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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Tested Triplets Sought
By Eugenical Organ
BY T.. T.. FREE, PHI. ID.

Anybody who knows where there are
sets of twins. tripa96 or bankruptcies
whose mental O3aancters have been
measured by any Of the modern psy-
Geological tests, or who might be ex-
amined by these tests, Is invited to re-
port these instances to the Eugenlcal
News, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Is
land, N. Y, the official publication OF
the Eugenics Research Association.
The latest issue Of this publication de-
scribes three girl triplets now living at
the Salvation Army Home in Green
vile, s. C. When tested psychologist
ally, these three 5-year-old girls proved
much alike, the only exception being
that one of them had relatively poor
memory for spoken numbers. All
three had q comprehension Of what was
said to them normal for bright chill
dren of that age All three had q good
sense of the position of things in space,
q character which even adults often
lack. All three showed relatively poor
muscular coordination, revealed by diff
flculty in drawing perfect square with
q pencil on a sheet Of paper. All three
girls, their photograph shows. fold their
hands over each other with the left
thumb on top of the right one, one of
the unconscious habits which people
seldom observe in themselves, but
which psychologists are quick to notice
Study Of the mental traits Of twins and
triplets may yield valuable information,
the officers of the association believe,
about the relative Importance of hered-
ity and environment, which Is why data
for additional instances are desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Tax Cut Feasible, but Care
Urged in Action by Congress

the fiscal outcome of the farm relief
law"
"If the results Of the past IL months
have brought not only relief but graft
fication, nevertheless the very compare
sons which they make with other years
give reason for great care in adjust
ment of public expenditure hereafter"
declares the New York Times, while
the Buffalo Evening News argues:
1.-THE idea that surplus resulting from
stock market advances justifies a re-
duction in the permanent revenues OF
the Government would condemn any
man who aspired to gain the response
bility for balancing a national budget
himself. Tax reductions may become
practicable, but that will be because
prosperity in general and national reve-
nues in particular have been placed on
a fairly secure basis"
Viewing the need of funds for Missis-
sippi flood relief, for farm relief and
possibly Navy expenditures, the SPRING
field Republican concludes, ANY Of
these channels Of expenditure would
make one mouthful of $185, 100000 and
never be conscious that it had swal-
lowed q years surplus"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

size than the old. The Government
has argued that aside from the stand
point Of economy In production, by
which 1t expects to save q million and
a half year, the new money win prove
more popular than the old by reason
OF its convenient size, the improvement
in appearance and the uniformity in
design, which makes recognition easier.
But while the average citizen viii be
just as glad to get the new money as
he was to get the old, there will be
many stalwart patriots who viii argue
until the end that the new-fangled
stuff is not nearly rs good as the old;
that the old money used to stay glued
to the inside of q good pocketbook,
but that the new trickles out faster
than they can keep account Of it.
Tomorrow's demand for the new
money will be a curiosity" demand
built up by that portion of the human
race that wants to get something first
and show 1t around. Such a demand
will last for several weeks and by the
end of the year the ladies and gentle
men so anxious to get the new bills
tomorrow will be boarding few Of the
old ones, to spring them at bridge
parties and afternoon teas as interest
ing relics of day that is past.
Those who have a fondness for col
lections Of portraits of famous men will
have an opportunity to follow their
bent with. profit, beginning tomorrow.
The ideal to be attained Is q picture
gallery containing the portraits of Sam
uel P. Chase, which the Government
offers at $4,000; of James Madison,
retailing at $4,000, and Of Grover Cleve-
land, which sells at $1,000. The ma
jority, however, will begin with the
cheaper pictures and gradually anass
a collection Of George WashingtonS at
one dollar each, Thomas Jeffersons at
two dollars, Abraham Lincolns at five
dollars, Alexander Hamiltons at ten
dollars, U. s. Grants ct fifty dollars,
Benjamin Franklins at one hundred
dollars and william McKinIeys at five
hundred dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

