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Evening star., 1924-06-15
Pioneering for Rubber Fields
Government Experts Seek Industries independence
in Americas and Philippines. -. -

growing rubber, while the areas they
pravide are virtually unlimited in
teir extent. The Investigators rnen-T
tton other countries, such as Malaya,s
Sumatra and Indo- China, but they
seem to emphasize more the advan-
tages of the Philippines and Central
and South America The Philippines
have always suffered the handicap of
vious reports on growing rubber
there have painted dismal pictures Off
the rubber plantation which might
be destroyed in the course of a few
minutes by the work of a typhoon.
Labor conditions there also have been
held to be poor. but the present in
vestigation showed that nature was
more favorable to growing rubber in
the Philippines than man and the
law he makes. The typhoons may be
discounted, the Investigators found,
but the laws which restrict the ac-
QUESTION of land for rubber p1anta-
tions to $500 acres by company or
an individual are considered too muchS
of handicap
Interest In Tropical America.
The most interesting results of the,
Investigation are found in the poten-1
t1aiities presented by the fact thar.
most favorable conditions for grow
ing rubber plantations are found in
tropical America, where the aggre -
gate area of desira BILE land is suf-
fcient to rival the present cultivated
area in the east. Taxes on these lands.
it was found, are either very low or
conditions were found generally ia
vorable, varying, Of course, in the
different countries. The investigators
found that the attitude Of the vari-
GUS republics of Central and South
America was extremely cordial, they
reports state, and government Of
ficials were anxious to. make condi
tions as favorable as possible for"
a Fsrrn To n-ie Tva -Aap -.
existing laws appeared to impede de-
velopment there were intimations
that the laws could be changed to-
meet special conditions
America were Guatemala, Salvador1'
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Cor
lombia and Ecuador and the Amazon
region, which took in Bolivia, Peru,
the disputed area between Colombia
states, Amazonas, Matto Crosse and
Para. and the Acre territory Of
Brazil.
In some Of he the American NJ eount,ies
would have to be imported before
plantations could be started, and thea
attitude of the governments concerned
must be taken into consideration.
Transportation Problem.
While the South American coun-
tries are in strong strategic posi-
tion from the standpoint of transpor-
tation to the United States. many of
the areas are inaccessible now. Means
OF transportation inland would haven
to be found.
Rubber plantations do not grow in
a day. They take hve or six years to
mature, initial investment would be
heavy and the realization of profits.
slow.
While the Department of Commerce.
has pointed the way, the rubber i'm
dustry must follow its own course.
What it will be, where the invest
ment will be centered. are questions
to be answered by the industries own
Investigators But the Department,
of Commerce has shown the possibili-
American enterprise. -
Evening star., 1924-06-15
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY RI. REV, JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D.,
Bishop OF Washington.

have been rejected in one age only to
be extolled and canonized in another.
AS a matter Of fact most of the men
and women who have been lifted to
the place of sainthood uere in their
own generation like the Master
"despised and rejected of men. II
has remained for subsequent perloos
to recognize their true worth and TO
give them their due and proper place
as benefRctors of the race.
In every sphere of life's experience
there come now and again to one ana
all of us periods of peculiar oppor-
priation of which inures to our last
ing benefit Shakespeare declared:
There IN 4 tide in the affairs Of men
Which. taken at the food, leads on to for
tune"
Pa.sina Of Opportunity.
How frequently in life we have
demonstrations OF this. Some OF us
within US the thrill of some great
impulse calling US to life OF real
service, and for the while we feel
the urgency of the call, but IN an eVli
hour where adverse influences pre-
vail, our ears become dull to it, the
opportunity passes and our subse-
Quent life witnesses to the tragedy
Of a lost opportunity.
Evidences of this are about US
every day. The tragic lament OF men
life's miscarriage. the result Of fail
ure to see and seize opportunity at
the right time, is witnessed on every
hand. In no sphere of being IS TINS
condition more profoundly tragic
than in the case of those who have
denied to themselves the joy and sat
isfaction of a great spiritual expert.
ence. Like the ancient city of
Jerusalem, they failed in the days OF
their opportunity. The hardening in
af fa fc diSQnn0lnt-
ments, it's unsettling misfortunes or
possibly it's heart-breaking sorrows
have seemed to atrophy the inner SEN
sibilities and to silence the aspira-
tions Of the soul. OF some the words
are true:
'.I spake unto thee in thy prosperity.
But thou saidst. 4 will not hear
Standing one day before the gate
leading into that part of Rome known
as the Ghetto" we saw the words
inscribed over its archway, "All day
long have 1 stretched out my hands
to a disobedient and galnsaying peo-
ple" 1t was the old, old cry that has
proceeded from the lips of many
prophets who have yearned to lift
mankind up to higher levels of think
we believe the present is a day of
new opportunity. The yearning for
the spiritual manifests itself in many
ways Men and women are asking
for something that material posses
sons cannot give. The satisfaction
of the souls hunger is imperatively
demanded. Substitutes for the eternal
truths enunciated by Jesus Christ are
purveyed on every hand, and yet, men
are not satisfied, nor will they be
until they come to recognize the
majesty and beauty of the life and
teachings of Him who lovingly and
longingly yearned over the city of
lost opportunity.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Marie Corelli Read
In Palaces and Cabins

