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The Washington times., 1934-02-24
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

dread as much as clubwomen.
And that isn't just because
women's clubs have power.
Mems clubs have power, too.
But you know how mems clubs
are going to use their power.
They follow certain sporting
rules. But you can never
count on women's clubs. They
do the most amazing things
90 off half-cocked into pro.
tests and demonstrations, with.
out the slightest investigation.
"IF WOMEN THINK THEY
ARE IN THE RIGHT-AND
SHOW ME THE WOMAN
WHO DOESN'T THINK SHE'S
IN THE RIGHT-THEY'RE
ABSOLUTELY UNSCRUPUL
GUS ABOUT GETTING THEIR
WAY. THEY'LL STOP AT
NOTHING.
$50, whatever you do, never
criticize women. Particularly
mothers and clubwomen. You
may think they're public nuts
ances. You may have proof
that they're getting by with
murder. But keep it to your.
self, and hand out the good
old baloney-or they'll get your
scalp"
That's what my boss said to
me fifteen years ago, when I
started writing this column. AT
intervals, other bosses have re-
peated the same advice.
AND YET, I STILL BE
LIEVE THEY CAN LISTEN
TO THE TRUTH AND TAKE
TT LIKE GAME SPORTS,
AND AGAINST ALL HAZ-
ARDS, I SAY WHAT I THINK
ABOUT US GIRLS-MYSELF
INCLUDED-AND I THINK
PLENTY!
So, I'm continuing to write
for women. And though my
editors yell their heads off, I'm
going to write the truth for
and about women.
N0pyrtSht 1884. KinS EasEasrAa -
The Washington times., 1934-02-24

There is a generally &C
cepted theory Except among
the children themselves) that
a child should be taught to
play some musical instrument,
so that, when he grows up, he
will have at least one social
grace, other than the ability to
walk without tripping.
The social grace" angle is
all right, I suppose, although
there is very little parlor en-
PERTAINING done these days:
but my idea in teaching
child to make music OF some
sort or other would be to make
it possible for him to soothe
his own savage breast when he
is alone.
Anyone who can play the
piano or the guitar or the
either, or even the harp III
he can arrange to have a harp
lying about conveniently at
those places where he might
want to strum to himself, is
sitting pretty when it comes
to self-solace. He can sit at
the piano and play a few soft
chords, or thumb out a simple
routine in G. sharp on the
guitar and hum aloha" to
himself, and pretty soon he
will be crying just as hard as
if he had paid good money TO
60 to a movie or the theater.
But what can a man do alone
with a B flat cornet when his
spirit Graves music? He can
blare out some notes, it Is true'
and, if he is really a cornet-
lover, may get a certain amount
of satisfaction in blaring them
correctly, but there is no spirit
ual Salve in the process.
Even a man alone with a
saxophone has to be pretty
much in love to work up any
kind of sadness for himself in
the privacy of his own room.
The first instrument that I
"toQk lessons on" vas the banjo
-nb The Htt1A aoEtA nec1ad
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
MUSIC FOR CHILDREN
By T. E. Powers
By Robert Benchley

combination banjo and mando-
lin of today, but the original
Negro instrument with the long
neck and five strings, one OF
which was always broken.
In those days there was no
such thing as walking into a
music store and buying banjo
part for the latest popular tune.
You had to wait until somebody
called 1.-The Banjo King" had
made a special arrangement in
five flats, and, as THE Banjo
King" never got around to his
arranging until two or three
years after a number had died
down, the result was that I had
nothing to play but 1.-THE Re-
turn of the jolly Haymakers"
and the Cream City Patrol"
And, even after the five-flat
adaptation had been published,
I couldn't play it with anybody
else because the piano arrange
ment was always in a different
key.
Things are made easier for
banjo players nowadays, I guess,
and those with a mandolin fin
gerboard you can even play from
a piano score. But I have al
ways wished that I had taken
piano, or even guitar, lessons, so
that I could sit in the twilight
and make myself miserable.
I suppose that most pianistS
wish that they could play the
banjo and mandolin the way I
do. That's the way it goes.
Never satisfied.
So, by all means, teach the
child to play a musical instru-
ment; but, if possible, bear in
mind that he is not always to
be playing in a band, and may
once in a while, want to make
a little music for himself in any
key he happens to feel like at
the moment.
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thurs
GRNan6 SaturdaA iA.. -.-. -
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Three-Minute Journeys
By Temple Manning

