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come DacK, out 10 take citizenship
in some free country on the other
side-Italy, for example. or Ger
many, or Russia.
There have been many letters
in the mail from time to time ad-
vertising the joys and privileges
of citizenship in the free coun-
tries. Fascist friends have in
sisted that Italy under MuSSolini
is fairer land than the U. S. A.
under Roosevelt, and the prospect
seems worth investigating.
But first your correspondent
intends to make sure whether the
free countries permit certain lib
critics which still reDnaiyo RI tho
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testing the ground Tor oil,
and they have found the
strong likelihood of subter-
ranean pools of the black
golconda, waiting only for
civilized man to come along with
his bits and drills to pierce their
remoteness and flood the world
with fresh supplies-creating more
competition.
MusSoltnla has looked about
him and seen all this. He has
noted that he can not go else
where, because elsewhere" is al
ready parceled out among those
who got there before Italy.
Africa remains his only outlet.
AbySsinia is the only independent
state left. All the rest of Africa
belongs to England, France, Bel
GUM, Germany, Spain and Hol-
land. And it must be now or
never for the building of an Ital-
ian empire.
TINE Roman dictator has de-
Il clared that this is only a
colonial problem and has de-
manded to know why England or
some other nation should butt into
something which is purely local
affair between Ethiopia and Italy.
He has cited the tactics of the
British in carving for their eX-
elusive use an eighth Of the worlds
surface, and then has denounced
the British for denouncing him
for doing the same thing.
Technically, yes, Mussolini is
repeating colonial history. But he
fails to explain that time makes
the difference in actually.
The British, the Germans and
the French carved out their c.
lonial empires long, long ago
when civilization of the white
man was not SO intense.
Then there we're pieces of land
to take without upsetting the eco
nomic applicant. There was no
fear of treading on friendly or
enemy toes.
And through the years the slow
but systematic development of
their colonial empires by these
great powers gradually quickened
the intensity of the white mans
effort to live. Their development
sharpened the economic difficult
ties.
The more they were exploited,
the more they we're colonized,
faster and faster grew the race
of trade and commerce, the in
terchange of goods and services,
by which the white civilization
lives.
1T has grown so intense that
4 now the slightest little up
set will cause reverberations
round the world. And so the
man who sets out to carve him
self a brand new colonial en-
pire today, appears in the role
of a newcomer-a latecomer to
a party. let us say, when the
bowl is empty and the punch
nearly gone.
And being driven by thirst
which he can not control, he
snatches at cup, standing by
itself, on the table. But before
he can gulp down it's contents.
his hand is seized. Excuse me-"
says a voice, that is mine, I
believe"
The thirst-maddened one
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confessed their guilt and paid the
penalty by being hanged.
No French mobilization was or
dered to go to war with Ethiopia
to bring it civilization"
THUS England and France
Il suffered from uncontrolled
Ethiopian tribesmen, as did the
Italians. But there are not now
three armies encamped at the
Ethiopian doors. Only one.
The reason is that Great Brit
ain and France do not want any
more territory. Italy does.
Eritrea is rich poSseSsion-at
least that part of it which is on
the high lakeland which extends
southwark through the heart of
Ethiopia, and at the other end of
which stands Adds Ababa.
Asmara is the capital of Eritrea.
Yet there are few ITALIAN colon
lists in Asmara, and there are few
native farmers on the rich table
land surrounding the city. They
have been wiped away, bit by bit,
by the successive wars fought in
the region.
So II Duce declares to the
world that he must protect this
region from marauding bands of
tribesmen and make it safe for
Italian colonies.
But he will protect them only
by pushing the Italian frontier
to the edges of British Uganda,
Kenya and the Egyptian Sudan,
and linking Etritrea and Somali-
land.
TTOW is it that England, the
IL Il greatest of all colonizers in
Africa, did not take Ethiopia long
ago? Why was England content
to stretch the line of crimson on
the map of Africa from Sairo to
Cape Town, merely through
Uganda and Kenya?
If this was and is such a fertile
spot-as Ethiopia really is on its
great plateau-how could the
English pass it up when they were
carving up Africa for themselves?
