Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1935, Page 8

A—S8 P ——————————— e THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY .......... veeees.July 23, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. -45¢ per month -60¢ per month per month c per copy Night Final and Sunday Star____70c per month Night Final Star_____.__ 5c per month Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. . Boe " 40c | “ | For they have acquired the habit of | dependence without effort. Member of the Associated Press. "The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this | paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. i — The End of Ratios. It is too early to forecast its eventual effects on naval armaments, but it is certain that the action just announced by the British government ends the sys- tem of ratios established by the Wash- ington Conference of 1921-22. If the future size of fleets is to be subject to limitation, restriction must take some other form than quotas such as have prevailed for the past thirteen years. The disquieting possibility has to be faced that the world is on the ghreshold of another costly competition in sea armaments. Addressing the House of Commons on Monday, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, first jord of the admiralty, revealed that Britain has definitely abandoned the ratio as the yardstick for determining proportionate strength of navies. In 1ts place the British propose a system of *programs.” Each power would be asked to state what size navy it wants by 1942. All replies, Sir Bolton explained, would be “pooled” and an attempt made in 1942, at a general conference, “to ac- commodate these various programs so as to provide adequate strength for each country, whereby it would be made ex- tremely unlikely that any nation could attack with ultimate success.” If, by agreement, any such understanding could be achieved, the British think “some- thing unparalleled” will have been ar- rived at for the taxpayers of all coun- tries. with a corresponding contribution to “the general pacification of the world.” On its face, Britain's renunciation of the ratio which fixes the respective strengths of her own, the American and Japanese Navies on the 5—5—3 basis, effective until December 31, 1936, is on all fours with Japan’s abrogation of the Washington treaty at the end of last year. The first lord of the admiralty indicates that Britain’s action is the direct outcome of the Japanese annul- ment. It is taken with regret, Sir Bol- ton declared, but is inevitable, because some of the other countries concerned consider the ratios an aspersion upon their honor—an official badge of in- feriority. The reference is probably not only to Japan, but also to France and Italy, which resent quotas below those allotted to the three principal naval powers, If all idea of limitation is not to be given up, the British are per- suaded that some method other than ratios must be devised. Unless statesmanship can promptly evolve some stop-gap procedure, it looks very much as if unrestricted naval build- ing would be the rule from now until 1942. The United States has planned to complete its treaty navy by that year. But the British project a program of seventy cruisers, instead of the twenty assigned them by treaty, and now in all likelihood will proceed to lay them down. Japan, on her part, is bent upon providing herself with a fleet the equal in strength, respectively, of the British and American Navies. If Britain builds more cruisers, the United States, in accord with the parity program, will be required to expand its construction ac- cordingly, and Japan will probably fol- low suit. This country, whether “ratio” or “program” limitation is to be the rule, is wedded to the principle of equal- ity with Britain and substantial superi- ority over Japan. That France, Italy and Germany will take a commensurate hand in future navy building is hardly to be questioned. It is far from a reassuring outlook that the death knell of ratios signals. Hopes of a 1935 conference to salvage the situation are apparently blasted. = Report that Congress may adjourn ! before Labor day promises a slight ele- ment of relief. There is hot weather even in September. Relief and Idleness. ‘When wholesale relief bounty reaches the point of depleting the labor market when there is work to be done and jobs are available it becomes a public lia- bility. This is the situation in North Dakota, where abundant grain harvests await the services of men at good wages and the farmers are unable to enlist enough “hands” to bring in the crops. There is no actual shortage of potential labor, just a shortage of willing labor. So the drastic move of suspending 19,000 heads of families from the relief rolls of that State had been made, to supply the needs of the farms. Six other Mid- western States have taken similar meas- ures to insure the gathering of the crops. The demoralizing effect of promiscu- ous relief is a constant factor in any wholesale endeavor to supply sustenance to the needy. If a “living” can be had by not working a premium is put upon idleness. The present country- wide system of combined Government end