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Evening star., 1935-07-31
THIS. AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

Nationalism, rampant around the
world today, is not hard to understand.
1t Is mainly Just ones own folks.
You can understand 1t on street
car II the gentleman across the aisle
happens to have in his hand q copy
Of Massinger's "A New Way to Pay Old
Debts"
If you are Of English descent. Of
course.
Then your heart leaps UP, something
in the manner of wordsworth;s at the
sight Of the daffodils.
ANY of the plays of that long line
Of dramatists, from Shakespeare and
his contemporaries, down through
Browning, C0sgreve, Sheridan, Gals
worthy and many more-any one of
them strikes one as being ones own.
Read Molnar all you please, admire
the vast cleverness Of THE Devil" T"
thrill to the subtle beauty of the last
lines OF "Liliom," still there Is some
thing about him that is not yours.
He is not English and that Is about
all you can say against him.
In certain moods he and others ring
the bell when one desires dramatic en-
tertainment. but at the bottom Of the
ACdACA AiCdAbp tllC oRCCbdLOA AlCdIbt lies
q certain dissatisfaction in the end.
What can 1t be but the plain fact
that each one OF us Is in q line Of
tradition OF whatever race We happen
to belong to?
In no branch of literature is the
kinship more strongly brought out, be-
cause even the most literary play is but
81 x~fr
Ones own people.
1t is interesting to delve for q time
in such things as THE Shoemakers
Holiday" by Decker; THE White Devil, !"
by Webster; his "Dutchess of Malf, /"
THE knight OF the Burning Pestle," "
by that famous team, Beaumont and
Fletcher. and Massinger's "A New Way
to Pay Old Debts"
Let us marvel at Moliere as much
as we may and should, the contempo-
raries Of Shakespeare just mentioned
mean more to us, in many ways.
The very words. although some Of
them we do not understand, strike a
familiar note deep in the mind-if we
happen to be English.
OCCPcI tlldll LllC WOIub LIOuRlL
processes.
What the characters in these old
plays say is what we say in a peculiar
way.
The springs Of national character are
here. 1t is perhaps easier to understand
them in drama than anywhere else, SO
close are they to the universal heart
of the race.
When DR.. Faustus. in Marlow's play,
causes Helen Of Troy to appear, he
declaims the following lines:
WAS this the face that launched O
thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers OF Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with
kiss
O. thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty Of thousand stars" +"
More than just the name Helen"
establishes a kinship between these
lines and those immortal verses OF our
own Poe, several hundred years later,
beginning, Helen, thy beauty is to me-"
etc.
This is the way the English talk
when they talk their best-especially
on the stage.
1t would be an interesting experiment
Evening star., 1935-07-31
Minority Report.

While written by partisans in an ex-
cellent position for strategic attack, the
minority report on the tax bill is based
on sound grounds and succeeds admi-
rably in showing up the weak pretense OF
the bill, which almost everybody con-
demns and which finds few defenders
anywhere.
The minority report may be as much
of political gesture" as the political
gesture which it condemns. But there
is more than rhetoric in its declaration
that:
IF this bill serves no other purpose, 1t
will at least demonstrate to the country
that the extravagant and wasteful ex-
penditures of the Democratic admins
tration can not be met merely by soak
ing the rich Although it imposes rates
of taxation which border on the point of
actual confScation, its proponents esti-
mate that it will produce only $270 ,000,-
600 of revenue. ." !" The bill makes it
perfectly obvious to the great masses OF
our people that in the last analysis they,
and not the rich, are going to be re-
quired to assume the greater portion of
the administrations profligate expendi-
lures"
The administration has spent billions
Of dollars which may be defended on
the ground that such expenditures were
necessary, and, while there was waste,
there was no greater waste than human
ingenuity could prevent. But the fact
remains that the administration has
spent and is spending billions, while the
tax bill Just reported has no more con-
nection between revenue-raising and
these expenditures than the man in the
moon. The fact also remains that poll
tics, more than revenue-raising or vague
social theories, prompted the tax bill.
And tax bill based on political con-
siderations is from any standpoint in
defensible.
What has been taught by this tax bill
Is that while wealth may be bled TO the
point of destruction, it is not wealth
but those whom President Coolidge used
to include in his expression, "the COM
mon, ordinary run of people" who will
pay the bill in the final analysis. And
while this tax measure may seek to evade
that fact in a prediction year, it will
fool nobody.
Evening star., 1935-07-31
Politics and Police.

