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6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHIM GION, D. C s w WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1924, THE EVENING STAR __ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. . April 23, 1824 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Siar Newspaper Compsny Jinstness Office, 11th St. ahd Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Kast st Chicago Office: Tower Buliding Farepean Office: 16 Regent St.. Lordon, England The Breninz Star, with the Sundsv morni dition, bs delivered by carriers within t ity "t G0 Cents per month: ‘daily only, s per monih: Sunday oniy. 20 cents’ pe onth.” Orders may he Aent by mall or tele “hone Main 5000, Collection is made by car. ers at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. 1d Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 70c Iy oniy ..1yr,$6.00;1 mo., 50c Sunday only 15r, $2.40; L mo., 20¢ All Other States. 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One effect of the Supreme Court's | lecision and action in the Rent Com- mission case is to establish that the rents law. violating under stress f war nccessity the spirit or letter f the Constitutic continue to Nist only measure; hat the emergency which tifies its continuance must be estab- d by legal evidence in vourt and recital by Congress in a statute £ the existenee of such an emergency dovs not suffice. air can as an emergency housing The pointed suggestion to Congress 15 Lo drop eve declaration or hint of of the Rent Commission -om the Senate and House rent bills, and every proposition of enlarging the Commission’s arbitrary powers: and the wisdom is emphasized of seek- 1z on the hasis'of proof of the exist- ence of the housing emergency simply to extend the life of the Reat Com. wission for one year or two vears. A further benefit would be derived if d enlarging the arbitrary wers of the Rent Commission by mendments, the movement was dis- inet in the other dit f the existing law which particularly ffend the spirit of the Constitution eliminated or modified. \s specific samples of features of the war law which ought to be omitted in the peace law are the provisions which bind landlords strictly to the rms of their leasing contracts, but slieve tenants from obligation under uch eontracts, as to duration of the tenancy, amount of rental charge and service to be rendered, since these rovisions clearly impair the obliga- fon of leasing contracts. The Constitution fort to impair the obligation of contracts. since the District is treated as a state only when national burdens are im- wosed, like direct national taxes, and ever as a state when privileges or benefits are hestowed, the state pro- 1 against impairment of the obli- ation of contracts does not apply in the District to the benefit of the Capi- al community. But in legislating for ihe District locally Congress aets as -ubstitute for a state legislature; and o such when passed by a islature are unconstitutional, passed Ly Congress, acting not © the mation. but as the District’s state legislature, they violate the spirit the Constitution. Moreover. gress rmanence . laws tate 1 when 12 tor the states collectively «ommit an offense which is prohibited to the states individu: For such iaws are abhorrent in essence and sl principle. Congress will not merely because it has the technical sower continue to impose upon the istrict in peace time laws excused mly by the exigencies of war, which impair the obligation of contracts and are therefore, the Federalist says, ‘contrary to the first principles of the “ocial contract and to every principle £ sound legist Congress apparently convinced that the housing emergency continues o exist, which justifies extension of the rent law to protect tenants against “indietive reprisals by landlords, and, wing thus convinced, it is the obvious luty of Congress to extend for a limit- « period the life of the Rent Commis- sion. But the powers of the Rent Commis ction, and parts | the states | Con- | s national legislature will not | | been 1ata vefore the people many times. That which is surprising in this mat- ter is that we have so long delayed to | apply correctives, yet it is clear that | we are coming to the point Where the health of the child {s to be a state af- fair and the health of the child at pub- lic school particularly so. Tt was not long ago that schooling and health were held to be private affairs. It was not understood that it was the busi- ness of sovernment to teach children to read and write, nor the business of government to seek out physical de- focts of children and remedy them. In some foreign countries, and in some itself to do what is possibic to pre- serve and improve the health of chil- ! dren at public school. In some states the defects are noted and remedies ap- plied. 1n other states, after noting the defects, the matter is referred to parents. Some states are so back- ward that if the child is able to “carry on” with his lessons he is rated as | “well,” and if he is sick it is & matter | for his family to attend to. The tendency is that city or state authorities shall not only schodl the child and teach him, among many | things, the ways of health, but shall |also find and correct his physical de- fects where, in the light of science, those defects can be corrected. The | state should strive not only to make better schooled Amel icans with better bodies. ——a—— Another Conference Proposed. President Coolidge’s proposal of an- | other conference to seek limitation of armaments following a certain def- inite settlement of German reparations has proved to be the most important featurc of his New York address ye | terday. 