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Evening star., 1936-06-14
BY JOSEPH DRIsCoLL.

" ONDON-Premier Ben1to MUS
solinis creation of a new Ro-
man Empire In 'Northeast
- Africa, with its implied chal-
lenge to British supremacy in the
Mediterranean and the Suez Canal
area, was considered behind closed
doors at important meetings in Lon
don during the week.
Conferring with Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin's Imperial Defense
Committee was Oswald PROV, the
dynamic defense minister of South
Africa, who came all the way here to
advocate a new plan for the defense
Of the whole British-owned or con-
trolled Africa from the Cape north
and to the Great Lakes and the Etht-
opian border. Briefly, Pirow's idea
Is that in return for the improved
naval defense to be provided by the
United Kingdom, his Union of South
Africa will undertake the defense by
land and air of Rhodesia. Kenya. Tan
sanyika, Uganda and Nyasaland.
The prospect of italian conquerors
massing q huge native army in Ethi-
opia on the borders of Kenya and
Uganda disturbs South Africa as we'll
as Whitehall. Also PROV fears sooner
or later there will be Negro uprising
in Central Africa unless precautions
are taken. Against this peril" he
offers the protection of his union
army and the air force in trade for
more naval protection.
Major Base Planned.
Cape Town would be made into q
naval base, bigger even than Singa-
pore, as part of the scheme which
Edward Radcliffe Evans when Evans
was commander in chief of the Afri-
can station. Evans also is partici-
pating in conferences here.
Preliminary work already has be-
gun on the enlargement of Cape Town
Harbor. Five hundred acres are to be
reclaimed from Table Bay and grav-
ing dock to handle ships as large as
the Queen Mary is to be erected at a
cost of 100000 pounds.
The Pirow-Evans defense plan,
which is to cost many millions, is as
follows:
The fortification of Robben Island,
2 miles outside Of Table Bay Harbor.
Long-range land guns will be mounted
at this former leper colony.
The enlargement Of the existing
British base at Simons Town, 80 miles
across the neck of the Cape PENN
sula.
The fortification and conversion of
saldanha Bay into a seaplane base.
Big Air Force Planned.
PROV plans to train an air force
of 1000 pilots and 5000 mechanics,
to form anti-tank units; to arrange for
the construction of an ammunition
factory and to negotiate with the I'M
perial Always for fast East and West
Coast flying boat services.
AS Premier Mussolini's shadow
darkens the Mediterranean, Cape
Town is regaining some of her one
time importance as gteway to the
East, which she held before the open
ing Of the Suez Canal gave a shorter
route to India. During the Anglo
Italian tension resulting from the
Ethiopian dispute, much steamer ton
mage was diverted to the cape route
and PROV foreseeS the time when most
Evening star., 1936-06-14
BY RALPH w. BARNES.

KARLSRUHE, Germany.-In the
course Of a two-day cycling tour
through the Rhine Valley northwest
from this city, the correspondent and
another American newspaper man
encountered rain and wind and de-
veloped some sore muscles, but saw
relatively little in the way of inten-
sive German defense preparation, the
observation Of which was the prin-
ciple object of the trip.
The journey proved little one way
or another, except that the Germans
are not constructing conspicuous forti-
fications within sight of either of the
two highways between Karlsruhe, on
the right bank of the Rhine, and
Landau, on the left bank IS miles to
the northwest. We cycled from
Karlsruhe to Landau over one of the
highways and returned over the other
deviating here and there from the
main road.
400-Year- Old Thoroughfare.
For 400 years and more this section
Of the Rhine Valley, from Strasbourg
northward through Karlsruhe and
Speyer and on to Mannheim and
Heidelberg, has served as the prin-
cipal thoroughfare for foreign armies
invading Germany. The northeastern
tip Of the present-day France juts
out as if pointing down the Rhine
Valley into the heart of Germany.
To the south from Karlsruhe are the
UnAdAd hillG ~ fhn IL
providing natural obstacles to the
advance of an invading military force.
To the west of Landau are the
somewhat similar wooded hills of the
Palatinate and thus similar obstacles
to invasion.
We noted on our cycling trip that
the Rhine Valley in between is
relatively fiat and open. A glance at
o road map discloses four principal
motor highways leading northward
through the valley from Karlsruhe
and vicinity, highways which might
serve the purpose of an invading
force quite as well as those of a de-
Tending army.
Other Ports of Entry.
The Moselle Valley, 140 miles to the
westward, provides a second port of
entry into the Reich, and the terri
tory to the East, from AK Ia Chapelle
on the Belgian frontier, offers q third
ingress. Yet all the military authori-
ties agree that the Rhine gateway is
the primary one.
Therefore, If the Germans are en-.
gagged today IN intensive defense prep.
arations In the Rhineland-the con-
struction Of Notifications and the
like-they might be expected to be
paying special attention to that por-
ton Of the Rhine Valley which ex-
tends uorthward from the French
frontier to, let us say, Speyer. For
typographical reasons one might ex-
pect to find defense work not far
distant from line running between
Karlsruhe and Landau.
We started northward from Karls-
ruhe> in a steady rain which con-
tinued throughout the day. Here and
there along the route were detach-
ments of brown uniformed Storm
Troopers on bicycles. On one occasion
we encountered detachments of black
uniformed Schultz Staffel Especial
Euards), also on bicycles.
Ditch Being Widened.
Four miles north Of Karlsruhe an
irrigation ditch leading westward TO-
ward the Rhine was being widened
and deepened. 1t is not unreasonable
to believe that such work I being
Evening star., 1936-06-14
Manila Police Take Movies.

