Out Our Way By Williami - 7^v-/ eS-Tv-AEnA_ 1 Cam be -7 t CAKir 8EUEWE THEV A LOuCc liME T*GET J PRODUCEO MAKE MOKiE^y B**/ j TAER MOMEH BACK* -/ IM HA\-F FASTER PROOOCTiOM. / <50ME. T?4lNV J TH' TikaE., 1. THikiK THEW LOSE:. \So EXPEMSWE; 4 VNrtV,BV1Hf Time \for ev/epw OME O’ 4 a Them Biros get it , I-^em vwv\o gets a A A OOPEO OUT, WHERE'- THERS F\FTf Vr WOOR PROFIT? vXhoOOmT. THAtW , WAW Thev HAwE To KEEP SucH A BiGSTAFf -to be sure thet GETTANsl IDEE.. ^ see how Queen Suraya would be arrayed when she arrived in troubled Teheran. Thousands of Persian ladies, long hopeless of breaking down old traditions, had taken heart when they had read of Queen Suraya’s appearance on the continent in European attire and had heard nothing of her Afghan majesty’s being excommunicated for It by the decendants of the prophet. Should she now appear in public to Teheran without the long schador, it might mean that the garment would disappear immediately from Persia, never to return. Buraya arrived at the station elegantly garbed in European fashion °nd wearing a veil that was admittedly improper, in that it consisted t a thin strip of silk covering only the lower portion of her face, j closed automobile rushed her at a furious pace to the Shah's palace, where she stayed with Shah’s wife in the harem and refused to ap pear in public at all. She was thus cannily ncn-committal; and though she set a certain example, it is not reportde that any Persian women have had courage to follow. Arrived in Kabul, she has been equally reticent; but it is certain that sooner or later she will be the centre of a definite effort to bring Afghan women out of their seclusion and give them a share in the life of the country comparable to that which their Queen knows European women enjoy. Mustapha Kemal has been able to do it for Mbhammedan women in Turkey, largely because he has broken the Caliphate and eliminated the re-actionary power of the clergy. In Afghanistan, however, the influence of the Mohammedan holy men still hangs like a dark cloud over the country, and any attempt to Introduce new customs in the capital is invariably met by a petty in surrection inspired by them in the wild outlying regions. It will take months, perhaps years, to overcome such opposition and to let the Queen’s abandonment of traditional dress during her European tour have its full effect. Meanwhile, as Amanullah busily gives his country factories and roads and schools, Suraya bides her time. Boston Not the Hub. Prom the Boston Transcript. We have the Autocrat’s word for (t that Boston is the hub of the universe, but the sober advices of the Harvard astronomers do not ex actly agree with this locally satis factory conclusion. A profound scientific announcement made by Prof. Harlow Shapley places the center of the known universe in the constellation Sagittarius, the “arch er.” Sagittarius is that sprawling constellation, almost farthest from the pole star to our eyes, to which the imaginative Greeks assigned the form and place of the Centaur Chiron, who renounced his immor tality, and was placed by Zeus among the stars—where eternally he shoots an arrow into everlasting Protect the Schools. Prom New York World. In the concerted efforts of power Interests to use the schools and col leges for propaganda their best as surance of success was that the public should remain in ignorance of their plans. It was essential to Vwir scheme of operation that they keep under cover. With exposure they faced failure. As the immediate result of the recent revelations at Washington an organized movement is now under way to set a guard aroud the schools against this propaganda abuse. The Save Our Schools com mittee hu an ambitious program, space. So much for the name. The actual center to which the Harvard astronomers have been guided by their observations of the rotations of worlds immeasureabl.v removed from us is 47,000 light years away. In other words, we are decidedly way-backers in the universe. Be tween us and the real "hub” there is room for an infinitude of worlds. We are as a grain of sand in the illimitable desert of space. Professor Shapley’s announcement is a highly important one. scientif ically speaking, for it establishes, on the highest authority, the value, the credibility, of the observations of the variable stars in the Milky Way. The announcement opens a vast new field of knowledge for as tronomical determination. In the for the field it proposes to cover is enormous and the source of the evil it would combat is not always easv to locate. But at the start it offers itself at least as a nucleus for the opposition to the misuse of the schools and colleges of the country for propaganda of every question able kind: by its mere existence it should gather strength for itself through recruits from many quar ters. Its mission obviously must be not to combat a particular propaganda from