1t is regarded as a new move for world peace, especially as it in- cludes a suggestion that such a con- ference should initiate plans for a codification of international law. In view of the fact that the President did not strongly stress the world court suggestion, but merely stood by the | previous proposal of President Hard- | ing, which he repeated in December, this is expected to signify that Mr. Coolidge regards the arms limitation and law-codification plan as promising of success. . This proposal is predicated upon the assumption that preliminary inquiries would disclose that such a plan would ! meet with sympathetic response. | There is no reason to question a gen- eral response to an invitation by the United States to talk over again the more of our states, the government charges | cans, but Amer- | ‘They would have to pass in a steady stream through the White House at about twenty a minute. In twenty years they could all get through, not counting for an increase in popula- tion meanwhile, at the rate of ten a minute, which is a pretty fast pace. And the President would have to work incessantly at the job of handshaking for two decades and do nothing else and have no time for sleep. There is nothing like a litte mathe- matics occasionally show how utterly preposterous proposition may be. to 2 —— rae———— Results of the Primaries. Yesterday's primarles in New Jer- sey and Pennsylvaniu increased Presi- dent Coolidge's lead over his opponent, Senator Hiran: W. Johnson of Cali- fornia, to @ puint which gives the President 673 delegate: 118 more than the number requisite for nomina- tion. The Californian’s defeat in the two states wus erwhelming, and howed a remarkable change in form among the voters in w Jersey in four years. Therc was no question about the President carrying Pennsy vania for the nomination. The side-line interest in the outcome | in Pennsylvania was the crushing de feat of Gov. Pinchot large. Ie was Beaver Strassburger This was attributed to the opposition to the governor of Representative Vare, leader of the regular Republican organization, which is opposed to some of Gov. Pinchot's administrative poli- cies. The governor lays it o op- position of the liquor interests of the state, with which he Is at war. Gov. Pinchot is on record as saying he will loyally support President Coolidge in the campaign. The onward march of the Coolidge forces throughout the country, un- checked thus far save in South Dakota, raises the question whether Senator Johnson's name will be presented to the convention. The question might well be asked. What is the use? It may be that he hopes to have the sup- port of Senator La Follette's forces to assist him at least to make a showing in the roll call of the states, but that is doubttul that Senator la Follette, if he is strong enough physically, may be hold ing off to head a third party Senator Johnson's future course may be influenced by the outcome of the California prim May 6. If he should lose his own state, which is a possibility, since the contest is admit- tedly close, there would be little en- s overcome by of Norristown. ries matter of arms limitation and codifi- | couragement for him to bolt the Re- | cation. Attendance upon such a mm.}vu"!i- n ticket. Certainly the action | ference would not in itself be a pledge | ©f the voters thus far gives him no | of concurrence. None of the govern. | eNcouragement in any quarter of sub- | ments) that | were represented fa 'the { stantial support if he should bolt. | Washington conference of 1921 was obligated to subscribe. Any one of them. could have withdrawn. Mr. Coolidge's primary condition in this matter is that the conference should wait upon a definite settlement of the reparations matter. With that problem. sélved by the adoption of a | workable plan, in good faith, there will, w dence. The reparations question is the most serious and difficult now in | the international field. That adjust- ment effected, the nations could well | with profit turn to the matter of a further consideration of armaments. | Al such international assemblages |are helpful. They make for better understanding. They are constructive. True, there have been meetings of the nations before the world war and all the understandings that had been ef- fected were swept aside and destroyed by the treachery of one power. That may happen again. But certainly no advance toward peace and the settle- ment of international disputes by ju- dicial rather than military methods will be made unless the nations are devised and adopted for mutuality of concession and pledges of good faith. At all events, the proposal is made tentatively and made in good time. It will evoke discussion. It will pos- sibly develop opposition. It will cer- _tainly be strongly supported here and abroad, and Mr. Coolidge is to be | complimented upon having advanced it in this good season. ———w——— Harry Thaw regards the testimony againet him as a joke. Evelyn Thaw contemplates his release as a traged: The family difference is as far from settlement as ever. sion are so great—so un-American: that they ought to be confined rigidly to the limit up to which the purpose f the legislation forces us 1o go. The time must inevitably arrive when a rentalsfixing tribunal will have only the same powers and be sub- ject to the same restrictions that apply o0 a wages-fixing tribunal under com- nulsory arbitration or to a tribunal fixing the price of bread or coal. Wise legistation will check rentals war, with i its vindictive reprisals, and prepare for the return to normalcy. —————— Alfonso XIIT of Spain wishes he :ould have been a soldier and not a king. A man whose inclination is for wthority cannot fail te note that an irmy ig easier to hold under discipline than a court. —————— ‘The soldier