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Evening star., 1936-08-10
Asheyille Crime Solution.

On the 10Th of July young woman
was slain in hotel at Asheville, N. G.,
with evidence of robbery and possibly
outrage. A hue and cry was raised and
in the course Of the inquiry into the
crime six persons were arrested, includ-
Ing four hotel employees, an uncle OF the
murdered girl and musician. The evi-
dence against them proved inadequate
to connect them with the crime and
all but one were released after ques-
tioning and a checking of alibis. That
one, a watchman, was held because he
had failed to punch time clock on the
night of the murder.
Now it is announced that a seventh
person, another hotel employe, has been
taken and after grilling has confessed to
the crime, committed solely, he declares,
for purposes of robbery. The night
watchman has been released.
It would seem that the detective
methods employed in this case have
been crude and inefficient. The haste
with which accusations were made and
persons were pilloried as possible slayers
indicates disposition to make show
ing of activity without that care Of in
vestigation which is required in all cases
Of major crime.
Those who have been wrongfully
accused, even though released as the
evidence against them proved insufi-
cient, have ground for complaint. The
association Of their names with the
atrocity has brought them into painful
Evening star., 1936-08-10

Volume keyed to the size Of your living
room is the right way to enjoy home
music.
The waste Of sound in America is
enormous.
What is the use of filling all outdoors
with noise, when all that one needs and
can hear is just enough to fill room?
Waste is part Of the American tradi-
ton, of course. 1t used to be said that
a European family could live on the
food a family In the United States threw
away.
Maybe the same thing applies to music,
but who or what "lives" on the sound
wastage must remain unknown.
This waste will seem precisely waste to
most persons, once they stop to think
about it. Like grains Of sand or top
soil, blowing through the air where they
are not wanted, musical notes at large
more often have harmful results than
otherwise.
There Is no estimating the ill-Will, un-
happiness and just plain misery which
was caused in this country during the
first decade of the radio.
Happily, things are better now.
Isn't it true that one seldom hears
radio from houses as one travels about
town?
Not so many years ago there was an
incesSant blare and blah in the air all
the time.
You couldn't 60 anywhere without
hearing music and talk, music and talk,
jazz music and more talk grooming and
talk, in later years hot music and talk.
One had to listen to it, whether one
wished to or not, because everybody had
'em on, and they had 'em on at full blast,
to impress the nelghbOrS. 1t was
curious reaction of that day, that every
home owner wanted to make sure that
every other owner knew he had a radio.
Radio was new, then, and spoke in a
different language. Often people turned
the set on full force, and walked down
the block to see how far away they could
hear it! The fortunate posseSSor of
the machine that could be heard six
blocks counted himself just two blocks
wealthier than the guy whose puny set
could be heard but four blocks away.
Blocks and blokes it was in those days,
to the universal frazzlement of Amer
lean nerves.
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Radio sets are so common nowadays
that few persons desire to attract the
attention of their neighbors with them.
Many strange growths have arisen,
some of which may account for the plain
evidence that one does not hear so
many machines when taking a walk in a
residential section.
One of these, undoubtedly, is the
studio audience.
There is a suspicion that the broad
casters would be glad to get rid of this
excrescence, but do not know how to
do it.
That sappy sound as Of some one
putting in coal through chute" as it
has been defined, is enough to get on
iron-clad nerves.
Those far-off fools applaud on the
slightest occasion, evidently, and they
applaud both loud and long, as every
one knows who ever has listened to radio.
But those fools" are just ordinary
people, even as you and I, so it must be
the unusual place in which they find
thmselves, the crowd, the music, the
lights and so on.
Nevertheless, it is another sad waste
of sound.
Keying of volume to the living room
cannot be attained exactly.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

a book written by John L. Lewis himself
in 1925, entitled "The Miners Fight for
American Standards"
X X
Gov. Landons acceptance of pro-
posal by President Roosevelt for con-
ference on drought relief has called to
mind the declination of President Roose-
velt-than President -elect-in the VIM
ter of 1882 to confer with President
Hoover on the banking situation, which
was desperate. Had such a conference
been held then a good deal of trouble
and loss for bank depositors might
have been avoided. OF course, If the
rule had prevailed four years ago which
prevails now, Roosevelt would have be-
come President in January, 1882, and
that situation, in which retiring Presi-
dents hands were more or less tied,
could not have arisen.
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Ninetieth Anniversary.

