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throwing some into the waste basket
and laying others aside.
In a moment he picked up a let
ter and began to dictate, and she to
take it down in shorthand. The
letter seemed to be to a personal
friend. Some Of the words made
her smile. Business school dictation
had never been about 'lalapalOOsa5'
or about 'oozing eloquence from
every pore and pimple."
When he had finished debating.
he tossed her another letter and
said: Tell this fellow yes. Bring
me the two letters after you have
typed them
She transcribed the letter he had
dictated, then wrote a reply to the
other letter which indicated con-
sent to the plan suggested. She
clothed it in the best English at her
command.
He read the second letter first
and said: That's goodl I wish L
could write a letter like that" He
read the other letter musingly, and
then tossed it into the waste basket.
II always wanted to know how to
spell 'lalapaloosa'," he said Il hope
I al remember. You will do all
right, Miss Miss GOSH I
didn't ask you your name, or what
Sunday school you 60 to or any
thing!"
81 told you in the hall that my
name was Betty Brown. You were
so excited you forgot"
Scared YVES what I was. scared!"
he replied. "How much money does
one pay for a secretary after the
secretary has saved ones lifel I
can't marry you like they do in
story books. for that's already hap
pened to me-"
Il am more interested in the pros
poets than in the present pay" an
swered Betty. "I want a permanent
position, where I can look for some
thing in the future. What is there
for me here if you employ me?"
my name. as you may have
imagined from reading my letter
head, is Smith. It is not an alias.
My father was Mr.. Smith. too. !
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Other Papers
WHEN A PAINTING WENT TO COURT
beaumont E~nterprise).

(b6dulIlOllO LlIeOAE A1N
The unfortunate jury that sat uIousn Oe Ia
Of the s25o,ooO damage suit filed against on Joseph
- for sowing a picture claimed by its owner to
non,,;ne work of Leonardo da Vinci was a copy
hro,,cbt in the only verdict that could be expected
The iurv composed Of ordinary men who knew notn-
ing of art. reported a disagreement. They were prop
~, ~ wiser when the trial ended than they were
before they heard the expert testimony.
The Duyeen trial was vastly amusing to some peo-
ME especially the select company capable OF appre-
ciating its fine points, but to the majority o Aleit
Ia" c. - ~ an amazing exhibition of futility, a waste
90 two and effort. In the first place, a man was sued
~ ! quarter of a million dollars for simply express
;np an opinion of a picture. That in itself Is not a
cood nrecedent to set in the United States.
REGARDLESS. Of the merits Of the suit, a jury trial
co,ld only be a farce unless, Of course, each of the
jurors was an art expert. None of them we're. The
New York World, commenting on the Duveen case,
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washington
DaVnOOk

