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Evening star., 1929-01-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES r. TRACEWELL.

intrepid Beans, as they showed and
elbowed their way up the gangplank.
"Good-by, Beam good-by, good-by!'
Old Johnny Coffee Bean was off on his
big trip. loot! Toot! The band played
the Brazilian national anthem, while
those left behind cheered madly as the
great steamer slid into the middle Of
the stream and was on its way. 1t was
as vivid as life-you should have heard
Templeton Jones when he got
wound up.
"The only trouble with your coffee
bean," chimed in Mrs. Jones, lis that
we never get the coffee beam"
What do We get?"
why, We get it ground for the perco-
lator of course"
Templeton Jones raised his right hand
in air, loftily, as BELTS one to whom
illumination has come.
Hereafter we will buy the bean,"
he said, grandly.
What are you going to grind it in?
We haven't got a coffee mill, you know"
Then we ought to have one" replied
Jones. Il will bring one home tomor-
row."
And don't forget pound of un-
ground coffee"
I'm the bean," gently corrected Tenn
pleton Jones.
The next day at lunchtime he visited
his favorite store.
II want coffee MILL" he said to
the clerk.
She looked at him as if he were mild
ly insane.
said, loftily. Evidently she washed her
hands of the affair.
Il want a coffee MILL" said Jones to
man behind the counter.
This is the only kind we have"
said the man, bringing down a dusty
mill.
Evidently you don't sell very many"
ooh. yes!" The clerk was nom
chalantly crushing "We sell them, all
right
Jones took his coffee mill and went
home.
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"Here you are!" he said. unwrapping
his purchase. with its long handle to
give greater swing to the grinding arm.
Where is the coffee?"
81 forgot that"
"Well, got some up at the store.
Your .favorite brand"
I'm the BEAM"
"Of courSe!
"Fine! Now I'll show you how to
grind it." Templeton Jones carefully
busted off and out his new pet He
adjusted the wheel for medium fine
grinding and poured in a couple of
tablespoonfuls of coffee beans. He
gripped the mill with his left hand,
seized the crank and away he went.
The mill went skidding out of his
hand, but he retrieved 1t at once and
went on grinding steadily. All! that
was a delicious aroma which smote his
nostrils Freshly ground coffee! All!
Ali Opening the little drawer to see
how it was coming on, Jones was much
pleased to see and smell the results OF
his handiwork.
This is the way to make coffee"
he said. Grind your own" Maybe
that is a tip worth looking into; We
pass it along for what it is worth.
Evening star., 1929-01-03

less glands control growth, brain de-
velopment and energy. The extreme
materialist would say that love, hate,
courage, fear and aspiration are merely
the circulation of hormones in the blood
stream. Without forsaking the convic-
ton that there is something higher and
less tangible in life than this, exact ex-
periments, the result of which hardly
can be contradicted, show that the
hormones are extremely important fac
tors in the emotions and behavior of
the individual.
When they all are known, and OBJ
tainable in their pure form with all
their original potency, there may be a
day of miracles when it will be possible
to create synthetically close approx
nation of the millennium.
Evening star., 1929-01-03

