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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

OF course, the drawback to indoor golf is
that it is so difficult to reproduce the same con-
ditions when you get out on the links. have
been in variety of lies, good and had, in my
time, but never yet have had the luck to drop
my ball on a doormat Why this should be
so it is hard to say. / suppose the fact is that,
unless you actually pull the ball off the first
tee at right angles between your legs, it is not
easy to land on doormat. And even then it
would probably be rubber doormat which is
not at all the same thing.
But these indoor golf parlors that are spring.
ing up here and there with imitation links in
green cloth fail to stir the old Wodehouse
sporting blood. Really exciting indoor golf is
that which is played in the home.
Whether you live in palace hovel, an
indoor golf course, be it only nine holes, is
well within your reach. house offers greater
facilities than apartment. and have found
my game greatly improved since went to live
in the country. can, perhaps, scarcely do
better than give brief description of the sport
ing, nine-hole course which I have recently
laid out in my present residence.
All authorities agree that the first hole on
every links should be moderately easy, in order
to give the nervous player a temporary and
fictitious confidence.
At Wodehouse Manor therefore, we drive
of from the front door-in order to get the
way, carpeted with rugs and without traps
The hole-a loving CUPS just under the
stairs; and q good player ought to have no
difficulty in doing 1t in two.
The second hole, a short one, takes you
into the telephone booth. This also is simple
Trouble begins with the third, long, dog-leg
hole through the kitchen into the dining room.
This hole Is well trapped with table legs, kit
chen utensils and a moving hazard in the
person Of Clarence, the cat, who is generally
wandering about the fairway. The hole is
under the glass and china cupboard, where
you are liable to be bunkered, you loft
your approach shot excessively 1t is better to
take your light iron and try running-up
approach, instead of becoming ambitious with
the mashie niblick.
The fourth and fifth holes call for no COM
ment. There Is only one danger-you may
lose stroke through hitting the maid, II she
happens to be coming down the back stairs
while you are taking a mashie shot. This is
a penalty under the local rule.
THE sixth Is the indispensable water hole.
It Is short, but tricky. Teeing on from
just outside the bathroom door, you have to
loft the ball over the side of the bath tub, holing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

the owner of the store in the small Northern
village and makes q deal with him whereby
he receives prospecting equipment and rub.
even after the manner of the truck gardener
In the business Of raising a crop of turnips.
And then into the wildS he plunges He
discovers gold or not. In either case-provided
he has been trusted in the first instance for
grub and equipment-he goes back to nav his
BILL perhaps he wants to go out again with
new batch of supplies.) If he has gold when
he comes in he goes to the storekeeper who
has made possible his prospecting tour and
offers him gold In payment Of his bill the
value of it being determined between them in
accordance with its purity.
However, If the proSpector is not satisfied
with the offer made by the Storekeeper for his
gold stock he may ask him as his agent to
send 1t TO the nearest bank, where it win be
assayed and valued. For this service the bank
will charge a standard price, giving to the
prospector credit over and above the cost of
servicing him.
On the whole very few men who go into the
gold reaches of the world come out with a
fortune. For the most part quest means
lifetime of search, and finds eaten up by
the cost Of equipment necessary TO keep on
the CO. The life is hard beyond conception
almost, though. like every other Kind of ad-
venturous undertaking, it has its compensa-
tons. The lure of the next pan is always
uppermost in the mind of the prospector the
sunset over mountains unstained by tropical
Splendor and sensouSneSs. Cold and privation
are there, but with them the silent majestic
beauty Of the North, clear, low-hung canopies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

life in crowd has not and one must always
remember this, gold. Gold at the end great
round nuggets rolling out of hillside or shaken
out of pans and pans of dirt.
From the time of the Assyrians and Egyp-
tians it has been so and even beyond them, for
long before man knew of any other metal he
was fashioning out of gold ornaments md
household utensils and using it as a measure
of value. All of which presages beforehand
a searching for it throughout his abode in every
quarter of the earth accessible to him.
So far as is known the largest nugget of
gold ever found loose in the earth was turned
up at Victoria, Australia. It weighed 1873
pounds Its value was placed at 5000
Placer gold-surface deposit Colds the
quickest of all mined. it being only necessary
to wash it. Gold being heavy-quite heavy
sinks to the bottom as the soil or gravel is
momentarily recovered. It is placer gold that
breeds the rushes, rushes such as took place
at Nome and in the Klondike and, back in the
days of 40, in California.
The great gold-producing centers of the
earth are in Africa, portions of the United
States, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand and
Russia. Africa produces over 40 per cent. The
United States and Alaska around 20 per cent.
AT present there is something like $3.50, 900 900
worth of gold produced annually. So Poorman.
though it make rich man, will still be Poor
man even should it prove as great a bonanza
or Ell Dorado as California or Nome or the
Klondike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
Fate Of the June Bug.

