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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

in the building. NAMES Of the members
of the School BoardNan others: Some
Of the furnishing Is copied 8 from
antiques in Mr.. Young.s home. As the
school is to be a center of coEnu1unfty
life. the assembly hall Is equipped with
moving picture screen and pictures
are shown twice weekly All con-
veniencss are Afforded including two
swimming pools. A teachers house,
beautifully equipped and of the same
style OF architecture. adjoins tine school
building.
W. e. ~
A. II is nearly cylindrical in form
and runs through the hollow vertebNal
column. Nerve cells are found on the
inside of the cord and nerve fibers are
found on the outside.
@. What is "pasteurization" IN. G.
A. PaSteurization, simply defined, Is
the heating Of raw milk to tempera-
ture of i42 to las degrees Fahrenheit.
holding at that temperature for 80 min
utes, following which period 1t Is rap
idly cooled to SO or 40 degrees.
@. How can black be removed from
golf balls?--F. G.
A. immense balls in solution of two
tableSpoonfltls of I've to a pint of cold
water, which will loosen the outside
paint. Remove. scrape of paint and
repaint with gol( ball paint Be sure
solution is cold.
@. What is the purpose of the Inter-
national Conference on Bituminous
Coal?-M. r.
A. The third conference will be held
in November 1881. Its purpose is To
improve the condition of the coal in
dustry The economics OF new methods
and processes will be studied, as we'll
as the condition of the industry as
whole.
@. Where is Patrick Henry of Revo-
lutionary fame buried?-G. e. F.
A. He is buried at Red Hill, his es-
tate, which is located about 80 miles
south Of Appomattox, Va.
@. Please describe the medal sent by
the Pope to Edison.-C. F.
A. The medal is slightly larger than
a half-dollar coin. The diverse side,
which bears the Pope's profile in bas-
Plus XII. Pont An. *" On the re-
verse side of the medal Is shown the
Vatican City, and above 1t the papal
coat of arms is supported by two cheru-
bin. The inscription reads "A Civi-
tate Vaticana Condita. Ammo l." which
is translated as From the foundation
of the Vatican State, the first year"
The gift of the medal followed the
presentation to the Pope by Mr.. Edison
Of specially made Ediphone.
@. Where is Mount Lefroy?-E. B.
A. It is In the Canadian Rockies near
Lake Louise. II is crowned with .
glacier.
@. How much nicotine is there in
tobacco2-A. NJ. o.
A. The quantity of nicotine con-
tanned in tobacco varies from 2 to 8
pc. cent, the coarser kinds containing
the larger quantity, while the best Hs-
vana cigars seldom contain more than
2 per cent, and often less. Nicotine
does not appear in tobacco smoke. 1t
is split into pyridine and cellodine. OF
these the latter is said to be the less
active, and TO preponderate in cigar
smoke, while the smoke from pipes con-
tains q larger amount Of pyridine. The
percentage of nicotine varies with the
kind of tobacco and with the district
in which it is grown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05

trip had to be called of, because the
exploits Of the ship had aroused much
interest on this SIDE of the ocean. But
viewed from the broader angle it is
probably better for aviation that the
cancellation was made. Good weather
can hardly BE- expected at this time of
the year, the hours of daylight are
short, and the 7erformance of the sea-
plane since leavn.S Lake Constance can
hardly be termed satisfactory. Despite
the fact that new motors have been in
stalled of greater horsepower than those
formerly used, the calculated speed has
not been reached. In fact, none of
the hops have been made at a pace
much greater than ninety miles an
hour. A one-hundred-mile-a hour
cruising speed was estimated with the
new equipment. So it is probably
better that the flight is postponed until
the circumstances are more propitious
and the chances of success enhanced
Next year will be time enough for
Americans to view this mammoth Ger
man creation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05

