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A Pregnant Parable.

~ OIL. E. NJ. HOUSE-"Silent" House
" as he is often called-told at a
dinner in Washington pregnant
parable.
They who expect the men in au-
thority to do a great deal for them
they who expect the mpossible-should
remember the grizzly bear story.
"a famous grizzly bear hunter gave
a dinner. and one of the guests told of
a bear hunt that he had once shared
in with his host. 1t had been a re-
markable hunt. The bear had been
killed under almost incredible difficult
lies. Although his auditors looked
skeptical, the narrator did not spare
them any of those difficulties. He
counted on the host, you see, for cor
roboration.
Then, when he had finished his
strange yet perfectly true tale, he said:
There, that's the story. and, gentle
men. our host will corroborate every
word / say
But the famous hunter shook his
head.
No. George he said. I don't remem-
Der anything of the sort at ALL"
'Tableau.
"Maddened by this tableau. the guest
at the end of the dinner, took his host
aside and Kissed.
why didn't you back me up in that
bear story? You know every word of
ii was true
Yes said the famous hunter; yes, it
was all true. but I saw that everybody
round the table thought you were lying.
If, then, l had supported you, the only
result you'd have been that they would
have set me down for a liar. too"
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Charles D. Walcott, from the govern
ment offices.
This brings into cooperation for sci
entific purposes representatives. of the
great .centers of scientific investigation
of the country; but it is their effort,
committees, to bring all persons and
organiza tions into union of action for
American efficiency.
These busy men are taking this big
burden without pay or other compensa-
ton direct or indirect, other than that
satisfaction which comes from service
well rendered to ones country.
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AT the Organization meeting DR..
Hale, the astronomer, was chosen
Chairman, and subsequently five COM
nittees were appointed. One can read
lily appreciate the benefit to the coun-
try at large in having committees
headed by such men as prof. A. A.
Noyes, Dr. Simon Flexner and Prof. NJ.
T. Bogart to deal with such live sub
iects as the nitric acid supply. pre-
yentiye medicine and synthetic and or
eanic chemistry. but it does not stop
even at that, for those committees
theorists, do you call themO will act
in co-operation with the committee OF
physicians and surgeons, with the
American Chemical Company and SINH
lar bodies
The or4ganizing committee has recon-
mended % the preparation of ma
tional inventory for research; 90 sug-
eestion of certain important research
problems for solution; go the promo
ton of CLOSE cooperation; ca CO.
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sona1 attention, cooperating in every
way with children and parents, as well
as with Miss Farley and Miss Norton.
No details of the work are too small
to receive her personal attention. She
mingles with the girls and boys, their
work and play are hers. and so truly
did she become part of them that 1t
was unanimously agreed to rename the
center and call it 1.-The Margaret Wilson
social center"
Up to this time the adults of the
neighborhood could only look in on the
good times that were being had at the
Margaret Wilson Social Center. But
after consultation with those most in
terested, it was decided that If the
adults wanted a community meeting
place-a forum-they were surely enti-
tied to it, and the schools should be
thrown open to them, under the super
vision of the proper officers, usually
the principal.
A meeting was called, at which Miss
Wilson and E. ]. Ward of the bureau
of education, who has done such SPLEEN
did work in community organization in
the west and middle west. were pres
ent, and it was agreed that they did
not want citizens association, but the
old-time forum, where they could dis
cuss public questions, particularly
those which affected them. Permission
was asked of the school board for the
use of the schools for these meetings,
but it was denied. SO they were held in
the Public Library.
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So popular was the movement that
thousands from all sections of the Dis
trict attended. Subjects of vital public
interest were discussed in an orderly.
intelligent, interesting manner. and
those who attended left the meetings
with the conviction that the school
buildings. which were erected with
public money paid in taxes by the
people. should be thrown open and be-
come the centers of such social enter
prise and cooperation, places where,
as in universities, they are really free.
where everything should be considered
from the point of view of its real value
its real value to the community and
to the world. They knew that all kinds
of wonderful ideas spring from the free
soil of these centers.
This conviction was crystailiZed last
spring in a bill introduced in the House
of Representatives by Representative
Ben Johnson. chairman of the commit
tee on the District of Columbia, and in
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operation and support OF educatlonai
institutions; 60 cooperation with re-
search foundations: 60 encouragement
in cooperating laboratories Of re-
search, designed to strengthen the ma
tional defense and to make the couI-
try Independent of foreign sources of
supply in event of war.
These men are not mere theorists,
and their plans are not dreams. They
are the philosophers, If one pleases so
to call them. who not by magic. but ny
reason and thought attain the big
things of history and nature which
people must learn before the United
States will be an efficient nation.
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They are men of the class which
made possible the marvellous prepare
ton of Germany for a war which 1t
may lose,- and for commercial and in
dustrial successes unequaled by any
country which has not learned from
the men who labor and think in CO.
operation for the common good.
