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Evening star., 1934-01-13
A Financial Phenomenon

In these days of depleted incomes,
with Government clerks suffering a
fifteen per cent reduction of pay and
other curtailments through furloughs,
the sad case of Herman Ruth, better
known as Babe" may appeal strongly
to the sympathies. This mighty Sultan
Of Swat" fence buster extraordinary.
takes a cut of nearly thirty-three per
cent in compensation for the coming
year of base ball. And the remark
able fact of the case is that he takes it
smilingly. willingly and perhaps gladly.
This remarkable figure in the lead
ing American sport is on the slide. He
has lost much of his ability to drive the
ball out of the lot and his underpin-
ming has gone, back on him so that as
fielder he is at times a lamentable
spectacle Still he now remains the
highest-paid parsonage in the game,
even with the heavy cut that he has
just taken. His record as a player in
the professional ranks covers twenty
years to date, for he began his career
in 1914 at Baltimore, where he labored
for the pittance of $500 for part Of
season, and $1,000 for the remainder
of that year in Boston. Then he was
advanced to s3,50O for the next two
years and advanced thereafter until
he reached $4,000. When he was
transferred to New York he was given
$4,000, a rate Of pay that caused the
base ball world to gasp, but 1t paid his
new employers, for he had become a
gate attraction, and he yielded rich
returns for his management. In 1921
he was given $4,000, then for five years
he toiled for a mere $4,000. or thou
sand dollars a week. Three years at
$4,000 followed, and then two years
at 10000, which brought him through
the season of 1881, when he began to
slip, professionally and financially, TAX
ing cut to $4,000, which caused him
to vail bitterly. Last season he dropped
back to his former $4,000 rate, and
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Intellectual Man
Lives Fullest Life
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is easy to understand why ordinary
people are so bored, sick and tired of
themselves; also why they like to min
gle in company and crowds. These
people suffer from barrenness of soul.
Their mind has no movement. 1t is
wanting in elasticity. They resort to
drink, sensual pleasure or some other
form of excitement to stimulate it. If
they fail in this they are miserable and
fall into an intolerable solitude and dull
lethargy.
With a person whose mind is active
and given to reflection it is quite diff
ferent. Solitude-what the Germans
term einsamkeit-does not bore the in
tellectual type of man. He has his
thoughts and fancies. He is like an
artist who gives concert as the sole
performer-playing a single instrument
which is little harmonious orchestra
in itself. PHILIP EBERT.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Templeton Jones was watching the
man trying to sell mouse traps, and
thinking that the fellow didn't know
washingtonians as we'll as he might.
The man had half dozen mice in a
large glass pen, open at the top.
The crowd, composed of men and
women, stood back at a respectful dis
tance, although there was not the slight
est chance that one of the rodents
could scale that smooth perpendicu-
larity.
This is the way they live" said the
salesman, giving the mice poke with
a pencil
The creatures scampered to another
corner, where they piled themselves one
on top Of another in fright.
That's the way they live in your
home" went on the man, in tones OF
disgust.
Jones listened and watched for as
much as 10 minutes. during which time
not a customer stepped forward.
Jones believed he knew why.
Maybe he was mistaken, but he fig
ured 1t out this way:
The mans approach to an average
He created sympathy for mice!
If he had offered the traps by them
selves, without his exhibit A." he would
have sold more, Templeton Jones
thought.
Even friends of small animals may
be excused for trapping mice, upon oc-
casion, In the interests Of sanitation
and quiet, but they do not like to be
reminded OF the living sacrifice itself
y y
These were horrible. red -snooted mice
these In the gentleman's glass pen. but
that did not mitigate their evident
fright, and the fact that fear is not
often pleasant. except in an enemy, and
one may wonder whether that would
be so, even, If men were civilized.
Mice are enemies, but somehow these
frantic creatures in their glass seemed
as pathetic as they were harassed.
The crowd looked. and the man
thought they were watching him, but
its members were not, they we're gazing
at the mice
His mice, unfortunately for his traps,
were stealing the show.
Men and women filtered into the
crowd. filtered out of it. in that slow
hesitating way human beings have in
such cases.
Nobody bought
And going away, Templeton Jones
thought he knew why.
Maybe he was mistaken, but he
thought he was right in his estimate
After he got on the sidewalk he
began a typical Jonesian dream, OF
himself suddenly taking the limelight
and addressing the would-be salesman
in this wise:
My dear sir"-Templeton Jones
always began the speeches he never de-
livered in this WiSe-''my dear sir you
have been talking and prodding tfpse
creatures for 10 minutes, during witch
time not a customer has stepped
forward
What are you trying to do, sell
traps? Yes? Good
Then stop exhibiting mice
Il am afraid you do not know your
Washing tonians as we'll as I do and as
we'll as you are going to know them in
the future.
Instead of repelling them with the
loathSome habits of mice you are
creating sympathy for the rodents.
"A mouse gnawing in the wall is one
thing, mouse in that pen is another.
Being stranger here. as l imagine
you are, you are to be forgiven for not
understanding that the average Wash
ingtonian is kind TO animals.
While this is theory in part. surely
it is practical, too. and is proved, at
least to my mind, by the fact that your
Evening star., 1934-01-13
1920 School Conditions in 1894.

