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Evening star., 1937-11-11
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.

enough to equalize gross variations. the
average for each run should be very close
10 hve. That is what happens, as DR..
Hnlne has demonstrated time and time
again, when the shutting and matching
are done with a machine Probably 90
out OF 100 people will find that they do
not run ahead of chance.
But there are a few who consistently
make better scores than they. should.
some who can get an average of 10 or
more through hundred trials. Some
thing is haywire. Either, for some rea-
son which nobody seems able to explain
the laws of chance upon whose certainty
life insurance companies bet millions
without the blink of an eye have broken
down or the matching is not g. matter
OF pure chance. Every material factor
Whlch might influence the results has, SO
lar as known, been eliminated.
DR.. Rhine, it seems, has found an ex-
ceptlon TO the laws of chance, or else
tnose persons who make better than
cnance scores consistently have some
ability which is not shared by their fellow
HUMMELSHINE, ESP, or extra -sensory per-
ception. They have lunches" which
work
We all have lunches" That they don't
work out consistently-especia at
Laurel-is matter of sad experience
lhey are so vague and irregular that it
IS impossible to reduce them to any order.
Ihey either don't come true at all or they
come true to varying and unmeasurabIe
extents. And they are all messed up
with sensed clues, past experience. iudg-
ment, etc
win the ESP game the hunch is either
all true or all wrong There are no clues.
Experience and judgment count for moth
ing. The results can be reduced To
mathematical order. They can be meas
ured absolutely according to that law
OF chance which, some physicists now
contend, Is the only immutable law in
creation and which rules all things from
the motions of the universes to the dis
integration of atoms.
The matching game is monotonous and
hard work. But supposedly there is sorne-
thing of the thrill of ghost hunting about
1t. Folks like to feel that thew are in
touch with the infinite and the absolute
and the ineffable. Some worthwhile re-
suits may come out of the present pop-
ularity of ESP.
But OF course everybody is genuinely
sorry Tor the poor psychologist disturbed
IN his serious business of running rats
IN mazes and pestering babies with in
teillgence tests by this vulgar heresv.
Psychology-not, of course, the individual
psychologists apt to be the snootiest
of sciences.
Perhaps, after all, no great harm will
be done if the windows of its stuffy house
are broken now and then by the disre-
spectful urchins from across the tracks
from the shanties of that reality which
lies over the border of sight and sound.
The mathematician, the physicist, the
astronomer have testified to its existence
and that 1t is strange and wonderful
place. Only the practitioners of that
science which is in closest contact with
it stuff their ears, close their ewes and
hold their noses whenever they have to
lift their faces from their rat pens and
their form boards.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
DIR. Ellis Lessons i'm Star
Held Aid i'm World UnIift
To the Editor of The Star.

Az tbS GuiLoi Ol ne star.
/ wish to express TO you my apure-
ciatlon and commendation of the articles
by DR.. William T. Ellis which appear
each Saturday in The Star. 1t is erati-
flying, indeed. even to young and
very much alive person as myself. to
see the old-fashioned faith and virtues
upheld in the columns of a large daily
newspaper. If this sick, strife-pla pued
world needs one thing more than any-
thing else, it is more of the spirit
OF Christ, and in my opinion nothing
but worldwide revival of Christianity
will save this old world from its present
awful dilemma and impending chaos.
Without God, mans heart is evil and
I firmly believe that if it were not for
the influence of Christianity and
righteous people, living now and in
times past, we would even now be living
in the midst of an earthly hell. The
hope of this world is its God-fearing.
strong-willed Christian people and not
its Hitlers, Stains and Mussolinis.
would that every man and every woman
realized this and acted on its stupendous
challenge. Where is there better, more
worth while opportunity for leadership
and heroic service?
I hope that you will continue to
publish the lessons by DR.. Ellis, for
/ am certain that they will be produc-
tive of much good.
: WESLEY C. BUTTS.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Encouraging Signs.

