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FRIDAYT SECTEMIBR 9. >??'
Breaking the Jam.
OTTON may prove to be the key log whose
?% movement will break the industrial jam.
- Its increase in price in ten weeks has been
$?5~ a bale. This is estimated to be $750,000,000 to
the cotton growers for this crop and the large reheld
by the growers associations. It may
_r#?md out to an even $1,000,000,000 or more. This
V^Bioney fairly evenly distributed throughout the
South.
It is just that much added to t(ie national purchasing
power to be redistributed throughout the
country as a whole. It will pay debts and so
establish new credits. It will buy products of all
ather sections. It has already started up cotton
tiulls and cotton gins on full time, employing idle
i.iUor. which in turn becomes a1 purchasing element.
It will add to transportation and help materially to
relieve the railroad situation.
But this is only the start of the jam. The
Herald believes that all agriculture, which was first
to feel depression and where prices made a perpendicular
plunge, will now be the first to recover.
This country is the world's greatest food reservoir.
Short yields were general throughout Europe. Russia,
instead of providing a great part of the food
surplus as before the war, must be fed. Whatever
the agency, American foods must be the prime -dependence
to save famine-stricken Russia.
Other countries must increase their food supply
from here. In some way this will have to be
financed. The emergency tariff on agricultural
products becomes almost a bit of rather grim humor
and other tariffs halt that other people may be
able to buy here and live. The War Finance Corporation
will probably prove indispensable in providing
direct foreign markets for food commodities
aid raw cotton. But the agricultural outlook is
most encouraging.
There is much Congress can do to help assure
that this recovery will be general. Of all that it
an do, nothing is more immediately important than
settlement with the railroads. They should be enabled
to liquidate their debts and so unlock a large
volume of credits to be made available elsewhere.
They should be enabled to become buyers to employ
labor, and to add labor directly on their payrolls.
Congress also should put through a program
of public improvements wherever these are of a
nature that will add to the productive wealth of
the country or reduce production costs.
Cotton is doing its part. We believe agriculture
in general will promptly follow with its boost,
_ und Congress should join to give wise direction to
1 the recovering flow of industry that the relict may
.. be permanent and not merely preliminary to an?
other jam.
; - Why Ford is Singular.
I S Henry Ford 363 times a millionaire as indi?
4 cated by his tangible, or taxable assets, or 750
times a millionaire as bankers estimate' Mr. Ford
, says he does not know which it is, and does not
Jcar?. Why should he? He has enough with which
jto do whatever he finds to do next, to keep away
.irom the wolves and the wolves away from him,
and to take an occasional vacation when he can
renew his boyhood and go barefoot if he wants to.
-J'Mr. Ford occupies a peculiar position among,
thetvery rich men of the United States. He is the
only one of them and his is the only organization,
J whose popularity has not decreased in inverse
f ratio to the increase of his wealth. There is a reaf
son for this; maybe not a good one, but it is sufficient
as a guide to public opinion.
| He has not made his wealth from natural resources.
He has not gotten it from nature's
bounty which, there is an ineradicable feeling, rightJly
belongs to all. He has not gotten it from the
"so-called "unearned increments," the product of
the united labor of many, but the possession "of
only one. He has not been a child of fortune. He
did not inherit in money so much as the price" of
a pair of trousers. He Js nqt the product of any
"angel" who underwrote his future for him.
"illHe has been the arbiter of his own fortune.
He made his wealth in industry. His products
Tliave been for those of small means. He has produeed
nothing that is a luxury of riches nor added
to its already too much. But he has brought a
?$ixury of riches down to the plane of comparative
poverty and has combined usefulness with this.
. He has made for the millions and no one begrudges
1 Bim the millions he lias made for himself in the
"doing. y.He
has made his wealth in combination with
" labor, not by cutting coupons or collecting interest.
? All his investments of his surplus have been to cm
plov more labor and bring within the reach of
bullions what was beyond their financial* ability.
J He has shown how labor could be paid high wages
at an increase of profit to the employer, and
ttis largely because those who work for him feel
that this added profit will go back to some form of
. labor employment or to public benefit.
; His singularity in being a very, very rich man
| whose popularity grows with his wealth, is but
his singularity in the way he has made and uses
Jtii* money. So it is that he does not care and
hobody else cares whether he is a $263,000,000, or
1 a $750,000,000 millionaire. Which ever it is, he is
| Jnd will remain Henry Ford.