DR.. Ballou's report to the Board of
Education on school needs confines it
self to a presentation of facts in
statistical form and makes no recon-
mendations. But the facts speak pretty
well for themselves. The report lists
the gains along with the losses. The
gains are an increase of twenty-siX
classrooms to reduce last years total
shortage from ITO to 150-this short
age" meaning the number of rooms
necessary to eliminate all overcrowding
and undesirable quarters in the school
system. A year ago thirty-eight class
rooms were needed to eliminate first and
second grade part-time classes. This
year that need has been reduced to
eight There are no part-time classes
now above the second grade. Last year
twenty-three portables were in use and
this year the number has been reduced
to twelve.
But this year the number of over
sized classes has increased and is in
creasing thus adding to the number
of rooms needed to eliminate over
crowding. All the high schools and
most of the junior high schools are
crowded beyond capacity. Four ele-
mentary schools recommended for
early abandonment in 1908 are still IN
use. with no approval of plans for their
replacement. The system is practically
back to the status of 1920. as concerns
overcrowding in the elementary grades
and is even worse in the junior and
senior high schools.
1t is not the condition today that
causes so much concern, for it could
OF course, be much worse But last
years appropriation for teacher per-
sonnel was sharply reduced, despite In
creasing enrolment. and the enroll
ment will increase in 1885, with the
number of teachers remaining prac-
tically the same. The signs OF dis
graceful overcrowding in the schools
year or two hence, with large, un-
Wieldv classes and consequent lower
ing of standards, are multiplying. YET,
with local revenues available for ex-
penditure on schools, little provision
is made to anticipate conditions few
years hence AS amply illustrated by
the long delay in constructing the few
schools already appropriated for, it re-
quires years, not months, to build a
school. Washington not only lacks
schools, but even a program Of school
building. 1t lacks not only the school
building plans, but the land for the
school buildings Such short-sighted-
nss is storing up severe penalties, just
beginning to be felt now.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
High Court Decision in Minnesota Case
Forecasts Radical Changes i'm Structure

and all previous concepts of constitu-
tional government. and is a departure
by the court upon a most novel high
road Of judicial Interpretation and de-
cisions, the results OF which no man
can foresee.
The country is, indeed. indebted to
the four dissenting justices. who took
in their opinion so decided a stand
against any notification or suspension
of the Constitution.
few nights ago I heard a wag
express the opinion over the radio that
when the Constitution was adopted
there should have been Just one
amendment TO it to the effect that
whenever a President shall in the fu-
ture declare the existence of an emer-
gency. then and in that event all Of the
foregoing shall be horse feathers. 1t
would seem that such an amendment
is now no longer necessary.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
The Mystery of Fog.

