6 THE EYENTXH STAR. TYASHTXfiTOy. P. C, SATURDAY. JANUARY TO. WW. [THE EVENING STAR ? ferences and seiztng an opportunity be- ha* perfected a tube which, through a set with perils. He has yet to conclude color change of its content, unerringly THE LIBRARY TABLE With Sunday Morning Edition. -1 I ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | his dealings with the Shlnwarls, who indicate* the presence of ga*. That I THIS AND THAT I WASHINGTON, C. are still on the road of insurgency, but will supplant the l D. science feathered i By th« Booklovtr J. HASKIN. Kabul reports confidence that he will songsters in is almost BY FREDERIC | . 1929 > future conflicts SATURDAY. . .January 19, effect an adjustment with them. certain. BY CHARLES E. TRACER'ELL. Augustine Birrell says in his “Obiter. public Instruction, reports that it . Afghanistan's new king will not be Doubtless it la better so. The soldier Stop a minute and think about this of , THEODORE W. NOYES... .Editor They are all Dicta,” “History is a pageant and not fact: You can aak our Information is sll4. At the beginning of this cen- known as Bacha Sagao, which Is not a now seldom uses horse* or rpules, which i There is nothing like getting mad have arisen from them. average salary $24. of their origins, just philosophy.” This dictum would ap- Bureau any question of fact and get the tury the was royal designation. He has, it is stated, once played ao important so , 1 to make one forget minor ills. the finer because a The Star Newspaper Company r and tragic powers of anger, in not as a coward who performs bravely on history well as to the answer back in a personal letter. It Is what the Ermine taken the name of Hablbullah Khan his The curative ply to current as a great educational idea, introduced Q. In year were locusts the Business Offer#: a part in operations. The late war too large doses, of course, are little re- the battlefield is all the more brave worst in the United States? —A. P. 11th St. #nd Pennsrlveni* Are. Ghazi, going back in this wise to the receding figures and events of the past. into the lives of the most Intelligent t New York Office: 110 Bast 43m! St. brought into play the services of dogs, , garded, yet It is safe to say that few for that very reason. William Allen White, the brilliant, fight- A. The mast disastrous locust year Chlcsgo ?* * * people in the world—American news- i Office: Tower Bulldtnt. father of Amanullah, who died by as- of mice snd of canaries. In that, things do more to keep the human editor, conception in was European Office: 14 Resent St., London. won- ing embodies this paper readers. It is a part of that best 1874. Enclsnd. sassination ten years ago. This is evi- . animal in equilibrium. Anger is one of the elementals. the title of his new book.” “Masks in a drous and comprehensive Scottish war everything goes smoothly you grabbed cat purpose of a newspaper—service. There the old regime of When too If have ever a by Pageant.” which contains a group of is no charge coin or Q What was the first intoxicating dently an appeal to memorial not long ago on daily work or life, there is the tail, you know it. except 2 cents in drink known? —E. E. S. Rate by Carrier Wllhln the City. dedicated in the Ij estimates (not biographies) of some stamps for return postage. Get the i per conservatives and indicates that the every Instantly stiffens, its eyes • j Harvey Wiley says that The Evenlnr Star. 4Se month Castle Rock, Edinburgh, Scottish danger that boredom will stick up its j j its back prominent men of the present, and the habit of asking questions. Address your A. Dr. W. The Evenine and Sunday Star new monarch is not without his diplo- head and whisper undesired things grow big, and it gives distinctive wine is the oldest and most important Sundays! per month regiment and every branch of service in ugly | itfe recent past. The classification of his letter to The Evening Star Information This greatly award was ity of the District Commissioners or of ¦ i-—*- such as the who has served a The 23 to be lost to the certain States callers, supporters, office hunters, A. prized How Is a micron? —R. E. C. be taken as a criminal given ih 1928 to John A. Wilson of Q. much the superintendent of schools or the If court records can The office-seeker can never be quite term for a felony, and a poor fellow by due reapportionment m 1930 will be idlers.” A. One micron represents one one- in added to the following named States if ** * * Milwaukee. Board criterion, there are certain clauses whether he who vras born and reared in the Dis- mlllionth part of the usual atmospheric of Education. sure is looking for glory or birds the Census Bureau's prediction proves 1 per the traffic regulations of the District trict of Columbia. Those "two The delightful combination of pathos Q. What is the average monthly pressure, which is 14 * pounds It is to be hoped that this contro- trouble. of a feather” (in the eyes of the blind accurate: and humor found in all the romances inch. The interior of the usual of Columbia which command little or each salary of a public school teacher in square versy will have been settled before the law) may "flock together,” for they are One for Arizona. Connecticut. of Donn