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A—6 THE THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. . .January 19, 1835 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busingss Office: | 3 nsylvania A Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. Buropean Ofce: 14 Reent St.. London, England the City. Regul 5 The Evenine St;r.s di “4Dc ver month unday’ 8iar - Ev'n,n’ o S .. _ 60c per month 65¢ per month The Sunday Star 3¢ ver copy Night Final Edition. d Sunday Star 7 0c per month tar 5bc per month & ihe end of each m N T e sent by mall or telephone National 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Belly and Sunday. 1yr. $10.00; 1 mo. 85c N Daily only yr. " $6.00° 1 mo.. 50¢ Sunday only. . . 1yt $400:1mo 40c All Other States and Canada. Dailv a7 Sunday 1 yr, $172.00: 1 1n0.. $1 00 Daily onlv..... 1vwr ibe Sunday only.. .. .1¥r Boc Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivelv en- tirled to the use for republication of all news dispaiches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of oublica:jon of special dispatches herein e also reserved 0: 1 mo, 500: 1 mo. = Destroying the Test Tubes. “Character Education” as an experi- ment. in the Washington public schools has now become a matter to be fought out between the Senate and the House, | with members of the Washingion eommunity standing on the sidelives | as interested spectators. ‘The case history of ithe subject is interesting because it is more or less typical of some legislative processes applied to Washingion. Last April when the Senate subcommitiee on District was holding hearings on the District bill as it came from the House, Senator Copeland asked Dr. Ballou about the readiness of the Roard of Education to co-operate in “character educa- sponded by read- passed at a board appropriations an experiment in mon.” Dr. Ballou ing @ resolution meeting, which stated in part: That the Board of Education is greatly interested in the development of betier procedures in character training, and the Board of Education will gladly co-operate with Senator Roval S. Copeland and his committee in undertaking in our schools an ex- periment which may be of value not only to the District of Columbia but to the entire Nation. Senaior Copeland explained to the committee that while the Nation is apending millions to fight crime, “we are doing very little to make use of the schools in the protection of our vouth against criminal tendenciec” The idea was to begin in a small way with a selected group of teachers in a few schools and to record the prog- ress of the experiment over a period To be worth anything the experiment would have to proceed for a number of years, The Senate com- mittee and the Senate itsell were con- vinced of the merits of the proposal and the conferees on the bill also ap- proved it. The money provided—in the Districi bill—was approximately £70,000 to cover the cost of additionsl teachers and the services of experis in the current fiscal year. The work got under way last Sum- mer with the specialized nstruction of teachers, It was followed up during the present school term with designa- of vears. tion of ten schools—iwo elementary . achools, iwo vocational schools, two Junior high schools, two senior high schools and two senior night high achools—for the experiment, Dr. Bai- lou explaining that within these schools “as reasonably excellent facili- ties and resources as are availabie are provided with a view of creating as favorable conditions as possible,” which was 10 be continued over a period of at least three years, with eonsistent application to other schools of principies which were found to be beneficial. This year an appropriation of ap- proximately $87.000 was asked to con- tinue the work during the second year. Chairman Cannon of the House Subcommittee on District Appropria- tions and Representative Blanton im- mediately sentenced Character Educa- | tion 1o the block and called for the executioner. It was beheaded without more ado. Representative Ditter's ef- fort to have the appropriation rein- #tated on ihe floor was futile. Now the maiter goes to the Senate Wwhere Characier Education may be put back in the bill as a trade for something else. If Characier Educa- tion is ended after the first year, the 370,000 already spent will have been wasted, just as the cost of any other experiment is wasted if ihe laboratory is torn up and the test tubes thrown Awayv before the findings are corded. And the District will the bill, re- pay the League of Nations the tendency of Senaior Norrls is to become aca- demic when he disc Iateral questions as much?” es such col- “If so, how Alarm in Scandinavia. I no corner of Europe have peace and faith in its maintenance been more strongly established than througout the placid Scandinavian peninsula, whence, appropriately, the Nobel Prizes are annually awarded. Now comes word that Denmark, slarmed by current developments in the European situation, is discussing the advisability of a military and paval alliance with Sweden, In order to show other countries #hat they could “fight together” if mecessary, & Danish army officer, writ- g in a service journal, proposes joint Danish-Swedish military ma- neuvers. As a further “gesture of peace and neutrality,” he suggests that the Swedish and Danish navies might assemble for maneuvers in the Baltic and Gulf of Bothnia, while the com- provoke disagreeable political conse- quences. Significant in all this is that con- fidence in pending “appeasement’” efforis by the leading European powers is not universal throughout the con- tinent. There are evidently Scandi- navians who do mnot feel that such things as France-Italian saccords or he has begun to possess adull mental capacities. Time and education are the rem- edies. The youngsters gradually “get sense,” and meanwhile it profits noth- ing to oppose the violence of play with the violence of punishment. Appeal to the imagination, it would seem, is betler medicine than arbi- EVENING STAR, successful League of Nations inter- vention in a threatened Yugoslavi Hungarian conflict guaraulee an im- mediately peaceful Europe or immunize all countries against the perils of ag- gression. The Danish-Swedish project co- trary coercion or summary discipline. .