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Evening star., 1939-02-24

jacent communities in nearby Mary
land and Virginia. More than $500
reservations already have been filled.
Letters Commend Offer.
The response to the program has
been overwhelming, and The Star
continues to receive many express
sions OF approval from those who are
participating in the unusual offer.
"A splendid offer and I accept it
with delight" said letter from one
reader.
Another reader wrote across the
top OF his reservation form: What
remarkably fine idea. Congratu-
lations."
Under the terms of the program,
The Star will make available in rec
ord form-and within the price range
OF almost every one-10 complete
symphonies and symphonic compost
tions by such famous composers as
Beethoven, Schubert, Tschaikowsky,
Bach, Brahms and others. In all. 80
l2-inch double-faced records will be
offered in addition to an electric rec
ord player that attaches to your
radio.
The first work to be offered, Franz
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony"
will be made available beginning
Monday.
Played by Famed Orchestras.
These records were made by
world-famous orchestras under the
direction of some of the most re-
nowned conductors of the day. There
are no finer recordings available.
A number of readers have written
IN to ask whether these recordings
were made in foreign countries.
While The Star is unable to make
known the names of the orchestras
and conductors. it can assure those
interested in the offer that all the
records, as well as the record playing
instruments, were made in the
United States.
For complete details of the offer,
please turn to page A-9.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

Bedrooms Dangerous
To Life and Limb,
Health Forum Told
House Tukes Toll of
Fatalities and Injuries
In Thousands Yearly

No house is fool proof against &C.
cidents," Dr.. Fred r. Sanderson,
associate professor of surgery at
Georgetown University, warned an
audience last night in presenting
evidence showing nearly so per cent
Of the 10000, 900 persons involved in
general accidents last year were
victims in their homes.
The bedroom Is the most danger
GUS room In the average home, he
said, even more dangerous than the
kitchen. Next OF the bedroom, more
accidents occur in the living room.
AS proof that the average Amer
ican home is anything but a safe
refuge from fatal and disabling acci-
dents he quoted statistics which
interested the audience of the weekly
Public Health Forum of the univer-
sity, consisting mainly of parents
and high school students.
Many Permanently Crippled.
Polished floors, stairs, falls, burns
and a dozen other major contribu-
ting emergencies in the home ac-
counted for 81 per cent of the 1O6,-
600 fatalities from general accidents
last year. A total of 5000 persons
were permanently crippled, he said,
and 81 per cent of these accidents
occurred in the homes. Again statis-
tics disclosed that of some 9,4OO 900
persons temporarily injured, 40 per
cent were the victims of household
accidents.
DR.. Sanderson estimated that
losses in wages, medical attention
and insurance resulting from acci-
dents totaled $4,000 100000 in 1897.
To this should be added a property
loss of over 5000 900, 900, he said.
Young and Old Chief Victims.
The old and the young are the
chief victims of accidents in the
home, he warned. OF the 10000
persons killed by falls, about 10000
or "a per cent, were elderly. About
5000 children were burned to death
while playing with matches.
DR.. Sanderson particularly warned
against contaminated food and
drugs picked up at random in the
dark" About 1000 persons are killed
by these sources each year, he re-
minded. Meat, fish and potatoes
were the foods he said families
should be most careful about pre-
serving.
"Sickly, tired, nervous women
shouldn't climb chairs to hang pic
tures,' was one of score of house.
hold "don'ts" given to avoid the
danger of serious and too often
fatal accidents.
DR.. Sanderson advised about first
aid treatment in practically every
kind Of household accident and sud-
den illness, but added as an addi-
tional caution: when in doubt,
call a physician"
Evening star., 1939-02-24

would be "only too glad" to do any
thing sh ecould to further the cam
paign in the schools
I'm highly in favor of this COM
mendaole effort" she asserted.
This is one of the finest things The
Star has ever done The art cam
paign was fine, too, but believe the
music appreciation program will
have an even greater appeal.
Makes Reservations for Records.
1--WE already sent in my own reser-
walton for the recordings"
Mrs. Gates said she thought 1t
would be a splendid plan for each
parent-teacher association to obtain
the recordings of musical master
pieces and the record player to give
pupils in the various schools an op-
portunity to hear and enjoy the
symphonies.
Through the efforts of the con-
gress and of member groups, many
children in the schools were en-
| abled to study and enjoy the famous
painting reproductions distributed in
Evening star., 1939-02-24

