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The Washington herald., 1921-01-14
NEW ,ENTRoPY LAW
AIDS CHEMICAL PREDICTIONS.

By the application of thermody-
namiCs to chemistry, the scientist
can calculate just which are the
possible chemical reactions and just
how far they will proceed until
equilibrium is reached" DIR. Richard
c. Tolman, director of the Fixed
Nitrogen Research Laboratory told
the Chemical Society last night at
the Cosmos Club. A new law of
thermodynamics, just introduced
during the past few years. has all
lowed great advances in the methods
of determining the entropy content
of substances at given concentra-
tions and temperatures, which, to-
Eether with their heat content
makes these important informing
calculations possible. This new law,
called the third. is: The entropy of
every pure substance become zero at
the absolute zero of temperature"
DR.. Tolman explained that the
calculations are based on the facts
that the possible chemical reac-
tions are those which lead to an in
crease in the entropy of the uni
verse, and the reactions proceed
until the concentrations of the prod
uCts of the reaction have built up to
so high a figure, and the concentra-
tions of the initial reactants have
dropped to so low figure that the
further progress of the reaction
will no longer lead to an increase in
entropy."
The data obtained by the use Of
this new law will allow the chemist
to predict possible chemical reac-
tions. and determine the available
useful work these reactions will do,
the speaker said.
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sieze their lands Naturally this will not help
convert the farm Population
In Italy, which short time ago seemed ripe
for Sovetism, there us the most settled condition
industrially since the war The workers have made
very material gains in wages and joint authority,
but are moving away from Communism rather
than toward it or standing still.
I Several Communist committees have visited
Russia from Italy we'll as from other coun-
tries, and their reports, quite invariably unfavot
able, have had large influence everywhere in the
reaction to labor conservatism. In fact moderate
/ Socialists and Unionists have themselves done
more than any other agency to stem the Bolshevik
tide
In Great Britain, with almost a maximum of
unrest and unemployment, there is fear
of an extreme movement Belgium entirely
quiet and at work. Even Spain gives indications
OF rather the usual and accustomed outbursts,
than of any and extreme action.
Here in the United States federated labor
has undertaken to clean house. 1t is openly plan
ming to get rid of its extreme radicals. Its most
conservative leaders appear stronger than ever
and more fully in control
The only Socialist political movement here
that promised success was that of the Nonpartisan
League. 1t gained control in North Dakota, but
so far has failed in very other State it has en-
tered Its hold is practically gone in its original
home, and it is trying to refill its treasury
in the somewhat distant State of Kansas.
All of this is encouraging coming at what
many regard as the low ebb in world industry
and finance. 1t indicates that the period Of wild
schemes, of moral unbalance, of a willingness to
throw overheard economic ballast is passing
just when it would have been the greatest menace.
1t is promise of quick recovery and that not
the French alone have adopted the only sure
cure for the present world ills. To this French
cure, however, should be added mutual helpfulness
joint world effort in enabling all to resume
honest and profitable work.
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THE HOUSING PROBLEM.


To the Editor. The wHshinEtob Herald.
Many OF your readers probably
have read the American Health 49,
sociation report on housing condi-
tions TO the Calder Committee Of thu
Senate. A brief summary Of the re-
port being as follows:
Every city showing an abnormal
overcrowding condition affecting -
to 30, per cent Of its population.
- Thousands Of families forced
to occupy unhealthful quarters.
- Health officers AND health laws
powerIess because better houses are
not to be had. The crowdtrr
being particularly fatal to children
the infant death rate increased
50 per cent - mental and moral
degeneracy increased by lack Of
space, privacy and comfort. -
The danger Of the situation is NOT
publicly recognized and efforts to-
ward increasing home building hav-
ing lacked support and effect
The entire housing problem no u--
gent and its danger so imminent that
decisive and immediate action is i'm
perative. Winding up the report rar-
ommcudinE that IN order 10 secu~s
better health, good morals and good
citizenship every American family
occupy a single dwelling.
The report presents no new n-oh-
lem. II is conservativeIy estimated
that not less than $4,000. 600 600
worth OF land in villages, towns and
cities is being held out Of use bv
spectators, which Is an easy matter
TO do under our idiotic tax system.
II the principle Of the single tax
were fully applied land MONOPOLY
would be impossible Vacant city
property could not be held long g.r
higher prices il the owner had ro
pay as heavy a tax as the owner ~
improved lots having an equal
value The exemption from taxation
Of all buildings and Improvements on
land would at once multiply houses
and other improvements Abolish
all taxes save one single tax on the
value Of land Irrespective Of i'm
provements. In other words arnro-
pirate economic rent hy taxation.
tALS NoNlA tiet tdDeE ana all lEoIS-
try and the spectacle CF the r-o-
dUcinE agent Of society begging ru-
a chance 10 create wealth for rHr or-
/ portunity Of receiving back j. Drr
cent Of n will end
How much longer will tho Amorf-
can peopl- submit to system q
taxation that breeds poverty. d .-ease
and preveutable death" The power
TO tax Is to destroy. To tax ,a-rn
monopoly is 70 destroy lt EN-Tora-
tion and poverty which are rasDrr-
sihNe for the housing problem. vrT
decrease in exact proportion as IarE
values are taken over hy The ntrn...
The tIme has come when We must
choose between the single tax or So
cialisn. Which will IL be-
| Cleveland W A c
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Radical Socialism.

