Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1935, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY .........September 19, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St. an< Pennsylvania Ave. Luropean Ofiice: 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. T Eronims Star i -45¢ per month he Evening and Sunda: (when 4 Suncays 0c per month Tre Evening and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundays) The Sunday Star Nigh Night Pinal and Sunday Night Finai Star_. Colleciion made ders may be sent by mail or t tional 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. . Maryland and Virginia. 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Tn an interview with a London correspondent, I1 Duce derides the pro- posals as “ironical” and, referring to the suggested land grants, snorts that e is not “a collector of deserts.” Ethi- opian spokesmen reveal almost as little enthusiasm for Geneva's eleventh hour “panact Meantime the Mediterranean {n the neighborhood of Gibreltar and the Suez fills with squadrons of British warships—algeady said to numher one | hundred and forty-four altogether—as London prepares against the contingency | that force may presently have to sup- plant argument in the grim task of bringing the Roman war lord to his senses. Broadly, Geneva's plan for composing the conflict is to place Haile Selassie’s under League tutelage, ugh leaving the Emperor's sovereign! and s independence unimpeaired. ns would receive thorough- going and far-reaching international *assistance” in their economic, financial, sanitary, judicial, educational and po- licing affairs. To that end the Addis Ababa government would be supplied with four foreign advisers, including a chief League delegate to co-ordinate their work. All would be nominated by the League Council with the Emperor's consent and report yearly to him and * Geneva. Supplementing proposals for League co-operation in the reorganization and development of Ethiopian life in all its branches, Great Britain and France on their own part propose & solution of the question raised by Italy’s demand for “expansion.” Ethiopia would cede to Ttaly a corridor of territory linking Eri- trea with Ttalian Somaliland, and em- bracing the Danakil and Ogaden Prove inces. As compensation for parting with these provinces, Ethiopia would receive from Britain and France strips of their respective Somaliland territories flank- ing the East African coast, giving Ethi- opians a direct access to the sea, which they do not now possess. Under the League arrangement Italy would be assured of the security of her colonial frontiers, the safety of her na- tionals resident in Ethiopia, control of 8 number of monopolies in natural re- sources and extensive commercial and colonizing opportunities. But the plan distinctly denies Italy or any other country the right to impose military or political domination upon Ethiopia. It is upon that rock that the scheme is likely to go promptly to smash, as far @s Mussolini is concerned. He has set his heart upon a conquest enshrined in military glory and upon utter control of Ethiopia. His dreams of empire are far from realized by the terms the League offers him. If he rejects them out of hand as affording no basis for negotiations, the Fascist dictator may be certain that the only result will be to Solidify the verdict of condemnation which virtually the whole civilized world has passed upon his mad project to restore the law of force in the arbitra- ment of international disputes. realm The Et ——r————— It may be easier to revive the influence of a philosopher and statesman if it is remembered that he had a homely wit ©f his own ready for use on occasion. oo Expert Opinion. Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New " Jersey, former motor vehicle commis- sloner of that State, writing in the Awmerican Magazine, makes an indirect contribution to the safety campaign of . 'The Star. By reason of his experience . it may be agreed that he speaks with authority; he is an expert in traffic problems, his attitude is scientific and unprejudiced. The public, then, should “ gecord his opinion the serious consid- eration which it deserves. And the aspect of the matter which he particu- larly stresses is the psychological one. “*We who now drive at sixty, seventy and eighty miles an hour,” he says, “are already away over our heads. Few of us are either physically or emotionally equipped for that sort of thing. Fewer still have the slightest conception of what we are doing. We know that the engine has the power, that the car rides comfortably, that it seems no faster than thirty-five dtd fifteen years ago, «and that’s about all.” The forces over which the driver sup- "poses he has control are deceptive—they seem to be more easily governed than *in fact they are. Mr. Hoffman sum- marizes the effect when he declares: “This milé-a-minute-man ¢ * * takes . ® lifetime of work, an investment of hearly a thousand dollars in a car, the A THE EVEN suffering, anguish and future security of his wife