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Evening star., 1934-10-31
justified. Entirely too many adults con-

justified. Entirely too many adults con-
fessedly prefer commonplace amuse-
ment. They have attained approx
mate maturity without being taught
to discriminate. Their standards are
cheap because they know no better
have had no better training. The
schools of their day neglected the
cultivation Of that portion Of their
minds and the movie producers took
advantage of the situation to coin
their ignorance into profits.
The question now is as to whether
another generation Is to grow up under
conditions equally bad. Thoughtful
parents reply with fortnight neg
ative But merely denying the chill
dren opportunity to attend photoplays
is no solution for the problem. In
stead, what is wanted is entertain
ment Of the right type. And the
Children's Theater has been devised
to meet that need. In point Of fact,
there ought to be such an institution
in every city in the land, cooperating
with the schools and the churches,
guiding the children Alright and ere
ating a psychological background for
a revival of the theater arts COM
with the cultural demand
of an intelligent public.
Evening star., 1934-10-31
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Dandy Copper

The Dandy Copper.
The dandy copper was man
OF most undoubted worth.
His life was fashioned on plan
OF gentleness and mirth.
He helps a lady o'er the street,
Too elegant by far
To chalk her tires or let her meet
A ticket in her car.
He did not wear pistol huge
And shoot into a crowd,
Nor undertake by subterfuge
To make record proud.
His simple presence, bold and strong
Would quell mans wicked ways,
And that is why I sometimes lonl
For dandy copper days.
Evening star., 1934-10-31
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Labor. who favors it, and President
Henry I. Hartman of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, who
opposes, both cited findings of the
erudite Brookings Institution at Wash
ington in support of their respective
viewpoints. Mr.. Green quoted from
the Brookings treatise on Americas
Capacity to Consume" while Mr.. Har
riman produced a 1929 Brookings re-
port, according to which an average
work week of 81 hours was required
to maintain the standard of living
then prevailing.
&A*
No branch of the New Deal ever
underwent such change of atmos-
phere as has come over N. R. A.
since Gen. Johnson's departure. Com
pared to the cyclonic hustle of his
days, an almost Sabbath calm now
prevails. Business routine proceeds,
but the place seems as If it were in
bit of daze. with people not know
ing exactly who's who or what's what.
There's an impression that things
will shake down after election,
although just how they'll finally
shape will not be known until Con-
greSs has given some indication of its
attitude toward revision of the recov-
Miss Natalie Couch, Republican
candidate for Representative at Large
in New York against Mrs. Caroline
ODay, Democrat, for whom Mrs.
Roosevelt is campaigning, has just
made snappy retort to one of the
latter's observations on the stump.
The estimable lady who is support
ing my Democratic opponent" OBJ
served Miss Couch, says that the
spoils system is going. I agree with
her. 1t is going, but going strong"
Arthur SweetSer, the American
who has been assistant director of
the Information Section of the
League of Nations, has just gone
back to Geneva after a visit to the
United States. 1t is understood that
henceforward he will be a special ad-
wiser on American affairs to M.
Avenol, the Frenchman who is now
secretary general Of the League.
Hope springs eternal at Geneva that
some sunny day the United States
will repent and join the League.
Our recent adhesion to its Inter-
national Labor Office was enthusiast
tically hailed as a harbinger of that
prospect.
\ X
Daniel w. Bell, acting director of
the budget, who may be called upon
to resist new demands for veterans
grants, is, like his predecessor, Lewis
w. Douglas, a World War service
man. He joined the Tank Corps,
trained at Camp Colt, near Gettys-
burg, and was overseas from October,
1918, until May, 1919. Mr.. Bell is a
member of American Legion Tank
Corps Post, No. 10, in the District of
Columbia. Whether he becomes full
fledged director of the budget or not,
his name is already mentioned as a
logical successor to Controller Gen
eral John r. McCarl, when the lat
ter's 15-year term expires in 1886.
(Copyright. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-10-31

