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n e. dedQlleSC Gu"" W A
weapon of the wars that are TO
come. The Germans had some Of
them during the latest stages OF
the war; and the Allies used them
in trench mortars. But as air
plane bombs they offer the pretty
possibility of raining molten iron
upon an enemy's town or army.
Another chemist comes up with
a product from coal tar, and his
discovery gets general attenSlon
when 1t is employed to ward OFT
the possibility of a streptococcic
infection in Franklin D. Roose-
velt, jr. This new drug IS a Ger
man discovery, being developed by
two chemists of the German dye
trust.
It is said to be a cure in such
infections as septic sore throat,
childbed fever and, in some
cases, of peritonitis. It supposed
ly acts through the blood, greatly
stimulating the production of
white corpuscles, which check the
spread of the deadly microbes.
OTHER ADVANCES
This is a victory scored for
European chemists, but Ameri.
cans, according to the Chemical
Society, are away in the lead ano
going strong in the matter OF
producing everyday articles Of
commerce which the user fails to
recognize as synthetic. Their lat-
est is a plastic which looks like
glass, but which, when made into
balls of crystal, can be dropped
without breaking.
Other advancementS in the past
year have resulted in the crea
ton of synthetic resins which
are being used in the manutac-
ture of new type Of contact
lenses to replace eyeglasses.
A new type of insulin has been
produced, eight times more effec,
tive than the ordinary, while a
new preparation is the latest form
Of iodine, non-poisonous and a
potent germicide. It Is quite pos
sible, too, that by the time the
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The Human Side of the News
Bu EdWiH, C.. Hill

UNITED States gets around to its
next great housing expansion,
synthetic plastics will be used
largely in construction, from the
smallest bungalow to the finest
palace.
There are products of the labo-
ratory which take the place Of prod
ucts of nature such as bone, ivory
and wood, and which in many in
stances have no counterparts in
substances found under the earth
and in the sea.
In grandfather's time there was
one plastic, celluloid, and it was
used chiefly in providing him with
collars. They were popular be.
cause Of the cheapnesS Of upkeep.
Whereas linens soiled easily and
ran up the laundry bills, celluloid
could be cleaned with a damp rag
and worn time after time. Another
wide use of celluloid was in the
manufacture of ping-pong balls.
From the day that Hyatt, In
1868, applied nitric acid to cotton
celluloSe, thus making celluloid,
until Baekeland. in 1909, mixed
carbolic acid and formaldehyde
and came up with bakelite, this
field of chemistry was a forgotten
one. However, the last quarter Of
a century has witnessed in it q
remarkable growth. The produc-
ton of plastics runs into hun.
dredS Of millions of dollars a year
despite the comparatively high
price per pound for them.
OPPORTUNITY
I recently went through an exhi-
bition hall in New York and looked
on radio cases, boxes, ash trays,
buttons, an X-ray machine, lamps
and an evening wrap of gorgeous
silver fabric-all plastics made by
chemistry. There I learned that
my automobile is largely a matter
of pIastics, and that a hundred
different articles I use daily, from
the telephone to the fountain pen,
are the same.
Man has been Wa5teful Of the
Sits of nature and now he has
to turn to the chemist to provide
substitutes for those substances of
which he is running short. thus
nakelite was used first as a sub
stitute for amber in smoking
pipes. Baekeland found it acci-
dentally while he was experiment.
ing for substitute for varnish.
In doing so, he established an in
dustry which may yet be the great
est in the world.
There is today a shortage Of
qualified chemists, and the young
man who thinks there is no place
for him might well take this para
phrase of Horace Greeley's ADVICE:
go into chemistry, young
man, if you have the least bent
for it,"
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Make AirWays Safer

