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The Washington times., 1929-02-26
| LIBERIAFORGING
. AHEAD, SAYS
.F|RESTONE
BY JAMES l.. KILGALLEN
Copyright 1929, by international
News Service.)

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Feb. 26.
An American tire magnate, seeking
to break the British rubber mo.
nopoly and produce an independent
rubber supply, has transformed Ii
IBERIA. a backward country in West
Africa. into a modern, progressive
nation with real future.
The story of this remarkable
achievement, one nf the biggest in
dustrial developments ever under
taken. was told to the writer today
by Harvey S. Firestone, the man
who did it. He is president of the
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company,
which has factories at Akron, Ohio;
Los Angeles, Hudson, Mass; Ham
ilton, Ontario, and Brentford, Eng
land. He has preparation mills at
Fall River and New Bedford, Mass,
and at Singapore and great planta-
tions in Liberia.
There wasn't a bath tub nor
an electric light in Liberia a few
years ago. said Nh. Firestone.
There was only one automobile in
the country, owned by the Presi-
dent, and it wouldn't run. The little
independent negro republic was very
backward and becoming more so.
To-day there are between 1900
and 10000 men on our payrolIs in
Liberia Roads nave been built
through jungle country. A power
plant has been erected. stores put
up and many automobiles are in
operation there"
We have radio plant at Du River
Plantation which communicates di.
rectly with our main factory at
Akron, Ohio.
Mr.. Firestone, seated in his
private study in his tropical estate
here, explained how in 1922 Great
Britain restricted the rubber grow
ing area in the East Indies and
caused. the price of rubber to, jump
to SIPS pound in America. So
tTirestone determined to fight this
monopoly by finding a place where
an Independent supply of rubber
could be produced for America.
He finally decided on Liberia,
undertook the development of the
country, and today rubber is selling
in this country for around 25 cents
pound.
I'VE have cleared $4,000 acres
and have planted 10000 acres. All
told about 100000 trees have been
planted
"Our going into Liberia has saved
that country which is more or less
protectorate of the United States,
as it was established by a New
England colonization company for
freed slaves.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
The Inaugural Committee
is pleased to announce
receipt from the U. S, Government Mint a

The, Bronze Official Souvenir Medals
Which available to purchasers at $3.50 each at
Inaugural Headquarters, GrdrOn Room, Willard Hotel
These medals repas of the two gold medals
deneect Hoover VcePesdenteect Curtis by
The diverse has profile likeness The
contains the of Mr. Hoover Mr. Curtis the
Dental seal and symbols of Presdenecs achievements
fields The medal designed by Henry
the of such dgnied value sponsored
Inaugural Committee and value might
with the These medals copyrighted
obtainabe only from the Inaugural Committee.
JULIUS GARFINCKEL,
Medal Committee Chairman
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
Man Sure He's Poisoned :.
Just Worry, Says Doctor

Stricken Ill Victor Stefaini, whose
25.year-old wife and three young
children deserted him week ago,
revealed that he believed he was
poisoned.
When his family deserted him, a
note was left, which stated that he
would die within 10 days. he de.
clared. When DR.. Bausch was
called today he gave the man a
thorough examination. Despite Stef-
aini's insistence of slow poison, the
physician sand his condition was due
to worry.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
Driver Killed as Auto
Runs Into Parked Truck

WILKES-BARRE, Feb. 26.-Suf.
fering a fractured skull when an
automobile in which he was riding
crashed into a parked truck near
Wagners Crossing Of Wilkes Barre
and Eastern railroad, Spencer King,
Of Newark, N. j., died in Wilkes.
Barre General Hospital.
Walter Davis Of BelleviIle, n. j.,
also was injured in the mishap
Both were returning to their
hotel at Mount Pocono after spend.
ing the evening in Wilkes Barre.
King was driving and was pinned
against the steering wheel in the
collision.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
Millionaire Once Living
On State Charity, Dies