State succor for the unemployed &as undoubwgly retarded industry to a great extent, & perhaps inescapable re- sult of a social experiment without pre- vious experience for guidance. This labor stringency in the grain areas of the Midwest would not have occurred if the habit of reliance upon pukblic sustenance had not been formed. The measures adopted to meet the situation are only reasonable, if severe. The harvest season is short and when the crops are garnered there will be a slump in the labor market, when it may be necessary to resume the dole. But there remains the hope that with the harvesting of the crops will come re- newed industrial activity on a scale to absorb the labor that will then be re- leased. Those who have loitered while the call for harvest hands was sound- ing and have been drafted for field work by the cutting off of their emergency sustenance will be the first to apply for restoration to the rolls. There are always the families to be considered, the dependents who will suffer if there is no empldyment and no public relief. They must not be per- mitted to suffer. But the demonstration of the principle that relief will not be granted if there is work available must be made effectively, to check the dispo- sition to lapse into dependent idleness which seems to be the trait of many thousands of people today. B Unnecessary Annoyance. With the principle of the automobile inspection bill passed yesterday by the House most people will agree. Maryland and a number of other States have found compulsory annual inspection of automobiles an effective method of guarding against some mechanical de- fects which might contribute to acci- dents. What is more, the windshield sticker denoting the inspection serves as reminder to the driver of its purpose. It may make him more careful. But the bill for the District passed yesterday creates another Government | creates an additional fee for | bureau; automobile drivers; calls for an annual appropriation of $75000 after the first year—when it will be $160,000—and promises unnecessary inconvenience and delay to drivers. Instead of following the practice in Maryland of designating approved service stations for the inspec- tion of automobiles, leaving to the owner the choice of a repair man. the local bill will set up an Automobile Inspec- | tion Bifreau and create more Govern- | ment jobs for the taxpayers to support. | And if the Inspection Bureau runs true to form, it will probably be undermanned, underequipped and, because of niggardly appropriations, altogether inadequate to perform its functions. Getting an auto- mobile inspected will doubtless require long waits, with the automobiles stretched in line for blocks. Private service stations can do the job more efficiently, more quickly and with less inconvenience to the owner. In Maryland, no fee is charged the | motorist. Most automobile owners are willing enough to remedy defects, once | they are pointed out, and the service | stations are compensated by the repair jobs. In the District the automobile owner would have to take his machine to a private service station for the repairs ordered by the Inspection Bureau. Is it impossible for legislation to be enacted without creating more bureaus, more red tape, more job-holders, more ways to annoy the hard-pressed taxpayer? e r—e—————— Those who suggest abolishing the United States Constitution for the sake | of convenience might undertake some- | thing easier, and, if the budget is hard | to balance, move to abolish the budget. - In addition to other significances, La- bor day may be celebrated as an ap- proximate date for the adjournment of Congress. —————————— More food will hereafter be raised. There is no doubt that scarcity makes | the price high, but scarcity means hunger. Japanese gunboats attacking a Chris- tian mission school are doing what they can to fire another of those shots that were heard around the world. Terrorism at Terre Haute. In general pattern the present labor | disturbance at Terre Haute, Ind., is fol- lowing the model of the San Prancisco strike of July, 1934, when the business activities of the entire city were sus- pended for several days, with consequent suffering and loss to many thousands of people who were in nowise concerned in the labor issue. In Indiana, however, there has been more prompt action by the State executive, who has ordered the National Guard to duty to preserve the peace and to permit the transaction of necessary business, whereas that step was not taken in San Francisco until the situation had become extremely grave. This present trouble in Indiana de- veloped from a labor row in a single establishment, which could have been settled peacefully if there had been a disposition on the part of the strikers to yield their case to adjustment. The speed with which the opportunity was grasped to bring pressure to bear upon the employers by extending the strike to other lines and by compelling mer- chants to close their stores and thus cut off the supplies of the people sug- gests that radical influences were at work, just as in San Francisco, to bring about a complete community conniv- ance in the determination of this issue of wages