IT. OURTEEN million dollars are not even cigarette
money to the Government in these days of abundant
spending.
Fourteen million dollars moreover could be spent to
no better purpose than to MAKE FLYING SAFE
That it would make flying safe or at least consider
ably SAFER than now is the finding of the Air Safety
Conference, which urges the immediate appropriation
of this amount for improving and undermining the radio
facilities passenger routes
The recent series of appalling air accidents has been
due largely to the failure of radio
Similar accidents may be expected in future unless
the proposed changes recommended by the committee
made.
Specifically, these changes include:
Modernzation of all radio ranges and establishment
of simultaneous ranges for voice and beacon.
new type Of antennae shielded against fog, snow
and rain static
Approved type certificates for radio installation.
continuation of the study of ground direction
finding stations and further study of radio compasses
before they required part of standard equipment
More than fourteen Millions of course, will be re-
qured to put them into effect but the committee esti
mates that this will be sufficient for the first
which is the one most imperatively needed.
No doubt even this appropriation will have to run
the usual political gantIet.
The record of governmental regulation of flving-
would call it governmental INTERFERENCE
with fying-does not inspire confidence in the fate
of any designed to make the airways less
hazardous.
But it is apparent to fliers, AND PASSENGERS, that
prompt action along the lines asked by the Air Safety
Committee must be taken if the industry to suffer
further setbacks and disasters.
To wait for more accidents before eliminating the
of them is old custom, but one which, it is
urgently to be hoped will not prevail THIS time, at
least
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later, to all of us. Perhaps to
remind us that the present mo-
ment isn't all there is and
humble or help us thereby. What
ever the cause, here's what hap
pened 80.
I'd had a particularly long, hard
day at the office, and had come
home with a friend, feeling not
tense, but detached from myself,
as one sometimes becomes under
fatigue-as If I'd nomentarily
stepped aside from the whole show
My house Is on one Of these
brief, hilly San Francisco streets
which loses itself in the long
sprawl Of Sutro forest. .maSsed
miles Of Australian gum trees,
stretching far beyond the city
limits and overhanging all the
gardens of our block.
There's an eerie quality about
eucalyptus always, with their pink
ish, muScled trunks and perpetual.
ly swaying, signing wells Of blue,
green foliage. The earth is always
bare beneath them. Nothing grows
in those acrid caverns or purplish
gloom, Slashed infrequently by
lone, pale shafts Of light. I know
Of no trees more foreign to our
modern existence. Alien, Secrettve
they breed apart.
STRANGE EXPERIENCE
However, I do not remember
noticing them especially on this
particular night. There's a long
flight of stairs, broken twice, be,
fore one comes to our front door
I'd climbed half the flight auto
matically and was resting briefly
vaguely conscious Of the sunset
warmth, the rasp of fur against
my cheek, the drowsy squabblins
of birds in the garden.
Suddenly, without the slightest
sense of transition, all this was
gone. Vanished. Wiped out al
though it had never been. And
was in another world.
Actually, seemed only few
yards removed from the spot
where had been standing. In
stead of being on the steps, I wai
5U feet away-Scuttling through
the trunks of the gum trees. There
were no steps any longer-nc
houses city. Nor any of the
consciousness that goes with
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"HUNCH" NUMBER

