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Evening star., 1947-03-23
Nursing Glass Urged
Al Teacher Colleges
AsChiId Health Step

Health Officer George C. Rutland
is in favor of teachers colleges Civ
ing prospective teachers adequate
training in first aid. hygiene and the
rudimentS of nursing as an aid to
the present shortage of nurses.
DR.. Rutland issued a statement
yesterday in reply to charge made
at meeting of the District Tuber-
culosis Association Friday that
Washington school children get only
Is per cent of the public health
nursing they require.
I'VE now have about 100 nurses
assigned to the schools in Washing
ton," he said. 1--WE need at least
500. But we are unable to obtain
the necessary nurses. We are not
only short in nursing facilities in the
schools, but also in the hospitals and
clinics in the city.
Chance to Observe Health.
eff the teachers had adequate
training in the teachers colleges, I
believe they would be very effective
in preserving the health of their
pupils. The teacher sees the pupils
at close range for five hours q day,
five days a week, and would be in a
good position to observe the health
of her charges. When she saw the
first symptoms of any health irregu-
larity, she could then turn them
over to nurse or a physician for a
more thorough examination"
This system has been tried out
to some extent in New York, he
said and the teachers were en-
thusiastic.
DR.. Rutland said it was impos-
sible with the number available at
present to have nurses all day in
the 145 graded schools here and to
do so would place a heavy burden
on the taxpayers. He said that the
most reliable medical opinion was
that there should be one nurse to
every 1000 or $500 OF total popu-
lation and the Health Department
was doing everything in it's power
to recruit additional nurses and
VI 1IlE w 6CI yooAA6 WOlAiSlA w oeAnS
the necessary training to become
registered nurses. Even an addi-
tional number of practical nurses
would help relieve the burden, he
said.
Fund Request Entered.
In any. appropriation bill now
before Congress for the next fiscal
year, the Health Department is
asking money for additional nurses.
The bill provides for "a additional
nurses at Gallinger Hospital and
"a student nurses. In his budget
requests, DR.. Rutland had asked
for 300 additional nurses, but the
Commissioners for reasons of econ
omy cut the request to u.
For the Glenn Dale Tubercular
Sanatorium the Health Department
asked so additional nurses and so
hospital attendants. The Commits
sioners pruned this to 20 nurses
and % attendants
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Four Towns Hcnored
For Sufety Records

Frostburg, Md, and three towns
in Virginia have been placed on the
honor roll Of the National Safety
Council for completing 1916 without
a traffic fatality, 1t was announced
yesterday in Chicago.
Those in Virginia include Harri-
sonburg, Radford and Waynesboro.
A total Of 153 communities in the
Nation with populations between
5000 and 10000 were honored by the
council
Evening star., 1947-03-23

Brdllle printing presses are avail
able in many cities throughout the
country.
Shellacking is most important
part of the process of preparing
Braille books. Paper used for Brazil
ling hand copies is smooth and pill
able, known as jute tag Manila. A
thinner paper may be used for press
copies. The back of every page Of
Brailled material to be bound into
books requires a coat of shellac to
keep the dots firm. Once such paper
is properly shellacked, it will last
indefinitely.
Two parts Of liquid white shellac
to one part denatured alcohol are
mixed by thorough stirring to form
the shellacking material. 1T is then
applied with a camel's hair brush
having bristles about an inch and
half long. The liquid must be
applied exactly right as too thin
hardening the dots, and too thick a
mixture either fails to enter the de-
pressions or seeps through broken
dots and makes them sharp and un-
comfortable to the touch. The mar
gins or blank parts of page are not
coated.
Work slowed During War.
The shellacked pages then are
dried in wire basket dryers" before
they are assembled into volumes.
This is done to prevent the pages
sticking together. Duplication is
the production of multiple copies
of Braille from master copy which
previously had been Transcribed.
Before the war the Jacob Jones
Post performed many of the needed
operations, but during the war other
activities confined their work to
shellacking. In 1916 the members
did 5,165 pages or 81 volumes for
the Library of Congress. With post
war activities gradually being re-
sumed, the post is considering re-
turning to the full-time basis Of
the project.
| Women who have been Brailling
for more than 20 years for the post
are Mrs. Ethel j. Rule, Miss Jane
Breen, Mrs. Mayme Smith, MIS-.
Cora L. Drake, and Mrs. Mary
Tatspaugh. Three members work
ing for more than Is years at
Brailling are Miss Jane Coy Miss
Elizabeth Geary and Miss Hope
Knickerbocker.
More Books Available.
The Division of the Blind at the
Library of Congress, of which
Xenophon P. Smith is director, Is
the central agency for Braille books
and other reading aids for the blind.
There are 2,877 Braille book titles
available. But these are works Of
general appeal. Where single copies
are needed, such as texts for stu
dents, printing costs preclude this
method of production. Here in
dividuals or organizations using the
stylus method or Braille writers"
take up the task.
Where there were less than $780,
900 volumes for the blind readers in
1881, the Library of Congress by
1916 distributed 643, 1855 volumes to
these readers through its Is regional
distributing libraries. The books
remain the property of the Library
of Congress, though the blind may
keep them so long as they wish.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Redeve|opment Unit
To Begin Planning
|For S|um Clearance

