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Evening star., 1940-08-11
The Literary WordRevews of Current Publications Vari
Son of i. S. Ambassador
Analyzes Great Britain's
Neglect of Armaments
Belief in, League of Nations
One of Several Factors in
Policy, Kennedy Reports
Why England Slept
Bu .JOhn r Kenned,

% BY John r. Kennedy. NeU York: Wilfred Funk.
This record by the Of the American Ambassador Great
Britain OF British policy toward from 1881 to the beginning
of the Kennedy points Winston Churchill
ago. crcizng countrys
book called while
empts the for the mbe
the author stupidity blindness bad faith that made England
that authorities ascrbed her
instead combination
factors involving labor pacim the City, belief in the Nations
and genuine faith Cermanys good will He analyses the played
sympathetic
generally
According Mr. Britain until the publ
cation figures
Allied nations having dsarmed
they themselves would consistent
domestic safety their their
than this the English genuinely believed the acaby the
failure sanctions
be
used combination against Still the financial
Of the nation clamorng allow
greater social And still British labor after the facts
about Gemanys reaming became the launching
necessarily lower standards of workmanship.
combination OF influences
ment from advocating policy until
military
generally justified apoogec he until
the collapse the
that England might in position meet her obligations the other
League nations
This bowling before popular sentiment
Kennedy characteristic
disadvantage dealing with totaan
reasonable being
short weaknesses
He closes his book with plea America profit Engand
example shall Munich
better. NC. R
Evening star., 1940-08-11
The Negro in Virginia From 1919 to the Present Day

comped By the Wo5ker Of the Writer'S of the WORKS
by Hampton Institute. Neo York Hastings House.
This volume tell
Virginia from his first forced importation
been submerged portion the population taking little public
institutions rights
obviously been
the Federal have not doe badly They obviously
around in such archives of history exist
slavery The result is still rather ketchy piece of work.
interesting and will have value book
students of the Negro race in years to
of in of
bent bringing truths the front heths
white since the two peoples came contact and partly the
abilities of the colored folk which always
originated in system by fairly well pubci7ed Of
slavery
might however, propagation
past the
champions after
systematic newlyfreed population
ded the milk human kindness which
their former dependents time
aspect the problem however stressed
Negro the
their responsibilities which,
The of the Negroes slaves out Of
slavery freedmen much houisgy
out of postslavery
the the book real contribution
subject.
Tronsportotion Economic Principles and Practices
By Emory Johnson G. Huebner and G. Lloyd Wilson.
NeD York. Appeton-CentWy
college part
facilities practices
five fields of pipeline water air and highway
will the most entertaining informative portions Of the
Two vital problems transportation today consolidation
rail- air. road water carriers into unified system
reached
enlarged 1888 that rail grouping
lines into limited number of systems relatively equal strength privately
ment strongly for private ownership operation against
Nation that ownership
with others and lack Of authority
nerce Commission EDWARD G. STONE.
Evening star., 1940-08-11

Editors Note-In saying that
"The ConDent is a true story"
The Stars book reDieDer should
hare made clear that this Uas
the publishers claim, not her
oDn. Neither The Star nor the
reDieDer conducted any inresti-
cation as to the books authen-
ttcity as q personal erpertence.J
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Editor Of Village Weekly
Writes Interestingly of
Life in Small Town
How Two Individualists From
City Found Happiness on
New England Island
By Mary-Carter Roberts.
Country Editor
By Mary.Carter Roberts.

