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Evening star., 1925-05-24
Breaks on a Fishing Trip
Proves Skepca Regarding Claims of This Occupation
Recreation To Be Called

| plains Ffnnegan. Il finds out the
idea of this weakfishing game is I'd
| throw about sS worth of shrimps
| overheard, which attracts the atten
ton of about SO worth of weakfish,
| Then you let your line float out with
the tide and after you've unwound
about a mile of it you maybe gets
a bite"
With" I suggests, IAN accent %
| the 'mayre.' +"
NO." says "High Dome" "you get
a bite all right, but the maybe comes
| in with the weakfish. You see the
waters all full of sea robins and them
kinda fish that you wouldn't feed to
a hog that you were mad with, and
your hook with the shrimps on il
amt no sooner overheard than them
| scavenger boys just bite the bait off
and go on their way. Then it takes
you an hour to find out that you're
| fishing with just a hook
| Then" says /, you didn't catch
| none?"
| Il don't mind telling you in conf.
dence, KID whispers Finnegan, that
| l amt never even seen a dictionary
| that had picture of one in it. The
| captain of the scow takes US to diff.
ferent places where he says we ia
| sure of catching some, but we don't
have no luck, despite the fact that
every boat around us is pulling 'em
in by the gross lots"
! What was the trouble?" asks.
| Il don't know" returns High
| Dome" "and neither did the skipper
| Man and boy he says at every spot
we come to, I been fishing these here
waters and this is the first time in
40 years l amt caught no fish,
| Let's go over there I'd come
back, pointing out a spot, 'thar's gold
in them mountains But there wasn't
and after a while the captain says
we'd better try to get some sea bass
They're good eating, aren't they?" [
inquiries.
How do ! know" scowls F'innegan.
I'VE tried for an hour or so to grab
off some of them sea bass and finally
the captain says:
well, I'll see that you boys don't
go home empty handed. Well so over
near the shore where the bottom S
sandy and pull in 40 or so f1ukes.
They're not so game, but they're a
great pan fish,"
Are they?" 1 asks Finnegan.
How do I know?" snarls High
Dome" After a couple of hours of
sitting around and not getting no
nearer a fuke than near beer gets TO
beer we decides to call it a day. I'm
wet to the skim"
And" 1 adds, under the skim
I'VE had a few drinks" admits Fin
negan, land seeing they were no more
left we starts for home. About a mile
from the shore a squall hits us-the
first time the captain d seen one in
them parts for 40 years-and turns
the boat over on its ears. We're all
dumped into the water and we'd a
sure gone to Davy Jones lookup il
it wasn't for the facts that they were
some other boats around us. They
pulls us in and you should of seen me
three weeks later when l pulled
through the pneumonia. Fishing a
sport, huh?'
Forget it," says I. ''You just had
some bad breaks. Come along with me
and I'll promise you a good time
Sorry" returns High Dome" but
I promised Ping Grogan I'd go along
with his gang. They tell me the
weakfish are biting great in the
= sound"
Evening star., 1925-05-24

II is pleasant TO SlC DaCk anu lNliih
over the many elements of good
fortune which have been Incl
i dental to my career in the musi-
cal world. Reviewing the past,
I have been very fortunate. My life
seems more like fairy tale, "a great
adventure" than a succession of solid
realities. OF all the happy sequences
of good fortune 1 have encountered
think the one for which I have most
to congratulate myself was the alb
sence of present day high costs of
everything connected with musical
education when 1 started out.
Certainly there are few singers who
attain musical experience with smaller
expenditure of money. Today 1t all
seems to have been one of the impos-
sibilities Of attainment actually re-.
allied. At my beginning I could not
have paid even a moderate amount for
study. My people were nearly all en-
dowed with musical talent. but any
possibility of providing me with means
of securing a musical education was
lacking. such musical ability as
possess must have been inherited, for
nv father had a bass voice of fine
quality, my mother beautiful so.
prano, and my uncle was one of the
best natural tenors / have ever heard.
For myself I possessed an ambition
for singing from childhood. remem-
Der frequently saying, perhaps as a
Evening star., 1925-05-24
"soME RoosT ON WOODEN BARS

