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Large Percentage Of Children
Found With Defective Eyes

children is being given attention.
adding:
There is such a large proportion
of school children with defective
vision that every possible effort
should be made to discover those who
are needlessly Handicapped and to
bring the matter forcibly to the at
tention of parents"
Only a Few Have Glasses.
The report emphasizes as most strik-
ing that but small proportion of chill
dren with very poor vision were wear
ing glasses to improve their sight.
Among the older children, Il to 16 years
OF age, only % per cent OF those need
ing glasses had them. Only 100 per
cent of the 925 children with vision five
tenths or less were wearing glasses.
A large proportion of girls were wear
ing glasses than boys. Only % per cent
of the children with such poor vision
as three-tenths or less in both eyes
were wearing glasses and only 10 per
cent of those with three-tenths vision
or less in one eye and good vision in
the other had glasses to aid the vision
of the poor eye. Still lower proportions
provided with glasses were found in
groups with less severe defects.
Such conditions are deplorable,"
dren handicapped with poor vision be
expected to keep up with their classes
and gain the education which is right
fully theirs?'
The council advocates regular pc
riodic examination of the eyes of all
school children at least once each year.
Children 1t was asserted, should be
taught how to care for their eyes, AMI
all conditions conducive to eyestrain
should be corrected
Attention should be given to the
natural and artificial lighting of class
rooms. Shades should be provided at
all windows to control the light. Desk
tops should be dull finished to eliminate
glare; blackboards should be placed
where they will receive good light; the
type In books should be clear and large
in order to avoid eyestrain.
These are some of the more important
things that can be done to conserve the
eyes OF our future citizens"
Evening star., 1925-01-18
ny DREW PEARSON.

''Why does the world hate American"
I put the question to Victor Murdock
of Kansas. t'Why Is it that though we
have spent millions to feed the chill
dren of Europe our motives are called
selfish? Why, after helping to win
the war and straighten out the tan
giles of Europe, should we alone be
blamed for her chaos? Why do Euro
pean editors berate US, Asiatic speak
ers denounce us and South American
business men discriminate against
usT
fred these questions at Victor
Murdoch not merely because he has
poked about into almost every coun-
try of the world, but because, above
ali. he knows the United States.
Murdoch of Kansas, after a number
of brilliant terms in Congress, de-
serted the House to become chairman
of the Federal Trade Commission.
Murdock was the Federal Trade Com
mission He lived 1t, loved 1t and
built it up. A few months ago he
resigned to return to Kansas and
edit his paper.
'victor," as folks cali him out in
Kansas, Admitted that the worlds
Evening star., 1925-01-18
Is the Male In Retreat?
BY IDA NJ. TARBELL.

Are there any signs of masculine
hegira there? l have known factories
half emptied of men because of the
coming of women And it is certain
that woman has largely driven men
from behind the counters Of the dry
goods stores. / can remember when
woman was a rarity there. But
with her coming man has moved on
into the aisles-a floor walker to keep
her in order
But is this anything to worry
about? 1 do not think so. 1 am in
clined to believe that so far as in
dustry and business are concerned
this replacement is bound to be a
splendid exchange-for the man.
Take the clerical world. What
business, after all. has a man to be a
clerk? Study the type of creature
produced by the foreign bureaucra-
cies-countries where classes are
fixed, stable things, not as with us in
constant fux. I have heard intelli-
gent Frenchmen wall over the de-
struction of masculine virility that
life in the bureau causes in their
land. what do we get" they ex-
claim, but g. class OF intriguing, mud
dle-headed, spineless, flat-footed crea-
lures, their manliness destroyed by
the work from which our habits max e
II Impossible lot Ine1n 10 escape! olC6
clerk always a clerk with u.s."
We have something of that kind
here-not so bad because we have not
enough of that fatal thing that peo-
pie call "class consciousness" to make
us afraid to take a plunge. The pub
lie here applauds the plunge which,
under a highly classified civilization,
is deplored as treason to your class.
Benefits From Pushing.
And now here comes the woman. in
vading the bureaucracies, the cleri-
cal world.
Say what you will. It does not ruin
her femininity. She makes q better
clerk than he when she settles to the
business. She Is exact. She Is punct-
ual. She liz orderly. There Is no inva-
sion of her natural powers. Let her
push him out. Nothing could be bet
ter for him.
And he is needed. Take the cry of
industry today for men-men for the
building trades, factories, the land
for men that bring brains as well as
muscle. A man can use of all him
self struggling with machines, work
ing with the land, building things
If we are going to keep our immi-
grafton down, order our industry so
that 1t will go on month in and month
out, regardless of seasons, build and
develop as we are called to build and
develop, we need the clerks.
Shove them out and let the women
take their places. Give women the
white collar Jobs" Let man escape
before he Is too softened, too deterio-
rated to dare the harder things.
Woman has saved man more than
once in the history OF the world. 1t
may turn out that this invasion of his
preserves which he SO instinctively
resents will again save him-save
him from softness, degeneracy, the
detestible thing that the white col
lar Job" so often makes.
(CoDyriEht. 1924.l
Evening star., 1925-01-18
THE PASSING SHOW In POLITICS

