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Evening star., 1938-05-20
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Col. MacNab to Settle
Argument With Gun
in Africa.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.

"HE Campfire Club Of Mount
Kisco, N Y, is always getting
into arguments about the range
Il and shooting power Of rifles.
Col. A. J. MacNab is of to Africa to
settle once for all the question OF
whether an old-style American buffalo
rifle will kill a wild bull elephant at
one shot.
Col. MacNab is the man for the job
having been in command Of all the
training in rifle and pistol shooting OF
the A. E. F. in the World War. From
1907 to 1917 he had been rated the best
pistol shot in the Army, and at the
training center at lie Mains, France,
200 900 men passed through his course
every six days. He was for five years
Regular Army instructor for the New
York National Guard and probably has
coached as many men, in various
branches of soldering, as any living
man.
He was a buckaroo on an Idaho
ranch. enlisting in the Spanish Amer.
ican War. His hell-for- Leather ex-
ploits in the Philippines in Wild West
tradition worked him out of the Idaho
Infantry and made him second lieu
tenant in the Regular Army. He be-
came Eel Presidente" of an insurrec-
zionist province and is possibly the only
living American who ever held the out
right power of life and death. In 1905
and 1907 he was with the army OF
Cuban pacification.
He could fill a dozen pulp magazines
with exciting yarns Of catch-as-catch-
can battling in jungle hell holes. but
has written instead manual of small
arms practice which is standard for
this pastime.
He was military attache at the Mex
leo City Embassy when the late Dwight
w. Morrow was Ambassador
At SO, he finds his eyes can focus as
sharply as ever on a gunsight. The
African experiment will no doubt be
valid and satisfactory to everybody but
the bull elephant.
Col MacNab is accompanied by
Harry Snyder, Canadian owner Of the
largest radium mine in the world.
tCopyrieht. 193sD
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MRS. CHARLES EDISON
TO SPONSOR VESSEL
Wife of Assistant Secretary of
Navy Named to Christen
Aircraft Carrier Wasp.

Secretary of the Navy Swanson has
named Mrs. Charles Edison. wife OF
the Assistant Secretary Of the Navy,
as sponsor for the new aircraft carrier,
Wasp, 1t was announced today.
The Wasp is being constructed at
the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
plant at Fore River, Quincy, Mass. AL
though the vessel is not scheduled to
be completed until october, 1899, the
launching ceremonies probably will be
held in December of this year.
Mrs. Edison, daughter-in-law of the
late Thomas A. Edison. lives at 800
Sixteenth street NV.
The new carrier will be the seventh
American naval vessel to carry the
name Wasp.
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Guy the pueus Pittsburgh politics become
Democratic chairman He used the and
conferred unhappy u1ey
Of his Pennsylvania
millionaire. He has laVhed
his millions Republican the butter and
paering diamonds the pesonicaton
business influence the his avhness about good
diamonds OF
for the regulations of chorus girls
Senator whose notion of return
golden Mckinley Grundy failed
candidate licked marmoreal
pudder Jim he did handsomely brokendoWn
tariff lobbyist
At first
the that still be about
the only lesson to be drawn from the victory Of such crew
Looking morals Nation
the Pennsylvania doings the Democratic McCoskey
KeyIawrence facton which had machine ad
licking a significant Gufey
controlled Federal patronage and voted the w P
while John L. Lewis had his big labor behind him.
A. Farley Kentucky
Kennedy beaten roughly five to four.
justifabe
with strong local Democratic machine White trouble
AS President determined remodel his
dinstincty important
Republicans indications Pennsylvania
Republican
rebellion
defeat Of Clifford Pncho there revival conservatism
enlightened Republican
he distinction
Pennsylvania honest and IS
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it is perfectly clear that he can't re-
alize it.
The dictatorships shrink before no
methods, nor do they dream of ask
ing for universal rules to apply to
themselves as well as others They
will arrest and condemn to death
Evening star., 1938-05-20

limit whatsoever upon their possible
expansion. Hitler dreamed in 1924
of making Germany the sovereign OF
the Continent OF Europe. and there
is not the slightest reason to believe
that he has ever abandoned that
dream or ever will abandon it unless
Evening star., 1938-05-20

