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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

have a particular interest in this years
Nationwide celebration Of the cente-
nary of Mark Twains birth. It's not
generally remembered that the humor-
list was Capital scribe after the Civil
War. He had already achieved fame
with THE Jumping Frog" and was
about to produce "Innocents Abroad"
Referring to Twain's journalistic activ-
tiles during reconstruction times. Edgar
Lee Masters. writing in the September
American Mercury, recalls Marks de-
scription of Washington during that
era, when whisky was carried into
committee rooms in demijohns and car
ried out in demagogues."
Although some recent statistics re-
veal that there are still 10000, 900 I'M
employed, the vacation season. which
came oficially to an end on Labor day,
provided incontrovertible evidence OF
better times. Summer resorts every
where did their banner business since
1929. In countless cases their facilities
were overtaXed and cash customers
were regularly turned away. The trans
Atlantic steamship companies carried
more passengers than at any time in the
past five years. All over the country
there was proof that spending has be-
come the peoples habit again, and all
forms of business experienced beneficial
results. At the same time, thrift in
creased. One report states there were
100000 more savings accounts on Sep
TENDER ! than at the beginning of the
year.
Most frequently advanced against
Senator Borah's availability for the Re-
publican presidential nomination is the
argument that he Is in his Seventy-firSt
year. Men Of ripe age sit in many seats
Of the Federal mighty. No fewer than
five members of the Supreme Court are
older than the Idahoan-Chief Justice
Hughes and Associate Justices Van De-
vanter, McReynoldS, Brandeis and Suth-
erland. Senator Carter Glass, acknowl-
edged best mind Of Congress, is seven
years older. Senator Fletcher, chairman
of the vital Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee, is Borah's senior by
five years, and Representative Edward
T. Taylor of Colorado acting Democratic
floor leader Of the House during the
late tempeStuous session, Is his senior
by seven years Borah's friends con-
tend that his hourishing boom proves
that his recent entry into the septua-
genarian class will not initiate against
his chances for the G.. o. P. nomination.
= y X
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes was the third
woman of distinction recently to lose
her life in an automobile crash. Frau
Schuschnigg, wife of the Austrian
chancellor, was killed on July 10; Queen
Astrid of Belgium, on August 20, and
the wife of the Secretary Of the Interior
on August 81. All three accidents took
place at isolated spots on rural high
ways, remote from traffic congestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Hurricane.

The story Of the hurricane sweeping
over Florida is incomplete, but enough
is known to prompt the sympathy of the
Nation for the people Of the devastated
areas. Strange, indeed, is the contra
diction which makes so fair a section
of the country liable to periodic storms
of such terrific intensity. Nature, it
seems, has a wanton habit of running
her own best work. The contrast between
long months of paradisiacal weather
and sudden cataclysmic gales leaves the
human mind stumped for any other ex-
PLANTATION.
In the present instance there seems
TO have been ample warning. Storm
signals were sent out in time to permit
small craft to get to port and to allow
the population of the towns and cities
to prepare against the emergency. The
Morgan liner Dixie, it is true. was
caught, but present indications are that
she will survive the experience without
loss of passengers or crew. good ship,
sturdy and strong, it may be hoped that
she will be freed from the reef, ade-
ouately repaired and promptly restored
to the service she has honored by her
gallant performance.
The greatest loss, according to cur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Credit and Confidence.

