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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16
Gate-Croshers Are
A Nuisnnce-Buf!

The Southern dancehall fire. in which
about 200 persons died the most horrible
of Deaths is simply one more of those
confiagerations which could have been
prevented.
The fire, it is reported, was started de-
liberately by drunken merry-maker.
None save the criminal can be blamed for
that. But had minimum of forethought
been used. the hazards that make for
senious fire would not have existed.
The dance-hall was decorated with
streamers of Spanish moss--a material
which is practically explosive when dry.
On top of that, all windows and entran.
ces. save for the narrow front door, had
been barred, in order to keep out possible
gate crashers.
The inevitable result was that when the
match touched the moss, He'll broke loose.
FLAMES shot to the ceiling. Vast pillars
of black smoke billowed out. In few
seconds the dance-hall was an inferno.
Dancers, blinded by smoke and choking
from fumes, beat with pitiful futility
against the barred windows and doors.
A few escaped by the front entrance. The
majority perished tfrom suffoeation and
flame.
In this fire, the simplest, most obvious
tenets of fire prevention and control were
violated. Under no circumstances should
nfiamable materials be used for decora-
tions-many a disastrous fire has started
from that cause. Even worse is the prac
tice of barring windows and exits. Gate
crashing may be an annoyance-but it's
considerably less annoying than being
cremated alive.
The country pities the victims of this
fire. But let the country learn lesson
.4otn lnelr needless deaths. Think first
then you won't have to be vainly sorry
afterwards.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16
Double-Barreled Hypocrisy

The Chicago Tribune recently devoted
a long editorial to discussion of the
governments action in simultaneously
demanding that the utilities expand and
preventing them from doing So The
oDlect, thinks the Tribune, may be to
keep companies from providing adequate
service SO as to justify the taking over of
all Of the utilities by the government" Or,
the editorial continues, it may be the poll
ticians feel that if the companies are
prevented from increasing their plants it
will be relatively easy to get the Senate to
ratify the vicious treaty providing for the
ST. Lawrence pOWtr Development
Whatever the reason, it is entirely OBJ
vicus that men high in government are
still out o"get' the power industry-and
to get it by fair means or foul. Officials
denounced the failure of the industry
to cooperate with government power gen.
atioA and distribution. At the same
time, almost every conceivable means of
preventing utility expansion has been TAX
en-. To quote the Tribune again, Having
destroyed the market for commen stock,
the government insists that the utilities
must raise money that way. And refusing
to permit them to raise money for expan-
sion programs in the only way they can
raise it, it insists that they carry on ex-
pansion programs.
Can there be any question that the pur
pose Of those who ruthlessly fight the
power industry is not Improvement Of
electric service or reduction Of cost-but
the specialization Of the entire industry?
The politicians talk about the public in
terest' and violate it with impunity. They
talk about democracy-and urge doctrines
that are the direct antithesis of all that
real democracy means. And the public
pays the bill, not only in dollars, but in
the far more important coin of lost rights
and liberties. ,,~~s.A.us,...,.us..ss
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

TESTS to show the strength of
: the new lanlinated high test
safety plate glass developed for
automobile use are recorded by
Prof. Harold E. Edgerton, of Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology,
inventor of the a-high speed
Photographic technique that makes
possible exposures, as short as
ll1,00O,O ,OO0th Of . second. (1)
Standing but is yards away, Dick
Shaughnessy, 17-year-old { b ii, !
plon skeet shooter, takes aim with
II gauge automatic shotgun ii i
zane of the new laminated hieh
tast safety plate glass mounted in
the windshield of Buick Special
.adan. His shells are loaded with
1M ounces nc No. 6 chilled .ShDt.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

has failed to penetrate it, despite
/ the concentration Of fire and the
vicious effect Of the wad at short
range. (4) Shaughnessy and Pro-
fessor E5gcrton examine the pane
after its rcn.rval from the wind
snieid. Though. cracked on both
sides, it still clings to the newly
developed polyvinal acetal resin.
the meat Of the laminated glass
sandwich Safety plate glass of
th's type is now used in all Cen
eral Y ors cars, Fisher Body off,
clals am sunccd recently. at the
same tine cautioning against con-
iuslng the new product with bullet
proof glass despite the high i'm
pact-resisting qualities shown by
these tests.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

