Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1925, Page 6

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The Assoctated Precs ix sxclusively entitiod for republivation of all news dix Datihes credited to 1L 61 Dot ntherwise cred- fted n this naper and alao Tocal news pibhhed harein: ' AN -ichis of publication e anecial dignatehes harein ate als res = = More Than Gesture Demanded. The Locarno security pacts and the covering document are interpreted in some quarters as showing conclusive- Iv that the nations involved will give their support (o a disarmament con- the the tions listen ference under auspices of rather th: League of o an invitation from the President Unite a conference here of the tes o jein in such o ph for all the in repre- \ concluding which coverinz document parazrs treat is included the signed hy itain, Germany Poland and sentatives of Greit B Belzium, It a, reads: engage themselves lo sincere concourse to the work already undertaken by the Leazue of Nations relative to disarmaments and to seek its realization in « zeneral accord Austen Chamberlain, Dritish forei while asserting thal th ocarno security pzcts have brought France, y . secretar) disarmament measurabl nearer, has heen quoted as declaring that a dis- armament agreement and the neso- tiations therefor must be within the J.eague of Nations President Coolidge has let it be known in the past that he would be glad to see steps looking to disarm ment initiated by the League of through to successful con- summation, and that the United States would make move that would interfere with or prevent such consummation. In other words, this country is sarnestly desirous of seeinz the world disarm limit the huge srmaments which have cost the peo- ples much and have fostered wars. i respective of the ussociation of na- tions through which this may effected. The United States took lead in 19212 in the movement for limitation of armaments. and the Washington conference did more than any other previous event to rouse the world to a realization of what might he accomplished through sincere ef- forts to bring about disarmament. The United States is prepared and has been prepared to continue with this work, when the nations of the world should be in a situation inclining them to further agreements on armaments limitation If the League of Nations goes into the movement for limitation of arma- ments in good faith, as it must be supposed it will, the United States will view its efforts wiih entire sym- pathy. If, on the other hand. the movement under the league should be only a gesture, an attempted sop thrown to the peoples who really de- sire limitation of armamenis and veace, then the of this country and the world in general will have suffered. In some quarters it has been susgested that a disarma- ment conference called by nations which still intent upon holding their sovereiznty over subject peoples can mean little or nothing. The in- ference is that while these peoples must be kept at heel. these nations cannot and will not disarm President Coolidge has hailed the security pacts of Locarno as a step which should lead to an- Ather conference on arms limitation. Tt has been his hope that such a con- ference could be called here. He will fully inform himself, however, before any steps are taken by this Govern- ment efther for the call of a confer- ence here or for the participation of this country in such a abroad under any auspices. e ———— Congress will reassemble only to find -that the public is beginning to rezard the supply of legislation as a trifie in excess of the demand. RO Transmutation Disproved. Early in 1924 it was announced in Germany that Prof. Adolph Miethe of the Technical College of Berlin had succeeded in transmuting mercury into gold, thus accomplishing the al- chemical mystery of the transmuta- tion of metals. Scientists throughout tions 2o no or at least he the is aspirations are ix conference ‘s:the world were keenly interested and + covery.” financiers were greatly concerned. It was recognized that if the Miethe process was established it would be possible to produce gold by artificial means and thereby to change com- pletely the standard of monetary values. When details were forthcom- Ing it was learned that there was less zround for anxiety on the score of the possible financial effect of the "dis- Prof. Miethe. had obtained only one eight-hundred-thousands of a sram of gold from fifteen hundred grams of mercury. Transmuted gold at that rate would cost infinitely more han the mined metal. Science was not concerned in the financial phase of the question, but it svas decidedly- interested in the claim that gold had been actually “made” from mercury. Some months ago the publishers of the Scientific American “provided the means for a research * rit dnto this matter and named an emi- nent physicist, Prof. H. H. Sheldon of the New York University, to conduct As a result of his experiments, “ontinued during the course of sev- »ral months, it j& now announced that the Sj‘ezhe process is a failure, thal 1t gold from mercury by means of a high-power electric current. Prof. Miethe did not collaborate in the test, but apparatus exactly similir to his was used and the processes which he described in his own dissertations on his discovery were followed. Sheldon, using chemically pure mer- cury worth $1.500, was unable to ex tract any trace of gold whatsoever from it. It is concluded by physie in the that Prof. using mercury, which Known to contain a certain proportion of gold, merely extracted that gold and did not wetually create it out of the alien element. That the transmu- tation of mercury atoms into gold is theoretically ible is admitted Prof. Sheldon. The internal structures of the two atoms are similar, and the removal.of one unit of positive electric charge from the nucleus of a mercury atom, or the insertion of an additional electron into it would probably result in the conversion. But thus far it has been found impossible this chanze. Inasmuch as all that Prof. did was to get an infinitesin tion of sold out of probably tainted mercury, the financial world may rest easy on the score of the bility of gold monetary standard. The scientific world is now reassured that