feminine:
Thin almost TO emaciation is
American girl iO under as. Wiilowy' non
chalant, with all this accentuated by
the newly adopted silhouette" our
own girls of the same class and rela-
tive rank of Miss Macdonald offer a
sharp contrast TO the ruddy-cheeked
Scotch girl, with her lack Of makeup
and very apparent curves.
Nor is the contrast altogether exter-
nal. Then mental attitudes of the
daughter Of Great Britain and Of the
daughters OF America differ as greatly.
Miss Macdonald absolutely refused, for
instance, to discuss clothes, that topic
supposedly dear to every feminine In
stinct.
Her own garments were Of the rough
and-ready kind, or of the plain and
simple, according to the occasion for
wearing them. There was no attempt
to follow the latest dictates of fashion
nor any indication that their wearer gave
them a thought after putting them on.
They suited her and they became her
and that was all there was to it. They
did not interest her particularly, nor
did they interest those who were SO
fortunate as to come in contact with
her during her visit to this country.
What did affect her deeply were the
affairs in which her distinguished father
and his hosts were engrossed. What
drew her attention as nothing else
was the people of the country she was
visiting. Wha; attracted her new
friends and acquaintance here was hsr
reaction to these things, her genuine
interest In vital works, particularly as
they concerned women and girls and
children. 49,
One Of Miss Macdonald's most de-
lightful characteristics is her poise in
the face Of public scrutiny. While not
unconscious Of 1t, she is apparently I'M
touched by 1t. She is a very natural
sort of girl, simple and unaffected, yet
deeply sincere and devoted to the cause
she champions, be it what it may.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
Banking Transgressor
Finds Way is Hard
From the Portland Oregon Daily Journal.

From the Portland Oregon Daily Journal.
He was head Of q bank.
It was a position Of trust. A bank
president is supposedly the symbol Of
all that Is dependable. He reflects the
stability and substantially Of the COM
munity. He typiheS finance In all its
integrity, business In all its aceentuated
responsibility.
This banker was sentenced in q New
York court to is years at hard labor
in the penitentiary. It Is not the first
case of its kind. The trek of presidents
and cashiers in banks to the peniten-
tiarieS or to foreign parts Is one of the
big parades. They depart from their
high positions to other and less-sought
fields so often that 1t Is taken as a
, matter OF course.
This man sentenced in New York Is
Waggoner, who victimized Gotham
banks to the tune OF $S00,00 His ex-
plot startled the country. He flung
new coup into the realm of skull
duggery.
It paid him nothing, 1t yielded him
no dividends.
Scarcely was his scheme effective,
when 1t put him in flight. He ran
away from his community, from his
and police pursued. His night was
along through strange country and ell
hands raised against him.
At a prisoners dock in New York
he heard a judge mete out his reckon
ing. A sentence Of is years at hard
labor in prison stripes was what his
fling as cheat and crook brought
him.
And 1t is very much the kind of ex-
perience that awaits every bank presi-
dent and bank off1cial who plays the
banking game with loaded dice or
marked cards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
Base Ball Fans Show
Old-Time Ruggedness
From the Omaha world-Herald.

