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Evening star., 1926-02-14
GERMAN STEEL MERGER SHOWN
IN FALSE LIGHT BY NEWSPAPERS

of which the United States made %
per cent.
The manner in which the news of
this German combination is given re
calls the somewhat sensational treat
ment of certain Belgian sales of pig
iron in this country last year. The
total estimated pig iron capacity Of
Belgium is $500 600 tons and its steel
making capacity is rated the same.
Nothing in the news report indicates
that the capacity of the German
works which are being brought under
one management will be increased
The reports say that the object is TO
secure economies in operation and in
selling costs which will enable them
to operate more regularly. and. of
course, these. if accomplished. may
lead to enlargements of capacity.
If prosperity returns To Europe il is
probable that the iron and steel ca
pacity Of all European countries VIII
be fully occupied in meeting the home
demands. together with the share OF
world trade which has been accuston-
ed to go to those countries. In no
event is European competition likely
to make much of dent on the iron
and steel business of the United
States.
1t is unfortunate that the language
or warfare is so readily used in de
scribing ordinary business movements
and developments, and especially
where competitors are of different
countries. The expansion of the Beth
lehem Steel Corporation in recent
years has been far more important to
the steel industry of this country than
this German combination, but it lack
ed the dramatic suggestion of interna-
tional rivalry. The habit of treating
business news as war news when com
petitors are of different nations illus
trateS the psychology which makes
for war. There is no reason why rivals
of different nations should not com
pete like rivals of the same nation
without getting whole nations stirred
up with mutual antagonisms
Evening star., 1926-02-14
BY DAVID BELASCQ.

RefOrmerS-partiCula those whose
idea of grand opera is the sound of
their own voiceS-are hammering
away still on the question of the
immortality of women's garb." Prob
ably no more silly issue could be
raised, particularly if we will view
the topic from the standpoints Of art,
health and the moral effect.
From these three standpoints / am
lined up irrevocably with the mod
ernistS in the matter of women'S
dress. Who can say that long sleeves,
high collars and dragging skirts are
healthier than the present free-swing.
ing, ozone admitting dresses? The
very worst critics of women's dress
are the same persons who howl long
and dolefully if some one suggests
shutting the bedroom windows at
night. They seek fresh air for their
own bodies and would deny the same
daytime boon to women-merely be-
cause these latter are women.
Modern medical science has proved
beyond all question of doubt that the
greater areas of the body available
for the beneficent rays of the sun
and the action of the fresh air tn
greater the possibility of health
strength and happiness for the indi-
vidual. Therefore it would seem,
from the health standpoint alone,
that women are dressing more sensi-
bly, than ever before.
The new styles have taken from
women's heads the vast accumula-
tions of hair which tended to head
aches and nervousness. Corsets have
been relega ed to the limbo of hoop
skirts and bustles, and clothing is
Iooser. The result is that there is
less construction Of the organs and a
vastly bettered circulation of the
11np6
Evening star., 1926-02-14
BY GEORGE +. ROBERTS.

The newspapers have carried the
news of a new combination of iron,
steel and coal properties in Germany
in a manner which is misleading and
unfortunate in some respects. II has
been announced under headlines and
with comments which convey the idea
that the new organization is iormed
to make a great drive in foreign mar.
ketS and that it is likely To be a men
ace to the iron and steel industry of
this country.
The cable dispatch TO the New York
Times says that the trusts annual
production at full capacity will be
so 900 900 tons of coal. 100000 tons
of coke. $500 900 tons of pig iron and
100000 tons of steel" According to
these figures the combined iron and
steel capacity will almost exactly
equal that of the Youngstown Steel
and Tube Co. of Youngstown. Ohio,
| which, according to the statistics of
the American Iron and Steel Institute
has an annual capacity of 3,053 ,000
tons of pig iron and 3,240.000 tons of
steel. The annual capacity of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation is given
by the same authority as $3.50. .O00
| tons of pig iron and 1900, 600 tons of
steel, and of the United States Steel
Corporation as 1S.933.200 tons of pig
iron and 23,337 500 tons of steel. The
theoretical capacity of all pig iron
furnaces of this country is given by
the institute as 50,500.000 gross tons,
and allowing for necessary repairs
etc, the practical capacity is esti-
mated at 45,000,000 tons. In steel the
total theoretical capacity is estimated
at 56000,000 tons and the practical
capacity at $4,000, 900 tons.
The total world, production of pig
iron in 1925 is estimated by the Iron
Trade Review of Cleveland at 75,509,-
900 tons. of which the United States
made 4S per cent, and the world :
production of steel at SS.964 900 tons
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Belasco Defends Women's Carb
Of Today as Boon to Femininity
Copyright. 1920

