davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
La opinión., 1935-07-07
ALGUNAS AMONESTACIoNES

No "des la mano"; p~restala.
No tie descubras"; sacate el
sombrero.
No "guardes Ia Inca; tirala.
No "te portes bien"; hate con-
ducir.
No "pienses mall. aunque pue-
das.
No andes en- malas compahfas';
abandona ell teatro.
No tie sientas NAL; busca I'm
sillon.
Homobono Sforza.
La opinión., 1935-07-07
;QUE CONFUSION!

= ace listed el favor de decir-
me cual es la acera de e%nfrente?
-Aquella.
-iAnda! X he preguntado ALI
Y me han dicho que es esta!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
TraIlsients.

A transient" as the word applies to
the destitute persons now under care
of the Transient Bureau, is one who
has lived in the District less than year.
New transient cases reach Washington
at the rate of about 125 to $50 day and
$50 a week There are some 5000 tran
sient cases, representing individuals or
family groups, under care Of the Tran
sient Bureau now. They are supported
by Federal Emergency Relief Admins
tration funds, not being eligible for relief
from District funds until they have
established residence-lived here year
or more-in the District.
Many of the transients have done
that; lived here long enough to become
District residents. But most OF the
transients insist on remaining transients
They keep turning up like bad pennies,
drifting from one city or transient camp
tc another and back again. And the
purpose of the order just issued by Fed
eral relief authorities is to prevent this
drifting by refusing to take on any new
transient cases after September 20.
Whether that simple procedure will
be effective in solving the transient prob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
Notices on Money
Have Little Meaning
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
AS a reader of your paper may I ask
you to please print the following in the
open forum:
New motto on money:
Mr. Feldman and Miss Robertson do
not like any new motto on money, so no
further argument is necessary, because
anybody who does not like it and has
enough of same should give their sur
plus to the millions of poor people who
gladly and thankfully accept any kind
of money to buy food, etc. Miss r.
seems to think that to stop the new issue
of silver certificates may mend the Ma
tons evil ways; well, what about the
World War and all other evils we have
had in this world so far.
My opinion is money should be our
servant and not master. We can trust
in God without money, as so many mil
lions of unfortunate people have done
for the past several years and at all
time!
The right inscription on money would
be the Ten Commandments! Every ma
ton has some kind of motto on money,
and what are they using their money
for? War, destruction, etc.
In conclusion may I congratulate all
people who have no other worries in
time of distress.
Though poor, but in God trust!
I. GOTTLIEB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
The TOOter Pest,

New York City, as part OF its anti
noise campaign. will outlaw the blowing
of automobile horns between IL o'clock
in the evening and O'Clock in the
morning. That is a good thing. For
every single toot of an automobile horn
in actual warning there are at least
ninety-nine toots by ill-mannered or
nervous individuals for noise making
purposes only. The resulting cacophony,
especially in crowded traffic, probably
causes more shattered nerves in single
day than all the lives saved in year
by bona fide tootS of warning.
The variety of sentiments expressed
by a single toned automobile horn is
remarkable. There is the yearning bleat
of the love-Sick swain at IL o'clock of
Summers evening, calling for his lady
friend, who lives six flights up. There
is the rude, imperious bark of the taxi
driver to move over and let fellow
get where he is going. There is the
protesting honk, of driver who fidgets
for the policeman to wave him on. There
is the nervous Shrek of the apprehensive
lady who sees the car in front of her
stop for a light. There is the iil-tem-
pered warning to a pedestrian which
seems to say: Il missed you that time,
you parasitic worm, but just give me
another chance!" And if these indi-
viduals could be put in the jug for their
useless footing the world would be
fairer place and life more worth living.
What is more, fewer people would be
scared half out of their wits by drivers
with the manners of water buffalo. Horns
are a necessary part OF automobile equip
ment So are bumpers. But people do
not go around the streets humping into
each other merely because they have
bumpers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

