Glassmaker Expert
In Middle Age Art
_____ - - - -
Turns Out Church Win
dows in Medieval Style.
Bethayres, I’a.—The atmosphere
of a medieval workroom pervades
the studio of Lawrence B. Saint,
famous American stained-glass art
ist, who Is at work on windows for
the Protestant Episcopal cathedral
at Washington.
Saint has been at work on these
windows for six and one-half yeara
He was one of the artists on the
designing and construction of win
dows for the Swedenborgian ca
thedral at Bryn Athyn, near here.
It took Saint and his associates
working In their respective depart
ments of the studio on Second
street pike, Bethayres, 11 years to
complete that particular task.
Spends Life at Art,
Since he was seventeen, more
than thirty years ago. Saint has
been working and experimenting
with glass. During the last seven
teen years he has created only
ecclesiastical glass.
The glass worker not only de
signs and constructs the panels,
which later become windows, but
also makes all his own glass, fol
lowing closely formulae used by an
cient glassmakers.
He has had several pieces of an
cient glass analyzed and from the
findings has been able to approxi
mate the texture and colorings of
NEWEST IN HATS
BT CHERIE NICHOLAS
Designers here and abroad are
creating the most charming little
toques and berets Imaginable of
velvet Chic Parlslennes are wear
ing big floppy velvet berets with
their summer frocks. The model
shown at the top is a very smart
affair just turned out by a leading
American milliner. This stitched
velvet toque has a huge propeller
bow at the back. The brow line,
dipping at the right and shallow on
the left, is new. Schiaparelli gives
ns the new draped turban of a
white and silver crepe, Inspired by
an oriental headdress. The new
Agnes aureole hat which has Just
recently been launched in Paris Is
creating a big flutter In the fashion
world. The model pictured has a
back flaring brim and tiny crown
of lustrous black felt. It Is held
with a flattering bandeau of braid
ed tango-red velvet
the ancient glassmakers. Although
this has Involved tremendous re
search and experimentation, the re
sults have been very gratifying.
Saint does not attempt to copy
existing windows, but seeks to re
capture the beauty of color and the
enduring qualities of the Middle
age glassmakers.
Seeks More Lifelike Figures.
He contends that many of the
figures in Eleventh and Twelfth
century windows are very unreal
and impossible In posture and pro
portion. “I am trying to design
more lifelike figures,” he says.
Some of Saint’s remarkable col
ors have been the result of pure
accident.
On a trip to Europe Saint pro
cured a small piece of glass which
he had ground up and analyzed.
Under the microscope he found the
various layers of color. Finally
he hit upon one of the secrets of
the rich red glass no modern until
then had been able to duplicate.
Following a formula the result
nnt glass was green, with only a
few pale streaks of red. He laid
It on the tray of a paint-firing kiln.
Some one Inadvertently turned on
the heat. When the piece of glass
was discovered, to Saint’s surprise,
It had turned a rich, ruby red!
Game Law History
Traced by Warden
Des Moines, Iowa.—Some of
the nation’s first game laws were
resurrected by Game Protector
VV. W. Britton. They are:
First game law—Book of Deu
teronomy, 22:8.
First warden system—Massa
chusetts and New Hampshire,
1850.
First bag limit—Iowa (25 prai
rie chickens).
First closed season—Massachu
setts (deer 1718).
First hunting license required
—New York, 1804.
First non-resident license re
quired—New Jersey, 1804.
First state to ban market
hunting—Arkansas, 1875.
First game farm — Illinois,
1005.
At the outbreak of the Revo
lutionary war 12 of the 13 col
onies hnd laws banning certain
methods of hunting.
Unearth Reptile Bone*
Fort Peck, Mont.—Fragments ol
Jaws, teeth and other bones of a
prehistoric skeleton unearthed here
have been Identified as belonging
to a long-extinct marine reptile,
the Mosasaur.
Terrazzo
Terrazzo floor Is made of small
chips of marble set irregularly In
cement and polished.
London Will Curb
Growth With Trees
Green Area Would Keep
City Within Bounds.
