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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Gandhi Throws Up the Sponge.

Finally convinced that the British
Round Table Conference is "a lifeless
corpse" Mr.. Gandhi is packing up his
shawls, his loin cloths and his spinning
wheels and preparing to leave London
for India. The ascendancy of the Con-
SENTATIVE party in Great Britain, as the
result Of the october elections, has
persuaded the Mahatma that Indian
Nationalist hopes are further from
realization than ever, and that any
present attempt TO promote them in
Great Britain would be loves labor lost.
90 he is going home.
In announcing his return trip, Gandhi
hreathes defiance. He purposes resuni-
ing the civil disobedience campaign,
despite his confidence that the British
government will meet it with "a reign
of terror" Anticipating a period of
terrible repression" as a result of the
Round Tables failure to grant full,
responsible self-government to India, -
the Nationalist leader says: The
prospect does not sadden us. We teach
our children to dance with joy when
bullets fly around them. We teach them
to. suffer patiently for freedom. And
now go back TO India and invite the
netion, to a new course of suffering.
Tho desire Of millions Of Indians for
Independence cannot be killed"
9andhi, no doubt, is right. The
Aeht for liberation from the British
yoke will go on. 1t has not subsidized
while the Round Table Conference was
tApering to It's futile finish. Only this
week it was stated in the House OF
Lords that IN scme Bsngal districts
every British ofacer is doing his duty
EN- deadly terror Of his life" The
menace of bomb throwers recently be-
dame so great that Viceroy Lord Will
lngdon now travels in airplanes in
dead of by train. This sort Of thing
despite Capdhi's embargo on violence
= inevitable in the atmosphere Of IA
49, +. !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
The Disarmament Riot.

Paris is not fertile spot for dis
armament talk, if the riot which &C.
Cured last night at the International
Disarmament Conference in the Tro-
cadero is a criterion. When an at
tempt was made to translate a speech
made over the radio to the meeting
by Senator William E. Borah, boos
interrupted and prevented. But Mr..
Borah was not the only speaker treated
with discourtesy. Former Premier
Edouard Herriot, chairman of the con-
ference. was howled down; Viscount
Cecil of Chelwood, British statesman;
Alanson B. Houghton. former Amer
lean Ambassador to Great Britain and
to Germany, and Joseph Joos, member
of the German Reichstag, met the
same fate. when they undertook to
address the urlruly audience. The
scene in the Trocadero was vastly diff
ferent from the pacific remarks made
by Premier Laval and other distin-
guished French visitors to this country
in the past when they have spoken
of the devotion Of France to peace.
There Is apparently little desire for
disarmament on the part of a vocifer-
Gus and seemingly considerable por-
ton of the population of the French
capital
"The spirit must prevail over the
brute forces Of the world" former
Premier Herriot is reported to have
said to his audience, only to meet shouts
of nonsense from large groups Of
young men in the chamber. Not all
the French audience, however, approved
the tactics Of these directors to dis
armament. Indeed, so forcibly did the
peace advocates act that the hall was
frequently the scene of many and widely
separated fist fights, al Of which added
to the riot Of sound which was broad
cast to the world over the microphone
Former Premier Paul Painleve was
one Of the few speakers who was
cheered BY the crowd. He took the
traditional French attitude that France
could not disarm until 1t had assurance
Of security; treaties of alliance with
other nations sufficiently strong when
united with France to repel the at
tack Of any enemy upon that country
And there Is the situation, as it exists
in Paris today and Is likely to exist up
TO and including the conference on dis
armament in Geneva next February.
Had France not been . victor in the
World War q decade and more ago;
had France been completely overrun
and compelled in the end to pay
indemnities or separations to the tune
that Germany has been compelled to
pay, perhaps different attitude might
be discernible in that country today.
Germany, the victor over France in the
war Of 1870, had q rush of military
"gloiTe" to the head after that per-
Torrance Efforts to convince Germany
Of the blessings Of disarmament in the
days between 1870 and 1914 met with
no more success than such efforts have
met In France since 1918.
France may be devoted to peace, as
her statesmen have said, but the riot
Of last night, at conference dedicated
to the cause of arms limitation and
permanent peace, is not likely to make
good impression on the rest of the
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

