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8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. .. .September 28, 1926 . THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8¢ and Pennavivania Ave New York 8&[(‘ ’}‘.l‘o East e Bhleas omes: 110 European Offion: 14 Regent England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- Sdition. 1% drllvered by carriars within the city st 80 centa Bor month-, dajly” only. 45 conts month: Sundars eniy. 30 csais per, month, Orders may be sent by mail or lephone Main 5000. Collection is made by earrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advancé. Maryland and Virginia. Paliy g, uvdae 437 tha dme- 20 unday only 1yr.$300: 1 mo. 3 i Au‘mmr States -nfld Canada. o0 Baly ti sender. -1 or Sl3n0: d e a1 Sunday only 1 $4.00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for repubiication of all news dis- atches credited 10 it or no ted in this paper and also the publishei herein Al rights of public of 1 dispatches herein are also reser . Editor ui St. nd 8¢, ‘LSidon. The Retail Market Site. Preferences for a mid-city site for the market center have now been expressed by farmers and by a very large majority of the retail dealers who are occupying stalls in the Center Market, who must move when that establishment is razed to make way for new Government constructions. The views of these two groups have been presented to the authorities who are studying the question and will doubtless have an influence on their decision. Little has been heard frem the con- sumers, the patrons of the markets, upon whose trade the prosperity of the dealers depends. Unfortunately, there is no assured way to secure their views. They are not organized. They are scattered throughout the District. They cannot express them- salves effectively. Yet their probable preferences may be concelved, inas- much as they require merely conven- fence of access to the markets. A study of the map of Washington will afford an effective answer to the query as to the matter of the con- venlence of the market patrons. The so-called mid-city site, with the Con- vention Hall market as its focal point, les within a few hundred yards of the center of population and not far from the geographical center of the District. It is more ‘“central” than the present Center Market. It is con- venlent to several car lines and can be approached from all directions. The purpose of a market center with stalls for the retail provision sales is to enable the people to *'shop™ for thelr food supplies conveniently and economically. Those who “go to market” instead of depending upon the nearest corner grocery or the itin- erant hucksters do so because they have a wider range of selection and &R opportunity to compare prices and to get the most for their money. Oth- erwise there is no occasion whatever for the concentration of the purveyors of foods under a single group or in a number of establishments closely re- lated. The man or the woman with a mar- ket basket is to be primarily congjd- ered in this matter of locating fime market. The retail dealers have ex- pressed themselves in favor of a mid- city site, presumably because they know that if the market is not con- veniently placed the people will “not patronize them. They will not “go to market” if they have to cover long distances and if they cannot reach the market quickly and easily and economically. All these factors are to be taken into consideration by those who are now studying the question and whose decision will doubtless govern in the selection of a site and in the provision of accommodations for the market center. Washington should have a model market, and it will not be a model if it is not so placed as to draw a maximum of trade from the people. e - Labor and Machinery. A tenhour day was easy enough for the man who toiled mostly %.th his hands. He paused now and then 1o look off—maybe to light his pipe— maybe to give greeting to a passing acquaintance. Machinery has changed this. Its inexorable punctuality of de- mand, its compelling rhythm, make it the real taskmaster in the world of industry. It asks no eight-hour day and is easily repaired. It is from ma- chinery, which links into its operation brain, nerve and muscle, that the willing worker must seek a relief in an intelligent adjustment of the hu- man element to the limitless capacity of mechanism. A new split m party lines is dis- cussed, which threatens a possibility that voters, regardless of the tariff, may line up as ““Drypublicans” and “Wetocrats.”" v Arms and Public Safety. The young men who were arrested the other night in this city as “ban- dits” after a fight with the police, in which two of the officers and three of the gang were wounded, seem to have had plenty of armament. They all carried guns and used them. Where did they get them? There need be no mystery about the matter. They might have got them anywhere without the least difficulty, right here in Washington or by mail or in other cities. Any crook can arm himself in a few minutes here at home, or if he wishes to preserve his anonymity quite securely he can get a gun by parcel post under &n assumed name at the general delivery. If he should g0 to a local dealer to buy his gun he can do so by giving an assumed name and & fake address, which the dealer perfunctorily requires to com- ply with the letter of the ineffective weapons law now in force here. From time to time concealed weap- ons charges are brought against peo- ple in this jurisdiction, and the ac- cused when found guilty are sent to Ooccoquan or in aggravated cases to the penitentiary. But in practh evesy one of those cases the disce of the weapon is only incidental to the commission of some other offense. The law, as far as protection is con- cerned, is worthless. It is not the concealed weapon that does the dam- age, but the weapon in the hand of a crook, a criminal. A man can walk down the public street in this city with a loaded weapon in his hand and be technically immune. If he puts it in his pocket and is detected doing so he can be arrested under’the law which forbids the carrying of concealed weapons. He can go into a shop and buy a gun and carry it home unwrapped dhd un- concealed, though he may be going straight