Those of you who are familiar
with the gentle clicking Of couple
of little cubes with black spots on
them know the full significance OF
~, come H." 1t is a goal espe-
cially desired during a quiet seS'
sion with the galloping dominoes.
It is, therefore, the most appro-
pirate situation in the Senate that
a bill designed to strengthen the
gambling laws should bear the
title "S. TIL"
But regardless of the luck this
showers on one in other quarters
it might just as well have been
marked "S-66." Six and six makes
IL in rapid calculation and in a
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"a statute. A case arises under
it and Is taken to the Supreme
Court of the United States. The
Court hears the case and in due
time hands down its opinion that
the statute violates the constitu-
tional rights of the citizen or citi-
zenS seeking the courts protec-
tion and that the statute is there.
fore unconstitutional because 1t
goes beyond the powers Of Con-
greSS."
Mr.. Bryce further supposes that
the Congress forthwith passes and
the President signs another stat
ute increasing the number Of JUS
ticeS.
"The President appoints to
the new justiceshipS men who
are pledged to hold the former
statute constitutional. The Sen.
ate confirms the appointments.
Another case raising the val
idity of the disputed statute is
brought up to the Court. The
new Justices outvOte the old
ones. The statute is held valid.
The security proUided for the
protection OF the Constitution
Is gone like a morning mist"
Then Mr.. Bryce puts this ques-
ton:
what prevents such assaults
which, however immoral IN
substance, would be perfectly
legal in fOrm?"
And then Mr.. Bryce answers his
own question in these flaming
words of warning:
"NOt the mechanism Of the
Government" can prevent such
an assault on the Constitution,
"fOr all its checks have been
evaded. Not the conscience of
the LegisIature"-that is to say
the COngresS-"and the PreSi-
dent, for heated COmbatants sell
dom shrink from juStifying the
means by the end.
Nothing but the fear Of the
people, whose broad good sense
and attachment to the great
principles of the Constitution
may generally be relied upon to
condemn such a perversiOn OF
its forms.
HOT HASTE
"Yet, if excitement has risen
high over the country, ma
jority of the people may &C.
quiesce, and then it matters
little whether what is really q
revolution be accomplished by
openly violating or by merely
distOrting the forms of Law. To
the people we come sooner or
later. 1t is upon their wisdom
and self-reStraint that the sta
biIity of the most cunningly de-
vised scheme of government
will, in the last resort, depend"
It is doubtless their fear that
"the great jury Of the people"
would find overwhelmingly against
this wicked scheme to pack the
Supreme Court, if given the time
and opportunity to pass upon 1t,
that is driving the Washington
politicians of 1887 in their mad at
tempt to deny the people their
right of final Judgment.
Hence the hot haste to jam this
scheme through subServient
House by the brutal power OF gag
rule; to wrangle it through a ter
rorized and tempted Senate by the
venal power of patronage, by sena.
torial votes bought with Federal
i judgeshipS.
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had never known city. It was
a squat, naked, hairy thing, and
it was running as fast as it could
in a queer, crouching lope-
from the approaching storm.
There were other naked things
running beside me .. joStling,
gibbering. I was aware Of those
other things. but I was not in the
least concerned with them. was
concerned only with the sting of
the raindropS lashing my naked
flesh-the rasp of wet twigs on my
calloused feet-and a horror that
leaped through me as the light
ming flared.
Terror mindless, brute hor-
ror Of the powers of darkness - i.
I was Swamped by it bIubber-
ing, with thick, british lips. in my
mad need of escape.
Then, as suddenly as it had
come, it was gone. I heard my
friends voice repeating question
impatiently ;. saw her looking
at me oddly . felt, with, dazed
amazement, the old, familiar scene
enclosing me-the quiet, sunny
house and garden, the Twentieth
century city.
PERSPECTIVE
Yet, even as saw all this, I
knew-beyond all possibility Of
doubt-that the other had been
real. How, why, had the veil
lifted and time rolled back to some
earlier savage phase Of human
life? I do not know. But / do
know that it had. For q flash
had relived some portion OF
my own past had been the
thing that once I was.
have never told this before. I
am not expecting that it will be
widely believed now. But it
changed things for me, as such
S441A4Eo 111l4SU always N1ldG4SC 444C
for those who are willing to ac-
cept them.
I have seen life from an entirely
different angle since then j.. seen
viStas opening, backward and for
ward that I never conceived be-
fore. I have seen people differ
emily, too remembering row
once I crouched before I stood
erect, gibbering like a beast, pos
sesSed by my own fear.
Strange that we should be SO
sure that Today is all there is!
I'm glad I saw the curtain lifted,
for a flash, just once.
This column 1DelcomeS and
requests comments. Letters
presenting personal problems
may also be sent. All letters
1DtH be handled confdenttaHy
and anSwered promptly If
stamped, addressed envelopes
are ttcluded). "
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Jne.)
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FOLLOW THE RULES

The real watchdog OF the Sen
ate is sly humored Minority Leader
Charles L. McNary from Oregon.
The Senator sits across the aisle
from burly Majority, Leader Jo-
seph T. Robinson and every time
the Democrats attempt to hurry
things a little by stepping out Of
line he ups and calls a halt.
The Senate has very few bills
on the calendar so that almost
invariably when the House sends
over a measure an attempt is
made to consider it Immediately
without letting it go over for a
day as the Senate rules demand.
Senator McNary usually blocks
these attempts.
Monday. Senator Henry Foun-
tain Ashurst, garbed in formal
morning coat. eagerly arose to in.
troduce the Presidents bill to en-.
large the Supreme Court. Senator
McNary called a halt. It wasn't
time for the introduction of bills
and he was going to be Stickler
for the rules right through to the
bitter end.
But it takes more than a little
setback like this to unseat the
poise Of the gentleman from Ari.
zona, so he withdrew his bill and
thanked the Oregon Senator in his
most stately manner. The little
by-play was Of no Importance
whatever. but it threw the dig.
nified Senate into chuckle after
chuckle,
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chemistry. The
laboratories are
going full blast
from one end
of the globe to
the other. Test
tubes are filled
with all kinds
of concoctions,
designed to kill
or to cure, in
war or in peace.
One chemist
talks about the
incendiary ther-
mite bonn b,
which may be
11s
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of all eyes when
the House is in
S e SIS on. But
all things don't
Sc e m to be
equal W h e n
h ! S talented
daughter makes
a trip to Wash
ington.
Monday the
galleries in the
Ho use were
packed and they
weren't packed
to see Speaker
w I'LL m B.
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some other ex.
istence W hi c h
you can't ex.
plain. And bet
ter not try.
he follow.
ing incident is
one of thoS e
flashes. True?
Absolutely. !
d on t pretend
to know what it
meant, but rye
no doubt you've
had a similar
e x p e ri e n ce
yourself. They
ooNoa conNor ~
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Words of Warning
RuL. T. Williams. Lr.

