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Evening star., 1938-04-20
MEDICAL SOCIETY
HELPS ROUNDUP
Backs Plan to Protect
Health of Next Falls
School Children.

The District Medical Society last
night pledged enthusiastic and COM
plete support and cooperation" in the
summer roundup" to put children
In good health for school next fall.
The program, organized by the par
ent-teacher associations, is being
conducted in conjunction with Ma
tional Child Health Day. 1t will con-
tinue through May, but the society
expressed hope that parents will not
postpone having their children exam
ined until the end Of the month.
Parent-teacher associations will
round up all possible children in every
community who expect to start to
public school next fall for examination
by physicians. to find any possible
physical defects in advance, so that
they may be corrected during the sum-
mer.
Society to Provide Doctors.
DR.. John H. Mcleod, who will repre-
sent the medical society, said:
THE society will provide physicians
Tor this most important and admirable
service wherever the parent teacher
association has not made arrange
ments already with some public-spir-
tied physicians of the community.
Where defects are found in the
children, and the parents are unable
to afford necessary medical attention
by the family physician. the society
and the parent-teacher association
will arrange to have the child treated
without charge"
Where families prefer to have the
examination made by their own ply
sician, blank forms will be furnished
by the teacher association. The
physician will conduct the examination
and fill in the form. which then will
be returned by the parents to the
parent-teacher group from which 1t
was obtained.
School Stats on Hand.
The various schools. however. will
IldVe SldllS Ol uOClOES anu QenUlStS on
hand to make free examinations during
the period of the roundup for those
who prefer it. The program is under
the direction of Mrs Alma Hudson,
4403 Ord street NE.
Among the organizations that have
Endorsed the program, aside from the
medical society are the Board of Ed
ucation, the Health Department, the
District Dental Society and District
OF Columbia tuberculosis Association
and the Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety
DR.. Joseph A. Murphy, chief OF the
School Medical Inspection Service of
the Health Department, said:
The value of this undertaking is
very great, indeed, in preventing the
spread Of communicable diseases. in
catching physical defects in children
and correcting them before it is too
late. and in educating children on the
value of periodic health examinations. !"
Evening star., 1938-04-20
DARE FATAL TO BOY

WASHINGTON, Ind, April 20 (P.-
John Vowel, jr. 13-year old grade
school pupil at EPSON, accepted the
dare Of a high school track athlete
and attempted to catch q 16-pound
shot
The iron ball struck the boy in the
stomach. rupturing his intestines, and
he died in hospital here today.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
LIQUOR COMPLAINT

The Senate received q complaint
from Corinth, Miss, yesterday against
the Federal Governments liquor per-
NIT system.
BY granting licenses to dealers In
dry States, the Corinth petitioners
said. the Government lis promoting
the welfare Of those who violsts such
oaAo nentahl5oa AVA
Evening star., 1938-04-20

her head on a
stone in the re-
tanning wall as
she fell into the
water under-in-
stead of on--her
rented bicycle.
Her companion,
Valerie r allon,
Is. Of 1928 Kan
sas avenue NV,
screamed for help
while Frank VOL
lard, 18, of the
1900 block of Irv-
ing street NV,
who was riding
with <L
Evening star., 1938-04-20
JOINS POWER BOARD
William c. Koplovitz to Be

Assistant Counsel.
The Federal Power Commission
announced today appointment of Will
liam c. Koplovitz of st. Louis as as
sistant general counsel.
Mr.. Koplovitz joined the commits.
sions legal staff last June and pre-
viously had been on the Public Works
Administration legal staff.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

U. S. Ships Cars to China.
Eighty per cent Of the motor We
hicles shipped to China last year were
from the United States.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Transatlantic telephone calls be-
tween Canada and countries in Eu-
rope and Africa averaged about seven
. day during 1887, increasing 10 per
cent over 1885.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
GIRLS BIKE DEBUT
ENDS IN TIDAL BASIN
Eunice Teel. ID, Strikes Head on
Retaining Wall Stone, but Is
Not Seriously Hurt,

Eunice Teel. IA, of 44l2 Third
street NV. went bicycle riding for the
first time last night and zig-zagged
right into the Tidal Basin. striking
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Kid your system Of
Excess Acid

by following the health resort method a.
home. Drink Mountain Valley Mineral
Water. direct from famous Hot Springs.
Arkansas. to secure natural help Tor irri-
tated muscles nerves and Joints. Phone
Met. 1862 for = case today.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
MET. 1862. l4o5 K St NV
Evening star., 1938-04-20
KERENSKY TO SPEAK
Press Club to Hear Off-Record
Talk bv Russian.