in one shop. With one or two exceptions, all of the unions involved in the general strike at Terre Haute are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, the head of which recently declared in positive ferms his unfaltering opposition to rad- icalism in labor organizations. This present situaflg: affords an opportunity & THE FEVENING STAR, WASHT | maybe both. for a definition of radicalism, the es- sence of which is evident in this effort on the part of some as yet undisclosed influence to paralyze an entire com- munity of many thousands of people for the sake of a wage adjustment which should be readily effected if the isssue is honestly that of the correction of industrial injustice. One “Must’’ Merits Another. One thing, it has been observed, leads to another, One “must” program leads to another “must” program. And so on, toward infinity. To his Monday morning audience Senator Borah sug- gests looking forward. Congress, he believes, will still be in session on No- vember 1. Hot weather remains for some weeks to come. The administra- tion leaders are carefully building bar- ricades against “hot weather” legisla- tion. In this category they doubtless place inflationary proposals, the bonus bill, the Prazier-Lemke bill. But ex- perience has shown that such measures thrive in frigid, as well as torrid, tem- peratures. While the heat and the hu- midity of July and August will not be with us always, proponents of soldier | bonuses and farm bonuses remain. When the hot weather of mid-September gives way to the invigorating airs of Fall one kind of legislation will be benefited as much as another. The friends of the Frazier-Lemke bill and the bonus bill, Senator Borah cau- P tions, have made up their minds to match one series of “must” legislation with another. These bills are certainly to be tacked on, in some sort of form, to the banking bill or the tax bill— In the House & pe- tition to discharge the Rules Committee from further consideration of the Frazier-Lemke bill is gaining signatures day by day. It will doubtless be forced to the floor. Thomas and others are biding their time—waiting the opportune moment to | strike for inflation through soldiers’ bonus or something else, They may not succeed in loading down the tax bill | with a bonus measure, thereby forcing its veto by the President. But they can cause plenty of trouble. The inept dumping of the new tax legislation on a weary Congress as the end of its session hove in sight has com= plicated the administration’s task, not | | only in delaying the adjournment of Congress, but by inviting the bonus and inflationary boys to come on and play. They thought the game was over—for the session. They have been granted an extension of time. As Senator Borah indicates, they plan to make the most of it. Hitler had a hard life in his youth. | He evidently enjoyed it enough to favor making life as hard as possible for everybody. —r——————— There is less inducement to study the quaint customs of foreign lands. ‘They are all getting bombing planes and trying on gas masks. .o o The League of Nations cannot be | expected to prevent war unless its mem- bers can arrive at a’ positive agreement not to fight among themselves. oo Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Bird Lere. The dove flew lightly from the ark Before it found a place to park. Its journey would have been in vain If it had been an aeroplane. Those were the times when none had | heard Of things like a cast-iron bird; The dove was welcome then, I vow, I oft suspect we need him now. Though arks I don’t attempt to praise— Their times were horse and chariot | days— When airplanes carry bombs above I much prefer a friendly dove. Insineerity. “Are we sincere in our present civiliza- tion?” “I don't think so,” said Senator Sorghum. “Anyhow I'm not. Food cost | has to be suspected, but its a palpable shame when I pretend to like liver and onions as much as I do beefsteak and mushrooms.” Stopping the Argument. 1d like to go fishing some day ‘Where the current will ripple and spray. The fish may be few, But there’s little to do, And, what's better, there’s nothing to say. Trritation. “Do you believe in soaking the rich?” “Not as a practice,” said Mr. Dustin Stax. “It promotes ill-feeling. Every- body suspects his neighbor of trying to be richer than he has any business to be.” “One man who saves another's life is a hero,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “but so is a general whe contrives to kill thousands.” Differences. The social distinctions that people assert Can do little good and may frequently hurt. The land where you dwell has its stories to tell, And different heroes men's homage compel. So we grow impolite and we threaten to fight. We call for obedience just as of old, 1f symbols we hold are embellished with gold. The battles are great or the battles are small, But social distinctions the cause of them all! “Poverty has saved de life of many & young feller,” said Uncle Eben, “who would have bought hisself a shotgun or a canoeff he had of had de money.” 