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Evening star., 1936-11-26
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

circled environment of Egypt. Still men
had to find some explanation OF the
movements of the Sun--and they pro-
mulgated the picture of an angel flying
continuously around the earth and car
rying the blazing orb in its arms. Later
on men found that this picture didn't
fit the facts and the great astronomer
Kepler imagined the sun as mighty
whirling wheel to which the planets were
attached by spokes.
Almost invariably, he said, the effort
to explain the unknown by analogies
with the known gets spectators into
trouble Such an analogy must be
stretched and distorted to meet changing
knowledge until the breaking point Is
reached.
But if no amount of ingenuity can fit
a new finding into the frame Of things
as they are, DR.. Swami said, the reaction
is to dismiss the finder as an irrational
hereto. Thus was Gallileo condemned
for his first findings with his homemade
telescope The science of his day could
not comprehend them, and hence salts
fled itself with declaring that they must
be illusions inspired by the devil.
Only within the past two or three years,
he pointed out, has physics arrived at
the point of breaking altogether with
mechanistic models. The ne plus ultra
of science, he pointed out, has been the
universal law of cause and effect, despite
certain inherent absurdities long since
pointed out by philosophers. But at last,
in the field of atomic physics, science
is willing to give up this constant search
for cause and effect and grant to the
atom the Responsibilities which in the
old times were attributed to the gods.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

the beginnin'." Smith drives the re-
mains of a 1890 Ford and normally he
ought to keep in mind the number of
the motor of his car-ZT- T-89619006-and
the number of the tag on his car
DC-F-76439-and the number of his
operators license-HG-1578431 1t is
not exactly q crime if he forgets the
number on his insurance policy-JK-
3450000O1; but Major Ernest w. Browns
goblins might catch up with him If he
neglected the duty of memorizing the
number on the dog pound exemption
medal which Spot somehow appears to
have habit of losing-SDHRP-
1895640027. His credit check at the de-
partment store bears the magic incanta-
ton PAY -631987223-a detail which does
not trouble him particularly since Mrs.
Smith customarily carries it in her purse
and he only rarely sees it with his own
eyes,
Yet the possibilities, as he visions
them, are infinite. To illustrate the
point, why not abandon street names?
Why be bothered about the names of
towns or counties or States? Theo-
retically, it should be much, much easier
to reduce all the existing confusion to
naked numerical order. Then, 176O Co.
lumbia road northwest, Washington, D.
c., might read: 1760-lS8-1 1-7l9O05S115 40.
A letter addressed to Mr.. Smith would
begin with his social security rating, No.
S-l4679OO0312 and follow along with the
designation Of his residence, l76O-l88.
etc, in delightful rhythm which postal
clerks might be presumed to love with
a passion unparalleled in human expe-
rience.
And the principle of it all is amenable
to universal application Let there be
no doubt about its efficiency. Even when
life'S final struggle were over Mr.. Smith
still would be within reach of mathe-
matics. He could be laid away under a
numbered tombstone in a numbered lot
in numbered cemetery.
The whole idea is marvellous. Indeed
charitably regarded, it is simplicity itself!
Anybody who does not agree to that
must be romantically inferior.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Member Of the Associated Press.
Thanksgiving.