tho cost down." he explains, adding
that the national organization Of
traffic supervisors, of which he is
member, is working toward es-
tablishment Of date after which
all cars manufactured must be
equipped with this protection.
Windshield Must Be Equipped.
The glass is effective as an elm
mater Of glare only If it is in
stalled in headlights and wind
shields Of two approaching vehicles.
When a large number of new cars
equipped properly are on the streets,
Evening star., 1939-02-24

directions an hour after you've had
them adjusted" he complains.
The traffic director sees the
recently-perfected light-polarizing
glass as the agent that eventually
will vanquish the principal hazard
attendant upon driving an automo-
bile after dark.
Its just question of getting
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Munchukuo Joins Bloc

HSINKING, Manchukuo, Feb. "a
P).-Manchukuo signed an anti
comintern protocol today, thereby
joining the anit-communist front
created by Germany, Italy and ia
pan.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
New Glass Gives HOPE
For Death Headlights
End, F., Says Van Duzer
Lower Cost and Lows
Expected to Remedy
Night Driving Hazard

Automobile headlights have re-
ceived less improvement through the
years than almost any other part
of the vehicle.
This is the statement of Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer. who
looks forward to the day when the
glare will be banished from night
driving.
Why don't the police do some
thing about cars with headlight
beams that flash into the eyes of
oncoming drivers? They do. says
Mr.. Van Duzer, and police records
Of motorists stopped for this infrac-
ton of regulations bear him out.
Bumps End Adjustment.
But sharp bump in road can
send the beams shooting in different
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Music
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IContlnued From F1rSt Page)
has unanimously and enthusiastic
cally Endorsed the program to pro-
mote greater appreciation of the
musical classics, and plans are under
wy looking toward active co-opera-
ton by the schools of Washington
and vicinity.
Joining Mrs. Fry in expressing
hearty approval, Mrs. T. David
Gates, chairman of the Music Com
mittee of the congress, declared she
Evening star., 1939-02-24

however, owners of older vehicles
may protect themselves from glare
from the lamps of these new auto
mobiles by wearing goggles fitted
with polarizing lenses.
When the cost of manufacture Is
reduced, traffic directors will begin
a concerted drive for necessary req
ulations, and, Mr.. Van Duzer prom
ises, a decline in after-dark auto
accidents will begin.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

The Stars art appreciation cam
paign.
AS fast as the reservations for the
10 complete symphonies and SYM
phonic compositions poured in today,
brochures describing the offer were
being mailed out to homes in every
section of Washington and in ad-
Evening star., 1939-02-24

OF
omor
o
Evening star., 1939-02-24

The government Of Ireland Is sup
porting horse breeding.
The Valley settler., 1939-10-13

Neat is available ct recs sonable prices for home ceAning if bought in large qnenities. If you wcnt quarter or half of beef inquire ct the Coop office at once. This is the way obtain your meat supply for next sumner or spring, tt the time when food dollars ere hard to get.
The Valley settler., 1939-10-13

PLEASE EXCUSE TIT THIN
 PIPER Due to change in boct service, slow frei ght end s few other things too irritating to mention, it has become imposs iblo to obta h the grcde or pcper regularly used in printing the Valley SettE CT. However, when you try to retd it, plecse don t s@y the same it. :. new supply of paper is ex- pocted in on the next froight-- you've heard thct one.
 Editor
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-09-15

large number of inventions, OF
which the automobile was only
one. No less than 38 are enum-
Grated in the biographical sketch
of Marcus, written by kurzel-
Runtscheiner, inventions for which
he was granted Austrian patents.
This long series of inventions
lie in the field of mechanics, cleo
tro-mechanics and electro-chemis-
try. A single one of these, if
properly exploited, could have
made Marcus a rich man, perhaps
a millionaire. For this genius of
inventions was very poor bust
ness man. He was simply re-
search worker, interested in his
research more than anything else.
When we retrace his methods of
work today we are amazed with
what scientific thoroughness and
exactitude he attacked the prob
lens that intrigued him. But as
soon as the problem was solved
and the invention achieved he was
satisfied with the production of a
few models and then Immediately
turned to the solution of new prob
lens.
His biographer claims that Mar
Gus lacked the trait Of persever-
ance. This is hardly even half
truth. In addition to the fact that
Marcus was not interested pri-
marily in making money but rath-
er in following up his lunches a
bout discoveries, he was also con-
stantly pressed for funds to pay
for his costly experiments and so
Immediately sold each invention in
order to be able to start new pro-
jects. There could be found no
patron in the Vienna of his day to
finance his research.
! It is true that Marcus never
suffered extreme privation, and
some of his inventions paid very
well. Thus, the Imperial and
Royal Academic of Sciences a.
warded him a prize of $500 Gull
den for inventing the thermos pill
lar and his invention of the tele-
graph relay was bought by the
Austrian postal administration.
But on the other hand he never
received any compensation for
solving the important problem of
dividing the electric current or for
his electric lamp.
We would need much more space
than is available within the frame
work of an evaluation of his con-
tributions to the invention of the
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A VienneSe Jew Invented

