Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 27

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! D. O, FEBRUARY 8, 1925~PART 1. PHYSICAL TESTS BENEFIT HOWARD !Dr. Jackson Says Students Are Being Fitted for Work. For the past three years students en- have been tering Howard University compelled to undergo rigid physical ex- aminations as a part of the institution’s y and improvement of negroes. Pprogram for stu health conditions among were day ns, under the direction of Jackson, lie made upon draftees during Dr. Health, has made a careful body. Contrary to held regarding the these examinations, though with eearching scrutiny, r the general be in fine physical condition. who teach in Medicine it the university becomes an easy various physical findings. experts, cach confining particular specialty. amination that weight, eyes, ea follows is nos , throat, spine, feet and legs. cards, together with each case. All male students physically physically unfit have prescribed them courses in corrective which aim to bring the student the normal. For the woman who are physically fit five unfit have prescribed for them to the individual case. Analysis Is Planned. Dr. Jackson, the director, in comment- ing on the beneficial results which have three few “We expect to make a complets analysis of our findings for The high sick and death s most been accomplished during the vears he has directed the work, a days ago said publication. rate among the colored people certainly not due to any physical physiological differences with races, but must be charged up to Heaith education will prolong the much the same manner as examinations war a corps of man and woman physi- director of the School of Pub- search | for physical defects among the student belle health of, negroes, conducted veal the fact that the selected youth of the race as it seeks entrance at Howard Is found to | Drawing from among the specialists School of | matter to | have expert service in determining the From head to foot the students are examined by these | himself to his The order of ex- Height, teeth, hest expansion, lungs, heart, abdomen, In every instance the findings are clocked up on individual recommendations and prescriptions for the various sorts of physical education most suitable for fit are assigned to the Reserve Officers’ Train- ing Corps for three periods and gym- nasium for two periods per week. Those for hygiene, up to students periods a week are devoted to educational gym- nastics and games, and those physically that form of corrective hygiene best suited other the lack of health education and that alone. life of saint or sinner, black or white, as it draws neither a color or a religious line, At Howard we feel it our job to teach health with just as much emphasis as education pays, for I have seen it gets results. A number of boys and girls who were checked up last year as unfit are today fit, and are proud of it. Others there are who though found with cer- tain physical defects, and received warn- ing, together with attempts at educa- tion, ignored both and are today out of school sick—liabilities to parents, State and Natlon. . In short, we are making health fashionable at Howard, with the hope that the styie will pass out among the 12,000,000 negroes, who in order to win must put heaith, virility and stamina back of all thefr strivings.” The Howard University Orchestra ap- peared in a concert at the Lincoln The- ater Wednesday afternoon. The or- chestra was conducted by Dorey T. Rhode, und Wesley I. Howard of the department of music of Howard was violin soloist. A unique entertainment Thursday eve- ning was the exhibition of the Venetian | glass workers, under the auspices of the rt department of the School of Applied Science of the university. The exhibit consisted in making before the eves of In | the audience articles of glass in the B.|shape of ehips, birds, animals and vases. The varsity basket ball team of Howard left Friday for a 10-day trip. | West Virginia Institute and Wilber- force University are included in the schedule. Players who are making the trip are Carpenter, Jackson, Bundrant, McCoy, Lee, Lawton, Cobbs, Jones, ‘Washington, Meroney and Capt. Mar- | row. 'RADIO CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS AT TECH Russell Banker was elected presi- @ent of the McKinley Technical High School Radio Club at a meeting Wed- nesday. Other officers follow: David Wingate, vice president, and Elwood Howell, secretary. The meeting was featured by a talk on the electron by Dr. Louis M. Heron. The school's student publicity com- mittee also elected new officers last week. They follow: Charles S. Miner, chairman; Wilson Webber, vice chair- man, and Florence Davidson, secre- tary. A campaign will be launched to ‘increase the membership of the committee by having all organizations in the school elect a representative. Announcement was made that the committee’s work on the Handbook is nearing completion under the direc- tion of Jack Pearson, Charles Miner and Wilhelmina Gude. The book Is expected to be issued in March Sowety Holds Debate. The Agora Debating Society last week debated the question, “Resolved, That the United States should recog- nize Soviet Russia.” The aflirmative team, composed of Charles Miner, Hobert Stolar and Benjamin Bretz- felder, won. Raymond Iager, Charles Guest and Warren Magee formed the negative team. Honors for the best speech were warded to Charles Miner. After the installaion of the new officers, Charles Miner, newly elected president, announced that a team rep- resenting the society would meet the George High School of Philadelphia in April. Negotiations also are being or we teach science, religion and the |made for debates with Eastern, Cen- classics. No race of people, T am cer-|tral, Western and Business High tain, can possibly rise any higher than | Schools. their health index. “Three years' experience in this uni- me that health wversity