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Boondoggling Title Goes to Pueblo County Which Pays U. S. $90,000 Tax Gets $2,233,096. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. UEBLO, Colo, September 5.— This might well be called the Boondoggle Capital of America. For here have been perpetrated in the name of “relief” some of the most fantastic operations with Fed- eral money that have been recorded anywhere. Pueblo County has re- ceived about $2,- . 233,096 of Fed- eral money for local projects. Pirst, there's the golf course. The W. P. A spent $100,826 on it. In construct- ing it a ditch 4200 feet long was dug and © filled up when it * was discovered - that the ditch was in the wrong place for drain- ing. A second ditch was dug and parts of it were too low and had to be filled in. Second, there’s the expenditure of about $310,370 on improvements to the State fair grounds. The fair grounds are idle most of the year, but they do take in some money as | a business proposition for the State, | and Colorado should have defrayed | much more of the cost instead of leaving the bulk of it to taxpayers in other parts of the country—this is the chief objection raised even among Colorado citizens who feel that the cost of maintenance will ultimately be a burden upon them. About $250,000 was spent on horse barns. There are 10 units, each cost- ing about $23.597. Commenting on these barns the New York Sun, which has made a specialty of exposing these boondoggles, remarks: “Even the most aristocratic of horses, when ushered into such a barn, ought not to look the W. P. A. in the mouth, but the question which doubtless rises in the minds of many Coloradoans is: How is the State to produce enough | horses to fill all these barns uniess there is an immediate return to the horse-and-buggy days?” Third, there is comment on the out- lay of $50,000 of Federal money to improve streets and driveways leading to the State fair grounds when, at a town not far away, the President ap- | proved a similar improvement of 12 miles of streets at a fotal cost of only $2,500. U. S. Helps Maintenance. Fourth, there is the roofing and ex- | tension of the poultry building author- | ized by the President through the ‘W. P. A. at a cost to the Federal Treasury of $24,900. | Fifth, Federal money already is being used for maintenance purposes. Thus 7 large and 127 small bridges are being painted by the W. P. A. at & total cost of $37,000. | Sixth, a zoo costing $24,595 of Federal money is being constructed in the city park. Seventh, another $24,585 has been borrowed to landscape a hill in the | enimal pens. This is also Federal money. i Eighth, the young people of Pueblo | are to have their dancing pavillion in the city park remodelled. It will cost $24,750 of Federal money. | Ninth, wading pools are being con- | structed by the W. P. A. at a cost of | $34,600 to the Federal Treasury. | $90,000 for $2,233,096. Pueblo County has 1,506 persons who pay income taxes to the Federal Government, and since the average ‘was $60 for the State the assumption David Lawrence. 15 that about $90,000 will be paid by | Pueblo County residents toward re- | payment to the Federal Govemmem' for having spent $2,233,096 in this county. Approximately $2,140,000, therefore, has to be paid by taxpayers in other parts of the country for im- | provements they will never see nor enjoy. The big question then is whether the employment given could have been otherwise furnished or whether food and shelter for the unemployed | could have been otherwise provided | by this county even with Federal aid | for much less expense, Most citizens hereabouts, glad to have the gift of the improvements, will nevertheless concede privately that relief could have been much less expensively handled. ‘What has happened in Pueblo may or may not be typical of what MS‘ happened in other cities and counties, but the general impression I gather | from other States, too, is that boon- doggling has come to be a good deal of a joke—that is a joke on the tax- payers of the East and Middle West ‘who will have to pay the bill. (Copyright, 1936,) P. W. A. GRANT ACCEPTED BY RIVERDALE COUNCIL| | Dids Asked by September 18 on | Improvements to Lincoln, Mon- roe and Madison Avenues. RIVERDALE, Md., September 5.