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Evening star., 1936-07-09

The strange story Of the kings scape-
goat comes to the Catholic Anthropo-
logical Conference here from the Rev.
Joseph Kler, for 10 years q missionary
in the mysterious Ordos Desert-50, 600
square emile waste of sand in Inner
Mongolia Just north of the Great Wall
Of China.
Through this remote and desolate re-
gion wander the Ordos Mongols with
their 1ocks Of sheep and herds of cattle,
horses and camels. During his service
among them Father Kler has made a
special study Of their medical practices.
Each desert chieftain, he reports, has
in his retinue one man whose job is to
serve as a decoy and draw the spirits
of sickness and death away from his
king. When the ruler falls sick the
scapegoat Immediately dons the best
clothes of his master, mounts the mon
archS favorite horse and gallopS away
a few hundred kilometers into the
desert. The idea is that the spirits caus-
ing the illness will mistake the scape-
goat for the king, believe that their in
tended victim is getting away from them
and pursue him. Thus the monarch
himself is left alone.
The scapegoat fully expects to die,
and often does. If he is able to outrun
the spirits of evil, however, he receives
as his reward the kings clothes and his
horse.
For lesser individuals manikin serves
the purpose of a scapegoat. The lama,
who acts as medicine man, dresses up
this manikin in the sick persons best
clothes. The evil spirits are supposed
to mistake the image for the man. At
times the lamas will make from -four
dough three-cornered balls from 10 CEN
timeters to q meter thick and the evil
spirit is supposed to take his departure
inside these. Rich nomadS Will cover
this ball with pagoda made OF willow
sticks and silk cloth. This then will be
left at a CROSSROADS. The next morning
the lamas remove the ball and appro-
pirate the silk cloth as their fee.
The Ordos Desert people, Father Kler
reports. have no other medicines than
those of the lamas. Among these, how
ever are some famous practitioners who
astonished the priest with their intimate
knowledge of the curative powers OF the
plants of the desert and steppes. Some
of these are quite efficient Tor minor
maladies.
Medicines are given in the form OF
powder, or else mixed in liquids such as
water, alcohol or milk, especially milk
from red or brown COWS. According TO
the native beliefs, such COWS give more
nourishing milk. The natives consider
also that the milk of black mares is
more nourishing than that OF white
mares.
When a lama prays over sick person,
Father Kler reports, he first washes the
face of his patient in blessed water,
to which sugar has been added and over
which prayers have been said. Then,
Evening star., 1936-07-09
The Lion ROars.

