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ARG T D }A—4 W ¥ (ANCIENT INSANITY PREJUDICES MET .Méntal Hygiene Congress | Hears of New Methods of '* Curing Patients. (Continued From First Page.) sumes more liquor in proportion to its | population than any other country in | the world. { The brewerles, he said, reprint a great | deal of the prohibition news from the United States as a terrible warning to | the Swiss people of the effects of rigid Tegulation. Prohibitionists, he declared, must be of more engaging personalities before they will be very successful, pointing out that the popular picture of the pro- hibitionist is that of a very stern pedantic person. Development of hospitals for the mind was described before Congress today. Unlike inmates in the traditional in- stitutions for the insane, patients enter these new hospitals voluntarily and leave when they please. Dr. Edouard Toulouse of Paris re- ported that the French capltal now has the first hospital of this kind, estab- lished over the opposition of judges, politicians, and even doctors, who could not overcome the old-fashioned ideas of the profession. Dr. C. Macfie Campbell told of the establishment in Boston of - hospital almost as liberal as the P: s mstitu- tion, but taking cases rc..rred to it by the courts. Both men explained inet ! this system enabled psjcniatrists to treat patients in the early stages of mental abnormality, whereas the insane hospital gets them largely by force and Wwhen the mind has detericrated so far that little can be done. “There are not suflicient reasons to deprive an insane person of his libe; sald Dr. Toulouse, “if he has not com- mitted or attempted a misdcmeanor. Early Contact Important. ‘The importance of early contact with the patient was stressed by Dr. Camp- bell. When a case is caught early enough, he said, there is hope of check- ing the progress of ominous symptoms and the crystalization of morbid atti- tudes. Germany, sald Dr. Hans Roemer, medical counselor to the Baden minis- try of the interior, is revamping her legal system to restore the insane and the criminal. “In order to combat juvenile crime,” | he said. “which increased rapidly dur- ing and after the war, public care of | Jjuvenile psychopaths has been under- taken in all states of the realm. The procedure in public institutions for de- linquents, which used to be regarded as prisons, has been altered to produce re-education to health.” Describes City of Lunatic1. Belgium has a city of lunatics. Dr. F. Sano, “mayor” of Gheel, today told the congress of this unique colony near Brussels, where 3,000 patients form the great majority of the popu- lation. Dr. Sano is the medical director. ‘The patients are “boarded” with private families. There is no sign of confine- ment. Every bit of institutional atmos- phere is eliminated and the mentally iseased persons are made to feel that they are members of the familles and of some account in the world. About 200 are discharged as cured every year. “By far the greater part of the pop- ulation of Gheel tills the soil or el gages in small country occupations, Dr. Sano said. ‘The families, Dr. Sano said, are edu- cated in the fundamentals of psychiatry before they are allowed to take any patients. All are peasants. He believes | the system should be adopted elsewhere. Even very smali doses of alcohol pro- duce a mental condition which “has all the essential characteristics of deliri~ um,” the congress was told by Dr. K. Herman Bouman of the University of Amsterdam, describing a serles of deli- cate mental tests. Dutch Liquor Help Described. In Holland, he said, people take their liquor straight. They haven't much of a taste for wines and beers. Instead of prohibition, however, the greatest em- phasis is being placed on permanently. cul the “soak” whose drinking in- terfers with his work and the comfort of his family. For this purpose, bureaus have been established in most of the larger towns, where a man is treated by psychiatrists. “The tipsy fellow, at one time charac- teristic, has disappeared from the streets and even from popular merxy- makings,” he said. “The admission fig- ures for alcoholism at the clinics have shown a slow but steady tendency to fall, and the mental hospitals do not admit as many drinkers as they | “Laboratory experitments in which all disturbing influences can be elimi- nated,” he continued, “have taught us that even very small doses of alcohol injure perception, memorization, con- ception and attention in such a way as to cause the appearance Of errors. As a result of the appearance of sups ficial assoclations without inner con- tact the thinking faculty itself becomes incapable of serving as & bagis for any higher mental life and degenerates. Even In conditions of slight intoxica- tion self-criticism becomes less active and the person tested has the feeling that he has done his work much better than the experiment actually indicates. Holland, he