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Evening star., 1934-02-12
State and Interstate Grimes.

A capture effected yesterday in Bal
timore by combined force Of Fed
eral operatives and local police may
lead to the solution Of several crimes
which have given the law enforce
ment agencies a long search. Basil
Hugh Banghart, who Is rated as one
of the most dangerous Of American
bandits, was taken at pistol point in
a roundup which netted three other
members of gang known to be iden-
titled with a series of daring raids
in various parts of the country. An
arsenal of weapons and large sum
of money were found.
For some time it has been evident
that gang crime in this country must
be fought on an interstate, which is
to say Federal, basis. State boun-
diaries mean nothing to the bandits.
They fit to and fro IN high-power
cars over a wide radius, engaging
here in a bank robbery, there in a
pay roll hold-up and elsewhere in O.
kidnapping. They have their head
quarters and hide-outs in many cities.
Some of them have been arrested and
indicted in half a dozen States or
more. Some have been sent to prison
and have escaped.
The recent successes in the pursuit
and prosecution of these criminals
have been effected by the Federal au-
Evening star., 1934-02-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

MesSrs. Hull and Cummings, as for
mer national chairman, had valuable
party connections everywhere. Dan"
Roper, old-time Wilson and McAdoo
lieutenant, was no less potent.
People are still wisecracking over
the initials Of the various ingredients
Of the Roosevelt alphabet soup. One
Of the latest quipS takes a shot at
the continued readiness Of Congress
TO swallow hook, line and sinker any,
thing the President wants. Current
proceedings on Capitol Hill are dubbed
the IN. R. A. session-No Reasons
Asked" Here's another: A girl who
used to be S50-a-week secretary is
now working for SO a week In a
beauty parlor. Asked why she took
such a job, she replied: IN. r. A
Never Refuse Anything"
j. Butler Wright, who has Just been
appointed Minister to Czechoslovakia,
receives promotion for his recent
work at the Pan-American Confer
ence at Montevideo. AS Minister to
Uruguay since 1929. it fell to his lot
to pave the way for the United States
participation in the conference. Mr..
Wright Is one of the front-rank
career men in the foreign service.
Princeton graduate and one-time
Wyoming rancher, he is completing
his twenty-hfth successive year in
diplomacy. In 1924 he became third
Assistant Secretary Of State and three
years later Minister to Hungary.
X X
Prince Tokugawa, premier peer of
Japan, will reach Washington at the
end OF the month and be presented to
President Roosevelt by newly arrived
Ambassador Saito. Well remembered
as a delegate to the Arms Conference
in 1922, the prince will be much
entertained here Chief Justice Hughes
and former Undersecretary of State
Castle are among his prospective
hosts. The prince is now visiting at
OTTAWA, where his son is Japanese
Minister to Canada.
Copyright, 1934.)
Evening star., 1934-02-12

ployment reserves would not mean
the throwing I'D Of economic bulwarks
for all wage earners.' She sees In it
only a measure OF security for many
workers and their families and then
only II properly safeguarded.' That
paper continues: Secretary Perkins
knows her subject too well not to be
aware Of the best examples Of large
scale experience with UNEMPLOYMENT
insurance. The breakdown in Ger
many showed definite limits to unem-
ployment insurance in the face of
widespread apd long continued unen-
ployment. She also knows her sub
1ect well enough to realize that IN
employment insurance, like all other
insurance, cannot go beyond the lin
It's OF sound actuarial basis. Secre-
tary Perkins has plenty of zeal. but
as exhibited in her report, she keeps
II well mixed with brains"
Ihe youngstown Daily Vindicator
peneVes that Federal contributions
TO funds set up under the State laws
VIII nave large influence toward adop-
tlon OF the insurance plan, which has
advantages that have been frequently
pointed out in industrial circles"
On the other hand, the Lowell Eve
nIng Leader states: "One Of the pro-
poSaIs OF Secretary Perkins Is being
cr1tlclzed as further extension of
FeoeraI power, the wisdom of which
Is oouotful. She advocates a special
TAX on all businesses engaged in inter
state commerce to promote an unen-
ployment insurance scheme in every
state. Ere this doubt has been nx-
pressed as to the constitutionaIitv of
Federal unemployment Insurance -
me Philadelphia Public Ledger sug-
geSts that 1T might be possible to get
around that point by renitting the tax
70 business concerns contributing 10
state funds for the purpose. That
however. would be Just another form
OF Federal pressure. In any Insurance
plan OF the sort the burden of main
tenance will fall largely on business
and industry. Why, then. banoner
them with another tax?"
The achievements in connAc+ior
with the abolition of child Iahor ara
lauded by the World-Herald of Omaha
with the statement: In the swiftIv
changing kaleidoscope of nonnentons
events the passing Of child labor snd
the sweatshop appear only as incidents
Iney are but details of the lar-er
picture. At another time under other
conditions they would stand o,It as
tremendous accomplishments In the
held OF social-economic reform.
There has been no greater reproach
upon our industrial system than the
continuance Of child labor in the
textile industries and the sweatshon
In the garment-making trades. There
nave been child labor, low wages and
sweatshop conditions outside these in
dustrieS, but in them these abuses OBJ
tanned in such large measure and were
accompanied by such display of mass
misery that they became symbolical
OF this form Of exploitation Of help
less labor"
Evening star., 1934-02-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.