Some of the most richly wise Of phi
loSophers have believed that mankind at
large is inarticulate. People in general,
they have said, cannot express their
deepest feelings. The noisiest of ages,
according to their theory is shallow and
inefficient in the utterance of its basic
thought. Multitudes move their tongues,
raising veritable Babel; yet the COM
pelling emotions, the brave dreams and
the courageous aspirations which stir
the human soul remain untold.
Perhaps it is better so. The poet Keats
was prompted by his genius to affirm:
heard are Sweeter" He knew, as an
authentic~ singer should, the tragic fu-
tility of language. Certainly it is true
that "syllables govern the world" but it
just as definitely is fact that words
are but the signs of ideas" Shake
speare, lordly master of a golden pen,
summed up the problem when, in
"Richard Ill.," he wrote of the citizens
as dumb statues" and breathing
stones in an hour when England was
In peril. The poignancy of love, the pas
sionate fever of hate and all the infinite
variety of instincts and impulses which
lie between those vast extremes escape
from the net of grammar. They simply
are, and no invention ever can represent
them faithfully.
1t follows then, that the Nation today
Is rather mute than otherwise in its
gratitude to the God of its fathers.
Rarely has America been so fortunate
In benefactions to appreciate. A glance
over the outer world, plagued with dis
sension, will suffice to prove the blessed
States enjoys. The progress of recent
months indicates the return Of prosperity
equal to the country's need. And it is
evident that economic recovery is merely
a single aspect of the gain achieved or
foreshadowed. Far more important is
the growth of hope and confidence
among the masses. The future, it seems,
Is bright for every home.
But how pitiful even a sincerely
earnest effort to recite this demonstration
of divine compassion must appear in the
eyes of a community which remembers
only too we'll the sorrows through which
1t has passed! 1t is, at best, gesture
in acknowledgment for the mercy of the
Ruler of the Universe. Yet the unphrased
tribute will be offered. A wave of silent
prayer will sweep the continent from
coast to coast as myriad hearts
respond to the occasion provided by the
annual Thanksgiving festival. The power
to pay such homage is not altogether
denied to the children of Deity whose
noblest attribute is charity. He will hear
the whisper, He will understand.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Editorial on Centralizing
OF Government Approved
N the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor OF The star:
Congratulations for your editorial,
"More Capitalization" in your issue of
the 18th. Oh, for few more fearless
newspapers to sound the alarm" of not
merely Capitalization of Government, but
approaching despotism of a relentless
and powerful bureaucracy that is now in
the making All regular departments
are multiplying their forces by thou
sands and enlarging Office space in un-
heard-of proportions. Temporary agen-
cies created during the recent emer-
gency are demanding they, with their
multiplied thousands, be made perma-
nent. Where, may 1 ask, shall we stop?
America seems at the cross roads
A. j. MAY, M. G.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Seeing the Light.

The Federal tax on pay rolls for finan-
cling the unemployment insurance bene-
fits under the social security law was
designed with two immediate objectives
in view. One was to place all employers
in all the States on the same footing as
regards tax liability, preventing COM
petitive advantages to employers in
States lacking State unemployment laws
over employers in States having such
laws. The other was to exert pressure
on the States to enact their own un-
employment insurance laws by per-
mitting the States to recoup in effect
ninety per cent of the Federal tax COL
lections when their statutes had received
approval of the Social Security Board.
The States are beginning to see the light,
as far as these objectives are concerned.
Although the social security law was
enacted in 1885, only 16 of the States and
the District of Columbia have completed
the legislation enabling them to take
advantage of the ninety per cent Fed
eral credit, and the deadline for enacting
such laws in order to obtain the States
share of taxes collected in 1886 is De-
cember 81. This places thirty-two States
In the position of losing all benefits of
the tax collectors in 1896 or Of hur-
riedly summoning their Legislatures in
special sessions and enacting the neces-
sary legislation before the end Of the
year. In the case of some of the States
the tax collections have been heavy. A
total of about $10o,0oo.0Oo is involved.
And some of the State Governors have
been besieging Chairman Winant Of the
Social Security Board for q promise that
he would recommend to Congress an ex-
tension of the deadline.
Gov. winant has natly, and very
Evening star., 1936-11-26
ANOMALY" is an intriguing word.

