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Evening star., 1935-09-28
Bible Readers
In Washington
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
On October 4, 1885, the first printed
complete English Bible made its appear
ance. This was just four centuries ago.
1t was translated by Miles Coverdale and
printed by an unknown press, probably
in Switzerland. Before that date only
parts Of the Bible, including the New
Testament, had been printed.
This important event is of real in
terest to every person, and will be
brought to their attention.
The purpose Of this article is to sug-
gest an opportunity to do a signal serv-
ice to the youth of our city, and perhaps
country. Read how all may join in an
effort that will have lasting influence
on the minds and habits of every child,
white or colored, in Washington, the
heart Of the Nation.
No book has brought more benefit to
children in our own and other lands
than our Bible. It's superlative i'm
portance was shown when Sir Walter
Raleigh said to his servant: Bring me
the Book
During the period from October to
December 8 this year this 400th an
WILL NC SClCbldtCas llC 4oL~
ter date is becoming recognized as
Universal Bible Sunday.
In these "a days special effort should
be made to place in the hands of chill
dren from 10 to 20 years of age a read
able Bible, or at least New Testament.
All parents, friends, pastors, Sunday
school and public school teachers of
children should especially interest them
selves.
In these days when great nations seem
tottering on the brink Of what may be
another World War, why not let loose
mighty urge to possess and read
understandingly the spiritual teachings
Of our Bible?
Why not have an auditorium filled
in a gigantic Sunday meeting sponsored
by Washington's live churches that will
challenge the attention and emulation
Of thousands of other cities and COM
munities throughout our broad land?
Such grand meeting, uniting our city
wide churches, might well have world
wide effect. HOWARD H. BURR.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Sixteenth Street.

A proposal advanced shortly before
the adjournment of Congress by
Representative McSwain to change
the name of Sixteenth street to Mad
ison avenue, in honor of the fourth
President of the United States, revives
memory of the short-lived change of the
title Of that same thoroughfare some
twenty years ago to Avenue of the Pres
idents." The late Mrs. John B. Hender-
son, who had done much toward the
development of the street as semi
official residence concourse, secured an
enactment by dint of her persistent
efforts, and the name remained for sew
eral years. 1t was eventually abandoned
by repeal Of the legislation and Sixteenth
street was restored to its place as q
sequential item in the numerical des-
ignations.
There was no especial reason for the
title that was adopted and soon dis
carded save that the street starts at its
southern end from the park opposite the
White House, the home Of the President.
There is no particular reason now for
its selection as means of paying addi-
tional honor to President Madison as
far as his association with the Capital
goes. Representative McSwain urges
that this be done before 1887, when the
150th anniversary of the Philadelphia
constitutional convention will be cele-
brated. Madison had a large part in
the framing of that instrument. It is
now impossible, short Of double change
Of titles, to. give the street the name
Evening star., 1935-09-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

