Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1928, Page 26

JONES AGAIN HEADS “BOYS” WORK GROUP Other Officers Are Named at Closing Session of Three- Day Meeting. Closing a three-day conference in ‘Wardman Park Hotel yesterday after- rioon, the International Boys' Work Council re-elected Judge Benjamin F. Jones of Newark, N. J., as its president for the insuing year, and voted to hold e next annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. Other officers elected were: Vice presidents, Mahlon F. Drake, New York City; Brother Barnabas, New Haven, Conn.; James E. West, New York City, and Leon C. Faulkner, Dobbs Yerry, N. J.; treasurer, Fred W. Rust, Boston, Mass., and executive secretary, William L. Butcher, New York City. ‘The following were elected to the ex- ecutive committee: Ralph Amerman, Kiwanis Interna- tional; S. K. Guernsey, Rotary Inter- national; David W. Armstrong of the Community Chest; Arthur N. Cotton, National Council of the Young Men's Christian Association; Leroy Peterson of the Laura Stellman Rockefeller Foundation; Phillip N. Seman, Jewish People’s Institute; Bert Hall, Optimists International; Rowland C. Sheldon, Big Brother and Big Sister Federation; William Edwin Hall, Boys’ Club Federa- tion, and Robert W. Gees of Kansas City, Mo. Delegates fo the conference went to Arlington Cemetery yesterday afternoon and placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, later visiting the ‘White House, where they were received by President Coolidge. The principal speakers at yesterday’s meeting were Benjamin Ruffin, presi- dent of Lions’ International, who dis- cussed the “Business Man and the Boy,” and Rev. John Cooper of Catho- lic University, who spoke on the need of “Developing Character Values In Boys.” AUTO THIEF SUSPECT BATTLES POLICEMAN \ficer Forced to Use Baton as He Grabs Man Seen Trying to Start Cars. Seized by Policeman K. O. Speiss of the sixth precinct after he is alleged to have attempted the theft of two auto- mobiles early this morning, William King, colored, 26 years old, of the 100 block Third street southeast, put up such a battle that the policeman was forced to use his baton, sending the man to the hospital. Speiss said that he was patrolling his beat at First and K streets northeast when he saw King make what he thought was an attempt to start a parked automobile. Not being certain, he watched the ‘man until he climbed into another car and then grabbed him. King put up such a stiff fight for his freedom that Speiss drew his baton and struck him several times. After treatment at Cas- ualty Hospital King was taken to the sixth precinct station house, where he is held for investigation. —_— Wisconsin Bank Is Robbed. GREEN BAY, Wis., December 12 (®). —Two robbers gained entrance to the Farmers' Exchange Bank early last night axll: ]w:lped';.iahhl‘aom in cur- rency, cluding ;n!d. “nm% the assistant cashier of thebank as he was about to enter his THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. €., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1928. Dr. Claude S. Hudson of U. S. Public Health Service Finds 5 of 50-odd Varieties. Many Unsolved Riddles Con- cerning Humanity’s Fuel Subject of Experiments. Sugar is the fuel of animal life. In the organic world it has about the same place and importance as coal in the world of machinery. Thus Dr. Claude S. Hudson, profes- sor of chemistry at the hygienic labo- ratory of the United States Public Health Service, speaks of the funda- mental significance of the field of re- awarded the Willard Gibbs medal of the American Chemical Society, one of the most coveted of all awards open to American chemists. For 20 years Dr. Hudson has studied sugar in various Government labora- tories in Washington. He is the dis- coverer of five of the 50-odd varieties of sugar known to chemistry and he has found simpler ways of producing many other kinds. His recent appoint- ment to the hygienic laboratory places him in a position for researches con- nected more directly with the biological significance of sugar, a field which con- tains some of the most interesting of unsolved scientific riddles. Lives on Fat and Sugar. The animal body, Dr. Hudson said, lives by burning two things—fat and sugar. Fat is simply sugar in another form, built up out of sugar in the body cells by a process concerning the na- ture of yhich science has not the slight- est clue. Fat is stored coal which the cells make from sugar and then pack away for a cold day or for a time when ASSORTED TEA SANDWICHES 45c per dozen; $3.25 per hundred Alse Sandwiches for all occasions THE PASTRY SHOP 1616 H St. N.W. Met. 6939 search for which Jast week he was | D. C. PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY STUDIES SUGAR FOR 20 YEARS DR. CLAUDE S. 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The plant reaches out with its roots for water, takes carbon dioxide from the air and then, by the process of photosynthesis, combines in the mixture energy trans- mitted to it by sunlight. It is this energy which is released when the sugar is burned #n the human body. Thus, says Dr. Hudson, sugar is one of the two fundamental things in human and animal nutrition. ~The | other fundamental,"the protein, is not { burned, but is the material used in building up the tissues. The greater part of the cells in the body are en- gaged in burning or storing sugar. Sugar Animal Fuel. All the sugars, Dr. Hudson says, are potential animal fuels, but only a few of them can be burned in the special {kind of furnace with which man and, the higher animals are equipped. The most notable of these are sucrose, the commcn sugar of commerce made from sugar cane, beets, maple sirup, etc.; dextrose, made from milk and widely | used in special food preparations; grape or corn sugar, and levulose, smost twice as sweet as cane sugar, which now is the subject of extensive experi- ments at the Bureau of Standards in an effort to extract it cheaply from Jerusalem artichokes. Most of the other sugars, Dr. Hudson says, are useless in themselves as articles of diet for man and the higher animals. They simply will not burn in the body. Some of them, however, are ideally suited to burn in other kinds of animal furnaces—those of the micro-organisms —which will not burn sucrose or dex- mderers and Dry Cleaners 172325 Pennsyivania Ave-N-W- Phone Main 2321 N 2SI 1315 NEW YORK AVE. léhru 1330 H St. . WELCOME ‘The env. ment of Blossom Inn will please you. Spacious, attractive and always immacu- lately kept. The individuality of our cooking will immedi- ately appeal to you. It is dif- ferent. Luncheon, 11:30 to 3 Daily Dinner, 4:30 to 8 — Daily and Sunday trose. Some micro-organisms will die off immediately unless they get their own kind of 3 is the basis of important laboratory tests for telling them apart. It is with this fact in view that some of Dr. Hudson’s most notable scientific work has been ac- complished. ‘When he came to the Department of Agriculture in 1908 very few of the rare sugars could be obtained by laboratory workers, even from chemical specialty houses. The formulas for them could be obtained only from the papers of the discoverers and each bacteriologist had to make them for himself. Dr. Hudson set to work to make a sufficient supply of most of the 50 varieties so that the Department of Agriculture laboratories always would have some on hand. The amount re- quired seldom was more than a few pounds, but often this was extremely difficult to produce. There was, for in- stance, xylose. It had been discovered many years before by a Russian chem- ist. It was extracted from beech trees in extremely minute quantities. Dr. Hudson developed a method by which 3 fim.rs oj it could be made in considerable quan- tities from corn cobs. Food May Be Sugar. Its only value is as fdod for certain kinds of micro-organisms. That is not saying, however, that eventually it may not be of very great practical value. Micro-organisms of , various kinds may some day be a considerable source of human food. A good deal of cheese consists of the bodles of such micro-{ organisms. Yeast is very little else. Other kinds may become just as valu- able—and their food may be these rare sugars. Dr. Hudson points out the significance of sugar in the_future economy of the human race. It is the primary fuel of life from which other fuels are made. It may be possible to obtain it in vast quantities from what now is agricul- tural waste. 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