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Evening star., 1942-03-06
Dartmouth Six Ahead

RYE, N. Y, March 6 R.-Dart-
mouth defeated st. Nicholas Club
1T hockey here last night, 7 to 8.
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Last weeks results-Yale, So: Co
lumbia. %; Dartmouth, 80; Navy,
So: Princeton, SO: Harvard, %.
Tomorrow's schedule - Columbia
at Harvard. Pennsylvania at Dart
mouth. Yale at Princeton.
Best performances:
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50-yard freestyle-Pulleyn, Yale, 235
Tvs. Navy.
1OO-yard freestyle-Johnson. Yale, 81 6
Tvs Columbla).
220-yard freestyle - johnson. Yale.
2.0q.9 Tvs. Dartmouth.
440-yard freestyle - Chouteau, Yale,
1904 Tvs. Dartmouth
150-yard backstroke = Dalnenbaum,
Yale. 1853 (vs. Dartmouthl.
200-yard Observation-Disclosures, Yale,
1853 Tvs. Dartmouth.
Fancy dive-Cook, Yale. 1873 pts. Tvs.
Pennsylvania.
300-yard medley relay-Yale CManvel,
Davidge. Pope, 2.599 Tvs. Dartmouth.
4OO-yard relay - Yale (MacLeman,
Keating, J. Liiley, Britton), 1856 VS.. Co.
lumhia).
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Exhibition Games

By the Associated Press.
Today's Schedule.
At st. Petersburg. Fla.-New York tA)
vs. St. Louis (N0.
At Long Beach, Calif.-Philadelphi tA)
At Havana, Cuba.-Brooklyn NJ vs..
Cuban All-Stars.
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Yesterdays Result.
Philadelphia (A). IA; Hollywood P.
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totals 844 Totals----14 II
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

ted for glasses would find that he felt so much
better that he would become eye conscious and
become steady customer, for the rest of
his life, for eye doctors.
There is another kind of saboteur of the
nations war effort in industry He is the
workman on some dangerous task who
fuses to wear protective goggles Most work.
men are sensible enough to know that these
goggles are for their own protection and not
something which efficiency experts thought
up to plague the working man.
1t is not a pleasant thought but each year,
even in peacetime some 1000 eyes are lost in
industrial accidents. Another 100000 work.
men suffer eye injuries without losing the
organ of vision itself.
This problem of making workmen wear
goggles in grinding operations and such tasks,
is not merely one of supplying the men with
their goggles. Some workmen are so obstin-
ate about it that they wear only the frames
without the protective layer of glass At a
glance they seem to be wearing their goggles
but they are totally without protection.
Sometimes, too workmen are injured while
wearing their goggles because they push them
up on their foreheads to get them out of the
way while measuring the size of the piece
of work on their lathe, at the same time
leaving the machine running.
In such cases it has been found that the
goggles are usually of poor glass which really
distorts the vision and makes close and ac-
curate work impossible.
There is still one final way that the war
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

SABOTAGE
YOURS

One method is to make a survey of work
ers vision and place them on tasks where
their eye defects, if not too serious, will not
matter.
Thus a near-sighted matchmaker would
probably be a fine workman on bomb sight
assembly job where he would have to get his
nose practically into his work
But it would be unfortunate for such a
near-sghted man to work on great lathe
where he would have to make micrometer
readings at distance of 80 inches. However
if he had special glasses which focused at
50 inches instead of the usual Is inches, he
could get along fine.
Such glasses, known as occupational spec
taces, can be ground to order. In the ordinary
peacetime world they are often used.
Some organists, for example, have special
trifocal glasses made which will give them
three points of focus on the three banks of
the key board. They can thus see all banks
of keys and the music all in focus at once
by this ingenious feat of the optical profession.
Then. too. some workmen in cotton mills
always have to look up instead of down at
their machines. If these men need glasses
they can get bifocal spectacles with the close
up near-focus part at the up side of their
glasses.
Some radio announcers and radio artists
have special glasses which focus to the side
so that they can stand before a microphone
and talk right into it while, all the time,
their vision is on script placed at one side.
The idea of such occupational glasses, de-
signed for special and unique jobs, has hardly
been tapped at all in the war effort, according
to Michael Julian director of the Better VII
sion Institute, New York City.
What seems TO be the answer is 10 make
wide surveys of vision among workmen In
this way increased production by better vision
is a real possibility.
Such a movement would not be the old
speed up"
Production would be increased because
the men would be doing better and faster
work with no more effort than they now.
And they would feel better, Instead of going
home at night with a headache from eye
strain they would have only the normal tired
ness that comes from doing a good days
work
Nor would such a program mean that in
dustry was taking over the prerogatives of
the medical profession Every workman fit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21