From the moral standpoint, I as
sert the new garb is of distinct ad-
vantage. So long as women were
mysterious through the trappings
with which we concealed her charms,
just so long she represented what
might he termed delicious sin" in
the minds of the lascivious. Stripped
of these trappingS and frankly
healthy, happy and honest human be-
ing, she ceases to be mysterious and
her intangible appeal to the neurotic
is done away with. We surrounded
her with a false set of circumstances
and a false atmosphere. Today we
greet her as. at the age of -. we
greeted our feminine playmat e S,
rankly and as a worthwhile chum
Certainly from the artistic stand
point woman is more beautiful today
than in the days of trains, leg of NUT
ton sleeves and bustles. There is no
greater beauty than the human form
a fact realized by the great sculptors
of the ages. And familiarity with it's
lines breeds healthy, normal admira-
ton without that sullying thought
which comes from the chance glimpse
of a Shapely limb otherwise hidden
under the garb of prudery.
l believe there is limit past which
we must not go in the effort to be
normal, frank and clean, but / pre-
dict now that out of what the re-
formers call immortality" will come
new morality born of frank inter-
mingling of the sexes without pru-
dery-and without too great license.
The world moves and, moving, brings
new things. Frankness is honesty.
Concealment is an urge to wrong
thinking. Our womenfolk of today
are no better nor worse than their
grandmothers-bu they are trying
to reach their rightful plane of chum-
ship. rather than slavery, with their
menfolks.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-02-14

A thermometer stuck in the mouth
is not an accurate index of the aver
age temperature of the body, expert
ments at the University of Pennsyl-
vania have shown. BY taking the
temperature deep in his own body and
in those of a dozen assistants, Prof
H. c. Bazett has found that the mus
cles of the arms and thighs under nor
NAL room conditions are two or three
degrees below the temperatures of the
mouth. This means that the average
body temperature is not what is usually
inferred, since many portions are
colder than the mouth reading. When
feeling cold, as after a cold bath, for
example, the muscles may be six or
more degrees colder than the mouth
temperature.
The data were secured by sinking
special hypodermic needles into the
arms and legs of the observers, often
to a depth of an inch. At the points
of the needles were thermocouples.
permitting the temperatures to be read
on the scale of a galvanometer to
within one-fiftieth of degree in much
the same way that furnace temper
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Difference in Temperature of Muscle
And Skin Cause Hot or Cold Feeling

atures are taken by electrical devices.
BY this technic curves were plotted
of the gradation in temperature from
the surface of the skin into the
muscles corresponding to different
mouth temperatures. The records
were made with the subject expert
encino comfort or discomfort due to
change in surroundings, or due to pro-
Ionged exposure to an atmosphere too
warm or too rold.
Whether one feels hot or cold de-
pends solely on the steepness of the
temperature curve from the surface
into the deeper regions of the body,
Prof. Bazett said If there Is little in
crease from skin to muscle, the SEN
sation of warmth is experienced. On
the other hand, if the temperature is
increasing sharply as measurements
are taken deeper into the tissues, then
one will feel cold.
In this fashion the psychologist ex-
plains on purely physical grounds the
sensation of warmth after cold
shower bath. when the temperature
is actually down. The psychological
element does not enter. according to
Prof BaZett..
Evening star., 1926-02-14
The Story the Week Has Told

