Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1934, Page 60

‘E—10 RHYTHM IS HINTED IN CHILD GROWTH Good and Bad Years Inti- mated in 10-Year Records at Hagerstown. There may be good and bad “child- growing years.” Such, at least, is the implication of Public Health Service studies of the school child population of Hagers- town, Md., selected as a sample of the average small American city, where records over a period of years are being made. Growth measurements for the past year have just been reported. They were undertaken to determine wheth- er the depression, which has brought actual hunger to many families, was having an adverse effect on child growth. The results, on the face, indicate that it did, but when they are analyzed statistically in the light of past records the interpretation be- comes quite complicated. The method followed is to compute the relation- ship between the average annual gains in weight for any one or two years and the average annual gain for the 1921-27 period, taken as the standard. Gains Below Average. The gains for the past year were 9 per cent below the average. But they also fell to the same low level in 1924 and 1925 when the country was fairly prosperous. On the other hand, in 1926 and 1927, almost indis- tinguishable from the two previous years, the growth rate rose nearly 6 per cent above normal. That is, in those two years the children of Hagerstown, of all economic classes .which ordinarily would attend the public schools, grew 14 per cent. better than in the preceding two years. One explanation, it is stressed, is that the poor record for 1933 and 1934 was actually due to the de- pression, and that the previous bad record was due, independently, to some adverse factor which could not be determined. Another explanation is that there may be a sort of time rhythm with growth, just as there are business cycles, etc., depending upon some cyclic factor which is independent of economic conditions. But a curve extending only over 14 years, with two lows and one high, is admittedly insufficient evidence upon which to erect & theory of growth cycles. ’ Decrease General. The children were split up into age and sex classes, and the same general decreased growth rate held for all of them, although there were many individual exceptions. It was found that the children of families on public relief gained from 2 to 9 pounds less on the average, for the different age and sex classes con- sidered, than did those from self- supporting families. But these chil- dren also gained less than they had gained the previous years since 1924, so the general relationship was unchanged. A slight sex difference between the two low periods was found. The proportion of boys 12 per cent or more below the weight average re- mained the same as during the 1921- 27 period, while there was an in- erease in the number of girls. If there actually was a depression effect, they were the ones who suffered. —_— HOME CRAFTS CLUB T0 MEET TUESDAY Newly Formed Group Will Hold Session and Exhibit at Powell School. e second meeting of the newly- ormized Capital Home Crafts Club will be held at the Powell Junior High School Tuesday at 8 pm. S.R. Guest, 435 Kennedy street, will exhibit some of his work and give a history and dem- onstration of the art of railroad model- mfi.mmud with the National Home Work Shop Guild, the club aims to stimulate interest in and the creation of “articles of artistic merit and use- fulness,” made by members in their own horhes and with their own hands. To further this interest, H. E. Middle- ton, president of the club, has ap- pointed five crafts experts to take ‘charge of the special departments of ship modeling, engine modeling, wood carving, brass work and wood turning. They advise members and answer ques- tions of visitors. An exhibit of the handiwork of the club will be displayed soon, it was an- nounced by J. Chlopicki, Berwyn Heights, Md., chairman of exhibits. Talks and demonstrations for Jan- uary meetings have already been scheduled. William Parks, 1415 New York avenue northwest, will speak at the first meeting of the new year on home-craft machinery and its adapt- abilities. L. J. Kistler, secretary of the club, will lecture the second Tues- day in January on the modeling of sailing vessels and give a practical demonstration of his work. e SUN AS TYPICAL STAR SUBJECT OF LECTURE Dr. Walter S. Adams, Mount Wil- son Observatory Director, to Speak at Museum. The fourth annual Arthur lecture of the Smithsonian Institution will be given by Dr. Walter S. Adams, director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, in the auditorium of the National Mu- seum Tuesday evening on “The Sun as a Typical Star.” The Arthur lec- ture is given