bonus, like other matters of legislation, finds itself delayed by popie Who feel they have good ideas on the subject that ought to be con- sidered. e ————— The Democratic convention will be = Meld in Madison Square Garden, where many & fine contest has been staged beretofore. Health of School Children. .. The subject of physical defects of school children was dwelt on at the national conference of city supervisors of home economics at the Interior De- partment, and a physician, who is di- rector of health in the schools of Rochester, said that 75 per cent of the school children of the United States have physical defects detrimental to their health. He spoke of the millions of children whose teeth are bad, and whose vision and hearing are below normal, and of the millions of chil- dren who suffer from malnutrition, de- fective spines and joints and other things that flesh Is heir to. The figures ire not surprising, because they have ) s R > The reference by Judge Elbert Gary to “undeserved injustice” may lead congressional grammarians to start an investigation as to whether all injus- tice is not undeserved. ——a—— Radio has shown many points of improvement. One of them is the fact | that people now say “broadcast” in- :wtwnl of “broadcasted. e e e | Population, Palms and President. | With reference to the anti-hand- | Sorghum: | shaking order just put in force at the | the field. | White House it has been contended that every man, woman and child touch the presidential palm at least once. Suppose all of the American a moment. of 1920—which for purposes of repre- sentative apportionment Congress has ignored thus far—there are 105,000,000 people in the continental United States. There are 365 days in a year and four years in a presidential term, or in a single term 1,450 days. To receive all of the 105,000,000 people in | the course of one term a President would have to shake hands with no less than 72,000 a day. This would be at the rate of 3,000 an hour, or fifty a minute. That would mean that the people would be going past at al- most a trot twenty-four hours at a stretch for the entire four years. Or suppose a man were to stay eight years in office and the reception of the entire population would be extended to that period? He could then take them on at the rate of twenty-five a minute and dispose of them in the course of the 2,920 days of his admin- istration, working without remission. Or put it another way: Suppose every one of the people of this country came to Washington once in ten years? h the possible exception of | Russia. be no menace of war in evi-| { brought together, unless formulas are | | governmental | debtedness if she could continue | | people tried to do it? Let us figure | According to the census | ———— The fact that some undesirable men have from time to time intruded into offic is universally admitted It is also well that unrighteous persons often join churches. These incidents do not war- rant the assumption triotism or religion is a failure. e S—— It has been demonstrated to th satisfaction of the country that Presi- dent Coolidge, though not a waster of words, is perfectly willing to express himself when he feels that an expres- | sion is due. —————— There are only twenty-four hours in | the day, and if radio undertakes to carry all the speeches from east and west next summer there may be but little time for the musical programs. e = There would be no doubt of Ger- many’'s ability to pay all kinds of in- in- definitely to sell paper marks to for- eign speculators. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Novelty Needed. ‘When we can talk with planets far away ‘We'll have to think of something new to say. They can't understand orations On political relations, ‘Though perhaps in course of centuries they may. They will scarcely comprehend t rumors dire That investigations call us to admire, Nor appreciate reflections On the primary elections Or the splutter of the oil upon the fire, he Will they care for jazzy comedy so gy Or take notice of the taxes we must pay?— ‘When we pass the conversation Through some distant constellation, | | descendants of the earliest Aryan im- ! We will have to think of something new to say. ‘Trinngular. “There are two sides to every ques- tion,” sald the ready-made philosopher. “And maybe thres added Senator “if we get a new party in Jud Tunkins says the fact that in the United States should have the | every cloud has a silver lining is no right to come to Washington and|comfort ip a rainstorm. The Silent Squad. The landlords join in the debate ‘Where mighty men adjudicate. The tenant hustles for the rent And has no time for argument. Economies, “Think of the help a woman of your intelligence might be to a man in his career,” said the faithful admirer. “You can't tell about that,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. *Before mar- riage a man likes to hear a woman tallc about political economy. After- ‘ward he wants to specialize on domes- tic economy.” .Ancient Efficiencies. ““I don't care so much about the per- centage of alcohol in beer,” remarked Uncle Bill Bottletop. “Don’t you want it stronger?” “Yes. But 1 don’t believe we'll ever get back to the old kind that had enough influence to extend the free- lunch privilege.” ‘“Methuselah lived to be a mighty old mdn,” said Uncle Eben, “but I can't see where he amountei* to much, ‘ceppin’ to be a good life insurance risk.” for delegate at| Ralph | There is a strong feeling | known | that either pa- | Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Which is more important to Great Britain commercially, India or Canada?