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Evening star., 1939-10-29
SULFANuAA6mE- - MIRACLE OR MENACE?
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agents did an extremely efficient job
in tracking down all but eight ounces
of that eighty gallons of elixir of
sulfanilamide." in order to prevent
more deaths. In one instance an agent
found out from Negro woman exactly
where she threw bottle of the prepa-
ration after she had heard it was
dangerous. When he went out he found
the bottle unbroken, temptation for
some child to pick it up and drink the
contents. In another case an agent
tralled travelling salesman across two
counties to warn him against using the
drug and to recover it from him.
l realize that some people may
think am trying to frighten them
into doctors Offices. If fear will accom-
phsh it, and the ensuing reaction will
end the deaths and physical damage
from the careless use of sulfanilamide,
am glad to help.
Yet no one need be fearful when sui
fanilamide is prescribed by reputable
doctor and administered under careful
laboratory and clinical controls. Fatal
tiles are practically nil when the drug
is used under those conditions. Even
the discomforts are relatively few
when the doctor is able to adjust the
dose meticulously to the physical con-
dition of each patient, the type of
infection from which he suffers and
the stage to which the infection has
progressed. Because we don't turn
over the controls of high-powered
airplane to child is no reason for
barring its use to the experienced pilot.
Sulfanilamide is among the greatest
of blessings when used by those who
know intimately both its power and
its inherent dangers.
am convinced that to prevent the
continued indiscriminate and unethical
sale of sulfanilamide we need addi-
tional legislation that will pierce state
boundaries and bring the most easy
going druggist into line. The sale of
sulfanilamide should be regulated as
is the sale of other powerful or danger
Gus drugs. Pending the time when
such legislation can be enacted, we
need action now in individual COM
munities. As in the case of syphilis
Evening star., 1939-10-29

pearance by allowing the nails to grow
quite long, filing them to slender tips,
and skipping the sides of the nails
when you apply polish.
The color of your nail polish should
be in harmony with the color of your
lipstick and your costume. Not all
nails can stand as sharp color as you
use on your lips, but pick a softer
shade in the same blue-red or yellow
red group from which you select your
lipstick.
AS for the care of the hands, they
need constant fabrication. Make it a
point to use hand lotion after each
washing. Massaging cream we'll into
the skin, and encasing your hands in
pair of overnight gloves is beauty
treatment which has not been sur
passed. Put cream on your hands, and
then don rubber gloves for household
work.
Use the same brand soap on your
hands that you use for your face.
Harsh soaps not only roughen the
skin, but they will make nails brittle
and weak.
Give your hands some independent
exercise to keep them Timber and
flexible. Stiff hands are rarely beau
tlful. Try the limbering exercise Ruth
Hawk uses before she sits for photo
graphic pose. Press the palms of your
hands down hard against table, and
move your wrists up and down, fore
ing all your weight against the arched
palms.
Two other simple hand exercises are
to play five-fingered exercises on an
imaginary keyboard, and to make fists,
first straining your fingers wide apart
and then digging them slowly into the
palms.
Evening star., 1939-10-29

BEAUTIFUL HANDS MUST Look CAPABLE
sunroau., bV SYLVIA Rlvfha

Jour hands are your contact with
the world - make them beau
= tiful. Their beauty depends on
their grooming, grace of movement
and capabilities, rather than size,
shape. color or marble smoothness.
The worlds most beautiful hands 80
called by leading artists and photog-
raphers - take a size 6N glove, are
richly tanned, and have strength as
we'll as grace.
These hands belong to Ruth Hawk,
winner of hand beauty-contest held
in New York few months ago, and
now famous as photographer model.
When l talked to her, she made two
surprising revelations. First, she mani
cures her own nails. Second, she is
handicapped by weak. brittle nails,
and has to take specifics, prescribed by
her doctor. to supply a calcium def
cheney.
The care Ruth Hawk advises will
reward you. Push back the cuticle and
wipe off the surplus skin with towel
each time you dry your hands. Mas
sage cream around the base of the
nails every night to discourage horny
rims. File your nails in one direction
only. Use an emery board. if they are
thin and rubbery; a flexible file. if they
are hard and tough. Keep your nails
square at the sides, and file them into
almond tips from that point. This
helps prevent callouses and hangnails.
The extra support at the sides of the
nail also prevents snags and broken
tips.
If you have ridges on top of your
nails, buff them down with the white
side of your emery board. as Ruth
does, and smooth down the roughness
with one coat of wax and two of
enamel polish. This triple application
will not only give you flattering, raised
ovals. but will fortify the nail tips
against breakage. For extra reinforce
ment, apply the wax base underneath
the nail tip. also.
But even a broken nail is not ire
parable. as one acquaintance of mine
has proven to me- She CLUES back the
broken tip with china cement, first
removing the polish from the nail, and
applying the transparent cement under
Evening star., 1939-10-29

