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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
BATH WATER WARMTH
FOUND VITAL FACTOR
Athletes and General Public Said
to Need to Study
Temperatures.

IOWA CITY (P.-A bathtub ther-
mometer may soon be a household fix
lure as the result Of experiments being
conducted at the University of Iowa.
To determine effects of warmth and
coldness OF water on the physical con-
dition OF athletics is the primary purpose
OF Q study being made by DR.. w. w.
futile, university psychologist. But, it is
pointed out. Saturday nighters and
findings. - '-'o
For instance, to keep the bodily func-
ions normal during and after the bath.
temperature Of the water should be IS
have shown.
Then again changes In the bath tenn
perature have produced variations In the
heart beat. heat of the body. and in
breathing, the experiments reveal. Hot
water, TOO, tends to produce illness, DR..
futile declares.
The psychologist hopes to fix the tenn
perature at which swimmers will be able
to make their best marks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
CAT HUNT R0USES FURY
:: OF WOMEN IN LISBON
Agents of Law to Exterminate
Stray Animals Are Put
to Flight.

i. LISBON P).-Frantic scenes were
enacted at ALBANIA, the capitals slum
district, when cat snatchers'' made
stheir appearance to enforce the decree
-of determination of stray cats.
q. AS many of the felines seized were
mot strays, Infatuated women put the
agents of the law to fight and carried
s&heir beloved pets to safety.
. The destruction Of cats has raised
such chorus of protests that the gov
sernment is considering amendment of
the law. In future all cats must wear
collars and be licensed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
SATISFIES MUSIC LOVE
BY WORKING IN HOTEL
Briton Hears First Glass orchestras
While on Job of Polishing
Wine Glasses.

LONDON. England R.-The high
cost Of going to concerts is a problem,
John Gordon Luco, 10, admits he has
solved.
He has found job as pantryman in
one of the leading hotels here for the
sole reason, he says, that 1t enables him
to listen daily, without charge, to a
first-class orchestra.
His work is polishing wine glasses,
more than 500 every day of my life"
Between glasses he composes songs, sew
eral Of which have been published.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
WOMEN ON PORTUGUESE
FORCE MUST BE TALL
Most Applicants Ruled Out by Re-
quirement They Must Be Six
Feet in Height.

LISBON, Portugal (F).-Half q dozen
6-foot Amazons viii comprise Portugal's
first corps Of police women.
The requirements that they be at least
6 feet in height ruled out most Of the
$50 women who applied. Candidates
also must be not more than IS years of
age, unmarried and possess q college
education.
before undertaking their duties Of
watching over erring women and minors.
Later, when the force Is increased,
police women viii be attached to from
tier stations to appFehend female SNUG
giers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

serting his family defended himself IN
the ground that he married the Girl
after dark. He was not joking. A mar
riage In England outside the hours be-
tween In the morning and 8 in the
AFTERNOON Is no more legal than a
whisky and soda bought at o bar after
regular hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Urges Flower Decorations.

BUDAPEST P).-Mme. Horthy, wife
OF the regent of Hungary, has started
a movement for decoration Of all houses
in the kingdom with flowers in connec-
ton with the Summer-long national
festival in honor of st. Emery. Best
displays will win prizes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
HOME WRECKED BY POKER
Creates Divorce Precedent In Turk
ish Courts.

:. ISTANBUL OD.-The great Ameri-
scan indoor sport of poker has created
"a divorce precedent in Turkish courts.
"a wealthy merchant here won q di-
svorce on the plea that his wife's
epenchant for dallying with poker chips
chad resulted In complete neglect Of her
'..home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

Australia will reduce its expenditures
for national defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
Will Hold Music Fete.

