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n the baE used TO confuse the
women. But they were not
caught of guard. With the
elesr-hesded leadership Of Mrs.
Ellis. and fortified with the legal
advice Of the late Judge Ellis,
they went steadily on.
one Of the hard fights was
made against the provision in
the ordnance which prohibited
the use Of certain preservatives
used in raw food The meat
preservstive. known 10 the trade
as Freeze EN- contained in
gradients which physicians
agreed were injurious TO health.
particularly is children. Il had
the quality Of destroying odors
and preserving the color Of meat
but did not stop bacterial acton.
Many cases of ptomaine poison
ing were traced 10 meat thus
treated. Because the evidence
Of its harmful effect was SO con-
elusive, opponents Of the meas
ure reluctantly conceded that
point.
Another feature against
which opponents of the meas
IRE centered their attacks WAS
the provision requiring that
bakery bread he wrapped. II
was pointed out that bread,
though most subjected TO I'M
cleanliness. cannot he cleaned
nor sterilized. The horse
drawn bakery wagons of that
day were not a. carefully con-
structed r. are the sanitary
trucks of today. The driver,
after hitching his team to
make a delivery at a retail
store. with ungloved hands
stacked the bread against his
not too clean clothing. like an
srmful of wood, and dumped
IL into n case that offered
little protection.
The grocery clerk. after fill
ing a kerosene can or digging
an order of potatoes out of the
hin, picked >up a loaf Of bread
in his dirty hands 10 serve a
customer.
There were two principal
points Of resistance against the
bread wrapping provision. One
was that bread wrapped warm
would absorb paraffin from the
paper; the other was that the
cost Of wrapping apparatus
would put the small bakers out
of business. Both assertions
were disproved by experiments
conducted by women who baked
their own bread.
Forty members of the group
baked. wrapped and watched
the results. They wrapped
the bread hot as il came from
the oven; they wrapped IL
cold. They carried on the ex-
pertinent for nearly two weeks
and proved that wrapping. hot
or cold, had no effect on the
bread whatever. They knocked
out the bugaboo of excessive
cost of wrapping by perfecting
workable device at an ex-
pense of about a dollar.
ITO Be Continued Monday
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ASHAMED OF STATE

Editor The Times: Now that
election is over, let US take stock
of what has been accomplished
Personally, I am ashamed for
the state.
l belong to the old pioneers.
We came here long befoke Wash
ington became a state. I have
seen my father and mother
wear moccasins because they did
not have the means to get
leather. Father went TO market
twice a year, spring and fall,
and would bring back so cents
worth of sugar to last family
of eight six months. and other
groceries accordingly. Our cof-
fee was made of parched wheat,
and we lived on what we pro-
duced.
l have always been proud to
tell people in other states that
I belonged in Washington. but
now l feel like rooster looks
that has Just come in out of a
heavy rain, the inclination to
crow has vanished.
The reason is Initiative al.
cannot believe that the major
ity of the voters realized what
they were voting for. If they
did. God help the state Of Wash
ington, they won't. They have
voted to pension thousands of
aliens that have never thought
enough of this country to be-
come American citizens. not TO
mention the thousands Of Jap
anese that cannot become citi-
Zens. II they could. they would
no doubt be an improvement on
some we have. Our neighboring
states have thousands Of aliens
who would be fools not TO move
here.
We have E fertile field for
foreign radicals When they are
old enough. We Will give them a
monthly allowance that would
gladden. the hearts Of our tax
paying farmers. II they get sick
We will pay their hospital bills.
II their teeth are poor We will
provide new ones. II they lose
leg We Will get them a cork
one. and when they die. we will
be there to foot the bill.
We seem 10 have an sbund-
snee Of citizens that would sac
rifice the taxpayers for a little
personal gain. but we are short
on patriotic Americans.
The state Of Washington
should hang the flag at half
mast The pioneer spirit is dead.
y. L. GOODWIN.
641s So. Alder.
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He DIDN'T See Nothing
Out OF the Way"
But the Women Oid-And
They Opened Other Eyes
Forty Housewives Conduct
Bread Wrapping Trial
ONE Of the first obstacles
" which the Taeoms club
women had 10 overcome in their
campaign for pure food law
vas the attitude Of the city
council Women couldn't vote.
they knew nothing about NUM-
oipal affairs why didn't they
mind their own business ?
womsn's place was in the home.
etc. etc.
The situation in the council
was made more difficult be-
cause q couple of the members
were grocers. They resented
the implication that there Was
anything wrong with their
methods. They particularly
resented anything that might
Increase their costs. and there
were provisions in the pro-
posed ordinance that would do
just that. Arguing against
the measure one of the coun-
eilmen said he had visited
number Of grocery stores and
meat markets and didn't see
nothing out of the way"
Fortunately for their cause
the women entered the cam
paign with an ordinance that
WAS proof against attack on
technical and legal grounds. It
had been prepared after study
of state and federal regulations
and similar measures in effect in
other cities From the begin
ming it had the support of state
and federal health authorities.
The Tacoma health department
became an ally and most of the
Tacoma physicians backed the
campaign.
After several months the
ordinance finally was introduced
and referred to a committee.
Then there began a period Of
1ockeying back and forth In
terests which would be adverse
ly affected by the law used their
influence with members Of the
council. Amendments were in
troduced which would have null
lifted its real purpose. Jokers
were tackled on and every trick
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PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
NO MYSTERY TO
AIRPORT OPPOSITION

