Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1925, Page 4

4 * REVIVING GERMANY SEEN BY HOUGHTON Says Nation Is Economically and Politically Seund and Almost Disarmed. Germany is economically and polit ally sound, and reports that that republic is preparing secretly for war are mere propzganda, according to Alanson B. Houghton of New York former Ambassador to Germany, who kas been appointed to succeed Secre- 1ary of State Kellogg as Ambas- sdor to Great Britain Ambassador Houghton made this statement today at the White House, vhere he has been a house guest since Tuesday night. Ho has been a close observer of the developmerts in Ger- many during the past two vears, and ving at the White House he the President and Secre- intimate and inter- irue situation | in_the other Europe. has given tary Kellogg an asting account of the in that country and countries of continental Finds Vation Disarmed. The Ambassador, in discounting the reports to the effect that Germany te quietly but energetically laying up upplies of arms and ammunition, de- clared that the republic is absolutely diarmed and is unquestionably living to the terms of peace. He said he people of the republic are at work, and, now that the Dawes plan, ts successfully operating and capital % flowing Into the country, that na- tion fs in the midst a great era of industrial activity There has been & wonderful change since the application of the Dawes plan” Ambassador Houghton said With the arrival of large commer- cial loans industry has come to life again, and the republic is functioning a most satisfactory way. The new situation is a most happy and signifi- cant one. The general situation also nas been naturally benefited by the standardization of currency, and the whole temper of the German people has undergone a complete change #inca the application of the Dawes plan and the resuscitation of industry.” n Before Dawes Planm. fore the adoption of the Dawes plan,” Mr. Houghton went on to ex-{ plain, “more than a million and a quar- | ter persons were out of work in Ber- lin alone. At this time it is authori- tatively estimated that that number has been reduced to less than 50,000 Probably throughout the whole of the republic the army of unemployed would not reach 300,000 “While Germany may be considered mound and is unquesticnably making amazing strides, it is a long way from its old position of power and wealth, but at the rate she is going now, and taking into consideration the determination of the leaders of the government and the people at large, the time is not so very far off when Germany will be the Germany of old, at least from an economical viewpoint Police Not Menace. “It is being held by those making the claim that Germany is violating its treaty of peace in the matter of | building up, an army, that its state police are in reality being utilized as nucleus for another powerful Ger- man military force, Mr. Houghton continued. “This is misleading. It! is based upon the fact that the state police is housed in the old military barracks. Only one in ten state police is urmed with a ride. It| may be true that in some remote sec- | tlons there has been a storing away'| of arms and supplies, but this has been on a small scale and is not at all representative rmany couldn’t make war if she wanted to. Suppose | she did accumulate arms and some ammunition, she has not reserve be- hind it, and to carry on a war there must be production ability and an! unlimited reserve strength. Tolitical Life Better. “The improvement in Germany,” Mr. Houghton added, “is not confined | to its economic side, but to its politi- cal life az well. The government, tle by littla, is growing away from the control of the Sociallsts. The government is developing into a eiti- zens' government, and there are no now monarchial problems or embar- rassments. While two-thirds of the| German people are republicans, it is not unlikely that they may go back 10 some form of a.monarchy in tie far distant future. but if they do it will be a greatly diluted monarchy.” Ambassador Houghton credited the Dawes plan and the brilliancy of Jeadership on the part of the late President Ebert as being the prin- cipal contributors toward the up- building of the German republic. He considered Ebert as the greatest mair rroduced in Germany since Bismarck. Mr. Houghton will leave Washing- ton tonight for his home in Corning, N ¥., but will not go to London be- fore Anril. Before doing so he will return to Washington for another series of confer es with the Presi- dent and Secretary Kellogg. He ex- plained that it would be useless for him to return to London until King Georze returns, because a foreign Ambassador cannot function until he has been received by the King. VIEWS PLEASE GERMANS. National Lea\ier Acquiesces Statement of Monarchy. Br the Associated Press BERLIN, March 12.