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JAPAN STUDIES
COLONY Plan

TOKYO, March 26.-An apprc-
priation y $4,000 has been set
aside by the 1kasxafuchi Spinning
Company, one Of 80 largest tex
tile concerns IN Japan, - defray
tn expenses of investigating q
tract Of 1880, 900 acres on the
upper reaches of the Amazon. which
has been set sadie by the Brazilian
government for the establishment OF
q Japanese colony in Brazil.
An exhaustive survey OF the tract
will be made to determine what its
resources are, what possibilities OF
development IL possesses and Its
general adaptability az colony
for Japanese emigrants.
Results OF the survey will be
published and made available for
Japanese desiring to Join the
colony.
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U. s. COMMUNIST PARTY
Is. MENAcED BY QUARREL

MOSCOW, March IS. The Aneri'
can Communist party il menaced
by q controversy within the party
between William z. Foster and A.
Ruthenberg. according to state.
nnent zinovieff made today to the
executive committee of the Com.
munist International.
Ruthenberg, zinovieff said. is ad.
vocating the Farmer Labor party
as the vehicle for advancement 81
communism In the United States,
while Foster prefers an exclusive
workers party.
1T seems to me that American
capital IL stronger than English
capital and that American Fedora
ton Of Labor leaders are gang
OF impudent servants Of capitalism. z
declared ZinoviefG.
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DEL EGATIONOF
NEW YORKE
FETED
Representative and Mrs.
Ogden Mills Honor
Colleagues

Representative and Mrs. Ogden
L. Mills entertained at dinner last
evening for the Republican mem.
bers of Congress from New York
and their wives.
Their guests were the Speaker OF
the House and Mrs. Longworta,
Senator James w. Wordsworth, III.
Representative and Mrs. John q.
Tilson, Representative and Mrs.
Robert L. Bacon. Representative
and Mrs. Nathan ID. Perlinan, Rep.
resentative and Mrs. Benjamin l..
Fairchild. Representative and Mrs.
Hamilton Fish. Representative and
Mrs. Harcourt J. Pratt. Represent
tive and Mrs. Frank Crowfher. Ren
resentative and Mrs. Thaddeus
sweet, Representative and Mrs.
Harold 8. Tolley. Representative
and Mrs. Walter w. Maaee. Repa B.
sentative John Taber, Mrs. Taher
and Miss Taber, Gale VI. stalker.
representative and MRS. Wallacs
dempsey Representative Clarence
MacGregor, Representative ! Nav.
hew Wainwright and Representa-.
tive and Mrs. Frederick Nj. Dayen.
port. II
HOSTESSES NAMED FOR
A. Al. U. w. DINNER
Among the hostesses who are
making up tables for the first
annual dinner Of the American AZ.
sociation Of University women to
be held at Rauscher's on saturday
night are Mrs. Howard Nichols, Miss
Marie x. Saunders. Mrs. Samuel
Herrick. Miss Mcmahon, Mrs.
Joshua Evans, Jr., and Miss Mar.
garet White
The president Of the Ideal cl,,h.
Mrs. Frank Wilkins, will preside "a
toast mistress and music wilr IL
furnished by the club orchestra
under the direction Of Mrs, Henry
White. Mrs Frank Howard viii
give q group Of songs. The prin.
cipal address Of the evening viii Be
given by Mrs. Ida Clyde Clark Of
New York, who will speak on.
New Woman Looks at an Old
World" The program vii be con.
cluded by a playlet given BY the
members Of the club entitled -Four
teen. =
The committee in charge OF the
dinner Is made up of past presi.
dents of the College Wonen's Club.
Mrs. Lyman Swormstedt. chairman.
Mrs. William D. Searle, Mrs. Thomas
r. Robertson. Mrs. william b.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Basil M. Manly,
Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff, Mrs. Harrie
Baldwin, Mrs. Thomas Sidwell, Mrs.
Frank Wilkins and Miss Emma Har.
per Turner.
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SOCIETY NEWS
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Continued from Page 81
Representative and Mrs. Samuel b.
Hill, DR.. and Mrs. J. y. Hogan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Tiller. and
Charles Howe and Mrs. Patton Wise
slemp, daughter Of the hosts.
Following the dinner, Mrs. Slenlp.
who IL gifted musician, gave 4
song recital, the program being
made up Of her own compositions.
M
Mrs. William RaWle Shoemaker,
wife Of Rear Admiral Sl1Oernaker,
will sail tomorrow from Norfolk on
the transport Henderson for Cali
fornia. Mrs. Shoemaker, who is Il
sufferer from asthma. finds that
this climate does not agree with
her and will remain on the West
Coast indefinitely.
$50
The Secretary Of the Belgian En-.
bassy and Madame Tilmont enter.
tanned at luncheon today In the
Presidential dining room Of the
Mayflower, their guests being Count
and Countess Pagliano, and the
Secretary OF the Legation of the
Netherland ana Madame Loudon.
"
The Congressional Club will have
az its guests OF honor at the Fri
day afternoon tea Phyllis Price. 30
prano. Durward Bower Cox violin.
ist, and Elizabeth Gardiner COMBS,
accompanied. who will give Q pro
gram Of music.
&AA
The Chief Of Staff and Mrs. Hines
entertained at dinner last evening
In honor Of Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Robert j. Travis, Of Savannah, Ca.
hA
Representative and Mrs. Charles
a. Eaton have with them at the
Wardnan Park Hotel their daugh-
ter. Mrs. Russell Burwell, whose
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Others who WIN be present are
mrs Henry Getty Chiffon. Mrs.
Charles Denby. afrt Henry Cover,
Mrs. q. Leighton, Mrs. Henry
Curtis Morris, Mrs. Edwin HI
Parker. Mrs, Tlaeophiltis Parsons,
Mrs. wallace Radcliffe and Mrs.
Joseph Washingto ton.
group Of attractive girls. well
sknown IA social and art circles here
win act AZ ushers for the recital,
including Miss Mary Bradley, Miss
Ellen Wise Crenshaws Miss Sally
Fsinnev. Miss Harriet Glasgow. Miss
Elizabeth Hartman and Miss
Louise Randolph.
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husband il dean Of Brown Uniyer.
sity.
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Nine. Won Lewinski, wife Of the
German consul general In New
York, win entertain informally, at
dinner this evening
MM
Mrs. Everett Sanders Ii enter
tanning at q tea dance this after
noon in the garden Of the May
flower, when nearly d hundred
guests are expected to be present.
Col. and Mrs. W. II Point have
issued invitations for 4 dinner which
they will give at the Willard on
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GRAVE PETERS
To BE JAILED
= Interuaaaenal News service

