Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1931, Page 8

HE EVENING STAR ! 'I ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. ! WASEINGTON, D. C CUBSDAY . .. .September 20, 1931 e i T ol ke THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star N .‘..lll 3 ewspaper Company ania Ave Rate by Carrier Within the City. 5¢ per month 60c per month 5 month ek e per co de at the o i en days) "é f crmeut‘\: ers may b6 sent 1o by mail of telephont rAtional A Rate by Mail—Payible in Advafice. Maryland and Virginia. All Other States and Canada. 75, 31200 1 mo.. $1,00 s s0c 1 H 35.00: 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. 1 Tusively ertif jed o i e iniication of Il Dew e in this paper and TRl 1553 : herein. publication ispatches herein are also reserved. Naval Relativity. At Geneva last night the League of Nations Disarmament Committee adopted a resolution designed to prepare for s possible oné-year truce in the eonstruction of armaments, beginning November 1, 1931. ‘The purpose, which apparently has the support of the United States Govérnment, is to create the right kind of & “psychological atmosphere,” as our spokesmdh &t the League puts it, for the 1932 general disarmament conferénce. As American interest in that commendaBle attempt to beat swords into pruning-hooks con- cerns naval armaments, public opinion in this country should bestir itselt as to the effect upon this country's sea defense of the proposed cessation in fieet building. The Navy League of the United States, which Yenders useful service in combating unreasonable pacifism, takes & logical position on the subject. “The Navy League,” it says, “is most heartily in favor of & naval holiday along any rational lines that will definitely help the American fleet to approach nearer to parity with the British fleet and to the ratios of the London Treaty with respect to the Japanese fleet.” In other words, the question of & naval holiday resolves itself into terms of relativity. The United States Navy for ten years has systematically lagged behind the navies of Great Britain and Japan, though we ourselves initiated two sep- arate limitation treaties designed to bestow upon the American fleét fixed parity with the British and an equally definite margin of superiority over ‘the Japanese. Congiéss, under the lash of economy programs and pacific propa- ganda, has supinely refrained from ap- prepriating funds to effectuate that périty and superiority, for which our adegations, respectively, at Washing- ton, and London, so valiantly and tri- umphantly contended. Nearly two years of moss hivé grown over the three-power treaty of 1930, guarantee- ing us proper ratios in auxiliary craft, just @& the five-power. treaty of 1922 guaranteed us battleship ratios. To this hour Congress has not moved an inch toward action out’ the provisions of London pact. Now comes the holilay scheme for pushing us still farthér back. Ameriéan popular sentiment is vir- tually unanimous in support of Presi- cessdtion of costly armaments. Thé of the United States for econ- in that and other realms has be- the state of our ex- navil holiday that would tend States back from at- tainifg treaty ratios with the British and Japinése would be counter to the teréts of the country and unaccept- t6 thé American people, if they be inforfiéd rathér than decéived.” Crudéti ecarrying 8-inch guns and ) displieing 10,000 tons are now the types of war eraft in which thé United Staties, in cofimon With other countries, is spe- cializing. We have séven of these effec- tive ahips undsr comstruction. They were dutnerized long before the London cruisér limitation tréaty. 1f the League of Nitions' oné-year holiday goes into eftect, it will méan that during the next year Work will be stopped on these 70,000 tons of cruisérs. It will mean an ifmbdiste and material increase in unemiploymént. ‘That is one phase of & navil holiday projéct worthy of spe- clal éonsidération &t this time. It is not &8 fundamental a4 the incidental serappiig of our “parity” policy would be, But it 4 another and cogent rea- | son Why Unelé Sam should look before | leapiff into & “peychological atmos- pheré” for the Géneva conference. | Thé Américhn people are ready to sacrificé much on thé Altars of world | peacé And économy. Our self-abnega- tion fust hot ovérride the réquirements of legitimaté national defense. N It 4 @timatéd that a sales tax would yield only About $10 & year from &n in- come of $2,000. This may sound like an appéhling Argument to the $2,000 man. i s i Retént weathér observations have made fércury in thé thérmometér & metal of éven gréatér public concern than gold in thé curréncy. —_— et A Subject for Compromise. A reasonable compromise between Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the . Aflington Memorial Commission, and the aeronautics branch of the De- partmént of' Commeérce and the Aviation Committee of the Board of Trade should come out of the protests by the latter & modification of the plans for th beautiful bridge which is rapidly ne ing completion and which is mination of plans that were long in the making. Costing more than four- teen million dollars and secured by the National Capital aftér years of effort in the halls of Congress, the Arlington Memorial Bridge should not undergo any modification because of its prox- imity to Washington's lone airport, Far better t6 remove the airport if néces- sary than to change the design of this monumental structure. Of course, when the bridge was first planned there was probably no idea | that Washington's then small and in-| adequate airport would carry the huge volume of business that it does today and that it would become one of the focal points for sky travel in the East. But those who have taken charge of the airport and made it such an im- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D merce Building and, uniting them, an auditorium for Government uses. That at the northeastern section of the gen- eral area will be the new home of