! of felt about fourth of an inch high
| at each corner.
Many goldfish fanciers will arise to
tell you that this small carp cannot
be kept this way, but this observer
rises to tell you that they can.
After all. there is nothing like the
practical in this world. There is
something satisfying about doing a
thing, and about knowing. as a re-
suit of the experience.
Glass covers to tanks in which the
small exotics are kept may be down
tight, so long as there is at least half
an inch, or perhaps an inch, of air
space between the water surface and
the lid
The only harm such a close COW
erage brings occurs when more food
| is placed in the tank than may be
eaten. This, Of course, ought not to
occur. but occasionally even the most
careful feeder will permit it to arise.
Then the decaying food pollutes
| the water, and the close fitting cover
prevents the escape Of the gases and
odor
This odor may be removed in al
most all cases by taking of the lid for
half hour or so. 1t may be pre-
vented by placing small pads OF felt
| at each corner of the top of the
tank, or even at the two front corners,
thus raising the lid about an eighth
of an inch.
1t is no pleasant experience to come
down in the morning and find a
| favorite fish lying cold and stiff on
the living room rug
1t may be prevented by the use of
the glass cover, even for goldfish
| tanks.
If there is sufficient water per fish,
the proper amount of water surface
per fish, and plenty of growing plants,
goldfish as well as the tiny exotics
may be kept better with a glass cover
| over them.
Even at feeding time 1t is best to
put the lid back Immediately the
helping OF food is put on the water.
Many fishes are very hearty in their
feeding methods. and tend to leap
at their food. The observer had an
angel fish with wing" spread of
inches leap entirely out of the
water in its effort to snatch at a
certain bite on the other side Of a
companion.
The angel went clear over the rim.
and probably would have done SO even
had the water been a half foot lower
in the tank.
Landing on the floor, it was picked
up like pancake, and placed back
in the water. Aside from being some
what excited by its trip into strange
| territory. it suffered no harm from
its brief interlude in air.
r. ~
The piScatorial observer wishes that
more advantage were taken of the
beauty of the modern aquarium in
Washington home windows.
Instead of there being but one tank
visible in a trip of miles there
ought to be many well-lighted aqua
RUINS visible on such trip.
Proper electric illumination is
necessary. if the best effect is to be
secured.
A well-placed electric lighting
shows off a tank better than sun
shine. This is curious fact, but
true.
Electric light gives a slight pinkish
tinge to glass water. plants and fish,
creating brilliant picture, one which
Will live long in the memory of even
the person Indifferent Alas, for the
person Indifferent Even such would
be attracted by a well-managed. WELL
lighted tank in living room window.
Why doesn't some one do it?
Evening star., 1934-10-31
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Despite the great growth Of the
home aquarium hobby in Washing
ton during the past few years. the
curious passerby will see few tanks in
windows.
A recent survey by an enthusiast
showed but one tank in trip of some
miles through the streets of the Ma
tional Capital
This aquarium was a small one
which stood out boldly in north
window owing to the fact that its
frame had been painted ivory.
Darkness Of the room behind 1t pre-
vented any Of the plants from show
ing. The water level was about 4
inches from the top of tank not over
10 inches in height.
Only once did this observer see q
fish.
He thought it was a goldfish, but he
could not be sure, owing to the lack Of
light.
AS far as he could tell, there was no
cover glass atop the aquarium, which
fact alone would point to a goldfish,
rather than one or more of the So
called tropicals.
The fish fancier detected, or thought
he detected, two small errors.
One was the ivory color of the
frame.
While offhand this might seem to
be a good color for the frame of a
tank, particularly small one, in prac-
tice it attracts too much attention.
The frame ought to be the last
thing about a tank to draw the at
tentiOn of the spectator.
The fish first and then the plants
these are the true centerS of in
terest, and nothing else ought to vie
with them, unless it be the ensemble
as a whole, the bright and attractive
appearance of the entire aquarium
when properly lighted.
The second error lay in the lowered
depth of the water.
Here was tank which, at best, held
no more than 5 gallons of water, but
perhaps as much as a fourth of it
had never been put in.
Thus the purchaser might as well
have secured a 81 gallon tank and
filled it to within half an inch of the
top.
The reason he did not was because
he desired to dispense with lid.
The glass cover, on the modern
aquarium, keeps fishes and warmth in,
and dust out.
10 0I
important with the exotic fishes, or
tropicals, than with the humble gold
fish.
The latter are not dependent upon
their water being kept to a certain
temperature, but readily stand any
thing from 40 degrees to 80, provided
the change is gradual.
They will leap out of the aquarium,
however. az certain moments Of play,
unless there is some sort of cover, or
the water has been lowered consid-
erably. The latter procedure deprives
the fish of too much of their limited
water supply. The use of lid with
goldfish demands either a screen or
sheet of glass.
The latter is usually applied to the
aquarium of tropicals: somehow the
belief has grown up that goldfish will
not survive with a glass lid over their
tank.
The observer in this case knows the
latter belief to be hokum.
He has kept four large goldfish very
comfortably in a 5-gallon tank with
a glass lid completely covering the top.
The lid is placed upon four small pieces
Evening star., 1934-10-31