on a murderous mission. But if he wants or thinks he needs a gun for protection at home against bur- glars he risks arrest when he puts the weapon in his pocket to carry it to his dwelling. Such is the absurdity of the present law. Two laws are needed for the pro- tection of the community. One is a statute which forblds the sale or gift or exchange of a deadly weapon save upon the presentation of a permit to purchase or acquire it, issued by a vesponsible public official. The other is prohibition against the use of the mail or express for the delivery of weapons for the purchdse of which permits have not been issued. Cut off the supply of the easlly pro- cured pistol and banditry will be les- sened materifally. The lives of police- men will be safer. The property of shopkeepers and of persons walking in the streets will be more secure. ‘The coroner will have less work to do. There will be fewer cases ¢rowding the calendars of the courts. Al Smith's World Court Plank. Democratic leaders in different Sitates have been enjoying the troubles of certain of the Republican Senators who have been defeated in the pri- maries on the scote, according to their opponents, of their advocacy of Amer- fcan adhesion to the World Court. ‘Whether or not these primary upsets have been in fact due to the interna- tional issue, there has been much re- jolcing in the high places of the opposition party over the plight of the World Court advocates. But now comes trouble right in the Democratic camp over the same question, At Syracuse, where the New York State Democracy is in session to name a State ticket and a candidate for the Senate, the World Court issue has bobbed up and caused difficuity. Gov. Smith, who is being drafted for duty again to head the ticket, 18 a World Courter. He belleves in American membership in the international ju- dicial“tribunal, with reservations. And he believes, too, that in a campaign in which a member of the Senate is to be elected his party should in its plat- form record its faith. So he brings forward a World Court plank, and he demands that it be inserted, and he goes so far as to tell the committee on resolutions that if it is not incor- porated in the declaration of principles he will not run a fifth time for gov- ernor. Such a howdy-do! Of course, the governor will sweep the State, wheth- er the party declares for the World Court or not. For is not Al Smith bigger than any platform? Is he not his own platform? But while this is only 1926, with merely a governorship immediately in the prospect, 1928 is only two years off and a presidency is in the offing. And, moreover, there Is the senatorship. So the Tammany men who have been so busy fixing up a slate and greasing the ways for the convention protest, even to their be- loved governor, that it is bad politics to mention the World Court, that the World Court is anathema to certain groups of voters in the big town. Let the platform deal with generalities and ignore the controversial, especial- ly on a subject that has been disposed of and has left its wreckage. But Gov. Al is not State boss with- out possessing the qualities of boss- ship. He believes in the World Court, he believes that it is pertinent to a State campaign in which a senator- ship is at stake to mention the sub- Ject approvingly, and so he gets his [way. All of which is in turn mighty comforting to the Republicans who are meeting at Madison Square Gar- den and ironing out their own trou- bles. The Tiger yields, but his fur is ruffied and there is a sinister note in his purr that makes it sound might- ily like a snarl. ——————— A shortening of labor hours per day and labor days per week -will benefit the manual toiler, but will af- ford mno relaxation for a mental worker, such, for example, as Thomas | Edison. Psychologists say the human brain is never truly at rest, not even in sleep. ] Dempsey has already changed his style of fighting. Instead of favoring postponements he now wants another match as soon as possible. Sleaa .- A Broadside Collision. Two trains were In collision yester- day at Bethlehem, Pa., with the death of eight persons and the injury of thirty-elght. It was an unusual col- lision, not the ordinary rear-end crash or the now almost obsolete head-on encounter. It was a broadside smash, occurring at a crossing. One train was on its way across the intersecting track when a train on the latter plowed into it. The train that was hit was slowing down to stop at the station. The colliding train should, of course, have been brought to a halt at a safe distance, but it was not and the collision reeulted. The engi- neer of the colliding train is quoted as having said immedftely after the crash that he thought that the other train would stop before reaching the crossing, and when he saw that it was proceeding it was then too late to bring his own train to a halt. If there was ever a railroad acci- dent without any possible excuse it was this. On most roads it is the in- variable rule that all trains approach- ing an intersection must be brought to a full stop before proceeding across the tracks of the other line. Then the train with right of way goes ahead and the other is held until the track is clear. THE drivers who misunderstand the in- tentions of other drivers at street crossings, but there is no conceivable excuse for the engineer of a raflroad train. And furthermore, in view of the fact that such a collision is proved to be possible by this disaster the ar- gument is unanswerable that it should be made to be impossible by installa- tion of automatic train stops to pre- vent trespass upon an occupled track. Had these two lines been equipped with such a device, there would have been no collision. The right-of-way train would have crossed the intersection safely while the other was held without power until the tracks were clear. Thus do the demonstrationg of the imperative need of an automatic stop installation accumulate in force. How long must the traveling public wait for this protection? How many more accidents will be required to bring about this reform, which is already commanded by law, but which is de- layed mysteriously and stubbornly in the face of an appalling cost? R A Hero of the Air. Lester Kirk, flyer at Evansville, Ind., the