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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. November 10 lPD;-Butter.
9.124; frmer Creamery higher than
extra. 3314a34I2: extra t93 score) 33i2:
firsts (S9-91 scores. 32a33; centralized
90 score) 32l2,
Cheese, 623.O23; firm. State. whole
milk flats held 1894 fancy to specials.
plaza; held. 1895. fancy, 20.
EggS. l1.1l3; firmer. Mixed colorS,
special packs or selections from fresh re-
ceipts 34a3Sl2; standards and commercial
standards 31a33lz: f1rsts. 3012; mediums.
40 pounds 25I2a26; dirties No. l. AZ
pounds 25a2512; small. 23l2a24; average
checks. 23a24; .refrigerators. special packs.
2512a26; standards. 25; firsts. 24a24f4i
mediums. 23a23l2.
Live poultry steady. BY freight: Chick
ems. 1sa23: other freight grades un-
CHANGED.
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LiyerpooI Quotations.

LIVERPOOL. November "a A1.-Cotton,
$4,000 bales. including 3S,t0O American,
Spot-Moderate business done; prices ]
American srf s Strict good middling. 2.3a' sood
middling. 1O3: strict middlinR. 8 IS: mid
ding i.13: strict low middllng, Sos; low
midding. Il 80; strict GOOD odinary. = II;
good ordinary. : 81. Futures closed qules
and steady: December. $40: January. 6.43;
March, $40; May, 6.37, July, 6.33' Octo-
Der, 6l3.
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New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

7
NEW YORK, November 1e.-Cotton
was comparatively quiet but generally
steady today with slight early declines
followed by rallies en- covering.
December was relatively firm. sell-
ing up from l1.74 to llS4. or 8 points
net higher with the market in the lats
trading steady at net unchanged TO 8
points higher.
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MATURITIES TO INCREASE.

NEW YORK, November l9 CPl.-
Corporate bond maturities during De-
cember will total s65.e9s,8OO. compared
with s23,745.250 in November, the
Standard Statistics Co. reports. Janus
ary maturities are estimated at sll2,-
123,100.
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MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. November 10 R.-Call
money steady; "a per cent all day. Primo
con mercial paper ~ per cent. Time ioans
steady; 80 days. 6 months. / per cent Of
fered Bankers acceptances UNCHANGED.
Rediscount rate. New York Reserve Bank,
Ia per cent.
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Cnff0nSepd oil

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed easy December. 1885; Janus
ary. 10.55b; March, 1O55b; MAY. 1886,
Sales. l09 contracts, including a
switches. Bid.
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METAL MARKET.

steady; electrolytic spot and future, 9.25:
spot and nearby 81 so; future, 4s 81. Iron
quiet. UNCHANGED. Lead steady; spot. New
York. 4.50a4 .55; East st. Louis. 435.
Zinc quiet; East ST Louis. spot and tu-
ture. ass. Aluminium, l9 ,00a22. 90. AlE
timony. spot. 1880. II
Evening star., 1935-11-19
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash grain: No wheat sales reported;
corn. No. 5, mixed. 57l2a34 No. ?, vel,
low, 81; oats, No. 2. white, 30@i a3ll
sample grade, "a; no rye; buckwheat
No. 2, LOS; soy beans, No. 3. yellow
80: barley. nominal feed. 30a42; nalt'
ing. 39a80: timothy seed. 300a45 hum
dredweight; clover seed, l200al6.U
hundredWeight.
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IiVPrpUOl Grain Prices

LIVERPOOL, November 10 t.P'.-wheat
futures CLOSED steady.
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NEW YORK BAR SILVER

NEW YORK. November l9 tF9.-
Bar silver steady and unchanged at
65$s.
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approximate Sdies OF STOCKS ON tne n l. otock
11:00 A.M------ $4,000 1890 Noon------ 117000O
100 P.M.------ 100000 200 PM 100000
Dividend
Unit trading less han shares fAnnusi rate plus
x dividend.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
Earthquake Danger.

