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Complimentary Closing

customary.
Complimentary Closing
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
am a constant reader of
your column and enjoy 1T very
much for it's cultural education.
Last week you emphasized the
fact that one should never use
you kindly explain the proper
expression to be used when one
is introduced to either a man
or a woman?
2. would also like to know
a better way, more original
way than the old traditional
Yours truly" for ending a busi-
ness letter or casual friendship
letter.
ROBERT.
Very gladly will l, for it is
most important that, in these
daily occurrences of introductions,
We know exactly what to say.
And exactly what to say is. al.
ways, How do you do?" We
may, If we wish, add the name.
How do you do, Miss Hall?"
and this makes the phrase even
more mannerly.
2. There is no other form for
ending a business letter but the
three Of the truly variety:
Very truly yours Yours very
truly" and Yours truly" In
this case. as in the case of your
first question tradition is what
rules, and it is better to be
traditional than incorrect.
However, in the last part of
your question. you say. ''the
casual friendship letter. wYours
truly is never in good form
for the ending of social letters.
For the semi-formal social let.
ter, Every sincerely yours is
the best ending. For a man an
especially good form for the
ending Of the semiformal social
letters is faithfully yours" And
indeed for a woman, too. for
that matter.
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scarf ensembles are being created
and many scarfs have monogI :
on one end and they come in all
shapes and sizes The fashionable
Partisan carries her scarf in her
hand with her purse if she does
not wear IT.
CcopyriEht. 1929. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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NEW SPRING
FASHION
TIPS

The jacket adds to its glory by
being accompanied by matching
scarf of the same material. Very
effective when soft, varf-striped
wooden is chosen, This ensemble
is frequently worn with an an u
white get.up, including whlte
gloves, belt, hat, and shoes.
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EngImd's Oldest "Fire Engine"

The ldest "re engine" in England found home the
London Museum IS large wooden tub, and water
pumped through pipe middle 1t rested originally
on a carriage with solid wooden wheels
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What DO You KnOU!?
ANSWERS TO TODAY'S TEST
For Questions. See Editorial Page

L. Oliver Perry 1885, g. E. Hughes; s. General John
Pershng; Benares; Hmaayas Quebec Kipling
Argus g. Goddess of harvest TO- Sorceres H. Most beautiful
woman 1 powerful god 49, Massachusetts,; a. Fou 15
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For a pattern Of this model,
send Is cents In stamps or coins
directly to Washington Times
Fashion Bureau. 55I Fifth Ave-,
New York city.
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MARIE PROVOST says: "a
soap as delightful as the flne
soaps of Paris is a joy. Lux
Toilet Soap gives my skin .
delightful satiny -smoothness. =
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exquisite little Paramount in the bathroom of dark
tile butn Hollywood
who Lux Toilet Soap
lovely She The charm of perfect
but for star it is business necessity,
guard the ootness of their skin with Lux
dG;i .n in s9Ru 9sot e9so1 sSsia2 Keeps '''' ~ H40
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g out of 10 screen stars
keep their skin smooth aeih
Lur Toilet Soap

When the popular closeup is being taken, the
glare from the new incandescent ':sun-spot''
lights streams down on.the screen star, and any
defect in her skin would inevitably be registered
on the highly sensitized film.
This is why, Of the 451 important Hollywood
actresses, including all stars, 442 are devoted
to Lux Toilet Soap. They have found that this
delicately fragrant white soap gives their skin
the satin-smoothness necessary for the closeup.
In fact, so delighted are they with this soap
that it has been made the official soap in the
dressing rooms of all the great film studios.
You will be charmed with Lux Toilet Soap,
too. Try it-today. Remember: nine out of
ten screen stars use it for smooth skin.
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Rough and ready sports millinery
promises to be interesting as well
as durable this year. Sometimes
the coarser weayes of straw blend
as many as four or five colors to.
gether. suggesting a multi.colored
tweed. Dull and shiny straws are
also a very smart blend.
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Far from being downhearted.
blue slippers still smile archiv al
the mode. A formal afternoon
slipper combines navN-blue s''tin
with periwinkle-blue crepe. Blue
and gray kid pipe mild note OF
trimming.
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When Manners Are Correct
BY Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-

, who walks to the left and takes
her place. Last come the bride
and her father.
4. The best man.
5. No, it is not necessary, or
CUSTOMARY
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Use of the Telephone

the 32500000 telephones in throughout the world
Great l63802 this country there sixteen
telephones 100 inhabitants Great Britain the tee
phones 100 only 36
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Nothing stirs the heart
like soft, smooth skin,
say 39 leading
motion picture directors

