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MACAULAY DERIDED JEFFERSON IDEALS Baron’s Letter to American Friend Predicted Ruination by Démocracy. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macauley of Rothley, poet, historian and statesman, wes the author of an in- teresting letter, wrilten to an American friend, in 1857; a copy of which has been sent to The Star by William Lit- tauer of New York, a former member of Congress. The epistle - contains several - fore- shadowings of later developments in the life of the American people. Apparently, it was penned in explanation of a criti- cisth of Thomas Jefferson. At the time, Lord Macaulay was at the height of his great intellectual powers. He only re- cently has been raised to the peerage. ‘Two years and a few months later he died of a sudden heart seizure, Decem- ber 28, 1859. The text of the letter follows: “LONDON, May 23, 1857. “Dear sir: You are surprised to learn that I have not a high opinion of Mr. Jefferson, and I am surprised at your surprise. I am certain that I never wrote a line and I never in Parliament, in conversation, or even on the hust- ings, a place where it is the fashion to court the populace, uttered a word in- dieating the opinion that the supreme authority in a state ought to be en- trusted, to the majority of citizens told by the heads; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant of society. I have long been convinced that insti- tutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.” Cites French Democracy. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such Iinstitutions would be almost instantaneous. What happened lately in France is an ex- ample. In 1848 a pure democracy was established there. During a short time there was a strong reason to expect & general spoilation, a national bank- ruptcy, a new partition of the soil, a maximum of prices, a ruinous load of taxation laid on the rich for the pur- pose of supporting the poor in idleness. Such a system would, in 20 years, have made France as poor and as barbarous as the France of the Carlovingians. Happily, the danger was averted and now there is a despotism, a silent tribune, an enslaved press, liberty is gone, but civilization has been saved. I bave not the smallest doubt that if we had a purely democratic govern- ment here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich and civilization would perish, or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and lberty would perish. American Fate “Certain.” You may think that your country enjoys an exemption from these evils; I will frankly own to you that I am of a very different opinion. Your faf I believe to be certain, though it deferred by a physical cause. As long &s you have a boundless extent of fer- tile and unoccupied land, your labor- New Atom-Smashir THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JAN Is Aim for 1933 CHANGED SOCIAL RELATIONS IS ‘ALSO HOPE FOR NEW YEAR. e il A new “chemisi: atom-smashing discoveries in 1932. stars. atoms. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. By the Associated Press. EW YORK.—Atom-smashing of a new kind and improved so- cial relations are two foremost dreams of science for 1933. The first is because it prom- ises a golden though delayed future | more prosperous than anything in his- tory; the second because it can be of | immediate relief. Only a small group of &h know of the rapid developments in 1932 | in atom-smashing and what these | events portend. The most surprising of | these was an experiment which upset | the time-honored belief that you never | can obtain more energy from a reac- | tion than you put into it. ysicists But two British sclentists, Dr. J. D. | Cockkroft and Dr. E. T. S. Walton, recently shot 2 600,000-volt atomic par- ticle at an atom, Which thereupon split | into two rays, having a total of 15,000,- 000 volts. This atom gave off 25 times ing poj tion will be far more at ease than the laboring population of the Old World; and while it is the case, the Jeffersonian policy may continue to exist without causing any fatal calam- ity. But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Man- chesters and Birminghams; hundreds and thousands of artisans will assured- ly be some times out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test. Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and discontented and inclines him to listen with eager- ness to agitators who tell him that it is monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million, while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here and stmetimes a little rioting. But it matters little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class, numerous in- deed, but selected of an educated class, of a class which i5, and knows itself to be, deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order. Accordingly, the malcontents are firmly yet gently restrained. The bad time is got over without robbing the wealthy to relieve the indigent. ‘The springs of Aational prosperity soon begin to How again; work is plentiful; wages rise and all is tranquillity and cheerfulness. Foretells Critical Seasons. I have seen England three or four times pass through such