and contain 81 drains of smoke
less powder, the heaviest duck load
obtainable. (2) Triggered by tile
sound of the shot striking the
windshield, Professor Eogsrton.s
stroboscopic light illumina1es the
scene with a flash lasting III, ,0o0,-
000th Of a second and having q
peak intensity that would exceed
10000 one-hundred watt lamps If
they could be concentrated in a
small area. Note that the camera
has caught some Of the shot, tray-
cling 100 feet per second faster
than tho report Of t;.e gun, in mid
ar, t3) Professor Edgerton, stand
ing beside his photo raphic appa-
Tatuss views the result of the test.
Inc shot has cracked the glass. but
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16
BY H. A. MCKENZIE


Secretary Of State George Neffner
has notified the SO county election
boards in Ohio to make preliminary
arrangeme for registration of men
subject to call when the military
training acs has passed congress.
He advised the boards that it was
probable they woI d have to desig-
precinct whose services would be
nate two registrars for each voting
"patriotically" volunteered, as no
compensation has, as yet, been pro
vided Forms for use in registration
would be supplied by the Adjutant
General. 1t is a practical. certainty
thai the election machinery of Ohio
will be used in this contemplated
registration Secretary Neffner said.
Ohio is included in one cf Ave
tentative areas set up by the war de-
partment for the location of new
munitions plants, according to re-
cent news resease by the U. S. Ord
nance Department. One Of the inn
portant factors considered in setting
up the areas was to locate plants at
least 200 to $50 miles inland to
minimize the hazard of attack from
the air" Col. II. K. Rutherford,
Director of the planning branch Of
the Ordnance Department, said he
"besieved number Of communities
had a distorted idea of the value of
a munitions plant to the community,
Such a plant" he said, probably
would employ large numbers Of peo-
ne for while, then be shut down
after comparatively brief time and
be placed on the reserve list. That
kind of thing is no real help to q
community.
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on August 1s at Camp Williams.

on August 13 at Camp Williams.
About $500 persons are taking
the national defense vocational
training courses in public schools in
Ohio, announces State Director of
Education E. N. Dietrich. Colum-
bus schoos have class Of 81, Zanes-
vile has 102, Springfield 10, Wash
ington H. So, and Chauncey, Ath-
ems county, 81.
ohio's Adjutant General, Maj.
Gen. G. D. Light, has formally con-
frmed the selection of Toledo as
Ohio's first and only choice for the
site of a proposed National Guard
air base. This strategic location
makes it the ideal place for pur-
suit or bombardment squadron and
will command one of the busiest in.
dustrial areas in the nation.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16
EDIT o r Al
win and Hitler So too. was the destruc
ton of Czechoslovakia

win and Hitler. So too, was the destruc-
ton of Czechoslovakia
The betrayal Of the Spanish democracy,
colossal blunder, was but another cog IN
the wheel of power politics carried on by
Italy and Germany with the benediction
Of England and with the forced and
gruaging acauiescence Of France. Britain
also failed to implement effectively lis
pledge Of support to small nations like
Poland, Finland and Norway, all Of
whom were subsequently betrayed and
absorbed by Germany and Russia.
These events, according to Mr.. Gretne.
have resulted in the breakdown Of the
popular front, the destruction OF demo
cracy, the decentralization Of religious and
racial hatreds, the wrecking of the moral
equilibrium Of the world, the rapid spread
of totaitariansm, Japan's domination OF
the East rearmament of the United States,
the formation Of an anti-Hitler American
bloc, untold misery and privation for one
and one-half billion people, and the i'm
pending disintegration of Western civil
zation.
1T all goes to show Mr. Green said,
that mans moral and intellectual de-
veiipment have not kept pace with his
mastery of tangible things
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

department store sales 90 per cent;
freight car loadings % per cent.
In the same period of time (oradur-
ing the past seven years over the
seven years preceding) the average
number Of unemployed increased
12O per cent; cost Of Federal gov
ernment 90 per cent; the Federal
debt increased 1O3 per cent; Depart
ment of Agriculture budget Ala per
| cent; number Of industrial strikes
215 per cent; number Of workers on
strike 2s1 per cent; and number Of
employees on the Federal payroll
/. "a per cent.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