Many readers send in questions
signed with initials asking that the
answers appear in the newspaper. The
space is limited and would not accom-
modate q fraction Of such requests.
The answers published are ones that
may interest many readers rather than
the one who asks the question only.
All questions should be accompanied by
the writer's name and address and 2
cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send
your question to The Evening Star In
formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin,
director, Washington, D. G.
@. When were organized Summer
camps first established in the United
StateS?-A. L. T.
A. Ernest Balch established camp
for a group of boys on Lake Asquam,
N. H., about 1880. 1t was SO well liked
that other camps were soon started and
the movement grew steadily.
@. Did the Titanic break In two as
result of its collision with an ice
berg?-F. E.
A. The steamship Titanic did not
break in two as a result Of the impact
Of the collision with the iceberg. The
impact seemed slight.
@. What are the Lend-a-hand clubs?
L. M.
A. They are organizations for young
people established in 1871 for religious,
philanthropical and social purposes.
The name is taken from Edward Everett
Hales story "Ten Times One Is Ter"
The clubs have a common badge, a
Maltese cross with the inscription IN
His Name" but each arranges its own
constitution.
@. Please give some Facts about Ella
Ewing.-M. S.
A. Ella Ewing was known as the Mis-
souri, giantess. She was born in Scot
land County, Missouri, of normal par
ents, and at birth weighed 81 pounds.
She grew abnormally between the ages
of 8 and % years until she reached the
enormous height OF 8 feet inches. She
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

wore a number "a shoe. It took 80
yards of silk to make a dress for her.
When she stopped at hotels two ordi-
nary beds had to be placed side by side
so she could sleep across them. She
made fortune travelling about on ex-
hibition and died at the age OF 40 years.
@. Was Denver settled before San
Francisco?-P. j. j.
A. Denver was settled by miners IN
1858. The first settlement on the site
OF San Francisco began on October 9,
1776.
Q. Is the Tower of Pisa a place of
worship?-R. A. S.
A. 1t is not A cathedral. baptistry
and other buildings used for religious
purposes are nearby.
@. Why, when one is driving, can
pools of water be seen on the road
ahead, only to disappear upon approach
and reappear farther on?-F. S.
A. The Bureau of Standards says that
the phenomenon is the same as the
mirage seen over hot sandy plains. The
air next to the roadbed becomes hotter
than that above and the lower layer
consequently reflects just as body OF
water does.
@. How many people does the amphi.
theater at Arlington seat?-M. D.
A. In the pit 5000 can be seated, ID.
the gallery 1900, In the boxes 480 anS
on the speakers stand so. This makea
a total of 7130. The structure Is bulls
of marble and cost 81 100000.
O. What is the American Institute of
Banking?-H. T.
A. The American Institute of Bank
ing is the educational section of the
American Bankers Association. This
organization is maintained for the pur-
pose Of giving instruction to bank en-
ployes. There are about $50 chapters
in various cities throughout the country.
@. What is the life expectation of
bees?-C. T.
A. The queen bees live from four TO
five years, the workers about six weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

