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Evening star., 1934-09-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

We do not know the name of the
book the poet was supposed to have
been reading. Maybe it was by q
writer for whom he had no personal
respect.
Even then the action little became
him. No doubt he would have smeared
the margins Of it with chocolate, had
| he lived in the chocolate era, as we do.
Nothing strikes us as worse for a
book than to read while eating choc-
olate candy.
1t is almost impossible to prevent q
smearing of the margins, from time to
time-and from page to page-because
of the well known fact that chocolate,
in all of its forms. tends to melt be-
meath the heat Of the hand.
If the book is good enough to hold
ones attention, the bit of candy in
the left hand becomes softer and
softer, the fingers coated with melted
chocolate before the reader-eater
realizes it.
Such disrespect to books may be
larger than that involved in the carry
ing of volume unprotected through
| Ullc TAIN.
In the last analysis, however, plain
pure water is one of the worst ele-
ments to visit on . book.
| The colors of the cover run and
stain the pages. The stain of the
water itself is unsightly. The pages
dimple, and become flabby, the back
buckles, and the whole volume takes
on a decrepit appearance, unsightly in
the eyes of the true lover of books.
Something more is there, however, a
positive pain, at the sight of a good
book-we hope it always is-subjected
to such unnecessary battle with the
elements.
A book represents civilization, and
| civilization means protection.
We may think, in some moods, that
no one deserves to have books who
does not know how to protect them
What shall we think, then, of one who
must know how to protect them, but
will not go to the trouble to do so?
Let it be recalled that the lady in
question knew it was raining when
she left her hCme. Rain had been
| falling in quantities for many hours,
and was to fall for many more hours.
| Yet she stepped blithely forth with
out protection o. any kind.
She carried the book unnecessarily
exposed. in all the perfect wetness of
the Avenue, so that all might see
how little she cared for what a book
represents.
She could get another book? She
already had book?"
She could never restore that par
ticular book to its pristine state of
fair paper and print. No doubt many
people were to read it, thereafter, but
not one of them would be greeted by
that fair loVelinesS which goes to make
up the physical charm of a well-made,
well-written oook.
Something of this failure, one may
think, will carry over from the physical
book to the intellectual, the spiritual
book. 1t will never be quite the same,
although its readers may not realize
what is wrong.
You can't treat a book that way
and keep its spirit up. Something
happens to the soul of a book, when
it is abused, logged -eared, pages torn,
crumpled, smeared with foodstuffs, or
carried unprotected in the rain.
If the lady had held it under her
arm, in the manner of handbag, it
might have escaped, but no, she
wanted 1t to get soaked; she held it
right up to all the winds that blew.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Lesson From MORO Castle
Seen in Excess of Luxury

The code was born Of the necessities
and conditions of slow, dangerous
travel. Only at great intervals, when
some terrible accident happens, Is 1t
now needed. and then it is needed
just as badly as ever. but it is not
there"
The Rockford Register Republic and
the Milwaukee Sentinel blame the
provisions OF maritime law for some
of the delay in calling for help. "The
Jersey shore" states the Asbury Park
Evening Press, may be a treacherous
spot for the ships that ply the coast.
but nowhere are they likely to find a
more responsive hand when they raise
the signal for help
Evening star., 1934-09-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHN.ANDER JOHNSON.
Holding the Pace.

HOldlng the race.
Travelling toward tomorrow
Through the sunshine or the storm
Travelling through the sorrow
Or the hour with friendship warn
We rise to realms of beauty
When the twilight colors glow.
Yet the same old sense of duty
Holds us to the earth. below.
Travelling toward tomorrow,
On today We dare not wait.
For it's trouble that we borrow
II we even hesitate.
Courage We must still be needing.
Confident. but never rash,
There is safety in our speeding.
Lettering may bring crash.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
The girl was walking along in the

