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Evening star., 1929-10-06
FIRST MOVIES STUN
WISCONSIN FARMER
84.Year-0Id Visitor to Film
Palace Is Amazed by
TaIkies and Girls.
sseeial Dispatch to The Star.

ESecial Dispatch to The Star
SUPERIOR. Wis. october 5 (N.A.
N.A)-"My. my, N.Y." said Peter Dale.
"a. as he sat in hotel chair here. not
quite recovered from his amazing eX"
perience. Il didn't think 1t was pos
sible.''
He had seen his first motion picture
the night before. 1t was talkie with
dancing girls!
The white-haired farmer liked the
girlss even better than those mighty
funny fellows" the Marx Brothers.
The newsreels were amazing" but the
girls Just left him lost for superlatives.
How they could dance!" he mar
veled. Il didn't think it was possible
for girls to dance so. / was amazed.
OF me see how they can make pictures
that way. l kept wondering if it was
actually real or if it was some of this
trick photography. I'll always carry the
memory of that picture with me-"
Dale is no backwoodsman, although
he lives some distance from railroad
in Cornucopia. on Lake Superior. He
makes trips every once in while to
visit his daughters at Wilmar, Mimi,
ana Kansas City, Mo. 1t lust hap
pened" that he never had gone to a
movie.
But this time when Dale came to Su-
perior from his lake-shore town for a
visit acquaintances took him to the
theater. the first theater he had been
in since he was Vernon County legis-
lator at Madison so years ago.
Mr.. Dale's blue eyes gazed out into
the street, but he wasn't seeing 1t; he
AhcpnfIV
called that he has lived near Cornu-
copia for IL years. He had little
farm and his cows and chickens are
something nice 10 see-fine stock. His
wife died in March and he's been
rather lonesome. That's why he came
to Superior-to see something different.
And, by lingo, he saw it!
(Copyrght, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance
Evening star., 1929-10-06
CITY PAUSES AS POWER
FAILS, STOPPING WORK
Street Signals Quit, Radios Quiet
en- and Presses Halt for Lack
of Electricity.

Among the many riddles that were
frequently asked in the days of parlor
achievement none was more popular
than the one, Where was Moses when
the light went out?" We recall that he
was merely in the dark No such SIM
pie answer could be given today. You
may find a variety OF answers in the
description given by the Boston Herald
of what happened when the power went
of In Springfield:
Street signals failed to work, with
consequent traffic snarls; radios were
struck dumb: electric machinery IN
dozens of factories stopped, the West
inghouse plant alone reporting loss
of $500 productions hours; elevators
stuck between floors, temporarily i'm
prisoning passengers: fans and venti-
iators were stilled and stores and offices
became uncomfortably stuffy; pipe
organs In movie theaters died with
dismal groans and the pictures froze'
on the screen: soda fountain milk
shakers refused to shake and the supply
of carbonated water soon gave out;
artificial refrigerators would not refrig-
crate; 'self-winding clocks went on
bat; afternoon newspapers were delayed
by idle presses; dentists patients en-
toyed a respite, as the f1endish 'buzZer'
wouldn't buzz: conveyance systems in
department stores stopped and corps of
cash girls we're hastily organized, and
the barber shops were unable to give
fastidious patrons their daily facial
massage"
A Moses in Springfield might have
found himself affected by any one of
these numerous tie-upS.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
FOSSIL OF PINE CONE
is BEING STUDIED
Geological Find Throws Light on
Prehistoric Conditions on
Pacific Coast.

LOS ANGELES Especially The story
of Western Californias inundation by
the Pacific Ocean and the millions of
years during which the geological trans
formation took place which brought the
Pacific Coast to its present outline is
epitomized in a fossil specimen dlscov-
cred recently near Bakersfield and
turned over to the geology department
of the University of California at Les
Angeles.
This specimen consists of an i'm
mense pine cone. perfectly preserved in
a state of petrifaction, found by Harold
B. Rathwell. geologist of an oil COM
pany, in the mountains east Of Bakers
field. It is several million years since
this cone dropped from a pine tree, and
its subsequent history, as interpreted by
Prof w. j. Miller head of the univer-
sity's geology department, is an outline
of the history of the Pacific Coast from
the time when the ocean extended over
the major portion of what is now Cali
fcrnta.
The specimen. considered one of the
most beautiful pieces representing the
tertiary age, will repose in the new geo.
logical museum which is to be part of
the new university's geological depart
Inent.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
Cyclist Reaches San Salvador.

