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Evening star., 1934-06-03

What luck would he have had getting away
from his imaginary nine foes in buckram if he
had had to drag the thing on the ground behind
him. like the spider in the picture? ~
As a matter of fact, these round -bellied
spiders do have lot of trouble, even at their
present size, If they find themselves on the
ground. They are much happier in their webs.
where their "corporosites" are clear of OBJ
stacleS.
This whole matter of the contrasting methods
of body support-internal for vertebrates ex-
ternal for invertebra ates-insures that never
the twain shall meet" on the field of equal size.
For as the external-support system prevents
the insects and other creeping things from
becoming very large, so the internal-support
system keeps the boned animals from becoming
very small.
[ JUaIMING birds, mice and shrews are about
! as tiny as animals can be and still have
strong enough internal skeletons to support
them. Any bones smaller than a hImming
birds would have to be made of something
besides bone aluminium, maybe?) to have the
needed strength.
We hear of the giant water bugs killing email
fish and frogs. of giant tropical spiders that
murder small BIRDS but aside from exceptions
like these We are not likely to have our blood
chilled by any such encounters, SO unnatural
seeming to us. Only the giants of the small
world can overcome even the tiniest citizens of
the large world.
Another factor in keeping the small creatures
small would be sheer lack of breath. Fallstaff
(againD puffed and painted enough after any
exertion to which he was forced. But like all
Evening star., 1934-06-03

the world of grass" have suddenly grown to
human or superhuman size, bringing up with
them correspondingly magnifled, the strength.
the appetite, the fierceness, the other qualities
that so impress us when we see them In the
little"
Thus a man-SiZed ant dragS of a string OF
freight cars. A man-sized spider devours half
a dozen cows. A man-sized pinching bug routs
q company of soldiers.
H. G. Wells, in his earlier stories, like Food
of the Gods and War of the Worlds" did
this kind of thing very we'll and he had plenty
of torerunners and has had plenty of successors.
Such writers always leave out of considera-
tion sometimes naively, sometimes deliberately
and for effect one or another group OF phySi-
cal limitations that make such awesome, often
grueSome, miracles OF unnatural history I'M
possible in actual fact.
As we'll for us that the little monsters can
not grow 10 be big ones, for they probably
would if they could. The whole trend of ami
NAL development seems to be toward greater
and greater size, so long species is evolu-
sionally on the upgrade.
ONLY after a given line has reached its
~ climax and started toward extinction do
its members take the reverse road back
toward dwarfism Not always even then; did
not the dinosaurs die giants, and are not
the elephants doing the same thing? If the
bumblebees and the tumblebugs could travel
that course they would most likely, even if
their end were destruction.
WHY is it that the insects and the spiders
and the other creeping things do not grow up
to our size and thus conquer the world in a
few days instead of the centuries or millenia
granted them by such scientific prophets as
DR. L. O. Howard? Why is such scene as
that depicted by the man versus spicer for
ever impossible?
Why must cur tiny enemies conquer us (f
hey In at
in hordes, devouring our substance by billions
of tiny hungers instead of a few big ones?
There are several answers to these questions
that We know of and possibly a good many that
we don't
To begin with the basic anatomical plan OF
the insects and their many-legged kin is not
one that permits of indefinite expansion. We
vertebrates wear our skeletons inside our
bodies, which has permitted us range In
size from little shrewS and hummlng Dirds, that
are actually smaller than some insects, up to
Goaths like the extinct dinosaurs and the
living whales. AS we pile on muscle and fat
and other tissues our skeletons develop in pro-
portion to support them.
But the insects and their relatives wear their
skeletons on the outside-the horny shells We
are skeletons as well as armor. An insects
muscles are stretched inside its hollow joints,
not over the outside of practically solid rods OF
bone, as with US.
Every increase in an insects size has to be
gained by much larger proportion of its
weight devoted to this outer shell-skeleton If
Its strength is to be maintained
For the bigger hollow shell is the weaker
1t is unless you increase its wall thickness. 1t
Is easy, for example, to crush a large celluloid
rattle or play ball; much less easy to crush
pfng-pong ball.
The few backboned animals that have made
Evening star., 1934-06-03
1t May Cor
BY DR.. FRANK THONE,

OMANCERS with a modicum of train
ing in science and much more than a
modicum of imagination have for
many years made a favorite theme
of the situation where insects, or
spiders. or other little monsters of
Evening star., 1934-10-07