the Post Office Department, which will re- place the granite structure now stand- ing just to the east. Shortly following the beginning of this excavation work will come the dig- ging of the foundation hole for the | Départment of Justice, on'the area ibounded by Pennsylvania and Consti- {tution avenues and Ninth and Tenth | streets. Already shovel work is under i way to the east, in preparation for the | Hell of Archives. Thus in a very short time the dirt will be fiying on four different sites, in | preparation for constructions that in | the aggregate will cost upward of | $42,300,000. This group, comprising four | distinct structures—save that the Post | | Officé will be physically united on the portant landing field knew when they|east with the Labor-Interstate Com- [lenged immediately. did so that the Arlington Memorial| merce edifice—will be the largest ad- Bridge was to rise almost beside it. Tlumination of the columns will un- doubtedly add to the beauty of the bridge, and with the progress that has been fnade by electrical enginders in the past few years in the adequate lighting of structures which are near many of the airports of the country, it should not be a difficult task. No one can doubt the necessity for such illu- mination and Col. Grant amd the a: tion groups can probably begin at once to work out An acceptable plan. ———— The Beer Proposal. The Congress of the United Statés has never taken kindly to the enact- ment of laws nullifying provisions of the Constitution. And members of the incoming Congress and of succeeding Congresses, whether their sentimen be wet or dry, are not likely to pass lightly on the proposal that the Vol- stead act be amended so as to permit the manufacturé and sale of three per cént or four per cent béer and wine. The proposal of the brewers to make three or four per cent beer legal in this country, by the simple eéxpedient of increasing the aleoholic content of béveragés permitted under the law, does violence to the common sense of the country when at the same time an attempt is made to set up the premise that three or four per cent beer is non- intoxicating. The scientists may point out that such a beverage will, in all probability, not intoxicate & full-grown man who has béen accustomed to al- cohiolic beverages. They will hesitate to make any such predictior, however, about the possible effect or non-effect on other persons. And, finally, thé pro- ponents of the return of beer would not be so insistent if no “effect” is to be produced by the beer. If three or four Pér cent beer is to havé the same effect as beer containing not over one-half of one per cent, why bother to change the law? 1In the old days, when the beer-drink- ing in this country was unconfined, except in those communities which shut down on it by lccal or State ordinance, it was the brewérs who advanced the suggestion that 211 bevérages containing over one-half of one per cent alcohol shoffld be éonsidered aleoholic beverages under the law, The purpose of the bréwers then was to prevent the manufacturers of very light beer, with a small alcoholic content of two or three per cent, from evading the governmental tax placed upon beer and the regulations sur- rounding the sale imposed by the local communities. The brewers are looking at the proposition from a different point of view today. The Républicin mémbers of the Néw Jersey delegation in Congress, at s meeting in Newark yesterday, are sup- posed to have considered what their atti- tude should be toward & revision of the Volstead act to permit the manufacture and sale of beer with a content of alco- hol no greater then three or four per cent. The New Jersey Republicans, if they reached any decision on the mat- ter, kept it to themselves, A majority of the House members and'the two Sena- tors are accounted wet. Senator Mor- row stirred the country a yéar ago by pronouncement in favor of the restora- tion of thé control of the liquor traffic to the States, claiming that it was a function not properly in the hands of the Federal Government. But Senator Morrow doés not appear to be 4 man who would vcte for a law proposing to nullify the Constitution of the United States. many another member of thé Congress who is opposed to prohibition &s it now stands. And even should the Congress put through 4 law legalizing three or four per cent beér, what would bé the de- cision of the United Statés Supreme Court in the matter? tionality of such a law would bé chal- ‘Thé proponents of the law would be compelléd to prove that threé or four per oént béer was not intoxicating in fact, or that tribunal would turn thumbs down on the whole proceeding. { ‘The hurdles which a bill proposing | the legalizing of beer of three or four | per cent alcoholic content must jump to | become & law, in the light of tllm‘ thinking, appear to be too high. If the | American people and thelr répresenta- | tives once begin the adoption of Jaws | that are in violation of thé Constitu- | tion, that instrument will, indeed, be | no more thin a scrap of paper. Its| safeguards, thrown about the citizen, will becomé as nothing. Many of the very men and women who today are suggesting the legalization of beer have given little thought to what may come later, once the Congress has succumbed ' to “nullificdtion.” S A third-dégreé policeman has to suf- fer at least the harrowing suspense of walting for another grand jury. s ———— ki The Dirt Is Flying. When & steam shovel bit into the earth yesterday at the corner of Twellth street and Constitution avénue another bodles regarding the erection of the two two-hundred-foot granite columns at the south end of the new bridge which have been called distinet menacés to the hedvy air traffic at the Washington Alrport. And the resson- able compromise on this question is so obvious that no difficulty should be ex- perienced 1A rédrhing it. It is sim- ply & questioh of the proper illumina- tion for thé Eoluning Wwhen théy dre erected to safegusrd the lives of pilots and palsengers who travel the airwiys at night. 