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Shipbuilding Halt
Held Confidence Move

From the philadelphia INQUIRER.
The British governments announce
ment that it has Cancelled construction
of the large cruisers Surrey and NORTH
cumberland should have an immense
effect upon the London Conferences for
the Reduction of Naval Armaments. It
is gesture of complete confidence In
the success of the parley and Of re-
nunciation of the 10-year race for pre-
eminence in cruiser strength anaons the
world naval powers.
On July Is, last, Prime Minister Mac
donald announced the suspension Of
construction plans for these two cruisers.
At the same time he announced the
cancellation of the plans to build 80
submarines and the submarine sdepoe
ship Maidstone, as well as the showing
down Of dockyard work. His annonnc=-
ment was matched by the order of
President Hoover suSpending construc.
ton plans for three of the new 10000
ton cruisers authorized by Congress.
From both leaders there was, the
suggestion Of further suspensions or
cancellations as the likelihood Of q
successful Naval Reduction Confidence
developed. Mr.. Macdonald clearly has
served notice upon the other naval
powers that the British government
believes that time has now arrived.
The Surrey and Northumberland were
a part of the Birkenhead expansion
program Of 1925, and belonged To the
heavy cruiser group numbered from 10
to SIS which was originally scheduled
for completion by 1892. Three were to
be lo,000-ton ships and five were to be
$500 tons, all carrying a main anna.
ment OF 8-lnch guns. In November,
1927, 1t was announced that construc-
ton Of cruisers 4S, 40 and 81 would be
postponed. That cut the project from
eight to five ships. The Macdonald
order cut It to three, which meant =
program Of ~ heavy-gun cruisers II:
stead Of 81. A bit more sacrifice in
this heavy-gun class would make 1t
possible really to lower the cruiser
standard set so high by the BritisN
Navy and thus bring real cuts in thN
United States and japanese naval pie.
grams In this class.
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ana the sheep, as its scientific name OF
"ovioos" indicates, vas in comparatively
recent times circumpolar in distribu-
ton. In the Pleistocene period it in
naDleeo very considerable portions OF
europe and America. For centuries it
mas been constantly hunted by the
Eskimos for its skins and for food;
although redolent of musk, its flesh is
good. However, as in the case of the
indian versus the buffalo, 1t is not the
copper-colored peoples who have done
the damage, but those Caucasian fur
traders. whalemen and explorers who
nave never known when to stop hunt
ing. twenty years ago its number was
reported by observers as much
diminished" The habits of this shaggy
creature, wary though it be, appear
conducive to slaughter, for instead of
gathering in large herds, many of which
might escape, it groups itself into
smaller units of twenty or thirty, which,
once surrounded, can be slaughtered at
Will. Its present range is rarely south
Oh the barren grounds although ex-
tending laterally from Great Slave Lake
to Hudson Bay and over various arctic
Islands into Greenland.
All over the globe exist pitiful
remnants of animal species once fairly
or very numerous. Skilled breeding and
watchful and scientific care may pre-
serve a few individuals almost in
definitely. Witness the aurochs, the
European bison, once widely distributed
and Offering favored form of big
game Stree the time of Nero. Today,
here and there one roams the Caucasian
Mountains while single herd of few
hundred is preserved in a former i'm
perial forest in Lithuania. Perhaps
owls poll, today even glirnpsed by but
Few white men, may one day meet the
same fate. 1t appears an almost neces-
sary, though regrettable, concomitant
Of civilization that these various re-
markable and often splendid animals,
once a necessity to man, shall become
In effect mere museum pieces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Perhaps the reader always has won.
dered where originated the saving that
every man had at least one novel In
him, If only he could get it out.
The other day, in reading George
SANDS The Devils Pool" we ran across
the sentence which may or which may
not De the origin OF this popular saying.
was acquainted with that young
man and that pretty child" saws the
author. Il knew their story: everybody
has his own, and everybody could make
interest in the novel of his own life
If he had understood it."
Every living being has his own story.
Everybody could make an interesting
story out OF the novel of his own life
land 1t is large eff" indeed-he
could understand himselfl
x Y X
Inc Devils Pool" Ola Mare au
Diable) is one of three stories of the
trerEh peasants which the greatest of
the woman novelists of that country
"rote 10 amuse her idle hours.
Inc DeVlls Pool" is no more than a
long snort story. or what a modern
American magazine would cali a novel
cite, at the most.
Yet Within the limited scope of that
medlum George Sand managed to set
fortn cryStal-clear picture of the
better side of the peasant
The French husbandman has long
oeen tavorite theme for native writer's
put most OF them play up' his poorer
SIDE; notably his avariciousness,
Inc peasant is rich field. Evidently
Inere Is no other man in the world quite
rs IKE MN. his nearest approach in the
an average farmer and an average
peasant there Is M real oro,,,,d -
comparison. e" Ava
lnose familiar to some extent with
french literature. especially it's fiction
recognize the peasant as fair game for
the writer. With few notable excen-
lions, IN which the goodman" is de-
picted Tor his loyalty, the peasant occu-
pies no heroic role.
. II is pleasing. therefore. to read a
genuine French novel in which the hus-
nandman Gas George Sand calls HIM
is pictured simply as man. This al
ways is a satisfactory method. The
author forgets the type and considers
the man.
Just how much the type occupies the
human mind one may know by thinking
over his friends for few moments
Many OF them, perhaps most of them,
are types of human beings to one
rather than individual humans.
One is salesman, another a preach
er, another newspaper man, fourth
mechanic, another an explorer, When
thinking of them we think of them in
those roles, and tend to forget that
oaslcally they are just men.
Nor Is this entirely our fault. Each
one has SO made his work a part of
himself that it takes genuine effort
for any one to disassociate them. often
the man himself is the last one to do
1t. He is forever talking about his
speciality.
y X X \
George Sands peasants, as set forth
in THE Devils Pool" are above all
men and women. The author has
agreed with herself to overlook and
forget the traits which differentiate
them from others, and to put them on
paper more or less as they appear to
themselves.
She looked upon them with an artists
eye, but was aided by the fact that
she had lived among these people long
enough to learn their good traits-in
fact, long enough to stop regarding them
as types
Selecting simple love episode as the
theme Of her story, she told, in almost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