The girl was walking along in the
rain.
She was beautifully dressed, with
out the slightest protection from the
elements.
This didn't seem to worry her in the
least, however, for her gait was as
leisurely as If she were strolling along
on bright Spring day.
In her left hand she held a book,
but she made no effort to keep the
downpour of it.
She held 1t rather well up, indeed,
SO that the maximum amount of
water could strike it, or at least So It
seemed to q passing booklover.
What manner of person might any
one be. he mused, who did not care
whether a book got drenched or not?
1t was bs.d enough for her to be
indifferent to the fate Of her very
nice clothes. Since the rain had con-
tinued for "a hours and was going as
hard as ever in the morning, she had
no excuse for being caught in a
shower. But be that as it may.
Evidently she had set out delib-
erately without raincoat, umbrella
cape or overshoes
This was entirely her business, of
course.
But not the book!
No one has right to treat a book
so. Books are not made to be covered
with rain water.
Even the most harum-5carum small
boy, if caught in downpour with a
book, will hasten to conceal it in his
blouse, or at least hold his arm over it.
This girl held her volume high, too
high, unnecessarily high, so that as
much rain as posSible could strike it,
evidently.
What else could any one think
especially any one who respected
books.
A book is a sort of property. but
more than just physical property.
The So. let us say, which it cost.
was physical property.
The book itself was all that, and
something more.
1t was an intellectual property.
* X n
Abuse of books is very old.
We say nothing of the destruction
Of whole libraries by fanatics or en-
emies or unrcasonably aroused gentry
of one sort or another
Love of books Is personal, abuse OF
them is personal
There was Wordsworth, who is said
to have used buttered knife to cut
the pages of book he was reading
Now, no one. not even a great poet
should read a book while eating toast
If he must read while eating, and
many people love it. he should con-
sumo some other food besides toast.
If he insists on toast. let him take
it dry.
If he demands butter On it, then, in
the name of all good books. let him
give up reading for the time being.
What is one to think OF man who
| uses the same knife 20 cut the pages
of his book that he has previously
used to butter his toast?
In all the realm of book abuse there
is no more outrageous proceeding, and
the fact that its perpctravor was a
great poet, or was and maybe IS so
esteemed by many. makes it all the
worse.
A man who could write good books
ought TO have known how to handle
good books.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
INFLAMMATION of Youth.

That well-known precept about
teaching the young idea how to
shoot" will have a new and literal
connotation in Italy henceforward,
with the PRONUNCIATION of Premier
MuSSolinis amazing plan for con-
scripting all male persons, beginning
with the age of eight, and subjecting
them to compulsory military training
until they are thirty-three years old.
OF all the innovations and expert
ments with which II Duce has startled
the world during the twelve years of his
Black Shirt regime, this revolutionary
scheme is in many respects the most
remarkable.
The Fascist chieftain does not con-
ceal his purpose to convert Italy into
thoroughly militarized common
wealth His program is based on the
theory that "the functions of citizen
and of a soldier are indivisible in the
Fascist state, and military instruction
is an integral part of national educa-
ton" Mussolini's program for giving
effect to this theory almost staggers
the imagination.
At the age of eight, Italian boys will
become members of organizations which
will train them until they are four
teen. During that six-year period the
boys will be interested in military
life by means of frequent contacts
with the armed forces of the nation,
| whose glories and traditions will be
! ingrained in them" From fourteen to
eighteen higher ranks Of the Fascist
military organization will take the
boys in charge and prepare them,
through sports and gymnastics, for
induction into the militia. After three
years in the militia, and at the age
OF twenty-one, the boys will be drafted
to the colors and begin a statutory
term OF two years compulsory service
as soldiers in the regular army. Even
then, aged twenty-three, the youths
duty to the state will not be at an
end, for they will be required to do
military service at stated annual in
tervals for period of ten years in the
capacity of army reservists
Mussolini's philosophy is based on
the unabashed assumption that war
is in the air" and that Italy cannot
afford to ignore a single factor at its
disposal to prepare comprehensively
and betimes to mobilize and train its
manpower. To transform the citi-
zen into a warrior" is therefore the
doctrine to which Fascismo purposes
dedicating itself, and to that end it
intends to catch It's citizens young.
National defense is properly a ma
tion's paramount consideration, and
it does not behoove one country to
pass judgment on another's plans for
providing it. But it strikes the Anglo
Saxon mind as a cruel and unneces-
sary thing to fill the long, long
thoughts of youth" with the grim
business of war and its attendant
science of killing in those char
acter- forming years when boys should
be boys and not soldiers, and permit
ted to occupy themselves with the
normal pastimes of budding youth.
But apparently that is not the Fas-
cist conception. Once upon a time
there was a pacifist ballad over here
entitled II Didn't Raise My Boy to
Be a Soldier" Mussolini is going to
save Italian mothers the trouble of
any such training and look after it
himself.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

Litvinoff warns the League of Ma
tions that war is the threatened danger
Of tomorrow. He does not indicate a
reason for it except possible desire on
the part Of political fashion for new
set of patterns for the map of Europe.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Relief.

