Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1935, Page 8

HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, "AUGUST 27, 1935. A8 T , : THIS AND THAT THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY ...... ...August 27, 1935 — e THEODORE W. NOYES....... + . Editor e The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: Pennsylvanta Ave. Géan Office: 14 Rexent 8t.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. 450 per month Nicht Final Ed {lisht Pinal apd Sunaay Star ight Finai Sta Collection ma: Orders may be tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. . Sund .. $10.00; 1 mo., {i5¢ B:H' ‘& y. s ;r ’5(1 00; 1 mo. bue Sunday on] $1.00; 1 mo.. All Other States snd Canada. Dail: d - X Ball? "oy o 70 per month 65¢ per month each month. e nt by mail or telephone Na- 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 Daper and also the local news published hereln. All’ Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. —_—————————— The Law and Technicalities. The ignoble failure of the deficiency bill, with its $100,000,000 appropriations, raises the question whether the Presi- dent may temporarily divert other funds to meet the immediate needs covered in the deficiency bill. The dictionaries define “appropria- tion” as something, usually money, “set aside formally or officially for a special use or purpose,” and section nine of the first article of the Constitution declares: “No money shall be drawn from the ‘Treasury, but in consequence of appro- priations made by law.” Before the New Deal, with its appro- priations of billions for relief and ex- pendable in the discretion of the Presi- dent, it is highly improbable that any one would have attempted the argument that money not officially or formally ap- propriated through the deficiency bill could be obtained from other sources. But under the relief policy hundreds of mil- lions have been spent for purposes which never entered the heads of the members of Congress appropriating the money and such purposes have included the regular functions of Government departments. The Army, the Navy, the Coast and Geo- detic Survey, the Bureau of the Census and practically every department and agency of the Government have carried on their regular work, on a larger scale, out of “relief” funds. During discussion in Congress of the anticipated effect of the death of the deficiency bill, both Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Leader Robinson, apparently after talking with the President, stated that the %officials charged with admin- istration of the several agencies pro- vided for in the deficiency bill would probably not be prevented from func- tioning should the bill fail. But last night Senator Robinson, on the basis of further research, told the Senate that “it is my information that the controller general, who passes finally upon the question as to the right to expend other funds than those carried in this bill for the administration of the various acts * * * has indicated to members of this body that in his judg- ment there is no fund available for the purposes stated.” And Senator Robin- son called to the attention of the fili- bustering Senator Long the trouble he would cause by killing the deficiency bill. This administration, however, has not hesitated to cut corners before, where the controller general’s rulings are con- cerned, and it might not hesitate again. Should the President transfer by execu- tive order funds for administrative and other initial expenses of the social secur- iy program the controller general might declare such transfer improper and hold the disbursing officers of the Govern- ment liable. But only the Department of Justice could initiate prosecution of the disbursing officers and only Con- gress could proceed against the Chief Executive. Within four months Con- gress will be back, and the irregularity, if any were shown to exist, would be sanctioned. That was doubtless understood by congressional leaders, else they would not have permitted the bill to die. It is not believed the President will allow his social security acts to be delayed for another four months through what this administration is apt to regard as a mere technicality. ———— Another Peak Conquered. ' The time will one day come when every mountain of the world will have been climbed, when every lofty peak will have been conquered. As year fol- lows year and the technique of alpining improves it is inevitable that even mighty Everest must submit. An interesting gesture in that direction is the news re- ceived from Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory, to the effect that Mount Steele has been scaled hy an expedi- tion of the American Geographical