Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 15

THE SUND AY STAR, WAS HINGTOV D. C T‘FBRUARY 26, ‘)"8 T‘ART 1 PITTSBURGH GROUP WINS RATE VICTORY Southern Competitors Fail to Get Cut in Charges on is promised through its official journal, [ i ” Coal to Lakes. e W asnington the Medtcal Unsatisfactory. ° Soclety is taking an active part in the campaign by arrangement with the Tu- By the Associared Press. berculosis Association. At the next | By the Associated Press. in the pro- regular meeting of the socicty, Wednes-| ~With the statement that they were ® “unsatisfactory,” La- An important victory tracted contest over the rail rates on Jake cargo coal was won yesterday by the Pittsburgh and Ohio mining terri- tory. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission refused to allow the principal railroads serving West Virginia, Ten- nessee, Virginia and Kentucky to cut rates to Great Lakes ports 20 cents a ton. although the roads voluntarily of- fered the reduction, and the Pittsburgh- Ohio coal operators were granted by railroads serving their mines a cut of that amount last Summer. The rate relationship will determine in large part the dominance in the lake cargo trade, which amounts to $0.000,000 tons of coal a vear, as be- such meetings a motion picture is avail- | gymp » tween the West Virginia-Tennessee-Vir- able entitled “Let Your Doctor Decide. | Winning Name Will Be Selected by || See the Leantiful garden swots and waoded sections, the enchanting views It is expected that more than 10,000 Refers o Borah Letter. | the Following Committee he curving sweep of the great Lee ginia-Kentucky fields on the one hand and their Ohio-Pennsylvania competi- tors on the other. Has Been Bitter Feud. Tuberculosis Groups Plan- Tntespive Education Drive on Disease in March national campaign in which the assocl- ation will participate are as follows: First, to‘focus the attention of the public on the well known danger signs of tuberculosfs, in the hope ‘that more people will go to their doctors for ex- amination before it is too late. Second, to stimulate renewed interest on the part of the medical profession in the means and methods of recogniz- ing_these early symptoms. ‘The glnm for this campaign of edu- cation have been officially indorsed by the American Public Health Association at its annual meeting in Cincinnati last October, and the active co-operation of the American Medical Association also day evening, Dr. W. D. Tewksbury, well | known speclalist in tuberculosis, will deliver an address on early diagnosis. Similarly, the subject will be presented by Dr. C. A. Tignor at the Medico- Chirurgical Society March 22. To Provide Speakers. Large quantities of posters, pamphlets and other printed matter, motion pic- ture films and feature articles have been prepared for use of tuberculosis associations all over the country. Speakers will be provided at various ublic meetings and lunchcons to tell of the danger of delay where certain surface symptoms are observed. billboards will carry large and small posters lithographed with a picture of & doctor examining the lungs of a pa- tient or with the words, in large letters, Answers to His Queries From Guardia, Republican, New York, yes- Senators Curtis of Kansas and Willis of Ohio, both candidates for the Re- publican _presidential prohibition. Guardla, who is opposed to the eight- centh amendment, asked whether they would be willing to have the Govern- ment_employ 100,000 men and spend $200.000,000 a year in an effort to en- force it. nomination of either,” LaGuardia said, For | « his position on prohibition in a _letter to Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, and he was “convinced that the views | IA GUAR[]M SGUR[S oo s DRY QUIZ REPLIES letter is perfectly clear and does not need explanation. I stand by the dec- larations made therein.” In their replics to Scnator Borah's quiries recently, both Curtis and Willls opposed repeal . of the eighteenth amendmént or Volstead act and favored vigorous enforcement and a declaration to that end in the Republican platform Curtis and Willis Called Representative erday made public the answers of nomination, to his _questionnaire as to their stand on Among other things, La- “In the unfortunate event of the 1 do not see how I could take the Senator Curtis said he had set forth | g MILFORD WITTS Secretary, Commeres Ariington County Chamber WIN SCHOOL CONTRACT. Skinker & Garrett Low Bidders for New Building. A contract for the erection