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STAR [veteved to be the victim of & racket, ditten was killed n front of his home by two WASHINGTON, D. C. s RD. the child was killed, was in some meas- - DAX ke A ure repeated. A man known ss a policy operator was driving his ear with three others as passengers. Sud- denly the three jumped out snd began shooting at the driver. Many shots were fired. The street was filled with ehil- dren at play. By s miracle none of them was hit, but an adult workman on se< his way home from a picture thester By Oarrier Within the Ciby. | was desperately wounded. The driver 48c per month | of the car was himself hit four times #0c per month | and will probably die. @5 per month | When the wounded driver waa taken nd of sach month |10 the hospital and questioned he beld mail ot TelePhon® | 1, the gang tradition and refused to give ‘any information. - “Tt must have been some kids shooting at pigeons that 20t me.” he said; “that's the only thing 1 can think.” The assallants had scat- tered and eluded pursutt. The police- men on the beat. near st hand, chased them, but were afraid to fire lest they hit bystanders 80 the war i on. The police orders | bave not scared the gangsters. Now is exclusively eniitied | will come the test. TWBODORE W. NOYES. . Phe Brening Star Newspaper Company Business i e e fhiy ke Il I o iy "S'Q'um.-’m- n ,'lu v iy - “Lfi‘gm'f B Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini 4 L1 9r.,510.00: I mo.. i RER, E 1yr. 3600 1 mo. 1o 1998 1 men e AN Other tes and Canada. 5 .. $1.00 W ang, Sunds; 7031200 1 mo.. $1,00 ™day only o R imen doe Momber of the Aseciated Press. The Associated Press te the Tae for republication of all news dis- | natches credited to it or not otnerwise crea ited 3 this paper and also the local new: oublished hereln. Al rizhis of publication of ipecisl dispatches nerein are also reserved. | round up, with gun fire if necessarv, all known malefactors, gunmen, rack- eteers? Scores are identified as mem- bers of blackmail and murder bands. | The names of the leaders of these crews of crime are known. If there is to be war against them the offensive tahould be maintained by the police, John Bull as Borrower. No more remarkable development has accurred in post-war finance anywhere in the world than the srrangement now eircumstantially vouched for. ! - whereby the Bank of England is to re- | “Labor Omnia Vincit. celve a loan of from $225.000.000 10| wyyeh the return to London from Ber- $240.000.000. The credit would be SUD- | )i of both Secretary Stimson snd Dlied jointly by the Bank of France and | pryme Minister MacDonald, 1t may be the Federal Reserve Bank of New YOrK. taken that the season of good-will 8s- representing, between them, the W0 gurance to Germany s now closed. and oounfries which possess some s2ventv-'thar deeds; not words, will hencefor- five per cent of the monetary gold of ward do the talking. It is from the the world. The transaction is the out- Garmaps that sction must ensue. Z'0wih of the heavy draine of hat' The representatives of the Ameriean metal from which the Bank of Fne- and British governments, by their tand guffered in .hlv. orincipally as the physieal pressnce in Rerlin, have given mstigation. and for account, of France.' svidence of the English-speaking na- ‘Germany’s economic distress. plaved ifs tiona’ sympatbetic interest in the Reich's tole in dislocating gold conditions in | economie distress and their readiness to London. ton. fllustrating the interlock- | ameliorate it. But behind them n the 08 nature of financial conditions | wilhelmstrasee. amid prandial pleasant- Smong the nations. | ries and social smenities, Messrs. Stim- France as a source of major aid in ' son snd MacDonald did not leave it to time of need s a new .apparition in | be doubted that London snd Washing- ‘Thresdneedle street. although in 1907 ton expect the German government Prench gold was sent to England on a |and people to show by their works that imited scale a< a sef-off against with-, confidence in them is not mispiaced. drawal of American investments. The — Our Seeretary of State spoke at Lon- Bank of Bngland has turned more than | don the other day with uncommon candor once 1o the Pederal Reserve in New |of his German impressions. The Reich York for amelioration of a temporary needs money, Col. Stimson admits, but Bold plight. Tn 1927 our principal re- | will not enhance its prospects of getiing serve institution lent London $300,000.- |it by indulging indefinitely tn ‘s 000 for the purpose of enabling the | plaintive role.” Apperently the State Rank of England to rehabilitate the | Department chief found no indications drooping value of the pound sterling. ' that Germany is “on the brink of Tt wes an unprecedented move on the | revolution.” The * part of the ancient central bank on K has been coming out of the country he Thames. but served a purpose which | throughout the Summer has harped on more than fnstified itself. Since then | the imminence of a Fascist or Com- eredit transactions between the Federal | munist upheaval as insistently ss on Reserve and the British bank have been | financial chaos. Secretary Stimson more or lese regular, though not of Acuired no corroborative evidence on the magnitude of the 1927 deal. STEhen Of s kaorse. SM IR EREH B ) M ix stated that the Bank of Eng- | Persuaded that there is especial myit| lend would pay three and & half per|And meaning for the Germana st this cent jntereat for the projected Franco- | NOUT in the copybook maxim *Labor American credit. which, It is assumed, | OMPDla Vincit.” Work without whining w1l take the form of s large rediscount | !