MANILA CR.-In addition to clubs
and guns, Manila police have been
armed with movie cameras for coping
with riots. Col. Antonio Torres.
chief Of the force. believes the Aims
viii identify leaders Of mobs and
lawless organizations. -
Evening star., 1936-06-14
Poland Expects Surplus.

Poland is increasing government
revenues and expects surplus this
year.
Evening star., 1936-06-14

CllCACA W CdGCu tlIC DOldI J.,
that outlying glory of the sun that
flashes out during those precious mo-
ments when the suns brilliant surface
Is obscured.
No Fun for Astronomers.
It is this crowning glory Of the
sun, for which the name corona is
chosen, that calls astronomers from
far and wide to witness the spectacle.
Yet, strange as it may seem, astron-
omers are frequently the last people in
the world ever to enjoy looking at an
eclipsel They are too busy operating
their apparatus, analyzing the myste-
rious light Of the corona, or the chro-
mosphere from which gorgeous hydro
gen flames burst forth, oftentimes
stretching 100000 miles away from
the suns surface.
You can see that, since the moons
shadow covers such q narrow track on
the earth's surface, it is only those
within this narrow area who can wit
ness the phenomenon. The chances
Of an eclipse being visible at any one
place on the earth's surface are about
once in 800 years. Since, moreover,
the maximum duration Of an eclipse
Of the sun is never much over min
utes, and often much less, the total
number Of hours which scientists have
had to discover things about the suns
surroundings that are visible during
eclipse time are comparatively few.
No wonder scientists spend months
in preparation, perfecting apparatus
that win operate in the shortest pos
sible time, and spend days and weeks
Evening star., 1936-06-14
By CASTOR NERvAL

n 70 ONE familiar with the cur
rent trends in the foreign
policies Of the United States
L could have been surprised by
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Deserving of Support
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

But it Is in the American ira
dition for the Federal Government
to lead the States in fostering the
advance of education, in dissent.
mating the facts about education
that will enable the States the bet.
ter to perform their duty toward
education.
The Federal government is bet
ter able to conduct the work of
educational research than are the
governments of most of the States.
The results of this research,
when distributed through the sew.
eral States, help to equate the edu.
cation opportunities offered Amer.
lean youth throughout the Union.
This is why the Federal Office
of Education is deserving at all
times of the generous support of
the Congress.
Through this office the Federal
Government undertakes to supply
that leadership in the cause of
education which is in the Amer.
lean tradition, and is welcomed
by all progressive and well gov
erned States.
POSITIVE PROOF
At the present session of Con-
gress the committees on educa.
ton faces the duty of giving the
Federal Office of Education the
liberal support which its leader.
ship in the cause deserves.
Without public education the
common defense and the public
welfare suffer. Without public
education agriculture, commerce
and labor suffer.
If public education is neglected,
the household of the nation"
fails in its duty to the young
Americans of today on whom the
obligations Of American citizen.
ship will descend tomorrow,
The fact that the new year
found nearly five million young
Americans between the ages of Is
and "a "out of school, unemployed
and seeking employment" is proof
positive that the field of public
education needs for its cultiva-
ton some of the millions that are
still being squandered on govern
ment of politicians, by politicians.
for politicians" in State and Ma
J ton.
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By Edwin G. Hill