Every one knows Mary Crawford.
Maybe not by that name, but the girl
so called In Jane Austen's Mansfield
Park" Is known to most people.
She appears at least once in every
gathering. Married or unmarried, she
is always the same Mary Crawford.
Mary has way with her, there is no
doubt Of that. whether you like or dis
like her makes little difference-espe-
cially to Mary.
Mary's only real care Is for her pre-
cious self. Yet she is not commonly re-
garded as selfish or self-centered.
Mary is clever.
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Today a Mary Crawford is said to
have "it," but in the days when Jane
Austen amused herself with writing
novels such use Of the impersonal
pronoun was unknown.
They called 1t Charm" which is
just as good as it," Of course, and much
nicer, any way you take 1t.
Charm has it," but ut" has nothing
but "it." So we see the paucity OF
modern slang.
The charming Mary Crawford had an
opinion about everything and every
body. MARY always has, of course
Mary must have, becaNee this Is a por-
ton Of her splendid vieality.)
To live in a world of interesting
people and not to have distinct and
decided opinion about each and every
one of them with whom one comes In
contact Is to relinquish voluntarily a
right OF the human animal.
And Mary Crawford, being interested
only in herself. found 1t necessary to sit
In judgment on every one. Mary always
does.
n -
Mary could ride a horse gracefully
the first time she got on one. The
old hoStler spoke of 1t with bated
breath. He had never seen any one
like her before.
Mary was land is) just uncommon
enough to be interesting. If the world
were packed with Mary Crawfords this
charming young person would not have
such an easy time of 1t.
II every young lady could hop on a
horse and ride away like a veteran
there would be fewer admiring hostlers
(of all ages and many fewer young
gentleman admirers, for there would
then be enough Marys to go around.
In Mansfield Park" our heroine had
foil, as they say on the stage, in
Fanny Price. Fanny was a dear girl
whom everybody admired, once they
stopped to think about 1t, only most
Of the time they were so busy looking
at Mary that they never thought about
Fanny at all.
Most of the Mary Crawfords find 1t
convenient to provide themselves with
such foils If they do not find one made
TO order in every assemblage, which
they mostly do.
Fanny Price, thank Heaven, Is nc
rare character, either!
\ \
It Is rather distressing to the sweet
Fanny Prices to see how easily, readily
and completely the males of this world
fall for the Mary CrawfordS.
In Mansfield Park" even the high
minded hero, Edmund, succumbS to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Atrial Service,

.Coast-to-coast travel has been cut to
48 hours. The opening yesterday of
the commercial service of the Trans
continental Air Transport marks a new
era in travel. For the comfort of the
passengers, travel at night is by rail and
in the day by airplane. Eventually the
time between the coasts may be cut
still further with airplanes equipped
for sleeping passengers, but that day
has not yet arrived.
Scarcely had the new coast-to-coast
service been opened by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad system in conjunction
with the T. A. T. when it was an
nounced that competing line, requir-
ing only As hours to make the journey,
was to be established Immediately. The
competitors will be the New York Gen.
trail, Chicago & Alton and Santa Fe
Railroads, in conjunction with the
Western Air Express. A year ago the
first air-rail line, but with a 60-hour
schedule, was initiated by the New
York Central, the Santa Fe and the
Universal Air Lines. The 46-hour
schedule now proposed calls for con-
tinuous flight from Kansas City to
the Pacific Coast. Competition be-
tween these air-rail lines promises to
be keen, and competition usually makes
for better service.
Two groups Of passengers are speed
ing across the continent in the new
T. A. T. service, one leaving New York
Monday night and the other leaving
Los Angeles. Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh piloted one Of the planes bear
ing the East-bound party and Mrs.
Lindbergh was q guest of honor, flying
with her famous husband.
Air travel at last is coming into its
own in the United States, where the
airplane was conceived and FIRST
created successfully. European nations
for years have been ahead Of this
country in the matter Of commercial
air services. But the people Of Amer
lea are becoming more and more
u
gained by leaps and bounds in the last
year or two. The postal air service
was the pioneer in this field Of travel.
The air mail has been a tremendous
success, making communications by
mail between distant points in this
country only matter Of hours.
The huge mountain ranges which
traverse the United States from North
to South have been obstacles in trans
continental flights, but obstacles that
have been successfully overcome. Safety
in the air becomes greater and greater
as pilots grow in skill and planes are
improved in construction. The air
plane, which was regarded more as an
instrument of war q few years ago, Is
to be a great factor in the commercial
and social life Of this and other coun-
tries. Many flights have been made
across the Atlantic Ocean. The haZ-
ards Of such fights, however, are still
too great to permit Of commercial
passenger line connecting North Amer
lea and Europe. But some day such a
line will be established. Already the
time between the continents has been
lessened materially by ship and air
travel, with some Of the ocean liners
equipped with airplanes to take on
and land passengers several hours be-
fore the ships can dock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
pools on some of the municipal play