Editor, The Times: There ap-
peared in the columns Of your
paper an article with following
caption, Opposition to Airport
Is Mystery" The date of pub
LEGATION was November Is. The
author of the statements con-
tanned in the article was re-
ported TO be the acting chairman
of an airport committee, 1t. Col.
Paul w. Warren.
Among other statements at
tributed to the chairman of the
mayors committee, there ap-
peared the following: His inves-
tigation indicated little genuine
opposition from persons owning
property in the vicinity. APP
parently the committee chair
man has a short memory. II
should be recalled that earlier
this year an attempt was vigor-
ously pursued to persuade the
city council to place a proposal
for an airport levy on the spring
ballot. Many people can recall
that there was considera BILE op-
position to the so-called Sixth
Avenue airport at that time.
The writer is the owner of a
fine tract of view property ad-
joining the proposed Sixth ave-
nue. site and is most genuinely
opposed to the location of an
airport in the last large desir-
able residential area remaining
undeveloped in the west end. II
anyone is in doubt as to the
possibilities of this section for
homes. let him drive through the
section lying west Of Alexander
jackson road and south of Nine
teenth street. New homes are
springing up all over the area
in spite Of the adverse influence
OF this airport threat. 1t is the
intention Of the writer to build
on his property but finds this
proposed project a stumbling
block in ecuring adequate
financing. Other property own
ers in this district also have
expressed opposition TO the loca-
ton Of an airport in this poten-
tial residence district
There has been injected into
the discussion Of the need Of an
airport the possible defense
needs Of the city. One must
wonder II the citizens Of London
would not have wished for the
location Of the famous Croydon
airport a greater distance from
their homes. The first air attack
on that city was directed at
that air station. With thousands
OF acres of cut-over land on
every hand within a few miles
Of the city. one wonders why il
is so necessary to locate an air.
port az the very edge Of the vast
west end residence district.
There appears TO be definite
move for a showdown on this
proposal. Let there be a free
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ism lieutenant, where are you
going now"
oh" replied the American, y
am going back 10 my station at
Yorktown deliberately flip
pant remark. yorktown =" said
the other man. I don't believe
I ever heard Of the place
Well" retorte6 Uncle Sans
man. that's where We licked a
better Brtisner than you are
Lord Corvallis
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Samuel Powhatan Carter was
a lieutenant-commander in the
navy and a brevet major-general
al the close Of the Civil War.
At the wars outbreak, he asked
to join the land forces. He or
ganized a brigade in Tennessee
and was given command as
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Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention n his CO.
ufnn IsIfers must sius name snd
address ~ writer OnlH Initials
Uill be published when requested
Mr. FiHit; What are the Of
fetal attitudes In feet Of Mt.
St Helens. Mt. Rainier and VT.
Everest =. VI.
Nj Everest. 2eI41 Mt.
Rainier. 14f0s. Mt St Helens.
s.67l.
Mr. FiHit: A friend claims
that during the entire time Her
bert Hoover vas president Of
the L. :. he af no time cashed
or even accepted any checks due
him. hut left his salary undrawn.
Il u true? !. G..
IL is understood he took re-
duced salary. but did not reject
his salary checks u was true.
however. that Gov. Clarence p.
Martin did not cash his salary
checks, although they were
drawn TO him regularly.
Mr.. fiSit: II a husband leaves
his wife for IS years and she
does not hear or see him in the
same length of time. can he he
declared dead iegallye n not.
what would she do. moi know
ing where he IL or II he il dead
or alive MRS. L. W
Under the "Enoch Arden" law.
so-called. he could be declared
legally dead after seven years,
by appropriate court action.
However. II the wife contem-
plates remarriage, she should
obtain divorce in the usual
way, obtainable on grounds of
desertion.
Mr.. FiNit: Before election. the
Washington State Grange power
committee was selling tickets
through its members 10 finance
their campaign against Initia-
tive No. 1879. A. one Of the
many outsiders. I am interested
In what happened. a. are two
Of my friends. GRACE II.
Puyallup.
II YOU will write to Washing
ton State Grange News. Seattle.
they should be able TO give you
complete information.
Mr.. Fixit: l. there any state
legislation cancelling liens held
on the property of old age PEN
sioners
MRS. II. FRATTINGER.
Under Sec. u of Initiative No.
14l, the Senior Citizens Grants
act just voted into law Nov. 5.
the act says: Senior Citizen
Grants .given to an applicant
under the provisions Of this act
shall not be recoverable as
debt due the state, except where
such funds have been received
by the applicant contrary to the
provisions of this act, or by
fraud or deceit. Any claims
which have accrued or which
shall in the future accrue under
the provisions of Chapters rs
and 216 of the laws of 1899
are hereby renowned and de-
clared to be null and void"
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ITcuT An Inside Picture OF Finon-
Ii u II / ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

