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Monday THE EVENING SUN Decent 21, 1931 SECOND SIXTIOX-PAGE 21 rAGE 21-SECOXD SECTTOX The Evening Sun Forum THE EVENING SUN r-uMiahtd Ferr Week-Bay Br THE A. S. A ELL COMPANY Paul Patterson, President. The Free State Ry H. L.

ICocvright, JMl, by The Evening Sun, Pays The Price MENCKEN epubheation without neimi.shn prolu piled! ence. Not so, however, Mr. Hillyera pupils, upon whom his methods and his personality left an indelible Impress. And though he will be mourned by the many friends he made outside his classrooms, it is his pupils who alone can estimate the magnitude of their loss. She possessed, however, probably above any other woman on the American stage, the charm of simplicity and understanding that made a tender appeal to her audiences and gave her greater hold on her public than nny contemporaneous actress.

It was no unusual thing in those days, for instance, to find a pushing, tugging throng of women and girls congregated around the stage entrance to get a glimpse of her, to touch her and to kiss her hand before her performance began and when it was over. Particularly when she acted 'Teter Pan" was there always patiently waiting a crowd of worshipers, and on these occasions, she would always wear her Peter Pan cap with its jaunty feather to delight the children. But most of the time Miss Adams would emerge from the stage door veiled, and hasten through her admirers to her carriage to be whisked away. Few actresses the world around have commanded such affection. Miss Adams' was and probably still is the most elusive personage to be found anywhere.

When she appeared before the footlights, she belonged to her public. But after the last curtain fell, she belonged to herself, and in such a marked degree that few persons are to be found, if we except her professional associates, who have ever so much as been presented to her. She hired no press agents; and she gave no interviews beyond a laconic sentence or two of generalities. She was mysterious in a sense; and like many mysteries Bhe grew into a legend. And she is still apparently an attractive legend to thousands.

The Rolling Road Appreciated Congratulation! To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: Allow me to offer my congratulations on the vigorous stand you have taken in the case of the Eastern Shore lynching. I also want to thank H. L. Mencken for his two excellent articles, and Dr. Willey, of New York, for his very enlightening letter in regard to the Shore.

These two men are doing a good service, even though it does get under the skins of our Shore brethren. John M. Whitmore. Reisterstown, Dec. 17.

We Are Given Advice To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: I have been a lifelong reader of The Sun, and in view of the high standing of the paper in the past I was surprised recently to see in The Eceninj Sun an article by H. L. Mencken on the subject of the Eastern Shore lynching, which relied, in the fashion of the small boy, on calling people names to express disapproval of their actions. If nothing better in style and diction can be found to be put on the editorial page of The Ei cniup Sun, I would suggest that th space simply be left blank. Ida Neepier White Marsh, Dec.

It. The Lynchers Might Be Given A Banquet And A Testimonial Of Esteem By The B. A. C. And Perhaps The Boycott Might Be Lifted, Thlnki This Correspondent To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: And so the Baltimore Association of Commerce resolved to reprimand our local press for their denunciation and condemnation of the brutal show of our neighbors in Salisbury, Md.

Well, well! I really believe the B. A. C. did not go far enough to appease the anger of our intelligent neighbors. They should have decided on a big banquet for the lynchers and all those who gleamed with joy at the marvelous show.

Then present them with a written testimonial of our great appreciation and high regard we hnve for their noble actions and hiRh intelligence. It would also convince them of our sincerity if a similar resolution was sent off to Maryland Historical Society for future reference. Then maybe their boycotting us will be withdrawn. Oh, almighty dollar! Is there no limit to thy disgusting power? A. Flom.

Baltimore, Dec. 17. Mencken "Underdeveloped Mentally" To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: The artiiie of Mr. Mencken in your Issue of Hth Inst, shows conclusively that the gentleman is underdeveloped mentally and in consequence has a vision of narrow compass when dealing with mass events. The men of the Eastern Shore are Godfearing, red-blooded men.