Templeton Jones turned on his radio
lust in time to hear DR.. julius Klein
chief of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, Department of
Commerce, give a talk on the South
American countries visited by Presi-
dent elect Hoover on his goodwill tour.
What interested Jones the most was
the portion of DR.. KleinS address de-
voted to the subject Of coffee growing
and marketing. He listened avidly
while the speaker told of the great
fields, the .tment of the berries and
the mark of the same.
Jones coffee drinker. He not
only likeu . brew taste in which
the whole world shares. but he was by
nature of a romantic enough disposition
to be pleased TO think that the great
Beethoven had loved coffee, too, and
that our own Edgar Allan Poe had al
most lived on it for time
Jones had vision. as many man
has had, but his was nothing more
substantial.or unsubstantial, if you
please-than the perfect cup of coffee
Visions of others had ranged from the
perfect woman to the perfect life, but
Jones held up nothing more awe-in-
spring before his mental eye than a
really perfect cup of coffee.
Once he thought he had found 1t.
1t was glorious cup of coffee, tasty,
aromatic, without trace of bitterness.
yet with full body-a real drink, fit
for those gods who, alas, lived and died
before coffee came into general use!
After the memory of that cup had
cooled. however, through the natural
passage of the years. Templeton Jones
began to wonder if it had been as fine
as he thought it was, after all. May
he not have been mistaken? One often
makes mistakes in the enthusiasm of
youth. That is what youth is for.
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"There's man who knows what he
is talking about" said Jones, as DR..
Klein finished. This was real tribute,
coming from Jones, who cordially de-
tested radio speakers on general prin-
ciples. The fact that he listened for IS
solid minutes to the Commerce Depart
ment official was the best applause in
the world, but the speaker couldn't
hear it, of course. Jones was too lazy
afterward. to sit down and write a
letter telling how much he enjoyed the
address. Plenty would do that, he
thought. Alas, alas, for human error!
Just think Of what the coffee bean
goes through before we get it," con-
tinued Templeton Jones, inspired by
the talk he had heard. mo wonder
sometimes our coffee Is not as good as
we think it should be. Consider the
coffee bean--"
Those listening to Jones (who had
no microphone and needed none) got
a mental picture of little coffee berry
blithely turning itself into full-fiedged
coffee bean, ready to take up its perilous
journey out into the great world Of
commerce and trade.
One might almost have sworn that
he saw the coffee bean put on its hat
and coat, purchase a first-class ticket,
and go down to the pier, where 1t met
a large congregation of fellow travellers
also pining to leave the America known
as South for the America known as
North.
How eager was the jostle among the
Evening star., 1929-01-03
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

A. Milwaukee claims to have the
largest. 1t can accommodate a stand
ard box car, and is said to be three
times as large as any previously built.
1t uses I,400, 900 kilowstt hours of elec-
tric!ty a month. and will heat 400, 600
pounds of metal at time to a maxi
mum temperature of 1850 degrees Fab
renheit.
@. What government has a postage
stamp bearing a portrait OF Henryk
Stenklewicz?-S. ]. K.
A. The government of Poland has Is
sued a new stamp bearing the authors
portrait. Its face value is is grossly.
@. What is the Caterpillar Club'
w. F. C.
A. The membership of the myth:
cal Caterpillar Club is composed OF
by parachute jumps from disabled air
craft. There are over hundred mem
bers at the present time.
@. Has the Smithsonian Institu-
tion sent out any scientific expeditions
during the last year?-D. c.
A. More than 80 expeditions were
sent out. mostly financed by gifts from
friends Of the institution. The West
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field of interest.
@. Where is Patagonia?-C. S.
A. Patagonia Is a name formerly
applied TO the whole south portion Of
South America. extending from the
Strait of Magellan indefinitely north
ward to about the thirty-eighth parallel
of south latitude. In its present use
Patagonia has no political significance.
1t is generally restricted to the region
lying east of the Andes and south OF
Rio Negro. This country remained
unclaimed until 1881, when 1t was in
corporated with Argentina.
@. Was an ass an animal ridden
by upper-class people in Palestine?
F. F.
A. One writer says, "The most
noble and honorable amongst the
Jews were won't to be mounted on
asses" Traditionally, Mary made the
journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem
mounted on an ass.
@. What is the derivation Of the
word astronomer" ?-J. X.
A. The word astronomer" Is derived
from a Greek word which in turn is q
derivative of the ancient Greek word
meaning star arranging"
Evening star., 1929-01-03
Educator Defends
Age of Machinery
BY e. E. FREE, PHI. d.

The often-voiced fear of philosophers
that machine civilization will enslave
mankind and destroy all peace and
beauty in the world is not shared by
President Glenn Frank of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, who presented at the
recent meeting of the American Politi-
cal Science Association in Chicago his
studies of the mutual relations between
technical civilization and political
science. Machine civilization seems now
to be spreading inexorably over the
world from its chief center in America.
Critics urge against this age of ma
chimes, President Frank said, that it
makes the world ugly, that 1t destroys
human independence and individuality,
that it breeds class hatreds, that it BAN
ishes contentment from the average
life. that it uses up natural resources
properly belonging to future genera
tions, that it is slowly running every
thing beautiful and peaceful that man
kind has won in his upward climb from
savagery.
These charges are largely true, Presi-
dent Frank comedies, Of the machine
age as it is today. Were nothing bet
ter to be expected one might agree
with Oriental sages, like Mahatma
Ghandi, who believe that man must
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man. But our hurrying, scientific,
overmechanical age already holds.
President Frank believes, the seeds of
its own regeneration. Electricity is be-
ginning to decentraliZe industry,
jammed too tightly into squalid indus
trial towns by the former requirements
of steam power. The discovery that
beauty has "sales value" Is turning
mechanical industry to the creation of
that commodity instead of ugliness.
What is most important just now.
President Frank believes, is that scien-
tific men, business men and poll
ticians should cooperate not to CON
troll" each other, hut to work out to-
gether the good instead of the harm
that machines can do to the world.
Evening star., 1929-01-03