polo is really native game that
has been played in India for
many, many centuries. 1t came
from Persia via TurkeStan.
The Mirrored Palace
Lahore, the capital city of the
Punjab, is always playing host
to visitors and sightseers, who
return again and again to the
mirrored palace. Thousands
upon thousands of tiny mirrors
set in plaster and interspersed
with porcelain figures form the
roof Of the old palace. Lights
in the inner rooms, also treated
with this mirrored decoration.
make the place fantastic, I'M
real. Even a candle will be re-
Elected in a myriad of cleaning,
dancing lights that take on
every color of the spectrum.
OF course, there are other
marvels in Lahore. There is
the great mosque, there are the
bazaarS. there are the latticed
windows and stone balconies
that IRE so typical Of India.
Bright eyes sometimes peer from
the latticed panes, looking out
OF o world that is still a thing
apart for these women Of the
East, although gradually many
women are becoming western
lied in their viewpoint and &C.
Invites. A girdle of green.
lovely gardens winds around
the city with it's 10 gates. a real
fortress.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24

"B UT WHATEVER ELSE
THEY MAY BE, WOMEN ARE
NEVER GOOD SPORTS ABOUT
CRITICISM.
IF you criticize the feminine
sex in an editorial, each indi-
vldual woman will take it as
an insult and proceed to act
upon it. She won't act as q
man would either. She won't
write in frankly and challenge
your statements. SHE'LL GET
EVEN WITH YOU.
She'll lombard you, and get
her friends to lombard you,
with anonymous letters. Or
she'll make her husband write
in and say he'll concel his
subscription unless you're fired.
And if she's a clubWoman, you
can prepare for real trouble.
For she'll get her club to pass
Q resolution condemning not
only you. but your paper.
Ya1are@ nothing 1hah. AdShosEs
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
The Human Side of the News
Serum Immunizes Humans to Yellow Fever
Blu EdWin C.. Hill

meanest peasant to the Pope OF
the Borgias. And then came
death to Stokes, to Noguchi
and to Young.
Yellow fever is grave men
ace today, although it is con-
fined to West Africa and to GER
tain parts of South America.
The most recent outbreaks oc-
Cured last March in Bolivia
and Colombia, while three years
ago three Americans died of it
in the Sudan. Health authorities
sound continual warning that
the greatest precautions must be
taken against the possibility of
the entrance of yellow fever into
a country and they point to the
danger of the airplane as a car
rier.
While science has not def1-
nitely established the virus, it
has determined that IS species
of mosquitoes can carry it. And
men died to find this out, too.
When Yellow Jack flouriShed
among our soldiers in Havana
in 1900, three American Army
doctors, Walter Reed, James
Carroll and Jesse w. Lazear,
undertook research work in a
shack on the outskirts of the
Cuban capital. They looked for
the carrier and they found it, q
certain type of mosquito.
Greatest Love
If permitted to bite a victim
in the first stages of the disease,
this mosquito would go on biting
a well person, convey the living
germ to that person. The doc
tors called for volunteers and
they got them. But the doctors
themselves led the way. Carroll
exposed himself and pulled
through only after severe illness.
Lazear let the germ laden mos
quitoes taste his blood and died.
Reed survived two years, to pass
away in 1902 from the results Of
overwork in Cuba.
But it is no fiction to say that
they died that millions might
live. The control work that fol-
lowed in preventing the breed
ing of mosquitoes not only gave
medicine the upper hand over
the plague, but made possible
the building of the Panama
Canal. DR.. Vincent, in telling
today of the development of the
serum, states that 1t has been
achieved by the successful in
oculation of 100 white mice
through the brain. He mentions
use of it for persons who con-
template trips to those parts of
Africa and other lands where
the disease is prevalent.
So medical science marches
on, and SO it will march while
there are Noguchis, Reeds and
those kindred spirits, Of whom
it has been said: mo greater
love hath any man, than he lay
down his life for his friend"
Copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Make Experience Be Your
Teacher

