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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-06-11
By Mrs. Penrose Lyly

nOROTHY NYE is 8 widely known au-
IL thority on corrective gymnastics.
She takes girls with bad posture and
works. Results-they feel better, look
better and their husbands are delighted
met Miss Nye last week sitting in q
zoo restaurant. She had just returned
from a strenuous trip through Europe,
where she studied gynlnastic and exercise
methods in the leading foreign countries.
Tired, tense, worn out? Just the opposite,
just as relaxed, as strong. healthy, physi-
calfy happy as the seal before us and the
pantflers moving in their outdoor cages.
And this is how she explains it:
You see, learned to relax years ago.
In trains, waiting on boats. anywhere and
any time when I am not working, I just
go blah.' Breaks tensions, refreshes the
body-and then the body doesn't wear
out and the face doesn't knot up with
fatigue lines she says.
Grace and speed, poise and alertness
combine in her well-trained body Women
look at her as they pass men admire the
lean. athletic build of this noted teacher.
And she gave me, there in the zoo before
the wild animals who also know how to
relax few hints for you
bHSl1 yOuIs& I6ld6atiOll CASlIlSCS SAA
your back in room where you can be
alone. Quiet, light not too strong, and
a bed that is neither too hard nor too
soft are your requirements. complete
stretch makes a good beginning
r IE FLAT ON BACK, arms stretched
~ toward ceiling or raised over head.
Stretch the whole body, pushing the heels
downward and pulling head and shoul-
ders upward from center.
Then, keeping the body stretched, twist
and turn as follows: Raise right hip while
shoulders remain fiat. Then the left hip.
Next let hips remain fat and roll up and
over first the right shoulder and then the
left shoulder Then relax all over.
Repeat each step of stretching and re-
taxation three to five times
The author of New Bodies for Old"
internationally accredited adviser to tired
women, apostle of relaxation, has another
series for women in spring who seem all
keyed up after long winter.
On knees, with arms raised above the
head, fingers extended, stretch upward,
using the whole body in the stretch Re-
lax in sequence the fingers, wrists, elbows,
shoulders, neck, upper back then let the
whole body drop forward onto the folded
arms with every part completely relaxed.
especially the neck and shoulders. Stay
in this position few seconds, then repeat
about five times
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-06-11

Better marry the fellow who under
stands your way of life ana whose future
you can share with him, help bring TO
success.
The office is a fine place Tor getting
pay checks, a bad place to look for
husband After all, typewriters won't work
themselves. Isn't that what you get paid
for?
Evening star., 1937-02-04

profitable game than the delicate laying
of matchsticks together to form struc-
ture. But then this Baltimore plumber
might easily have been improving his
mind during the process by thinking
about architecture, and in his off hours
reading ABOUT building design and so
preparing himself for a wider career
than pipe laying and joint wiping when
his day of occupation returned.
This matchstick construction game
was about the equivalent of solitaire,
which forms the diversion of many per-
sons-not necessarily unemployed. 1t
provides something for the hands to do
while leaving the mind free to cover
wide range of thought. Properly pur-
sued. this diversion is actually stimu-
lating to the subconscious faculties.
Match building may be similarly provo
cative of actually valuable thinking. At
any rate, the Baltimore plumber is going
to start anew and possibly he will work
out something of real value to himself
while he is painstakingly laying his
matches one upon another. Assuredly,
he VIII be out OF mischief, whatever
besides.
Evening star., 1937-02-04
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

