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Evening star., 1938-03-17
National Medicine.

Pneumonia kills approximately 100,-
600 every year in the United States. At
least $4,000 of these deaths could be pre-
vented by the prompt use of anti-pneu-
monia serum. This would cost from $50
to $50 per cure-a maximum of about
$780, 900 for $4,000 lives. In only two
or three States is there any way to get
this invaluable remedy except by paying
for it. Many persons suffer from pneu-
monia who do not have $50 or $50.
tuberculosis kills about $4,000 In the
United States every year. Its death rate
Is seven times as high among the un-
skilled workers as among the professional
groups, and ten times as high among the
colored as among the white. At least
10000 Of these lives could be saved by
health supervision in occupations pre-
disposing to the disease, by detection Of
incipient cases and by adequate treat
ment in early stages Of the disease.
Deaths from cancer could be reduced
10000 annually If everybody could take
advantage Of the methods Of treatment
now known. They cannot. These treat
ments cost too much for most persons
not IA comfortable circumstances.
Twelve thousand mothers died In
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Numbers Player Pleads
For Live and Let Live

10 the EDITOR OF The Star:
Just being one of the many who has
kept abreast with the so-called crime
wave or numbers racket, wish to go on
record as saying that play the numbers
and am not ashamed to say so. After
all 1t is my money that goes into the
pocket of the runner or collector and who
has a better right than to say how to
spend my money. After all work for
1t and can do as darn please, right?
If these old reprobates would wake up
and stop crying wolf, they might wake
up to the fact that the numbers racket
could be put under Government control
and by legalizing the game could derive
a nice income for the District.
For all the good of all concerned it
is my intention to continue to play the
numbers when I feel like 1t and let the
rest of the fine outstanding citizens do
what they please with their money. But
above all don't try to tell the other
person how to live, this is not Soviet
Russia. It seems to me that the police
have enough on their hands to try to
keep narcotics and too numerous foot
pads out Of the District, instead of try
ing to molest the number runner, who
at least is trying to lick depression and
keeping family from starvation. Why
don't the sleepy Commissioners wake up
and live and let live?
EDWARD A. LOCK.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Enumerates Mad Dogs
That Should All Be Killed

To the Editor OF The Star:
correspondent whose letter YOU
printed lately, in approving the killing
OF mad dogs, both actually and figura-
lively, develops a heroic method OF pro-
tecting society against dangerous in
fluences.
What right has the District Govern
ment to sell the privilege of dispensing
liquor, when some of those who buy it
Will use 1t to excess and thereby harm
themselves and others?
Kill the mad dogs! But let's kill all
Of them.
What right has the District Govern
ment to tax and thereby privilege the
business of selling automobiles, when
some Of those who buy them will use
them unwisely and recklessly, to the
injury and death Of themselves and
others? These mad dogs" are selling
things which are killing greater num-
ber OF people In our city than all of the
homicides.
Further, what right has the District
Government to tax and thereby permit
the business Of selling bath tubs, when
some of those who use them are going to
be careless and fall to their injury and
even death in them, or to drown in
them?
In fact, has the District Government
any right to tax and thereby privilege
the building of houses, when some of
those who live in them are going to slip
or fall to their deaths, be burned to death
by the fires those houses are equipped
for, or be electrocuted by the deadly
electric current which is led into those
houses? More people annually meet
death through accidents in homes than
are the victims of homicides, whether
or not the killer has been drinking.
When we begin cleaning out the mad
dogs" let's make clean sweep of them.
But meanwhile, perhaps We might help
some by teaching people who use these
things the mad dogs" sell to use them
with reason and care. c. L. CHAPLIN.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Solve Parking Problem,
Meters or No Meters
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
have read with interest your editorial
In The Evening Star Of March 10, 1898
entitled: Park and Pay" also numerous
articles on related subjects In The Star
and in the bulletins Of the American
Automobile Association Of which I have
been a member for number of years.
have been a resident Of Washington
for about thirteen years and driver
since 1912.
The parking situation in Washington
during the past ten years has been
growing steadily worse until 1t is be-
coming intolerable. It is not merely q
Disagreement Of beautiful city, but
also traffic menace and without doubt
the indirect cause Of many deaths. Even
the parkers, Of whom am one, are con-
cerned with the situation. To the off,
cials dealing with traffic 1t may seem
as If progress was being made in solving
one of our most serious municipal prob
lens, but to mere residents and car
owners 1t seems as though efforts were
directed principally to regulations" as
contrasted with constructive planning.
Whether Washington shall or shall not
have parking meters" can affect the
solution of Washington's traffic problem
very slightly. Meters at best are merely
temporary expedient. The talk about
the renting Of street space, injustice to
merchants. etc., is matter for the legal
department Of the city to handle. The
installation Of parking meters will not
perceptibly increase or decrease the
number of parked cars. Parking, whether
free or metered, can be permitted only
where the Traffic Bureau permits, but it
is better for merchants, movie theaters
and drivers If parking spaces are avail
able for limited use at small cost rather
than continue the present unsatisfactory
practice Of free parking combined with
a maximum of bother playing hide and
seek with the police and finally perhaps
walking a half mile back to the store or
movie. Such an argument does not nec-
cessarily hold when the parking space
for perhaps only few minutes means
parking lot for which 25-cent charge
is made.
The proposed meters should not divert
attention from the really big issue: Can
Washington solve its parking problem?"
Personally I believe that it can. We
have here the Fine Arts Commission,
the National City Planning Commission,
eminent engineers, Senators, Representa-
tives and technical experts of various
kinds. Washington is accustomed to
think in terms of big and complicated
problems and all that Is necessary is to
apply the same technique to the traffic
problem. 1t must not be assumed, how
ever. that a major move Of this kind is
to be accomplished without some ex-
pense, but the expense will probably be
less burdensome than the present chaos.
WALLACE HATCH.
Evening star., 1938-03-17