The new District Redevelopment
Land Agency plans to begin work
this week on it's part in the big job
of reclaiming the Capitals slum
areas.
Chairman Mark Lansburgh an
nounced yesterday the five-man
body will seek a conference with the
Commissioners and the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion to discuss the program.
Mr.. Lansburgh, head of the Lans-
burgh g. Bro. department store, was
chosen chairman of the unsalaried
agency by vote of its members.
They were sworn in Friday.
Accepts Center Offices.
The agency has accepted the offer
of the Commissioners to provide
space for it in the Municipal Center
Mr. Lansburgh said.
Although the agency was estab-
lished to administer a $40 900, ,00C
revolving fund-not yet appropri-
ated-it has no money with which
to hire clerical assistance. Mr.
Lansburgh said this matter will be
one of the first taken up at the
conference this week.
Before Congress is asked to ap-
propriate the revolving fund, the
Planning Commission must prepare
a master plan for slum clearance
here.
To Seek Bidders.
It has been indicated the Barry
Farms neighborhood, near st. Eliza
beth's Hospital; the Marshall
Heights area in the Northeast and
some blighted blocks in the South
west section would receive early
consideration under the progressive
rebuilding program.
When the $20,000,000 is made
available, the agency can begin buy
ing land in the areas chosen for
first attention. Construction bids
will be asked from private contrac-
tors and public housing bodies, such
as the National Capital Housing
Authority.
The land purchase cost will be
paid back into the fund gradually
from rentals received on the dwell
ing units. This money, in turn, will
be used to buy more land in other
rundown sections.
Low Income Housing.
Since the plan is expected to sus-
tain itself in this manner, it is con-
templated the $20,000,000 eventually
will be returned to the Treasury.
The act creating the agency pro.
vides any housing built under its
terms by a public agency may be
occupied only by families in the
lowest fifth of the Districts popula.
ton with respect to income.
The size and upper limit OF this
group is not known definitely. Be.
cause of this. it Is expected Censu!
Bureau survey will be sought to OBJ.
tain this information.
In addition to Mr.. Lansburgh, The
agency is composed of District AS.
SCISSOR Edward A. Dent, George A
Garrett. investment broker; Richare
r. Atkinson, lawyer, and James E
CollifoWer, fuel merchant.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
One Dead, 5 Injured
In Traffic Accidents
In Washington Area

