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New Britain herald., 1930-01-21

A F L O R l D A D A U c H T E R OF NEPTUNE M a r i 0 n Nixon, notable of the screen world, paused a moment to face the camera be- tween plunges at t h e fashionable Roman Pools at M i a m i Beach. M i s s Nixon, known in private life as Mrs. Ed. Hillman, has be- come a favorite of the Winter colony.
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New Britain herald., 1930-01-21

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New Britain herald., 1930-01-21

' l. "A l n FIX ELL
 F A s H I o N
 QUEEN This
 Stanley Crane"
 b 0 U ht from South Africa, is one of the stellar attractions at the London Zoologi- C al C ard e Il s, where thousands of s p Q ( f q tors gather before his cage. { Right )
  T his crowned C T d n c h a s brought her stril;- ing hair dress, which seems to of CT a pre-sea son glimpse of l930 mode in Spring millinery,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Another Aimee Chanter.

Whatever may be the virtues or tie
talents or the inspiration Of Mrs. Aimee
Mcpherson, it is assured that she is
one of the best copy makers in Amer
lea. She is continually in the news.
Her spectacular evangelism was her
first introduction to the countrys read
ers. She built up great institution OF
worship and faith by sensational meth
DDS Of exhortation. Then she burst into
print again as the heroine of kid
mapping adventure, which turned out to
be somewhat different and altogether
unpleasant. Followed quarrels with heI
mother, her co-worker in the field OF
the evangelism business, wrangles that
gave the FIRST turn to the tide Of public
interest In this remarkable woman
Her travels East and abroad failed to
attract as much attention as If there
had been no scandal or family disputa-
ton. Then pause, without much
publicity, and now comes a tangled
tale Of nervous breakdown, OF fisticuff;
with her mother, of menacing blind
ness. Surely this ought 10 safe the
most avid appetite for printers ink.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Van Lear Black.

The first thought that occurs in the
case of the disappearance of Van Lear
Black, publisher of the Baltimore Sun,
from his yacht just outside of New
York Harbor is that of the travesty of
fate that brought death by this means
to one who has recently completed the
most remarkable series of air flights on
record without serious mishap and with
a practical filing of all schedules. Mr..
Black vast Is only too painfully clear
that the past tense must be used-an
ardent traveller. He loved the sea and
he had gone far in the yacht from
which he disappeared the other night
on his way TO Baltimore. But he was
an even more ardent devotee of avia-
ton, and by his personal participation
he undoubtedly added richly to its de-
velopment during the past few years.
His exploit of series of flights total
ing, 1t is estimated, $4,000 miles, is
unapproached by any other individual,
unless Col. Lindbergh's mileage may
sum to the same figure, or greater. But
for the Pacific gap, which he closed by
steamship, he circled the globe by
plane.
Mr.. Black, however, is not to be re-
membered alone for his devotion to the
development Of the airplane. He was
marked success in business and his
connection with the publication OF one
of the most successful and respected
newspapers in the country demon
strated his high ability in journalism.
His personality was such as to win and
hold the friendship of multitude of
people. He loved life and he lived Wig
orously, and this fact is what most def
nitely indicates that his tragic ending
was an accident. Yet the mystery of
his disappearance from his yacht may
never be dispelled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Let the Movie Patrons
Vote ON the Orchestras

To the Editor of The Star:
I see by The Star under date Of Au-
gust 10, 1880, that all orchestras play
ing in the different theaters are to be
discharged OH September /, and that
we are to have only canned music.
1t is just too bad that the Capital
OF the richest country In the world
cannot afford to have real music in
the poor movie houses and more than
just too bad that these same movie
houses raised the price of admission
for Saturday afternoon performances
when the Government so kindly gave
us half holiday during the Summer.
VIII these movies give us lower rates
when they give us inferior entertain
ment?
Musicians and good vaudeville artists
are not made in day and are not
usually the kind of people who can fall
into any kind of work, and in addition
to depriving the public of great deal
of pleasure, their discharge will add to
the already large number of unem-
ployed.
Why not give the public a chance to
decide whether they want squawky old
canned music or the real thing? Let
them vote on this question.
In Dallas, Tex, this chance was
given to the public and the decision
was so overwhelmingly in favor of
orchestras that all the movie theaters
put the musicians back on the Job.
Judging from the number of long
lines of waiting patrons who are seen
so often trying to get into the movies,
the theaters are not exactly starving, so
why let the musicians starve? I am
one of these patrons.
For real music and good vaudeville,
LYDIA BOYD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Potomac E'Seaweed''
Needed by Wild Life