said, has succeeded in limiting the number of liquor licenses 1o one per 422 persons. The consump- tion has decreased from 10 liters per person in 1877 to about five. Hereditary Insanity Explained. ‘Much insanity is hereditary and can be lessened only by eugenic control, in- sisted Prof. E. Rudin of the Kaiser ‘Wilhelm Institute of Berlin. His own investigations in German families, he said, have shown that where either par- ent is a manic depressive one-third of the children will develop the same dis- ease and another third will not be quite right mentally. Half the children of & dementia precox parent, he said, will develop the disease and about the same proportion holds for epileptics. He ad- vocated medical advice before mar- riage and in some cases sterilization. ‘The sulcide rate in the United States has quadrupled in 70 years and the di- vorce rate nearly tripled in 50 years, the congress was told by Dr. Haven ‘Emerson of Columbia University. Ncw 19 persons per 100,000 kill themselves, compared to nearly 5 in 1860, and 68 couples end in the divorce courts, com- pared with 26 in 1880» “Evidence obtained from various studies,” Dr. Emerson said, “indicates that with a population of 120,000,000 we may count on 4,560,000 under 5 years of age who will probably show some behavior problems which, if not treated, will lead to personal or family dilemma or disturbance; 250,000 be- tween 5 and 15 years of age who will be suffering from major speech defects, and 3,135,000 who will develop some behavior problem that calls for profes- sional assistance; 250,800 school chil dren before they are 14 years of age will be held at least temporarily as de- linquents, and 576,000 young men and ‘women from 20 to 26 will suffer dam- age or distress as a result of emotional difficulties. ‘Wilbur Urges Co-operation. A world co-operative effort is neces- sary to attain the same success in treat- ment of the mind medical science has achieved in treatment of the body, Secretary of the Interfor Ray Lyman Wilbur declared at the international dinner of the congress at the Willard last night. “A world conference on mental ‘When Grand Canyon Infatuates Spouse, Wife Gets Divorce By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 6.—The Grand Canyon has come between Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. dge. “During the four years of our married life preceding his visit to Arizona,” Mrs. Dodge told the court here yesterday, “my hus- band, who is a photographer, said I was his inspiration and showed me great affection. After viewing the Grand Canyon he said it was much more inspiring and left me.” The court granted her divorce. SHALL LOMS QU OFF ONTLMONDAY Representative Hull Will Con- tinue Statement in Op- position to Bill. The small loans hearing before a subcommittee of the House District committee today was continne* anul when Reprasentative Hull of #ll continue his statement in opposition to the bill sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation, which seeks to legalize an interest rate of 42 per cent on loans up to $300. Representative Hull declared no legiti- mate business could survive under an aterest rate of 315 per cent a month. Tt is not conceivable,” he said, “fat Congress would enact a bill carrying such a usurious rate.” Representative Lampert of Wisconsin, a member of the subcommittee, con- cluded his lengthy statement quoting the experiences of other States in which similar legislation has been tried at the behest of the Russell Sage Foundation. Representative Lampert put into the record the facts regurding one partic- ular loan of $300 in Charles Town, W. Va., in the home district of Representa- tive Bowman, who is pushing the bill at the solicitation of Former Repre- sentative Ralph Gilbert of Kentucky. This particular loan was made in June, 1828, to & couple who are now residing in Washington. Mr. Lampert put thele names and address into the recorf. They borrowed $300 in June, 1928, and although they have made many pay- ments, they still owe $218.60 after a three-year period. Others who opposed the bill were Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, who said she represents a group of Government em- ployes who will be the chief borrowers affected by such legislation, and E. C. Reigel, representing the Washington Consumers’ Guild. is replacing the body of mari in de- veloping the ~ great world _decisions. Judgment and the use of intellect must replace anger and the use of emotions. Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital and presi- dent of the congress, presided at the international dinner, Other speakers were Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, chair- man of the program committée, and Cliffofd W. Beers, secretary general of the_congress. Dr. White will deliver his presidential address at the first of the public mass meetings of the congress, which will be held tonight at Constitution Hall. Other speakers will be Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes and Secretary General Beers. Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins University will' preside. Epilepsy Causes Explained. Both alcohol and water were blamed as causes of epilepsy by speakers before the section on_convulsive disorders of the American Psychiatric Society yes- terday. _Convulsions can be produced in any- body, said Philadelphia,. by putting enough water into the body. This can be done with a stomach tube or by injection. Con- versely, epileptic- seizures often can be y tion of the body through dieting and ‘other means. Excess of fluid in the brain cavity, he said, may result from injuries suf- fered at birth. Some times, he said, a new! for as much as 20 minutes and when respiration finally is started the doctor to life after it has been dead. But this period of “being dead,” he sald, often causes changes in the brain which never can be overcome and later result in convulsions. 3 ‘The unjustified reputation of the epileptic as a criminal was denounced by Dr. Douglas A. Thom of Boston. There is a popular idea, he pointed out, that the victim of this dreaded brain disease is likely to commit crimes of violence, in intervals between convul- slons. A recent survey of Massachusetts prisons, he said, showed an extremely small number of epileptics and most of these were in custody for minor offenses which had nothing to do with their mental condition. In only two cases 1ad they attacked anybody. Neither does epilepsy mean mental deterioration, he said, and pointed out :hat those in institutions do not repre- sent a fair cross section of the victims 1s a whole. Opposes Social Stigma. Dr. Thom pleaded for the removal of the soclal stigma from the epileptic. He also cited evidence that these con- vulsions may have an emotional as well as physical basis, sometimes buried deep below consciousness. Convulsive attacks, he said, often can be shown to follow experiences which move the emo- tion. He cited out the case of a soldier who suffered three convulsions—one when his organization was dedicating 8 city square o the memory of a fallen comrade, one when he found he could not get & job he wanted, and one when he was notified that his compensation had been allowed by the Veterans' Bu- reau. The emotional causes, he said, are often very near the surface of con- sciousness and can be explained to the patient with good results. Starvation for several days some- times produces great improvement in epileptic patients, said Dr. Edward M. Bridge of Baltimore. The actual effect, he pointed out, was to make the body live off the accumulated fat and muscle and a reduction of the fluid content of the body, thus bring about the dehydra- tion advocated by Dr. Winkleman. The effect of alcohol was stressed by Dr. Ludwig Puusepp, professor of psy- chiatry at the University of Tartu and official delegate of the Esthonian gov- ernment. He described experiments with rabbits in which quantities of al- cohol were administerel. Their offspring showed a hydrocephalic condition re- lated to epilepsy. This indicates, he sald, that epilepsy is likely to appear among the children of alcoholic: Increased interest in mental hygiene in many countries was reported by dele~ gates at the first open session of the congress yesterday afternoon with Dr. Frankwood E. Williams presiding. Canadian Program Launched. Canada, said Dr. C. M. Hincks, has started an extensive program supported by the government, by which 7,000 children are to be kept under daily observation for 20 years. Institutes are being held for instruction of parents in_child guidance, Delirium tremens is so rare in Den- mark, said Prof. August Wimmer, that hygiene is of importance because we are replacing the physical combats which have characterized world history since its beginning with conflicts at s conference table. The mind of man he has been unable (o find a case to demonstrate to his pupils. Other dele- gates reported from Brazil, Ecuador, #inland, Prance, Germany, Esthonia and Belgium, 1 veports of the “ =~fous committees and | Dr. N. W. Winkleman of | A THE ’WflMEN’S LEGION CONVENES MAY 8 Gen. Everson, Admiral Billard| and Fred Marvin Listed as Convention Speakers. The American Women's Legion will open its eleventh annual convention on Thursday, May 8, in the auditorium of the Red Cross Building. Among the speakers of the morning session will be Maj. Gen. Willlam G. Everson, chief of the Militia Bureau: Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard and Mr. Fred Marvin, secretary of the American Coalition, Among the honor guests to be present | will be Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president general, Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Katie Mor- rison, president of the American War Mothers; Mrs. Bruce Baird, president of the Political Study Club; Miss Faustine Dennis, president of the Women's Over- seas