critical seasons as I have described. Through such sea- sons the United States will have to pass in the course of the next century, if not of this. How will you pass through them? I heartily wish you a good deliv- erance, but my reason and my wishes are at war and I cannot help foreboding the worst. It is quite plain that your ‘Government will never be able to re- strain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the Government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when in the State of New York, a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose the Legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of Legislature will be chosen? Ou one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, a strict observance of public faith. On the other is a demagogue ranting about tyranny of capitalists and usurers and asking why anybody should be permit- | ted to drink champagne and to ride| in a carriage while thousands of hon- est people are in want of necessities Which of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a workingman Wwho hears his children cry for bread? No Anchor” in Constitution. I serlously apprehend that you will in some such season of adversity as I have described do things which will prevent prosperity from returning; that you will act like people in a year of scarcity, Gevour all the seed corn and thus make he next year not of scarcity but of ab- ute distress. The distress will pro- spoliation. Th is nothing Your Constitution is all sail As I said before, when society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of govern- ment wit strong hand or your Re- public will be fearfully plundered | and laid te by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who rav- aged the Roman Empire came from without and that your Huns and Van- ¢als will have been engendered within your countrty by your own institutions. Thinking this, of course I cannot kon Jefferson among the benefac- of mankind. ROOSEVELT GODFATHER TO WRITER'S DAUGHTER By the Associated Press. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., | December 31.-—President-elect Rooseveit will be godfather, probably by proxy, to the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Looker, born here last night. Looker is the au- thor of “The White House Gang,” a story of childhood experiences at the ‘White House during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, and “Col. Roose- velt, Private Citizen.” During the recent campaign Looker, & personal friehd of the President-elect, num:.ynylcth re tI"lplmem;nnm‘:‘ -'-'-"d # are vestrymen in their respective parishes. - the energy it had received. “Unlocking” Energy Simple. Investigation showed that all the tre- mendous additional energy was some- thing that had been “locked up” in this atom when it was created. It was the | same mysterious “energy of the atom” of which philosophers have been talk- ing for years. But in this case, for the first time, the method of “unlocking” was theo- retically as simple as touching & match | to wood to “unlock” the energy of heat that comes from burning. The stored up energy of 15,000,000 voits was bound in this atom by the job of holding together its nucleus. The nucleus comprised seven units. The | yolt ray was two alpha particles, each | -volt particle struck this | one made of four of the atomic nucleus | single 600, nucleus and entered therein, resulting | in a family of eight units instead of | seven. But this new family does not last f the stars” is expected to have a prominent place It deals with atoms never found in pature on earth, but believed to exist in The giant tube at left, used by British scientists, imitates thé hot Tenter of a star in stripping and splitting ORDINARY ATOMS ON EARTH ALWAYS HAVE THIS FORM THIS 1S WHAT HAP‘PENS TO AN ATOM SMASHED EITHER IN TUBE AT LEFT OR IN STARS AT RIGHT. in 1932 Achievements Of Scientific World Reveal New Facts NEW YORK (#).—Following are high lights of science in 1982: Atom smashed by new method. First photographs of proton made. Neutran, new “atomic” particle, discovered. First photographs heredity units. ‘World-wide cosmic ray study. Piccard sets altitude record in ballcon. World-wide “Polar year” sci- ence study starts. Sun’s eclipse ylelds new radlo knowledge. Marconi extends range of radio short waves Possibility of life on Venus in- dicated. Universe seen expanding 15,000 miles a second. Einstein says earth 10,000,000,-| 000 years old. of genes, long, for an eight-unit nucleus in this particular sort of atom is what scien- tists call “unstable”—it cannot hold to- gether. 