each year on some sub- ject relating to the sun under the terms of a bequest to the Smithsonian Institution by the late James Arthur of New York. Dr. Adams has been in charge dur- ing the last year of some astrophysical investigations which have thrown new light on the characteristics of the sun besides fixing its place more definitely in the system of stars of which it forms a unit. —_— D. A.R. TO HEAR LECTURE Dr. Julia Schelling to Give Illus- trated Talk Tuesday. Dr. Julia E. Schelling will present *“Richard Wagner and the Parsifal of Yesterday” in an illustrated lecture Tuesday evening at the December meeting of the Constitution Chapter, Baughters of the American Revolu- tion, in the Burlington Hotel. have been invited as special guests and all members are uiged to attend. SOCIETY. THE SUNbAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1934—PART THREE. IWETMORE BACKS | Offers Slim, Youthful Lines Sir Oliver Is “Made Up” SIR OLIVER LODGE, British scientist, shown as he was “made up” for an appearance in an educational film at the Gaumont-British studios at Shepherds Bush, England. —Associated Press Photo. * Famous Boston Tea Party Was Staged 161 Years Ago Demonstration Signified Colonists’ Op- position to Great Britain’s Dictatorial Policy. One hundred and sixty-one years ago tonight the famous Boston tea party occurred. The event was staged by a band of about 50 patriots, dressed as Mohawk Indians, and was watched by a crowd of several thousand sym- pathizers who wished to signify their approval by their presence on the scene. It was intended as a demon- stration of American resistance to British tyranny and marked the real beginning of the final phase of the Colonial struggle for freedom. FPut the incident, so small in itself and yet so great in its effects, even now is not clearly understood. As com- monly taught in the schools, it is isolated from the causes and results with which, in fact, it was linked, and an air of mystery surrounds it in the minds of the people. Had Democratic Ideas. The truth, however, is that demo- cratic ideas and ideals had been de- veloping in America ever since the first establishment of the .English colonies. It was natural that institu- tions brought from the Old World should expand in the new. The men and women who crossed the Atlantic to set up homes in the wilderness were psychologically progressive of tem- perament, and their instinct was toward a liberalistic interpretation of law and custom. They also were in- dividuals of an active and energetic type, and they believed in practical policies of reform—they were mem- bers of a race which had brought an annointed king to trial and had done execution upon him, and the “glori- ous revolution” of 1689 was well with- in the range of their memories in the two or three decades immediately preceding the troubles of 1764. It was in the last-named year that the British Parliament had as- serted a “right to tax the colonies,” but the proposition so epitomized was not an innovation. On the con- trary, it had been discussed periodi- cally for approximately a century. Nor was the ensuing objection a nov- elty. “Instead, it was exceedingly ancient—Englishmen had resisted arbitrary taxation for generations, as reference to the Magna Carta and the ship-money debate will prove. There was something in the spirit of the Nation which resented that form of tyranny which took money law- lessly. Opposed Dictatorial Policy. But it was not taxation itself that the colonies opposed. The crux of the difficulty was the refusal of the crown and of the British Legislature to concede the principle of represen- tation which constituted the basic issue. The lord commissioners for trade and plantations dominated the scene, and their attitude toward the colonists was frankly dictatorial-— they represented the mother country and regarded the colonies merely as possessions to be exploited for the mother country’s benefit. Gigantic monopolies were organized toward this selfish and unwise end. The Royal African Co., for example, was de- signed to control and promote the traffic in slaves, and as late as 1750 Parliament “enlarged its operations” on the theory, bluntly stated, that the “slave trade is very advantageous to Great Britain.” When Virginia and South Carolina imposed a prohibitory duty upon the importation of human labor, their acts were annulled by the royal command. ‘Taxed Rum and Molasses. Meanwhile, Parliament, in 1733, had passed the molasses act, impos- ing duties on molasses, sugar and rum imported into North America from the British West Indies—an error in legislation which was de- scribed as “divesting the colonies of their rights as the king’s natural- born subjects and Englishmen, in levying