This is a special department devoted
solely to the handling of queries. This
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The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic j. Haskin, director, Washing
ton, D. G.
@. How long can a British Parlia-
ment laSt?-T. A. C..
A. The maximum duration of the
British Parliament is five years. The
present Parliament was elected october
90. 1924, therefore it will expire in
1929. An election is expected in Eng
land about June of this year.
@. How much oil is taken from one
wf1ale?-T. M.
A. The amount of oil which can be
taken from whale depends on the
individual whale. The sperm whale
Yields from to 145 barrels of oil. aver
aging about 25 to 80 for COWS and rs to
90 for bulls. In 1861 there was rec
ord of whale yielding 274 barrels Of
oil.
c. Should the plural of pair" be
pair" or "pairs?"-A. l.. H.
A. DR.. Frank H. Vizetelly saws: "The
word remains pair in the plural when
it is preceded by a number; otherwise,
it takes the s. Two pair of gloves, but
MANY pairS of trousers"
@. How much bone is there in COW
and how much meat?-C. A. r.
A. The amount of bone in COW varies
with the COW. The maximum per cent
of bones is 2248. The hide is usually
6 to 81. per cent of the live weight OF
the carcass: the heart from 3 to 4
pounds, the liver from g to 9 pounds,
and the tongue from 2la to 3l2 pounds.
The shrinkage of cattle in butchering
and dressing ranges from 33 to 81 per
cent.
c. Where is the Nine Mems Misery
Monument?-T. B.
A. It is on the grounds of the Monas-
terry, Cumberland, r. I. This is where
Capt. Michael Pierce's comrades made
their last stand and were put to death
by the Indians in King Philips War.
@. Where Is the largest electric fur
mace in the world located?-N. N.
Evening star., 1929-01-03
The Pituitary Hormones.

The old platitude of teachers Of
physiology that the actual value of the
human body, in terms of the current
drug store prices for its constituent ele-
ments Of lime, sulphur, etc, is about
ninety-eight cents, apparently needs
considerable revision before it even ap-
proaches the truth.
Some cynic had the nerve to repeat
It before one of the section meetings
Of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science the other day.
At almost the same time a comm ercial
biochemist was telling another section
that a single product of the body, the
alpha hormone from the secretions of
the pituitary gland at the base of the
brain, was worth about three million
dollars a pound. It's companion. pitui-
tary hormone, he said, was valued at
one million dollars a pound.
Dr. Oliver Kamm OF Philadelphia re-
ported to the association that it has
/, been possible to obtain in pure form
both these pituitary secretions. Assunl-
1ilR LItdL lIlIS SLdlEHlStll ID IlOL
ture, they will be worth the price Mo-
body knows just how much of human
personality and character is determined
by these hormones sent out by the
! pituitary gland. Most psychologists ad-
nit that they account for great deal
of what man thinks, does and is. The
pituitary secretion is about as near as
science can expect to approach the Sc
, cretion of soul in our generation.
- Rather absurd claims have been made
from time TO time for glandular therapy
both in its physical and sociological as,
poets. This has been due largely to the
fact that they have been too complicated
: for the chemist to produce laboratory
products which retain all the qualities
of the hormones in the living body
Z with the exception of thyroid extract
the practical qualities OF which art
recognized universally by medicine, th'
glandular products have been under
suspicion.
Yet it is known that hormones ar
= the active principles by which the duct
Evening star., 1929-01-03
A Woman Politician.

