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Evening star., 1933-04-11
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

swift finality whom we shall serve.
Remain there any who have not
seen the dire tragedy Of trying to
worship both the devil and the Deity?
AS Christians and as Catholics, we
Italians are In the most preferred and
strategic position to WELD the instru-
ments Of universal reform. Our states
men are among the worlds greatest
thinkers and diplomats. Rome is the
and holds the world already in a
species of spiritual unanimity and iso-
lation regardless Of all racial, national
and political differences. The religious
entity Of the church is far too in
elusive and unified in love and fellow
ship to be affected adversely by sue
cessive turmoils incited by the bellicose
and goddess men to be found In every
people.
The Fascists, too, stand for brother
hood and cooperation among men,
and the sharing of duty and RESPONSE
bility. They require loyal and con-
certed action of all for the benefit and
security of all. With these, an equal
distribution of all good things for its
equivalent in effort Is the ideal, and
an ideal which soon becomes a most
comforting reality. Granted these ex-
allied privileges and special opportuni-
ties. it becomes us, and Is indeed re-
quired Of us, more than Of any other
nation, to lead the way to the clear
heights of universal confraternity,
when wars and rumors of wars are
known no more. The whole world has
stumbled in its blindness, but the way
out of disaster is easy and simple
when the peoples put aside all greed
and employ true fellowship.
Evening star., 1933-04-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

| and. above all, ne KNOWS nOtnlng ABOUT
music II he Is sad, it is sad Nature
| in him.
If his song is musical, as we hear it,
| 1t is not so to him. It is not even a
song. to him. It does not even occur,
as far as he knows anything about It
If human listener puts down a
birds song with pen on ruled musical
paper, what he is attempting to do Is tc
| turn bird into human.
Well it cannot be done.
No matter how accurately he hits it
something Is lacking.
1t is the bird.
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As accurately as song may be tran
scribed, it must be translated" into
sounds by means of some instrument.
If this is violin, it may be pointed
out that the bird has no violin.
If a piano, in justice to the creature
it must be stressed that it does not
know the keys.
No matter what instrument one
chooses to interpret the bird songs, it
smacks OF man, and man Is not bird,
at least in the realistic sense.
Out of the millions of human beings
in the world, only a hundred or so are
able to initiate accurately the birds.
OF these, there may be no more than
dozen who would fool the birds
themselves.
The song of most birds is of pen
sive, melancholy tone; 1t Is depressed,
disconsolate, joyless, dreary.
All this, only If accurately heard.
Accepted on the fly, as it were, the
songs of the birds are cheerful enough.
1t must be accurately understood that
the total effect of their music is some
thing else than the immediate effect
The latter is gay, surrounded as 1t Is,
especially at this season, with the bud
ding vegetation, the sunshine, the in
creased hopes of mankind, always at
their highest in the Spring.
The total effect of bird song, how
ever, is different from the immediate
and especially the mass effect of a
group of singing birds.
Together the birds achieve harmony
when they do not lend themselves, as
they sometimes do, to cacophony, as
in the early morning hours, when they
strike the sensitive ear with the same
force that arises from a great orches-
ira tuning up"
Each individual bird song, rightly
heard, with an effort to hold 1t single
for what 1t is, will create feeling Of
unrest in q human listener.
This may arise because bird Is
a piece Of nature untrammeled by
mind. It makes no attempt to correct
what it is into something 1t would like
itself to be. 1t is Nature, and Nature
has flaw in 1t, somewhere. This sad
truth is at the base of all religions, and
systems OF ethics. 1t Is the apple in
the Garden of Eden. Man knows 1t,
but man covers it up. The bird knows
it, but the bird does not conceal it.
He opens his bill and he sings; and
when he sings he does SO in q distinctly
minor key, to tell the whole world
truly what the whole world knows
Surely this does not make the birds
songs any the less enjoyable, or any
the less beautiful The sorry belief
that happiness is dependent upon
laughter is merely a modern mani
festation; it has arisen, it is. having its
day, and 1t will die out, because 1t is
false. The true. as, told to us in the
songs of the birds, will sound forever
Evening star., 1933-04-11

in city = horseshoe lying In q street
is almost as exceptional as fragment
of 3 meteor. The other day in New
York horse shoe lay on the pavement
OF busy thoroughfare unnoticed for
long enough to be finally picked up by
a rear wheel Of motor car. The spin
Of the wheel flung it loose after a few
turns and it was cast twenty feet and
hit boy in the head, inflicting a grave
injury. No luck for him in that horse
shoe. Does that reversal of the
influence Of the horseshoe signify that
the unseen forces of earth are protesting
the passing Of the animal that for
countless generations rendered such
faithful service to man?
Evening star., 1933-04-11
New Battle on an Old Front.

