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The Washington times., 1929-02-18
HOOVER LEAVES
FOR D. c. HOME

Continued from First Page)
however, he plunges into admins
trative work and practical politics
of a highly concentrated nature. A
thousand. nd .one matters await his
attention.
Cabinet Chosen
The Hoover special will arrive in
Washington Tuesday at 1880 p. m.
Almost from that moment on.
Hoover will be "up to his neck" in
the high-pressure sort of work of
which he Is capable as are few
others. One thing. fortunately, Is
off his mind. During the stay in
Miami Beach. Hoover has determined
upon the 10 men who will comprise
his Cabinet.
Who they are is mystery, with
the exception Of Andrew w. Mellon,
scheduled to remain as Secretary of
the Treasury. and Henry w. Slim
son. universally reported as the next
Secretary of State. The remainder
will become known when their
names are sent to the Senate for
confirmation, on March 4.
Determination upon a Cabinet has
not released the President.eIect from
the opportunities of job hunters,
nevertheless. Upon his return he
will make his headquarters at his
home, instead of at the Mayflower
Hotel, thus eliminating the prospect
of annoyance at the hands of some
Af hRlk Of fhAaA
ing Republicans" will find their way
to 1900 S st.
The major problem facing Hoover
at the moment is the dying session
of Congress. More than anything
else, it prompted his early departure
from Miami Beach. With only two
weeks to run, he wants to make sure
at the last moment there is not an
influx of money bills that will un-
balance the budget and leave the
new administration at the starting
line with deficit.
Will Hold Reins
In addition, the House committees
are now nearing the end of their
hearings on tariff which, with farm
relief, will constitute, the two sub
jects to be taken up at a special ses-
sion of Congress Hoover plans to call
for April Is. The tariff question
bears Vitally on commerce, industry
and agriculture, of which Hoover is
as a profound student, and
it is his intention to be personally
present to block anything he con-
sideFs uneconomic.
Not the least of his problems is
the immigration situation. Pending
before Congress is An act repeating
the national origins' clause, which
would base immigration quotas on
the nationalistic makeup of the
States at the time of the revolu-
tion. Hoover. perhaps more than
any other individual. is responsible
for the movement to cancel the
measure.
If it remains on the statute books
and the present situation indi-
Gates no great desire to remove it
Hoover, as President. will be com
PEELED to proclaim it by Executive
order. He thinks II is unsound in
principle and unworkable in prac-
tice Arrayed against him Is form
liable opposition, led by Senator
David A. Reed CR.) of Pennsyl-
vania. usually a staunch Admins
tration supporter. and backed by
such powerful organizations as the
American Legion.
The Washington times., 1929-02-18
HOLD-UP IN VA.
LAID TO 4

ALEXANDRIA,, Feb. 1S.--George
Carr, Leroy Williams, Sarah Carr
AMI Daisy Williams. all cOlored, OF
Washington, were arrested here last
night on complaint of G. w. Denty,
who operates a gas station at
Pohick Church, that they had at
tempted to hold him up at the point
of a revolver. They We're taken to
Fairfax Courthouse to be held for a
hearing before a justice of the
peace.
RAY Mobley, colored, who is
charged with felonious cutting of
John Blackwell, a fellow employe
of the Southern Railroad track
gang at Cameron Yard, was arrest
ed here yesterday and turned over
to Fairfax county.
John Graham, local realtor, will
address the meeting of the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Bureau tonight on the Improvement
of the business conditions.
Mayor James Walker, Of New
York. ana 500 school superintend-
ents win visit the city March 1S.
while on a tour OF the historic
cities in the State.
Narcotic education week will be
observed by the Health Department
and local physicians from February
21 to 2S. Lectures on the drug
evil will be given in the public
schools.
London Ellwanger and Irwin Jor-
don, Richmond youths charged with
stealing an auto will be sent back
to Richmond today.
The Washington times., 1929-02-18
Mayor Walker Starts
South to ReCuperate

NEW YORK, Feb. Is U.N.S).
Mayor James ]. Walker today was
en- route to Florida to recuperate
from an attack of influenza.
He left yesterday in William F.
Kenny's private car.
The Washington times., 1929-02-18

Births. Deaths, EngaEements, Mar
riaEeS and In MemOriam appear daily
on the last inside page. last two col
umns.
The Washington times., 1929-02-18
WATCH FOR THEM ON conn. GSfls : AVE. 5S'iss.''''

