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any importance. AS for the Yest-again he
shrugs his shoulders.
"It is, as I had said, that believe in in
spiration! Your syncopation is so plainly
turned out by the yard without
thought or meaning. 1t Is a product for the
trade, ground out like sausagesl
"And sausages are all right in their place, but
music should be more than that-much more!
"You need more romance In this country, my
young friend. Yes I know you are
supposed to be a romantic people. And you
have many, many romantic things. You just
don't seem to take time to absorb them. That's
why your jazz rs transient.
'J1ere-I come to New York. and not to APP
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nance of an entire folklore. 1t does not dis
turb you-it carries you with it. 1t builds
dreams for you-It is sad and it is gay.
1t is. my young friend, reflection of what 10
in every heart
That is what you are missing-except when
you strike some Of the darby melodies"
Once the inspiration is upon him, Straus
does great deal Of his composing in the coffee
houses of Paris, Vienna and Berlin.
IF can find no such place in Hollywood, I
don't know what I shall do" he observes with
a comic mock despair that has an evident basis
of fact.
IT have favorite spots which 1 haunt in
Europe-little places where / sit and sip. coffee
by the hour and watch the people come and go.
like to take the hbretto with me and read it
over and over, getting ideas from it. I take
books with me and read-oh yes, they are gem
orally romances."
RUT what about the lbrettos Hollywood is
likely to give him? And how does he view
his Hollywood experiment?
Again his very demonStrative shrug
only once have I tried music writing in
America" he commented. Several years ago
they sent for me to write music for the thea
tiers. said I would not write unless there
were good hbrettos. Well, they showed me sew
eral. But they were all bad. / could do nothing
with them. I went back to Europe"
Whatever the ballyhoo that may go up from
the film people who have brought him over to
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pear immodest, what is the opera I find being
revived?
.. My own Chocolate Soldier And the
audiences seem to enthuSe as much as ever
Does 1T not seem to you that your Victor
Herbert can be revived year after year-and
always find huge public?
$50 it is-tomorrow they forget the jazz
tunes of today and a thousand more are
born. But the Viennese waltzeS do no die.
There is not a number in The Merry Widow
which does not stir something in those who
hear 1t. Why? 1t has romance, and the ro-
nance communicates itself to those who feel
the need Of it, or the love of it.
The Blue Danube will go flowing down
through time. why? Because it is the ro-
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stefan, she has never appeared professionally.
Now came more mature inspiration.
For it was under her influence that wrote
my best-known music-that Of The Chocolate
Soldier" Straus relates.
He woke up to find himself one of the emf
nent composers OF his day, well assured that
what he had created would outlive HIM. He
was deluged with demands upon his time and
efforts. Two sons had been born, the war had
broken over Europe and for some time he did
little creative work. He interested himself in
the education of his growing boys. One is a
talented musician; the other a painter.
"WHEN I left to come to America one of
my boys was composing jazz opera"
With which, Straus shrugs his shoulders.
For he appears to be quite out Of sympathy
with the syncopations he has heard. Only
George Gershwin's jazz compositions have in
terested him. And Jerome Kern seems to him
the only living American operetta composer of
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Loves of the Composer Oscar Straus

H0zO HIS Three ROmanceS
Inspired AU His Famed
WaItzes and Operettas,
and WhyHe Thinks That
Lack Of the Right Kind of
Heart Affairs Keeps
american Song Writers
From Doing Great Work.
The Washington times., 1930-09-11

this picture George Bernard Shaw of the best known
and clevere men, studies with friendly interest little ter
rier belonging his friend. Phyllis Nelson Terry.
The terrier knows practically nothing WE Judge knowl
edge and the powerful Bernard Shaw knows SOMETHING
about EVERYTHING although probably not ALL about
ANYTHING.
Bernard Shaw is interested the little terrier for thou
His ahfunes interests him and perhaps strikes
him foolish.
The terriers mild loving eyes appeal to Shaw and the per-
tnacy with which the terrier will watch rathoe when
there is no rat in it, amuses the old Hishman
The terrier the other hand is interested in Mr. Shaw
simply he belongs that occasionally gives
pieces Of to terriers race therefore to be
cultivated with suppant crouching and serve tail Waggng
Twoegged philosophers looking this picture to them
selves is there between these two inhabitants
o the same globe how INFINITELY far apart they in in
teec and human being with the wonderful lore
head and the little terrier with forehead to speak Of who
doesn't know that the world is round and wouldn't he
did know.
Rut suppose an angel of the first rank looking down at
this earthly pair an angel able sweep with his glance the
boundaries of the universe including all the outside island
universes that surround ours
What difference and how great would that angel be-
tween Shaw and the dog? Not much probably The angel
MIGHT saw 1.-THE one calls itself eats sleeps breathes
and enioys itself as much it can and dies when its turn
comes. ,s.
itself as much as it knows much about its origin and
destiny the man knows
The little dog doesn't worry.
He doesn't care whether he takes first prize in the dog show
mo prize at all He doesn't know that he must die some
dav and consequently doesn't about dog heaven or the
difficulty Of getting INTO II"
Among insects there are differences in intellect great as
between this man and the little terrier.
TooknU at the insects we can't see any difference.
wise angels looking this pair, perhaps would see little
difference, if any
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Citizens Voting in the States
Emphasize Our VOteleSSneSS