—The statement of Alanson B. Houghton, former American Ambassador at Berlin and recently appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James, to the effect, as reported in dispatches from New York, that the monarcl 1 question | will not be an issue in Germany for the next 10 to 20 years, elieits much comment in German political circles. A noted leader of the German Na- tionalists today expressed the Na- tionalist viewpoint as follows: ““We are extraordinarily grateful to Ambassador Houghton for disposing of the monarchial myth. We frankly admit we are monarchists, but we do not believe 2 monarchy thinkable at {hls moment. Our present aim is the consolidation of Germany internally, and a monarchy only our final goal, realizable vears hence of these in is Would Make Monarchy Logical. “We hope that the presidential of- fice may so develop as to create con- ditions by which stepping over inte monarchial form will cause as little comment as a monarchy in England or Belglum causes today. The Ger- man people absolutely want some one with authority at the head, to whom they can look up. No matter how great the power of the President may be, he will never satisfy the senti- ment of the German people for a crowned head with a certain halo about him. “The German Nationalists at the Weimar constituent assembly voted in favor of giving the President big powers, even though they knew the first President would be a radical, be- cause they believed their time would come and that the presidency could be 50 modeled that a monarchy would be but a logical and unobtrusive step. But having a monarchy as the ulti- mate aim in view does not mean an aggressive policy. Germany will never wage aggressive warfare.” HE Mies Rosa Mund, engrossing clerk of the House of Representatives, is the first and only woman to be an officer of the North Omrolinia Legislature. { pttal, | although { geon general, CARE SEEN NEEDED IN USE OF INSULIN Treatment for Diabetes De- scribed at Clinics—Psy- chiatrics Taken Up. Problems in connection with treat- ment and possible of diabetes were discussed at clinics held today at Garfield Memorial Hospital and George Washington University Hos- pital as part of the clinical program of the American Congress on Inter- nal Medicine. The science of psychi- atrics and specific cases dealing with psychiatric treatment were also dis- cussed at clinics at Gallinger Hos- while at other hospitals throughout the city gynecology, an- esthesia and diseases of the thyroid glands were explained by prominent physicians. Operations resulting fatally in treatment of diabetes sometimes oc- cur from the reaction of the patient from the anesthetic used and not al- ways from insulin, the new material for treatment, Dr. W. J. Mallory told physicians who attended his clinic at George Washington. Doctors must be careful not to administer too much insulin, he said, having regard for the age and condition of the patient An overdose is apt to be harmful, he added cure, Case s Cited. “In a recent case,” Dr. Mallory said. “from 6 to 9 units of insulin per day were glven a 7-year-old patient when no benefit was noticeable from a diet, with the result that the blood sugar ratio dropped considerably, with but slight insulin reactlon and a geain in weight.” Dr. Mallory said he found a high fat tet with a ratio of 150 fats, 51 carbo- hydrates and 50 proteins, when used with insulin, brought “most marked results.” The most noticeable drop in the blood sugar of a patient, he said, was noted following perfodical administration of insulin units, which also brought the patient out of a coma. Diet alone, he said, is not now re- garded as a cure for diabetes, but taken in conjunction with other treat- ment will bring results. Dr. Janvier W. Lindsay lectured at Garfield on the general subject of dlabetes, with selected cases of non-diabetic glyco- suria, Sterility in men is the cause of ap- proximately 18 per cent of the child- less marriages of today, Dr. Francis R. Hagner, prominent Washington physician, told the congress this ernoon. This condition in men can be overcome by an operation, he said. Operation Not Dangerous. The operation, Dr. Hagner added, tedious, is not dangerous to life, even though a general an- esthetic is used. In 50 per cent of the cases operated on, he said, a cure has been effected. In some cases a cure has resulted in as short a time as one month after the operation, although in most cases results have been. noted from eight months to one vear afterward. Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, sur- U. S. 2., will address the convention of the American Col- lege of Physicians tonight at the Hotel Mayflower on contributions of the medical department of the Ariny to American medicine. Rear Admiral E. R. Stitt, surgeon general of the Navy, will talk on contributions of naval physicians to the health and welfare of the natives of the south- ern and western island possessions of the United States, and Maj. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general United States Public Health Service, will discuss the accomplishments of the Public Health Service Sessions of the conference tomor- row will go into aspects of the treac- ment of tuberculosis, wity addresses scheduled by Dr. Miles J. Breuer and .'A. H. W. Caulfield. while Dr. Wil- liam Tewksbury will lectire on treat- ment of pulmonary abscesses. PLEADS IN BANKRUPTCY Lhu Debts and Assets. 