Once started, Herbert went to
the mat for fair with his prob
lem.
BY no means all the governments
scientists pOoh-pooh him as the
weather bureaus scientists do.
The weather bureau, it must be
admitted. is scientifically spoken
Of as ultra-conservative. 1t has
the most likable personnel mag
Unable, but the harsh truth IS that
up-and-coming scientists do not
speak Of it as progressive.
The Smithsonian Institution, for
instance. conducts its leather in
vestigations wholly Independently
Of the weather bureaus.
Or, as Captain @. S. Kempff.
chief Of the naval hydrographio
office, expresses it: "A man has to
90 to sea to understand the wea-
ther," which no weather bureaucrat
ever does, except as a passenger.
Herbert Brownies latest proposal
looks toward a r 5ulation Of the
weather by an attack on polar
ice.
Crack it loose" he urges, Am
the edges Of the great foes "a the
far north and south, set it adrift
in the ocean currents, and it in
evitably will affect climatic condi-
tons"
The cost? Not more, Browne an
swers, than the cost Of a fleet of
battleships.
Seafaring men agree that ice
bergs affect weather. How far in
land may be open to question.
Browne believes whole continental
areas can be affected.
There is nothing small about his
scheme He mentions ice fields six
to eight feet thick and one to
six thousand miles in extent. It Is
not too large an order, he SAYS.
for modern engineering.
They say at the navy department
that it isn't an impossibility, but
what it would do to the weather
science has not had time yet to
discuss fully.
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represent two or three manufacture
ers in this wicked city, and I've got
nothing but a futurel 1 work like
the devil and am out Of the office
most Of the time. / want some in
telligent person to answer the tele-
phone, take a few letters, keep my
bank book straight; that's all. If
YOU stand by me like you did out in
the hall, I'll see that you don't suf-
fer for your loyalty"
I'll start for $50 a week. I feel
sure 7 can pleas2 you"
You got a job. Miss Brown!" He
spoke enthusiastically. Hadn't in
tended to pay more than twenty
five, but a man always has to pay
out more where women are con-
cerned than he expected to. I like
you"
The last sentence was said SO
frankly it carried no offense, and
Betty answered it in kind. Il like
you, too, Mr.. Smith. If you want
me to, I will come in the morning"
Come early, Miss Brown! Some
more of those awful women might
De DdCk ana CdUCn IHS dlOllt III G1iC
hall. Here is the office key. Good
bye. my guardian, rescuer, police
man, friendi"
And secretary" added Betty,
passing out Of the door, laughing.
She could not resist dancing a few
Jazz steps as she went down the hall,
elated at her new position. MIR.
Smith seemed all she could ask in
an employer. He was cheerful and
sufficiently helpless to appeal to her
mothering instinct.
Betty laughed again when she
thought how glad the head waitress
would be when she told her she had
a nice position and would soon be
out of her way.
She hurried back to tell George
Harris of her good luck, and he con-
graduated her.
"Betty, thirty dollars a week is not
a lot Of money. I don't know what
your office hours will be, but I sug-
gest that you come from your new
position here and take cash during
the dinner hour. Take your dinner
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murders, and last night I went out
to get in my car after the last
show, and, as usual, one Of the
spare tires was missing. I imme-
diately went out front and told the
manager about the theft, and when
I left his office I couldn't find my
watch.
Richly CRAIG, JR.,
Formally of Ziegfeld Follies-
Checkroom.
NIFTY
(By w. w. Scott
City editor Of newspaper to re-
porter: Jim, there's no news "
day. Run out and bite a dog"
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THE MORNING A

and breakfast here for the two
hours work in the evening. That is
fair to both Of us, and in that way
7 shall be able to keep in touch with
you"
You would be better pleased if I
did thiS?" asked Betty.
I never want to be out Of touch
with you," he answered, in his for
NAL way.
Then III do it gladly, George"
she said. II think it is very kind Of
you to offer it,"
You won't feel that it is unfair, I
hope. It is a business arrangement,
pure and simple. You will earn your
meals by the service you render"
I'll be here" stated Betty, simply.
She went behind the desk to take
Up her work.
"You better knock off for the day.
I know you'll be glad to go home and
rest. Suppose you come back at six
o'clock and work through the dinner
hour today, just as you will here
after"
Before she left he paid her her
salary up to the end Of that day.
Betty started home, happier than
she had been since the accident
with Andy Adair in his automobile.
She was a bit saddened at the
thought that she would have even
less chance to see Andy in her new
position. But she had told George
Harris she would do anything he
wanted ner to. If she was to marry
George. she better put Andy out Of
her mind entirely.
She told Mrs. Hogan about her
good luck. end how she had secured
her position. Mrs. Hogan sent her
to her room to rest while she made
a cake in celebration Of the new job.
CTO BE CONTINUED
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REQUEST
ACCEPTED BY u. T.