Prof. George F. Hale, the chairman,
is one of the foremost astronomers of
the world and is the director of the
Mount Wilson observatory, California
DR.. John j. Carly, chief engineer for the
American Telephone Company, found
the phantom wire. designed the trans
continental telephone lines, and is now
girdling the world with wireless tele-
phone systems.
DIR. L. H. Baekeland, born in Belgium,
a chemist Of high attainment. Is an ad-
vocate of fxation plant for nitrogen
Prof John NJ. Coulter of Princeton is a
zoologist. Prof. Edward G. Conklin of
the University of Chicago is eminent
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Worse Than the Smiths.

66N ERMANY'S credit SYSTEM" said
w Thomas L. Barlow, bank presi-
dent of Chicago, lis now approaching
the condition of the Smith family.
The Smith family owed the grocer
$40. He accordingly shut down on all
supplies. The Smith family then prom
ised to pay SIS on account on Saturday
night. Then. but not till then, the
grocer would consent to resume rela-
tions.
well. nothing was heard of the
Smith family for two days. Two days
later, on a Thursday morning, little
Mile Smith turned up with a market
basket at the grocery and said:
"Say, Mr.. Prunes. nom says will you
let her have two slices Of ham and
pound Of coffee out of that there five
spot she's promised We for Saturday,"
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Washington School Buildings Community Certe

New England. who knew all about
town meetings in his Connecticut
home, was reported on favorably, and
it is now on the calendar of the House
for consideration when Congress meets
in December.
Senator Hollis did good work on the
Senate side, and the bill is now on the
Senate calendar as well. There Is no
doubt, it is asserted. that it will be
enacted into law early in the next ses-
sion of Congress, and instead of one
community forum and social center in
Washington, being supported by the
efforts of women who give their time
and work free, there will be ten, sup
ported by appropriation by Congress.
The school board has looked with
such favor on community work in con-
nection with the schools that when the
beautiful Park View School was nm
ished Supt .Thurston and the board de-
cided to transfer both Miss Farley and
Miss Norton from the Grover Cleveland
School, so that they might inaugurate
the community social center and forum
in that district. Steps are being taken
for the early contamination of the idea.
Miss Wilson has promised the same CO.
operation at Park View that she has
given at the Grover Cleveland center.
which will continue just as usual UNI
der the direction of. Miss Wilson, Miss
Farley and Miss Norton.
Back OF the community forum move
ment are many of the prominent men
of the country. Charles Evans Hughes,
in speaking of the movement in Roch
ester, where it is now successfully
operated, said: Il am more interested
in what you are doing and what it
stands for than anything else in the
world. You are buttressing the foun
dation of a democracy
Col Roosevelt at the same time said:
I'VE can and we shall make every
schoolhouse a senate chamber of the
people"
Former President Taft gives his
opinion of the movement in the fol-
lowing words: This means not only
good civic organization; it is also good
business"
President Wilson, who has been in
favor of the entire movement, not only
in the District of Columbia. but also
in the western and central states,
where it has been SO successfully in
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potato. Doubtless the insect had been
quite content with this article OF food.
But some settlers planted field of po-
tatoes and the beetle at once fell in love
with them.
Migrating eastward in eager search of
it's new food. the Colorado beetle multi
piled with astonishing rapidity. In a few
years it had covered the whole country
and had devastated potato fields to the
Atlantic Coast. Then some of the beetles,
or their eggs, were carried in vessels
across the ocean, and the insect began
new career of conquest in the old world,
for it spread over the British Isles and
the continent of Europe.
But what about solanum rostratum.
abandoned by its old friend2 One would
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The belief among well informed men
in this country is that among the many
SURPRISES in the scientific world. to be
made known when the war is over, will
be the story of synthetic rubber. Ne
cessity may be the mother OF lnven-
ton, but the German chemist-engin-
GERS have proved themselves to be ex-
cellent foster mothers.
The United States wants S00-ton sub
marines: but it cannot get them be-
cause American builders do not know
how to make heavy oil-burning en-
gines to drive them: but all nations
have learned that the German engin-
GERS have solved the problem.
Germany needs copper for cartridge
cases, big and little; 1t Is known that
she has stripped the roofs OF houses,
palaces and cathedrals to obtain the
metal. to her now more precious than
all the gold which has found Its way
from the Golfers of Europe to the melt
ing pots of the United States assay
offices.
How the German industrial scientists
have done II no one here knows, but
somehow they have found way of
ekinp out the limited amount of cop
per that the country mas. German
machine guns have not remained silent.
The enormous orders recently given by
companies show how great that metal
is in demand by belligerents.
When the end of the war comes
what2 S
Another contest will be on-onee BIN
which. since the prize will be moi y.