The Colonel House of the Smith Ad-
ministration administration just
terminated at Albany and the admin
iStration which might have been at
Washington--is retiring from public
life, at least temporarily, with the i'm
pending departure of the governor from
the New York State House. This
Colonel is woman. Her name is
Belle Israels Moskowitz, better known
in politics as Mrs. Henry Moskowitz
Her last service to the late Democratic
presidential candidate was rendered in
the capacity of director of publicity for
his campaign. Mrs. Moskowitz, it was
thought for while, might continue to
serve at Governor-elect Franklin D..
Roosevelt's elbow as she SO long served
alongside Governor Smith. But the
new set-up at Albany, just announced.
disclcses that she will not be in the
picture.
Throughout four terms of gNberna-
torial Office, Mrs Moskowitz ranked as
Mr.. Smiths "right-hand man." A
specialist in social legislation, note
the governor always stressed in his
public policies, Mrs. Moskowitz was a
particularly effective coadjutor. 1t has
long been said in New York State that
Mr.. Smith took no major action in
the field Of social politics without con-
sulting, and usually being guided by,
the astute woman who sat in his cab
met without portfolio. 1t was not alone
in the field of industrial, humanitarian
and communal programs that Mrs.
Mc5kowitz was counselor. She is an
extraordinarily capable politician. One
of the leaders of the Democratic
party, soon after experiencing Mrs
Moskowitz's sagacity and quicxness of
decision during the recent Smith cam
paign, declared that in his long ex-
perience of mere men politicians, he
had never met one who had surer
touch or a more intuitive knowledge
OF the strategic thing to do in an
emergency
Once upon a time Belle MoSkowit7
was Republican Progressive. She
| took an active part in the campaign
to elect Theodore Roosevelt President
| in 1912 and the late Oscar S. Straus
| Governor Of New York on the same
ticket. She hitched her wagon to the
! Smith star in spirit of nom
partisan admiration for his ability as
an administrator of New York States
affairs. In private, Governor Smith
seldom failed to avail himself of ar
opportunity to voice his gratitude fol
the tower Of strength Mrs. Moskowit;
Evening star., 1929-01-03
Housing the House of Detention

| While the good work that has been
done under the capable direction of
Lieut.. Nina Van Wrinkle should long
since have spared the House of Deten-
ton its treatment as the red-headed
orphan of the District government, the
fact remains that nobody seems very
anxious to give it good home. Since
its reformation under the Womans
Bureau, it has suffered the fate of be-
ing flung from pillar TO post. No sooner
is it established than something hap
pens to put it on the move again. No
sooner have Mrs. Van Wrinkle and her
corps Of assistants attacked reaches,
rats and refuse in one location and
made it spick and span than something
happens which demands repetition
of the maneuter in other fields. Mrs.
Van Winkle is tired of this. The Dis
trict authorities must be very, very
tired of it. And the people of the Dis
trict are assuredly very, very, very tired
of it.
Mrs. Van Wnkle naturally wishes
a downtown location. The nature OF
the work done at the House OF Detsn-
ton makes such a location desirable.
One is able as readily to sympathize
with her refusal to entertain sugges-
tions of temporarily occupying police
precinct station not yet on the map,
but planned for Benning road and
Forty-fourth street northeast, as one
is able to sympathize with the protest
ing citizens who do not want to live
next door to House of Detention, no
matter how splendid an institution
from the sociologist's point of view the
House of Detention may be.
The House of Detention, which some
day may live down an opprobrious
name and be known more as publicly
maintained House of Refuge, has be-
come one of the valuable agencies Of
the municipality It's police work is
founded on an enlightened philosophy
which may not be wholly accepted to-
day, but will be tomorrow. In future
years one may expect to see modern
House of Detention occupying one of
the buildings planned for the municipal
center. But the pressing problem today
is to find new home to serve ade-
quately during that interval, which
may be painfully prolonged, between
the time that the District government
must quit its old home and move into
the new.
The House of Detention is already
experiencing the vicissitudes of this in
terlude. Some months ago a hungry
steam shovel devoured the mansion at
Fifteenth street and Ohio avenue which
had been used by the Woman's Bureau.
The District authorities would do we'll
to give the important problem of new,
though temporary. location the study
that it deserves. The House of Deten-
ton has been homeless long enough
Evening star., 1929-01-03

always proved herself to be throughout
his stormy career at both ends of the
Hudson.
Mrs. Moskowitz has one quaint claim
to womanly distinction. She is not
afraid to acknowledge in her Who's
Who" autobiography that she is fifty
one years old. She quits Democratic
politics for private business. 1t does
not seem likely, in this augmenting age
of women in public life, that any one
of her conspicuous abilities will perma-
nently be permitted to devote them
exclusively to her own interests.
Evening star., 1929-01-03
Germany Under the Yoke"

