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Evening star., 1935-04-01

tions on o wide variety Of American
commodities, such as electrical ma
chinery, apparatus and appliances;
radio equipment. sewing machines,
fresh meat, canned goods, dried fruits,
dairy products and lard. On q mum.
ber of other American imports, in
cluding glass, iron and steel pipe,
automobiles, trucks, automotive &C.
cessories, prepared beef and pork. the
Haitians agree not to raise rates above
the present levels.
The number of items upon which
reductions in duty are granted by the
United States to Haiti is not large
because few important products i'm
ported from Haiti are dutiable. Duty
free admission into this country Is to
be continued for Haitian coffee, cocoa
beans, sisal fiber, logwood, bananas
and ginger root, and reductions are
provided in the present American
duties on rum, fresh pineapples and
mangoes in preserved form. The duty
on rum is cut in half In view Of
the large proportion of Haitian i'm
ports already admitted into the United
States duty free, our principal con-
cession consists Of the guarantee of
continued tariff-free entry. In one
year imports thus admitted have
amounted to as much as eighty-five
per cent of the total.
Secretary Hull is making a con-
sistent record in the reciprocity field.
Impending negotiations with Canada
will constitute perhaps the acid test
of his policy. Not only does our trade
with the Dominion represent an i'm
mense and valuable volume, but all the
elements of tariff give-and-take are
present in the concessions which each
country seeks for its own products.
Selfish interests on both sides of the
border may be relied upon to fight to
the bitter end for specific advantages
to a given trade or industry. oblivious
to the general good. These are in
escapable Accomplishments of inter-
national tariff bargaining. but If the
common-sense spirit of Yankee horse
trading is permitted to prevail, it
should not prove impossible to arrive
at agreements that do justice broadly
to national interests. even though
here and there a local disadvantage
may not be avoidable.
The Hull reciprocal tariff program
is practical exemplifcation of Amer
ica's good neighbor" policy in in
ternational relations. The Secretary
of States persistence and patience in
promoting it deserves the country's
cordial support.
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the natural agglutinins and thereby

the natural agglutinins and thereby
to promote the curative process.
Stated briefly, the agglutination OF
cells is one OF the defense mecha-
nisms" of the animal organism. 1t is
q process which the body employs to
fight certain germs. Immunity to
typhoid is given as an example. In
lection Of the typhoid vaccine causes
the germs of that disease to stick to-
gether, and when they are thus
punched" it is easier for the white
blood cells, which have been styled
the policemen Of the blood stream,
to attack and destroy them. If now
q laboratory-made agglutinin has
been found in crystalline form, the
process of immunization for perhaps
other diseases caused by malevolent
factors in the blood will be advanced.
Thus the importance of the dis
covery lies in the fact that it is now
possible, it would seem, to cause the
agglutination which is necessary in
order to open the way for a success
full assault upon certain diseases.
Much work doubtless remains to be
done in the laboratories to assure re-
suits, but the way seems to have been
opened for remarkable advances in
curative and defensive measures.
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Judgment Suspended ON Merits
OF Relief Controversy i'm Ohio

are evidently being allowed to fal!
where they may This is all the more
striking because Ohio is an important
pivotal State, necessary to the Roose-
welt campaign next year It would
seem, therefore. that just in the crisis
Of the works relief bill. when signs of
non-partisanship are particularly
needed, the administration gives evil
dence of its political impartiality.
Democrats in Congress are annoyed.
Their party regularity is jostled. An
unpleasant odor Is abroad, and they
would have much preferred to keep
the lid on. Yet the country generally
should have more confidence in the
President because he did not hesitate
to lift it,"
IF the row is over who is TO do
politics with the huge expenditure, it
is contemplate, asserts the San
Francisco Chronicle, and condemna-
ton of the politics of the situation is
voiced by the Pittsburgh Gazette
The need of a full investigation is
urged by the McKeeSport CPa) Daily
News, the Buffalo Evening News, the
Hamilton (Ohio) Journal, the Canton
(Ohio) Repository, the Eureka (Calif }
Humboldt Times, the Rock Island
(Ill) Argus and the Lincoln (Nebr)
State Journal.
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The War on Disease Advanced.

