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Evening star., 1936-04-04
Cars and Buses Do Not
Co.operate at Junction

To the Editor of The Star:
Certain employees of the Capital Transit
Co., operating cars on the Wisconsin
avenue line, have habit of pulling out
from the District line terminal just as
the Alta Vista or Rockville line bus ar
rives and is discharging or Is about to
discharge passengers. Those who operate
a car leaving the District line at about
7:28 am. are particularly noted for this
annoying practice, repeating it several
times a week, thereby causing delay to
many passengers and unnecessary crowd
ing of the succeeding car. have COM
planned of this practice to the company
many times, citing particular instances,
and have had numerous replies to such
complaints but no serious effort appears
to have been made to abate this cause
of complaint.
Thursday morning the car left at 1928.
according to my time. also heard two
other passengers compare their watches
and verify this time as 7:28. The bus
had arrived before the car left, but
could not turn across Wisconsin avenue
behind the car until following line
of autos had passed. While the bus
was waiting this car pulled out.
Many adverse criticisms, expressed In
vigorous language, may be heard by
mingling with passengers who have been
left behind at this point and unneces-
sarily delayed. Discipline must be ex-
ceedingly lax if the company, after
many times stating that this practice
would be discontinued, tolerates 1t day
after day. No plea of ignorance of it is
tenable. for many complaints have been
made. F. L. PITTMAN.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
The Unfailing Plane
In Time of Floods
From the wichita Eagle.

From the wichita Eagle.
In the crisis Of the unexampled flood
In the East the airplane emphasized
again that it is something brand new in
this world. With the railroads out, the
busses suspended, telegraph and tele-
phone wires down, all highway traffic
prostrate, the day planes in the stricken
region continued in operation. The T.
w. A. sent fleets of them from Newark
to Pittsburgh. carrying emergency COM
modities like yeast and coffee and in one
flight a ton of rubber boots. Tens of
thousands of kilograms out of New York
were so forwarded to destination and the
bulk of flrst-claSs mail was handled with
the usual dispatch.
Night flying over the devastated region
was out Of the question. At the height of
the flood the lights and the radio beacon
system at the Pittsburgh landing field
were not in commission. The landing
field itself remained above the flood
waters, but the maintenance of ground
electricity Is an essential in night avia-
ton.
The air system of transport kept going,
even when landing fields disappeared
under the water. The Washington Air
port was submerged and the New York
planes carried their passengers and cargo
to Baltimore and sent them on to the
ing q new factor in facing the disorders
of regional disaster and helping to
straighten them out. -- 49,
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Trash in the Streets a
Disgrace to Washington

To the Editor Of The Star:
was glad to see right on the front
page of The Star feature article regard
ing the littering of the streets of this
city with trash, entitled Persons care
less with trash escape punishment for
acts" do not wish any one any harm,
but something should be done to make
this, the Nations Capital, a cleaner city
to live in.
Last Sunday an artist friend and took
advantage of the balmy air and walked
east through p street from Dupont Circle
to the site of the National Arboretum on
Bladensburg road. On the way my
friend, who has travelled extensively in
foreign countries, remarked about the
paper and litter in the streets, which
seemed to be just as bad in the white
as the c0l0red sections of the city, and
said that no such condition would be
tolerated in European city.
Cannot something be done by the
united effort of the Police and Street
Cleaning Departments to stem the tide
of dirt? If there is nothing else for them
to do, cannot the relief workers help for
little while each day in cleaning up the
city, especially during the April and
Easter season when there are so many
out-of town visitors? w. ]. sWAN1ON.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

that any and all education was a part
Of character education. And the attempts
Of the experts to make 1t popularly un-
derstood have not resulted in any great
public enlightenment.
Considerable funds, however, have
been spent In the first two years Of the
proposed three-year experiment. The
program would end in the next fiscal
year. But now, instead of being under
stood as a laboratory experiment in
moulding the character of young Ameri-
cans. the program is attacked as an
effort to indoctrinate them with the
principles of communism. Those who
have had a hand in the business are
labeled as parlor pinkS, and worse. The
casual reader of remarks concerning
them would logically conclude that char
acter education was being financed in
Moscow, instead of by the hard-pressed
taxpayers of the District Of Columbia.
The most renowned school Of higher
pedagogics in the country, the Teachers
College Of Columbia University, Is pic
tured as the fountainhead Of COM
munism. Those who have its degrees
are somehow besmirched.
The fight over retention of character
education for the third and concluding
year of the experiment is between the
House and Senate Appropriations Com
mittees. Taxpaying Washington will
await the tug of war with interest.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Give the Claw Machine
PLAYER Gamblers Chanc

