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Evening star., 1927-10-02

United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Chiteu states coast ana Geodetic survey.
Earthquakes have occurred in
nearly every part of the earth, but
in only a few regions have they oc-
Cured frequently. In these regions
earth shocks-all the way from minor
tremors to the kind which cause dis.
aster-have been Of almost monoto.
nous regularity.
Japan, for example, has suffered
heavy loss in it's great earthquake
disasters and probably greater losses
since its partial adoption of the in
dustrial civilization Of the Western
World. Fortunately, the japanese
people are well qualified to undertake
scientific earthquake investigation
and the pressure of population has
made such investigation absolutely
vital.
II 1t he an advantage to coun-
try to be an earthquake factory"
then Japan is especially blessed. This
Is illustrated by a remark Of DR..
Tanakadate, leading Japanese scien-
tlst. An American delegate to the
recent Pan-Paciflc Science Congress
In Toxic was discussing the desir-
ability of erecting various types of
model buildings in an earthquake
region to analyze the effects of an
earthquake upon them. IF some one
Will provide the buildings" said DR..
Tanakadate. Japan will furnish the
earthquakes.
Studied in japan for Years,
Scientific earthquake Investigation
has been going on in .Japan for wears
After the opening of the islands to
western civilization a group of Ell.
ropean scientists began the work, and.
tooay an organized and well conceived
pan or study Is In progress.
IL might seem, at first glance, that
thls study has been fruitless. since
earthquakes have continued to occur.
earthquakes will probably always oc-
cur, at intervals, and doubtless will
continue to cause some loss of life and
property, especially in thickly populat.
ca areas. No amount of scientific
study can ever prevent Mother Earth
from easing up the accumulated strain
on geologic strata occa sionally, with a
resultant shaking up of the structures
dotting her broad bosom. There are
very definite possibilities, however. of
materially reducing losses in life and
property.
Economic conditions, at present.
prevent the adoption of some Of the
ideas thus far developed. Then, too.
lack of knowledge, and often blind
fear. on the part of the general public
tends to produce paralyzing apathy
which hinders scientific progress ma.
terially.
Disasters Have Other Causes.
People are prone to blame earth.
quakes for disasters for which the
earthquakes themselves are not re.
sponsible. The terrific loss OF life and,
property in the Tokio-Yokohama
earthquakes, for instance. was partly
due to the great typhoon which &C.
companied it. When fire broke out
in the stricken areas, the typhoon
famed the flames to such intensity
that nothing could resist them.
The earthquake problem is primarily
an engineering one. The problem con-
Germs the construction of engineering
structures in such way as to resist
disturbances of the earth's surface.
Bridges, buildings, water mains,
sewerage systems and pipe and con.
duit lines of all kinds must be studied.
At the present time, a building Is being
erected in Toxic designed to resist
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Fad for Monopolies
Is Worrying Turkey

People in Turkey are asking what
the government is going to monopo-
lie next. At present there exist
monopolies for the sale Of oil, sugar.
tobacco. matches, alcohol and salt'
the manufacture Of gunpowder.
operation Of the port Of CONSTANT.
nople and on advertising rights in
Constantinople. Now there is talk of
monopolizing the newspapers. There
are four morning and two evening
Turkish papers in Constantinople.
Two Of the morning papers have 9.
very reduced circulation, while both
evening papers are threatened with
extinction. their editors having been
prosecuted by the state.
Thus only two morning papers.
both more or less official organs. NAV
remain in the field. Naturally this
would not be to the liking Of Turkish
Journalists. who are faced With the
prospect OF searching for other means
Of livelihood. Nor Is such a state OF
things popular with the general pub
lie. as news is bound to be both con.
densed and colored.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Exported Farm Products.
Blaming 1t on the Interests
BY BRUCE BARTON.

work harder and will die
younger"
remarked to him that I OBJ.
served no great difference in
virtue between my New York
neighbors and my snail.town
neighbors. The man in Wall
Street who waters stock, II he
lived in a small town, would
water milk. The smalI.town
man who listens in on a party
line would bribe private sec.
taries in Wall Street to give him
market tips.
II 10 comforting to me, Of
course, to blame my rnisfortunss
on the interests. would like
to persuade myself that II some
one did not pull the. stspladder
out from under me occasionally,
! might climb much higher.
But in my saner moments I
know better. ! started work at
SIS a month; the first Wall
Street magnate referred to above
started at $40, the other at moth.
ing.
Only one man 10 responsible
for the fact that ] did not keep
ahead when ! had such q good
head start. His name 10 not
listed among the interests; it 10
printed at the heading Of this
article.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Culture Of Chinese Civilization.

