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The Washington times., 1935-04-01

While protests Of investors
against enactment of the Admin.
istration's holding company bill
continued to pour into Congress,
representatives of large public
utility groups today prepared
their final assault against the
measure before the House Inter.
state Commerce Committee.
Officials Of the Associated Gas
and Electric and Cities Service
companies, the United States
Chamber Of Commerce, the Ma
tional Association of Railroad
and Utilities Commissioners, the
American Federation of Utility
Investors, the Durable Goods
Committee and the National AS
ISOLATION Of Manufacturers are to
present their arguments before
the committee this week.
At the conclusion Of the testi-
mony by opponents Of the bill,
Interstate Commerce Commits.
sioner Walter M. w. Splawn and
Dozier De Vane, solicitor Of the
Federal Power Commission will
appear in rebuttal. A spokesman
for the IVA also will be heard.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
EASTERN FETES
TITLE WINNERS

Faculty members and students
joined today in a reception for
the victorious basketball team of
Eastern High School, the new
champions of the Eastern States.
The team emerged victorious
in a grinding tourney staged last
week at Glens Falls, N. Y. For
their feat, the team brought home
much-coveted silver trophy. East
ern was among the eight, schools
represented at the tourney, after
1872 applications for entry had
been turned down.
Speakers at today's rally in.
cluded Charles Hart, principal Of
the school; C. M. Guyon, coach of
the team; John Paul Collins, as
sistant principal, and A. H. Greg
ory, president of the Home and
School Association.
Members of the team are La
velle Dean, captain, awarded the
trophy for being the most valu-
able player during the tourna-
ment: Henry Scheible, Croydon
Edelin,, Claude Colley, Charles
Hollidge, Ortha Shaner. William
Buckholtz and Edwin Miller.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Just Used Hugh
To Help Self,
Says Huey

ooh, hell, he's all washed up.
/ just used him to get me up a
good radio audience"
There, in his own words, you
have Senator Huey Longs
opinion of Gen. Hugh S. John
son, former chief Of the NRA
and arch foe of the Louisiana
"Kingfish."
AS he was leaving radio sta
ton here last night after an air
attack on President Roosevelt
and his Administration, Senator
Long was asked by newspaper
men what he thought of General
Johnson after the three-cornered
verbal fight between himself,
the general, and Father Charles
E. Coughlin, Detroit radio priest.
. And that's just what he said.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Toll
Continues Decline

Indication that the United States
may be winning it's fight against
tuberculosis is found in a report
issued yesterday by the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company.
The report states that fatalities
due to the disease declined con-
tinually during the first two
months of 1885, while deaths from
cancer, suicides and automobile
accidents were on the upgrade.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Truant Soldier
Has Big Time
As War Ace

NEW YORK, April IAN in
genious young soldier A. w. o.
L. from Fort Meade, Baltimore,
was in the custody of police here
today after he admitted he had
a great time in New York by pos
ing as Col. Eddie Rickenbacker,
war ace.
The soldier, Robert Ermer, 81,
is attached to Company B, of the
Sixty-sixth Infantry. Tired of
Army life, he left Fort Meade
last month without leave and
reached this city with $50 in his
pockets.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
GRID STAR SEIZED

LYNN, Mass, March 81 U.P).
James F. Morrissey, IT, was star
quarterback on the Lynn English
High School football team last
Fall. Confronted driving an al
legedly stolen automobile, he
straight-armed a policeman from
the running board,
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Women Democrats
To Elect Officers

CLARENDON, Va, April 1.-The
regular monthly meeting of the
Arlington County Women's Demo-
cratic Club will be held tonight at
8 o'clock, in the headquarters.
The annual election of officers
will be the principal business of
the meeting.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
ONE SWIFT AND SAFE
PRESCRIPTION FOR
RHEUMATISM

One supremely good prescription
for rheumatism, sciatica, neuritis and
lumbago caused or aggra-
waited by excess uric acids well
and favorably known to live pharma-
cists all over America. Just ask for
ounces Allenru prescription and
take as .directed-it is swift and
safe-often the pain and agony leave
in 4S hours. Costs S5c or less.
Cut this out and save it.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Stands on the Avenue.