automobile to enter into a de-
tailed description of the whole life
work of this ingenious man. On
that a whole book could be writ
ten. And so we limit ourselves to
adducing the proof that it was
Marcus who gave the world its
first gasoline-driven automobile.
The first attempt to build a
sclf-moving or automotive street
vehicle used Illuminating gas as
fuel. That was a wrong method
we know today and it was not ev-
en- an original one. In the year
1860 Jean Lenoir constructed a
Continued on Following Page
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BY OSKAR WEISZ

EDITORS NOTE: 1t was
VieneSe Jew, Seigfried Mar
Gus, who was the first to in
vent a gasOline-pOWered auto
mobile. In the following ar
ticle, Mr.. WeiSZ, former vi
ennese journalist, relates the
interesting and little-knOWn
story Of one Of the greatest
inventions of modern ciViliZa-
ton.
The Age of the Automobile has
arrived in Germany. At the will
of the Fuehrer auto-driving has
become a national duty. Each
time a new segment of the social
ed "Reichsautabahn" (motor high
way) is completed, it is the &C.
casion for the most elaborate fes-
Invites, designed to show the
world the splendid achievements
of the Third Reich.
The fate of the automobile as
we'll as the motor highways has
of course become the same as that
of all other fruits of civilization
in Germany: they are to serve the
War Department. And indeed the
automobile can plan an important
if not decisive role under some
exigencies of war. With the aid
of it large troop movements can
be made with the utmost speed
and concentrated into strategic
positions; munitions and other
war materials can be quickly
transported, and the period be-
tween mobilization and the actual
opening of hostilities can be ma
terially reduced. That in itself is
reason enough to insure almost
divine alteration among the Ger
mans.
In view of the tendency among
National Socialists to return at
every point to the past, of their
inclination to ancestor and hero
worship; in short, of their readi-
ness to claim credit for any and
every achievement one wonders
at first their apparent failure to
honor the real inventor of the au-
tomobile.
Of course. the case of the auto
mobile is so different from that
of any other great chronological
advance: there are always CROP
ing attempts in the beginning,
important individual phases of the
general problem solved singly by
fore-runners, but only one sue
ceeds in accomplishing the task
in its entirety-an accomplish
ment that endows him with i'm
mortality, at least in our machine
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The Automobile

