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Evening star., 1935-08-27
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field
Laboratory and SfudW
BY T:.ONHS r HENRF

There may be mad dog cycles.
Dogs are much more vicious in June
than in the So-called dog days" season
of July and August.
The tiny poodle and the pekingese
share with the big German police dog
and the italian bull rank among the
10 most vicious Of domestic CANNES.
These are some Of the conclusions
from dog bite statistics over a period
of 81 years just issued by the United
States Public Health Service. They are
based on the cases reported to the
analyzed by DIR. Robert Oleson of the
Public Health Service staff.
During this 27-year period, DR..
Oleson's figures show, there have been
two 5-year peaks in rabies, from 1911
to 1915, inclusive, and from 1926 to
1880. During the first period the annual
average of bites diagnosed as made by
rabies-infected animals was 233, COM
pared with only an average of 78 for
the previous three years for which
records were available. There followed
a period of 10 years during which the
number of rabies cases diagnosed in
biting dogs averaged only 43 a year.
Starting with 1926 the curve leaped up
again and in the next five years there
was an average of 288 cases a year.
Then came another rapid decline and
for the past four years the average has
been only SO.
Apparently the number of rabies cases
has no relation to the number Of bites
reported. These remained practically
stationary at an average Of about $500
from 1908 to 1926. There was q sudden
jump to more than 1000 cases in 1925,
Just before the start of the second rabies
peak. But since 1890 the number of
bites reported has continued to go up,
in the face of rigid muzzling restrictions,
until it has reached the alarming figure
of 10000. At the same time the number
of rabies diagnoses rapidly has gone
down.
The same tendency toward the mad
dog cycle, DR.. Oleson points out, has
been noted in several European coun-
tries. 1t may be due, he suggests, to
an inexplicable waxing and waning of
the virulency of the rabies virus During
the peak years extraordinary efforts
were made to impound all unlicensed
dogs, and the decline of the waves may
have been due to the lessening. Of the
number of potential rabies carriers by
this means.
Contrary to the general idea, DR..
Olesor's curves show, dogs are getting
better tempered rapidly during dog
days. The high peak Of the year in
bites reported is reached about the
middle Of June. Then comes o very
sharp drop, which continues steadily as
colder weather comes on. The low peak
Is reached In December or January.
July and August compared favorably
with May and April.
The reports show that no breed OF
dogs. is entirely free from the biting
tendency, but some are much more prone
to it than others The mongrel doesn't
rank among the really vicious dogs and
pedigree counts for nothing. The 10
breeds, In the order of frequency OF
their reported bites, are: German police,
chow, poodle, italian bull, fox terrier.
crossed chow, airedale, pekingese and
crossed German police dog.
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Relics of wraithlike Folsom man-the
earliest known human inhabitant Of
Evening star., 1935-08-27

land, Greenland, India and Central
America, and who has proved his right
to be numbered among scientists by his
skillful use of new aerial survey instru-
ments invented by his chief, o. M.
Miller, head of the organizations re-
search department. With him went
Hans Fuehrer, Joseph Forbes and his
brother, Harrison Wood, each of whom
shares in the credit and the fame Of
the victory.
Photographs were the practical OBJ
jective of the effort. The society wanted
pictures of hitherto uncharted region,
and Mr.. Wood and his colleagues were
commissioned to obtain them. 1t is
expected that map Of approximately
two thousand square miles of territory
will be the immediate result of their en-
deavor. But an inspiring spiritual sig
nificance also is represented in the sue
cess of the expedition. More important
than the climb itself and more valuable
than its photographic monument is the
simple fact that in an age when millions
unhappily are discouraged men still
have the capacity to triumph over
circumstance.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