~ Ut Of the simple soil of China rare
flower grows; the most courteous and
gentle civilization in history. What
~ is it that in the midst Of poverty has
ennobled the Chnaman? Three things: Love
of family, love Of learning and love of peace.
Honor thy father and thy mother. that thy
days may be long in the land; it has not been
true of the individual in China, but it has been
true Of the race, the unity Of the family pre-
served the Chinese as it preserved the Jews.
Kindness" say the Chinese. "is greater than
law; and the family is to them more vital
than the state.
To strengthen the family the prop and
base of social organization, the Chinese went
as far as the Romans, and gave the father un-
limited power To the woman they gave not
power, but reverence; and though Chinese
women did not indulge in politics they found
tif infanticide did not get them) every consid-
GRAFTON in youth and age. Yet they missed for
the part the romance Of love and the pride OF
nlonogamy; for in China, till our own days,
man might have concubnes well as wife.
Betrothal by the parents; not till the we'd
ding did bride or groom see one anothers face:
for the lifting of her veil was the last act Of
the long marriage ceremony. Every Chinese
girl in her growth compressed her feet from
north to south; our girls compress their feet
from east to west; each thinks the other fool
ish, and doubtless both right. Chinese
women smoked as much the men, and 1t was
considered unwomanly for a not to
wear trousers and indelicate for man not to
have skirts Each lady painted and primped
and dressed as much her joint husband
could afford; and the philosophers ragged and
wrote aphorisms. 1.-The good.looking woman
needs paint" they pleaded, vainly; and then
they added bitterly, "Three-tenths Of good
looks are due to nature; seven-tenths to dress.
The family was held together, even when the
State decayed, by the omnipotence Of the
father, and the religion Of ancestor worship that
bound both living and dead in inviolabe
unity. Very often the land was held In COM
mon by the family and transmitted whole, so
that economic interest helped religious pety to
keep the family one. Given this universal ele.
ment of filial loyalty, and it made little differ
ence that some of the people were Buddhists,
some of them Taoists some of them Mohamme.
dams, and some of them Confucians in whom
"the way of the superior man" had quite re.
placed theology. Buddhism came in across the
Hmalayas about IS AID; and it found ready
response among the imaginative poor, who
reveled in its democracy and it's superstitions.
Many Of the Chinese adopted it while retaining
the Confucianism Ii. e., the highly ceremonial
worship of God, Confucus and ones an
cestors) taught them by the State. But only
among the lettered classes has Confucanism
the philosophical and naturalistic character
which it had in the Master-who never dreamed
that he was founding religion.
Confucianism has priesthood. It's rites
Evening star., 1927-10-02
BY THOMAS WALKER PAGE.
Former Chairman of United States Tariff
Commission.


Former Chairman of United States Tariff
Commission.
The tariff does not have an equal
effect on the price of all sorts Of goods
and services. This Is due to the way
that the tariff operates. All that the
tariff does is to require peorl- to pay
a tax. which goes by the curious name
of duty on the foreign goods they
bring to this country. To escape this
tax people prefer to buy goods that
are made here. This creates such a
multitude of would-be buyers of do
mestic goods that the supply of some
varieties Of goods Is not enough to
satisfy all Of them. Accordingly, they
bid against each other for what is of.
fered for sale and producers are there.
by enabled to get higher price.
AS this is the only way the tariff
works does not. raise the price of
goods that can be readily produced
here in greater quantity than our peo-
pie need. There are many goods of
this sort. Some are minerals. such as
copper, coal or iron ore. Some are
manufacturers, as boots and shoes,
certain varieties of automobiles. of
farm implements and plain cotton
fabrics. But the most important class
of products the price Of which Is not
raised by the tariff are the great
staple agricultural crops.
Exported Farm Products.
Every year there are great quaint.
ties of farm products that have to be
sold in foreign markets If they are
sold at all. But when they reach for
eign markets they must compete with
similar products that come from many
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Persons With Most Children Succeed
In Greatest Degree, Says Scientist

