Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1936, Page 10

A—10 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. September 15, 1936 THEODORE W. NOYES......c... Editor ——— The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 110n o0 SR Fn R inte Ave an 5 New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. icago O ke Michigan Bullding. Buroponn Smen s Hogent Se. London. Rnsiand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ity —eeeDC DEr copy Night Final Edition. ~ a) per mont] Ordeuecmg? be l:ll by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 1 mo., 85c 6.00; 1 mo.. 80c $4.00; 1 moa Canada. 1 m -1 ¥yra =1 ¥ra Other !lll:l a = 8! iz $5.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. Assoctated Press 15 exclusively entitled to tho e Tor ebublcaion of all Hews Slpaccnce e 5 AP iehts of publication”of swecial dispatcnes rein are also reserved. The W. P. A. and Politics. President Roosevelt says that he has led‘rthe American people to “green pas- tures.” He and his supporters claim that recovery in business has been very great. There are evidences that the President is correct; that industry and business have improved greatly in this country. On the other hand, it is ques- tionable whether the improvement in business has been as great as it might have been without hampering New Deal administration and legislation and with- out the fear engendered by the tre- mendous spending of Government funds. In the face of these claims by the President that the people have been led out of the wilderness and into green pastures, a report of the Works Progress Administration, signed by Harry L. Hopkins, shows that on July 31 there were 3,297,000 persons employed or otherwise on relief rolls, The strange part of this report is found in the fact that this number on relief on July 31 is greater by 28,000 than the,number on February 28, last, despite the great increase claimed for industry and de- spite the increase in seasonal employ- ment. The W. P. A. stands in a class by itself when it comes to the number of persons on the relief pay rolls. Of the total the new report shows that 2,248,000 were employed July 31 by the W. P. A, 404,000 were in the C. C. C. and 171,000 in the P. W. A, with the remainder in various other activities and agencies. The number of W. P. A, workers is on the increase, according to the re- port, as, for example, the number jumped from 2,232917 on July 11 to 2,248,113 at the end of July. An attempt to explain this increase is made, with the drought in some of the Western States as the cause. This explanation, however, fails to account for the increase in the num- ber of W. P. A. workers in Pennsyl- vania, which has been outside the drought area. In that State, the report shows, the number of W. P. A. workers increased from 235,000 on June 27, last, to 236,335 on July 25. Pennsylvania Is one of the great industrial States of the Nation. An increase in business and prosperily means an increase in work and employment in Pennsylvania. Yet here is evidence that the relief rolls are on the up and up in that politically keystone State. The New Dealers are moving heaven and earth to bring Penn- sylvania into the Roosevelt column In the November election. It will be of considerable interest to know whether the W. P. A. pay rolls increase during the next seven weeks. The W. P. A. is a facile agency. It has been the pet of the President. It is able to put money in circulation more quickly than any of the other Govern- ment agencies. It has still remaining to its disposal hundreds of millions of dollars. This money, the Republicans charge, is being poured and will be poured into many States prior to the election, —————— ‘The man who drew a pistol with in- tent to alarm His Majesty King Edward could not secure as long a prison sen- tence as he desired, being possibly re- garded as less of a menace than a num- ber of personages who stand by with monkey wrenches to be tossed into the machinery of orderly government. A Shakespeare - Bacon controversy might be revived by some enterprising showman willing to seek reputation by claiming that all this Bard of Avon adulation really belongs to horse and buggy days. Gabrilowitsch. Ossip Gabrilowitsch was more than an artist, His genius was the fruit of char- acter and temperament so fused as to constitute a personality of noble dis- tinction. It follows that he might have won fame in any field of endeavor. That he chose music was fortunate for the world, Dying at fifty-eight, his monu- ment is the gratitude and love of a multitude of hearts in an America which is not deaf to great melody nor blind to courageous creative enterprise. It was as a pianist—one of the most richly gifted of his generation—that Gabrilowitsch came to the United States +in 1900. Long and arduous preparation in