Bociety. - Sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine feet high, this most recent mountain to feel the tread of human feet has been considered “one of the highest and most inaccessible” eleva- tions of the Canadian Northwest. Lit- tle has been known about it, mystery has been its distinguishing characteristic. Covered with snow and glacial ice, it has reared its silver head above an unexplored terrain, thirty miles north of Mount Logan in the St. Elias Range of the Cascade chain, Veterans have pre- ferred to let it stand untried, and it is = group of younger men who now have edded its name to the list of heights mttained. A message of only nineteen - words tells the story: “Report ascent of Mount Steele, August 15, by Hans, Joe, Harrison, myself, and safe return Bur- wash Landing. Walter Wood.” The signer of the telegram is Walter A. Wood, jr, & junior member of the Geographical Society staff, who, however, already has had experience in Switzer- land, Greenland, India -and Central America, and who has proved his right to be numbered among scientists by his skillful use of new aerial survey instru- ments invented by his chief, O. M. Miller, head of the organization’s re- search department. With him went Hans Fuehrer, Joseph Forbes and his brother, Harrison Wood, each of whom shares in the credit and the fame of the victory. Photographs were the practical ob- jective of the effort. The society wanted pictures of a hitherto uncharted region, and Mr. Wood and his colleagues were commissioned to obtain them. It is expected that a map of approximately two thousand square miles of territory will be the immediate result of thejr en- deavor. But an inspiring spiritual sig« nificance also is represented in the suc- cess of the expedition. More important: than the climb itself and more valuable than its cartographic monument is the simple fact that in an age when millions unhappily are discouraged men still have the capacity to triumph over circumstance. ot Tu Quoque! ‘While it is quite within the right of an ambassador to speak his mind on any question affecting the relations of the nation which he represents at the capital of another power, it may be suggested that Russia’s envoy has not been altogether happy in his remarks on the protest that has just been filed at Soviet headquarters by this Government against the activities of the radicals in America who have recently sat in con- vention in Moscow at the Aill-World Congress of the Communist Interna- tional. Declaring that he “has no in- tention of saying anything” about the protest, he proceeds to refer “to a cam- paign which has been conducted by some persons in this country against our government and against our form of government,” and quotes the Biblical injunction against beholding “the mote which 1s in thy brother's eye, but per- ceiveth not the beam that is in thine own eye.” This is the “tu quoque” rejoinder in quite specific form. To draw a parallel between American criticism of the Soviet system of government, which has un- questionably been frankly rife from the beginning of the new regime in Russia, and the organized efforts of the Third International, which is in effect the Russian government, to subvert the existing American system is to beg the question altogether. American criticism of the Soviet is to be admitted. But at no time has the Government of the United States stimulated this criticism or counte- nanced it. This Government refrained for several years from recognizing Russia in its new form. It did so be- cause it regarded that new form as an experiment in national administration which was based upon a complete tyranny. Also because it was estab- lished upon the principle of warfare against truly representative government everywhere in the world. And likewise because of the repudiation by the new regime of certain debts owing to the United States. Eventually Russia was recognized and relations were resumed on the basis of the payment of those debts and the abstention of organized attempts to subvert the American system of Gov- ernment, both of which were pledged by Russia. The debts have not been paid and the propaganda for subversion of Government in the United States to conform to the Communist ideal has continued. That ideal remains the guide and goal of the Russian government. That government and the Third Inter- national are in effect identical in that all offices of power and authority in Russia are held by members of the Communist party. And when that party meets in international session, with delegates from all countries, including the United States, it has for its chief objective the promotion of a world revolution to overthrow all other gov- ernments and to replace them with Communism. There is so wide a difference between the