Treasury terms for one of the largest
peace time financing operations In his
tory, at the lowest rate Of interest in
history, might be viewed as gratifying
demonstration Of Secretary Morgen-
thau's unshaken confidence in the abil-
ity of Government credit to withstand
what ordinarily would be regarded as
q severe test. The immediate oversub-
scription Of the cash offering of half a
billion dollars in one-and- "a half per-
cent notes, q part Of the financing opera
ton, comes as immediate justification
for such confidence. The markets an
ticipate like success for the conversion
Of the called Fourth Liberties. which
may be exchanged for two and three
quarter per cent bonds, offered to the
amount of 81, $50 100000.
Success Of the operation will mean
that the Treasury has cut its long term
interest rate q half Of one per cent
within q year; at the same time it has
depressed the short-term interest rate
one per cent. The refunding OF the
Liberty loanS-which paid four and q
quarter-begun two years ago. will have
been completed. The carrying charges
on the public debt will have been re-
duced by about quarter OF q billion
dollars, and the total debt, including
the New Deal issues, will be cheaper to
carry than the war debt. The Treasury
can take juStitiable pride In the success
attending it's operations.
The other side of the picture Is that
the Treasury could not borrow SO cheaply
If the banks were not full Of money, for
which there exists small demand. That
money ought to be at work now, financing
new private business ventures, creating
new hopes and new employment, IN
stead of rushing into the outlet pro-
yided by Government bonds at new low
rates. Whether in the long run the ad-
vantages accruing to the Government
through availability of cheap money out
weigh the disadvantages of plethora
of money In the banks and few borrow
ers is q serious question.
Government credit remains mistaken
But business confidence still seems to be
unhappily impaired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

held q monopoly on automobile speed
records and steadily moved them up.
Air records, in the same time, begin
ming with the thirty miles established by
the Wrights in 1903. have been pushed
forward more than q hundred miles
every ten years or 50 to the present world
record ct 440 miles per hour, made with a
seaplane. There Is no reason to believe
that ten years hence another hundred
miles an hour will not have been added.
What is the good Of all the speed
what value lies In the records? I'm
doubleday there is value in the test Of
machinery and materials and in design
under the terrific stresses and strains
of high speed. But above ALL they DEM
onstrate mans Unsuitable desire to do
something a little bigger and q little
better than anybody else ever did before.
And that, after all, is the motive impulse
Of progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

What 1t Is easy to agree to is that one
has never met q human who was not
interesting.
All, that is different!
Good or bad, genius or dumnhead, IS
the Germans say, powerful, lowly,
mighty, or one Of the pawns in the great
game, every human being is interesting
In some way or other.
Thus, whether others please or dis
please, attract or repel, or leave one
totally Indifferent, they are interesting
in some way.
1t Is the same with books, by and
large, but still there are certain books
which interest the reader the most.
These are his books
His entire reading life is devoted to
finding them.
The happy thing is that he may 60
for years knowing names and titles,
without reading the books, or once real
izing that they are his very own.
Then, one bright day, some reason
will lead him to a certain book.
In a few minutes he will be wonder
ing to himself, even as he reads, how
he ever managed to miss the book so
long.
why, this is my book" he says to
himself.
He is right.
His book will not cost half q million
dollars, either.
He will be inclined to agree with the
poet who said: Whatever is nearest,
cheapest, is best"
He will place the accent, in other
words, where it belongs, not in wrong
places.
Cost, binding. popularity-these are
only few OF the factors which will tend
to blind him to the main fact, that there
are far, far too many books for any one
person to read, and that. therefore, he
must spend his time reading only those
| which, in time and space, are meant
for him.
Although he will always gain, by read
ing anything, almost, still he will be
much more than gamer, in many ways,
if he confines himself to those books
whose authors somehow speak to him
with authoritative words.
This is the eternal search Of the real
booklover, the man or woman who loves
books, not solely for what may be gotten
out of them, or simply to keep up with
the new books" or to be able to talk
books with other persons who read only
best Sellers" but mainly for the sake
of being true to ones self.
Being true to ones Self-what phrase
it is, and how often ignored, simply be.
cause it is dificult to know and at
times seems pedantic and mere words"
even to attempt to find out.
Like a great many theories. however,
it may be made very practical. and one
Of the best ways to do this lies in this
very matter of book reading.
One will be true to ones self without
any ranting or theoriZing, or attempting
| to impress others, if one will make sure
that the books one reads are the very
books. and none other. one really wants
| to read.
Their selection must be ones own,
and not dictated by others in any form
or by any means. The traps and pitfalls
are many. Temptation turks along every
reading path.
The real booklover, young or old, but
especially older, will resist them all, true
to one leading light: Is 1t my book?
If so. let him read on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

