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Evening star., 1933-10-26
Bishop Ryan.

A colorful and deeply impressive cere-
mony in the National Shrine of the I'M
maculate Conception yesterday marked
the elevation of the Most Reverend
James Hugh Ryan, rector of the Catho-
lie University of America, to the episco-
pacy as Bishop of the Titular See of
Modra in Asia Minor. More than two
thousand representatives of the Latin
Church community in the United States
were present at the sacred scene. and
to each individual member Of the con-
gregation the high significance of the
occasion was abundantly apparent.
The honors and added responsibilities
which have come to Bishop Ryan are
pontifical recognitions of. the great
values of his labors for Catholic edu-
cation. They are. in that light. re-
wards of merit, richly earned and
solemnly received. Practically they will
be helpful in the work which Bishop
Ryan providentially still has to do, and
spiritually they will be an endowment
of his efforts. Only forty-seven years
of age. large future, it may be pre-
sumed. lies before him.
And American civilization will be ad-
vantaged by his devoted toll From
the school over which he presides his
influence will so out through cultural
channels to the whole land and the
whole people A teacher. as well as a
priest and a pastor. he already has
left his mark upon the public mind
To the people of Washington, espe-
cially, Bishop Ryan is a neighbor and
leader. The Capital is his home
and he never has been unmindful of
its problems With generous lberality
he has contributed toward its welfare
and progress. His kindliness and
courtesy have endeared him to many
outside his own church. and they have
joined in the tribute of respect and
gratitude which he is receiving at this
time.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin.

Struck down by an automobile and
carried to a hospital to die. Evelyn
Briggs Baldwin, meteorologist and
Arctic explorer, has come to a tragic
and sorrowful end of his adventurous
career. The perils of the frozen North
he survived, but to one of the dangers
Of city street he has succumbed.
The circumstance is as ironical in
character as many of the other events
of his life.
A seeker all his days, Baldwin again
and again was within reaching dis
tance of exceptional distinction, but
fate had a trick of robbing him of his
opportunities. He was a companion of
Robert E. Peary in one of his ventures
toward the Pole. but not in the final
successful expedition. He was to have
been a member of the Andree party in
1897, but the balloon in which it de-
parted was released five days before
he arrived at the starting point. He
was associated with the Walter Well
man enterprise of 1898, but inadequate
equipment prohibited success. And he
was the organizer and one of the
leaders of an unfortunate independent
effort in 1901. In recent years he had
been clerk in the Navy Department.
but last June he was dismissed under
the age clause of the economy act.
However, it would be highly unjust
to consider Baldwin a failure. On the
contrary, he was one of the large num-
ber of men upon whose labors more
conspicuous achievements have been
based. A certain amount Of human
material necessarily is exhausted in the
processes of experiment which distin-
guish all the sciences, and that was the
nature of BaldWins contribution. He
gave all that he was and all that he
had to Polar exploration, and.the public
should be grateful. The fact that his
name will not be listed among the VIC
tors is part Of his gift and one of the
reasons why he should be remembered.
He has monument in his discovery
of Graham Bell Land, and his place In
history therefore is secure.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

