Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1928, Page 2

WDELY N DISTRICT (Athietic Contests, Clinics and| Dental Treatments Given to | Arouse Health Interest. 1 May day was celebrated t gho today by thousands of par- | ticipants at clinies, schools and play- with prog designed te the vigor of yo d s to e joined contests, as i s program Child Health a J Catholic Field Day. nding th ing was at Cath e v, W the gat Rev. Dr. Paul ey, pro= ¢ the institution. osts. Programs were the public school play- on of sociology at o many of clinic of the Child Welfare Board of Children's Hospital, and the hild hygiene centers of the Health | partment of the District of Columbia, re held physical examinations this rning from 10 to 12 o'clock. Mothers | and children attended these institutions 21in large numbers and doctors gave the fchildren either a clean bill of health gor. upon discovering defects called £them to the 2itention of the mothers, £with recommeadations. % May day wid observed in special cel- ebrytions at the District playgrounds | .and at four «f them physical examina- 1P1aTe 0 (bt EIee ¢ Tuberculosis Association. 7 were at Second and F street southeast, Seventeenth and Kramer streets, Eight- | § eenth and Kalorama read and the col- | fored plavground at Twenty-seventh and | £ O streets. | Under auspices of the Summer round- | $up committee of the Parent-Teacher % Associations. of which Mrs. N. H. Stull | 2 was chairman, examinations were held | 3 at many schools, including Edmonds, Brookland Henry, Seaton, Bancrof: i Gma Thomson. Park View, Ludlow, | Ambush, Mott, Adams and Peabody. Swan Boat Opens Season. One of the picturesque features of the day was the official opening of the | #eason by the swan boat of the child | | I . MAY DAY MERVEI]i I FEATURES OF MAY DAY OBSERVANCE AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Upper: Little Richard Smith, shown on the table, wonders what it is all about as he, like many other children, was It will operate daily throughout | Put $hroug Mrs. Frank B | h a thorough physical examination at the hospital today. wer: Nurses with flowers sent to the hospital by the May Day Child Health Committee. ~—Star Staff Photo. Dental treatment was 500 children throug! ©f dentists with the dental committee of the May day committee, of which Dr.| B. E. Erickson was chairman. The chil- @ren were transported in busses by the Red Cross and the Junior League to offices of dentists, who by previous ap- intment took care of the children's | Cht.:lcx‘betl‘un‘hehounofzm.'l‘ The dental program had been devel- operntion it the commitise of e, | Once in a while, as the radio sud- | i school authorities and the District | ence of station WRC is aware, I step fof Columbia of Parent-|0ut of my assigned role as a political | Teacher Associations, Dr. Joseph A. | Droadcaster. fo discuss topics that con- | 2 Murphy, chief medical inspector of the | C™0 mhtrd thln?mlhln precincts, prl-l fpublic schools, was active in this pro- | aries and parles. | v hen 1 Sgram. The work was done in the offices On lln-fon every occasion W] | fof 105 white and 19-colored . dentists, | have strayed from the path of politics, 3 B | iwho volunteered their time. it has been to talk about children, | land in particular about child wel-| Public School Celebrations. | fare. That is the purpose of the extra Celebrations at the public schools | turn I am doing before the microphone were in charge of Dr. Rebecca Stone- | this week. foad, for the white schools, and Miss | As you have hitherto heard me in Anita Turner for the colored schools, | the guise of a suppliant for funds in One of the outs of| tanding program: | support of child welfare projects, may the afternoon was that :l h:k:vuw<l say at once that tonight at least Playground, where Mrs. William How- | 1 90 Dot come to you cap in hand. Tt “ard Taft planned to plant a tree. Com. | i FAther to report the splendid Brogress §missioner Sidney P. Taliaferro was to | 't has been made in the fel of Sscoept it for the District of Columbia. | Child welfare at Washington -progress §The occasion was under auspices of the | J1¢. In some small degree, I like “Woraen's City Club. | teel, to "v’fh ‘g nr':g:x :;t;or‘?‘emm-xde'fi' : | appeals v flufi%mhe.l:; ‘:n'o‘r;u’;n;l ‘:m'y?