° S€er a3 the Relch's imperative duty, operation. No one will imagine that | 10 1ta sslvation as well. the situstion which requires John Bun| MT. MacDonald echoes Secretary th seek old succor from Marianne and | Sfimeon’s impressions, though in dif- Tcle Sam is comparable to the crisis | /erePt IenEUARe, Be ierms i G:" confronting Gevmany. Tu the Houss of | E0S° ~SONAEle Woubbe purehe Commons on Thursdsy. Mr. Snowden, | '08ical.” 8nd prophesies that when they CRaitellor of “theWesstisqueriiwiio: ia] TLD ©4t O SWT HERUvche Sate fof wvem 10, frank speeth. remarked: 3| mind they will at least be beaded again ammure:yout'the position” of this country | O7*Td" Prosparity. It-wes o' promote :"::"::“'":"";:; ;‘::::: |:|‘°:‘::’"';":i5ru|xh premier told Berlin intervies- ers, that the international fire depart- for foreign Investmenta. and. ax far as o 0L e o s ":"":’“'d e ;’ S ': "]"' ::’:'vwhen the German house seemed to be emment ¢ concerned. we S ey oy esery possible step to. insure that the > URE CREE L has now provd and solid position of British | . o104 jiseif into one calling first and eredit shall in no wav be impaired." |5 o0 for herculean self-sssistance. For the man in the streel, here in |, "go0q4 like ndividuel humans, of America as well as abroad. these tribu- | it HOE T 00 A0 o, In not St "’""” B"‘_‘;;" “;‘::“::"r:": {likely to withhold the full measure of fificant ‘meaning- it IYATe. | aid and comfort to those who demon- if fresh proof were needed. that the de- | & "0 rugged anxiety o help them- pression it no monopoly of 8Ny ONe | ey 1o the Nmit of their capacity. eountry. They also demonstrate thal; g4y o4q” miition of virile. Intelligent | our awn position is tntrinsieally sounder | LR L0 LD e pnot fail n auch than that of. nther nations. a test of their spiritual and physical o mettle. | - No special inducements were offered to the crowds that would gladly have made the start of the Lindbergh fight | the oecasion for a great ovation. Lind- | Taxicabs that contain radio equip- ment introduce & new line of tactics | into & rate war by providing free en- sertainment. along with cheap service. ! @ompetition has become insctive in | varions branches of commerce. When 'bergh has never deliberately sought # doss break into the piciure it shows | publicity and for that resson the pub- the intensity that sccumulates under licity he attains is the more effective. long repression. o An expert Jawyer in drawing a will - s Strangers who come prying into the | secret vork of the Government will' needs not. anly technical knowledge but | relieve a general fension jf they ore | an imagination that will enable him lonly idle souvenir seekers on a Sum- | to foresee whal arguments may be em- | mer vacetion. ploved by other axpert lawyers in case | the will is eventuslly sttacked. | A Victory for the Grandmothers. R Of course there is bound to be s lot | M":;':" N'."“:'“‘:.‘:'::;]' "r:"' '::_’::‘A' P;’: | of diaging around for words to desoribe | avk to begin ot (ke ncture of the hazaras they must :f: b’:"-’"h"’d"“*’m:k L) . | overcome. the international importance ttom an . [ of the fiight. the comity of peoples and | nations to result. But o s lot of peo- | ple. especially th: granamothers of America, the true significance of the | Lindberghs' trip to Japan is that they left the baby at home. Whelher 1o leave the baby at home . —oeo (- War in New York. War has been declared in New York, war waged by the city agsinst the | gsters. Following elosely upon the | estardlv shooting through a crowd .of | ehildren in the street at a marked man | has always sharply divided two schools who had been “put on the spot.” With of thought. Until & few vears ago the ! the result of ome death snd many | predominant opinion among carefu! njuries, the mavor nddressed a meet- | parents was that granamcther was o {ng of a benevolent, association of po- | relatively safe person with whom fo lisemen and declared that the city|lsive the baby. But times and idess mnst be made “safe for children.” The , have changed. and had the Census Bu- police commissioner followed with a reau done what it shouid have done general tnetruction to the policemen to be quick on the trigger in enconnters with criminais and racketeers— have no hesitation in giving it to them. and give it to them above fthe waistiine,” he nrged. Then new regulations were fssucd for greater police protection. en- . tailing a twenty-four-hour petrol of all parts of the city by detectives riding doubiedly would show a growing sus- picion of grandmother by m-dern par- ents who are just & bit skeptical 8s to whather she 15 sa safe as she thinks she is. i i There is, for one thing, the question ‘of feeding. The present generation of | {parents was fed snything and st el | n aufomobiles and carrving repeating iiimes by th: present ganeration of shotguns with pump action, cepable of | grandmothers, snd more than once the discharging six shells repidly. Ths parents have woncered hcw they man- “front” was declared to be the entire 'aged to survive. for modern science has area of the city, but the most active |taught that the modern baby can sector was indicated as the Harlem hardly be fed snyining at all. and that neighborhood in which numerous shoot- | but seldom. Yet the 1931 grandmother ings bave lately occurred, including |seizes every oppoiiunity to get the 1081 that in which a child was slain. parent out cf the house, dash for the Just to show that police orders ln'plntry and stuff the baby cram. full of mot in themselves so much after all,|old-fashioned nutriment. And there is ¥he gangsters put on another shooting |the matter of complexes. ‘The short- whow last night, just s few hours after [comings of every modern parent are the meeting and the declaration ol'dne. psychology has revealed, to various | war. There were, in fact, two out- complexes developed by improper han- breaks. both in the section ¥¥own as dling of infants by modern grand- “Bdttle Italy.” In one a manufacturer, mothers. Few parents there are, n- Will the police | iand hasten such s mental process, the |and compiled the statistics, they un- | | Uncle Bben, “couldn't THE EVENING T Iot complezes to grandmothers who re- medieval practices, such as kissing, cod- dling, rocking, singing and indulging in baby talk. And there always remains the prob- lem, if the baby is left in grandmother’s i{core, whether grandmother can be trusted to stay at home with the baby—what with the movies, the la- dies’ suxillary, th. lecture series and all that business, constituting; ss it were, & sort of call of the wild that undermines grandmotherly resistance and lures her away from her chimney corner. { All n all, the Lindbergh episode is & vietory for the grandmothers, a victory for