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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-29
SHOOTING. STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Ever 60 fishing with a girlf"
"Once."
"Did she protest against hurting the
fsh9"
"No. She said she was sure they were
perfectly happy, because they were all
wagging their tails"
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Women's $3.50 "Onyx"
Silk Hose. $I.z5

Extra Heavyweight Silk Hose. in
black. white. bronze, gray. cham
payne. flesh and evening shades, as
well. as stripes and dropstitch eff
fects: slight irregular weaves which
will not affect the wear.-First
Floor.
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Crepe Kimonos, Sl.o8

Serpentine Crepe Kimonos, plain
colors. Of rose. copenhagen. lavender
and light blue: satin ribbon pipings,
finished with wide ruffle on sleeves:
elastic waist line Third Floor,
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WOmen's Low Shoes
Worth up to $500. O. E0
] Oil
A clearance of Women's Low
Shoes from our regular stock,
comprising the depleted sizes and
incomplete assortments remain
ing from recent selling. Sterling
qualities, In this seasons most
desirable styles-all sizes in the
lot from 25a to Z, but not every
size of each style.
The assortment includes Pumps.
Oxfords and Strap Slippers of pat
ent colt. gun metal bronze and
gray combination feathers.
GoldAnberE's-Firs Floor.
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Up to SOC Ribbons, 34c

A special lot of Fine Quality Rib
bons, including Roman brocades; in
light and dark effects; also plain
poses.-First Floor,
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soc White Novelty
Gabardine

FILL 50 Inches soc
One Of the handsomest and most
desirable white fabrics produced for
this seasons wear-a high-class. dis
tinctive novelty that holds first place
in the favor Of women for summer
skirts and suits.
36 inches wide. with wool-hnish
pique stripe. Of beautiful quality.
combining serviceability with smart
STYLE
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WOmen's Gauze Isle
Hose. Csc

Women's Gauze Isle Hose, in
black. white, tan, suede. African
brown. Russian tan. beaver and
slate: made with double sole. heel
and toe.-First Floor,
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Seam Tape, Sc Piece
Up. n" Corsets. SI.O0

Bias Seam Tape, six-yard pieces;
all widths. First Floor-Notion DENT.
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s1.5O Silk Foulards, SI.2o

36-inch Silk Foulards, pure silk
quality. in navy blue and black
grounds, with white coin spots.
Goldenbergsa-Fir Floor.
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Boys SOC Stockings, SOC

Boys Heavy Quality STOCKINGS,
double knee, reinforced heel and toe:
choice of Gordon" or "Esco" makes:
sizes to 10.-First Floor,
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Chemises. $40

Envelope Chemises. of extra quail
lity nainsook: made with deep yokes
In back. and front Of beautiful val
laces insertions and medallions.
Large assortment of styles. Third
Floor.
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$500 Couch Covers, SI.30

wide and full length; plain and
fringed styles, with woven borders
or stripes Of green. red, blue or
brown on natural linen color
RrOundS.-FnnPfhE lnmp
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Silk Swiss Kimonos. S3o$

New Silk Swiss Kimonos. plain COL
ors and pretty floral patterns: large
assortment of new models: elastic
waist line. Third Floor.
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Mems 75c Underwear. SOC

wv oHHSH WAL OVO
Mons Porosknit Underwear, white
and ecru colors; short-sleeve shirts.
ankle or knee length drawers, in
white: three-quarter length, in ecru.
Subject to slight imperfections-
First Floor.
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Up to 81 Cameo Brooches,

Cameo brooches good assort-
mcnt of the most desirable medium
and large sizes: pretty cameo effects.
reproductions of the high-cost de-
signs; effective gold-plated mount
1nGe; wear guaranteed-EfHaf Elnnr
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Embroidery Flouncings,