Scientists define fog as "a cloud de-
void Of structure, formed on land in
the layers of air which, though nearly
stationary, really move slowly over the
ground" They say that viewed from
a distance, fog has a definite boundary
which is absent in some other forms of
ohscurity." Mist. they agree, Consists
Of a surface cloud OF minute drops Of
water suspended in the air, for example,
Scotch mist or Dartmoor mizzle." while
haze should be reserved for smoke or
dust observation Of the lower atmos-
phere when the air is dry"
But fog, however described, is a mys-
terry. Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night" "
uses the simile more puzzled than the
Egyptians in their fog and precedent
was confirmed. If not established, by his
employment of the phrase-he meant a
the word has been common ever since
in its connotation Of "a state of psyche
logical obscurity or confusion" Per-
haps today's variety Of atmospheric diff
ficulty represents a state of confusion
on the part of nature. Washington has
had more than the normal quota OF
overcast days this Winter, and the ex-
planation may be that the seasons have
been tangled-real Winter appears TO
have been held back by prolongation
of November.
For those who find poetry in any
kind of weather, fog g-bound vistas have
a peculiar attraction. A fog is a veil
hung over the landscape, and things
seen through the interference have an
eerie quality curiously fascinating. 1t
was an English fog a London fog, that
Oscar Wilde sought to picture in the
lines:
The yellow fog came creeping down
The bridges, till the houses walls
Seemed changed to shadows, and st.
PaufS
Loomed like a bubble DER the town.
But. aside from the fact that Amer
ican fogs are not yellow. the descrip-
ton is accurate Fog brings near things
nearer; shuts far things out entirely.
Hence, in part, its mystery. 1t has the
power to alter proportions as they are
perceived by human eyes and human
minds.
But the lifting OF fog, the retreat
of the cloud before the sim is an even
more compelling spectacle. Doubtless,
nature deliberately INDUCES herself in
such sport. sending the children of
earth occasional dark and murky days
that they may have a criterion for the
more adequate appreciation of days
clear and bright. In the circumstances,
good weather may be as mysterious rs
bad. Both have purpose, and Wash
ington is fortunate in being blessed with
a CLIMATE rather neatly balanced.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Tiger Hunting.

Ever since the Tammany candidate
for mayor of New York. John j.
O'Brien, ran a good third" in the
election for mayor last November a
threat has been hanging over John r.
Curry, Tammany boss. and his sup
porters. 1t looked as though the dis
astrous showing made at the polls by
the Curry candidates-Tammany was
able to elect only minor officials in
Manhattan-must mean the end of
Curry rule. And now the Democrats
in New York County who followed
Joseph v. Mckee, the Recovery party
candidate. and probably some of the
Democrats who supported the victorious
are planning to bore from within the
Democratic organization. They are set
ting up new organization to control
the Democratic party in the county.
They are bidding for support OF the
district leaders in the county. Those
leaders who fail to join in the new
movement they hope to undermine and
defeat.
The Tammany boss, Mr.. Curry, and
his followers are inclined to sneer at
the proposed new Democratic organi-
zation. Yet the Recovery party, which
had the backing of Postmaster General
Farley. chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and chairman also
of the Democratic State Committee
if it did not have the backing of Presi-
dent Roosevelt himself-built up
strong organization during the cam
paign for mayor last Fall. 1t is on
the foundation of this organization that
1t is now planned to build The oppo-
nents Of Curry claim that they already
control ten to fifteen of the twenty
three assembly districts in the county
and that with proper organization and
work they can swing over many Of the
others To overthrow Curry as head
Of the Democratic county organization,
position which he holds as Tammany
leader. the Recovery party or new DEM
ocratic organization must gain control
Of a majority of these district lSaders.
EntNFhis control is in hand Tariamany
Evening star., 1934-01-13

