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Evening star., 1925-02-08

like ape, very much nearer man than
any other ape. living or extinct, dis
covered to date.
If Prof Darts claims are established,
his discovery will further buttress
the view 0ong generally discredited)
that Darwin was right after all in his
theory that Africa was the cradle of
the human family as we'll as of the
anthropoid apes
The reader will recall in this con-
nection the discovery in 1921, in
cave In Broken Hill, northern Rhode
sia, of a human skeleton widely
thought to represent a distinct spe-
cies of Genus Homo COLDER than the
extinct Homo Heidelbergensis, the
oldest species of that genus previ-
ously identified, the other identified
being the extinct Homo Neanderthal
ensis and Homo Sapiens, i'll, us).
MfscelInneous.-Ca p t. II d
Amundsen has at last obtained the
money required for his proposed
flight over the North Pole, delayed
through lack thereof, and has started
to make the necessary arrangements.
The French Chamber has voted, 3l5
to 250, suppression Of the French
embassy at the Vatican, but has also
a charge d'affaires to represent AL
SAGE and Lorraine.
Pastel blue and pale periwinkle g
will predominate among the colors
of the Summer season, says Paris.
Austria is suffering from deflation
pains and the most gloomy reports
have been reaching us from -once-so-
gay Vienna. But DIR. Zimmerman
the League of Nations commissioner
for Austria, has just submitted to the
league council a fairly reassuring re-
port of conditions. The chances seem
to be about even that little new
Austria will be made going con-
Germ.
The italian Senate has repected the
Italian governments proposal of a
considerable reduction of the Italian
army. According to the data cited
in committee, the largest of the Eu-
ropean armies number as follows:
Russia. 600, ,00o; French, $4,000: Pol
ish, 250,000; Spanish, 10000; Italian,
200, 900.
1t seems unlikely that the expu1-
sion from Constantinople by the Turk
ish government OF the Greek ecu
menical patriarch will have serious
consequences, though some Greek
hot-heads clamor for war. Appar-
emily (though one should not be sure)
the Turkish governments action was
high handed, uncalled for and proyoc-
ative. But apparently Turkey is
technically justified under the Lau-
same treaty terms. That is, the de-
ported patriarch was exchangeable
under the treaty. Another patriarch
may be installed not SO eXchangeable.
Ex-Premer Zaghlul Pasha of
Egypt, head of the Nationalists ex-
tremists of that country. was defeat
ed the other day in the primary cleo
tions for a new Parliament. He
stated in advance (and perhaps cor
rectly) that his election was assured
unless the government of his success
sor, Ziwar Pasha, should tamper with
the ballot boxes. 1t is not unlikely
that the Ziwar government, exactly
initiating the government of ZaghluI,
did just that.
Senior Alessandri has been sum-
moned home from Rome by the new
government which resulted from the
recent coup to resume Office as Presi-
dent of Chile. and is about to obey the
summons. We await light on the
curious Chilean situation.
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American Scientists Called
To Fight Sugar Field Pests