other day got a signal for aid from a pilot aloft. A stunt per- former was hanging from a trapeze beneath the flying plane and had be- come numbed by the cold, had slipped and was hanging by one leg caught in a loop in the rope. Kirk immedi- ately took off, soared and maneuvered his plane to & position directly under the pendent man. Abandoning his controls for a moment, he grasped the trapeze performer and pulled him loose. ‘Then, manipulating the con- trols of his plane with his feet and one elbow, he dragged the body of the semiconscious man into thy cockpit and made his way to a landing. That is the simple story of one of the most daring and heroic acts ever performed in the air. Aviators are constantly doing remarkable things in Mtunt flying end in emergencies in straight-away aviation. They seem to adjust instantly to necessity. This man Kirk saw the peril of another and went to his rescue as calmly and efficlently as a life-saver who plunges into the sea to save a drowning swimmer. An alrplane is not an easy machine to handle in any circumstances. It must be kept under control every mo- ment or it is likely to go into a nose dive or a tafl spin and crash. Tn this case Kirk kept his machine under control, apparently by sheer will, for the time necessary’ to-get the per- former loose from the trapeze. He had never rehearsed the stunt. Noth- ing like it had ever been done before. He did instinctively what was neces- sary to be done to keep the plane going while he rescued the dangling aerialist. All this happened at an air circus | given for the benefit of the Florida storm sufferers. Those who paid their money to see the stunts got what is called in vaudeville an extra added attraction. But why should life be risked for public entertainment after all? —————— Innumerable books about the World War haye been written without pro- ducing anything that may be regard- ed as a masterplece in historic litera- ture. This fact may account for the enormous amount of conventional fle- tion that overwhelms the book shops. It requires at least a generation to render a war picturesque. P A The so-called “crime waves™” do not appear so formidable on analysis as they did at first. Two bandits can commit enough depredations to con- vey a terrorized impression that an organized band of unlimited numbers is at work. B Visits to one another are being planned by kings of Europe. Most of the conversation will probably re- late to the good old times. e rate. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, September’s Ruling Passion: ‘Where is the farmer boy whose glee He sang at break o’ day? He's yonder, fixing uf a tee, For there is golf to play. Where is the housewife, very prim? ‘Where is her daughter gay? They're trudging in the distance dim, For there is golf to play. The carpenter, the blacksmith stout, ‘With millionaires now stray. Each office door you seek say For there is golf to play. “out” Opinions. “It's dangerous for people to believe everything they hear about a man.” “Not always,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Out my way I've been pretty successful in getting 'em to be- lieve what my press agents say about me.” Workless Days. They talk about the Busy A sorry bluff he seems to me. 8ix months of sleep each year he's scored. That beats the plan of Henry Ford. Bee— Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, says ‘we are truly in the era of resplendent prosperity when & man can go to the City of Brotherly Love and receive lavish riches for one black eye. Jud Tunkins says the hunting sea- son is on, and two-thirds of the boys in his neighborhood have picked up shotguns and are hunting 'most every- thing except work. Higher Skirts. “Year after year skirts grow shorter. What will be the ultimate ef- fect?"” “I don't know,"” answered Miss Cay- enne, “unless each flapper hoists a parasol and calls it a petticoat.” Pushing a Good Thing Along. Five days of work for six days' pay Is insufficient stuff. Four days, I vehemently say, Or three, are quite enough. “Don’t holler 'bout wantin' to be yoh own boss,” sald Uncle Eben. “De fus’ thing you'd do would be to give yohself permission to loaf on de job Therg s some excuse for motor car ¢ till you went broke.” ‘We wish every boy in the world would read Joseph Conrad’'s “Lord Jim.” It is not an easy story to read, due to the peculiar method of telling and to Conrad's distinctive way of buiiding up effect. Many of their elders, offhand, might be inclined to belieyve that ‘‘Lord Jim" is a bit too heavy for the aver- age boy. There is little doubt, how- ever, that boys are among the best readers in the world in every sense. ‘They are capable of absorbing books of almost any type—books which are generally held to be *“too old for them, “Lord Jim" is that type of story. It is a study of ‘character, worked out in the painstaking method peculfar to Conrad. The action of the ° story' creaks somewhat, and at times tends to weary even the adult reader. A boy might be forgiven for calling it dull. Very tew will do so, however. The mass effect of this story on a boy would be something that he would not for a moment suspect. He would, unknowingly, get a lesson in the conduct of life that would stick to him for the rest of his days. Thus he would be the recipient of that best of all sermons, the uncon- scious. There is no “moral” tagged on to any of Conrad’s romances, and this novel is no exception. No boy would find himself *‘preached at”; no boy would be repelled' by an attempt to be taught a lesson, yet the end effect would be that of a power- ful moral, burned into his soul by an impressive lesson. B “Lord Jim" is the story of a fine young fellow, handsome, brave, bold, true, everything that a man ought to be who missed doing his duty in the blg moment of his life. The time came, on his ship, which was transporting a crew of helpless Malays, when Jim was faced with the problem of being true to the tra- ditions of the .Anglo-Saxon race or giving in to the urge for safety. A great storm came up, and the old tub was in a bad way. The other officers, more or less scoundrels, took to the boats, and left the helpless natives to sink. And Jim joined them. Against the best instincts of his mind and heart, he allowed