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Evening star., 1932-09-04
Afghanistan!s Trade

A FGHANISTAN, located in the central part
of Asia in mountainous country. is a high
1y inaccessible land, yet despite this it has
fairly well developed agriculture and industry.
1t cannot be reached by water navigation, as
no navigable rivers extend into its 250.000
square miles of territory, and only a single
railroad makes connection with the outside
world
In its manufacturing activities, the country
produces for export principally woven goods,
such as clothes, silks, felts carpets and various
articles manufactured from goat and camels
hair
In agriculture it has two harvests year.
Wheat, barley peas and beans are sown in the
Autumn and reaped the following Summer.
while rice, millet and corn sown in early
Spring are harvested in the Fall.
The fruit crop Is fairly heavy, grapes,
peaches, cherries. ounces, almonds, figs, april
cots and plums being exported in good guam
tity, while horses, cattle, hides and tobacco
also enter into the commodities sent abroad.
Evening star., 1932-09-04
Aeohan Harp Easily Made

THE Aeolian harp, which has passed largely
! out of use, Is an easily constructed instru-
ment which should appeal to the Imagination
and ingenuity of all who like to tinker around
with tools
1t Is constructed by series of fine wire or
catgut stretched tightly across wooden frame
or sounding box which is to be fitted into an
open window. The length of the strings or
their diameter is varied in order to give a
number of different notes. The taughtness is
attained by the same method as the tuning of
q violin.
When the wind passes through open win
dow with harp in position, a great variety
of singing tones come from the harp some
times bright, sometimes mournful and some
times in weird wailing
Evening star., 1932-09-04
Thousands of the Unemployed Are
Panning for Stray Grains of the
Precious Metal Along Colorado
Rivers, Where a Days Toll May
Yield Only so Cents.

They gave instruction in field methods Of
Identifying gold and minerals which resemble
gold; in the theory and the manipulation of the
gold pan, the horn spoon, the rocker and the
sluice box; in the proper method of handling
a retort for the separation of gold and mercury;
in the geology Of placer deposits, and in meth
ods of locating likely looking ground.
Attorneys explained the way to gain the right
to work placer claim.
DROSPECTORS- with years of expert
ence In scratching the rocky gulches and
panning the running streams for gold-took the
classes to the banks of the Platte River for
actual experience.
Employed men and women paid $3.50 for the
course. The unemployed were taught free.
Nearly 1000 men and women from Denver
took the course. Throughout the State, instruc-
tion was given to almost 10000. Among them
we're coal miners for whom there was no work
underground. college and high school graduates
who knew nowhere to turn for work, house
wives whose sons and husbands were idle and
scattering Of men and women seeking adventure,
thrills or literary material.
The school lasted several weeks. The grad
yates" are now out along the streams, testing
their new-found knowledge-some succeeding
some failing.
PUT the fame of the schools has spread,
- carrying across the Nation the cry of gold.
From every corner of the land letters Of inquiry
about the new bonanza" are pouring in to the
Colorado School of Mines, city and State Off
cials, Employment Committees and mining
men in and near Denver
So great has been the food of inquiries to
the School Of Mines that they are being
answered with mimeographed copies Of a reply;
a warning that here is not opportunity to get
Evening star., 1932-09-04