known directions but to check and destroy a system maintained for whatever purpose, for the inva sion of the schools for other than meantime, how profoundly it affects the imagination! We are, in our lit tle world, traveling yearly about our little sun—but our sun himself,; with his petty brood of planets, is! traveling around a center of the universe that is an inconceivable number of billions of miles away from us. And then, beyond flic out er and farther edge of this vaster system, this universe whose limits our most powerful instruments are apparently perceiving, there is a black and empty gulf. Farther still, are there other universes, quite be yond the gaze of Mount Wilson or Arequipa? The question remains to be answered. It is an awesome world, that upon which Professor Shapley directs our feeble gaze. Not New Theory. From New York Times. If Governor Brewster of Mains gave the other governors in their meeting at New Orleans the im pression that Mr. Hoover had en dorsed in detail the plan to estab lish a reserve fund of $3,000,000,000 to be used in times of unemploy ment, he probably went too far. The telegram which Mr. Hoover sent can scarcely have been Intended to indi cate more than approval of bringing the general subject up for discus sion. It is no novelty. The main idea has been put forward many, times during the last 8 or 10 years. It has been favored by sev eral economists and business men and public officials whose opinions are entitled to respect. It was one of the suggestions under debate oy the conference on unemployment summoned by President Hardin? in 1921. To the report of its proceed ings Mr. Hoover himself wrote ap introduction, in which he said: “The committee has develowd some constructive suggestions as to the deferment o public work and construction work of large public service corporations to periods of depression and un employment, which, while in the nature of relief from evils already created would tend both by their subtraction front production at the peak of the boom and addition of produc tion in the valley of depression toward woe even progress of business itself.” Since then the plan has been widely discussed and a limited amount of action taken. The prin ciple is partly embodied, as Secre tary Mellon explained, in the pro gram for public building under the treasury department. Bills have been introduced in congress in fur therance of the main idea. The lat est one was that of Senator Jones which was read to the Senate on January 11. 1928, and was then re ferred to the committee on com merce. Its title sufficiently shows its purpose: "A Bill to Create a Prosperity Reserve and to Stabilize Industry and Employment bv the Expansion of Public Works during Periods of Unemployment and In dustrial Depression.” It would have carried appropriations ot about $150,000,000. Compulsory Insurance. Chicago Journal of Commerce The defects of compulsory auto mobile liability insurance are being emphasized in Massachusetts with increasing sharpness. The obligation | to accept any Tom, Dick, or Harry as an insurance risk has compelled the companies to insist on higher rates. The state commisioner of in surance was forced out of office when he declared it was imperative that the rates be raised. But his temporary successor the acting commissioner of insurance, has now raised the rates, at the stme time cutting commissions to such a point that it is admitted the agents are out of pocket on the service they render. If the commissions were not reduced, the rates would have tc be raised still higher. Massachusetts has got into a mess from which she does not seem to know how to ex tricate herself. the true ends of education In a way, it will have to combat the gen eral indifference to some things that in disguise pass as part of the education cf youth, though wrong fully introduced through influences unrevealed. — - - — Q. Why is John Burton Payne, chairman of Ihe American Red Cross, given the title, Judge? J. T. H. A. Judge Payne earned the title through several years on the bench. He was special judge of the circuit court. Tucker county. West Virginia, in 1880. and judge in the superior court. Cook count’.’, Illinois, from iaS2 until 1898, when he resigned. € | U. S. Made No Effort to Reconcile ; Differences About World Court From New York World. During the summer two events have made American adherence to the world court more fitting and desirable than ever. One is the choice of Charles E. Hughes as a Judge upon its bench. The other is the signing of the Kellogg treaty, which, renouncing war as an instru ment of national policy, logically commits us to finding some effec tive agency for removing the causes of war. At its first meeting next month the senate foreign relations com mittee will take up the Gillett resolution for resuming negotiations upon the world court question; and the American foundation today issues an appeal in its behalf supported by quotations from nearly 60 im portant newspapers. This resolution was first offered last spring. By a close vote, 9 to 8, the committee postponed its consideration till the short session. It declares merely that the Senate "respectfully sug gests” to the president that he attempt a further exchange of views with the signatory nations in an effort to adjust the differences be tween them and the United States. This a sensible proposal for ending a deadlock that seems to rest on misapprehension and indifference. The original world court resolution, adopted in January 1926, assented to American membership provided the other nations accepted five reservation.'