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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-06-05

pianist Eddie Watson were And
rene Frye, Gloria James, jeanne
Pasco, Eleanor Welman, Jacquel-
inc Collins, Shirley E. Thomas,
Joan Thomas, Ruth E. Ridley,
Thelma Robinson. Billy Ashton,
Joseph West, Thomas Vaughn,
Sammy Greene, June Hezekiah,
]. Nadine Alleyne, Maria Monty,
Dexter Calender, Lenny Nunley,
Ken Wingood, G. LETTERS, Jeri ia
xon, Christine York, Helene
King, Marjorie Morrison, Charles
R. Watson, Florence Cordice, Dav-
id Dickson, Bill Rollins, Roger
Rollins, Marvin Butler, Joan
Rhone, Beverly Parson, Nancy
Belle, Christine Rhoden, James
Rollins, Edward Christmas, Win
free Smith, Jr, Edward L. Clya-
ton, End, Horace Works, Ann
Cromwell, Stanley Belle, Carl
Smith, Robert Belle, Irene Hask-
ms, Kenneth Calender, George
w. Gaines, Donald F. Gaines, Bev-
erly COSBY and Hattie Afford.
Also present were Milton Sport,
Charles L. Beckles, Thomas Smith,
Donald Calender, John B. Rice,
Jr,, T. L. Roberts, Charles R. Hol-
man, Alfred ]. johnson, Claude
Bland, Rudolph Burt, I. B. Butler,
Bernice Hinkson, Kathleen VOL
colt and Tyler Abraham, with
host Joseph Souza seen here and
there.
Highlights of the afternoon were
the delightful vocal and clarinet
numbers by personable Leaguette
member Mary Ann Pena of Har-
witch.
Rev. Richard R. Early, Rev.
Noonan, Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Collins
cooperated generously. This was
the first charitable venture by
/ the Leaguettes who are working
as Volunteers for Resthaven. They
are Provisional Members of the
Resthaven League of which
Katherine II Watson is President.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-06-05

Inc death on tuesday OF love-
ly Maggie Walker Dowse, beloved
wife Of Johnnie" Dowse, at their
newly purchased home on Hum
bolt ave comes with increased
sadness to her relatives so re-
Gently bereayed by the death OF
Brother Will" Walker with
whom and Sister Minnie, Mag
gle made her home in her young
girlhood. Nan Walker Gill of
Cleveland, O., had arrived last
week one day before her sisters
return from Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital. Another sister, Beatrice
Walker Elmore, arrived from
New York the day of the death.
The latter's son Billie and Mrs.
Gill's daughter, Irma Talmadge,
also came to the funeral which
was on Friday at st. Cyprian's
Church. Maggie was one of the
sweetest, prettiest young brides
and her romance with Johnnie,
who is now inconsolable was one
of the charming love idyls of
the early part of this century.
Come July the couple would
have completed forty-one years
of happy married life Har-
riette Slawson Farley arrived
this week from her home in Buff
falo, N. Y. on her annual sum-
mer sojourn in the Hub, her
former home. She will spend the
entire month in the city the
guest of her friends Mrs. Mary
Milby of w. Canton st, and Mrs.
Gabrielle Budd Of Kendall st.
Many other friends will greet.
her and help make her visit
the pleasant one it always has
been on her numerous past visits
DR.. and Mrs. William Worthy
spent a day in Worcester last
week, the guest of their friends,
the Moses whose daughter,
Charlotte was celebrating a
birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Holt
Helen Worthy joined Helen's
parents at the festivity Mrs.
Ebba Stephens Perry is busy
with preparations for her annual
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1948-06-05

The State Of South Dakota is
outstanding in agricultural pro-
duction; its dairy and livestock
interests are large; its minerals
consist Of gold. silver and sew
eral other minerals. 1t was adj
nlitted to the Union in 1889.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09

more emphatically. Gone are the days
when this lowest form of folding money
would purchase a watch or enough steak
for the average family or couple of
pounds of butter. Today's dollar, accord
ing to Government economists, is worth
only fifty-eight cents, compared with that
of 1885, And its value is shrinking all the
time, as the present spiral of rising prices
goes its merry way.
So why not give some thought to the
poor old dollar as we'll as to the debated
nickel? What the average citizen these
days would like to see Is a bill that will
buy one hundred cents worth of goods
once again-goods of the same quality as
that which the green stuff used to buy in
the prewar, preshortage era.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Whut the Country Needs