Japan's demand for equality in naval
armament is assumed by many Ameri-
can observers to mean the end of hope
to avoid an international armament
race.
1T is unfortunate" thinks the
Providence Journal. that Japan places
so much emphasis on this matter of
national pride. 1t is easy enough to
accept the Japanese thesis that ma
tional pride requires an acknowledge
ment of equality, theoretically at least.
Japan is major nation, whether con-
sidered in terms Of her influence in the
Orient and elsewhere, or in terms Of
her commerce and industry, or in
terms Of her varied achievements in
modern times. But being the peer of
any nation in any or all Of these re-
SpectS does not necessarily require
that she shall have navy unsur-
passed by any other country"
Japan and the United States should
be able to settle automatically all
questions arising between them" says
the San Antonio Express, and that
paper adds as to the position taken by
this country: Norman H. Davis, Am
bassador at Large, and Admiral Will
liam H. Standley, chief of naval op-
erationS, are the United States prin-
cipal spokeSmen at London. They will
oppose the Japanese scheme to scrap
aircraft carriers and to reduce capital
ships from the present maximum
$4,000 tons, fixed by the Washington
compact-to $4,000 tons. The United
States has only one actual naval base
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii-beyond home
shores. Therefore, its warships must
be designed to take long cruises on
the original loadings of fuel, ammuni-
ton and other supplies"
Speaking of the effects of the pre-
liminary conversations, at which mat
ters have been taken up in London,
the Buffalo Evening News makes the
comment: THE United States and
Great Britain hold that If Japan were
granted parity in naval strength with
them. 1t would have interchangeable
superiority in the waters of Eastern
Asia. Thus, unless Toxic is disposed
to modify its demands, there will be no
1885 conference and nothing to sue
ceed the Washington and the London
agreements
The japanese position is attacked
by the New Haven Journal Courier,
with the statement: "A navy, after all,
Is a weapon of offenSe or defense: its
strength and its expansion will be
decided pretty much by the means
OF the power which supports it. Now
whatever the Japanese naval men
would like to think, the bitter fact is
that Japan is poverty-stricken, COM
pared with either of her rivals. Her
lands are string of semi-barren is
lands in q not too salubrious section
of the Pacific Ocean. She has no
natural resources to speak of, and her
people fare but i'll in the climate
where she has access to natural re-
sources"
The situation suggests to the
Rochester Times Union that "by tax
ing the lead in disturbing the exist
ing situation Japan runs the risk
Of bringing the United States and
Great Britain closer In q joint naval
policy for the Pacific"
What Japan evidently wishes" in
the opinion of the Philadelphia In
quirer, sis a reduction in the tonnage
of American battleships, while keeping
the smaller ships as they are. Since
Great Britain favors smaller ships,
Japan probably counts on getting Brit
ish support. But equality with Japan
Evening star., 1934-10-31
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