- First Editions. Aun exhibition of first editions of ranged by their owner, Frank J. Hogan, for the Alumnae Association of Smith incides with German victory in the | College, prompts consideration of the Saar plebiscite. Fuehrer Hiller was| significance of bibliography as an prompt to proclaim that all territorial | gmaleur art. Numbers of individusls demands by Germsny are now salis- | collect initiul printings of notable fled as far as Prance is concerned. | books, and the circumsiance has a | Except for generally dedicatiug him- | bearing upon the evolution of litera- sell to the cause of peace, the Nuxl (e in the world. chieftain did not commit himself with The instinct appears to be funda- regard 1o other territory that once | pentally natural. Writing is & kind was part of Germany. Denmark 38, of magic in the judgment of cultivated now sovereign over Schleswlg, Which | g primitive man alike, The genius [ came back to her from Germany BY | of au aufhor partakes of the miracu- | Plebiscite fn 1920, An Associdled | 1oy as less gifted people see it, and Press dispatch reports that Danish | ipe reaction is much the same whether plans for armed co-operation With i pe jn the mind of the polished gen- Sweden are promoted, among OLNer | 1.0, who is an heir of all the ages things, by Germany's determinalion | o. j that of the untutored jungle to recover Lhe Saar and by the thought ! savage who imagines that & scrap of | that the Nazis may some day reveal | iy applied to & broken leg will | desire (o reurieve Schieswig. | { belp the fractured member to heal. e Teiters, it follows, are of practical Closing In. value in human psychology. snd sn Steadily the net of the law, in the inielligent enthusiasm for the pub- hands of the Federal aithorities, is lished word may be & gauge for the lrlqwmg in upon the organized gang- |estimaliou of the progress of maukind. Dav by dav additional captures | Civilization itsell, historians agree, is somelimes with the death|founded on bevks—(he bedrock of Yesierday | whalever law nud order, peace sud se- sters, | are made, lof fugutives from justice. Lwo notorious criminals were leken in | New York, endiug & hunt that has’ ihe lasted for many weeks following ihieir sucred writings of the prophets snd escape from the Richmond, Va., jail, ;.um of the East, the compositions of ‘wnue they were Aawiling transport 10" Homer and his inspired disciples, and the State prison for execution for|even at the modern extreme the cur- ! murder. This capture was effected by | rent journalism of the moment. What | Government officers, acting under a curity there mre in the earth is an smalgam of the Holy Scriptures the nations read, they are, WASHTNGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES B. | The person who takes up the i aguarium hobby and sets up a single tank shortly meets algae in one or | more of their forms. | | Each one of these simple plants is | microscopic in size, but together they | form & mass which may or may not ! be good for the mquarium. Since the beginner has consciously English and American novels, 8r-j o ced none of them in his tank, he | but firmly wiped over the inner side | often wonders how they get there. | ! They are introduced on higher | plants, or in the water us it comes from the mains, or even may be air- | borne in Spring and Summer. Attempts have been made to inocu- late tanks with the more desirable forms, bul in general Lhis must be {left to the scientist. | * ok o X | The home aquarist may be sure | that he will get one or more forms, 50 he should watch for the good ones ,and cherish them, since some he must have. The truth ix thal an aquarium without algse in it would not be as desirable as one with i, Not only ,do these minute plants, in their mase | formation, give off oxygen. in the same process of pholosynthesis, or ‘food assimulation, which they share | with ihe higher plant forms growing | in the sand, but also they exert some | influence toward keeplug the water | clear, i sddition. Juf® what this process is few persons understand, but any one who has managed aquaria | tor any length of time comes to | understand it and to look for its | vperatior | The “pond scum” with which most { persons are famillar 18 nothing but & great colony of algwe. Certain types | make reservoir water tasie “fshy” or ! give it & smell suid Lo resemble that of cucumbers, Various microscopic one-celled ani- | mals sre sssocisted with slgse in ! Nature, aud these often are scarcely 0 be distiugulshed from aigae ex- cept by the expert. The problem is further complicated by the fact ‘that some of the miniature plants have a jmotion of their own, and s0 much resemble animals under & microscope that they are easily mistaken for such by the unwary. D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935, THE LIBRARY TABLE ] BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. TRACEWEILL. ! FRIENDLY RELATIONS. A Narra- tive of Britain’s Ministers and | Ambassadors to America (1791- ! 