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A-12 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY .. +...October 31, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor EEsmel e Jantts i, The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office: 14 Regent St., London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. The Evening Star_ The Evening and Sui (when 4 Sundays) The Evenine and Sunday Star when 5 Sundi The Susday Star Nighi Edition. a1 and Sunday Star...-70¢ per month RiERt T "B, ounct 06 Ber month Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may be seft by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. land and Virginia, -45¢ per month -60c per month 65c per month --5¢ Der copy L00: $5.003 Member of the Associated Press. sociated Press is exclusively entitled to he e o Temblication of ll news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. 1l rights of publication of special dispatches erein are also reserved. = Fishing. ‘Hamilton Fish of New York and Sen- ator Borah of Idaho agree that the Re- publican party must get away from the domination of the Old Guard. They agree that the candidate selected by the party to oppose President Roosevelt next year must be of the progressive type. They egree that the Constitution must be upheld. Here, at last, New York and Idaho are in accord. When the Idaho Senator not long ago sent his letter to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., preaching fire and brimstone against the Old Guard in the Republican party and urging the son of the late President Roosevelt to get into the battle against these Old Guardsmen and to make the principal issue of the coming campaign *“monopo- lies,” the response was lukewarm, to say the least. It looks now as though Mr. Borah picked the wrong New Yorker. Representative Hamilton Fish has been considered a candidate in his own right for the Republican presidential nomina- tion. In a statement issued yesterday, however, Mr. Fish holds his candidacy in abeyance. He has never, he says, thrown his hat in the ring. Whether he is finally to become a candidate depends largely on the type of candidates that are presented. If he does not approve of the field or any one of the field, then Mr. Fish reserves the right to become a candidate himself. He wants a candidate like the late President Theo- dore Roosevelt. In that he is probably Joined by a lot of other Republicans. He wants a candidate who has had national training and experience, who has cour- age, capacity for hard hitting, American- ism “and a political record based on constructive liberalism and a square deal for labor, the farmer, the business man and private property, within the confines of the Constitution.” Who would not want such a candidate? Mr. Borah, in the opinion of Mr. Fish, more nearly fits the picture as a man who is widely known to the country and who is able to express himself strongly. Perhaps some of the political prognosti- cators will come forward now with a new Republican national ticket, Borah and Fish, the West and the East. Generally speaking, it has been agreed among Republicans that their presidential candi- date should come from the West, in order to recapture that section of the country. What more natural, then, than to have the vice presidential nomination go to an Easterner? What Mr. Fish had to say about favorite son candidates is interesting. He fears that these favorite sons, with delegations pledged to them in the na- tional convention, will make it possible for a small group of Old Guard Repub- lican national committeemen, in a hotel back room, to pick a candidate and put him over on the party. It has been done before. Also it is gathered that Mr. Fish does not look with favor on un- instructed delegations, on the theory that such delegations, too, might become pawns in the hands of a few leaders. The New York Representative believes that all candidates for the Republican nomination who have qualifications and issues to present should enter the presi- dential preferential primaries, wherever they are held. These candidates can there demonstrate their strength with the voters, can become better known to the country at large. In this way, he contends, a candidate may be developed who has real popular support and who can be elected. Mr. Fish may be entirely right in his diagnosis of the political situation for the Republicans. There are two factors which will enter prominently into the situation next year, however. The first is, to what extent the country swings against Roosevelt and the New Deal. The second is, what the conditions of employment and business may be when the campaign gets well under way. The answers to these questions probably more nearly will spell victory or defeat for the Republicans than anything else. Halloween. The annual Halloween feast of fun and frolic this evening will center in a great community celebration in Consti- tution avenue and should attract thou- sands of revelers. Major Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of the Metro- politan Police, will lead a colorful parade down