and the setting out of plantation trial
| plots.
! So infinitesimal is the virus which
causes the most conspicuous of the
Cuban sugar-cane diseases. known as
| the mosaic disease" that it has
never been seen even under the micro
scope. 1t is SO fine that it penetrates
even a porcelain filter. 1t is this dead
ly little germ which the scientists
will endeavor to locate, discover
where it comes from and how it is
spread, and the means to eradicate Ii.
1t is probably carried from plant to
plant by some of the insects which
get a rich living from the green sugar
fields of Cuba.
This and the associated work will
not be the task of a day: it is esti-
mated that it will require at least
five years to complete all the work
which is contemplated. The work is
described officially as IAN investiga-
tion of sugar cane production prob
lens in Cuba, with particular en-
phasis placed upon mosaic disease,
root diseases and insect pests: the
breeding and testing for disease re-
sistance of new cane varieties and
soil fertility problems" 1t was felt
at the outset that it would not be
worth while to attempt such a work
unless it could be made thorough. On
that account a longtime program has
been mapped out. Most of the work
will be done in the field in Cuba, with
some laboratory work in the United
States.
Beet Sugar Production Growing.
While Cuba is frequently referred to
as the worlds sugar bowl" the
amount of beet sugar being grown in
the United States. amounting to only
Al, 900 tons in 1898, is increasing. Last
year it reached $4,000 short tons, as
compared with 100000 tons the year
before, which was an increase of
2O9,OOO over the previous year. About
one-fourth of the sugar used in the
United States is of domestic produc-
ton, an equal quantity being from
the insular possessions, Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, and the
other half being from foreign coun-
tries, with Cuba furnishing the bulk
OF the domestic supply about three
fourths is of the beet-sugar variety
Owing to increased consumption of
the refined sweetness" there has been
no great change in recent years in
the relative Importance of this coun-
try's different sources of supply, as
shown by Department of Commerce
statistics.
The United States is the first among
the sugar-using nations of the world
consuming one-fourth of the total
product, at an average rate of about
100 pounds per capita annually. The
United States and it's insular posses
sions last year produced almost IL per
cent of the sugar grown in the world.
The per capita consumption of sugar
in the United States has increased
from 80 pounds before the World War
to the above figure. Cuba now fur
nishes to the United States more than
twice the amount of sugar it did be-
fore the war. If one with the strength
of Atlas were asked to pass the
sugar" he probably would lift up the
Island of Cuba and say: Help your
SELF
Copyright, 1921
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The fishing in the neighboring sea is
particularly good
The Portuguese, who discovered, In
the middle of the fifteenth century,
the estuary between the peninsula
now known Cike the estuary and the
protectorate) as Rio de Ooro and the
mainland, mistook 1T for a river, and,
the natives bringing them some gold
dust. they called it Rio de Ouro Gold
River). The region is not, in fact.
auriferous
Germany. AS predicted last
week, the Socialist, Won Braun, elect
ed by the Prussian diet to succeed
himself as Prussian chance 1lor could
not make go of 1t with his new cab
met of Socialists. Centrists and Dem
ocrats, and therefore resigned on
February 2. The situation in the
diet is an almost perfect impasse, and
dissolution is expected.
The heirs of Hugo SHINES have ac-
quired the holdings in Austria of
Camille Castiglione (chiefly iron
works., thus becoming the leading
industrial magnates in Austria
1t is reported that the Hamburg
American Line has ordered 10 rotor
cargo ships for the Oriental service.
A fuel saving of 60 per cent is hoped
for.
China.-The business in kiangsu
province is over, and Lu Yung Hsiang,
Anfuite and adherent of Chang Tso-
Lin, has won out completely.
A conference of LAG leaders of sun
dry groups and interests in China is
taking place at Peking, at the sum-
mons of the provisional government
Sun fat-sen, erstwhile president of
the Canton Republic. is reported to
be mortally i'll at Peking.
r j: Il =
BechuannIand.-Good news from
Taungs in British Bechuanaland
South Africa. Prof Raymond Dart a
distinguished anthropologist, has dis
covered there a skull to the one-time
possessor of which he gives the ele-
giant name Australopithecus Africa
nus of Taungs
The reader doubtless knows that
British and American anthropologists
are mostly agreed that three genera
of the human family (Hominidae)
have definitely been identified-the ex-
tinct Pithecanthropus or Javan ape
man, the extinct Ecanthropus DAWN
man, Pilt-down- or Galley-Hil
mani and Genus Homo. A good many
a fossil tooth found in Nebraska not
long ago represents another genus
of the human family. to which they
have given the name of Hesperopithe-
Gus Haroldcookii (Harold Cook being
the discoverer). Let US patriotically
allow the magnificent claims for the
