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Evening star., 1932-07-31
Time For Patriotism
BY BRUCE BARTON.

HERE many features of similarity in all periods OF
national crisis -.
When the trouble starts the first impulse is for self
l. preservation. / make shall
be saved?" IT,
People hoard money, send it abroad The more tmd
Law in supplies of food purchase firearms.
Then slowly but surely different spirit is born People
begin What hope there for and mine II the
country destroyed? What good boarded money II the
nation credit? How absurd to that shall be
allowed carefully storedup food others are
Then is born realization that only if all saved
any safe The for self preservation followed by
real patriotism. 49,,
D white who was to Berlin and the first president
of Cornell University.
When the Civil hystercal
fear recent months Money fed the bonds
of the Union went begging
- White tells of meeting a Sef-made millionaire hard
with trace of SentmentaiSm who said he
was advising in the newly created National Debt
White: "You not then of those who believe
that our debt will be repudiated?"
With flashing eyes, the replied: "Repudiaton or no
reputation putting everything rake and scrape to-
gether national bonds to help this Government maintain
ITSELF by the Eternal if not to have country
don't want any money" -
this spirit of and SefSacrce to make
itself dominant in affairs.
time communities organizations to stop asking
Government to the
those representatives who fight for
time for the veterans not to ask for but to start
on initiative the and abuses in the
present appropriations Of billion a year.
time for all Of us to glue. time for patriotism.
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Evening star., 1932-07-31
Grammar Is Published
After 298 Years Work

PARIS.-In April, 1884. Cardinal
Richelieu, who founded the French
Academy, wrote into its statutes that
one Of its duties was to publish a die
tlonary and a grammar of the French
language Whereas the dictionary has
been appearing periodically, the hrSt
edition of the grammar is dated April,
1882.
1t has not taken three centuries &C
tuany to write the grammar. 1t merely
took successive generations OF acade-
micians nearly 800 years to make up
their minds to undertake the task. Oc-
casionally a start was made, but the
will was always lacking to go through
with it. The historians, essayists.
poets, novelistS and statesmen who
make up the academy seemed to look
upon composing grammar as drudgery.
When Abel Hermant, the novelist,
was elected to the academy few years
ago a change came upon the scene.
Grammar is his hobby and he writes
regularly on the subject for several pc
riodicalS, and Is so fond Of discussing
syntax that his enemies call him a
pedant He induced his colleagues to
tackle the 300-year-old task and carry
it to q conclusion.
His reward came when the first
printing of the Grammar of the French
Academy was sold out on the very day
of publication.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-07-31

LONDON.-In laying down the die
tum that only the lord mayors Of Lon
don and York, in England, and the
lord provost of Edinburgh and Glasgow
and the lord mayor of Belfast ARE en-
titled to be addressed as Right Honor
able" the department of the govern
ment known as the home Cffice has
stirred up hornets nest in the British
Isles.
When the community has risen to
the dignity of being equipped with a
lord mayor as its chief magistrate 1t
has been assumed that such factotum
Is not, as in New York or other Amer
ican cities, simply "Hizzoner." 1t has
become common practice to accord the
prefix Right Honorable" leaving His
Worship" to an assorted galaxy of plain
mayors who disport themselves at the
slightest provocation IN their robes and
chains Of office.
A wise guy or person with griev-
ance in Manchester is responsible for
telling the mayors where they get Off
He raised the question whether the
lord mayor of Manchester was entitled
to be addressed as Right Honorable" I"
The home office thereupon responded
with the unpalatable facts. but for
mer lord mayor of Manchester. who
had been known as the Right Honor
able" insists that no attention will be
paid TO the home office.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Recipes for Happiness


