Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1929, Page 8

¥ salling. The Senate rules provide am- |5 21 s THE EVENING STAR W HINGTON., D. C.. THURSDAY. THE EVENING STAR [less glands control growth, brain de- |always proved herself to be throughout ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.....January 3, 1929 THEODORZ W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 3 Business Office: 1ith St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York' Office: 110 East +2nd St Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Turopean Office; 14 Regent St. London. England. in the City. ...45c per month . r Evening a nday Sta: (when 4 Sundays) - ........60c Der month The Evening and Sunday Star (w! days) . Rate by Carrier Withi 5c per month 4 ~....5¢ per ccpy at d of each month. Oyders may be sent i by mall cr telephone Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and inia. fly and Sunday $1000: 1 mo., 85¢ only . $6.00: 1 mo., 50c $4.00: All Other States and Canada. Dslly and Sunday..1 yr.S1 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only 1yr. 8 1 mo., 75 Bunday only .. 5 8.00; 00: S0¢ ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated P arwlse crec locel rews lication of published herein. Al rights of tenes herein are also reserved. epecial dispa The Treaty, Then the Cruisers. The Senate has now embarked upon the weighty business that will monop- olize its attention for an -indefinite | number of days— perhaps weeks. It has before it for final action the Kel-| logg anti-war ,treaty and the cruiser| bill. Leaders ha: multilateral pact first. The naval 1. will have the right of way. Happily there is slight prospect that | fesistance to the war - renunciation | agreement, to which fifty-nine nations are pledged, will be anything but dcs-l ultory. A handful of irreconcilable | Senators, still suffering from interna- | tlonalism complexes, will unleash cha: acteristic diatribes against the perils of entangling alliance Then the | treaty will receive the necessary two- | thirds vote to make it effective as far | as the United States is concerned. | American ratification will blaze the way for similar approval by other par- | Yaments throughout the world: There fs, unhappily, not the same | Bssurance that the end of the short session Will sce the cruiser bill also| enacted into law. Scnator Hale, the, naval affairs chairman, commands enough votes, and more than enough, to pilot the measure into the harbor of adoption whenever he can get a roll call. But mieantime it is far from certain that the bill will have smooth { | 11 be dealt \\xih{ thereafter ple opportunity for snags along the way. The anti-preperedness—group, basing its attack on the pretense that the war-renunciation treaty minimizes the importance of national defense, will hammer that specious argument home in a prospectively endless torrent of words. Springing more or less from the same kollow premise, an atiempt is to be made to whittle down the cruiser bill from fifteen to ten ships. 'There will Dbe prolonged discussion of the proposal that the Senate remove the time clause | from the ndval bill passed by the House —1i.e,, merely “authorize” the ships, but not actually order their con- struction. “The Senate's duty is plain. It should | yatify the Kellogg treaty with all pos- sible dispatch. Then it should pass the ’ cruiser bill with equal promptness. No | men have been more ardent in their | advocacy of the multilateral pact for outlawry of war than President Cool- jdge and President-elect Hoover. They personify the will to peace inherent in every country-loving American. But no men, on the other hand, are more | consistent proponents of adequate Amer- | jean strength at sea. Without such | strength no nation is equipped to do its share in the maintenance of peace. A vote for the cruisers is a vote for earrying out the pacific purposes of the Kellogg treat; — —e—— English financiers who sold their Henry Ford stock just before the big rise In value 2gain show that American institutions are not fully understood | ebroad. 75 gt o Perhaps some of the debate would proceed more smoothly if ~Senators| Borah and Reed could be persuaded to| get together and rehcarse the dialogue. lpgg s S The Pituitary Hormones. The old platitude of teachers of 1 mo.. 40c | ¢ | fact | happens which demands a repetition | of the maneuver in other fields. | van Wi arranged that the | tri {a downtown location. | Washington—is velopment and energy. The extreme materialist would say that love, hate, courage, fear and aspiration are merely the circulation of hormones in the blood stream. Without forsaking the convic tion that there is something higher and less tangible in life than this, exact ex- periments, the result of which hardly can be contradicted, show that the hormones are extremely important fac- tors in the emotions and behavior of the individual. ‘When they all are known, and ob- tainable in their pure form with all their original potency, there may be a 1 day of miracles when it will be possible , [ to create synthetically a close approxi- mation of the millennium. e———— Housing the House of Detention. While the good work that has been done under the capable direction of {Lieut. Mina Van Winkle should long since have spared the House of Deten- tion its treatment as the red-headed orphan of the District government, the remains that nobody seems very | anxious to give it a good home. Since its reformation under the Woman's | Bureau, it has suffered the fate of be- | ing flung from pillar to post. No sooner {is it established than something hap- pens to put it on the move again. No sooner have Mrs. Van Winkle and her corps of assistants attacked voaches, | rats and refuse in one location and | made it spick and span than ;nmorhmg} i Mrs. nkle is tired of this. The Dis-! authorities must be very, very | And the people of the Dis- very, very tired trict tired of it. ict are assuredly very, of it Mrs naturally wishes The nature of the work done at the House of Deten- tion makes such a location desirable. Van Winkle | One is able as readily to sympathize with her refusal to entertain sugges- tions of temporarily occupying a police precinct station not yet on the map, but planned for Benning road and Forty-fourth street northeast, as one is able to sympathize with the protest- ing citizens who do not want to live next door to a House of Detention, no matter how splendid an institution | from the sociologist's point of view the House of Detention may be. The House of Detention, which some day may live down an opprobrious name and be