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Evening star., 1927-12-10
THE EVENING STORY

her face in her arms, pathetic, grief
stricken figure. AS Mrs. Shaw bent
over and laid a hand on her shoulder
she started and looked up.
what is it," demanded Mrs. Shaw,
sinking down beside her and putting
an arm about her. Are you sick?
Tell me SO l can do something for
you"
But Mrs. Penn merely sobbed inco-
herently. Presently she said, thickly:
Lock the door so frankie can't get
in here. II wouldn't have him see
me like this for the world. He has
never seen me cry"
Mrs. Shaw locked the doors and then
returned to her seat beside the weep
ing woman.
MY DEAR" she said, with that un.
derstanding that comes only once in a
thousand times, perhaps, even to the
best of men, "it's all been bluff,
hasn't it?''
Edith Penn gripped the kind hand,
looked into the sympathetic eyes and
gave herself to confession.
II should say it has all been a bluff"
she replied. And I'm sick of bluffing.
I'm tired of pretending. II hate
myself for going round with that silly
grin on my face and trying to make
people believe it came there by itself.
But it doesn't. 1 put it on every
morning just the way / do my clothes.
l'Let me tell you. l took you that can
dy this afternoon as an excuse, hoping
I'd find you alone. l thought maybe
I could tell you, but Mrs. Diworth
was there. Oh. my face aches with
smiling, and my heart aches with
keeping things out of sight! I've al
| ways made the best of everything
WI ic fa brio nd
what good has it done to me or any
body else? I don't believe it's true
| that the world is better for your keep
ing your trouble out of sight. 1 be-
| lieve that the give-and-take sympathy
creates a bond between people-a
| needed bond~
Il have always believed that" Mary
Shaw said.
i've always had to cry my eyes out
in secret while l. smiled in the face
of the whole world" Edith Penn went
on. Even my husband has never
suspected that I had cause to shed
single tear. In that way l haven't
been true to him, perhaps, but it was
the way | was brought up. My moth
er was the kind Of a woman who would
give our dinner away to somebody
who didn't need it, while we did, just
| for the sake of keeping up appear
ances. My sister," her lips quiv-
cred. "My sister has always been like
mother, until yesterday. Yesterday
| she told me-that she has only six
| months at best to live. l smiled. /
said, Six months is a long time
| Then I came home and kept right on
| smiling. But I've reached the point
where l can't smile any more. love
| her. and | am going to lose her. And
I'm going to cry about it if l want to. i"
She did cry again, stormiy, while
Mrs. Shaw soothed and comforted her.
1t was not Edith Penn's first deep
valley by any means, but it was the
| first time she had walked there with
another woman who knew the length
and breadth of deep valleys. In Mary
Shaw she had found the friend she
needed.
| And Mary Shaw. too, had found
something which she would in time
| make known to all Women--a brave
heart that had masqueraded under a
smile in order to hide its suffering.
THE END.
| tCoDyrlght 1879
Evening star., 1927-12-10
GALLOWAY TO ADDRESS
SOCIAL HYGIENE GROUP
Member of American Association
Staff Principal Speaker at
Pierce Hall Tonight.

DR.. Thomas Walton Galloway of
the staff of the American Social
Hygiene Association Of New York will
be the principal speaker at public
meeting of the Social Hygiene Society
of the District of Columbia tonight
at o'clock in Pierce Hall, All Souls
Unitarian Church, Fifteenth and Har.
ward streets.
DR.. Galloway and other speakers
will tell of the efforts to promote
fuller and better instruction and guild
ance in the home. school and church
with reference TO sex, marriage,
parenthood and family life
Other speakers will include DR.. Will
liam A. White, superintendent of st.
Elizabeth's Hospitals; Stephen Z.
Kramer, assistant superintendent of
schools, and DR.. Moses r. Lowell of
the Mount Pleasant Congrega tional
Church.
This meeting win mark the close of
four-week visit to Washington by
DR.. Galloway, during which time he
has talked to a large number of
parents, teachers, ministers and social
workers.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
GEN. LEWIS RETIRES TODAY
AFTER 44-YEAR ARMY SERVICE
Veteran of Spanish American
and World Wars Won
Many Honors.
Service With I'd Division
Gave Him Part in Famous
Battles Abroad.