Nor is work all. Take food.
admit, here and now, that the lunch
like best-I mean for an ordinary
plain lunch, not a party-is a beef
steak about one foot square and
two inches thick. Can l work on
it? No, l can't. But l can work in
spite of it. That is as much as one
used to ask, 20 years ago.
Yet now l find that all my friends
boast ostentatiously about the mea-
ger lunch they eat. One tells me that
he finds a glass of milk and prune
is quite as much as he cares to take.
Another says that a dry biscuit and
glass of water is all that his brain
will stand. One lunches on the white
of an egg. Another eats merely the
yolk. 1 have only two friends left
who can eat a whole egg at a time.
1 understand that the fear of these
men is that If they eat more than an
Evening star., 1925-05-24

ssAI tie fishing trip" 1 in,
Wv quires of High Dome"
Not me-" growls he.
II wouldn't eat fish on a bet; besides
/ buy 1t when I crave it..
What" 1 wants to know, lis eat
ing fish gotta do with catching EN-?
I've seen you shooting dice, but l
amt never seen you making meal
offa 'em. Don't you enjoy the sport?
IF fishing's a sport" sneers High
Dome" fertilizers perfume.
What is it," I asks, "if it amt
sport?'
We'll" returns Finnegan, from my
experience with the gentle arts OF tow
ing worms around in the drink ia
say that fishing is a cross between
flirting with pneumonia and trying
to keep a date with delirium tremens.
Remember that party I went with last
Summer out on the sound"' +.
"Yeh," says 1, what about it?"
"Since that day." comes back High
Dome" II amt been able to look a
fish in the gills. 1t makes me shud-
der even to see sardine can"
How Gomez" 1 inquiries, Sympa-
thetic.
Let me tell you all about it," says
Finnegan, "and If you can call fish
Ing sport after l gets done you can
just as easy call an Alabama cotton
picker beautiful Swedish blond. In
the first place, Ping Grogan, who en-
gtneered the outrage, dragged me
outta the hay at am. to start on
this trip
"Hell!' I exclaims, what were you
doing in bed that eaf4y?"
"All the places were closed" snaps
High Dome" "and 1 wish you'd do
the same with that fiy-trap of yours
and listen to me. It's raining when
we starts out and I'm for calling the
party off, but Ping tells me that right
after a rain the fishing's so good you
gotta surround yourself with chicken
wire to keep the brutes from jumping
Evening star., 1925-05-24

egg or a biscuit they will feel heavy
after lunch. Why they object to feel
ing heavy I do not know. Person
ally, 1 enjoy it. l like nothing bet
ter than to sit round after a heavy
lunch with half a dozen heavy friends,
smoking heavy cigars. I am we'll
aware that that is wicked.
Nor is food all, nor drink, nor
work, nor open air. There has
spread abroad, along with the So
called physical efficiency, a perfect
passion for information. Somehow,
If mans stomach is empty and his
head clear as bell, and if he won't
drink and won't smoke, he reaches
out for information. He wants facts
He reads the newspapers clean
through. He clamors for articles
filled with statistics about illiteracy
and alien immigration and the ton
mage percentage of battleships to be
Evening star., 1925-05-24
WOULD WEAR DOG HARNESS
IF THEY THOUGHT THEY
COULD WORK MORE IN IT."

in the several musical papers, an
item of the utmost Importance in her
career, will add to the cost.
The second year of her professional
work should find loss of perhaps
half that Of the first year and the
third year half that of the second
Then the losses will fade away and a
growing profit will take their place
But meanwhile the aggregate for
study and expenditures will have
amounted to very large sum-not
infrequently it has reached $50, 900,
which represents our students capital
investment before she begins to show
any real ability.
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Footwear STYLES of 1850.

