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money will be spent by Legionnaires
for homes. That is the result Of a
QUESTIONABLE recently sent out.
The spending of the rest of the
bonus distribution would be in the
payment of bills and old debts, the
purchase of life insurance, automo-
biles, clothing, home equipment
and house furnishings. 1t might
prove to be a quick and powerful
stimulus to retail trade all over the
country.
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POPULATION DATA
$3.50 Census)
RIADA JANUARY 81, 1886
HAIL AND FAREWELL

HAIL AND FAREWELL
The King is dead; long live the
King,
The passing of King George V.
of England is sincerely mourned by
all peoples. He was a great stab
liking force in a disturbed world.
AS a man, he commanded the res
pect and admiration of everybody.
We in America have had a closer
view of royalty in his person,
through the motion pictures and
radio broadcasts, than we have ever
had before. And what we saw
and heard of him, we liked.
Americans feel, too, that they
know the new King of Great Brit
ain, Emperor Of India, ETC., etc.,
His Majesty Edward VIII. He has
visited us several times, and made
a splendid impression wherever he
went. To this young man, trained
though he has been for the high
position to which he has succeeded,
the task ahead of him is no easy one
He comes to the throne of the
greatest Empire the world has ever
known, in a time when the relations
between nations are under such
strain as has never been felt since
the World War.
Edward VIII has had thrust upon
him the job not only of preserving
the British Empire, but in no small
degree that of preserving the peace
of the world. . Every American
must wish him success in both
tasks; for IN important part of his
realm is our own nearest neighbor,
Canada. Also, perhaps, our
greatest national concern today is
peace.
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had just been announced was re-
ceiving the congratulations Of her
friends.
One of them said to the radiant
girl II hope you are going to be
very happy"
The bride-to-be smiled. "Of
course / am. Robert adores me
and so do l." !,
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One thing is becoming increas-
ingly clear as the size Of the deficit
and the growing volume of the ma
tional debt are considered by seri-
ous-minded statesmen on Capitol
Hill. That is that the long-talked
of Initiation is seemingly close at
hand. 10
The tremendous volume OF un-
used bank credit, arising from the
increase of bank deposits based on
Government borrowing, is bound to
find an outlet before very long, or
SO some of the financial experts of
the Administration believe.
Secretary Morgenthau and Chair
man Eccles of the Federal Reserve
Board recognize this danger. They
are using all the influence they can
exert to block plans for initiation of
the currency. 1t has been pointed
out, however that the effect of
credit. initiation on a huge scale
might easily be as serious as would
the printing of greenbacks.
Money is cheaper now than it has
ever been in America. That is just
another way of saying that all
commodity prices are headed still
upward. ~
Very hopeful utterances are
heard here and there seem to be
pretty definite indications, that a
real movement for home building
on the greatest scale ever dreamed
of is beginning, with funds supplied
by private capital under Govern
ment guarantees of the safety of
mortgage. investments.
BONUS MONEY INTO O M
If this building movement were
once we'll started, the Administra-
tons housing advisors believe, it
would absorb in the building and
building supply industries such a
high percentage of the unemployed
workers as to reduce the burden Of
relief to a minimum.
The man who has his wealth in
real estate or other non-perishable
commodities instead of in cash or
credits, when an initiation
movement gets into full swing, has
usually proved to be better off than
the neighbor who did not see it
coming.
Strength is given to the belief in
a coming building boom by the re-
port of the American Legion that
more than a quarter of the bonus
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HARD OF HEARING

A lecturer, addressing a meeting
on 'The Duties of the Housewife
remarked that it was the duty OF
every woman to mother her hus-
band. Wishing to see what i'm
preston this had made on his au-
dience he asked all those to stand
up who were willing to mother
their better halves. Only one WON
an stood up.
"Ah," he said II am glad to see
there is at least one of you willing
to mother her husband"
Mother your husbands" cried
the woman, 81 though you said
smother your husband,."
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SOMETIMES IT is not a good ide;
TO QUOTE maxims and platitude
TO CHILDREN who are too wis
TO INTERPRET them in the way
WHICH YOU want them
INTERPRETED. FOR instance
A T visitor in a local
HOME LAST week handed a
NEPHEW A dollar BILL as he was
LEAv1NG. N o be careful
WITH THAT money, Johnny"
HE SAID. Remember the saying:
+ = +
"A FOOL and his money are soon
PARED" JOHNNY looked at
HIS UNCLE a moment. eyes,
Z - y
UNCLE" HE replied, "but I wan,
TO THANK you for parting with
IT, JUST the same.
I "A YOU.
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. LONG-FELT NEED