The April day is sure TO smile,
Though wintry blasts must fly
To free us for little while
Beneath q sullen sky.
So we're admitting with regret.
AS seasons come and 60,
Before we get the violet
We've got to shovel snow.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

Russias program Of gold bonds sales
in America, in the face of Hiram john
sons legislation forbidding countries
in default to sell securities here, brings
up incidentally the question of whether
it is right for Moscow to try to offer
gold as a special inducement in a land
where gold Is forbidden.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

The graphic arts code is questioned
because President Roosevelt's sigma
ture does not appear in the right place.
Technical criticism may yet address
itself to penmanship as well as to parts
of speech.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

An inventor may be, in spite of his
intelligence. deficient in moral imagi-
nation. With picture of consequences
in mind he could hardly go on with
improvements in gas apparatus and
machine guns.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

trees. Fine or Imprisonment or both
for leaving fires or dirty camps"
Other signs warn against peeling
trees, breaking wild flowers or shrubs,
cutting trees. Others warn of the
penalty for leaving fires or convey the
offer of reward for conviction of any
person maliciously setting fire.
If you're travelling this year, espe-
cially this year, when drought extends
over so much of the western country,
remember that the Forestry Service
would rather have you as helpful
friend.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

Italy needs soldiers in training from
the ages of eight to thirty-three. This
does not exactly coincide with the ad-
mirable Boy Scout program of kind
action every day.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

A prosperous munitions salesman
has not the excuse of the apothecary
in Romeo and Juliet" who said MY
poverty and not my will consents"
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Restoring Serenity.

Restoring Serenity.
Your investigation caused great
excitement at the start"
"One of the desirable functions Of
an investigation" said Senator Sor-
ghum, rs to allay excitement by max
ing the discussion Of its cause as dull
and as nearly incomprehensible as
possible"
Evening star., 1934-09-20

ton that Curley has had big follow
ing. Curley also makes strong play
on his own support of President
Roosevelt in 1882. when the other
Democratic leaders in Massachusetts,
were tied up with Al Smith.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

In yachting circles superstition be-
gins to doubt whether there is pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, or an
Americas Cup either.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

An aviator has to be brave man to
the finish. There is no such thing
as a hit and run airplane.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Cheers.

We give three cheers with hearty zest
For able oratory.
Three cheers await the one who's best
At telling a new story.
To arguments We bring applause,
No matter how they twist 'em.
We simply give three cheers because
We've got 'em in our system
Evening star., 1934-09-20

Jud Tunkins says he hopes the time
will come when munitions factories
won't have anything to do with them
selves except make fireworks to cele-
brate peace.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Driven the Wrong Way.

From the Indianapolis News
One trouble about most crime
drives is that the drives go one way
and crime another.
Evening star., 1934-09-20
Matrimonial Substitute.

From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The marriage policy of the Prince
of Wales is clearer now. 1t Is to let
George do 1t.
Evening star., 1934-09-20

DE average man." said Uncle Eben.
thinks dat de best form of govr'ment
am de one dat promises him and his
relations a p'litical Job"
Evening star., 1934-09-20
THEODORE W. MOVES. Editor
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

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Evening star., 1934-09-20
Higher Hazards.

Higher Hazards.
do the boys still gamble in Crimson
Gulch?"
mot in the old way" answered
Cactus Joe. "A smart chap came
along and convinced us that basic
wealth is in the land. So we've SUBJ
divided and are entertainin' strangers
with map Of the county, instead Of a
faro layout"
"To deceive a friend is not easy"
said Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown.
"A friendship is often great enough to
permit dissimulation to pass without
criticism, rather than injure the feel
ings of an inferior actor"
Evening star., 1934-09-20

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not other
local news published herein. All rights Of
publication of special dispatches herein
are also reserved
Evening star., 1934-09-20
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Evening star., 1934-09-20