Election and selection days in the States merely emphasize
the votelessness Of District citizens long desiring to participate
in national and local affairs at the poLL
The plight Of people is unjust and its continuance
jusabe in the light of the fact that they live to all obga
tions of American citizens of American principles
The patriotism Of Washington people is unchanenged They
have shown that in fighting they have contributed to
the nation upon They show in their large
Of Federal and local They show
in profound and eager interest in the nations problems
Though the District pays taxes to the Federal Govern
rnent than combination of half dozen small States having
strong representation Senate House. people have
representation either body Of Congress They both vote
voice The only way they manifest their wishes
to Congress is through petition and appearances before
gressional committees.
Fortunately there good men in Congress who still revere
the fundamental principles Of by the people and
they listen patiently and sympahecay to the only methods
have of getting views before Congress There
Others unfortunately who cody unconcerned about the
wishes of Washington people.
There are Congress who believe that Federal
troll of the District might be disturbed by possible results Of
choice by people Of their local officials is far
fetched idea yet many Of these object to people
voting President and Vice President and Senator'S and
Representatives of choosing What know national
suffrage this city could in way affect District and
Federal relations
The District squarey entitled representation in Con-
gres that its people may feel that they participants in the
Government Of this nation.
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Match correctly:
i. altercate
sinister
2. captious
dispute
3. indifference
rot
4. ominous
unconcern
5. tester
fault finding.
Fill each blank:
6. The Secretary Of Agricul-
ture is
z. The Kiel Canal connects
the North Sea and the
8. Miriam A. Ferguson is
former governor Of -.
8. The MarSeillaise was first
sung by a band Of men
from
10. The expression mon COM
pos mentiS" means --.
II. Optical relates to the
IL. The pecan nutSis a species
of --.
13. NSauterne Is a kind Of
white
IA. A teal is a small river
Is. An amanuensis Is one
employed to -.
Answers On Magaxine Page.l
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Eli Whitney
By Archibald Henderson

vannah. presumably to settle
and open a school in the neigh
borhood.
There was much conversation
at Mulberry Grove concerning
the. need for a machine that
would separate cotton from its
seeds. In about 10 days, Whit
ney succeeded in making a lit
tie model. for which and the re-
linquishment of all right and
title, thereto, he was immedi-
ately offered 100 guineas!s This
decided him to abandon teach
ing, and devote all his attention
to perfecting the machine. Even
after perfecting, it was a simple
invention-a cylinder, a grid be-
tween whose interstices the
teeth pass to tear the lint from
the seeds, to let the latter fall
on one side of the machine and
the lint on the other.
The invention was epochal in
its effects, adding incalculable
millions to the wealth Of the
world. BY the old hand meth
cd, only five or six pounds at
most could be cleaned per day
by one person, while through
it's use one person could clean
a thousand pounds.
Whitney and his partner, one
Phineas Miller, concocted a
plan for obtaining t.. most gi-
gantic two-men monopoly in
history. It was Miller's calcula-
tion that the farmers could well
afford to pay for the use Of the
new invention approximately
one-half the profits abhey de-
rived from its use. This desire
to set up a gigantic monopoly
defeated its purpose.
Copyright. 1880, International Feature
Service. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson.