—M. W. A. Commercially, India Is of great- er value to England than is Canada. Among the countries constituting the the United Xingdom itself in the vol- ume of sea-borne trade and almost equals that of Canada and Australia combined. Q. What is meant by finale hopper? A. This is the modern epithet ap- plied to & young man who arrives after everything is paid for. Q.“How long has the mythology of the Norseland been printed in Eng- Hsh?—T. B. T. A. Thomas Percy published in 1770 translation of Mallet’s “Northern Antiquities.” This made a new land | of mythology accessible to the Eng- lish reading public. When is mid-summer B June night?— 24 mid-summer night, upon which occasion the fairies are supposed to appear and perform | works of magic. Q. When and where was the first highway built inthe United States? A. Roads were built by the early American colonists in America. The first road legislation in the United Siates was brought up in the Iouse of Burgesses in Virginia in 1632. The first turnpike in America was the Philadelphia and Lancaster pike, built in 1792, ; ;8 Nicola Tesla an American?— A. He is a naturalized citizen, Ile was born in Austria-Hungary in 1857, coming to the United States in 1884, | He discovered the principle of the ro- tary magnetic fleld, applving it in practical form to the Induction mo- | tor. He has invented many clectri- cal’ appliances, such as dynamos, transformers, induction coils, oscil- | lators and incandescent lamps. His later problems deal generally with wireless. Q. What is liquid smoke?—R. H. 1T | A It is a commercial product used for curing meat Q. What is meant by % or blood in grading wool’—L. F. D. A. The term blood is & Wool term and has no reference to the breed- ing of sheep, but the use of a fraction in conncction with the word blood simply means certain_fineness. Three-eighths blood is the finest and i, blood the coarsest of what is known as medium wool. The very | finest breeds are known as “fine. Onec-half blood wool is the next grade | coarser, but is included under the keneral classitication of fine. Me- | dium includes % to_ i blood,” whilo | coarse includes low % blood to com- mon braid. Q. Is child 11 A. The children’s bureau says that child labor has increased steadily for the past two years Every state has child workers. They are found in agriculture, in manufacturing plants, in trade, in transportation, in domes- tic service, in mining and in other industries. More than a million chil- dren are gainfully employed. Q. Are Holy Week and Passion Week the same?—V. A. W. - A. Holy Week is the week preceding 'x.a,qerl,o While Passion Week is the | Wek preceding Palm Sunday. Q. Can 1 _raise rubber trees in this | country?—E. J. B. A. The Department of Agriculture says that Tubber trees will not flourish in this country, and that experimenta~ tion along this line is not worth while. labor increasing?— le | | i | Q. What were words?—G. A. R. A. The last expressions of Washing- ton were characteristic of him. He said, 1 die hard; but I am not afraid to go. I believed from my first attack that I would not survive it. My breath cannot last long.” A little later he “} feel myself going. 1 thank our attentions; but I pray 2 no more trouble about me off quistly. 1 cannot las He gave instructions to h regarding his funeral, felt puise, and died without a | Let me | tong. crotary own ugzle. Q. How did the game euchre get its name?—D. A. L. A. The name is apparently from the | German juchs, meaning joke, which changed to joker as the name of the |extra card in the pack. Juch or ju is an exclamation of joy. which may be associated with the holding of the | card known as the joker. | Q Why do llquet&'y\!nslfad 1" since spelled.with an “i"?—M. S. B. A. Liquefy is derived from lique- facere (liquere and facere, Latin words meaning to be fluid and to make). Liquid is derived from liqui~ ! dus, the Latin word meaning fluid. From these base words you will see the reason for the “e” in liquefy and the “i” in liquid. Q. Who was _the | mesmerism?—I°. ¥. F. A. Mesmerism, & form of animal imagnetism not unknown in previous -centuries, was advanced and exploited by Franz Mesmer, born 1733, died | 1815, at Paris. He was a physician and ‘used the art of physical magnet- ism in curing diseases. | Q. What is the origin of the Al- banians, and what language do they speak?—1L S. A. The Albanians are supposed to be & ve” in liquid is we have an € | . | originator of migrants, Macedonians, liripots and Tilyrians. Théy divide themselves into Tosks and Ghegs. The language and alphabet is @ mixture from various | sources. Latin characters are used by | the Ghegs, Greek by the Tosks. ~The | people are mostly illiterate, and -the spoken language is @ mixture of Latin, | Greek and Slavic tongues. ! Q. What was the specific charge | placed against Capt. Fryatt, who was shot by the Germans during the war? | 1t was an odd word that 1 cannot re- member.—G. J. H. A. Capt. Fryatt of the British ship Brussels was executed by the Ger- mans on the charge of being a franc- tireur. Literally translated _this means a “freeshooter.” The word was first introduded into International law as a result of the organization of bands of irregulars or franc- tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war. Q. Just what part of a strawberry plant is the fruit?>—L. B. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the edible part of the straw- berry is really an enlargement of that part of the stem which sup- ports the flower parts—that is, the stem that holds the stamens, petals and pistils inside the flower. ! Q. How long does it take things to petrify ?