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SIS = s ROOM COTTAGE. AMPLE
ground; take Seat Pleasant bus OPP Star
office 10 corner OF Central and Edgar ayes.
MIR. PERKINS.
LARGE 5-RM. BUNGALOW IN HYATTs-
porch, g4raGe, shade: nr. trolley: posses
BETHESDA-5-RM BATH BUNGALOW.
trees transportation; Immediate posses
sion. N'in. Wisconsin o55S~W.
l',,'!9 NORTH THOMAS ST. ARLINGTON.
Na.-1-room bungalow, all modern i'm
protementS; furnished: Ste.Ju. GEO H.
RUCkER CO, Clarendon lo,.
~45 MONTH COLMAR MANOR. MD
room bungalow, bath. gas. eec.. hot-water
heat, newly papereo. double garage; corner
lot; j RIDLEY SHIELDS, owner, Hyatts-
Vile 7O-M.
lo::5 N. DANIEL ST. ARLINGTON. VA
h-room bungalow. completely furnished; ;
a m l. Reasonable.
NEARBY VIRGINIA RENTALS RMS
a so, h rms. at SIS 80. : rms at SO;
: rms. a >loo. Office of j. L. PRICE,
?&oj S. Arlineton Rtdse I'd, Arlington,
Va. Rld2c -.
AVAILABLE AUGUST l5-:s BED ROOM
house, $50. sos Newton ave, Delrav. Va,
Alex. ti- w. IL.
mo 18th ST. SOUTH. ARLINGTON. VA.
--Furn. > rms, Frisldare: newly dec.
sood helah.: Govt. emp preferred; 81.
NEARBY VA.-YOUNG LADY WILL,
share new modern home with refined.
responsible couple. Walnut 93a2
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THOS. J. OWEN & SON AUCTIONEERS,
li3I Eye ST NV.
SALE OF PREMISES NO. SIC

TRUSTEE S SALE OF PREMISES NO. $40
COLUMBIA ROAD NORTHWEST.
BY virtue of deed of trust recorded in
Liber Us folio | :. ct seq, OF the land
sell at auction III front OF the premises ON
MONDAY THE NINETEENTH DAY OF
JULY l93,,, AT FOUR O'CLOCK PM..
lot so IN Guy s. Zepp and Carroll S ZeppS :
subdivision OF lots III square BOIL, Pleasant
Plains, AS per plat recorded III the sur
The aboNe-numDtred premises.
Terms Oi sale. one third CT the pur-
chase money to be paid IN cash. balance
payable IN TWO equal lnSialments III one
aud Two years. with interest nj SIX per
centum per annum PAYABLE semi annually.
trust upon the property sold, Or all cash.
al the option OF the purchaser A de
poSlt Of S.ioU.Ou VIII be required at time
o! sale Examination OF the tltle. con-
VrYanClng recording. revenue stamps, etc.
a cost of purchaser. Terms OF sale to be
day o. sale. otherwise the trustee reserves
the right to resell the property a. the
risk and cost OF defaulting purchaSe ser
after FIVE DAYS advertisement of such re-
sale in some newspaper published in
WaShington y. c. or deposit may be for
may avail Itself Of any legal or equitable
rights against defaulting purchaser
AMERICAN SECURITY
s; TRUST COMPANY
BY WM. L. BEALE.
Vice President;
Substituted Trustee IN Equity
Cause No. "a .SHU.
A. H. sHILLINGToN.
Asst. Secretary. jyS d,rds pxSun
THOMAS J. OWEN 4 SON AUCTIONEERS.
1881 Eye ST. N W.
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FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS

Location Wis. ave. al D. c. line; one
fare; room bright home heating plant
new. oil burner: would exchange. Call at
200 Wootton ave. near house. Tel Wis.
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FHILIP ROSENFELD.
Attorney for Party Secured.
jy1.9. .l2.14 f.l4
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COLORED
Lots. S97 so up; terms as low as 81
down and 81 monthly: in ne Natl. 1859
COLORED LOTS IN DEANWOOD AND
FAIRMONT HEIGHTS S75 up: easy
terms: help build District 917O
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STOP
Near Walter Reed Hospital. /

