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Evening star., 1935-10-13

Most of them know only too WELL likewise,
what to do about it, and how to do it. What
they lack is the man-power and the CASH
power.
Thousands of areas, urban and rural. where
juvenile delinquency runs high have been
surveyed by churches and by foundations and
minutely charted.
An adequate staff of social engineers, with
sufficient working capital and staff, could
survey the United States to the minutest de-
tail, for crime prevention purposes, in nine
months.
In year they could complete their studies
and offer diagnosis SO per cent correct And
the cost need not be more than ST 100000.
They would assemble. classify and coordi-
nate the vast amount of haphazard informa-
tion now available, investigate untouched
regions and report on the whole.
What they would find'out wouldn't be very
comforting. Symptoms of disease generally
aren't. Yet they have to be needed or death is
liable to ensue.
In one of our courts the other day five boys
were sentenced to the penitentiary for total
Vi Sfo yCdlo III tIIC WdlltOIl dIlu N1ClOuS
murder of an uresisting storekeeper. They
shot her to death as a matter of sport. The
youngest lad was fifteen, the oldest twenty
two. 1t will cost the state more than 100000
for maintenance if it keeps them in prison the
full period.
In Chicago seventy out of every 1000 boys
get into trouble and fall into the hands of the
police or courts. Social workers say that two
thirds of its growing boys are noticeably
underprivileged, and one-third of them seri-
ously so.
That means that about 100000 Chicago
boys are under some handicap, such as resi-
dence in an undesirable neighborhood. lack of
playground facilities. evil companions, no lead
ership in recreation or leisure time activities.
They may live in homes broken by death,
divorce, desertion, insanity or Imprisonment;
they may have insufficient food or medical
care, or otherwise be deprived of their natural
rights Worse than that, 225, 1000 boyish lives
are blighted by one or combination of these
elements.
speak of Chicago because it is my home
city. What is true there applies with equal
force to all our large cities.
CONTINUED on page I3
Evening star., 1935-10-13

a wELL-KNOWN fmancier tells me we
~ spend 1900 minute for our ma
n tional government.
lean 60 him one better
We spend $22, 800 minute for crime, and
think little or nothing of it.
We get at least something for the billions
we pour out at Washington. But all we get
for our investment" in crime is more and
better crime.
propose remedy.
BY il. we can save more than $4,000
minute, or approximately $4,000, 100000
year.
That would leave $500 minute, or
about 81 100000, 900 a year, for crime indul-
gence. Considering the depression, that ought
to be generous allowance for one country.
at least one as pacific as we claim to be.
This plan in another way of figuring, not
only would make liberal provision for our
national sport of crime. 1t would take care
of all our federal government expenses, which
the banker placed at about $6.83OOOOOOO
year.
And it would leave us $3.17OOOO 900 an
nually with which to buy each other Christ
mas presents.
My proposal is hackneyed one: Reduce
crime, and thereby its costs. But the method
| advocate is radically different, albeit simple
and practical
would leave out of the main picture
penologists. judges, lawyers, reformers, SEN
timentaists, policemen and the vast fringe
of sob sisters" whose emotionalism about
lawlessness does not interfere with their max
ing racket out of it.
My plan is for business leaders and scien-
lists. professional and club women to do
the job least, to finance and oversee it.
They would tackle crime from the standpoint
of prevention, just as physician does disease
or sanitary engineer does an unhealthy con-
dition, and 60 after it in way sufficiently
adequate and energetic to clean it up.
l am confident, from my knowledge of
gangs and the conditions which breed them,
that in five years we can cut our crime bill
in halt, saving sc, O.OOO,OO0a year.
In another five years, or the time it takes
to grow crop of citizens or gangsters - most
boys characters are determined within that
span the cost of crime could be cut to the
minimum of $2,oO ,OOO,O 900 annually.
Copyright 1885, United Newspapers Magazine Corpor.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Dissolution Is Asked.

Mrs. Sarah J. Lee, president of the
undertaking firm of j. william Lee
Sons Co., yesterday asked the District
Evening star., 1935-04-12
SUICIDE SUSPECTED
IN AIR CORPS DEATH
Mechanic Found Dead as Plane
Lands Leaves New Will.
Inquiry Ordered.