Socialism OF the extreme degree seems to
have reached its peak and to now be losing its
hold upon those at first inclined to accept its
tenets and adopt its methods. This retrogression
IS evidenced in many countries as we'll as here in
the United States, where it made the least
Impress
The last French election is one evidence. In
France also the unions have expelled the Com
riunists. By overwhelming vote the recent
Socialist congress at Tours refused to Join the
Third Moscow Internationale and accept the
Lenine program.
This organized Communist bloc has almost
ceased to be menace there. France is fast
settling down to the national conviction that she
must work out her salvation and that this
can only be done in the French way-by hard
labor, thrift and economy. ..- =. . -.
Germany is proving equally unfruitful to Boil
shevik propaganda. The unions have so far re-
fused support and it is admitted that the
sgrarian population the farmers and small land
holders, are hopeless soil for radicalism
In the last German Communist Convention
this was recognized and it was openly proposed
TO Disregard them and when the time came, simply
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1t is not every day that one meets
a poetess who is just as beautiful
as her poems, but Mrs. George d.
Hope, of Kansas City, who is spend
ing the winter at Wardman Park
Inn, satisfies both the minds eye
and the still more critical physical
optic.
Before describing her 1t might be
better to quote the verses she has
written as Introductory to the
dainty little collection of her work S,
and which expresses her creed much
better than any mere interviewer
ever could:
IF I could send throughout the
world
A little volume. neatly bound,
Which would cause sorrow to be
hurled
From out all hearts-make them
resound
With love and JOY and hope serene,
Then l should not have lived III
vain
OPOh TINS HeeIlnS earthly scene;
And If my voice in sweet refrain
Could send forth words that would
do good
To those without much time to
think,
By whom life is not understood
Help them to rise instead of sink
This globe a paradise would be:
Could / but do this glorious thing
And set mankind from troable
free
Id not change places with a
king"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-14
A NATIONS DEFENSE
AND ITS PRINCIPLES

War is not a matter of ChoiCe-as
We know from our own experience.
When the bell rings, We must either
night or not. II we don't fight, We
pay. If we do fight, we have got to
win-or pay. To win, we must be
prepared to fight as soldiers-not as
a mob. This means training. I'm
trained men are nothing but food
for slaughter.
The principle of universal military
training is a plain matter of mutual
obligation, In emergency the Coun-
try has the right to demand mill
tary service of every able bodied
man. Conversely, every able bodied
pan has the right to demand mill
Ary training by the country.
1t takes time and money for this
training. War takes both. War
costs lives. Military training saves
lives.
Do we not want a strong, up
standing. clean and orderly citi-
zenry? All of this is what universal
military training means. Actually
what would it cost?
Six months of each young mans
time-no handicap since the obliga-
tion is universal. 1t would be an
inconvenience at must II Is al III
convenience to pay taxes, but the
country must be supported. 1t is
an inconvenience to have to fight
for the country, but it must be pro-
tected. We don't want war. We
want to keep out of war if it is huS
manly and honorably possible to do
so. Unpreparedness has never yet
kept us out of war. Preparedness
may do so.- From the Infantry
Journal.
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Will someone present Mr.. Harding with
a fresh eraser?
A Convention Hall.