‘:o‘o mfi’,‘; { Fmfl:‘ged to send out over this wave- 0 hrough length. iR b e v‘?;}‘rfim,,‘,“’{,’:',;z‘ This much of what T have said be- i Council, represented by R. J. Posson | fore T would like fo say un)n—-nmf;lv. §The message said: “Have your child | (DAt when a man 15 disussing the % physically examined. Watch ihe six. | Welfare of children. he is dealing wit $ ear molar 1ooth. Children need plensy | ® Very vital and valusble national i- of milk, fresh fruits, fresn vegelabies, | S°. TO that extent children are pol- rest and sunshine.” It was signed by | 'DC% the District of Columbia May day mitiee. At Catholic U given o more | h m | Described by Child welfare work in the District, of Columbia was described by ric | William Wile in a radio talk last night over station WRC. He said as follows: t | | They are the acorns from which the ©om= | pepublic’s ‘°"’{m‘fb must srov. :{ i nation that buflds upon & ri 1o B34 oy 0wt of doors, theee. Wk an | Bealthy children is bullding on granite; ‘extensive exhibit of work doe by chil- | DOt sand. Conversely, & countey SOV géren of the parochial schools of the | DeSjects chfld wefate I8 A HCroN e Ectation. The exnibit included posters, | Dptional defense. Ineel 58T, Hed. :ll&(‘. ub)e'l clay mna;lx: and other| . ..'minded children of America are | jerticles. 1t was under the direction of | Cican-Tainded CRVATER, OF BTl de- ferse must ever rest. Bucceeding gen- 2 Mise Mary Spencer of the National #Catholic Wellare Conference and Mrs, | (o WP SO0l "ok of “eniidren will mean 8 United States safe from the EMargeret Hilleary, representative of the §Tuberculosts Ascociation. evils which assail the body politic the home and secure against perils | which might menace us from without. That witty sage of the plains, Will | Rogers, recently pointed out that Uncle Sam does more for pigs and cows (han for children, What the Mark Twain PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMOKKOW Child Welfare Work in District | made corresponding progress. | Last an end the rather confused situation | resultant from a privately conducted | agency, which, because of partial sup- | port by congressional funds, was sub-| ject to semi-Federal control. In 1926 the child hygiene service of | the Health Department opened two new stations, and in 1927 still another. This makes at the present time 10 sta- | tions in all under control of the Dis- trict health authorities. | ‘The personnel, keeping pace with the | steady growth in the service rendered, | has increased from a staff of 5 nurses | and 6 doctors, including the director, | to 15 nurses, with a full-time supervis- | ing nurse, and 16 doctors, including the | director. The appropriation for the service has Raised | in 1925 to $25,000 and to $33,000 in 1927, the amount for 1928 is $45,000, It is very much to be hoped that the increase may become am annual event. The importance of the work thus made possible is coming to be more and more recognized by parents and by the Dis- trict community at large. Statistics, 1 am sure, are just as tire- | some over the radio as under other circumstances, but the figures of child| welface work in Washington really tell an impressive story In 1925 the attendance at child welfare stations was just under 20,000.| year the attendance was just| under 40,000. In other words, in two years attendance just about doubled. In 1925 there were 12,500 visits by nurses. Last year nurses made 21,000 visits. In 1925 the station books recorded a total registration of 1700 cases, In 1927 8,300 cases were registered. Let me narrate to you briefly what the Child Welfare Soclety, concentrating its energies upon the model unit at Children's Hospital, has accomplished. ‘The Children’s Hospital, I would like to say in passing, is & model of its l\nd,‘K and the child welfare unit maintains, | in full degree, the entire establishment's high standards. ‘The Children’s Hospital child welfare department is maintained as a memorial to Miss Mary Gwynn, & ploneer in children's work in the District of Columbia. of the wide and ofly West means is that, while Federal funds and ai | available, practically without stint, for the welfdre of our cattle herds, Treasury | money and Government help are only moderately available for the promotion | and development of ebild health, Child weifare work here was inaugu- r | rated about 30 years ago as @ private "1 agency. It began simply us distribution lof tood to the wick and needy poor Gradually the work was extended until & milk station was extablished yiRsT RACE- puise. § P 00" 5 CARAAY o avvrersian cvvmaresie Boon it became apparent that bables | | were in need of food more than eny i1, | Other part of the population. This 114 | brought shout the establishment of the milk station Then it developed that food is only | . 