North America. who hunted extinct bison
at the rim of the retreating glaciers OF
the last ice age-will be sought in Alaska
and Siberia.
Presumably these nomad hunters
were closely related if not ancestral to
the later Indians and must have come
into the Western World from Siberia
by way Of Bering Strait and the Yukon
Valley Here, at certain times, there
was an open roadway between the gla-
ciers leading to the habitable South.
Thus far one definite Folsom campSite
has been found in Colorado and is the
oldest known inhabited spot on the
North American continent. Arrowheads
characteristic of these hunters have been
found scattered all over the United
States Thus far no human remains
have been found.
DR.. Edgar B. Howard of the Philadel-
phia MUSEUM of Natural History has
obtained permission from the Russian
authorities to conduct a search in
Siberia, the supposed homeland. Miss
F. de Laguna of the same institution
will search for Folsom remains in the
Yukon region. Discovery of anything
characteristically Folsom in either local
1lN WOuIu OLllOW 4lLu(1l AACW 4ASAlS VA Viz
origin of man in the New World.
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Only digeStible toothbrusheS are used
in the pSychopathic ward of the Phila-
delphia General Hospital, according to
a report in late issue of the Archives
of Psychiatry and Neurology. Patients
are too fond of swallowing them. If
somebody would invent a degistible can
opener it probably would be adopted.
From the inteStines of one patient
was removed recently collection of IS
articles, including needles, nails, safety
pins, wires, buttons, stones, can opener,
a key and a locket. Several have swal-
lowed teaspoons. From one "a lead
pencils were removed. One woman,
when the nurses back was turned,
smashed milk bottle and ate all the
glass. She said she did it because she
wanted to stay in bed She thought
that if she got out of bed she would
fall apart. One man swallowed about
so nails. Not infrequently great masses
of pins and needles are found in the
stomachS.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Answers COmplainants
Against All-Day Parking

10 iNe EQIIOI OF L Ht otdI
On August 20 and % last your paper
published letters written by Harry
Brainard and William K Singleton, re-
Spectively, condemning the practice OF
automobile parking in the streets OF
the City of Washington. I do not be-
lieve that the grievances set out in
either letter have any merit.
Brainard writes that he has never
"Seen a city where the people are per-
mitted to make such a complete garage
out of its streets" Washington, I am
informed, has more automobiles in pro-
portion to its population than any other
city in the world. Whether this is true
or not is immaterial. The reason why
so many cars are parked on the streets,
and especially overnight, is because
many Washington motorists have no
choice in the matter, because of a lack
of garage space.
Brainard complains generally about
cars parked on the streets, alleging that
they ruin the looks of the city" and
that sit is unsafe What modern city
does not have its beauty "blemished"
by cars parked on both sides of some
of its streets? Washington has out
grown its water-hole. hitching post and
horse car days and the advent and in
creased use of the automobile has
brought with it certain conditions that
we cannot escape, the commonest of
these being congested parking.
With regard to parked cars being un-
safe, did you ever hear of a parked
car colliding with and injuring or dam
aging some person or thing of its own
volition? OF course not. 1t is the car
in motion and not the parked car that
requires regulation, and it has been
apparent to even the most casual OBJ
server that the District police have been
doing considerable regulating" during
the past five weeks Of their traffic
safety campaign.
Brainard urges that parking on the
streets "a hours q day is indeed q serious
matter and should be taken up by the
city heads" That suggestion, to say
the least is old enough to wear whiskers,
yet I see nothing in it that threatens
any ones right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Successive city
heads and numerous Congressman alike
have long appreciated and given much
sincere thought to the parking problem
of Washington.
Brainard laments that parked cars
ruin the looks of the city" OF like
nature is his specific plant that the
parks down by the Mall are nothing but
q lot of cars and not parks" To me
the Mall presents numerous scenes of
beauty, parked cars or no parked cars.
Singleton laments that washington
is Just o garage" and inquiries, why
spend millions to beautify city and
then allow that beauty to be covered
up with automobiles?" He does not
designate any specific beauty or beauty
spot of the city that he considers Cow
cred up with automobiles" AS see it,
the only spots" Of the city that may be
said to be covered" by automobiles are
those constituting the expensive street
surface beneath said automobiles.
HARRY w. r. GLEMSER.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

