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Evening star., 1927-05-01
Huge Python Invades
Filipino Senate Hall

The new Philippine legislative build
ing is so high, mighty and pretentious
that it has drawn even the attention
Of the largest pythons in the city.
Only the other day one of the; snakes,
- feet long, all but succeeded in
crawling into the vaulted hall Of the
Senators and making its rendezvous in
the ceiling. There was a policeman
al the door. and a guard. too, but
they had ended their nightly checker
g~me and dozad off. The prowling
p.thon had no fear of them thus
sharing the general view Of the COM
munity. But q cop off duty strolled
by from the adjacent precinct station
OH his belated way home. lie saw the
snake and ran back TO the station for
reserves. When they arrived on the
scene the distracted python, not know
ing where 10 strike, lay coiled in in.
decision until lucky blow from n
cops nightstick caved' in its head.
Then the half dozen cops took brave
hold on all sides and carried the dead
snake into the lookup.
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us is under water" has been the
slogan Of each community. The War
Department estimates that the gradual
increase OF levees along the river has
continued until they now encompass
100000 OF the 10000, 900 acres of
natural overflow land This vast area
heretofore has acted as reservoirs dur
ing the floods, storing water which
ran out gradually during the Summer
sea- son. Deprived of this the Missis
Sippi now and then goes on rampage
with the resultant disaster.
Another contributing factor to the
floods is the denuding of the country
side of forestation, the American Tree
Association brings out as a lesson"
in it's Forest week announcements
The association points out the great
floods in China as an example of the
loss Of forests, which act as sponges
in retaining the rainfall.
The reservoir plan. which made safe
the Miami River in Ohio after the
disastrous Dayton flood, would be an
other matter on the Mississippi. The
flood flow is so tremendous that it is
even doubtful whether enough land
could be acquired for reservoirs or the
reservoirs made strong enough to be
floodproof. In this connection it is
pointed out that the Mississippi is sub.
icct to two normal "oyerflows" each
year, generally known as the January
and June rises.
The present levee system. it has
been demonstrated, can take care OF
these rises from the Mississippi sys-
tenn proper 1t is only when the Ohio
system also goes on a rampage and
the two rises meet at the mouth of
the Ohio that the real danger comes.
The United States Weather Bureau,
wkieh has charged of flood forecasts
and maintains malF river stations III
connection with Weather forecasting,
announces that the present flood was
Evening star., 1927-05-01
BY. l.. c. EVERARD,
II 9 I71raa3 Eor,-,r,

A forest is much more than a piece
of land covered by many trees, 1t is
a. plant society. one might almost
say a plant city, where the inhabi-
tants are so closely crowded TO-
gether that they affect each others
size, shape, growth and chance of
life.
In one sense a forest should be
the delight Of the eugenist. Only the
big, fine aristocrats of the forest
participate in the reproduction Of the
race: for only what the forester calls
dominant trees--those that have
thrust their heads above the crowd
where light and air are plentiful
produce seed, In another sense the
forest is both a cruel and an unsocill
community; for the young get only
what is left over of light, the great
est life-giving necessity of tree,
after the parents have taken all they
can. Young trees in the forest must
come up under the shade of the big
ones and all the light they get is
what filters through the crowns of
their elders. They must grow. if they
can. in a natural damp cellar on
meager light and soil rations.
Result of Growth in Open Space.
A tree grown in the open without
shaped trunk throughout its height;
one grown in the forest has a cylin-
drical trunk. The open-grown tree
has branches on about two-thirds of
its trunk; the forest grown tree has
branches on only about One-third %
its trunk. Both the shape of the
trunk and the kind Of crown Of the
forest tree are the result of the fight
for light that goes on all the time.
W "a c1o fNos-
they cut off the light from each
others lower branches. Each one
keeps reaching up for the light and
he result is long. straight, cylindrical
trunks, good fc- Hmber.
The same Cznt that goes on above
ground for hight also goes on under
ground for soil nourishment and
moisture. The most terrific competi-
tion imaginable i'm a city is as moth
ing compared to the competition in a
forest. a tree community that he
gins with from $4,000 to $50 900 young
to the acre may be reduced to about
$50 by the time the trees reach ma
turity. II is q case Of conquer or die.
Only the best adapted trees are
able 10 reach the goal Of maturity.
And the survival Of the fittcst. gen
er>tion after generation. adapts the
forest to It's natural environment in a
marvellous way. Trees are the most
perfect expression in the world Of the
adaptation of a living thing to it's en-
VirOnment.
In the forest there is a different
climate, a different soil, a different
ground cover. from that outside-as
different as conditions in city arc
different from those in the eOun-
try. A forest canopy is like an um
brelIa with holes in IL IT keeps part
Of the rain and snow from coming
through but what does gst through
the canopy is held The air and tho
. ~round are more moist in forest
! Pert of the light and therefore p2rl
| 0c the heat. Of The sun cannot get
| through the canopy; but the heat that
Evening star., 1927-05-01
s Life Becoming Happier? az= WELLS

