davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1929-12-01
All Signs Point to a
Record Christmas Trade
BY HARDEN COLFAX,

st. Nicholas is grooming his faithful
reindeer for big job this month, for
all road signs point to a heavy traffic
this Christmas season.
The conflict between the bulls and
bears for domination of the stock pas
ture appears to have left Prancer and
Dancer and their teammates unper-
turbed and sound in mind and limb for
their annual dash to the aid Of good
| cheer.
Merchants report healthy early Yule-
tide trade in all parts of the country.
With the Thanksgiving holiday out of
the way, the Christmas sales season will
start in earnest Monday.
For the benefit of those who supple
ment the efforts Of Santa Claus with
gifts to friends and relatives it should
be stated that stocks of retailers this
year are no larger than they were
year ago, and it will be recalled by late
shoppers that a shortage of supply in
various lines developed last year. The
Federal Reserve Board reports stocks
of department stores identical in size
October 81 in the two years, while of
seven reporting lines of Wholesale trade
decreases in stocks were reported by
four this year.
| That retailers anticipate rushing bust
ness Is indicated by q study of the
! want ad" pages of newspapers of 80
representative cities last week, which
disclosed appeals for temporary sales
people in % of these cities. Retail
trade In October was 80 per cent
greater than in the same month year
ago, in the United States as a whole,
with an increase in eight and decrease
in four of the dozen Federal Reserve
districts. Measured by check payments,
business is more active than year ago.
Reports to the Department of Com
merce show check payments for the
week ended November % at the index
hgure 1928, in contrast with 1915 in
the corresponding week of 1928. These
figures are based on the average for
the period 1923-25 as 100.
Advertising is likely to play a major
role in Christmas trade this season,
With even greater competition between
lines Of goods for the customers dollar
In the field of branded wares adver-
tlSed by manufacturers and with mer-
chants apparently determined to eX-
pand their budgets to attract buyers to
their individual offerings of merchan-
disc and service. Shopping selections
are simplified when the prospective pur-
chaser may scan the descriptive text
and the illustrations of an advertise
ment for ideas, and the power of print
promises to be reflected this Christmas
season in the jingle of cash registers
even more than formerly.
The Post once Department expects
a tremendous business in the mails this
year, with the crest arriving December
10 and a sudden ebb December 20.
Judging from orders for postage stamps
placed by postmasters, these officials an
tlcipate an increase of about per cent
in mail matter this year, contrasted
with last. Approximately four billion
stamps are being requisitioned this sea-
son.
| (CopyriEht, 1921
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Boosts for Boards.

Since the first man, somewhere far
back in prehistory, took a grouse's
wishbone for tweezers and plucked out
certain hairs that dotted his counte-
nance the conflict between whiskers
and no whiskers has gone steadily for
ward. Sometimes the boards have been
far in the lead; sometimes the adher-
ents of the clean shave have been on
top, depending somewhat on climate
and degree of hirsuteness.
Within the last half century the anti
whiskeriteS have been pretty we'll in
the ascendant. as a glance at any fam
lily album will testify. OF late, however,
the pro-whisker movement has received
impetus from several influential quar-
tiers. Maurice de Waleffe, an eminent
resident of France and part owner of
one Of the more influential newspapers,
has urged whiskers for all Frenchmen
past the age Of thirty, declaring:
"Whiskers form part of our national
type. Our young men, aping Ameri-
leans, have abandoned whiskers. We do
not want to become standardized Amer
leans. Let us be French"
Down in italy the distinguished min
lister for aviation, Gen. Balbo, has been
able largely to re-establish the old
fashioned chin beard as facial adorn-
ment for italian males of all ages and
stations. These S1uare-cut tufts are
considered an indication Of patriotism
and fascism. Whiskers of all sizes
shapes and cuts are still a feature OF
Slavic national life, especially in the
rural districts. On this side of the At
lantic severe counterstroke has been
dealt by recent resident of Los An
geles, who left bequeSt to a young
male relative on the condition that he
never attend dances or movies, join
secret society or grow a mustache. Not
only does a national type vacillate in
it's preference, but so does an indi-
vidual. A good-looking and we'll kept
beard causes about as much trouble to
its wearer as would a daily shave
Boards are never completely out OF
fashion, never completely in; and
doubtless when Gabriel blows that long
anticipated blast, it will be responded
to by all possible varieties of facial
foliage" even including those rarest
and most inexplicable types, the burn
side" and the "dundreary." If but
some superscientist could devise q way
hairs to the uppermost portion of the
male cranium-ah, there would be an
achievement!
Evening star., 1929-12-01