The squaWks Of alarm that go up
from every eugenics congress over the
falling birth rate Of the intelligentsia
have received a rude damper.
Armed with the twenty-fifth ami.
versary records of graduates of Har-
ward University and copy of Who's
Who." DR.. Frederick Adams Woods,
formerly professor of biology at
Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
osy. has set out to establish in the
forthcoming issue of the Journal of
Heredity that there is a correlation
between high achievement and big
families. Big, that is, for these days.
DIR. Woods picked classes that have
been graduated % years, because, he
says. further distinction, unknown
successes and failure may lie ahead,
but not many will be the parents of
any more children
While who's Who in America" is
no perfect test, he continues, of either
mental superiority or what Is COM
monty known as success, it is fairly
probable that the classmates included
In It would average more success than
those not included.
Comparing these two sources of in.
formation, DR.. Woods found that 25.5
per cent Of the parents with four or
more children in the class of 1894 were
listed in who's Who," while the per.
centage Of the unmarried was only
6.3. In the class of 1898 all per.
centages were found to be lower, due
to the fact that the same issue of
who's Who" was used in each case.
Again the fathers of four plus showed
the highest ratios and the bachelors
the lowest. The highest ratios In the
1890 class were found for the parents
Of three, while this time the bachelors
beat the parents with four or more
offspring, 15.1 to 14.3. The figures
for the three classes added together,
however, gave an almost smooth pro-
portionate rise.
II added the story from 1892" de.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

TN q little country town where
spend my Summers is a
man who complains about
Il the interests.
"But who are. they" I dc.
manded one day.
He looked at me as IL he sus.
peeted that ! was having fun at
his expense.
"You know we'll enough who
they are he answered, and
mentioned certain men promi.
nent in Wall Street.
"Your list surprises me-"
said. n know one Of those mon.
He was the son Of q school
teacher. and had to work to put
himself through law school. The
men who used to employ him a.
q lawyer think so much Of his
integrity that they would be
willing to intrust him with the
care Of their whole estates.
One Of your other men started
with many thousand dollars less
than nothing. He paid off his
fathers debts-debts incurred
while he was q boy and for
which he was in no way respon.
sible.
"if these are the interests" !
said, "thsn don't worry. They
are quiet, home. going, family
men like yourssif--onIy they
Evening star., 1927-10-02
Germany Makes Claim
Of Renewed Sea Power

Germany Is coming back strongly
on the sea. According to statistics
from shipyards at the end of the first
quarter Of 1927 there were building
more than 800. 1000 tons of new ships.
Hamburg led the list with over 30O,-
900 tons, then came Elbing with just
over 100000. while Bremen was
fourth with 10000. An to destination
23S, 900 tons went to the Hamburg
American line and about 217, 900 tons
were for the North German Lloyd.
Classified, 400 900 are new steamers,
| 254,000 tons motor ships and 1000
tons sailing ships.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

clares DIR. Wood, "and now. combining
the four series Of records, I feel prac-
tlcally sure that those who have the
most children are the ones on the
average who achieve the most sue.
cess. Those who at some time in
their lives marry but never have anv
onspr1ng are about in the same
standing as the parents, but the fall
ing OF for the unmarried is very
marked. The figures run 81 for
bachelors, 1914 for married hut child.
less, then 16.9. 1853. 1873 and 1871 for
one. two, three. four or more children,
respectively"
Evening star., 1927-10-02
TARIFF is DECLARED UNEQUAL
In LABOR AND GOODS EFFECT
Farmers Said Not to Be Benefited by Duties at
Home When They Try to Sell in
Foreign Markets.

other parts of the world. The tariff
cannot help them there. and they cam
not be sold at any higher price than
producers in other countries receive.
The price our farmers receive for
that part of their output which Is sold
at home cannot be higher than the
price for the surplus which is sold
abroad. for no one will send his prod.
ucts to a foreign market II he can get
a higher price for them at home. For
this reason we often hear it said that
farmers have to sell their products
at the low price prevailing abroad
price that is kept artificially above
the foreign level by the tariff.
1t is absurd to think that the ma
jority of the men elected to Congress
wished to make such an unfair dis.
elimination against the farmers. On
the contrary, they tried to make a
tariff that would help the farmers as
much as it helped any other class. To
that end they put duties on many
kinds of foreign agricultural produce
which they thought might be brought
to this country.
These duties help to keep up the
price Of some varieties Of our farm
products, but only those varieties of
most important Of these are wool and
sugar. OF less consequence are some
specialties among the fruits and veg.
etables. Occasionally also the tariff
gives a little help to some Of the
dairy products. On the price of the
great staple crops, however, like corn
and hog products and most of the
wheat and beef and poultry produce,
the tariff has no appreciable effect
whatever.
Owing to this failure of the tariff
to cover some crops and it's failure 10
affect the price of many others, it re-
suits that the overwhelming majority
Of the farmers get no direct benefit
from the tariff whatsoever.
Tariff and Costs.
But granting that they get no bene.
fit, can it be said that the tariff does
them any harm? Congress was much
concerned about the possible burGcn
Of the tariff on the farmers, and in
order to tighten it put fertilizers and
some of the implements and macl.in.
cry they use on the free list. This
still left them burdened by the higher
price of clothing, furniture, Kitchen
utensils, paints and an infinite num-
ber of other manufactured goods.
Every year the farmers have to spend
for manufactured goods much more
than half of all they get for their
crops. To the extent that the tariff
raises the price Of these goods, 1t adds
to the expenses Of the farmer.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

