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Evening star., 1936-07-21
One.Man Car Is Answer to
"What Is a Stretch.Out?''

To the EDITOR OF The star:
Question: What is a stretch -out?"
Answer: ut is one man doing the work
of two men,
1t seems "one-man car" is equipped
with a labOr-Saving device that does
away with one man and thus saves the
street car company $4,000 annually
quite sum of money but small in COM
parison to the half million dollars the
labor unions say they have on hand to
fight their claims with and more where
that half million came from-it is also
small compared with the national debt
Keeler says he has been machiniSt
A years and never saw an interlocking
safety device that was "foolproof." Well,
If device is not "foolproof" with one
fool around it how about two fools?
Then again suppose some ingenious
Yankee invents robot car-and such
an invention Is neither improbable nor
mpossible-what sort of an objection will
labor unions then raise?
Public carriers are out for profit same
as any other business and at the same
time give the public good service. But
it is impossible to please all the travelling
public. I have ridden street cars here
in washington quite few times during
the last five years and have never yet
seen lack Of courtesy by motorman or
conductor, but always cheerful wiling
ness to help the passenger in every way.
The only objection have to Washington
street cars is they are all Jim Crow cars.
w. j. DERMOTT.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Star Editorial on Drunken
Drivers Praised by Offutt

To the Editor of The Star:
have read with the greatest interest
the editorial contained in The Star OF
July 16, and beg to advise that I think
you have rendered a distinct service to
the community in bringing out the men,
ace of the drunken driver.
Neither the board nor myself ever had
the slightest idea of minimizing the
dangers of these individual cases, and
as for myself have always firmly be-
lieved that a remedy for this situation
Is to send every man who is found guilty
of driving while intoxicated to jail. If
our report in anywise tended to mini
mize this danger it was not Intentional,
as the greatest menace which confronts
us today Is the man whose senses are
numbed by alcohol with such direful
agent of destruction at his command as
an automobile.
GEORGE w. OFFUTT,
Chairman, Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
laboratory and ST
BY THOMAS X. HENRY.

fever of the urban type transmitted by
the aegyptae mosquito is that the former
is acquired away from houses, whereas
the latter is transmitted by a domestic
mosquito and contracted in the house
itself. The urban fever occurs to about
the same extent among females as among
males, but the jungle fever is much more
common among men. In the jungle cases
the peak Of distribution occurs at about
the age of Is, while in the urban type
people of all ages are attacked. In one
area this jungle type of yellow fever is
known as the fever of young engaged
men because it often occurs among young
persons who are setting up home and
moving farther out into the wilds or
jungle.
There has been little to offer, up to
now, in the way of control. Vaccination
gives some hope of protecting the indi-
vidual, but as q means Of controlling the
disease it Is as yet out of the question.
Until more is known of the source of in
fection in the jungle and the mechanism
of its transmission from such a source
to man is determined, a program for
control cannot be drawn up"
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Days Sport.

A Days Sport.
It's fun to go a-fishing when the day is
bright and warm,
When the clouds float high and fleecy
with no threatening of storm,
When the waves we're softly FLASHING
'gainst the bottom of the boat
And the sunbeams in the water look
like diamonds afioat.
It's fun to fling the line into the water
and to see
The bubbles rising to make plain just
where your hook may be.
And you feel placid patience as you
idly sit and wait
And wonder If some foolish fish will
nibble at your bait.
It doesn't really matter If the fish refuse
to bite,
Provided only that the lazy day is warm
and bright;
In fact. mid your enjoyment Of the
zephyr and the shine
It seems an interruption to be pulling
In line.
And so it is joyous and profitable
day,
Zen though when homeward bound I
have no trophies to display
And everything is peaceable and friendly
as can be.
I have no grudge against the fish and
they have none toward me.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