wbieh they will pay, and pay, and pay. There is lttle doubt that it will | bring about a revolution snd that for some time to come the grandmothers | of the Nation are going 16 have to take care of the baby. al Blu Crediting George M. Cohan with all the laurels he so richly deserves as & composer, the thought thet persists sfter a careful reading of those stirring lines dediested to the Bicentennial Cel- | ebration i that something has been left | out. How, for instance, could any such |song sbout George Washingtan fail to, |include appropriate reference to the {erossing of the Delaware? The subject lends itself so well to regtime trestment that “Spoonin' om the Delaware, |Croonin’ on the Delaware, Moonin' on the Delaware, Orossin’ of the Delaware” pound upon the mind with a nagging persistence. And as for the hatchet in- | dent—"He took his little hatchet, that lovin® little hatchet, that cunnin’ little !natehet”—well, the only view to take 'of the omissions i thet Mr. Cohan was | writing a sneppy song snd not a bal- lad. | Tney whti be overiooked on one con- ! gition, and that is that the first public {rendition of the song be by the members 'of the Bicentennisl Commission, who, sppropriately costumed and accompa- nied, assemble somewhere “beneath the | flag of stripe and star” and go to it. —oe—e— 3 | Bfforts to compliment G. Bernard | {Shaw on the occasion of his seventy- | | Afth birthdsy were slightly impeded | | oy the fact that nothing could com- {pare in brilliant originality with his | | own remarks. Mr. Shaw iz always| competent to be his own fireworks, | - Dry sgents who employ pigeons” ‘sre often denounced by the thorities. In addition to being liable | {10 loss of occupation a dry agent may {23 well look forward to difficulty in ob- | | | from his previous employer. | e Now and .then a threst. of “wage slashing” resches Hollywood snd crestes | & fesr that some of the picture stars will be reduced to the necessity of | living on as little as half a milion | |8 year. | . | Whiskered Russians may not lfke that | word “Shavian™” even ss spplied to the | originelities of a British *Communist” until they see for themselves that it | has nothing to do with a soap brush 'and s ragor. B Prison reforms are constantly de- |manded. A prison cen never be made |an idesl spot until there are decided | reforms in the underworld of crime ' snd in the overworld of politics, - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Privileges Disdained. Since Chrir Columbus safled hie ship | So many years ago, | We've given many cares the slip, Such as men used to know. The boats sre fine and stout and swift; The raflways help a lot, | And telephones you voice will lift To sny distant spot. From distant realms the things are| brought That comfort and sustain, And life with luxury i fraught Such as few hoped to gain. Yet man keeps up the same old grind ‘Mid poverty and pelf— He will not leave his cares behind And just enjoy bimself. A Recognitien. “Do vou think that spirituslistic medium was reslly controlled by the | eminent financier you wished to con- | sul?” . “Yes. T recognize hix methods. She insisted on getting the money first and making me take sll the chances.” -Responsibility Disclaimed. “Why don’t vou tell some new stories?" “What for?” ssked the comedian in- dignently. “I'm not here to educate the publie.” An Exception. There's nothing made in vain, I'm told. I hesr it with elation. Yet wonder if that mexim old Applies to conversation. The Other Way. “I suppose you feelings sometimes | lead you to say more than you intend, seid the man who admires oratory. ! “Never,” snswered Senator Sorghum. | “But it sometimes happens that my in- | tentions lead me to say more than 1 feel.” | In Training. “How I8 Josh doin’ in his studies?" asked Farmer Corntossel. | “Not very well.” snswered the pro- | feesor. “He is regular in attendance, but he never answers any of my ques- | i i “Well, mebbe its & good sign. He | may turn out to be one of these high fnanceers.” The Rose of Remembrance. I bloom for all, says the fragrant rose; I bloom for ihe grave and gray, ¥ bloom for the loved ones in repose, 1 bloom for the young and gay. ©On one and all does my blessing rest In this flesting life of mine: On the North and the South and the East and West Like & r-llfl of love divine. “De man who wants de esrth.” said happy if he had it He find fault el bigsen® M.mmbmhhfinl STAR, The great open spaces to the south of Pennsylvania avenue, as they are re- vealed from the hands of the wreckers, have left many a passerby with the wish that they might be perpetuated. Great buildings must, however, fill a portion of them at lut;nlhndm:h:‘h 5, necessary and just. n. But certainly there is something finé, too, about space; and surely there is a breadth of vision and almost exaltation to be derived from looking down over the torndown areas. ‘The vista from Union Station to the Oapitol is beautiful, even in its present state. Templeton Jones, a wanderer in that section the other day, could not say as much for the view in reverse. * oxox % “What the Plaza needs,” he declared, expatiating to some friends, “is to have the Columbus statiie removed to an- other site and those four huge flagpoles taken down altogether.” Then he paused, to wait for the howl of protest. There was no_howl, either in protest or_otherwise, i Evidently the group contained no ad- herents of the Columbus statue, with the great man seated on an absurdly small world. Jones was emboldened to give his ideas in detall. “What one wants here,” he said, wav- ing his hand, “is prospect, and plenty of i, . “As you stand bhere and look toward the station the statue group obscures the entire front of the depot. “I am reminded of one of Irvin Cobb's short stories, was paralyred (0 see a great monster coming toward him from outside the window. “After a while he discovered that the monster was no more than a bug | which, being so close to him, had been thrown out of proportion and, through |ite nearness to his eye, had obscured houses, even, R “The Columbus statue, utterly aside from its merits as statuas is out of place, to my way of thinking, and would not only look better in a different situ- ation, but. would