avowed purpose of letting Congress
know what the deadlier of the species
thinks about the noble experiment. The
meeting, which will be held in the Ma
sonic Auditorium, is sponsored by the
District Council of the Women's Organi-
zation for National Prohibition Reform
The vivacious eX-Republican National
Committeewoman from New York, Mrs.
Charles H. Sabin, is national chairman.
Miss Bell Gurnee of Washington is
chairman of the District Council. One
of the leading spirits-Somehow that
time tattered idiom has meaning of
its own In connection with prohibition
is Mrs. James F. Curtis, ardent
Hooverite, who presides over one of
Washington's most popular political
salons. Other women of name who
have declared war on Volsteadism in
clude Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mrs.
Joseph Letter, Mrs. John F. Dryden,
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke and Mrs Will
liam B. Mason. Tonight's shindig will
be addressed by Senator Tydings of
Maryland. Democrat and bachelor;
Representative Mary T. Norton, Demo-
crat, OF New Jersey, and Mrs. Carroll
Miller, Democratic National Committee
woman from Pennsylvania.
A devotee of these Observations, who
saw the writer's account of the demise
of Washington" late G. o. P. weekly,
deposes and says, 1T was Bills that
put the paper on the blink-Bill Irwin,
Bill Allen White, Bill Hinshaw and bills
that couldn't continuously be met owing
to shrinkage of the circulation list"
Meet Raymond Benjamin, San Fran
cisco lawyer and close friend of Presi-
dent Hoover, of whom Washington and
the Republican party soon may hear
mere He is scheduled to arrive here
shortly after January /, take a desk at
National Committee headquarters in a
capacity not yet identified, and gen.
orally browse about. Mr.. Benjamin is
expected to blossom out, with the rest
of the Spring flowers, as Senator
Simeon d. Fess' successor in the ma
tional Craftsmanship. Benjamin was
active in the 1924 Coolidge campaign
and more so in the 1923 fight for
Hoover. From 1918 to 1922, he was
chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee in California.
~
A shining light of the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association. Miss Eliza
beth Eastman, is Washingtons new
woman lobbyist in chief. That, of
course, isn't her official designation, but
it typifies her job. for she has just
become chairman of the Women's Joint
Congressional Committee. This is the
busy body which acts as a clearing
house for the legislative interests of
Is national women's organizations. It
has Just celebrated its tenth ami
versary at banquet, which was amused
no end by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cats
personal account of her contacts" with
members of Congress, years ago. when
women were q new, unknown and un-
influential factor in politics. Them
days is gone. Miss Eastman has rep
resented the Y. w. G. A. National
Board on the w. j. c. c. since 1923,
so she's not an amateur in the game
that's played on Capitol Hill.
(Copyright. l930.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
In Again. Out Again.