The advent OF legal beer, according
to an Associated Press dispatch quoting
the Employers Association of Chicago,
'signalizes the opening of one CT the
deadliest battles that has yet developed
on the hoodlum front. The hoodlum
bosses OF the rackets will now go into
action in the new field of legitimate
beer, prepared for the battle of their
lives. 1t is gcing to be battle which
law enforcement authorities and legiti-
mate business interests outside the
brewing industry cannot view with de-
tachment or unconcern."
II vss an Idle dream. OF cclrSe, 70
heaieyj that legalisa&ion c6 beer would
Evening star., 1933-04-11
Twenty Planes Together.
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
It has been a habit with romances
to lament that Lindbergh, the DO-X
the Graf Zeppelin and other pilots and
vessels of the transatlantic sphere
have closed out dramatic chapter in
the history of aviation. There is moth
ing more, they have said sadly, to be
done-nothing except to follow the es-
tablished trails and refine upon the
established services for travel over the
ocean.
In a sense this may be true. The
world can never again, perhaps, feel
the same tremendous thrill that came
with the first heroic feats in the battle
to conquer an ocean without touching
it. That part of the story is written
across the sky in letters SO bold there
is little room left except for the smaller
type which will be given to expansion
lists. But the project of Gen. Italo
Balbo to fly the Atlantic. with a fleet
of 20 seaplanes is novel enough to at
tract universal interest and respect.
Never before have the invaders of
the ether attempted such a broad
scale attack upon the elements. On
May "a the 20 planes, flying in formal
formation, will leave Rome, at dawn,
and skim to Amsterdam From there
the route will be to Northern Scotland;
thence to Reykjavik, in Iceland; thence
to Labrador over the hazardous north
ern route, and so to Montreal and Chi
cago, the American destination.
Here is an example of aerial progress
staggering in its implications. From
single and doubtful efforts to span the
Atlantic, the Italians will move into a
higher level Of enterprise by treating
the ocean as a practice field for ma
neuvers. All the planes, it may be, will
not come through, but every pilot will
be protected from disaster by his COM
panions. None Of the men should
fail to reach us, even If some of the
machines do fail.
Evening star., 1933-04-11
Will the Racketeer
Outlive Prohibition? ?
From the Cincinnati Times-star.

<AoH tuc NluClnndtl IlmeS-Star.
"The accomplishment of repeal will
find the professional booze lord deter
mined to keep his present grip. .
I anticipate an increase of homicides
crime surge an era of
racketeering, based upon intimidation
and duress. that will transform legalized
hquor into most hazardous enter
prise for all concerned" Not from
q professional dry yainly trying to
stem the wet tide, but from. no
less an authority ON criminal trends
than Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing
Sing comes this warning of what we
may expect from the racketeer as pro-
hibition makes its exodus. Two million
persons, the warden estimates in an ar
ticle in the New York Times, "are earn
ing their livelihood either as active or
passive members Of the booze profess
sion" Will this lawless army allow it.
self to be liquidated without q struggle?
Probably not s. but it's our guess that
the struggle won't be nearly as violent
or as long as the warden thinks. For IL
America tolerated the growth Of gang
sterism. it may be said in extenuation
that it did so largely because the people
became increasingly Indifferent to yio-
lations of preposterous law.
wax militant in Opposition tn ! n,oves
ment which supplied its wants. however
Illegally and In however unpalatable and
even poisonous form? with urohibition
removed, there will be no reason for this
tacit toieration. One suspects, indeed.
that the gangster who tries to muscle In
on the legal liquor industry viii get
quite as short shrift = the thug vho
nolos up "A individual q xphg = hAnk.
Evening star., 1933-04-11

