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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
New Slant on Little knowledge
By DR.. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN

People get into the habit
Of swallowing what they
hear without really think
ing through the import of
the remark. For example,
one man will hear, "Exer-
else is good for you," and
will proceed to go in for
rigorous exertionS-playing
10 holes of golf a day or
taking 10-mile walks. An
other will SenSibly ask him
self if he's a good candi-
date for exercise. Is his
heart strong enough?
Wouldn't it be better to re-
lax more?
AND so 1T is with this
remark: "A little knowledge
is dangerous" Some people
swallow this and refuse to
learn anything at all about
their heart, blood pressure,
ulcers or anything else per-
tanning to health. Very
often they are the ones who
cringe when, by accident,
they read the warnings
against cancer. AS a re-
suit, they are the most
likely to die of a cancer
which they didn't even sus-
pect-they don't believe in a
little knowledge"
Don't let anyone talk you
into believing that a little
knowledge is dangerous. We
{ who are interested in giving
you health information real
ize that we aren't lecturing
to medical students. We
don't expect you to be able
to diagnose or treat. We
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13
By THOMAS COLLINS

The second worst thing
you can be in retirement is
another old gent on a pen
SION" The first worst is
another old lady, etc. :"
But you don't have to be
either of them.
Listen to what follows
here-whether or not you
like what this man did
and. you may harvest some
unexpected benefits from
your years beyond age IS.
THE most pertinent thing
I have discovered since my
retirement two years ago."
says a bank official from
Ohio who is now living in
North Carolina, lis that all
retired people are a bunch
OF bananas. They're all the
same thing.
They aren't former
bankers for long. They
aren't anything very inter-
esting for long. They are old
folks on a pension. Every
body thinks so. Most peo-
pie say so sooner or later.
Just old gentlemen or old
ladies on a pension.
tits a phrase that begets
a reasonable amount of re-
spect from the public, and
usually a bit of sympathy.
Like helping the retired
folks on a bus or letting
them go into the elevator
first. But in the scheme of
life that we know it's a de-
grading status.
Seizes His Chance
II became conscious of
this during my first six
months of retirement in
North Carolina. But I
couldn't figure out what to
do about the matter until
one day when my Ohio bank
wrote and asked my opinion
on granting a loan to a ma
chine tool company. L
had specialized in such in
dustries during my last four
years with the bank.
Il wrote back my best
thinking on the matter-two
typewriter pages. Three
weeks later I got a letter of
thanks and a $3.50 check.
Two days after that 1
was no longer an old gent
on a pension I was a bank
adviser. I missed no bets in
letting everybody in on this
choice bit of intelligence.
And from that day to now
I am a cut above the old
folks on a pension who in
habit this retirement COM
munity where we live. l am
a bank adviser, even though
it has been eight months
since my old bank has asked
my opinion.
1T is from such stuff as
this that retired people lift
themselves from the dead
ening status of retirement"
Suggestions Offered
This retired banker, by a
simple strategy that certain
ly is pardonable, has set
himself apart as a more in
teresting fellow than the
rest, and he also has set the
stage for some lesser bank
to call on him for advice.
But what he has done, al
most any retired person can
do if he'll use Imagination.
CONSULTANT. This is a
catch-all word that fits re-,
tirement like a swim suit
fits a blond-and with logic.
A man or woman who has
spent 40-odd years in a
trade or profession is an ex-
pert, no matter how you
spell it. With rare exceptions
such a person has advice
and ideas that are useful
and salable. Where to sell
them: To a company or in
stitution that is smaller
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13
WORLD ECHOES
Odd items from the world
North American Newspaper Alliance

Odd items from the world
press:
CAMILLE OLIVE has been
spending some time in prison
for selling stocks that do not
exist. While there, he sue
ceeded in getting his prison
guard to invest his life'S
savings with him in other
stocks that do not exist. II
have a bad character" ad-
mitted Olive, land I love to
sell."-Le Meridional, Mar
settles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13

A DENTIST of Copenha-
gen has written to Khru-
shchev to offer him a dental
plate. From photos of Khru-
shchev the dentist reasons
that his teeth are placed in
such a way as to give him
migraine headaches. Khru-
shchev has not replied, but
other dentists are complain
ing that such publicity lacks
dignity .-Berlingske Athena
Wis, Copenhagen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13