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Men and Generals.

CIR HENRY DARLINGTON SMITH,
~ during his last visit to New York,
was talking about the war.
"Of course, when a general loses he
said, cit isn't his fault. OF course not!
It's like men and their overcoats.
mo man is honest enough to say to
his wife, Where did I leave my over
coat? He always says, instead:
"'Where did you put my overcoat?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-05
THE MAKING OF PERFUME

mERFUME plays large part in the
~ affairs of the world, a larger part
than the average man casually
thinks. Pleasing scents have had their
influence in the affairs of mankind for
so many centuries that reference to
them may be found in the oldest
chronicles. 1t is said that they were
offered as tokens of homage to in
visible powers. Pale ardent vervain
was offered up by the Gauls in their
ancient rites and incense was burned
at pagan rituals and in the Hebrew
temples centuries before the birth Of
Christ.
Perfume enters into the preparation
Of a multitude OF things of human use,
such as soap. toilet powders. tooth
powedrs and other preparations for the
teeth and mouth; toilet waters.
washes" hair oils and pomades. med
icines, beverages, note-paper. wearing
apparel and other things. while the
use of perfumery for it's own sake is
very extensive 1t is recorded that the
Ebers papyrus gives q recipe for pills
to perfume the mouth" and accord
ing to this ancient recipe these pills
contained dried myrrh, juniper, incense.
mastix branches and raising powdered
and boiled with honey and then formed
into pills.
A classic experimental. Septimus
Piesse. sought to establish a theory
that among odors there existed a GER
tain scale or ganut just as among
with high notes and heavy smells with
low notes He classified about fifty
odors, each one corresponding, he said,
with certain note. He argued that a
hnI tn he frt1 CHI he
made up of odors corresponding with
the chord Of a musical scale. 1t was
a poetic and an elaborate theory. but
IL was never given acceptance by the
world
There is almost no end to the sources
of scents that are valuable in the max
ing Of perfumery. and the chemists
have found a way of taking things
pleasing odor In themselves. and by ex-
tracing and combining in various pro-
portions reproducing the odor of any
thing desired.
However, when one thinks of perfumery
one naturally thinks of 1t as being ex-
tracted from flowers Among the essen
tial oils used in making perfumery are
almond. anise. bay. bergamot. cajaput
cassia. caraway. camphor. chamomile
cinnamon, GLOVE. coriander. cumin, eu-
calyptus, fennel, gerantum, Jasmine, law
ender. lemon. lemon grass. neroli. nutmeg
orange, orange blossom, peppermint. pine
needle. rose, rose geraniurn, rosemary
sage. sassafras, spearmint, star anfse
tansy. thyme, tuberose, violet, vanilla and
NORWOOD. Then there are also the
animal products. such as ambergris, cas-
tor. eivet and musk, and also the gun
resins or balsams. such as benzoin. in.
cense, frankfhcense. opOponax. Peru. Tolu
Efr Fu oU.AV fe pPxzf
ed by the sperm whale: musk Is a secre.
ton Of the male muskdeer, muskox Oh
Mus<rat, as well as of q few other re.
lated animals, and il is even obtained
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the Senate by Senator Hollis. providing
for the free use of public school build
ings in the District of Columbia for
community forums. Hearings We're
had, at which Miss Wilson clearly and
forcefully explained the movement.
1t was demonstrated that the primary
object of the bill is public education
through the proper and consistent use
OF the schoolhOuse as a community CEN
ter to all communities who desire to
take advantage of it. 1t provides that
the men and women of each neighbor-
hood shall decide for themselves wheth-
er their schoolhouses shall be open as a
neighborhood meeting place for them
selves, and a center of wholesome rec
reation for their young people. and
gives the men and women of each
neighborhood the right to determine
their own time of meeting.
This bill. which was referred to the
committee on the District of Columbia
by Representative 2. Davis Oakley, from
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from the common American alligator:
civet is secreted by the animal OF that
name, and castor is secretion OF the
beaver, though one naturally thinks OF
it as being derived from the castor plant,
from which is obtained the useful ana
well known oil The essential oils, called
AFFAIRS" are obtained In various ways,
but perhaps more generally by the as
tillation of parts Of plants, the MOWERS
leaves, stems or seeds
References to perfumes occur through
out a great mass OF literature. According
to Homer, Gree augmented her attrac-
tiveness by amounting her body with
various perfumes, and 1t was by the har-
mony of these perfumes that she be-
witched Ulysses. Violet was favorlte
perfume with the Athenians at feasts'
funerals and other ceremonies. Taere
were fountains Of fragrant waters at the
feasts of Nero. The perfumery makers
OF the olden time combined the scents OF
roses from Cyrene. violets from Athens
balsam from the orient and henna now
ers from Egypt.
perfumery In Europe by the returned
CRUSADERS who learned to value 1t dur
ing their travels and troubles in the
east.