Make Experience Be Your
Teacher
Maybe you forget your trou-
bles too easily.
In your efforts to dismiss
troubles. perhaps you lose the
impressions they might make
and which would be helpful to
you in future.
Perhaps you need severe les
sons to make you more eau
tious.
Many of the hardships and
painful experiences you have
had were the result of a repeti'
ton Of thoughtless mistakes.
If you had given thought
enough to the cause of your
troubles at the very first and
prepared yourself against Eheir
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Hindustan

H1nduStan
Although there is a certain
similarity in all the cities in
Hindustan, each one has some
thing outstanding that makes
it entirely individual, like Agra
with its marble poem, the Tai
Mahal, and Lahore with it's
Palace of Mirrors. And each
one of these wonders is enough
to make the long journey to
India worth while, for once
having been glimpsed they live
in the mind forever. On the
dullest, rainiest day. the delicate
marble beauty of the Tai Mahal
brings light and grandeur, and
thought of that potentate who
built a shrine for his beloved.
Peshawar conjures up pictures
of its many markets and ba-
zaars. There is merchandise for
sale everywhere, gorgeous car
pets, beaten copper, Silks pot
terry and everywhere the color
full coats and turbans OF the
natives. The shops, the native
dress, the architecture, all serve
to make PeshaWar intensely in
teresting. The grain market y
especially colorful. Peshawar
is a mixture Of native city and
military cantonment. In the
European quarter there is
tennis, golf and marvellous polo,
with native princes, army men
and visitors thronging the grand
stand. One remembers that
The Washington times., 1934-02-24

crit ! c i S m.
TIL ey won't
take it like
men. A man
doesn't c a r e
what anyone
S a VS. about
his sex in gen.
eral. S ON E.
times he'll be
interested and
write in, and
put up a good
a r g u m e n t.
But he'll al
W a VS. be a
good or t
AA4Y,k -
The Washington times., 1934-02-24

Science, so DR.. George E. Vim
cent tells us, has forged another
Ghacile for Yellow Jack. The
doctors announcement to the
California Institute of Tech
nology reveals the discovery of
O serum which immunizes hui
man beings to yellow fever. The
world will hail the result and
long remember it.
But the world, I imagine, has
too soon forgotten what hap
pened five years ago in Accara,
. little seaport on the gold
coast of West Africa. Three
men were there on a great ad-
venture Japanese, an Irish
man and a Scotchman-Work-
ing in common and seeking
neither gold nor ivory nor a
lions head for the trophy room.
Theirs was greater game. After
it they went with heads up,
hope high and with the full
knowledge that death stalked
beside them, ready to strike
without even the warning that
a cobra might give.
Three Martyrs
The japanese was a bacteri-
ologist, one Of the greatest of
all times, DR.. Hideyo Noguchi.
The Irishman was a pathologist
from London University, Prof.
Adrian Stokes. The Scot was
q scientist on the staff of the
Rockefeller Institute, DR.. Will
liams Alexander Young. And
how they worked in the heat,
in the stink, in the God-for-
saken hole! Not that they
minded the conditions, for they
were living apart from this
plane.
Every cell in their brains,
every fiber in their bodies was
absorbed in that one thing
the finding Of that malignant
virus which, through the ages,
had been a scourge to hui
mainly. The trail was hot.
They redoubled their efforts.
Stokes wrote back to far away
Albion:
I'VE have the fish hooked.
Unless we are careless and
break the tackle. it will only
be a matter Of time until we
land him."
But they never brought the
monster to gaff! He laughed
about it, and Stung them
SCoKeS, NOguChl and Young.
One by one the fever touched
them. First the heavineSs which
an ordinary sore throat might
bring, next the flush of the
face and the eyes. Tempera-
lures rose higher and higher
for two or three days and
then came a steady drop i'm
til they were below normal.
Their eyes, at first enlarged,
narrowed down to mere Sits.
The skin grew cold and the
color of lemon. Next the
dreadful BLACK Vomit" which
Paris. Rome and London knew
in the Middle Ages when it
struck all alike. from the
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Can Women Take It?