BIZ Henry Beetle Hough. York: Doubleday Doran.
long e New o d @ Wsrs 5 bo Sa seo 1ss
Of The New England island Martins
promising HnIy Job what he calls million dollar corpora
s she G on
happy renting apartment
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trip world That's what they might have done Eat they ID
way Henry Of Ana
justice just his spors 00 " " 0' one nara WORDS 60
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taken Vineyard founded in 1886 But his
M @ 3 n % for e enl e New i9 % were anv ohs @
They the Vineyard live let live according
their part only way Henry puts IT.
I s m d now fan an ns Ssses $50
as marketing oene any more SO simple tha: cities
professors that
villages They places
SissE. stsss 1sss'i sss PAPER. of
back t % ss @ @ oaa % .ns tse ss they
they lived in the village that suited them 1t plain from this
ord fhs ssss
village and the with the paper and M the village with life
paper life The
which u.s. It the life Of strongly
s s s who was himself in
have to be the the which pro-
had and n @
machine folded. machine addressed Of
ca struggles by which the popreos
the growth the circulation
than of these things
little island with its inhabitants descended from the original
its utter we read Of this directly Henys es Of
his nghbors read indirectly
down.
be nowhere particular its chapters disconnected
episodes dealing happenings pope-Memorial
Day parades eccentric correspondents visitors
@ rd But Of the @ .cGrdns lin
the book finished 1t extremely smooth achievement
Impressions Of Hinterlanders
Validity.
in Henrys capacity for dealing with
called really practically
all
adding their conventions this procession original
their integrity all hnterand through
intellectual machine
His islanders not utterly they have the
rustic
too For while showing
rural
quality. types" in
obviously
something inevitably spurious
writing gentle detach-
ment He tells good he
the cultured
Wilmington
relief because objected the
Relief
heights His art considerable
when to leaving something
also which she in her library that
really
will start fashion the fashion
editors weekies all the will
with their simple, publisher
is hold nevitabiy
the meantime the interim Is the readers.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Chinomun's Chance
By No-Yong Park. Boston: Meador.

autobiography quantity laboriou
Oriental pansaingly himself
disuson-
living
in his adopted country.
West giteng opportunities profered
Chinese refomer
the little Manchurn school, NoYong
sessed thirst for western civilization He left
became vgabond eventually reached
Europe He fed Europe horror loathng its wartor He
found native America opening its all nations beyond
the dreams OF avare Because he o. hunor rare among
nd) College There developed speaking
lucrative field
Northwestern University University Minnesota and Harvard Uni
very followed and the Chinese intellectual acquired
western polish He fell love with American girl Minnesota
and East with the determination his
Gopher State sweetheart But fate of interviewed The girl
vengeance toured America becamng wellknown platform
figure and authority Far Eastern affairs.
With disusionmen feted
homes rich ndustriass noted scholars still felt something
lacking Twice sought solace
the he his
with his marriage of his like him. had
Amercanized.
With marriage, philosophy
the simple life which
the English language plain living and high thinking
Despite OF nfe1ority
cast aside completely the book
t amusng In the closing chapters explains philosophy
the simple life his words often sparkle like jewels He
ground and he The chapters abo
his career lecturer and student dwdng with the pleasures
Evening star., 1940-06-02

4 couple Of jorrin9 eroppes Ia the one at top the
rider tossed sofs esor Of his mount as they come to
grief in the Whitsmorsh Valley Hunt meet at Brood
Axe. Po The other dsomohe spill for the aolIsy
in the Rose Tree Hunt meet at Medic, Pa.
Evening star., 1940-06-02

MARIE JOHNSON graduate Of ST. Mary. Academy Leonard
Maryland and sayer College Of Secretara Training
shown using Kardex Visible Record Control employee in the
Office Of Remington Rand. Inc.
A. part Of sscreta Sdayer students taught The
installation and operation Of eight major fling systems.
Sannsr Classes, Juss "a and Jnk8
cstslog esl rsss0h
EmsIe1es ~ fer Stray Usisasss l1s tsss esek sah
S1RAYER COLLEGE l3.A And 2 Shssb Ulr,oNAl 17l9
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Sky Pirates

The latest territorial grab comes,
not from the totalitarians, but from
DR.. Whipple in Massachusetts,, DR..
ParaSkevopoulos in South Africa and
an unidentified doctor in Cordoba,
Argentina, who have all staked out
conflicting claims on the same comet.
A fight for place in the sky is
far less disturbing than one for
place in the sun. For once, the world
is genuinely neutral in this dispute.
The territory in question is compare
lively unsuited for colonization, being
ninety million miles away already
and going even farther as fast as 1t
can get away from war-torn earth.
1t consists of millions of small stones
surrounded by unbreathable gases,
and Hitler makes. no claim that it is
inhabited by any oppressed German
minority. When near the sun it gets
too hot even for Mussolini, who spe-
cializes in torrid deserts. 1t is out
of the orbit of the new order in Asia,
and Japan has graciously given per-
mission to the United States, South
Africa and Argentina to occupy it
without incurring the fearful conse-
quences of japanese displeasure.
Whichever way the decision finally
goes, it will cause less uproar than
many close one at first base, and
might even be handled without con-
troversy by the League of Nations.
Evening star., 1940-11-26