be able to drill them. That is a form
of happiness; 1t Is that Of the great
artist.
But to act Is not enough in order
to be happy. One must act in accord
with the society of which one is a
part. Conflict wears out man and
makes work painful. Does this mean.
then, that one must give up thinking
and act freely? Not at all. but-and
here is the third recipe-choose for your
everyday life an environment the effort
of which is headed in the same direc-
tion as YOUR own and which takes an
interest in your actions.
Instead Of fighting against group
which you believe does not understand
YOU, and in that fight destroying your
happiness and that of others, seek
friends who think as you do. That
should not prevent you from convincing
the unbelieVerS, but at least you will be
seconded by those who are your broth
ers in spirit.
And here is the fourth recipe for hap
piness-not to make ones self unhappy
in imagining far-removed and unfore-
seen catastrophes. Last Fall, under a
delightful Autumn sun, in the center Of
the TuillerieS Garden, where the chill
dren, the fountains and the light COM
bined to bestow a marvellous gaiety, I
met an unhappy man. Solitary, somber.
he was walking under the yellowing
trees and thinking about the financial
disasters which, he told me, he foresaw
for 1885.
Are you mad?" said to him. "who
knows what 1885 will be like? Every
thing is difficult and the periods of
tranquility are rare and brief in the
history of men. But whatever takes
place will certainly not resemble your
sad dreams. Enjcy the present; initiate
these children who are sailing their
white boats on the pond. Do your duty
and let the gods do the rest"
Every one ought to think about the
future while he is able to act on present
events. An architect should think about
the future of the house he will build;
a laborer to insure himself against old
age; a deputy about the effects of the
budget upon which he will vote. But
once the choice Is made, the measure
taken, give yourself some peace of
mind. Do not sulk regarding your own
actions. After you have done your best,
accept criticism with indifference; never
explain, never complain"
These are the recipes for happiness.
Above all. it Is useless to attempt to
foresee, except as a disinterested game
for the mind, the great events which,
depending upon innumerable causes,
escape the reckonings Of the human
mind. What Frenchman, in 1893,
could imagine a Napoleon? Or, in
1907, st. Helena? What financier, in
1925, could imagine the present power
of the franc? The happy man should
feel at ease in the whirlpools of destiny
like the good swimmer in the waves.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Meat Sent to Moscow
In Diplomatic Pouch

RIGA, Latvia.-It is seriously sug-
gested that the classic diplomatic valise
should be refrigerator so far as Soviet
Russia Is concerned.
Originally leather bag containing
diplomatic mail, the valise has come
to mean all packages addressed to an
Ambassador or Minister Plenipotentiary,
all of which are exempted from exami-
nation by the customs. Usually 1t con-
tains many things which 1t would be
difficult to describe as mail"
The French Minister here has just
sent to Moscow. addressed to Comte
Dejean, newly appointed French Am
bassador to Russia, so pounds Of butch
er's meat and POUNDS Of sausage,
which went in the ''valise."
Finding Russian food supplies in
sufficient, Comte Dejean Is asking his
colleague In Riga to come TO his aid.
tCopyright, ls321
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Russia Returns to Trade

starving. And in the countryside one
could see corpses of horses and COWS
scattered along the dirt roads; their
owners had been unable to feed them
through the Winter. Yet. as we know,
they could not slaughter and use them
for food, because this would be "crtmi-
nal sabotage"
In other words in the Spring of 1882
it became obvious that serious famine
threatened Russia and that something
urgent had to be done to relieve the
peasants position and to stimulate his
energy for the coming sowing period
Hence the DEGREES Of last May. BY
these DEGREES the government first Of
all promised to reduce its grain collec-
ton by 20 per cent in comparison with
1881, and to cut its meat collection by
40 per cent And then, as we have
seen. it lifted the ban from private
trade. Consequently if the crops Of
1882 are fair the peasants will have at
least some surpluses to sell And the
Soviet hopes that this will make him
work
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Restrictions Lifted
On Naming Children

MADRID. ID.-Henceforth Spanish par
ents will have the widest range in the
matter of selecting given names for
their children. Hitherto the choice was
restricted by law to the names Of
saints in the Roman Catholic calendar.
The Azana cabinet has cecreed that
as there is no longer a State religion
it is illogical to compel the use Of one
calendar only. Moreover, it is pointed
out that there are very good names out
side all calendars, for example, those
designating such democratic virtues or
institutions as Liberty for girls and
Suffrage for boys.
DESPITE this broad tolerance it is not
expected that Spanish parents, for a
long time to come, will depart from
custom, and that every other girl IN
the land will continue to be named
Mary. of which conception Dolores and
Mercedes are only variants.
(copyright !ss2)
Evening star., 1932-07-31
BY ANDRE MAUROIS,

