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Evening star., 1935-04-12

Reminded OF the lessons Of the
World War, the American people are
advised in editorial discussions that
there must be nc profits from trade
with belligerent nations if the United
States is to maintain its neutrality in
time of war. "Self-restraint and sac
rif1ce" are declared to be necessary,
and it is made clear that overwhelming
sentiment in the country is against
becoming involved in foreign conflicts.
While American aloofneSs is shown
to be the national policy Of the mo-
ment, it is argued that preparedness
is necessary in a disturbed world con-
dition. in order that other nations may
not violate our rights as neutralS. On
this point, the Springfield (MaSs.)
Daily News advises that preventive
measures should be taken at once"
by building up defenses and making
every effort to assure freedom of the
seas" while the Topeka (Kans) Daily
Capital maintains that "it is possible
to enforce an embargo on exports of
munitions and other contraband and
to prohibit all loans to belligerents
the moment war is declared" That
paper adds that "if this is to be done,
it probably must be before a war be-
gins"
1t is believed by the Birmingham
fAla) News that "a statement of a
policy of strict neutrality at this time
might have signal effect upon the
trend of world affairs" The Man
chester IN. HI Union feels that 1.-The
best protection is to keep ourselves
strong enough to repel would-be viola
tors of our neutrality, and they will be
less likely to trespass upon our rights"
The Nashville (Tenn) Banner lays
down the rule: 1.-THE United States, in
the interest Of peace, should make its
neutrality comprehensive and so posi-
tive that neither its own citizens nor
other nations could misunderstood its
inflexible purpose not to permit its
own citizens or other peoples to en-
broil it."
A policy of neutrality, in the opin-
ion of the Newark Evening News. will
mean sek-discipline and self-sacrifice,
which we must be prepared to make,
and it Is just as well that we under
stand that in advance" The Colum
bia IS. c. Record points out that this
country must surrender the right to
participate in the profits of war" while
the Fort Worth (TeX) Star Telegram
concludes from Government policy
that American citizens must run
their own risks in entering the war
zone and in carrying non-contraband
as we'll as contraband in foreign trade"
The needed sacrifice Is emphasized
by the Providence Bulletin, and the
logic of an embargo appeals to the
Burlington Qowa) Hawkeye Gazette.
The Chicago Daily News offers the
Judgment: while debating the ad-
visibility of restricting our neutral
activity in wartime We are wise to
profit from one lesson which the last
war impressed upon all This lesson
Is that the chances OF remaining neu-
trail are greatly improved by prepared
ness. If a country Is strong enough
to repel would-be violators of Its neu-
trality, there Is less likelihood that
its rights will be infringed upon. That
Is why it Is a peace-defending, not
warlike, move to perfect American
coastwise and territorial defenses and
to strengthen the military and naval
forces as Congress Is now doing"
( The difficulties involved are de-
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Preventing the Saloons Return.

1t is entirely consistent with the
views of even such militant vets as
Representative Cochran of Missouri
to oppose the measure for elimination
of the so-called hidden bars. For the
hidden bars, as known in Washing
ton, represent the device which the
Commissioners decided upon in car
rying out the Presidents explicit di-
rections that the return of the saloon
in old or new guise"-should be
prevented. And Mr.. Cochran, with
other leading vets, have from the be-
ginning declared themselves unalter-
ably opposed to the return of the
saloon.
Commissioner Allen has defended
the hidden bars on much the same
ground, reminding their critics Of the
fact that the local control law was
based on the theory that sales Of
liquor for consumption on the premises
was a privilege granted only to estab-
lishments where the principal business
was the sale of food. To remove the
hidden bars would, in his opinion,
tend to place the emphasis on the
sale of drink, rather than food, and
If not resulting Immediately in the
return of the saloon would be an un-
fortunate step in that direction.
At the hearing yesterday on the
Commissioners bill to strengthen the
local law as proposed by the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. Representa-
tive Better, author Of another meas
ure to abolish the hidden bars, said
be believed the Commissioners should
have the authority to determine the
type Of establishments authorized to
sell drinks. Such authority should ex-
tend to other matters, such as the
Evening star., 1935-04-12

