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Evening star., 1941-08-31
Stull 3rd Term
MOveStarted
InCivic Units
Federation Head
To Be Asked to
Serve Again

A movement to draft Harry n
of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations yesterday was reported un-
der way in civic circles.
Although the first meeting of the
delegates is more than month
away and the actual election is not
until the November session, several
civic leaders have already been ap-
preached on whether they would
run for the Office.
Mr.. Stull, who has directed the
Federation operations for the past
two years and has been active in
civics for some 20 years, has told
friends he would not be candidate
for a third term.
Under the Federation constitution,
nominations for Office are made at
the october meeting and the elec-
tions held the following month.
Whether Mr.. Stull will consent to
be drafted" by his supporters will
probably not be known until the
October session. In the meantime,
it is understood other candidates are
sitting tight" until they are &C
quainted with his decision.
During his tWo-year incumbency
Mr.. Stull ruled the Federation dele
gates with a heavy gavelhis plea
being for less talk and more action
He represents Stanton Park Citizens
Association.
How nominations for the other
Federation Offices will stack up was
not forecast. but observers did not
discount the possibility of re-elec-
ton of the entire slate. The officers
are Harry S. Wcnder, first vice
president: Mrs. Harvey Wiley, sec
ond vice president; David Babp, Sec
retary, and K. P. Armstrong, treas
| urer.
Possibility of a close contest for
positions on the l5-man Executive
| Board was seen, however.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Jaycees Card
Six Events
This Week
Athletic Program
Today Opens List
Of Events

Six events are carded by the
Junior Board of Commerce this
week, beginning with an athletic
program today.
This morning at 10 o'clock a soft
ball game will be played on the
polo field and from noon to 2 pm.
the athletes will play tennis at
Friends School courts.
The officers of the board will meet
for luncheon Tuesday at 1890 pm.
at Taft House Inn, with L. w. Law
der, first vice president. presiding.
At $3.50 pm. the Publicity Commit
tee, under Barry Sullivan, will meet
in room 204 at The Star.
Wednesday night will be Junior
Board night at the Red Cross
aquafete at the Takoma Park SWIM
ming pool, Fifth and Underwood
streets NV.
The weeks program will conclude
with the weekly luncheon of the
board at the Annapolis Hotel Thurs
day at 1880 pm, with Millard West,
jr., president, presiding.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
District Rat Problem Grave,
Says DR.. Lyman F. Kebler
Central Authority
Must Lead Attack,
Veteran Declares
By CAMBRIDGE CRIST.

DR.. LYMAN Frederic Kebler, pleas
ant, soft-spoken chemist and physi-
clan. who has devoted many years
of his life to the problem of pure
food and drug laws. is still contin-
uing his civic interests. which date
back to his college days.
DR.. Kebler. who was twice presi-
dent and one of the organizers of
the Citizens Forum of Columbia
Heights and is at present one of
its delegates TO the Federation OF
Citizens Associations, is still insist
ent that one of the vexing problems
in the District is killing rats.
Pointing out in an interview that
rats carry a number of diseases,
DR.. Kebler said that people don't
realize the danger, they don't realize
the seriousness of the situation
They are careless about garbage
cans. Give the rats something to
eat and a place to hide and you'll
have plenty of them"
We've caught rs rats in our back
yard within the last month";" he
added
Rodents Close Grocery Store.
One woman, he recalled, tele-
phoned him recently to report that
rats were eating of the caps of
milk bottles. He also recalled the
case of a grocery store in the city
which had to close because it was
losing S25 to $40 worth of goods a
night by rats.
A successful attack on the prob
lem will have to come from some
central Office or authority" he said
Interest in politics and civic mat
ters are far from new to Dr. Kebler
The political broth was boiling in
Michigan when he was student at
the University Of Michigan back in
the 1905.
"We had great deal of political
| oratory then" he explained
And then when he was in Phila-
delphia, where he was a chief chem
ist for a drug manufacturing plant
for II years, 1892 to 1903, he was
supporter of independents" striving
to clean politics in the City oi
Brotherly Love
So, when he came to Washington
in 1903, he just naturally fell into
civic work. He has had as an able
partner in much of his work his
| wife, whom he met in high school
in Michigan and married in 1893
Active in number of organizations
she was secretary of the Columbia
Heights Community Center from
1917 Ito 1929, while he was former
director of health there.
Federal and Private Career.
DIR. Kebler, who has had q long
career in the Government, retired in
1929 for private practice and is also q
consultant on foods, drugs and
cosmetics. He was chief of the drug
laboratory of the Bureau of Chemis-
try from 1903 to 1907, chief of the
Division of Drugs of the bureau
from 1907 to 1928, chief of special
| collaborative investigat tions, 1928 to
1929, and special adviser to the Post
Office Department in medical
schemes to defraud the public from
1903 to 1929
His activities, which take up Q
sizable portion of a column of small
print in Who's Who, includes 9
long period of teaching. He wa.
assistant professor Of pharmacology
and materia medicasat Georgetown
University for 20 years and wa.
previously an instructor in chemistry
at Iowa Agricultural College and hi
Evening star., 1941-08-31