Noted FTench WFlIeFs
N K ISERY and pain make the truly
Nh unhappy people; one must pity
IN them, try to help them: one
L l. cannot cure them except by
removing the causes OF their
sufferings. Love and faith are lntan-
gible happineSses; one may long LOT
them, wonder at them one may not
obtain them by an act of will.
should like to speak here of hap
piness more simple and less ardent,
which. would be within the reach OF
most men If they would only observe
a few precepts of mental hygiene.
The first recipe for happiness: Avoid
too lengthy meditations on the past.
Meditation on oneself reviveS sad mem
cries, rancors, imaginary ills. The
fine arts, and in particular the theater,
novels and music, have been invented,
as the philosopher Alain so well ex-
plains, for no other purpose than to
distract men from sad monologues.
I do not mean to say that 1t Is not
well to mediate. Almost every i'm
portant decision should be preceded
by meditations, but such meditations
have a specific purpose and offer no
danger. That which is dangerous is
to moan endlessly over the losses one
has sustained, the insult imposed, the
inanity one has uttered-in a word,
all the things which are without
remedy.
Never cry over split milk" says an
English proverb. We all have in our
families individuals who are fanatics
on misfortune, who would like to force
those near to them to shut themselves
within a circle Of events which have
been deplorable, but which 1t Is no
longer possible to change. 1t is neces-
sary that the mind, from time to time,
be thoroughly cleanSed, made new again.
There is no happiness without forget
fulneSs.
In order to escape thus from oneself,
there is more than one means. The
best is to work. A drone is always
candidate for unhappineSS. Insomnia
makes every man unhappy because he
can do nothing to escape from his
thoughts. Byron, an unhappy man by
nature, found happiness in Greece dur
ing the War of Independence. There
was no comfort or pleasure, but he was
occupied and was forgetting. I have
never seen a real man of action un-
happy during action. How could he be?
Like a child at play, he ceases to think
about himself
If the more important forms Of hap
piness are denied you, do not spurn the
lesser ones. Cultivate your garden. Be
come a collector. Give yourself a
subject of study. Learn to play mu-
sical instrument. Learn a foreign
language. If you are unable to do
something yourself, seek escape in a
drama, in a film, in novel. Panem
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Continued Prom First Page)
he thought. IF the fruit of my labor
will be taken away from me?'
Alarming facts began to penetrate
into the speeches of Soviet leaders
wholesale Cattle Slaughter.
Thus. in 1880 and 1881 it suddenly
uax learned that a wholesale slaughter
Of cattle was going on all over Russia.
before entering the collective farms
neasants killed their animals and sold
their hides and meat for practically
nothing. What can I do with them
II ANYHOW, they will be taken away by
the collectiveS?" Thus in some OF the
provinces live stock was reduced by SO
or even so per cent.
Alarmed, the Soviet government pub
lished a special decree, by Whlch II
freed peasant cattle from compulsory
collectiyization. But it also dec reeo
that peasatts were allowed to use lor
food only a small percentage OF tnen
live stock-the slaughter OF eacn e"'ta
animal henceforth was oeclareo 10 Ue
IAN act Of sabotage" punishaoie py 4a"'
But in recent months II mas Deen ie
ported that even the cattle OF collec,Ipe
farms is melting away; peasants lieeie0'
~. 90 IOl 4Gtu H. OFCl WIN
Worse still in 1881. and again IN
the Spring of 1882, peasants were laie
with their sowings, which especlaIiy
alarmed the Soviet government, Tor a
delay Of is days often may mean crop
failure
In other words, it is here that the
second round Of the War for Grain was
being fought; metaphoIically speaking;
the peasant, conquered and subjugated
by the government. threw up his hands:
You rob me: all right, am not going
to work; viii starve. but you, too. will
Btarve."
1881 Crop Condition.
In the Fall of 1881 the Soviet gov
ernment asserted that the crops of
that wear we're excellent. Yet. in Feb
ruary, 1882, it had to admit that there
were serious difficulties and shortage OF
foodstuffs" in RuSsia's eastern prov
inces. The fact was that 1t was al
most q famine.
And last Spring it became obviou.
that great many regions in the
Ukraine also were starving or half
Evening star., 1932-07-31

