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Evening star., 1939-12-03
Knights Of Pythius

Meetings this week are: Monday,
Amaranth, rank work: Tuesday,
Webster and Capitol; Wednesday,
Mount Vernon, Friendship Temple,
Pythian Sisters; Friday, Rathbone
Temple, Pythian Sisters; Knights of
Pythias Bowling League, Syracusians
Lodge VS.. Hermoine Lodge.
Webster Lodge will distribute
Christmas baskets to the needy of
their lodge. Several new changes in
their bylaws we're approved last
Tuesday evening. The Entertain
ment Committee has arranged for a
card party on December IL.
Hermoine Lodge will hold an
oyster roast at the cottage'of DR..
Bacon, Beverly Beach, next Sunday,
the members leaving Pythian Tenn
pie at 10 am.
A Dokkie Temple for the District
seems assured. The charter list
contains nearly enough names. Su-
preme Representative Edward j.
Newcomb is in charge of the ar
rangements.
The knights Of Pythias Civic As
sociation met last Tuesday evening
and passed resolution indorsing
the work of the Dies Committee.
The association will recommend to
Congress that the committee be con-
tinued until it has fully completed
its Investigations. The association
will recommend to the Commission
ers that all persons who are arrested
for driving while drunk be imme-
diately taken before physician for
laboratory tests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Underwood
entertained last Saturday evening
the Syracusians P. P. Club. The
guests of honor were Traffic Omcer
A. r. Newcomb and District Pound
master Frank Marks. A buffet
luncheon was served.
Calanthe Lodge will hold dance
In Pythian Temple December Is.
The new bylaws were adopted at
the meeting last Monday evening.
Pages L. L. Carton, L. Williams, c.
r. Eaton, w. A. Poole and E. E..
WOLF were raised to esquires. Elec-
ton of officers will be held on De-
cember IL.
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18th Division Association

Washington Post No. 20 elected Of
f1cers as follows: Commander, Milton
E. Groome; vice commander, Thos.
r. Boteler; finance officer, Harry E.
Shilling; adjutant, Harold F. Jen-
kins; chaplain, Louis c. Vogt: his
torian, Earl E. MCGOWAN: officer Of
the day, Vincent Fuschini; welfare
officer, Percy G. Klein; Judge advo-
cate, Samuel w. Barrow; color bear
ers, Frank j. Lupac, Benjamin
Johns, William H. Thomas and Law
renee Harsh: color guards, J. Robert
Simmons, William B. Keely, Milton
J. Landvoigt and Lee Perrin; execu-
tive committee, j. Fred Chase. Mark
Patterson, Raymond Settler, Edward
v. Dittoe, Chas. w. Travers. Ira Z.
Ewers, VIM. g. Rose, John O'Con-
nell, Orlando H. Smith, jr.; Harry F.
Harding, Joseph Adams, Joseph
Spano, Ben Stein and Maurice p.
Mc0rath.
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BIockout Cane Helps

While recovering from a collision
with a lamp post during a black
out j. Bingham, London engineer,
has invented a cane which lights up
when desired. It has a metal frame
and it automatically flashes on
when touching the ground. Small
protected bulbs give off a yellow
light in front and a red light at
the back. BY a simple adjustment
it becomes an ordinary walking
stick for the daytime. Blackouts
have caused such a demand fol
canes that manufacturers are 1al
behind On orders.
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RoyuI Arcunum

The Grand Council will make a
grand visitation to Kismet Council
on December 8 at 10l5 L street
NV. Regent Elmer Pate will pre-
side. Supreme Councilman Gene
DAILY will be present.
A return bowling match with Bal
timore visiting will be held Decem-
ber 10.
Past Supreme Regent Milton A.
Willmett was in Washington last
Sunday for a conference with Grand
Regent Herman Wealthall, Past
Grand Regent Frank v. S. Marsh,
Supreme Councilman Daily and A. j.
Horn, president Of the Boosters
Club.
c. v. Schofield, J. T. Williams,
r. c. Rowzee, G. B. Young and w. F.
Micott were the "old timers" honored
by Municipal Council at their last
meeting. Past Regent E. F. Minoux
presided.
Meetings this week are: Oriental,
Wednesday, 1414 I street NV;
Capital, Thursday, and Kismet, Fri
day, both at 1015 L street NV.
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Women Of the Moose

