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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
Shining-eyed and fresh
for the hours that count

What man is pleased at the sight Of tired-out
wife too borne down with household duties to
try to dress, too weary to look her best for his
homecoming?
The women men adore are shining eyed and
fresh, eager for the hours that count
More and more women today are finding way
to keep young, ten, twenty, even thirty years
longer than their mothers.
The great strides Of engineering and electrical
science have developed marvellous labor-saving
devices to relieve women Of drudgeEy Modern
medical science is outwitting middle age b7 re-
volNtionary discoveries in diet anu care 6. the
body
But it is advertising that has arused women
to realization of what these new household
helps can do. 1t is advertising that has brought
knowledge of beauty aids and their use. 1t is ad-
vertising that has created desire for those pro-
ducts which aid women to lead healthier, hap
pier. longer lives.
The Regular and Systematic Study the Advertisements
in This Newspaper Liberal Education in Economics
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

Rakersfield Kern county. is to
hold an election on annexation Of
1000 acres to the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

The Regular and Systematic Study of the Advertisements
in This Newspaper is Liberal Education in Economics
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

SURBlTON. England, May %.
UP)-Miss Betty Nuthall, Is year
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

The {. +. G. peach orchard of D.
200 acres near MERGED is said to be
the largest in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

The New York Yankees were shut
ont at Boston. } to 0, MacFayden al
lowing the world 5 champs only four
hits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

struction OF property, but without any
of the five hundred revolving inmates
getting outside of the walls.
These attempts at jail breaking are
rarely to be attributed to the misman-
agement of the institutions. Rather are
they to be regarded as outbreaks of the
vicious character Of the inmates. They
are desperate men who care nothing for
life, nothing for law, nothing for So
ciety. Those who lead in the jail-break-
ing plots are usually old offenders, many
serving terms for the third and fourth
time.
It would seem that the more that is
done to make prison life comfortable
and wholesome the more frequent and
more desperate become these mlSderous
breaks for liberty on the part of the in
mates. In the Colorado case there Is no
hint of grievances. The ringleaders
shrewdly Matched plot, obtained weap-
ons from outside, killed guard, seized
others, rushed and took possession Of
the prison arsenal-which should have
been more secure-and then began a
course of Staying and burning and de-
struction lasting for many hours. Now
those ringleaders have killed themselves
after vainly attempting to negotiate for
freedom, holding captured guards as
hostages.
Prison reform" has gone too far In
making life easy for those condemned
by the law to spend terms in custody.
There should be reform in another d.
rection to make prison life SO surely I'M
attractive as to cause it to serve as a
real deterrent to crime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Historical Manuscript Is.

Nearly half a million photostatic
reproductions Of manuscripts having an
intimate bearing on American history
have been secured for the Library Of
Congress during the past two years
from the archives, libraries, museums
and private collections of dozen
European countries.
This work, financed by John ID.
Rockefeller, jr., and directed by DR..
Samuel F. Bemis Of George Washing
ton University. should prove of incalcu-
liable value In the task of reconstructing
an adequate picture of the American
past. It will enable the research worker
to 60 back to eyewitnesses of obscure
phases in the development Of the
Nation and to secure those Illuminating
but evasive details essential for any
true picture of a complex of events.
Some chance observation In the letter
OF q missionary. the routine record Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

an emigration official at some European
port or q British generals order for
supplies might furnish the essential
detail around which can be recon-
structed q realistic picture Of an event
now crusted with Legendary.
History, as the record Of the expert
ence of the past, should prove the best
of all guides for the present and the fu-
ture, for the same events in the same
environment generally may be assumed
ito have the same consequences. But
any train of events is attended by an
infinite number of details and ignorance
Of any of these may lead to entirely
false conclusions. The manuscripts COL
lected by DR.. Bemis should prove gold
mine of details, from which historians
will be gathering wealth of material
for years to come.
The flood Of photostats Of European
manuscripts has only started. The
foreign mission of the Library Of Con-
gress will continue for three more years
with the funds made available by Mr..
Rockefeller and 1t is likely that means
will be found to continue the work
still longer If there Is need for 1t. Much
of this material has been unavailable to
American students in the past. At the
best it could be examined only at the
cost of considerable personal incon-
venience and expense. 1t was widely
scattered over the European Continent.
Now it all is concentrated in one place.
The Library Of Congress, with its
great deposits of manuscript material.
already is the headquarters for most
researches in American history. In the
future it should prove still more con-
venient and popular center for students
Of all phases Of that great drama of
national growth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