THE ACADEMY of Humor
met to fill four vacant seats.
Eighteen men were nomi-
mated for the posts, and
the ensuing arguments and
fights were so serious that
the meeting ended in gen.
eral tumult. The humorists
agreed there was nothing
funny about it.-Paris Jour,
Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13

A PAKISTANI delivering
a package to a captain
aboard a cargo ship in Ka-
rachi was asked to wait
until the captains return.
He fell asleep and didn't
wake up until the ship was
$50 miles out to sea. He has
finally landed in Genoa and
intends to hitchhike home.
La Stampa, Turin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-13

ISMET KARABULU, who
specializes in gangster roles
in films, has been arrested
in Istanbul for keeping in
practice by committing sew
eral thefts. Among his VIC
tins is the producer of the
film he is, currently making.
The producer has paid mis-
bail so that shooting of the
film can continue.-Cumhu-
riyet, IStanbul.
Evening star., 1961-06-04
WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR
Some Side by Side
With the Men in Battle

Oddly enough both were
foreign-born. Miss Edmonds
hailed from New Brunswick,
Canada, and Nine. Velazquez
from Havana, Cuba. Both
served, according to their
accounts, as soldiers in male
disguise, and also as spies in
their own female dress.
OF the two, Miss Edmonds
seems the more real. Her
penchant for male dress was
probably psychological in
source since she was the last
of five children, bitterly re-
sented by her farmer father
because she wasn't a boy"
A tomboy at an early age,
she tanned colts, went hunt
ing, swan and rode horse
back. She came to the United
States to escape an arranged
marriage, principally to en-
bark on a missionary career
but wound up masquerading
as Franklin Thompson, a book
agent In the West.
1t was as Franklin Thomp-
son that Emma, then 20 years
old. came to Washington and
volunteered as a male nurse.
She served at First and Sec
ond Bull Run, Williamsburg,
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days
in front of Richmond, An
tietam and Fredericksburg.
A natural-born mimic, En-
ma affected several DISCUSSES
Evening star., 1961-06-04

1862, representing herself as
her husbands younger broth
er. Not until after she took
part in three major engage
ments did she resume fem
mime dress and retire from
the service. ...
Mrs. Clarke volunteered
with her husband, as a pri-
vate, and fought at Shiloh
where he was killed. She
continued with Bragg's army
through Kentucky, was
wounded twice and captured.
When the Federals discov-
cred her sex she was paroled
in a regular exchange of pris-
oners provided she would re-
sumo woman's dress. But
apparently she went back to
the front again as indicated
in a December, 1862 jackson,
Miss. newspaper which after
describing her exploits con-
cluded, Mrs. Clarke was in
our city on Sunday last, en-
route for Bragg's command"
OF the Northern "vivan-
dieres" who, sans male dis
guiSe, accompanied their
husbands to battle, there were
many famous ones including
Nine. Nadine Turchin,
daughter of a Russian of
ficer and wife of a Czarist
general; Belle Reynolds, who
. received an honorary Ma
jor'S commission for her nurs-
ing valor at Shiloh; Kady
Brownell, color bearer of the
Fifth Rhode Island Infantry
who despite the danger of
capture maintained her posi-
tion while her regiment re-
treated at Bull Run, and
Michigan Bridget" Divers,
the private's wife who was
practically a one-man army.
Nine. Turchin was a re-
markable woman. She had
a thorough knowledge of mil
itary science, learned in the
Russian army camps where
she grew up as the daughter
of the regiment" After her
marriage to Gen. Turchin
they came to the United
States and settled in Illinois.
When the war began, her
husband assumed command
of a volunteer regiment and
she followed him to war, as
it turned out happily for him.
Gen. Turchin became so i'll
during the march into Ten
nessee in the spring of 1862,
he had to be carried by litter,
Evening star., 1961-06-04

Sketch from velazquez'
woman in Battle" courtesy
Library OF Congress,
Nine. Loreto Joneto
VeIozquez poses in the
officers disguise which
she wore as ut. Harry
T. Buford" of the Con-
federote Army during
the Civil War.
during her soldiers career.
She slipped in and out of
the Confederate lines with
ease, often in blackface as
a Negro contraband, and one
time as an old Irish sutler
woman. The latter adventure
almost cost her life as she
lay for three days in the
Chickahominy swamp fight
ing malaria and trying to get
up enough strength to reach
the Confederate encampment.
She fooled them all with her
disguise and brogue and
topped it all off by racing
off to the Union lines on
one of their prize horses, a
spirited animal she named
"Reb."
Nine. Velazquez' account
Evening star., 1961-06-04