a boulevard which is ideal for such a purpose; and a King and a Queen of Carnival will ride in the procession. The several neighborhooql houses and a score or more of business establishments have prepared decorated floats as their re- spective contributions to the spectacle. There will be bands, marching clubs and hundreds of costumed individuals par- ticipating. Of course, the occasion has ample precedent. People have been observing All Hallow Even for centuries. Accord- ing to an exceedingly ancient tradition, mischief-making elves, witches and a ghostly crew of restless spirits are abroad 4 THE EVENING in the hours adjacent to midnight. Lat- terly, it must be granted, no one has seen them, but there can be no argument about their having a legion of imitators to emulate their mirth-provoking antics. A few years back it seemed that rowdyism than once a cruel vandalism marred the festivities. Such dangers, however, now have been fairly effectively provided against by the modern practice of organ- ized play. Careful supervision has saved the authentic significance of the peren- nial gambol from the threat of gradual degradation into riotous tumult. But there still is room for improve- ment, and for that reason those who will join in the amusement this evening are asked to be thoughtful of others. A good time may be had by all without anybody getting hurt, if only fair play prevails. Also, there is no real fun in destroying property and it is to be hoped that adults and children alike will abstain from that misuse of Halloween which in the past sometimes has brought the per- petrators into conflict with the law. Finally, a plea for caution is addressed to motorists. There will be exceptionally heavy traffic, especially in downtown Washington, tonight, and drivers should be commensurately careful. A happy Halloween, but a safe one is what is wanted. It can be had and fully enjoyed by co-operation toward that end. .- A Showdown in China? Statecraft, as distinguished from statesmanship, often manifests itself as the art of opportunism—of taking ad- | vantage of fortuitous circumstances and moving toward an objective when those who might ordinarily oppose such pro- cedure are preoccupied in other direc- tions. Germany struck in 1914, under the impression that Europe was too ab- sorbed to offer serious resistance to Ber- lin's war program. Japan essayed her Manchurian adventure in 1931, as she envisioned a Western world immersed in the problems of depression. Looking at the Occident today, the Japanese appear to be convinced that the hour is ripe for a new move against China. Far Eastern dispatches report that Tokio believes Europe to be en- grossed so deeply in the Italo-Ethiopian situation and Mussolini’s war with the League that long-projected pressure to establish Japanese domination in North China can now be applied with slight risk of outside interference. There are indications that Japan {s | North China and creating there an autonomous state on the model of Man- chukuo. The Chinese are confronted by three irreducible minima—suppression of “anti-Japanese agitation,” acceptance of “economic co-operation” and preven- tion with “Japanese assistance,” if neces- sary, of communist influence in Mon- golia. That acquiescence in these de- mands would amount to handing over North China to the Japanese war lords almost goes without saying. Formal protests by Tokio's military and con- sular spokesmen in Peiping and Tientsin this week had the force of an ultimatum. It left no doubt of the seriousness of Japan's purposes. Military forces are said to be ready to enforce them on an instant’s notice. Qccupation of Manchuria was justi- fied on the grounds of Japanese need for a colonization outlet and raw mate- rials. The urgency of suppressing ban- ditry was advanced as another reason for large-scale military invasion. The current drive against North China is based on the communist peril said to be menacing that region. Vast areas, Japan alleges, are ready to succumb to Soviet- ism, as a welcome alternative to chronic Nationalist misgovernment. The Japa- nese profess that they have a mission not to let a Red Army regime or any other Moscow-inspired movement fasten itself upon the heart of Asia under any con- ditions. China is practically on notice that unless Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nanking authorities effectually check the growth of communism in the north, Japan herself will undertake the task. Matters are rapidly heading toward a crisis, with yielding to the Japanese or use of force as the grim alternative. Another contingency is an “independent” uprising in North China, in which the Japanese would probably not wholly occupy the role of innocent bystanders. Japan is no longer within the jurisdic- tion of the League. Aggression in China cannot subject her to sanctions like those about to be imposed against Italy. But the emphasis laid on the communist origin of Japanese grievances foreshad- ows that the Soviet Union might not be content to remain aloof indefinitely from the situation Japan seems determined to provoke. Should