to give up. The great mammoth herds,
lords of the earth for a million years,
disappeared. The ferocious saber- tooth
tiger and the great cave bear expired
by the roadside in the race of evolution.
But the poor opoSsum had discovered
the important principle that the meek
shall inherit the earth-or, at least, be
allowed to live in it. 1t became the
great pain endurer and lived by sub
hitting and gritting its teeth. 1t didn't
fight nor hide. 1t simply suffered and
learned how to endure suffering.
This supreme ability Of the opoSsum
to recover from injuries, DR.. Black be-
lieves. goes a long way toward explain
ing its survival.
The opoSSum thus appears to be the
prototype of a familiar class of men
and women. They are frequently en-
countered. AS children they have almost
every conceivable disease Their ado
lescenSe is a continuous succession of
broken bones. Their parents despair of
raising them. When they come to adult
life the story is much the same They
suffer a constant stream of misf0rtunes,
physical and otherwise Physicians are
amazed at their recoveries. And they
often survive into the 80s and COS of
life while the healthy. fortunate indi-
viduals with whom they started out are
left behind in the prime of life-victins
of pneumonia, heart disease or accident.
When these latter die the news comes
as a surprise to all their acquaintance
who cannot understand how the strong
die and the weak survive. They ponder
over the paradox that strength is weak
ness and weakness strength. The an
Gent opossum might explain that para
dox if it was philosopher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

lem is another thing. If destitute
transient turns up with a ragged family
and asks for relief something has to be
done about it. The Federal authorities
presumably intend to send him back
where he came from, or, if he has any
home, to send him home. Suppose he
comes back again? Well, apparently all
that can be done in that case is to
repeat the procedure.
In the meantime, if the 3,20G transient
cases in Washington, scattered in fur
nished rooms and transient lodges,
graduate from transient ranks to the
status of unemployed residents, they will
join fellow alumni who, particularly in
Washington, have contributed to making
the local relief problem a peculiarly
difficult one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
Subsidized Art.

Subsidized art is not necessarily dam
gerous Indeed, some of the most emf
nent geniuSes the world has seen have
been protected against the disabilities
of poverty by kings and princes or
wealthy commonerS endowed with an
instinct for beauty and philanthropy.
The Medici family of bankers. for in
stance, made Florence the eSthetic CEN
ter of Europe by their altruiStic appre-
citation of literature and painting.
Francis l honored himself by patron
izing Leonardo da Vinci and Pope
Julius II insured his own immortality
Michelangelo. The example of such
distinguished charity has been an in
spiration to legion of lesser Mae
cenaSeS, and humanity at large has been
advantaged by the circumstance.
But the American public should not
be too optimistic about the results of
the administrations plans to finance the
endeavors of more than thirty thousand
writer's, painters, musicians and actors
through the w. P. A. Division of Pro-
feSsional Service. Certainly it must be
granted that artistic people have as
much claim upon the Government as
people who are not artistic. AS a re-
lief device. then, the scheme is de-
feasible. With regard to the product of
the investment, however, skepticism is
abundantly justified. Where is the army
of worthy genius to be found? Not even
the most optimistic of critics will have
the hardihood to argue that there are
anything like thirty thousand artists in
the United States possessed of the skill.
training or experience required for
notable achievement Amateurs, of
course. are plentiful; but where are the
equivalents of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt
Whitman. Benjamin West and James
Mcneil Whistler. Stephen Collins Foster
and Ethelbert Nevin? The woods are
full of ambitious individuals who think
of themselves as being UNNECESSARILY
competent yet five minutes talk with
any one of them will convince the aver
age citizen of their lack of the divine
spark which is the imperative factor in
all great art.
A renaissance, theoretically, might be
made to order. Actually, no such thing
is possible. Life is not like that. The
human soul cannot be commanded into
maturity. Rather, it is the sad history
of the race that the nobleSt victories
which genius has won have been accom-
plished under conditions of misery
Luxury and ease have been handicaps
to creative effort. Even that degree
of subsidization which the W. P. A.
can provide is more apt to be blight
than help. The best that can be said
for it is that it will keep its recipients
alive. 1t may be doubted if it will be
of any genuine practical value to art
itself. Rather, the contrary is indicated
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

