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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13

China invented gunpowder. but for
centuries refrained from using 1t in
the destruction of human life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
DEE is REPORTED HELD
FUGITIVE FROM SPAIN
Bail of $2,4oO Is Said to Have
Been Forfeited by q. s. Banker,
Who Stole as "Jest."

BY the Associated Press
MADRID, September 13.-The news
paper Ell Debate yesterday said ]. Packey
Dee, Chicago banker, had been declared
a fugitive from justice and that police
had been given orders to apprehend
him II possible. His bail Of $4,000
pesetas ($2,4oo) was said to have been
forfeited.
Dee recently was accused Of attempt
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FEMALE AUTOBlOGRAPHIES

Woman, it is observed, is beginning to tell all. In
literature and art she seems to have lifted q corner OF
the veil behind which she has through the ages hidden
her innermost self.
But when, and if. woman tells all. there is a certain
type of man about which the world has long been curious
and which only woman can explain. It is not a new
type and not a few women have been qualified to speak
with authority on the subject, yet society is as much in
the dark today as it was when the type first made its
appearance.
The sort Of man here in mind is the prince charming.
the wanton juggler OF feminine hearts, the Lord Byrons,
the JancSi RIGGS, the Valentines. the Beau Brummcls
and the others OF that ilk. What fascination finishing in
other mem is theirs that captured SO many feminine
hearts? What charm had they that they could reverse
the usual order and become the idols Of feminine wor-
ship instead Of the ~worshipers Of feminine idols?
Men, in books, pictures and sculpture, have through the
ages been ready and willing to tell all they knew about
the charm OF woman. 1.-The bloom that is on a woman"
Masculine charm has been largely left to speak for IT.
self, through mere outward results, because the prince
charmers have been averse to talking about themselves
and the victims Of their charms have jealousy guarded
their amours from profane eyes and cars. But perhaps
the secret will out, now that woman in such large num-
bers are writing autobiographies, diaries. memoirs and
other more or less personal letters.
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T OF

49, va LIZ
Twenty-four hundred and nine years
ago today. on August z, 4S0 B. c., the
battle of Thermopyle was fought in
the famous pass leading from Thes-
sally into Locris.
When the Persian monarch, Xerxes,
approached Greece with an immense
army, King Leonidas I and 800 Spar
tans went to occupy the narrow pass
of ~Thermopyle, which lay between
the sea and Mount Callidromus.
For two days, the Greeks success
fully resisted the overwhelming force
Of the Persians and frustrated every
attempt to force the pass. At the end
Of the second days conflict, a Thes-
salian named Ephialtes went to the
Persian camp and gave information
Of a secret pass across the noun
tains the Greeks had neglected to oc-
cupy.
At dawn the following day Leon
idas learned that the Persians were
pouring across the mountains to at
tack his army from the e
Then Leonidas gathered his 800
Spartans, together with their attend
ants about him. and prepared to de-
fend his post. In the fierce fight th&t
ensued, Leonidas himself oon fell
but the remaining Greeks reiterated
to a hillock near the road and made
their last stand. They fell, fighting
to a man.
The pass of Thermopyle, in ancient
times, was only so feet wide, but the
~alluvial deposits have altered the
coast line so that there is now a broad
swampy plain from a mile and q halt
to three miles broad.
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KEEPING ON THE MAP

'AAOldIlaUOlIS llmcSD
AT first thought. 1t may seem to make little difference
whether the new air mail route between st. Louis and
New York goes through this city and Columbus or by the
way OF Evansville and Cincinnati.
In the early days OF railroads. many communities
thought the same way about the routingS of the rails.
They became deserted villages.
It Is important. even though it be not crucial. The
cities which have the most air lines are the ones which
VIII be under the fcTcst ~handicaps a decade hence when
the ar IS , means Of transportation will be in general
use.
The time to get on the air map is when the lines are
being inauguratcd. not later.
the ADVANCE In air transportation is more rapid than
Was made by either rails or later by the
Every day adds to the advances. In the picture shows
are the photographs Of German planes which carry 100
passengers. The planes are equipped to land either on the
ground or on the water They will be Is safe IS passenger
coaches. travel 10 miles an hour. and furnish comfort
- we'll . speed.
A few weeks ago the governor Of this state hesitated
about flying with Colonel Lindbcrgh. Nov he iaunts 20
netghbofing states In . little cabin plane, saving time
for himself and lost TO all sense Of the natural fear that
comes with new experiences.
The city has provided airports. It Il the center Of
many lines It must keep on the air map wherever pos
sibIe.
Citizens who can make the trip can do nothing more
worth while tor the city than to lend their influence and
support TO the demand that Indianapolis b. kept on the
map.
Il Is the modern competition q cities. Those show
Ing the most aeGreSsiyencss and vision viii survive. The
others VIII merely regret later.
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Boards