In the matter of the erection of re-
viewing stands on Pennsylvania avenue
for the occasion of the Shrine meeting
and pageantry next month, which
has developed opposition by merchants
along the route to the proposal,
1t Is assuredly to be borne in mind
that the sidewalk space will be re-
quired for the accommodation of great
throngs Of people, not merely during
the period Of the displays in the
street, but for days before and after
the event 1t would seem to be pos
sible to provide adequate seating &C
commodations for those who wish to
view the spectacles without encroach-
ing upon the walks to the extent pro-
posed. An alternative plan to erect
the stands beyond the curb lines, upon
the driving space, is subject to the
objection that this would danger
ously narrow the traffic area during
the period between erection and de-
molition, perhaps a fortnight. The
meeting will draw a great crowd from
out Of town, participants and spec
tators, and there will be need for the
fullest possible space for the move
ment of these people, afoot and in
vehicles. With due consideration for
the financial requirements of those
responsible for the convention, it
would seem to be feasible to set aside
sufficient space in certain areas for
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Urges Shift of Good
Radio Programs Sunday

To the Editor of The Star:
Some time ago you published very
fine editorial on radio entertainment
for children. I hope you continue to
remind parents from time to time
that it is their duty to be acquainted,
at least in a general way, with what
their children hear. There are some
excellent programs designed for chill
dren and some that are definitely bad.
Recently another side of the radio
situation has been called to my atten-
ton. am a minister. Not long ago
I visited one of my members who had
been a Shut-in for some time. He is
a man of some knowledge Of music
and entertainment. Naturally, he
turned to his radio for recreation. He
said that the programs from z o'clock
to 10 O'Clock Sunday evenings-the
regular hours for church young
peoples meetings and evening wor-
ship-were the most interesting Of the
whole week.
At this suggestion I am writing this
letter. am not wishing for any legal
coercion in the matter. belong to .
denomination which believes in ab-
solute separation of church and state.
I do hope that those who read this
letter may carefully ponder the mat
ter and express their opinions, pub
licly and to the broadcasting COM
panies. am sure that the companies,
if they knew that enough people de-
sired it. would place these programs,
which seem to be so interesting to
young people and older ones, too, at
some other hour Of the day.
e. H. PURYEAR.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Austria and Abyssinia.

1t is far cry from Vienna to Adds
Ababa-from the blue Danube to the
rain-soaked wastes of the Ethiopian
realm-but Europe has suddenly
awakened to the peril that Italy's
designs on Abyssinia may have roper
cussions that will spell the doom of
Austria. That danger looks so real
that Anglo-French diplomacy has
Just been set in motion to avert the
war that is impending between Mus
solini and Emperor Halle Selassie.
The fear of the London and Paris
governments is that if the Italians
carry out their purpose of crushing
AbySSinia, as pre-War Austria Hun
gary was bent upon destroying Serbia,
it would seriously weaken any united
stand which Italy, Great Britain and
France might make against German
aggression in Austria or elsewhere IN
Europe. 1t would be current example
and a precedent to which Hitler,
Goering and Goebbels could point
with a good deal of satisfaction and
justification. Moreover, it is felt in
Great Britain and France that Italy
is embarking upon wholly incalculable
adventures in Africa and may easily
find herself so entangled there as
seriously to cripple her capacity to
throw adequate military force into any
operations that might be required to
safeguard the independence of
Austria.
For these various reasons London
and Paris now plan to bring the
strongest pressure to bear upon both
Italy and Abyssinia to compose their
differences. A new League of Nations
crisis is enviSioned if they fail to
do so. If Abyssinia insists upon
arraigning Mussolini at the bar of the
Council in Geneva the week after
next, Italy, in resentment Of such
humiliation, might follow the examples
of Japan and Germany and bolt the
League. Rome has already rejected
Geneva arbitration of the Abyssinian
dispute.
1t seems more than problematical
whether Mussolini, with his far
advanced preparations for war in
Africa, will permit his hand to be
stayed at this late hour. Italy is
ablaze with Fascist-generated martial
enthusiasm. Mobilization of the army
is in progress on a nationwide scale.
II Duce has led his people to believe
that they are about to shoulder civil
ization's burden in challenging Ethio-
plan "pretensions." Emperor Halle
Selassie on his part is in no less war
like mood. He, too, is arming to the
teeth and ready for the arbitrament
of battle.
Britain, France and the League will
have to step lively if they are to pre-
serve Abyssinia from Mussolini's
legions and Austria from absorption
by a Germany which will feel that
land-grabbing has not only been
stamped with approval by events in
Africa, but can now be ventured with
less risk than before.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Looking Before Leaping.