What the country needs, says Repre-
sentative John w. Mccormack of MaSSa-
chusetts, is a seven cent nickel. He has
introduced a bill to authorize coinage OF
a seven-cent coin. Mr.. Mccormack points
out that imitation and the machine age
have left the five-cent nickel discredited
and unpopular.
This is all true enough as far as it goes.
but it does not go far enough If Mr..
Mccormack wants to render his country
a real service he will find some way of
providing the public with hundred-cent
dollar. Imitation has had its adverse effect
on the dollar, Just as it has on the nickel.
The one-dollar bill, too, has fallen into
disrepute.
OF the nickel Mr. Mccormack is quoted
as saving: THE f1ve-cent nickel just isn't
what it used to be. At present price levels
it is coin that can't do the work 1t is
supposed to do" The very same thing
can be said about the dollar bill, only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Atomic Tools for Research I
Radioactive Carbon Promises to Aid Many Laboratory
Projects, Especially in Biological Field
By Thomas r. Henry

nilic acid, necessary IN the BODY Tor the pro-
duction of tryptophane, one OF the essential
building blocks of proteins. From thousandth
of a gram of any of these newly syntheslzed
materials 100000 electrons are emitted per
minute.
For the first time it has been possible to
trace the activity Of these vital substances.
1t has been found. for example. that con-
siderable amounts of NICOTINE acid are taken
up by the red blood cells and chained up
in the insides of the cells so that they cannot
escape Then, as need arises they are used
in building up two extremely complex struc-
lures known as co-enzymes, which initiate
various vital physiological processes without
actually taking part in them Another dis
covery was that this ability OF the cells re-
mains intact after heavy doses of x-radiation,
thus eliminating one of the proposed reasons
for the dreaded radiation sickness. 1t was
found that p-amino-benzoic acid was broken
up and eliminated much more rapidly than
the nicotine acid or its neutrality-suspicious.
indicating that it is not quite as necessary
or that the body has not yet perfected
mechanism for capturing it.
Rubber Production Possibilities.
With the alarming rubber shortage at the
start of the war; much attention was given
to producing natural rubber from the desert
shrub guayule, the source of the elastic used
by the American Indians in their basket
balls reported by early explorers. Guayule
undoubtedly produces good rubber, but the
yield is small and the product costly. Using
carbon IA, scientists of the California Insti-
tute of Technology have been investigating
how the extremely complex latex molecule is
built up in the growing bush. This, it is
hoped, will open the way to breeding expert
ments. which will greatly increase guayue's
productivity.
At St. Louis University Vtamin K, the es-
sential substance which initiates CLOTHING of
the blood and without which any scratch might
cause victim to bleed to death, Is being syn
thesized with carbon IA. BY this means is will
be possible to carry out far-reaching studies
of the whole mechanism of clot formation and
into the precise cause of such diseases as
families, which has materially changed world
history during the last two generations
finding of far-reaching Importance in the
field of leukemia, the invariably fatal blood
cancer" has just been reported by the South
ern Research Institute of Birmingham, Ala,
When carbon IA was injected into leukemic mice
1t was found that they retained five or six times
as much of it as normal mice which eliminate
1t rapidly in urine and breath. There is the
possibility that one of the factors in leukemia
Is some failure on the part of the body to get
carbon into combinations in which 1t can
rapidly be eliminated after serving its pur-
pose. -.-.
lThe NTH article of this series will thi,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
This and That
Bv Charles E. TraceWeH