by newspapers. patriotic societies
groups especially organized for the
purpose. and individuals. ostenSibiy
in protest against alleged brutal treat
ment by the Fascist government of
the German-speaking inhabitants of
Southern Tyrol. This district. previ-
ouSly for long centuries subject 10
the Austrian crown, was 10y the
treaty OF St German assigned to
Italy. chiefly in order to give her
command Of the Brenner Pass.
Its $50. 900 inhabitants are mostly
German-spealling, though Mussolini
claims that 10000 of them are Ger
inanized Italians. However that may
be- it was quite natural however it
might be unjustifiable in the view of
abstract justiCe) that the Fascist gov
ernment should institute Il strong
Inflammation policy in that district.
Apparently that policy applied chief
ly to the SchoolS) has of late months
been enforced more Sternly than be-
fore because of resistance fomented
tor so the Italians very Credibly
asSert) from without the district; but,
according TO Mussolini. quite with
out violence ,or brutality. The anti
Italian agitation in Germany had
been chiefly of Il Nationalist bouquet
and had gone the length of an in
cipient boycott (chiefly in Bavaria>
against importations from Italy, and
of a movement toward omission of
Italy from the itineraries of German
tourists.
The Italians were we'll justified in
resenting this German behavior on
sundry grounds. as:
% The Germans. with their rec
ord in Poland and Alsace- Lorraine,
are of all peoples in the weakest po-
sition for criticiZing a strong ''assim-
ilation'' policy;
(2) The Southern Tyrolese had been
Austrian, not German, subjects. and
it was the part of Austria, not Ger
many. to take up the cudgels on
their behalf if they were really being
maltreated;
go Germany had been treated with
unusual consideration by Italy since
the war;
(4l And chiefly all this agitation
was in the main insincere; its grand
object being, not to ameliorate the
lot of the Southern Tyrolese, but to
conciliate Austrian gratitude by
championing them and so to strength
en- the movement in Austria for
union with Germany. SO at least
the Italians interpreted. and. no
doubt, correctly. 1t should be marked
that there is. of course, no moral
turpitude involved in the German
desire for German-Austrian union,
but present agitation to that end is
dangerous to European peace. 1t
will be some time ere Italy and the
reich can safely be neighbors.
Well for the reasons above stated.
bad blood between Germany and
Evening star., 1926-02-14

Italy had long been brewing A
fortnight or 50 ago Italian crowds
demonstrated against the Germa n
embassy in Rome and German con
sulates in several Italian cities. with.
out serious results. however. thanks
to the efficiency of the Fascist police.
For many months Mussolini had re-
manned calm under great provocation.
But when the President of the Ba-
Earian Landtag. in answer to an in
terpellation. indulged in fierce in
vective against the Fascist policy in
Southern Tyrol. that was the last
straw.
Addressing the Italian Camera.
Mussolini let himself go: his pent-up
wrath found expression in such a
TRADE as seldom has issued from the
lips of responsible statesmen.
Now. as shown above. Mussolini
had very just cause of resentment.
He had sufficient grounds for strong
representations to the reich govern
ment.
He might even be forgiven for
suspecting that the anti-Italian agi-
tation was regarded with complacency
by that government. But he coulu
not be justified in acting on mere
suspicion: worse than that, it appears
that he had information that Strese-
mann, the German minister of foreign
affairs. had officially deprecated the
agitation. and he had no right, with
out sure proofs. to impugn that gen
tleman's honesty. Nevertheless he
let himself go, concluding as follows:
Italy is ready, if necessary. to
carry her flag beyond her present
frontiers (the Brenner Pass, but
back. never"
Thus he delivered himself into the
hands of the willy Stresemann.
Commenting on Mussolini's speech
to the Reichstag, Stresemann, dis
avowed on behalf of his government
all sympathy or connection with the
antiItalian agitation and all unfriend-
Illness toward Italy. He pointed out
that DR.. Held was not competent to
speak for the reich government. He
admitted that Mussolini had occasion
for feeling sore, but asserted that the
democratic German government had
no means of controlling unofficial
manifestations of sympathy by Ger
man citizens for Germans under alien
rule. And now he proceeded to score
off Mussolini Mussolini, he declared
had wantonly threatened the peace
Of Europe. Were Germany in the
league she would appeal the matter
under articles XI, and XII of the cove
nant.
That was a home thrust. The next
day Mussolini again addressed the
Camera. II confirm" said he, "in
the spirit and in the letter my former
speech, including the final allustion to
the tri-color on the Brenner Pass,
which Stresemann may interpret as
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Hunger Is Real Pain. Within Stomach.
Tests With A-Ray and Balloons Show

