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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
Health or Education Z

Two meetings on Wednesday served
extraordinarily we'll to point out the roo
of the difficulty concerning Washing.
tons inadequate provision of health anc
educational facilities for tuherculou'
children. DR.. William G. Fowler, Dis
trict health officer, speaking before the
Public School Association, recommended
the creation of a sanitarium for the
| twenty-four- care of tuberculous
children. Members of the Association
for the Prevention of tuberculosis, speak
ing before the Board of Education, asked
that the two health schools be used as
the nucleus for the establishment OF
the needed sanitarium. The fact that
children afflicted with tuberculosis have
to travel long distances to and from
these health schools every day explains
the failure of all but small percentage
of them to show gains in weight. At the
same time DR.. Ballou, as superintendent
of schools, pointed out that making the
health schools into sanitarium provid-
ing ADEQUATE care for bed cases would
probably be illegal, and that such step
does not come within the powers of the
school officials.
The condition now is this: The care
of the tuberculous children of the Dis
trict is regarded as an educational prob
lem instead of as a health problem.
There has been an effort to combine
the solution of the two problems, which
are really distinct, in the establishment
of the existing health schools. But only
one problem really has been solved.
Under the compulsory education laws
tuberculous children must go to school.
AS it is unwise to place them with chill
dren in normal health, the health
schools were created to take care OF
them. The health schools do all they
can to restore them to health while pro-
viding them with elementary education.
They teach hygiene; there are cots for
the rest periods: there is proper food
and there is sunlight and fresh air and
some medical attention. But that Is the
limit to which the school authorities,
dealing with the tuberculous child as an
educational problem, can go. And after
spending a few hours every day In
school, some of the pupils must spend
almost as many hours going to and
from their homes on crowded street
cars, and still more hours in homes
where they cannot and do not receive
proper attention.
Until the problem of the tuberculous
child is recognized and treated as a
health problem, the existing unsatisfac-
tory conditions in Washington will re-
main. The chief aim should be to re-
store these children to health. The edu-
cational problem can be solved as Sec
ondary consideration.
DR.. Ballou is right in his contention
that the schools, as at present consti-
tuted cannot attempt to create or MAIN
tain sanitarium. But every one agrees
that one is needed. 1t should be re-
garded as an outstanding necessity. II
it performed its function there would
still be plenty of opportunity left for
the health schools, the work of which
does not in the least detract from the
seriousness of a problem that becomes
more complex every year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
A Token of Remembrance

The people of Washington today are
asked to remember 5000 fellow citizens
who were stricken from the roles Of &C
tive workers by injuries and disease in
Cured by their service in the national
defense during the World War.
This remembrance takes the form OF
the forget-me -not-a simple, appealing
symbol. These flowers will be sold on
the streets Of Washington today, to as
sist in the maintenance of welfare work
done for the needy disabled service
men Of Washington and their families
under the auspices of the District OF
Columbia Department, Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans.
The veterans problem is so generally
regarded as a rather vague national Is
sue that an appeal of this nature Is
needed to bring forcefully home to the
people Of Washington the intimate Local
significance Of the question.
To be exact, there are today 2,736 dis
abled men in Washington, each with ar
average of one dependent and each
drawing an average compensation oi
SAT a month from the Federal Govern
ment. There are Lib men under treat
ment in the five veterans hospitals
within the District Of Columbia.
The Government goes as far as it:
appropriations allow in treating ant
training these men, but its benefits
hardly can be said to extend to theil
families. Remember, these veterans re-
turned from the great conflict with the
knowledge that their pre-war earning
capacity might never be restored. Thi!
condition is only too true.
The Disabled American Veterans i
an organization recognized by Congress
as an agency for the relief OF veterans
This organization has received the un
qualified Endorsement Of Presiden
Coolidge, Frank T. Hines, director o
the Veterans Bureau; the District Com
missioners and the leaders of many pa
triotic organizations.
So when you are asked to give u
this cause remember that the mel
whom you benefit thereby are the sam
who were welcomed home to Americ'
ten years ago with the cheers and CRATE
full tears Of their own home town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
Surreutitious Smoking.

