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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-07-16

A man without mirth is like q wa
gon without springs, in which one is
caused disagreeably to jolt by every
pebble over which it runs.-Henry
Ward Beecher.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-07-16

When the modern young man takes
a girl riding IN his car, nine times
out of ten he stops before driving
very far, and it's love at the first
site.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-07-16

ASK FOB A DRDlONSTRATHON
NOT very far from wherever You are -
Ford dealer who win be glad to give you
q DEMONSTRATION ride IN the new Ford
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
Progress in Public Building.

Rejection by the District Court Of
Appeals of the injunction suit OF lessees
Of the theater property at the corner
of Fifteenth and z streets to prevent
Cts demolition by the Government ends
p protracted effort 10 stay the clearance
of the square preparatory to its de-
gelopment as a park. The work OF
destruction will now proceed, for no
further steps in equity to prevent this
development are possible. Indeed, the
old theater structure had already been
attacked by the razers when the court
acted. In a short time nothing will
be left of the original occupants Of the
rfiye squares site" that formed the first
acquisition by the Government Of Mall
Avenue land for public building pur-
poses.
Unless the improbable occurs the de-
struction of the Center Market will
begin in a very short time, perhaps a
Archives Building, which is to be erect
ed on that site. Efforts to stay the
destruction TO permit a continuance OF
the market establishment for several
months have failed and In few weeks
II weather permits this landmark OF
many years viii have passed and foun-
tdation work will be In progress. This
viii be the next item Of the great build
Ang program TO get under way. 1t viii
DE followed shortly by destruction anc
Batter by construction work in the
squares lying between the new Com
msrce Building and the new Interna
Revenue Building. The Government
how has title to the greater part O
that land and no obstacles are IL
the way Of the completion of the process
of condemnation and site-clearinI
within the next six months.
In the same way the operation 10
the construction Of the new Department
of Justice on the site bounded by Ninth
Eenth and B streets and Pennsylvani
avenue will In short time be at tn
spoint Of execution. Much of the Ian
laAS heen ACQUIRED already. and The bal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30

ance Ia soon to be taken. The destruc-
ton Of the buildings on that site will
entail a considerable shifting Of busi-
ness, which, however, has been well an
ticipated. There Is some likelihood that
this unit of the program Of Government
housing will get under way during the
coming year.
Steps have Just been taken to secure
the site for the proposed addition to
the Library of Congress consisting of
one and one-half squares lying east of
the original building That will take
several months for contamination, and
thus the chances are that the Library
annex will not be in evidence for two
or three years to come. However, the
initiation OF condemnation proceedings
is definite evidence Of the prosecution
of the program.
The evolution Of the building plans
of the Government is thus progressing
steadily and satisfactorily. What may
appear to be needless delays are in
truth inevitable pauses for preparation.
1t is impossible to conduct such great
enterprise covering so large an area and
involving such vast sums as a single
operation. Not all Of the money can
be spent at once, for it is not all i'm
mediately available.
In one specific case the building pro-
gram, designed to give the Government
proper housing, has been halted by the
inadequate housing already existant.
This is in the case of the Post once
Department. The old structure cannot
be RACED, to make way for the COM
pletion of the Internal Revenue Build
ing, until the new postal department
home has been erected on the site i'm
mediately to the west. Thus one need
checks the filling of another. But this
is a temporary condition that, in terms
of Capital making, will soon pass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
Canadian Chief Is Declared
Ideal Choice for India Post