subsidies upon them against their consent.” But further aggrava- tion came with restrictions on Colo- nial industry, such as rulings against the exportation of hets and the erec- | tion of plants for the manufacture of iron and steel. The writs of assistance demanded by the reve- nue authorities and the presence of armed troops in Colonial towns created additional dissatisfaction. By 1762 the issue between Parliament and the people had been defined beyond all question of doubt. It was summarized by James Otis in the axiom: “Government must not raise taxes on the property of the people without the consent of them or their deputies.” Refused to Heed Signs. But the ruling classes in England would not heed the signs of the ap- proaching storm. Tory and Wig alike, they looked upon the colonists as subjects. In their conception, it was perfectly natural to insist on taxation for revenue to meet the costs of the American phase of the Seven Years' War. The sugar act of 1764 and the stamp act of 1765 were framed for that purpose and were resisted in the light of that knowledge. Riots and boycotts followed, and the stamp act was repealed to make way for a tax on tea—a trick devised merely to sup- port Parliament’s dogmatic position. ‘The temper of New England, how- ever, was misjudged by the tricksters. A policy of expediency could not be imposed so late upon a community or- ganized to defend principle. Be the tea ever 8o cheap, the colonists would have none of it. It symbolized op- pression, and it was dumped into Boston Harbor accordingly. Less than three years later the Declara- tion of Independence was signed at Philadelphia, and a new star rose in the West—never to be eclipsed.— James Waldo Fawcett. RACKETEER FAILS AS OWN LAWYER Passionate Appeals Make Jury Laugh, but It Convicts Him of Conspiracy. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 15.— All the hand-waving and the passion- ate pleadings are to no avaii—Roxie Long, the racketeer who tried to make good as his own attorney, has lost his case. Hitching up his pants every minute or two in a half-hour exhortation, the little former bootlegger of the Ten- derloin made the jurors laugh until they cried, but they came back with a verdict yesterday convicting him of conspiracy to defraud merchants and of the outright robbery of a warehouse, Long claimed he and his wife were the victims of Tony Gizzo, who already had pleaded guilty to conspiracy. Roxie already is serving another term for fraud. Roxie said he could prove his inno- cence by Mayor William N. McNair. ‘That wasn't so good—McNair took the stand and said he didn’t know Roxie. HENRY SUYD.AM SPEAKER “Public Opinion and Crime” will be the subject of an address by Henry Suydam at a meeting of the Women’s Democratic Educational Council to- morrow night at the Mayflower Hotel, Mrs. Evelyn Condon, chairman of the Program Committee, will present the speaker. Other speakers at the meeting will include Miss Ida Mapel, chairman of the study group; Mrs. Lester J. Pol- lock, director of the study unit; Mrs. Victor Gauzza, membership chair- man; Mrs. John Douan, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Mrs. May Killough. Late Georgian Old Maryland William % Mary Fiddle Thread Rose Marie Francis First Hunt Club GALT & BRO,, INC. 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Our collection of things of this type is large enough to fill several halls of a new museum build- ing. We have the Henry Dexter col- lection of portrait busts of famous persenages of the Civil War period, the Joseph Cummings Chase collec- tion of portraits of officers and men of the American Expeditionary Force in France during the World War, the J. L. Gerome Ferris collection of scenes from American history from the dis- covery of America up to the current period, and the Cyrus W. Field col- lection connected with the laying of the first Atlantic cable, not to mention & great number of individual pictures of historical importance. “Properly arranged in a building designed to house them according to approved modern museum methods, these artifacts, relics and souvenirs would {llustrate America’s story in such manner as to be an inspiration to muititudes.” The projected new structure, Dr. Wetmore said, would make possible the acceptance of gifts from citizens, which, under present conditions of overcrowding necessarily are rejected. The museum plan will be consid- ered by Congress after January 1. SINGAPORE MYSTERY UNSOLVED BY PROBE Japanese Colony Leader Believed to Have Died of Self-Admin- istered Poison. By the Assoctated Press. SINGAPORE, December 15.