within less than 100000 miles of the
earth.
Because Of it's small size it probably
never will attain the scientific impor-
tance of Eros. At its point of nearest
approach it is star of only the twelfth
magnitude and very difficult to observe.
It might, however, be very important,
indeed, for. according to a recent analysis
of its orbit by British astronomical
magazine, it might some day smash
directly into this planet. Probably the
result would not be fatal to the earth.
The effects of mass of rock half mile
in diameter and moving at rate Of
2 or 3 hundred miles a second striking
the globe are difficult to calculate.
There may have been two such COL
lisions in the past. One may be RESPONSE
ble for the great meteor crater in Arizona
and the other might have been the great
meteor fall in Siberia in 1908, which
caused reverberations around the world.
Both these collisions happened to be in
out-of-the-way, uninhabited places. II
such an object-in both cases probably
much smaller than Anteros, had struck
in a thickly populated region the result
might have been one Of the greatest
catastrophes in history.
The possibility, the analysis by the
British magazine shows, is remote. There
may, however, be still unknown plane
toids Of the earth's family which ap-
proach even nearer. 1t is largely by
accident that such a tiny, swift-moving
body would be detected in the heavens.
Anteros should be visible in June, 1898,
and in July, 1943. 1t will make a very
close approach to the earth in February.
1854. at which time the possibility of
collision will be greatest. The tiny object
is one of a swarm of nearly 5000 known
planetoidS, most Of which are found in
the great void between Mars and Jupiter.
They are sometimes explained as the
debris of shattered planet. Discoveries
of these planetoids have followed each
other quite rapidly during the past two
decades Of astronomical photography.
Up to 1910 only 1870 Of them were
known to astronomers. In the period
between 1910 and 1884, 3,152 were added
to the list and there may be as many
more yet undiscovered.
They are Of considerable Importance
in positional astronomy, but they have
been turning up so rapidly that there has
been considerable opposition to looking
for any more Of them until the orbits
of those now known can be determined
precisely.
Evening star., 1937-02-04
Reconstruction Vision.

Other events may crowd the flood
story of the front pages Of the Nations
newspapers, even before the inundation
has reached its apex in the lower Mis-
sissippi Valley. But the real problem
cannot be nquidated so easily. The less
dramatic business of reconstruction, OF
course, will be relatively little publicized.
It represents different variety of human
experience, its tempo Of development is
slower. its progress not theatrically
picturesque.
Yet dull indeed must be the imagina-
Evening star., 1937-02-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

It was shortly after o'clock in the
morning, on one of the few bright morn
inss in several weeks, and a fine flock
Of at least 100 birds. black against the
sky, was flying high out Connecticut
avenue on their way to Rockville.
1t gave the observer a thrill to recog-
nize this band, and to realize that they
were the very same starlings which,
hours later. would drop down in his gar
den, on their way back to roost in the
District of Columbia that night.
How did he know they were the same
birds?
OF course, he could not go before a
Jury and swear to 1t, but he was prac-
tically sure they were the same, because
he had watched them for several days
and knew their habits.
Birds are creatures Of habit, as much
as men and cats.
Perhaps it is because they are two
legged as man. that birds build up habits
and stick to them tenaciously.
The main difference is that bird habits
are good habits, not bad ones. or even
Indifferent ones.
Their habits are the result Of necessity.
based on their helpful instincts. which
tell them what to do without their
knowing anything about it.
Once a band Of starlings, say from
so to 100 birds, sometimes more, has Sc
lected a feeding grounds. in this case
Rockville and vicinity, the members 60
to it daily.
II an observer happens to note them
once. and is interested in bird life, he
will look for them again, and will note
the formations they use in their flight.
II he happens to see about the same
number of birds the next morning, at
the same time, and sees them in much
or exactly the same formation, he Is
justified in believing them the same
birds.
II they happen to be going in exactly
the same direction he is further sure Of
them; and If approximately the same
number drop down through his trees
at about the same time in later after
noon he may be sure Of them.
Over the heads Of passersby there is
no finer aerial flight than that of these
startling bands in the mornings.
Maybe they are on the way to the golf
courses Of the country clubs, or to Rock
ville's meadows and lawns, or any place
between Chevy Chase Circle and Kens-
ington, Garrett Park. etc.
Unless they are frightened away they
tend to 60 back to places where they
have found food. All birds show this
good habit, good for them, because it
feeds them, and good for observers Of
birds because 1t gives them a certain
familiarity with the same birds.
Our wild birds are not called wild"
for nothing.
Truly they are wild birds. and 1t is not
often that a human may be able to tell
one from another. except by the closest
watch.
Starlings. in particular, as alike as
the famous peas in the pod; they are
approximately the same size and their
feathers are blended in exactly the same
way to the glistening black-blue- violet
green-brown hue which distinguished
them from many other "blackbirds"
which somewhat resemble them SUPER
ficially
At 500 feet in the air these birds look
small, but actually are very husky birds.
about eight inches long from the tip OF
Evening star., 1937-02-04

