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Evening star., 1932-01-28

Fewer and better biographies is the
order of the publishing day.
| This is welcome effect OF the de-
| preston.
! Depressions work in many ways not
all of them bad.
| If the food of inferior biographical
writing Whicn submerged the reading
land several years ago is ended, there
| will be but few to lament.
| The art of biography is too fine to
suffer from the mishandling Of writer's
who dove ln--there Is no other word
I for it-at the high tide of publication.
| Culling a magnitude of facts, and
adding to them such conversational
matter as any one could invent, such
writer's splashed and swan far beyond
| their depth.
| In the exhilaration of the moment
! they carried many CT their readers
with them, all except a few who re-
fused to be lured so far from the shore
Of common sense.
X X
The turn of the tide has come at
| last.
From now on, as we read the signs
Of the times, there will be fewer and
better biographies, because all are get
! ting common sense now, readers and
writer's alike. A reader may be reason
ably sure from now on when he picks
up the biography Of an eminent man
ancient or modern, that he is going to
i get the real man, not some ones fanci-
lul i0ea of a real man.
I There is much to commend in this
Biographies formerly were satisfying
at least. Not exciting particularly, but
true to human nature; not particularly
imbueo with thrill perhaps but rea-
sonahly sure Of presenting such man
as actually lived.
n
The late Albert Beveridge knew a
thing or two about writing biographies
The advent of Lytton Strachey (now
unfortunately, also the latel did not
force any one to change the worlds
well considered estimate OF the writ
| ings Of the former.
However the accent may be placed
in such forms Of writing, to better
suit a new age, the best work of the
old remains sure in its perennial place,
1t is so with fiction. that vast field
wherein so many capable and earnest
men and women have labored
A novel by Fielding is utterly differ
ent from one by Hemingway, but no
one with common sense would deprec9te
the former because it is not like the
| latter.
1t Is impossible to peruSe the worlds
great biographies land autobiographies)
without realizing that here is something
beyond time and place.
AS much as any writings, biographies
OF the major type are lasting, above
the ephemeral changes of fashion. All
that men ask of them is that they pre-
sent a man in his environment.
Such a presentation is always inter-
eSting always filled with yigor and
light, always capable Of eXerting an in
fiuence beyond the mere grouping OF
words.
This influence is a mysterious thing
Let us examine 1t for a moment. Be-
cause the told life story Of human be-
ing is essentially story, biography
is much like a novel, or a fiction. The
two have a great deal in common. Out
OF the word groups, in paragraphs and
| chapters, emergeS a sense Of life.
! This sense OF life is above and be-
yond the words. The words, as gath
cred for the readers edifcation. merely
help him to reconstruct, in his own
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Few Left to Receive
Vatican's Highest Honor

From the Boston Evening transcript
Bestowal by Pope Plus of the Supreme
Order of Christ up,n both KING y4c,ur
Emmanuel and the Crown Prince Hum
bert calls to mind the diminishing
splendors of the royal caste in the
realms OF ChriStendom. This order, the
most exalted which the Holy See can
grant, Is, virtually reserved for reigning
sOvereignS and their most potent and
distinguished statesmen. Those who
hold it are the formal successors of the
knights TemplarS. 1t was founded in
Portugal in 1918. with an equal right
on the part of the Pope and the King
Of Portugal to nominate knights. 1t
had practically become extinct, but was
revived by Plus TX in 1873. In that
year Europe was preponderantly on a
monarchical basis. But to what a cor
porals guard the list of kings and of
kings chancellors or viziers has now
been reduced! If The original rule we're
observed, that none but rulers and
Roman Catholics NAV receive IT. :
honor, the membership hereafter would
be restricted to the relgnlng pm IS
and heirs apparent CT B2'g'ua, IT,,
LeichtenStein, Monaco and Luxem-
bourg. OF Catholic scverelgns relgulng
over countries Of Importance, the Kings
VI 1Ialy ana belglum are the only ones
left. In this regard, their feelings must
strongly resemble those of the last one
or two survivors of our Grand Army
posts. Which one Of them will be the
last man?
However, there is no need that the
exalted papal Order Of Christ ct exists
no longer in Portugal, the country Of
It's birth) shall perish with the last
Catholic majesty. for the order has
already thrown off the restrictions OF
royalty and Of Catholicism. Prince Won
Bismarck, q Protestant, was made a
member Of the order, and there are non
royal knights. Yet in the world at
large knighthood surely is no longer in
flower. The Golden Fleece is gone.
England, to be sure, maintains the high
prestige Of the Garter, but the Bath is
for Tom, Dick and Harry Republican
Germany no longer exalts the Iron
Cross. The Holv See is the surviving
stronghold of chiyalry Tut how much
g2od, one wonders. would this papaj
honor, or any other royal or chiva!ric
panoply, do the dwarfish Victor En-
manuel or his more ornamental heir
should the spirit Of revolution, now SO
sternly held In check, break out like q
Spanish or Russian cyclone in Italy?
Evening star., 1932-01-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