Inquiries into the factory explosion at
Lynn, Mass, which caused the death
of seventeen persons and the injury Of
many others, will probably bring no
specific cause to light, for in such cases
it is always hard to get hold of the
facts after the catastrophe. 1t is be-
lieved, on the one hand, that the fire
and explosion were due to a carelessly
discarded cigarette. Another theory Is
that the blast was caused by a spark
made by the blow of tool against a
steel tank. Still another hypothesis Is
that match vas struck in the mixing
room of the factory. A fourth theory
Is that a static spark atmospheric
! electricity precipitated the blast.
In view of the general carelessness
Of people working in places of this kind
1t is reasonable to attribute the catas-
trophe to a thoughtlessly tipped cigar
cite or the ignition of match. Despite
repeated warnings emphasized by the
most shocking tragedies, workmen will
persist in breaking rules against smok-
Ing, and when smoking will throw their
glowing cigarettes away without any
thought for where they may fall.
The fire losses in this country are
tremendous. Most of those losses are
due to fires started by carelessness. The
percentage Of unavoidable ignitions
through sheer accident, such as static
sparks and the like, is very small. INC
smoking signs are posted in mills, fac.
tories and workshops in compliance
with the terms of insurance policies
which forbid smoking on insured prem.
ises. Company rules supposedly rein.
force these signs with dismissal in cast
Of detected violations. But only in tn;
rarest cases are they applied.
Surreptitious smoking is not particu
larry dangerous in itself. 1t is the dis
posal of the glowing ember of tobacc'
that does the damage. If the butt wer
dropped to the floor and Immediately
stepped upon there would be no risk
But that would leave a trace of the of
Tense, discernible by an inspector o
foreman. So the practice is to flip tn
contraband flag" to distance and tax
a chance on ii falling safely Usual
, It does, but when it does not!O peav
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
Stowaway on Graf Zeppelin
Called One of Years Thrills

accounts of his reception called him "a
second Lindbergh,'" and that huge
crowds cheered him." while one report
was that she has captivated the Ger
man imagination" The News finds
that he placed himself in the position
of securing vaudeville offers instead Of
getting the conventional 80 days on
the rockpile,'" and continues: will he
spurn the offers? We doubt it. He al
ready has said that he cannot tell of
his future plans until he has looked
through his mail The boy who rode
1t alone in the Spirit of st. Louis and
the boy who merely 'bummed his way
are both idols. Who can account for
the strange twists of hero Worship"
Describing the Stowaway'S reception,
the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
says: "He was the hero of the hour
when the Zeppelin came to earth: he
was cheered by excited crowds, kissed
by pretty girls and carried about on
masculine shoulders. DR.. Eckener and
the others, it might have been supposed,
had arranged that whole trip for the
benefit of this lad. After all,
it was quite an obvious and hollow way
of attracting attention. Granted that
it took some audacity, surely it took
no originality. A trained person could
have arranged something much more
dramatic. He would not have worried
more than this boy did about the ethics
of the situation; stealing a ride Is not
considered a heinouS offenSe, whether
it be stealing ride on freight train,
an automobile, an ocean liner or q
dirigible. But an expert would have
thought up something a little more
original. He would have had this boy
pose as the steward. perhaps, or would
have had him cling to the cabin as It
took flight, or perhaps would have had
him drop into it by parachute"
It is agreed by the Dayton Daily
News that "as a stowaway he emerges
as an international hero" and that
paper draws the conclusion: "This
treatment of the case will do neither
Terhune nor the rest of the adven-
turouS youth of the world any good.
1t will be the means" continues the
News. 'of putting many freight train
brakeman to the bother of throwing
aspiring youths out of box cars on their
heads. 1t advertiSes that the path to
fame and popularity Is some bizarre
and senseless stunt. 1t raises vagrancy
to the level of high romance. Nom
SenSe!"
German newspapers are not i'm
pressed" as the matter Is observed by
Tile OIICd ODocINCI-OLopdLCIlp Oy the
performance Of Clarence Terhune, the
Stowaway who smuggled himself across
the Atlantic In the Graf Zeppelin.
They do not hesitate to call him a
bluff and they hint that he was en-
ployed by certain American publishers
to make the trip so that they could
get an inside story of the performance
of the dirigible. In the meantime it
looks as though Clarence were IN a
way to capitalize his adventure ut
pretty high figures"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09