If the inaugural fash-in-the-pan did nothing
else it proved the need here in Washington for
a great convention hall. If Mr.. Harding had not
put his taboo the inaugural program there
still could not have been the historic ball as the
chief social feature.
. This, would have beep impossible because
there is not in the city a hall adequate, nearly
adequate, for such function. But this is only an
immediate reminder of a constantly recurring
condition
Washington, the Nations Capital should
be the favorlte meeting place of hundreds of or
CARNATIONS 1t would be, if there was a hall
which would accommodate large conventions. ~
Everyone wants to here Here, too, are
the records, the data, the information SO, fire.
quently desired at meetings of specialists Here
are the officials of the country whose public
service concerns every civic scientific and pro-
fessional organization.
Such hall could also be used for music. All
orehestras here. If there was a proper
auditorium, they could be heard by the multitude
not the few who can afford the price. 1t could
also be used for indoor pageantry, for industrial
exhibits and for many like uses.
Col Harper, of the Washington Chamber
of Commerce, was right in saying that this project
has already been delayed too long," The chamber
can do the city greater service than to push
it through to success
The Washington herald., 1921-01-14
Potency of Flowers.

The perfume of most flowers has
some effect on human beings. Pop
pies, for instance, cause headaches,
and roses, If inhaled freely, lead to
dizziness. Singers don't like vio-
let's, for the perfume from that little
flower causes huskiness and sore
throats. If a professional singer is
handed a bouquet she nearly always
glances at IT before burying her
face among the flowers. IL vioIets
were included their perfume might
ruin her voice for the evening
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-14
NO MENTAL CURE BY TEEHT
PULLING. SAYS ALIENIST.

The theory that was recently ad-
vanced by DR.. Henry a. Cotton. in
charge of the New Jersey State Hos
pital, that focal infection such as an
abscess of a tooth could cause mental
disorder, and that pulling of teeth
could cure ii was condemned by Or.
William A. White, sUperintenden of
ST. Elizabeths Hospital, at the re-
cent meeting of the Dental Society.
Mind is function of the whole,
intcgrated being. not something
added, as the average person usually
thinks of it," said DR.. White. The
KIND of mental disease that a per-
son has is usually determined by his
whole life history" In order that
there be mental trouble, due to
teeth, the oral infection must be so
great that the whole body's health
is affected, DR.. White explained.
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Hope Watson
Keeps Role
Capital Looking ForlD0d
To Coming of Senator
From Georgia.

They were running through the
calendar on the floor of the House
the other day when a bill to COM
pensate a man who had been injured
in a government landslide came up.
Il objectT' shouted Republican
Leader Jim Mann.
And why?' sadly inquired the
father Of the bill.
IT we compensated every man
who was injured by d government
landslide on last November We
would bankrupt the government,
returned Mann.
The bill went by the boards.
No man can be a successful sight
seeing lecturer" in Washington un-
less he has an intimate knowledge
Of the great men dwelling here or
unless he has a vivid imag agination
and a conscience in perfect control,
which probably is better than mere
knowledge.
Here is an instance. Hudson
Hawley, of the Washington stan of
the United News. who is about TO
depart for Paris, found it necessary
to have his passport Vised by the
French Embassy. Hawley is the
owner of an overcoat made of Ari-
zona wildcat with a collar Of mari
bou. He sports a beautiful mus
tache and when the mUstaChe and
the overcoat go into high at the
same time Hawley looks like several
million dollars in real money!
l..
in his wildcat coat Hawley began
at once to trot out his best French.
He succeeded so we'll with the lam
guage that when he left he was
bowed to the door with the most
profound courtesy. Just as he
stepped out a sightseeing auto
filled with people, was passing.
And now, ladies and gentlemen" 3"
said the lecturer, you see me
French Ambassador"
1t is not often that Senator Knox,
OF Pennsylvania, INDUCES in humor
on the floor of the Senate and in
consequence there are plenty of
people in Washington who do not
know that he has a dry humor Of
his own which delights his friends
on many occasions.
The Pennsylvania Senator met a
friend in the Capitol the other day
who happened to be quite close to
Senator Medill Mccormick, Of Illi-
nois, who is now touring Europe.
"How's Mccormick getting
alonG?" asked Senator Knox.
oh, all right. 1 think" said Nc
Cormick's friend. Hes in Ger
many now, you know
Well, / suppose they'll make him
king before he leaves" said Knox,
chuckling.
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Evidence Not Seen.