has proven to “Resolved, That vivisection should be abolished” will be the subject of the society’s debate next Friday. Aviation. Ore of the Most interesting three- cornered rows which has broken out in Washington for a long time came to the surface during the last week and involved Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the Army Air Service: the General Staff of the Army and the Navy Department. As a result two congressional committees are hot upon the trail of anybody con- corned and determined to go to the bottom of the whole business, while Gen. Mitchell, It seems likely, may not be continued in his present position as assistant chief of the Air Service. For many years now there has been a hot debate between the Air Service and the Navy as to the comparative value of airplanes and battleships To make the row more acute, how- ever, Gen. Mitchell has come out in favor of a unified Air Service a separate arm of the national defense, and in this he runs counter to the bellefs not only of the Navy, but of the General Staff of the Army. He has very frankly aired his views be- fore a House committee which has been holding hearings on a bill for the unification of the air services, and some of these views have been inter- preted by the War Department as be- ing detrimental to the service. and the general has been called upon by Secretary Weeks to explain them. He explains them by repeating his of- fending remarks, and the country sl back and watches with interest to see who will come out on top—Gen Mitchell and his Alr Service, the Gen eral Staff of the Army or the Navy Department. 8o far it is probably a draw. Soon the airplane will replace the dog teamn as a carrler of Uncle Sam's mails in Alaska. Stirred by the epi- demic of diphtheria in Nome, virtually isolated from the outside world ex- cept by dog team, the Post Office De- partment announced last week that regular air-mail routes soon would be established in Alaska, and that fu- thorization to this effect has been giv- en by Congress. Civics. Congress will adjourn March 4, but the Senate will be called in extra ses- sion, according to custom, immediately after March 4 to confirm cabinet and other appointments. This comes from the President, who believes such extra sessions of the Senate have been the universal practice, and, in his opinion, /it should be continued.” Following the receipt details of the transaction at Paris by which the American representa- tives there entered into an agreement with the allies for payment to the United States of part of the receipts from the Dawes plan of collecting reparations, the State Department sent it to the senate in accordance with the Senate’s request. It was im- mediately made the subject of a speech by Senator Hiram Johnson of of certain California, who criticized the action at Paris as viclating this gountry's policy of keeping free from foreign entanglements, and who questioned Current News Events Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. the right of the executive branch of the Government to enter into agree- ments with forelgn countries with- out the advice and consent of the Senate. In its request for informtion the Senate specifically asked the State Department whether or not repre- sentatives of the United States sug- gested any reservations to the Parls agrecement. The State Department did not reply to that question. The Senate on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Attorney General Stone to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 71 to 6. Senator Walsh and several others opposed to the nom ination spoke against it for six hours In open executive session of the Sen- ate before the vote was reached. The House has nothing to do with the conduct of forelgn relations by the United States, but the House commit- tee on foreign affairs last week ap- proved a resolution which would put the House on record as favoring membership of the United States in the World Court. All the House would be called upon to do if the United States became a member of the World Court would be to provide sufficient revenue to defray expenses, revenue- ralsing measures always originating in_the House. Meanwhile, the Senate, which must et if the United States is to become a member of the World Court, has de- layed its action. Several Senators last week expressed the bellef that all chance of the Senate's acting on the proposal before the adjournment of Congress March 4, was about gone. Prominent women from all parts of the country appeared before the House judiciary committee last week and argued pro and con over the pro- posed amendment to the Constitution which would give women equal rights by removing their legal disa- bilities and placink them on a par with men. Economics. The House approved the $150,000,- 000 buildings bill, of which $50,- 000,000 would be expended in the Dis- trict for public bulldings, last week. The bill differs In some respects from that approved by President Coolldge through Senator Smoot of Utah, who is backing the measure in the Senate. The money would be spent on Government bulildings over a period of years. The measure is now before the Senate. A bird in the hand is worth twe in the United States Treasury, and, as Congress has passed a measure—now become law—which glves to the Dis- trict_approximately $5.000,000 result- ing from taxes paid by District resi- dents but not appropriated by Con- gress, the District Commissioners want to use half of this mnoey fmme- dlately for school prejects and parks. They have asked Congress for per- mission to do this. Washington seldom passes a week these days without some new thrill on the foreign debt question. The not been mentioned lately in connec- tlon with debts, and which is send- ing a new Ambassador to this coun- try, Glacomo de Mortino. News from Rome is to the effect that he will come to Washington with full in- structions to take up with the proper authorities