1930). | By Beckies Willson. Bos- | inner walls, but most thickly on the side that receives the most light. In normal practice it should be per- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact dy writing The Washington Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, | are among the greatest pests in small mitted to remain on three walls, but kept off the side most used for ob- servation purposes. Ordinarily this is the inner, or room side. Various scrapers may be used, but 2 wad of absorbent cotton carefully of the glass will remove it most sat- isfactorily. The plants should be left on the remaining sides. It is & pe- culiar but natural thing that after one has a tank with this good growth | In it, no tank thereafter without it ever looks quite right, or even heqlthy.1 Y ‘The blue-green forms, distinguished from the former by having s bluish tone, and being slimy in charactér, aquarium management. We have never seen s good or| healthy tank with it in it, and in|voys o that of the French protocol, | *red for all cases, it must be gotten rid of, even if the aquarium has 10 be taken down snd begun sll over again. | Often this procedure is the shortest | method, after all. This nuisance form of algae is inimical o fish life, »s well ax to higher plant life. On the latter it forms a web, preventing the plant from breathi Perhaps it 1s not always understood that undei- water plauts must breathe, just the same as fishes, and, just as most of the latter, must geL their oxygen solely from the waier, in which it is held tree. If s covering of any sort, even of other piantlets, is over it, it cannot | breathe, and 30 must die. It i a question whether the biue- | green algae are any more of & menace | than the brown sigae. The latter show that the tank is not getting enough light. This, in turn, means ! that the higher plant forms will not | srow, d, therefore, will not help' the water conditon. This inimical | condition in turn reacts on the animal | lite. These brownish forms may be re- moved by cotton, also, but unless more light is provided they will form again ok ox The “free-living” forma are green, ton: Little, Brown & Co. Toriy envoys have represenied Great Britain in the United States since the Naiion replaced the British colonies. Some were very important, some left little mark in Anglo-Amer- ican diplomacy. In his narrative of their caresrs in this country Col. ‘Willson has written s chapter, & very | popular one, of diplomatic history. The introduction to his book s by 8ir Ronald Lindsay, present British Ambassador to the United States, who pays & irlbute to “that great diplomatist, the first Ambassador to the United States, Lord Pauncefote, who did so much for cordial relations between the two countries. Col, Wil son sees an analogy in his own task of presenting a series of foreign en- with its Introducteur des Ambassa- deurs. There was some delay in sending & representative o the Uniled States after the adoption of the Constitu- uon and there were chai British arrogance, but fi Hammond, & young man of only 328, | of good family and some diplomatic experience, was appointed and found his situstion “in many points of view, new. critical and rather embarrass- ing.” When the Briuish Legation wi moved, with the American Govern- ment, to Washingion, in 1800, Edward Thornton was charge d'affaires and remained acling Minister for three years. From these early experi- mentsal, difficult years, Col. Willson traces the growth of irritable, in- creasinglv hostile relations through the War by Lhe general sympathy for the South in Great Britain during the Civil War, the closeness of assoclation dur- ing the World War and efforts to preserve Iriendly relalions since then. The most famous names in the record are those of 8ir Julian Paunce- fote. Sir James Brvce and Lord Reading, High Commissioner and Am- | of 1812, then the gradusl improvement, somewhst interrupted ' | Federal law, inasmuch as the theft of | United Staies property was involved. The round-up of these bandits, and other outlaws who have lately |been taken, with of |speedy trial snd punishment, must | have a deterrent effect upon those {who are inclined 10 resort ol crime as & means of livelihood, or | as & simulant to an abnormal excite- | ment. It has been demonstrated that, | there is 210 security for them wherever | they may flee. They are pursued with skill by men who are highly trained in detection and discovery, men who ! | are incorruptible, who are developing their organization inw a machine | similar in its precision sud persisience | 10 that of the Canadian Mounted | Police, who “alwavs get their man.” | The arrav of names of thuse who| assurance i have thus been iaken since the enact- | ment of the Lindbergh law makes en- couraging reading. No longer is there & question of persistence and caupacity and of co-operation on the part of State authorities. The shame of the inefficiency and the complaisance of local law enforcement agencies has in great measure been ended. Cor- rupt relations between attorneys and even officials and the gangs have been | brought to light, with the effect of arousing deep resentment on the part | of the peopie and in some cases the | pillorying of such offenders. ! Crime will not be ended in this| country, or any other country in fact, | however diligent and successful the| pursuit and however swift and sure | the punishment of those caught in| dereliction. But it will be lessened, as & vocation, if the present pace is | maintained. The couris must, how- ever, act more speedily, to effect| prompt irial and adeguate penalty, 1o assure disposition of all cases while the memory of the offense is fresh, and prison management must be re- formed to the end of preventing| escapes, which almost invariably lead to further crimes and sacrifices of life. | The assurance ihat an incorruptible. | capable, coursgeous force of Govern- | ment agenis will be set upon the trail | of the lawbreakers without delay and | that the chances of escape are slender, almost to the point of negation, should have the effect of demonstrating, even to the warped mind of the gangster and the solitary marauder, that crime does not pay. | l | e 5 One of the classics of American | literature s the biography of John | Marshall by Albert Beveridge, In a | future generation a historian may find facts of no less thrilling interest | to tell of the Supreme Court of the | United States. ——— Violence in Play. Children on occasion are guilty of certain violence in play which causes physical pein for other young- sters and even for adulis, and the circumstance is worthy of study as & minor division of the new acience of child psychology. A husky six-year-old boy, for example, wrestling with a toleraut uncle “in fun,” attains community celebrity by breaking two or three of the man’s ribs, and