T he Chifons
are peri e C t in
every detail. d
thread; 42-gauge:
high splic c e d
h e els: plated
soles;; picot tops.
Evening star., 1934-10-07

the Religious Liberty Forum, con.
Quoted under auspices Of the church,
will hear q well known speaker dis,
cuss, In its moral and religious bear,
ing, some vital issue engaging public
attention. DR.. Rufus w. Weaver,
minister of the First Baptist Church,
is in charge Of the program.
A Canadian chaplain during the
World War, Prof. Macintosh was de-
MED American citizenship by a de-
cision Of the United States Supreme
Court which attracted international
attention. In applying for natural-
ization papers he asserted he would
not bear arms in a war which his
conscience declared to be unjust.
In his address before the forum,
Prof. Macintosh will discuss the issues
involved in his recent case.
Evening star., 1934-10-07


square. Two huge fountains with
three decks of cascades were erected
in the piazza, fanked by two columns
studded with thousands of lights.
Referring to Yugoslavia, he said
"There are no great possibilities OF bet
tering our situation with our neighbor
in the East"
He said Italy had been wounded
to the heart" by what he called a
campaign in the Yugoslavian press.
The crowd cheered for long minutes
when the premier f1outed attack which
the Yugoslavian press had made on
the vaior of the Italian Army.
Will Defend Austria.
He turned to Austria:
I'VE have defended and will defend
the independence of the Austrian Re-
public. This independence has been
consecrated by the blood of the late
Chancellor Dollfuss-a little man with
q great heart.
Those who say Italy is aggressive
and wants a protectorate over Austria
either know nothing of what they are
talking about, or lie knowingly"
Then Germany:
Although it is not conceivable that
European history can develop with
out Germany" II Duce said, never
theless there are certain currents,
which give us the impression that
Germany wants to wipe us from his
tory"
He said he would refer to Germany
only in passing, since his address was
limited to countries touching Italy'S
borders.
The Italian premier declared rela-
tions among European nations had
become better now that the Disarma-
ment Conference had failed, declaring:
THAT tenacious citizen (Arthur
Henderson, president of the Disarma-
ment Conference) will not succeed in
any manner in resurrecting the cada-
vers of the Disarmament Conference,
Evening star., 1934-10-07
insult JURYMEN
HEAR SERIES TILT
Bailiff Censors Program as
IA Men Stay in Hotel
Suite.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
+ CHICAGO, october 6-The IA for
seotten men of the insult mail fraud
lease jury got break today. OF duty
fover the week end recess, they were
;allowed ITO follow the world series base
ball game on the radio.
In fact, with bailiff censoring the
program, they were allowed to listen
to anything that didn't mention the
insult case.
Samuel insult, sr., the 74-year-old
utilities executive who is central fig
ure of the $l00, 100000 case, took the
afternoon off and went to the Worlds
Fair. The jurors couldn't leave their
five-room suite in the Great North
ern Hotel, where they'll be virtual
prisoners, for from three to five
months.
There are IA jurors to insure that
IL will be on hand, come what may,
to return a verdict.
The court room was deserted except
for lone deputy United States mar
shall, on guard over the pile of busi-
ness records which the Government
has brought in as ammunition. A
guard will patrol the court day and
night to watch out for fire, thieves,
or any souvenir hunters rugged
enough to carry of 25-pound
ledger.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
SUNDAY STAR FWAsHINGToN D. G. OCTOBER 19sEPART

association yesterday outlined the fol-
lowing free classes: Group /, Eco
nomic Trends Of the Day." led by DR..
Josef Solterer, Georgetown University;
group 2, Popular Science" led by
DR.. Charles Keulegan, Bureau Of
Standards, and c. A. Cabell, chemical
research worker; group 8, "Commun-
ity Singing" including organization
of q chorus, led by Prof. Vladimir
Vasa, formerly of the University Of
Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Mrs. e.
F. Dorsey; group 4. Health Prob
lems," led by DR.. Evelyn Rider; group
S, Legislative Study and Everyday
Law Problems" conducted by Albert
Blum and Martin Beghosian under
the supervision of DR.. Arthur G. Cook,
and group 6, "Basketry" and use of
Evening star., 1934-10-07
which Is profoundly buried under q
weight of cannon and warships."
Century of Facism.