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Bite Carefully.
; W/ HEX a "watchdog of the Treasury" fails. I
?<\V ? ? usually after U* has absorbed the |
.I^Uion that to fulfil his dnties and public obtiga' iwii.
he must bite a chunk out of every leg that
lomes his way. Biting chunk* out of appropriations
or estimated public expenditures, may, or may
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not be economy. It is as apt Jo be waste. Under
present economic conditions, the chances are, it is
waste. The unfailing opportunity (or economy, is
getting die fullest possible value for expenditiyes.
It is reported tnat Gen. Dawes, as Director of
the Budget, wilt bite out of the estimates
of the District Comwta?k>?er? for the coming year.
It is indicated that he will do thU by lopping off
certain things which, in his judgment, the District
can do without, princn?all) items in the building
program. With all due concessions to Ihc acknowledged
sincerity, the courage aud public spirit of the
general,"he will use a vtry fallible rule, if he undertakes
to save by rejecting what can be done
without. That is usually merely postponing improvements.
Just now to postpone is to deny employment
a..d wait for higher wage scales. The one imperative
need for this coming year is employment, the
opportunity for Wn to earn and besclf-supporting.
Cities never owed a greater obligation to their people
and taxable property never was under greater
obligation to those who assure its security, than
right now. Both can fulfil this obligation only by
j reducing the ranks of the idle to nil. They can do
this by taxation for public improvements. .
The one thing which should not be cut out of
any city> budget is expenditure which will provide
employment for labor. It is much cheaper, much
more economical to increase the tax rate, than to
have idle men unable to earn their own and family's
support, eating up savings and without purchasing
power. Economy this year should not be
evidenced in reduced appropriations to employ labor,
but only in expenditures. As a fact, practically
all waste of public funds comcs in expenditures, not
in appropriations. Conservation of public funds
consists rather in value recsivcd than in a reduced
tax rate.
The prohibition officers have observed that
distilled waters run deep
Irish Unity.
READING between the lines of De Y'alera's
last reply to Lloyd George, in connection
with recent happenings, makes it appear that Sinn ,
Fein has now turned its batteries on Ulster, rather
than Great Britain. It is Irish unity, rather than
dominion rule which becomes the kernel of dispute.
The indications seem to point to acceptance of the
dominion offer, if Ulster will also accept.
T|ie methods used to this end do not seem tactful.
They are aggressive rather, than placating.
The unfortunate threat to use "lead," if argument
fails, promptly denied by De Valera, had ah inevitably
bad effect. The campaign to dislodge from
Ulster counties with a strong Sinn Fein minority, if
not actual majority, has been of doubtful wisdom
just at this time.
Probably Great Britain would be glad to have
the Ulster leaven in the Irish loaf and so would
welcome Irish unity. But she cannot compel
Ulster, cannot reject its loyalty, nor force a divorce
from her government, while Sinn Fein is not making
inducement any the easier. At this distance it
would seem that the South could well afford to wait
and to win by Irish fascination in courtship, rather
than by Irish facility with the shillclah.
However, The Herald is as confident as ever
that the truce will not be broken. Neither side
will take that responsibility. Each is playing to
force the other's hand, while Sinn Fein is trying to
copipcl the British to round up Ulster into its corral.
But back of the scenes is Arthur Griffith and
his distinctive following of moderates and even
"Mickey" Collins who, like all actual commanders in
the field of a warring body, is less belligerent than
those who support back of the line. No one can
tell what a spark may do to tinder, but the ardent
wish may be father t the thought that in this instance
there will be no spark, or if there is it will
find the tinder a trifle damprned and unresponsive.
Chili threatcus to drop out of the league.
That's cool enough.
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Tips, Tipsters and Tipees.
THF. HERALD "Open Court" has debated the
"soul" around the circle with an instructive
display of intelligence and study. It has started on
the "devil." When he has been chased around
the stump, maybe some one will ask: "What of i
tips?" and so start a third of the insolublcs. The
league of nations has not j^t been asked to decide
as to the other two, but "tips" has become an issue,
I being brought before the commission on labor bySwiss
waiters.