114 1one of the requirements of bables, 80! | the work was expanded 1o include in- | struetion in hyrwnr training and in | preparation of all foods for infants and wry | ehildren up to 6 years of age. Pre-natal eare was provided % | mothers, In one way and another, L work extended, being supported by private subseription. Eventually it wes artermined 1o churge a nomingl fee o those recelving the services of the organization Nine yenrs ago Peders) support was fortheoming in the sum of $16,000, though the work continued W be cone ducted by private agencies. As it rami. fled into ever-widening fields of usefuls ness, the Pederal sppropristion was in- creased o §18,000, This was the situstion up to 1926, when five of the then existing stations were taken over by the District Health Department, The other stations re- BACY 84 00 for , the & Nevads Block Farm ent ¥ B 001 fe miies SIXTH RACE—/The Fanitabie Handicay it Lipitennii 94 Mirete Coan 1z ol RALE—f-yearolis und SEVENTH ¥ g 18001 14 miles ing’ puree Wellare Bociety In 1926 \wo more stations or centers were Laken over by the Health Depart- | ment, leaving one at the Children’s Houpital, 10 ‘Lemnr known thencefor- y's ward es the Child Welfare Boclet; This @ivison of activities brought. to anninghem K. A, 3 Whspanies . ,{‘W‘ oy center for ndvanced work, jHon there as in the 10 child hyylen a are | centers gonducted by the District of | mained under the care of the Child | ‘The same general system s in opers Columbis. ‘That I8 to say, mothers may bring their children there for health | | examination and for education in ma- !ternal duties. | _The Children's Hospital Center serves | | the nection of the city extending from | | N street north to Park road and from | North Capitol street west o Connecti- cut avenue, ‘This is a section not served by the child hyglene centers of the Department of Health and embraces, as you know, ‘one of the most populous | Feglons In’ Washington. Bome phase of child welfare work is going on at the Children’s Hospital | unit” every hour of every week day, ! Last year showed & definite increase | in the amount of work it was called upon to perform. The total clini tendance for 1927 was 10,057, a8 against 6,865 in 1026, In other words, there was an increase in the center's opera- tons of more than 60 per cent in 12 | months, Home visits were made by nurses to bables and pre-school children In 5,126 | cuses. Nutrition classes are held twice A week. In addition the nutrition | worker at the center glves good demon - strations to attending mothers at regis lar conferences held for the purpose Last year there were 147 of (hese demonstrations and 2404 mothers @valled themmselves of the praciical knowledge there disseminuted, In addition to regular child welfare confersnces, an immunization class has | | been instituted, During the past year | nearly 500 children were given the | toxin-antitoxin, Diphtheria mostly in children | | between 1 and § none of them should be dented this sim- oceurs | yeurs of age, The doctors tell us that | Saturday morning for the Schick test and the toxin-antitoxin. As a practical step toward assisting in reducing the high still-birth rate classes in pre-natal education have been started. Talks on pre-natal care and | care of the new-born are given weekly to white and classes. 1 am getting just a little out of my element here, but I am reliably in- formed that a teaching exhibit which includes a model layette—if you know what I mean—is on display. Expectant mothers are invited to attend the classes and inspect the exhibit. One more figure, and I am done. I was told that the cases registered at the Children’s Hospital Child Welfare Center this day totaled 1,095. I submit to the radio audience of the District of Columbia that the facts and figures to which you'have had the goodness to listen during the past 15 minutes reflect a situation satisfactory in the highest degree. that public interest in its perpetuation does not flag. to colored mothers' PLACE ON NEW AIR MAIL ROUTE TONIGHT __ (Continued. from Pirst Page.) York-Atlanta route was scheduled to open. Six Pilots on Route. Six pllots are charged with carrying the mail on the New York-Atlanta route. Most of them learned to fly at Army schools, and all have had more than 1,000 hours or 100,000 miles fiying experience. Two have had more than 2,500 hours in the alr, The pilots and lfie sections they will operate are: A. M. Banks and Verne E. Treat, between Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J, the air mail rt ton, Richmond and return on alternate nights. Sydney Molloy, Eugene R. Brown and John 8. Kytle, each. of whom will fly north from Atlanta to Spartanburg, 8. C.; Greenshoro, N, C., and Richmond on one night, returning the next night and taking the thir night off, Edward J, Mon'rmy will be the reserve pilot and will be stationed at Richmond, the point at which the mail 15 transferred. He will be avail- able to take either route. Each pllot will have his “own shij [} Pitcairn Mallwing biplane, designed and bulit by the contractar’s manufacturing branch, No plmngfll will be carrled over the New York-Atlanta alrway, owing to the fact the entire route must be flown 'l‘l[ night and under all weather condi- ons, SALVATION ARMY FUND CAMPAIGN DISCUSSED Further plans for the Salvation Army's campaign for $3560,000, to begin Friday, to ald in its $500,000 bullding project on the southwest corner of Bixth and E streets, were discussed at & meeting of section and