In the great kingdom of books, Of
which there is no end, truly enough, the
booksman, all run together as one word
and name, holds first place.
He Is the man who writes, buys and
loves all the written words of man
kind, whether put on beechen boards, as
the old Saxons and Germans did, or into
fine new volumes from modern presses.
The real bookman, the man who has
to do with books because he loves them
simply and plainly and honestly and
fervently, is still rare enough in the
world.
If any one doubts this. noting the
increasing number Of volumes brought
forth every year, let him think over his
acquaintances, and note him who is the
antithesis of the bookman.
What shall he be called?
He is the man, or woman, for that
matter, who simply cannot "see" as he
says, why any one should ever purchase
q book.
Are there not plenty Of loaning
libraries?
The way he asks this makes all argu-
ment futile.
He simply does not understand, and
he never will understand. why any one
wants to own them.
There is no possible argument, as
far as he is concerned.
If he wants a book, he borrows 1t.
The fact that he does not borrow the
food he eats, nor the car he drives,
makes no difference to him. The books
he reads he does borrow, and that is an
end to it, as far as he is concerned.
1t will be seen at once that the book
man has no quarrel with him at all. If
he wants to 60 through life without any
books of his own, that is strictly his
business.
The only time he touches the life Of
the bookman is when, occasionally, hear
ing the latter speak of some volume he
has purchased, he painly shows he
thinks a book purchaser q strange ami
NAL at large from the zoo.
This queer fellow actually dareS spare
few OF his own dollars for his own
books Could anything be stranger?
He wants to hold in his own hands
something in the book line he can call
his own. He wants to contemplate it as
strictly personal. He desires the COM
panionShip of another mind on limited
terms, combined with a strictly limited
ownership Of this one specimen Of his
work.
These ideals are a growth, beginning
with the earliest reading years. 1t will
be found in almost every case that the
true booklover is made, not born. The
born booklover makes himself, too as
he goes along, so that there is no excep-
ton.
Let us rule out at once any idea Of
pedantry in connection with a book
lover, or true bookman.
Some Of the finest bookmen we have
ever seen have been rough men, as the
world judges.
One was sailor before the mast
He read at least one author complete
on every voyage.
The year he went to Australia he
went through the stories Of Victor Hugo.
So he went around the world, until
in 10 years he had read the equivalent
of several libraries. Despite the diff
culties Of his situation. he took his books
with him, as far as he was able.
Although he was regarded by his
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mates at first as "a queer one" usually
he managed to change their opinion
completely few days out
After which he read his books in
peace.
He was in no sense bookvorpn, but
regular "he-man," and able at all
times to hold his own in fisticuffs and
other sports beloved Of sailors.
He did love his books, however, and
was as entitled to the good title Of
bookman as any person we ever knew.
~ -
AS grasping, as covetous a man as ever
lived is the true bookman, wherever and
whenever you find him.
A book, to him, is something to "have
and to hold" as the old story said, or,
perhaps better, to hold and to have.
Possession is, with him, not nine
tenths of the law, but all ten-tenths.
He wants books of his own.
The mere keeping of them is a vast
satisfaction.
In time. and II his wealth permits, he
may go on at the pleasant tangent of
f1rst editions, and the like, rare and old
books OF eminent degree, but whether
he does or not makes no particular diff
ference in his regard for the book as
thing.
The pleasure Of having books around
him, in his living and sleeping quarters,
is 1nexplicable, perhaps but very strong.
He even has them in his bath room. The
bath room bookshelf, by the way, is be-
coming an institution in many homes.
More Of 1t later, maybe.
The bookman, by reason of his many
books often has not read half of Them
or even quarter Of them. He means
to, sometime, and maybe he will, but it
makes no difference, If he is a real
bookman, that is. The satisfaction of
seeing them present is something in it
self. This miSer of volumes runs his
eyes over them, from time to time, and
gloats with a good gloating.
His basement Is full, and his attic,
too, and if the house falls down it will
be a good falling, he thinks.
Fortunately for the kingdom Of letters,
one does not have to be named Percival
or Reginald to love books. Some of the
biggest 'roughnecks," in the ordinary
sense, love them the most.
The terms "highbrow" and "lowbrow"
also are unfortunate, for they presup-
pose fixed classifications which do not
exist. The simple enough fact is that
there are as many kinds of people that
love books and their personal owner
ship as like motor cars and one or two
in the old garage.
Cannot one be a bookman without
personal possession? Perhaps, but we
do not see how, except in very unusual
circumstances. A man who had loved and
possessed many books, and who had lost
all, as result Of the depression, would
be bookman still, if ever there were
one but he would have a difficult time
proving it, even to himself, the only
proof necessary.
One good book would allow him credit
in his own mind. Two would make him
rich. and three-would he not be
millionaire again, as far as books were
concerned? Because it is not quantity
here. after all. but quality. which counts
most. The bookman is,rich in his own
mind and heart, and when one is
wealthy in those spots, or places, one is
sitting at a continual feast, indeed,
whose wonderful name some one has
called Content.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Frank Reply From a
Candid Constituent
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
AS read in your paper the Presidents
request for counsel and advice from
our clergy, I cannot help recalling to
memory some years back when our be-
loved Uncle Joe Cannon was defeated
for another term of Congress. His Sue
cessor, after being duly accepted and
sworn into office, thought it would be a
good idea to send letters to his con-
stituents, asking them if they could
offer any suggestions that would be of
interest in behalf of the district and the
State that he represented. Il my memory
serves me right one answer was as
follows:
Dear Mr.. Congressman:
"As you have been duly elected and
sworn in to Congress to represent us in
this district, we beg to advise in reply
to your letter that If you do not know
any more than we do you had better
come heme." JOHN j. QUINN.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Now for the Series.