being more than
net At this time.
There is strong i'm
provement on foot
to increase the pay
of enlisted m G n
from twenty-one
dollars per month
RI thirf,r dollars
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

the English people by continuous air
bombings, rather than to risk di-
rect attack. In the meantime Eng
land is preparing rapidly for any
thing that may be ahead and the
tight little isle" is fast becoming a
heavily armed fortress that Germany
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-08-16

may find exceedingly hard to con
quer.
Facts and figures show that dur
ing the past seven years, in com
parison with the seven previous
years, the aggregate national income
has decreased 18 per cent; dividents
15 per cent; farm cash income 20
per cent; value Of agricultural ex-
ports 4S per cent; factory payrolls
12 per cent; general commodity
prices / per cent; new capital stock
issues 80 per cent; residential build
ing permits so per cent; private
construction contracts 81 per cent;
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Since the United States entered 4
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
VOLUME L, NUMb7R 27

This week nominate Lii Schwartz for Greenbelt's
Hall of Outstanding Citizens. Few have work ed hard
er for the public good.
Her labors the Cooperator have been herculean
and it is for these that she has been chiefly noted
During the greater part of her Greenbelt residence,
(and she was of the first residents, she has
spent most of her weekends and most of her Monday
nights tipping copy for the paper. Willingly, With
rare good humor, she always through with the
work well done and on schedule Ni tn without
sistance, whic could seldom be depended upon;
with or without pay, Whd ch never than
inal.
Recently, Assistant-Editor and Editor, al
though she admittedly lacked experience and
titude and although she sorely-pre ssed by the
lack of enough reporters with the requisite for
news, she accepted responsibility else
would take, has led excellently staff of unpaid,
overwo rked, far-frou-docile journalist and has
turned out highly creditable sheet each week.
She also served term President of the Jour
nalistic Club, several terms Secretary of the
Club and has been active the Welfare Committee
of the Citizens Association. She has actively sup
ported the Cooperatives and her Congregation. She
is noted for gay parties and the serving excel
lent refresfments is, and for genial husband.
Although her health is not of the best and she
badly needs the rest she is planning to take we
hardly need fear that her absence from .irst
Lines of Greenbelt community endeavor "a i be pro-
tracted. Her interest, her enthusiasm, her devotion
to the community is too great to allow her keer
out of the thick of things for long.
Howard C. Custer.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
LEGION NSTALLS OFFICERS

Last Thursday evening at their Legion Home, the
Greenbelt Post of the American Legion installed the
following officers to serve for the ensuing year:
James VI. McCarl, Commander; Thomas R. Freeman,
First Nce-Comnander; orrin McGoldrick, Second Vice
Commander; Marvin D. Jones, Adjutant; David Steinle
Finance officer; George Bryant, Service Officers
A. E. Tavenner Post Historian; Elmer Allion, Chap
Lain; N. S. Torbert, Sergeant-at-Arms; and Earl
Bearers.
Department Vice Commander William Rollins of the
Southern Maryland District conducted the installa-
tion ceremonies.
Mayor George A. Warner congratulated the Legion
their selection of officers and wi shed them
cess in their program for the coming year. Calling
attention to the parti icular responsibility the
Legion in seeing that democratic institutions
are maintained during these crucial times, he
pressed himself icon dent that the Greenbelt
gion would not be found wanting In guarding these
principles"
Visiting Legi onnaires, who addressed the meeting
were National Vice Commander James B. Fitzgerald,
Department Adjutant Jack Tribby, Henry French, Post
Commander of Post III, Annapolis, and George White,
Commander, Post III.
Commander McCarl, upon assuming his chair, stated
that, with the help of his comrades, he would do
everything within his power to make the year 1901
banner year for the Greenbelt Legion, during
Receiving his emblem Post Commander of the To-
cal POST George W. oBrien pledged full support to
the newly elected officers.
The meeting closed with the National Anthem after
which refreshments were served by the Auxiliary.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
REFUGEES VISIT WASHINGTON AND VICINITY

