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Evening star., 1937-08-03
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.

The Senate has done nothing to en-
courage confidence in the proposed
labor standards board, the authority
which would administer the pending
wage and hour legislation, by tacking on
an amendment to the law which makes
patronage-Senate patronage-of all po-
sitions paying $4,000 or more annually.
Certainly an organization designed to
have vast powers over the business life
Of this country should be divorced from
politics. But that, obviously, is not
the senatorial viewpoint
In its original draft, this bill provided
such sweeping exemptions from civil
service that it was hard to see how
spoils advocates could improve-if that
Is the word-on it. The amendment,
however, providing for confirmation by
the Senate is drawing the line little
finer.
This Is not the first time the Senate
has reserved to itself the higher-paid
positions in a new agency. Resettlement,
Public Works, Works Progress, Archives
and, more recently, Social Security, al
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Building Motor Roads
All Over the World
Prom the san Antonio New.

Prom the San Antonio News.
Contrary to the prevailing impression,
perhaps, intensive highway building has
not been confined to the United States
under the New Deal. AS the Automobile
Manufacturers Associations latest prog
resS report indicates, during the past
eight years the principal countries have
been constructing new, extending and
modernizing old automobile routes at an
unprecedented rate. AS 4 result more
than three million additional miles of
highway have been opened to the
traveller by motor car making 5000, 900
miles altogether Since 1929 the road
mileage has been extended by 81 per
cent.
The tourist may drive a car from
Montreal to the City Of Mexico from
Tangier to Jerusalem, from Cape Town
to Kenya-and soon gaps will be filled
In between Cairo and Cape Town. With
only one link to be closed he will be
abble to drive from Damascus, via Bag
dad and Teheran, to Calcutta or, Madras.
Roads out Of Marking and Peiping have
about evicted the age-old famine spec
ter from China. Meanwhile Germany
Is completing its autobahn system
5000 miles Of express" highways with
trafdc lanes completely serarated for
speed and safety-a model for road build
ers everywhere. Argentina is spending
100 million pesos on its $4,000 miles
OF primary roads. Extension of the
Inter-American Highway from the City
Of Mexico to the Canal Zone is being
pushed systematically; Buenos Aires
Is the builders goal. A Complementary
enterprise would span the Americas
between Vancouver and Santiago de
Chile. For the next ten years the re-
port foresees "an advance In motor
transportation surprising anything
achieved before" The highway builders
are doing their part toward making the
world one big neishborhood.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.

Preparation OF 4 new and more effec-
tive scarlet fever toxin has Just been
announced by the National Institute OF
Health.
Il long has been known that children
can be protected against scarlet fever by
injecting under the skin 4 series OF doses
OF the streptococcus toxin responsible for
the disease. The dif1culty has been to
accomplish this without 4 disagreeable
reaction in the child or the need for an
ing to Dr. M. V. Veldee, Public Health
Service surgeon. who conducted the
present research.
Through = process Of publication,
says DR.. Veldee, 1T has been possible to
remove some Of the Objectionable and
unnecessary fractions from the scarlet
fever toxin. BY the addition OF tannic
acid this purified toxin is rendered In
soluble. In this form 1t is absorbed more
slowly following hypodermic injection
Slower absorption causes 4 reduction In
the symptoms following injection and
at the same time causes greater i'm
munity production because the i'm
munizing substances remain In the body
for a longer time.
Having determined by tests on labora-
tory animals and on small groups of
human volunteers that this purified and
precipitated toxin was entirely safe and
that injections into the skin seemed
the most suitable, active immunization
was offered to the parents of 9,379 chill
dren attending the first six grades OF
the grammar school In one county.
Tests showed that A per cent Of these
children were susceptible to scarlet fever
and these were given immunizing In
jections. One month after the last dose
each child was given 4 second test and
1t was found that from so to 80 per cent
OF those treated were now immune"
Since the start OF the immunizations,
DR.. Veldee says, no treated child has
developed scarlet fever. whereas the
usual prevalence of this disease was
found among the untreated children Of
the county. 1t still is too early, DR..
Veldee stresses, to fully evaluate the
new product, since the work involves
only part OF one school year.
i X + 4
Why IL months?
Because that's twice the number Of
stripes on chipmunk's back.
DR.. Truman Nicholson, Smithsonian
Institution ethnologist. thus explains the
queer "chipmunk calendar" Of the Fox
1ndians-the remnants of which once
powerful Algonquinian tribe live on .
reservation near Tama, Iowa.
Like other primitive peoples, the Foxes
sought to explain the phenomena Of
Nature by animistic comparisons. The
story. as obtained by DR.. Nicholson from
elderly members Of the tribe still familiar
with its fast-disappearing legendry, Is
that In the beginning there was quarrel
among the manitous-demigods persona
Tying various forms OF Hfe-as to the
number of months.
1t was proposed that there be As many
rs there are feathers in turkeys tail.
Wisakaa, 4 friend of man, who was
not yet created among the manitous,
objected. That, he said, would make the
Winter scores Of months long. Human
beings would be unable to store up
enough food and would starve to death.
During the ensuing quarrel . chipmunk
came along. Wisakaa proposed that ths
Evening star., 1937-08-03