T^hey have a program proposing that a fixed ,
percentage be added to each bill iu lieu of tips, this
extra charge to go to the waiters. This would introduce
an element of business precision, now unknown.
It would put the profligate and the "tightwad"
on the <ame plane. It sounds almost sane and
yet it would settle nothing except how far employers
would make this extra take the place of all
wages, while the accommodating, courteous waiter
would lose his incentive for politeness and attentiveness.
As the Duluth Herald says, also, "people looking
for special favors would begin tipping directly on
top of the systematized tip, and those who didn't
follow suit would be neglectcd until they did follow
suit. And then we'd.all be back where we started."
"'Tis true; 'tis pity; pity 'tis, 'tis true.' 'Mans insensibility
to sense makes countless thousands foolish.
But why worry? Wc imagine what is bothering
the Swiss waiters may be that their returns
from tips are vanishing. Travelers arc economizing
on them. Also, everyone is gradually conforming
to a sort of underground, secret covenant, secretly
arrived at. Standardizing tips. It is not nowrecognized
as good form to double the bill as a tip.
Throwing away money has gone out of vogue with
the dress suit. Excessive tips are regarded with
the disfavor of surtaxes and waiters arc not as
numerously becoming landlords.
Moreover, cafeterias have disposed in large
measure of both waiters and tips. Their increasing
popularity is largely due to this elimination, as,
so far as the butk of noonday lunchers are concerned,
no one cares much what the league does
with this tip issue, and this great bulk of the folks
arc almost as indifferent as to what tips do to the
after-theater parties, or to those who still try to
afford the high-priced restaurant hallmark. 1
Dispatches from London tell of preparations
for a great welcome to Charles Chaplin
and that "records are being searched in Eng,land
for his life histyry." Neither England's
. or America's war records need be looked into
as far as his military service i* concerned.
?
New York is being treated to a dry clean- ing
process to eradicate its thirst spits.
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The collar door is all ready but I'lMcr <ti!l
refuses to slide south.
NEW YORK. Sept. Thought*
while strolling around New Tork:
A blind troubador (luffing In (rum
of a vacant houae. The flrat fur
eoai. Hope the moths have been
reasonable with mine. A fat,
tweed-clad man. laughs with the
cut-out open. My landlord. I'll
look at him askance. There's an
ISO word. I knew another lovely
word. Elan! m
Daxding hybrid typea powdering
their faces as they walk. Wonder
if they powder their knaei!- A
florid apartment house. Klmona*
clad women?last year's ladles?
with white shaggy dogs. The odor
of burning hair. Someone Is getting
a permanent wave. What New
Tork needs is more permanent
wives.
Milling and churning humanity.
Among them may be the man who
will alter the world's destiny. A
lighted lantern beneath a readymade
suit. I mustn't forget that
flea liniment for my dog. Another
negro musical revue. At J5 prices.
The way that fellow is holding that
girl in his automobile would never
get by the censor in Joplin, Mo.
Imagine the real estate agent
writing me about a Palm Beach
villa for winter occupancy. He
doesn't know the half of It. dearie.
Wonder what practical poker sent
him my name. There goes Eleanor
Painter. Ten straps on each side.
And a batik bag. One of those
noiseless cafes. Soft lights. Whispering
garcons and muffled conversation*.
I like the plbces where
they clatter the dishes. And the
waiters won't take any back talk!
A nice shady awning. I'll watch
the chorines tripping to their matinees.
That cop had no right to
make me move on. He's full of
canal water or something. Takes
me for a part of the bourgeois
herd. I have an uncle who once
shook hands with McKtnley. Two
drug store windows. One filled
with Harold Bell Wright novel*.
And the other with oranges. And
not a green or red bottle anywhere.
Page Prof. Freud.
In the lounging room of the
I.ambs a call boy went through
calling: "Mr. l.ionel dn Frane"?j
and a swaggering gentleman who
suggested the ruffles and Jackboots
of the swashbuckling actor accepted
the call. Later he returned to
his chair. The call boy entered
again calling "Mr. Yonkel Hertihoimer'?and
the same person accepted
the call. Someone had neglected
to use his stage name In
calling on the phone.
New York husbands nre at least i
different. A wife In r.eneral Sessions
related this story of the desertion
by her husband. "1 heard
from him four times." she relates.