4 GIRL with lovely skin, petal smooth, has
"A a. delightful sense of confidence She
knows that she wins hearts wherever she goes.
Hollywood has found that it is only the girl
with exquisite skin whose charm really wins
and holds the great public.
AS Lewis Milestone, Paramount director,
puts it: Smooth, exquisite skin is more capti-
vating than anything else about a girl. A
screen star especially must have perfect skin
for the cleverest makeup can't fake it under
the fierce lights of the closeup.
''"The girls who have achieved stardom, . he
goes on to say, though they differ widely in
type, all have this essential beauty of marvel
Gus skin.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10

within a radius of 80 or 100. miles OF
Moscow, but even my relatively small
experience enabled me to realize that
those who fight In the country, using
every means, including the most savage
individual violence, against the Com
munists. are not a mere handful of rich
peasants, but the whole mass Of the
moujiks.
Condemn State Farms.
I have talked with dozens of people
familiar with the Russian countryside
and tales agree at every point. The
peasant wilr not hear of these vast
state farms, or, in other words, of corn
producing factories, where his only post
is that OF a wage slave. And that Il
why, If he should happen one night tc
be more Infatuated than usual, he will
90 and set fire to Soviet farms.
The man the peasant hates above all
is the so-called village correspondent
usually q loafer, who finds it easier to
earn living by sending reports to the
Soviet newspapers and authorities than
by tilling the earth. If the peasant
should meet such a fellow at night in
some isolated spot, 1t may quite easily
happen that he will knock the CORE
spondent on the head or stab him with
out further argument. If the GORE
spondent" takes no risks and keeps to
his cottage, he will be watched evening
after evening, and II he should care
lessly show himself at the window it is
likely that he will get bullet through
his head.
These things have become so much
part of the local customs that one day
q young restaurant waitress whom
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the truth Is told, the Soviet buying ma
chinery cannot find the necessary corn
to feed the cities, and consequently still
more to export, because the peasant has
reduced the areas sown, as the present
regime gives him no chance, even by
working hard, or greater profits or en-
| joying an easier life.
Not only does the government buy
the peasants corn at q very much
higher price than its real value and
sell the peasant industrial merchandise
Of bad quality at very high prices but
what Is worse, the unhappy inhabitant
Of the country districts Is often unable
to purchase in the state cooperative
stores the goods he has to have
clothing, textiles, footwear and such
elementary gear as he wants for his
farms.
ParaIyzed by Taxes.
As If this were not enough, there Is
also a system of agrarian taxes so vexa-
! tiouS and reactionary as to paralyze
by itself alone the whole of agricultural
production.
The we'll known measures OF wheat
requisition by the police in the Spring
of 1928 made this state of affairs, If
anything, worse, and the concessions
subsequently granted to the peasant by
government afraid the argiculturists
strictly required for themselves and
their families failed to restore conf
dence or to increase production Of
cereals
In such circumstances it is not diff
cult to follow the frame of mind of the
Russian peasant, and the Soviet press
tells all sorts of edifying stories on the
subject. To Justify repressive meas
ureS inflicted on the villages, we are
told that the ,kulaks kill the peasant
correspondents of the newspapers, as
well as the tax gatherers. and generally
the members of the Communist party,
and that they set fire to Soviet farms.
STILL except in Siberia. in the Uk-
raine and the Caucasus, there are prop
erly speaking, no real kulaks in the
u. S. s. r.
IT have travelled between 5000 and
5000 miles trying to find kulaks," was
told by an agricultural engineer who
had spent 80 years in the country, land
with great difficulty making bare iv-
ing. The average income per head in
Russian village does not amount to more
than or 10 roubleS a month.
Sometimes have met peasants who
vere more active than their fellows or
owned better land and perhaps some
agricultural machinery and few head
Of cattle, and they enjoyed a very
humble measure of comfort, but that is
about all. AS for rich or very well to do
peasants holding a village in the hollow
of their hand (kulak in Russian means
f1st)-well, I have never met any.
"One day one such was reported to
me. went long way to meet him,
and I found that he did possess two
horses and four cows. but he also had
10 children, and was just skin and
bones"
Personally have only visited villages
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BY PAUL MARION.