7 Asst year was June bug" year, and it foa.
lows, according to the life cycle of this
beetle, that this year will be white grub year.
The bugs themselves are fairly destructive.
feeding mostly upon the foliage of trees, but
they are comparatively harmless in the light
Of the destructive habits of their offspring. the
white grubS. These grubs, sometimes called
the grubworm, have a rather substantial taste
In food, attacking such farm products as corn,
timothy beans and potatoes and with the taste
of an epieure, strawberries for dessert
They may be easily combated by blowing the
fields about the time they are going deep for
Winter quarters The exposure of the grubS
ends fatally and is one of the most effective
ways Of disposing of them Hogs turned loose
to pasture in fields prior to planting provide
active allies in the campaign against the grubs
while the farmer who fools the June bug and
plants his land to corn, clover or other crops.
removes the weedy or small grain situation in
which the bug prefers to lay its eggs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

70 other towns and into the heart of the coal
and lumber fields The timber in her national
forests is estimated at s5, 900 900 900 board feet
Of the land there is today efficient airplane
service between the larger cities, with landing
fields near many of the smaller ones, otherwise
inaccessible save by the trail. Distance across
the country that formerly took days and weeks
to be made now can be made in few hours.
Planes are carrying miners prospectors, trap
pers everywhere in this virgin land. Mail and
big game hunters hy from one end of it to
the other"
What Alaska is today, compared to what It
was a score Of years ago, can be most effectively
enviSioned when one is told that the wireless
operator at Ruby went down and back In q
few hours to Poorman by plane to stake him
claim.
IF the strike at Poorman should turn out
to be as magnificent as that at Nome or
Fairbanks pr the Klondike the economic bal
ance of thesworld would be undisturbed. For,
though we may look upon gold as something
very precious and something to be sought for
and most desired to be possessed, to those
that handle it and to economists it is rothing
more than a mineral and as turnips.
Gold has commercial value the same as
anything else At present it is worth about
$50 an ounce. That is pure gold. Coming
from the mine it may be worth 6, g. IL, is
dollars per ounce, as the case may be. Its
price depends upon its purity.
The prospector hunting for gold is like the
truck gardener raising turnips. He goes to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
One Of a Series Of
Sketches by the Leading
Hnmorists Of the Day.
AnOther WiH Appear in
The Stars Maga&ine
at a Later Date.

might be supposed, by the vapid and
= unrehective that the enthusiastic
golfer would be- to some extent, up
against it during the colder months.
The fact is, however, that of the four
seasons of the golf1ng year-Spring, when you
lose your ball in the unknown hay; Summer,
when you lose it in the glare of the sun; Au-
tumn, when you lose it under dead leaves and
Winter when you have a sporting chance of
not losing it at all-the last-named is, to the
thoughtful golfer, quite the pleasantest.
1t Is glorious no doubt, on lovely afternoon
In Summer, with the sun shining down and a
gentle breeze tempering the heat, to slice your
ball into the adjacent jungle and to feel that
you are thereby doing bit of good to small
boy who needs the money which he win get
when-directly your back Is turned-he finds
and sells the missing globule.
1t is thrilling, one OF those still, crisp
DAYS in the Fall, to drive of the tee at 11:15
and potter about the course till 12:4S, turning
over leaves with a niblick in the hope that each
leaf DE the one under which your ball has
elected to nestle. But both these pleasures are
eclipsed by the delight Of playing on frosty
morning in the Winter.
In Winter you get good visibility.
THERE you stand. Before you prairie de-
nuded of all vegetation. The trees, into
which you used to send your second shot, have
now no leaves, and it is quite possible to pene-
trate them with q well-judged stroke Of the
light iron. Your caddie broods dejectedly be-
side you He knows that even II you slice into
che wood at the elb0w-hole, you can find the
bail for yourself.
And then you drive OF.
It is one Of your medium drives. You have
violated. possibly only IL out Of the 2S russ for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
A PLEA FOR INDOOR GOLF-By Humoria P G. Uo1ehoue