"Over there Is where I live" he
said. -Four blocks north"
-Four blocks north!
The life of q man. over there, and
nobody knew it.
Just q house. with q hedge, and
wires running from an electric light
pole.
A flower garden, and some steps.
A brave display in Spring of violets
on the bank, turning foliage In
Autumn.
Four blocks north, a human beings
life, but few gave q whoop.
Life was made by those who did.
He had IN him possibilities fol
everything and anything, but nothing
had ever brought them out.
Tentative approaches, but that wa
Four blocks north. and no one had
ever travelled the distance.
Short as it was, no one really had
been there.
He had never been there himself
he felt.
-Four blocks north, and he had
never been there.
He called it home, but city people
have no homes.
They just live somewhere.
The idea of strangeness. over what
one knows best, is as old as humanity
1t is a product of imagination, built
solidly on the ability to see only two
well.
Its opposite is the perfect salts
faction Of some persons with the life
they live. These never question. but
find themselves at home wherever
they are
Akin to the first mood was the out
of-place feeling Of thousands in the
sixteenth century. when melancholy
played a large part in human affairs
Readers of old books often are per-
picked at the idea. but 1t Is one known
today, although not so publicized.
The ability to look at ones own as
II it were strange Is not given to
every one, of course.
Nor is 1t melancholy. In any sense
1t simply Is straightforward
Whether 1t makes for the best sort of
happiness may be questioned. but
those to whom 1t Is given have no
choice.
They must ever regard their own as
strange, at least at times, and In
glimpses.
They will live as others. for long,
then all of a sudden look at their
own home as II they had never seen
It before.
Or while motoring over q road trav-
eled every day suddenly see the trees
and the flowers along the way as II
all were new. as If they had come this
way but this one time and were in
the precise mood to understand 1t at
last.
The sublimely right man. who finds
himself at home in the best Of pos
sible worlds, will never understand
him of the opposite type.
He never has.
He never finds anything strange
about himself, or his home, his work,
his friends
Because they are his, they are di-
vinely correct, he feels.
Perhaps he is right. Who can tell?
Right or wrong, however, makes no
difference. If the world only would
give UP the idea Of right and wrong,
as applied to everything and every
body, the world would be a great deal
better off,.
If this terrible insistence upon right
and wrong in everything. with every
cne doing as we do right. and every
one not doing as we do wrong, Il
Evening star., 1935-04-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

all this were abandoned. then there
would still be plenty Of room left
for the consideration of the real
rights and wrongs. There are enough
of them.
Perhaps even these hardy persons,
so at home In their world. do at times
feel much the same way about it all.
only they flnd it best to conceal their
feelings. (They call them fears)
It should distinctly be understood
that such feelings are not fears al
all, or In any sense.
They are simply realization, In
the everyday life. OF special moments
that at one time were thought to bt
the property of poets alone.
Poets over many centuries tacitly
conSpired to permit "juSt folks" tc
feel this way about them.
But a poetic justice was theirs
They became strange" to the very
people they aimed to teach, so that
today, with thousands Of readers
poetry is at once something "outland-
ish" and veritably unhuman-a queer
and unnecessary way Of speaking
Men like Edwin Arlington Robinson
did something to bring poetry dowr
to earth, even more than such poets
Of the people as Riley.
The mood of strangeness, as II one
had not seen exactly what one hac
seen every day, is part and parcel ol
the poetic approach.
Any one who has it Is a poet, al
though he never writes line.
The mood Of Nature itself Is
strangeness.
There is no one who has ever
studied any minute feature Of Ma
ture, and studied 1t faithfully. rather
than supert1cially, but has come to
the point where he is astounded.
That, of course, is the first stel
toward finding the thing strange.
The more one looks into the phase
whatever 1t may be, the more one
sees the essential strangeness OF
things.
This is a mood which, though II
has its disadvantages, surely recon-
penses those who from time to time
succumb to it.
Between the egotistic acceptance Of
everything as right. especially as Il
affects the individual. and the bitter
moodiness of melancholy, there is a
happy medium. one may feel, such
as here outlined.
Yt ,,,;lI x,,ao~, that froy,, t;y,,a 90 t;v,c
one will be compelled to look at the
most familiar thing as if one had
never seen 1t before.
1t will demand that nothing, there
fore, be common, or looked down
upon, or found so Of the every day
that it is forgot in the mad rush after
novelty.
1t will mean that old things do not
lose their finer olGness. nor new
things their best newness, just because
they are old or new.
Words of all kinds have been in
vented for all sorts of things, but
that does not mean that words really
explain anything. At best they merely
point the way.
Despite science, we are living in an
unknown world. Our very lives are
strange, and unknown to a degree
which it Is we'll for us to keep ir
mind.
Everything is four blocks north, fol
most of us, only some Of us do not
realize it.
He is fortunate. now and then. who
is able to see the unknown in the
known, the adventure in the everyday
the route that needs no compass
perhaps, but is still strange, beset by
| monsters.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