For answer one must go back
to the principles upon which the
imperial powers based their en-
pire building. The honest reason,
of course, was simply possession.
But the outward reason, the
explanation given to the world,
was the spread of Christianity.
Here were all these parts of the
world peopled by pagan tribes who
Worshiped wooden or golden
images, who practiced witchcraft,
Sorcery and all the rest of the
rigamarole which went with a
savage life.
But when it came to Abyssinia,
it was embarrassing. Nobody could
say he was bent on bringing
Christianity to Ethiopia, because
the Abyssinians had been Chris
tians long before these conquer
ing nations were born.
A BYSSINIA actually was Eng
l. n lands for the taking, upon
one occasion. To the youth of to-
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WESTbROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK Oct. 21--Your correspondent is SAIL
ing for Europe today and very glad indeed to
escape the Roosevelt dictatorship which will not let
a man raise as many potatoes he wants to. Your
correspondent does not want to raise any potatoes
but the right to raise them without limit is part of
the sacred heritage of Valley Forge so it is great
relief to be going away The principle of freedom
is what counts
Possibly your correspondent will decide never to
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Times Books

THE private diaries of Mark Twain have been q
IL literary legend for years.
They were supposed to be so vitriolic and bitter
and outspoken that neither he his literary execu
tors ever dared publish them, and critics who con-
Sldered Mark Twain a thWarted genius believed that
perusal of his diaries would prove their theory
right up to the hilt
In this centennial year of Mark Twans birth his
diaries are at last published The result is bulkv
book entitled mark Twan's Notebook" edited nv
Albert Bigelow Paine Harpers; $D-and those who
are looking for something sensational will be dis
appointed for the odor of birthstone Just isn't there
There is little in this book that could not per-
tectly we'll have been published during the authors
lifetime
nNCE in great while you find a touch of that
~ dsilusioned bitterness that infused "The Mvster
Ious Stranger; even less often, a touch of the
Rabelaisian merrment of 1891" For the most mart
tnough there Is little that the Vctorians could have
objected to- '0
But if the book gives little support IN ths
thwarted-genius school, ordinary readers will find il
nlghly interesting. 1t has the Mark Twain flavor
throughou and it is full of little anecdotes plans
for stories, and so on.
In one place, for instance, Mark Twain projects a
story OF Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in their old
age IN another, he starts tale about man who
/, piCcheo OUT OF a trans-oceanc balloon onto the
LIMOS prairie; another entry records the incident
from which grew The Jumping Frog"
us book no lover of Mark Twain will want IN
miss. CBy Bruce Catton) "
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APPROACHES That much mlSuSed
term 100 per cent American" is
Roger Baldwin, head of the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union. With
all the rising tide Of enthusiasm
for the ideals Of Thomas Jeffer-
son it is curious that the general
public has failed to realize that
Roger Baldwin is in many respects
the most perfect Jeffersonian in
all the land
More than anybody I can think
of Baldwin has carried on the
fight for free speech, which was
certainly a corner stone in Jeffer-
sons philosophy. And there have
been MANY occasions when he was
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people at home even under Roosevelt For one thing
it will be necessary to know whether MuSsolini or
Hitler or Stain would do anything to a foreigner
tourist or immigrant who attempted to establish a
daily newspaper or weekly magazine published in a
foreign language, to advocate the overthrow of the
government and change in its form. This is one
OF the minor liberties still existing in the Strangling
democracy under the potato yrant of Hyde Park and
Harvard
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a very lonely man. He has endured rebuffS from
the left and mancal fury from the right And he
has continued to stick to the lofty and somewhat i'm
practical dictUm of Votare.
I must confess that in recent years my complete
devotion to the theory of free spee" even for your
foes, has weakened quite litt-. l have found my
self in spots where l saying Why of course
I believe free speech, but that doesn't mean that
We are going TO let that raSc",. ak and listen to
him. Why, he's just liar and faker"
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Benito Mussolini's invasion of the last indie
pendent kingdom of Africa Ethiopia makes this
gripping story Of that old nation of vital interest
TO every American. The Times today presents the
tenth installment of Boake Carter's rich and n
thralling book Black Shirt, Black Skin
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the flunkeys either throw him
out, or if he be strong enough,
he smackS down his opponent
and drinks from the disputed
cup.