number Of stripes on its back be &C.
cepted as compromise.
There were six Of them, 10 1t was
agreed that there be six months Of
Winter and six OF Summer This would
make the cold season Just about long
enough 80 that man could live through
1t on stored food and game until the
bounty OF Spring came again.
~
Old age is rare cause OF death among
wild animals. 1t is shown by United
States Biological Survey studies.
Even aside from the law OF tooth and
claw which obtains In the forest. acci-
dents and hunger take big toll One of
the most common causes OF death Is
pneumonia, usually superinduced by the
weakness which comes with hunger.
Rabies. anthrax. bubonic plague, gland
ers. tuleremia and undulant fever also
take their toll in wild life and can easily
be passed on to man.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Shooting Stars.
BY PHLANDER JOHNSON.

IdleneSS.
There is no idleness complete"
Said Hezekiah Bings-
Although we say repose Is sweet"
There's none 'monsst earthly things
Although we close our eyes in sleep,
Our hoping and our fear
In dreams, amid the silence deep,
Are ever lowering near.
What seems to be the Endless Rest
All free from mortal care,
Is but another start in quest
OF betterment Somewhere.
Although In wasteful hours we greet
The smile that Folly filings,
There is no idleness complete
Said Hezekiah Bings.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES +. TRACEWELL.
A letter from the blue jays friend:


Dear Sir: This evenings Star car
ries letter from H. L. w. against the
bluejay.
Il am perhaps unfortunate in being q
lover Of cats and birds, and have never
noticed any diminution of bird life due
to the presence of the family cat, or cats.
Master Bluejay Il great fun, and 1t
would be silly to start campaign
against him.
I'VE have always looked upon him "a
sort Of policeman, as invariably when
he finds the highest spot in the tree
and starts an uproar, there Is good rea-
son to do 80.
formance, when the yard and those of
bathing, eating or just summing them
selves, and when Master Bluejay starts
his noise they would all get out Of sight
and We would find that q cat was walk
ing around below or = squirrel or two
had come to jump from tree to tree.
He does not eat more than his share
Of the food we put out; the startling IL
very shy about taking food. Whether
this is because 1t Is not suitable for his
beak or not do not know.
While have not lived in Washington
for long time. I am told by persons
who have lived here all their lives that
the birds are more plentiful now than
they ever have been in their knowledge.
This must be due to the interest In feed
ing them and the protection afforded
them.
1T is interesting to follow the bird
dislikes in various parts Of the country.
While the robin Is not disliked in Nova
Scotia, he is 4 voracious cherry eater
and people with cherry trees might
harbor resentment against him.
I'm California the brown bird likes
nothing better than 4 fresh sprouted
kernel Of corn or sweet pea, and will pull
up whole row of morning. Later,
when the fruit is ripening, the linet
makes inroads which are not appreciated.
The papers have carried articles about
grasshoppers, and bemoan the slaughter
OF crows as they seem to have been a
factor In keeping the grasshoppers at
bay In the afdicted States. It would
seem that We should beware and look
always for the best In bird life. Yours
very truly, M. O. O."
There Is 4 good idea there 1t is true
enough. in bird watching or any other
sport, II you let the bad sides get 4
grip on you something Is lost entirely
from the thing
Most often it will be found that the
features which irk are only so in regard
to perfection. In bird watching the OBJ
server wants many wholesome beautiful
birds, doing their stuff" without ad-
mixture Of hawks, squirrels, pigeons, or
other factor inimical.
Well. maybe in the garden Of Eden 1t
was 20, but We doubt II 1t was, even
there life has worked itself out in 4
certain way, and that-well, that Is the
way it Is!
There will always be cruelty and sor-
row, in this world Of ours It is one
Of mans noblest traits, that he-and par
ticularly she-envisions 4 world free from
pain and sorrow.
1t would be nice, could 1t be 80; let
US all try to make 1t 40, indeed. but
not repine too much-n We can-when
sadness and sorrow and pain and evil
crop up, As they - often do.
In bird observation, on q perfectly
amateur scale. we need not concentrate
TOO specifically and too persistently on
the things which happen which We. as
watchers, do not like.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