AUSTIN, March 11.-P)-A be-
quest Of 500 800 to Texas u%niversit-
by the late w. S. Davidson ~
Houston, formally was accepted
the regents meeting here toda.
The donor suggested that the
money be used to aid students not
financially able to help them
selves but did not restrict use Of
the money.
During the meeting Of the re-
gents called for bids on construc-
ton Of a 10000 seat gymnasium
auditorium building. Plans for a
100000 chemistry building were
approved. The auditorium will cost
about S5Oo,OOO.
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S. A. REFINERY PLANNED

SAN ANTONIO, March 11.-[P)-
Silas M. Newton, president of the
Grayburg Oil company, announced
today that the company had pur-
chased $50 acres on the Missouri
Pacific and Southern Pacific rail-
road tracks in San Antonio on
which the company will build a
modern refinery. Eventually the
present refinery on Roosevelt ave-
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l dare say that not 10 out of the governors of our
48 states would be able to creditably pass a reasonable
examination on aims, principles, and detectives Of
state universities. A university, to obtain co-opera-
ton from the citizens of a state, must succeed in get
ting into their hearts and making them see just how
and why the university functions as it does.
A university must fit its generation. When a stu
dent comes to college he must be able to enter a part
nership with it, and must find professors who can be
his partners and talk his language. The idea of a
Junior college unit covering the first two years of a
students collegiate career is thus justified because Of
the difficulty a 17-Year-old young man or woman has
in adjusting himself socially in a strange town and
in the complex organization of modern professional
and liberal art schools.
The idea that a state university should not accept
gifts from private citizens but should subsist exclus-
lively on the stipend granted it by the state is utterly
false. Rich citizens properly feel that they should
do more to support their state university than the
poorer citizen who can afford only his mite which is
covered by the state tax.
To expect all citizens to give in the same amount
to the support Of their university is as foolish as ex-
pecting all professors of a university faculty to do
exactly the same amount Of teaching. Michigan is
beating her rival Harvard only because she has been
availed both state and private support, while Har-
ward has been forced to rely on the latter alone.
1t has been said that 1 have brought many new
theories to Michigan, but this is really foolish. All
of my theories are time-proven and show the things I
have found worthwhile in life. I shall take them
with me when I leave my present job all pure and
unblemished by any Of the things that have hap
pened there.
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thinks it absurd that such an issue should be placed
before a Jury" And SO it was.
LA Belle Ferronniere," the disputed painting, has
precisely the same status it had before the trial be-
gan. Either it is a copy of a similar painting by Da
Vinci and hung in the Louvre, or it is not. If 1t Is q
genuine Da Vinci it is worth a fortune. The price
the owner asked the Kansas City Art Institute was
$250,O00. If the picture is not an original, but a
copy, it is worth nothing.
Any number of experts can be marshaled upon
almost any day in the week to prove: Cd That the
picture is an original; co that it is not an original.
Which suggests that efforts of courts and public Of
ficials to determine what is or is not literature suit
able for the masses falls into much the same category
as court battles over disputed works OF art.
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Who am I? What Is my nation
atty? What record have I been
trying to lower in Florida?
Who used garden peas in expert
mentS to evolve a law Of heredity?
Where vas the Venus di Milo
found?
1T is a fruitful saying: For II
be dead with him, we shall also
live with him" Where is this pass
age found in the Bible?
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1t is indicated that the prohibition enforcement
job may be shifted from the treasury to the depart
must of Justice. Our own view is that this is properly
the work Of the secretary of the interior.-The New
Yorker.
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TOdaY'S HnrnScnne

10y hui DNOPC
Persons born on this day are sue
ceSsful in business if they learn to
control their tempers.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
l. Major r. H. o. D. Segrave;
English! worlds automobile speed
record.
2. Gregor Mendel.
3. On the island of Melos.
4. II Timothy ii, IL.
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Evangeline Booth says there are no flop houses
where women drop in just to sleep. She should visit
the great American home.-Washington Post.
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Well, one thing. the alky boys may lug machine
guns around the street in Chicago, but we're not go
ing to let them use cannon or siege artillery. There's
certain limits to almost everything.-Chicago Tribune.
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Timely Views
HIS VIEWS ON STATE UNIVERSITIES
DEFENDED
BY DR.. CLARENCE COOK LITTLE
prneidopt TTpivarci+v IF NHiobioon