natural reactions of Americans loyal to their home form of Government, ex- pressed in criticism and condemnation of subversive radicalism, and the en- couragement by the political organiza- tion which is the government of Russia of subversive actions in this country and elsewhere, that the remarks of the Rus- sian Ambassador in Washington on the subject of the note of protest just filed at Moscow indicate a complete inca- pacity of understanding or a refusal to admit an issue that is as plain as the fact that the Third International exists and that it is working to destroy true demecracy in the United States. The Session Dies. The first session of the Seventy-fourth Congress closed most unexpectedly with the death of an appropriation bill. This was not because the Congress shrank from wppropriating $192,000,000 more— the amount carried in the now defunct third deficiency bill. Far from it. This Congress has a record of greater appro- priations than any other. The appro- priation bill died because Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana took the floor and filibustered the measure to death. No opportunity was given to vote before the hour of midnight last night, when an adjournment became automatic. Adjournment, if not the passage of the deficiency bill, was made possible last night because President Roosevelt made a “compromise” with the Senate cotton bloc. He agreed to boost the Govern- ment loans on cotton from nine to ten cents a pound and to pay the cotton farmers the difference between the price for which they sell their cotton and twelve cents a pound. In the considera- tion of the deficiency bill a coalition of cotton and wheat Senators on Saturday had written amendments calling for Government loans of twelve cents a pound on cotton arid ninety cents a bushel on wheat. The new order, granting the ten-cent loan on cotton, was issued late yesterday for two pur- poses—to prevail upon the Senate to reconsider the vote by which it had placed the wheat and cotton amend- ments in the bill and to bring about a prompt adjournment of Congress. The Senate cotton bloc, although it failed to get all it wanted, may point with pride to the fight it made and to the results accomplished. But what of the wheat bloc? The wheat Senators are like the little pig that went to market and cried, “Wee, wee,” all the way home. They pulled the chestnuts out of the fire for their cotton brethren and then were left high and dry, with no provision for Government loans on wheat. Mr. Long’s filibuster did not save the wheat farmers the proposed loans. But his remarks emphasized the fact that the wheat loans had been thrown over- board as soon as the President had been assured of enough cotton votes to make it possible both to strike the loan amendments from the deficiency bill and to bring about an adjournment. The Louisiana Senator, bitter opponent of the Roosevelt administration, was also stubborn enough to prevent the fulfil- ment of the President’s plan to take the loan amendments out of the bill, have it passed and then adjourn. Mr. Long likened his fight against the Roosevelt domination of Congress to the battle of Lexington. It was a shot, he said, that might be heard around the Nation. ¢ The Congress has gone, wearily. It has been anxious to get away these many months. Only the persistence of the President in his demand for the passage of his “share-the-wealth” tax bill prevented adjournment a month ago. ‘The President, it was rumored yester- day, had “threatened” that he would prorogue the Congress if the Senate con- tinued to insist upon its cotton and wheat loan amendments to the de- ficiency bill. No one seriously believed that he would do any such thing. Al- though the Constitution, in Section 3, Article II, says “he may, on extraordi- nary peccasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree- ment between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he may think proper,” no President of the United States has ever exercised this preroga- tive. The country, like the members of now that adjournment has come. There will be no more billion-dollar appropria- tions for a while, e With the United States Government binding itself to keep the peace for six months and Mussolini giving assurance that his war will be swift and decisive, a respectful attitude toward Washing- ton's warnings against entanglements may be easy. r—ve— Great Britain contemplates Gibraltar and Suez with the close attention that is always required toward suburban de- velopment. —_———— Munitions makers may be in favor of keeping the United States out of war and concentrating on defensive prepara- tions for their own valuable plants. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Peace. Now “Let us have peace!” said a general great When hostilities drew to a close. We make the suggestion to every state ‘That suffers from lack of repose. ‘We say it in Russian and also Chinese, In Nippon we utter the call. We find the demand is whatever you Pplease. The supply is exceedingly small, Now, “Let us have peace,” it is whispered in Greece, In Germany, also in France; ©Old Italy might let the battle cry cease If Africa’d give it a chance. On these words we have ponderedsa lot, In bewilderment now we are lest As we hear the inquiry, “Just where is it got?” And also “How much does it cost?” Saving. “You still think a citizen ought to save money?"” “Yes,” sald Senator Sorghum. “But if he happens to be a lobbyist he shouldn't try to salvage too much in a lump.” - Jud-Tunkins says don't ask him about. a New Deal. All he wants to know is when do we get out the ballots and start another. Responsibility of Youth. Be thrifty, son, and what I save Try not to squander. The precepts that Ben Franklin gave With reverence ponder. N So when I leave you some sad day ‘With no protector, % Perhaps you'll find enough to pay The tax collector. A Hoping Job, “What's your boy Josh interested in now?” “Workin' out a big idea of his own,” said Farmer Corntossel. “He wears a silk hat, eyeglasses with a heavy string and smokes a big black cigar, hoping some one will mistake him for a high- powered lobbyist and hand him a bundle In tumult most astounding. Of course, Il have to make a choice, Perhaps our cause grows weaker.” And then he lifted up his voice And hollered, “Mister Speaker!” “You can't believe all you hears,” said Uncle Eben. “You has to put in 50 much time listenin’ dat you can’t make up yoh mind ’bout snything in particular.” n Congress, will breathe a sigh of relief | Gives the “True Facts” as To the Transit Company ‘To the Editor of The Star: In The Star recently Mr. Bernard L. Henning seemed greatly disturbed due to the alleged prosperity of what he fondly terms the “local car and bus mo- nopoly.” Let’s look at the record! During the war both companies earned excess profits. During 1923 car patron- age began to fall off due to the automo- bile. The slump continued until Fall, 1930, when the cut-rate cab appeared. Nearly all must be aware of the racket that ensued. Jobless men in order to obtain work in the taxi business were forced to sign contracts whereby they were obliged to pay a rental of $4 per day; also must buy gas, oil, tires, re- pairs, etc,, from the philanthropists who had them by the throat. scrape together enough to meet their obligations they were “given” a worn- out cab, originally costing about $700, for a sum ranging between $1,400 and $1,500. Thus was inaugurated an era of cut- throat competition that forced the older taxi companies to liquidate, while the car lines and bus company faced bank- ruptcy. If this had occurred hundreds would have been thrown out of work; most of whom had helpless dependents. Did the taxi people worry? Not so as to be noticeable. In the face of the foregoing facts Mr. Henning, choosing to overlook the effect of the advent of the pass system, ascribes renewed traction prosperity to taxi competition. The Capital Traction Co. had main- tained its 7 per cent stock dividend until 1930 only by using reserves earned dur- ing the war. On April 1, 1930, this was reduced to 6 per cent and so on down until the last dividend, paid on July 1, 1932, was 1 per cent for the second quar- ter of that year. No more until De- cember 15, 1934, when on a $13,000 in- vestment I received $130. No more since. Yet Mr. Henning declares that the “monopoly” is paying dividends. The W. R. & E. Co. continued its 5 per cent dividend, but only through its profits from the P. E. P. Co. Several years ago, and during lean times, the two companies spent about $400,000 on track changes to improve the Capital Plaza. The project was not of benefit to the railways but for civic improvement, but rather than delay they furnished the money from their slender resources, trusting that Congress would reimburse them later, but I believe that they are still trusting and waiting. Both companies raised wages to con- form to N. R. A. codes during bad times. Any informed person must be aware that the car company officials consid- ered the recent wage increases excessive, but, having agreed to abide by the deci- sion of a Board of Arbitration, they accepted the decision. However, Mr. Henning finds fault with the wage increase, blaming the mo- nopoly for that also. He also blames it for not spending money when it didn't have it. Now that it has money to improve tracks, rolling stock, etc., he says that “they are spending money like a drunken sailor.” So reasonable! He likewise pays his respectS to the P. U. C. for raising