his native Russia; concert appear- ances in Austria, Germany, France and England; the inspiration of his teacher, Leschetizky, and a certain celebrity as & fine interpreter of Chopin comprised his equipment. But his talents had not yet matured. He was too young. That handicap, however, was one which time and experience remedied. Slowly and always conservatively, Gabrilowitsch made his way upward in his profession until 1917, when he first bégan to appear as a conductor—the second chapter in the romance of his life. Appointed musical director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he quick- ened that organization with his own A THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. earnest and sober vitality until its strength was universally recognized. But neither hard labor nor generous applause spoiled s nature innately beau- tiful and good. Gabrilowitsch reached the apex of his achievement with nothing to regret. His humility, his convincing sanity, his ethical as well as his esthetic creed of service earned him the tribute of his audiences’ affection. They ap- plauded him for what he was quite as much as for what he did. Such values as he personified never are lost. Gabrilowitsch retires, but never will be forgotten. His place in musical history is sure, and his example is im- mortal. Among men especially he is assured of remembrance as the beau ideal exponent of his class. He played, taught and led gallantly and chival~ rously—because he was possessed of & knightly soul. Japan Girds Her Loins. With militarization and rearmament rampant all over Europe on an unprece- dented scale, Japan is embarking upon a six-year program which soon will call for annual expendjture of 1,000,000,000 yen upon her army and roundly the same amount upon her navy. It is pro- posed during the current year to devote to the military establishment 826,000,000 yen, as part of an all-time peak national budget of 3,200,000,000 yen. Roughly one-third of the army fund is for expan- sion of the air force. The new budget happens to coincide with the latest threat which Japan is reported to have made in the direction of China. Tokio has instructed its Am- bassador at Nanking to present a virtual ultimatum to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek as a result of the murder of a Japanese by a Chinese mob -on September 3 in Pakhoi, a treaty port in Southwestern Kwangtung Province. China is asked to expel the Nineteenth Route Army— the gallant defender of Shanghai in 1932—from Pakhoi, which it recently seized in the name of the Kwangsi Province rebels, who are revolting against Nanking. The Japanese resent Chinese opposition to the sending of warships to Pakhoi, for landing of an “investigating party.” This new threat of war between Japan and China will probably turn out to be nothing but an incident in the Tokio military party’s systematic plan sooner or later to fasten Japanese supremacy upon the chaotic political and territorial entity which the world still calls China. Since the Manchurian adventure of 1931, Japan’s program of expansion into the continent of Asia has been in steady progress. It is the fulfililment of a desire existent among the Japanese since an- cient times. Better equipped, and with China in irresistible disintegration, Japan today is in position to accomplish what she has never been able to do before. Having made up her mind to dominate the East, she is going about it methodically. There is little or no evidence that she will be successfully opposed in the attainment of her goal. Increasing probability of Soviet-German complications in Europe lessens the danger of any Russian interference with Japanese purposes. It becomes clearer almost daily that the West henceforth is going to conduct its relations with the East on terms dictated by Japan, unless something happens, not now foreseeable, to upset Tokio’s plans. The immediate basic ob- jective is to compel the Chinese to de- clare the independence of the Peiping area from Nanking’s control. Once this is accomplished, the way would be paved to putting in a puppet Chinese govern- ment there, just as was done in Man- churia. After North China is brought under the yoke, the next step would be a Central China, though this is probably something for the more remote future, All in all, the Chinese are apparently in no condition, because of hopelessly di- vided counsels, to offer anything savor- ing of a united front against Japanese penetration. The Occident, it would seem, must resign itself to manifest destiny in the Orient. ————t e Youth is being burdened with many new responsibilities, including that of trying to assist divorce lawyers in ref- ereeing the quarrels of high-salaried Hollywood parents. One theory is in evidence to the effect that what the country needs is more press conferences