Moscow be impelled to take a hand, the long-feared clash between the two great Far Eastern powers would automatically ensue. Under existing international conditions, the U. S. S. R. is about the only barrier to the attainment of Japan'’s Chinese objectives. It looks as if Tokio were ready for a showdown. ——ee—s Some of the enterprises described as “boondoggling” create suspicion that after all the famed prodigal son is en- titled to be known as a statesman and an economist. A ghost writer is ‘sometimes feared because his patient research occasionally causes him to stumble over a skeleton. A Guest From Cathay. A distinguished Chinese scholar and dramatist, Shih I. Hsiung, has arrived in New York from London to supervise the production on the metropolitan stage of a play of which he is the author. This is a veritable international dramatic exchange, inasmuch as this same Mr. Hsiung been instrumental in making Shakespeare known to his countrymen, through his translation of four of the great dramas. These four are “Hamlet,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “King Lear” and “Romeo and Juliet.” He says that it was difficult to transpose the Shake- spearean blank éuna into Chinese: That s might spoil the merriment, and more prepared to go the length of separating | is not particularly strange, inasmuch as many English-speaking actors, on both sides of the wide water, have had trouble in the correct rendering of this immortal prosody. Some wondetment was manifested by those who interviewed this scholarly visitor upon his arrival on the score of the perfection of his English speech. To those who have met the people of China in their own land this is not a surprising accomplishment. The capacity of the Far Easterners for linguistic accomplishment is well known. Many Americans touring that part of the wonld have been abashed by the more perfect enunciation of the English language by natives of China than their own usage. Much remains to be done in America in the matter of speech training, and lessons could profitably be taken from visitors from far Cathay and from Japan also. One of his interviewers in New York asked Mr. Hsiung if he and his wife expected to visit New York's Chinatown during their stay and was told that of course they would like to do so, but they would prefer to cook their own Chinese food. To the amazement of their inter- rogator they said that they had never tasted chop suey until they reached London. As a matter of fact, chop suey is not a Chinese dish. Literally trans- lated it means “odds and ends—like your hash or stew,” said Mr. Hsiung. And here again, those who have traveled in the East can testify to the fact that this concoction is not a celestial com- estible, being usually proclaimed in the signs of eating houses in the port cities as “American chop suey.” With all the travel to and from China there is still much that is mysterious and mistaken about the East from the ‘Western viewpoint. The scholarship of the Easterner is profound and genuine, and Americans can well profit by a study of the philosophy that forms the cultural background of the enlightened fraction of the Chinese millions. ——— Ethiopia has gold, copper and other valuable minerals—sufficient to make it figure in international affairs not only as & spot for slum clearance, but as a center of undeveloped resources. oo Science is doing wonders in extending the expectation of human life, but not enough to counterbalance the effects of reckless driving or bombing planes and submarines. —————— e The farmer likes ready cash, but is as anxious as anybody to learn of a way to save enough to put out at compound interest. The genius that still holds com- mand is that of the wizard of finance. ———— One of the sources of the Nile is in Abys- sinia. Egyptians have a history calcu- lated to make them alert to the possi- bility that some one may attempt to tamper with the water supply. o Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. X By Way of Reform. Where the climate is cold and the Eskimo bold Goes fishing with ardor sincere, The land 'neath the snow showed some traces of gold, The title to which was made clear. The natives we taught to behave as they ought ‘While hiding away from the storm. We gathered the gold and the fish that they caught, And we did it by way of reform. From the Pole folks will sail on a favor- ing gale ‘To the shores where the Africans dwell. And the glimmer of gold eager eyes will assail And the same gentle story we tell. Such a burden of wealth isn't good for the health For natives in climates so warm. So we shoot in the open or trap 'em by stealth, And it's all for the sake of reform. Teaching Teachers. “Yould you permit the teaching of communism?” asked the lady with a note book. “Only on one condition,” said Senator Sorghum. “Which is?” “That any teacher can prove to an average intelligence that he knows just what he is talking about.” Jud Tunkins says telling kiddies all about the sand man won't prevent them from wishing they were out with ma and pa at a night club. Alibi. The guidance of affairs of state In Europe long ago Some folly seems to demonstrate— Just whose we do not know. But when historians agree To tell the “how” and “why” A mighty effort folks will see ‘To prove an alibi. Galleries. ; “Would Crimson Guich like to have an art gallery.” “No,” answered Bronco Bob. “The Gulch feels that it responds too quickly to any stranger who says ‘Stick ’em up.’ What the Gulch wants is a shootin’ gal- lery.” Scrambled Personality. In parts I see the lady fair Whose charms I can't forget; A jig-saw puzzle, here and there, Which fancy must reset. 1 see her where the pharmacist Displays cosmetic arts And fashion pictures give a list Of her component parts. Some gentle lyricist no doubt Will ease my mental whirl And sing a little song about My jig-saw puzzle girl. “Halloween ain’t so funny,” said Uncle Eben, “when folks realizes dat it's mo” sensible to eat a pumpkin dan to make l a false face of it.” T 7\ STAR, WASHINGTOXN, THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The Roosevelt Democrats are satis- fled they have nailed down the farm vote. What is worrying them today is the consumer vote, the millions of men and women in the cities who have to buy pork and other foodstuffs at high prices. It is quite certain that from now on the efforts of the administration to gain the confidence of the consumer in the industrial centers will be strenuous. In fact, the administration spokesmen, from the President down, have already begun telling the consumers how much they have the interests of these people at heart. The President has revealed he is having daily conferences with indus- trial leaders to find out, if he can, what may be done to bring employment and wages up to some kind of parity with pro- duction. Production in this country has risen to about 90 per cent of normal, but employment lags at 82 per cent and wages at 74. * kX X Prof. Tugwell, out on the Pacific Coast, has declared that “the most serious at- tack will be the attempt to separate the two great masses of the people who have been helped most by our policies and from whom we draw our strength—the farmers and the workers.” The professor apparently recognizes the political dan- gers which may come to the New Dealers who pay Government benefits to the farmer at the cost of higher prices for food and higher taxes paid by the work- ers. He can see that the Republicans are likely to try a dirty trick on the Demo- crats by convincing the workers that there is something wrong with a sys- tem that forces them to pay high prices for their food and which gives the farmers Government checks for reduc- ing production of food. _ Mr. Tugwell wants to succeed in estab- lishing a farmer-worker alliance, a po- litical alliance. Such an alliance, he insists, would be irresistible. The ad- ministration has been very friendly with organized labor. It has put through leg- islation desired by the A. F. L., although it resisted the McCarran “prevailing wage” amendment to the work-relief ap= propriation bill and insisted on the “sube sistence wage.” 1In fact, the administra= tion has been sitting pretty with organ- ized labor. Then along came high prices for food. The workers must have food and they usually resent high prices. Furthermore, labor is only organized in part, and there is danger that it will not follow William Green, John Lewis and others of the leaders as & man. * ok ok x Mr. Tugwell said to his California audience that an alliance between the farmers and the workers would not only carry all before it, but would reduce “our dependence on half-way measures” and allow “us to carry through these re- constructive ones both in agriculture and industry. without which our Nation can- not continue either free or prosperous.” He added, “Our best strategy is to surge forward with the workers and the farm- ers of this Nation, committed to gen- eral achievements, but trusting the genius of our leader for the disposition of our forces and the timing of our at- tacks.” In other words, this New Dealer par excellence wants the laws which give Government control over agriculture and industry made far broader—no more “half-way measures” for him. * Xk X X Jouett Shouse, president of the Ameri- can Liberty League, in a statement on the victory of the Roosevelt administra- tion in the recent referendum to learn whether the farmers wished to continue the corn-hog programs of the A. A. A, with attendant Government checks, said: “There is one thing which the con- sumers and taxpayers of the Nation— meaning the entire population—should remember. In the first sixteen months of A. A. A. operations the price of lard advanced 148 per cent, the price of pork chops 116 per cent, the price of bacon 117 per cent and the price of cornmeal 48 per cent. What another year or an- other four years will mean to the con- s;:mer can best be left to his imagina- tion.” It is against such assaults and the effect they and high prices may have on the consumer when he and she go into the polling booth & year from now that the New Deal Democrats must guard themselves. ok k2 The Republicans have sent a number of speakers into New York to