rich, that the placer fields are no opening for
those who lack experience strong physique,
a knowledge Of geology and a claim to which
one has a legal right.
On every hand mining warning
against the exaggerated reports of huge sums
to be made with the gold pan and shovel.
One conservative mining man advanced the
belief that the thousands now whipping the
streams of Colorado are not averaging Is cents
a day.
Other estimates-probably more accurate
are that the average runs in the neighborhood
of so cents day.
John T. Joyce, Colorado commissioner OF
mines, points out that gold production in Col
orado in one year will total about SIS, 5,00O0 000 OF
which about 900 is from placer operations.
He estimates the average for the thousands
along the streams is under so cents day.
uTHERE are individuals" he said, making
] q living wage panning gold in Colorado
today. But they are miners, equipped with
knowledge Of where and how to placer"
Joyce warns against outsiders fiocking into
the State to seek living with a gold pam
Miners, prospectors and the States own un-
employed have staked or leased virtually all the
worthwhile placer claims, he says.
Out among the men and women who actually
are rocking the pans back and forth and shovel
ing the gravel through sluice boxes one meets
a variety of stories.
There are men in golf knickers and sport OK
fords, in overalls and work shoes, in khaki and
rubber boots There are women in house
dresses, in trousers, in mother hubbards.
There are men who have sifted the pay dirt
from the gravel for years and made living
wage and men who have been accustomed to
drawing a weekly envelope from shop or factory
But the bulk of those who can be found any
day along the banks of the Platte River or OF
Clear Greek, within or near the city limits Of
Denver are men who hope to make wage that
will tide a family over rough spot
Evening star., 1932-09-04

Mint in Denver, it was announced year ago
that under instructions from Washington, gold
in the natural state would be purchased in
quantities as small as two ounces at a time
worth about SAL. The previous minimum pur-
chase was 500.
THE order of the Government was the an
swer to steadily increasing tender of
small amounts of gold Planners, working to
meet the necessities of living. often found it
impossible to keep going until they had 500
worth Of the precious flakes.
THE permission Is being granted" read the
announcement, "for the purpose of giving what
encouragement we can to placer mining during
the present season"
An indication of the response to this invita-
ton can be found in the fact that the number
Of gold deposits at the mint in Denver has in
creased 81 per cent in the first six months of
1882 over the same period of the last year.
The value Of the total deposits increased only
slightly-from $6,711. .421 95 in 1881 to Sc, 6,725,-
332.05 this year-but the number of tenders
has grown steadily. indicating that the indi-
vidual producers who are panning the streams
for wages are playing an increasing part.
4 hNING men. prospectors and geologists
w were watching the trek back to the hills
and the gold-bearing streams and they began to
suggest that here lay one answer to the unem-
ployment problem.
The Citizens Employment Committee Of
Denver accepted the idea. Glasses were or
ganized to learn the intricate business of find
ing and capturing gold
Manuals and textbooks were provided and
arrangements were made to obtain equipment
at cost Experienced mining men gathered their
students In school rooms and expOunded on the
theories Of placer mining.
Evening star., 1932-09-08

By the Associated Press.
ITHACA, N. Y, September 8.-Ex-
periments proving a sniff Of pleasant
odor improves eyesight temporarily were
reported to the annual meeting Of the
American Psychological Association,
which opened at Cornell University to-
day.
An unpleasant smell or the pain OF
pinch on the hand is equally effective
for greater acuity Of eyesight. The eX-
periments were reported by George w.
Hartmann of Pennsylvania State COL
lege.
Back Of the experiments lies one of
the new messages OF psychology Tor the
person who tries to overcome his nat
ural handicaps.
The message Of the eyes is that they
do not function virtually alone in see
ing, as commonly supposed, but that
sight really is only part Of the unity
OF senses" In other words, q person
seemingly crippled In some needed
talent can replace part Of this lack by
training some other part Of his being.
The eyesight observation bear out
previous reports to the psychologists by
DR.. K. S. Lashley of the University of
Chicago, who trained rats to do stunts
and then removed the sections Of their
brains known to control the ability to
do these things. The rats proved that
they still could learn fairly well with
other parts Of the brain not usually
called upon.
A discovery that human eyes are sub
3ect to mfelt Jars which cause them
Evening star., 1932-09-08
SCIENCE SAYS PAIN OR SMELL
MAKES EYESIGIT STRONGER
At Least Temporary Effect Revealed by Experiments
Reported to Psychological Convention.