lature who voted against the amendment.
Similarly, 1t may be concluded that other
economic royalists" are those who sit in
the Legislatures of Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, Kentucky. Florida and Texas,
among others.
When the New Deal, booted and spur
red, starts out from Washington to round
up and behead the economic royalists," !"
the logical place to begin with would be
the sunny South. The logical place to
look for them would be in the State
capitols.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Calvary Baptist Church
Commends Star Editorial
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The members of Calvary Baptist
Church, at the midweek prayer service
held on July 16, voted unanimously to
express their appreciation to The Star
for It's splendid editorial of that date
on the subject of Drunken Driving" We
are most grateful for the intelligent and
responsible editorial policy of your paper
on questions concerning the public veal.
We trust that you will have the con-
tinued support of our citizens who are
mindful Of the rights and privileges of
society as whole and who do not insist
on their own selfish desires, especially
when those desires are in conflict with
the rights of others.
PHILIP G. MURRAY,
Assistant Minister,
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Lurking in the fetid Brazilian jungles
the dreaded fever Of the young engaged
man" is the latest worry of epidemiolo-
gists.
1t is yellow fever-clinically indistin-
guiShable from that responsible for the
great scourges of the past.
But 1t Is not, so far as can be ascer-
tanned. carried by mosquitoes.
1t attacks men much more readily than
women, whereas the classical yellow fever
made no sex differentiation.
Its greatest ravages are among men
around the 25ths year. Mosquito born
yellow fever attacked indiscriminately
persons of all ages.
The most frequent victims are young
men about to be married because of the
custom of prospective bridegroomS going
out into the jungle to clear new farms
and build homes.
The discovery of this new disease, Just
announced in the annual report OF the
Rockefeller Foundation, is described as
lone of the dramatic events Of cpl
demiology" 1t is also OF considerable
practical importance. With airplanes
flying over the jungles there is always the
possibility, so long as the carriers OF the
yellow fever organism remain unknown
that the scourge will spread even into
temperate climates.
Ever since, shortly after the Spanish
American War, Maj. Walter Reed OF
United States Medical Corps demon
strated concluSively that mosquitoes were
the carriers Of yellow fever and that II
did not spread directly from person to
person, the major efforts to combat this
scourge have been directed toward elim1-
mating the guilty species of mosquito. The
Rockefeller Foundation has played
notable part in this work. On the whole
it has been very successful. Year after
year the yellow fever areas have been re-
stricted and, supposedly, all fear OF an
other major epidemic removed.
In 1880 an attempt was made to in
tensify anti-mosquito measures in Brazil
and to organize them even in the smallest
towns. 1t also was resolved to look for
yellow fever in rural areas where pre-
viously it had not been recognized. Be-
tween 1880 and 1885 there were several
outbreaks of a disease that looked and
acted like yellow fever but which oc.
Cured in regions relatively free Of mos
ouitoes. BY accident one OF the doctors
making the survey heard from local
practitioner that far up country there
had recently been a fatal case of maleria
with some unusual complications On go
ing into the district he found many other
cases of the same kind in stretch OF
sparsely settled country extending over
100000 square miles.
In this area there were many large
towns, as well as great stretches OF jun
gle. The curious thing was that the fever
never made its appearance in the towns.
All the cases were these Of men living
alone in the woods. Ordinarily yellow
fever is q disease of towns or army camps,
passing lightly over rural areas.
It was established that there was no
difference clinically between the jungle
yellow fever and the urban disease. The
tissue damages were identical. The virus
of the jungle cases, when inoculated
into mice or monkeys, gave precisely the
same reactions as did the virus in the
urban cases.
Says the Rockefeller Foundation re-
port: 1.-THE characteristic difference be-
tween Jungle yellow fever and the yellow
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Letter COrrects Error on
Central Union Mission

To the Editor Of The Star:
The Central Union Mission and its
work has been the subject of q letter
OF mine which you have printed.
There was one serious mistake that
slipped in, and herewith wish to cor
rect same. I stated that an activity of
the institution was being financed by
the Federation of Churches. I was
wrong. have it on good authority
that the federation as such has no finan-
cial connection with the mission-it does
not contribute one cent. Please pardon
the error and kindly publish this cor
rection. FRED. VETTER.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Thomas and Lemke.

