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Evening star., 1937-11-30
Those Sinister Spots.
From the Columbus Citizen.

FROM the Columbus Citizen.
If it's true that spots on the sun and
business depressions down here are in
timately connected, as DR.. Harlan T.
Setson Of the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology told the Amateur As
tronomers Association in New York
well, obviously something will have to
be done about sunspots.
1t is generally accepted that the black
tornadoes which rage across the suns
dazzling disk shoot constant stream
of electrons into space. It is fairly well
established that these electrons, whizz-
ing through our atmosphere and strik-
ing the earth, interfere with radio and
affect the weather Now DR.. Stetson
has advanced startling new theory.
For 10 years, he said, prices on the
New York Stock Exchange have fallen
and risen Gin a most uncanny fashion"
as sunspots spread and shrank. -Four
OF the last five majer business slumps
have followed from two or three years
after period of maximum sunspot ac-
tivity." And, since lone of the biggest
groups Of solar cyclones on record" Ia
now blotting the suns surface at the
rate OF = billion square miles daily, he
warned us to prepare for another de-
preston in 1889 or soon thereafter.
Mr.. Hoover who used to blame our
depression on world conditions" seems
to have failed by some 93,000,o00 miles
to take In enough territory. And pos
sibly the New Deals alphabetical agen-
cies are fighting hopeless battle against
local effects, meanwhile neglecttng the
distant causes of our WOeg
We may have to set up the r. 8. c, A.
the Federal Sunspot Control Admins
tgettoo.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
Christmas Happiness i.

The seventh annual Star-Varner
Bros.-N. B. c. Christmas Campaign
opened yesterday. AZ in years pit the
Metropolitan Police Department the
Parent Teacher Association and 1ederal
employees are cooperating to tle end
that no Washington child shall iave
cheerless Yuletide. Members i the
Presidents cabinet, departing froa their
usual functions, are wholeh4rtedly
indorsing this attempt to suppl every
destitute family with Christina skinner
and fill every stocking that might tother-
wise be empty.
Such a campaign needs no arAlment.
People instinctively indorse 1t. Ill that
is required is explanation Of wSs and
means to help. The slogan for 1887 Is:
YOU Are Santa Claus!" and tn words
constitute a challenge to evetbody's
generosity and fellow-feeling.
New toys and new articles OF lothing
will be accepted as tickets Of admission
to fourteen special matinee enertain-
ments at downtown and neighorhood
Warner Bros theaters on aturday
morning, December lS. Adults vao can
not attend in person may ordr gifts
through any department store 'r, con-
tribute non-perishable food, oothing.
cash or toys by telephoning lational
1000 and asking the officers of tie Fifth
Precinct to call. The National Guard
Armory at Pennsylvania avene and
Sixth street will be 4 Distribution center
for baskets.
Daily reports Of the progress OF the
drive viii appear in The Star. There
are special reasons-not excludig con-
ditions incident to the prevailin slump
in business-why this years cinpaign
should go over the top" Povety is q
stark reality in too many hines in
Washington for 1t to be permitted to
fail In any part. The goal is Cfistmas
happiness in the fullest possible Measure
for every boy and girl in the 1ation's
Capital.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
II your doctor says walk q mile every
day, do not walk two miles.