NEW BEDFORD. Mass. March
25.-Indignant over Cemetery pet
ters' who make love on the tomb
stones at Rural Cemetery, Mrs.
Alex Tripp. who lives . few yards
from the graveyard, has complained
TO the police.
She asserted that young couples
come every night to the cemetery
after the Waterman goes home
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Debs Sails on Vacation.

NEW YORK. March 2s.Eu.
gene v. Debs. socialist, sailed to.
day for Bermuda for q vacation,
accompanied by Mrs. Dsbs.
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and she requested the police to
arrest the ''love-makers.'
Watch has been set and all.
graveyard lovers will be given cells
in the county Jail.
Evening star., 1926-12-28

seeing but one wagon and two street
'afS in sight from the Capitol to the
Treasury This was years after the
automobile came into general use, too.
In such a city as this there were
two public acts of courtesy toward
women which were universally fol
lowed. The first was getting up to
give a woman q seat on street car,
and the other was taking off ones
hat in an elevator.
These, as all such customs, were
simply graceful acts, first begun by
gentlemen, and found 80 delightful
by all that they permeated the ranks
Of society.
Small boys were taught by their
mothers to offer a lady their seat in
street car, and We're equally trained
to take off their hats in elevators
in which women were riding.
1t almost seems that these were
the two public marks of a Washing
fonian, for there were, even at that
time, but few men who indulged in
hese acts of courtesy in such great
cities as New York and Philadelphia.
In other words, Washington had the
time to be courteous.
Washington was, too, in a sense. a
Southern city. In sense, it still Is,
geographically, at least.
The shrewd Emerson, in his journal
for 1927, said:
mo man has travelled in the United
States from the North to the South
without observing the change and
amelioration of manners. In this
city Charleston, S. Carr it Is most OBJ
servable, the use Of the conventions
Of address among the lower classes,
which are coarsely neglected by the
labouring classes at the North.
sIwo negroes recognize each other
in the street, though both in rags,
and both. it may be, balancing a
burden on their heads, with the same
graduated advances Of salutation that
Well-bred men who are strangers to
each other would use in Boston.
''They do not part before they have
shaken hands and bid goodbye with
an inclination OF the head. There Is
a grace and perfection, too, about
these courtesies which could not be
initiated by Northern labourer
where he designed to be extremely
civil. Indeed, 1 have never seen an
awkward Carolinian."
The leisure for being polite was
Washington's until the World War
then added population, crowded street
t%lI WOAtittIl SQLLA cEC SiIlo u lew OIDSI
factors entered into the case.
The first result of all this was that
Washington men stopped getting up
to give women their seats In the
street cars. Women who never re-
turned thanks for this courtesy also
had something to do with it's aban-
dopment.
A similar, though slower, movement
is taking place in the National Capital
with regard to this business of re-
moving ones hat in an elevator when
woman steps in.
Today there are many men, polite
enough in other respects, who simply
refuse to remove their hats in such
confined cars unless the lady in ques-
ton is personally known to them.
There has been. as yet, however,
| no general abandonment of the Gus
tom, and we predict that 1t will die
| hard. Although foolish, it is, forsooth,
a graceful courtesy one of the few
lingering acts Of chivalry remaining
in most unchivalrous age
When 1t passes entirely, as we be-
iieve 1t will, women as wage earners
will have won another victory, but
women as women suffered another
loss.
Evening star., 1926-12-28
The Voice of the Sun.