With A years of service to his rec
ord, Maj. Gen. Edward Mann Lewis,
distinguished veteran of the Spanish
American and World Wars, was
placed on the retired list of the Army
today
When relieved as commander of the
Hawaiian Department recently, Gen.
Lewis was extended leave of absence
to travel in the Orient and is now re-
ported 10 be returning to Washington.
lie had been in command of the Iia-
Waiian Department since January 13.
1925, and prior to then he had been
commander OF the Hawaiian division
ana SchOfield Barracks since Septem-
Der 1G. 1924.
Gen. Lewis was born in Albany.
Ind, December 10, 1868, and was APP
pointed to the United States Military
Academy from that State. graduating
in 1856. lie had obtained his earlier
education at DePauW University,
Greencastle, Ind, and at the Universi-
ty of California. and from the former,
in 1919. he received the honorary de-
gree of doctor of laws as one of its
most distinguished graduates.
Saw Much Active Service.
During his A years service in the
Army, Gen. Lewis saw much active
campaigning and during 1919 he
served in Washington in the office
of the chief of staff of the Army.
After his graduation from West
Point he was promoted through
grades to the rank of colonel in 1917
and at the outbreak of the World
War he was appointed a brigadier
general in the National Army. rising
to the rank of major general before
the war ended.
He served in Cuba during the
Spanish American war as adjutant
of the Goth Infantry and participated
i'll the Santiago campaign with such
gallantry that he was breveted a
captain in 1898. Then came the
Philippine insurrection, 1S99-1901,
and Lewis served during those cam
paigns and was on duty at San Fran
cisco following the earthquake and
fire in 1906.
The Vera Cruz campaign found
Lewis commander of the 10Th In
fantry and he served throughout that
campaign, ending as treasurer of the
Military Government. After the Mex
lean trouble, other details caused Gen.
Lewis to he stationed in command of
the Illinois National Guard, in Boston
Evening star., 1927-12-10
PLEAFOR TRAINING
CAMPS BY MAIL HIT
Advertising by Postmarks
May Alarm Europeans,
DR.. Abernethy Says.

The method of advertising the Citi-
zens' Military Training Camps by post
marks on letters was hit by Rev. w.
$. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Bap-
tist Church and president of the Citi-
Zens' Service Association for Law and
Order, in an address yesterday. Re-
ferring to letters so marked and sent
abroad, he asked: ."What do the people
over there think of it,"
DIR. Abernothy, who was speaking
at the weekly luncheon of the Wash
ington Round Table in the University
Club, had reference to the sentences
stamped on the envelopes: Citizens
Military Training Camp. Let's go. -
Such advertising on mail sent to for
eign countries, he indicated, is apt to
give foreigners the impression that
the United States is looking forward
10 another war.
Blames War for Ignorance.
War itself was blamed on the igno-
rance of man in solving his own
problems. The same lack of learning
on the part of man was blamed by the
speaker for failure to solve the pro-
hibtion question and other matters.
I'VE haven't discovered just how to
handle the booze situation" he said.
Attributing the advancement of man
through generations to his ability to
learn, DR.. Abernethy declared there
are some things man does not learn,
naming the problem of how to settle
disputes between countries without
war as one of them.
He said he would not "say much
about" the Citizens Military Training
Camps, but declared, LAS a general
thing, it is the man who goes around
with a pistol in his pocket who gets
into a shooting scrape sooner or later"
Urges Reading of History.
DR.. Abernethy, who had chosen
Getting Down to Brass Tacks' as
the subject of his address, declared,
however, that whereas everything Is
not all right, the world is getting bet
ter, and that persons inclined to get
pessmstic should read history and
ancient writings. The latter, he point
ed out, will show that men thousands
of years ago thought that everything
was getting worse.
Rev. Dr. w. w. Staley, delegate to
the convention of the Anti-Saloon
League here. was a guest at the lunch
con and delivered brief address, in
which he declared THE good is get
ting better and the bad is getting
worse" This. by comparison, he said,
makes the bad seem still worse.
Evening star., 1927-12-10