control or any other major public
health problem. legislation actually is
secondary in importance to informa-
ton. Legislation must, however, be
relied upon to confirm and enforce the
latter for the seemingly irreducible
group of persons persistently juvenile
in mentality who. no matter what
their age or position. refuse to believe
what they are told about themselves or
are careless of what happens to others.
If community leaders - business
men. club women, civic groups, public
officials - will realize that an impor-
tant part of their "safety-frst" pro-
gram is making known the fact that
the widely-publicized sulfanilamide
can be death-dealing as we'll as life
saving. people will not take it promis-
cuously themselves or recommend it
to others without warning. am sure
that the great majority of druggists
will cooperate if the things that hap
pen when the drug gets into the wrong
hands are brought emphatically to
their attention by doctors and health
officers on the one hand. and the drug
manufacturers and distributors on the
other. In fact, the months that must
elapse before any national legislation
can be enacted offer an excellent op-
portunity for the drug industry as a
whole to show what can be done in the
way of voluntary regulation. For GER
tainly death or physical damage that
results from sale of the drug without
physicians prescription is the moral
responsibility of the man who sells it.
regardless of involved legal TECHNICAL
ties.
If this voluntary regulation of the
sale of sulfanilamide is well-executed
by the drug industry itself and we'll
policed by the good citizens of each
community, feel confident that the
safe use of the drug will increase largely
and that there will be sharp drop in
death rates from the many infections
that it can control. In that event the
needed legislation, state and national,
will serve merely as convenient traf-
fic light to regulate the wholesome flow
of cooperation between good business
and good public health.
lO-2>-2S
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Toke Care Of Your Eve,

" YOU foks right core Of your eyes
YOU con help TO avoid wrinkles, wsovi.
ness ond loss Of sporkIs. To get ov,
isoflst Of odvies. send q tkres.eent
stomp (to cover the cost Of moiIina)
with request TO SyIv;o Blythe,
Service Department, This Week Moa.
ozins. in core Of this newspaper.
Evening star., 1939-10-29

IS only about one per cent soluble in
either water or alcohol, so chemists
have been attempting to find more
active solvents for it. This particular
Evening star., 1939-10-29

manufacturer tried diethylene glycol.
poisonous chemical used in number
of antifreeze radiator fluids.
Mr.. Cam pbell's food and drug
Evening star., 1939-10-29

and over the crack. She leaves it over
night to dry. keeps it free of moisture
or cream, and the next morning files
down any surplus glue. and reapplies
polish.
The repair job lasts until the nail
grows out, and is not detectable.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
How to Make a Splendid
Cough Remedy at Home

real saving for you, because it gives
you about four times AZ much for your
money. 1t lasts 4 long time, never
spoils, and children love it.
This is actually a surprisingly effec-
tive, quick-acting cough RENE y.
Promptly, you feel it taking hold. 1t
loosens the phlegm, soothes the irri-
tated membranes and makes breathing
easy. You've never seen anything bet
ter for prompt and pleasing results.
Pinex is compound containing Nor
way Pine and palatable guaiacol, in
concentrated form, a most reliable
soothing agent for throat and bron-
chial membranes. Money refunded if
it doesn't please you in every way.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