League; Mrs. N. N. Potts, ident of the National Patriotic Council, and Miss Margaret Lower of the American Red Cross. At noon the American Women's Legion will be received by President Hoover at the White House. Ia the afternoon session there will be election of officers. The outgoing offi- cers are Mrs. Edward Campbell Shields, | president: Mrs. Acheson F. Hassan, first vice president; Mrs, R. R. Corcoran, second vice president; Mrs. Douglas E. ‘Winstead, third vice president; Mrs, John T. Tompkins, treasurer; Mrs. Wal- lace Streater, parliamentarian; Mrs. Edwin 8. Bettelheim, jr., secretar ‘The president and the officers of the legion cordially invite all those inter- ested in the work of the American ‘Women's Legion, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Maryland—Fair | tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness probably followed by local thunder- showers in the afternoon, continued ‘warm: moderate west backing to south- west or south winds, increasing tomor- Tow. Virginia—Fair tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness, probably followed by local thundershowers in the after- noon in west and extreme north por- tions; continued warm: moderate to fresh’ winds, mostly southwest. West Virginia—Fair tonight, followed by showers and thundershowers tomor- row; cooler tomorrow night. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 pm, 91; 8 pm,, 82; 12 midnight, 76; 4 a.m., 68; 8 am.,, 75; noon, 81. Barometer—4 pm., 2094; 8 pm., 29.96; 12 midnight, 29.97; 4 am., 29.98; 8 a.m., 30.02; noon, 30.01. Highest temperature, 93, occurred at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest temperature, 66, occurred at 5:00 a.m. today. ‘Temperature same te last year— Highest, 69; lowest, 46. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Tod Low tide, 5:58 a.m. and 9:36 p.m.; high tide, 2:19 a.m. and 2:43 p.m, Tomorrow—Low tide, 10:06 a.m. and 10:34 pm.; high tide, 3:25 am. and 3:49 pm. ‘The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 5:05 a.m.; sun sets 7:05 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:04¢ am.; sun sets 7:086 p.m. Moon rises 12:20 p.m.; sets 2:04 am. Weather in Various Citles. Stations. Weathe Abilene, Tex.. Albany, N. ¥ Auantd, o, y Ve 3 ham K, N. modified, he said, by dehydra- o boasts that he has brought the infant | Kan: EVENING rn child will not start to breathe | Helen: 8. Jackson ville,Fla. City. Mo Omaha, Nebr Philadelphis.Pa Phoer.ix. Al Pittsburgh, Spokane, Tampa, Fla. WASH., D. FOREIGN. (7 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Station Temperature, Weather. London, 50 Clear 15, England nce. ain... Greenwich’ o (No time, todsy.) Horta (Fayal), Avores .. 60 Part cloudy urrent observations.) Hamilton, Bermuda...... Ban Juan, Porto Rico.. . Havana, Cuba,.... Colon, Canal Zone. MICHAELSON WINS Illinois Representative Re-Nomi- nated, but Faces Recount. CHICAGO, May 6 (#).—The Chicago Tribune says that it has learned that Congressman Michaelson ~ won _over James C. Moreland for the Republican congressional nomination in the seventh Tllineis district by 24 votes in the offi- cial count of the returns. Moreland's attorneys are preparing for a court fight for a recount. Michaelson figured in a leaking-trunk episode at Miami, Fla., several months | Clear Part cloudy Clear Cloudy ago, but he was acquitted of transport- ing liquor when a relative claimed ownership of liquor found in the trunk. | GIFT TO FRANKLIN FUND PHILADELPHIA, May 6 (#).—A gift of $100,000 by William L. MeLean, Philadelphia publisher, for the creation of a heroic seated figure of Benjamin Franklin for the proposed Benjamin Franklin memorial and Franklin In- stitute Museum on the parkway was an- nounced yesterday. The gigantic statue will be placed in the center of the memorial chamber of the great building, which will cost about $5000,000. A campaign to Taise the funds is to be launched shortly by the Pranklin Memorial, Inc. Huge ;'erdnn Cross to Shine. Boon the great cross, 150 feet high, will shine above the huge ossuary of Douamont, France, which contains the bones of more than 100,000 French un- known dead who fell at Verdun during the German offensive of 1916. The massive work is nearly compl cost $200,000, and is in the sl cloister 400 feet square. really a lighthouse which will show on its four faces huge red and white oc- cultating lights visible more than 40 miles away. L Merrill Acquires Flying Groundhog For Private “Zoo” Pilot Dick Merrill, veteran mail pilot of the Eastern Transport line, who is noted for his pets, last night received another addition to his private “zo00.” A groundhog, captured by friends at Camden, N. J. was flown down in the mail plane last night to Merrill at Richmond, Va. He now has a mountain lion cub, a baby bear, six flying squir- rels and other mascots of assorted vardeties, all presented by admir- ers. Most of the menagerie was given to him as a result of pub- licity received when