"The fir*t two letters contained
phony checks, the third a picture
of another woman Inscribed,
"This is my ueon." and the
fourth a handkerchief with a message
telling me to use it to cry
with wnen I thought of him."
People who live in New York
know that Riverside Drive Is not
the smartest locality. The "very
best people" live in the sedateness
of Park or Madison avenues, and
yet Riverside Prlve has the reputation
of exclusiveness and class in
outlying sections. The Drive, to
the average New Yorker, Is something
too profusely embellished - a
trifle vulgar. And what is more,
the sight-seeing buses pass along
there. Think of that: The movies
and the novels of New York life
have given Riverside Drive its
halo. Whenever a gentleman is
mentioned?they refer to his "apartment
on the Drive." However, it Is
a beautiful thoroughfare. Charles
Schwab finds it a delightful place
for his palace. W. R. Hearst also
resides there and so do countless
others whose names are known In
all parts of the world.
Indicate | ^
FRIDAY, HRPTRMBRn ?. IVS1.
Friendly utari rulfi today with
dominating: power, according to
trology. While Neptuue and Mara
are In strongly beneflc aspect, the j
Min if* adverse.
It is a time when constructive;
enterprises of every sort should)
have u strong impetus. Executive
matters are helped by this rule of!
the stars. {
At this time physicians and sur-1
Kfiins are liktly to command much
attention, for the stars long have
indicated that epidemics would
mark this autumn.
It Is not a lucky day for officer?
in the army or for persons in command
of men. They will do w*ell
not to exercise authority while tnls
rule prevails.
.Soldiers are to benefit from legislaiiou
or from some national policy.
"Whatever demands common sense
and mental balance should be pjtsheo
today, for the planetary direction is
most promising. ?
Mars (fives reason to expect larg*i
attainment in all constructive pro
grams.
The President and his administration
are subject to the l>est possible
sway of the stars at this time,
even though many vexing problems
must be solved. ,
This Is not a favorable aspect for
office-seekers nr for persona who apply
for positions, as the Sun is auppoaed
to cause all who can dispense
favors to be arrogant and unresponsive.
Sudden deaths appear to be forshadowed
still, and many notables
will end their careers.
Diet will become more than ever
a matter of careful study and real
anxiety, the seers declare.
France and Italy still a??em to be
subjected to influences that will
produce serious internal difficulties.
Persons whose birthdate it Is may
expect a year o/ mom titan average
success. Special care^ shoultj be,
I;. ken in all bu*lne*s affair*. j
<'hildren born on fhls day will,
make quick progress in any calllnv |
thev mav choose. T?.c> are subject/*
of Virgo, and are likely to be con-'
t??nr?lative and industrtoua
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1 CourtLetters toJThe Heyal,.
^lls How to End Ware. [?? ? ?1 I,",.,mTZ,V".?.
To the Kditor, ThV Wa?htnffton Herald: ?jtrr- *s on? wouW Wish to see.
Undoubtedly some delicate prob- 0WB. iB a few lastaaeca w? ftad Um The vehicle held out for pennies
lams of world-wide Importance will *JJ? seceded ear natlee. We win bara* and nickels is not a battered tinconfront
the coming conference for dir*ot?r?1>a4dr?M. *'lie Op?n C??rt uit cup ?r a *rtmy* shaking paw. but
discussion. and it is to be hoped for not bo tk?M<L It li for fair, tmpor- | a well-taken-car-of derby or straw
solution, such an the "Eastern que*- ooasl. laf#r?atiTo di?caa%isa and ?tata- , hat. Kvery citizen of Washington
tlon." and thf control of the "Pa- "1*Bl *f P4"1*" naturally wishes our beautiful city
cirtc." But the one of prim# im- L.???1 to j0oK its b*st when ws hava
poriance and for which the confer- followed by vehicle* for years, sin<*e gUe*ts from other countrira. and as
ence is called- is disarmament, and the opening of the Mate, and had an to the above mentioned
agreeing to such measures an will never b^en made or rcpsircd. The 8Ug|f#.el,on wouid |t Bol a wise
prevent or minlmlxe the possibility writer la at a loss to understand movr well-directed propaganda
or_f?tor'*?r? ?':v u'h " ',r"'h ?.f r?"dl or -police mt.rferenr. .preferably
The only way to prevent war. it exist, especially In a localit* whrr# i-#teri ?n ?nAn .r,m?