they can tell the proximity of a herd by the
borborygmic (see dictionary noises the poor
brutes emit and Glasfurd describes a tigers
life as an alienation of uncomfortable hunger
and uncomfortable repletion There is rea.
son to suppose that early man was any better
off than animal or any happier. Like them
he was fear.driven, hunger-driven, Iustdriveu
creature, feeding, perforce on what he could
find. Some of the earliest known human bones
are diseased bones
The story of the common man since the
beginning of social life has been anything but
a record of innocent festivals and homely hap.
pness. With the development of agriculture
he began to escape from the hunger and fear,
the tramp's life in the wilderness Of the wan
derng savage, but only by accepting an in
creasing burden of regular toll History and
archaeology preserve only the records of the
successful few; we must guess how many
myriads of drudges worked the mines, pulled
the galeys and hoed the fields for the greatness
of the pyramids or the pretty palaces of
Cnossus.
And pestilence and famine have disap-
peared from the general routine of life in the
last hundred years or less, and that only in the
Atlantic civilizations. The social history of the
Old Testament goes to the accompaniment of a
prolonged groan from the common people. The
Roman empire administrative pyramid
based on slaves, serfs and distressed taxpayers.
It's distinctive instrument of social discipline
was the cross. There is no period in the past
upon which we'll informed man can put his
finger and say: "At this time common men
had more joyful lives than they have today"
There is only very scanty account of the
life of the common through most of the
historical period 1t was not worth writing
about AS NJ. Abel Chevalley points out in his
admirable study of that father Of the English
novel, Thomas Deloney, it is suddenly in the
Elizabethan period that literature stoops so
low as to tell of tradespeople and their servants
Peasant life still remained in darkness. Even
now we get only half-lit pictures of that earthly
underworld. Mr. Liam OE'laherty's glimpses Of
the Irish cultivator and Mr.. Caradoc Evans'
sketches OF the primitive folk in Wales are
more convincing than pleasant. Deloney shows
us squabbling, insecure, undignifed life much
pervaded by envy and malice i'll housed, i'll
clothed, without medical attention. amusements
reading, or change of scene. 1t Is much the
same squalor that find as the background Of
the adventures in the Roman world of Pc.
tronius, and still it was marked advance. as
Nj. Chevalley notes, medieval life.
That squalid life remained the common
life until the third or fourth decade Of the
nineteenth century. There seemed little hone
of any Improvement. There were great social
changes, an increase of productivity and pop1,.
lation in the eighteenth century, but thew
brought no perceptible ameloration of the com
mon lot, The common man remained dirty and
ignorant. needy or incessantly aborious The
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Evening star., 1927-05-01
Presidential Candidates Chosen
In Capital in Nations Early Days

