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Nicaragua Honors
Slain u. S. Marines

From the New York Herald Tribune.
To Our so-called anti-imperialists the
spectacle of Central American Presi-
dent awarding posthumous decorations
to deceased United States Marines nsust
be strangely disturbing. 1t is a picture
which somehow does not fit the shallow
dogmatism of those who depict the
young men wearing the American uni
form as mercenaries.
Yet this is exactly what recently hap
pened in Nicaragua, where the PreSi-
dent, Senior Jose Maria Moncada,
awarded posthumously the Nicaraguan
Medal of Merit to officers and
81 enlisted men who lost their lives
lighting for peace and freedom in that
country. President Moncada, who lived
through and took an active part in the
dark days Of 1927, is under no illusions
as to the services which these young
men rendered his country. Although
he was then in open opposition to the
Nicaraguan government. he sees the
conduct of these young Americans as
something involving self-Sacriflce and
bravery of very high order. The
names of these nh now constitute q
roll of honor in Nicaragua. AS they
also died In the support of American
policies, their names may well mean
much to us.
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The Five. Year Plan.

''Deprecatory dispatches and purring
platitudes' to the contrary notwith-
standing-to use Dr. Edmund A. Walsl1's
alliterative phrase-Soviet Russia's now
celebrated five-year plan is a project,
pure and simple, for furthering Com
munism's plot for world revolution. The
brilliant regent of Georgetown Univer-
sitys Foreign Service School has just
inaugurated In Washington his sixth
successive series of public lectures on
Russia. No man In America speaks
with more knowledge or authority on
that subject. DR.. Walsh Is performing
national service in keeping the search
light turned in the direction of Moscow's
sleepless maneuverings for achieving an
international dictatorship of the pro-
letariat."
The lecturer reminds us of something
little understood in this country. No
single act of the Soviet government,
which Is the creature of the Commu-
mist party and directed" by it, accord
ing 20 Gear" Stains own admissions
to an American labor delegation, is con-
ceived or carried out except with an eye
upon its international effect. The
autocrats Of the Kremlin necessarily
and invariably have world revolution"
in mind. That, like all their other
programs, is the underlying purpose Of
the five-year-plan for high-pressuring
the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lies" into the production by the end of
1888 of the fabulous total Of $42,000,-
0o0. 900 worth Of industrial and agri-
cultural produce.
DR.. Walsh depicts this Utopian
project as masking Stains retreat"
just as Lenin resorted to the "Nep"
new economic policy-to cover the
failure of the Soviet's earlier economic
vagaries. The Georgetown publicist
ventures no prophecy as to the outcome
of the fve-year plan. II 1t should fail,
it Is obvious that Communistic hopes
Of world revolution would suffer q
crash from which they could not easily
be revived. The success of the widest
experiment in economic history would,
on the other hand, as unquestionably
bolster up Red visions Of eventual con-
quest Of capitalism"
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theaters and, during that decade ct
least, retained 1t. Purchased by the
Government, 1t was used for the Adju-
tant Generals once, but on the morn
ing OF June o, 1898, great part Of
the roof and inner structure collapsed,
killing outright or fatally injuring
twenty-five persons. It has been used
since as Government oflce building,
store house and recruiting station, but
in the last few years has been occupied
only by watchmen. When the Pepco
foundations were being dug there was
danger that the south wall of the Ford
building might cave in, but adequate
precautions prevented that.
Various legislative proposals have
been made for disposing of the build
ing. One recent bill was to make it
club house for veterans. But it is
difficult to believe that it can ever serve
any useful purpose. 1t only perpetuates
tragic memories and is hardly worth
saving. Its appeal. after all, Is more
to morbid curiosity than to any real
sentiment.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Ambitious Oyster.

The Ambitious Oyster.
The oyster in his narrow bed
Complained about his lot.
Il fam would see the world" he said.
And leave this humble spot.
I've heard of places where the lights
Are burned till / am.
BY people out to view the sights.
would I we're with them"
He had his wish. They lifted him
Up from his briny lair.
He saw the lights-then all grew dim
They served him up with care.
And as his shell from him they tore
These words-his last-he spoke:
Il would that were back once more
In dear old Pocomokel"
oh, youth, with vague ambitious fired,
Despise not simple Joy.
The things which most you have desired,
Once gained, may most annoyl
Your fate you cannot well foresee.
Some are-the Avored few
The epicures. And some must be
The oysters in the stew.
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What Is It's Futuref