late Warren Delano Robbins. Mr..
Moffat for the past three years has
been chief of the Division Of Western
European affairs in the State Depart
ment and is up to the minute on cur
rently critical transatlantic events.
In foreign service circles the sugges-
ton is heard that this is the wrong
time to bury a career diplomat of his
background In q consular job on the
other side Of the globe. Mr.. Moffat
did temporary duty at Ottawa in 1927
and has served at various legations
and embassies in Europe and Asia. He
Is a son-in-law of Joseph c. Grew,
American Ambassador to Japan.
James c. Dunn. former ceremonial
officer of the White House and State
Department, has been named Mr..
Moffat's successor as head of western
Europe" He is now on the other side
on a reconnoitering mission.
Members Of Congress are becoming
more and more radio conscious" :"
They are not only heard with increas-
ing frequency over Nationwide net
works through Washington micro
phonss, but many Of them speak regu-
larly here in special studios for re
cording" purposes. Aluminium disks
Of their remarks are rushed by air.
mail to a broadcasting station in their
local bailiwicks and then the talks
are relayed over the air so that the
folks back home-the people in whom
the average legislator is especially in
terested-can hear their Representa-
tive or Senator almost as promptly
and clearly as if he had poured the
speech into a mike" at Washington.
Members find the system an ideal way
of keeping in touch with constituents.
With British, French and Italian
statesmen in conference at StreSa
over the German rearmament crisis,
the White House and the State, War
and Navy Departments have their
eyes and ears turned toward Europe
more intensively than at any time in
recent years. Our embassies in Lon
don, Paris and Rome are under in
structions to keep Washington closely
doVlScu VI IICIlIS dIlo OCtCIpP-
ments on the secluded shores of Lake
Maggiore, where Macdonald, Musso-
lini. Flandin, Simon. Laval ct al. have
their heads together. There is no
suggestion that we are going to butt
into Europe's mess. Uncle Sam
means only to keep thoroughly
abreast of what's going on, in order
to be able to confront any sort of
emergency that might eventuate from
situation that is wholly incal-
culable and may mean peace or war
within the measurable future.
y II II
Lessons in how to say mo" with
eight rules to be observed in the say
ing, feature a new book entitled
Getting Along With People" The
volume ought to have a big sale
among New Dealers, especially the
work relief organizations, members Of
Congress and others in Washington
who require to spend the lions share
Of their time turning down more or
less worthy people and requests.
{Copyrieht, 1880
Evening star., 1935-04-12