Today the Smithsonian Institution
celebrates its ninetieth birthday. 1t
was on August 10. l846. that President
James Knox Polk approved the act
passed by Congress to establish the
world-famous center Of learning Of
which Washington is so justly proud.
The actual founder, of course, was James
Smithson, illegitimate son of forgotten
Duke of Northumberland. According to
tradition, a chance meeting with Ben
jamin Franklin prompted the bequest
from which everlasting immortality ac-
crues to a name otherwise likely to
have been lost in oblivion.
But it was not money alone that
Smithson gave. Credit also is due to
him for the philosophy of his endow-
ment. BY the terms Of his will, "the in
crease and diffusion of knowledge among
men" was stipulated as the purpose of
the Institution; and it may be doubted
if a nobler or more inspiring objective
ever has been conceived by any philan-
thropist concerned for the enrichment
of the intellectual character of the
human family.
However, it is fair question to ask
whether or not the people of the United
States have adequately expressed their
appreciation of Smithson's example.
During the nine decades past, successive
Congresses have been chary rather than
conspicuously generous in making ap-
preparations for carrying on the work
of the Institution. Indeed, there are in
dications that every penny granted has
had to be weedled from the National
Legislature by regents who perforce were
obliged to beg for the mere shadow Of
such support as should have been forth
coming without any solicitation. Pride,
if nothing else, should have prompted a
policy immeasurably more liberal.
And private gifts likewise, it seems,
might have been many, rather than
relatively few. Literally millions of dol
lars have gone into inconsequential me-
MORALS throughout the land when a
mere fraction of such wealth would have
made possible an expansion Of the
Smithsonian in a consistent program of
universal service to civilization. Citizens
of means simply have not realized the
opportunity which the Institution con-
stitutes for the practical extension Of
culture.
But the work that Smittson in
augurated has gone forward despite the
neglect of the general public. Individ-
uals dedicated to the sciences and the
arts have sacrificed themselves to main
tain and develop it year after year. The
fruit of their devotion may be found in
the credit which the Institution enjoys
abroad. Nowhere on earth, 1t is safe
to say, does there exist a more useful
establishment of its kind.
In recognition of this unchallenged
fact, steps should be taken Immediately
toward the celebration of the Smith
sonian's centenary. The whole Amer
ican public should cooperate to see to
it that by 1916 the Institution is
equipped with the funds, the buildings,
the furnishings it so sorely needs. Let
Congress do its duty and the people Of
the Nation as community share in the
good enterprise. The knowledge which
Smithson pledged his all to endow is a
variety of power that America could
employ with vast constructive effect.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

"Raddio" will be restored to attention
when AL Smith begins to analyze the
record from the viewpoint of independent
patriotism. Radio announcers who have
since permitted themselves all kinds of
mispronunciation will welcome the re-
minder of SO distinguished precedent.
Word forms are losing respect Nobody
would think of calling the much-esteemed
edible root. the radish. "raydish." and
many learned doctors still insist that the
word automobile is hybrid deformity
that has no genealogical right to exist.
Evening star., 1936-08-10
Shooting Stars.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.
Dollar.

Dollar.
Friend Dollar, you venture in various
ways
Forever deserving our blame or our
praise.
You profit by wars, it is well understood
Then you care for the needy and try to
be good.
In letters of gold you will tell of renown,
Sometimes you're a hero. Sometimes
you're a clown.
And you find yourself misunderstood
in the end
Suspected the most when you seek to
befriend.
Evening star., 1936-08-10
The Detroit Dissenters.