2 In the Senate Senator | NGTON, Pensions Under the Clark Amendment To the Editor of The Star: The letter of Mr. Joseph B. Glenn in your July 19 issue indicates that, if granted exemption under the Clark amendment, employers who have a long record of generous treatment of their employes will suddenly change their spots, become hard hearted and deprive their older employes of the same liberal pensions which many of their former associates are now enjoying. Everybody admits that the Federal system for many years to come will be cheaper for employers than exempted plans, because those employes who retire during the next 20 to 30 years will re- ceive far more pension than the taxes will provide. However, while the pen- sions will be “bargains” they will be far lower than the scale hundreds of employers now provide. For example: An employe, age 55 when the Federal plan becomes eflective, and earning $100 per month, will get a Federal pension of $2250 when he becomes age 65. I1f he were 45 years old in 1937 the pension would be $3250. This same employe under a private plan would receive at least twice the latter figure, because he or 55, as well as between then and age 65. If employers with private pension plans have given and are giving liberal pensions now, why should they, as Mr. Glenn claims, “induce” their older em- ployes to go under the Federal plan. If all they want is to have their em- ployes receive the Federal scale of bene- fits, they would never ask for exemp- tion, because under an exempted plan they must pay the full cost of the bene- fits which equal the Federal scale plus such additional benefits as they may desire to add. Mr. Glenn claims that if employers put older employes into the Federal plan and younger employes into a private one, cost to the employer would be less than taxes. This the Clark amendment absolutely prevents. No employer can put into the plan sums less than the taxes otherwise payable. While many present plans are not financially sound, several hundred such plans are now insured with the great no one doubts. Only plans whose incidentally also answers another one of Mr. Glenn’s points, to the effect that the the investment by the employer of pen- sion funds in his own business. The Clark amendment protects em- ployes who leave a private plan, gives exempted plans and will encourage the continuance of liberal pensions. It is | than the scale established by national act. not included, the subsequent failure of titles 2 and 8 of the social security bill | to stand up in court, a failure prophe- | sied by many eminent attorneys, will employes, unless their employers are willing to take another chance and to re-establish the social security which they had voluntarily provided and which had been ruthlessly destroyed by a social security act. H. WALTER FORSTER. Increase in Arrests For Drunkenness To the Editor of The Star The letter in The Star, July 20, by Mrs. Bertha Bouroughs, re: “Difference | Between the Drys and Prohibitionists,” and from whom she gets her informa- tion when she says “an inquiry at police headquarters reveals that there has been quencies during the past 12 months, with alcoholism,” statements she makes. In response to Mrs. Bouroughs' state- ington, D. C., gathered from the police police headquarters,” and from nearby Virginia. These show that in 1934 the increase over 1933 in automobile fatali- ties in D. C. was 68.7 per cent. crease over 1933 of 1,844 and over 1932 an increase of 5032 commitments, an increase, respectively, of 15.8 per cent and 585 per cent, the greater increase in 1933 over 1932 was apparently due to beer alone. In nearby Virginia, under the so-called “State authority plan,” from June 1 to October 1, 1934, the first four months after the plan went into force, the increase of arrests for drunkenness over the same four months of 1933 ranges from 330.2 per cent for Harrisonburg to | 593 per cent for Richmond and 464 | for the State running near 75 per cent and the revocation of driver’s permits because of driving automobiles while drunk increased nearly 50 per cent. If Mrs. would learn definitely about delinquencies and poverty it would be well for her to visit the Salvation Court and the Woman’s Bureau. The intoxicated driver is more reckless as to speed and “daring carelessness” than the normal driver. | Canada, at the beginning of this year with every pair of automobile license plates issued was handed out a blotter containing the following: “That additional split second may mean the difference between safety and disaster!” "Autol.t 35 miles speed: Normal re- action, 10 ft. Reaction after 2 20 ft. to 30 ft.” iy Rock Creek Pollution Should Be Corrected ‘To the Editor of The Star: A recent announcement states that the National Capital Parks Commission will immediately to expend $1,- 000,000 allotted for improvements of the city’s parks. Eleven tree surgeons will be sent at once into Rock Creek Park as a preliminary step. This unquestionably is money well spent, but when one con- siders the real menace to health which the picturesque, polluted Rock Creek of= fers to those who would avail them- selves of its beauties, it pales ‘lnw in- gets credit for service before ages 45 | life insurance companies whose solvency | financing is approved by the Social Se- | curity Board can be exempted. This | solvency of plans would be affected by | the Social Security Board supervision of | Finally, #f the Clark amendment is ! result in the complete elimination of | pension plans for some three million | is interesting, but it would be more in- | teresting to know more definitely where | no abnormal number of juvenile delin- | no increase in the percentage due to | and some of the other | ments I give a few figures from Wash- | records and not from “an inquiry at | The | jail records in D. C. for 1934 for com- | mitments for intoxication show an in- | Army headquarters and the Juvenile | D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. exist on the top of a desk. It is impossible to judge from such circumstances. The times have changed. Once it may have been easy to deduct certain things from outward signs. Consider the householder. At one time it was fairly easy to tell what sort of people lived in a house by the way the yard was kept. It can't be done any more, although the idea that it can dies hard. * Kk Kk Perhaps it never could be done with desks. A desk is more than just something to hold necessary working tools, supposedly of the intellect. A desk becomes a part of the being of the person who habitually sits at it. An English novel of several years ago gave an interesting description of a war-time occupant of a desk, going through the drawers and pigeonholes, sorting over the possessions of a former occupant. Most of it he considered junk, to be | thrown away. The disorderly desk may not be as untidy as it looks to a stranger, who is looking at it from the simple stand- point of the stranger. Every paper, every book, may mean much to the owner. When he sees the desk he sees what the papers and desk mean. He sees uses, customs, enthusiasms, necessities, work, play. The stranger sees nothing but a desk and there is not much to a desk, just as a desk. 3% 4% 1t is just another piece of furniture, when the rightful occupant is gone. It is as the body or a house or a city, deserted by the spirit of life of the body, the house or the city. An old roll-top affair, battered and worn, scarce fit to be hauled away, but for many years it held in its equally i | worn chair a man. | obvious that successful and generous | | employers can provide larger pensions | No doubt he dreamed, too, from time to time. work. They see dreams, hopes deferred, love and expectation. Few desks see nothing but | The worn blotter, dog-eared at the | corner, could tell a tale fit for a fine novel, if some one should come along who possessed the key to the mystery. Maybe it could not tell much of a | story, after all. Not all desks can, any more than people. ok Six desks—and you couldn't possibly tell about the occupants by looking at them. The untidiest desk is occupied by the most carefully dressed man. The very orderly desk is held down by one who is supremely careless in matters of dress. Yonder painfully straightened affair is so only under the ministrations of the janitor, who has a passion for orderliness. | i 1 Every one, of course, should strive for a certain amount of order. One’s own order, not some one’s else’s That is where common sense comes in. Order is an ideal, not to be at- tained in perfection, perhaps. Neatness is best from th from some one else. No two persons would have the same idea about order and neatness of a desk. Just so long as the user can find what he wants, perhaps that is enough neat- ness and order for all practical purposes. If two persons were to be given the commission to “straighten up” a certain desk, each would do it in an entirely different manner. The joke of it would be that what seemed very nice to one would strike the other as helter-skelter. Hence it has been found in practice | that it is a very good thing to leave | some one else’s desk strictly alone, in so far as arrangement of papers, baskets, files, books, and so on, are concerned, in the belief that the user will know exactly where to look for what he wants, although another might have no idea at all where to find anything. * X * % We believe in an untidy desk, not just because we keep one, but because | it shows a fine amplitude of spirit, a willingness to be interested in many self, not things. " P We are slightly suspicious of the desk, however great its occupant, which shows itself too straight-laced in the face of | day. Such a desk, mahogany or oak, real ! wood or metal even more natural, be- | speaks the mind which thinks in geo- ‘There is a real need, in this topsy- turvy world, for such intelligences, but such must not expect all of us to be so. | There is need, too, for the fine spirit | which scatters such largess as it pos- sesses to the four winds and wishes for | more. e = R When we look at a very untidy desk, scattered with papers, pen and ink, letters and all, we seem to see a modern cornucopia, a veritable horn of plenty, overflowing with the things of life. If it is a business man’'s desk, we see money, and plenty of it. If it is a writer's desk, we see words, and plenty of them. If the desk belongs to a | legislator, we see laws and still more laws. These men may make mistakes, but they will somehow get things done and | not go around bragging about it, either. Let us give the untidy desk, as some | call it, full credit. It is a desk of | accomplishment. The man who keeps his desk just so, with everything in its place, may do as well in the end, but he will have much to overcome. Some- i way we see his product hard and an- | gular, as if he had obstacles to surmount | in the very production, where every- | thing should be laid out for self-help. Emerson wrote: “Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string,” at a cluttered desk. | taken from houses of correction. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washing= ton Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D.C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Please give some Information about Capt. Edwin C. Musick of the Pan- American clipper—L. M. A. Capt. Musick was born at St. Louis in 1894 and learned to fly in Los An- geles. He joined the Army Air Service in 1917 as a civilian instructor. Holding more flying records in his own name than any other aviator, he has flown over 1,000,000 miles, and was America's first international airmail pilot. He has been with Pan-American Airways since 1927, Q. Ts the first sanatorium in America for the treatment of tuberculosis still in existence?—F. R. G. A. Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau's little red cottage at Saranac Lake, where pioneer work was done in treating this disease, was rededicated on June 25 at semi-centennial services there. Q. How many trees have been planted by the C. C. C. boys?—D. D. A. From the time the camps were started, in April, 1933, until April, 1935, about 291,000,000 trees have been planted —most of them on denuded areas. Q. Were casket girls really sent to New Orleans, as shown in “Naughty Mari- etta”?—K. S. A. There were a number of young | women sent to Louisiana in 1728 from France. Each of them had been given | by the government a casket containing wearing apparel, from which they were called filles a la cassette, or casket girls. Other girls sent to the colony had been It became at length a point of honor to be descended from the former and not from “correction girls.” Q. Who discovered and named the Columbia River?>—C. F A. It was discovered by the Spaniard Heceta, in 1775, and called St. Roque. | Afterward, in 1792, Capt. Gray of Bos- ton explored the stream and changed the name to Columbia. Q. What music was played at the King's command concert on Empire day?—T. D. A. The concert was given during the jubilee celebration. The proceeds went to the care of needy musicians. The program offered an historical sequence of British music from the earliest days of the art up to the present time. Q. Is “The Alhambra,” by Washington Irving, based on fact?—E. J. A. This Spanish sketch book grew out of the experiences and studies of Irving while an actual resident in the old royal palace of the Moors at Granada. Many of the sketches have their foundation only in the author’s fancy, but others are veritable history. Q. How did the phrase, “the real McCoy,” originate, and what does it mean?—D. W. A. William McCoy was the founder of Rum Row, off New York. He landed the first sea-borne shipments in New Eng- land and opened up St. Pierre et Mique- lon as a rum base. Quoting from Fred- eric F. van de Water’s biography: “In a day when a man’s word was worth no more than the breath that bore it, when contracts were inforced by lynxlike vig- | ilance backed by firearms; when theft, STARS, MEN AND ATOMS otebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Intricately interwoven are the threads of life and light. The existence of very narrow bands in upon two key threads in the life-light fabric. When the studies were pushed further, however, a discovery was made which may be of even more fundamental significance. The red-orange-yellow part of the visible spectrum—the warm side | —supposedly acted throughout as a stim- | ulant to biological activity. The sur- prising fact developed, however, that at the very edge of the invisible in the . | red end of the spectrum there is a sin- dromant lettuce seeds when exposed to radiation. Last Winter Dr. Flint found that such seeds could be made to germinate by ex- Meanwhile the division of radiation and organisms of the Smithsonian In- stitution had been conducting experi- ments on the effect of light on a totally different biological phenomenon—photo- hibited on the side toward the light. It was found, further, that the inhibi- tory effect lay in the green-blue-violet If any one doubts this, let into the park, say in the the Connecticut avenue , for an evening of rest and re- laxation on any of the hot Summer nights. In spite of the efforts made by your paper and others in a strenuous campaign several years ago to correct this disgrace, the condition is no bet- ter today than then. Regardless of where the sewage comes from, it should be corrected at once. No other civilized country would stand for it 10 minutes. If necessary, the entire drainage area of Rock Creek, from its very source to its mouth, should be condemned by right of eminent domain and set aside, open sewer. go down of This is certainly the one big improve- ment needed