Nebraska tooth as established and
admit Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii
among the Hominidal genera.
Now for Australopithecus Africanus
of Taungs. The Nebraska tooth was
found in an upper Piiocene bed the
Pliocene period founded about $4,000
years ago., and the Taungs skull was
found in a deposit that Is either low
er Plicene or Miocene tstill olderl,
therefore the man of the Taungs skull
preceded by one knows not what many
thousands of years the owner Of the
Nebraska tooth
Australopithecus. according to Prof.
Dart, does not represent a Homini-
dal genus. but he had nearly arrived.
he could not talk, but he was almost
there. He was not an ape-like man,
such as Pithecanthropus, but a man
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TUST how dull and dishonest are
the people? / am one of them
and have often thought of the
~ question.
J was talking lately with a
man who has extensive medical and
scientific knowledge. So far as l am
able to judge, he has very little of
the prejudice usually attaching to
a practicing physician, since he has
never practiced, but has always been
student and teacher. He says men
of his class have made long investf-
cation of certain beliefs and Drac-
tices of the people, with a view of
discovering how much foundation
there is in them.
He spoke of a certain system of
healing which has millions of ad-
herents, and declared that, SO far, as
his scientific associates can discover,
there is no sound base for a single
claim made by the followers of the
cult. And what is more, any one
may easily demonstrate that these
claims are untrue.
Yet for many years millions of
people have been followers of the
doctrine and devoted much time and
enthusiasm to it.
Continuing his talk, the gentle
man said the same thing is true of
large proportion of popular beliefs:
they are not true, and their untruth
may be easily demonstrated by any
one. He further declared that AL
most any fairly intelligent man may
work out for himself a system of
living that will pay him better, in
health and morals, than any of the
old systems taught for centuries.
= Z 4 i
/ asked him why the people are so
devoted to fallacies. He replied that
they are not actually devoted to fall
| iacies, but that leaders whip them
into line. Let book agent, the man
said, go into any family and express
surprise that it does not own a book
of the kind he represents and mem
bers of the family will be apologize
If a powerful evangelist will go to
| a dance hall almost anywhere, he can
| make most of those present stand
up when he asks them If they be-
lieve in the religion of their mothers
| If a man claims he has discovered a
! remedy for any human i'll, it seems
a shame to deny a man opportunity
| to do good. "All fallacies," said the
man, Originate in propaganda, and
| the object of all propa ganda il
| profit for it's originators. The people
| do not believe in fallaCy except as
they are whipped into it
For thousands of years the facts
| of life have been as apparent as the
nose on a mans face. Why are
| these facts disputed in the violent
manner common to the human race
| The answer is, because of argument.
| of statesmen, kings, soldiers-the gen
| tlemen who take up collections and tax
! US for unnecessary ceremonies
| Why do writer's eccIesiastfcs. ex.
ploiters Of every kind. make a spe.
| cialty of complimenting the poor
Because ii is the poor who give them
power. Who believe most firmly il
| temples, in foolish revolution? Is il
not the poor?
| If the masses will accept the plair
| facts of life as they know them, they
will gain the prosperity long clam.
| ored for: It will come from a reduc.
| tion of unnecessary and foolish taxes
| for which there is no excuse eXcepr
! the avarice of clever leaders.
| = x :: :.
| The ordinary man may know tn,
| elemental facts. of life as we'll a!
Voltaire; all he need do to get alonl
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degree. Their economic situation has
profoundly changed
THE spectacular rise and fall of
the Wortham pool is almost without
precedent in an industry in which
cyclonic changes are taken as a
matter of coarse. For the week end
ing November %, this field averaged
$3.50 barrels per day; for the week
ending January II, 153,SU0 barrels
per day, and for the week ending
January 81, it had fallen to $4,000
barrels per day.
For three years in succession
competition in the oil industry has
advanced prices during the Winter
months; that is, during the period
Of low consumption. Overproduc-
tion has resulted with consequent
decline in prices during the ensuing
season.
Whether this precedent will be
followed this year will be determined
by the relationship of supply to the
demand. The advance in prices will
stimulate drilling for oil. No one
can forecast what luck the oil pro-
ducer will have in drilling these new
wells. But after everything is said
and done, the prices of crude oil and
gasoline during the coming conSum-
ing season will largely be determined
by the good or bad luck of the thou
sands of producers who will be stfm-
ulated in activity
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Wants to Outlaw
The ''Parsonic" Voice