OF her military adventures is
also a lively one but some
how doesn't seem to ring true.
The reader gets the impress
sion she was more of a spec
tator than a participant, and
even hazards a guess that such
a lively-imagined raconteur
might even have purloined
others war experiences as
her own. Her book, THE
Woman in Battle" wasn't
published until 1876, and she
admits that because she "lost
her diary" she had to write
it from memory"
When the war broke out,
Loretta was married to an
American Army officer and
had already seen the life of
Army posts on the frontier.
The outbreak of hoStilities
whetted a youthful obsession
to emulate the great heroines
OF history. Not even her
husbands demonstrations de-
TERED her. After he'd gone
off to war she put into oper-
alton her plan to disguise
herself, raise a regiment in
Arkansas and then present
1t to her husband as "a sur
prise" for him to command.
A great deal of her mar
rative dwells on her preoccu-
patton in keeping her disguise
as 1t. Buford. She describes
how she obliterated the fem
inine lines of her figure with
fine wire net shields and
braces which would hide her
small waist and give her a
mannish look. But the other
officers referred to her as
"the little dandy" She also
Drowned her face and added
a sweeping mustache and
goatee to complete the effect.
MuStache Problem
In one amusing anecdote
she expresses fear she'd lost
her mustache in a glass of
buttermilk while having din
ner with the family of one
of her potential Arkansas re-
cruits. Luckily she discov-
cred it was glued on better
than she thought.
Among the Southern wom-
en-, disguised as soldiers, who
went to war with their hus-
bands were Mrs. L. M. Bla-
lock and Mrs. Amy Clarke.
Mrs. Blalock is said to have
enlisted in the 26th North
Carolina Regiment in May,
Evening star., 1961-06-04

III a z uloS uloC
fought side by
Seventh side with the
men. Their sex
OF q was only dis
Series they fell in bat :
-----. tie or were
wounded.
1t has been estimated that
the Union Army alone had
approximately 400 of them
hidden in its ranks. Army
physical examinations were
OF the most cursory nature
and volunteers, a good many
OF whom didn't know one end
OF a rifle from the other,
were welcome anywhere.
1t is no small wonder, with
the requirements for a SOL
dier so few, that a woman
OF adventure, quick wits and
an aptneSs for disguise and
mimicry could find easy en-
trance into a regiment.
Southern historians, more
cautious in their estimates
OF how many women were in
the Confederate ranks, say
that a few are "reputed" to
have served. The Southern
way of life did not lend it.
self to a woman, if she con-
sidered herself a lady, to
undertake such adventures.
Those who did so singly were
PUBLICLY judged loose women,
even if in reality they were
no more than eccentrics.
But there are several re-
ports of wives in soldiers
garb accompanying their
husbands into battle; there
were probably many others
who wanted to go who were
strongly disuaded by their
spouseS.
In the North
Wives of Northern officers
and soldiers also accom-
panied their husbands to bat
tie but chose to do so as
women without male dis
guise. Observation-Disclosures" as
they were called, after the
French wives who followed
their armies in earlier Eu-
ropean wars of the century,
were respectable and re-
spected. They went along
to perform such services
as washerwoman, nurse and
often, when their husbands
fell wounded or became i'll,
they stepped in in true Molly
Pitcher style to pick up the
fallen muSket.
The same stigma that at
tached to a single woman
Disgusting herself as a SOL
dier in the Southern army
didn't fasten itself as readily
on the Northern woman, per-
haps because a great many
of them came from the farm
and the Western frontier
where sharing mems tasks
had made them acceptable
work companions for camp
and battlefield. These women
soldiers were impelled into
their strange roles by high
ideals, patriotism and roman
tic adventure stories. Those
whose actions were diScov-
Evening star., 1961-06-04