Numerous residents of Washington
felt the tremors which ran through the
District Of Columbia and adjacent terri
tory early this morning, but it may be
doubted that many realized what they
were. The population Of the Capital is
not particularly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
and even those individuals who have
memories of San Francisco in 1906 or
Toxic in 1928 feel relatively safe from
chronological peril on the eastern side
of North America. Human beings re-
spond to events which they have reason
to expect: they are slow to comprehend
surprises. Hence, persons who were
wakened from their sleep by the rocking
of their beds an hour after midnight
blandly went back to their rest without
knowing or caring much about the cause
of the momentary interruption Of their
repose. They were not anticipating any
dislocation of that portion Of the planet
on which they dwell, and therefore were
not frightened when one occurred.
But it happens that not single square
inch of the globe is immune from the
universal law of constant change. Man
Evening star., 1935-11-01
RerOute Busses Through
Less COngested Streets

To the Editor Of The Star:
Figures recently published by Traffic
Director Van Duzer disclose the obvious
fact that Connecticut avenue and M
street is the most congested intersection
in Washington, with 47,379 vehicles
crossing in one hour; that more cars
went around Dupont Circle, however.
and that Connecticut avenue and CAL
vert street was used by 39,250 vehicles.
II Connecticut avenue is so congested
from Calvert street to M street, why run
all the Chevy Chase busses down a con-
gested thoroughfare? Calvert Street
Bridge is wide, Eighteenth street north
west has been widened and there is no
congestion on the new bridge or Eight
zenith street. The majority of the Chevy
Chase buSSes should turn at the bridge
and reach town via Eighteenth street
and Massachusetts avenue, thereby elm
mating the terrific congestion on Con-
necticut avenue.
Good logic demands the change and
countless Chevy Chase residents wish to
reach Eighteenth and Columbia road
without the inconvenience of transfer
ring at Rock Creek loop.
I cannot understand why the Capital
Transit Co. selected the busiest and most
congested street in Washington to run
their buSSes, when the city has spent q
million dollars to build new bridge to
accommodate increased traffic and has
widened Eighteenth street northwest for
the same purpose. r. N. MILLER.
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Ambulances Should Not
Be Subject to Noise Rules
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star
Today's news carries the information
that a woman lost her life because the
ambulance arrived too late; the siren of
the vehicle was officially ordered re-
moved by the authorities in the noise
abatement drive and thus could not
make the usual headway.
All this raises the question: Is silence
more essential than the saving of human
life?
From the foregoing 1t would appear
so. In our zeal and ardor We have no
doubt forgotten similar incident that
took place several years ago. At that
time we were engaged in a aspeed-reduction
drive much the same as we are now.
All vehicles were ordered to reduce their
speed; ambulances were limited to Is
miles per hour.
AS result several lives were lost
because of the unnecessary delay, and
before long the authorities saw the folly
Of their ruling and ordered the rule
rescinded.
Now, I should like to ask: Are the
authorities going to go through the same
process OF needless sacrifice to see the
light or are they going to profit from
the past experience? Let us answer the
question before 1t is too late.
DANTE AMOROSO.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
Commendation of Drive
Against Unclean Books

To the Editor of The Star:
Permit me to express my appreciation
OF the excellence of the editorial "Un-
clean Books Drive" in your issue Of Oc-
tober "a, 1885.
The extent of the traffic in vile books
and pictures, and the effect they have
on the minds Of young people and weak
minded adults is not generally realized.
The crime engendered through such pub
licationS if brought to light might be
found to be one of the greatest, If not
the greatest, evil in America today.
These crimes usually do not come to
light unless actual murder or kidnapping
enSue. because of their responsiveness and
the fact that shame prevents good people
who have cognizance of them from
bringing the facts to the attention Of
law enforcement officers.
Your realization of the grave dangers
incident to the publication Of obscene
literature and your work in molding pub
lie opinion against such literature should
have most Salutary effect.
K. P. ALDRICH,
Chief inspector, Post Office Department.
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kind talks Of terra firma"-the steady,
immovable. eternally reliable earth
when, in sober truth, there never has
been and never will be any such thing.
The prime fact about every aspect Of
the cosmos is that of ceaseless variation.
There probably have been hundreds OF
earthquakes along the Atlantic seaboard.
1t would be violation Of the basic prin-
ciple of mathematics were the coastal
plain on which Washington stands to be
totally exempt from such adjustments.
Weight systematically is being added to
the lowlands, and the balance between
the shore area and the interior periodi-
cally must be re-established.
Few of the necessary geological
changes, however, are cataclysmic. 1t
follows, then, that there is no special
occasion for alarm just now. The Cap
ital has been shaken before and will be
again, but scientists say that, like the
Nation whose center it is, the city has
fairly substantial foundations. In any
case, there is no use in being timorous.
Life is an adventure everywhere - the
District of Columbia included; and 1t
may be an efficient corrective of pride
and overconfidence if the race has an
occasional reminder of mutability. What
is wanted is personal integrity and
courage, and those who really endeavor
to deserve the privilege of living should
have little to fear though the heavens
fall.
Evening star., 1935-11-01