The average booklcver will find him.
self singularly unimpressed with the an
nouncement that the late Col. T. E.
Lawrence's final work, THE Mint"
probably will not be published for
generation lat any price less than the
100000 now asked for each copy"
Well, who cares anyway?
The average bookloyer, the man or
woman who reads about the new books
and generally finds it altogether impos-
sible to read more than a small per-
centage of them, will not lament any
book issued at such price.
If he happens to be an amateur
gardener. the bookloyer will know that
every year new varieties OF various
flowers are issued" at tremendous
prices, too.
They are for dealers, who will mul-
tiply them, and later cash in on the
very latest thing" in the flower world.
In the meantime the amateur simply
does not bother his head about them.
He has in his garden many flowers
OF the same genus quite as handsome
and lovely.
Only the fact that they are SO beau-
tiful has made it possible for him to
purchase them-their attraction was so
great that they were widely sold and
widely multiplied, so that in time there
were so many of them present In the
world that the price had to come down.
But they remained the same lovely
flower.
It Is so with books.
Placing a fancy price on a book is
merely q stunt, one which does I'M
doubtedly attract attention.
Few average readers, however, will
worry much because a publisher an
nounces a new book at half million
dollars a copy.
He will know, from long experience,
that time has multiplied the good books
to such an extent that he can purchase
the best of them for no more than the
price of a good meal apiece.
The main thing, however, more than
price, is whether or not book Is ones
own book.
How to determine this is the secret
Of good reading.
1t may take lifetime more or less, for
the honest booklover to make up his
mind as to his own books.
AS he goes along he will be able, from
time to time, to jot down in his own
mind few of the qualities which help
his determination.
He will be attacked all along the line
by many and powerful forces. each try
ing for its own gain, in some way, to
force him into wrong decisions.
He must realize that even If he reads
the book which was not meant for him
still he has made some gain.
Every book, good or bad or Indifferent,
is the work of a human being.
And there are few humans who are
not worth knowing, for some reason or
other
1t will be impossible for all persons
to say, as some do, that they have never
met human being they do not like.
The critical mind will look upon all
such statements as the output of nom
critical minds-men and women so in
love with life that they accept any,
thing and everything and everybody.
They are fortunate, indeed, seeing
that there are so many persons one
necessarily must meet in the everyday
life.
Still. the man or woman who Is not
so inclined simply cannot agree with
any such sweeping generalization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Conquest of Speed.

Three hundred miles an hour is the
goal" for which Sir Malcolm Campbell
strove yesterday on the Utah salt flats.
Three hundred miles an hour Is the speed
for which the present Bllrebird was built.
And 3O1 miles an hour was the record
Sir Malcolm established.
But why speak of 800 miles an hour as
Sir Malcolm's, or anybody's else's goal?
A goal denotes the end Of the race
the stopping point. And Sir Malcolm
and the speed pioneers who follow him
probably has no more idea Of stopping
at 800 or 30l miles an hour than he had
back in 1925, when he set his FIRST world
record of $50 miles an hour in his old
Sunbeam. For the mastery Of speed-or
space-is aimed at new highs. Yester-
days goal is merely the starting point
for something little bit better.
Sir Malcolm's speed Of 30l 12s miles an
hour-which means the average speed
In two directions-is almost beyond
human comprehension. 1t Is within
speaking distance Of the record Of 314
miles per hour for land planes. 1t is
about twenty three miles an hour faster
than Sir Malcolms own record of less
than year ago at Daytona Beach. But
is this record approaching the end
nearing the possible limit for a land
machine?
Land and air records for speed have
been moving forward steadily. There
is no sound reason why they will not
continue to move forward. The first
automobile speed record was made in
1898 by Frenchman. who came within
q fraction OF minute of reaching forty
miles an hour. Henry Ford, five years
later, raised the mark to ninety-one and
a fraction miles, driving his own Ford.
BY 1920 a record of 1856 miles per hour
had been made, and it moved up gradu-
ally to the 246 miles an hour established
by Sir Malcolm in 1881. who since has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Parable.