000,000-volt explosion. Proton Used as Match, The atom in this experiment was lithium, a - ght-weight, ~ silveg-gray | metal. The “mateh,” the 600,000-volt particle, was a proton, a heavy, positive charge of electricity. The 15,000,000~ units. “These rays,” says Dr. Henry A. Bar- ton, director of the American Institute of Physics, “proved the same old Hence it files apart with a 15,- | PHOTOGRAPH OF TRACKS MADE BY PARTICLES OF \ scientific study in 1933 as a result of familiar alpha particles. But the result was tremendously new. Nobody had be- fore obtained a disintegration by pro- tons. And nobody had observed alpha particles s a product. “It was found that the alpha particles came out in pairs, that each pair had the energy of motion equal to 15,000,000 volts—surprising facts, but ones that carry a suggestion of the most funda- mental significance for the world.” The next step is & new form of chem- istry. Scientists «call it the “chemistry | of “the stars” because it deals with | atoms in a form never found in nature | on earth, but Relieved to exist univer- | sally in the stars. It is the chemistry | of atoms stripped bare to their nuclel and of nuclei broken into their ultimate particles. Already some of this strip- oratory test tubes. Knowledge to Be Put to Use. A more practical application of this new knowledge will be sponsored by physical chemistry, which proposes to | reverse the usual procedure of synthesis. Heretofore chemists have started with materials in bulk, guessing what the atoms looked lke and how they would | act. The physical chemists, now know- 1ns the appearance and much of the acfion of atoms, gmpou to start their chemistry at the heart of matter. For three years scientists have been asserting that one cause of depression is a mechanical world which has outrun man’s social and economic ideas. A few scientists have suggested 2 moratorium on invention. But a rapidly increasing number is proposing the application of to the depression problems. In the closing month of 1932 leading American_scientific engineers gathered in New York City. say that the need is for more machines, rather than less, but that during the depression science has produced new inventions which can be used toward ending the Nation's financial difficulties. | ALL DEBTS PAID BY BANK | ROBBED OF $2,500,000 Liquidating Agent Says Sufficient | | Assets Remain “Good” Dividend. By the Associated Press LINCOLN, Nebr., December 3i —Thei Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co., | robbed of $2,500,000 in cash and securi- | ties September 7, 1930, and later closed, | today had paid all its obligations. Payment of a note for more than $2,250,000 was completed by its liqui- dating agent, W. H. Rhodes. ‘The final installment was $24,000 on a note given to another Lincoln bank to assure payment in full to depositors of the robbed institution. The neigh- boring bank, the Continental National, after receiving the note signed by offi- cers and directors of the Lincoln Na- tional, took over all its accounts. After paying the note, Rhodes said there remain sufficlent assets to as- sure a “good” dividend to shareholders later. About a year ago officers recovered in | Chicago about $600,000 worth of securi- | ties which were stolen in the bold day- light robbery two years ago. to Assure | | ENDS LIFE BY DYNAMITE Pennsylvanian Puts Stick Mouth and Lights Fuse. READING, Pa.,, December 31 (#)—| william G. Kulp, 71, of Ephrata, en- | tered the garage of Willlam E. Martin, | a neighbor, today, closed the doors, | placed a stick of dynamite in his mouth and lit the fuse. A certificate of sui- cidal death was issued by Deputy Cor- in oner E. R. Miller of Ephrata. Kulp had been Il WOMAN'S CONDITION | IN BEATING SERIOUS| Mrs. Adelaide Stork of Baltimore and Miami Beach Alleged Victim of Trio. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, December 31.—Au- thorities watched with physicians to- night for an expected change in the condition of Mrs. Adelaide Doing Stork, Baltimore and Miami Beach, in a private hospital suffering from im- juries received in an attack on her in her home December 22. If the expected improvement is noted, John B. Rowland, State investi- gator, will drop his investigation and allow the case to proceed when Mrs. Stork has recovered sufficiently to be present at a preliminary hearing of the three persons she charges with the assault on her. The trio, Mrs. Frieda J. Riley and Bernard Riley, wife and son of a prominent Miami attorney, and James | Duffy, are at liberty under bond pend- ing the hearing. Mrs. Stork suffered a triple skull fracture, fractures of her left wrist and a finger and multiple contusions nnd‘ abrasions. Canceled. JULESBURG, Colo., Becember 31 (#). —The Julesburg Grit-Advocate, a weekly paper, announced today it had canceled mcre than $1,200 in past-due subscrip- tion bills. The editor of the paper, Harold Smith, said he believed cancel- lation or repudiation of debts was one of the few ways, if not the only way to the soluticn of national problems. ORDER Td VSTOP MARATHON DANCE PROMISED BY JUSTICE LUHRING | RS SRESE . ae | Announces Intention to Sign Court Order Halting Capital Event Tuesday. Barring developments within the next | duct since early in December in the | suit filed by the All-States Hotel Co. ! 