own college. the University of
Michigan, from which he received a
B. S. degree in 1891, an M. S. in 1892.
DR.. Kebler's membership in various
groups and associations runs into
the dozens. He was a member of
the United States Pharmacopoeia
Revision Committee from 1910 to
Pharmaceutical Convention, 1920-30;
member of the Chemical Society,
serving as vice president in 1917;
American Medical Association, Coun-
ell of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
1905 to 1914, and the District Med
ical Society.
Likes Old Dances.
He was vice president of the Amer
lean Pharmaceutical Association in
1922, 1923 and 1924, fellow of Amer
lean Association for the Advance
ment of Science, trustee of the
National College Of Pharmacy, 1918
to 1926; president of the chemical
section of the Franklin Institute in
1JO[ d1ld SIid Ildll vi lliC LsAAAPAof Ss
Redistribution Committee of the
Department of Agriculture, 1920.
DR.. Kebler was born in Lodi
Mich, June g. 1863. Following his
graduation from the University of
Michigan he was special student
at the Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia. Temple University and
then received his medical degree at
George Washington University in
1906.
He and his wife are both enthu-
siastic about old dances. They
recently attended q convention of
the Pharmaceutical Association in
Detroit, which put on program OF
dances dating from 1852 to the
present. The Kebler's, true to their
interests, took part.
His home and ofiice is at 1922 Park
road NV. DR.. Kebler is the author
of Eat and Keep Fit"
Evening star., 1941-08-31
| American Jurist
Reaches England
In Bomber Ferry ,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N j., Aug. 30.-Word
was received here of the arrival in
London tonight of Judge William
Clark of the Third Circuit Court OF
Appeals, Philadelphia, who flew the
Atlantic in bombing plane to study
the operations OF courts and law
makers in wartime.
The plane in which the jurist flew
was one manufactured in this hemi-
sphere and being ferried across the
Atlantic 1t left Montreal yesterday
and arrived somewhere in Great
Britain this morning. Judge Clark
went from the field to London by
train.
AS a representative of the Ameri-
can judiciary, Judge Clark carried
with him letters from Lord Halifax,
British Ambassador to the United
States, to Prime Minister winston
Churchill and other high British Of
ficials.
He expected his study to last six
weeks.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Defense Council Revue
To Be Given Wednesday

Marching Along the District
Defense Councils new revue. TO be
presented in all Army camps Of
the Washington area. will be staged
for the first time at 8 pm. Wednes-
day in the Central High School au-
ditorium. it was announced yester-
day by Arthur Richards, director Of
the defense council.
Service men in uniform will be
admitted free to the production. for
which Sunday rehearSalS have been
held for several weeks in the Earle
Theater. The director is Harry
Anger, production manager of the
Earle, who has donated his services.
Among local comedians drafted"
for the production are Harry Baker.
Frank Portillio and 'Mousie" Gar
ner, Mr.. Anger said.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Three Units
Meet toOpen
Season
Oldest Inhabitants
Session Slated
Wednesday