Talk by Russian.
Alexander Kerensky, who headed
the provisional government of Russia
in 1917, will make an off-the record
speech at a luncheon at the National
Press Club Thursday.
The Kerensky government was
overthrown in the Bolshevik revolu-
ton Of November, 1917.
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Even after months in England
my wife sometimes had to call
upon the housemaid to translate
some item in the laundry list, or to
interpret between her and the
grocery boy" declares Mr.. Harry
A. Franck, the irrepressible
globe-trotter. in "Footloose in the
British Isles" 'In England a
vest is an undershirt. not a
waistcoat. 'Suspenders' are gar
tiers, and braces are suspenders.
A child's underwaist is bod
ice, while rubber boots are Well
ingtons.' The word sweater still
strikes many of the English as
trifle low class and odoriferous;
they call it a jersey jumper
'pullover. or cardigan.
'In the diapers shop (Which
means drygoods store) un-
bleached muslin is calico and
calico is 'cottonprint.' Cheese
cloth is butter muslin, and in
stead Of using cutting flannel for a
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CHAPTER XVI

Don Pedro FACES agreed with An
gustias that it was indelicate for La
Gobernadora to be confined by a
physician, a man. But the lady her
self, when she learned that a very
learned man of medicine was sta
toned at the Preside of San Fran
cisco. made up her mind that she
would not remain in Monterey, to
be delivered by the midwife from
the Mission Carmelo, who also de-
livered the Indian women.
The Governor himself, greatly
worried by the news he had re-
ceived from Mexico concerning the
possibility of the missions Of Cali
fornia being put under the guardian
ship of the Dominican Order, felt
the need of discussing the situation
with Junipero Serra's countryman.
Francisco Palou, the Mallorcan, at
San Francisco. Fray Palou was
wise, liberal, friendly, and with him
Don Pedro felt he could discuss his
impasse with Sierra. and other mat
tiers.
ITO BE CONTINUED
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An Old Indian Custom

An Indian widow was forbidden
by custom to marry for year after
her husbands death because the
spirit of her departed spouse was
believed to stay with her that long.
During the year she could not ac-
cept gifts of meat from anyone nor
could she even buy it; she had to
get it herself. If she lived through
the year, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, and observed all the rigid
customs, she would then be given
gifts by both the men and women
In the tribe, and she would usually
get another husband, because the
next spouse would know that she
was obedient and he could depend
on her.
Indian men were not held down
by such straitjacket rules. They
could even put up their Squaws ~
stakes in gambling.
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Pick up the map by the upper
corners and let It hang down in
front Of you.
Study the creases carefully to
determine where it was first folded.
The horizontal line through the mid
die looks promising, so use that
and fold the map once on itself.
You will now find that some Of the
convex creases are facing some of
the concave creases. So evidently
1t can't go that way. Open the
map and start all over again.
Try the line running perpendicu-
larly through the middle. There
now, that's better. The concave
creases lie on the concave creases
and the convex creases on the con-
vex creases.
Now fold the map a second time
on itself. II it doesn't seem TO fit,
it's because you have folded along
the wrong crease, in which case
unfold the map and start all over
again.
Perhaps you are trying too hard,
Hold the map as lightly as you
can and see if it will not help itself
to fold up the way it should go.
Since you have now folded the
map several times the wrong way,
concave creases will begin to look
like convex creases and convex
creases like concave creases.
Just do the best you can, says a
writer in the Baltimore Sun, folding
the map until it lies before you in
a long narrow strip.
Try folding the strip from left to
right. If that doesn't seem correct,
fold II from right to left Or maybe
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"What Knows He Of England
Who Only England Knows?"