light? We say "every reader" because
only those who find her charming will
read. Many will not and that is their
loss. But 1t is probably true that the
novels of this Incompatible Jane are one
Of the sure tests of whether one is a
civilized person. Her readers can feel,
with more than average right, that they
are civilized.
1t is significant that much the same
quality which made the great botanist
select Jane Austen for his reading in
dangerous places compelled the adven-
turers Of Admiral Byrd's first trip to the
South Pole to choose w. H. Hudsons
Green Mansions" as their favorite.
Each wished work depicting life as
far from their present situation as pos
sible-and one found it in the everyday
small life of England, the others in
book romantic and green in setting,
making as great contrast as possible
with the all-maleness and barren white
ness Of the polar regions.
One has but to open q Jane Austen
novel at any page to see what it was
which endears her to so many people
of diverse characters.
Take that opening sentence in "Per-
suasion":
Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall,
in Somersetshire, was a man who, for
his own amusement, never took up any
book but the 'Baronetage'
If that doesn't describe Sir Walter
quickly and completely, it can't be done.
And II a reader doesn't want to con-
tinue, then the Incompatible Jane is
not for him-or her, either, for that
matter.
Open the book ut random and take
this:
"Anne smiled and said:
"'My idea of good company. Mr.. Elliot.
is the company Of clever, well-informed
people, who have a great deal Of con-
versation; that is what call good COM
pany.'
"'You are mistken,' said he gently;
best. Good company requires only birth,
education and manners. Birth and good
manners are essential; but little learn
ing is by no means dangerous thing in
good company; on the contrary, 1t will
do very well.'"
1t is interesting to see here the fore
runner of all the well-bred novels which
III IIAC "OAAo VI Vic 4dIC
John Galsworthy.
Surely one has to be well-bred to like
either, which is just another way of
saying that one must be highly civilized.
The fact that our famous botanist
was in a wild and woolly land did not
prevent him from retaining the intense
degree of civility which he took with
him. Like the famous kittens born in
the oven, which did not become, by the
fact of their birth, biscuits. but re-
manned very much cats, so entirely civ
ilized persons of all degrees-and there
are Just as many degrees of civilization
as Of anything else-will cherish some
thing or other which they regard as
a mark of culture.
Were we to find a man in a dirty
hovel, and unkempt, if we caught him
reading Emma" We would know in
stantly and beyond doubt that he was
entirely civilized. although he might not
look it. One might possess the novels
Of Jane Austen, as the porter did the
copy he carried, without reading them
at all, but no one reads them except the
cultured. 1t is as good test as any.
Evening star., 1935-11-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

