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Evening star., 1933-10-26

One of the pleasant signs Of q new
day Is the reawakened interest on the
part Of book buyers in sets.
Only few years ago complete sets
Of authors were a drug on the market.
After enjoying an intellectual supe-
riority which was all their own for
many years, the sets began a sure de-
cline in public interest.
Where formerly all stores kept a
number in stock, notably of Charles
Dickens and the like, they permitted
these to disappear from their shelves.
If a wandering book lover asked about
this sad decline, he was told that the
great buying public no longer wanted
their books en- masse.
y 4 4 4
Just recently things seem to have
taken turn for the better in this re-
gard.
Big metropolitan sellers are adver-
standard authors.
At the same time there seems to be
movement to get rid of many super
sets, some of them in vastly expensive
bindings.
The old-time interest In "sets" is on
should be. Not every book lover can
own gorgeous bindings.
xx*
A set usually means the complete
works of a writer Thus Edward Glib
bons Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire" is properly called "set," be-
cause it was about all he wrote, with
the exception of his charming autobi-
ography. and this often is included as
prelude to the history
Probably the most popular set in
England and America is the set of
Dickens. And this remains true de-
spite the sophisticated era, constituting
the past two decades, in which it has
been highly popular to sneer at the
worthy Charles.
There have been some good features
to this intellectual snobbery. Charles
Dickens was a man drunk with words
He fairly dripped them.
He oozed words from the tip Of his
pen with an abandon which does not
sit well with many of those who have
sat at the feet of the classic Greeks
and Romans and their modern success
sorS, the French.
The clean-cut clarity Of French fic-
ton scarcely helps Dickens. when q
reader goes back to him. How wordy
he seems!
How verbose in the worse sense!
On re-reading Dickens, one longs for
magic power which would permit one
to cut out vast passages which seem to
add little If anything to the whole.
X X *
Little. II anything-that is, except
Dickensi
If you read that great Victorian, you
have to take him as he was
His word plethora was as much a
part Of him as his ability to create
characters.
The only way to read Dickens, then
is to read him
Recognize that he was word obseSsed
man who liked to heap up his images
as he went along, who picked up his
words in great handfulS and sprinkled
them over his pages.
Then you will get the true flavor of
/, the man, tang which will never dis
appear as long as readers are fair with
themselves and with the authors they
read.
modern reader may wish heartily
that Charles Dickens had possessed
more power of condensation. less hys-
terical application to a desired word
effect. but if he will do the man the
Justice to read him calmly he will de-
light IN the two Wellers still.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

Gold as money retains the confidence
Of people all over the world. The fact
stands, although an erudite inquiry as
to why this is so would have to go deep
even into the realms of superstition
itself.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

Secretary Woodin impresses his ideas
in genial persuasive manner conducive
to harmony. The nearest of anything
to big stick that appeals to his
fancy is an orchestral baton.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

Many weapons are taken out from
time to time and dumped into the river
or otherwise destroyed. Like killing off
the pigs, the procedure serves only to
shorten the supply and sustain the
profit Of production.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

A system of universal fngerprinting
will create a few jobs. Fingerprints
are of little use unless there are expert
police librarians TO render the records
useful at moments notice.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

Mr.. Litvinof may create a furor in
this country. Fortunately for American
faces, he uses razor and will not sug-
gest an initiative wilderness of whiskers
a la Russo,
Evening star., 1933-10-26
You've got to dig.

Il hears heap O. things I don't
understand" said Uncle Eben, but
dat don't keep me from payin' de most
respectful attention possible to &c po-
iceman dats tellin' EN-"
Evening star., 1933-10-26
Fresh From the Mines.

Fresh From the Mines.
II you want gold that's new and bright
You've got to dig.
The Autumn gold that shines in sight
On many a twig
May fade in the next freezing shock.
There's no more gold in the old sock,
Save when prizeflghters block and
knock
Evening star., 1933-10-26

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to the use for republication OF all news dis
patches credited to it or not otherwise cted-
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication of
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
English Home Building
Program Is Praised.