raticism and boiling racial passions
which the Indian Nationalist movement
has generated.
A British spokesman who was in
Washington this month voiced the view
that the independence cause is more
advertised" especially in the United
States. he cla'msd-"t than existent in
fact" The Worldwide propaganda
wsged for it by Gandhis supporters.
this Briton contends, is wholly out OF
proportion to the actusl dimensions Of
the movement While these assertions
do not seem to dovetail with the ac-
knowiedsed anxiety Of the British i'm
perial authorities to come to terms with
the Naticnalists, it is obvious that the
independence drive has manifestly not
yet assumed dimensions that promise
any successful outcome of it within
the visible future.
John Bulls slender army of soldiers
md civilian Administrators have held
teeming India now for the better part
of century They do not lack powerful
native supports. The indian Moslems
do not look with sympathetic eye upon
the aspirations of the Hindu Gandhites
to estab ish themselves as rulers OF the
reelm. Nor are the potent Indian
princes, coddled and subsidized by the
British crown, at all e1smored of the
idea of surrendering their power and
pelf, as they would have to do if Ma
t.enanst India were ever to supp.ant the
British India that is.
Gandhi will not renew his vendetta
against Britain with any glittering pres
poets of early triumph. He has a long
and perhaps a bloody row. to hoe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACgWELL.

One need no longer fear the lean
man. as did great Caesar.
He who must be feared today is the
fellow with whom one cannot be honest.
The older some of us grow. the more
sure we become, that honesty, in all
its branches, is the be-all and end-all
Of life.
Honesty comprises all of morality, all
of decency, all. of truth.
Love itself is based on honesty, and
watered with the same divine dew.
How. unseemly is it, then, for one
who strives toward this ideal perfec-
ton to find himself thrown with those
to whcm honesty is an unknown
quantity!
He cannot say q word or express AN
opinion. even on the most trivial sub
iect. without having his word or his
words twisted into something which he
did not say.
Conversation, for such persons, Is
not the joy of exchanging opinions, but
rather an opportunity to stalk ones
friends as the hunter does the beasts
Of the jungle.
The man not used to honesty of ex-
preston himself finds 1t, in others,
them as the expression has It.
Honesty is deep and presuppoSes that
one has something more than the
average intelligence Statements, with
the honest man, are meant for what
they are meant
The hypocrite--it is an old and an
ugly word, but no other quite takes its
place-the hyprocrite, let us say again,
is always looking for hidden mean
ing.
He twists and distorts plain state
ments of fact until he is abe to make
them mean scm-thing which they never
meant at all in the original.
He can take perfectly Innocent SEN
tence, which says something openly and
directly, without equivocation, as all
good sentences should, and inside of
two seconds. at the outside, he can
distort it until its own maker does not
recognize 1t.
\
What shall be done with this fellow2
What can be done with him, except
to leave him alone.
This does not mean, necessarily, that
one should run away. but merely that
one should think twice before making
any remark to him.
Thinking twice is not easy work. of
course.
Most of us have enough trouble think
ing once and even then it is more often
half-thought than whole thought. 49,.
+ Perhaps it would be easier to run,
after ALL
But this fight is not physical.
It should be mental.
In other words. one should catalogue
in ones private mind (not ones public
mind thsSe men-and women, If any
who cannot accept a statement from
another at its face value.
Put them on a personal black list.
Color it any tint one chooses, If black
is not satisfactory. Maybe a red list
would be better, for there is danger in
these people.
+ 4 \
This elementary caution will save the
honest man. who values his honesty as
pearl of great price, from the dis
agreeable spectacle of seeing his jewel
trampled in the mud.
He should know that, even as the
initiates of the old religions of Greece
end Egypt had one great secret, known
only to themselves, so men who believe
in the truth of honesty, the divine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Higghligghts on.the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers Of Other E f y