He was sponsor for the political career OF
Gov. Alfred e. Smith, and Gov. Smith in pay
ing tribute to him said: my personal and po-
iitcal welfare was much of concern to
him as though I were his own SON" In COM
menting upon the death Of Mr.. Foley. poll
ticians say that with his going some Of the
romance and adventure of Tammany politics
has passed.
The "drys" in the New York Legislature
have lost the first round in their battle to
drive through strict State prohibition en-
forcement law. They had counted upon the
Republicans holding a caucus and getting be-
hind the bill to shove it through George K.
Morris, Republican State chairman, after con-
ference at Washington with Senator Wads-
worth and a number of the New York dele
cation in the House. advised the Republican
leaders in the Legislature not to attempt to
force by the caucus method any Republican
State Senator to abandon his own conviction
the enforcement question to support the
legislation proposed by the "drys." This
decision is expected to be the end of agitation
upon the subject
X X
Only a few days than six weeks
main before this Congress expires, with its
voluminous record of legislation, and the
statesmen on the Hill are exerting every
effort to obviate extra session of the new
Congress through the failure OF any of the
appropriation bills. Their efforts bid fair to
be successful and Washington is likely to
face a long dry Now, that is what
the writer's say at the end Of nearly
every short session, and yet somehow It gem
orally falls out that news will keep on break
ing in other branches of the Government
in International affairs, that the click of
the typewriter and the telegraph instrument
still is heard in the land.
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More Spiritual and Cultural
PROGRESS Held Needed In u. S

opinion of America was none too
complimentary, and then proceeded
In his quaint but forcefu1 language
to explain why.
Dislike Our Power.
1--WE have become the most power
full nation in the world" he said,
land nobody loves an all-powerful
neighbor. People abroad compare us
to Rome, and predict that. like Rome,
we shall decay and fall to pieces.
IT'S worth thinking about-that
comparison. There is, you know, a
sort of pendulum that swings back
and forth and beats time for the
march of the ages. 1t swung to civil
lization's highest peak with the Ro-
man empire, then back to a long
black night, and now it is on swing
up again, to the greatest civilization
yet. We are 1t.
Rome was a great old empire, but
we have gone Rome few better in
some things. Had Horace lived to-
day he would have been syndicated.
And Livy would have run in the Sun
day supplements. Socrates was one
of those old kickers, a perpetual
crouch, who was always agin the
government. The chances are we
Evening star., 1925-01-18