England sees the return into vogue Of the beard in
all its pristine glory and variety Of size. shape and shade.
Strange that the Britisher should be the last TO discard
the facial foliage and the first to plant" a new crop.
but the average American who has experienced the agony
OF being separated from q razor Tor more than "a hours
is conten. TO let the Englshmcn have any honor there
may be in being last and first In this matter.
But there is something TO be said for the beard pro-
vidcd il, spreads and bristles like quilts upon the fretful
porcupinc" and is not allowed TO sag ~scraggily. The
heroes Of the novelist Of other days who had boards to
wave from a thousand hilltops stand out in the memory
because there is something of personality in a beard that
is not exhibited BY the smooth face. Bards and boards
80 together.
Is not the beard a proclamation OF viriity and
strength? Especially. now that ladies bob their hair.
wear masculine attire and cultivate the niannish swag-
ger. making it highly important that some new method
Of determining sex be evolved. The beard would serve
such a purpose admirably, for as yet the ladies. with the
exception OF those few on exhibition in circus sideshows,
have not found a way to raise a beard.
However. this seems to be taking an advantage of
those bcardless young men who strive so mantully to be
masculine and virile and OF those feminists who arc so
discontinued with their sex they affect the manncrisms
of masculinity even to the manicure.
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FASHION IN NAMES

Fashion rules in names as it docs in dress, in architcc-
ture and in popular songs. 1t was with the purpose of
studying these changing fashions that a New York paper
compiled a list OF names from the catalogues OF four
womens colleges, Bryn Mawr. Smith. Wellesley and Vas
sar. When compared with earlier names from older
catalogues Of the same colleges. it was found that the
general trend has been toward simpler or "od-fashioned'
names. Marys and Ruths predominant where they were
once Kathleens and Carolines. Or II Anita and Muriel
appear it is found by their address tina, they are from
out Of the way regions. where proper form" in nam
ing is still unknown.
Nor arc the 1hims of fashion confined to girls names;
boys cannot escape when the name OF some popular hero
is on cverybodys tongue. The popularity Of a president
might be gagged by the number Of his namesakcs. But
that a child should be named for the hero of a best
seller" is carrying the matter too far. Yet a recent writer
admits that his own name Elmo was taken from a
novel Of Augusta J. Evans. st. Elmo at the suggestion
OF a sentimental aunt. The name, he says. is not un-
common among those whose birth year is in the neigh
borhood of 1869. He knew IA of them.
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WHY FLYING IS SAFER

The following paragraph, lifted from the story Of a
reporter who recently Travelled from Los Angeles to New
York by the air-rail hookup of Transcontinental Air
Transport and the Santa Fe and Pennsylvania railroads.
tells as well as anything can the way in which airways
are being made safe for passengers.
Weather reports" writes the reporter, told us there
were storms between Winslow, Ariz, and Albuquerque.
We took off anyway. but our two pilots talked with
ground stations ahead and behind us by radio, and knew
Just where all the storms were. So we simply flew around
them . the Albuquerque weather report told Of
three storms conyerging to the eastward. so we had to
detour again, but We sped around them quickly in the
midst Of lightning and rain and reached Clovis. N. NJ,
before dark, which the pilot had not expected to do"
In a few words. that paragraph tells how flying has
passed the hit or miss stage and has made safety certain.
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Editorial Comment
~PEIPING-AND WHY