48 hours, the winner of the marathon dance at the Washington Auditorium will be District Supreme Court Justice Oscar R. Luhring. He ruled yesterday that the dance constituted a “nuisance” and announced his intentions of sign- ing an order Tuesday directing that it be_stopped. The court’s order came just after the eight couples and two “solos” were warming up to their thirty-eighth day | of hoofing around a small ring bedecked with a Christmas tree. The marathon management wes per- plexed over Justice Luhring'’s ruling and | the only announcement forthcoming was an increase of from 50 cents to | $1.25 in admission price. Because Francis King and Thelma Viddle, and Adolphe Ditoto and Patsy Schaeffer, the two Washington couples seeking the prize, were still out in front, a crowd estimated at several hun- dred was on hand to root them over the old-year hurdle. Luhring has been listening to | the plaintiffs through 24 of its stockholders and 21 residents of the hostelry. From testimony furnished by a num- ber of witnesses, including Capt. Ed- ward J. Kelly of the third police pre- cinct, the court learned the dance at- tracted some patrons who liked to do other things than watch the dancers— principally bottle nipping. Forty-five bottle nippers had been arrested in the auditorfum since the hoofers got underway, according to rec- ords produced by Capt. Kelly. This, the management contended, was not many for a Wintertime athletic cvent. The court slso was told that besides bottle nipping there were some arrested for disorderly conduct. Hotel residents testified that the music throughout the night disturbed their slumber. Justice Luhring held that the busi- ness conducted by the Marathon Exhi- bition Co. was unreasonable, offensive and unjustly and materially interferes with the All-States Hotel Co.,, and that Justice evidence about marathon dance con- were entitled to an in- Junction. VISIT OF MRS. MOONEY TO ROOSEVELT SCORED Imposition President-elect’s Feeling of Humanity, San Fran- cisco Police Captain Says. on By tho Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, December 31.— Police Capt. Charles Goff denounced the Tom J. Mooney forces today for “imposing upon the broad feeling of humanity of President-elect Roosevelt by attempting to fool him with tae lies of Paul M. Callicotte.” 2 Goff referred to the visit of Mrs. Mary Mooney, mother of the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing convict, to Gov. Roosevelt yesterday at Albany. She was reported to have given Roosevelt as new evidence of her son's asserted innocence the story Callicotte told of having unwittingly placed the bomb which killed 16 persons watching the parade in 1916. ‘The Police Department this week re- ported it had disproved Callicotte’s Schools. | Educational S. E. Resumes Classes. EGULAR classes of Southeastern University, the Washington Pre- paratory School and the Wood- ward School for Boys will be resumed Tuesday. Midyear examinations in the school of Law and School of Accountancy of the university will begin January 16. The Spring term will begin January 30. ‘The fourteenth of a series of lectures on “The Layman and the Law,” by the law faculty of Southeastern Uni- versity, will be given over radio station WMAL Wednesday at 4:45 pm. by Prof. Willilam A. Read, who will dis- cuss “Landlord and Tenant.” ‘The university will entertain tomor- row in honor of the children of stu- dents and their friends. There will be a program of animated cartoons and other movies from 2 to 3:30 pm. in connection with New Year festivities of the Y. M. C. A. The committee in charge of arrangements consists of Fred L. Dawson, assistant director of education; R. O. Eliason, principal of Washington Preparatory School; Al- bert M. Jones, president of the senior law class, and Hugh O. Crow, president of the. senior accountancy class. Law College Reopens. ASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW will resume class sessions in all departments Tuesday; after a 10- day holiday. Preparation for the close of the first semester and the midyear examina- :ion;, u.\udul;d "X:: the last two weeks n January, to whieh the students will mfirflm Pollmm'mmz unmumyt.hu. the new semes! on , January 2.“ with new .m- in all sec- semester mm"m [ | | | ping and pulverizing is possible in lab- | | sclence—that is, fact-finding—directly | Not only did they | and Colleges Events of Interesting Student and Faculty Activities in Washington's Leading NEW CAR CHASSIS | 10 STIR INTEREST U. S. Manufacturers Await- | ing Demonstration of Model From France. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, December 31.—One of the | items on the program of the automo- bile executives who go East next week | for the New York Automobile Show will be the examination of a new chassis, | which has been brought to this country | by Andre Dubonnet of France. | M. Dubonnet, whose name is best known in this country for his bever- ages and cordials, first exhibited the new chassis at the Paris salon last October. It received such favorable comment that he made arrangements immediately for display at the New York show. Overtures already have been made toward several Detroit manufacturers for adoption of the new frame, but the New York show will provide the first opportunity for thorough observa- tion among sales managers and en- gineers. * M. Doubonnet invented his mnew chassis in the belief that automobile builders erred in copying old carriage lines and adopting springs out of keep- ing with the rest of the automobile’s construction. He has developed his chassls without any necessity for springs. Each of the four wheels is, after a fashion, an _independent unit. The front axle has been eliminated. A special system of mechanical