Suspicion of suicide in the death OF
Pvt. Paul Yackanicz, Army Air Corps
mechanic, during an airplane flight
Sunday afternoon from Boiling Field,
has resulted in orders for a chemical
analysis of the soldiers viscera, it was
said by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
Yackanicz was found dead in the
observers cockpit of plane flown
ard landed by Lieut.. Joseph Caldara,
Air Reserve, of Richmond. Va, Sun
cay afternoon. Lieut.. Caldara. with
authorization to make an extended
training flight, had been about to take
off when Yackanicz asked and re-
ceived permission to accompany him
as observer.
1t was at first believed Yackanicz
had died as the result of heart at
tack. Lieut.. Caldara reported that
the flight had been straight-away
training flight Of two hours. without
acrobatics or high altitude flying.
1t was found, upon examination Of
Yackanicz's effects at Boiling Field
that he apparently had made prepara-
tions for death, including a new will
said to have directed that his be-
longings be sent to his mother. Mrs
Tekla YackanicZ. Beaver Meadows, Pa
DR.. Macdonald said it probably viii
be several days before the chemica
analysis is completed.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
SALVATION ARMY
TO OPEN BUILDING
Copeland to Take Part in
Dedication of Social
Service Center.

With several national officers in
attendance, the Social Service Center
of the Salvation Army formally will
dedicate its new building, at First and
F streets, Sunday at pm senator
Royal S. Copeland of New York Will
participate in the exercises.
Commissioner Ernest l. Pugmire and
Mrs. Pugmire, territorial leaders of
this type of work, will come here from
Atlanta, Ga, for the dedication, and
the commissioner will deliver the prin-
cipal address on the development OF
social service work through the Saliva
ton Army.
Commissioner Edward J. Parker. ma
tional secretary of the Salvation Army
with headquarters in New York City
who was one of the pioneers in service
development, also will speak.
Col. Albert S. Norris, chief secretary
and Mrs. Pugmire will be on the pro-
gram, which will be in charge OF
Brigadier John c. MCGEE. the Sal
vation Army officer directing service
work here.
DR.. w. L. Darby of the Washington
Federation. of Churches and D. j.
Kaufman, representing the business
interests of Washington, will extend
greetings to the visiting leaders. Dr.
John C. Palmer will make the dedi-
catory prayer.
After the exercises, which will be
held in the assembly hall of the new
building, a ceremony of flag raising
will be held by the American Legion
Department Of the District of Co.
lumbia.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
TEXAS NEWSMEN
WILL BE H0N0RED
State Club to Hold Last Meeting
of Season at Mayhower
Tonight.

Texas newspaper men and their wives
now in Washington will be the honor
guests at the final meeting of the sea-
son Of the Texas Club. to be held at
the Mayfower Hotel tonight, it was
announced yesterday by Wright
Matthews, president.
A short business session will pre-
cede the entertainment and dancing,
during which officers of the club for
the next year will be elected.
Matthews said a special plea to
Texans now living in Washington to
buy the Centennial half dollars. now
on sale at the Riggs National Bank,
would be made at the meeting. The
half dollars were coined under an act
of the last Congress and sell for 81,
he said. Fifty cents is represented in
the face value of the coin, and the
balance will be put into a found to
establish museum in Austin, the
State capital.
Evening star., 1935-04-12

Rice's Honey Krushed Wheat
Bread has not only eliminated the
fat taste found in ordinary whole
wheat breads. but relieves poor
elimination Natures way by sup
plying the diet with the necessary
roughage and other ingredients to
keep you normal without the aid
of cathartics, which often compel
you to take more and more.
Yet this delicious new bread will
give you a new taste thrill! Toasted,
it tastes just like it is full of nut
meats. This is accomplished by a
secret process which uses a liberal
amount of pure honey and other in
Evening star., 1935-04-12

she said she intended to return to Il.
From other sources. however, it was
definitely established she has taken q
lease on a suite in fashionable Beverly
Hills apartment and will move in
today.
Barrymore's manager, Henry Hotch-
ner, was en- route to New York by
airplane. His wife said, He will be
with Mr.. Barrymore"
Rumors of a rift between Barrymore
and Miss Costello arose nearly a
month ago.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
AGRICULTURAL BILL
PROVISO REMOVED
Senate and House Conferees
Agree to Facilitate Diet
Information.