—M. 1. A. The length of time which is re- | quired for the petrifaction of an ob- ject depends upon the object. Petri- faction may take place on land, in fresh water or salt water of bays, seas or oceans. Q. How many men were killed with Custer on the Little Big Horn? —K. L. C. A According to the report of the War Department, there were 12 offi- cers, 247 enlisted men, 5 civilians and 3 Tndian scouts killed with Custer on the Little Big Horn. There were 2 officers and 51 men wounded. fl:f‘ldr'qu‘;{n(mu l.c’TM Slsml';\; i ar Informa- tion Bureaw, Frederio J. Haskin, direc- tor, 1220 North Capitol strect. The only charge for this service is ° cemts in stamps for return postage.) British Empire, India comes second to | IN TODAY’S The American Chemical Soclety in session this week In Washington may Tenew the quest of the alchemists of old, but it will not waste much time on what the world knew of chemis- try flve years ago. flappy is the stu- dent who has never studied traditional chemistry,*for he has less to unlearn {than the one who was taught formu- las or dicta which must now be cast aslde, owing to the advance of knowl- edge during the last three years Within the memory of Infants still in arms, men were taught that an atom was “the smallest portion into which matter can be divided.” Prior to the last three or four years, the atomic theory had not greatly changed sinco the days of the ancient Greek philosophers. Scientists told the believing layman that all things are | made of atoms, combined into mole- |cules, and that the nature of all mat- {ter depended upon which atoms and {how many of each made up the mole- |cule. Nobody ever had seen so in- | conceivably small a thing as an atom |——nor even a_molecule—but ecvery- body belleved he was becoming erudite when he learned that atoms filled all space in vortex rings, in a | state of motion, and that “matter is |a particular condition of this sub- stantial continuum.” So_matter is a state of motion, just as Boston hus been sald to be not a city, but a state ofemind. Re the most progressive, loose-leafl e clopedia_ if in doubt about that continuum” and then emulate the edict of that great Chinese vandal king, Chi-Hwang-ti, 200 B.C., who ordered all books destroyed except | works on medicine and furming. To- {day one might as well burn all his | books upon medicine, farming { chemistry, for they are all—all—. | solutely crazy patchwork. wol | thie formulas of the middle ages upon the short cuts in making gold * ¥ *x b- | % | We now know that the alchemist |dreamers were upon the right road | when' they puttered around their lab- oratories seeking how to transmute |one metal into another. Transmuta- | tion of metals today is an accomplish- 19‘\ fact. Start with ur: m, extract its helium and there remains radium; | but the radium retains helium, and | when the heliom is further extracted |there remains lead—just {1ead. 1f one can make lead out of price |less metals, why not make gold out {of mud or something? That is alchemy glorified by the name of modern chem- [istry. Maybe the great congress of the American Chemical Ibe able to extract some |tion and make its heav |light that it will sail into the clouds | |of a 1ay imagination, and see things over the ridges which in all the cen- |turies have shut in human progress | * ¥ ¥ ¥ | Science means knowledge scientific when we know. Yet one has declared that one might as | now the | well not know so much as to {so much that ain't so Take ;umm and the progress | creation more wonderful and more {awful than the swing of planets |about the sun or the march of un-| counted _universes through endless space. How astronomy has advanced ! since the church tortured Galileo for declaring that the sun did not revolve about the earth. Last month we were told that a new universe had b | sighted in the offing, so distant that light, which travels’ 186,000 miles a | second, requires over 8,000,000 ycars to come from that terminus to this. | "The atom—indivisible? Small? It | is itself a universe like our solar sys- tem, and about its sun—the proton— there swing in fixed orbits clectrons which are its planets, and _they are as |far from their sun (in fixed propor- tion to their size) as are say of the | eight planets of our solar system |away from their “proton,” Old Sol. | An atom is a universe. More than that. our whole universe with its sun |its planets and their several moons and rings—the solar system—is actu- ally only an atom, like the tinest | atom which i= so small as to baffle the most powerful microscopa And the “atom” which we know as a universe is but one in a boundless sea of space | besprinkled with myriads of other atoms, each a stellar universe, which muitiply in photographic records ac- | cording to how long the n plate is exposed to the actini effe {of rars speeding at the pace of 186 | 000 miles a second and always arriv- ing on schedule time from' stations | eight millions of years distant—per- d | would & than | common | We are made in the | | knowledge of what it is—a marvel of | SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS haps next vear other rays coming from 80 times 8,000,000 years away. x % * % Matter is like all space —infinite in its atoms—in its own stellar systems, Does any scientist boust him having reached the “end of larnin’ *? Let him go out under the starry heav- ens and note the solar systems and the Milky Way of solar systems and the great beyond. Then let hin consider the grain of dust, made up of atoms, cach with its planets and their endiess orbits, held there by @ divine power whose majesty he cannot even dream. What humility must a sc iList feel The greater the knowledge, the more humble the heart! Yet what pride that_he has glimpsed the forever un- seeuble! an- it is its What hampers science chorage in the sea of the pa swings out and pretends to sail on- ward, but too often it goes no farther 1let it. The great discoveries have all been made 'by laymen who were not anchored in the mire