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o no hope . of discovering their presence by any hunting calls at night. We met a distinguished naturalist, Mr. Ed- ward Jacobson, who told us that though he had spent some six years in the jungles, making his collection of mammals, and had seen fresh tiger tracks constantly about paths and camp, he had never actually seen a wild tiger at large. Nor had he ever heard one roar in the forest, from which he concluded that they seldom used their voices. The only roaring tigers he heard were those caught in traps. The only thing for us to do was to find oud where a tiger was doing any killing, then hurry there at top speed and meet him when he re- turned for his second meal. Unlike the lion, a tiger eats but little the first time, 7 to 8 pounds, perhaps, and then lies up near his kill, return- ing to it every 24 hours until it is finished. He comes back at night, and the idea was for us to hide near the kill and get him as he re= turned the second night. The controleur, Mr. Rookmaaher, agreed to telephone out word to offer a reward Jo the natives for an informa-. tion to us of a tiger. HE told us that just three mcnths before there had been three horses taken by a tiger in the road at Batang Paloepe. The tiger is not a gentlemanly killer like the lion, who takes only what he needs; the tiger strikes right and left in his lust for blood. He is as bad in that re- spect as the cowardly hyena of Africa that will run through a flock of goats hamstringing every one he can reach. There seemed to me many uncertainties to this tiger business. Every story deepened this impression. There was a tale of a man who sat up in & tree, with no light beneath, and no moon above; he waited through the darkness till he could endure it no longer; then at 3 o'clock he came down to find that the tiger had been there, noiseless and unseen, and had eatcn the. entire cow provided for bait, except one lonely hoof and tonsil. : Mr. Rookmaaher told another story of an old man who had saved all his life for a cow. At last he had money enough and with great care bought his cow. That very night a tiger sprang at her. The old man was so frantic that he rushed out with a torch in his hands and flung the blazing thing straight at the tiger, whe leaped off the cow and crouched on the ground. Desperate, the old man grasped a spike of bamboo about 4 feet long and rushed at the tiger and poked him. Off the beast bounded to one side; the frenzied old native pcked him again and this time the tiger bounded off for good. But the cow died. There were two deep wounds from the tiger’s teeth in her neck. Next night the controleur came and dragged the cow near the house and, with his friends, sat among the chicken coops. The tiger came back for his gorge and the hunter got him. Batang Paloepoe seemed a haunt of tigers, for two years before a beast had come to that very place where the three horses had been killed. ‘Then there were some old women in the three houses, which were frail little affairs set up on stilts from the ground. In the night some of the old women heard the tiger prowling about beneath the house they were in and they shut the door firmly, with all manner of barricades. The beast came boldly up the ladder, but found he could not budge the door, then he climbed nimbly upon the roof. Lustitute of BY WARE TORREY. HE Institute of Public Affairs, held at the University of Virginia each year, is unique in that its chief purpocse is the consideration of mnational and State problems of immediate importance. It is a pio- neer in its discussion of affairs of national ccnecern with reference in some instances to the relation of the South to those affairs. The university is conducting the institute in a manner that intimately parallels the concept of Thomas Jefferson when he planned the establishment of a State university at Char- lottesville. As Dean Charles Gilmore Maphis, in charge of the institute, says: *“The institute is in keeping with the spirit of Jefferson. He wished the university to stand for principles of tolerance, freedom of thought and intellectual strength.” . Dr. Maphis organized and directed the first Institute of Public Affairs in 1927. He had been interested in the Institute of Politics at Wil- liamstown, Mass., for some time. But he be- lieved there was a need for discussion of na- tional conditions as well as the international questions stressed at Williams College. “The people of the United States,” Dr. Maphis says in explaining his point cf view, “are more interested in local affairs than national affairs. In the institute emphasis is laid on national, State and local matters and the principles un- derlying them. Also, it has been said in the East and West that the South has a closed mind, that nothing constructive can come from the South; the fact that the institute is a pub- lic forum, where all sorts of questions can be discussed, and is in the South, should have a strong appeal. The institute is for the over- coming of provincial thinking, the encouraging of a national point of view, and it is to assist pecple in thinking constructively and to educate adults in citizenship.” HE University of Virginia is a fitting loca- tion for the institute, not only in the kin- ship of the present work to the policies of Jef- ferson, but also in the relationship of the atmosphere of the place to the spirit of the meetings. There is a quiet about the buildings, with their white pillars and dim red bricks, and the long lawns and gardens have a spreading openness. It is a place to talk and think in, a place that suggests the spaced leisure and the earnectness of discussion. There are three divisions cf the institute—the round table conferences for members, the open forum ' dfscussions and “the ‘eVening addresses.’ From the round table conferences, held in THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 15 1929. | NSNS (A / / Il S It was a feeble roof of flimsy thatch with a hole in it that let the rain through, and tha tiger discovered the hole and began industriously increasing it. Meanwhile the old women set up a wailing of alarm, but they dared not summon spirit to run out in the night, fearing, perhaps, the tiger's mate. Finally the tiger made such an opening that he reached down a long paw into the tiny room and hauled out a luckless old lady and, in the words of Alice’s fairy stories, he gobbled her up. Even this story we liked—with due compas- sion for the old lady. It showed a spirit on the part of the tiger to meet one more than half- way. Having run ourselves to shadows in Africa over game that declined to be met any- where save on the vanishing of the horizon, we welcomed this somewhat intrusive aspect of the tiger. Another story confirmed this characteristic. On Seak River, on the East Coast, the tigers actually besieged the people in their houses, and then finally developed stratagems to gev them out. In one case the tiger scratched gently at . o the bamboo