II your doctor says walk mile every
day, do not walk two miles.
Do what the doctor orders.
He is a psychologist, too, or at least
he ought to be; he knows that II he pre-
scribes mile walk for patient per day,
that patient may manage to get the walk
in, whereas If he orders four miles the
patient probably will not.
1t is far better to walk q mere mile,
each day, than to hiks four miles twice
q week.
Here Is the why Of It:
The person ordered by the doctor to
take mile walk is the person who has
not been walking at all.
Such person may not realize 1t, but
he or she is soft.
Even SO little as a mile stretches out
rather long, then.
The first day, fine, but after that some
thing else is intervening, so that in q
few days the walker who began 80 de-
terminedly has really given up his task
without realizing it.
Those to whom four miles or more on
the hoof per day seems nothing at all
are healthy people, to begin with.
Business men and others who get in
four to eight miles week on the golf
course, in one or two sessions, think their
golf is doing wonders for them, when the
truth is that they are doing wonders for
their game, that is all.
Persons who get genuine benefit from
staggered exercise are persons who are
healthy, to begin with, and take their
exercise because they want to.
They "feel like it," in other words.
4 \
The mile-walker must be pushed to
his task.
He must push himself
Walking is so little esteemed nowadays,
by the generality of city folks, that it is
done with real grumbling, if at all.
1t comes as real surprise to many
persons to realize just how little they
walk in the daily life.
1t used to be in small towns that if one
wanted to get anywhere one had to walk.
Those who possessed any way of riding
found that 1t was too much trouble to
hitch up for anything less than miles.
Small town people were and are in the
mental habit Of walking.
For pedestrianism, after all, Is as much
mental as physical.
Maybe the doctor has that in mind.
Thousands of people twenty years ago
In Washington walked daily to and from
work.
Children and women often walked
down town and back on shopping tours.
At least from the vicinity OF Dupont
Circle
They thought nothing of going to F
street, walking along it, shopping and
then returning as they had gone afoot.
With the advent Of increased automo-
bile traffic. especially in the past five
years, walking has become both hazard
and a pain-in-the-neck, mentally.
1t Is significant that many of the
persons manned and killed in accidents
here during the past two years have been
elderly.
Probably some of them were men and
women who had got used to waking,
liked it, and were not willing to give it up.
~
A mile, after all, is rather good little
distance.
Evening star., 1937-11-30

time might well jeopardise the whole
building program.
Perhaps the principal objection to the
recommended legislation is that the Gov
ernment incurs greater risk OF loss by
insuring loans up to ninety per cent on
houses costing 5000 or less. The Presi-
dent believes the risk il inconsequsntial
in view Of the benefits the country as
whole would receive from . pronounced
expansion Of this type Of construction.
There is, of course, no way in which
the amount of loss, If there is to be
loss, can be determined in advance, but
it must be conceded that Mr.. Roosevelt's
proposals embody all that the Federal
Government can do to make it possible
for the average citizen to purchase
home on terms that will enable him to
meet the payments.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
A Sound Program.

President Roosevelt's recommendations
for legislation to stimulate revival of
privately-fnanced home construction
represents realistic approach to prob
lem that has been heavy drag on re-
covery. His proposals for lowering
financing charges should prove definitely
encouraging to the construction industry
and the home buyer. At the same time
they should not prove to be an additional
drain on the Federal Treasury.
But the people as whole may derive
even greater satisfaction from the stand
taken by Mr.. Roosevelt with reference
to high labor and material COSTS For, he
proposes no legislative remedy, taking
the position that it is not proper sub
ject of governmental regulation. In the
past, the administration has sought to
boost wages and prices through various
forms of legislative encouragement. Some
stimulation was necessary, but the hous-
ing message is evidence that the Presi-
dent realizes such efforts can be carried
to extremes.
While it may be argued that the Gov
ernment went too far in boosting the
costs of labor and goods, it must be good
news to business to learn now that Mr.
Roosevelt does not contemplate reversing
this trend by legislative action.
There is abundant evidence that both
high building costs have reacted to their
own disadvantage, and the President is
wise In urging them to solve the problem
Of reducing these costs in their own way.
Direct legislative interference at this
Evening star., 1937-11-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

