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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-11
LICENSED WELFARE
SURVEY IS PLANNED
Council to Study Question oil
United States Control for
Agencies Here.

Whether private welfare agencies
of the District OF Columbia should he
licensed and supervised by the Gov.
eminent was the subject of lengthy
discussion at a luncheon of the Wash
ington Council of Social Agencies, in
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation building yesterday.
Mrs. John J, O'Connor, president of
the council, was authorized in reso-
luton to. appoint two committees to
make a thorough study of the cues,
ton, with one to present the affirma.
of the issue at a future meeting of
the council.
Supervision Endorsed.
The discussion was opened by John
civic development, United States
Chamber of Commerce, who presented
an argument for licensing, declaring
that private agencies dealing with an
individual in an institution often
adopt a tyrannical attitude If not un.
der the proper governmental supervi.
sion.
Edward Shaw Of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, and
Louis Rothschild. director of the Bet
ter Business Bureau, also presented
arguments for the affirmative, citing
instances where persons or organiZa-
tions have worked under the gulse of
charity to obtain benefit for them
selves.
Joseph Sullivan of the Catholic
Charities declared he saw no reason
Evening star., 1927-11-07
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE

cancer, by means of his caustic paStes
or other crude agent of destruction.
But at what fearful cost to the vic
tim in pain, danger, time and mutila-
tion. / am as great a coward as any
man when it comes to taking risk of
injury, and therefore if l had a skin
cancer, or any other kind, I'd want it
destroyed or removed by the safest,
least painful and least disfignring
method, and that is surgical skill, not
secret hocus pocus.
Strip all the great cancer cures" of
the inevitable air Of secrecy or mys-
terry with which their eXploiters clcthe
them, and what is there left? Just
hideous greed. The element of secrecy
is what appeals to the unfortunate
victim.
If any man should find a cure for
cancer and attempt to keep it secret
or fail to give it to mankind without
consideration or condition, that man
would deserve. not honor but anath-
ema.
This same element of secrecy, with
its appeal to the uneducated layman,
lends weight to the irresponsible
propaganda that the eating of certain
foods or failure to eat certain other
foods Is the cause of cancer. The un.
tutored laity cannot discriminate be-
tween sound and unsound advice or
information. If we are to make any
progress toward the prevention of
cancer we should devote our energies
rather to the purpose of introducing
proper hygiene instruction into the
public schools.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
BY DIR. MEHRAN TX. THOMSON.

Here is clue for at least one in
depreciation of why we want to be
happy. If happiness is the result of
the harmonious expression of the
whole self, then the desire for this
harmony and happiness itself are one
and the same thing. We want to be
happy because we want to express
our major impulses and interests in
a vital way. Therefore there is a
distinction between happiness and
pleasure. A man may have many
pleasures and be thoroughly unhappy.
Conversely. he may be quite happy
without indulging in any specific
pleasure.
Pleasure Is relatively brief. 1t is
confined to a single act or group of
acts. Happiness Is relatively per
manent and involves the total person
ality. In other words, you might get
pleasure from indulging any specific
impulse, but to insure happiness the
act must be in line with the ideal
self, whether good or bad. The
most miserable man is the Jack of
all trades" in matters of conduct. He
is like a house divided against itself
He has no inner peace and harmony.
And where these are lacking happi-
ness cannot exist.
We want to be happy because we
crave peace of spirit, and normal,
healthy expression of the will to live.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