pools on some Of the municipal play
grounds.
The Mckinley pools, which opened
about ten days ago, are the first public
basins for young and old alike to be
put into operation since the closing Of
the Tidal Basin to swimmers. A similar
unit for colored persons was completed
some time ago near one of the colored
junior high schools.
Congress early this year passed an
enabling act authorizing a total Of six
bathing pool units in different parts Of
the city. but no more funds have been
appropriated UP to the present time.
The putting into operation Of the pools
on the Mckinley grounds should have
the effect Of fastening appropriations
for the construction Of other units un-
til the bathing pool program has been
completed.
The new pools are modern in every
respect, and provide a sanitary and safe
place for part of the population to
take daily dip during the Summer.
They cannot, of course, be used to adj
vantage by the entire city. There are
two pools at Mckinley, one for chill
dren and one for adults. The large pool
Is rs feet wide by $50 feet long, and the
one for children measures rs by rs
feet.
On Saturday LOO persons fiocked to
the Mckinley pools, and Sunday after
noon the total mounted to 1900.
1t is safe presumption that large
percentage of these bathers were from
the surrounding neighborhoods. Chill
dren, especially, cannot travel long dis
tances across town for a swim, or, at
least, they cannot do it often. Consid-
ering the limited size of the pools, these
attendance figures bear testimony that
Washington would welcome bathing
places that can be kept clean and safe,
and where the dangers of swimming in
the open river are avoided.
1t is reaSsuring to see even a small
part of the bathing pool program COM
pleted. 1t Is hoped the similar facili-
ties planned for other sections of the
city will be established without undue
delay, since they have been authorized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHMANDER JOHNSON.

Plant Of q Lover.
She wanted Gave Mani" All vatnly
tried
The baubles to bring that please femi-
nine pride.
n vain were my efforts at soft serenade |!
In vain was my fanciful garb on parade.
Though delicatessen I brought from the
shop
She paid no attention and told me to
stop!
I cherished her tenderly-there Is no
doubt
She wanted q Cave Man-and 50 I lost
out.
She ate up the candy, the cake and the
pie,
I brought, to invite some af1ectionate
sigh.
But her novel she read Of some hard,
heartless guy
Who handed sweetheart q slap in the
: eye.
She admired some rough person, defiant
of law,
Who handed a lady q smash on the
I feel that I'm terribly misunderstood
She wanted a Cave Mani couldn't
make good.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

the charm Of Mary. He likes to be
with her. There Is q certain frankness
about Mary that Is refreshing.
A writer recently said that men re-
spect good women, but that they keep
right on loving the bad ones.
Surely there Is some truth there.
The gradations Of bad women are many
and varied. just as the kinds Of good
women are numerous.
The characteristics Of the one so run
into the characteristics of the other
that no man can disassociate them.
That is how Mary Crawford gets by!
- X \
And Mary, of course, wasn't bad
girl at all. She was not good, in the
sense that Fanny was good, but she
wasn't bad, either.
st do not pretend to set people right.
but do see that they are often wrong"
So Mary tells party OF which she
is the usual "life."
Perhaps Mary sums herself UP in
those words better than any one else
who doesn't mind pointing out faults
must bear the consequences.
So it was that Mary Crawford (even
as all the Mary Crawfords) set up
hostile thoughts In the very minds
which admired her most.
Yet she had such q way with her that
most people stood almost any amount
of insult before breaking with her.
One glance from her bright eyes,
filled with the quenchless pep" OF her
never-tiring spirit and body, was quite
enough.
With her, few saw her as she was.
Away from her, there might be some
hope.
y \
If other people are the victims Of
Mary Crawford, she is more the victim
of herself.
Equipped with every appeal, often the
very superfiuity of her charm tends to
mitigate--shall we say "it"?
People get tired Of Mary.
Mary does not wear well.
Under the necessity Of having some
one to talk to, in order that she may
from one to another, giving up old
friends for new.
She makes friends easily" she would
tell you, but the astute know that
what She should say is that "she loses
them easily"
She can't keep them because they
become tired Of the too brilliant mind,
the too restless nature, the too ardent
temperament.
Mary saves her face, of course, by
making the break herself. That, too,
is part of her game. Perhaps that
is the real explanation Of her character.
Life to Mary Crawford Is a game,
not life. She plays it instead of
taking 1t and making the best of it.
She losses opinions and men, thoughts
and women from hand to hand, de-
| lighting In watching them spin around.
But men and women finally grow tired
of that sort Of thing. They want to live
instead Of play. They want to be
in o game. They suspect that. after
all, neither charm nor 1T" Is what
really matters in life, for Mary Craw-
ford has them both without success,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Hoover Asks Action
On Nicaragua Canal
From the Shreveport journal.