another youngster, aged eight, demonstrating ihe power of his punch, inflicts a serious injury on his father with a heavy blow over & sensitive lung, Neither child in- tends any harm, but in each case damage is the result of immature Judgment and juvenile exuberance. The records of schools, playgrounds and gymnasiums show numbers of accidents traceable to “cutting up.” Broken heads, arms and legs are an “old story” in the experience of ieachers. Hardly a day passes with- out its quota of mishaps attributable to boisterousness. But a policy of correction is difficult to frame. The instinct to manifest their prowess is natural in the minds of children. They are, in effect, little savages whose nervous energy and muscular strength exceed their capacity for judgment. When Junior | | Folger, Henry E. Huntington, Witliam | But a conscious appreciation of B E R literature is needed. and it is good :hnti Fortunately the squarium owner does not have to bother his head with there are citizens like Henry Clay | qoch it Bete 10 He will find. in the main, that aix F. Gable, J. Pierpont Morgan and Mr. | types of algae are encountered in Hogan with the meaus and the incli- ;"'_‘"_i“;:::“:"l;':'e‘;"_ nation to preserve and to swudy rare | 1 G oz volumes for their own sake. Perhaps | 2. Blue-green. it is not 100 much to sav that so long . Brown. a5 books are valued (here is hope for | ?l"h‘:"";v“"- | fusfiace | 6. Bottom. T These are practical. not acientific It was once feared that the auto- disiinctions. The names of these mobile would displace the horse. It :’;’:"'I‘::eg‘v::'l";‘fi‘;"“;'l! nelbgtne has not done s0. A horse is more ex- | petier, but a description of them, so 3 3 [ 5 | vensive than ever, owing to the popu- | thai he can recognize them, will help lar esteem in which he is still held for ’mm & gleat deal. gambling purposes. Especially the beginner should be but they are distinguished from the | bAssador Extraordinary and Plenipo- 400d. green sort by Hiving throughout | leNUBLY 10 the United States during ihe water, rather than on the glass, | the World War. ' Col. Willson's ureat- They color the water & delicate pea | Ment of Bryce, beloved of the Ameri- green, which becomes deeper and | 40 people, is rather satirical. His deeper, in time hiding the fishes from | *dmiration is evidently for the more view. This “green water,” as it is| Pl8in, compeient, slert and single- called, seldom forms if the more de- | Mminded” members of the m?wm".c' e geL & foot- | service. He says of Bryce: “He was | hold first, which is just snother res-: * fluent snd ascholarly speaker, but | asirable soris of green a ! lacked personal magneiism and was These free-liviug, or nou-aiisched, | 9P€n (o the reproach of belonging to sorts, are good for the fishes. owing | (N8t order of solid. sane and sober 10 the large amount of oxygen they | !M'¢liectuals who are less men than release. This benefit, however. s out- | Public institutions.” Col. Willson is weighed by the t that the owner C#P#dian-born, has been & journalist cannot see his charges. | In both England and America, served Free-living forms. are proof posi-| ™It the C. E. F. in the World War iive that the aquarium is getting 1o, A7d IS the author of several books on much light, also probably w00 much | diplomatic '"b'_fc"' "l"’"' "h",“ The food permitted to go uneaten. The | PATIS Embasay” and “America’s Am- remedv is to cut down on the amouni P##dors o England of light. and feed rether more lightly. Faee son for welcoming them. bined air forces of the two countries | tosses Baby Sister down the cellar display their joint strength in the |stairs, he does not deliberately intend province of Skane, in the south of |to pui her in the hospital with a Sweden. Swedish military leaders, s fractured shoulder—the incident can fearing that such arrangements would | be explained only by recognition of be “misunderstood,” are lukewarm to- his attainment of an approximation ward the project and gx)nk it might of adult physical resources long before ] It would not be surprising if mauy persons declined to fight for « swastika until they can acquire further infor- mation as to precisely what it means. Z r—ve ‘The most surcastic jokes about col- lege professors are found in coliege papers. Alma mater may ye. be moved Lo spank. r———— - The Department of the Interior cannot escape a certain amount of thrill since it is naturally linked to wild life and adventure, - A trial and error system of economy may need & considerable supply of red ink to enable the trials to keep up with the errors. B TING STARS. SHOO BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Campus Patler. The college lad is not so bad, His praises must be sung. He strives to make us ever glad, So wise, and yet so young. Hig phrase is frequently a freak Which brings us wondrous glee. No matter what we chance io seek, | With much advice he's free. Of homicide he'll write with care Or diplomatic fame, And all of it, we must declare, Sounds like a foot ball game. Alphabetics “Have you tried to learn Russian?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “The use of initials and abbrevations has compelled me to start in all over to learn our own alphabet.” Jud Tunkins says a vivisectionist looks to him like a man who was willing to participate in a dog fight and take a mean advaniage. Revenge, The wicked into power grow That finds our wrath delayed. Opinions we would boldly show If we were not afraid. When we can frame up no design To check a foe s0 grim, Let’s send a comic valentine And make a face at him, Experimental Publicity. “That man,” said the hostess, “is § great invenfor.” “Which kind of an inventor,” in- quired Miss Cayenne, “one who uses & laboratory or a typewriter?” "Eagerneh for power,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is what has led my neighbor Hi Hat to make & public display of his weakness.” Obligation of Ownership. If ownership by government Arrives, perhaps we'll be content, For every owner, it is said, Must meet & lot of overhead. We'll