Swiss Embroidery Flouncings, 27
inches wide: beautiful openwork,
hemstitched and baby ruffle effects:
pretty bold and neat patterns. First
Floor,
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35-inch Colored Chiffon Satin,
heavy rich satin face grade. all pure
silk. In every wanted street and
evening shade, also white and
black.
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Mems 85c to $1.OO Under
wear. 60c

wear, Oyc
Mems Balbriggan Underwear, the
famous Lawrence Mills make; of
gauge cotton and balbriggan; white
and ecru colors: short-sleeve shirts,
ankle-iength drawers with double
seat. These are termed seconds"
but the defects will not affect the
wear-Ffraf Fu00r
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Embroidery FlOuncings,

&c
Swiss and Cambria Embroidery
Flouncings, II inches wide; also cor
set cover embroideries with ribbon
beading edges. First Floor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

efficiency of the department is to be
destroyed or abused"
And in this matter Mayor Hylan
should be able to sympathizc with Mr..
Brown on one account at least. namely,
the difficulty Of dismissjng employees
is now experiencing the same difficulty
in proving charges, whether justly or
unjustly made, that Mr.. Brown en-
countered when he tried to eliminate
dishonest employees of his department.
And by the way, one of the Fulton
Market "fsh barons" recently volun
teered the statement that while the
Board of Health might be thought un-
necessarily severe in some cases, in
spectors no longer held out their hands
as they had under previous admins
trations. The inspectors were honest!
The successful fastening Of a graft
charge on food department is one Of
those consummations that may be
hoped for at any time. Every one
knows the many opportunities for graft
that exist. But in this case the charge
of graft, brought after every other
charge failed, is singularly unconvnc-
ing. Happily, the record of the present
Director of Food and Drugs is not such
as to offer much hope of a successful
campaign against him in this direction.
Lucius P. Browns two faults are that
he was not born in Brooklyn, or even
in New York, and that he is an expert.
overalls and who performs simple
tasks such as detecting food adultera-
ton and analysing drugs by scientific
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
DR.. Harris 8 Bureau
Favored by Workers

DR.. Harris's Bureau of Preventable
Diseases is the idol of the working
classes, and why not? 1t covers in
dustrial hygiene the SPECIAL protection
of the workingman from the dangers
OF his surroundings and labors. and the
providing of nurses in homes where
tuberculosis or other infectious dis
eases call for expert care that cannot
be afforded, and th& removal of the sick
for hospital care This bureau comes
indeed close to Mr.. Hylan's chosen
people, the working class, and they
know it.
James P. Boyle. former president of
the Brooklyn Central Labor Union.
which as body supported Hylan.
spoke vigorously:
Mayor Hylan's attempt to abolish
the bureaus is entirely unJustified. AS
a labor man | am most concerned over
the Bureau of Prevcntablc Diseases.
Tho Brooklyn Central Labor Union
supported Hylan in the campaign, en-
pecting him TO stand by the Health
Department. The Labor Sanitation
Conference induced the administration
last year TO appropriate over 100000
for this bureau, because it felt that
there was much work for it to do. I'm
der Dr.. Harris this bureau has grown
until it now occupies position of
great Importance, and working people
especially appreciate its work.
"But Hylan is not going to get away
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
Hylan Raid on Health Board
Stirs Up Storm of Criticism
Federal Public Health Officials
Declare Experts Are Necessary

XX7ASHINGTON, April 20surgeon the United
had passed when inferior could handle big
which confront Health Department officials
cialy trained sa could efficient said
I'm the present action that would
the efficiency Of local health certainly deplored
The efforts of all public health country
during have been the direction securing
trained and experienced men for the important health
work we'll trained and efficient laboratory
OF the essential factors city health
In the larger and industrial
lens their relation have constituted i'm
consideration than these production
along lines absolutely essential The
not only the fighting forces but the entire civil population
we'll, is a wartime problem of the greatest moment"
Surgeon General Goras the Army Corps his
example of the necessity striving
health of the ma
tons armies. He said
The policy of the Medical Corps has always surround the
general his with specially
qualified their special branches hygiene the high
est character attainabe
brought Department services of Dr.
Rosenau eminent sanitation New York
fortunate securing of great anment Dr.
example
"The general tendency the larger municipalities
specially public The day has
do the santa
ton public health science necessary"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