A FORGOTTEN sealed shelf in a
Liberty, Mo-, shoe store disclosed
20 pairs of shoes, never worn, that
had been in there since 1850. The
dainty dancing slippers that twinkled
in and out from under a hoopskirt
and the sturdy shoes with copper toes
for boys were among the interesting
specimens that will be placed on
exhibition as a sample of the old-time
shoemaker'S art
Evening star., 1925-05-24

into the boat and biting your ears off.
So l grabs my hook, line and sinker
and couple of bottles of prevail
Pre- what war; l cuts in.
The next one" says FinneGan.
I've drives about Is miles through the
Evening star., 1925-05-24

their sheer beauty before she sets to
work to embellish them.
Sport writers probably receive more
mash notes like the above than any
other form of literati. If words could
Evening star., 1925-05-24
BY ANNA CASE.

+ T is pleasant to sit back and think
over the many elements of good
fortune which have been Incl
dental to nv career in the musi-
Evening star., 1925-05-24
Picking a Vacation Place
George Wife Condemn All the Conditions
Wisdom in Making Up Minds.
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S Shakespeare, the Boy Wonder
~ who put Bacon and Hard
~ Boiled Literary Eggs on the
4 u map, so truly said, IF at
first HnN don't succeed try
Evening star., 1925-05-24

- OMETHING is happening. / re-
gret to find, to the world in |
which we used to live. The !
~ poor old thing is being "speeded |
up" There is efficiency" in |
Evening star., 1925-05-24

"O the Editor: I suppose the
public is in a fever to know
whether we literary fellows as
some calls us is ever the re-
Evening star., 1925-05-24
High Dome" Finnegan
BY SAM HELLMAN.

/I Y YHAT do you say to a lit
N tie fishing trip?" 1 in.
NV quires of High Dome
Finnegan.
Evening star., 1925-09-13
Zung Leaps to His Death
When Badgered for Tips

lungs name may not go down to
posterity, but to a certain extent he
has made himself famous. AS far as
records go, East or West, Zung is the
first man who paid the supreme sac
rifice rather than submit to the sys-
tenn of tipping. Zung thus became a
martyr to a cause. Zung, who worked
for a foreign firm in Nanking, when
pressed for a tip, leaped over the side
of the vessel on which he was travel
ing from Marking to Wuhu and was
drowned in the Yangtze River. His
body was recovered later miles down
the stream at a place called Shiakwan.
When Zung boarded the ship he was
signaled out Immediately by cabin
boys, stewards. baggage coolies and
even the sailors as being a "soft
mark They approached him for
"cumsha," otherwise known as a tip.
Incensed at their rude behavior, Zung,
without moments hesitation, jumped
the ship. The Hupeh guild is to ask
an investigation into the affair and
promises to bring proceedings against
the crew at the District Court of Pro-
curation in Nanking. The guild
claims that the crew attacked ZunE
when he refused to tip thems
Evening star., 1925-09-13
Modern Antiques Find :.
Eager Buyers in Spain

That American vogue for Spanish
houses" is sending to Spain an ever
increasing swarm of buyers of fur!G
niture and fittings who pounce on all
Spanish articles, good, bad and indif-
ferent.
Since genuine Spanish period fur
niture Is becoming very rare, azlyHn
thing that is merely old is snapped
up. A rug or carpet with holes in
1t has become more valuable than the
same article in good repair. All sorts
of taking and imitation are resorted
to.
For example, an old chair is taken
to pieces and one of it's legs is incor-
porated in a reproduction, which is
then sold as an antique on the
strength of its one old leg. In an an
tiquary's shop few days ago was a.
man being shown Andalusian rugs
called Alpujarras. An old Alpujarra
rug is very valuable, and when more
than 100 years old pays no duty on
entering the United States. 1t is one
of the features of the rugs that they
bear the names of the persons for
whom they were woven and the date.
Many purchasers of these rugs make
1t q condition of purchase that the
date be removed when 1t is less than
100 years, in the hope of getting
them home duty free.
Granada. visited by most tourists
on account OF the Alhambra, is the
center of the new furniture-f taking
trade. though Madrid makes impec-
cably rusted doors, grilles, lamps and
candlesticks. Ironwork 10 the eac.est
article to fake.
Evening star., 1925-09-13

