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street northeast was burned on the
left hand. arm and shoulder, while
playing with fireworks at her home.
She was treated at Casualty Hospital.
Others treated at Casualty Hospital
were: Thomas Sewell, 10, colored. first
block Myrtle street northeast, burns
to left forearm and leg; John Farrell,
IL, l343 F street northeast, hand burn,
and Richard Washington, IA colored.
1705 Eighteenth street northeast,
burns to the right hand.
Leaford Chatain, 700 block Fifth
street, a taxi driver, suffered an in
jury to the eardrum when giant
hrecracker exploded near his head.
He was released from Emergency
Hospital after receiving treatment.
Prank Injuries Man.
A giant firecracker which an I'M
known prankster placed in the hands
of E. L. Jenkins. 38, colored. 1850 Co.
lumbia road, caused severe burns and
decorations. of both palms. He was
treated at Garfield Hospital. Others
treated there include:
Hyman Zetlin, 81, Gas Irving street
abdominal burns; Albert Embrey, 81
policeman, burns of the right thigh;
Luther Holland, IL, colored, 766 Co
lumbia road, burns of the left foot;
Edith Lewis, SIS, colored, 1851 Cham
plain street, burns of left ankle;
Jacob B. Levin, 80, BOLT Georgia ave-
nue., burns on right side of chest;
Mrs. James Carr, 81, 92O T street
burns of right SIDE of neck
Three persons we're treated fol
minor injuries from fireworks at Sib-
ley Hospital They were Lois Hodges
8, of lib Quincy street northeast
Billy Malley. 5, of 1926 Fifth street
northeast, and Shirley Edwards, As
L street northeast.
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turbance over the incident had COM
pletely passed away. It appears that
Capt Morgan was undiplomatic in
repeating and discussing before his
men, without having first personally
investigated the basis of the report, q
remark made to him by a resident Of
the community"
The committees last recommends
ton was that the time was now OPP
perfume for the Commissioners to issue
to all law enforcement agencies under
their control 1.-THE imperative neces-
sity of enforcing all laws to the last
letter."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05

Henry L. Num-, signed an agreement
for an annual salary contract plan be-
ginning July 4. The plan calls for So
pay checks year, based on 48 weeks
of work.
The company will estimate its labol
costs at the start of each year and set
aside the money for wages, President
Num- said. II economies are effected
through labor-saving devices or othe:
means. the workers will benefit by in
creased wages.
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ARMY ORDERS

Brooke, Col. Roger, Medical Corps,
from duty in Office of the Surgeon
General, here, to Letterman General
Hospital, Preside Of San Fransico,
Calf, on Or about July 80.
Gullion, Lieut.. Col. Allen w., Judge
Advocate Generals Department, as
signed to duty in office of the Judge
Advocate General, here, upon COM
pletion of present tour of foreign
service.
Snyder, Maj Howard E., Chaplains'
Reserve, ordered to active duty at
Army Medical Center, here, July IT,
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Fraternity Offends Hitler.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, July S
Up. - For making merry during
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's May 81
Reichstag speech and discussing how
Der Fuehrer eats asparagus, the
Heidelberg University chapter of the
illustrious Borussia Fraternity has
been suspended for two years.
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SHOE WORKERS ASSURED
OF JOB AND WEEKLY PAY
Nunn-Bush Company Employees to
Benefit by New Labor
Saving Devices.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. July 5.-Uncer-
tainty of employment was banished
and So pay checks year guaranteed
here Wednesday for 1000 workers of
the Num- Bush Shoe Co.
While employees cheered, represent
atives of the shop union. now in its
goth year at the plant, and President
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Lives in Town 80 Years.

Mrs. E. A. Seymour has died in the
house in Harpenden. England. in
which she lived for 80 years.
The Washington times., 1935-09-21

be pulled. Otherwise. the work
would do itself.
The principal duties of an at
tendant consist of showing off the
inner workings Of the place to the
thousands Of visitors who come
each day in disbelief, and, after
making the rounds, buy a dozen
eggs and depart full Of wonder.
In the lobby Of the office a
registry book discloSes the names
Of people from all over the country
who have visited Spring Hills
Farm. Curious Aunt Ida from
Salt Lake City has inscribed her
name beneath that Of Cousin
Elsie from Hardwick, Mass. Poul'
trymeu from Egypt and South
Africa have left their signatures
for American laymen to read and
marvel.
They are becoming something
Of O problem, these visitors. Sew
eral months ago q rule barring
childen was put into effect. A
group of youngsters had gone
through with their parents and
finding things a bit less exciting
than their elders spent their time
soaring the chickens. The next
days output Of eggs showed so
many blood spots the day was
very nearly q total loss.
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Works or Sleeps