find that many a care relaxes ‘When Uncle Sam pays all the taxes, “If you don't agree with a man,” said Uncle Eben, “tain’ no use of givin’ up yoh precious time tryin’ to educate him.” v aon— Wrong Weapon. From the $aginaw Daily News, No wonder the Detroit woman whose husband beat her with a razor strop sued for divorce. Doesn't he know that a hair brush is the proper instrument? - Poor Pedagogy. From the Paterson (N, J.) News. The child of & school trustee may be dumb, but he isn’t half as dumb as the teacher 'hg flunks him. |on the watch for these apparently !npuutpneou‘ growths in his taunk or Lwo. Il he fiuds & soft green aigse ad- hiering (o the inner sides of the ! panels of the tank he may coni ate himself. This is the most desirable form possible. With it growing well, he | may feel that his aquarium has every chance of success, both as & home for his fishes and as an art object in the living room. | . | This form of aigae not only does !its part, although s small one, in keeping the water clear and in oxy- genating it, but provides a fine vege- | table food much ltked by such fa- | mous herbivorous fishes as the guppy i and the black molly. In the main it will grow on all the { New Buildings for Zoo But None for Schools To ‘ne Editor of The Siar: | Some years sgo a very witty and ‘,cnxlmmg lady, Mrs. Leila Pler King. jae the time secretary of the Ben W. Murch Home and School Association ' { (known as the Grant Road Portables | seciion of the E. V. Brown School), Wrote your paper & letter of inquiry as 1o why it was necessary to send Mr. | Haris. the District architect, abroad to study suitable types of homes for the suakes at the National Zoological Park. She wanted to know why the old house was not good enough for them when there were no funds avail- able for new schools and the children of Washinglon were shivering in “drafty portable school bulldings which would have been s disgrace to the eighteenih century, | Last night this leiter of Mis. King's came to my mind when I saw in The 8tar the following news items: “School and welfare jtems slashed $613.168." Six hundred and eighly thousand dollars granted for Zoo bulldings. P. W. A. allols funds for relief of crowded animal quariers.” Now. 1 have always been & lover of snimals; my children bring home | { every siray they find; we feed the birds and squirrels as & maiter of | course throughout the Winters: but | really, the present Zoo buildings are palatial compared with some of our! clder schouvis. I am guite sure that the children of the Grant School, for instance, would be very glad to ex- | | change quarters, especially with the snakes. Besides being warm, without danger of asphyxiation, they would | certainly receive a liberal education in the arts from the P. W. A, decorations, It will be impossible to even use the Woodrow Wiison High School unless something is done to the grounds. It | stands among masses of red clay and | most of the time the grounds are a | | regular quagmire, We have been fight- ing for years to get the paris of the Reno section used for schools at least made sightly and passable. I quite understand thai the mem bers of the subcommittee on appro- priation for the District of Columbia did not make ihis grant io the Zoo, but it certainly shows that Mr. Ickes manifests more interest in mountain goats and sheep than is shown in the children of Washington by those di- rectly responsible for their welfare. It might be & good scheme to turn the schools over to Mr. Ickes; we could at least expect from him the same consideration for our children that he is showing toward our dumb friends, and when hLe is planning separate suites and iwin beds for all the birds of the air and beasts of the field, I as sure he could find some old unoc- cupied animal house for those of our children who are still dependent on poriable schools and antiquated bulid- | ings. LESLIE BOUDINOT WRIGHT. e Tnalienable Rights. Prom the Pasadens (Calif.) Post. | When a homeless man was given shelter in Chicago the authorities undertook to make him bathe, and| he started a riot. Even a homeless man has righis. ——or—e No More Alimony. From the Shreveport Journal. A French writer suggests the “di- I | overconfident in himself and pro- | one. vorce of America from Europe.” That will be just fine—provided we are not emmwwmmm- Do not be discouraged if the water does not ciear up immediately. Often ! ‘it takes & month, but when it does clear it will remain so. Thread-algae may catch baby | fishes, and heve little to recommend | them. They are best removed by en-{ tangling them with the end of a stick of some sort. Green algae which forms on ihe bottom ia not so bad, but we prefer natural sand at all times One of the best ways af building up the desirable soft green algae is o keep & small electric bulb burning st one end of the tank. This will stimulaie the formation of the good type, in most instances, but it must be watched for overdoing, and heat- ing the waier too high. Nature at its best is a balance, and any over- doing leads to a decline in one di- rection or the other. Arrests Not a Measure of Driving While Drunk ‘To ihe Bdifor of The Siar: It is very surprising to find the | director of traffic and Representative Cannon in such & quandary as to the cause of increased reckiessness in driving during the past year. Strange that they should find this cause such & mystery, when it is as patent as the sunshine. They might get some enlightment from the article published in your paper on Janu- ary 17, under the caption, “Drunken Driving Shown Increasing,” which gives clearly and convincingly the results of a survey which was made by the National Bafety Council. This report lays the increase in accidents directly at the door of repeal. It shows the number of drivers involved in non-fatal saccidents to have in- creased 50 per cent under repeal and the number of pedestrians so in- volved 1o have increased 64 per cent. Surely » strange coincidence if repeal ! is not the cause. ‘The damage done by liquor since