suspen- sion replaces the springs. Interested in Resiliency. The thing that is intriguing Detroit manufacturers is the promise made by Dubonnet of greater resiliency for the whole automobile. Proposals for the elimination of the axle are not new. What Detroit makers are interested in learning is whether a bed can be found for the automobile body that will at the same time bring no new problems of vibration or noise. Meanwhile, in the week’s interim un- til the New York show, automobile ex- ecutives will watch the first automobile registrations for the new year. For the last two years there have been de- clines for the whole United States in the number of licenses issued. ‘The arrival of the new year always affords some means of estimating possi- ble registrations for the ensuing year, as motorists rush to relicense. It also revives annually the discussion among the motor executives of the entire prob- lem of the taxes levied against the in- dustry. Manufacturers would welcome any measures that would bring a reduction in license fees. While realizing that the trend awav from property taxes is fore- ing an added burden on the automobile in the form of gasoline taxes and license fees. the industry points to the decline in the number of automobiles now"“on the road as an argument in favor of lower registration rates. Ontario Fees Cut. Detroit has taken some encourage- ment from the action of the Providence of Ontario, which slashed license fees this month. The rates for plates were cut variously from 16 to 25 per cent. Ontario officials said they believed the move would increase the number of registrations for 1933. Interest has been manifest also in the proposal heard in Connecticut that the Legislature legalize operation of motor vehicles until July 1 with 1932 license plates. Thereafter, the sponsors of the move propose, the registration of cars would be necessary on July 1 of each year. ‘Those owners who registered their cars before the Legislature acted would be permitted to use 1933 plates until July 7. 1934. Automobile manufacturers might look | with some favor on a movement to transfer the time of relicensing cars from the first of the year to July 1 Employment is more general during Midsummer. Pocketbooks often are de- pleted after Christmas buying under Dresent arrangements. On the other hand, many States have been lenient in recent vears in allowing motorisis to drive with obsolete license plates as late as March 15. Several States recently have attempt- ed the exveriment of selling plates on the installment plan. Such a svstem has been found to have its drawbacks, however. All but a few of the State Legisla- tures will convene durinz the next few months. During their deliberations the automobile world will study with much | interest anv efforts to make adjustments in license fees. (Copyrisht. 1033.) | | Bishop of Trenton Dies. BUFFALO, N. Y., December 31 (#)— The Most Rev. John J. McMahon. 57, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Trenton, N. J., died at Mercy Hospital today after a long illness. Bishop Mc, Mahon, a native of Hindsdale, N. Y., was of St. Mark's Church, Buf- falo, before his appointment as bishop of the diocese of Trenton in 1928. School Chaplain Dead. POTTSVILLE, Pa., December 31 (#). —Rev. William_Little, chaplain of St. Mary's School, Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., died today at the home of his sisters, Susan and Frances Little, in Pottsville. He had been {ll three months. Institutions. Howard Gets Legacy. CKNOWLEDGMENT of the receipt of a legacy of $5,000 from the es- tate of the late Dean Emerit®s George Willilam Cook was forwarded yesterday to Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, widow, and the Washington Loan & Trust Go., co-executors, by order of the Executive Committee of the Howard University board of trustees. The legacy was without restrictions, | merely naming Howard University as | legatee and stipulating the amount. It | is one of the largest single benefactions which the university has received from one of its graduates. After serving Howard University in various official capacities over a period of 58 years, and under 11 administra- tions, Dean Cook died in Philadelphia August 20, 1931. Funeral was held in Andrew Rankin Chapel, on the univer- sity campus. The dean himself was a graduate of the college and of the School of Law, and,was one of the best known and me beloved among the alumni. formerly was alumni and shortly before his death was elected alumni member of the Howard Uni- versity board of trustees. Tivingstone Art School will reopen | after the holidays on Tuesday, st its new quarters at 1228 I street. There is a studio show room and display win- dows on the street floor, which will be a great advantage to the students in selling their work directly to the public instead of holding shows, as has been the custom in the past. On the upper floors of the building are dormitory fa- cilities, where out-of-town boarding students are furnished board and room under the direct of Mr.and Eugene T. the direce §an advertising feq ARY 1, 1933—PART ONE. NATONAL U BEGNS 6TH WITER TERN New Courses and Jurist Teachers Mark Advent of Quarter. ‘The National University