foreign policy has
largely consisted
of firm / n 6
moral principles,
and at the same
time making 1t
ar that W e
would do nothing
whatever to see
that those moral
principles W er e
enforced U n less
American inter-
ests were specif-
ically involved.
Now, the very
people who have
Evening star., 1938-05-20
This Charging World
Tuns Again May Become Stumbling Block in
Rescuing French.Italian Relations
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
likelihood Of honeymoon between the French and
| the Italians.
alo-Brith agreement-which has
forcethee general belief that similar
Delbos administration
prophesy that French Ambassador
visit Nothing happened
andto
the of this
the
approach
Evening star., 1938-05-20
J. W. H. PILSON DIES
Former Mayor Of staunton to Be
Buried Tomorrow.

STAUNTON, Va. May 20 R.-
Former Mayor ]. w. H. Pilson, So, a
leading attorney of Staunton, died
suddenly at Kings Daughters Hospital
here yesterday.
Funeral services will be conducted
at his late home at 3 pm. tomorrow
by the Rev. sDr. Hunter B. Blakely
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church. Burial will be in Thornrose
Cemetery.
Survivors are his widow, who was
before marriage Miss Margery Brels.
ford of Palm Beach, Fla, and son
william B. Pilson.
Evening star., 1938-05-20

the
will still be their household deity
Finally for all Pennsylvania Only
the ruler OF this
obeyed He was silent
jobholders his froWn And he /
without
satrapy ordinary Senator
clearly the spectacle
a duke plotting taxi.
New Alliance 1ncJ
Evening star., 1938-05-20

employment, the
prize method OF
creating insta-
bility in the busi-
ness world has
just been invent
ed by the JUS
tice Department
and announced
with the full ap-
proval of the
White House.
The plan is
not intended, of
course, deliber-
ately to breed fear
or to persecute
h,,c;oocc -, or
Evening star., 1938-05-20
The Capital Parade
Keystone Election Seen No Victory for Virtue.
Successful Candidates Called Stooges
JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT KINTNER.

By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER
CASE politics growing Gods country
must be recorded that virtue still Its own reward AT any rate
State Union
among worthless for whom the triumphant
candidates oquacious stooges.
Democrats Matt Mccloskey the Of Philadelphia
system Of macng campaign contributions by
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500 dinners. and helped the New
Deal to victory in 1886. Unkind
persons have suspected that his
firms huge State and Federal Gov
ernment building business was
bread upon the waters for his
noble works.
Jack Kelly. debonair for
mer Olympic athlete who is Nc
Closkey's sidekick and front man.
He is in the building materials
trade and has also done nicely.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
III.
. By DOROTHY THOMPSON.

vt is admittedly difficult for an
American to criticize British for
eign policy, because for 20 years
L this country has been the worlds
moral mentor, and often common
scold. Except for Mr.. Hulls trade
policy, which has had a clear line, our
Evening star., 1938-05-20

and likes amusements King Zog
had to promise her to build an
opera house and hire talent from
abroad for several weeks perform
ances every year. Furthermore.
he will have to give henceforth
several state balls every year. All
these things cost money and the
Albanian treasury is none too full.
X X y
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Move on Auto
Loan Firms
Assailed
Plan Is Prize Method of
Creating instability,
Writer Asserts.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

"HE New Deal has thought up
many and various ways OF tor
turing and harassing the Ameri-
\ can business man. but despite
the words of President Roosevelt him.
self urging that business and Govern
ment Cooperate in a program OF re-
Evening star., 1938-05-20

The all her dresses
Budapest and has induced her and her husband
Heretofore the Albanian royal family had Or
Italian
replaced overlook these things
future Other
might be compelled to
return to principal chef.
Evening star., 1938-05-20

money bags of Joe Pew.
If Joe Pew's Judge James wins
the governorship in the fall, a
great step will have been taken to-
ward the restoration Of mammon
in the Republican temple. The
altar of the fat god has not been
we'll served of late. His years of
burnt offerings have seemed to be
at an end. Possibly the most i'm
Evening star., 1938-05-20