repeal, in the matter of driving, can- not be measured by the actual num- ber of drunken drivers arrested, as the report emphasizes. The drunken driver is not so grest a menace as the driver who has had just enough to warp his judgment and make him portionaiely inconsideraie of others. These are the drivers who give their victims no warning, because they do not appear drunk, and their condi- tion cannot be revealed by any ordi- nary test, Aside from the tangible resulis of repeal ihere is what may be called the intangible result—a general license springing from the vicious results of the propaganda of those who have labored for years to defeat Dprohibition, misrepresent. and conceal the good results thereof amd bring back the “good old days” of personal liberty, aliss selfishness, The con- firmed drunkard is not the guilty The guilty one is the re- pectable drinker, who flatiers him- self that he can drink and not get drunk, and who has lent his aid to again_“put the cup to his brother's lips” &nd assist in his downfall. The very people who kept crying that prohibition was & failure are the people who have made it & failure, All moral laws sare prohibition— prohibiting men from being merely snimals and following their lowest instincts. These moral and spiritual | laws, which do not change, fortu- naiely, to suit any human opinions, are éven now proving to be a “mill- stone about the neck” of those who have agreed to disregard them. How long will it be before they will awaken? VERA E. ADAMS. = ——— Politeness at the Pumps. From the Los Angeles Times, “The filling station men have im- proved the manners and courtesy of the American public more than all the colleges in the country."—Dr. Robert A. Millikan. Evidently the filling station atiendants are at the right spot to do something about it. o Congressional Housing. From the Saginaw (Mieh.) Daily News. Many new members of Congress , are having & hard time finding places to live in Washingion. Certain for- mer members found that the voters took care of that question for them | st ltn.!-. | Tederalism | changing it is | next section. Finally is discussed the THE TWILIGHT PREME COURT. Our Constitutional Theory. By Edward S. Corwin. New Haven: Yale University Press. The weatment of the development of our constitutional theorv by Dr. Corwin is in four parts. First, Ham- flton’s view of a strong national power triumphed over Madison's view of & union of States and was given perm nent form by Marshall. Next, follo\ ing the Civil War, the view that in- dividual initiative and more or less economic lalsses-faire were best for national welfare gained ground and “the property-right concept” found protection in the court; then, as Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School says in his foreword, both dual and laissez-faire were driven to retreat “before the court’s growing recognition that our present economic and social life cannot be OF THE SU- A History of compressed into separate State units.”” | ! The problem of the force of law and the possession of the function of ihe subject of the breakdown of constitutional limita- tions through the exercise of the spending power of government. Dr, Corwin raises the question whether, since the United States went in for political democracy, it might not have been as well to face the logical con- sequences instead of resigning the final decision to the nine members of the Supreme Court. He asks: “Back to the Constitution?” and an- swers “Yes,” if 1t is remembered that “the first requirement of the consii- tution of & progressive society is that it keep pace with that society.” Dr. Corwin is professor of jurisprudence in Princeton University, and the ma- terial in this book was first used in & course of lectures under the Storrs Lectureship Foundation of the Yale School of Law. A xox o MOBILIZING FOR CHAOS. The Btory of the New Propaganda. By O. W. Ri New Haven: Yale University Press. Directing public opinion sounds like & high educational enterprise at its best, and at the other extreme the pastime of the spell-binder, but Mr. Riegel, director of journalism at Washingion and Lee University, thinks it is loaded with dangerous possibilities, probabilities, or cerigin- ties. The traffic in propaganda is more. perilous to national and world safety, he believes, than the traffic in munitions. It is & “mobilizing for chaos.” Through it all the human tolerance and liberty of thought won by centuries of struggle are likely to be lost. In ail the leading coun- tries propaganda is now organized on & Jarge scale, usually in the interest of nationalism, often in the interast of the power of & dictator. The vari- ous channels of news are more and more coming under control. “Amer- ican press associations still lead in the degree of freedom of their re- ports from governmental influence, The American press retains consid- erable liberty and zealously attacks any suspected encroachments upon it. The kinds of propaganda launched at the American people remain so numerous and diversified that it can- not yet be said that the propagands of nationallsm enjoys & monopoly.” Clearly and unexcitedly written, this book Tontains dynamite, R THE TRANBIENTS, By Mark Van Doren. New York: William Mor- Tow & Co. Jake Whitestone's house in North Babury sheltered his blacksmith shop and the town jail, identifiable by the barred windows of the rear wing, Prisoners were rare, so when John Bole came for 10 days and laughed ‘when he was locked in, Jake was in- terested in him. He was more inter- ested when Bole told him where to find his lost keys, and vaguely dis- turbed by the way Bole looked at him with his “wonderful eyes.” Perhaps the eyes were responsible for the fact that Jake’s daughter Madge offered to let him out of the jail, & favor which he refused. On her return to her room Madge met her mother, on her way to let the prisoner out. When Bole left the jail Madge followed him. His charm was mysterious. He was almost & Pled Piper. The story of Bole and Madge is suspended while we are told about the trip of Mr. and Mrs. Shepherdson to Europe and the eritiolsm gf their friends beckuse they | Washington, D. C. 1 stamp jfor reply. { Q. How many sutomoblles per per- a0n there in the United States? In England?