himself to be persuaded that the ship had no chance, and that he could do nothing for the passengers. Jim knew better. That was the tragedy of it. He gave in to the per- suasions of lesser men—men without his heritage of birth and breeding. These things do mean a great deal in life. Jim knew it. He was proud of himself, his folks, his nation, its sea- faring traditions. He allowed himself tdb do an un- worthy thing. It was not unworthy of the lesser men without the law, but distinctly not a gentleman's ac- tion. And he was a gentleman. The rules of the game!" How the Anglo-Saxon man loves them! They mean everything. Time and chance have formed them, over the years; an Englishman and an American abides by _them. The point is not that one may mot come out all right, in the end, but that he has not been square, that he has not played the game. The point within the point is that he has not been square with himself, that he has not played the game to his own satisfaction! e The boy who learns as early as possible that he must satisfy the dictates of his conscience, that it is essential never to be ashamed of him- self, to himself, for himself, is on the high road to success. Let the scaly customers, the oily manipulators, the crooks and’others of their {lk fatten upon Hl-gotten gains secured by disregarding the “rules of the game. The true man, the real boy, will be a Good Scout in every particular. He will not be like Lord Jim, who once did a wrong action. By skulking once, he was made to skulk ever aft- erward. They got to land and were tried in the marine courts for con- duct unbecoming officers. Jim, of course, was made the vic- tim. The others, having no charac- ter to lose, lost little, but Jim, with everything to lose, lost it. The rules of the game work out that way. ‘With the pitiless relentlessness of which he was a master, Conrad pic- tures the physical and mental life of “Lord Jim,” as the natives called him. An ironic touch is given to the picture when it is discovered that the ship was in no real danger, and that Jim, had he “stuck to the ship,” would have been in far less danger than he encountered in an open boat. k% The rest of the story is relentlesa. ‘Wherever Jim goes the story follows him, and his own reaction to it is alwy the same. He is ashamed of himself. The wild, exotic flavor of the end of “Lord Jim” has an almost “movie” touch to it, which will keep a boy interested to the last. At its end he will not realize at all that he has made a mental re- solve not to be like Lord Jim. But he has. No person of ordingry intelli- gence can read this story through without being moved by it. He may not analyze His feelings, but effects are secured, in properly constructed novels, just that way. “Lord Jim" is one of the masterpieces of psycho- logical fiction—a rather hard term, but simply meaning understanding of the mental processes of mankind. Never to do anything—or not to do anything (equally important)—to be Tshr\m?d of, is of big moment in the ife of the average decent man. There is no man who has not. at some time or other, done something or failed to do something-—of which he remains ashamed, whenever he thinks of it. With most of us the commission or omission is nothing serfous. It does not entail loss of life or lifelong hurt. Yet it hurts—us. How much greater, then, the harm in a failure to live up to the best in one, the best in our race, in some really, great crisis! The better a man is, the more intelligence he has, the more he will feel it. If, by taking forethought, oné may avold this great hurt to the soul, both of himself and his race, he ha: done a good thing. s One of the most practical ways he can do this is to read a powerful na rative, such as Conrad's “Lord Jim, setting forth the lesson in a way he will never forget. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS, If Uncle Sam does not feel just right this week, if his blood pressure is too high or his heart is pumping too loudly, the cause is easily dis- cerned, for there is a Pan-American Conference of National Directors of Public Health in session in the Na- tional Capital and an International Conference on Tuberculosis in prepa- ration for next week. If that is mot enough to cause trouble in the aver- age citizen's physical or neurotic ma- chinery, he must be a superman. In his welcoming address, Dr. Hugh Cumming, Surgeon General of United States Public Health Service, referred to the fact that this is the centennial year of the first pan-American meeting of any na- ture. That was held in Panama. The United States Ambassador died of a malignant fever en route to that, and when the alternate arrived he found the meeting had adjourned to a point near Mexico City, because the Pan- ama climate was proving so fatal. Yet the flight was the only reference to health or sanitation in connection with t meeting. It seems that practically all knowledge of medicine, sanitation and health has been achie ed within the last century and a half —many modernists are inclined to say within the last decade and a half. It is only about a century and a third since Jenner discovered the se- cret of vaccination with cowpox as a means of preventing smallpox. There ave skeptics to this day who, in ig- norance of the indisputable record would question the results of vaccina- tion. Yet the science has almost driven smallpox from civilized com- munities. Today doctors vaceinate for preven- tion of numerous diseases aside from smallpox. Perhaps no more dis- tinctly modern instance can be cited than th: wherein a boy at Eagle Pass, T W bitten by a rattle- snake a few weeks ago and was in what appeared to be death spasms. A telephone call was sent to the Anti- venom Institute at El Paso, asking for a doctor to come with a supply of anticrotalus serum. The doctor ar- rived “out of the sky,” as if Heaven- sent, and a few doses of the serum— the first administered two hours after the bite and in the midst of eath paroxysms' -- restored the patient fully within one da Another case, almost identical, occurred at Sander- son, Tex., two days later, with similar happy recovery, made possible by the Army Air Corps and a supply of anti- crotalus serum. i . It was the rare privilese of the present writer to chance