/
No free government can be
PRESCRIBED but by a firm 1d-
herence to Justice, moderation,
temperance, trugGFty ana
Uirtue, and By frequent Tecur-
renee to fundamental principles:
From the Virginia Bill OF
Rights.
Mr.. Roosevelt's wicked scheme
to destroy the independence Of the
judicial branch of the Government
by packing the Supreme Court OF
the United States with political
lawyers Of his own picking Is
neither new nor original.
The scheme, in all its naked ugl1-
ness, was exposed to public view
nearly 40 years ago, and with
damning truth denounced by no
less eminent a statesman and no
less respected authority on the
American system of government
than the late James Bryce in "The
American Commonwealth"
WEAK POINT
In that great work of his life
a book which every high school
graduate has studied with benefit
to himself and the country-Mr.
Bryce traces step by step the indie
fensible course which, with the
vision of a statesman, he foresaw
that "a conscienceless Congress
and President" might have the au-
dacity to enter upon in order to
commit on the Federal Constitu-
ton an assault which he declared
would be none the less immoral
in substance" because technically
legal in form.
To his forecast Mr.. Bryce added
this stern warning:
That should the American
people, in their excitement, ever
acquiesce in the carrying out o1
such a scheme they would ulti
mately find that "the security pro
vided for the protection of the
Constitution is gone like a morn
ing mist"
Here is what Mr.. Bryce said as
long ago as 1898-the President
must have then been a student al
Groton School-about the very
/ scheme which Mr. Roosevelt Is at
tempting to jam through the Con
gress before the people awake tc
the peril to Liberty and Justice
that turks behind the pious plati
tudes with which its sponsor tries
in vain to hide the immortality Of
his cunning.
"The Fathers Of the COnstitu-
ton studied nothing more than
to secure the complete independ-
ence of the Judiciary. The Presi-
dent was not permitted to re-
move the judges, nor Congress
to diminish their salaries. One
thing only was either forgotten
or deemed undesirable, because
highly incOnvenient to determine
the number Of judges in the
Supreme Court.
"Here was a weak point, q
Joint in the courts armOr
through which a weapon might
some day penetrate -"
Mr.. Bryce then looks into the
future and supposes the following
events as taking place in quicl
succession:
BRYCE'S FORECAST
A Congress and President com
into power bent on doing some
thing which the Supreme Court o.
the United States deems contrary
to the Constitution" They pas
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ONE SOLUTION

And here is the answer as to
what they are going to do if the
Supreme Court is raised to Is
members. Since the bench was
built to hold only nine, Senator
William H. King CD of Utah,
who is opposed to the idea, says
if it gets across they %ill have to
appoint thin men only. About 12O
pounds apiece. he thinks.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Ru Frank Miller Smith

crap game It is a highly undesir-
able number.
For, Still came out brave and
strong at the first toss in the
Senate Monday only to be recalled
at the last minute. The bill, as
you probably know, is back on the
calendar waiting for another
chance.
Seven come eleven?
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RED LETTER DAY