Byrne is illustrated by a scene North Carolina? —S. H. incandescent lamp represents a vacuum no attention. One of these is that per- reckoned with the American citi- Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and in one of the stories of “Destiny Bay.” District appropriation bill is reported not A. Dr. A. T. Allen, superintendent down to about 150 microns. taining to the notification of the SHOOTING STARS. zens who breathe the pure air of free- Washington. the “Tale of My Aunt Jenepher's Woo- to the House and that provision will dom. in Rhode Island or Texas. Still, Two each for New Jersey and Texas, ing.” Aunt Jenepher is young and traffic in case of change of for Ohio, and be made in that bill for an efficient director there are over 13,000.000 citizens un- three four for Michigan beautiful, but blind. Her lover, a Des- address. The rule is perfectly clear and BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. six for California: total, 23. business management of the District represented in Congress. tiny Bay man. has departed for the follows: “In the event of a Os course the Representatives of the East. but. stopping Vote in House reads as ** * * on the way at Monte Reapportionment school system, leaving the educational As Customs Change. States sure to lose in the House are Carlo, has been killed a duel. Her change of address of a holder of a Dis- opposed to any provision jeopardizing in •uperintendency free to carry on peda- We do not laugh, as once we According Tyler Page, brother, Valentine, and her nephew, trict operator's permit such person did. to Mr. William that loss, and as they now hold more gogic work that will result In the At girls who paint their faces. veteran clerk of the House of Repre- Kerry, thinking that life has already Is Accorded Popular Approval shall furnish the director of traffic "American votes than the States booked to increase dealt too hardly with her this schools of the National Capital holding Nor at the knees, no longer hid sentatives and author of the by a legitimate obedience to the Con- without with the address within a reason- the vote is not so additional blow, resolve to keep her in rank. new From sight Creed,” slacker stitution requiring a reapportionment, •till higher scholastic in of this regu- in public places. scandalous as has been generally quot- the line-up in ignorance of her lover’s death. They action of the has yielded to widespread de- able time.” Yet. spite is obvious the debate. compose they Approval of the House popular ed. He declares that it is unfair letters, which read to her mand,” and warns that "the Senate will lation, an average of twelve persons a We do not smile at dancing pets, never been ** * * at stated intervals —letters which are a in passing the Fenn reapportionment “The Wild Man of Borneo" died in to reckon aliens who have bill comes from spokesmen of States be flying in the face of constitutional day appear before the court charged Who made what folks called “mashes." naturalized and so have no franchise, When the motion to recommit the wonderful compilation of information it fails poverty. The bearded lady, “Zip, the about from which would lose under the measure, as intention and public opinion if wTong addresses on their opera- We do not nor to count Negroes in certain South- measure to the census committee came the Orient, copied the the measure.” dog-faced with gibe at cigarettes clopaedia * well as from those of States whose to approve What-is-it?" Jo Jo, the man, ern States where they are disfranchised to a vote, there were yeas, 134; nays, Britannica, and amorous sen- Hope A point raised that the Fenn measure tor permits. Nor gneer at small mustaches. timents, copied from old family love representation would be increased. and others of their clan, have gone —whether technically or practically—as 227; not voting, 67. is expressed generally that the reappor- had an unconstitutional feature, in that their way. The dime museum is obso- The majority of these violators plead- forming part of the total voters eligible But in all the discussion nobody grew letters. Kerry tells about it: “‘My the 1910 it improperly delegated powers, is dis- And so the world goes on its way, Jenepher.’ tionment, the first since cen- .ed ignorance of the rule, although in to the vote. Instead, therefore, of the eloquent over the neglected status of dear my Uncle Valentine completed time to apply missed by the Kansas City lete. Its appeal to morbid curiosity Through happiness or sorrow. only of you sus. will be in Journal-Past the Infraction may have shameful record of about half the District of Columbia, where not would read aloud. ‘This Is trusting of 1932. with the statement: "The Fenn bill la many soma cases exercising fran- cent, cent, in to the elections made it a refuge for unfortunates What seemed ridiculous today the eligible voters the merely 21 per but 100 per of are the excellent health which I en- be found fault,” in the fashioned that it does not really been deliberate in order to prevent, upon an joy and for which be “There can no so who were enabled by the arts of show- Grows serious tomorrow. chise, that false idea is based the citizens are denied the franchise, God thanked.’ opinion of the Atlanta Journal, "with delegate powers. Congress fixes the check-ups of driving records by the estimate of our total population, inclu- except as they can deliver it surrepti- And then would follow a dissertation on the the basis of manship to enjoy liberal reward and ac- tiously otherwise it the simoon rubber, which had the determination to maintain representation on popula- Traffic Bureau. Whatever the reason sive of the aliens who have never or "bootleg" by mail or on we House at 435. Admittedly, tion. The work left to the Secretary appear before the public as personages Service. the right to vote; also indigent to some distant State. According to the bodily taken from the excellent ency- membership for failure to obey the regulations, quired if the membership should be increased of Commerce is purely ministerial. Any of peculiar distinction. That, old dime “A politician should serve his coun- Indians who are not taxed and the original apportionment, when the Con- clopedia of Mr. Britannica. ‘Tonight, may from ignorance or a to stitution adopted, beyond this number, the House would future Congress change the basis. whether desire try.” Negro of the South who has been jock- was it was on the when the stars are in full glory in Goa's not, museum served a philanthropic pur- basis of 30.000 citizens per become even more unwieldy than it is If it does the Secretary of Com- deceive the authorities, Washingtonians eyed out of his vote by some literacy Representa- Heaven and when I should be revelling be all merce will merely do a simple calcula- pose. "There are two kinds of politicians,” test,” or just tive. If that were today’s basis, the in the jewellery of the universe, my now’, and its effectiveness would reform. It is a good law, clear test or the "grandfather * * * Since the nu- in arithmetic prescribed by Con- should said Senator Sorghum. "One bulldozing terrorizing, and District of Columbia would have more thoughts with you my but destroyed. tion serves plain and are and Ulster strength of the electoral college gress and announce the result. This is first and reasonable, and is designed to safe- who have forfeited their than a baker’s dozen Representatives home. O head of dark locks!’ We had merical Selection of a cabinet is the re- his country. The other manages to the felons by representation in the not a delegation of power in any rea- guard those who drive automobiles by and the "denatured citizen in the House, where it. today has not changed ‘auburn’ to ’dark.’ And con- is controlled sponsibility a new President has to . make his country serve him.” franchise 1 House and Senate, it is apparent that sonable sense of the term.” permitting a check-up by the labeled D. C. So, instead of an esti- even a delegate of the rank of the cluded, ‘Yours very sincerely, Digory meet. There must be disappointments. quick adults, "gentleman from Hawaii.” Pascoe.’ the reapportionment of House member- *** * | drivers who mate of 60.000.000 or 70,000.000 Damned good: we thought it. political sig- i Traffic Bureau for reckless Jud Tunkins says one of the refine- only (Copyright, by V. Collins.) ship has a mast important In politics, as in other games, there over 21 years of age, he estimates 1029. Paul ’Thank you, Valentine, and thank you. But politics is a secondary Taking up this same question, tha endanger life and limb. There should cruelty give birthday eligible he has just dear Kerry, for reading my nificance. “But, why must.be a point where friendship ceases. ments of is to a 45,000,000 voters; it.’ Aunt consideration of Hartford Courant suggests: appearances tabulating the vote in the Jenepher would say.” issue in the present day, be no further before the party to bald-headed man with the completed The reader of question, for there is involved in its recall the Constitution at this late a last flection and finds that the story knows immediately that the the when those who remember that there courts for violation of this regulation. rheumatism. presidential Astronomers Would settlement the instinct of self-preserva- Afghanistan's New King. it numbered 36,863,533 votes actually sensitive, humorous blind woman is not is such a document have for years ig- 8,000.000 deceived, tion.” that, In the kaleidoscope of political af- cast. That leaves only about that she has penetrated the of neglect to reapportion nored its Intention reapportton- A life sentence for a persistent Michi- Brain Fag. eligible to vote, who failed to exercise Change Time System kindly hoax from the beginning, and is "The peri! ment of congressional districts be Afghanistan appears striking lay,” according to the Springfield Union, made fairs in a gan moonshiner is calculated to make In poverty must genius dwell. their right to do so. If that 45,000,000 BY E. E, FREE, FH. D. herself considerately deceiving the two ! after each decennial census?” of the rev- basis, only 21 per "in the possibility of a presidential elec- new figure, a strange product him regret that he did not go to one of Nor hope to learn wealth's golden is the correct then A committee of the Royal Astro- childlike men. the electoral The Oakland Tribune says "the failed to show' ** * * tion so close that vote -'*l olution