Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 6

TR e A B E = DECLARES MALARIA x | THREATENS RACE Near East Relief Expert Says Disease Is Greatest Scourge of World. NEW YORK, July 3-—The future of the white race depends the conquest of malal declares Wil liam Jordan Rapp, y_of the Near Bas lief's Al Commis- slon, in the current issue of the In- dependent. “The new invasion of the hot coun- es by men from the temperate zones makes the laria an urgent nec tropics are to profit the instead of destroying Rapp r it the hite man, * he says. ently completed a conditions in the ) « commission Fridjof Nansen. Even in the United States, he points out, itoes cause annually 3,000,000 ses of malaria with an economic loss of $100,000,000. T ation is rse in the Near Vitality Is U “Historians attribute reat civilations as the Baby ptlan and Greek to malar says Mr. Rapp. “The disease i so prevalent that the vitality of the whole population of Greece, Palestine and ined by the re tion seems to be br ur- headed by Dr. been un fever. - Civill ing down be “Our stu that part 1rring 1k s show the we eastern people the scourges f v hut none is m run than this mal on the wings of out the lan of the Western civili “More and more the realization that malaria is a social disease is being driven home. Where people are prosperous—well housed, well fed, profitably and healthfully occu- pled—malaria is seldom a serious problem. even in e tropics A prosp people possaes the neces- sary communal spirit and wealth to fight the malady. In the United States malaria 15 largely restricted to the poor cultural population of the Southern States, where its greater than mos Government an are of no avai apathy of Distribu- ct only the long ich stalks mosquito_ca in the face of the poverty-stricken people. tion of quinine to suffercr: @s a temporary palliative. Held Greatest Scourge. “Today malaria is the greatest human scourge mnext to war. The waste of human life caused by tubereulosis, cancer or any other group of diseases is small in com- patison with that caused by malaria. it was thousht that 1s a specific poison for the site, that it cured the a e by killing the parasite. If that theory were correct, big doses would be more effective than small ones. But this is not the case. There 15 overwhelming evidence that after quinine has been absorbed the human organism, it is somehow modified by the body cells and changed into a substance which is fatal to the malarial parasites. Thus man himself is to some extent re- sponsible for his cure, and any tor which reduces hi help must reduce his hope for cure. These factors include deficient nutri- vion, ill health due to causes, exhaustion and peated infection and per overdoses of quinine. All Means Must Be Used. No single measure will eliminate | malaria. [t must be fought inces-| santly and in all ways. Every in-| fected person must be treated; the | breeding places of the mosquito must | he hunted out: the vitality of the| population must be built up by im- proved housing and nutrition and b better working conditions. study_of malaria in Persia by the » Jast Relief showed 85 per cent, quinine w malarial now of all children badly infected. Throughout the Near the disease destroys every year a population | equal to that of Censtantinople or “Although malaria_has vet to be conquered, the progress of science in fighting it is one of the great achievements of the past century. But it probably true that s agriculturalists _and mer Keeping the world at peace and build- ing up the prosperity of its inhabi- tants, wili play a more impc e e and sanitarians ultimately ¥ mqm&him, the disease SENATOR CLARK TINTYPE | IS IDENTIFIED AT TRIAL Onme of Three Sisters Suing Share in Estate Says Her Father Deserted Family. ated Press. ont., July h of the late of Montana, wass identified by Mrs of Clarksville, Mo.., that of her father as she remembered he photograph was introduced in the trial of the suit of Mrs Clark nd two sisters who claim to be| ughters of the late millioniare min- ng man and seek a share of his es tate. Mrs. Clark testified that her wppearcd from his home in ari when sie was but 9 year The plaintiffs contend th deserted his fumily in 3 ago, and that after the death of Sena- tor Clark they learned he was the missing parent. s named in the | will of the copper magnate declare | that while he once lived in Missouri he did not marry there, and that the