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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

The real life of every man and woman
becomes more SecretiVe with the years.
Argument Is seen to be mostly wasted,
instruction thrown away, pleading lost.
The tendency is to turn more to the
inner life, where one triumphs and suf-
fers in silence.
Perhaps this explains why the older
man gets, the less seldom do you hear
him recommending books to others.
Just as his home library must be, in
essence, static and non-circulating so
his opinions of works of literature tend
to become more and more set.
X X x x
Such opinions become private and
personal.
After all, the huge run of booklovers
are not critics.
A real friend of books simply knows
what pleases him, and what does not,
and why, in either case.
In ninety-nine cases out of hundred
his judgment will be amazingly correct.
This is the happy inner satisfaction of
the man who has once realized the flu
tility of attempting to select the read
ing Of others.
Selecting his own books to suit him
self, he comes in time to the course of
wisdom, which is refusal to enlarge
that policy.
Where many an earnest booklover
falls down is in going en-, from the per-
sonal selection of personal books, to the
widespread choice of the same works fer
| others.
1t will not do.
They do not want him to select their
reading matter for them, but prefer to
| find their own books for themselves,
! thank you.
Consider the cases of prominent men,
| renowned in one branch of endeavor,
who attempt to give general advice en-
variety CT matters to the whole world
Is it not true that countless readers
Of their ideas set them down for fools,
despite their wealth and success and
their undoubt2d efficiency in their own
lines?
Such men have not learned the best
: secret CT the passing years, which is to
/ be self-contained.
To be self-contained, in books, is to
have a secret place in the mind and
heart to which only few have the key.
There is nothing blatant, nothing
| spectacular, here, but only sound APP
preciaticn, and the joy which comes
from it.
This appreciation must come from
wide acquaintance. There is no other
way of knowing the best and that in
| stantly, without hesitation or doubt.
That is the reas-n that the well
read man." of when all have heard,
Is the key-man Of bookdom He may
not be an author, he may scarcely be
known as booklover. but the whole
realm Of books depends upon him, in
the last analysis.
X X \ n
His judgments are certain and I'M
erring.
He is not thrown off the track by
''blurbs" on the jackets CT books. by
laudatory notices, nor by the name and
reputation of the author.
He senses, even before he reads, a
good book. If you were to ask him
why he chose certain title. he would
not be able to tell you, but all the time
he would have been led to it as a bee
to honey.
There is no book snobbishness about
| this type of reader. He has no desire
| to be considered either old-faShioned
or new-fashioned in his tastes. For
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