leave the prospect clear, as it should be. “As for the flagpoles, they are much too tall and much too heavy, and would be bad enough If flags were flown from them. “‘As it is, they are seldom gay with color—only on special occasions—and 1 submit that there is nothing beautiful about a great long pole. “Four long poles are just four times a8 ugly, it seems to me. Owing to their proximity to the station, they have somewhat the same effect as the stat- uary group in blocking the view of the butiding. “I will admit that where a pole hides one of those conventionalized statues adorning the bullding the shaft may do nothing sillier, to my |mind, in the entire istriet of Colum- bia than the rows of figures wandering around the Union Station, both outside nd inside. “1 never come over her but T won- der at them and try to imagine the laintive” note that taining satisfactory recommendations state of mind of those who thought them necessary.” At this- point in his lecture Mr Jones happened fo look at his watch, and what he saw there seemed to have a gdlvanizing action upon him. His mouth closed. and his legs ex- tended. The last seen of him he was disappearing thiough one of the arches, evidently without a thought of the large. comfortable-looking emblematic Cotton in Worl Cotton erdp reports in the United States and in other parts of the world, and the present eondition of the foreign trade in this Important commodity are receiving the attention of economists. | Tt is believed in the United States that it 1s possible to create new uses for cot- ton to offset the production in pew foreign areas, and that science may be sble 1o contribute to better results. to Gov. Sterling to call a conference of the Governors of cotton-growing States is indorsed by the Houston Chronicle with the statement: “The American Cotton Co-Operative has just announced # significant movement to provide better seed cotton for farmers generally—with 8 view to re-establishing the superiority of American cotton staple on the world markets—another movement to increase the uses of cotton goods, and to increase in which a man | Holds American Attention AUGUST 1, THIS AND THAT' BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. figure which stood squarely above him stolid, gazing space. * x which Washington now enjoys. Some of the solid charm of this city, felt by all visitors, and known by daily contacts to its residents, lies in the smaller parks sprinkled around the vari- ous sections. Irrespective of the greater areas, such as Rock Oreek Park, the squares and circles and triangles have a definite function to perform. As Jones settled himself in his train, he fell to thinking back over the many happy hours, as child and n, which he had spent in those parl Usually ne had a book with him. He was never too busy to spend a few minutes in rest on s bench, when- ever he happened to go through a park. Templeton Jones did not believe that park systems anywhere had such com- fortable benches as thé. Washington parks have contained for the last quar- ter_of a century. ‘The backs and seats required no turning and tflnln‘lw get comfortable, as was 30 often the case in benches found in private places. Jones wondered if some of the new- fangled types, which he had seen re- cently in several rks, could touch the old ones in Hd comfort. v o ‘Widening of park walks, especially those in concrete, had not | thing to the appearance of these happy | resting places, with their old trees, green , grass and flowers. It takes an astonishing amount of | greenery to dispel the illusion of bleak- ness encountered in & too abundant use of white cement. Everv park devotee, 100, was forever quarreling with the park innovations, such as the ornamental saucer and horse shoe ring in Dupont Circle. No artist could convince Templeton Jones that the present fountain, with its nymphs, is half as good a memorial 10 & man of war as the rearing eques- trienne group which he recalled from childhood davs. Nor was he in favor of the huge cir- cular walk, which, like a circus road, runs around the circumference of Du- port Circle. Perhaps he was lamenting the passi | of the sense of privacy which one for- had. It was possible. in the old to come there on & cool afternoon, and spend several hours reading as |:nlfuy a8 if one had been in his own ome. L As Jones train drew out from beneath the umbrella replacing the g1 he fell to thinking of old Omar’s verses. in which the poet stated that if it were possible for man to conspire with the Creator. he would tear*the world to bits and mold it nearer to the heart's desire. ‘Templeton Jones thought that the r building program was actually such a tearing to bits and rebuilding nearer to | the heart's desire. Here was idealism | bodjlv taking form. Not every one| would be able to agree with every item | in the program. of course. Jones had wondered about the Dis- tiict Bullding. It was absurdly like the greatey new building to the west. and | with & cleaning and internal refurbish- | ing would be in entire harmony, it seemed to him Personal ideas. however, in no w effected the majesty of the pisns, as a whole, in which buildings and perkings | will be tied together in one scheme of | beauty for the enhancing of the loveli- | ness of the National Capital. | d Commerce aging especially effective and eco- nomical.” The Star-Telegram con tinues 'he State produces 1,500.000 tons of feed and 139.000 tons of fer- tilizer each year. Cotton bags for these commodities would require 47.000 bales of cotton. Mr. Simons points out. They | are largely packaged now in burlap bags made from jute produced in India. | Other commodities for which cotton | bags are more suitable than jute are' potatoes, onions. citrus fruits, nuts, pre- | | pared feeds, and so on. It will be no- | either are produced on the far, consumed principally on the farm. The | | suggestion is inevitable that the cotton farmers themselves bear the chief re- ' ponsibility for bringing about the sub-| stitution of cotton bags—something | that would be of great benefit to the | State and the cotton farmers—for )u!e.] | m_or, which benefits nobody in the State. ‘More cotton must be consumed in the South,” warns the Columbia (S. C.) State. “‘Our people cannot continue to | chief event in the h | “The History and Adventures of Life. | technical terms and much detail | never repeating ! out anl the uses of cottonseed products as a wear woolens, silks and satins and con: teed for stock. * * * If cotton produc- | tinue to wrap their cotton in jute an tion could be cut in half, the American 1931. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover In 1927 H. G. Wells and Hilaire Belloc had & little tilt, ostensibly over Mr. Wells' “Outline of History,” but fundamentally caused by the radical differences in the opinions of the two men about almost everything. Mr. Belloc wrote “A Companion to H. G. Wells' ‘Outline of History,” and therein called attention to “the prinei- pal popular errors, most of them now out of date.” He denounced Mr. Wells' casual dismissal of the Catholic Church place in history, believing oundation and ca~ ic Church is the istory of mankind.” Wells replied with a pamphiet, “Mr. Belloc Objects to “The Outline of His- tory,’” and probably had considerable fun in the controversy. Undiscouraged by this criticism of his attempt to be encyclopedic in one volume, Mr. Wells hes done it in, this time in a sci- entific field. Perhaps because he feels less at home in science than in history, he has taken partners in this enter- prise. “The Science of Life” has the Joint authorship of H. G. Wells, Julian 8. Huxley ai G. P. Wells, son of H. G. Wells, * ok ok ‘The syllabus used by the authors of “The Science of Life” has evidently been printed as the table of contents; at least the fullness of the latter would indicate this. There are nine books in the one, or two, volumes of the work (there are two fferent editions)— “The Chief Pat- " “The Incontrovertible Fact of Evolution.” “The How and the Why of Development and Evolution, veer of the d Disease ™ ‘houg] Feelis and T Ing Race.” ht,” and “Blology of the Human To a biologist most of the material ‘in these books seems ele- mentary; for the average general reader ‘there is much useful inform: tion, and such a reader may pick and choose, selecting what interests him or what supplies needed knowledge. The nature of ‘“The Science of Life” is encyclopedic. There is no_particular charm of style, though Mr. Wells prob- ably thinks that his invention of Mr. and Mrs. Everyman is an element of style. The different parts of the work vary in interest according to the tastes of the reader. but the discussions of evolution. health and disease and mod- ern psychology will 1 to many. Book 1. “The Living Body.” would be & fairly satisfactory text book in physi- ology, if general information, without were “The History and Adventures of Life.” is “an account of the actual history of life upon the earth, the procession of events which themselves, have led onward until this present instant | where the past is busy eating into the future. Of this colossal drama nc man knows the scheme. Some prophesy catastrophic end: others a siow and gloomy deterioration; still others see no necessary full-stop ' to the achieve- ments of life, or. if they do. comfort themselves with the reflection that life may prove itself abundantiy well worth living in the long epochs still to come, | itself its own justification. Man at least believes that he has been calied to take the leading part in it. and he is not unnaturally interested in finding that has gone before in the | story.” This quotation shows the analytical. philosophic method which we expect in any work by H. G. Wells. *oxowow Book VIII of “The Science of Life. entit'ed “Behaviour, Peeling and Thought,” plunges us inio the turmoil | of conflicting theories of psychology. As the title indicates, Mr. Wells and his associates have a supposition in favor | of behaviorism. Some of the subjects discussed are receptivity, response, vege- table behavior. instinctive and intelli- | gent behavior, insect societies, the mind | of a fish. education in animals. the be- havior of monkeys and apes, the range of consciousness, the dog as a simpler | man, temperament in dogs. emotion and | urge. the unconscious. hysieria, neuras- | thenia. psycho-analysis, minds out of | gear and in gear. diflerences between minds, the conduct of life, restraint and poise, evasion, Indolence and fear. the theory of body-soul-spirit, dream an- | ticipation and telepathy. clairvoyance. able-tapping and telekinesis, material- sation and ectoplasm, tne survival of | the persona)ity after death. In this part | of the work Mr. Everyman plavs & | prominent part; ih fict we become & | little tired ‘of him. Tnere are times. | also. when we are inclined to be as desired. Book V. The request by the Texas Legislature ' ticed that most of these commodities | misanthropic ss was Swift when he wrote | “The Voyage to the Houvhnhnms” and ! to believe that wasps, bees, ants &nd termites are more intelligent then Mr. Everyman.. Consolation for all human beings is to be found in the assurance that “steadfastness” is subject to lapses without necessarily enasngering the quality of the perscnality. “It is in our most. intimste relations, in the relations between husband and wife, between par- ent and offspring, between directors and subordinates. between employers and em- ploved, for example, that the erratic im- ulses 'of the mood work their worst and | cotton farmer would soon be on his feet financially. Such a cut seems out of the question in the next few years— for a century-old type of farming over a great area can't be uprooted in a day. But effective progress seems possible. Acreage is down 11 per cent this year. 1f it could be cut another 11' per cent next yea nd still another 11 per cent in the next year or two, we would get the American crop down to a point where it could be handled almost en- tirely as A money crop by farmers who make their living off other produets. “The cotton situation,” according to the South Bend Tribune, “differs ap- preciably from the wheat because more than one-belf of the American cotton is exported. The United States pro- duces more than one-half of the world's cotton and less than 20 per cent of the world's wheat. The cotton condition is extremely critical because