Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

practical sides Of our national life
(boaSting many august names, Is
carrying on great tradition.
The Princeton Triangle Club, start
ed 81 years ago by Booth Harrington,
now has very fine theater, known as
the McCarter Theater, more than half
the cost (nearly half million), hav-
ing been contributed by Mr.. McCarter
S8. 1t seats about q thousand persons
and is said to have the edge on all other
college theaters.
THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.-THE
present indication Is that the Naval
Conference viii achieve . treaty effect
ing important limitations Of arma-
ments and important regulations for
submarine warfare; that 1t will not eff
feet important reductions, but will, on
the contrary, allow certain extraordi-
nary construction, i.e., building up to
realize the ratio allowances instead Of
scrapping down to the same end. APP
parently our tranScendental gesture at
the Washington Conference Is not to
be initiated. Apparently too, in view
Of the probability of rejection of such
provisions by our Senate, the treaty will
not contain political provisions Of a
security character, making toward put
ting teeth In the Kellogg BRAND pact
or what you like.
II X Il
NOTES Cardinal Merry del Val,
one of the most distinguished eccleSi-
astics of the past 80 years, is dead at
IS. His most important service was as
papal secretary of state during the
ponti1lcate of Pope Plus x. from 1908
to 1914. In that role he was the center
of much strenuous controversy, being
an extreme conservative on the larger
issues. He was man of extraordinary
scholarship within the limits proper to
an ecclesiastic, of exquisite manners,
great conversational ability and charm.
He, was of a distinguished family, his
father being Spanish Ambassador to
Great Britain, and his brother, the
Marques Alfonso Merry del Val, at pres
ent holding that post.
Ahmed, formerly Shah Of Persia, died
in the American Hospital at Paris on
February a at the age of 80. His early
death appears to have been the result
Of high living and it was his absentee
ism and persistent and undignifled pur-
suit of pleasure in Europe that he owed
his dethronement. by resolution of the
Persial Malls, in october, 1925. He was
the seventh and last monarch of the
KaZar dynasty, which had ruled Persia
from 1779.
The Minseito, or government party,
won sweeping victory in the Japanese
general elections of February 20. The
minor parties were hard hit. Japan
seems to be moving fast toward a gen.
uine two-party system, whereas the OPP
poSite seems to be true In Europe.
Negotiations looking to new Anglo
Egyptian treaty will commence March
"a, when an Egyptian delegation headed
by Nahas Pasha, the Egyptian premier,
will meet Arthur Henderson, the British
foreign minister, in London.
Arrived at MOntevideo en- route home
from his Antarctic expedition, Sir Hubert
wilkins reports as follows: Six nights
made by one or other of his two hydro
planes, partly over land, partly over
sea. In all $500 miles flown; discovery
of 200 miles Of coast and two islands
previously unknown; and correction o.
certain reports made by previous
explorers.
DR.. j. B. Collip, chairman OF the de-
partment of biochemistry at McGM
University, Canada, and one Of the CO.
discoveries of insulin, Is reported 70
have isolated, purified and standardized
hormone from the placental gland,
the beneficial effects to be expected from
the application of which, according to
the official announcement, may scarce
ly be overestimated." Precisely what
are the effects expected, has not been
disclosed. except that apparently certain
disorders Of women should be especially
benefited.