Detached S-room house. large bed
rooms bath sun room. '!-car 2arage: lot
55x!no; oil heat; CONVENIENT 10 tran5por-
tatIon, churches. schools and stores n
excellent condition 81 800 SIROUP
REALTY CO. Southern Bldg., Geo. 4l3s.
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NEW BRICK HOMES.
slO,5OO. Foxhall Village Proper
dayS. n. BURNSIDES. EmerSon lEE4.
FRANK S. PHILLIPS, DIST. 1411.
$3.50. Mr.. 18th & CRITTENDEN
tContln ue0,l

BARtIAIN-EASY TERMS.
A fine e-ooklng Colonial brick. 8 big
rooms 3 porCheS open fireplace. oil heat,
sleC. refrlgeratlon: nice lot and garage: IN
wonderful condition: modern and conven-
lent to everything. EVENINGS and sundays,
MR.. BORTZ. Cleveland 4134.
IT'D NTLp DIIJI TDC MOT 1d11
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1923 WHITTIER ST. NV
MARIETTA PARK.

Nearly new detached bricE ; rooms.
bath sleerm- porch. yard. garage. near
4 ton hv appointment STROUP REALTY
co. 1Sl Southern Bldg, Dist. 03SS, Geo.
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S7,95O.
2 VVO.
Enl1 pINEN Ro NNCE |

rooms yard garden. good condition:
low price; $500 cash. $50 month Geo
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SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR RENT.

SIS - ROOM COTTAGE AMPLE
ground; take Seat Pleasant bus opp. Star
office TO corner OF Central and Edgar ayes.
MIR PEP klNS
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24l LONGFELLOW ST.

Open for in>pcc,io iou: small ca:h paw
n'ent SIX r0OUS aud bath Two lnclnsed
porches brlll-m garaSo; n"w-housc condi-
tlon Th' mon hlv pa men,s include all
Interest. m rFfinanclnE-
COURT REALTY CO.,
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SEE THIS TODAY.

Four bed rooms, bath finished basement
and attic ! porcheS. electric retrlEeratIon.
gas heat nice yard. desirable neiehborhood
convenient to schools. stores. TRANSPORTATION.
Reasonable price. easy terms. Call MIR
HOFFMAN. Randolph l|HI.
Evening star., 1937-10-26
The Hard of Hearing.

The purpose of National Hearing
Week, locally sponsored by the Washing
ton League for the Hard of Hearing, is
educational in character. 1t is intended
to teach those who are partially or wholly
deaf to practice an efficient courage.
Also it is designed to correct public mis-
understanding of the plight of the deaf.
In both regards, the effort is praise
worthy.
Probably the whole problem of de-
fective hearing needs social approach.
Men and women who are deaf, it seems,
ought not to be willing to submit to their
handicap without trying to overcome its
penalties. For example, they should be
eager to attempt to master the trick Of
lip-reading. Not every speaker, of course.
can be comprehended by the visual pro-
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STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.