— Formal approval of the application to the P. W. A. and acceptance of the | Pederal grant of $18,000 was com- pleted by the local Council at a spe- | cial session with Mayor William C. ‘Wedding presiding. A. E. Pohmer, town engineer, was ;directed to seek bids for the con- struction of permanent streets, includ- :ing concrete curbs, on Lincoln, Mon- roe and a portion of West Madison evenue. Bids must be submitted not {later than September 18 and work jwill begin not later than October 1. iPayment of street improvement will “be borne by the abutting property owners under the terms of the town iroad law, which allows payments to £be made semi-annually over a period fof 10 years. 4 Under the direction of the Council, «property owners on other unimproved 1 are being circularized for their titude pertaining to further loans for a more extensive street building -program. Plans for the new municipal build- ing to be built adjoining the present fire department building will be com- pleted in the near future, when bids will be sought. Deaths Reported. Andrew Leitch, 84. St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Mary er nley. 70. 52, 420 7th fant uu]mm‘: At ] annie Smith, 53. Garfield itai, Lenora “Newman. 39, Preedmans’ Hos- 1 % ant Evens, Gallinger Hospital. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936. News Behind the News * High Administrative Costs Topple Tugwell’s Staff. Kane’s Skipper Knows Planes. BY PAUL MALLON. HE dismantling of Dr. Tugwell is being carried out quietly, but never- theless, effectively. His chief of staff gave out a story the other day that some curtailments were being effected in the Resettlement Administra- tion, but he did not tell all. The exodus from this New Deal bureau has been on for six months. Those who couid find jobs elsewhere have found them. One Tugwell publicity man is helping Will Hays to purify the movies, another is writing an “impartial” column for the newspapers under & pen name. Higher-ups, who were late to catch on, have recently been seeking transfers. One A. A. A. division chief who was transferred to R. A. several months ago has been able within the last few days back to voluntary soft pedal. Note—More than 3,000 Tugwell employes are sald to have been let out, or shifted to other Govern- ment bureaus within the last three months. Dr. Tugwell's sad story can be told in onme senience: His administrative costs ran as high as 40 per cent. At his peak he made loans to 360,000 rural families and subsistence gramts to 340,000 more. But to render this aid, he employed more than 20,000 persons. His office in Washington spread through 19 different buildings, including a hotel. By diligent application, he has been able to reduce his administrative costs gradually, but it still Tuns between 16 and 20 per cent, according to budget figures. The unsatisfactory extent of this waste may be measured by the fact that W. P. A. claims administrative costs of between 3 and 3% per cent. Legally Dr. Tugwell can continue as a constitutional entity until next July 1. A number of Western and Middle Western Congressmen went to the front for him at the last session of Congress and earmarked $85,500,000 of the $1,425,000,000 relief fund for his work. Next year it may not be so easy. The drought gave him an opportunity to demonstrate his purpose, but even the drought cannot wipe off the administrative waste which is said to have convinced the President that R. A. must go. DR Not from the Navy, but from equally authoritative sources, you can learn that the lieutenant commander in charge of the Kane was in the Air Service for six years. He knows more about the identity of planes than than the average destroyer commander. 1f you could get a peep at his reports, which the Navy has kept secret, you would probadbly find that he identified his assailant definitely as the type of ship used by the Italians, and, furthermore, he noticed that the usual identification symbols had been removed. Of course, he had no idea who was flying it. However, every one here is content to let the incident go as a case of “mistaken identity” and urgent orders have been issued on the inside not to keep the story alive. 5 The only really serious trouble developing during President Roose- velt’s drought trip was on the question of snoring. It seems that three eminent exponents of the art of snoring aloud very nearly broke up the trip. They were in Mr. Roosevelt's retinue, and, when they reached the small hotel bed rooms in the drought regions, they became & major problem. . 4 Director Morris Cooke of the Rural Electrification Administration sought to harmonize arirangements by bunking two sopranos together, but this did not work out. Both com- plained that the other was disturbing his slumber, and the third, who was & bass, was lonely without accompaniment. Mr. Roosevelt solved the problem by sending all three home. (Copyright. 