Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1931, Page 8

A—8 ‘ T THE EVENIN( STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY. "THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY October 20, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor, The Evening Star Newspaper Company ; Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St ghicaso Office: Take Michizan Bulldine. u 14 Regent #.. London, ropean Offce: 14 Rege Rate by Carrler Within the City. The Evenine Star.. ..45¢ per month | The Evening and Star (when 4 Sundays) .. 60c per month Sund; undays) The Evening and (when 3 e Sunday Btar J.5c per co2 Collection made at the end of each month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional $000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dailv and Sunday.....1yr.$10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ | iy, only U111 vrl Ts6.00: 1 mo.. S0c unday only "1l 1yr.. $4.00: 1 mo. 40c All Other States and Canada. Datly and Sunda; +$12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 aily only L $8.00i 1mo. 8¢ nday only + $5.00: 1 mo.. S0¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of il 1.ews ais- e cred- ted in this news published he 21102 of special dispa served. Ay Siar vesoen. B3¢ pOr ALY paper and also rein. All rizhts of publ tches herein are also Tension Grows Less. The acquiescence of Japan in plan to have a representative of the United States Government sit with the the | Imperial Parliament at London in 1900, which provided that the commonwealth should be proclaimed January 1, 1901, i the people of the six federated states should meantime have agreed thereto. Under the constitution which thereupon became effective the several states re- tained many of their original powers. The method provided for alteration of the constitution required that changes be propoted by a majority in each house of the Federal Legislature and then submitted directly to the people. To effect changes there was needed the approval of a majority of the voters in a majority of the states, which number must also include a majority of all i voters in the commonwealth. The referendum which during the coming Winter is to decide the fate of | the six State Parliaments will also pro- pose thet henceforward the centul'; Parliament, the only one to be left in ' Australia, shall have the right to alter | the constitution at will. ——ons An Inspiring Event. All accounts agree that the Sesqu centennial of the Battie of Yorktown,| | which came to a spectacular conclu-, {sion yesterday, was a truly ‘nspiring’ affair. Commemorations of the sort, cspeclaliy when allegory and pageantry are involked, irequently border on the y or the ludicrous, or are other- lacking in dignity. The organ-, rs cf the Yorkfown festivities de- serve the thanks and congratulations | Council of the League of Nations, s | an observer, has I ned the tension of the last few days over the Manchu- rian situation. A peaceful scttlement of the differences between Japan and China is now believed to be in prospect With public opinion inflamed. the sit- uation in Japan has been difficult, to say the least. For the Japanese people have been aroused over incidents which | they consider not only violative of their treaty rights in Manchuria but also which have threatened the lives and yroperty of Japanese citizens. The con- tention of the Japanese is that they have sent their military forces Manchuria not as an act of war but, for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of Japanese citizens. The United States itself has followed & policy of protecticn for Americans and their property on foreign scil in cases 100 numerous now to mention. Military operations by the Japanese in Manchuria have in some degree ali- enated the sympathies of other nations, which otherwise might have been with Japan, particularly the bombardment of Chinchow. Because of these operations, the burden seems to have been placed upon the Japanese to demonstrate thelr good faith—to prove that they are not int>nt upon conquest and the ultimate possession of complete sov- ereignty over Manchuria. But to the Japanese people these military opera- tions have seemed justified. And the | feelings of a people are not lightly to | be brushed aside. The government of Japan has its own domestic situation to consider now in dealing with this inter- national tangle. The success which has been attained 50 far in the conversations here be- tween Secretary of State Stimson and the Assistant Secretary of State, Wil- liam Castle, jr, and Ambassador Debuchi of Japan is decidedly encour- aging. A situation that might have be- come strained has been eased greatly.; There seems no good reason why the negotiations looking to a peaceful set- tlement of the Manchurian question should not go forward to a successful conclusion. The United States has made | clear its determination to seek a peace- | ful solution of the Sino-Japanese dis- pute in Manchuria, even to the extent | of acting in conjunction, if necessary, with the League of Nations. The League, through its Council, is attack- ing the problem with the essent of both contestants. Japan and China are expected through the good offices of the United States and the League eventually to enter upon direct negotiations for the adjustment of the differences. The situation calls for firmness and at the same time moderation. It is no time| for demagoguery in any of the nations / involvéd. ——— — ‘The custom of referring to people in Asla as “quaint” is out of date. War- riors in determined mood and modernly equipped may be extraordinary. but they are not sufficiently amusing to be called “qualnt.” e A business well organized on its own peculiar lines keeps the underworld's work going, regardless of the fact that Capone may be personally preoccupied Centralization in Australia. 