of dogma and tradition and therefore could and did “rush in’ where doctors of science feared to tread, knowing from their books that they would be hooted “experts. Furaday was not ho would not have been admitted to many learned societics of today- bookbinder's clerk. A boy who had been set to turn @ cock | steam into the reverse of a cylinder 2 a working and keep a steam working grew tired of the n v of hi [task and ted a string to a part of | the muchine in such a way that turn the cock; he made the automatic engl A physician A civil engineer which enabled a fiving ma- bicyele re- made the than its cable wi engine noto first triplanc Langley to make which flew. Two pair men named Wrigh e airplane, which won the world w Who are muking the really cleve improvements on the wircless radio? Not Marconi, but the thousands of boys who are not hampered with intimate knowledge of clectric waves Right here in Washington a stenog- rapher named Jenkins found & way to beat parcel post by sending pictures by radio, and “tomorrow he is going to throw upon the stere- Jpticon screen the moving picture of @ battle while the fight is in rogress at the antipodes. Some one W nehronize sound with sizht a stereoscopic movie. We shall travel round the world, hear the roar of the jungle and the splash and the crash of cataricts sit at home. The greatest tist of our day was Jules Verne : wus not hampered € x * Not until cvery repeated act labor is made by automatic machinery wilt science have proved its mission. In Belgium today imen are b ng glass-roofed farms, gigantic circular omes of glass. Within them the soil will be deep and fertile No pestiferous insects will enter. The the which vegetable growth requires will all be regulated. In New Jersey there is an auto- | matic farm machine attached to a long wire which ties it to a center post. The machige—plow or seeder lor cultivator—starts automatically around a circle, the wire winds as the | machine travels around the center | post and so guides it in a spiral until | the wire is wound up and the travel- ing “mechanical farmer” stups at the center, its task completed. Such an outfit. will do 1 the farming needed lin the gla | @ium. Laborio past. Four crops | from those automat | never a crop of failure, for ards are eliminated by science. That is a type of conditions —or 1940—or why not in 19307 says a scientist. It depends on how much science gives the world. x % % % | Then what brain will incamber it- | self with “knowledge”? Some sys- | tem of filing knowledge and indexing { it where it will be instantly available { when needed will relieve the brain of the given We have cold r mea d vegetables. The scientist proposes to have storag r knowledge outside of our brains e index finger prints; why not in dex facts of all kinds? 4, by Panl V. Collins.) ow (Copyright, 19 iMixed Opinions on Effect Of Passing of Hugo Stinnes | The passing of Hugo Stinnes, Ger- {many's ‘“industrial kaiser,” has | evoked a mixture of opinion as to the | effect his death will have upon the | plans now proposed for the rehabili- | tation of Germany and the renewed assumption of reparation obligations. Some editors see in his death a colos- | sal misfortune; others see a wonder- | ful blessing for his countrymen. But the most powerful men the world has ever known. “To say that his death changes ma- terially the complexion of affairs is perfectly safe, but whether the change in the opinion of the Roanoke Times. Yet, “unwholesome as his influence | may in many ways have been, his re- moval just now must cause a danger- ous vacuum,” according to the Springfield Republican, which goes on to say “the question now is whether the grandiose edifice which he built can stand without his powerful sup- 0. PO heeause so “great was his fortune his Industrial enterprises.’ the San Francisco Bulletin holds. “he was a vital part of the German nation, so vital that under the circumstances it could scarcely pledge itself to any- thing without the promise cf his co- operation.” The Little Rock Arkan- sus Democrat. Lansing State Journal and_Lynchburg News feel also that Germany can ill afford at this time to lose Stinnes. The Cleveland Plain Dealer declares “even the Germans who are least in sympathy with the Stinnes ideals will regret that the master industrialist’s voice is still just when his shrewdness and insight are most needed.” * * x % As the Kansas City Journal sees it, “there does not seem to be sound rea- gon_for interpreting it as fatal to Germany's efforts to rehabilitate her financial and industrial system.”” For “it is by no means certain,” the Port- land Express agrees, “that he would not have proved a hindrance rather than a help in the mighty task to- ward the accomplishment of which his country must now set her face.” In fact, the Albany News considers that his passing “will not have an ob- structing effect” Even though no one of equal ability as an organizer immediately may be avallable to take his place, the Indianapolis News is confident “neither Germany nor Eu- rope is bankrupt in industrial and commercial vision.” 8 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch insists that “a man of his character can be of no great loss to a country"; fur- thermore, “the German efficiency that made Stinnes’ wealth possible remains,” and “the state cannot suf- fer from the elimination of a master of machinery and a gatherer of gold who threatened to become bigger thap the state itself.” The greatest injury Stinnes has done Germany, the Springfleld News points out, "was to | all feel that he was probably one of | be for good or ill is not so certain,” | and o complex the ramifications of | on country’; however relieve the situa’ the Memphis Scimi- ing perhaps will rmany.” Out- Nevg Orleans | make investments | scale” outside his “his passing may To wh “His tion."