London. — Ever-expanding Lon
don will have to submit to rigid
“slimming” treatment soon as a
result of schemes to curb the city’s
outward growth.
City plunners now envisage Lon
don as a city built on skyscraper
lines—in moderation—to prevent it
sprawling more and more over the
neighboring counties. They envis
age also creation within the next
year or so of one or possibly two
green belts surrounding the city
as a permanent means of holding
in greater London’s “waistline.”
The principal drawbnck In the
pnst to development of skyscrapers,
even of modest dimensions, has
been a thirty-flve-year-old law lim
iting the height of buildings in the
metropolis to 100 feet. Resides,
the average Rrlton prefers a smnll
home and garden of tils own to liv
ing in apartment houses.
May Remove Restrictions.
The London county council will
try soon to have the restrictive
laws on building heights removed.
At the same time, blocks of new
apartment houses, still within the
100-foot limit, are cropping up nnd
transforming the appearance of
some of London’s most famous
thoroughfares. The space-saving
movement has also been prominent
In the big slum-clearance schemes
In some poorer districts, where
huge modern flat houses are taking
the place of thousands of small,
tumble-down dwellings.
Suburban Growth Large, Too.
Despite the erection of apart
ment houses In the heart of the
capital. Its suburbs are growing
monthly at a prodigious rate, which
even Londoners scarcely have
grasped. It Is estimated that the
population of greater London Is In
creasing by 70,000 annually, and
that within a comparatively few
years London and Its suburbs and
satellite towns will house a quarter
of the entire population of this
country.
Girdle of Open Spaces.
Tne ‘‘green belt” scheme. Just
propounded by Herbert Morrison,
Laborlte leader of the London coun
ty council, envisages preservation
of a girdle of open spaces around
London, between the hub and out
er ring of the metropolis, to be se
cured permanently against the
building tide. Mr. Morrison an
nounced that the council was pre
pared to spend £2,000,000 ($10,000,
000) during the next three years In
helping local authorities to pur
chase green land.
It Is hoped to create an Inner
green belt in approximately a 12
mile radius of Charing Cross and
an outer one at a distance of 20
miles. Each belt would be aDout
half a mile wide.
A survey In 1927 showed that
within 11 miles of Charing Cross
some 32,000 acres of land still re
mained as suitable “lungs,” or open
spaces. By 1930 that area had
dwindled by 5,500 acres, and In
1933 only 23,500 acres were avail
able.
It Is estimated that In 20 years
at that rate there will be no open
spaces within 11 miles of the center
of London.
Finds United States
Buyers Aid Japan’s Army
Seattle.—Buyers of cheap Japa
nese goods with which American
markets are flooded are contribut
ing to the most dangerous military
machine In the world.
So declared E. P. Oeaque, San
Francisco writer and lecturer who
arrived In Seattle recently from
the Orient.
Becnuse he sought to Investigate
working conditions under which
Japanese goods are produced,
Oeaque snld he and his wife were
subjected to two months of perse
cution by military police. They
were finally compelled to cut their
stay short and take the first ship
home.
Oeaque said:
“The aggressive fight for com
mercial murkets all over the world
Is being financed at the expense of
misguided Japanese workers. The
Japanese government depreciated
the value of the yen In Internation
al exchange to enable Japanese
goods to sell abroad at low prices.
“Money has been poured Into the
military adventures In Manchuria
and north China and has been lav
ished on military and naval equip
ment at home. Normally under
such circumstances commodity
prices and wages would rise In
Japan, but this has been fore
stalled."
New Supreme Court Chamber Nearly Completed
This Is the almost completed chamber for the United States Supreme court In the new building which the
highest Judicial tribunal will occupy this fall, In the new magniUceut marble structure which has beea
built for the court
SEEN"1' HEARD
•round th»
National Capital
By CARTER FIELD!
Washington.—The fact that Sen
ator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland
la so far off the Roosevelt reserva
tion Is of far more political signifi
cance than most persons not In
terested in figuring electoral vote
tables realize.