r. L UNIVERSAL, Mexico City
- Charlie Chaplin has double In
Mexico. He is Carlos Amador,
IL who has already gained large
sums in the United States by
his imitation of the comic maestro"
He not only resembles Senior Chaplin to
an iota, but impersonates him to a de-
gree that the two cannot be distin-
guished from each other. Senior
Amador, who is a full-blooded Mexican.
and a native Of Jalisco, says that the
original Charlie Chaplin is in his de-
cadence. years do not pass with inn
punity, and no longer is his name &C
claimed in every quarter of the globe.
His old artistry and spell are fading. 1t
is my desire and ambition to assume,
If only. little by little, that high and
privileged post among comic actors so
long and ably held by the popular
British star. My youth and my am
bition are in my favor in attaining to
this lofty eminence."
The success of Amador in initiating
Chaplin, both in appearance and in
action, was not long in stirring up the
luminosity and fury of the latter gen.
tleman, after Amador had screened sew
eral comedies in Los Angeles. Mr.. Chap
lin appealed to the California courts to
protect him with injunctions, damages,
etc, against the Mexican, claiming that
his rights were being lnfringed. and
his name and fame, universally recog-
nized, and acquired through long and
painful effort, were being usurpsd by a
pretender who wanted to take advantage
of all this free advertising. Amador' S
reply to this complaint, which was not
sustained by the courts, was that Chap
lin did not create the character of the
Vagabond appearing in all his produc-
tions, that 1t was really the creation Of
Billy West" and that therefore, being
"plagiarist" himself, Chaplin had no
right to interfere with Amador'S use Of
the type and costume.
X X \ X
Venezuelan Sees
Beauty Matter Of Soul.
III Nel,vo Diario CaracaS-What Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Higghlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