1% is certain that no reasonable per- #on would ask or ixpect to have granted B phase of the Government bullding con- struction program in the Mali-Avenue triangle began. This solitary machine 1§ to be reinforced by numercus others until in & short time thi entire drea bounded by Pennsylvania and Consti- tution avenues and Tyeilth end Fo. teenth streétz—with the exception of the spacé fiow occupléd by the District Building and the former Southern Rail- way office and A bit of land Iying be- hind them--will be in the process of éxcivation. Upon this genéral sita will rise two structures, that on the south- em side of the area comprising the Labor Department, the Interstate Com- And so it is likely to be with| The constitu- | | dition to the @overnment establishment in a single simultancous work. Never before has Washington seen so huge an | operation at one time. The assemblage 1 of steam shovels, the largest known in this city, will symbolize the character ot the Government construction work, a wholesale undertaking and suitably at this moment projected in considera- tion of the country's need for a max- - | imum of employment of its people, Perhaps before any of these struc- | tures now about to take form reach the | stage of aetual fabrication above ground | the remaining items of the Mall-Avenue group will be sufficiently planned for contract letting. These will be the | structure that will occupy the eastern jend of the triangle, at present allo- | eated to the Coast Guard; the comple- tion of the Internal Revenue structure, which will in part replace the present Post Office Departiment, and the con- tinuation of the structure of the new Post Office Building westward across Thirteenth stréét, which will replace the “Southern Railway” structure and in some manner not yet determined merge with the District Building. No time i8 set for the probable com- pletion of all these elements of the great group within the triangle. The work thus fdr done has been satisfac- torily prompt in execution. There are no serious difficulties in the way of construction. In the present develop- ment of the building art foundations are quickly obtained. There is no conges- tion of orders in the mills which pro- duce structural materials. There is no shortage of labor. There should be no sparing . of expenditures both for the sake of the early completion of this long-delayed and essential Government housing and for the giving of employ- ment to the greatest possible number in the present period of depression. Dissatisfled machine operators are suspected of blowing up & motion pic- ture theater in Chicago. Comment on the wurtists of the screen has become habitually kind; it is the business de- partment that appears to arouse the violent kind of criticism. e Japan thinks an investigation of the Manchurian situation would be un- worthy of the Ledgue of Nations. Sus- picions in this cold world are inevitable, The League might find happiness in the hope of an inquiry that would allay them. ; —ee——— ¥ Breweries which do not exist appear to be about the only commercial insti- tutions that stand willing ard anxious to pay a heavy tax to the Government. e e Visits from distinguishéd Européan statesmen are expected. It is only fair to give the U. 5. A. a chance to recipro- cate somé splendid hospitalities, = —o— "SHOOTING STARS. BY FRILANDER JORNSON. Fortitude. Storm it came a-blowin'— Trouble everywhere! Grain keéps on a-growin, And the fruit is sweet and fair. Drought, it came a-burnin’ Threaténin’ all thé yiéld— Earth keép’ on returnin’ With bounties from the field. There's alwiys & tomorrow That permits another start; The old world has its sorrow, But it never loses heart. In All Humility. “You sometimeés discuss subjects you | don’t understand,” remarked thé cen- | sorious friend. | “Yes” replied Senator Sorghum; |“but in all humility. I'm perféetly | willing to keep the conversation going 50 that the other fellow will have a chance to explain 'ém to me.” Jud Tunkins says he knows & man that's always threatenin’ to quit work | in spite of the fact that he néver started it. Lengthy Comiplications, Debates may bring confusion That will Jéavé us sad of heart; When you get to the conclusion You can't quite recall thé start, | | Always Busy. “You névér pay atténtion to idle gossip?” “Theré 18 no such thing,” Answéred Miss Ciyéenné, “Goksip i néver 1d1e.” “Doés & game of poker help you to forgét your troubles?” “Not éxdctly,” réplidd Cactus Joe. “Mostly it only gives mé a néw kind.” Géntle Consideration. “Charley, déas éxclaiméd young Mrs. Torkins, “you havé oftén told me how fond you are of sitting under a tréé and waiting for thé fish to nibble.” “Yes." “Well, I have resolved to rakeé Home as happy and comfortable for you as possible. 1 have bought a rubber tree And some goldfish.” Much in a Name. What's in & name? Full oft you'll find Zome trivial allment frets your mind | Until you scarcely hopé to livé Because of names the doctors give. | “De world may owé you & livin’,” said | Uncle Eben, “but you's gotter do | sumpin’ to let toe world know dat you's 1on hand to collect it.” e You Nevér Gan Tell. From the B Louls Times. ‘We feel confident in saying that future generations will never revive any of Mary's TUESDAY, THIS AND THAT . BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Reading recently an article in praise of the apple tree, 'wé fell to wondering why it is nof. planted more in the city. and oaks, and maples are all very well, not to be excelled in their way, but there still remains much to be_said for the apple tree. In Spring it is a veritable bower of | bloom. All Summer long it sheds shade, to say nothing of apples; and | when Autumn comes the appie tree, | with its twisted and gnarled , 18 more picturesque than most. An apple tree comprises the early {floral memory of m-nr a man and {woman born in & small town, where | there was more room, and hence more apple trees. Every household had one or more of