If the declaration of principles"
adopted by the dissenting Democrats at
Detroit was of any great Importance in
itself, it would lose much of its effective
ness because of an excess of vitriol Of
the brand patented and perfected by
the gifted James A. Reed while serving
as Senator from Missouri. Politicians
on the warpath, or political campaignerS,
are not given to understatement in pic
turing the dangers to the land at the
hands of the opposition. But there is
certain value in temperate restraint,
which in this case is lost entirely. 1t is
easier to write than to prove that the
present administration is ''exerting itself
in every way to strike down the benefi-
cent structure of Democratic govern
ment and to substitute for it collec-
twist state, replacing the doctrines OF
democracy with the tenetS and teachings
Of blended communism and socialism"
For many things which the Democratic
administration has done, and for many
dangerous tendencies in some of its
policies, there is ground for strong
criticism and protest, so much ground.
In fact, that the Democratic party must
regain a lot of it or suffer defeat at the
polls in November. But there is limit
beyond which criticism ceases to be
effective and assumes some of the attrl-
butes of ranting. A little more caution
at Detroit, in the use of words as well
as in deciding how to accomplish the
difficult gymnastics of boiling without
being a bolter, would have gone long
way.
This task of bolting without being
boilers was performed with ingenious
sagacity, To the Democrats at Detroit
President Roosevelt and Vice President
Garner are "the candidates of-the Phila-
.delphia convention for President and
Vice President"-not the candidates OF
the Democratic party. The Democratic
party, one is led to believe, exists now
&, only in the glorious past. The torch Is
now carried by the nucleus OF former
stalwarts gathered at Detroit and those
who were present with them in spirit,
II not in body.
Their mission is to defeat the nominees
of the philadelphia convention" and
what they do about Gov. Landon ana
the Republican party is nobodys busl-
ness. Neither their declaration OF
principles" nor their plans about Gov.
Iandon and the Republican party IS
as important to Mr.. Farley and his staff
as the fact that the anti-New Dealers OF
Detroit are members of, if not the SpokeS-
men for, an element of the Democratic
party that has jumped the reservation.
Former Senator Reed, former Secretary
of State Colby, former Gov. Ely may
sneak for nobody but themselves. But
there is evidence that many Democrats
who would show no more enthusiasm for
following Mr., Reed or Mr.. Colby than
for following Father Coughlin or Dr'
Townsend have ceased to think as they
thought four years ago. The Detroit
meeting was rather extraordinary thing
In politics. Only the more outspoken and
notorious foes of the President ATTENDED.
The Democrats have reason to wonder
and to worry about the depth OF its SYM
holisn. however, if not the strength OF
Its numbers.
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Inconsistency.

inconsistency.
In gorgeous array
Men 60 marching to war.
The music they play
Is well worth waiting for.
Yet musicians engage,
So the gossips relate.
In some moments of rage
In an envious hate.
It scarcely seems right
That we see day by day,
Men play when they fight
And they fight when they play.
Evening star., 1936-08-10
Thinking of Campaign Funds.

us your wife interested in politics?"
asked the friend from home.
Il suspect she is" responded Senator
Sorghum. II just saw a card she is
sending out. 1t had r. s. V. P. written
On it."
What does that mean?"
I'm not sure. I suppose the letters
W. P stand for 'Vox Populi' Maybe
the letters r. S. mean Remit Soon.'"
Evening star., 1936-08-10

There will be little fierceness to be
feared in an oratorical campaign whose
greatest injuries will be like those suf-
fered by Mrs. Malaprop when she found
that some one had been casting asper-
sions on her parts of speech.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

The need of a reduction of the Fed
eral pay roll is always under more or
less earnest consideration. While trying
to assist in financing housing projects,
the Government is constantly expressing
a desire to reduce the prospects for
good paying tenants.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

Among the initial groups IN. r. A." is
still the one most prominently attacked.
not because it is at present most trou-
blesome, but because it enjoyed for
while the most liberal advertising allot-
ment.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

The Department Of Agriculture will
score new literary successes if it can
provide for publication of an almanac
with reliable predictions of good grow
ing weather for the next few years.
Evening star., 1936-08-10
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The Undertow.