i IL 1ulIdUClpHl0 FuOuC LcQRCTJ
Some newspaper readers may have been confused, in
following the dispatches from China, by Picking and Peip-
ing. They both indicate the same city, Peiping being
merely Peking in modern nomenclatural dress. When
the Nationalist spread to the north and carried their
peace to the ancient capital, they changed its name. as
Peklng signifies northern capital" Pciping means
northern peace So that. for the time being, is that.
But the city which has for so long been known to The
western world as Pekine has had many names in its
time. When the Khitan Tartars captured it about 1000
years ago and found 1t convenient as a southern head
quarters. they called it neutrality-suspicious. capital
About 100 years later 1t was r~ccaptured by the Chinese
and degraded to a provincial city under the name of
Ycn-shan Flu. When the Kin Tartars arrived in the
middle OF the 18th century. they made it a royal resi-
dence and called 1t Chung-tu. central capital Geng-
hz Khan, when he came. saw and conquered, refused to
move his court there, but his great successor. Kublia
Khan. rebuilt the town, which he called Yenking. 1t
then became known 10 the Chinese as Ta-tu. great
court and to the Mongols as
as Cambaluc-"City Of tho Khan"
There is q certain story telling logic in these changes
OF name, as there is in the most recent. from northern
capital to northern peace" It is akin to the urge
which moved the Russians during the war to rid st.
Petersburg of its Germanic resonance by altering it to
Petrograd and later to call it Leningrad, in honor of
the father OF revolutionary Russia. Or which moves The
residents OF Hickville to change the name OF their town
to Pleasant View.
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TOO MANY LAWS

r. ,as bcen repeatedly declared, without any attempt
At contradiction, that the United states is 'he n'os' Jaw
-idden nation on earth. The people are asked 10 40 more
things because they are the Law. and pronioNco from
doing more things, because they are lhe Jaw 'n"ii 'Ae
most autocratic country OF Europe.
Virtually every state legislature that is elected is COM
nosed Of persons who appear TO be obsessed with the idea
that there are many things to be done III the way Of
enacting laws or of repeating laws when hao oseh pass'u
BIZ a preceding legislature. The people are quite wcll IN
formed on the tendency Of congress TO pass numerous
measures.
The unfortunate phase OF the latter-day development
If ,awmallnc is that with more laws there IS less "a"
enforcement. Despite the energy devoted 10 the max
ing of statutes. there is greater disregard OF such laws
than ever in our national history. Laws have become SO
numerous and SO futile that their enforcement Is I'M
possible.
The numerous restrictions which arc thrown about the
people bv law. many of them OF a petty Character, are
easily disregarded. sometimes unintcntionally. ana the
result is that laws which are necessary for the orderly
conduct Of society are brought into disrepute. Unneces-
sarv laws cause disrespect for all laws.
Out Of the multitude OF statutes. prosecuting officers
and police officials must undertake TO enforce only
to receive special publicity. The mass OF federal, state
and municipal statutes die before they are known.
The American Bar association and a number OF state
bar associations have gone on record as IN favor OF q
reform in the matter OF legislation. but as long as lcgis-
lators hold to the view that they must do something IN
order to further their political fortunes. rather than
render a real service to the public, there is not likely
20 be much change.
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AvIATION'S REAL SERVICE