a pet flying squirrel which_used to fly with him went A. W. O. L. A OF RED CROSS N FIRES EXPLAINED Convention Delegates Hear From Scenes of New Eng- land Disasters. Delegates to the annual convention of the American Red Cross paused in their convention program this morning to hear first hand reports of relief meas- ures taken in four Eastern States which in the last few days have suffered tre- mendous losses in brush and forest fires. Robert E.. Bondy, manager of the Eastern area, telling the delegates that this year, as in other years, “a dramatic incident of disaster” had developed overnight, reported that 10 chapters in New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island are bearing the brunt of emergency rclief. Fire Cost Reaches Millions. Fires in these States have taken a | toll of millions of dollars in property damage and have rendered hundreds of persons homeless in the last week. Lack of rain has greatly handicapped fire fighters and in many instances, Bondy reported, ex-service men have volunteered to fight the flames. Bondy's report, based on latest infonmation to Red Cross disaster headquarters, said that 250 homes had been destroyed in New Hampshire, causing 1,500 persons to be homeless and consequent unem- ployment. Two thousand men were fighting fires in Rhode Island yesterday and were being fed by the Red Cross while at their labors. Homes and timberlands have been destroyed in New Jersey, one county re- porting the loss of 30 homes and Ocean County the loss of 100. The most serious condition obtains in New Hampshire, and Bondy said that Maurice Reddy, national director of disaster preparedness, left for New Jersey yesterday with a staff worker to organize relief measures in that State. “Health Conscience” Urged. The necessity for a campaign to give the Nation a “health consclence” was urged upon the convention today by Prof. C. E. A. Winslow, director of the School of Hyglene of Yale University. and Dr. Ellen Potter, director of the New Jersey division of Institutes and agencies. Prof. Winslow, in citing the need for great physical health, asserted that at present 5,000,000 children apply vearly for admission to American schools and that of this number 50,000 are tubur- cular, This number rises to 250,000 by the time this group of children reaches | high school age, he said. Could the total of mental diseases and defects be welghed, he continued. they would be found equivalent to “all other types of physical diseases and de- fects taken together.’ Others addressing the second general session of the convention were Thomas W. Gosling, superintendent of school Akron, Ohio, and Walter Davidson, a sistant general manager of the Eastern area of the Red Cross. 4 Annual Dinner Tonifht. Following t&e general session the con- vention broke up into various roun table conferences. This evening the nual dinner will be held in the May- flower Hotel. Judge Payne Speaks. A colorful gathering of delegates last evening heard an address by Judge John Barton Payne, national chairman, and witnessed the presentation of the Mabel T. Boardman trophy to the chap- ter which enrolled the greatest per- centage of its community in the or- ganization last year. 3 ‘The award of & handsome silk Red Cress flag was made to the Milford, N. H., chapter. Judge Benjamin F. Prescott, chatrman of the chapter, re- ceived the trophy at presenf ercises following Judge Payne's address. Douglas Griesemer, national director of the roll call, made the presentation. Judge Payne reviewed the history of the Red Cross and outlined in particu- |lar the development of the League of Red Cross Societies, of which 59 nations now are members, including Turkey, the latest nation to signify & wish to co-operate with the nations in disaster and educational relief work. Dr. Rene Sand, technical counselor of the league, was to have delivered an address last night, but his appearance was postponed on account of the late arrival of his ship from France. He will speak tonight at the annual dinner. Snake in Alcohol Wins Dismissal of Possession Charge By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, May 6.—Imaginary snakes are quite commonly 8880~ ciated with liquor, but real ones are e excepting, possibly, in Lithuania, 2 A raid on the home of Mrs. Ellen Mazikas produced & still and & bottle of alcohol in which was a two-foot garter snake. “That is Lithuanian medicine,” explained Mrs. Mazikas yesterday, “and very good medicine.” ‘The court dismissed the prohi- bition violation charge, but ex- pressed doubt about the medicinal value of the snake. . Qutsiders estimate your business progress in part by your business stationery. \/I’rcwoorl Fugraved Business Stationery creates business esteem—is a good=will builder and mirrors Yyour success. Samples and prices on request. ‘Brewamn ravers and flationers ei1-1gth St.N.w. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, GATROLIGS GATHER T0 OPEN CONGRESS American Delegation Arrives‘ With Thousands Pouring Into Tunis. By the Associated Press. CARTHAGE, Tunisia, May 6.—Cath- olics from all over the world are assem- bling at Tunis, 10 miles away, today, for the formal opening of the Euchar congress, the main program of wh will be held here Thursday and the fol- lowing three days. A large American delegation arrived at 5 a.m. aboard the <h liner Rochambeau, | They gathered here, in a Moslem land, ‘to honor the memory of early Christian martrys, particularly by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippone. Carthage is a city’ of ancient ruins, once the citadel of Christianity. Cardinal Lepicler, papal legate at Latere, sent by the Pope is bringing the monstrance containing the sacred host. Six other cardinals, a hundred bishops and thousands of priests and laymen are coming for the five days of religious | and inspirational services. One of the ceremonies will be the dedication, on the site of the old cathe- dral, of & statue to St. Augustine. Copy of one that stands in Bone, the Sea- Iport town to the north which many | centuries ago was Hippone and where St. Augustine dled. Catholic Boy Scouts of France, under thelr leader, Gen. Guot de Salins, were here for another ceremony, to fly their banners on the Hill St. Louls, wherc died, In 1270, the French King, Louls when he led the seventh ege to Tunis. | Well preser ruins of the early Christian era, when Rome and Carthage struggled to ' be supreme, recalled the trials and the heroism of early Chris- tianity to_the tens of thousands of pilgrims. Visualizing the recrudescence of Christianity here, the Monastery of the White Fathers stands as a symbol of the missionary work initiated more than half a century ago by Cardinal Lavigerie, whose monks preceded here the French who established a pro- tectorate over the country in 1881. After the five days of service and ceremony here most of the pilgrims will go to Bone to celebrate there the fif- teenth centenary of the death of St Augustine, D. C. CENSUS TAKERS AT FINISHING STAGE Enumerators Face Difficulties in| Indifference Shown by Citizens. Census takers picking up the loose ends of the District enumeration are being forced to contend with indiffer- ence and some active resistance in their efforts to list every resident before the final result is totalled. In several cities the totals announced by the Federal census have been chal- lenged by municipal and civie bodies on the ground that they were incomplete, and the superintendent of the local census, J. Sterling Moran, Is determined to leave no cause for complaint on this score. Large numbers of apartment and boarding house dwellers either do not wish to be enumerated or have neglect- ed co-operate with the workers. In cer- ]llln sections of the city roomers have been dodging the enumerators, and in others whole floors of apartment dwell- ers presistently ignore the blanks dis- tributed to them. Although the present census is only about 5 weeks old, Mr. Moran is certain it will be completed in less time than the 1920 count, which required seven weeks. One mistaken idea which is causing considerable trouble is the desire of newcomers here to attribute their place of residence to the home city. The cen- sus defines the residence in this case as the “usual place of abode.” Thus a visitor here for only a day or so is no longer a visitor when he takes a job in the District. The corps of census officials today were checking back on the enumera- tors and answering complaints from various sections that the count had not been compiled there. Some of these ve been found to be true, and all are hi investigated. YOUNG ASKS RE-ELECTION California Governor Announces for Promotion to Office. SACRAMENTO, Calif,, May 6 (#).— Gov. C. C. Young yesterday announced he would seek re-election. With his entry, four candidates are entered in the race for the Republican nomination in th primaries August 26. ‘The others are Mayor James Rolph, jr., of San Francisco; Burton Fitts, Los Angeles County district attorney, and Cole Salling, Los Angeles business 5 ‘The Governors of California who sought re-election have been successful. They were John Bigley, Democrat, and H! Joh bli Mrs. Sarah the Fi Owing to the Death of Wife of Samuel Freedman . S. FREEDMAN & SONS Will Be Closed All Day Tuesday and Wednesday ~ MAY -6, 1930. WHERE CATHOLICS WILL MEET Cathedral St. Louis in Carthage, Africa, where Catholics from all over the | world will meet for the thirteenth International Eucharistic Congress. —Associated Press Photo. BUSIESS OUTLOOK CHEERS LAMONT Commerce Secretary Sees| No Reason to Fear Serious Commodity Overproduction. By the Associated Press. Persistent weakness of the scal general commodity prices plus spread complaint of overproduction in many lines should not, in the opinion of Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Com- merce, be allowed to cloud, for business | vision, one cheerful