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Evening star., 1925-05-31
ITALIAN CIVIL SERVICE
JOBS ARE ENDANGERED
New Bill Under Consideration
May Cause Summary Dismissal
of Government Employees.

BY Radio to The Star and New York World.
ROME. May 30.-Rocco. keeper of
the royal seal has presented to the
government a bill which will revolu-
tionize Italy's civil service system
and abolish the present system of
permanent state officials. 1t is easy
to imagine the state of panic caused
by the bill among the thousa nds of
acolytes burning incense at the altar
of red tape and leading the most
sheltered lives until so birthdays give
them. automatically, pension.
The bills leading clause presents
the worst blow:
Until the end of December. 1926.
the Kings government may dispense
with the services of those function
aries agents and employees of any
civil or military rank, il these show,
outside of their offices. proof of d lack
of loyalty toward the government S
general policy. Dismissals will be
pronounced by royal decree on pro
poSals by competent ministers.
The bill provides that in the cases
of employees of the army. navy and
air force, magistrates or university
professors. there must be examination
by the cabinet council before any final
decision concerning dismissal is
reached. Dismissed employees will be
entitled to d pension if they have
served minimum of 10 years.
Others will get special bonuses on a
sliding scale.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-05-31

Foreign Wars of the District of Co.
lumbia will meet in the National Guard
Armory, 472 l. street northwest, next
Wednesday evening. Every member
of the staff is urged to be present
Chairman Ernest Wickstrand of the
department Buddy poppy committee
has announced that every post in the
department went over the top in the
recent poppy drive, and a final report
would be made at this meeting
The department excursion will also
be discussed and arrangements started
1t is expected that the excursion to
Chesapeake Beach will he he'd or
June 8.
Final arrangements viii be made for
the department encampment, 10 be
held June %. % and @7. The Military
Order of the Cootie will meet July %.
Service Club.
Among those who have registered
book at the Service Club. 21S-220 Third
street northwest are Mrs. Jenny NJ.
Sauls, "A Todd place northeast, repre-
senting the War Mothers: J. p.
Turner of Bernard Schlagel Post.
American Legion, West Chester. Pa:
= Ak
place, Clarendon, Va, and II. II. d.
Sterrett. Washington, D. c.
The funeral of Miss Claire Nelson,
second neutenanC in the Nurses Cu.,,-,
L. S. A., was held at the club Monday
afternoon. Miss Nelson died May 10
in San Francisco, Calf, of d sabilities
contracted during her Army service
which included nearly four years with
the American eNpeditionary forces
in France and with the Army of oc-
cupation in Germany. She was
brought here to be buried in the Ma
tional Cemetery at Arlington.
deputation from the club went
Thursday with members of the Ameri-
can Legion and American Legion
Auxiliary to Whitewater, Va, TO assist
IN decorating the grave of the late DR.
Kate Waller Barrett, former national
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary, and also founder OF the
cluh.
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Veterans of Great War

Senior Vice Comdr. +. A. Pierce. Off
Ger of Day G. II. Forester, Quarter.
master Gunnar Statsberg. Past
Comdrs. George j. Neuner and Joseph
B. Gardella; department poppy com
mittee, Ernest Wickstrand. Abe
Grubb. Michael Guriffree Christian
Schieble. Everett Miller, II. q. Will
Members present-Ladies' Auxiliary:
President Mrs. Margaret Lid
stone, Senior Vice President Mrs Mae
Cotter. Secretary AIRS. Elsie Miller and
Conductress Mrs. Gertrude Clark. The
entertainment committee announced
that all arrangements for holding the
sixth annual excursion and field day
at Marshall Hall August I were com
pleted and tickets were on hand for
distribution. The On-to-Tulso Club is
perfected and several letters received
from various hotels announcing their
rates will be turned over to Past
Comdr. Val \. Brandon, chairman on
transportation. at next post meeting.
The presence of all members of the
regular meeting of the post next Fri
day for consideration of new bylaws
is requested. Joseph r. Gardella
chairman recruiting. announced that
another large class of recruits will be
presented for muster. and expects fur
liiel ietoI dtloHS be given 10 llenlpSTS
bringing in the greatest number dur
ing the month of May.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of National
Capital Post was the guest of Mrs.
Ena Allen Wednesday night at her
residence, 90 l. street northeast. at Il
five hundred card party. Auxiliary
officers present We're: Mrs. Margaret
Lindstone, president; Mrs. Mae Cot
ter vice presidents. Mrs Katherine
Barrack. Mrs. Laura Weaver, junior
vice president; Mrs. Gertrude Clark
Miss Helen Weaver and Mrs Mary
Grant
The Department of the Veterans of
Evening star., 1925-05-31
YOU AND UNCLE SAM
Series OF Educational Articles Telling Hoo Federal Couern
ment Is Organized and Hoo 1t Functions-W ritten
Expressly for school Children.
No. 58-The Worlds Greatest Medical Museum
and Library.