There may be some comfort for
radio fans who have been bothered
in their reception by static interfer.
ence in the statement by DIR. Michael
L. Pupin at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science that the howls
and squeaks that break In upon the
broadcasters are, in fact, voices from
the sun. DR.. Pupin declares that the
time will come when not only men
VIII be speaking to men all over the
world by radio, but that the earth it.
self and also the sun will be speaking
TO men by means of electrical com.
munications. 'and men will under.
stand the message" This, he believes.
will come within a quarter of a
century.
This is not merely speculation by
the eminent physicist, but is the re.
suit Of series Of observations. He
has. he says, already watched on his
instruments the arrival Of these cos.
mic messages. The earth currents in
transatlantic cables and the fading"
OF radio messages rise and fall very
slowly. taking hours and hours to
complete a cycle" DR.. Pupin says 1t
is like watching the deliberate and tr.
resistible breathing of O cosmic giant
and he believes that this pulsation is
due to a constant, slow, rhythmic
change in the electrical relations be.
tween the sun and the earth.
This is theory now, but the next
generation, DR.. Pupin says, will know
for a certainty. His confidence is
based upon the extraordinary advance
that has been made in electric com
munication during the past twenty
ive years. 1t is this confidence tha,
has already produced marvels OF
science which are now commonplaces
The first skepticism regarding the pos
sioility of etheric transmissions has
been succeeded by assurance. Mer
have wrought wonders in laboratorie.
through their faith in the possibilit,
OF accomplishing what only few dec
ades ago was deemed the impossible
The project Of talking with Mars
has been whimsically suggested OF
several occasions Of late. In view o
DR.. Pupin's prophecy. which is no
10 be regarded as a mere fantasy o.
Evening star., 1926-12-28

a better chance of safety by sticking
to the ship. Now the situation Is
changed. Parachutes have saved
many lives and they have even
brought unguided planes to earth
without serious accident.
No one. not even an aviator. con-
templates with indifference a jump
into space with only frail "um-
brella" to save him from destruction,
and so 1t Is unlikely that the men,
hership OF the new club will grow
at a rapid rate. 1t is easy, however,
to visualize a more perfected chute
and more perfect plane. Then pos
sibly the club will become so large
that 1t will be necessary to split 1t
into sections so that the members
may not lose their individuality, al
though even Mt that time there will
be little competition for membership
and very small waiting list
Evening star., 1926-12-28
A Year of Heavy Water Losses.