lions of years Of human history.
For all those millions of years,
people have had birth thrust
upon them. And, barring the
mentally unbalanced, there
never yet was one that didn't
hang on to the gift and raise
Cain if anyone tried to take it
from him.
Take yourself for example.
Suppose a big truck were roar
ing down upon you-would you
duck? I'll say you would!
You'd duck to- save your life.
And you'd want to save your
life because, no matter what
life. has cost, you love it and
consider it worth while. Nor
is this Iove-of-life a conscious
and deliberate attitude. It was
born with you. Tiny, helpless,
dumb, practically blind, you
entered the world. Yet from
your first gasp you wanted life,
loved life, demanded it at any
price.
Look again at history. See
what birth meant to some men
and women. tuberculosis to
Robert Louis Stevenson. Rot
ing isolation to Father Damien.
on his leper'S isle. Perpetual
darkness and silence to Helen
Keller. Humiliation, discour-
agement, loneliness, murder to
Lincoln. The firing squad to
Edith Cavell. Death in the
Jungle to Livingstone. Birth
meant inexpreSSible pain and
difficulty to each one of these
and, because of that, you would
have denied it to them. But
birth also meant noble dreams,
gallant adventures, visions Of
beauty-a challenge that lifted
them out of all their human
misery and made them walk
their little span like gods. Was
life worth while to- them? BY
every act of their lives they
proved it was!
Why should a child be born?
That's why. Because the child
itself, if it had any say in the
matter, would want to be born.
Because whatever you may
think about its right to birth.
whatever society may feel about
the value of it's life, to the child
itself LIFE IS THE INCOM-
PARABLY PRECIOUS ADVEN-
(Copyright. 1880, by King Features
SYnalasts. LfA
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
A Simple Solution
Make Drinking Compulsory.

Eve have had ten years of prohibition, during which
minority of bonedry fanatics has told what couldn't
drink.
As believer fair play it to me that it is about
time to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment and pass another
one compelling EVERY American citizen over 21 to take at
least one drink of liquor day perhaps more
Federa and State enforcement officers should that
this Constitutional provision carried out and fine Of
$4,000 or ten years in jail should be the maximum penalty
for those who put their personal inclination above the
law Similar penalties should be imposed all who boot
leg soft drinks
sThis may seem extreme remedy for national evil,
surely every good citizen would bow to the will Of the
ority and observe such law while it in the statute
books.
1.-THE prohbiionsts have often expressed their for
the scofflaWs that if compulsory drinking
amendment were added to the Constitution they would SGT
the country example of law observance which would help
powerfully to restore order and good governme in our
beloved country
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis e. Bisch-

by Dr. Louis Il. BISch-'
It is hard to believe that so
many individuals can do with
out beauty.
I am not referring to physical
beauty. ] am referring to the
beauty Of their surroundings,
their homes, their neighborhood,
their clothes. So few really visit
art galleries. City dwellers
don't seek out the beauties of
nature.
Yet beauty has a tremendous
effect upon the mind.
Beauty, indeed, makes us
happy and helps us surmount
the difficulties and diSappoint-
ments in life.
Anything that is beautiful is
harmonious.
What is inharmonious is mis-
Shapen and out of proportion
and therefore offends ours es-
thetic sense.
Nature itself is beautiful.
1AOWCA0S O4OCOS 4A1OuA4OAAAAOB WAC
ocean, the stars, the clouds, the
birds, and the beaStS-the hui
man formal are beautiful.
If nature were left alone to
develop at will it would always
remain beautiful.
1t is when the hand Of man
begins to change it and to
modify it that it so often loses
its beauty.
We humans are a part Of
nature! We are nature.
Therefore we crave beauty!
We drink it in without con-
Sciously realizing it. Neverthe-
less it has a soothing effect or
a stimulating effect upon us.
With a little thought and a
little planning beauty can be
added to most anything.
What cities especially need
are trees. lawns and flower
gardens. They rest the mind.
Color and variety are incen-
tive to higher and finer achieve
ment. . .-I--.I-
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

lowers who were defeated at the
polls, would come out and work
good and strong for the election
of the Democratic candidates
for office.
It would be a disgrace to"
Maryland II Governor Albert c.
Ritchie is not reelected this fall.
Without doubt he has been the
best governor that Maryland.
ever had. but his chances will
be placed in jeopardy unless the
factions defeated In the Demo
cratic primaries yesterday fight
with the organization to put
him over. DR.. Jones favors the
return of Governor Ritchie.
But, Ritchie's hands will be tied
if a Republican Senate and a
Republican House of Delegates
are sent to Annapolis next Janu-
ary to make the State laws and
to endorse the State budget
The Washington times., 1930-09-11