these good trees, in the land we call | back home. The variety makes no dif- ference at this late date. P It is true that an apple tree is soméwhat messy, if we insist on our | city manners. | ‘Truly, the world is getting so lazy | that soon mankind will not be willing | to move! Apples must be picked up when they | fall on the ground, but that is not| such a great task, after all, especially if one possessés only one or two trees. There are féw trees, if one comes to that, which are not somewhat dirty, from the human standpoint. Most of them discard blossoms, sénd showers of seeds to the earth, some throw long strings to the ground, others | {litter sidewalks and Jawns with large Ppods. The catalpa, for instance, is notori- ously a messy tree. One often wonders why it is e\'er‘phnkd at all. e Apple trees are not fast growers, but | “Yx"r trees l"e.hror that matter. | ees are the elephants of the kingdom. ot They are slow of growth, but they last a long time. No one expects a tree to pop up overnight and become a big fellow in a year. Every one may wish that so much might be true. It would be nice of the trees, if they would, but they will not. Those that_do have their plain imper- fections. The Normandy poplar is not an American tree, and fits in with few of our homes and plantings. Occa- sionally one sees it properly used, but not often. Other quick growers are susceptible to inimical city conditions, some of them withering beneath the lack of moisture, others suffering from gaso- line fumes. Other fast-growing trees gre ds quick to die, so that a householder who thinks he possesses a treasure in them soon finds out his mistake. * X %k A few trees will A long way. One or two g trees are sufficient for the average property. The bést city and stburban planting | consists cf rows of good trees along the | streets, with some behind each home, enough to lend proper background value. These specimens, however, must be real trees. The common impression | that a great mass of trees is desirable | around & home is due, in part, to the | fact that too few trees one sees are | well grown. It takes a number of scrawny, skimpy trees together to look well, whereas one or two fine specimens would give more than all of the little ones put together. There is no greatér mistake, in the consideration of the bvvrlg: home pur- that he ought chaser, than the belief to live in a grove. Forests are nige, if you have plenty of open $pace, too, but if it comes to + & choice of open space versus trees, take the open space any time. L R sunshine, but the roots of the forest monsters draw away both nutriment and watér from the othér plants. It is possible, however, by & proper placement of & few trees to get All the time to have at their best all the fine things mentioned. of these human beings who dotes on trees we would say: ell, in that case, get all the trees you can and live in the shade if you enjoy shade. Some do. And,'-hn is their business, * x % Bees like apple trees, Sometimes théy swarm on them. Ii you haven't seen bees swarming you have missed something. But any one can read about it in Maeterlinck's “Life of the Bee,” which contains & great deal about the mystery of these strange lnsul:,m Perhaps no author ever got & er reputation wri about "one subjfi !hl?ldleurllnckt:ln when he took up the bees. This came about because he wrote about them as no other man in the world would have wtitten about them. When it comes to boring in on the consciousness of the reader, the mystery of their behavior, the Belgian poet, playwright and ess#y. ist is supreme. It is interesting to note that this good book has now been is- lu(!)d“ lnwlu?olllr ldlt"l.m< = r acquajntance with boes éx- tends to having béen bitten—er stung— by thém when we were very small. was the first time we ever went bare- footed--except at the seashore—and also the last, for the above-mentioned reason. ‘The bees took #&n immediate and hasty dislike to us, and maybe they were right. As we recall, we didn't stop to argue the matter with them, |and have never had any opportunity since. ally takes you away from Bees, for instance, and * X x x Isn't it curious how life actu- ‘apple trées, Honey is a much overpraised stuff, if you ask us. We have triéd to eat honey, especially with hot biscuits, for years on énd without ever gaining the slightest enthusiasm for that which :h:" bees have collected with so much abor. Even & love for the flowers and an astute realization that this bright honey is the very distilled essence of posies has not enabled us to lke honey. To be quite honest about it, honey does not agree with us at all. biscuits with good butter on them dére good enough for any one. Why clutter them up with honey? We always have thought it some- thing of & dirty trick on the bees take their nice honéy away from them after they have gone to so much pains and buzzing to colléct it. But 1t is no more than what is done to the cow, to take her milk intended for heér offspring, away from heér and then feed it to all the human beings in the world. And no one groans at the great in- Jjustice done to poor bossy, 56 no one shall shed a tear for the plight of the bees. Man is the bee's master, for all its intelligence, and, as Maeterlinck points out, without the bée once sus- pecting it is man’s little slave, * Kk K Apple trees! snowy blossoms and its rounds of suc- cu;etnt h:lfing! there is any more beautiful in the Spring tl’tll:l:‘use sight stucco house inst which an tree flaunts its what it is. | The house, however, must be of stuc- |co for the best effect, and preferably | pink stucco. We know just where such & house is, and shall tell you in the grass, good evergreens and good shrubs if there are too many trees. Not only do the leaves cut off the all-necessary Excerpts From Newsp: i HE BULLETIN, Sydney, N. 8. W. (From a reader) —“Merris": ‘The enterprising female who during the war and collected all in Adelaide, who drew sustenance under six different names at widely separated suburban post offices. Right up to the armistice everything went well, one hubby being considerate enough to get wiped out, thereby putting her on the pension list. The trouble began when three of her consorts returned on the same ship. One day, after a casual talk About the devoted little woman to whose arms they were returning, they hap- pened to exchange photographs. The! bride was not upon the wharf to greet them, so they hired a taxi and set out to find her. When at length they lo- cated the lady, they told her in quaint | Digger language just how they viewed her conduct, and then gently propelled her through the window without first opening it. N. B.