and circenses-bread and the circus
were what the Romans clamored for
They have been blamed for this. Why?
They were right. To play games is no
less necessary to the mind than bread
is to the body. The tremendous de-
velopment Of the motion picture, which
puts a spectacle and an escape within
the reach Of all classes, is an essential
feature of modern times Through it
every night, in the smallest towns of
France, of Europe. of America, sad pas
sions vie, and I can say that they vie
even in sad pictures. Because sadness,
the object of which is outside of our
selves, ceases to poison us.
Thus, the second recipe for happi-
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Reaction Sweeping Germany Now
With Young Element Needing Leaders

curious. For "Marxism" today is a
term that reasonably can be applied
only to Communism. There has never
been any approach to Communism in
Germany. What Socialism there is
dates from before the war and might
properly be called an approach to state
capitalism. Germany never knew an
individualistic, truly liberal capitalism
and the average German has no idea
how 1t feels. Instinctively he favors
state control Of economic activity. Now
the modern reactionaries do not openly
attack this tendency. What they hate
when they say "MarxiSm" is the priv
ileged position, the protected existence,
the uniquely powerful organization, the
comparatively high living standard,
necessary to add that the reactionaries
themselves do not belong to the work.
ing claSsO
Why Labor Is Opposed.
Labor in Germany is either Com
munist and openly seeks to destroy
middle-class democracy and the capi-
talist-class nation, or 1t is social-dem-
ocratic and seeks the gradual extension
Of pacifism and democratic state cap
italism, or it is Catholic and strives
for economic privileges while owing
allegiance to the international Chris
tianity of the Church of Rome. Reason
enough, think the sons and daughters
of a disinherited middle class, to hate
labor!
Most hated of all Is the treaty Of
Versailles called the most iniquitous
of all documents Never was such
a piece of monstrous oppression, say
the Germans. Obtained by fraud (the
IA points, realized through treason.
this treaty is the chief barrier between
young Germany and earthly happiness I!
1t rent the fatherland. 1t diSarmed
Germany and condemned her to q
regime of permanent slavery. 1t laid
upon her impossible. monstrouS. Grim
inal, insane financial charges-called
Preparations" It compelled the Ger
man people to admit unique moral re-
sponsibility for the World War.
(Copyrisht, 1922
Evening star., 1932-07-31
British Home Office Stirs Trouble
By Ruling on Prefix of Lord Mayors

These, however, are brave words.
The title cannot be assumed, but, like
other titular distinctions, can only be
conferred by grant from the sovereign
as the fountain Of honor.
Even without raising this contenti-
Gus issue the job of being lord or any
sort Of mayor in Great Britain Is no
bed or roses. The lord mayor of Lon
don spends a small fortune in his year
of office and must eat at least 700 big
dinners. If some of the smaller fry
object to tattered robes and tarn!shed
chains of Office they are told that no
money Is available for new ones.
In several communities where women
have been elected TO Office they have
had to purchase their own official robes
because the garments in stock were
made for men. Then, too. the small
mayors must put uS with jokesters who
regard them. along with curates and
mothers-in-law, as legitimate targets
for their wisecracks.
(copyrlsht. 1922
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Civilized Countries Report Birth Decline
To Leave Military Power in Balance