Law School will enter upon its sixty-fourth Winter term tomorrow following the termina- tion of the current Christmas and New Year holidays, with five of the institu- tion’s staff of Fed- eral justices pre- senting courses as part the en- riched curriculum. Annouricement of the changes to go into effect with re- sumption of classes at * the old Law School was made last night by Dr. Hayden Johnson, chancellor of the university and dean of the Law School, who also is presi- dent of the Dis- trict of Columbia Board of Education. Federal Justices Teach. Justice Charles S. Fiatfield, associate justice of the United States Court of Customs Appeals and professor of Fed- eral procedure and the law of agency at National, will inaugurate a new course in “Federal Procedure” during the coming term. His first lecture will be delivered at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Justice Oscar R. Luhring, associate justice of the District of Columbia Su- preme Court and professor of equity pleading and the law of suretyship at the Law School, will kegin his new course in “Suretyship” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Associate Justice James M. Proctor, newest appointee to the university's law faculty, will launch his new course in “Criminal Law Cases” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. His lectures will continue each Wednescay and Saturday through- out the term. Other jurists who will teach in the sixty-fourth Winter quacter in- clude Assoclate Justice Peytun Gordon of the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court, professor of bank- ruptey, who will continue his cur- rent course in his subject, and As- coclate Justice Jen- nings Bailey of the District of Colum- bia Supreme Court, professor of the law of equitable trusts and conflict of laws at National, who will con- tinue in the conflict laws. Dr. Charles S. Pergler, dean of the graduate department at National, will present three courses, two of which are elosely allied with current develop- ments in the relation of nations. Dr. Pergler's course in international rela- tions will be presented Monday and Thurscay evenings, and his course in “European Governments” will b2 glven on Tuesday and Friday evenings. He also will teach analytic jurispru- dence, with lectures Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Other Courses Named. Other new courses announced by Dr. gohnson for the coming term include ‘Radio and Air Laws,” by Prof. Howard Le Roy, and “Criminal Law Text,” by Prof:'H. Winship Wheatley. The university's School of Economics and Government which also begins the Winter term tomorrow, likewise will of- fer new courses. Prominent amongz these will be Prof. E. E. Naylor's new course in municpal government, in which he will instruct in the munic- ipalties of “Representative American Cities.” Another will be Prof. Prancis Campbell's new study of “Constructive Marketing." National University will continue under the same_administration during the new term. Besides Dr. Johnson as chancellor, the officers are, for the uni- versity—Mrs. Charles PFrancis Carusi, vice chancellor; Charles H. Merillat, chairman of the board of trustees; John L. Cassin, secretary of the board, and H. C. Dapray, treasurer; for the Law School—Dr. Johnson, dean; Mr. Cassin, assistant cean, and Dr. Pergler, direc- tor of graduate studies, and for the School of Economics and Government— Dr. Bernard Mayo, dean. Al Good Turn Deserves Another. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., December 31 (#)—Moyar Chris Bunning thinks one good surprise deserves another. Toda; he opened a letter and found $2.50 h> lozned a New York tourist last Sum- mer. The mayor rewarded honesty by meiling the money right back. Heads Honduran Congress. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Decem- ber 31 (#).—Miguel Paz Barahons, President of Horduras from 1925 to 1929, today was elected president of Congress for the pending two-months’ term. al-‘l|!EE TUITION w:f&él‘;fl;;: ;“éf.i?-’.‘"v"f;,ae?" iipices "ot o1 Cro0L OF “WhS 'ASHINGTO. National 6136. N A I Justice Lubring, Justice Hatfleld, » WANT ASTEA Then stop doubt: training does pay bi every day. Millions ‘are working e placing | Deople ~every ~day. Kinas, ofer, lld ;;‘v,i::lc:unmc.omnlet; Sourse. !nR"I" now_forming re— Bovd_School, 1333 F St. __Nat. 31 Prepare. ) Gtvidends. todayend The School for the Indivi etarial-Business-Advert Beginners’ Gregg Shorthand Class, ry 9, 7 P. Class it Advertising jow for New Day Classes The Temple School 1420 K St NA. 3258 —also Typing, English, Spelling, Dictation at sny speed.~ Shorthand Review, You can enter at any point in the Gregs Manual or any speed in dictation. Evening courses ouly. Price for entire course (1, % or 3 subjects) $2.40 PER MONTH evenings a week. or $2.40 per half for 3 evenings per week. Tuition d it dissatisfied. | Courses’ given 85 ure. inst; ere other than the best it would be poor ad- vertising. For further information apply in person only. (No letters. 