Meetings of three civic groups
this week will inaugurate new sea-
son of community activity. Four
other associations which usually
meet during the first week Of the
month have postponed their open
ing sessions.
The Southeast Council Of Citi-
zens' Associations will meet Tues
day at 8 pm. at the ele n pre-
cinct. Chicago and Nichols ave-
nue. Sc.
The regular meeting of the Asso-
ciation of Oldest Inhabitants OF the
District will be held at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday at the old Union Engine
House, Nineteenth and H streets
NV.
A picnic next Saturday afternoon
at Fort Dupont Park will take the
place of a business meeting for the
Bradbury Heights Citizens Asso-
ciation. The picnic will begin at 4
pm. The association will hold its
opening business session in October.
The Manor Park Citizens Asso-
citation, which usually meets the
first Monday of the month, has
postponed its initial meeting TO
Monday, September 8, because OF
the Labor Day holiday. The group
will gather at the Whittier School
Fifth and Sheridan streets NV,
at 8 pm.
The Northeast Conference of Citi-
zens' Associations will not meet this
month. according to President Mar
win M. Mclean. unless a special
meeting is called. Connecticut
Avenue and Washington Highlands
Associations also have postponed
their opening meetings until Oc-
tober.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Man Under S., 900 Bond
On Mann Act CHARGE

Burt McClellen, 36, Of the 1900
block of NJ street NE, was held
under $1,000 bond yesterday for
grand jury action by United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
on a charge of violating the Mann
act.
McClellen, said to be former
Marine. is accused of taking a l3-
year-old girl from the District 70
virginia, where he is said to have
stopped with her IN tourist camp.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Boys Club Will Open
Foil Season October !

The Boys Club of Washington Is
planning the most extensive pro-
gram in its history for the opening
of its fall and winter program sched-
uled for October /. it has been an
nounced by Charles M. Fyfe, man
aging director. The organization
will enter its fifty-sixth year of serv-
ice in October.
This year, Mr. Fyfe said. particu-
lar emphasis will be placed on physi-
cal development, the need being in
dicated as a result of physical ex-
aminations under the Selective Serv-
ice Act. Fall registration in the
organization, which at present has
over 1000 members, will begin Oc-
tober !.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
so Cub Scout Leaders
To Attend Courses

More than so cub Scout leaders
from New York. Philadelphia and
this vicinity are expected to attend
cub training courses to be conducted
at Camp Theodore Roosevelt. Will
lows, Md. today and tomorrow The
course will be conducted by William
c. Vessel, national director of
clubbing.
Other members of the faculty in
clude John Green, New York City,
assistant to the national director:
Col. Stuart Godfrey. local clubbing
commissioner: H F. Brownield. Sill
yer Spring, Md, and Louis Grening,
field commissioners for clubbing; E.
P. Moran, cubmaster. pack 2, and
Rock Kirkham, assistant Scout ex-
ecutive.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
hest-Sponsored Comps
Close for Summer

Com m unity Chest-sponsored
camps shut down during the last
week and buses and automobiles
brought back some 500 children
forming the last group of the nearly
5000 youngsters who vacationed at
the resorts.
Among the camps closing over the
week end were the Merrick Boys
Club, the two Boy Scout camps
Theodore Roosevelt at Williams,
Md, and Woodrow Wilson at Burnt
Mills, Md, and the Y. w. G. A.
Kamp Kahlert.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Glen Echo Park Closing
Set for Next Sunday

Next Sunday midnight will mark
the close of Glen Echo Park for
the season.
Saturday night will be the last
for dancing in the sEaniss Gar
den ballroom, but the swimming
pool and other amusements will re-
main open Sunday.
Park officials said final figures
were not yet available. but that at
tendance records probably will be
found broken when the last ac-
counting is made.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Liquor Board Seen Planning
Tight Control of Sign Size
New Regulation Due for Strict
Enforcement After September 28
Deadline, Farley Indicates

The District Alcohol Beverage
hard the Of liquor signs in the according
when its regulation
Neon dealers attending hearing
week WINGED Chairman Thomas his
the permits
sign 10 feet for so feet of street frontage.
Many civic spokesmen the
Associations and other civic forums have criticized
displays. Chairman
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Ex-Reporter Chosen

Selection of Capt. Robert Bruskin,
former Star reporter, to attend the
Command and General Staff School
at Fort Leavenworth. Kans., was an
nounced yesterday by Maj. Gen.
Bruce Magruder, commanding the
1st Armored Division at Fort Knox.
KY.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Business Groups
Five Associations
| To Meet

The following five businessmen's
associations are scheduled to hold
meetings this week:
Tuesday, September z.
Columbia Heights - Luncheon,
Sholl's Cafe, 1927 Fourteenth street
NV, 12:15 pm.
Electrical Contractors - Regular
meeting, Pepco general Office build
ing, Tenth and E streets NV, 8
pm.
Funeral Directors-Regular meet
ing, Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Wednesday. September 3.
Master Plumbers-Regular meet
ing, Hotel Twenty-four Hundred, 8
pm.
Thursday. September 4.
Central Better Business Rela-
tons Committee meeting, Casino
Royal Cafe, Fourteenth and H
streets NV, 12:15 pm.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
CALENDAR NOTES.