He was showing a friend around
his ultra-modern house.
"There are lots of points about
it that 1 like" said the candid
friend, "and there are some that
II do not understand. Why, for in
stance, the round hole in the front
door,"
"Oh, that's for circular letters"
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combination
folks know is trustworthy

The confidence thousands Of par
ents have In good, old reliable, pow
dered Thedford's Black-D raught has
prompted them to get the new Syrup
Of Black-Draught for their children.
The grown folks stick to the pow
dered Black-D raught; the youngsters
probably will prefer it when they
outgrow their childish love Of sweets.
Mrs. @. w. Adams, Of Murray,,Ky.,
writes: IT have used Thedford's
Black Draught (powder) about thir-
teen years, taking it for biliousness.
Black acts well and I am
always pleased with the results. I
wanted a good, reliable laxative for
children. I have found Syrup Of
Black Draught to be just that"
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CABBAGES 49,. lose character

Agricultural experimenters at
Cornell University have developed
an odorless cabbage. I am still I'M
decided as to whether that is an
advantage OF not. The senses of
smell and of taste are so closely
tied together that I would have to
eat a dish of the smeIless cabbage
before I could be sure that it would
taste as good as the old-fashioned
kind.
I think most of the objection to
the odor of cabbage comes from
housewives who don't like the way
it smells up the house.
Most people cook cabbage toe
long, anyway. My wife pulls the
leaves apart and throws them into
boiling water for 20 minutes. Try
that way sometime.
WATT 80. his engine
Everybody that uses electric light
pays for it by the watt-so much
per 1000 watts-kiloowatts-per
hour. But the name watt comes
from a man who never dreamed of
electric light. He was James Watt,
inventor of the modern steam
engine, who was born just 200 years
ago.
In a real sense, however, James
Watt, the Scotch boy who put
steam to work, was the great grand
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as a last resort.
DEADLOCK ON FARM BILL
Seemingly little progress has been
made toward a solution of the farm
problem. Serious doubts have been
raised as to whether an effective
method of putting mony into the
pockets of the farmers can be
worked out under the soil conser-
walton act of 1885. Also, the con-
stitutionality of that act is being
questioned in the Congressional
cloak-rooms. In any event, it
would have to be amended in its
bounty provisions, and nobody has
SO far presented a specific list of
amendments which seem likely to
meet the approval either of Cong
ress or the Supreme Court.
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TODAY AND
TOMORROW
FRANK PARKER STocKBRDGE

POLlIlCS. 80. newspapers
1t is just forty years since l began
as a\young reporter to cover ma
tional politics. In 1896 l spent halt
the Summer on Major Mckinley
front porch at Canton, Ohio, and
the other half travelling around with
William J. Bryan on his special
trains. That was the first time a
Presidential candidate had ever at
tempted to talk to all the voters.
Political campaigning has taken
on an entirely new aspect since
radio broadcasting was first used in
the campaign of 1920. This year
it looks to me as if it would be a
battle of radio voices between Mr..
Roosevelt and whomever the Re
publicans may nominate. 1t viii
be an interesting show. Each can
didate will do his best to stir up
the emotions of his hearers. But in
1886, as in 1896, l think the result
will be determined by the sober ex-
animation of the facts as they art
presented in the newspapers.
FARMING still problem
I can't remember a time when
there wasn't a farm problem
pressing to the front in national
politics. George Washington faced
a serious farm problem when he was
President. The 'Whiskey Rebel
lion" of 1871 was a protest of the
farmers in what was then the West
against a Federal tax on whiskey.
The only way they could profitably
market their grain was by convert
ing it into whiskey. That was be-
lore IneIe were railroads or SOOC
highways.
After observing a succession OF
farmers political movements 70,
farm relief all my lifetime, they all
seem to me to have a common root.
Farming at best is a hazardous oc-
cupation. To succeed in it take.
a combination of natural talent
high intelligence, intense industry
and great capacity for self denial
Also, usually, more capital thar
most beginning farmers can com.
mand.
In other words, farmers are just
about like the rest of us.
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ENCOURAGEMENT