ofhcials, particularly those attacking the
validity Of administration laws, have In
creased sharply in number during recent
years.
The proposal to increase the District
Court bench by two or three judges and
that of the Court Of Appeals by one has
the support Of the Department Of Jus
tice. the present judges and the mem-
bers of the bar. It also has number
Of proponents at the Capitol. It is
earnestly to be hoped that Congress will
not delay in enacting the legislation
necessary for the creation Of the new
judgeships. for, until that is done, there
can be no hope Of relieving the appalling
congestion In the city's courts.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Expert Opinion.

John L. Lewis Of the c. I. o. certainly
Is an authority on the New Deal. The
country knows that he was one of its
architects. Also, 1t understands that
President Roosevelt has consistently
consulted him about policies during the
past five years and that those policies.
when framed In legislation and placed
IN effect, have provided him with the
opportunities by the use of which he
has risen to power as leader of radical
labor.
MIR. Lewis opinion of the administra-
ton, for several reasons therefore, is
worthy of attention. The public should
be interested to hear what he thinks
about the more abundant life" born OF
the brain trust" and nourished with
"alphabet soup to the cost of at least
thirty-five billions of taxpayers dollars.
But when Mr.. Lewis recently desired
to testify concerning the New Deals
failure he did not address an American
audience. Instead, he preferred to
broadcast his judgment to the popula-
ton of the British Isles. It was to Eng
land that he said Thirteen million
Americans are now unemployed. Their
numbers are steadily increasing as the
Nation drifts with terrifying and deadly
sureness to the never-never realm of
financial bankruptcy, economic collapse
and human tragedy X Our national
economy has attained the amazing con-
dition where it appears that practically
all OF our major enterprises are unable
to exist or function on their own
resources"
Such an indictment, were 1t to be
put into language by economic royal
lists" or princes of privilege" might
signify little. Coming from Mr.. Lewis,
1t represents an experts verdict. If it
is not given serious consideration by
the more thoughtful citizens of the
United States, the circumstance will be
almost as remarkable as that of the c.
I. O. commanders change of mind. He
Is getting back to "normalcy" and his
contemporaries might do worse than
attempt to follow his example.
Evening star., 1938-03-17