mass in one Of the college chapels. But
it so turned out that he was to take
part no longer in this sacred symbolism
of sacrifice, for in the night had been
enacted the eternally recurrent drama
of the martyrdom and glory of science
with himself as the central figure.
Father Tondorf not only made SUBJ
stantial contributions to science in his
own person. He was hardly less out
standing as an educator and inter-
prefer and the list of his students who
have followed the same path of mystical
adventure and service in the light of
the inspiration he gave them is i'm
pressive. A flaming torch in the hands
Of leader of men has gone out.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
TEXT: st. Mark, 1921. Then Jesus
beholding him loved him"

TEXT: st. Mark, 1921. Then Jesus
beholding him loved him."
For the past few years we have been
hearing much about "the new youth
movement" There can be little doubt
| that the reconstruction period follow
ing the war has been marked by
greater demonstration of the youth
spirit than we have hitherto known.
Along with it there has come a new
minded of that striking phrase used by
the Master in which He declared that
new wine must be put into new wine
skins. The implication of this is that
the new and fermenting wine if put in
old receptacles works to their destruc-
ton, and both wine and receptacle are
lost. That there is desire for adapta-
ton to changed conditions, new sense
of independence in the youth of the
present generation, Is quite true. We
sometimes wonder If we are not exag-
gerating this whole matter. My own
experience, especially in universities,
leads me to the inevitable conclusion
that the present-day youth has no de-
sire to be regarded as the advocate of
new and novel ways of living, nor has
he any desire to be regarded as abnor-
NAL. Nothing in our Judgment could be
more fatal than to look upon the youth
movement as novel and abnormal ex-
preston of the youth spirit. I recall
that group of young men in one of
our great universities observed to me on
a recent occasion that they did not like
to have preachers come to them and
preach so-called university sermons"
They did not wish to be regarded as
segregated from youth in general, nor
did they wish to have pabulum pre-
sented to them that was for one ex-
elusive and Decllliar tVDe
We shall certainly make more salts
factory progress If we talk less about
the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of
the youth movement. OF all the people
in the world, young men and women do
not wish to be regarded as peculiar. It
is true that, with the new disclosures
of science and the broadening culture
Of our generation, the church must pre-
sent to its young people something
more stimulating and inspiring than
time -honored platitudes. Another thing
that is conspicuously evident is that
our young people are not appealed to by
a so-called comfortable gospel" This
phrase has been used too frequently to
the hurt of the Christian cause. There
is nothing in the ministry Of Jesus to
confirm it. He was the exponent Of
cause that called for the finer elements
of heroiSm. He preached a method OF
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Over the Pole.

These are years of glorious adventure
Man, with fledgling wings sprouted in
the storm-tossed cradle of war. is
breaking loose from the cage of seas,
deserts, mountains and lifeless wastes
Of ice in which the Earth Spirit had
imprisoned him. Only the interior of
the globe, the profoundest ocean depths,
and the other planets remain defiant of
the winged, 1rnpaSsioned youth which
has arisen in the world.
The flight across the South Pole by
Comdr. Richard z. Byrd is a stirring
episode in this epic of adventure and
accomplishment upon which mankind
has started. There are certain ele-
ments in this episode, however, which
merit special attention.
The first is the nature of the country
over which the flight was made. There
Is something fantastic about Antarctic
exploration which grips the imagination
more than does adventure in any other
part of the earth. The mysterious
polar continent is a dead world. Comdr
Byrd's adventure was literally a fight
beyond life into the terrifying loneliness
and silence Of everlasting lifeleSsneSs.
Antarctica is the Kingdom of Death on
this planet. From q few feet beyond
the shoreline to the pole itself there IS
no living thing nor any possibility for
0 sentient creature to exist, except as
he brought essential parts of the out
side world with him.
Thus this flight differs from Comdr.
Byrd's previous adventure over the
North Pole and from the various pas
sageS of winged humans over the
stormy Atlantic and Pacific. In these
other exploits the adventurers never
passed beyond the companionship of the
spirit Of Life. The oceans TEEN with
its manifestations and even the Arctic
ice caps in the neighborhood of the Pole
itself are not inhospitable to living crea-
lures.
But the passes of the black Antarctic
mountains are gateways to a region in
carnating the spirit Of Death as the
rest Of the globe incarnates the spirit
Of Life. The flight grips the imagina-
tion because it is a symbol-one of those
vague, universally recognized symbols
such as arise occasionally out of ma
ture and human behavior-of mans
conquest of Death. It is just short of
an adventure beyond the grave and out
side the bounds of space and time
themselves.
The other element in this adventure
that deserves attention is the character
of the central figure. This invader of the
Kingdom of Death is the opposite of
the daredevil knight Of legend. He is
, an tmagtnation-cursed philosopher and
scientist. His courage is Of that high
est type which proceeds out of imag-
ination and philosophy themselves
rather than out of their absence. It is
intellectual conquest of fear rather
than lack Of fear-and there is an in
finite chasm between the two types of
bravery.
Byrd entered the great loneliness and
silence not as a colorful adventurer.
but as missionary Of science. Thus
he also becomes a symbol-or perhaps
an appropriate part in the greater
symbol Of the exploit itself. For those
acts which express the yearnings and
fears Of humanity which are too deep
Tor words or coherent thought require
men OF spiritual substance as their
central actors to give them immortality.
There must be no dross in the symbol.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