ton that is unresponsive to the op-
portunity which the demand for re-
building constitutes. A parallel instance
from the chronicles of England will be
remembered by many who comprehend
the present need. London in 1866 was
swept by the classic con1agration of
modern times. Samuel Pepys, in his
diary for that year, tells how Jane
called us up about three in the morning
to tell us of great fire they saw in the
CITY," The home Of one Farryner, the
Kings baker, in Pudding Lane, was the
first dwelling to blaze. Saunders writes:
1.-The construction of the houses-gen-
orally timber, pitched over on the out
side-the thatched roofs, and the mar
rowness Of the streets, where the build
ings of the opposite sides almost touched
each other, we're all evidently calculated
to facilitate in the very highest degree
the ravages of the fearful element. Nor
was this all. The month of August had
been characterized by an extraordinary
drought, and the timber of the houses
had been as it were half burnt already
by the continual heat; and lastly, during
the whole time the fire lasted a furious
east wind blew: making in all such an
unhappy conjunction of circumstances
that we need not wonder that other than
pious people looked with fear and
trembling on the event. as some more
than ordinary visitation of an offended
Deity"
But the disaster was blessing in dis
guise. The metropolis, plague-ridden
for generations. stood in want of
thorough reformation, and the flames
made that reformation imperative.
Eighty-nine churches, numerous other
public structures, thirteen thousand res
licences in four hundred streets, total
area Of four hundred and thirty-six
acres, had to be rebuilt. The genius Of
Sir Christopher Wren dominated the
restoration. He created the city anew
more beautiful, cleaner, healthier and
happier community in which to live.
The influence Of his labors went around
the world while yet he lived and con-
tinues even now. more than a century
after his death.
Perhaps the Federal Government may
be called upon to supervise the recon-
struction of the Ohio Valley towns which
currently lie devastated. If so, it Is
devoutly to be wished that its vision may
be equal to its responsibility. One single
inclusive plan should be devised in the
circumstances. and every detail of the
program should be such as to improve
conditions Of life permanently and
durably in the territory affected. The
requisite investment of money and toll
should yield national gain in terms Of
increased safety. comfort and con-
venience.
Evening star., 1937-02-04

A hurtling ball of rock half mile in
diameter which moves around the sun
with the speed of cannon ball is the
earth's nearest known neighbor in space
except for the moon.
Discovered in Europe a few months
ago, a new midget planet has been last
observed as star of the Goth magni-
tude by astronomers at the Mount
Wilson Observatory Of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington. The newly
found celestial object has been named
Anteros-or the Foe Of Love-after the
Greek NEUROLOGICAL character who
avenged the injuries of love and was a
persistent opponent of the love god Eros.
Since 1t comes almost within grazing
distance Of the earth, antronomically
speaking. 1t replaces the planetoid Eros
itself as the closest heavenly body to our
planet. This has led to speculative con-
sideration Of possibility that there may
be an Earth family Of planetoids con-
sisting of Eros. Anteros. two other re-
Gently discovered bodies, and perhaps
many others which have not yet ap-
peared on Photographic plates. 1t is
known that the planet Jupiter has such
a celestial family in addition to its
moons-the so-called Trojan group OF
planetoids.
The moon. less than q quarter Of a
million miles away. is practically part
Of the earth, from which 1t was torn
away in some unexplained cataclysm OF
early geological times, and it shares the
earth's orbit around the sun. Thus 1t
Is in quite different category from
these much smaller bodies which make
their circuits in very different orbits and
are. in spite Of their tiny size. self
sufficient members of the solar family.
The tiny planetoid Eros, discovered in
1898, remained for 80 years the closest
known neighbor Of the Earth-Moon
system. Its closest approach was about
14,000, 900 miles in 1904. In the sky 1t Is
a star Of about the 10th magnitude
and, at its points of closest approach,
can be seen with a small telescope.
Among planetoids 1t is relatively large
body, about II miles in diameter. 1t
has a period Of revolution Of $40 days
around the sun.
There were thousands of observations
Of Eros in 1881, when it approached
within 10000, 900 miles of the earth. 1t is
of some importance because its distance
from the earth can be used as yard
stick of the distance Of some other
celestial objects. In 1882 there were
discovered in Europe two other tiny
planetoids which made even closer ap-
proaches to the earth-one coming
within 100000 and the other within
100000 miles The next discovery was
that Of Anteros last February. At that
time it was approximately 100000 miles
away, but calculations showed that 1t
had been only a little more than a
million miles distant five days before.
The size cannot be determined with
much precision but the tiny planet
cannot be much more than half mile
in diameter. It has period Of two and
half years in its revolution around
the sun and its orbit is very eccentric.
At its point of nearest approach to the
sun 1t is Just outside the orbit OF Mer-
curry, while at its greatest distance 1t Is
between Mars and Jupiter. Twice each
year, in February and July, 1t passes
Evening star., 1937-02-04