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MISS AMERICA is stealing the footwear styles of
the French peasant girl these days. Miss Rose Snnott
shown above with the latest in footwear wooden soled
Shoes just imported into the country They are little
more stylish than the French sabo but the click they'll
make on Connecticut Avenue will sound the same.
The Washington times., 1929-02-18

London ElIwanger and irwin Jor-
don, Richmond youths charged with
stealing an auto will be sent back
to Richmond today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-01

and there is no suggestion Of compro-
mise about 1t. It is frankly long-long
enough to cover the longer afternoon
dress-and 1t also shows flare, enough
Of q flare to prevent any punching of
the dress fullness about the hem.
Interestingly enough no one utters q
protest against this longer afternoon
coat, and this is partly because we have
gradually become accustomed to 1t and
also because the clever n1olding about
the hips and waist prevents 1t from
seeming dowdy.
For this longer type of coat black is
by all means the smartest choice and
usually in one Of the smooth materials
like broadcloth. Invariably the formal
black coat has q collar of fur-gener-
ously proportioned even when the most
costly furs are used. Whether this fur
often used for cuffs and landings as
well as for the collar-is of the fiat or
long.haired sort, of brown, black or
one of the shades of gray or beige,
depends, or should depend, entirely on
which sort of fur proves to be most be-
coming to the wearer..
Even inexpensive materials may be
made to look quite distinguished If they
are given finishing touch of effective
needlework Children's clothes especial
" are improved enormously by little
simple needlework. This weeks circular
gives directions for several of the most
effective of the new needlework stitches
for trimming children's clothes. II you
would like q copy, please SEND your
stamped, self-addresSed envelope to
Mary Marshall, care Of this paper, and
1t will be forwarded to you.
copyright, 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-01
LITTLE BENNY


Ma sent me around to the drug store
this morning before skooi for some
stamps to put on letters, and tonite we
was eating suppir and she sed, Benny,
where Is your mind?
Nam? Why? I sed, and she sed.
Because anybody with mind In their
brane couldent possibly go out for
stamps erly in the morning ana come
home in the evening still without them
sed. I went to the drug store and got
them before I went to skool this morn
ing. I sed, and pop sed, There you are,
mother, a distinguished member Of my
sex has been misjudged agen.
Well my goodness if you got them,
where are they? ma sed. Me starting
to feel in my pockit, and ma sed, o
nv lands he's been carrying them in
his clothes all day. they'll all be stuck
together like molten mass Of useless
ness.
once when was his age, ha ha, pop
sed. and ma sed, fail to see how that
makes it funny.
Me keeping on feeling for the stamps
and then remembering something, say
ing. G.. now I know, pops little brown
address book was on the hall rack so I
put the stamps in that.
Then I'm the fellow that's been carry
ing them around all day, pop sed And
he took his address book out OF his
pockit saying, Yes, their here all rite,
zee gods their stuck like iron rite on
top of my most important page Of ad-
dresses, for Peet sake what q place to
plaster flock of gooey stamps, haven't
you any SentS at all?
Well G WIZ, pop, dident YOU ever
do that when you was my age? sed.
Hee hee that's good question, what's
funny now, hee hee, mad sed, and pop
sed. Nuthing, and come to think of 1t
1 don't bleeve anything was in the ferst
place, and if I don't rescue these ad-
dresses from this ocean of glue this en-
tire family will proberly be in the poor
house in less than 80 days.
o, give 1t to me, helpless, ma sed.
And she took the address book out In
the kitchen and let steam squert on the
stamps till they came loose, and we
kepp on eating suppir, being veel and
things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-01
AUTUMN