SAN SALVADOR. October S CP.-
Victor de Francesca, who is travelling
from Brazil to New York by bicycle
has arrived where Columbus came all
the way by boat. Victor left home last
December.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
Straight Talks to Women About Money
By MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

obvious small rooms cannot be used as
classrooms, clubrooms or serve like
purposes. If there are several small
rooms or medium-sized rooms they will
lend themselves to hotel or sanitarium
purposes best.
Many women have discovered that
their homes were well located for doc
tors Offices, while homes located in
business sections may easily be made
over into Office floors.
Often woman is without means her
self or has a limited amount of money
upon which she may draw. In that
case she may find partner who will
supply the money for operating eX-
penses in return for the use of the
dwelling. It is best to find partner
with experience and following the
enterprise decided upon.
One should provide in the lease 10
get back possession OF the house in
the event that a buyer for it appears.
This may be done by compensating
the tenant for expenses incurred in TAX
ing possession of the house.
Extensive local advertising may bring
to your door persons who have notions
of their own about what may be done
with your home. At times, too, the
holder of a second or third mortgage
will cooperate with you in finding a
tenant for the house in order to avoid
foreclosure with its consequent expense.
BY all means place your house with all
Of the brokers in town before even try
ing to do anything with it on your
own part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
Adjustment.

There is no word in the vocabulary Of
mental hygiene so significant as lad
justment." That's what we are all do
ing from early childhood, when we pass
from living by impulse to living by feel
ing and reflection, to old age and its
acceptance of human fate. The core
of adjustment is emotional; we call 1t
a state of mind, but 1t is far more in
timately a state Of feeling. These two
great streams of psychic energy-rea-
son and emotion = though closely
merged, are of different source and
when successfully fused life flows on
happily; there is good adjustment. But
of the two, emotion is the decisive fac
tor. Whatever the situation that you
are now facing, however strongly you
say to yourself or assent when others
tell you, Eyes! that's the most reason
able thing to do" there is no real ac-
ceptance until your feelings say Eyes"
With reason pulling one way and emo
ton another there Is no adjustment;
you are in rebellion, poorly adjusted,
disturbed, restless, unhappy.
There are all degrees and varieties
and causes of sources of maladjust-
ment. The organic factor comes first;
If you are out Of health, your powers
Of adjustment are weakened; you can't
think straight when you feel crooked;
unsatisfied desire generally is an or
ganic state that makes directly for the
emotional balance and upsets it. The
earlier types of adjustment, such as
those of children, operate closely on the
emotional level and more simply.
The playing child is a soothing pic
ture of happy adjustment, Of complete
content. With the markedly tncreas-
ing range of emotions at adolescence
the problem of adjustment complicates;
1t is a critical period. Each age. each
environment sets a new problem in adj
justment. Going away to college, en-
tering a business, promotions. marry
ing, parentage, involve proper emo
tional relation as we'll as reflective dl-
rection Of the enterprise. Where rea-
what YOU want to do, come into con-
fiict, that conflict until resolved pre-
cipitates a state of maladjustment; and
Freud makes such conflict, often vague
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
Everyday Psychology
Laziness.
By DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

'work makes life sweeter." Satan
finds some mischief still for idle hands
to do"
How did such old sayings originate?
Certainly not from the original nature
Of man. Primitive men are lazy. SO
are civilized men deep down In their
real selves.
If you take passing glance at man
and his laborS you get the notion tnat
he works because he wants to. the
fact is he works because he has to. And
he works for himself. The old proverbs
about work must have been invented for
the sake of social preservation and self
conceit.
Laziness is a law of life. Those who
suppress laziness soon lose the capacity
to work. Suppress the inclination to rest
and you will soon be taking treatment
for your nerves. You then say that you
have overworked. What you really did
was underrest.
But there are also the lazy nervous.
They are the hardest cases to cure. At
least, that's what the nerve specialists
say. When a person once tastes the
sweets of such an illness, he longs TO
stay in his sick condition because it re-
Heves him Of the necessity of working.
Since labor has acquired the right to
recover damages for accidental injuries,
accidents have increased enormously.
Insurance companies can scarcely meet
the claims made upon them. All the
so-called Joy in labor for the sake of
labor has undergone a severe shock.
because Of the unconscious prospect OF
laziness with pay.
While laziness is a law Of life, it is
not the only one. There is law of
change. Most people tire of work be-
cause they long for a change in occu-
patton. The idle man is continually
connecting schemes for employment.
outshadow in pretension the actual
achievements of the man Of industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BE JOSEPH JASTROW.