1no phone calls) Entire fifth floor. National Press Bldg.. the Washington Employment_Exchange. *Felix Mahony National Art School 1747 R. I Ave. Nat. 2636 New Classes Begin January 3 1 —for month refunde Columbia School of DRAFTI AND ENGINEERING Also Blue Print Readin i Esti 1 ALL BRANCHES ~ 2tnd Successtur Sesr COLUMBIA TECH SCHOOLS PAUL J. LEVERONE. Prineipal MELt. 5626 for the eyele et 1319 F St. N.W. w will .gh YOUR i, 50 et BE _WISE! Prepare NO' of PROSPERITY which oU Send for Catalogus § Roused Starlings Glad New Year’s Whoopee Is Over New Year celebrators, firing cannon crackers and revolvers to exgrm their joy in the arrival of 1933, stirred up the ornithological population of downtown streets at midnight. The birds, startled by the racket, flutfered over the roofs along Pennsylvania avanue and F street {n a panic of bewil- derment. ‘When the noise subsided they settled back to rest as though nothing had happened. That was their way of thinking that, so far as their interests are con- cerned, nothing had. BOOK OF 800 PAGES DETAILS CALENDAR HAPPENINGS OF 1933 (Continued From Firsi Page.) S 403 ecl of stars dicted. In Office methematicians predict the po- sition of the sun, planets and major the moon are pre- the moon. Innumerable addition, the Naval Almanac | STORMY ASSEMBLY SESSION EXPECTED Maryland House and Senate to Open 90-Day Meeting Wednesday. BY GEORGE PORTER, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md, December 31— With economy as their watchword, members of the Maryland Senate and | House of Delegates will assemble in the State House at noon Wednesday for a 90-day biennial session that is expected to develop into one of the busiest and stormiest in the history of the State. Before the session ends in April many major changes are expected to have been written on the statute books of the State. Moved by the distress they have witnessed during the pa#ét two stars for every hour of the day, every | years, and knowing they will have to day of the year, and so finely calcu- | face an accounting before the voters if lated are m llnllho;d of wrong by more & million. The universe runs by rigid mathematical laws. the predictions that there is | they want to return to their seats when one of them |the next Assembly convenes, the legis- an one part of | lators are determined to do everything | possible through lawmaking to guide Prof. Robertson | Maryland th th t yrosperity. could predict just ss well and JUst 88| @ Toe tagenuily o meny i The ingenuity of many minds will accurately the same facts for the year produce many conflicting schemes to 2000 if he end ™is aides could spare |lower taxes and . tap Tew sources_of the time to do it. Or he could go back by the same methods to the year 1. No Weather Forecasts. ‘Thus far, standing on their high watch towers in the night, can the sentries of science look into the fu- ture—but the most vital interests of men they must leave to quackeries of astrologers and fortune tellers or to shrewd guessers. the eternal stars is subject to unpre- dictable variations. The Weather Bu- reau will not even guess at the sort of weather the world will encounter in 1933. It has just passed through one of the hottest, dryest periods in his- tory. Sometime, they say, this is prac- tically certain to be compensated for by a balancing cold, wet period, but no- | body knows for how long the retribu- tion will be delayed. The factors which affect weather vary, often incalculably 80 far as present knowledge is con- cerned, from hour to hour. Nor will Public Health Service scientists venture to predict, from the statistics of the past, how many will be born or how many will die during the coming year, .for organic behavior, especially that of 50 complex an organism as man, seems far more. dependent on the apparent vagaries of pure chance than even the weather. But in the mind of Prof. Robertson, deafing with things which are not sub- ject to vagaries, jthere is no lingering shade of doubt as to the validity of his predictions. For in so far as he and his associates are astronomers, time has a different meaning to them than to their fellow mortals. It is purely cb- Jjective—with nothing about it”of the subjective or the mystical. Tt is meas- ureable as are few other things in hu- man experience. They have chosen for their province the material fringe of alm;‘l‘hfi fimwuhfl against earth’s lecks. e others are t: to look over the horizorm. B —_— 22 RUSSIANS CHARGED _WITH BETRAYING REDS Improper Organization of Wheat Farms Cause of Losses and ~ Trials Are Set. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, December 31.—Charged with improper organization of wheat farms in their area, 22 Communist :aders in the South Volga region were crdered to trial today for “betrayal of the workers’ class.” The secretary of the regional committee and the director of the trac- tor station are among the defendants, il of whom are accused of permitting heavy crop losses and of tolerating the presence of anti-Soviet influences in L}:‘e rural regions under their jurisdic- n. Probably all the defendants will be expelled from the party, for the trial apparently is a direct result of the re- cent order for nation-wide “cleansing” of the party ranks. Specifically it is charged that they failed to organize the Spring and Win- ter sowing properly and to supervise the harvest, as a result of which only 25,000 hectares of the 142,000 