NIAGARA FALLS, NJ r. Feb
26 Q.N.SJ.-Michael Nealon. who,
Il was revealed five years ago, had
an estate valued at S1.0OO,OOO, al
though he was living on the charity
Of the State, died yesterday.
Nealon was a recluse and was
apparently in destitute circum-
stances for many years, He entered
an institution for the poor and
lived there for five years before
his attorney disclosed he owned
lands and securities valued at
81 600 900.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
NOTE
TURNS Up

PHILADELPHIA Feb. 26.-
Recent presentation of a scroll Ia
Herbert Hoover by a committee OF
the American Philosophical Society,
congratulating him on being the
ninth member of the society to be
elected President of the United
States, recalls congratulatory ad.
dress to George Washington. Dated
Philadelphia. December II, 1888, the
letter was as follows:
Sir: The American Philosophi-
cal Society which boasts the
name of your Excellency in the
list of their members are happy
in this opportunity OF congrat-
ulations on the establishment
of peace.
While they anticipate the In
fluence of this event on the
important object of their insti-
tuition, they contemplate with
pleasure that the arts and
sciences, those friends to liberty
and virtue. will not only join in
the tribute universally paid to
your merits, but will transmit
lIeIl 10 al duHIILIHR pOSlSI llN
May you enjoy all possible
felicity in the retreat to private
life which remained an addi-
tional source of lustre to your
character, and to which you are
followed by the love of your
grateful country.
BY order and in behalf of the
society.
In the hall of the society. Inde.
pendence Square. Philadelphia
Washington sat for one of the
Gilbert Stuart portraits which is
now in possession of the society
Philosophical Hall has been occu
pied since the year Washington
was in augurated. 1899.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
IT'S A WONDERFUL WAY
TO RELIEVE SKIN TROUBLE

In 20 years, soothing, invisible
Zemo has seldom failed to relieve
even the most stubborn cases Of
Eczema and itching skin. Also the
way this remarkable antiseptic
liquid quickly banishes pimples, itch
ing rash and other skin irritations.
will delight you. If you want a
clear skin. never be without safe
Zemo. All druggists-35c, 60c and
81 90
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
Tor late SUPPER
sandwiches are
fne-textured
creamy light
Photo BY International

LNAMILY portraits antique tapestries-the
tinkle of rare, old crystal goblets-paper
thin sandwiches white and creamy light.
For more than generation Washington
women have delightedin Rice rich, deliciously
different bread. They say it has that indescrib-
ably fresh, wheaty taste that you usually find
only in the finest home baked variety. You get
that wonderful baking day aroma the min
ute you push back the carefully sealed wrapper.
It slices so easily too, while it is still oven
fresh. 1t keeps its shape-for it is baked slowly,
clear through in the famous split top loaf.
Fresh, rich milk and extra shortening give
Rice's bread the tender crust and firm creamy
crumb that keep fresh for days and make such
marvellous toast and sandwiches. All the family
will love familiar bread dishes-brown betty,
crumb griddle cakes, etc.-when made with
this full-favored bread.
You are so sure of its wholesomeness, too.
The seal of the City Baking Institute on the
wrapper tells you that every ingredient is
tested and guaranteed.
Your grocer gets this golden loaf fresh twice
day-morning and afternoon. Do try it.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
Mad AnthOny's Spurs
Are Sold at Auction

LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. 26 IN.
s).-A set of spurs, once owned
and worn by Gen. Mad Anthony
Wayne. of Revolutionary War fame,
brought $42 when sold At a public
auction near here recently.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
Old Trade Mark Law
Just Used in Colorado