, You can meet these people in real
life, only they drive buses nowadays.
Still they are old Tony and Sam. HUI
man nature doesn't change much, and
Dickens drew a couple of "keen unS'
when he set down his long array of
words about this precious pair.
Somebody has rewritten one Of Dick
ems novels to suit himself, but it sets
bad precedent. 1t may be nearer to
fine French novel, but that is just
the point-Charles Dickens certainly
was not Frenchman.
X xx&
One Of the charms of the set is that
the owner has all of a favorite author.
Usually this includes a life" Of the
man, written by some friend, and all
his letters. Even If one dislikeS the let
ters Of great literary men, still there Is
some pleasure in having them at hand.
There is a banality about letters
which many readers cannot overcome,
just as their authors could not.
1t Is impossible for some Of us to
read the letters" without getting sur
feited with them. One feels that most
of them have no business being pub
llshed at all, and II they seem to have
been intended for publication, that very
fact V1t1ates their appeal.
The completeness Of the set is one
OF its chief appeals, however.
| All that the man wrote is there, on
tap, and ready to bubble forth upon de-
mand.
Now there is a certain satisfaction
about this. 1t resembles the feeling of
the careful householder who finds him
self well stocked with food in q bliz-
zard.
Let the winds OF ignorance roar out
side here by the fireside one has plenty
of mental fodder. 1t is a great salts
faction.
This is boarding against which
there is no protest.
There is a durable satisfaction. too,
in the very sight of the set on the
shelves.
The value of uniformly bound books
has long been recognized. Interior
decorators and the like upon occasion
even have gone to the length of having
an entire library bound in one type of
cover, in order to achieve a certain
effect.
A number Of sets round out the home
bookShelves. In the aristocracy known
as bookdom there is a sort Of super
aristocracy, and it is that Of the we'll
bound set.
Here the mind deals with something
finished. completed as far as time would
permit it to be finished
| All that the writer did, from child
hood to old age, is here in waiting
exemplifying the noble words of Milton,
"A good book Is the precious life blood
OF master spirit, embalmed and treas
ured upon purpose to a life beyond life
The man is gone, but his words
| live on.
| That is something that can never be
! taken away from him, short of uni
verSal cataclySm, or a return TO the
forests Of barbarism.
He realized 1t, while he wrote, and
now you, reader realize it in your turn
There Is life after life here, before
you. If you will recognize it.
! 1t Is a solemn thought. exemplified
in the printed word everywhere, but
especially in the bound sets of the great
authors. A favorite set seems to say,
in the words Of Whitman:
MY child! give you my. hand:
give you my love, more precious than
money
I give you myself. before preaching or
| law;
Will you give me yourself? Will you
! come travel with me?
Shall We stick by each other as long as
| We liye?"
Evening star., 1933-10-26
No ''Inescapable" War.

from the New YORK Times
Voices both in Europe and in the
United States that have been predicting
speedy outbreak Of war have become
more shrill since Germany's withdrawal
from the League of Nations and from
the Disarmament Conference. The cyni-
cal comment is made that we are face
to face now with the tragic paradox"
that what was to be disarmament is
becoming rearmament. International
jealousies and frictions have become SO
sharpened that another war is inevitable.
It will come, according to those who
thus argue, in one of two ways. There
will be, sooner rather than later, acts
of aggressive hostility by Germany. Or,
in order to forestall them, France and
her allies, together with at least acqul-
escence on the part of Great Britain,
will begin a preventive war. why
wait for Germany to rearm? Better to
diSarm her at once and make her help
less for years to come.
The appeal is made to the British
government not to join in a preventive
war, but to make IAN open declaration
the maintenance of the peace OF Eu-
a purpose has already. been announced
by Great Britain. She is signatory
to the Locarno treaty. Mr.. Stanley
Baldwin announced few days ago that
the government would honor that sig
nature as completely as 1t did the
signing of the treaty guaranteeing the
neutrality of Belgium. But Locarno
was a solemn pledge to prevent an
aggressive war by any of the contracting
nations. Should Germany suddenly
throw hostile force across the French
frontier, Great Britain would be bound
to fight again along with France. But.
similarly, would she be bound to side
with Germany against an aggressive
attack by France. That would seem to
put out of the range of possibility any
thing like a preventive war. While 1t
is true that the four-power treaty.
sponsored by Mussolini, has not yet been
formally ratified, it has been virtually
agreed to by the respective governments,
and there can be little doubt that Italy
would seek to bring. it into force if an
armed collision was really threatened.
In addition France has her separate
network of treaties with Poland and
the members of the Little Entente,
which would be certain to make even
Hitler think twice before rushing into
war.
The greatest deterrent to war is not
written in any treaty or in any law. 1t
is the still strong conviction of millions
Of thinking people in all nations that
another general war would make an
end, as Mr.. Baldwin said, of the "civili-
zation that we know" In spite of the
belligerent talk of young men in Ger
many and other countries who have no
personal knowledge and have little
understanding of the miseries Of the
Great War, too many have its horrors
stamped upon their memory to permit
an impetuous young generation to renew,
or even make more terrible, its cruelty
and destructiveness. A burnt world still
breads the fire. The real preventive
war" was waged between 1914 and 1918.
If the lesson of that will not prevent a
similar holocaust for a long time to
come, then craftsmanship must be para
lived the gen"-- a
mockery and + =. N Il q
L -ad thing.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
Real Test Involves
Raising Farrl Prices
From the Sioux oity Tribune,