lished simultaneously in several ma
lions, big and satisfying volume.
"Liliom" made a deep impression
upon us, one which stamps this play
to this hour as the best he has done.
Even the motion picture version could
not spoil it. The film erred on the side
of fantasy, something which Molnar
never does. He has a sure grip on just
how far to go, whereas the pictures
never do.
Personally we are glad to see "Cyrano
de Bergerac" included.
That effort has seemed to us as one
of the most downright clever dramas
ever put together. In many ways it
ties the older drama and the newer
drama together.
Many readers brought up on the King
James version Of the Bible do not realize
that Job" is one of the greatest dramas
ever written.
1t is printed in dramatic form, how
ever, in Prof. Moffett's arrangement and
those who have not seen it are urged
to look it up in The Modern Readers
Bible"
No liberties whatever are taken with
the text, except to break up the solid
stretches of verses. as ordinarily printed,
into the dialogues which the words
plainly indicate.
A prologue and epilogue, of course.
are given as customary in the form of
prose.
1t is an amazing thing that Job" has
not been given more often as a dra-
matte performance. Perhaps it lacks
action" in sense, and yet the dia-
logueS are SO filled with humanity that
even the least-or most-seasoned the
atergoer would find the drama" intense
with a sort of hidden action
AS for the words of job" they stand
today as when written one of the most
convincing. appealing attempts of man
to get at the hidden mystery of life
and death. Race, creed and time fall
away; we are confronted with man, in
agony, doubt and triumph.
The value of anthologies and selec-
ton of all kinds lies in the thinking
they make a reader do.
Whether one agrees with the Selec-
lions is only part of it. yet unfortunately
many persons insist on looking at any
anthology solely from that light.
Inc very IdcC THAI one nuSC dLSdsTee'
however. at times, and surely. shows
that thinking is compelled by any
earnest attempt to select the great or
the greatest" play, song, novel. etc.
When others put certain masterpieces
apart, by printing them together as
great they ask the reader, in effect,
to agree with them.
The curious thing is, whether one
agrees fully or not that most often a
reader, if he is completely honest, will
have to admit that he could do no
better himself if he were asked to make
the selection.
The innate honesty OF the human
mind. when attempting to be fair to
those who are forever gone and cannot
defend themselves, is such that often he
will include songs. plays, novels. stories,
which he himself does not altogether
admire, but which he realizes do belong
TO the great tradition, after all.
Only a few persons today. for in
stance. read the great Greek plays and
of these most are students who are
compelled to do so. Yet an honest
appraisal of dramatic history forces the
honest reader TO think of them, too,
when he thinks of drama at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

Students of tariff war find a classic
example of such hostilities in the bitter
conflict now raging between Canada and
Japan. Their differences have reached
a point where the Dominion threatens
to abrogate a twenty-two-year-o COM
mercial treaty between the two coun-
tries. At the root of the controversy is
the dumping of cheap japanese goods
onto the Canadian market which set
in with depreciation of the yen in re-
lation to the Dominion dollar. Canada
retaliated by imposing dumping and ex-
change compensation duties, which were
made applicable to all countries whose
currencies enable them to undersell
Canadian domestic products.
Japan replied by placing fifty per
cent surtax on her principal imports
from Canada, despite Ottawas conten-
ton that such action violated the 1913
equal-treatment trade agreement. The
Canadians thereupon decreed a thirty
three and one-third per cent ad valorem
ou1 IdA OlI OdpdllcSt SOOUS. LIE TlVdl
surtaxes have been in force since July 81.
With view to ending mutually in
tolerable situation, Ottawa now seeks a
friendly settlement, but warns Toxic that
the 1913 pact will be terminated if the
Japanese surtax is not removed. To per-
init the Japanese to flood Canada with
low-cost wares would, Premier Bennett
informs Toxic, "be direct attack upon
a peoples rights to maintain its stand
ards of living by all means available"
No time limit has been fixed, but Ottawa
expects Mr.. Bennett to make good his
threat. if necessary, within month.
Canada sold about SIS ,OOO, 900 worth of
goods to Japan last year and bought
from her some 100000 worth. The
Dominion is anxious to preserve its
growing market in Nippon, but it is not
prepared to do so at the cost of allow
ing japanese imports to compete with
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What are the worlds great plays'