here the settlement of his country's debts to the United States- debts which now amount to $2,100,- 000,000, including $447,000,000 interest. After much argument the Senats and House District committess have fa- vorably reported rent bille which extend the life of the Rent Commission in Washington for two years, establish a real estato licensing board and make it unlawful to place fictitious trusts on buildings. The measure {s strenuously opposed by real estate men. A fight against the bill Is expected when it reaches the floor of the House and the Senate. Resources of the national banks in the United States have reached their highest mark. The combined resources of the 8,049 institutions reporting on December 31 was $24,381,281,000, ac- cording to a statement by Controller of the Currency Mclntosh last week. The Senate foreign relations commit- teo last week reported favorably the proposed commercial treaty with Ger- many, with reservations. The treaty would prohibit a signatory nation from discriminating through lower duties or railroad rates in favor of its own ves- sels. Objection by some Senators has been on the ground that this would be against the policy of the United States in aiding its own merchant marine. The original commercial treaty with Ger- many, made after the signing of the peace treaty, has cxpired. The present one is designed as a substitute. The House, which refused to consider the postal bill passed by the Senate be- cause of its contentions that revenue- raising legislation should originate in the House, now has before it a postal pay bill of its own. The measure was favorably reported from the House post office committee last week, differing in some slight particulars from the meas- ure passed by the Senate. The bill in- creases pay for postal workers and in- creases some postal rates. History. ‘The Boviet government has grant- ed pardons to thousands of Russians who were in the anti-Soviet armies of Deniken and Wrangell during the civil war. The actlion Is said to be the most sweeping concession to the Russian people since the revolution. It is considered by some observers to be a bid for popularity with the people by the present government. Ever since the war there have been weird tales of the use of poison gas in the “next war,” and mere than one writer has pictured cities and towns wiped out at one blow by air- planes, which would release their death gas bombs upon the populace below. Now comes Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, and last week he is- sued a formal statement character- izing such statements as “absurd.” He also discounted the stories that the next war would the use of germs to spread disease among the enemy. This couldn't be done with- out the germs attacking the users also, the Secretary stated. “The next war,” said the statement, “will be, like most of the wars in histor: sporadic and local. and involving comparatively few people and will be relatively quickly over. Turkey has expelled from her latést comes from Italy, which has| boundaries the Greek Patriarch Con- stantine—head of the Greek Church in Turkey—in accordance, she claims, with the provision of the treaty of Lausanne, and Greece is upset over the affair to the extent that her rep- resentative In Geneva has taken up the matter with the League of Na- tions. The treaty of Lausanne pro- vided that all Greeks not residents in Turkey before 1918 would have to leave, and Constantine comes within this classification. His expulsion de- prives the Greek Church of its off- cial chief in Turkey. 'Turkey, on the other hand, has always olaimed that the patriarchate in Constanti- nople is the breeding place for propa- ganda against the unity of Turkey. Turkey has notified Greece, in reply to a note from the latter, that she will not submit the present dii agreement to the International Court at The Hague for arbitration. Turkey says the affair is purely an internal one and intervention by outside powers would be intolerable. Premier Herrfot of France has come out victor In one of the most bitter fights of his political career. The Chamber of Deputies last week voted to suppress the French em- bassy to the Vatican, at Rome, by & majority of 314 to 250. The radical Socialist party made thig action one of the principal planks in its election campaign platform last May. The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, that have been fighting the measure tooth and nail, were partially paci- fied by M. Herriot, who will allow them to be represented at the Vati, can by a diplomatic agent. The mat- ter Is yet to be passed by the French Senate. After months of wrangling and disagreements, the American delega- tion to the international opium con- ference at Geneva has quitted the conference and will sail for the United States within a few days. The delegation, which has been headed by Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, has been in almost constant disagreement with the dele- gations from the Far East and from Great Britain. The authorization to withdraw came from the President, Mr. Porter said, and was only reached after mature deliberation. The conference, despite the with- drawal of the Americans, will con- tinue its work. Baroness von Vetsera died in seclu- sion last week near Vienna, at the age of 75. She was the mother of Countess Marie von Vetsera. Thirty- six years ago the Countess Marie and the Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, were found dead in the latter's hunting lodge. A pistol was lying near by. It was rumored that the double murder had been committed by the countess’ brother, Louis, who disappeared after the shooting and was never heard from until he was reported dead in Denver, Colo., in 1908, After the tragedy the Emporer Franz Josef purchased a small estate and present- ed it to the baroness on condition, it 8 reporte that she never return to ienna. There she died. Science. Evervbody knows the good