their yellowish stout bills to the end
of their very stubby tails.
H*x*
There is something infinitely mys-
terious ard appealing in the flights Of
birds.
Those who engage in the sport of bird
watching sometimes come to the point
where the real bird seems the bird which
Is there before them in the yard, peck
ing away at seed.
But the real bird is the bird aloft,
exercising his God-given function Of
flight.
No place else is he so much a bird as
there, and no where else can be seen
to precisely the same advantage, espe-
cially If he is given to flying in bands.
The startling is a gregarious bird, botn
In eating and sleeping habits.
He prefers to eat with his friends,
cousins and auntS, and to sleep near
them, too. But the places must be diff
ferent. Since these places are separated
often by miles they must be brought
together by the power of flight, and this
these birds do in the most capable and
interesting manner, capable for them
and interesting for human watchers.
To miss these daily flights of the
Startling bands is to miss something
really worth while in the Winter scene.
We have these birds with us, no matter
what some may think Of them, and the
best thing to do is to get some good out
Of them.
One of the best ways is to seek to find
something admirable about them. No
doubt this is one Of the best ways for
L. -
but we are speaking OF starlings now.
Once an observer really sees what fine
flyers these birds are he will never again
be able to join in the popular hue and
cry against them.
AS he stares up into the morning sky
he may think the birds he sees much
too small to be starlings, but If he COM
pares them with "all outdoors" as he
must, he will realize that almost any
bird. no matter how large, would look
small in such setting.
The starlings fly in long. far-fiung
line, which usually bends in the middle,
as it were. so that the two points are
slightly in advance of the center.
Every dip or rise Of every bird is
timed exactly to that Of every other bird.
There Is no follow the Leader in this.
Every bird acts as one bird
The poetry and uniformity Of this
flight has been noted for centuries, and
always has called forth the greatest
terms Of admiration.
We who watch them today can do no
less. The flight Of the starlings is the
very poetry Of motion. 1t speaks OF the
instinct Of the creatures, and their
splendid adaptation Of such intelligences
as they possess to their daily needs.
Other birds display these, too, but
none more splendidly than do our
starlings.
1t is interesting to think of Americans
calling these birds "our starlings" Real
ly they are Europe's starlings. which
were brought here by the determination
Of man, and which simply have made
the best of conditions as they found
them. That is good Americanism, is it
not? That is the way it has been done
If We look for good points about
these starlings We shall find them. and
not forever be harping about their faults
and failings. This will save them, and
save us, too; them from undue persecu-
ton, and us from the persecution which
we foist upon our own minds and souls
when we forever carp.
Evening star., 1937-02-04
Keeping Idle Hands Busy,