CALENDAR NOTES.
The Connecticut Avenue Board Of
Directors will meet Tuesday at 10
am, Mavfiower Hotel.
The Master Plumbers Board of
Directors will meet tomorrow at 8 80
pm, Frank Bently, Inc, 37l7
Georgia avenue NV.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Budget and Milk Hearings Slated; Prob.'
lem in Ceding Virginia Area
Rv Jesse e.. Sufer

Labor Day. warning signal
civic active preparation work
Some organizations will
q number October.
Two hearings scheduled at the District Building for Sep
ember District Commissioners will hold
opportunity for citizens appear and submit recommendations
Requests for time the hearing and recommendations in writing
be filed with the later than September TO- On
% will hold
the bill permit the importation into the District of cream produced
with the provisions of the United States
milk ordinance bill question H
b516.
of the Commissioners committee which made the
the Police Department the appointment
captains high lights of past
of the recommendations of the committee include
structive suggestions by civic
Passage crime bill vagrancy bill and
provision 100 additional policemen promise of favorable
major the crime 1t is
understood that the deficiency appropriation bill carries an item TO
the pay of the additional policemen
small bill, court merger BILL unemployment
considered by
House o September o. the next District day
submitted request for the grant OF
s28s fund for national defense
defense Additional schedules will follow
The District without Public Utilities Com
required The only member at the
District Committee has
nomination of Mr. Hankn His first nomina-
expiration of the term he named to
complete been named to the late Riley
Egen failure make the commission functonng body Is
delaying a number of urgent utilities needs.
of the Public Utilities Commits
sion Peoples mandatory discretionary
duties of the presidential office
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Making Washington Unhealthy for Criminals

Solution of the crime problem have
of the Police Depart
Committee and the b. the
committee appear have been of far greater pac
tical anticipated shown
mendab and judgment personnel changes In the
Police Department and legislation now
pending together with another 100
policemen Washington extremely unhealthy for Grim
nalS,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-28
Will NorwaIk Beat Us?

Tax collections are problem to almost every city in the country. Just how Seri- ouS was shown by recent survey in Cleveland which revealed so much tax delinquent land that it could not be sold without diSrupting the real estate mar ket; acres and acres just hanging, useless, and virtually without any owner at all. The same situation holds in many cities which have not as yet realized it. For tunately Waterbury cannot be placed in that category. And there are other like wise fortunate Connecticut cities
 Norwalk and Waterbury both tell different story. Only the other day Tax Collector Humbert Mangini's figures for this year showed that general tax col lections have passed the 97 per cent mark and there's still good month of 1941 left in which to improve on this figure. It may be that in the remaining days of Lhis year Waterbury can equal Norwalk's mark which right now is very close to D per cent and expected to be perhaps A bit on the other side of it when the tax books for 194l are closed.
 Last year we did remarkably well with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-28
Selected Poem
MOON AT MONHEGAN

MOON AT NORWEGIAN (Pearl Strachan in the Christian Science Monitor) Moons, many moons have watched in many places: White moons flooding silver on the walls Of grim High Sunderland, through crumbhng halls' And picking out in winter the drawn faces Of women going to work in clogs and shawls Moons have seen where tired bargemen slunlber Under the arches of the Thames, the slow Spreading of light until 1t looks like snow Along the path, frost.ng the blanks of lumber; And moons that glorifled the roofs of Row. I have seen moons in Palermo and in Naples Round as melon heavy with the full Juice of autumn and the hills dark wool Bulging impatiently through bending staples. I have seen moons like this and felt the pull. Moons in Vermont have watched stir up nnoun-
 tain;
 Moons on the Arno flowing by like sleep, The terrace bushes fiocks of huddled sheep; Moons dripping gold on stone dogs in fountain, Moons that sail swiftly, and moons that creep. But have never seen moon come burning In such fierce triumph as this moon that here Reddens the bars of cloud and blazeS clear The dark Monhegan ocean, red with yearning Of hearts come westward, hearts too high to fear. First 1t was dark across the sea- and sat doubting. A lighthouse flashed. The sky was as before. I heard the slap of waves upon the shore Then strange and wonderful and wild and shouting The moon came through and can say no more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-28
France's Blood Runs Away