1t cannot be said that a light of
literature went out with the passing
of Marie CorelIi, but it will be i'm
possible for the historian who essays
to describe the literary taste of her
generation to ignore the author of
"The Romance of Two Worlds" Her
appeal was not to the intellectual
elite, and yet she was one of the IA
vorite novelists of Queen Victoria,
was found fascinating by the exquis-,
lite Elizabeth of Austria, was read by
the elegant Alexandra of England.
This royal favor denotes nothing as
to the artistry of her work, but it
signifies the remarkable catholicity
or her appeal. Her melodramatic
quality, the weird touch of mystery
were enough to have placed her name
among the best sellers" But her
vogue has been due in large measure
to the spiritualism which permeateS.
her novels.
The queen in the castle and the
peasant in the cabin are alike in a
hunger for Impressions of the life
beyond. Miss Corelli ministered tol
this desire to penetrate the wells
Whatever the critics may think oil.
say, they cannot deny her the distinc.'
tion that few among the greater arg
lists have shared, of numbering her
followers from the man with the hoe
to the woman with the tiara and the
erown.-New York Evening World. =
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Real Workers in the National Capital

was In 1881. He spent years in the
held, promotion followed, and in the
end he became the chief of not the
least important bureau in the gov
eminent service. His hope is in some
measure to take up the slack in
agriculture. II the farmer could be
freed from the pest of tree and plant
diseases and know how to get the
very most out Of his land. and learn
In advance what crops he should
plant against the world need, the
farmers problem would be infinitely
easier.
We are working toward that end"
said he. I'VE are very far from it
now, Of course. but we are NOV
ing on"
Cooperative methods of growing
and marketing are among DR.. Tay-
1or's interests. 1t is a part of his
task to investigate the insects that
carry diseases to plants, just as ty-
phoid carriers spread that fever
among human beings. His men have
learned that the white pine blister,
which threatened to destroy the white
pine which one of these days will
make abandoned New England farms
into small gold mines. can only oper-
ate il it stops midway on a current
or gooseberry bush. So that a barred
zone is being established about the
forests in which no currant or goose
berry bushes are allowed to live.
At Work en n New Wheat.
In the same way the black stem
wheat rust can only propagate
through the help of the barberry
bushes. The barberry is being blocked
out through ten or twelve western
states. The bureau is at work on
new wheat. 1t can be profitably
grown here, but it has not yet been
shown whether it will work up into
the right sort of flour for the sort of
bread we Americans like to eat. That
sort of little black currant we used to
find in plum puddings and nowhere
else has been brought over from the
Greek Archipelago, and in a little
while we will grow our own.
Half a dozen scouts are always in
foreign fields, looking for new and
useful plants and the methods of
raising and ripening and marketing
them. 1t was DR.. Rock, a bureau
man, who found the chaulmoogra tree
in the hinterland Of Siam and Bur-
nah. No other white man had ever
seen it The tree is being acclimated
now through our semi-tropic coun-
try, for the chaulmoogra oil is spe-
cific against leprosy. The task in
which DR.. Taylor is chiefly interested
at the moment is the discovery of
rubber plant which can be produced
in the United States or adjacent lands,
and which will free US from the tyr
amy of today's producers.
Farmer Getting Better.
Think what might happen if
bug were to spring up out of no
where and which would destroy the
present rubber plantations" said he.
Experience has shown that it takes
What would we do without rubber for
our automobile tires and our scien-
tihc machines, not to speak of other
uses? Germany discovered during the
war that rubber is an absolute neces-
sity today. But there are between
one and two hundred ber-produc-
ing plants and trees. Maybe we will
find among them the one we want"
incidentally, DR.. Taylor has Coue
formula:
Every day in every way" he says,
1.-THE farmer is getting better and bet
ter. He thinks nowadays instead of
using grandpap's formula He reads.
When I was a boy he just sweated."
Evening star., 1924-06-15