take part in the campaign for the election of the Assembly, control of which the G. O. P. hopes to wrest from the Democrats in next Tuesday's election. Last night James M. Beck, former member of the House from Pennsylvania and former solicitor general of the United States, spoke at White Plains, N. Y. The title of his address was “Does America Need a Dictator?” Mr. Beck insisted that: ‘The coming struggle will be a vital one between two theories of Government, the one represented by the Constitution of the United States and the other that of a totalitarian socialistic state, in which practically, if not theoretically, governmental power is concentrated in one man. The one contemplates a wise distribution of power, by which the poli- cies of the Nation are determined by the composite intelligence of the American people as represented by the Congress. ‘The other, the supremacy of the Execu- tive and his practical assumption of both legislative and executive powers.” That is the kind of criticism the New Dealers laugh off. However, if Mr. Tug- well's dream comes true, and the New Dealers find it possibje to do away with “half-way measures” and to go the whole route, what will the answer be then? * ok K % The attention of the Republicans throughout the country is turning more and more to the Governor of Kansas, Alf M. Landon, as a presidential possibility. No one thinks of calling the Governor “Alfred,” although this is his name. He is “Alf” to his friends and to the people. He is easy to meet and easy to talk to. His one failing, according to the political observers, is that he is no orator. Perhaps he could go in training for speechmak- ing during the next four or five months. Or perhaps it would be better for him to coanduct just a hand-shaking cam- paign. next year, with a few principal speeches delivered at strategic points. Anyway the backers of Gov. Landon for the presidential nomination insist that he would be a drawing card in those Western States; that it is conceivable that, in addition to Kansas, he would carry Nebraska and Oklahoma and pos- sibly might have a chance in Missouri. ‘Whether the present predominance of Landon in the conversation about Re- publican presidential possibilities will continue or be short-lived remains to be seen. Senator Borah of Idaho was trotted out at first and then Col. Frank Knox of Chicago. Now it is Landon. . * Xk X *x ‘The Roosevelt New Deal is the prime issue in the Kentucky campaign for Gov- ernor this year. For example, Miss Mary E. Hughes, former national organ- izer of the women'’s division of the N. R. A.. has been making speeches in the Blue Grass State, declaring “You cannot have a New Deal in Washington and an old deal in Kentucky.” She insists the election is bigger than Kentucky; that the country “has got to have Frank- lin D. Roosevelt in 1836.” The election of “Happy” Chandler, Democrat{s nomi- D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. How close in this world are our friends, and yet we often do not know it! ‘The big bus rolls up to a stop at Thir- teenth and E streets. A car stops close to the window. In it are little George, and his mother, familiarly known as Babe. We tap on the window, we roar greet- ings, but the windows are closed in each vehicle, and glass is a good muffler of noises. ‘The lady keeps her eyes on the road. She will not turn 'round. All Army folk drive so. It is a good idea to keep your eyes on the road, but occasionally it loses one & friendly greeting. * K K % Thus we are close to friends without ever knowing it. No doubt this is a great deal more com= mon in life than most of us think. Perhaps the very person we pass un- heeding would be a friend we have sought a lifetime. Who knows? The answer to this, if there is an answer, is to be as friendly, in intent, as it is possible to be. Many well-known modern philosophies have been built on that ground, and have stood the passage of time well. They work. The way to have a friend, no doubt, is to be one, as some one wisely said. The hermit instinct in many persons, however, prevents them from widespread “going places,” so that they are thrown back more and more on their own in- stinctive likes and dislikes. * X ¥ X To buzz around in clubs and the like, to make a large number of good speak- ing acquaintances, is one way of doing it. Yet even the greatest “joiner” knows only a very, very small percentage of the people in a large city. The great bulk of those he passes every day are and must remain unknown to him. It is here that the other type of human meets the man of wide acquaintance on a perfectly equal plane. In regard to these countless persons, who stream along our busy city thor- oughfares, most of us know nothing. Who are they? Where do they live? What do they do? There is no answer, and there never will be any answer. There is no reason why there should be any, because, when it comes to prac- tically all of them, they are as unknown as if they had never been seen. They might as well live in London, and the passerby live here, as far as knowing them, or having any real relation to them, except