domestic consumption imcressed only about 15 per cent while foreign competition in- creased greatly in the last decade. The Farm Board ascribes this largely to deterioration of American cofton quality The board believes American cotton growezs must help themselves by im- proving quality, reducing production costs, increasing soil fertility and mak- ing the cotton plant2tions yleld enough food for the growers' familles and for “Many informed economists,” states the Chattanooga News, “think that the time is not far away when America will have no cotton export market; in other words, the Southern farmer can- not sell any more of the fleecy staple than will be required to care for the buy their flour. fertiliser, feedstuffs, etc., Noeq most to be anticipated. averted, in other wrappings and expect the rest | end when they break loose allowed and :;;:g: Jorld 1o use our cotton. If OUrigioned for. Steadfastness is a strain | ot “good emonend senough for us. it 18| 3nd should be realised as a strain. '§h for the rest of the Ope of the commcnest experiences in world. | the lives of saints is the discovery that advises the Lowell Evening leade: o powl-nu, | cotton textiles for wearing apparel by | designing and styling them so ss to suit the mode of the day. But even! more progress has been made in dis- | covering ‘new uses for cotton good: | And 1t is probably along this line that |, we may look for better business for the Vindustry.” possible to do with cotton,” i i “It is contends the Oklahoma City Oklahoman, “what has been done with its seed. | Many uses now undreamed of may pos- | sibly be found for the staple, and these | | new uses may avert the ruin threatened | by the growth of cotton in the Eastern Hemisphere. While fighting for the re. covery of old markets and the opening | of new enes, the cotton grower should | | make every effort to find some new uses for the product of the Southern farm. Passing of Dividend Recalls Early Trade From the St. Louis Times. Hidden away in the small type of the financial news of yesterday was an item of historic value. 'The Hudson Bay Co. | nas passed its dividend for the mo- ment. It may have done it before, but | the present occasion brings new inter- est to an old subject. i chiefly mental. consumption here at home. * * * Any| The very beginnings of Canada are ! such reduction would, of course, com- |linked with the Hudson Bay Co. It was pel the most far-reaching readjustment |a band of British gentlemen who came of our Southern economic plan. * * | together to ti and trade in furs in It is an interesting fact that the Texas ' the remote wildernese of the American farmers raise each year only about half | North. They operated under a royal the number of hogs which the people |charter and for more than 200 vears of that State consume. But they raise | they ruled the land. They opened terri- millions of bales of cotton to be sold |tory that had never been seen by a at bankrupt. prices to buy hogs from white man and they took millions of outside the State. A readjustment must | wealth out of its fastnesses. Later the come in this particular, if Texas and company broadened its activities. It other Southern tes are to survive | was no longer merely a factor in furs. the changing tides of the economics of the world.” Empbasizing the 50 per cent increase in world consumption of cotton prod- ucts in the last 20 years, but the failure of exports from this country to more than “hold their own,” the Columbus Ohfo State Journal finds “reasons why the cotton growers have started scien- tists on the task of research, and why an organized struggle is to be made to protect the large interests involved.” The State Journal concludes: “Cotton grows only in the South, but the en- tire Natlon is interested in attempts to prevent a major industry from los- ing its rightful place in the world | marke! Lowe Simons, executive secretary of Divist tion It opened great stores and it manu- factured goods. These stores form an impressive chain from the Atlantic to the Pacific and are as beautiful and complete as any shop in any part of the world. W ‘what with a poor fur sea. son and a probable failure of the wheat crop, the famed Hudson Bay Co. has been sorely hit. Of course, it is not fatally burt, but, in its age and power, been wounded. It will recover. Some Compensation, . Prom the Springfield, Mass, Dally Re- publican. . for the mmmmu“ shrinkage 's discovery sll the opening ecstasies of faith have | faded, that the wonderful life of holi- ness has lost its light, that God has hidden himself away. icvers can have the same dismaying experience. Then the way it open to irrelevant im- pulses and many sorts of self-contradic- tion. Such lapses are psychologically nevitable and two-thiras of their harm- fulness vanishes if this is recognized. The harm ccmes in wnen they are ra- tionalized as permanent changes of di- rection, when the saint finds out he is damned, the Jover that he never loved. or the three collaborators find each other ‘impcssible’ The sane modern man takes holiday and returns refresh- ed, and is not too greatly perturbed if his anima suddenly thrusts a needed holiday upon him. And what is perhaps @ degree more difficult, he must realize the same necessity in others. He can- not exact from cthers a perpetual per- sistence he does not practice.” * X % ¥ bi L’dhh Hn::;gt l;oll g pher. yer lnm Life and Times of Pinkham” was not a charlatan, not even merely a clever capitalizer of hu- man credulity, but a benevolent healer of the psychic woes of women, for un- doubtedly the ills that were cured by her famous “vegetable compound” were Mr. Washburn tells the interesting fact that for about 20 years la Pinkham and Mary Baker Eddy were neighbors. Christian science and the vegetable compound were given to the world within a few months of each other. “Perhaps the feeling of Lynn_(where both lived) is that while Mrs, Eddy was incomparably the bet- ter business woman, the metaphysics of Mrs, Pinkham were superior.” * x ox % Goethe and Beethoven met but once. That meeting end the further connec- of the two through their relations "-?