seems to me, is not to be prepared sn appreciable portion of its infor
war. To be more explicit. Sup- habitants use the road daily. Th# j of our most popular streets and
pose all nations would agree to dc- most amusing feature of the trip parks th# clusters of bad-mannered
stroy or dismantle all war vessels wa* the sign posts noticed frequent- young men and girls who gather
! except four or five nation*, each to ly stating that no \ehicle should ex- there for the purpose of carrying
l?e allowed to retain one fast cruissr ceed the speed limit of twelve miles on vulgsr flirtations? These ysung
or other war vessel to keep down per hour. This unusual display of people, from the \iewpoint of wellpiracy
on the seas; and all arms of humor on the p'irt of the Virginia |,re<j an<j clean-minded folks, are
every description destroyed, except officials really very much assisted vastly more of an eyesore than
what would be necessary to arm a in makinn the tour as enjoysble as t()}. numh?*r of clean "polite begsufficient
force, to be agreed upon possible under the "circumstances. Bltrs rouId b, TM, pracUce u ,c
to keep peace and order in each H. W. L* _ . #
country. Washington. D. C. prevalent on one of our street, as
All questions that might arise be to c*u?< ? ***** dt*1 of comment
twecn nations would be settled by p. y t' ..c and complaint front the cltlxena
arbitration, or final settlement by l,nes a re* r*Ct?. of Washington as well as visitors
an international court, and T under- To th* llditor. The Washington Herald and tourists coming here from
stand one has already bey organ- It may interest the readers of other cities.
ixed for that purpose. Thc Herald t0 i,?ow the following A few yVars ago such demonstraShould
any nation refuse to abide flcle; tions of bad manners and \ ulgarity
by such decision as the court might Violins were invented in 1477: would not have been tolerated on
award, the penalty for ?uch refusal 0umps )n 1405; cameras. 161S; en- any street in any city. Why should
^i^na Vo co.^etv c^.tH t^t o?r Having on wood 14(0; paper. 1417; the indulgence in what Is called
I ford to* be' thus ostracised. Kngland f*' " V7T by "P* onal liberty- be carried to the
would require a larger arm, than were n?{ mad. la Europe, "j!*1.
any other country as she controls st Paris In 1504: soafi. 1C4. in Kng. *'ar . . " p,*c? '? b,?
about one-fourth of, the earth. This ,and. pUnctuation marks. 1520 al- hu?n"' bV decent people as a ell
country would probably not retire manBC, 1470- theatrical perform- a* * menace to the good manners
more than 30,000. or, at most. 40.001 ancea first appeared In 1J7S, in Eng- ""d morals of the children of the
">?> land; muskets. 1421; postoffices. e,t>* Thi? Is one of the things
Any other solution looking to the 1434 jn france; maps and charts. *e believe should be "cleaned up."
I prevention of future wars as out- ?g9 tn Kngland: sugar refining. . J. HARTER.
lined in this article, in my opinion 150*. in Venice: engraving on cop- 1J10 Emerson 81
win not serve the uurpose for which ^ and modern style canals. 1451.
it is called. In Italy: street lights, 1S21. In n , ?
jcstinian. France. Popular Government.
Creek introduced in England by Ta the Mi-.w. The Wsabin?ton Hern id
Love for Work. Grocyn. 14?1: gardening, 1500. Among the many fine things that
... ? t'opernicus discovered the true . _
Ta, iue Editor. The Wubioctos Herald: theory of the solar system. 1112. have com* to our ?mrr th,<l "*"rn
I'ermjt me again to take issue Spinning wheels. 153?. in Oer- Ing. your editorial. "Popular Govwith
you on your editorial "The many. playing cards. 1290: balloons, eminent." is one of the best. It is
Love for Work." After showing us 1720; battering rams. 441 R. C.: dice most encouraging to have s paper
how William Fox. a poor Ksst j&oo R. C.: air guns. 1141; bellows. Tike'j-ours stste so clearly the reader
and a cloth-sponger of New 654 R c .. h.tfl 4nVented. 1404; en- sponsibllity of .the people for thslr
tork t.ity became a millionaire by velopes, 183>: telescopes. li)0; steel governments. and to sense ss
working hard into the wee. small j>en8< 1R30; iron steamship. 1S30; markedly aa you have the develop,
hours of the morntn-. you sum up |ur|fer matches. 182S: gold diacov- ment of this Idea among our peopl*.