and kids—wraps them all in a bundle and tosses it out of the win- dow.” And in a certain average number of instances fatal crashes ensue. The elemental cause at work in the circum- stances is that of behavior. Wwilliam G. Eliot, 3d, highway econ- omist of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, supports Mr. Hoflman in an article in Civil Engineer- ing. “Regulations in the past,” he finds, “have been determined primarily by the physical limitations of roads and vehicles. In the future we must con- sider the physiological and psychological limitations of the human species. - En- gineers can see no end to the improve- ment in cars and highways, but the human factor of safety has already been reduced to a very narrow margin.” No traffic regulations are so generally ignored, Mr. Eliot argues, as those which attempt to prescribe proper speeds. “The motor vehicle operator drives at what he considers a safe pace, unless he has reason to believe that a speed limit is being enforced by arrests.” What is wanted, it would seem, is a pattern or habit of mind which makes every individual his own policeman—a consciousness of responsibility which will dictate caution. It is toward that end that The Star is laboring in its present safety effort. R Potatoes. The familiar expression “dropped like a hot potato” may not have arisen in the long-ago from the demonstrated futility of Government control of the production and distribution of that article of food, but it applies now to the attitude of the Federal administration in respect to the potato act of the recent ! extraordinarily busy session of Congress. The Secretary of Agriculture announces that unless fund$ are made available he cannot proceed to enforce the act. The final filibuster of the late Senator from Louisiana choked off the specific appropriation. The sources of miscel- laneous expenditures are clogged with requisitions. public works of Government supervision and control are in the same fix, and the poor potato is in a bad way for the wherewithal for New Deal manipulation. It would have been a hard job, at the | best, to administer the potato act, the inspiration for which has been lost in the shuffle of the general hodge-podge of the last stage of the session. It is of | no particular moment who conceived the | idea of counting all the potatoes grown, ! packing them in distinctive containers, stamping them with a fee symbol and thus enriching the Treasury—and the horde of inspectors and appraisers re- quired for this task—and then releasing | them to the market under a formidable ban of prohibition against the use of unstamped tubers. Perhaps history may eventually genius who.thus broke the record for ingenuity in the field of planned na- tional economics. Just now the matter is of less consequence than the reassur- | ance that there will be no swarm of potato hunters—human and not entomo- logical—scurrying about with binoculars and calculating machines to keep tabs on the crop and to assure the payment of the tax. The fate of the potato act—passed and signed and left to die of acute financial stringency—has its most interesting aspect in demonstration of the trial and error plan of Government which has been in progress during the past thirty months. There has been no scarcity of enterprise and ingenuity. The paths to Washington have been trodden smooth by the feet of those with theories, who have been welcomed, heard and in many cases heeded, with the result of an un- precedented volume of legislation, a tre- mendous output of administrative orders, the expansion of the official personnel at the Capital by nearly a hundred per cent, and the expenditure of several times as much money as the taxpayers of the country can yield under the most severe methods of extraction for two generations to come. The process of checking up on these plans is not unreasonably slow. The courts have taken their toll of them in a number of decisions and more are on the way. The potato law may yet get to the courts, though at present it would seem to be menaced with a natural death through strangulation in the cradle—it being no Hercules to master the snakes. If it does survive this fiscal stringency and get going, with the potato counters hustling as only Gov- ernment field workers can hustle to count the tubers in each hill on each farm and each house garden, then the country will have witnessed a great spectacle of enlightened public adminis- trationworthy of the paeans of the most lyric of the poets. Terms in which wealth is expressed have been modified. King Solomon's mines are regarded as fiction, but Ethi- opian oil wells mean something. “Jittery” School Aid. Most observers will agree that the criticism of the National Youth Admin- istration—one of the administration’s pleasant little $50,000,000 side excursions in search of the more abundant life—by Willard E. Givens, executive secretary of the National Education Association, is well merited. Mr. Givens does not deny the laudable purposes of the ad- ministration’s move to help the destitute