values of convenience, beauty and
enjoyment.
And deep in the field of pure
science have been the bureaus re-
searches in another field of wiz
ardry, that Of catalySiS. This chem
ical skeleton key already has freed
a horde of kindly demons which
are making the world better
place to live in. Here, too, the
quiet, sef-effacing, usually some
what stopped and bespectacled
scientists-about 400 of them
are achieving more definite re-
suits in a plain everyday human
welfare than the gaudiest klieg
light politicians.
UNIFORMITY
Many of them are meagerly
paid. Many bear names widely
known in science. In obscurity
they carry on faithfully, finding
the profound satisfaction of fine
achievement. The bureau has con-
tributed to metallurgical tech
niques which make it possible for
America to defend itself. End
leSSly it has enhanced its resources
in clothing, feeding, housing and
amusing itself.
They find much more to in
crease our national pride. Their
study of ceramics revealed the
crockery Of domestic manufacture
as far superior in wearing quality
and in susceptibility to a beautiful
finish than many more expensive
foreign clayS.
Studying blankets, they dis
cover that not the amount of wool
used but the method of weaving
determines their warmth and
quality. They discover a means
of increasing that dead air space
which is the essential factor of
warmth.
This information, along with
the rest, goes to consumers and
manufacturers alike. In paint
studies, they learn that the mix
ing processes determine the quail
ity, rather than the ingredients
used. Taking up the study of
carpets, they make a machine,
as they did with stockings and
shoes, which exactly reproduces
the scuff of the human foot.
They know, and they tell the
world, If it wants to know, just
how much wear and tear an hon
estly woven carpet ought to
stand. All studies and organiza-
ton of standards were. in early
Colonial days. under the Coast
Guard. Nautical affairs required
not only sound instruments of
precision in navigation, but they
required uniformity in measures
and an established quality in
ropes and all nautical gear.
Along with j. Edgar Hoover's
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
it is splendid illustration of
the effectiveness of national eff,
fort when it is clear of all
patronage and partisan entangle-
ments. Lyman I. Briggs, chief
of the research division, carries
on his work quietly and effec-
lively free from interference, and
he doesn't have to worry over
this being campaign year.
Copyright, 1885, King Features Syndi.
cate, Inc.)
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The Human Side of the News =

'ican homes. They make no study
of refrigerators, for instance, but
when this bit of wizardry was
ready for its cue on the stage of
progress, the bureau quietly had
done all the basic research in
chemical temperature control
which made it possible.
When Lee de Forrest and Theo-
dore Case were on the trail of
the photo-electric cell, that mys-
tifying rig which, unseen. opens
and closes the gates at New York's
Pennsylvania Station, they came
on the tracks of the bureau men.
Ahead of everybody else, they had
pressed on to this frontier. From
that particular bit of conjuring
came the talking pictures, tele
vision, and a general run of Grade
A magic as light is resolved into
sound or vice verSa-all weighing
definitely in the scale of human
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TEMPLE OF PRECISION

