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Cardinal Gibbons.

The centenary Of the birth OF
James Cardinal Gibbons is an occa-
sion of Importance to thousands of
Americans who are members of other
branches of the church than that to
which he especially dedicated the
abundant genius and deep devotion
OF his life. His influence during more
than half century was so truly
national in its scope and so COM
pelling in its power that Protestants
as well as Catholics honor his men,
ory and appreciate his high and noble
example.
1t was In little house in Gay
street. Baltimore, that James Gibbons
was born, July 23. 1894, and no
prophet was present at the moment
10 tell that he was to be prince
and a ruler in the world, His parents
we're poor farmer folk who had fed
from famine and strife in Ireland to
establish q new home in land where
there was plenty and peace. But the
accident of his fathers failing health
carried the boy back 10 Erin for his
schooling and it was not until his
youth was well-nieh spent that he
returned to the United States, He
was twenty when he began to study
for the priesthood and twenty seven
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vhsn ne sss ordained. His progress.
however. vas rapid far beyond his
own expectation Or expressed desire.
BY ises he was bishop. by 1871
Archbishop of Baltimore. The red
blretta which made him the second
American member Of the College Of
Cardinals came to him In 1885 sn the
s~enty-fifth anniversary Of the begin
ming Of his clerical vocation.
But james Gibbons vas more than
a churchman and teacher. His mind
had O secular AZ well "a q religious
bent. He was . eitiEen 10 the full
and eonplets meaning OF the word.
and had he entered politics rather
than the church he certainly would
have won eminencs "a an orator. a
q legislator VI sn executive. His gifts
Of argument we're exceptional; he vas
q master OF logic aud exposition. A
born diplomatist. he attained his ends
by taetful reasoning and liberal give
and take Very early he acquired the
confidence Of thousands who might
have been unfriendly. and this cir
cumstanee had much TO do with his
most notable successes. At his
Jubilee President Taft. former Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Elihu Root. AmbsS-
sador James Bryce and many other
Protestants Joined In praise OF his
work. freely rendering TO him such
tribute as never before had been
accorded a Catholic eeelesisstic. And
the homage was sincere. beosuse it
had been richly and courageCusly
earned. II crowned the labors OF
sanity, generous and charitable man
whose every prayer and every hope
had been for the welfare Of the
human race.
National mourning followed the
announcement OF Cardinal Gibbons
death, March ~. 1921, and a Nations
gratitude and love is his lot a hum
dred years after his birth.
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Bad Brakes. Sixteen Dead.