Note: In the fourth installment of his
"Story Of Civilization" to be published next
Sunday, DIR. Durant will write of Buddha
and the Soul of India
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CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
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tcopyright. 1877
Evening star., 1927-08-28
TWO STATES PLAN STEPS
TO SAVE OYSTER BEDS
Maryland Virginia Conference
Next Friday One Of Two Moves
Aimed to Prevent Destruction.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, August 27.--Two
moves to save the Potomac River
oyster beds from destruction are to be
made next week, Swepson Earle,
State conservation commissioner, an
nounced today One Is a conference
between Maryland officials and MEM
bers Of the Virginia Seafood Survey
Commission, to be held at Colonial
Beach Friday. The other is procla.
nation expected from Gov. Harry
Flood Byrd Of Virginia placing in
effect on both sides OF the river laws
designed to save small oysters and
to effect replacement of empty shells
on the rocks at the bottom Of the
river. This replacement. Mr.. Earle
pointed out, is necessary IL the oyster
spat is to cling there and grow.
Mr.. Earle was invited to the con.
ference today by Harry r. Houston,
Virginia conservation commissioner.
who said that topics Of mutual in.
terest to the two States, including the
Potomac question, are to be discussed.
Mr.. Houston added that Gov. Byrd
plans to issue a proclamation during
the coming week similar to that made
this week by Gov. Albert c. Richie,
declaring in effect two laws control.
ling shell fishing on the Potomac.
The Maryland laws. passed by the last
Legislature. contained a provision
that they were not to become effective
until Virginia passed a similar law.
concurring. The laws, Gov. Ritchie
pointed out in his proclamation, are
now part Of the Virginia statutes.
Evening star., 1927-08-28
LOUDOUN EXHIBITS
LARGER THIS YEAR
Horse Show and Pony Races
Features of Ninth An
nuaI Fair.
Special Dispatch to The Star