Last Thursday, August L, the refugee guests,
companied by their mothers for the day", Mrs. j. We
McCarl and Mrs. S. L. Perchck, made grand tour of
Washington and its historic environs. Among the
places they visited were Mount Vernon, the Lincoln
Memorial, Washington Monument, and the Capitol
Building. The children expressed great enthusiasm
their trip.
Three of the chi dren added to the entertainment
at the Red Cross Benefit August 2. Ruth Herzberg
gave two readings. Walter Kulka played the Blue
Danube Waltz a piano solo and accompanied Hge-
bord fer, who sang two German songs.
The rest of the week spent according to the
chi ldrens' individual tastes They enjoyed swimming
and the many other recreationa1 facilities which
Greenbelt offers.
On August the children reluctantly left their
Greenbelt foster-parents to return to New York.
Many Of the young guests expressed desire to
main in Greenbelt for the rest of the sumner.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS

The United States Civil Service Cormi ssicn has
announced open competitive examinations for the pos
itions listed below. Applications must be file
in the Co ssicns Easd ngton office not later than
the closing dates Mentioned in each case.
Junior graduate nurse, l,62o year, Us. Public
Health Service, Federal Security, and Veterans Ad
ninistration. Applications will be rated ceived
until further notice.
Senior medical officer, $4,000 year; medical
officer, $1,000 year; various optional branches.
Veterans Ad nj stration, Civil Aeronautics Authority
and Indian Service. Apple ations will be rated
received until further nc tice.
Pathologist medical), $1,000 year; veterinar-
ian (research) 300 year; Chemical Warfare Ser
vice. War Department, EdgeNood Arsenal ND. Closing
date for receipt of applications is September 9o
ornithologist, $500 year, Fish and Wild1ife
Service, Department Of Interior. Closing date is
September 3.
Full information to the requirements for the
examinations may be obtained from the U. S. Civil
Service conmi ission, Washington, Doc.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
CONSUMER CONFERENCE DISCUSSES DEFENSE

conference with representatives of consumers
and other interested groups of national scope was
called In Washington, D. C. Last week by Miss
Harriet Elliott, consumer representative the
National Defense Council.
At the request of Consumer Distribution Corpora
tion, W. R. Vo1hausen, President of Greenbe1t Con-
sumer Services represented his organization. The
confer ence discussed the question of possible
tributions Of consumers and consumer organizations
to the defense program. Also considered safe
guards to In the speculative period usual
ly accompanying times of world d sorder and the re-
lation Of the defense program to consumer problem
and social progress.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
RESIDENTS RETURN FROM SUMNER COURSES

Greenbelt residents who attended the Eastern CO.
operative League Summer Institute Amherst Mass.
Last week Kenneth Jernberg and Thomas Jefrries
OF the Food Store staff, MRS. Carl Jernberg, Mrs.
Doris Seyoold, Mrs. Henry Brauti GAM and Mr. MRS.
Lindsey Thomas. They attended several the eight
courses offered well conference meetings con-
Quoted oy outstanding leaders in the cooperative
movements The Greenbelt organization cited fire.
quently as particularly fine example coopera-
tive enterprise. Recreaionl facilities afforded by
the Conference were enjoyed by all.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
G. HI. A. Grievance Group Meets

The Grievance Conuni ttee of the Greenbelt Health
Association, established recently by the Board of
Directors, held its first meeting Saturday night,
August 3 in the home of the chairman Edward Wei
man 3-D Gardenway Or. 3l46). other members of the
committee Mrs. Lillian Feldman (l6-E Parkway.
Or. 4421 and j. Harry Murphy (43D Ridge Road, Or.
55e2).
Methods of procedure and policies to govern the
work OF the committee were iscusseds Non-menbers
as we'll as members of the Association may take, or
telephone, complaint concerning the Health Asso-
complaints Will be held fidential, and wi IL be
handled by the committee, by the COMM ttee in
consul tation with the Board of Directors, according
to the seriousness of the complaint.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08
GARDENERS TAKE NOTE

The authorities at the Animal Disease Station at
Beltsvle have reported to Mr.. Mabee that Greenbe1t
gardeners have been taking fertilizer from the farmc
there for In the Greenbe1t gardens. They wish
these people to be warned that all the animals c1
the farms have been inocu1ated with Hc8ase organ
ims, may Of them of highly viru1ent nature; ana
persons using any of the infectious excreta may
themselves become infected.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-08-08