known more as a publicly maintained House of Refuge, has be- come one of the valuable agencies of the municipality. Its police work is founded on an enlightened philosophy which may not be wholly accepted to- day, but will be tomorrow. In future years one may expect to see a modern House of Detention occupying one of the buildings planned for the municipal center. But the pressing problem today is to find a new home to serve ade- quately during that interval, which may be painfully prolonged, between the time that the District government must quit its old home and move into | the new. The House of Detention is @lready | experiencing the vicissitudes of this in- terlude. Some months ago a hungry steam shovel devoured the mansion at Fifteenth street and Ohio avenue which had been used by the Woman's Bureau. The District authorities would do well to give the important problem of a new, though temporary, location the study that it deserves. The House of Deten- tion has been homeless long enough, —— gt ‘The fact that absence from the city prevented President Coolidge from meeting visitors anxious to shake his hand did not prevent the Nation's population from wishing him a happy New Year, just the same. R — The gang man does not feel that the glad New Year has been a success un- less he put a few bullets into a rival gangster as a part of the festivities. Good scientists and sincere religionists do not quarrel. The promotion of human welfare is the real aim of all intellectual life. R A Woman Politician. ‘The “Colonel House of the Smith Ad- ministration”—the administration just terminated at Albany and the admin- istration which might have been at retiring from public life, at least temporarily, with the im- pending departure of the governor from the New York State. House. This “Colonel” is & woman. Her name is Belle Israels Moskowitz, better known in politics as Mrs. Henry Moskowitz. Her last service to the late Democratic presidential candidate was rendered in physiology that the actual value of the human body, in terms of the current drug store prices for its constituent ele- ments of lime, sulphur, etc, is about ninety-eight cents, apparently needs considerable revision before it even ap- proaches the truth. Some cynic had the nerve to repeat it before one of thie' section moetings | 6f the American Association for the Advancement of Science the other day. At almost the same time a commercial biochemist was telling another section that a single product of the body, th2 alpha hormone from the secret of the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, wos worth about three million dollars a pound. Its companion, pitui- ary hormone, he said, was valued at one million dollars a pound. Dr. Oliver Kamm of Philadelphia re- orted to the association that it has been possible to obtain in pure form both these pituitary secretions. Assum- ing that s statement is not prema- ture, they will be worth the price. No- body knows jusi how much of human personality and cha by these horn sent out by } ‘Pituitary gland. Most physiologists ad- it that they account for a great deal of what a man thinks, does and is. The pituitary secretion is about as near as ecience can expect to approach the se- #; ergtjon of soul in our generation. Rather ahsurd claims have been made from time to time for glandular therapy. both in its physical and sociological as pects. This has been due largely to the % fact that they have been too complicated ¢y Jor the chemist to produce laboratory products which retain all the qualities of the hormones in the living body. A S 2C Awith the exception of thyroid extract, the recognized universally glandular products have been suspicion. Yet it is known that practical qualities of y medicine, the ter is determined | the | A which are under the capacity of director of publicity for | his campaign. Mrs. Moskowitz, it was | thought for a while, might continue to |serve at Governor-clect Franklin D. | Roosevelt's elbow as she so long served { alongside Governor Smith. But the new set-up at Albany, just announced, discleses that she wiil not be in the | picture. Threughout four terms of guberna- torial office, Mrs. Moskowitz ranked as {Mr. smith's ht-hend man.” A | specialist in social legislation, a note Ithe governor always stressed in his | public policies, Mrs. Moskowitz was a particulerly effective coadjutor. It has {long been said in New York State that |Mr. Smith took mo major action in {the field of social politics without con- ‘sullmz. and usually being guided by, | the astute woman Who sat in his cab- |inet without portfolio. It was not alone [in the field of industrial, humanitarian jand communal programs that Mrs. { Mcskowitz was a counselor. She is an extracrdinarily capable politician, One |of the leaders of the Democratic soon after experiencing Mrs. 0 sagacity and quickness of decision during the recent Smith cam- | paign, declared that in his long ex- | perience of mere men politicians, he had never met one who had a surer touch or a more intuitive knowledge of the strategic thing to do in an emergency. Once upon a time Belle Moskowitz |was a Republican Progressive. She took an active part in the campaign to elect Theodore Roosevelt President in 1912 and the late Oscar S. Straus York on the same hed her wagon to the star in a spirit of mnon- n admiration for his ability as an administrator of New York State's affairs, In private, Governot Smith seldom failed to avail himself of an ticket, Emith hormones are \nppnl’(unity to voice his gratitude for the active principles by which the duct- the tower of strength Mrs. Moskowitz his stormy career at both ends of the Hudson. to womanly distinction. She is not afraid to acknowledge in her “Who's Who” autobiography that she is fifty- one years old. She quits Democratic politics for private business. It does not seem likely, in this augmenting age of women in public life, that any one of her conspicuous abilities will perma- nently be permitted to devote them exclusively to her own interests. e “Germany Under the Yoke.” President Hindenburg and Chancellor Mueller in New Year day utterances be- fore the Berlin diplomatic corps made stern demands for liberation of Ger- many from “the foreign yoke.” They were referring to the reparation. bur- | dens which the Reich is obligated to carry under the Dawes plan, amounting for the current fiscal year to two and a half billion gold marks a year. “The foreign yoke” is in particular the continued occupation of German territory by French, British and Belgian troops, pending the final fulfillment of Germany's reparation