youth of the country in obtaining an education. But he levels justified ridi- cule at the methods chosen to make such aid effective. The youth project is characteristic of other such ventures. For many years the Government has maintained a bu- reau, and now an Office of Education, in the Interior Department, equipped with personnel and by experience: to administer funds in aid of education. But when Mr. Hopkins allotted $50,000,~ 000 for the youth administration, an- other organization had to be created, more Government Service duplicated, more people hired, and probably at higher salaries, to do the work which A L Other and even worthier | record the identity of the | G an existing Government agency is ale ready prepared to do. The waste, the conflict and duplication, the extrava- gance and aimless rushing around in a circle are the inevitable accompani- ments of such methods. Mr. Givens also points out the anomaly of a condition which finds the established schools of the country plead- ing for aid, which is advanced by a beneficent Government in the form of “plain and fancy schooling, managed in a way to give the jitters tc educators whose policy is to shun waste,” all springing from a bureaucracy in Wash- ington set up without regard to civil service and inviting the criticism that political jobs and not the improvement of existing educational facilities is the objective. — e The great European family quarrel threatens to reassert itself. There is no expectation, however, that Uncle Sam will again figure as the bright boy who left the old home and after making good in Wall Street came back and assumed all the mortgages. e —— A Geneva conference must have a hard time if parts of the audience insist on walking out when the performance gets most interesting. —_—atee Remembrance of the United States Constitution is still keen enough to make “unconstitutional” the first word a young attorney thinks of on going into court. —— e Canoe accidents still occur. Their record is small as compared with that of ships on the ocean and in the air. e One worthy citizen who is obviously in danger of being overworked is the undertaker. ~ —————r—e— Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, As the World Moves. When the sunshine is bright and the day rolls along At a pace that is cheery and steady and " strong; | When the minutes like pictures we pass on the way And we lightly approve of the shifting display; When the travel is smooth and we're fain to go on By the light of the stars when the sun- shine is gone; L) ‘When pleasure is all that its travels re- veal, Oh, this world moves along like an automobile! When you're up in the air and your pace is so fast That you take no account of the miles you have passed; . When nerves tensely quiver as dashing you go, Disdaining the caution that mortals should show; When you halt now and then in your haM-frenzied mirth, And wonder if safely you'll get back to earth, This world, onward flying, both early and late, Will seem like an airship, defiant of fate. But when time dumbly plods at a gait that is slow And the journey seems rougher each mile that you go; When the briars are thick on an ill- chosen road And Duty grows faint with the weight of the load; ‘When a creaking wheel utters a protest so shrill, And the way seems forever a swamp or a hill, laughter and song, Is only a wheelbarrow—push it along! Reversal of Custom. “Did you ever meet a lobbyist?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Did he offer you money?” “No. merits of his proposition. He borrowed ten dollars.” Sometimes: the effect of labor-saving devices is to fool a man into the idea that he can loaf all day and still get his work done. Substitution. “If I were you,” my friend observes ‘With good intent that never swerves— O'er his advice I might enthuse If it were something I could use. If you were I, oh, friend of mine, My old mistakes would stand in line In memory and with cruel glee Be mocking you, as they mock me. Since you are you, 'tis easy quite For you to lift a guiding light. If you were I, you'd have to bear My faults and follies as your share. A No Small Sorrows. “A man likes big and heroic enter- prises.” “That’s right,” replied Mrs. Corntossel. “Alexander wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. But you never hear of a man sheddin’ a tear because there’s no more wood to chop or water to carry.” “'Tain’t de time he loses goin’ fishin’,” saild Uncle Eben, “dat counts up as much as de time he was'es tellin’ about it afterwards.” —_—————————— One-Sided Issue. From the Watertown (N. Y.) Times. Saving the Constitution. sounds good as a campaign slogan, but it’s a little hard to find anybody to take the opposite side. ————————— Ask Any Angler. Prom the Watertown (N, Y.) Times. Japanese scientists claim bamboo can be grown 10 feet tall in six weeks. Perhaps— we've known fish on the end of bamboo poles to grow faster than that. Vocal Legislators, suggestion that Congress adjourn., Who says Congressmen are dumb? A : STAR, WASHINGTON, T was already convinced of the | THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln. Constitutional revision received a set back in the second most populous State in the Union Tuesday. Pennsylvania, in the primary election turned down the plea of Gov. Earle and Senator Guffey for a constitutional convention to redraft the State's basic law along New Deal lines. The issue in Pennsylvania ceased to be merely a State affair, in the light of the campaign made by Gov. Earle and Senator Guffey, the head and fore- front of the Democratic organization. Had there been victory for the consti- tutional revisionists, it would have been hailed throughout the country as indi- cating a willingness on the part of the people to revise the Constitution of the United States to conform with the New Deal ideas of President Roosevelt. It is quite natural, therefore, that the de- feat of the proposal by a very substantial vote is cheered by the opponents of the Roosevelt New Deal and supporters of the Federal Constitution as it now stands. o The vote on the constitutional con- vention proposal of Gov. Earle has been slow in the counting. It showed, however, that with returns in from 5463 of the State’s 7,967 election districts, 754,654 votes had been cast against revision and 578,007 votes for it. The anti-revision- ists, therefore, had a lead of 176,647. When all the votes are in, it has been estimated in some quarters, the proposal will have been defeated by 250,000 votes. « Gov. Earle in his campaign for revi- sion, referred to the 61-year-old consti- tution of Pennsylvania as a relic of the “horse and buggy days,” adopting a phrase of President Roosevelt when the latter was discussing the Federal Con- | stitution as interpreted by the Supreme | Court in its decision holding the N. R. A. unconstitutional. While the campaign for constitutional revision started as a non-partisan proposal, it soon became a violent contest between the Roosevelt New Dealers and the Republicans, with the Republican organization leaders opposing revision strongly. Gov. Earle constantly told the voters that he wished, through revision of the State constitu- tion, to bring them “the more abundant life,” another Roosevelt term. In seek- ing to revise the constitution the Gov- ernor proposed the enactment of social security laws in line with the Federal ! program, and also laws to increase the | heritance, gift and income taxes. State’s borrowing power, to impose in- ‘The | State constitution limits to $1,000,000 the | emergency borrowing power of the State. Opponents of revision contended that the Governor sought to lift the borrowing power so that he could raise unlimited sums of money to use where he thought it would help him politically._ * k% % Republican State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor, in Philadelphia, predicted that Pennsylvania would return®to the Re- publican column in 1936. As a matter of fact, Pennsylvania was one of the six | States which voted for former President | Hoover in 1932, but in 1934 elected a Democratic Governor and a Democratic Senator for the first time in many years. The defeat of New Dealism on Tuesday’s primary, Taylor argued, was a clear in- | dication that the State would vote for the Republican ticket and against Roose- { velt in 1936. | State “The decisive manner in which the voters of Pennsylvania defeated the Democratic proposal for revision of the Constitution,” the Republican chairman said, “indicates that Pennsyl- | vania_stands strongly opposed to the New Deal and experimentation in Gov- ernment. It is a noteworthy fact that in many counties woman voters, whose | household expenses have been sharply increased by New Deal policies, led the van of opposition. Evidently, they felt that revision is not feasible at this time. “The results in this State indicate that the trend against New Dealism first registered in Rhode Island is national | in its character. “The vote is a victory for constitu- tional government. It is a triumph for Republican principles and a vindication | of Republican policies in the Legislature. It is a repudiation of extravagance and the spoils system in State government. It paves the way for Republican majori- ties the coming November and the re- turn of Pennsylvania to the Republican This world, which for some moves 'mid | colmn mst “Gov. Earle and his associates based their whole program for future action on the constitutional issue. Three times since last January the Governor has gone to the voters for approval, and each time, by ever rising majorities, they have repudiated him and all he stands for.” * Ko In Philadelphia, which in the past has been a Republican stronghold, the revi- sion proposal received a majority of the votes cast in 1,265 out of 1285 voting precincts, though a narrow one. The vote stood: For revision, 183,229, and against revision, 177,546. The Republi- cans attempt to explain this away by saying that the hot fights over the mayoralty and other nominations in their party in Philadelphia drew away the attention of the Republican voters from the