Described as of intense scientific
interest because it may aid greatly
in the study Of the phenomenon
of immunity, the process under
lying body resistance, a discovery is
Just announced from ithaca. where
two workers In the laboratories of
Cornell University have succeeded in
isolating in pure crystalline form from
white beans a substance which may
lead to q material advance in the
fighting OF disease. This substance is
o hemagglutinin, which causes the
red blood cells to stick together and
thus promotes the process of i'm
munization.
This is not to be regarded as an
immediate, direct advance toward the
cure of hitherto obstinate diseases.
1t Is merely step in that direction,
but o most important one. 1t is now
hailed by pathoiogists as an assured
aid in the field of controlled labora-
tory methods as distinguished from
empiricism, or experimentation. II
the discovery ut Ithaca is as described.
o way has been found to control the
study Of the chemical composition Of
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Another Tariff Treaty.

Haiti bulks very inconspicuously in
the volume of the United States for
eign commerce, yet the conclusion Of
a reciprocal tariff treaty with the
Port au Prince government is not
without significance. The agreement
signed with it at Washington last week
is the fourth pact concluded since Sec
retary Hull undertook his reciprocity
program. Previously. treaties had
been made with Cuba. Brazil and Bel
girm. Negotiations are being con-
Quoted with thirteen other countries.
As in the case of the accords which
preceded 1t, the treaty with Haiti is
q model Of reciprocity, with a square
deal for each contracting government
as its hallmark. It will run for a
minimum of three years and there
after indefinitely, unless denounced by
either country on six months notice.
Haiti grants substantial tariff redue-
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

and Coue was OF, from and by the
plain people of France.
His training was such, however.
that he was able to put to good use
In everyday life q bit Of the religion
and q bit Of the common sense OF his
people.
He knew that the harder one tries.
In the popular sense, to think about
something, the surer 1t Is to escape
him, in many instances.
Every one has had this experience
In attempting to think Of q name.
"why. I know it as well as my
ownl"
But one simply cannot remember.
Hours later, when thinking about
something else, the desired name
| "pops" into the head, as we say.
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Coue knew better than most that
will power, as such has its limitations.
Therefore, he attempted to substi-
tute imagination, as he called it; in
stead Of asking q sick person to de-
clare himself well, he merely required
of him that he imagine himself 30.
Most good doctors do the same, II
no more than by a good bedside man
ner, which cheers the patient, gives
him hope, and stirs his Imagination
toward thoughts Of recovery. II he
wants to say, outright, that day by
day, in every way, he is getting better
and better, who with any sense would
say him nay, or laugh at him for
his simple pains?
Well, it is so with thought in almost
any department.
Sometimes the more we strive and
strain toward a solution of any given
problem the surer 1t is to escape us.
Every one knows how it is with
sleep.
ITO sleep on it" means to get rest
before deciding on a problem.
Sometimes a brilliant solution is
given In sleep, not as dream, but
simply as the result of giving over
conscious intelligence Io- awhile.
No one should think any the less
of conscious taking thought" because
now and then one can get best re-
suits from just the opposite action.
Make the mind blank, OH the
given problem, and let the master
mind Of the brain take care of the
situation for time.
This solution is as old as the hills,
but always Is new to him or her
who just finds it.
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While walking in traffic deliberately,
let that very deliberateness be enough
| Of conscious thought.
Look at the people, the automobiles.
the stores.
Keep an eye on the lights. put not
| too much trust in four-wheel brakes,
nor fear too blindly the taxi driver
who delights In racing up to the red
| light.
A walk Of few blocks. when under
taken as q relief from futile thought,
or thinking which somehow is not up
to ones usual standard, may do q
great deal Of good.
And then again 1t may not.
One should not promise too much,
| for, after all, it is a personal expert
ment, but what helps one may help
another, in all likelihood.
Fortunate is the worker who is not
so bound down by clerical routine that
he must deprive himself Of this help
full way to better and more abundant
| thinking.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Diversion.
Our literary impulse we are cherish
ing with care.
We use it on the printing press. We
hear it in the air.
But we number 'mongst our orators
conspicuously those
Who. like the Moliere student at
the first attempt. write prose!
Might it not be a sweet relief in fili-
clustering time
If those who can compose in prose
should also write in rhyme,
Or like the bard who swept q harp in
stately measures Groom
Or even sometimes introduce a bit
of jazzy tune.
When figures are becoming so re-
markably immense
That they reach out from the present
far into the future tense,
Let's ease the situation on q literary
plan
BY employing few numbers that
melodiously scan.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