The Mothers Club recently presented the library
wit the following books:
"The Patriot", Buck; "Kristin Lavransdattern,
undset; "ordea1", shute; "Black April", Peterdn;
and nInside Europe", Gunther.
The Library report for July shows circulation
for non-fiction books of 3o3 and for fiction, o27
making total circulation of 1890.
Receipt for the month amounted to $l9.l7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Son Missing From Home,
Mother Fears Drowning

Fearful that her son may have
drowned, Mrs. Mary Edna White
asked police yesterday to help her
locate the 15-year- old boy.
Mrs White said her son, Richard,
had attended church yesterday
morning, had eaten dinner and
helped her wash the dinner dishes
and then had left the house. She
has not seen him since
The boys mother said she started
worrying when her son failed to re-
turn for supper and several hours
later she called the police.
She said she had made the rounds
of his friends homes and was told
they had not seen him since Sat-
urday night. Richard is able to
swim only a little and Mrs. White
expressed fear that he might have
decided to go swimming during the
afternoon. She said the boy had
never run away and that when he
left the house yesterday he had no
money with him. The Whites live
at 1920 Shepherd street NE.
When Richard walked out yester-
day he was wearing blue checkered
shirt, blue tie, gray striped pants
and white shoes. His hair is blond
his eyes hazel. He is feet inches
tall and weighs about 1875 pounds.
He wears black ring with his pic
ture inside it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Drownings and Traffic Take
Seven Lives in Virqinio

Drownings and traffic accidents
took the lives of at least seven
Virginians yesterday.
The capsizing of a 14-foot skif1
on the York River wrote quad
ripple tragedy as the climax to a
fishing party, two persons died in
an automobile-bu collision and a
colored man was killed by a train.
Two young Richmond brothers
Milton and Norman Lenker, and
their wives, who were sisters. were
drowned when the small boat was
swamped by waves as they at
tempted to anchor in midstream
near Williamsburg Milton and his
wife were % and Norman and his
wife were about "a.
Miss Della Strickland of Middle
sex, N. c., who chung for six hours
to the tossing skiff, was rescued
by group of young men from
Gloucester Point. The body Of Mrs
Milton Lenker, entangled in ropes
from the boat, was the only one
Immediately recovered.
Edgar Monroe Morecock, 81, and
his wife, Mary Adelia. SIS, of James
City County were killed in the bus
auto collision miles from Will
liamsburg on the Jamestown road.
Three passengers on the bus were
slightly shaken up.
A Norfolk g. Western passenger
train struck and killed Richard
Harris, 80, colored, near Boyce early
yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Seven Persons Hurt
In Traffic Mishaps
In Nearby Areas
Two Neutrality-suspicious. and
Five Residents Of
Arlington Are Victims

Two Washingtonians and five
Arlington residents were injured in
nearby Maryland and Virginia traf
fic accidents yesterday No serious
traffic accidents were reported in
Washington over the week end.
Seven-year- Lena Woodley
2131 Fifth street NV, was in an
undetermined condition in Casualty
Hospital suffering from a head in
jury received in a traffic accident
yesterday near Capitol Heights, Md.
Her father, Joseph Woodley, was
driving a car which struck another
machine at Largo road and Gen.
trail avenue, police said.
Five Arlington County (Va) resi-
dents were under treatment in the
Winchester Hospital for injuries re-
ceived in a three-car accident be-
tween Winchester and Paris, Va,
last night.
They are Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Bolick,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Sellers and Mrs.
Fannie Harwood, all of 5619 South
Fourth street. None is in critical
condition Mrs. Sellers received
three broken ribs, and the others
were cut and bruised.
The car operated by Mrs. Bolick
was said by police to have collided
with two others before it overturned
into a ditch
Robert T. Rowe, 80, of 1925 Mint
wood street NV, was taken to
Georgetown Hospital after an acct
dent on the Difficult Run Bridge
two miles west of Fairfax yesterday
His car was in collision with a large
trailer truck operated by Gary
Price. Is, of Greendale. Va, who
was held by Fairfax police on a
technical charge of reckless driving.
Mr.. Rowe received head injuries,
but was reported not in a serious
condition.