One man was killed and four wom-
en- and a girl, IL, were injured, one
critically, in traffic accidents yester-
day within the District area.
The dead man was identified as
Murray McCarty, So, who authori-
ties believed lived in Washington
but for whom no address immedi-
ately was available.
He was killed by an automobile
as he was walking across the Wash
ineton- Baltimore boulevard foul
miles north of Laurel, Md, early
last night.
Maryland State Police said the
driver of the car was Willard Rus
sell Parson, 20, of Baltimore. Tech
nical charges of manslaughter were
placed against him pending an in
'vestigation, police said.
Mr.. McCarty's body was taken to
the Higinbothom Funeral Home in
Ellicott City.
Car Hits Pedestrian.
Lois Donnelly, "a, colored, Of 1918
Fourth street NV, is in critical
condition at Emergency Hospital
police said. after being struck by
an auto at Ninth and F streets NV.
The automobile was driven by Jes-
sic B. Ellis, ga, of the 100 block of
Maryland avenue NE, according to
police, who charged Mr.. Ellis with
driving with bad brakes and failing
to yield the right-of to a Pc
destrian.
A taxicab driver, Bronson A. Row
20, of the 14O0 block of Canal street
S.W.. was charged by police with
colliding after the cab he was driv-
ing struck another car at Thirtieth
and Douglas streets NE, injuring
one woman in each vehicle.
The driver of the other automo-
bile was Margaret S. Birch, 30, of
2138 Thirtieth street NE, and her
passenger, Elva Davis, 63, of 2408
Thirtieth street NE, was thrown
from the automobile She is in an
undetermined condition at Casualty
Hospital.
A passenger in the taxicab, Ruth
Mulhattan. 10, of Georgia Hall
Arlington Farms, was treated for a
head cut at Casualty Hospital.
Woman and Daughter Hurt.
Meanwhile, police last night ar
rested suspected hit and run
driver late last night, more than
eight hours after a woman and her
daughter were injured in another
accident
The man, Maryland w. Spencer
%. of the first block of F street NV.
was arrested at his home, police
said. He was charged with leaving
the scene of an accident after col
liding, failing to give the right-of-
way and driving without a District
permit.
The injured are Mrs. Evelyn
Booth. 43. of 1914 M street NE, and
her daughter Joan. IL. They were
passengers in a taxicab driven by
Cecil G. Boston. SO, of 4319 Albe-
marie street NV. The collision oc-
Cured at New Jersey avenue and K
streets NV.
Mrs. Booth was admitted at Cas-
ualty hospital with a possible brain
conclusion while her daughter was
treated and released,
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Howard U. Aide
On Inspection Tour

DR.. John Lowell, jr., director of
student affairs at Howard Univer-
sity, left last week on an inspection
tour of student personnel systems at
several universities, including the
Universities of Minnesota, Chicago
and California.
The tour is part of a study being
made by the Office of student affairs
of Howard University, looking to-
ward the establishment of a more
complete personnel system for the
benefit of Howard students, the
school announced.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Fraternity Elects Zook
A Member at LARGE

George F. zook, president of the
American Council of Education, was
elected member at large of Omi-
cron Delta Kappa Fraternity at a
meeting held yesterday at Lisner
Auditorium.
Mr.. Zook, who lives at 1885 N.
Glebe road, Arlington, said he has
been associated with the group. a
national honorary society for lead
ership, for about IS years. For the
last several years. he has served as
a members of the general council, he
said.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Mt. Vernon Group Asks
Tux Boost for Schools

The Mount Vernon section of the
Fairfax County League of Women
Voters has asked for higher county
taxes to meet demands for increased
and improved educational facilities,
it was announced yesterday.
Mrs. D. E. Mackelmann, mem
ber of the Tax Study Committee of
the section, said the assessed value
of real estate in the county should
be increased. She added that such
property is currently assessed at
only one-third Of its real" value.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Youth Council to Meet

The Bethesda Chevy Chase Youth
Council will meet at pm. tomor-
row at the Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School. All organizations in
the western suburban area of Mont
gomery County are invited to send
representatives,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18
PRODUCTION DECLINES

Four four successive months the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production physical vol ume) has registered a decline The postwar peak was reached last March when the index stood at l90- that s 90 per cent above the 39 base level In July the index stood at 178 drop of l2 points or slightly than per cent Fear of coal shortages well continuing shortages of sheet steel account for the July drop in the output of steel and auto mobiles. respectively. The board concludes that the June to July decline in the index due in part to temporary influences, and expects the August index to be somewhat above the July level
 Nevertheless, the farther prolonged decline in in dusria output dating from last March suggests that period of expanding industrial production may be behind At any rate it is warning that we cannot rely upon further production increases to relieve the strain on prices resulting from heavy domestic de- mands and abnormally large export demands. Indeed, with practically full employment already attained it is not to be expected that aggregate industrial out put will continue to expand indefinitely, although specific increases anticipated shortages of industrial raw materials that have held down duction in industries are overcome. Our prl- mary task at present is rather to hold the gains that have been achieved and to bring about the price and production adjustments that must be made to keep peacetime economy operating at capacity levels
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18