Like other schemes launched with
emphasis on the broad detectives rather
than ON the means of attaining them
the new housing plans discussed here
IN series of conferences yesterday be-
tween the President and business leaders
contain little that is tangible enough to
study. But, coupled with Secretary
Morgenthau's assurance last evening
that the administration new budget
balancing ambitions are based ON re-
ducing Government expenditures and
remedying the defects of the more in
equitable tax burdens, there is room for
welcome comfort in the thought that
the President and his advisers have
reached the conclusion that the avoid
ance OF another slump and the continual
ton OF prosperity depend on business
and industry and not on Government
spending.
Ever since the outset of the depres-
sion, one of the early signs of which was
the building slump, each administration
IN washington has tried to do something
TO revive construction. The New Deal
efforts in this direction through P. w. A.
are we'll known. The enactment of the
Wagner bill last spring represented an
other effort, the results of which cannot
be judged for several years to come.
But Government-subsidized building, no
matter houy s,,ooaecf,,r 49, ,.a,,a.. -. -....A
to much more than drop in the bucket
until and unless private building over
comes Its own retarding factors. A num-
Der of methods by which the Government
might lend new encouragement-and
new money-to stimulate private con-
struction were discussed at the CONFER
ence yesterday. Needless to say. any,
thing along this line will provoke wide
interest.
But to avert the threatened business
recession something more than promised
announcement to private construction
and a noble desire to halt extravagant
expenditures is necessary. People every
where, in every walk of life, are feeling
the mounting burden of taxes Business
men, in every line of activity, are feel
ing, in addition, the sharp increases in
the costs of operation which cannot be
covered by higher prices. To continue
prosperity, the Government must, at the
coming session of Congress indicate by
action will to reduce the tax burden;
must assist and encourage the upward
swing in employment by leaving private
business less restricted in the expansion
OF business enterprise, and less fearful of
new sudden dose of somebody's idea of
reform" The signs OF change in atti-
tude by the administration are en-
couraging. The proof of this change will
lie in the actions of Congress in the
term soon to begin.
Evening star., 1937-11-11

careful. for this is such suspicious age
and often properly so-that motives are
mistaken.
Every one has seen the home town
person, bearing friendliness like banner,
come to the city and lose it all in less
than year.
Often such person becomes more
tight-mouthed than any one else. Often
he is tempted to speak up in public. giving
praise where it is due. Often he desires
to extend courtesy to strangers. but, re-
membering the cold looks he received
the last time he did so. he refrains, and
so the opportunity passes.
Peace of mind is attained by cutting
out, as far as possible, inimical thoughts
of both ones precious self and others.
1t is not easy. A severe discipline is
acquired One becomes cross between
philosopher and a very practical person.
After ALL there is nothing more practical
than the handling of ones own mind
When we stop to think how many i'm
preSSions any one receives every day,
through word of mouth and through
reading, and how many of them will
somehow leave bad taste in the mouth.
as 1T were, 1t becomes very plain that if
one is to survive the deluge of words and
feelings 1t becomes increasingly neces-
sary to forget as quickly as possible what
one does not wish to hold
This process is difficult, and excellent
IN its results, if one keeps thoroughly in
mind the price. This includes weaken
ing of the powers of recollection and
remembrance
In time many things which one might
desire to remember literally pass in one
ear and out the other
One has become so used to forgetting
what one does not wish to remember that
many of the treasures are forgotten with
equal facility.
1t will be found that names and ad-
dresses are among the first things to CO.
People who have attained to inner
peace, at least in some measure, seldom
are able to recall names and addresses,
except after several hearings
Sometimes they extend this forgetting
even to the titles and authors of books
and articles. If you ask them to tell you
what the article said, in brief, they may
not be able to give any but the most
sketchy account of what they have Just
read.
defense in operation, then gone away and
left 1t; they must not blame themselves
and their minds if they are not able to
remember what they might wish to recall.
1t is notorious that the harder one tries
to remember something, the less likely
he is of remembering it.
1t is all the more true in the cases of
persons who, through sensitive natures,
have trained themselves to forget easily.
Some of these people are masters at it.
They may be insulted grossly, and at the
instant react in a very normal and angry
fashion. But whereas the perfectly
natural person, as we say, would hold
that fire for hours, and even DAYS or
months or years, as has been known.
these fortunate persons soon blot out
their uneasiness and resentment. so that
within few minutes, or few hours at
most, they are at peace with the world
and. what is more important, with them
selves.
The loss of the ability to recall every-
thing perfectly is a small price to pay.
after all, for such divine benefits.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Presidents Admission of
Near Failure of New Deal
TO the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The most striking confession vet given
OF the near failure of the whole New
Deal-leading to ultimate compulsory
abandonment of some of it's pet prof.
ects--is Mr.. Roosevelt's latest lip service
TO economy and budget balance.
This comes close to an admission that
the splendid dream is not worth it
also the verdict of increasing thousands
who contemplate the bill.
1t is likewise the first time the chief
experimenter who said IF we make
mistakes we shall go back and correct
them" has finally remembered his lines.
1t is the hope of the pay roll meeters of
this country-those in whose province
it rests to furnish the more abundant
Ife"-that he does not so soon forget his
excellent resolution.
"A discrepancy exists between the econ
omy promises recently enunciated and
the schemes 1t seems to be the Presi-
dents intent to jam through the super
huous special session of Congress. Econ
omy pledges cannot be kept by the
creation of new bureaus. nor by con-
tlnuing the spoils system in full force.
But the President having expressed
himself more vociferously if not more
clearly on budget balance than on any
former occasion-perhaps in response to
the rising public clamor-the mandate
OF the Congress is clear.
G. A. FARSON.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Self.Support Should Be
A Suffrage Qualification