Not since the phenomenal perform
ance of the Boston Braves" of the Ma
tional League in 1914, when that team
advanced from last place on the Fourth
of July to first place at the close OF the
season, has there been so remarkable an
achievement on the diamond as the
winning of the championship in the
same league yesterday by the Chicago
Cubs" These new pennant winners
did not have to overcome so great
handicap as did the Braves twenty
one years ago, but they exceeded that
performance in one notable respect. They
accomplished their goal of league lead
ership by dint of a streak of continuous
victories which all but broke the record
of successive winnings. Playing twenty
one games, they won them all. Such
winning streak has been exceeded but
once in the records of organized base
ball. In 1916 the New York Giants Of
the National League won twenty-six sue
cessive games, interrupted only by tie.
A winning streak is combination of
quality, luck and pluck. Perhaps it Is
largely luck, which plays large part in
base ball, indeed, as some observers OF
the sport contend, nearly half the battle.
But luck as a rule breaks about evenly
in the long run and the victory goes
to the team with the cleverest pitchers,
the ablest fielders and the hardest hit
ters. The psychology of continuous VIC
tory is not to be disregarded. Momen-
tum tells in the course of half dozen
successive winnings. A spirit of SUI
periority prevails and the players are
inspired with confidence in their ability
to meet every situation that may arise.
Then comes a slip, perhaps caused by
overconfdence, or overexertion, and
the string" is broken. In the case of
the Chicago "Cubs" no such mishap
occurred in the course of its eXtraordi-
nary streak of success, which continued
long enough to bring a pennant and a
chance at the world championship.
Now for the world series, that annual
event of first Importance in the sport.
Detroit won the American League cham
pionship beyond peradventure. several
days ago and therefore is not ending the
league season under stress-and by the
same token not in headway. Whether
the strain of twenty-one victories and
a virtual eye-lash pennant winning will
work harm to the "Cubs" or will serve
to carry them through the series vic
toriously remains to be seen. Base ball
is a strange combination of forces, phys
ical and mental, and nobody ever knows
how they will work out on the field.
Comparisons between the performances
of the two teams during their regular
playing seasons afford little Of value to
the would-be prophet. The standards
of the two leagues are not quite alike.
The Tigers" winning two pennantS in a
row, have before them the inducement
of redemption of their record of last
years series games, which were not
greatly to their credit. This may prove
to be factor of importance. Next week
will start the story.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
A Navy Second to None.

Doubt has never existed respecting
President Roosevelt'S views on prepared
ness at sea, but in the present disturbed
state of international relations it is use
full and gratifying that he finds occasion
to reaffirm the United States naval
policy in categorical terms Unofficial
reports have just credited Great Britain
with the intention, when existing treaties
expire in 1896, of renouncing the
5-5-3 ratio and of embarking upon
new building program. President RooSe-
welt is thereupon prompted to indicate
that while this country intends to ad-
here faithfully to present treaty ar
rangements, it will not hesitate to build
beyond the limits therein provided If
other powers exceed them as result
Of non-reneWal of treaties.
This declaration would apply, OF
course, to both Japan and Great Britain.
The Japanese have already abrogated
the limitation treaties and declared their
purpose to create fleet equal, re-
spectively, to those of Great Britain and
the United States. President Roosevelt
now plainly implies that if Japan builds
beyond her quota under the 5-5-3
ratio, the United States would be i'm
pelled to undertake such additional con-
struction as would be necessary to
maintain the present treaty margin OF
Tor Nv tho
token, of course, the President reflects
American determination to maintain
parity with Great Britain.
Mr. Roosevelt emphasizes that our
naval building policy remains precisely
what it has been for the past two and
a half years-to bring the feet up to
the full strength provided by existing
treaties. This program, in accordance
with appropriations authorized by Con-
gress, will give the United States a
treaty Navy" by 1912. Only circum-
stances not of American making will
alter our program. The United States
would contemplate with regret any steps
that threaten to lead to a resumption
of costly naval competition, but notice
is now given to all concerned that the
American Government and people will
not shrink from any action that may be
necessary to keep the country on the
proportionate basis of strength now pro-
vided by treaty. In view of possible COM
plications over shipping rights and neu-
trality, which might ensue from League
sanctions against declared aggreSSor
in an Italo-E Ethiopian war, an unequiv-
ocal statement of American naval policy
such as President Roosevelt has just
authorized has special timelineSS.
Incidentally, Great Britain formally
denies the accuracy Of reports attribut-
ing to her extensive naval building plans.
But recent British action in approving
of a great fleet for Germany is bound
sooner or later to alter the European
naval equilibrium. If, as a consequence,
the British require to build beyond their
present strength, the effect on the
United States policy would be auto
matte, for, as President Roosevelt clearly
intimates, Americas program calls for
q navy second to none.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