vision, according 10 Harry H. Immel Of the
Pennsylvania state Department Of Labor. This
is the lessened output and greater risk OF
night work. Says Mr. Immel:
Might work under faulty or inadequate
illumination causes eye strain. Moreover.
there is often a let-up in the safety supervi-
sion of a plant at night. Night shifts OF
workers in industry show a larger number Of
accidents than are experienced in the same
plant in the daytime with the same number
of workers"
Mr.. Immel urges periodic inspections OF
workers vision TO see when age, or some other
physical change, demands glasses or a change
of glasses
Workers have always been riskng their
own eyesght by not having their vision cor
rect at all times. But because il was pretty
much their own problem nobody cared greatly.
But now the nation cares and something must
be done.
What can be done is shown by one COM
pany which supplied 200 of its workers with
needed glasses and installed a new lighting
system in its plant. The output of the plant
then rose 1857 and the quality of the out
put increased by another 2OcS.
Translated into an industry like bomber
production, and if the same ratio of gains
would hold true there, this would mean that
for every 100 bombers an extra 20 Flying
Fortresses could be produced. And they would
be better planes.
Vision for Victory is indeed the way TO
crack the Axis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

adaptability so that it can no longer auto
matically compensate for defects that may
have been present from birth.
In the younger years such eyes adjusted
themselves like visual robots, 10 the diff
cultes inherent IN them. But after 40 they
lose this power and glasses may be needed.
Moreover for a period of years, the eyes
may be changing so that Acknowledgment
eye examinations are needed TO secure the
proper optical corrections in glasses.
Speaking az the recent meeting Of the
Pennsylvania state College of Optometry at
Philadelphia, Mr. Matthews advocated a
number Of ways to spur production through
better vision
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

But NOW. WIN the naLOn sTIdnng
every effort 10 increase production, such
wastage cannot be tolerated. II is sabotage
Just as much as If German or japanese
agents hired worEmen TO make mistakes and
slow down production.
Such was the pattern Of France in its war
effort that led 20 Frances downfall. Amer-
cans must not permit the same thing 20 hap
pen here regardless of whether II comes from
the bribe-funds OF enemy agents or from
just plain and patriotic ignorance
According 10 Walter w. Matthews mem
Der Of the American Society Of Safety Engt-
necrs the visual eye defects among workers in
industry become most prevalent at. and after.
40. II is then that the eye loses some Of its
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

Workmen Risk
Their Eyes and in
So Doing Sabotage
Our War Effort by
Not Wearing the
Many Devices Pro-
Vided for Their Pro-
lection. Industrial
Accidents Claim
1000 Eyes Annually
at a Cost To the
Nation of
$50, 900, 900.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21
By ROBERT ID. POTTER,
Science Editor, The American Weekly.

Science Editor, The American weekly
-HE Federal Bureau of Investigation in Wash
ngto is rounding up hundreds of spies and
u saboteurs and the public rightly appauds.
But in the nations industries there a mil
lion saboteurs The f. b. l. is powerless to touch
them
These saboteurs are all patriotic American citi-
who working hard, each in his way, to
help the effort. Their only trouble is that
they have defects in their vision and cannot see
as well they ought to.
Maybe they have to grind shells TO exact
size and cannot read their. measuring instruments
properly. They finish the shells pass them on for
inspection and the shells are rejected Money and
material and time are lost. tthife the money and
material be replaced in many cases. the time
is gone forever.
These workmen need glasses. Or, if they
glasses they need TO have them checked and
adjusted to meet new needs. Perhaps they even
need special industrial glasses that make it
possible for them TO work far better
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

effort is being sabo-
tagged by faulty
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-21