as inhabitants of the same city. ' * X o x It is only occasionally that this idea of strangeness, in regard to all these people we see every day, comes to mind. It may hit one while standing on a busy corner, waiting for a friend. Scores of persons, hundreds of per- sons, thousands of persons, each one close enough to touch, vet never to be known, any more than if they were living in the Sahara Desert. STARS, MEN It is a solemn thought, if one is at heart a friend of man, because it means that somebody js going to be missed. It is impossible to believe that out of that many persons there would Mot be at least one who would make life better for the knowing. That one, too, is lost forever, along with the great drift of those who could not possibly count, from any standpoint whatever, * * x x John Burroughs once wrote that the friends we seek are seeking us. It is a happy way of looking at it, but as we ‘watch the passing crowds we wonder, at times, if it is altogether true. He spoke the line in poetry, of course, and some may question whether poetry ever can be entirely true. The mission of poetry is not truth, or fact, but elation of spirit. It is helpful, ennobling, to believe that the friends we seek are seeking us, and that time nor tide can keep us apart. It is comforting, assuring, to believe so, to be able to recall several instances when things seemed to work out that way, to have the glow of “God's in his heaven, all's right with the world.” * X K X No doubt every one passes friends he does not see, never knows who his friends are, in a sense, and has no way of know- ing. In dark moments of doubt and depres- sion, known to even the healthiest, and to the optimistic, it is salutary to believe that, if only we could know them, we live surrounded by unknown friends. These hurrying, scurrying folk, are they not our friends, even if we never know them, as we never shall? ‘We both lose, but are the stronger for the knowledge, if we keep it firmly in mind, when the need is greatest. Out of any cross-section of people no | doubt there would be the same number of loyal persons, the same number of be- trayers, the same group of jokers and Jjoshers, the same percentage of those we would like and those we would not care for. The mills of the gods not only grind | slowly and exceeding fine, but their product is uniform. No one, by any reasonable stretch of the imagination, can honestly believe that if he had life to live over again it would be any other way than it has been. No doubt we would all be making the same old mistakes, and doing the same old things, eating the same meals, and wearing the same old hat. When we drove along the street. if we drove along the street, we would keep our eyes on the road, and not look around for possible friends. So we would miss 'em, and not know any better. Let us weary our knuckles on the thick windows of busses no longer; let us leave over attempting to catch bright eyes too busy to see us; let us go our way re- Jjoicing, sure in the possession of un- known friends. On a bright Autumn day. with the sun shining. and the air crisp. it is easy to believe in one’s friends, known and unknown. AND ATOMS Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. There is a striking—and in many cases hitherto unsuspected—age variation in the frequency of various sorts of sickness. This is shown in the age-incidence curves of more than 50 of the common ailments just issued by the United States Public Health Service, based on a survey of nearly 40,000 individuals in 18 States. Each family represented was visited at intervals of from two to four months for a period long enough to obtain a sickness record for one year. Upon the basis of the reports obtained Selwyn D. Collins, senior statistician of the Public Health Service, plotted the frequency of the cases against the age of the victims. Standing out conspic- uously, of course, were the so-called children’s diseases with their high peaks in the earliest years of life and prac- tical disappearance in the adolescent and adult years. Others, as would be ex- pected, showed their peaks in old age. But the curves show that the sup- posedly healthiest vears of life during early adulthood have their own maladies reaching a frequency far above the peaks of infancy or senescense. In fact, it appears from the curves, it is possible to outlive liability to some of the most serious maladies. By far the most frequent illnesses re- corded were those due to the respiratory diseases. Most individuals have attacks of one kind or another of these affec- tions every few months. But even these showed a decided différentiation of fre- quency with age. ‘The pneumonia curve shows high rates among young and old, like the pneu- monia of non-epidemic years, but unlike that of the 1918 epidemic, ‘which was high among young adults. The only other respiratory disease which shows any marked rise in the older ages is asthma. Unlike asthma, hay fever is more frequent in the middle adult than in the elder ages. Both asthma and hay fever have secondary childhood peaks between 5 and 15 years, which