Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1931, Page 6

ANTFWEAPON BODY THE EVENING Strange Fish His Hobby IS FOUNDED HERE Unrestricted Sale and Use of Dangerous Instruments to Be Fouqht by Group Pormation of a national anti-weapon organization to combat the widespread practice of unrestricted sale and use of deadly weapons in the United States ¥as made known here yesterday when a cepfificate of registration for the Na- tioral Anti-Weapon Association was filed with the register of deeds. | Headed by E. R. Grant of Washing- ton as president, the association will | strive “to investigate the regulation of manufacture, rale and use of dangerous | weapons, to distribute information thus | obtained to the public for educational | rurposu and to advocate appropriate | egislation with Tespect to manufacture, | sale and use of dangerous weapons.” ] The co-operation of parents and edu- cators will be sought in the informative activities of the organizations, it was said, while data collected anent the mistise of weapons will be mae available to Congress in the hope of obtaining | corrective legislation. Realization of the gun-ridden condi- | tion of the United States was said to | have been responsible for the creation | of the Anti-Weapon League. The asso- | clation is to-operate as a non-profit- | making unit, with membership open to any resident of the United States at the A group cost of $1 for annual dues, entitling the | the collection BY GRETCHEN SMITH. F you feel jumpy and all known mental sedatives, from reading pleasant literature to counting im- | . In an aquarium-lined office in Georgetown, Mr. Smithdeal has gath- ered from the many "&M corners of the tropical world, 58 different varieties of tiny finned ereatures, species which are so little known that they still labor under such names as “‘ambacsis commerconi” and “casterope- lecus sternicla,” not having yet bec:me fam'liar enough to the ordinary fisher- | man to be known by simpler ones. Varlety Rare in U. 8. Incidentally, Mr. Smithdeal tells that there are only about a half pair of casteropelecus sternicla m the | United States. This little fish, with such an unwieldly name, is hatch: shaped, and almost transparent, with | gills extending on either side like air- ‘ plane wings. Baltimore, New Ycrk and Philadel- | phia have been the markets which have supplied the collector with his speci- mens from India, China, German Eest Africa, Sumatra,'the Carfbbean waters and those of the Amazon in South America. ganization's activities, | of the advisory | ton; Dr. William C. White, :uper\nund-‘l fail to restore calm to barassed director | tention to the study and collecting of canvas of the Central Y. M. C. A. Wi Jou nual enrollment drive will submit re- member to full participation in the or- | only 2 to 3 inches lang. _ Charter membert council of the assoclation include Sen- | ator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Repre- sentative Richard Yates of Illinois, Rev James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of th= House of Representatives, Washing- eginery Wissp hopping ovet Tanoe, ent United States Hospital for the In- sane, Washington: ~Miss Ratherine | "epves. tfy collecting fish! =~~~ == Bellers, judge, District of Columbia Ju- | , A% EHE CAE SIS Core Jecommended venile Court; Miss M. Pear] McCall, as- | 0%, John Smithdeal, of 327 1t the sistant United States-—attorney. Waah. | NOrthwest, who a few years ago felt the ington, and Sanford Bates, | need of relaxction and turned his at- United States Bureau of Prisons. | tropicat fisn. iy “Y” WORKERS TO DINE Progress of Membership Drive to Be Told at Banquet Tonight. Preliminary reports on progress made in the “Enrollment week” mrmber-hlda be announced tonight at a dinner of membership workers at 6:15 o'clock | in the Central Y. M. C. A. Building, | 1736 G street. Leaders of the 100 Y. M. C. A. mem- bers who have organized for the an- turns to an executive committee, headed by Dr. Everett M. Ellison, | chairman of the Membership Commit- tee of the assoclation. fn effort Will be made to expand the membership of the Y. M. C. by 500 new members before the close ol the campaign next Thursday. Cosmetics Costs Ru: i - o aHigh. Quite a large number of guppi and | BALTIMORE, Md.