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LIES INTERLUDES
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Z. FREEMAN, ID. D. LII. D.
Bishop Of Washington.

tism he received the Eternal Fathers
word OF recognition. The language that
the Evangelist uses Is striking and sig
nif1cant. The spirit driveth Him into
the wilderness" the implication being
that the wilderness interlude was an
essential part of the divine plan.
To one and all of us there come pc
riods in life, periods that we do not in
vite. In which we are compelled to
think soberly and deeply upon Nfe's
meaning. These interludes in the
course OF our occupation and our ac-
tivities we reluctantly accept, but
where they are properly recognized
they constitute periods that mark our
highest development. Reverses and
misfortunes are hard to bear, but
where we CLEAN from them the lessons
they are designed to teach we emerge
from them the better and the stronger
Even our enforced idleness through
sickness makes us consider as never be-
fore the value of health and the means
to its proper maintenance. Said one
whose life had been intensely active,
but who was afflicted with a grave
malady: Il am sorry to be sick, but 1t
has its compensations, for 1t has given
me time to think" Even those more
somber misfortunes that come to us,
WHeTt HcaPy SIlAuOWs ldu hGI IO6S our
hesrthstones. may prove of infinite val
ue to us, If only they compel us to re-
fleet, not only upon the shortness and
uncertainty Of human life, but upon
the claims which right conception of
immortality lays upon us. Looked at
from another angle, we stand seriously
in need of these periods of sober re-
fiection and never more so than now
We shall not restore order and quiet
in the world by making supreme efforts
to have business as usual" The pres
ent interruption in the orderly course
of our life must have other designs
and purposes. We have been COM
PEELED to the wilderness to think and
think more deeply about those values
that constitute the sure groundwork
of our happiness and our prosperity. In
our thinking we may not neglect, ex-
cept to our hurt, those deeper and finer
principles that concern life in all its
aspects as given to mankind by Jesus
Christ Great thoughts are born in the
silences
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4 Book Review.

The telephone company's new di-
rectory for the Winter and Spring Of
1892 is a sight for sore eyes. Scme
genius Who one Wagers, will make his
mark in this world has arranged the
books printing in a style that makes
hearty cheers from multitudes who in
the past have looked and looked and
l-oked for names and numbers in the
twilight of some stuffy booth. The
greatest advance has been made by
printing the book in three columns to
the page instead OF four. thus adding
space to relieve typogra phical con-
gestion that has been crying for rem
edy, The company is to be con-
graduated
The succeeding issues CT telephone
directories are interesting markers Of
the growth OF community and the
advances of science. Each year it
gains in thickness, new frontiers are
pushed forward, The preceding directory
contained the rates for long-distance
calls to such points as Batavia. Java:
Canary Islands; Riga, Latvia, and sgd
ney, Australia. The new directory Just
as prosaically lists the rates on calls
to the S. S. Belgenland, the Homeric,
the Leviathan, the Majestic, the
Olympic and the Empress of Britain.
the price Of such calls from Washing
ton TO any Of these vessels at any
stage of their transatlantic voyages re-
naming the same.
And with such progress, one hopes
that the day will yet come when in
vention OF discovery will evolve &
method 0 hpding the number Of a
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Government Positions, it is difficult to
ma spot In the Nation which II not
represented in the Federal personnel
In most cases single member OF q
family will obtain a Job in Washing
ton. The folks stay back home. In
hard times, when conditions back home
grow pinched, these folks look to the
one member Of the family who has ..
steady job in Washington So 1t Ia thai
after every Government pay day the
outgoing mail from Washington carries
literally thousands of checks and money
orders and cash TO the folks back home.
Many Washington families have a
regular budget in times like these. The
check for Aunt Minnie and the check
Tor Uncle Horace's boy to keep him In
the engineering school and the check
TO pay Cousin Mehttable's rent In that
far-of country town must be taken
cut of the mt llly budget with as con-
Slstent reguE : as the check for the
rent, for the gas bill, the milk bill, and
the electric light. They have become
fixed charges.
One Long Drive.
All this came to light incident to the
unemployment drive campaign, when ID
was learned that great many workers,
no matter how willing, had not an ex-
ira dime left over after meeting their
own unemployment relief budgets 80
handsomely. There had been rurnors
that some bureau chiefs had passed on
the suggestion to contribute three DAYS
pay to their subordinates somewhat
thinly yelling an implied threat that
promotion would be slow to those who
DID not respond. This, together with
the fact already these employees have
nnPn SfFRfPhino ffHr e. Aka
limit, came to the attention of higher
officials and word has gone out that
duress must not be applied.
Ihis steady outflow of money from
Washington has been going on so quiet
~ with no one saying anything about
II that its existence was unknown until
the unemployment fund drive brought
the knowledge to the surface. Then
1t was made plain that what the Gov.
eminent workers have been doing La
not merely responding to mon1entary
drive to be over In a week or two. They
have been responding to one long drive
Tor nearly two years.
The fact that Washington's chief in
duStry, Government, goes ON In good
times and bad, has attracted many per-
sons TO the Capital These have cre-
ated an unemployment problem of seri-
Gus proportions, but there Is little like
lihood that the newcomers will find
work. The city has few industries out
side the Government doors and they are
all filled with workers not likely to be
displaced in favor of newcomers Nor
mally a new session of Congress means
an increase in local employment. This
year is conspicuous exception. Many
flrst-term Congressman are here, who,
in ordinary times, would recruit their
stenographic and secretarial staff from
among Washingtonians. Not so now.
With depression in their home districts,
they are bringing their help with them.
Scarcely a single job will be added to
those available to people already Ia
Washington.
Many who have come have been Bit
terly disappointed In their hope of hnd-
ing work This was emphatically shown
when, for an examination for a few
hundred stenographers held recently by
the Civil Service Commission, 10000
applicants appeared.
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New York's Transportation Losses.