M. Andre Tardieu threatens to be-
come as famous as the immortal Ind
ana railroad engineer WHO reported
that he was eff again, on again, gone
again" in terse ep,tcme of the lat st
mishap to overtake his freight train
The French Nationalist who became
prime minister in November, 1929. left
offic, in February, 1890, only to be
recalled in March, fell at Paris for the
second time last night.
It was an adverse vote in the Senate
lat to 1879, which toppled his premier
ship this time Usually French cabi-
net only takes the consequences" when
it suffers a vote of confidence in
the Chamber of Deputies. Tardieu de-
cided to resign. with his ministry, as
minority of eight votes, on a ques-
ton of financial scandals within the
government, determined him to quit the
Quai d'Orsay. Not many details of
these Irregularities have seeped out
abroad but they had resulted in the
resignation of three members of the
Tardieu cabinet.
Under heavy fire in the Senate on
account of them, an attack in which
M. Henri de Jouvenel. the Borah of
the French Upp.r House. had the lead.
the government succumbed. General
dissatisfaction with the cabinets policy
- . ~..o,,,na4 IF ,,a+iopaI Ifpeo Sipnsr
Paris dispatches narrate. also con-
tributed to the adverse vote in the SEN
ate. Only recently NJ Tardieu risked
trial of strength in the Chamber on his
huge military budget and emerged
handsomely supported.
President Doumergue is in conference
today with parliamentary and party
leaders with reference to formation OF
a new government Many authorities
think Tardieu will eventuate as his
own successor. At moments Of cabinet
crises in present-day France thought
automatically turns to those veteran
statesmen, Messrs. Poincare and BRAND.
as premiers. Each has held the ofhce
times nnumerable-Briand. dozen
times. Poincare has just survived a
serious illness BRAND is old and,
though not enfeebled. is tired. I'm
questionably he prefers the influence
he has as foreign minister. He has
almost become indispensable in that
capacity.
M. Tardieu, who has steered the
French ship of state through tortuous
times during his year of practically UNI
interrupted reign, may be playing cum
ming politics by resigning on a Senate
vote. He may have better knowledge
than anybody else of the difficulties
of uniting a government under any
other leadership than his own. Presi-
dent Doumergue may well decide that
the debonair Frenchman, who was
high commits sioner to the United States
during the World War, is still the
man of the hour for La Belle France.
If he comes back from Elba second
time his prestige is bound to be vastly
fortified.
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ticn falls down. Scholars at their vari-
Gus ages are herded into the educational
processes and exposed alike to a mass
OF subjects, IN all of which they are
supposed to function at minimum
mental deXterity.
We claim that great future mathe-
matician might be a perfect dub" at
music and yet revolutionize society and
the world when he finally gets into his
stride.
The master violinist of 1860 will shed
few tears, th'n, because he cannot
work" his problems in algebra or log
srithms now. So why should he be har-
ried with them now?
Exceptional cases such as these. it
may be admitted, speak for themselves,
but what about the average person,
child or man, who is by no means a
genius?
He, too, is the victim of much mis-
applied exposure to differing forms OF
knowledge, but this will not be admitted
CT him as readily as it is of the person
with some outstanding gift.
The boy of plain or mediocre talents.
If he docs not learn" subject dis
tasteful to him, is likely to be called lazy
or Sinking
H. becomes problem" to his elders,
when all the time he is a problem to
himself. but for a different reason.
To the serious-browed educators.
creakingly trying to do their plain duty,
he is canary who won't sing and must
BE- made to sing.
To his parents he is likely to be
horse who has been led TO the water but
who can't be made to drink
To himself he is a failure-but he
isn't!
81 do not like your tunes" chirps the
canary.
There is something the matter with
your water" neighs the horse.
Oftentimes the canary and the horse
are right. and the hard-headed singing
master and the driver entirely in the
wrong
And 1t is interesting to note that mod
ern education is trying the best it can
to get away from the slavedriver (but
it Is for your good. my childD methods,
and Is getting back to the simplicity of
education as fast as it NAV.
The University of Chicago, under
the leadership of It's young President, is
inaugurating a system of educational
division and responsibility which will
place more responsibility on the scholar
and less on the educator.
i
however it may turn out in practice with
the average American. The song is to
the singer and comes back most to him,
once wrote Walt Whitman.
The book is to the writer and comes
back most to him.
Teaching is to the teacher and comes
back most to him. Learning is like
wise to the learner, and comes back
most to him.
1t is only when the learner puts him
self into what he is learning and gives
back to It something of himself that
education amounts to any more than a
mere keeping of child under super
vision, and out of busy commercialism
which has no place for his raw and I'M
developed talents.
Only the boy who by natural gift is
able to look upon cosmic rays in their
true light will be able to speak of them
without qualifying adjective of covered
disrespect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
A'RAal Opportunity.

Often one will hear a young man
complain that opportunity has never
knocked at his door. The truth Is
that opportunity knocks not once but
bitten, but the noise she makes is not
heard in the general hurly-burly Of
the age.
So it will be with the 18th Biennial
Exhibition Of Contemporary American
oil Paintings Of the Corcoran Gallery
Df Art. Those who love art wiz seize
this opportunity, but thousands more
win 60 to the movies instead.
Yet here Is . real opportunity for
the ambitious young man or woman,
The motion pictures and the dance hall
have their legitimate appeal in fast
moving age, but time should be left
Hrr the old cultural forces.
NO Slng man or woman. with tastes
- xek uniformed. can say IN advance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
An Atlantic Flight Cancelled.