—Women spend | moon and swordtall, tiny virt | Tous fish, mere for cosmetics ‘and candy than | which scorn_such "bird-like. hablls 85 medical care, Dr. J. H. M. Rowland, | depositing eggs, are to be found in Mr. resident of the Medical and Chirurgicai s collections. ulty of Mafjland, told the_State . Smithdeal declares that after a | Léague of Women Voters. study of these curicus fish, one learns | The Fashion Shop’s 15" Anniversary SALE! he GR! lues . « t ;?Bfl";‘em volume of ,:e:‘ t“l!l!dl!e displaye s an! the reduced l"‘f“g.‘. Entire Tremendous reduction d! any similar perio Topcoats and Overcoats REDUCED! Group One Group Two Including Our Famous GEORGETOWN MAN COLLECTS PISCATORIAL RARITIES. of scalares from the waters of the Amazon, which form part of of John Smithdeal, 3278 M street. These beautiful little fish are —Star Staff Photo. that they have as many and as different habits as have the creatures of the earth and air. The haplochromis strigigena, or “mouth-breeder,” ¢s it is commcnly known, is a diminutive denizen of the deep, whose “female of the species” in- cubates her eggs in her mouth. It takes from 12 to 19 days, explained Mr. Smithdeal, to hatch the eggs, and dur- ing that time the mother takes no nour- ishment, keeping her mouth shut tight- ly during the period of incubaticn. When the little ones are hatched, she opens her mouth, releasing them into the water. When frightened, the mother quickly opens her mouth, the little ones scramble within, and again including , the mother mouth closely tightly upon her young ones. In one of the glass receptacles in| Mr. Smithdeal aquarium is a tiny “mouth-breeder” surrounded by a fam- ily of infintesimal fish not yet 2 days old. _A beautiful group of scalare, brought LANDSCAPING Plan now for an Outdoor R he interesting Better plants and better varieties take up room and cost no more to care for than inferior nursery stock. in strong field-grown stock include Trees. Evergreens, Snrubs, Roses, Hedges. Peren- nials. Rock Plants, etc. Trimming, traas- planting, spraying, seil revitalization. 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Mr Smithdeal has imported several varities of bettas. the fishi which builds a mest of bubbles upon | the surface of the water. ‘The betta is perhaps the only m--! ture in existence whose male guards| the nest of 1t young after the eggs have been laid. It is decidedly a spe cies in which there is no “equal rights for the female. After the mother betta | has laid the eggs in the bubble nest, blown upon the surface of the water, | the mhAle takes each egg, blows it into a bubble of its own, lays the egg back | into the nest and stands by until the | young are hatched. Woe to the female if she dare approach that nest to peep She is quickly driven away by her unchivalrous and unappreciative mate, and sometimes, if ¢he is unable to secure a hiding place, she even loses her life in the struggle for parental supremacy. To Add Walking Fish. Next week Mr. Smithdeal expects to add a Chinese walking fish to his col- lection. This strange creature is as much at home on the land as it is in the water. “Nature has provided the fish with a membrane which apparently seals the gllls when it is breathing air,” ex- plained the collector. “When it returns to the water, tie gills are again opened, water indefinitely.” Dead Man Falls 9 Stories. LONG BEACH, Calif, October 30 ) —2 autopsy established that Homer J. Mitchell, retired grocer, for- merly of Binghamton, N. Y., was dead of a heart attack when he fell nine stories from the balcony of his apart- ment here vesterday. The plunge at first was believed suicide because of i} health. THEY SAY WE ARE shington.” Our everything reciate besn: waves COur lslpeuglsl’ngoo omplete, only 'Aw disiribntors for Modernistic Products, we guarantee the genu- ineness of methods and materials, Special Permanent Ringlet Ends Push out Finger Wa Comp. Stumer Treatments * —For ar. ficlal and | ing. Fholl. 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