ENCOURAGEMENT
Her Father: "Has my daughter
ever Offered you any encourage
ment?"
Suitor: "Oh, yeas. She said that
if 1 married her she'd get you to
pay the rent for u.s."
Horseback riding gives me a
headache?"
az, Quite jhs contrary with me, old
Doctor Examining unconscious
motorman)-"Did that automobile
hit his carr"
Conductor-"No sir. You see
the driver stopped his auto to let
the car go by and the motorman
tainted"
Dorothy is getting a mans
wages"
eyes, I heard she was married"
Condemned n-'sW I'd
like a little exercise"
warden-"All right. What kind
of exercise do you want?"
Condemned man-''I'd like to
skip the rope"
A gentleman upon being asked
to have a drink replied, "No, I
don't want a drink for three rea-
sons: First, because I promised my
mother not to drink; second, be-
cause my doctor told me not to
drink; and third, because I just had
a drink"
"When I said my prayers last
night didn't you hear me ask God
to make me a good boy?"
eyes, Tommy, I did,"
.Well he amt done it.
EFT says the man was shot by
his wife at close range"
"Then there must have been
powder marks on the body"
"Yes; that's why she shot him.
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MAJ
II want a shave" said the dis
grunt1ed Sergeant as he climbed
into the BARRIERS chair. NC hair
cut, no shampoo, no rum, witch
hazel, hair tonic, hot towels or face
massage. I don't want the man
tourist to hold my hand, nor the
bootblack to handle my feet.
don't want to be brushed off, and
I'll put on my coat myself. / just
want a plain shave, with no trim
mings. Understand that?"
"Yes, sir" said the barber quiet
lily. 'Lather, sir?"
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RAILROADS 80. distribution

The railroads have scored another
point in the battle with motor
trucks for freight transportation.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has at last authorized the roads
to operate their own freight pick
up and delivery systems. This re-
moves one of their handicaps. One
reason why motor transportation of
freight has grown so rapidly is that
the truck can back up to your door
and take on a load, and deliver it
at the other end of the line, while
the shipper and consignee of rail-
road freight have had to provide
their own truck service to and
from the railroad stations.
The new system should make for
faster and cheaper distribution of
commodities, and so help in solving
one of our chief economic and
social problems. One of the chief
reasons why everybody cannot have
plenty of everything, when farms
and factories can produce enough
for everybody, is the high cost and
lost motion in the process of dis
tribution to the consumer.
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daddy of electric power; for you
could cover the world with electric
wires and get nothing out of them
if you didn't nave an engine to turn
the dynamos.
James Watts steam engine
turned the world upside down. 1t
started the industrial revolution and
the machine age. 1t is at the root
Of all our modern social and eco
nomic problems. 1t is no wonder
that we have not yet learned the
answers to all of these problems, for
it is less than 200 years since the
seed of them was sown. That is a
very short time.
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PICAYUNES
ALARMING

ALARMING
Mrs. Peck: 'Henry, do you think
we are prepared for war?"
Henry Tin alarm: 'sWhy? Is
your mother coming to visit us
AGAIN." -.
ODORIFEROUS
Choir Leader: What is that
terrible smell on Mrs. Pink"
Organist: II understand her hus-
band has a garden and he used her
perfume atomizer to SPRAY his
cucumber vines"
POLITICIAN
Minister: "Do you promise to
love, honor and cherish this wom-
an?" ....
Politician: eyes. Whatever the
platform says, l subscribe to It.
EXTINCT
Sunday School Teacher: "Now,
Clarence, can you tell us what
BECAME of the ark"
Clarence: "The baby sucked all
the paint off'n Noah and Pa STEP
ped on the ark and smashed it,"
IN PERFECT M
The actress whose engagement
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THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON

CONTINUED from page One)
as a last resort.
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POLITICIAN
PERFECT

The actress whose engagement
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EFT says the man was shot by
his wife at close range"
"Then there must have been
powder marks on the body"
"Yes; that's why she shot him."
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"When I said my prayers last
didn't you hear me ask God
to make me a good boy?"
eyes, Tommy, I did,"
"Well he amt done it.
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Sister Ann Joachim.