ants of the people Most advantageously
situated and well managed roads will
assume the full obligations Of this role
with relief If they are freed Of irritating
regulations by Federal agents. A mini
mum Of disturbance to investors Is con-
templated, but the country may as well
face the ordeal of railroad adjustment
to the times, and have 1t over. 1t will
pay in the long run, and If 1t brings q
quick drop IN rates, 1t viii pay imme-
diately."
Sacrifices viii have to be made by
those who live from the railroads" adj
vises the Omaha World Herald, with
emphasis ON the belief that rates will
have to be maintained on a basis that
the farmer and shipper can pay" and
that "a unified transport system. with
a national program, that will include
ran, truck. water and air lines, seems
inevitable" The Boston Transcript
adds: Solution rests in steps looking to
the recasting of financial structures that
are out Of balance, the elimination of
needless duplication of service and
other operative economies, the protec-
tion of the roads from unfair competi-
tion and the Fastening of consolida-
tion." The Portland Oregon journal
declares: Fair and logical survey will
show at once that the transportation
agencies exist not for themselves, but
for the sake of the service they render.
The public is the patron. To reverse
would mean destruction of the carrier.
The integration of transportation, its re-
demption from its sins, even against its
VIII, is, first OF all, a patriotic duty, but
one that is highly practical"
After all, according to the Lexing-
ton Leader, what the railroads need Is
more business. Were they freed from
too much legislation, from burdensome
taxation, from unfair competition, from
the numerous restrictions upon their
freedom of action in dealing with the
labor problem, and were the recapture
clause OF the transportation act re.
pealed, the revival of industry and COM
merce, which is bound to come. would
enable them to borrow money. meet
their obligations, make a profit for their
stockholders and render service con-
stantly increasing in efficiency under
the management Of some Of the best
brains in the Nation. 1t Is estimated
that an increase of Is per cent In busi-
ness would bring a fair degree of pros
perity to the railroads"
Evening star., 1933-04-11

| A favorite theory Of ours has always
been that music is fundamentally sad
| This Is Interestingly borne out by
the songs of most of the birds.
Almost every one of them pipes its
| lay in a minor key.
There are few bird songs which
begin or end on a major.
Always associated with this poign-
ancy is the further melancholy derived
from incessant repetition.
Every one who has listened to the
| mountaineer songs, or to the South
Sea Island dittieS, has been struck by
the sadness of repetition.
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strain, usually form of quatrain, as
it would be called in verse.
At the fourth repetition, no matter
how jolly and swinging the tune, the
thing begins to bore in" on the heart.
Usually each bird has but one song,
with variations. Most often these vari-
ations are nothing more than leaving
of a note.
If there are four notes in its song,
the bird sings, upon occasion, only
three Of them.
The very next time it may be four
notes (the quatrain formula. but then
again it may do three, or even boost
it to five.
The mathematically inclined listener,
who attempts to check up ON the per-
formance, will be unable to reduce the
bird and its song to probabilities.
There is no forecasting how the bird
will sing it.
One time he will do three notes, an
other four, and the next time three
again.
The moment a human being begins
to believe that he has discovered the
Dird has system, the creature shows
him just how wrong he is.
If there is any sort of system in the
song of birds, the birds have not dis
covered it.
The most lugubrious birdlet of the
season was sitting on locust bough,
high up, just where the tip of the
wistaria reached.
He was a small bird, SO minute that
1t was difficult to note at a distance
whether he really had the crest he
seemed to have.
He was, at this distance, nothing
but song.
And what a sad song it was, to be
sure; it welled out of a minute throat
with all the perfect precision of steam
calliope; 1t crashed over the lawn and
into waiting pair of ears.
It's power did not make it a happy
song, instead it but added to its mirth-
less tone.
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Unhappy to the last degree, to hu-
man ears, was that birds song
1t consisted of two notes, exactly
spaced. and the same, followed by from
two to four more, but lower down in
the scale, and each the same as its
mate.
The listener, If he had attempted to
reduce the song to musical notation.
would have found himself confronted
with the problem which always has
faced those who dared to attempt it..
1t Is the impoSsibility of ascribing
conscious melancholy to q bird.
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The bird is not consciously unhappy,
he is simply singing: he knows nothing
about happiness or sadness, as such,
Evening star., 1933-04-11
Henry Van Dyke.