EIOm Lne 6HreVepOIL 'JOuTubl.
President Hoover, eminent engineer,
wants the Nicaragua Canal dug during
his term Of Office. To this end, it is
announced that a board of Army and
civil engineers will begin in September
the preliminary surveys of a route ex-
tending from Greytown, on the Atlantic,
via the San Juan River and Lake Nica-
ragua, to Brito, on the Pacific Coast.
A number of years ago Uncle Sam Sc
cured an option on the canal route, and
all that now is necessary is to inform
Nicaragua's government the time has
arrived to begin. the ditch; it may be
necessary to clear up the situation with
Costa Rica, whose boundary Is partly
formed by the San Juan River. but this
is not expected to present any great
difhcultieS.
The Panama Canal, completed under
the Roosevelt regime, is his greatest
monument; that waterways capacity
soon will be reached, and 1t viii be
necessary to find another route, or in
crease the size of the present canal. It
Is quite natural that Mr.. Hoover. by
education and training an engineer,
would like nothing better than a great
public work of this character as the one
big achievement Of his administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Bathing Pools.

The new public bathing pools opened
recently on the grounds Of Mckinley
High School meet in small degree
washington's need for safe swimming
facilities, but at the same time empha-
size the necessity for going forward as
promptly as funds can be obtained 70
provide similar accommodations suf-
facient to serve the entire District.
Ever since the Tidal Basin bathing
beach was dismantled several years ago
the city has been without public bath
tng facilities. except for. ShsilQR. .ya9ina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

ginning to end, Illuminating In high
day expert scholars, trained scientists,
exclusive students are coming to the
aid OF the common reader in compan-
ionable writing that is both dramatic
in contact and most informing In sub
stance. Here Is one Of them. And
others are now u the open working for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

A Presidents salary is q mild con-
sideration compared to the amount per
word he may command for magazine
composition. There can be no means
of applying the "yardstick" In litera-
ture, as in commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

AS a prohibition expert, Mabel WILLIE
brandt in aviation can do good and
sufficient work, If she can provide
against the perils arising when flyer
has, perhaps, taken q drink too much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

The Zoo has a little gorilla who acts
like human. Civilization is trying to
get rid of humans who, in crude
selnshness, are inclined to revert to the
gorilla type. The little gorilla may be
able to exert a worth while influence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

Only few persons profess to under
stand Einsteins theory. No one Of
them undertakes to explain it with
satisfaction to the average intelligence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

A sensational magazine article is
usually incomplete. The amount of
money paid for the incidental publicity
is not usually disclosed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

An airplane flight Is remarkable. for
its brilliant start; but the important
point in its performance is the finish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

It may next be urged that the
farmers might have found relief, II It
had not been for the sudden intrusion
Of the Japanese beetle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Talkies VS.. Opera.

From the Rockford Morning Star.
Mary Garden says the talking movies
are going to finish grand opera. Maybe
some of the critics have been q little
hasty Ia their A1ndemnatton o. ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

After a few more mergers the ques-
ton may arise as to who shall press
the button, while organization does the
rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

The secretary who prepares the list
of invitations is the real social arbiter
in this brilliant world capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

His frank aversion to the camera
makes 1t clear that Lindbergh has no
desire to become q motion picture star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Grnaa WORDS.

To Crossword puzzles still we cling
Their fascination none can check.
The Double Crossword is Q thing
That causes diplomatic wreck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Seeing Red

1--WE have gotten rid of the red light
district"
"I dunno" answered MFR. Chuggins
"The gas filing stations all along the
road are painted red"