sometimes to see intermittently, like
the shutter of movie camera, was re-
ported by DR.. Milton MetfeSsel OF the
University of Southern California, who
credited the discovery to Mr.. Wichart,
his assistant. The locker does not
realize he is seeing intermittently. The
effect is called stroboscopic seeing.
THE jarring from walking" said DR.
Metfessel, motions of the jaw in talk
ing or vibrations set up by an airplane
motor all could produce intermittent
vision. Under certain conditions the
pulsing Of the blood in and about the
eyes can produce the same effects.
These experiments suggest a possible
explanation Of revolving wheels OF
automobiles and propellers of airplanes
perceived as apparently standing still. :"
The well-known aversion to starting
hard job is just momentary matter
OF heart beat and oxygen, as explained
by Herman j. p. Schubert Of the Uni
versity Of Buffalo. In the first few min
utes Of muscular work the heart beat
and also the intake Of oxygen rise
rapidly. They climb q hill. But after
that for q long time they ride along
without much change on level plateau
Of effort.
This may apply to mental work as
well as physical, for Louis B. Hoising-
ton of the University Of Oklahoma de-
clared discrimination" to do something
sis nothing other thansa state of ten
sion in the muscular sylkem. Thus he
linked will, desire, nrpose, aims,
ideals and attention" as IN some degre,
related to the muscular system.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
ANTI-SAL0ON LEAGUE
TO OUTLINE STAND
Committee to Draft Statement
Giving Position in This
Years Elections.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Executive Committee Of the Anti
Saloon League decided today to appoint
a subcommittee to draft a statement
clearly outlining the purposes and posi-
ton Of the organization" on this years
elections.
DR.. Arthur ]. Barton of Wilmington
N. c., chairman of the Executive COM
mittee, was instructed by the group to
appoint q committee to draft state
ment to be issued before adjournment
tomorrow afternoon.
Aside from this decision, the COM
mittee attended to routine reports in its
session today.
Among those attending the meeting
were Bishops w. NJ Ainsworth Of Bir-
mingham, Ala, and c. G. Richardson
OF Philadelphia: A. B. Frost of Ken
lucky; George Wilson of Illinois; Fred
Victor, superintendent Of the New York
Anti-Saloon League; S. P. Mcknight
superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon
League; A. C. Millar of Little Rock
Ark; Arthur Briggs Of San Francisco;
William M. Cochran Of Baltimore; S
P. Booth OF Mitchell, S. OAK; Homer
w. Tope of Philadelphia; Bishop James
Cannon of Washington; James K
Shields of Newark, N. j., and officials
of the. Anti-Saloon League headquar-
ters in Washington.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
w. NJ. NELSON BURIED
IN MT. OLlVET CEMETERY
Former Assistant Paymaster at
Government Printing Office
Was Native of Illinois.

Funeral services for Wellington M
Nelson, 50, former assistant paymaster
at the Government Printing Office, who
died Tuesday at his home, 3133 Con-
necticut avenue, were held today at st.
Thomas Apostle Church. Burial was in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Nelson was native of Metropolis
III. His early life was spent in New
Denver, B. c., and before coming to this
city in 1896, he had lived for a time in
New York City. In 1926 he resigned
from his position in the Government
Printing ONCE, but rtturned to the
Government service short time later
in the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion. He was retired from this branch
in 1890. He was a member of Column
bia Typographical Union, No. 101.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Agnes v.
Nelson, he Is survived by two brothers,
Hugh and Charles Nelson, New Dem
yer, B. G.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
LIVED AS MRS. BERN.
Attractive Blonde in New York Believed
"Other Woman" In Executives Life.

NEW YORK, September 8 R.-An
attractive blonde, about IS years old,
who made her home for nearly 10 years
at a West Forty-fourth street hotel, but
who left there several months ago with
out giving forwarding address, was be-
heved today to have been the other
woman" in the life Of the late Paul
Bern Of Hollywood.
She lived at the hotel as Mrs. Paul
Bern" She paid her bills. with checks
from Paul Bern" in Hollywood. She
seldom left her room, taking all her
meals there; and she seemed to have
few acquaintances.
At the hotel today it was said Bern,
the film executive whose suicide is now
puzzling Hollywood, visited her about
once year, the last visit being in Oc-
tober, 1881. Mrs. Bern left the hotel
early last Spring, shortly before Bern's
marriage to Jean Harlow of the screen.
She said she was going to visit friends
in Los Angeles.
Very little was known Of her despite
the fact that she had been a guest of
the hotel for decade. She was said
to have had minor roles in stage plays
before meeting Bern.
Stories from the West that she srlf-
fered from nervous disorder which ne
cessitated sanitarium treatment were
received by hotel employees with sur
prise. They said she showed no signs
OF nervous indisposition.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
PEACOCK EXTENDS
LEAD IN GOLF MEET
Tops Nearest Opponent by
II Strokes, With 18 Holes
to Go for Title.