lay in the long bearo grass on my
back and looked up at the Autumn sky.
Around me rose the sound Of crickets,
singing in desultory way in the last
warmth that the old earth was giving
out from her Summers boarding, and
the little wild pink foxgloves doomed,
few of them, belated in the soft
sunlight. Presently, within the range
OF my vision, whole argosy, q verita-
BILE armada of thistle-down, came blow
ing. 1t glinted above me in the sun
light like a fleet of silver Zeppelins; it
seemed about to fall to earth and then.
caught upon little lifting puff OF warm
wind, it rose, and sailed far away, out
of my ken.
How far would it go, I wondered, be-
fore it touched earth? With good
wind, thistle down could easily be drag
ged and tossed a mile; a gale would
carry 1t 10 times as far as that per-
haps. And my mind reverted to q
question always very fascinating ,Istt 70 me
than mine. wallace and Darwin and
Hooker, and many another have won
dered how an island out in the ocean,
say q thousand miles from the nearest
land, gets its plants.
BY sea currents? But most seeds are
killed by sea water, and even If washed
up alive on seashore, the salty burn
ing strand of an island soon kills all
but few sorts Of seeds.
BY birds? But very few land birds
such as would eat seeds, cross thou
sand miles of water, and none perhaps
would carry the seeds so far?
BY wind? Perhaps. It has been es-
timated, for instance. that the Cape
Verde Island, far off the coast of Africa
could receive such plants as thistle
which have winged seeds. providing a
very high gale were blowing from east
to west, and providing the plants grew
on the submits of the highest Atlas
Mountains, where they would have g
good gliding advantage OF several thou
sand feet to start with.
It is noticeable that the habit OF hav-
ing downy seeds occurs most abundant
ly in the family of plants that is con.
sidered to be the highest in the scale
of evolution, the most recent, and un'
doubtedly the most successful in get
ting itself spread over the earth's sur
face. Thistle, aster, golden-rod, joe
pye-weed, f1ea-bane, groundsel tree
pussy-toes, cudweed and edelweiss are
but a few Of the great composite fam
lily that have drifted on their plumey
parachutes from the Rockies to thu
Himalayas, from Maryland -marshe!
to the salt marshes Of South America
from the steppes of Russia to the des'
erts of Nevada.
You win find the same clever devic,
used In other families, of course. Thu
cat-tail family disperses now its winged
down, and there is nothing new in thi!
trick, for the cat-tail family may b.
the most primitive and ancient flower
ing plant in the world today. You vii
find it in marshes over the entire globe
Milkweed, sycamore, willow-herb, dog
bane, clematis, some anemones, the viii
low and poplar and the pipewort, a
well as some grasses such as beardgrass
SO common Just now. are among tn
have recourse to this form Of self-dis
semination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-01
A Sermon for Today
Pretended Humility.
BY REV. JOHN r. GUM.

1.-THE great man humbleth himself
Is, lie.
The truly great man is humble. He
naturally acts in humble manner. But
understand the man Isaiah refers to
here to be the man who imagines him.
self great and whose acts Of humility
are only pretense.
The worst form of pride is pretended
humility. Says Brooks, Satan is subtle;
he will make a man proud that he is
not proud"
AS Plato entertained some friends
in q room where there was couch
richly ornamented Diogenes came In
very dirty, as usual, and, getting upon
the couch and trampling on it, said
II trample upon the pride of Plato
Plato mildly answered, But with
Antisthenes, on time, walked In the
common place at Athens with cloak
all torn and tattered, that every one
beholding it might judge that he did
it through humility; but Socrates, dis
corning the hypocrisy said that he saw
his pride through the holes of his cloak.
DiogeneS, being at Olympia, saw at
that celebrated festival some young men
of Rhodes arrayed most magniicently.
He exclaimed. "Tiis is pridel" After
ward, meeting with some Lacaedemoni-
ans in a mean and sordid dress, he said,
And this Is also pride"
Pride often DISCUSSES itself In humble
apparel. It also often DISCUSSES itself
| in a pretended profession Of inferiority.
To 20 around talking overmuch about
ones deficiencies and shortcomings is
more often an indication of pride than
| humility. To go about preaching ones
faults to all the world, If one does not
take care, is pride.
And this is something about which
people are not so easily deceived as YOU
might think. Beware; therefore OF
pride in pretended humility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-01
H.ss.salnszza
FiAA Oris WAS ME |
RAGE A. Few YkARsl
| Ago.