clarence Cook Little was born at Brookline,
Mass, Oct. 6, 1888. He is a graduate of Harvard
University. For several years he did research
work in ~genetics at Harvard and was assistant
dean Of Harvard college from 1916 to 1917. From
1921 to 1922 he did experimental work at Carne-
gle Institute. lie was president of the University
of Maine from 1922 to 1925, and has been presi-
dent Of the University Of Michigan since then. He
recently resigned his position. Since 1925 he has
been a director of the American Birth Control
League, president Of the international Neo NAL
thuSian League, and president of the Race Better
ment League in 1928. lie is a World war veteran
and a member Of numerous national scientific
societies..
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MONDAY, MARCH IL, 1929
an, ~ About -Waas
Q9 l.k4lb New York .n7N

NEW YORK, March 11.-EXpres-
sions probably have changed on the
small-time. When we knew it
away back in the early '20s the
retort to the query: What became
of the girl he went with on the
Pan Timer" was ooh, you know
He loved her, but the sea-
son closed" When you were idle
you were asked: Where do you go
next week." you replied: I'm layin'
off," and you were trumped with:
Great! I'm on the same bill with
you"
If the stage crew disturbed 0
by making noise while vol were
doing your act you always chirped,
Set EN- up in the other alley!"
and when you introduced your wife
to a friend, you were considered
clever If you said: Meet the wife.
and don't laugh" or Meet the wife
but not too often"
FINS
There doesn't ever have to be an
end!
The close OF day Is but the start
Of night,
The finish of each mountain path
you wend
Is where begins some even great
er height.
And eve when the close Of life
has come,
It's but the threshold of infinitv:
For all your days. the final, total
sum
Is small. compared to what still
is to be.
There is no end, and things are
never done;
No voyage ends-there's e'er an
other sea.
But this I know, I know, my
precious one,
To lose your love would be the
end for me.
George D.. LOTHIAN.
THE MORNING MAIL
Chicago, III.
I suppose that you will be sur
prised to hear from me after SO
long a time, but I have been out
here in Chicago, where even the
chorus boys carry pearl-handled
blackjacks. I have been working
the picture houses out here, and,
unaccustomed as I am to Publix
theaters, I have been doing fine.
My grandmother is also doing good
out here-she is making quite a
lot Of money exhibiting grandpa,
as he is the only one out here ever
to die a natural death.
'fhis sure is a hot town. I have
only been out here about seven
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
CONFER DEGREES
AT GALLAUDET
Action Is Included in Annual
Report of Columbia
Institution for Deaf.

Three degrees Of bachelor of science
eight of bachelor of arts and four OF
master of arts were conferred In the
past year to students at Gallaudet Col
lege, the only institution Of higher
learning for the deaf in the United
States, It Is stated In the annual report
of the Columbia Institution for the
The college, according to the report
had students during the past year from
35 States. the District and Canada on
its rolls, and in the Kendall School
the lower department Of the institution
there were 81 students from the Dis
trict and from the States. :.
Need is stressed for an additional reel
tation and library building to take care
of the requests Of the heads OF the
various State institutions for more
courses in vocational education and for
an increased output Of teachers OF the
deaf from the normal department.
Assistance of the National Research
Council on Problems of the Deaf has
been received by the institution in the
past year, the report states. As mem
Der OF the committee Of the council, the
institution has helped present a COM
plete program of research work as to
curricula of schools for the deaf, train
ing of teachers Of the deaf, special
speech. lip-reading. intelligence and
educational tests, discrimination against
deaf people in law, employment of the
deaf and other matters pertaining to
the deaf.
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HUSBAND AND WIFE ASK
$685. 600 DAMAGES IN SUIT
File Claim Against Railway Conn
pany for Alleged Personal
Injuries.