and material fact. | In his opinion, based on observation | from his official post, as well as on long business experience, such an oversupply | of commodities as now exists, as com- | pared to demand, is relatively small. | Serious as has been its effect on prices —bringing about a fall in the general index ratios that ranges from 6 to 8 per cent since December—he i inclined to regard the surplus as one that may swiftly disappear. Present Situation Outlined. “It is rather remarkable how small a | difference is needed between supply and | consumption to put a weight on prices, | or conversely, to thrust them up,” La- | | mont said. | “Now, in the industrial world gen- erally it seems probable that the max- imum swing between what we think of as high production and low production is roughly within a limit of 10 per cent up or down from the average. Of | course, there isn't any easy way out of | a period of overaccumulation of stocks | for the industrial world; things alm"&ly have to slow down until consumption | catches up, as we learned in 1921 and 1922, But there are no such accumu- Iations today of goods on hand as there were then. Prices will not have to break as badly to effect output reduc- tion, and they haven't done so. Result of His Studies, “From all of our studies, it does not seem that industrial goods have been plled up high enough in any staple line to threaten a protracted period of ab- sorption before they are moved, and fore production and distribution can be resumed at normal pressure. With a steady increase in population in the country, with a. permanent disposition in our people to consume—in the leng | run—individually more goods and serv- | fces, it does not seem to me that a gen- |eral appearance of overproduction of commodities can be long maintained. | Any apparent surplus that now exists, and is affecting prices, can be taken up rather quickly in the United States by a relatively small shift of conditions. Tax Imposed on Imported Coffee. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May 6 (#).— Under a law signed by Gov. Theodore Roosevelt yesterday forelgn coffees brought into Porto Rico will henceforth be subject to a duty of 10 cents per !aound. The law is intended to aid in he rehabilitation of Porto Rico’s coffee mdu:}t]ry. It will be effective in three mon! e w— COLONIAL ANTHRACITE “Guara Neo Siate. Ne Clinkers™ Ask the Man Who Uses It Ralph J. Moore Coal Co. 1406 N. Cap. St. Pot. 0970 Pgt. 0971 Freedman rm of CONVICTS’ BREAK BALKED Two Shot, One Seriously, in At- tempting Flight. JACKSON, Miss, May 6 (#).—Two convicts were shot by guards, one be-‘ ing dangerously wounded, in an at- tempted break for liberty Sunday at the Parchman State Farm after a guard had been assaulted by convicts, J. Wil- | liamson, superintendent of the peniten- tiary, was informed yesterday. Henry Tolliver, a white convict, was struck eight times with bullets, and a Negro prisoner named Shaffer was shot twice. Quake Shocks Andes Area. BUENOS AIRES, May 6 (#).—Severe earthquake shocks were felt at 8:20 a.m. yesterday in the Province of Mendoza. Their epicenter was placed in the Andes No casualties or damage were reported. SHOWER PROVIDES | HOSPITAL LINENS D. C. Fire Department Auxiliarv Donates Furnishings for Koom Endowed by Mrs. Dougherty. Linens for use in & room endowed by Mrs. John Allen Dougherty for the | use of policemen and firemen of the District of Columbia, at Casualty Hos- pital, were recelved at a linen shower held at the hospital yesterday after- noon by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the | District of Columbia Fire Department. | _The room was endowed by Mrs. Dougherty in memory of her husband. | the late Capt. John Allan_Dougherty, U. S. A. The linens received in the shower were presented in the presence | of George S. Watson, chief engineer of the Fire Department, and were re- celved oy Miss Elizabeth Rogers on be- half of the hospital. The room endowed by Mrs. Dougher- ty, who is prominent in benevolerit | work in the National Capital, is located n the new building erected for Casualty | Hocpital at Elghth street and Massa- | chusetts avenue northeast. |~ The linen shower held yesterday was | in_anticipation of a drive to be con- | ducted soon for the benefit of the hospital. Taxi Driver to Hang. TUCSON, Atiz, May 6 (P).—Herbert Young, 32, 'a taxicab driver, today was under sentence to hang July 15 for the murder of John E. Dye, a fellow work- er. Dye was found beaten and stabbed | to death about two months ago. Rob- bery was believed to have been the motive. Young was convicted last week and sentence was pronounced yesterday. SHELBOURNE Bladensburg Rd. and | M St. N.E. The Euening Star | MODEL HOME now nearing completion in this desirable community G. A. WILSON CO. | Office on Subdivision Telephono Atiantic 1234 YEARS OF W J 62 ORTHY SERVICE / The Avenue at 7th Compromise! 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