most masterly by remarking: eret, in California. 1S4S; hom rail- The awakening of , people ,o a
1 rf'r<>i.fc0,i Vh ra"n road!' 181S: modern needles. 1545: cWsctouanea, of their power to
lo><? with Ins Job kerosene lamps. 1856: newspapers, make the Washington disarmament
Surely, you're not trying to tell 15?. F?,v,nK machines. IMS: steam conferenc. a success u Tf tre
2eTJ w^l0wPd,li m PnBinr* ^ ,hl HrOU"fr>l. '"A; Vn"rd "endoui lotporunce In connection
as Hlln. Fox M a Mr Mlaon l?y Con?r,sa with th.t conference. It seems to
as a William ! ox or a Mr. hdison. 1777. There are about 1,754 lan- ,h? w
and that some day they'll be B?ages: a barrel of rice weighs S00 J"*' ^ ? J" *
| crowned wltb success, maybe all as ,m,lnrt5,: a barrel of pork weighs J?0 JJ." * '* ,*?r " .
mine owners? Can it be that you're p?,ind?; , h.rr? of flour weighs 13t V, ,or >our Wtr.vlng
to tell some 200.000 impe- pounds: a firkin of butter weigbs 1 th,s ?
i cunious railroad clcrks t* work 5^ pounds EMMA WOI-D,
like "the dickens" lust like Fo* A fpan' is 10=, inches; a hand - "^p,r''
and Edison did. and then some day (horse measure) is 4 Inches: tl\e "om,r,ittee for World Disarmament.
as a reward for this thrift and average human life is 32 years: ?
"Love for Work" they may all be space has a temperature of 100 d?- Annminrpft TPnrhcra
railroad .presidents or some other gre,g below aero. The sun is ?5.- 8
kind of millionaires? O00.000 miles from the earth: aad Of firpntirCbfhH ^irhnnla
*f you keep on preaching that the earth receives only one-two bil- UCWOM
way who knows but that an army Honths of the solar heat. The near- '
of roaches thai usually Infest our eat (ixed star is 16.000.000,000 mile* BRENTWOOD, Md., Sept. 7.?Miss
modern sanitary tenements, might distant, and It takes three years Catherine k. Ttghe. of Riverdale
learn to rise on their kind legs and r0r its light to reach the earth. principal of the elementarv school
in unison laugh aty,u. EDWIN F. BOWLES ? Brentwood, announce. th7 P^aoT
Washinaton DC hBBRT ' ' nel of the teaching force for the
Washington. D. C. Beggars and Flirts. coming year, which opens September
Rana Virirtnin Baailc To the Kditor. The Waalilnctoo Herald: M follows; lire. W. W. James.
Kaps Virginia Koaas. reading the article In your m,m Mary Penman, lira. Ray Nolan.
To tta*> Editor, The tVaahlnctos Ilera t<i i 'pen Court department In your la- Clayton. If re. Elbert Erye.
About two weeks ago, the writer sue of September (. entitled "Ob- V,"S' Nora Robh and Mrs. Lynn
had occasion to visit Merryfleld, a Ject< to Beggars " In which the r>oomlf. all of Ifcunt Rainier; Mrs
r?h,"e'.,,UTf*n,lhab^oL?"oft vin". writer suggests that the police be Ruaaell Whelpley. Riverdale: Mr.
TJir Va The road?Verv empowered with authority to rc- O^nnn'sH.Washlngtor: Mrs. I. D.
? nurcn. va. Tne roaas were very A. ., tl . . Arnold and Vra vthni H?tt?riv
Pleasant. Indeed, until a point about m?v? the ?i<?'waik beggars before Br^t^0^<1 JL , *
threo miles. If the distance Is cor- lh' diplomat, congregate ^ *** Mets^Jr
recti/ recalled, this side of Falls here for the disarmament confer- ^ "?Hger.