. Four of these, framed by Mr. Hughes, were promptly assented to. Ihe fifth, added by the Senate, raised a graver question. It provided that unlrss the United States gave its consent the court should entertain no request for an advisory opinion “touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest." The other nations did not as some people imagine, reject this reservation; they simply asked us to explain it. The reply to the American reservations adopted at Geneva on Sep tember 23, 1926, offered a counter-reservation, requested the United States to interpret the fifth condition and invited us to “such further exchange of views as the government of the United States might think necessary." The chief point in doubt was simple. The other nations wished to learn if the United States asserted the right, by entering a “claim of interest," to prevent an advisory opinion on any question whatever or whether we simply asserted the right to prevent an advisory opinion in case where we had a clear material interest The nations represented in the court also hesitated because it has not yet been decided whether a unanimous or a majority vote of the league council is> necessary to ask the court for an advisory opinion. If the former, the grant to the United States of a veto on all such requests would merely give us co-ordinate power; if the latter, it would give us special and superior power. But the important fact is that since the reply of September 23,1926, the United States has never furnished an explanation and has never accepted the invitation to a “further exchange of views." The Coolidge administration has treated the matter as closed. Our attitude has been one, as the Portland Oregonian says, of "churlishness" and “ob struction." It may be that the Senate will not modify the fifth res ervation, but is there any harm in explaining it in an effort to induce other nations to withdraw their counter-reservation? This court is more the creation of the United States than of an> other single nation. Its original impulse grew from the efforts of Roosevelt Hay, Taft and Knox in behalf of international arbitration; its most vital feature was supplied by Elihu Root; it was championed by Wilson; it had had the most cordial support of Mr. Hughes while he was secretary of state. There is something anomalous and dis creditable in our abstention from its work, and Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg should be urged to make a genuine effort to bring the United States to a whole-hearted participation in its activities. Strange Ports J. B Priestly, in “Open House.” I might be described as a poet ical tripper. It is the enchantment of distance and strange names on the map that holds me, and not the promise of sights. The atlas and not the guide book is my inspira tion. I have a boyish delight In the thought of enormous journeys, beginning at the front door and ending somewhere at the other side of the world. The least thing will set me longing to be off. Only the other day a whole morning's work was lost to me because I had caught sight of a tiny advertisement of a shipping company, which informed traders that its ships now sailed from Manchester—of all places— through the Panama canal to Cali fornia. I saw myself going to Man chester and hurrying through its Irab streets until I suddenly turned a corner and beheld, as If by magic, masts and funnels; I saw myself crossing a gangway and then sliding out of Manchester down the ship canal for the distant glare of Colon and Panama; I saw myself sitting on a hatch that night with the mate or the second engineer, talk ing of our golden coast of Califor nia. ... I am under no illusion about such voyages and distant places, both of which I can readily conceive to be uncomfortable, dull and disappointing; but the magical gleam of far travel to places with names like a pageant does not fade. . . . If I lived in New York, however, I should have to hurry past the railway stations, for there you may fake a train for the very blue I noticed the other day an advertise ment of a train that roared you from the Hudson to Vera Cruz on the Mexican gulf, a whole world away. I can well imagine