of slang words and phrases.
Had to have 'em printed and ex-
planned" said Jimmy, because we
were afraid the English audiences
wouldn't understand our stuff"
1t was interesting to note that each
patron Of the theater, as he entered,
was presented with copy Of the
small folder. When an actor pulled"
a line more picturesque than illumi-
mating, the patrons simply had to
glance at the glossary. Sometimes the
laughs would be a bit tardy in arriv-
ing, due to a search for the particu-
lar line, but Londoners soon became
familiar with some of our American
ese. SO much SO, indeed, that the lit
tie English fiappers are as expert in
using the phrase, 'for crying out
loud,' as their American cousins.
X X X X
A member of local golf club has
just returned from trip to CalifOr-
mia, where he went on business. Dur
ing his visit he played considerable
golf. He was telling the boys all about
it over the last week end, and doubt
less with some elaboration and embel-
lishments. One of those straight
ff1m-the-shoulder" golfers finally said,
Tell us the truth, Mac. What was
your lowest score out there?"
"Why,' was the reply, II nearly got
a 73 on the so-and-so course"
What do you mean, nearly r.
asked the first one.
We'll" answered the second, Il got
an S5."
X X
Youth has a way Of crashing all
barriers. Saturday afternoon two mo-
tor cycle policemen dashed up the
Avenue. Immediately behind them
came three automobiles with screech-
ing horns. Some of the traffic officers.
probably under the impression that IT
was the presidential party en- route
to the Mayfiower, held up cross-street
traffic momentarily. Even they were
compelled to smile wehn the trio OF
cars proved to be nothing more than
party of boys and girls ON the way to
a foot ball game.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

Cancer is probably not a specific
disease. but rather group of disease
conditions. We know there are at
least three distinct types or kinds of
cancer, and these three may be con-
sidered three different diseases-skin
cancer (pithelioma), organ cancer
(carcinoma) and flesh cancer (sarcoma).
Any doctor can cure epithelioma by
one remedy or another-X-ray, ra-
dunn. surgical excision, destruction
with cautery. sunlight, dry ice (car.
bon dioxid snowl, caustics, diathermy,
ETC., according to the individual re.
quirements Sometimes prompt and
radical operation effects cure OF car
cinoma if the cancer is accessible.
Many children and young adults tcom.
mon age of victims of sarcoma) have
been cured by prompt recognition or
diagnosis and radical removal OF the
cancerous tissue before any bits of
cancer have Travelled afar through the
blood stream.
But no honest doctor ever promises
to cure any form Of cancer in any cir
cumstances and no physician, surgeon
or specialist has any secret cure.
In every cancer, whatever its type,
It is fair to say the case is durable
in the early stage, perhaps only rarely
curable in the more advanced stage,
and incurable in the later stage.
When cancer has progressed to the
incurable stage ii is certainly Grim.
iral to permit anybody to step in and
promise cure.
A quack sometimes effects perma-
nent cure in a case Of superficial skin
Evening star., 1927-11-07

Happiness is like love. We all
want it. We all talk about it. But
none of use know exactly what it is.
Happiness and love are so closely
related in our minds that we seldom
think Of one without the other. We
assume that one depends on the
other. Each Is an attitude Of mind.
No long argument is necessary to
convince us that happiness is desir-
able. The Federal Constitution places
it among the inailenable rights of an
American citizen. The trainers of the
Constitution were wise enough to
guarantee only the pursuit of happi-
ness" and not the thing itself.
The pursuit Of happiness, however,
is about as fruitless as the quest for
the pot Of gold at the end Of the
rainbow. No one has successfully
pursued either. It is the common
verdict that happiness Is never found
by seeking 1t directly for its own
sake, but that 1t may accompany any
useful objective: that the way to find
happiness is to forget it and throw
yourself Fundamentally into some
worthwhile project, SO to direct your
life that ali your desires and forces
function smoothly.
Harmony of desire and effort and
the absence Of internal strife seem to
be the chief essentials.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