commitmenis. These legalize the presence of allied soldiery in the Rhineland, the Saar and the Palatinate far graduated periods ex- tending over a number of years to come. If the Germans were able to liquidate their full indemnity indebtedness before the expiration of the provided occupa- tional periods their territory would be tenuded of foreign forces correspond- ingly sooner. France availed herself of a similar privilege in the case of the crushing indemnity Bismarck imposed upon her in 1871 The Reich's longing for “full restora- tion of self-determination,” as voiced by President Hindenburg, is a compre- hensible one. In Germany's case that restoration is contractually provided for, both in the treaty of Versailles and by the Dawes plan." It is unlikely to be hastened by oratorical saber-rattling such as the heads of the Reich govern- ment yesterday indulged themselves. President Hindenburg subtly suggested that “ideals of peace” can only be de- veloped by “free peoples.” The con- verse of that militant thought, of course, that peace will be menaced until the “ideals” to which Germany aspires— the recovery of her occupied territory— are achieved. The world will not go far wrong in concluding that the New Year day ebul- litions in the Wilhelmstrasse were timed to ‘coincide with the imminent convok- ing of the international commission for reorganization of ‘the reparations plan, They were designed, in other words, to create an atmosphere favorable to sym- pathetic consideration of Germany's plea for revision of reparations down- ward. The patriotic words of President Hin- denburg and Chancellor Mueller should be read along with the fourth annual reparations report rendered by Agent General S. Parker Gilbert in Berlin on the selfsame day. Mr. Gilbert pays de- served tribute to Germany's loyalty and punctuality in meeting all her repara- tion payments to date. But even more significant, in view of the Reich spokes- men's lamentations, is the agent gen- eral's assurance that Germany can con- tinue to pay. “No question can fairly arise,” says the dispassionate Mr. Gilbert, “in the light of practical experience thus far, as to the ability of the Reich to provide the full amount of its standdrd con- tribution according to the plan.” e — The example of Mayor Walker is an assurance to Commissioner Whalen that precision in the polite formalities both of manner and attire does not prevent a man from being a firm and discerning executive. ‘There is still skepticism in pugilistic circles concerning the theory that Tunney and Dempsey are positively committed to a peace pact. e A drop in temperature is to be ex- pected. A long pleasant Summer, extending into January, is as much as could be asked. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Resolution to the Limit. A Resolution I brought out On January One. I waited till the merry rout Of New Year eve was done. I shall not dance, I shall not sing, ‘Throughout the passing year. I'll not attempt the slightest fling In haunts of general cheer. I shall restrain the careless jest. No playing cards I'll scan; In short, I'll do my very best ‘To seem a Puritan. ‘With cops and gunmen drawing near To spoil a joyous night, Only we hermits find good cheer And dwell in peace polite. Getting Into Action. “I understand you expect some of that, old trouble with your belligerent col- league.” 5 “Absolutely,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “He has been seen several times in his back yard throwing inkwells at a target.” Jud Tunkins says a child leoks away ahead to Christmas. As he grows older, time seems to shorten and he looks for- ward from one pay day to thé next. Small Boy’s Christmas Old Santa brought no skates or sled. Yet he was kind, we know. He left no shovel in the shed With which to shovel snow. Trying Him Out. “Why did you provoke that actor to a quarrel?” “There is rough conversation in our new script,” said the producer. “And I must say he handles profanity splen- didiy!” “He who has no illusions,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, wisdom and small happiness. Mechanical Optimism. Oh, keep on smiling every day! Arrange your face for glad display. And strive, to keep from seeming sad, To look just like a dental ad. “De world, as it keeps movin',” said Uncle Eben, “gives us de only kind of a free ride we has any reason to hope for/ & Mrs. Moskowitz has one quaint claim |, THIS AND THAT BY CHARL, Templeton Jones turned on his radio just in time to hear Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, give a talk on the South American countries visited by Presi- dent-clect Hoover on his good-will tour. What interested Jones the most was the portion of Dr. Klein's address de- voted to the subject of coffee growing and marketing, He listened avidly while the <neaker told of the great fields, the .tment of the berries and the mark: of the same. Jones v . coffee drinker. He not only likea brew, a taste in which the whole world shares, but he was by nature of a romantic enough disposition to be pleased to think that the great Beethoven had loved coffee, too, and that our own Edgar Allan Poe had al- most lived on it for a time. Jones had a vision. as many a man has had, but his was nothing more substantial-“or unsubstantial, if you please—than the perfect cup of cofiee. Visions of others had ranged from the perfect woman to the perfect life, but Jones held up nothing more awe-in- spiring before Mis mental eye than a really perfect cup of coffee. Once he thought he had found it. It was a glorious cup of coffee, tasty, aromatic, without trace of bitferness, yet with full body—a real drink, fit for those gods who, alas, lived and died before coffee came into general use! After the memory of that cup had cooled. however, through the natural passage of the vears, Templeton Jones. began to wonder if it had been as fine as he thought it was, after all. May he not have been mistaken? One often makes mistakes in the enthusiasm of youth. That is what youth is for, * Kk ox ok “There’'s a man who knows what he is talking about.” said Jones, as Dr. Klein finished. This was a real tribute, coming from Jones, who cordially de- tested radio speakers on general prin- ciples. The fact that he listened for 15 solid minutes to the Commerce Depart- ment official was the best applause in the world, but the speaker couldn't hear it, of course. Jones,was too lazy afterward. to sit down and write a letter telling how much he enjoyed the Plenty would do that, he Alas, alas, for human error! “Just think of what the coffee bean goes through before we get it,” con- tinued