sown were thrfil};ei Most o’: txflwhe&m the re- maining acreage stan in the fields, a total loss. o s —_— ‘Wheat acreage in the Irish Pree State is rapidly increasing as a result of the Y | government’s new guarantee-price meas- ure. IT By Signora Chilaventon! native expert teacher For_Practical Paying Results Study at The Master School Register For Begi: Now of < Interior Decoration Specializing in Interior Decoration and offering an Accredited, Practical and Professional Training Course. Ex- pert Teachers. Individual Instruction. Rudolphe de Zapp, Director Representing Arts & Decoration, New York 1206 Conn. Ave. National 6136 FoR<UNION ACADEMY Second semester opens January 2—a ‘md time to enter your boy. Hi L H est_academio “rati ment. Junior credi VERETT COLLEGE Founded 1859. Young Women': High School and Junior Colle:; Music, Expression, Library Course, Home Economics, ~hysical Educa- tion, Art, Business Course. Hockey. Soccer, Gym. Pool, Golf, Riding. h.ll:‘r::erioulvle’er% Assn. Moderate . W. Cammack, Pres., Box 9, Danville, Va. ™ SECOND SEM., JAN. 30 For Conference With Washington Representative Cal Mrs. Geo. F. Belt, ADams 4330 National University Law School ‘Winter Term Begins January 3, 1933, at 6:30 P.M. Standard three-year course kldm{. to degrees of LLB, B.C. L. and J. g Gnd“f“xlcfl";;s }’eadings n; d]e)- grees of LLM, M. P. s and D. C. L. & All classes held at hours con- venient for employed students. School of Economics Government offersa n Boliieas Scimncs: Goveons Nationat 665" T g NW. For everything except | party | for the purpose of | | | revenue. Several have already been ad- vanced and have the backing of vari- | ous organizations. | "Among the most im) nt will be | the State,administration’s program, the {features of which will not be fully | known until Gov. Ritchie delivers his | message at the opening of the As- | sembly. Message Is Awaited. For this reason the executive’s mee- | age is awaited with more than | interest. It is certain to embody a defi- nite economy program, involving roads | and schools and lower real estate taxes, | but what new source of taxation will be recommended is still a matter of spscu- lation. | Gov. Ritchie is reported to be In- | clined 'to discount the feasibility of the | State Tax Commission’s recommenda- tion that $3,500,000 be raised mm 10 per cent tax on race track wi 88, | Tt is anticipated that he will recom-, | mend some form of a luxury tax. Refund of a portion of the gasoline. tax to the counties for the upkeep of county roeds, provided these thorough- | fares are turned over to the State; re- | duction of the equalization fee rate for | county schools from 67 to 40 cents, and a refund of a portion of the business license fees to the counties, were the principal items recommended by the, | Governor's commission and will undoubt- ¢dly be the chief projects through. which the legislators expect to bring tax relief to the counties. The manner of putting these proposals into effect, however, will unquestionably become the, subject of much debate, In addition to their interest in these items, the representatives of Montgom- ery and Prince Georges Counties face several other legislative problems that must_be settled within next three months. Chief among them in Prince Georges. is the question of changing the county liquor law and authorizing a referen- dum on Sumday movies in certain sec- ions. Bills designed to prevent speculation: on the Baltimore tobacco market will be sponsored by some of the Prince Georges legislators. They may intro- duce measures making written appeals unnecessary in traffic appeal cases, put- ting “teeth” in the law against the use of smoke scresns in automobiles, giv- ing the county a share of the profits from the charity racing days at Marys land's tracks, making it illegal to keep a vicious dog, and giving police author= ity over the Hyattsville lock-up. Altheugh they may not have any di= rect connection with it, the county's delegates will be keenly interested in any legislation which may be presented eliminating compul= sory military training at the University efh}‘ i legislative program is ontgomery’s Ve yet to be formulated. It will, wwrfl to reports, contain few, perhaps no issues, such~as have been prominent in the laws enacted by the county’s del= @gation in former y = Learn another LANGUAGE now Trisl Lesson REDUCED RATES FREE During December BERLITZ School of Languages 1115 Connecticut Ave. Tel. Sterling 8760 Classes Limited to 8 Students ACCOUNTANCY Pace Courses; B. C. S. and M. C. S. degree; Day and Evening Classes. !en.d for 26th ar Book Benjamin Franklin University 302 Transportation Blds. Met. 2515 RENSHAW School of Speech Fe n e el LR AR ke e Public Address Impromptu and Extemporancous Pub- lic Speaking. Speeches for special ocea- slons. ~Approach of various vocatioms. Thursy 8 p.m. Conversation Principles of Social Exchange. Spoken English.. Poise. Edueative _coutacts h topies of classic and ul- A general cultur - a.m. or English Fundamental Technique. Rhetoric_and Composition. rors. Vocabulary. Mastery Mother Tonsue. Fridays, 8 p. modern_c ourse. Technique Enunciation. Tone Placement. lowness. 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