Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1936, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936. A e e e e THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. October 27, 1936 e e i THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor el R S I B S The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave ol A e S uropesn oMmce: 14 Regent St. London. Engiand. Rete by Carrier Within the City. Regular Editl -45¢ per month -60¢ per month 5c_per month The Sunday Star_. 5¢ per copy Night Final Edit jght Final and Sunday Star_. ight ‘Final Star. Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ilv and Sunday.. $10.00; 1 mo., 85c E $6.00; 1 mo.. b0e $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c Oc per month 55c per month 1 yr. 3w 1 yr. All Other St ily and Sunday. aily only__. Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. QU rishts of ublication of special dispatches erein are also reserved. = — T =3 yro -1 yr, $5.00; 1 mo. Navy Day. This year’s Navy Day comes at the close of a national campaign in which the air literally has been thick with staggering figures of the cost of govern- ment., From no quarter, happily, has there emanated anything remotely sug- gestive of partisan or popular disapproval of the heavy sums nowadays required for maintenance of national defense. With only minor exceptions, the country is theroughly imbued with the realization that the hundreds of millions of dollars annually devoted to upkeep of the Army and Navy are only the premiums the American people pay for national life insurance. Celebration of Navy day is an appropriate moment for examina- tion of certain economic aspects of defense expenditure, which do not always receive deserved consideration. It should be understood first of all that the naval budget has mounted steadily in recent years because the United States, following the Washington limitation treaty, embarked upon prac- tically no new construction at all, while other signatory powers built up steadily to the full tonnages allowed them, Uncle Sam has therefore had to make up for lost time. Of the naval appropriations for the fiscal year 1937, $189,000,000 is provided for building ships and aircraft. The largest item is for pay, subsistence and transportation of officers and en- listed men, totaling $204,000,000. Con- struction and pay costs together repre- sent nearly two-thirds of the budget. An authoritative calculation shows that roundly eighty-five per cent of naval construction costs is for labor in the production of basic materials used and for their incorporation in the finished vessels. This indicates that roundly $160,000,000 during the current fiscal year will go into the pay envelopes of wage earners engaged directly or indirectly in Navy building. It is needless to point out how Federal funds thus expended filter unlimitedly into every channel of trade, for the support of tens of thou- sands of workers and their families, ultimately benefiting industry and agri- culture alike, Money spent on the Navy remains in the country. It thus serves the double purpose not only of national defense but of national recovery, by furnishing employment at good wages to large numbers of people in virtually every section of the Union. Thanks to the patriotic action of Con- gress, the United States is now carry- ing out a building program that guar- antees the completion of a full treaty Navy by 1942, The requisite expenditure was spread over a period of years, so as to impose no undue burden upon the budget or upon taxpayers. Having taken the steps which make ceriain the posses- sion of an adequate fleet, the Nation's next objective is the creation of a com- mensurate merchant marine, & vital ad- Jjunct of sea power, and the establish- ment of fully manned, armed and prop- erly serviced naval bases, It is reassur- ing to the country to know on Navy day, 1936, that the Government is fully alive to the importance of all these objectives and is steadily pursuing them. Thus will the Navy remain that sure shield and impregnable first line of defense it is intended to be. ‘There is not much scientific reliance to be reposed in a brass band. It may play “Happy Days Are Here Again,” but a Literary Digest poll may at the same moment be showing that opinion on the subject is far from unanimous. ———— Letters from “Taxpayer” and “Vox Populi” still make important reading. Government by columnists is still & remote possibility. Literature in Chains. Dictators always fear freedom of thought and of expression. Napoleon summarized their attitude in the remark: “Never make an enemy of a writing man.” But Dr, Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the Hitler regime in Germniy. probably never has paused to consider the Corsican’s angle of approach to the problem. His per- sonal and official preference appears to be for the Caesarian method. The Czars of Russia peopled Siberia with poets and philosophers in the interest of the same policy. For specious reasoning it would be diffi~ eult to surpass Dr. Goebbels’ sentiment: *Just as a soldier cannot be permitted to shoot or strike when and how he pleases and a farmer cannot be per- mitted to sow and reap whatever and whenever he chooses, a writer, too, has no right to disregard the boundaries of popular welfare in order merely to express his individuality.” “That means, if it means anything, that suthors must be the slaves of the state, the helots of the ruling class, the chattels of the prevailing system regardless of its character. Literature, in fine, must ¢ ~ be in chains to such political groups as momentarily come into control of so- clety. Thus, writers today are required to do what they would have been pun- ished for daring to attempt in the time when Emperor Willlam II ruled the Reich. But what inevitably must be the fate of letiers in a totalitarian community? The answer is: Steady decline to a final vanishing point. Such is the verdict of history in scores of different instances. Sparta, for example, left no literary monuments. Her energies were concen- trated upon war and preparation for war. She trained the bodies of her youth, deliberately refused to cuitivate their minds—and she perished for her fault. Dr. Goebbels knows the lesson of her destiny, but he ignores it. Rather than concede the universal and elemental truth, he argues for an A. A. A. which would “plow under” the fruits of all such genius as did not conform to the Nazi pattern. The ghost of Goethe, the restless shade of Schiller, the wraith of Immanuel Kant and the unquiet manes of Richard Wagner cry “Shame!” in protest against such sophistry and non- sense, ——— e ‘There is very little music that can be regarded as truly original. The same, however, may be said of the ideas that are introduced for the sake of variety between radio concerts. —r——————— Respect for Government is essential. Respect for political assertion of arbi- trary authority is not precisely the same thing. ——— ‘The American public does not care for old-fashioned lotteries. An election every four years is lottery enough. One-Sided Price Fixing. Hearings before the Agricultyral Ad- justment Administration on the farmers’ petition for an increase in the price they receive for the milk supplied the Wash- ington market continue to emphasize the one-sidedness of a law that fixes only one end of the milk price structure, That is the farmers’ end. The A. A. A, under the law, has power to fix prices paid the farmer and the farmers have been busily at work producing the evidence upon which they base their claims for an in- crease. If the evidence impresses the milk-marketing agreement officials in the A. A. A, the price paid the farmer will be increased. But as for the price charged the consumer—nature, as here- tofore, is permitted to take its course. The result is as one might expect. According to the people who buy the milk direct from the farmer, the dis- tributors, there is only one way to obtain the extra penny a quart that the farmers demand, and that is to take it out of the pockets of the consumer. The dis- tributors contend that their margin of profit is now so small that the additional price demanded by the farmer would apparently eliminate it altogether. Their only alternative is to pass it on to the consumer, according to what they tell the A, A. A, They may be right or they may be wrong. Evidence in regard to the jus- tice of the spread of prices between the farmer and the consumer in Washington seems to be a matter of opinion, rather than of fact. The point is that the same agency which has power under the law to determine the weight of evidence re- garding the price of milk paid the farmer should also have power to sift and determine the weight of the evi- dence regarding the price charged the consumer. In other words, if the A. A. A. finds that the farmers' contentions are correct and that the farmer is justified in demanding a higher price, the A. A. A. should also have authority to determine whether the increased price can in jus- tice be passed on to the consumer, But there is no such authority. In consequence, the farmer may be given more money for his milk. At the same time, the A. A. A. may be convinced that the additional cost should be ab- sorbed by the distributor instead of being passed on to the consumer. But even if 30 convinced, the A. A. A. has no authority to do anything about it. The consumer is protected by “counsel,” but the tribunal before which the con- sumer’s case is presented has no author- ity to protect the consumer’s interest. Price fixing is a risky business under all conditions, When the price-fixing authority extends to only one end of the price structure a basic weakness of the law is revealed. Expert Opinion. ‘Thomas Hart Benton is & painter. He has “the seeing eye.” Little things as well as things not little lie within the range of his perception and understand- ing. It has been his business in life to exercise a visual and an interpretative faculty. And he has won a large meas- ure of fame for his capacity to compre- hend the American scene. Thus, it may be claimed for him that he is competent to form an expert opinion of current events in the United States. He is, in- controvertibly, a witness whose testimony should be worth hearing, And the evidence he offers is inter- esting for the vigorous style in which it is expressed. He is weary, he says, of “interminable talk and ‘Communist in- tellectuals” in New York. The twenty- four years he spent in the metropolis were “far too many,” and he is going back to Missouri, the home of his youth, “Don’t get the idea,” he explains to re- porters, “that I have any hatred for Communists—I used to be one of them myself.” But “they are annoying, like & mosquito, and they keep me talking too much for my own good. I'm sick of them, their talk and their views, which are not based on anything except re- ports. My main quarrel with this New York group of radical inteliectuals is not their social .objectives s0 much as their dogmatic, rational beliefs. They twist reality.” : Mr, Benton objects to “the Marxist slant at everything.” He calls attention to the fact that the great’ Socialist philesopher “built up® his “idea” in 1842. “How ean it be valid in every gol- A J dinged detail today?” The question is a challenge which revolutionists ought to face. Instead, they dodge behind the Marxian dogmas—a body of belief which is “outworn historically.” But Mr. Benton makes & further point which the radicals ought to try to com- prehend. “You can’t impose imported ideologies on people,” he warns them. “Social revolution has got to come from the grass roots, Bu¢ the way the Com- munist intellectuals are going sbout it —never! Communism is & joke every- where in the United States except New York.” ‘ It would seem to follow that those expedient philosophies which would com- promise with communism also are a jest. The notion that the way to head off radicalism most effectively is by imitat~ ing it is commensurately ludicrous, Incident Musicale. ‘Washington’s love of music was con- vincingly demonstrated last evening, when an audience which filled Constitu- tion Hall to its doors patiently waited more than two hours for the privilege of hearing Fritz Kreisler work magic with his violin. A train wreck delayed the master’'s appearance, but he kept faith with his public and it kept faith with him. Meanwhile, artists hurriedly re- cruited by the National Broadcasting Company entertained with credit to themselves and, less directly but not less notably, to their teachers. One of the substitutes was a young man who is earning the money to pay for piano lessons by acting as an usher in the auditorium. The whole story of the occasion is rife with the drama of quick- ened human interest. And there is a helpful lesson in the incident which ought not to be missed. The Nation's Capital should set an ex- ample in appreciation of every enter- prise * which represents the cultural ideals of the Nation. If the intangible but deeply authentic spiritual values of the United States are not applauded in Washington, where can it be expected that they will be? The District of Co- lumbia was regarded by its founders not merely as & center of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the Government; it likewise was visioned as an Athens of the New World in which the soul of the American race would be manifested. George Washing- ton and Thomas Jefferson, differing on many other objectives, were in har- monious agreement in that hope. Their dream, it seems, is coming true. Last evening's experience is proof of it. The audience waited, the management met the emergency courageously, the substitute musicians were worth hearing and, finally, Mr. Kreisler kept his ap- pointment. Everything considered, it ‘Was an event deserving to be remembered. —————— Horse and buggy days are gone, but progress has not effaced either horse nor buggy. One still survives luxuriously on the race track and the other goes under its own power by means of internal explosion. —————————— An airplane crash may be caused by a pilot’s heart failure. More vigilance in medical examination might contribute further to the extraordinary progress that has been made in aviation safety. In a mechanist era like the present there may be theories that business can be improved by hitching & motor to a cash register to make it work faster, Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Benediction, Some personages with us dwell As if we'd known them long and well, On them as neighbors true we look, Although we met them in a book. The battle roar afar we've heard, ‘Where sounds the unforgiving word. Amid the turmoil, loud and grim, We're asking, “Where is Tiny Tim?” Has he been lost among the crowd, ‘Where greed small sentiment allowed— But snowflakes falter in the sky, It will be Christmas by and by, The blessing we shall need anew Of just a child, with heart so true. Let’s have, if hope of peace grows dim, A special guard for Tiny Tim. Radiobservation. “Do you think politics can be kept out of business?” “Yes,” said Senator Sorghum. ' “There are already listeners-in who would rather hear a commercial program than & campaign speech.” Silent Sagacity. There is & monkey in the Zoo! In the Zoo! It winks at me as I pass through— In the Zoo. Its Peace is such as I ean't hope to touch Because it never talks too much! Seciability. “Why do neighbors quarrel?” asked the kindly eitizen. “Mostly for sociability,” said Farmer Corntossel. “If you try to go ahead and mind your own business some folks are sure to think you're stuck up and don't want to notice ‘em.” “I have & family tree,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but so have others, and mine, like the resi, is only one in & forest.” Elemental. Some little sentiment we've had That still is hovering near— Perhaps a little song that Dad ‘Would sing to Mother dear. And though the ealculations long Keep figures piling high, Some things to every heart belong ‘That money cannot buy. *“If you tries to git reputation foh bein’ what you ain't,” said Uncle Eben, “you's due sooner or later to be shoved eut of eireulation, same as eounterfsit money.” X ¢ I } Proposed Transit Service Changes Will Benefit All To the Bditor of The Star: It seems to me that those of us who have been agitating for better and more rapid street car service in the District of Columbia should support the Capital Transit Co.’s petition to the Public Utili- ties Commission, which asked permission to abandon Takoma trolley service via Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue northwest over Kennedy street, and for the legal right to reroute the Takoma Park and Chillum Heights bus lines. It is my contention that an elimination of these routes will allow the transit company to speed up its service, That is a thing of prime importance to the commuting public. As for Kennedy street, residents there should be only too glad to see the car tracks go. There is nothing so dastardly to property values of a beautiful street than rails and trolley cars running through it, Is it not ap- parent that property along this fine thoroughfare will be strengthened in value with the completion of the con- templated change? An improved bus shuttle line would suffice for the most painstaking and discriminating com- muter, As the transit company has pointed out, & shuttle bus will connect the other operating lines without loss of time to passengers, Kennedy street is 100 narrow a street for both automobile and trolley traffic at the present time, That, 100, should be taken into considera- tion by those who protest the transit company’s recent petition. In protesting the petition of the Capital Transit Co., a reader suggests that busses are breaking down the transportation system of the city. He attempts to point out that the life of & bus is short. The life of any movable thing for that matter is short, whether 1t’s railway cars, busses or human beings. If these things are kepi well oiled, greased and in all-around repair they will not fall down. But busses can be replaced by new busses. 8o what? He also asks: “Why are people still driving their cars downtown and not riding the street cars in the city?” His, question is rather long and ambiguous so I have condensed it. People are driving their own cars be- cause they believe it is easier and more comfortable and, possibly, because they think it is cheaper to ride their own automobiles to business than it is to ride in a street railway car. When in reality, and I think most automobilists have found it to be true, it is cheaper to ride by street railway car than to drive their own automobile, I do agree with the reader that the transit company should purchase new equipment and keep in good repair the most modern ones. Those that are obsolete should be junked. The day of modernization has come, It took railroad executives a long time to wake up to the fact that they could hold and increase their passenger traffic only by improving their equipment and service and by making the transportation charges attractive. Perhaps the Capital Transit Co. will heed, but meanwhile let's support them when they are trying to give us better service in another way, FREDERIC G. FROST. Deplores Bad Condition . L > . Of Drinking Fountains To the Editor of The Btar: May I bring up a subject that i= caus- ing concern to a great number of our good citizens? I mean the unsanitary condition that the public drinking foun- tains are in. Particularly in the downtown area do we find these public conveniences in a pathetic state of disregard for the health of those using them. The great giver of all good things has been bountiful in His provisions for the creatures. Pure, clean, wholesome water is abundant in this area. Does it not seem quite a pity, therefore, that we do not see that this great gift is made available at all times and to all people? Rest assured that other and less de- sirable beverages are always readily available. Yes, and strict laws are en- acted to guard against dangers from fiith. In particular, I would point out the drinking font in front of the main Public Library; also the one on Penn- sylvania avenue near Thirteenth street. These are both unsanitary to a dangerous degree, 1Isthere a lack of sanitary drink- ing fountains in our Capital City? Are there no funds available to enable us to safeguard the health of our water- loving citizens? ROBERT FELTWELL, Empty Whisky Bottles Make Streets Unsightly To the Editor of The Star: I would like to call attention to the latest nuisance in our midst—the throw- ing away of whisky bottles. The judge who sentenced every drunken driver to visit the morgue devised a punishment to fit the crime. This city is littered with whisky bottles. They are deposited with charming candor at the foot of trees or on grass plots. Now the motorist who has just finished the contents of & bottle has most obviously been drinking and may not be in a condition to drive, How simple, therefore, if & vigilant police officer arrested the owner of the bottle before he had time to involve himself in an accident! & And how are we to be rid of the bottles thus scattered up and down the streets? I counted five on one_ corner alone. Why are these people allowed to leave them about? Shall we have tomato cans and orange skins presently? Added to the ice cream containers and litter of newspapers? Is nothing to be done to make the American citisen take pride in clean streets and help to keep them 20? MARGARET L. HAYES, Articles on Penal Problems Approved by Welfare Board To the Bditor of The Star: ‘The Board of Public Welfare, at its last meeting, voted officially to thank you for the splendid series of articles which you carried some time ago on the problems of the District penal institutions. The board was of the opinion that this was the most constructive series of articles that had ever been prepared and pub- lished on the penal institutions from the points of view of understanding of the problem involved, competence in writing and conspicuous placement in presentation. The board feels that this series has been of inestimable value in creating community comprehension of the problems which face these institu- tions and that the articles are a aplendid example of constructive journalism with a civic purpose. FREDERICK W. McREYNOLDS, Chairman, Board of Public Welfare. Appreciation of Star’s Tribute to Dr. Allan Davis To the Bditor of The Star: Don't get some Fall-planted things too deep in the . Shallow plsuting is the rule for the peony and iris, two of the most beautiful of the Spring-blooming flowers. More trouble, including blooming, is caused by deep planting of these than’ through all other causes put together. There is still time to put in roots of the peony, but whenever this is done the main thing to keep in mind is that they must be placed with the “eyes” just below the surface of the soil. Violation of this rule commonly results in very little bloom or none st all. The ‘worst thing is that a peony planted too deeply will seldom bloom in the years to come. It may grow beautifully enough, in 50 far as the foliage is concerned, but there will be few if any of the gorgeous blossoms which distinguish this old favorite. L ‘The way to plant peonies is to dig & shallow hole, but a wide one, and across the mouth of this hole place a stick, Then put the root into the hole and spread it out, holding it in place, as it will be when earth is put around it. ‘The stick will show this level; the “eyes” ought to come just below it. Some allowance must be made, of course, for settling. It will be better for the eves to be Just at the soil than 2 inches down after all the earth is in. Holding the root in place, one pours earth in around it, packing it down firmly, but not with the feet. ‘Then the planting is watered, but not drenched. This will give the dry Toot its first start of life after dormancy. Usually this watering will settle the soil a bit.” It is mot good practice to attempt to pull the root higher. If the “eyes” are 100 much out of the ground, then s little more earth should be placed over them. In attempting to keep them just below the surface they may come too high above it, especially after several months, but the greatest danger lies in getting them too deep. ‘This is the one point on which most amateurs fall down. Even the experienced gardener at times gets an unjustifiable fear of freezing and thinks that maybe he should plant them slightly deeper. He should not. It is the one thing which will make his peonies a failure._ The beautiful German, or bearded, iris, in its hundreds of varieties, is another thing to be given shallow planting. ‘The rhizomes had better be placed with part of them actually sticking out of the ground than too deep. It is coming to be believed that this shallow planting also helps prevent various root diseases and that from almost every standpoint there is everything to be gained from merely :l)‘.fm‘ the rhizome just beneath the % % ‘Tulips and other Fali-planted bulbs must go to the depth which experience has found best. Even with them, however, there is no need to plant them deeper than neces- sary. Tulips, for instance, and all the other so-called Dutch bulbs, do best at the precise depths the years has found right. ‘With the tulip, this is about 5 to 6 inches. Other bulbs vary from 2 to 8 inches, with some lilies going even deeper. The humble but lovely little crocus does best at 2 or 3 inches below the surface of the so0il. The total depth, of course, is the distance at which the base of the bulb is set. Every hoize gurden, nc matter how small, should have at least a few tulips, narcissus, crocus and hyacinth. These constitute the irreducible minimuri; half & dozen of each will be better than none at all Now is the time for planting them, of course. Every one knows this, but, like 30 much other common knowledge, often it needs to be brought to mind at pre- cisely the right time. Newcomers to the fascinating garden game need to be told, above all, because many of them do not stop to think— until it is too late—that if they want tulips in their yard next Spring they must put them in during October or No- vember. While at times December will do, it is not every December which will be so accommodating. It is best to get your tulip bulbs in hand and keep them in the pantry, not too warm, until some pleasant, crisp Autumn afterncon when the sun is shin- ing brightly. Then planting them, if one does not have too many, will become a sport rather than a task. Be careful to make the bottom of the hole flat across, so that the base of the bulb rests down firmly, leaving no air pockets beneath. A sprinkling of sand along the bottom will help secure good drainage. The Spring-blooming crocus is the real, the genuine crocus. It must be put in the ground in the Fall. The so-called “Autumn-blooming crocus” is not a cro- cus at all, but a colchicum, which is some- thing else. Many of these latter may be seen in bloom now, giving a jollly note to the changing sward. * %X % % A few tulips, let us repeat, are vastly better than none at all. ‘Why, the very history of tulips is an amazing thing, so essentially American in spirit, although Dutch all the way through! The famous tulip mania of long ago was a stock-gambling scheme, in essence. A single bulb would be sold time after time, never changing hands, of course, but losing and making a lot of money for somebody. The one who bought a bulb of a new variety did not want to handle it, and never expected to handle it; all he de- sired was to sell it to somebody else at a profit to himself, and then let the “other fellow” struggle with it. ‘The fast worker, the essentially shrewd trader, made a mint of money, whereas the slow man, the real gardener, perhaps, | lost his all, often his house and all else he owned. * % ¥ x Fortunately the tulip “mania” has taken a new and better form teday, simply that of a universal love of the matchless colors of this favorite flower. Its very time of blooming, in Spring, endears it to most people. Then the vivid contrast of the bright petals with the turning green landscape is something once seen never forgotten. One should not merely accept tulips, but actually become interested in them by purchasing a few bulbs and putting them into the earth at this time, even if only half a dozen in a small outdoor flower box. Even three bulbs in a big flower pot will do. That is another fortunate thing about the tulip—numbers have very little to do with its beauty, really. Few blooms are more rarely beautiful, one by one, each for itself, than this. STARS, MEN AND ATOMS Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Powerful inhibiting effects of lysine, one of the amino acids, on both normal and malignant growths have been demon- strated in experiments by Public Health Service pharmacologists at the National Institute of Health here—thus opening a new approach to study of the mech- anism, and possibly the treatment, of cancer, Lysine, & nitrogen-containing acid, is contained in many proteins which form an essential part of the diet, is ex- tracted in the process of digestion and enters into the chemical structure of most cells in the animal body. Nearly 20 years ago it was demonstrated that the rate of growth of young mice on & diet from which lysine-containing foods At the time these experiments were announced very little was known about the role played by other agents, especially in lysine. To clear up this doubt the Public Health Service pharmacologists, Dr. Carl Voegtlin and Dr. J. W. Thomp- son, experimented with lysine deficiency on the growth curves of young rats which were given a standard diet lysine left in the diet—that is, by adding more and more of the specially treated milk powder in place of the ground wheat. When this was increased to 40 per cent, as was to have been expected from the theory, the rate of cancer growth was slowed down still more and in some cases an actual regression was obtained. However, the animals also lost weight and they all died prematurely —even sooner than if the cancer had been left to kill them with its normal growth, When the milk powder constituent of the diet was increased tc 50 per cent the effects on the cancers were still more marked, but all the animals died in a few days, obviously from malnutrition. Bome lysine in the food apparently is necessary for life of adults—that is, for the normal replacement of body cells. Then the two Public Health Service pharmacologists attacked the me problem from another approach. ere was a small amount of lysine in the ground wheat. Wheat contains two proteins, gliadin and glutenin, which constitute a large part of its food value. Most of this particular amino acid is con- centrated in the glutenin. They pre- pared two diets, in one of which the protein requirements were fulfilled by gliadin and in the other by glutenin. They found, as they expected, that on the glutenin diet both the normal growth of young rats and the ordinary rate of cancer growth were maintained. On the gliadin diet both were strongly inhibited. Regardless of diet, they point out, a malignant tumor is bound to get a cer- tain amount of lysine—perhaps enough to maintain itself in status quo. This amino agid is a normal constituent of all cells. It is released in the blood stream when the cells disintegrate. The tumor cells can obtain some of it by in- vading normal tissue and stealing fit. Or the tumor can, to a certain extent, feed itself by utilizing the lysine of its own disintegrating cells. This apparently is not enough, however, to enable it to W. Drs. Voegtlin and Thompson are con- servativesin their deductions from the experiments. So far as has been demon- strated, they stress, this inhibition of malignant tumor growth applies only to this particular type of cancer in mice. It may or may not apply to other mouse tumors and it is not“known whether it would work with other animals. Nutri- tion requirements vary greatly from to species. It is, the Public Health Service report of the work stresses, a step in the direc- tion of a better understanding of the mechanism of cancer rather than an advance toward cancer therapy. Neglected Advice. Prom the Erie (Kans) Record. Physiclans advise folks. always to lie on the right side, but politicians don't always do it. Proclaiming Seerecy. Prom the 8¢. Joseph News-Press. ‘Whenever a woman keeps a secret she can'’t disguise the fact that she is doing 0. ———— PP s The Steering Wheel Test. Prom the Newbursh (N. Y.) News. Some men are gentlemanly until they veneer disappears. P ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J, HASKIN. A reader can get the unswer to any question of jact by writing The Evening Star Injormation Bureau, Frederic J, Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. If a voter registers as a Democrat, or & Republican must he vote that ticket at the election?—T. H. A. Declaration of party at registration is not binding. The registrant may vote any ticket regardless of the party he has declared for on registering. Q. How many foot hall fatalities and accidents were there last year?—E. C. A. In 1935 there were 46 foot ball fa- talities. Of the 46 only three were col- lege players, 26 were high school players, and the rest were sandlot players. It is estimated that there were 55440 foot ball accidents, resulting in injuries in the 66,000 high schools of the country, and 9,900 injuries in the 889 colleges. These figures correspond to an average of 90.3 per thousand of foot ball squad members in the high schools and to an average of 150 per thousand in the col- leges. Q. How much hair does the average person lose?—R, 8. A. About 40 old hairs normally fall daily from a healthy scalp. Q. How many Secret Service men went with the President on his cam- paign tour?—S. H. A. Ten accompanied him. Other guards were added as occasion de~ manded. Two Secret Service men were on duty in the President's car constantly, the guard being changed every four hours. Q. Is it true that the big mail-order houses can judge the number of orders received by weighing their mail?—S. §. A. Sears, Roebuck & Co. says: “Our company has successfully used the method for many years of weighing the mail each morning to determine the approximate number of orders. Our esti« mators are able to judge with consider- able accuracy and, while the pieces of mail involved run into the thousands, the estimate is seldom more than a few hundreds off one way or the other. This method enables us to determine in ad- vance the schedule for handling orders. We are also able to judge from the num- ber of orders received on Monday the approximate number of orders for the rest of the week.” Q. What per cent of the wood which is cut yearly is used in making paper? —S. L. M. A. About 4 per cent of the wood cut in North America is consumed in making paper. Q. Is Ellery Queen a pseudonym?—C. J. A. The mystery stories written under this name are the product of the col- laboration of Prederic Dannay and Manfred Lee of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Q. What causes the yellowish sulphur- like gathering on top of the water which falls in some rains?>—W. O'C. A. In most if not all cases this mate- rial is pollen usually from coniferous trees. These trees bear early in the Spring great quantities of yellow pollen, which is usually blown off by the winds or beaten off by rain. It is light and floats on the puddies caused by the rain. Most of it probably was on the ground before the rain came, especially in low places where the wind would drift it, but was not observed because comparatively small in quantity and not conspicuous on the dry ground. Q. How many people in the United States own cars?>—W. D. H. A. There are 22,500,000 passenger auto- mobile owners. % Q. :ho first mixed and used paints? —A. R. A. It is unknown, since paint has been employed from a very early period. White lead was mentioned by Theophrastus, Pliny and Vitruvius, who described its manufacture from lead and vinegar. Yellow ochre was used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Pots of it were found in Pompeii. = Naples yellow has been found in the yellow enamel of Babylonian bricks. Verdigris was familiar to the Romans. Indigo has been employed by the East Indians and Egyptians from an ancient time. Q. Are there more widows or widowers in the United States?—C. D. A. The census of 1930 gave the num- ber of widows in the United States as 4734207 and that of widowers as 2,025,036, Q. Who was the first surgeon to wear rubber gloves in the operating room? —L.T. A. Dr. William 8. Halsted, a noted professor of surgery who died in 1922, is said to have introduced the practice. Q. Why was the battleship Maine in . Havana Harbor at the time it was de- stroyed?—J. G. A. The battleship Maine, which was mysteriously destroyed by explosion, in Havana Harbor, Cuba, on the night of February 15, 1898, was there to protect the lives and property of American citizens during the revolt of the Cubans against Spain. S Q. How much has been spent for.. liquor since the end of prohibition?, —A. H. e A. The amount expended for alcoholic - - beverages in the United States since pro- hibition is estimated at $8,000,000,000. Q. Where in New York is the me.’ morial to the late Sophie Irene Loeh, . child welfare worker?—R. P. A. The memorial which is in the form of a drinking fountain is in the Hecks. scher Playground, Central Park, 3 Q. Why can the sun be seen before.. it is actually above the horizon?—M. C. . . A. Refraction always increases the - apparent altitude of a celestial body and - it is for this reason that the sun can be seen above the horizon when it is really A Rhyme at Twilight Gertrude n:zk. Hamilton - A Windy Day. Er A brilliant sun is shining, - The breeze is unconfined, s ks the children dance and sing. whistling wind. . birds are winging ward flight, ve blow helter-skelter .