Nothing could more graphlcally depict
the alarms and anXieties with which the
European situation is now filled than
plans. To program which originally
contemplated expenditure of roundly
5000, 900 900, 1t is now proposed to devote
more than 81 900, 100000. An extra $50
o0o,0Co would be allocated to the navy;
an equal sum to the air force, and an
additional S25,OOO,000 to the army.
The Baldwin government, which will
seek parliamentary approval of its aug
mented defense budget next week, makes
no attempt to conceal the fact that it Is
uneasiness over the foreign outlook which
tustifies the demand for increased de-
fense outlay. No official specification is
Forthcoming as to the particular regions
in which imminent danger is scented,
but broadly it is intimated that there are
so many possibilities of explosion that
Europe faces conditions fully as perilouS
as those which ended in the eruption OF
1914. British fears are reflected by Wis
count Cecil, who has just declared that
"the old demon war is stirring again"
It is in Nazi attempts to iberate Danzig
from League of Nations control that
Lord Cecil envisions "the utmost danger
to the peace of Europe" His fears are
echoed by Financial Secretary of the
Treasury Morrison, who describes the
general situation as grave"
The governments zeal in tightening
up the bolts of BritanniaS three-armed
fighting machine is motivated largely by
the humiliating experience which the
League powers, and Great Britain in par
ticular, suffered at Italy's hands. 1t was
a matter of virtually public acknoWl-
edpement that neither the British fleet
nor air force was strong enough to war
rant the risk of a conflict with Musso-
lni. The resultant Fascist triumph was
ascribed by David Lloyd George this
week to the fact that the Baldwin gov
ernment was completely devoid OF nerve.
courage, resolution and vision" In so far
as more warships, battle planes, troops
and artillery can preserve the Tory gov
ernment from further indictments OF
this damning sort, Prime Minister Bald
win and his colleagues are apparently de-
termined to spare neither effort nor
expense.
The Italo- Ethiopian fiaSco being more
or less a closed incident, British eyes
are now turned in other directions. In
Europe they are riveted upon German
rearmament and Hitler's plans when 1t
is completed. The Fuehrers persistent
refusal to answer the British question
naire regarding his territorial expansion
program fills Downing Street with rising
concern. Under the circumstances, Bald
wins dictum that the Rhine is BrltalnS
frontier assumes even more Slgnlflcance
than when it was uttered year ago.
John Bull is no less anxious over develop
ments in the Far East. Japan's latest
military moves in North China, coupled
with continuous evidence of her purpose,
by any means possible, to monopollze
the Chinese market, impel Britain to view
with undisguised alarm the security OF
her whole position in the Orient. With
his vital interests thus at stake, East and
West billion for defense is the British
Hons growing answer to all and sundry
who menace them.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Baby blue jays are among the most
charming Of bird juveniles.
Those particularly plaintive cries
which arise over the suburban areas at
this time Of year are from the little jays.
Most young birds are as large as, or
even larger than, their parents, but the
small blue jays are not quite as big as
theirs.
They have squat, durnpy appearance,
with ruffled feathers and voice which
fits into their generally helpless appear
ance.
All of the bold defiance of the adults Is
lacking in the little ones, who squeal and
squeak all day long for food, food, food.
The jaunty jays are fine parents.
All day long they heed the cries of
their little ones. making endless trips to
the place where the young birds are
flying about.
This place may be the nest, but more
often 1t is yard near the nesting place.
For all the young Of the bird popula-
ton are in the air now.
The baby wrens are out, the young
robins and mocking birds, the baby
wood thrushes and thrashers, the latter
sometimes hard to tell apart at a little
distance.
The longer legs, longer tail and bill
will help distinguish the thrasher young
from those of the thrush.
The wood thrush, as might have been
expected, is an exemplary parent. The
young stay close at hand in the garden,
with bills held open at all times for
dainty tidbitS which may be placed in
them.
These are the days, however, when all
young birds are learning how to hunt
food for themselves.
1t is interesting to see their first
tentative steps in this direction.
Young mockingbirds are adopts strik-
ing out early for themselves.
An amusing instance came to light
recently in a nearby Maryland garden.
Those who lived in the house attached
to the garden had never seen young
mockingbirds.
Tolerably familiar with the adult birds,
they totally failed to grasp that the
large, handsome fellows which were
walking around by the big tree were the
mockingbird babies.
What bird is that?"
The old cry of bird watchers went up.
The birds had white on them, but
were so round and shipshape under
meath very fat that no one recognized
them for what they were.
An eager search went on in the bird
books.
Could these be loggerhead shrikes?
Well, not exactly.
Some one with more common sense
than usual at last hit on the truth.
Why, they are baby mockingbirds!
Sure enough, they were.
This is one of the pleasures of bird
watching-to spot the juveniles and see
Just how they differ from the adults.
It Is amazing to think that soon these
fluffy fellows will know just when to
fly South and what to do along the way.
Only a few days from nothing, they
are yet able to master great distances.
take their places almost instantly beside
their parents and fly away over noun
tains and streams to land where they
have never been. 1t seems even more
amazing when one stops to think about
the tiny wrens. These, too, fly away
when the time comes, and next year will
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Shooting Stars.
Judicial Security.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Judicial Security.
They can't scare me at all when certain
politicians say
Supreme Courts aren't needed and should
travel on their way.
Jedge Waxem is a friend of mine;
friend of boyhood hours.
We used to go a-fishin' or stroll idly
pickin' f1owrs.
A race track does not tempt him, with
a threat Of serious loss,
But when carnival" comes round he'll
ride flyin' hosS;
OF great judicial wisdom we can never
be bereft;
No matter what may happen we will
have Jedge Waxem left.
Jedge Waxem's heart is younger than
his years, and that's the truth.
He'll step out in a night club along with
flaming youth
He'll violate the parkin' lawS-he is a
merry elf
And then suspend the sentence after he
arrests himself.
Jedge WaxemS all the court we need to
handle suits with care;
Sometimes he'll toss o penny Just to
show that he is fair.
On rural regions we'll depend for a
judicial brain.
Though courts may come and courts may
60, Jedge Waxem will remain.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