What has transpired did not transpire haphazardly. Every effect has a cause, and if we would know the effect we must first know the cause. The State of Maryland without equivocation, therefore, responsible for what has happened here. To a thinking person remedy against acts of the kind in the future is apparent. First, an enactment by the Legislature of a law forbidding prosecuting attorneys and detectives from examining traversers and publishing their confessions in advance of trials in open courts.

Second, a code of ethics among attorneys teaching mercenary lawyers that it is bad manners to enter the homes of other lawyers without invitations to do so. Then and not until then will courts function normally and blind justice be seen without a noose fashioned by the hands of determined men. John M. Savin. Snow Hill, Dec.

15. More Men Like Mencken Needed, Thinks To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: Mr. Mencken does not need any "seconds" to assist him in his literary battles. I also know he does not allow his spirit to become depressed, nor even perturbed by the red-hot broadside of the enemy guns. Yet, in spite of his self-reliant attitude enabling him to meet and beat all comers single-handed on the arena of constructive criticism, I find it hard to suppress my approval of the fundamental, moral and social principles he exposes in his writings.

I am not joining hands with Mr. Mencken in his public utterances affecting the character of any idividual or group of individuals, for in this particular case he is supposed to be the only judge and lord; but I do agree with him and appreciate his man' attitude, undaunted courage and humanistic principles In condemning those acts which every normal human being thinks condemnable, but which ordy a few have the nerve and ability to condemn. That we need more men like Mencken and more papers like The Ei'rnmn Sun is an irrefutable fact, for then and only then will the wheels of justice grind finer and faster. John D. Pastrana.

Annapolis, Dec. IS. She Never Heard Of "One Mencken" To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: Why all this furore about one H. L. Mencken? Why, never even heard of him until 1 came to Baltimore, ana i sure very few people north of the Mason and Dixon line know there is such a "critter," or, like myself, think his articles are huge jokes.

Maybe he is just another one of those "A meriean Mother" myths! I decided this some time ago when I read an attempted criticism of his on the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pa. Anyway, he now seems to be putting The Sun on the map and "pepping up" business in general. A Damnm Yankee, Baltimore, Dec. 16. Sara R.

Barcus. Intercepted Letters Drnr T.rtlrr What with gas stations nnd gn holders, your Job Isn't any bed of roes, Is it? Tours, HoNORAni E. I.rsrra Mri i ra, City Council, City. riease be brief. An a rule 200 tcorrfg should be enough.

Your name and address must accompany each comtnuni-cnlion as an rridrnrc of pood fnilh. Your itdtitc trill not bp published unless 1on tctsh it, but stoned Icfterj trill be pit en the preference. Ridicules The Idea That The Body Of St. Helen Is That Of John Wilket Booth To nil EniTon or Ths Evening. SuN-Sir: And has that tall, gaunt mummy, claimed to be that of John Wilkes Booth, come into the possession of a Chicago woman, and at the enormous price of The last 1 heard of it was that it was being exhibited in California in car built for the purpose, exhibited by two man who bought the mummy from Mrs.

Bates, after her husband's death, for $1,500. (Mummies have increased in price even during the depression.) Mrs. Bates wrote me about three years ago that, "not being interested in her hus band's hobby," she had sold the body to two men. I have a copy of the card these men were selling, containing a full-length picture of the mummy. I have also a photograph of the man, St.

Helen, which he gave to Bates. Simply examine the photograph of John Wilkes Booth with that of St. Helen, or compare Ihe mummy's head with Rooth's head, and you will find proof enough that they are not the same. Can anyone suppose that Stanton would have given up pursuit of the fugitive in ten days and paid the immense reward to his captors if not certain that the body brought back to Washington (dead, to his disappointment) was not that of Booth? Ella V. Mahonet.

