Evening star., 1938-04-17
By NC. X.

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~ HE past week has been that
dscourasing one which regy-
larly comes around in the life
L Of . magazine reviewer sfter
the periodicals for the present month
have been covered and before these
for the next have arrived. Much
questing has brought forth but one
May monthly a yet on the stands Cn
addition to the ladies' mags, Of course.
about which there is never anything
to say, anyway. This monthly is
Globe, that very nice little travel
Journal which halls from Milwaukee
Its newest issue Is full Of pleasantly
unsuspected information.
Did you know. for example, that
the French OF Canada are quietly
moving toward secession? Well, if
Mr.. Stephen Leacock Is to be believed
Is he writes in the May Globe, they
are. They have increased in numbers,
he says, until they are a substantial
nation within the nation, and now
young spirits among them consider
that it is time to do something
about 1t.
BY way Of illustrating how they
increase, Mr.. Leacock reminds us
that the Dionne babies are French.
He calls the system ia revanche du
berceau." or the revenge of the cradle,
the revenge being on the English who
conquered them, you remember. Fam
lilies OF 10, he says, amount to nothing
among these people; many of them
number their offspring at more than
twice as many. What a set-up, now,
for Mussolinil
THE same issue Of Globe bears the
news that within a few years the
centuries-long job Of the Dutch wind
mills will be at an end and those sail
bearing towers will function no longer
except as ornaments to the Holland
scene This bit Of information is
contributed by Miss Lilo Linke. 1t
seems that the mills have had it as
their Job to regulate the level Of the
water In the canals. II they had all
stopped working for no more than "a
hours. says Miss Linke. the country
would have been flooded. But now
machinery is being installed which
will do the regulating automatically.
Miss Linke says that she wondered
what would become Of the mill tend
ers when this advance of science had
been completed She knew one who
was keeping family of five on sl25
year, his wage for looking after one
mill. She was worried about him
until she found out that the dole for
an unemployed man with so many chill
dren was considerably more than he
had been earning Maybe that makes
it all right. of course, The reviewers
mind is just not strong enough to face
the question.
IKEWISE Globe throws gratifying
light on the problem OF what be-
comes Of the quantity dressed indi-
v1duak whom you see. from time to
time, offering post cards for sale in
the street in order to finance q "trip
around the world on foot" They are
fakes. it tells us plainly, the author
who makes this uneouivocal statement
being Mr.. Herbert Tevos. Mr.. Tevos
says that he has seen quite a lot
OF these avowed globe encirclers. and
only one OF the lot was really doing
what he claimed to do.
In good deal of travelling about
italy Mr.. Tevos was hailed three times
by one supposed traveller who had a
journal showing what lot OF countries
he had traversed. On the second Of
these encounters. five years after the
flrst, the date in the journal on which
Mr.. Tevos had previously met him
in Brindisi was covered with an entry
which showed that he had then been
crossing the Australian desert So,
II you are one day hailed by some
deeply tanned individual on Pennsyl-
vanla avenue with request to aid
IN creating better understanding be-
tween the nations by helping finance
his tour, DO not be deceived In all
probability the hardy pedestrian got
his complexion working the other side
OF the street. and has never been
farther out of town than Upper
Marlboro. Anyway. that is what Mr.
Tevos thinks about it.
A MOTHER bit OF news. this Of a
cheering variety, is contained with
in Globes modest covers. This is in
the leading article by Robert Mill. It
has to do with that recently too-well-
prospected mine of picturesqueness and
publishers royalties, the Haitian
voodoo cult. Readers can no doubt
recall any number OF books which
purported to tell of secret rites of
the natives witnessed in each case for