Depletion Of the revenues of street
railway companies, OF which the District
lines are complaining appears to have
been felt by other systems than those
of the Capital, The depression in busi-
ness, or perhaps some other cause, has
been possibly the occasion. Maybe there
are other reasons. The fact stands
forth that reports of rapid transit
patronage in centers of population in
dicate that large numbers of people
have been either travelling by other
means or have not been travelling at
all. One Of these reports comes from
Greater New York. showing that during
the fiscal year ending June 80 last. the
number of passengers carried on the
rapid transit, street surface and bus
lines was Ill ,s0o,O 900 less than in the
year preceding The total traffic for
the year was 3,l3l 800 900, or 81 per
cent less than in 1880. For the rapid
trsnsit-which means the underground
lines and surface lines combined the
aeerease was an average of s2s, 900
k6ezs day This lo0s Of patronage
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TeEt. "Tte spirit dripeth Him into
the Diderrless. st. Marx, f12.

TeTt: "The spirit dripeth Him into
the toideTress st Marx, liz.
Great careers begin in the silences.
Great thoughts, great deeds and great
works grow out of periods OF long
continued reflection. The harassing
cares and distractions of an over
occupied life furnish little opportunity
1or contemplation or for the considera-
tlon OF nfe's highest designs and pur-
poses. 1t is hard to recognize the value
Oh hfe's finer ideals or to develop our
souls IN the crowded streets OF our city
NE. Or in places where the air is full
OF sound. 1t Is equally hard to be con-
sclouS OF the worlds real beauty or un-
derstand the deeper spiritual values OF
lie where material things crowd upon
us. one OF the conspicuous reasons
why lnere is less of genius in the world
tooay, fewer Of those things that repre-
sent culture at its best, is the pace at
which we live. We are too hurried TO
t thlnk and think deeply about ife's
hlghest values. Dante. Milton, Bunyan,
Hugo, Tenpyson, Francis of Assist St
Paul and Christ all came to their great
tasks after wilderness experience. 1t
was detachment from the world, a long
period OF reflection and contemplation
mat lmpelled them to their great work
some one speaks of "the self-sufYicing
power OF solitude" 1t may not be popu-
lar TO urge the Importance of the will
derness side of life In a day where the
whole fits in the direction of crowd
ed cities and crowded occupations. On
the other hand, there is abundant evi-
dence, especially In these critical days
that much Of our misfortune grows out
OF our incapacity to think and think
deeply about those mighty issues that
concern our happiness and our peace
1t may seem irreconcilable that the
great Master out of brief ministry
gave himself to long period of de-
tachment in his wilderness vigil 1t
hardly seems reasonable that such
life should need such q period for prepe-
ration, and yet it marked the beginning
OF His great ministry. II followed hard
upon one OF those events In His life
that was characterized by disclosure
OF His divine nature. 1t was q moment
OF supreme exaltation when at His bap-
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was attributed by transit and economic
experts to the business depression and
the unemployment situation.
In New York the individual transport,
or motor car. is not material factor
in the case. The personal vehicle car
ries only a small percentage of the
people who move about daily in going TO
and from places OF occupation. The
taxicab, likewise, plays but small part
in the equation, save for the short
hauls. The condition OF the streets is
such that the underground service bears
the heaviest share Of the burden of
transportation. The loss of 52,6o0, 900
fares in this service during the year
Is therefore to be attributed TO less
ening Of the number of people who have
been going daily to and from work or
business,
The fare on the New York rapid
transit lines is five cents. 1t is not be-
lieved that 1t will be changed, regard
less Of the depletion of revenue incl
dent to the loss of patronage. Proposals
10 raise the rate have always met with
stout resistance and retention Of the
five-cent fare has been one of the cor
ner-stone principles Of the local po-
litical organizations. Lessening Of the
service as a measure OF economy would
be likewise combated, inasmuch as
even with depletion OF patronage the
cars are, at rush hours, heavily crowded,