a remarkable trip through the Far East.
Aboard the venerable U. S. S. Pitts
burgh, flagship of our Asiatic squadron,
Gov. Davis travelled 5000 miles during
a period of six weeks absence from
Manila. He touched at Saigon, Indo-
China Bangkok, Siam; Singapore.
Straits Settlement; Balawan Deli,
Sumatra; Batavia, Java; Sourabaya,
Java; Buleling. Bali; Makassar and
CelebeS. A projected stop in British
North Borneo had to be abandoned on
account of a shallow harbor Davis is
the first Governor General of the
Philippines to make good will tour
of neighboring countries. He was &C
companied by his son and daughter,
Dwight, jr., and Cynthia, well known
members of the Washington official set
three years ago, and by couple Of
Filipino cabinet officers. In Cambodia,
one of the five divisions of French Indo-
China, King Monivong decorated the
American party-possibly as tribute
to its patience IN sitting through three
solid hours Of native dance rituals.
10 X
Yale, Princetcn, Columbia, to say
nothing of Stanford and the rest of
EN-, really ought to do something about
this business Of handing out one Hoover
administration plum after another to
sons of fair Harvard. The latest job
landed by them is the assistant secre-
taryship Of state just conferred upon
Harvey H. Bundy CT Boston, Harvard
Law IA. Like Secretary Stimson, Mr..
Bundy took an A. B. at Yale before
getting his LII. B. at Cambridge. It was
cny few weeks ago that another
flower of Harvard, brilliant young Ar
thur Atwood Ballantine, inherited the
vacant assistant secretaryship CT the
Treasury. The little cabinet" has been
filling up with Harvard or Harvard Law
men since 1929 The State Department
hierarchy nowadays is almost painted
crimson.
Sonora Malbran, charming conSort of
the new Argentinian Ambassador to
Washington, says she has lust come
back hcme," in finding herself once
more in the American Capital. She lived
here as bride when Senior Malbran
was young attache of the Argentinian
legation 20 years ago, and her son WIS
born in Washington. The Ambassador
is not offended when he's reminded that
he looks like Al Smith, though OF
girthier aspect.
Copyright 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Stop a. minute and think about this
fact. You can ask our Information
Bureau any question Of fact and get the
answer back in a personal letter. 1t
is q great educational idea introduced
into the lives of the most intelligent
people in the world-American newspa-
per readers. It is part of that best
purpose of a newspaper--service. There
is no charge except 2 cents in coin
or stamps for return postage. Get the
habit of asking questions. Address your
letter to The Evening Star Informa-
ton Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, Di-
rector, Washington, d. G.
O. What big league ball teams has
Clark Griffith managed?-M. @.
A. In the National League he man
aged the Cincinnati Club, 1909-l9ll.
American League, Chicago, 1901-1902;
New York 1903-part Of 1908; WASH
ington, 1912-1920.
@. What is the annual turnover in
Government positions?-W. H. ].
A. The United States Civil Service
Commission says that there are on an
average of $4,000 appointments yearly
| to Government positions throughout
! the service. These are mostly made 70
replace positions vacated by death,
resignation, transfer, and inability. and
| consequently this figure represents the
average annual turnover among
| United States Government employees.
@. Why did New England become a
great manufacturing region?-G. A. F.
A. Throughout the colonial period
and during the first decades OF national
| independence the economic life Of New
England was conferred in the shipbuild-
l A.-r< do I'D iy1 nom
adoption of the embargo and other re-
| strictive trade measures, the shrewo
men turned their capital from ship
ping to manufacture. They realized
| that in this section was an almost un-
exploited source of wealth in an abund-
ant water supply.
@. What is the altitude Of New Or
| leans Pc. 3.
A. The site is fiat with slight slope
away from the river to the swamps be-
| hind the city. The highest elevation
above the sea is about 10 feet and in
! food time nearly all of the city Is from
to II feet below the level Of the
river, which is kept out by leyees or
dikes built along the entire front and
graded down to the fiat city site.
@. What and where are the sheep
| islands?-L. o.
A. The Faero Islands, situated be-
| tween Iceland and the Shetland Is
| lands, are known as the sheep islands.
@. When were Faber lead pencils first
| made?- K. I.
| A. The business was founded at Stein,
near Nuremberg, Germany, in 1850.
@. Can person extradited by the
United States from foreign country
| be tried for an offense other than the
specific one for which he was extra
oitcd?-D. w.
A. United States courts can try ar
| eXtradited criminal only for the cffense
with which he was charged in the ex-
tradition proceedings, unless reasonable
! time has been given him after his re-
| lease to return to the country from
! which he was extradited. =
@. How old man Is the Russian
musician, Gabrilowitsch?-T. H. ~
A. He was born February z, 1878.
G. How much cotton Goes the auto
mobile industry use in this country
! j. o. M.
! A. In 1929 it used 69s,O64 bales of
! Gotten.
| @. Why will ivy live in water?-E. F.
| A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
Take Rackets OFF Screen.
! the San Demanding Sun.

From the San Bernardino Sun.
Unless the motion picture industry
arouse5 itself 1t is headed for official,
rather than unofficial censorship.
The people will not tolerate much
longer the continuous portrayal of
racketeerS as heroes and drunken men
and women as average citizens. The
people have not lost their ability TO
calculate the amount of damage such
an atmosphere Of the screen is doing to
the ideals Of boys and girls
Just why it is necessary to have
scenes of liquor parties in order to
make picture success defles imagi-
nation.
The him producers are playing with
flre and they are to be burnt A move
ment for legislation to prohibit the
showing on the screen of the enactment
of any crime would have widespread
support.
The public has been tolerant of the
motion picture industry. So far it has
froWned on official censorship, The
people have been willing for the motion
plc,u producers to regulate their own
affairs, fearing that outside interference
might destroy art And it would. But
there are limits and they have been
reached and passed in the quest for box
Office receipts at the expense Of endan-
ger1ng the moral education of the youth
Of the country.
The boys and girls who see their film
favoritas engaging in, liquor parties are
certainly impressed with the germ OF
the idea that liquor is not outlawed.
The film hero who gets by as a
racketeer and all-around bad man has
planted an impression in the juvenile
mind.
If it is impossible to make successful
films without such a smear of crime
and booze that has marked many recent
to take smaller profits, The people will
not. and should not, tolerate the kind
OF scenes that are being put into screen
stories in an effort to get the so-called
"lSick." ~
A new deal is nek-ed in the motion
picture industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