three sisters seeking to break the will are not his children. MONDELL TO BE SPEAKER Association of Oldest Inhabitants Will Celebrate. The ciation of Oldest Inhabi- tants of the District of Columbia will conduct riotic exercises tomorrow noon at the Epiphany parish hall, 1317 G street. Iank W. Mondell wiil de- Jiver the address and Odeli S. Smith will read the Declaration of Inde- pendence. The patriotic meeting will follow the business session, which begins at for | By the A BUTT} type photozrs W. A. Ck today A tin Senator taken in father Mis old. ather d 11 o'clock, and which is the monthly | The | organization. are invited meeting of the families of members attend. to Cardinal Charost Sails. NEW YORK, July 3 (#).—Cardinal Alexis Charost, Archbishop of Rennes, ind five other titular members of the Catholic Church who attended the At Chicago the Paris today . \ company has been formed in Constantinople for the development oL yadio and wireless=telegraphyw > this insidious enemy. | power of self- | | somew * ESCAPED BEDOUINS BY FLEEING IN AUTOS Dr. W. T. Ellis and Wife of Swarth- more, Pa., Tell of Close Call En Route to Bagdad. By the Associated Press. NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y., July William T. Ellis of Swarth- . today related how he and with their armed escort, scaped when their party was am. bushed by two groups of Bedouin horsemen. while en route across the desert to Mosul and Bagdad. Dr. Ellls, who lays claim to having penetrated closer Mecca than any Christian has ever openly gone, as the guest of Ibn Saud, is visiting' at_the home of his son here, following his return to America. Ellis and his party were in the com- pany of a French consul, and escorted by two armed cars and an airplane when the Bedouins attacked the party, forcing the automobiles to flee after an exchange of shots, he said. A second force of Arab horsemen tried to cut off their escape, but because the automobiles were able to travel faster than the horses, they escaped, he said. As they fled, two of the cars passed by an airplane, forced down by en- gine trouble and rescued the cr Mr. Ellis said the object of the at- tack was not robbery, but death to the French, because of Arab sympathy for n revolution. FALL RIVER LINER HIT 3 more, M Damaged, But Gets Under Way Again for New York. Associated Pre I, July 3.—The Fall River Line steamer Providence got under way for New York-tonight an hour and a half after & tug had struck her in a heavy fog off Castle Hill. Capt. Avery of the steamer re- ported by wireless that his vessel was t damaged, but made no mention of the damage to the tug or injury to her The steamer rrying 350 passens word of the accident came ummer residents, who heard shouts from the Providence. Boats pass close to the mainland at this point for deep water. Word to a steamship official resulted in a me sage to Capt. Avery and his reply The identity of the tug was not learned. A private launch of Arthur Curtiss _James, ter searching hrough the fog, returned here with word that she could locate neither tug nor steamer. Capt. Avery's message said about feet of the wearing and guard log had been damaged {2 part of the bulwarks after the | freight gangway. The Providen | was bound from Fall River to New | York and the tug was entering Nar- ragansett Bay when she hit the »Ieumer. MASS MEETING TODAY. Colored Citizens to Hear Reports on Segregation Protest. A mass meeting of colored people will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock {at the Asbury Methodist Episcopal | Church, Eleventh and K streets, to hear reports of the delegation wh visited President Coolidge and pre- i. nted a petition protesting against the segregation of colored clerks in |the government departments. | The speakers will be William Mon- | By the NEWPORT, F roe Trotter of Boston, M. W. Spencer strict of Columbia; Rev. W. Jernagin, president of thke National Congre: D. Isaacs of Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. W. H. Rizier of California, and Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University, who will intro- {duce Mr. Trotter. Rac BY TUGBOAT IN FOG| | Vessel With 350 Aboard Slightly’ THE SUNDAY STAR, Kitchen crew on the Destroyer U. Naval Reserves. It didn’t take long t. ci ns to salty sailorm S. S. Allen, which left yesterday with o transform the men yesterday from FERNS FILL IMPORTANT PLACE IN ECONOMICS Found Useful for Food, M