Yesterday a bus containing about
forty men. women and children. ON
their way From Brooklyn 10 witness a
base ball game al Sing Sing Prison,
plunged through q railing at the head
of ramp at the ossinine railroad
station and sixteen persons we're
burned or crushed to death and many
more were injured. perhaps fatally.
All the evidence points to the fact
that the bus was out of control, and
also that 1t had been SO for some
time before the crash. The driver Of
the bus. who was killed. was quoted
by one of the survivors as admitting
that the brakes were bad. II appears
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Cape Town by train. The National
Geographic Society Is famed through
out South Africa for having devoted
many pages OF Its magazine to de-
picting the life and scenic glories of
that remote region Of the British
empire, once the area OF the sangui-
nary 'Boer War" between Great Brit
ain and the former Dutch republics.
Herbert Corey, Washington scribe
and president of Overseas Writers,
journalistic host to diplomats, foreign
statesmen, war correspondents and
world travellers, has deserted the field
Of international affairs long enough
TO write detective story. Instead OF
invading the transatlantic Landscape,
Mr. Corey fitted across the Potomac
for local color and confined the scene
OF his novel to nearby Virginia. 1t
VIII be issued this week. under the
title of Crime at Cobbs House"
X X =
Washington has never aSpired to
glory as an industrial city. Therefore,
it Is news when one of its industries
outside OF politics-wins national rec
ognition. For his accomplishments
in building a dome larger than the
dome of the Capitol out of a lacy
fretwork of white quartz concrete for
the Bahai Temple at Chicago John
j. Farley OF Washington has been
awarded the Turner Gold Medal by
the American Concrete Institute. The
award reads For the outstanding
achievement of developing concrete as
an architectural medium" Mr.. Farley
Is best known locally for the concrete
mosaics which completely cover the
interior walls of Sacred Heart Church.
More recently he has embellished the
ceilings of the outdoor archways of
the new Department OF Justice Build
ing with even more brilliant mosaics
in concrete. The latter has won Spe-
cial recognition, because they are the
first mosaics to be cast in slabs at the
factory and used as forms" against
which the structural concrete was
poured In the erection of the build
ing.
*
President Roosevelts presence in
Hawaii will coincide with ID red-hot
political campaign between Lincoln b.
McCandless, Democratic Delegate to
Congress, and Victor s. K. Houston.
Republican, who formerly held that
post The rival candidates have in
recent years had the distinction of col
lecting larger mileage accounts than
anybody else who serves in Congress.
They disagree on nearly all issues but
one. They see eye TO eye in their in
dignation over the fact that residents
of the American mainland insist on
/ considering Hawaii an island or col
ony when. according to decision of
the Supreme Court, they are as much
a part of the United States as is Long
Island, one end of which is held down
/ by Brooklyn.
Elihu Root, Americas elder states
man. discusses impartially the consti-
( tutionaI issues raised by the new deal
7 in foreWord TO the collection OF
1 Alexander HamiltOn's papers, just pub
4 lished by the press of Columbia Uni
versity, incubator of the brain trust.
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that an Unexpectedly large crowd had
applied for transportation from
Brooklyn and that this vehicle wu
pressed into service Ia the emergency.
The cost OF this disaster viii faIl
heavily upon the transportation COM
pany which supplied the vehicles.
The accident should cause every
agency Of transport In the country
using these machines 10 look with
scr1pulous care TO the equipment Of
each unit just as the speed Of q
feet Of ships Ia that OF the slowest
vessel, 10 the safety OF every feet Of
buses Is no greater than that OF its
weakest member. Probably in every
bus garage there are old Outmoded
and actually dangerous machines
hald for emergencies just such as
that In Brooklyn. some OF them yer.
liable wrecks which should never be
taken Npon the road in any eircum-
stances.
No public transportation vehicle
should be permitted TO run that
is not In every detail sure OF safe
operation. Passengers have no pos
sible way OF knowing the condition OF
a public carrier to whom they intrust
their lives. There should surely be
some authority In every city to COM
pei the scrapping OF deerepit vehicles
10 that they cannot be used when the
demand for transportation Is unex-
pectedly in excess OF safe aecommo-
dation.
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Newspaper observers are virtually
unanimous in attributing the election
of James j. Dooling as the new leader
Of Tammany Hall to the influence Of
the national administration.
''The feeling prevails in political
circles In New York" states the
Scranton Times. "that the election Of
Dooling and the support he Is said 10
receive from .he national and State
Democratic administrations will tend
to kill of several so-called independ-
ent Democratic movements and har-
monize all, or nearly all, elements In
Tammany, making the organization
once more the formidable political
force 1t was before the fusion ticket
OF last Fall"
Farley is taking over Tammany
through the power Of Federal patron
age" according TO the Reno Evening
Gazette. while the Indianapolis Star
AYERS that "the Hall has capitulated
to the Democratic administration,
and, hat in hand, humbly will ask
for crumbs from the Farley table" I"
The Providence Bulletin observes that
Mr.. Farley has an opportunity, in
furtherance of Democratic political
interests, to consolidate the strength
and gather the forces Of a reformed
Tammany."
The Jersey City Journal feels that
many cities OF the country will watch
with interest the efforts Of young Mr..
Dooling to teach the old and battle
Scared tiger new tricks" while the
Baltimore Sun notes that for the
first time in modern political history
a strong link between Tammany Hall
and the White House is created" !"
The Newark Evening News warns that
promises of reform are to be taken
with grain of salt" and the Brook
lyn Times Union declares 'it Is i'm
possible to put new face on Tam
many Hall"
In commenting on the fact that
Mr.. Dooling's FIRST announcement as
the new leader was that pledging the
organization to support the splendid
policies Of President Roosevelt and
Gov. Lehman" the Jersey Observer
says: This naturally raises the ques-
ton whether the Tammany Tiger
can be made to change its stripes, but
Dooling, having been selected for the
task by the national chairman and
chief organizer for the administration,
may prove that this miracle can be
accomplished. He clearly starts un-
der favorable auspices to revive the
organization from the disastrous
knockout 1t received in the last local
election"
The New York Times, however. Is
Of the opinion that New York citi-
zens will not easily be deluded by any
promise Of repentance by Tammany,"
because "a sorrowful experience has
taught them that the more Tammany
is changed. the more 1t remains the
same thing"
The Pueblo Star-Journal declares:
What different picture is in pros
pect from that which took place at
the Chicago convention of the Demo-
cratic party. There all the weight
ofTammany Hall was thrown against
Pfesident Roosevelt Boss Curry was
dictator at that time and he has been
'out of favor with Washington ever
since. But now that he has been
ousted, the Presidents forces are
strengthening their position.
In this connection. II seems to the
Greenville News that "Tammany has
evidently decided 70 follow that well
known piece Of practical political ad-
Evening star., 1934-07-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TR4cEK ELL.