From the Omaha world-Herald.
Nine Thousand base bail fans spent
the night-a chill. raw october night
in the street outside the box Office at
Wrigley Field before the opening world
series game on the chance of getting q
remote seat In the outfield bleachers
or even standing room at this premier
sporting event.
And that perhaps Is the answer to
the question, What has become Of the
ruggedness of the pioneers? It hasn't
been sacrificed ON the altar Of ease and
comfort. It has merely been reserved
for such special occasions as the world
series. the homecoming foot ball game
and the duck hunting season. We aren't
soft and dabby except when there is no
need to display ruggedness. When q
crisis arises, like q meeting Of the Cubs
and the Athletics, we can be Just as
robust as our ancestors. Bathtubs and
furnaces and automobiles and soft seats
ct the movies haven't robbed US of
either the spirit or the physical endur-
ance to cope barehanded with the forces
Of nature.
The difference between the pioneers
and us Is that they endured hardship
because they had to. while we do it
only when we want to. You never
would have caught 5000 pioneers stay
ing up all night to see base ball game.
They would have done 1t for something
vital. something necessary to their ex-
istence. and then left q record, expect
ing their posterity to brag about their
hardihood. but they never would have
done 1t just for the fun of the thing.
But those 1900 eity-bred base ball fans,
accustomed to comfort. did it for Just
that. They didn't have to stay UP, not
one OF them. They could have spent
the night sleeping In 5000 comfortable
beds. but II they had they might have
missed the game.
We can be rugged enough when fab
btness interferes with our anusementS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
Florida Wins Battle
Over the Fruit Fly
From the Roanoke wosld-News.

from the ROANOKE WoTld-NeWS.
The Mediterranean fruit hy has been
50 nearly externinated in Florida that
practically no flieS can now be found
with which TO experiment, according
to the chief of the Plant Quarantine
and Control Administration OF the Fed
eral Government, ur. @. l.. Marlatt.
The laboratory that the Government
maintains for study of this pest is to
be moved from Florida to Hawaii, where
more hies can be had for experimental
purposes.
Control measures have included the
destruction of all fruits on properties
found infested and on all other prop
critics within one mile thereof, and the
spraying OF such areas from 9 to IL
which escaped destruction during the
cleanup measures. There Is a further
period of starvation during which an
effort is made to eliminate from the
infested areas all fruits and vegetables
known to be hosts to this pest. The ny
Is literally starved to death.
Under the revised regulations all OF
Florida except IL counties and parts
OF 10 additional counties are now free
OF restrictions.
The victory the Government has won
over the Mediterranean fruit fly Is all
the more striking when 1t Is remena-
bered that in some parts of Europe u
has been fought unsuccessfully for
many years and that some of the
Islands Of the Mediterranean, once pro-
ducers Of the worlds best fruits, have
been rendered almost uninhabitable be-
cause Of the widespread infection OF
this pest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
Another ROYAL Romance.

Thrones, crowns and dynaSties were
toppled right and left by the World War
but royal matchmakers are still doing
business at the old stand. Their latest
achievement is the engagement, an
nounced at Brussels yesterday, of Prin-
cess Marie JosA daughter Of the King
and Queen of the Belgians, to Crown
Prince Hunbert, heir TO the italian
throne. Prince Humbert journeyed to
Belgium this week, formally to plead
for the hand Of the fair princess whose
heart he had already won. It is made
known that King Victor Emmanuel's
heir proposed to Marie Jose, and was
accepted, in the garden of the royal
palace at Venice during a recent visit
Of King Albert, with his daughter, to
Northern Italy.
Once upon a time these matrimonial
alliances among European royal houses
generally represented marriages Of
political convenience. Today, as in the
case Of Prince Humbert and his fiancee,
they are more likely to be love affairs.
Queen Victoria's numerous progeny, dt-
rect and indirect, sat on many Old
World thrones. King Christian Of Den
mark became known as the grandfather
Of Europe. Daughters Of his were at
the same period expresses, respectively,
Of Russia and India. Today Queen
Marie of Rumania is the mother Of
other queens.
The worlds most manageable royal
person of the male persuasion is the
Primes Of Wales. He is the catch Of all
seasons. The aspiring crowned papa or
mamma who can land wales" will
make rival kings and queens as green
eyed with envy as the emeralds in their
diadems. The princes engagement is
rumored almost necessarily. Some who
claim to know avow and affirm that he
means to live and die bachelor mon
arch.
Perhaps a song Of other days in this
country, Every American Girl Is a
Queen" may give the prince an idea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25