- | tar_adas, | prove a rmany | vune thinks “he will by | that country’s | nius." Indecd. “he ide of an enlightened or patriotic interess in cither his country or his country- “asserts the Reading Tribune aracterizing Stinnes o9 the “most diabolical figure of modern tine rt Worth Star-Telegram say | was the genius, or Satanic power. | which enabled him to build up for | himself one of the greatest of m. | fortunes. under an autoeratic govi | ment which organized the entire tion for its own purposes. It is hand of fate that has struck him from the soenc of action—a fate that de- * ¥ ¥ * The Atlanta Journal Stitnes with Rathenau, suggesting that “in these two were personified the diverse and conflicting spirits of present-day Germany, the liberal and reactionary, the spiritual and the ma- terialistio, the powers making for faith, and Nietzsch and those bred of Bismarck " In'the answer as to which of these shall prevail, the Jour- nal declares, “lies the fate of Ger- meny und much of the world's happi- ness or woe.” That Rathenau should have been killed_while Stinnes lived the Hart- ford Times regards “u. part of the ironical fate which has pursued Ger- many since the peace. The Colum- bus Dispatch claims “one of the most disgraceful stories of modern finan- cial history will be the story of the way in which Stinnes climbed to the highest pinnacle of industrial capi- talism ever reached in Germany, while at the same time alleged promises 'to pay in the shape of German marks | were deliberately maninulated o gro- tesquely beyond all possibility of re- demption that they are quoted in the ~xchange markets today at about one- fifth of a cent for one trillion.” Had he turned his undoubted ta ents to a better distribution of the food supply, the Seattle Times admits, “it would not now be necessary to ask the American Congress and the Amer- ican people for charity, and that serv- jce would have been 'a finer monu- ment than the reputation that he owned a large part of Germany.” The Fargo Tribune asks, “When his- tory’s searchlight has revealed the deepest secrets of his work and for- tune, what will it show?” And the Tribune answers, “Not much, save vast possessions” The Wichita Eagle, nevertheless, believes “he may have sorvod the world he lived in in his own pecullar way as much as any other who ever lived.” While the Sioux City Journal reaches the con- clusion that “whatever he was within himself. the world must rcognize Hugo Stinnes as one who left an. im-| press upon events of his time™ eif as | | with uncountable | by their fellow | a seientist. Maybe and so run | 1 | of | 1 temperature, the moisture, the light.| compares | human freedom and kindliness and | Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER Still they come marching on—dele- | Bates to the Republican national con- | vention, enrolled under President | Coolidge's banner, with flags flying | and paeans of victory sounding South Dakota must feel awfally ione. s0me, away out there on the prat the juckrabbits jumping and the tumbleweed blowing, neczing in the dust of the onmarching hosts. Here come Pennsylvania -and New Jersey, with 110 more Coolidge dele- gates, bringing his total up to 63, or | 118 more than sufficient ‘to assure his nomination. * % % President Coolidge's uddress vester day Defore the annual meeting of the Associated Press in New York is ap praised by politicians as not only a remarkable state paper, but derful human document. Comment is that along with his Yankee good com- | mon sense, with his demonstration of patriotic good Jjudgment, absence of | impractical sentiment, he exhibited o profound appeciation of human sympathy and understanding of the woes and needs of mankind, remind- ful of the nature of President Harding and of his work for peace on earth and good will among men. ¥ % Democratic politicians in ( |are discussing with interest the re- | |cent Jefferson day mpecch of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland in con- nection with his poszible Democratic preside notwithstanding Rit discouraged horug e The speech is attracti attention on account of the doc ated | aring that the American people are on the threshold of a great strag- 1 , he rald it 18 to keep our Ameri- ideals, to preserve our American institution without th high purpose either at home or abroad has ever heen or ever ¢ be plished by this countr He made a strong appeal for preser- vation of the rights of the states, which at this time is much under dis- cussion in Congress and in the from Massachusetts to Florida. He urged that an amendment to the Constitution be adopted which would provide that thereafter amendments should be referred to a referendum of the people * a wo ongress o vailabilit date o that Gov su Former Representative William Rodenberg of Ilinois, who since notable victory in » Illinois p maries over the organ in ing lected delegate at large nal conventiol dge delega ned as possibl L of the conventl passs up the implicd Lonor urges the Sele of G Dawes fc of cours " to be m ot tion with the temporary chairman- iip of the Republican nation: n veation.” he says “In my judgment, however, the man upon wh this honor should bhe conferred is G arles G. Dawes No man in better fitted to make th speech at Cleveland than Gen. | Dawes In hororing nim the party | will honor iteelf. Dawes is today an outstanding international figure, who commands the confidence and respect of the world. ! “Hie great work in establishing the ! budget system of the United | on a practical. working basis | wonderful sucoess in br out of the chao that throughout Europe as a resu r stamp him cons statesman of the | Dbe- as to wii- mentary