VENICE (P).-Venice's first biennial
international music festival" will be
held September to IS with seven con-
certS, three of orchestras, three of.
chamber music and one of ancient
chorals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22

you can get stiD more revg ,e and
perhaps use II to plant some - .Erees
along our beautiful streets"
Now, having gone that far 1t seems
strange that the park roads could not
be included in the program. OF course
the parks are purely a Federal project
laid out on scale impossible for a
community of this size to support. But
then the City of Washington is also a
Federal project and is laid out on the
same grand scale. So, if Washington
streets and all departments connected
with them can be maintained by Dis
trict taxpayers, it seems passing strange
that the subcommittee would so hard
heartedly turn down the park propo-
Sition.
Another two cents, making 1t six
cents in all, could be added to the gas
tax, which would take care of the mat
ter nicely.
But, why go up by such picayunish
stages? Make the tax equal to the
price of gasoline. Then Washington
motorists might be able to buy a new
wing for the Capitol or, perhaps, add
another story to the White House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Faster Railroads.

Science has not yet achieved means
OF transport over long distances which
rivals the railroad passenger train for
the combined qualities of cheapness
speed, safety and comfort.
Despite the competition of air lines
and motor BUSES, it promises to hold
its supremacy for many years to come
1t still is far from the end of it's pos
sibilities. 1t need not concede much
to its younger rivals. Better locomo-
tives, better coaches and better road
beds are in prospect.
Consider, for example, the quality OF
speed. The airplane, of course, moves
faster. But an experiment on one Of
the German railroads the other day
shows that the difference may not be
so great as it seems. A railway coach
shaped like zeppelin with a five hun
dred horsepower airplane motor and
driven by propeller, was tested near
Hamburg. Carrying twenty-five passcn-
gers, it attained a speed of ninety-five
miles an hour within couple of minutes
after starting. The passenger airplane
cannot do much better-and the railway
coach can offer room and comfort to
passengers which the flying machine
hardly can hope to rival. 1t is hard to
believe that the maximum of comfort in
travel is not still a primary considera-
ton. If there is anything Unborn in
man, it is dislike for restraint Of move
ments and cramped quarters. There
are few who have not experienced it.
The distaste for restraint often reaches
pathological intensity and becomes
one of the best defined and most fire.
quently encountered Of the phobias Ex-
periments with infants show that hold
ing the arms is one Of the two acts
which will bring rage response.
This bit of elementary psychology
means much to the railroad. 1t can
give its passengers a degree Of free
dom of motion beyond the utmost pos
sibilities of any of its rivals. They can
not combat it on this ground. Now it
is in temper to challenge them in
their own field Of supremacy-speed.
Entranced by conquests Of science in
new fields, we often make the mistake
of assuming that the old institutions
have no future except to become obso-
lete. We consider their histories closed
chapters. In no case is this more falla-
cious than in respect to the passenger
train. There is good reason to believe.
looking at the prospect in the light of
the fundamentals of human nature,
that in the future the railroads will be
carrying a greater percentage of the
passenger traffic of the country than at
present. Speed is the god Of the day.
But it is only one god in a pantheon
and there is no immediate prospect of
q monotheism in human nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Moratorium and War Debts.