Senate and House conferees agreed
yesterday to leave out of the 1886 agri-
cultural appropriation bill the House
proviso which department officials
feared would hamper their work in
the issuance of pamphlets ard litera-
ture on balanced diets.
The conferees restored q House
provision making a definite appropria-
ton of 500, 100000 available for Fed
eral highway grants to the States and
District of Columbia out Of the work.
relief act. The work-relief measure
gave the President discretionary
Evening star., 1935-04-12

power to allot any amount up to
$500. .000. 900 for highway construction.
Tie only effect Of the amendment
in the agricultural bill is to require
definitely that at least 100000, 900
be allocated.
The conferees reached complete
agreement on all other differences
in the agricultural bill, which carries
a total Of about $l24.000, 900.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Ancient Stone Under Street.

Dated 1884, stone has been found
4 feet below the pavement in Ann
street, Dundee, Scotland, by workmen
repairing the street. The stone is SIM
liar to an ancient grave stone, but
archeologists believe 1t might have
been used to mark the boundary be-
tween the estate of Maxwelltown and
the Barony of Hilltown.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Make This Ten-Day Test
A ADVERTISEMENT

Try eating Rice's Honey Krushed
Wheat Bread for Just ten days.
Before you know 1t. the poisons
that have accumulated in your in
testines will vanish, you will feel
like a new person and your elimi-
nation will be greatly improved.
Then keep well by eating it every
meal!
Be sure to get genuine Rice's
Honey Krushed Wheat Bread which
has liberal extra coating of
crushed wheat upon the outer crust
Accept no substitute. Order a loaf
today. At your grocer.
(Copyrighted 1885. All rights reserved1
Evening star., 1935-04-12

Supreme Court to dissolve the cor
poration. Her petition. filed through
Attorneys John D. Fitzgerald and
George z. Sullivan, says the firm has
not engaged in business for more than
year, has sold its property and paid
its debts.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
DREADED CONSTIPATION
PLEASANTLY RELIEVED
BY HONEY KRUSHED BREAD
The Simple Ingredients Supplied By Nature Honey Kushed
Wheat Bread Give Relief.

gradients that have a stimulating
action upon the intestines.
Leading doctors now prescribe
Rice's Honey Krushed Wheat Bread
instead of Bran in the treatment of
Constipation because they have
found that bran sometimes packs
up" in the intestines and causes
serious harm whereas Rice's Honey
Krushed Wheat Bread does not.
II you are constipated, tired and
lack your old pep, start eating Rice's
Honey Krushed Wheat Bread with
every meal. 1t is oven fresh daily.
cellophane wrapped and already
sliced.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
WOMAN LOSES DIAMONDS
IN CONFIDENCE GAME

Nine Gems" Exchanged for Her
Two Turn Out to Be
Glass.
Mrs. Bessie Krauss, 243e Eighteenth
street, reported to police yesterday that
she had been tricked out of two dia-
mond rings, valued at 5000 each, by
three men. They were to have given
her nine diamonds in exchange, she
said.
The men, she said, met her on Irv-
ing street, between Sherman and
Georgia avenues, and asked to talk
with her. They went to a store at
Eighteenth street and Columbia road,
where she was shown the supposed
diamonds. She gave the men her two
rings as deposit, they gave her what
she believed to be q sufficient weight
in diamonds to cover the value of her
rings, and then went home to get $50
with which to pay the difference de-
manded in the trade.
Upon her return, she told police.
the men had left, and a subsequent
examination revealed the supposed
diamonds given her to be glass.
Evening star., 1935-04-12

THE way most cars are driven today
i fairly EATS UP" GASOLINE. Dash.
ing around! Starting choking accel.
Grating. The average car piles up FOUR.
FIFTHS of its mileage in short trips.
Such driving wastes your money unless
the gasoline you use has three distinct kinds
of power in PERFECT BALANCE!
Super.Shell, the first truly balanced saso.
line, combines POWER for quick starting
POWER for accelerating POWER for
the steady run.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
You Can BE SURE of HexasoI