prevaile of th [ uctive ! rhest type addition to this. Dawes has a re able gift for ciear, concise and | Fent expression, His speeches are ways illuminating and full tillating epigrama If selected for this honor the speech that he make will be read with every voter.” * Wilbur F. Wakeman, secretary and treasurer of the American Protective Tariff League, takes exception to reference in a recent chapter in this x % DEMOCRATS PREPARE ' FOR TAX BILL FIGHT Senator Jones, New Mexico, Com- pletes Plans Opposing Reinser- tion of Mellen Income Rates. BONUS MAY BE DEFERRED Appropriation Proposals May Pre- cede Soldiers’ Measure. L on min mittee by e Mexis for th to Th ing come b aration ot he Democratic sta et forth in the ce com the Senute New rt nest @ contest dopted by estate tux tax dispu ind bill ta or two of the t Would Set Bonus Asi the 1 Wher ip Ka irolina ower maxir can the to a dire after | itance dad taxes column to that organization as repre- | ntative of “hizh-tariff protectionists and of the “high-protection point view."” “The Tariff League,” he says, “does ot believe in a high tariff or embarsc it does believe in an adequate ctive tariff to every American dustry for products which are natural to our soil and climate. This also cludes products from ynder the soil. The tariff of 1 has accomplished wonderful results wherever it has been adequately protective, but this measure certainly free' trade in spots. To illustrate. copper, agricultural implements, abrasiv binding twine, silk bolting cloth, ce- ment, ° typesetting machines, shoe machinery, cotton and numberless competitive products on the free lst. ® ® ' Again, man re unscientific and break in the dle like a rotten round in a ladder.” * * % The new political organization, the Woman's Committee for Political Ac- tion, which was or; a few nnounces ! women in twenty-five states have re sponded to the call issued last we for a conf here May culminating in Bel: May 11 The conference will discuss the declara- tion of principles already formulated and the practical details of te or- ganization work neces: the election of- delegates from to the nationa tion which will July 4. Fach evening during the confer- ence a public meeting will be held which the following subjects will be presented successively by men and women of national prominence: “Women and Politics,” “Women and Peace,” “Women and the Progressive Movement.” This conference, accord- ing to Miss Isabelle Kendig, executive secretary, “will be the first national gathering of the progressive women of all parties. While republican and democratic women have already or- ganized for the coming campaign, progressive women, whether ind pendent or belonging to the two reg- ular parties, have made no effort to | come together nationally. “In_many states, however, they are already active and have greeted with enthusiasm the call to a nation-wid union. The women who join in the of weeks at a t the Cleveland an integral part of the movement.” No Anti-Citizenship Move. V. S. McClatchy Corrects State- ment Made in The Star. To the Editor of The Star: Frederic William Wile, in an ar ticle In The Star April 21, refers to & luncheon in New York attended by a number of newspaper men at which Dr. Sidney Gulick and the writer engaged in a friendly discus- sion on the Japanese immigration problem. Mr. Wile states that, though the “proceedings were private,” “Mr. MecClatchy has summarized for publi- cation @ debate between himself and Dr. Sidney L. Gulick, etc.” He then credits me with the statement that a new movement has been inaugu- rated, in which presumably 1 am active, to secure adoption of a con- stitutional amendment which will withhold in the future the privilege of American citizenship from children born in this country to aliens ineligi- ble to ecitizenship ‘under our law. and that a campaign along those | lines is to be pushed at. once. Mr, Wile has been misinformed in this particular matter. I have neither progressive movement will not go in | as a ‘ladies’ auxiliary’; they will be | Rate Deci Declaring corpori graduated ta ability to indicate whe would be prog ta: propos y mem sration wa <hould denc exempt seo rst suge as would cordance with t which authorize Flays Secret | Adjudic: | seeret. E fo o wi rovidin w5, THe tiou un by 500" epr rred from bocaus: of amu | and Ibe p | o Dhenewith desirabil | shown, | tho. furt | ployes the inter: of their or mor ¥ e ——— “Roxie” Asked to Help “Boys™ at Soldiers” Home ity reve . Star u think “R ald ho. To the Edi { Sars 1 obige Soldlg troat I wlad to bripg St inta the who May L some che sometim also have offer thi lonely tho done: Supks ? THOMAS I or otherwis 1he any state- ed to me crusdd 1 about the statement, verbal cerning it. Nor did I ment thereat, as to comm along the linc There is nothing ur plan of ceasing to conier citizens¥ip upon children of ineli le nlh‘gs, Measures looking to that result have been before Congress at perhaps every sessfon for w nur i past and in ading th sion. The plan has r ment in national conventions u(‘lll American Legion and American Fed eration of Labor, and has heen urged by @ number of 25 througl: legislatio No attempt has been made by organization of California. or by myself, to push it in the past twe years, and there is no decl ed in- tention of doing so In the near future. 1 do not doubt it will he pushed in the future, however, if conditions secm to justify such a course. It is barely possible that, following final pproval of the present immigrat ihere may be such adjustn conditions as will make such a con- stitutional amendment WNNCCOSSary. even in the judgmeni of those wha s w matle a summary of that discussion for publication nor have I made any ! have been most imsietint for it V. 5. McCLATCHY.