anomaly Is an intriguing WORD.
The big dictionary, in defining it
briefly as deviation from the common
rule, gives the following quotation from
Charles Darwin:
"As Prof. Owen has remarked, there is
no greater anomaly in Nature than q
bird that cannot fy."
In natural history an anomaly is any
deviation from the essential character
istics of type.
One may wonder, therefore, If the man
who catches fishes in streams in season
and tenderly cares for aquarium fishes
at home at all times may be regarded
as an anomaly.
To the person who does not fish, but
who does keep aquarium fishes at home,
he probably will seem so.
To the man who loves to go fishing,
but who has no interest whatsoever in
the small specimens kept in tanks, he
aSSuredly Is an anomaly.
Yet basically there is no real reason
why these two hobbies cannot be COM
bined.
The fact is that they often are COM
bined, each facet calling out different
side of a man.
Fishing with hook and line calls for the
sporting side of human nature; fish
keeping in the aquarium demands a
genuine interest in conservation.
Thus these two lines of endeavor may
and do supplement one another, since
the time is at hand when conservation
more and more in all phases Of national
life comes to the fore.
The man on the bank has no regard
for the suffering of his catch; the man
at the tank finds the least illness Of his
charges very much his concern.
Thus two entirely different natures of
man are tapped. one supplementing the
other. The first will keep the latter from
being too humane-that is, to the point
Of mawkiShneSS; the second will help
make the former (the fisherman realize
that fishes are, after all, living animals
with many of the same instincts, hopes
and desires that motivate himself.
He also will realize, by the keeping
and study of indoor fish aquariums,
something of the work which is being
done through their means. work which
extends into different levels of expert
mentation, including research along
medical lines.
The glories of rod and stream have
been sung these many centuries.
1t is only within the past so years, and
particularly the last quarter of century,
that much space has been given any,
where to boosting the indoor fish game.
1t was a curious phase of the depres-
sion that it induced the greatest wave
of fish keeping" in all history among
thousands of persons who took it up in
an intensive way.
Watching the life history Of a few
small bits of swimming life in a few
gallons of water became for thousands
of persons mostly mem an entirely new
sport.
Since conservation was at the root OF
this amiable study, no doubt 1t has re-
acted in many unknown ways toward the
betterment of life in general throughout
the United States.
1t is a sport which attracts, most OF
ALL the professional mind. Doctors, law
yers and the like, including writer's,
found in the setting up and development
of small aquariuns, especially those
stocked with tropical fishes of strange
habits, relief from daily cares in other
lines.
There can be little question that the
more experiences one has in this lie,
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Constitution ''Sacredly
Obligatory Upon ALP

To the Editor of The Star:
Apropos of Mr.. Co-ordinator Berry's
loose, un-American talk before the A..
F. L. recently, let us see what a true
American once said. I quote the SUBJ
Joined from the farewell address:
But the Constitution which at any
time exists, till changed by an explicit
and authentic act Of the whole people,
is sacredly obligatory upon all"
In case Mr.. Berry does not know the
author of the farewell address, George
washington was its author.
OZRO PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
THANKSGIVING Day.

Thanksgiving Day.
We're thankful still for what we find
To help us on our way,
For hope that brings the weary mind
A solace, day by day.
For skies that are serenely blue
And fields with promise fair
And for the laughing children, who
Have faith and know no care.
We're thankful if a helping hand
We may perchance extend.
And what is best in all the land
We're thankful for a friend.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

One of Mark Twain's best stories was
How Became the Editor of a Country
Newspaper" Colonel Knox's adventures
while conducting metropolitan daily
would be more dignified but no less
exciting.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Neutrality might be maintained for a
long time if a definite understanding
could be reached that no official opinions
are to be expressed until the subject
under discussion is completely compre-
hended in all its details.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Thanksgiving market baskets are
promised reasonable prices. There is
still mention~of the blue eagle, but the
overwhelming present tendency is to
talk turkey.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Fears Of more prosperity than the
stock market will know how to tabulate
are expressed. However, the popular
imagination may look forward to state
Of affairs when the chief Importance Of
ticker tape is in its use for confetti.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Lotteries are forbidden, but legal rul-
ings are so dependent on public senti-
ment for enforcement that nothing ever
prevents winner in the Irish Sweep
stakes from receiving congratulations
from q host of friends.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Answered PRAYER.

I breathed foolish little prayer
That rain might all day pour.
Like the Russian saying, oft we pray
Two and two make not four.
Yet pray we must; and the mere act
May I'LL worthwhile demands
For Gods all-wise paternity
The gesture understands.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Dictators have difficulty in choosing
successors. Any subordinate with gen.
uine talent for dictation is liable to find
a ticket in his car notifying him where
to meet the firing squad.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Thanksgiving day is an American in
stitution. European leaders of political
thought see no present reason for copy
ing it.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Thanksgiving day offers Mr.. Farley
and the brain trust an opportunity to
assure the voting public that it will not
only accept the Democratic victory, but
like it.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Breathing and Taxes.

From the Rochester Times-Union.
The Binghamton, N. Y man, revived
after not breathing for some minutes,
should never again be told how much
Government costs each time we breathe.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Still Minors.