Dear Sir: always enjoy your Sec
ton Of The Star and was interested the
other night in your discussion Of Sense
and Sensibility.' 1t does not surprise
me at all that you have never been able
to read it, and the reason is plain-it Is
so exceedingly feminine book.
But to feminine hearts who even after
middle age love fripperies and foolish
girls, accounts Of balls and leaving of
notes, 1t Is much endeared. However,
my own favorite is Emma charming,
illogical Emma, with Pride and Preju-
dice ranking second. Mansfield Park,
with Its somewhat SNUG godliness. and
'Northanger Abbey are the two I can
never read without impatience.
But apparently there are also mascu-
line minds to whom Jane Austen Is dear.
Do you happen to know Of the English
botanist, Reginald Ferrer? He did fine
work amid dangerous surroundings in
the Chinese borderlands Of Tibet, and
was later killed or died of fever in upper
Burma. But wherever he went he took
and read Jane.
when he had made q perilous climb
up q 2,000-foot Himalayan cliff in a
storm he would remark, If Louisa (of
"Persuasion'D had fallen here, she really
would have injured her head When
he was shut up by the deluge for three
days in q tiny hut he sent one of his
coolies back Is miles for Northanger
Abbey The coolie, not being versed in
Jane Austen, returned with Emma
Alas said Ferrer, I had set my
heart on the other. But still, one can
never 60 amiss with my dear Jane
I1 80 III. efntr -,
and perilous botanizing in impossible
situations, his wisdom in dealing with
hostile tribes, and his intrepidity in
danger Jane takes on piquancy that
makes one admire her more.
Il apologize for taking so much Of
your time and thank you again for your
very human articles. Sincerely yours,
H. w. r."
What a piquant writer was the great
Jane, as good today as ever, though 100
years have rolled away since she penned
her exquisite novels!
The interesting "reminiscences of our
correspondent bring out the fact that
Jane was, for all her essential femininity.
a writer for all persons of discrimination.
One "he-man," If such a designation
may be used, is named above, but there
were many more in the lady's own day,
including no less robust males than the
great Disraeli and the ne less great Sir
Walter Scott, who found her novels very
much to their liking.
Disraeli, it is said, read her Pride
and Prejudice" II times
So it can be realized that maSculinity
and femininity, as such, have little to do
with such matters. except in so far as
one book-and 1t probably is Sense and
Sensibility"-is so essentially feminine in
character that it scarce will appeal
to a normal male.
We like to hope that 1t was not q
favorite Of either Scott or Disraeli-and
We probably are right, for their favorites
Of James books are known and they
said nothing about the others.
We think it only fair to say that sew
eral women whose opinion we value
highly find Sense and Sensibility" quite
as hard to get through as ourself.
So what does all this show, except
that the novels of Jane Austen are a
little compact world of their own, in
which every reader will find much de-
Evening star., 1935-11-01
Intelligent Study of
Accident Causes Needed
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
At its last meeting, on October "a, the
board of directors Of the Washington
Federation of Churches unanimously
voted to give support to The Stars
safety campaign. It is the opinion Of
the federation that this is q most con-
structive move, and clearly in the interest
Of the community. For this reason we
give it our cordial Endorsement.
1t is matter Of regret to the fedora
ton that the present campaign to reduce
automobile accidents and fatalities does
not include an intelligent and exhaustive
survey Of the causes. The point We have
In mind may be illustrated by develop
ments ut q recent hearing before
the Alcohol Beverage Control Board,
relating to the granting Of Ii
cense. The applicant testified that he
intended to sell hard liquor and that
most Of his patrons would be those COM
ing in automobiles. Opponents OF the
application argued that it is contrary
to the public interest to grant liquor
license to one who admits that he intends
to sell 1t principally to automobile pa
irons, who, after consuming the liquor,
will resume their place at the steering
wheel. The board denied the application,
its decision making special reference to
the automobile patronage. This is one
Of the most constructive steps the A. B.
G. Board has taken. But how many
other places are there where, because Of
licenses already granted, auto patrons
imbibe generously Of hard liquor and
then drive OF?
How many persons are driving with
poor brakes, with defective clutches with
glaring headlights and with tires just
ready to blow out? Are the qualifica-
tions for driving permits sufficiently
rigid? Are habitual violators of the rules
still driving? And why should it be the
accepted thing to drink cocktails and
then drive? Why cannot the causes of
increased fatalities be scientifically de-
termined or reasonably approximated?
The federation believes that the CAM
paign should not be limited to the sign
ing of pledge, but that it should in
clude q careful study and analysis of
underlying causes. We do however,
align ourselves definitely with you in
your splendid campaign. and you are at
liberty to give such publicity to our ac-
ton as you may deem appropriate.
WILLIAM TAYLOE, Jr,
Chairman, Committee of Civic AZ
fairs, Washington Federation Of
Churches.
Evening star., 1935-11-01