Style, In writing, Is like the perfume
Of the lilac. The flower would be as
beautiful but not rs interesting with
out it.
heavily hammered. The peculiar thing
is that the one may be as good as
the other, If done with the proper APP
probation Of values.
Style is trick of phraseology, which,
carried to excess, becomes distasteful.
but which gives flavor to writing II 1t
Is handled with discrimination.
One might think that all writers
would have recourse to such q plain
method as this, but not until he had
investigated the matter personally
would he realize that 1t constitutes the
most difficult end Of writing.
The most difficult, surely, because 1t
Is the easiest to indulge in, and there
He who laborS much after style"
will lose it, lose it in the act Of catch
ing it, like the bird upon whose tail
the children try to sprinkle salt.
Style Is the condiment Of smooth
flowing prose. It has nothing to do
with whether sentences are short or
long, simple or involved. TheSe are
background considerations matters
which should have been taken care OF
long ago.
Smoothness in writing is the secret
of the best writing, If the finger can
be placed on any one element. It can
be SO placed, let 1t be remembered, only
ments of style" exist only in the books
of those who profess to be able to do
something which common sense knows
they cannot do.
Smoothness, however, Is the nearest
one can come to naming the nearest,
commonest element, the one quality
which distinguishes the best writings.
This flow, gentle or grand, quiet or
turbulent, comes not only in the COM
bination of syllables and words, but
even more in those hidden things of
heart and mind which lie behind words.
There is always more in the great
writers than is on the surface of the
page. That Is why such reading is
often perplexing to the active mind.
One cannot read so little as a sentence
without being put in mind OF some
sthing else.
The reader is stirred. Strange fig
ments of the Imagination pass before
his eyes. Where he Is told about q
barn, he sees the cows entering 1t. He
not only reads between the lines-he
reads on top OF the lines, and beneatn
them, too.
X X X
This easy flow of supple prose, the
ambition of most writer's, may or may
not be secured effortlessly. The labor
behind the finished product means
nothing; the. reader is not interested in
it, except incidentally.
This smoothneSs is rather Of the mind
than of the printed page. Again let 1t
be stated that the length of sentences
has nothing to do with 1t. The anna
teur is liable to make his big mistake
right here, taking long sentences for
smooth-howing ones, simply because
they run on SO.
Mechanical structure has little to do
with it. Genuine smoothness has to do
with ideas, or the relation Of facts.
either facts per Sc or in fiction. (There
is a saying, as every one knows, Truth
Is stranger than f1ction.~
Ask any writer, of any degree Of abil-
ity, what he would like to be able to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Says Cats and Dogs
Not Needed i'm Git
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Referring to letter Of Katharine
Birney Seip in Fridays Star:
1t would be strange kind of man or
woman who hated dogs and cats in
their proper places. I love dogs in the
country, where they are needed to pro-
tect property, and cats to keep down
rats, ETC.; but in the city they are out
Of their element.
The poor things suffer from being
shut up, and should never be abused, as
there are many greater disturbing ele-
ments, as mentioned by your CORE
spondent
This is my point of view, gained by
years of experience:
Count the money spent for licenses
and food for the thousands of animals
IN the District. This should be given
to aid poor aged men and women, many
OF whom have possessed means, but for
various reasons find themselves without
homes, money or ability to make a
living. 1t is heart-breaking!
You may be the next one, and, God
knows. We should give a little to help
these INDECENT ones! r. B. BLACK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