upon a meet. ing of sclentists in Paris one after- noon while living in the French capi- tal, and his curiosity was aroused when from within there came the sound of extraordinary applause. ‘What was all that applause atout? “Oh, M. Pasteur! He has discov- ered a means of preventing hydro- phobla! C’est merveilleux!" The next morning, early, quisitive layman visited the Pasteur laboratory and was greeted with great cordiality and simplicity by the great. est scientist of his generation, who did not disdain to explain his processes, show his rabbits and discourse (in realms far beyond the easy compre- hension of his visitor) upon the the- ories, or rather the demonstrations, he had accomplished in taking the serum of hydrophobia, attenuating it so that he humnn resistance could react against the first dose, then daily in- creasing the strength of the serum dose until full strength could be over- come by the now immune body—and that immunity was reachsd before the serum injected by the bite of the mad dog could “incubate” and slay the vie- tim. That was just 40 years ago. Yee, it was ‘“marvelous”—the pos- sibility of that revolutionary addition to_medical knowledge being so simply explained to a young layman that it became clear, in spite of limited French and infinite naivete as to bacteriology. Needless to add that that made a “story” for cable news to America—the first report thereof. S. the But as expressed by a bacteriologist of Washington not long ago, “Pasteur could not have made it clear to vou if he had not been so great a man, for the test of greatness is simplic- ity—and Pasteur was the greatest scientist of his age.” Yet, for many years after Jenner's and Pasteur's discoverles conserva- tives refused to credit them. Today Pasteur is recognized as the father of bacteriology, and his discoveries in prevention of infectious diseases have revolutionized medical practice throughout the world. He studied the germs which were destroying the French silk industry and the grapes; he paid the “reparations” demanded by Prussia as a penalty for losing the war of 1870—paid it by saving the prosperity of France's basic enter- prises. R Until a generation ago all surgical operations were desperate chances with infection and gangrene. How the soldiers of our Civil War suffered and dled of gangrene! Then Lister proved that it was because the sur- geon's scalpel and other instruments were not sterilized. Today if a sur- geon permits gangrene he is in danger of being charged with crim- inal malpractice. The British Medi- cal Journal says that Lister saved more lives than were lost in all the wars of the nineteenth century. That covers Napoleon's butcheries. Half a century ago vyellow fever was the scourge of our Southern States and of all the tropics through- out the world. There came a military surgeon, named Walter Reed, with a staff of other scientists, who studied the origin and nature of yellow fever and traced its spread to the bite of a certain mosquito. Heroic devotees of science tested the theories by going into screened inclosures with the sus- pected mosquitoes and permitting themselves to be bitten—and they suffered yellow fever. Thus it was demonstrated that older theories that the disease was spread through infection were disproved. Not until then was it possible to bulld the Pan- ama Canal, because the disease- carrying mosquito routed whites and blacks and terrorized survivors. Due credit is given to the energy of President Roosevelt when he de- manded that we should “see the dirt fly” in Panama, but not until Dr. Reed made the mosquito fly was that possible. Now, how long has it been since the South or any other part of the civilized world has suffered a yel- low fever scourge? Yellow fever is routed except in parts of Africa. The greatest military hospital in the country is located in Washington and is named in honor of the man who killed the power of the mosquito and routed yellow fever. 3 * ok K K Marvels of advance in surgery and therapeutics have come out of the World War. Tuberculosis is not yet conquered, but almost. New methods of treating it include surgical cutting out of the diseased spots of the lungs, followed by exposure of the wounds in the patlent’s back—eight or ten inches long by an inch wide and more than, an inch deep—to the therapy of direct sunbeams, and in time the great gaps knit and only sound lungs re- main. And what of the skill with which face surgery replaces the disfigure- ments of ghastly wounds of battle, so that at least the wounded may now “laugh at scars” though he had felt the wounds, which in former days would have driven him from the sight of a pitying public? Sanitation—so closely allied to med- icine and surgery—has done more to make the world safe for humanity than has statecraft. The surgeon's work may be more or less spectacular in its results, but when sanitary water and milk and foods free from destruc- tive bacteria prevent typhold fever, scarlet fever and many other disease: so familiar in fo) y years, it is scant praise to ;; that Health has EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1926. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LOVE AND LIFE. Joseph Collins. George H. Doran Company. The “Doctor” loeks at life squarely. He reports it straight. Such is the moral and intellectual habit of this writer. Whether he is dealing with human existence at first hand or by way of its reflection in literature, the method remains the same. Such attitude, such disclosure by compe- tent authority, ought to produce re- sults illuminating and useful to all. They do. By this time we have learned that Joseph Collins is a physician, a spe- cialist in nerve disorders. The most of us, however, know him as a writer, a specially keen analyst of literature, an _interpreter independent in out- leok, original in method. Here is one of the truly helpful critics of current literature, one of the still fewer really interesting ones. For a third of a céntury Dr. Collins has, as a specialist in diseased nerves, delved tnto the deep hidden life of many an afflicted individual, seeking the source of bodily ailment, the source of a disastrous and often tragic maladjustment to the external life. Writing came, it seems, as a natural