transmutation, the goal of the alche mists of old, has not been atiained the American research Spanish is pos by to accomplish Miethe al frac- S 1 - What Price Crime? | Perhaps stimulated by an announce me Commission that that city could | afford to pay its 30.000 crooks £20,000 1 year each annually to leave town. a band of New York robhers conducted a series of hold-ups. In Brookiyn some burglars blew open a jewelers’ safe and took $30.000 and a couple of Man- hattan gunmen shot up an East Side restaurant in a robbery raid. The total loot for the day is not exactly known, but it approximates $75,000. This. however. was not so good. Much larger hauls are made from time to time by cracksmen and truck thieves. | But it was something. | keep up the New York average. The | Chicago rate, according to the esti- mate of the president of the crime | commission of that city, is nearly {a million and two-thirds dollars a | day in all sorts of losses through jcvime. At any rate, that is how the equation works out: 30,000 crooks at $20,000 a vear pension would call for $600,000,000 annually. If these figures are dependable rime is costing the United States, | even rating Chicago as decidedly ex- { maintain courts and police systems. The cost of the courts is only a small fraction of the crime cos| salaries are pitifully small. The other day a Federal judge resigned because he could not afford to hold office | longer on the meager stipend allotted | to him by law. Police systems are not | extravagantiy expensive. Decidedly, the suppression of crime is America’s greatest problem. There are no safety zones in the United States. There Is no place, no com- munity that is free from flagrant law- breaking. Commissions of citizens volunteering for a public service and State commissions are studying this question. They are arriving at the conclusion that the fauit lies mainly in the uncertainty and delay of the judicial processes and the lack of pun ishments and the ease of escape from all penalties. A harmful public attitude has de- veloped. Comparatively few people are alarmed at the prevalence of law- lessness. Most citizens accept current criminality as an unavoid- able condition. So constant are the robberies on a large scale, so bold are | the operations of gangs and individual crooks that hold-ups and burglaries are taken as a matter of course. Scenes are enacted daily in our large | frontier towns of ear] Sentiment in the United States is strongly opposed to warfare. Socie- | ties are constantly declaring in favor of world peace, unity of nations, re- duction of armaments. Yet here in | this country now prevails a state of war between \several hundred sand, perhaps a million. professional criminals and the rest of society. It would be better if this force of public sentiment in favor of international peace were to be directed in favor of domestic peace @nd tranquillity ————— - days. in County fairs insist that they to be allowed to bet on horse The county fair is supposed to stimu late interest in prize porkers and handsome vegetables. It is only rea- sonable to fear that a habit of “‘play- ing the ponies” will interfere with the more serious purposes of the occasion. ought races. e The King of Italy has no quarrel with the dictatorship of Mussolini. The business of a King sometimes re- “quires a tactful self-effacement. e Smith and the Presidency. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York threw a scare into his supporters for the highest political honors in this country, who fought so valiantly for him last vear at Madison Square Gar- den, when he declared last Saturday that he was “‘through holding all pub- lic office.” Perhaps realizing that this was no way to treat good friends and ardent admirers, Gov. Smith has upon turther questioning on the subject supplemeénted his declaration by ex- plaining that he was referring to the governorship. - saving, “I'll bite the head off the first leader who tries to tell me 1've got to run for governor.” This, of course, opened up the broader question, and he gave his views about his attitude on the presidential nom- ination as follows: No man in possession of his proper senses would ever turn down the nom- ination for President, but that does not mean, in any sense of the word, that T am a candidate. No man ever got the nomination bysgoing out and looking for it. No one ever gets the nomination until the party leaders get together and decide that he is the best man for it. 1 know I would never zet the nomination unless party leaders came to the decision that I was the only man who could win, They would not_even select me if they thought I had only an even chance. This. of course, is another story. It leaves the governor {p a perfectly safe Prof. | t and the assistant who aided | Miethe, | | ment Ly the president of the Chicaso | 1t helped to| ceptional, much more than it costs to | Judicial | the | cities that would have disgraced the | thou- | THE EVENING ING ST‘XR {hls been found impossible to obtain ! position. It puts it up to the leaders of the party, whoever they may be, and preserves the dignified tradition that a presidential nomination is never sought and never declined. It there is any virtue in self-abnegation, Gov. Smith has acquired it through this simple declaration of faith. This statement leaves the matter just where it was when Gov. Smith went out to Chicago to address the embattled Democrats of Cook County and the vicinage at the invitation of orge Brennan, who. it is 1o be noted. is one of the leaders of the na- tional Demoerac Uncle Sam and the Series. Is Uncle Sam a base ball fan? Ask | the commissioner of internal revenue | and get an emphatic afirmative. Uncle Sam veritably a magnate. The { world series which just concluded Lrought the tidy sum of $118,285 into the Federal box office, that being ten per cent of the gate receipts. But that is not all. The Government will get ten per cent on the sales of tickets by brokers, returns from which are ! not due until November 30. Inasmuch as these sales were mostly made at prices much higher than the estab- lished rates the Federal rakeoff will be a considerable sum. But even that does not end the reckoning. The Gov- ernment will take its further share of this money in the form of an Income tax on the amounts received by, the plavers. managers, owners and all who profited by the series. Thus it gzets j ten per cent on the gate money, from the ticket purchasers, and a percent of the admission itself is money Just at a guess the full addition to Uncle Sam’s bank account from the world series may be put at $150,000 zt the least. Why should he not be a base ball fan in these circumstances? S, The engagements accepted by Presi- dent Coolidge for the delivery ot speeches indicate a possibility that silence will not hereafter be so con- | spicuous a feature of the administr: { tion’s policies. 