Program Is PralSeo.
Irish Independent, Dublin.-In Eng
land something has been done to fulfill
the promise made during the war to
provide houses fit for heroes to dwell
in. A return shows that since the
armistice there have been built in Eng
land and Wales over 100000 dwelling
houses. OF these, 93l,81l, or nearly
one-half have been built without any
state assistance whatsoever. This COM
pares very favorably with building op-
erations in the Irish Free. State, but
conditions, no doubt. are not similar.
Here, according to an official statement
in the Dali made in July. 1882, about
$4,000 new houses were provided dur
ing the preceding 10 years. Private
persons built 15,400 of these houses, but
in the majority of cases a state subsidy
was given England, it has been sug-
gested. is being overbuilt, but this can
scarcely be the case as long as slumS
exist. The London County Council has
undertaken to spend f35,000, 900 900,
spread over 10 years, to rehouse 250.O00
slum dwellers.
4 X
Nicaraguan Base Ball
Players Want Pay.
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Evening star., 1933-10-26
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Songs Of a Nation.
My radio! My radio!
Instructions that you give
What should eat and drink will show
And how l ought to live.
You bring Illuminating thought
On subjects deep indeed,
And make me feel I really ought
To have more books to read.
Sometimes you sing little song
In rather raucous tone.
An innuendo far too strong
Is very often shown.
I listen and I stay awake,
But this III vow is true,
If singing lessons I would take
I shall not go to you.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
Investigation.

lnveStlSdtlOn.
The show
Is getting slow
And novelty it seems to lack
What, ho!"
We say, Lets go
And bring the Ringing Midget back!''
Evening star., 1933-10-26
EYLON DAILY NEWS, Colom-
bo.-The low percentage in d.


I bo.-The low percentage in d.
vorces in Ceylon is easily ex-
~ plainable. We do not fall in
love- Failing" indicates in
capacity, helplessness.
We walk into love with care, pom
dering over the vastness of the future
father n-laws estate and lingering
over the largeness of the flance'S eyes.
What is more, the Eastern system of
marriage by arrangement has surer
basis for progress.
In the West marriage is culmina-
ton of love. The young couple start
life together at a climax. The zenith
OF their love is wedding
And If you start at climax. the
perfectly natural process to follow
would be an anti-climax. which is an
other name for divorce.
Anyway. there is no progress pos
sible, there is nothing to discover in
one another; there is no wooing and
winning after the bells have pealed
at them
But in the Eastern system We do
not marry in hurry and repent at
Climax to love. it is a beginning:
It is after marriage that the real
wooing and winning take place The
time of discovery Is ahead And by
the time love comes to climax there
are the tiny young ones VINO blnd
hearts together like cement before the
curve works downWards.
X
Colombians Astonished
At New York Prices.
Diario Del Commercio, Barranquilla.-
A cablegram directed to the ministry
Of industry at Bogota by Senor Carlos
Puyo Delgado. the noted correspondent
residing in New York. conveys to that
bureaucracy the quite astounding in
formation that Colombian orchids are
now quoted at $40 each in that city.
Senior Delgado emphasizes that in
view of this fact horticulturists IN Co
lombia should begin at once the IN
tensive cultivation of this plant TO
provide a much more lucrative expor-
tation of the flowers. Senor Delgado
declares further that in the territory
of the United States there are nu-
merous and ready markets Tor this cul-
tiyation, and that we have been over
looking valuable opportunity IN neg
lecting to ship there various species m
orchids which can be grown there only
with great expense and difficulty under
glass -x
these tropical blossoms grow wild In
our tropical environs. and it appears
that the gorgeous profusion has blinded
lis to the esteem which such familiar
aspects of our countryside are accorded
elsewhere.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
Confident.

Confident
do you think your home folks will
continue to return you to Washington,
D. C.?"
why not?" rejoined Senator Sorg-
hum. II know jobs are scarce just now.
But Ill go to work as cheap as any
body"
Jud Tunkins says diplomats look to
him like high-power statesmen regarding
one another as prospects.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

All Other States and Canada.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
POSt-GranduatiOn.