While endurance flyers circle over airports. transatlan-
tic flyers spin off over the sea and other spectacular
s.unters 60 about their tasks. the rank and file Of avia-
ton continues with the ordinary. uncxciting tasks that
are making aviation valuable to the people Is 4 whole.
Lost in the dispatches telling OF more stirring events is
: brief paragraph from Ottawa. Ontario. telling how
F1.Sht Lieutenant N. c. Forks has just finished an ex-
pertinent In busting trees In . northern Ontario forest
from an airplane to exterminate the spruce busworm.
This insect pest ruins many acres OF trees annually.
Lieutenant Forks has found that it can best be attacked
with the sirplane-and thus. ~unnoticed. proves himself
. more valuable airman than . dozen Of the more famous
onao.
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would suggest that you follow a strict
fasting and diet regime in an effort
to alkalinize your system. This diet
should include plenty Of foods rich in
silicon, found in asparagus, cucum-
bers, lettuce, bran, dandelion, par
ships, fruit skins, strawberries and
beets.
Ear Trouble
Question: Mrs. S. writes: Il have
cold chills in my head very often. I
get dizzy at times, and have loud
noises in my right ear. Am deaf in
that ear too. The doctor blows into
my ear with an electric affair four
times a week. What can l do? Will
my hearing be restored if I keep up
these blow-outs?"
Answer: Practically all deafness is
caused by catarrh of the inner ear.
The blowing-out treatment will re-
licve you temporarily, but it is un-
wise to continue such treatments UNI
less, at the same time, you remove
the cause of catarrh through proper
dieting.
LIZ ~ OlUuA 1lCt
Question: Effie asks: Kindly tell
me whether or not the combination Of
eggs and tomatoes in the proportion
of n egg to one-quarter of a large
tomato forms a chemical reaction
which reduces fat"
Answer: There is nothing about
the chemical combination Of eggs and
tomatoes which will tend to reduce
weight. If this diet is used exclusive
ly it will cause reduction because it
does not contain much caloric value.
Sex knowledge for Children
Question: j. G.. S. writes. II feel
very much concerned over the lack of
right teaching regarding life and sex
of children around here and wish you
would inform me where to get the best
brief and inexpensive information to
put into the hands Of children to in
struct them and keep their minds
pure"
Answer: I would suggest that you
write to the United States Health
Department at Washington, D. c., re-
questing books on sex knowledge for
children. Be sure to give the ages Of
the children for whom you wish these
books"
Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndi-
cate. Inc.)
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Talks
- Parents
SISTERS
(By Alice JudsOn Pcale)

Jane came sobbing to her councillor
Elsie always spoils my fun she
said. Last summer she did and this
summer she's doing it again. l hate
her; / just hate her. l don't are if
she is my sister. / don't see why l
always have to be with her. Mother
always makes me play with Elsie and
l hate her."
Eyes, but you're at camp now and
there are other children here. You
don't have to play with Elsie if you
don't want to. Betty and Joan and
/ are going berrying this morning
and we are taking a picnic lunch.
Come along with US; it's going to be
fun"
Eyes, but Elsie"
"Never mind about Elsie. Get your
pail and we'll meet you under the
apple tree"
Jane went. From then on she played
more and more with other children.
There were fewer and fewer mo-
ments Of resentment and tears, of hui
initiating rage against that elder sis
ter.
Of course sisters ought to love each
other. They ought to enjoy each 9TH
cr's companionship. But sometimes
for various reasons they quarrel SO
much that their society is anything
but mutually wholesome. The best
way to help them to get over this
phase of their relationship is to sep
arate them for a time. Send them to
different schools and different camps.
Ii this is not possible, help each II
to find her wv friends and to follow
her independent pleasures.
When two sisters who have been
c~hronically at odds with each other
discover separate satisfactions, their
antagonism often disappears as if by
magic. And if it does not, the wisest
course is surely to encourage each n
in an independent. course so that the
occasions for conflict will be as few
as possible.
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SWIMMING FOR HEALTH

