Evening star., 1922-12-13
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Vice President Marshall smilingly an
tered where he used to work" and
the page looked blank.
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Fat men make too conspicuous tar
gets. and an order has been issued in
the Army that all officers must re-
duce excess corpulency. The eur.
geons declare that fat is due 20 igno.
rance Of health rules and lack Of
exercise. and it interferes with en-
cheney. Weight is to be reduced
systematically. under direct super.
vision OF the surgeons. Former Pres,.
dent TAFT has demonstrated what sue.
cess can be accomplished in tha,
direction. for he Is no longer counted
among the over-corpulent.
THE Campbells are coming. Ho, ho.
Ho. ho!'
1t is not just Scotch Campbells that
are to arrive. but seventy-hve camele
which are TO come TO the great Almas
Temple Shrine assembling In Wash
ington next June. They are from Il
camel farm in California. and the
most significant part Of their appear
ance Is that they are not all going
back to California, but twenty-seven
VIII remain in Virginia, having been
sold to a farmer who proposes To
start camel ranch in the Old Doin:n-
1t is claimed that the farm, located
near Manassas. 1. well adapted I"
raising cameis, being very sandy and
Hy. Thus. perhaps. out Of the
eighteenth amendment sahara VIII
u o.
in supplying living advertisers of
cigarettes, and hair for artists
brushes. women's shawls and fine
dres. goods. The famous Mason"
goat nay also be raised with th.
Shriners camelS.
While il may seem TO one mr.
familiar With the possibilities OF rails
ing camels In America that the az
tempt can never result in substantial
commercial returns, there is another
side Of the experiment. We do intro
duce exotic plants and make sue
cess OF their reproduction in America;
the Department OF Agriculture Is
constantly at work along that impor
tant line of development. We import
and export bIooded live stock FOR
breeding purposes. The most con
spicuous example Of importing a nev
kind of stock is that OF reindeer.
brought into Alaska only two or three
decades ago. Today. Alaska has over
250. 600 reindeer and they are usefui
both for transportation and FOR meat
Two-thirds belong to native Alaskans
and one third to Laps and whites But
for that importation thousands OF
natives now would be starving or oh
jects Of government support. like the
Indians 1t is now planned to carry
n small herd of reindeer to Kodiak
Island, where natural grasses VIII
support large number.
With the Alaska illustration II IS
easy to conceive that camels, as well
as Angora goats and other imported
animals. may thrive and eventually
supplement the animal industries
with which We are more familiar.
II is a beautiful sentiment that is
expressed in a bin introduced in The
House by Representative WelS
Goodykoontz of West Virginia. IL
provide a bugler for every American
cemetery in France. for the purpose
of having him sound taps" every
night. in memory Of Americas world
war dead. Perhaps the sentiment is
too impractical for this material age.
but it appeals to the heart, for there
is no strain so sweet and weird az
the long-drawn sadness OF taps.
But even taps" would lose Its sig
nificance TO the hearers in France.
after awhile. for only those who have
listened to it in the environment OF
war can understand its message.
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To a layman ii is surprising
statement OF DR.. William c. Fowler.
District health officer. that more
people Of the District die Of heart
disease than OF any other ailment. The
rate amounts to 152 per 1000 popula-
ton. He therefore asks for funds for
the establishment Of a heart clinic. TO
be contributed by public-spirited
donors. 1t is found that one in every
fifty children in school has defective
heart If such as have bad hearts
know their own condition they may
so regulate their lives as to live for
years, whereas overstrain would be
serious and probably suddenly fatal.
There are no funds available for such
clinic here, but in other large cities
much good has been accomplished
through such means.