For 25 years physicians have recon.
mended this safe saline effervescent
laxative. Contains no Phenolphthalein.) }
In its convenient powdered form you
can increase and decrease your doses
as desired.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
MRS. BARRYMORE
TO QUIT HUSBAND
Dolores Costello Takes Suite
After Reputed Order of
John to Leave.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, April 12.-Dolores
Costello Barrymore. wife of John
Barrymore, film actor, has taken an
apartment for herself and their chill.
dren, it was learned here today.
She would make no comment on re-
ports Barrymore, through his agent
had ordered her out of their home
and had informed her he will file suit
for divorce. The former actress said
II have absolutely nothing to say on
the matter"
Although she was not at her home,
Evening star., 1935-02-25

resist League Intervention was pre-
cipitated by Geneva's action in lifting
the arms embargo against Bolivia
and In declaring that If Paraguay did
not accept the League program she
would be fighting an illegal war. This
program provided for immediate ces-
sation Of hostilitieS, supervision of q
neutral zone between the two armies
by a neutral commission during
boundary negotiations, discussion at
Bueros Aires of all boundary and
economic disputes, with World Court
arbitration if direct negotiations
failed, and acceptance of these con-
ditions in full, under penalty Of sane
tons, by both belligerents not later
than February "a, 1885.
Thus. with Paraguay's bolt from
further jurisdiction by Geneva, comes
to an inglorious conclusion months of
effort, both by the League and by
pan-American neutrals, to end the
senseless carnage in the Chaco, which
has already cost $4,000 lives and
brought both Paraguay and Bolivia
to the verge of economic ruin.
The lamentable failure is more
than another example of the League
OF Nations inability to prevent ag-
gression and stop war. Paraguay is
as deaf to Geneva's entreaties with
respect to the Chaco as Japan was
with respect to Manchuria, and as
deaf as Italy at this moment is with
respect to Abyssinia. The collapse
of Chaco peace attempts is an even
greater reflection on vaunted PAN
American solidarity.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Sees Townsend Plan
Adopted i'm the Future

To the Editor of The Star.
Being one of the morons who be-
lieves in the practicability Of the
Townsend old age pension plan, I read
your recent editorial entitled Utopia
with keen interest and keener disap-
pointment.
Your arguments against the PROPOSE
ton are altogether predicated on
series of fatuous assumptions as to
the number of pensioners, the amount
to be disbursed, the problem Of finan-
cling the plan and the insuperable
difficulty of spending 5000 per month,
for not until this plan is put into
operation can these assumptions be
proven one way or another.
Now, while this proposition may
sound fantastic, yet it is precisely
what was done during the World War
when wages and salaries were high
and work plentiful. The Townsend
plan simply proposes that we go on
permanent war basis to support an
army Of aged American citizens who
have created the nations wealth,
thereby rehabilitating 100000 FAM
lilies now on relief rolls and bringing
back prosperity to stay.
Sophistry and demagoguery doubt
less will defeat the Townsend plan
in the present session of Congress,
since this unscientific idea conflicts
with the highly scientific administra-
tion policies Of pig-sticking and gold
dollar sweating, but a general elec-
tion is not more than 18 months
ahead, when the 25 or 80 million
American citizens who are clamoring
and petitioning for the Townsend plan
will have their day in court and will
not be denied.
- CHARLES w. PAFFLOW.
Evening star., 1935-02-25

upon their public in that regard. Only
so long as men choose to trave9 over
them do they survive. A dead or q
deserted roadway, then, is q pitiful
thing to sect means that activity
has ceased, that links have been
broken, that what once was a bright
and cheerful prospect has become or
empty memory.
The maintenance of roads, it may
be argued, is important because II
promotes the safety and welfare Of
distant and remote social entities as
well as those Immediately adjacent to
their courses over the landscape
Towns, now and again, become iso.
lated from settlements like themselves
and the estrangement is q source OF
weakness--they should be friends, CO.
operating, sharing, enjoying the
strength and the power which acrues
from union; and highways, kept In
repair, normally would have the effect
of stimulating and preserving the
"gregarious instinct" which is the
basic fact in a nations career.
But new roads, also. are wanted
Time in the modern era is Of higher
value than ever before in the history
of the race, and the straightest route
between one point and another is al
once the shortest in distance and by
the measure of the clock. Vast areas oi
the United States still are out Of con-
tact with the too-crowded centers Of
population, and rational back to the
land" policy, it is indicated, would
render those areas available to occu-
patton by thousands whose health and
economic happiness would be advan-
tagged thereby.
A road program, for all these rea-
sons, well might be an eminently prac-
tical and helpful aspect of any ma
tional recovery plan. Much already
has been accomplished by President
Roosevelt's administration along these
lines, and a further development
probably would be appreciated by the
largest travelling public the world ever
has seen, as well as by millions who
think Of themselves as "stay-at-
homes"
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Roads.