DENVER. Feb. 26 0.N.S.).-After
being on the statutes of Colorado
for q years. the. trademark law
was used for the first time.
f. C. DOdds was arrested for
making false representations in the
use of the trademark of a company
by which he was formerly en-
ployed,
The Washington times., 1929-02-26

ippi River, practically every new
ranger employed to fill vacancies
has had college training in for
estry, and in the western forests,
the proportion Of college trained
rangers is increasing as new men
are employed"
While $4,000 is the average mum
ber OF applicants the vacancies in
the service during the year number
less than so. the bureau said. The
ranger service includes 900 men.
in the State in which a vacancy oc-
Only qualified applicants living
ours, are eligible.
The Washington times., 1929-02-26
IAcKlE C0OGAN RETURNING

NEW YORK. Feb. IS U.N.S).-
Jackie Coogan, juvenile film star,
returns to America today aboard
the lie De France after a tour of
European countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
LITTLE BENNY
BIZ LEE PAPE.

Today before suppir I took Pubs SIM
kins in to show him how big our Crisis
mas tree is, being a wopper, and Puds
sed, Aw, do you call that big, ours Is
twice that big.
Him hardly even having had time to
see 1t yet, and sed, Like heck 1t Is
your full of prooens. j.,
Then your full of mush, Pubs sed
and I sed, Why am I, just look at that
tree, G wizzickers 1t pritty near almost
touches the ceiling you poor mutt.
Well ours touches the ceeling ano
bends over, that's how much bigger !!
is. you dunn sap. Pubs sed, and sed
Well that's because G. WIZ, no wonder
your ceiling is so much lower. Coco
mite. of your ceilings wouldent hardly
make one of our floors, you ignorant
sardeen, sed.
WITCH Just then pop looked in saying,
Pardon me, gentlemen, but couldent
help overheering your animated discus
sion and perhaps mite suggest that
the genrel tone of 1t is hardly in the
Crissmas SPIRIT. You should RELY be
insisting to each other that your own
tree is smaller. not bigger. he sed.
WITCH I started to, saying to Pubs,
Well. CESS my tree may be little
smaller than yours, maybe.
Like heck it is, you fish face scram-
BILE egg, mine is much shorter, Pubs sed,
and I sed. That's what you say, you
mock knee pidgin toe, but If you wunt
to know the truth, mine Is twice as
short as yours.
Lovely. lovely. pop sed. That's the
genrel ideer. with variations. Now &c
on out in the open air where cupple
of pirates belong, he sed.
WITCH we did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
Straight Talks to Women About Money
By MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

more affluent one, and her finances
suffer. Some women look quite mer-
cenarily on the exchange, and they de-
mand penny for penny. The value of
such exchanges of gifts is dubious.
Very often gift exchanging results in
a perfect orgy of spending. Uncon-
sciously one buys a gift for this and
that one because "she always sends me
something" BY Christmas day such
obligatory spending may put an APP
preciable dent in ones bank account.
Unless one has some way of controlling
such spending, 1t Is a serious financial
menace.
Researches women simply take
refuge In the statement that there is
no other way out. OF course, that is
nonsense. An understanding may be
reached whereby both will buy gifts with
view to their mutual means and the
subsequent use of the gifts. The Gus
tom may be restricted to an exchange
of some homemade token of friend-
ship. If one or the other can not af-
ford to buy gifts one year, let her be
outspoken about it.
Every one who exchanges a gift is In
reality buying the gift that she receives
in exchange for her own. For that rea-
son she should consider the purchase as
carefully as If she were actually making
it. When she takes money out of one
pocket there may be many a slim before
| it is put into another. Every "even"
! exchange is not fair exchange.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