ready have proved fertile fields for this
sort Of cultivation. In these, the salary
limit was 5000, but that apparently did
not produce as rich harvest as desired.
Logically, If the $4,000 top is disappoint-
ing, new figure will be set. More and
more the civil service and classification
acts are becoming dead letters.
The wage and hour hill is now before
the House. If there is any sense of the
fitness Of things there the personnel pro-
visions OF the bill will be changed,
Evening star., 1937-08-03

A polished speech by Frances Perkins
helps to relieve a situation that the
strong arm and specialized intelligence
Of the working man may render irk-
some. One difnculty about the present
situation lies in the fact that working
men may know more about conditions
than they are credited with and the
more direct the speech that can be ad-
dressed to them, the less difficulty they
may find In simplifying their politics.
Evening star., 1937-08-03


tend to diminish, even when We do
nothing about them.
The pigeon hawk will fly away. the
squirrels will decide some other block Is
better. the pigeons get run over or
something.
1t is queer world in which We live,
one in which the features We do not
care for ought to be, and often are, over
balanced by those We like.
1t Is because the bulk Of life often
works out this way, and not the other,
that 1t Is bearable, indeed.
For there Is enough sadness In 1t, and
enough sorrow, enough pain and enough
illness, to say nothing Of the ultimate
thing, enough OF what we do not like,
and from which we must shrink, being
human, to overbalance the fragile mind
the other way. 1t Is often so; the
asylums are filled with people who have
been overbalanced. More normal per-
sons. SO they are called, and 80 like to
think Of themselves, push these sad
cases" away from them, and refuse to
see or think about them, unless they
have to- and in this no doubt they are
wise, the balance being 50 easily upset,
one way or another.
Until the beginning of last week we
would have agreed thoroughly with our
correspondent in saying that no diminu-
ton Of bird life is due to the presence
OF the family cat, or cats.
After the affectionate gray cat had
speared three baby catbirds from the
nest by the porch with one thrust Of the
paw, We have been forced to change
our mind about that.
This is a disagreeable admission for
one who has defended cats in season
and out for fifteen years.
Never had we seen q cat take young
birds from the nest, but after this fellow
climbed into the shrub, like flash, and
made of with the entire brood, we had
learned something.
And now We knew what had become
Of the nest full Of cardinals, and the
nest full of robins. Only the wrens had
managed to escape. The Baltimore
orioles evidently had taken alarm In time,
before she had finished the nest COM
pletely.
Old Tom got them all.
He was so pleased with himself, 1t
was difficult to censure him.
The speed with which he climbed into
that bush, and made of with the trio
Of catbirds, was a revelation. He took
them home and laid them on the porch.
When we arrived, the birds were Just
breathing. Placed back in the nest, as .
forlorn gesture, they remained silent.
Within ten minutes the cat came back,
and started up the bush again. The
parents screamed In the shrubbery, fly
Ing and giving 4 shrill note Of alarm.
The cat was driven of, but that night
the birds all disappeared again. The
next morning the parents were seen for
4 few hours, but soon disappeared No
doubt 1t was best that way. The labor
and love of . month and q half had
been lost for them in 4 matter Of few
seconds.
SO We are beginning to see that cats
and birds. after all, do not mix.
While our belief still remains that only
4 few cats are such ardent catchers of
birds in the nest, We must concede that
rs long as there Is one such feline as
this In . neighborhood, 1t will be difd-
cult, If not impossible, for any birds to
raise their broods.
All house cats should be kept in the
house from June through September !,
at least.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
A Fine Booklet About Coins