The current trend is toward lower
real estate taxation, the argument
being that real estate bears dis
proportionately heavy share OF
burden that should be more widely
distributed. The depression has wit
messed efforts-not all of them wise
by various taxing jurisdictions to bring
about reductions in the real estate
tax. There have been horizontal re-
ductions in assessments and limita-
tions on tax rate as well as on the
amount of taxation.
In Tuesdays municipal election
Baltimoreans defeated, two to one, a
proposed amendment of the city
charter which would have permitted
an arbitrary limitation on real estate
taxes. Nobody loves taxes, and prop
erty owners, heaviest taxpayers, are
not exceptions Why did property
tax-paying Baltimoreans vote almost
two to one against a proposal that
would have benefited them as such
taxpayers?
The reason may be that those who
argued for arbitrary reduction in the
real estate tax did not point out the
source of substitute taxation. If the
real estate tax in Baltimore were arbi-
trarily cut, other revenue would have
to be raised to take its place. And
Baltimore taxpayers were intelligent
enough not to jump from the frying
pan of real estate taxation until
assured of a more comfortable land
ing place elsewhere. While reduc-
tions in the real estate tax burden
are desirable, the substitutes for the
realty tax may be altogether I'M
desirable. And little had been said
in Baltimore about the substitutes.
Evening star., 1935-05-11

the erection of reviewing stands which
will not unduly obstruct the traffic,
on sidewalks and in the streets, and
will not injuriously affect the busi-
ness interests of those whose estab-
lishments are located along the line
of the great parade-spectacles. This
is going to be remarkable affair,
in size and spectacular interest, and
it should be so arranged as to permit
the fullest view for the largest num-
ber with the least interference with
business and the minimum of traffic
congestion, Immediately before and
after the prescribed program of
events, as well as during their occur
renee
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Island Troubles.

Islands seem to have more than
their natural share of troubles. The
examples Of Cuba. Haiti, Puerto Rico
and the Philippines might be cited in
illustration. and if the whole compass
of history were to be considered.
Crete, Cyprus, Malta, Ceylon, Java.
Sumatra. Tahiti, Hawaii, the Fits,
Madagascar. Tasmania, New Zealand
and Ireland would have to be taken
into account-all, at one time or an
other. have suffered war, revolution,
famine, plague, earthquakes, hurri-
canes and other ills to which they
properly should be exempt. Their
isolation from continental sorrows ap-
pears to be more truly theoretical
than real.
Just now the Virgin Islands are
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Army Air Base Testimony
Held Deserving of Rebuke