poses-to prevail upon the Senate to
reconsider the vote by which 1t had
placed the wheat and cotton amend
ments in the bill and to bring about
prompt adjournment of Congress.
The Senate cotton bloc, although It
failed to get all 1t wanted, may point
with pride to the fight it made and to
the results accomplished. But what Of
the wheat bloc? The wheat Senators
are like the little pig that went to
market and crieG, "Wee, vice." all the
way home. They pulled the chestnuts
out of the fire for their cotton brethren
and then were left high and dry, with
no provision for Government loans on
wheat.
Mr. Longs filibuster did not save the
wheat farmers the proposed loans. But
his remarks emphasized the fact that
the wheat loans had been thrown over
board as soon as the President had been
assured Of enough cotton votes to make
1t possible both to strike the loan
amendments from the deficiency bill and
to bring about an adjournment. The
Louisiana Senator, bitter opponent Of
the Roosevelt administration, was also
stubborn enough to prevent the fulfil
ment of the Presidents plan to take
the loan amendments out Of the bill,
have it passed and then adjourn. Mr..
Ruhf 0uoinsf fha
Roosevelt domination of Congress to the
battle of Lexington. 1t was a shot, he
said, that might be heard around the
Nation.
The Congress has gone, YEARLY. 1t
has been anxious to get away these
many months. Only the persistence Of
the President in his demand for the
passage of his "share-the e-wealth' tax
bill prevented adjournment a month ago.
The President, it was rumored yeSter-
day, had threatened" that he would
prorogue the Congress if the Senate con-
tinued to insist upon its cotton and
wheat loan amendments to the de-
ficiency bill No one seriously believed
that he would do any such thing. AL
though the Constitution, in Section 8,
Article II, says "he may, on extraordi-
nary occasions, convene both houses, or
either Of them, and in case Of disagree
ment between them, with respect to the
time of adjournment, he may adjourn
them to such time as he may think
proper" no President of the United
States has ever exercised this preroga-
tive.
The country, like the members Of
Congress, will breathe a sigh Of relief
now that adjournment has come. There
will be no more billion-dollar appropria-
tions for while.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Another Peak Conquered.

The time will one day come when
every mountain of the world will have
been climbed, when every lofty peak
will have been conquered. AS year fol-
lows year and the technique of alpining
improves it is inevitable that even mighty
Everest must submit. An interesting
gesture in that direction is the news re-
Ceived from Burwash Landing, Yukon
Territory, to the effect that Mount
Steele has been scaled by an expedi-
tion of the American Geographical
Society.
Sixteen thousand four hundred and
thirty-nine feet high, this most recent
mountain to feel the tread of human
feet has been considered "one of the
highest and most inaccessible" eleva-
tions of the Canadian Northwest. Lit
tie has been known about it, mystery
has been its distinguishing characteristic.
Covered with snow and glacial ice, it
has reared its silver head above an
unexplored terrain, thirty miles north Of
Mount Logan in the st. Elias Range of
the Cascade chain. Veterans have pre-
ferred to let 1t stand untried, and it is
q group of younger men who now have
added it's name to the list of heights
attained. A message of only nineteen
words tells the story: Report ascent of
Mount Steele, August Is, by Hans, Joe,
Harrison, myself, and safe return Bur-
wash Landing. Walter Wood"
The signer Of the telegram is Walter
A. Wood, jr., a junior member of the
Geographical Society staff, who, however,
already has had experience in Switzer-
Evening star., 1935-08-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