The Booth Homestead, Bclair, Dec. 17. Lamentable Lack Of Appreciation Of The Good, The True And The Beautiful, Not To Say Brilliant To ins EntToit or The Evening Sun New Y'car's hope Here's hoping that the "Rolling Road" will roll into the "Slop-way," and that both will slop into the Fallsway, If they get Into the new sewerage system, I assume no responsibility. Baltimore, Dec. 18.

Walter H. Buck. They Have No Cushion To Ease The Bump To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir: In your editorial, "To Mr. Hoover," in which you call attention to "cushion," used frequently in his message to Congress, and the latest offspring of the noble keywords, "normalcy" and "prosperity." employed so effectively by his two most re cent predecessors, you state that he "should be congratulated for having found a word that is so admirably suited to the needs of the present situation." Do you really think he should be felicitated for finding this ease-treatment at this late date? Is it not rather laughable to see him come running with this bundle of cushions after the bumps have been well and individually administered? Figuratively speaking, the American people have found it necessary to eat off of the mantelpiece for two and a half years. Would it not be more humane to pass the arnica bottle and smelling salts? Leslie D.

Kline. Winchester, Dec. 14. A Ritchie Slogan To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir, The slogan "Get Rich With Ritchie" is not a fitting way of helping us out of the present chaos. Quite naturally, all who would adopt such a slogan would feel that he or she would become immediately wealthy: such a condition would work a much greater hardship on the nation than for all of us to stay poor.

With all of us rich and none poor, we would experience just as much depression The old adage "Put a beggar on horseback" would immediately manifest itself and the nation would cease to function Permit me to offer a more appropriate slogan: Albert Cabell Ritchie A Consci entious Ruler. J. S. Baltimore, Dec. 13.

The Lord's Prayer In Hebrew To the Editor or The Evening Sun Sir; In a recent Forum (December 9) H. L. Mencken is severely taken to task by a correspondent for having asked In discuss ing a new version of the "Lord's "Is it a more faithful rendering of the He brew?" To be sure, the Lord's Prayer is found In the authoritative text of the New Testament, not in Hebrew, but in Greek, This is known to Mr. Mencken ns well ns to the rest of us. If he, nevertheless, speaks of a rendering o' the Hebrew, the slip of his pen granting that we must look at it in thnt way may rather set us thinking Instead of causing us, with your rnrrc spondent, to smile at him, conscious of our superiority.

The text of the Lord's Prayer belongs to the passages of the New Testament found In Matthew and Luke only. Such passages, In the opinion of the best critics, are derived from a lost source 'now usually called written in a Semitic language, be it Aramaic or Hebrew. This obviously, is the document to which Papias refers In his well-known statement: "Matthew com posed the Logia in Hebrew, and each Interpreted them as he was able." Lopia is the plural of Green lofion "discourse" or "saying." The term Is wide enough to Include the Lord's Prayer. Not only Mr. Mencken but also the editor of The Evening Sun comes in for blame on account of bis having allowed "an anti-Christian who is also onti-Ameriran to review an American edition of the Bible." It is more to the point to dwell on Mr.

Mencken's qualification for reviewing the book from the point of view of scholarship. Is your correspondent aware that Mr. Mencken is the author of a work which has recently appeared in a third (revised) edition (New York, 132fi), entitled "The American Language. An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States," This has been for a number of years the only comprehensive work on American English. It Is sharing this honor now with a similar work by a Columbia University professor, published in two volumes in Both of these works are very scholarly and at the same lime very readable, so ns to supplement each other in a most gratifying manner.

I sure you could have chosen no more competent reviewer of a translation of the Bible into present-day English. Baltimore, Dec, 15. Philologus. filtered at the PoetotTiee at Baltimore aj eerond-elaae oiatl inalter. Coturrieht, 1981.