present week end will see clashes, East
and West, North and South. that will
make or mar many teams reputation
before the whistle blows for the last
time at the end Of the season.
Upsets, as ever, have been the order
of the day IN 1928 foot ball. The Army
for the moment is supreme in the East,
classic home of the game. The West
Pointers have taken the measure OF
both Harvard and Yale-no mean
| achievement-on successive Saturdays
Tomorrow the Soldiers. in an intersec-
tional game, meet a hardy foe from the
Middle West, a traditional enemy-the
Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Through
out their many years of annual matches,
Notre Dame has won the oftener, but,
as last year, 1928 finds the future gen.
erals at the top of their form and
Rockne's men below their usual stand
ard. If there is an Army-Notre Dame
upset at Yankee Stadium, West Points
national championship aspirations will
be wrecked.
Outstanding in all present-day foot
ball calculations Is the circumstance
that the older colleges and universities
in the East long since ceased to have a
monopoly of first-class teams. Nowadays
the elevens of such institutions as
Illinois and Michigan, Minnesota and
wisconsin, California and Missouri
Northwestern and Southern Methodist,
to mention only few of the tall-grass
universities, are worthy the steel of the
best foot ball talent the effete East can
produce.
Western teams are frequently coached
by ex-Eastern gridiron stars, who, find
ing a wealth of raw material at hand,
commonly convert it into organizations
which more than hold their own against
teams like Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania.
No mention of Eastern foot ball proves
is complete, this year at least, without
reference to Washington's own George
town University warriors, who may be
contenders for 1928 championship
honorS.
Americans universally deplore the
break in foot ball relations between
West Point and Annapolis. In conse-
quence there will this Fall, for the Sec
ond year in succession, be no Army
Navy game. Ways and means must be
found for patching up the athletic
differences between the service acade-
mics. A gridiron disarmament con-
ference is the need of the hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09

Riding down to work in the bus in
the morning, one hears variety OF
questions discussed in the seat behind
The seat behind Is the one from which
watt those delicious bits of converse
ton so tantalizing because they are
so fragmentary.
Usually the honk of passing motor
outside or the cough of a passenger
inside, blankets the precise words one
particularly wants to hear.
Let it be stated, for the benefit OF
all such involuntary listeners-in, that
| this form Of amusement is not caves
| dropping.
Buses are too jiggly to permit read
| ing upon them, so that II one happens
| to have no companion for the moment,
| he has nothing to do but listen.
! In most instances this unsought in
formation literally goes in one ear and
out the other Our belief is that it hits
| the window, bounces off into an ear,
goes straight through the head, and out
| into the aisle, whence it disappears
| through the ventilators.
On second thought. any one has
right to question that disappearance.
| Is it possible. even for so subtle thing
as thought, to pass through so impene-
trable a device as a ventilator?
X
One morning the avid listener hears
the thrilling tale of how boy was run
over by an automobile and sent to the
hospital. where he is now recovering.
This tale takes about miles to unfold.
No doubt it is worth more than that,
only the man to whom it Is being told
gets off at the 2-mile point.
It seems that the youth was coming
along on his bicycle. Riding up be-
hind a public vehicle, he passed out in
front of the car, when an automobile
smashed into him.
A sudden Jolt of the bus Con which
the passenger is riding) keeps the lis
tener from knowing exactly what hap
pened next, but he hears enough to
understand that the boy was knocked
head over heels.
He was Smeared along the concrete
until his clothes were ripped to ribbons.
He was skinned in so many places that
it must have been intensively painful.
The man who operated the car which
struck the boy appears to have been
rendered almost frantic by the accident.
The man telling the story-probably
the father of the boy-seemed struck
by the intensive manner in which the
other followed him around, visited the
LUSpILdl, dLlu CdIAlC W SCC iAAAA dD AAAo
home.
From time to time in his narrative he
recurs to this action. One wishes he
knew the name of the boy and where
he lives. Just why it would be difficult
to say-probably the urge of mankind
for news.
When one hears something he wants
the rest. Usually complete details are
lacking in these bus narratives, caught
on the rebound, as it were, fragmen-
tary but interesting.
X X *
The next morning woman Is tell
ing another woman how Mrs. So-and-So
fell down the cellar steps and broke
her ankle.
Poor Mrs. So-and-So!
It seems that no one realized at first
that she had broken anything at all.
She managed to crawl upstairs on her
knees and get to her bedroom. Pulling
herself up to the bed, she contrived to
get hold of the telephone and call for
help.
Her husband rushed home, neighbors
came in and doctors arrived. Recent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
Scientist Discusses
Infection by Germs
BY E. E. FREE, PHI. D.