To the Editor OF The Star:
You are, Of course, aware Of the fact
that there are many nickel-in-the-slot
CLAW machines" in operation in this
city, and also that they are operating
openly and legally?
However. I am writing this letter to
call to your attention something about
the machines which you may not know
and about which I think something
should be done to protect the players"
Of such machines from being swindled.
The machines can be adjusted so as
to lift and remove prizes weighing as
much as 25 pounds. On the other hand,
they can be adjusted so they won't lift
anything. The public ought to be in
formed of this situation.
The claw machine racket Is worked In
the following manner: When machine
is first installed in public place, such
as a drug store or lunch room, it is ad-
justed so as to let the players" win a
few prizes.
However, as soon as large number Of
suckers" begin playing it the grip and
lift" is removed from the machine. 1t
is readjusted so that it will grip and
lift" a prize q few inches. Then 1t will
unlock" and let go of the prize. That
bats players into thinking they have a
chance.
Now, am not trying to eliminate the
"claw machine" But I think something
should be done to protect the public from
being Swindled, as it is being swindled,
by unscrupulous machine operators at
the present time.
MY idea is that the sealer of weights
and measures should be required to test
and seal ''claw machines" before they are
installed in public places. That would
give the machine players a gambling
chance. How about it?
BERNARD L. HENNING.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Japan the Only Stabilizing
influence i'm Eastern Asia

To the Editor Of The Star:
The Star of March 80 contains an edi-
torial captioned Russo Mongolian ALI
ance," which concludes with the follow
ing statement, Perhaps the alliance the
Russians and the Mongolians have just
sealed will momentarily cool militarist
ardor in Toxic, though it will hardly
obliterate the peril of an eventual duel
between the Soviet and Japan for mas
terry Of Asia"
Japan is the only effective bulwark and
stabilizing influence today in Eastern
Asia against the ever onward march Of
Russian bolshevism in that part of the
world. If it were not for the power and
influence of Japan, China would be COM
munized by Russia in few years. Even
as 1t is, Communist armies are active at
present In the Chinese province of
Shansi, they have been active in other
provinces and CommuniStic propaganda
is widespread in China. Under the cir
cumstances, it does seem to me incom-
prehensible why capitalistic, Christian
America does not give its moral support
to capitalistic, orderly Japan against
communistic, atheistic Russia. If all
Eastern Asia goes Communist, then
what? VIII communism leap the Pacific
Ocean to our shores? God forbid!
remember distinctly that during the
Russo-Japanese War Of 1904-5, The
Star was strongly for pagan, yellow
Japan against Christian, white Russia,
even if Japan did attack Russia without
a formal declaration of war! Who had
"militarist ardor" then? Who was fish
ing in troubled waters" then?
A glance at the map of Asia shows
that Outer Mongolia is much larger than
Manchuria was. Yet when Japan took
over Manchuria from China, ran out the
plundering Chinese war lords" and gave
it stable capitalistic government, the
United States protested to high heaven.
But when Soviet Russia quietly took
over Outer Mongolia from China and
communized it the United States never,
so far as I noticed, uttered a word Of
protest. wonder why not. Surely the
United States is not in favor of the
extension of bolshevism.
So now Japan finds herself in most
perilous position and I see clearly that
If she does not strike very soon to break
the ever tightening. communistic Gordon
around her, Byron'S beautiful words can
be applied to her island empire:
Eternal sunshine gilds them yet,
But all except their sun is set"
CHARLES FISK TANSILL.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