effect of hanging up clothing to “air’” or dry in the sunlight, but scientists of the Bureau of Standards heré, have undertaken to show why'it is that the sun means death to germs. They succeeded in isolating the rays from the sun which are fatal to germs, and centered them eon germs borrowed from the Public Health Service. The germs died immediate and painless deaths when exposed to the rays. A pamphlet now Is in the course of prep- aration explaining the ‘“germ kill- ing” values of the sun for the use of other scientists. A British scientist, Prof. Raymond Dart, establishes another “link” in the missing chain of evidence that man is descended from the apes. Buried in 50 feet of limestone in South Africa, Prof. Dart discovered a skull which is not that of a human, but shows more intelligence than that be- longing to the ape, and represents a period somewhere in the evolution of | man. He has named the wore this skull “Australopithecus Africanus.” Scientists attach unusual importance to the discovery because of Prof. Dart's high standing among men of his profession. Another report comes from across the seas of a sclentist who has suc- ceeded in making gold from another metal—this time it is a Japanese scientist, who has been experiment- ing with the problem for 15 vears and who fs reported 75 have succeeded in obtaining gold from mercury by a proci to b. similar to that by . selentists {n this country and in Germany claim to have obtained sold. man who | . tru ; of Sclentists of the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum have uncovered objects in the ancient city of Ur of the Chaldees, dating back as far as 2,500 years before Christ. Some of them are from a museum kept by the daughter of the last King of Babylon in the sixth century B. C. Ga o o pac Religion. A strange disagreement which has split into violently opposed groups members of the Seventh-day Ad- ventist Church hasg arisen over the end of the world/ wi New Home Economics home economics responsible has brought to teacher of home economics in the per- son of Mrs. Lisemby. The their general preliminary course and are selecting and entering into their specialized ment of 13 manual and Tuesday the school the following members of president; came out victorious with a 32-31, Mr. English spoke Thursday at the grad- GIRLS’ DEAN ADDED TO MINER FACULTY Teacher Succeeds to Place Vacated by Mrs. Woodard. new feature of the reorganiza- n of the Miner Normal School is the addition of a dean of girls to the personnel Mrs. Ger- teacher of has accepted this position. This change the ‘school another of the faculty. de Woodard, former juniors have just completed courses with an enroll in the kindergarten, 2 in arts, 24 in home economics 165 in primary grade course. was visited by the board education: Earnest Greenwood, vice Mrs. Coralle F. Cook and Wilkinson, first assistant rnet C. superintendent of schools Miss arts are starting the term's work by making Valentine projects. The M played the School Ruff’s classes in industrial r Normal basket ball team Frederick Douglass High team i Baltimore before a cked audiefice recently. The team score of A return game is to be played th the Baltimore team Friday Gregory of the department of A group of the| ,ation exercises of the eighth grade church, very much in the minority,|a¢ Mott School. IHis subject was has taken sides with a Mrs. Margaret | vGrowing.” W. Rowen of California, who claims| Tpe firat grade teachers of divi- she had a vision which proclaimed to her that the end of the world would come before midnight last Friday. She evidently was wrong, but her follow- ers, many of whom actually gave up their positions, stopped all work and waited for the end, are undaunted They say the end will come at any time. Meanwhile the regular Seventh- F. No da; sions 10-13 met the rector, Miss E G. Merritt, Wednesday at the Miner rmal School. The subjects consid- ered were silent reading and projects suitable for the first grade childr The regular weekly conferences fo the semester will begin next Wednes Mr. Long of the department of re day Adventists have taken action 4 5 - which virtually amounts to excom-|Search i beginning the survey df municatifg the dissenting members |Mott School. Slater and Randall who sided with Mrs. Rowen. Schools have already reorganized The forelgn missions convention, representing 70,000,000 Protestants in the United States and abroad, came to a close last week after hearing im- passioned appeals from delegates from abroad that the United States aid Evvope in estsblishing permanent peace on su th AUT0 MAKER NABBED. Traffic Breach Causes Arrest After their classes for Jjuniors completed and the results are now Clar he second semester the basis of this mental test re- Its. Last week the survey of the of the Normal School was the e hands of principal, CAIRO FIGHTS COCAINE. Use Reported Growing Alarmingly Among Egyptians. 29 Years. A RETE Correspondence of the Associated Press. - ence of the Associated Press e B i SRl erick Willlam Lanchester, Tt Sl who de- signed and built the first petrol-driven such an alarming extent that the con motor car in Great Britain and who | menaant of the local police has issued since 1896 has held a license for driv- |fn APPEal 10 the DUDIC to assist 1 ing, recently was summoned for the | " RS SONR NS SV Lo aes first time for a breach of the rules| jorex, is destroying itself through it and regulations of the road. |drug habit, which is demoralizing the His oftense was falling to obey the [gr1% PERIL WHiCh 78 domoratizhe, T signal of a policeman. The magistrate | Y00\0 oF BEYPE anc THNE he ot dismissed the case on condition that |Doses 207 Prons. Te deplores the &l Lanchester pay the costs. with the evil and asserts that if the laws were made more rigorous and re How much real value stands back |celved more supp from the public of the stock you are asked to buy? 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