The Maryland senator has Just
been successfully called off in his
Virgin Island Inquiry, and his row
with Secretary of the Interior Ickes
more or less muzzled, but that Is
not Important, not to anyone who
knows Tydings, and Maryland.
Washington opinion about that par
ticular row is that the people
Tydings wanted to protect will be
protected from the wrath of Ickes,
In return for Tydings’ piping down
on his public utterances.
Maryland has only eight electoral
votes, but is Interesting because the
state always goes Democratic in
years when the Democrats win, na
tionally, and is as Independent as
the proverbial hog on Ice at all
times.
For example, In a Democratic
sweep, in 1034, Maryland elected
Republican governor, the third
since the Civil war. And each of
the others served only one term.
Yet at the same election, the state
elected six Democratic members of
the house, and a Democratic sen
ator.
To make the situation clear, It
should be understood that there
were three or four important rea
sons why Albert C. Ritchie, the
Democratic candidate for a fifth
term, was not re-elected. He had
angered the eastern shore section
of the state by trying to prosecute
leaders of a lynching mob. He was
held responsible, probably unjustly,
for the collapse of several Impor
tant banks. And there was a good
deal of sentiment against continuing
the same man In office so long. No
other governor of Maryland had
ever been re-elected once. He was
seeking a fifth term.
But It Is Interesting to note that
the one man who was sure Ritchie
could not be re-elected, and who
as a result tried to get him to run
for senntor—which would seem at
least to Indicate the opposition was
not personal—was Senator Tydings.
He’s Top Dog in Maryland
Tydings very early in the game
picked George L. Itadcllffe for the
Democratic nomination for gov
ernor. Later, on a compromise, Rad
cllffe ran for senator and was
elected.
All of which means that Tydings
Is by way of being the top dog In
Democratic politics In Maryland at
the moment. Moreover, he is not
worried about the Immediate fu
ture, for he does not come up for
re-election until 1938, two years aft
er the Presidential election. And
Maryland has a habit of always go
ing Democratic in off years.
It so happens that Maryland Is
almost the most conservative state
In the Union. Five of her six dis
tricts—all except that sixth—al
ways send rather conservative men
to the house. She once elected a
practically unknown figure. Senator
Joseph I. France, to the upper house
because she was voting ngainst a
man she regarded as a radical—Da
vid J. Lewis. The chief charge
against Lewis was that he was so
cinllstically inclined—he had fa
thered the parcel post bill!
Maryland, a border state, always
went Democratic la national elec
tions until the free silver Imsuc. She
voted for McKinley In 1896 and
1900, split her electoral vote in 1904,
voted for Wilson in both 1912 nnd
1916, and then voted for Harding,
Coolldge and Hoover.
There Is little doubt that the state
does not like the New Deal. If the
election were held today, and any
fairly unobjectionable Republican
opposed Roosevelt, there Is little
doubt he would get Maryland’s eight
votes.
There Is something ultra con
servative about both Maryland and
Virginia. It Is rather interesting
that Carter Glass, Henry F. Byrd,
and Tydings are always found vot
ing together The other Maryland
senator, Radcllffe, happens to be a
close personal friend of Roosevelt,
but, as pointed out, he was put In
the senate by Tydings, and has yet
to demonstrate either real power
In the state or political sagacity.
Brings Up Borah
Talk of William E. Borah for
the Republican nomination against
Franklin D. Roosevelt next year is
one of the most Interesting polit
ical economic developments since
1032. Not that there Is actually very
much of a possibility that the sev
enty-year-old senator will be nom
inated, but because of the various
developments and repercussions
which started the talk.
What It really means Is that for
the first time since the Republicans
lost all but six states. In 1032, they
are beginning to chirp up. They are
beginning to think that there may
be a possibility of winning In 1030.
Until the last few weeks—In fact,
right up to the tax message—they
had been saying privately that 1030
was too soon to hope for; that 1040
would be their rod letter day.