The punch bowl of land on the
worlds surface is about empty.
just a drop remains in the bot
tom-a drop in the northeast
corner of Africa. A latecomer
among empire builders, and thirs-
ting as we'll, Mussolini stretched
out his hand to drain the bowl
but other hands were laid upon
him and words of warning sound
ed in his ear.
A LII was ready. The powder
L n had been laid-the fuse had
been extended. All that was
needed is a match.
There was roar of indignation
in Rome. Ethiopia did virtually
everything it could to make
amends. Selassie did far more to
atone TO Mussolini than almost
any other national leader would
have done.
But III Duce f1icked him aside
with hardly a glance. The incl
dent was at hand. 1t gave him
the opportunity. 1t was now or
never for an Italian colonial en-
pire.
When he declares that there is
no really responsible government
in Abyssinia-one which can con-
troll all tribes and can prevent
border raids, cattle stealing, slave
running-he is technically right.
SelasSie has been on the throne
only little more than 10 years
and, enlightened and modern ruler
thought he be, still one can not
change in a decade the habits of
5000 years!
The Ethiopian tribesmen have
made hundreds of raids across the
frontiers into neighboring terri
tory. Particularly have they
swarmed into British territory in
the Sudan and Kenya.
But it is equally true that the
British have not suddenly sent
100000 troops to the border of
Uganda and said to Selassie: 1--WE
are going to destroy you and
yours"
NANAKIL tribesmen raced
- down from their desert re-
moteness and crossed into French
Somaliland this year. They burned
and pillaged and murdered.
In their mad course, they came
upon a French colonial block
house. Inside were less than 20
French soldiers, under a young
French lieutenant. The tribesmen
charged to the assault Rifle fire
moved them down.
Again and again they returned
to the attack and again and again
they were repulsed.
Eventually, the Frenchmen's
ammunition was exhausted. The
DanakiI tribesmen swarmed over
the gallant little band of soldiers
and killed every one.
There was shout of rage in
Paris. The incident was equally
as serious as the Ual-Ual incident
with Italian soldiers. The French
protested to Selassie.
The emperor sent out his own
army. 1t recaptured the machine
guns taken from the French, re-
turned with two old chiefs, who
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Literary Notes

A LICE DUER MILLER, wel-known writer will
L make her debut an actress in Soak the
Rich" the new Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur
picture.
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Boake Carter whose Black Shirt Black Skin :,
runlng in The Times has signed an exclusive book
contract with the Dodge Publishing Co. He has :
new book coming out in January
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BY STANLEY A. TULLSEN
NEA Service Staff Writer

BY STANLEY A. TULLSEN
OUTSTANDING in the amazing advance achieved in
" the technique warfare since guns were stilled
Armstice Day. 1918, is the improvement in tanks At
the left is shown German tank used the last wear
of the conflict square ended clumsy monster of little
speed which, like the most CT the kaisers tanks was an
ineffective weapon. At the right is shown modern
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new book coming out in January
Rlchard Sherman, the young man whose stories
have been appearing in Cosmopolitan Harners
Bazaar, Vanity Fair and other magazines has left
on the Queen of Bermuda for two weeks vacation
John Steinbeck, author of "Tortila Flat" ha,
left his home in Pacific Grove Cal, and settled in a
small village in the interior of Mexico where he will
gather material for novel about rural Mexico
Col Philip S. Van else, former Denver district
attorney Republican Party leader and one-tine re-
porter for the Rocky Mountain News has completed
his book Fighting the Underworld" 1t will be
published after the first of the year by Hough-
ton Mifflin.
Faith Baldwin has acquired a houseboat called
The Dog House"
Martin Mooney, the reporter whose book Crime
incorporated" will be published Nov. 8, is leaving
soon for Hollywood
Esther Morgan Mccullough. author Of e. And
Forever" soon TO be published by Gotham House.
was seriously injured in q motor accident last week
in New York.