1t is difficult for even the most reserved statesman to resi: st an expectant and enthusiastic audi- {ence. | | ——— After an educational sojourn in Bal timore John T. Scopes should be equipped for new activities. Baltimore is one of the world's most versatil communities qualified to develop tal Wagnerian criticism. e - Albert Beveridge has had time to do a great deal of thinking. and there are many people who would be glad 1o find him free to express the results of his cogitation on the floor of the Senate. e The Thanksgiving proclamation will | not prevent a number of Senators and | Representatives from assuming their usual attitude of freedom from sense of obligation whatsoever. any ——————— | | Pittsburgh has distinguished herself ! in base ball as well as in music, finance | and politics. Pennsylvania should be | proud of her as one of the worlds most versatile cities. N No doubt it was the Winter resort hotel- Business that first awakened { Florida to the fact that there is so much careiess money in the country. | Tndiana has an abundance of se torial talent available. The *Hoosier State is as opulently resourceful in | politics as in literature. — e By adopting a general peace policy Europe may save enough money to finance her own uffairs and liquidate oblizations. ———— SHOOTING STARS. PHILANDER :‘"HV%I.\ War As It Once Was. When Homer wrote in ages past. The fighters werd not shot or zassed. About a Wooden Horse he knew. But Tanks had never come to view. In’picturesque and forceful phrase The battles of those ancient day He sang—and since this story old The Poetry of War grows cold. Thé glamour wholly disappears. The chemists and the engineers Displace the herces in command Who met and struzzled, hand to hand, So why attempt to imitate The Strife of days when Strife was Great., Those times in splendor were replete. In vain as warriors we compete. Then let’s avoid the contest rough And do our work and sell our stuff. When warlike moods arise, let's turn Where simple glories we discern; And, safe within a sheltered nook. Peruse once more old Homer's hook. Cheers. “Don’t you feel disappoinied when | vou find the crowd inclined to mod- erate its cheers for you?” “No." answered Senator Sorghum. “I don't expect the impossible. No- | body is cheered all the time: not even {a favorite base ball player i { { A Moist Melancholia. The Autumn leaves are falling Just as they always did. Their sadness is appalling. They make vour flivver skid. Jud T:nkinfi says votes for women have improved politics so much that an election is as quiet and polite as a bridge party. ’ 1 Power. “Are there any bootleggers in this community?” “Stranger,” said Uncle Bill Bottle- top, “I can't answer your question. Bootleggers there s\may be, but they have mostly grown so wealthy and in- fluential that there's nobody feels like tellin’ on ‘em.” Fast Work. Into the Cabinet hé went. His resignation, friends confess, He's now quite ready to present On two weeks' notice, maybe less. “Sumpin’ 1'd kind o' like to kngw." said Uncle Eben, “is what we's gineter do wif de North Pole after we dis- overs it frem those among whom it was split. | ent ranging from oyster dredging to | STAR, WASHINGTON, Time is getting r the curtain on i “The Garden.” Green has given place to brown, sappy pith o withered stalks, gay blossoms to drooning ones. Once again, in the rgvolution of the seasons, Jack Frost touches the gar- den with his hand. however lightly, and next day the leaves of the hi- Discus droop and the zinnfas dras their feet like a licked pitcher in a world series hase ball game. Now the time has come for all good flowers (o shut up shop, say their good-bve to the world. attempt to drop a few seeds in the earth. o that they will come again in the full- ness of time to make bright our lives. They are’retirinz from our gardens inow, leaving us with the feeling that they have been good and faithful servants, from whom we would ask no more, even if we could. The faci remains that we cannot. Much as we are unable to change the leopard's spots, so We cannot say nav to the advance of the seasons Being situate as we are. on tho sround plan of thix globe, we find Autumn inevitable. . Some time ago (he grass, sturdily &reen all Summer, gave the first evi- dence of the coming of the new sea- son. although there was little change in the air. Blade by blade the grass grew browner. until almost the last Vestige of the green that had de- lichted us so lonz had gone to the nlace where all brave colors must go in_their turn Today the hack v brown before us. the grass than at any time, its stolks filled with seed. at which Enslish sparrows peck in flocks. With a whir the birds fall upon the vard, intent upon zetting a good dinner They dip their heads like ducks into water, with much fluttering and chirping. while honest Tom. the house cat. mutteriny « watehes them from behind the screen door. * ook ok dv to ring down our beautiful play, 4 lies thick ana In our zarden the last gladiolus [blonmed in September. A small stock had been In flower since the middle of July. Carefully we had cut the flower spikes off us soon as done blooming. Now the harvest is at hand. Up come the hulhs many of them with scores of hulblet clinging #round the base. Bein at the “gzlad game,” we treasure the bulblets almost as much bulbs. The little fellows. ranging from the 2 of one’s thumb to ones almost too small to see with the so-called eve.” we shall plant earl Sprinz. in order that in two we may gel blooming v bulbs, We fondly bulbs. Mavbe we are Time will tell. Time tale in gardening. The original monu- ment of