abandoned. The physicians at the
United States Public Health Service at
Carville, La, look upon it with good
deal of SkepticiSm. True, patients treated
with Chalmaugra oil seem to improve
in hospital environment where they
are kept on a healthy diet and given
plenty of fresh air and sunshine. There
is a good deal of evidence that it is
the healthy living conditions. rather
than the oil, which bring about the
improvement.
The comparison between leprosy and
tuberculosis, in fact. seems to hold all
the way Not only are the germs similar,
but that best methods of treatment for
both are the same. Therein, DR.. Nc
Kinley believes, lies the great hope for
the leper. Like tuberculosis, the disease
must be diagnosed early before it has
reached the point where there are overt
symptoms.
With tuberculosis this is fairly easy
by means of the tuberculin test. The
tuberculin is fraction of the tubercu-
losis germ-the protein part extracted
by chemists. 1t is injected under the
skin. When persons have the disease
in its incipient form an inf1amed area
spreads around the site of the injection
The larger this area the greater the
progress of the disease.
Why not take the leprosy bacillus, re-
move the protein, and then make similar
injection? Then everybody who showed
a positive reaction could be treated at
once with the probability that the dis
ease would be stopped in its tracks. 1t
would never develop into actual, recog-
nizable leprOSy.
Leprosy is one of the oldest diseases
known to man. Its history can be traced
back more than $500 years. Early in
the book of Exodus the Lord is said to
have performed miracle in giving the
disease to Moses. In more recent times
it was of such Importance that in the
thirteenth century Emperor Frederick of
Germany first decreed that physicians
should be licensed so that persons of
responsibility to the state could deter
mine whether one had the malady. This
was the first recognition Of professional
responsibility of the medical practitioner.
The leper houses established all over
Europe were the forerunners of the
present hospitals.
Yet all this time leprosy has defied the
science of medicine. The organism is
known. 1t was first established by a.
Norwegian physician in 1874. In the
cases of most diseases, once the germ
has been isolated great progress in
treatment has followed. With leprosy
this has not been the case, chiefly
because no experimental animal can be
found. Only man seems susceptible.
Even human beings do not make good
experimental animals because, DR.. Nc
Kinley points out, dozens Of attempts to
produce the disease experimentally IN
man himself have failed.
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cess: yet the advantage is common and
general enough to justify the labor in
volved.
The deaf, likewise, may find 1t helpful
to be frank about their condition. Moth
ing is to be gained by concealing it. In
deed, 1t may be said to be not quite
fair to pretend to the possession OF q
capacity which actually is lort. One
philosophic soul once made virtue of
necessity by distributing among friends
and acquaintances cards which read: Il
am hard of hearing, but please don't
shout at me. I can follow what you
say, if you will talk in your natural tone
of voice and look at me while you are
talking"
For the public, constructive sympathy
and tolerance are suggested. The deaf
usually feel hurt by being neglected in
conversation. Such reaction is normal
and ought to be taken into account.
Especially where arbitrary discrimination
is represented, the hard of hearing are
righteously critical. Thomas A. Edison
was pitifully deaf throughout the most
useful portion Of his career, but he left
mankind in debt to his inventive
achievement. Because an individual cam
not hear all the gossip current and all
the noisy radio programs on the air, it
does not signify that he should be denied
a chance to earn his bread. Indeed, he
may be more competent workman than
some aspirant whose other qualifications
for the job may be inconsequential.
Each case certainly, is distinct, and it
is infeasible to lay down single rule to
apply to everybody concerned. This
much, however, may be affirmed without
reservation: No living human being is
exempt from potential deafness. There
fore, the problem is everybody's business
Evening star., 1937-10-26

rels down the hill to inevitable disaster
in the path OF undismayed express
trains.
Everybody at Pumpkin Cross Roads
was surprised when it was announced
that Jennie Dorr had agreed to marry
Whammerjammer. She was reputed to
be "clever," and her friends loudly WON
dered how she could persuade herself
to wed "loafer" with any hope of effect
ing his reformation. The girl, however,
refused to listen to reason and bore her
indifferent husband no less than eleven
children in punishment for her error Of
judgment. But the burden of family
did not trouble Whammerjammer.
when they get grown he yawned,
their daddy won't never lack for place
to lay his head" Meanwhile, he laid
his back in any convenient spot suitable
for its accommodation.
His bedraggled wife balanced the
budget" by begging and borrowing from
relatives and strangers until her boys
and girls were old enough to run away
from their ramshackle home. BY 1884
none remained except Nannybelle, who
was only four and weak in the pins"
as we'll as mot strong in the intellects.
Considering her infirmities, Whammer-
jammer explained: Jennie, she amt
goin' be good for nothin'. So, you see,
we're abandoned. That's what we is, and
don know who is goin take care of us.
You gotta figger out some way for us to
live
The next morning, while her lord and
master slumbered, Jennie hitch -hiked to
the county seat in search of an answer
to the riddle. 1t was late in the evening
when she returned, heavily laden with
edible proof of the solution of her prob
lem. Whammerjammer stared at her
blandly while she taught him the lesson
she had learned: We're not forsaken.
We're only under privileged. From now
on, we're reliefers and can live like the
rich. 1t don cost nothin' but votin', and
they'll come for us in a cab on election
day"
Evening star., 1937-10-26