The whole psychology at the pres
ent moment Is based on taxes. The
American people are becoming tax
conscious—federally as well as by
counties and townships. When Cle
menceau remarked to Woodrow
Wilson that the average Frenchman
would gladly die for hia country,
but he would not pay taxes to sup
port it, his very accurate comment
appealed to the American sense of
humor. But not any more. The
average American also Is beginning
to figure that It may be very glor
ious to go out and die for one’s
country on the battlefield, but It’s
tough to try to do without this or
that or the other thing he wants,
or his wife wants, just because
taxes take so much of his total in
come.
Curioosly enough this tax con
sciousness, though it may have been
in incubation for some time past,
did not hatch out until the Presi
dent sent his tax message to con
gress. It was discussion of the
amounts the various levies would
raise, on top of all the fuss about
processing taxes making the cost
of bread and bacon and shirts and
underwear and what not higher,
that started folks talking out loud.
It was the realization that sooner
or later it was old John Taxpayer,
in the middle walks of life, who
would have to foot the bill for all
these New Deal experiments.
More About Taxes
You are going to hear a great
deal more about taxes, now that
critics of the New Deal have real
ized what is happening. Plenty of
oil will be poured on the smoldering
fires. Attention will be called to
many taxes which most folks pay
without realizing they are taxed.
For example, the federal levy of
six cents a pack on cigarettes. And
one cent of each three for a letter
is pure tax, levied for tax purposes.
Attention will be directed to how
much of the cost of a pound of ham
or bacon is tax; that the cost of
everything is boosted by the fact that
the producers and merchants have
to pay such high taxes.
Meanwhile Senator Borah Is a
wonderful bridge between the con
servative and progressive Repub
lican wings. He happens to be op
posed to most of the New Deal
ideas, and no one has hit out more
strongly on what the Republicans
had been hoping would be the issue
—preserve the Constitution.
But talk about Borah serves a
very Important purpose—it side
tracks speculation about Herbert
Hoover. And talk about Hoover is
regarded by most Republicans as
the high water mark of defeatism.
Truth About Roosevelt
All sorts of weird stories are
drifting back to Washington about
President Roosevelt Most of them
relate to his alleged reactions to cer
tain recent events. Particularly the
Supreme court’s NRA decision, and
the tax message. An Interesting
point Is that apparently all the
stories have as their chief basis the
way the President Is alleged to have
acted at press conferences.
The truth Is nothing like as spec
tacular as the stories, but it Is
rather interesting. Being as the
stories seem to center on the way
Mr. Roosevelt acted at two press
conferences, perhaps a brief sum
mary of those two particular occa
sions would be worth while.
In the first, and most discussed,
though actually less Interesting one,
the President met the newspaper
men on Wednesday morning, follow
ing the decision by the high court
of the NRA case on the previous
Monday. Thus, he had nearly 48
hours in which to make up his
mind what to say to the newspapers.
Many stories have been printed,
mostly by columnists who were not
present, and their Information sec
ond-hand at best, though obviously
more out of their mental concep
tions of how the President should
have felt, that the President was
visibly angered, and he was ap
proaching the hysterical, etc.
The truth Is that the President
very carefully sent up a trial bal
loon, and planted the seeds of some
excellent propaganda looking to
ward a constitutional amendment
which would give congress the pow
er to determine hours of labor and
minimum wages In Intra-state com
merce.
He very obviously took the same
pleasure from his talk with the re
porters that a crack cabinetmaker
takes In putting the finishing
touches to a job.
Did a Good Job
The other and more interesting,
press conference was shortly after
his tax message. This was far dif
ferent, and far more difficult. The
President fenced and parried with
the newspaper men, because he had
decided it was necessary to put over
the idea that the White House had
not chunged its strategy in the mid
dle of the play, but that two sena
tors had entirely misunderstood him.
Roosevelt knew perfectly well, as
he talked with more than a hundred
fairly sharp newspaper men, that
not a man in the room believed what
tie was saying. Every man there
believed the senators had under
stood him correctly nnd had ex
pressed the White House views—
that the senators were now willing
to take the blame as politicians have
done from the beginning of time, on
the theory that the king is always
right.
This destroyed the possibility of
the normal Roosevelt approach in
handling newspaper men.
Considering the difficulties, Frank
lin Roosevelt did an excellent job.