AS dusk films the Maryland
sky, an alert electric eye heralds
the approach Of night by automat-
1cally turning on every light in the
place. With nary q human hand
touching a switch, q soft glow is
thrown over the tiers Of chickens,
It is bright enough to allow them
to eat if they want to eat-yet
soft enough to permit Slumber if
they want to sleep.
It is on the new theory that a
chicken Is ordinarily forced into
getting more sleep than it actually
needs by the fact that at night it
cannot see to do anything else.
Living in a world of perpetual
light, it takes less time off from
business than does the ordinary
1nhabitant of the barnyard who is
forced to the roost by the coming
Of darkness.
Then too, lack Of exercise in
the open tends to reduce the
sleeping time of these "mechani.
cal" chickens. The time saved
In sleeping is spent in eating,
which is one of the many reasons,
Mr.. McManus says, why his
chickens are laying SO per cent
Of a possible maximum Of an egg
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Precautions

It was a frightened chicken
who layed that egg with the thin
red lines on the yolk. 1t DOESN'T
mean the egg Is bad, but at
Spring Hills Farm it Is imperfect
and perfection is the only thing
accepted there.
In the houses under construc-
ton. the wire tiers Of chickens
will be shut off from visitors by
glass partitions. One Of the rea'
sons for this decision is that it's
merely another precaution against
disease. Says Kirby McManus:
'T simply can't afford TO have
my White Legh0rnS catching
your asthma!"
A little more than a year ago.
Kirby McManus. who Is o printer
by trade, came into CockeySV1lle
with about 800 baby chicks and
about So worth Of stuff to feed
them, He admits he knew very
little about raising chickens ana
soon found out that caring for 800
Chickens scattered all over the
place was pretty much Of a job:
r was he says, q nuisance and
Something told him there was no
excuse for It.
Well. he started confining them
in orange crates and when he had
perfected his system outof.doors,
he started confining them IN his
cellar. Says he:
"I had the entire lot Of them
In. the cellar and everyone
around here thought I'd sold
them!"
Up from Baltimore came Kir-
by's brother, Charles, who is pres
ident of a cork concern in the
city Of white doorSteps. SO i'm
pressed was brother Charles with
Kirby'S success on q small scale
that he wanted to know why 1t
couldn't be carried out on a large
one. Spring Hills Farm Is the re.
suit.
It represents an investment,
which, when everything is COM
pleted, will run well into $100, 900.
The part you see here already is
paying for the part that Is to
come, says Kirby McManus, and
the part that is to come will soon
pay for the part you see here.
Scheduled in "the part that is
to come" is q poultry dressing
machine which kills, dresses and
prepares for market 1,200 fowls
an hour. The fowl goes in alive
and comes out with everything
but the two sprigs Of parsley.
Again says the i1Tepressible Nc
ManuS:
"Of course, for the time be.
ing, people viii have to eat
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was also the intrusion Of Mitzi,
who JosephuS Prendergast used
as q weapon against 30" and
"Elley." Essie, Stephen, Juliet
Penelope and the old ones Of the
village, who marked time and
events slowly and vigorously un-
til they were carried across the
road to the cemetery, are like
wise part Of the complex pattern.
The story has been woven like q
New England quilt, honey and
satisfying and yet with splasheS
Of color that leap out and strike
forcefully at the eye and yet some
how fit quietly into the general
pattern.
Mrs. Colby Is well known in
Washington. She was formerly
the wife Of cambridge Colby, Sec.
retary Of State under President
Wilson.
C"For Lite," by Mrs. Nathalie
Colby, romantic noUeE published
by William MorroU & Coz -
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
Wild West
Tales