Hunger is pain, according to DR.. -.
T. Rogers, at Baylor University. at
Dallas. Tex, who has succeeded in TAX
ing an X-ray snapshot of his own
stomach at the instant when he was
experiencing sharp pangs of hunger.
Investigation under DR.. A. J. Carl
son of the University of Chicago had
proved that the stomach undergoes a
violent contraction, lasting nearly a
minute, when the gnawing sensation
is felt following fasting. This was
shown by the insertion into the stom-
ach of a rubber balloon. joined by a
tube leading up the guIIet to pres
sure gauge, At the instant the sink
ing feeling came on hungry subject
the pressure rose, indicating the bal
loon was squeezed as the walls of the
stomach tapped together.
Now DIR. Rogers has analyzed the
process. using a new X-ray technic
which enables him to photograph the
air in the stomach and in the balloon
lowered into it.
''The hunger contractions differ
Evening star., 1926-02-14

from the movements of the stomach
during digestion" DR.. Rogers ex-
planned. when food is in the stom
ach a construction starts about half
way. and passes downward, thereby
moving the contents along.
But in the case of a hunger spa sm
there is circular contraction of the
lower two-fifths of the stomach, which
shrinks like a Debated balloon.
The photographs reveal that the
hungry stomach is drawn upward.
frequently right under the ribs
The hunger convulsions cease when
ever solid or liquid. even water, enters
the stomach. This fact complicated
the taking of the X-ray pictures, since
barium sulphate or bismuth subnitrate,
commonly put in the stomach to make
it Opaque to the X-ray, would also
stop the sought-for contractions.
THE hunger contractions are more
pronounced in infants than in adults
said Prof. Rogers. Children cry when
they are hungry because they are, In
deed, in pain
Evening star., 1926-02-14

WHIPPED in spirit and truth, and tn
whole world changed.

WHIPPED in spirit and truth, and the
whole world changed.
X X X 4
In 1000 years another civilization
has come upon US in the Western
world which has dramatized the great
truth so casually announced at Jacobs
we'll near Bethlehem, that God lis a
Spirit and shall be worshiped in spirit
and truth. How foolish to quibble
about the miracles Of the man who
made this profound discovery. The
miracle of a new civilization, of a new
relation between men, of a new atti-
tude of life, the slow intrusion Of al
truism into the heart of man, and the
ways and works of man is a vaster
miracle than any which the Bible rec
ords; a miracle which is growing in
power, growing in certainty every day
of our lives. The stories that were
necessary to carry this truth to the
hearts of men, the fables, parallels,
the wonder tales and hero myths. had
their need, filled their need, still have
their need, still fill their need. For
there are still upon this globe all sorts
and conditions of man. But, because
one man needs these short material
steps to faith-idols, images, miracles
and hero tales-and another man rises
from a higher plane to a nobler faith
is no reason why the lower steps
should be destroyed: no reason why
either should distrust the others
journey toward the truth.
X X 4 x
Even the wisest of us are far from
the truth. far from understanding
even hint of the great mystery that
is life.
In all this new age where we are
swapping aside many ancient physical
bonds, we have discovered much, but
alas-we can explain nothing. Life
| Is as mysterious to the wsest biolo-
gist, rs incomprehensible to the great
| est physicist as it is to the savage. If
| the savage needs his idol and his
| folk lore to bolster his faith. surely
! the scientist with all his libraries and
all his laboratories needs also some
| symbol-perhap as humble in the
sight Of God as the craven image of
the avage-some symbol by which he
may realize his faith.
Ny religion accepts the unsolved
mystery of life and the inexplicable
force behind the mystery of life-the
unplumbed wisdom beyond our keen
est senses: the truth beyond even our
kindest hearts. Ny faith would deny
no story that would help the darkest
mind. My faith would fear no adven-
ture into the vast depths of a ma
terial universe nor into the vaster
| regions of spiritual truth.
Copyright 1926
Evening star., 1926-02-14