personalities and keen-minded men Of
the game" The Blade refers to the
fact that "it was his fate to pass out Of
life in the closing hours of the season,
with the team he has long managed out
of the pennant race, but only a step be-
hind the winner"
"As manager of the New York YAM
KEGS recalls the Albany Evening News,
"he had won six remnants and three
world championships. He had a fight
ing soul, an alert mind, and he believed
in clean sport. Miller Higgins was a
commander of men in his own field, and
he could have led in other fields. Base
ball has lost a leader and the world of
sport a figure that it admired and
liked" The Yakima Morning Herald
describes him as 'the general eXtraordi-
nary of the diamond" and as lone of
the leaders in raising the national game
to the status of big business
IAN organizer behind the scenes, and
a master of the mechanism and the
strategy OF the most intensive, charac-
teristic and popular of American sports,'
is the appraisal by the Syracuse Herald,
which adds that "in that capacity he
had no superior, and perhaps no equal,
in the base ball history of his last dec
ade." The Canton Daily News offers
the Judgment: "HugginS was necessarily
Stabilizer of Maynard men,. His sue
cess In finally holding the mercurial
Ruth tc steady course was, in his field,
a notable achievement. In an age where
war was the national game, as used to
be the case, Higgins would have been a
famous and beloved little corporal
with somewhere between 100 and 100,-
600 men at his back. Within the range
of his opportunities, the little manager
Of the 'Yanks' performed as nearly per-
feet work as this imperfect world often
sees. To his memory be praise, respect
and admiration accordingly
I'm that tense hour of expectancy
which precedes the dawn of another
world series, where for so many years
he held the spotlight, applause for rival
teams dies away to give place to silent
grief of multitudes over the passing of
one Of the great Of base ball. A fighting
general of the diamond, Higgins de-
manded that his players give to the
game precisely what he gave himself
the best that could be given to win.
How right he was he proved in the for
midable team that he made the New
York Yankees-champions of cham
pions. In the victories that followed
each other through tie years, Higgins
stimulated interest in base ball to an
extent that cannot even be estimated:
not only to the Yankees and the league.
but to the game, his loss is irreparable'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Virginia Mountaineers
Not Entirely Neglected
To the Editor of The Star:

Az bhS 3.uibOE VA 4uC Sb6Es
In your paper as we'll as in other
papers I have read some articles tell
ing of the conditions existing in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I
should like to tell of some other con-
ditionS which also exist there, in order
to give a more complete picture Of our
mountain people. feel qualified to
speak because have been working
among these same mountain people
most OF the time since June, 1908, for
years as an active mission worker in
the mountains of Greene County and OF
late at the headquarters of the Episco-
pal Archdeaconry Of the Blue Ridge,
in touch with 80 missions which we
maintain in seven mountain counties.
/ think that practically all OF the
statements made in your series of arti-
cles are true in some cases, perhaps in
many cases. But 1t is not true that
such conditions exist generally. know
Of a few mountain cabins where there
has been hunger. These cases have
been the result of q lazy, trifling hus-
band and father. But for the most
part the children do not chew tobacco
'to stay the pangs of hunger" but be-
cause they think it Is the manly, or
finds homes where the diet Is not well
regulated, yet 1t Is plentiful, and there
are no pangs of hunger, though there
may be malnutrition.
The Episcopal Church has established
missions through the Blue Ridge in this
section, as many as we could procure
funds to keep up, and wherever the
missions of the church have been well
established there has been developed
community of people who are rapidly
learning better ways. Many one
room cabin has been enlarged. Many
a screen has been fitted to door and
window. Many child has been taught
the better ways Of cooking and planning
a well balanced meal and many fam
lily has profited thereby. We have q
fine industrial high school, accredited,
and full all the time with bright. eager
young minds. We send there as many
Of the specially promising children from
our day schools as we can get FUNDS 10
support. We have a preventorium,
where, under the care of q trained
nurse who is an expert In this line,
undernourished children and those VINO
for any reason may be threatened with
tuberculosis are built UP into perfect,
rosy health and taught how to i've
when they 60 back home. Our pro-
gram of work among these people mas
been from the start-that Is, since l9Oo-
q scientifically directed program Whlcn
uncovers and remedies fundamental
causes" It Is for this reason that ]
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Felicitous Fountains.