OF approximately 1900 school
children undergoing vision tests con-
Quoted by the United States Public
Health Service, 81 per cent were
found to have defective eyes with
less than standard vision, according
to a statement by the Eyesight Con-
servation Council of America, which,
analyzing the results, calls such con-
ditions deplorable as constituting
neglect of eyesight in the Nations 5
schools.
one-tenth of the children examined
under the direction of DR.. Taliaferro
Clark, in charge of field investiga-
tions in child hygiene, had one-half
standard vision or less in one or both
badly in need of glasses, 1t was
pointed out, were provided with them.
The tests, part Of general physical
examination made by officers of the
Public Health Service, according to
a report of the service compiled by
Selwyn D. Collins, associate statisti-
clan, embraced 9,245 native white
children from to 16 years of age, in
four Eastern areas. Spartanburg,
s. C. and nearby villages; Frederick
County, Md; New Castle County, Della,
and Nassau County, n. Y. In addition,
2,535 white children underwent exam
ination in Cecil County, Md.
Only 90 Per cent Normal.
The results of the visual acuity
tests, made with standard test type,
include, it is stated, only the mani
fest defects These simple tests
showed that SO per cent of the chill
dren were normal in both eyes; 27
per cent were moderately defective,
and 10 per cent had only five-tenths
standard vision or less in one or both
eyes.
when separated according to age
says the statement of the Eyesight
Conservation Council, interpreting the
conditions revealed by the Public
Health Service, ''it was found that
the number of children with mark ed
defects Of vision at 16 years of age
was an increase of over four times
the number at years of age with
marked defects. There seems to be
but slight relationship between de-
fective vision and sex, although
there were more girls than boys with
moderately defective vision Also,
there were just about as many de-
fective right eyes as there were de-
fective left eyes.
EFT was shown that generally the
vision was approximately the same
in both eyes. but in many cases good
vision in one eye was found combined
with very poor vision in the other. "
The council, which is directing
nationwide effort for better vision
in education and industry, calls the
report prepared by Mr.. Collins
striking evidence of the limited ex-
tsnt to which the eyesight of school
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n to follow where man goes.
NV But is 1t equally true that
v he goes when she arrives?
I have friends in co-edu-
cational colleges who tell me that is
| what is happening in their field. The
men are leaving the humanitarian
and cultural courses to the girls.
They are f1ocking into engineering,
| chemistry, mechanics, science in gen.
eral. My own observations, limited,
to be sure, confirm those OF my col
lege friends
Last commencement 1 watched the
degrees given in one of our small
colleges. For the Bachelor of Arts,
woman after woman, but only a
sprinkling of men; for Bachelor OF
Science, man after man, scarcely a
woman. The onlookers, those more
or less responsible for the direction
of the institution, grew restless.
whispered to one another, What
| does 1t mean?' Are men abandoning
| the humanities?"
Two Reasons Assigned.
They put the question to the dean.
Yes" he came back, there Is no
doubt about It. And there are two
reasons The first founded on prac-
tical calculation; the second. mascu-
line instinct.
Boys seek that which will give
them the best send-of when they
leave college. They figure that the
| training and equipment of the scien-
tff1c courses are more useful in the
modern world than that they get In
| the academic courses.
But that Is not all. They are look
| ing for a place in the world where
the upper stages are still untnvaded
| by woman. AS mass, they insttnc-
lively run from woman. They NY the
pursuit they feel in her constant
presence.
Then there Is pride. The girls take
the majority OF the prizes here. In
some of our best fellows see an IN
clination not to compete with them
| They take no satisfaction in beating
girl. They will race with their
| fellows, but not with her.
know of another college, state
institution-well equipped for the
| teaching of languages, of literature
or history But the men call these
sissy courses" and flock to engineer
| ing, mechanics, chemistry, econom-
ics-these things are male!
There is a group in this place that
refuses to read outside of the tough
textbooks. Reading is somethins
soft, ana the man WHO pei oiSIS III
| literary and philosophtc studies has
| often a hard time in making the fra
| ternities. He is a Sissy
"skirts"-"queens"- for them!
Like 10 or not, this is what we are
| getting, and while the practical ma
ture of the worlds call has much to
do with 1t, the desire Of the mass to
escape the woman is partially re-
sponsible.
| Flock to Business World.
But how about the business and in
| dustrial life of today into which
| women are fiocking in such numbers
Evening star., 1925-01-18
LOYAL to Alfonso.