Templeton Jones, inspired by the talk he had heard. “No wonder sometimes our coffee is not as good as we think it should be. Consider the coffec bean——" ‘Those listening to Jones (who had no microphone and needed none) got a mental picture of a little coffee berry blithely turning itself into a full-fledged coffee bean, ready to take up its perilous journey oul into the great world of commerce and trade. One might almost have sworn that he saw the coffee bean put on its hat and coat, purchase a first-class ticket, and go down to the pier, where it met a large congregation of fellow travelers also pining to leave the America known as South, for the America known as North. How eager was the jostle among the S E. TRACEWELL, intrepid Beans, as they shoved and elbowed their way up the gangplank. “Good-by, Bean; good-by, good-by!" Old Johnny Coffee Bean was off on his big trip. Toot! Toot! The band played the Brazilian national anthem, while those left behind cheered madly as the great steamer slid into the middle of the stream and was on its way. It was as vivid as life—you should have heard Templeton Jones when he got wound up. o SO “The only trouble with your coffee bean,” chimed in Mrs. Jones, “is that | we never get the coffee bean.” | ~What do we get?"” “Why, we get it ground for the perco- lator of course.” ‘Templeton Jones raised his right hand in air, loftily, as befits one to whom illumination has come. “Hereafter we will buy the bean,” he said, grandly. “What are you going to grind it in? We haven't got a coffee mill, you know." “Then we ought to have one,” replied Jones, “I will bring one home tomor- Tou “And don’'t forget a pound of un- ground coffee.” “In the bean,” gently corrected Tem- pleton Jones. The next day at lunchtime he visited his favorite store. “I want a coffee mill,” he said to the clerk. She looked at him as if he were mild- ly insane. “You will find them over there,” she said, loftily. Evidently she washed her hands of the affair. “I want a coffee mill,” said Jones to a man behind the counter. “This is the only kind we have” sald the man, bringing down a dusty mill. “Evidently you don't sell very many."” “Oh, yes!” The clerk was non- chalantly crushing. “We sell them, all right.” Jones took his coffee mill and went home. X oK) ¥ “Here you are!” he said, unwrapping his purchase, with its long handle to give greater swing to the grinding arm. “Where is the coffee?"” “I forgot that.” “Well, I got some up at the store. Your -favorite brand.” “In the bean?” “Of course! “Fine! Now I'll show you how to grind it.” Templeton Jones carefully dusted off and out his new pet. He adjusted the wheel for medium fine grinding and poured in a couple of tablespoonfuls of coffee beans. He gripped the mill with his left hand, seized the crank and away he went. The mill went skidding out of his hand, but he retrieved it at once and went on grinding steadily. Ah! that was a delicious aroma which smote his nostrils. Freshly ground coffee! Ah! Ah! Opening the little drawer to see how it was coming on, Jones was much his handiwork. “This is the way to make coffee,” he said. “Grind your own.” Maybe that is a tip worth looking into; we pass it along for what it is worth. Pan-American Incident Shows Growing Feeling Against War Running like a golden thread through comments woven about the acceptance by Bolivia and Paraguay of the good offices of the Pan-American Conference to end a war threat between them is a happy confidence that this result is proof of the tangible effect of that somewhat intangible entity called the “moral opinion of mankind.” Referring to “the organized opinion of mankind” in regard to the clash between Bolivia and Paraguay, the Omaha World-Herald says: “That opin- ion made itself manifest in various ways, but the most important ones were the organized power of the church, speak- ing through Pope Pius; the organized power of the League of Nations, speak- ing from Geneva, and the organized power of the Pan-American Conference, speaking from Washington. It was the mediation of the Pan American organ- ization which the bellicose republics finally accepeed.” “The fortunate outcome of this episode, although it concerned only two small nations, is an example of what the expressed moral judgment of the world may accomplish,” declares the Baltimore Sun, while the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, stating that “nothing quite like the halt of the war threat in South America has ever before hap- pened in this modern world,” finds in this accomp'ishment something “heart- ening to all the peace forces of the world.” O With this last thought the Utica Observer-Dispatch agrees, saying: “If the pressure of public opinion can pre- vent two nations from engaging in war in South America, it can repeat the d work elsewhere.” Similarly the utte Montana Standard sees the “sentiment aj t war ‘actually pre- sented, a most valuable precedent estab- lished which will be used in other threatened international arguments,” and an “important step taken in the task of civilizing the world.” ‘The Chicago Daily News considers that “the great ideal of permanent peace and good will among men has won some notable victories in recent weeks,” and the Buffalo Evening News .analyzes public opinion of today as treating “war itself as the greater wrong, and grievances as matters which may be adjusted by themselves more easily without confiict.” Raising the question as to what ef- fect, public opinion could have had with- out the proper machinery through which to express itself, the Richmond News- Leader observes: “As the world gathers experience in the prevention of the many wars that have been threatened since 1918, the first essential becomes plain. Whatever else is available or is lacking, there must be some ma- chinery of conciliation already set up and ready to operate as soon as differ- ences between nations become serious.” The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin is impressed by the tact with which the League of Nations Council conducted its part in the proceedings, saying: “The League Council was forced to take the expression of hope that the two countries would not come to hostilities.” that “the Pan-American Confercnce wins increased prestige because of its successful intervention ” The Hunting- ton Adveriser sums up the opinion held by the press generally when it says: “Peace machinery, provided through the co-operation of forward-looking nations, has been vindicaled. It may not always avert war, but it is gratifying to know that it is available and will achieve good when belligerent