Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-31

~ ERLINER TAGEBLATT. - The
Muehlacker broadcast:ng station
is ready for operation. This in
| IL stallation is far more efficient
, than the Deutschlandsender-
F., 1.-THE German national station1-former-
| ly the most powerful in range and scope
| in Germany, or even In Europe. TWO
| one at Muehlacker, and the other al
/ Heilsberg. The first of these will soon
be put in operation, and will evidence
| all that is newest and most effective IN
the science of photography.
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at Koentgs-
wusterhausen will appear almost print
tive in comparison. The station al
Muehlacker will function upon wave
| length of 1901 meters, and the sim
plest and most elementary receiving sets
| can easily pick up its programs. Inc
| situation of the apparatus, halfway be-
tween Stuttgart and karlsruhe, makes 1t
possible to broadcast with full intensity
from either point by telephone connec-
] ton.
A new departure in the construction
, of the device is that the mastS are built
entirely of wood No metal whatever Is
used in anything except the essential
| operating equipment, and the impulses
carry an inherent power of some 70
kllOWaLLS, RenerdIlOu Oh clSCIIlIAI Cl-
ergy so intense that each wave OF sound
| dispatched, if applied directly to the
iron and glass construction Of the ordi-
| nary supports, would fuse them instant
" into a molten mass. The wooden
masts conserve power, and avert the
| perils latent in this concentration OF
voltage.
Police and Universities
Wink at Dueling Clubs.
Morning Post, London.-Despite the
fact that students duelS In Germany
are verboten by the criminal code, both
the police and the university authorities
continue to wink at the existence OF
fighting clubs where young men try to
slice bits Of each other to prove their
manhood. When fatal accidents do
happen, as at Munich recently, the cul-
prit is sent to fortress more as mat
ter of form than as punishment.
After all, serious accidents occur in
the best-regulated sports, and II Young
Germany prefers to risk facial dishgure-
ment by sword-slash rather than broken
bones in q Rugby serum it is no affair
of ours.
Democracy with its sports has ousted
feudalism and its ceremonial Journeys.
But England has perhaps been demo-
cratiZed q little more thoroughly than
either Germany or France. When a
Frenchman or a German feels that his
personal honor has suffered outrage his
first impulse is to lodge a challenge. 1t
has been said that the prevalence OF
dueling in the sixteenth and seven
tenth centuries was due to the bar
barouS custom of wearing swords as a
part of domestic dress" Perhaps the
twentieth century, with its "barbarous
custom of carrying umbrellas" may yet
witness revival Of the practice.
Only Most Skilled Surgeon
Should Be Consulted for Cancer.
FL TELEGRAPH. Guayaquil-The doctor.
Jose de la Cuadra, of the Sanitary
Commission, has issued q warning to
all those afflicted with cancer in its
various forms, as well as those who may
suspect that they are victims of this
disease. but have no positive confirma-
ton of the fact. The physician states
that there are many processing to be
practitioners In the city who undertake
to cure this malady, but instead in
variably aggravate the condition. SO
anxious are those afflicted with this
growth to escape its desperate malig-
nancy they will believe in any cure that
is promised and resort to the inSaneSt
methodS OF correcting the development.
DR.. de la Cuadra has pointed out in
his newspaper statement that only the
services of q skilled surgeon are of any
avail in case of cancer, and even those
treatments are not always successful.
When the tumor is of comparatively re-
cent origin, q surgical operation some
times removes the peril, but when 1t
fails no other method Is of any benefit.
Many people have paid large sums for
fraudulent systems Of treatment, which
are promised ct least to aheviate the
evil, and in most cases to cure Il, II
there is any reason to fear the pres
ence of such a morbid affection, only
the most skilled in surgery should be
consulted, not any empiric charlatan
loud in his extrsgagant claims.