swimming Is n Oh the ulUoI
healthfui of exercises, and at the same
time it is interesting and enjoyable.
1t is one Of the best ways for adults
to continue the joy Of playing a
healthful sport. Swimming e an
especially good exercise for women
who should all learn to swim for
beauty, for health, and for pleasure.
Swimming tends to flatten the abb
domen and zone up the abdominal or
gans. It is splendid for the arms,
neck, shoulders and chest. The Wig
orous kicking used in some Of the
strokes will also have q normalizing
effect on too heavy hips.
Swimming has been enjoyed from
the earliest times, and we have rec
ords that show US there were SWIM
ming instructors who gave the an
cient Egyptians swimming lessons in
the waters Of the Nile. There is an
old Egyptian relief showing a man
using IN overland stroke, ~alternat-
ing the arms, so we can be reasonably
sure that the "crawl" which is known
as a modern stroke is really about
three thousand years old.
The Assyrians used skins ballooned
| up with air similar to the way we use
water wings today. On an ancient
Egyptian vase is found the picture of
a woman swimming, using the over
hand stroke, with her chest turned to
the side in the same way that we turn
our bodies today when using this
stroke.
Leander, one Of the most famous
romantic swimmers in history, is pic
tured in an African mosaic with his
feet in q crawl position. and employ
ing the overland stroke.
It is easyto teach children the art
| Of swimming, particularly If the child
is plump and energetic. Even one
year-old children a sometimes be
taught to swim in the bathtub. This
gives them a hcalthful exercise while
taking their bath.
One Of the interesting phases of
this sport is that no n is ever too
old to learn it. We have some mo-
torious examples of swimmers over
| sixty years old who have taken up
swimming often in order to reduce,
and have become very fine long dis
lance swimmers.
Women are generally conceded to
have the better structural form for
swimming, due to the natural layer
Of fat distributed under a woman's
skin all over her body, which gives
her the distinctive feminine curve
| She is more smoothly made thin a
man, and more like q seal. is able to
slip gently and quickly through the
water.
more about swimming tomorrow
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are more flexible and it isn't such a
job for them to change their ideas.
But it certainly does seem queer for
an all-female convention to permit
any hint that they must bow to the
male. Perhaps this very willingness
explains their success.
NEW DAY
Elopcments are on the increase in
France, that land where custom has
ever decreed that Yvonne should abide
by the marriage settlement arranged
by papa.
Since the laws Of France make
clopemcnt marriages difficult,
Yvonnc and Pierre generally mo-
tor into Belgium. Switzerland. or
Germany for the tying Of the knot.
Proving again that youth rules the
world. and that the old is giving way
to the young as never before in the
history Of the world.
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Il don't like wonderful persons. !
like snails: but | will name of my
snails Paderewski."-king Michael,
the boy king Of Roumania.
We should always be OPEN
minded toward new truth.'-Selden
Peabody Dclany. THE North Ameri-
car Review
There is one sure way to become
a leader-make something people
want."-Henry Ford.
Churches should not be used as
ccnters of propaganda for either pa
eifism or prohibition."-Rcv. Dr.. Ca
leb r. Stetson.
THE qualities that recommend
young men are a willingness 10 work,
courage in the face of disappoint-
ment. the habit Of thrift. and a sense
Of fairncss."-William Feather.
Success is but another name for
service. AS we serve so do we sue
ceed."-Theodore +. Merselcs.
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so much publicity a while back?
Weren't their names Caponc and Sim
clair or something like that?
Henry Ford had his Goth birthday
the other day without much flourish.
But then a man can't expect much no.
ticc until he's around 90.
We're getting kind of lonesome for
a picture of Charley Curtis. Man
ayers of the race tracks seem to be
overlooking some splendid publicity
opportunities.
Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Many automobile drivers won't
wake up even after they're pinched.
The wife isn't going along on the
vacation because she is trying to re-
duce and has just heard that travel
broadens one.
Once upon a time there was a man
with a heavy beard who didn't claim
to be a cousin of the former car.
BY the way. what ever became of
those. two fellows who were getting
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THE HOMICIDE A T

i = something Of . surprise to learn that figures COM
pnsd b. d. Frederick I. Hoffman. s~tatistician for the
Hrndential Insurance Co, Ghow that Chicago does not
haye the highest homieids rate in the country.
mat distinction. whatever It may be worth, is held By
nstsDit, where IN lo20 there wert los honicidal deaths
- eyefy 1ooeoo o. population = compared With Chi
ono1s 1S4
ohieaoo. q course, III HE country in total hornicidcs
- - yosk, acond = totels With lol. vas fifth
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in the actual homicide rate. being surpassed by Cleveland
and Philadelphia rs well as Detroit and Chicago.
These are dubious honors for all OF thcs: cities. It is
to b. hoped that publication Of the figures will spur
citizens to a new realization Of the seriousness of the
situation.
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TREE BEARS FRUIT

Koenigsbach, Germany - (AP)-
Despite Germany's northern climate
there 10 . lemon tree in a park here
which bears fruit each year, some
times as much as 100 pounds. On
an island in Lake Constance are .
number Of banana plants which in
warm summers give ripe fruit.
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my nails splitting. Will you tell mo
how to remedy this?"
Answer: The nutrition Of the nails
is often affected by acidosis, and l

DR.. MCCOY viii gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet, addressed 10 him, care Of the
Tribune.
Enclose q Stamped addressed
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