bat 1t is optimism. We have diagnosed
the trouble; behold now the remedy.
Take a little optimism and inoculate
morcse people with counsels such IS
these: Things are going bad? Wen,
they'll go better. Sound ana healthy
countries never contracts industrial gan.
creme. The Chinese and Japanese viii
come to terms. International compile
cations. will disappear This transition
is but the return to a normal state after
many years of initiation and overpro-
duction. We are enduring our heavy
but well justified-penance with
smile. A little dry bread from time TO
time makes our usual meals taste net"
ter"
Try this treatment yourself, and get
rid of your sulkiness. It Is Just as easy
to hope that tomorrow will be better
than today than that it won't, for one
guess is as good as another. Why, then,
always be so sure that the morrow VIII
Chaplin and i. -
Gandhi Can't Agree.
Evening Post, wellington East and
West met, but do not seem to have
mingled, when the Anglo American
film comedian, Charles Chaplin, con-
versed in London with Mr.. Gandhi.
Their difference OF opinion ABOUT Cne
merits of machinery illustrates in .
flash the difference between the Orient
Cor, at any rate, the Orient Of Mr..
Gandhi) and the Occident.
Gandhi, it is cabled, opposes the use
of machinery in India, preferring man.
ual labor; while Chaplin, who recently
broadcast his earlier privations in Lon
don as a manual worker, is naturally
entranced with the pay and profits OF
overmachined America.
There is nothing in art CD so ma.
chinelike as the bulk of the Hollywood
pictures, and the gulf between them and
SAY a story by Tagore is abysmal The
Chaplin Gandhi argument could have
gone on forever had not Gandhi been
called to. prayer, after which they parted
the comedian going to his hearty
Western dinner the MahatIna to "a
meal of goats milk and orange juice"
One cannot be self denying in diet
and habits and rigorous in religious ex-
ercises without being master of ones
self. The Western idea. on the other
hand. Is to be master of external ma
tertAl by using machinery. Self-mastery
and nnaterial-mastery are both contri-
buttons to human progress. So it may
yet be found that East and West are
two halves Of one whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

mert choke their engine at the fatal
moment - ave
The slight delay ertailed in giving the
railroad train the right Of way at the
crossine-a right which 1t must be
granted-is of the least possible I'M
portance. Perhaps minute is required
to bring the motor car to a fun stop
and 10 start 1t again after the train has
passed. The man who failed to sacrifice
that minute the other evening lost his
life and that of his companion, and
caused deep mourning on the part of
their families. 1t is a sad and heavy
penalty to pay for a rnomentary thrill
of connpetitio1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