To the Editor of The STAR
Wide differences frequently exist be-
tween theory and practice 1t Is one
thing to sit in an Office and think how
things ought to be regulated and quite
another thing to get out and learn some
thing worth while at first hand.
A landlord is the only lord most men
can hope to be. And perhaps much
should be made of this while it lasts.
Owning real estate was once a distinct
honor, but that time is gone. Burdens
and obligations far outweigh any honor
that may come to one from his admiring
tenants.
For the seeing eye things will come
to light Recently it has been under
stood that the forgotten man about
whom so much has been said is not the
class of "have-notS," but that class that
has tried to forge ahead and by their
earnings try to build up the country.
Frugality of this brand has called forth
little praise and has had to take much
Raging first and last. Not all of this
class has had the highest of motives,
but they make great country.
A class, that many for good reasons
thought of as being equivalent to the
forgotten man, composed in large part
from men whose highest ambition was
to live from hand to mouth happened
to be the class most appreciated when
it came to showering down the national
relief. Much good every one admits was
brought to needy people, but certainly
not the greatest possible good Deserv-
ing cases were both included and exclud-
ed and hosts beyond count were admit
ted to the bounty without worthy
reason.
Making this permanent policy in
laying out future plans speaks we'll for
neither party. Too much relief NAV
give more people, but fewer personalities,
since the system SapS at the point of
dependability, where no loss can be af-
forded. Many prefer Uncle Sam as a
taSkmaster since they do not have to
work so hard. Others fear the thought
of leaving permanent public feast for
a private one that may be temporary.
But worst of all is it to find grown young
men that will do no work for fear dad
may be dropped from the roll.
Our country is in bad fix It is past
the stage where ideal ARRANGEMENTS are
longer possibilities. Some things unde-
sirable must be accepted, at least. for
evitable, it is left to us to make choice
OF the least Objectionable that will work.
So far the only thing that seems ade-
quate to meet the situation is some sort
OF property qualification or it's equivalent
to guard the ballot box, since all educa-
tlonal qualifications are no better than
1arces. In a word, a person that votes
ought to be self-supporting. 1t does not
make sense, any way one turns it. to
expect voters that cannot live without
receiving aid to select representatives to
make laws to regulate more gifted citi-
zens. Nothing like this could ever hap
pen in business. and whatever else gov
ernment may be, it ought to be good
business.
Against this timely suggestion a loud
howl will likely be raised on sentimental
grounds, but sentiment will not keep a
nation going long at time Lines must
be drawn somewhere, and no point seems
more logical than that of successful liv-
ing. So why not let the ballot rest
there? THOMAS c. HOLLAND.
Evening star., 1937-11-11

