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Evening star., 1934-04-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The same with peon1es.
Experts declare that the only way
to get the sort of grand peony bios
SONS one desires Is to disbud, but 1t
seems all wrong to many Of us.
Who cannot recall some wonderful
bushes, in old gardens. bushes veri-
tably loaded down with blooms big
enough for any one, yet not bud
had been touched?
Disbudding may be all right for
show flowers. but need 1t be practiced
In the small home garden?
The practice has little to commend
1t to the simple gardener, who is
more or less satisfied with the way
Nature does things.
Surely the experts are right-but
who cares? More flowers, of smaller
dimensions, are more desirable to
many. Even these blooms may be
made larger by more copious use Of
proper fertilizers.
There can be little question that
fertilization Is done in the average
modern small yard with far too mig
gardly a hand.
Fertilizer costs money, in the first
place.
And so much Of it is required, in
the second.
Few amateurs ever use enough.
They prefer to play safe, with results
accordingly.
If one expects results, any fertilizer
| must be used with a lavish hand
within reasonable limits.
Just sprinkling won't do.
Yet 1t is precisely this small amount
which goes on, in most cases, so it
Is not to be wondered at that many
home gardeners in time become dis
gusted with their attempts.
The fault lies, not with their fertil-
izers, but in themselves, because they
will not. or at least do not, use enough
There are all sorts of trick treat
ments, but one may feel reasonably
sure that, just as there is no panacea
for all garden ailments, SO there is
no substitute for some genuine fertil-
izer.
And another thing-there is nc
substitute for cultivation, one may
feel sure
The tendency of today, especially
among home gardeners, is to frown
upon, even sneer at, the ancient art
of cultivation.
The experience of the ages is that
there is nothing which will quite take
its place, whether done by hand OF
| machine.
There is something of magic in the
action of turning over the soil, and
prodding 1t at frequent intervals. This
good dust mulch kills weeds and tends
to prevent the capillary attraction OF
water from the soil into the air, but
surely it does more than that, it helps
the gardener become part of his gar
den. 1t is the one sure way, We almost
had said the only way, of achieving
this most desirable end. He who re-
sorts to shortcuts is a make-believe
| gardener. as SO many Of us are. We
| love the garden, and the things OF
the garden, but we are not garden
ers, and are the first to admit it.
Amateur gardeners mostly are ex-
perimenters.
Owning few plants, comparatively
speaking, they risk little If they lose
anything through trials.
Therefore, We hope some one will
try out this castor oil doctrine and
report on it next Fall.
Maybe it is all bunk" but as long
as hope springs eternal in the human
breast. there is something to be
gained by trying 1t out
Surely 1t would be a wonderful
thing, If the authorities were all
wrong. and the old man right, after
all. He was SO sure of himself. and
his universal remedy.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON

bx ff11LANDER JOdNSON.
Oh, Book!
On you I look
With fond Imagination!
Each fitful cerebration
Which you disclose
Spoils my repose.
And though you cost two dollars and
half
You do not give me one good honest
laugh!
Oh, Book!
Have you mistook
The present situation
That's bothering the Nation?
If all those leaves
My eye preceives
Were cabbage leaves, instead of paper
neat,
I'd welcome you. You would be good
to eat.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Castor oil for roses?
1t is remedy" which crops up
annually.
Some old-timer tells you, with an
| air Of great secrecy, that it Is good
| for everything that ails 'em.
A tablespoonful, he declares, poured
in near the base Of each bush. and
your rose troubles are over for the
year.
Just dig little hole, pour in the
prescribed dose, then you can forget
about the dread "black spot" and all
the other ills to which roses are heir
1t sounds well, and no doubt would
be, II it were so, but authorities say
it isn't.
y X X \
The belief is based, evidently on
the human dislike for castor oil.
What the grower dislikes, the in
sectS ought to dislike.
So goes the theory.
There seems to be little to support
the idea though, for oils of all sorts
are known to be inimical in the soil.
Since castor oil is of vegetable
origin, no doubt it would be broken
down at last by bacterial action
but neither in its original form nor
| as procesSed by such natural action
would there be anything about it to
help roses.
The best that could be expected
from it would be strictly negative
lack of action altogether. If it did
no harm, according to the experts, II
would be doing all the good it could.
X II X
No doubt such belief arose when
some of the oil accidently was spilled
near rosebush.
Perhaps the bush did we'll, and the
owner jumped to the conclusion that
the oil Of the castor bean did 1t.
1t would be another instance OF
the plain difficulties of making de-
ductions.
Every one who has ever tried to
make experiments outside Of labora-
tories know how difficult the matter
is, since there are not enough SUBJ
| jects and control faculties are lacking
Nutritional experiments, for in
stance. are notoriously hard to judge
| especially when made upon ones self
One home experimenter will come to
the conclusion, let us say. that
starches help cause his colds. Let
him give up bread, then-still he gets
cold.
To draw conclusion, however, to
the effect that starches or lack OF
them have nothing to do with catch
| ing colds would not be fair, since
one experiment on one subject is
scarcely beginning.
When nutritional experiments are
made in laboratories they are con-
Quoted with the aid of many small
animals whose slightest reactions are
checked constantly.
From many cases, some definite
conclusion may be drawn, but from
one case the fair person Is unable to
make any statement, even if he
feels convinced in the matter.
1t is probably so with rosebushes
and such apparently easy remedies.
1t would be an interesting expert
ment for some grower with many
bushes to try. but the average home
gardner has neither the time nor in
Clination for such work.
He wants results.
He does not believe in a "cure all
for his roses, as much as he would
like to find such a thing.
Cultivation, spraying, fertilization,
cleanlineSs+these are the only secrets
he knows of good rose culture.
He might include proper pruning
and disbudding in his list, but often
his heart goes back on him when
it comes time to cut of buds so that
larger flowers may result from the
few that are left. Such work often
strikes the strict amateur as crime
against roses.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

@. How many children have been
forced to stop school because there
are not funds to keep the schools
open?-O. T. T.
a. Nearly a thousand schools have
been closed, and 1000 children have
been forced to leave school in he
United States.
@. Are any works except paintings
accepted for the Paris Salon?-L. A.
A. This annual exhibition includes
paintings, sculptures, engravings, etch-
ings, pastels and water colors. 1t Is
open to living artists of all nation
alities, if their offerings are accepted
by the jury Of experts elected by the
exhibitors themselves.
@. What have been the highest and
lowest prices quoted on the stock Of
the Bank of England?-K. v. C.
A. The lowest quotation was in
1897, soon after the bank was estab-
lished when the stock went down to
81. The highest point was reached
March 6. 1884. when the quotation
was 1856.
y. What proportion Of novels pub
liShed succeed?-E. F.
A. 1t has been estimated that nine
out Of ten novels are comparative fall
ureS, i. e., show no decided profit to
author or publisher.
Q. How many Gold Star Mothers
made the pilgrimage to the graves of
their sons in foreign cemeteries?-
M. M. S.
A. Six thousand six hundred and
seventy-four mothers and widows
visited the graves of their loved ones.
The pilgrimages ended on November
IL, 1888. The first memorial trip in
1880 was completed by 1858 pilgrims.
There were 10 parties in all. The
average age of the pilgrims was SO
years, although the Oldest mother was
81 and the youngest widow was only
n years of age.
Q. How many members of the Du
Pont family are actively connected
with the General Motors Corpora
TOMB. c.
A. Beside LammZ du Pont, chair
man OF General Motors, there are
Henry F.. Irenee and Pierre S. du
Pont, making four Du Points on the
board of directors.
@. Who was the queen who died
recently in Holland? How related to
Wilhelmina?-G. H.W.
A The Queen Mother of the Meth
arlands, Queen Emma, was the mother
OF Queen Wilhelmina.
@. How many Hessian soldiers were
brought to this country during the
Revolutionary War?-C.
A. 1t is estimated that altogether
there were some 10000 Hessian mer.
cenarles brought to this country dur
ing the Revolutionary War, and of
these 1854 never returned to Eu-
rope. The latter are accounted for
as follows l,200 killed or died of
wounds; 1884 died of illness or acci-
dent; 5000 deserted and later became
established on American soil.
Q. Does a part of the State of Illi-
nois lie West of the Mississippi River?
B. .O.C.
A. A small portion of the State of
Illinois extends west of the Mississippi
River. This is Kaskaskia Township of
Randolph County, Illinois, which is
west of the man stream of the Mis-
slSsippi, adjoining Sainte Genevieve
and Perry Counties, Missouri. There
is a small stream surrounding this
township on the west.
Q. Do Indians kill animals for the
pleasure of the hunt. or only to pro-
vide food?-F. S.
A. Indians take only enough game
and fish for their needs. Buffalo meat
is their favorite food.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