| that ivy planted in water ses its sus-
tenance from the air, the water and
| from the stored-up materkl In the
plant itself. Ivy planted in water win
not continue to grow indefinitely. It
will, however, under favorable condi-
tions, thrive for quite a while, the
length of time depending upon how
much plant food there Is II the plant
and in the water.
Q. What is the best tim Of year to
sell walnut timber? -H d
! A. There is no best tine. This de-
| ponds upcn market conditions rather
than season.
@. How long have wris; watches been
| worn?-A. r.
A. They date as far back as the mid
Gle OF the seventeenth century.
@. What was the nationally Of the
original Of the Mona Lisa and for what
was she noted?-M. E. L.
A. Mona Lisa was the wifi Of Fran
cesco de Giocondo, and seeus to have
been noted for nothing EXCEPT Leonar-
dos famous portrait with the eng
matte smile.
@. What ships in our Navy are the
fastest?-W. NJ. L.
| A. DestroyerS are the astest, being
designed for approximately "a knots.
Some Of these, however, lave gone $50
knots.
@. What disease has caused the
greatest number of deiths among the
white race?-T. r.
A. tuberculosis is he greatest foe.
Heart failure may sometimes outrank 1t
in statistics, but this is general des-
ignation for many DISEASES.
@. In what European country was q
coffee house first oTened?-C. b.
A. ConstantinopD is believed to have
been the first European capital in which
coffee houses wae instituted, having
been known there as early as 1854 AID.
In 1850 the frs one in England was
opened in Oxfo'd.
@. What Is dne title OF the daughter
of Wilhelmins Queen Of the Neither
| landS?-B. L.
A. Queen Wilhelmina married
Henry Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, and her only child, Juliana,
is Duchess of Mecklenburg.
@. Did George Washington play the
violin?-N. G.
A. Thee are no data to prove that he
did He is not believed to have been
musical. Records show. however, that
he ordered from his agents in London
violin for his step-son, Jack Gusts.
Martha Washington was an accom-
plished performer on the spinet.
O. What is the greatest distance in
light years that group of stars has
been measured?-C. F. p.
A. The greatest distance as yet esti-
mated for any star or group of stars Is
keloud d in the Coma-Vfrgo super
galaxy, which is 100000 light years
4 distant from the earth.
@. Who operated upon the King Of
Siam for cataract7-P. S.
A. DR.. John NJ. Wheeler removed the
cataract.
@. When was st. Thomas, one of the
Virgin Islands, at the height Of its
/ prosperity?-W. B.
| A. About 1920 St. Thomas was at Its
best. It was touched by many ships and
f, did prosperous business in rum and
sugar.
@. How much territory did the
| United States acquire through the
| GadSden Purchaser. K
! A. Forty-f1ve thousand five hundred
and thirty-five square miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Philip Snowden denounces as a pure
fabrication the report that he is to
become peer. The denial is about as
necessary as the refutation of his great
ly exaggerated" death by Mark Twain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
Timothy Cole, Engraver.

While to most Americans the name
of Timothy Cole was unknown, or If
heard meant nothing, that gentle. quiet,
unassuming man was one Of the FORE
most exponents OF once universal and
always beautiful art, the art Of wood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

The little pheasants that were hatch
ed by hen in one of the parks of
washington will at least not shock
their foster mother by going in swim
ming, as young ducks similarly incu-
bated have been known to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Canoes out in the moonlight in naV-
gable waters must be equipped with
proper lights, according to a ruling of
the Bureau of Navigation. Most of them
already have sirens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Noting a Difference.
The man who says the things I think
In a convincing tone
And in opinion seeks to link
His fortunes with my own,
Who holds an audience enthralled
While all his thoughts are told
He is entitled to be called
A patriot true and bold.
But he who takes another side
From that which I espouse
And calls mankind from far and wide
Their interest to arouse
In talk with which I disagree
Let not his words befog
Your judgment. for plainly see
He is a demagogue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Gambling at Reno Draws Gang
sters" ran a recent headline. There
are numerous communities that wish
to heaven it would draw them all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

MANY birds form their sounds with
out opening their bills. Natural his
tory note. So do many citizens; they
know we'll enough in advance what is
inside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Absence Of Congress from Washing
ton makes the coming Of the circus
menagerie Of somewhat less political
significance than usual.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Those who have been inclined TO
laugh at a!rplane-line "hostesses" might
hunt up another joke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

1t seems as If almost everything re-
ported in the press recently involves
beauty contest winner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
Rustic Scorn.
Essential.

Lives OF men in high position
Show us that the great and wise
Will get left in competition
II they do not advertise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

II axe keerful man." said Uncle
Eben, but / hates to see anybody so
scared o. gettin' cheated dat he goes
wifout things he actually needs"
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Prudence.