The story of the cattlemen's
fight against the rustlerS and the
way they banded together to rid
the West of this evil is ably told
In "GunS at Lazy River" Tom
Roam author Of many tales Of
the cattle country has caught the
essence Of the last fight IN this
volume.
He recountS the story Of Bart
Conuelly's ranch. Bart was killed.
His ranch was appropriated by
q crew Of quick shooting deS-
perate gunner. 1t was the
Square Bar ranch In the hills OF
Arizona.
The Cattlemen's Association
sent Newt sommers, their special
agent, to rid the country Of the
gang. Despite his courage and
competence Newt would have
found fighting so men single
handed too much Of an under.
taking on several occasions If 1t
had not been for Santa Mayne,
the girl who could ride like q
demon and shoot like a man.
CGunS at Lazy Rivers" West
ern nseIodrGmG By Tom Roam;
published BY GodtDtnL --....-...
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
Vanished
Gold

Written as tribute to modern
motherhood, $50 Many Worlds ~
a family story, has come from
the pen Of Mrs. Harry Pugh
Smith, author OF Handmade
Rainbows."
The Reed family have money.
They have so much that the
thought of doing something with
it that isn't selfish never enters
their heads. That is all except
Ruth Reed, the mother. She
senses that in all the plenty there
is a lack of something vital and
real.
The son refuses to interest him.
self in anything but himself. The
daughter is no less Self-centered
and father thinks happiness
comes as the result Of writing
checks.
Suddenly the Reed fortune dis.
solves. Ruth works hard for her
family's foundation and sure
enough with the money goes the
ugliness of life and the family is
triumphant.
("So Many Worlds" BY Mrs.
Harry Pugh Smith. published By
arcadia House,
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
SpOtLess

In the course Of construction Is
an experimental laboratory in
which DR.. Albon Fichtner, a cele-
brated poultry specialist, will con-
duct his studies. Outfitted to the
minutest detail, it will eventually
become the sanctum sanctorum
from which will issue every revo-
lutionary order having to do with
the care Of the farms stock. When
a chicken dies DR.. Fichtner will
want to know why 1t died. Post
mortem examinations will be held
and tests made. Unless the death
was an act Of God, or slaughter
for market, there will be little
chance Of a repetition at Spring
Hills.
At present there are 80 attend.
ants. Men in blue-striped linen
trousers and coats and women in
immaculate white, starched uni
forms pervade the place. Gone is
the gingham house dress Of the
old-style farm woman, and in the
discard, too, is the many-stained
blue denim overall and straw SOM
brero of the typical farmer.
Matching the cleanliness Of the
employees are the premises them
selves. The cell blocks are spot
less throughout, automatically dis
infected once a day, and the cages
themselves subjected to bacteria
ridding steam bath at short inter
vaIs. Odors are Subdued by the
presence Of lime and other chemi.
Gals, and the chickens themselves
are not even dusty.
With everything at his finger.
tips, Thomas Donovan sits at his
desk in the modern office and
keeps the books. His is really the
hard Job. Records Of this chicken
and that must be kept up to date
and compared with the record Of
that chicken and this. Buttons
must be pressed and cords must
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Ideal Life

Mr.. McManus' chickens live, in
a way, an ideal life. On the open
range there are times when the
grasshopper gets away. II the
small, slowly moving pellet es-
capeS, there's another right in
back Of it just as delicious.
No solemn hawk hovers over
head prepared to Swoop upon
these contented prisoners, nor are
their bodies ever drained dry of
blood by the thirsty weasel that
creeps into ordinary coops in the
still Of night. Water troughS are
never left empty in a glaring sun
while the distraught fowl endeav-
ors to slake q raging thirst by
crushing the juice from blades Of
grass. Theirs is . chickens
Utopia.
Sick chickens are taken imme-
diately to the hospital" where
they are treated and confined un-
der expert care until pronounced
well by men who know well
chicken when they see one. If be-
yond the bounds Of treatment,
they are painlesSly ushered into a
world which knows no pain.
The chickens at Spring Hills are
sleek-looking examples Of what
chickens were meant by their Gre
ator to look like. They cluck their
contentment continually and lay
their eggs at regular intervals.
They have never known the glee
Of chasing graSshoppers, and it Is
problemGtical II they would know
what to do with one when they
caught it. What they don't know
won't hurt them, reasons their
owner, and 1t seems a sound phil
losophy. CounSels Mr.. McManuS'
parGphrasing Marc Antony:
"If you have tiers, prepare to
Put chickens In them"
And, with the wholesale price
Of the highest.grade eggs at 48
cents Q dozen, it seems q good
idea.
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a day, while under conventional
methods so per cent is considered
pretty good.
Down in the basement Of these
buildings the process of repro.
duction is constantly being car
ried on by a battery of elabo-
rately fitted electrical incubatorS
and hatcherS. At certain hour
on certain day, 800 baby chicks
should be falling all over one an
other in a mahogany drawer
which contained nothing but eggs
on the day before. Says Mr..
McManus, looking at chart on
the wall:
"NO. 4 was ready 10 minutes
ago."
He walks over to No. 4, pulls
out a large drawer and 10! a
chorus of indignant squeakS greetS
him; 800 fuzzy bits Of life have
been added to the Spring Hills
collection. In three hours, No.
z will contribute as many more.
And so it goes.
Taken from the hatchers, these
little newcomers are themselves
assigned to cages only q little
different from the one occupied
by their egg-laying brethren up
stairs. The baby chicks are Gagged
in groups instead Of .singly until
such a time as they are old
enough and big enough to de.
mand a cell Of their own.
Sunlight streams into their cell
block through windows Of stained
red glass. Why red glass?
Chickens, you will be told, have
a habit of pecking at anything
red. Thus. when a chick is in
jured, his fellows will continue to
pick away at the sore spot until
the victim is eventually killed.
Under the red lighting system,
everything looks about the same
to the chickens and the red spots
which now and then appear go
unnoticed and unpecked. At night,
red bulbs continue to hoodwink
them. There's q reason for every
thing at Spring Hills.
The Washington times., 1935-09-21