1t citizens of the enfranchised forty- t States of the American Union were to be asked to go to the polls and vote for continuance of the sovereign rights they now enjoy or forfeiture aof them to the Federal Government and Congress of the United States, includ- ing abolition of Stete Legislatures, this country ean imagine what is about to happen in the Commonwealth of Au stralia. Prime Minister Scullin, head of the Australian federal government, has just announced that a national | referendum will be held after Christ- mas to determine the fate of the six existing State Parliaments. The people of New South Wales, Vic- | toria, South Australia, Queensland, Tas- mania and Western Australia will de- cide whether they care to remain sclf- governing communities with wide state ! powers, or transfer complete sovereign | authority to the central government at Canberra. If they vote to scrap home rule there will be left to them purely local autonomy in parish-pump affairs, which “provincial councils” in restricted areas will handle. Canberra—Australia’s Washington — would rule the roost throughout the commonwealth's 2,974, 581 square miles—the world's largest | “island,” with an area about a thousand square miles larger than that of the Continental United States. Detalls are lacking as to the precise motives which inspire the project to centralize Australian government in a federal administration and Parliament. It probably is a safe guess that the commonwealth's grave econcmic viceisi- tudes played & conspicuous part in the hatching of the scheme. Australia felt the pinch that has since gripped the whole world long before depression reachied these latitudes. Fresh in the | into ; {was a of the Nation for their genlus and| succes producing a series of episodic | {pictur.s in glorious keeping with the | historic grandeur of the day America celebiated. The hchavior of the | weather man playcd its role, too, for the Virginia coun e was never | jmore smiling than 1. was beneath the | { Indian Summor which blessed the | i fete from beginning to end. Many & person privileged to look upon | i the panorama amid which the surren- | der scene was so faithfully depicted | must have wished that television was already a perfected art, so that instead of the handful of 60,000 and more | who were at Yorktown the people of the whole country might have been “looking in," as some day they will, under similar circumstances. For there have not been in our time many events capable of stirring patriotic emotions as the reproducticn of the capitulation of Cornwallis fired the imeginations of people yesterday. The thoughts of the country are ef- fectually diverted from the gloomy con- | ditions of the hour by such graphic re- minders of America’s beginnings. The | sight of columns of men marching in the uniforms of the Continental Army and of the troops of France, as they pa- | raded with the battle flags of the Revo- | lution across the very soil over which the soldiers of Washington and Ro- | chambeau trod one hundred and fifty | vears before, was one never to be for- gotten. It made the blood tingle with pride. It caused every bosom to throb with replenished gratitude for the deeds of the forefathers. It must have re- strengthened the resolve of men and women alike to face with new courage the tasks yet to be surmounted before | the economic foes laying slege to the United States can be vanquished. October 19, 1931, deserves to be en- shrined in the history of Yorktown in letters of gold. Those who come after us, to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary, will have before them a worthy example in the pageant of the Sesqui. They may contrive to equal it in reverential plcturesqueness, but it is difficult to imagine how they can evolve anything more splendid and creditable. e - Automobile Title Delay. Traffic Director Van Duzer's outline of the progress so far made in titling automoblles does not present a very en- couraging prospect. There are about| 75,000 automobiles still to be titled and there are only sixty-nine working days before the first of the year. Working | at top speed, his present office force | can issue titles on a maximum of one thousand automobiles a day, which in- dicates that some six thousand auto- mobile owners will be left in the lurch when the new tags become effective. Cars without titles cannot receive new tags, and cars cannot run without new tags after January 1. The obvious dificulty sonfronting the traffic director's office lies in the tardi- ness with which automobile owners are applying for tags. If all applications| were in hand today, there is little doubt but that the job could be completed | before the first of the year. Working, steadlly with a slightly augmented force, Mr. Van Duzer's office could prob- | ably complete its work in time. But the problem now rests in the fact that each day accumulates a greater num- ber of postponed applications end each day further removes the possibility of eliminating the last-minute confusion over the issuance of tags that has always proved a handicap to motorists and to the traffic directors. Automobile owners will cave them- selves the Inconvenicnce of the last- minute rush and the possibility of teing | denied the use of their cars on the 1st of January if they will co-cperate with tie trafc director by filing applications for certificates of title now. The wis- dom of this forethought should appeal | to everybody. | —— | Yorktown fs a thriving and progres- | sive city. However great its material| prosperity may become, its proudest fame will*rest on the part it had in American history. — o Samuel W. Stratton. “It seldom has fallen to the lot of any one man to be of such service to humanity. The world mourns that great benefactor.” With these words of trib- | ute to Thomas A Edison, whose death had occurred just & few hours before,| Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, chairman of the corporation of the Massachusstts | Institute of Technology, suddenly passed | from life in Boston Sunday night. This| remarkable coincidence. Dr. | Stratton, himself one of the most emi- nent figures in physical aclence in' America, was apparently in the best of heaith, and his passing has caused profound shock to those who knew| him and those who appreciated the value of his services to this country. Dr. Stratton was best known as vir-' tually the creator and for many years| lic memory is the formal repudia- tion of its debt by one of the federal states & year or 50 ago. the director of the Bureau of Stand- | caretul now. dered services of the utmost value to American industry. Samuel W. Strat- ton was officlating as professor of physies in the University of Chicago when in 1900 he brought to the atten- tion of Lyman J. Gage, then Secretary of the Treasury, a project for the cre- ation of a Qovernment bureau in de- velopment of A small and unimportant Bureau of Weights and Measures then functioning in the Treasury Depart- ment.” He came to Washington and by his own endeavors secured the enact- ment of a law creating the larger bu- reau, the act bcing signed March 3, 1901, by President McKinley. Dr. Strat- ton was named the director and estab- lished the bureau in a small structure in & blackberry patch just to the west of Connecticut avenue, with a person- nel of about twenty. Today that mod- est housing has become a widespread institution, covering many acres, grow- ing constantly, with a large force of skilled workers engaged in tests and experiments, adding incalculably