Observation-Disclosures P. Sloans ir.'s proposal for
relaxation of laws governing and hours struck
responsive chord among labor liberal members of the
administration. 1t simply stfened them in their
ment to prevent the foreign crisis from striking down
the gains in the last eight years.
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Editor The Times: In behalf
OF the Salvation Army and lis
advisory board. I wish 10 ex-
press our sincere appreciation
for your splendid cooperation in
giving such fine publicity TO our
recent clothing appeal for the
war refugees in Great Britain.
which contributed 50 much 70
the success Of the effort.
Certainly we are indebted 10
YOU
BERTTL =. JOHNSON.
Chairman, The Salvation Army
Advisory Board.
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When the farmer lost his fair share of the national
income national crisis began.-Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette Wisconsin
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and liberal discussion of the sub
ject by the people of the city.
LEE NJ. POLKTNGHORN.
524 So. 50th.
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brigadier-general HIS services
won him promotion to the rank
of major general. In 1882 he
retired from the navy with the
rank of rear-sdmiral.
DRUNK DAYS
Town records Of Fredericks-
burg. Va, show that servants
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were allowed to get drunk on
specified nights. Philip Baxter,
once George Washingtons gar
dener, was allowed 81 At Christ,
mas to get drunk for four days
and four nights.
TOMORROW: Casa Grande
Mystery.
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AN APPRECIATION

64ls So Alder.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Exeter Alumni to Hold
Meeting Saturday

The Alumni Association of Phil
lips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.,
whose membership includes many
men in Washington, will hold its an
nual meeting at Exeter this coming
Saturday.
Judge Carroll T. Bond, chief Judge
of the Maryland Court Of Appeals,
Of the class of 1890, will be among
the principal speakers. Other speak
ers will include:
Oscar w. Hausserman, 1908, presi-
dent of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce and retiring president
of the alumni association; Lewis
Perry, principal of the academy;
DR.. Arthur w. Elting, donor to the
academy of large collection of
African game trophies gathered on
his hunting expedition in 1890; Wall
ter B. Gage, recently retired head
master of the Hackley School, Tar
rytown, N. Y, and Clinton H. Crane,
naval architect who designed the
yacht Weetamoe for the America S
Cup races.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Special Trains
To Fair Planned