Patience, of which we have d so much, must have been in a en ely Patience was the first garden statue, for without her nothing that is done in a garden can be done. In [lh' fruition of Time alone arise ir garden beauties. Care, fertilizer brains, work. monev —all these much. Time. however, means every thing. To get the most from Time. have patience, and patienc else the “peace of the garden” will not be ours. but will iy away to a me secluded spot, whose owner has a r ceptive heari. hope to zet many fine 100 sanguine. tells the whole we must n plenty. | i Two pretty Irish gir about 18 and 20 vears, arrived at the Union Station, Washington. not long ago bearing letiers from the Travel ers’ Aid Society. at Ellis Island, to the same organization. wherever located The girls had just arrived in America and were en route to the home of an {uncle in California, who had provided the money for their passage, for they were orphans. They were keen demure, modest and intelligen: sights of America were wonderful to them. The lady in‘charge of the Travelers Ald stand in the depot recelved them sympathetically, seated them on bhench in front of the stand and bade them wait a few minutes. while she attended to other details of her husy tasks, When she could get time she woild accompany them to a safe hotel sisters, azed West. There was the usual motley assem Dblage of travelers all about, mothers with children, hurried business men. traveling agents, foreigners and que: tionable characte The pretty Irish newcomers looked at the crowds pass ing and kept their seats as directed. Opposite them sat 4 negro woman, overdressed and self-confident, whom velers' Aid attendant had Absent from the waiting room minutes, when the Travelers' Aid re turned the Irish girls were gone—also the flashy negress. It was a quick get- away! The crisis required prompt action. For a Travelers'-Aid to lose such a trust would discredit the whole organization. She called a depot detective, and he, in turn, called a unitormed police- man. They inquired of the superin- tendent of cabs. Yes, (wo ladies and a off together in a faxi. and he had heard the young ladies say they were zoing to see the city. The officers took another taxi. hoping to trail the party. and, very luckily, ran across the suspecied taxi in Potomac Park. Halting it. they demanded an expla nation, and the negress told them she was showing the girls the sights: tchel? “What have you in that te” N UT:’%}':Q:_' was a bottle filled with chio- roform. confirminz the suspicions, It was a case of “white slavery.” The woman would have lured the girls into some den with which she was connected, and there they would have heen chloroformed. Yet the police did not succeed in getting sufficient evidence to make a case. The.Irish immigrants were saved. when fihey nad never for a moment suspected the danger they were facing. It is all in 4 day's work for the Travelers’ Aid. * o ok % Yesterday morning the lady in charge of the Travelers’ Aid at the Union Station was delaved in arriv ing at headquarters of the “drive’ in the Burlington Hotel because she was attending a wedding. A voung man and a young woman had arrived in the city together, at midnight. How the Travelers' Ald had discovered that they were not married is not ex- plained, but the representative had lodged the girl in the Grace Dodge Hotel, and as early as possible in the morning the man had procured a marriage license. All was well, but— if there had been no Travelers' Aid, then what would Gossip have said? ‘There was a boy—perhaps 18 or 19 vears old. His face betrayed that he was in troubls, for the Travelers' Aid workers are experienced in reading trouble. He denied that he was in trouble—at first—until the lady in- sisted that his face had told a dif- ferent story. Then he confessed that he had left home because his father had beaten him and would not let him go to school. That was a year ago. There was much telegraphing and taller roots and sll, | mean | and arrange for their further journey | voung | olored woman had gone | D. 'C., TUESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. progress of the days had been working at the roots of all our plants. The zinnias, after a Summer of noble effort, had been heavily mil dewed. and even before the first frost | had shown signs of ceasing their ef. | forts. » The petunias, a blaze of color and bank of green for months, had becoma a bit draggled, as the wheel of time turned over. It is not so much a lack of sunshine, or of warmth, or of rain, or of any material factors. but a de- sire for rest that rings down the cur- tain on the zarden. What a play, Lo be sure, the garden has been! Here we had a drama extending over months, in which the scenery not the actors, was the “whole play. We who strutted our little parts amid this glorious did so malnly as spectators. The garden was zrateful enough for what we gave. As we were happy Lo give it such time. money and brains as we could, in its turn the garde accepted them with the natural grace inherent in God's creations. Whenever we stopped to think of it all, however, we realized that the power behind the garden was doing the work. These blooming roses, these bright marigolds, these lonz-lasting snapdragons, these graceful spikes of foxglove, these leaning spires of holly- hocks, had come into being not I cause of us, but in spite of us: not because we helped them, but because they could not help themselves: not in answer 1o our beck and call, but jov- ously at the incomparably higher orders sent down to them on every living sunbeam that flooded 1o earth ok oxox nter orders have been is | sued, and all along the line the fAluwers are falling out w here. now there some brave blossom withers and dies | The vines shat have clothed our fen with loveliness weeks on end. ser the tutility of more effori. are dry up tendril by tendril. Lilac bushes, green all Summer, droop under the uiniversal command. as the curtain of ! Winter is about to be rung down on the scene. Poets, viewing this change from the human standpoint, have invariablv zlorified it as sad the most melancholy time of the vear and have spoken tenderly of fading flower and falling leaf. These faithful poets. however. have ‘emained more true to