A reader can get the ansDer Il
any question OF fact by iOriting Tn,
Washington Erenino Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Hdskin, Director
Washington, D. C. Please inclos.
stamp for reply.
c. What foot ball teams were un.
defeated last season?-M. F.
A. Princeton University's foot bal
team was the only one of the majol
elevens to 60 through the 1888 season
undefeated and united. On the fina
! Saturday of the season Army anc
! Duke, each with q record rivalinl
Princeton's. were beaten by Notr,
Dame and Georgia Tech, respectively
Q. What per cent of Government
salaries goes into the retirement
| fund?-W. G. w.
A. There is 31s per cent deduc'
ton Of Government salaries for th'
retirement fund.
q. How many times a day does 1
woman open her refrigerator door,
c. M.
A. One survey Of 100000 womer
| deduced the fact that a refrigerator
is opened on an average Of 48 time
q day.
Q. What are a seals feet or fin.
called?-R. D. X.
A. They are called fiippers.
Q. How many people living in New
York State were not born there?-
T. H.
A. Out of q population of 1883.
066 in 1890, New York had 1874 ,OO(
who were born elsewhere. More thar
balancing this figure, 1,5l3,142 per.
sons who we're New York born hav,
moved away.
@. Please give a biography of Grace
Moore, who is appearing in "On,
Night Of Love."-H. M.
A. Miss Moore was born at Jellico
Tenn, December S, 1901. While at
tending school she ran away anc
Joined q travelling concert company ir
New York City. In 1923 she appeared
in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue
| and subsequently was in several
musical successes. She was with the
Opera Comique in Paris and joined
the Metropolitan Opera Co. in 1928
making her debut in La Boheme.
Her training was received undel
masters in the United States and ir
Europe. In motion pictures Mis-.
Moore has starred in Jenny Lind
and New Moon" She married Valen.
tin Parera in 1881.
@. When were telephone switch.
boards first put in?-R. K.
A. The first intercommunication oi
telephone lines by means of a switch
board occurred at Boston in 1877. Ir
1873 the first commercial switchboard
was installed in New Haven, Conn
! with 81 subscribers.
@. Are Red Cross accounts audited
by the Federal Government?-F. D.
Red Cross financial accounts are
audited by the War Department.
Q. How many kinds of maple tree:
are there in the United States from
WHICH sap can De obtained Tor max
ing maple syrup and maple sugar.
M. K.
A. There are 13. However, 80 tt
80 per cent Of sirup and sugar comes
| from the sugar or hard maple.
@. On his last tour of the United
States how much did Charles Dicken,
earn?-G. T.
A. Nearly 100000.
Q. How far back does modern life
insurance, particularly annuities, 60:
S. A. NJ
A. The real foundation of modern
life insurance and Of scientific an
nuities was the publication in It'll bI
Richard Price of his Northampton
Table of Mortality. In recent year
Evening star., 1934-10-31

this system of insurance has been
vastly extended because it enables even
relatively poor men to provide an in
come for their dependents after death,
or themselves In old age.
@. How many civil engineers are
there in the United States?-A. l.. L.
A. The census of 1880 showed
1o2 ,086.
@. What proportion of the forest
land of the United States is privately
owned?-W. z. L.
A. About 80 per cent. On this
land very little is being done to keep
the land producing forests.
Q. What are the advantages of a
one-house legislature?-C j.
A. Some of the arguments in favor
of such a legislature are, economy
elimination Of useless legislative pro-
cedure, elimination of the opportunity
to evade responsibility for the passage
of given piece of legislation through
placing the blame on conference COM
n1ittees which meet in secret, making
the individual records of members
easier to follow. In general, the
establishment of a one-house legisla-
ture would be in line with the tend
ency towards simplification in gov
ernment.
@. Where can the following quota
ton be found, IT have meat to eat
that ye know not of?"-F. T.
A. 1t is taken from the fourth
chapter of the Gospel according to
st. John, thirty-second verse. The
words were spoken by Christ.
@. How many milhonaires have
there been in the United States?-
A. r.
A. No list of millionaires ever has
been compiled. An historical view
reveals outstanding rich men but no
accurate detail Millionaires in 1890
included George Washington, the
Livingstons of New York, Robert
Morris and probably the CAROLS of
Carrollton. 1t should be understood
that the wealth was mainly in land.
Robert Morris. for example, was the
greatest private landholder in the his
tory Of the country, holding several
million acres. Later rich men were
Stephen Girard, Nicholas Biddle, the
Vanderbilts, the AStorS. In the Civil
War period Jay Cook was among the
richest and James Fisk, Jay Gould,
Coils p. Huntington and so on down.
The numbers simply cannot be stated.
The graph would show a long time,
sloping gradually up to the Civil War,
then turning sharply upward for a
short distance, then another fiattening
and another long. slow rise, then an
incline to the World War. then a
sharp upturn to 1880 and then an
abrupt decline.
O. What is the elevation of the Sky.
line Drive?-C. D.. H.
A. 1t varies from $500 feet to $500
feet.
Q. Are boys taller now than they
used to be?-H. C.
A. Close physical measurements
made on three generations of Harvard
men show that the present generation
in this group is about rs inches taller
than their elder brothers, and the
fathers are taller than the grand
fathers.
@. Does sunlight spoil beer?-R. F.
A. 1t causes it to develop a peculiar
odor and taste. The term lightstruck
is sometimes applied to such beer.
@. Has the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
bourg a diplomatic representative in
this country?-C. C. L.
A. 1t has not. 1t Is represented By
a consular officer, Mr. Cornelius ia
coby, who resides in Washington.
Q. Where is most Of the worlds
supply Of iodine obtained?-D. w.
A. Chile furnishes 90 per cent of the
worlds iodine
Evening star., 1934-10-31
Japan Stands Pat.