From the Lowell Leader.
Anyhow it has been established that
the minor parties are still on the small
time circuit.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Remnants.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Perhaps leftovers would be q better
term than holdovers for the remaining
q. o. p. legislators.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Prediction PrOmisers.

From the Battle Creek Enquirer-Nevs
Let's see. Did any one else promise
to quit politics-if the election didn't 60
right?
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Patient Public,

"How do you manage to keep coming
back to Washington every election?"
"I've made great many promises"
said Senator Sorghum, land my con-
stituents evidently think that if they
keep me here long enough I may be
able to fulfill them all"
Evening star., 1936-11-26
German Socks.

From the Bloomington Pantagraph.
Germans are using wood in their socks.
Maybe chip on the foot Is better than
one on the shoulder.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Perpetual Interest.

Perpetual Interest.
We're goin' on gayly blunderin',
And presently we're vexed.
This life is mostly wonderin'
What's going to happen next.
We hear a speaker thunderin',
Convincin' is his text.
But just the same we're wonderin'
What's goin' to happen next.
Some good old ties we're sunderin',
We're sorry and perplexed.
And SO we 60 on wonderin
What's going to happen next.
pride that is based only on pre-
tense" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, sis like counterfeit money, which
passes for awhile, but is sure eventually
to be detected and destroyed"
An Inference.
zone thing I like about her is that
she never gossips," said one woman.
"Nonsense!" said Miss Cayenne. THAT
doesn't indicate amiability.' It merely
shows she has. no friends who will in
trust her with secret"
Compensating Consideration.
We don't get all we wished for,
This is true Of every man.
We can't catch all we fish for,
But we fish the best we can.
We can't grasp all we groped for,
Yet by this much we are cheered,
While we can't have all we hoped for,
We do not get all we feared.
Happiness" said Uncle Eben, "an'
health is purity much alike. If you's got
EN- you don't have to think about EN-" :"
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Jud Tunkins says anybody can give
advice, which is why it figures so con-
spicuous in the problem of overpro-
duction.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

We can't grasp all we groped for.
Yet by this much we are cheered,
While we can't have all we hoped for.
We do not get all we feared.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
An Inference.

Compensating Consideration.
We don't get all we wished for,
This is true Of every man.
We can't catch all we fish for,
But we fish the best we can.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

@. What is meant by lip service?-K. F.
A. 1t means subscribing vocally to an
idea, but having very different inten-
tions secretly. In other words pre-
tending to follow a cause without actu-
ally doing So
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Rate by Mail-Payabie in Advance.

AL Other States and Canada.
Daily and Sunday--1 yr.. $1,000: l mo-, 81. 90
Daily only---------1 yr. $500; ] mo-. 15c
Sunday only --1 yr, S5 90; l mo-, SOC
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Happiness" said Uncle Eben. 'an'
health is purity much alike. II you's got
EN- you don't have to think about en-"
Evening star., 1936-11-26

@. For whom is James Roosevelt's
baby Kate named?-W. ].
A. The child is named after her ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Harvey Cush-
ing.
Evening star., 1936-11-26

Two youthful Republican freshmen"
Senators will occupy the limelight when
Congress opens. They are Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts, and Gov. Bridges
of New Hampshire. They are both from
New England Both were elected in
States which went for" Roosevelt. In
the old days Senators newly elected
frequently passed a whole year in the
Senate chamber before they aired their
views on the floor All that has changed.
Furthermore. with only II nominally
Republican Senators In the coming Con-
gress, it would scarcely do to muzzle two
Of them. In . measure these Senators,
still in their SOS, represent the younger
element In the g. o. p. and they should
be heard from.
Evening star., 1936-08-09
ACACIA BUILDING
RITES WEDNESDAY
Plans Call for Dedication
Address by J. B. Moor,
D. c. Superintendent.