-F. G. | A. In the Wnited States there 1s ,one car to every five and a quarter persons, while in England there is one 1o every twenty-five persons. ! Q. How does the nstional per capita | debt of the United States compare | with that of England?—S8. M. A. In this country it is $225, while ! in England it is $813. Q. Is the meat of the beaver edible? —8. P. | A The body meat of the beaver has | rather & gamey fiavor, but if properly i nd cooked is excellent and ly preferred by trappe: | Was gene me, even in the early days | any other when buffalo, elk and deer were abun- | dant. The tail is fatty tissue, very | rich and palatable and considered a great delicacy. | Q. Where is Astolal, mentioned in | “Idylis of the King"?—F. R. W. A. It is generslly identified with Guildtord, in Surrey, England. Q. Did Franklin D. Roosevelt coin the expression, “the forgotten man”?— M. E. l A. He brought it into renewed pop- | ularity, but it had been used by Byron | Earlier it was used in & poem called | “The Common Lot.” In 1883 Wil- |nam Graham Sumner, professor at Ysle University, described the forgot- len man, Q. What sre the surnames of King George of England and the former Kaiser of Germany?—J. D. A. The surname of the King of d is Windsor; that of the for- mer Kaiser of Germany is Hohen- sollern. Q. How many people have lost their lives at sea during the last 100 vears? —H: F. A. There have been 76,000 dealbs in marine disasters throughout the world in the past 100 years. Q. What part of Louisiana did the French Acadians settle? How many were deported from Canada?—W. L, 8. A. The Evangeline country of Louisiana is what is known as the Teche country, which refers to the | entire region adjacent to the Bayou | Teche. It is estimated that French { Acadians numbering more than 6,000 were deported by the English govern- ment in 1755 from Nova Scotia. Q. What has become of the famous John O'Groat’s House in Northern Scotland?—W. H A. It is now & hotel Q. How does the dressed weight of & hog compare with its Hve weight? | —n. L. A. The dressed carcass usually | weighs 76 or 80 per cent of the live weight. Q What were ihe names of Eliza- | beth Barrett's brothers?—K. F. H. | A The brothers of Elizabeth Bar- rett were Edward, Alfred, Charles, John, George, Henry, Octavius and Septimus. Q. How did 2 germent get name “redingote”?—P, T. A. This is a French corruption of ihe English term. “riding coat.” Orig- inally it was & long, full-skirted. the Renewed discussion of American adherence to the World Court, cen- | tering about the Senate Foreign Re- | tations Committee's 14 10 7 favorable vote, reveals widespread newspaper support of the proposal and & feeling in many quarters that there has been & change in public sentiment. Commenting on the action of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin states tMt “believers in the mission of the couri regard the vote as a definite step toward the achievement of their 13-year-old effort.”” The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph says: “That Ameri- tially in favor of the court in the last 12 years cannot be disputed.” The Sioux City (lowa) Tribune holds that “it seems io be generally agreed that the reservations with which the United States would enier the court amply safeguard American interests.” The CRarleston (S. C.) Evening Post observes that the reservation provides “the United States cannot be brought before the court except by consent,” and that paper Dbelieves that “it is not an unreasonable con- dition, and is as far as this country is likely to go in accepting interna- tional adjudication.” The Evening Post sdds that “progress has been made toward adherence farther than ever before,” and points out thst the court “has functioned for years with much satisfaction.” “The time has come™ advises the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury Herald 10 use common sense in internatio Telations. It is an inescapable fact that law cannot prevail in interna- tional relations unless nations unite to support it. The choices are co- operation or chaos.” The Holyoke (Moss.) Transcript calls the court “s conception of the best interna- tional minds in the United States.” adding that “they originated it, de- | veloped it and finally-its constitution was written with the great mind of Elihu Root directing it.” The Tran- script concludes: “Former Secretary Kellogg sits on the court. The United States oughi to belong to the court. Calvin Coolidge made joining the court his policy and asked for & cam- paign to that end because he wished his administration to stand for its constructive actions ior peace. Presi- dent Hoover prayed for adherence to the World Court. Now if Senator Robinson can get it across the Ameri- can ‘public is fully ready.” “The chances for and against en-, trance into the tribunsl seem about even,” in the opinion of the Asbury Park Evening Press, which doubis that “anything but prejudice can now hold us out of the court.” The Evening Press feels that “to continue declining the invitation to join for No other reason than ‘entangling alli- ance’ bugaboo and other antiquated prejudices cannot be excused.” Dis- cussing President Roosevelt's attitude, the Brooklyn Times-Union says: “While & stout defender of American id and opposed in ge: prin- ciple to active and permanent adher- ence to any international obligation e left their son Stephen behin how Stephen met Margaret, and of the time they passed together. The two stories meet and separate, are curiously intertwined, and the reader is left to explain for himself the whole mystery of Jake Whitestone's prisoner in North Eabury jail. A very delicate piece of work, it is perhaps too subtle for the casual reader. Please inclose | Pl;b]i(‘, Sentiment Belie\;ed For World Court Adherence can sentiment has changed substan- double-breasted overcoat for s man, but the style was adapted to women's clothes, Q. Why does the Red an annual roll call?