An Irish witness was called %
give his testimony.
Did you see the shot fred" was
the first question asked.
No, sir, but ! heard IT,"
That is not sstisfactory." pc
marked the Judge. You may step
down"
As the IrishmSn turned 10 g. n,
laughed out loud, whereupon hr 80 -
rebuked by the court and told
was in contempt.
Did your honor see mo laugh 900
inquired the witness, respectfulIy.
No, but ] heard YOU"
Excuse me. your honor, but thai
isn't satisfactory"
Then the court saw the point and
Joined in the laughter-Fron an
English newspaper.
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Observation-Disclosures,
NEW TOXIC WAR SMOKE.

A new. smoke-making device. a
candle which gives gives out toxic
fumes, has been developed by Brit
ish and American chemical warfare
men. according to DR.. L. i. Shaw
assistant chief chemist, Bureau OF
Mines, who recently talked before
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
The toxic material used is diphe-
nylchlorarsine.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-14

There is one place the American people
are not asking Congress to econbmze This is
in the case OF sick and wounded soldiers and
sailors, and their industrial rehabilitation.
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DISTANCE
From Washington to

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London University has recently
decided to award the degree OF
bachelor OF science TO women who
qualify in household and social
science. Everything from laundry
and household work to systems OF
currency and the meaning Of capital
and labor is dealt with In the
course
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Scientific
Notes and
Comment
Calendar of Meetings;
Activities of Societies
In Washington.

Association of Engineers,
Washington Chapter, Cosmos Club,
this evening, s o'clock. DIR. Jere-
mah jerks, political economist,
will speak on Business Training
for the Engineer"
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MAKING OTHERS HAPPY HER
LIFE PHILOSOPHY,

And this is the life philosophy
OF Eleanor Hope - making others
happy. Another woman might have
given up in despair. after losing
daughter, father, mother. and finally
husband-but Mrs. Hope. instead
took inspiration and gave TO the
world the little verses which John
Sobieski declared he would put in
every school of the republic" if lie
had the power.
One feels the warmth of her sun
shiny philosophy the moment she
opens the doOr-despite the wintry
chill and the gasnt trees seen from
the windows of the Inn.
Perhaps you wonder why l write
poetry" she began. Il write be-
cause / enjoy wrjting-it is a won
derfully satisfying form of self
expression. and il I can make some
one else happy then l feel that my
life has counted for something.
Lady Hope" as her friends call
her. might be. If she chose-to use
a much abused wOrd-just a so
ciety" woman, content to. move
among admiring friends. Born with
wealth and position, she has al
ways been able to crafty her
slightest wish. But that is no
credit to me-" she says; Il couldn't
help that"
We are all Gods children" she
says. and should help one another
each with his own gift"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-14

Uncle Sam has a mighty fine wine cellar
of whose contents his nephews persist in try
ing to relieve him.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-14

Bureau of Standards meeting today,
$3.50 o'clock. Papers on metallurgL
cal work by II. S. Rawdon, J. r.
Freeman, jr, and H. J. French.
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BEAUTIFUL DRESS FOR
BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS.

Lady Hope" does not say that
she writes poetry" Il just jingle"
she says. Il believe in clothing
beautiful thoughts in beautiful lam
guage. and still l feel that we
should not sacrifice the spirit of the
verse to the form. The world al
ready has too much poetry of the
'highfalutin' sort"
Although Mrs. Hope "jingled" a
good bit from the time she was d
youngster, it was not until the
death of her baby daughter that
she considered seriously her ability
to write verses.
Thoughts just came to me-" she
said. Sometimes l would think of
lines in a dream, awake, and write
out the thoughts that had come to
me as l slept. l soon had quite a
number of verses.
"One day a friend suggested that
I have them published. At first l
demurred, thinking it hardly worth
while. but my friends prevailed
upon me to take some of my poems
to a Kansas City publisher. an old
friend of my husband. He seemed
very much interested in them. and
got out the first edition of Hopeful
Thoughts.
Mrs. Hopes first book was soon
followed by a collection of her ia
vorite quotations, Quotations and
Comments" Both have enjoyed
wide circulation. although Mrs.
Hope has never considered her work
as a commercial enterprise.
Mrs. Hope is a prominent member
of the Kansas City auxiliary of the
League of American Penwomen.
r w @
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Philosophical Society. Cosmo. Club.

tomorrow evening. $50 o'clock.
DIR. Robert 5. Sosman, retiring
president, will speak on The Dis
tribution of Scientific Informa-
tion."-