to Eastern peoples, and it is imperative
that we should discover, II possible,
some means of solving this question by
peaceful methods, and not by the clash
of races, which would be the most
CHASTITY tragedy the world has ever
known There can be no better spirit
in which to face the problems OF India,
where the task of promoting racial har-
mcny is the most difficult in the world.
Here undoubtedly is a worthy successor
to Lord Irwin"
Canada is exceedingly sorry" de-
clares the Hamilton (Ontario) Spec
tator, ito lose her able and genial gov
ernor general, but the sentiment will be
general that there could not possibly be
a better choice. His lordship's accept
ance of the appointment shows him to
be as courageous as he is tactful. If
any viceroy can Straighten out the COM
plicated tangle Of conflicting aspirations
and claShing ideals which is tearing
India apart today, it Is Lord Wilmington.
His keen sympathy and his faculty of
going right to the heart Of any problem
with which he is confronted are guar
anty that he will adopt conciliatory
policies. 1t is not matter OF pouring
oil on troubled waters, however. States
manship of the highest order Is de-
manded, and here again his lordShtp
fully measures up to the requirements.
In going to India, Lord wilmington gives
one more demonstration OF his unf11nch-
ing sense of public duty"
Importance of the task is pointed out
by the jackson Citizen Patriot with the
statement that India as a part of the
British Empire is a known quantity"
but that uncertainty would be involved
in any change. His selection Is inter-
preted by the Hartford Times as "a
conciliatory move" since Lord willing
don represents at once the remarkable
combination of a progressive in Indian
matters and having sympathetic connec"
ton with all political parties In Eng
land" The Louisville Courier Journal
believes that he 'sknows the Oriental
mind" and the Cleveland News AYERS,
He faces the test of his career as he
prepares to govern turbulent Oriental
state in the process of Transformation.
The San Antonio Express holds that
"his tact and Cancellation" in previous
Indian service lied to appointment as
governor general of Canada"
In less favorable estimate, the New
Orleans Item remarks: THE problems
of Canada are infinitely less complex
than those of India. Yet, as Viscount
Willingdon's tenure in Canada ends, we
hear for the first time in Dominion his
tory stubborn demands from the farmers
of Western Canada for secession from
the Dominion. They want separate
Dominion of their own. Willingdon we
deduce, has failed to harmonic the rel
atively few racial and vocational groups
chance would he have with the many
estranged groups in India? After all,
however, governor general can't do
much In such matters nowadays"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

more than any other form of fiction
upon the creation Of sense Of reality.
Now mere words will not do the trick,
but mere words, If handled in the right
sort of way, will do it, if in no other
way than in the building up Of a sense
CT time passage.
If it takes the reader hours to get
from the. childhood to the manhood of
his hero, surely he has, at no more
trouble than the reading, a sense of
actuality which a shorter work cannot
give.
Thus the reading of stories in short
Snatches, as in the daily printings in
newspapers, offers to the reader who Is
| not impatient sense of reality which
he might not secure in any other way.
X X +
Most of the great fictions of the
world have been of satisfying length.
This was arrived at, not because the
writer's DELI 3rately started to stretch
their books out, but in practically every
instance because the theme took pos
session of them.
They could not let go so easily. Have
you not read some modern tale OF 100,
or maybe 200. pages which all the time
impressed you as having been a real
task on the author, and in the end
left a vague sense of dissatisfaction?
To us the stories of Thornton Wilder
fall into this category. His Woman
of Andros," as beautifully as it is writ
ten, is a mere sketch of a novel.
His Bridge of San Luis Rey" gives
the reader the outlines of great
novel-but not that novel itself. Writ
ers who believe in the magic OF word
formations past certain point usually
polish the life out of their works.
Wilder has not done that, but, in
failing to endow his works with GER
tain physical theft" he has given them
a sense of unreality, which We believe
few readers can fail to catch. Neither
his characters nor his scenes come home
to the reader. He is consummate artist,
but his stories belong in the category of
Tarkington'S Monsieur Beaucaire," and
this largely we believe, because they
are not fat enough. There IS no meat
on their bones.
Give us, therefore, the fat novel. Our
poems may have taken the reducing
diet with profit; our essays need not be
ample; our editorials scarcely need
thunder at too great length.
But we want our novels to roll on
like LIE Sage's GIL Bias" We cannot
forget the satisfying taste of Black
moreS Lorna Doone" nor the flavor OF
Melville's "Moby Dick"
Hefty novels bespeak enthusiasm on
the part of their authors. Such books
ask for no special consideration as art,
but get right down to brass tacks with
an appeal to heart and mind.
The beefy novel is like Walt Whit
mans perfect man or woman-it is q
satisfaction merely to be with it, to
touch it, to have its pages touch one
back.
Unconsciously on the readers part,
the fat novel, the braVny novel, develops
an atmosphere of its own, something
which every work Of fiction must do or
fail.
The reader may or may not like 1t,
but If it impreSses him it will be
enough, and it will be due, nine times
out of ten, to the fact that the writer
before him had enthusiasm.
And, having it, he wrote and wrote
and wrote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30