necessary and a wireless message
was sent to an American destroyer
at Saigon (1ndaChina) to fetch one
| in storage for the flyers at that town
George S. Baker has given $5,0oo.-
600 for endowment of the Harvard
graduate school of business admins
tration. A little passe, but important
The Republicans have nominated
Charles G. Dewes for Vice President
Miscellaneo1s.-The King and Queen
Of Italy are paying a return visit to
the King and Queen of Spain.
The Jubaland (Africa) controversy
between the British and Italian gov
ernments has been settled satisfac-
torily to both, but the precise details
of the settlement are unknown to me.
zita, ex-Empress Of Austria-Hun-
gary, is in distress again. She simply
can't live on less than $4,000 per
month, and that amount is not forth
coming in doles from King Alphonso
and her other friends. The Hun
garian government, despite it's finan-
cial straits, should b able to do
something for the unhappy lady.
banian insurgents have captured tt
rama, the Albanian capital: that the
members of the provisional govern
ment have Ned. and that the insur-
sents fwho call themselves Nation
enough to the formation of a govern
mont 1t Is reported Gf true it is
very good news) that through the
mediation OF Senior De La Barra. one
ington, agreement between Bulgaria
and Greece has been reached as to a
commercial outlet for Bulgaria to
the Aegean through Greek territory.
According to the report Bulgaria is
to nave privileges at the port of
slavia at Saloniki, access to KayalIa
to be by corridor under the SUPER
vision Of the league of nations
SIR Arthur Evans, to whose mag
nihcent work we owe the best part
OF our knowledge Of the Minoan age.
has made new finds on the site Of fhe
Palace OF Cnossus. in Crete, said to
equal any previous ones: in chief.
remnants of the cyolopean piers ~
a. viaduct and bridgehead and of an
elegant crHxansary charuingiy dec
over by petrified alluvial deposit
The very important treaty between
Great Britain and Kingdom of IrsL
(Meeopot1mia) has at last been raft
fed by the Assembly Of Irak a<ainst
violent opposition, fomented by Turk-
ish propagandists and intieues
A new Japanese cabinet, headed bv
Viscount Kato, took office on June II
It is coalition cabinet, drawn from
three parties-the Kenseikai. the
Seiyukai and the Kakustin CIuh Ths
foreign minister is Baron Shidehara-
formerly ambassador at Washington
and understood to be friendly TO this
country. '-.''
Evening star., 1924-06-15
BY BEN McKELWAY.