There was drama In that, melo-
drama, If one wishes, but in the last
analysis 1t was theatric instinct.
1t is & curious thing, how two great
English writer's, far apart in years,
| and even farther apart in methods,
Charles Dickens and John Galswor-
thy, were as one In their instinct for
the stage.
Both possessed the ability to see life
as a series Of dramatic episodes. This
same sense was shared by that "force
Of nature" Alexandra Dumas, whose
books how along to inevitable cli-
makes ordained by the human de-
mand for dramatic happenings.
Dumas dealt with swashbuck1ing
adventure, Dickens with melodrama
happening to ordinary people, Gals
worthy with the simple drama Of the
everyday life as it enveloped the So
| called higher middle classes, mostly
in their love interests.
The methods of the trio were far
apart, but at bottom they were one, as
strange as that may seem to some on
| first thought.
Galsworthy was q playwright Of a
high order.
Dumas had a lifelong interest in
the stage, and tried valiantly to be-
come as great writer of dramas as
he was of historical adventure. He
| always harbored the conviction that
If he had devoted the same time to
the stage that he did to the novel he
would have achieved an even more
eminent success.
Dickens greatest delight as young
man was to attend the theater. ANA
teur theatricals of an unusually ad-
vanced type occupied large share of
his attention for his entire life. But
his biographers tell us that his real
forte lay in his unusual ability to
make his listeners see, as he read, the
very characters which he was bring
ing to them through words. There
was something gripping in his eyes,
and his gestures, in his very appear
ance, which radiated from him.
And what could it have been, ex-
cept vitality, that very essence Of the
physical which some have called
magnetism?
The desire to ring changes on
words was manifest even in Dickens
array Of possible titles which he jotted
down, sometimes as many as 20 on
more, for every one Of his novels.
This was a form of playing with
the language by one who was a mas
ter at 1t. The pendulum, after swing
ing away from Dickens for a decade,
is now swinging back again. That is
| one good thing about pendulums of
/ fancy, they swing both ways, and
usually the back swing is the longest.
why don't you write about Dick
ens?" some one asked.
The reply, too obvious to make, was
that this column has been writing
about Dickens for exactly 10 long
years. 1t never could swallow the
propaganda of some that his books
were entirely out-dated and out
moded, that they were not well writ
ten, and that they were not true to
life.
There Ia more than one way Of being
true % life. we have thought; nothing
Is oIt-moded that ever touched the
heart Of humanity. Our Bible is proof
Of that.
II one will permit him to do so,
Dickens will exert great deal of his
old charm today, because the man
could write.
Well, Abyssinial GHe would have
| liked that,)
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Lincoln.