child's pajamas one buys vince
yette' and asks for a sleeping
suit A spool of thread is reel
of cotton. An American who asks
for crackers will get frecrackers
or a package of those Christmas
paper bonbons that explode when
pulled. In England a cracker is
a biscuit, and biscuit is roll.
A muffin is something else again,
and cookies are as unknown as if
the word were Persian.
"Our kind of bacon is 'streaky
rashers'; slice of ham is a
CANNON rasher. and the best cut
of beef is a piece of topside.
Gasoline is petrol kerosene is
paraffin, and paraffin is 'paraf-
fin wax An English cook does not
rinse the dishes, she 'sWills
them. When my wife told the
nursemaid to battle the children,
or to give them a bath, the maid
proceeded to bath them or give
them a battle.
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And to them he must write; to Mis-
sion San Buenaventura, San Gabri-
Ell Arcangel, San Juan Capistrano.
San Diego de Alcala, Santa Clara,
San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, San An
tonic de Padua, and San Francisco
de Asis.
AS he leaned over the table his
head was light with fever. and the
quill in his hand shook. For mo-
ment he needs must lay his head
down on the clean page before him.
and close his eyes. Yet he must
write though well he knew
those brothers of the farther mis-
sions would never reach him in
time. But Palou, his closest broth
er, his Mallorcan countryman
he must come. He reused himself
and started writing, ending the let
ter, Good Brother Palou. come and
assist me to diet"
For hours into the night, the little
cell was quiet except for the
scratching of the pen, and the gentle
clicking of his rosary when he rest
ed from his writing. Once Pho
slipped in, and put fresh candles in
the candle-sockets. He curled up
at the fathers feet, and was soon
asleep.
AS he wrote a white fog moved
silently in from the sea, travelling
inland to the great valleys Of the
Salinas, the San Joaquin. the Sacra-
mento, drowning all things in thick
white vapor. Along the far-flung
coast, golden beaches. shingly
strands, jutting promontories and
forbidding rocks the tides of morn
ing raced.
The letters were finished, all but
one. Junipero Sierra walked to
wooden shutter, opened it to the cold
dawn. A breath Of fog drifted into
the cell like a wrath. and warmed
itself at the candles.
He seated himself again. With
prayer he pulled clean page to-
ward him, and wrote slowly:
ITO Be Delivered After My Death.
ITO His Esteemed Excellency.
Don Pedro FACES. Gobernador-Gen
eral of the CALIFORNIA;. Baja and
Alta"
Lifting his spectacles. he wiped
away some tears that had gathered
beneath the thick lenses, then wrote,
My beloved son :"
Just as he finished. Pho awoke,
and the swallows were aware that
it was dawn. Junipero Sierra read
the letter, sighed. and signed it With
his rubric:
"Fr. Junipero Sierra"
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Ny Friend
Joseph


HOUGH strong wind was
blowing, driving sheets of rain
across my front yard, l wasn't sur
prised to see Joseph. my little
seven-year-old neighbor, making
his way up the front walk. Yes
terday was my birthday and he
was here when the postman
brought me a fve-pound box of
candy, and Joseph has a weak
ness for good chocolates.
He comes putting in and while he
sheds his waterproof coat he looks
around for the candy. But all the
candy spots are vacant. My bon
bon resistance is below normal on
bad days and | have put all the
sweets away and resolved not to
bring them out for a week. But
now from past experience | know
Il at without once asking me for
any candy Joseph will soon have
me bringing out my fve-pound
box and urging him to take all
he wants. He has an indirect
method all his own that never con-
fiicts with any of the rules of ETH
quette and always gets him what
he wants.
He pulls low stool in front of
mine, looks up at me and says,
Guess who I'd be if could be
anybody wanted to be?"
This is easy for he always
wants to be Tarzan or Dizzy Dean.
But I'm all wrong.
mot today" he says with en-
phasis, today I'd be 'Laddin An
His Lamp.
"And guess what's the first
thing I'd tell that old genie to do
after rubbed my lamp"
This isn't really meant to be
question so | simply sit still and
look interested.
I'D tell him to build my moth
er the finest house in town an fur
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looked at these letters once, but l
can scarcely see so read, my
son, and carefully. I may have
been mistaken when I read them"
The boy read, slowly, painfully,
stumbling over the stilted official
phraseology Of the letters from the
Viceroy, and the Father Guardian
in Mexico.
There was no hope for the Mis-
sion Santa Barbara. The Governor,
Don Pedro FACES, had not recon-
mended the idea. 1t was regretta-
bic the two Franciscans. Fray
Mariana Rubi and Fray Bartolome
Gill, were unsuitable, but it was hard
to get decent men to leave Mexico,
and go to the distant province Of
California.
There was friendly personal let
ter from the Father Guardian, but
that gave Junipero Sierra no COM
fort. Sierra was warned against u.s.
ing his temporal influence, as there
were rumors abroad that the mis-
sions in California were to be turned
over to the Order of Donimicans,
and the FranciScans returned to
Mexico.
mo, no." faltered the franciscan.
mo, Pho, you do not read that tru-
ly! California to be delivered to the
Dominicans? But California is San
Francisco's own country cho-
sen by his own wish never
should it be in other hands than
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Once Upon a Time
There Was "a