The presence in Washington this
week of DR.. Hjalmar Schacht, former
president of the Reichsbank, has given
rise to widespread discussion both In
America and Europe of the possibility
Of q German PREPARATIONS moratorium.
Inseparably linked with that question
Is the matter of allied Europe's war
debts, not only those owing "over
there" but more particularly the ones
which are carried, as funded obliga-
lions, on the books Of the United States
Treasury.
Though DR.. Schacht is now a pri-
vate citizen, it was natural for President
Hoover, Secretary Stimson, Secretary
Mellon and Gov Meyer of the Federal
Reserve Board to receive him and to
| talk international finance with him.
DR.. Schacht does not foreshadow that
Germany, in the immediate future, will
seek to avail herself of the Young plan
| proviso for a cessation of reparation
payments in case of need. But he
| acknowledges that the time may come
when she will have to do so.
The Bruening government announces
in Berlin that it has no moratorium
plans, except the tentative ones it is
authorized some day, to make. The
international Bank at Basic likewise
denies knowledge Of any moves in that
direction, though London and Paris
insist a moratorium move cannot be
! long postponed. For the present, the
$125, 100000 foreign credit just ap-
proved by the Reichstag will tide Ger
many over pressing fiscal necessities.
Americas interest in any Young plan
revision is immense and direct. Sue
cessive administrations at Washington
have always insisted that reparations
and European war debts to the United
States are wholly separate propositions.
No matter whether Germany tempo
rarily defaults on her obligations to her
European creditors, Washington has
consistently and persistently held that
we should expect our European debtors
to keep on paEing interest and sinking
fund installments under agreed terms.
Just how feasible and tsnable that
contention on Americas part would be,
| once conditions supplanted theories, is
! question. Uncle Sam would hardly
try to squeeze blood out Of turnip. If
European exchequers. with budgets
ordered on the basis Of Germanv's
scheduled annual payments of $425.
100000 and upward, we're suddenly to
ind themselves in disarray as a result
of a Berlin moratorium, it would GER
tainly be dificult for the United States
to enforce the stipends we now receive
from the Old World.
DR.. Schacht, who quit the Reichsbank
in protest against the Young plan, is
probably seeking to educate" America
and the world at large when he voices
the view that "a complely restored
Germany" i.e., q Reich relieved Of
crushing reparation burdens, will actual
ly be more profitable to creditor coun-
tries than annual payments in cash.
The American cancellationist school
uses more or less the same language
when it advocates the wiping out of
the billions Europe owes US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22

terials - -Yovs%. A distinction be-
tween the G mus and the dullard 4:
that the first sees innumerable details
in nature which are invisible to the
other, although he has the same sort
and mechanical quality OF eyes.
IT, kindergarten seeks to bring about
a coordination of eyes, ears and brain
From this fundamental accomplishment
of education the details Of learning the
alphabet or comprehending the Ejnstein
theory will come of themselves. With
out 1t there will be only the vaguest
sort Of understanding Of anything.
1t is a grave mistake to evaluate the
stages of education according to their
time sequence. One might arrive at q
better valuation by turning the figure
upside down, with the kindergarten at
the top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Kindergartens.

The uncertainty which attends the
kindergarten situation In washington
Is regrettable.
The underlying cause may well be
lack of understanding Of the functions
Of pre-school education. The kinder
garten, it Is likely, seems to many per-
sons a luxury in education. 1t does
not ut into the orthodox pattern. Why
should the public pay for teaching
children how to play? We are ac-
customed, through centuries Of practice
to picture schooling as beginning with
the primer.
Actually, of course, kindergarten edu-
cation is no luxury. If the choice were
offered advanced educators of abandon
ing the pre-school training or the last
years of high school there is little doubt
Of the decision they would make, from
the standpoint Of utility. The purpose
Of the kindergarten is TO teach children
how to use their eyes and ears. This
after all, Is the foremost object Of any
school, from nursery school to univer'
sity. The mastery OF any speciflc ski
is secondary, or follows naturally from
training of the senses. The interval be-
tween the first steps and words and the
first grade is the ideal time for this all
important teaching. 1t Is then that eye
and ear habits are becoming fixed
They may be well established by thu
seventh or eighth year-and II the!
happen to be bad habits the schools
may never succeed in breaking them.
La.nentably few adults have learned
to use effectively their eyes and ears
That is why there is such a vas
number Of superficial individuals in th'
world-men and women who NOV
through life as through vague, dull
dream, incapable Of coping with realit.
because their eyes do not see reality
incapable Of thinking because thei
senses do not bring to them the sight
and sounds which sre the primary ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Bulkley's modest manner and unob-
trusive speaking manner. Though
named Robert, friends call him Roy.
~
It's great to be President Of the
United States and be able to keep folks
from parking their cars at your own
curbstone. Since West Executive ave-
nue. (the short street between the White
House offices and the State, War and
Navy Building) was recently repaved,
the east side of the avenue, just along
side the Executive Mansion grounds, has
been made permanent no-parking
zone. There are also new rules about
parking in front Of the presidential
Offices. Only the cars of those. having
engagements with the President" may
come into the area surrounding the Of
fees and remain there. Other cars must
deposit their loads and leave the
grounds. Cabinet officers may park in
definitely.
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of
the Interior, has on his desk weighty
bit CT metal in shape and contour iden-
tical with spikes driven in railroad
ties to hold the rail in place. The spike
is of shimmering silver which came
from the mines of Nevada. Its head
gives evidence of vigorous mauling. Its
lip, in fact, is nearly broken of. The
spike is the one Secretary Wilbur drove
not long ago on the desert seven miles
from Las Vegas New, as the symbol
of the Inauguration Of the construction
of the greatest dam of all time, a struc-
ture which on that occasion he christ
ened Hoover Dam. The driving of the
spike started the construction of the
railroad which will lead to the dam.
Asked how he came to knock the spikes
lip to pieces, Wilbur blames it on the
punch he's acquired In the medicine
ball cabinet.
X X \ X
Political wisecrack from Massachus-
etts-Schoolboy to father: Dad, how
many mills make a cent?" Father
mot darned one, son."
(Copyright, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Flogging Penalty for Bandit
Has Some National Support