Mrs. Anna L. Durity, 712 Eleventh
street northeast, and her husband
George H. Durity, has filed suit in the
District Supreme Court to recover to-
tai of $25, 900 damages from the Wash
ington Railway 81 Electric Co. for al
legged personal injuries to the wife. Mrs
Durity placed her damages at $4,000
and the husband asks an additional
SIS, 1000 for the loss of her services and
for the expense incident to her injuries.
The court is told that Mrs. Durity's
automobile was struck by a car of the
company February is on Eleventh street
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mediums and .fortune-tellers who make
. living doing this type OF work. She
said that she has q congregation, and
that her house is the local headquarters
for the association to which she belongs.
Only gifts are taken IN return for her
efforts.
Policewoman Agnes Douglas and Dor
othy Ferrel testified that Mrs. Strack
gave them readings" and that 81 was
given to the latter in return. They
said that they we're unaware the place
was the headquarters of the National
Spiritualist Association.
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MEDIUM ARRAIGNED
ON LICENSE CHARGE
Spiritualist Minister Claims She
Cannot Be Ranked With
Fortune Tellers.

Mrs. Ida Strack, 600 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, an ordained minister
OF the National Spiritualist Association,
was arraigned In Police Court yesterday,
charged with operating as q medium
without first obtaining q license. The
case was continued for o week to allow
the defense to summon witnesses.
Mrs. Strack maintains that she does
not charge for her readings" and
therefore cannot be ranked with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
DIES OF HEART ATTACK.

Seized with o sudden heart attack
Mrs. Emma Parker, ~ years old, colored,
died at her home, 1915 Twenty-second
street, yesterday afternoon.
Efforts made by members Of Fire Res
cue Squad, No. /, 10 revive her proved
unavailing. She was pronounced dead
by DR.. Ignatius Rutkoski Of Emergency
Hospital.
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CITATIONS AWARDED.

Capt. Edmond J. Connolly Of Cedar
hurst, Long Island, and Henry T. Hueb-
ner of Postville, Iowa, have been
awarded by the War Department cita-
tions for gallantry in action in France
during the World War. Capt. Connolly
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was a first lieutenant, 1e5th Infantry,
42d Division, and Huebner was pri-
vate in the 1o2d Infantry. 26th Divi-
sion, which was composed of National
Guard troops from the New England
States.
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between I and q streets southeast, and
she was crushed against the steering
wheel and was forced to undergo a seri-
Gus operation. The plaintiffs are repre-
sented by Attorneys John Lewis Smith
and John Paul Jones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
LIQUOR CASE CONTINUED.
Prohibition Bureau Asks Delay in
Case of DR.. E. L. Yost.

Case of DR.. E. L. Yost.
The preliminary hearing Of DR.. Ernest
L. Yost. who was arrested in his ONCE,
in the 1000 block of Sixteenth street. a
week ago on charges Of violating the
prohibition law restricting the issuance
of whisky prescriptions, was continued
for two weeks yesterday before United
States Commissioner Needam Q. Tur-
mage on the request Of the Prohibition
Bureau.
He was arrested following an inves-
tigation by Federal dry agents.
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A Plain Answer
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New Britain herald., 1929-07-18
LOSS Sl,0OO,O00 IN
 SERIOUS DOCK FIRE
Seattle Firenen Have Hard
 Battle-Six Men Are Injured

Seattle, July 13 R)--Fire which destroyed the Union Pacific dock here late yesterday caused a loss Of almost $1,000.G00 and sent five ire men and a dock worker to the hos pitel burned or overcome by smoke
 Thirty-one companies of firemen and three fireboats fought the blaZr for an hour before getting 1t under control. A cigarette. thrown careless ly aside by an employe, was blamed by officials for the blaze. Traffic was stilled in Seattle's business street as company after company of fire ap. paratus roared down the Cypress Hills to the waterfront. Thousands of afternoon shoppers congrcgated on Railroad avenue where the pier was built and scores of policemen were called out to maintain order.
 The steamship Mauna Ala, from Hawaii, caught fire but was backed out into the bay and the blaze cx- tinguished before much damage was done.
 Creosoted billings made the fire q specacular one with q pail of sm 3i.c hanging over the southern part Of the city.