II Duce turned then to Italy's inter-
nal affairs, and said the twentieth
century would be the century of Fas-
cist civilization for Europe and
America.
In Italy he said the workmen have
come ever closer to the Fascist revo-
luton. Referring to a recent speech in
Bari, he said he meant at that time
| that labor would be guaranteed work
equitable wages, liveable houses and
the possibility Of bettering its situa-
| ton.
Controlled by the Government, >
he said, science must solve the prob
lem of redistribution of wealth. II
is most paradoxical and cruel to fine
misery in the midst of wealth.
Those who regard the past rather
than the future speak about the crisis
This is not a crisis in the traditional
| sense of the word, but rather a pass
ing from one page Of civilization tc
the next.
Cites Two Solutions.
There are two solutions: The first
is to collect and control all the
wealth of the nations; but this is not
the solution we are studying, because
We do not want to multiply by 10
the already enormous number OF
State employees.
"The other solution Is that which
is being employed-that is, the cor
porative FasciSm of producers-but
by producers do not mean only the
industrialists, but also the workers .
'Fascism reaches out to all individ-
uals with a corresponding responsible
ity of the state The last century
was ons of capital. This century is
the century of power and the glory
of work
Il declare to you that supreme
science has succeeded in multiplying
your possibilities and that this science
is controlled by the state"
Evening star., 1934-10-07

Plants in the Home" led by Mrs.
D. j. Miller and Fritz Zimmet.
Col. Frederic A. Delano, president,
has indicated that further plans Of
the association soon will be announced
He stressed the inforpiality of the
methods of instruction adopted for
the classes and said that the objective
of the work is to promote group think
ing and discussion.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
PEDESTRIAN INJURED
Colored Man Struck by Hit-and.
Run Driver.

Henry Clay. 4s, colored. 1900 block
of Ninth street, was severely injured
yesterday when struck at Sixth anc
M streets by a hit-and-run motorist
He was treated at Casualty Hospital
for a leg fracture and his condition
Is undetermined
: Another colored man, Charles Stew.
art, As, of the 1900 block of Twelfth
street, was treated at Freedmen's
Hospital for a leg fracture received
when struck by an automobile in
the 1900 block OF Fourteenth street
Evening star., 1934-10-07
RELIGIOUS FORUM
SPEAKER is NAMED
Prof. D. G. Macintosh to Talk on
Denial of Citizenship by
U. S. Officials.

Prof. Douglas Clyde Macintosh Of
Yale University will open the season
Of the Religious Liberty Forum next
Sunday at pm. in the First Baptist
Church Of Washington. He will speak
on Religious Liberty and National
Demands"
One Sunday evening in each month,
Evening star., 1934-10-07
COURSES OFFERED
TO ADULT GROUPS
Americanization School Associa-
ton Invites Enrolment Be-
fore Next Thursday.

Adults interested in informal study
are invited to register in the Ameri-
canization School Association Library
at the Webster Evening School. Tenth
and H streets northwest, tomorrow,
Tuesday or Thursday evenings.
An announcement issued by the
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Bus Fare Cut in Half.

MADISON, Wis. R.-What's all
this talk about rising prices?
For the first time since 1918. Madi-
son residents are riding buses and
trolleys for a nickel. The fare was
cut in half by temporary order from
the State Public Service Commission.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
DUCE'S REFERENCE
TO FRANCE DRAWS
MIRTH OF ITALIANS

(Continued From First Page.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
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BY DAN PARKER
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. 4.

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
MERIDEN NSILCO
CACEMEN TOPLAY
CLOCK 5 MONDAY
Jim and Bill Tracy Show
With Visitors in Y
Tilt Next Week

Rated one of the strongest shop
teams in Connecticut, the Meriden
Insilcos will make their Waterbury
debut at the Central YMCA gym
nasium week from tonight meet
ing Tom Carmody's Clock Shop
cagers Of the local Industrial
League in the lone basketball game
on the annual Clock Shop Night"
program The game will get under
way at 7:45 o'clock with dancing
following and continuing until
1880 o'clock.
The Silver City aggregation,
showing Jimmy Tracy, former Will
by high and Mohican N. Y. Acad-
envy star and his brother, Bill. ex-
Villanova guard, scored a II point
victory over the Checkers in their
first game at Insilco hall last week.
The probable lineups follow:
Clock InsiIcOs
Petrocione, RI .rf, Skubliskas
q. Lewis, If. If, Mastriano
HOLLIS, &C, j. tracy
Y. Carroll, re- .rg, Shaw
DeSp1ns, lg ........! .lg, w. Tracy
Referee-George Dillon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