which successively drove Ama- cent of our eligible voters nomical Society, the leading organiza- constitutionally foes of the bill could not longer hold the big towns and become a regular trick, rights. The right Tamerlane, would not be representa- his brother Inayatullah from appreciation of their tion of astronomers in England, has or Timur Beg. Sultan of therefore might involve a clear consciences and stand out against nullah and racketeer. Which calculations will compel to vote is a sacred heritage of our citi- Samarkand in the tive. and the The Tribune adds: Bacha who been appointed to inquire from railway fourteenth centurv. question more serious than misrepre- Constitution.” the realm. This is Sagao, In wearisome arithmetic. zenship; it is not lightly esteemed. from the has always been a favorite subject for "Cheers come from California, Michi- Hood neglect their fran- men and public w’hether or not sentation in Congress, which is serious hM been described as the Robin A baffling characteristic of the Mon- The percentage who it Is desirable to print railway time romantic treatment. A soldier at the gan. Ohio. New Jersey, Texas and other How with great thoughts can he con- chise has little bearing upon the failure of age of 12 and enough.” which would thi* of Afghanistan. He organized the recent is its simplicity of expres- tables hereafter in the 24-hour system conqueror of Turkestan. ** * * States gain.” On roe Doctrine Congress to adjust the inequalities of Georgia. Armenia point, the observes: revolution against Amanuliah’s reform nect. common on the Continent of Europe in- Persia, and parts of It is by the Philadelphia Eve- Lexington Leader sion. No one has to read it more than apportionment in 1920, as required by India, China and Siberia before he fin- agreed "Kentucky will be sorry to have its and carried it through ef- For which the world might render really low- stead of in the 12-hour system now ning Bulletin that “unfairness in the government once in order to understand it thor- the Constitution, but the conventional in England and in the ished his career, he had all the quali- representation reduced, as will other Kabul thanks, percentage of vote slackers indicates the ties of apportionment of electoral votes is a Constitution fectively. Now he ife installed at oughly. United States. Up to date no one seems a romantic hero. Christopher might States, but the should not appreciation of the privilege of circumstance that make trouble * * * as ruler and, according to latest dis- While he devotes his intellect high enthusiastic over the reform, much as Marlowe made him the titanic hero of be ignored. No argument can the mass of citizens to participate in his drama, “Tamburlaine.” lesser in an election less one-sided than the be advanced, however appealing, that seemingly his new To fillingout taxation blanks? it would simplify train calculations and A paper patches. is secure in Good News for Canaries. the government of their country, and writer, Harold Lamb, has recently last.” That feels that "the Sen- actually justifies the delay in reappor- of the avoid accidents like missed trains. If writ- ate would invite general condemnation seat. He is a good deal of a mystery, surely so demonstrates the enormity England rejects ten a biography of the Tartar con- tionment or that can in any sense ex- Slowly but, war, once so color- Not Interested. failing to follow’ ultra-conservative the by again balking the action of the verv little being known of him. Rumor wrong by Congress in idea, perhaps a home might be found queror, "Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker.” cise further delay.” sentimental, becoming more ** House.” The Salt Lake Deseret. New'S ! ful and is "He looks like a Greek god!” ex- the constitutional requirement to re- the * * "After seven years of rough going.” aavs that he was once a water carrier. I representation according for it in United States. The essen- also holds that “the selfishness, the in- 1 mechanized The human element can claimed the gushing girl. apportion the tial of the plan is to begin the day at, A more enthusiastic studv of Arnold comments the Newark Evening News, Again it is reported that he was a pri- to the 1920 census. justice. the actual law defiance which "the bill has been adopted in the scarcely be eliminated, but the media gods.” midnight and count the hours right of Rugby than that, of Lytton Strachey opposition House soldier, third report is that “I never cared for Greek re- ** * * characterise the have become vate and a its through to the following midnight, so In his "Eminent Victorians” is the book and now goes to the Senate. If the bill through which mankind Indulges plied Miss Cayenne. "According to all too evident to be longer tolerated." accepted at he was a highway robber. That he is of now’ pending House, that 1 p.m. becomes 13 o'clock, 5 p.m. "Dr. Arnold of Rugby,” by Arnold is the other end of the belligerent propensities change from A bill is in the "What is Important,” states the Little Capitol. Jersey gain seats. claim at all reports, they were a most unruly lot.” Fenn, chairman of becomes 17 o’clock, 11 at, night is 23 Whltridge. He shows the famous New will two humble origin, without