Evening star., 1923-06-04

says that the seat of government
shall be at Washington, D. C., but
ton had been invented. With the
President and part of the cabinet on
wheels, the car will be practically
the seat of government, for at all
times 1t will be possible to direct
affairs. at Washington.
= Dean Swift tells us that the man
who can make two blades of grass
TO grow where one grew before is
worth more than all of Congress
and the state legislatures combined
or words to that effect. That's that.
But there is Frenchman, Prof.
Daniel, who adds another perfume to
flowers by the art of grating.
Surely that is not 'wastefuI and
painting the lily" 1t is not a syn
thetic- perfume, for after the graft
ing all flowers from the grated plant
have the perfume inoculated into
them.
The manufacture of perfumes has
been accomplished exclusively through
the use of natural flowers, until re-
cent years, but that method has been
largely superseded by synthetic per
fumes extracted from coal tar Yet
the so-called artificial odors from the
coal tar came originally into the coal
from flowers of millions of years
ago. Hence artificial perfumes are
really genuine odors of flowers
canned flowers buried in the coz
veins.
What causes the perfume-a gas
so vaporous that il is perceptible,
even to the human sense Of smell.
though mixed in air in the proper
We only know that the
nucleus Of perfume can be trans
ferred from one plant to another. and
1t will be as a little leaVen which
leaVeneth the whole plant and go
on developing its evanescent gas not
only from the grated plant. but from
its offshoots and descendants. Some
odorS persist for centuries, with no
perceptible diminution. How incon-
celvably fine must be the molecules
of the gas which can thus be thrown
out, year after year. without reduc-
ing the weight of the substance from
which 1t comes!
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The Department of Justice reports
that during the last year 1t has col
lected from. war frauds, and turned
into the Treasury. s3,19S.3S5. besides
finding a number of indictments.
:. The question has often been raised
as to what We should do with our
ex- Presidents. Now if it is ever asked
concerning eX-attOrneys general, why
not have, them run national bad debt
might be established along the bank
of'the Rhine. ~
In the first nine months of the fscaI
year ending June 80 we imported so
per cent more good than in the cor
responding nine months Of 1922, ac-
cording TO the Department of Com
merce. In the present year the inn
ports were subject to the Fordney-
McCumber high tariff; during the
1922 period they were subject only
TO the low tariff.
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An analysis Of the imports shows
that there was an increase of crude
materials to be used in our busy fac
tories amounting to more than $780,
100000 and of partially manufactured
material to be used in further manu-
features of 1929, 100000. Busy fac
tories use much material idle fac
tories none.
The proportionate importations Of
manufactures ready for conSUmp-
tion decreased, as did also foodstufs.
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The Department of Agriculture is
sues statement that on account OF
high farm labor costs and shortage
of help prices for. food will probably
be higher next fall unless strikes IN
the industries should release help
which might return to the harvests.
Copyright 1923. by P. Y GolIins1