The RitualiStic Committee OF Co.
lumbia Chapter will meet Thursday
evening at Moose Hall for instruc-
tions In the initiatory work by the
chairman, Mrs. George B. Clark. A
meeting of the Executive Board Of
officers will follow. Mrs. Howard
j. Clark, senior regent, will preside.
The meeting on December 8. 8
pm, will include program arranged
by the Moosehaven Committee. Mrs.
Mary Hooper Of Baltimore, grand
dean of the Academy Of Friendship,
will be the guest of honor and prin-
cipal speaker. Mrs. Blanche Albaugh,
membership chairman, announces
eight new members will be ad-
mitted.
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ferred. Members who nave attended
every meeting during the year will
be honored, also members having
birthdays In November and De-
cember. Election of officers will
follow.
The Temple Auxiliary Board will
meet December with Mrs. Florence
Norris, 4522 Illinois avenue NV.
The matron of Ruth Chapter,
Mrs. Harriet Pollard, announces
election of officers tomorrow night,
followed by refreshments.
Elsie Mattern, matron of Takoma
Chapter, announces turkey dinner
will be served prior to the meeting
on December 8, to the members of
the chapter. There will be initiation
and election of officers.
On December 8 the matron and
patron will entertain their officers,
committee chairman and their hus-
bands at buffet supper at the home
of the matron, Wheaton, Md, There
Will be cards and games.
Congress Lodge Chapter will meet
tomorrow night. Matron Jennie c..
Simon welcomed the officers of the
Grand Chapter on the annual grand
visitation at the last meeting. Hon.
ored guests were, Right Worthy
Grand Treasurer Flora Campbell
and Past Grand Matron Katharine
Merritt, Gertrude Milans. Louise
Kreglow, Elizabeth Rhine, Helen
Robbins, Grace Kimmel' and Past
Grand Patrons Paul Cromelin,
Frank Kimmel, Theodore c. Lewis,
Dr. Victor Rench and Harry
Schmidt. Past Matron Gertrude
Smith sang. The conductress and
associate conductresS presented the
gift to the grand matron and grand
patron.
At the meeting Wednesday night
of Jappa Lodge Chapter officers will
be elected. The meeting will be
preceded by a fried chicken dinner
for members only at $50 pm. The
officers will be installed December
20.
The Star Point Society Of La
Fayette Lodge Chapter will meet
Wednesday evening at the home of
Past Matron Bonny Starkey, SAB
Thirtieth place NV. with Mrs.
Ruth Haycraft and Miss Olive Dell
Nay as assisting hostesses. The Polly
Anna's will be disclosed and the Of
flcers will be elected.
Friendship Chapter will have a
luncheon on Tuesday at 4441 Wis
consin avenue NV, noon to 2 pm.
On December IL will be election of
officers.
The Eastern Star School of In
struction, under the direction of the
grand lecturer and the Committee
of Work and Lectures, will hold a
school, especially for installation
ceremonies and instruction to in
stalling marshals at pm. Decem-
Der 8 in the Masonic Temple. All
officers are asked at attend.
The 1928 Matrons and Patrons AS
sociation will have its annual
Christmas party December II at
$50 at the new Eastern Star Tenn
Pile. There will be dinner after
which there will be election of Of
f1cers, cards and then singing of
Christmas carols led by the grand
matron of 1928, Mrs. Sallye C. Bog
ley. Call the president, Mrs. Enid
K. Anthony, Woodley 1888, or Mrs
Louise E. Kreglow, Georgia 6446.
Mizpah Chapter announces elec-
ton of officers on Tuesday night.
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Edwin S. Puller,
past ex al t e d
ruler, of st. Louis
Lodge will de-
liver the me-
mortal address.
L. M a r t ! n
Young, general
chairman of the
Memorial Com
mittee, has been
assisted by the
following sub
chairmen and
their committees
in arranging the
services: Charles
E.. Ford. Sneak.
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Special Schools
Expect 10 Raise
Quota Is in 40
Third Corps Area
Infantry Increase
Of 8 Is Largest