This waning year Is continuing its
record for water disasters in the
United States. Several States in the
southern Mississippi Valley are suf-
fering from foundations that have al
ready taken a toll of twelve lives and
people homeless. The damage tp prop
erty is not yet reckoned, for the foods
are continuing. Rain is still falling
, over a great part of the area. and
while there has been some subsidence
| in the smaller streams. the larger
rivers are rising and 1t Is possible that
the devastation will increase.
That section Of the country has
and countless damage has been in
fiicted. Sometimes the floods come In
the Spring after the melting of the
SHOWS. but more often they result
from heavy and protracted rainfall.
The Mississippi itself, into which all
these streams flow. has wrought an
enormous damage. Vast sums have
been expended in the raising Of its
banks for the protection Of the lands
through which It flows. and even with
these precautions the Father Of
Waters" breaks through the dikes
and the levees and spreads over miles
of territory.
Much Of this flood damage in the
Mississippi Valley is due to the de.
forestation Of the higher lands form
ing the great watershed. The strip
ping OF the hills has prevented the
absorption of the moisture by the
tree-protected soils so that the rain
fall rushes down into the rivulets, the
brooks and the small rivers in heavier
volume than their banks can hold.
Concentrating at their junction with
the larger streams, these torrents can
find no outlet save over the banks
and into the fields Of the lowlands.
The soil itself is quilted by these rush.
ing waters and sitting down into the
watercourses the earth chol1es their
beds and renders them less capable
of carrying of the natural drainage.
Repeatedly 1t has been urged that
the States Of the freshet region un-
dertake the reforestation of the hills
as a precaution against floods. But
little has been done to this end.
Prodigal waste Of timber continues
without thought for the price that Is
paid in terms Of ruined farms and
damaged towns and cities. Expendi-
ture Of only a small fraction of the
food cost in reforestating operations
would prevent the greater part Of
these losses.
| In some cases the rainfall Is too
| heavy for even a well forested land to
hold In safety. Protracted heavy
downpours viii I'LL any stream beyond
capacity. This year there has been
exceptionally heavy rainfall in Ger.
tain sections Of the country. with nu-
| merous foods, and 1t would seem now
that the year will close with a con.
! sistent record of losses by water
which. IL they could be totaled, would
reach into the hundreds Of millions.
Evening star., 1926-12-28

forming OF the drug habit at its source
has been little, If any, more effective.
Although the Federal Government has
attempted to prevent habit forming
drugs from falling into the hands of
any but persons legally authorized to
have them, great Illicit traffic
goes on
"The announcement that a. pro.
longed test has proved an efficacious
treatment for drug addiction must be
hailed as promising redemption for
thousands of the worlds most unfor.
tunate men and women" says the
Dallas Journal. "The only question
remaining, according to the report
from the commissioner Of correc,
ton, Is that which relates to the
permanency of the effect Of narcosan.
But temporary relief is a very def.
mite step toward permanent relief.
and the treatment at it's present
stage OF development. If widely EN-.
ployed, should prove a boon to affiict.
ed and perverted humanity. In dine
course of time, it might so prove its
worth as to rid the country of one
of its greatest evils and provocatiyes
to crime. There is hope In the out.
look for both the drug addict and
the Nation
y
Quoting the report that "of S66
drug addicts treated with narcosan.
but one resumed the use Of narcotics
after being discharged as cured" the
Dayton Daily News states: IF that
percentage can be maintained. then
narcosan is to be classed as a god.
send. If but one-half of those treated
are permanently cured, it is O. blessing
to humanity
The Worcester Post is impressed nv
the fact that while no rash claims
are made Of permanent cure. there
Is evidence that narcosan restores
the patient to normal condition
generally, leaving him as little desire
for narcotics as the ordinary, healthy
individual. To that extent it appears
TO be permanent cure, and superior
to all previous methods along the
line Of reduction cures"
The head of the Pittsburgh Police
Bureaus anti-narcotic squad Is quoted
by the Sun Of that city as Offering
the belief that dope fiends will be
glad to avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to be cured: that thus there
is hope that If the new medicine full.
fills expectations. 1t may be possible
to relieve the taxpayers Of part of
the enormous burden that Is involved
in combating the drug traffic and
the crimes that are committed by per
sons crazed by dope"
Evening star., 1926-12-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES +. TRACEWELL.