will affect the political situation. Big
steel plants are located in Pennsylvania,
which the Democrats are making great
efforts to carry. John L. Lewis, president
Of the United Mine Workers, who has
lined the mine workers up for Roosevelt,
is leading the drive for the unionization
of the steel workers. If the strike comes,
Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania, Roosevelt
leader, will support the strikers. 1t looks
rs though the steel strike would have
plenty Of political effect, and as though
the Roosevelt Democrats would be tied
In pretty closely with the strikers.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Unfortunately for campaign fund sub
scriptions, nominating convention can
be held only once in four years. Many
cities would pay literally for the privi-
lege of entertaining if there could be a
series of conventions in various parts of
the map.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Seventeen-year locusts have come and
gone without doing any great harm. They
have been noisy and intrusive while
damaging the foliage somewhat, but they
will not be back for seventeen years, a
space of time which represents an appre-
ciable breathing spell.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Third Party Coloring.

From the New Haven Journal-courier.
Repr eSentative Lemke says what
pleases him is that "in none of the
thousands of letters we have received
has there been shade of pink or red
feeling" But we've seen lot OF purple
faces among the orthodox.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Monte Carlo is reported to be unpros-
porous. American racketeers have pro-
vided unlimited facilities for playing
roulette without the trouble of an ocean
journey.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

The New Deal will not be abandoned
even though it may introduce modified
features that correspond to putting in
the joker and playing deuces wild.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Communism is being discussed as a
matter of momentum. A person charged
with communism may be one who started
as a Socialist and finds that his intellec-
tual brakes are not holding.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Midsummer i'm Town.

Midsummer i'm Town.
Overhead o scene OF brilliance,
Glittering white stars set in blue;
In the street the sounds Of trafic,
Sirens, hoots, noisy crew;
From the parks a pungent fragrance,
Trees and flowers drenched In dew.
Standing at my open window
In the sultry Summer night,
Every wind a breath from Heaven,
Every lull fresh delight,
Living seems thing so poignant
It allows no sense Of blight.
Life in midtown, pulsing. teeming-
FILLED with strife and then with dream
ing,
Evening star., 1936-07-09
A Century of Change.

Another birthday greeting
Is prepared for good John D.
Through years that have been f1eeting
Many changes he can see.
A motor car he handles
When he sees the modern sights,
And instead of birthday candles
He will have electric lights.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

A certain charm of personality is as
serted by Senator Borah. He is one of
the few statesmen who do not assume
standardized smile every time a camera
Is pointed at them.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Ethiopia is not rich in ancient ruins
The visit of Halle Selassie to Geneva
enabled him to inspect what remains of
the League of Nations with much senti-
mental interest.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
After Arrival.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ,,4
Attempt to reach top Of MT. Everest
dropped" says a headline. Brave men
have risked their lives in the attempt.
Plain folks wonder what the climber
can do if and when he gets there.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Parade Promoter.

Barnum had to leave this earth,
Though humbugs he would cheer;
He always gave their moneys worth
To folks who gathered near;
He'd let the steam piano play
And gilded wagons roll:
He gave a grand parade they say
May Heaven rest his soul!
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Steel is described by stock brokers
as either a prince or a pauper, with
danger of embarrassments in a con-
tinuous career of social readjustments.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Hooinc for a Lull.

From the Phiiadelphia INQUIRER.
There seems to be no reason now why
the police should not resume enforce
ment of Phfladelphia's and-noise or
dinance.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Collars.