Take advantage Of this free service.
II you are one of the thousands VINO
have patroniZed the bureau, write us
again. II you have never used the
service, begin now. It Is maintained
for your beneflt Be sure to send your
name and address with your question
and inclose cents in coin or stamps
for return postage. Address The Eve
ming Star Information Bureau, Frederic
j. Haskin, director, Washington, D. G.
@. Has the Government any actual
motion pictures Of the World War;
A. The Signal Corps Of the War De-
partnfent has about 100000 feet Of hlm
taken during the war.
@. Please print the prayer by Plato
used in the funeral services of Senator
Morrow.-B. N. B.
A. Beloved Pan, and all We other
gods who haunt this place, give me
beauty in the inward soul, and may
one. May I reckon the wise to be
wealthy, and may have such guam
tity of gold as temperate man end
he only can bear and carry. Any
thing more? The prayer, I think, is
enough for me-"
Q. How fast does Floyd Gibbons
talk?-M. c.
A. He has been clicked when talk
ing at speed of PIT words minute
@. Can sweepstake tickets be sent
through our mails?-T. L.
A. It is illegal to use the United
States mails for the distribution OF
sWeepstake tickets.
@. Which is correct-this data is OF
these data are?-J. S.
A. Data is the plural of the Latin
datum, therefore it is correct to say
these data are.
G. I heard DR.. Roy Chapman An
draWs speaking of fossil remains found
in the Cobb Desert He spoke Of the
fact that the animals existed millions
of years ago. How is 1t possible to
know when these animals lived?-
D. B.
A. Paleontology is a science which
treats Of the life of the geologic past
The records are read from the rocks
themselves. Through observation OF
proce1pcS now going on biologists are
able TO approximate how long ago the
strata of rocks were formed in which
the fossils are found.
@. Who is the most prolific writer OF
juvenile fiction?-A. L.
A. Probably Edward Stratemeyer
who died May IL, 1880, in Newark
N. j., could have claimed this distinc-
ton. During the 40-odd years of his
writing life he produced more than 600
juvenile books, among which are the
Old Glory books, Soldiers Of Fortune
series, the Putnam Hall series and the
Frontier Boys. Writing under a va
riety of pen names and with numer-
Gus secretaries, this author brought
out, in addition to the above men,
toned, boys lives of many great men
O. To what country do the Gala
pages Islands Belonged. s.
A. To the Republic Of Ecuador.
Officially these form the Colon Archi-
pelago. There are Is larger and about
40 smaller islands They lie about $50
miles west of the coast of South
America, and have total land area Of
about 2,870 square miles. The largest
island is Isabella, covering approx
mately 1850 square miles.
@. What is the insignia Of the Quar-.
termaster Corps Of the Army and what
does it mean?-R. L.
A. The insignia is sword and key
crossed on a wheel surmounted by o
spread eagle. The significance OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Disorderly Aliens and Americans.

Congress shall make no law abridg-
ing the right of the people peaceably to
assemble and to petition the Govern
rient for a redress of grievances. >
Tins runs the first amendment to the
Constitution. It is in part the lead
ine. article of the so-called Bill of
Fights. which was added to the Consti-
tuition shortly after the adoption OF
that instrument of Government
This. declaration of the right OF
soeAceable assembly has been invoked
repeatedly since the formation OF the
Government, and often improperly. It
has been. made to cover a multitude Of
ofenses against the public order, for
assemblies held under its protection
have not always been orderly In act or
in words. Avowed enemies of the state
have used 1t Is cloak for their sedi-
tfous enterprises. Fomenters Of dis
order have cited it as warrant for their
asitations..
Yesterday q group Of people appeared
ut the gates of the White House with
q petition to the President. They were
the advance guard. as it were. OF q
larger number vino are to march or
otherwise travel to washington few
days hence to demand some sort of re-
lief from Congress for their present
destitution. This group yesterday sought
to secure from the President assurance
OF provision Of food and lodging for the
naarchers who will come later. They
were prevented from entering the Exec
utive Ofices and when they and their
companions behaved IN Q disorderfy
manner some Of them were arrested.
This was not q "peaceabIe assembly
IA. the terms and within the meaning
Of the constitutional guarantee. Nor
VIII be the march and gathering Of the
Jobiess here December 8. If that demon
stratsUn should occur. The right Of
petition has not been denied, nor has
the right Of orderly assembly. In fact,
those who are promoting this mani
festation Of dissent. do not seek any
specffe relief from the President or
from congress. Tney merely want
agitation and trouble and in fact vel
come arrest and punishment for dis
orderly conduct as q means Of further
agitation.
The march Oh the jobless that is
proposed will be . cruel hardship upon
the miserable dupes Of radicalism who
are. enrolled IN the ranks Of the
paraders. If they arrive here they can
not possibly secure assurances Of relief.
They will not forward the cause Of the
unemployed They win not advance by
o day the enactment Of such laws or
the, grant of such appropriations as
Congress may vote in relief OF public
distress. They will certainly not con-
tribute TO the wisdom Of such legis1a-
ton.
The whole scheme is the work Of
those who are alert to make trouble for
the Government Of the United States,
who seek its subversion, who aim at the
revolution" based upon the principles
Of Communism. Those of the leaders
and agitators who are aliens-and
many of them are-should be rated as
undesirable AMI returned to the lands
of their origin. Those who are Amer
lean citizens and are thus enrolled in
the organization that has for its pri-
mary object the disruption of this
Government should be held for the
treatment of the laws which forbid
disorder ininical to the welfare and
the security Of the state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