of the favorite night indoor sports for
o long time 70 come.
Following the crossword puzzle came
the Whats wrong with this p.cture?"
craze. It died for time, but lately
has been revived so that every one is
trying to discover what is wrong with
every picture in the world, good, MIDI
OGRE or bad.
The crossword puzzle was devised by
two newspaper writer's, a man and q
woman. It Is doubtful II they expected
to start q stampede for cross-words
when they began to work on their idea.
It proved to be successful and pub
Usher was found who printed o book
of crossword puzzles. It brought a
fortune to the inventors and publish
erS. The two newspaper workers are
still On the job and must survey the
rage they started with considerable sat
isfaction.
A noted trial lawyer has been Eeen
in court waiting for a case to be called
bordering over a two-letter word. We
have seen actors In their dressing rooms
waiting for the overture or their cue,
busily trying to unravel word. There
is something in these mental tests that
appeals to the average person. To out
wit q problem provides satisfaction.
\ X X
A friend Of ours spent his evenings
trying to win small prizes offered for
the solution of puzzles. At first he
was delighted to receive o. checks
Then he went in for the bagging Of big
ger game. He entered contests. One OF
them offered large prize to the person
finishing story that was printed, omit
ting the last chapter. The contestants
were to conclude the yarn as they
thought it should end. The man wor
the prize. A motion picture company
offered an almost fabulous price fol
those days for complete mystery story
which could be filmed. Again oul
friend entered. Hundreds of othel
aspiring and professional writer's com.
peted. The man once more walked Of
with the prize.
He Immediately resigned from his po
eition and went into the work profes
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Everyday Psychology
The Ambiverts.

The traits that enter into personality,
either in the making or when 1t may
be said to be made, run into the thou
sands. For that reason one never
finds a pure type. The so-called think
ing and feeling types are after all only
hypothetical trends rather than actual
facts. BY being q little careless with
your definitions. and still more care
less In your observation, you may est1-
mate that about one-half of the gen.
eral population belongs to these two
types. =.
But what about the other half? AT
least one psychologist know OF simply
ignores them when he takes up the
question Of personality. He takes the
position that the only people worth
studying, from the personality point OF
view, are those who have been able tc
forge their way into some fairly well
recognized hall of fame. There is some
sense to his argument, aristocratic as II
may at first appear,
On the other hand, there are those
who hold that the masses are i'm.
portant. SO they suggest third class
which has been called the ambiverts
II you admit that the meat of the ques'
ton of personality centers around thu
EO-caueQ thinking ana 1eellug types
then the ambiverts are neither fish
nor fowl. The word ambivert mean!
literally the ability to turn in two di
rections. So we may say that an am
Divert Is q sort of two-faced individual
At one time he may display the traits
which characterize the thinking type
at another, he may behave as If he be-
longed to the feeling type.
You never know how to take thu
ambiverts. Just apply this to your owl
general experience with people ant
you will begin to think that the whole
population is an aggregation of ambi
verts. In the light of your own expert
ence it is not hard to subscribe to tn
proposition that personality Is thu
| biggest fact and the biggest riddle II
| the universe" At any rate, 1t seem
that way to me.
Despite the meager knowledge VI
have of personality, we do know tina
much of our happiness in this worlt
| Of personalities depends on the wa,
we get it all figured out. Perhaps tn
best way to go about 1t Is to try Il
analyZe yourself.
| Copyright. 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-01
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, November !
(N.A.N.A.) Since cinema ladies have
agreed not to disagree, much OF the
color and vitality of these front-line
cinema trenches have been lost.
A delightful gelatin feud started
however, when some one called Nina
Mae Mckinney, the little "high yaller''
gal in King Vidor's masterpiece, ''The
Black Clara Bow" Clara released some
conversation that is best expressed by
exclamation points. dashes, dots and
stars when told of the comparison. Not
so Nina Mae. She made her round
eyes still rounder, and, says she:
"Ah amt got no double chin, so All
blance comes in"
Charles Bickford, the most highly in
f1ammable- looking star in the movie
business, Is Greta CARLOS new leading
man. Bickford has bright-red hair and
eyebrows. Even his eyelashes are q
golden red. Add to this feet / OF
husky manhood and menace galore.
The producers are throwing in all
the talent in the world to make the
first Carlo talkie a sensation. Marie
Dressler, who has been consistently
identified with comedy since her first
cinema appearance, plays straight
character in the part of the old barge
woman-the chronic souse, that is one
of O'Neill's finest characterizations
George Marion will play the part OF
Anna Christie's father.
Greta the Great will be backgrounded
by artists who are established in talkie
form. This doesn't make her perform
Htf4 ole
weaken the sum total any.
Jacques Feyder, the French director
who brought Greta through her last
silent film, insisted on a change ir
type. Her couture in some scenes /.
strongly reminiscent of the divine
Sarah, and with very interesting re.
suits. There seems quite another Garbt
to add to the long list Of this artists
cllaracterizations. She is an artist
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Franz Josef of Austria did not sur
pass his queen, Elizabeth of Wittels-
bach, in out-of-the- conduct.
Theirs had been love match, begin
ming with an evening at q ball, when ne
danced every dance with her. But II
did not remain romantic. Her life be-
came one of solitude, and she gave way
to all sorts of extravagances.
All her life she had been a wonderful
horsewoman and she would travel great
distances to attend hunt. But mere
hunting and riding did not suffice. She
built a little circus in one Of the courts
of the Hofburg and there, despite the
objections of the emperor, she used TO
nut on o. circus dress and dance and
leap on the backs Of magnificent horses.
emulating the tricks of public perform
ers in jumping through paper hoops.
She was infatuated with dogs. keep
ing great numbers Of them. The I'M
perial carriages frequently were seen
loaded with the empress pets driving In
Il is said. though, this may be stretch
ing the truth bit, that servants were
ordered to address the dogs in the third
person. as If they were royalty.
Her restlessneSs drove her TO horse
back riding at all hours. Midnight gal
lops to remote, inaccessible places some
times relaxed and soothed her.
Sometimes she would walk, and 1t was
not unusual for her to do % miles IN
day. 49,.
In some ways she was very extrava-
giant, but In other ways she was report
ed to be misery.
It IN related that she fell into the lake
at Luxembourg one day and was rescued
after considerable effort by a Viennese
After some hesitation, she later SEM
him q reward Of 20 forms.
che disliked to be photographed anc
carried a fan with which she woulc
foil cameras.
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SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
The Inner Man.