sequence of this prolonged and iIntensive investigation. The two professions have run together in legiti- mate kinship. For it turns out, on the word of the scientist, that no one, practically, conforms to a perfect hu- man norm. Everybody is, in-effect, something of a varfant from.this, or possesses some degree of abnormality. Therefore, the trained and continuous study of those who are clearly vic- tims of degrees and kinds of nervous derangement serves to equip such specialists for truly important views upon human life itself. . Dr. Collins says that he has been repeatedly urged to tell the truth about the human as this has emerged from his long experience, “to tell the truth about sex’ in particular. He calls this a large order, saying that nobody knows the whole truth about this matter and that if he did know it he would not be allowed to tell it. “Church, convention and commerce do not_want it and will not have it. Were I to tell as much of the truth| as I know about it, society would frown upon me, postal authorities would forbid me, some self-constituted censor would hale me before a tri- bunal, and were I dependent upon patients for a livelihood, want would stare me in the face.” * ok K % In this book, however, from his high advantage point of study and experience with wrecked and near- wrecked nerves, the Doctor does pre- sent certain facts and out of these he does urge upon parents certain lines of education for children. Plain physiological truths are set out here. Plain ways of meeting and directing the emotional life of children are given—all to the end that individual happiness may be increased and that humanity itself may advance, instead of going round and round in endless generations of frustration and ulti- mate defeat. But nobody is going to listen to the Doctor at this point. Parents never in the world will fol- low his instruction and advice, vital as both are. They are too 3 med of themselv: too shut in upon a modesty that is positively indecent in implication, too timid, too self-con- scious. * Kk K “Adult Infantilism” is a chapter of special significance to readers of this volume, since it is a direct charge against us, both as individuals and as a Nation. This term indicates the condition of an individual who, “hav- ing reached maturity of physical de- | velopment, remains infantile in his responses to the demands and obliga- tions of life.” Such infantility may be physical, as with the dwarf. It may be intellectual, as with the moron. Emotional infantility is not so obvious. Therefore it is less eas- {ly appraised and met, more danger- ous in its effects. The emotions,are the mainspring of action and behavior. When these have remained in the condition of childhood, the delinquent in this respect is, like a child, fitful and erratic, not able to carry a thing to its logical conclusion. He loves praise and hates blame, as the child does. He brags and boasts as chil- dren do. He hates solitude as they do. Applied to the Nation, adult in- fantilism “accounts for the self-satis- faction with which we hold aloof from the affairs of other nations, that self-esteem which leads us to believe in the superiority of our in- stitutions and the righteousness of our conduct. It is the basis of our determination to regulate man'’s con- duct by legislation—to say what he shall not teach and what he shall not drink. We have more colleges and universities than any other coun- try in the world, and yet we are the worst educated, the . least - cultured. ‘We have more churches, chapels agd elvic centers than any country of Europe, vet we are swayed by re. ligious prejudice that transcends the understanding of FEuropeans. We have a climate that has no equal, yet we flee from it as though its atmos- -phere were mephitic. We have com- forts that kings might consider luxu- ries, vet it is real punishment for us to stay at home; we have wealth and occupation, but little of that peace of mind surpassing wealth which the sage finds in meditation.” “Why? Because so many are emotionally infantile.” “It is when we are abroad and con- fronted with men and women of other and, older nations that our childish- ness is most conspicuous; our wit seems banal, our conversation trivial, our conduct herdish, our thoughts superficial. Our aim is to be seen and heard and envied. Who has not seen Americans in the smoking room of ocean liners, in cafes of Ritz hotels, in Maxims, or at Monte Carlo, acting like schoolboys at their first,par How strait-laced an American cap- tain of industry can be at home, how loose-laced abroad! Hence our repu- tation for naivete and credulity. Europeans tell us we are clever and resourceful, but they tell one another that we are childish. Would any one who has the intuition and discern- ment that M. Caillaux is reputed to have comport himself as he did in ‘Washington in October, 1925, if he were mnot convinced that we are babes?” There is much, much more of this, in evidence that we of America are afflicted with adult in- fantilism in acute form. Is Dr. Col- lins libelous and a slanderer? Really that point is not so' important. The real point of his service will be proved if we seriously investigate these charges, if we, for the time be- ing, see ourselves as this one other sees us. There is following this spe- cial view the study of an eminent man, afflicted with this disease of adult infantalism. It would be inter- esting to have you find him, to pick him out, from the study of him sub- mitted by Joseph Collins. Well, maybe— of us her heroes no less renowned than War. Entomologists have tried to fright- en us by saying that the future pos- session of the world lies between man and insects, and victory is uficertain— it may go to bugs and beetles or cat- erpillars. - But there are “insects’ known only to the microscopist and bacteriologist. Sometimes these prey upon the larger “bugs” whose ferocity scares one who ventures to look close (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V. Collins.) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q How should dishes of canned fruit be eaten?—G. G. H. A. Canned fruit served in a side dish should be eaten with a fork. If the fruit is served as a dessert, a spoon is used. Q. Is Giacomo Meyerbeer the real name of the composer?