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Haywood BR0UN

HAVING done quite number of hate columns
recently I think might devote one day to
listing some Of The people for whom I have an en-
thusiasm. Only recently challenged with the
question, isn't there anybody you admired" There
really are quite few, if I leave out my per-
sonal friends AS far those six or seven are con-
cerned, I don't necessarily admire them; I just
happen to like them.
1t seems to me that the man who most nearly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05
Proposes Gold Medal
For Champion Celia

To the Editor of The Star:
My hat is of to Mr.. Mumford for his
recent letter bringing to the attention
Of the large membership of The Star
editorial page reading fraternity the feat
Of the redoubtable Mr.. Celia Of the
Eastern Democratic Club of Baltimore
and the modest and becoming part
Representative Pallnisano played.
Approaching the mentality Of the
congressional majority, would like to
head a petition asking Congress to
present a suitable medal to the beer
guzzling Mr.. Celia, for the dainty wrist
watch presented to him by his admir-
ers of the Eastern Democratic Club is
far too inadequate. think we would find
the next session of Congress (provided
it is made up in the majority Of men
of the same caliber as the majority of
the late-departed SESSION. quite in the
mood to present a nice gold medal as
suggested. And why stop considering
the generosity of the said late-depart-
ed session in appropriating other peoples
money for boondoggling, etc. in pre-
senting a medal to Mr.. Celia? Why not
present one TO eAcn member OF the
Eastern Democratic Club and to Mr..
Palmisano, too? If it had not been for
the Eastern Democratic Club and Mr.
Palmisano who would have ever heard
of Mr.. Celia and his capacity? While
they are in the mood, why not include
that hero of Messrs. Palmisano and
Cella-Mussolini understand he in
spired Mr.. Celia for his great feat.
JOHN DENNIS oDEA.
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Archives Murals.

Barry Faulkner, engaged to design the
murals of the Archives Building, will
have an opportunity such as is granted
to but few men. Under the direction Of
the Fine Arts Commission, he will deco
rate a monumental edifice, contribute
his genius and skill to a sacred shrine of
history and interpret for millions of his
countrymen the patriotic annals of the
United States. Automatically, he joins
the company of Giotto, Fra Angelica.
Correggio, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, Michel
angelo and Raphael-his completed work
will be classified with theirs and must
bear comparison with the best that
they left.
But Mr.. Faulkner will have advan-
tages which were denied to his great
forerunners of the Renaissance. The
walls assigned to him, it would seem,
should be better built than were those
which Leonardo da Vinci was allotted
for the Last Supper" at the convent Of
Santa Maria dele Giraffe in Milan, and
the chemical character of his colorS
should be superior to those which were
available to william Morris. Ford MADDOX
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The Umpire's Lot.

Umpire batting at an ordinary base
ball game is not only futile but dis
turbing to the dignity of the occasion.
In a world series game, with an immense
attendance and with partisanship keen
ly prevalent, it is menace to the public
peace. Yesterday at Chicago the pas
sions of the players Of the eventually
losing team were aroused by a ruling
on base runner who was called out
at second in an effort to steal. When
peace had been restored and the game
was permitted to proceed, several of the
members of the Chicago aggregation,
including the manager, had been tossed"
out of the park-which means out of
sight and not physically beyond the
confines Of the playing grounds, for the
exiled manager continued his observa-
tions of the contest through an i'm
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tory, which is reported in the current
issue of the Astrophysical Journal by
Sinclair Smith of the Carnegie staff, has
been to build up a hypothesis Of the prob
able nature Of these nebulae through
refined. and very complicated astro-
physical methods.
The picture obtained is by no means
complete and 1t presents the nebulae as
very curious objects indeed. In the first
place, Smith reports, they seem actually
to be vast aggregations of stars, probably
Of the nature of mammoth globular clus-
tiers. They would fall somewhere be-
tween the spiral galaxy and the star
cloud. He studied one of the nearest and
most conveniently located of them
Messier 80. He deduces that the nebulae
contains approximately two million
separate stars with a very peculiar dis
tribution. Three per cent of all these
stars are located in the nucleus of the
cluster. There the stellar density Is
approximately 10000 per cubic parSec-
by far the greatest star thickness ever
encountered. Actually, of course. the
individual stars are very far apart in this
nucleus. A parSec is approximately 10
billion miles. 1t is vastly greater, how
ever, than the density at the center
OF the Milky Way galaxy.