| President Hindenburg and Chancellor
Mueller in New Year day utterances be-
fore the Berlin diplomatic corps made
stern demands for liberation of Ger
many from 1.-The foreign yoke" They
were referring to the reparation bur-
dens which the Reich is obligated TO
carry under the Dawes plan. amounting
/ for the current fiscal year to two and a
| half billion gold marks year.
The foreign yoke" is in particular
the continued occupation of German
territory by French British and Belgian
troops, pending the final fulfillment OF
Germany's reparation commitments.
These legalize the presence of allied
soldiery in the Rhineland, the Saar and
the Palatinate for graduated periods ex-
tending over number of years to come.
If the Germans were able to liquidate
their full indemnity Indebtedness before
the expiration Of the provided occupa-
tional periods their territory would be
denuded of foreign forces correspond
ingly sooner. France availed herself OF
a similar privilege in the case of the
crushing indemnity Bismarck imposed
upon her in 1871.
The Reichs longing for "full restora-
ton of self determination, as voiced
by President Hindenburg, is compre-
hensible one. In Germany's case that
restoration is contractually provided
for, both in the treaty of Versailles and
by the Dawes plan. 1t is unlikely to be
such as the heads of the Reich govern
ment yesterday INDUCED themselves.
President Hindenburg subtly suggested
that ideals of peace" can only be de-
veloped by "free peoples" The con-
verse of that militant thought of course,
is that peace will be menaced until the
ideals" to which Germany aspires-
the recovery of her occupied territory
are achieved.
The world will not go far wrong In
concluding that the New Year day ebul-
IlblOIlS Ill lllc w dooC WClC
to coincide with the imminent convok-
ing of the international commission for
reorganization of the reparations plan.
They were designed, in other words, to
create an atmosphere favorable to SYM
pathetic consideration of Germany's
plea for revision of reparations down.
ward.
The patriotic words of President Hin
denburg and Chancellor Mueller should
be read along with the fourth annual
reparations report rendered by Agent
General S. Parker Gilbert in Berlin on
the selfsame day. Mr.. Gilbert pays de-
served tribute to Germany's loyalty and
punctuality in meeting all her repara-
ticn payments to date. But even more
significant, in view of the Reich spokes-
mems lamentations, is the agent gen.
erals assurance that Germany can con-
tinue to pay.
mo question can fairly arise" says
the dispassionate Mr.. Gilbert, ''in the
light of practical experience thus far,
as to the ability of the Reich to provide
the full amount of its stanSard con-
tribution according to the plan"
Evening star., 1929-01-03
Pan-American Incident Shows
Growing Feeling Against War

based on DEGREES, invasions and settle
ment and land sale claims"
The Louisville Times sees nothing I'm
the land-lust argument between the two
countries which involves honor" while
the Duluth Herald states: Society will
never be on solid ground until 1t realizes
how much more precious than property
are human life and human happiness.
Taking account of the fact that Bo-
livia now has no outlet to the sea, the
Oakland Tribune says the disputed ter
ritory is of value to that country be
cause its possession would confer rights
to a river and a route toward the sea-
Bolivia wishes access to the
Paraguay River and its route to the sea,
and there Is little chance it will be
satisfied until some such concession is
made"
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AS an outcome of the whole matter,
the New York Evening Post urges some
permanent institution at hand to meet
lust such crises as that which so nearly
brought war between Bolivia and Para
quay" A step forward is noted by the
San Antonio Express in the plan Ito
enlarge the powers of the Washington
and Montevideo Commissions, whom the
Gondra treaty 1929 created, by au-
thorizing them to undertake concilia-
ton. Now they are confined to ascer-
tanning and reporting the facts of dis
puteS between signatories.
From the first threat of hoStilities,"
advises the Cleveland News, "let it he
remembered, the weight of the United
States Government was on the side of
peace and amicable settlement" while
the New York Times praises the wis
dom with which our State Department
acted. in the fact that Secretary Kel-
logg did not send any appeal or protest
of his own to Bolivia and Paraguay,
but contented himself with transmit
ting the note ordered by the Pan-Amer-
ican Conference at Washington"