To the Editor of The Star:
In the motor department of The Sun
day Star for August II is an article
by G.. Adams Howard which speaks of
seaWeed and Seagrass as a blemiSh on
the appearance of the river along the
Hams Point drive and implies that they
furnish breeding place for mosquitoes.
The growths mentioned are not sea-
weed, but fresh-water plants, of which
wild celery constitutes about 80 per
cent. This is a very important food
plant for wild fowl and is what attracts
ducks of various species to the Poto-
mac River and furnishes the hunting
for which the stream has long been
famous. From Fall to late Spring num-
bers of these birds can be observed from
the riverside drive and must be Of con-
siderable interest to the public. Fur
5hermore. during late Summer these wild
celery beds are frequented by numbers
of egrets and other herons. which are
beautiful and interesting birds. The
wild celery and other plants grow on
shoals as they have done since time
immemorial and, &oeing swept freely by
the tide, are not breeding places of
mosquitoes. Elimination of these shoals
would be very expensive process and
would rob the river of q great deal Of
the interest it acquires from the pres
ence of the unusual and beautiful forms
of wild life they attract.
w. L. McATEE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Protests Dropping of
Theater Orchestras

To the Editor OF The Star:
Mondays Star contained an article in
reference to the elimination of orches-
tras in favor of canned" music. The
theater- going public can and has been
pushed pretty far, but this last thrust
OF the theater corporations is one too
many. Do we who listen to enough
canned" music in the forms of radios
and monographs get cut in admission
fees for listening to such atrocious
noises? Don't we get some compensa-
ton in the form of real musical rendi-
lions after having our nerves shattered
for the sake of some well filmed
picture?
Theater corporations are reaping har-
vests from the movies. Only glance
at the financial page of daily is neces-
sary to confirm that. Why should they
curtail expenses further by discharging
musicians or expecting them to take Q
reduction in wages when their profits
are increasing stupendously? It seems
that their desire Is to add nothing tt
unemployment relief, or at any rate tt
discourage the maintaining of our nov
| seemingly good standard Of living.
The solution of the problem lies moi
| with the patrons but with the theatel
/ owners themselves. The patrons in the
past have seemed more than willing Il
meet increases in rates. Will they stanc
this present gazing? hope not.
My family has decided unanimously
| to forego the little entertainment theS
have had at the theater until a sobel
agreement is reached with musician.
and we get nearly our moneys worth
| again. That last statement shows thai
we are still willing to be gypped some.
I am not a musician, but a wage
Garner. NORMAN c.. SEEWAID. :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Food Profiteering
Must Be Prevented
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor of The star:
Necessary foods, especially fresh veee-
tables and some of these holdovers OF
several days, and canned goods, canned
on. d two years ago, have increased
in price almost overnight IS and 35 per
cent There Is Simon-pure profiteering
in these prices. Some of the vegetables
are "culls,' and one and two year old
canned goods were bought by the job
bers and retail stores at the wholesale
price of one and two years ago. SO the
rs and IS per cent advances IN prices
now are nothing less than prof1teerlng
of the most braZen character. Weeks
since I called attention to the fact that
wheat has been at 81 or less a bushel
for months; as low-cash wheat in
Chicago-as 81 cents a bushel. Never
theless, bread Is at the same price n
washington. d, g.. as 1t was when
| wheat sold at 81 so or more bushel.
| The price paid for beef-cattle, sheep,
| lambs, hogs is (75 cents per sheep in
| one case, 10 cents per pound, steers; o
cents per poun, sheep, and hogs from 81
to So less than year ago, while beef
steak, mutton, lamb chops and pork
| crop prices to the consumer today are
little less than before these unprece-
denied low prices now paid to the cattle
/
I suggest as an immediate remedy
against these proflteering prices of
meats, vegetables and bread in wash
tngton, d. c., that the Secretary of
Agriculture and the District Commits
sioners, through their market and food
inspection bureaus, have printed in
every daily newspaper of Washington,
d. c., the wholesale price of meats,
vegetables and flour (by the barreI
and in the same issues of the papers
have printed the retail prices. Fave
these prices printed in juxtapositi n