not reproduce, DR.. Meier found. They
continue to live so long as the nutrient
in the solution holds out, but present a
as time goes on. Absorption of light
apparently is a sine qua non for con-
tinuation of the species.
When the TASKS containing the solu-
tion are placed in daylight-to which
they have become adapted through the
whole history of the race-they multiply
fourfold in two weeks. Had there been
no checks on their progress they long
since would have formed green blanket
over the earth, or those portions of it
where living conditions were possible for
them.
Sunlight Is complex mixture of diff
ferent wave lengths of radiation, and it
is becoming increasingly apparent that
even single wave lengths-to say nothing
Of the wide bands Of wave lengths which
arouse color sensations when they fall
on the retina-have very diverse effects.
DR.. Meier then tested the effect on
the cell of a narrow band of blue" wave
lengths, all the rest Of the spectrum
being shut out by a filter and found that
Ine increase was approximately InTee-
fold. Bands of red and yellow radiation
gave twofold increases. This was sur
prising, as there had been every reason
to expect that cell division would be
most rapid in these regions Of illumi-
nation.
Between the blue and the yellow in
the spectrum lies the green. The effect
of a narrow band in this region, DR..
Meier found, was actually to decrease
the number below those of the solutions
kept in complete darkness. Many OF the
one-celled organisms died and there was
apparently no cell division to maintain
the species. Green light seemed to be
distinctly poisonous. Infra-red rays
were found to act like darkness, neither
inhibiting nor promoting cell multiple
cation.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

self has long advocated treaty revision.
In the case of Austria, he would natu'
rally view with approval any measures
designed to place that country In posi-
ton more effectively to resist Nazi de-
signs on its independence through
anschluss (union with Germany, and,
in general, to be more desirable sup
porter Of Fascist policy. From the
standpoint Of greater Austrian self-de-
fensive strength, Great Britain and
France, too. are likely to look without
protest upon the Schnuschnigg Star
hemberg conscription project, but
the neighboring states Of the Little
Entente-Czechoslova Rumania and
Yugoslayia, the present holders OF ex-
tensive territory carved out of the former
dual monarchy-contemplate with un-
disguised displeasure, not unmixed with
anxiety, the prospect OF reconstructed
Austrian and Hungarian armies. The
succession states are bound to fear that.
in alliance with powerful neighbors like
Germany or Italy, the day may come
when the Austrians and Hungarians
would seek to recover their lost prov
inces. Viewed from any angle, the
Vienna remilitarization plan thrusts an
additional point of friction and alarm
into the already sorely strained Euro
pean situation. It not only converts one
more postwar treaty into scrap OF
paper, but will furnish fresh pretexts
for piling up ornaments in many
directions.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

breeders through the simple device Of
confining the fishes In jars with light
only coming from the top through
narrow opening.
The eye Of the Jack Dempsey, when
popped out, through lack of certain vita
minis, probably A and @, has whitish
rim close to the head, and Is altogether
a most unpleasant sight. 1t looks as If 1t
hurts, and no doubt 1t does.
Now for the worm.
With at least one eye bulged out to q
horrible extent, the fish refuses the dried
food, or foods, on which 1t has been
living, and which, UP to now, 1t has been
eating greedily. Too greedily, alas!
Dig up garden worm, preferably
small one. They are coming to the sur
face Of the lawn now, with the advent Of
the robins.
One worm will do. but two small ones
are better.
Hold the worm invitingly In front Of
the aquarium.
terest drop the wriggler into the water.
Plop!
The worm is seized, there is q great
crunching-in the throat, for the fish
has no visible teeth-then clouds Of
earth are puffed out the gills. as the
animal elects the unwanted matter.
This smoking" by big Cichlid, as it
separates mud and flesh, Is one Of the
most unusual sights to be seen anywhere.
AS far as we know, this is the first men
ton Of this habit to find its way into
print. 1t is unique, and must be seen
to be appreciated.
If the fish takes two worms, SO. much
the better. By the next morning the
swelling of the eye will have gone down
visibly. The animal shows more interest
in life. The eye does not look as If 1t
pains quite so much.
The dose of worms may be increased
to four, or two large ones. Within three
or four days, or week at the outside.
the pristine elements in the fresh meat
have gotten in their good work, and the
eye is down to normal. This return is
helped by the addition of one level tea
spoonful OF Turk Island sea salt per gal
Ion of water in the aquarium.
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This cure is almost magical, as rapid
and as pleasing as anything of the kind
you will ever see, since the symptoms are
so visible and alarming.
There is no doubt at all of what does
the work.
A rudimentary acquaintance with the
theory Of vitamins gives the keeper the
clue. The fresh meat" gives the fish
surcease.
Soon he is as well as ever he was,
ready to go back to his dry diet for
another two or three months. The in
clusion of few worms, every now and
then, will help prevent the pop eye"
disease, but if they cannot be secured
conveniently the fish will live well
enough for his two months. The eye
then pops out. worms are furnished, and
it goes in again. All this is accom-
plished. evidently, without ultimate harm
to the fish, as far as three years of OBJ
servation shows. 1t seems to be proof
positive, in little, that eye diseases often
are symptoms of vitamin deprivation,
and that the supplying Of the proper
vitamins, even in a hit-and-miSs style,
win "cure" the disease, and restore nor
NAL health. Future ages may see pro-
cessed anglewornls used as a remedy for
eye diseases. Who knows? Stranger
things have happened,
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Fantastic Developments.