the secret of real beauty in women2 Is
IL a matter of clothes and coSmeticSP
Is 1t a beauty of physique and grace, or
is 1t, in the last analysis, beauty OF
the soul? After all, physical beauty Is
a fragile things few days illness can
annihilate it-and no human. power
can stay the progress of the years. The
beauty of youth IS evanescent, but the
beauty reflected In the aspect Of those
whose thoughts are noble and whose
souls are pure Is beyond compare. Such
need no fountain of Castalia, no ,coun-
sells of Faust, no secrets OF eternal
youth-their beauty Is secure through
all eternity.
What paradox-painting or adorn-
ing our poor corporeal frames while
we neglect the inner spiritual forces
without which the most splendid animal
charms and graces are still but ami.
NAL, without the power to win or hold
a true regard! The allure of Marguerite
did not lie in any rouge upon her
cheek, but in the loneliness Of soul that
shone forth from her countenance. The
benediction of God can alone impart
true and unfading beauty. Without
1t We apply all our art and mode In
vain.
DeQuincey's
System of Filling"
Manchester Guardian. - Journalists.
historians and others tortured with an
accumulation Of data and papers for
which they have no suitable or scien-
tiflc receptacles will be interested In
DeQuincey's filing system. He had q
unique way Of dealing with used Cor to
be useD books and papers. Living IN
lodgings, he would work in one room
until he found himself physically ham
pered by accumulated literary material.
Retaining his old tenancy as base ana
burrowing ground. he would then remove
into new lodgings and start again In
fresh and clean room. At suitable inter-
walls. presumably, he would send word TO
the last landlady but five that she might
now burn her house down and collect
torians are silent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Memher nf tha As.noiatoa prass
A Bridge at Great Falls.

The sentiment in Congress clearly
favors bridge at or near Great Falls,
If one may gauge this sentiment by the
bills introduced, passed and discussed
which relate to some method of getting
across the river. AS the projected
parkways on both sides of the Potomac
would be relatively of small value I'M
added hopes that in creating the park
ways Congress will provide a definite
program for bridge construction.
Senator Glass bill, introduced in
the Senate yesterday. provides for a
million-and-a-half-d bridge near
Great Falls, its construction to be
financed by the Federal Government.
This proposed legislation clarifies the
bridge situation. which was muddled to
some extent by last-minute amendments
to the Cramton park bill. When that bill
passed the House it picked up one
amendment prohibiting the erection of
a toll bridge across the river in the
projected George Washington Memo
rial Parkway area, although Congress
has already authorized a permit for
such bridge, and at the same time
acquired another amendment provid-
ing that "a free bridge across the Po-
tomac, at or near Great Falls" should
be constructed, leaving the method
and source Of financing the project in
the air. The Glass bill could very
fNr0rorlu hA mo 10 g.
Cramton bill, in place of the House
amendment merely calling for the
erection of free bridge"
In the meantime, however, there is
some conjecture over what the private
interests that planned the toll bridge
and are understood to have raised
money for its construction will do.
Representative Cramton points out that
under the last extension of time granted
them last year by Congress they still
possess the right to go ahead and con-
struct the bridge, provided they COM
plete it before the George Washington
Memorial Parkway comes into existence.
II the bridge were built and standing
when the parkway purchases were COM
plete, the Glass bill, or whatever amend
ments are finally embodied in the
Cramton bill when it becomes law,
would no doubt act to buy the bridge
and take it over as Federal property.
The time limit in which bridge con-
struction can begin expires March
next. 1t is learned, however, that an
actual start has been made, consisting
OF certain borings, and contracts have
been let for construction Of the bridge.
There are indications that private in
terests may still build the bridge before
the State Legislatures Of Virginia and
Maryland have ratified the portions of
the Cramton bill necessary before the
park lands can be bought.
Interest in the bridge project at Great
Falls has not been so much concerned
as to who will build it as to whether it
viii be built at all. The House amend
ment to the Cramton bill and the Glass
bill in the Senate tend to commit the
Government to the project. It is neces-
sary and altogether desirable and adds
noteworthy feature to the other fine
developments provided in the Cramton
bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Hiring Help.
It's hard to find the help you need,
No matter what you pay;
The help to pillow and milk and feed
In life's old-fashioned way.
But when you mentally aspire
And find your nerve is shrinkin'
It's even harder yet to hire
Some one to do your thinkin'.
And so campaign fund We start
With competent direction.
We choose man considered smart
And change him next election.
Though helping hands you may acquire
Your heart Is surely sinkin'
When you must undertake to hire
Some one to do your thinkin'.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Witt Sanders and John Herbert Nelson,
is an unusually successful one. Fifteen
English and eleven American poets are
included. Among the former are
Thomas Hardy, George Russell "a. E.),
Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, A. Z.
Housman, Walter de la Mare: among
the latter, Amy Lowell Edna st. Vim
cent Millay, Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Robert Frost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Long and active experience has no
doubt enabled Charles Evans Hughes
to admit that it is only natural that
opinions should differ, even in connec-
ton with Supreme Court selection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Russian agitators are credited with
having created a large number of
Bolshevists without supplying sugges-
tons of any value as to how to manage
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