report to the Aeronautical Committee OF
the British Air Ministry that a silent
plane can be built today If certain
precautions are taken in constructing
and installing engines and exhaust sys-
TENS and If q certain type Of propeller
is used to counterbalance the various
noises. The new principle claimed IN
the report Is that of noises deadening
each other.
Whether the British researches will
eliminate into practical solution of
the noise problem of the present-day
machine is problematical, but, from the
peace-time commercial service point OF
view, something must be done to re-
duce the terrific din II the public whole
l1eartedly is to embrace flying as its
means of transportation. Engine build
ers have been too busy producing mo-
tors of greater horsepower and less
weight for use in flying machines to
bother with the question of noise. IN
muff1ed motors develop more power
than do mufiied ones, and when more
power is the dcsideratum, the question
Of noise has been regarded as trivial.
On some OF the commercial lines in
this country on which are used the
most modern types of transport plane,
passengers are given cotton to
stuff in their ears for the trip lest
when they return to Mother Earth
they will experience a period Of deaf
ness. This practice, Of course, Is moth
ing more than a makeshift and will
never solve the problem of making pas
sengers comfortable on long air jour-
neys. Noise-proof cabins have also
been tried out, but apparently with
small success.
The tendency to air sickness Of many
people and the deafening noise of the
engines and propellers are unquestion-
ably two of the obstacles to the de-
velopment Of large volume of travel in
the sky even to those who do not regard
the airplane as o dangerous vehicle.
Human nature being what it Is, 1t is
unlikely that q cure can be found for
airsickness any more than one has
been found for seasickness, but GER
tainly it will not be many years before
passengers in a closed cabin Of q plane
will not have to scream at each other
in conversation and will not have to
stuff their ears with cotton to prevent
deafness for q time after reaching the
ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

u. What is time money"?-E. A. H.
A. 1t Is money that Is borrowed for
a stipulated time at specified rate,
usually for 4, 6 or IL months, and is
payable at the expiration Of the speci-
fed time.
@. At what altitude is the City OF
Reno, in Nevada?--W. l.. T.
A. Reno lies at an altitude Of $500
feet at the foot OF the Sierra Nevada
Mountains. 1t Is noted for its dry,
braeing air and abundant sunshine.
@. Who coined the expression ''Mu-
tual admiration Society"?-F. B.
A. Probably Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The phrase appears in The Autocrat
Of the Breakfast Table"
Q. Did Roosevelt send Federal troops
into the coal fields at the time Of the
famous anthracite strike2-N. B. v.
A. Roosevelt planned to send In the
troops under Gen. Schofield and to have
the general dispoSsess the operators and
run the mines, II necessary. but the
strike was settled without resort to such
measures.
@. When was the name "rayen" first
used?-T. r. z.
A. The word "rayon" was first used
as textile term in the United States
in 1924.
@. Did Grover Cleveland oppose
woman's suffrage?-I. r.. e.
A. In a magazine article ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland some is years before
the suffrage amendment was adopted
said: Sensible and responsible women
do not want to vote. The relative po-
Sitions to be assumed by man and
woman in the working out of our civili-
zation were assigned long ago by a
higher intelligence than ours"
@. Is airrnail given preference over
ordinary mail?-H. M.
A. 1t is. United States Post once
Department order. issued November 8,
1923, reads: "Airmail must be given
special attention, and must not under
any circumstances, be handled as ordi-
nary mail"
@. How much money Is spent In the
drug stores of the country?-P. d.
A. There are about 81 900 retail drug
stores in the United States, and their
annual sales are about $l,2S0,Oo0.0 1000.
@. When a bomb is dropped from an
airplane, how fast is it moving when 1t
hits the ground?-J. H. G.
A. Gravity increases the speed OF
falling object 80 feet a second. A bomb
dropped from the height of quarter
of a mile would have a speed OF
miles a minute when 1t reached the
earth.
@. Why are watches 50 named?-G.
F. G..
A. The name watch" is derived
from the fact that portable timepteces
were carried by night watchmen for
calling of the watches Of the night"
@. Where does the Trans Siberian
Railroad begin and end?-P. M.
A. The great Trans-Siberian Rail
road stretches from Chelyabinsk TO
Vladivostok There is q branch line
from Kharbin to Port Arthur. At the
other end it connects with the railway
to Moscow. The railroad crosses the
northeastern corner Of Manchurta,
crosses the Altai Mountains, circles
around the southern end Of Lake
Baikal, turns north across to KIas-
noiarsk, then west to Omsk, and on
across the Ural Mountains. 1t is not
now operated as system as in the days
of the Russian Empire, but its sec
tions are controlled by the separate
states through which the line runs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