It's nothing to bA sneered at, really.
It will give fair amount Of genuine ex-
ercise, provided one walks with spirit.
Dawdling along, as so many persons
do, Is what sometimes is called q "con-
stitutional," but slightly more vigorous
walk is necessary, II one is to get an in
creased circulation.
Movement of the largest muscles Of the
body, those of the legs, is responsible for
the good effects Of walking.
With increased circulation comes in
creased breathing. To stand up and
solemnly take breathing exercises" !"
without any physical need, as some ad-
vocate, Is silly.
Walking at real gait naturally calls
for increased breathing.
That is why mile-a-day is rather a
breathing exercise than anything else,
and why its pleasant effects are so all
pervading.
The mental stimulus Of walk, even
SO little as mile, is increased by good
company.
Hence it is well for the person who has
been ordered to take daily walk to find
some congenial person in the same boat.
The mental side of walking. however,
will be found to extend far beyond the
apparent benefits.
Not only are ideas stimulated, In some
minds, but will power Is brought into
power in almost all.
1t will be discovered, after a few days,
that it is the easiest thing in the world
to find some ready excuse why one can
not walk that day.
Oh, no, one has not tired in the least
Of walking. 1t is jolly idea, and, be-
Sides the doctor ordered it.
But there is something which must be
done, and If the walk is given up for this
one day only, what harm will be done?
None, Of course, as far as the walking
itself is concerned. The physical side Of
the patient will not be harmed, for he
had not been walking before, had he?
The mental side of him, however, will
suffer severely, If he gives In to the urge
Of other things to do, especially after q
few days.
~ This escape mechanism begins to
operate usually after the new walker has
been at his task for not more than three
or four days
Walkers always manage to get in at
least that many days OF exercise before
they begin to wilt, and the willing pro-
cess is not in the legs, strange to say, but
in the mind. II is will power which must
come to the rescue. Just as many strong
willed people find it expedient to do hard
tasks first, instead of putting them of
so the beginning walker will find it good
to meet his personal walking strike as 1t
arises, and knock it in the head at the
very beginning.
This, like so much good advice, Is very
hard to do 1t is easy to say, terribly
difficult to put into operation.
No doubt the best plan is to select a
certain time of day for that mile walk,
or that two-mile walk, and stick to it
religiouSly, as people say.
Note that we say mile or tWo-n,ile.
Those who really like to walk more miles
do not need any cautions. They can take
care of themselves. no doubt. Those
who get their walking in prescription
form are different animals, and must be
prodded into action, either by others or
by themselves.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
1907 and 1887.

Japan, like ali nations that plight their
faith in war as an instrument of ma
tional policy, despite their signatures to
solemn covenants like the Kellogg pact,
respect force, and, in critical situations,
nothing but force. Upon such apostles
OF blood-and-iron, diplomatic representa-
tions droppeth as the gentle rain from
heaven and make just about as much
impression. The foreign ofice archives
at Toxic must be fairly choked with the
protest notes Of western origin which
have been hled since the island empire
embarked upon its forty-three-year-o -old
campaign to make Asia safe for the
Japanese. Since outbreak of the North
China incident" last July their heap of
diplomatic waste paper has piled up
higher than ever.
The American people sincerely hone
that the note just sent to Japan by Sec
retary Hull is not doomed to take its
place among Tokio's collection of un-
SoAAcAASASu ~ SELVES IOTm&l
demand that the Japanese consult with
the United States and other govern
ments respecting any changes in China's
customs arrangements, which represent
economic and historical rights conferred
by treaties concluded, in the cases, re-
spectively, Of Great Britain and our
selves, as long ago as 1842 and 1874.
Washington's fortnight warning" is
motivated not only by Japan's seizure OF
the maritime customs service at Shang-
hal, but by the fear that this curtain
raiser OF high -handedness is the pro-
logue to general slamming Of the open
door" in China. Great Britain and
France have filed similar notifications
at Toxic where that Oriental Charley
Mccarthy, known to fame as the foreign
Evening star., 1937-11-30