Providing necessary funds are
made available, the quota Of re-
serve officers of the Sd Corps Area,
Of which Washington is a part, to
attend the special service schools
during the 1910 fiscal year, will be
increased by 26 officers. OF this
number the infantry has the largest
number, eight being the quota for
that arm.
The quota during the 1910 fiscal
period, by arms and services, will
be as follows: Cavalry, /; Chemical
Warfare Service Cline and stafD, 2;
field artillery, 3; Corps of Engineers,
8; finance, (no previous allotment
and date Of opening to be an
nounced Intercourse will probably
run IL weeks; infantry, 8; Medi-
cal Field Service, (date Of OPEN
ing to be announced later; Ord
nance Field Service, (date Of
opening to be announced later):
Quartermaster, 3; Quartermaster
Motor Transport, 2 (date Of opening
to be announced later, and sig
nal, /.
An additional number Of students
may also be detailed to the Com
mand and General Staff School, but
final action thereon is being held In
allegiance by the War Department
pending information as to the num-
Der OF officers who are qualified un-
der instructions previously issued.
District Reserve officers who may
desire to undergo this instruction
should submit their applications for
same through their unit instructors.
Applications should reach Sd Corps
Area headquarters in Baltimore not
later than December IS.
Members of the 428th Infantry will
meet in the armory at Howard Uni
versity tomorrow evening, under
| direction of 1t. Col. Atwood, who
will take up the new infantry drill.
On Tuesday evening the 50th Signal
Battalion. 80th Signal Company, and
the 62d Signal Troop will participate
In joint conference at which will
be discussed signal communications
The same evening, infantry officers
will take up communications.
Field Artillery officers at Fort
Myer, Va, Wednesday evening will
discuss the conduct of fire. In addi-
ton to lectures on musketry and
the European situation, cavalry
officers, meeting Thursday evening,
will view training film. Conferences
on Friday evening are: booth Serv-
ice Unit, Sd Corps Area mobilization;
l3O8th Service Unit, protective
mobilization plan of the Sd Corps
Area; 1310th Service Unit, study of
corps area mobilization plan. and
the 1920 Service Unit. critique and
discussion of problem No /. District
cavalry officers will meet at Fort
Myer, Va, next Sunday at $50 am.
for instruction in horsemanship.
Washington officers have been
assigned to units as follows: Capt.
Daniel o. Omer and First It. Walden
A. Sundell, to the 425th Infantry;
First 1t. Alfred H. Hesse, to the
343d Engineers; Second Its Edward
H. Long and Andrew j. Nemshick,
to the 320th Infantry; Second 1t.
Hiram j. Greene, jr. to the 376th
Engineers: Second 1t. Edward w.
Briggs, to the 432d Ordnance Com
pany; Second Its. Elverson E. Baker
and Charles P Olson, to the 622d
Coast Artillery, and Second Its.
Milton A. Pitcher and David M.
Whip, to the 627th Engineer Bat
talon.
Officers promoted include Second
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E|ks' Lodge 10 Hold
Memorial Service
AT Club Today
Public Oyster Roast
Is PIunned for
Next Friday

The B. P. o. Elks' Lodge Of Wash
ington will hold the annual Elks'
memorial service at the Elks' Club
9l9 H street NV, today at pm
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Officers promoted include Second
1t. Hugh H. Saum. jr.. to first
lieutenant, who will remain assigned
to the 320th Infantry. and First 1t.
Yorke c. Mills, to captain, to remain
with the 306th Cavalry.
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Jobs Daughters