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Evening star., 1934-09-20

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Evening star., 1934-09-20

will ~, AcA w NC Ine 1exaS men,
Der Of the Democratic National Com
mittee not only skaters precedent
out also Smoothes out some rough
spots In the Texas democracy. Former
Gov. Jim Ferguson had had himself
elected to fill a vacancy in the Ma
tional Committee caused by the resip-
nation of Jed Adams, but the election
by the State Committee had never
been ratified by the National Com
mittee, which held no meeting. After
the recent Texas primary, when the
Ferguson faction was defeated, Fer
guson made it known that he would
withdraw If Garner would take the
place. 1t looked like an easy way out
OF a difficult situation, and the Vice
President indicated that, if the Demo-
Gratis of Texas wanted him to serve
on the National Committee. he would
do so.
Massachusetts, voters are nominating
their party candidates for Governor,
Senator and other Offices today in
primary elections. If former Mayor
James M. Curley should win in his
contest for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton against Gen. Charles H. Cole, the
Walsh-Ely supported candidate, the
Democratic fat would indeed be in the
fire. Chances for a Republican VIC
tory in the gubernatorial race might
look up, for the hatred of Curley by
some of the Democrats is intense.
Curley has been running up and down
the State, attacking both Gov. Ely
and Senator Walsh. He calls the
Governor Little Joie" and says that
the Governor has discovered recently
that the Democrats Of Boston "are
products Of the slums." It Is In Bos-
Evening star., 1934-09-20

@. How long did it take DR.. Diesel
to produce the Diesel engine?-F. T.
A. Dr. Rudolph Diesel first con-
ceived the idea of utilizing directly the
energy created by the combination OF
Evening star., 1934-09-20
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Evening star., 1934-09-20

@. Is Gertrude Atherton, the
author, a descendant of Benjamin
Franklin?-S. B.
A. 1t is often stated that she is.
Mrs. Atherton says, however, that
her mother was descended from a
brother of Benjamin Franklin.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-26
SIOUX CITY

Sioux City. Ia. Sept. 26.-(P-
tUSDA-Cattle 1000 commercial;
1900 government: limited supply
slaughter steers and yearlings. steady
IT, strong; she stock steady: stockers
and feeders slow. about steady; few
sales medium to good steers and year.
lings 100000: package 965 Id. year.
lings $40; load 905 Id. yearlings
500; beef cows 2.50-3.0O; cutter grades
l.75-225: few good light stockers
3.75.
Hogs 5000: opening fairly active,
butchers steady: sows steady to 10
lever: early top $50: bulk better
10000 Id. butchers 6.25-50; 1920
IL. weights 550-6.25; 15o-l8O lb. aver
ages 4.50-5.50: cows 5.60-85: few up
t.; $50: feeder pigs dull: scattered
sales 1.25-2.50; few strong weights up
to 800.
Sheep 1000 commercial, run in
cludes 500 direct and 500 billed
through; nothing done in slaughter
lambs, asking stronger or above Sos
on good to choice offerings: buyers
talking weaker or around $50 for
best: short deck desirable range feed
ng lambs 5.35; package solid mouth
breeding ewes 800; late Tuesday
lambs steady to mostly IS higher; top
natives 6.65: bulk 6.50-65
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-26

$50 pounds. good and choice, 1885,
ESQ; all weights. common and medi-
UNI 10000: feeding lambs. 5O-75
pounds. good and choice. 5.50-6.25.
Cattle. 5000 commercial: 5000 gov
ernment: calves, $500 commercial; L.
500 government; general market very
slow. liberal supply good to near
choice light and medium weight cattle
here. asking. prices higher: few early
sales about steady with recent 50-cent
decline: shipper demand narrow, and
local killers only mildly interested:
holdover from earlier in week sizeable;
part load medium weights CTS; most
early sales better grade steers and
year)ings 8.25-9.50: cutter cows firm
to Is higher; other classes lot, steady:
slaughter cattle and vealers: steers,
good and choice, $4,000 lbs. SIS
$50: 900-ll0O lbs, .265-10.25: llOO-13O0
lbs, 6.50-l0.50; 1300-l50O lbs. 7.5O-
1915: common and medium, $50 1900
lbs. 2.75-7.50; heifers, good and choice.
550-750 lbs. 100000: common and
medium, 2.75-5.00: cows, good $50
SIS; common and medium. 2.75-3.5o;
low cutter and cutter, 1.75-275: bulls
tyearlings excluded. good (beef),
3.l0-4.00: cutter. common and medi-
UNI. 2.5O-3.35: vealers. good and choice.
6.75-8.50; medium, 500-6.75: Gull and
common 4.0O-5.0O: stocker and feeder
cattle: steers, good and choice. 500
1850 lbs, 100000; common and me-
dium 2.75-4.25.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-26
FUTURES DISCOURAGED BY
COARSE GRAIN WEAKNESS

