Evening star., 1927-03-13

on foreign Including American) ship.
ping.
| AS against the tergiversation of the
Tuchun of Anhwei may be set rumors
| importing serious danger of ruin to
| the Nationalist cause from dissensions
between radicals and moderates
Chang Kai Shek being reputed a
| moderate.
We are still in the dark concerning
WI Pei Flu and the drive southwark
| through Honan Province oc Chang
Tso-Lin's Manchurians.
The Tuchun Of Anhwei is in posi-
! tion to threaten the Tientsin- -Pukow
Railroad Pukow is opposite Nanking
on the Yangtze).
Chang Tsung Chang would be in a
bad fix were either line, the Tientsin-
| Pukow or the Marking Shanghai,
severed. Heavy rains are slackening
| activities.
United States of America.-We are
shifting of funds and such like devices
| some of the worst of the embarrass-
ments las cutting down of the Army
| apparently entailed by the failure to
enact the second general deficiency
bill may be detoured, but no promise
Of relief is held out to our many thou
sands of pensioners, who must, ii
seems, wait until July for their May
and June checks, nor for the so-many
| farmers hard hit by crop failures, for
| whom the bill of such unhappy fate
carried an appropriation of $500, 900
| for seeds.
The British and Japanese govern
ments have notified acceptance OF
President Coolidge's invitation to a
three-power UNITED States, Britain
and Japan conference on naval limi
| tation.
With the death of the Sixty-ninth
Congress IL Senators and So Repre-
sentatives faded from the legislative
picture.
DIR. Ira Remsen is dead at 81. He
was of very extraordinary distinction
as a chemist, as a teacher of and a
writer on chemistry. He discovered
saccharin. He was professor OF
chemistry at Johns Hopkins from 1876
| until his retirement in 1918, and from
1901 to 1913 was president of that
university.
DIR. F. G. Pease of the Mount Will.
| son Observatory. who designed the
Hooker 10O-inch telescope, the largest
telescope ever constructed, has drawn
up a design for an instrument with a
rejecting mirror of % feet diameter,
whose moving parts would weigh
1.600 tons, and the cost of which he
estimates at $12,000,000. The focal
length of the telescope would be 1000
inches, its tube So feet long and with
outside diameter of 80 feet 1t would
reveal details three times smaller and
nine times fainter than the Hooker
telescope can reveal, it would pene-
trate to a depth of space three times
as great. it would record stellar events
of 50O,000,O0O years agone. Twelve
million dollars would be small ex-
penditure for such results. DIR. Pease
says that a telescope with a mirror
Of 100 feet diameter is feasible. Let
US have it by all means.
NOtes.-A bill proposing abolition
of the proportional system of cleo
tion has been presented to the French
Chamber by the minister of the in
terror.
The French forces in the Sarre have
been reduced to 500.
The Democrats in the Reichstag
have presented a resolution calling
for abolition of the Reichswehr and
substituting therefor of a new army
based upon short-term enlistment, As
tiO COhSbAbutAOtt VA (AAC ANCAChSWcIE ID
a creation of the treaty of Versailles.
consent Of the allied powers to the
change proposed would be necessary.
March was the centenary of the
death of Alessandro Volta, one of the
most shining names In the long list
of great Italians and In the history
of the science of electricity. Few of
the great mental leaps are compar-
able in Importance to that which re-
suited in the Voltaic pile.
Volta was q man Of q delightful
personality. 1T
tCopyriRht. 1927