Baseball announcer who an
nounced an entire game without
utilizing the adjective beautiful"
in describing the weather. the
crowd. or the plays.
Book reviewer who never wrote
that it was "a book you simply
can't put down"
Neighbor, who. when scooping
snow or moving the yard, went
several feet past his boundary line
into his neighbors' territory.
Group of relatives who didn't
heckle the young male member
of the household by inquiring as to
his status with girls. and add,
whether it was true or not, Look
at him blushl" Kansas City Star
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those of the Brothers Of San Fran
cisco! All, it is just rumor it
could be nothing else. God forbid
that it should"
Sierra clasped his hands and was
still. Are there no more letters?"
he asked calmly.
Here is one, but II is not from
Mexico, Padre. It is from his Ex-
cellency."
Don Pedro! Read it,"
The note was curt, brief The
Governor had received dispatches
from Mexico, regarding the found
: ing Of the Mission Santa Barbara,
and he presumed the holy father had
received the same intelligence. It
was unfortunate the holy father had
not seen fit to communicate with
him, or shown any disposition to en-
ter again upon friendlier relations.
He himself and La Gobernadora.
with an escort, were leaving on the
San Antonio when she sailed for
the Preside and Mission of San
Francisco, where La Gobernadora
would be confined by the eminent
doctor who was stationed there. And
that was all.
The father rose painfully from his
cot, and stood in the center of the
little cell, his hands outflung to
Heaven.
Deserted! Betrayed! The face of
all mankind is turned against me,
but Thou, o Father, art with me!
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort
mel Thou art with me always ="
And 1, Padre" whispered Pho,
kneeling at the fathers feet. II am
with you. always"
The Missionary put one hand on
the Indians bowed head, and with
the other still appraised, stood, with
rapt face, his lips murmuring pray
ers. Pho could feel the heat of the
trembling hand even through the
thick thatch of his hair, and close
to the father as he was. could feel
his limbs trembling. At last Sierra
spoke to him.
at is finished, Pho. And If all
the years that / have toiled have
brought me nothing else, it is
enough that you are here. simple,
loving. righteous. Pho MIC" He
smiled at the boy, and turned again
to his cot. He knelt beside it.
But, Padre, will you not lie
down." questioned the anxious boy.
This attitude Is more COM
Portable, son, for it is one to which
my body is more familiar than any
other. Pho, will you try to find
Estevanico, and bring back my
spectacles to me? For now l have
many, many letters to write. and
the time is getting short, ay, short. "
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By
Lillian Oakley
G Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU Service.

nish it full of the finest furniture
in town an have a hot supper on
the table ready for her when she
got home from work. And I'd
make him give me some money
an I'd go down town an pay
all of her bills an put 'em on the
table by her plate" He finishes
exultantly.
Joseph has no father and the
bills that have to be paid at the
end of every month hang heavy
over his head.
He clasps both little hands
around one knee and rocks him.
self backwards and forwards on
the stool and smiles over this
happy surprise for his mother.
Then he looks around at me as If
afraid | am feeling neglected.
"Then," he says with enthusi-
asm, I'D rub my lamp an when
that old genie came I'd tell him
to bring me motorcycle just
like the road cops ride only littler,
an a police uniform an a ma
chine gun that could shoot for
ever an five-pound box of candy
just like the one you got for your
birthday yesterday. And" he
adds with a smile that shows all
of his dimples, "Pd bring you
down about half of the candy"
The object of his visit has been
attained. And he leaves with his
pockets full of my birthday choco-
lates, the rain having let up some
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Name Is Poetry