With the object of demonstrating
their loyalty to the King and their
adherence of the anti-Spanish cam
paign which is being conducted
abroad, the central committee of
Spanish Catholics has decided that
Catholics in the provinces shall, on
January %, the fete day of the King,
send kilograms or visiting cards to
his majesty, and that Catholics in
Madrid shall likewise sign their
names in the visiting book ut the
royal palace on that day.
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v VI YOMEN can be depended upon
to follow where man goes.
NV But is 1T equally true that
he goes when she arrives?
hava friends cn-edu-
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CONTINUED on Third Page.l
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(Consinusd on Third Pags.s
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. by FRANK H. sTMoNDs.

p@ HE recent and continuing
crisis in Italy, the reversion Of
Mussolini to his earlier method
of force-these circumstances
Evening star., 1925-01-18

The murder of Matteoti. the ac-
counts of which have for weeks filled
the foreign dispatches, was for Mus
soIini a deadly injury. 1t was beyond
debate the work Of some of his fol-
lowers. 1t was not alone indefens-
ihle in itself, but it outraged the
sense of the nation which was now
eager to pass from the first stage
of recovery to the later condition of
health, of peace, Of order
And this murder gave to the
hitherto silent opposition it's first
legitimate and advantageous basis for
attack. The problem was no longer
the salvation of Italy from that chaos
ana bolsheviEm into which 1t had
been sinking before the Fascist came
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40 great have been the achieve
ments of Charles Evans Hughes
in the European field of inter
- national activity during his
term as Secretary of State that
Evening star., 1925-03-20
WESTERN B0WLERS
ARE HOLDING SWAY

BUFFALO,, N Y, March 20.-West-
ern bowlers Will predominant on the
tournament alleys for five-man games
of the American Bowling Congress
here tonight, there being teams from
Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Peoria,
Waukegan, Dayton, Cicero and ke-
nosha, Wis.
Bowling yesterday was featured by
the single performance of Anthony
Herman of Detroit, who took third
place with a score of 694
A flve-man team also was placed
among the 10 high, the Elks of Louis
Vile, KY, scoring q total of 2,S74
pins.
There was nothing in the two-man
event to disturb the standing of lead
ers, total of 1,21S pins by Bauer
and Allen of Detroit being high for
the day. Bauer also took a place
among the 10 high in all-events with
1872
Evening star., 1925-03-20
DEPARTMENTAL LOOP
TO MEET ON MONDAY