An outspoken attack on the par
sonic voice was made by St. John
Ervine, the dramatist and novelist, at
the Glasgow musical festival
THE parsonic voice." he said,
ought to be punishable by law.
Clergymen using the unnatural whin-
ing 'misera ble- skinner tone should be
u, :, ocked and compelled to listen for
y.s:-s to professional elocutionists
ter Abbey, commenting on Mr.. Err
vines remarks, said: Il quite agree
doing their worst with the recitation
We Are Seven"
Archdeacon Charles of Westmins-
with the spirit. of the criticism The
parsonic voice ought to be punish
able. L is artificial and character
less, and when the lessons are read
in such a voice the words lose all
their beauty and meaning"
Evening star., 1925-02-08
BY HENRY w. BUM.
HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended February z:


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The postal pay and rate bill passed
by the Senate and transmitted by that
body to the House. was rejected by
the latter on the ground that 1T con-
travenes that section of the Constitu-
tion which prescribes that "all bills
for raising revenue shall originate in
the House." The House is about to
consider bill of it's own.
|. The nomination of Attorney General
Stone to be associate justice of the
Supreme Court has been confirmed by
the Senate.
By an amendment to the naval ap-
preparation bill just passed by the
House, the President is requested to
invite the governments with which the
United States has diplomatic relations
to send representatives to a conference
to be held in the city of Washington
which shall be charged with the duty
of formulating and entering into
general international agreement by
which armaments for war, either upon
land or upon sea, shall be effectually
reduced and limited in the interest of
the peace of the world and the relief
of all nations from the burdens of In
ordinate and unnecessary expenditures
for the provision of armaments and the
preparations for war"
On February 4 Senator Hiram john
son of California fired the first shot in
the attack on the Paris agreement of
January IA, which was signed on be-
half of the United States by Ambassa-
doris Kellogg and Herrick and Col
James A. Logan, and which provides
for distribution of German reparations
payments, including certain shares to
the United States.
The Muscles Shoals legislation is
now in the hands of conference of
House and Senate representatives.
The period remaining to the Senate
for accomplishment of the immense
work before 1t grows small by de-
grees and beautifully less"
The child labor amendment is, in
effect, dead, Is nays to 2 yeas to
date.
The de1ation of the United States
withdrew from the International
opium conference on February 6, be-
cause they could not bring the repre-
sentatives of the opium producing
countries to accept the American
views concerning control of the pro-
duction and distribution of raw
opium. There was no difference of
views among the conferees as to de-
siderata, the difference was as to
1t is to be hoped that we have a
Byron among us U am thinking of
"MaZeppa," which moves with such
terrific speedy to immortaiize that
splendid dash of the ''huskies" and
"mushers" from Nenana to Nome with
the diphtheria antitoXin. All proved
heroic, dogs and men. but the out
standing hero was the the husky"
BALTIC of Siberian breed, already fa-
nous as leader of the winning. team
in the Nose Sweepstakes of 1915 and
as leader of the team which carried
Amundsen North to Point Barrow
when he proposed to fly across the
pole. 1t was the last lap, and Gunnar
Kasson, the Norwegian musher, was
blinded by the whirling snow and
could not see the trail. He gave
BALTIC his head, and BALTIC "came
across" Six hundred and fifty miles
in five and half days, in a raging
blizzard, is the record of that relay
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Buying Art Works.

1t is not surprising that an occa-
sional protest appears against the
sales of English works of art to
Americans when 1T is realized how
many of the treasures of the Old
World find their way across the At
lantic. During the last two years the
sales of works of art to American
purchasers in London have reached
the huge sum of S10,000,e00 annually.
1t is compliment to American taste
in art that the demand seems to be
increasing, and it is usually an Amer
lean bidder who has the last word
before she fall of the hammer.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Foreigners in France
Required to Register

In accordance with Article / of the
decree of October 25 last, all foreign
ers over Is years Of age who intend
to remain in France more than Is
days must apply, within 48 hours of
their arrival, to the police station or
the town hall of their place of resi-
dence in order to obtain an identity
card. This regulation is not to be
stringently enforced in regard to for
eign tourists, who may apply for the
card through the proprietor of their
hotel or boarding house, or through
the family with whom they may be
staying, provided the police are satis-
fed that such proprietor or family is
competent to receive an accurate dec
laration.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
European Railways.