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First National Hank Building Ixndon at) Fleet Street Circulation of The Sun in November Morning: 147.2W Los SAlt Evening Irm.Kl Loss 4.415 Sunday 196.0S5 Lose 4,504 Member of the Associated Press The Asanciated Press Is exclusively entitled to the uae for rmblieaUon of all newa disretchea credited to it not otherwiae credited in Una paper and also the local news published herein. All nalite of republication of special dmpatrhea herein are also referred. BALTIMORE, MONDAY, DEC. II, 10-11 Slump In Prophecy A reporter for the Associated Tress, having canvassed the situation, reports that our business and industrial prophets have grown very cautious about making predictions, and finds a decided hesitancy of business lead-I ers to comment on the prospects of I the next few months. Is this a definite and permanent change fit attitude? Is the great American game of prophesying prosperity going into a decline? Who shall say? Yet perhaps our business statesmen are beginning to realize that the game, like any other, demands a certain degree of skill.

Perhaps they recall the disappointments that have been sustained during the past two years by some of the best prosperity prophets. Terhaps these gentlemen recall Mr. Rockefeller's statement, late in 1029, that there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges. Terhaps they have been thinking of Sir. Charlie Schwab's remark, made on October 18, 1930 Looking to the future, I see in the farther acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers.

Science will cure Unemployment. Or that, of Mr. E. H. H.

Simmons, a Jormer Stock Exchange president, on January 26, I do not think that the fall In secur-t lty prices will itself cause any great curtailment in consumption Or, that of Mr. Richard Whitney, who Is now president, on September 30, We all know that the present period cannot long endure statement, by the way, which lias marked stylistic affinities with the Declaration of Independence. Or perhaps they are thinking of Mr. Henry Ford's observation on March 13, J031: These really are good times, but only a few know it. Or Mr.

Roger Babson's ukase of May 1031 Statistics show clearly that business reached its low point in Decem-ber of last year. Everything indicates that general business has turned the corner. I go further and say that 3031 should offer the greatest opportunities of any year for generations. Or the modest effort of Mr. Tat Crowley, until recently president of the New York Central, which he offered in June, 1930 Trophecy is a vain thing and I have no wish to Join the ranks, but I cannot believe that this country of ours can long remain in a state of depression.

I believe that we have turned the corner. So, maybe, our business leaders, hav-Jngwitnessed all these examples of dreadful bidding, have decided" that they won't play any more until they know more about the game. I Schoolmaster To Virgil Hlllyer was given the privilege of witnessing the fruitloVi of his For though death came (o hlin fcwiftly and much too early as age Is tordlnarily reckoned, yet he lived to see a whole generation of his pupils arrive fit maturity and launch forth upon careers In a manner that testified to the soundness of the fundamentals which he Jiad bestowed upon them. Mr, Hlllyer was unique In (hat he con-jfjned his talent to primary education, a Held which most men of his attainment night have regarded as unimportant, the jort of work that might, be reserved to he traditional schoolma'm. But to him business of directing the first timid was an Inspiration.

He tosed enn-entlon to the winds, and with it. the old schoolbooks. lie transformed geography ind history from a mass of dry dates ind statistics into a high and romantic idvcnture. "The royal road to learning" Has to him not a mere phrase; it was an rioaL He had a per-uHar Klft for placing ilmself in the position of the child, ask-rg himself what would be interesting to tie child and by that means capturing ihe child's attention. Naturally, his orlg-nal methods aroused criticism In some liiarters, but he refused io be regimented ind put his faith In the loson learned by actual experience above those of the lormldablo staffs of experts weighted pown with psychological theory, Tn the long years of elementary and tjlTerslty training students as a rule eight pf their brief, primary, experi New Mexico mm better, fnv it is very sparsely settled, and though it has no horde of Illiterate Negroes, as Tennessee has, it is burdened wiih even less literate Mexicans, lis rnnk in wealth is thirty-fifth.

In education forty-second, in health forty-fifth, nnd in public order thirty-fourth. Ils death rate from homicide is actually larger than Oklahoma's, and its record for lynching Is worse than Florida's. Certainly no Marylandcr, not even a loyal Salisburylan in his lucid moments, likes to think 'if Maryland getting Into such company. For ninny years past the Free State has been going up the ladder, not down. Its schools have been improved, its death rate has declined, and it has made an excellent record for public order.