A century and quarter ago today
two men were born who were to exert
permanent influence upon the minds
Of millions far removed in space and
time from the immediate orbit of their
own personal interests. Each, as 1t
happened, was focal center for the
period. Together they dominate the
era in which they had their being.
And yet it was the function Of each
to Hberate and to enfranchise the
human mind.
One was the English scientist,
Charles Darwin, apostle of evolu-
ton, author Of 1.-The Origin Of
Species" and THE Descent of Man"
and sponsor Of a campaign against
superstition whose victories are the
endowment of current research
throughout the world. Delicate Of
health, modest and gentle in tempera-
ment, he nevertheless performed a
Trojan labor OF investigation, postu-
lated and proved compelling theory
Of life, effected constructive revision
Of popular theology. Religion and
philosophy. law and sociology he d.
rected into new channels, and before
he died he had the satisfaction Of
knowing that his service of elemental
truth had not been In vain.
But the other child of February IL,
1909, was Abraham Lincoln, and the
name he bore is familiar to multitudeS
who never have heard of Darwin. Fate
denied to him the opportunity to COM
plete his work. Instead, he was cut off
with the second phase of his task only
begun. Poverty shadowed his youth,
political strife and civil war darkened
the remainder of his career, and he
was required to pay with his blood
for the love he had entertained for
his country and the desire he had
felt to aid mankind. Like the prin-
cipal figure of a Greek tragedy, he
had suffered under baleful Nemesis;
in the end he was destroyed by a
madman's thirst for revenge.
And yet both his birth and death
contribute to his legend. He came
into the planetary scene as Napoleon
Bonaparte and Andrew Jackson came,
a child Of the people, obscurely in
troduced and obscurely reared. Like
them, he rose to power by the sheer
force of innate genius and the acci-
dent of political chance, but far more
than they he grew with his respon-
sibilities, was refined by his obliga-
tions. That fact, doubtless, accounts
for the esteem in which he now is
held. AS the generations succeed each
other and the scroll Of history is I'M
rolled, his countenance does not fade
from the mirror OF the races memory,
and not even misinterpretation can
alter its lines. He still is a living
mentor of the masses from which
he came and by which he properly is
held dear. The average American
speaks of him as Emerson spoke Of
Carlyle: "He is my man." And it
may be that Eternal Providence views
him in the same light. In any case,
he belongs to the ages.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The StateSmen's Express.
We've got the engine steaming,
So let the old train roll!
Wen set the smoke a-streaming
While we pile in the coal.
The old machine is rutsy
That once made such a show.
The new ones trim and trusty-
Conductor, let 'er go!
Wen pass each little station
Where selfish claims we view.
We're bound for Reformation,
And slightly overdue.
So heed the whistles warning
And quickly clear the track.
All get aboard this morning,
For we aren't coming back.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Graft Bites Deep.

From the Philadelphia Record.
1t was just graft like any other
graft. Bigger, more audacious, per-
hapS, but of a pattern familiar in
many countries.
A slick crook, a few venal politi-
clans, many complacent officials who
winked at the little racket of their
colleagues. Forty million dollars in
securities issued on a pawnshop in a
town Of $4,000 people and the public
left holding the bag when the scandal
broke.
But the storm that swept France
with the Stavisky scandal shows how
deep graft can bite. Mobs of Roy
alistS" stormed through Paris streets.
The efficient French police were
powerless to control them.
Although no observers feared an
actual Royalist restoration there was
distinct danger of a Fascist coup.
The public temper, disguised by the
Bayonne scandal, was ready for
either an extreme right or an extreme
left movement which would have
ended French democracy.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Labor Report Is Declared
Thoughtful Review of Needs