stephen Leacoek. scholarly humor-
ist. il growing serious He has pub
lished within a few months two books
on Charles Dickens. vne = biography.
the second a selection OF greatest
pages from that eminent Victorian.
one trembles at the connotation on
the Jacket that this last publication Is
one Of greatest page" series.
The lover Of great works Of art, par
ticularly ne who enjoys great novels.
VIII rather shrink from some one else S
selections.
That Is the unhappinesS OF Oil
Anthoiogies. whatever they may be
called. that often enough what an
other thinks greatest" is not so re-
garded By reader OF equally good
judgment.
Particularly it is a difficult task to
select really greatest pages from
novels. for these works depend a great
deal upon continuity. One must know
what vent before. and hope for what
comes after.
Nothing is more distasteful than
the selection Of short bits from au-
thors whose books should be read
whole or not at all.
It may be done with better grace
from the works of Dickens than from
most authors. for he was episode, in
the true sense
He worked in scenes. being a born
actor.
His habit of jumping around In the
telling OF story. leaving one set OF
characters high and dry while he tells
the reader about another set. has done
much to ruin his reputation with
many who cannot stand that sort OF
thing.
His oratOrical method, that OF repe-
tition. seems tremendously stilted in
this day and age. Whenever he got
hold Of phrase he liked. he worked
1t overtime. softly. softly the eve
ming faded, he will say. Then imme-
diately he follows it with softly,
softly" something else. Often he used
such a combination four times in as
many sentences, each repetition leav-
ing the sensitive reader fainter.
Yet for all that, thousands of per-
sons love TO read Dickens. and all Of
them will thank Prof. Leacock for his
idea Of the greatest pages from his
works.
Each reader. no doubt, would have
his ideas what those pages are. but he
will not quarrel with another who
proclaims his own.
Many will question the inclusion of
scenes from the famous death of
little Nell from ''Fhe Old Curiosity
Shop" This is the sort of writing that
gave Dickens such a black eye with
the typical sophisticated person OF
the past decade. Even many Of these
are beginning to see. however, that
such lachrymose writing was not quite
as bad as they thought. after ALL
II had its place, Ia its own day and
age. One has to do but A'little in
yestigating to realize that there was
an enjoyment Of tears. in reading, at
that time. that has long gone out.
The temper of people, especially vi
book readers, has changed.
The tears are left to the movies.
where we understand many persons
80 TO enjoy y good weep. as they say.
II one will read the death OF little
Nell In the way the Charles Dickens
wrote 1t, and as all but u few Of his
readers in his day took 1t, he will see
easily enough that it was good writing.
Over done, perhaps, but one may
not even feel sure Of that. given the
temper OF. the people. Of the age and
the sure magnetism OF the name and
fame OF Dickens, in his day un-
eQualed.
He had the crowd with him, and
Evening star., 1934-07-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Everybody's Business.

Everybodys Business.
II you'll attend to all my faults
While / attend to yours,
Each soul will find that hope exalts
The mind intent on cures.
Then every man q badge may wear,
And every woman, too.
As each proceeds with special care
To tell all what to do
Our morals now turn somersaults
In acrobatics fine.
I will attend to all your faults,
So please attend to mine.
Evening star., 1934-07-23
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