our n 1o the tribes of flowers. To mankind fading and dissolution e ever sad. We are made that wav. The flowers are made differently that is all. There is no such thing as sadness or melancholv In Nature Change wears but one face. and that is—change. What to the human minde seems sad if, in the world of nature, but difference Summer s different from and Autumn from Summer. There is a cvele to be gone through. and the | plants go through it Animals are born, live and die, and only know sad | ness when they come in touch with us lvervwhere in Nature change ac. complishes its unknown purpose, and goes on accomplishing vear after vear. It is thus we have seasons What the purpose of it allis we are not given surely to know. The flowers are true to their nature nd we to ours; when they change we grow happy or sad. as the muta tion is one to please our senses or to make us melancholy 1t s well for us if we-can throw off at this time of the vear. something of our brooding spirit and take in some the fatality of the flowers. which | having ziven us their beauty. take it away again in due on. The sur Now eo Spri BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL } ". COLLINS. telephoninz to New York. and the | New York representative of the Trav- elers’ Aid co-operated “No,” said the father 1 want to see that boy again nece his mother died two vears ago he stays out late at night. and he won’ do what 1 tell him. I want him to work in my offices, and he refuses. Keep him! Tl not take him back.” That father is a prosperous real estate dealer. He was finally per- suaded to give his boy another chance and_sent money for his passage back to New York Since then the boy has been soliciting subscriptions for 2 magazine .to win credits for a college education, and today he is a student in Columbia College. not hy the aid of the father, but by his own pluck and the savi f elers’ Aid A child 6 vears old— Germanv—traveled from Germany to | her uncle in California. and at every change of train ravelers’ Aid woman met the child, took it in charge and demanded a receipt from the next train conductor and finally from the uncle when the child reach ed its destination “When a feller needs a friend don’t whao Aid Soclety? There was a midnight ring on the telephone of the residence of one of the most prominent professional men of Washington. The wife answered and amazed to have the Tra elers’ Ald attendant ask if she had authorized her -vear-old boy to travel alone. She was indignant at such a question. The hoy was asleep in his room, of course! At least the mother thought s il sl thie H0 S0 until she That little chap had been seen buving & railroad ticket to Vermont at 11:30 p.m. and lug an old suit case lacking a handle. He assured the inquirer that his mother had sent him on the trip alone, because she wanted him to learn to be a man. A fundamental feature of the Travelers’ Aid Society is that it does not give aid without independent in- vestigation, nor does it give mere temporary relief where further aid is needed. 1Its follow-up is usually done in co-operation with other organiz tions, best suited to the particular kind of aid needed. It has the fullest possible co-operation of railroad com- panies, hospitals and of the Immigra- tion. Bureau of the Department of Labor. It is undenominational, aiding alike all races and religious faiths. e in 1849 an Irish gold seeker, Bryan Mulvaney, became tranded in' St. Louis while pushing toward the gold fields of California. When he died, some years later, a illionaire gold miner, he was so grateful for the aid he had received in St. Louis that he endowed the St. Louis Travelers' Aid with sufficient income to meet all its needs. Ten yveurs ago Miss Grace Dodge, who was then interested in the Y. W. C. A. in ‘Washington, thought that the work which that organization was doing to aid travelers could be more efficiently performed by a separate organization, and she started the Travelers’ Aid So- ciety here. Today there are 170 such units in America, including Honolulu, and the organization has become in- ternational. ‘The Travelers' Aid Society of Wash- ington is not independent through the generosity of any grateful millionaire. The privilege remains for all sympa- thetic citizens to have a share in the good work by contributing to its budget. Yesterday well organized “teams” of soliciting ladies, assisted by mén, began canvassing for the $15,000 needed. The campaign is to end Thursday next, so one will act promptly, or ‘miss it. The headquar- ters are at the Burlington Hotel. (Fopyright, 1025, hygPaul V' Coltine.) o | Away back | OCTOBER They have called it | {is a better friend than the Travelers' | 20, 1925. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1.G. M. TAKING THE LITERARY PULSE. Joseph Collins. George H. Doran Co. Two outstanding studies, the Literary Pulse” and “The Doctor Looks at Literature,” evidence the fact that their author, Joseph Collins, M. D., does upon occasion apply the science of diagnostics not exclusively to the allments of mankind, but to [ the aflments of modern literature as well. And of a certainty there are | signs aplenty that a considerable pro- portion of current fiction is in need of expert medical attention. For, clearly, much of this fiction is “run’ ning a temperature.” Its symptoms are strongly febrile. Its appearance is hectic. ~ Its reactions are all those of uncontrol and spasmodic incerti- tude. Not alarmingly, but to a cer- tain extent, a psychopathic state of current literature exists, correspond- ing to the sick and ailing states of mankind jtself. ‘The professional career of Dr. Jo- seph Collins has for 30 vears centered upon the mental and emotional insta- bility that so commonly afflicts men | and women in these whirling days. | His business, in so far as this is pos- sible, has been to hunt down causes of such manifest failure on the part of these impaired people to equili- brate themselves to human units of efliciency and happiness. An earnest man devoted to his profession, the doc- tor in these probings must, obviously. have discovered much of fundamental moment and general concern about the human in general. A vital point in these investigntions has been to ascertain the effect of these