ton does not entitle him-or, especially,
her--to monopolize the instrument for
hours discussing matters OF no con-
sequence.
Unless the company is able to apply
some very drastic measures, tending
to obviate those conditions, it is likely
that many people will terminate their
contracts. 1t is absurd for them to
pay for telephones they cannot use
because of the indifference, selflshness
and inSensibility of others.
Automatic Lock
Saves Physicians Car.
Berliner Tageblatt.-Recentl a Ber-
lin physicians car was stolen from
the neighborhood of a church. AS 1t
happened the doors of the car had been
carefully locked, but the windows in
advertently were left open. This cir
cun1stance was not ignored by the
thief, who reached In, and released the
doors from the inside, whereupon he
ensconced himself in the seat. He then
drove Immediately to a filling station
and purchased rs liters Ut gallons) of
fortunately for the thief, however be-
fore descending from the car, he re-
leased an automatic window control
which raised and locked the windows.
AS he had also shut the door of the
vehicle, he then found himself on the
outside Of the car without any way of
getting in. After a pantomime of look
ing in his pocket for the keys, the
rascal departed on the pretext he was
going to get them. He had no recourse
but to leave the car.
The owner was notified the next day
that the car was still at the filling sta
ton. On recovering it he found that
he was richer for his experience by the
gift OF rs liters of gasoline.
X
Holds Boiling Water.
Crime Not One of Impulse.
lie Matin, Paris.-It has been amply
and dreadfully proved in the history of
crime that the hands of those infiamed
either with passion or with hate are,
nine times out often, fortified with arms
OF fire. But it is difficult to believe
that the monster who heated a boiler
of scalding water for the purpose of
deluging her husband was actuated by
any frenZied impulse of the moment.
All cooks know how long it takes to
boil simple saucepan full of water,
and an old English proverb is to the
effect that mo pot ever boilS when one
is watching it." To wait, then, until
huge caldron is tumultouSly agi-
tated, and then to employ the water
for such a purpose, can only be esti-
mated as the element of a most deteSt-
able crime. One shoulders to think
that such deed could be born and
nourished in the heart of woman,
created for pity and forgiveness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
The "Silent" Airplane.

Theoretical experiments now being
conducted in England to produce q
silent" airplane are reported to be
meeting with success. Although the
tests were instituted primarily to learn
If the noise from the propeller and
engine Of a high-hying bomber could
be effectively eliminated in war time,
the discoveries that have been made
can be adapted for use in peace-time
commercial planes. While still in the
embryonic stage. it has been shown, ac-
cording TO the claims embodied in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30

