Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1930, Page 4

WET WITNESSES Declares They Proved Need for Education and Stricter Dry Enforcement. Wets appearing before the House Judiciary committee “made out no con- vincing case for the repeal of the pro- hibitio law,” Bishop James Cannon, jr., declared last night in a statement cabled from London to the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Summarizing testimony given in the hearings, Bishop Cannon said: “They did make out a case for more educa- tion and stricter enforcement. Cites Vast Improvement. “No prohibitionist claims that the prohibition law is fully enforced or that conditions cannot be greatly im- proved,” he said, “but it is confidently asserted that political, industrial, eco- nomic, domestic and general social con- ditions of the great masses of the peo- ple have vastly improved under prohi- bition, as compared with the old saloon days. ""The case for admittedly imperfect observance and enforcement is to press the campaign of education as to the evils of alcoholism and the benefits of prohibition and the great need for it in our compiex social life, and at the same time to.call upon the Government to furnish whatever money and men may be necessary to secure effective enforcement “All admit that return to pre-prohi- bition conditions is impossible. The wets insist that the present bootleg regime in certain sections is intolerable. Why not try education and strict en- forcement and see what results will fol- low?2” Press reports of the House judiciary committee hearing, he said, indicate: “First. The wet chairman made an amazingly unjudicial opening state- ment. The hearing was not expected to result in favorable action on proposed wet legislation, but to furnish an oppor- tunity to emphasize the wet opposition, which attitude the wet chairman main- tained throughout the hearings, regard- less of the impartiality demanded of a chairman. Charges Witnesses Were Selfish. “Second. Witnesses against Federal rohibition were almost exclusively hose who have always been advocates of selfish individualism versus the gen- eral welfare, who fought local and State prohibition as now they fight Federal prohibition. ; “Third. With few _exceptions _they testified that the conditions prevailing under the legalized saloon were so demoralizing to political, social and eco- nomic life that they are opposed to its return. “Fourth. They declare that the pro- hibition law is not enforced and that conditions today, with the traffic brand- ed as criminal, are utterly intolerable and, because of the reign of the boot- legger, they demand the repeal or modi- fication of the law. They admit that they have made no effort to stop the bootleg_traffic. 5 “Fifth. The principle underlying Federal prohibition was set forth and emphasized by President Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who was probably the outstanding witness against prohibition. He read the regulation of the Pennsylvania, which prohibits its employes to use intoxicants at any time, whether on or off duty. “Why is the Pennsylvania prohibition regulation necessary, and why effective? Because the safety of freight and passengers, the general welfare de- mands it and few men are so fanatical- 1y wet as to deny that the general Welfare is promoted by the prohibition regulation. But to insure the ob- servance of the regulation is admittedly necessary for the general welfare. “There must be* he concluded, “an intensive process setting forth the evil effects which inevitably follow from the use of intoxicants and, therefore, the wisdom of total abstinence by the indi- vidual for his own sake, and this must be accomplished by an act of society, the State prohibiting the traffic in in- toxicants for its own protection and preservation. Education, legislation and enforcement must go along together to secure the desired results.” 16 FINE ART 'STUDENTS OBTAIN SCHOLARSHIPS Camegie Corporation Announces List of Awards for Study in’ U. S. and Europe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 7—The Carnegie Corporation of New York _yesterdzy made public the names of "3 fine art students who are to recelv scholarships to study during 1930 and 193. in this country and abroad. The grants range from $1,200 to $2,000. The sc larships will prepare their re- cipients for the teaching of graphic and plastic arts in colleges and universities. One lLundred and twelve students sought awards this year. Of the 16 grant:d, 8 were n~ - and Were reappointments. The new appointments were to Phi"p R. Adams of Ohio, to continue graduate work at Princeton; Elizabeth W. Barrett of Ohio, to pursue graduate study at Radcliffe; Ann M. Hoski of Pennsyl- vania, to work in Europe; Alfred 1. Hubbard of Ohio, to work at Princeton, and to other students from New York a: 1 Massachusetts. The reappointments in-"uded Samson L. Paison, jr, of Maryland; Marian Hayes of Illinois, Pierrc. N. Purves of Pennsylvania, Robert B. Shaffer of Ohio, Demterfus W. Trelos of Oklahoma and three New York students. BANDIT CAPTIVE FORCED TO BEG TROOPS TO QUIT Mock Execution Frightens Texas 0il Man Into Asking Res- cuers to Cease Pursuit. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 7—A dispatch from Tepic to Excclsior yesterday said the bandits who for three weeks have been holding J. E. Bristow, Texas oil man, as a prisoner, had "~ightened him into asking that federal troops s:nt to rescue him, be withdrawn. A dispatch said the outlaws stood Bristow as -nst a wall and conducted a mock execution. So well was the drama acted that Bristow believed he was about to be shot and agreed to ask withdrawal of the troops. Several hundred federal troops have been gradually closing ! on the band of 10 or 15 bandits holding Bristow. ATLANTA BUI.LDING BURNS Half-Million Believed Loss in Peachtree Street Blaze. ATLANTA, April -7 (m—sweigi‘n. upward from the elevator ft nigh offices filled with expensive medical equipment and records and ac- counts that cannot be replaced, fire of undetermined origin last night de- stroyed the Doctors’ Building on Peach- tree street, and for a time menaced a ‘wide area of the city. Fire department officials tentatively fixed the damage at not less than a half ‘million dollars Approximately 75 doe- tors and dentists occupied the building. Part of the loss was upwards of a dozen X-ray machines, ranging