passes be combined and incorporated
in one continuous sunken two-lane thor
oughfare, in the nature of traffic sub
way open to the sky, which would oc-
cupy the middle section of Massachusetts,
avenue and be separated by balustraded
parapets from the surface lanes at each
side of the avenue
AS a cross-town express route this
open subway might extend eventually
from Thirteenth street to Twentieth
street while leaving ample side lanes
at each side of the avenue for more
local traflc by the process of widening
the roadway. Such comprehensive re-
arrangement of Massachusetts, avenue
would provide overpasses for Fifteenth,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets in
addition to those contemplated at Du-
pont and Scott Circles and it appeals
to me as long-range planning that prom
iseS to meet the ever-increasing trafflc
of future years.
OF course the construction of an un-
derpass on the axis of Sixteenth street
at Scott Circle, as now proposed, would
nullify such a plan and might prove to
be a costly temporary expedient in the
light of a more considered future devel-
opment of our traffic system.
A CITIZEN ENGINEER.
Evening star., 1940-11-26

scarcely of less Importance in COM
mercial aviation.
The heart of the airplane, affecting
every phase of its performance, is
the engine. Demands made upon
the modern aircraft engine far ex-
coed those made upon any other
power plant man has yet built. The
modern aircraft engine Is truly one
Of the finest mechanical achieve
ments of science. And yet, there
must be still further Improvements
reflected in increased power,
decreased weight per horsepower,
reduced fuel consumption per horse
power and in other aspects bewilder-
ing to the layman, even to the
layman who can and does tinker
knowingly and successfully with his
automobile engine.
The new N. A. G. A. laboratory
should be in position to make posi-
tive and tremendously valuable con-
tributions to American aviation prog
ress. 1t should have been built years
ago. News that it actually is to be
started should be welcome to all
Americans,
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Foreign Relations

At this critical period of world
affairs, and because of the extent
of American interest in them, the
Craftsmanship of the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations is post Of
inestimable Importance. The acces-
sion to it of so seasoned a statesman
as Walter F. George of Georgia is
therefore cause for deep satisfaction,
particularly as he finds himself in
general agreement with the admins
tration's external policy-a circum-
stance which augurS well for the
continuity in its conduct, which is so
desirable in these times.
Senator George has just completed
his eighteenth successive year in the
Senate. He enjoys the confidence
and esteem of members of both par
ties and may count upon wide de-
gree of bipartisan support in a
chamber which traditionally is
sharply divided on questions in
volving our relations with the outside
world.
"A former associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, Senator
George brings to his new work ju-
dicial temperament, outstanding
dignity and high intelligence. He
has not seen eye to eye with Roose-
velt domestic policies, as was evi-
denced by the unsuccessful effort to
purge" him in 1888 But in the field
of foreign relations he actively es-
poused repeal Of the arms embargo
and has consistently favored the Hull
plan for reciprocal trade agreements
While he does not rank as an Inter
ventioniSt," he has supported whole
heartedly the program of total
national defense and of aid for Brit
ain. Senator Georges criticism of
the destroyer-fo -for-bases transaction
sprang only from the belief that Con-
gress should have been consulted re-
garding 1t.
Matters of gravest international
import will call for early congress
sional consideration. They compre-
hend more help for Britain, pros
pectively including the realm of
finance, hemisphere defense, inter-
American solidarity and unpredict-
able events in the Far East. The
country has reason to congratulate
itself that the sagacious and sane
hand of the senior Senator from
Georgia will be at the helm of the
Foreign Relations Committee in the
momentous days that lie ahead.
Evening star., 1940-11-26
ness Of Dauphol stirs the Ire OF the
average sensitive spectator.