The character education experiment in
the Washington public schools has been
accompanied by developments that are
nothing less than fantastic. The expert
ment was undertaken, in the first place.
not at the instance of the Board of Edu-
cation or the Washington public, but at
the request of Senator Copeland of New
York, whose interest in its possibilities
resulted from his study of methods Of
crime prevention.
The experiment has never been popu-
larry understood, possibly because the
name, character education" is confus-
ing to those who have always thought
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Austria Rearms.

Rearmament in defiance of treaty pro-
hibitions seems to be epidemic in Europe.
Following the example of Germany in
remilitarizing the Rhineland, Austria
has now decided to introduce compul-
sorry military service, in direct viola
ton of the peace treaty signed at st.
German in 1919 There is little reason
to doubt that her action is the direct
result of the example set by Hitler.
Austria was limited to an army of
10000 officers and men. The size of the
military establishment she now pro-
poses to create has not yet been dis
closed, but it is unofficially suggested
that the program will provide for sum-
moning at least $4,000 recruits annually
to the colors. The first half of the class
of 1915 (men born that Year, is expected
to be called in October. A preliminary
decree proclaims that all able-bodied
forty-two shall henceforth be liable to
conscription for either military or fed
eral labor battalion service.
Thus, further proof is supplied, if any
were necessary, that the central powers,
defeated in the World War, look upon
the peace treaty system imposed upon
them as completely broken down and
as no longer demanding respect at their
hands. The immediate effect Of Ger
many's recent move was the announce
ment that Turkey will demand the right
to refortify the Dardanelles if Nazi
forces are allowed to remain in the
Rhineland. Now come Austria's rearma-
ment arrangements, which are expected
in due course to impel Hungary. upon
which the treaty of st. German also
imposed a restricted military establish
ment, to pursue the course upon which
Berlin and Vienna have just embarked.
It may be taken for granted that
rearmament formed
q major topic of discussion at the recent
meeting of italian, Austrian and Hun
garian government leaders at Rome un-
der Mussolini's auspices. II Duce him
Evening star., 1936-04-04
The Law Finally INDICATED.

Will lilC ChCCob1Oll 1ctcV 1A16AAo he
Trenton of Bruno Richard Hauptmann
for the murder OF the son of Colonel
Charles Lindbergh closes one of the sad
dest chapters in the history of American
law. 1t has been marked by repeated
manifestations of legal and political
chicane, by mistaken sentimentaliSm and
by actually criminal scheming to defeat
the ends of justice. And most regrettably
it leaves in the minds of some doubt
as to the justice of the final retribution
inflicted upon the man whose life was
taken in penalty for his deed. To all
but these few, however, the penalty was
deserved.
Hauptmann's conviction, though
effected after a trial which set mark
for impropriety of accompaniment and
display of heartleSs indifference to the
solemnity of the procedure of judicial
inquiry, was fully justified by the evi-
dence given. He was identified as the
receiver of ransom money, to him was
traced the means of entering the house
from which he took the sleeping child.
An overwhelming combination of cir
cumstances which could not be denied
linked him to the crime. In the Judg-
ment of the twelve men and women OF
the jury he was definitely identified. The
highest court of the State confirmed that
verdict All other appeals failed to effect
a rejection of the verdict. Not even the
astonishing maneuvers of the State
executive, who for clearly political ends
undertook to save him from death, were
effective. And so after repeated delays,
which were not warranted and which
inflicted upon the miserable man the
torture of alternating hope and despair,
the sentence was carried out and the
law was vindicated
From the crime itself. which shocked
the country as has none other in modern
times, have come beneficial results in the
enactment of Federal law which widens
the powers of the Government IN the
pursuit of criminals and the punishment
of offenses against humanity. In conse-
quence headway has been made against
gang crime, especially in the field OF kid
naping and extortion Of ransom. For
that the country is thankful. Haupt-
mann's execution last night is thus
eliminating incident in the course of a
reform which has made American homes
safer.
Doubtless a "Hauptmann tradition"
will persist, with some believers in the
hypothesis that he was sacrificed with
out justice. 1t may be that the remain
ing questions relating to the crime for
which he last night paid with his life
will never be fully answered. But that
he was guilty of participation in, If not
complete and solitary guilt Of the dia-
bolical crime of which he was convicted
and for which he was condemned, will
not be questioned by the mass of the
people of America.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