ly realized, because of the submerged
or repressed desire that Is causing the
trouble, the source of neurotic ailments.
In general terms, mental hygiene
recognizes the intimate personal adj
Justment; and in this the family sit
uatlon Is normally the dominant one.
Since the child, the son or daughter.
plays the subordinate part in the house
hold, Tor the younger generation that
adjustment has the largest significance.
why, boys and girls leave home or make
trouble when at home offers material
Tor a cyc!opedia of reimbursement. The
marital relation is a different and a
comprehensive source of maladtust-
ment; a happy marriage is a fine con-
summation: Juvenile Court records and
those OF the Courts of Domestic Rela-
tons tell but minute part Of the
story.
The other major adjustment is to &C.
cupation: the satisfactionB aof employ
ment. The work life and the love life,
With these well adjusted success is Sc
cure, for it composes into JOY of liv-
ing, ever supported by sound mind
in sound body.
The third great domain of adjust
ment is to the social life. We can
not live to ourselves, and must ever
find the highest satisfaction in the
social notice we receive. We must be
on good terms with ourselves primarily;
otherwise there is no peace of mind,
and without that no joy in work or its
compenSationS. We must be on good
terms with those We meet most init
mately, or again We fail. We must be
on good terms with the world gen.
orally, with that part of it that we
share. The well adjusted man or wom-
an must stand we'll in all relations. Yet
no life is completely adequate, no life
without its serious problems in one field
or the other. Mental hygiene proposes
to each human being that he view his
problems in terms of adjustment. How
ever absorbed in the days occupation
and the immediate duties and tasks.
there should be time for reflection upon
the supports by which we live.
Copyright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16

hear you complaining about practicing
again, the lessons stop" For three
weeks all went we'll. Then the fussing
began and straightway the lessons
stopped.
Mrs. Lacey decided that life was not
worth the pickering. Had her child
been a genius she would have seen to
it that she continued with the lessons.
But for purely social accomplishment
the attainment was too costly in frayed
nerves. She decided, too, that Claire
was thin because she was growing fast
and carrying too many activities. And
when she was honest with. herself she
knew she had started them in lessons
SO that she could preen herself and sit
back when her daughter played in re-
citals. The game was not worth the
candle and the lessons stopped for
Claire, but Judith went ahead as fast
as her teacher would allow.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
SUB ROSA
The WAY Things Are.

We think we are all mater of-fact
folks, but the fact Of the matter Is that
we live on fancy. The way things are
is often a revelation to us. Then, too.
the actual world Of earth and heaven,
sea and sky, river and mountain is more
wonderful than any creation which
fancy can concoct.
The way things are Is not the way
things used to be, as our parents can
tell us. Things have changed their
names, If nothing else. The beau has
become the boy friend. The dude Is
now cake eater. Lollygagging Is neck
ing and a swell time is whoopee.
OF course, these are changes of terms,
but there have been changes OF things,
too. Women have the ballot and bob.
They dress for speed and comfort more
than for style. They get up and get to
business in the morning instead Of
merely getting the men folks off. They
read books instead of lolling over novels.
That's the way things are with us.
The great change in the ways OF
and their status in the world. It's hard
to put this change into one word like
"Relativity," but Freedom" comes as
near to it as one term you can think Of.
The very appearance Of the modern
girl, who is all set for an activity Of
some sort, is sign of this new liberty.
The way things are is not the way
things ought to be, not by long shot.
To read the papers is to see that many
people have taken this idea of liberty
and applied it on large scale until it
has become lawlessness. That gives US
the crime wave as it rolls up on the
shores of time.
President Hoover has appointed a
crime commission to find out why peo-
pie don't obey the laws of the land,
hence We can't be expected to do the
work of the Federal authorities. But
we can ourselves indulge in a certain
amount of obedience to lesser authori-
ty. like that of the home.
Then We can cultivate kind of self
restraint which will help brace up this
old world which is webbing in its orbit,
so the astronomers say. It's no fun to
be bossed by anybody after We are
grown up, but it isn't so bad to obey
when you do your own bossing.
The way things are now, it is neces-
sary for the girl who doesn't want to
turn her ankle or get her stockings
spattered by mud to boss herself. Gov
eminent of the girl, for the girl and by
the girl herself isn't such poor deal
after all.
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Unwanted House.

Once in while a reader writes to
ask us what she might do with an w
wanted house. Usually she Is unable
to find tenant or a buyer. 1t becomes
merchandising" problem in that she
must devise a way whereby some one
else may use her house.
Before suggesting ways to realize
means we should like to urge women to
accept a fair price on a house, even
though it fall short of ones anticipated
price, if a buyer is available. One
never knows when a buyer can be
found again, and when one tries to find
a buyer again her need of cash may
be so urgent as to compel her to, sell
at a real sacrifice.
Before renting house that Is heavily
mortgaged, be certain that the rental
will meet all of the carrying charges.
These should include amortization
charges and taxes as well. If one be-
comes a party to lease under any
other conditions foreclosure may be-
come unavoidable.
To return to the question, what can
one do with a house? It will depend
on the house itself, its location and its
facilities.
A large house, for example, may be
made over into small hotel, a club
house, sanitarium, school or a
studio.
The size of the rooms will figure
into the possibilities. because it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
Learn to Time Household Tasks
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