RED LETTER DAY
Monday was a red letter day in
the House of Representatives for
Miss Marion McDonagh, attractive
niece and secretary to Representa-.
tive Mary T. Norton, New Jersey,
chairman of the House District
Committee.
Not only was the red rider up,
but Miss McDonagh appeared on
the floor to assist her aunt for the
first time in directing District
Day."
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The purpose of extending the merit system is, of
course to bring into the Government service the best
possible type of employe and to keep him working at
his best throughout his service.
This purpose cannot be accomplished merely by pre-
scribng Civil Service examinations for applicants for
Government jobs.
The objective cannot be reached simply by saying
that hereafter politics shall not dominate appointments
but that positions shall go to those who prove their
ability.
THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE ABLE AND WORTH
WHILE MEN AND WOMEN WILL NOT SEEK THE
JOBS WILL NOT TAKE THE EXAMINATIONS,
UNLESS THE REWARD FOR THE WORK WHICH
THEY WILL BE ASKED TO DO WILL BE COMMEN-
sURATE WITH THE EFFORT AND ABILITY RE-
QUIRED
Nor can the best type of employe now in the Govern
ment service whether Civil Service Civil Service
be expected to stick to his Government job conditions
under which he works not brought up at least to
par with conditions in private employment.
The revelation that the Government made its en-
ploves work fourteen million hours of overtime in six
months without giving them ota Of consideration for
that overtime is indication of the failure of Govern
ment to make its positions attractive.
This lack of attraction may not have been of great
Importance during the depression when business could
not hire all the workers on the labor market.
But with the stimulation of private business it be-
comes increasingly important and it will steadily be-
come more difficult for the Government to compete for
the services of worthwhile employees.
To meet this competition it is urgent that Congress
speedily consider and pass legislation along the lines of
the McCaran Connery bill to extend the classified
ice in the Government and to increase the salaries of
Government workers.
Technical details in the McCarran Connery proposal
may be at fault
These be Strengthened out by the Civil Service
Committees of the House and Senate the floors of
Congress.
BUT THE GOVERNMENT, IN THE INTEREST
OF ITS OWN EFFICIENT CONDUCT, CANNOT
AFFORD TO PERMIT THE PROPOSAL TO BE
sHUNTED ASIDE OR TO BE sTIFLED BY RE-
STRICTIVE AMENDMENTS.
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IMPROMPTU


The choir from Boston Univer.
sity liked the looks Of the rotunda
when they went on a tour of the
Capitol recently and took ad.
vantage Of the range Of acoustics
They held an impromptu con.
cert right there. Capitol officials
who usually frown on such exuber.
ance seemed to be busy elsewhere
and no one attempted to stop the
beautiful sound Of the voices re.
verberating up to the Statue Of
Freedom above.
The program included two
c h n s-one "The Apostles
Creed" the other THE 130th
Psalm"-and rendition Of Fin.
landia,"
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This old world has had its ice
age, it's stone age, its steam age
and now it is having an age OF
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
BEYOND THE VEII-WHAT?

Queer happenings, sometimes. 4
Sudden breaks in the ordinary
routine of life. Brief glimpses of
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THE ATTRACTION

All things being equal the
Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentativeS is usually the cynosure
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MOreThan TestsNeeded

TNHE PROSPECT of extending the merit system to
i include virtually all Government positions, which
appears brighter than in many years, makes 1t I'M
perative that the present Congress take action looking
toward improving conditions under which the Federal
personnel works.
THE CONDITIONS PRINCIPALLY IN NEED OF
IMPROVEMENT ARE PAY AND HOURS OF EN-
PLOYMENT.
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And restore them to the schoolroom,
To the light and air of Fairgrounds.
Grant them health and education,
Prove this an enlightened nation.
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BRYCE's FORECAST

BRYCE'S FUhECA0I
A Congress and President come
into power bent on doing some
thing which the Supreme Court OF
the United States deems contrary
to the Constitution. They pass
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Sale Will Aid
Relief for
Chinese
Bazaar to Offer
Many Useful
Yule Gifts.

~ ARE Chinese jades, exquisite
Chinese linens, embroideries,
silks and brocades, as well as
L \ paints, scrolls and chinaware,
will be on sale Thursday and Friday
at the Washington Club at 170l X
street, the sale to aid the relief work
in China. The sale, which will open
each day at 2 O'Clock and continue
until 10, is being arranged by the
Chinese Women's Association. OF
which Mile. Yoeh Wang, daughter Of
the Chinese Ambassador, is presi-
dent. From this wide variety many
articles suitable for Christmas gifts
will be found and dainties in the way
of tea and delectable Chinese nuts
will be sold.
Dolls OF various sizes have been
dressed in authentic Chinese dress by
members OF the Chinese Women's As
sociation, which not only will be fun
for the children but excellent addi-
tions to collections of dolls.
Dainty Hand Painted
Christmas Cards.
Those in charge Of the bazaar have
received dainty hand-painted cards
and Christmas cards from Honolulu
to be sold for the benefit of those in
need in China. In fact, contributions
have been received from all over the
United States. as well as many do
nations OF articles from other coun-
tries.
Members of the Chinese Women's
Association will act as models in the
exhibition of Chinese costumes Of this
and other days, the fashion show,