so Nine. Turchin took over
command Of the regiment.
She was so judicious there
were no complaints and no
mutiny. In battle she was
constantly under fire, altern-
ately encouraging the men
and rescuing the fallen
wounded.
Michigan Bridget
In contrast to this Rus
sian-born lady was "Michi-
gan Bridget" or Irish Biddy"
cas- she was known to Sheri-
dams men, a stout-hearted
Irish woman who accompa-
MED the First Michigan Cav
airy in which her husband
was a private, all through
the war. She became well
known in the regiment and
the brigade to which it be-
longed for her fearlesSness,
daring, and skill in rescuing
the wounded. Often she'd
take a wounded soldiers place
in battle and fight as bravely
as the best.
Irish Biddy" would also
rally the men when they were
discouraged. When her hus-
band was hit in the leg by
a cannon ball, she swung
her soldiers cap over her
head and shouted, "Arrah!
go in, boys, and bate the
bloody spalpeens, and revinge
me husband, and God be wild
ye."
Bridget was practically the
major domo of the regiment
acting variously as its chap
plain, quartermaster, post
master, regimental sergeant,
nurse, hospital steward, ward
master, and sometimes sur
geon!
Kady Brownell and Belle
Reynolds were both newly
wedS who went off to war with
their husbands determined
to endure any hardship.
Sometimes Belle felt like
giving up especially after
sleeping on the ground in
drenching rain but her de-
termination took her right
through with the 11th Illinois
from Shiloh to Vicksburg.
Kady, like Nine. Turchin,
had grown up in army camps
as the daughter of a Scottish
soldier in the British army.
So when she Joined her hus-
band in the Rhode Island
5th Infantry, she adopted a
Semi-military dress, and daily
practiced with sword and
rifle. To her GOODNESS at the
Battle of Newbern has been
credited the 5th's being saved
from being fired on by its
own troops.
Almost in a class by her
self was DR.. Mary e. Walker,
whose real worth as one of
the few women physicians
Of the day was overshadowed
by the spectacle she made of
herself wearing mems clothes
both during and after the
war. She was an ardent fol-
lower Of the Woman's Rights
movement and a militant ad-
vocate Of dress reform. When
the war broke out, she went
to the front as a nurse be-
cause it was difficult for
a woman doctor to gain rec
ognition.
But there seems to be some
mystery about her war record.
Apparently she was a spy
between March and August
of 1864 while nominally she
was attached to the Sind
Ohio Infantry as a contract
surgeon. There is also a story
she received the Medal of
Honor but had to give it
back when the Medal was re-
classified as an award only
for outstanding valor in COM
bat.
Next Week: Controversial Fiaures
Evening star., 1961-06-04
BY RUTH DEAN
Star Staff Writer

One of the strangest chap
ters of the Civil War was
: written by those women of
the North and South who in
Evening star., 1961-06-04

Mrs. dy BrowneII,
one of the famous
"viVondieres" Of the
Civil War, is shown in
the "uniform" she de-
Vised to wear as color
bearer with her hus-
bands regiment, the
Rhode Island 5th In
fontry.
cred to have lesser motives
were quickly mustered out
in both armies.
One of the tragedies Of the
war was that SO many Of
the women soldiers discovered
on the battlefield were young
girls, teenagerS who had gone
to war with a Joan of Arc
spirit that didn't count the
consequences.
One of these was a young
girl who fell at Antietam,
two hours after her only
brother had been killed. But
before she died she entrusted
her secret to the sympathetic
male nurse who attended her
and asked him to bury her.
Only the male" nurse was
really a woman, herself in
disguise!
Narrative Left
The nurse was Sarah EN-
ma EdmondS, whose personal
account of her experiences
in Nurse and Spy" is one of
the few narratives left by
these women soldiers. 1t is
more believable than another
written by a Nine. Loretta
Janeta Velazquez whose fan
ciful record of her adven-
lures as 1t. Harry T. Buford
of the Confederate Army, his
torianS pretty much discount.
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so Nine. Turchin took over
command Of the regiment.
She was SO judicious there
were no complaints and no
mutiny. In battle she was
constantly under fire, altern-
ately encouraging the men
and reScuing the fallen
wounded.
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m a lie disguise
fought side by
side with the
men. Their sex
was only dis
covered W hen
they fell in bat
tie or were
Unnadpd
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TOURISTS
Continued From Pose I