Dear Sir: I have read and enjoyed
your column for years, and want to ask
your advice, hoping you are a diplomat
as we'll a. bird lover
1--WE live in the suburbs, and since we
moved here four years ago have had SO
much pleasure feeding and making
friends with the birds and squirrels.
1--WE have several bluebirds that come
to our kitchen window the minute the
snow begins to fall, and they come back
every time 1t is showing. and enjoy our
meals for them on the feeding stand.
I'VE have made friends with family
of cardinals, too, and we feed them
winter and summer. This summer they
brought their young ones and they have
all come to my garden every day since,
until recently.
But about two weeks ago heard some
boys talking in the woods back Of my
garden, and going down l discovered they
were shooting rifle at birds and squir-
relS, both.
Il demonstrated with them, saying we
feed the birds and squirrels and they are
our pets, and informing them it is against
the law to shoot anything in the District
of Columbia.
"Since that time I have heard the rifle
in yards nearby, but did not speak to
the children about it again.
Since that time not one cardinal or
other bird has been seen in our yard or
garden and not one squirrel. What
would you do about it? These children S
parents are very nice, and friends of
mine, and naturally 1 do not wish to
offend them.
so I am at loss to know what to do.
I am, yours truly, L. P. s."
Those who befriend the birds and small
mammals bring upon themselves many
small sorrows.
One of the worst of these is to feel
that one had lured them to the garden
merely to be targets.
The situation is as old as the hills.
Yet each person who experiences it
will feel yelling up great sense OF
indignation.
What TO do. indeed?
One way is to wait for things to
change.
1t is, no doubt, the most diplomatic
way. In every neighborhOod situations
arise which are not to the liking of some
one or other, and it has been found that
in most cases they tend to correct them
selves, sooner or later.
The air rifle and the % caliber are
dangerous instruments.
Many parents have found this out, to
the great sorrow of their little ones and
of themselves
The natural desire of small boys to
hunt ought to have the strictest mature
supervision. One father solved this mat
ter by getting his boy interested in skeet
There is an age at which most boys
want to have a gun.
1t is natural enough, and there is no
getting away from it.
Skeet, in case you don't know, is a
sort of modern clay pigeon shooting
done under certain rules, and in cer-
tain way.
1t is great sport. one in which men
women and children have an equal
chance.
The boy instanced became quite a
marksman, champion, in fact. Not all
Evening star., 1937-10-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