The depression and it's consequent
shrinkage of opportunities of employ
n1ent have thrown many people upon
their own resources for occupation while
awaiting jobs. Some of them have
profited by the chance to read and
study. Some have pursued sporting
psstimes, not involving expense. Some
have gone in for walking to get ac-
quainted with a wider area than that
previously known. Again there have
been some who have just idled, basking
in the sunshine of irresponsible freedom
from routine
Most of those who have found no work
to do. it would seem, have seriously
sought profitable diversion, learning new
ways of doing things that some day
might need to be done, widening &C
quaintance with history and literature,
or with humanity in the present Some
have invented harmless and inexpensive
diversions, improbable but serving to
keep the mind and to some degree the
body active while waiting for the turn
In the economic current.
One of the latter group has recently
come into the news. He is resident
of Baltimore, an unemployed plumber.
It is not stated how long he has been
idle, but it has evidently been con-
siderable period, for on the eve of the
mishap which brought him into note he
had just placed the eight thousandth
match stick upon tower composed of
these slender bits of wood, the erection
of which constituted his indoor sport
while waiting for job. And the mis-
hap was that with the laying of this
eight thousandth unit upon the struc-
ture-which had the top of a beer bottle
as its base-the whole thing collapsed.
Now he has set out anew with ten
thousand matchstick goal.
It Is not difficult to imagine a more
Evening star., 1937-02-04
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Empty Arms.

Empty Arms.
Dusk falls like blanket so early these
nights.
And through it my arms reach out
To hold you again, not in visioning flights,
But you, putting darkness TO rout.
The caress Of your hands In the old sweet
way,
Your physical presence. your touch.
The songs that you sang at the end Of
the day
Beloved, want them so muchi
The world has grown empty, the nights
are so long,
And you are so far, so far.
May God bring you back to me, you and
your song,
To shine through the dark-uy stAgl
Evening star., 1937-02-04
The Mad Arms Race.

On January "a Premier Blum, in a
conciliatory speech addressed to Chan
cellor Hitler, invited Germany to join in
general European disarmament in return
for economic concessions from France
and Great Britain. On January 80 Der
Fuehrer made his eagerly awaited speech
p before the Reichstag, in which he did not
refer to M. Blum's proposal by so much
as a syllable. His silence is clear proof
, that the Reich refuses to halt it's re-
armament scheme and thus minimize
the major menace to European peace.
France has made the inevitable reply.
The Chamber of Deputies has approved
a national defense program calling for
the outlay of roundly s9OO,0OOO0O during
the next four years. This unprecedented
peace time project is formally designated
as a measure called forth by the German
threat. Defense Minister Deladier, in
detailing how the money is to be spent,
pledged that it will enable France, beyond
all reasonable doubt, to remain INVASION
proof.
The funds will be devoted in large
part to extension of the famous Maginot
line of steel and concrete fortresses
along the Belgian frontier to the English
d Channel and southwark to the Swiss
frontier. There will also be constructed
new series of strategic roads parallel
to Frances eastern border. The great
Schneider -Creusot armament plants will
be nationalized. There will be wider
military training of youth and more
comprehensive arrangements for war
time industrial mobilization. Probably
the feature in the new defense scheme
that carries most reinsurance is the
revelation that the number of first-class
fighting planes has been increased 81
per cent since last June, military mate
rial by 81 per cent, munition supplies
by so per cent and general air arma-
ments by 10 per cent. Because of the
impregnability Of the Maginot line, plus
the formidable French air force, M.
Deladier asserted that there is no need
for alarm about a German invasion. He
also told of the 100000 men whom
Russia has ready to march "at
moments notice." which is twice the
total Germany has at her disposal for
instant action. NJ Deladier dwelt in
particularly glowing terms on the air
fleet which the British are constructing
with Legendary tenacity" His whole
tone was one of confidence that between
her own resources and those of her
allies France can contemplate the pos
sibility of war, if 1t must come, with
out undue anxiety.
On the same day that the French
rearmament plan was adopted, author
itative figures were published in London
showing that the current German mill
tary budget totals nearly 100000
and that the Reich will have spent upon
arms during four years of Hitlerism more
than $500 100000 Preparations of such
magnitude and the counter measures
they provoke are grim indications that
the competition in armaments is pro-
ceeding at the maddest pace on record.
Europe will be fortunate indeed if the
contest does not eventuate in the sudden
explosion of war.
Evening star., 1937-02-04
Intimations Of Reproof.

you have always managed to get
elected without using much cash."
Il hope can keep it up," said Senator
Sorghum. I'm little worried just now
by hints from constituents that am not
following current custom and spending
more and more money"
Evening star., 1937-02-04

In the event of war disasters which
are feared in Europe governments might
desire to send their art treasures to this
country for safe keeping and even con-
slider contributing them as debt pay
ments in lieu of cash.