Continued From Poss
formal luncheon in the House restaurant. Then,
along with her father, Cheryl was given guided
tour of the Capitol
This was just the start of a three-day whirl-
wind visit here While most visitors aren't treated
to lunch by their Congressman, they. follow
baSically the same sightseeing pattern as Cheryl.
Who are these people, where do they come
from and why and what do they do when they
get here? For the answers TEEN questioned
Washington'S unofficial host, Clarence A. Arata,
executive director of the visitors bureau, branch
of the Metropolitan Washington Board Of Trade.
Mr. Arata explains that ever since the seat
of Government was transferred here in 1900, the
Nations Capital has been host to steady stream
of visitors from all parts OF the world.
This year, he says, more than million visi-
tors are expected to come here, including about
100000 high school students, many OF whom
make the pilgrimage in the form OF a senior
class trip.
While many of those who come here are
tourists from foreign countries, the bulk OF the
visitors are from the area within 5OO-mile ra-
diuS of Washington. They come here to get
first-hand look at the historic monuments me
MORALS and places that every American school
boy learns about through books and movies, Mr..
Arata says
"It'S our job to see that these people receive
the best of treatment while they're here and
leave Washington with favorable impression"
he adds.
The Smithsonian Institution, one of CheryPs
first stops during her visit, has been Washing
tons top tourist attraction for years. Using the
institutions nose count of million persons for
the 1860 season as measure, Mr.. Arata made
his estimate of million visitors expected here
this year.
"Most of the million counted at the Smith
sonian were students" Mr. Arata observes. "ThiS,
coupled with the large group of teen-agers OBJ
served at the Capitol, proves the youngsters are
Evening star., 1961-04-02

interested in the county'S future as well as its
past"
The next most popular sightseeing point Is
the Lincoln Memorial which recorded nearly 2h
million visitors last year and the same number in
1859. The Washington Monument drew about
100000 as compared to little over l million
during 1859. And the Jefferson Memorial had
over 100000 visitors as compared to about 800,-
600 the previous year.
p "But these figures don't include everyone
who sees the monuments and memorials here"
Mr.. Arata explains. He says the Washington
Monument is limited In capacity by its single
elevator and the two memorials are often viewed
by visitors who stand outside and never enter the
structures.
"The White House had over 800 900 visitors
last year as compared with more than 961 900
during 1885," Mr.. Arata says, "but that's not so
bad considering the Executive Mansion was
closed to the public for many weeks last year
while it was being painted"
The number of persons who can file through
the White House during the two hours it's open
to the public limits the visiting capacity, he adds
Mr.. Arata says he would like to see the visit
ing hours extended especially during the March
to-June "heavy" sightseeing season, as is done by
the National Capital Parks at tourist attractions
under their control.
"But it's up to the White House se-posSlbly
even President Kennedy-to make any changes"
Mr.. Arata emphasizes.
On the first day of her tour, Cheryl was un-
able to get in the White House when she arrived
at its gates about pm
Visiting hours are restricted from 10 am.
to noon and only from Tuesday through Sat-
urdayS," explained Richard M. Merchant, White
House guard.
So Cheryl trudged off to join the thousands
of other teen-agers who were doing their sight
seeing in other parts of the city.
They're coming from all over" MIR. Arata
says, "and we're glad to have them. Maybe they'll
spend only few days here but they'll go home
with brand-new education and experience you
just can't get out of textbooks"
Co.. CGnEE DLokos hv GENE ARR0TT
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-10-13
New Division Chief Named

Wesley H. Brubaker has ar rived in Anchorage to become chief of the Flight Standards Di- vision of the Alaskan Region of the Federal Aviation Agency. ae- cording to Alien D. Hulen, re gional manager.
 Brubaker, formerly assistant chief of the Flight Training Di- vision of FAA's Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. re- places George Weitz, who re- gently transferred to Washington as chief of the Maintenance Di- vision of FAA's Flight Standards Service.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-10-13

ard and Juneau-D Douglas.
 During the same period $813,- 589 was reserved for construc- tion in federally impacted areas, including $79,952 for an addi- ton to the elementary school at Nome, $25 ,642 for an elementary school addition at North Pole, S36,951 for high school addi- tion at Nenana, $286,000 for a high school addition at Tok Juno tion, $22,04 for an addition to the elementary school at Ninil- chik, and $363, ,00O for a new ele- mentary school at Kenai.
 Since the two laws were passed in 1850 and through June 30 of this year, $33, ,453, ,290 has been made available for operation and maintenance of federally impact ed schools in Alaska and $27,- 114,564 for construction of on- base military schools and local schools.
 With the expected two-year ex- tension, AIaska's estimated en- titlement will be $8,090,300 for operation and maintenance for each of the 1862 and 1863 fiscal years or $16,180, 600 for two years, according to information given Sen. Bob Bartlett by Of flee of Education officials, and he yearly construction entitle- ment will be $2,447, 300, or $4,- S9d,600 for the two years.
 The addition of such funds to those already made available un- der the two programs would mean that Alaska's entitlement from 1850 through 1863 fiscal year will be in the neighborhood of $81,- 643,054.