there are organizations known as
student corps. each Of which has IT'S
own colorS. which are worn on the
small round cap and on the sash
across the chest,
@. Do many people live In the
Aluetlan 1slandss--N. p.
A. About 5000. There are about 90
small Islands in this chain.
@. How many hours day does a
newborn baby sleep2-A. X,
A. The average newborn baby
sleeps about 20 hours day for the
first few weeks and A. II grows older
It sleeps less and less. until ct the ace
Of year II sleeps about is hours out
OF the "a.
Q. Is tobacco grown in Canada
d. T.
A. 1t is grown in Quebec and, On
tario.
@. How many people In the United
states are subject to hay feverf--
A. J.
A. It Is estimated that about Ave
million suffer with this complaint.
q. How long have people used
wheels2--,J. r. 8.
A. The wheel has been traced far
back into antiquity. At nrst Il was
merely a circular cut from tree
trunk and records show that It was
used by the primitive European
peoples 1000 or 5000 years ago.
Wheels in the form OF circular discs.
either cut out of solid pieces of wood
or formed Of separate planks OF wood
fastened together and then cut into
circular shape were used for various
purposes by the ancient Egyptians
and Assyrians in the early periods Of
their history. Later, the wheels Of
their chariots had spokes. The
Egyptians and Assyrians generally
used six spOkes; the Greeks and Ro-
mans from four TO eight.
@. Who said, "They also serve who
only stand and wait"?-T. A. r.
A. 1t is from q sonnet OF Millions,
written on his blindness.
O. What simple agent can be used
10 dissolve cellophane3--S. A. 8.
A. There ia no simple solvent for
cellophane.
Q. How does the stratosphere differ
from the lower atmosphere7--I. Moo.
A. The earth's atmosphere Ia divid-
ed into two distinct layers, the lower
one, the troposphere, extends from
sea level up to q height of perhaps
six or seven miles, above which lies
the stratosphere, extending To an un-
known height. These two layers OF
atmosphere differ from each other
in several respects, notably tempera-
ttTe. The stratosphere has a COM
paratively uniform temperature. ia
lower portion is supposed TO have
system Of winds unlike that pre-
vailing in the troposphere. Higher up
/ there Is probably little or no wind,
and under such conditions the gases
OF the atmosphere would tend 10 ar
range themselves according TO their
relative weights, the lighter above
and the heavier below: thus. the COM
position Of the higher atmosphere Is
believed to vary with altitude.
q. Do dogs and cats perspire7--
| NJ. McA.
! A. Both perspire, but the sweat
glands are not distributed over the
skin OF the whole body as Is the ease
with human beings. IL IA chiefly
through the tongues OF carnivcrous
animals that they perspire. and Il Is
! for this reason that dog iolls his
f, tongue In hot weather.
@. What kind Of currency Ia used
4 In RussiA2--0. M.
A. The present currency system of
the U. s. s. r. consists OF state bank
notes Cbacked BY gold reserve and
| equivalent hard" cover). treasury
notes Oimited to one-half the amount
of state bank notes in issue) and
silver. copper and bronze coins.
Evening star., 1934-07-23

any one who has that has a great
asset. in his own day or later.
As much as one may. at times. la
ment the influence OF the crowd. at
others he must admit, although re-
luctantly. that this many headed
monster often is right In its tastes and
preferences.
The mass OF readers was surely
right. as mass. its members were
individually right. in their plain pref
erence for the novels Of Dickens while
he vas alive.
He worked. mostly. in tnstallTffents
the popular form Of presentation in
those DAYS. He had the crowd with
him on that. too.
Those who like his works today do
so with no blinking Of his poorer
qualities. Ii Is possible 10 see these
without in any way joining the thin
ming crowd OF those who pose as above
and beyond Dickens.
There is. after all. no being above
and beyond good writing. which is
precisely what the writing Of Dickens
was and remains.
Good writing Is not set. II Is not
fixed, no one has any monopoly of 1t.
II is something in Itself above and
beyond set rules and regulations.
Good writing is master Of itself, and
= law unto itself.
That is why 1t varies so tremend-
ouSly. not only through the ages, but
in each age.
Works OF good writer's are not at
all alike, yet each says what the writer
wants 1t to say. and each bears that
unnlistakable vindieation of the in
dividual viewpoint which Is the hall
mark OF ability.
**&
Good writing. wherever it appears,
presents a fresh slant, especially on
life. the quintessence Of all things.
One has but to leaf over some OF the
old stories by Charles Dickens To see
that he presented q slant on life
which was typically and Enthusiastically
his own.
Nobody before ever wrote just like
him. and nobody since, although many
have tried It, 1hackeray was as
NOidIt al hlS OWh du1t bub Ait was
not Dickens. Trollope was Trollope.
not Dickens. Priestley of today is
something like Dickens, but not
Dickens
And the very faults of Dickens,
blemishes so much lamented by those
who did not like him, are part Of his
charm. II no doubt was this mood
that made Prof. Leacock include the
scenes from the death OF Little Nell.
He put them in because they were
Dickens. Dickens at his worst, If you
choose. but surely not SO bad, after all,
judged solely as the placing of words
one after the other to create an ef-
feet. One may not like the hearty
good humor of the end of "A Christ
mas Carol any the better, but still
may agree that 1t Is very good
Dickens.
Very good Dickens is what Stephen
Leacock gives the reader.
His selection of the greatest pages
may not be the readers, but it will be
near enough.
He gives rather long selections,
which Is better than short ones, for
Dickens was wordy. II WAS a part of
his method.
Prof. Leacock has now added two
books to the already growing litera-
ture about Charles Dickens. In pass
ing IL Is interesting to note that he
does not regard the recently printed
Life of Our Lord" as contributing
anything to the reputation or fame of
Dickens. The latter booklet, however,
rightfully belongs with the works and
will be cherished by Dickensians.
Evening star., 1934-07-23