from something much more definitely
basic than Mr.. wilson's plan for super
parliament at Geneva. Its inspiration
was the instinct of an uncounted multi
tude of men and women for a cure for
the disease of mechanical murder" The
human soul revolted at the spectacle of
civilization committing suicide. If the
Armistice celebrations in London and
Paris and Washington were emotional
demonstrations, it also was true that
they were manifestations of sanity
restored"
Skeptics, of course, doubted the prac-
tical feasibility of any and every scheme
for the correction of the ancient evil"
of that mad game the world so loves
to play" The species, they insisted, is
naturally belligerent. 1t was their theory
that General Bernhard was right when
he argued: War is biological necessity
of the first Importance"
But the innumerable masses, potential
cannon fodder" were not discouraged
by the agnostics. Instead, they have
chosen to cultivate will to peace which
cannot be denied. Even in totalitarian
countries like Russia. Germany, Italy
and Japan the nameless majorities hate
and fear the "monstrous surgery of the
sword"
How, then, does it happen that the
nineteenth anniversary of the close of
'the war to end war" finds mankind
still plagued with institutionalized car
mage? The answer is that peace is
slow growth. 1t cannot be wished into
existence; rather, it must be created by
day-to-day living of the ideal of gener-
GUS brotherhood. And that is business
for individuals labor for the humblest
of souls The effort cannot be vain. In
the end it must succeed. The alternative
is willful consent to chaos.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Armistice Dav.

When, nineteen years ago today, the
bugles sounded Cease firing" mankind
anticipated termination of the crime
which involves all other crimes The
hysterical JOY which characterized the
Armistice of November IL, 1918. was an
unrestrained expression of the hope of
the human race for peace and for the
honorable fruits of peace. President
Woodrow Wilson had educated millions
TO believe that armed conflict could be
abolished forever in a planet made safe
for democracy" The League Of Nations
organized In the interest of universal
equity and justice, was 10 solve the age
old problem of competition between
states, strife between peoples.
But the vision Of a wsrless world arose
Evening star., 1937-11-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

A peaceful disposition and poor
memory go together.
Here is the way it is:
Peace of mind, in such world as this,
is attained by forgetting.
1t will be found that persons note
worthy for placid disposition. almost in
variably are good at ruling out of their
minds what they do not like.
1t is gift. Not every one can do it.
We all know how many persons fret and
stew around over Sights, imagined cuts,
and so on.
These unfortunates, too sensitive for
their own good, cannot be said to have
peaceful dispositions.
Those of this class who have attained
to peace have done so by rigorous
process of overlooking, forgetting, plain
ruling out of intangibles.
Call such mental wounds intangibles
as much as one pleases, every one knows
how mighty they loom in the individual
life.
The person who is able to put them
away from him, when he wishes to, is the
person who attains to such peace of mind
as this world offers.
His gift is tWo-edged sword, however.
He will discover that his memory in
time becomes very poor even for things
he would choose to remember.
Having worked up capacity for for
getting what he does not like, he finds
himself unable to recall what he might
care to retain.
Hence it may be said that in proportion
to ones ability to overlook inimical things
said and done will come certain forget
fulness OF matters which one might de-
sire to hold easily in the mind
1t is just another instance of the old
saying, that one cannot eat ones cake
and have it, too.
If you are able to forget what you do
not like you are very likely to forget what
you do like.
The reason for this is that many per-
sons have to work very hard in order to
overlook the actions and words of others.
Especially is this true of the super
sensitive man or woman who is naturally
at the mercy of other people.
Some of us are born with thick skins,
mentally speaking; we can listen easily,
and not pay much attention to what is
said.
Others of us react with lightning speed
to the least word of praise or criticism.
In the everyday life there usually is more
of the latter than of the former. 1t is
too bad, of course. Life would be much
better for millions if praise were an
ingredient more used in the great mix
ture called life.
1t is thing so easily brought into play,
one may wonder why it is not more used.
1t costs nothing, only a. little forethought,
in most cases.
1t is like courtesy; it is one of the easiest
to use Of all the ingredients in the great
cake of life. There is always something
to praise, always some way of being
courteous. Yet how seldom does the
great average person indulge in praise of
others, or become courteous to them.
Watch people in any public place.
No doubt there is a certain timidity of
action and purpose to be overcome be-
fore most Of us can give praise when it is
due and be courteous to others.
Especially with strangers must one be
Evening star., 1937-11-11