From the Sioux C1ty tribune.
1t seems that nearly all the official
and unofficial prognosticators and home
grown economists are attempting these
days to fix the spot or name the issue
on which the Roosevelt policies will
succeed or fall.
One says the test will come on feeding
the unemployed, another claims it will
grow out of his success in solving un-
employment. Still another thinks it will
develop out of the foreign trade situ-
alton and others hold 1T involves his
handling of the currency.
The real test, however, involves those
things only indirectly. The real test
is whether the Roosevelt policies can
elevate the prices of farm commodities
where farmers can pay their debts and
save their homes.
Fundamentally that was the big prob
lem which faced this Nation year ago
and It still is Roosevelt's biggest problem.
Out of this problem grew the social
unrest that swept the Nation last year
and carried Roosevelt into the White
House. Solution of or failure to solve
it likely will determine the result of the
next election.
The Roosevelt farm policies have Just
begun to bear fruit. The crop curtall-
ment program is well under way, but
the effect of this program on supply and
demand has not been reflected in the
price curve as everybody had hoped 1t
would be. Some evil influence still is
blocking the way to farm price recovery.
The big farm problem at present is
not one of a moratorium. as suggested
to the President by farmer group last
week, but one of price. The moratorium
is only incidental. If the farmers could
get price for their products they could
wangle their debts somehow.
The employment problem is largely
incidental to the farm problem. Give
the farmer buying power and he VIII
put every idle man in the Nation 10
work supplying his accumulation OF
needs.
The farmers appreciate that prices
are better than last February, but they
still fall short of what they need to
meet their obligations. Another market
ing season is at hand and the President
should know there Is great fear among
the rural populace that the spectators
will profit more than the producers if
the crop moves at present prices.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
A Vote for Mckee.

Joseph v. McKee's bold declaration
that vote for him in the New York
mayorality contest "is vote for Roose-
velt" has been painted as a cry of des-
peration by his opponent, former Rep
resentative La Guardia, the Fusion and
and Republican candidate According to
Mr.. La Guardia, the Mckee statement
is an admission Of weakness. Yet if
Mr.. Mckee can convince the voters of
New York that vote for Mckee is
really vote for the President and his
policies there can be no doubt of the
value Of his declaration from personal
political point Of view. Apparently he
is to have no word from the White
House that his Interpretation of the
votes cast in the New York mayoralty
election on November 7 is the Presi-
dents Interpretation. The President has
again let it be known that he is keeping
hands off in the New York City and in
all other local elections this year. If
the people of New York, however. be-
lieve what Mr.. Mckee says about vote
for Mckee being vote for the PreSi-
dent, the effect on the election may be
considerable, and Mr.. Mckee may be
wiser politically than his opponents now
consider him. Undoubtedly they believe
an alignment with the Roosevelt ad-
ministration must be an asset or they
would not get so worked up about what
Mr.. Mckee is saying
The Mckee Democrats in New York
are saying that the city should be
cleaned up by a Democrat, not by the
Socialist Republican. The La Guardia,
or Fusion forces. retort that the real
question is whether the city shall be
cleaned up at all; that there will
be no cleaning done if Mckee or
Mayor O'Brien. the Tammany candi-
date, is elected. The attacks upon
Mckee and his willingness to throw
out the grafters and clean house gen.
orally in New York come, it Is true.
for the most part from men who a few
months ago were anxious to have Mr.
Mckee as the Fusion candidate for
mayor. Mr. Mckee, while acting as
mayor after the resignation of Jimmy
Walker last year, startled New York
and the country by the way he waded
in and attacked the system" and its
operations in the metropolis.
The weak spot in Mr.. McKee's
eleventh hour entry into the New York
mayoralty race lies in the fact that
he might have had the Fusion nomina-
ton had he not declined earlier to be
drawn into the contest. He did not get
into the contest until it seemed clear
that Tammany was about to be licked
by La Guardia. If a political over
throw in New York City is imminent,
Tammany and Roosevelt Demo-
Gratis quite naturally would prefer to
benefit by it, if they can To obtain
a firm grasp on the New York City
democratic organization they might be
willing to go long way.
The two outstanding Democrats In
New York and in the country
President ( Roosevelt and Alfred E
Evening star., 1933-10-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