OF MODERN LIFE edicine, Housing, Thatch, Fuel and Ornaments in Many Nations. " sald Thoreau, | nature make the fern.” No | doubt these delicate pieces of *na- ture’s lace work” are prized princl- pally for their beauty and graceful | foliage, vet the plant has played an important role on the stage of eco- nomic progress throughout the past, | and has also long been valued for its | medicinal proper: The fern is one of the old plants and its fossil rem: known ) abundance from t dleozoic ra of geologic time, 100,000,000 years ago. ns were especially numerous during the Carboniferous period when hundreds of feet of their solidified re- mains were deposited to form the pres- ent-day coal beds, around which the industrial progress of modern civiliza- tion largely centers. Among the few iving representatives of these very tvpes are flowering ferns, a I but widespread group, and the rattiaceae, now confined to a small num specles found only in tropic In addition to these very there aro to- day about s of ferns known. Used to Make Medicines. The aborigines of tropical America belicved the fern to possess special curative properties and when made into a syrup it was used for pulmo-- nary and other internal ills. "An oll made from the male form of a cer- tain species has long been and is to- day highly valued by physicians as an’ excellent vermifuge. In addition to its medical virtues, tha roots of this fern are highly p beer and other bever: the taste. At the present time the French believe fervently in the medi- cinal_qualities of a syrup made from the Venus-hair fern. When prepared and baked the roots of many species of ferns are used for making lye and soap, while other species, treated in a similar manner, produce a fine grade of baking flour. In New Zealand and Japan the favor- ite cake of the natives is made from a superior grade of fern flour. The Alaskan Indians are especially fond of the uncoiled fern frond as an early spring vegetable—it frequently heing eaten by these tribes as a substitute for asparagus. The American Indians, on the other hand, use the'leaves of r pure leaves st of land |Two-Day Exercises Specfal Dispatch to The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 3. | —Daughters of the American Revo- | lution made a patriotic pilgrimage to- day to Monticello to do homor to the first great American Democrat, Thomas Jefferson. Addresses were made by Mrs. James Shick, State regent of Virginia, . A. R., and by Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins of Washington, D. C. A minuet in colonial costume, by youth- ful dancers, was given. Mrs. Murray Boocock of Castalia presided at ex- ercises held at 4 o'clock this after- noon on the east lawn at Monticello, land addresses were made by Mrs. An- thony Wayne Cook of Cooksburg, Pa., honorary president general, D. A. R. and member of the Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission of the United States, appointed by President Cool- idge under act of Congress, and by I Nirs. James A. Alexander. Other ey uart G. Gibboney of | New York, president of the Thomas Jeiferson Memorial Foundation. and Claude G. Bowers, author of “Jeffer- d_Hamilton. A Thomas Denham of Jackson- ville, Fla., on behalf of the Mount * Vernon Ladies" Agsoclation,-pregented Attract Distinguished Speakers| at Monticello to the foundation a_chest originally owned by Thomas Jefferson. A re- ception was tendered by ofiicers and members of the three local chapters of the D. A. R. Tonight a dance was given in the memorial gymnasium at the University of Virginia. Tomorrow, at Monticello, where Jef- ferson died exactly 100 years ago, many will gather to participate in a religious freedom service at the base of the Jefferson tomb, on which is the inscription, “Author of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom.” Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia will preside at the commemoration services at the Jefferson graveyard at 4 oclock in honor of the centennial of the death of Jefferson, and ad- dresses will be made by the Right Rev. William T. Manning, Bishop of New York; by Pr. Samuel H. Golden- son, rabbi of Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Pa., and by the Rev. Charles W. Lyons, S, president of ! Georgetown Universit: A vesper service will be held in the MelIntire Amphitheater at the*uni- | versity tomorrow night, at which the | | sermon will be preached by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, rector of the Memorial Church-of Sts-Baul a0 | mattre the genus Aspidlum fn the place of tea. Fern leaves find « onomic 1 in since they are useful in prev mildew and are extensively employed (the plant growing in abundance in the British Isles) for packing fresh fish, vegetables and fruits of all kinds In rural En and Sco fern branch ching cottages and is alsa ed article of food for cattle. Made into Hats. Tn Java the long inner strands of a vine-fern are woven into cigar cases and light-weight hats, while in Siam the glossy strands of a native climbing fern are used for making covered boxes of exquisite design and work- manship. Hawaii has an especially interesting species of fern which is =o thickly covered with fine wool that it is gath- ered for stuffing pillows and even sses. The columnar trunks of the tree fern of the tropics are frequently used for telephone poles and are so high prized for upright supports in the con d pri: | struction of native huts that they are never left behind but carried on when the family moves as a valuable piece of household furniture. The fern stem is a well known source of supply for the manufacture of rope and, since it is impervious to the action of water, it is in most cases superior to hemp. The,great strength of the fern stalk is thought to come partly from the hard outer shell and partly from the in- tricate network of dark strands withi The Boston fern finds a ready com- mercial value in annually supplying millions of American homes with liv- ing ferns, while the dagger fern and the fancy fern of the northeastern part of the United States are gathered in enormous quantities in late Sum- mer and Autumn and put in cold storage for Winter use. ' When taken from the refrigerator months later these fronds are still as fresh as when cut, and supply the ever-increasing commercial demand as a setting for bouquets of roses and other cut flowers. GOVERNOR’S .SON IN RODEO Ambrose Ross Cheered in Broncho- Busting Contest at Cody. CODY, Wyo., July 3 (#).—Entering the annual stampede rodeo here today der an assumed name, Ambiose oss, 22, son of Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, became a strong contender for prize money in the broncho-busting ~contests. Young Ross left the chutes astride a snorting outlaw which performed all the tricks known to horsedom to unseat its rider without success. Amid cheers of hundreds gathered to witness the event, among whom were many old-time broncho busters, the Governor's son rode his mount with- out “pulling leathe: The youth’s identity was disclosed when he was recognized by classmates from the University of Wyoming. LOSES LEG TO SAVE DOG. Special Dispatch to The Star. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., July 3.—To avoid killing a dog which stood on the tracks of tne New York, Ontario and ‘Western ruilroad, Jacob Hauser ap: plied the brakes on a gasoline track . causing it to overturn, inflicting jury which necessitated the ampu- tation of ome of his legs. Hauser, wha a track foreman, a great lover of dog: . is Is“c{‘x’l‘h"flfllfin ct‘-;ll]pany will erect an e lc plant at Maracaibo, Muflni A = WASHINGTO! DR. H. . WRIGHT 10TOUR EUROPE 1 G. U. Professor to Be Mem- ber of Group to Study Inter- national Law. Herbert F. Wright, of political scl in the School of Forelgn Service of Georgetown Uni- ! versity, has just been invited by the Carnegie EEndowment for International Peace to be one of the members of the group of professors of inter- national law and kindred subjects which will make a tour of Europe this Summer under the auspices of the endowment. Dr. Wright will leave ‘Washington within the next few days and will be in Kurope until the end of September. The group will visit Paris, Hague, Geneva and other parts of | Europe. The purpose of the trip is to give these teachers an opportunit: to make what may be described as clinical study of international organ zatlons and international associations, as well as to ses and in some cases to meet the leading personalities in the public life of the world. In Paris the group will be given a reception in | their honor at the liuropean head- quarters of the negie kndowment, and they will have an opportunity to meet leading representatives of the economic and political life of France. After a fow days at The Hague, where they will study the organization and operation of the