Eighty per cent of the industrial work CTS of France are in the zone occupied by the Germans, and almost 75 per cent of the agricultural production of the coun- try is also in that zone. The Germans chose we'll when they enforced their armi- stice terms on a prostrate country.
 to France. Thus the manpower, the Skill, the raw materials, the products of the good land of France are being pumped in- to Germany for the purpose of strength ening that country SO it can hold France in even closer subjection in the future. The longer the occupation goes on, the weaker France will become. And that, too, is part of the German plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-28
A Thought for Today
1t Was the Workers"-But Alone?

Philip Murray is a professional leader of organized labor, and an able one. He is, generally speaking, a clear-headed, hard-headed man of integrity and stead fastness. In pleading aid to the defense program, Murray wrote letter to Pres ident Roosevelt in which he said, Ut is the workers of the nation who struggled to establish American democracy, and 1t is they who shall assure its preServa- tion." This is the language of a labor leader speaking for the benefit of his con- Stituents, and it should be assayed as such. It is oratory. AS such, it needs shaking down.
 In the first place, when American democracy was established, there were few workers" in the sense of organized in- duStrial workers today, The plain men who enlisted in the Continental army bore the brunt of the struggle -- but they were mostly small farmers. There were many who bore an equally manful part in the struggle who by no stretch of the imagination could be classed as work CTS" - men like Washington, Jefferson, the Adamses, Hamilton, Morris, Salaman Wayne, Henry - the list is endless. To name them, is not to suggest that the plain man of America did not actually win his own freedom, or that 1t has not been the plain people who have nlain- tained 1t. Of course 1t was and of course it is.
 "The people" and "the workers" are not the same thing "The people" means all the people, the farmers the little 'hop-keepers, the foremen, the profes- iional men and women, yes, even the rich, who are also people. "The workers" has been narrowed by MarXian dinning to mean the urban proletariat, especially that part of 1t which is organized polit- lcally and economically. That's differ ent. It is certainly true that the plain people bore the brunt of the revolution ary struggle as they bear the brunt of all struggles and the burden of the world. But not alone
 The patriot cause was supported by cross-Section of the American people, Many people of wealth supported the Tory cause, but many quite plain people also preferred to sell their cattle or their labor for British gold. It has even been maintained that the patriots were mi nority of all the coloniSts, but even If that were true, the patriots were united not by class or position, but by convic- ton and love of freedom, regardless Of how they got their living.
 4V AS tAlS AdSU L44aV t4AS FAAAASAASalA ASNS- luton had invaluable support from every class and condition of Americans that made the American revolution different, and gave American society its perma- hence. Today we shall preserve our lib- critics in the same way, not through the workers" alone, basic and indispensa- able though their part surely IS, but through all the people. Phil Murray is sensible man. After climbing down from the stump, we think he would be first to admit these things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-28
Views Of The Press

zationS, smack of opportunism and affection: The Librarian of Congress has only recently pointed out the great extent to which the library shares with the press and the uni- verSitles the task of Interpreting America to Americans. The libraries have on hand, and will continue to gather, the raw materials of the thoughts with which public opinion can and will assist in shaping the future. The task is theirs and they are ready.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-28

total collection of ge24 per cent. m fact, city officials didn't expect to top that figure in 1941, but they have already, so apparently the sky - in this instance 100 per cent = is the limit. The Municipal Finance Officers Association investigated Norwalk's fine record and ascribed it to (D, plenty of publicity and advertising; (2), good periodic reports to the taxpayer; (S), diligence in getting after deliquents;. (4), efficiency and courtesy in the tax office.
 No miracles have been accomplished, but first-class job Is being done. And the taxpayers are right in the forefront in doing the job