Collars.
From the Worcester Gazette
A trade magazine predicts popularity
for a new kind of rubber collar that can
be laundered in 10 seconds with a damp
cloth. If it's slogan he wants, we
suggest something like, BE q Collar-a-
Year Man"
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Parties.

Where have you been so late at
night?" said the parent.
"Organizing political party" replied
the capable young woman.
We'll, a political party is all right. I
was afraid it might be cocktail party"
II have known astronomers" said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, who could
figure accurately on solar eclipse, but
whose mathematical science did not
enable them to tell for sure when
mortgage would be foreclosed."
Evening star., 1936-07-09

Everybody is entitled to his opinion"
said Uncle Eben, "but If yous goin' to
fuss with everybody whose opinions ain
de same as yours, you's goin' to end up
mighty lonesome"
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Farm Problems.

From the Fond Du Lac Commonwealth.
When a hen adopts the kittens ana
calf follows Q horse around, no wonder
the problems On the farm are complex.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights Of publication Of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
Fear.

Fear.
did your threat to retire from ofice
cause any fear?"
Great fear" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. II have received many letters
expressing fear that might change my
mind
Evening star., 1936-07-09
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spending. The blind Senator trailed two
New Deal Democrats in the primary,
Representative Josh Lee and Gov. Mar
land, who will fight it out in a run-off
primary on July %. The New Deal has
other Democratic critics in Oklahoma
among them former Gov. Alfalfa Bill"
Murray. There are some of Gov. Landon's
friends who insist the Republican candi-
date for President will carry the State
next November The Democrats, of
course, seek to ridicule such a predic-
ton The fact remains, however, that
Landon is likely to have considerable
support in that State
Senator Gore was one of the first two
Senators to represent Oklahoma when
that State was admitted to the Union
back in 1907. He lost his fight for re-
nomination in 1920. That, too, was Just
before the close of Democratic Presi-
dents term of ofilce-Woodrow Wilson.
And Gore had antagonized the Wilson
administration, pretty much the same as
he has antagonized that of President
Roosevelt.
Two new possible factors in the polit-
ical situation have loomed up in the last
few days. The first is the drought in the
farm States Of the Northwest and the
Middle West. The second is the pos
sibility of hard fight to organize the
steel workers, with the prospects of n
big strike. President Roosevelt has moved
rapidly to give aid to the hundreds of
thousands of drought sufferers, putting
them on the w. P. A. pay rolls and doing
other things for them. He will visit the
drought area himself in the near future.
Gratitude and the Presidents coming to
the area may have a good deal to do
with the way the balloting goes In these
States next Fall. So far as the steel
strike is concerned. II 1t comes, 1t may be
more difncult to figure out Just how It
Evening star., 1936-07-09
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

A reader can get the answer to any
question OF fact by tortttng The Eventng
Star Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Hdskin, Director, Washington, D. C.
Please inclose stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1936-07-09

@. What are the religious affiliations
of Gov. Landon and Col. Knox, nominees
Of the Republican party?-H. r.
A. Gov. Landon is Methodist and Col
Knox is a Congregationalist.
Evening star., 1936-08-29
DRAFTS REGULATED
BY AUTOMATIC DEVICES
Uniform Fuel Consumption and
Resultant Savings Are
Made Possible.

Automatic draft regulation devices
which may be inserted in the smoke
pipe of any warm-air furnace, hot
water or steam boiler are now avail
able. They have the advantage Of
maintaining approximately an even
draft which tends to assure uniform
fuel consumption, and because of the
uniform burning Of the fuel consid-
cradle savings result.
Most of these devices consist Of
counter-balanced, free swinging damp
er in the side of the smoke pipe which,
in case the draft becomes excessive,
opens and allows air to pass directly
up the stack instead of being drawn
through the combustion chamber of
the heating plant.
For automatic fuel-burning equip
ment such draft-regulating devices
are almost necessity and certainly
will save their cost in a short time
even in hand-fired heating plants.
Evening star., 1936-08-29

AIR DUCTS VITAL
IN HOUSE PLANS.
Conditioning Tubes Require
Careful Study by Car.
penterS.