nations can be persuaded to make use of it in a crisis.” “In a situation as inflammable as that beiween Bolivia and Paraguay not until the last spark has been extin- guished is it time to celebrate the pre- vention of a conflagration,” the San Francisco Chronicle remarks, adding. “but if both the countries mean by their notes accepting mediation that they are submitting their cases without reserva- tion to the Pan-American Arbitration Conference, the principle of settlement of international disputes by peaceable means has achieved a notable victory.” * ok ok X How deep-seated is the boundary dis- pute which is back of the clash beiween the two countries is indicated by the San Francisco Builetin, which explains: “Thousands of treaties, papers and documents relate to the case before the conference. Bolivia claims the disputed land by charter from Spain in 1563. Paraguay’s claims date from the middle of the nineteenth century, and are some action, but confined jts effort to | The Brooklyn Daily Eagle considers | based on_decrees, invasions and settle- ment and land sale claims.” The Louisville Times sees nothing “in the land-lust argument between the two countries which involves honor,” while the Duluth Herald states: ‘“Society will | never be on solid ground until it realizes how much more precious than property are human life and human happiness.” Taking account of the fact that Bo- livia now_has no outlet to the sea, the | Oakland Tribune says the disputed ter- ritory is of value to that country “be- cause its possession would confer rights to a river and a route toward the sea. * » « Bolivia wishes access to the Paraguey River and its route to the sea, and ‘nere is little chance it will be satisfied until some such concession is made.” * ok ok X As an outcome of the whole matter, the New York Evening Post urges “some permanent institution at hand to meet just such crises as that which so nearly brought war between Bolivia and Para- guay.” A step forward s noted by the San Antonio Express in the plan “to | enlarge the powers of the Washington |and Montevideo Commissions, whom the | Gondra treaty (1923) created, by au- | thorizing them to undertake concilia- tion. Now they are confined to ascer- taining and reporting the facts of dis- putes between signatories.” “From the first threat of hostilities,” advises the Cleveland News, “let it be remembered, the weight of the United | States Government was on the side of | peace_and_amicable settlement,” while | the New York Times praises the wis- | dom with which our State Department | acted, in the fact that “Secretary Kel- | logg did not send any appeal or protest | of his own to Bolivia and Paraguay, | but contented himself with transmit- | ting the note ordered by the Pan-Amer- ilcan Conference at Washington.” ! Edu;alor Defends Age of Machinery . BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. ‘The often-voiced fear of philosophers that machine civilization will ensiave mankind and destroy all peace and beauty in the world is not shared by | President Glenn Frank of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, who presented at the recent meeting of the American Politi- cal Science Association in. Chicago. his studies of the mutual relations between technical _ civilization and political science. Machine civilization seems now 'to be spreading inexorably over the world from its chief center in America. Critics urge against this age of ma- chines, President Frank said, that it makes the world ugly, that it destroys ; human independence and individuality, {that it breeds class hatreds, that it ban- ihes contentment from the average life, that it uses up natural resources properly belonging to future genera- | tions, that it is slowly ruining every- thing beautiful and peaceful that man- i kind has won in his upward climb from | savagery. These charges are largely true, Presi- dent Frank concedes, of the machine age as it is today. Were nothing bet- \tcr to be expected, one might agree {with Oriental sages, like Mahatma Ghandi, who believe that man must 1 smash machines or machines will smash man. But our hurrying, scientific, |overmechanical age ‘already holds, | President Frank believes, the seeds of |its own regeneration. Electricity is be- iginning to decentralize _industry, | jammed tco tightly into squalid indus- trial towns by the former requirements of steam power. The discovery that beauty has' a “sales value” is turning mechanical industry to the creation of that commodity instead of ugliness. What is most important just now, President Frank believes, is that scien- ticians should co-operate, not to “con- trol” each other, hut to work ouf to- gether the good inStead of the harm that machines can do to the world. e A Real Expert Can. From the Delroit Free Press. ‘The days are gradually getting longer, and by and by it will be possible for a person to put off more until tomorrow than is pos:ible today. s R gk S Kills Lots of Thrills, Though. From the Nashville Banner. Common sense is the ashes that. en- able one to avoid f on the slij { track of life, g pleased to see and smell the results of | tific men, big-business men and poli- | T4 | { Cordell Hull of Tennessee, 2 prominent Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The political pot will begin to boil with great diligence when President- elect Herbert Hoover sets foot in Wash- ington on Sunday or Monday, depend- ing upon when his train arrives in the Capital. There has been a lot of “pol- itics” in the air while Mr. Hoover has traveled in South America. But it has been largely like “Hamlet” with Hamlet left out. After all, Mr. Hoover will pick his own cabinet. He will be the man to decide whether a woman is to go into his official family or not. and whether Mrs. A. T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Republican na- tional committee, or Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral, shall have such an appointment. It has been reported that Dr. Work, chairman of the national committce, is backing Mrs. Hert for the job of Secra- tary of the Interior, his own old job in the cabinet. It is not difficult to under- stand the excitement which such an appointment would create in Senate cirels particularly among the West- erners who are demanding & man who is familiar with the problems of the public land States. * K K K ‘When Mr. Hoover arrives he will have to decide, if he has not already de- cided, what he will say about the pro- posal to put through the McNary farm relief bill at the present session, in or- der to avoid a special session of the new Congress