o1an by American Woody Britain Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1942-07-03

full Of grass, found him hard at
work throwing out all that she had
put there just as she had thrown
out his nest in the first place. At
once Mrs. Bully few into a terrible
rage. Dropping the materials she
had taken such pains to collect she
darted forward, screaming shrilly.
OF course, this brought Bully In a
great hurry, and together they
rushed to get Skinner out.
But now the tables were turned.
1t had been comparatively easy to
keep him out, but now that he was
in they found that getting him out
again was no easy job. Sitting in
his doorway ne bravely struck blow
for blow. and as they couldn't get at
him from behind they had to fight
face to face. Mrs Skinner was
helping all she could by darting In
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Uncle Roy's Corner
Nv RAMON COFFMAN

Many legends about trees are tole
tn the South Sea Islands.
In the Tonga Islands, native.
speak about toa a-tree, which grew
clear up to heaven" In the Bank
Islands people say that god named
0uat climbed very tall tree and
escaped from enemies.
The old-time faith Is gone, or al
most gone, in New Zealand. but for
a long time the Maoris supposed that
trees stood for the powerful god
Tanay. They declared that birds
were his children.
Natives of Tahiti plant trees near
temples. They believe that gods live
in the trees.
There is widespread belief in the
god. kangaroo, among natives of the
South Sea Islands. This god is said
to be lord of the waters and of fishes
One legend tells how he made other
gods out of chips from the aito-tree.
In the FIJI Islands, tree leaves are
thrown ION the spot where the last
evening shadow falls"
Trees have great value for those
island folk. They supply shade from
the hot sun and lumber for boats
and houses. Fuel for fire is an
other extremely important use for
trees on islands where there are
no coal mines.
Many South Sea Island natives say
that trees, stones and waves are the
homes of spirits. Smoke and steam
also are honored as spirit homes"
Priests of Tahiti have declared
that when rats squeak" or when
Evening star., 1942-07-03
BY LiIIion Cox Athey

she has given them their supper.
They are sheltered by the leaves,
and if 1t should rain, they have on
waterproof fur-coats. When she
returns, she gently dislodges them,
hangs them about her neck and
goes fast to sleep.
Bats are more like goblins Of the
air. But they really are quite
chummy once you make a pet OF
them. They learn to take food from
your fingers, and they stick out their
pink tongue to capture any morsel
that may have escaped them at first.
They have a sharp little squeak. no
song or other mode of expression.
In watching bats race through a
lighted room, it is almost beyond
belief how expertly they dodge every
piece of furniture. Their vision is
remarkably keen, but it Is their
sense of touch that keeps them the
proper distance from any object.
The wings of bats would be more
truly described as abnormally-
webbed fore feet. The bones of the
forearm and the fingers are length
ened and drawn out to such an ex-
tent as to form long slender bones
supporting the thin, dark parch-
ment- like skin which we call the
wing. This almost naked skin Is
connected with the hind feet and
the tail When stretched, it is used
as birds do their wings, and often
more efficiently.
Watch for the little brown bat
this summer. Look behind shutters
in dark corners of buildings and
hollow trees. Become better ac-
quainted with these little folk
They are doing their part in making
the world a pleasant place to live
in, and they deserve your protection
Evening star., 1942-07-03

still feared and killed. Yet they
keep the air free of many trouble
some insects, and they are far less
harmful than the housef1y.
When the baby bats arrive tthere
are nearly always twins. the
mother nurses them, never leaving
them alone. When it is time for
her to go out for dinner, she care
fully places the tiny sharp fingers
about her neck, where they cling
tight. Then she takes of with her
babies holding fast as she skins over
treetops, through branches and
around buildings, chasing an elusive
insect.
AS soon as the babies can be left
safely at home. the mother hangs
them on the branch Of q tree after
Evening star., 1942-07-03
and striking Mr.. and Mrs. Bully and
then darting away before they could