columns. Then the consumer can Judge
and call down, shame and refuse to
pay the retail prof1teers their asking
prices.
Can these profiteers be made to sell
at reasonable prices?
| A means might be found. recall
| that when the coal barons and miners
of Pennsylvania were called to Wash
ington, that President Roosevelt might
get from them their reasons for the
then non-1nining Of coal, the President
after two days of listening to both sides
told the mine owners to "go home and
open their mines in two days or he
would send the Marines to see that IL
was done" "Oh, but, Mr.. President
there is no law to justify that" well,
you open up your mines at once, then
we will see about a law" The mines
were opened. w. e. RYAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Evidently the G. o. p. high command
thinks the AL Smith curse hasn't yet
been taken of the Democrats, and that
It can be revived profitably by remind
ing voters that johnnie" Raskob Is at
least the money man behind the
The pending fracss is noteworthy, at
least as far as the Democrats are con-
cerned, for the comebacks which q
number Of former members Of Congress
are attempting to stage. Under the
militant leadership OF Senator Willard
Z. Tydings, Democratic congressional
campaign chairman, no fewer than six
one-time Senators and two one-time
members OF the House are trying to
break back to Capitol Hill. The sena-
torial exes include Lewis of Illinois,
Gore Of Oklahoma, Gerry of Rhode
Island, Nicely of West Virginia, Bayard
OF Delaware and Hitchcock of Nebraska
Buckley OF Ohio and Watkins of Oregon
are former Democratic Representatives
who are now senatorial candidates.
Col. Henry L. StimSon, Secretary OF
State, may be drafted to preside over
next months prospectively stormy Re-
publican State convention in New York
The prohibition controversy is slated
to rage there with fine fury. Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler estimates that
the convention will be go to 10 per
cent wet. Stimson will have need for
all his diplomatic talent If he takes
the gavel.
(Copyrieht. 1901
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

word, inserted between "your" and
business" strictly optional)
who wants to know"
you've made q mistake. Please
hang up and dial again."
~
1t is said that during the World War
a messenger boy of one of the press
associations was instructed to get the
State Department on the wire.
Through some freak he was put on
the personal phone Of the Secretary of
State.
who's this?" asked the boy, who
was of q somewhat facetious turn Of
mind. as youngsters are likely to be.
This is Secretary Bryan" came the
voice. who is this?"
The boy, in whom disbelief was
large, promptly replied, This is Presi-
dent Wilson,"
What happened after that We have
never heard. The anecdote shows that
our pet question is very human one,
after all.
Surely it is q natural desire to know
exactly who 1t is to whom one IS talk
ing. The queer thing about teleph-
ony, as we have stated, Is that often
it permits an utter stranger to come in
where angels, at least IL they were well
bred angels, would fear to tread the
aerial routes.
Hold the line q moment" is an
other unfortunate telephone sentence.
Private secretaries most often are the
offenders. We have great sympathy
with secretaries, private or otherwise,
but we wish they would stop asking us
to "hold the phone moment"
Their moment" most often means
minute or minutes, climaxed at last
by some such utterance as the follow
ing. "All right, thanks" leaving one
completely in the dark as to the ptlr-
pose of the call.
Then there is the playful person
shrieking, Il bet you can't guess who
this isl"
The one best answer, in such a case,
would be to yell brutally, mo, and
don't care, either"
But, as best answers are seldom
thought of until hours later, in the
majority of cases the sweet merry
maker gets by unscathed, which is just
as well, of course.
+ X ~
There can be little question that the
universal adoption Of automatic equip
ment will make telephoning a safer
and Saner task.
Few men or women are inclined to
become angry with themselves. They
may criticize the highest men in the
land In regard to their conduct OF
government, business or whatnot. but
when 1t comes to "bawling out" them
selves it simply isn't done, that's all.
The man who picks up his phone
and dials incorrectly will find the
blame placed squarely at his own door
and no one to talk to, unless he wants
to become uncommonly nasty and dial
the operator.
The dials, however, will not free us
from the person who asks, who's
this?" Maybe the company can dc
something about it, We give it up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Balchen's Dilemma.