chin muscles; circulation must be
stimulated and the muscles not allowed
to age. Exercises for keeping the neck
line graceful include neck bendings
back and front and to each side, as
well as rotation of the head These
movements will help to reduce a fieshy
neck and are equally effective for a
thin neck, as stimulation of the circu-
lation helps the too thin neck to put on
flesh.
The neck should be given the same
attention as the face when it comes
to cleansing First wash well with
tepid water and a pure soap lather.
After rinsing in clear, warm water a
hnal rinSing in cold water should be
given. After this rinsing it is a good
idea to rub the neck with a piece of
ice. as ice is very good astringent.
Nearly every woman who has reached
her thirties would be wise to give her
neck daily massage with food cream
The neck should first be steamed with
hot towels, then the cream applied and
the neck masSaged with a Slapping mo-
ton. After the massage wipe of the
excess cream and pat on an astringent
lotion to tone and tighten the skin. Re-
member to give the massage with q
slapping or patting motion or the Skin
may be stretched, and more harm than
good done. Fat neckS need a heavier
slapping and kneading massage in ad-
dition to long. upward stroking from
the center of the throat to the ears
Greaseless cream may be used in thi!
massage or the fingers dipped in butter.
milk or bleaching lotion, If desired
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
CLOTHED CREAM

My friend came home from Britain's
isle, where he had been for quite a
while, and much yearned to hear him
tell about the strange things that be-
fell. I longed to hear of ancient things
of relics of long vanished kings, wished
to hear of Kenilworth, whose fame en-
compasses the earth, and of that castle
grim and dread where Scotland'S Mary
lost her head; and so I settled in my
chair to hear him tell me legends rare.
The thing 1bat remember BEST" ex-
planned by greatly gifted guest, "is Eng
lands wondrouS clotted cream-it is a
triumph and dream! There's no such
cream in this fair land. fact do not
understand. We have the cows, we have
the hay, our pasture lands are here to
stay. And yet the diaries sell us cream
as thin as water in the stream; 1t has
no kick, it has no punch. it spoils din
ner or lunch. The clotted cream that
England knows" "Oh, quit it, or
we'll come to blows" I cried in wrath:
talk kings and queens, and tell of old
historic scenes; say, have you seen those
lonely fens where good King Alfred
raised his hens, and have you gazed on
Runnymede where liberty was guaran-
teed, and did you visit London's tower,
the symbol Of old kingly power? And
did you see the fateful spot where
Charles put down his dome of thought?"
IT don't remember trif1ing things like
crowns and thrones of long dead kings,
but every night lie and dream of Eng
lands famous clotted cream, and all
day long I sigh and snort because I
cannot buy a quart. Why don't our
dairymen get wise and sell us cream
that charms the eyes, invigorates the
rundown frame. and puts the present
cream to shame?" WALT MASON.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
WINTERTIME
By d. C. PEATTIE.

Every evening now. little earlier
each night, a great gold star climbs up
the sky in the east. Astronomers will
tell you that it is of the minor second
magnitude. which is their humorous
little way, I suppose, of letting us know
that it is the largest planet in the solar
system, and the brightest star in the
heavens (if We make an exception of
the sun, which If seen from Vega. let
us say, is merely small, twinkling, dia-
mond-chip on the black velvet cloth of
night. >.
We also hear that Jupiter appears to
be moving backward, owing to the fact
that, in its immense circuit around the
sun, in contrast to our little one, our
earth, just as runner on a 10-foot-cir-
cumference track seems to be passing or
leaving behind the big runner on the
mile-circumference track.
1t follows that Jupiter has a long
season-hiS year is IL years long, in
fact. Winter lasts three years. Some
other miscellaneous facts are that YOU
could see much farther, owing to the
gradual curvature. on the surface
hundreds of times father if the air were
like ours. Also you would not be able
to jump more than foot if you were
an athlete, owing to the force of gravity
and the weight of the atmosphere, if
any.
Probably, however, the big father Of
our planet family is still in a molten
state. He hangs out there in utter
emptiness, ball of molten metal weigh
ing countless millions of tons. And his
history is all to be written.
Obviously, when the sizzling, great
thing cools down, there will be no specK
of life on Jupiter. Whether or not life
will spring up, there is not quite the
vain and airy metaphysical question that
1t sounds as though it were.
1t is 10 to l that Jupiter eventually
will have rock and water and air, that
it will contain the magic formula
c H o N, the chemical authorizations for
carpon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen
that are found in every living thing. II
you put these four together and dis
tribute them in gaseous envelope, a
liquid envelope, and sphere of rock
and soil, will you. spontaneously, get
life, as on earth? Will aboebae begin to
wriggle, and algae spread the first vege-
table, primordial green scum upon the
rock pools? And If so. what is an es-
sential difference between insensate
rock and barely SenSate blobs of pro-
toplasm? If you don't like to have life
explained in terms of chemistry Though
it may be fact, whether we like it or
mott, science is eager for other sugges-
tons capable of proof or at least ap-
pealing to the reason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