Two candidates Tor PRESIDENT aQ-
dressed the Townsend old-age pension
ers convention in Cleveland. How diff
ferens were their addresses! Norman
Thomas, the candidate of the Socialist
party, made no bones about telling the
ToWnsendites that their $200-a-month
pension plan is unworkable; that 1t is
an insane proposition. William Lemke,
candidate of the yet-to-be-born Union
party. on the other hand, gave his in
dorsement to the Townsend old-age PEN
sion plan, patiently bidding for the sup
port of the Townsendites in the coming
presidential campaign.
Thomas was booed and jeered. Lemke
was treated better, but the Townsend
convention failed to indorse his can
didacy. However, Lemke has the back
ing for the time being at least of DR..
Townsend himself, who has promised to
go on speaking tour for the Lemke
ticket with his comrades in arms, Father
Coughlin and Rev. Gerald Smith.
The Thomas speech was refreshing.
Here was a presidential candidate who
said exactly what he thought to crowd,
a very large crowd, of potential voters.
Probably Mr.. Thomas felt that he could
be so frank since he has not the slightest
hope of being elected President, or even
of carrying single one of the forty
eight States. Not every presidential
candidate would have had the intestinal
stamina to do what Mr.. Thomas did.
MIR. Lemke appears to have subscribed
one hundred per cent to the Townsend
old-age pension plan. The Townsend
ties, however, failed to subscribe one
hundred per cent to the Lemke presi-
Dental candidacy. The eruption OF
Conner Smith, Democrat, from Okla
homa, during the castigation Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the New Deal by
DR.. Townsend, Father Coughlin and
Rev. Gerald Smith must have brought
some comfort to the New Dealers. Re-
ports have it that the Roosevelt Demo-
cratic high command was keeping a
finger on the pulse of this convention
of old-age pensioners. 1t could scarcely
have permitted the Townsend conven-
ton to adjourn without voice or two
being raised in defense Of the Presi-
dent and his policies.
The Townsend convention has come
and gone. It has prayed and ranted
and demonstrated. That it is an effec-
tive political organization is extremely
doubtful. But as an agency for the
advancement of promoters it seems to
be ideal. It was the great Barnum who
once said something about fools and
suckers being born with great rapidity.
Usually there arise gentlemen who know
Just how to make the best use Of this
happy circumstance.
Within a month another convention
will be held at Cleveland, the conven-
ton of the National Union for Social
Justice, headed by Father Coughlin. 1t
will be interesting to see just how many
of the Townsend leaders put in an
appearance, whether DR.. Townsend him
self will be on deck. This is the conven-
ton which it is expected will 60 definitely
on record for the presidential candidacy
of William Lemke, that shining ball Of
fire from the Dakotas. There, at least,
a one hundred per cent Endorsement Of
Lemke should take place, or else Father
Coughlin is slipping.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Animal Lover.

Dumb things in any sort Of plight
Touched some deep part Of her:
The mewing of q hungry cat
Went to the heart Of her;
Shed turn her car In trafilc's whln
To chide a boy chasing a squirrel.
A wounded bird, straying pup.
Passed by were crime to her;
Every unwanted, homeless beast
Came In its CRIME to her;
None of Gods creatures were too low
For her to feel their wordless woe.
She often laughed and said twas true
Aninity with them she knew.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Apex Oratory.

From the Shreveport Journal.
It is said that on one occasion Daniel
Webster climbed to the summit of one
of Vermont's tallest peaks and there
made q speech to the mountain. This is
respectfully passed along to the political
spellbinders for what 1t Is worth.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Discomforts of a hot wave are pc
culiarly intensified when one looms into
history at time when it becomes neces-
sary to accept 1t as a factor in calcula-
tions not only on the local food supply
but on world economics.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

There are persons so crudely direct in
their study of psychological mathematics
as to wonder whether the computations
of the Townsend plan do not relate in
some ingenious fashion to those of the
once notorious Mr.. Ponzi.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Instructions have been issued to mem
bers of his staff by Professor Tugwell that
no one must be permitted to 60 without
food. This represents one of the most
exacting problems yet presented in
higher educational circles.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Extensive reports are circulated con-
cerning allegedly lavish entertainment
in diplomatic circles. If there is any
Interior motive involved it must be that
of irritating the taxpayers in foreign
communities.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

It is announced that there will be
more keynote speeches. AS in the case
of the village choir, harmony will con-
tinue to be sought regardless of wear and
tear on the tuning fork.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

It is often found as Summer progresses
that a third party will subdivide into
sixths and twelfths until the result Is
a mere scattering that awaits conden-
Sation.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
The Unexpected.