It seemed curious that any place
should be named "Llanfalrpwll-
neutrality-suspicious. III
andysiliogogogoch. Yet a little
Welsh village bears this 58-let-
tered name. It is q locality of
charm and beauty. Llan is
church" Fair is "ot Mary"
Pwll GWyngyll Is the pool OF
White hazels." Goger is rather
near" while ChWyrn Drobwll is
the swift whirlpool" and Tysilio
gogo goch is "ot rysilio of the
red cave" Is it not therefore
suggestive of romance and beau
ty enough to visit the village OF
the Church of St. Mary by the
Pool of White hazels near the
swift whirlpool of St. Tysilio's
Church of the Red Cave?-Detroit
News.
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Puzzle of Folding Paper Maps Can Be
Solved by Just Doing the Best You Can

the trouble is that you should fold
both from the right and the left end
and meet in the middle.
The map instead Of being neat
and compact will look like an in
flated football. Well, at any rate
you have done your best. After all
why need it be folded as it was at
first? Just take the inflated map,
press the air out of it with your
hands and finish the job by sitting
on it.
II you have failed, just remember
that once a map has been unfolded
the odds are 10 to l that it will
never be folded the way it was be-
fore.
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Pho frightened the red sash around
his waist and Strengthened proudly.
Father, ii shall be done. At
once" He dashed out Of the cell,
through the mission grounds, and in
the direction Of the village Of the
gentle Indians.
Junipero Sierra did not feel the
hard floor beneath his knees, nor the
hard boards in which his head rest
ed. He was bordering deeply, sad
ly, praying to keep the bitterness
from his thoughts.
He began dreaming Of the past, of
his earlier days in California.
Episodes which he had forgotten
long since came into his mind. His
first baptism of an Indian child. the
sweetness Of a hedge of wild roses
along a newly broken trail, sunset
glow on the white peaks of the lofty
sierras. With each of these impress
sions came the figure Of Pedro
FACES, whose eyes saw the same
beauty, and whose heart loved it as
be did.
Al, mi companero. he sighed,
you have deserted me. Friend.
brother"
The room grew dark. A swallow
darted in the low doorway, circled
the cell and flew out with silky rus
tie Of swift wings. Junipero Sierra
smiled.
Father Francis ." he whis-
pered, Father Francis rec
ognize thy messenger :"
Then he lay very still.
Into the room, after long while,
darted Pic, as swiftly and noise
lessly as the swallow.
Padre mio!" he crowed, Padre
mio Look, your spectacles!" There
was no answer from the priest.
Pho leaned over him breathlessly.
Look" he said. Il have them. your
spectacles. Father" At last Sierra
stirred.
"Ah. bless you. my child?" he
said in a faint voice. Now light
the candles for there is work to be
done"
Pho lighted the candles. II the
father had not been so engrossed in
his own thoughts he would have
seen the youths face was bleeding,
that one eye was closed. and that
his hair was standing wildly on his
usually sleek head
The father fitted his spectacles
over his ears. took them off, and
adjusted the steel bows a bit, wiped
the square lenses with the corner Of
his brown robe and picked up his
quill.
He must summon his brethren to
him. First there were those staunch
countrymen of his. Fermin Lasuen,
Francisco Palou, islanders like him
self An, but Crespi but lately
he had been laid to rest beneath
the altar of the church here at
Carmel. And Jose Antonio Murguia.
the Builder but he too now
slept in the beautiful church at San
ia Clara, which he had builded, and
whose dedication he had not lived
to see.
So many Of the pioneer Francis
cans were dead. Garces, FL Pedes-
triano, killed by the very Indians
whose souls he was bent on saving;
and that other martyr Of the early
days of the Mission San Diego, Fray
Luis Jaime, whose body. stripped,
bruised. bloody. and pierced with
arrows. had been found after an In
dian raid, with only the consecrated
hands left unscathed.
Junipero Sierra sighed deeply, and
breathed a prayer for those sainted
souls. California had exacted her
toll from the Franciscans but
there were many left. praise God.
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Wise Cnd Otherwise

Some people look on the
bright side of things SO per
sistently that they wind up the
proud possessors of a geld
brick.
Big men get the best jobs,
I'm told. Because the small
men are so often overlooked?
Then there was the man who
was so lazy he bought a Great
Dane so he wouldn't have to
stoop over to pet it.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Just the same, it's the smart
birds that get it.