division lead- ers in the City Club this afternoon, An appeal to representatives of more than a seore of cltizens' associations and other organizations to support the campalgn was made In an address by M.i, Gen, Bl Helmick, president of the Cathedral Helghts Oitizens' Association, At w meeting in the Willard Hotel yes- terday afternoon, The meeting ‘was called by James . Yaden, president ot the Federntion of lfllllrhl' clationa Gen, Helmick told of the good work the Bulvation Ari did for the troops in Prance during the World War, Btafy (}url mander of the P Balyation Army, who was one of the lenders for the campalgn, underwent an operation for appendicitly In Emergency Hospital yestorday, ple and safe precautionary measure. The fld Welfare Center at the Children's Hospital now ca) on this d?hllurh immunization of its regular program. | en 1o L) rt Dring their e E’.’y’ Currie Libel Suit in Jury's Hand COBURG, Ontario, May 1 (4" --The *wy henring Bir Arthur Ourrie's $50,000 y""@l’"& lnhurt‘ t‘t"' T.’ .c' :r;:!"nn and Aoday Ao consider » Let us see to it | for New York; Philadelphia, Washing- | NEW YORK GUARDS AGAINST DISORDER 21,000 Police Ready to Quell May Day Demonstrators. Socialists Protest. Dy the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 1.—The entire police force, some 21,000 uniformed men and several hundred detectives, { were on active and reserve duty today to guard against possible May day dis- | orders. Police headquarters said no disorders were expected, but that inspections of meeting places of radicals and com- munist printing plants indicated an un- | usual amount of revolutionary litera- ture recently had been circulated. The soclalist action committee in a letter to Police Commissioner Warren demanded he rescind orders instructing police to arrest all persons responsible | for distribution of illegal literature. The letter called the order an “incitation to disorder.” The letter sald that “a holiday that attracts the support of such a large pro- portion of our citizenry, is deserving of more respect than that indicated in the police department orders.” It pointed out that May 1 was an international labor holiday. Meetings at other than designated | places have been forbidden by police | and a strong guard has been ordered for the homes of the wealthy persons along Fifth and Park avenues and side streets of that district, and for the homes of city and Federal officials. ‘The largest open air meeting is scheduled for Union Square, with other meetings at Madison Square Garden, and various halls and theaters. THREE SLAIN IN WARSAW. 1 | Shots Fired When Communists Try to Join Socialist Parade. WARSAW, Poland, May 1 (#).—May day began here with the killing of three persons and the wounding of 12 when Communists this morning tried to join the Socialist parade. Shots were ex- changed when Socialists refused to per- | mit the Communists to march with them. PARIS IS TRANQUIL. | Extremists Fail to Demonstrate, as Threatened. PARIS, May 1 (#).—May day morn- ing passed tranquilly in Paris, despite threats made by the extremists to demonstrate, and about the only un- us thing was the complete absence of taxicabs from the streets, it being a holiday by tradition for the drivers. There were numerous strikes in in- dustrial establishments, especially in the “red belt” and in the suburbs, but no trouble was reported. Street hawkers did a big business in lilies-of-the-valley, which every good Frenchman wears in his buttonhole on the 1st of May to bring happiness for the next year. More than 40 “protest” meetings of Communists were announced for late today, and authorities mobilized police {cavalry in districts where trouble might occur. CELEBRATIONS BANNED. Bulgaria Issues Edict Following Earth- quake Disasters. SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 1 (#.—On | the ground of public sorrow for the vic- tims of recent Bulgarian earthquakes, the government forbade all May day celebrations. Special May day Communist publica- tions and numerous bolshevist leaflets | were confiscated as dangerous to the | public peace. | Notwithstanding police restrictions, | Socialist and Communist papers today | printed appeals to workers to attend meetings called for two places in Sofia. The appeals demanded, among other things. political amnesty, re-establish- ment of diplomatic relations with Rus- {sia and forcible appropriation of ma- terials to reconstruct houses ruined by the earthquakes. Police announced they would disperse the meetings, resorting to armed force 1 necessary. QUIET PREVAILS | | | N TOKIO. 20,000 March Through Streets Accom- panied by Police. ‘TOKIO, May 1 (#).