Roger Peacock, youthful Indian
Spring golf star, virtually clncned the
District amateur golf championship to-
day by scoring brilliant rs in a gale
Of wind over the course CT the Chevy
Chase Club. Peacock led his nearest
opponent by II strokes, as the fourth
and final found of the 72-hole title
chase started this afternoon at Chevy
Chase. He has played 54 holes of the
championship in I20 strokes.
Harry @. Pitt of the Manor Club, the
defending title holder, played the course
in 78 over the third round today, and
was in second place as the final found
started, with 54-hole total of 232. One
stroke behind Pitt was John C. Shorey,
also of Manor, who added an 81 today
to his first days total of 152 for a 54-
hole aggregate of 233. Maurice Nee,
17-year-old Manor Club star, was one
stroke behind Shorey, with a third
round rs. and 54-hole total Of 2S4.
With Peacock so far in front that
his victory in the championship was
practically a certainty, the main fight
over the final round this afternoon set
tied down to decide the winner of sec
ond place. This apparently lay be-
tween Pitt. Shorey and Nee. with Mar
tin F. Mccarthy of Beaver Dam having
chance to nose out all three. Nc
Carthy added IS today to his 159
total Of Yesterday for 54-hole aggre-
gate of 237. Cards of the other favored
contestants were E. T. Rice, Washing
ton, 161-78-2s9: William E. Shannon,
Columbia, 161-8l-242; A. S. Gardiner,
jr., Columbia, 161-84-245; Franklin
Parks, Congressional. 160-86-246.
Pitt started the third round today
with 7 on the first hole. three over
par. He was out in A and came back
in "a. for his IS. Peacock made the
first nine in 40 and the last nine N IS.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
ROOSEVELT QUIZZED ON BONUS.
Waters Asks Candidate to State His
Position.