Permanent Court nf‘ International Justice and the work | of the Academy of Internation | they will proceed to (enev: re nearly four weeks will be spent. The; will attend lectures on international subjects given at the Geneva Institute of International Relations, The mem- | bers of the party will remain long | enough to s the assembly of the League of jons in session during the first days of September. Dr. Wright has been a resident of Washington almost all his life. He graduated from Georgetown Univer- elty 15 years ago. For a number of years past he has been professor of political science in the School of For- elgn Service, and also in the arts and nce ‘department of George- | town Univer: He 0 on the | editorial staff of the Carnegie En- dowment for International P , and has wi al books and a num- ber of articles on international sub- Jects Miny of the Georgetown faculty are scattered, chiet among them be- ing President Charles W. 'Lyons, 8. J, who is conducting a ret priests of the New York diocese Dunwoodie, N. Y. Father F Doyle, professor of logics, erating from a Kingston, Jamai C. Glose, teachin duc It‘d by professor at | ther Joseph | m us College, r school oo Buffalo, v. Vincent director of work in N Father logics, S. Donough, faculty thleties, is doing pa | York for the $ 3 John J. Toohey, professor of wso is absent, i Father Michael Hogan, professor of phil- osophy, is confined to the hospital at Mount 'St. Vincent, N. Y. At the Foreign Service School, Dr. Thomas H. Healy, the as: nt dean, left last week tc L mwonth’s vacation on the Jersey cc Wolf Children Are Unique. From the Adventure Magazine ] In the pioneer days of the Puget Sound district in Washington, two children, 7 and 10 year: walk- ing through a heavily timbered dis- trict on their way to a count ichool, were startled by cougar hopping out of the brush beside the road and pick- the 7-year-old hoy up by the collar of his jacket and king along, carry ing him like a cat carrying her kit- tens. The other ba badly frighten- ed, but trying to rescue his brother, \ alongside of the cougar, caught by the hair of the neck and ham- mered him over the head with his tin lunch bucket. After a little of this treatment the cougar dropped the hoy in the d and with a spring side- ways disappeared in the b In regard to animal. rearing children, Sir Wil ler, British scientist, 1n hi ience of Oursel makes the statement that in India children are frequently carried off by wolves, but not Killed. During 80 vears at least nine of these children have been r cued from their wolf foster parents He states that he saw two of the chil- dren who were ivscued from the wolves when they grew too large to enter the burrows. Neither of them | showed any traces of numan manners. | They ran on all fours. They had no articulate speech. And they preferred the society of dogs to that of men. Lven long subsequent association with human beings effected no change, he said. A wolf child rescued in the Agr: district of India w kept in the Se- cundra Missionary Asylum from 1867 10 1895, He was discovered sitting in the company of a wolf at the entrance to a burrow During his 28 years’ stay in the sylum he never at- tained a completely erect position. He never learncd to speak, and his sole accomplishment was that he came to us® his fingers in eating instead of | wolfing his food. | and | Ful book, “The English Love of Oak. There is something almost mystical in the liking of the mass of the peo- ple in England, especially those of the countryside, for the use of oak in their furniture, says the Antiquarian Maga- It ‘was all right for the court and its fashionable followers to take up the foreign fashion of walnut and later of imported mahogany, but one can almost hear the plain country squire or wealthy yeoman giving his ideas about the use of “good old Eng- lish oak” as good enough for a flap table in his house. . Church Members Increase. The number of church members in America increased 800,000 dufing 1925. Methodists lead the increase. There are now 46,883,000 church members of a population of 116.000.000. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Compounded Semi-Annually Commencing January 1, 1926 Assets Over $12,000,000 Surplus, $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. Temporary location during construe- tion of our new bldg.. 1004 E §' 3 JAMES BERRY, President JOSHUA W. CARR, Sec’y | Cromwell, | Thirlstane, {dence of no irregularities in | ing of D. C, JULY 4, 1926—PART T. | WHERE TRAMPS At last the millennium of hebodom Calif., which does not warn the knight of the road to hast; ‘in. A rancher in need of additional hands for a few days took thi means of letting the hobos know that h'lll\l’l hoe and rake on the ~I;.