Uncle Sam has collected from all
over the world and assembled here in
the National Capital the greatest
medical museum and library in all
the world. The most of this material
is under the administration of the
War Department, and more directly
under the surgeon general.
This incalculabiy priceless treasury
of medical books, periodicals. original
papers by pioneers in medicine and
surgery. and LESSONS" or materials
illustrating diseases are stored and
made most readily available for study
to all the doctors of the country in
various of our Federal institutions.
There is the great Army medical
center. including the world famed
Walter Reed General Hospital. where
so many discharged disabled soldiers
OF the World War are receiving treat
ment as beneficiaries of the Veterans
Bureau.
There is the Army Medical Museum,
started 63 years ago, where an effort
has bA~n made 10 collect all the pa
biological specimens available for the
benefit of the medical profession, and
which is cooperating with every
physician in the country in an inten-
sive drive such as was never known
before in the history of the medical
profession to focus the entire medical
experience of the country TO overcome
the ravages of bone tumors.
There is the library of the surgeon
generals office. unmatched in all the
world, the only rival approaching any
where near it in wealth of material
being the medical library of the Uni
versity of Paris.
There is the anthropological collec-
tion in the National Museum Of the
Cy,it hn
sands Of skull. originally collected for
the Army Medical Museum by mill
tary officers of the Government scat
tered all over the world.
AS Col. w. o. Owen. L. S. A., re
tired, pointed out. such collections are
the lighthouse which indicates the
course the few have followed to sue
Evening star., 1925-05-31

botany. chemistry. entomology. animal
industry and food hygiene. This
library has some 500 900 index cards,
which are increasing in number at
the rate of about II 900 a year. 1t
receives some 5000 periodicals of
which a large number are medical.
In the Department of Commerce the
Bureau of Standards has large
scientific and technical library on
optics. X-ray. electricity, radium, etc,
all of great value to the medical pro
fession: and the Bureau Of Fisheries
has a large library on fish diseases,
fish foods. the method of preparation
and of preservation
The Bureau of the Census has an
extensive record Of disease, morbidity
and mortality rates.
The Department of Labor has col
lected many medical books and peri
odicals bearing especially on the
hygiene of labor. including care of
women and children employees.
The Public Health Service of the
Treasury Department has an impor-
tant library of the works devoted to
it's special branch of medical science.
The Navy Department also has
libraries for its medical department
and medical and dental schools.
The United States Hospital for the
Insane. st. Elizabeths. under the ad
miniStration of the Interior Depart
ment. has library of important data
on it's special branches Of medicine.
including many post-mortem and clini-
cal histories.
Howard University's medical and
dental schools and Freedman's Hos
pital also have valuable works of
reference.
The United States Bureau of Edu,
cation. looking after the hygiene of
schools and school children, has a
small but well chosen library on this
subject.
Other important libraries of medi-
cal books and pamphlets are available
in the United States Bureau of Mines,
the Pan-American Union. the National
Research Council, the medical schools
of Georgetown and George Washing
ton Universities, the Carnegie 1nsti-
tuition and the National Geographic
Society.
With this background of medical
lore and practice. the work of the
Army Medical Center, the Army Medi-
cal Museum, and the great medical
library of the Surgeon General of the
Army are unmatched in all
the world-will be described in sue
ceeding articles.
Copyright. 1925. by VIII p. Kennedy
The fifty ninth article in this series
will be on The Worlds Greatest
Medical Center" II will be printed
in this paper next Wednesday.
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cess, as il does the rocks upon which
the many have gone to their literary
oblivion. Washington. he emphasi
is now unquestionably the greatest
StorehouSe in the world of medical
literature. of modern medical books
and periodicals with its more than
100000 cards of books and titles of
articles in medicine and allied subjects.
conveniently arranged for the ready
reference by the student Of medicine
In the libraries of the various Gov.
ernment establishments in Washing
ton there is a most wonderful collec-
ton of all sorts of scientific literature
in medicine, in botany. in animal in.
dustry. in chemistry. in entomology.
mechanics, and almost every conceiv-
able human interest. Each one of
THESE mas its own card index of pro-
fessional books and periodical articles.
so that in this great national center of
the United States Government al
most any book or article in the scien-
tlhc periodical literature of the entire
world may be speedily consulted from
the shelves of some one of these scien.
ufic libraries in the various executive
departments. Their value in our
everyday national life is beyound
measure.
The Library of Congress is a great
general library which receives every
sort of literary material and in which
all copyrighted matter is filed. Here
1t is that all copyrighted medical ma
terial is on file, including both books
and periodicals.
In the manuscript division Of the
Library of Congress there is a large
number of the original papers relating
to the medical men and matters of
Colonial days. of the Revolutionary
period fhnca ~ arli 10
the United States. Many Of these
papers have been indeXed and con-
veniently arranged for the use OF
students of the history of medicine.
The Department of Agriculture has
very important collection of books
and periodicals devoted to its special
lied scientific work in the fields of
Evening star., 1925-05-31