and finds the theme for the compile
ton Of his symphony. Miss Hurst's
novel Is succession of dramatic
episodes, many of them overstressed,
but the picture as a whole Is not
clear cut. The impression it makes
is one of confusion, both of charac-
ters and action. Perhaps she has at
tempted to crowd into one volume too
much Of the modern metropolitan
scene and certainly she has been
wanting in suficient exercise of the
restraint which saves from theatre
calitH
Evening star., 1934-04-28

@. Are there more or fewer people
living ON farms than In earlier years?
ID. H.
A. On January I. 1884, there were
80 500 900 persons living on American
farms. This Is the greatest number
in the history Of the United States.
Q. Are Cancelled stamps Of any
value?-J. A. p.
A. Sometimes Cancelled postage
stamps have philatelic value and are
bought and sold by stamp collectors.
The value depends entirely on whether
the stamp Is rare or not.
@. Which is the largest railroad
yard In Canada?-D. j. NICK.
A. The largest yard Is on the Can
adian Pacific Railway, and is known
as the North Transcona Yard at Win
nipeg. 1t has a storage capacity of
about $500 cars, although it is de-
signed for an ultimate capacity Of
$4,000 cars.
Information Bureau repeatedly?-W.F F
A. While thousands Of people are
new users Of the bureau each year,
some correspondents have been using
it since the year that it came into ex-
istence. Queries from old and new
friends are equally welcome. Address
your letter to this newspapers In
formation Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin,
Director, Washington. D. c., mclosing
coin or stamp for reply.
@. Did the picture of Napoleon III
appear on French coins?-E. F.
A. They did during his reign.
Q. Why Is Sandwich glass so called2
j. C.
A. The little town of Sandwich,
Mass, has given this name to the
early American glassware which was
manufactured there.
@. What kind of furniture was
brought over by the early settlers on
the Mayflower?-E. G. C..
A. Among the articles of furniture
brought by the Mayflower on her first
voyage were chairs, table-chairs, stools
and forms tbenches), tables, table
boards, "cloathes" trestles, beds, cra-
dies, buffets, cupboards, cabinets,
chests, chests Of drawers, boxes, spin
ming wheels and handlooms.
@. Where is the original manu-
script of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer?
H. H.
A. Mark Twain's original script is
now in the archives of Georgetown
University. 1t was presented by Gene
We've Garvan Brady of New York,
who received the manuscript as a gift
from her husband, the late Nicholas
Brady. The manuscript is insured
for s5o, 1000.
@. When was the redowa popular
as a dance in Paris?-M. v. r.
A. This Bohemian dance was intro
duced into Paris and London about
1886.
@. Why was the Capitol built so
far from the White House?-S. N.
A. A fear was expressed by Presi-
dent Washington that If the legisla-
tive and executive branches were too
close, they might possibly encroach
upon each others time. He advised
that the congressional buildings
should be at least a mile from the
executive mansion. This was before
the days Of telegraph, telephone or
automobiles.
@. What is the monetary standard
Of China?-L. D.
A. China has no standard but sill
yer is the principal medium of none
tary exchange, the Haikwan tael, a
weight measure being the yardstick.
The National Economic Council now
Is considering adoption Of the gold
standard.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
l Other States and Canada.
Tax Rate and Assessment.