@. Who invented cellophane?-L. D.
A. The inventor of cellophane Is
j. E. Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist.
born in 1872. and doctor of the Uni
versity Of Berne.
Q. When was After the Ball" first
sung?-A. G. H.
A. Its first performance was at q
matinee Of Hoyt's "A Trip TO China
town" at the Bijou Theater in Mil
waukee in 1893. 1t was introduced
by the baritone j. Aldrich Libby.
@. How many Federal employees are
there in the civil executive branch
and what Is the monthly pay roll?-
S. r. w.
A. On February 2S civil employees
Of the Federal Government numbered
0,546, the largest month-end figure
since the period Of the World War.
The aggregate net pay roll for that
month was s98,2l7,485.
Q. How much heavier than normal
water is heavy water?-J. L.
A. The heavy water obtained at the
University of California is IS, 1000 parts
per million heavier than normal water:
that Is. its specific gravity is l.035,
where normal water is 1000.
@. On what ships did Admiral Byrd
serve in the Navy?-A. B. H.
A. Rear Admiral Byrd served on
the battleships Kentucky and Wyom-
ing and on the cruisers North Caro-
lima and Washington from 1912 to
1916. In 1916 he retired because Of
physical disability. After retirement
he served on inactive duty less than
three months. In May, 1916, he went
to Providence, r. l., as Inspector
instructor Of the Naval Militia. He
then entered the Naval Air Station at
Pensacola. where he was given the
rank Of naval aviator in April, 1918.
In September, 1918, he received an
appointment as lieutenant commander.
temporary, which rank he held until
January. 1922, when all temporary
appointments we're revoked.
@. When did the Marques Of
Clydesdale fly over Mt. Everest?-
A. c. B.
A. Two flights were made by the
expedition he headed. The first was
on April 3. 1888, and the second on
April 20, 1888.
O. Are Japanese taller or shorter
than Chinese?-E. E. G.
A. The Japanese people are shorter
in stature than the Chinese. Their
average height is feet 3l2 inches for
males and feet l0l2 inches for
females.
Q. Is there any estimate of what a
duststorms costs the vicinity in which
it occurs?-H. L.
A. In the town of Meade. Kans.
survey showed that a duststorm cost
the people $4,000. The population
is 1900, So this amounts to approx
mately s7.20 per capita.
@. Is there theater in New York
where only cartoons are shown?-
G. NJ
A. The Bijou Theater has an all
cartoon and comedy program. 1t was
established last October and is the
first Of its kind in this country.
Q. Is the Easter lily native to Ber-
muda?-J. L.
A. The Easter lily originally came
from Japan A missionary from that
country whose ship was stranded in
st. Georges Harbor left some of the
bulbs which he had obtained in the
Orient. They flourished to such an
extent that their commercial posi-
bilities later were foreseer by the late
Gen. Russell Hastings, who exported
shipment to the United States,
thereby starting trade that has be-
come a feature of the island.
@. What has become of the Maure-
tania a?-H. L. NJ.
A. The vessel has been sold for
the equivalent of about S385,0o0 and
will be taken to Scotland to be
Scrapped.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Confusion at Stresa.

Considering the fact that they are
admittedly faced by common dan
ger, Great Britain, France and Italy
are immersed in <amazing confusion
at stresa, as tbE pool their minds in
an effort to meet the crisis precipi-
tated by Germanys rearmament.
Thursdays opening sessions OF the
three-power conference revealed a
wide divergence of viewpoint as to
policy and procedure. Thus is created
a situation from which, unless agree
ment can be achieved, Hitler alone
will profit. In the perpetuation OF
divided European counsels lies his
hope of imposing Germany's will.
first in the field of armament, and
then in the direction of those politl-
cal and territorial revisions at which
the Nazis aim.
The basic differences which mani
fest themselves at Stresa concern the
method of chastis!ng and curbing
Germany, and of persuading her to
participate in some collective security
system for the maintenance of peace.
Britain favors conciliation policy
aimed primarily at securing the
Reich's return to the League OF
Nations. The British favor plan
for fixing ratios of ornaments for
the principal powers, holding that the
establishment of such control would
be the best guarantee of peace. But
Britain opposed the unconditional re-
admission of Germany to Geneva at
this time in light of her military,
naval. air and territorial demands
and her defiance of the treaty OF
Versailles.
The French insist upon haling Ger
many before the League as violator
of treaties. They seek British ard
Italian support of sc indictment of
the Reich, which is about to be
placed before the Council at Geneva
The French would pledge the West
ern powers to agree to impose eco
nomic penalties upon Germany II
Hitler commits a new breach OF in
+;oyoI obl;oo fiops
Italy, momentarily more or less
neutral as between Britain's proposals
and Frances demand for stern atti-
tude toward Germany. prefers a tri-
power military alliance as the most
practical means of checkmating
Hitler. Mussolini, though anxious to
see real measures invoked to ward of
the Nazi menace, reveals an inclina-
ton to go along with any joint action
to that end which may eventually be
evolved. 1t may be that Italy is cast
for the role of effecting some compro-
mise between British mildness and
French firmnesS.
What will emerge from Stresa is
problematical. The tri-power conver-
sations may wind up in the adoption
of some general resolution, the de-
fining of each countrys attitude and
transference of real decisions to the
League Council, which will convene at
Geneva on April Is to grapple with
the German issue. Meantime, the
most hopeful feature of an otherwise
chaotic and unpromising situation is
Prime Minister MacDonald's aSsur-
ance that Britain stands ready to do
everything possible to strengthen and
demonstrate its unity of policy with
France and Italy. If there is more
than lip service in that affirmation,
the Nazis may yet be disappointed
in their expectation of riding rough
shod over a disunited Europe.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Home MOderniZatiOn
Would Create Many Jobs
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
A vigorous campaign conducted
throughout the country in behalf OF
the home modernization plan as
initiated by the Federal Housing
Commission is, in my estimation, the
most progressive medium for job
stimulation in a constructive way.
Relief workers might be engaged
in contracting home owners in Coop
Grafton with Chambers Of Commerce,
other employer groups. labor unions,
churches, settlements. etc.
No doubt several million jobs
would be created lasting a week or
longer, and the industries supplying
modernization needs would likewise
benefit from such a campaign.
EDWARD c. RYBICKL
Evening star., 1935-04-12
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