soon after he has been in- augurated President. There are some friends of Mr. Hoover in Washington who insist that Mr. Hoover has no in- tontion of backing away from a spe- cial session, that as a matter of fact he will welcome one to deal with the farm problem. On the other hand, it has been represented that the present administration is very anxious to have a farm bill put through at the present session of Congress, as a kind of cap- stone of achievement of the Coolidge administration. If that is the case, Mr. Hoover will occupy rather a delicate position. He may he expected by the administration to do all he can to help push the tarm bill through now. At the same time he will be urged by some of his most earnest supporters during the campaign to allow the matter to go over to a special session of the new Con- gress. It is exceedingly doubtful that even Mr., Hoover’s recommendation that the McNary bill be put through would be successful in bringing about that re- sult before Congress adjourns March 4. Some of the Western Senators are in- clined to go to the length of filibuster- ing against the measure now. Even some of the most conservative of the Republicans in the Senate are taking the position that the farm bill and the tariff should be dealt with promptly in a special session. * kK Kk 1t there is to be tariff revision, it is argued by some of the Republicans, it would be well to have it in the coming Spring. With the bill passed and in operation early this year any danger to the party from uncertainty about 2 new tariff bill in the campaign which begins a year from now would in large measure be obviated. If the tariff re- vision is held up until next Fall, as pro- posed by Speaker Longworth and others, the biil would not be on the statute books until the first of 1930, and there would have been no opportunity to learn how it works before the congressional election would be at hand. Members who must stand for re-election, partic- ularly in the industrial States, which | are demanding prompt revision of the tariff, would much prefer to have the matter attended to without delay. * oK K % Whatever may have been said during the recent campaign by the Democratic candidate for the presidericy and by ! some of his surportcrs to the effect that | an election of a Democratic President would not mean a demand that the tariff be reduced is not borne out by a statement issued by Representative member of the House ways and means committee. Mr. Hull has been a student of the tariff for many years. He de- mands now a revision of the tariff downward, instead of upward, as pro- posed by the Republicans. Mr. Hull agrees that protection should be af- forded where it was economic and vital and that adjustments should be brought about in the most careful and gradual and scientific manner. * K ok ok Mr. Hull's statement on the tariff, however, has been regarded as a rallying cry to the Democrats who believe in low tariffs. The effort to make it appear during the campaign that the party was abandoning its traditional opposi- tion to the principle of the Republican protective tariff is squarely met in this statement of the Tennessee Represent- ative. However, it is quite clear that the economic value of the- tariff has been impressed on a number of the Democratic memabers of the Senate and House for some time. Southern indus- tries are anxious for their measure of protection just as are the industries of other parts of the country. Mr. Hull said, in part, in his statement: “It is safe to say that our productive capacity today is 25 per cent in excass of our ability to consume. High tarifts cannot save us from growing surpluses. Some of the serious results already are the coubling and trebling of distribu- tion costs in frenzied efforts to dispose of increasing surpluses at home; muci idle labor and vast aggregations of idle capital, billions of which have gone into stock brokers' loans for gambling pur- | poses, thereby seriously affecting the stability of both cur money and frade structure; many loans abroad wade more hastily than prudence and good investment policy would justify: fever- ish efforts by many industries, through devices and tacit arrangements, to cur- tail production so as to maintain an equilibrium between production and consumption, thereby avoiding brice dislocation; a growing annual surplus in an increasing number of industries, such as agriculture, coal, the textiles, oil and a long list of others.” * Kk ok % For the last two or three weeks there have_been repeated assertions in some newspapers that Dr. Work, as chairman of the Republican national committee. | intended to become the arbiter in chief of Federal patronage. It was intimated that the chairman, residing in Wash- ington, would have a great deal to say about whom the new President should appoint to Federal office. Dr. Work has now come forward with an em- phatic denial that he has any such plan in mind. In the past the Republican Senators and Representatives have been =all powerful in the matter of recommendations for appointments to Federal offices in their States. It is clear that if any attempt were made to disregard this old practice, there would be a sweet row between the executive and the legislative branches of the Gov- ernment. The announcement by Dr.| Work that he intended to keep the ma- | chinery of the Republican national com- mittee well oiled for future campaigns and that he would call a meeting hera of the national committee for March 5, the day after the inauguration of the new President, gave rise in large part to the rumors that he planned to have a new deal with the national commit- tee, and himself in particular, as arbiter in the matter of appointments to office. Dr. Work insists, however, that he has no such intention in his mind. but that his purpose is solely to keep the Repub- liean organization in fighting trim for future campaigns. * K ok ok Congress is back on the job today with & large program of legislation to ut through in the next two months. t is clear that politics will have its place, however, in the deliberations and action of the Congress. Tomorrow the Reed slush fund committee is to meet to proceed further with the case of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Penn- sylvania. Mr. Vare has gone to Florida because of his ill health and will not be before the committee. He may be rep- resented by counsel, however, as the committee suggested in its recent lette: report to ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This serv- ice is free. Failure to make use of it depgives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only | 2 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Address) ‘The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. How long can a British Parlia- ment last?