proposal for a constitutional convention and they failed to vote on it. ey John B. Kelly, former Olympic oars- man, who in the last three or four years has come forward as a dominant Dem= ocratic leader in Philadelphia, was nom= inated for mayor by his party practically without opposition. He polled 163,084 votes, while his Republican opponent, City Controller S. Davis Wilson, polled 168,106, and his nearest opponent in the Republican primary, City Treasurer Will B. Hadley, received 145205. There were 10 candidates for the Republican nom- ination. If the Republicans are able to unite their strength, it would look as though the Democrats did not have much chance in the city election which is to come. They have been pretty well shot to' pieces from an organization point of view in the last year or two in Philadelphia. They may be able to get together again. The control of Philadelphia City Hall is a big stake for which the Democrats are playing. It has been in the hands of the Republicans for many years. The contest is not without its national sig- nificance by any means. * Xk X Kk President Roosevelt’s approaching Western trip holds plenty of political dynamite. After conferring with party leaders, the President has decided to make only two formal speeches, one at Boulder Dam and the other at San Diego. He is not going to visit the American Legion Convention in St. Louis, September 23-26, for press of work will keep him in Washington until too late for him to reach the convention, it is said. Just what the President could have told the Legionnaires about the bonus is a question. His own party leaders in the Senate and House have promised the veterans another vote on cash payment of the bonus soon after Congress reconvenes in January. The President during the last session of Congress vetoed, with a strong message, the Patman “greenback” soldiers’ bonus bill, His veto was sustained by the Senate. What he may do about & more conservative and less bill if D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1935. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘They say you can't get something for nothing. A radio seems to give it to you, but you have to pay for the receiving set, and so on. Still, how about the philatelic scav- enger. This young man haunts waste paper baskets to find postage stamps. You will see him in every large office building, hurrying through the trash be- fore the elevator arrives to carry the baskets to the basement, Aside from the little expenditure of energy involved in leaning over, the col- lection of these stamps costs absolutely nothing. There is a real pleasure in it, too, for the stamp collector. Rk A great many persons declare they do not understand “how any one can be interested in stamps,” but it is easy. Philately is an intellectual pastime, just as is the tropical fish hobby. Neither of these makes any appeal to the emotions. They are like the ancient game of chess, in that their appeal is mainly to the mind. It is the mind, after all, that is able to “get something for nothing” in this life. The mind can do it if anything can. Yet if we look a little further we will find that many strange occupations are really nothing but attempts to get some- thing for nething. and often enough with some appearances of success. There is the tinfoil collector, for in- stance. And the man who goes around witlr & pointed stick, taking up bits of paper. There is the fellow who picks up—and smokes—old cigar butts and discarded cigarettes. He seems to get something for nothing. The use of animal wastes in agriculture is one of the oldest attempts along this line. No doubt this was usage learned from observation alone, by noting the extra growth of pasture grass. A striking instance of the benefits of well-rotted cow manure was shown a year. or so ago at Chevy Chase Circle when trees were planted around the | circumference. Each tree was given a good dose of such fertilizer. The next Spring the grass encroached on the plots imme- diately around the trees and grew a foot high while the remainder of the circle was making an inch or two in growth. * ok Kk Ak The surest source of something for nothing in the best sense is the human mind, that inexhaustible well of the ages. Pure intellect is not what we mean. We mean the human mind with its side issues, as it were, all the hundred and one factors involving every side of the | human creature. It is impossible to divorce emotion from thinking, or thinking from emotion, really. Even if philately and the tropical fish hobby, for instance, are classed as intel- lectual pursuits, which is correct, still they involve many reaches of the emo- tions. It is impossible to contemplate the | sickness or death of an old fish in an | | aquarium, something you have tended | and fed for three to five years, without | finding the emotions involved, not to the | extent of tears or anything of the kind, but more subtle, reaching back to the | springs of life and death. H STARS, MEN Reading comes very near to a grand and glorious “something for