1/Aiglon, Inc., restaurant and dan- sante, of Eighteenth and Columbia road northwest, through its president, Charles R. Huff, yesterday asked Dis- trict Supreme Court to adjudge it vol- untarily bankrupt. Debty are listed as $2,467.13; assets, $1,738.59. Closed in January, after Bongio- vanni. its then proprietor, left town. the restaurant was recently reopened by an organization headed by Huff. Attorney Jesse B. Adams represents the petitioner. L'Aiglon, Inc., When you eng CHAMBERS —you know in advance exactly what you will pay for his good service. Complete Funerals $75—$100—$150 up Steel Burial Vault, $85 Best made—50-year guarantes Ambulances, $4 Fully Equipped FUNERAL CARS, $7 Chambers’ Bervice is the Best Chambers' Equipment is the Largest W. W. CHAMBERS CO. The Brownstome Funeral Home 14th St., Cor.Chapin. Col.432 Lower: Members of the Scott and Mixa Marguerite Ma; It takes several hundred trillion separate little cells to make up one human bedy, and it the total mileage of the nerve fibers within that body were measureable, they would cover more distance than all the telegraph, telephone and cable wires in the entire world. Dr. Warren H. Lewis of the department of em- bryology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. told a group of rep- resentative wscientists and medical men at the institution's administra- tion building, yesterday afternoon. “Each one of us” Dr. Lewis sald, “is composed of minute bodies which we call cells and of the various sub- stances which these cells have manu- factured, such as bone, white fibrous tissue, cartilege, tissue juices and blood and blood plasma. I have es- timated in a rough way that a man of about my size has several hundred trillion celis “This certainly is an enormous num- ber, but when we consider that the blood alone contains about 25 trillion red blood corpuscles and 25 billlon white ones. it seems fairly reason- able to assume that the whole body contains at least 10 times as many. If the red blood cells were placed side by side in a single row they would extend five times around the equator of the earth. Since they are only about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, the line would &till be Invisible. “The small capillaries through which the blood flows, if attached end to end. would also go several times around the equator. When we con- sider that the total mileage of the nerve fibers within the body is prob- ably greater than the length of all the telegraph, telephone and cable wires In the entire world, we begin to get some conception of the vast- ness of the human mechanism, and of the many living units of which it is composed.” Dr. Lewlis spoke on “Recent Studies of the Blood and Their Bearing on the Problem of Tuberculosis.”” The R, Re rted. ; the Health Department in the Iast 24 hours: Gerald J. and Mildred M. Murphy, girl. Richard M. and Mattle Thommton, girl. d Martha E. Ferguson, boy. nd Rens Nelson. boy. E. and Margaret A. Miller, girl Benjamia and Marie F. Schwartz. boy. Willlam_and Margaret Xander, boy George W. and Marie McEntee, boy. Will am E. and Marian Summers, girl. Edward J. ead Eloperh Lap, i Joseph and Amelia Hurwitz, boy. William and Mary B, Althoft, boy Morris and Fanoie Chupreck, gitl George ¥ and Ada E. Kuenstle, boy. Maurice F. and Alice M. Keane. boy George H. and Marie C. Landis, bor. Floyd A. and Mary B. Lawrence, girl Martin A and Ruby L. McAnallen, gi Edward 1. and Bernadects K. Scaglon. boy. ar B. and Corine A. Jackson, boy. o apd Ross L. Jeter; boy Jerry S. and Mary Tyler, girl Wiiiiam and Cora M. Brown, boy Willlam and Editn Fletcher. girl Harry and Gladys Holmes, girl Marshall W. and Mary E.‘Watson, bo, Theodore R’ and Abbie M. Green, girl. Matthew and Sarah Middieton, boy. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been lssued to the following: Morton A. Steiner and Henrieits F. Fetter- man. Joua 8. Rhodes and Lulu V. Shutts, both of Pasonian’ Springs. v Thomas fawkine and Lilllan Thompson. Emmett Curry and Reatrice Lewis. Henry C. Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pa., and Charlotte W. Merrick of Shawnee-on-Dela: ware, Pa. Frank J. Lamm and Faonie M. Airey, both of Paitimore, Md Joseph B. Rovello and Florence M. Deaneil Frederick C. Mergner and Agnes V. Mein. TEA-TEN FOURTEEANTH . A PERFECT PRELUDE —to an evening of pleasure is dinzer at La Jave. Dancing to Boernstein's La Jave Band, with Pote Maclas. A Table d'Hote Din- ner, $1.80. probably | The following births hlw been reported to | er: Officers of Buwiness High School in general charxe of the contest at the school. Left to right: Miss C. McCarthy, president of the council; Allan Davis, principal, and Miss M. P. Bradshaw. uity committee. Left to right: Miss Loretta n&. chairman, Several Hundred Trillion Cells Go to Make Up One Human Body Nerve Fibers Probably of Greater Length Than All Communication Wires in World, Dr. W. H. Lewis Tells Visitors to Convention. body cells that appear 1o take the most active part in the healing of a uberculosis lesion are known as “epithelofd cells.” On the basis that if the source and manner of the for- mation of these cells can be deter- mined medical science would be in a better position to control the disease. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis have been doing important research work at the de- partment of embryology, which is located in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Lewis and his wife have been able to demonstrate the direct trans- formation of one type of the white blood cell, known as monocytés, into epitheloid cells and giant cells, pre- claely like those found in tubercu- losis lesions. Under the conditions of these experiments, some of the monocytes become transformed Into cells like those ordinarily present throughout the whole body, and which by their power to devour and digest foreign substances constitute the human body's chief protection against bacteria and other Injurious bodie: Thus, these protective cells and the epithelold cells, it was pointed out, are derived from the same type of cell and probably perform siimlar functions. “Therefore,” Dr. Lewis sald, “one of the great problems be- fore us is to develop procedures that will increase the power of the mon- ocytes and also their power of di- gesting bacteria.” March 16th The Main Office of the RIGGS NATIONAL BANK 1503 Pa. Ave. -will remain open until 5 P.M. on Friday, Saturday | and Monday to assist its clients | in making out re- turns. HURSDAY. TEACHERS INDORSE ORATORY CONTEST anncipal and Faculty Mem- bers of Business High Give Commendation. Allan Davis, principal of Business High School, has indorsed the na- tional oratorical contest in the fol- lowing words: “This is a splendid time in the his- tory of our country to veview our American ideals. 'This contest wil] serve as an excellent opportunity to evaluate again the ideals and aims of the founders of our countr 1 say this in view of the fact that we are too much inclined to use the ma- chinery of the Government for which our Constitution provides, witrout reference to the principles whicn its writers had in mind or the purposes which they wished to effect.” Miss Marguerite Manning, teacher of English and chairman of the faculty committes on the oratorical contest, said this of the contest: “The national oratorical contest is provoking nation-wide interest in an understanding of ‘he principles un- derlying our Ame:ican Government. It is a most individual and effective method of accomplishing its great aim, which must ever be the aim of our attempts ‘to produce better, mor individual citizenship’ The faculty of Business High Schooi indorses the contest, and the students are working to win. The newspapers which have made possible the success of this un- seifish and patriotic contest are to be eongratulated.’ Faculty Committee Name The faculty committce, which charge of the oratorical contest Business High School, consists of the following: Miss Marguerite Manning, chairman: Miss (. McCarthy, presi- dent of the council; Miss M. P. Brad- shaw, assistant principal, and Miss Loretta Scott The student committee, which has been appointed to co-operate with the faculty committes and to attend to publicity within the school, has these members: Miss Anna White, Miss Rose Weinstein, Miss Virginia Kettley, Mr. Paul Graves and Mr. Joseph Relchgut has Magasine Gives 1 The Constitutional Review, a quar- terly magazine published by the Na tional Assoclation for Constitutional Government, 717 Colorado Building. Washington, devotes the leading article in its iatest issue to the sec- ond national oratorical contest on the Constitution The magazine, which Henry Campbell Black, qhotes R E. L. 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Franzonl is rest- Ing comfortably In his room at Gar- field Memorial Hospital toda A physiclan and druggist himself in the operation that the knife might simply hasten the end that was sure to creep upon him by degrees, gam- bled with the chance that surgery of- fered him, and now. from all his ph sicians can determine, seems to have won During the operation, when the slightest slip would have sent the scalpal through vital parts, Dr. Fran- zoni was fully conscious and from time to time recelved information as to the progress of the ordeal from the attending surgeons or told them, in turn, how it affected him. Dr. Franzoni took only a local anesthetic and although he felt no pain as the slim knife deftly severed the gland that was gradually weak- ening his heart, his brain was wide awake. Today, too, he talked now and then of the operation and ex- pressed full confidence that would be well again and safe at last from the affliction that he had once thought wouid end his life During the night Dr. Franzoni slept frequently and comfortably. His | nurse reported that he remained asleep as long as an hour and a half at a time. When his physicians ex- amined him this morning they de- | clared his condition to be excellent and are elated over the operation, which is now the talk of the special- ists attending the American Congress on Internal Medicine, many of whom were in the operating room at the time. Paternity Case Baffies Judge. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md, March 12— Judge Leon Yourtee of the juvenile court here is in a quandary over the case of Ray Currie, 14 years old, charged with being the father of a baby born to Miss Marie Munson, 26 & stenographer, who boarded at the home of Currie’s mother. The law re- quires support by the father. 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