to the efMclency of American industries and to the value of their products. Dr. Stratton was the director of the bureau until 1923, when it comprised fourteen permanent buildings. with 900 employes. He then resigned to become the precident of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, in which office he served for seven years. Last year he re- linquished the strenuous responsibility of direct administration and became the chairman of the corporation, in which capacity he was acting when he died. It is impossible to measure the influ- ence of this man in the advance of the mechanic arts in this country. He not only conducted the Bureau of Stand- ards in a manner to render great as- sistance to manufacturing and industr; in the United States, but he developed scientific and technical workers in many laboratories and shops of the industries themselves. He was both administrator and educator. It was fitting that he should have passed the latter years of his life at the head of an institution of learning, although the Government lost severely in his resignation from the service, at the head of which his suc- cessor has carried on ably and pro- gressively in the lines of Dr. Stratton's | conception and executive administra- tion. B ‘There should be less di viding for trials in criminal courts When gangster domination is threat- ened. many a good citizen who would 1ice will be found desirous of escapinz | the less picturesque, but more important. | { responsibility of jury duty. There i1s & Braddock and his men. they went where latent love of the dramatic even in the mest staid personality. e So important has Uncle Sam become in the estimation of the world that the great actors in diplomatic scenes are al- most willlng to arrange the most im- pressive performance of which they are capable in order to interest him. e Soviet aspirations have been chiefly defined as social and industrial. Asia Is wondering what might happen if Rus- | sia should weary of work and decide on fighting as a form of recreation. sl Many industries emploving electricity will stop work for a minute during Edi- son’s funeral. Only Edison's genius could start them. Only memory of him could halt them even for so brief an interval. ———— Hitler is apparently making strides along & not unusual course of political development. He is a distinguished demagogue, though not yet a dictator. — v SHOOTING STARS; BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Evolution. Of evolution we are told And gratefully we hear ©Of changes since the days of old On this progressive sphere. We're different from the strange Who jungles would explore. Refinement calls for further change. Let’s evolute some more. creatures Let's evolute away from gains Not honestly acquired And from the brawn subduing brains In strife that we admire To higher motives we must turn And shun what we deplore. Through ages we shall live and learn. Let’s evolute some more. Free Quotation. “You quote from the classics more than you used to?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I used to repeat a good line wherever I found it. It's necessary to be more By quoting only from the very old-timers, I am enabled to feel more at ease.” “Because they insure dignity?” “Not exactly. They don't make me feel as if I ought to interrupt my speech to say ‘by permi n of the original copyright owner:.’ Jud Tunkins says jobs are gettin' so scarce that & suit of overalls begins to make & feller look right important and prepossessin’. ‘Wherefore Wee) If Old Man Worry you would meet, It's best to try To keep your disposition sweet And pass him by. Lite's pleasure will increase by half If you can kecp Old Worry baffled by a laugh. So wherefore weep? The Business Wife. “A woman is entitled to busy herself with gainful occupation.” “Take Henrletta, for instance,” re- joined Mr. Meckton. “She has become one of our leading contractors.” “Housing?" “No. Bridge." “In every language,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “there is a word signifying ‘enough.’ Yet no pursuer of riches ever knows its actual meaning.” Not Anticipating. We do not fear the future woe ‘When present skies are fair. Some day, we know, we'll shovel snow. Just now we do not care. ards in this city, a Government estab- hment under the Department of “Even if de world ain’ movin’ to sult you,” said Uncle Eben, “go on wearin’ a The conatitution of Australia was Commerce, for the greater period of its smile an’ do yoh best to kegp it f'um xmmuu‘ under an act passed by the existence, an institution that has ren- gittin' sarcastic.” > I lines and supplied from his bureau force men of valuable ability to the “Fried mush!" he said, in disgust. do not see how any one could eat it. The fried mush “fan” will think, se- cretly, that the fellow has never been fortunate enough to get it fried properly. If it is too greasy, tco soggy, too tough, or meade of denatured meal, it will not be the eorn meal mush of the great Midwest. In all thet wide section of the country | Which properly comes under that desig- {nation the women-folk know how to ! fry mush. | As they prepare it, fried mush is as light as down, crisp as fine bacon, 128 tender as silk and as tasty as straw | berries and cream. * ok ¥ % mush, and the first fried mush, were consumed in New England. Those hardy ploneers, whose great lilac bushes still preserve a sweetness in a rocky soll, knew and appreciated the good things of earth. Maize was one of the first things {they took to with some of the crusad- ing vigor for which they became re- nowned. Corn ground in a stone water mill and mixed with water, cooked until ready—what more tasty and helpful thing was there for a Puritan child? Plentifully covered with milk fresh from the cow, it must have been the very backbone, as it were, of the future ploneers, | * * * % 1t was in the cornflelds of the Mid- west, however, that we like to think corn and mush came into their own. “Pap” is a derogatory term invented | by_those outside the ccrn belt. It has been applied to all sorts of things of mush-like consistency, so that ! ncbody minds it at all or believes in “ it in the least. i where is there a better breakfast food or supper food? * o oxox As a splendid supper dish, when the appetite is inclined to be fickle, there 1z nothing better than a bowl of mush, | with a glass of cold milk and bread and butter on the side. The fried mush “fan” mush, because it is a preliminary step toward tme Ultimate. The mush must “set” before it be- comes of the right solidity for frying. Usually this stage requires some hours, and the moet convenient time is overnight. Nature does great things in the derk; by sun-up the mush