Sister Ann Joachim, Dominican nun
and teacher at st. Josephs College,
Adrian, Mich, has written her name
into the history of human progress.
That, of course, is good deal to say;
but the sentiment is justified by the
notable significance of an event in which
she was the central Characteristic was
admitted yesterday to practice law be-
fore the Supreme Court of the United
Statesl
No other member of a woman's reli-
gious order ever has earned such recog-
milton Sister Ann Joachim, therefore,
may be regarded as a pioneer. Many
who have dedicated their lives to the
church may follow her in years to come;
but she always win be remembered as
the first to take the oath which gives
her the right to appear before the high
est tribunal in the land.
Superior intelligence, obviously. was
required of Sister Ann Joachim. But
more important probably was the de-
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Coming Back.

Humanity likes to come back. Every
individual, it seems, entertains in his
soul certain longing to return to some
thing or somewhere. The poet who
prayed to be permitted to be boy again
"just for tonight" expressed an almost
universal yearning for youth revived.
Thousands of people, possessed Of an in
stinct to visit once more the scenes of
their childhood, journey over vast dis
tances to reach what they call home" I"
The officers of any transatlantic liner
will testify to the number of passengers
who year after year sail from New York
for ireland, England and the different
countries of Continental Europe. Senti-
ment is the explanation. Few of the
pilgrims have business interests abroad.
They go simply to see "the old folks"
and ''the old sod"
In like manner, a multitude Of Ameri-
cans make it practice to come back
to Washington. Something magnetic
draws them to the Nations Capital.
Perhaps an unseen heart is beating here.
The honored founders of the Federal
Union wished that it might be so and
planned accordingly when they estab-
lished the District of Columbia. How
well they dreamed and how well their
work was done is manifest In the Vox
Evening star., 1936-05-26

Populi broadcasts put on the air by local
radio stations. Dozens of the persons
interviewed tell of their affection for the
city. without pretense, they confess
their pleasure at being in the community
uicrocosmically representative of the
entire country and the whole population.
But single example will suffice. Con-
slider the case of j. Adam Bede of
Duluth. He was born in Ohio, worked
as a youngster in the printers trade,
turned to journalism with success,
founded monthly periodical for the
expression of his views on every subject
under the sun, lectured on the Chau-
tauqua circuit in its unparalleled palmy
days, served in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and now
spends well-earned leisure campaigning
for improved waterways, incluGing the
st. Lawrence project to link the Great
Lakes with the sea. Every now and
again he reappears in Washington. Just
now he is in town to call upon the sur
viving friends of three or four decades
ago. Such meetings are a joy to wit
ness. They prove a principle-the law
of unbroken continuity whereby the
human mind triumphs over every sort
of diversive circumstance.
Evening star., 1936-05-26

votion of mind and heart necessary to
attainment so distinctive. Accident can
not explain it. Rather, the law of cause
and effect, toll and reward Is involved.
The story is encouraging because it rep
resents noble achievement won by faith
fui labor.
But Sister Ann Joachim is accustomed
to doing things well. When she was
younger she was tennis champion and
an airplane pilot. Later, until she took
her VOWS in 1928, she waSa partner in a
Detroit firm of attorneys. Her speciality
is constitutional law, and in that field
she long ago was conceded to be an
authority.
The world spins at an accelerated pace.
A few decades back, Sister Ann Joachim
might have studied in vain. But progress
is reality, and it is her privilege to
testify to its advancement. Her country
applauds her and wishes her happiness
in her profession, religious and secular
alike.
Evening star., 1936-05-26
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