OOUllC OIdIIU WICII CIlc OOJcCC O1 IT,
newing diplomatic relations with
the Italians.
Instead of presenting short
memorandum expressing such a
desire. the old-fashioned diplomats
in the Quai d'Orsay presented the
Italian foreign secretary with a
voluminous file containing all the
details of the outstanding questions
between the two countries for the
Lost 1n wears The question of the
Evening star., 1938-05-20

HE opinions the 1uers this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented n
readers although opinions may contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1938-05-20

competitors, and to the public which
goes beyond any results which may be
expected from criminal proceeding.
Evening star., 1938-12-29

educational program would not be
possible under an unreal life situa-
ton. DR.. Durfee emphasized that
notwithstanding a drinker Is high
ly undesirable. An atmosphere OF
freedom is essential, he said.
"A farm for problem drinkers, >
he added, must in effect be a min
iature community where life in gen.
eral goes on in as normal q fashion
as possible. It must be real work.
ing farm, where every one has real
and honest tasks to perform. The
idea is to make of the individual a
mature, well-adiusted adult, who, in
learning to attack and accomplish
small tasks well, has acquired emo
tional attitude which will serve him
in all situations of his life.
"Of first Importance is the in
stillation of new hope through dis
cussions in which the problem
drinker is helped to see the true
nature Of his dif1iculties. They are
made to realize that they are not
moral weaklings, but i'll; that help
for them lies in getting at the roots
OF their difficulties. -
For the problem -drinker there
is no such thing as moderate drink
ing. He must learn to live without
alcohol and, If I have one message
to leave with you, it is that he can
learn to do so and lead a person
ally satisfying and socially accept
able life simply through a process Of
re-education."
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Excessive Drinkino
Held Acquired, f, With
Re-Edutation as Cure
Scientists Told Hobit
Formed by Emotional and
SituotionuI Factors
By E. Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 29.-Ex-
cessive drinkers ARE made and not
born" DR.. Charles H. Durfee, oper-
ator of Rocky Meadows Farm at
Wakefield, r. l., told the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science here today.
Excessive drinking" he said, "is
essentially learned, inadequate
way of reacting to personal diff
culties-drinking habits are ac-
quired. Their correction. therefore
can be brought about only through
process of unlearning ard re-
education"
DR.. Durfee explained his theories
for helping problem drinkers" to
stay "on the wagon" were put into
actual practice at his farm in Rhode
Island, where men who honestly
want to quit drinking are re
educated"
Traces Intricate Pattern.
He emphasized that for individ-
uals not mentally i'll or defective
whose drinking plays too prominent
part in their lives, ''the process of
learning to drink would necessarily
have been over long period and
intricately involved in various emo
tional and situational factors"
Such drinkers have learned to
drink through drinking" he con-
tinued. Their drinking doubtlessly
began innocuously enough at first
to relieve social boredom. to over
come fatigue momentarily, or for
the sake of conviviality. Through
practice 1t became a part OF their
daily routine. -
Il do not measure the severity
of mans drinking on the basis
of its quantity as much as its
psychological implications to that
particular individual, no matter how
great or small the amount may be
In other words, if two or three
highballs will enable a certain man
to dodge the necessity of facing up
to a situation in his life that calls
for intergrated action, from the
psychological standpoint his drink
Ing is quite serious.
Beyond Nelp Of Gliding.
mo one has ever been talked
out of or chided out of any we'll
rooted bad habit-least of all, drink
ing. Not only are such efforts re-
sponsible for added irritability and
tensions that in themselves 60 to-
ward defeating the desired ends
but they are entirely contrary to
what I consider one of the most
important principles in working with
the problem drinker
1.-THE important thing for a prob
lem drinker to keep foremost in his
mind is not that he is of alcohol
but that he is engaged on the ad-
venture of fuller and richer living
And this means that he must de-
velop through practice the ability
to meet the situations of his daily
life in q normal. adult manner. If
he can do this, the drinking will
take care of ITSELF"
Pointing out that q constructive
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Drunks Are of -Four Types,
Asserts Harvard Professor
Dr.. Alexander Catalogues Chronic Drinkers
In Report to Advancement of Science