is ready | to fry. o ox o First let us picture the progress which Fried Mush made through the wilderness which now is America. Red school houses on hills sprang up | no quicker than did pots of boiling | mush over great log fires. | Wherever the pioneers went they took | willingly arm himself for vigilance serv- | their primitive mills and their fond- | ness for mush, They Trail followed the great National They dogzed the footsteps of Wash arthes ey went into Pennsylvania, and ate corn meal mush, and they fried it the next morning. Many a hardy pioneer, comfortably filied with 24 slices of filed mush. went 'out into the flelds and killed Indians | with characteristic vigor. | George ngton had surveyed, and 2 | muc! L NUEVO DIARIO, Caraca: Cordially invited by the mal agement of the Ritz to inspect the machinery and other instal- lations of this new and thor: oughly modern factory for the produc acknowledge that we have been pro- foundly impressed and gratified with the opportunity to visit this establish- ment, a commodious structure equipped with the very latest sanitary features {and complicated apparatus. The or- ganization perfecting this enterprise had rot spared the cost and the result jus- tifies such unstinted expenditure. The opening of the Ritz, the largest !soda fountaln in the country and the first in Caracas, will take place socn. It is confidently believed the superior service which this factory is preparcd to render will add to the demand for what will undoubtedly prove an agree- able novelty to the most select portions | of the public in this capital. It has been realized for quite some time that we were lamentably in need lof a plant to manufacture harmless cooling drinks and ices, for. dwelling in &n essentially tropical climate such as this, such refreshments are absolute | necessities. There will be supplied a | complete variety of all kinds of frozen | cainties and chilled beverages. con- cocted and perfected by an expert spe- cially imported from North America to | supervise the composition of these de- | lectable_inventions. The Ritz will maintain its own re- | freshment rooms, where, in addition to ices, sherbets and similar cooling dishes | end beverages, will be served sandwiches |of all kinds and lunches every day in the week. We do not hesitate to say thet every day will be a.good day for |this enterprise, armed with such at. | t:actions and opening its doors at th | time most opportune—that of our in- tensest heat. of the offerings and their novelty to tisfactory business. * o K % Noted Hawailan Restaurant for Sale. The Honolulu Advertiser.—C. 8. Bar- tow, esq., Lahaina, or C. C. Harris, esq., Honolulu, advertise for sale at Lahaina | the Commercial Restaurant. The unex- pired lease to this well known place of business, together with the | alley, is offered for the sum of $500, or the bowling alley will be sold separately it desired. to be removed from premises; price, $150. Title guaranteed. No sale being effected, the whole premises are offered for rental at $25 per month, payable monthly in advance. Honolulu Turnverein still continues its weekly exercises, although it has not met with that full attendance latterly which such a beneficial institution de- serves. Young and old should join in Verein has a shower bath and bathing apparatus connected, which members can at any time avail themselves of. * % % Blames Spoiled Children on Mothers. The Daily Mail, London.—Miss Agnes Pirie, superintendent of the Mile End Nursery School, Glasgow, speaking at the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress at Glasgow, said the spoilt child was one who had been kept too close to the mother’s apron strings. No child should be made to suffer unduly because of some wrongdoing. Children need not be “challenged” to get their obedience. To speak and feel as though one e: the request made tc be fulfilled was much more effective than commanding the child and wait- ing to see if the command was cheyed. The fewer requests and orders given, the better. “Don’t!” should come rarely, but when an order was given parents should see thlt‘“*'l: o’bey:d. Belgium Spends $6,142,920 for Horses. Le Soir, Brussels.—Statistics for the first five months of the year show that during this period there were exported from Belgium 1,162 colts for the sum of 4,413,000 francs, 2,265 mares for the sum of 11,660,000 francs, 4,388 geldings for the sum of 25,019,000 francs and 284 stallions for the sum of 2.786,- 000 francs, which gives a total of 8,069 horses, sold for 43,878,000 francs ($6.- 142,920). The principal purchasers al- It is probable that the first corn meal | All great things have been slandered | Hot mush, with salt. and cold milk— | likes plain | tion of ice cream and scda water, we | Both the high character | us, we feel sure, will develop a most | bowling | and Mr. Voelker will do them gcod. The | [ THIS AND THAT l BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Fried Mush went on into Ohio, into Indiana. No doubt Abraham Lincoln, when he lived in the southern part of the latter State, was brought up on corn meal mush, and owed a part of his sturdy manhood to it. * ok ox o Fried Mush kept going West. It went into Iilinois and Iowa, and finally progressed to the Pacific. But it takes cold weather to it at | 1ts best, that is why it is most r=*-. in | those sections where the Winter tem- | peratures hover around zero, both above and below, B . Fried mush, like griddle cakes and :;:glew. means that the cook is penal- It is her duty to frv mush at top speed. so that every slice will be nice | and hot. | o Although they stay hotter than waf- | fles, slices of fried mush are eaten faster, everything else taken into con- sideration, so that the big platter must be filled again and again. No consumer of this delicacy would thank any one for less than a dozen man sized slices, end commonly s many s 18 and 24 are eaten at a sitting. ok ox % | . Fried mush may be in two degrees, either soft or hard, but each should be | fried to a delicate brown. It goes with- |out saying that the harder it is fried the more golden will become its coat. This crunchy covering, while a de- 1ight in itself, resembling the crust on a marble cake in this respect, is by no means all there is to fried mush. The inner portion, where the heat ve- sides, carries a great part of the flavor. Its heat content, however, makes it very dezeptive. If there is any reader who is | not personally acquainted with this | dish he may require a few plain hints | on_its proper handling. For there is nothing more innocent looking on a plate, and nothing hotter outside the hot place. Most fried things are pretty warm, but this one is