There is no penalty the law can pro-
vide for the reckless aviator. If he
succeeds In coming safely to earth, he
is acclaimed a hero. If he fails, he
is beyond the reach of reprimand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

A gangster who has been marked for
vengeance by the underworld is likely
to be found a model prisoner if he
can succeed in enjoying the safety OF
a good jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

A new question of precedence might
be raised if it could be arranged to
have Senators Blease and Brookhart
present at the same dinner party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

For the brief purpose of vacation
President Hoover finds it easier to land
sailfish than to participate publicly
in the discussion of the modern bat
tleship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Haven't Men ANY Choice?

From the Toledo Blade.
Comes the report that Englishwomen
are picking husbands younger than
themselves" The way 1t reads, the story
brings thoughts Of gathering a lapful
Of wild howers.S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Sleep When He Sleeps.

From the Miami Daily News.
Berlin's public health experts say q
big meal should be eaten at noon and
followed up by nap. But If the boss
catches you taking nap, where do you
get the money for the big meals?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Even IN the estimates of proportion
in Navy affairs, the expert accountant
is in evidence with figures requiring
patient analysis.
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Spring Fever. Too.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
Let Spring hasten onl Well take oul
chances with bass and humming birc
disease!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

No immediate comment is expected
from Calvin Coolidge on Massachusetts,
citizens who did not choose to vote
the Republican ticket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
So Quiet It Hurts.

From the New Castle News.
A quiet neighborhood in which tc
live Is just inside your income.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

A demand for censorship introduces
q tariff complication with reference to
raw material in literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
We &C.,

From the Oakland Tribune.
Fire destroys Harvard gym" After
the 0 the Phi. DIS came out of tn.
gym in their B. v. DIS and,P. D. Q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Fiction.

Romance once held tender VOW
Whose charm we find must cease.
On Cupid stories called; but now
They call for the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

when you forgives an enemy" said
Uncle Eben, "mebbe it's best to keep
away FUN him SOS you won't be
tempted to forget your forgiveness"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Renutation Secure

Reputation Secure.
George Washington went through
life with the reputation of being in
capable of telling an untruth."
Which is not strange, considering
his record as fighter quite able to de-
fend himself against any insinuations."
Before Fame's report can be heard"
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown,
"the tongue of gossip must grow silent
through WEAKNESS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15
Wary.