The underlying idea of the Depart
ment of Justices National University
on Crime" is sound, capable Of much
worthwhile development. The faculty
assembled from the Nations principal
universities would be a credit to any
one Of them, while the curriculum is
unusually complete and seems to cover
most OF the subjects bearing on police
work, ranging from toxicology to a lee
ture on Crime Motivation" by a psy-
chologist.
There is, however, one subject which
does not seem to have been specifically
included in the course and which
might be described as Politics and Its
Effect on Law Enforcement"
In the lecture on Physics and Its
Application to Law Enforcement" the
fact that nature abhors a vacuum. while
the taxpayers are inclined to be more
tolerant, may receive incidental men
ton. But the subject of politics and
law enforcement Is fundamentally Of
more Importance, not only to the repre-
sentative police officials attending the
course but to the crime-ridden popula-
ton of the United States. than any
other.
Perhaps 1t would be mistake, how
ever. to subject the police oficials to
academic discussion Of subject with
which they are painfully familiar
already. The class Of beginners which
needs this instruction most is composed
Of the taxpayers. who support their
police organizations. who are outraged
at crime and who are slow to realize
that the greatest aid to real law enforce
ment would lie in the complete elimina-
tion of politics from all police depart
ments.
Evening star., 1935-07-31
The German Protest.

Germany has lodged formal protest
in Washington against rowdyism at New
York last week, which resulted in in
dignities to, the Nazi flag aboard the
liner Bremen. The note is understood to
declare that the-Reich emblem had been
gravely 'insulted" and to register an ex-
pectation that the United States will do
everything possible to see that the guilty
persons are punished.
Previous to receipt of this official re-
monStrance, Acting Secretary of State
Carr had referred to the episode as "un-
fortunate" and indicated that the Ameri-
can Government, of course, regrets such
an 'of1enSe to country with which the
United States maintains friendly rela-
tions. 1t seems safe to assume that the
official response for which the German
note calls will adhere in tone and con-
tent to these informal expressions at the
State Department. Berlin's attention is
certain to be called to the fact that the
New York police authorities acted with
promptness and vigor to suppress the
demonstration and arrested the persons
who appeared to be its ringleaders. &C
cording to Mayor La Guardia, officers of
the Bremen refused to cooperate with
police sent to act as a guard for the
ship.
Quite properly, as the first step in
dealing with Germany's protest, the
State Department has forwarded it to
Gov. Lehman of New York, from whom
in due course detailed account of the
flag affair will be forthcoming. On the
basis of the facts reported, an appro-
pirate reply will be sent to the German
government. There is no reason to fear
that purely local manifestation, wholly
without international implications, will
lead to serious consequences in the way
of diplomatic breach.
At almost the very moment Berlins
protest was received in Washington,
Undersecretary of State Phillips, Acting
Secretary this week, made a written re-
ply to the American Jewish ORGANIZATIONS
which had submitted a remonStrance
against persecution in Germany. En-
phasizing that he fully understands
American Jews solicitude for the suffer-
ings of their German coreligionists and
persons of other faiths, Mr.. Phillips
points out that concepts of religious
freedom and liberty of conscience for
all constitute the most fundamental
principles of our own civilization and
political faith. This being so, the Ameri-
can people are always sympathetic to
the maintenance of these concepts in the
United States as well as in other nations"
The true inwardness of these declara-
tions, because of the circumstances that
call them forth and the moment of their
utterance, will not be underestimated at
Berlin. They will form fitting corol-
larry to the State Departments reply on
the Bremen flag melee. In as plain terms
as diplomatic usage permits, the United
States is now on record as disappearing
nreservedly the brutal outrages on
human rights now being committed in
Germany under conditions which shock
civilized mankind everywhere.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