mind. the mind of another human be-
ing.
h 4 Il
Mental adventure!
That, and that alone, is the essence
of both biography and novel.
However exciting the physical ad-
ventures of men may be, the motlVat-
ing power Is the mind which thinks.
| 1t is to this supreme power IN LIE
that all words point.
| The life story of Jesus OF Nazareth
Is an epic Of intelligence, concentrated
and consecrated.
SO much is this so that st. John
began his gospel, and most properly
one may think, with the supreme reall-
cation that the word was all in all.
Words are the symbols Of mental
adventuring.
AS a man thinks so is he, and as he
sneaks (and perhaps writes) so Is his
| life.
True biographies are mental adven-
lures, even as the lives they detail were
adventures in the same realm.
! There is nothing either good or Ill,
| but thinking makes 1t so, some one has
well said. This does not mean that
one can change Ill to good or good to
! Ill solely by the power OF thought, but
simply that thinking good or thinking
| Ill tends that way.
Life is a road along which life moves.
| Life is like the modern n achine which
! lays down its own road as 1t goes over
| it and draws it up again behind IT.
* y X
Real biography. as we see 1t, makes
clear to the discerning, reacing mind
! to- ka11E aHA "a %
make its own roadbed.
Striking incidents are superficial. The
great illuminations which came to men
along the roadway OF life were seldom
heralded by flashes apprehended by
Others They were inner manifesto
| tions. Their outward manifestations
were to core later. The conversion OF
Paul on the road to Damascus, the light
which came to Jean Jacques Rousseau
/ these were unknown to any others at
the time.
The biographer who manages some
| how to bring these simple facts home
| to the reader gives the world true
| biography and such biography presents
not version of life to appeal to the
superficial, but the real thing itself
/ needing no red fire and blare Of trum-
/ pets to make itself known and fe,t.
|
| In biography, as in fiction, no amount
! OF genius will take the place OF hard
work.
1t will not do-and this is apparent
| to the good reader, whether he could
write biography or mott will not do
( to imagine that liking for a character
! fits one to become his biographer.
Nor will the placing Of any amount
Of words on paper and the calling the
result biography make it such II the
mental adventure of that man, that
character, has not inspired the would
be biographer with a great and endur-
/ ing enegy to search out the true facts
in the case.
Truth, almighty mistress Of man
kind! Venus gives man life, but only
! truth can set him free. The search for
the truth is at once the most sublime
! and the most difficult Of mental ad-
ventures. 1t constitutes perhaps the
! greatest mental adventure.
| Men worth writing biographies about
always strove for the truth to the best
of their ability, and those writers sue
! ceed best who bring this truth to the
! surface of words.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
Modern EIoquence.