denry van Oyke, veteran poet and
preacher, publicist and diplomat, fisher
man and apostle of the out-of doors, is
dead, and a multitude of friends mourn
his departure But his eighty years of life
We're SO crowded with enterprise and
achievement; he lived SO abundantly,
SO richly and in so many different
spheres OF effort, that it is difficult to
conceive of him as being gone and his
labor terminated. He appeared destined
to survive forever; he gave the impress
sion OF having outgrown all danger of
the accident Of dissolution. To his
juniors he seemed a permanent insti-
tuition whose existence was assured by
the excellent use he made of its oppor-
tunities. But during the past year he
had been quietly preparing for we'll
earned rest, and now, not tragically and
not painfully, he has his release. 1t is
natural circumstance, and the fact
eases the grief which his public, known
and unknown, feels at the moment of
parting with him.
The story of Van Dykes career
prompts appreciation of what a funda-
mentally good experience a life can be.
He was not brilliant genius with the
handicap of inability to arrange COM
Portable adjustment with society, but
he did have enough of the divine fire
burning in his mind to render it pos
sible for him to do surprisingly we'll
all the scores of things he attempted.
He was so constituted as to deserve
success, to win it easily and to enjoy
1t to the full. He was fortunate from
first to last. A philosophic liberal by
temperament, he was called upon to
make no constructing compromises; an
optimist. his enthusiasms were gentle
and polite, never expensively exuber-
ant. He paced through the years, pass
ing from one eminence to another with
dignity and honor. He had in his soul
q placid serenity which was, undoubt-
edly, source Of strength to him. He
stood apart from unnecessary quarrels
and dissensions, and when other men
tired Of strife they instinctively turned
back to him in anticipation of construc-
tive help, which he never withheld.
But he was not wholly a clustered
sage. On the contrary, he knew the
meaning Of passion quite as well as any
OF his contemporaries. And when he
was stirred by the spectacle of injustice
his wrath was fearsome phenomenon
"The Potsdam gang" for example, never
had more bitter foe. Religious intoler-
ance, likewise, brought from him scorn-
ful denunciation. He could fight when
he wished. The point is that he was
not often willing. His preference was
for the pleasant paths of peace.
Probably Van Dyke, the Presbyterian
pulpit orator, the Princeton professor of
literature, the Wilsonian Minister to
The Netherlands, will be forgotten; but
Van Dyke the poet and the essayist will
remain, and from time to time, espe-
cially when they are troubled, readers
will seek him out with love and grati-
tude.
Evening star., 1933-04-11
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS "a
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