>—T. A. C. A. The maximum duration of the British Parliament is five years. The present Parliament was elected October 29, 1924, therefore it will expire in 1929. An election is expected in Eng- land about June of this year. Q. How much oil is taken from one whale?—T. M. A. The amount of oil which can be taken from a whale depends on the individual whale. The sperm whale yields from 5 to 145 barrels of oil, aver- aging about 25 to 30 for cows and 75 to 90 for bulls. In 1861 there was a rec- ord of a whale yielding 274 barrels of oil. Q. Should the “The | word remains ‘pair’ in the plural when | it is preceded by a number: otherwise, | it takes the ‘s ‘Two pair of gloves,’ but ‘Many pairs of trousers.’” 1 Q. How much bone is there in a cow | and how much meat?—C. A. R. A. The amount of bone in a cow varies with the cow. The maximum per cent of bones is 22.48. The hide is usually 6 to 62 per cent of the live weight of the carcass; the heart from 3 to 4 pounds, the liver from 8 to 9 pounds, | and the tongue from 21, to 3!, pounds. | ‘The shrinkage of cattle in Butchering and dressing ranges from 33 to 52 per cent. Q. Where is the Nine Men's Misery Monument?—T. B. A. It is on the grounds of the Monas- tery, Cumberland, R. I. This is where Capt. Michael Plerce's comrades made their last stand and were put to death by the Indians in King Philip's War. Q. Where is the largest electric fur- A. Milwaukee claims to have the largest. It can accommodate a stand- ard box car, and is said to be three times as large as any previously built. 1t uses 1,400,000 kilowatt hours of elec~ tricity a' month, and will heat 400,000 pounds of metal at a time to a maxi- mum temperature of 1,650 degrees Pah- renheit, Q. What government has a tage stamp bearing a portrait of Henryk Stenklewicz?—S. I. K. A. The government of Poland has is- sued a new stamp bearing the author’s portrait. Its face value is 15 grosay. Q. What is the Caterpillar Club? -Ww.P.C . A. The membership of the mythi- cal Caterpillar Club is composed of aviators who have saved their lives by parachute jumps from disabled air- craft. There are over a hundred mem- bers at the present time. Q. Has the Smithsonian Institu- tion sent out any scientific expeditions during the last year?>—D. C. A. More than 30 expeditions were sent out, mostly financed by gifts from friends of the institution. The West Indian Archipelago has been a special fleld of interest. Q. Where is Patagonia?—C. 8.~ A. Patagonia is a name formerly applied to the whole south portion of South America, extending from the Strait of Magellan indefinitely north- ward to about the thirty-eighth parallel of south latitude. In its present use Patagonia has no political significance. It is generally restricted to the region lying east of the Andes and south of Rio Negro. This country remained unclaimed until 1881, when it was in- corporated with Argentina. Q. Was an ass an animal ridden byF upper-class people in Palestine? =P, ¥. A. One writer says, “The most ncble and honorable amongst the Jews ‘were wont to be mounted on asses.” Traditionally, Mary made the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem mounted on an ass. Q. What is the derivation of the word “astronomer”?—J. K. A. The word “astronomer” is derived from a Greek word which in turn is a derivative of the anclent Greek word nace in the world located?—N. N. meaning “star arranging.” BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The artist Phidias would not have been admitted to membership in any shoemakers' union. He could not have chopped out wooden shoes which would have fitted a Dutchman nor sewed & pair of pumps that any soclety de- butante would ‘dance in. Phidias was a dub as a cobbler, But how he could paint! . There was & trick that Phidias knew, besides plainting: it was to defer to the expert knowledge of specialists. It is a big thing when any man knows that he does not know it all. So Phidias used to set up his master- pieces of painting where the hoi-polloi would look at them while he sat behind the canvas and chuckled at the criti- cisms he heard. There sauntered along two shoe- makers; they stopped to look at the new picture, and one of them—perhaps an apprentice—ridiculed the shape of the shoes, and next day the picture showed ‘“bigger and better shoes,” such as would have won a vcte of appreci- ation from any shoe manufacturers’ as- sociation. This swelled the head of the little cobbler, and he began to realize that he was an art connoisseur. With in- flated chest, he called a crowd about him to inform them that Phidias was a conservative, archaic and far from modernist in art—"For proof of which look at the anatomy of that torso!” he exclaimed. by What Phidias said to that cobbler as he stepped from behind his picture has become history, but is still unknown to certain college professors and budding statesmen. Both need to study Phidias, together with what a certain professor of literature said who has recently dis nosed the English language and foun: it anemic in “cuss words.” b AR There are two meetings in New York of college professors—the annual meet- ing of the American Association of Uni- versity Professors and a meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Seci- ence. These professors take themselves very seriously—much more solemnly even than do some statesmen from the sticks. Statesmen have given offense to the Sc. D.s and “LL. D.'s” and the learned men in Columbia assembled have decided to rebuke them. There was no way that the doctors could rebuke the statesmen but by adopting ponderous resolutions. “Whereas statesmen are ignoramuses —or ignorami—therefore be it resolved, That an amendment to the Federal Con- stitution should be adopted forbidding State Legislatures from meddling in matters they cannot comprehend—such as evolution. All laws forbidding the teaching of that sacred bull of science are hereby repealed and their makers enjoined. “Resolved, That what is taught as science should be determined by g fied experts in their flelds rather t by popuiar vote. “Be it further resolved. Any legisla- tion attempting to limit the teaching of any widely accepted scientific doctrine | is a profound mistake, which cannot | fail to retard the advancement of knowl- edge of human welfare. “Also resolved, When writers of text books and teachers of youths accept | money for false propaganda on scien- tific