burning. Forced draft with q blowe-
Is apt to produce clinkers. Relatively
large furnaces give much less trouble
from clinkers.
@. Is it true that the ROYAL Horse
Guards is the only regiment in the
British Army which has no rank of
sergeant?-H. H.
A. The Household Cavalry-the Life
Guards and Royal Horse Guards-are
the only regiments that have not the
rank Of sergeant. Corporal-of-horse is
the equivalent in the Household Cavalry.
@. When are confiscated boats sold
by the Government?-J. B.
A. Sales Of conflscated boats are an
nounced in the press. There are no
set dates for such sales. They are con-
Quoted only when there is a sufficient
number of boats to warrant them.
Q. Who took the parts Of the four
Little Women" in the silent picture
when Conrad Nagel played Laurie?-
A. M. G.
A. The picture was released in Janu-
Dorothy Bernard was 10; Florence
Flynn, Amy, and Lillian Hall, Beth.
@. What does the Indian name
Tonawanda mean?-L. r
A. In the Seneca language It means
continent stream.
O. How many years is considered a
life sentence in penitentiary?-
E. B.
A. The term has different meanings
in different States. Each State has its
own Interpretation of the term, and
some States literally make the convict
serve to the last day Of his life, While
others give lesser sentence. In Cali
fornia, for example, there is a mini
mum sentence of 20 years with the pos
sibility Of the convict getting out be-
fore the end Of his natural life. In
New York, on the other hand, the con-
vict must serve his entire life.
@ What is the approximate value of
church property in the United States
which is now tax exempt?-R. S.
A. 1t amounts to about 81 900 900, 900.
@. Please name the republics of
Russia ?-L. McN.
A. White Russian Soviet Socialist
republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist re-
public. Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist
republic. Uzbek Soviet Socialist republic,
Turkoman Soviet Socialist republic.
@ When did Rebecca McCann. the
creator of The Cheerful Cherub," die.
&C. G. N.
A. She died in 1927.
@, Are halibut and sole the sane
kind Of fsh?-J NJ. T.
A. While halibut and sole belong tq
the same general group. nevertheless
they belong to entirely different species
Sometimes fish thought to be sole reaLy
is founder.
G. What is whisky?-J. J. S.
A. 1t is alcohol of a much lower proc
than the neutral spirit and contains q
substantial amount of by-producrs
tother than alcohoD derived by dis
tlllatlon from grain (these by-prOductp
often spoken Of as congenersI which
give distinctive favor and propelties
Aging increases the congeneric princi-
piles. Alcohol or neutral spirit consist
of very pure alcohol, regardless Of the
source from which it may be derived.
@. Were any of Miss Ella Wendell
sisters married?-E s. W.
A She had five sisters. Rebecca
Georglana Mary. Josephine and Au-
gusta. Rebecca was the only one who
married. She was the wife of Prof
Luther A. Swope The Wendell estate
was finally divided among nine person
who were recognized as ffth-degrec
relatives.
@. Where is the Emancipation Proc
lamation kept?-C. T
A 1t is preserved in the Library OF
Congress-
Evening star., 1934-01-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Non-W0rrier.

The -W0rrfer.
There was man who proved to be
A help to friend and neighbor.
He never shirked when he could see
Some need for further labor
When most of us would wear frown
All frankly furried.
He showed to countryside and town
He wasn't worried.
He lived a life of loyal 7est
And patiently went through it.
He sought to learn just what was best
And then he tried to do it.
When many. with an air of grief,
Harangued and hurried,
He was the one who brought relief,
He wasn't worried.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Color Scheme.

Oh, Hitler, as in terror We
With you become acquainted,
We wonder if man can be
AS black as you are painted!
The coloring which now is met
Perhaps is not the right wash.
A new press agent you should get
Who can apply the whitewash.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Conversational Cons.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
New York's new police commissioner is
going to stop unnecessary conversations
between cops. But a cop will still BE-
allowed reasonable measure of self
expression in talking to a motorist VIII
has ignored red light.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

In arranging tariffs it may be prop
erly remembered that old-time con-
scientious lawyers usually advised that
cancellations are less expensive than
retaliations.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Investment.

What can you do?" This question
brings
The test Of each existence.
We must plod on through many things
And conquer by persistence.
No man of real sense desires
To doze through hours all sunny.
The honest work a dollar hires
Is worth more than the money.
'Licker may help pay some taxes fob
de benefit of de public" said Uncle
Eben. but it amt no visible help in
balancing de family budget"
Evening star., 1934-01-13

It is still urged that crop shortage
cannot correct a money shortage. The
latter is indicated by the fact that in
small transactions nobody hesitateS any
more about accepting a battered dime
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Railway manipulation has provided
lessons of experience which should be
of value in guarding against airway
manipulation.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Nobody is supposed to understand
Einstein. The gentle scientist is too
aloof from small repartee to suggest
that nobody can explain Hitler.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Laxity.