ness Of Dauphol stirs the Ire Of the
average sensitive spectator.
But the composer weaves magic
spell about these unhappy materials.
BY the power Of his art he ennobles
the narrative, enhances the poign-
ancy Of the destiny in which all the
actors are involved. His endeavor
was not successful when it first was
performed at Venice in 1858. Verdi,
however, had faith in his effort. His
confidence was justified at the second
production in the same city the fol-
lowing year. More recently and in
other places the popularity of the
opera has been unquestioned. It is
"stock" piece in Paris and London,
New York and Chicago. Especially
for the arias "Ah fors' lui che
ranima," "Di miei bollenti spiriti,"
"Pura siccome un angelo" "Addio
del passato" and "Parigi, o cara, moi
lasceremo," the most famous artists
of the musical stage are wanted.
Patti, Sembrich, Nilsson, Melba,
Tetrazzini, Farrar and CALI -Curci
have interpreted Violetta. Each was
a singer of compelling genius, and
each added something of herself to
the tradition which now illumines
the role.
The recording of the brightest
portions of La Traviata" offered by
The Star in the second music appre-
citation campaign should prompt an
interest in the work among persons
who never have had the opportunity
to see as well as hear it sung. Per-
haps by such processes of education
the establishment of a national
operate institution may be hastened.
Many have dreamed of such a school
and such theater, and the hope is
not unworthy of those who have
maintained it in the face of repeated
disappointment.
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Further Effort

Sponsors of the annual Community
Chest campaign, scheduled to end to-
day, had hoped that there would be
no need for prolonging the drive.
But according to the latest reports
available only seventy-four per cent
of the total amount required has
been subscribed. 1t follows that
more than half million dollars still
are needed.
Yet there is no evidence that the
people of Washington are unwilling
to complete the fund. Further effort
surely will be the response of the
vast majority of the residents of the
Nations Capital to the repeated
summons to service. Even If more
than a little sacrifice is demanded,
men and women conscious of the
imperative obligation to help will
not fail the call.
At the moment a special appeal
Is addressed to the business and pro-
fessional classes. Examination of
the pledges received curing the past
week shows that many of those
belonging to these groups have given
generously but additional contribu-
tions are asked where they can be
afforded.
1t likewise has been suggested that
every pledge already signed be
increased fraction. Thus the max
imum might be obtained, the ulti-
mate victory realized. While other
cities are passing the goals they set.
Washington must not be content
with anything less than the budget
stipulation of two million dollars-a
sum pathetically small when Judged
in relation to the suffering which no
one can doubt persists in the District
of Columbia,
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Old Roads

An old road is q pleasant way
To travel on an Autumn day;
The sycamores, like silver, glean
Beside each brown-banked, olive stream,
And even memories are old,
And intimate, and never told.
An old road is not straight, nor wide,
And weathered houses stand beside
The fianking hills, rock-veined and
steep,
That shelter herds Of grazing sheep.
Each bend becomes sly pretext,
To lure us on around the next.
An old road is peaceful place,
No highly powered motors race;
But wheels move leisurely along,
As hearts reach out to find q song.
Beyond old gates the boxwoods bend
And great elms wave, as friend to friend.
These walls of brick, with sagging sill,
Are old, but young and living still;
For children's faces press the pane,
And cattle crowd the cedared lane.
Here Is no hint of any strife:
Old roads have armistice with life.
VALERA r. LEHMAN.
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Promotion Proqrum

The Budget Bureau has made an
intelligent approach to the question
of improving pay standards in the
executive agencies of the Govern
ment through plan for uniform in
creases which has been submitted to
the House Appropriations Committee.
The program is based on a study
which convinced the bureau that en-
ployes subject to the Classification
Act wage scales are at a marked dis
advantage when compared to those
In such branches as the postal Serv-
ice, where automatic promotions pre-
vail, competent workers in many
instances having gone three years or
more without advancement. The
study also demonstrated that field
personnel is in leSs-favored position
than employees on duty here, and
that opportunities for promotion are
fewer in the low brackets than in the
high. Another disclosure is that
older agencies are more sparing with
promotions than the newer estab-
lishments, and the bureau empha-
sized also that the average clause"
which holds salaries in a grade to the
average of the rates of that grade,
serves as "an arbitrary barrier to ad-
vancement," that takes no account
of efficiency or any similar factor.
These are the very complaints en-
ployes themselves have raised in urg-
ing general overhauling of the SAL
ary structure, and they emphasize
conditions that call for correction.
The Budget Bureau is proposing
that employees below the $500 an
nual salary level receive raises-when
merited-every eighteen months, and
those from that figure to SO 900 every
thirty months. Over period of ten
years, competent workmen could
reach the top of their grade, and
while total pay roll increase of ap-
proximately twenty-nine million dol
lars would result, the bureau is con-
fident that the program in effect,
would pay for itself, because of the
savings made possible by increased
efficiency, higher employe morale
and lowered turnover. This predic-
ton might be too optimistic, but
there can be no doubt that the plan
definitely would have a stimulating
effect on the service.
The Budget Bureau study was di-
rected by the Appropriations Com
mittee in rejecting a request for
funds for promotions this year, and
while the need for economy cited by
the committee as the reason for the
adverse action is no less pressing now,
the arguments advanced by the bu-
reau in behalf of the program are
worth serious consideration.
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Enoine Research