—Apart from the arrest of 36 persons for disorderly | conduct, May day passed off quietly in Japan. This lack of trouble is con- sidered largely due to the recent round- | Ing up of extremists by the police, mass meeting was held in the capital this morning, after which 20,000 demonstrators, including many women, marched through the streets singing labor_ songs. The paraders were es- corted by 3,000 police. Similar demonstrations were held at Osaka and elsewhere. BELGRADE IS ORDERLY. Socialists Permitted to Hold Indoor Meetings. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, May 1 (/).— While all public demonstrations of workers in Jugoslavia were forbidden, Socialists and Communists in Belgrade were permitted to hold indoor May-day meetings today. Perfect order prevailed ‘This afternoon masses of workers went to the country to make merry. 100,000 TO PARADE. Mexicans to Stage Peaceful Demonstra- tion Today. MEXICO CITY, May 1 (#).—More than 100,000 workers, men and women, are expected to parade here today in what is planned to be a record-breaking peaceful demonstration of the strength of unjon labor in the Mexican capital President Calles, cabinet members and high government officials will review the | parade. TROOPS ON GUARD, Communist Suspects Arrested Bogota. BOGOTA, Colombia, May 1 (#).— With a few known or suspected Com- munists under arrest last night, reports from the prineipal centers of popula- tlon indicate that government troops | and the natlonal police will be held in readiness today, May day, although | little alarm s In evidence. 1t has been | announced that Maria Cano, called | ““The Revolutionary Flower of the Pro- :e»l;rln." is expected in the capital oday, EMBASSIES PROTECTED, Pollee Patrol Vienna Streets as 000 Parade, VIENNA, May 1 (#—Desplte @ drizgling yain and mud-covered streets half & million Soclalist workers paraded In orderly fashion in oelebration of May day, i wym dLoov-ry by police of the alleged revolutionary “designs of Hela Kun prompted authorities to take extraor dinary precautions to prevent the re. currence of such disastrous Commu- nist rlots wy took place last July, and to frustrate illegal Communist gathers inga. fll l'ruln ofilu and conwulates wei B . Boviet, {noon Mrs. R. F. Burgess of 119 Thir- TWO GIRLS, 4, FIND DEAD KITTENS BUT NO CIRCUS ON WALKING TOUR Start for Baltimore From Lincoln Park as Frantic Mothers Patrol Streets. i i [ Decide 8 Hours Later to Head | | for City’s Lights as Best Guide to Home. The sun was warm and the grass| was green in Lincoln Park yesterday, hut there was a restless breeze blowing, and it wafted adventure to two mem- bers of the very young generation. Said Miss Charlotte Owens, 4 years old, to Miss Betty Lee Burgess, going on 5, “Let's take a walk.” Said Miss Betty Lee Burgess to Miss Charlotte Owcens, “All right, but we | don't want any men hanging around.” Whereupon Mr. Richard Herman, aged 2, was left behind on a bench, | and Misses Burgess and Owens started | out to see things. Mothers Get There at Noon. That was about 11 o'clock. About | | | | teenth street southeast and Mrs. Ernest | Owens of 1209 East Capitol street ar- | rived in Lincoln Park in frantic search | of their offspring. From various peo- | ple sitting around in the park they" learned that their daughters had start- ed out in the general direction of north- | east. Mrs. Owens started one way and Mrs. Burgess in another, but both were headed in the general direction of northeast. They spent the better part of four hours dashing up and down streets, every now and then bumping into each other to report failure of their quest. Aobut the time they started Miss Owens was saying to Miss® Burgess: “Let's go to the circus,” and Miss Bur- gess was responding, “All right.” Miss Owens knew a lot about the circus. Her mother had taken her to the Johnny Jones show a week or two before, The only thing she didn't know about it was that that particular show had moved on. She found that out when | she and her fellow adventurer arrived | at Fiftcenth and H streets northeast. And so they started looking for a cir- cus. W2 Above: CHARLOTTE OWE! Below: BETTY LEE BURG! “—Star Staft Pho | o the road to Baltimore, and, being very lonely. they picked them up. * Saw Balloon Man. i g (e £ Lt give then a| Neither Miss Betty nor Miss Char-| path," said Miss Betty, “maybe theyll| lotte is quite sure whether they got to| come to life again.” | the circus or not. But they are positive | * Then it began to get dark and Miss that they saw a man with a lot of | Betty and Miss Charlotte began :o crv. | balloons and that he refused to give | They looked back and saw lights in the | them any because they didn’t have any | sky ‘and held a conference, as a result | | force ‘SHANTUNG CAPITAL 1S REPORTED TAKEN Dispatches Say Nationalists Entered Tsinanfu With Little Difficulty. ALD SWEETLAND. o SHANGHAI May 1.