Walking in modern city traffic,
sharpening the mind, often helps solve
mental problems.
Try it the next time thoughts re-
fuse to come promptly.
Not every one can use this remedy,
Of course. but for those who can 1t
pays big dividends.
It will seem to many to be q real
way of getting something for nothing,
O thing We are told can never hap
pen, but which many have Q sneaking
belief Is possible, after all.
Surely o pedestrian who manages
to find good in trafic conditions is
something OF . magacian!
Yet any one can be this modern
wizard simply by taking thought, or,
rather. not taking thought.
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The secret Of the thing is not to
consciously think about the problem
at hand.
Suppose it is some knotty situation
in business whose solution is not ex-
actly clear to one.
Or one may have got out on the
wrong side Of the bed" that morning.
Too much merrymaking earlier,
perhaps.
Whatever may be the cause, the old
thinking machine does not work as
readily as 1t might.
It may be that the victim has the
privilege OF smoking pipe and look.
ing supremely wise while he is doing it.
That Is one Of the advantages of the
pipe.
No other form of smoking will do It.
A cigar may make q man look i'm
portant-at least in his own opinion
while q cigarette may cause a girl to
seem sophisticated, but o pipe is the
instrument which gives the illusion Of
intelligence.
Even some old fellow who perhaps
hasn't thought in his head looks su-
premely intelligent while puf1ing away
solemnly on pipe.
Even the smoker, however, may
reach a state in which no thoughts
come at all.
He may fool others. but he can't fool
himself.
Then the time has arrived for q turn
through the downtown streets.
If, while walking, one attempts to
solve problem, he will find that 1t
eludes him.
Not only will the solution escape,
but an automobile may strike one.
The way to solve both these problems
at once-how not to get run over, how
to think Of what one desires to think
is deliberately to keep ideas out of
the head as much as possible.
This may seem q strange way of
thinking, to those who have not in
vestigated the phenomenon in other
fields.
Those who may have made some
study of the mind and its workings,
In even the most elementary form, will
realize that this is at once the sim
plest and surest way of starting
thought processes.
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The late Emile Coue, a much mis-
understood man, knew 1t well.
His idea Of the repetition of Day
by day, in ev'ry way. I'm getting
better and better" was not something
to be laughed at. but very practical,
shrewd idea right out of the mind Of
a very shrewd. practical man.
There is said to be no shrewder
man alive than a French peasant,
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