—The Japanese colony leader who died while | being questioned by British secret | service operatives, remained unsolved today after a coroner’s inquest re- turned an “open” verdict. The coroner reported circumstances tended to show Nishimura died from the effects of self-administered poison, 'but said there was insufficient evi- 'dence to determine how the poison | clip. ‘was taken. Nishimura’s death aroused unusual interest in view of the war maneuvers in progress this week to test the vul- nerability of the Singapore naval base. Rumors circulated that special pre- cautions were being taken to prevent espionage. The maneuvers approached a cli- max last night with a combined naval and aerial attack on the port. Resi- dents of Singapore were treated o a vivid night battle spectacle as bomb- ers sped through the skies dropping dummy bombs on the unlighted “enemy” ships. WORKERS TO GET BONUS| ki, I Washington and Baltimore em- ployes of the Little Tavern Shops, will | attend the annual bonus banquet of | the organization in the Mayflower Hotel this morning at 9 o’'clock. In business more than seven years, Harry F. Duncan, president of the Tavern Shops, inaugurated the prac- tice of giving part of each year's profits to each employe of the com- pany. The total of this year’s bonus is $3,500. Along with this money, the employes will receive also their Christmas savings checks, represent- ing money the company encouraged them to save. CLUBS TO EXPAND The extensive expansion plans of the Young Democratic Clubs of Amer- ica, will be carried on in every city in the United States to build up the party by 1936, Cliff Woodward of Iowa, president of the national or- ganization, has announced. Clubs have been organized in 46 States for the younger generations, Wodward explained. There over 20,- 000,000 voters under the age of 30 eligible for membership in the clubs mystery of the death of Y. Nishimura, | throughout the country, he said. iB_l’ttures Frames Mirrors Appropriate gifts at reasonable prices are always to be found at this specialty store. I53T-B BY BARBARA BELL. 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Gallinger Municipal Hospital was more crowded with patients last month than in previous months of the year, Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, super- Intendent, has informed the Board of Public Welfare. The average daily number of pa- tients in November was 712, as com- pared with 668 in October and with 861 in November of last year. The largest number of patients cared for at one time last month was 759. The total number of beds available is 1,000, showing a percentage of occu- pancy of 71 per cent. A by Thomas A. Hudlow, superintendent of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, shows demand for serv- ices at that institution last month was lower than in October. In November there were 321 admitted, as compared with 359 in October. The November figures, however, were higher than those for November of last year. 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Mrs. Howard, who will direct the program, wilk present the carolers to the club Thursday eve- ning at 8:30 o’clock. The choruses to be sung on the pro- gram include both classic and modern music, much of it being based on folk songs of other lands. Incidental solos in the carols will be sung by Barbara Murray, Myrtle Barnes, Alice Sherrer, Ina Holtzscheiter, Catherine Gross, Helen Perry, Frances Tucker, Irene ‘Wetzell and Laura Lyle. Marjorie Davis will be the accompanist for the carolers and Evelyn Scott will play the violin. The entire ensemble will appear in costumes of “Merrie " against a background of Christmas trees and :n g:l:flul backdrop designed by Hugo Lewis Lofton Moneyway will act as host on behalf of the club at a buffet supper in honor of the artists following the program. Earlier in the evening many members will entertain their guests at dinner parties in the club dining room which will be in Christ- mas attire. Mrs. Lenroot's Home Scene Of Pre-Nuptial Gift Party Mrs. Irvine L. Lenroot, Miss Kath- arine Lenroot and Mrs. W. Stanley Clabaugh entertained at a miscella- neous shower Thursday evening in Mrs. Lenroot’s home for Miss Helen Nichols, whose marriage to Mr. James Arthur Hobbs will take place Decem- ber 25 in Superior, Wis. Attending were Mrs. Stuart Arm- strong, Mrs. Arthur Beach, Miss Ann Berger, Miss Marion Boyle, Miss Eliz- abeth Coon, Miss Edith Cosdon, Miss Virginia Cramton, Miss Rita Fogle, Miss Cecile Harrington, Miss Edith Hathaway, Mrs. Thomas A. Jackson, Miss Evelyn Kerr, Miss Leah McAr- thur, Miss Elizabeth Rees, Miss Anna Marie Sherwell, Miss Prances Thomp- son, Miss Marion Thwing, Miss Doris Troth, Miss Dolly Tschiffely, Miss Ruth Shauck, Miss Kathleen Wat- kins and Miss Betty Williams. Foot Ball Stirs Interest. 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