Bernt Balchen, Admiral Byrds pilot
on two histery-making expeditions and
one of the outstanding aviators of the
world, is finding dificulty in becoming
an American citizen, an objective upon
which he set his heart as far back as
1927. To be admitted to citizenship a
DECENTRALIZATION is Norwegian--must
have five years continuous residence in
the United States. The noted flyer,
and he is not by any means alone in
his contention, believes that by the end
Of next year the necessary five years
residence will have been attained, but
the Naturalization Bureau holds that
Balchen's trip to the South Pole on
Admiral Byrd's successful venture
means an interruption in the period of
residence required and that If enforced
literally the law would prevent him
from becoming o citizen of the United
States for another five years.
Admiral Byrd, Senator Shipstead and
Secretary of Labor Davis and many
others are active in the flyers behalf
and pressure is being brought to beal
In order that some way may be founc
to waive the technicalities in this un'
usual case. Certainly, Balchen has per.
formed notable services for the countr,
he wishes to adopt as his own and jus
as certainly does the country at large
and probably the naturalization ON
Gals themselves, desire him to join tn
ranks Of Americans. On, the soutl
Pols expedition Balchen'S sArvice Wa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
Dominion Status for India.

All portents indicate that develop
ments of far-reaching Importance are
imminent in India. Compromise is in
the air. That has always seemed the
inevitable outcome, though probably
only as a makeshift, as most compro-
misses are, and particularly in the case
of a major crisis in British statesman
ship. John Bull, it has been said, has
a genius for compromise. The empire
on which the sun never sets would not
be what it is today without an enlight-
ened readiness in London to give when
it becomes impracticable TO take.
The latest reported turn of the Anglo
Indian kaleidoscope concerns an offer
from Gandhi's prison cell. He is re-
puted to have written Viceroy Lord
Erwin a letter Offering peace" If the
British government will pledge domin-
ion status for India at the october
round table conference in London.
It is more than problematical that
even the Macdonald Labor government
will buy tranquility in India at such
a price. Were it to do so, the price
might - almost surely would - include
the risk of Labor's political life as soor
as a vote in Parliament could permit
Conservatives and Liberals to provoke
a general election on the Indian issue
Dominion status has been vaguel!
promised India by the present vicero!
himself. but the hope which Lord Erwin
held out had strings attached to 1t
Indians, for one thing, would have u
be demonstrably capable of self-govern
ment before they could aspire to tn
autonomy which Canada, Australis
South Africa. New Zealand, Newfound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20
aforementioned
Mail Cars Advocated
TO the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Increase in price does not always
insure added income. Experience has
revealed q limit to the size of a Gus
toners purse, and when that Is reached
the would-be buyer, even at the cost OF
personal inconvenience, decides to bud
get more closely his expenditures, and
finds an alternative to his former Gus
tom, possibly limiting his meat supply
or being content with cheaper brand
OF canned goods.
This is an economic fact which some
public utilities find 1t hard to realize
1t Is easy for our trolley companies to
raise the fares, but they risk a loss OF
patronage. They seem to ignore the
psychological effect of q natural revul-
sion that seeks another mode of con-
veyance as q patrons sense of injustice
Is aroused. Low fares and considera-
ton for the comfort Of the travelling
public tend to encourae and stimulate
travel, as illustrated by the popularity
OF railway excursions.
The SINE principle applies to the
Post ONCE Department. Postmaster
General Brown is reported to have
asked for alternative suggestions to the
proposed increase in letter postage.
That this will not necessarily solve the
difficulty Is shown by the failure of a
But e important fact is that two
other methods Rave long been advo-
Gated and have been persistens!y re-
fused by Congress-(a) limitation to
reasonable proportions of the congress
sional Thanking system, which has len
expanded TO a scandalous degree; b.
Government ownership of mail cars, so
that the cost of mail transportation
would be gagged on the principle of
mileage, as now one railway pays an
other for the privilege of using its
tracks, instead of by Re weight of mail
carried. The present system has re-
peatedly been shown to be unfair in its
working. Owing to the impracticability
of constant v -ighing, one years wight
of second-claSs mail is gagged on the
basis of a three-month test. The rail-
way companies, having been tipped of
as to the dates of the TT. swell the
bulk of second-class mail during the
three months bv all kinds of absurd
methods and reap q corresponding har-
vest. Is there not some method for i'm
pressing Congress with the weight OF
public sentiment in favor Of adopting
at least this plan, which has long met
the approval Of economists?
WILLIAM j. SEELYE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-20