nothing.” It is only because we find it so com- monplace that we may be inclined to think otherwise, recalling all the years of effort spent in school. (And many of us do not read very well even now!) Yet what is this creation of a whole world, peopled by characters who “come alive,” to use the rather silly phrase of the reviewers, which we possess on the reading of a good novel? The elation of a fine poem—what is that but something out of nothing, in the best sense? This evocation of a mood is a part of intelligence. The unintelligent person cannot do it. The person so slow-minded that he can- not fuse the essential parts of a word picture cannot do it, either. He may make a bluff of doing it, but the truth is that he will never “like to read,” as he says. He is thousands, of course. Not only does he not like to read, but, more to the point, he does not read. Any one who sincerely likes to read, as the phrase has it, is of a higher intel- ligent quotient and may pride himself on it. He may not possess the gift of making money out of it, for that is something evoke mental pictures from what he reads. That is why vou see people so absorbed in newspapers. Some persons find it expedient to criticize newspaper reading, pictures for themselves as they read know better. Reading about the tragedy of Huey Long, hot off the griddle, was the same as | “Julius Caesar.” One of the meanings of “evoke” is to call up spirits from the dead. does. The assassination of the great Julius is enacted in the capitol at Rome; corridor of the capitol at Baton Rouge. ings, in time, but in the mind of the reader they are the same sort of thing, | and now bring up similar pictures. * X ¥ k . This is the magic of getting something for nothing in a real and in a very good sulting product is out of all proportion the energy spent. . People who love the films feel the same way about them, for they, too, enable people to evoke pictures out of the vasty deeps ‘of time and space and peoples and countries. Something of the wonder of it is in every face uplifted to the screen. The paltry sum of money they have paid as nothing to what they get. Such, evi- dently, is their feeling, if they would stop to think about it. The book man can understand this. His books for him have given him the years ago, as a child. with childish pic- tures of his own creation. One need not feel ashamed of one's mind, as one sometimes unhappily is, s0 long as it possesses the power to evoke, to cause wonderful pictures such as man alone has dreamed, out of all life, to be framed forever:within the confines of a | few inches of bony skull real triumph, and even the humblest of us can be, proud of it. AND ATOMS Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Her name was Lady Six Monkey. She was a warrior queen who raised and led armies, consulted soothsayers, was courted and married in Southern | Mexico long before the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Lady Six Monkey is the most glam- | S | ing one of the miscreant chieftains by | orous figure to emerge from the cryptic pages of the Selden Codex. ancient Mexi- | can manuscript in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and one of the few to survive the Spanish conquest. It is a history in picture writing, on long strips of prepared deer skin. The pic- tures are extremely difficult to translate, | but this has been in part accomplished by Dr. Herbert J. Spinden of the Brook- lyn Museum who describes some of his findings in a report just published by the Smithsonian Institution. The manuscript, Dr. Spinden is con- vinced, was a genuine historical record. Otherwise the story of Lady Six Monkey, with its intensely human aspects, might pass for fiction. Her mother was Nine Wind and her father Ten Eagle. Three warrior brothers apparently were killed, leaving this girl the successor to the throne of her parents. During her girlhood came suitors for her hand, bearing costly gifts. Six Monkey had a will of her own and resolutely re- | fused these youths in opposition to her parents. She apparently was taken under the protection of an old priest named Ten Lizard. He may have acted as her tutar for the royal duties that awaited her. Once she is shown in conversation with | Ten Eagle and another priest, apparently a mighty soothsayer. He tells her that she will die 14 years hence. From this point her footsteps are shown leading downward into tHe underworld. But Six Monkey was too busy a girl to become morbid over this dire prog- nostication. Shortly afterward she met 2 boy she liked—one Eleven Wind. The two went together to a gruesome skull temple to consult Nine Herb, an ugly old lady who probably was reputed to be a sorceress. They brought the old hag an assortment of jewels. Perhaps they came to her as a fortune teller, perhaps for some spell which would over= come obstacles to their marriage. Evidently the interview was satisfac- tory. The next picture shows their mar- riage—or rather the two bathing to- gether which was one of the picture symbols of marriage. Six years had