After waiting ell these years for
improvement, Huey Long discovers
that the old town is just about as
wicked as 1t was when "Ta-ra-ra-
boom decay" was local song
favorite.
Evening star., 1934-07-23

Strikers at the stocking factory in
Hartman, Tenn. failed to observe
the thermometer, which indicates o
temperature at which the average
ultimate consumer would be just as
well pleased to 60 without stockings.
Evening star., 1934-07-23

reader can get the GHstrer 10
aag question OF fact by wTttine
The Washington EueniRg Star In
formation BareaH. Frederic J. Has
kin, Director. Washington. D. c.
Please iacloss stamp for reply.
@. How are golf players given ham
dieapss-E. A. q.
A. The basic handicapping system
used by most member clubs OF the
United States Golf Association is as
follows. Take the average Of the three
best scores made by the player. sub
tract the par Of the course. and then
subtract 2. Thus on the course IL the
average best score is IS, subtract the
par. n, leaving ie. and then subtract
2. which would Ak the handicap at IA.
Greens committees, however, frequent
ly do not apply this rigid formula In
fixing handicAps. but vary 1t because
Of local conditions or their knowledge
OF the play of the members.
@. When and how did NJ. Pierre
Curie die1--T. G.
A. NJ. Curle died on the 18th OF
April, 1906. He had attended q re-
union OF the Associations OF Profess
sors OF the Faculties of the Sciences.
AS he left the building and was cross
ing the Rue Dauphine in Paris he
was struck by a truck and died almost
instantly of concussion OF the brain.
Nine. Curie was not with him at the
time.
q Is there any building In the
United States which has landing
for airplanes on itg-S. b. G.
A. There is no building In the
United states which is equipped for
The landing of airplanes The Empire
State Building was equipped with a
mast for the mooring OF light airsnlps,
but II proved unsuccessful.
O. Do Greek letter societies have
more than one chapter In any one
college2--E. b.
A. They do not. Most OF these
societies restrict the number OF mem
bers which the chapters may have
at any one time.
@. Who was the pioneer vegetarian
OF America ?-S. G.
A. Sylvester Graham. He was born
In 1894 and died In 1881. 1t was this
same Graham who introduced bread
OF unslfted wheat into general use
1t is now known by his name.
@. What Is the highest point east
of the Rocky Mountains2-A. j.
A. The highest point east OF the
Rockies is Mount Mitchell. one OF
the Black Mountains, Yancey County
N. c. 1t Is 6,7li feet high.
Q. Are there any green monkeysi
w. c. g.
| A. There are three species of Afri-
can monkeys which are called green
monkeys. because Of the prevailing
tint OF their fur.
@. What railroad in the UniteC
States operates the most miles o.
railroad?-R. X.
A. The railroad which operates
the most mileage is the New Yorl
Central. IL .438 miles; the second, Chi
! cago, Milwaukee, st. Paul a. Pacific
11.243; third, the Pennsylvania, TO-
| 892 miles.
! @. Where was the lawyer Clarenc'
Darrrow born and where educated?--
H. q.
A. He was born in Kinsman, Ohio
in 1857. He attended Ohio public
schools and read his law In various
| lawyers Offices.
@. What are the colors of the Uni
versity Of Heidelberg?--W. II. F.
A. The universities OF Germany
differ from those OF the United State:
in that they do not display colleg,
colors and use nicknames in the sam,
manner as in this country. The col
ors on the shield of the Heidelberg
University coat Of arms are red aric
yellow. In the German universitiei
1
Evening star., 1934-07-23

Drunken driving has become so
common that no motorist should
think Of venturing on n trip without
seeing that his insurance policy Is
paid up.
Evening star., 1934-07-23

When q man of tried capacity like
Mr.. Newton departs from Official
service 1t Is expected that while the
U. s. Government loses a valuable
man, the District of Columbia gains
another good lawyer.