4CNEL VI KNGN1OAOGN
In the Sibyl's cave Of the winds
which is washington, there is one
temple of precision, of scientific
certainty, of faithful adherence to
fact and of steadily useful per
Torrance. It is the National
Bureau of Standards.
AS the silk hosiery manufac-
turers meet in New York to adopt
a standard for the grading of silk
stockings, they have before them
data recording all that science
can offer regarding the behavior
of a woman's full-fashioned stock
ing" as the bureau studied such
behavior, at the request of the
American Federation Of Women'S
Clubs, and made their finding
available to the manufacturers.
To make this study, they made
machines which subject a silk
stocking to all the varying stress
and strain of actual wearing.
Materials, weaving, fashioning,
service under varying degrees of
humidity, stretching range, resiS-
lance to shoe abraslon-every
possible variable Of manufacture
ing and wearing conditions-were
studied and determined.
That jobs done. There are no
runs or rawlings in Uncle Sans
politically isolated laboratory Of
scientific research in the basic
interest of a dollars worth for
a dollar. In this instance, it
happened to be the women's
clubs which initiated the study.
BUREAU OF STANDARDS
Getting a well-fashioned and
durable silk stocking at a reason
able price is a matter of real
interest to millions of American
women-certainly of much more
pressing and immediate concern
than many of the heavily head
lined doingS of the congressman.
The bureau never rests in its
relentless pursuit of waste, sleazy
workmanship, shoddy or in
efficient manufacture in the vast
stream of goods which flows I'M
ceasingly from the machines to
the consumers. But, being solely
scientific body, it can take no
stand, enter into no contention
as to whether the people are
getting their moneys worth.
All it can do-and that is a
stupendous LOTS to find out the
truth for any responsible group,
either of consumers or manu-
facturers, who want to do a
workmanlike job.
In natural sequence, shoes fol-
low stockings. The bureau makes
a machine which walks like a
woman" AS in the stocking
study, they buy samples at various
stores made by many different
manufacturers, covering a wide
price range. The machine dupli-
Gates wear. It makes the same
revelations of varying wearing
qualities and workmanship as did
the stocking machines. These
findings, too, will be made avail
able for manufacturers or for con-
sumers' groups.
They had dozens of girls wear
ing these shoes, deriving thereby
their machine counterpart of feet
and pavement wear and abrasion.
The above instances are cited
as typical Of the especially simple,
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Storm Signals

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenhau much against his
will reveals that the national debt may climb high as
FORTY BILLION DOLLARS in the next eighteen months
Also that public refuses to swallow Government bond
issues the result will be "chaos."
Almost simultaneously Undersecretary Of the Treasury
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge resigns.
II is understood that like former Budget Director Lewis
Douglas and Others this able official cannot conscientous
remain Raw Deal ocehoder when he considers that the
Raw Deal financial policies leading to national disaster
Apparently the voters Of America almost equally alarmed
at Raw Dealsm go.
The final results Of the Literary Dgess poll OF two mlon
If them in the States shows dsapprova Of Mr.
Roosevelt's program by majority Of more than to 2
The Dgess accuracy in predicting elections is noted
It's error in 1882 was less than per cent
It's latest poll makes Mr. Roosevelts reelection seem i'm
probable.
Gentlemen who bet that he will NOT be defeated are ADVISED
to ask Odds
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>timely and obvious efforts of the
bureau, OF universal understand
ing and pocketbook interest.
Less easily observable but pro-
foundry important in the building
CT Americas entire industrial es-
Enlistment has been the bureaus
amending research in technology
cal processes and devices, ranging
from processes which helped to
bring on the great iron behemoths
of heavy duty machinery down to
submicroscopic chemical and
physical subtltieS through the in
finitely minute exactitudes of in
struments of precision.
Its achievements in the field of
research science have been many
and invaluable. They do no re-
search in fabricated articles, but
their work has helped make pos
sible many devices which have ad-
ed leisure and efficiency to Amer
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Give Repeal a Chance

In recommending that the Guyer bill to restore prohbi
ton in the District be NOT approved by Congress- the
District Commissioners are unquestonaby following the
sensible course
The efforts of professional agitGtOrs to stir up
sentiment in the UGrOHs States against temperate
drinking in the National Capital deserve the rebUke
IUItich is implicit in the recommendation OF the
Commissioners.
The manner in which these paid supporters Of the dry
cause have gone about the States disappearing
dons here in order maintain themselves in their jobs
is reminiscent of the tactics which they pursued when
they foisted on the Nation the ignobe experiment.
UNABLE TO MAKE ANY HEADWAY IN THE COM
MUNITIEs WHICH HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
VOTE THEY HAVE ARROGANTLY DEMANDED
THAT THE HALF MILLION HELPLESS INDIvID-
UALs OF THE DISTRICT BE MADE THE SUBJECT
FOR RENEWED PROHIBITION.
No one questions the right of those residents of the
District who sincerely believe that the way to deal with
the liquor problem is complete prohibition to raise their
voices in demanding that repeal be repealed.
ManifestLv these good citizens haze as much
rigt to be heard as their neighbOrs UhO remember
the eUiLs of prohibition and UOuLd fight against
their return.
But when the Congress is flooded with petitions and
letters which are obviously inspired with the idea Of con-
vincing congressman that the 'foks back home" are
demanding that the District be made bone dry then it
becomes obvious that efforts being made to try 1t
out the dog
The District for many long years an experimental
laboratory for fanatical prohibition legislation
It knew the rigors and the absurdties Of dry law
before such law was enacted for the Nation.
The city wants now as the Commissioners explained
in their report on the Guyer bill, to GIVE TEMPER
ANCE A CHANCE.
THAT CHANCE CAN BEST BE GIVEN BY CON
TINUING UNDER THE PRESENT LICENSE SYSTEM
WITH SUCH NOTIFICATIONS AS MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME BE SHOWN TO BE NECESSARY.
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Farewell to Last Frontier