age. Thus, the credit goes to
James Watt for building the first
steam engine, to Stephenson for
the first locomotive and to Fulton
for the first steamship. And in
the ranks of the pioneers of tech
nology belongs also the Jew Sieg-
fried Marcus who gave the world
the first gasoline-driven automo-
bile.
Thus, neither Benz nor Daimler,
as many believe, and Of course
not the American, George B. Sell
den of Syracuse (America has
enough inventions to its credit SO
as not to need to make unjustified
claims here too)-none of these
has the distinction of being the
FIRST inventor That belongs to
the Viennese Jew, Siegfried Mar
Gus.
Naturally this is a very I'M
pleasant fact for the NaZis and
is treated by them like so many
other inconvenient but incontro-
! vertable facts with complete 81
lence. Such a fact doesn't fit in
with their race-theory that the
Jew is only parasite and never
a creator, that he is only there to
profit from the inventions of 9TH
ers.
The life of the inventor Marcus
is the typical fate of an inventor
who brings the greatest personal
sacrifices in the service of science
and humanity without any thought
&C profiting himself by the inven-
ton, nay, not even being rewarded
to the full extent of his depriva-
tions for the sake of those inven-
tionS.
In the year 1852 there arrived
in Vienna highly talented young
man who obtained a job with the
mechanic of the imperial court,
Kraft. The young man was Sieg-
fried Marcus. He was born Sep
TENDER IS, 1881, in the town of
Malchin in the Duchy of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin to Jewish parents.
He had enjoyed a good education
and had some accomplishments
behind him. In Malchin and in
Hamburg he learned the trade of
mechanic, and in Berlin he worked
with the firm of Sienens when
the latter laid the telegraph-cable
between Berlin and Magdeburg.
While in that position he improved
the functioning of the cable by a
relay Of his owr invention.
In Vienna, Marcus soon made
a reputation. He became mechanic
of the Institute of Physics at the
Imperial and Royal Academy of
Medicine (Josephinum) and then
he was appointed assistant in the
chemical laboratory to the pro-
fessor of physiology, Karl Ludwig.
In the year 1856 he patented for
the first time an invention of his,
a device for drawing in the re-
verse (like mirror-Writing and
called it "Antigraph." Several
years later he made himself indie
pendent by establishing his own
mechanical workshop. He became
a master" mechanic and remain
ed that all his life. We can be
sure that in a later era and on
another continent his life would
nave taken quite a different
course. America would have had
not one but two Edisons. Indeed,
the biographies of the two men
show a remarkable parallelism.
There was sanctuary in the
shop of Marcus, closed to every
one, even his helpers. That was
his private laboratory. This labo-
ratory was the birthplace Of a
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
3 Christmas Islands,
Harbor, Cove, Sound,
Are Found in Atlas

Not one, but three Christmas is
lands will celebrate the Yuletide this
year, all of them under the British
flag. The first is located in mid
Pacific and is really a submerged
mountain $4,000 feet high with only
its top above water. The second,
in the Indian ocean, is forest-cov-
cred and had a population of 40
when the last census was taken in
1898. The last Christmas islands is
near Cape Breton in the maritime
provinces of Canada.
France has a Christmas harbor on
Desolation or Kerguelen island
about 1000 miles southwest of Aus
tralia. The United States has a
Christmas cove near Boothbay har-
Dor, Maine, which is a summer re-
sort.
There is also a Christmas sound
near the southern tip of South Amer
lea about 100 miles northwest of
Cape Horn and located in an island
belonging to Chile.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
Don't Marry the Girl
Ddy After Christmas

II you believe the early monks,
don't select the day after Christ
mas to get married, start a new
job or put on that new suit. It's
Childermass day, commemorate
ing the slaughter of the Holy In
nocents by Herod, and in the ear
ly days was considered an occa-
sion of the greatest ill-omen.
Children, according to legend,
were soundly whipped Childer-
mass day to impress on their
minds the story of the baby mar
tyrs.
So intense was the fear of this
unfortunate festival that the coro-
nation of England's King Edward
Nv was postponed in order to
avoid the fatal date.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21

Safety Is WatchtUord
For a Merry Christmas

Here are a few "don'ts'' for
Christmas, recommended by safety
authorities:
l. Don't give small children toys
involving alcohol, kerosene or gaso-
line engines. They may tip over and
set the house on fire.
2. Don't permit small children to
run electrical toys without the su-
pervision of an adult.
3. Don't permit small children to
use toy movie projectors without US
ing safety film which burns slowly.
Ordinary film burns explosively and
gives off smoke and fumes which
may cause death if inhaled.
4. Don't use candles or light ex-
ira fires without being extremely
careful, especially in regard to can
dies on trees.
5. Don't wear infiammable cos
tunes, especially Santa Claus
boards, without fireproofng them.
6. Don't use infammable orna-
ments and evergreen decorations.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21

early
election among $1,000 workers al
the Endicott-Johnson shoe factories
in Binghamton, N. Y, to settle rival
claims of the Boot and Shoe Work
ers Union (AFL) and the United
Shoe Workers (CIO), has been or
dered by the NLRB.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21

and child-welfare programs, and in
those for public health and voca-
tional rehabilitation?
A. More federal money is appro-
priated for grants to the states to
enable them to strengthen and ex-
tend these programs. These in
creases are: $4,000 900 for maternal
and child-health services; $1,020,0 900
for services to crippled children;
81, 562 900 for vocational rehabilita-
ton; and $4,000, 900 for public-health
services.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21