the report points out. and the ply
siological explanation is unknown
The fighting drunk syndrome, Dr.
Alexander explains. lis especially
common in people with an epileptoid
constitution" 1t is observed fire.
quently, he says, in persons who have
had severe head injuries, or organic
LESSONS of the brain such as brain
tumors. 1t sometimes ends in con-
vulsions indistinguishable from those
Of true epilepsy.
Lasting Eject Indirect.
While it is generally admitted, DR..
Alexander says, that alcohol is con-
tributing to the supposedly rising
tide of insanity, current studies indi-
cate that much of its lasting effect
on the brain and central nervous
system is indirect.
The general trend,' DR.. Alexan-
der says, sis away from the older
assumption of direct toxic action
on nerve tissue by alcohol itself and
distinctly in favor of vitamin de-
f1ciency. This is due to three fac
tors: Neglect of proper diet by
chronic alcoholics, incomplete alb
sorption of vitamins due to gastritis
and intestinal changes produced by
alcoholism and the increased vita
min requirement due to the high
caloric value of alcohol This third
factor yoiobt ouor ,,,oLo q rorvo q I
balanced diet inadequate for the
alcoholic person, even in the pres
ence of normal resorptive functions. I"
Absolute proof of this, he says,
is confined to q single malady asso-
ciated with drinking-polyneuritis.
Evidence is accumulating, however,
for the same sort of relationship in
delirium-tremens and the so-called
Korsakoff's psychosis.
Lack Of Vitamin C.
The evidence also indicates, ac-
cording to DR.. Alexander's report,
that many of the deaths from alco-
hol are tied up with vitamins. De-
f1ciency in vitamin C, the anti
scurvy vitamin, renders the blood
vessels more fragile so that they
break more easily from punch to
the jaw or from falling. A COM
mon cause of alcoholic deaths is the
internal hemorrhage. Another COM
mon cause is pneumonia or some
other acute disease. Lack of vita
min c lowers the body's resistance
to infections. Another cause of
death is nervous system involve
ment. About the same condition
can be brought about experiment
tally in animals by depriving them
Of various vitamins.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Formula to Get All Ways
OF Dividing a Number Is Found
Mothemuticiuns Also Told of Coffee-Cup
Theorem That Beers on Plane Safety