taxi rates. Now any one aware of the events in the taxi business during Shrine week will hardly fail to appreciate the sweet reasonable- ness of this contention. But the prize crack of all occurred in a former effu- sion of this same person, to wit: That the $700,000 wage increase should not be given to the traction employes, but instead should be given to the taxi drivers as a reward for their efforts in “helping” bring prosperity back to the cars and busses. And he sounds really serious, too. I did not undertake this overlengthy explanation with any hope of convincing Mr. Henning, but only in the hope that a few fair-minded people might be in- terested in the true facts of the case. JOSEPH A. RICHARDSON, e Answers Complainants Against All-Day Parking To the Editor of The Star: On August 20 and 23 last your paper published letters written by Harry Brainard and William K. Singleton, re- spectively, condemning the practice of automobile - parking in the streets of the City of Washington. I do not be- lieve that the grievances set out in either letter have any merit. Brainard writes that he has never “seen a city where the people are per- mitted to make such a complete garage out of its streets” Washington, I am informed, has more automobiles in pro- portion to its population than any other city in the world. Whether this is true or not is immaterial. The reason why S0 many cars are parked on the streets, and especially overnight, is because many Washington motorists have no choice in the matter, because of a lack of garage space. Brainard complains generally about cars parked on the streets, alleging that they “ruin the looks of the city” and that “it is unsafe.” What modern city does not have its beauty “blemished” by cars parked on both sides of some of its streets? Washington has out- grown its water-hole, hitching post and horse car days and the advent and in- creased use of the automobile has brought with it certain conditions that we cannot escape, the commonest of these being congested parking. With regard to parked cars being un- safe, did you ever hear of a parked car colliding with and injuring or dam- aging some person or thing of its own volition? Of course not. It is the car in motion and not the parked car that requires regulation, and it has been apparent to even the most casual ob- server that the District police have been doing considerable “regulating” during the past flve weeks of their traffic safety campaign. Brainard urges that “parking on the streets 24 hours a day is indeed a serious matter and should be taken up by the city heads.” That suggestion, to say the least, is old enough to wear whiskers, yet I see nothing in it that threatens any one’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Successive city heads and numerous Congressmen alike have long appreciated and given much sincere thought to the parking problem of Washington. Brainard laments that parked cars “ruin the looks of the city.” Of like beauty, parked cars or no parked cars. Singleton laments that “Washington is just a garage,” and inquires, “Why spend millions to beautify a city n‘r:: If able to BY CHARLES E. Doctors, as & class, are very much part of many laymen that fish keeping, as practiced today, is only for children. Or is just a mild form of insanity which it is better to ignore. The supreme insult to the keeper of tropical or exotic specimens is to casually look at an aquarium which contains rare fishes and remark indifferently, “Oh, I see you have some goldfish.” * ok ox ¥ Medical men, of course, being scien- tists, or at least supposed to be, ought to be interested in an aquarium, for nowhere else in so small a compass can so many of the laws of health and sickness be illustrated. It is true that these laws and their applications are laws for fishes, not human beings, but it also is & fact that life is life, wherever you find it, and what applies to one form may equally apply to another. PFishes are used largely today in vita- min extraction. Most of these fishes are so-called food fishes, but the little ones kept in tanks in thousands of homes are their little brothers of streams and pools. The cod has its uniqueness. No longer is it the sole source of liver olls, crammed with the sunshine vitamin “D” and other life-giving heaith elements. Experiments conducted during the past three years have shown that the livers of various other creatures of the sea are as high in potency, if not higher. In one of the trade preparations four different fishes are used. * * *x ¥ Being at heart a scientist, even if he must mix a great deal of common sense with it, the doctor finds posed for him, in every aquarium, problem and solu- tion if possible. This is akin to sickness, diagnosis and prescription