Doctors, as q class, are very much
interested in the home aquarium.
Many of them keep tanks of tropical
and gold fishes In their homes and offices.
and practically all Of them manifest
real interest in them when visiting the
homes of patients who have them.
Just how unusual this Interest is Is
known only to the fish fancier, who
too often finds his prize tanks blandly
overlooked by visitors who ought to
know better.
There seems to be belief on the
part of many laymen that fish keeping,
as practiced today. is only for children.
Or is just a mild form OF insanity
which 1t is better to ignore.
The supreme insult to the keeper Of
tropical or exotic specimens is to casually
look at an aquarium which contains
rare fishes and remark 1ndifferently
"Oh, see you have some goldfish"
Medical men, Of course. being scien-
fists, or at least supposed to be. ought
to be interested in an aquarium, for
nowhere else in so small a compass
sickness be illustrated.
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applications are laws for fishes, not
human beings, but 1t also is q fact that
life Is life, wherever you find It, and
what applies to one form may equally
apply to another.
Fishes are used largely today in vita
min extraction. Most Of these fishes
are so-called food fishes, but the little
ones kept In tanks in thousands OF
homes are their little brothers Of streams
and pools.
The cod has lost its claim to
uniquenesS.
No longer Is 1t the sole source OF
liver oils, crammed with the sunshine
vitamin -" and other life-giving health
elements.
Experiments conducted during the
past three years have shown that the
livers Of various other creatures Of the
sea are as high in potency, II not higher
In one OF the trade preparations four
different fishes are used.
Being at heart q scientist, even II he
must mix a great deal of common sense
with 1t. the doctor finds posed for him.
in every aquarium, problem and solu-
ton if possible.
This is akin to sickness, diagnosis
and prescription and prognosis.
Every fish tank, good, bad or indif-
ferent, has its problems.
The longer q person keeps them the
surer he Is to find them.
The newcomer is likely to believe he
has solved everything in three months,
but the old hand knows that at the
end of three years of fish keeping he
will never be sure of anything. Or at
the end of 80 years.
Every aquarium is a problem in itself
just as every case, even of the same
disease, is distinct.
The medical doctor can find nowhere,
except in his own cases, so many dis
tinct problems calling for individual
solution as among the tanks of fishes
kept by the average aQuariSt.
This Summer, for instance, keepers
of indoor tanks have had more trouble,
by and large, with the ree-living forms
of algae, which cause green water, "
than in years.
1t is probable that the primary in
lection comes from hydrant water.
Yet it is certain that unless these
forms of microscopic plant life find
conditions to their liking in the home
aquarium, they will not prosper there,
and ultimately will die out without the
owner ever realizing they are present.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

Finding habitat which suits them,
however, they lose no time in multiply
ing, so that within a few days the
aquarium takes on O slightly dulled
appearance. As yet 1t is not noticeable
except to the person acquainted with it..
This slight haze Is unmistakable, once
experienced, and no time should be lost
IL TIE owner desires to prevent the
deep pea-green color which finally
almost clouds the swimmers from view.
While such q tank is not unhealthy
for the fishes, it Is most unsightly, and
almost the worst ordinary calamity
which can overtake a priced aquarium
Therefore it is wise to consider what
causes green water" and what may be
done to prevent it or correct it when it
occurs. The first is easier than the
second. Green water, In most instances,
is fostered by one or more of the
following:
!. Too much light.
2. Too many fishes per gallon Of water.
3. Too much dry food.
4. Too few plants.
Any one of these, or a combination,
Is able to afford the microscopic plants
which we call green algae" exactly
what they need to flourish.
This is true both OF indoor tanks
and outdoor pools, but in the latter
there is more Nature and less man, so
ordinarily conditions in pools tend to
clear up Of themselves, in time
Rest assured that q green tank, once
1t has started to go green" win never
clear up by itself unless the "fish fan"
takes active steps to combat It,
Even then he will have q fight on his
hands.
The remedies, such as they are, are
obvious
Cut down on the amount of light.
especially direct sunshine, which the
tank receives.
Remove some of the fishes to other
tanks or give them away to friends.
Feed less dried food. II you ordinarily
feed twice day feed but once. Or
try not feeding at all for q week. The
fishes can stand it.
Put more plants. especially anacharis,
into the tank. No plant of itself will
cure" green water, but a heavy plant
ing tends to cut down the amount Of
light which reaches the water. 1t must
be remembered that sunlight stimulates
the free Living forms of algae. which
cause the trouble, In combination with
helpful-to them-food factors.
Since tank cannot be moved without
a great deal of work, the best way to
cut down the light is to put sheet of
cardboard or paper on the light side,
usually the window side.
We have experimental with various
colored papers and tissues and have
found nothing superior to green. Light
green tissue as used by florists is excel
lent. Two or more sheets will give as
much protection as the owner desires.
Overcrowding is the first vice of the
indoor aquarium. 1t is impossible, in
theory, to say just how many fishes
can live well in a given body of water,
but every one who has kept an aquarium
for any length of time knows perfectly
well when his tanks are overcrowded.
Christopher Coates of the New York
Aquarium feeds his charges one meal
of dried foods per day in Summer.
Tanks are better both Winter and
Summer if fairly heavily planted. The
addition of fresh tempered water to the
extent of one-fourth of the tank per
week is helpful, even in an aquarium
containing tropical fishes. There are
some varieties, such as the dwarf
gourami, which will not stand this,
however
Evening star., 1935-08-27
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Tempered Pace