Ambassador Saito, returned to
Washington this week after two
months sojourn in Japan, leaves no
doubt of the tenacious attitude his
country has assumed, and intends to
maintain, with respect to naval equal
ity with Great Britain and the United
States. Mr.. Saito makes clear that
the achievement of such parity has
become a matter of national honor
with the japanese people and that
they will be content with nothing
less. II in pursuance of that goal
another competition in naval arma-
ments becomes inevitable, the Am
bassador asserts that all elements of
the nation, even the working classes,
despite the heavy economic burdens
1t would involve, would gladly do
their share" because there is involved
a question of prestige on which there
can be no yielding. The 5-5-3 ratio,
Mr.. Saito explains, is regarded as an
affront to japanese pride, a badge
Of inferiority which is intolerable
and which the people are determined
to wipe out.
These characteristically candid
statements by Nippon's envoy at
Washington coincide with develop
ments in the Anglo-Japanese-Ameri-
can conversations" in London, which,
at the end of two weeks, are in a
state of practical deadlock. There
have been suggestions there that
Japan is willing to accept equality
'in principle"-that is, an arrange
ment which would accord her parity
with Britain and America, but not
necessarily mean that the Japanese
fleet would at once be expanded to
the British and American levels. The
Japanese. in other words, while hav-
ing the right to equality. might not
seek to attain it except over a period
of years. They would have obtained
the prestige they crave and for the
time being be content with that.
1t is difficult to see how, short of
forcible prevention, of which no one
dreams, Japan can be kept eventually
from realizing her equality ambition.
Her statesmen, nevertheless, must be
aware that parity "in principle" or
delayed in actual achievement, is bound
sooner or later to precipitate resump-
ton of competitive building. Preced-
ing a race in construction of war
ships, there might be a renewal of
Pacific fortification building, from
which both Great Britain and the
United States agreed to abstain when
Japan accepted the ratio agreement
at Washington in 1922. The Toxic
government cannot be blind to the
political dangers that are inherent in
renewed naval competition. 1t would
be intellectually costly to all concerned,
breed new international animosities
and be a constant menace to world
peace.
The American people view those
possibilities with profound regret.
They will hope to the last that states
manship in London, Toxic and Wash
ington will yet find the way out of a
difficulty that at the moment seems
insoluble. The United States would
deplore the necessity of embarking
upon naval program without limita-
ton, but it assuredly will not shrink
from any effort that may be required
to maintain American strength at sea
commensurate at all times with our
defensive needs in the Pacific and
everywhere else.
Evening star., 1934-10-31

Ancestral habit persists. No one
thinks of fireworks on Halloween nor
of fantastic masquerades on the
Fourth of July. Human impulses re-
spond to the seasons almost as &C
curately as vegetation.
Evening star., 1934-10-31
The Old Lady on the Job.

From the Kansas City Star
Albert G. Burns, president of the
National Inventors Congress, says
Missouri and Kansas are well supplied
with inventors. That's because Dame
Necessity, mother of all invention,
is still alive and quite active in this
section.
Evening star., 1934-10-31

Motion pictures will be used to show
heart beats to students of anatomy
Music might be employed to show
healthy regularity as distinguished
from dangerous tendency to syncopa-
tion.
Evening star., 1934-10-31
More Streamlining,

From the Wilkes-Barre Record.
The national business show in New
York is featuring streamlined typewrit-
ers for speed. Some business executives,
however. may be expected to cling to
the old-fashioned Mae West variety.
Evening star., 1934-10-31

The Nobel prize distribution is gen.
erous in its intentions but is coming
to be regarded by superficial minds as
something like a high-class lottery.
Evening star., 1934-10-31

Rural policemen are in danger of
getting so much interested in local
politics that they may be tempted to
inquire how a suspect is going to vote
before making an arrest.
Evening star., 1934-10-31

In communities where votes are re-
garded as purchassble alert cam
paigners are already being advised to
shop early.
Evening star., 1934-10-31

The Dupont campaign contributions
were distributed in such a manner as
to lessen the gratitude to be claimed
by any victorious party.
Evening star., 1934-10-31
A Mark of Identification.

From the Austin CTex.) American.
It's easy to recognize the American
consul in a foreign city. He's the one
in patched pants.