elapsed since the death prophecy of the old soothsayer. Six Monkey had still eight years before she must take the direful journey to the world of spirits. They were eight busy and eventful years. One pictured episode is that of Sl o S o ot jt 1_3 sent to him next year, remains to be seen. * Kk K X Because the President is to make only two formal addresses in the West, if his present plans hold, does not necessarily mean that he will not make a large number of informal talks to people where his train stops. The West is a section of the country for which the Democratic high command is playing strongly in the coming national campaign. The avalanche of criticism of the New Deal that has developed in recent months from Republican and other sources the President will have an opportunity to answer if he desires in his talks to the people of the West. What he may say there, however, will be widely read and heard by people of the East also. Many are wondering what he will say, if any- thing, about the need of constitutional changes. ’ two ambassadors she sent forth to two | towns of her dominions'where, it appears, dissatisfaction was rife. The envoys were insulted by the young chieftains of those towns. Six Monkey took swift and terrible | vengeance. She shown leading her soldiers to war. Next she is shown hold- the hair. He has surrendered. No time is lost in cutting out his heart in the temple of her capital citv. The other to the insulted envoys. time in sacrificing him. They lose no further question as to Six Monkey’s right to the throne. She is annointed queen. For a time, at least, she rules in peace with her spouse, Eleven Wind. She gives birth to two sons, one in the year when, it had been predicted, she would die. Perhaps she did, for she appears no more. The next entry depicts the marriage of her oldest son. Thus an appealingly human story emerges from the almost untranslatable ideographs. The position of woman in this ancient civilization which developed in Southern Mexico between thé Mayd and Aztec periods apparently was quite assured. Lady Six Monkey, says Dr. Spinden, “at least led her soldiers into battle. We need not understand that she captured men with her own hand. Also it is apparent that descent through the female line was recognized and that an eldest-born daughter sometimes suc- ceeded to what we call the throne.” Some of the details of the story in the Selden Codex are verified by references | to the heroine in the other codices ex- amined by Dr. Spinden in European archives. Once the key to the transla- tion of these old Mexican manuscripts is found, Dr. Spinden says, they throw a flood of light on social and other con- ditions of the town and place. The historical characters, by the way, were usually named after their dates of birth in'the Mexican calendar and hence are not so fantastic as they might seem. ——rmee Benighted Huntsmen! Prom the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Record. Two Seattle men have gone into the woods armed only with hunting knives to demonstrate how easy it is to live a full month off Mother Nature. If they were looking for something easy why didn't they try the Government? ————— - The Potato Problem. From the Toledo Blade. It is believed the Government may have considerable trouble regulating the number of potatoes in a hill. e New Deal Evolution. Prom the Winston-Salem (N. C.) Journal. ‘Who says there’s no biological evolu- tion? The once humble porker has now become the cock of the walk. A Rhyme at Twilight By , Gertrude Brooke Hamilton The Flower Where, tides ran low in froth and mud A vagrant flower took root. Amid seaweed and tangled grass __ And random green tree shoot “The flower, white as foaming sea, Gave of its honey to a bee— And with the rising of the tide \Broke from its stem at dusk, and died. ’ else again, but he surely knows how to | but those who have the ability to make | In a literal sense, that is what reading | the killing of the great Huey, in the | Hundreds of years separate the two kill- | sense, It means that the quality of re- | same thing since he began to read, many | to make alive, to bridge time and space, | This is man’s | | care of war prisoners. | groups in the Far East, England, Africa rebel also is captured and turned over | After this war there apparently is no | 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. Who is the Ethiopian representa- tive in this country?—T. D. K. A. John H. Shaw has recently been appointed’ first Ethiopian consul general in the United States. Prior to this ap- pointment Ethiopia had no diplomatic or consular representative in this country, Q. When were motor cycles first made? —B.E. J. A.Bicycles were first prop#lled by mo- tor @bout 1395. The powered cycle be- came 9q‘;‘pemuble and popular shortly after 1900. Q. Is Magdalen College at Oxford or Cambridge University?—S. T. A. Both universities have colleges -whose names are pronounced “Modlin.” At Oxford it is spelled Magdalen; at Cambridge it is spelled Magdalene. Q. Was Charles A. Dana, the editor, a | member of the Brook Farm Commu- nity?