A large proportion of press comment
places upon the House Military At
fairs Committee blame for publication
of testimony OF Army officers which
brought a rebuke from President
Roosevelt and an apology to Canada.
The testimony related to hypothetical
conditions, including the establish
ment of air bases. Editorial comment
largely upholds the Executive, holding
that such confidential statements are
legitimate and in accordance with the
practice of nations, but should not be
made public.
1T is matter of guarding against
air raids" says the Portland (Me)
Press Herald, pointing out that I'VE
have to think what might happen
when attacks are made by air squad
ronS, not necessarily from Canada"
The New Orleans Times-Picayune
states: Defense is necessary. OF
course. and the Nation must be pre-
pared to protect its borders against
invasion. But it is not the wish OF
give needless offense to any other
country, and President Roosevelt's
timely and positive assertion Of that
fact will be nationally approved"
"The committees sessions were ex-
ecutive, and high Army officers were
asked about national defense plans"
explains the Fort Worth (Tex0 Star
Telegram, with the further comment:
1T is common knowledge that the
general stats of the armies of all i'm
portant powers, considering, as they
are bound to do, every possibility, pre-
pare plans for military action cover
ing any emergency and involving any
other power. 1t is likely that the
general staffs Of Great Britain,
France and other European nations
have detailed plans setting out what
should be done in case of an Amerl-
can invasion, or what routes ana ols-
positions of forces would be necessary
for an invasion of the United States.
These things are army STUFF; every
body knows they exist, and nobody
minds them. But it is something else
again when such things are made
public"
Testimony Of this character is no
surprise to war departments any
where" AYERS the Davenport E1oWa)
Times. while the Bloomington (1ll.)
Pantagraph suggests that ut is not
proper to tell all potential enemies
about it in advance" The Winston
Salem IN. c. Journal holds that
necessarily governments must set up
many hypothetical cases." and the
Ann Arbor (Mich) Daily News main
tains that nothing should De per-
mitted to violate the tradition OF the
unfortified frontier"
THE Executive rebuke," in the
opinion of the Akron Beacon Journal,
ought to end the loose talk that has
been coming in rather constant vol
ume from congressional committees
that have been specializing in promot-
ing the national defense. 1t should
be possible to effect this end without
creating a war scare or giving neigh
Dor nations excuse for viewing our
activities and purposes with alarm"
The Chicago Daily News charges
the House committee with "carelessly
publishing casual remarks" while the
Minneapolis Star advises: "The OH
Ger. presumably. was expressing his
own ideas in an executive session. The
COMMITTEES permitted the testimony to
Evening star., 1935-05-11

be made public. The result was a
situation which In the hair-trigger
atmosphere of Europe might have had
tragic results. A change in our his
toric policy of friendship with our
Northern neighbor and an armed Ca
madam frontier is unthinkable Con-
greSsmen should have had more sense
than to have permitted such testimony
to become public, carrying the impli-
cation Of being official"
The Nashville Tennesseean con-
cludes: The American Government
does not envisage the possibility Of
change in these friendly relations, and
in view OF the testimony before Mr..
McSwain's committee, which has been
published, it is well that President
Roosevelt made use of such firm and
convincing language in his letter to
the chairman"
Evening star., 1935-05-11
District Day.

If the House expects to make any
headway on Monday, District day, in
disposing of the unusually large num-
ber of local bills on the House calen-
dar, Speaker Byrns' sound advice that
the entire day be devoted to these
measures must be followed. District
day is too often the occasion for
round table discussion of every sub
ject under the sun except District
legislation. But on Monday-with
relatively few District days left for
this seSSion-the fact that there are
more than a dozen local bills awaiting
House disposition is complicated by
the extraordinarily controversial fea-
lures of some of the bills. They re-
quire undivided attention.
The two local bills for unemploy-
ment insurance and old-age pensions,
designed to accompany passage of
the national social security legislation,
are important enough in themselves
to warrant more than a day of ordi-
nary discussion. Both measures should
be closely examined, not for any fault
that may lie in their socially desirable
objectives, but for the method pro-
posed in reaching such objectives.
The Supreme Court decision in the
railroad pension act has cast some
doubt on the legality of the proposed
method of pooling all employer-con-
tributions for the payment of unem-
ployment benefits. And the Ellen
bogen bill is unique among State
measures so far enacted in proposing
a heavy contribution toward unem-
ployment reserves from the general
funds of the District, without any
employees contribution. 1t would be
wise to consider more closely the ad-
visibility of reducing the expense
contemplated in the local bill by
eliminating the proposed general fund
contribution, at least for period of
reasonable observation as to the work
ing of the law. the demands of local
unemployment and the suficiency of
revenues under the pay roll tax levied
on employers Mrs. Norton's old
age pension bill has been generally
approved by those familiar with such
measures, but its discussion should
produce some estimates of the cost.
a question which has been pretty
much neglected in previous discussions
and which is all the more important
now, because of the shortage of local
revenues.
Two othT measures which may be
expected to create controversy are the
bills amending the District liquor con-
troll act. One of these has been pre-
sented by the Commissioners on be-
half of the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board, and is generally designed to
strengthen and facilitate enforcement
of the act. The other, by Represent
ative Dirksen of Illinois, is notable
chiefly for it's proposal to abolish the
so-called hidden bar" provision of
the local liquor regulations. If the
House wishes to follow the Presidents
explicit directions to the Commission
ers to prevent the return of the
saloon, it will defeat this bill.
Evening star., 1935-05-11