as commander of the Northeastern
Department and commander of the
18th Provisional Division and Camp
Llano Grande. TEX, during the MeAi-
can border troubles.
At the outbreak of the World War,
Gen. Lewis was placed in command of
the 10th Infantry Brigade, n. G.. from
August to November, 1917 and then
commanded the United States forces
in Paris from December l, 1917 to May
5, 1918.
Leaving the Paris district, Gen.
Lewis was put in command of the
Sd Brigade of the famous I'd Division,
serving at Chateau Thierry until July
13, 1913. when he was made COM
mandcr of the 30th Division with the
rank of major general He partici-
pated in all the campaigns of this COM
bat division throughout the remainder
of the war.
For his distinguished services in
France. Gen. Lewis was decorated
with the Distinguished Service Medal
by the American Army. From other
governments he was awarded rank as
a commander of the Legion of Honor
and the Croix de Guerre with two
palms, by France: Commander Of the
Order of Leopold and the Belgian
CroiX de Guerre; Knight Commander
of the Order of st. Michael and ST
George. by Great Britain; Grand Off
Ger of the Order Of Danelo, by Monte
negro.
After the World War, in addition to
being detailed to the Office of the
chief of staff, Gen. Brett was presi-
dent of the Infantry board and COM
manded at Camp Douglas, Ariz.; the
Sd Division and Camp Pike, Ark.
Camp Gordon. Ga, and Camp Travis.
Tex, where he headed his old COM
mard the I'd Division.
Gen. Brett is member Of the Sons
of the Revolution, Society of the
Army of Santiago de Cuba and Is
Phi Beta Kappa
Evening star., 1927-12-10
|POL|CE DISCIPLINE
! STUDY To Be MADE
'Trade Board Group Named
for Investigation - New
VagranCy Law Urged.

The need for means of enforcing
greater discipline in the police depart
ment through the levying Of heavier
penalties against members of the
force found delinquent in their duties
or guilty Of violations of law will be
studied by special subcommittee Of
the committee of the Board of Trade
on public order following severe at
tack on the efficiency of the depart
ment and charges of Il lack of dis
ciplne which were made at a meeting
of the committee yesterday by Fearcc
Rayner, member of the group.
This action was decided upon by the
public order committee when Maj. Ed
win r. GIcsse. superintendent of po-
lice, who was quest of the commit
tee. while not admitting that there
was any undue annt Mt of inefficient
mon on the police rec. stated that
he had not alWaTs aud punishment
of officers brought before the Police
Trial Board to be adequate.
The subcommittee named by Odell
S. Smith, chairman of the public
order group, TO make the investiga-
ton, is composed of Claude w. Owen,
chairman; Mr.. Rayner and Fred a.
Carter. The subcommittee will report
its finding to the full committee for
consideration.
Vagrancy Law Urged.
The attack by Mr.. Rayner on the
administrators" of the Police Depart
ment came at the close of the meet
ing at which the report of a COM
mittee headed by William II. Gala
han, calling for the enactment of
new vagrancy law, which had been
drafted with the aid of Maj. Hesse.
was unanimously adopted. The pro-
posed new vagrancy law, which is
much more drastic in its provisions
than the existing law, is to be pre-.
sented to the full meeting of the
Board of Trade, following which it is
expected to be introduced in Congress
at this session.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
LEE POY ROBBED OF $40.
Third Hold-up in Two Days at
Local Laundries.

The third hold-up of a Chinese
laundry IN two days was reported to
police last night by Lee Poy, pro-
prietor Of a laundry at 1907 Twelfth
street. who claimed that two colored
men entered his place last night as
he was unsuspectingly ironing shirts
and. at the point of a pistol robbed
him of SO.
One of the men held the revolver
while his companion emptied the cash
register. They ran out of the door,
jumped into waiting car and fed.
According to Lee Poy, he ran after
them shouting, Robbers" but no one
seems TO have paid any attention to
him. The colored men answer the
description given of two who looted
other Chinese laundries.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
STRIKE DECISION SEEN.
International Union May Prevent
Chicago Trolley Tie-up.

CHICAGO, December 10 (Pl.-Dcci-
sion on the threatened tie-up Of Chi
cago's transportation system by a
strike Of street car and elevated EN-.
ployes may evolve from a conference
of local and international officials in
Detroit yesterday.
William d. Mahon, international
president, whose permission is neces-
sary for legal strike. has indicated
that he would not approve strike
action before the end of the week, if
then.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
Seeks $4,000 From Firm.

Henry Schrot, trading as Schrot
Bros, GIT Louisiana avenue, was sued
for $4,000, by Jacob +. PletZman. The
plaintiff says the amount is due him
under an agreement by which he was
employed as manager on salary and
commission basis. He is represented
by Attorneys Newmyer & King.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
ELECTIONS TO DELAY
STERILIZATION OF FRANC
Paris Paper Quotes Poincare as
Indicating Nothing Will
Be Done Before.
By the Associated Press.