What did that tough crowd in Snake
Ridge say when you told them they'd
have to be fingerprinted?"
They simply yawned and exclaimed,
What! Again?'"
Evening star., 1933-10-26
THEODORE w. MOVES. >. Editor

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Evening star., 1933-10-26

Mr. Michelet comments upon the large
increases made in number of woman
voters since 1920, when the nineteenth
amendment to the Constitution became
effective. In that year only 100000
votes were cast by women, or about Is
per cent of the total. In 1924 they cast
IS per cent and four years later over 43
per cent. He estimates that in 1882
1900 900 women voted throughout the
country, a number greater than the
whole male vote Of the ccun+-- up to
he campaign Of 1916. or 6, -. .;-r
cent of the total vote.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

O. How deep was the ocean where
the Titanic sank?-D. A. S.
"A. 1t is estimated that the Titanic
sank in 2,760 fathoms or approximately
1850 feet of water
Evening star., 1933-10-26

The census of 1880 showed more than
66,000000 American native and natural
lied citizens of voting age. 1t is evi-
dent that 25,o00,000 of these citizens of
voting age did not take part in the
presidential election and the State cleo
tions in 1882. Mr.. Michelet says in this
connection:
Drastic State regulation acts, re-
strictive election laws, are partly re-
sponsible for excluding about 10000, 900
citizens from the poll lists. An era of
automobiles, a national expanse Of 48
States, unsettled residential status of
the rising generation. countrywide COM
mercial calls and labor demand combine
to render diff1cult the establishment of
legal residence necessary to register and
vote in fixed election districts.
Still We have made vast progress
since 1920. when only so per cent of
American citizens 21 years of age, male
and female, white and black, went to
the polls and voted for President. In
1882 we reached 62 per cent Of all and
86.3 per cent of the registered or poll
listed
Evening star., 1933-06-20
.SHOUSE CHALLENGE
REFUSED BY DRYS
Will Not Give List of States They
Expect to Win and Invite
Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

The Anti-Saloon League today re-
piled to Jouett Shouse's challenge that
prohibition leaders name six States that
would reject repeal with a statement
which said: Naturally, no dry leader
will present the vets with q list Of
States and thereby invite concentrated
wet attack
Shouse, president of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
asserted the only hope Of the drys was
to keep "13 States from voting
1.-THE objections to delay in elections
given by the wet leaders Is Of course
deceptive" the Anti.Saloon League
statement said.
They say they want to get 1000, 900
a day in revenue from liquor, and ex-
press concern over the difficulty Of en-
forcing the law during the campaign
for repeal.
However, the two real underlying
motives of the wet interests are clearly
the desire of the wet politicians to
hasten elections in order to take ad-
vantage Of the abnormal economic
situation, and the desire OF the liquor
nous profits from the manufacture and
sale of a habit forming beverage.
IF, as the wet leaders estimate, re-
peal would bring in 100000 a day
in revenue, this means that repeal
would take away at least $4,000, 900
day from other business interests. =" =
'It is true that political pressure and
wet money have gotten out the wet
vote in the wettest States, but these
tactics have not discouraged the drys
and the real battle is just begun"
Evening star., 1933-06-20
ENDS LIFE WITH GAS
TO ESCAPE 'ENEMIES'
Georgian Opens Jet After Discuss
ing Other Forms of Self
Destruction.

Ben Lamar Minor, "a, got away from
his enemies" today after week OF
hiding in his rented room every time
the door bell rang.
A two-burner gas plate in his room,
which was furnished for light house
keeping, was the means Of escape he
finally decided upon, although he had
given serious consideration to most Of
the other means Of self-destruction.
Minor, who described himself as a
member of the "aristocratic Lamar fam
lily of Georgia" rented the room, on the
second floor Of the home Of George
Scoggins, 225 Eighth street northeast,
a week ago today. He told Scoggins'
wife, Mrs. Annie Scoggins. to whom he
paid a weeks rent in advance, that he
had spent the past 10 years or SO in
the South, chiefly in Augusta, Ga, and
Columbia, s. c. Before returning
South. he said, he had been engaged in
the real estate business here and, when
his enemies" got to bothcring him too
much, he decided TO come back to
Washington and seek employment.
When Mrs. Scoggins' brother, w. H
Gibbs, who occupies the Second-foor
front room, arose TO go TO work shortly
before clock this morning he felt III
Finally he decided he smelled gas.
He ran to the door OF Minors room
He awakened Scoggins and the two
forced open the door. Minor was in
bed and the room was full OF gas
A Casualty Hospital physician said
Minor had been dead several hours
Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid issued, : certificate Of suicide.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
ARTHUR CARR DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Prominent Builder and Real
tor Succumbs at His Home
Following Brief Illness.