—I had this story from the house agent to whom she con- fided her troubles. * % %% Romancé Not Gone From Lifé Despite Novelists. Le Matin, Paris—We are quite ready to believe that modern life has suppressed all the romantic elements of existence which used to find such vogue and frequence in novels This is really not the case. Despite the tele- phone and the airship, and a staid and automatic mechanieality in our exist- ences, there are still juvenile courtships ruthlessly interfered with by cruel par- ents; ements; children found. and children lost or stolen; unexpected her- ftages and hidden treasures, and a lot of other unimaginable coincidences in the affairs of men which strengthen the old conviction that nothing is stranger than the reality! The trouble is, per- haps, that these plots are dished up too much in the same old manner. The old nobleman, and his disappointed years: the suddenly discovered birth-mark: the sympathetic ink, or cipher; the will put off too late; the final confessions, though they maintain & perpetual role, are not surrounded with the intricacles of plot and circumstance which serve to make an entertaining story. A pau- city of ideas in thees respecis, coupled with a general decadence in moral tope which an to be evident when man ceased to be a man And e 4 meré sutomaton, no doubt has led all our would-be novelists 1o base their attempts at entertainment upon the lure of sex and sensuality. “Life” sald Alphonse Daudet in one of his movels, “is no merely an amour or intrigue! P Ex-Collector Flees Before Ghosis. day Referee, d Inis, tnk 1and of inexplicable mysterite; comes the strange story of & reth official, Who is being bullied ghosts. Poltergéists, or “nolsy ghosts,’ are often reported to be active in various rts of the Indian subcontinent, but me terrifying experience of a former deputy collector in Tellicherry seems worthy of special mention, The hobgoblins—or whatever the in- yisible forces may be—which have se- lected demonstrations giv jal no peace. ‘Zh”.'f.g he has to put up with: One diy bis pillow catches fire—for no apparent reason whatever—is burnt; and the mattress on which it lles is fot even scorched. The neéw pillow disappears and is found at the bottom of a well, J Crockery smashes itself to smither- the house. gens all pver "ur‘c :finu ‘whizz through the rooms | “The key of his cash box vanishes. made lly to replace replaced by the One cannot have good flowers, good | their allotment moneys had an imitator | t| 8 his house for their halr-ulslrg‘lch e the bewildered ex- ‘This is the sort o(‘ Spring. In the meantime, If afly one sks you what good is a stucco house, reply in this wise: “To grow an apple trée against!” Highlights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands | 0ld one—and later the new key is found | locked up inside the cash box. | A rich Moplah landlord, who also | to flee from his house, owing to the un- | welcome attentions of supposed polter- geists. All kinds of household utensils disap- peared—even when carefully watched— his spectacles evaporated into thin air. Finally, as & last indignity, dirt was :mvm by some unseen hand into his doned his large and newly built house to the hobgobline.—Reuter. * % %% Mourn Litter Of Careless Citizens. Irish Independent, Dublin.—The practice of littering the streets with papers, fruit-peels, cigarettes and match , etc., again becoming very prevalent, and an appeal is made to the public to put a stop to it, and to have the wire receptacles provided in the streets utilized. Although the Dublin Corporation h: a patrol staff of 42 men specially el ployed in collecting litter in the main thoroughfares (with three men specially engaged in O'Connell street and branch streets), the results of their efforts to keep the streets clean and tidy are not satisfactory. Visitors form a bad im- pression owing to the prevalence of litter of all kinds in our streets. Parents in the home, teachers in the schools, and the heads of boys' and girls’ organizations can do much to promote a civic spirit in the young, and inculcate | habits of order‘m‘d ttldlneu * Umbrellas To Advertise Tobacco. The Japanese Advertiser, Tokio.— Members of the Umbrella Man- | ufacturers’ Association at Uenomachi, | Mie Prefecture, were pleasantly sur- prised when an order was placed by the Nanyo-Nichiwa Co., in Osaka, for 500,- | 000 paper umbrellas. It was understood that these were to be exported to the East Indies, where they will be used to advertise tobacco, and in this connec- tion it was requested that they be made s0 as to serve both as sun and rain parasols. The association announced that it will take at least four months to complete the ordér and that some anxiety is felt whethér it will be able to find an oil rper which will stand the intense hn‘ 1:1 t{lé:!’q\fl. | span ot Lite ortér in Japan. B Sol. Madrid. — In gitio ml‘at b‘vh,thé Japanesé Ri v&'fi'fi:'v" shown that thé averags expéctation ol life in the Bmpiré of ifl;m 18 42 yéars e i "5, LSO ¢ omen 3 3 v n’nn&olf human life 15 47 yéars. e — Anatomy and Crime. ho'n ror:h Wiine Newd Séntind1. e at & in notéd physi- clan cites rémoval thé appendix 4s “a cure for W J woul‘; seem, 2 man’s con- crims. | therefore. that the way to | science also may bé through his stom- e kit Kind of Abstinence. From the St. Louls Times. Politicians everywhere might learn fomemin[ from Gandhi's day of si- ence. r——— Aspirants, | Prom the Sioux Palls Daily Argus-Leader. Meetings to organize new | parties face & great fact that about all those who attend | want to be the leader of the new group. nn Here's to the tree of youth, with fts | oK SEPTEMBER 2 %mo OUTLOOK. By Russell, suthor of “Mys- w ;nm." ete. New York: Co. In the beginning God created the | good effect of the mass and at the séme |y, vo and the earth. And this act set for all time the prime pre-occupation It oné happens to be, of course, ene | of mankind. ‘That of explaining to | Bureau, Frederic J. itively | himself and interpreting to others the | Washington, b content and meaning of this ereation. In particular, explaining that part of it serving as the “footstool” of the manity. hood of space, T i3, wieantlo. heating: wnd Hgntin sky, af AN g mechanism, the m".ung'm are the [ and e s Q. Of what denomination afe the | material coneern of man himself. 'age, primitive and modern alike, these have held as its main absorption and concern an explanation of the stupendous creation. And each, accord- ing to his own time and circumstance, has given testimony in his own fashion of the omnipotence behind so Al 8 1 demonstration, testimony, too, man's helplesshess before it. All along the way of human advance stand recorés of his journey. Bodies of myth gather at one point. Stores of legend at ai t. Proj and seers assemble here with forécasts of doom and prom- ises of salvation. A long, long period of fears and ings created many re- ligions out of desperate state of mere man. Even the Deity, you recall, dublous 4and almost “repented that He had made man.” Then, in the course of time—of an inconceivably long time—the fears and pure emotionalism of the human yield+ ed, a little, to some of mental draw-off from sheer terror and its in- competencied. discovered that thin him was & means of foresight, of defending himself, simply b; id its immo worked. And man began to sense cause and effect. Here was a pair, twins, 8o to , in the fact that they went to- géther. 'Having sight of one, it was possible to find the other one of this inseparable twain. ‘Then & new era in the business of ex- plaining the earth and heaven and man's part in both began. Religion, still the main interest, began to arate into diverse tenets, creeds, mas, isms, what not. Source of much of ulh: misery of & wholé world upto ay. But side by side with this older growth began the rise of philosophy. This, also, breaking into schools of opposition; into cults of wide and bitter divergence. An advance, however, ’Snu philosophy was never so unfailingly passionate in its claims, so bloodthirsty in its zeal for uman perfection as the other has, ac- cording to thé history books, proved it- T n & new geed n to stir the 801l beside the fiybgrm pligrim’s progress. The seed of science. Here, too, 2n idea became a gospel. Its basic out- thrust of action, the truth. Truth must be the goal of every pursuit. The truth of fact. of facts in relation. No other objective considerable for & ent. A passion for truth. Upon this tion alone has grown & world of truth-finding mvlnmfi to supplement the failible sénses sight, sound, taste, touch, smell. Inventions innumerable for the out of the natural resources of the earth, for their ibilities in re- spect to man itself. Even the human is hniqué of method in high efficiency its single purpose of reaching the truth of every matter in hand. A method, by the way, that is being adopted very gener- ally in every undertaking. Not only method of research, but a definite way of organizing bodies of fact into units of pictorial disclosuré that, like the hu- man body or any other trye organism, show principal, d subordinate parts in thelr pr é‘fimna of structure and function. THe the common method of every enterpriis of importanee. -, N“ii jeu:fi w, re ;:pen to }n at the summ! entific rage truth and progress. l::n and women gf sensi- tive and reeomn{h kidney deplore the present and fear the future. “This ma- terialistic era” is to them the forecast | ornate club houses and high of a lost and ruined world. Yesterday, | professionals possible, for he is the nm Sunday, I heard a man say, idealism is he meant. To be “The old sure, we are, through married seven departing Diggers | lives in Tellicherry, was recently obliged | scientific marvel, drawn closer together, | occupies among the sports of more intimately informed of the sorrows and joys of the world. But I doubt if ever there were finer, bigger, nobler, more loving enterprises on foot for the wellbeing of all than there are today. | and then the landlord’s money and even | And so I wondered. What is idealism, |1t will not bé accepted. anyway? Science is & about it, a Iy performance. prodigy. Not & doubt r John Henry of in eontrast about 300 years old, that is, in its mod- ern and approach. Yet as we look upon its operations in every field of activity, not surprising if all of us grow a bit nervous in a puzzled wohdering as to where man himsélf is going to come out from all of thése true miracles. Bertrand Russell from his high émi- nence of experience and wisdom draws a few pictures of certain cherished in- stitutions of - society under the domi- nation of this new world of unfolding power and tremendous significance. But before he spreads the picture of the new soclety that is to come he reviews the basic gnd uwci able foundations of “The Sclenti lety,” the last of this three-part discussion. “Scientific Knowlédge” thé first part of the study makes clear the sclentific method that has taken the world by storm. The author gives examples of it and from these draws out jts char- acteristics, gathering in the fact that this method does have certain limita- tions. Agaln, he is concréte and illus- trative, since he applies these limita- tions, in & measure, to the fields of metaphysics and religion. Interesting in high degree. Fresh and direct and sane in disclosure and support or denial as this man cleatly is. Just as he is of a high dégreé of ripenéd scholarship and thought wer. ?'Cfmhue" engages the cond.divis i secon ion of the study. sets out the rise of a uchndliue in sc?e‘l:f tific research and in the results of that activity. This 18 &ppiied 1o the study | of inanimate nature, then to biology. ! Physiology and psyehol become the next topics of consideration, with com- parisons and contrasts set up at this point among the two great schools of psycholggy that have, in recent times, set off behaviorist from introspectionist through many sieges of assault and about even claims of victory, one over the other. Society itself is analyzed here under this survey of the scientific e st division of th e last division of the stud; the chronicler into_the. prophet, ‘“{;‘.