The inner man is either the soul or
the stomach or both. It's something
that needs attention or food. A man Is
something more than a bluff and pair
Of plus fours.
Women and men have been in this
ancient world ever since evolution De
gan to turn out fancy specimens, and
yet the two are still strangers to each
other. They may be of the same family,
but they are still distant cousins several
times removed.
It's woman who is supposed to be the
great mystery of the human race. She's
the Sphinx with the subtle smile, with
its Don't you wish you knew nle?" But
If know my Sphinxes, just as many
Of them down in the old Nile land were
men. Yes, men, too. are mysteries to
others and to themselves.
When men get together in their gangs
and are down as lodge members, Ro-
tarians, Tall Cedars and Scrub Oaks,
they want to find out what they are
like. I don't imagine they do much
when they organize, assemble and adopt
constitution, but they manage to swap
stories, exchange experiences and get
Wised up mutually.
II they are such mysteries to them
selves, how much more are they cross
word puzzles to us girls! They seem
obvious enough in their capacity OF
able bodied citizens or members of a
party, but the inner man, which is the
man himself, is the unknown quantity
in the personal equation.
Hello, stranger! That's the way they
greet guy out on the frontier. which
is really the backyard of civilization
Now, that's about the way a girl might
greet her boy friend even when he has
become steady. She knows the num-
Der of his car and phone, his favorite
brand and dish, but the inner man
we'll, she can't get acquainted with him
Why doesn't the boy friend bring the
inner man around to call, introduce
him and say, Meet the MANI" No, he
leaves the real man at home so that a
girl comes to know only the sort of chap
ton, and not the real person.
Men are great for records. The jobs
they've had, their bowling scores and
batting averages. But these have to do
with only the outer man, the mannikin
The real fellow stays inside like turtle
on rainy day.
Maybe we'd get along better II we
looked at men as men and not as pos
sible husbands for somebody or other
It's hard to get away from the head OF
the house or meal-ticket idea of man
for they themselves have made Their
Importance felt in that way.
But when girl Is independent, as Is
often the case, she can take q second
look at her friend and maybe she'll be
able to see the real man under the dis
guiSe OF a husband.