and prognosis. Every fish tank, good, bad or indif- ferent, has its problems. The longer & person keeps them the surer he is to find them. The newcomer is likely to believe he has solved everything in three months, but the old hand knows that at the end of three years of fish keeping he will never be sure of anything. Or at the end of 30 years. Every aquarium is a problem in itself, just as every case, even of the same disease, is distinct. The medical doctor can find nowhere, except in his own cases, so many dis- tinct problems calling for individual solution as among the tanks of fishes kept by the average aquarist. This Summer, for instance, keepers of indoor tanks have had more trouble, by and large, with the free-living forms of algae, which cause “green water,” than in years.* It is probable that the primary in- fection comes from hydrant water. Yet it is certain that unless these forms of microscopic plant life find conditions to their liking in the home aquarium, they will not prosper there, and ultimately will die out without the owner ever realizing they are present. STARS, MEN lost. claim to TRACEWELL. Finding & habitat which suits them, however, they lose no time in multiply- ing, so that within a few days the aquarium takes on a slightly dulled appearance. As yet it is not noticeable except to the person acquainted with it. This slight haze is unmistakable, once experienced, and no time should be lost if the owner desires to prevent the deep pea-green color which finally almost clouds the swimmers from view. While such a tank is not unhealthy for the fishes, it 1s most unsightly, and almost the worst ordinary calamity which can overtake a prized aquarium. ‘Therefore it is wise to consider what causes “green water,” and what may be done to prevent it or correct it when it occurs. ‘The first is easier than the second. Green water, in most instances, is fostered by one or more of the following: 1. Too much light. 2. Too many fishes per gallon of water. 3. Too much dry food. 4. Too few plants. Any one of these, or a combination, is able to afford the microscopic plants which we call “green algae” exactly what they need to flourish. This {s true both of indoor tanks and outdoor pools, but in the latter there is more Nature and less man, so ordinarily conditions in pools tend to clear up of themselves, in time. Rest assured that a green tank, once it has started to “go green,” will never clear up by itself unless the “fish fan" takes active steps to combat it. Even then he will have a fight on his hands. * * % * The remedies, such as they are, are obvious. Cut down on the amount of light, especially direct sunshine, which the tank receives. Remove some of the fishes to other tanks or give them away to friends. Feed less dried food. If you ordinarily feed twice a day, feed but once. Or try not feeding at all for & week. The fishes can stand it. Put more plants, especially anacharis, into the tank. No plant of itself will “cure” green water, but a heavy plant- ing tends to cut down the amount of light which reaches the water. It must be remembered that sunlight stimulates the free-living forms of algae, which cause the trouble, in combination with helpful—to them—food factors. R Since a tank cannot be moved without a great deal of work, the best way to cut down the light is to put a sheet of cardboard or paper on the light side, usually the window side. We have experimented with various colored papers and tissues and have found nothing superior to green. Light green tissue as used by florists is excel- lent. Two or more sheets will give as much protection as the owner desires. Overcrowding is the first vice of the indoor aquarium. It is impossible, in theory, to say just how many fishes can live well in a given body of water, but every one who has kept an aquarium for any length of time knows perfectly well when his tanks are overcrowded. Christopher Coates of the New York Aquarium feeds his charges one meal of dried foods per day in Summer. Tanks are better both Winter and Summer if fairly heavily planted. The addition of fresh tempered water to the extent of one-fourth of the tank per week is helpful, even in an aquarium containing tropical fishes. There are some varieties, such as the dwarf gourami, which will not stand this, however. AND ATOMS ' Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study BY TIIOMAS ‘There may be mad dog cycles. Dogs are much more vicious in June than in the so-called “dog days” season of July and August. The tiny poodle and the pekingese share with the big German police dog and the Italian bull rank among the 10 most vicious of domestic canines. These are some of the conclusions from deg bite statistics over a period of 27 years just issued by the