PU URCELLNILLE. Va. august -
The ninth annual Loudoun County
ali, and Horse Show will be held at
purcellville September :, and 3.
with larger exhibits than heretofore.
J. Dalton Dillon of Purcellville is
manager. H. N. Hoge is president.
and f. II. James vice PRESIDENT. The
exhibition will be under auspices or
the County Community Association.
u. c. Sands is chairman of the ad-
visory committee.
The first and second days of the
horse show will be devoted to the
thoroughbred and half-bred hunters.
OF which classes II. NJ. Ball is super
intendent. and Humphrey Chamblin
assistant, and to the pony races ana
pony show. High-class show ring
horses from various parts of Virginia.
Maryland and the District of Columbia
are expected to compete.
Variety of Live Stock.
There will be pure.bred and grade
heavy draft horses, II. II. Norman.
superintendent, and J. +. Norman, as.
sistant; beef cattle. Claude Safer.
SUPERINTENDENT, and J. r. Lintner. as
sistant; Guernsey cattle, Robert NC
Cray. superintendent, and Holsteln
cattle. Clifton Warner, superintendent.
A dog show will be given Friday
the final day Of the fair. with awards
for pointers. settlers, fox hounds,
beagle hounds. airedales, police dogs,
coon hounds and collies. DIR. j. r..
t.lagett is superintendent, with +. IL.
James and Garland Hooe, assistants.
Swine, John S. Ward, superintendent,
and Russell s. Hickman. assistant,
and the poultry and pet stock. A. w.
Hopes, superintendent; Harry Duf'
fey. sr.. assistant. VIII De SHOWN
throughout the fair.
Other departments are field crops,
John Cockerill, superintendent; vege-
tables, w. A. Mcdaniel, superintend-
ent; fruits, Jennings Potts, superin-
tendent; domestic science, Mrs. l.. j.
Dillon. superintendent; hand work.
Mrs. Jennings Potts, superintendent
Mrs. NJ. Clayton PaXson. assistant;
flowers, Mrs. J. D. Dillon. superin'
tendent: Miss Caroline Pancoat, as
sistant.
- All CiuD EAnlDlts.
Exhibits will be conducted by All
Club departments under auspices OF
Miss Laura 3. Rutherford, county
home demonstration agent. These
exhibits will consist of cooking. can
ming, clothing and garden.
The members of the board of direc-
tors of the fair for this season are n.
FL. Hoge. d. C. Sands, ]. D. Dillon, +.
p. PoplSins, c. l.. Robey, w. T. Brown,
+. II. James, w. c. Paxson and w.
l.. Simpson.
The buildings have been remodeled
and painted. The cow barn has been
converted into a stable for hunters,
and box stalls have been put in, in
order to accommodate the large num-
ber of entries.
The best attractions available have
been obtained. including big mid.
way with merry-go-round, ferris
wheel, games, shows, and other fea-
lures. The Demorest Stock Co., with
comedies. dramas, vaudeville and
music, will give several performances
afternoons and evenings of the fair.
Evening star., 1927-08-28
ROAD WORK PLANNED.
County Appropriates $1,25O fol-
Tuxedo Improvements.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Nd. August
20.-Prince Georges County Commits
sioners have appropriated $3.50 to-
ward the surfacing with macadam of
the Tuxedo road from the River road
near kenilworth, d. c., through
Tuxedo to Cheverly. The commits.
sioners voted the money after citizens
OF the Tuxedo neighborhood agreed
to raise $1,000 and the district road
committee agreed to contribute $3.50.
improvements of the road will tend
to relieve the heavy traffic on the De-
fense highway from Fifteenth and II
streets TO the point on the high
way where 1t will be joined by the new
Memorial Cross at Bladensburg. it is
believed. The new route will be less
than one mile longer than the dis
tance over the Defense highway. Thus
far citizens have raised $735. The
contributors included: Robert Marshall.
$500; Thomas n. Mohler, $50; Frank
Yanda. $50; James T. Pryor. $50;
r. Howard Duckett, $40; Raymond
Mulley, $40; Wilton E. Watts. SO:
Earl Pryor, $40: Fulton l.. Reel. SO;
J. G. COPELAND, IS.
Evening star., 1927-08-28
WASHINGTON G. AUGUST PART !
to visit in Richmond and Woodbridge

to visit in Richmond and Woodbridge
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs John B. Gordon and
their daughters. Amonette and Mar
garet Fleetwood of Braddock Heights
are spending several weeks in Ottawa
Canada.
Mrs John Scott Grimm. Mr.. and
Mrs. Scott Grimm and their son
Courtland, have completed motor
trip to Greensboro, y. &.
Miss Effie Lee Lyles had as hei
guest last week end Miss Eleanor
Reid Speilman Of Washington. whc
has just returned from Il trip to Eu
rope with her parents, Rev. A. E
Speilman and Mrs. Speilman. formerly
of this city
Evening star., 1927-08-28

Miss Dora varney's cottage for a
week. ~
Mrs, Henry Starr Watties and her
son Mr. Henry Starr Wattles. jr.,
have returned from a visit to rela.
tives In West Virginia
Mrs Alexa nder Slaughter Doni.
phan In again at home after Il visit
to her son.in-law and daughter, Maj
Daniel n. Swan. II. S. A.. and Mrs
Swan, at Fort Monroe, Va.
Miss Elizabeth =. Chamblin of Ham
ilton, Loudoun County, Va. is the
guest Of Mrs. Charles T. Lindsey in
her home on South Columbus street.
Miss Cora Pullman and Miss Cath.
crime Pullman have returned from a
weeks stay at Virginia Beach
Mrs. r. Maurice Wilkins, Miss Vir-
ginia wilkins Miss Mabel Blunt, Miss
Evening star., 1927-08-28
FAIR RECEIPTS LARGE.
Officials at Rockville Expect 2,OO(
will Be Cleared.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, August 81
Officials OF the Montgomery County
Agricultural Society are understood
10 be of the opinion that about 81 900
was cleared at the annual fair held
here during the week under the au-
spices Of the society.
Total receipts were in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 and It is not thought
that the expenses aggregated more
than $4,000. From financial stand
point 1t was the most successful Rock
willie fair for number of years, it is
said.