that such a Journev would be intolerably dull and that Vera Cruz Is a baked mis ery of a town, but nevertheless if I lived in New York, sooner or later f should board that train, after be ing almost idiotically happy poring over epic timetables. Never in my life, I think, did I envy a man so much as I did that nameless one who, when I asked him where he | was going, said very quietly: “Up the Orinoco.” It was just as if, with a touch on a spring, he had suddenly released a vast glittering pageant of far travel and fantastic destinations, of multicolored seas and blowing whales and flying fish, of coasts like bronze and steaming rivers in the jungle and brown faces chattering in an unknown tongue. I think of him now as the only anonymous poet I have ever met. Larger River Fund. From Kansas City Star. It is indicated that the Mississippi Valley Association, which has been an agency of considerable influence in waterway progress, may ask for i n c reased appropriations at the forthcoming session of congress for river channel work and flood con trol. The question Invites serious discussion. As to flood control, there would seem to be little ground for argu ment, except as to the amount of an increase of funds. The flood con trol plan, as adopted, called for 325 New York’* Farm Problem From New Yoi*k World. Governor-elect Roosevelt’s call to a number of farm experts to con sider and devise remedies for agri cultural troubles in New York will remind city readers that farm relief is not merely a matter for the Middle West. In fact, New York is one of the great farming States, ranking about twelfth in import ance. In the dairy industry it is led only by Wisconsin, and of course it is easily first in the business of sell ing fluid milk to city consumers. When, therefore, Mr. Roosevelt says there are far too many abandoned faonfc in the State he raises an million dollars to be expended in 10 years. As some funds already were bn hand for the work, only 25 ml.l ion dollars was appropriated for the current fiscal year. Control opera tions now have been started on a considerable scale, and it seems ob vious that substantially more than the sum set aside for this year could be used to good advantage. With respect to the Lower M.cc ouri, at least, it has been understood for some time that all the money that could be expended properly would be forthcoming for channel Improvements. It may be expected the reiterated assurance on this point will be made good. Canalliza tion of the Ohio is nearing com pletion. and scon a considerate portion if not all the funds allotted to that stream can be turned else where. But other approved channel projects, including the Upper Miss ouri. are awaiting atteneion. There is, in addition, the pressing question of providing a 9-foot channel in the Upper Mississippi, also eventually, in the Missouri, so that the heavier craft operating on the Lower Miss issippi may not need to break cargo at St. Louis. Waterwav development, like road building, is on extended process. Once it is started it must be carried through without prolonged delays if contemplated benifits are to be realized. When to Kill. From Time. The famed Hindu doctrine that thou shalt not kill even a bug much less a human—was sensation ally reinterpreted last week, by the potent ascetic, sage and saint, Ma hatma Gandhi. Quoth the Mahatma: “Just as a surgeon does not com mit hlmsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's bodv for the latier’s bene fit, similarly one may find it neces sary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the in terest of the suiferer. “It may be objected that where as the surgeon performs his opera tion to save the life of the patient, in the other case we do just the re verse. But on a deeper analysts it will be found that the ultimate ob ject sought to be served in both cases is the same, viz., to relieve the suffering soul within from pain. In the one case you do it by sever ing the diseased portion from the body. In the other you do it by severing from the soul the body that has become an instrument of torture to it. . . . Suppose, for in stance, that I find my daughter— whose wish at the moment I have no means of ascertaining—is threat ened with violation and there I" no wav by which I can save her. Then it would be the purest form of ahimsa on mv part to put an end to her life and surrender myself to the fury of the incensed ruffian.” Puzzled Hindus pondered whether it is now safe to tread upon a lady bug—whose wish at the moment one has no means of ascertaining— would she seem menaced writh as sault. ♦ ♦ Q. How long is the sea wall at Galveston, Tex.? R. L. A, It is 7>i miles long and 17 feet high. At its base it is 16 feet wide, and at the top, 5 feet in width. issue that gravely concerns the Commonwealth. Tax sales in all parts of the State seem to suggest that taxation is the last straw that