At the meeting Of Bethel, No. 5,
on November "a semi-annual elec-
ton of officers was held. Those
elected were: Queen, Lois Leftwich;
senior princess, Elaine Baechs; junior
princess, Evelyn Emo; guide, Gladys
Reed; marshal, Catherine Wilkie.
The meeting on December 8 will
be present and past honored queens
night. A Christmas program has
been planned by the chair under the
direction of Mrs. Margaret Bev-
eridge.
Installation of officers of Bethel
No. 6 will take place December 8,
followed by dancing. Admission to
those other than members of Jobs
Daughters and De Molays Is by
invitation. TIE line offers who
are to be installed are: Queen, Eve
lyn Thring; senior princess, Louise
Wiegal; junior princess, Lura Mae
Mcdaniel; guide, Betty Neal Eubank
and Marshal, Mildred June Man.
ming.
A rehearsal for installation will be
held today at the Georgetown Ma
sonic Hall.
A tea for the promotion of men,
bership was held at the home o1
Cleo johnson December 2.
In honor of the retiring queen, Vir-
ginia Dent, a silver tea will be held
at the Pettus Home, Stevenson place
NV. on December 10, from 4 t<
ON.
At the last meeting of Bethel No
the following officers were elected
Honored queen, Alice Tydings; SEN
ior princess, Winnie Smith; junior
princess, Dorothy Williams; guide
Doris Rook; marshal, Anna Mary
Davenport. Installation will be hele
December at the Stansbury Ma
sonic Temple.
There will be no drill team re-
hearsal Monday night.
Florence Fleming, retiring honoret
queen, will entertain her officers ant
committee chairmen at a suppe
tonight at her home, Oh Decatl
street NV. --r
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ern Star Clubhouse December 9 at
$50 pm.
st. Johns Lodge Chapter held
grand visitation at its last meeting.
Other past grand officers who were
present were Past Grand Matrons
Mrs. Grace E. Kimmel, Mrs. Flora
E. Campbell, right worthy grand
treasurer; Mrs. Gertrude Milans,
Mrs. Louise E. Kreglow, Mrs. Nellie
Fletcher, Mrs. Katharine Merritt,
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Rhine and Mrs.
Helen D. Robbins and Past Grand
Patrons Joseph H. Milans, Theodore
C. Lewis, Gratz Dunkum, Paul
Cromelin, Frank Kimmel, DR.. Victor
Rench and Harry j. Schmidt.
A presentation program was pre-
sented by Mrs. Katherine Ernstedt
Mrs. Harriet Brinkman, Miss Faye
A. Frazier and Mrs. Clara Hinson
under the direction Of Miss Edna
Anderson. Past Matron Iva Hocken-
berry Toone sang.
Matron Marie Cuthbertson Mold
announces on December will be
election of officers. followed by re-
freshments. Installation will take
place December 10.
The 1899 Association of Matrons
and Patrons will present an enter
tainment for the guests of the Ma
sonic and Eastern Star Home, De-
cember 8 at 8 pm. All members OF
the association and their families
invited. Refreshments will be served
Mrs. Elsie Douglas, matron OF
Gavel Chapter, announces on De-
cember S the degrees VIII be con-
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Mrs. Elsie Douglas, matron OF
Gavel Chapter, announces on De.
cember s the degrees VIII be con-
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Comdr. Henry Hartley. U. S. NJ,
will have as his subject, Submarine
Rescues," in his address before the
Anchor Masonic Club of the De-
partment of Commerce, Maritime
Commission and Civil Aeronautics
Authority at their dinner meeting
at 6 pm. Wednesday at the Hotel
Lafayette, 1t was announced by
President Royal G. Best.
Evening star., 1939-12-03