Comparisons Of per capita assess
ments and per capita tax levies are,
as Assessor Richards suggests to the
Senate Subcommittee on District Ap-
preparations, reasonably fair methods
of measuring the relative tax burdens
of cities.
But what Senator Thomas empha-
sizes in his proposal to change the
assessment system in the District is
that Washington will continue to be
the target of uninformed criticism as
long as the practice here is to apply
o low tax rate to a rigid, full-value
standard of assessment. Cities as rule
regardless of what the law may sug-
gest-follow the opposite course, as
sessing at various percentages of full
value and applying high tax rate.
Most Of the derogatory remarks con-
cerning Washington's alleged low tax
burden are based on comparisons Of
tax rate alone, despite the fact that
a tax rate is an absolutely meaning
less index to the tax burden unless
the assessment to which it is applied
Is considered.
It will be recalled that when the
Bureau Of Efficiency compared tax
burdens Of Washington with those Of
other cities by comparing various per
capita figures its findings were con-
demned in the House on the ground
that per capita comparisons were un-
sound-this despite the fact that the
Bureau of the Census has used the
per capita system Of comparison for
more than thirty years and the same
system is followed today.
When the Mapes committee of the
House, confessing itself embarrassed"
by the finding of the Bureau of Eff
ficiency, hired an expert of its own
to make tax comparisons the expert
used a system which, because OF
Washington's extraordinarily high as
sessment practice and extraordinarily
low tax rate, resulted in a comparison
as unfair 10 Washington as it was
misleading in other respects. BY this
system, for instance. figures were pro-
duced tending to show that taxes in
Louisville, KY, were twice as high as
in Washington. And when the Citi-
zens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Rela-
tions applied the same method of
comparison to other cities-to demon
strate its fallacies-an equally un-
likely result was statistically produced,
wherein it was shown that while taxes
in San Antonio, Texas, were higher
than in Chicago and twice as high
as in Dallas, they were not nearly as
high as in Jacksonville, Fla.
Property assessment in Washington
Is notoriously high. An honest as
SCISSOR, responsible only to Congress in
living up to the letter of law de-
manding 100 per cent true value
assessment, keeps it high-higher than
total realty assessments Of many cities
of greater population and more tax
ables. So many elusive factors enter
into the determination of what con-
stitutes full, or real, value that the
attempt to collect taxes on a guess at
what this full value may be often
works to the disadvantage of the tax
payer. In washington the low tax
rate is the source of unending criti-
cisn from members of Congress whose
home districts follow the practice of
low assessment coupled with high tax
rate.
Senator Thomas is moving in the
right direction in seeking a remedy
for this cause of much hurtful mis-
understanding.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

There will be no greeting for insult
when he arrives at New York. 1t is
melancholy to note that after all his
years in grand opera there is not a
loyal press agent left to start a cele-
bration. OF all propaganda that Of
the theater is most tickle.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

A gang victim refuses to tell who
shot her. The threats of the under
world include friends and relatives
and create an evidence of new social
practices which constitute the ne plus
ultra of blackmail.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Such is the wisdom Of the plain
people that when question is raised
as to where more funds are coming
from the taxpayers always know the
answer.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Dillinger is said to give liberal
shares OF the money he steals to the
women he meets en- route. So bold
an organizer as he is may yet startle
the world by asserting himself as an
outlaw with an army of Amazons.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
How Single Mistake Caused the
Failure of the C.. w. A. Experiment

bread out of the mouths of others
and work out of the reach of their
hands, both of which are equally es-
sential, the one to sustain life and
the other to maintain the morale.
PHILIP BERNHARDT.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

AS Summer approaches, a number
OF Congress boys are wondering
whether they will be sent home with
bad report or kept in after school.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Jud Tunkins says some folks get so
much education That they spoil their
hopes of congenial company by not
bein' able to enjoy conversation with
anybody less educated than they are.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
True Appreciation. A

True Appreciation.
do you receive much fan mail?"
mot much" answered Senator
Sorghum. My public responds with
something more than idle compliment.
1t buys the toothe paste I mention in
my radio talks"
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Patronage has become SO difficult
that in addition to the slaughter of
pigs, the pork barrel appears to have
been plowed under.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Languages.

Languages.
sometimes wish that l could read
Ali languages upon this earth,
So that through them I might proceed
To unfamiliar realms of mirth.
On lexicons I have gone broke.
And thus my precious time I lose.
They do not show me one good joke
But merely bring me more bad news.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

Winter Sports Frozen Out.
From the Kansas City Star.
Among other hardships wrought by
the recent blizzard in the East was the
postponement of the Winter sports
at Lake PlsSid, N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

A Re-planned Year.
The old thermom goes down from day
TO day
A frosty scene is shown at early
morn
And when a robin seeks to sing of
May
A snowbird whips him and he's left
forlorn.
With daylight saving we display our
skill.
We need some way to stimulate
nfe's cheer.
Since such things we can regulate at
will,
We ought to have two Christmases
year.
Everybody is busy tellin' everybody
else what dey ought to do," said Uncle
Eben, "and in de confusion nobody
does it, 1
Evening star., 1934-04-28
Considerate,