Tempered Pace
When life throws a challenge to some
big race,
Ride inl
And know from the start that by Gods
good grace
You'll win.
Take the track with each nerve alert
and cool,
Rating no man in the running a fool.
Ride in
When the end is yours and you've made
the goal,
Ride slow.
For victor with wisdom in his soul
Must know
That his skill will be tried to utmost
might
When he tops the grade in q race or
fight.
Ride slow.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
A Hoping Job.

whats your boy Josh interested in
nowp"
"Workin' out q big idea of his own"
said Farmer CorntoSsel. He wears q
silk hat, eyeglasses with heavy string
and smokes a big black cigar. hoping
some one will mistake him for high
powered lobbyist and hand him q bundle
of money"
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Peace.

Peace.
Now Let us have peace!" said q general
great
When hoStilities drew to a close.
We make the suggestion to every state
That suffers from lack of repose.
We say it in Russian and also Chinese,
In Nippon we utter the call.
We find the demand is whatever you
please.
The supply is exceedingly small.
Now. Let US have peace" it is whispered
in Greece,
In Germany, also in France;
Old Italy might let the battle cry cease
If Africa'd give it a chance.
On these words we have pondereda lot,
In bewilderment now we are lest
AS we hear the inquiry, Just where
is it got?"
And also How much does it cost?"
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Exhausting the Strafes.

From the Pasadena (Calif) Post.
Now the Nazis have added "aristo-
Gratis" to the list of things to be hated.
The Hitler people are exhausting the
supply Pretty soon they will be reduced
to hating each other.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

With the United States Government
binding itself to keep the peace for six
months and Mussolini giving assurance
that his war will be swift and decisive,
a respectful attitude toward Washing
tons warnings against entanglements
may be easy.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Responsibility Of Youth.

Be thrifty, son, and what ! save
Try not to squander.
The precepts that Ben Franklin gave
With reverence ponder.
So when I leave you some sad day
With no protector,
Perhaps you'll find enough to pay
The tax collector.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Enrland's Good Start.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
With $500 divorce suits on her court
calendars, England has a good start with
that program to build up her movie in
dustry.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Dazed.

Dazed.
The Congressman sat in o car
With wreckage piling round him.
Bewildered, he exclaimed, "We are
In tumult most astounding.
OF course. I'll have to make a choice,
Perhaps our cause grows weaker"
And then he lifted up his voice
And hollered, Mister Speaker!"
Evening star., 1935-08-27

Great Britain contemplates Gibraltar
and Suez with the close attention that
is always required toward suburban de-
velopment.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

Munitions makers may be in favor Of
keeping the United States out Of war
and concentrating on defensive prepara-
tions for their own valuable plants.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

'You can't believe all you hears"
said Uncle Eben. "You has to put in
so much time hstenin' dat you can't
make up yoh mind bout anything in
particular"
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication OF special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1935-08-27
UnsoIvable,

OnSOlVaDle.
From the Toledo Blade.
II scientists can't agree within few
hundred thousand years on the age Of
man, can you imagine what a time they
would have with woman2
Evening star., 1935-08-27
Saving,

Saving.
you still think citizen ought to
save money!"
Yes" said Senator Sorghum. But
If he happens to be a lobbyist he
shouldn't try to salvage too much in a
lump"
Jud- -Tunkins says don't ask him about
a New Deal. All he wants to know is
when do we get out the ballots and start
another.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

Rate by Mail-PayabIe in Advance.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

@. How much water is used in the
City of Washington in one day?-A. H.
A. This varies with the time of year
and the weather. The years average
for daily consumption is 85,000O00
gallons.
Evening star., 1935-08-27

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Evening star., 1935-08-27

@. Did Alfred Nobels brother die as
the result of an exploSive?-E. r.
A. An explosion in his nitroglycerin
factory in Sweden caused the death of
Nobels brother, Oscar, and the crippling
of his father. AS result of this disaster
Nobel determined to find less dan
gerous substance than nitroglycerin, his
efforts resulting in his discovery of
dynamite.
@. Who carried the news Of the fall
of Yorktown to Philadelphia?-C. H.
A. Tench Tilghman, military secretary
and aide on WaShington's staff.