Arthur Carr, so, prominent builder
and realtor, died early today at his
home, 5053 Massachusetts, avenue, after
a brief illness Death was due to a
heart attack
Mr.. Carr, who was well known in
financial, realty and civic circles here,
came to Washington from England in
1885 and has been a resident Of the
Capital since. After graduating from
Washington schools, he began his career
with his father, Solomon Carr, in the
building business.
Perpetual Building Director.
At the time of his death, he was a
director Of the Perpetual Building AS
sociation, president OF the Real Estate
real estate firm which bears his name
and member Of the advisory board an
branches of the Riggs National Bank
A former president of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board, he served for
many years on that organizations Ap-
praisal Committee as chairman, and
was considered one of the city's out
standing authorities on appraisal mat
ters. He was retained by the Gov
eminent to appraise the United States
Supreme Court site and represented
the Government in number of other
appraisal matters.
For many years Mr.. Carr was promi-
nent in civic activities, having been
secretary Of the Washington Board of
Trade for four years, a director for six
years and an active member Of its
Membership Committee. He also
served for many years as director Of
the Real Estate Board.
Active In Masonry.
He was past master Of the Myron
M. Parker Masonic Lodge, Shriner
and was a member of the Washington
Commandery, knights Templar; the
Racquet Club, Manor Club and Arling-
ton Wheel Men.
His survivors include his widow, three
sons, William A., Oliver T. and Robert
B. Carr, and daughter. Grace L. Carr.
Three sisters, Miss Sarah Carr, Mrs.
William Beale and Mrs. Madeline Lilly,
and two brothers, Solomon and Josiah
Carr, also survive.
Although final funeral arrangements
have not been completed, the service
will take place Thursday at st. Adams
Church, with full Masonic rites.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
a TO LOSE Jobs
AT NAVAL HOSPITAL
DismissaIs Caused by Cur
taiIment of Funds for
Veterans There.

Forty-four civilian employees at the
Naval Hospital here will lose their jobs
July /. it was learned today at the
Navy Department.
1t was explained that the dismissals
are made necessary by curtailment oi
funds paid by the Veterans Adminstra-
tion for its patients at the hospital
Included in the number are 13 in the
Office group at the Naval Hospital and
Naval Medical School, to which it is
attached.
Naval officials said some of the A
civilians now are on leave without pay
until the end of the month, when they
will be dismissed.
The economy move of cutting hos
pital facilities for veterans will mean
that TOO civilian employees, now at
tached to naval hospitals throughout
the country in various capacities, will
lose their positions. Officials of the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery said
the economies will materially affect the
running of some of the Navy's largest
hospitals. At New York, for instance,
they said, the capacity will be cut from
1000 beds to $50.
Chaufeurs, cooks, mess attendants
and mechanics will be among the A
to lose their jobs at the Naval Hos
pital here. At present, there are lot
civilian workers at the hospital here.
officials of the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery said the Naval Hospital
here will suffer less severely in the re-
duction of civilian workers than other
institutions because here the number
of patients from the Veterans Admin
istration and from the Navy itself were
more nearly equal than in New York,
where the war veterans were far in the
majority.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
MAPS0 OUT
EMPLOYMENT UNIT
Federal Service to Start
Functioning Officially on
First of Month.

Preliminary steps looking toward the
organization and functioning OF the
new United States Employment Service
were being taken today, according to
Director w. Frank Persons.
He said he would hold conferences
this week with officials so standards
may be developed for the operation OF
State and local employment offices. He
explained that, in the beginning these
will be only the minimum standards
essential to the carrying on OF the
organization between the units, OF
which there is systematic exchange
and cooperation.
The new system will begin to func-
ton officially on July l, Persons said.
The director said he would appor-
ton s1,125,000 of the appropriation to
the States on a population basis, where
an equal amount is made available by
the States. This, in no event. Is to be
less than $4,000, according to the Wag-
ner law creating the new service.
Twenty-four States already are main
tanning employment services, Persons
said. and they will be assisted In ex-
banding and building up their work IN
accordance with the most approved pol
icies and practices The new bureau
also will assist any State not now main
tanning a public employment service to
establish one along lines most useful
to that State.
The objectives of the new service are
tn clear labor among the States, col
iect reliable and comparable informa-
tion with respect to the demand for
and supply Of labor, carrying on re-
searches related to the work and to
make available to the State and local
employment offices vigorous leader
ship. Persons said.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
GIVES COTTON CODE
Submits Plan to Federal Indus
trial Control Board for
Approval.