@. When was Longfellow's first bool
Of poems printed?-C. B. ].
A. In 1899, Longfellow's psalm d
Life" and other poems were published \
volume entitled Voices of the Night!
This may really be said to be his frs
volume Of poetry although collected
Of juvenile poems was published in 1926
@. What was William Howard Taft'
occupation after he retired from tH
presidency?-H E.
A. Until he became Chief Justice d
the Supreme Court, he was q proiessd
at Yale University.
@. When was an incubator FIRST uset
for baby?-N. K.
A. 1t was designed by DR.. Tarnie
In 1880 and used at the Paris Maternita
Hospital.
@. Who was Hans Memling?-M B
A. celebrated Flemish painter VIII
died In 1895. His most famous wori
Is the Reliquary Of st. Ursla in the Hos
pital Of st. John at Bruges
Q. What is metathesis?-E. NJ B.
A. Metathesis is the transposition q
letters or sounds In a word. When TIN
transposition is between the letters d
sounds of two words. it is popularl.
known SpooneriSnl, of which a vel
known specimen is 'Kinquering Cong
their titles take"
@. How many ships are called for II
the new naval programme. r. w.
A. The new naval program for 1881
calls for 80 vessels, Is of them to b,
built in Government Navy Yards. WheI
the American program is completed thu
United States Fleet will be 204, $50 tom
under the limits Of the London treaty
which expires December 3, 1925.
@. Has woman ever received a de-
gree of any kind from Princeton Uni
Versity?-C. c.
A. Villa Gather is the only woman Il
receive an honorary degree at Prince.
ton, having doctor Of letters bestowed
upon her in 1881.
E. q J.. l. How may old files be impr0ved'-
A. Old files may be improved b,
soaking in dilute sulphuric acid, con.
centration of ! part acid to or o
water. This treatment dissolves out any
dirt or foreign matter and increases
the cutting power of the files to a Ger.
tain extent.
@. Who is chairman Of the Nations
Woman's Committee of the MobiIiza.
ton for Human Needs?-R. S.
A. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Il
chairman. Serving as vice chairmer
are Mis- Jane Addams of Chicago, Mrs
Marcus c. Sloss of San Francisco. and
Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. Nicholai
F. Brady Of New York City.
Q. Is the author Virginia woolf mar.
ried?-C. B.
a, Virginia woolf is married tt
Leonard Woolf.
@ How is an actor made Up to ap
pear bald?-C. C.
A. The actors hair is covered Will
a fesh-covered gauze This is held IL
place by spirit gum. The gauze is thes
coated with grease paint dulled with
powder.
O. What is the earliest known effort
to square the circle?-R. C. McC.
A. The squaring of a circle is at.
tempted in the Rhind Papyrus 1000 BIC,
the oldest known mathematical booA
by AhmeS, an Egyptian priest Sincl
that time this famous problem has beer
studied by Archimedes, 200 BIC. Huy,
gems. 1854; Newton, Leibnitz, and mani
others.
@. Are many articles named afta
Mickey Mouse?-W P.
A. Approximately 40 American man.
ufacturers are licensed to use the nam(
of Mickey Mouse in making and sellin1
wide variety Of articles.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