— D, A. Because it is popular in ita or- | ganization and requires the moral and financial support of all the peo- ple. Q. What was the cause of John Philip Sousa’s death?—T, C, A. He died of & heart attack shortly after making a speech at a dinner which he was attending. Cross have T Q. How does Shrady's “General Grant” rank?—V, A. The equestrian statue ranks as one of the outstanding statues of this class executed in modern times. Q. Please define saliva—D, H. A. Saliva is a clear, tasteless, odor- less, slightly alkaline viscid fluid con- sisting of the secretion from the thres| pairs of salivary glands and the mucuous glands of the oral cavity, Saliva aids in converting starch int maltose. This function is aided by th presence of a diastatic enzyme call ptyalin, Q. Who wroie the German story, “Immensee ?— L. H A. Theodor Storm, poet and novel- ist, who lived from 1817 to 1888, wrote this beautiful story, which is famillar to all students of the Ger- man language, Q Why are grass green?—V. C. L. A. The substance which causes the green color of vegetation is chloro- phyll. only in cells ex- is not developed in sbsence of iron. Chemically chlorephvll is & complex nitrogenous substance containing both green and vellow pigments. It is essential in the formation of carbohydrates and hence all plants without it, such as the fungi, are parasitic or saprophytic. Q. Where is Timbuktu?--S. D. A It is 2 town in the French Sue dan on the southern edge of the Sa- hara. It has a population of anout 6.000. and leaves Q. What is the average salary of Government emploves in Washing~ wn?—J. C. 8 A. The average salarv, based on fig- ures compiled in January, 1932, was About $1.441 & vear. Al ihe present uime figures are being compiled which will bring this up to date, Q. Who is president of the National Consumers’ League?—F. G A. Former Gov. John G. Winant of New Hampshire is the newly elected president of the league. Q. What is synecdoche?—H. M A. It is the figure of speech which consists of putilng a part for the whole, the whole for the part, a more comprehensive for a less comprehen- sive term, or vice versa. Thus a hune dred bayoneis for & hundred soldiers; the town was starving for the people in the town, Q. What is the source of the expresa sion, “sour grapes”?—M:R A. The phrase is from Aesop’s called “The Fox and the Grapes.” Q. What sre 1934>—M. M. S A. Dr. William Lyon Phelps has se- lected the following as the five best American novels of 1934: “Lamb in His Bosom.” the Pulitzer Prize novel, by Caroline Miller; “So Red the Rose.” | by Stark Young; “Once a Wilderness,” | by Arthur Pound; “Work of Art,” by Sinclair Lewis, and “Years Are 80 | Long.” by Josephine Lawrence bie the best novels of that would impinge on American sov- ereignty. he is known 1o look on the World Court as a device that should prove valuable in hastening world peace.” “Can we afford longer to keep out of step with the 60 nations that have already given their adherence to the court?” asks the Chester (Pa.) Times, while the Port Huron (Mich.) Times Herald commenis: “We have co- operated and can continue to eo- | operate with the League of Nations |in any and every movement for world | peace and accord without accepting a relationship which we have come | to believe firmly would be the sort of entangling alliance against which | George Washington warned us & cen- |tury and a balf sgo. The World | Court, however, should not be entan- gling. as certainly it should have only & | Judicial relation to alliances as with 'any other relations or dealings of the nations with each other.” “The court itself,” advises the Sara- foga Springs Saratogian, “which has always included a distinguished Amer- | ican in its personnel, has held to the principle of considering no case unless | all parties concerned consented to | its submiasion. The usefulness of the | court will depend upon the support it receives from the great nations of ‘lthe world in particular cases. Amer- iican support involves no closer rela- tion with European affairs than now exists. The protocols should be ratified as speedily as possible.” The Canton (Ohig) Repository, however, is mnot optimistic and re- marks: “Without special effort being, | put forth in its behalf, the protocoli | probably cannot get & place on thel | calendar. A two-thirds vote is re- quired 0 make it effective, Ever i since s inception there has been a hostile minority large enough to pre- vent sdherence to the World Court. | The protocol was ratified in 1926, but with so many amendments it never | could have been accepted by other | members of the court. Since then the | protocol has been revised, and it is the revised document which the Fore elgn Relations Committee has re- ported. Circumstances of the report and the general air of the administra - tion at present prompt a Auspicion that action will be taken only if busi= ness—more pressing business—per~ { mits. The prospect for action on the | anclent issue of the World Court isn't {good. It isn'i bad either, but that doesn’t prove anything.” Dead Sea Comes to Life. From the San Franeisco Chronicle, The Dead Sea, on whose waters the Star of Bethlehem must have glinted, has come io life. Shunned for un- told centuries as a place of death, where birds expired in trying to fiv across the waters and where, so it was told, animals could not live on the lethal shores, the Dead Sea has become not only & rich mine of chemicals but & health resort. Experience of the employes of the potash works on the Dead Sea shore, who found that they never needed the company doctor, resulted last year in the establishment of & seaside and health resort which draws thousands of patrons from Jerusalem and the other Palestinian cites. ‘The contrast is a picture of the difference between modern science and the fables of the ancient world. The ancients believed what they were iold and did not experiment. Moderm science finds ouk S wee s