1936.) RECKLESS DRIVING. ‘ Edward A. Dade, Arlington, Va. Aubrey Thomas Dreeden, 1144 15 days. Abbey place northeast, $25 or 25 Philip T. Harpine, Arlington, Va, days. | 30 days. LEAVING AFTER COLLIDING. | Keith B. Maust, 6310 Beechwood Willie A. Smith, 3739 Kansas drive. Chevy Chase, Md. 15 days. avenue, $25. FIRST-OFFENSE SFEEDING. Aubrey Thomas Breeden, 1144 Abbey place northeast, $15. Leo S. Bowman, 1828 Columbia road, $10. Frank W. street, $15. ‘Tony Poppalardo, 1114 H street | oDt S0 een, 407 Third sireet| VIRGINIAN IS ARRESTED s vl IN 8-YEAR-OLD MURDER Charles W. Harris, 1214 S street, 10. pER—— Man Caught in Chestertown, Md., Returned to Jail in Montross. Charles Pumphrey, 921 Eighth BYtoe Associated Press. street southeast, $10. | FREDERICKSBURG, Va. Septem- Marshall A, Smallwood, 3701 Tenth | ber 5.—Leon Richards, 27-year-old street, $10. colored man, who for eight years has Jerome J. Sullivan, 214 First street | been sought on a charge of murder southeast, $10. by Westmoreland County authorities, PERMIT SUSPENSIONS. | was locked in the Montrose Jail Thurs- Theodore Bailey, Edgewood, Md., 30 | day following his arrest in Chester- days. town, Md. Cory W. Baldwin, Farmville, Va., 15| Richards was brought back to days. Westmoreland by Deputy Sheriff E. Floyd W. Baxter, Petersburg, Va. |S. Walker and Commonwealth's At- 15 days. torney Ferdinand Chandler of West- John T. Beelen, Baltimore, 30 days. Albert L. Bond, Bennings, D. C, 15 days. Alex Brash, Baltimore, revoked. James T. Brockwell, Petersburg, Va., revoked. Robert E. Carter, days. Harry B. Classon, days. William M. Clover, Knox, Pa., 15 days. George H. Cople, Westminister, Md., 15 days. George W. Croft, Clarendon, Va., 15 days. | days. Linnel P. Morgan, Baltimore, days. Charles J. Murphy, 8t. Louis, Mo., days. Henry Tooma, Baltimore, 30 days. Richard Zape, Baltimore, 30 days. 15 | | 30 Rose, jr., 1746 Irving Frederick E. Robey, 4424 Albemarle street, $10. Harvey L. Vincent, Virginia, $10. Morris 8. Cohen, 724 Quincy srteet, $15. for him when informed that the man had been arrested there and had ad- mitted his identity. He was delivered to the Westmoreland officials by John M. Bennett of Chestertown, a Mary- land deputy sheriff. Richards is charged with the mur- der of John B. Lindsay, s white man, who died following a fight in which it is alleged that Richards hit the former over the head with a bottle. ‘The fight occurred at Monroe Hall in 1928 and immediately following Rich- ards left the county. He has since been a fugitive, Baltimore, 15 Baltimore, 15 Young Washington An artist’s career beckons Dorothy Johnson, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam M. Johnson, 615 Sheridan street. She is shown putting the finishing touches on a sport oster. Dorothy has won two medals for her posters and flve etters for athletics at Paul Junior High School, of which she is * a graduate. Monday: Jack Redinger, sor of Mrs. E. A‘fimnh, a pupil at Roosevelt High —Star S Photo, Smith L. Miller, Dallas, Tex., 30 Such universally valid truths. Call Sounded for Return to Truth Present-Day Nations Subjugating This Virtue in Man. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. HERE was & speech made .on Wednesday at the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of «Arts and Sciences which ought to.be reprinted in pamphlet form and given to every teacher of the young In this country. I hereby offer to contribute to a fund for the purpose. The speaker was Prof. Etienne of the University of Paris, one of the world’s best-known scholars on medieval thought, and he spoke on “Medieval Universalism.” His address was a brilliant plea for the values which * are most chal- ¥4 lenged in the ’ world at this mo- ment, the re-es- tablishment of * reason as the }§ only unifying ¥ force am ongst men, for the re- jection of the idea that truth is the instrument of any state, nation, race or economic or social system, for the elevation e again GE e Egns T EYIy Kgmbset. ception that there are certain uni- versal values, the quest for which, by realistic and rational methods, is the noblest and most fruitful work of man. Prof. Gilson comes from Europe and | he spoke with the feeling and ap- | prehension of one who lives in the | midst of a revolution which threatens to sweep away the very basis of the civilization in which we live. In his speech he made perfectly clear what that basis is. Its