very nice either. It was Just q cave
with fireplace. They used rocks
for chairs, and pine needles for beds.
And in the center was q great pile
Of cleaning gold they were keeping
for goodness knows what reason.
They stood Leezen near the fire.
place and had dinner, and then they
sat quarreling for silly reason.
One troll said, I'VE must find this
princess father and then we will
ask him for hundred pounds"
mo, we'll ask for 200 pounds" said
the second troll.
mo, three" said the third.
Three hundred pounds!" snorted
the first disdainfuJly. You're not
strong enough to carry 800 pounds. j"
OF course, none Of them were strong
enough, but the troll to which this
had been said looked very fierce and
said, II can carry an oak tree in
one hand, and a pine in the other" "
"Pooh," said the second. II can
carry a horse on one shoulder and
the carriage on the other"
"Ho!" said the third. II can carry
a team Of oxen and dance at the
same time"
"You can't"
Il can"
And with that the three trolls were
all so angry with each other that
they began to fight. and they got so
mixed up that they rolled around the
floor.
Just then the moon touched the
top of the sky and it was midnight.
Leezen's eyes fluttered open. She
was so frightened by what she saw
that she wanted to run. But the
trolls fought at her feet. So she
closed her eyes and stood very still
so the trolls wouldn't know she could
Evening star., 1939-12-14
X-Three Trolls,

There was not a friendly fairy or
bird or fox in all that big forest to
help Leezen, the doll. where she
stood. And she, poor doll, couldn't
help herself because she could
neither talk nor move until the mid
night hour struck again.
She stood quite alone until just
before dusk when there wert shouts
and rumbling through the trees. If
only Leezen could have heard them
she might have hidden. But she
stood silent, and there she was found
by three very old trolls who were 60
ing home. They had been out all
day looking for pieces of gold. They
had looked for gold so long that they
walked hunched over, and their big
hands hung down to their knees.
"Sh, look" whispered one troll as
he spied Leezen. "A Princess. Well
take her home and make the King
give us gold for her return"
"Oh, gold, gold" mumbled the
other two.
They crept up to the doll on their
hands and knees. Their little squint
eyes never left her face. Then one
Strengthened up and said, very as
tonished, why she's asleep or
blind"
Are you blind?" shouted another.
Leezen neither moved nor answered.
So the trolls lost their fear of her
and scampered up. One felt her
pretty dress between his honey
fingers. Another ran his finger over
her pretty blue slippers. The third
stood sti1l and grinned.
Not Very Nice.
Come" said the first, "let's tie our
coats together and carry her home"
So they knotted their coats together,
swung the corners up on their
shoulders and put Leezen into the
crude hammock Then TREY ttHmpEd.
home singing, ?
Oh, we frighten babies In
their cribs,
We poke the Rector in his !.
ribs,
We encourage people to
tell flbs,
Oh, the life of q troll is =
merry one.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
+. {. {. Studies Change
In Broadcast Method

Use Of frequency modulation in
radio, broadcasts in place of the
amplitude meditation now used in
standard broadcast stations is be-
ing studied by the Federal Commu-
nications Commission. In view of
the fact that its adoption will COM
pletely change the present radio
broadcast transmitting systems, 1t
Is expected that the commission
will consider the matter at some
length before acting.
Adoption of this plan for use by
broadcast stations, it was said, re-
quires complete change of trans
mitters and would make all stand
ard-wave receiving sets obsolete.
This would mean a heavy expense
on the listening public. 1t was in
dicated at the commissions Offices
that if the plan is approved for
licensing purposes that the changes
would have to be gradual.
The matter was laid before the
commission in a report by its chief
engineer, 1t. E. K. Jett, which went
Evening star., 1939-12-14

With the magic eyes thot she moves
from side TO side os we'll as opening
and closing them. She cries noturoIIy
when her little mother puts her TO
sleep. She comes completely dressed
with O crisp cotton oreondy dress
ond accessories.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Virqiniuns Are Warned
Holly Is Protected
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 1.-THE
Virginia Conservation Commission
called attention yesterday to a State
law prohibiting the cutting and
otherwise removing of holly, mistle-
toe and other Christmas evergreens
from properties without the con-
sent Of the land owners.
F. c. Peterson, State forester OF
the commission, said that in order
to assist Virginia land owners, the
Virginia forest service has had
printed limited supply Of posters
designed to warn trespassers against
the unauthorized cutting and COL
lection Of evergreens. The posters
may be obtained by communicating
with the State forester, post ONCE
box 1868, University Station, Char
lottesville, Va.
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not register static, 1t was said. The
transmitting apparatus, it was said,
is cheaper to construct, as we'll as
cheaper to operate, and occupies
considerably less space than the
present apparatus used in broad
casting.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

into detailed description Of the two
systems. Technical .radiomen ia
miliar with the proposed system,
which uses ultra-high frequencies
In the radio spectrum, say that it
may eliminate static. Receivers in
the center of electrical storms do
Evening star., 1939-12-14

The story so far: Leesen, d
doll that 1UaS made by the fairies
for the King OF Westphalia, has
run aWay from the castle In
search OF Eric, the son of Light
ming, who plays a magic flute.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
A Big Saving, and It's So
EaSy! No Cooking!