The gliStening white stone Of Pepco's
new plant at Tenth and E streets and
the dull, somber- wells of old "Ford's
Theater" provide an interesting study
in contrast between the modern Office
structure and a building that sixty
eight years ago was regarded as one
Of the finest in town. Progress is gradu-
ally surrounding the theater, but 1t
still remains isolated by the grim and
tragic record of its past. What Is TO
be done with it1 How long will 1t stand
there?
Across the street the Peterson house,
in which Lincoln died and which has
become more famous still because of
the Oldroyd Museum, has been pre-
served by Government purchase and
will perhaps continue for many years
as sort of patriotic shrine. visited by
thousands Of Americans. But Ford's Is
closed, empty and dark, filled only with
the memories of death.
The building was three years old
when Lincoln was assassinated. and II
remained closed after the tragedy for
nearly eight years. Opened again In
1873 and known both rs Fords and a.
walls Opera House." II regained popu-
laxity Is ene Of the Capitals LEADING
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States Determine
HOLIDAYS Observed

From the New Orleans States.
A reader of the States writes to IN
quire If Columbus day was a national
holiday. 1t wasn't. There is no such
thing as national holiday, not even
the Fourth of July, the day Of the Dec
laration of Independence.
Neither the President nor Congress:
under the Constitution, has the right
to prescribe legal holidays in the various
States. That is one of the few rights
that have not been alienated from the
States. The Federal Government can
make holidays legal in the District of
Columbia, and OF course, II it chooses,
it can close Government buildings all
over the country on any day 1t pleaSes.
But that is the limit of its authority.
Every year the President delivers a
proclamation declaring a day of
Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is OBJ
served as holiday in each of the 48
States, but not by the fiat of the Presi-
dent It becomes in a sense a national
holiday only by concurrence OF the
States, and any State, If 1t elected,
could pick some other day than that
chosen by the President to offer thanks
to Heaven for blessings received.
For commercial purposes the Federal
Government in various acts OF Congress
has recognized Labor day, Christmas,
New Year day, Washington's birthday.
Memorial day and the Fourth of July as
public holidays. That Is as far as the
Federal Government can go. Inciden-
tally Memorial day is different in the
South from that in the North.
The term national legal holiday" is
occasionally loosely applied to holidays
such as some of those mentioned above,
which have been made legal holidays in
every State and In the District of Co.
lumbia, as Christmas for instance. and
they might be said 10 be national and
legal, but they become such not by any
action Of the Federal Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24

Eventually Of course, this win cure
itself-which Is not Of any immediate
comfort to the patient. Already, the
Department of Commerce finds. there
are hopeful signs in some places.
But q hopeful phase of the whole
situation is that 1t now is possible to
secure such detailed world picture.
It is q primary requisite for q correct
diagnosis. The more detailed it Is the
sounder basis it offers for study in the
statistical laboratory. 1t is at least GER
tain that the problem is not simple.
to be solved by inspirations or guesses.
The world is an economic whole, its
life forces delicately balanced. Every
year it is becoming more and more
organized, its parts more and more
interdependent. A slight maladjust-
ment anywhere may throw the whole
economic organism out of balance. Ma
lions can no longer live as independent
wholes. For that matter, they never
could; but hitherto the fact has not
been so obvious.
Perhaps depression spreads over the
world purely by the psychological
mechanism Of suggestion and the
actual situation is fulf1llment of fears,
rather than any organic i'll Of the
earth. But it is more comforting to
believe in something specific which
can be found and remedied, rather than
in vague generality which is to be
treated by other generalities. In any
event there is real advance toward
understanding in this comprehensive
view of the total situation which could
never come from considering the phe-
circumscribed by national
lines.
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stantial vote Of confidence. Berlin's
envoy to the United States points to that
result as priIna facie evidence that "the
German nation is not inclined to have
its destiny decided by a certain group
OF extremists" DR.. WI at Geneva was
particularly concerned with the Leagues
crusade to curb the narcotics traffic
He presented resolution requesting
certain data and information as to the
drug traffic in that country. DIR. WI
declares 1t Is common knowledge that
certain governments" might exert
greater vigilance in control of narcotics
in the East. Foreign supplies of heroin
and morphine, he charges, are doing
vastly more damage in China than her
own opium traffic.
1t Is a striking tribute to the public
appetite for facts about Soviet Russia
that the Rev. DR.. Edmund A. Walsh of
Georgetown University should still be
packing one of Washington's biggest
auditoriums with a lecture series on
that subject. Last night Dr. Walsh de-
lVered his, sixtieth consecutive address
on Russia in five years. His audiences
promise to be bigger and more inter-
ested than ever in his authoritative ex-
posture of Communism's plans for world
revolution. The distinguished Jesuit is
oeNOLlIIB Ills early talks this season to
an explanation of the "five-year plan"
for manufacturing $4,000, 900 900 of
industrial and agricultural wealth in
Russia by the end of 1888 through
high-preSSure methods.
X
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Missouri.
well known former vice chairman of
the Democratic National Committee
and pioneer suffragist, has embarked
upon a crusade evidently designed to wean
her sex away from politics and back to
the nursery, the kitchen and the living
room. 'Feminism," she intimates, has
had its day, largely because it cannot
hold out against the odds which in
equality between men and women pre-
sents. AS q result, Mrs. Blair sees a
"reminiscences of homemaking. She's
just written book in which her views
are persuasively ventilated, THE Crea-
ton of the Home" Incidentally, the
dynamic daughter Of Joplin is herself
leading quadruple hfe-wife, mother,
politician and writer.
Copyright, l930)
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcERELL.