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Q. Was Elmer oliphant four-letter
man?-W. p. p.
A. Elmer Oliphant, according 20
/, who's Who In American Sports" Is
the only four-letter man in the history
of Purdue and West Point. From 1907
to 1909 he was captain Of the wash
ington foot ball, basket ball and track
teams. The following year he was a
member of the Linton foot ball, basket
ball and track teams; 1901 he was
member of the Purdue freshman foot
ball, basket ball and track teams. For
the next three years he was a member
of the Purdue varsity foot ball, basket
ball. base ball, track and gymnasium
teams. He held the high record in
diving in the gymnasium. In 1914 he
went to West Point.
@. Was Floyd Gibbons an enlisted
man in the World War?-E. L. N.
A. He was not. He was a war cor
respondent, serving at the front.
@. Is there alcohol in breadp-G.
B. II.
A. There is alcohol In the bread
dough before 1t is baked, but it is en-
tirely lost during the process Of baking.
@. Where was the first concrete pave
ment laid in the United States?-F. C.
A. It Is believed to be that con-
structed in Bellefontaine. Ohio, in 1892
This was a narrow strip along the
hitching rack along one side of the
court house square. In 1865 there was
a concrete road to Goods Station, in
Inverness, Scotland.
@. What people were the first to use
6kateS?-G. o. G.
A. The earliest form Of skate known
was that of the bone runners" worn
by the primitive Norsemen. The early
development of skating was due prin-
cipally to the Norsemen, Swedes, Danes,
Firms and the Dutch. It Is not known
at what period the use of metal run
ners was introduced.
Q. Just what is public opinion"?-
o. M.
A. Public opinion has been defined as
the prevailing moral sense, manners,
conventions, desires and ideals Of the
community.
@. Does a person say "He died of
pneumonia" or from pneumonia"?--
F. B.
A. One dies of disease, from hun
ger, by violence, for another, or for
ones country.
O. What is the meaning of "rec-
uSant"?-C. F.. G.
A. Recusant, from the Latin word
meaning Ito refuse" was the name
given in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries to persons, particularly of the
Roman faith, who persisted in refusing
to attend services of the English Church
and became thereby liable to prosecu-
! ton and penalties.
O. Where is the grave Of L'Enfant
who helped plan the City Of Wash
/ ington?-R. N.
A. His body has been reinterred in
Arlington Cemetery. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant was born in Paris August q
1855, and died at Chillum Castle
Manor, Prince Georges County, Md,
June IA, 1925.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-30
Fat novels are coming back into

Fat novels are coming back into
style.
Arnold BENEFITS Imperial Palace"
with its more than TOO pages, gives the
reader a satisfying sense of both theft
and reality.
Now pure physical weight, after sew
eral years of skinny diet in fiction, Is
pleasing novelty.
There have been fat books every now
and then, of course.
"Kristin Lavransdatter," with its
three sections of some 300 pages each.
surely came under the category of large
| novels.
A young Englishman of the name of
Priestley has given the world pair of
enormously corpulent stories within two
| years. These, The Good Companions"
! displease others.
VOLTS Look Homeward. Angel" was
a novel of satisfying proportions.
4 y Xxx
The secret lies, not in mere physical
! plain fact that often such prolixity
! speaks enthusiasm. Not always.
Enthusiasm is something a man has
or has not. This applies to every one,
the writer as well as the non-writer.
Two men recently were looking, with
smiles on their faces, across a room at
two other men, demonstrating q hobby.
A third joined the two onlookers.
do not smile, gentlemen" he said.
you are looking at something money
cannot buy-enthusiasm."
Il
He was right.
If the school teacher could instill the
same enthusiasm for learning that the
a game of marbles, he would put his in
stitution SO far ahead of others that
there would be no comparison.
If the college president and his pro-
feSsorS could induce in their young
men the same enthusiasm for hook
learnin'" that the entire student body
displays at the foot ball game, there
would then be no university problems.
If employers could produce, without
siasm among their hands" that the
same men and women manifest for
their hobbies after hours, no doubt
they could within a short time outstep
and outreach all competition.
But enthusiasm Is divine, and, like
all divine things. it is not to be pur-
chased, compelled or tnveigled.
Enthusiasm, the divine, gives herself
to the best wooer, that Is all. If you
want to know how to win her, study the
history Of the Great Enthusiasts-and
then fail, unless of your own mind and
heart you have enthusiasm to begin
with.
X \ X
Everything else being equal the novel
that is made up of many words is likely
to be better novel than the one which
runs only to $4,000 words, more or less.
Instantly some one will say, What
of all the great stories Of that length?"
What of them, indeed? There are
many such, for length. or lack Of
length. is merely one facet of the mat
ter. Nor would we call them exceptions
to the rule.
When one has something TO say. and
says it, length, as such, has little If
anything to do with it.
The novel, however, Is a specialized
form of writing, one which depends