any introduced by Mr. Rock Arkansas Democrat, "is the fact * * * flesh and blood to iron and steel, from committee, w'hich o’clock, and so on. schoolmaster, who was only 47 at the , New Jersey’s rise in industrial to royalty, seems to be established. the census provides that Congress has awakened to the fact! with its attendant electricity. "Power,” said Hi the sage of decennial census the Systems resembling have been time of his death, as a man vigorous Government, ! importance, increase tribal as- muscle to gasoline and Ho, that after each this that this is a democratic j population, There is some doubt as to his Secretary of the Department of Com- used by scientific men for years, and physically and mentally, for his time a i in justifies the increase in an The next step will undoubtedly be the Chinatown, "loves flattery. The more and its representation in Congress its and electoral college sociation. By some he is said to be merce shall report to Congress, on the recently all the sciences agreed upon radical in religion and politics, an in- should be based upon a democratic con- ; i congressional Pathan. By- elimination of those little canaries undeserved a compliment, the greater first Monday of the second session of the same midnight to midnight system. novator in education and the father of representation, as in the case of Michi- Afghan Mohmand, or ceptlon.” That paper records the fact gan additional four. Reapportionment which, during the World War, through its significance as a tribute of submis- the Congress, the legal representation The manifest advantages in avoiding the student government movement. The that, "the so-called normally Demo- s ethers he is plarcd as a Tajik, which census, impression made by Dr. Arnold on has been demanding attention for years, their susceptibility to various gases, mission.” for each State, based on the last confusion, in making it. unnecessary to the cratic States would lose ft seats and Indicates Persian origin. One fantastic and unless Congress makes its own ap- print a.m. and p.m. and in other sim- boys of his school has been immortal- and the Fenn bill method is the best of gave warning to sappers and miners gain 5, while the Republican States any suggested.” report that has circulated In the Small Stake. portionment before the close of that plifications of timekeeping far out- ized by one of them. Thomas Hughes, would gain ill and lose ITseats.” and tenant* of trenches and dugouts session, then the Secretary's apportion- w’eigh, advocates of the system urge, in “Tom Brown’s School Days." Arnold "States such Illinois, bazaars is a hint that Bacha Sagao is The man who had a came The Binghamton Press remarks that as which would of the presence of dangers at hand million ment shall stand as the basis for the the temporary inconvenience of chang- Whitridge is a great-grandson of Arnold "after neither gain nor lase by reapportion- near - years of dodging the House finally po other than Col. LawTence, the hero To take a chance. election and until Congress The of Rugby. of efflea- following ing the faces of clocks. practi- ment.” avers the Chicago Journal of Mesopotamia. Not only was their timely advice got one white in the does make its constitutionally required cability of the system Is proved, it is *** * Commerce, "simply do not care about He chip game in Whoever he is, wherever he comes , cious, but their companionship was reapportionment. The total* number asserted, by its actual use by railways The father of Michel de Montaigne to. To the end of his days Montaigne the question. Since it does not have A Os big finance. —435 —is to remain as at from, his tribe, the new King : cheering. Advices from Pittsburgh state the House in Continental Europe. At present no had an odd way of teaching his son re- never veered from an even course in direct effect on them, they are not con- whatever present. step is contemplated execept the change ligious tolerance. He took the future regard to religion, although he lived in cerned about it." As for the other evidently person of that the sacrifice of the lives of these "You can’t alius judge a man by de * * of Afghanistan Is a ?* for railway time, leaving ordinary clocks essayist and philosopher when only a one of the stormiest periods of history, States w'hlch have pleaded for larger little birds to coal and other company he keeps,” said Uncle Eben. i a unusual parts. He has accomplished l i save The census committee's report shows unaltered. Even the railway change lad to witness the burning of a large : Th» whole story of his life is charm- : House, however, that paper says. "They uniting; • deadly peril longer "Many purty urged by pointed ingly "Montaigne; ' gain nothing by pro- the extremely difficult task of miners from is no a low-down citizen man- that if the apportionment had been i will not be the astronomers number of heretics and out to • i told m Grave and would at all the i it, . by -necessary; ages to git a fine dog." made in 1920, upon of unless the public favors 4 iirn ( fanaticism In religion pay.” £adre posed enlargement 0 f the House.." teany faction.% comnromising tribal dis- ¦ that the Bureau of Mines hisself based the census i him what leads J-MBftncie. 1