Another food veteran who con-
dennis Hylan's attack on the Health
Department in caustic terms is DR.. C..
F. Chandler, one of the most competent
Health Commissioners New York has
ever had. He called the proposed in
reference with the Board of Health
IAN outrage that should not be
tolerated." During his twelve years
service as president Of the Board of
Health, from 1872 to 1884, civil service
examinations for all employees were in
stituted, and politics were kept out Of
the Department.
"No language is too strong to de-
nounce Mayor Hylan's prospective i'll
declared Dr. Chandler. at should not
be tolerated. The removal of experts,
whose work has been so beneficial TO
the city, would not only be too alb
surd for words, but serious menace
to the efficiency of the Department.
If Mayor Hylan has his way the people
of New York City are bound to suffer
for it. 1t is too bad that an attempt
should be made to bring politics into
the Department to clog it's efficiency.
Strenuous efforts should be made to
make the Mayor keep his hands off
this perhaps most important of city
departments.
During my administration, when
Tammany was in its glory and the
city was run by some--well- daring
officials, no interference with the
Board Of Health was even attempted"
continued DR.. Chandler. "These men
did nearly everything else, but they
dared not force politics upon the
Health Department or dictate who
should and who should not be the
men in Office. We were immune from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

methods instead of through political
common sense"
Mr.. Brown was chosen by compcti-
tive examination out of sixty candi-
dates for his position. He had been
Tor seven years Il militant Food Com
missioner Of Tennessee in the pioneer
days of the movement and was reap.
pointed by Democratic, Fusion and Re-
publican governors alike. At frs. the
state food service there was lodged in
his own private laboratory and CON
Quoted with an appropriation Of 81 900
yearly for expenses. At last he wag
enforcing the food law, two liquor laws,
an anti-narcotic law and the weights
and measures statute Yet with all
this opportunity to observe him no
enc in Tennessee or anywhere else dis
covered any instinct for graft in Or.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

with it. Workers generally recognize
mat he has been listening 10 io' "
taxpayers bunk. The bureaus OF ',ie
Health Department are all vital TO 'as
interests Of the workers
John F. Cough.in, president Of the
Brooklyn Central Labor Union. SAID
Nothing doing on secret hearings.
The public has right to know ]uss
what is happening. Until | know las
facts can express no opinion on Nay,
Hylan's action, and the Central Lapv'
Union takes the same stand. The UNION
mas been trying 10 get the facts, pu'
without success. SO far as my eApe.'-
once goes the bureaus are very SAFE
factory. They are doing good WORK
samuel Squibb. OF the lnternatiohS'
Granite Cutters, said:
Il am not in favor of Mayor hyisn
proposal TO abolish the bureaus, W.
so lar as the work of the bureaus %
concerned, | can speak for only one.
mat conducted by Dir, Harris, Iof!hs
~ the Bureau OF Industrial Hyelsall,
but now the Bureau of Prevensao''
Diseases.
II am whole heartcdly in symts;s
thy with DR.. Harris, and | thihh ~
work is entitled to the highest pfa.s.s.d
The only man approached who sesmr M
ignorant on the subject ana hsu .;,h
opinion to express was Alfred T. on".~
president OF the Board OF AldeI's asont
Pm not going to say anything a snnt
it, said Mr.. Smith. because The
know anything about it. nav > haut
use of asking me TO say anythihs I
something ] know nothing aoous ,,;,h
don't want to have anything to DO w.
it," .ny
Neither do we. Neither does .A III
ore interviewed. Neither. we ' Wf
will Mr.. Hylan want to have any, .;sr
to do with it on further considefss'S-,,s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

spected and pasteurized milk at
70 cents quart, but those who
have little money will live or die
according as they are protected by
public health work or given over
to the results of .careiessness and adul.
teratiOn.
"The first really effective inspection
OF milk was started in 1901. Milk
controls the summer death rates Of
infants. During August, 1905. there
were 1862 deaths Of infants, which
means n rate Of 228 per 1000 popu-
lation; in August, 1917, there were
1854 deaths--alratc of 1927 per 1000
population. II We 20 back to the
methods of twenty years ago, think
how the babies will die In August of
1881"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

all interference and did our work har-
moniously, selecting and employing the
best men we could find for the various
bureaus"
DR.. II. M. Painter, Of the Collcre
of Physicians and Surgeons, pays trib
ute, too, to the achievements of this
department.. He says: "As far as the
city health is affected by foods and
markets. Lucus P. Brown has inaupu-
rated Il now era. Everything he has
done ia new. and everything he has
done is needed, and doubly needed in
the war emergency. The rich az pro-
tecte, in II measure. from the results
of adulteration and carelessness in food
inspection by the high priced dealers
who serve them, but the large major
ity OF the population arc dependent
upon what is done for them by the city
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