The hating progress Of the DO-X,
largest seaplane in the world, toward
America from its home port on Lake
Constance, in Switzerland, has evidently
been halted for quite some time. A few
weeks ago the gigantic boat which last
year startled the aviation circles by
carrying one hundred and sixty-nine
persons aloft for an hours cruise started
out from Lake Constance for the am
bilious Atlantic attempt. With its twelve
motors aggregating seventy-two hundred
horsepower purring smoothly, the big
craft covered the distance to Holland
in good shape and the success of the
over-ocean flight was freely predicted.
1t was then, however, that the series OF
mishaps began which have resulted in
definite cancellation of the trip.
The first of these accidents was of
trivial character, but demonstrated the
dlficulty of handling so large sea-
plane. A small boat. endeayoring to
get alongside, smashed into one Of the
stabilizing pontoons as the DO-X swung
suddenly around while at anchor. The
damage was repaired in a few hours,
but the second stage of the flight to
England had to be postponed for sew
eral days on account of Indictment
weather Reaching Southampton finally,
the big ships motors began to give
trouble and 1t was only with much
difnculty that the take-oh was made
for Bordeaux. Due to the engine trout
bic, this short hop was not completed
before dark and the DO-X passengers
and crew had the unique experience of
taxing" for some fifty-eight miles on
the water and spending the night
aboard. Temporary repairs were made
on the balky engines and week or so
later the craft settled on the waters
OF Lisbon, which was to be the start
ing point on the transatlantic flight
Here the final and most damaging mis-
hap occurred. Fire broke out in one
Of the small engine rooms and one-half
of the enormous wing which supported
the DO-x In flight with its fifty-ton
weight was completely burned on.
Il Is unfortunate that the American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.
They were discussing cosmic rays.

They were discussing cosmic rays.
THE darn things go in every direc-
toni" said the first schoolboy.
These acquainted with the temper OF
the young of the land will not impute
irreverence to the youngster. The use
of the adjective darn" was simply
gesture, so that the other might not
think he took the cosmic rays too seri-
ously. but was able to put even such
things in their places.
What do they. look like?" s5ked the
second boy.
II don't know" replied the first
"All I know is that they go IN every
direction"
Don't you know what they look
like?" The tone was one of suspicion,
combined with accuse ton.
'Oh. yesl" blurted the other, with
fine disregard for consistency. You
can't see emf
And there we had to leave the cosmic
RAYS.
We suspect. however that the boys
knew more about them than most OF
US do.
We could not help wondering, how
ever, If this Is fair sample OF Educa-
ton AS 1t Is Taught.
AS learners we dabble with so many
things. One may suspect that the talk
OF men many years the senior OF those
boys would contain little more real in
formation.
Education is rather an exposure of a
pupil to knowledge than an absorption
OF anything
1t all depends upon the child, whereas
most children have the idea that all
depends upon the teacher.
in thew
nit children, especially Older ones, to
get this idea and the youngsters are
wrong in holding it.
II something could be done to play
up" education as it is. and not as many
believe it is or should be, we would
have no one going around saying, as
some do, that college is place to send
young men between the ages of 18 and
IS years when the world at large has
no place for them.
4 4
One of the troubles with education is
that the topics are IN part too old for
the pupils
This belief of ours is based, not on
an assumption of superknowledge by
the aged. but exactly on its opposite.
We believe that many facets of knowl
edge are too deep for the greet mass
Of mankind, or for varying tempera-
ments.
There are some of us who might
study mathematics until We were
thousand years old. without ever know
ing any more about mathematical
processes than we do now.
To others stocks and bonds and high
finance" in general are subjects as
strange as If they were written in Greek.
The classical Greek, itself, to thou
sands of students, is as difficult as If 1T
were language broadcast from Mars.
On the other hand, many man by
nature adapted to chemistry. physics
or kindred subjects can make neither
heads nor tails of art, literature or
music.
\
Any more than casual exposure Of a
pupil to q subject for which he is not
fitted in nature is mistake, accord
ing to our way of looking at such
things:
And it is just here that formal educa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
Keen Interest i'm New Plan
At the University of Chicago