During the years from 1SS9 to 3030 inclusive its lynching record grew better year by year, and for the whole period it had less than half as many lynching, to each 300,000 of population, as Virginia, less than a quarter as many as Kentucky, less than a fifth as many as Tennessee, and less than one-fourteenth as many as Mississippi. Since the turn of the century, Indeed. Its record has been far better than that of the count ry as a whole. Nor has this advance gone unmarked. I think It safe! to say that, most reflective Americans, in lute years, have come to admire Maryland, anil that not.

a few have learned to envy If. Its sound laws, honest courts nnd enlightened public opinion have been often noticed. All Americans have come to know that, almost alone among the States south of the Mason Dixon line, It has resisted stoutly and successfully the pernicious Influence of such anti social agencies as the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klnx Klan. It has had much less graft than the other densely populated States, ami what little has occurred has been promptly and severely punished. It Is generally orderly, even in Its most remote parts, and Its one big city, Baltimore, has been singularly free from thnt gang terrorism which hns beset so many other cities.

The word hns gone out that Maryland has reasonable laws; that they are administered fairly; that no man, whatever his color or condition, is denied his plain rights, and that opinion among the people strongly supports this slate of affairs. A Maryland Governor has attracted national attention by advocating the Maryland program, nnd a gooil part of his importance as a Presidential candidate is due to the fact that people elsewhere would like to be governed as well as we have been. As one who has spent a great deal of time and energy, for years past, in whooping up the virtues of the State, both at home and abroad, I am naturally distressed to see it disgraced before the world, and if I have spoken against those responsible for that disgrace In harsh terms I have no apologies to offer. At a single stroke they have undone the good work of years. At single stroke they have made Maryland ashamed, even In the presence of Tennessee and New Mexico.

And to ndil to their offense they have sought to distract attention from It by setting up a vain ami hollow bluster against those who have denounced it. IV ywo weeks ago, writing In this place, I argued that the lynching of Williams was foreseen and inevitable that Its roots were in a turbulence that had been rising for a long while, unchallenged by those who should have put it down. I see no reason to change that view. The very manner in which presumably enlightened Shoremen have tried to cover up the crime offers it impressive support. Nor am I alone in holding It, Here, for example, is nn extract from an editorial In the Frederick a paper that surely cannot he accused of any prejudice ngainst country people: Our sympathy goes to Wicomico county In particular and the lower Eastern Shore in general.

Sympathy because Hie economic and Intellectual opportunities of this beautiful but isolated peninsula are so limited that those men of industry and vision to whom inevitably community leadership is intrusted have found themselves impelled to pack up their bags and hie away to more favored lands. Hence Eastern Shore leadership has fallen into the hands of second nnd third raters, from whom the citizenry in general have taken their cue. Sordidness and Intolerance have become familiar in a section once famous for Culture and Gentility. For years there hns been recognized on the Shore a leadership that. apicals strictly to Emotion, nnd lets Reason grow cold nnd numb.

A notice under the masthead of the Ciliirn Informs me that It is "Ihe official and recognized organ of the Democratic party in Frederick county." From the masthead Itself I learn thnt the president of the company publishing the paper Is the Hon. David ('. Winebrenncr 3d, Secretary of Stnteof Maryland. IdaTarhell Thinks Tariff The Leading Issue From the Woman'e Home Companion JDA TARBELL gave first place to the tariff question, rather than to unemployment. "I limit myself," she replied, "to the Issue which in my judgment stands high above all others at the present moment.

It Is: Cutting down trade barriers between the nations of Ihe world. As I look at it, the channels of world trade are clogged by tariffs. It is idle to talk about genuine prosperity until trade can flow freely according to the needs and desires of men. When trade is really free the need for armaments will disappear. So Important do I think this Is, thnt all the other issues seem so secondary as to be hardly worth talking about," Lena Madison rhllllps, president of the National Council of Women, supported Miss Tarbell, declaring: "The outstanding campaign Issues will be those in which our relations with other nations are Involved the tariff and the World Court.