foundation is the | belief that there is a spiritual order of reality, “whose absolute right it is to judge even the state, and even- tually to free us from its oppres- sion.” He said: “The conviction that there is nothing in the world above universal truth lies at the very root of our | | mental and social liberty.” If it goes, he warned, there will be nothing to protect us against the worst kind of slavery to which mankind is now be- ing submitted by totalitarian states— mental slavery. Echoes Recent Sentiment. In very different words, Prof. Gil- son echoed the thoughts which were expressed some weeks ago in the | epistle of the dissident Protestant | | clergy in Germany. Such ideas also lay behind the refusal of Oxford and Cambridge Universities to participate in the quincentennial celebration at the University of Heidelberg this year. They are the conceptions that truth, morality, social justice and beauty are necessary and universal in their | | own right. They cannot be true alone | for a certain social organization and | economic system, or for a certain na- tion or for a certain race. Their ' validity must be universal. The only conceivable source of cul- | ture and learning, the only possible spring of real progress, is in freedom | of mind to continue in & search for Prof. Gilson says that we have | was recognized by the makers of | America, themselves philosophers, and | | more than a mere tirade against | vague liberalism. But Doremus has | thing that is worth while in the world | preservation of this spirit is more im- | portant than any social system what- | shutting up the men of science, and | the harder, the more rigorous way. lost our common faith; that we have lost our common art. - And we are now in danger of losing even our common science, and exchanging it for state-controlled dogmas. That condition of affairs has already been reached in a large part of what was once the civilized world. It exists in all the dictatorships, whether they call themselves Fascist, or Nazi, or Communists. Russian education today is ruled by certain dogmas which are not open to debate. It is a dogma that there are no racial inequalities. Atheism, the non-existence of God, has been ele- vated into a dogma, however negative, which takes up aspects of the church at its lowest point. Whole systems of philosophy are banned from the uni- versities altogether. An economic theory is universally taught and its acceptance imposed by force. Although vast new frontiers of in- dustrial organization and applied science are opened up, a vise is clamped upon the independent inquir- ing spirit, out of which the revolution itself sprang, and already the effects manifest themselves in & singular tightness and bigotry of mind. Many Truths Available. Similarly, in Germany, a national myth and a racial dogma are imposed upon all of education and all of science; the very idea of universal truth is abrogated. There is one truth and one justice for Germans, another for non-German; one truth for gen- tiles and another for Jews. There is German art and other art, German beauty and other beauty. And the same withdrawal from universality is characteristic of the prevailing minds in Italy. It is well that attention should be called to the fact that democracy has philosophic implications. Prof. Gilson quoted the French philosopher, Jules Lachelier, as saying that demoeracy was based upon the kind of theocracy that Willlam Penn once established in the forests of Pennsylvania. That theocracy asserted that if men de- clined to accept from God the prin- ciples of their social conduct they are bound to accept them from the king or the state, or from their own race or their own social class. That these principles must derive from a source above the state, from the search of the free mind through the only in- strument which it possesses, reason, embodied in the bill of rights. Audience May See. The W. P. A. theater project is about to dramatize and produce Sin- clair Lewis’ “It Can't Happen Here.” I wonder whether the players and the | audience will see that this book is Fascism; that it is a powerful argu- | ment for the positive principles which | Prof. Gilson pled for in his speech. Doremus Jessup, the Vermont editor, who is the hero of the book, has been excoriated by our own radicals for his stuck to the search for principles eternally valid. And he expressed himself thus: “More and more as I think about history, I am convinced that every- | has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, crystal spirit, and that the soever. But the men of ritual and | the men of barbarism are capable of | silencing them forever.” | The test which such a mind applies to every question must be the test of reality; of validity measured through reason by reality. And yet the dog- | matists call those weak who choose (Copsright. 