League INCUBUS
High single 177-Gallagher, Mill
High three 415-Nelson. Swedish
Lutheran.
High game 622-Second Conre-
gational.
High team 1711-First M. e.
Games This Week
(Tuesday. February g.
Mill Plain VS. Swedish Lutheran,
alleys 1 and 2.
St Johns Luth VS. Bunker Hill,
alleys 3 and 4.
First Baptist VS. st Paul's M. E.,
alleys and 6.
"wednesday, February y
First M. e. VS. First Cong, al
leys 1 and 2.
Second Cong. VS. Prospect, alleys
8 and 4.
South Federated VS. st Paul's
Episcopal, alleys and 6.
Alley Collections
Second Congo by virtue of 3
game defeat of the First Cong
team still leads the league and is
now ahead of its nearest competi-
tor by games.
st Paurs Episcopals are all fine
fellows but nevertheless are the
big bad wolves of the Church
league. This past week they
gnawed two games out of First
M. e. when they shot their bolt
in the first game by rolling sos.
The second and third games
went to the wolves with Greatorex
and Dad and Junior Buxton doing
the pin getting in a big way. The
third game was q WOW of "a match
from start to finish with the Bux-
tonites topping the M. Els $50
with O. well earned COS, the high
game for the week.
South Federated showed it's
metal this week when 1t cut the
80 ddlc-girths of Wild Bill Curtis
Bunker Hill cowboys for two
games. So Feds were In there
from the beginning taking the first
game by 40 pins. losing the second
by 4, and winning the third by 81.
Northrup led with his 364 while
the hihest man on Bunker Hill
could get only al after chop.
ping enough wood to keep W. oil
warm for quite some time.
First Baptist took II on tho chin
from Jim Birds prospecting boys
v no were out for gold ana found
II In Thorn thar hills back OF al
lNys ono and two. Oscar swanson
eheered by the gold IN his wlfe'a
hair and charmed by tho duleet
tones IN her voice led his seekers
with u three pound nugget OF SsS
carat.
Tho boys from swedish Luther
am nullaa A snlnrL lPlok ihlH week
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05

League Records
High single-153, Bares, Cwoans.
High three-3S7, Hamel, Beau
Brummels.
High game-611, Rangers.
High team-16S3, Rangers.
Games Thursday, Feb s
Rangers VS. Cwoans.
"Y"-Nots VS. Beau Brummels.
The Rangers revenged them
selves on the Beau Brummels this
week for their defeat at the hands
of the "Y"-Nots last week. The
only decent game was rolled by
the Rangers when they were able
to hit the pins for 554 in the sec
ond game. Baisto, Coppola and
Adolph Perazzini were the big TIM
ers this week, getting 345. 323 and
317. Goodwin and Ranslow took
the ribbons for the Beaus with
their 326 and 800.
Dutch Veillette took the high
single honors and the high three
honors this week with 40 and 355
and by doing SO took two games
away from the once mighty
Cwoans. Reg Davis, Russ Davis
and Dutch did all the rolling for
the team this week and topped the
good work of Cambique and Bares
Of the Cwoans who finished the
match with 331 and 1922.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
TODANS
SPORTAPARADE. j..
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BY HENRY NC IGNORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

New York, Feb 5-UP)-Put-
ting the sports shot here and there:
Torrington, Conn, Duckey ponds
home town, is planning testimon-
ial dinner for him Nine years
ago, when the homefolks acclaimed
a hero in those parts after his
gridiron feats against Harvard
they gave him $500 diamond ring
Ducky probably appreciated
the gift of good running back or
an adept passer The rumor
that Greasy Neale nearly lost his
chance at the Yale backfield post
because Of his nickname is exag-
gerated -. True, 4ale.s socially
correct athletic officials didn't like
the sound of the monicker, but
their aversion to it was outweighed
by the luster of Greasy's past rec
ord as a coach Tim Lowry,
Northwestern football captain in
1926, also won his letter debating
This part of his college car
eer comes in handy now, for he Is
a member of the Evanston city
The two leading jockeys at Aqua
Caliente this season are the Messrs
hope they are not riding for a fall
Every regular of the 1924
Notre Dame team, which boasted
the immortal Four Horsemen. is
either prominent head football
coach or assistant coach In
addition, six substitutes on the "a
team found coaching jobs
Max Baer says the hardest punch
he ever took came from Jack
Dempsey during a training session
for the Schmeling scrap BIZ
Terry, New York Giants manager,
is willing to bet a hat that he out
hits Chuck Klein during the 1884
season Adolf Luque, whose
great relief pitching in the final
game was a feature of the 1888
world series, starts his 23d major
league season this year
Back in 1906, Mr. Whitman
gained cross-country automobile
speed record when he drove from
New York to Frisco in Is days and
a few hours Novelist Zane
Gray used to be a better than fair
outfielder with the Newark Base
ball club Larry MacPhail,
head man of the Cincinnati Reds. is
an alumnus of Beloit college, Mich
igan, and George Washington Z.
Mayor LaGuardia now occupies the
seat at Madison Square Garden
that Jimmy Walker used to -.
The u. 8. district attorneys office
here could put quite medley
sports team on the field In
the office work George Prann, Cor
nell's All-America quarterback;
Curtis Shears, olympic fencing ace;
John Manning, one of the finest
ends Georgetown ever produced.
and Joe Prendergrast, Princeton
gridiron immortal Ralph Met.
calfe. current "yorld's fastest hu-
man." IN a gifted public speaker
and Gene SaraZen has taken up
airplaning In a large manner . 4. I.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
OLYMPIC BID GOES
TO NEW COMMITTEE