Church was reached, at which place ence. I Was struck with the ~tdea .nroI,_.5? . ..
an unusually bad road was encoun- that although beggars have e vie ted . TJ, etatee she
tered. It continued to become more from time immemorial tn every .; . *. Ma n* accommodaunpleasant
as time progressed and country and city- on the globe. way M c*re
It actually reached the limit tin the seemingly an evil that had to be '
town of Falls Church Itself. tolerated, and usually as dirty, un- . ^ .... ,
It is sad hut true, lo re^te that kt,mpt ,?d sometimes gaunt. ' r?rT"?'
the wrlt.r has never seen a road In ,llirved.lo?king tatterdemgt.ons, the ^ "over duHng T~ll TTTkl hi
a more deplorable condition than . . \v?.hi?*ton mm ,.nnrr.i co^er nurina a rail in tne na
it,,. h..?0h s?.? ?i . people or Washington can congrat- rometer Is known as a "blowing
Church, with the exception of a few |,V .ha^.'h?^'.'' I""*'' 8om"lm" the oris'r '*
roads in the State of Oklahoma. Christian community, that the beg- nu,d wlth ? ^jstle. which thus
j traversed about liriccn years ago? *rar" ?n ?"r and to g|ves a signal when the atmospheric
' road* in iifeme only, lor they were which the writer signing as "The pressure Is falling, a* befsre a
really trails, having merely been Beggars' Friend" evidently refers, storm x
AMfHcsi RtoctPvflwnpfvtlc
n??. annua] meeting Hotel
Wuhtnfton. tod*). a Den,
onst ration of um of deep therap>
and mercur) vapor quart! lampby
I>r. T. Howard >1aak Tfc,
Receat Technique of Bipolar Kletrot
hemic lonlxatlon la Cancer'
by Dr. O. Betton Masse > -Modern
Method of Re-education of Exter.
al Eye Muaclea for the Correc
tlons of Errors of Refraction
Without Ulaaaea." by Dr. Annual
J. Harris. "Phyalcal Reconstrutloa
la the I'nited States Navy by
Commander William S. Baiiibrldge.
"The Treatment of Com
mon Foot Disabilities by Dr
Harry E. Stewart. 2 p. m . demon. <
atratlon of treatment of deafness
Static method, by Ma). Crla M
Sampson. Demonatratlon of uae of
alteraatin* current In treatment,
by Dr. Kred H. Morae; -Vitam
Ines." by Dr. E. V. McCullnm. of
Jobna Hopkins; "Deep Roeatgeno.
therapy." by Dr. A. J. Pacini, of
tJie Public Health Service. "The
Treatment of Proatatlala and Impotency
by Electrotberapeutt*
Methods." by Dr. Richard Kovaer
P. m . "Some Phyalcal ('hara< terlatica
of the Radiation From
Quartz Mercury Arc Lamps." bj
1>r William W. Coblentx. of the
Bureau of Standard*; "Some Phya.
leal Problema of the Electrotberapeutlat."
by Dr. N. Ernest Dor
1 aey. consuitlag physletet: ?Tb?
| Physics of Radium." by W. II
| Wadleigh. of the Bureau of Stand
ards; "Education After ParalvDr.
Shepard I. Krant of
St. Elisabeth Hospital "Further
Obnervatlona in the Treatment of
| Pellagra." by Dr. D. H. Vates.
(CAST THE CHEMIST makk food
AJ?D PI EL W ITHOtT Pt.*\T>r
J When, man learaa the aecret of th? 1
| leaf and finds out how to make
s|gar starch. and ceiluioae. by aun.
rtlne without tbe aid of planti. we
|ahall enter upon a new era of chem.
Ilatry with surprises and achievemenu
equal to thoae that hav?
marked the laat half century of
chemical history. Dr. I>eo H. Baeke^
land, honorary profeaaor of chemical
engineering of Columbia V'aiveraitv
and inventor of "Uakelite" pre.
dieted in an address at the interna
tionai meeting of the American
Chemical Society and the Societv or
Chemical Industry of Ureal Britain
at New Vork.
The photochemical aetion of the
aun raya under the Influence of th,
chlorophyl. or green matter of implant
leavea. brings about the m?a;
subtle creative chemical jntheala."