recline on the side, with the book held
with one hand.
In this position sleep always wins,
no matter who the author of the book
may be. Hours later the reader wakes,
the light still burning, the book still
open. With blinking eyes he goes
to sleep in earnest, having read at the
most half chapter
Yet for the person of steadfaSt de-
termination, who is able to keep awake,
reading in bed is one of the most de-
lightful modes.
X * =
In bed one may eat as we'll as read.
Eating, with some natures. Is syn
onymous with reading.
Candy, crackers, chocolate and apples
these are the favored foodstuffs Tor
bed reading.
They may be utilized, of course, md
quite often are, in sitting reading, but
somehow seem to fit In better With
reading in bed.
Cracker crumbs, for instance, getting
between the sheets, are guaranteed. to
keep any reader from falling asleep be-
fore the last chapter is finished.
Chocolates have a nice, smeary way
Of getting on the bedclothes.
Animal crackers are a favorite.
Apples have no standing with con-
left to cruder souls.
n 4 4 \
Some men read standing up, but they
are heroes.
|. Lincoln must have been made of
stern stuff, indeed. to have placed him.
self of his own free will on his stoms CHI
and. elbows while reading his Bible and
Shakespeare. Occasionally one will see
timber child doing it now, but not
often. 1t was a pioneer method.
As for standing up while reading,
there Is no point TO 1t, except in certain
| cases, known of old, when sitting down
was an unthinkable process. Surely
one must be comfortable while reading
| book. The mind, at its best, is easily
distracted One finds an occasional
volume, every now and then, which
holds the attention despite all induce
mentS to the contrary, but these are
the rare books, and differ with every
individual.
Most books have their dull places
pages which must be wadeCl through
with determination, If not with zest.
The going is hard, but the end is IN
sight; soon the hero will appear and
all will be well again.
But If ones foot goes to sleep, for
instance, the hero will never appear
at least not that evening. Banging
| DOORS radio music, spell defeat to many
reader although there are others
who say that they read better for the
| latter.
Well, maybe they do, but one who is
not so constructed, mentally, may be
! forgiven for feeling that one neither
listens very well nor reads very well
under such conditions. Good reading
demands concentration, and concentra-
ton, except under unusual conditions,
requires some degree of quiet. Libraries
have not made silence a decree to show
the authority of librarians, but simply
because it gives the best atmosphere
for serious reading
The best position for reading. there
fore, is the one which best suits you,
the reader. If you like to throw one leg
over the arm of your chair, by all
means do so. If there is any objec-
ton. say that Mark Twain lead so. He
didn't, of course, but he wrote in bed,
so that should settle the matter.
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Vergil, After 20 Centuries,
Looms as Glorious Figure

fact that vergiIs poetry still is read
and his memory still cherished"
&s9ks aA
Perfection was his aim. Perfect
was his accomplishment. And now he
lives after 1000 years." proclaims the
Milwaukee Journal, and the Buffalo
Evening News remarks: Fortunately
for the memory of Vergil, the record is
clear with regard to his life. 1t is not
shrouded in mystery and in legend as
is that of Homer of the Greks. For
tunately, too the Roman Emperor Au-
gustus declined to carry out the order
of the dying poet that the 'Aeneid' be
destroyed-a desire, based on fear Of
imperfection in his work, that gives
keynote to the character of Vergil."
"All English literature, from the time
Of Chaucer to the present, has exhibited
evidences of the influence Of Vergil,"
comments the Wallap Walla Bulletin,
while the Manchester Union offers the
glowing tribute: mo poet that has
ever lived haA exerted wider influence
upon the thought and destiny of the
human race. Shakespeare left an in
delible stamp upon English literature.
Goethe is fifty regarded as the father
of modern German literature, and
Dante of modern Italian. But these
and other great poets of later times
who laid the foundations of the litera-
lures of their respective peoples may
be compared to the great Roman as
mighty rivers are compared to the tiny
spring from which they draw a common
source"
Appropriateness of the celebration Of
the event by the Alpha Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa at William and Mary Col
lege, national home of that fraternity,
is recognized by the Richmond News
Leader in the description: THE stage,
set with evergreens from the nearby
woods of the peninsula, framed mass
pictures of which Morris Gest would not
have been ashamed. The lighting
heightened every picture. Hades was
portrayed in its classic conception, not
IS the domain of mans dark thought,
but as place of punishment for his
grim misdeeds. The voices of the per-
formers, well trained, carried with re-
markable accuracy, and the pageant
itself was so admirably phrased that q
long speech by old Anchises held the
auditors for IA minutes. The music,
written in Williamsburg by George M.
Small, and performed by the college
band, deepened the illusion and was as
much in the spirit of the piece as the
tom-toms in Emperor JONES'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
Police Courtesy.