A new concept of evolution arises from
the hypothesis Of the basic mechanisms
of life put forth this week by DR.. E. E.
Just, professor of zoology at Howard
University.
In the past it has been held that
hereditary qualities were transferred
from generation to generation through
minute bodies in the egg cell-the genes.
These, in some mysterious way, acted
upon the cytoplasm, forcing it to de-
velop in a specific direction.
Nothing could be in the new organism
which was not in the genes of the parent
organisms, unless these genes were in
some way injured and altered through
external influences. Yet there was end
less variety in life and, every now and
then, a distinct departure from the
parent forms, which gave rise to new
species or genus. In the course OF nall
a billion years an endless succession OF
such variations had resulted in forms as
far apart as man and crab.
There have been endless Speculations
. as to how it happened. The genes in
cell are hard to reach and hard to
change. Usually such changes as were
brought about experimentally. as by
X-rays, resulted in an organism which
could not survive. theoretically, giant
crablike creatures still should be the
dominant forms of life on earth.
Dr. Just, on the basis OF experiments
extending over 20 years, reverseS the role
Of genes and cytoplasm in the egg The
genes, he holds. serve only as inhibitors.
All hereditary qualities are potencies OF
the cytoplaSm. The genes continually
are withdrawing some of the cytoplasmic
material, depending on the shape this
material may temporarily assume.
Now the cytoplaSm Is subject to all
sorts of influences of external nature.
1t is relatively easy to reach and change.
Dr. Just himself has brought about queer
results by irradiating it with ultra violet
light. It is especially subject to such
factors as heat in its environment. Thus,
if it were not for Natures protective
devices, mutations and sameness might
be the regular order of life. This be-
comes. Prof. Just says, especially ap-
parent in sea creatures. He says:
Changes in temperature. in salinity
and in hydrogen-ion concentration OF
the sea water may visibly affect the
cytoplasm without demonstrable effects
on the nucleus. Where they do affect
the nucleus, they do so after changes
have taken place in the cytoplasm.
Always the cytoplasmic changes come
first. Indeed, within optimum range,
the magnitude of the cytoplasmic
changes determines that Of the nuclear.
There is also relationship between the
duration of the exposure of the cyto-
plasm to these changed environmental
factors and the quality and character
of the cytoplasmic reaction. Again the
intensity, or strength of change of the
environment, determines the rate Of the
cytoplasmic response"
The profound effects of ultraviolet
light radiation are cited by DR.. Just
Evening star., 1936-05-26

from his own experiments. This radla-
ton is not penetrating enough to reach
the nucleus of cell, as do X-rays, but
it produces just as notable effects.
The new concept also leads to
different explanation of the origin of
life on earth. Obviously, DR.. Just says,
everything that is in living matter
which does not differ very much in its
basic makeup from protozoa to man
must have been in the primal sea- How
did it get segregated into an organic
cell?
Now water does not segregate itself in
water. The only possibility, DR.. Just
holds, is that at some time some liquid
aggregate containing ali the chemical
materials which compose living proto-
plasm developed some surface phenom-
enon, still of an unknown nature, which
held it together. This could not have
been surface tension, he says. This is
a molecular phenomenon and this first
aggregate must have been altogether
too small for anything like that to take
place. 1t was probably the same surface
phenomenon which determines the
boundaries of the egg protoplasm of
simpler organisms today. Once allow
ing this to have taken place, he says,
there need be no further mystery about
the origin of life. 1t could have oc-
CURED anywhere in the primal sea where
the proper chemicals were bound to-
gether in close proximity to form q
system.
And once this first aggregate was
formed the variations of this surface
phenomenon would have determined the
extreme multiplicity through the ages of
ife's forms. Especially in the beginning,
when it probably was more loosely or
ganized, the protoplasm inclosed within
these invisible surface phenomenon walls
would have been subject to all sorts of
influences from the environment which
would have Influenced its way of growth
and brought about greater and greater
specialization.
The nature of the surface phenomenon
itself, DR.. Just says, is something as yet
undescribed in physics or chemistry, but
it may be the one thing primarily re-
sponsible for the appeaIan on earth
of the strange and unique binding of
the qualities of life in matter.