students who know their subjects
should not be retarded by arbitrary re-
uuirementsn and the Fort Wayne
News-Sentinel thinks that there Is
much to commend the proposed re-
forms over the dry old courses which
still have too wide a following in the
American educational systematic dry
old courses alternated with a ridiculous
excess Of diverting extracurricular ac-
tivities and fever-heat interest in the
gladiatoTial contests attending foot ball
championship endeayors.''
This scheme" concludes the Balti-
more Sun, calls for an undergraduate
department from which the student will
graduate, not when he has accumulated
fixed number of credits, but when
ever he is able to pass comprehensive
examinations The Sun continues:
Recent years have been full of at
temptS to reform the higher education
and to awake freer experiment IN 1t.
Some such efforts notably the Hop.
kins plan-haye been dropped; others,
such as the University of Wisconsin's
scheme, have failed to date to provide
any decisive answers to such critics as
DR.. Flexner. The definite and sweep
ing reorganization of one of the coun-
try's largest and finest universities
should, however, prove Of immense in
terest and value"
Chicago alumni will recognize IN
the present innovation" according to
the Manchester Union, evidence of
the failure of the previous policy Of
this institution, under which the final
examination was abolished, szid the
student was given his rating on the
basis of credits. In the effort to cor
rect system that obviously was lack.
ing, it is question whether the Chi
cago authorities have not gone to the
opposite extreme in abolishing q fixed
standard of requirements. There are
many who will be ready to maintain
that the real test to the student comes
after he leaves the college, and who
will see in the new system process
Of elimination that Is apt to prove dis
advantageous TO many earnest stu
dents"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
Wants Law to Require
Cleanup of Vacant Lots

To the Editor of The Star:
I was interested in reading about
Senator Capper's bill to compel prop
erty owners to clean up vacant lots.
Possibly all doctors would agree that
an attractive environment Is desirable
for i'll human beings. think that the
Senate, the District Commissioners, or
whoever is responsible, should be fined
for the condition of the grounds sur
rounding the tuberculosis Hospital.
There is ravine and large area of
ground covered with trees facing on
Fourteenth street for a block that could
be transformed into a scene of beauty.
At present it is an unsightly dump.
If were patient in that hospital,
think it would hasten my death to
look at those grounds. I think the Dis
trict government, or whoever is respon-
sible for those grounds, could set an
example for civilians.
If the Senators are interested in civic
conditions in the National Capital, let
them take Fourteenth street car ride
to look at those unsightly grounds.
A valuable civic work could be ac-
complished by Transforming this unat-
tractive dump into scene Of beauty for
consumptive patients to enjoy.
BLANCHE c. HOWLETT.
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Never "Negligence."

Circuit Court jury in Arkansas has
just held that golfers slice is not
negligence and has acquitted the de-
PENDANT whose badly directed pellet
injured fellow hnksman 1t is a
verdict with which all golfers will agree
A slice is never negligence. To most
dsVotees Of the fairways and greens it
is a tragedy, regardless of whether it
hits anybody or not
OF course, there have been what are
facet!ously called trained" slices. The
happy posSessor of this particular type
simply knocks his ball at left angles to
where he intends to go and joyfully
watches it curve to the right and grace
fully settle into the middle Of the course
1t is a ragedy to him If he does not
slice, but 1t can never be called negli-
gence if he should happen to hit the
ball straight.
Undoubtedly, the victim of the slice
who was ruled against in court felt
aggrieved at being struck with golf
ball That is only natural. Even the
soft balls-t the kind that can be easily
cut in half by almost any sort of a
topped niblick shot--are not so soft"
that any particular pleasure can be de-
rived from coming in contact with them
in full fight. However no golfer who
owns trained" slice is going to be
happy if he hits the ball straight, and
neither is the golfer who suddenly finds
himself the possessor of one of the big
gest slices in captivity likely to whoop
with happiness. The victim of the ball
may be in physical distress. but the
tearing. agonizing, heart breaking, men
tai distress of the golfer can almost
match it.