and not so many ses- sions of Congress. Culture’s Future. Etienne Gilson of the College de France and the Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto has provided “culti- vated” Americans with something to think about. *“The future of European culture and of Western civilization ulti- mately rests with what the United States will make it to be during the next one hundred years,” he has said; and his faith is a challenge. Thousands of thoughtful men and women, of course, will echo the wish which is represented in the prophecy. ‘Waorse certainly could happen to the basic values of learning, the arts and the sciences than that they should be- come & major responsibility of the New World. But such a development ought not to be accidental; it ought not to occur simply because Europe has been obliged to yield to communism and fascism. g Also it is a fair question to ask what fate would be the lot of civilization if it were committed into the hands of that negative variety of democracy which holds elemental principle to be merely |, an instrument to be employed for pur- poses admittedly experimental, adven- turous and partisan. Under the New Deal the moral and esthetic standards of the Republic have fallen. Should they continue to decline, the United States a century hence would be & land in which culture would be penalized, if a Roman feast today, millions are being educated into slavish dependence upon the Government and other millions are [N being coerced into unwilling support of that ever-increasing class of helots and hirelings. The America of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mark Twain, Walt Whit- man and Josiah Royce was an America qualified to carry on the torches lit by Shakespeare and Dante, Goethe and Charles Darwin, Voltaire and Carlyle and Spancer, PBut a great war and & resultant depression have interfered with normal progress, and the prevail- ing trend is controlled by individuals preoccupied with economic reform and political recovery—President Roosevelt himself, Tugwell and Hopkins, Frank- furter and Farley. Perhaps M. Gilson has not heard of the “peaceful revolu- tion" to which they are dedicated. If 80, he must have been over-optimistic in believing that culture would be safer in the United States than it is in Russia, Germany, Italy, Prance and Spain. The Maine Augury. Whether there is prophetic signifi- cance in the Maine election results or not, the voting in that State yesterday is undeniably encouraging to the Re- publican campaigners. They have elected all three members of the House of Representatives and have success- fully defended the Republican Senator from defeat at the hands of one of the most popular State officials. They have retaken the governorship. In short, they have swept the State, by majorities which indicate a large change in senti- ment since 1934. This result may not be altogether at- tributed to the participation of Governor Landon in the campaign at the eleventh hour. That his visit to the State and his delivery of a speech calling for the election of all the candidates of his party had an effect is not to be doubted. Had the result been different his own cam- paign for the presidency would probably have suffered. He was well advised to take that chance and the outcome is unquestionably to his advantage in the general field. The net result of the election of yes- terday is that Maine's representation in Congress will be three Republicans in- stead of one Republican and two Demo- crats, with the Republican Senator xe- elected, while the State chooses a Re- publican Governor to succeed & Demo- crat. Much will doubtless be made in the campaign by the Republicans of the ancient adage, “As Maine goes, so goes the Union.” That saying 1s not altogether true. It has been belied on several occasions in the past. But in a situation like the present the implica- tion of augury cannot fail to have a heartening and stimulating effect upon the Republican workers in all parts of the country. ———— Ot e New Jersey policemen are forbidden to hitch hike. This is more of a dis- appointment to the motorist than to the officer. Any driver would be proud and happy to have a policeman with him in- stead of after him. Putting boys under arms in C. C. C. camps will not be so much resented if assurance can be given that the military instryction is a new and harmless form of boondoggling. —_——— Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Fairy Land! Of fairies we're pausing to prattle, As wonders increase day by day, And each, like a child with a rattle, - Aspires to be always at play. We long for a life filled with laughter, Where sorrows are wholly forgot, And happy we live ever after— As a matter of fact, we do Not. There’s gold where the rainbow is gleam- ing; There's wealth in some fortunate phrase