Roads are friends. They bind COM
munities together, they integrate ma
tions. Their purpose is the service of
the generality of mankind, demo-
cratically and without distinction.
Great cities and little towns, capitals
and tiny hamlets are the centers of
life to which they are especially dedi-
Gated, but they also move through the
neighborhood of thousands of inde-
pendent homes in which the human
drama is being played, the human
spark kept burning.
And roads themselves live by life.
Without constant use. they soon would
disappear. Their function Is to be used
necessarily, and ley are dependent
Evening star., 1935-02-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

has been very hard to nnd in COM
merce.
Now We are supposed to be able to
grow 1t very easily, and We hope we
all do, for it has q place in our
minds affection second to none.
| suppose We got q supply Of the
plants and set them out.
Suppose their curious blue flowers
appeared on the dot.
Then let the unobserving person
come in to look at them, and what
would she say? Why the chances are
she wouldn't see 'em at all!
II she did, no doubt she would say,
"Oh, you should see them in the gar
den Of Mr.. Jones. Mr.. Jones has such
exquisite howers!'
| And shrubs, too
How many Of us 90 on planting the
same old standard things every year,
or every other year, when we might
be putting in a downy shadblow!
We might have the red chokeberry,
or the black chokeberry.
Some of US have tried the sweet
shrub (Calycanthus fioridus), which
really grows north Of Florida, but not
so well this far north.
There Is legend in the South that
the shrub" will grow only for such
households as are henpecked.
y Il \ y
Do you know Clethra alnifolia,
called by some experts one of the most
useful shrubs grown?
It Is better known as sweet pepper
bush, but we prefer the scientific no
menclature, In this case, as its scien-
tiflc name Is beautiful enough to be
girls name.
Every one would call her "Clethe." /"
Of course.
Here is a shrub most of us never
heard Of, Daphne mezereum, called
the February Daphne by some.
The branches grow upright, some
thing on the order of Russian candle
sticks of the old school. Those IA
miliar with 1t say that its dark wine
flowers appear shortly after the snow
leaves the ground, at about this time,
or perhaps a little later, and that
they are accompanied by a fine fra
GRANGE which, to those who know it,
Is harbinger Of true Spring.
Surely that must be a shrub worth
having.
Every one has heard Of the High
bush Cranberry, but how many would
recognize a Highbush Blueberry?
And then there Is an entire family
OF shrubs, the Euonymus, which few
amateurs know by sight. One Of these
has q delightful common name, the
Brook Euonymus; another is called
the Winged Euonymus. There is a
dwarf variety which is supposed to
grow fiat across the top, like a we'll
clipped privet hedge.
Few gardeners any more plant the
vernal Witchhazel, which in mild
Winters mot like the last two) will
open blossoms every now and then
on the milder days Yet few per-
sons have not seen the name Ham
amelis" on bottles of extract of
witchhazel. The common Witchhazel,
or Hamaelis virginiana, blooms yellow
in late Autumn, at a time when
! little else does. still it is not seen
very much, at least in the cities.
Every one knows the famous Spiraea
vanhouttei, but how many know the
steeplebush, S. tomentosa. a slender
shrub with pink flowers borne in July
and August. when shrubs are not
Towering freely? Even its name is
! lovely, IN a church-sprinkled land.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Great Dirigibles Still Have
Champions Among Newspapers

advantage Of this inevitable pause to
put men at work, studying and ex-
perimenting, for the day when it
will be possible to resume building
and flying of dirigibles, which most
certainly have commercial as well as
military possibilities"
Support for this belief Is given
by the Boise Qdaho) Statesman, and
the Birmingham Age-Herald, while,
the Chattanooga Times states: "It is
easy to jump to conclusions drawn
from what may be, after all, only
condolences. Much as one deplores
any loss of life, it may sometimes be
justified If it is the means of saving
many more lives in the future. But
useless throwing away Of lives should
never be tolerated. These facts should
be borne in mind by the authorities
when they map the future course Of
American aviation"