and a shortening OF the service would
cause highly dangerous congestion. So
the situation is difficult for the trans
portation management, and the solution
of the financial problem involved sp-
pears to be remote.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Present and Past.

Present and Past.
Among the shadows strange that com
Our smiles to overcast,
The one which brings a mood most glun
Is thinking on the past.
For instance, if you say II bring"
You later say Il brought"
But If perchance you try to sing
You cannot say Il sought"
No matter where a man may 90,
You tell us that "he went"
But If the gardener should hoe
You never say "he hent."
If on an airship you should fly
You write us that you few"
But II some time again you try,
Don't tell us that you trew."
And If huntsman goes to shoot
You say next day "he shot"
But if bugle he should toot
You'd never say "he tot"
And so perplexities I find
Where pleasures should be found,
Because my verbs I cannot mind
Just as they should be mound.
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Good Prospect for the
Christmas Tree Trade
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

Every third or fourth family in the
United States Is expected to buy a
Christmas tree this year, according to
the Department of Agriculture, which
estimates that between S and 10 million
trees will be purchased for private
homes or apartments, to say nothing of
those used for community and organi-
zation celebrations.
Thus the prospects for the Christmas
tree business something Of a barometer
Of holiday trade generally, are rated as
good, although perhaps not quite up to
the standard for normal times. The
trees are on their way or already in
the hands Of dealers, great quantities
being cut locally where they are avail
able Select specimens for large part
of the Eastern United States come from
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, the
Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, and
the Adirondacks and Catskills of New
York.
A wide range of prices is reported,
VARYING from rs cents to $35 or more
a tree There Is q pretty wide spread
between the price the land owner re-
ceives and that at which the tree is re-
tailed, From its Northwestern observers
the Department of Agriculture learns
that the farmers in increasing numbers
ars selling their trees direct to their
customers This partly solves the prob
lem OF glutted, overproduced Christ
mas tree market and helps to sustain
prices. The farmers in New England
have attacked the problem in another
way by organizing for cooperative
sales. Experts of the department note
with interest an increasing demand for
table" trees for use in apartments.
They say there will be more stocky trees
from / to feet high this year than
ever before.
~ 4
At the Department of Commerce re-
ports are coming in which indicate that
expectations OF brisk Christmas buying
are being realized. Already, 1t Is said,
business is comparing favorably with
that of last year. thanks largely to toys.
These reports tell of many new and in
teresting playthinss embodying insenius
features. This seasons toys, more than
ever. are miniature duplicates OF auto
mobiles. airpianss, railroad trains and
the countless other things that play .
part In the grown-up world. The chl-
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dren demand this reality" about their
playthings.
Several Of the district Offices of the
Department of Commerce report spe-
clal campaigns at selling trees and
toys, one of them reporting that the
local merchants association has stated
That It's effort is designed to stress the
appeal OF making this Christmas one of
me happiest, gayest and most cheerful
that we nave ever had and is not
ouy-now campaign or any similar ap-
peal"
one business house in the Middle
West reports the best season In its his-
tory. This is nothing less than toy
hospital which reconditions worn play
tnings TO be given to needy children ~
CnrStmas. While under the supervi-
sion OF professional craftsmen, most of
the work at this toy hospital Is being
done by volunteers.
Ine Chamber of Commerce of a
southwestern city is sponsoring cam
palgn Tor local communities to use In
stimulaung Christmas buying, particu-
larly g1ts for children. A campaign of
Newspaper advertising has been on from
november 30 and Will last until the day
before Christmas.
tccuyriRhs, issaA
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A Modern Youngster.