Whlchtm'yfollhflngmourdmmln', With publicity charms that amaze. There’s a system for beating the races Or machines that you work with a slot; We'll say what we like and go places— As a matter of fact, we will Not. Unfavorable Environment, “You are an excellent after-dinner speaker,” said the admiring friend. “Perhaps,” replied Senator Sorghum, “but what's the use of being an after- dinner speaker with a group of con- stituents who can't even afford break- fast?” Game Laws. You may not shoot a rabbit And you may not kill a quail. If you yield to such a habit They will put you into jail. But when killers grow demented, Setfing a promiscuous pace, No game laws are invented That protect the human race. Head Work. “Are you the head of your house?” inquired the visiting relative. “I am,” answered Mr. Meekton. “How do you know? You have little to say.” “True. But a voice is located in the throat. “The intelligent listening is done with the ears.” “To live by uttering untruths,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “subjects & man to a risk similar to that faced by that run by one who passes counterfeit money.” Red School House. The little red school house Sits high on a hill, The pedagogue’s tool house Of knowledge, and skill. Youth there is acquainted With patriot pride, However it's painted, It's not “Red” inside. L' ¢ dm saved up something for a Cites Guide Book on Marshall-Story Panel To the Rditor of The Star: Regarding the controversy over the historical inaccuracy of some of the sculptural panels on the doors of the new Supreme Court Building, I should like to bring to your attention certain facts of public record which tend to vindicate Prof. Corwin's ecriticisms. Corwin charged that two of the panels, one depicting John Marshall and Joseph Story and one representing King John signing the Magna Carta, contained historical anachronisms. As regards the King John panel I have no facts to contribute, but as regards the Marshall panel the facts clearly establish that it was the intention of the artist to depict the handing down of the famous Marbury vs. Madison decision, in which Marshall first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to annul acts of Con- gress which it deems unconstitutional, and that the artist sinned against his- torical accuracy by including in that panel Justice Story, who did not come on the bench until nine years after this decision. It is perfectly true that the panel in question makes no reference to the Mad- ison vs. Marbury decision. All of the other seven panels similarly carry only the names of the sculptured figures and make no mention of the theme or episode in the history of the law which each panel is supposed to represent. But the themes of all of these panels are officially described or explained in a mimeographed sheet given out by the office of the architect of the Capitol, the explanations being based on the re- ports of the artists concerned. These official explanations may be found in print in the small Washington Standard Guide published in 1935. For the Marshall panel the explanation reads: “Marshall and Story. Chief Justice Marshall delivers the Marbury vs. Madison opinion, setting aside a legislative act as unconstitutional, there- by indicating the supremacy of the Supreme Court.” At a later date the architect’s office appears to have amended the descrip- tion of this panel, for I have seen a sheet carrying the same descriptions as are printed in the Standard Guide save that the one referring to the Marshall panel is made to read: “John Marshall. Chief Justice Marshall delivering the Marbury vs. Madison opinion.” A still more recent sheet issued by the archi- tect’s office, which I have also seen, made a more drastic amendment of the description of the Marshall panel. Imi- tating the proverbial ostrich, the author of that description wrote: “John Mar- shall and Joseph Story. Chief Justice Marshall and Mr. Justice Story.” In your issue of September 9 you quote Cass Gilbert as declaring that the panel was not intended to refer to the Mad- ison vs. Marbury decision. “It pictures Marshall and Story together, and they served together on the Supreme Court bench. It has nothing to do with Mar- bury vs. Madison.” It would be inter- esting to know at what date Cass Gil- bert came to this conclusion, But suppose we accept Cass Gilbert's present claim that the panel is de- signed merely to depict Marshall and Story. Inasmuch as all the panels symbolize some episode in the develop- ment of the law, it is proper to suppose that the artists, in selecting Marshall and Story, wanted to symbolize the epi- sode in the development of the Supreme Court with which these two justices are peculiarly identified. In seeking to escape the charge of perpetrating an anachronism, the architects are putting themselves in