Modern Eloquence.
Be wise, my son, but do not turn
From ways well worn to look
For something that you didn't learn
In your old copy book.
The world will cheer with one accord
If stoutly you contend
That virtue is It's own reward,
Triumphant in the end.
Do not explore through statesmen's
lore
For economic truths,
But pass out freely, DER and DER,
The precepts of our youths.
Recite them loudly, one by one,
And learn them all by heart.
They'll make hit. Be wise, my son,
But do not be too smart.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

ing faithfully the requirements imposed
to maintain slender lines and to make
the approach to the bridge with the
view of forming these lines with con-
traffic and for the protection Of the
work itself. 1t was an admirable ex-
ample Of adaptation to necessity.
The fact that the work was COM
pleted ahead Of schedule, in the face Of
these difficulties, attests to the excel
lence OF the planning and the execu-
ton. And throughout the period the
public appreciation Of the care that had
seen taken for both accommodation and
security was freely expressed, The
users of the bridge came to take keen
personal interest in the progress that
vas manifest from day to day. A sense
of partn 2rship In the enterprise was
developed, so that there was no impa-
tience with the necessary checking OF
the traffic. When the last barrier was
removed yesterday and the motor cars
swept across the finished structure on
the eastern section, which was the final
unit to be completed, there was sense
of complete satisfaction in an achieve
ment which had at first seemed i'm
possible.
Next must come similar work in the
replacement OF the old bridge at Cal
vert street, which has been under pub
lie condemnation for many years. In
that case also the presence Of street
cars will cause a complication. But
that work can be done without the ne
cessity OF providing for the vehicular
traffic, which can be diverted to the
Taft Bridge without serious derange-
ment or delay. The public hope is that
little time will be lost in the making
of provision for this undertaking and
for its execution in the same efficient
manner as that of the construction at
the Klingle Valley, which gives to the
| District viaduct that Is both COM
modious and sound and attractive.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

Already the "high-hat" atmosphere
Of the National Capital is getting to"
Senator Long of Louisiana. When he
received those naval officers in his
home State he wore pajamas, but was
barefooted. When he recently received
newspaper men at his hotel here he
added slippers.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Too Severe a Test,

"He says I am the only girl he ever
loved" said the sentimental miss.
Well answered Miss Cayenne,
perhaps he means it. Don't insist
on knowing whether you are the only
girl to whom he has made the same
remark"
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Ethics.

us it quite safe to tell her secret?"
said one woman.
Yes" answered the other, "if it
doesn't concern yourself. She may re-
told her."
Evening star., 1932-01-28

Mrs. Gam, in urging the reelection
Of Mr.. Hoover out in Nebraska, asks
her hearers mot to change captains
during storm" Storm? This is
more like the Sargasso Sea and the
"doldrums" combined.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

A former British Tommy" who
served with the colors twenty eight
years and who was recommended for a
medal thirty-three years ago, has just
received the decoration. But doubtless
this third OF century record will fall if
our own War Department authorities
go at the job in the proper spirit.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Candhi Swap Proposed.

From the worcester Daily Telegram.
There has been talk Of Great Britain
giving us some of her islands in return
for reductions in her war debt owed to
US, but apparently no such deal Is to be
made. But how about swapping Gand-
ri for our prohihits6n problema
Evening star., 1932-01-28
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Evening star., 1932-01-28
Scofing Must Be Great.

From the Hamilton tontario) Spectator.
Babe" Ruth's scof at the $40 0,000-a-
year contract which he sent back to his
employers unsigned Is beyond the
shadow Of doubt one Of the greatest
SCOTS on record.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

A judge is suing a Texas newspaper
for total Of $4,000 because it called
him Republican" That is, indeed, a
harsh word in Texas. In older days
the user Of this epithet probably would
never have lived to be sued.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

A dissenting member of the Seabury
Committee of Inquiry charges that its
namesake docs not know New York. &"
No? Well, he is certainly learning, and
at rather remarkable rate.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

Laval may pay visit to Mussolini
soon, it is announced. 1t is not thought
that he will pass over to II Duce any
travel literature.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

Science has gravely announced that
the pretzel is, after all, proper article
Of food for school children. Now the
little darlings will probably go out and
buy some.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Help for Hoover.

From the Phila delphia Evening Bulletin.
Assuming that President Hoover Is
pretty busy lot Of people seem willing
to sac him the trouble Of sclcctlnT a
new Justice of the United States Su-
preme Court.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Might Use Plan Annually.