1t is now admitted, even though chill
dren must be disappointed, that there is
no Santa Claus. 1t is better so. A good
old saint Fastening through the dark
could hardly escape suspicion that
might lead to Volstead complications.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Expecting n Guest
There was little meetin'
Down to the general store.
There wasn't any greetin'
And the gloom grew more and more.
I said, why are you gropin'
In sorrow so profound?"
They answered. I'VE are hopin'
For q lobbyist to come round"
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Away back in its history, Chicago
used to be called the wickedest city
in America. The gang talent has
discouraged the authorities to an ex-
tent that may require it to resume its
old reputation.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Safety Islands Hit

From the Haverhill Evening Gazette.
Two women were injured when they
fell over safety islands in Cambridge.
We don't know exactly what these Is
lands are, but even without knowledge
we feel Justified In advising that they
be renamed.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Whether stocks go up or down, busi-
ness cannot fail to establish itself on
q sound basis when an abundance of
remunerative employment on public i'm
provements is assured. America never
boards ITS money.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

The Chinese wish to arbitrate. The
Soviets, once so insiStent on open dis
cussion, maintain q relentless deter
mination to depend on the assertion
Of physical advantage.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

1t is dificult to understand why
readers should care for detective stories
when the destinations of crime research
are disclosed in every edition Of the
newspaper.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

At least one thing has been made
clear in the Mcpherson death case:
1t still affords interesting material for
the amateur detective. Edgar Allan
Poe could have written a wonderful
story about It. - &C. ~.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

1t was long customary to concentrate
attention on the Arctic regions as the
objective of exploration. Comdr. Byrd
has changed this and the Antarctic is
yielding brilliant and rapid results.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Medal for the Bears?

From the Ann Arbor Daily News.
It seems that taxes, following the
stock market trend, are coming down
and wages are going UP. We'll. now,
those bears aren't such bad fellows
after all.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
Molehills and Mountains.

From the Detroit News.
The ONCE cynic approves the idea of
naming q mountain for Senator Borsh
and says In case Of finding molehill
he has others In mind. A
Evening star., 1929-12-01

There were conferences on national
affairs that caused the Thanksgiving
dinner to share in importance with the
White House breakfast.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

AS a friend of Henry Ford, Mr..
Edison should invent some method of
preventing the radiator from freezing
when the temperature goes down.
Evening star., 1929-12-01
(CopyrlEht, 1929
A New Speed Idea,

From the Helena Montana Record Herald.
In view of the American craze for
speed in everything, however inconse-
thought to try golf on roller skates.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

interests Of the road in its Western con-
nections by an alliance with Jay Gould
and his associates, who have recently
got control OF 0 network OF Western
roads"
Evening star., 1929-12-01
No TiDster,