be adjacent to some drop OF cream.
The theorems have wide applica-
ton in statistical mechanics, the
mathematicians explained, and az
tually DR.. Oxtoby doesn't care a rap
how well coffee is stirred. Some
how or other, it appears, it is all
very important for aerodynamics,
and on account of the coffee cup
theorem flying will some day be
safer.
Doughnuts and Golf Balls.
And here's another pretty little
theorem by which, as the spokesman
for the Mathematical Society ex-
plains, anybody who wants to wrap
the surface of a doughnut around
the surface of golf ball can find
out how to do it. 1t was reported
today by DR.. o. P. G. Schilling
of Johns Hopkins University.
DR.. Schilling, he hastened to add,
isn't at all concerned with wrap
ping doughnuts around golf balls,
but that's about the closest analogy
one can make In terms of things
that are familiar to the general
public. The real value of the theo-
rem is in its applications to bizarre
number systems found only in high
er mathematics. such as the one in
which the number ! added to itself
7 times or 13 times or any prime
number of times-a prime number
is one which can be divided by no
other whole number except ITSELF
always gives zero.
DR.. Schilling started his work in
Germany. He is, the Mathematical
Society reports, pure Aryan, but
has been forced into exile by the
Nazis.
If Herr Hitler tried wrapping
doughnuts around golf balls, or add
ing up ones to make zero. DR.. Schil-
ling's exile is Observation-Disclosures
if he has provided a suitable and
congenial occupation for Der
Fuehrer.
Ways of Drawing Diagrams.
The mathematician today learned
of new results about the number
of different ways Of drawing a
given diagram on g piece of paper
in a report by Prof. v. w. Adkisson
of the University Of Arkansas.
Some common puzzles involve a
similar mathematical problem, he
explained. Suppose that three
houses are drawn on a sheet of
paper and that a water works, a
gas works and an electric power
plant also are represented there
Can one draw a main from each
of these three works to each of the
three houses without letting any Of
the mains meet any of the others?
1t is impossible, DR.. Adkisson said,
on a plain surface. There are only
two such diagrams that cannot be
drawn, and every other impossible
one must involve one of these two.
Prof. Adkisson's work involves a
complete classification of such one
way pictures and he is developing
methods by which mathematicians
eventually will be able to solve all
possible sorts of diagrammatic puz-
zles
Approximately 400 of the Nations
leading mathematicians opened their
annual winter meeting at the Col
lege of William and Mary here to-
day. in conjunction with the Mathe-
matical Association of America and
the National Council of Teachers OF
Mathematics.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Insanity-Crime Link
Discounted in Study
By SotioIogist
Discretionary Power in
Granting Of Relief
Held Advisable
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Dec. 29.-Dr. H, War.
rem Durham, a member of tho
University Of Chicago Social Science
Research Committee, said in an ad-
dress prepared for delivery TODAY
that, contrary to widespread belief.
crime and insanity seldom 20 to.
gether."
DR.. Durham spoke at the 33d
annual meeting of the American
Sociological Society here.
DR.. Durham said his conclusions
were based on survey of persons
committed to the Illinois Security
Hospital, the State institution for
the criminally insane. He said that
543 men committed between 1922
and 1884 were studied.
But a Fraction Of Cases.
This group was found to represent
only 1T per cent of the total of male
insane cases committed to other
Illinois hospitals in the same period,
and only 13 per cent of the male
criminals sent to Illinois penal in
stitutions during the period.
While this study takes in only
Illinois and thus may be inconclu-
Sive," DR.. Durham said, "the fact
that only in So insane persons was
criminal and only in II criminals
were insane indicates that mental
disorder and crime seldom 90 to-
gether."
DR.. Durham said his study was
based on schizophrenics, or cases
OF split personality" In the cases
OF schizophrenics committed for
crimes. DR.. Durham said, few had
exhibited any criminal tendencies
in their childhood.
Relief Discretion Cited.
DR.. r. Clyde White, professor of
social service administration at the
University of Chicago, told the So
ciety that England had to abandon
automatic granting of relief" and
substituted the giving of discre-
tionary powers to qualified social
workers.
The British dole" begun in 1921,
DR.. White said, was in fact a ma
tional relief scheme which did not
subject claimants to a means test"
When this test finally was included,
he said. the system still lacked flex-
ibility to deal with cases on their
individual merits.
This experience confirms
the best informed opinion in this
country - that public assistance
which is administered on the basis
of means test requires discre-
tionary action by qualified social
workers." DR.. White said.
Evening star., 1938-12-29

due to the fact that not enough
of the gas of life was getting
through their skins to activate
their cells. The real reason, he has
demonstrated by experiment, is that
too much oxygen is getting through
and that this becomes less and less
as time goes on.
Normally 1t constitutes about %
per cent of the atmosphere. When
it Is reduced to 10 per cent, he
found, the new potatoes wake up and
sprout.
\ + 4
A petrified forest 2 miles in the
sky was described today by DR.. P. A.
Young of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station.
This Is the remnant of q swamp
of giant redwoods which grew in
Western Montana about 10000, 600
years ago. It was buried in rocks
and ashes by q volcanic eruption
The water In this new soil con-
tanned silica. which was substi.
Evening star., 1938-12-29

in the huge personnel maintained
by the P. w. A. are in prospect
The administrative and field staff
is composed of approximately 10000
employees.
There will be no wholesale lay
offs after January l." Mr.. Ickes
explained. From now on the P
w. A. will have to pass on work per-
formance and make payments As
work on projects proceeds Mr.
Ickes said the program will pro-
vide work for the greater part OF
the personnel until July /. 1910, the
date set by Congress for completion
Of all projects.