lads can do as we'll, but no doubt all
would have great fun in this sport.
After all, the shooting is the thing
it doesn't make so much difference what
one hits.
That is where the sorrow of bird
shooting comes in. The boys really do
not care to shoot birds-an old bottle
would do as well.
-
All birds are gun-minded, fortunately.
The moment they hear one, or even
see one. they fly away as fast as their
little wings can carry them, which is
pretty fast, in most cases.
And they do not return.
In many instances the appearance OF
an airgun in q neighborhood for few
minutes will scare every bird away for
two weeks.
1t is really too bad, and there is not
much to be done about 1t except with
i'll feeling and quite often failure to get
any results, whereas If nature is allowed
to take its course, even the most careless
parent in time comes to realize that no
child ought to be permitted such dam
gerous playthings.
Ornithologists long have written of the
havoc played among the birds of Florida
by children with air rifles.
Most Of these youngsters are from
the North.
The annual influx of these young gun
bearers no doubt has helped in the estab-
lishment Of several large bird Sanctuaries
in that State, when it came to be seen
that something must be done to protect
the natural resources OF that wonderland.
In the North the world breaks out with
an annual rash of air rifles at Christmas
time.
1t would seem strange that the season
dedicated to the Prince of Peace should
be celebrated with guns of any type.
Thoughtlessness seems to be one of the
earmarks of the age.
The young man in the delivery truck
rushes along the street at forty miles an
hour, needless of the fact that the man
he nearly knocks down at the corner is
one of his customers.
The small boy who begs for an air
rifle is given one, regardless of the fact
that the first thing he does with it is to
drive all the birds away from the garden
of one of his parents best friends.
X
Fortunately, for the songsters, they are
exceedingly canny when it comes to guns
of any type.
The first crack sends them all winging
That instrument of crippling and death
has been impressed upon their small
minds unforgettably.
Perhaps no creatures ever learned such
a lesson quicker than the birds OF
America.
Several hundreds years, after all, is not
a long time. yet in that period our birds
learned to know what rifle means.
They even learned to tell one on sight
Next to hawk, there is nothing they
fear more than man. He, with his guns
and his poisons, is their great fear. 1t
is too bad.
The person who becomes their friend
and tries to feed them will find that
sorrow is part of his portion as we'll as
theirs. Watchful waiting is often the
better part of valor. Even this shall
pass away" is an ancient wisdom which
| applies to bird enemies, too.
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Whammeria1ilmer.

Whammerjammer was healthy chap
1t was his boast that, if challenged, he
could collar any two of his biggest
neighbors and knock their heads to-
gether. People in general, believing
Fundamentally in his prowess, left him
to himself in the solitary enjoyment of
the leisure he demanded. So long as
his father lived, he declined to work
Even after that parents demise, he
avoided useful occupation. The farm he
had inherited was a tangle Of weeds. but
its condition failed to disturb him. When
he wanted amusement, he rolled old bar
Evening star., 1937-10-26

A fresh start for investigations of
leprosy has been provided by DR.. Earl
B. Mckinley dean of George Washing
ton University School of Medicine, who
has Just returned from the Orient after
making more than 5000 tests in an
effort to find a specific antigen for the
disease.
1t was hoped to find among the chemi-
cal extracts from the 20 or more
supposed leprosy germs which have been
cultivated something which would reveal
the malady in its earliest stages as surely
as the well-known tuberculin test detects
the presence of the closely related
tuberculosis.
DR.. Mckinley and his associates, work.
ing under the auspices of the American
Leprosy Foundation, met with complete
failure. Lepers and non-leperS acted
exactly alike in response to the various
substances used. On the surface the
results appear to be altogether negative.
but. Dr. Mckinley explains. great deal
of debris has been cleared away from the
path of future Investigators
The possibility of leproSy antigen
now is reduced to one organism first
isolated in 1882 by DR.. Mckinley himself
and DR.. M. H. Soule of the University OF
Michigan. This was not used in the
tests, since its rate of propagation is
very slow and not enough was available
to prepare the chemical extracts. Grown
by a method differing from those pre-
yiously used, DR.. Mckinley believes that
this is most likely to be the real leprosy
germ and henceforth research work will
be concentrated on it. So long as there
were other candidates in the field for the
unenviable distinction of causing this
dreaded human disease there was bound
to be a great deal of wasted effort and
following of false clues.
Leprosy remains one of the great medi-
cal and economic problems Of the world.
In temperate climes it is one of the
rarest of diseases. Yet in the United
States there are 1900 cases, 400 in seq
pegation. The segregated cases cost the
Government approximately $1,000,000 a
year. In the Philippines the Government
has spent more than $4,000, 900 since the
American occupation of the islands.
There are probably between 100000 and
100000 cases in the world today. In
such tropical countries as Brazil and
Colombia the disease affords one of the
major health problems.
The germ of leprosy is a bacillus,
superficially almost indistinguishable
from the bacillus of tuberculosis. Various
treatments have been introduced, some
of them apparently fairly successful. A
notable example is Chalmaugra oil
therany. first tried on large scale about
Is years ago. But already it is being
Evening star., 1937-10-26