| he likes. but which Italians interpret
in the sense that Italy will never sub
! NIT TO The violation of treaties OF
peace which guarantee their frontiers
| conquered at such a heavy price of
! blood"
Quite so. MuSSolini confirms and
retrdcts. all in a breath. The retrac e.
tion's the thing. The threat is with
drawn and all's well. After all, the
episode was worth while.
1t illustrates the virtues of coolneSS
and fineness. Mussolini had reason =
but blinded by passion. abandoned his
guard StreSemann, cool as YOU make
EN-. disarmed him at discretion. The
atmosphere. however. seems to be
cleared The German agitation ap-
| pears to- have died down over night.
and Mussolini has gone on vacation.
! = = = ):
nited States OF America.-The
anthracite coal strike was ended Fri
day by written agreement. The
miners won on the grand issue, the
operators abandoning their demand
tor compulsory arbitration Work is
to be resumed at once under Tho
| terms of the recently expired con
| tract. which is to continue in force
until August 81. 1880. subject TO mod
vided in the agreement.
On Friday night the Senate passed
its taX-reduction bill. and House and
Senate bills have gone to conference
The Senate bill calls for total tax
reduction of S4o6, ,26l 900: l. e., slO3,-
100000 more than the Senate finance
committee recommended and S129.-
100000 more than the total of the
House bill. The Senate voted aboli-
ton of Federal estate taxes and tax
publicity. It should be noted that
Secretary Mellon estimates the Treas
ury surplus at $3.50 100000.
| The reply of the Mexican govern
ment to the latest note of our Gov
ernment in the controversy over the
new Mexican land and petroleum
legislation was delivered to our am
bassador at Mexico City on Friday.
| must omit notice concerning GER
tain interesting details in the con-
troversy as to how the Aluminium
| Company of America is TO be dealt
with and as to whether or no the
Department of Justice is to have a
| black eye in that connection, also
concerning the ferocious onslaughts
of the Department of Justice on mo-
nopolieS. near-monopolieS, alleged
monopolies and would-be monopolies
in the baking line.
MiScellaneus.-The total damage in
| Belgium from the recent floods is
estimated at the equivalent of $780,
000 900. Four hundred houses in
Liege were destroyed and a good part
of the town will have to be rebuilt.
The Belgian Chamber has voted re-
, duction of peace-time service with
, the colors to 10 months
Germany has submitted applica-
j ton. without reservations or condi-
, tions, for admission to the League of
Nations. There is to be a special
! (skeleton) League Assembly meeting
| on March s to consider the applica-
tions, and it is expected that Ger
many will be represented on the
council at its March meeting.
| The German minister of finance
| puts the number of German unem.
| ployed on February 1 at 100000.
; Germany has regained second place
! in the production of pig iron and
steel.
| The first meeting of a prepara tory
commission which is to pave the way
for an international economic confer
| ence under the auspices of the League
| of Nations will be held in Geneva
| April 26.
Evening star., 1926-02-14

q OMETHING started it. The
thing just didn't begin and
grow more and more complex
without a push, plan and a
purpose. Back of all the mar
velous phenomena we are discov-
ering were the laws that work these
things. Back of civilization. back OF
man, back of animal life, back of
protoplasm, back of the nebula. back
of the motion itself that was lin the
beginning" The procession of hfe
couldn't start and keep going with
out impulse, nor move from nothing
without direction. Suppose it is me-
chanicS. all of it: the nebula, the life
plasnl, the early manifestations of life,
the man. and the consciousness of
man and of all the works of man.
Whak does that lead to?
The thing that generated The force.
the plan of the mechanical appliance
which has produced all of these mex
plicable phantasmagoria that, for
want Of Il better word, we call life
the original purpose-had to be great
er than the thing it produced. Yet it
had also to be Of a kind with the thing
it produced. If a man had conscious
ness. the thing that produced man
must have the same and probably a
quicker consciousness. The attributes
of the human mind are not greater
than the attributes of the thing which
started the works that produced the
human mind. obviously. we have not
yet reached the outer border of the
capacities Of the human mind. SO
certainly we have not defined the
force or purpose that produced the
human mind; which is only another
and clumsier way of saying. Who
shall find out the ways of the Most
High?"
!: !. - j
When We assume that something
started ii and gave to life a purpose
and an intelligence. and so a person
ality broader than our own. we must
conclude that the something was
Some One,
And we must naturally presume
that the Some one had what we know
as identity. That Some One was
something outside ourselves develop
ing the ever-changing. ever widening
spirit of life with certain areas of free
will. with vast opportunities for
choice. That impelling something
that Of logical necessity must be Some
One. in the long run of the cons makes
or pushes the plan TO its perfection.
Having said all this. how much bet
ter it was said by Jesus sitting on the
we'll curb talking to the woman Of
Samaria, lady really no better than
she should be. when he exclaimed:
Evening star., 1926-02-14
Only 1851 Found Suitable.

1t was recently announced that as
applicants for positions as telephone
operators in the British post office
service only 1851 girls We're found
suitable. Among the principal causes
for applicants being turned down were
defective or slovenly speech, undesir-
able accent and bad spelling.