A reader cun get the answer TO
any question OF fact by writing The
Washington Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c. Please inclose
stamp for reply.
Q. Will you kindly advise the
reason why horses are frequently
hooded" In white while running
races?-G. L. H.
A. The Thoroughbred Record says
that blinkers are used so that the
horse may see nothing save what is
right in front of him. They may be
of any color, but generally in the
more pretentious stables are of the
same color as the racing colors. Some
horses shy at shadows or are annoyed
by the presence of other horses in
the race, tend to bear in or run out
or, in other words, do not run q
straight course. Blinkers are COM
monty known in race track parlance
as ''the rogue's badge"
@. Please give the height of Mount
Harvey and Mount Mitchell.-J. r. r
A. Mount Harney, in South Da-
kota, has an altitude Of 1912 feet
and Mount Mitchell, in North Caro-
lima, 6,684 feet.
@. How many currency bills can
an expert count in a day?-J. c. s.
A. Expert bill counters in the
Treasury can count 10000 bills a
day.
@. How many men and women
have been sterilized in this coun-
try?-A. A.
A. Up to September. 1884, more
than 10000 men and women in the
United States mentally or morally
unfit to become parents had been
sterilized.
@. Are Hawaii and Alaska repre-
sented in Congress?-E. G..
A. The Hawaii Islands and Alaska,
being Territories of the United States,
have each a territorial representa-
tive in the House of Representative.
@. How many portraits did Sir
Joshua Reynolds paint?-J. B.
A. He painted more than 1000
portraits. Among his celebrated can
vases are the portrait Of Commodore
Keppel. Oliver Goldsmith, Lady
Carew, Mrs. Ballington as st. Cecilia
and Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse
@. Can more than one member
of family be in the c. c. c. camps?-
H. T.
A. Regulations provide that one
member of a family be enrolled at a
time in the C. C. c.
@. Please describe the Victoria
CroSs.-M. j. P.
A. 1t is in the form Of Maltese
cross and is made of bronze. In the
center is the royal crown, surmounted
by the lion. and below. on a scroll,
the words For Valor."
@. How many inhabitants and how
many automobiles has Beverly Hills
Calif?-G. E.
A. It's estimated population is 10000
and it has about 10000 automobiles
registered.
@. In stamp collecting what is a
first day cover? A cachet?-L. v. H
A. A first day cover is an envelope
with stamp of new issue that
has been mailed and the stamp can
celed on the first day the new stamps
have been placed on sale. Some COL
lectors have blocks of four stamps
of each denomination on each en-
velope. A cachet is a rubber stamp
impression which may be found on
the front or back Of a cover and
which is designed to mark some spe-
cial event. 1t may or may not be
officially sponsored.
@. Where Is the Mississippi the
deepest?-C. j. K.
A. 1t is deepest at point 20 mile:
above New Orleans, depth of 22f
feet at low water. AT high water 4
is rs feet deeper at this point.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Infinite Variety.

Infinite Variety.
To Congress once again we turn
While striving on to live and learn.
A Congressman must represent
The true, home grown constituent,
Who may have wisdom deep and rare,
Or gather hay seed in his hair.
He may appear in social life
To favor eating with the knife
And set a social pace anew
By saying "chaw" instead of "chew."
He is a man of master strokes,
In modern laws and ancient jokes.
Our Congress therefore brings along
All kinds of men for speech and song.
Who can't find friends 'mongst all Of
these
Must certainly be hard to please!
Lectures do help son1e," said Uncle
Eben, "but I haven't yet heard any
talk powerful enough to change a
Hard Luck Association into a Don't
Worry Club"
Evening star., 1935-04-12

Existing agencies are expected to
carry on the work of Government
relief, even if interesting debate as
to the best method of procedure has
to be interrupted in order to leave
more available time.