which was so much attacked by them.
1t had welcomed them, made them IA
nous; they had mingled in all the pleas
ures OF its elegant and agreeable ex-
istence; they shared In all its tastes. its
manners, all the refinements, all the
susceptibilities of a civilization at the
same time old and rejuvenated, aristo-
cratic and literary; they were of that
old regimen which was demolished by
their hands" Rousseau, in an anar-
chistic mood, at last proclaimed, "The
sciences and the arts have corrupted the
world" With such a record, is 1t any
wonder that the intelligentsia died on
the guillotine when in the revolution the
ignorant masses they had led aStray at
last began to emulate their masters?
1t also is fair to ask if America does
not at present stand in some danger from
the number Of theorists and doctrinaires
active in official circles. Many of the
reformers, it may be granted, have dip
Tomas and certificates in plenty, en-
thuSiaSm and altruiStic sincerity In
abundance. But has the net result OF
their efforts during the past two years
been to strengthen the Federal Union,
fortify national institutions, protect social
forms traditionally useful and helpful,
preserve confidence in the public mindP
If the answer is an affirmative, well and
good; but if it be otherwise, less stress
upon experimental reform and more upon
tested and proven principles Of progress
should be considered. Great knowledge,
as well as little, may be perilous when
misdirected or unrestrained by caution.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Pass the Microphone.
Take away the sandwich
Shun the flowing bowl.
Menus all in vain compete
To regale the soul.
It's the intellectual need
That just now is known.
Gather round and all give heed
Pass the microphone.
It's a problem we must face
AS events draw near,
With the tones of moral grace
Deity played by ear.
Banquets come and banquets 60,
Free lunch far has flown.
Sustenance the mind must know
Pass the microphone.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
No Novelty.

Brain trusts are not new. The desire
of emperors and kings to have the serv-
ices of the best brains" available is as
old as written history. In Egypt, five
or six thousand years before March 4,
1888, the primitive kings of the Nile
surrounded themselves with counselors
supposed to be equal to the task of fur
nishing information and advice such as
q sovereign might use with profit to him
self and his people. The custom was
adopted by the princes of neighboring
states-Sumeria, Assyria, Nineveh, Baby
Ion and Tyre; and the Hebrew COM
munities of Judea and Palestine were
familiar with the habit of meeting to
debate public affairs-the Bible preserves
scores of references to the practice Of
assembling wise men to deal with emer-
gencies, frame policies, decide upon
methods and thus to share in the re-
sponsibility of their lords.
But mere intellectual eminence, clever
ness and skill have not been invariably
constructive. France, for example, Suf-
fered no dearth of cultivated men and
women in the eighteenth century. 1t
happened, however, that the most influ-
ential of them-notably, Voltaire, Rous-
seau, Diderot, D'Alembert and even Buff
fon-were temperamentally untitled to
build. Their forte was criticism they
wrecked the things to which they applied
their thought. Considering themselves
philosophers and accepting that title
from their contemporaries, they betrayed
philosophy-the love of wisdom-by their
nihilistic contempt for consequences.
Guizot was well within his rights when
he said of them: Being men Of the
world as we'll as of letters, (they) had
passed their lives in the pleasantest and
most brilliant regions Of that society
Evening star., 1935-09-28
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The Populace Passes.