The great epidemic which swept
over st. Louis in the late Summer of
1888 was a new kind of disease
At first it was diagnosed super
fcially as the dreaded encephalitis
lathargica, or American sleeping sick
ness" of which there have been sew
eral severe outbreaks since the World
War, but United States Public Health
Service doctors who have made an in
tersive study Of its pathology and
after effects are convinced that the
relationship Is quite tenuous, If not
non-existent.
Both are inflamations Of the central
nervous system, caused by some sort
of filterable virus They have some
symptoms in common and an equally
high death rate of approximately 20
per cent. The differences, however,
are striking. Notable among them is
the method of recovery. Encephalitis
after effects. The inflammation at
tackled the brain areas at the base of
the cerebrum, or top of the BRAIN
Somewhere in this part of the brain, it
was believed by the Austrian surgeon.
the late DR.. Constantin Won Economo.
who first discovered the disease, was
nerve center controlling sleep, with
the result that one of the chief man
ifestations of the malady was the
drowsiness it produced. Here, also.
were brain Centers important for con-
troll of the emotions. Apparently
permanent LESSONS were produced, for
the recovered encephalitis victim re-
mained prone to explosive emotional
outbursts which might have been
quite foreign to the personality before
the illness.
The new disease was much less
characterized by drowsiness and re-
covery was complete. On the other
hand, the LESSONS were more wide
spread throughout the brain. The
blood serum Of human patients con-
valescent from the disease had the
power of neutraliZing the virus. This
neutraliZing power is not found in
the serum of other types of encephal-
tits. Some neutralizing power was
found in the serum prepared from the
blood of other persons in st. Louis
who were not known to have suffered
from the disease. This indicates that
the virus was probably spread through
q considerably larger portion of the
population than merely the patients
who suffered with obvious attacks of
the malady. This virus, experiments
in the Public Health Service lab
oratories here show, is extremely ef-
fective with both mice and monkeys.
Injections into the brain in dilution
of one part in a million are success
tul in establishing the disease in mice
The study of the causation of the
disease was confused at first by
the presence of streptococci in the
noses and throats of patients which,
when introduced into the brains Of
rabbits, produced changes suggestive
of those brought out by the disease
in human brains. But the same
changes also occurred when strep-
tococci were used which were OBJ
tanned from the throatS of normal
persons, and further studies showed
that there was no actual relation
ship between them and the disease.
The older type of encephalitis
hardly can be called epidemic, PC
cording to the Public Health Service
doctors. They characterized it as
sporadic. It does not sweep through
o whole community, but appears only
Evening star., 1935-05-11

in the range of attention. Fourteen
hundred miles southeast Of New York,
they were purchased by the United
States from Denmark in 1917 and
currently are part Of the insular prob
lem of the Roosevelt administration.
The Governor Is DR.. Paul NJ Pearson,
Swarthmore Quaker. who ever since
his Inauguration in March, 1881, has
been striving to put into practice a
sociological idealism designed to make
the population self-Supporting in the
accurate meaning of that phrase. His
endeavors, most observers agree, have
been notably successful, but he hap
pens to have the handicap of being
Republican "hold-over." 1t follows
that Democrats who believe in "spoils"
have had their eye on him. and yes
terday the Senate was persuaded to
order an investigation to begin in the
islands May 10.
Tne complaints are neDul0uS, ana
DR.. Pearson's critics apparently hope
to develop a case piecemeal as the
inquiry proceeds. But fair question
in the circumstances would be: Is the
island population likely to be advan-
tagged by being involved in a political
scrimmage? A better course would be
a careful review of conditions in the
islands as they have been reported to
the Department of the Interior during
the past decade. Materials for that
kind Of study are available here and
should be at least as interesting as
the impressions of junketing expe-
dition visiting the islands for a few
weeks.
Evening star., 1935-05-11

man Of middle age living in a Vir-
ginia suburb of Washington. The case
was attended by two Washington ply
sicians, who made no positive diagno-
sis. His blood gave strong protection
to animals inoculated with the newly
discovered virus. The man had about
two degrees of temperature, nausea
and vomiting, considerable 'egarthy
and q sti6 neck. He could not en-
dure light. The man had O complete
and uneyeutful recovery.