and little tie of green velvet ribbon
which may be easily removed when the
dress is washed. The fullness of the
skirt is introduced by means of wide
side pleats at the sides and there is @
narrow green leather belt held at g
slightly lower than normal waistline by
means of small straps of the material.
There are firm cotton materials remi-
niscent Of old-time calicoes in numerous
small, fine-printed designs-and the al
ways acceptable ginghams in checked
or plaid effects introducing warm tones
of red, brown and orange or trim blues
and the green's that are so generally be-
coming to fair-haired children.
Jacket suits are stressed among the
new things for Winter resort wear
They are worn with jabots or ruffled
blouses or vestees. This weeks help
for the home dressmaker shows how to
make the new ruffle. Just send your
stamped, self-addressed envelope to
Mary Marshall and copy will be for
warded to you.
(Copyrisht, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
OUR CHILDREN
BY ANGELO PATRI.
Give Father a Chance.

Father and mother are partners in
the household. Usually father works
outside and mother manages the home
and children. That seems to be the
practical way of rearing the family But
father has to have some share in the
children. His share ought not to be
overShadowed by the leftover difficulties
mother encounters.
It is no easy matter to live all day
with little children and do the work
that household entails It leaves =
woman pretty well tagged out by nigl.-
fall. But father has had his own trou-
bles. He was not about when the chill
dren failed to obey, or when they broke
the window with the hairbrush, or when
they burnt a hole in the rug with the
matches. He has no association in the
minds of the children with any of their
naughty deeds. To ask father to listen
to recital Sof all the bad things his
children did during the day is unfair "
him and to the children.
Give the youngsters fresh chance 10
make good with father Let them 60
their own telling or let it go untold. Let
fathers association with the children be
purely personal. If he needs to correct
the children, well and good. Both pal
ents agree to unite upon all questions
Of discipline and management. If there
is any doubt mothers word has the
| greater weight.
It is not good to have children build
up their idea of father entirely out Of
his efforts to maintain discipline for
mother. If he has to administer pun
| iShment every evening he becomes juss
| a headman to his children. They will
:: never learn to love him unreservedly as
they might have done had he not to
play so unfortunate a role.
| The time to correct child is the in
slant the offense Is committed. 1t Is
unwise to threaten, to put of punish
ment until father comes home. The
idea of wrongdoing is lost In the fear
! of what is to happen when father comes
home. Very few things happen that
mother cannot handle herself, eSpe-
cially when she knows that every little
misdemeanor is not to be followed by
punishment.
If anything is to be told to father let
1t be some pleasant thing. And let the
a word of encouragement from mother.
That sets father up. 1t is very en-
couraging to hear that Peter got a woro
Of praise from the teacher. that Toodlee
ate his own lunch without any help
that Mary Jane didn't cry @When tn
dentist looked at her teeth, although
she did squirm bit when he filled one
Of them.
Encourage the children to tell happy
things. That will entice father to bring
him his best stories and make the
youngsters laugh. A good laugh all
around the table does so set up family
and sort OF knits them together as
nothing else can do.
II the boys and girls are old enough
to have little private chats with father
to go with him now and then on a trip
there is nothing finer for both sides
Children are great fun, great joy, as
every mother knows. Give father u
chance.
Copyright, 1929