child birth in 1886. This is not at al
surprising when It is revealed that there
was no physician In attendance at
1,250,oo0 births.
These are just few Of the statistics
presented yesterday by Surgeon Gen.
eral Thomas Parran before the Senate
Committee to Investigate Unemploy-
ment and Relief. DR.. Parran has q
strange job these days. While half the
world seems to be engaged in thinking
up better methods for wholesale slaughter
he is puzzling his brain for better meth
ods of wholesale life-saving.
Said DR.. Parran: "Our existing struc-
ture Of social security provides old-age
pensions to the needy, unemployment
insurance and old-age annuities to
soften the impact Of job loss and old
age destitution; aid to dependent chill
dren and the blind. To this basis we
need to add real, Nation wide, result
getting public health program. We need
reorientation of our public health ma
chinery."
But, DR.. Parran hastens to add, as
have even the most liberal spokesmen
Of the medical profession: This can be
done without any basic change In cur
present system of medical practice. Much
of the public effort will be directed
toward making available better tools for
the use Of the practicing physician"
This is something quite different from
"socialized medicine" But the Surgeon
General has pictured'a situation to which
neither physician nor legislator can
close his eyes. A few hundred thousand
lives year are worth saving.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
A Blow to Racketeers.

At long last the House District Com
mittee has reported out the so-called
numbers bill, designed to aid police and
the courts in eliminating from the local
crime scene gambling racket that has
spawned violence and gangsterism In
Washington.
Thus ends an amazing episode-a one
man blockade against law enforcement
measure for which there was unanimous
demand by those charged with preserving
law and order in the Nations Capital.
The bill had passed the Senate more
than a year ago, but, due to the de-
termined opposition Of Chairman Pal
misano Of the House District Committee,
had seemed destined to die in committee,
deprived Of even a numbers victims
999-to-1 chance of "hit."
Public opinion as expressed by an out
ragged citizenry finally had its effect,
however. Members of Mr.. Palmisano's
own committee demanded that pro-
ponents of the bill be given at least
sporting chance to meet the chairman in
open hearing and to state their case.
The case which they stated at the
hearings, just ended, clearly exposed the
viciousness of the Harmless little game"
The appraisal of the game" was given
by persons well qualified to speak, police,
prosecutors and other representatives of
good government. They told of the
urgent need for legislation to cope sue
cessfully with this underworld form of
big business"
The case for the racketeers If there
ever was one, quickly crumbled under
this onslaught Of facts and straightfor-
ward testimony. One or two members
Of the committee who had been in
clined at first against favorable report
soon changed their minds when the real
import Of the Illicit scheme became ap-
parent.
Now that the bill has reached the
floor of the House, 1t should be able to
stand on It's own feet. Fair play Is all
that advocates of the measure asked
from the committee and fair play is all
that the bill will need to convince any
intelligent forum Of its merit. There is
every reason to believe that the House
will join with the Senate in recognizing
this merit by passing the bill without
further delay and thus paving the way
for an intensified war on crime in WASH
ington.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
are round numbers, whatever round
Y.,iraherR are

SA0 AouAu AAunA0SAos ~n~ve'eS sooA0
A charming lady called upon us the
other day. She brought . Swedish pound
cake, made with q bit Of crushed lemon
In 1t. It was very nice.
She said she had worn her coat for
exact number Of years.
"see," she said, holding up q fold for
close inspection.
It was Of broadcloth, like new.
Among Europeans thrift Is more FASH
what is fashionable, or the thing which
Is done, has q great deal more to do
with 1t, wherever we live, than we at
times realize.
Make 1t do"
Such a motto will never, never do,
according to the way some think.
Deliberate obsolescence has been
worked out to fine point-perhaps too
fine a point. Who knows?
There is q certain pioneering pleasure
IN making something or other do"
1t becomes a sort of game with some
persons. They mostly play 1t against
themselves. It is the mind, correcting
the mind.
II want that" part of the brain says.
whats the matter with what you
have?" another part asks.
So goes the mental game, played by
the mind against itself.
Perhaps 1t hasn't been fashionable in
recent years to mention this game, but
that it has been played there can be no
doubt human nature being what 1t is,
and taxes mounting all the time.
Those taxes!
1t is not only the money part of taxes
that irks an honest man. but the very
idea of them, which idea necessarily
includes their growth.
One must save in order to meet them
One must make things do if there Is
going to be no relief from taxes.
do without"
That is the sad corollary.
No American but finds 1t sad not to
be able to spend, and spend and spend
more.
We Americans love to spend, all we
have and more. too. We have proved It,
continue to prove 1t.
But II everybodys hand is to be in
your pocket maybe Gal" Coolidge was
right, after all.
It's eat it up, my friends; wear it out;
make it do; do without, If necessary.
There are cycles in ideas, as in all
things. We can remember when local
banks advertised that no account was too
small. Then they began slapping on a
charge if the total fell below one
hundred iron men,
Once upon time it was the thing to
save. The banks bankers said so. Then
1t became the thing to spend furiously.
A well-trained people, the Americans
tried to do as they were told, with what
results yet remains to be seen.
The world is in change, and we are
changing with it. No one is smart
enough to say what will happen next
year. or even next month. Herr Hitler is
eating pea soup in Linz. What shall we
have for dinner?
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Business Is Shanghaied
Like the Oyster Dredgers