United States Public Health Service. They are based on the cases reported to the New York City Health Service and analyzed by Dr. Robert Oleson of the Public Health Service staff. During this 27-year period, Dr. Oleson’s figures show, there have been two 5-year peaks in rabies, from 1911 to 1915, inclusive, and from 1926 to 1930. During the first period the annual average of bites diagnosed as made by rabjes-infected animals was 233, com- pared with only an average of 78 for the previous three years for which records were available. There followed a period of 10 years during which the number of rabies cases diagnosed in biting dogs averaged only 43 a year. Starting with 1926 the curve leaped up again and in the next five years there Was an average of 288 cases a year. ‘Then came another rapid decline and for the past four years the average has been only 36. Apparently the number of rabies cases has no relation to the number of bites reported. These remained practically stationary at an average of about 3,500 from 1908 to 1926. There was a sudden jump to more than 7,000 cases in 1925, just before the start of the second rabies peak. But since 1930 the number of bites reported has continued to go up, in the face of rigid muszling restrictions, until it has reached the alarming figure of 20,000. At the same time the number of rabies diagnoses rapidly has gone down. The same tendency toward the mad R PENRY. North America. who hunted extinct bison at the rim of the retreating glaciers of the last ice age—will be sought in Alaska and Siberia, Presumably these nomad hunters were closely related, if not ancestral, to the later Indians and must have come into the Western World from Siberia by way of Bering Strait and the Yukon Valley. Here, at certain times, there was an open roadway between the gla- ciers leading to the habitable South. Thus far one definite Folsom campsite has been found in Colorado and is the oldest known inhabited spot on the North American continent. Arrowheads characteristic of these hunters have been found scattered all over the United States. Thus far no human remains have been found. Dr. Edgar B. Howard of the Philadel- phia Muselm of Natural History has obtained permission from the Russian authorities to conduct a search in Siberia, the supposed homeland. Miss F. de Laguna of the same institution will search for Folsom remains in the Yukon region. Discovery of anything characteristically Folsom in either local- ity would throw much new light on the origin of man in the New World. * %k Kk % Only digestible toothbrushes are used in the psychopathic ward of the Phila- delphia General Hospital, according to a report in a late issue of the Archives of Psychiatry and Neurology. Patients are too fond of swallowing them. If somebody would invent a degistible can opener it probably would be adopted. From the intestines of one patient was removed recently a collection of 65 articles, including needles, nails, safety pins, wires, buttons, stones, a can opener, a key and a locket. Several have swal- lowed teaspoons. From one 24 lead pencils were removed. One woman, when the nurse’s back was turned, smashed a milk bottle and ate all the glass. She said she did it because she wanted to stay in bed. She thought that if she got out of bed she would fall apart.. One man swallowed about 50 nails. Not infrequently great Imasses of pins and needles are found in the stomachs. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Tempered Pace When life throws a challenge to some big race, Ride in! And know from the start that by God’s good grace You'll win. Take the track with each nerve alert and cool, 2y Rating no man in the running a fool. Ride in! When the end is yours and you've made the goal, Ride slow. For a victor with wisdom in his soul Must . know That his skill will be tried to utmost Folsom man—the * % * Relics of wraithlike eatliest known human inhabitant ef 4 might Whmhcntoumegndemamear Ride slow, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic ], Haskin. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact py writing The Washing- ton Evening ir Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton,D.C. Please inclose stamp for reply, Q. How far must a car trave! going 50 miles an hour before it can be brought to a stop?—F. W. A. The approximate distance with two- wheel brakes is 244 feet; with four-wheel brakes is 125 feet. The distance would be considerably more if the tires are worn or if road surfaces are wet, muddy or coated with snow or ice, or if the grade of the highway is downward. Many motorists fail to take into ac- count the effect which road surfaces and the condition of tires have on stop- ping distances. Neither do the stopping distances given take into account the fact that at least half a second is re- quired before a driver can “size up” & situation and take appropriate action. Q. In giving a birthday party for a 10-year-old girl should the parents’ name be used on the invitation?