The Undertow.
My river, you're swept by a breeze light
and cool,
Your fishes are sporting in each rocky
pool,
Gulls swoop to your surface on wide
pinions gay,
Birds drink of your waters and bathe
In your spray,
You joyously sing on your way tc the
sea,
Echo wind-paeans blowing thru every
green tree,
Sunset turns you golden, stars in your
depths shine
And only your sad undercurrents are
mine.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

Literary promotion still goes so much
by favor in Europe that Trotzky, an ex-
cellent writer of his kind, is still unable
to find publisher with competent
circulation department.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

Olympic athletic participants are said
to find some classic interest in the
appearance Of the powerful Hitler in
something like the role Of modern zeus.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

great discoverer is to be placed in the
capital of the Dominican Republic, near
the historic cathedral in which the bones
of the intrepid discoverer repose The
proposed structure is so designed that
it would be an immense flaming beacon
at night for aircraft, and it would in
clude also chapel containing the re-
mains OF Columbus, a museum and o
library.
eCopyYsght, 1s3S.)
Evening star., 1936-08-10

Spain finds the innocent bystander
suffering as usual in a situation that
sees communism in position to assume
the arrogance of armed demonstration.
Evening star., 1936-08-10
Ambition.

From the Ashland (Ky) Independent.
The ambition of every modern little
boy in long trousers is to grow up and
some day get into pair of short pants.
Evening star., 1936-08-10
The Optimists.

From the Omaha World Herald.
The way the party chairmen are
counting States the nag will have to
hold ct Least o6 stars.
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Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein,
herein are also reserved
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Over-Worked.
Expenses 60 higher! That adding
machine
Keeps tapping them out day by day.
It tells the bad news with a rhythm
serene
OF the things we're expected to pay.
We yearn for the plow and the harrow
so bright
And the forge where the steel meets
q test.
We long to feel sure our accounts are
all right.
That adding machine needs rest.
Sometimes when a politician talks to
me-" said Uncle Eben, II feels like
mebbe he's takin' advantage Of me cause
7 amt q mind reader"
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Single Heartedness,

Single HeaftedneSS.
"Are you interested in the Olympic
games?"
"Oh, yes" said Miss Cayenne, though
perhaps not as much as you might ex-
pect. T am base ball fan. And after
all the Olympics have nothing to do
with the world SERIES"
IT have just met my old friend, Ho
Hum" remarked Hi Ho. the sage of
Chinatown. "He is tired business man
who says what tires him most is keeping
so many accounts in the red"
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@. When was the first woman's rights
convention?-G. L.
A. 1t was held July 10 and 20, 1S49,
at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

@. What State uses the most gaso-
line per capita?-H. M. r.
A. In 1885 California had the largest
per capita gasoline consumption.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

O. How many grandchildren has the
President?-F. r.
A. President Roosevelt has seven
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1936-08-10

@. Are there any noted collections of
pipes in this country?-F. r.
A. Several noted collections are those
of William Demuth and Andrew E.
Douglas in the American Museum of
Natural History, New York City, and
that of DR.. P. F. Titterington of st.
Louis, Mo.
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The Eyening Star Newspaper Company.

Business once:
11th St and Pennsylvauie ave-
New York Once: 110 East 42nd 81
ChicaTo once Lake Michigan Building
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Science