Petworth Lodge Fellowcraft Club
will meet Tuesday at the home of
Mr.. Stuermann, 6O9 Jefferson street
NV. The club will hold an oyster
roast today at the home of Mr..
Blankenship, Suitland, Md.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

with which he gets to the heart of every
scrimmage play.
That is the sort of determination and con-
centration that John used throughout his boy
hood to make himself blocking back. Tuss
helped him, of course, but didn't push him.
Il don't believe in making kids think football
is the whole thing" he said. When John
or his younger brother Bob asked me to 60 out
in the back yard and toss football around
with them or give them a few pointers, did.
Or to put on the gloves and have little bout
in the kitchen But only if they asked me-
John was not natural athlete; he had no
flair. But you don't need flair to block and
tackle and plunge All you need to do is do it,
with all your might - and have plenty of
might to do it with. Somebody with more
natural ability could do the sensational ball
carrying and get the glory. Johnny stuck to
his job of building up his might. He kept after
Tuss to come out in the yard and play foot
ball with him. Over in the Brown gymnasium
he inveigled the boxing coach into giving
him some lessons and sparring with him. And
out on the track field he watched the weight
men toll and sweat in lonely corner of the
field while the spectators watched the more
flashy sports of sprinting, hurdling and jump
ing; and he decided that here, too, was some
thing he could do - something that called for
persistent practice and strength, not fair.
BY 1881, when John entered the Moses
Brown School in Providence, he had SEEM
Evening star., 1939-10-08