& Bettina Brentano are the subject of Romain Rolland’s book. “Goethe and Beethoven.” There are four essays in the book, written at different times, all on the subject of the influence of the two genluses on each other. Their meeting took place at Tepitz 1812, when Beethoven was staying there and Goethe was sent for by the grand duke. The musician and the poet talked together and there was some recrimination. n Goethe for his Goethe to her ‘ashburn, lia E. Im. and in source material terial "“"u«d. tenary come in 1 answer for you all except 2 cents in col return postage. Address your letter The Evening Star Information Bur FPrederic J. Haskin, ton, D. C. Q. What is meant by “values” in "‘”'fl.."“ picture?—8. W. R. A term refers to degrees of light and shade or of color intensity. Q. How much will & season ticket for the Olympic Stadium cost for the Olympic games?—C. D. A. Por an adult & pass, as a season ticket for the Olyl;\;h'. Stadium is desig- nated, will cost $22. A child’s pass, i bought with an adult's pass, costs $11. A pass entitles the bona fide holder to the same reserved seat for each and every event held in the Olympic Sta- dium during the 16-day period of the games. Q. How long after Lincoln’s assassi- nation were the conspirators brought to trial?>—N. B. V. A. The trial was begun 26 days after the assassination. Q. What is a correct order of busi- xAxeuD!ur an ordinary society or club?— A. Roll call, reading of minutes of previous session, receipt of communica- tions, bills, etc., reports of standing committes, reports of special commit- tees, unfinished business, new business, program and adjournment. Q. Isn't it true that the San Fran- cisco fire caused the greatest fire loss in history?—R. F. C. A. It is so recorded In lists of great disasters. Q. How many national cemeteries are there in the United States?— W.R. F. A. Eighty-five are listed in the offi- cial statistics as of 1927, Q. What kind tree and where is it? 3 A. The scythe tree is a fine speci- men of balm of Gilead tree. It is near Waterloo, N. ¥. Q. Did the French people give the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. as well as the statue. to this conntry?—R. T. S A. The cost of the pedestal was mef with funds raised by popular subscrip- tion in the United States. Q. How is & watermark put into paper>—U. N. B. A. The water mark is formed dur- ing the process of manufacture by the pressure of wires on the wet pulp. Q. When was the fraternal organi- zation known as the Eiks formed’—H . It was founded in New York in 1868 from a society known as the Jolly Corks, composed chiefly of members of the theatrical profession. Q When was there a wall Wall street in New York City?—.J. A. Wall street was so called from a wall that was originally erected along its line by Gov. Stuyvesant with gates at Broadway and Pearl street. This wall stood from 1653-1699. Q. Who sccompanied Lafayette on along ¥ Highlights ont tree is the scythe | D.C. V. i second tsip to this conmtml—IL. E B by Géorge Washington ] Sen, Hia French servant Q. Are huckleberries and blueberries the same?—M. O. B. A. There is a botanical difference be- }5:11 blueberries and huckleberries. huckleberry is a variety of b berry. riches Bas- The blueberry is a softer and T berry. The huckleberry has slightly larger seeds than the blueberry. Q. Who first called the doliar the “Almighty dollar”?—L. O. A. "irst use of this i oredited to Washington B s Trving. found in his “A Creols Village,” pud- lished in 1837, Ry LIRSl e come e - ture if left in a room where :’w- perature is 60 degrees?—D. M, A. Both liquids will eventuall sume the temperature of 60 Q. What are the largest cities in Ttaly?>—A. J. L. A. In order of population they are | Milan, Naples, Rome, Turin, Palermo. | Genoa, Florence, Catania, Trieste and | Venice. Q. When is the dog waich on ship- board?—8. T. A A. There are two, from 4 to 6 and 6 |to 8 pm. respectively. They are de- | signed to ‘change each night the hours | during which the starbosrd and port | watches are on deck ly as- | Q. Was Mark Twain's Col. Mulberry | Sellers a character from life?—G. F. A. Twain wrote that he drew the character of Seilers from the life of James Lampton, a cousin of his mother. | Q. Why are campaign orators osfled | spelibinders>—T. 8. W. A. The expression is believed to have originated with an official of ‘the Re- publican National Committee, who ap- plied it to speakers who were alwavs reporting that they had held smdi- ences spellbound. Q. How fast does an aircraft and an anti-aireraft gun shoot?—A. G A. The latest aircraft in | shoots 1,200 bullets per minute. The latesi anti-aircraft gun sheots seut 650 bullets per minute. Q. Where was the “old p hole” made famous by James m Riley's poem?>—R. C. A. It was in Brandywine Oreek at e edge of Greenfield, Ind. The little 3\- n'( Greenfield has made the site a fine city park. with a swimmin; n ;:uh ccommodate. from 808 o w\n thers. Q. How far Is it from New Yomk to Los Angeles by air, motor and rafl? J. D. ‘A It is approximately 2,500 mfles by &ir: 3.134 miles by tramn, and 3,111 by automobile. Q. What ix meant by an mnder- privileged chila’>—D. D. A. Generally it refers to & child who because of poverty of tnhe parents or because of inferior living conditions or both has not had the proper feod or environment. It does not necessarily refer to a child who has been without educational opportunities, but means rather the lack of opportunity for proper (rearing and training. he Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands E SOIR. Brussels—Automatic traffic control is becoming more and more a feature of the larger European cities. Until within the last few vears vehicles were guided almost entirely by the signals of police officers stationed at important intersections. Now, however, electric lights of various coiors situated at the corners of the street crossings. or even in the middie of the thoroughfares. as at Paric. alternately release the veh! lar and pedestrian processions transverse directions. This system effects a great economy in municipal expense, after the cost of installation, as scores of police officers are thereby made available for the more important duties of preserving order and preveniing crime. About 100 of these lights are already in use in Berlin, and save the city about 800.000 marks a year. In Madrid these lights are placed at all important corners, where they have also achieved a con- siderable saving in the municipal exchequer. 