Although season approaches when
the sensory appeal of a fountain Is abb
sent or greatly diminished, yet 1t is
likely that no one has read without
happy anticipation Of the proposal to
enhance the charms Of Potomac Park
with an electric fountain which. in
stalled In the waters Of the Tidal Basin
not far from the boathouse, will throw
a jet high in air, to the consequent
pleasure Of the many motorists and
pedestrians who pass there in all but
the most inclement weather. Col. Grant,
director Of the Office Of Public Build
ings and Public Parks, has under con-
sideration this suggestion, first made, it
is recalled, by one of his predecessors
some thirty years ago.
A fountain is perhaps as sure-fire an
attraction as exists. Marked differences
of opinion prevail as to the merits OF
statuary, band stands and other fea-
lures of a pretentious parking scheme,
but practically every one likes to see and
to hear cascading or dropping water.
The Jets which form the Rainbow Foun-
tain" at the eastern end of the Lincoln
Memorial pool have added greatly to
the beauty of that locality. To have
further similar attractions at strategic
points throughout the District would
give pleasure eventually to millions Of
persons.
It is thought that America has Jagged
behind the Old World in her appreci-
alton of fountains and their utilization
in comprehensive decorative schemes.
Possibly this has been overdone abroad
where, for example, with the termina-
ton of the extravaganza Of Bourbon
kings, it has been found SO expensive
to play the fountains of Versailles that
these are turned on only at long inter-
walls. Inventive genius has since de-
veloped machinery whereby foolish
waste is eliminated by the utilization of
the same water over and over again
The fountain in Dupont Circle, speci-
men of this scheme, is enjoyed daily in
torrid weather by thousands. The plan
for the Tidal Basin fountain Is Of this
sort, naturally, and others could be
placed here and there on land through
out all parks adjacent to Potomac
waters. That Col. Grants office may
find a method and sufficient funds
speedily to put into operation this sug-
gested fountain and. later, others, is
general hope. There can scarcely be
too many Of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

This Is a special department devoted
to the handling Of inquiries. You have
at your disposal an extensive organi-
cation in Washington to serve you in
any capacity that relates to informa-
ton. Write your question, your name
and your address clearly and inclose 2
cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send
to The Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, director,
Washington, d. c.
@. Has any city, other than San
Francisco, four street car lines on one
street,. L. T.
A. New orleans is the only other
city in the United States which has four
street car lines on one street.
@. What became Of the money con-
tributed to the Irish Republic?-J. A. G.
A. On May IL, 1927, Judge Peters of
New York Supreme Court decided that
neither the Irish Free State nor the
Republican party was entitled to the
money contributed by subscribers to the
Irish Republic and ordered the money
returned to the subscribers after legal
expenses, ETC., had been made. The
money was deposited in the Hartman
National Bank and the Guaranty Safe
Deposit Co., New York City. The re-
ceivers placed in charge Of the funds
are j. e. Murphy and j. L. Buckley.
Claims are being considered and 1t Is
impossible to say when the final settle
ment will be ordered. All claims may
be submitted to the receivers at the
banks given.
@. Who was the Prof. King who was
known as balloonist about 1902
j. A. M.
A. He was an aeronaut and scientist,
born in Philadelphia in 1928. He ran
travelling balloon shows and put on
show at the Columbian Exposition at
Chicago in 1893. He wrote several
books on balloons.
@. When did meat packing become
an industry?-C. S.
A. The history of the packing indus
try begins in the seventeenth century
in New England, where large quantities
Of pork were packed In barrels for for
eign trade. The first packing house in
the West was established in Cincinnati
in 1918. Cincinnati continued to lead
In the industry for many years, but Is
now surpassed by Chicago, while in
many Western cities the industry has
risen to great importance. Prior to 1872
most Of the slaughtering was done dur
ing the Winter months. About that
time the chilling process began to be
developed. The development of the
packing industry is largely due to the
application of artificial means Of refrig-
Grafton, for at the foundation of all
successful meat curing Is the thorough
chilling of the carcass.
@. When was oil first found in COM
mercial quantity in Oklahoma
j. W. w.
A. The first well which brought in
Oil in commercial quantity was drilled
in Red Fork, Oklahoma. Oil was struck
June Is, 1901. This was Bland Well,
No. /, and 1t started the development
of the great Midcontinent Oil field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

