Evening star., 1938-01-02

Amelia Earhart. Lost in the Pacific.
Maybe it is the most significant of all
events In 1887
Russian science reports miracles such as
bringing dead dogs to life-a little too
miraculous some Of them, for the world to
believe.
REACHES are crowded For the first
time this summer men lounge on the
sands without tops to their bathing suits
a most commendatory slap in the face of
hypocritical conventionality.
I'VE Will Always Be Sweethearts"-the
dance orchestras play-"When Ny Dream
Boat Comes Home" Gorgeous Hussy''
fills the movie houses. 1897 brings Peggy
O'Neil to life again. Thousands take ad-
vantage of their vacations to finish reading
Gone With the Wind" and thousands of
hours are wasted debating the merits of
various actresses for depicting the enigma
Of Scarlet OHara.
THE organized bands of killers and kid
napers disappear. Electric chairs and
revolvers Of Government agents have ac-
counted for the worst Of them. Alcatraz
holds securely their underlings. Dillinger,
Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Faced Nelson are
as dead As their victims, and no deader.
They were heartless rats. without honor
even among themselves
1875 headlines present another sort of
criminal beside whom Dillinger and Bonny
Parker seem almost respectable-the sex
pervert who goes about numbering babies.
Never before has there been such an out
burst Of these crimes. Perhaps this also
can be blamed on sunspots-some outside
influence should be found to blame it on
to save the self respect Of mankind.
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OVER coral island in the South Pacific
the sun goes out for five minutes at
midday as the moon gets between it and
the earth. Stars come out in black sky
A pearl-hued halo rings the moons dark
disk. Astronomers live through tense
moments. It is the longest eclipse OF
the sun in history. That brief interlude OF
ghostly dusk gives the opportunity Of q
century to answer questions of deep i'm
port to man. What is the sun made OF? Is
space infinite or circular?
A geologist in Java finds some 40 scat
tered bits of bone in river bottom. He
pieces them together and gets an almost
complete skull Of man 10000 times re.
moved great uncle-the nearest yet come
to the missing link.
"NINE OLD MEN" constituting thu
supreme judicial tribunal of the
United States, have irritated the New
Deal by declaring unconstitutional some
Of its major projects. They did not say
and had no right to say, whether these
were good or bad for the country. What
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes thinks Of
the wisdom Of paying farmers to slaughter
little pigs Is Of no legitimate importance
They did say that. good or bad, certain
things were prohibited by the Constitution
Of the United States
Ardent New Dealers think the Consti-
tuition might have been interpreted little
more to their liking-that the meanings
q words change with the settings in which
they are used. President Roosevelt also
evidently leans to this opinion. He pro-
poses to pack" the Supreme Court. pre-
sumably with younger men whose etymo-
logical philosophy Is more in tune with
his own.
All conservatives and some Of the most
eminent liberals and radicals revolt al
this. They remember that this same gu
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