>—E. F. A. Party invitations now are sent out the name of the child who is host or hostess. Q. How much water is used in the City of Washington in one day?—A. H. A. This varies with the time of year and the weather. The year's average for daily consumption is 85,000,000 gallons. Q. When was the tomato introduced into this country?—L. A. A. It was introduced from the Ameri- can tropics about 1800, but was consid- ered poisonous. It now ranks third as a vegetable crop and first as a vegetable canning crop. Q. When was the first locomotive buflt west of the Mississippi?—F. G. A. It was completed and made its first run March 1, 1865. It was constructed in the shops of the Hannibal & S8t. Joseph Road and named the General Grant, Q. When is the uational gladiolus show?—R. W. H. A. The annual show of the American Gladiolus Society will be held August 16 to 18 at South Bend, Ind. Q. What is a honeyball melon?— K. McD. A. It is a cross between the cantaloupe be eaten io the rind and is sometimes pink and sometimes yellow. Q. What is the relatlonship between Phyllis Nielson Terry and Ellen Terry? —T.P. A. Phyllis Nielson Terry is the daugh- ter of Ellen Terry's brother, Fred. Q. How many American citizens are living abroad?—S. M. A. About 429000, distributed as fol- lows: South America, 10,505; Mexico and Central America, 19,020; West Indies, 21,000; Canada, 247,565; Europe, 98645; Africa, 4,154, Asia, 26,036; Australia, 1,240, Q. —J. C. A. Hail Mary, Ave Maria or angelical salutation is a prayer consisting of three parts: The first, the word€by which the angel addressed the Blessed Virgin (Luke, 124) with the word “Mary” after “hail”; the second, the words by which Elizabeth addressed Mary (Luke, i42), to which has been added the word “Jesus”; the third, the words, “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinneis now and at the hour of our death. Amen” The name, Angelical Salutation, comes from the first part of the prayer, which is the salutation of the angel. CWhat is the angelical salutation? A. Q. How early did John McCormack, the famous tenor, sing in public?—E. J. A. At the age of nine he sang before his first audience at the Marists Broth- ers’ School. Q. Who was the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in plaster? —L.F. A. Lysistratus, a Greek sculptor of the | fourth century B.C. Q. Is there one color which predom- inates in flowers?—W. V. A. It has been estimated that in an | average collection of 1,000 plants about | 284 have white flowers, 220 red, 141 blue, | 73 violet, 36 green, 12 orange, 4 brown and 2 “black.” Q. Is Camille Flammarion still liv- ing?—B. P. A. This French writer on astronomy died June 4, 1925, Q. What two fiction works have sold the most copies in the last fifty or sixty years?—R. L. 8. A. A list of best sellers from 1875 to the present has been compiled by Ed- ward Weeks for the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University. “At the head of the list is Charles Mon- roe Sheldon's “In His Steps.” 8000000 copies of which were sold. “Freckles,” by Gene Stratton-Porter, comes next with a total of 2,000,000. Q. Does Haile Selassie speak any other language besides Amharic?>—C. L. A. He speaks perfect French and fairly good English and is one of the best-educated rulers in the world. Q. When did Charles Dickens first visit the Massachusetts Legislature?— H. N. A. On January 24, 1842, Charles Dickens, escorted by Charles Sumner and T. Colby Grattan, paid a visit to the State Capitol on Beacon Hill. His appearance in the Senate chamber cre- ated quite a sensation among the- members, S Q. Did Alfred Nobel's brother die as the result of an explosive?—E. R. A. An explosion in his nitroglycerin factory in Sweden caused the death of Nobel's brother, Oscar, and the crippling of his father. As a result of this disaster ‘o and the honeydew melon. The meat can - N t the age of 83 years. Nobel determined to find a less dan- ° gerous substance than nitroglycerin, his efforts resulting in his discovery of dynamite. Q. Who carried the news of the fall of Yorktown to Philadelphia?—C. H. A. Tench Tilghman, military secretary and aide on Washington's staff. Unsolvable. Prom the Toledo Blade. If scientists can’t agree within a few hundred thousand years on the age of man, can you imagine what a time they would have with woman? England’s Good Stars. Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer. With 3,500 divorce suits on her cowrt calendars, England has a good start with ;hlt program to build up her movie in- A