Wary.
"You heard what I said," remarked
the political boss.
you mean about getting on your
band wagon?"
Exactly that"
I'll have to think it over. Gangsters
have been growing influential and I'm
not sure you're not making preparations
to take me for a ride"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Rate by Mail-Payable In Advance.
MARYLAND and VIRGINIA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Jud Tunkins says the automobile
can't take the place of the horse. A
garage is always busy. The only real
enjoyment he ever got out of playin
checkers was while loafln' around a
livery stable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Mystery.
When mans intelligence is going strong
And life with strange discoveries is
fraught,
A fragile Springtime blossom brings
along
A mystery that battles human thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

Modern anthologies are difiicult to
make because of copyright hurdles to
jump. but THE Chief Poets Of England
and America" OAited by Gerard De.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

round, for 1t is the nature of biscuits
to be dry, and these were biscuits to
the core. That was ALL" The luxurious
meal at Oxbridge symbolized to Mrs.
Woolt the amending stream of gold and
silver" which must have flowed in order
70 set these stones on a deep founda-
ton" to found and endow fellowships
and lectureships, to build and furnish IL
braries and laboratories, to provide all
the beauty and luxury of cultural educa-
ton. The plain meal at Fernham SYM
bolized to her the great difficulty with
Wnlch, about 1860, by means of small
subscriptions and hard work on the
part OF few women, 10000 pounds
were raised to found Fernham--a wom-
ans college. 80 obviously" her Fern
ham hostess told her. I'VE cannot have
wine and cartridges and servants carry
ing tin dishes on their heads. = We
cannot have sofas and separate rooms"
In her collection Of tales, 1.-The Slow
er Judas" G. B. Stern has by no means
preserved the level of her two big
genealogical novels, THE Matriarch"
and "A Deputy Was King" The stories
range from Budapest to the Mediter-
ranean, to Italy, to England, and in
clude characters of many types, from
not stay away from his abandoned
farm to the sentimental young man
whose motive in acquiring great wealth
is to deck his old mother in black vel
vet and rare laces.
4 y X
Modern anthologies are dificult to
make because of copyright hurdles to
Jump, but THE Chief Poets Of England
and America" rated hy Gerard ne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-15

AsHIN TON, D. C.
SATURDAY. February Is, 1880
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Business OffFe.
18th St and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York once: 40 East 42nd st
Chicago once: Lake Michisan Building.
European once: IA Regent ST.. London.
England.
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The Evening Star Newspaper Company

THEODORE W. MOVES. j.. Editor
New Britain herald., 1930-05-23
Say Country Ears Hear
 Better Than City Ones

Boston May g. lP-Hearing rf rural and small town children seame to be better than tha. Of city you-g- sters.
 The examinations which give the country youth this Inad were maIc n three small Maine communities with an audiometer. A comparative i,- new scientific instrument.
 It vas purchased by the Speech Reading club of Portland. and loaned to places outside the city or request.
 The results are reported 10 Mrs James F. Norris, chairman of the committee on children of the Amer lcar- Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-23
Fear of Dirty Neck Is
 Strongest of PhObias

New Wilmington. May 23. tPl-A Small matter Of personal appeaf- ance brougrt one Of the strong emotions in recent tests here wis psychogslvanic machine. It came when students Of Westminster col lege were asked unexpectedly.
 Do you know your neck IS dirty 9"
 The greatest agitation of the needle however vas produced by real fear. when the students antici- pated a slight electric shock.
 Foolish questions failed almost completely to rouse signs Of emo- tional response, according 10 John D Lawther, director Of the psycho- logical laboratory. Number 13 still brings qualms. he found.
New Britain herald., 1930-05-23
IRON WAS ONCE TREASURED

New York. May g. P-Wh T the Greeks were fighting for Helen of Troy iron was ranked among the treasures of the wealthy.