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Address The Evening Star Information
Bureau. Frederic j. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c.
@. Who started the Free Milk Fund
for Babies, Inc.?-W. T j.
A. Mrs. William Randolph Hurst is
the founder Of this organization.
@. What have been the most popular
songs of the past decade?-C. J. M.
A. According to a vote of 370 Amer
ican orchestra leaders and musical au-
thorities, as reported in the Woman's
Home Companion, "Old Man River"
heads the list of the 10 most popular
songs of the past decade. In order the
Blue Heaven" Goodnight, Sweet
heart" when Day Is Done" Star
dust" "Irl See You In My Dreams .
Tea for Two" Lover Come Back to
Me" and Russian Lullaby
@. What is the average cost per mile
for travelling by airplane?-A. G.
A. The average cost in continental
United States is 61 cents mile.
@. How much has the record for the
mile race been lowered since w. Slade
held 1t in 1857?-A. A. P.
A. SHADES time was minutes 254
seconds. Since that time the record has
been lowered II times, J. E. Lovelock
holding the new low record of 4 minutes
7.6 seconds.
O. Is the Holland Tunnel the
greatest structure of this kind ever
built?-N. P. F.
A. The Holland Tunnel was the
greatest work Of its kind up to its OPEN
ing, but the new tunnel between Liver
pool and Birkenhead England, claims
to be the largest underwater tube in the
world, having total length Of 2.l6
miles, with 5,204 feet between the
shafts from which the underwater sec
ton is being built.
@. In what country have machines
taken the place Of human labor to the
greatest extent?-C. T.
A. The mechanization Of industry
has been more rapid and intenBfve in
the United States than any other Coun-
try in the world.
@ Do the people of Denmark and
/ Norway speak the same language?-T.
L. K
A. The language spoken today by
the people of Denmark and Norway are
similar, but modern Danish and modern
Norwegian do have certain differences
OF pronunciation and spelling A Dane
can understand a Norwegian more read
| lily than he can understand a SWede.
Q. When did the great slaughter of
| American buffaloes begin?-E. F.
A. The slaughter of bison by white
men began with the opening up of the
nous gold rush to California in 1849.
In the succeeding three decades the
bison were almost completely eXtermi-
mated. The Indians had never killed
more bison than were necessary for their
| immediate needs, but the wholesale
slaughter OF these game animals. the
Indians food supply was in many cases
cut of. Bison were killed all over the
plains regions of the West from Texas
| northward to the Dakotas.
@. How deep was the ocean where
| the Titanic sank?-D. A. S.
A It is estimated that the Titanic
sank in 2.760 fathoms or approximately
1850 feet of water.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

of the "Boer" base ball team it was
decided that a strike be inaugurated
Immediately because of the failure of
the National Sporting Commission to
assure the players of their anticipated
stipends from the club management.
under the terms of article No 35 of
the athletic code. The team will play
one more game at Granada, however,
rather than disappoint the public of
that CITY, who have procured tickets
for the contest.
Evening star., 1933-10-26
Premier Sarraut.

Every once in a while in the course
OF the kaleidoscope changes of govern
ment characteristic of her parlia-
mentary politics France is governed by
q cabinet said to be ministry of all
the talents. Senator Albert Sarraut,
who has been asked by President Lebrun
to form a government to succeed the
deposed Daladier cabinet, may be de-
scribed as statesman of all the talents.
In his day he has been the editor
and publisher of great provincial