names such shares are yegisee1ed ~
the time Of such failure"
9; Where : Al cspoos ampris-
0ns~' a In the 4; United States renisen-
tiary at Atlanta. Ga. -
@. What Is the daily newspaper with
the largest circulation In Montreal.
Canada?-D. Mem.
A. La Presse, q French daily pub
lished every day except Sunday: It has
$4,000 on Saturday.
@. Did President Monroe die . poor
man?-C. N.
A. Owing to financial difficulties In
his later years, he was forced to seek
aid from Congress. which body In 1925
authorized the payment Of $4,000 to
him, and after his death the purchase
Of his papers.
hogany?-G. r. b.
A. 1t is very highly figured wood
cut from the part of the tree at or
near crotch. It Is also called feather
crotch.
@. What Is a good preservative dress
ing to be applied to leather book bind
mgS?-H. b. j.
A. The Bureau of Standards suggests
thin coatings Of egg albumen whites Of
| eggs). The use of ammonia for diluting
and preserving the solution should be
avoided, but the whites, after thorough
beating, may be made antiseptic by the
addition of small quantity of camphor,
| thymol or some essential oil. In some
cases vaseline Is a satisfactory pre-
servative for leather book bindings. Its
use should be governed by the texture
of the leather.
9. Why are objects different in color?
w. B.
A. White light, or daylight, is mix
| ture of all wave lengths and the bodies
upon which 1t falls absorb certain wave
lengths and throw back the remainder.
This causes the different colors.
@. Who wrote Goal of Creation"
Brain Tests" and other books under
the name Edwin Shaftesbury?-H.
c. w.
A. It was the pseudonym of Webster
Edgerly, who was born In 1882 and died
in 1926.
Q. Is it necessary to be an accom-
| pli5hed horseman IN order to 60 over
10. G.
| A. The horses and mules available for
| these trips are so trained that they
need no guidance from their riders.
Saddle-animal parties are always ur-
der supervision OF competent person.
@. How many people subscribed to
the fund which was raised by the In
| augural Committee?-C. T.
A. There were 368 subscriptions
amounting to $96,455. This money was
repaid in full.
@. Please name some famous mothers.
Il. S.
A. Among them can be named the
mother of the Gracchi, Aurelia; the
mother of Julius Caesar, the mother of
Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen Victoria,
Mrs. Bixby, who is supposed to have
lost all of her sons in the Civil War;
Mary Ball Washington, Nancy Hanks
Lincoln, Margaret Ogiivy, the mother
Of Sir James Barrie; Anne Hutchinson
and Mrs. James Roosevelt.
@. How do violins, violas, uoloncel-
los and double bass violins compare In
size?-R. r.
/ A. The viola Is tuned five tones lower
than the violin, and is approximately
one-seventh larger than the violin. The
violoncello, which Is tuned an octave
below the viola, doubles the violin in its
dimensions. The double bass Is approxt-
mately twice the size of the violoncello.
Evening star., 1933-04-11
7 ORTIZ CHINA HERALD, Shang-
half the Times, of all Lon
don journals, fails to cover
Chinese affairs adequately, 1t

is unreasonable, perhaps. tc
blame the smaller journalistic fry. Ir
its usually excellent review Of the yeaI
the Times devoted about half of an ar
ticle on the League of Nations to a
brief and competent account OF the
Manchurian affair and the Lytton Com
mission activities. Reference was made
to Shanghai's troubles thus:
In January, after some anti-Japa-
nese rioting, the japanese admiral
landed marines and troops at Shanghai
A small, useless and inconclusive wal
was waged-without war being de-
clared-between Japan and China in
the area just north of Shanghai. The
International Settlement was en-
dangered and detachment of British
troops was sent from Hongkong on Feb
ruary !.
The brevity of this piece of compress
sion is matched by the curt disposal OF
China in a six-and-a-half column ar
ticle on foreign affairs thus:
THE Cantonese government set UP
the previous year in opposition to Nam
king was formally dissolved in January
The financial position of China re-
manned irregular and unstable, and
banditry f1ouriShed. In Manchuria two
British subjects, Mr.. Corkran and Mrs
Pawley, were kidnapped near Newchang
on September and only ransomed and
released on October 90"
The value of SO perfunctory a contri-
button to current history is not easy to
assess.
Evening star., 1933-04-11

President Roosevelt visits Rapidan
Former Secretary of State Stimson Is
invited into diplomatic conference. His
retirement from Office stops long way
short of classifying Mr. Hoover as one
Of the forgotten men.
Evening star., 1933-04-11

Uncle Sans business has gone on
with remarkable rapidity since March 4.
Less speed may be expected as further
details come up. A tariff discussion Is
something that always takes time.
Evening star., 1933-04-11

BY urging Germany to get rid OF Hit
Ter, Moscow gives Stain an implied in
dorsement as comparatively mild and
humane type of dictator.
Evening star., 1933-04-11

Frozen deposits are being rapidly re-
leased. There may be other severe
financial Winters, but there will be less
skating on thin ice .,
Evening star., 1933-04-11
A Dulled Blade.

From the Toledo Blade. se~
AS a Detroit man remarks, Public
sentiment has become a weapon with q
very dull edge" Uh-huh. It's now q
blunt instrument.
Evening star., 1933-04-11
Pas Old Car.

from the Detroit News.
Tactful inquiries are advisable before
laughing at the college boy who bounces
down the street in dilapidated 1917
model. 1t may be his fathers.