Cough medicines usual
" contain 4 large guam
tity Of sugar syrup-a
good ingredient, but one
which you can easily
make at home. Take 2
cups Of Granulated sugar
and l cup Of water, and
stir 4 few moments until
Evening star., 1939-12-14

dissolved. No cooking. No trouble at all.
Then get from your druggist 21a
ounces Of Pinex, pour it into a pint
bottle, and add your syrup. This gives
you full pint of truly wonderful med
icine for coughs due to colds. 1t makes
Evening star., 1939-12-14

talk after midnight. She wondered
II she could stand that way all the
long hours until dawn.
Tomorrow: Eric goes to seek
Leezen.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

You can see these little men were
not very nice. Their home wasn't
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle.
Duuqhters of America

The Confederate Veterans re-
quested the Daughters of America
join with them in massing of the
colors at Arlington Amphitheatel
the afternoon of June 4.
Triumph Council is sponsoring q
card party at Southern Diaries aft
ernoon of May 4.
The State Council of Virginia in
vited the District Daughters to at
tend their State session May 1915
John Marshall Hotel, Richmond, Va
Golden Rule Council conferred
the degrees April %. The council
elected the following to member
ship: Mrs. Vera Beatrice Lowry
Mrs. Hilda Inez Jackson and Mrs
Bertha Kissinger, card member
One application received and read
of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Renitzel. The
councillor, Miss Veronica Harris, pre-
sided. Mrs. Bernadine Christman
was installed as outside sentinel
by the deputy state councillor, Ella
Stone.
The Past Councillors Association
of Anacostia Council held its an
nual banquet on Monday evening at
the Grafton Hotel. Guests were
Mrs. Helen Chandler of New York
and Mrs. Mae Etchison. Chaplain
Edna CLANCY read q story, followed
by a solo by Mrs. Plumb, accom-
panied by Mrs. Mildred Montgom-
cry. The following officers were
elected: President, Mrs. Mary
Plumb; vice president, Mrs. Ethel
Keene; recording secretary, Mrs.
Pearl Torney; treasurer, Mrs. Alice
Fowler; Trustees, Mrs. Grace Greer
Mrs. Helen Stiever and Mrs. Mae
Gibbons, and chaplain, Mrs. Mildred
Montgomery.
Past State Councillors Mrs. s.
Belle Gibson and Mrs. Grace Rick
etts, and Drillmaster Ira Gibson OF
Martha Dandridge Council and
Mrs. Verna Dixon of Triumph
Council, were guests at a recent
meeting of Anacostia Council, which
was presided over by Mrs. Mae
Gibbons.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Rebekoh Lodges

The president of the Rebekah
Assembly, Mrs. Olive Woodworth
and staff, accompanied by the grand
master of the Grand Lodge, Hiram
E. johnson and staff, paid an
official visit to Mount Pleasant Re-
bekah Lodge on Thursday evening.
The officers, under the direction of
Miss Virginia league, instructress,
presented candle light demonstra-
ton. Gifts were presented Mrs.
Woodwork, Mr.. johnson and Miss
league, who is also musician of
the Rebekah Assembly. Vocal solos
were rendered by Mrs Vesta Lynn,
piano solos by Albert Fuller and
readings by Mrs. Faustina Borough.
An official visit will be paid CO.
lumbia Theta Rho Girls Club on
Saturday evening.
Schools of instruction will be held
on Monday evening at Naomi Re-
bekah Lodge and on May 9 at
Brightwood Rebekah Lodge under
the instruction of Mrs. Marian Gel
man.
The officers Of BrightWood Re-
bekah Lodge entertained the men,
bers at the close of the meeting
on Tuesday evening. The Rebekah
Assembly officers were guests.
The B. G. Club will hold their
annual birthday banquet on We'd
nesday at the Blue Willow Inn.
Reservations may be made with Mrs.
Julia Turnbull. At the election at
the last meeting the following Off
GERS were reelected: President, Mrs.
Bessie Towson; secretary, Mrs. Elsie
Wilson; treasurer, Miss Marguerite
Ison. Mrs. Turnbull was elected vice
president.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Y. W. G. A. News