The New Deal brings new parallels.
President Roosevelt makes metaphorical
use of the repairs at the White House
to point out the repairs under way,
not only In the laws and the Govern
ment, but also in the condition of the
American people. To him, as he ad-
dresses his friends and neighbOrs Of
the Roosevelt Home Club at Hyde Park,
the rewriting of the Executive Mansion
to make the residence safe and to pre-
vent fires is as like the N. r. A.. the
A. A. A., the T. v. A. and other alpha
betical growths as one pea is to an
other The Nation is to be made safe
and the country is to avoid a confla-
grafton.
Embedded in these New Deal laws and
agencies, however, there are elements
that pull at the very foundations Of
American Government and the Ameri-
can ideal of liberty. In them are found
a far-fiung bureaucracy and q regi-
mentation of people that have little in
common with the principles of the basic
and fundamental law Of the country.
The President already has been warned
by the Supreme Court Of the United
States, in unanimous Opinion-an 0pln-
ion concurred in by so-called progress
sives and conservatives, Democrats and
Republicans alike-that this is so. That
the President understood the warning
is clear enough from his own comments
upon the courts decision in the Schech-
ter case. He told the people then that
under the present Interpretation Of the
Constitution by the court the Federal
Government was eStopped from going TO
their aid; that in things social and eco
nomic it was powerleSs to move. On
that occasion he spoke another parable:
He linked the Constitution, as inter-
preted by the court, to the horse and
buggy" days. The horse and buggy, he
said, are out of date.
Despite warning that he has been pull
ing at the foundations of the house,
President Roosevelt recently urged Con-
gress to pass law even if Congress had
reasonable doubts" as to its constitu-
tionality. 1t may be mentioned in pass
ing that the Democratic Congress swal-
lowed the Presidents advice. Such
methods Of repair" do not suggest SO
much the new roofing or new wiring
in the White House as a complete re-
building along new lines laid out by
new architects of limited experience and
questionable skill.
For hundred and forty-six years the
American people apparently believed
that their house had been built upon
a rock. But two and half years ago
the New Deal and the New Dealers
arrived in Washington. New doctrines
have been advanced which require more
than parallels to make them in reality
conform to the ideals and principles Of
the Constitution Of the United States.
The President concludes that he Is
not very much worried about the future
of the United States" He is not wor-
ried, he says, because "we're trying to
make safer every White House in every
farm, every city, every community in
the country" That, of course, is q COM
mendable aim. In the horse and buggy
days, however, it was popularity supposed
that little worry never hurt anybody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Old Scout.

Old Scout.
Young friend of mine, to you bow;
There are new brains behind your brow
I know you are the Flaming Youth"
Amt 1t the truth!
Yet energy may be too rash
And sometimes risk q needless crash.
The Boy Scouts may require a crew
OF Old Scouts, too
Friends who have trod the tangled way
And, mebbe, sometimes gone aStray.
In devious wanderings to come,
May help you some.
The Old Scout who has plodded through
The scenes that may seem strange to you
May know the bearings at q glance
Give him a chance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Subdeb i'm Riding Brooches

Subdeb i'm Riding Brooches
When canter mornings meath the trees
Katie ODee rides by.
She pedals faster in passing me
I meet her frank blue eye.
As Katie bestrides her bike In shorts
I'm on the bride path.
Her wide hipline is nobody's Joy,
While mine is like q lath.
Her legs aren't classics, yellow hair
A barbered, curly shake.
As she wheels from sight, don't know
why,
My heart begins to ache.
I'll make my bow with the best of them.
A grand-slam dance and tea.
1t sounds like peaches and cream. But,
jinxi Ed.
I'd trade with Kate ODee. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