Under sponsorship of the Iowa
State Society of Washington, two
special trains are to be run from
this city for Iowans living here who
wish to take part in the Iowa State
Society Day at the New York
Worlds Fair June /.
One of the trains is to leave at
S pm, May 20, and the other at
5 pm, May 81. Return trips will
be on the evening of June 2. Iowans
from Boston and New York are ex-
pected to join those in this city from
that State for the celebration, q
feature Of which is to be . dinner
dance to be held on the evening Of
June at the fair.
Reservations for the trip may be
made through Miss Gertrude M.
Louis, secretary of the Iowa State
Society of Washington, at the
Roosevelt Hotel, it is announced.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Seven From District
AtLibrarv Session

The Public Library of the Dis
trict will be represented by seven
delegates at the annual conference
of the American Library Associa-
ton which will open today in Gin
cinnati, Ohio. The conference will
continue through June l.
The local delegates are Mrs. Philip
Sidney Smith of the library board
of trustees; DR.. George F. Bower
man, chief librarian; Mrs. Catherine
M. Houck. assistant personnel off,
GER; Mrs. Caroline S. Hughes, chief
Of the sociology division; Miss Flor
ence Mcleod of the children's de-
partment; Miss Iva I. Swift, branch
librarian, and George B. Moreland,
adviser to young people.
Archibald MacLeish, librarian of
the Library of Congress, and Nora
Beust. school library specialist of
the ONCE of Education. are on the
speaking program of the conference.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
BY JOHN H. CASSADY, Jr.

BY JOHN H. Cassidy, Jr.
1t takes more than a few bruises
to dampen the ardor of the real
riding enthusiast, and that's why
Claude W. Owen has been one OF
Washington's most active horsemen
for many years. He's been thrown
and cracked up two or three times,
but he's always jumped up and
come back for more.
Mr.. Owen keeps his horses and
rides often. Hunting is special
interest, and he rides to the hounds
a couple times a week each season
He was active in the Riding and
Hunt Club while it was in existence
He was also one of the moving
spirits In the Inter-American Horse
Show, which was held at Meadow
brook for several years, and he is
much in demand as a judge at
horse shows in this part of the
country.
Mr.. Owen first started riding on
his fathers farm in Gaithersburg,
Md, where he was born in 1885,
He is descendant of the Worth
ington, Goldsborough. Magruder and
Owen families Of Maryland. Edu-
Gated in the public and private
schools of Montgomery County, St.
Johns College, Annapolis: George
Washington and Georgetown Uni
versities, he has been a resident Of
Washington since 1914.
In addition to serving as chair
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Fire Fighters Delegates

District delegates to the conven-
tion Of the International Association
Of Fire Fighters, which will be held
at Des Moines, Iowa, in September,
have been announced by the Fire
mems Association of the District
Fire Department. Those elected
are w. T. Kruglak, secretary Of the
local association; H. F. Harding and
r. E. Powell. The president of the
District group. J. L. Werheim, is an
automatic delegate.
Evening star., 1940-05-26
Memorial Days Approach
Brings Plea for Sanity
Occasion This Year, PIT. A. Head Says,
Should Be One of Real Remembrance
And of Thankfulness as Well
BY MRS. C, d, LOWE,


Thursday is Memorial DAY.
dedicated to the memory of the
soldiers, sailors and marines who
fell IN line of duty. or died as a
result of injuries suffered in battle.
When Memorial Day was first
established. it was a distinctively
partisan day, for it was observed
only in the Northern States, and to
honor the men of the Union armies
who fought and died during the
Civil War. AS the years have gone
on, this imaginary division line has
become DINNER and DINNER, until
now the day is kept sacred to our
soldier dead by all sections of our
country. For, since the Civil War,
there have been other wars.
A row Of beautiful maple trees
lines either side of Sixteenth street
NV. for several blocks beyond
Spring road, each one bearing at its
base the memorial plaque for one
of the young men of the District
who marched away to war, and did
not return. More than 500 of them
there are, for the more than 500 of
our vigorous, virile young men,
whose lives were laid upon the altar
Of freedom.
Troubl0us Times.
We are living again-scarcely more
than two decades later-in times
just as troublous as those of 1918:
when it seems that the whole world
has gone mad, and sanity is an
attribute no longer identified with
human beings. Propaganda Of the
most vicious sort is flooding our
everyday living until one is at a
loss to know whether there is any
thing really to believe. Surely, 1t is
but fitting that members Of the
Parent t-Teacher Association, and
every other thinking adult in the
city, make every effort to keep his
daily life at a normal pace, to keep
the atmosphere Of his home as pleas
ant and happy as possible, to walk
with steady step along the paths
that are stretching away from us
at the present time.
This year, as never before, should
Memorial Day be one Of real re-
membrance, Of sympathy and help
fulness toward those men and
women, boys and girls, whose homes
have been destroyed and lands laid
waste, Of deep thankfulness that
through some accident Of birth w
are permitted to live In q country
like ours, and Of uaSpokeH pledge
Evening star., 1940-05-26
City>wide Member Drive
Considered by Federation
Four Previous Campaigns Found
TO Have Provided District
With Election. Time Thrills
BY JOHN W. THOMPSON, Jr.