The average distance from one nose to
another as a measure of the healthful-
ness OF bedrooms and offices or as an in
dication of necessary ventilation was
advocated by Dr. S. F. Dudley of the
Royal Naval College in recent address
before the School Medical Officers As
ISOLATION of Great Britain. Studies of
germ infections among the crews of ma
val vessels and among schoolboyS Sleep
ing in crowded dormitories have con-
WINGED him, DR.. Dudley said, that the
most dangerous germ infections are car
ried from one person to another by
germ-laden droplets of moisture coughed,
sneezed or snored out of the nose and
throat. When individuals work or sleep
close together, these germ airplanes have
only short distances to travel. More OF
them reach a haven in some one elSe'S
nose and the infection spreads. Forced
ventilation, like that on shipboard, Is
chiefly beneficial, DR.. Dudley believes,
because it whisks away the germ-infect-
ed particles before they can cover even
the short distance to the nose of sail
or in nearby berth. AS practical
remedy for overcrowded school dorm1-
tories DR.. Dudley suggests the simple
expedient of sleeping out of doors, where
all the germs will be blown away
promptly. before they can find another
nose to invade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

of mind and the consequent certainty
that the White House, under him,
would be at early and incessant logger
heads with Capitol Hill. AS Secretary
of Commerce, Hoover had nearly eight
. years of dealings with the House and
Senate. He regularly went before their
respective appropriations committees
when budgets of the Commerce De-
partment were under consideration.
Time and again Hoover wore down op-
position of members of Congress by his
persuasive presentation of the depart
ment'S needs. Once upon time the
Californian's arch foe, Senator Hiram
Johnson - long since a friend - sent
word to Hoover that the latter's han
ding of the Commerce Department had
turned him (Johnson) from knocker
into a booster. Vice President Curtis
will be expected to keep Congress cor
daily minded toward the executive end
of Pennsylvania avenue.
In Washington there's humble tele-
graph office clerk who Is entitled to a
hero'S medal or any other form of re-
ward soulleSs corporations are accus-
toned to bestow upon deserving en-
ployes At midnight of election day a
jubilant anti-Smith person handed in
message addressed to Gov. Smith
reading like this: Go back to the fish
market where you belong" The tele-
graph clerk declined to receive it. The
irate customer said he'd take it up with
headquarters. The clerk told him to
go to it, knowing that telegraph COM
panies are permitted under the law to
reject any message which they consider
obscene or otherwise Objectionable.
" X X X
Kansas will, Of course, have to send
another Senator to the upper house to
take the place Of Vice President elect
Curtis. There's no danger that he'll be
anything but Republican. Perhaps
administration influence will be thrown
behind former Gov. Henry j. Allen, the
publicity chieftain of the Hoover and
Curtis campaign Former Representa-
tive Poly" Tincher will also be in the
running. Possibly William Allen White
thinks his journalistic excuses in 1928
entitle him to consideration.
copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09