NEW YORK, September R. -
Gov. Roosevelt was asked yesterday in
letter by Walter w. Waters, COM
mander Of the Bonus Expeditionary
Forces, to state his position on the
bonus question.
Waters told the Democratic presi-
Dental nominee that on a recent trip
to the Middle West he had found lex
treme confusion existing in the minds
of thousands of ex-service men" as to
Roosevelt's position. A great majority
OF them, Waters added, are under the
impression Roosevelt favors immediate
cash payment, "and feel that, in fair
ness to them, you should without delay
state clearly your stand on this particu-
lar question"
Evening star., 1932-09-08
u. S. CHAMBER BEGINS
JOB-SHARING SURVEY
Preliminary Report by Special
Committee Is Expected by
September %.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
A special study of how to give Jobs
to more people by letting all work less
time was begun today by a committee
for the United Chamber of Commerce
Paul w. Litchfield of Akron, Ohio
chairman of the committee, said he
expected his group to have q prelim-
mary report ready for the chambers
board of directors when they meet here
September 1924.
Litchfield said surveys showed about
5000 companies in 81 branches of in
dustry already have placed in operation
definite plans for spreading or increas-
ing employment" Among the things
his committee will consider, he added.
are reduced days per week, alternating
individuals or shifts, reduced hours per
day, rotation of days, or shortened shifts
in continuous operation"
The Chamber Committee, Litchfield
said, will cooperate with the group set
up at the recent business conference
called by President Hoover. Instead,
however. Of limiting its work to the
present emergency, Litchfleld's group
will consider the effect Of a possible
longtime change in working hours.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
COTTON PRICE DROP
DEPRESSES STOCKS.
Bearish Government Crop
Report Causes Losses of
So to 81 a Bale.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 8.-The stoci
market churned about -feverishly ir
large-scale trading today.
Although bulls made strenuous effort.
to keep the list on the upgrade, heavy
profit-taking swept through the list
and prices generally weakened when
cotton futures broke So to 81 bale in
response to larger Government crop
estimate than anticipated.
After a number of leading stocks had
sold at losses of 81 to 81, however, the
decline was checked. and some issues
recovered partially.
United States Steel dropped $3.50 to
$50, and Santa Fe, which had been up
50 to $64, reacted to close to so. Amer
icar Telephone, after rising $1.50 to
$l21, fell back under $119. Dupont slid
back about 81, going under $45. Rails
were strong during the morning and re-
tained a part of the gains. Norfolk g.
Western rose Sc to STA and lost all but
a small part Of its gains in the midday
reaction.
Trading was at such hectic pace
that the ticker fell few minutes in
llCdlS dI tAllCcs klC Va tklC
first two hours was at the pace Of
100000 shares for full session.
Cotton broke So to 81 bale on the
Government crop report, which placed
the indicated yield well above trade
expectations. At the reopening Of the
market following the report, contracts
were sold heavily.
Prior to the report the market was
ruling slightly above the previous finals,
and its general firmness was attributed
to expectations of bulhsh government
estimate. Due to reports of insect dam
age and deterioration, the trade had
looked for an indicated yield of around
10,700, 900 bales, or in line with some of
the recent private estimates.
Heavy liquidation of long cotton that
had been carried over the report came
into the market as well as general SELL
ing from many sources. Mills and the
trade in this country supplied most of
the support, but their purchases were
made on a scale down, which gave the
market rather ineffective support.
October contracts sold at 8.25 cents,
of $3.25 a bale; December, 825, off
$4.10; January, 8.35, of $3.95, and. July,
8.83, of $3.05.
Evening star., 1932-09-08
HOME LOAN BOARD
DELUGED BY PLEAS
OF SMALL OWNERS
Continued From First Page.)

which had led him to propose a Co.
day secession of foreclosures to give the
regional banks time to open for busi-
ness
I'VE found that in many cases." he
said, receivers Of closed institutions
had called perfectly good mortgages
that were not in arrears. They needed
money to pay dividends to depositors,
and often the home owner, though not
in arrears was sent a notice to pay
interest and principal even though his
payments were quite up to date.
II do not criticize the receivers, who
are only doing their duty. but our OBJ
ject is to enable the home owner to
get some money somewhere else to
take care of the receiver. We think the
clearing house scheme will take care of
such situations"
Mr.. Fort explained that banks as a
rule. lend less on a home than the
building and loan associations do, con-
sequently the former should. in many
cases, be easily reflnanced. The chair
man also cited cases where settling Of
estates requires home reflnancing and
others, where the institution holding
home mortgages is insolvent, and 1t Is
necessary that the mortgage be paid
The chairman said the board was
preparing general program for a
periodic examination of the regional
banks. BENJAMIN H. Wooten, Dallas,
Tex, formerly chief bank examiner of
Texas, today took up his duties as an
associate with the beard, and Mr.. Fort
said 1t Is planned to bring on four or
five experts In this field from various
sections which have different laws con-
corning banks and building and loan
examination. to coordinate this work
for the IL home loan bank districts.
A similar set-up will be made for
home appraisals. he said. Experts in
this field will be drawn into the or
ganization to formulate regulations for
the appraisal of home property.
Eventually" he added, I'VE plan to
send some Of these men from here to
the banks as a part of their STATS, SO
that we can KEEP the banks intimately In
touch with our views"
The chairman said that since the
board started functioning a month ago
It has received and handled more than
10000 letters, the correspondence being
mostly applications for positions. loca-
lions OF regionAS banks, which already
nave been selected; appointment of d.
rectors and for general information.