much Hotter than most. The best way to eat fried mush Is to cut it up carefully, slice by slice, and spread the separate pieces out, in order ti\d-v. the air may strike them from all sides, *x e | Now comes the master stroke. You have to be a born Mush Eater to know this. First. take a mouthful of cold milk, the colder the better. Then insert a plece of mush. Wallow the milk around the mush as neatly as possible and as pleasantly as possible. The word low" is perhaps | not & fair word, because it gives an ut- | terly wrong picture. | The thing may be done properly, how- | ever, and it surely saves the tongue and the roof of the mouth. It is the roof of | the mouth, after all. which must bear | the brunt of fried mush fresh from the frying pan. If one swallow of milk is not enough take another. Never forget that fried mush s one of the hottest things in the world of edibles, Each piece of mush should receive a bit of butier, and be generously salted. The plain simplicity. and the glorious taste, should be permitted to stand alone. Do not mix other foods with fried mush. Let it be the whole break- | | fast, with perhaps 2 cup of coffee added. | Try this some Autumn morning. and bless us—and the other pioneers—for- | ever. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | ways are the French. They bought 6,688 Forses for 34,216,000 francs. Next come | |the Germans. who imported 793 Bel- glan hcrses for 6,252,000 francs. anders bought 397 horses at 1,572,000 francs. On the other hand, strange to say, | Belgium has imported during th's same | period 940 colts for 1,497,000 francs; | 3,341 mares, 3,341,000 francs; 10,842 ‘geldln(x, 13,772,000 francs, and 70 stal- | lions 458,000 francs, making a total jm- portation of 13,368 horses into Belgium, | representing, in round figures, the sum | of 19,050,000 francs ($2.667,000). According to these tabulations. the utility of the equine is by no means vanishing upon the European continent. - | Calls Naval Reduction “Very Serious Situation From the New York Herald Tribune The country will not be disposed to doubt the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Adams, when he says the proposed cut of the Navy creates “a very serious situation.” Although the Navy's en- listed strength was reduced by 4,000 men last Winter, it is now to be re- duced 4,000 more. One-fifth of ships are to be _decommissioned or placed in reserve. Building already ap- propriated for is to be reduced. ~How the reduction of personnel and con- struction work is consistent with helpful spirit in the current deprassion is something which Washington does | not_explain. Equally serious is the effect these | proposals will have on the national ae- | fense. It is undisputed that in an | emergency a navy cannot be impro- vised. “The Na as Mr. Adams say: men and ships.” Civilians, no matter how patriotic and willing they may be, cannot take their places on naval vessels without Intensive train- ing. And merchant vessels never can take the place of naval ones. The proposed cut in the Navy Is therefore not only incomprehensible on economic grounds, but entails a far- reaching reversal of our traditional naval poiicy. If the administration re- fuses to be governed by these considera- tions, the least the country can do to realize their existence. Maintenance of the National defense is a matter which in a democracy takes foresight and courage of an uncommon order. Officials wWho see their duty in this regard must often reckon without the active support of a public opinion absorbed by more immediate matters. This is one of the reasons why, in the past, our politicians have felt free to make financiag savings at the cxpense of the services. They counted on & | public apathy which would not con- demn their acts and perhaps realized that when another war came with the needless bloodshed which their neglect had entailed, they would no longer be in office. So it is that, after every war in American history, the services have been starved to a point where the succeeding war found them in an mlctmlc condition. Was not unreasonable to hope th: Fresident Hoover would dlflerpef‘ro:lg Borh e toresight s s o aving eaglog T “‘-z and the courage to of public opinion. would point out, up et} ofle w?unelected. we n a platform wi included the following 'pIank - in Tine with the established policy of the Re- pubvllvcnn lpnfly: “We pledge ourselves to round and maintain the Navy in all typesox: combatent ships to the full ratio pro- vided for the United States by the treaty for the limitation of naval arma- ments and any amendment thereto.” Instead of adhreing to this policy, President Hoover seems to be (ol&wm: the old, short-sighted course. For some years now the coun has wit- nessed neglect of the Navy at the hands of Congress. It is now brought face to face with actual reduction of the Navy at the hands of an administration Ppledged to “round out and maintain it.” oot Not for Wall Steet. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. Nuggets of pure gold have besn found by Indians in Northern Alberta, and it is sincerely to be hoped the news is kept 'y from New York bankers. b OCTOBER Hol- | the | i is' rd without the urging|§ram 20, 1931 I l NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M. THE DEGRADATION OF SCIENCE, By T. Swann Harding, auth'r of ,_'Prauds and Physicians.” :Iew York: Farrar & inahart, ne. Clearly, this is an ailing world. Not the planet. Its human content, instead Composed and dependable as ever, the | earth lPlnl upon itself and circles its celestial path in unchanging precision. | Still sets out the seasons, undeviatingly. | Still opens the day with dawn and sun, still l!’hu its cendles of the sky at dusk and nightfall. Yet, in respect to man himself, plain- ly much has gone wrong. Both wire man and fol agree. What the cause of this striking maladjustment of the hu- | man to his foot of grouna, to his min- ute of time? And, to be sure, everybody i has an answer—his answer—to the ur- gent query, More than this, each turning | healer, sf forward, his particular dosage in hand for the curing of all the nati‘ns under the sun. The preacher knows the aiiment and he knows the remedy. The teacher knows, too. The lawyer, the man of bustness, the money king, these all know. Indeed, the butch- equally wise to the real trouble with these times, so openly out of joint. |, T. Ewann Harding knows, t-o. Better than being quite so positive, let us say, instead, that his guess is better {than most, by virtue of {ts better foundation of demcnstrable fact so presented as to take on the good quality of evidence itself. Besides, it is not the | purpcse of this writer to play the part | of