SAAAGOIO CLAC 14OWcE Oh Ik1S country
ar1Stocracy, jumps from the
pedestal to cut a raw, ragged
slice of life in her marriage to
90" 80" turns into Josephus
Prendergast, war-made million
aire, with all the ugly compile.
mentS to be expected of such a
change. It was more or less ex-
actly what everyone in the village
expected.
Phil expected 1t, so he married
a Winthrop and kept right on
loving "Elley" because she kept
rebelling against the anguish that
was expected Of her as Mrs.
Josephus Prendergast. Elinor
fought and fought for "Jo"
through the years.
JosephuS Prendergast kept him
hidden as cleverly as he could.
But no one could outdo "Elley"
and she had her "Jo" at last.
Entwined in "Elley's" fight for
90" were Michael and Celia, the
young love that reflected the
love Of 90" and "Elley." There
The Washington times., 1935-09-21

The prints represent some Of
the best work of the best artists
of the century just past, with such
famous names as Degas and Corot
figuring prominently in the exhi.
bition.
'The Ferryman," one Of Camille
Corot's well known works. is char
acteristic Of the famous French
mans beautiful and inimitable
colorS. His landscapes. with their
dark shadow and twilight skies,
are the very essence of beauty.
Lovely Pastel
Edgar Degas, the Frenchman Of
the dancing paintings, is repre-
sented by a lovely pastel entitled
"Deux DanseuseS." The graceful
figures of two ballet girls at ease
The Washington times., 1935-09-21

make this a very interesting piece
Of work.
The founder Of the French
Romantic movement In the Nine
teenth century, Eugene Delacroix'
is represented in the exhibition
with Abduction Of Rebecca." . IA
nous painting that Is character
iStic of his style.
Delacroix, who is one Of the
forces behind modern art despite
the suggestion Of claSsicism in his
work, went to literature and his
tory for the subject matter Of his
great works of art. The "Abduc-
tion of Rebecca," for instance, Is
taken from one of the most NOV
ing sequences in Sir Walter SCOTS
"Ivanhoe."
Jacques Louis David, Of the
early part of the century, Is q
clasSiciSt. His portrait entitled
Madame de Servan," on exhlbi'
tion at the library, is character
istic of his style.
The unconventionality Of Henry.
Julian Rousseau, the unhappiness
Of the work Of Vincent Van
Cough, the Dutch painter, and
the realism and bright color OF
Edouard Manet are all represent
ed in the well.choSen prints in
the exhibition.
Honore Viotorine DauInler's LA
Lavandiere," better known as
'The taundress," is on exhibition,
exemplifying the great influence
this French master has had on
modern art. His figures, partly
in caricature, are probably the
most realistic Of his era.
Local Artists
Prints Of other artists, some Of
them lesser known, are also in
cluded in the show, which will
continue on the second floor OF
the library at Eighth and K
Streets Northwest, until the end
Of this month.
For the remainder Of the sea-
son, the library'S Fine Arts Dtvi'
sion will show the work Of Wash
ington artists in its monthly
exhibitions.
Oils, water colorS, Autographs,
etchings and photographs viii be
included in the "one-rnan shows"
Of local talent, beginning next
month and lasting through until
the end Of the season. usxt June
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
10000 Or
One Acre
Of Land