"Our son weighed 51a pounds at
BIRTH" writes Mrs. A. Fl. NJ, land
now at four months weighs nearly -
pounds He is breast fed. Is this too
rapid gain?
"IIe is constipated constantly. and
1 always have to give him something.
I give him milk of maGnesia. / tried
to give him orange juice for a few
days, but it made him cross. Is he
too young for prune or tomato juice?
For the last month he has sucked
his fingers. Is this because of a lack
Of sufficient food? He only gained l
pound and IA ounces last month. He
seem to be droolirg lot. Is this a
sign of teeth? l shall be loads
obliged for your help in enlightening
me in these various things"
Answer-Ten pounds in four. months
is tremendous gain. l imagine the
baby would do better with fewer feed
ings a day and possibly with boiled
water before each nursing. The
orange, tomato or prune juice would
be helpful, and if you are careful
when starting the juices to give them
in very small amounts. one teaspoon
full at first, and dilute them well with
water, tneTG SIOulu Ue ID Ddu elIeClS
at all. In fact, there is no reason to
think that orange juice would hurt
baby.
1t is hard to tell why babies start
finger or thumb sucking. Usually be-
cause Of the associated joys of suck
ing which carry over to even such
barren objects as fingers His last
months gain was excellent and it is
not likely that the drooling is due to
imminent teeth, yet. Possible, but
hardly probable. I would stalt cod
liver oil now, also orange or tomato
juice. and try the fewer nursing
periods. Ease your worry with the
knowledge that constipation in the
well fed child is not a serious ailment.
Mrs. F. F.-The leaflet on feeding
will help you put your child on the
right diet so that her improved nutri-
fion will help her overcome the efforts
of whooping cough. Give her cod
liver oil and sun baths or artificial
ones of quartz lamp violet rays. This
should help her get rid of the linger-
ing cough. If you will send a fully
addressed, stamped envelope, we will
mail the leaflets you need now.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

per, given by a very well known so.
ciety woman in her equally well
known house in town. 1t was the
first party of the sort / had ever at
tended, and | was very much inn
pressed by a number of really elderly
women all dressed in conventional eve.
ming dress, which in those days and
among those people meant bare arms
and pronounced decollete. There was
nothing at all striking or ostentatious
about their clothes, but those women
were old enough to be my great
grandmothers and reat-grandaunts,
and / thought there was something
very valiant about them, sitting there
with bare arms and bare necks. The
old women ] knew never dressed that
way, and it struck me that it required
good deal of heroism to do it.
Fortunately for older women nova
days it is possible to dress in per-
fectly conventional evening dress and
still hide the arms and shoulders,
and most women are too eager to re.
main charming to show arms and
shoulders that are no longer worth
showing
For my own part, I think that the
fairly short skirt has been boon to
the older women, because a surpris-
ingly large number of older women
have we'll shaped ankles. Still, there
is something rather underbred and
even pathetic about the skirt above
the knees as worn by a really elderly
woman.
The gown shown in the sketch, worn
by a prominent society woman over
20, might be called an informal din
ner gown. but it is a type of dress
perfectly appropriate for any sort of
evening wear.
I know you will like the little help
we have prepared for you this week.
It consists of full directions, with
sketches, for the making Of the
new worsted flowers that every one is
wearing. In order to give you some
thing just little different. we secured
some of these worsted flowers as used
by a prominent French dressmaker,
and got an expert to undo them so
that she could find out just the trick
by which they were made. Send
stamped, self-addressed envelope and
will send directions at once.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Tells What
Girls
Demand Of
Bridegrooms
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The Modern
Bride Speaks
The 1927 Bride Doesn't Demand Vows of Eternal
Devotion But Square Deal and Promise
of Fair Treatment.
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Evening star., 1927-11-07
Lessons i'm English
BY w. l.. GORDON.

Words often misused-"Veracity
applies to people and to statements
they make; truth" applies to people
and facts.
Often mispronounced Radiator;
first as in rate" not as in rat"
Often Observation-Disclosures note
the "ysi.''
Synonyms-Rigid. firm. hard, tense,
infiexible, unyielding, unbending.
Word study-"Use word three
times and it is yours" Let us in
crease our vocabulary by mastering
one word each day. Today's word:
Peremptory; positive, final, decisive.
''This peremptory command was
obeyed."
Evening star., 1927-11-07
THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE
Tuesday, November 8.