The following IS part Of the textile
code submitted by committee repre-
senting the cotton textile industry to
the Federal Industrial Control Board
for its approval at hearings to be held
June 27:
With a view to keeping the Presi-
dent informed as to the observance or
observance of this code Of fair COM
petition, and as to whether the cotton
textile industry is taking appropriate
steps to effectuate the declared policy
of the national industrial recovery act,
each person engaged in the cotton tex
tile industry will furnish duly certified
reports in substance as follows and in
such form as may hereafter be pro-
vided: 81.
Wages and hours of labor.-Returns
every four weeks showing actual hours
worked by the various occupattOnal
groups Of employees and minimum week
1y rates Of wages.
Machinery data-In the case Of mills
having no looms returns should be made
every four weeks showing the number
of spinning spindles in place, the num-
ber of spinning spindles actually oper-
ated each week, the number OF shifts
and the total number Of spindle hours
each week In the case of mills having
weeks showing the number Of looms in
place, the number of looms actually
operated each week. the number Of
shifts and the total number Of loom
hours each week. In the case of mills
that have spinning spindles and looms
returns every four weeks showing the
number of spinning spindles and looms
in place, the number of spinning spin
dies and looms actually operated each
week, the number of shifts and the total
number of spindle hours and loom hours
each week.
Reports of production, sales stocks
and orders-Weekly returns showing
production in terms Of the commonly
used unit, i. e., linear yards, or pounds
or pieces; stocks on hand both sold and
unsold stated in the same terms and
untitled orders stated also in the same
terms. These returns are to be con-
fined to staple constructions and broad
divisions of cotton textiles.
THE Cotton-Textie Institute. Inc,
$40 Broadway, New York City, Is con-
stituted the agency to collect and re-
ceive such reports"
Evening star., 1933-06-20
.SOMERV|LLE WINS
TH|RD-ROUND TILT
Canadian Holder of U. S. Golf
Title Scores Crushing
Defeat at HoyIake.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOYLAKE, England. June 20.-C.
Ross SANDY Somerville, Canadian
holder of the United States amateur
golf title, today advanced to the fourth
round Of the British amateur cham
pionship with crushing 8-and-7 vic
tory over w. H. Sharpe Of Dunbar.
Charles Sweeny, one of the American
brothers who are students at Oxford,
defeated j. S. Rowell and 3. in a
second-round encounter.
T. A. Torrance, Walker Cup star, de-
feated J. Sidney Powell. l up, but Will
liam Sutton. another we'll known Brit
ish golfer fell before J. w. Jones in 19
holes.
Brig. Gen. A. p. C. Critchley, ma
tive Canadian, who won the French
amateur title a few days ago, won his
second-round match from Rex Crum-
mack Of St. Andrews, 4 and 3.
William Mandel, New York acrobatic
comedian, wasn't agile enough to keep
out of the bunkers and lost to R. THAR
wall in his first match, and l..
Mandel at one time had a two-hole
lead, but then started a tour Of the
bunkers and lost bch the sixteenth
and seventeenth holes to end the con-
test.
Douglas Grant, American living in
London, advanced to the third round
with a and victory over c. P. John
stone of the Royal Calcutta.
j. M. Burns, another Of the Canadian
entrants, was put out in the second
round by F. McGloin Of West Kint,
5 and f.
The Canadian delegation was reduced
to two@Somerville and Jack Nash-as
Lewis Ybarri, a Spaniard, defeated Don
Anderson of st. Thomas, Ontario, 3 and
2 in a second-round encounter.
Robert Sweeny, brother of Charles,
advanced through the third round by
default.