Continued from First Page)
right of representation in, the national
conventions, but its delegation is so
small as to be almost negligible-two
delegates in the Republican National
Convention and six in the Democratic.
With the huge expenses of the modern
politicai national convention. however,
money is probably one of the largest
factors in determining the selection
OF a convention citg5s
Suggestion has been made that
Washington is the proper location of
all the big political conventions since
Evening star., 1927-05-01
BY JULIUS KLEIN,

Member Of American delegation to World
Economic Conference at Geneva and director
of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Tom
nerCe.
T HE coming International Eco
nomic Council at Geneva viii
tend to reduce some OF the
friction which now slows
down the wheels OF commerce
and will thus stimulate a larger
volume of international business, with
a consequent increase in healthful
competition for the United States. It
will discuss at length such topics as
restrictions and regulations OF COM
merce. international combinations or
Cartels and methods OF reducing of
production.
Recent significant developments
which are destined TO have important
reactions upon our commercial reia-
tions with Europe emphasize the in
terest that the United States has in
this important meeting Of the world s
economic experts.
First of all. there is the acknowl-
edgment of the existence OF the Brit
ish commonwealth of nations" re-
placing the British Empire. TO some
casual observers this seemed 10 be
but a political formality, perhaps a
weakening of the influence and power
of the mother country. but in reality
it involves a consolidation and
strengthening of Britains world eco.
nomic and commercial position. In
ternal differences have been ironed
out, public acknowledgment has been
made of recognized fact, and before
long. undoubtedly, there will be made
evident to the outside world a tight
ening Of the economic bonds within
the empire, which is bound to react
upon international trade from many
angles.
United States Would Benefit.
Even though this may seem at first
glance as potent new asset for our
leading competitor. it would seem
probable that on the whole the United
States will benefit economically by the
new arrangement, not only because. OF
a regulariZation of tariff and other
| economic relations, but through the
strengthening Of a group of major
commercial areas. which account for
| nearly Al per cent of our total ex
ports and over SO per cent of our i'm
ports. Anything that improves theii
Evening star., 1927-05-01

it is the National Capital. There are
drawbacks to such a practice, how.
ever. For example, If the President
of the United States-irrespective OF
party--is a candidate to succeed him
self, the selection of Washington for
the national convention might be con
sidered unfair to other aspirants for
the presidential nomination. Wash
ington. filled with office holders, man,
of them friendly TO the administrG
tion, would fill the convention had
with friends of the then Chief Execu.
tive. This objection, of course. would
not hold in connection with the Demo.
cratic National Convention of 1928.
Evening star., 1927-05-01

frightful dangers of modern war. Let US con-
cede the black possibilities latent in national
ism flag worship, educational slackening ana
the class jealousy and class malignancy of the
prosperous. Even so there are the soundest rea-
sons for maintaining that never since life first
appeared upon this planet has there been so
great a proportion of joy happiness and con-
tentment as there is about now, nor so
bright outlook.
But before we can see this issue plainly we
have to clear our minds of certain popular er-
rors based mainly on a misconceived theology.
Many people believe 1t is their duty to assume
the perfection of nature, and with them there is
no arguing They will hold the hyens4 lovely
and the fever germ a perfect device. If, how
ever we dismiss such preconceptions and ask
ourselves plainly what happiness there is now
in the wild life of the jungle or desert or deep
sea we shall come upon a different answer.
Nature is clumsy and heedlessly cruel. Life
apart from man is not a happy spectacle. 1t is
a flight and chase, a craving famished bust
ness a. rourI Of assassinations. The jungle is
no merry meeting place; 1t is rustlng ambush
in which things lurk ana creep. They become
noisy only under the spur of extravagant
sexual desire.
How cruel and tormented seems the sexual
life of almost every living creature except our
modern sophisticated selves. Even over the
herd browsing in the midst of plenty hangs a
will start a panic The first motives in animal
life are hunger and fear Apart from the brief
capering springtime of young creatures-and
how brief it is-there is no intmation of any
happiness whatever except the fierce, bolted
qualification of an intense appetite or the mon.
strous triumph of a "kill." The most fortunate
thing in the life of animal is the shortness
of its memory and it's want Of foresight.
Throughout the whole realm of nature it is
only among birds and mammals that we detect
any indication whatever of a real delight in
life Birds sing in Spring and the young of
birds and mammals play through a brief phase
these the universal hard drive for bare ex.
istence.
ThOughtless people talk of natures rem
edies" and imagine that every wild animal,
with that instructive pharmacopoea must be
in the pink of condition. But variations are
far too infrequent and natural selection far
too loose guide to keep pace with the secular
change of conditions and equip animals with
inherent cure for every ailrnent and an auto
matte counterstroBe to every danger.
There is no such selfrighting arrangement
i'm the natural world. Most of natures handi-
work is loose-jointed and casual. The sick and
weak and MANNED sooner destroyed and
less in evidence, that is all Wild species are
just subject to epidemics and hideous par.
asitism man; few. creatures seem to have
found their perfect" food, or, having found it,
able to keep to it; elephant hunters say
Evening star., 1927-05-01
Make New Radio Tube.