Clarence Terhune is an international
figure, in the minds of the American
people, as a result of his making the
journey across the ocean as stowaway
on the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. The
contrast between his position as a caddy
and the attention that he has received
as pioneer in new but irregular oc-
cupation catches the imagination OF
Americans.
1.-The crowds waiting to welcome the
return of the great dirigible," says the
Charleston Evening Post, called only
for Clarence. He was taken in charge
by the American consul and treated to
every comfort, and he has been feted
and petted and will doubtless be found
to have his pockets full of money and
fine clothes on his back. New York
City hasn't had a thrilling reception OF
a young hero for months. The Amelia
Earhart affair was a flop and the
Bremen celebration, while deliberately
carried off, lacked much of spontaneity.
Here Is an opportunity that 1t would be
a pity to miss. Grover Whalen Will
have to brush up his silk hat and Mayor
Walker sugar-coat his tongue anew.
The transatlantic pilot Is outdated. The
stowaway is now it."
HE gained against odds the honor
of being the first stowaway OF the air,
states the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
THE imagination of all boys from 8 to
80 throughout the world has been fol-
lowing him. He has been doing, in fact,
what each of them would have liked 10
do, granted the nerve and ingenuity
equal to his. No hero of G. A. Henty,
Harry Castleman, Oliver Optic. Horatio
Alger or the other writer's for boys sur
wives in fame under the name OF Clar-
ence; here again Clarence Terhune is
a pioneer. He may be an inter-
national problem, but the thrill OF the
year Is his, and he will enjoy Europe
as long as diplomacy and the laws deal
ing with stowaways will permit"
Despite his youth, Clarence Is no
novice in the art Of slowing away" re-
cords the Waterbury Republican as 1t
reviews his record. I'VE are informed
that he has crossed the Pacific in this
fashion and has visited Alaska. where
he spent a Winter because he had the
bad Judgment to stow away on the last
ship of the season. And he has hitch
hiked over the greater part of the
United States. In the course of these
wanderings he should have learned to
adapt himself to varying conditions
with ease. Perhaps as result OF his
unanticipated voyage on the first ocean
air liner he may give up caddying,
which seems to have been his staple
trade in the past, and become an aero
naut. At all events, reprehensible
though it may be, we are glad he was
not discovered until the Zeppelin was
over the sea. Otherwise he would prob
ably have been given a parachute and
dupmed overheard"
1t appears strange to the Chattanooga
News that "the popular hero of the
dirigihle's retnrn fight to Germany was
not DR.. EcEsrRr. but a 19-year-old
caddy." Th&t paper adds that some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-09
Saws Women Back Stars
Plea for ID. C.. Suffrage

To the Editor OF The Star:
There is class of people who are
fully able to sympathize with you in
your propaganda to obtain suffrage in
the District of Columbia. and that is
the adult female population of the en-
tire United States. Most of the women
in this country are able to remember,
to use your own phraseology, their ig-
nominious status" when they were
aware of the "humiliating fact that
while the rest of the Republic was elect
ing its next ruler and lawmakers, they
alone were condemned to stand by
mute, helpless and disfranchised
they vowed their determination some
day to see their national suffrage wrongs
righted" And by that determination
they won the franchise. So may the
District of Columbia.
The day is past when women will
bear sons for common fodder without
a voice, in the matter. And by that
same pluck and persistence the day may
come when even the humble Govern
ment worker in Washington may rise
from his status as Government ma
chine" to be recognized member Of
the great family of equal rights" Good
luck to you in your efforts!
CLARA LOUISE LESLIE.