do best and II he is honest. or If he
knows you well enough to believe you to
be sincere in your inquiry, he will state
that he would prefer to be able to so
write that his writings would satisfy
him, not you.
Few writer's ever satisfy themselves.
They may get thrill UP that back
bone, at the end OF their work, or be
placed the manuscript away to "cool
off," as the saying is, when they come
back it seems dull and lifeless to them.
Some believe in polishing, others in
letting alone. The first regard the word
masses as jewels, capable of receiving
benefit from bufing process. The re-
mainder of the fraternity feel that a
certain Intangible but nevertheless
crude power lies in first expression.
That is why they want their thoughts
to flow on, to hold their own interest as
well as that of future readers. They
believe that If their thoughts come
yelling forth, much as the cool water
from a spring, the written result will
possess a certain surety Of manner in
line with Nature.
~ n n II
II they can get this quality in their
work, they have but to add to 1t the
spice of real style to make it better.
The danger they run Is In introducing
q certain preciousness, running all the
way from the "dowery" to the mildly
affected.
The firm handclasp which every
writer wishes to give every reader Is lost
in one Of those namby-pamby shakes"
described best by the term "fishlike."
Just as the limp, fiabby handclasp Is
universally disliked, so prose cluttered
up with extreme mannerisms Is devoid
Of real style.
One Of two things has happened:
Either the writer has overdone himself
or he Is devoid of the inner ability to
avoid "fine writing" so called.
In either case he misses style. He
has turned his literary saltcellars upside
down, he has strained himself so anx-
iously that the reader Is Ill at ease, too.
Conscious approximations Of style
never equal those genuine outpourtngs
Of the heart and mind which come
when o writer is as natural in his writ
ing as the bird In its flying or the cat
In its mewing.
When a man writes as a dog barks.
he gets style, and he does not have to
sit up late at night to think about how
it Is done.
It does itself, or at least so it seems.
Every writer thinks that If he could
just "cut loose the words would dow
from him like q mighty river. In
visions he sees himself effortlessly ex-
ceiling all his past work as the sun
does the moon.
Not only his words will roll smoothly,
then, but the very sinews Of his thought
will be so ordered that his flowing
prose will sparkle forth, every now and
then, in those literary felicities which
are called style. It is not a good word.
It expresses too much and too little.
Yet it is the best we have, designating
a very sure thing In the art Of writing.
American prose at the present time
is too little styled; Every one writes
well-and much the same. Even the
style" Of such a writer as Ernest
Hemingway fails to be convincing. He
has been reading Maeterlinck's plays!
He cannot fool anybody. We have read
that dialogue elsewhere. It Is some
body elSe'S salt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Two Bodies Interested
In Preserving 'Wayside'
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Private citizens interested In the pres
ervation of "Hawthorne's last home" as
described in letter in a recent edition
Of The Star, should communicate with
either Lawrence Fletcher, executive sec
rotary Trustees Of Public Reservations, SO
Congress street, Boston, or Sumner Ap-
pleton, secretary Society for the Preser-
walton of New England Antiquities, at
Lynde and Cambridge streets. Boston.
Both of these organizations are inter-
ested in ''Wayside." Either or both are
suitable instruments through which
friends may work or contribute to this
cause. CHARLES w. ELIOT, 3D..