Have you ever written your mem
oirs?" asked the publisher.
mo" replied Senator Sorghum. And
I'm not going to write them. When a
man interviews himself there is no
chance for him to cover mistake by
saying he was misquoted."
Jud Tunkins says the trouble about
being a cyntc is that so many people
don't draw any distinction between
cynicism and a bad disposition.
Nature Through MonOcIe.
The leaves are on the trees so gay.
In - Itumn they will go away.
They will be back, by Jove, next Spring.
Each year it is the same old thing.
A leaf once fastened on a tree
Should try to stay there, don't you see!
The way they're popping to and fro
Is trying to the nerves, you know!
Rustic Scorn.
What we want" said the eloquent
lady, lis higher and more refined
ideals"
"Of course" replied Farmer Corntos-
sell ITS a shame the way us rough
men get out and hustle for corn and
potatoes when we might be slippin'
geraniums and trainin' crimson RAM
blers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. What disease has caused the
greatest number of delths among the
white race?-T. F.
A. tuberculosis is ne greatest foe
Heart failure may sonetimes outrank 1t
in statistics, but this is general des-
| ignation for many diseases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. What ships in our Navy are the
fastest?-W. NJ. L.
A. Destroyers are the astest, being
designed for approximately "a knots.
Some Of these, however, have gone $50
knots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. What was the nationally Of the
original Of the Mona Lisa and for what
was she noted?-M. e. L.
A. Mona Lisa was the Wifi of Fran
cesco de Giocondo, and seens to have
been noted for nothing EXCEPT Leonar-
dos famous portrait with the enig-
matte smile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. How long have wris; watches been
worn?-A. r.
A. They date as far back as the mid
Gle of the seventeenth century
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. In what European country was q
coffee house first ovened?-C. B.
A. ConstantinopD is believed to have
been the first European capital In which
coffee houses w6e instituted, having
been known there as early as 1854 AID.
In 1850 the frs one in England was
opened in Oxfo'd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

An interesting piece of news is that
former Gov. Edwin P. Morrow of Ken
lucky is to seek the Republican nomi-
nation for Senator in that State next
year. He is at present a member of
the Federal Railway Mediation Board,
The Republicans have had their fac
tions in Kentucky in recent years. The
G, o. p. lost Senate seat in. the Blue
Grass country laak Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

Q. What is the best TIM Of year to
sell walnut timber?-H. d
A. There Is no best tine. This de-
ponds upcn market conditions rather
than season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. How much territory did the
United States acquire through the
Gadsden Purchase?-L. K.
A. Forty-five thousand five hundred
and thirty-five square miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

THEODORE w. MOVES. -. Editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. When was st. Thomas, one of the
Virgin Islands, at the height Of its
prosperity?-W. B.
A. About 1920 st. Thomas was at It's
best. It was touched by many ships and
did prosperous business in rum and
sugar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

AIlaIyNKhB 1tIlt american SlJuaLlOn, the
New York Sun 0flers the figures: THE
German federal Thermal debt is 2
hiIlion dollars; that of the United
states Is Is billions. the. German ma
honal budget is about hillion dollars
annually: ours is about .4Ahfllions, ex-
elusive of war debt paymanfs. Those
about q billion dollars a yg. while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18

@. Who operated upon the King Of
Siam for cataract?-P. S.
A. DR.. John NJ. Wheeler removed the
cataract
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

A LSO the disciples Of Freud are beginning
with the very first reaction to life Of
baby Several such specialists in the psyche
analytical aspects Of infant life are already
scattered over the world, and two were In
America during the past Summer. They have
charts and patterns for the parents to follow;
they have thousand and-One items to check
concerning conduct, and adaptability, and early
utterances, and all the rest
It is hoped that statistics win be produced
from which rules win later be evolved
There are, too. modern baby books" for
parents. Time was when such volumes were
sentimental documents, with q golden curl
clipped and pressed and few kodak pictures
pasted alongside.
Today there is o veritable laboratorial chart
to nh out Who were the people ON his grand
fathers side and grandmOther's Side7
What is the background Of the mother and
father? What words were first uttered by the
child? And what words did he find 1t most
dificult to utter? What were the first sounds?
And 80 1t goes question after question,
which would amaze dear old grandma and
grandpa, who brought US up on sulphur and
mOlasSes IN Spring and walloped our northern
exposures with anything that came to hand
when we misbehaved. In the chartings Of the
present-day researchers such misbehaviors
would be carefully reflected upon. The wise
ones would figure out the behavioristic signih-
canoe. Why does the child behave this way
ana that way under this circumstance and
that?
Is the self-aSSurance and complete con-
fidence Of a Ruggiero Ricci, for instance, part
Of the child's genius or an acquired character
istic? Should child who can play the difficult
concertos of Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssom
be under the constant eye of teacher? Should
he be dedicated to the musical world while his
genius still burns? Where does the parent
come in?
All confusing questions. There viii be more
such children within the next few years-you
can bet on that.
FOR. in view Of what has happened to Q
number of the more celebrated prodigies,
science is going to try to make the world safer
and easier for those who show giant potentiali-
ties as children.
There was, for example, the extraordinary
case of young william ]. Sidis, son of Prof
Boris Sidis, who at the age Of IL could-and
did-discuss the fourth dimension at Harvard
Yet he wound up while still youth embittered
and moreSe, in q Greenwich Village room where
he lived for a time almost like areelnse He
had found that the world considered his think,
ing radical and out of place. And he couldn't
think Of any other way, considering his expert