the amusing predicament of flouting the Supreme Court by flaunting in their sculptures a refutation of the court’s high orthodox constitutional doctrine! BENJAMIN GINZBURG, Current Movie Does ¥ Violence to History To the Editor of The Star. ‘The movies are responsible for giving many false ideas of life to our American youth and now history is going Holly- wood. It seems that our children are to be taught history through the medium of plays filled with glaring anachronisms and inaccuracies. “The Gorgeous Hussy,” now playing in Washington, is one of the worst offenders. The characterization of John Ran- dolph of Roanoke is utterly wrong physically and historically. A great op- portunity was missed to present one of the most unique characters America has ever produced and one of its greatest statesmen, despite his eccentricities and his vitriolic tongue. Let us examine some of the ridiculous anachronisms of the film to show how history has been distorted. John Ran- dolph is a Senator when the story opens and Peggy O'Neill is represented as the very young daughter of the innkeeper, who adores him. She tells him so and he tells her she is too young to under- stand love. Randolph was elected to the Senate in 1825. Peggy was born in 1796. Twenty-nine doesn't seem so very young to know something about love, and, in fact, when Peggy was that age she knew more than was good for her about it, having been a wife and a widow long before that and having been suspected of being John Eaton’s mistress before she married him in 1829, Then there is the scene where Ran- dolph i shot by an assassin and Peggy, now Mrs. Eaton, rushes to his deathbed at Warrenton, Va. Randolph died in Philadelphia after a long illness in 1833 at the age of 60. Peggy was then 37, John Eaton had not been appointed Secretary of War when he married Peggy. He was then Senator from Ten- nessee. Jackson appointed him over the protests of his political advisers, who realized the social implications of the marriage. Eaton was not sent to Spain immediately after his forced res- ignation, but was first appointed Gov- ernor of Florida, where he remained two years. Peggy Eaton is represented by Joan Crawford as a refined lady ‘wronged and persecuted by the ladies of the cabinet. As a matter of fact she was nothing of the kind. She was, in fact, a “gorgeous hussy” who knew how to get around men and especially around quixotic old Andy Jackson, who was still smarting from the far more unjustified attacks on his dead wife. And, by the way, Rachel Jackson is buried in Tennessee, and that visit of Peggy's to her tomb with the President is pure fabrication. To my mind there can be no possible excuse for thus distorting facts. The real stories are quite dramatic enough and do not need the glamorous touches of Hollywood romancers. > HARRIET T. COOKE, i One Claim Missed. Prom the Lowell Leader. The British people back President ‘Those who do not like to look at ther- mometers might as well quit right’ here, for these and similar instruments are all we are interested in today. Today this column is & thermometer, just ss yesterday it was a guppy, and tomorrow it may be a flower, or a lawn, or a book, or a piece of music, or some- thing else that interests the writer. Only by being interested himself, be- fore all, can any writer hope to interest any one else. Writing is & focusing of interest. The more complete the focus, the better the picture, of course. * K K % As a correspondent put it recently: “Dear sir: Although I'm a fairly late- comer to Washington and to your column, ‘This and That’ I've read enough in it to like its humanity and observation and quiet humor. “Goldfish leave me cold, nobody having perfected the suitcase aquarium, and it is rather hard to be fond of strangers. “Birds and shrubs are also for those who grow and know them. But when you come to the weather, and human nature, and books, we're more nearly on common ground. “I never cease to marvel at people who turn out & column every day and make it interesting. For a year I did a double column for the Monitor, once in three weeks, and that was plenty. The New York columnists have theirs presented to them by the public, a nice racket. “But you sit down with a guppy and get as much out of it as I would out of a half-hour interview with Mr. Lan- don. My compliments! Yours sincerely, T. M. L.” LR Thanks. Now for those thermometers. They are marvelous instruments, but ohe has to like them, to begin with, There are a large number of ther- mometer haters at large, honest men and women who would rather lock a lion in the face than a thermometer’s tube. Actually, the everyday or common garden varlety of hard-working ther- mometer is a most harmless and inter- esting instrument. ‘There is no reason whatsoever of being afraid of it, unless one is, alas, just a