Lamps W. Tanks.
A drop Of ink
Makes millions think,
On printing press or pen.
A drop Of oil
May help or spoil
The finest thoughts Of men.
When times are fraught
With need of thought,
As people live and learn,
Wars let us shun,
Since every one
Wants Midnight OIL to burn.
"What I as askin'," said Uncle Epen
"is who is gineter keep payin' out wage
and givin' tips after de rich folks ha
all been soaked"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

Although rich and master OF the
hounds, Mr.. Rickett has remained
mystery man." A wonderful point in
his career is his success in keeping his
name out OF the society columns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Wits Versus Feet.

From the Burlington tIowa) Hswkeye Gazette.
While the Italians are squirting chem
icals on the ground to burn the Abys-
sinians' feet 1t would be Just like those
uncivilized black men to slip around and
select another battlefield.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
HosseS and Buggies.

HosseS and Buggies.
do you favor going back to the horse
and buggy days?"
mo" said Mr.. Dustin Stax. I'VE
don't need Roman chariots. We can
have airplane races and make martyrs
Of men because of their opinions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Joyous Confusion.

Joyous Confusion.
I love the kitten at its play
Who found q ball of yarn SO gay
And tangled 1t for fun one day.
But. Just the same, feel shock.
The pretty kitten hence knock.
That yarn was need for a sock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Wallace Behind Time.

From the New York Sun.
The United States is now going to
try to control the potato. Thousands
of dieters have learned that If they don't
control the potato the potato will con-
troll them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

European statesmen are studying oil
geography in a way that makes Teapot
Dome seem trivial by comparison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
Relative Riches.

Relative Riches.
"You are making all kinds Of prom
ises," remarked the cautious friend.
I'm going to give every citizen five
or ten thousand in cash."
"And then what?"
"I1l soak the rich and take 1t all back"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

Jud Tunkins says brains don't always
help q man II he simply uses 'em to
think up ways Of actin foolisher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-04

@. Who was Thais?-G. M.
A. An Athenian courtesan. famous for
wit and beauty. She accompanied Alex
ander the Great to Asia and induced him,
during a festival to set fire to the palace
of the Persian Kings at Persepolis.
After the death of Alexander she lived
with Ptolemy Lagi. King Of Egypt, who
is said to have married her, and by
whom she gave birth to two sons and
daughter.
@. Who succeeded DR.. Annie BeSant
as president of the Theosophical So
ciety?-R. X.
A. The Theosophical Society elected
DR.. George s. Arundale international
president.
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SUDDEN DEATH. BY Lee Thayer. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
A thin. dressed, taut-nerved man
appears at the desk of Captain of De-
tectiyes Kerrigan and announces that
he has killed Marvin Hayden. mat
atrociously infamous gentleman hao
been murdered two days before and his
son arrested and jailed as the most
logical suspect The confession OF Mr..
Douglas Evarest, a man of good family,
a dabbler in science and friend OF
Young James Hayden, sounds unmlS-
takablv fishy to the detective. While
he is thus engaged in an unsuccessful
effort to prove his guilt Valentine Berk-
lev arrives with Peter Clancy to plead
for the release of his sisters stepSon
and to request that Clancy be permitted
to work for him in an endeavor to learn
who did murder his hated brother-in-
law.
James Hayden and his stepmother
were seen by the butler struggling over
possession of the pistol with which the
elder Hayden had been shot. He be-
lieyes the wife of his master Is guilty
and endeavors to prove his case. And
so the merry round of investigation and
hit-and-mis guesswork begins, with
everybody connected with and related
to the house suspected. Baffied and dis
couraged, both Clancy and Kerrigan feel
hopelessly lost in a weller Of half truths
and open secrets until totally unre-
laSed small dog, taking an airing In the
park, furnishes Clancy with the inspira-
ten that brings the climax and the
solution.
The book is not as exciting as Dead
Storage" but it holds promise of better
work to come from the creator Of the
thoroughly nkable red-headed detective.