PARIS. December 10.-Lo Echo de
Paris quotes Premier POincare as say
ing regarding the sterilization of the
franc:
You know perfectly well nothing
will be done before elections"
Poincare's answer was addressed TO
the editor of the paper, who told the
premier that his statement that sta
biIization could not be delayed indefi-
nitely caused a stir on the stock mar
ket.
The date Of the parliamentary cleo
tions has not been fixed, but they will
probably be either the middle of April
or the beginning of May.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
Press Official Is Divorced.

RENO. New, December 10 (Pl.-
James A. Buchanan. manager of the
National Press Association, was di-
vorced by Ethel Ruth Buchanan in
District Court Thursday on the
ground of cruelty. Buchaban did not
contest the suit.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
Walt Whitman Home Raced.

NEW YORK, December 10 CR.-
The old house in Brooklyn where Walt
Whitman wrote much of his poetry,
fell under the blows of the house
wreckers yesterday. A chain cigar
store will be built on the site.
Evening star., 1927-12-10
Commissioned in Reserve Corps.

Robert r. Norman, 2519 Connect
cut avenue, has been commissioned by
the War Department, q a second lieu
tenant of cavalry in the Reserve Corps
of the Army. -
Evening star., 1927-12-10
Truth About Mrs. Penn.

. HERE was something wrong
about Mrs. Penn, the woman
who lived next door to Mrs.
l. Shaw and opposite to Mrs. Dill
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
FelD Illusions Left
in Euening of Life

The life of individual man is of
mixed nature. In part he submits to
the free-will impulses of himself and
others, in part he is under the mex.
orable dominion of law. He insen-
sibly changes his estimate of the rela.
tive power of each of these influences
as he passes through successive
stages. In the confidence of youth he
imagines that very much is under his
control, in the disappointment of old
age very little. AS time wears on, and
the delusions of early Imagination
wear away. he learns to correct his
sanguine views. and prescribes a mar.
rover boundary for the things he ex.
poets to obtain. The realities of life
undeceive him at last. and there steals
over the evening of his days an un.
welcome conviction of the vanity of
human hopes The things he has Sc.
cured are not the things he has ex-
pected. He sees that Supreme Pow.
er has been using him for unknown
ends, that he was brought into the
world without his own knowledge, and
Is departing from it against his will.
j. w. Draper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Had to Haze Strong
Coffee on Broadway

During her recent weekend visit to
town on the South shore the Woman
stopped in fruit and vegetable store
to make some purchases for her
friend. The clerk was having a rath.
er difficult task, for the customer up
on whom he was waiting wanted to
know the history of each purchase.
what kind of coffee have your"
she asked.
Good coffee" promptly responded
the dark-eyed son of Italy.
Eyes, I know. But what brand is
it?"
"These one, she's drink by all the
people downtown, New York. Fifty.
nine cents a pound"
cob, that's too expensive"
swell, here's another, only 40 cents"
hastily volunteered the man.
is it strong?" asked the lady du.
bious,y. 81 like strong coffee"
"Sure. Wonderful strong. They
drink these kind on Broadway. They
gotta have strong coffee there. They
stay up all night."-New York Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
ORPHANS COURT

Bonds Approved-Jos l. France
executor of Evalyn S. France; Eliz
abeth Y. Taylor and Henry H. Mitch
ell, executors of W. Arthur Mitchell
Fannie Molitor and Edward Molitor
Jr., executors of Edward Molitor,
Albert D. Mackey, administrator OF
George w. Buchanan; Hannah A
Davidson, executrix of Mary j. Dav-
idson; A. l.. White and Mrs. Julia
Johnson, executors of A. P. White
William A. Crawford and James N
Stanley, executors of Washington
Foster.
Accounts Passed-First and fina
preferred account of Alice E. Rey
nolds, Administrative of j. Gaino1
Reynolds; first and final account OF
Warren ]. Haines, executor of Eliza
beth j. Haines, and distribution
struck on same; supplemental anf
final account of Clarence E. Scar
borough, administrator of Ida M
Scarborough.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Hope-Making Plant

Much of the peninsula of Yucatan
is very stony, and as there are prac-
tically no rivers, the planters depend
on rain to irrigate their fields. Sisal
hemp, or henequin, is the chief article
of growth and export throughout the
peninsula.
The sisal itself is an evergreen plant
closely related to the century plant or
American aloe. The fiber is extracted
from the curving, swordlike leaves,
which are cut at the end of the third
or fourth year of growth. The leaves
are rnacerated. or made into pulp, and
the fibers torn apart by machine The
pulp is then washed away and the
fibers dried and bleached by the sun,
and when the process is completed
this yellowish-white fiber ranks next
to Manila hemp In making rope
Washington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Father Paid Dearly