No Tipster.
II want to ask your advice about
political matter?"
II can't help you," said Senator
Sorghum. THE race track and the
stock market are bad enough. But try
ing to give tips on politics is worse"
Jud Tunkins says what some folks
call holiday cheer" is liable to turn
out to be a serious fight between a
bootlegger and hi-jacker.
Talk.
A man who loves to talk I know.
Although do not scoff,
wish he'd try the radio;
Then ] could turn him of.
Difficult Choice.
did you go to night club while you
were in the metropolis"
NO" declared Miss Cayenne, 1.-The
last time made a visit like that, the
beverage was suspicious and shots were
heard just outside the door. am not
suicidally inclined and do not care to
make a choice between pistols and
poison"
"a man may take some pride in pay
ing a debt" said Hi Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown, "since 1t proves that he has
been deemed worthy to be trusted"
will Need a New One.
And while of Christmas gifts I sing,
think it would be rather
Good taste II Santa Claus would bring
A bank account for father.
"De man dat only knows one joke, "
said Uncle Eben, ais better dan de one
dat keeps comm around wifi bunch
o. new hard luck stories"
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Member Of the Associated Press.
The Associated Press IS exclusively entitled
20 the use for republication of all news Gis-
patches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
TIED in this paper and also the local Eews
published herein. All rights Of publication Of
Special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
Maryland and Virginia.
Bsiyy siiy enq on1y Sunday. yr-. 'isoS: mo. sSS
Sunday only i W.. $500; / mo-, 4cC
Evening star., 1929-12-01
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Rate br Carrier Within I

Rate by Carrier Within the City.
3ne Evening Star. ........ .45c er month
The Evening and Sunday Star
when sundaysl -. .6Oc per month
Zhe Evening and Sunday Star
(when 5 Sundays) ........ .65c per month
xne SUNDAY Star -.............. SC per copy
orders may be sent in by mail or telephone
National 5000.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

9aily and Sunday. i VI. $500; mo-, 81. 90
sunday only .......l yr., $500; ] mo, soc
Evening star., 1929-12-01

A man who loves to talk I know.
Although I do not scoff,
wish he'd try the radio;
Then ! could turn him of.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Jud Tunkins says what some folks
call holiday cheer" is liable to turn
out to be a serious fight between a
bootlegger and hi-jacker.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

"De man dat only knows one joke, "
said Uncle Eben, "is better dan de one
dat keeps comm around wifi a bunch
o. new hard luck stories"
Evening star., 1929-12-01

And while of Christmas gifts I sing,
I think 1t would be rather
Good taste If Santa Claus would bring
A bank account for father.
Evening star., 1929-12-01

Recently, during the stock market
collapse, some extraordinarily large buy
.,,, ing orders were
vanderbilt Dig filed in Wall Street
co1a of S+ock as means of sta
6oAC Va OISSn' biliZinO the "liStD
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-01-09
FEVER LYNCHINGS

Five of the foryeight states dsgraced by their
own people In 1928 through the criminal and savage lin
sitution" Of lynch Law. The only satisfaction the
American people derive from that fact is that few
years ago lynchings were common in dozen more
states.
Last year eight negroes and one Mexican were slain
by obs compared with total of sixteen ynchings in
1927 thirty in 1926 seventeen in 1925 and 16 in 1924 The
lynch law record for last given added significance
when is known that the authorities in the South pre-
vented the lynching of fourteen white men, white
woman and twenty-five negroes, and that stern punish
ent meted out to number of persons convicted Of
taking part in these murderous mob upr;sings. few
years ago it would have been suicide-potcal if not
physical-for public official to thwart ynching party
or prosecute the members of such party.
Lynchings put new blots the escutcheons of Mis-
sissipp Missouri, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas in
1928 Georgia and Alabama among the states which
during those twelve months lived up claims to cviz-
aon and where the people had enough respect for law
and moral sense to let the law run its course.
form Of awlessness is decreasing in the United
States 1t is awlessness For that crime troubled
nation is thankful.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-01-09

The Bidding: South bids one
spade and all pass.
Deciding the Play: West leads
King of hearts which Declarer cap
lures with Ace Of hearts. What suit
should Declarer now lead?
The Error: Believing that dummy
should be entered in order to fineSse
Jack Of spades, Declarer leads Of
diamonds towards Ace Of diamonds.
which Is ruffed by East. Game is
lost because opponents also make
Queen Of spades and Ace Of clubs and
King Of clubs.
The Correct Method: No finessing
in trumps should be attempted. De-
clarer counts trumps and finds that
five are held by his opponents. These
are probably divided three and two.
Declarer should play Ace Of spades
and on the next round King Of spades
with q fair chance Of drawing the
Queen OF spades. # the Queen Of
spades, does not fall. sacrifice the
Jack OF. spades. because this play
guarantees game. Opponents cap
ture Jack Of spades and then win two
tricks in clubs. Declarer wins eli Of
the remaining tricks. making game.
It played in any other manner, there
IS no certainty Of making game.
/ The Principle: Draw trumps and
sacrifice one Il necessary when hold.
Ing an established side suit that IN.
sureS game.
Copyright, 1929. Ready RAferenca
Publishing COY
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-01-09
BILLY SUNDAY OUTSUNDAYED'