W pa - - =
mander by his
post AT its regu-
lar meeting held
in the boardroon
of the District
Building Tuesday
night. Delegates
elected TO the de-
partment ConVen-
tion we're Comdr.
Reinner, Robert
McCandlish. DR..
Jesse l.. Hall and
Vice Comdr. 7.
Norman Temple
ton. AlternateS.
DR.. Charles Il.
Detmar, JudSon
{. Dale. George
Davis. George +.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
American Legion.

Lieut.. Charles Riemer, commander
of the Stuart WalCott Post, American
Legion, was unanimously ipdorsed for
Evening star., 1925-05-31

Vincent B. Costello Post. No. Is,
will meet at the District Building
next Tuesday at pm. for the pur-
pose of electinE delegates and al
ternates for the department conVen-
ton which will be held in Washington
June 25 and 26.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
How to Adapt a Set for Loop and Out
side Aerial Reception.-Part iii.

Now that we know that all that Is
necessary to convert set from out
side aerial to loop reception is to dis"
connect the tuning elements from the
receiver, leaving only the variable
condenser across the grid terminals.
and to connect the loop across the
terminals of the condenser, the mat
ter Of converting the outside aerial
set into a loop receiver is very simple.
The first step is to disconnect the
tuning elements entirely from the
rest of the receiver. The aerial and
ground terminals must be freed Of
any connections with the tuning ele-
ments. All that should be left con-
nected with the aerial terminal is the
stationary plates terminal of the con-
denser and the grid terminal of the
tube.
In the other end of the circuit the
rotary plates terminal of the con-
denser and the negative filament end
Of the circuit should be connected
with the ground post. The exception
to this rule exists in cases where a
potentiometer is used to control the
grid bias of the tube. In .hat case
the ground post of the receiver should
be connected with the rotary plates
terminal of the condenser and also
with the movable arm OF the poten-
tiometer.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
RADIO TRUST CASE
DELAYED z MONTHS.
Hearing on Federal Trade
Complaint Set for May.
Foreign Angle Seen.
BY ROBERT MACK.

Radios alleged monopoly, which was
to have begun its day In court next
week, will take at least another two
months vacation from the public eye.
BY decision of the Federal Trade
Commission the hearing, which had been
setsfor March IS in New York. was con-
tinued until May IS, and the scene again
scheduled for New York.
1t appears doubtful, however. that the
eight radio manufacturers and dealers
named by the Government as conspira-
tors In restraint of trade would have
their innings on date fixed. The massing
of data with which the Federal Trade
Commission expects to prove its al
legations is still in progress, and one or
two important branches OF the lnVesti-
cation have yet to be followed. Great
stacks of papers, comprising statements
affidavits and corporation papers are
piled on a table in the office of Edward
l. Smith, who is conducting the case
for the Government. And there is an
other stack or so yet to be obtained.
There Is the probability, too, 1t was
learned. that some parts of the testi-
mony will have to be taken abroad. In
view of these preparations and the
activities of the manufacturers for the
preliminary legal battle, 1t is believed
quite likely that the charges will not
De Iuily dlTeO DelCTe dll
The monopoly charges are already
more than a year old. The commissions
complaint was filed January "a of last
year, and the respondents given two
months in which to file their answers
Delays were experienced when several
of the companies requested additional
time for the preparation of their an
swers, and the United Fruit Co., one of
the respondents, filed a motion for the
dismissal of the charges.
e Besides the United Fruit Co.. the re-
spondents are the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co.. the Western Electric
Co, the Radio Corporation of America,
the General Electric Co., the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing Co,
the Interna tional Radio Telegraph Co.
and the Wireless Speciality Appara-
tus Co.
Peru soon will have it's first broad
casting station, according to a report to
the Department of Commerce. The sta
ton will be a replica of 2LO, London,
and will be known as DAB. 1t will oper-
ate on $50 meters.
An appeal has been sent to the Broad
casters Association of America from a
group of listeners in Cuba that occa-
sional bilingual announcement be made
from Eastern and Midwestern United
States stations. The practice of the
Cuban Telephone Co. station PWX in
making announcements both in Spanish
and English is cited in suggesting this
air reciprocity.
Copyright. 1925)
Evening star., 1925-03-11
WCAP WILL OFFER
6 HOURS OF MUSIC
Dinner Concert, Army Band
and Philadelphia Artists
| Will Be on Air Tonight.