Some one started plenty in
this column by saying that she
didn't want babies. Promptly
the war was. on, but not, as you
might expect, in glorious de.
fense Of motherhood. There
were, to be sure, numerous en-
dorsementS Of that ancient and
necessary institution. But, start
ling as it may seem, there were
quite as many wives who think
it's the bunk and refuse to in.
clude Dimpled Darlings in their
budget.
What's more, they won't be
shushed. They protest, noisily,
that they're exactly as normal
as other females and quite as
useful. Indeed, they go even
further. Several of them pin
medals on themselves for NOT
having babies. even when they
want them! FrinStance-
SHOW ME ONE GOOD.
REASON WHY A BABY
SHOULD BE BORN!" demands
Mrs. A. B. S., of Haverhill,
Mass. And this in spite of the
fact that she has little daugh.
ter Of 5, whom she adores.
For years." she writes, I've
craved more children AND AS
CONSTANTLY PRAYED FOR
STRENGTH TO ABSTAIN
FROM HAVING THEM. For
I consider having children one
Of the most selfish forms Of
personal qualification. What is
there SO selfish about having a
child? For whose sake do we
have it? Why not tell the
truth-we have it for our own.
BIRTH is NO GIFT TO A
CHILD -" 1T is CRUEL
AND COWARDLY AND Sell
FISH TO INFLICT LIFE UPON
A CHILD TO CRAFTY OUR
OWN SELFISH EMOTIONS.
When you can give me one
reason why a child should be
born outside Of the
pleasure or profit which that
new life gives to the family
or society at large one
reason that effects the child
itself, then and then only will
further populate the world"
Mrs. A. B. S.
One reason why a child
should be born? I don't need
to give you that answer. lady.
Look to history . mil.
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Menace of Drunken Drivers

day this week in the Police Court Of Washington eight
men were charged with driving automobiles while in drunken
condition grave offense against public safety and the
guilty often those who in their sober moments careful
drivers.
Whkey deprves otherwise good and Of their
mental balances Automobile casualties frequent enough
through the careessness of drivers that sober but lack the
proper sense Of responsibility to others
It seems almost incredible there many Of
drunken and Maryland roads Washington
accounting for serious andsfatal accidents The local
courts appear punish guilty offenders the extent of the law
and in addition, their licenses drivers revoked
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Shepherd Dog Tribute
Unfolded in Church

Editor, Times:
There happened in this beau
tiful city of ours in one Of our
splendid old churches, an Incl
dent, call it that, if you will,
that made my heart rejoice as
indeed it must have many ami
NAL lovers.
A dog stood in this holy
sanctuary beside his master
while the sermon was given,
and such a sermon! I would
we could have more Of them.
The church was filled with
people and they were not
ashamed, neither were they
afraid for God spoke to them
through the unfathomable eyes
and the quiet dignity Of a dog.
Think of it and then say we
are not getting animal minded
or animal conscious If you
can. Not only was the sermon
of a spiritual nature, but facts
were given as TO the care ana
feeding of a dog, barring candy
and sweets and above. all the
deadly chicken bone. Where
in all the writings and talking
about animals do you find such
advice and what good is all our
love for any thing if we are
not properly informed how to
care for it.
Then, too, the spea ger
stressed the point that these
particular dogs often called po-
lice dogs, but really German
shepherd dogs, are trained for
service. What does that term,
imply? Trained to watch, to
protect with their lives if need
be, those whom they love.
Now if you have such a dog
in your family do no indulge in
idle rough play with one an.
other to see what the dog will
The Washington times., 1930-09-11

The story Of Eli Whitney en-
forces the familiar lesson Of
experience that genius is un'
usually naive and needs the
guidance Of business instinct.
It is not enough to invent in
order to achieve fame and
wealth. It is not even enough
to secure a patent on ones in
Vention. It is essential to know
how to market ones invention
effectively and to reap the
golden reward Of inventive
genius and business acumen in
happy partnership.
Eli Whitney was horn on a
farm in the township of West
boro. Mass, on December 8,
1865. The crude skill Of his
father as a mechanic reap
peared in young Eli in a form
approximating inventive genius.
Handy with tools. he showed
even as q lad a delicacy in
handling machines and a skill
in fabricating articles which
bespoke the future inventor.
Ambitious for a first-clas edu-
cation, he labored as a me-
chanic and as school teacher
in order to go through Yale
University. A good mechanic
was spoiled for the sake Of
making an indifferent collegian,
it was said.
After his graduation from Yale
in 1872, he went South in order
secure employment as school
teacher. On board the sailing
vessel which bore him to Savan-
nah was the widow Of the IA
nous Revolutionary general, Ma
thaniel Greene. She invited
Whitney to visit her famous
plantation, Mulberry Grove, Sa-
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
which Ritchie will prepare next
month for the next two years.
ROCKVILLE DEMOCRAT.
Senator Tydings Criticized
For Attack on President