walls and when the people inside screamed their neighbors came running to see, what was the matter and the tigers caught them. What luck, we thought wistfully, to have a tiger come scratching at the bamboo, or clawe- ing at the thatch overhead! It was too good ever ,to come true! Then one night the con- troleur came hurrying to us with news that a tiger had been sighted. Out we started. (Copyright, 1929.) Public Affairs Is University Feature In Accord With the Idea of Thomas Jefferson When He Planned Establishment of University of Virginia. Madison Hall, the members go across the campus to the forum. jn the auditorium at Cabell Hall. The direct way lies by the ro- tunda, which is an adaptation of the Roman Pantheon, and which contains the university library, and down by the colonnades. This part of the university was planned by Jefferson. He wrote in a letfer to Dr, William Thornton, “We are commencing here. the establishment of a college, and we propase to lay off a square of about 700 or, 800 .feet, on the outside of which we, shall arrange separate pavilions, one for each professor and his scholars, and between pavilion and pavilion & range of dormitories to be united by, a colonnade in front of the height of the lower story of the pavilions, under which they may go.dry from school to school.” The pavilions, for which Jefferson made the drawings, .are adaptations of famous buildings, such as the Baths of Diocletian and the Temple of Fortuna. Virilis. The most impressive view of the lawns is at night. Standing in the center of the lawn, the terraced stretch of grass around which the pavilions are grouped, one is com- pletely inclosed by rows of dimly lit white columns, Light comes faintly out over the lawn from behind the pillars on either side, the pil- lars of Cabell Hall and of the rotunda. The evening addresses are delivered in the Greek Amphitheater, that built in the natural valley west of Cabell Hall, between the Engi- neering and Law Buildings. Approaching from the lawn, one passes near the Karl Bitter statuc of Jefferson. Speakers stand on the stage of the amphitheater, against the background of Grecian architecture and facing the microphone that contrasts the modern mode of speech- making. 'HE topics this year present a varied group of interests. ‘The subjects considered at the round table conferences are “The Country Life of the Nation,” Dr. E. C. Branson, head of the départment of rural economics and sociology at the University of North Carolina, leader; “The Task of the Country CRirch,” Dr. Hénry . McLaughlin, director of the country church de- partment of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, leader; “The Economic and In- dustrial Development of the South,” Maj. Le Roy Hodges, managing director of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, leader; “Democ- racy as Operative in America,” Dr. Thomas H. Reed, professor of political science at the Uni- versity of Michigan, leader; “Our Latin Ameri- can Relations,” Dr. Clarence H. Haring, pro- fessor of Latin American history and economics at Harvard University, leader; “Law Enforce- ment,” Dr. Raymond Moley, professor of public law at Columbia University, leader; “The Press in Public Affairs,” Dr. Victor Rosewater, jour- nalist, former editor of the Omaha Bee, leader; “Problems in Cotemporary Politics,” Dr. Wil- liam Starr Myers, professor of politics at Prince- ton University, leader. At the round table conferences are gathered specialists in the subjects under discussion. These include persons who are actively handling the material of the subjects, who are working in government and other positions toward the best solution of these problems, and persons from the universities of the country who are concerned with a study of the actual quality, nature and interrelationship of the problems. As Dr. Raymond Moley, speaker on “Law En- forcement” and “Are the Present Prohibition Laws Effective?” expresses it: ‘“These meetings of the institute are a link between the govern- ment and the university, between thé people who do the things and those who observe and theorize upon the doing.” The forum discussions, which any interested persons may attend, are an opportunity for general expression of opinion. 'There is an opening talk on some current problem, and afterward questions bearing on the talk or re- lated topics are brought tp. . : Dr. Thomas Reed, who spoke on “Democracy as Operative in America” and “Has the Ma- jority a Right to Rule?” believes that the forum meetings and the institute as a ‘whole have a markedly stimulating ‘effect upon those who attend.” “Beople having the ‘same 1nterests and varying opinions meet,” he said, “and out of their meeting comes an increased intensity of thought. Also, the university i on the bordere line between North and South, ‘and thereforé two varying attitudes are brought'together.” : The evening addresses include “A Realistid Approach to the Problems of Derhocracy,” made by Norman Thomas, executive director of the League of Industrial Democracy, New Yorky City; “Farm Relief,” by Senator Tom Con< nally, Texas; “The Newspaper and the Modern Age,” by Sherwood Anderson, author and editor of two weekly newspapers, and “The Enforce« ment of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act From the Point of View of the Individual States,” by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. THE institute as @ whole can be said to be & fitting answer to' Jefferson’s desire when he wrote “I hope the University of Virginia will prove a blessing to my own State, and not une useful perhaps to some others.” There arg permanent Yesults besides those gained at the time of the meetings. This year for the first time the results of the round table discussions on several subjeciid will be published in book form.--Dr. Maphis ig planning a series. Bulletins of the evening ad« dresses and mimeographed copies of the forum# speeches will' also be made. Among the members of the board of advisers of the institute are Harry Flood Byrd, chairman, Governor of Virginia; Viscountess Astor, M. P.; who 'was born at Mirador, a few miles from Charlottesville; Nicholas Murray Butler, presie dent of Columbia University; Henry W. Chase, president of the University of North Carolina; Carter Glass, United States Senator from Vir< ginia; Glenn Frank, president of the Univere sity of Wisconsin; Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, and Mrs., Mabel Walker Wille< brandt, former Assistant Attorney General of the: United States. : Tick Quits Alabama. 'HE tick has been eliminated in Alabams; and that State becomes the tenth to be freed from the quarantine imposed by the Departe ment of Agriculture. More than 10,000 square miles have been released from the restrictions because of the effectiveness of eradication methods carried out. One parish in Louisianay; Jefferson Davis, backslid and is placed under quarantine after having been freed. Arkansas and Porto Rico are still under the ban. -