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Show Penetrability to Change War and Peace T fWJ? Pf NETRABiUTY department how they can d-aw an Imaginary line at any point without our bonier, over laud or water, hihJ t'uuse lnviilil" forces to practically annihilate an-nihilate any number of men or whips Intending to Invade us," declares Law. son. Broadcasting stations would he employed em-ployed to hurl the deadly energies or currents Into the enemy. It seems. According Ac-cording to Lnwson modern warfare would he revolutionized. 'Tenetrahlllty Is "the cause of ell movement," he paid. "Energy Is an effect produced by the penetrability of substances. A substance of heavy density passes through that of lighter density, (bus crentlng-currents. ! hnvt discovered the means of harnessing these currents and producing force which may be applied to war or com. nierclal pursuits." Commercially, he explnlned, penetrability penetra-bility may be employed In thousands of ways. It will exterminate bugs. It will help grow crops. Daylight may be stored up for use at night, eliminating the necessity of artificial Illumination. TXrASHINOTON. Penetrability Is a " newly discovered force of nature by which the fleas on a dog's back, the mosquitoes In New York, or an army battling at the gates of a notion, may with equal ease be annihilated. In 30 years of study, Alfred W, Law-son Law-son of Milwaukee, Inventor of the airplane air-plane liner, reached these conclusions. He Is la Washington conferring with the War department officials before whom he Is ready to demonstrate the application of "penetrability' as means of national defense. "I have shown engineers of the War Uncle Sam's Policy on the Near East XXTASniNQTON. The attitude of " Y the United States government toward the Near East problem was made plain by Secretary of State Hughes In a statement concerning the proposals Just made by the allied governments gov-ernments to the Turkish nationalists. Thla government believes any permanent per-manent settlement of the straits problem prob-lem should provide for tu freedom of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and tlie Bosporus, and It also hopes that pending a final settlement the straits will be kept open. The United Stftes furthermore Is In entire sympathy sympa-thy with the allied proposals for the protection of racial and religious minorities. mi-norities. Mr. Hughes declined to comment upon those phases of the Near Eastern problem which Involved questions of boundaries or other matters of a Iure-ly Iure-ly political nature. "The American government," said Mr. Hughes, "Is gratified to observe that the proposal of the three allied governments seeks to Insure effectively, effective-ly, 'the liberty of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the Bosporus as well as protection of racial and religious relig-ious minorities.' These points of the proposal are clearly In accord with American sentiment , "This government also trusts that suitable arrangements may be agreed upon In the Interest of peace to pre serve the freedom of the straits pending pend-ing the conference to conclude a final treaty of peace between Turkey, Greece, and the allies," While It has been made plain In utterances ut-terances both from the White House and from the State department that the American government would take no part In the political activities of the allies In the Near East, no secret has been made of the fact that this government gov-ernment Is deeply Interested In developments devel-opments there. The ever Increasing Importance of the United States as a commercial power, coupled with the expansion of the American merchant murine, make it Imperative that American ship should be unrestricted In their goings und comings. Best Little Lid-Clamper in the Capital measures disapproved by the committee commit-tee chairman. Among the bills buried under the Volstead lid are probata to amend th Constitution to permit wines and liquors of 10 per cent alcoholic content; con-tent; to permit beer of 2 per cent alcohol ; to penult the states to decide for themselves what constitutes "intoxicating "in-toxicating liquors" under the eight eenth amendment; to provide a national na-tional referendum on prohibition, to transfer enforcement of prohibition from the treasury, to the Department of Justice; to repenl the enforcement set, to amend the act and so on. by the score. These bills were Introduced! referred to committee then burled. The lid clamped shut on them and they were gone! And If you try to tilt the lid, you find sitting atop of It a small but grim and very determined man wiio doesn't argue or plead or waste time in words, but exercises the prerogatives preroga-tives of his position as committee chairman and the weight of I he dignity dig-nity that position gives him to bold the lid firm. He miht aptly be described as "The Uttle Gray Man." Hp Is sixty-two years of age, slight of build, nivissuni. Ing In carriage. Ills plain, rather darkish gray suit matches almost perfectly per-fectly In hue the gray mixtnche and t,-i!r, wblch In t;irn Wen! with 'hr J gray of his eyes. THE best little lid-clamper In Washingtonthat's Wash-ingtonthat's Andrew J. Volstead, of Minneapolis, father of the well-known well-known prohibition enforcement law bearing his name. Volsteud's lid-clamping lid-clamping proclivities huve not been limited simply to clamping down the lid on the national thirst. He puts the lid on a lot of legislation, and he also keeps a lid on his own lips. It was as chairman of the Judiciary committee of the house that Volstead gave his name to the prohibition law and thereby won a niche In history. And It Is as chairman of the same committee com-mittee that he U able to sink without trace the hordes of bills, resolutions and proposals of all sorts for repealing, repeal-ing, modifying or setting aside the enforcement en-forcement law. No pigeon-holes In congress are more crowded with dust-'covered, dust-'covered, forgotten documents than of the Judiciary committee. And no lid U clanipcd wore tiglitly against possl ble consideration and enactment of Places for All Discharged Army GTi-ors? Y TO Aif v IfvLs AN AOENCY to aid regular army officers eliminated from the service serv-ice through operation of the bill requiring requir-ing reduction of the officer corps to 12,000 by the firt of the year his been established in the War department. It Is announced, with the statement that any business house seeking to employ such former officers "can receive complete com-plete Information of their qualliUa-tlous qualliUa-tlous by communicating with the ad.lu tnnt general of the army or the corps area commanders. "Of the officers to bo separated from the service," it continued, "many arc highly qualified professional men-lawyers, men-lawyers, surgeons, chaplains, etigincei-:. dentists and veterinarians. Many others oth-ers nre men of high attainments, iiali-fled iiali-fled to fill responsible positions in eonimerclal and Industrial estahlish-nenM. estahlish-nenM. "They have served the government or a long period, some of them for "it ..ears or more, nnd have rendered "allhfill and efficient , service. 'The United ftntes government Is i'iV!itcc! to them and It Is cfily fitting that they ihonld he nfTorded every opportunity o altuin s jccesa In civil life." In connection with the ei'oit to aid such officers In finding civil employment employ-ment a special file of the qualification of each man Is he n c.tahllsheil nnd wPh (he co-ojieration of romiueri-lal firganiathais such as chauibers of cotinueice and commercial -lu!is. n country-wlite survey to lueaie post In private life for which they would be lilted Is to be made, "The War department reali-'M," the nunounceuient said, "fh.-'t t'ru.n . very nature of their aruiy, service many of these ollirept h:ive I.i.ji ;il' touch with home and hoi cmid 'thai and (is a result in ly ciiperience r;e;:t dlf'.iciilty In KCcuriiiK amt''"" inent." |