Pat was arrested for being intoxi-
Gated. On being brought before the
Judge he was asked by the Court
what he was there for.
Pat; your Honor, l was arrested
for being intoxicated"
Judge: pat, where did you buy
the liquor?"
Pat; your Honor, I did not buy
it. A Scotchman gave it to me"
Judge: Thirty days for perjury"
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
HOLY LAND:

Where it all began nearly 20 CEN
turtles ago, worshipers reverently
hail each Christmas at the church
of Nativity which is built ove
Christ's traditional birthplace. 1t has
remained unchanged more than
$500 years. There pilgrims gather
from all over the world to intone
"Glory to the Newborn King"
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
Your Social Security

Editors note: This is the eighth
and last in a series of questions and
answers on the new amendments to
the Federal Social Security Act
which vitality affect thousands of
Montana persons. They were pre-
pared by Manager Stewart ]. Thorn
as of the Social Security Boards
Butte field office, which serves this
part of the state.)
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
SKEPTICAL

MY wife kisses me every time
come home. That's affection"
you're wrong. That's investiga.
ton.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21

A British writer says the Ameri-
cans use poor English. Some of the
Scotch they use is none too good
either.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
HUNGARY:

st. Nicholas leaves boxes Of candy
for children early in December, aft
er which the youngsters must be on
their good behavior. They write let
tiers to the angels, who, they be-
lieve, bring the presents. If they
find bits of tinsel on the floor, they
claim this is angels hair and proof
that the angels are everywhere, OBJ
serving which boys and girls are
good.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
BELGIUM:

Neither Santa Claus nor Pere Noel
visit children here-but st. Nicholas
makes the rounds, surprisingly, on
December 81 A quaint Belgian Gus
tom is the putting up the chimney
of a few carrots for the little donkey
on which St. Nicholas makes his
visits
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
POLAND:

This Christmas celebration lasts
until February 2 and is preceded
by fasting which is not broken until
the first star apears on Christmas
eve. In all homes the tablecloth is
placed over a layer of fragrant hay
in commemoration Of the manger.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
Russia;

This anti-C Christian nation forbids
celebration Of the Yuletide but no
longer compels foreign residents to
import their own Christmas trees.
Making an about-face, the Soviet
government uses this emblem of
childhood for its New Years cele-
brations when Dada Moroz, or IN
Gle Frost, appears with gifts for
good children.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
PUBLIC HEALTH AND
CHILD

@. What changes do the amend
ments make in the three maternal
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
How Other
Lands Mark
Christmas

A melting pot Of the World. America
has created its Christmas traditions from
countless customs brought across the seas
from foreign lands. In these f%ar-aiOay
places the Yuletide symbols OF bygone
ages sill endure. Here are q fetU of them:
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
FRANCE.

Exchange of gifts comes not on
Christmas but mostly on New Years
day, which in France is the big
family day for reunions of cousins,
aunts and uncles. Santa Claus is
"Pere Noel" who leaves his gifts
in wooden shoes. Christmas eve is
not spent at home but in revelry
and feasting.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
ENGLAND:

Christmas to rural Englishmen
means not only the observance OF
Christ's birth, but also a parting Of
the ways between the old year and
the new. Preparations are started
for the next years farm work, which
begins right after Christmas.
Throughout the island such trap
pings as the holly and mistletoe re-
main undying traditions, nor is any
Christmas complete without the
Yule log burning. On clear frosty
nights the carol singers raise their
voices over the countryside. To
many Englishmen's despair, such
American customs as the turkey din
ner are gaining a foothold.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21

begins the ''cenone," or big supper,
at which no meat may be served.
Gifts for children, which come on
Epiphany, are brought not by Santa
Claus but by an ugly witch whose
name is "Befana."
Montana labor news., 1939-12-21
GERMANY:

Two years ago storm troopers in
Berlin lit bonfres in the public
squares as a revival of the pagan
custom of celebrating the winter
solstice. But this distraction will
not stop the Christmas-loving Ger
mans from decorating their trees in
every town and village, and joining
in the famed Christmas hymn,
"Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht."
ITALY:
Most Italian families celebrate
Christmas eve and spend the follow
ing day quietly in their homes. Here
it is a feast more for grown-ups
than for children, whose merry
making day comes IL days later, on
January @. On Christmas eve fami-
lies gather around the "ceppo'' or
Christmas log blazes. At nine p. m.