and striking Mr.. and Mrs. Bully and
then darting away before they could
strike back. Such racket as there
was in the Old Orchard! All the
neighbors hurried over to look on
and encourage the Skimmers, and
everybody did a great deal of
screaming.
At last Bully closed his eyes to
keep them from being hurt and
forced his way in at the door. After
a hard fight he managed to get
Skinner by the back of the neck,
and being the stronger dragged him
out bodily, where Mrs. Bully flew at
him like the little feathered fury
that she was. Poor Skinner was
glad to take the first chance to get
away. He was beaten and he knew
1t.
TITS Of no ase," ne said sorrow-
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nest in the house they had taken
from Skinner.
At first Mrs. Bully kept close
about the door while Bully brought
the hay and dead grass with which
to build the nest He worked as
hard as ever he could but he couldn t
find the material and bring it as
fast as she wanted it, and she
scolded him soundly for being so
slow. At last she grew so impatient
that she began to make little short
trips herself. Gradually these trips
became longer and longer, so that it
happened that, with both away. the
house was unguarded for quite a
little while sometimes.
Skinner saw this, and watching
his chance darted down and into
the house during one of these times.
Mrs. Bully. returning with her bill
Evening star., 1942-07-03
we nest in the house they had taken

dearly I would hate to feel that we
were driven out by those upstairs
from the city. One thing they can't
do and that is stop us from flying
where we please"
So forthwith Skinner and Mrs.
Skinner spent all their time in the
air cutting wonderful circles and all
kinds of fancy figures high in the
air over the Old orchard. But while
they were doing this they were all
the time looking down and watching
their old home. Bully and Mrs.
Bully didn't know this, or if they
suspected 1t they didn't care. They
were SO sure that they had given
Skinner and Mrs. Skinner such a
beating that they would not dare
come back to flght again. So they
went to work at once to build their
Evening star., 1942-07-03

children talk in their sleep, spirits
are making themselves heard.
Among the brown-skinned people
Of Tahiti are some who believe that
their chiefs have turned into gods
Even the common man may have no
fear of death. because he looks for
ward to pleasant life as spirit.
The last few centuries have
brought important changes in the
South Sea Islands. Whites have set
tied on them and have given some
Of their customs to the natives.
Christian missionaries have led
thousands of natives to give up their
former faith. On some islands al
most all of the natives have joined q
Christian church, but on other
islands many of the people have kept
their old ideas about religion.
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If you want a free copy Of the
illustrated leaflet, "Your Body ut
Work" send me Scent stamped,
self addressed envelope, in care
of The Evening Star
I~c&x iSa4
Read Uncle Ray in The Junior Star
Every Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-07-03
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS

Although Skinner the Swallow
and Mrs. Skinner had been driven
from the Old Orchard by Bully the
English Sparrow. who had stolen
their home, they did not at once
give up hope
"We1l let him think that he had
driven us away" said Skinner, but
we'll keep always on the watch and
if once he and Mrs. Bully leave the
house unguarded we will make an
other effort to get 1t back. They
are stronger than we are. but even
II did not love the old home 50
Evening star., 1942-07-03
NATURES CHILDREN
BROWN BAT.
fMuotis lucffuQuS)

You hear more about the little
brown bats in summer because they
can be seen fitting about when the
shadows fall and there are insects
in the air 1t is said that bats are
the queerest animals we have. Any
way, they are among the most inter-
esting and harmless.
Being night workers and given to
concealing themselves during the
daylight hours, when they sleep,
these valuable friends of ours are
seldom seen. But we know they are
warm -blooded, furry creatures that
live in dark corners of buildings or
hollow trees and sleep hanging up
side-doWn. For some reason, we
have been told strange stories about
them, and the pity is that they are
Evening star., 1942-07-03
BY MiIburn Rosser.
BY Art Huhto
BY Harold Groy
BY Fronk Willard
BY Will Eisner
Bud Fisher

fully as Mrs. Skinner tried to
comfort him. They've got the
house and we are not strong enough
to get it back We've simply got to
hunt new house, and I suppose
the sooner we do it the better
Il suppose So" replied little Mrs.
Skinner sadly.
Evening star., 1942-07-03
n~cA iea4
Take My Word for 1t