His voice strained raw his fists milling q Negro
evangelist lowered above his wang audience In the little
Mount Olive frican Methodist EpiscopaD Zion church
at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He to his toes and
enaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors Of he'll
Hystercal cries burst from the listeners: That's right
preacher! Go and preach, man! Amen, amen!"
In front Of the platform . casket piled with
flowers.
According to previous newspaper announcements this
be the funeral Of certain neighbo The evange-
list chanted eulogy over the coffin. The dead man
had committed every sim he screamed. He was wicked,
he had not been ready when the trumpet Of Gabriel called
him to judgment and therefore be would 60 TO eternal
torment
At last eaeer to go what this horrible sinner could
look Ike Staggering. meaning, The congregation filed
forward Each MAN and woman peefed. The casket Was
empty mirror IN the bottom reflected the face Of the
poeDon who atarod.
Evanesist ". =. Fisher who staged the mock funeral
has made speciality o6 this sort Of thing Once he
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-01-09
YOUR
CHILDREN
W Mue Rbezs Barton
Cl028 BY NEA Service.1nc.

"Come here, Mary"
"Just a minute, Mother.
Mary, when I say come, come.
Don't put me off that way"
"All right, I'm coming" Mary
came into the living room dropping
crumbs from her piece Of bread and
butter and jelly.
Don't bring that in here. You'll
ruin the rug. Those greasy crumbs
make spots"
"Mayn't / finish my bread? I'm
awfully hungry"
"Yes-go back to the kitchen and
finish it, but hurry. I want YOU to
do an errand.
"Come here. Mary!"
Eyes, Mother-just minute"
'Mary! Come here. I won't wait
another instant. I'm getting tired Of
your Disseminating me-"
II just had two more, words in
spelling to finish" 4
II don't care. You must learn to
come the minute I call you"
Mary handed in her paper next
day with the two missing words.
She had forgotten all about them
She had to stay in and write each
word Is times after school.
MARY"
Eyes, Mother!"
Come here!"
"Yes. Mother!"
No Mary, however, was immedi-
ately forthcoming.
Mary. what on earth are you
doing? Come here this instant"
Buddy had smeared great streaka
of red. blue. and yellow water-coloz
all over the wallpaper until it looked
like a July sunset.
Mary! I1ary! Come here! Sex
what you've done. you careless girl
You left your paints out and Buddy
has ruined everything in your room.
II was putting them away wheI
you called me-" said poor Mary, mo-
waiting a minute" but BURSTING
frantically into the room. II jus
knew he'd get into my things!
was coloring my map. I tried to shu
the paint box and put it up wher
he couldn't reach It,"
Her mother didn't answer. It wa
beginning to dawn upon her tha
. she was a bit unreasonable abou
this instantaneous business.
! Children should be taught to com
, quickly, it Is true, but how often.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-01-09

A scientist has returned from Cen
tral America with the tale Of . tree In
Guatemala that gives milk. That's
nothing. Farmers have been getting
it out OF wells for years.
A New York woman Is asking for
q divorce because her husband refuses
to fire his stenographer. Maybe
there's q reason on his side, how
ever. The girl may be able to spell.
An unprecedented number Of plays
failed In New York this year. People
are getting tired Of the theater; YOU
can't even pick up any new profanity
there any more.
Chorus girls are too old at as to
meet. the Strenuous demands Of mod
err dancing, says = London trainer Of
chorines. Maybe they are; but who
ever hsa&d of = chorus girl who was
|25?
| A chache of liquor was found un-
der . dog kennel IA. San Francisco.
All the owner has to do Is 60 into
court and prove tho dog is 9 booze
hound.
0ne swallow may make q summer,
but The same doesn't eeem to hold for
New Years Eve.
tOopyright. ls2s. NEA Service. Inc.)