Continued From First Page.)
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associations Of hospitals to offer hos
pital facilities to low-income groups
in a manner and at a cost COM
mensurate with knowledge OF the med
ical profession in their administration.
The protagonists of group hos
pitalization have created the impress
sion that the medical profession OPP
poses all group disqualification plans,
but when conducted under the condi-
tons mentioned such plans have not
met serious obstruction on the part
Of physicians
The returns to date suggest that
the importance of group hospitaliza-
ton plans has been overstated when
measured by the actual number of
plans In operation and the number
of members enrolled. The returned
reports also suggest that there has
been only semblance of an effort
to keep records of experience or to
prepare accurate financial statements,
and 1t has been difficult to find ac-
tuarial data on which to base sound
premium rates.
Although group disqualification
properly organized and operated may
in some communities serve to supple
ment existent medical facilities. the
plan must not be considered pana-
cea for the medical economic ills Of
community"
The report said that the Copeland
bill now before Congress on food, drugs
and cosmetics gives hardly more
promise of effectiveness than does the
law now in force, the food and drug
act of 1906; and with respect to drugs
1t is distinctly weaker"
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SECRETS OF PEAK
SPUR EXPEDITION
Mount Everest Climbers
Seek to Learn if Man Can
Survive at Top.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED FIcSs.
DARJEELING, India. May IL
Snowcapped Mount Everest, the Devil
Mountain" that has taken nine lives
since 1921, saw today the beginning
of the fifth attempt to reach its
29.O02-foot crown.
Far below, at Base Camp, No. l,
pitched in the lap" of the Himalayan
giant, were Hugh Ruttledge and his
1886 British expedition which will
gradually work up the side of the
mountain during the next three or
four weeks-ready for the final assault
about the last week in May.
Two great secrets will spur them on:
l. Can man stand on the roof of the
woodland live?
2. What happened to George NAL
Tory and Andrew Irvine, members of
the 1924 expedition. who lost their
lives when almost within sight of their
goal?
The first question, it is believed, is
closely linked with the second.
When last seen, Mallory and Irvine
were going strong They had fought
their way to within few hundred feet
of the crest. Then suddenly the great
white plume that forever swirlS over
the Summit lunged down and en-
quilted them. When the plume lifted
again, the two men had vanished
Nine years later, In 1888, Mallory's
ice-ax was found on an ice ledge near
the 28.000-foot mark. 1t was the only
trace ever found
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Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.

to cold. When such a persons hand
is placed in ice water for few minutes,
there is change in the blood pressure,
the pulse rate and the stomach acidity
The hand swells and there is marked
flushing of the face, just as if some
thing to which the person was eSpe-
cially sensitive had been injected into
the blood stream When an ice cube Is
applied to any part Of the body, red
patches are formed similar to the
"wheals" which form around the spot
where some allergic substance has been
injected. Serum from these wheals.
when injeced, causes the same sort of
symptoms, showing that there has been
an actual chemical effect.
A second effect of the extreme cold
sensitivity is described as "paraxys-
NAL hemoglobinuria" There is a
sharp rise in the blood pressure.
tendency to agglutinate some of the
red blood corpuscles and far-reaching
effects on the blood serum. The foot
or hand which has been placed in
cold water turns purple. The albu-
min ratio of the blood is changed.
The effect seems to be progressive for
an hour or more, after which there
is a return to normal.
This condition, the Mayo clinic
doctors declare, may be more COM
mon than Is generally suspected. 1t
appears at bathing beaches. where
the victims collapse in the water and
must be rescued The cure they
propose is a short exposure to cold
every day.
Apparently almost anything may
have profound effects on the right
person at the right time. The ana
phylactic shock phenomenon, for ex-
ample, depends on the proper bal
ance of three factors-the degree of
sensitivity of the individual, the size
of the overdose and the rapidity with
which it gets into the system. At
any one time all three conditions may
be just right for the worst effects to
follow. The extreme sensitivity may
develop at any time. The baby who
developed form of fatal pneumonia
from drinking milk, for instance,
probably had drunk milk every day
of its life without showing any strik-
ing symptoms before the fatai occa-
sion. The sensitivity is particularly
likely to attack seat Of infection,
such as as Assessed tooth.
'Copyright. 1880
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PROTEST LETTERS
FILED BY LEAGUE
Lobby Committee and FEC.
Methods AssaiIed by
$1,000 Signers. n
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The American Liberty League sent
to the Senate today a petition it said
was signed by more than $4,000 per-
sons. protesting methods followed by
the Senate Lobby Committee and the
Federal Communications Commission
in seizing private kilograms.
Jouett Shouse, president Of the
league, told Vice President Garner in
letter of transmittal the petition was
sent to the league for transmission to
the Senate and was in addition to 9TH
ers already sent directly to members
of the Senate. Still others. he said,
were being assembled for future filing.
The petition stated the signers pro-
tested against the high-handed &C
lions of the Senate Lobby Committee
and the Communications Commission
in the wholesale seizure, without au-
thority, of private kilograms Of indi-