prison, how would it be easier to send
them to the whipping post2o
First catch your racketeer,SS declares
I the Baltimore Evening Sun. The Pitts
burgh Post Gazette AYERS 'Unques-
tionably there are moments when
practically every one might favor the
lash for some particularly mean
criminal, but on reflection there is little
public sentiment for the spread" The
Hartford Times maintains that "fiog-
ging brutalizes the administration of
the law" and the Rockford Morning
Star concludes: I'VE do not declare
any sympathy for the gunner and
racketeers who would come under MFR.
Understands lash. We merely sug-
gest that If society hasn't come any
nearer a solution of the problem Of
penology than a return to the Middle
Ages, it Is in a poor way as q science"
ut is very apparent" states the
Albany Evening News, that the
racketeer has surrounded himself with
many safeguards, including some al
liances in high places that contribute
to the general freedom of such
racketeers; Flogging Is not the solu;
feels sure that "a whipping post will
not break the alliance between politics
and crime" Referring to Delaware's
experiments with the whipping system,
the Charlotte Observer sees signifi-
canoe in the fact that bandits and
gangsters driven out of Chicago or New
York appear to rotate between the two
States, with particular caution to give
the State of Delaware a wide berth"
Viewing the matter impartially, the
Roanoke Times sets forth the argii-
ments with the statement: 1.-THE cat
has been employed for centuries in
England and malefactors are said to
stand in wholesome dread of it. That
authorization of flogging as a punish
ment for certain specified offenses is
invariably attended by the danger of
abuse of authority by prison attendants
not qualified for it is quite true and
this is one of the most valid arguments
against it. The argument thai fog
ging breaks spirit and kills the self
respect of the felonS on whom it Is APP
piled leaves us quite unmoved."
The Geneva Daily Times says that
whipping would be something definite,
painful and shameful to think about"
but that ito be effective the lash would
have to be applied promptly and IN
hexibly," and the "chief defect Of our
punishments now is that they are 10
uncertain and too far away" The
San Antonio Express feels that applied
before the bandits and racketeers grow
up, 1t undoubtedly would do some good"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Parasitism in Trade
Channels DeD1Ored