Can Women Take It?
When I first started writing
this column my boss, an old
and able newspaper man, said
to me:
Remember, there's one I'M
breakable law in writing a
column - NEVER CRITICIZE
WOMEN! Women can't stand
Evening star., 1934-12-11
MISS MARY BOWIE CLAGETT,

at 5037 Kansas avenue, the Rev.
Harry c. Febrey, uncle of the BRIDE
groom, officiated in the presence Of
relatives and a few close friends.
The bride was attended by her
sister, Mrs. Knott, while the BRIDE
groom's brother, Mr.. A. Gordon Sim
monds acted as best man. A recep-
ton followed the ceremony, after
which the couple left for a wedding
trip, and are now at home at 1852
Argyle avenue, in Cherrydale, Va.
Mr.. Simmonds received his aca-
demic and law degree at the Uni
versity of Virginia, and his masters
degree at Columbia University. He is
a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal
Fraternity and is the assistant to the
Commemorative attorney of Arlington
County. His bride was graduated
from Eastern High School and the
Wilson Teachers College and Is a
Continued on Eighth Page)
Evening star., 1934-12-11
NEW RAILROAD COACHES
TO BE EXHIBITED HERE

New Haven Line displays Two
Tomorrow, Built With Part Of
90, 1000, 900 p. W. A. Loan.
Two new passenger coaches, the
last word in design and comfort as
IMPLYING the revolutionary moderni-
zation now going on in railroading
under the public works program. will
be on exhibition tomorrow at Union
Station.
The coaches were brought here by
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Co., which built so Of these new
coaches from P. w. A. loan of
100000. They are being exhibited
here before being put into regular
service.
With another 100000 p. w. A.
loan, the New Haven line is building
a streamlined train similar to those
being operated by the Union Pacific
and Burlington Railroads.
The streamlining of the new
coaches is not carried so far as will
be in the case with the New Haven's
streamline "Rail-Zeppelin," but the
cars are tubular shaped and include
some features never before attempted
in railroad construction.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Club to Sing Carols.

A program Of Christmas carols will
be presented at q meeting Of the
Parent Teacher Association of Thom-
son Community Center Thursday
night by the Chaminade Glee Club
The glee club will be assisted by the
Children's Community Chorus under
the direction of Esther Linkins with
Barbara Brown as accompanist.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
JOHNSON TO SPEAK

Dakota Hepresentative to Talk on
"Aviation" to Reserve Unit.
Aviation" will be the subject Of an
address by former Representative
Royal johnson Of South Dakota be-
fore Army Air Corps Reserve officers
In the Air Corps projection room, Mu-
nitions Building, at 8 o'clock tonight.
Mr.. johnson, q World War oficer
and former member of the House
Military Affairs Committee, has for
many years been q close observer OF
military aviation development. He
will be introduced by Capt. w. v. An
drews, Air Corps. operations oficer at
Boiling Field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22

iIatehihson, kass Stpl. pl..;ss E John DICK. .s0s f6 t6neeff what evef. Diek farms his S6-aefe .tt4tt without power eddiphient .M. aiy Kind, bfefefflns the fieth6d he learned in Russia aS q b6xs fGe sIses 4 spade. h08 &isH 2tytke fV eultivat6 his cf6bsy mfs6Iy ffast and melons
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
Typhoid Fever Now
 Almost a Curiosity
Young Physicians Having Difficulty Obtaining Ex-
 perience in Treating Disease

steadily declined to a point where, in 1888, thet yphoid mortaiity rate was only 3 per million of population, representing 12 deaths for the year. Even the total cases, including those that recovered, amounted to only 7S.
 Discussing typhoid fever from the broader angle of the expefi- ence of 1S7 American cities, the statisticians explain that in the period, 1o01-1g05 "the most frc- quent typhoid deathrates were of the order of 20 per 100000, and such deathrates were actually pre- valent in a considerable fitimb of these cities" Tn contrast, as- tention Is then called to the period, 1926-1930, when none had Typhoid deathrates higher than IT to is per 100000, and ''the most frt- quent rate now Is to 3 per 10O,s 900, with no less than 5g of the cities showing this rate"
 To-day" the statisticians say, "in a well organized community, typhoid fever is almost curiosity Young physicians actually have difficulty in obtaining any expsri-. ence in treating the disease. Tfts is what has been achieved as the result of the development oi science"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
Rotten Auto Hosts

have some friends in whose cars I'll never ride again--if I can get out. of it.
 They have too good a time.
 They regard their cars as roller coasters--rse them for cheap TO- cent amusement park thrills. Wh-o-o-o-p!
 They forget about me and my nervous system in the back seat. Or maybe they think that close slaves are my idea of a good time.
 Or maybe they want to show inc that their fine new car will run fast. I already know that. The day is past when anybody has to convince me that the automobile is 2 wonderful invention.
 One point here is: I like for other people to drive half as fast as. 1 drive, because I feel half as safe about other peoples driving
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
POISON ELEMENT
 IN IVY ISOLATED
Wesleyan University Pro- lessor Solves Mystery
 After Three Years