for some motion picture company to
Aim Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faus-
tus" Just as 1t is written, each one Of
its II scenes one after the other, without
any Of the interpretations which the pro-
ducers seem to think so necessary.
We will wager that the product would
make q splendid picture, in every sense,
although perhaps q short one.
The text of this play runs so pages
Of comparatively large type, including
the dramatis personae, really just 48
small pages.
There are no acts, just O. short pro-
logue by chorus, then the scenes one
after the other.
What is this, Of course. but a scenario?
The characters run all the way from
DR. Faustus and the Devil to the EN-
peror OF Germany, through the spirits
OF Alexander the Great and Helen of
Troy. The latter, Of course, are raised
out Of the vasty deep by the magic
arts Of the hero.
English drama is seldom subtle
Such sophistication as has been its
part has been rather introduced into 1t
by an aping of the work of-what shall
we say?-foreigners
There Is a rough hewn quality about
1t which somehow seems better to fit
the national character.
Hence, where it is possible for any
reader to see places where Smoothness
and the like might be interpolated,
merely through taking out, we would
have none of it.
1t is the national character to have
-
as any man in recent years to give a
subtle something to the English stage
but even he never lost sight of the
essential qualities of his race
There Is one kinship and quality be-
tween them, from first to last. Times
change and with them the interests
and expressions of peoples, yet at bottom
they are the same old peoples.
The stage itself and the character OF
actors is always the same in any nations
dramatic history. We cannot imagine
however, Marlowe writing Galsworthy' S
"The Foundations" or the latter Mar
loves "Tragical History of DR.. Faustus. "
Behind the differences, however,
firmly stands the English national char
acter, manifesting itself in every word
in every sentence, in every thought be-
tween the lines. in every action of every
character.
The DR.. FauStus of Marlowes play
is English not German. If the reader
wants German Faustus he must turn
to Goethe. There is nothing in the
latter which even family resembles the
high flown, WAS this the face that
launched a thousand ships" English
men either talk so, or would like to talk
so-and do. when they can make stage
characters say whatever they please-but
Germans have another way of putting
things.
Translate any Of Moliere's comedies
as deftly as you please. the characters
are French, and remain French, even
in English
We admire them, love to read them,
to see them acted-but our honest ad-
miration, our best love, is for the Eng
lish plays of the ages. Something about
them is peculiarly our own.
They are us. with all our faults, with
some OF our virtues, we may hope, with
all OF our dreams and aspirations. Even
the modern vogue for swearing and
curSing in our dramas has history be-
hind it. Let us not shrink too much
from 1t; it is so unnecessary, and it
will come out again.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

Mississippi over the performances Of .
group of extreme liberals" who inter-
jected themselves into the now cele-
brated trial at Scottsboro, and threats
of drastic reprisals were then made
against these alien interveners. In the
present case the proposed protest in
Alabama is almost certain to assure the
signing Of the bill now before the
Governor.
Evening star., 1935-07-31
Evolution in Reverse.

Evolution in Reverse.
We're monkeying with our money and
we're monkeying with the farm.
We're monkeying with the music that
has held romantic charm.
We're monkeying with the laws that
have provided guiding care.
We're monkeying with the costumes that
the old gals used to wear.
Let's call for Evolution and require
Professor Scopes
To speak up in q college as champion
of our hopes.
Let's put old Homo sapiens completely
in command
Ere Mr.. Monkey thinks he is the leader
of the band.
"A politician tells you how to VOTE"
said Uncle Eben, "but you can't tell him
how to vote after he gets elected to
sumpin."
Evening star., 1935-07-31
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Mob Psychology
Would we understand the people

Would we understand the people,
The vast populace around us,
All the throngs from curb to steeple.
All the mobs that oft confound us,
We must feel with warmth and pity
Every grim mishap to blight them,
We must mingle In the city
Where the baubles most delight them
We must see them as live mortals,
Full of fact and full Of glamour
Not as "extras" in the portals
OF some strange. colossal drama.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

Russian "reds" cannot be expected to
do much toward upsetting this Govern
ment until they have finished with salts
factorily subverting their own.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

Ethiopia, home of the King Of Kings,
is considering the part that flying aces
will undertake in her affairs.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

A statesman often claims the right to
change his mind in the course of intel
lectual evolution.
Evening star., 1935-07-31
Schooling.