Out in the Mccullough Peaks country east of Cody Wyo
there has grazed large herd of wild horses Automobiles
could not be used in country and these wild nags deed
cowhands on cowpones
So what to do? They valuable
Out of the SKY came Bill Monday leather-seated pilot
He went to the last frontier and with remarkably adrot
handling of his plane he rounded up the herd driving the
fright crazed horses from the hills to the fatlands.
There they taken hand by driven to corras
Out in the Peaks country all is still No mountain Of
dust as the herd wild
on the hoof
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WELL! WELL!

Representative Leslie c. Arends
(R) of Illinois, relates a strange
story about two young women
from his territory. The authen-
icity? we'll:
According to the very popular
young member of the House, the
two girls were sent East" to a
boarding school.
Their father, at the approach
of Thanksgiving believed his
daughters should celebrate the
holiday in fitting style and sent
them live turkey.
It was delivered to their rooms;
they decided to kill it but were
dubious about the method of
slaughter. Looping off the head
of the fowl was deemed too CORY.
They agreed on a clean method.
A bottle of chloroform Subdued
the turkeys flutterings. The girls
then picked off its feathers and
were about to complete the task
of preparing him for the oven
when guests arrived and the
plucked turkey was consigned to
the pantry.
When the girls arose the next
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caused their colleagues, older in
point of service, to criticize them
as talkative youngsters.
Minton was among that group
which includes Senators Dennis
Chavez CD of New Mexico, Louis
Murphy CD of Iowa, George L.
Radcliffe CD of Maryland, James
E. Murray CD of Montana, Har-
ry S. Truman CD of Missouri,
and Francis T. Maloney CD Of
Connecticut.
Although these men were in
the Senate last session they
avoided oratory but now that
Minton has broken the ice with
a speech on the AAA, it is ex-
pected that others in his group
may begin to take an active part
in debates.
Also in the group of silent
solons is Senator Theodore G..
Bilbo, of Mississippi, the self
styled rip-snorter who came to the
Capitol threatening to out-talk the
then Senator from Louisiana,
Huey P. Long.
Bilbo has yet to enter the de-
bates and when Long was alive
it was said that he was wise
enough not to attempt to engage
the caustic-tongued Huey in argu-
ment.
Now that Long is not in the
Senate, Bilbo's colleagues are
wondering how long it will be be-
fore he begins to make good his
promise to thrill the upper branch
of Congress with the same VERDI
age that entranced the voters of
Mississippi.
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QUALIFIED

When George Washington's
Farewell Address is read in the
Senate for the thirty-sixth time,
its reading will be by Senator
Nathan L. Bachman CD of Ten.
nessee.
The practice of reading the ad.
dress began in 1900 and has con.
tlnued until the present time with
some Senator elected to read the
address on the anniversary of
Washington'S birth.
One Capitol official, discussing
the scheduled reading of the ad,
dress by Bachman, said:
'If any person can read the
address properly, the Junior Sen,
ator from Tennessee should be
able to deliver it properly.
He attended five univer-
sites, was a city attorney, a
circuit Judge and an associate
justice of the Tennessee supreme
court"
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SOUVENIRS

Representative Theodore B.
Werner Cd of South Dakota. is
distributing novel souvenirs to his
colleagues and constituents.
They are small strips of the
cloth which covered the strato-
sphere balloon on its recent as
cent into the regions far above
the earth.
Each strip bears a record of the
flight, a picture of the balloon
and an announcement of the fact
that it is presented by Representa-
tive Werner.
When Representative John ].
O'Connor CD of New York,
chairman Of the House Rules
committee, received his souvenir
and studied the details of the
epochal ascent, he announced:
To think that those men
went more than $4,000 feet into
the sky and yet were not even
close to Heaven!"