people is greater now than in the past.
What will happen when population
Of highly developed countries particu-
larly-ceaseS to grow Is question
which is intriguing many students,
particularly as it affects vitally the
political. social and economic world
structure.
War Strength I'm Balance.
With Germany's birth rate decreas-
ing five times as rapidly as Frances,
with Poland's growing far more rapidly
than Germany's, the issue Of European
military strength is in the balance;
with Japan's, China's and Indias fe-
cundity increasing while that of the
European nations is decreasing-witht the
exception of Russia-the yellow peril
is more than mirage.
A reduction in the natural increase
in most countries, with a possibility of
decline in population itself in some of
them, is forecast for the next few years
The rise in countries where the death
rate Is declining. such as Russia, Ru-
mania, Spain and Portugal, will be but
temporary, it is predicted, since their
social evolution has been retarded as
compared with Germany, Britain, the
United States and similar countries.
Factors to be taken into considera-
ton also are the serious reduction of
marriages, due to the severity of the
economic crisis; the reduced genera
ton born during the World War, the
depressing effect of which will become
noticeable between 1885 and 1O4O; the
impending stabilization or even increase
in death rates (excepting Japan, and
the rapid spreading Of the birth con-
troll movement.
Among European cities Berlin's birth
rate, 8.8 per 1000, Is the lowest. OSLO
Norway, comes next, with per 1000.
Paris reports 14.5 and London 14.6 per
1000.
Compared with these, New York's
birth rate is reported at l6 per 1000
and Chicagos at IA per 1000.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
BY FRANK H. SIMONDS.

II INTERESTING and even exciting as
Is the German election which
takes place today, it is neverthe-
Il less lacking in the dramatic quail
. ity of the first turn in the presl-
dental election last Spring. In fact,
it Is measurably an anti-climax. In
the presidential election. although the
battle nominally centered about the old
Marshal Won Hindenburg. the real issue
was the future of the Weimar Repub-
lie, the republic which had emerged
from the revolution of 1919.
But since last Spring the fate Of
that republic has been settled, so far
sS the control of the men and parties
who made it is concerned. They have
been evicted and at the moment power
is vested in a "caretaker's" regime
Gade up Of representatives Of the
Army, the Junkers and the great in
dustria lists-that is, of the elements
which ruled in the old Hohenzollern
era before the war. Nor is there any
large chance that the result of the
present election can be the restoration
of the regime which fell with Bruening.
Two Courses Outlined.
On the contrary, out of the present
election it seems certain that one OF
two things must come: Either power
will pass directly to the Fascists of
Hitler through the voluntary surrender
of the present Nationalist cabinet or
this Nationalist cabinet will try to
govern without ReichStag warrant and
solely through its control of the army.
And the latter alternative seems likely
sunless the National Socialists make
such new gains as to insure that any
effort to continue the present govern
ment by military support would insure
too tremendous an upheaval incident to
''Nazi" resistance.
In the last ReichStag election, in
September, 1881, the Hitler "NaziS"
polled 5000, 900 votes and captured lot
seats, whereas before they had been
negligible quantity. In the presidential
election last Spring, on the first turn,
they polled IL 900, 900 votes and in the
later Prussian election 100000 votes
in that single state. In the forthcom-
ing election the general assumption IS
that they will poll between II 100000
and 100000 votes. Should they pass
the latter figure, the moral effect
would be unmistakable.
Prophecy in Election.
Actual control of the Reichstag,
however, is clearly beyond the reach
of the Hitler party, for the new body.
like the old, will count upward Of $50
seats. while the total vote in the
Reich will probably reach and per-
haps pass $4,000 900 The following
table indicates the consensus of opin-
ion as to how the votes will fall and
the seats be divided:
NOfac Caafc 1921
Evening star., 1932-07-31

ness: To act Bertrand Russell, the
English philosopher, has written that
IF 1 read my friends books or If
listen to their conversations, am al
most led to conclude that happiness is
impossible in the modern world. How
ever, 1 discover this to be an artificial
idea as soon as I speak with my gar
dener." Bertrand Russells gardener
is not unhappy, because he fights
against the rabbits (and perhaps even
the rabbits forget their natural pes
simism in fighting against the gar
dener). One OF the happiest men Rus
sell has ever known was a workman
who dug wells. He was strong-he had
to drill rocks, he knew that he would
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Hitler Dahlia Brown
And Striped With Red

LEIPZIG.-The Hitler dahlia is the
latest production of Saxon horticul-
turist, who is advertising 1t at the
reasonable price of 20 cents a root.
The new dahlia is in the colors of
Hitler's shock troops, brown with red
stripe, and it is listed under the name
of Awaken Germany"
(Copyright. 1932)