Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
BULLETIN, Sydney:
Poet-But beg you-I put
my whole mind into this poem!
Il Editor-And tell you we're
not buying blank verse;!

not buying blank verse!
HeadphOneS
Asked for Baby's Drum.
Sentinel, Wood Green CEngland):
Customer Gin toy Shop)-I want a
drum for the baby! And can you give
me pair of headphones with it?"
Assistant-Headpho What for?
Customer-So the baby can hear 1t
and the rest of us can't!
Theater Owners
Son Well Seated in School.
FIiegende Blaetter, Munich.-The
theater owners son went to school for
the first time.
Father-Well, Fritz, where did they
put you?
son-Not bad. Orchestra, second row
on the right.
New Police Chief
Gentleman and Attorney.
Ell TEMPO, Bogota.-Among the new
appointments which the director Of the
national police has just made We re-
mark with pleasure that of the illus
triouS DR.. Jose Maria Uricoechea Mon
toya, who has been nominated to ex-
erciSe the Office of project of police in
the capital. DR.. Montoya, in addition to
being a perfect gentleman, is a dis
tinguiShed attorney, and so will know
how to give to this branch of the public
administrative functions an intelligent
handling and dignified character.
Furthermore, his reputation for industry
and diligence in his undertakings pro-
videS a favorable augury that he will
bring energies and interests to his new
work that will insure success in all its
ramifications. DR.. Montoya, young, ca
pable, legally trained and courageous, is
just the man to be our police commits
sioner.
Hitler Chased as
Lunatic and Actor.
Ell Sol, Madrid-Adolph Hitler, the
head of the National-SocialiSt party in
Germany, has been classified as a luna
tic by some and as an actor by others.
In reality there is hardly any difference
between these two claSSiflcationS. In
sanity and desire to appear on the
stage are phenomena frequently ap-
pearing in one and the same subject.
There are certain kinds of mental dis
order which are characterized by Yar1-
Gus subtle hypocriSies and displayed in
the more vulgar ostentation of play
acting. When a man is obSeSSed with
the idea that he has been appointed to
lead a people out of wilderness, though
he has derived this conception of his
duty from most improper premises or
without sufficient justification, he is
not likely to exhibit much reticence or
modeSty in acclaiming his mission or
pursuing his self-contained program.
Most modern mental patients are the
products of the demoralizing literature
they read, and just as many loftily writ
ten and politically ingenious books are
dangerous, as are the vilest and abb
Surdest sensations published both in
books and in the so-called romantic"
periodicals.
1t is scarcely necessary. therefore, to
differentiate between Hitler crazy and
a Hitler acting a part. He is simply
personal exposition of the fallaciouS doc
trines he has absorbed from all sorts of
dubious sources. His racial stock pro-
videS simultaneously a fertile soil for
morbid projects and the innate desire
to champion them before the public.
Yet fundamentally that which diStin-
dementia, nor yet assumption, but rather
a predominance of vulgar instincts.
The German race is in epitome one
of the chief examples of the potency
of primitive promptings, both in the in
dividual and in the multitude. It is
easily swayed by its crude emotions and
glittering generalities in the hands of
any demagogue. no matter how sophisti-
cal or revolutionary.
No moth ever few into the flame
with more insistence and devotion than
the average German is beguiled with
every new and modern wave of political
eXpedience. While it is true that The
same thirst fql$aggression and supreDn-
acy that dominates Germany Is a&o
found among the French. yet auOng tn