errancies of thought and feeling both upon the secret life of the individual himself and upon his influence as an outgiv- ing member of society. I'oise and good sense hold the doc- tor on the one hand from complete submergence in the fascination of pursuing the deeply hidden human 1o whom every mother’'s son of us is involuniary host and. on the other hand, from running amuck, when he does emerge, upon some fantastic | scheme of paliiation or cure. | * ¥ ¥ ¥ “Taking | And this good diagnostic equipment the doctor here turns upon the sick fiction that nowadays is spreading both England and America with the efuvia of its personal unhealth and the backed-up slime of a general bad drainage. Current fiction is sexwid- den. To be sure, there is still a good Sto¢ of fine authorship that exists thrivingiy and which will continue so to exist. He agrees, however, that the press, the play, the movie, the pub- lisher, are—consciously or heedless- "\\ —combined in a tremendous public- lity campaign for the exploitation of sex as the openly avowed center of 1all human interest and concern. He cites the alarm of the good folks. ex- yessing itself in hvsterical measures for stemming this tide of dangerous publicity. Legislation, purity leagues ind other assoclations of a thousand names are bent upon this stampede of reform. Appreciating the source and fervor of the general agitation, | the doctor, nevertheless, advises cool- | ness and common sense. The forbid- len thing is the desired thing. Eve { started that—a passion that has been | zoing strong since it bourgeoned in her own private garden patch. To jassuage the fears, to mollify the | acute distress of the good people, {the doctor opines that salacious lit- erature is not so generally read by lthe boys and girls as may be as- sumed He reminds us that young | people—the ones around whom all | this anxiety gathers—are absorbingly | busy with their own affairs, active | affa instead of the sedentary busi- negs of poring over books. Youth is @ period of tremendous preoccu- pations. It is avid for experience, for life, for happiness. Youth, moreover, has an instinct of reticence that shuts it away from many harmful things. Youth is instinctively clean. The doc tor observes that the majority of readers of books which are bent upon ifficial ban are elderly niscent mood and sex-hungered elderly women of sequestered life. Sounds slausible. So he is all for soothing 4 hubbub that only stimulates desire by exciting curiosity. And here the doctor says something that sounds sane and quite heautiful: Sex is an integral part of human life. With- out it life wonld ceage to exist in a very short time. But it is not the whole of human life any more than the gasoline in the tank is the whole of the machine that transports us from London to Paris in two or three hours. There are other constituents of the airship as worthy of considera- tion and quite as essential as the gusoline and which excite one’s ad- miration even more. In human life | we call these factors by different { names; truth. beauty. humor, spirtual- |itv, and we believe thev play a ver important part in the history of every { individual.” Children should be tauzht Ithe truth about sex, so the doctor }savs, asking immediately, “Who shall {teach them A question whose !prompt answer is “God knows"— | since every father and mother is so mortally ashamed of that which | brought these children into existence.” | PARK LAUGHTER. Sherwood An- | derson. Bonl & Liveright. | Sherwood Anderson has a place in the clinic for diseased literature. car- ried on here by Dr. Collins. Sher- wood Anderson of America and Mr, D. H. Lawrence of Great Britain. The latter concerns himeelf with sex- perversion, Anderson with sex-obses- sion. And the doctor has very sane and dispassionate things to <ay about Sherwood Anderson, {llustrative of the erotic neurotic egotist, endowed with great ability that flashes out be- tween black clouds of confusion, am- biguity, rebellion and sheer nonsense, e agrees that Anderson has the gift of cadenced prose, the gift of words that march together in harmonic wholes. He gives him the benefit of honest intent in the furtherance of stark rebellion against the purpose and the substance and the spirit of American literature. I must have been somewhere not to know Anderson better. As an admission this is deeply humiliating. As an-ex perience, however. “Black Laughter” Iig like meeting the first man, or the first woman in the world. Like walk- ing up to some strange being, and around him. and away from him, try ing to decipher the alien appearance, to determine the curious movements, to recognize unfamiliar gestures, to interpret the unknown speech, to un- ravel the mysterious business going on around him. As nearly as I can find out what the matter is about, in between the explosions of speach, which are plainly about nothing at all, this is the explanation-of a cer- tain Bruce Somebody with a wife called Bernice. The trouble rose out of the pecular quality of the Bernice smile—it seemed so cursedly superior, that smile. No doubt it was. This Bruce had a superior smile coming to him. Well, at any rate, he lit out away from the unbearable restraints of domestic life. This is, perhaps, the odvssey of Bruce. At any rate, the fellow took up a wandering life out in the Middle West and down into the South, working some but above all else loafing with his | thoughts, many of them very beau- tiful ones, but the great majority of them simple announcements of secret matters taken out and made the sub- ject of open reflection and plain speech. As to sound, wonderfully well done. Listen: “The niggers were something for Bruce to look at—so many black men slowly growing brown. Then would come the light brown, the velvet brown, Caucasian buried away Sherwood men of remi- | Q. Why is the hairbird so-called? | A. T hairbird, or chipping apar- row, is given this name in reference to the fact that Iis nest is made al- most entirely of horsehairs | Q. How can skunks be driven | from under a porch?—W. H. B A. The Biological Survey suggests that vou try smoking out the skunks under vour house by closing up all openings with the exception of one. At this place a wood fire should be built. Tn the even: that this does not prove of value. vou should try trapping. Q. Will yvou kindly tell me what per cent of the material in an aver- age automobile inner tube is “pure rubber”?