- UTTING Their way through
uncharted forests and navi-
eating in native canoes rivers
where few white men have
gone before, experts of the Depart
ments of Agriculture and Commerce
have completed the pioneer work OF
making the United States, the worlds
largest consumer of rubber, inde-
pendent Of foreign nations for its
supply. incidentally, they have fur
nished information which may lead
to new era of development in por-
tions Of South and Central America
and create additional markets for
American trade.
Not long ago the American rubber
industry woke up with a start and
found the bugaboo of a foreign mo-
nopoly staring it in the face. The
presence OF the monopoly was moth
ing new, but the American rubber in
dustry had been so busy keeping it's
wheels turning that as long as raw
supplies were available there was
nothing to worry about. But when
Great Britain enacted certain re-
Etriction laws in 1922, limiting pro-
or raw rubber, American manufac-
turers had thrust upon them the ne
cessity for creating their own sources
of supply. The step seemed neees-
sary, not so much to meet a problem
OF the present, but one Of the future.
Great Brtain's Control.
Here was the situation. Ninety
five per cent OF the worlds rubber is
grown in the far east. Seventy seven
per cent OF the total area under rub
ber is controlled by Great Britain.
American capital invested in the east
is estimated at only. ss2.ooo.ooo.
Britain. .1so, 900 900 for Holland, $40
100000 for Japan, $27,0o0,o00 for
France and Belgium and $4,000. 900
for other European countries. The
Department of Commerce inveStig ga
tors estimated that the operation of
the British restriction laws would
reduce the aggregate potential pro-
duction for this year 1925 and 1926
by upward of 200.00 tons, while rub
Der planted by the native population
and old areas on European estates
them, the United States is dependent
upon foreign growers for it's supply.
The Department of Commerce ask
ed and received from Congress an ap-.
preparation for an investigation of
what might be done to make the
United States Independent of foreign
countries for certain raw products
which are now controlled by foreign
monopolies, and the rubber invests ga
ton was one of them. 1t has about
been completed.
Now Up to Rubber Industry.
The Department of Commerce is
now ready to turn over its findings
to the rubber industry, and that will
come near concluding the govern
ment's interest in the case The Ques-
tion will be put uD TO the rubber in
4 ;<~I - E,,&,
course alone. If the Department of
Commerce investigation convinces
the rubber industry that it may develop
it's own sources of supply profitably,
the result will be interesting
The Investigators found that the
Philippines and parts of Central and
South America are ideal as far as
the soil and climate are concerned, for
Evening star., 1924-06-15

lake front pine forests were swept
by a destructive fire.
"It was a pity" said he, but 1t
made the task of clearing that farm
easier"
He helped grub and plow and burn
and fence that farm. His father set
out an orchard, and the boy grew in
terested in it Therefore he went to
the Michigan Agricultural College,
the first of it's sort in the United
States. to learn more about farming
and trees All the students were
poor and self-supporting. 1t was ac-
cepted that the boys must teach
country school between times if they
were to pay their way through COL
lege, and the long vacation was set
in the middle of the winter, when
country schools most do flourish.
I'VE all worked our way through"
said DR.. Taylor, land we were all
the better for it,
Entrance into the Department of
Agriculture followed as a matter of
course, although the department was
a feeble thing in those days. That
Evening star., 1924-06-15
LOST OPPORTUNITY.
MATTHEW, xiii,

FCr. MATTHEW, xxiii.37. %,
Jerusalem. Jerusalem, thou that
~ killest the prophets and stonest
them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under wings,
and ye would mott"
Some one has said that the above
words, pronounced by Jesus, are the
saddest He ever uttered With patri-
otic fidelity He regarded the capital
of His nation with utter devotion. He
knew it's history, it's traditions, its
mighty record of achievements. To
Him it's temple was the enduring
symbol of a nations faith. Beyond
sion Of Christ was for men. and of
Him it was said, HE knew what was
in man." Once only in His brief ca
reer, in the streets of Jerusalem He
claim of the people as the royal sue
ceSSor and lineal descendant of the
House of David To a casual OBJ
server it might have seemed that He
had come at length to the place of
sovereign power. 1t was but an
ephemeral outburst.
OF Peculiar Significance.
The popularity of Jesus in Jerusa-
lem was short lived. Notwithstand-
ing all this, He could not forget the
distinction of Jerusalem, nor the un-
developed and unacknowledged po-
tentialities~ of its people No city of
distinction in the worlds history has
had the opportunity afforded this one,
but the prophet was without honor
in his own country" and was con-
demned and ultimately crucified by
His own people. In view of all this.
the lament of Jesus over Jerusalem,
with it's disclosure of yearning love.
takes on peculiar significance. He
reckoned with it's ignorance and its
failure to see it's day of large op-
portunity. "Hadst thou but known
peace."-what awful significance in
we have the indictment and con-
demnation, Behold. thy house is left
unto thee desolate" Certainly no
vas ever made concerning any city
ancient or modern. The failure of
Jerusalem to rightly interpret Jesus
Is one of the tragedies of time. In
the judgment of its scholars and
a revolutionist. His teachings seemed
to strike at the very roots of exist
ing systems, and doubtless they did.
Little did the citizens of this proud
city vision the influence of this re-
jected Master upon future ages and
future civilizations. Jerusalem is the
city of lost opportunity.
-of all sad words Of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these-1t might have been ;"
1t is striking fact writ large
upon the page of history that re-
,peatedly great teachers and prophets
Evening star., 1924-06-15
BY HERBERT COREY.