little afraid of one’s own self. People who shy away from thermome eters, who prefer not to know what the temperature is, whether hot or cold, are afraid, are they not, of looking the facts of life squarely in the eyes? It is comforting to them not to know, and that is strictly their business. We would not say they are not better off, being as they are. But the world is filled with equally honest people who really do love ther- mometers, nothing better in the instru- ment line. A thermometer is one of the greatest little fact getters in the world. It is like & good reporter who has been assigned to do one thing, and do it well. A thermometer is not enterprising, perhaps, in the broad sense, especially the business sense. That is its very best trait. It never steps outside its chosen duty. It does not pine to Le a hy- grometer, or instrument which measure the amount of water in air. No thermometer in all the history of these capable instruments has been caught attempting to measure some- thing else. They stick to their trade, and give to the world just as much as was put into them in the beginning. Temperature, comparative heat and cold, is its story, and to that story it clings with a grim and inspiring devotion. R To watch the thermometer on a record-breaking day of real Summer heat is a treat for many people. They grow hotter and hotter, with each degree, and fret and fume as the red spirits or silvery mercury goes up. Those who prefer not to look say rather heatedly, but, of course, as coolly as they can, “Why, you just make your- self the hotter by looking at it,” but the lookers must look. It is just as much im their natur2 to look as in the nature of the others not to look. Pretended indifference to what the thermometer says will do them no good. At the back of their minds is a mental itch which only the thermometer can scratch, They look, and are satisfied. In a few minutes they must look again, and so on to the peak. “One hundred today,” they proclaim, with visible satisfaction. They are hot, but are “in on the know” of the weather situation, and that means a great deal to them. They remind one of the ship’s engineers, who watch their gauges with single devotion. Antl-thermometer folk will declare that there is a perfectly good reason why engineers must watch their instru- ments, whereas there is none whatso- ever why the average citizen shauld do the same with thermometer or hygrom- eter, or any of the more unusual “weather prophets” of mechanical type. * * ¥ x Let us see. The thermometer watcher has perhaps the very best of all known reasons for inspecting his pet thermom- eter as much as he pleases. That good reason is also a very simple one: Because he wants to! Reading the thermometer is not idle curiosity, but simply an unusual interest in the weather. It will be found, in almost every such case, that the reader is a gardener, who has discovered that the weather is his partner. By learning a few of the ancient signs, and keeping & weather eye, as it is called, on the thermometer, which measures temperature, the barometer, which meas- ures air pressure, and the hygrometer, which measures relative humidity, the home gardener of parts may do a pretty fair job of predicting the weather for himself. Movement of column of mercury, dif- fering position of hands, they come to be dramatic, not humdrum, if they are teamed up with one’s own hopes and fears for the garden creaturss under one’s control for the time being. If you sow grass seed in the Autumn, for instance, you want good rains to follow after, in order to germinate the seed, and start it in its path rejoicing. You have as legitimate an interest, then, in dials and gadgets, as any en- gineer of a ship or a pumping stativn. The purpose is different, and the voyage to an unknown destination, but the satisfaction of the journey is no less complete, and in this trip the plain thermometer hanging on & million porches has its part. We are all on a journey to an unknown port. Our memories of days and nights which will not come again are more complete and thrilling for facts and figures gathered as we sail along, STARS, MEN AND ATOMS Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘The M. Q. is taking its place beside the I. Q. among child psychologists. It's the “motor quotient”—the ratio of the number of specified motions a child can make to the number which can be made by the average child cf the same age. In the same way the well-known I. Q. is ratio between the number of specified questions one can answer correctly and the average performance for a child of the same age. In some subtle way the M. Q. and the I. Q. are related to each other. The M. Q. might be considered the I. Q. of the earliest months of life. It has all been worked out at the Institute of Child Welfare of the University of