Same old story every year!
Blizzards spoil the wintry cheer,
As we murmur all together,
isn't this surprising weather."
Then when days with roses sweet
Melt away In Summer heat,
We exclaim: "The climates very
Sultry and extraordinary"
It's the same old tale-and yet
Annually we forget
All the ills and just remember
Joys Of July and December.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

New Jersey has had her difheulty IN
getting business out of politics and still
more trouble in preventing crime wave
from interrupting the deliberations OF
craftsmanship.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Even in spirited campaign there must
be moments of sentimental reminiscence
as Tammany thinks of how Mr.. AL Smith
and Mr.. James Farley used to be served
from the same ladle at a chowder party.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

In various parts of the world 1t Is
being noted that while the market basket
grows lighter the ammunition bill grows
more and more burdensome.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

There are localities in which political
demonstration is regarded as a success
if it develops plenty of brass bands and
avoids brass knuckles.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Adjustment.

There were parts of your speech
didn't quite understand" said the patient
listener.
"Those," answered Senator Sorghum,
were the parts that I left for you to
make up for yourself, with the implied
assurance that I'd be with you as far
as possible"
Evening star., 1936-07-21
A Nazi Requisition.

From the Illinois State Journal
. Rudolph Hess says the Nazs want q
type of woman intellectually capable to
stand by her husband Any woman
ought to be able to master the Naz
salute.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Hopeful France.

From the Cohoes (N.Y.) American.
Talk Of q billion-dollar loan to France
Is In the air in France" Lafayette, not
! another cent.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Diamonds.

From the Lowell Leader.
Judging by the number Of June we'd
dings, prospective brides have not been
discouraged by the news Of Q strike OF
diamond cutters In Antwerp.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Long Days.

From, the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader.
These are the longest days Of the year,
but it's Just as hard to get . days work
done g ever.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

"Some men," said Uncle Eben, "is like
locomotive whistles. Dey don do no
partic1ar work, but dey manages to
keep a lot O. people awake nights"
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Relatives

From the Muskegon Chronicle.
After u years research, an Iowan has
discovered $4,000 relatives. An easier
way would have been to win on q sweep
stakes ticket.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Junk.

From the Saginaw News.
Canton, Ohio, boy has made q tractor
out Of junk and we've heard of some
who could make junk out Of q tractor.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Jud Tunkins says people need fire.
works to show their patriotism the same
as they need oratory that doesn't neces-
sarily mean anything next day.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Looking for Trouble.

Looking for Trouble.
There never was man so strong
That things for him would not go wrong.
They struggle on for place and fame,
Selecting one to take the blame.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Climate and Ailments.
From the Grand Island Independent.
Isn't it fortunate that, the ailments
which can be cured by q change OF
climate rarely attack those who can't
afford to make the change?
Evening star., 1936-07-21

1.-THE most admirable art" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, "is that which
can conquer vanity and refrain from
persistence in faulty expression"
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 70
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights Of publication Of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

@. What kind of building material is
tabby?-G. s.
A. 1t is composite oyster shell,
lime and concrete which the Spanish
first employed. Tabby is an adaptation
of tapia. the Spanish name for the
material.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

@. Does a veteran of the World War
have to come within his States appor-
tionment for a civil service position?-
A. M
A. He does have to prove his resi-
dence, but does not have to come within
the States quota and does receive pref
erence.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Night Final Edition.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
COMMANDER RANK
GIVEN 50 IN NAVY
President Endorses Advance
ment of 8 Lieutenant
Commanders Here.