From the Salt Lake City Deseret News.
Among the Israelites each seventh
year was sabbatical, and all debts were
Cancelled The European nations are
apparently about to re-establish the
custom.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
The Nth Degree.

From the Glendale News-Press.
A California university offers
course for prospective policemen. What
degree it will confer is not stated, but
1t won't be the well known third.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Nobody Protesting.

WAS that decision case of Square
dear?" asked one belligerent politician
NO" answered the other. 1T was a
case OF don't dare squeal."
Evening star., 1932-01-28

When the tide Of ones affairs seems
to be at the lowest possible ebb, there
remains always this bedrock consola-
ton: AT any rate, I am not partici-
pant in a marathon dance"
Evening star., 1932-01-28

Street Car Line Merger in Sight"
ran a recent headline. They must have
finished that gigantic two hundred inch
world-record telescope lens ahead Of
time
Evening star., 1932-01-28
No Quarrel.

The lion and the lamb lay down
In peace, because you see
They ne'er wrote books on animals
And therefore could agree.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Aroused Wrong " ay.

From the Miami Daily News
Secretary Mellon says that taxes are
needed to arouse credit, but 30 often
they don't arouse anything but the tax
payers.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

Another good scheme Uncle Sam has
not tried out yet is the surreptitious
removal by means Of chewing gum OF
pennies from the cups of all blind beg
gars. But then, some already over
worked and underpaid Federal employees
would have to chew the gum to the
proper consistency and make the daily
rounds.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Bomb Raises Problem.

From the Charleston wv. va) Daily Mail.
Just why any one should want to
send . bomb to the King Of Italy Is way
beyond human comprehension.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
One of Frozen Assets.

From the Worcester Daily Telegram.
Europe has been suffering from an
especially cold Winter. which only
STRENGTHENS the American conviction
that Europe is one of our frozen assets.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
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Evening star., 1932-01-28
Not Complaining.

"Of course you know that work o.
art Is not genuine"
Eyes" answered Mr.. Cumrox, well
have to get rid Of 1t. But we've had a
good time fooling so many people, our
selves included, that I don't know but
we've had our moneys worth out Of il" !"
"I don't put in much time" said
Uncle Eben. "complainin' bout lost
opportunities. Some opportunities is a
good deal like hoss racsf-no good II
you don't guess right"
Evening star., 1932-01-28
.RANS-PACIFIC, Tokio.-Compe-
tition among japanese articles
in foreign markets is hurting de-
VelOpment of the market. jap

dIItoN IUOUtI oIIO-o FILN O11I ' " .
shoes have been in good demand heavily
in British India. Last year 100000
shoes. worth 6,7000O0 rupees, were i'm
ported into British India from Japan.
Due to the competition among japanese
makers and falling market prices Indian
merchants in Calcutta have suffered Sc
we're losses recently. This has caused
the Calcutta Traders Guild to boycott
Japanese goods, according to report
received by the Osaka city Office.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

@. What countries are the leading
producers of silyer?-D. M.
A. The three leading countries are
Mexico, United States and Canada, in
the order named.
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PROSPERITY HERE,
SAYS HOBO KING
Party Candidate for Presi.
dent Sees Cheerful Eco
N1lomic Conditions.
fH1
BY the Associated Press.