—L. S. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the average inner tube contains about 90 per cent of rubber by vol- ume—aboul the same as in & rubb band. Q. What term is the meaning E. V. A. This term is applied to huge ostrich feather fans carried beside the Pope in certain ceremonials. The evelike parts of peacock feathers of the e Q. Are there any the present time?—G A. Vast numbers of wild were seen in this country 1865, though not in such gr bers as earlier in the century 1800 to 1550. The slaughter of these pigeons raged for years with nets, traps and zuns. and by 1884 there were very few of the wild pigeons seen in this countri. By 1900 they had dwendled down 1o # few speci- mens left In captivity in Milwaukee and in the Cincinnati Z the last known wild pigeon, died p.m., August 23, 1914, at the age of 29. According 1o all ornithotogical data available, she was the fast of her tribe in the world. Martha's mate died in 1910, and though a prize of $1.000 was offered for a maie, none was ever found, of the church. wild w. pigeons at pigeons prior 1o t num namely, Q. How does the number of Nor- wegians in the United States com pare with the population of Norway? There are today almost as many Norwezians in the United States as there are in the mother count The number in the United States i 500.000. while the population of Nor 549 ANSWERS TO | the glued part to the light. were sel in_the fans to symbolize the | Martha, | about | QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. they chewed the berries but were dix appointed {n the taste. Then the. boiled them but without success. Then they tried roasting them and found this gave a delightful flavor. Iater a monk brewed a stimulating drink by pounding the roasted berries In mortar. Q. Why is it that all the editions of Joan of Arc do not have Mark Twain’s name on them?—H. E. B. A. The fact that Mark "Twain's name does not appear as the author of Joan of Arc is due to his desire 1o add to the illusion that the book wax the record of another man. Soms critics regard this as just another whim of the great writer, who ve garded his life of Joan of Arc as his favorite among his own books. Q. Can you give a formula that will make common glue impervious io water’—F. E. B. A. In order to render glue insoluble in water, even hot water, it is onlv necessary, when dissolving the glue for use, to add a little potassium bichromate to the water and to expose The pro portion_of potassium bichromate will vary with circumstances, but for most purposes about 1-50 of the amount of glue used will suffice. Q. How many hits could be made by one team in one inning of base bali without a run being scored?—B. E A Six hits can be made and no runs scored. First batter hits for three bases but is thrown out at the plate trying to stretch it into a home run one out. Second batter also hilx triple and is thrown out at plate tr ing to make a home run—two ous Next three batters hit singles, filling the ba Sixth batter hits ground ball that strikes runner going to third The runner is out for being hit batter, hut hatier is credited with { hit | @ Could 4 shin with 3.000 1ons of |cargo ascend the St. Lawrence and de |liver goods in Detroit?—C. N. ( A. The secretary of the departmen: of railways and canals of Ottawa Canada. says that the size of ships using the Dominion canals between Montreal and Chicago is limited by the dimensions of the locks. The min mum-sized lock has a usable length of 255 feet; 2 width of 45 feet and depth of water on sills 14 feet. The cargo capacity of the full sized vessels using these canals is about 2,400 ton« (<hort) Q. How far above the Equator is th, Big Dipper always visible’—D. B Q. Ts human hair used for any pur- pose other than wigs, switches, etc R-D. R. A. Human hair 1s sometimes ployed for ornzmental purposes, as chains and artificial flowers, but its principal use is to supply natural de ficiencies, and for this purpose is made up iInto wigs, toupees, etc Q. What is name lavender | flower?—S. S. C, A. It is from the Italian “lavare to wash. According to some authori | ties, it was so-called hecause used in | washing or because jaid in freshly washed linen Q. Who were the first coffee drink ers?—H. T. T. A. There are many stories as to who first discovered the food value of coffe: In Europe this important discovery is usually accredited to the inmates of an old monastery in Arabia who had observed that their goats after browsing upon the coffee berrie: were decidedly lively. They decided to taste the berries to see if they, toc would be similarly affected. ~ First 1 em to the the the derivation ] as applied BY M. B. II—Who L Lditor's Note—This is the a series of ‘arricles shoicing wal invextor how he way be on guard against fraudulent ‘securities. 1he sale of Wrhich ia estimated (0 be herween $300 000,000 and $1.060.060.000 /e year Most people have some tmage of the sucker. He is, for in stance. very unlike themselves. May- Dbe he has a mole and a drooping mus- tache a bit like those in the old fashioned comic valentines. Perhaps there is a wisp of hay in his hair. Or the sucker may, in this image. be a little old woman in rusty black. full of hope. = Look a moment on a different "sort of person. These are business men members of the Chicazo Association of Commerce. They have come to zether to hear a susgestion for a na- tional organization to fight security swindling. They are listening 10 a man who has no hay in his hair. He mention~ the worthless securities found in the estates of J. P. Morgan and James Stillman. and he goes on: “It is a somewhat complicated matter 10 say just who are suckers in this country and who are not. 1 have a distinct suspicion that most of us here present belong pretty definitely in this class ourselves in one way or another.” The speaker is E. H. H. Simmons. presi- dent of the New York Stock Exchange Tt was also Mr. Simmons. speaking before the credit men of Milwaukee. who said: “It is within my personal knowledge, a8 2 governor of the New York Stock Exchange, that when we tore out the