The animal perfumes. or the animal
secretions, used in perfume making are
especially strong and penetrating. rms
is particularly true OF musk. 1t is re-
lated that the ancients OF western ASA
and Africa and the south OF Europe mao
no knowledge of this scent, but that !,
was in use among the Chinese many
I thousands of years ago. and even today
the finest musk is obtained from TIBET
Chemists have produced synthetic
musk by artificial methods There is q
good story that the Empress Josephine
was Unfortunately fond of the scent OF
musk, and that nearly half century
after her death her dressing room a,
Malmaison still smelled so strongly OF
tpti nf he Hlyal
did not altogether dissipate the odor.
While many of the essential oils are
obtained from plants that grow in tho
East Indies, Ceylon and South America
the finest roses from the perfumerJ
makers point of view are grown, oil
were grown, until the outbreak of the
war. in Bulgaria and European Turkey
1t is claimed that the best lavender ant
peppermint are grown in England. il
the districts of Mitchim and Hitchin
that the best violets are grown in thu
region around Nice. the best acacia, jas
mine and neroli in the region o
Cannes and that the best thyme ant
rosemary are grown in the district o
Mines
While distiliation and mechanical ex
preston Is one way of obtaining thu
essential oils containing the odors o
flowers, yet there are certain flowers
such as the violet, jasmine and tube
rose. which do not yield their odors un
der such treatment, or yield them 81
sparingIy as to be commercially un
profitable. Fats and oils having a re
markable way of absorbing doors ar
employed. Flowers are STEPPED in fat
fresh flowers being added from time t
time. until the grease is strongly i'm
preEnated. This grease becomes 'po
made" and IL 1t is desired to extrac
and retain the odors the grease is sub
5ected to the action Of alcohol. wllicl
takes up the perfumes from the fat.
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1912 Sixty-three per cent of the chill
dren attending the school are of for
eign parentage. Miss Farley, with
keen insight, saw at a glance that the
school was the vital thing in that COM
munity and that the more it was used
the better it would be for the people
in making them better citizens of their
adopted country and in Americanizing
them and their children.
The building has a good assembly
hall, and in this hall Miss Farley be-
gan the social center movement in
Washington. At first she had small
school story club, classes in dress
making. sewing and other industrial
work Before Christmas many of the
girls met in the assembly hall every
evening, making their gifts and dress
ing dolls for the Christmas trees.
Many adults went to look on, eager to
find what attracted their children to
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RICHARD b. WATROUS.' -
Secretary of American Civic
association.

augurated says: What / see in this
movement is the recovery of the cof-
structive and creative genius of the
American people.
Standing firmly behind the movement
is the American Civic Association, and
through it's president. J. Horace Mo
Farland of Harrisburg. Pa, and its seq
rotary. Richard r. Watrous of WASH
ington. d. c.. a committee on commu-
nifty forums has been appointed, the
chairman Of which is Miss WILSON. The
association is cooperating in the WORK
throughout the entire country, and the
result of this is being manifested In
the great interest which is being
shown and in the number of school
houses which are being built having
special assembly halls and other equip
ment for use in the community work.
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stitute. They knew there was plenty
of nitrogen In the atmosphere-'free
as air; and these practical German
students of the laboratory found a way
of extracting it.
Fixation plants were erected under
their direction, and successfully oper-
ated. That is why the German crops
of 1915 are plentiful. and why the ann
munition makers have all the nitrates
they need.
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Benzol is necessary in making high
explosives such as nitro taluol and its
variants. Through the use of by
product ovens it has been supplied in
abundance as the allies have learned to
their cost on many battlefields.
Motor trucks have played their part
in this the greatest conflict the world
has known. Whence has Germany OBJ
tanned her supply of gasoline? None
can come from its colonies; none can
come from this country. Now the Rus
sian advance has cut off the supply
from Galician fields; and still the mo-
tors are running.
While the exact method by which
benzol has been made to take the place
of gasoline is not positively known
benzol is what they are using.
Thus we have the illuminating con-
trast. Germany taking nitrates out OF
the air. America letting benzol waste
itself in the atmosphere, when the
price of gasoline is going up and the
supply of ol-producing gasoline is
going down.
But automobiles are not run upon
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suppose that. left free from the devour-
ing attentions of the beetle, it would
have been content to remain where IL
was. But this was not the case, since
the weed seems to have set out imme-
diately on a journey in search of the
beetle.
The prevailing direction of plant mi
grafton in this country appears to be
westward With the settlement of the
country, the plants of Europe and Of
eastern America tended to crowd out the
native vegetation But the solanum
proved an exception to this rule. APP
parently it realized that its destiny was
to be eaten. Nothing but the potato
beetle would eat it, so it came east %
find that insect.