ScnOOHnBs
, "What Crimson Gulch needs Is q
school," said the educator.
Maybe" said Cactus Joe. GAS I re-
member school, you put up one hand
to show you knew the answer. But
we've gone too far. You put up both
hands every time a stranger asks ques-
ton"
Evening star., 1935-07-31
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Perpetual st. Valentine.
It's long. long ago since the frost and
the snow
AS gems filled with rainbows their
beauty would show.
Yet July's torrid ray bids me smile as !
say,
"Why. here comes another st. Valen-
tines day."
To enliven the times, many pictures and
rhymes
Respond to the call of the clock as it
chimes.
We grow sentimental or else we are gay.
Each morn brings another st. Valen-
tines day.
A friend we will trace with affectionate
grace.
A foe is a fiend with a terrible face.
Both artists and poets still go on their
way
And every day is st. Valentines day.
Evening star., 1935-07-31
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credited TO 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rightS of publication Of special dispatches
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Evening star., 1935-07-31

Government as q Personal Convenience.
would not be a Socialist with theories
so fine,
I would not be q Communist where
marksmen stand in line,
I would not be an Anarchist destroying
public peace,
For each of these in turn may have to
call for the police.
When I'm speaking my opinions in a
voice that's free and proud
There are often dangerous moments of
dissension in the crowd.
A certain share of government I'm sure
will never cease.
Without a government, who would pro-
vide us with police?.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

@. Who was Charon?-C. M.
A. In classic myth, he was the ferry
man Of the Styx. Charon's toll is
coin. equivalent to about penny, which
was placed in the mouth or hand of the
dead by the ancient Greeks to pay
Charon for ferrying the spirit across
the River Styx to the Elysian fields.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

California. Phelim O'Ferrell for whom q
worldwide search has been made for
months, appears without the formality
of notification of his pending arrival
at the Office of Beverly Hills attorney
to claim his share of the ancestral estate
which he deserted in his youth. Luther
Crone sends him to Moon Valley with
Teresa Browne, where he will meet the
solicitor who is settling the estate and
renew acquaintance with the brother he
has not seen since he ran away from
home. 1t so happens that Teresa is the
sister of Owen OFerrell's wife.
On the road over the mountains Teresa
and Phelim give lift to genial, VIOLIN
playing hobo who identifies himself only
as Highway" They arrive at the
ranch just before dinner, and learn
that lively party has been arranged to
permit faddist physician to display
his patients.
AS the dance Is in full swing, Teresa
notices the headlights of q speeding car
on the treacherous mountain road. The
entire party see the car disappear on
the wrong side Of q curve and they hear
the crash as 1T plunges down the noun
tain side. A rescue party goes to the site
and the reckless driver is found to be
Luther Crone. The reason for his mad
drive mystifies Teresa until he hands
her a letter to insure the information
1t contains in case he does not survive
his injuries He is brought to the ranch
and found to be in serious, though not
necessarily a fatal, condition. In her
anxiety over his injuries, Teresa forgets
the letter until some time later, when
she stops by his room to see how he is
and finds him stabbed to death. When
the letter is brought to her mind she
discovers that 1t has been stolen.
The annual barbecue and pageant in
which her sister has always been an
active director cannot be postponed be-
cause Of Crones death. 70 the plans 60
Evening star., 1935-07-31
War Calculations.

War Calculations.
do you think the next war will be
fought in the air?"
NO." answered Senator Sorghum. eff
gases are as powerful as they say, a
few skirmishes won't leave anybody to
fight the next war"
Evening star., 1935-07-31

Jud Tunkins says folks who want to
60 after the Supreme Court ought to
wait and see what's to be done about
the Police Courts.
Evening star., 1935-07-31
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

4 reader car get the dnsper to any
question OF fact By writing The Washing
ton Epeninc Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Haskin, Director. Washing
ton, D. c. Pleas incIose stanpp for reply.
Evening star., 1935-07-31