Hitier's AiIing Generals
Ever since the genial Don NC
Neil read my Ten Little Generals
jingle on the Breakfast Club pro-
gram, hundreds of readers have
asked that it be reprinted. One all
force cadet says, I'll mimeograph
a million copies and drop them over
Berlin"
Ten little generals
With brass hats ashine;
One killed in action
And then there were nine.
Nine little generals,
So sad to relate:
One tested a new weapon
And then there we're eight
Eight little generals
With no thought of Heaven;
One had heart trouble
And then there were seven.
seven little generals.
Standing straight as sticks;
One had "apoplexy'-
And then there were six.
Six little generals
Glad to be alive;
One had breakdown
And then there were FIVE.
Five little generals,
Shaken to the core:
One failed at MOSCOW
And then there were four
-Four little generals.
Rather weak of knee,
One developed Cancer
And then there were three.
Three little generals,
Trembling and blue;
One retired to new positions =
And then there were two.
Two little generals.
Frankly on the run:
One was decorated
And then there was one.
One little general.
Panic stricken Hun.
Forgot to Hell" Hitler
And then there was none.
Send a stamped (3-cent, self
addressed envelope today to
Frank Colby, in care Of The
Evening Star. Ask for FAMOUS
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nuciations of names Of important
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Evening star., 1942-07-03
Chilean City Broudcusts

Punta Arenas. Chile. has estab-
lished its own broadcasting station
and terms 1t The Voice of the
South"
Evening star., 1942-07-03
New Ponumu Stomp

Panama has issued 5000, 900 one
cent postage stamps to raise funds
for It's new cancer institute.
Evening star., 1942-07-03

Invest your dollars now in War
bonds. They will put the japanese
empire on a crash basis. And 10
per cent Of your pay, put in War
bonds now, will be sound invest
ment indeed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-28
Robot R aid
Warden Cuts
Off Current
BY G.. b. LAL

International News Service Science Editor
INVENTION of electrical ro-
- bot air wardens and traffic
officers" that automatically
BLACK OUT lights and change
green traffic signals to red, has
been disclosed at Yale Univer-
sity.
These robot wardens and
traffic officers" are devices that
are operated by radio appara-
tus. They are built on the same
principle that is found in target
ships, planes and automobiles
operated by remote radio con-.
troll.
nRS. DERICK f.
~ BROOKS and Herbert L.
KrauSs, members of the Yale
University's faculty of electrical
engineering, explained that their
devices are designed for the fol-
lowing uses:
You can black out, with their
aid, entire sections OF n city IL
such action Is necessary.
THE devices eliminate human
action In backing out entire
apartment houses. office build
ings and blocks Of streets.
THE whole system consists Of
two separate appearances, one is
a sender Of high frequency radio
waves, the other Is receiver,
operated on the same frequency.
"Only one of the units is nee
essary IL IL is tuned TO your local
radio station. When the blackout
Is ordered and the radio station
goes off the air, a switch Is
closed In the apparatus, and all
the connected lights 20 off i'm
mediately.
"When the all-clear signal Is
sounded, the lights autOmati-
cally go on again."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-28
r AM CONVINCED that If tn

r AM CONVINCED that. If the
proposition of a national lot
terry was submitted to popular
vote, an Overwhelming senti-
ment in favor of the draft would
be disclosed, especially if the
purpose was raising funds for
the relief of families of men in
the army and navy.
Such a vote is not feasible, of
course, though the nearest thing
to it, a national poll. has already
demonstrated that my predic-
ton cannot be far wrong. How
ever, if those favoring the lot
terry who have been writing me
would write their congressman
in Washington in similar terms.
ii might show the gentlemen
how the wind blows.
Congressional action can pro-
duce the lottery. / am told that
many statesmen favor the idea
and are only dubious about the
possible reaction to their advo-
cacy of it among their constitu-
entS back home.
You see. the congressman are
thinking in terms of the days
before their constituents were
educated 10 lottery by such les
sons as bingo in many of the
churches and wings for
prizes in the movie theaters.
both of which are forms of
lottery.
The United States govern
ment uses a lottery to deter
mine the young men who must
Join the colors and / have heard
no objections to the system.
And. incidentally. the method
the government employs for the
draft is almost identically the
method / favor for a national
lottery because Of its utter SIM
plicity.
II is Just a drawing of num-
berS without any complicated
mechanics about il.
TlE thing that worries me
Il about possible congressional
action on a national lottery is
that il will come out in mixed