—W. R. F. A. Glacomo Meyerbeer was born John Beer. He changed his given name to Giacomo in order to appear Italian and prefixed “Meyer” to his sgrname in honor of a friend, Meyer, 0 helped him in his youth. Q. What is the meaning of “Kai- bab,” the name of one of the National forests, and for what is this par- ticular forest noted?>—C. C. D. A. Kaibab is a Piute Indlan word meaning “mountain lying down.” It is a vast plateau, 50 miles long and 85 miles wide. It contains 500 square miles, of yellow pine, fir, spruce and aspen. This is said to be the largest virgin forest in the United States. Q. How may a person abroad have his passport renewed or ex- tended”—H. B. A. Beginnipg October 1, 1926, an American in a foreign country may have his passport extended, or a new one issued if the old one has run out, by applying to the nearest American consul. Formerly, in such cases, it has been necessary to send such ap- plications direct to Washington, and this often necessitated weeks or months of delay. Q. What may be used to avoid perspiring under the arms and staining one's clothes>—R. M. K. A. The American Medical Associa- tion suggests the use of a 25 per cent solution of aluminum chloride. This should be lightly dabbed on the af- fected areas for three or four days, or until some irritation appears. It should be repeated in three or four weeks. Any medication should be discontinued upon the appearance of the slightest indication of inflamma- tion. Q. What ddes “Yom Kippur,” the name of the Jewish holiday, mean?— A. G. L. A. In English this is known as the Day of Atonement, the day on which one solemnly asks for pardon for the sins that have disfigured his life. Q. What is the proper height of a kitchen sink?—M. V. W. A. This depends upon the height of the individual woman. A table of the proper height of working sur- faces according to the height of the individual woman has been com- piled. This provides that a woman 4 feet 10 inches tall should have working surfaces 27 inches high; one 4 feet 11 inches, 271 inches, etc. The height of the working surfaces is increased half an inch for each additional inch in the worker's height. Q. Why do people blush, and what could be done to stop ft?>—A. J. A. Blushing is due to the suspend- ing of the action of the local vaso- motor nerves allowing the arteries and capillaries to dilate so that there is an increased flow of blood to the parts that redden. To conquer the habit of blushing is largely a matter of will power. Q. What has been called mother of sciences”?—C. D. A. Philosophy has been called this. The real meaning of the term is “the love of wisdom.” “the Q. What specles 8 fish are most abundant in the Mississippl River” R. M. R. A. Acconding to the latest complete survay by the Rureau of Fisherles there were 9374 pounds of Ger man carp and 5. 28 pounds of buffalo fish. These two varieties outnumbered any other. Q. What {s meant by preferred stock?—I. D. K. A. Cumulative, as a rule, has refer ence to “preferred” shares of stock Unpatd _dividends upon such stocks accumulate from vear to year, and must be paid before that on the con mon stock or other stocks. cumulative Q. What can I plant in a bed to make a vivid display of color that will last several weeks?—F. J. F. A. A bed of scarlet sage, or Salvia splendens, borded with dusty miller, i8 one of the most brilllant beds. One such bed near the Lincoln Memoria has been for many weeks a constan blaze of color. Pinching the bloo or tips will make the plant branch and lengthen the blooming perfod Q. The following question has re- cently been the subject of an argu ment: Can one say “In my estima tion, that is correct,” or “To my estimation’?—L. V. K A. The English idiom requires that one say “In my estimation.” Q. Will you please tell me if the law _prohibiting children outside of the District from attending Washing ton schools was passed?—J. A. W. A. According to the school law of the District of Columbia, hildren living outside of the District may at tend the District schools free of charge if either of the parents i: employed in the District. 1f nelthe: parent is emploved in the District the child may attend school, but tuition fee is charged. Q. Please tell me how I can clean the tarnish off the gllt fringe of table cover?—M. H. A. Gilt fringe may be cleaned by brushing with the following compo sition: Shellac, 13 ounces; dragon's blood, % dmam turmeric root, dram. Digest, with strong alcohol decanting the ruby-red colored tinc ture .thus obtained. After coating with this composition a warm flatiron is gently brushed over the objects so as to heat them only very slightly. Q. What is nickel metal>—A. R. It A. An alloy of nickel and copper containing about 70 per cent of nickel. Tt possesses great strength as well as permanency in the afr It is employed to a con iderable ex tent fn the construction of equipment used in _bleaching and dyeins processes because of freedom from corrosion by the chemicals employed in such processes. Find out twhatever you iwant fo Kknow. There is no room for ignorance in this busy world. The person loses out is the one who guesses. The person who gets on is always the one who acts upon reliable information This paper employs Frederic J. Has kin to conduct an information bureau in Washington for the free use of the public. There is no charge except . cents in stamps for return postage Write to him today for any facts you desire. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin, Director. Wash ingtéh, D. C. Reciprocity Aim Credited To Canada’s Liberal Party Important changes in Canadian policies are believed to be assured by the Liberal victory in the Dominion election. A more stable q:overnm_ent is expected by observers on both sides of the border. There are also predic- tions of a more favorable attitude toward demands of the farmers, and closer relations with the United States, particularly in the matter of proposals of reciprocity. The cam- paign charge that annexation by this country is one goal of the victors is not taken seriously. Voicing the feeling of the deféated Conservatives, the Hamilton Spec- tator s “The result is a decided disappointment to those who had hoped for the inauguration of poli. cies affording an adequate degree of protection for the hard pressed in dustries of the country.” The Spec- tator believes, however, that “this one great issue of the campaign was obscured, and successfully obscured, by minor side issues.” “«Those Conservatives in Toronto who dwell on a sort of politica island here, quite cut off from the mainland of opinion in Canada,” according to the Toronto Daily Star, “should not allow their island soothsavers to de- lude them concerning the election re. <ults that arrive from the mainland. The fact is that the Liberals have won the elections with a large ma- Jority and every condition requisite for stable government for the next four or five vears.” PR “1s it too much to hope,” & sks the Manitoba Free Press, “that the pro tectionist fanatics in the East, who have been determined to exploit the West in the supposed interest of greater industrial expansion, will now Understand that they have not power enough or money enough to put over their policy? They will never )I.:n:':\ more aggressive or abler nd\u(.)l: than Mr. Meighen. They can note with advantage what the West dlq to him and his candidates. The \West vesterday, once for all, l’e!!l(’dfl the Question of the Crows Nest rates| These were designed to be part o the basic freight structure of Canada. We also hope that the powerful in- terests in the East which have been for years in a conspiracy lu.lhrulfk‘] the Hudson Bay enterprise will real- jze now that the West intends to !Pt: that the road is finished and !h? m‘:‘ln opened up, t ten vears hence, but fatel !m"‘(‘)el;?;:)l;x-ly if the nmew Parliament decides to g0 ahead with the Hudson | Bay enterprise,” canl'l}ldes the Buf‘ falo Evening News, “it will not be disposed to entertain any proposal for the development of the St. Law- rence from the Great Lakes mJ Montreal. The proponents of the in ternational route have based their argument on the need of a short water route for the movemen} of grain to Europe. As to that,* the Hudson Bay route is several hundred miles shorter for the Canadian grow- ers than the St. Lawrence route. * K K K election itself is descnb@d'by mf".@»“» York Sun as “for the Con gervatives, a rout,” the Sun explain- ing that “Meighen and five of his ministers were defeated, and the Con servative strength in Parliament has been reduced to a scant 90 votes out of a total of 245 seats in Par. liament.” The Sun sees “‘not 8o much a victory for Mackenzie King und his Liberals as an overwhelming defeat for Premier Arthur Meighen and hi- Conservatives.” The Chicago Daily News interprets the result as “a victory for sound po litical and economic principles,” and vs of the Conservative leaders: They advocated higher protective dutles, and, in particular, a ‘brick-for brick’ tariff policy against the Unitec States. They charged Mackenzie King, the Liberal leader, with secret plotting against the continued ad- | forsaking | test this vear hesfon of Canada to the British Em pire and for its annexation to thix country. They offered no construc- tive program. The Liberals and the Farmer Progressives, on the other hand, promised efforts to esfablish reciprocity with the United States and to reduce dutfes still unnecessarily high." “While the poll produced no clear parliamentary majority for _any party,” remarks the Detroit News, “it achieved what all Canada has lately sought, a_fairly stable govern ment. The need was not for a Con servative government or a Liberal zovernment, but for a strong regime The strength of the new order is not all that was desired, but the crisis Is safely passed; the violent partisar ship manifest during the canvas bound to.induce a reaction of reason * Xk ¥ X The Bangor Dafly Commercial rec ognizes that “Can: seems to be on the way to the establishment of & two-party government,” and that will be for the advantage of Canada it it can have a two-party government and more to its advantage if it _can have an administration that will he able to maintain itsclf in otfice more than a few months or for a vear The Portland Ex imilarly points out that “Cana v has had two general elections within a year and is about ready to take @ vacation from politics.” The result suggests to the Spring field Daily News the thought thit while “it is not so long ago that pub lic opinion seemed to sustain ctionary regimes all over the world, liberal thought, *‘the first s in Canad: a the pendulum k with t mendous momentum. The world rel atively ler than it once was the Daily News finds, “and what h happened in Canadian precincts m be a forerunner of events elsewhere The Baltimore Sun also sees “a dis tinet swing of the political tide “The progressive clement fn Cana- dian politics,” says the Charleston Svening Post, “seems to he very much the same as that in the United States, and is composed principally of members from the western provinces representing a di on stituency. The power of this group is even greater in Canada than that of the corresponding group in the United States, since, under the par llamentary system, an adverse vote will turn out a governmen Reno_Evening Gazette obs “the Liberal leaders include many of the most important men in public life, and they point to the wonderful pros perity now enjoyed by the Dominfon, and which they declare had its begin. nings under the Liberal party.” - Little Acts of Kindness. From the Albany Evening News A New York newsdealer, just before he leaped under a subway train the other day, wrote an improvised will in which he left $10,000 to the girl cashler of a Keith theater. The girl had been courteous to him. He had been a regular patron of the theater five years and she came to recognize him. So she used to inquire after his health, listen to his troubles of the day and cheer him along. She was kind, considerate, gentle. It made an !mpression on him because he had been used to little except hustle and no_thanks in life. There is a story of bread upon the waters in which O. Henry would revel and from which he would spin one of those amazingly fascinating varns of his! O. Henry's stories made him famous because they were taken from Just such bits of life. He knew that much of the true romance of hurried existence in the crowded city may be found in the little act of dally kind ness. r