MplcTn souDsSttr.
Willie's lifting up his voice,
Cause he's all alone.
Nope, except the neighbors,
Hears his mournful tone.
Fathers at card game,
Many blocks away;
Mothers studying high art
At the matinee.
Brothers playing foot ball;
Sister has tea;
The nurse is entertaining;
It's her afternoon" you see.
Poor little Willie boy
Gould his fate be worse?
He only meets the ashman
When he wishes TO converse!
Wouldn't you feel fretful,
With troubles of your own,
II this great world left you,
Like Willie, all alone?
Sharp words" said Uncle Eben,
,e rsxzers. useful now an then,
Lnj Gus playthtngS.s
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Twenty thousand persons watched
Knox County, Tenn, farm women in a
parade depicting attractions OF rural
life" 1t must have passed a given
point almost instantly.
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Dfember Of the Associated Press

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10 ~ Use for republication OF ali news d!s-
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Not Expecting Too Much.

Il suppose your remarks in Congress
vii be listened to with great INTEREST,""
my friend" said Senator Sorghum,
in Congress man is lucky to get a
chance to make a speech without ex-
pecting people to listen to it."
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A Crude Critic.

What Is the plot Of that plsy?"
The only plot I could discover" an
swered Mr. Lobrow lis a conspiracy to
get money at the box Office"
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A Not Infrequent Occurrence.

Not Infrequent Occurrence.
"As witness I was required to
promise that I would tell the whole
truth" said the indignant citizen as
he was leaving the court house.
"Of course"
And every time I started to tell 1t
the lawyers on the other side proved
that such a procedure would be entirely
improper"
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1t is not yet 100 late for Mr.. (for-
merly Prince Nicholas Of Rumania TO
come over here and get a job as a
store or street Santa Claus.
Evening star., 1931-12-13

Much is written of this or that party
being in the congressional saddle" 1t
is taken for granted that the Progress
sives are the burrs hereunder.
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A newcomer to the Seventy second
Congress is said to have a ranch bigger
than the State OF Rhode Island. But
has he any Senators?
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Christmas experienced by Britain since
the war. One ray Of cheerfulness is
the statement OF Chancellor Chamber-
lain Of the exechequer, On the sd-
journment of Parliament, that hs is
confident the budget viii reveal no
deficiency.
lConyrixht, lsstl
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Wholesale commodity prices in Ger
many are said to be almost back to
those of 1918. Well, we won the war,
anyhow.
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The Canvas Rack CIoud

II there were clouds like painters make,
So woolly, round and small,
How useful they would be to break
An sviators fall!
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Unemployed in and around Denver
were given a feast of jack rabbits
Now who is going to pay for the neces-
sarY denta! Work2
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4 Dino Grand took home three thou
ksand press clippings but not a single
safety razor blade.
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Rate by MaiI-S- -yable In Advance.
MARYLAND and virginia.
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Rate hr Carrier Within the Cit..