physician. That is. other than in the special line of diagnosts, with additional probings into causes. This author is a sclentist. And along with his tribe he sets supreme value upon the animating spirit of scientific research, which is the pursuit of truth, facts, and which demands alo a | certain method of relating and co-- rdi. nating bodies of fact into organisms that function logically and convincingly in their respective fields. A very forthright Investigator, be- sides, is°Mr. Harding. He follows the of rules of the game of science. Steps out into the streets and offices of his own neighborhcod to find out, first-hand, what is rom: on in these places under ous professional names that in all communities. ‘The vision that guides him is, nat- urally, the amazing new world that, within a few hundred years science has created, is creating, unmindful of the old and out-moded magic, necromancy, l.lr.h-mi'. legend, fable and myth, which in earlier years were the building stones of man's temporal existence. A great adventure, and useful, ;man sets himself, within his own door- Iyurd. 80 to speak. All dooryards arc practically allke. And everywhere, out | around the town, there is prodigious | activity, the most of 1t parading under | the latest discovery of science,’ or its |l:|.eu application to the current de- mands of life. Into offices and ou again. Editors, doctors, centists, law- yers, educators, oliticians, money- | makers, money-iords, bankers, preach- ,ers—all are profess'onalized in the {name of scienc: and meny of these, wittingly or otherwise, sre false propiets, with some of them running cles2 to pure charlatanism. . A sensational disclosure? All that. Due, recoil of accusaiion of ignorance, accounting of professional errancy. In other part, the clearly startling quality of the book is sourced in the per- sonality of T. Swann Harding himself. | A student of positive ideas and fear- less frontings, An easy alliterative writer, sounding. wcll, maybe a bit flippant, when h* is only very much in | earnest in his cwn wa And here he is, indubitably, ia earnest over the un- fair impositions placed upon the name | and work of scic ice, by rabid mate {ism in the market plsce, makin; - honest use ol c . sclentific in sound and import, to promote personal ends and selfish aims. To ignorance, and not wholly to ill intent, does Mr. | Harding ascribe some of the haltings and failures of the collective life. In- dividualism i gone, but the world denies it, wor! in the old technic of single effort. when every lesson that is worth anything today is posited in the terms of co-operation, co-ordina- tion. And this, whatever depariment 5 undcr examination. The one man as an asset in the world is gone. That he still hangs on, maybe through ig- norance, and certainly through pure self-devotion and that from the wrong v, is an obvious fact. You point of view, might like, if you have any doubts about this, to go around with Swann to look into the court room when it iis in action, into the great doctor’s | imposing_quarters. into the shopman's corner, into the meetings of order and | clan and tribe. Listen to them. Look | at their manifestations of an~ sort of | knowledge of life in its big an' im- | personal _swesp towerd bigger and | greater units of action A book that fronts upon disigrae- { ments and very likely upon il feeiing | expressed as such. A book of truth, all the same. One. besides. that makes no excessive claims. Merely sots the undation of science-in-action. Then, vigorously and seriously, brings to th.s | norm th= varicus modern agencics that sre siriving to corrupt and degrade it. Cood vork. Good for everbody to tead. bacause it stipulates more knowl- cdge as the basis of mode:n outlook and | activity. * o ok VENTILATION.—Principles Report of New York ‘Commi: New York: Teachers’ College, Columbia University. For about 20 years the New York Commission on Veniilation has been | conducting experiments and trial on this most important matter of provid- ing good air to the public buildings un- | der its supervision. The present book- let is conficed to a consideration of such service as applied to school build- ings and rooms. A long call from the tight-shut windows of earlier days to the highly specialized system of venti- lation that has been workad out from every point of view =nd now prevails for the health 2nd fener-l well-being of pupils in the schools. . Reconstructed in 1920, the commission has published a sorics of technical re- ports. The book in hand is a concise final regort, including the current schocl year. Therefore, this is a review of tke history of this subject, with a short summary of such investigations as have been made in respect (o the matter. Here is a discussion of the physiologic 1 objective of ventilation. There is given. also, an account of the development of the idea of having buildings provided constantly with unvitiated air. Then, the account of how the topic bacame a legislative concern, with the creation of the commission as its operating agent. Here, the report of studies made in other cities as to special modes of ob- taining the desired efficlency of effect. A description of the Pittsburgh labora- tory for engineers to study the art of ventilation in its latest scientific pro- of research. Rural school venti- lation comes in for a good share of attention and reform. The relation of temperature to health and efficiency is studied and reported. Both economic 2nd hygienic values are reviewed in the varfous systems that are now in use in respect to school buildings. A summary of this important subject fronts upon further nceds, some of these dependent upon further legisla- lation, and some of them upon improve- ments to the systems in use by way of further research and developments ris- ing from it. An admirably concise and plain projection of one of the vital ele- ments in public school systems. Ac- companying it is an excellent biblio- gravhy, affording direct means of giving to the subject latest. and best, re- ports, so far, upon the theme of school ventilation. —— e Who Is In Worst Fix? Prom the Madison Wisconsin State Journal. A political orator has about reached bottom when he points with pride to the fact that other countries are in a worse fix i} SCHOOL and Practice er, the baker, the candlestick maker, are | Harding, or another of his competency, | | noveltst, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI reader can get the answer to any uestion by writing to ocur Information %uruu in Washington, D. C. This bffer applies strictly to information. ‘The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does | not attempt to settle domestic troubles | or undertake exhaustive research on any | subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and ad- | dress and inclose 2 cents in coin or, stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirgr. Address ‘The Evening Star, Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. What is meant by saying that the hangar of the mammoth dirigible Akron | has an lcmoeg ere independent of the air outside?