3 The larger Spanish provided for in this res of the English cities, London. in es are betier pect. than most including even To relieve further the congestion on the streets of Brussels, the suggestion bhas been repeatedly advanced in the municipal council that all tramways be elevated, at least in the central and more crowded portions of the city. The advantages of such a system are noted abroad. and it is only after we travel to other cities that we notice another feature of city tramways which | we have already enjoved for a long time at home, and that is improved methods of ventilation. Three hun- dred and fifty of the cars on the Brussels tramways already are equipped with_ventilating systems equally effec- tive both in Summer and Winter, and all new cars are ordered built with the same specification of ventilating apparatu: ‘ *xox London Lags in Modern Traffic Control. The Daily Mail. London—Paris. Berlin and New York used to send delegations to London to study British methods of traffic control. Now it is time that London returned the com- p“;r‘:ne:b—lor she is definitely lagging behind. | In the control of traffic by lights London is even less up-to-date than some English provincial cities. There is the absurd spectacle in Piceadilly, for e; of & light a_substitute for police control, addition to it—the number of police on point _duty not having been lessened and the light system being frequently in_contradiction to the hand system! London’s latest development is i Oxford street. where a system of light control from cross to crossing is to be installed. At the moment Mr. Morrison, the minister of transport, is hearing objections raised by various Oxford street firms to one aspect or another of the system. * % % % Modern Statesmen Overlook Maecedonian Problem. La Macedoine, Geneva.—Only those can fully appreclate the Macedonian question who are acquainted with and who have followed with objective in- terest the - melancholy fate of thi ‘brave, self-sacrificing people—a people eated with s glowing love for | m Fatherland. The statesmen of present-day Europe overlook the im- portance of the lem and are re- lugtant to acknow of mediocrity, and do not care, even if they are pared to recognize the existence burning questions, to ex- themselves to the risk atiendant age of com- shallow promise. A scholarly example of this Holland hunting up for his forthcoming | is the League of Nations. which. sinee its_inception. has not, in a singie ease doné anything to promote the complete victory of justice with honor. but. has simply sought the easiest way through surrender of concession. The fate of the Macedonian. an- guishing under the terrorist regime of Serbia, is a scandal to European eml- ture. If Englishmen or Frenchmen w called upon to suffer a tithe of their torments, the problem would long ago have Deen settled with the sword. And by what means can the Mace- don question be seitled—by what peaceful means? Nothing is easier to answer than that question: The peace- ful mesns would be the seif-determina- tion of the people—as President Wilson desired. . But the tribunal at Geneva, whose duty it should be to bring the opportunity for this self-determination, utterly negleets it. Yet right will triumph eventually. and this right is one of automomy for the Macedonian people. * % ok % Soviet Russia Extends Compulsory Insurance Plan. Soviet Economic Review, Moscow. The Council of Labor and Defense re- cently ratified a plan for extending various types of compulsory insurance in cities and villages. according to which a number of collective farms, co- operatives and individual households are subject to additional insurance. Hitherto the Gosstrakh (State Insur- ance Co.). whose stock is owned by the Commissariat. for Finance, had issied obligatory ~farm insurance covering only pari (one-half to one-third) of the value of buildings, crops, enimals, ete. Now this is to0 be extended to cover their full value. All industrial and other business buildings. and dwellings in_cities, as well as farm buildings. continue 10 be insured against fire, and all crops, ex- | cept. cotton and soy beans. muat mow | be insured against bail, flood and frost. In the principal cotton-growing regions cotton and kenaf plantations must be nsured against crop failure. Work animals are to be insured against ac- | cident. Some domestic animals are subject to insurance only where the breeding is on a commercial scale, or the animals are pure bred and espe- | cially valuable as breeders. Buildings will be insured for their full vslue on the basis of a isals | made by the Gosstrakh, as, will grain |in st Power vehicles ‘are to be insured for 75 per cent of their vah Households which have increased their sowings during the year over those | of the preceding vear will be exempt | from payment of insurance on the mew lantings. The premiums on all forms of in- surance are determined on the basis of tariff zones into which the various territories are subdivided, as well as according to the category in which a particular building i= classified. Weag | collectives, the poo individual household: those that have suf- fered from natural calamities may be wholly or partly exempt from insurance payments. The tariff of premiums, | however, s flexible in that it may be | raised or lowered as much as 20 per |cent. in the discretion of the Com- | missarfat for Finance. | ——— Grasshoppers Truly Voracious. | Prom the Dallas Journal. Nebraska reports that re ate the hardwood tongue out of a farm- er's wagon. Wouldn't it be cheaper to offer them some of the new wheat? st Americans Like Rackets. From the Charleston Dails Masil, All the sam=, if liberty-loving | icans stand for the numerous rackets, it must be because they like them. ———— Wise Maiden From the Plarence. Ala.. Herald. Modern girls may not be food ex- | perts, but they know their apple sauee and bologna. R Genuine Contents Preferred. Prom the Akron Beacon Journal. The public won't 20t fake silver coffis so wfiwfl tents are gen: