Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1937, Page 6

A—6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1937. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien, D. C. August 7, 1937 WASHINGTON, SATURDAY THEODORE W. NOYES __________ Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 11th St and Pennsylvania Ave New ynrk Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Cnicago Office: North Michizan Ave, Rate by Carrier—City and Suburban, Regrlar Editfon. The Evening and Sunday Star 65c per month or 15¢ per week The Evening Star 45¢ per month or 10c per week The Sunday Star —----bc Der copy Neht Final Eaition Sunday Star-._70c per month nd of each month or Bret "y be sent by mal oF teler ®hone National 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, nday.__ £10.00; - s600% $4.00; 1 mo. R8¢ 1 mo., boe 1 mo. 40c All Other States and Canada. $5.00i 1 mo. blc is exclusively entitled to of all news dispatches dited 1n this published herein o publication “of ‘svecial dispatches e 10 1t or not otherwise a “Q Ly Squeeze It requires but in America. a little stretch of the mamory to recall the investigations con- ducted by Senate committees into the matter of corrupt practices in the elec- tion of Senators under the former sys- tem of their choice by State Legislatures. On numerous nccasions such allegations were made to prevent members of the © house from taking their seats and some instances thev were effective bea of credentials were denied admission or were later expelled. Now a Senate committee testimony upp in and the ers is hearing of a somewhat similar char- » not with regard to the election of A member of that body, for the Legis- lature elections have long ceased and the members of the upper chamber are elected directly by the voters, but with “contributions” to campaign 1s decidedly un- indicates that pressure was persons to acte reference to funds pleasant. It put upon nd That testimony and corporations ice them to supply funds to the war chest of the Democratic National Com- mittee in the campaign of 1936, A tec dicated would ue of collection has been in- some of the testimony that do credit to t of the Chinese in exacting “squeeze” from those secking favors and privileges. When in davs not so very long ago business land proceeded from nces to the capital a share of was taken by successive officials to the of the “dragon Peking. Now, according to test revelations in this field the Senate committee, the &0l 1t1ons took or eventi- ally received a share of the proceeds. Yesterday at the committee hearing a New ilroad financier told of paving $15.000 to solicitors who sold him copies of the Democratic National Con- vention book. that delightful literary and arti; ion that should be ranked among “best sellers” of the time, not in actual circulation but in volume of returns. This appreciator of politico- literary art displaved resentment, not at being required out of consideration for his own welfare to subscribe, but at the fact. which he quite well understood, that half of his contribution went to the &o- licitors Tt was transactions in that the provir the lnot P way foot one” in one of the York produ the as commission. a highly profitable business, this, They invested nothing but their time. They were “book agents” de luxe. They had a great line of talk They were furnished, from some source which it is not difficult to imagine, with the present and future reliance of their prospects upon Government contracts. Gifted in the art of persuasion, they made it clear to those whom they ap- proached that co-operation was the best if the prospect hoped to do, or to continue to do, business that Govern- ment in any degree controlled. particular matter under inquiry by the Senate committee had reference to the relations of the purchasers of these beautiful—and costly—volumes to matters falling under the jurisdiction of the committee, the field of which is transportation The chairman of the committee in his comment upon testi- mony given yvesterday, was that “the only legitimate inference you could get was that this committee might be for esle.” That is putting it in a straight- forward manner. And now it remains to be seen whether other instances will be disclosed, in which the generous donors—no, donors is not the word, whether the liberal appreciators of lit- erary art figured that they might gain “face” in Washington and particularly with the Senate committee and thereby Congress itself, to the end of getting romething worth while out of the books in the form of legislation or perhaps re- mission from reprisal. for the solicitors. course The e The Postmaster General resents the eaze with which divorces are obtained with extraterritorial pretexts. His ob- Jection to some of the divorces will be sghared, but there is no especial evidence that thev are what may have caused dif- ficulty with the post office service. Tt is August and there must be some fast work if the congressional custom of taking a Summer vacation is ad- hered to. ot Color. Color is important. To illustrate its walue, let imagination consider what sort of city Washington would be if the White House were black, the Capitol blood red, the Monument to the Father of His Country flamboyant magenta, the Lin- coln Memorial noisy green, Arlington Ampitheater A modernist mixture of yel- low and purple Some folk. of course, might be gratified by such an anarchistic chaos of tinted Haht and shade. The futuristic school of painters might be delighted with the chanee (o redecorate the House and 8en- Rte Ofce Rulldings In line with their perimental of heauty thes would turn the unoffend. philesophy probabl ancient custom | mares of blue and orange, pink and lavender. In like manner, the Library of Con- gress could be forced into a coat of many hues—lemon with crimson polka dots, perhaps. The Folger Library, meanwhile, could be daubed with strawberry short- cake carmine and the Supreme Court Building could be ornamented with blue- berry pie festoons of indigo. Meanwhile, a catsup vermilion might be applied to the National Museum, the Corcoran Gal- lery and the National Academy of Sci- ence. Just think what could be done with a revolutionary brush on the De- partment of Commerce, Post Office De- partment, Internal Revenue and National Archives Buildings! They might be re- duced to the level of a Cezanne or a Ma- tisse canvas. But why stop at architecture? It would be equally reasonable to dye the trees in Rock Creek Park a glorious miscel- lany of rainbows. The Potomac could be doctored to look like claret instead of chocolate soda. Even the tolerant heav- ens might be “corrected.” None of these prodigious tasks would be beyond the powers of Harry Hopkins and the W. P. A, Seriously, however, nature seems best. Psychologists testify that it is well that grass is verdant emerald. It would be distinctively hard on the eyes if it were Bolshevik scarlet. L A Concerning Mr. Franklin. " A number of Star readers have writ- ten to protest, some in gentle and some in more violent terms, the recent articles by The Star’s entertaining columnist, Mr. Jay Franklin, which appear on the page opposite this page. A few of them are inclined to take The Star to task and demand an explanation. “Give me just one good reason,” wrote a gentle- man from North Carolina, “of why you should use Jay Franklin. Well, there are several good reasons for the use of Mr. Franklin's column in The Star. In the first place, the world would be a barren region, indeed, with- out the introduction of new thoughts for display in the marketplace of ideas. Mr. Franklin is the author of many new thoughts. His more recent premise, from which he argues his point that Senators who were elected on the Roose- velt ticket have “double-crossed” the voters by opposing the President’s court plan, may have provoked the indigna- tion of a part of Mr. Franklin's public who hold these Senators in high esteem, but it must be admitted that the idea is novel and therefore interesting. It should be displaved. In addition, Mr. Franklin is highly suspicious of Wall Street, and his frequent exposures of how Wall Street has silenced the tongues or tied the hands of erstwhile libPral Senators serve the purpose of purting us on guard against the octopus. But in these troubled times the role of a defender of the New Deal is an important role and Mr. Franklin fills it adequately and faithfully. When everything seems lost for the New Deal and the critical columnists are volley- ing and thundering against it from all | quarters, along comes Mr. Franklin to lay down a counter-barrage. This is useful and, The Star believes, necessary in maintaining proper balance. Mr. Franklin may not be the formally chosen defender of the New Deal, but he is an able defender, the unofficial spokesman who seeks to give the other side, and always manages to find the other side at a time when the discern- ing eyes of others seem to have missed it. The Star plans to continue the use of Mr. Franklin's column until that time when a more consistently loyal and able exponent of the New Deal philos- ophy comes to light. Up to the present | none has made his appearance. —— Cancer Institute. President Roosevelt, having signed the National Cancer Institute bill, the United States Public Health Service now is equipped with funds for the construc- tion and operation of a research center dedicated to the solution of one of the greatest health problems with which the Nation is faced. The primary purpose of the law is to finance investigation of the causes of cancer and study of different theories of treatment. Inferentially, the disease is recognized as a mystery. Nobody knows very much about how it develops. The institute is designed to attempt to answer the question. Of course, there already are in exist- ence a considerable number of institu- tions pledged to the same objective. The scourge has engaged the attention of some of the most eminent physicians who ever have lived. It also has en- listed the generqus philanthropy of many men and women of means enough to endow the endeavors of laboratory scien- tists of undoubted genius. With the National Institute estab- lished and dozens of independent foun- dations already functioning, perhaps the next step should be that of correlation. If the Pubiic Health Service will bring together the knowledge of the plague currently available, it will help. 8imi- larly, it should promote more efficient co-operation among all isolated agencies concerned with the cancer campaign. —ee—s Mr. Borsh has made a special study of & number of things and it might be Just as well to talk it over with him be- fore undertaking to do anything about the Government. e Shenandoah Park Visitors. Shenandoah National Park, nearby Virginia's popular scenic area, comes to the fore with a record of having more visitors last year than any other national park. The total, 694,098, is expected to be exceeded during the current season, when an attendance in excess of a mil- lion persons is predicted by the State Conaservation Commission. Aside from the feeling of local pride which these figures give Virginians, there is something deeply reassuring in them when one ponders the motives that drew thousands to the mountaln parkway. Some may wl gone in the spirit that for the exercise they get in climbing mountain tralls and some to “kill time,” but the vast majority entered the park to satisfy the age-old thirst for beauty. The vistas from Panorama and Sky- land, mists in the valleys, inspiring sun- sets, frall, fragrant blossoms in the 8pring and multi-colored foliage in the Fall, sly glimpses of wild animals, cool, sparkling streams and range on range of mountains—these were the things that caused the multitude to turn its back on cities and the routine of life to get liter- ally closer to the heavens. These and perhaps a spark of the pmneer‘ spirit on which the Nation was founded account for the ever-increasing pilgrimage to Shenandoah Park. While wars rage and share the head- lines with crime and scandal it is encour- aging to find even small items in the newspapers which mean not only what they say—in this case that Shenandoah Park sets the pace in attendance—but that, after all, the human race still re- sponds to the intangible spiritual forces of beauty, tranquillity and inspiration, ———— Tammany has tried various types of intelligence and is evidently turning to the voice that tells with authority just what ought to be taken from time to time as symptoms change. The voice of a family physician is always heard with respect. 7777777 —r————— ‘There is undoubtedly enough feminine talent available to supply guidance for all the emergencies that may arise in human affairs, but the old customs of courtesy will persist and the masculine politician will continue to doff his hat and ask whether he can be of assistance. c——e———— Radio has been the means of convey- ing the most complete flippancies and the most serious solemnities of which the human mind s capable. Tts versa- tility is such that it can mingle into the general comment without being punc- tiliously truthful. e There is a feeling that if China, Japan and Russia decide on a general fight, those who have been attentive to Spain may as well adjust their difficulties and give attention to what is mentioned as a real fight, st =5 Storms on the surface of the sun are reported. but there is no use of assuming that a study of the heavenly bodies will help in a situation to the embarrass- ments of which earth contributes so abundantly.’ ey How long a new deal may still be re- garded as “new” is another of those questions which complicate an interest- ing situation. It remains the duty of Mr. Cummings to explain anything that happens in the words of a sage and with the manner of a philosopher. B ] hoolmg Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Permanent Punctuation. The same old questions still arise, Though centuries may pass— The question of a warlike prize, Or how to win a lass. The question of a laborer's hire And of a master's due; Men's right to live as they desire— These questions rise anew. In different words men will proclaim, “The times are out of joint.” All else may change—we use the same Interrogation point! First Rung of the Ladder. “How did you come to choose a political career?” “I didn't choose it.” replied Senator Sorghum. “The first time I was elected to office it was because everybody else was too busy to be a candidate.” Jud Tunkins says a man who is always dead sure he is right isn't likely to have enough responsibility for it to make any difference whether he is or not. Duty. Men must toil on—though Pleasure’s call Allurement brings for one and all. Men must toil on amid regrets And face the task that duty sets. Otherwise Engaged. “You seem to know exactly how the rallroads should be conducted.” “I do,” answered the economic expert. “Why aren't you in the raflroad busi- ness?” “I've been entirely too busy learning how they ought to be run to find time to turn in and help run ‘em.” “We are generous with words,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and sometimes scatter them indiscriminately without waiting to tie them into packages with threads of meaning.” Great Man. The men who ruled by martial stress And by strategic art Were great in life; their littleness We learn when they depart. The man who, in devotion true, Bids Conscience hold full sway In life too carelessly we view, ‘Yet mourn his loss for aye. “You has to 'scriminate in yoh resent- ments,” said Uncle Eben. “'Tain’ no sense in hatin’ a honey bee jes’ cause you happened to get stung by a wasp.” Encouragement. Prom the Stockton (Calif.) Independent. No one seems to know why the eight Russian generals were stood against the wall, but as Voltaire once said, it may have been to encourage the others. N al Bidding for Applause. Prom the Yakima Republic An engineer who spoke yesterday is in favor of a gigantic system of super-high- wavs which will enable the Nation to own and operate milllons more automn- biles. should have the unanimous 1 t of the undertakers. LY Do They Not Approve Of Jay Franklin’s Work ? To the Editor of The Star: Is it true that during the Summer months Jay Franklin's column is being written by Charlie Michaelson of the Democratic National Committee and Crosley Radio Corp.? This senlle talk about the court oppo- nents “double-crossing the voters” is on an intellectual par with Charlie's usual policy of never discussing a public ques- tion on its merits, attacking the personal integrity of his opponents instead. If any “double-crossing” was done, how about the proponents of the court plan who carefully concealed their plans until after the election. PAUL WATSON, Jr. To the Editor of The Star: I have heard it stated that the man who writes for The Star under the name of Jay Franklin is known by some other name when he is not engaged in the gentle art of slinging billingsgate and slander via the columns of The Star. If ever a man had good reason for using an alias, this bird has. Far be it from me to criticize the editorial policy of such a grand newspaper as The Star, However, T, along with many friends with whom T have discussed Franklin's senseless drivel and deliberate slander, wonder just why you feel it necessary to publish his vicious and crackpot out- pourings. TIs it possible that you actu- ally pay him for it? Oh, there is no doubt in my mind that he is hand- somely remunerated for his efforts. Jim Farley and The Chief would be ingrates, indeed, if they did not recognize in a substantial way such rabble-rousing propaganda. There was a fine example the other evening of this gentleman's cock-eyed logic. He devoted half of his column to trying, in his feeble way, to stir up labor’s hatred for capital by giving hell to General Motors and other large em- plovers of labor. He then used the other half of his column to bemoan the fact that labor could not get along amicably. Is this fellow just a paid radical mer- cenary or is he just a plain run-of-the- mill jackass, or is he a combination of the two? In The Star of July pointed champion of the “peepul” openly and indecently reviled those patriotic and honorable Senators who voted to to recommit the sneaking, Stalinesque court bill. Savs they are in the pay of the “capitalists,” etc. Of course, to any one with even rudimentary glimmerings of intelligence, his statements are laughable. Certainly they will not dis- turb those high-minded, patriotic, logi- cal and conscientious Senators who re- fused to do the bidding of the vilest political organization that has ever dis- graced this country of ours. In other words, nobody cares who Franklin is. The burning question is— why is he? S. H. MUMFORD. 29 this self-ap- To the Editor of The Star: Your columnist, Mr. Jay Franklin, with his usual accuracy, informs us that among the Senators who voted to recom- mit the Supreme Court bill and thus. as he says, “walked out on reform “Bachman of Tennessee.” This is a little too much. Mr. Bachman died on April 23, even before the Judiciary Com- mittee had taken a vote on the bill. Without meaning to be irreverent, per- haps the erudite New Deal propagandist intended to convey the thought that Tennessee’s Bachman was paired with Arkansas’ Robinson in the vote to re- commit. ELMER HEATON, Denies On Court Appointment To the Editor of The Star T read with astonishment an article in vour Sunday paper in which T was quoted by name as having expressed sentiments regarding the possible appointment of a woman to the vacant seat on the Su- preme Court. T have never given a statement for publication on this subject. Several weeks ago this young woman came into the library of the National Woman's Party, where I was doing some research work, and engaged a number of persons in general conversation on the subject, a conversation in which T took but a desul- tory part, with no idea that it was other than a private conversation. T have not been correctly quoted in any respect Since my name was used in this article, may I sav that it is my belief that the time has come when many women are eminently qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, and I strongly be- lieve that one should be appointed at this time. I would be delighted to see Judge Flor- ence Allen, Judge Genevieve Cline, Bur- nita Shelton Matthews, Sue White of the 8. E. C, Stella Akin or any one of alarge number of highly qualified women ap- pointed to fill the existing vacancy. Any one of them would add to the dignity and erudition of the court, and would be an honor to her country and to her sex. I am forced to believe that the writer of this article has confused my casual remarks with those of some one else— though none of the persons in the library, at the time of her visit, expressed the sentiments attributed to me. HELENA HILL WEED. Stating Views The Star regrets an apparent con- fusion on the part of the writer of the article over the identity of those whom she interviewed formally and those with whom she discussed the subject of the article informally, without explicit un- derstanding as to the purpose of the con- versation. e Events Illustrate Fascism As a Synonym for War To the Editor of The Star Current events abroad clearly illustrate that fascism, besides being a tyrannical form of government, is just a <momm for war. In the Fascist states of Europe, a huge war machine is being made. The dicta- tors of these nations openly proclaim their imperialist intentions with the stir- ring up of national feeling among their people. Because of the bad results of their militaristic economic system, the Fascist leaders seek new incidents or occasions that would give them an oppor- tunity to bolster their deteriorating sys- tems. This could only be done by their disembursing of the accumulated arma- ments and the acquisition of new territory which contains the raw materials their lands lack. Ethiopia has furnished Italy with this convenience and now both dic- tators are attempting to do the same to the legally elected, democratic govern- ment of Spain. Already the Nazis are receiving benefits in fron ore from rebel- held Bilbao. = Great Britain, seeing her Mediter- ranean interests are involved—especially to the report that large German guns are being mounted on the Spanish fron- tier opposite Gibraltar—quickly urges a new non-intervention plan, which will undoubtedly prove to be a boomerang to her if approved. That the Fascists are not to be trusted to observe treaties is shown by their disregard of the first non-intervention agreement. Thus, while honest nationa are observing ment, the dictators will eonyfjue their A great deal has been written about the person who goes on vacation—but how about the fellow who never takes one? He really has the best of it, hasn't he? He watches them go away with hope, and come back with most hopes un- realized. Just what they expected to find mountain or shore—or flat terrain de- void of anything except mosquitoes—is hard to say, but it is easy enough to see in their eyes that they are disappointed. One thing they have, however, and that is sunburn. Sunburn is right! It is the modern badge of the eco- nomically free American (or free for at least two weeks, the standard time). Once it was golf, but now it is sunburn. The more of this commodity one bears back on various parts of the epidermis, the more successful the vacation, evi- dently. The unhappy wight toasted and blis- tered to an unhealthy looking red tone is accounted the Perfect Vacationist. * ok % % The person who stays behind knows ali about it. He was a fool once, too. He knows about the sand between one's toes and the sharp splinter of wood that got caught in the right foot, the soggy towels, and the unforgettable smell of the bath houses He has been there, too; maybe that is the reason he is so willing to stay at home. For mosquitoes and poor bacon he trades comfort and cleanliness. For soiled sheets (often at the best of hotels) he has his nice, clean linen, his dishes just so, his water as he likes it. A shower is not large, but it is abso- lutely clean In one’s own bath room there is no need to keep on the watch for that most invidious of foes, the famous athlete's foot At home one has what one likes to eat, and just as little or as much as one desires. Down at the beach or at the hotel one fiddles with the bread and water until the waiter gets ready to bring the meal. Think of all the fat old ladies rocking on the porch, and giving the new guests the “once over.” Who wouldn't want eagle eyes? And those Saturday and Sunday crowds. with their poor little babies sling over their shoulders, and the push and shove, and their stickv sandwich papers flying in all directions. * o ow ¥ The eternal round of bathing. dinner, bathing, supper, down to see the train come in, movie, pin ball, dance, rocking on the porch— The eternal mosquitoes, and the never- ending smell of citronella— The clammy feel of towels and linen, and the taste of water with iron in ft— Wet sand in the eyes. and now and then a tiny sand crab where it has no business— All things to be endured. not enjoyved to escape their or looked forward or backward to with | any pleasre, STARS, MEN Always the same old bores on the porches, taking all the best chairs, never getting up for a second. At the rusty piano the same old girl, year after year, no doubt century after century, trying te play—and sing, God forgive her—* Good -by t> Summer, Good- by, Good-| V. In the evening there is sure to be the same old crowd, culminating—or does it? —in the inevitable girl in the shawl, who does “Carmen” for the assembled guiests. Not bad, her singing of the “Habanera,” but she always has to spoil it by domg it Just once more, and then once more, and then ence more, until Carmencita flies out the window, through the salt-rusted screen, leaving in her place only Mary Hortense from Baltimore Carmencita, my eve; Mary Horlense lives on There avenue; her father runs a bakery, and you will find him right now down at the life-saving s:ation telling about that time he walked up the bl'dr‘l\. 10 miles each way, and back again, and how he must-a walked at least 30 miles, all told, what with all the soft sand slid- ing beneath hh feet, and the crooked path he took, trying to keep on the hard sand where Lhn ‘tides had left it. * xox % The rank and file of America's workers get two weeks' vacation, and count them- selves fortunate, but it isn't enough Arnistocracy of the “hands” get four weeks, a whole month, think of that, but it still isn't enough. Three or four months, or nothing, says the stay-at-home. Nothing it is, my lad, so vou stay, and have a nice, clean place to sleep, and the old easy chair, and food just the way vou want it, and books, movies, the nice new electric phonograph, birds in the cool at night, and comfortable. And no radio. No aimless walking up and down a boardwalk just because everybody is walking up and down a boardwalk “Auction Sales This Day,” where dollar vases mayv be purchased little as $3; no foaming beak ous orange juice, and s that is neither taffy nor salt days when there is nott rock, rock, rock: no | sunny day when the down, and one mu: whether one wants not, since t rainy day dej ed vacationer of some of his precious time to gather sun- burn or suntan. as one chooses. This, no doubt. is the great the modern vacation The entire measly two week the going away, in a grand h. and the coming back, in an even greater: the countless insects, and poor cups of cof- fee, and the girl ct ren screaming for fce water every five minutes, and the glasses of ginger ale that make one more thirsty than before, owing to a high pepper content—- All these, and much more, for the sole purpose of being able to breeze into the office on Mondav morning, and have the boys give a grudging, “See you got a sun- burn No, it ain’t worth it: so the wise ones stay at home and enjoy then AND ATOMS else no good for as rs of curi- 0 ra to do to or thr 1 of or thi tebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Indians aliso had their ‘“Moses.” The story of an inspired lawgiver who led his people to a “promised land” through a treacherous swamp, across which no enemies could follow, has been unearthed by Dr. Truman Michel- son. Smithsonian Institution enthnolo- | gist This story of the mystic green buffalo and his Moses-like protege forms part | of the “sacred literature” of the Fox tribe, a once powerful element of the Algonquinian Indian family now have a reservation Towa, where the last remnants of the generation familiar with and lore are fast disappearing nea Tama, Noteworthy in this legend to students | of raeial psychoiogy is the weird “green” motif which runs through it—green ani- mals, green skies, green flames, etc. First the future lawgiver is seen by a member of the tribe standing be- side a green bison. The child himself is not aware of his ghostly companion. which leaves no tracks in the snow. It was a “manitou” buffalo. This marked the little boy as one with supernatural guidance. The tribe in its migration had come to the edge of a supposedly impassable swamp. Enemies were pressing it from behind. It seemed doomed to destruc- tion. The child, because of his ob- served association with the manitou buffalo, was chosen to lead the way through the great morass, in which wood would sink and marsh birds and mud turtles were sucked to the bottom. As soon as they were safely across, the tribe made an offering of tobacco to the “manitou” who had guided the steps of their child guide, and accom- panied the offering with a peculiarly human request. In the words of the legend: “As soon as I see my fellow man may I slay him?” The child Moses rebuked them: “Indeed you did not ask for long life. You have asked for something which is frightful. You were to have asked for something right. We have safely crossed the hole in the earth. The manitou made it to be peaceful for us. Because he told it to be peaceful is why we went across. If he had done what you ask we should, indeed, have all sunk in the swamp.” The prodigy grew up able to under- stand the language of wolves, who told him of the approach of the tribe's enemies. He went on a mystical journey around the earth and came to the shores of the four seas. Always the ghostly green buffalo was appearing at appro- priate times—a sort of deus ex ma- china. The boy had visions. The trees and animals talked with him. Eventually he produced from his vari- ous visions a vague list of command- ments which now are incorporated in one of the sacred ceremonies of the Fox tribe. * K ok x There are throwbacks to the past underhnnd “tactics in sh!pplng soldiers to Spain. In the Far East. Japan is follrving in the footsteps of her sister Fascitst na- tions across the continents by a new in- vasion of China. She, also, has the same troubles at home as the European dicta- torships and is also using war as a way out of them. It is interesting to note whether Japan will use the invasion un- der the pretext of stamping out com- munism. If she does, it is likely that the anti-red pact she has with Germany, who in turn has an understanding with Ttaly on the same subject, will be brought into effect. However, the peace-loving, democratic peoples of the world are rallying—inde- pendently of their governments—to the ald of the democratic governments of 8Spain and China. A)LBERT PRUSS. The Foxes | the old ways | and Study. and prophecies of the future of | human race in the skull | These ‘atavisms and forecast | explained by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of physical anthropology of the Sm sonian Institution, as a anthropologists against | hvpotheses of antiquity single skull. The findings are ed on detailed studies of thousands of kulls of different human races in the National Museum collections Few “\dx.‘"-u\k\ Dr. Hrdli would fail to show except tive features which migh astray He describes the as an | ‘unstable complex of hundreds of char- acters, a of which have the phylogenetic or ontogenic indiv and any of which may separatels correlations with others. present tic, reminiscent, anomalous or advanced prospective conditions.” In other words, the big family, all the members of have learned to live together fairly but each one of whom has its own i dividual peculiarities. For 30 vears Dr. Hrdlicka has been assembling National Museum the greatest tion of such material in the world. Only from minute meas nts of great quantities of single sku do the facts become clear. Drawing these conclu rent Journal of Phys Anthropology, of which he is editor, Dr. Hrdlicka mar- shalls evidence in the same article that existence of an ice-age land bridge be- tween Asia and North America, across which ancestors of the American In- dians might have followed game into the New World, is extremely doubtful. Such an hypothe: Dr. Hrdlicka points out, has been advanced in support of the claim that this continent was in- habited during Pleistocene times. If a bridge of this sort had existed. it might fairly be assumed that the ice-age hunt- ers of Eastern Asia would have hit upon it. “I can assert with all positiveness,” Dr. Hrdlicka was assured by Philip I. Smith, chief Alaskan geologist of the United States Geological Survey, “that S0 far as my own experience in the Seward Peninsula goes, as well as that of present and former members of the Alaskan branch, there is no known evidence that proves a land bridge con- nection batween the American and Asiatic continents during or subsequent to the glacial period.” Dr. Hrdlicka also cites evidence that Bering Strait, over which the bridge sometimes is alleged to have extended, actually marks a sharp differentiation in fauna. fa"-lm«n.n" based on any ons in the cur- (oo May Be a Libel. From the Kansas City Star. Now they sav that the Chinese, who invented printing, gunpowder and paper, also invented the slot machine. But it | may be Japanese war office propaganda. . = No Separation. From the Charleston (W. Va.) Mail When the project to widen the Panama Canal s carried through, we hope that our South American neighbors won't think we are growing apart. —— Snoring. 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T A. The South American by the natives tigre, is are no true tigers tiger inhabit South tiger, calied he jaguar. There in South America. e rai other?— nbow, is one the re- ) T A are often double and imes even triple. One is formed by 12ht once reflected inside the raindrops the second b, hree times reflected and so on. These several sets of colored beams, enough for several distinct ra bows, mav emerge at such angles that they overiap as they enter the eye, ow's Q. Does the United States Army carry out executions with a squad?— J. McR A. The 1 firing ited States Army hanging as the method of The practice of carrying out a death sentence by shont was discontinued about the time of the Civil War, uses exacution. Q. W are candles put on birthday cakes?>—W. H. G A. The use of candles is traced to grest antiq; Light is associated with an expression of Jo.. Q. Please give a ple of illegitimate birth—S. D, iam the Conqueror, KmR of Alexander the Great, Alexander Hamiiton, first Secretary of the United States Trea Erasmus, philosopher, 1lar and thinker; Leonardo da Vinci, famous Italian pa er; Borodin, musical composer; Alexandre Dumas, father, and Alexandre Dumas, son, both famou. iam Franklin, son of Ben- sima Wagner, wifa German composer; James donor and founder of the Institution Booker T. gton, famous Negro educator, and ck Douglass, Negro statesman and diploma st of nmpormm peo- QW mend cell A. To join two parts of cellulnid, ap, glacial acetic acid in the same was mucilage and at once press the s parts to- | gether Q. Please give post north, east, south, west and most central in J.R. P A. 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