Today will conclude the Girl
Reserve annual spring week end
at Vacation Lodge, near Cherry
dale, Va.
Tea will be served from to S,
with the Chevy Chase Chapter as
the hostess.
The music hour will be presented
from to by the Papas mandolin,
guitar and banjo orchestra. under
the direction of Sophocles Papas.
The Girl Reserve Glee Club will
rehearse on Monday at 4. and the
Elizabeth Somers Glee Club at tbs.
The business and professional wom-
ems department Executive Commit
tee is scheduled to meet on Mon
day at 7:30.
The young married women's
group, now in the first stages Of
organization under the Y. w. c. A.
membership department, is meeting
on Wednesday at 10:30 for badmin-
ton, followed at 11:30 with ping
pong bridge, swimming, etc. At l
the group will meet for lunch and
to hear Mrs. H. Lyle Campbell speak
on What Is Social Usage and Per-
sonality Development" Reserva-
tions for lunch must be in the
membership Office by May /. A
young woman will be available to
take care of the children.
Mark Lansburgh will show pic
lures of the Charleston. S. c., gar
dens to the Wednesday Club. GA
E street NV, at Ais Mrs. L. A.
Schaaff will talk on her visit to
the gardens.
The Xenos Club will meet on
Wednesday at 7 in discussion
group, and Miss Louise Banforth
will discuss THE Inside Workings
of the Y" Following this will be
the annual business meeting for the
election of officers at 8.
On Thursday the Blue Triangle
Club will meet for supper at 6, fol-
lowed with bowling at Z; business
meeting and election of officers at 8.
Xenos Club is having its house
party at Vacation Lodge the week
end of May 6 and Z. Twenty girls
from Annapolis are expected as
guests. Miss Gill Piguette is in
charge.
The industrial and educational
departments are planning a week.
end trip over the Skyline Drive May
6 and 7. Reservations may be made
at either departmental office.
The Senior Council of the Girl
Reserves is meeting on Saturday
at 2 o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Knights of Pythios

"A knights OF PythlaS civic organl-
zation will be formed at a meeting
Of representatives of the various
District lodges at the Pythian Tenn
pie next Wednesday night. Initial
meeting of the civic organization
was held on April 81, when election
of officers was held. The officers in
clude Edward j. Newcomb, supreme
representative, appointed as chair
man by the Grand Lodge; Hamilton
M. Vandervort, Mount Vernon
Lodge, vice chairman, and James S
Eiseman, Webster Lodge, secretary
Designed to take an active interest
in all civic activities of a general
nature, the civic organization was
the outgrowth of action taken dur
ing annual sessions of the Grand
Lodge In February, and was based
on proposals offered by Fred H
Jones. past supreme chancellor.
A membership drive is being con-
Quoted by Washington Company
Uniform Rank.
With Columbia Lodge leading, the
Knights of Pythias Bowling League
will wind up the season Tuesday
night. The banquet will be held at
Lee Tavern May 16.
Arrangements are being completed
to have group from the various
lodges to accompany a class of candi-
dates to Baltimore on May 81, when
the rank of Page will be conferred
A moonlight excursion will be held
June /.
The rank of Knight was conferred
by Syracusians Lodge on Thursday
night. Conferring of the knight
rank also marked the meeting of
Franklin Lodge on Wednesday.
Rounding out half century of
membership, Edward j. Newcomb,
supreme representative, was present i.
ed with 50-year jewel by SYRIA
cusians Lodge.
"The Committee Meeting" a COM
edy. was presented by an all-male
cast at Rathbone Temple Friday
night. The presentation was direct
ed by H. Stanley Stine. The cast
included Frank Marks, Clarence
Underwood, Edward ]. Newcomb.
Arthur Newcomb, William Baum.
George Baum, Lee Whitworth and
Arthur G. Smith.
The third Of the annual grand
visitations was held at Hermione
Lodge on Thursday night.