Production of a radio tube which
embodies the elements of three ordi.
nary tubes together, with two stages
of amnlification, is reported to have
been accomplished in Germany. Thls
tube is only slightly more expensive
than other types, it is said, and radio
DEVELOPMENT is expected to be ma
terially advanced by this invention. At
present crystal and one.tube sets pre-
dominate In that country.
Evening star., 1927-05-01

N0ts-IR oH article published last
Star FrdaE 4. TGHderjiD. former Dresi.
dent o. fhe National fjfg RGHk. tcarned
AmerjcGRs Of peril in me making Of
HU0e lo0nS abroad IN The fO}}0Uripg
article gohH Woody. famous financial
s,Gtisticiau, commeRts on the FGadefi3p
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Evening star., 1927-05-01
BY HENRY w. BUM.

HE following is brief sum
mary of the most important
news OF the world for the
seven days ended April 80.
Evening star., 1927-05-01
BY WILLIS j. EALLINGER.

<LN F course this Nation is inn
80 pCrialistic. We are UP to
our cars in Imperialism
~ But 1 am not bit afraid
.rc it In IN, Nc Vi. a lis,la fhern
Evening star., 1927-05-01

Let us admit that life still displays much
unhappiness and that it is overhung by the
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Member Of American delegation to World
Economic Conference at Geneva and director
of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
nerCe.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-12
NOW YOU ASK ONE
GENERAL INFORMATION

How we'll are you informed on odds and ends Of information?
 What is the greatest airplane speed on record?
 2-How fast does the average bird fly?
 5-How many pounds of coal does it take for one blast of a locomotive whistle?
 Allow many books are there in the library of congress?
 5-How fast did the wind blow in the Miami hurricane?
 6-What is the greatest altitude ever reached by man?
 How much does an ostrich egg weigh?
 Slow long is the arm of the Statute of Liberty?
 9-What is the weight Of a mans brain? Hollow many permanent" teeth does a person have?
New Britain herald., 1927-09-12
S2,0O0,00O LIQUOR
 SUPPLY FOR FIGHT
But Fans Won't Get Any of IL Through Government
 Intervention

Philadelphia, Sept. 12 Pl-A large portion of the cargo Of liquor valued at s2,0oo,O00. which was seized aboard the steamer "Bulko" here last night was destined to go to Chicago for consumption during the Dempsey-Tunney fight, customs officials said last night.
 Officials said this was revealed by one of the vessels crew. It also was learned the government agents stated. that the ship previously had been known as the "C. B. Watson" and the "Lairg."
New Britain herald., 1927-09-12
Mayor Walker and Wife
 Take Train to Paris