—T. McC. A. Although the dock is covered with a watertight roof and all doors and windows are closed, the Goodyear Zep- pelin dock at Akron, Ohio, is so large (45,000,000 cubic feet) that sudden changes of temperature cagise clouds to form inside the hangar, and rain falls. Q. Who holds the cross-the-country motor cycle record?—M. O'S. A. The coast-to-coast motor cycle record is held by Allan Bedell. He went from Los Angeles, Calif,, to New York in 6 days 15 hours. @ When vere cigarettes first smoked? | A. The earliest reference to the cigar- | ette occurs in literature in 1842 and 1843, where it is stated that cigarettes were smoked in Frence and Italy. Lau- rence Oliphant is general! credited with the introduction of the cigarette to English society. It did not become popular, however, until 1870, Q. Has a national flower becn select- ed for the United States —S. R. D. A. Not officially. There are two res- olutions before Congress at the present time—one for the wild rose as the na- tional flower and the other for the columbine. The American Nature As- soclation conducted a vote for a na- tional flower, and out of 1,000,000 ex- pressions there was a preponderance in | favor of the wild rose. The second | choice was the columbine. Q. Is snow counted as part of rain- | fall>—H. B. ‘ A. The Weather Bureau says that snowfall that occurs at its observing stations is reduced to its equivalent in | rainfall and included with the latter in | determining the amount of precipita- ' tion during the ye Q. What are the names of the French | cruisers at Yorktown for the celebra- | | tlon?—M. H. i A. The Duguesne and the Suffren. | Q. 1s Percival Christopher Wren, the related to Sir Caristopher Ween, the great English architect? A. Percival Christopher Wren is a direct descendant of Matthew Wren, & brother of Sir Christopher. Q. How many stars are there in the Southern Cross>—I. T. A. The Southern Cross is a constel- 1ztion situated near th= Antarctic Circle It consists of four bright stars. The two brilllant stars, which mark the summit and foot have nearly the same right ascension. The constellation, therefore, is almost vertical when pads- ing the meridian, and these two stars act as pointers to the Antarctic Circle. The constellation becomes visible at C J. HASKIN. |fog near the sea horizon will usually | obscure it until a latitude six or seven degrees farther south has been reached. Q. What is the Hohenheim System? A. It is an intensive system of pasture fertilization and management in dairy farming extensively used in Europe. Under this system, the pasture is di- vided into small fields, which are ferti- lized and grazed in rotation, It has been proved highly successful. The idea was introduced in Germany some 30 years ago, but gets its name from Hohenhelm, Germany, where it was thoroughly investigated by Prof. Warm- bold in 1916. Q. Where is the Virginia home of Lady Astor and her sisters>—M. H. A. It is Mirador, Greenwood Depot Albemarle County. Q. How is Syria governed?—J. E. A. It is under a mandate granted to | France by the League of Nations. It | provided for a federated state of three provinces, Aleppo, Damascus and Alouite. Aleppo and Damascus were | united in 1925 to form tre single ter- ritory of Syria. Great Lebanon, a strip | of territory along the coast, was pro- cizimed a separats state in 1920, with Beirut as its capital. @. Ts wild rice really a form of rice? A. .. is not a true rice. The grains are longer and less rounded than those of true rice and the husk is somewhat darker in color. Wild rice is usually served as a vegetable, especially with game. Q. When was the city of Philadel- phia planned?—R. F. A. The town of Philadelphia was planned before Willlam Penn left Eng- land in 1682. Before 1683 Philadelphia had more than 500 inhabitants. Q. What is the disease which at- tacks deep sea divers’—A. L. M. A. It is caisson diseace. It is caused by bubbles of air in the bloed. Q. Has more than one corner stone been laid in the White House?—R. F. A. The original corner stone was laid, October 13, 1792. During extensive gl- terations made in 1802, a new floor stone was laid in the entrance hall. Q. How many beads were there usually on & wampum belt?—B. L. A. Lafitau (1724) says that in his time the usual size of a wampum belt was 11 strands of 180 beads each, or about 1,980 wampum beads. There are references to belts composed of 6,000 and 7.000 beads. The English colonists were compslled to uss wampum in trad- ing with the Indians. Three dark or six white beads were about the equiv- tlent of an English penny. Q. What percentage of the telephones in the United States are now phones?—W. C. C. A. By the end of 1930 more than 25 | per cent of 2ll the telephones in the Urited States, or 5,565,000, were served from dial central offices. On Dscember 31, 1930, there were about 20,200,000 telephones in service in the United Stetes, Q. What ships eompose the Spanish navy?—M. G. A. Battleships, 2; first-class cruisers, 5; second-class cruisers, 3; flotilla lead- |er and destroyers. 10; submarines, 16; | first-class gunboats, 7, and third-class | gunboats, 1. about north latitude 30°, but haze and Gandhi Receives Assurance Of Good American Welcome Discussions of the suggested visit of Mahatma Gandhi to the United States seem to assure him a friendly welcome, although there are those who are un- willing to guarante: that the Hindu mystic will be taken as seriously as he himself might wish. “We hope that Ganchi will visit the United States,” says the Danbury Eve- ning News, which feels that “no pecple in the world are as capable of appre- ciating Gandhi as the Americans,” and believes that “he would receive a \H;‘.» e ‘The Providence Journal ve are | quite capable in America of making a hero of Mahatma Gandhi. In spite of our materialism, notwithstanding our absorption in the responsibilities of the moment, we continue ta have a sentimental side and even a religious We can be both practical and mystical,” asserts this paper. which describes him as of the truly great of his da: nder of magnifi- cent truth, tellow s voice w ¢-burly America should be giad to listen as to the voice cf one who has a genuine message for a di traught age.” We might even be too warm in our welcome, as the Philedelphia Bu suggests, sayir the