Except early in the morning, the
planetary influences of tomorrow are
unfavorable, according to astrology
1t should be an auspicious day for
planning projects rather than execu-
ting them, for the vision should be
clear.
Mental activity should be stimu-
lated by the planetary rule before
noon and the day should be favofa BILE
for students.
Business matters should be con-
Quoted cautiously and it is well not
to venture out of routine channels.
Under this direction of the stars
aviation should benefit, the rule max
ing for development along safety
lines.
This is not a lucky sway for open
ing new shops or starting new busi-
ness partnerships.
Mercantile activities are better
directed by the stars than manufac-
turing enterprises.
Wise tradsmen will benefit by con-
servative buying and avoiding over
stocking their shops.
Storms at sea again are prognosti-
Gated, and ocean travel may be
dangerous at various times In the
next few months.
Next month, in which there will
be two eclipses. is held by London
to be a time that presages political
troubles.
To the eclipses is due the prophecy
that the United States will suffer
from more than one earthquake.
Gain in time of transporting mails
is to be attained through a new in
vention, it is prophesied.
Persons whose birth date 1t is have
the augury Of much pleasure. includ-
ing travel and change. for the coming
year.
+ Children born on that day probably
will be successful in financial matters.
but they may be too impatient to
stay long in one position or vocation.
fCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-11-07

ficient baggage to recommend him as
a welcome and profitable guest He
was an amiable person and soon es-
tablished himself in the bosom of the
official hotel family.
He represented himself as business
man. and no one had reason to doubt
his veracity. In the guest rooms and
on the counter of the hotel office are
kept, for the convenience of patrons.
those familiar little packs of paper
matches. The tavern in question has
been a steady customer of the match
manufacturer, whose name was known
to the manager and clerks. Likewise,
the name of the match maker was not
unknown to the guest, or, at least,
that was the impression he contrived
to get across to the boys. In fact, the
mail he received from the match man
ufacturer with unfailing regularity
seemed to indicate that he was not
only acquainted with the big match
man but probably was a friend of the
family.
Naturally, the guest began to com
mand bit of respect about the foyer
of the hotel. Every time the clerks
or bellhops lighted a match their re-
spect for tha patron increased
Three or four days later the guest
casually suggested that the manager
cash small check for him. Merely a
matter of $50, out Of which the hotel
might deduct the amount of his bill
and give him $40. change.
You know the rest of the yarn.
There is more The manager, who
had been tricked into believing that
his guest was a man Of standing and
integrity. rushed up to the room of the
lately departed man and found the
letters" from the match man. They
proved to be simply price quotations
and advertising circulars. So, too,
were the "Iettcrs' from financial in.
stitutions which had been daily re-
ceived The check turned out to be a
forgery, and now the erstwhile patron
is explaining it to the officers in his
home town.
A well known actor, passing through
Washington the other day, complained
to your correspondent that the Amerl'
can public no longer demands high
grade drama. 1t was not case or
''sour grapes" with this actor, for he
is constantly employed. "The trouble
is," said he, I'VE are educating the
younger generation down, and not
up. The beauty and poetry of the
classics are as foreign to most young
people as the South Sea Islands. Mod
arnize Shapespeare and they'll get It,
Take those lines of Juliet's: Where
fore art thou, Romeo?' Twist 1t this
| way, Hey, Romey, where are you,
! kid? Bring va boy friend, Dumb Dan,
up to tn house and let's throw a
I, party
"Yes, old man, that seems to be
what they want today. The good stun
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Sure of Himself Now!
So Clean Inside, No Fear
of Perspiration Offense,
~ YIs1
However Cvcr-Eleated

Once a person realizes the wonderful
properties in cdSCdrd. no other laxative
in the market would ever be consid
cred.
It's no trick to "clean out the bow
els" Dozens of things will do that. But
a little natural cascara purifies the sys
tenn clear through. Cleanses even the
pores of your skin. Renders perspira-
ton as inoffensive as so much dew.
The oldfashioned way was salts.
They get action. but they take the NIL
cous membrane along with the waste
matteri Mineral oils are gentler. but
they leave the bowels with a film of
poisons for the blood to carry Off
through the pores. But when you cas-
carize the system. you get rid OF all
the poisons by normal muscular action
Of the bOtcels.
If you have the habit Of taking medi-
cine for constipation. or even for auto
intoxication, stop it. For a candy cas-
caret is a delightful form In which to
take cascara; children love them, and
the taste tempts most grown-ups to
have more"
And what comfort to know you are
in that clean, wholesome condition that
does away with any need of deodorants,
even in warmest weather! Try a cas-
caret tonight--see how you feel next
day, and for days after! With the skin
fresh and fragrant. All druggists, 10c
and Csc.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Cosmetics and Youth.