Most European states own and
operate their railroads. And, with
the possible exception of Switzerland
where the rates are Sc high that
passengers ride third class and sit
on bare wooden benches, every one
of them has a railway deficit. The
absurdity of train made up of third
class, wooden-bench coaches and one
Casually empty) mixed first and sec
ond class coach with soft seats is
apparent. State owned and operated
roads cannot be kept out OF politics
and politically operated roads are not
efficiently operated.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
ARE WE CONSISTENT?


|@ ELIGION is becoming more
and more the dominant
thought of thinking peo-
i Pc of the day" This
statement was made to
me by the editor of one of the leading
trade papers of the country. He went
on to say. 1T is very rare thing for
any business gathering to be held
without the dominant note of re-
ligion." Quoting the American Bank
ers' Association he says, "a resolu-
ton was recently adopted to the eff
feet that the supreme need of the
world today is moral and spiritual re-
generation"
In consonance with the above it is
Interesting to notetthat the American
Iron and Steel Institute, a very pow
erful business rganization. has en-
phasized the Importance of religion
through the study of the Bible as one
of the most imperative things to be
considered today.
Only a little over a year ago. at a
meeting of the International Adver-
tising Clubs of the World, held in At
Iantic City some - formal speeches
were made, urging the consideration
of the relation between religion and
business. The editor of the paper above
quoted says that his editorials on re-
ligion in trade journal have called
forth more comm endation than any
thing else he has written
x x x X
1t is interesting to hear these OBJ
servations at time when so much is
being said and heard about the ma
terlalIStic tendencies of the age
Speaking some time ago to one of
the foremost railroad presidents of
the country about the higher ethical
standards in business, he declared
that in the 30 years of his observa-
ton he had witnessed changes indi-
eating finer moral and ethical ideal
and that out of his broad experience
he would say that no single incident
more thoroughly distinguished the
period Of his observation than this
one.
:: = * \.
While business is making marked
progress along ethical and spiritual
lines it would be interesting to dis
cover whether like progress is be-
ing indicated in our domestic and So
clal life. Those of US who are mature
can recall conditions under which we
lived as children, and to many of us
there are sacred memories that cius-
ter about those early experiences.
We may call them conventions home
disciplines or whatever we please, but
they certainly affected in saiutatory
way our conduct and gave definite
form to our characters. 1t would be
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Bolsheviks i'm Berlin.

Politically, even Berlin, whose gov
ernment recognized the union of
soviets years ago, feels that a
bolshevik is a dangerous fellow.
Socially-well, one gets good food at
the soviet embassy. where every
celebration means the opening of a
new tub of caviar of a kind no one
outside of Russia can buy. At these
receptions German aristocrats mingle
with flannel -shirted workmen and
foreign diplomats.
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Flout Equal Rights.

F'renchwomen do not desire equal
political rights with men. They have
to do with housekeeping and
bringing up children and do not want
their lives burdened with political
meetings. So at least said three of
the foremost women, leaders of the
feminist movement in France-the
Duchess dsUzes, Nine. Andre Corthys
and Nine. Colette-at the meeting of
the France-America committee, which
aims at developing friendly relations
between the citizens Of the two coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Cost of Revolution

Final accounts submitted to the
Hungarian National Assembly show
that Count Michael Karolyis revolu-
ton and governorship and the subse-
quent boshevist regime cost Hun
gary no less than 100000 crowns
in the currency of 1919. or over $780,
100000
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Possibly the news about Means.
Forbes and Thompson may not con-
tribute greatly to the equanimity Of
Mr.. Fali-0A0iaaw News-Courier.
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Higher Gas Price
In U. S. Expected

Continued from First Page.)
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Believes Best Hope for Peace
Is Found In Geneva Protocol

Continued from First Page.)
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//@ ELIGION is becoming more
- and more the dominant
N thought of thinking peo-
pc of the day" This
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Stanton lived to make amends. The
young man never had the chance,
though he learned and made humbie
confession of his mistake
He did not learn 1t well enough
however. to avoid repetition.
Twenty or twenty-five years later
he. too. was great" now in his spe-
cialty-he was in New York State
Evening star., 1925-02-08

~ VOW many Jumps, please?"
AS the waiter gently
whispers that query into
i your ear, it has never oc-
cflrraT n rp,,
Evening star., 1925-02-08

l can find you in the best of the
old books, among classical literature
stories so foolish that not even chill
dr.n are Influenced by them. In all
ancient writing we have imagery,
beauty and almost no trace of truth.
We moderns are ridiculous liars, but
not so ridiculous as were the an
clients.