1036.) | Astrologers See No General War Nor Drought By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, September 5—The star gazers foresee good times and no | drought in 1937. { At least that was what one of the ! Jeaders of the All-American Astrologi- | cal Convention, D. M. Davidson of | Chicago, said was the concensus of | the 500 astrologers meeting here. | Although he said the purpose of the moreland, who went to Chestertown | convention was to discourage indis- | criminate predicting and put astrology | on scientific standards, Davidson con- | sented to disclose the astrologers read in the heavens that: The general economic outlook for America during the next year is good. The average citizen is going to fare | well | year's disastrous drought which star | obtain facts and data and record | tific tests.” Good Times, ‘There will be a boom in real estate. There will be no recurrence of this | augurs believe was caused by an ex- | cess of ultra-violet radiation from the sun. There will be no general European | war for at least a year. Japan will not advance on China until 1940. “We want to put astrology where it | belongs—on a scientific basis,” David- son said. “We are meeting to discuss | ways by which astrologers all over the country can get together. If we them properly, they will stand scien- Weather Prophets Confound Critics; Are87 Pct.Correct | California Above U. S. Average—New York and Ohio Below. By the Associated Press. | Folks who pick up their newspapers | and say, “H'mm—the weather man says fair—guess it's really going to rain,” were rebuked yesterday by official batting averages of the fore- casters. Edgar B. Calvert, who keeps a constant check on the accuracy of the Government’s weather prophets, reported they are right 87 per cent of the time. ‘That is the average for the United States as a whole, according to Cal- vert, chief of the Weather Bureau's Forecast Division. In California—where there is little rain in the Summer time—the fore- casts come true 90 per cent of the time or even oftener. Western New York and Ohio are harder to figure, and the average there ranges from 80 to 83 per cent, Calvert said. He added that the bureau is making & steady, although not spectacular, improvement in the accuracy of its lons. “But it's a good deal like a game of golf,” he explained, “When you get down into the 70's it’s awfully hard to cut a stroke off your average.” Births Reported. Harvey and Bei kers. boy. THRARRg i iy e Myra Betters. girl. B o 34, Bt Dog Dies Trying Rescue. ‘Trotting on a leash beside its mas- | ter, a black retriever died trying to rescue an old man who started across the railway tracks in front of an on- | rushing train near Irvine, Scotland. A -passerby gave a warning shout, and the dog raced forward, caught the man’s coat in his teeth and tried | to pull him back. Both the man and the dog were crushed under the By the Associated Press. | | Mountains. | the governors of their | English. i We, the People Republican Use of “Confidential” Report in R. A, Attack Called Dangerous. BY JAY FRANKLIN, VERY now and then we read of an American officer or enlisted man ‘who has sold confidential documents to agents of a foreign nation. Sometimes they are caught and tried, for there are very severe regulations governing the disposition of official secrets and execu- tive papers. It is generally conceded that the Government enjoys the right of privacy in many phases of administration, even when the national de- fense is not at stake, subject to eventual report to Congress. 