The Populace Passes.
In the arena of the midtown blocks =
Where sunlight streamed all day on
multitudes -
And on the crossings where the cars
in flocks S
Congested traffic, golden twilight
broods. ~
Power has trod the pavements with
slowed gait.
Fashion has Haunted its fair garb
and face,
Pleasure has gamboled here and lin
gered late,
These stones have known ambitions
driving pace.
Amid the populace that came and went,
Pursuing pomp, amusement, modes
and booty,
How many on the search for truth
were bent2
How many saw the sunsets amber
beauty? 7''
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Small Hot Bird.

The game laws presently relax,
But vanished is the small hot bird,
The toast is burnt in useless stacks
And neer a popping cork is heard.
And yet the hunter forth will go
With ardor that will never cease,
His sportsmanship again to show
BY shooting up the Dove Of Peace.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Nerve.

Nerve.
"What I admire about the old patriots
who wrote the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence" said Miss
Cayenne, "is their nerve"
"Nerve?" repeated the lady with a
note book.
Eyes. They seemed to think they
know more than a modern college pro-
feSSor."
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Animal Advents.

From the Newark Evening News.
An archeologist declares 1t was the
introduction of horses into Nebraska by
the SpaniardS that really made the West
wild" It was the introduction of the
donkey into the District of Columbia
that has made the @. O. p. wild.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

1t would surely add nothing to the
prestige of Moscow for the esteemed
and admired James Hamilton Lewis to
lose his life there. 1t is to be regretted
that so eminent and honored a person.
age could not have had care in his own
country.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

AS the campaign approaches, the rail-
road coach will have a distinct advan-
tage over the airplane, which is no good
for rear platform speeches.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

An element Of Russian opinion cares
nothing for what becomes Of the living
so long as the remains of Lenin can be
kept on view.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

No Santa Claus persuasion will lead
Impoverished Americans to establish
Christmas savings accounts for the sake
of getting into war.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

It has been predicted that English will
become the language of world commerce.
1t is spoken in the management Of air
planes as we'll as of submarines.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Political Prophecy.

From the Roanoke (va.) Times.
A New York man says he can predict
earthquakes. Somebody-maybe it was
politician-immediately wanted to know
whether he could do anything with .
political landslide.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

white-collar relief has not revived the
old paper collar that permitted economy
on laundry bills.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

1t is rather late in the proceedings
for Italy to try to blackball AbySsinia
in a meeting of the League of Nations.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

AS strategic measure Ethiopia will
keep on praying for rain.
Evening star., 1935-09-28
Voracious Mechanism.

The bombing plane shoots in the dark,
The submarine swims like shark;
The tank that hurries to the chase
Crawls at caterpillar pace.
A little bit of borrowed brain
Must guide them through the stress and
strain.
They, too, must eat-and tears are shed
To learn on what they must be fed
"Some men," said Uncle Eben, SIS
mighty contrary. Dey will pay good
money for de worst kind O. ticker and
won't take de best kind Of advice free
of charge"
Evening star., 1935-09-28
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Evening star., 1935-09-28
Sunrise.

SUnf1Ses
"All the world is waiting for the sun
rise sang the balladist.
mot in some parts of the world" COM
mented Senator Sorghum. Many folks
are notified that sunrise is the time
when they are to be shot,
Evening star., 1935-09-28

Jud Tunkins says the way everybody
smiles when having picture taken
would make you think the cameramen
were running the country.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

@. How does the length Of the Suez
Canal compare with the Panama Canal?
e. r.
A. The Suez is twice as long. 1t is
10l miles long; the Panama Canal is
5072 miles.
Evening star., 1935-09-28

@. How much fruit is used annually
by manufacturers of jellies, jams and
preServes?-T. r.
A. More than ,49l 900 pounds of fruit
is preserved every year in the United
States, not counting that used in pri-
vate households.