PARIS, october 9 (NAN.A).-At q
meeting of the Central Bolshevist Com
MAittee last November a delegate called
Troumkine was bold enough to say:
SaOutside q very small body of poor
peasants, the countryside is hostile to
ils. Our agriculture is on the down
grade. Our peasants have no sense OF
perspective"
That was the first time I heard truth
uttered by official lips in Russia. ]
must add that Froumkine had to sub
nit to the severest kind of rebuke from
Stain himself Nothing was bad
enough TO say Of him, and he has held
his tongue ever since.
In spite of every kind of window
dressing, it is difficult for the masters
of the U. S. S. r. to explain how, in an
essentially agricultural country like
Russia, which, according to them, en-
joys an economic organization far above
the capitalist system, and whose gov
eminent is based on an alliance between
workmen and peasants, corn is perma-
nently lacking, in spite of several con-
eecutive years of bumper Sarvests.
The oficial explanation OF this para
dox Is O series of considerations on the
backward state of Russian agriculture.
We are told that the personal consuSNp-
ton per head among the peasants has
gone up, and our attention is drawn to
the anti-Soviet policy of the Kulaks
(well-to-do peasants).
Socialistic Remedy.
The remedy for this condition Of
things, we are assured, is great So
cialist offensive on the agrarian Sec
tor" the multiplication of immense
Soviet farms for the production Of corn
and the grouping into vast collective
undertakings of peasants small hold
ings. Thus, we are told, Russian agri-
culture will develop.
Facts, however. give the lie to these
explanations and to these forecasts. If
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questioned about her very visible dis
tress said to me: IT lost my husband
three months ago. He was killed by
the peasants"
And why?" asked her.
"fie was o. member Of the party" she
answered quite simply.
Any other explanation seemed to her
unnecessary.
Such relations with the peasants do
not appear to me without danger to
the future of the bolshevist govern
ment. I admit that the special troops
OF the political police will always be
able to get the better of local peasant
risings, but If war or some serious
crisis should break out, it might bring
terrible consequences to the Com
A Soviet oflcial, very loyal to the
regime, told me Of conversation he
had in August, 1928, with peasants in
the Ukraine.
well, my little brothers." he said,
"things are going better now. No more
acquisitions or searches in your barns.
Our Soviet government is going to sup
ply goods to you. It has raised the
price of corn and will grant you credits,
and it has also reduced taxation"
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My friend, upset by this CONVERSE
ton. added that nothing he could say
would make the peasants change their
views.
I do not doubt the bolshevists have
done and are doing everything they pos.
sibly can, both from the material point
of view and by propaganda, to stem
this hostile flood and to increase corn
production.
But the very basis Of their economic
domination, which Is the exploitation
of peasant resources to maintain and
develop an expensive and badly man.
aged industry and to support the needs
of a formidable state machine, forces
them to act in such way that the
masses of the peasants will always re-
main profoundly hostile to them In one
form or another.
One day. this peasant attitude may
cost the Soviets dear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10

"No," he was told. ''That's all over.
We don't believe in Soviet promises any
more. We have had enough Of you.
We are going to sow only for our own
consumption"
Come, comet Don't talk like that.
You know very well that that bandit
Pilsudski (the Polish DICTATOR is watch
ing to seize our Ukraine You would
not want him to benefit by our private
difficulties and to come here with his
soldiers"
1--WE don't care. Let him come"
"But, look here. these Poles would rob
you of everything
"Nonsensel We only know one thing
for certain, and that is that when the
Ukraine is no longer bolshevist but
independent we shall sell our corn at q
better price and we shall pay lower
taxes. And go to war again? Not on
your lifel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
RUSSIAN T ARMERS
HATE RED PARTY
-
Bitter Feeling Steadily Grows
as Stiff Taxes Continue
/ to Mount.

Rails 10 the fifth of series OF seven
Gdlis articles in Whtch Paul Marion, for
EIGHT years an oEtstdndfHO foHre in. the
French Communist party and chief OF
the poIttfcdl agitation and propaganda
aectton, tells of hte dfsiilastoNnent after
rs months in Soviet Russia. What ne
1o1na IN Rassid led aim to resign from
hts party. In these articles he describes
phdI ne found,
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TITS Toasted"-the phrase that describes the extra
"toasting" process applied in the manufacture Of
Lucky Strike Cigarettes. The finest tobaccos-the
Cream of the Crop are scientifically subjected to
penetrating heat at minimum, 200 - maximum,
800, Fahrenheit The exact, expert regulation of
such high temperatures removes impurities. More
than slogan, TITS Toasted" recognized bymillions
as the most modern step in cigarette manufacture.
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Null and Void

The Old.fashioned lads
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YOU'RE Right
The Unfair Sex

The Unfair Ser
The wife who wouldn I
run for political office.
She said Sic was ashamed to
throw a last years hat into
the ring.
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Our Own Vaudeville

Trudy-Can you tell me
where 1 can get a drink
Cop-Sure, swim to Miami
and turn to your left
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DOWN

A NEW YORK opera
u singer has just mar
a ried the scion of a
wealthy family. She GER
tainly knows her heirs.
Efficiency Experts
The restaurant owner who
wouldn't make the portions
any larger, but he served
them on smaller plates.
Take It or Leave It
If love is blind, every
minister is an oculist.
Wonders of Nature
Reformers are the flat
tires on the wheels of
progress.
Ode to Youth
Our rising generation
seems to be sinking.
Null and Void
The Old-fashioned lads
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Wonders Of Nature
Ode to Youth