Amo people have a their reeption of foreign v is that of hcro worship, or overlicnizing th2 great of the wcrld who ccme this way. But Gandhi may be be no lack of respect for his persol ality and of sympathy with his me: A presses it, Americen ' public, as differentiated frem the mcb, would recei im with the dignity and the cou position in world affairs However, “the Mahatma must remem- ber that when he comes here he ters a_high-pressure civilization, one altogether foreign to the qu ways in which his life is couched,” suggests the Jersey City Journal, as it prad: that, if he comes, “it will seem b wildering and strange that vast crowds will line lower Broadway's canyons to give him a ‘typical New York greet- ing,’ but that these people are vocifer: ous’ does not mean that they are ho: tile or that they isposed to coa- sider the leader of 160,000,000 Indians a freak. They hight, however, the ticker tape,” concludes this paper. Referring to Gandhi's reported state- ment that he would like to visit the United States if he were sure that the American people would take him serfously and not make fun of him, the Charleston Daily Mail ctates: “There will be those who will take him seri- ously and those who will rot. Some may question the wisdom of his methods and the real practicability of his aims. There is much in his appearance, in his manner of living, in his refusal | ‘when in Rome to do as Rome does,’ | which tends to make him the fit subject n. e jester,” declares this journal, as reLyarks that it is of the opinion “that not all jokes can be suppressed.” In the words of the Ann Arbor Daily News, “it may as well be admittcd that, | because of his attire (or scarcity of a tire) he appears to be somewhat of a freak,” and this paper suggests that “perhaps in his own best interest, as a visitor to our shores, it could be sug- gested that he don the garb of the West.” Because of his eccentricities, “the American public would be on justifiable ground, except for the matter of taste, in the good-natured ridicule it would | surely mete out to the Mahatma,” asserts the Louisville Courler-Journal, which thinks “he will show another example of his quiet wisdom if he re- mains in England, where the fitness and the sincerity of his mission fall about him like a protecting cloak, instead of coming, like tlie white- washed Siemese elephant in Barnum's circus troupe, to the shores of America.” As the Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: “The movies and countless news- paper {llustrations have advertised his not fully understood eccentricity of dress or undress, and there is no doubt that curiosity of a not wholly compli- mentary sort would figure in his recep- tion in this country if he should choose to come.” But the Omaha World- Herald asks a question of Americans, ured that there wili fa omit | saying: “Would we, who have clapped our hands raw at all manner of home- produced humbug, and who have, per- haps as a result, made a sorry mess of our most important affairs, laugh at the sage of India because his pants were not tailored in Rochester? If we would, then Gandhi would perform a great service to the world by proving it exclaims the Omaha paper. While agreeing that, in this country, “there is a tendency to exploit, to misinterpret, to misunderstand and even to ridicule great men less subject to eccentricities of appesrarce than Gandhi,” and that “men of note have | always had to put up with this,” and | acknowledging that “many people would not understand the remarkable per- sonality of Gandhi,” the Springfield (Mass.) Union contends that this should not keep him away from this country, for there are countless others who re- ect, admire and understand him.” ——— i Drive Against Wives In Industry Assailed From the Omaha World-ierald. Feminist leaders are expressing some apprehansion over the growing intensity of the drive against the employment of married women. Rather c© v, their concern 1is over the pos that di:crimination irst the married woman will con- ute to the oreakdown of family life nd the home. Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the Woman's Bureau in the Department of Labor, says it is a pen- alty on family life. Muna Lee. secre- tary of the National Woman's Partv, says if employers keep on dismissing | married women they vill eventually | abolish marriage. She argues that women must have jobs to live and if they can't hold them married, they sim- bply won't marry. | In view of the fact that much of the | criticism against married women in em- | ployment is bosed on the charge that they ure neglecting their homes Fy | going vut of them to work, this attitude towara the problem beccmes an ex- tremely interesting one. The home or the family, it is quite pparent, is no longer susceptible to a singte, simple definition. It means cne thing to one, som>thing quite different to another. ~ The old-fashioned view. point, to which th stress of unemploy- ment has turncd such emphatic atten- tion, is that of an institution in which tlie man is the provider and the woman | the housekeeper and trainer of the chil- dren. Miss Anderson and Miss Lee see it as an institution in which both par- ties are gainfully employed, while the house gets looked after and the chil- dren, if any, are trained acccrding to come mutual arrangement betwcen them. ‘Lhis type of homs might conceivably disappear, as Miss Lee forebodes, as a result of discrimination agoinst employ- ing married women. But heme in the old-fashioned sense doesn't appear in great danger as vet. Only a minor traction of the married woemen of the country have felt the need of an inde- | pendent income. There are more than twenty-six_million married women, of whom the Labor Bureau estimates thece are approximately two million six hun- dred thousand employea. This leaves more than twenty-three million homes unaffected by the problem except as it may have influence upon the wage rate of the husband or drive him into un- employment. T%cmg‘nml occupation of married women is not & new and sudden phe- nomenon, but the opportunities created by the war and the aggressive push of the feminists for political ana economic independence gave it imm epey in- creased em] While the "humber of wives who work outside the.] is 1 whole number of workers, it has per- ceptibly in recent years. The effects of the depression, however, are tending to ofiset the gains which the war made possible. The ieminists have real cause for worry over the prospect of losing some of the economic ground gained. e Scots Will Always Save. From the Madison Wisconsin State Journal. So MacDonald sacrificed himself to save England. These Scots will save no matter what the cost.