are followed by lower rates before the high adult incidence begins. Several of the respiratory diseases show age curve$ that are high among young adults with low rates both pre- ceding and following these peaks. Such is the case with sinusitis with a maximum at the fortieth year and with quinsy, whose maximum is at 30. Pleurisy is low among children, with a rather rapid rise to 20 or 25 years and a gradual rise thereafter. Laryngitis is relatively low in childhood, when tonsilitis is high, and gradually increases to a maximum at about 50 years, when tonsilitis is low. Croup is seldom reported above the tenth year. Respiratory tuberculosis has a maxi- mum at 30 years, but the rate continues relatively high until the end of the life span. The peak for non-respiratory tuberculosis is under 5 years, with a gradual decline as age increases. Sus- pected tuberculosis has a peak between 10 and 14 years. Several of the digestive diseases have especially high rates among children under 5 years. Indigestion and other stomach ailments reach their minima between 10 and 20 years, with a gradual rise to old age. After the teething diffi- culties of young children there is a pe- riod from the fifth to the nineteenth year when the teeth are not reported as the cause of much illness, although they are subject to much decay. After nee for Governor, Miss Hughes says, is imperative. After declaring that Chan- dler will work hand in glove with Roose- velt, she continues: “King Swope (the Republican candidate) - says if he is elected Governor, he will Be Governor and no one else will be able to tell him the twentieth year the frequency of ill- ness due to the teeth again rises, but it declines gradually from the thirtieth year to the end of life. The incidence of jaundice is highest in childhood. Other diseases of the liv are practically absent and tend to in- crease to their maxima in the oldest ages. Appendicitis is relatively rare under 5 and above 45. The peak is from 15 to 19. Stomach ulcers are most fre- quent from 40 to 50 years. Below the twentieth year they are practically un- heard of. Nearly all the affections of the skin are highest at the earliest ages. Eczema and rash are highest among children under 5. Impetigo declines markedly | Its altitude is 13,650 feet. after 10 years, but scabies is relatively | high from 5 to 20, after which there is a marked drop in the rate. Boils and carbuncles definitely increase to about the twentieth year, after which the rate declines to the end of life. SR Different kinds ef accidents, the study shows, have quite diverse age curves. Injuries due to falls are highest among | Burns are | children and old people. more frequent under 5 than at any other age. Ivy and other plant poisonings are high from 5 to 15 years, after which there is a sharp drop to a low level which is maintained for the rest of life. Other poisonings are highest under 5 years, deqlining from that point until adoles- cence, when there is a considerable in- crease. Eye accidents have a definite peak at 30 years, probably due to in- | dustrial hazards. Automobile accidents are lower among children than adults, but there is a small peak between the fifth and ninth years which probably represents the age when children are playing on the streets and are too young to keep out of the path of cars. After 15 there is little variation with age in the frequency of injury from automo- bile accidents. Infected wounds are slightly more frequent at adolescence than at other ages. Interesting age curves are shown by those diseases which chiefly affect the organs of locomotion—such as rheuma- tism, neuralgia, lumbago and other mus- cular pains, backache and affections of the muscles and related tissues. The incidence of all these aches, pains and affections of the muscles and nerves rises with age, but the oldest group, 55 and over, has a lower rate than the preceding ages. The curves for nervousness and neu- rasthenia, headache, anemia and dis- eases of the thyroid gland are all simi- lar. With the exception of headache, which has a secondary peak at from 10 to 14 years, these ailments are rare in childhood, increase gradually to about 30 years, and then remain approximately the same to the end of life. There seems to be a slight decline in the fre- quency of headaches after 65. The peak appears earlier in whooping cough than in any of the other diseases, the maximum incidence being at 3 years with a small secondary peak at 6. Measles shows a double peak, the first at 2 years and the second at 5 and 6. The latter peak presumably is associated with school entrance. Chicken pox, mumps and scarlet fever all remain rela- tively low in the pre-school period, with peaks between the sixth and seventh years. Diptheria reaches a peak at about the same age as scarlet fever. The peak incidence of German measels appears to come at a definitely later age, the rates from 10 to 14 and from 15 to 19 being the highest, and approximately the same. p —_————e———— Top, Rough to Soothe. Prom the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail. (”*The troubled waters which Mr. Roose- are not the kind to 'velt has just esca) 1 chat. be pacified by & 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. Do owners and breeders carry ine surance on their race horses?