I'pon them depend the future of civilization and the welfare of the American family pyikctbgok," Y'ITH arrests imminent in Salisbury. the investigation oi uie lyuciinii; December 4 will presently pass into the hands of the criminal court there, and once it Is at bar discussing it will he an indecorum. In the Interval it may be worth while to examine briefly some of the effects of the crime upon the credit and dignity of Maryland. Those effects bear upon all of us, for while the lower Shore is a small part of the State it is an ancient one, and whatever any considerable number of ils citizens say and do, publiclv and without general and immediate challenge, is naturally mistaken for the act and voice of the Maryland people. This may be irrational and unjust, and no doubt it Is as Shoremen themselves, in fact, have often argued when the whole State has been credited with Baltimore's surpassing wetness but such Is the way human beings think, and being unable to change it we must learn to suffer it.

In the present case there can be no doubt 'whatever that Maryland has suffered a severe loss in reputation, and will be a long time recovering It. One need not. of course, be quite so gloomy the Salisbury Atlrcrtiacr, which holds that the scandal "will lake generations to live down, and cannot ever be erased," but there is every reason to believe that it will be remembered for good many years, and at very inconvenient and embarrassing moments. The I-eo Frank case Is now ancient history in Georgia, and those who were responsible for it long ago decided formally to forget it, but it Is recalled constantly by other persons, and to the obvious damage of the State. Similarly, the Saceo-Yanzetti case has ceased to lie discussed In Massachusetts, but.

elsewhere it Is talked of very often, and millions of people are acutely aware of it who never think of Harvard University. The lynching in Wicomico county will not be remembered as long as the case of Sacco and Vanzetti nor even as long as the case of Frank, for Its victim was a poor black half-wit, friendless and no doubt well deserving death for his crime. No committee of uplifters will be formed to make whoopee in his memory, and there will be no stoning of American consulates at Buenos Aires and Budapest. A week after the court finishes with the business he will be forgotten. But It will tint be so soon forgotten that the proud old State of Maryland, after years of honorable standing among the most enlightened and orderly of American commonwealths, has been shoved down again let us hope only transiently to the ruffianly level of Mississippi and Arkansas.

II newspaper comment that I have seen and there has been a great deal of It has nearly all struck the same note. That is the note of genuine surprise that anything so out of harmony with the State tradition should have happened In a Maryland town. If Williams had been lynched in rural Georgia the news would have got only a few lines, but when he was lynched in Maryland it was worth black type, usually on the front page. Toor Salisbury got such advertising as its most ardent boosters never dreamed of. Its name was spread across a thousand newspapers, and became known to millions who had never heard It before.

And every one of those millions was reminded that it was in Maryland. At some time In the future, after the Wicomico county court has brought the case to an end, I plan to reprint the comment of the papers on both Shores, and some selections from those of papers elsewhere, at home and abroad. For the present a few selections must suffice. As I have said, most of the out-of-state papers show only bewilderment: they can scarcely oelieve that such news should come from Maryland. But others, especially the more backward States, are derisory rather than sympathetic, and seem to gloat over the fact thnt.

Maryland has succumbed to their frequent example. I point, frtr instance, to the Commrrrlal-Apprnl, of Memphis, a Stale celebrated largely for two things: that It was the scene of the Scopes monkey trial and that if has had more than 200 lynching since 3SK0: In nearly all cases Southern lynching are the result of grave provocation. But In Maryland a Negro who has killed a white man and was himself almost, killed by the son of the victim was taken from the hospital and lynched. The almost-dead man had to be carried to the point where he was strung up. His body was taken to the Negro district of the town of Salisbury, where it was cremated as the mob shouted.