ESP has become major phenomenon
of 1887.
Folks are playing it everXwhere-double
and solitaire. In Washington alone there
must be several thousand packs of the
mind-reading cards. 1t has gotten on
the radio. Clairvoyants are sprouting
like weeds after a rain. Scores are dis
covering that they have the mysterious
power.
1t is the current successor to Ma Jong,
monopoly, jig-saw puzzles, parchesi and
the rest of the evening entertainment
fads which have had their day under
the living room lamps during the past
decade. Whether ESP-as a fad-will
have longer life is doubtful for it gets
rather monotonous when played hon
estly. If it isn't played honestly it isn't
any fun.
1t is about decade now since DR. j. F.
Rhine, Duke University psychologist,
started it. Nobody paid much attention
at first, except to lament that a respect
able university was STOPPING to touch the
occult. The supernatural was in bad
repute with psychologists.
But nobody questioned DR.. Rhines hon.
esty, and it was hard indeed to explain
some of the results which he published.
BY and large, the attitude of his fellow
psychologists was one of irritation. They
were all laboring nightly to fit every
thing into an exclusively materialistic
world. They were on crusade to show
that all thoughts and emotions were
purely physical and chemical processes.
Nobody is apt to be more impatient with
heretics than the psychologist Com
pared with him the medieval inquisitors
were, by and large, rather tolerant fell
lows. And DR.. Rhine was confessed
hereto.
For time they went about with their
noses in the air. They were altogether
too dignified to pay any attention to
such tomfoolery. Respectable psychology
ical journals would no more comment on
such stuff than they would open their
pages to the salacities of psycho-analy-
sis. The Duke professor had to start his
own journal, now in its third number.
But all the time, it now appears, the
public was becoming ESP conscious in
spite of the psychologists and with the
recent appearance of DR.. Rhine's popular
book on the subject the tidal wave of
interest got under way. Orthodox psy-
biologists are more than irritated now
Some of them show signs of being mad,
but they don't know what to do about it.
DR.. Rhine's findings may be all wrong.
The difficulty comes in putting ones
finger on where they are wrong. The
mathematics are complicated He has
taken the precaution to have his methods
checked by some of the worlds foremost
mathematicians The supposed refuta-
tions published thus far have been harder
to comprehend than the equations they
are intended to refute.
Presumably most everybody knows all
about ESP by this time. There is pack
of 25 cards. each with geometrical de-
sign on its face-a cross, a square, wavy
line, a circle and star. There are five
of each. The game, in its simplest form,
is to take the pack face down and match
the cards, without looking at them, with
similar designs.
There is, or should be, no clue. There
is exactly one chance out of five that the
player will make a correct match. Con-
sequently by running through the pack
of Is one should. by the laws of chance,
make five hits. With Is or 80 trials,
Evening star., 1937-11-11

private ownership and operation with
adequate Government aid in the shape
Of subsidies. Another would be Govern
ment ownership and private operation,
and third, Government ownership and
operation. OF the three, the first gives
greater promise of efficiency. The sec
ond was tried and not found to be a
great success The third is the. final
alternative, which promises greater ex-
penditures and greater loss.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Mythology.

Mythology.
Santa Claus is drawing near,
Doing what he can,
Helping out for human cheer;
Sos your Congressman.
Santa is supposed to be
Mighty in his plan,
To protect us in our gles;
Sos your Congressman.
AS for power to reckon with,
AS results you scan,
Santa mostly is a myth;
Sos your Congressman.
Evening star., 1937-11-11

There are moments when radio seems
little uncertain in describing events
in connection with expert advertising.
1t is at such times as these that Mr..
James Farley steps in to remind the
public of what it might have missed
if the theory became prevalent that the
Blarney Stone had really been imported
to this country.