—Chinese mili- tary dispatches from the front announce that Tsinanfu, capital of Shantung Province, and egic point in the North-South has been occupted the mai s of the first and . o cazo Dally from the Shantung forces. The area around Tsinanfu re- ported as being looted by retreating Northerners, but owing to the complete ence of foreign reports, ent 1s ble. A number of Northern to have engaged to flee toward 1 Former Entry Recalled. Tsinanfu was first reported tured by the tian Gener fu-Hstang with Southerr April cap- Feng the ing the city wa Explaining Tsinantao-Tsinan! fonalists declare the sary to prevent a toward Tsingtao. deeply resent the Japanese 3 restore the railway for the purposs of reinforcing the Japanese garrison at Tsinan. RED TERRORISM REPORTED. Refugees Tell of Wholesale Murder in Sacking of City. SHANGHAIL, May 1 (#).—Ref from northern and western Hupeh to- day brought stories of Red terrori: in the di from which the: L They confirmed earlier reports of the sack of Kingmen and the slaying of 5.000 inhabitants by bandits. Messages from Hankow said execu- tions of ‘'Communists were occurring there daily. A girl of 13, who acted as money. Miss Betty also recalls running ito a couple of young blades of about her own age, who tried to make a date with them. Anyway, they hung around the general vicinity of the circus and had a swell time. of which the Baltimore trip was ahan- doned until a more auspicious occa- sion and they decided to walk in the direction of the lights. Lights, they agreed, meant home. At 7 o'clock Mrs. Burgess and Mrs. rM 4 o'clock ers. Blérgess Jy:d a mh; | Owens were well nigh frantic. of very sore feet and so did several | policemen who had been directed to | Each Carries Dead Kitten. Join the hunt. So Mrs. Burgess found And at 7 o'clock Policeman Casey, a friend with an automobile and trans- | who was directing traffic at the corner ferred her activities to wheels. of Fifteenth and H streets northeast, Also at 4 o'clock Miss Betty was looked toward the curb and saw there saying to Miss Charlotte, “Let's go two very young girls, dirty and down- home,” and Miss Charlotte was confess- | cast, their'clothes torn and their feet ing to Miss Betty, “I don't know how | du: to get home.” |her eye and each with a dead kitten At a few minutes past 4 Miss|cluiched in Ler arms. Policeman Casey Charlotte conceived a very bright idea. ! crossed the street. “Let's walk to Baltimore,” she sald. | -At 7:30 Mrs. Burgess and Mrs. Owens At 5 o'clock, Mrs. Burgess and Mrs. | received calls from No. 9 precinct to the Owens were becoming a little desperate |effect that their ambitious daughters and Miss Charlotte and Miss Betty were |had been found, and each ejaculated each with one dirty hand dug In | | sary for the child to learn to read. " | sald,- might ex| getting hungry and very tired and they were still a long way from Baltimore. Radio Audiences Get News. At 6 o'clock radio audiences all over | i the city were getting the news that | Charlotte were eating ravenously of the | two young girls had gone off to seek ad- | venture very much against the wishes | of their parents, who would very much | like to have them back. | And at 6 o'clock Miss Charlo:te and Miss Betty found two dead Kkitiens in| the wreck of an automobile somewhere “Thank God.” And at that pregise moment these two ambitious offspring |were being given a good. personal | scrubbing by a couple of policemen. At 8 o'clock Miss Betty and Miss very best food in their respective homes At 8:30 Miss Betty said: “We got two automobile rides with the nice police- men,” and fell asleep. And at 8:30 Miss Charlotte sald: “Wonder what hap- pened to the kittens?” and also fell asleep. VISUAL TEACHING IS CALLED WRONG BY-NERVE SPECIALIST| _(Continued from PFirst Page) | and sight must be co-ordinated in order | to recognize the printed word. Both the visual amd the auditory functions, he| said, may be quite normal, but they| fail to co-ordinate in the way neces-! dergarten naturally would read to the left, and must adjust their brains to | the practice of reading to the right.| After a period of teaching about 98 per cent of children make this adjust- ment satisfactorily, but it still crops out in trying to pronounce some words from type. Such a word as “tomor- row,” he said, is confusing. and this mix-up results in such awkward at- tempts as_ “tworrom” where the two directions have been confused. Confusion of symbols, he said, is common in “reading-defectiv dren who fail to recognize the differ- . between . such combinations as {a member of the Red tribunal which |1s held responsible for the sen- | tences- of torture and ceath, as one of the victims. s Nationalist troops have been-sent to | suppress the Communist movement in the province, which is not inwived in | the present battle between North. and | South China. ‘The Nationalists were ugeasy. today over possible action by Japaness troops in Shantung. The troops were sent to that province as a protective measure when it became the battleground