| NCME people criticize u.s."
said DR.. William A Taylor,
| with perfect content, be
| cause they say our organi-
zation Is too loose. 1t is not framed
on the military plan. We have no
| leftenants and majors and generals
here"
Comment seemed . little dimcult
II do not believe that a man en-
gagged in research work can be han
died on the military plan," he con-
tinued. "if you wish to get the best
out of him. He must feel his soul
is his own. He must be permitted
to go at his job independently in the
way that best suits him. Ny part is
to keep all working together in har-
| mony. Now and then I give advice"
A multitude of scientists engaged
| on various parts Of the same general
task often find their orbits overlap
ping trifie. The average scientist
| is distinctly a one-idead man, His
particular work is the most impor-
tant thing in the universe, and he re-
sents the touching Of any part of it
by any other man, no matter how
clear the other man may read his
title. But in the bureau of plant
industry they work as a team. When
orbits touch they intermesh instead
of interlock.
I'VE study" said DR.. Taylor, drop
ping genially into ALTERATION, "the
pests and practices of plant produc-
ton"
That, when you come to think of
it, is something Of an assignment.
There are about 1000 employees of
the bureau, of whom one-third are
scientists whose headquarters are in
! Washington. but who may spend any
where from one year to ten in the
| field studying a given problem. Some
| times climatic and other conditions
compel a man to stay years in the
| field before a general average can be
discovered on which definite state
ments may be based regarding a
certain plant.
Case OF Egyptian Cotton.
There is the case Of the Egyptian
| cotton, for example. Our Sea Island
cotton was always the finest in the
world. but the output was limited.
$50 we sent men to the Imperial
Valley" said DR.. Taylor, where con-
ditions Appropriated those OF the ir-
rigated lands Of Egypt, to study the
possibility of acclimatizing the
Egyptian cotton"
In time two or three varieties were
produced which equaled or bettered
the original. These were cut down
to one. Then the bureau of plant
industry found itself compelled to ex-
tend the scope Of its operations. One
farmer could not successfully raise
the new cotton, because the cotton
of his neighbors would come over
and hybridize it In the end the bu-
reau secured the consent of the I'm
perial Valley raisers to embark on
scheme of community growing, in
which all raised the same cotton.
community plan is now being tried
in the older cotton districts. Aus
tralia is planning a great new cotton
industry and has taken this particu-
lar leaf out of the American book.
The same thing happened with
dates in the Coachella Valley. The
bureaus scouts in Arabia discovered
a particularly fine variety of date
and brought 1t to the United States,
been raised here. They were expert
mented with until date raising be-
came a certainty. Farmers were in
Evening star., 1924-06-15

Show me q child who does not ,iLe
a kitten or puppy, and I will show
you the unhealthy product of nm.
natural upbringing. writes Elizabeth
< Peoples in the Nature Magazine.
To study animals with cildren from
seven to eleven or twelve wears ~
age Is as sure road to happiness as
taking them to the circus. often
that is good way to begin. But
even after circus, beginners in ami
mai study should commence with a
domestic rather than a wild animal.
because Of ease In observation and
the possibilities fer latimacy. H for
no other reason.