1t is, therefore, rather curious to see the Republican National Com- 3 mittee embarking on a course of action which is the complete jus- tification for 100 per cent Demo- cratic patronage in the executive branch of the National Govern- ment. ‘The reference is to the commit- tee’'s recent release concerning a confidential report by an adminis- trative official on the inefficiency of certain of Tugwell's Resettle- ment offices. It is quite true that many an official report is marked “confidential” when it could be told to the whole world. It is also quite true that there is plenty to criticize in Resettlement, as in other emergency agencies of the New Deal. To attempt to do a big and unprecedented job, quickly and without previous experience, is bound to cause a certain amount of inef- ficiency and waste, if no worse. * *x * x The sole issue here is whether a Government agency has a right to temporary privacy in matters of administrative detail. This issue raises the question of how the Republican National Com- mittee came to know the contents of this confidential report. There is only one answer. Somewhere in R. A. there is posted at least one Republican spy who makes it his or her business to pass out to the G. O. P. confiden- tial data which might prove damaging to Tugwell's program. Unfortunately, this is nothing new at Washington. When officers peddle the means of nctional defense to foreigners can it be expected that minor members of the administrative staff will refuse to make pocket money or to cultivate a friend in the Republican camp by passing out everything they see which might help the opposition? But the Republican politicians are playing with dynamite when they seek to wage their campaign against the administration with the help of petty pilfering. The last thing we want to see in this country is the wreck of the eivii service by the imposition of a test oath on Government em- ployes, or the rise of “purges” on the basis of party loyalty along lines made painfully familiar by Communists and Pascists in Europe. % x ¥ % ‘What is the answer? The answer is very simple and will be equally painful to both the New Dealers and to their opponents. When the Republicans want in- formation from their Government let them walk in the front door and ask for it, in the public interest. And let the New Dealers stop their silly efforts to whitewash everything which has been done in the name of the New Deal There have been plenty of mis- takes. There were bound to be. Lack of trained personnel and ex- perience in administering novel governmental programs insured a fair number of serious failures. The American people are mature enough to judge the New Deal by its general results and to grant a generous tolerance for executive “roughage” in its diet of re- covery. On the other hand, the hole-in-corner tactics of the Repub- lican propagandists are as silly as they are dangerous. The Landon- ites can put their case for the decision of the people without resort- ing to the methods of shoplifters and second-story men. And above all, they can stop treating the Government of the United States as though they were joreign spies bent on undermining its safety. (Copyright. 1936.) Rebel Advance Perils Records Of Early History of America Medieval Palace in Guadarrama Moun- tains Contains Papers Highly Prized by Scholars. | ings and monuments, but the build- News from Spain's fierce civil wsrl ing was believed to be almost im- brought s twinge of anxiety today to pregnable to infantry assaults alone. scholars of early American history. | One of the largest structures in Spain, Dispatches indicated rebel generals El Escorial presents a 744-foot front were planning to carry their drive intg | of solid stone, and its walls are the vicinity of E1 Escorial, & massive | fortress-like in thickness. medieval palace in the Guadarrama| Loyalist troops, holding the palace since the outbreak of the civil war, In its library were stored. gt least | have used it as a hospital base for until recently, hundreds of parch-!their Guadarrama columns. ment documents—eighteenth century| In addition to the rare books and reports to the Spanish kings from manuscripts in its library, El Escorial California, | has long boasted a wealth of art ob- Texas and Mexico colonies. jects and historical relics. They in- Government Guards Documents. | cjyde Goya tapestries, paintings by Whether the documents have been |E) Greco and Italian artists and removed to another place since the many antique arms and costumes. war broke out was not known here,| QOther collections of century-old though the znvemp:ent has annojunc- | documents dealing with the new ed the general policy of safeguarding | woriq are stored in government build- historical and artistic treasures. ings and private mansions in Seville American scholars havs described | ang Cadiz, ports which carried on these archives as a virtually untabped | yne pylk of colonial trade. Both cities mine of information which might in ins v e add many chapters to the early history | (ne ‘;el)euge:‘g'l_"%‘;;:‘md;m' becxs of the Southwest. Few of the fading : i manuscripts have been translated into | Sudan Sparsely Peopled. The burial