Dear Sir: Having noted in your al
ways interesting column a. certain
observation-disclosures and willingness to
penetrate into the hidden mysteries of
human conduct, not to mention feline
felictties, / am moved to ask your
help in a matter that has given me
many mystifytng moments.
Il refer to the largely prevailing
custom here in Washington. though
by no means universal one. for men
ON entering an elevator In which a
woman Is riding to remove their hats,
or to do so in the event that a woman
enters the elevator while they are
riding in it. Having formerly re-
sided in New York and also for a
time in Philadelphia. in neither of
which cities it is ut all common for
men to perform this presumed act Of
chlvalrous courtesy toward the female
OF the species. 1t was quite natural
that | should note the prevailing
custom in this regard here in Wash
ington.
But, having noted the fact, l found
myself trying to fathom the basis OF
the custom, which to my mind had
little OF logic or common sense to rec
ommend It. The same men who sub
scribed punctiliously to this rite in
the narrow and crowded space Of an
office or store elevator are not at all
averse to wearing their hats in the
corridors of the building in the COM
pany of women or in public vehicles,
such as street cars and busses.
What, then. is the guiding motif
OF this act Of presumed courtesy,
often performed religiously by men
who continue to smoke in the faces
Of their fair elevator companions?
Also l could not help noticing that
IT the woman in given elevator hap
pened to be old or poorly dressed the
act was more likely honored In it's
neglect, while never, or rarely ever,
have l seen hats removed in favor of
Colored woman, however well
dressed or well hammered.
IF you look at the matter from the
standpoint of the present Wintry pc
riod. there is much against the Gus
tom from the standpoint Of health,
as elevators are often extremely
drafty, and barred heads may mean
colds. Then in the crush of crowded
department store elevators mere
economy Of space would suggest the
advantage Of keeping hats on the
heads rather than to carry them In
the hand, with the added danger of
having them crushed.
"These are only a few of the
phases of this problem which I wish
that you might illuminate to the ad-
vantage of the progressive and think.
ing readers in your large and grow
ing audience.
Very sincerely yours. E. s. P"
This is a problem in which courtesy
and fooliShness are so tneXtricably
wound that 1t is difficult to discuss
the subject.
The case against taking off ones
hat in an elevator is so well stated
in the excellent letter of our CORE
spondent that it Is scarcely possible
to add to it.
We may, however, look into the
public social customs of the National
Capital. which, until the World War,
was unique city. A real city, in
every respect, 1t yet reminded many
of a large village.
There was a certain ease Of getting
around, a tendency toward taking
ones time, that smacked Of the old
home town.
The writer can recall--it does not
seem nor was 1t very many years
ago-standing on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. one hot Summer afternoon, and
Evening star., 1926-12-28
An Exclusive Club.

The smallest and most exclusive
club in the world has Just been
formed. AS time goes on the mem.
bership will doubtless be much
larger than 1t is at present, yet 1t
is hardly possible that any one will
deliberately attempt to become a
member. This club is known as the
Caterpillar Club, and in order to
qualify an aviator must save his life
by landing with a parachute from a
disabled airplane.
There are now twenty-five or
thirty members in the organize tion
which was created by the ..rmy
Air Service at McCook Field, L1yton
Ohio. One of the members is q
three timer, that is. he has thrice
qualified. while one Of his buddies ts
two timer. These intrepid pilots
form the nucleus of the club.
It was not so long ago when
parachutes were looked upon as q
nuisance by flyers. They were un-
reliable and. In case of accident. the
pilot invariably believed that he stood
Evening star., 1926-12-28
Missing Stop Signs.

Traffic Director Eldridge Is alleged
to have complained that bootleggers
were stealing the stop signs at inter.
sections of boulevard streets SO that
they would be unimpeded in their fast
trips with Christmas cargoes. Regard
less OF whether Mr.. Egdridge did ex-
press himself in this manner, some
one. bootlegger, butcher, baker or
candiestick maker, is responsible for
! the lack OF stop signs at Massachu.
setts avenue and Twentieth street and
at Massachusetts avenue and Twenty
first street. Whether or not there
were ever curb signs at these points
is a moot question, but there were
certainly signals painted on the street
which served as stop signs. These,
alas and alack, are no more. Just
why these particular points should
have been selected for removal Is
undetermined. because neither in
tersection would appear to tempt
the sign stealer. They are entirely
too public, and, besides, there are
plenty Of freshly painted stop sig-
nails In the suburban districts, which,
IL person Is SO inclined, can be stolen
every day in the week without much
chance Of molestation.
These signs at Twentieth and Twen.
ty-first streets have been missing for
some time. In the beginning of the
boulevard era in Washington, they
were almost the first to be placed,
and they stood out like lighthouses on
rocky coast. Their absence, there
fore, is keenly felt by the citizenry,
and there Is hardly a dry eye among
the thousands Of motorists who pass
these points in their daily pilgrimages
up and down town when they note
the now bare corners.
OF course, it will not be long now
before this section of Massachusetts,
avenue will be resplendent with the
automatic control signals, in continual
ton Of the system extending at. the
present time to Eighteenth street, but
in the meantime the little stop signals
should be put back to control traffic
at these two important intersections.