The new home Office of the Acacia
Mutual Life Insurance Co., located
at 81 Louisiana avenue, opposite the
Capitol, will be dedicated with formal
ceremonies Wednesday night.
Plans call for holding the exercises
outdoors, in front Of the new building,
but in event of rain, the program
will be carried out in the auditorium.
The building will be dedicated by
]. Balch Moor, superintendent OF in
surance for the District, and William
MONTGOMERY, president of Acacia,
who has been the directing head OF
the company for more than az years,
will make an address in response.
The invocation will be by DR.. Bernard
Braskamp Of the Guton Temple Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church. and the
dedicatory prayer by DR.. Thomas Z.
Greene of the American Red Cross.
President Montgomery will preside.
Vocal selections will be rendered by
the Acacia Employees Glee Club OF
100 voices, and there will be music
by Phil Lampkin and his concert Or
chestra. The musical program will
begin at 8 pm.
Dedication of Acacia's new home
Office building-erected as the first
unit in a project which ultimately is
expected to cover the entire square
block-will be the high light OF con-
yention here of the company's branch
managers and agents from every
State in the country.
Tomorrow and Tuesday, the branch
managers will be in conference at the
Acacia Building. The convention OF
the company's agents will begin on
wednesday and will run through until
Friday. On Wednesday there will be
n luncheon for the active members
of the William Montgomery Quality
Club. Agents attending the conven-
tion won that privilege in Nation
wide contest sponsored by the COM
pany.
A reception will be held In the
Acacia Building following the dedi-
cation.
Evening star., 1936-08-09
new wendell CASE
INDICTMENTS SEEN
Federal Grand Jury to Continue
Probe Of Kidnaping-Ad.
journs to Sept. IA.
nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j.. August g. De-
Termination Of the Federal grand jury
20 continue its investigation OF the
Paul H. Wendell KIDNAPPING case IN
September was said reliably tonight
to mean other Lindbergh law in
dictments are under consideration in
addition to the bills already reported
ordered drawn against six persons.
Possible action toward additional
indictments apparently hinged on the
evidence the jurors expected to obtain
from the five or ten witnesses" whose
immediate unavailability led the jury
yesterday to adjourn until Septem-
Der IA.
The identity and significance OF the
witnesses still to be heard were close
ly guarded by United States Attorney
John ]. Quinn.
Sources close to the jury were EN-
phatic in saying the adjournment
was taken because Of the inability OF
additional witnesses to testify at this
time. They secuted the Interpretation
that the recess was designed to keep
the jury inactive until Gov. Harold G.
Hoffman announced his decision on
New York's requests for the extradi-
ton Of Ellis H. Parker, ST., and his
son, Ellis, 1r.
Evening star., 1936-08-09

The Columbus County grand jury
investigated the flogging of four
women and two men of the Clarendon
community early in the Summer, but
made no report. Its next session will
begin August "a.
Meanwhile Solicitor Burney and
Sheriff John w. Hall Of Whiteville,
said they were continuing their in
vestigation.
Evening star., 1936-08-09
Kumasi Much Changed.

When King Prempeh was exiled by
the British in 1895 from his capital,
Kumasi, land Of the Ashantees, on
Africa's gold coast, he left, a savage,
from q savage land, the groves OF
Kumasi covered with skulls and bones,
the remains of human sacrifices, over
which he had presided. King Prempeh
returned to his native city on visit
in 1925, Christian and Wesleyan
Church minister. He found Kumasi
with q railroad, cars running over
fine roads, prosperous, busy little
city, differing little from many cities
Its size in the Western world.
Evening star., 1936-08-09

reported fioggings by night-riders IN
nearby Columbus County.
The solicitor revealed he had OBJ
tanned an AFFIDAVIT from w. l.. (Pink)
King, 24-year-old Columbus County
man, declaring false in its entirety"
a signed statement he made several
weeks ago attributing the night-riding
activities to band Of vigilantes, or
ganized by a preacher and three
women.
Burney would make no formal COM
ment, but he had previously indi-
Gated he placed little faith in the
first statement Of King, who is held
in Jail here on a morals charge.
Evening star., 1936-08-09

Naval Operations. He assumed COM
mand of the Pennsylvania, April 16,
1895, and has had distinguished war
and peace time record in the Navy.
He was formerly a member Of the
United States naval mission to Bra
I'll.
Capt. Smith Is a native Of King
George County, Va. From 1919 to
1921 he was on duty at the Washing
ton Navy Yard and again in 1927 he
was connected with the Office of Naval
Operations in Washington. For two
years thereafter Capt. Smith served
at the Naval Academy. His home is
In Fredericksburg, Va.