Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21

Cannon, vice president Of the Chase
National Bank of New York City; James
C. Bennett, vice president of the West
inghouse Manufacturing Co.; Oswald
Garrison Willard, editor of the Nation.
and H. Parker Willis, editor of the
Journal Of Commerce Of New York.
Obviously a distinguished and repre-
sentative group. So as not to offend
proletarian susceptibilities, the men
we're advised to leave behind top hats
and evening dress, and the women to
forego display of feminine fallals for
the nonce. The Russian promoters"
of the tour hope 1T may prove the ne
precursor of new and bigger era OF
business between the United States and
Soviet Russia"
At Cambridge on July 10 the combi-
nation Yale-Harvard track and field
team beat the combination of Oxford
Cambridge team, 81a to 312, firstS only
counting Yale won six f1rsts and Har-
ward two and a half, tying with OK
ford in the high jump: oxford won
two and a half firsts, and Cambridge
one. With this victory Yale Harvard
teams have won five out of nine times
in the series of contests between Yale
Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge teams
inaugurated in 1899.
X X y
NEW HOPES FOR HUMANITY.-Dr.
Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institute
Station for Experimental Evolution dis
coursed chamingly the other day on the
prospect Of regulating the size of human
beings. Salamanders have been doubled
in size by feeding them with the an
terror pituitary glands Of other animals
and similarly of rats. A way, too mot
,jescribod Lx, tho donfnrl hoe heoY, found
of making the salamander either a
water or a land animal dts now fire
animal: vide Anatole France and other
authorities). To cap all, the sexes of
certain animals have, we are told, been
changed.
Who may doubt that similar changes
in humans will in due time be effected
by science; tomorrow, maybe? The
population problem will then be solved
for some generations at least. That Is,
of course, the surplus humans can be
turned into water-deniZens (perhaps
the primitive Greeks had the secret,
high accounts for the so-called tables
of Tritons and sea-nymphs), to fight 1t
out with the fishes, as now on land were
fighting it out with thu" Hinsecks' (the
issue doubtful, say the wicked scientists,
whom we hope the fundamentaliSts VIII
dispose Oh.
Then, of course, Standardization can
be carried to the limit, ad nauseam.
The proportions of the sexes can be
fixed, etc, etc. But there's going TO
be terrible how-d'ye-do about f1E,ng
the standards. What should be the
proportions of the sexes? How big
shall we have the men? More impor-
tant, how big the women? Please,
please not too darn big.
Here's something worth talking about.
something that SHOULD please Premier
Macdonald. No transportation costs,
sir. Make 'em 0he surplus humans,
that Isl big enough. TO fight the whales,
and turn 'em loosS into the deep, I'M
plumb'd, estrangns sea-
Note: We're orly waiting for islo-
ton Of the pure hormone of the an
terror pituitary, Which may come any
day. Then hey-go-mad for the mil
lennium.
NOTES.xArthur Henderson, the
British secretary Of state for foreign
affairs, has informed the Commons
that "the British government has sent
through the Norwegian government an
invitation for responsible representa-
tive of the Soviet government to visit
London to discuss the most expeditions
procedure for reaching settlement Of
outstanding questions"
A considerable battle is reported be-
tween Ibn Saud, Sultan Of Nejd and
King Of the Hedjaz, and rebellious
tribesmen, in which Ibn Saud was
victorious and TOO rebels bit the dust.