@. How does Martha Ostenso. the
novelist, pronounce her name?-T. r. A.
A. 1t is pronounced Austin-So.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-31

tablespoons grated cheese, 4 ia.
blespoons oiled butter or olive oil,
Prepare artichokes as in proceed.
ing recipe and parboil in sailed
water for fifteen minutes. Drain
and arrange in a single layer in a
buttered baking dish. Pour over
the oil and sprinkle with cheese.
Cover and bake in a moderate
oven for fifteen minutes. Serve
from the baking dish with seq.
ments of lemon.
Of course you wouldn't serve
artichokes with sausage or corned
beef but almost any other meat
may be served with artichokes
Lamb, filet of beef, fish and chick.
Ell and sweetbread dishes find
artichokes a splendid accompany.
ing vegetable.
The Jerusalem artichoke is
something else agatha root but
not mealy. 1t is served sometimes
as a potato substitute and is good
creamed, dipped in batter and
fried in deep fat. Another way to
serve it is to boil until tsRder'and
then reheat with melted butter
.ninced parsley and a little lemon
juice. -....,s .A,xt ,,s.,,,. .,-,,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-31
Fish Souffle For
The School Child's
Lunch Tempting

To make fish souffle illustrat-
ed in the picture of the chi!d's
luncheon table use:
Two cups milk; one cup celery
finely minced; two tablespoons OF
butter: one-fourth cup flour; one
fourth teaspoon salt; one-elghth
teaspoon pepper; two cups coIN% I.
fish white fish, salmon, cod, hah.
but will do: two tablespoons OF
chopped green pepper; two table
spoons chopped pimientoes; 'hfeS
eS. gs. H..
Cook together milk and celery
using chopped celery leaves ana
outside stalks as well as the more
tender inner stalks. Melt the bur
ter, add flour and the hot mix
strained from the celery. Add sea
sonings, flaked fish, peppers ana
pimientoes, then the beaten egg
yolks. Gently fold in the stltfly
beaten egg whites. Bake in a shall
low baking dish rubbed we'll with
shortening; dish should Ee OF ""H
quart size; moderate oven, sou
degrees, for forty-five minutes.
Crumbs sauted in butter may
be placed on top before baking;
garnisI. the finished dish WITH
parsley. and be sure to serve not
right from the baking dish.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-31
SISTER MARY'S MENU
BY MARY f. DAGUE
NEA Service Stan Writer

A FEW years ago. you were
n hard put to it to meet an
ertichoke outside of novel-or
else one of our very largest cities.
Today, so cheap and we'll distrib-
uted is this interesting, origlnat-
ed-in-France vegetable that one
needs only little spirit of adven-
ture to become intimately &C
Quainted with it.
One nice thing about the arti-
choke is that it is usually most
plentiful when other green things
are scarce and high. The veseta-
BILE is cooked whole and should be
fresh and green with leaves that
pull off easily. Usually one arti-
choke is served to a person, either
at the beginning of the meal or as
salad. r
How to Prepare
To prepare for cooking, wash
and cut stem close to leaves. Pull
off hard outer leaves. Let stand
in cold water to cover to which
vinegar in the proportion or one
tablespoon vinegar to one quart
water has been added. Cook in
boiling sailed water for thirty to
forty minutes. Drain and serve
with HollandaiSe sauce, melted
butter or hot mayonnaise. If it is
eaten. cold, you will prefer the
mayonnaise cold too.
Each leaf is pulled off with the
fingers. dipped into the sauce and
the soft part at the end eaten, the
rest discarded. After all the leaves
have been pulled away and the
nettle-like debris removed, the
heart is eaten with fork. The
sauce is served in separate in
dividual dish or if thick, can he
served on the side of the plate.
Italian Style Aptichokes h,
Four small globe artichokes. 4
v q . e Z.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-31

sweet potatoes. was the question
OF another reader. ,...--,
CANDIED SWEET POTATOES
Here is my favorite recipe:
Parboil sweet potatoes ten minu-
ties, peel and slice thin in
length wise slices: place in q
baking dish which is rubbed with
butter. Cook three fourths cup
of light brown sugar with one
fourth cup water and two table
spoons of butter for ten minu
ties. Brush the potatoes with this
and bake in moderate oven, 400
degrees, basting with the syrup
until all is used and then pota-
toes are we'll candied.
CRISK BACON
Please tell me how to fry ba-
con crisp and keep it from cur
ling up? Why mind if it curls
up; it is easier to handle and
certainly no hungry man minds
it being curled. If YOU have a