He forced out to the public what
h® wanted out, but he was obviously
fencing, obviously at high tension.
Yet he never lost his temper.
CoDvrlBht—WNU Service.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Not Constitutional
Flies and Black Magic
Kilkenny Cats, Again
Pickings for Lawyers
In Boston, the Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals decides, two to
one, that the
"New Deal”
process tax on
cotton is uncon
stitutional. The
judges decide
that “the power
of congress to
regulate Inter
state commerce
does not author
1 z e It to tax
products either
of agriculture or
industry merely
because their
production may
Arthur Brisbane indlrectly nffect
Interstate commerce.”
This Important decision, If not
upset by the higher courts, will up
set, decidedly, the plans of the ad
ministration in regard to financing
bigger incomes for farmers.
Universal Service says Abyssinia
will not take Mussolini, his air
planes and armored tanks ‘‘lying
down.” Abyssinian sorcerers, deal
ers in black magic, will work
against Italy. What is more dan
gerous than magic, Abyssinian fight
ing chiefs will use the poisonous
tsetse fly against Italian soldiers.
These flies, feeding on decayed ani
mal matter caught in the teeth of
sleeping crocodiles, get the tsetse
germs from the blood of the croc
odiles and plant them In the blood
of human beings and cattle.
Slow death by “sleeping sick
ness,” leaving the body almost a
skeleton, follows the tsetse bite.
Two cats hung over a line must
fight. The Kilkenny story proves
It. Mussolini has committed him
self to war, and once a dictator
speaks positively it is unsafe, polit
ically, for him to buck down, espe
cially when other nations interfere,
as France and England have inter
fered. To retreat might cost Mus
solini his prestige.
Difficult also is the position of
Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia.
Ills hold is not firm. Important
chiefs, heading various Abyssinian
tribes, would like his job. If he
should avoid war by yielding part
of his territory to Mussolini, as ad
vised by England, resulting compli
cations might include assassina
tion, common in tropical countries.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce objects to the income and
inheritance tax program, calls it
confiscation. The question involved
seems simple:
Does the property of the United
States, result of thrift and Intelli
gence, belong to the people that
created it, or is it only held in trust
by them for public use by those
that for the time being exercise
powers of government?
Owners of stock in Paramount
Publlx Moving Picture company,
once selling on the market at $100,
000,000 and more, now worth about
nothing, learn that in some wind
up proceedings lawyers ask for $3,
600,000. That seems a good deal,
but you must remember that one
New York lawyer—he will not ob
ject to being mentioned—the skill
ful Louis Levy, once got more than
$1,000,000 for settling a sad misun
derstanding between a prosperous
gentleman and a certain “little
lady.”
Figures do not lie, but they sur
prise you. For instance, in the year
1801 the government of the United
States had 126 employees. Today
it has 700,000 employees, an in
crease of 5,000 per cent. The num
ber of congressmen has risen since
1S01 from 128 to 531, a little more
than 400 per cent, while United
States population has increased
2,500 per cent.
The increase in population is due
to mothers, the increase in govern
ment extravagance is due to politi
cians.
Austria seems not quite certain
that she has had enough of the
Hapsburg royal family, that has
ruled and misruled an intelligent
people for so long. The state coun
cil cancels a decree that banished
Hapsburgs and took their property.
Young Archduke Otto, pretender to
the throne, may now return to Aus
tria. He and his mother will find
themselves rich, the confiscated im
perial property returned
Young Otto, a handsome boy, with
a somewhat peevishly conceit
ed expression, may occupy the
throne. Self-government is not easily
learned.
Washington reports a “whisper
ing campaign" concerning President
Roosevelt's health. It will he a very
small whisper if the whisperers
stick to facts. The President’s
friends will be glad to know that
his health is excellent, has never
been better since his Presidential
work began. A constitution able to
withstand and conquer such an at
tack of illness as the President has
withstood need not worry about a
few political annoyances.
©. King Features Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service.
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with shoe polish. Then polish wltb
a dry. soft cloth.
THE HOUSEWIFE.
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