To the Editor Of The Star:
am delighted to know there are
thinkers among US. I had doubts. Mr..
Chamberlains reply to my plea for
more cash in the channels of trade
gratified me immensely. There is only
one thing that would crafty me more
namely, an attempted refutation from
one OF those orthodox financial the
or1stS, whose economic vocabulary only
few years ago consisted of Just two
words. thrift" and imitation" Where
are these gentlemen now? Why don't
they do their stuff as of yore? I have
had many ravishing experiences in an
extra eventful life, but the piece de re-
sistance for me would be to make a
historical dessert Of some daring gold
bug who still imagines that all business
would come to an end If the money
lender could no longer chisel out his
come to an end If a righteous flsc were
installed. No doubt of that But it
certainly wouldn't be business! I sus-
pect 1t would be just the unearned graft
that now keeps all honest enterprises
on tiptoe.
To give the workers and producers
the full value of their services would
be sort of treason, accordingfto the
curious accredited mentors who nov
Anioiy w AAA oNE stAlIlh4ilS IOT US, 10
adjust our national finances so that
every one could work at reasonable pay
and under fair conditions. and thus to
make AL persons develop their man
hood and womar1hood and cease to lean
upon others for support, Is bad ethics
according to the current of opinion
dictated by the best minds But,
really now, Is 1t any wonder that no
one dares oppose my challenge? How
could any one for an instant clothe
parasitism In beauty? "The runish-
ment of parasitism is parasitisn1," said
one sage. have never yet met single
happy unearned increment taker!
The irony is not so much that the
parasite only achieves his own undoing,
but that he is allowed to rule the roost
and thus undo the affairs of useful
creative and industrious men and
women. Here is the explanation Of our
upside down world!
More cash would right this weird con-
dition-instantly and justly! And more
cash for those who support the whole
world upon their backs would indi-
rectly divorce the parasite from his
grandeur complex" - the healthiest
thing that could happen to him. Who
then would be hurt by a democratic
fiSc which would reduce interest taking
to a minimum?
Is 1t possible that observation-disclosures
are open-minded enough to listen to
millennial messages? II so, the
path Is straight and the going smooth,
for there is Q way-and perfect way
out Of all our troubles! F. GIAICH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Campaign Period Needs
Market Improvement
From the Hartford Courant.

From the Hartford Courant.
The persistent decline in the value
of the securities listed on the New York
Stock Exchange is inevitably a matter
OF concern to the administration.
While it cannot reasonably be held re-
Sponsible for the continued fall In
prices, it cannot but recognize the I'M
favorable psychological effects of the
decline. With the congressional cleo
tions but three weeks away, the mood
OF the voter may be such as to endanger
the prospects of the party in power.
Such an attitude may be condemned as
emotional, but the last presidential cleo
ton proved plainly that emotions play
an important part in the making Of
political decisions. Nothing would so
brighten the outlook as an improvement
in the prices of securities, which, al
though 1t might not give cause for
great optimism, at least would make
pessimism seem unjustified.
In these circumstances the confer
ence at the White House between PreSi-
dent Hoover and officials of the New
York Stock Exchange was probably
bound to be described as an effort on
the part Of the administration to bring
its influence to bear for rising mar
ket. While President Hoover is not
said to share the ridiculous belief Of
Senator Tess of Ohio that the market
is being manipulated by Democrats for
political purposes, he is said to be con-
cerned over the short selling which has
been carried on recently, and is said
to favor its cessation by compulsion If
necessary. Such rumors might be set
aside as worthless but for the activity
Of the administration, under leadership
of the Secretary of Agriculture, in vir-
tually compelling the Board of Trade
in Chicago to forbid short selling of
grain by foreign governmental agencies,
following the short sale of wheat by
the Soviet.
The record of the administration with
regard to the Board of Trade unhappily
lends color to the belief that it is
anxious to put an end to the short
selling of securities on the stock ex-
change, but it is not likely to proceed
so historically against American bears"
as 1t did against the Russian. Such a
venture would be most unwise, not only
because as Richard Whitney, the presi-
dent of the exchange, has recently
pointed out, short selling is legitimate
operation, but also because the admin
istration can scarcely hope to reap
political advantage from 1t. While a
turn in the market would be a great
help at the present juncture, its effect
would be discounted If it was admittedly
the result Of political interference for
political purposes.