All the thrills Of election campaign
the Federation Citizens
put funedged upto-date wide membership
S they did in 1919 1921, 1925 and 1884.
ponderng suggestion from President Harry
N sponsor a campaign, be
right drive would
headquarters the all the locals sd
T Methods Reviewed.
revealed the following tactics
the bgme drives and they reasonably be
expected appear again another push is planned:
l. Establishment a downtown headquarters.
Enrolment attempted enrolment of the President
Stump speeches.
Of stations to take In enrolment
Evening star., 1940-05-26
DIR. Wilcox Named

DR.. E. v. Wilcox has been elected
president. of the Shakespeare
Society Of Washington, 1t was an
nounced yesterday. Other officers
elected at recent meeting of the
society, held at the home of DR..
and Mrs. Wilcox In Chevy Chase,
Nd, included Leander Mccormick
Goodhart Of the British Embassy,
vice president; Mr.. Alexander Ue-
land, secretary treasurer; Miss
Emma A. Jordan, dramatic direc-
tor; Mrs. James H. Grubbs, costume
mistress, and Miss Clara Mander-
schied. publicity director.
Evening star., 1940-05-26

to ourselves to keep inviolate the
integrity of our citizenship.
Central High.
Officers elected and installed by
Mrs. C. D. Lowe, State president, are:
President, Mrs. Y. D Mathes, first
vice president, Mrs. Josephine Kurz:
second vice president, Mrs. John H.
Rogers; third vice president, Miss
Jean Dorrell; fourth vice president,
John Brougher; secretary, Mrs. A.
N. Schroeder; treasurer, .R. K.
Brown; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. James Skinner.
A spelling match, with parents
against students of the school, re-
suited in victory for the parents,
with Mrs. Emil Ventree final winner.
EdmOnds-Maury.
Officers installed by Mrs. Evelyn
Bright Buckley, fifth vice president
of the District Congress, are: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Burdell Reed; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Mildred Holmes; second
vice president, Miss Elizabeth
Ramey; recording secretary, Mrs.
Grace Goodman; corresponding Sec
retary, Mrs. Jenny Weber; treasurer,
Mrs. Nettie Shepherd; historian,
Mrs. Veda Draper.
Truesdell.
DR.. Frank w. Rallou. superintend-
ent of schools, will speak Tuesday
evening at the last meeting of the
association for the year. His sub
ject will be Reasons for Revision of
the School Curriculum" s. j. Nc
Cathran will speak on Suffrage for
the District" andthc Girls Glee Club
Of Mckinley High School will sing.
Mrs. p. G. Elicit, first vice presi-
dent of the District Congress, will
install the following officers: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Arthur Shapiro; first vice
president, Mrs. r. D. Moss; second
vice president, Miss. Nell Hiscox;
recording secretary, Mrs. George w.
Vaughan; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. William E. Larcombe; treas
urer, Mrs. George M. Miller.
Blake Gales Seaton.
The summer roundup Of pre- school
children was conducted at the Sea-
ton School on May 20, Mrs. E. Koch
in charge. DR.. A. B. Grossman and
DR.. B. H. Bennett of Children's
Hospital, DR.. Virginia Behlir Of the
District of Columbia schools and
Mrs. Inez Lambert, dental hygienist
examined the children. Miss Mil.
dred Abbott was the nurse In At
tendance.
Arrangements are being Fnade TO,