exchange Of handshakes. greetings
and wisecracks.
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Secretary Hull keeps plodding away
persistently and patiently at his task
Of lining up the nations ready to do
reciprocal tariff business with Uncle
Sam. The treaty just signed with
Haiti Is the fourth pact concluded
within a period of nine months-the
others having been effected, in the
order named. with Cuba, Brazil and
Belgium. Negotiations with l3 more
countries are pending. Discussions
with Canada will follow the conclusion
of recent hearings at the State De-
partment, during which interested
American industries had their day in
court. Sectional groups, reluctant to
surrender advantages under existing
tarin arrangements, are making 1t
little difiicult to grant Canada some
Of the concessions she seeks in our
market for such things as lumber,
cattle and nsh, but Secretary Hull and
his aides are hopeful that the square
deal spirit viii eventually prevail on
both sides Of the border and permit
the two countries, which once were
the respective best customers Of each
other. to strike . mutually profitable
bargain.
Secretary Morgenthau's Internal
Revenu- sleuths aren't the only ones
interested tn shadowing the bootleg.
gers. The distillery companies, 1t
appears. are on the job. too. The
whisky manufacturers nowadays em-
ploy their own men to make the
rounds of the market, to see that
liquor dealers are handling only legiti-
mate stun.
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New
Jersey is apparently first in the field
with an honest-to-goodness organiza-
ton looking to the 1886 Republican
presidential nomination. The "Hoff-
man-for- President Club" of Bergen
County has just fled articles of in
corporation at Hackensack, N. j.
y y +
Representative Samuel B. Pettengill,
Democrat, Of Indiana. received clip
ping the other day from an Atlanta
newspaper. In which he was de-
scribed Is Q Tory. But" the Hoosier
Representative says, "the fellow who
sent It along compares me with Pat
rick Henry, SO that makes 1t about
even"
(copyrisht. 1889
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@. Did Alfred Tennyson have o
brother named Turner?-L. K.
A. Charles Tennyson Turner was
the eldest brother Of Tennyson, the
English poet. He took the name of
Turner under the will Of a relative.
In the lines Midnight" he is COM
memorated by his brother. In coll
laboration with his brothers. Alfred
and Frederick, he published Poems
by Two Brothers" In 1927.
q. Did many German Jews 70 to
Palestine In l933?--F. P.
A. In 1888 l1,174 Jewish refugees
from Germany entered Palestine,
whereas only 1.s4s German Jews went
there from 1920 to 1888.
Q. When were baptimai pools
adopted?-S. j.
A. Apparently the oaptismal p5ol did
not exist until at least the fifth century,
when 1t was found necessary, through
the growth of cities, to obtain facili-
ties other than the rivers or streams,
which has been used up to that time
@. How is the acoustic quality OF
an auditorium balanced?-M. 3.
A. 1t Is a matter Of properly ad-
1usting the sound absorption Of the
interior SO as to obtain the optimum
reverberation time-not too great, else
the sounds will be confused with each
other, and not too small, else the
room will be too dead.
@. What year since the World War
is looked upon as the nearest to nor
NAL? What we're the expenses Of the
Federal Government in that Year,
G. c. w.
A. The year 1925 is usually cited as
the nearest normal of recent times
There were no relief and other ex-
traordinary expenses. The cost of opef
ating the Government was $4,225,-
100000. OF this approximately 80
per cent would come under the head
Of compensation for services, pensions,
bonuses and the like.
Q. When were guinea pigs first used
experimentally for the advancement
of medical science?-J. A. B.
A. The exact time is not recorded
1t IS believed that the eminent French
chemist Antoine Lavoisier Q743-
l794, was one Of the first men to
use guinea pigs in this fashion. La
voisier's contribution to the advance
ment Of science consisted in his re-
search on biological oxidation and
respiration, which has greatly aided
both physicists and chemists.
@. What proportion of motion pic
lures are original?-A. C.
A. Forty per cent. Plays adapted
from the classics, novels and short
stories account for 405 per cent, and
those adapted from stage plays and
musicals constitute the remaining 1875
per cent.
@. What is meant by accumulative
marking in relation to students re-
ports?-J. J. G.
A. 1t generally refers to marks of
several months or semesters or years
which have been brought together and
form an accumulation of marks.
@. Does alcohol contain utamins.
e. W.
A. 1t does not.
@. Do California and Florida fur
nish England with oranges?-B. j.
A. The largest shipment ever landed
at Southampton was a cargo Of Al 900
cases of oranges from jana. Spain
and the East furnish England with
citrus fruits.
@. How long and wide is the White
House?-C. S. E.
A. The White House is l65 feet
front and 80 feet deep and is built
Of white freeStone with Ionic pilasters
comprehending two lofty stories with
stone balustrade.
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Improper Conditions
AT Arlington Tomb
10 the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Edlt6f o. The Sttr.
Reading Carleton K. Lewis COM
ments on the neglected conditions of
Arlington Cemetery recently. might I
add to his suggestion that the enor-
NOUS piles Of horse manure piled in
the cemetery entrance be removed
before May 80, for II they keep add
ing to the pile the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier will have background
that would not be tolerated in any
other cemetery tn the country.
HENRY G. LANG.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