California, according to a monograph report just issued through the Child Development Committee of the National Research Council here. Following are the test items fcr the first two months of the baby's life, If the infant can meet them in order, his rate of development is normal: Six days—Lay the child in a prone position and note whether it makes al- ternating crawling movements with its legs. If sofcredit 1 point. Fifteen days—Pick the child up with the hands around its body under the arms, fingers extended upwards along the back of its neck to support its head. Hold it against you with the head at your shoulder in an upright position. Credit 1 point if it can be felt to make a postural adjustment to the changed position. Credit 1 more point if the child lifts its head free from the shoulder intermittently. Eighteen days—Place the child in a prone position and note whether it frees its face by turning its head to one side or lifting it free frgm the surface, Credit 1 point for either thovement. Twenty-one days—Place & red ring in the child’s hand and credit 1 point if it retains definite hold. Fifty days—When the child is lying on its back, unrestricted by clothing and in an aj tly contented mood, credit 1 point if it makes vertical arm thrusts in random play. Fifty-five days—Place child in same position as before and credit if it kicks its legs in play. Fifty-seven days—Pick child up and credit 1 point if it holds its head erect for two or more seconds when support is removed from the neck. Thus the normal child at two months ment is to walk down stairs without any support from the hands, and standing on each foot alternately without stand- ing with both feet on any one step. 3 This is not precisely an intelligence , but it is about the only measure of of devolopment which can be with the infant before it is able . In these earliest months there “There appears at first glance,” says Nancy Bayley of the University of Cali- ’| fornia, ‘who makes the report, “ sequence in which maturation in motor abilities occurs in the individual. This sequence, however, resembles the mental development sequence in that it is due to a general rapid growth in ability, with any one d deviating only stightly L] from his own average level on the diffi- culty scale. With increase in age and deceleration of the rate of maturation, the deviations from the average per- formance increase and the sequence of development becomes less orderly. “The developmental sequence seems to depend on rapid increments in the entire level of ability. The correlations with intelligence are highest at the ages when creeping and walking first occur. Walking correlates higher than pre- walking with both mental and motor scores. There is a definite positive cor- rélation between the age of walking and the age of talking, another instance of the tendency of all behavior to conform to & general maturation trend in early life. Both walking and talking are products of a general stage of maturity in motor and mental functions which is reached by the child about the beginning of the second year. The correlations between different types of performance decrease as the children grow older.” Horns Are Not the Only Needless Street Noises To the Editor of The Star: If the recent outcry against needless horn-blowing does any good, those who do not enjoy noise for its own sake may be encouraged to attack other unneces~ sary infractions of the public peace. These fall into three general classes, as they are caused by imperfect machinery, carelessness or a childish delight in any kind of a racket. The most deafening example of the first cause is, of course, our antiquated trolley system. At 2 a.m. these relics of other days roar through our streets like a wild freight on the Great Divide. Hardly less disturbing, and certainly more widespread, are the milk trucks, which seem to be a collection of all the worn-out gear-shifts in town. The other two causes are not easily discriminated. The bus driver who ends his run with a glorious burst of speed around the block, the neighbor who “tunes up” his motor on Sunday morn- ing, may be merely careless, or he may enjoy it. In either case the nerve-racking result is the same. The noises which children make be- long in a different category and must be viewed with more sympathy. Yet blessings and perhaps a fortune await the man who can invent a silent roller MILLER. Page Longfellow. Prom the Indianapolis Star. Outbreaks in Palestine lead the British to wonder about those poetic lines: “Shall fold their tents like the Arabs and as silently steal away.” Keep True to Form. From the Willlamsport Sun. Third parties usually continue to rate as third parties after the votes are counted. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any | question of fact by writing The Evening Star Injormation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D, €, Please inclose stamp for reply. b Q. How many distilleries are in proe duction in the United States and how many different labels are they using? -—M. P. A. In June there were 241 distilleries in operation. The exact number of labels is not known, but it is estimated that there are between 30,000 and 40,000, Q. How is handicapping done?—P. M. A. A handicap is an allowance of time, distance or weight made to ine ferior competitors in a sport or race. In horse racing, extra weight is imposed on the superior horse in accordance with known previous performances and with regard to age and sex of the animals engaged. Q. When did Dorothy Arnold dis appear?—L. W, A. She was last seen in New York about 1:30 on Monday, December 12, 1910. Q. When was the first operation for club foot?—J. W. A. Stromeyer performed the first oper- atlon for club foot in 1731. Q. Where are the largest fish markets? —E. W. A. In this country Fulton Market, New York City, is the largest, while Billings- gate, London, is the largest in the world. Q. Are wild flowers protected in Wis- consin?—E. J. A. The following types of wild flowers are protected by law in Wisconsin: Lotus, trailing arbutus, trillium, ladyslipper and all members of the orchid family. The conservation commissioner exercises the same power to protect these as it does to protect birds, animals and fish. The penalty is a fine up to $100 with an alternate jail sentence. Q. What trees are best for windbreak planting in the Northern Great Plains area?—N. 8. A. The following trees have been suc- cessfully planted for that purpose by the Division of Dry Land Agriculture of the Bureau of Plant Industry: Chinese elm, green ash, chokeberry, boxelder, Siberian pea-tree, buffaloberry and American plum. Q. Are there more white men than women in Alaska?—C. M. A. There are two and one-half times as many white men as women. Q. Was Thomas Hardy's “Far From the Madding Crowd” at one time attrib- uted to another author?—F. D. J. A. The book was published anony- mously in 1874 and was generally be- lieved to have been written by George Eliot. Q. What Representative was called Czar?—M. 8. A. The title of Czar Reed was given to Thomas Brackett Reed, former Speaker of the House of Representatives because of his ruling that all members present, though not voting, should be counted toward a quorum. Q. How long does it take to train m polo pony?—F. R. A. It takes on the average five years to make a finished polo mount. Q. Please give a list of well-known women chess players in the United States—E. R. M. A. A few brilliant players among wom- en are Adele Rivers, Mrs. Raphael E. McCready, Mrs. W. I. Seaman, Mrs. L. Milton, Miss Celia Fawns and Mrs. William Slater, all of New York, and Mrs. Mary Bain of Los Angeles. Q. Please give a list of the Pope's spiritual titles—G. L. A. They are as follows: Vicar of Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Primate of Italy, Patriarch of the West and Supreme Pon- tiff of the Universal Church. Q. For whom is the Welsbach mantle named?—J. W, A. The first patent for such a mantle was granted to D. Karl Auer von Wels- bach, an Austrian chemist, for whom it was named. Q. Who was Hesiod?—G. F. A. Hesiod was a Greek poet who lived probably in the eighth century B.C. Of the works ascribed to him, the principal are the “Works and Days,” “The The- ogony,” and “The Shield of Hercules.” His poems are pervaded by pessimjsm and a sense of the hardness of the human lot. Q. Who said: “Look up and not down; look forward and not back: look out and not in; and lend a hand"?—E. R. A. These are the words of Dr. Edward Everett Hale. Q. Who published the first woman's magazine in the United States?—G. R. A. Godey's Lady's Book, published by Louis Antoine Godey, was the first pe« riodical for women. Immunity. Prom the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mall, Two things we can never expect to reach in the anti-noise campaign are thunder and the locusts. Monkey Business. Prom the Grand Rapids Press. “Is politics a business or a profession?” asks a reader. Sometimes it’s & business —monkey business. . A Rhyme at Twilight e R Wayside Flower. All poets sing of the violet shy, Of the bluet reflecting the Summer sky, At the first flower-breath in early Spring Of trailing arbutus the poets sing, And moauntain laurel the pen-praise knows, 1 And honeysuckle, and sweet wild rose; ' But who lauds the delicate, exquisits grace Of the roadside flower, Queen Anne Lace? a Though it has no perfume to scent the air, 1t blooms on the highways everywhere; In early Spring it rears its head, And when nearly all the flowers are dead, The dandelion gone its ghostly way And daisies and buttercups had their day, In fair white beauty it holds its place. Amulhmmmflm