breaks the farmer’s back. “Readjustment or realign ment” of taxation, suggested by Mr Roosevelt, may be possible. The specific trouble with the dairy in dustry is that there is much too great a margin between the farmer’s price for milk delivered at the rail way station and the price asked for it at the area door in the city. If Mr. Roosevelt’s experts can devise a cure for that condition their labors will have been indeed useful. SOME HUNTERS “ From Brook ngs Register. A small percen'ngc of iln hunt ers are rapidly rlcsln South Da kota farms to all hun*lnr bv their vandalism. Each fall there is a small grcup of all gcd sportsmen who think it smart to Ignore the rights of the farmers on whose land thev hunt. They do not seem to realize tha: they an? there in the nature of guests, and ns such should show common eOt>r*',sy to the r hosts. Instead, they drive into cornfields vpre the crop r not yet gathered, the’' shoot recklessly and wi'hout regard to Hvo stork they leave gate’- oorn and let e»oek yet out, and thev mutilate *'"”■* and sometimes machinery 'vht they can find no earn" to sh-o at, In self defens” nmv farmer1: a_« past ing their farms rgMr«t b’n e"s. In the news column’ of thb weeks Register Is told whrp r.ne r-'nin of farmers have had pr nt°d lufl “Nn Trasoassin"" si"ns to no*-*. T.oeal friends of th-s- farmers w«" doubt less ret psrmb on to yv«r their farms anyway, but the slT* will keep on* all strange'*, r" matter bow well b?hp-»rd thpv r "h* be. The foclish dynollers nf f vrm rights and pre* Tty "re hurting not onl” th-mrehe but th’ le gitimate brn'"' who pa-- eamfut rf the rights of ethers nn- would think th"v woo’d have mnp ',jnse than to destroy their cwm n-’.viieyes that way b-’t fvrn'mn*’” 'hey haven’*, wro drvht the” ""r ve-y wToth and me str-ue iao"u-»e- di rected at thp npr'-d fami bur. they are gettlne what they deserve. The Safety Match The safety mulch, winch strike* only on the box m which tt is packed, was invented in laua by a Swede named Lunctsuein. The or dinary match will ignite if rubued briskly on any hard rtu'face. Its head is composed of a chemical mix ture that combines all the essen tials lor combustion. But the little safety match has a diffeient kind of head, one that is made up of chlor ate of potash and sulphur and has to be rubbed on paper spread with a paste of phosphorus and antimony to make fire. If the wrong chemical mixture were used lor safety match heads, they might take lire sp. ntaneausly. That would never do. They would not be safety matches if they sud denly took fire inside their boxes, so they have to be tested. Only the choice, t wood i: suitable for making these matches, the best being the aspen. A log of tins wood is sawed into sections 15 inches long, which is the length of seven of the little splints. Tnc • ction fZ wood, freed from all bark, is Ih, i put into a lathe with a cutting tool which converts it into a strip of veneer, just the thickness of a match and 15 inches wide. But in the process it is sliced into seven ribbons of wood, the wid h of each being the length of a match. The ribbons are fed, 100 at a tlma into a machine which chops them into match sticks. The latter ara dri»d in heating drums, sifted to rid of splinters, and bundled c? machinery. Then they receive heady by being dipped into the right chemical mixture to insure safety. —■- ♦♦-— IDAHO Long have I watched o’er you, horn* land. Idaho, child of my heart. Long have I guarded and gloated. In my mountain fastness apart, O’er the glorious future awaiting Possibilities far beyond ken When I should decide, To /end. far and wide, A dream, to the children of men 'Neath ycur grey sagebrush coated deserts I saw the rich grass and the grains, I saw in your rushing streamlets Lile for a thousand plains, And I knew in your mountain fis sures Of copper and silver and gold. So I sent on the gleam Of the sunlight, a dream. And the children of men were told. Then o’er your borders came fc/;n lr.g ; Hordes from the east and west. Of all the land of thetr dreaming I This was the grandert and best; And straightway brave cities were founded And water was turned on the land. And you. lavish one With your glorious sun Gave forth with a bountiful hand.. And I. from your mystery moun tains, J Look down from the heights as of old. And know this is but the beginning | That you will exnnnd and urfold, I Till every state In the nation With oroud hands, will point to your star. Saying; “Idaho, blest Bright Gem of the West May vour greatness and fams spread afar.” —Laura Ed,4h Harrow. In “Prorn Idaho to You.” —- * ♦ ■ ■ ■ New York —When will men who have been given tbs fram ? of public a44pntion and !•'“'* 'n. learn to use such power In a be coming and g»r«*ble manner? America todav Is steeped in hypoc risy. prejudice, bigotry, secf'cnal feeling and Intolerance, largely be came ar cause of the beauty of the language.