Editor, Times:
A statement made by Sena-
tor Tydings CMaryland) in The
Washington Times Of Septem-
ber 4, placing blame for ur-
employment of 100000 men
on the shoulders of President
Hoover, is the most presump-
tuouS declaration ever made by
an American statesman.
Our President" despite the
political opposition encoun-
tered, has demonstrated that
he possesses good judgment
and common sense in dealing
with a problem that is not
new or acute, but it is some
thing that will require time,
effort and cooperation in eradi-
eating itself from American
life.
Mr.. Politician and Mr.. Citi-
zen, let us lend our earnest
cooperation to the Administra-
ton by forgetting our political
differences, and by so doing
make this great nation once
more a land of plenty for all.
w. LEO PRICE.
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. peace and Gnity avitk all nations; entangling
alliances NTH nome," as ADVOCATED By George
Washington.
2. Proportional Representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than t1Oo Senators.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment in the House of Representatives.
3. separate Department of the Army, of the Navy
and of the Air Forces, all united Nnder Secre-
tGry of National Defense.
f. Federal action to the limit of Federal posoers to
abolish dRterqcy in the United Ststes mnder
Secretary of Education.
s. Installation of the President oa the first of jan
uGry folloaDing NoUember election.
s. SeIectiOe immigration to admit only those suited
for American citizenship.
2. Deportation of undesirable aliens
8. Complete publicity for income tGres.
The Washington times., 1930-09-11

do because he will resent it
. very much, and then will have
to be punished when you are
really the culprit. If you want
a play dog get a collie or
terrier. A shepherd dog is by
centuries of training a noble
and dignified creature.
MARY E. CLARK.
The Washington times., 1930-09-11
Wants Jones' Supporters
To Work For Ritchie

Editor Times:
Now that the citizens Of
Montgomery county have dem.
onStrated by their votes that
they want Maj. E. Brooke Lee
to rule the county in politics
for the next four years, it would
be most pleasing if DR.. Eugene
Jones, former State senator
from the county, and his fol
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who entertained Miss Margaret Baxter
Of Great Britain:
Other Fashion Leaders
Entertain Guests.
At the personal table of Mrs Nina
Swain Reed were Mrs. Pauline Swain,
Mrs. SADIE Catherine Coles, Mrs. John
w. Bennett, Miss Patricia Poe Bennett,
Mrs. Teresa Dean and her guest, Mrs.
Rutherford Bingham; Mrs. Percy Will
kinSon, Mrs. j. Peter McGovern, Miss
May Gildersleeve and Miss Florence
Long.
Mrs. James Brown Scott had with
her Miss Emma Lansing and Miss
Kate Lansing. At the table sponsored
by Mrs. Robert G. Sheriff. were Mrs.
Wintermute w. Sloan, Mrs. William
Cover, Mrs. George M. Quirk, Mrs
David Snyder, Mrs. Christian Getsin-
ger, Mrs. Copeland p. Jones, Mrs. Harry
w. Frantz. Mrs. Charles r. R.ordan
and Mrs. Louise Streeter Martin.
At the table sponsored jointly by
Miss Elizabeth Young and Miss Jane
Hanger, Miss Clara Lutz, Mrs. Will
Mrs Byron u. Graham, Mrs. John L.
Barr and Mrs. r. Winston Holt.
Mrs. Alfred j. Brosseau, former pres
ident general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution; attended the
breakfast, coming on from New York
Others in the list were Mrs. Frysinger
and her daughter, Miss Grace E. Fry
singer; Mrs. James A. Gwynne, Mrs
w. F. Turner, Miss Fannie Wolfson,
Mrs. c. c.. Calhoun and guest, Mrs.
Nina G. Vandewalker: Mrs. Anne Won
Ammon, Mrs. w. G. Harlee, Mrs. Marie
o. Sprinkle, Mrs. James Irwin Steel,
Mrs. John Walker Holcombe, Miss Anne
Darlington and guest, Mrs. John w.
Thompson: Miss Rosa Fairfax. Mrs.
Homer Kilt and many others. -