Time has written its autobiography on
the sea floor
Through the ages the surface of the
earth has been washed into the rivers,
which have carried it to the oceans.
There it has sunk slowly to the bottom.
Multitudes of marine animals and
their graves in it when they died Thus
the record has been laid down, page
upon page. 1t has been a relatively un-
disturbed record. The deep ocean floors
have not been subjected to the upheavals
and churnings and crushings which have
taken place over the land and shallow
water areas of the earth.
The autobiography hitherto has been
inaccessible. Now the last two or three
chapters Of the 1000, 900 900 year old
record have been opened by means of
an apparatus invented by Dr. Charles
s. Piggot of the Geophysical Laboratory
of the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton. This apparatus consists of q gun,
cartridge filled with powder, and a
10-foot steel tube. When lowered by
cable to the bottom impact releases q
mechanism causing the charge to ex-
plode, driving the tube into the sea
floor. Within the larger tube is q thin
brass tube which incloses and retains
the core which can be removed when
the apparatus is drawn to the surface.
Thus vertical section, the length Of
tanned in its original, undisturbed con-
dition for study.
Such a section tells the story Of many
thousands Of years. Sediment sinks very
slowly. An important part OF the record
is that of dead marine animals and
plants. These are quite sensitive to
water temperatures. Some are found
today only in tropical waters, others only
in polar waters. In the same cross sec
ton polar species may lie just above
tropical Species fact which can be ex-
planned only on the assumption that
there has been q drastic change of
climate between the two pages Of the
record.
The earth itself affords plentiful evil
dence Of the great climatic changes
which the planet has undergone. Palm
trees in the rocks of Greenland and
Arctic cedars near the District Of Col
umbia are examples But the dry land
ASSoAA 40 0AoJOAAACCO. A8C &iICA page
Of time rock manuscript is missing, or
badly mutilated. In the ocean floor the
record Is continuous and the rate Of sedi-
ment deposition can be calculated.
A spectacular use for these core
samples has been found by Carnegie In
stitution scientists in study of the
changes in the orientation of the earth s
magnetic field. A minute particle Of
magnetic mineral settling slowly through
the quiet water orients itself like tiny
compass needle along the line OF the
magnetic force at that time and place.
A multitude of such particles become
buried in the sediment and their orien-
tation in the cores can be determined by
delicate electrical apparatus. As the
orientation changes the story of mag
netism throughout the past Is revealed.
In addition, DR.. Piggot says, q record
can be obtained from the cores OF the
physical and chemical changes which
have taken place in, the seas. The nature
and size Of the minerals and rock frag-
ments give evidence of the direction and
strength: u former ocean currents, the
movements of ice, and the depths of the
ocean In the past.
Most OF the deep ocean bottom OF the
Evening star., 1937-11-30

o6acs "ofncial Spokesman" has promptly
proclaimed Japans inalisnahls ri1nt to
act independently" at Shanghai. Vest
srn scowls ana scolds to the coitrary
Notwithstanding.
While waiting for the imperia gov
ernment to take oficial cognizace of
the United States remonstrance 1t Is
useful to ponder our next step If, tursu-
ing the turbulence hitherto praticed,
Japan finds continued virtue de-
fiance.
Theodore Roosevelt in October 1907,
faced a Japanese menace o in
initely more direct concern to Aherica
than the current threat to Climbs in
dependence. He sent the United states
fleet around the world. 1t had no nssion
Of war. It showed it, hags in Yokohama
harbor. From the moment Bob" kans'
armada lifted anchor at Hampton loads,
Japans ardor to coerce this countn into
land. immigration and school conce sions
in California evaporated like dew b the
mornings sun. Our naval and military
strategists are understood to be per-
suaded that the Japanese would befound
a. amenable to reason by Prudent
Franklin Roosevelt as President Cheo-
dore Roosevelt found them thirtyyears
ago. That probability would naturally
be strengthened if John Bull, in Scord-
ance with Mr.. Eden's recent pledge in
the House Of Commons, is ready II 60 ~
far as Uncle Sam.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Reward.
Percival Pihkin wrote sentimentfine,
And nobody ever applauded q he;
He strengthened each thought, and he
polished each phrase,
But nobody cared for his classidl ways.
Percival Pifkin got angry at lst
And used all the swear woh Is he'd
learned in the past.
In his latest production he set hem all
down,
And now he has q play that's tk hit of
the town.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
The Cost of Living.