—L. J. A. Mr. Dana was a member and man- aging trustee of the community, where he remained five years. Q. Who is considered Japan's greatest lacquer artist?>—C. P. A. Ogata Korin, who lived from about 1655 to 1716, is given this distinction. He developed the Korin school of dec- f | oration, which 4 reading Shakespeare's | ich is idealistic and distinctly Japanese in feeling. His lacquer work is preserved in private collections and museums. Q. To what age did Dr. Mary Walker, the dress reform advocate, live?—H. C. A. She died in 1919, at the age of 86 She practically discarded female attire when she was 29 years old. Q. Can you give some facts about the employment of chemical engineers in the past?—C. M. A. According to a survey made by Prof. A. H. White of the University of Wisconsin in 1931, the following was found: More than 70 per cent of the chemical engineering graduates from 1920 to 1920 were employed by industrial organizations; 15 per cent were teachers, employes of Government bureaus, or in research institutes, and less than 10 per cent after 10 years were in fields other than chemical engineering. Of the in- dustrial group more than 40 per cent were direc connected with the plant either in the development, operating or general engineering divisions, 20 per cent were in research laboratories, nearly 14 per cent had become connected with the sales divisions and less than 5 per cent were in analytical work. Q. How long has vivisection been prac- . tised?—R. E. A. It can-be traced almost to the earliest periods of medicine and surgery. Its purpose its threefold: To increase physiological knowledge. to confirm known facts and to give dexterity in operative surgery. Q. Please give some information about Dr. Frank Buchman.—W. L. A. Frank Nathan Danjel Buchman, American clergyman, is internationally ¢ known as the leader of a movement called A First Century of Christian Fel- lowsnip, The Oxford Groups, or Buch- manism. . e was pastor of a church in Overbrook, Pa., from his ordination into the Lutheran ministry in 1902 to 1905. He founded the first Luther Hospice in America, at Overbrook, and the first Luther Settlement in Philadelphia. He was a Y. M. C. A. secretary, 1909-15, and in the World War was with a flying squadron under the Y. M. C. A, taking He has founded and South America. . - Q. Why is sea water so cold?—G. C. E. A. The main cause of the low average temperature of the sea is the enormous supply of ice water which comes from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Q. Who discovered that fingerprints had permanent individuality?—E. R. A. This was put forward scientifically by J. E. Purkinje, a professor of physiol= ogy, in a paper read before the Univer=- sity of Breslau in 1823. Q. Why are fruit trees sometimes trained on walls?—G. D. A. Because of better exposure to the sun and to take advantage of the warmth of the wall. Often fruit trees are forced by being trained against the walls which carry the flues. Q.- Who K. B W A. George Croghan (1791-1849) was a youthful hero of the War of 1812. He was born near Louisville, Ky., and was a nephew of George Rogers Clark and » William Clark. He was commander of Fort Stephenson, which, on August 1, 1813, with only 160 men, he gallantly and successfully defended against almost 1,000 British and Indians. was George Croghan?— Q. Why is the crocus so called?>—L. F. A. Its name comes from the Greek word for “saffron,” which is obtained from its stamens. Q. What does & visa on a passport denote?—G. M. A. It shows that the passport has been examined by the proper authorities and is in order. \ . Q. Where is the smallest muscle m the body?—G. R. T A. It is musculus levator labii su-‘ perioris alaeque nasi (elevator of the upper lip and wing of the nose). It has its origin at the root of the nasal process of the maxilla or upper jawbone. Q. Who is called the first American architect?—E. H. A. Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844) 1is often referred to as such. While his works fall into the general category of early American architecture, they bear a distinctive stamp of his own. Their elegance, repose and refinement of detail rank them among the best products of the Nation's early years. A Q. What is the origin of lighthouses? —E. M. A. The earliest lighthouses of which records exist were the towers built by the Libyans and Cushites in Lower Egypt, beacon fires being maintained in some of them by priests. Lesches, a Greek poet (660 B.C.), mentions a ligl house at Sigeum, now Cape Incihisari, in the Troad, which appears to have been the first light regularly maintained for mariners. The famous Pharos of Alex- andria was regarded as one of the won- ders of the world. The tower is stated to have been 600 feet in height. It was destroyed by earthquake in the thir- teenth century. but remains are said to have been visible as late at 1350. The name Pharos became the general term for all lighthouses, and the term pharol- ogy has been used for the science of lighthouse construction. ’ A