Middietown, Conn, (UP)--Dr c. Albert Hill. professor of chemistry at Wesleyan university, came home from a picnic one day with ( se- were case of poison ivy. He was curious to know what made the ivy poisonous and hunted tip riu- merousc books at the library 0nly to find apparently no one else knew either.
 During the ensuing three years he made 1t the subject of intensive research and experiment.. He col iected thousands of pounds Of leaves and bark. went through several more poisonous doses and after considerable difficulty and discomfort. succeeded in extract ing and identifying the poisonous
 It was urushiol. the same as found by a prominent Japanese scientist in 1907 in the poisonous Japanese Rhus. a plant. Persons with open skin pores, he found, were highly susceptible and 0ncd infectedo, unless immediate reme- dies were applied. suffered pa tiently until the poison had run it's course. M .. element, he naturally was inter ested in a remedy. He found that after handling the plant, if the affected parts were immediately washed with a cheap laundry soap several times thoroughly, the pos sibility of severe infection was fe- mote. Potassium permanaganafe and hypochlorite solutions. alka- line and oxidizing. also helped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
LEVIN BADGE
 DID NOT HELP
Ex-COnvict Refused En- gineering Job on M0s-
 COW Project

Moscow-(UP)-Even a badge of the Order of Lepin flaming on the breast does not get a man q job in Russia if he is an ex-con- vict, according to the newspaper "Pravda" which indignantly de- mands that men who have "re- deemed" themselves in Soviet labor colonies. for prisoners shall not be discriminated against.
 One of Russia's old engineers was sent as a so-called "wrecker" , or gabotageur, to work on the construction of the White Sea Canal where his faithful and able service won him early freedom and an award of the Soviet's highest order. Recently he applied at a large industrial enterprise for a job. Engineers are scarce in Russia. especially those with dec- orations, and the factory director was delighted. But he happened to ask where the applicant last was employed and when he heard that it was as a convict on the canal, his attitude subtly changed and his manner chilled. He asked the engineer to come back in a few days, and then, as an after thought. said, "No. you had better just wait. I'll telephone you when I need you"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22

New York, N. Y.-Typhoid fever, once a principal cause of death in the United States, is now almost a curiosity, and so rare in most com munities, according to statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, that young physicians actually have difficulty in obtain ing experience in treating the dis ease"
 It is explained that the discov- cry of the typhoid fever bacillus in 1880 has resulted in such re- markable control of the disease in this country that ''in the more progressive sections 1t is Q rare ca,.se of death," and that the "sfread of any considerable epi- deinic can usually be charged to cu1pable negligence on the part of the locality in which 1t occurs"
 Throughout the years since the discovery of the bacillus, the fight against typhoid fever, the statisti- ciens say, has been pursued by breaking up" the channels or communication of the disease from the sick to the well and by building specific resistance to in- leCIlOH HI 1koOaS aA SHo sAA0ae AA anti-typhoid vaccination. Among important factors involved in the reduction of the disease have been detection of the pollution of food and water supplies. and of typhoid carriers. and the education of the public in typhoid prevention. the development of proper sewage fa- cilities and the organization os sanitary water supplies.
 How valuable these methods of combating the disease have proved is indicated by taking the city of Chicago as an example to show what almost all large cities in the country have experienced. Chi cago experienced disastrous typ- hold epidemics in 1872 and 1891, when the deathrate reached 143 and 174 per 100000 respectively. In two other years before 1895, the rate exceeded 100, and during most of the years between 1860 and 1895 the death rate was above 50 per 100000.
 Since 1895, however, the death- rate in Chicago at no time has exceeded 50 per 100000, and has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-22
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