Brown or any reluctance on his part
to uncover iniquity in his department
Perhaps this only proves how slow
they are in Tennessee, or else how
lard the Mayor has had to hunt to
find an excuse for attacking a depart
ment of health that stands first in the
United States, and perhaps in Europe
as WE'LL for its record of progress, SER
vice and scientific attainment.
1t IS perhaps in the inspection of
milk that the Food Bureau now under
fire of the Mayors big gun has won
its most signal victory. In this work
it cooperates with the Bureau of Child
Hygiene and its fifty-nine milk stations
to lower the death rates Of little ones
in New York, and shares with it the
proud record that shows a reduction
in deaths of babies of 26 per cent for
the last five years, as compared with
the preceding five. This one piece of
work should save the Food Bureau if
it had no other claims.
Every mother anchors to the advice
Of Dr. L. Emmett Holt. His little
green book on the care and feeding of
children is the Baedeker of the home.
This veteran child specialist-directo
of the Babies Hospital and Professor
of Pediatrics at Columbia-pays his
respects to Mayor Hylan's plan in
these words:
eff the Bureau of Foods and Drugs
is interfered with and the inspection
of milk relaxed the poor mans child
will die next summer. The children
of the rich will be given specially in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
Cost Would
Be Multiplied

In any event, it must be clear that
the work performed by bureaus is es-
sential. The result, therefore, of any
attempt to perform it along borough
lines must inevitably be not to effect
an economy, but to multiply that cost
five times.
"Thc work of the Department of
Health is charged with too vital a duty
to be made the object of political COM
promise or Cancellation such as is in
volved in the cry for borough auton-
omy"
! But these are all the opinions of ox-
perts-and experts do not stand HIGH
with Mayor Hylan. He was chosen
especially to represent the working
class and the working class hereto
fore seem vigorously to have supported
nm; But they were most emphatic in
condemning his proposed action in the
matter of the Board of Health.
=. G. Ryblcki, 4 we'll known Labor
leader and member of the executive
committee OF the Labor Sanitation Con
terence OF Greater New York, speaks
first:
II am very much disappointed at this
contemplated change in the Health De-
partNent by Mayor Hyian," says Mr.
Rybicki, after what he promised be.
fore his election, the men of the labor
unions Of New York voted for uylan
practically to man. and if he makes
the changes in the Board of Health he
seems to be going to make they will be
greatly disappointed in him.
I'm view OF tho recent apportionmcn
of over 100000 for the Labor Sanita'
ton Conference to better working con.
ditions of the working people, We arc
very much surprised that the Mavo,
would consider the abolition of the very
bureaus that are doing such good worj,
along these lines. 1t is imperative that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
Programme of Work
Service and Play

And they are not contented with
merely making airplanes. In their
spare moments they run their Red
Cross units, sell bonds and thrift
stamps. roll bandages and knit. There's
4 social service department for the
girls. the programme of which includes
dancing, baseball and parties, but these
things suffer if there's war JOB on
hand, whether it's official STANDARD
work or not. This unwritten law ap'
plies to the girls of the clerical force
as we'll as to the factory workers, ana
the president of the corporation is still
proudly telling the story of certain
Sunday in February when the clerics
girls worked cheerfully all day and al al
night through to get out the months
report for the men waiting for 1t down
at Washington.
There are those who say that ar
planes aren't coming forth fast enough
that the air programme is much pc.
hind in the United states, but so isf
no one has blamed it on the girls thse
make the machines. And nobody neeos
TO, for even a Senator would be IN
pressed if he should iaunt out to ti'3.
abeth some day and see them at theh
work. They may not wear silk stoes,,
lngs, but they're on the job, aio
greater love for his country has no man
than this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
SkiNul "Airesses in New jersey
Towns Busy With Wings and
Framework for War Machines