||p0~l indicate plainly SAYS SAP OF EVERGREEN TOO THICK TO BE:FROZEN Dr. Gail of Idaho UniversitywDis. covers How Plants Are-Pros tected in Winter, MOSCOW, Idaho, Julpw3.—~Why do the leaves of evergreens hang on sall Winter long, when by rights ,they should be frozen amd drop off? A cording to researches of Dr. Floyd W Gall of the University of Idaho, to be reported on in the next issue of the Botanical Gazette, they stick because in Winter their sap becomes too thick to freeze. Dr. ARE WELCOME | gathered leaves from pin trees and from broad-leaved evergr shrubs o every month throug three years, crushed out the sap an tested it for its 1o found that d , when the weather p flows freely, that it is thin and could be frozen here wer any frost to fre 5 comes the starch in the 1 verted into sugars and the sap from a thin and watery into a sort of sirupy emu difficult to freez He found that the of the sap w y and F fr greate: has arrived. V s sign at Lind- | n on, but in nsferred s drop o sap pres just fallen was ereas sap from leay ail found ves that v froz not quite ng for them, and the a job was w he nature of the work. Tax Cut to Wait, Mellon Reminds In Parting Shot Before the Senate adjourned yes- terday Chairman Smoot of the finance committee placed in the Record a letter he had received from Secretary Mellon reiterating the view that despite the Treasury surplus for the vear just closed, it would be inadvisable to plan for further tax reduction until a more thorough trial is given the new revenue law, and a more accurate line is had on Government receipts for the next two fiscal years. PROMINENT WITNESSES CALLED IN FLORIDA CASE‘ | First Hearing Held in Bankruptcy‘ Proceedings Against Developers of Fashionable Section. By the Assceiated Press FORT LAUT ubpoenaes for the appearanc nent witnesses he temler 5 featured the ini: W in bankruptey proc against the American British Improv ment Corporation, developers of k anada Club, 2 a velopment proje of this eity. The list of witanes: eferee in Bankrupte: hearing includes Samuel L. n, former King George of and Mrs. Edward T. Stot Horace Dodge Dillman, J president of the corpora- John 8. Pillsbury, Walter A. Hall, Austin_ W. Reattle, Willam T. El- { dri@ze, Mrs. Alexander W. Biddle, the [ Countess of Lauderdale, her son, Lord and Boulton Clyde Milne, H. Williams and B. R 3 16 n William Hodgo. PATRONAGE BILLS PASS. ; House Accepts Amendments to ‘Wurzbach and Stevenson Measures action was com- 2 - on two bills designed to_correct alleged corruption of Fed- ronage in the South, through by the House of Senate The Wu quire davits bach measure would re- “ederal appointees to file affi- fter appointment to show evi abtaining the office and the Stevenson bill would make unla Tue appoi; of iz in con. nection with patro tments, Hen Is Some Layer. A White Leghorn hen, A-640, 9 vears old, has laid 1,186 eggs, and Is out to break the known record of 1, poultry department officials at the Ne- | braska Agriculture College declare. he 1aid 143 eggs during her seventh laying year. Her peak production was 206. She weighs 3% pounds. Her eggs weigh 60 grams aplece, and the total weight of the seven years of egas is approximately 161 pounds. dy to fall resisted derably lower tempe the effects tures, Frozen Eggs From China. Morris, vice president of the American Merchant Lines, in charge of traffic at New York, reports a new unloading record established wher Men, Too, Seek Beauty. | Dr. D A Fourmenthal, who ha in the United States on a comr n | of the French government to study 000 cases of frozen cggs from China | the methe ican w were removed from the liner American |en in maki Farmer in 20 ho! which were in ting, were brought over in re- frigeration. Th merican Farmer | arrived at > port June heen the ered patrons of sol n seekin moved from ves 40 beautiful per ce Closed Monday and we hope you’ll enjoy ‘The 4th! Continuing Tuesday Our great Midsummer CLEARANCE SALE Women's and Children’s Shoes Starting Tuesday Annual Midsummer “FLORSHEIM” Sale for Men 7th& K 1914-16 Pa. 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