That heavy Sunday rain found two creatures
happy and contented
They were two slugS. commonly called snailS
They were out for a stroll in their curious
fashion.
The wetter the day, the more slug lives.
Moisture in the air and on the ground Is
their very life blood.
With more than four inches of rainfall that
day. these odd creatures were in their element,
literally and figuratively.
One came right along behind the other. its
nose touching the tip of the others tail.
In this position they seemed to be one long
snake, and struck the startled observer.
Snakes indeed!
There had been no snakes OF any kind in
this suburban community for many years.
Not even little ring necked one.
The observer was amazed-then he hap
pened to see that the apparent one creature
was really two living things.
Just Papa and Mama Slug, on a wonderful
happy day.
While warm blooded creatures, both in skin
and fur, kept close indoors, these slugs wan
dered on the front steps.
This wandering was of true snail variety.
1t took them at least five minutes to go
across the top landing and get on the edge.
Would they go over the edge in the same
manner one after the other?
They would
Over and down went the first one, with
the second trailing.
Then oyer went the second one.
4 Il
1t was difficult to see that they had any
real objective.
First the pair went to the west then turned
slightly to the east.
The steps were very wet the nodding bushes
by the side were even wetter.
The very air was wet.
1t was Just such day as appealed to such
things as slugs.
These terrestrial pulmonate gastropods were
enjoying their outing.
Sometimes each would move by itself, but
soon the second one, as it became known
hurriedly would go back to the first one
And so they went, down the steps. to vanish
at last in the yard, which was even wetter
Slugs are related to snails but the shell Is
buried or missing, in most cases.
These odd things travel on what is called
the foot"
1t secretes mucous. sticky substance which
gives the slug the ability to move along.
These trails often have a phosphorescent
CLEAN, and are easily seen on sidewalks and
basement walls.
Slugs live on vegetable matter Sometimes
they are very destructive to crops and to
plants ii Greenhouses.
Very small specimens not more than half
an inch long, will brush off leaves of shrub
berry and ak themselves to the neck or arms
of passersby.
The feeling is unpleasant but nothing to
worry about They may be lifted from the
skin without harm.
Nor Is there any need to hurt the slugs.
They offer. no particular hurt to any one,
even when found indoors.
Sometimes they occur in laundry tubs. be-
ing found on sh@fn the inner and outer
surfaces. They seekins moisture Snicn
| Ii their life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Our Summertime 'Gypsies

While Congress watched the calendar
until special-seSSion adjournment time
with all the fretfulness of Stenographer
with a heavy date at five, no group awaited
the departure of the legislators with less
patience than Washington's summertime
gypses. These white-collar vagabonds,
who take to the open road as soon as the
heat closes in are special local tribe
whose heraldry probably shows dangling
keys over an open door Their caravan Is
a taxicab, their campsite the nearest dwell
ing vacated by more fortunate friends.
Chief of the nomads is the homeowner
who leaves the city for Seashore or noun
tains. Under the casual rules, he is ex-
pected to make his establishment avail
able to an apartment occupant, who in
turn should give his keys to the least
privileged of all, the roomer. Everybody
moves, and everybody benefits. The tenn
porary lodger may take over light care
taking duties in the way of fiSh-feeding,
plant watering and mail forwarding,
while tasting the pleasures of different
way of life The apartment resident may
revel IN the delights OF suburban squiredom
and become a mower of lawns and clip
per of hedges The roomer, who for day
or two often does nothing more than
wander around with arms outstretched for
the sheer joy of not hitting wall, gen.
orally entertains madly. sleeps soundly
and breathes deeply for the first time in
year. In some cases it may be simply a
new arrangement of bricks to look out on,
but the change is as exhilarating as week
in Bermuda.
Longtime Washingtonians probably take
no more note of this shift in the popula-
ion than New Englander does of her
f-run, but to the newcomer 1t Is alb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Madame Rosiku Schwimmer