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Evening star., 1937-08-03

1t will be easy for President Roosevelt
to appoint another Supreme Court
Justice. Whether he can provide for
minimum OF Congressional conversa-
ton regarding his appointee's qualifica-
tions is something to be considered Is
the month Of August slips along.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

The reports of CASTOR B. Means ILL
ness should be needed. But II he Is
given a more comfortable location his
mail and kilograms should be closely
inspected 1t is unfair to give Means
the benefit of a generous assumption
that after all he may not have been the
worst Of a gang that he contacted.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

As for Mr.. Nicholson, he has worked
hard and no doubt deserves to be well
paid But he may as we'll accustom him.
self to voices Of envy from campaigners
who feel that they are, by comparison,
insuficiently rewarded.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

Airplanes have grown at such rate
that the finding OF fields sufficiently large
to accommodate them becomes itself 4
prodigious problem.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

Every once In a while Mr.. Farley may
be tempted to go back and look the old
Blarney Stone over to make sure that he
kissed the right spot.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

In few weeks college days will be
here again with no essayist competent
to tell the Government what to do with
its own problems.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

A new deal can last a long time but
there must be moments when cards fall
very much after the fashion Of deals that
have been known before.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

Baltimore has a number of airplane
factories but is no more able to guar
antee safety for their output than for
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Raising an Alarm.

Prom the Ashtabula tOhio) star-Beaeon.
Reports from the agricultural districts
bring news that mere mention Of the
probable revival Of the A. A. A. has
started The pigs 10 sQueahnS.
Evening star., 1937-08-03

Lindbergh may not have been q better
aviator than Amelia Earhart, but in
some respects he was a wiser one.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
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Evening star., 1937-08-03
Testing Out Conditions.

Testing Out Conditions.
"My hat is in the ring" exclaimed the
aggressive politician.
THAT" said Senator Sorghum, "is 4
prudent move. Wait and see what hap
pens to the hat and maybe you'll decide
to postpone going in after it,"
Jud Tunkins says too much advice
sounds like wisdom that a man can't
use himself. He hates to see it going
to waste so he tries to give 1t away.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Age Of Eggs.

From the Ashtabula (Ohio) star-Beacon.
There is 4 new British invention that
determines the age OF an egg. This
seems unnecessary. It has never been
easy for IN egg to keep It's age secret.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Provoking.

From the Grand Island Independent.
Nothing else SO annoys a doctor as =
patient who persists in having rheu-
matism after his teeth and tonsils are
out.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
An Early Departure.

Said Eve: my fig leaf is the sort
OF dress the world calls cute.
Let's move and find q beach resort
To At this bathing suit!"
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Plain Mortality.