COnsiderate.
DO you enjoy base ball?"
Very much" answered Miss
Cayenne.
But you don't appear to understand
the game"
Certainly not. Why should I de-
prive the gentleman with me of the
pleasure he derives from explaining it."
Evening star., 1934-04-28

DO not trouble to speak i'll of your
neighbor," said Hi He, the sage of
Chinatown. IF he deserves ill speech,
other neighbors will supply it in
abundance"
Evening star., 1934-04-28
ANITRA'S DANCE. BY Fannie Hurst
New York: Harper g. Bros.

New YORK: Harper & Bros.
Artistic households are prone to &C.
centricity, extravaganza, melodrama.
In THE Constant Nymph," Margaret
Kennedy made her Sanger family, in
its high Tyrol home, intensely real
in all its abSurdity. When conven-
tional relatives broke up the family,
1t seemed sin against the truth of
nature. Fannie Hurst does not sue
coed in attaching us similarly to the
Bruno household, in "Anitra's Dance. I"
1t Is equally mad, according to all
estimable standards, but is just not
as convincing. Rudolph Bruno, COM
poser, is the head of the household,
which includes his wife Gersta, who,
as the novel opens, Is giving birth in
her middle age to her last child,
Anitra; his daughter Sophie and her
husband. Leopold Gordon: his son
Eugene and Max Waxman, friend
and retired salesman of a music store.
A frequent visiting addition to the
family is Elsa Bruno Krehbiel from
st. Louis. The Bruno home is the
last house on Riverside drive before
that thoroughfare drops 'in a rocky
cascade into the Hudson River"
Bruno has fame, chiefly among other
musicians and music clubs, but he
has never been able to achieve the
fulfillment of his great idea, conceived
in his student days at Budapest,
Prague and Vienna, of a great SYM
phony Of the Span of Life" He re-
mains "embalmed in an hiatus be-
tween the Second and Third Move
ment."
Anitra Is born. She also is a genius,
a genius in squeezing the last drop
of juice from the fruit of life. All
the excitements Of modern New York
are hers while she Is still a young
girl, and at first she seems likely to
dominate them, but she finally Sue
cumbs to the sensationally common
place life about her. At the moment
when her brief, hectic dance Is over,
Bruno breaks through his inhibitions
Evening star., 1934-04-28
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@. What is the monetary standard
Of China?-L. D.
A. China has no standard but sill
yer is the principal medium of none
tary exchange, the Haikwan tael.
weight measure being the yardstick.
The National Economic Council now
Is considering adoption Of the gold
standard.
Evening star., 1934-04-28

@. Did the picture of Napoleon III
appear on French coins?-E. F.
A. They did during his reign.
Evening star., 1934-04-28
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
TWO COLLECTORS FOR EVERY TAXPAYER

Door-to-door pressure eagle-eyed inspection, and
disbarment of attorneys and experts who help tax
dodgers and defraud the government of
the means by which Secretary Morgenthau hopes
to reach his goal of two hundred million in back
tax collections this year. The treasury head an
nounced that if the collectors and field men DEEM
ed it necessary to make house-to-house canvass
he would ask the CWA for funds to cover the ex-
ira work.
1t seems to US that such procedure will open up
a great field for employment and ought to make
sizeable gap in the ranks of the idle There are
few million people who have paid no taxes within
the last threefour years for the simple reason that
they have had nothing to tax not an income.
More of them are in class with the man in the
Bible who had taken from his "even that which he
seemed to have" and we think of nothing that
would give more pleasure to these men than to m
vestigate, under government orders, the status of
those who still able to pay taxes and who may
have reneged somewhat in their onerous duty.
The fact is that there are enough men available
at the present time for at least two to be set t.
watch every one who has an income sufficient to
encouragement than their daily wage and the riv-
airy between districts which Mr.. Morgenthau in
augurates with system of publicity as to w AZ
each district is doing. He has also urged week
ly luncheon among collectors, form of stimua-
ton which all of them will no doubt welcme
If the CWA funds are available for this cause
and if the plans of the treasury head are carried
out there will hardly be tax-dodger left to tell
the tale. Two to one ought to win.-Charlotte
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