The major item in the cost of living,
for the industrial worker who. has a
family, is food. When the cost of food
moves up every American, except those
who produce their own, feels the pinch.
Only recently President Roosevelt called
for an inquiry into the cost of living
The implication was that the higher costs
were due to control of prices by monopo-
lies, and that something must be done
to bust the trusts" Already the Presi-
dent is moving, through the Department
OF Justice, to amend the anti trust laws
At the same time at the recommended
ton of the President, Congress is work.
Ing feVerishly to pass crop control and
ever-normal granary bill that can have
only one effect: An increase in the price
of food. Despite repeated warnings by
the President that the cost of operation
OF the new crop control measure must
not exceed $5O0,0O0,00O annually, there is
strong likelihood that the plan, when
finally put into operation, will 60 far
beyond this stipulated sum. The Presi-
dent insists that if Congress does not
keep the cost within the half billion
dollar mark, Congress must find addi-
tional revenue, through new taxation,
to meet this increased cost.
Not only will the cost of food be main
tanned at high plane, but the costs of
the farm program will be paid by the
taxpayers and the consumers. Already
Congress is considering the imposition
OF processing taxes" on wheat, cotton
and rice-the old taxes which were
knocked out by the Supreme Court
Avoiding their original name, these taxes
are now called tariff equalization fees"
They amount to twenty cents bushel
on wheat, three cents pound on cotton
and one-half a cent pound on rice.
The professor would pay these taxes in
each case. And the professor may be
expected to pass the tax on to the con-
sumner in higher prices for bread flour
and other wheat products The "equaI-
zation fees" will appear in increased
prices for cotton clothing and other
articles made of cotton.
A tax of twenty cents a busheI on
wheat, call it processing or equalization
as you please, averages ninety-two cents
barrel on flour and one-third of a
cent on loaf of bread. In 1896 the
total production of -four was 10O, ,263, ,678
barrels. The average per capita con-
sumption of flour was eight-tenths of
barrel, or four barrels for the average
family During the same year the aver
age profit of millers per barrel of -four,
according to authoritative figures, was
twenty cents. The year was the most
profitable the millers have had since
1929. The bakers profit on a loaf of
bread is fraction of cent.
If the miller is making profit of only
twenty cents barrel on flour and the
baker Is realizing only fraction of a
cent profit on loaf of bread, how is 1t
possible for either or both to absorb a
tax of ninety-two cents barrel on flour,
or third of cent on a loaf of bread?
The answer is that neither the miller
nor the baker, or both together, can
absorb such tax. 1t will be passed on
to the consumer in higher prices of flour
and bread.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
Planning for
Holiday Parties.

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Evening star., 1937-11-30

When Secretary Hull tells the fporters
some Of the things they ought o know
he waits to learn how we'll thy have
understood, but does not rush a dis
play that may discourage devtopment
Of Z reputation for originality.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
Inconsistency.

Inconsistency.
People haven't much respect for
poetry"
Can you blame 'eml" inquird Uncle
Bill Bottletop. Look ct the number Of
hip-hask parties that cit up til 2 am.
singin' Home, Sweet Home an Drink
to Ne Only With Thine Eyes
cage brings weary ankles for lhs pro-
lection of all Of U.s." said HI Ho, The sage
of Chinatown. without them y should
keep dancing on and sacrifics TIL dignity
necessary to claim respectful tsntion
when We rot forth the lessons expert
ence."
Beneath the Balcony.
Were Romeo alive today
He'd cease his hne poetic hne.
Meath Juliets window he void play
A solo on . saxophone..
All gamblin'," said Uncle ben, rs
fob fun; only you can't tell whose fun
It's sinister be- i
Evening star., 1937-11-30

new standard bearer. The New Deal
Democrats may find the tide turning
against them, or that it Is still running
strongiy pro.Noosevelt.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
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Evening star., 1937-11-30
Gloves.

OIOVo8,
fThe question that confronts you will
have to be handled with gloves.
What kind of gloves?" querid sena-
tor Sorghum, with q grim lool In his
eye; kid or boxing7"
Evening star., 1937-11-30

Jud Tunkins says Ben franklin
brought electricity from the sky but it's
ten to one, II he were alive tday, he
wouldn't know what to do II sonething
went wrong with the ignition inhis car.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
The Worlds q Stage.

There isn't any Hamlet sad
Excepting in the mind and hart.
There isn't any Santa Claus.
Yet how We like to play the art.
Evening star., 1937-11-30

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