A reader can get the ans1Der to
any question OF fact By DTitinD
The EDentnD Star Information Bu-
renu, Frederic j. Hasktn, director,
Warrington, D. c. Please irclose
stamp for reply.
@. Do air passengers and operators
have to obtain passports to foreign
countries just the same as steamship
passengers?-R. B.
A. Afrplane and dirigible balloon
operators and passengers between the
United States and foreign countries
are subject TO the same general laws
and regulations that govern steamship
and sailing vessel travel and opera
ton.
@. How many automobiles are there
in Washington, D. CO. r. H
A. There are about $50, 900 passen-
ger cars in Washington, and about
! 10000 trucks and buses.
@. How narrow a crack can light &c
through?-C. L.
A. The narrowest slit through which
light can pass is equal to two wave
lengths of light, which is approximate
ly, one twenty-five thousandth Of an
inch.
@. How long has Virginia had an
annual garden week?-E. C.
A. In 1923 the Garden Club Of Viz
ginia sponsored the first Historic Gar
den week.
@. Why aren't vacant lots in New
York City used to raise vegetables for
the poorly. N.
A. Between and 10 thousand plots
on vacant lots in New York City will
be turned over to home relief fami-
lies this Spring for the raising of
vegetables for their own use.
@. Please publish something about
the ice caves near Flagstaff, Ariz-
L. L.
A. There are several of these caves
east of Flagstaff near Sunset Noun
tain. but perhaps the largest one Is
about 80 miles northwest Of Flag
staff. This is known as Government
Cave. These caves are in basaltic
lava, and ice is found in them during
the entire year. Basalt is very poor
conductor of heat, and during the
Wintertime ice is formed in the
caves, and it remains through the
Summer. The Government Cave
ranchers remove the ice during the
Summer for refrigerative purposes,
but it forms again the following
Winter.
Q. How many acres does the Chi
cago Art Institute cover?-R. B.
A. The institute, in Grant Park at
Adams street, facing Michigan avenue,
covers eight acres.
@. Is Axel Munthe, the author of
"The Story Of San Michele" living?
Is his home on Capri open to the
public?-E. M.
A. DR.. Munthe is living. He recov-
cred his sight through an operation
which he underwent in Zurich. His
home on Capri is not open to the
public.
O. What is the musical instrument
which can be played merely by ex-
tending the hands over it?-J. V.
A. The RCA Therenin is a de-
velopment of the Therminvox, an in
vention of Prof. Leon Theremin Of
the Institute Physico-Technique of
Leningrad. It is a musical instru-
ment operating entirely by electrical
circuits. 1t has no stops, keyboardS,
or any of the other mechanical con-
trivances with which musicians must
labor The music which can be OBJ
tanned from the device depends upon
the operator only, and the motion of
his hands with respect to two elec-
trodes, one for controlling volume and
the other for controlling pitch.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
In Transit

Each evening in the crowds saw her
face.
She brought into my mind no special
grace,
Only a random thought Of eyes quite
blue
And of love I never wooed or knew.
The other day missed her In the
throng.
All. welll A lost note In lies even
Evening star., 1935-04-01

An appropriation of nearly five bill
lion dollars will not be grudged by
posterity if it affords the relief for
which it is intended. In the golden
future American billionaires will be
as plentiful as millionaires are now.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

BY turning over few pages of his
tory Secretary Ickes may be persuaded
to a philosophic attitude. Being Sec
ertary of the Interior has never been
guaranteed as an easy job.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

A shift in social responsibilities
tends to burden the State Department
with most of the hard thinking and
an extraordinary amount Of hard
work.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

Many economists are inclined to
suspect that in order to meet foreign
gambling competition Uncle Sam may
as well have a few sweepstakes of
mis- own.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
The Moons Pull.
Wichita (Kans.l Eagle.

From the Wichita (Kans) Eagle.
Pull of the moon shifts America as
much as So feet away from Europe
in year. That would be fine except
it takes us closer to Japan.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
Polite Incarceration.

do you think you can keep that
desperate in jail?"
II don't know" answered Cactus
Joe. We're doin' our best. We have
fired two cooks he didn't like, given
him credit at the ticker dispensary
and subscribed for all the magazines.
But somehow we don't seem able to
keep him satisfied"
Evening star., 1935-04-01

In addition to her undoubted emf
nence as an airwoman. Amelia Ear
hart as a public figure has the ad-
vantage of taking most agreeable
photograph.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

BY keeping out of war America may
hope to eat sauerkraut in peace with
out reverting to the clumsy practice
of calling it Liberty cabbage.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
Proftless Panning.

From the Wichita (Kans.) Eagle.
There is a lot of panning going on
in high circles today. But 1t isn't
producing much precious metal.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
After-Tax Holiday Needed.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
March has no holiday, but most
business men are willing to take one
sfter The annual income tax torture.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
Artificial RadiOtion.

The warmth has been surprising
In the circles of debate.
The climate needs revising
For the humble and the great.
And temperament and temperature
Can't seem correct and neat
Till we secure o season sure
For turning OF the heat.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
A Political Puzzle.

From the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette.
A question somebody ought to
answer is, How many third parties
does 1t take to make a third party?