To the Editor Of The Star:
There were some black pages written
IN the history of the oyster industry
some forty years ago down on the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland.
Oysterlng is work that tries the bodies
and souls of men. Handling a pair of
long, heavy tongs with the temperature
away below freezing and with no pro-
lection from the elements is no picnic.
consequently it is not work that is par
tlcularly sought after except by those
hardy souls who have been used to it
all their lives.
frequently the captain OF an oyster
boat found himself short-handed because
OF illness among his crew, brought on by
hardShlps incident to the work. His
course Of procedure then was to put in
at Baltimore and recruit At nightfall
the captain and the mate would 20
ashore and visit some Of the low dives
on the waterfront. Selecting a husky
down-and-outer from among the habitues
OF saloon the captain would graciously
buy him few drinks. About noon of
the next day this man would find him.
self being kicked awake in the hold Of
an oyster boat in the middle of the
Chesapeake Bay. A pair of tongs was
put in his hands and from that minute
until the oyster season was over his life
was hell on earth. Unless he escaped
or died. This gantle business was called
"Shanghaiing.
From time to time the body of one of
these unfortunates washed up on the
shore showing unmistakable signs of
FOUL play. In one case the Door human
derelicts skull had been smashed and
the foreman OF the coroners jury, an
old salt, rendered the following verdict:
well Sir, we find that this here man
was Shanghaied and worked to death.
He was hit over the haid with a marlin.
spike and killed. He was throwed over.
board and drownded. He washed up and
died."
American industry has been Shang-
haied and worked to death because of
the silly regimentation of this silly ad-
ministration. It has been hit over the
head and killed by the unfair decisions
Of the N. L. r. B. It has been thrown
overheard and drowned by the admin
istration's excessive and punitive tax
ation. It is about ready to wash up and
die from the hate inspired prosecutions
Of Mr.. Roosevelt and his communistic
advisers.
And now, dear children, in what re-
spect was the oyster boat captain
smarter than Mr.. Roosevelt? Why the
captain knew when he administered the
last lethal sock to his victim it was all
over 80 far as getting anything more out
Of the victim was concerned. But Mr..
Roosevelt expects to do these things to
industry and still collect huge revenue
from the corpse. Logical, eh what?
. 8. II. MUNdFORD.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
New Judges Needed.

The need for additional judges in the
District Court here has become in
creasingly apparent each year. At the
close of last year there were more than
5000 cases pending on the dockets. That
means that a litigant filing a suit to-
morrow cannot hope to secure trial Of
his complaint in less than sixteen
months-a situation which obviously is
not conducive to effective administra-
ton Of justice. During such lapse Of
time witnesses die or move away, and
the memories Of those remaining be-
come less clear concerning the facts on
which they are expected to testify.
It is hardly sufficient to say the judges
could rectify the situation by working
harder or longer. The hours a Judge
spends on the bench are by no means
indicative Of the number Of hours he
works, for many judicial duties are at
tended to in chambers after court has
recessed and at home during the eve
nings. It also has been suggested that
the judges should shorten their summer
vacation, a proposal that has consider
able support. But, regardless Of what
merits the suggestion may have, the fact
remains that the vacation periods of the
judges in the District are not out Of line
with the practice throughout the coun-
try.
The real explanation Of the existing
situation is that the District courts are
not merely courts for the District Of
Columbia but for the people as whole.
It has been estimated that 5000 suits
viii be fled here this year. The majority
Of these are District cases in the strict
sense, but many are not because Of the
fact that large number Of nonresident
litigants must institute their proceedings
in the local courts because they involve
Federal officials or Federal records
located In Washington. It should b
noted that suits involving 0overnmeut
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Eat 1t up: wear 1t out:
Make 1t do; do without"