‘,{ with the warning that “c{ coufse, chapters sketched are not to bé 14 altogether as serious prophecy.” chapters outline society itself, collective and individual society, government, ed- ucation, reproduction_-these basic in- férests under 'a scientific outlook and management. And, while they até not . as “serious prophecy,” o stand, in theory, square-footed the scientific purpose of orgs bent to the wellbeing the world. But here is material 86 sensi- tively rooted in the whole of man's past —primitive and civilized—of féars and superstitions, of beliefs and their sub- | W stance in life itself, that this part of | WO! ey the study is going to fall away from acceptance, in spite of its plain logle, in spite of the trends pointing Bertrand Russell's courageous following_up of that which he has discovered. In spite of everything, readers in a majority are Il‘kely to_retreat behlnlfl thelr n!d“gt tions in hiding from this man ai logic. . B el Science haying delivered man from bondage to nature, can proceed to de- liver him from bondagé to the il part of himself. fear.” A new moral outlook 1s cal tific method is now | life to that|a The victim surrendered. He aban-|herculean myth, Sciénce is truth. Only|the common run of golfers, because of the | happy—or as _haj taken | detérmined golf These | New London Day is convinced that the a8 satisfactory it will rémain & fascinat- ing they | yjeld no more merry-go-round.” alll larger ball, ments: “Strong Women cried caps soared, Bobby Jones retired, husbands often stayed away from home for three days or more attempting to litical | th inevitab mde;l:;.. for F not 3 b 2 s i i B e S P B A o e Tlod for i o , out X upnnuulnlfl_nllmm ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘The resources of our free Informa- tion Bureau are at your service. 1r-m:| tofidl‘.w:'r;nncmu you please. Ing maintained solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at all except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address your let- to The Washington Star Information - i Haskin, Direetor, Q. Who invented the informatory double in auction bridge?—T. 8. A. Wilbur C. Whitehead. Mr. White- head, who died this Summer, while en route to EUrope, was a prominent teacher of auction and cong‘fi, and invented the informatory double rules all their ramifications, new bills of high value issued by the United States?—S. H. 1. A. Although heretofore bills in the denomination of $10,080 have been the highest, the Treasury has had nted at the Bureau of Engra Printing bills of $1,000,000 and of $500,- 000 denomination. employed in ordinary business transac- tions, but are used as bank reserves. ; Q;dll it pul‘:bla tork';l'o' 8 few weeks n advance when certain ships earry- ing mail are sailing?—F. C. G. A. One can subscribe to the Mail Steamship Schedule, published the Government Printing Office, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. If all the life insurance carried in the United States were divided so as to cover everybody, how much would each person have?—C. T. A. The capita life insuranceé ::;;’r of 120,000,000 Americans is about Q. Why are relics found in caves in- habited by Incas in such good state of preservation?—G. R. A. It is because of the absence of rainfall and the occurrence of nitrates he #oll, bringing about conditions which tend to Tve perishable ma- terials better n in any other place in the world. which was once borne by and | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Which South. American country has the most radio receiving sets?— N A. Argentina has the most. and fts larger stations offer elab- Does the President of the United in the new sets are red. The cholce rests with the wife of the Pres- ident. Q. What do the initials for in Gandhi's name?—H. A. ‘They stand for his given names, Mohandas Karamchand. Q. How many does J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair carry?—O. J. T. A. Since the Corsalr is intended to Sever salls Wi ' arge Da never a made possible, with the suj tructure covering only about 200 feet of M. K, stand | F. B hos] weavers having worked on it for 10 months. Q. How did 1t n that a health was a toast?—D. D. century it be- bread magistrates of many Italian | 0 Lucca. cities, as Florence and ulation, Louisville, Ky., or India; Ind?—H. E. H. e . Its ?uh- '318;1 is 364,073, while mfllk‘n 307,- es in midocean being built? ual construction has not be- airways is being devel eontinuously. Models have been ected and it is be started in the near future. Q. When did Gompers dié?—B. A.i would have been 18 6ld in the following January. " Q. Did spend some time In ?