The logic here may be characteristically shaky, but the Intent Is plain enough, and so Is the advertising. The Tribune, in far-away Albuquerque, N. Is more logical but no less devastating: Tom Johnson, the Negro convicted of the brutal murder of a little Santa Fe girl, must die In the electric chair. We commend the case of Johnson to the attention of other localities In the United States, particularly to the officials and citizens of the great Free State of Maryland. Several days ago mob Inw broke out in Maryland nnd a wounded Negro was lynched.

The Negro was guilty of shooting his employer. Santa Fe county citizens flamed with indignation at a greater outrage in their community, but they kept their heads. The officials of Santa Fe county acted quickly, calmly. The case has been a triumph of orderly process throughout, Sheriff Baca took no chances, III TO one expects much from Tennessee, or, for that matter, from New Mexico. The former Is a backward Stale upon almost all counts.

It. ranks forty-second In wealth, whereas Maryland Is nineteenth. In education It Is forty-first. In health forty foiirt nnd in public order forty-third. Its usual place In the news Is that of a comic character, what with Its antl-cvolutlon laws.

Its Holy Rollers and lta hoofing Prohibitionists. Noj Js Lesson For Candidates A few days ago Alfalfa Bill was talked of for the Democratic nomination, but not now. The change Is due to the fact that his own State has repudiated him, and there is not much chance for a candidate who cannot carry his own State. As the returns from the late election, which overwhelmed Governor Murray, are tabulated, it appears that the only sections of Oklahoma which stood by him manfully were the remote backwoods. And they were not enough to carry his program through.

Here, if they choose to examine It, is a lesson for Presidential candidates. The case of Bill shows that when a man enters the national political game he is foolish to play to the backwoods, for when the crucial test comes that support will not be enough. In matters where State offices only are involved, an appeal to barbarism may be effective but when the Presidency is in view, a man must have some support from people of character and intelligence if he is to make a creditable showing. Slim Hope The first act sent up for the President's signature by the new Congress was one appropriating $200,000,000 more to pay the soldiers' bonus. Since the Treasury is already in the red, this money will have to be borrowed, of course.

Saturday the House managed to pass another bill. This one appropriated to extend the credit of the Federal Land Banks, It the Senate passes the bill, this, too, must be borrowed. Exactly ten days ago Melvin A. Tray-lor, of Chicago, who is one of the most successful bankers in the world and therefore presumably knows something about finance, was a witness before the La Fol-lette Committee and was asked what, in Ills opinion, is the cause of the depression. His reply analyzed various factors, but wound up with the words: The depression was due primarily to an almost unbearable burden of debt.

In view of the fact that the first two acts of the new House increased the burden of debt by $300,000,000, only one hope is left to the country. That is the hope that the House of Representatives knows more about finance than Melvin A. Traylor does. And it is a slim hope. Keep It Dark Baltimore has prospects of becoming a center for a big apple exporting business.

This year has seen considerable activity in that market. A number of ships have carried apples from this port to destinations abroad and the business has been handled so expeditiously, word comes from a British fruit broker, that future commerce in apples will be concentrated here as the point of departure. That is good news and the Baltimore Association of Commerce is properly elated at receipt of it. In fact, the news Is so good it fills us with apprehension to have it shouted from the housetops with Washington only forty miles away as the crow flies. It is one of those things that should not lie published in Gath nor whispered in the streets of Ascalon.

It smacks of immoral traffic with foreigners. That is to say, there are people in this country who look upon foreign trade as an abomination, a menace to our national purity; and such people somehow or other get themselves elected to Congress. Moreover, they have prehensile ears that reach out and coil themselves about rumors of profitable intercourse with aliens. Just let a whisper reach Washington that Baltimore is building up a nice export business in apples and immediately some of our lawmakers will be persuaded there is a snake in the Garden of Eden and reach for their crotched sticks. At the very least some patriot will discover Japanese beetles in the apple orchards and a quarantine will be established.

Better, far belter, for Baltimore to go on shipping apples and say nothing. As an extra precaution it might be well to burn the letter from the British fruit broker. Heroine The comitig of Miss Maude Adams as Portia to Ford's on Christmas evening is an occasion calculated to sdr the imagination and recollections of the sentimental elders to a degree unapproached in more than a dozen years. Not a few of the erstwhile stars of the stage have emerged from retirement since the war in an effort to recapture some of their former glories. Some were beaten back by an unresponsive public which had almost completely forgotten them a few, like Mr.

William Gillette after the high-powered publicity campaign began to take effect succeeded In reviving a measure of esteem. But from all accounts, Miss Adams' tour, which began several weeks ago, has resolved itself into a triumphant procession of unprecedented proportions. To explain the reason for this popu-larity, which before her return extended from the beginning of the century up until Miss Adams' rellremcnt in 1018, Is not ro much to explain an actress as it Is to explain (hat vague thing we call personality. Paradoxically, Miss Adams was not a great actress, in the opinion of many responsible critics. She was not a great tragedienne nor a great cqmedjeniie.

FRIEND offers the following formula as a sure means of destroying prohibition List it on the Stock Market. We shall not be satisfied until some one comes forward with the claim that the corpse alleged to be that of John Wilkes Booth is, as a matter of fact, that of Charlie Ross, Dorothy Arnold, The French Dauphin, Roaid Amundsen, The Unknown Eoldier, The Man Who Hit Billy Patterson, Theodosla Burr, The Czarevitch, or The Little Princes in the Tower. Panie When somebody sends you a Christmas card and you feel very grateful and under obligations to them, and on their birthday send them a small trifle from a bargain table that cost only a dollar; And they, in turn, feel very grateful and under obligations to you, and on your birthday send you a box of candy that cost two dollars; and you, feeling that you must not be outdone in generosity on the following Christmas, send them a china bowl that cost five dollars; And they, impressed by the china bowl, on your next birthday send you a bridge lamp that, cost seven dollars; and you respond on their birthday by sending them a dozen very pretty serving plates that cost ten dollars; and the following Christmas they send you a handsome leather portfolio that must have cost every bit of ten dollars, and also gifts to the two children that must be worth five dollars, bringing the total to fifteen dollars; And feeling that It is incumbent upon you to send something to them in return worth at least fifteen dollars, suddenly realize that you have become overextended and that you have not sufficient funds on hand to meet the impending obligation and that you can only do so by contracting a loan when money is very tight, and that to send a gift costing less would seriously affect the rate of exchange so that it would be very difficult to do business upon an equitable basis, and that only the most heroic measures would serve to peg the gift at five dollars instead of seeing it drop back to the Christmas card level; and the whole structure built tip over a period of years appears to be crumbling; That is a panic. The claim Is now being put forward that one Elisha Gray, of Chicago, was the original inventor of the telephone. However, at this late date, It is doubtful if he will ever be brought to trlnl.

Score Balks Tlayers Suburban Terrace, Dec. 21 A defensive bid proved the undoing of the Brown team in the resumption of the contract bridge match of the century last night when William J. Brown went down three on a bid of three clubs, doubled, redoubled and vulnerable. Brown waved aside the angry protests of his wife, Mrs. Claribcl Brown, declaring, "That's good bridge.

We saved the rubber, didn't we?" Serious difficulty was met when it came to computing the penalties. Investigation proved that the only score card in the house applied to auction bridge and not contract. By mutual consent, therefore, the penalties were compromised at 500 points. The score stands: Brown, 205; Smith, 940; both vulnerable. No decision, It Is said, has been reached as to the final disposition of the portrait of President Hoover, which Is to be painted by a New Tork artist.

Why not raffle It for the benflt of the unemployed? CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP. Unemployment Feared JYom Life Recent election returns from all over the country Indicate that a lot of Republican officeholders hnve discovered that we've been having a depression. (ioi) Humor From the Beno fjmwl Doctor How many cigarettes do you smoke in a day? Sjotty Any given number..