From the Portland Oregon Journal.
Thirty thousand dollars in unclaimed
deposits still remain in Philadelphia
bank that closed 81 years ago. Some
folks are careless with their money.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Competition is the life of trade" is
still a good old proverb, but it is con-
ceded to be of no value when it takes
the form of chiseling.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Dubious.

From the Rockford Register Republic
Life Begins at Forty" is having a
wonderful sale, but should be given with
discretion. A matron who got a copy
from another woman on her birthday
anniversary is said to have exclaimed,
The cat!"
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Stature.

From the Roanoke Times.
A London scientist says that We are
taller in the morning than at night:
Yes, and most of us are shorter during
the month of January than at any other
time.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
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Evening star., 1934-01-13
Perils.

What is your idea of the yellow
peril?"
1T looks to me-" answered Senator
Sorghum, like the same old peril that
seems likely to arise when political con-
citations are desirable; the man who
talks too much'
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Old John Barleycorn, first repre-
sented as a liberal taxpayer and next
as a promoter of graft, still enacts his
old dual role of DR.. Jekyl and Mr..
Hyde.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Jud Tunkins says he doesn't believe
any man can succeed as a leader who
wants to have his own way, whether it
is the right way or not
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Regalia.

when you see man in a high hat
and frock coat, do you assume that he
is in polite society?"
Not in Germany answered Miss
Cayenne HE may be an executioner." !"
Evening star., 1934-01-13
THE EXPLORER OF NORTH
AMERICA. 1492-l806. BY John

AMERICA. 1492-lS06. BY John
Bartlett Brebner. New York: the
Macmillan Co.
With the unexplored places OF the
world and their hidden riches having
passed the point of diminishing re-
turns and about to vanish altogether.
the story of the explorers of our coun-
try. often told. has an ever-increaslng
allurement. Mr.. Brebner OF Columbia
University, in this volume which he
contributes to the Pioneer Histories
Series. begins with the voyage OF Co.
lumbus. which accidentally opened to
greedy Euroce a vast new and tempt
ing land OF fabulous riches and oppor-
tunities for adventure. For three hum
dred years afterward continuous
procession of sailors, soldiers, adven-
turers, missionaries, traders. colonlsts,
traversed the country. first the sea-
board, later the interior, fighting the
Indians. hunting for gold and unde-
termined treasure, setting up the cross
in the wilderness and teaching the
natives its meaning, dealing in furs
and founding settlements which were
in most cases to become thriving,
populous cities. The map, at first
merely a space with vaguely defined
limits, was gradually filled in, until
today there are few tracts of land or
bodies of water for geographers to
name.
The men who braved the dangers of
sea and land, of hunger and disease,
of hostile Indians, and finally trans
formed a continent are the subject of
this book Wherever possible, they are
allowed to tell their own story, through
the use Of their writings. The Letters
of Cortes to Charles "" THE Works
of Samuel de Champlain." THE Jesuit
Relations" edited by Thwaites, 18th
century reports made to the Hud-
sons Bay Co.. and various Colonial
records and individual journals are
among the important sources. The
treatment is chronological, yet with
attention to the grouping of events in
a way to show the phases of explora-
ton and development as the growth Of
the fish and fur trades. the influence
and achievements of missionaries, the
struggle for the control of the Great
Lakes and of the Mississippi the settle
ment of the Pacific Coast.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Money" said Hi Ho. the sage of
Chinatown, 'is power>|for infinite
good, but it sometimes has a way of
getting into bad company"
Evening star., 1934-01-13
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@. Was George Eliot Jewess?-H. A.
A. She was not She found Jewish
life. aims and ideals intensely inter-
esting. Daniel Deronda." her last and
probably her best novel, contains a very
sympathetic portrayal Of Jewish char
acters.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

@. Since the repeal Of prohibition is
it possible to buy grain alcohol for home
use or is prescription necessary?-J. H.
A. No Federal permit is necessary
except in Federal territory. lie. District
Of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto
Rico.