The increasing use Of air condi-
tioning in homes brings up the prob
lem Of framing the house so that the
air ducts can be easily carried through
the partitions to the second floor.
The carpenters of the present gen.
Grafton have become used to the
systems Of heating where small pipes
are all that have to be considered,
so they have not yet become ac-
customed to allowing for the larger
metal ducts. Therefore, unless the
framing of the house is studied and
carefully planned before the work
actually starts, added expense is al
most sure to occur when the sheet
metal workers arrive on the Job and
start cutting plates and sills to get
their ducts up through the walls.
All this can be avoided by rea-
sonable care beforehand. Frequently
several ducts must run up through q
bearing partition that has girders at
each floor. In the cellar, If the
girder is set below the floor joists,
the duct can be curved over it; but
where it is flush trouble ensues. In
such cases split girder should be
used, either in steel or wood, so that
the ducts may run through the space
left between the two halves of the
girder. If these provisions are not
made as the frame is being erected,
either there must be excessive cutting
of important structural members or
expensive bends must be inserted in
the ducts, thus lessening their eff
cheney, adding to the costs and neces-
stating building odd boxes at ceiling
lines or in corners to hide the ducts.
The more carefully the framing of
the house Is planned before work
starts, the more smoothly the work
will go and the less it will cost. In
no other part of the operation Is
careful preliminary study more i'm
portant than in the framing. Built
in air conditioning systems are ELI
gible for homes constructed under
the insured mortgage system of the
Federal Housing Administration, as
we'll as for old homes modernized
under the modernization credit plan.
Evening star., 1936-08-29
REALTY TAXL|M|T
MEASURE LAUDED.
Pennsylvania Association Is
Behind Amendment Pend
ing in State.
srecial Dispatch to The Star.

Steclal Ulspatcn 70 Ano otets
HARRISBURG, Pa, August o.
Pennsylvania General Assembly by
Joint resolution at the special session
just closed approved an amendment
to the State constitution to provide
an overall limitation Of the tax on
real estate. The amendment, which
would set up 10 mill limit, is strongly
supported by the Pennsylvania Real
Estate Association and the local real
estate boards Of the State. It must
gain approval by second session OF
the General Assembly, after which 1t
goes to q vote of the people at
general election.
The amendment would add to
article 9 of the constitution of Penn
sylvania a new section in text as
follows:
Political subdivisions shall annually
reduce their respective tax levies on
the assessed valuation of real estate
so that the combined rates Of all taxes
exclusive of taxes for debt service)
for the year 1943 and>any subsequent
year on any parcel Of real estate shall
not exceed a total Of 10 mills. The
General Assembly shall enact legls-
lation fixing the annual reductions to
be made by classes of political sub
divisions previous to the tax year 1943
and the maximum tax millage within
said 1O-mill limitation which may be
levied by any class Of political subdi-
vision for the tax year 1943 and
thereafter.
THE assessment or valuation of
real property for tax purposes made
for the year 1943 and thereafter shall
be made only at the fair market
value"
Georgia, Colorado, Washington,
Oregon and Arizona are already as
sured of having on the ballot in the
coming Fall election a proposed
measure for limitation on the gen.
eral property tax. In Georgia, Colo
RADIO and Oregon the measure pro-
posed Is a constitutional amendment
for an overall limitation. In Wash
ington it is a proposed re-enactment
of the statutory overall limitation
now in effect. In Arizona the limi-
tation proposed. sponsored by large
number of groups including the real
estate boards, is not an overall llml-
tation but in combination with legis-
lation now in effect attempts to
achieve a degree of rate control.
In connection with the control
measure, Arizona real estate groups
are supporting a measure which
would shift a larger portion of school
costs from the local districts to the
State. Such shift, and overall limi-
tation Of the tax rate on real estate,
are advocated for all States by the
National Association Of Real Estate
Boards.