In some ways the municipal COVER
eminent of Chicago is getting a break
these days Of depression. Announce
ment Is made that after December /
her pay roll will again be exhausted"
If times were brisker her thousands of
employees might get exhausted, too, and
find better jobs. AS it is, they do their
duty, accept script and promises and
live on hope.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

An ingenious Nebraska gunner is 60
ing to have photograph records made
Of ducks quacking and take them out
with him in the blind to use as decoys.
The idea might be carried further by
utilizing the love song of Mrs. Moose
and thus saving all that birchbark
horn and guides larynx stuff. q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

A couple of centuries ago the terri
tory of the Chesapeake was visited by
the notorious "Blackbirder," with his
human cargo out of Africa. Honest
men dealt with him, but despised him.
How much better he was than his mod
ern prototype, who infests the same
regions and who deals in white
femininity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Maybe a Husband Was Driving.

From the springneld tMass) Union.
While looking into a milliner'S shop
the other day woman was knocked
down by an auto which skidded onto
the sidewalk. Husbands are calli2g
their wives attention to the danger :
getting too close to stores d'sSlc'ts.
the new STYLES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Heartless Prophetess.

Harold says that after we are mar
ried he will want me TO dress like q
queen"
Eyes" replied Miss Cayenne, and for
q while he will be as proud as a king.
After that he will grumble like a tax
payer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

When Gov. Pinchot and Senator
Davis really get going they suggest two
small boasting boys dealing In mil
IONS billions, quillions and skiuions. +"
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Sitting in Judgment.

From the Roanoke Times.
At one time dramatic critics used to
sit on. the stage. Nowadays, points out
an exchange, they "sit on the author,
the cast, the scenery and the produSA
And even the audience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Buck Private's Lot.

From the New York Sun.
The Chinese general, Nah, says that
he will hight until death and all the
Chinese buck private has to find out
is whose death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Diplomacy and Prosperity.

From the Savannah Morning News.
The call has been madesfor diplomacy
to lead the way back to prosperity. You
remember the 6eiuition of the diplo-
mat, "One who can bring home the
bacon without splitting the beans"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Where Mixing Is Undesirable.

From the Columbia Is. CO State.
Gold water thrown on dairying in
York." says headline. Here's hoping
the milk hottles were already filled arG
sealed. &. i,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

Buying ones hundred or more Christ
mas seals is only half the stunt, To
place one on every piece of outgoing
mail is just as important.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
:. an Other States and Canada.
Member of the Associated Press

TIE. Associated Press is exclusively entitled
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
rubIished herein. All rights OF publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

From the Manchester Union.
Einstein now admits that the NTH
dimension is pure fiction. But 1t never
will be best seller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
House Work.

From the Buffalo Evening News.
Schooling isn't necessary to success.
You can quit early. as Edison did, and
study at home for SO years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

zone hundred and Sixty two Shot;
$50 Bitten" ran a recent headline.
Adirondacks? No, Manchuria!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Friend Horse.

Friend Horse.
Charley. dear!" exclaimed young
Mrs. Torkins, why do people say a
horse is mans best friend?"
Because he is gentle and appre-
ciative."
Il don't think that's it at all. It's
due to the fact that a friend has a
way of inducing you to take a chance
on him that causes you to lose money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
Relief.

All hail the frosty season
That brings such varied slee!
When men may say with reason,
There are no flies on mel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

Some folks said Uncle Eben.
"prides darse'f on bein' foresighted so
much dat dey ain got no respeck fob
duties dat comes any near-der dan day
after tomorraE." s,s8
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28

II Is the conservatively gathered
estates that, following death of the
owners, receive the conservatively high
estimates.
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Kate by Mail--PayabIe in Advance.
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History's Repetition.
There's nothing new!
But why feel blue
And rail in prose or rhyme?
The old-time stuff
Is great enough
To hear q second time.