Maybe you have wondered why it Il
that only elderly women give money u
street beggars.
Stop any time on one of the down
town streets where mendicants stand
holding their hats for charity, and yet
will see that young people pass them by
1t is only elderly women who stop
tumble In their purses and take out Q
coin or two to drop In the blind mans
hat.
Often we have wondered at this
phenomenon.
Is 1t that old people only are kind'
IL 10 that youth begets certain
harshness with the unfortunate?
Once we were inclined to favor the
latter theory, Many a gay and pranc.
| ing girl who no doubt classed herself
with the fashionable passed by without
so much as glance. affecting neither
TO see nor hear the crippled man on the
sidewalk.
Yet he was 50 much in the center Of
the walk that the girl had to go around
him deliberately, and his cry would
have pierced ears of stone-"Dont pass
me by! Don't pass me by!"
X X X
It Is age, and age alone, which car
give man or woman those graces OF
sweet charity which willingly step aside
in the flutter of daily life to help the
poor and the downtrodden.
Experience Is a dear teacher, but II
teaches nothing unless it teaches kind
ness. And kindness Is applied many
ways in the daily life, from the pleasant
word Of help to some one who needs
1t to the penny placed in the beggar's
cup.
Experience of life brings anany q sad
80 In "a hA R,AA ~ AZ
middle age, and so into old age, which
never once CHANGED to dim the passing
radiance Of youth. This is where youth
falls down.
The present vogue Of the young, with
It's glamour of health and "Sun-tan," its
interest In sports and glittering annuse-
mentS, its bowling. at the shrine Of child
hood, Is but a knowing in part.
No one would gainsay the manifest
advantages Of being young and healthy
but that this knowledge Is all that there
knowing, seems like. so much foolish
ness to those who have been given the
opportunity to see but little way into
the avenues where middle age and old
age reside.
Books cannot hold but 1.-THE of the
full wisdom Of experience and its
f1ower-kindneSs These are things
which cannot be passed on by one nav
ing them to one who does not have
them.
The possesSors of this holy wisdom
may be able to point out the way that
tn. young must travel, but they cannot
put them actually In possession Of the
promised land.
Every man must find 1t for himself.
The trouble with youth, viewed from
a larger viewpoint, Is that 1t lacks that
fine sympathy that ready heart under
standing, which sorrow alone gives and
brings to fruttion.
It IL easy to look at life through rose
colored spectacles as long as the sun ia
shining, and only life and good health
well In one. When illness and sorrow
come. however, they must be faced
II 1t can be done with courage and love,
50 much the better. Out of that ex-
perience will come q ready sympathy
with the unfortunate and desire To
help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Members of Congress aren't often ac-
cused Of succumbing to modesty, but
Representative Sol Bloom, Democrat, OF
New York, seems to be entitled TO the
Nobel prize for enlightenment. Here's
how: George Eastman, the camera
king, wants the calendar reconstructed
so as to provide for year of Is months.
He proposes that the new. additional
month shall be called Sol" But the
man calendar reform, as far as the
United States Congress is concerned,
emanates from Sol Bloom himself. As
a devout spokesman of l?.i faith. Rep
resentative Bloom leaGJ the fight on
Capitol Hill against any tinkering with
time which would bring about what he
picturesquely terms "a floating Sab
bath" For the time being, it is an in
Surmountable stumbling block for the
Eastman scheme. Bloom prefers the
chronological status quo even to a cal
endaI which'd immortalize SOL"
This is the season Of the year. when
the great and the near-great In Wash.
ington are peStered endlessly from all
parts of the country with invitations to
"Chairnien Of program committees" Of
women's clubs are conspicuous hunters
of oratorical lions. Borah probably
gets more bids than anybody else, but
lesser Spellbinders are in active demand
Statesmen nowadays expect and receive
substantial honorariums for out-of-
Washington speeches. Borah can easily
command anything from $500 upward
Rates for others scale from $500 down.
ward. Until the tariff is out of the
way, Capitol Hill stars as rule are
1~aE,n k@ Nvyfy nfhAf
armament.
(Copyright, 1927