Plain Mortality.
II all the fairy tales came true
We'd find new sad beginnings.
The witches and the ogres, too,
Would clamor for their innings.
Let us be grateful still to know
Amid strange variations
We're all but mortals here below
With human limitations.
"You can't put much dependence,
said Uncle Eben, ION reformin' de kind
Of sinner dat never gifts repentent ceptin'
when he's been arrested"
Evening star., 1937-08-03
Thm Shy,

IHfSC SHys
What do you consider the ten best
books?"
wait q few more years." replied the
author. I'm only at work on my
seventh"
"A monument" said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, may serve only to recall
some sad mistakes"
Evening star., 1937-08-03

@. What are no plays?-R. T. B.
A. They are Japanese symbolic and
traditional dramas, written in prose and
verse, and utilizing a chorus. music and
dancing There are about $50 no plays
extant, most Of them written In the
fifteenth century.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-06
D. C.. Statue
,VdndaLs
Repeat

Washington police today were
trying to put the finger on the
man who keeps knocking the fin
gers off the statue of Abraham
Lincoln, in front Of the District
Courthouse.
Honest Abe's marble effigy loses
the digits of it's right hand as
regularly as workers restore them.
What the vandal's idea is, police
are at loss to explain.
The statue, dedicated in 1858,
may go back to the pedestal it
once occupied three stories above
the street level. Reconstruction
Of the building in 1919-192O
brought the statue down to its low
pedestal-and into the vandal's
reach.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-06

The problem of providing hot
lunches for the thousands of hun
cry school children of the District
is one of the major items to be
considered at the meeting Of the
Board of Education today.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. Superin-
tendent, will report that a recent
survey by teachers in each school
shows that approximately 5000
pupils are in need of these hot
lunches.
PLAN SHOWS
Cooperation of the school au.
thorities in assuring the success
of a proposed series of benefit
magic shows, proceeds of which
would go into the hot lunch fund,
is to be sought today by Charles
w. Townsley, vice president of the
Washington Assembly of the So
ciety of American Magicians.
ToWnsley estimates that at least
$4,000 would be collected if the
proposed plan is approved and
properly supported. He will ask
that posters be placed in each
school, that each teacher be given
a supply of tickets and that chill,
dren be excused in the afternoons
to permit them to attend the
shows which are planned to be
staged in a white and a colored
theater.
RECEIVE REPORTS
The board members also are to
receive reports on the closing of
several schools on chilly days be-
cause of incompleted repairs to
heating plants.
A threatened strike" of parents
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-06
COUNTY DENTAL
CLINIC OPENS

ROCKVILLE, Md, Oct. 6.
Montgomery county's dental clinic
for school children was reopened
here this week with DR.. John H.
Sharpley, of Baltimore. in charge
and will continue to function on
Monday and Thursday of each
week until further notice, DR.. V. L.
Ellicott, county health officer, an
nounced today.
The clinic is conducted by the
county health department and is
sponsored by various health COM
mittees in Montgomery county,
DR.. Ellicott said.
For the present the clinic will
be held at the Richard Montgom-
cry High School twice each week
and children will be brought to the
clinic in county operated school
BUSES. About January l, it will be
transferred to Silver Spring, Md,
when children of the suburban
area of the county will receive
treatments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-06

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-06

DRAMA
S:OO-ONE MANS FAMILY-FOr the
first time In the programs his
tory. the scene of this popular
serial will be set outside the
United States. The important
events of tOnight's episode occur
In Honolulu, where Clifford and
Ann are spending their honey
moon. ......,............ WRC
S;OO-CAVALCADE OF AMERICA-On
the third anniversary of tho pro-
grams inception. the life of Mary
Lyon, pioneer woman educator.
will he drnmatiZed. Miss Lyons
determined battle to prove to
men that wOmen's intellectual
powers were equal to more am
bilious problems than tatting and
baking resulted in the founding
Of the first American college for
girls. Mt. HOlyOke. ...... WJSV
9:OO-"ANDREW JACKSON'-N.B.C.
presents cast of veteran radio
thespiaDs in a One-hOur dramati-
ZatiOn by WelbOurn Kelley Of
Marquis James highly acclaimed
new biography of "OId Hickory"
WMAL
1O:OO-GANG BCsTERs-PhiIlps Lord
dramatiZes the story Of two