Old MacD Donald-do you re-
call tho time-honored ditty?-
had . farm. And on this farm,
in addition to ducks, geese and
pigs, he had some chicks. In
fact, the song boasted here a
chick, there a chick, every
where a chick-chick." It was,
no doubt, the conventional type
Of farm with acre upon acre
devoted to the raising Of
chickens.
Out in Cockeysville, Md, IA
miles north Of Baltimore, Kirby
McManus has a farm. It con-
sists Of one tidy little acre and
il also devoted to the raising
Of chickens-about 10000 Of
them.
Old MacDonald's birds, it Is
safe to say, were permitted the
run of q spacious range. They
were allowed to chase grasshop-
pers. They were not molested as
they pounced with great alacrity
and a goodly number OF excited
"cluckS" upon each misguided
earthworm which poked its head
above the surface Of their earth.
They enjoyed, so to speak, a
chickens heritage and In repay
ment, provided Old Macdonald,
and perhaps a few Of his imme:
diate kinsmen, with their essential
ingredients Of their omelets.
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
Feathered COgs

But Mr.. McManus' chickens
have never touched the ground.
They know not what it Is to frolic
in pursuit Of a juicy insect. They
languiSh, instead, in small wire
cageS-each chicken but feath'
cred cog in q mechanical vast
ness which produces two eggs
each minute Of each day in each
year.
It Is difficult to imagine a life
more unintereSting than the one
spent by q hen at Spring Hills
Farm.
She is born mechanically to
live and die mechanically.
Standing in q wire compart-
meut Just large enough to accom-
modate her when she fluffS her
feathers, the inmate of Cell 26,
Tier 8, Row c Of Battery 5 in
House No. 2, consented to cackle
out . complete interview on the
entire situation.
At the rear Of her cage, an end.
less conveyer belt rides by, bear
ing compressed food pellets at
which she peckS from time to
time. firing Of this, she may
stretch her beak toward the tiny
steel tap which at regular inter-
walls emitS drop of water.
firing Of this, there are but
two things left to do. She may
either lay an egg or she may re-
turn to the snatching of the trav-
cling pellets. It's a drab exist
ence.
To add to her sense of futility,
she has only to cock an eye down
the corridor and watch 2,435 other
White LeghornS doing exactly the
same thing.
The wire floor of her cage tiItS
towards the front so that when
an egg Is laid it rolls into a wire
mesh gully where it is collected
by uniformed girls who make
hourly rounds.
On the wire door Of her cage is
a chart. It is much like the one
at the foot TO a hospital cCt. 1t
tells the observer that he is look
ing at chicken No. 2778, who was
born on October 8, 1898, and that
to date she has laid 316 eggs.
Directly beneath her cell runs
another belt, attached to which
are metal Scrapers which take
away the waste, which is con.
veyed to . bin at the end Of the
tieI to be sold later as high-grade
fertilizer.
At present. there are five houses
with several more in the process
Of construction. They are built
of insulated concrete with stucco-
finished exteriors. One house con-
tainS about 2,400 laying hens. In
each Of the other four are LAO.
Each house is a single room,
air-conditioned so that for each
individual chicken there is 40
pounds Of fresh air per hour. It
is Enthusiastically heated and the
temperature hoverS at 10 degrees.
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them themselves. But we'u get
to that, I suppose"
Nor is Mr.. McManuS as me
chanically minded as his enter
prise would tend to indicate. To
him a chicken is a chicken. True,
he sees it in terms of eggs and
firm white meat which brings a
fancy price in the New York and
Philadelphia markets. But to
him, it is also !. feathered crea-
ture capable Of feeling pain and
able to protest mistreatment.
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
Success Story of Strange
Victories Is Theme of
Romantic Novel

Out Of the lives Of group Of folk from the section
Of staid New England village Nathalie Colby has written
"success story" of strange victories
The Washington times., 1935-09-21
Washi11gtonArtSeasonIs Is
Opened With ExhibitAt
Public Library

The Washington art for 1eS5Se opened this month
at the Public Library.
Continuing its policy Of exhibition month the Division
Fine Arts of the Public Library started with series OF
% prints of Nineteenth Century French artists.