Appreciation is the trend Of editorial
comment on the issuance Of the first
woman member Of a Presidents cab
met, Miss Frances Perkins, "a force
III character, with head full of idea
producing brains" to quote the Helena
Daily Independent.
The Wichita Eagle summarizes her
recommendations in the statement:
Miss Perkins recommended compul-
sorry employment insurance to be paid
by employers, a better housing pro-
gram for workers, shorter hours,
higher standards of wages and min
imum wages, abolition of child labor,
help Of Government purchasing power
for supplies and equipment to main
tain high industrial standards, boards
to settle disputes in industry and COM
petent wage Garner representation in
all industrial organizations" The
Eagle makes the further comment:
''The excess of excitement which has
marked most Washington affairs late
" served to obscure these recommen-
dations by high Federal official and
member of the Presidents cabinet,
which, a few years ago, would have
been considered revolutionary"
Approving comment" states the
Oakland Tribune, calls attention to
the absence of promises and boasts in
the report" and that paper quotes the
Secretary Of Labor as stating: mo one
hos Uaf found
ment, although we are experimenting
in that direction under the national
recovery act" The value of the codes
in this connection is brought out by
the Lancaster New Era, which states
that Secretary of Labor Perkins esti-
mates that the purchasing power Of
the United States is two billion dol
lars greater today than it was last
March. If labor is to be secure in
permanent employment" continues
that paper, "the work day and week
must be definitely shortened. The
codes are providing relief. They elm
mate the suicidal competitive system
that was largely responsible for cre-
ating the depression. Production must
be controlled if prosperity is to re-
turn and be maintained Reduction
of working time and maintenance of
adequate wage schedules Is the way
out. The machine can thus be re-
tanned and the workers will have
leisure for profitable recreation. The
way has been shown by the codes"
The San Francisco Chronicle notes
"an absence of cocksureness about the
various remedies proposed to cure un-
employment in refreshing con-
trast to the doctrinaires to whom a
formula is always 100 per cent" The
Chronicle calls attention to the fact
that Gin recommending a further use
Of unemployment insurance she seems
likewise to be without illusions. She
realizes that the adoption Of unem-
Evening star., 1934-02-12

A new opera contains versification
which very few claim the ability to
understand. For this very reason 1t
is being widely discussed, and by
those who enjoy incomprehensibility
rated along with Einstein's theories.
That very straightforward poet, W.
8. Gilbert, allowed the character
of Bunthorne to analyze this trait Of
human nature, "If this young man
expresses himself in terms too deep
for me, why, what very, very, very
deep young man this deep young man
must be-"
Evening star., 1934-02-12

Two high school girls parted ON a
downtown corner one very cold after
noon.
"Good-by," said one.
"Abyssinial" replied the other, with
a wave of her hand.
In case any of the fashioned
readers of this old-fashioned column,
which hasn't contained a single "wise
crack" in 10 years-quite record,
really-do not understand that flip
bit of repartee, we take pleasure in
assuring them that it stood for "I'n
be seeing ya!"
A thrill Of appreciation went along
our stodgy spine, that we were able to
understand it without being told.
AhysSiniay hdeed'
Foolishness with words always has
been. and always will be, a diversion
of Englsh-speaking peoples.
Recall Charles Dickens, who, as a
very young fellow, invented a Ian
guage all his own, mostly made by
placing the syllable Ger" at the end
Of every word.
This gave a sort Of "hog Latin" ef-
feet when a sentence was rapidly pro-
nounced.
Playing with the Kings English Git
was the Queens English in his days.
was favorite diversion In most Of
his novels.
Many will remember the scene, from
David Copperfield," in which Davy
reads to Peggotty, his nurse, about the
crocodiles.
Quizzing his kindly and ignorant
old friend, the little boy became a bit
too personal, at last, and she turned
his questions by saying:
"Davy, read me some more about
the crorkindills."
That was a true Dickensian touch
Dickens all over.
Strange, curious and unusual uses
OF words were always to his liking.
The names which he selected fol-
his characters were often jokes with
words.
Even when they contained no direct
reference to something else, which
they often did, they made more or less
OF the same impression by their very
sounds.
In this his dramatic instinct ruled
He seldom did what Anthony Troll
lope did, however, make his charac-
ters' names SO manifestly a play on
words that they rang falsely.
Dickens was real artist, in his
way, although his methods often re-
pei the strict modernist.
He was one of the worlds great
men born this month February y.
His dramatic instinct never left
him. 1t is said that in one Of his last
public readings in England 20 women
tainted and had to be carried out,
owing to the power he possessed of
actually living the parts he read.
1t was this dramatic instinct of his
and what Is drama, after all, but
emotion?-which enabled him TO grin
the attention Of the reading world as
he did.
Another story told of him is that
a great crowd waited on the dock at
Boston for the steamer which brought
in new part" of THE Old Curl
osity Shop" (In those days novels
were put out in what would amount to
monthly magazines today, before they
were issued in book form.)
As the steamer warped to, a great
cry went up from the crowd.
"Is Little Nell dead? Tell us, Is
Little Nell dead?"
Evening star., 1934-02-12

A recently discovered letter reveals
old Daniel Boone as a man of cul-
ture. In his day, as in the present,
Discrimination to mingle in congested
social haunts could not be interpreted
as a sign of flliteracy. Lincoln was
one of the men who depended on few
books, but those the best that the
human brain has produced.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
The Refinement of Ingratitude.