—E. B. A. Insurance is usually carried on thoroughbreds. Some of the men with big stables carry their own insurance; that is, they set aside a certain sum to cover possible losses. Q. When will child labor day be ob= served this Winter?>—K. S. A. The week end of January 25, 26 and 27 has been chosen. Q. Were Charlie Chaplin's parents actors?—M. McC. A. Charles Sidney Chaplin was the son of Charles and Hannah Chaplin, both of whom were well known English stage performers. His father died while Charles was a child. Q. Of the numerous hunting accidents, how many are caused by the hunters’ own guns?>—G. D. A. Mr. Fay Welch has made a study of such accidents and sayvs that almost half of the total number of injuries are 50 caused. Q. What is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies?—E. M. A. Transylvania College. formerly Ken« tucky University, founded in 1780 at Lexington, Ky. Q. What is caisson disease?—H. B. A. Men engaged in work under water in a chamber where the pressure is three to four times that of the atmosphere suffer from various disturbances when they return to normal, or atmospheric, pressure. There may be severe pains, resulting in bends if located in the abdo= men, difficulty in breathing, dizziness, paralysis and even death. The dis- turbances last from hours to weeks and are owing to the injury to tissue by bubbles of gas. Divers may suffer in the same way. Q. Where is the headquarters of the Bahai Movement?—L. K. A. A national office is maintained at West Englewood, N. J. Q. Why isn't galvanized iron used for cooking utensils?—N. T. A. Galvanized ware is not suitable for | cooking utensils because there s a chance of contamination of metals. The galva- nized coating soon wears off and it be- | comes easily rusted. Q. Is T. S. Eliot, the poet, an Englishe man?—N. D. A. He was born at St. Louis, Mo., and after his graduation at Harvard entered Oxford. In 1927 he became an English citizen. Q. What is the translation of “hari- kari,” the Japanese method of official suicide?—T. 8. A. It means happy dispatch. Q. Please compare the size of Cuba with one of the United States.—S. R. A. It is slightly larger than Ohio. Q. Was Eugene Brieux's play, “Dam- aged Goods,” ever, made into a book? —W. W. A. The play was novelized by Upton Sinclair. Q. How did Mobile, Ala., get its name? —H. L. A. From the Mauvila or Maubila Ine dians, who lived near there. Q. When and where will the Army- Navy foot ball game be played this year? —M.G. W. A. It will be played November 30, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, in Philadelphia, Pa. Q. Is Mauna Loa the highest volcanic mountain in Hawaii?>—N. T A. It is the highest active volcano. Mauna Kea is the highest—13805 feet—but is ine active, Q. What are megalithic monuments? —E. H.F. A. They were constructed in prehis- toric times of rough stones, usually une hewn and without ornamentation. These monuments are most numerous in the British Isles, Scandinavia, Belgium, Western France, Spain and Portugal in Europe: Northern Africa: Arabia, Pale estine, Syria, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, the uplands of Persia, the Deccan, Ase sam, Burma and Japan in Asia: a num- | ber of islands in the Pacific, and parts of North and South America. Q. What became of the old printing establishment known as the Clarendon Press?—H. H. A. It was founded in 1672 as the press of the University of Oxford, England. ‘The printing house was erected in 1711« | 1713 from the profits of Lord Claren- don’s “History of the Rebellion,” which were given to the university. Since 1830 it has been known as the Oxford Uni- versity Press. Q. Where is the territory of the Don Cossacks?—L. B. A. This is an old Russian territorial division, consisting of the land about the middle and lower course of the Don. In 1928 the territory was reorganized, most of it being added to the North Caucasian area as the Don District; parts are in Ukraine and the Lower Volga area. Q. How did the game of chess get its name?—R. H. A. It is believed that it is derived from the Persian Shah, meaning king, making chess the game of kings. Q. How many of the new size bills are printed in one sheet? How many in the old paper money?—D. M. E. A. The old size bills were printed 8 to the sheet. The new size are made 13 to the sheet. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton A Primrose in Babylon Autumn flowers in midtewn yard Flamboyant beauty fiaunting, Scarlet anc purple, blue and gold; More colcrful than haunting. The flaming tfees shed russet leaves Over the gorgeous masses, ‘Winds from the river hurl them on To fibrous vines and grasses, The multi-colored pageantry Of scentless, gaudy flowers Seems to suggest a dynasty Of Babylonian powers— Amid the militant display, All out of place and vagrant, A wild primrose from softer clime Blflooml, delicately fragrant.

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