of the Potomac Heights School at Dana place and Hurst terrace was awarded by the Commissioners yesterday to Skinker & Garrett, the low bidder, who offered to' Located on Lee Highway Cozy Bungalows Highway, THEN SELECT A NAME WHIC BY NAMING OUR NEWEST SUBDIVISION Church, Near Greenway Downs Modern Improvements With Hard Surfaced Streets Prices Will Range from $6,500 to $8,500 hich borders these acres. THESE GARDEN SPOTS - 9 1 do the work for $77,245. The bullding will replace the old one-room Conduit Road School. It will contain four rooms and be of the extensible type. The original bids for the construction of the school were rejected. The new proposals contained a specification for the use of uan brick, and that | of Skinker & Garrett was $2,000 less ;thzn the lowest price quoted on the original bids: One Mile West of Falls on Acre Tracts 'H WILL BE IN KEEPING WITH ‘The feud over the lake cargo rates was “You May Have Tuberculosis,” under = sufficiently embittered easly this year to | which run the four danger signs, “Too | fepresscd at that time require no clari vARSEY RULES OF THE coNTEST Easily Tired.” -Loss of Weight.” “Indi-| “uny"gtand on prohibition is well | P ot Ty e bl e bring about its transfer in part to lhe| Senate, where confirmation of Commis- sioner Esch, though reappointed by Pr!‘\d?n‘ Coolidge, has been blocked because of controversy over his vote on | ¢ the coal rates. Yesterday's decision of the | commission noted that Esch had been | “necessarily absent, but would have concurred in” the commisison’s find- ings. Three commissioners—Meyer, Woodlock and Brainerd—dissented from their associates in ruling against the Southern cargo rate cut. The competition between Southern mines and Northern mines in the Ap- palachian coal fields over the lake cargo business. has been intensified in Tecent vears, the testimony before the commussion showed, by differences in wage rates and by non-union mining conditions. Four separate proceedings &s to the rail rates have been brought A large army of trained tuberculos he hope ultimately of conquering fighters, which has come into existence | this disease lies in our ability to take in the United States in the past 20 |action promptly. This, in turn, depends vears through the efforts of the Na-|uvon efficiency in discovering all cases | tional Tuberculosis Association and its| of tuberculosis before they have had nulmebmus State, count b nndddty tub‘r opportunity to spread infection.” culosis associations. will conduct an in- tensive campaign during March. These | Aims of Campaign. workers plan to carry the war against| yn spite of the hammering of this the white plague as never before. h"‘xdm in past years, most of the cases strategy is to try to educate the public | still reach the doctors and hospitals in by every known method of publicity as|an advanced stage of the disease, so to the vital importance of discovering | that little can be done for the patients this disease in its early stages. A remarkable census of patients in t “To procrastinate with tuberculosis is | berculosis sanatoria and hospitals di: to gamble with death,” is the ;mlcmcn.‘clnwd that only 16 per cent of the with which the National Tuberculosis cases admitted were diagnosed in the Association opens its official announce- | early stages of the discase. ment of this early diagnosis campaign. The two outstanding aims of this gestion” and ‘lenh That H’mgc on."” PLAN ALUMNI CHAPTER Davidson College Graduates to Or- ganize Here. Plans to organize a local alumni chapter here will be discussed by the alumni of Davidson College, N. C., re- siding in Washington and nearby towns at a_meeting and dinner to be held March 8 at the University Club. Ar- rnngcmmts for the meeting are being made by R. S. Marshall and John A. Thames, secretary to Representative Lyon of North Carolina. 33&333288333888883:‘283.8.3 FLETCHER KEWP Supt. of Schanls Arlington County, Va. known, and yours, as indicated by your | speeches in "Congress, is quite clear,” the Kansan wrote. am certain that an exchange of views on this question will not change my position and I do not indulge the hope that I shall be| able to modify yours. “It is apparent to me, therefore, from | the argumentative phrasing of your | questions, that any answer I might make to them will merely elicit more of the same type, and so such an ex- change of views will, I am sure, serve | no public purpose.’ | Reiterates Stand. 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