in value from $5,000 to $25,000 each. The early part of the fire was marked by & peries of explosions of X-ray films. BY PA EDWARD GARBER. U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution Prepared for the District of Columbia Model Aircraft ARTICLE II Materials for Kite Making. ‘These are easily available. Sticks can be obtained by splitting up straight- grained boards, or if a friend or nearby woodworking company has a circular saw a quicker and more even job can be done. Locally, any of the woodwork- ing companies or model aircraft supply houses can supply kite sticks in various sizes and lengths. Dowel sticks, obtain- able from your hardware dealer, can also be used. Split bamboo is ideal for making small and comsllclud shapes of kites. I have seen good kites made with umbrella ribs. The string should be light but strong: for very small kites linen thread is suitable, Stationery stores carry various grades of cord, but should your kite be rather large, you might prefer to use fishing cord, obtainable at goods stores, or even piano wire, which can be purchased in. hardware stores in sizes ranging from a few thousandths of an inch to about an eighth of an inch in diameter. The handling of a quantity of line requires the use of a reel to wind it on, but any moderate amount can be wound on a stick. The covering may be of paper or cloth. Tissue paper which comes in various sizes and colors will suffice for kites up to three feet in length in moderate winds. Wrapping paper can be used for larger kites, and also trac- ing paper. Of the more expensive papers “bond” is the best. All ot the above may he purchased in large sta- tionery stores. Cloth has the advan- tage of bemg tougher than paper, but is not impermeable to air unless treated with starch, airplane dope, or rubber cement, the latter being the most flex- ible. Paper can be glued to the frame and strings of the kite. Cloth may be gllulrd also and should be sewed in ad- ition. When constructing a kite, care should be taken to have the frame true and rigid. Use good materials, for nothing is so disheartening as to take the time and material to make a kite and then see it go to pleces when it gets in the League. air. Sometimes before a kite can be adjusted properly it will take a few dives to the ground. If it is poorly made it will not survive these pre- liminary tests. The frame should be as light as is consistent with strength and rigidity in order that it may fly high. It should be as exactly made as possible in order that it will fly true and not list to one side or the other. Have corresponding dimensions alike. Kites for flight at extreme altitudes or night flyi should be cloth covered; I recall one kite that was paper covered, and although strong enough for ord‘- nary flights, went to pleces one day when it got in the clouds and the mois- ture melted the glue. Tomorrow we are going to make the first of our series of kites. NEW SUGAR IS DISCOVERED IN COTTONSEED AND STRAW BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. Asspciated Press Science Editor. ATLANTA, April 7.—Strawstacks and cottonseed are full of a new sugar, se- cret of which was given to the seventy- ninth meeting of the American Chemi- cal Society here today. A formula for making it at about § cents a pound, a gift by the United States Government to industry, was presented by Dr. W. T. Schreiber of the Bureau of Standards. It opens one of nature’s greatest storehouses, hitherto untouched by man because the sugar formerly cost $100 a pound. ‘The sweet is xylose—pronounced zi- los. Trees and many kinds of plants abound with it. The chemists were in- formed that xylose probably is the third most widely distributed organic com- pound in nature. Food Value Little Known. Little is yet known of its food values. Possibly persons with a sweet tooth may eat all they wish, for preliminary ex- periments indicate that it is not as- similated, but Inasseu through the diges- tive system without apparent effect. A statement from the news service of the socieey calls i1t a “non-fattening” sugar. Even if food uses prove small, xylose is an important commercial discovery, Dr. Schreiber calls it “a product whose potentialities are still to be fathomed, from a vast annual supply of a very cheap straw material. It has been sought by industry for acid-making and in some cases considered so useful that a price of 50 cents a pound was rated as economical. ~Xylose was discovered in 1886 when it was made from trees. In 1899 it was made from oat straw. Saving of Huge Waste. ‘The Bureau of Standards formula makes it of cotton seed hull bran. Dr. Schreiber says the United States can produce between a million and a mil- lion and a half tons of this bran a year, now ‘nearly all a waste product. Investigation began two years ago un- der an act of Congress. Co-operating were Theodore Swann, president of the Swann Corporation of Birmingham, who built and equipped an experimental sta- tion at Anniston, Ala., the Alabama Polytechinc Institute and the University of Alakama. The bran is washed with hot water under pressure, and treated with diluted sulphuric acid and lime and finally whirled in a centrifugal. About half of it goes into sugar. The remaining bran is still useful, producing cellulose for clothing, carbon gums and potash satls. A meat substitute made from cotton seed was described by David Wasson of Montclair, N.J. ~“It is a sweet, almost tasteless flo ke body,” he said, “which LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, 8th and E Sts.—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—National 9800 Better Get Busy On Easter Sewing! 40-In. Printed and Plain Flat Crepe $1095 Yard A heavy lustrous flat crepe—of the famous L & B quality. Choose from 50 lovely shades, including the smart dusty pastels and new street tones; and 150 fas- cinating Spring prints, such as tiny florals, clusters, polka dots, large splashy de- signs, conventional blooms and trim, neat looking geometric patterns. Mallinson’s $3.95 Printed Pussy Willow—in patterns with 1930 chic and colors as new as Spring! $2.88 40 In. Washable Flat Crepe—an exceptionally heavy quality for this $1.07 on every yard purchased now, at... price, every yard guaranteed to $1.29 wash. In a half hundred smart shades........ will keep as well as wheat flour. 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