what are the worlds great plays?
No doubt there would be as many
answers to this question as there we're
answerers, but Burns Mantle and John
GaSSner have incorporated "a in an
. anthology to be published this Fall.
1t is interesting to look over their list:
"Agamemnon," by Aeschylus
"Antigone," by Sophocles.
Electra" by Euripides.
'Lysistrata, by Aristophanes.
The Book of Job"
"Shakuntala," by KalidaSa.
'Sotaba Komachi," by Kwanami XII
yotSugu
"EveryMan"
Hamlet" by Shakespeare.
"Volpone," by Ben Jonson.
The Duchess of Malfi," by John
Webster
The Misanthrope," by Moliere.
"Phaedre," by Racine.
The Way of the World" by William
Congreve.
Faust" part -. by Goethe.
THE Cenci." by Shelley.
"Hedda Gabler," by Hendrix IbSen.
1.-The Father" by Strindberg.
THE WeaverS," by Gerhart Haupt-
mann.
The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov.
The Lower Depths" by Cork
"Cyrano de Bergerac," by RoStand.
''Liliom," by Ferenc Molnar.
six Characters in Search of An
Author" by Luigi Pirandello.
Riders to the Sea-" by Synge.
The Importance of Being Earnest"
by Wilde.
Candida" by Shaw.
Escape" by GalSworthy.
Journeys End by r. C. Sheriff.
Anna Christie" by Eugene ONeill.
What Price Glory" by Maxwell Ander-
son and Laurence Stallings
Elizabeth the Queen" by Anderson.
THE Green Pastures" by Marc Con-
nelly.
OF Thee Sing" by George S. Kauf-
man and Morrie Ryskind.
x
Evidently an honest attempt has been
made, in the above list, to consider the
most important nations and their most
important dramatists.
Few readers and playgoers will have
read or seen all Of the above plays.
Few will ever have seen Percy Bysshe
ILC SCAlIA, bohoCu oLA q 4LOi
rible story of medieval Italy.
We are not sure it has ever been acted.
There are other things in the list
most of US have neither read nor seen
on the boards.
Even the ardent piaygoer who prideS
himself on his acquaintance with the
drama doubtless will find some here
unknown to him: that is, although he
may have heard Of them, he will never
have seen them acted. perhaps not even
have read them.
Such anthologies. by whatever name
they are called. generally offend by
omission more than by the selections
actually made.
Who, for instance who believes Shake
speare the greatest dramatist whoever
lived will be satisfied with but one of
his plays?
John GalSworthy wrote many fine
dramas. We would like to see some
other, perhaps, included in such list.
Molnar's "Liliom." we think. is the
best possible selection from that play
wright
A few years ago we read through the
complete plays of that author, as pub
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Dominion products at cut-throat prices.
turers face the same japanese dumping
problem with which Canada is now
graphing, our northern neighbors efforts
to meet it will be watched with lively
interest in this country, especially in the
New England textile regions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
Shooting Stars.
BY PEILANDER JOHNSON.
Folly Is No Joke.

FOIIy Is NO JOKE
"A war is downright foolishnesS,''
Said Hezekiah Bings.
THE world is likin' less and less
The sorrow that it brings.
When some big boy exclaimS, I see
In envy and regret
Others in size may equal me.
must be bigger YETI
"And so he makes the bugles bray
And beats the drums with care
To summon youngsters from their play
And march they know not where.
AT fooliShneSS we cannot smile.
The tragedy it filings,
Makes honest laughter not worth while"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
To My Town

Would you have my verses tender,
Even though my heart were stone
I would sing of loves soft passion
And bring romance to each zone.
Would you have me but jester,
Then in cap and bells thereI flow
Measures tuned to tears and laughter,
Like an effervescent show.
Would you have me realistic,
In the strident mob Ill find
Some fact happening so vital
1t will echo in the mind.
What you ask of me I render.
For q rhymster should not pause
To run all the human gamut
For one round of real applause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