Our rising generation
seems to be sinking.
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Maybe I'm Wrong
Daily Crossword Puzzle
BY John P. Medbury


who wanted to buy home-
spun revolving door.
Justifiable Homicide
When a J.. large corporation
hires a man at $4,000 q
year to tell its employees
how to live on $48 a week.
You're Right
Many open minds should
be closed for repairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
Democrats Make New Alignment
In Fight on Republican Tariff

go unhridled, any more than should
the industrial schedules. There are
some so-called agricultural commodities
which at the present time have prac-
ucally no competition from imports. but
which are yet seeking higher and higher
rates In order to charge higher prices
to the American people"
This effort by Mr.. Shouse to look at
the whole tariff system with an even
gaze, unbiased either toward agricul-
ture or against industry, but scientifi-
cally just to both. Is very considerably
replacing in Democratic ranks the in
clination toward assuming that every
thing that an agricultural lobbyist saws
is wrong. This does not mean q less
determined fight against alleged ex-
ceases in the present bill. It means
perhaps even O fiercer fight, because
one that will be more logical and more
accurate. At the same time, it indi-
Gates that the Democratic party does
not wish to be considered the party of
a class or Of region and is resolute
TO be national. That drift of purpose,
II carried through, seems likely at this
week end to give to the remainder Of
the tariff fight the color not so much
OF q struggle between factory and farm
as OF a struggle between Republican
liberal estimate and a Democratic
strict estimate of the amount of pro-
lection actually needed to protect the
United States and to stimulate its
future as a whole.
Copyright, 1890
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full days. Certainly for uaost Of the
routine tasks Of the departmental serv-
ice there is no gain in that added half
day. One reason is that the Govern
ment employees feel that their reten-
ton at their desks for the full day Of
Saturday during nine months Of the
year is not justified by the necessities OF
the public service. During three months
of the year, the hottest months, they
are able to maintain an average pace
that keeps the work current. Therefore
they cannot see the need Of being held
to their desks for the additional half
day the rest Of the year. And nobody
does willingly or effectively work that is
regarded as needless.
In practically all the trades the work.
ing week consists of Ave and half
days. The Government alone Of all the
large employers in this country holds its
Operatives" to six-day week save for
three months in Summer when Satur-
day half holidays are granted as a
measure. 1t health protection. The Ma
tional Federas...c1, of Federal Employees
will ask Congress 20 make the Govern
:::.s.t service conform, In respect to
working schedules, to private employ
ments in this country.
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causes has been materially reduced with
a better understanding of preventive
measures on the part of The public and
the fact that milk from tuberculeus
cows has largely been excluded from the
diet Of children. Infantile paralysis u
on the increase. Ricketts,, very largely a
preventable disease, is responsible for
one-fourth Of the deformities.
Millions are spent each year." pr.
Kreuscher says, "for education, but only
paltry thousands for physical recon
struction and rehabilitation in. the
retaining Of the crippled child; In
view Of the fact that eighty per cent
Of cripples are children Of poor parents.
1t becomes obvious that the munich
pality, the State and even the Federal
Government must assist In this inn
portant work. Improvement in the
social and economic status Of the
crippled child viii be accomplished more
successfully when the various agencies
now working Independently. and more
or less inef1ciently, combine their efforts
with those of the organized medical and
surgical profession"
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Crippled Children.

The crippled child presents . par
ticularly pathetic picture upon which
the American College of Surgeons will
center its. attention at the annual
clinical congress Of this distinguished
body in Chicago next month.
Plans are under way for demonstra-
tons by noted orthopedic surgeons Of
procedure which promises to relegate
to the trash heap the cumbersome and
painful buckles, braces and casts which
have been the chief instruments Of
treatment in the past. The clinics will
try to show what surgery is accomplish
ing to make useful citizens Of the
265,000 crippled children in the United
States. The College of Surgeons also
plans an educational campaign to
acquaint the public with methods of
preventing deforinity producing diseases.
1.-THE care Of the destitute and Grip
pied child has become q national
problem" says DIR. Philip H. Kreuscher,
president Of the Chicago chapter Of the
college.
A survey made by the International
Society for Crippled Children shows
that there are more than a half million
cripples in the United States and half
of these are under sixteen years Of dye.
lightweight thousand are crippled as
q result Of infantile paralysis and to
this number seventeen thousand names
are added annually. For each hundred
thousand population there are fifteen
hundred crippled children, eighty per
cent Of whom have INDECENT parents.
Deformities among children, the sur
vey shows, arise chiefly from tubercu-
losis, infantile paralysis. ricketts, and
congenital nlalformations. The number
Of deformities from the Arst Of these