Dr. Baekeland explained 'Varhon
1 dioxide, a product of combustu-n
one of the ultimate destruction
products of plant or anlir.al life
J combine? With water under the ? tloa
of sunlight The first, or one
I of the first product; of this s< n
j thesis (s formaldehyde; the latier n
| Its turn, inaugurate, a su.-o?:.,ior
| further chemical syntheses a hies
! result in the fortration of ?ng..re
starch, cellulose. and other <-arh"
hydrate*, w run. no photochemi<a*
' n? <*rnpf?no lif#' < ?,
Ithat. sft?r all. th* ItvinJ
[ World is dependent upon a d#lir*ir g
photorh#mieal r#a<-tton Starvati*'on
on* hand, or abundsn<~# rropv
and foodstuffs, on th# other ?u J
within th# rang# of photo?-h#n' A
|istry."
"In th# parr# way. our vast
I h#dg and oUr p#trol#um w#lls an<?
our natural ga? ar# m#r#ly th* result
of light en#rsy stored up fr??n-.
th# plant or animal llf# of f^rm*"
g**logleal p#rioda This. <n tts#lf.
ought to fmpr#as ua mith th# #nor
mous possibilit i#s of photoehsmi^a'
'?ynth#tilp. And y#t. her# is a fi#id
iwh#r# th# scientist or #ncinerr ha?
sceompl1sh#d n#xt to nothing T"
th# utilisation of thfs marvt|r?qv
l#n#rgy. w# have not gone much hr
yond the art of making photo
! graphs.'*
"Wh#r# is th# Faraday, th# An
per#. th# I*#onard" da Vinci, or th#
Archim#des who shall abow u* horn
! to ua# th# sunrsys for rtiarfl tic <>ur
.electrical storag# batt#ri#s. or wh>
will t#s#h ua how to hand> thr
photoch#miral artion of sunlight, or
I to #mu1at# natur# 1n h*r 4#lic?tf
synthesis of plant life* Win will
utiliz# thia d#l!cat# m#thod inateari
of our hith#rto brutal procoaaea >->(
synthesis. Nature in her method!
of plant Hf# 0ynth#a!a do#?a not tr#at
with boillnc aolutlona or alkali#* .
atrong acida: ah# ua#a no high t#n j
P#ratur#a nor strong #l##tric ?-u^'
r#nt*. If w# want to b#
.In thia dir#otion. w# shall ha\* to |
utiliao #<iuiprn#nt poss#aaing larg#
#vp#>s#?d stirfac#* similarly to thr
l#av#s of plants. W# may ha\ top#rat#
In rath#r dllut# solution 4
j instead of th# <*opo#nt rat ions whioh
*r# ordinarily ;ia#4 in our prr^r*
I m#thods. W# may hav# to fin?;
j m#ans for rapidly wrparating thformed
products as fast as th< y
accumulate W# may b# comp^llH
to work within narrow range.* of
; t#mp#ratur*. p#rhap?i not #xo#' d?ru;
j thoa# outsidf of which plant Iff#
| rtopa."
aciKNTiFH Ki>i:tR(n a II.I.
i make *e? n oiti.n wr *rrn.
' Th# application of actonc# to al
I' our |>roccshc>! and all our life a?i?i
the ordered development of acien- *
and edti?*ation mill give us the nc*world
that we mtisi have to pt I
vent the general unrest that ia gr?|j
ping the *orld. L?r. C. E. K U^c>.
head of the r#a#arc-h d#partment ?
j the Kastman Kodak Company. sa!<!
at |the international meeting ef
j chemists held here last night by llf
.American Chemical Society and th? .
'Society of Chemical Industry of'
Great Britain
j Tompare a typical American cit>
j with a Russian village of today and.
j you can see the vast progress which*
has been produced by the application
of science in th# last
years.'* Dr. Mees pointed out.
"Each great industry of the world
today had its beginnings In sotm
sort of fundamental rcaearch. and
I today, whether through the developJ
ment of better proceaaes of produe1
tion or through devialng of applications
of the product thst will aid
Its sale, the work of the laboratory
is necessary for progress. The laboratory
Is the intelligence corps of
industry as it provides the information
on which decisions are made."
Excessive blowing of soil is sometimes
ss harmful s process as #*cesslve
erosion by wster. Th#
great dwst storm of Mar f-7. 1*8*
in the middle West, removed th%
oil in some plsces to s d#pth of A*or
six Inches. A ess# ia r##ord#??
front Australia In which a foot '
soil waa removed over an area of ^
iee.000 acres
W. D.