President Roosevelt yesterday in
dorsed Selection Board recommended
tions for the advancement of SO lieu
tenant ommanders-eight of them on
duty in Washington--to the rank OF
commander, when vacancies occur.
Those serving in the National Cap
ital include: Lieut. Comdrs. Richard
Waller Bates, on duty in the Bureau
Of Engineering, Navy Department.; Ell
mer Richard Henning. on duty in the
ONCE of Naval Operations, at the de-
partment: Irving Reynolds Chambers,
on duty in the ONCE of the Chief Of
Naval Operations; Osborne Bennett
Harrison serving in the Bureau of
Aeronautics at the department; Thor
void Arthur Solberg, on duty in the
Bureau of Engineering at the depart
ment. Webster Maddux Thompson,
also in the Bureau of Engineering;
Charles Julian Wheeler, serving in
the Office of Naval Operations, and
Knefler McGinnis. now executive off,
Ger of the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa who is soon to become COM
mandine officer.
Among Others Chosen.
Among those chosen for promotion
were Lieut.. Comdr. Jesse Lloyd Ken
worthy, jr.. executive officer aboard
the naval airship U. S. S. Macon, when
she was lost off the California coast.
and now aiding in fitting out the new
- cruiser U. S. S. Quincy: Theodore
Thomas Patterson. aide to the super
intendent at the Naval Academy. and
r. De Witt Carr, also on duty at the
Naval Academy.
Commanding officers of destroyers
and submarines. gunnery officers and
navigators aboard cruisers and Off
GERS on shore duty in variety of ca
pacities were among those picked for
promotion. They include:
Lieut.. Comdr. Burton Whitman
Chippendale, gunnery officer Of U. S.
s. New Orleans; Myron Wells Hutch
inson. jr., executive officer of U. S. S.
Affair, who makes his home here at
1881 Twentieth street; Ralph Eugene
Dawson, serving on aircraft carrier
U. S. S. Lexington; Don Pardee Moon,
commanding U. S. S. John D. Ford;
Russell Stanley Berkey. commanding
U. S. S. Smith Thompson: George
Frederick Hussey, jr, commanding
u. S. S. Decatur: Thomas Joseph Keli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Maverick to Speak.

Representative Maverick Of Texa.
will be guest speaker February S at q
dinner of the Mount Holyoke Club in
honor of President Mary E. Woolley.
Measures opposing war will be dis.
cussed Reservations for the affair tt
be held at Wesley Hall. 1903 K street
may be made through Miss Helen
Demond. 200 @ street. through Feb
ruary l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

her. jr, gunnery officer of battleship
U. S. S. Texas; Clinton Elgin Braine,
jr., naval inspector of ordnance at
the Midvale Steel Co., Philadelphia,
Pa; William Morrow Fechteler. COM
handing U. S. S. Perry; Charles
Adams Baker, commanding U. S. S.
Edsall; Gerald Francis Began. aboard
U. S. S. Lexington; Leon Sangster
Fiske, on staff of Naval War College,
Newport, R. l.; Willard Augustus
Kits, Sd, commanding U. S. S. Nc
Cormick: Bertram Joseph Rodgers, on
duty at the Panama Canal. Balboa
Heights, C. T.; Frank Edmund Beat
ty. navigator aboard U. S. S. Rich
mond; Gail Morgan, navigator on air.
craft carrier U. S. S. Langley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

W. G. T. U. President to Speak.
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, Evanston.
H., national president of the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union, will
speak at 8 pm. today at the National
City Christian Church, Thomas Circle.
Her subject will be Sign Of the
Times"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
To Talk on Child Training.

DR.. Paul Ewerhardt, director of the
Washington Child Guidance Clinic,
will speak on can Expert Looks at
Child Training" at a meeting of the
Mothers Study Club of the Jewish
Community Center at BIS pm. tomor-
row. The public is invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Colored Group to Meet.

The Oldest Inhabitants Association,
colored, will hold its quarterly bust
ness meeting tomorrow at 8 pm. at
the Twelfth Street Branch of the Y
M. c. A.