Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-12
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

fallen heir to its fee simple? The
people over whom the good bishop
presided were 10000 savages; their
descendants and heirs are less than
lo0 5enighted fishermen who own"
the Titan.
y
Surgeon General Hugh s. Cumming
of the United States Public Health
Service predicts time when we shall
all cease to eat. as we do now, meat
and vegetables. but shall take a tiny
tablet and, swallowing II, call it
meal. He says that by dehydrating
foods we can reduce their bulk 20 per
, cent. Some foods can be condensed
even more. Milk, which is one of our
most nutritious foods. Is .about IS per
cent water-and that is no reflection
on the dairyman and his pump.
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Who wants to take a pill instead of
dining on q six recourse repast? What
gossip and sociability can be in
spired by a tablet? Away with your
science; we demand characterization
in digestion. When the body shall
have habituated itself to pill meals,
saving freight by having meals pre-
pared in the laboratories close to the
fields. as Edison advises all coal to be
burned at the mines, making gas and
electricity-why, what will become
Of our atrophied teeth and atrophied
stomachs? Where will dentists and
stomach specialists go for their liveli-
nood? We shall indeed be sans
teeth, sans stomachs sans everything.
Is that Cumming or going?
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DIR. Cumming says that when that
time comes. the women will not have
to cook, and they will have time to
attend to other duties and pleasures
few days ago, a feminist announced
that in few years women will be
doing the business of the world and
men Will stay at home and do the
cooking. Perhaps IL would be "a bit
ter PHI to have to eat what the men
TO make it all pill, and let 1t go
at that.
The congratulations of the entire
public are given to Howard Univer-
sity, upon its success in oversubscrib-
ing the necessary $3.50 900 with which
to make effective the other s25o,O0O
endowment offered by the General
Education Board. The total S515 900
Will be used in the medical section
for preparing colored physicians-a
much needed work of education.
1t Is noteworthy that the death
rate amongst colored people is nearly
double that of the whites. A great
advance can be accomplished in san
itation, and in educating colored peo-
pie in proper care of both children
and adults TO preserve health. Such
educational work will be accom-
plished best through the Increased
number of colored doctors.
One characteristic of Secretary of
the Interior Work is his accessibility
at all times. That appears to be the
spirit of democracy; the public official
is the servant. not the master of
| the public, according to the Secre-
tary. He. therefore, cannot properly
bar his master from access to him, as
he will. Secretary Work has issued
an order to all government employees
in his Jurisdiction. all over America,
that the word private" upon their
doors Is an offense and must be re-
moved. Managers Of projects of de-
velopments are advised to call fire.
quent conferences of local parties
interested, and to make prompt ad-
just of complaints.
Secretary Works own office door is
never closed.
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II any one can look into the faces
of the boys and girls singing IN the
street songfests CT Georgetown and
| not smile at the eagerness and vim
of the singers, he must be fit for
treasons. strategems and spoils" 1t
is worth a million dollars a minute
just to see the faces; what is It
worth to hear the joy-noise? The
inventor Of street sings is a patriot
| and a builder of better humanity,
whose service deserves a medal AS
Napoleon said about a parade or sham
battle: It's magnificent, but it's not
war" so one may say of the street
sings, They are glorious in their
influence on good citizenship, no mat
ter whether they make pure music
or jazz" When will tired business
men relax downtown for half-hour
street singing? Wouldn't they find
the wheels of commerce oiled by the
! relaxation and good fellowship?
Copyright. 1923. by p. V. ColIins)