From the nucleus the stars thin out
rapidly. At about $50 parsecs from the
center. Smith calculates, the density is
only about one star per 10 cubic parsecs.
That Is, the stars in the center are about
100000 times more closely packed than
at the edges. This condition, according
to the most recent hypothesis regarding
the evolution Of the universe, may be
somewhat similar to the state of the
Milky Way galaxy in its earliest days,
when 1t is believed the stars were packed
together much more densely than is the
case today so that the collisions neces-
sary for the creation of planetary sys-
TENS may have been fairly common.
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Blames Mishaps on
New STYLES of Motors

To the Editor OF The Star:
I read with great interest all that
you publish on the subject of safe driv-
ing, and it is good of you to throw open
your columns to the various excellent
letters from your readers. There is one
point, however. that seems not to have
been stressed namely, the character of
the cars themselves All these new cars
and latest models have their visibility
diminished by about so per cent. I am
driving the latest model of one of the
three cheap makes, and from the seat
it is impossible to see either the right or
the left fender while the rear window
is virtually skylight. Passing another
car-drawing up to the curb, to say MOTH
ing Of avoiding pedeStrian-is purely
a matter of guess and gamble. The more
experienced drivers guess better than
others, but in any case it is just guess
work-it is impossible to see and to judge
accurately.
These new cars are hung low so that
one can round a curve at 10 without
upsetting. They are equipped with steel
turret tops, so that one can roll over and
over with impunity. If they do upset. A
curious ideal for the motor manufac-
turers to set themselves. and for which
they sacrifice the visibility and safety
that the ordinary driver would like.
Let us assume that rs per cent Of the
drivers do not wish to smash themselves
and their cars, to say nothing of smash
ing other people and other cars. Nor
do they deliberately intend to run down
pedestrians. But what chance have they,
when the big manufacturers sink them
so low on the seats that they can't see
where they are going or what they are
doing? These new cars are dangerous
extremely SO. And getting worse year
by year.
Therefore in contemplating the vast
increase in motor accidents, let us place
the blame where it belongs-on the big
manufacturers who turn out these dan
gerous types of cars. Also upon the
municipalities which license them and
permit them on the streets.
If one avoids hitting pedestrian it
is more by the grace of God than by
any assistance on the part of Messrs.
Ford, Chrysler and Sloane.
E. N. LA NOTE.
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Urges Reading of
Thomas jefferson
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Am writing to thank you for giving
me both the pleasure and the privilege
of reading the splendid radio address,
delivered on the National Radio Forum
and published in your valuable paper on
Tuesday, october l.
The writer does not possess a radio,
but does subscribe to The Evening Star,
through which medium he had the
opportunity to read the truly American
address, delivered by the able Senator
King of Utah, an address that merits
the appreciation of every true American.
It is q call to arms, which should be
needed by every lover of our glorious
country, a warning against those spec
tacular-sophists who are trying to lead
us in their quest for strange, unknown
and apparently false gods, who would
rob us of the priceless inheritance left
to us BY those grand old patriots who
gave their time and shed their blood
that we might enjoy the best form of
Government ever devised by man.
would suggest that our President and
his members of Congress take sufficient
time of, during their present vacation,
to read both the first and especially the
second inaugural address of Thomas
Jefferson, also his letter to William B.
Bibbs as of July %, 1908, on Public
Ownership"
Claiming him as they do. their patron
saint, it will probably prove edifying to
many Of those gentlemen to learn some
thing concerning the tenets Of Mr.. Jeffer-
sons politics. He was one Of the true
statesmen of the morning of this Re-
public, q class that Is rapidly becoming
extinct, that is, II we are to measure
craftsmanship by the acts Of our rulers
during the past two and half years.
FRANK HARPER.