The vital Importance to military
and civil aviation development Of
more powerful aircraft engines, cap
able of operating efficiently at far
greater attitudes than at present, long
has been recognized.
Although the development Of such
engines and such necessary accesso-
ries as superchargers, high-altitude
fuel and lubricating systems and
temperature control mechanisms de-
pends upon basic reseaych, the IA
cilities for this type Of research have
been rather badly neglected in this
country.
Announcement by the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
that it has selected site at Cleve-
land and will at once begin the con-
struction Of an sS,400,000 aircraft en-
gine research laboratory, therefore,
ranks as major aviation advance.
The only basic aircraft engine re-
search laboratory in the United
States today is a small, overcrowded,
understaffed power plant section Of
the N. A. c. A. at Langley Field, Va.
The trained, capable personnel of
this section probably will compose
the nucleus Of the staff Of the new
Cleveland laboratory, which is ex-
pected to begin research work within
a year.
The Importance of the research
program which will confront this
staff cannot be overestimated. In
military flying, airplane performance
is paramount. Performance includes
not only speed, but rate of climb,
range, load-carrying ability and
ceiling" or maximum flying alti-
tude, depending upon the types OF
airplanes involved. Performance Is
Evening star., 1940-11-26
Ignorance Is Bliss

DR.. j. Barkley Rosser, Cornell
University mathematician, stepped
suddenly into a sort of immortality
the other day.
Before the American Mathematical
Society he challenged the time-hon-
ored doctrine of "reductio ad alb
surdum"-the principle of logic by
which a statement may be diSproved
by showing that its inevitable conse-
quences involve some such impos-
sibility as that part is greater than
a whole or that two plus two makes
sixteen.
Those who feel their sanity threat
ened by the statement may get some
comfort by very elementary illus
tration. The simple statement, two
plus two equals four" is always true
and always essentially meaningless.
-Four" is merely synonym agreed
upon by photographers for the
phrase two plus two" 1.-TWO books
plus two books" of course, cannot
be accurately stated as -four books"
in any system of mathematical ex-
actitude. -Four books" is a system
which cannot be represented as the
sum of two two-book systems. New
elements enter-new gravitational
attractions, new space ordinations,
new distortions of the environment,
physical and psychological, which are
specific to four book systems
Two pennies and three pennies do
not make nickel, per Sc. They make
a nickel, as any beggar will assure
you, only in a specific time and space
orientation which places them stimuli
taneously in his pocket.
All this is merely at the threshold,
as we understand it, of DR.. Rosser's
new logic-developed at the request
of an eminent American astronomer
to aid in the solution of an intensely
practical problem. The above illus
trations are in the field of simple,
two-valued logic. When DR.. Rosser
ascends to four-valued logic he cal
culates that the word "and" may
have 14,398,907 different and distinct
meanings.
Somehow, one feels, something will
come of it which will help all men in
some distant future to NOW grass or
cook eggs. 1t gets us farther away
from the tradition-shackled egocen-
trism which is the one greatest bar
to mans progress.
Evening star., 1940-11-26
la Truyiutu'

Few operas reflect the conditions
Of modern society. LA Traviata" is
an exception to the rule that music
drama must have a richer and more
glamorous setting than contempo-
rary times can boast. Founded as it
is on LA Dame aux Camelias," by
Alexandra Dumas fills, Giuseppe
Verdi's beautiful score defies even
those conventions which the author
of the original story observed. The
fatal illness of Violetta is not in
itself an attractive theme. Neither
are the jealousy and passionate tenn
per of Alfredo characteristics apt to
be admired by any cultivated audi
ence. The intervention of the elder
Germont quite naturally is resented.
So too the quarrelsome pretentious-