leisure hours and the latter means a
hectic rush. Poor packing results with
crushed and mussed garments to I'M
pack.
1t is not impossible to calculate about
how long the packing will require. 1t
can be systematized by having articles
laid out in readiness previously col
lected, or conveniently at hand If not
actually assembled. Time yourself when
packing to go on the trip and then
allow a little extra when packing to re-
turn as there are sure to be more things
to take home than to take away. BY
the last hours before packing without
having the working hang like the sword
of Damocles over ones head.
The home tasks can be quite accu-
rately estimated in their relation to
time. For example how long does it
take you to dress? Unless you know
this you either get up too early or stay
in bed too late, thereby serving a tardy
breakfast with its possibility of making
the man of the house and other wage
earners late to business or school. The
time required to dress for a party or an
entertainment should also be known.
If not, hardness is quite sure to follow
and the appelationS mentioned preVi=
tive.
Every housewife must know pretty
nearly how long it takes to get dinner,
or a late meal result with all that it
means to the tempers of the family.
There are meals that must be started
early in the day if the cooking takes
several hours or If it is done on fire.
less cooker and there are others that
can be managed in preparation at short
notice as was discussed Tuesday.
Learn to consider the clock when
tasks require. Then housework will run
more smoothly, friends will be able to
rely upon you as always on time, and
the family will be happier, for punctu-
atty is conducive to good nature.
(Copyright. 1929
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The Sidewalks of Washington
BY THORNTON FISHER.

put that thing over my face again. I
felt as though I was beading.
X x X
Some day somebody will write book
on THE Art of Being Thoughtful"
This quality is an asset, socially and
commercially. There is an insurance
man in the city who never fails to call
his customers on their birthdays TO
wish them many happy returns. Thus
he has stabilized friendships and has
built a sound business structure for
himself.
X X X
Two men stood on the corner of
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue They were coatless and evl-
IDENTIFY suffering from the heat. Lets
go over to the kiosk and see how
hot it is" said one. They went over,
looked at the indicator and left twice
as warm.
X X X
Every now and then we come in
contact with successful man who
never sold papers as a kid or supported
a fatherless family. We are usually
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Day by day, familiar faces are again
appearing as, one by one. Washington
vacationlsts return to routine of work
Some are tanned by the ocean sun.
Others bring tales of golf and fishing
and how elastic the yarns are. Scores
are always better and fish always bigger
when one is not present to observe.
After a two-Week absence there is
renewed thrill in entering the house
and seeing all the old familiar things
Quiet and peace and mute, though
none the less royal welcome. The old
furniture never looks SO goods No elabo-
rately appointed hotel room can COM
pare with the comfort of the ancient
chair in the corner. A vacation is an
excellent thing if it provides nothing
more than an appreciation OF home.
i: X X x
A sick child is at once the object OF
pity Frequently children are better
patients than their elders. The tiny
victims of illness at the Children's Hos
pital in this city are game little folks.
The other day a small girl of was
operated on. 1t was a serious trouble
and the young mother stood in a cor
ner and wept as her baby was rolled
to the operating room, where she re-
manned for SO minutes. Ether, of course,
was administered After the crisis the
child looked up and said to those sur
rounding her bedside, Don't let them
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car during his four years OF student
life and his pockets contained ample
sums. Unkind folk ventured whispered
suggestions that the youth would never
be like his "oId man." Only the col
larless, overalled boy would amount to
ANYTHING. This had been dinned into
their ears for so many generations that
it became a fixture of truth.
The son of the distinguished man,
though, has proved himself to be master
of his own fate and is speedily achiev-
ing success in one of the most difficult
sciences. An automobile and pocket
full of money have not impeded his
progress so far, and there are those who
say that the young man may go further
than his father.
The son of a famous woman writer,
still remembered and beloved by an
older generation, raised son. He
was sent to college and later was given
a trip around the world. His youth
was pretty soft and the shelter of the
family home might have been his for
many years. When he returned from
his world pilgrimage he sought and
obtained newspaper job. His hours
we're long and wages short in those
days. Every evening he left his desk
at o'clock. After dinner in the eve
ming he wrote pieces. He wrote them
so superbly that he was soon receiving
checks from magazines. For 20 years
he served his paper daily and at night
wrote short stories. Today he Is one
of the best known authors in the coun-
try. Silver spoons are not always
handicapS.
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Lessons in English
BY w. l.. GORDON.

Words often misused: Do not say,
THE whole bunch of children went
down to the beach," Say, THE whole
group"
Often mispronounced: Goliath; as
in go" as in ice" last syllable ath,
not Go-li-a.
Often misspelled: Chisel; S, not e.
and Ell, not lie.
Synonyms: Adroit, skillful, expert,
clever, deft.
Word study: "Use a word three
times and it is yours" Let us increase
our vocabulary by mastering one word
each day. Today's word: Disposition
ately; free from passion: unprecedented.
Il ask YOU calmly and dispassionately."