sojourn in the South, when he addressed
the National Association of Motor Bus
Operators at New Orleans. Uncle Sans
transportation boss says busses seem to
offer all the facilities that railroad trains
afford. except that he finds 1t difficult
to- read in the former. Mr.. Eastman
apparently has gone air-minded for
really rapid transit, as he has been using
planes to get to and from speaking en-
gagements in distant parts of the country.
**
Although President Roosevelt stated
at Cambridge, Md, the other day. when
dedicating the big new Choptank River
Bridge. that he understood he was the
first President ever to visit that par
ttcular CDorchester) county, he was pre-
ceded to the Eastern Shore by President
Coolidge. who once tarried in Crisfeld,
at the lower end Of Somerset County.
about 95 miles from Cambridge. Cal"
was on a week end cruise aboard the
Mayflower and dropped OF for Sunday
church services. There's a legend that
the thrifty Vermonter deposited such a
generous contribution in the collection
plate that the church decided to preserve
the bill as a souvenir
r -
While political eyes are riveted on next
Tuesdays elections in New York and
Kentucky, New Dealers are keenly in
tereSted in what happens in Pennsyl-
vania, too, especially in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh. Senator Joe Guffey, new
chairman Of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee, has made State
wide tour exhorting the faithful to roll
up vote Of confidence in Roosevelt
policies rs q token of triumph in 1896.
The big Keystone prize the New Dealers
seek is the Philadelphia mayoralty. In
Pittsburgh they want to land the county
commissionership. With Allegheny
County Republicans split three ways
among strange Mellon -Pinchot COM
bination, an Independent Progressive
party and another group calling them
selves Square Dealers" the Democrats,
moving in complete party harmony, hope
to sweep the deck. Penn State in their
next years electoral college column is
the Democrats cleaning goal.
No man in New Deal office occupies
so unique a political position as John G.
Winant, chairman Of the Social Sc
curity Board. Despite his job, the former
New Hampshire Governor, Republican
Of progressive hue, continues to figure in
G. O. p. 1885 presidential straw votes
Winant's friends understand his hat will
not be in the ring until 1910, when he
will be only 81 years old.
+ X ~
Japan's chief delegate at the London
Naval Conference in December will be
astute Admiral Osami Nagano, who is
we'll known in Washington. He was
once naval attache here and in 1882
represented his government at the Ge-
neva Disarmament Conference The
admiral is q member of the Supreme
War Council at Toxic.
+
Nelson B. Gaskill, former chairman
of the Federal Trade Commission, now
q member of the District Of Columbia
bar, is the author of q volume entitled
Profit and Social Security" just of the
press. 1t is a plea for "a carefully regu-
lated capitalism" Mr.. Gaskill is Re-
publican, former assistant attorney gen.
eral Of New Jersey and Harvard law
graduate.
Copyright, 1880
Evening star., 1935-11-01

mendous lead over his Republican op-
ponent, former President Hoover. nearly
600, 900 votes. A swing back toward the
G. o. p. in the Assembly election would
be hailed as q manifestation against the
Roosevelt New Deal. 1t would be in
terpreted as . direct slap at both the
President and his campaign manager,
Postmaster General James A. Farley,
who is chairman both of the Democratic
National Committee and of the Demo-
cratic State Committee Of New York.
Mr.. Farley, it has been reported, is
sending many thousands of personal let
ters to voters in New York State, urging
that they 60 to the front for the Demo-
cratic candidates for the Assembly. The
contest, therefore, is assuming all the
proportions Of q major engagement. 1t
will be looked upon as an indicator Of
the swing away from Roosevelt and the
New Deal which is said to have been
under way along the eastern seaboard
and In the New England States ever
since Rhode Island last August elected
Republican member of the House to I'LL
q vacancy caused by the resignation Of
q Democrat.
In New York State the Democrats start
q campaign for the election Of State
Assembly with large block of Assembly
districts in New York City in the bag
districts that vote Democratic as regu-
larly as the sun rises. They are to the
Democratic party in the Empire State
what the solid South" is to the party
in the Nation when a general election is
held. The Republicans, on the other
hand, start such campaign with rock
ribbed Republican districts upstate. It
was the inroadS made by the Demo-
Gratis upstate which caused New York's
electoral votes to be handed to President
Roosevelt in 1892 and which made it pos
sible for the Democrats to win a ma
jority of the present Assembly 1t is in
the upstate districts that the Repub-
icans hope to regain their old ascen-
dency in the Legislature next Tuesday.
The overwhelming Republican vote up
State has always been the G. 0. P's only
hope of defeating Democratic candidates
in Statewide elections.
II the Democrats retain control of the
Assembly after next Tuesdays elections
it will be bitter pill for the C. o. P.
Republican hopes have been raised in
recent months. Such Democratic vic.
tory would restore to the Roosevelt forces
some Of the confidence which they have
lost in recent weeks. 1t may be easy
to magnify the significance Of the As
sembly election, no matter which side
wins. What New York does. however. is
watched with interest by the rest of the
States.