Charles Luckman, wonder-boy of American business who heads the Lever Brothers soap properties in the USA, was Icing entertained by Lord and Lady Leverhulme at their castle. His visit over, Luck man was packing his bags to leave for Boston when Lord Lcyerhulme came into bis room.
 In the open suitcase, his Lord ship noticed six cakes of Swan soap, made by the American branch of Lever Brothers Luckman had brought the soap with him to England.
 Chuck said Lord Leverhulme, hslf apologetically, T suppose you won't be needing that soap when you go lack to America"
 Not at all,'' said Luckman and picking up thc six cakes, he gave them to the head of the biggest soap company in the world.
 Lord Leverhulme had heen so careful to observe rationing that ee refrained from slipping a few bars of soap into his pocket when he left his own factory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18

tions to Moscow However, that is going the long way round to find the unpalatable side of the latest step in aid to Europe
 The wipng out of the Italian debt can better be considered the latest and largest single step in application of the so-caed Truman doctrine the policy of bolsterng Communist anti-C Communist gov ernments in Europe It is declared national pur- pose to for strengthening the demo- cratic elements in those European nations threatened by Communism, from within from without. To that end, we are giving help to Greece and Turkey.
 Italy is another of the nations wavering between democratic free enterprise and totalitarian control Soviet Union It is logical the Truman doctrine was approved by Congress to apply it to Italy along with some other nations of Eastern and Southern Europe
 Naturally Moscow will denounce this step as another example of dollar diplomacy, of "enslaving" European state by the use of enormous economic power This type of criticism should not trouble us. To extend help enabling a foreign country to re- establish it's currency and it's production is not a process of ensavement Rather, it is step in it's liberation
 Italy is not committed to particular brand cf democramy, to military alliance with against the Soviet Union. She is merely enabled to face the future with more strength and confidence She IS enabled to make her free choice to her future political and economic systems And that is all the Truman doctrine proposes to do-to enable those peoples predisposed toward democracy to in that direction, free from the internal pressures of their own Communist parties acting the fifth columns of the Soviet Union.
 If it is dollar diplomacy" to help foreign tries to regain their economic stability after the chaos of then it would that what the world most needs is still more dollar diplomacy"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18
Easing Points," Again
(New York WorldI

The Federal Trade Commission has charged the American steel industry with illegal prce-fixng and restraint of competition" In a formal complaint against the American Iron and Steel Institute of New York and it's members it states that there is conspiracy" in the industry to maintain identical price quotations steel
 There may be minor differences around the edges these charges concerned but funda mentally they represent neither less than revival of the old controversy the "basng point system of establishing steel prices The passing point system is in which the price of the product at any given destination is determined by the lowest com binaton of the price of the product at important producing centers, called "basing points,, and the cost of freight from passing point to destination Asso citation of the system with monopoly" prices arises mainly from the fact that it is devised to enable competitors to meet quickly any price given by an- other mill
 The argument for some system which will ac- compsh the last named purpose rests three special characteristics of the steel producing industry: D steel plant four tons of raw materials for every ton of finished steel that it turns out, and it is, therefore, vally important that it is located where such materials physically available; @ it must be not too far distant from the market and B the num- Der of steel plants is strictly limited by the crcum stances that such plant requires large capital investment and the demand for it's products is highly cycca in character.
 For many years the basing point system has been subjected to recurrent attack involving the fixing of uniform prices As practical matter, prices rep resent but form of competition in an industry such as steel. That the basing point system has not operated to produce monopoly clearly evident from two characteristics of the industry which cannot ceivably be reconced with that concept One of these is to be found in the comparatively low rate of return the fixed investment in the industry; the other be the great strides that have been made in steel from technoogca standpoint No alternative to the passing point system has yet been proposed which promises to avoid the creation of re- gional monopoies in very real sense of the term
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED may say bought the at Smiths Smiths the saione "at Smith the
 