The prompt and drastic action taken
by the Police Trial Board in the case of
an of1icer who was accused of being dis
courteous and profane to a motorist
should have q salutary effect on the
few remaining browbeating, tough"
policemen in the department. Charged
with engaging in an argument about a
trafic violation with the motorist be-
cause he claimed that the driver "irritat-
ed" him, the policeman, on the recon-
mendation Of his superiors. was hailed
before the Trial Board, promptly con-
victed and dismissed from the force
1t was q refreshing case Of quick justice.
Gen. Crosby and Maj. Pratt have
been striving for courtesy and efficiency
in the Police Department. In order
to promote these attributes in the men
an honor roll was recently inaugurated
which not only gave special recognition
to those who deserved 1t, but FIVE
dollar -a-month increase in salary. At
the same time it was announced that
offenders of the courtesy rule would
find no sympathy with their actions.
The action Of the Trial Board in this
case makes the campaign even more
effective in that it will serve as a warn
ing to the minority of policemen who
still believe THAT when they don the uni
form they are the monarchs Of all they
survey and can get away" with any
thing so far as the public is concerned.
It should not take many more incidents
OF this sort to stamp out the practice
altogether.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24
The Stage.

Every now and then, for the past
quarter of century, some one has
arisen to state that the stage is in no
danger Of extinction at the hands of
the movies" Miss Ethel Barrymore
distinguished and beloved actress, is the
latest champion.
''The people are hungry for the thea
ter" Miss Barrymore said. There can
be no gainsaying that she is right. The
love for the theater is instinct in all
peoples; the only question is whether the
so-called Legitimate stage" can con-
tinue in the face of competition aided
by the inventive genius Of man.
At the present it appears to compe-
tent observers that it can. Although
stage craft is essentially the same today
as it was when Euripides wrote, hui
man nature is the same, TOO.
The human voice is the same, and
the powers of personal attraction are
the same. Miss Barrymore represents
both phases. There are many lovers of
the drama who are willing to believe
that as long as the theater presents
such players there will be no particular
danger of the extinction of the legiti-
mate stage.
Always in the background of human
thought and action lies the rebound,
or the return to the old. The playgoing
world may hustle mainly to the "talkies"
at this period, for they are new, inter-
esting, breezy, but as surely as the
stage keeps to the human heart and
mind, theatergoers will incline to re-
turn to it, and keep, it a living force
in land which aamires human per-
sonality.
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Britain Will Review
Secession Problems

From the New York Herald Tribune.
Those subjects of the British Empire
who are ignorant of America and its
ways are sometimes told by way of
explanation that it is unsafe to gener-
alize about this country because of its
size and its heterogeneity. To make
the point clear they are told that the
term American" may be held to cor
respond to "Britisher," whereas such a
term as Middle Westerner" or New
Englander" corresponds to such terms
as English" or Irish" or Australian. :"
America, in truth, is not quite so large
and diverse as the British Empire or the
former Russian Empire, but it is GER
tainly much farther removed from the
European concept of a nation. From
the broad standpoint of political struc-
ture, we are certainly nearer the Union
OF Soviet Republics than we are to
the Republic of France.
Because we. are a Union of sovereign
States We may take more than a casual
interest in some of the remarks being
made in London on the eve of the i'm
perial conference. The question of Sc
cession is much to the fore. To the
Nationalist of India, of course, this is
a very burning question indeed If not
quite SO acute, it is certainly interest
ing to the Irish Free State and the I'm
ion of South Africa. Gen. Hertzog, the
prime minister of the South African
Union, has very definite views. He is
quoted. Not jot or q title of our
independence will be sacrificed. I am
not going to the conference to get con-
firmation Of the unions right to secede.
That right is above speculation. I" ="
Like ourselves, the British know q
good deal about the principle of fed
Grafton. Moreover, the Union of South
ting itself away. The dispatches indi-
cate that @ naval review of impressive
proportions will be held for the benefit
Of the imperial delegates. The sight
Of the feet may make some delegates
think twice before they give up pro-
lection which has meant much to them
ana which costs tt1em so little.