in Washington, and now, while the money and unemployed engi- neers are available, it seems to me is a most propitious time to act. fi 8. HAYNES, 7 gle narrow band with a more powerful | inhibitory effect than the entire blue- green-violet range. This band lies around the critical wave length of 7.600 Angstrom units, at just about the point where the red light ceases to be visible to the human eye. Ordinarily its effect would be masked by the stimulating ef- fect of the wave lengths surrounding it, especially in sunlight. Thus far the effect of this narrow band has been demonstrated only in re- spect to the germination of lettuce seeds. Flint and McAlister decline to speculate | Perhaps fortunately for vegitation and | the structure of life which depends on it—if the inhibitory influence of this wave length on growth should prove to general—the solar radiation in this neighborhood is greatly reduced, owing, it is believed, to its absorption partly by oxygen and partly by water vapor in the atmosphere of the earth. Not- this abscrption, however, energy of solar radiation at this s e ity to stand erect for any pro- is exclusively among mam- | brought out in a comparative | f human and chimapzee feet re- the current issue of the Journal of Physical Anthropology. the bones and muscles shows that possible for the human to stand with all the major joints and the cen- ters of gravity of various parts of the body sttuated in vertical planes passing through the ankle joints. This posi- | tion involves the minimum muscular contraction in standing. | When the chimpanzee stands its limbs | are flexed at the hip and knee, neces- sitating continuous muscular contrac- tion to prevent movement of these joints. To remove this necessity the animal rests on all fours, or squats. It is hard work to stand. “It is not surprising,” says the re- port, “that the art of prolonged stand- ing represents a distinctly human ac- The arrangements of the bones and muscles is reflected in two ways of walk- ing. The chimpanzee places the outer border of each foot on the ground al- most immediately after the heel has touched and then rotates the inner border downward until the foot has come into complete contact. In human walking the heel precedes the foot markedly in its contact with the ground and when the forepart of the foot is lowered both borders touch simul- taneously. > o double-crossing, piracy, even murders, were frequent and usually unpunished, McCoy strode his boyishly grinning, zest- ful way, respected and honored by the underworld rabble. * * * The liquor McCoy’s ships carried to Rum Row was always the best. Debts he incurred, whether oral or written, were paid in full. Friends whom he made he kept. * * * To Nassauvians he has become a glamorous Robin Hood of the Main. His erstwhile associates have epito- mized his square crookedness in a phrase that has become a part of the Nation's slang. ‘the real McCoy.' signifying all that is best and most genuine.” Q. How old is the American Tract Society?—F. K. A. This society was organized in New York City on May 11, 1825. Q. How long has a person who does not join a labor union been known as a scab?—R. B. A. It was used as a term of abuse ap- plied to a person as early as 1590, in the sense of a workman who refuses to join an organized movement in behalf of his trade. The first recorded use was in 1811. The offending member was then termed a scab, and wherever he was employed no others of the society were allowed to work. Q. Does the bride stand at the right | or left of the bridegroom?—A. P. A. She stands at the left of the bride- | groom during the marriage service. Q. In what battle were the most com- | batants killed in proportion to the num- ber engaged and length of time of fighting?—J. R. L. A. At the battle of Namasigue, which occurred during the hostilities between Honduras and Nicaragua, in 1907. This battle is said to be a world record in respect to the proportion of casualties of the number engaged compared with the actual time of fighting. Three thou- sand or more were killed in a few min- utes of actual combat. Q. What was the name of the car- toonist, TAD?—H. J. A. His name was Thomas A. Dorgan (1878-1929). He was one of the best car- | toonists of his time; in the opinion of many, the foremost. Q. How many eggs do fish lay?—F. G. A. The maximum number of eggs laid by fish varies greatly, but in all cases the number increases with the weight and age of the fish. Thas it has been calculated that the number laid by the salmon is roughly about 1,000 to every pound weight of the fish. The sturgeon lays about 7,000.000; the herring, 50,000; the turbot, 14,311,000; the sole, 134,000; the perch, 280,000. Briefly, the number is greatest where the risks of destruc- tion are greatest. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Lilies of the Town On a July day in a florist’s pool A lily bloomed, serene and cool, Exquisite petals half unfurled Beyond the reach of all the world. On the frosted pane in the July day A girl's white hand for a moment lay, Fingers curled like the petals rare, ‘The palms a cup as pure and fair, One lily sheltered by air-cooled glass— Ppart of the crowds that pass. .