aircraft organizations for other places
could be based when required.
There should be local defense unit
Of 100 airplanes at Panama. The air.
ways should be organized throughout
the United States, Porto Rico, the
West Indies Islands, Cuba, Mexico and
Central America to Panama, so that
air force units could be dispatched to
the most important point for the de
fense of that area.
The Hawaiian Islands. due to their
remoteneSS from the continent, should
be equipped with an air force of 500
airplanes, two-thirds Of which should
be pursuit and one-third bombardment.
In addition to the air force units there
should be a unit for the local defense
Of the Island of Oahu Of 100 pursuit
planes and accessories for defense
against aircraft.
Due to the stra tegic position Of the
Philippine Islands there should be no
air force or local defense units main
tanned because the locality could not
be defended in case Of war. The aero
nautical organization there should
consist merely of two general service
squadrons of 25 two-seater airplanes
each. These should be organized for
use against local uprisings, for recon
naissance and in developing the air
ways Of the islands.
Force in Alaska.
Alaska should be provided with an
air force of 800 planes, 200 pursuit and
100 bombardment. These should have
their headquarters in time of peace in
the vicinity of Fort Gibbon, opposite
the mouth of the Tanana River on the
Yukon. The airways should be organ
lied with the consent of Canada from
the United States to Alaska as far as
Nome and Cape Prince of Wales, and
also down the Alaskan Peninsula and
the Aleutian Islands to the Island of
Attu.
OF the force in the continental
United States there should be about
l5 per cent Of officers and enlisted
men maintained permanently with the
organizations and the rest in reserve
The general overhead. engineering
and supply services should be per.
manent. In Panama the units should
remain at half strength; in the
Hawaiian Islands they should be at
full strength; in the Philippines at
full strength and in Alaska at half
strength. The number and strength of,
both the local defense and auxiliary
units for observation purposes should
be varied from time to time in ac-s
cordance with the needs of the or;
ganizations which they are designed
to serve. '
Evening star., 1925-09-13
Little Red Hens Grow White Feathers
When Dosed With Thyroid Glands

ION again. on again. off again."
says M. Zavadovski to himself as he
harvests crop after crop of new chick.
en- feathers from the hens in his
laboratory at Sverdlov University,
Moscow, as a result of feeding them
doses of dried thyroid gland. In ex-
perimenting to study the effect of ex-
cessive thyroid in hens with a view to
applying the knowledge gained in
treating human cases, M. Zavadovski
observed that chickens moulted arti.
ficially two weeks after one strong
dose of thyroid was given, and grew
new feathers in another two weeks.
The new feathers were always white,
regardless Of the color of the original
plumage.
It was also shown that fowl could
withstand large doses Of thyroid with
out symptoms of acute poisoning, and
the fact Of cumulative action of the
thyroid hormone was confirmed, for
they could endure large doses in one
administration better than daily small
ones. The quickness with which the
fowl lost the old feathers and put on
the new depended on the size of the
dose. The biggest dose that could be
kiven induced moulting in six days
and brought new white feathers in
II. The method Of giving sin
gle doses enabled the experimenter
to obtain a picked chicken In two
weeks and one with new plumage in
four.
The new plumage that grew after
experimental moulting was markedly
softer than the original, but was not
80 easily changed by a second dose Of
Evening star., 1925-09-13
BY HENRY w. BUM.