RT WAS one of those bad nights. The team
had Host that day Coach Tuss McLaughry,
d in the privacy of his home was indulging
in an old and familiar lament.
What need is good blocking back, he
muttered "If I'd had one we could have saved
that game"
The youngster, ready for bed, looked up
at his father gravely. when l grow up, III
be a blocking back, Pop he said. Then, as it
seemed essential to know, he asked, What is
blocking back, Pop"
Tuss grinned at the youngster, but there
was still a trace of grimness behind the grin.
Hes the fellow" he said, who does the job
and let's somebody else get the glory. Now.
run along to bed.
Tuss knew In his day he had been one
of the great blocking backs of the game, at
Westminster and Michigan State. A blond
giant of a man, standing six feet two inches
and weighing just enough over 200 pounds to
be all bone and sineW, he was built for foot
ball player. He still had the springy step OF
the athlete - still does today, for that mat
naturally Tuss was pleased that Johnny
wanted to be a blocking back for him; but the
possibility of his achieving that ambition
looked very remote indeed. Johnny was
frail, sickly youngster An attack OF pneu-
monia had left him so weakened that the
doctor was forever ordering him to bed to
rest up. He liked to draw pictures and paint,
6~Jo tn hor haf 10
might make career for himself as an artist -
but hardly as football player.
That was fifteen years or so ago, when
Tuss was coaching at Amherst. This year he
is coaching his fourteenth consecutive Brown
University team. And the captain OF the
team is John Jackson McLaughry - that
same Johnny. 1t is the first time in the history
of football in the major colleges that team
has been captained by the coachs son. But
don't put it down to nepotism. John rates his
captancy. You see, he is probably the best
blocking back who will be playing on college
gridirons this fall.
A long legged, husky six-footer, weighing a
good, strong two hundred pounds you might
guess that John McLaughry is good boxer
land he is the heavyweight champion at
Brown, or that he is good hammer thrower
land he is the national junior A.A.U. cham
pion, with good chance to star in the next
Olympics), but you would hardly suspect that
through most of his childhood he was semi
invalid. But knowing that in advance, you
might get an inkling of the way in which he
made himself into an athlete by watching him
on the practice field, seeing the grim determi-
nation with which he throws himself at the
tackling dummy, the complete concentration
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that Moses Brown had seen in years. Along
side him John blocked and tackled and
plugged the line Every time the ball was
snapped he was in the thick of it. Coaches
watched him and clucked approvingly. Oppos-
ing players remembered him as the fellow who
was ALWAYS stopping them. But the stands
watched Morgan and cheered.
John went on, for a year, to AndOVer
Academy and it was much the same story.
Torbert Macdonald, his roommate, was the
great running star - as he was to be later at
Harvard John. most of the time, was that
player, unidentified and often unseen by the.
crowd, who took out potential tacklerS.
Coaches saw him and wanted him. But John,
one of these big, amiable youngsters who
don't talk much. just said thanks, it was nice +
of them Even when Tuss tried to tell hl1
that it was all right for him to 60 anywhere
liked, John cut him short. II
mo, SIR he said. I'm going to Brown 5
want to play for YOU And you're going -
need blocking back
Tuss certainly was. In fact, never in an Old
fashioned movie thriller had the hero been IN
more urgent need of the marines than was
Tuss in need of good blocking back
You see, being football coach is grand
Job - when you have winning teams When
you don't it S headache. Second-guessers yell
for your scalp and old grads snap at your
heels That's the position Tuss was in.
He had come from Amherst in 1926, taken
squad that wasn't figured to win anything and
turned out the famous Brown Iron Men.
who went through the whole season using only
twelve men and beat Harvard, Yale and
Dartmouth; they were stopped from clean
sweep only by a strong Colgate team that
managed to hold them to a tie. For several
wears after that the Brown teams that Iuss
coached did more winning than losing, and
everything was rosy Other colleges tired to
lure him away from Brown. Tuss decllned'
His friends said he didn't want to uproot his
boys just when they were acclimatlng them
selves and getting good educational start in
the world.
In 1882 Brown beat Harvard, Yale. Holy
Cross and Columbia, losing only to that old
ink Colgate Then the lean years set III. The
1893 team won but single major game. In
the years that followed, even the small col
leges that Brown had always considered just
warming-up material began to rise up and
smack McLaughry's boys down.
Now, it is easy enough to explain thing
like that mathematically. BY the law of
averages any college is bound to lose part OF
the time And when a college has anywhere
from several hundred to several thousand
fewer students than many of its opponents, as
(Continvsd on poss 10)
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ingly licked his earlier invalidism. He was a
rugged ganging youth now in his early teens.
He went out for football as matter of course.
But first, he talked it over with his father.
"Do you still want to be blocking back"
Tuss asked him.
Yes, sir, said John.
Never mind the glory?"
''Yes, sir. said John,
"All right" said Tuss 'I'll tell you what
I'd do if | were coaching you. I'd put you
through the whole season without giving you
the ball to carry once. Then, by another year,
perhaps you'd know something about block
ing"
Sounds like good idea," said John. 1t
meant, of course, never once having the
chance to be a hero. to make the winning
touchdown, to bring the rooters cheering to
their feet.
John went through that season at right
halfback for Moses Brown and never carried
the ball. The next year he was given the ball
- but for line plunges, an-batterlng- ram
stuff, not the wide runs that catch the eyes of
spectators The third year he couldn't play at
all. Doctors orders, again, after slight SICK
ness. But he didn't miss attending practice
session all season.
The boys elected him captain for the 1884
season. 1t was sort of preview of the seasons
that were to come In the Moses Brown
backfeld was "Gibbie" Morgan, flashing,
dashing ball carrier, the best individual star
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-10
The Vital Few Seconds

News item describes skidding of a
 car into a stream, car overturned, wheels sticking out of water, driver trapped in car. Usual typical crowd of incompetent cowardly spectators stood about. Presently a man drove up, asked whether any one had been hurt, received vague answers plung- ed into the water, and managed to get a car door open and drag out the unconscious victir.. It was very cold. The victim was carried off to Q fire station where firemen and policemen worked over him for hours vainly trying to resuscitate
 From the news item I gather that no immediate effort to resuscitate was made when the victim was res- cued. Simple prone-pressure manip- ulation right there on the ground would have given the victim the great advantage of restoration oi breathing in that vital few seconds while the spark of life still glows
 Ought to be space on the death certificate to record, as contributory cause of death, delay of precious moments in applying resuscitation
 due to ignorance of by-standers
 fireman or policeman figuring in the case were my brother. I have an il. lustrated booklet, available on re. pquest if you provide stamped en. velope bearing your address, that teaches how to resuscitate from drowning, asphyxiation or poisoning
 How can any intelligent human be. ing sleep without knowing that, ir an emergency, he or she is prepared