That's an old New England motto, said
to have been . particular favorite Of
Calvin Coolidge.
Eat 1t Up"
European Investigators always have
insisted that an Old World family could
live on the food which daily finds itself
IN the average American garbage can.
We throw away, in other words, much
perfectly good food, partly because We
do not know how to handle left-overs.
The American spirit, Of course, has
something to do with 1t. There is no
desire to use left-overs, as such.
We are In hurry and want some
thing new. Even with modern refrigera-
ton, there is some danger In keeping
foods too long. Even cooked foods will
not stand the strain forever.
Finicky eating habits, too, play . part;
the person, young or old, who has not
good appetite Is not going TO look with
favor upon foods which he knows were
on the table yesterday, or maybe the
day before.
Eating habits are complex. Complex
ity 10 a feature Of the age. Our streets
are crowded, not only with automobiles,
but with varying trafIic lights and signs.
AS If this were not enough, soon we may
have automobile "hitching posts" as well.
The new Fuehrer Of Austria, according
to the Associated Press, was in o con-
versational mood after his simple dinner
of pea soup and rice"
Imagine an American conqueror being
satisfied with such a dish!
Not bad, for q start" our typical
American would say, but where Is the
rest of it,"
Simple eating habits make for sim
plicity all along the line. II dishes are
simple, and there are not SO many Of
them, there Is great deal better chance
Of their being eaten up.
No wonder America has the finest
bacon In the world-the hogs get 50
much good food.
The idea Is not so much stinginess, or
a refusal to buy. but realistic utiliza-
ton Of that which Is good.
Ballyhoo cannot divorce common sense
from this idea, which is as old as the
hills. Money or lack of money hasn't
much to do with 1t. It is Just the idea
of honest utilization Of good stuff.
America, at the bottom, has been built
on that idea.
4
Wear it out"
This idea has never been a popular
one, except with certain persons, who
somehow find 1t natural to them to love
old clothes and dislike new ones.
Let no person interested in any way
IN the manufacture or sale of clothing
have the slightest fear about this
Most people like nothing quite so much
as new clothes, and will stapve them
selves, If necessary, to get them.
To certain persons, however, there is
some triumph in making old clothes
do" as they say; every small town has
at least one old gentleman or lady who
proudly proclaims the ownership of q
suit or dress from 20 to 40 years old.
These seem to be the favorite ages;
Just why they are universally selected
we do not know, unless it is that they
Evening star., 1938-03-17

On looking the situation over, Mr..
Maverick speaks with assurance of what
may happen next under certain con-
tingencies. He presents gloomy picture
but not as gloomy as the one presented
by intelligent gentlemen who contradict
his views.
Evening star., 1938-03-17

derived meaning in modern English
that is big"
Another curious survival is in the
FEMININE name "Maurine"-or big girl"
II is the opposite of Pauline or
little girl"
The proper translation of the name
Maurine OSullivan, for example, would
be "Sulllvan's big granddaughter"
Evening star., 1938-03-17

Kentucky has become one of the most
famous of States, not only for words of
wisdom, but for gold deposit that will
stand considerable strain in case of
emergency.
Evening star., 1938-03-17
Shooting Stars.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Indiscriminate Joy.
Some optimists not long ago
Said everybody ought to smile.
And each of us, with face aglow,
Made merry for a little while.
We smiled at every accident;
We smiled at every message sad.
We smiled, with excellent intent,
When any hope went to the bad.
fear we overpressed the play, a
With efforts at perpetual glee.
It's getting SO that out our way
You can't believe a smile you see
Evening star., 1938-03-17
No Lack of Talent.

E1om th0 AbuSS6 CITY STAT.
Nine members Of the House already
have announced themselves as candi-
dates for the Senate. There need be no
public alarm, however, about filling the
House vacancies thus created.