 OFTEN MIsPRONOUNCED: Maniac. -ni-ak AT accent first syllable and man-yak
 OFTEN MISSPELLED Peritonitis three Is.
 SYNONYMS Banih, exile expel dismiss, transport
 three times and is yours" Let vocabulary Todays feeding seeds grain (Accent second sybe animals granvorous."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18
OUR NO. l ENEMY

It may sound hard to believe but the huge shortage of this year. s corn crop could be largely offset if the American people we're able to eliminate one factor in their eccnomy-rats.
 Most people don't realize it, but one healthy rat eats or spells around 100 pounds of grain per year And while it's impossible to count the rat population. h. terlor Department experts estimate that rats are almost double the human population-probably total ing 250000,000 in the U. S.
 Entirely aside from the disease which rats spread from privy to pantry, and the havoc they wreak upon the waterfronts of American seaports, their effect upon the food supply of the United States is almost beyond realization Pe- tween the time a farmer stores his corn in the fall and cleans out his corncrib in the summer, rats may have eaten the difference be- tween profit and loss for the year. In addition they spoil as much corn as they eat.
 If the food destroyed by rats could be shipped overseas, this alone would about save Europe from it's current danger of starv- atiOn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18

on farm overnight. However it is also deadly to other animals, and for that reason has not heen put into general use.
 Government experts recommend red squill as the best rat poison; i; also gas pumped into rats under ground burrows. Rat traps are too
 low for the prolific rodent, which reproduces about as fast as he can be trapped.
 Notc-The Library of Congress has now been purged of rats af- ter a lady was frightened ty ono in the leading loom last year. Officials feared that ravenous rod ents might make a diet of his- torical documents and paintings. Search of other Government build ings found no rats in the White House, though a few infested the White House lawn. There were plenty in the halls of Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18
COAL-CAR EMBARGO
 MODIFIED

The White House has vetoed a proposal by J. Monroe Johnson chief of the Office of Defense Transportation, that coal shipments to Europe be stopped for a 30-day breathing period" to head off a possible coal shortage in the Uni ted tSates this winter
 ODT Boss Johnson argued that our coal stockpile was diminishing -ecause the coal being burned in the USA, plus exports to other countries, has been exceeding mine production.
 He told the White House that critically short gondola cars, used to carry coal to shipping ports for export, could be diverted for de- liveries to the domestic market during the 30-day "breather' per iod.
 The State Department, however, objected It feared repercussions in hard-hit European countries, chiefly France and Italy, if Ameri- can coal exports were cut off completely-even for a month.
 The ticklish question finally was referred to Commerce Secretary Averell Hartman, who now has issued a compromise directive cut ting our total exports to 4,050,000 tons for the month of October This is 20 percent decrease from exports in August, when a peak of 5,0O0,OO0 tons were shipped abroad
 Shipments to Europe will not be seriously affected by the 20 per cent export drop. Biggest pinch will be felt by Iceland. North Africa and other European users of American coal.
 (COPYRIGHT. l947. BEII, SYNDICATE. IHC)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-18
TRUMAN WAKES UP


 In his hand, Denny carried Broadcasting Magazine, mouthpiece of the big radio networks. an nouneing that he, Denny, was re- signing as FCChairman with White House radio adviser Reinsch takin2 his rlace.
 I'm not planning to rea:5n, MT President explained the puzzle ] FCChairmann, 'I,ut I will f you want me to
 Truman protested that it was all news to him, told Denry he need ed him on the EGG. had no inten- tion of letting Iii resign Never slow to catch point, Truman figured that Reinsch had plant ed the resignation story, was pull ing wires to get Denny out and himself into the EGG
 Result No l: J. Leonard Rein sch is very much in the Presiden- tial doghouse. Originally slated to accompany Truman to Rio de Janeiro, Reinsch's name was sud- denly scratched from the list The White House is now reported look ing for a new radio adviser.
 Result No g. Truman realizes he did an injustice to FCCommis- sioner Ray Wakefield by replac- ing him with Congressman Jones. Wakefield, a Republican who has made a conscientious career out of government was yanked off the FCC one day after Truman urged Princeton grads to make a career of government Conscience stricken, Truman now plans to make Wakefield either a Federal judge in California or a mem Der of the Federal Power Com mission-probably the latter.