between the Northern and Southern forces. | The Japanese general, ' Fukada, in | command of the expedition. had warned th sides the iway between Tsinan and Tsingtao must be kepr open, and there were reports :oday that the Nationalists had cut the railway. These sent the Nationalist scurrying to Gen, -Chaing Kai-Shek, Natton commander-in-chief. to con. | sult + over what steps the Jap- | might take. i rrners were also reported Chowsun, 50 miles east of T 1 the railway. and in the |-meantime hLeavy fighting raged to’the | south and east of Tsiman for its pos- | session. Ten thousand Nationalist | troops were engaged in the struggle, and | their command hoped to occupy the capital of Shantung within a few days. TROOPS DISPERSE BRIGANDS. | foreign minister | Japanese Force Permitted to Operate by Chinese Officials. TOKIO, May 1 (#).—The Japanese | foreign office. stated today that the | Chinese Nationalist authorities agreed |to permit Japanese troops, recently { Janded at Tsingtao to protect Japanese interests in Shantung. to go to Tsinan by rail without hindrance. Japanese troops were forced to dis- perse a party of 300 brigands, who tock advantage of the situation to attack | “Reading defectives” with such a|“baby, bady, dady and daby"—in other | & Japanese residence and some ware- handicap that they are delayed omi year or more in school work, he said | constitute about 2 per cent of the schoo’ | population, and this is more than dou- | bled under some types of teaching. A great deal has been accomplished, | he said, by having the children draw | letters and pronounce them at the| same time, thus strengthening the as- soclation between the form and sound. | One girl who had been three years in| school and was not able to read a| single word now has been treated by | this and similar methods so that she | now is only one year behind her class | and is the most accurate, if not the | brightest child in her group. | Three Classes of Disabilities. When most cases of feeble-minded children are analyzed, he said, the dis- abilities can be divided into three | classes—those of speech, of reading and of bodily movement, or clumsines The first two disabilities, Dr. Orton insisted, now can be trained by proper methods, and something has been ac- complished with the clumsy ones by having them dance before a mirror where there is no need of reverse mo- | tions to puzale them. If it can be | shown, he pointed out, that these three igns of feeble-mindedness or of in ferfor mentality can be done away with, then feeble-mindednes fitself will be greatly reduced. One boy, he said, has been brought to him a hopeless moron, having an intelligence quotient | of only 63 for his age. | Yet he has found that this child's; deficiencies fall into these three cate- gories, in every one of which there a parently is possibility for great improve- | ment Following Dr. Sachs' eritfelsm of the present method of teaching, Dr. Orton sald he had found that it really did | speed up the process of learning to read, | but handicaps rather than helps chil- dren with a tendency toward confusion. He told of a recent experiment where a | boy was asked to read four pages from | A book and did so with only three or | four errors. But when words were picked at random from those pages and | he was asked to spell them he made 38 errors. “We haven't offered much to the odueational psychologist and the school | teacher up to date,” he sald. { Dr. Frederick Tilney, professor of neurology of Columbia University, called attention to one theory of the develop- ment of speech which holds that words evolved from the gestures ! primitive man or presman. Gradually these ges- tures were transferred to the lips and tongue As it became necessary to use the hands for other purposes. This, he plain the success which had attended ||\«' lrlh‘r-llll‘lu{ method used by Dr. Orton in fixing the form and sound of a letter i their proper assoclation in the mind. Dr. Orton re- called cases where persons with thelr hands tied were unable to talk. Difficulties of Puplls, The ohild 13 at & eritical period of life, Dr. Orton sald, when it first fhoes the necessity of co-ordinating sound and sight in the manner neces- sary for reading, and must make vari- ous adjustments. Among these is that of the two hemispheres of the brain, each_controlling similar aotion, but tn A different divection. For instance, he Id 30 per cent of the ohl st grade from | that committee 0 co-ordinate transportation with words, are unable to get a clear asso- clation of B and D, The cure, he said, must depend on more intensive efforts and muitiplied paths for securing fixed associations, such as the tracing method, and noth- ing is gained by considering the child as a blockhead. Pressure exerted by teachers who jump to the conclusion the child who mixes “was and saw”" is stupid or inattentive, he