The age when girls begin to think
about cosmetics and beauty treat
ments seems to have been pushed
back into the early teens. Time was
when the unadorned beauty Of youth
was sufficient for the average school
girl, but now. judging from the let
ters I receive from girls of this age,
she is anxious to obtain advice on
the correct shade of powder and rouge
and lipstick for her individual type
and she wants to use facial creams
and eyebrow pencils. She rebels be-
cause Mother does not wish her to use
cosmetics and Father objects to her
reducing diet.
Simply to tell her that she must
not do these things Is not sufficient.
She wants to know why she should
not starve her figure into boyish lines
or paint artificial roses on her cheeks
or whiten her nose? She suspects that
these practices are condemned by the
older generation in puritanical spirit,
just because they add to beauty. She
does not realize that there is a sound
scientific basis for the objections ad
vanced by her elders.
AS matter of fact, many things
that girls do with the idea of i'm
proving their personal appearance
turn out to have the opposite effect.
Take dieting to reduce for example.
When girl reduces her weight below
normal for her age and height she
loses the graceful lines and proper
tions that are the charm of the fem
inine form. Her figure becomes bony
and awkward. The hands. wrists, feet,
ankles, knees and collar bones seem
disproportionately large because the
fleshy parts of the body are under
developed. The shrunken muscles are
not strong enough to hold the heavy,
bony framework in a correct position,
so that various postural defects ap.
pear, including prominent shoulder
blades, hollow back, protruding alb.
domen, fiat chest and knock knees.
Besides making the body ug.y, un-
derweight Is serious menace to
Evening star., 1927-11-07
MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS.

health. 1t is the underlying cause of
many beauty problems, such as fall
ing hair, blemished complexion, sal
lowness, dull eyes and pale lips.
The lavish use of cosmetics to con-
ceal such defects is a short-sighted
policy. In her teens a girl should
have naturally clear skin. a good
color and bright eyes. If she does
not there is something wrong with
her habits. She may not be eating
the right food or getting enough rest
or exercise in the fresh air. If she
makes daily practice of using guam
titles of face powder and rouge her
skin will soon become coarse and
roughened by pimples and blackheads.
Later in life the skin on the face
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Pork Shoulder Pot Roast.

Try out the trimmings of small
pork shoulder in a pan suitable for
the roast. Remove the cracklings and
all fat except one tablespoonful. Add
two tablespoonfuls of flour and brown
slowly. Add one medium onion sliced.
Brown slightly, then add two cupfuls
of canned tomatoes. Season the meat
with salt and pepper and add to the
mixture. Cook in a fireless cooker or
simmer on the stove for hours.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

success of Jimmy
Gleason's comedy,
rs Eat. So?" in
this country, jim
my took the show
to London. It
opened Mt a ia
nous old theater
in Salisbury ave-
nue.. I dropped in
to Jimmy's dress
ing room several
days after his
opening perform
ance, and had
scarcely sat down
when the comedi-
an literally showed
a small pamphlet
into my hand con-
fnininu a plnCSarN
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Hamburg-Sausage Stew.

Combine one pound Of hamburg
steak, three -fourths pound Of sausage
and one-half a cupful of uncooked
rice and pat into small balls. Add to
one can of tomato soup diluted and
allow to simmer slowly for one and
one-half hours or until the rice is
cooked. A little onion may be added
Evening star., 1927-11-07

Sonally, however
a bad egg slips in,
and upon depart.
ing leaves behind
him a few deluded
and wiser people.
This is the brief
yarn of a travel.
er, a pack ~of pa.
per matches and
a local. hotel man
ager.
About a week
ago a substantial
appearing gentle
man attocne0 his
signature to the
register Of one of
our hospitable
inns. He was ac-
Commanded by Sllf.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

is over their heads. G'bye. we open
in Stamford next Sunday night
This reminds us of an amusing in
cident in which the reverse was true.
Sometimes the rough stuff is lover
their heads" After the tremendous