Rosika Schwimmer, who died last week
in New York at seventy, was distinguished
for a number of unusual attainments
She believed she was responsible for per-
suading Henry Ford to send his peace ship
abroad in 1915. She was a member of the
Hungarian Council which took over that
government on Germany's surrender in
1918 She was the first woman to hold
the rank of minister in diplomacy, repre-
senting Hungary In Switzerland. She was
a 1913 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was an outstanding feminist leader, of
her day.
But when all these things have been
forgot she still will be remembered as the
woman who provoked one of Justice
Holmes best-known diSsentS. And while
she never did become a citizen of the
United States, she lived to see the day
about two years ago-when the United
States Supreme Court reversed itself lin
the Girouard case) and the Holmes dissent
became in effect the law of the land.
At the age of fifty she applied for Amer
lean citizenship. She met all qualifications
save one, her refusal to swear that she
would bear arms in defense of her coun-
try. The Circuit Court of Appeals thought
the issue SO academic-for women were
not called on to bear arms-that it sided
with her. But the Supreme Court majority
of seven agreed with the Department of
Justice that her attitude, rather than the
actual question of bearing arms, was the
ruling consideration. And that decision
led Justice Holmes to write dissent con-
tanning few sentences that have become
imperiShable:
"The notion that the applicants opti-
mistic anticipations (She believed that war
eventually would disappeear) would make
her worse citizen Is sufficiently answered
by her examination, which seems to me a
better argument for her admission than
any I can offer. Some of her answers
might excite popular prejudice, but If there
is any principle of the Constitution that
more imperatively calls for attachment
than any other 1t is the principle of free
thought-not free thought for those who
agree with us but freedom for the thought
that we hate. = And recurring to the
opinion that bars this applicants way, I
would suggest that the Quakers have done
their share to make the country what it
is, that many citizens agree with the appli-
cant's belief and that had not supposed
hitherto that we regretted our inability
to expel them because they believe more
than some of us do in the teachings of the
Sermon on the Mount"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Replacing Vice Presidents

To the Editor Of The Star.
It Is encouraging to see the recent indlca-
tions of interest in making the vice presidency
a more responsible and useful ONCE. One con-
sideration always should be dominant in the
choice of a Vice President: Is the candidate
fit to be President? An increase In duties
and income-and yes, an official residence
should not only contribute toward that re-
silt hut should be of real value to our Gov
eminent. Perhaps the Vice President coulo
function as chief of STAFF for the CABINET
r,ossibly he could be co-ordinator for the
multitude OF independent bureaus, commits
sions and offices.
But there is q missing quantity In THIS
whole picture II the Vice President is
assigned all these important duties. and a
1T little White House" Is built for him, what
happens when he is called upon to assume
the presidency? My suggestion is that Con-
press should provide for filling the vacancy.
Already Congress has provided for the presi-
Dental succession but the vice presidency Is.
as at present simply left vacant. Under those
conditions, really important functions hardly
could be assigned to that office. whenever,
by reason of succession to the presidency
death of the incumbent or any other reason
the vice presidency Is left vacant, the House
OF Representatives, voting by States In the
manner provided for in the Constitution for
the election of President whenever no can
didate receives q majority vote In the Eiec-
toral College, should proceed to elect new
Vice President The present system Of presi-
dental succession then should operate only
when both the presidency and vice presi-
deucy were left vacant. SAM HOUSTON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
More About Teachers Pay

To the Editor Of The Star
Your distinguished and public-spirited col
umnist Lowell Mellett, should be congratulated
(and so should be The Star for treating us to
his Illuminating writings and thanked by all
who take the problem Of American education
seriously.
Mr.. Mellett's enlightening column on the
educational crisis, published on August S, should
be read by every parent, every teacher and
public official charged with caring for our
school systems, so much neglected by ire
sponsible politicians. 1t is high time for Con-
gress to do something to provide Federal aid to
local school systems that cannot afford to
build better schools and pay better salaries to
teachers The educational level Of our children
and youth will determine the course of future
progress and We dare not neglect educational
needs in favor of other less important needs
Why don't the newspapers publish more
articles dealing with schools, pupils and teach
ers? II we devote space to crime, juvenile
delinquency and other acute problems, then
WHY not devote Just as much space to the
best cure and prevention for these evils, pro-
vtding a good education for our youth. Also,
more men should be encouraged to enter the
teaching profession, to provide more firm lead
ership and discipline for the young people
In England in the Scandinavian countries,
and even in the Latin-American countries,
there are just as many men teachers, instruc-
tors, masters, and professors as women, and
the result is greater stability and better be-
havior on the part of the boys. OF course,
women teachers are doing fine job, but they
need the help of more men in the schools.
But first teaching salaries must be raised to
a level that self-respecting men can support
their families on their earnings in the schools.
PAUL DRINKWATER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Quota Acts ENDANGERED

To the Editor Of The Star.
Enemies of the immigration Quota Acts sue
ceeded in forcing through Congress, in this
election year, the Displaced Persons bill. They
seem dissatisfied, however, with the amend
ments Congress included. 1t is reported they
already are preparing drive to eliminate these
amendments Such action still further weak
ems the immigration Quota Acts.
When the Quota Acts were enacted, they were
called our Second Declaration of Independ-
ence" EDWIN GRANT.
San Francisco, Calf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
To on Owl

Your wanton Doice has scared away
My docile fold OF sheep
That tOas stepherdtng into
The deus OF sleep.
You nournful feHo,1 OF the dark,
Why must you doze In light,
Then whet your pords on Qutetuds
The lifelong night?
My pillotD pumped, 1pide eye for eve
hear you snap your benk
And listen to the silly tnords
You lore to speak.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09

sertee landlordism at it's most benevolent.
Naturally the unexpected return of the
lawmakers caused the displacement of a
number of these happily displaced people
but these employed Bohemians are most
adaptable and now that Congress Is going
home, they will return to their apartment
hopping until autumn sends them into
winter quarters, their restlessness soothed,
their broWs cooled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-09
Letters to The Star
Memories of Old Washington

To the Editor of The Star.
After an absence Of years, have returned
to Washington for short visit. The city has
changed in many ways, especially in size. And
there now Is huge population here When
1 came to town in 1894, Washington boosted a
populace of about 100000. 1t was friendly
city at the time, and one of the delights OF
that period was horse-drawn streetcar RIDE
from Ninth and F streets to the end OF the line
in old Georgetown. Mrs. E. D. E. N. South
worth, writer of many books, lived at the end
OF the carline, on an eminence overlooking the
Potomac.
The winter of 1894-95 was very cold, the river
froze to both banks, and one afternoon 1 walked
down Seventeenth street to view this phenom-
enon On the way the only evidence of civiliza-
ton was the old Van Ness mansion. trfum-
plant in huge area of swamp land, now
adorned by fine Government buildings
So many changes have taken place that
hardly know the old Washington of 1894 But
there are still few landmarks to be seen. The
clock on the old Post Office Building is visible
at the corner of Eleventh and the Avenue: and
the Raleigh, known in early days as the Kirk
wood House, still stands at the corner OF
Twelfth. 1t was In the Kirkwood House that
Andrew johnson was sworn in as President OF
the United States, following the death of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
street has changed, but the old Boston
House. now known as Woodward and Lothrop,
still is in evidence
The National Theater has closed its doors,
and it's curtain has fallen for the last time.
have seen great stars enthuse great audiences
in that playhouse. Anna Held was one, in her
first Washington appearance, when she sang,
Wont You Come Out and Play With Me?"
That was her theme song. And I saw E. S.
Willard in Tom Pinch" Henry Irving in Louis
the Eleventh. Joseph Jefferson in RIP Van
Wrinkle" Also at the National heard Robert
G. Ingersoll deliver his last lecture in Washing
ton 1t was likewise the last appearance Of
E. S. Willard Henry Irving and Joseph Jef1er
son before Washington audience.
Lake Worth, Fla. JOE ACORN.
"A Contrast in Spy Inquiries
To the Editor of The Star.
As your editorial "A Contrast in Spy Inquir-
les" has SO aptly stated, sit is regrettable that
the current spy Investigations at the Capitol
are not being conducted more along the lines Of
the somewhat similar inquiry by the Royal
Commission in Canada in 1896"
Intentionally, or otherwise, your writer
failed to state the main point of contrast
which is the very nub Of the situation. In the
Canadian spy expose the administration CO.
operated 1000 with the probers, whereas here
in the United States the administration not
only refuses to cooperate, but places every
obstacle in the way of the Investigations.
Your editorial land cartoon) approach to
the present congressional hearings is I'M
worthy of publication as highly respected as
The Star READER.