HE following is a brief sum-
mary Of the most important
news of the world for the
Il seven days ended September
12:
United States of America.-The hap
piest news-the Navy seaplane PN-9
No. /, with its crew of FIVE, Comdrg
John Rodgers commanding, was
picked up on Thursday night by a
submarine about Is miles off the Is
land Of Kauai in the Hawaiian group.
1t would seem that on September /
a radio message from the guard ship
Aroostock giving the latter's bearings
was misunderstood by the plane. which
altered its course to accord with the
mistaken message. The Aroostock,
not being sighted as expected, the
plane was just about to inform the
Aroostock of her change of course
when her gasoline gave out. A fine
landing was made in heavy swells,
but owing to lack of gasoline the
motors were out of action and radio
transmission was impossible.
The crew cut the fabric from one
of the wings of the plane and with
part thereof rigged a foresail and
with the rest caught rain water. They
sailed before the wind for something
like nine days, making about so miles
having very well.
The emergency rations were not
quite exhausted when rescue came,
but there was some distress from in
sufficiency of water, which would have
been far worse had not the mother of
Comdr. Rodgers insisted that he take
with him a small water still. 1t is evi-
dent that Comdr. Rodgers handled the
situation with the most impressive
skill and great gallantry. 1t Is good
to note that he has already been re-
warded by a pleasant assignment. The
plane deserves as much congratula-
ton for its seaworthiness as Comdr.
Rodgers for his seamanship.
In a long statement issued to the
press on September Col William
Mitchell, formerly assistant chief of
the Army Air Service and now air
officer of the Sth Corps Area. violent
ly attacked the aviation policies of the
War and Navy Departments.
Referring to the disaster to the
Shenandoah and the supposed disaster
TO the PN-9 No. l, Col. Mitchell said:
These accidents are direct results of
the incompetency, criminal negligence
and almost reasonable administration
of the national defense by the War
and Navy Departments. In their at
tempts to keep down development of
aviation by an independent depart
ment separate from the Army and
Navy and handled by aeronautical ex-
perts, and to maintain the existing
system, they have gone to the utmost
lengths. All aviation policies, schemes
and systems are dictated by non-flying
officers of the Army and Navy, who
know practically nothing about the
business. The lives of the airmen are
being used merely as pawns in their
hands"
President Coolidge returned to
Washington on Thursday.
The long drought has hit hard the
Middle West crops.
France.-Day after day. with char
acteristic boldness. Add -Krim at
tackled the French and Spanish
Evening star., 1925-09-13

forces in Morocco In q desperate
effort to forestall the impending
Franco-Spanish general offensive. but
in vain.
Under cover of a bombardment by
a great number OF French and Span
ish ships and French seaplanes, a
considerable Spanish force was land
ed on Alcuhemas Bay on September
s. and this force is now marching
south. while French forces are march
ing north. In other words, the
Franco.Spanish general offensive has
begun. Apparently so, at any rate.
Rene Viviani. the distinguished
French statesman and one of the
most effective orators the world has
known, Is dead at the age of 61.
He was premier at the outbreak of
the great war, but gave place to
BRAND in October. 1924. He had
co-operated ardently with Sir Ed
ward Gray in efforts to avert the
conflict. He was the first French
minister of labor in Clemenceau's 8
cabinet of 1905, and his work on
behalf of the laboring masses was
notable. 1t is, however, generally
agreed that he just misseE very high
rank as statesman; but what elo-
quencei
Germany.-August 81 was the first
anniversary of the institution of the
Dawes plan. The first years working
was smooth, as was to be expected,
since of the 1000. .o00. 900 marks Ger
man payment 500, 900 900 marks came
from the external loan, the remain
der being charge on the Ger
man Railway Co.. organized under
the Dawes plan by consolidation Of
the state railways. In the year be-
gun September l. 1925, and thence
forward, four annuity sources will be
in play-the budget, the transport
tax. the Industrial debentures and
the German railway bonds. The total
annuity, 1925-26. will be 1,220 million
marks; that for 1926-27, ] 200 million
marks; that for 1929, l,750 million
marks. The standard annuity begins
September l. 1928, namely, $500 mil
lion marks Subject to increase de.
pending on the Index OF prosperity,
distributed as follows as to source:
1880 millions from the budget, 290
millions from the transport tax, 800
millions from the Industrial deben.
lures. $50 millions from the railway
bonds.
The experts chief apprehension
seems to be as to the budget
The budget contribution of SOC, 900, =
600 marks for 1928 will soar to
i 1000. 900 for 192s-29 and ensuing
years. In this connection we are re-
assured by the information that Ger
man revenue receipts for the months
April to July inclusive of this year
exceeded estimates by 10000, 900
marks.
Nothing could be more interesting
than to watch the operation and incl.
dental effects henceforth of the plan;
the transfer problem (pressure on the
exchanges); the career of the consoli-
dated railway system; the somewhat
dubitable scheme of the industrial de-
bentures: the extent to which deliv-
cries in kind will be acceptable; the
effects on international trade of eff
forts to increase the German export
surplus.
OF course the grand object of the
800, 100000 marks external loan of