wires from a notorious bucket shop a few years ago we were deluged with requests from men prom- inent socially, financially and political- Iy to restore the wires because the firm was in their opinion honest and well meaning. Half in New York. Another man who knows a great deal about this fraud situation is H. J. Kenner, manager of the Better Business Bureau of New York City. He has been specializing in fizhiing financial fraud for three years., and right at headquarters. for half the stock frauds are said to originate in New York. “Don't call them suckers.” he says. “Business men fall in about the same proportion as other folk. The business man is a chance taker. He knows his own business, but may not know stocks. He gets out of his depth and takes a flier. Anybody who gets en- thusiastic and lacks information may be_carried away.” There is hint No. 1: Don't get en- thuslasm. And also hint No. 2: Get information. Boil them down and vou have this: Remember to be suspicious. It is, possible to glve mome idea of the proportion in which different sorts of people—the business man and hypo- thetical hayseed—neglect the principle back of these hints. The stories of 418 typical losers in 15 States were obtained for the Better Business Bu- reau movement of the Associated Ad- vertising Clubs of the World by Lewis H. Haney of New York University. with widespread co-operation. Out of these 418 there were 87 women. Of the 331 men, 183 were business men of some kind, including 48 clerical workers. The professional and techni- cal men made 70, and only two of i { cond o | 1e indirid sort of features. The brown women tending up to the job—getting the race lighter and lighter.” Poetry, raucous laugh- ter, violent speech, threads of silver— all devoted to allusive, or direct, facing upon sex. It is the bad taste and the dullness of the thing that will finally kil this sort of literary con- centration upon sex, which a few writers are working to ils own ex- tinction, A. From 40 degrees north latitude 10 the North Pole the Big Dipper is always above the horizon. Q. Do B A. They are sluggish and strike |rarely except when provoked or en |dangered. and they may be killed b 2 slight blow. The bite when well de | livered by a vigorous snake is alm surely fatal: men have been known o perish within half an_hour, and in such cases all so-called remedies are | useless 5 (The keynote of the times is efficient | services In supplying its readers with a free information burecaw in Wash- ington The Star is living up fo this principle in deed and fact. We are paying liberally for this service | order that it may be free to the pui |lie. Submit your querics to the sta of experts whose services are put ot your disposal. Inclose 2 cents in | stamps 1o cover the return postan: | Address The Star Information Burean | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Ticent - | first and € streets northwest, Wasi- ington, ). ) cobras often bite people” tn | LOST DOLLARS ABILLION A YEAR I LEVICK. oses Them? them were cler mechanies and and 14 farmers, Who's the “Sucker?" Disregard the clerks and bookkeen ers. consider only the more act business men. and among the 133 luf there are merchants, real estate me: contractors, hotel men, salesme: managers and superintendents (pe haps some of these last should be the mechanical column), manuf turers. brokers, traders. advertis men—apparently all sorts. The little old woman in rusty [ no longer seems typical. This survey. continued until the re turns began repeating themselves « and over. showed a good deal brought out. for instance, that iI average stock swindle loss is trifie but, in these 41S cases. w $1.190 for each individual. Half the 418 lost every Tent. the average <1l vage from each $1,190 was $8. The chief incentive is hope of great the return most commonly heinz & per cent or bette hird of the cases the investor tock the word of a friend as a tip—there are lots of people who find friendship profitalis One victim in four admitted that was carried away hy the salesman - gab. A considerable number fell i canse the salesman told them the been singled out as promine: citizens to be given a ground-fl chance. But the great majorlty feli because they made no investigatior They put up their money on faith without even knowing what informa tion they should have secured. vmen laborer nere were 14 studeg Tt Forge County Seal. Even knowing what to ask is not always enough. A few months ago a Chicago bond house found it had been stung with $150.000 worth of forsed school district honds. The bonds wers bought from three supposed directors of the district. A vear later it was di< covered, through the first coupons that the names and the county seal had been forged. Once a sucker list w: a crook and he would pa the name of a sucker stung at least once. It showed hope springing eternal. Now names are taken at random from income 1ax lists as well as from sucker lisis That Is in part hecause the public has learned it can invest. In the legitimate field, three great corporations have hetween them today 600,000 stockholders. The public util ities have widened popular invesi ment. The number of American in- vestors rose from 3.000.000 to 20.000. 000 when people who knew nothing of securities learned during the war that they could buy bonds. But the crooks were only half a jump, if that, behind the legitimate development. Indeed, some were at work even dur- ing the war-time bond campaigns The United .States Treasury Depart ment estimated that in 1918-19 Liberty bonds worth $400,000,000 were taken from investors through swindling operations. That was one of the big- gest “switches” ever put over. War bonds got the people in an Investing frame of mind, but didn't teach them how to be cautious. Everybody has -heard the old joke about the cat and rat ranch; they in teract and the furs pile up faster than the eggs‘in the fairy tale. A bank put that in its window as a humoroux warning. A few daya later it was gone. “What became of it?" some one asked. “Oh,” said the banker, “we | had to take it down: 100 many people came in and wanted to know where they could buy stock in that cat 1‘ ranch.” essential 10 / higher for who had been (Covyright. 1925.) Tomorrw: "How They Lose Them."