The demonstrated competence of the
Rockefeller interests would naturally
make Salassie easier in mind if he could
persuade Standard Oil to take over Eth
opia. Instead of building forts and
prisons, the Rockefellers would probably
have established schools, hospitals and
laboratories
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

Certain in his own mind of another
Democratic victory, Postmaster General
Farley still admits the need of a ma
tional chairman who will measure up to
his standards of efficiency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

The cynical adage There is no trouble
that money cannot cure" has lost force
amazingly. Available funds by the bill
lion do not prevent relief work from
being hindered by diSsension.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

The late Senator Huey Long has many
times predicted his own assassination.
Linked with his rugged force of person.
atty was spirit of boyish gayety that
endeared him to an extent that made
such merciless Cruelty seem impossible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

A sum exceeding four billion dollars
can not be administered without imply
ing difficulty in budget balancing. 1t is
not easy to measure warm-hearted
philanthropy in cold-blooded terms of
cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

What the country needs said the
beloved Vice President, Tom Marshall,
lis a good tive-cent cigar" The sarcasm
was so delicate as to be almost imper-
ceptible So many trivial details are
solemnly discussed that the Marshall
idea is reduced to figures on cigarettes
and soft drinks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

In order to approve every flag that
sails into port it may be necessary TO
repress art or literary discrimination.
The swastika does not express intrinsic
beauty and cannot be dissected into
letters that suggest a meaning.
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an Other States and Canada.
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in TINS
paper and also the local news pubEShed herein
All rights of publication OF special dispatches
herein are also reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

Taxpayers who study Mr.. Hopkins
plans for art relief will of course be
divided on the idea of trying to subsi-
die the pictuesqueness of an imitation
Latin quarter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

Munitions makers cannot be persuaded
to organize in a way that will keep
their merchandise out of the hands OF
gangsters and assaSsins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

Business will welcome "a breathing
spell" which will dismiss algebraic let
tiers and get back to simple figures in
day book and ledger.
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Sayings.

Sayings.
I'VE should be careful what we say"
said the careful friend.
"Of course" said Miss Cayenne, al
though it isn't so much what you say
that makes trouble as what somebody
says you said"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
The "Ayes" Have 1t!

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
A scheme is afoot to find places for idle
jazz bands In various sections Of the coun-
try. Abandoned farms are our thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
BOOndOggiing.

BOOndOggling.
I turned new leaf over
On January first,
But time, heartless rover,
On each page told the worst
That effort leaves me dizzy
And oft my spirit grieves,
AS am still kept busy
With raking up old leaves.
"Al men was created equal" said
Uncle Eben, "but dat don't prevent some
Of us CROWN up to be lightweights In
stead O. heavyweights."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
Art of Trimming.

A wintry breath will soon draw near
With promises of Christmas cheer.
Since everybody must be paid
Regardless of his previous trade,
Let any one who wants job
Take heart and cease to sigh or sob
And learn to practice at his ease
The art of trimming Christmas trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12

@. What is a dactylion?-E. F.
A. In surgery it is the unnatural web
like union between two or more fingers.
c. What is meant by Quaternary in
geology?-M. E. G.
A. Quaternary in geology is the time
division which comprises all the time
which has elapsed from the end of the
Pliocene to the present day. The ternl\
was proposed by J. Desnoyers in 1929.
The Quaternary is thus the fourth OF
the great time divisions in the geological
scale-the primary, or Palaeazoic: the
secondary, or MeSoZoic, and the Tertiary
or Cainozoic, being the first three-but it
represents relatively such small space
of time that some biologists hesitate to
give it equal rank and regard it merely
as a subdivision of the Tertiary. Broadly,
as the Tertiary may be called the age OF
mammals. the Quaternary may be called
the age of man. Although man or his
ancestors were evolved during the Ter
tiary. it is in the Quaternary that man
becomes the dominant animal.
@. What is Guilty Stool?-A. G.
A. This was a seat once used in the
Scottish church for the exposure of
offenders against chastity. The sinner
was required to sit on the stool before
the whole congregation during the entire
service and at its close to stand up while
being severely reprimanded by the min
lister.