The theory and practice Of. vitamins
can be proved easily enough by any per-
son in his own home, II he will get a
specimen Of fish popularly called Jack
Dempsey" ard feed it for time on dried
foods.
All he needs is the fish. tank. water.
and the artificial food. He puts the
water in the aquarium, the fish In the
water and the food into the fish. at ap-
propriate intervals.
No sand or plants viii be necessary,
In any case, because this fellow soon
dirties the one and tears up the other.
The best way to start with Dempsey,
scientifically called Cichlasoma biocella-
tum, Is to get one about an inch long
and bring 1t up in solitary grandeur.
BY the time it Is 4 to 6 inches long
it will be fit subject for as interesting
an experiment in the benefits Of proper
foods as can be found.
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Some Of the exotic specimens kept IN
the home aquarium seem to be more
tolerant of ordinary fish foods" which.
in manufacture, theoretically lose some
of their precious Wtamins.
The guppy, for instance, can live long
and successfully on nothing but manu-
factured foods.
It will breed successfully on them, and
have good children, too, but these latter
often will not breed, without the addition
of some live food to their diet, at least
upon occasion.
During the past half decade much real
research has been made in giving the
fish fan" better foods for his charges.
Every effort has been made to retain
the natural mineral content in the food
materials used in the composition OF
these granules.
Still something is lacking, and 1t must
be vitamins, because, theoretically. at
least, the better of these foods undoubt-
edly contain adequate amounts Of
proteins and other elements required in
nutrition.
A big Jack Dempsey fish. fed exclusive
ly on dried foods for several months.
ultimately develops pop eye" usually in
the left.
The fish then loses its appetite, and
refuses dried food.
Often this refusal is accompanied by
as human an indication as one could
wish. simple shaking" Of the head.
Since the animal has no neck, in the
strict sense, it naturally shakes its en-
tire body, with the emphasis concen-
trated In the head itself.
Often when a fresh garden worm
(fishin' worm) is offered 1t, the creature
suffering from pop eye" refuses it with
the same negative sign.
It's only chance for recovery, however,
depends on getting some real live food
into its system.
The favorite food of fish is fish, as has
been said, so no doubt live little fishes,
such as guppies, would serve the purpose,
but any one who is genuinely interested
in the biology of the aquarium will hesi-
tate to use this splendid little fish as
"nve food"
If no fresh meat is provided the Demp-
sey's eye pops out farther and farther,
and soon the other one becomes involved.
It is not the same as the google eyes"
OF certain forms of goldfish. Most per-
sons are acquainted with the goldfish
which looks heavenward. This is a
natural change, despite the tall tales of
IL having heen nrodIIced nv oriental |
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.

Inevitable Conflict.
To prophesy
I don't pretend,
As there draws nigh
A patient friend.
I only say
I know I'm right
That we some day
Shall have a fight.
We cannot hope
For long repose.
Improvements grope
Through words and blows.
Before we see
All things done right
There's bound to be
Some sort OF fight.
Disputes will change
The human race.
Worlds clashing range
Way out in space.
Don't be annoyed
BY needless fright.
You can't avoid
Some sort of fight.