1t might be supposed that thai.
workers In the newest of war indus.
tries, producing the craft for the mo,,
picturesque service in the war h.y.
romantic sense of their job that the
woman who turns out shells or cor
trldges might lack. There is a noam
dedicated to the "airess" which asts
her. impertinently enough, what she il
thinking about with those biz h,ne
eyes, and which surmises that the
aforementioned eyes are following the
flight of the plane against the French
sky, and so on. But the aero girls at
Elizabeth and Plainneld have not time
to stop and consider the romantic AZ.
poets of their job. They're too busy,
they say, to do anything in the nine.
hour day but work.
A certain taffy-haired Hedwie. for
example, was asked why she chose to
work at Elizabeth.
II wanted yob," she said simply.
and turned to her propeller again.
Also She Wore
An American Flag
On her apron was tiny American
flag, however, that belied the stolid
materialism of her reply. Hedwig had
wanted job, it was discovered later,
but her brother had read about the air
service and recomm ended the factory
to Hedwig.
Might as well be helpin' some," she
lad agreed, and gone into it.
Most of the girls making airplsnes
are doing it because they wanted Job,
too. They did not flock to the Stand
ard to the notes of martial music ap.
plying for work in the name of patriot
ism. Some of them came because they
lived near by and the trip was an easy
and pleasant one. Some of them liked
the Si1 or s13 or SIS that the factory
offered. Some drifted in because the
plant was new and shiny and they were
sick Of their old tiresome Jobs in their
old dark rooms. And for all these
reasons they are entering the plant
every day, and as the president Of the
corporation says he'll take all the CON-
petent girls he can get. they're likely
to keep on entering ali summer long.
Once in. they do not roll their eyes
and talk about their country in solemn
tones. They simply sit down with the
needle or the hammer or the brush and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

taxing of its effectiveness at this time
would be deliberate counting of cpl
denies of scarlet fever, meningitis,
measles. pneumonia and tuberculosis,
especially in view of the fact that New
ork is now point of embarkatlon
ana an concentratlon for large numbers
OF soldiers and sailors from all parts
of the country.
New York s Health
Department Famous -
The one thing for which, through
out all its changes Of administration,
New York has been consistently famous
is the work of its Department of
Health, not only as a department of
health, but as centre for scientific
research and the treatment Of individ-
ual diseases specially diphtheria,"
said DR.. Henry Mcmahon Painter. "And
scientific research and its results have
done more for the poor than can ever
be told. If the Health Board had not
maintained it's laboratories the chill
dren Of tho poor never could have had
cultures taken to learn whether they
had diphtheria, and to prevent their
spreading it among others If the
Health Board had not made and dis
tributed antitoXins free of charge it
would have been impossible to save
the sick and immunize the we'll from
this terrible disease"
The city needs the most careful and
the most expert regul atory inspection
and supervision in order to prevent a
possible echo of the poliomyclitis cpl
demic of two years ago. .aid Major
Harold l.. Emoss, of the Rockefeller
Institute. "The Health Departm mt rem
dered efficient service in this respect
last summer with the most gratifying
results and it would be fatal. indeed,
to relax this supervision or ntrust it
to those not experienced or :rained
along this line.
with the return of our men from
the front, wounded or i'll from disease,
the supervision of the public health,
the safeguarding of the community
from epidemics, and the care of the
men themselves will tax our medical
organizations to the utmost 1t is the
time to extend and elaborate these, not
to destroy them
at is unquestionably fact that the
trainers of the Board Of Health charter
in 1898 believed that public health
work gould be administered along geo.
graphical borough lines" said Leonard
M. Wallstein: Commissioner of Ac-
counts for the City of New York.
'Fortunately, however, the language
used in The charter did not prohibit
the more efficient administration OF the
board upon a basis of functional organ
ization. This has been the legal opin-
ION, am told of two corporation coun-
sells OF New York City