--
~ therkssociated Press
NEW YORK, March 24.-This will
be q fat. season for hoboes, regardless
Of who else may 60 lean and hungry,
says Dan O'Brien, king of the hoboes,
dean of Hobo Fellowship College and
candidate for President of the United
States on the hobo party ticket.
Economic conditions in our profeS-
sion never have been better" O'Brien
asserts, because the social position OF
the hobo is higher than it ever has
been before"
The reason for this, he admits, may
be based on a misunderstanding.
He explains that everybody Sympa-
thazes.with the unemployed, and in the
edkerness to help all of them no dis
ttncticn is drawn against the profess
gionatg'bo."
"InHahe old days an unemployed man
was apt to be stamped as DO, whether
he merited the designation or not. and
he encountered certain prejudiceS,"
OBrien says. There was work to be
done then, and If DO was in search
Of handout he ran the risk of being
told to cut the wood"
Wholesale unemployment. bringing
with it plenty of food for the asking,
Il seems, is the hobo idea of the mil
1ennium.
Dan O'Brien, eloquent in speech,
poetic in appearance, with reputation
as something of man of letters, is
recognized as far as the hobo trails
reach out as the shepherd of the flock.
The Hobo Fellowship College, occupy
ing an East Side basement, boasts of
a chair of scientific panhandling."
O'Brien, known to his fellows as
'Rexobo," has been lecturing them
during the cool months on the psychol-
ogy and manners of "stemming the
hobo term for panhandling.
Many of the "boes" who assemble
each Winter in New York will start
west on April / this year, delayed a
March, says O'Brien They will go
forth toward the harvest lands, with
the blessings and teachings Of O'Brien,
rex, to follow the hay and wheat and
apple crops.
"They will work when they find it
absolutely necessary" says O'Brien,
"and they will rebel against it when
somebody else wants them to work"
O'Brien, now in his 70's, with a
theatrical halo of long white hair en-
circling a pate as shiny as a true
''bo's" trousers, will take the road him
self little later. He may bum his way
to the South Sea Islands and write a
book there, he says.
In October the "boes" will gather for
their annual convention at Massillon,
Ohio, where they hope to find friendly
mayor in the person Of Gen. Coxey of
Coxey's Army fame. There the presi-
Dental nomination Of O'Brien, effected
at the last convention In Akron, will
be discussed.
In the event his candidacy appears
futile, O'Brien says, he may advise
members of the hobo party to turn
Democratic-that is, Gin the event that
the nominee Is one whom I can ap-
prove"
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WOMAN TO DESCRIBE
! MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
Geographic Society Will Hear
Frau Dyhrenfurth Tell of
Kinchinjunga Ascent.

Kinchinjunga, third highest noun
tain m the world. remains uncon-
quered, but man has crept and crawled
FARTHER toward its summit, as Frau
Dyhrenfurth will explain with motion
pictures and colored lantern slides be-
fore the members Of the National Geo.
graphic Society in the Washington Au-
ditorium tomorrow night.
Kinchinjunga and Mount Everest are
neighbors along the rocky southern
border OF Tibet. Kinchinjunga, in
Sikkhim, lies only 100 miles east of
Everest, which rises on the border be-
tween Tibet and Nepal. The present
second highest mountain, which has
three names, Goodwin Austen, or K2,
or DapSang, lies far to the west of
Kinchinjunga and Everest, in Kashmir.
Frau Dyhrenfurth will describe the
thrilling ascent of the expedition in
which her husband, Prof. Gunther
Dyhrenfurth and five companions
climbed to the top of Jonsong Peak.
Climbers of five nations left DARRELL
Ing, India, early in April, 1880, headed
for Kinchinjunga, 28,146 feet high. On
the north ridge of the mountain an
avalanche defeated them in their eff
fort to gain the highest point and
ascent by the west ridge proved i'm
possible. So turning to Jonsong Peak,
they mastered the 24.340 summit there
On June 1, few days before the
final achievement, Frau Dyhrenfurth
herself crossed Jonsong Pass during
storm. Only one other woman is be-
lieved to have attained higher alti-
tudes on foot.
The country surrounding this roof
of the world" is as interesting as it
Is little known. Getting to Darjeeling
involves a trip on a little toylike rail-
way with two-foot gauge that winds
from the village of Siliguri, on the
plains. to the crest of the Darjeeling
Ridge. The road scorns racks and
pinions and conquers the steep slope
by many snaky fold. 1t does, how
ever, employ picturesque substitute
for cogs. A native squats over the
forward buffers of the little Iocomo-
tive and trickles sand on the rails
when the wheels slip.
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It was saying Of Ferdinand Foch,
French commander in chief of the Al
lies in the war, that "a battle won is
o battle in which we will not confess
ourselves beaten"