Recently little chap, known to
US as Junior cried for a whole day
because his mother made him wear a
little suit all trimmed in ruffles and
the boys down at the corner garage
called him Betty" writes Pansy from
Urbana
"That night when his father re-.
turned home he met with instant SYM
pathy, and he explained to him that
he need never act like a Betty even
if his mother did insist sometimes that
he look like one.
$50 the next morning, still wearing
his ruffies, Junior went down to this
same corner garage and heaved almost
whole brickbat through the front
window. A father, with considerable
pride. paid the bill."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Bright Cadet

Admiral Sims recent criticism Of
Annapolis led young sea captain to
say:
admiral Sims is a credit to An
napolis anyhow. He was one of the
brightest of our cadets.
"A question was once put to him
In his student days:
Suppose you wiped out the en-
emy's fleet, seized his chief harbor
and were then besieged therein; sup
pose you were surrounded by the en-
envy and threatened with starvation
how would you get foodT
"'From the enemy, said Cadet
Sims"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Paper Bricks for Houses

Houses of paper may be possible
with the development of a new
process recently perfected by Yovan
Peshitch, a Serbian sculptor. Paper
is the principal ingredient in his
method of making brick, he says, al
though he uses seven other ingredi-
ents. which are kept secret by the
inventor. He claims that the bricks
are waterproof, that the material can
not be damaged by mailing and that
it is especially suitable for buildings
one and two stories in height. Pes
hitch says that the brick may be made
economically. The possibility of the
success of the idea is shown by the
fact that paper fire buckets and paper
car wheels have been in use for many
years, say those interested in its de-
velopment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Mixtures of Bloods
Among Earth's Races

Encial relationships go q good deal
deeper tlian the facial kind, according
to ii. Muro Fox, professor of zoology
at Birmingham university, England.
The relations of the races are literal
ly blood relationship, he declares.
for the composition of an American
Indians blood is not like that of a
white man or negro and there are
even differences between the blood of
certain European nations. If biolo-
giSt prepares a serum from the blood
OF one animal and injects 1t into the
cies. the serum is Immediately pre-
cipitated-in other words, thrown out
This Is accomplished by things called
anti-bodies. about which nobody
knows very much. There are four
"serum groups" and they have a def,
mite relation to the various races of
men--and monkeys. Chimpanzees
have one kind of substance, orang-
utans have two. South American mon
keys have kind different from the
chimpanZee, and still other monkeys
nave neither. In northern and cen
trail Europe there is one type of blood,
further east quite another kind, and
still another in India. But the vari.
Gus characteristics have an odd way
OF appearing In MISUNDERSTANDING
that the various races of mankind
have been mating with one another
for a long, long time.-The Forum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-13
Indian Hunters Made
Good Use of BLouU-G Jun

The blOw-gun was curious weapon
used for bird-hunting among certain
tribes of North American Indians. 1t
was usually made of cane, some IL
feet In length, with bore of around
half an inch. The darts were about 2
feet in length, made of hardwood
and "feathered" with some kind OF
vegetable fiber.
AS far as we know the use of the
blow-gun within the boundaries of
what is now the United States was
confined to such tribes as the Chero-
kee, Choctaw, Yuchi, Huma and other
Muskhogean tribes dwelling in the
southern states. The Iroquols also
used it, their guns being made of al
der stems 4 and 6 feet in length, the
arrows being slender slivers of
pointed wood from 6 inches to 2 feet
In length and "feathered" with the
down or floss of the thistle. These
tubes were used solely for bird-shoot-
ing, and were never poisoned or used
against human adversaries.
"A hoSiNal was ICCllCO ny
the Cherokee bird-hunter as he stood
before his fire-which he addressed as
Ancient White"-rubbing his hands
together as he repeated the prayer.
Before starting on the hunt seven
blow-gun arrows were first prepared
in order that he might have them in
readiness for the work at hand.
One of the seven was a short one,
magical arrow which he shot away at
random, making no attempt to follow
its fight, giving 1t to the powers that
be as sort of propitiatory gift. Then
the hunter uttered peculiar kissing
sound which was supposed to draw
the birds to him. The favorite hunting
method was to climb into gum tree,
haunted by the smaller birds for its
berries, and there ensconce himself
and pick off the birds as they Toasted.
When all of his darts were used up
he dropped to the ground, drew the
shafts from the bodies of the slain
birds and repeated the performance
Mr.. Woodward in Adventure Maya
zine.