subjects. the Kellogg multilateral | treaty abolishing war is, and of right ought to e, suspended and a duly com- entent ‘cusser’ be employed to admin- ister pedagogical rebuke and punish- ment.” * winow That's the way Phidias himself might have declared that the cobbler or peda- gogue should stay by his last or his dic- enough of the bogus science of their day to enable them to pose with that Greek cobbler, and strut their knowl- edge of “truth,” as he did his skill as an art connoisseur. A loaded gun is harmless even to the fool who thinks it is unloaded, when compared with that dangerous thing—“a little knowledge.” ~That is hqw the states- men from the sticks got into deep water when they undertook to limit school teachers as a certain King tried on Old Ocean, “Thus far shalt thou thy proud waves be stayed.” * K ok ok ‘The teachers of science resolved that lution should be nullified, notwith- standing the concession that evolution is not a recognized science, but only a generally accepted theory. Professors know more about evolution than do statesmen or theologists. They know a lot about many things—even things that “ain’t so.” Professors look into Time and find that the world has existed 400.- 000,000 years, and man has lived on it 40,000,000 years. The old-fash- ioned Bible experts had figured it out that the Garden of Eden was opened to the public only 6,000 years ago. But ge l|':::-nl“l‘:¢ of x.h;.p‘m{:mn has done eory W r. Bryan pro- to do to Mr. Wilson at the Itimore convention—"knocked 1t into a cocked hat.” Knowledge expands one’s brains just like that. * ok k¥ Other professors look into space and tell us that they can measure the boundaries of infinity. They say that our solar system is revolving around a star called Sagittarius, which is so dis- tant that it takes a heam of light, trav- eling 186,000 miles a second, 50,000 years to come from Sagittarius to Earth. We get around that center once in 300,000,000 vears, though we might be charged with speeding, even at that. 1f it takes 300,000,000 years to make one galactic year, and the world is only 400,000,000 years old. it is less than one and a half galacuc years old. Something of the meaning then of the expression “a day is as a thousand years” may be grasped. There are some 10,000,000 other “worlds” in our own little galaxy, and there are many galaxies already known. Prof. Shapley of Harvard showed 50 photographs of different axies, What effect does all this majesty of the Universe of universes have upon the mind of a college professor? Does it humble him? Not always. Even in the New York Conference of Scien- tists for the Advance of Science, one of the species rose and argued that the immensity of space indicated that our conception of one infinite Creator must be wrong. He couldn't be equal to that! As if a universe of infinite wonder _did not %self proclaim an in- finite Creator! “When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the rs which Thou hast ordained: r“lw‘;liu is mng t:n Thou art mind- ul of m and the son of man thou visitest him?" fns Then came back the president of the Society for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, who had been absent when the profes- sor {rom Smith College, Dr. Barnes, had expressed his unorthodoxy, and the president denounced the ticism in unqualified language, declaring that Prof. Barnes had “spoken on a non- scientific subject in a meeting devoted to science.” The modern Phidias, in substance, repeated the classic advice, “Let not the cobbler go beyond his tionary. When we want sclence we want it administered by a scientist. ‘When we want economics or theology— that's different. Economics is a problem for states- men. Theology is a system of thought for specialists who have devoted due consideration to its depths. Economics comes from the brains of thinkers from the sticks. Where should we find the- ology? Pilate was not from the sticks nor was he a college scientist, but he gave a conundrum which neither the statesman nor the scientist has ever answered, “What is truth?” * ok K K It was only “yesterday” that science was absorbed in alchemy and ntrol-’ ogy. Sclence sold “charms” for the lovesick. Science declared that “the sun do move"—until science rebelled against itself. Science measured the time between Eden and New York, and found it less than 7,000 years. Science bled patients to rid them of their evil spirits. After a while theologists swallowed to Mr. Vare Members of the committee made it clear today that they are not insisting that Mr. Vare appear in per- son at this time. They say they are treating Mr. Vare with every considera- tion because of his state of health, All they are asking is that he either write to the committee or permit his counsel to state whether he has any additional information to lay before the commit- tee before the committée makes its final report to the Senate. The whole mat- ter has dragged along for a couple of years now, and the committee believes | of that it should be concluded, so far as the commi is cu\murmd. by a final last.” Prof. Osborn added: “We are very desirous of reques the clergy to relieve the public mind concerning the possibility of any antagonism between science and re- ligion. There is none, and there can be none. Some of the greatest men of science have been very religious men.” This same Prof. Osborn is head of the Museum of Natural History, and he ranks with the highest authorities in natural science. In an article by him, published in the Forum, February, 1925, he pointed out that “the Cro- Magnon man who dominated Northern Sgum. France and England between 25,000 and 40,000 years ago could com- pete in the art schools with any of the animal sculptors and painters of our day, and, judging from the brain of the Cro-Magnon youth, I believe that they could enter any branch of the in- tellectual life of today, on equal, if not superior, terms.” Smith College.) But that being true, what becomes of the theory of evolution, based upon the gradual development of man to- ward perfection, rather than the of man from ideal perfection? answer is that 40,000 years “are as yesterday.” evolution deals in mil- lions of years. In his book, “Evolu- tion and Religion,” Dr. Osborn says: “The moral principle inherent in evolution is that nothing ean be fl.lnedm:‘? lml:‘ v,l;l;lea |wlzmfi effort; he ethical inc n - evolution lhlll the :::'1" only has unm " survive; ritual evolution is m?‘numu% “: rad, ot s tor whiEh e oy my of mirac w) (Copyright, 1938, by Psul V. Collinsy come and no farther, amd here shall all laws limiting the teaching of evo-. { I