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Coliectton made at the end Of each month
Orders rlSy be sent in by mail or telephone
National SoSa
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Mr.. Fletcher: Gentlemen, Mr.. Hoo
yer expects me to dissrm you all, I
now address myself TO the Polish and
Humanlan delegates. I have the honor
10 inform you, sirs, that Russia again
oners, as In the past 1t has repeatedly
onered, TO disarrn completely. What
do you say,
MI. zaleskt, VIII Ra,ss,e undertake
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The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business Once.
iith ST. and Pennsylvania aye,
Neg York Once: ITO East s2nd st.
CHICAGO once Lake Michigan Building.
European once: IA Regent 81, London.
England.
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Sharp words" said Uncle Eben, lis
like rsxsers. useful now an then. but
oanjous playthingS."
Evening star., 1931-12-13
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Guiteau's defense In his trial for the
murder of President Garfield was thst
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15

for many years and they probably intend to keep
doing it.
will again try to tell the truth about oil and ;
will again take the consequences for doing SO.
Early in 1924, after more than five years of
hard, unsuccessful work with the men Of the Oil
Industry, laid the facts before our Federal
Government.
After several months of quiet effort ON the
part of President Coolidge, he finally appointed
the Federal Oh Conservation Board.
The Oil Industry was controlled by a few,
giant companies and could find spOkesmen who
could say what they wanted said from intermediate
companies.
THE SPOKESMEN FOR THE OIL INDUSTRY
HAVE SAID THERE is NO WASTE On
OVER-PRODUCTTON
These men were fattered to appear to be the
leaders of the Industry and they said there was no
waste Over-productiOn, and that our methods
were all right and could not be improved.
They tried to prevent action on the part of
INC OONOHAAACnI ny Saying THAT A OuE AdWS WCE0
changed SO that oil properties were handled
as l recommended they should be, that gasoline
could not be bought for fifty cents gallon.
In spite of pressure brought on President
Coolidge to prevent him from doing anything,
he had the courage to issue his letter and appoint
his Board.
His Board, however, found that they were
lined up against milIionaires, multi-miIIionaires
and billionaires, and they have been compelled to
play the soft pedal ever since.
THE WASTE OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS AS
Perhaps there is waste in all of the other
businesses combined that equals the waste of
the Oil Business.
What is called competition in an oil field is
no more competition than is a run bank.
In fact bank is not as much S'cut
throat competition as in oil field because all
the depOstOrs are trying to get is their money,
and in oil field the operators trying TO get
not only their oil but everybody else's oil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-15

TNHERE WAS TIME when this country could
IL have furnished enough meat to have fed the
whole World.
That when we had plenty of buffalo and
they were easy to find and easy to kill.
Nobody can say that we were misers with
buffalOes SO long we had them.
We killed them even though we could only
the hide, and sometimes had to ship the
hide thousand miles and sell it for dollar.
don't know how long we could have supplied
the World with buffalo meat but we could have
done it for few weeks or a few months, or pos
sibly for few years.
OUR OIL MAY 60 LIKE OUR BUFFALORs
The same thing is true of oil today.
we to open up all of our wells, we
could displace all of the other fuel of every kind
used in the whole of the United States.
If we could run all of our oil and get it to the
markets, we would ruin the coal business.
We would cruelty the credit of the coal carry.
ing railroads and this, in turn, would seriously
injure the credit Of all the railroads.
If we would drill up our proven oil lands as
aggressively drilled up our oil lands in
previous times, could supply enough oil to
dispIace all of the other fuel in the entire World
| don't know how long we could supply the
whole World with Oil,-pOssibly only few weeks,
or few months, a few years, and then it would
be matter of past history like the buffalo.
But nobody will ever be able to say we have
been misers with our oil either.
have been trying for more than ten years to
protect oil against needless waste and reckless
exhaustion.
ANOTHER MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS OF
THE OIL PRODUCING STATES IS TO BE
HELD TODAY
meeting has been called for today in Wash
ington of the Governors of the oil producing
States. The people responsible for the protection
of our oil resources have been passing the buck''