An elaborate six-hour musical pro-
gram, interspersed with one speech,
is scheduled tonight by WCAP. Start
ing at o'clock with the regular
Wednesday evening dinner concert by
the Black and White Taxi and Sight
seeing Company Orchestra, under the
direction of Happy Walker, the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company's station will broadcast
continuously until midnight or later.
The United States Army Band, un-
der the direction of william j. Stan
nard, will take the air at 1880 o'clock
at the conclusion of the Black and
White dinner concert. and play until
$3.50 o'clock, when Herbert L. Nor
gan of the Civil Service Commission
will talk on Invention In America"
His speech will be based on the work
in the Patent Office.
The program from 9 to 10 o'clock
will be furnished by the Atwater
Kent Mfg. Co. of Philadelphia and
will be broadcast by WCAP jointly
with WEAF and number of other
stations. Preceding this feature
Louis ]. Potter, concert pianist, will
be heard in a short recital.
WCAP will turn to the La Java
Cafe for its closing attraction, which
will be on the air from 10 o'clock
until midnight. 1t will include dance
music by the La Java Cafe Orchestra,
and THE La Java Revue" to be
presented by a group of popular radio
entertainers, composed of the Ha-
waiian Melody Boys-Clinton Rollins,
Edmond Pringle and Melvin Hender-
son; Stanley Gordon, violinist; Ger
trude Kreiselman, pianist; James Co.'S
tillo, saxophonist, and vocal solos by
Pete Macias, director of the La Java
Orchestra.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
RADIO QUERIES

Radio Editor:
Will you or some fan please inform
me as to what station uses the slogan
The Voice OF the Mississippi? Also
what station uses the experimental
call 2XE?-G. c. B.
2XE is the experimental call of
WAHG, Richmond Hill. n. Y. Have
no record of the station with the
slogan '"The Voice of the Mississippi"
Radio Editor:
Can you tell me what station in
Chicago was broadcasting an or
chestra concert Sunday night about
10 o'clock? At every intermission
the announcer said the station was
offering prizes, consisting of watches,
rings, etc, for the best slogan for
some firm. The call letters sounded
like WAS, but my radiologue has
no such station listed in Chicago
EVERETT WOODWARD.
WAS is in Pittsburgh. WTAS,
Elgin, Ill. which was on the air SUM-
day night, may have been the station
you heard.
Radio Editor.
Can you or any one tell me what
station signed off at IL o'clock Sun
day night? 1 heard the last part of
a sermon, then the congregation sang
IT Love to Tell the Old Story" then
the benediction, and signed off.
could not understand the announcer.
1t must have been near the Pacific
coast, FOR churches usually close at
8, and 1t was IL o'clock Eastern
standard time.-A. E. NJ.
VIII ask the fans to help you.
Radio Editor:
Your radio columns have contained
many letters from the fans telling
Of their reception of distant stations.
Now for a change, let US have
something from your readers on what
stations they have been able to get,
operating near the wave lengths of
the locals while the latter are on
the air.
In the wave band between $50 and
500 meters a really selective set
should be able to get WIZ, WCAE,
WEEI, WBAP, WFAA, woo and
WEAF without hearing a sound of
the locals even when located within
mile of either WRC or WCAP-
A. NJ BATES.
Evening star., 1925-03-11

BY JOSEPH CALCATERRA,
Noted Authority or Radio.


connected with the levers Of the
switch as shown.
The secondary coil or grid circuit
terminals of the tuning anti are con-
nected with two terminals of the
switch and the loop terminals are
connected with the other two termi-
nails of the switch.
When the switch Is thrown to the
left or A side the aerial and ground
tuning elements are connected with
the tube circuit, while when 1t is
thrown to the right or B side of the
switch the outside aerial tuning ar
rangement Is disconnected and the
loop is connected with the tube cir
cult.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
"CAP- Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company (46S.5 Meters).