who's this?"
If the telephone company could find
some way of preventing persons who
call up from asking the above impuden'
question it would achieve something
SURPRISING automatic phones even.
You hear the bell ring. Maybe you
are upstairs taking q bath. You rur
downstairs, dripping water like q New
foundland dog.
Hello, hello!" you call, in the best
possible frame of mind.
You are at peace with the world, ever
If you do regret the lack of a towel.
"Hello!" you repeat. wondering whose
voice will come out Of the unknown.
Nothing is more unknown, in the
ordinary course of life. than the voice
which Is about to speak to you on the
telephone.
No matter II you are the chairman
of the board = it is personal cal
which has cot by all the secretaries, it
owner Is unknown.
A voice can get into your ears wher
its owner might not be permitted Il
enter your home.
That is one OF the wonders of the
telephone.
X \ X
who's this?" CRATES the voice.
Then the sunshine disappears, the
music ceases, and you Immediately
begin to wish that you had stayed In
the bathtub with the silent soapsuds.
Who's this?"
The voice CRATES insistently.
None of your business!" is the re-
ply you desire to hurl at his head.
Who wants to know" Is an an
swer sometimes put into words.
The offender deserves either or both
because he is asking something which
in most cases, is strictly none OF his
business, at least in the form asked.
No doubt it is the bluntness of the
request, particularly from an unknown
which makes 1t offensive.
Courtesy here, as elsewhere, woulc
save the day.
If the person on the wire would say
This Is Mr.. Jones, Is this Mr.. So-and-
SOP" no one would be offended. But
he comes hurting in with question
OF identification, as if he were en-
powered to ask questions.
Often he is stranger, in which case
the telling of the name would mean
nothing to him. Why. then, does he
ask 1t? The one who oiSlikeS the queS-
ton feels the Stiffness of the proceed
ing. but especially dislikes the abrupt
ness of 1t.
Women, for some reason, are the
worst offenders.
who is this?" Is one of their favu.
rite questions over the phone.
The irritating thing is that almost
invariably they put note of suspicion
into their voice, as II they believed you
were going to tell them falsely, but
had better not, for they were onto you
Here are some Of the appropriate re-
plies which might be made to the per.
son who insists on asking who
this?"
"a human being"
1.-THE King of Siam"
"So's your old man."
And what have you?"
"It's a nice day today"
"None of your business" (Additiona,