New York, Feb 5-(UP)-Ger-
many's invitation to the United
States to compete in the 18th
Oympaid in Berlin in August, 1886,
probably will be formally accepted
shortly.
This was indicated yesterday
when the American Olympic COM
mittee, after a two-day session,
voted to pass the invitation to the
executive committee, a new body in
American olympic history, to de-
eide whether or not the United
States wau1d accept.
Ordinarily, accepting is a mere
formality. The question of whether
German-Jewish athletes would be
allowed to compete forced a closed
study.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-05
BOXING PROGRAM
LISTED THIS WEEK
IS COOD-LOOKING
ROsenblOOni and Ross Put
Crowns on BlOck-Le-
whisky Meets MasSera

New York, Feb. 5-CUP)-Two
title fights feature the boxing pro-
gram this week that is one of the
most interesting of the year.
In addition another champion
and a heavyweight contender also
will be sen in action.
Make Rosenbloom of New York
will defend his light-heavyweight
championship III a 15-round bout
at Miami tonight against Joe
Knight off Georgia while Barney
Ross, lightweight and Junior well
ter-weight king, defends his latter
crown against Pete Nebo of Flori-
da in a hereunder at Kansas City,
Wednesday night.
Freddie Miller of Cincinnati, the
N. B. A. featherweight champion,
tackles Petey Sarron of Birming-
ham in a non-title hereunder at
Cincinnati on Wednesday. King
Levinsky, of Chicago, meets Char
ley Massera of Pittsburgh in ten
round battle In New York on Fri
day.
The Weeks Schedule.
Monday Miami, Fla Make
Rosenbloom, light h eavyweight
champion, VS. Joe knight, Cairo.
Ga. (1O)-Title bout; New York
-Stanislaus LoayZa, Chilean light
weight, VS. Patsy Rubinetti, Brook
lyn, (8); New Orleans-Eddie Kid
Wolfe, Memphis welter, VS. Harry
Dublinski, Chicago, (10); McKees-
port, Pa.-Mose Butch, Pittsburgh
Bantam, VS. Benny Schwartz, Balti-
more, (10), Newark-Tony Galento
Orange, N. j., heavy, VS. Larry
Johnson, Chicago, (10); San Fran
cisco-Young Corbett, III, Fresno,
Weller, VS. "Babe" Marine, San
Francisco, middleweight (1O.
Tuesday-Los Angeles-Art Las
ky, Minneapolis heavy VS. Johnny
Freeman, Australia (10); Seattle
Bobby Pancho, Los Angeles,
lightweight VS. Gordon Wallace,
Vancouver (1O); Vincennes, Ind
Young Jack Sharkey, Minneapolis
Welter, VS. Moon Mullins, Vincen-
mes, (1O.
Wednesday, Kansas City-Bar-
ney Ross, Chicago, VS. Pete Nebo,
Fla. (12)-For Ross junior well
terweight title: Cincinnati-Fred-
die Miller, N. 3. A. feather champ.
VS. Petey Sarron, Birmingham, Ala.
(10)-non-title; st Louis-Al Still
man, st Louis heavy, VS. Hans
Birkie.
New Haven Special.
Thursday - Philadelphia - Joe
Maffei, Philadelphia lightweight,
VS. Bobby Dean, Philadelphia 90;
Paterson, N. ben Jeby, New
York, middleweight, VS. AL Dia-
mond, Paterson (10). New Haven
Tony Shucco, Boston light-heavy-
weight, VS. AL Gamer, New Haven,
(10) for N. e. ITS pound title.
Friday-New York-King Lev
insky, Chicago heavy. VS. Charley
Massera, Pittsburgh (10); Los
Angeles-Cefarnio Garcia, Philip
pines, VS. Paulie Walker, Memphis,
welter, (10); Philadeluhia-Eddie
Cool, Philadelphia lightweight VS.
Phil Rafferty,, New York, (10).