—R. J. N, m‘& A He was bofn near 1241, and came to America left in 1895. His Summer resids mmmdafifi Q. Which city has the largest pop- A. Indlanspolis 1 Q. Are the floating islands for land- A A gun, but the project of seadrome per! expected that work will A. He died ber 13, 1924. . Change in Golf Ball Seen As Tribute to the Duffer Protnise of another m in the specifications of the sta golf ball, beginning next Spring, is received the world, and especially by the United States, where the decree origi- nated, with much mock sympathy and some speculation as to the effect of the new on the duffer's score. It is belleved that the new weight will im- prove the; “Balloon” pellet, which caused.such eomplaint during its brief action of the officials of Unitéd States Golf Association in ing heed to the complaints a 'hflfl!gl’mhn‘l‘l,’{ aceord! to the noke “shows that it that the duffer is entitled to conside: tion. He makes the splendid courses, -salaried sive v- “the who foots the bills. Once let him e.” and I wondered what | his interest in golf and the game would | by cease to hold thé major place it now the Na- tion.” “After all,” agrees the Buffalo Eve- | yj ning News, “the duffers represen® the lgen:t.h of the orgnizéd game. The official ball must $o 1] likinz or ey have no fear of a Wickersham commission on "bootls in golf balls.” The Eveiing News feéls that the balloon ball “has léd several strokes to the scores of its strange behavior in the wind and on the green.” The Providence Journal suspects that “the new ball furnished ll. convenient alibi for a good many golf- ers and gave them a new c of con- versation as well as & gro for bitter complaint.” 1t is com , however, Seasablities r 4" it Baila conduct probabilif of a gol 's conduc under any conditions it 18 nécessary to have a pretty good knowl of the laws of ballistics and the of the trajectory. EEE “Ap] ntly the golf association adopted the new ball,” thinks the Green Bay Press-Gazette, “as a cofi- ciliatory move to theé duffers,” but that paper advises that “time will tell just how conciliatory it was.” ;fl ieeu syre that “from observation & rom lis- tening in on locker room gossip the great majorlty of the dufters have had 7" The Jersey City Journal hat the ivn1e duf- er would like to sé¢ produced 1§ a golf ball that will make him keep his head | down, come back slowly, keep His left arm straight, pivot correctly and force him to follow through without having to think about all those things and half & dozen others at the same time.” The Journal advisés that “when such & ball is made, the duffer will agree that it s perfect—thaybe,” since “his answér will depend on the-score he made on |y, the particular day his opinion is so- licited.” “The official spl for 1992, con- cludes the South Tribune, “Wwill be as large as the 1931 Ball, but it will welgh about as much a8 the 1930 ball. The restored weight will make it a ‘distance’ ball, which is what the aver- age player demands. At the same time, the association beliéves, it will retain the rw!l l{enurel which appealed to skillful golfers.” ¥ “It is a safe bet” according to the Newark Evening News, “that with the 1932 ball the good players will get just as low scores and the dubs possibly a few lowef onés, so eve will )y a8 con tious, vplgyefl cén b&” The association “will never design a ball satisfactory to every one,” and “as long e game continues uniformly un- sport,” since “othérwisé it would ore thrill than riding a * ok ok X the protests over the lighter, thé Charlotte News com- & babies perfectly aimed, well stroked putts suddenly and Whimsically wan- ' dway from thé hole just as had séemeéd about to plop. #nd were néver m by , who were attempting the 90, ir wives, thing with 140. Alibis increased submission to the powe: be | with! a they dwell in the into session, issued of & e for golfing co . S. G. A. has been a little the faults of the doomed ball it has. | shown good sense and fairness in' the |end by yielding to the popular demand jand trying to give the golfers & ball they will like.” “The most needed reform is concerned with the size of the Holes. The present A "’mlp"‘“fi‘:u? ieving the r News. Viewing the whole field and admitting uncertainties regarding the ball, that paper offers the suggestions: “Of course, there could be corresponding changes in other utensils of the game. The ball is not every- thing. Why not, for instance, use a hundred-pound shot and fire it from a a cartridge might inserted. Then, again, the fairway could be eliminated, or the rough could be smoothed. It depends upon whether it is desirable to make the game harder or easier. But it is barely possible such changes are not at present practical. The idea of the powers that be apparently is that thére id be & new type of ball every year. haps the big shots who make the dochlanead are automobile manu- facturets, éd to the notion of an- nual changes in models. It will be in- teresting to knew whether s golfer may mfil\ the 1931 model for the 1932 Declares Left Turn 3 Really Is Big Help To the Baitor of The Star: In the last PFriday's edition of The Star there was published a letter writ- tén in a rgthenr‘ humorous vein by Mr. wrence D. Batson ) th:, new left turn, s nlike Mr, Batson, my experience has | béen that the new mef.body 'Z?mun. . left turn really expedites traffic. I have v?nte:\ed’m "eh at street llnmmttlm closel ce _the new regulation went into eftéct and while I hfie ‘witnessed a few mix-ups evidently due to misun- dchnnndmr of the rules, traffic 13 E ole seems to move faster and with wer tie-ups at intersections. As stated in my letter anent thé new left turn, my understanding was that through traffic not within the intérsec- flonlg requited to give way to vehicles ilni the intersection waiting to com- lete a left turn. My purpose in writ- the The Star in the first placé was to help make this clear to those who seemed unable to understand this part of the new regulation. And really there are still so many of them that something should be done about it. The rotary turn may have been somewhat safer, but it certa was slower and helped create tie-ups &t in- tersections. If and when this regulation can be made entirely clear to all #iotor- ists and those who must enforce it, I believe the traffic problem in Washe ington Wil be considerably lessened. HENRY 8. COE. P Keeps His Shirt, Anyway. From the Columbus Ohlo State Journal Probably Gandhi's theory, from life- I observation, is that the less one wears to & diplomatic conference, the less he can lose. e e pleting the Force. Tépliced by respits Tor Al s himself.” itlook ~ From thé Haverhill Evening Gazette.