s only makes matters worse by introd ing secondary emdtional factors which further retard progress, Cites Epllepsy Cure. Operations on the thyroid, adrenal and sympathetic glands appear to have produced some notable improvements in cases of epilepsy, Dr. George W. Cr of Cleveland told the American Sw gical Association at the National Mu- seum this morning, ative results in cases of neurasthenia and hypertension. He was not suggest- ing such operations as a cure for epi- lepsy, Dr. Crile said. but only prese ing the status of the theory as it stands At present. One case of epilepsy ap- parently has been completely cured by operation, he said. $12,000,000 “BAIT” FUND TO INFLUENCE MERGER IS CHARGED BY NOONAN (Continued from First Page) ‘pany. The present stock sold at $4. 1 on the last recorded sale and he belicved the new stock to be issued would be about par value. While he admitted a part of the physical property would be taken from stockholders under the merger it would be exchanged for something else. Under the merger the | Potomae Electric Power Co. is divorced from the Washington Ratlway and Elee- tric Co, but the latter, as a holding company, retains its ownership of the | power plant With Chairman John W. Childress of the Public Utilities Commission con- tending that the commission s wel within the margin of safety i approv- | ing the $30,000,000 valuation, and Wil- liam McK. Ols Citizens' Assoclation holding that fZWre | aniection to that™™ ton of the Federation of | is too high, the Senate District com- mittee held its first meeting today. For more than two hours members of the questioned Childress and Clayton on the main features of the merger plan, most of the queries Tevol fng around the valuation After reolting how the merger agrees ment was worked up duriug the past year to ity present stage, Commisstoner Childress told the Senators it s destr able because {t will result (n better serve fee, permit advantageous rerouting of lines, save noney and make It easier | for the Park and Planning Commission facilities ojects for the beautification of Washington My, Clayton declared arganised olil-| which plan, he asserted lara. He objocted to the writing of & fixed '\'zlnl\u' mlmu b:‘ho um'ué\::‘ urged that ) by & cony “:h’um ! than net R il ut have had neg- | o | could employ houses. One bandit was bayoneted. The war office advices added that bandits and northern troops were loot- { Ing neighboring towns and villages, but 0 far. owing to the presence of Jap- anese troops, no Japanese had su d Health Program Planned. ! Disp 0 The Star POTOMAC, Va., May 1.—George Ma- on High and Mount Vernon Eleme ary School pupils will present a health program Thursday night at the meet- ing of the Parent-Teacher Association which will o e place in the George Mason_Auditorium at 8 p.m r the Dis incorporation w is s betw advocated fre: nd bu et code, een ¢ that 90 per cen ington are opposed merger agreemen ral propos Give 56 Million Total Commissioner Childress testified that under the decision of the local Court of Appeals, the valuation of the Capital Traction Co. is figured to be $25,756,.880. He said that applying the valuation principle laid down by the e the e of the Washington Radway & ctric Co. would be about $30.000,000, a total of nearly $56,000.000 v allowance for the Wash- n Rapid Transit Co, properties. nting out that the compission is bound to follow the principles laid do by the court wi & new val made. Commissioner Childress said he [ felt 1t was safe to agree to the pro- | posal of the companies to accept a | $50.000,000 rate base. Se v Capper. chairman | committee, inquired how long take to make A new va Childress replied that it wou! on how many experts the o and how mue would be available for the purpose, “1 have seen a suggestion that the Interstate Commerce Commission could make a valuation. What would be the Senator Capoer - quired. Mr. Childress said he could see no reason why an outside agency should do what the utilities commission &8 paid 10 do. When Childress was showing how the total valuation of the compantes would b At least $58.000.000 oh the basis of the court’s decision, without consider- ing the bus -\m\,;m Y, &8 compared with the agreement for a $50.000.000 value under the merger, Senator Sackett, Re- Publican, of Kentucky observed “In other words, vou think you ob- tained & bargain valuation Mr. Childress indicated he thought so. Senator Capper read into the record A letter received from the former Utidis Ues Commission in June, 1936, tndieat- ng that at that time 1% was of the m\amp. 15 for & merger, but not for this | that a fixed valuation need not ba speet- particular should be amended In several partieu- fled 1 4 merger agreement. To this ;h'. Childress \fl\ll;d l;‘\llmm that ter Was written by 00-1 sion, the latest M’ dectsion in Capita case bad Seen Panded o