to 1880 p.n.-A dinner hour con-
cert by the Black and White Or
chestra, directed by Happy" Walker.
Program follows: Full orchestra,
ta) Because They All Love YOU"
(b) Il Don't Want to Get Married"
(c) big Bad BIZ: full orchestra,
(a) listening" (b) Little Moth,
Keep Away From the Flame; string
orchestra, ta) "A Dream of Heaven"
CD Marcheta"; full orchestra, (a)
My Beautiful Mexican Rose" CD
Get Lucky" (c) Washington and
Lee Swing; cello solo, The Swan"
Eli Amanuel; full orchestra, (a) You
and l." (b) when I Think of You,"
Co Three Blind Mice; string or
chestra, ta) isle D'Amour," CO. THE
Glow Worm; full orchestra, (a)
Carmen Capers," (b) "Oh, Those
Eyes" (c) animal Fair; violin solo,
Melody in F." John Slaughter; full
orchestra, (a) Indian Dawn" CD
Cheating on Me-" Co II Like You
Best of ALL"
1880 to $40 p.m.-Concert by the
United States Army Band, Capt Ray
mond G. Sherman commanding, Will
liam j. Stannard, leader, direct from
the Washington Barracks
$3.50 to S:45 p.m.-"Invention in
America" based on the work of the
United States Patent Office, by Her
bert E. Morgan of the United States
Civil Service Commission.
S:45 to p.m.-Louis ]. Potter, con-
cert pianist, in short recital
to 10 p.m.-Musical program given
under the auspices of the Atwater-
Kent Manufacturing Company of
Philadelphia, broadcast jointly with
station WEAF, New York, and other
stations.
10 to IL p.m.-Dance music by
La Java Cafe Orchestra, presented
through the courtesy of the Franklin
Square Hotel.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
TWO SLAYERS TO HANG,

MONTREAL, March 11.-Hermen-
glide Dufault and Henri Messier last
night were found guilty Of the murder
Of Emil Pelletier, a Sorel butcher, last
November %. Judge Demers SEN
fenced them to hang on June 10.
David Millette, also accused of the
murder, was acquitted. An appeal
will be entered by Dufault and
MessfeF
Evening star., 1925-03-11

the Riksdag committee to which It
Was referred
In view Of the many conflicting re-
ports on the workings Of the Ameri-
can prohibition system published here
the bill was sponsored by the Swedish
prohibition interests, which are dis
satisfied with the present restrictive
system in force here.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
Contraband Silk Found.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Contra-
band silk valued at $4,000 and small
quantities of opium and liquor were
found yesterday by customs officials,
who raided the American steamer
Santa Ana on her arrival from VAL
paraiso. The ships master was or
dered to appear before custom off,
cial for examination.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
ASKS DIRECT ELECTION.
Zayas Backs Reforms in Cuban
Government.

HAVANA, March 11.-Election of
the President of Cuba by direct vote
Of the people and Limitation of parlia-
mentary immunity are constitutional
reforms which are being urged by
President Zayas. The questions are
now under discussion in the House
and Senate.
In a statement yesterday President
Zayas declared he was against in
creases In elective terms.
Evening star., 1925-03-11
RAIL LINE TO GOLD FIELD.
Northern Ontario Road to Rush
Operations.

NORTH BAY, Ontario, March IL
The Temiskaming and Northern On
tario railway announced yesterday
that the railway would be extended
into the Rouyn gold fields and that
the line would be in operation by next
November Work will start immedi-
ately and 1000 men will be employed
by next week, the officials seid.
Evening star., 1925-03-11

The first method is shown in figure
I, while the second method is shown
in figure 2.
1t is possible, however, to have the
advantage of either form of receiver
without sacrificing either one.
All that is necessary is TO provide
some form of switching device which
will disconnect one type of tuner and
connect the other type with the grid
circuit terminals of the tube.
double poledouble throw switch
is the most convenient type of switch
ing device available for this purpose
This can be connected as shown in
figure 3 to accomplish the end sought.
Four binding posts, l. 2, and 4,
should be provided. Binding posts l
and 2 serve as the aerial and ground
binding posts when an outside aerial
and ground are to be used, binding
posts 3 and serve as the loop aerial
terminals.
The grid circuit of the receiver is