place for generations of Spanish royalty, El Escorial, is one of the country’s most precious archi- tectural treasures. Philip II planned it as a secluded monastery-palace, | hidden in the barren hills 25 miles northwest of Madrid. ' Workmen imported from Flanders | laid the first stones in 1563 and | labored for more than 20 years to complete its bleak granite walls. } Rebel headquarters promised to | withhold artillery fire in the attack | third the size of continental United States in area, has a population of but 5,000,000, tradictory among themselves Star’s. wheels. to avoid destroying historical build- The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, one- | Headline Folk and What They Do Star Among Harvard Star-Gazers Is Indian Astrophysicist. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. ONG-DISTANCE star gazing s today’s main event in the Harvard scientific Olympics. They find “ghost stars” strange cosmic dust which may de- note a form of matter never before observed, a new giant red nebuia, fbr- lorn little orphan stars and | strange gleanings and sweepings fi which they hope to sift a golden key of cosmic understanding. Dr. Megh Nad Saha of India is a | decathlon scientist who is expected to score heavily. One of the world's greatest astrophysicists, he has trav- eled 10,000 miles from the University | of Allahabad to engage in the dis- | cussions. Highly certified as to scien- tific orthodoxy, he repeatedly has said | that all this searching the heavens, | weighing and analyzing stars, m: {ymu something of tremendous wor| a-day value to confused earth dwell- ers, whose bewilderment is becoming planetary. His ancient Indian gurus have long been saying the same thing—in fact, they have more than hinted at the Quantum theory, which today is home base at Harvard. But Dr. Saha’s in- tellectual spectrum yields no trace of foggy ‘mysticism. Several years ago, the combined astronomical and finan- | cial facuities of Harvard set up an | astonishing correspondence between | ultra-violet radiation as governed by sun-spot variations, and world stock market ups and downs over a perlod of 30 years. And now Dr. Saha says the ultra-violet output is increasing. That seems to be the only news desk clue as to Dr. Saha's main idea. Somebody ought to put a good re- porter on the job. He was an unknown professor on the banks of the Ganges, making valu able researches into the temperattire and chemical constituency of the stars with inadequate equipment and assist- ance. At the University of Allahabad his work on ultra-violet radiation gained him a world reputation among scientists. He is 43 years old, a man of wide and profound culture, who has traveled much in Europe and the Far East, but now making his visit to the United States. He educated at the Universities of Cal- cutta and Berlin and the Impenal College of Science in London. He was the founder of the National Academy of Science of India and is a former president of the Indiar Scientific Con- gress. | News dispatches report Nazi threats to mob Rev. Martin Niemoeller, con- spicuous holdout among Protestant clergymen against the state’s efforts to get religion into the National Socialist lockstep. Considering past perform- | ances, it seems doubtful whether mob- bing would be effective in this case. Germany’s tall. grim, rigid, haggard fighting parson was a submarine com- | mander in the war. He destroyed al- | most & record amount of enemy ship- | ping and was chased around the Med- | iterranean for weeks in his crippled | submarine. He escaped and brought his U-boat safely home. When he later was ordered to take his boat to Scapa Flow to be sunk by the vic- torious allies, he refused and resigned from the navy to resume his theological studies. He specializes on hell fire, and he has dealt plenty of it in his day. He is the pastor of the Berlin-Dahlem Church, the richest and most fashion- able in Berlin, attended by Junkers, Monarchists and diplomats. (Copyright, 1936,) TO NOMINATE ‘PRINCESS’ Richmond Keech, Bachelor, Is Named Chairman for Fete. | Richmond B. Keech, one of the youngest men ever to be named a member of the Public Utilities Com- mission, and a bachelor, has been named chairman of a committee to nominate a District princess to rep- | resent the District at the Piedmo! | Dairy Festival at Manassas, Va, Oc- | tober 2 | Commissioner Hazen named as other members of the committee Dr. E. M. Colvin, jr. and Quinter Comer, ! both natives of Virginia. 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