Rome, Sept12. LP,- Mayor James J. Walker of New York, Mrs. Walker and their party left for Paris today on the De Luse express. About 100 friends, officials and members of the American colony cheercd the de- parting visitors at the station.
 Before leaving the mayor told the ncwspapermen that he had spent a delightful time here. having enjoyed his stay in this city more than that in any other city in Europe that he had visited so far. He expressed ad- miration for Pope Puts, Premier Mussolini and Prince Potenziani. He said the first two lived up to all his expectations and that the Prince showed himself to be fine fellow. In customary good humor the mayor shook hands with Mgr. Bres- lin, vice rector Of the American col lege in Rome, and many other friends He compiled with the desires Of scores who sought autographs.
 Steamships plying between Mont real and Liverpool are out of sight of land for only four days.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-12
ST0ECkEL ORDERS WAR ON ST|CKERS
Drivers to Be Arrested for Post
 CTS Obscuring Vision

Hartford, Sept. 12-Chiets Of po- lice in Connecticut have been asked by Commissioner Of Motor Vehicles Robbins B. Stoeckcl to order prompt enforcement in their jurisdictions of the law which prohibits the attach ing of "stickers" to windshields and car windows. The request was made in a letter which calls attention to the growing practice of using these articles and thus obstructing the view Of the operators.
 The law referred to. for violation ot which a maximum find of $50 may he imposed, provides that no article shall he attached 10 any motor vehicle in such manner as to interfere with an unobstructed view of the highway upon which any per son shall be operating such motor yehicle.'
 In asking for strict enforcement, the commissioner points out that there should be special considera ton for persons from other states, who may not be aware of the intent of the law.
 The letter to the police is as fol-
New Britain herald., 1927-09-12
PRESIDENT BACK
 AT CAPITOL DESK
Faced by Many Problems and
 Delayed Business

Washington, Sept 12 tPl-Re- freshed by a three months residence in the Black Hills of South Dakota, President Coolidge was back al his desk toda- 70 tackle an accUmula- tion os important business he had side-trackce pending conferences here with government and congress sional leadora.
 Tn a seIfss Of conferences arranC- ef for the next few years, the pr"si- dent hopes 10 reach decisions on the following;
 Necessity Of an carly special ses- sion Of congress CT of q special ses- sion of the senate,
 Appointment of ambassadors 10 Mexico and Cuba.
 Selection of q successor 10 the late Leonard Wood as goveruorg general of the Philippine Islands.
 Tn addition he will start soon In the preparation Of his message 10 congress which involves declarations by him on farm relief and proposed relief in the Mississippi river flood area. Although living in the heart of the agricultural country this summer, MT Coolidge has persist cntly declined 10 comment in any way on the controversial farm relief problem. Nor has there been any indication that he had changed his views in the slightest against the vetoed McNary- -Haugen bill
 4 more immediate question hold ing his attention today was the problem of finding funds for pre- pairing the Mississippi river levoes for which Comptroller General Nc Carl has declined permission of the use of uneXponded money of the rivers and harbors appropriation. Secretary Hoover, director of flood relief, had recommended immediate rse of these funds and it was m destood the president favored this course.
 This along with the report of en- Cinocrs on proposed control Of the Mississippi is expected to be involv- cd in the discussion he will have with congressional leaders concern ing q special session.
 T. also is antiCiuated that some Of the numerous callers who will come 10 the White House in the rear future will be anxious to learn more from the presideie re -arding his famous announcement Of the summer that he did not choose to run for president in 1928.
 Mir and Mrs. Coolidge carried back with them the remembrance of the hospitality of the west. Par ticularly were thsy impressed by tho farewell demonstration given them on Friday by the citizeis of Rapid City. s. D. It seemed that the en- tire town had turned out again that evening 10 say goodbye, as tho rain pulled out and veteran White House attaches declared it the most sincere and remarkable dem onstra- ton ever accorded their party
 Today. for the first time since last March the president and Mrs. Cool idco are again settled in the White House which had been ovcrhauled