Teams of the Departmental League
are meeting on Monday night at SpaI-
ding's store for an election of officers
and organization of the base ball loop.
Managers Of mines representing Ag-
riculture, Treasury, Government
Printers, Bureau of Engraving, Reg
listers, Veterans Bureau, Justice, Post
Office and Naval Hospital are espe-
cially requested to attend. Others in
terested in joining the league will be
welcomed.
A. ID. Evans has been reelected
president of the Government Base
Ball League. w. r. Hendley has been
named vice president and B. B. Bar
rett secretary and treasurer.
ton, scheduled for Sunday morning.
has been Cancelled, the Herzl base ball
team will go through a workout on
the Monument grounds.
Tom De Nell. manager of the Glen
Echo nine, has called practice for
Sunday morning at 1890 on the Glen
Echo field. The team will be entered
in the Montgomery County loop.
knnawhas. who are entering the un-
limited ranks this season, will prac-
tice at Seventh and o streets on Sun
day morning. Reds Schafer is coach
ing the squad
Manager Givens of the Washington
Barracks sluggers is scheduling
games at Main S771. Branch l.
Former members of the Lehigh base
ball team are meeting tonight at 707
Allison street. Manager Roger Simp-
son is booking games.
Games with the Bloomingdale Mid
gets may be arranged at North 1924
Candidates have been called out for a
meeting at % Adams street tonight.
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caught Peck's loft, but came in when
Ruel singled
Two more National runs were reg
istered in the fourth frame. Goslin
singled. Judge walked and the bases
were filled when the pitcher, after
fielding McNallys bunt, failed to get
Goslin at third. Hill hit Peck, fore
ing Goose across the plate Judge
tailed while Peck and Ruel were be-
ing erased in a double play.
Buck Schemanske. a right-hander,
who was tried by the Nationals two
years ago, faced the world champions
from the fifth through the seventh
innings. and in his last round was
found for a run. Matthews, pinch
batting for Kelley, singled and got
home when Harris doubled to right
center.
Indianapolis staged rally at
Brillhearts expense in the ninth to
get all its runs. Schmandt opened
the inning with a single and pilfered
second. Clarke flied to Rice, but
Schneider and Florence each doubled
to right. Then Brillheart famed
Pinch batter Kruger and Yeter.
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Furthermore, you will need a strong
arm if you fill the position of short
stop. Frequently you have long
throws to make to first base from
your deep territory. A weak arm is
damaging handicap on such plays.
Unless you can whip the ball across
the. diamond fast and true You will
miss many men who ought to be re-
|, tired.
In this connection l would advise
all youngsters to learn to throw ac-
curately to all bases, and particularly
to first. A fast peg that doesn't go
true to the mark is oftentimes more
damaging than slow throw that
misses the runner. If your throw is
wild, remember, a runner, or run
ners, Will likely take an extra base.
A steady, sure throw is the thing
for which to strive. Try to time the
peg so that the ball will beat the
runner just stride. That margin Is
plenty big enough. Bear in mind
that it is better to take your time
and make the play this way than
it is to hustle the ball toward first
to nail the runner by a wide margin
and perhaps make a wild throw.
Good shortstops rarely ever retire
the runner by more than a stride.
L
the play slow and sure than to hurry
and miss the runner altogether ,wo
or three times out of five.
Shortstops like Peckinpaugh, Scott
and Bancroft always make the throw
this way. Playing against such men.
a runner often thinks that If he had
put on just bit more speed he
would have been safe. But a good
shortstop judges the pace of the man
going down, the speed at which the
ball comes to him, and knows just
how much time he has to spare. He
keeps the margin slight, but safe.
The shortstop has to be a more
accurate thrower than the second or
third baseman. If either of the lat
ter makes a bad throw to first the
man covering that position still has
a chance to take the ball and get
back to the bag to retire the runner.
But If the shortstop pulls the first
sacker off the base, the play is gan
orally so close that the runner is
safe. This is invariably true of
throws from deep short.
On such plays, of course. the short
stop hasn't much time to deliberate.
1t is then that he must get the ball
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away fast and true If youngsters
will take their time in making throws
when it is possible for them to do
so with safety they will find that
they instinctively get the range after
a time. Then, when they have to-
they can cut loose and still make an
accurate throw.
The point | am trying to make for
beginners especially is this: Never
hurry a throw unless you have to.
Practice constantly at getting a true
range on first from all positions in
your territory. When you achieve
this you will be less likely to make
bad throws when you have to get
the ball away fast.
Ihe youngster starting to play
shortstop will do we'll to practice
| throwing the ball from all sorts of
positions. These will seem very
| awkward when he breaks in. But he
must stick to his job If he is to sue
ceed. The shortstop. in reality, is the
circus thrower, so to speak, OF a ball
team. He is called upon to make
many plays when In and out of posi-
tion.
This is one of the chief reasons why
a loose -jointed youngster has a de-
cided advantage over a stiff-legged
youth when they are both candidates
lOI the pldCe between second ana
third bases. He can get after balls
better and get down to them easier.
What is even more important, he will
cover a lot more ground.
You may have plenty of speed and
still not make a good showing as a
more loose-jointed rival. Unless d
shortstop knows how to use his speed
it will prove more of a liability than
an asset. There is such a thing as
rushing a ball too much. Speed has
to be checked according to the play.
A loose -jointed youth has the fac
ulty Of pulling up quickly as well as
making a fast break.
Tomorrow: What Fielding Means
to the Shortstop."
Copyright. 1925. by Current News Features.
Incl
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When Walter Rehg was trapped off
first base by a throw from Brillheart
to Judge, Walter Hodapp tried to go
from second to third. But, with the
entire infield closing in, Hodapp was
forced to return to the middle sack.
Rehg, too, was there and Harris
touched both runners. You're out,
Walter" said Umpire Rowland, mean
ing Rehg, not knowing Hodapp's first
name, but Hodapp stepped off the bag
apd was retired promptly by Harris.
Manager Harris liked Bush's pitch
ing talent. He got two singles and a
two-bagger in five trips to the plate.
Hodapp, with three blows in four
trials, led the indianapolis batters.
Paul Florence, former Georg etown
University athlete, caught for In
dianapolis. He was unable to hit as
hard as he used to hit for the Blue
and Gray.