Minneapolis, Sept. 26.-H1-Wheat
showed considerable ambition In early
trade but an unsympathetic coarse
grain list and failure of the stock
market to continue on the upgrade
was discouraging and final futures
prices were off fraction.
New Sept. wheat closed unchanged,
Dec. Is lower and May Il.
Coarse grain futures all were lower
with barley taking the lead, De-.
dropping more than I. Old and new
Sept. oats closed \ lower, Dec. Is and
May u. Sept. and Dec. rye finished
X and May y. Old and new Sept.
feed barley closed ~ lower. Dec. -
and May l. Sept. and Dec. mailing
barley finished unchanged. Sept
flax closed unchanged, and Dec. and
May ! lower.
Undertone of cash wheat held firm.
Winter wheat offerings were light.
Demand was fair to good. Durum Of
mixed quality showing good proper
ton of amber acted much better. De-
mand was good for choice to fancy
amber.
Cash corn demand was fair to good.
Offerings were light. Oats was In
quiet to fair demand. Rye demands
was slightly improved. Barley was
steady and quiet with offerings VI
desirable mailing quality light. Flax
was in slightly better demand. Offer
ings were smaller.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-26
STOCKS unable To-
KEEP UP PACE SET
BY MARKET Tuesday.
Bullish Activity Evid emit in
Early Dealings But List as
Whole Sluggish

New York, Sept. 49, The
stock market paused Wednesday.
after its vigorous rally Of the previ-
Gus session. Bullish activity was et-
dent In the early dealings in alco-
hols and utilities, and later In num-
Der Of low-priced issues. but the list
as whole was unable to keep on the
upgrade. The close was narrowly ir-
regular. Transfers approximated $780,
600 shares.
In bonds. U. s. government issues
dipped q trifle, but the list as whole
held up well. Grains and cotton were
q little lower.
Among shares losing y to l point
were q. 8. Steel, Chrysler, American
Can. du Pont. New York Central,
Santa r.. Western Union. and Union
Pacific. Issues showing net gains Of
about the same extent included .. 3.
Industrial Alcohol, American Com
mercial Alcohol, Owens Illinois. y. 8.
Rubber preferred, Alaska Juneau and
U. 8. Smelling. Directors Of q. 8.
Smelling ordered another = dividend
for the quarter. Warner Bros, NC
Crory Stores and q few other low
priced issues were turned over In
some volume fractionally higher,
Utilities finished about unchanged.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-26
NEW YORK

: New York. Sept. 26.-R)-Butter
5000, firmer. Creamery, centralized
100 score) 25h: other grades un.
changed.
Cheese, 373,sss. steady. Prices un-
changed.
Eggs, 28,705, steady. All mixed
colors unchanged.
White eggs, nearby ana midwest
ern marked mediums $3.50: Pacific
coast, shell treated or liners, med
i,lms 1919: Pacific coast, pullets T.
23h; other whites and ell browns
unchanged.
Live poultry weak. Chickens
freight and express unquoted: broil-
ers, freight and express 1919: fowls
freight 1919; express 1918; roost.
ere, freight and express IL; turkeys
freight 1918: express 1870; ducks
freight 1914: express 1920.
Dressed poultry weak. Prices un-
changed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-26
CHICAGO POTATOES

Chicago, Sept. 26.-(R)-(U. 8. Dep.
Agr.)-Potatoes. 90: on track, FOG: to-
tai U. s. shipments, 46s; dull; sup
plies liberal: demand and trading
slow: sacked per cwt. Wisconsin Cob
lers U. 8. No. /, 1!05-1711; Minnesota
Cobblers U. s. No. l. 100: early
Ohios l.00-05: North Dakota Red
River Ohios q. s. No. !, lis: idaho
Russets U. 8. No. I. l.50-67h: combt-
nation grade, 1905: Oregon Russets
U. s. No. I, 160: combination grade,
40.