The Irish Sweepstakes continue to
be mentioned in connection with Ameri-
can good fortune, but it has not yet dis
bit of a quarrel on the journey. And
besides, do We not know that gambling
is wicked and frequently of more ad-
vantage to the poor in principle rather
than to the deserving in morals? In
spite of elaborate discoveries. we are
still confronted with elementary prin-
cipleS.
Evening star., 1937-10-26

Indian sign on the whole flock of these
opponents of the court bill, will it be
possible for Mr.. Farley to continue to
remind the Democratic voters and the
country that there is no split in the
party? 1t seems not.
X
Just. what effect the slump in the
stock market is likely to have on the
political situation has not yet been
manifest. However, the Republican op-
ponents of the administration will not
be slow to make the most of this bad
situation. Indeed, Chairman John Ham,
ilton of the Republican National Com
mittee already has begun to open fire
claiming that this is New Deal de-
preston, and not connected with the
q. Q. p, which went out Of ONCE nearly
hve years ago.
Evening star., 1937-10-26

The Chinese and Japanese are both
boasting of great war machines. Not
to be outdone, nations who have claims
around the Mediterranean are prompt
with demonstrations of power while We
make every effort to indicate willing
standing that will permit the satisfac-
ton of mutual needs with honesty and
precision.
Evening star., 1937-10-26
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Social Interchange.


Had little party down to Pohick-on-
the-Crick
Folks came happenin' along in Sunday
clothes so slick
An here was Jim an there was Jane,
a-growin' up so fine!
They make me pretty proud to know
that they are friends of mine.
Glad to greet the youngsters with the
dancin' an the song.
We gotta get acquainted as we help the
world along.
We find new lights in mental fogs
a-groWin' rather thick
When we have little party down to
Pohick on -the-C -Crick.
Evening star., 1937-10-26

Japan depends somewhat on the as
sumption that it has a language easier
to learn than Chinese. The considera-
ton is important and it might be we'll
could be suspended pending investiga-
ton as to what advantage of influence
and position could be most practically
utilized in methods of speech.
Evening star., 1937-10-26
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
NV Friend-SOrrow

My Friend-SOrrow
Well I know sorrow. She has walked
with me,
Entered my dwelling, sat in silence
there;
And in the midnight hour has talked
with me,
Talked of trail that leads to regions
rare.
And when instinctively I shrank from
her
She proffered sorrows cup, bid me
not quail;
For If the draft freely drank from her
Then she would lead me to the up
ward trail.
Evening star., 1937-10-26
Musical Millennium.

From the worcester Gazette.
The millennium in American music
will be here when promising young
Italian singers with long Italian names
come over here and take such artistic
names as Cyrus Perkins and Henrietta
Baxter
Evening star., 1937-10-26
Democracies.

From the Bay City (Mch.) Times.
Germany and italy, says Mussolini,
are the worlds greatest democracies.
And any German or Italian who dis
agrees has only to say so in order to
get a one-way ticket to . nice, demo-
cratic concentration camp.
Evening star., 1937-10-26
Sporting Uncertainties.

What do you know about race
horses?"
Nothing whatever" said Mr.. Chug-
gins. "Give me my old f1iv. 1t never
pays big odds, bat know exactly what
it is going to cost me when pull up to
a filling station"
"To hope for the BEST" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, '4s useless with
out honest fortitude in guarding against
the worst"