Inc Refinement of Ingratitude.
Republics are ungrateful," said the
ready-made philosopher.
Perhaps" replied Mr.. Chuggins;
''but If you want taste of real in
gratitude, take a party of friends out
for an automobile ride and listen to
their sarcastic remarks If you happen
to break down"
Evening star., 1934-02-12

So far there Is no indication that 1t
will be necessary to persuade Attorney
Hogan to devise some legal method
from time to time to release Sergeant
at Arms Jurney from the custody of
Mr. MacCracken.
Evening star., 1934-02-12

Credit control may be more diff
cult than dollar control The dollar
In the language of old cynicism
does not care who has it," but credit
is largely matter of familiar ac-
quaintance and personal response
bility.
Evening star., 1934-02-12

Experts in economics agree that the
U. s. A. will never need a dictator" 4"
Any unrestricted power always i'm
plies that after meeting an emer-
gency it can be rescinded at the next
landslide.
Evening star., 1934-02-12

riers-steamships? After the World
War the Government was engaged in
the operation of the overseas mer-
chant marine and the owner of prac-
tically all of the vessels that sailed
under the American flag to foreign
ports. It's policy ever since has been
to get the Government out OF this
kind. Of business.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Rand Action.

isn't this taxicab going rather
slowlyp" asked the impatient man.
You're looking at the wrong
place." replied the driver. "You want
to quit observing the passing scenery
and keep your eye on the fare
register"
Evening star., 1934-02-12

A difficult situation might be brought
to quick conclusion if the Senate
could apply the advice of Dogberry
when he advised his officer, Verges. to
have nothing to do with any one he
suspected Of being dishonest.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
A Vast Cnnsumntinn.

"I'm glad the straw vote now holds
sway"
The horse remarked with glee;
'For if they got to using hay
Where would my luncheon be?"
Evening star., 1934-02-12
An Eve to the Future.

$50 you want your daughter to be
a great opera singer?"
"Yes," replied the alert mother. IT
don't care so very much for opera
singing, but if she gets reputation
in that line she can make all kinds
Of money publishing instructions on
how to be beautiful"
Evening star., 1934-02-12
A Customers Protest.

$50 you are going on a striker"
said the cafe patron.
eyes," replied the waiter.
"Great Scottl If I have put up
with this place all these years, don't
see why you cantl"
Evening star., 1934-02-12

Possibility of remaining in Wash
ington during the Summer may not
strike Congress as being SO serious
when it recalls the discomforts of a
long, hard Winter.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
In the Eye.

"That man is very much in the
public eye"
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum;
che is as irritating as q cinder from
a locomotive"
Evening star., 1934-02-12

The use of ingots as q currency
basis will be closely supervised to
prevent any financiering on anything
like the gold brick" basis.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Read the Record.

From the South Bend Tribune.
Those who complain that radio
comedians are not funny ought to
ask, the broadcasters TO quote from
tha Congressional Record.
Evening star., 1934-02-12

It ID not 10 be expected that after
each new deal everybody will find
himself with a perfectly satisfactory
hand.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Silence in the Morning.

From the Roanoke Times.
It is said that milk dealers plan to
replace their glass bottles with paper
containers. Then what's to wake folks
I'D In the rnorninga.
Evening star., 1934-02-12
Ethereal Limits.

From the Boston Transcript.
If these stratosphere penetrators
keep on it won't be long before they
will be able to tell us just was is
meant by "the sky's the limit"
Evening star., 1934-02-12
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Q. How long is the cog railway
which goes up Pixies Peak?-M. D.
A. 1t Is 8 miles long. It takes 90
minutes to ascend the Peak by cog
railway.