correct driving. The ball scars in a lofty arc
edging off to the right. Sixty yards from the
tee it touches earth, and bounds another So
when it hits the frozen surface of puddle and
skids against tree trunk, farther 80 yards
ahead. The angle at which it hits the tree
just connects your slice to perfection and
there you are, in dead straight line with the
pin, with a two-hundred-a -thirty-yard drive
to your credit.
This is golf in the true sense of the word
Even now, however, your happiness is not
complete. You have omitted to take into con-
sideration the fact that you are playing what
are called Winner rules, which entitle you to
tee your ball UP in the fairway So you re-
move the pill from the cuppy lie into which it
has settled and look around you for a con-
venient hillock. You can usually find a mole
hill Of a convenient height, and from this you
propel the ball onto the green.
The green is a trifle rough perhaps, but
after all, what does that matter? Experts will
try to tell you otherwise, but every beginner
knows that putting is a pure game Of chance
and that you are just as likely to hole out over
rough ground as over smooth.
OF course there are weeks in the Winter
when golf on the links is impossible, unless
you happen to be in such an advanced stage
of mental decay that you can contemplate with
equanimity round in the snow with a red
ball. The ordinary golfer, unequal to such
excuses. viii take during these weeks, to indoor
golf There several varieties of the indoor
game.
The first kind of indoor golf got acquainted
with is that played in stores, where profess
SIGNALS give instruction at five dollars an hour.
You stand on a rubber mat; the ball is placed
on an ordinary doormat; and you swat it
against a target painted on a mattress.
The merits of this plan are obvious.
It is almost impossible not to hit the mat
tress somewhere, and it makes just as salts
factory thud whether you hit it in the middle
or in one Of the outlying suburbs. And in In
door golf, as played in department stores, the
thud Is everything. This indoor instruction Is
invaluable. / may say that I, myself am what
am as q golfer almost entirely through in
door instruction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

IN the Fan of 1928 I was steady 40 man.
Sometimes would get into difficulties at
one or other Of the holes as the best players
viii do, and then my score you'd be 100. Some
times, again, I would find my form early in
the round and shoot 118. But, take me for all
in ALL averaged 40. After steady Winter
Of indoor instruction, was going around in 112.
II, These figures speak for themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

p T might be supposed, by the vapid and
unrefective, that the enthusiastic
golfer would be- to some extent, up
against it during the colder months.
The fact is however that of the four
The Washington times., 1930-11-21
Horse Leads Dry Man
TO LiOuOr StOrehOuSe

CAMDEN, N. j.. Nov. Ala
horse led prohibition agents to
q cache Of beer valued at $1,000.
Theodore e. Harris. In charge OF
the Federal prohibition office
here. found the horse harnessed
to q wagon containing several
half-barrels Of beer. and not Sec
ing the driver, decided to wait
for him.
Finally, firing Of waiting, Har'
ris mounted the wagon intend.
ing to drive to the warehouse.
The horse went on undirected
and stopped at q storehouse for
barreled beer.
The Washington times., 1930-11-21
Pierce Miller Stops
Bon Purse SnGtclteT

Attracted by the screams Of
aGiGS Rose van Hoosier. Of the
CDnrsd Apartments. Thirteenth
and / Streets Northwest. whose
purse was snatcl1ed by q negro
youth near the corcoran art
Gallery, Pierce Miller, Of the
400 block 3 st. n. w. . news
Paper man. pursued the thief
and apprehended him.
Park Policeman W. J. Ham
mlond joined in the chase and
arrested the. boy, who gave his
name as Reedy blanchard, Of
the 400 block School st. s. w.
The purse was recovered.
The Washington times., 1930-11-21
child With IS Cents
SHES at Going Home

NEW YORK. Nov. 21.-Police
Of the west sixty-eishth Street
station House put another 1n-
solved case on the records. Their
problem was q 3-year-old boy who
smilingly defeated all attempts to
discover his identity.
He was picked up wandering
alone through a West Side I. r. T.
express train at Seventy-second
Street. Patrolman James Kier-
nan, who responded to the station
masters appeal for aid, took The
boy to the station house and gave
him 35 cents in small change to
brighten his outlook on life.
The Washington times., 1930-11-21

Leather, Tan and Black Calf
and Smoked Elk. Composition
soles and heels. Sizes 6 to 1874.
Every pair guaranteed to give
satisfactory service.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-25
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
National AdvertisinR Representatives
Safer Motherhood

In these days Of stock market crashes, drought, and
unemployment, it is interesting to note that one or
two things in the world are improving. The infant
mortality rate Is one Of them. According TO a report
just issued by the American Child Health Associa-
ton. there were 662 deaths among each thousand
births during 1929.
OF course this number Is far too large. Just one
death Is an extravagant gesture. But when we con-
slider the fact that in spite Of stock market crashes and
drought and unemployment, the present rate ranks
second to the lowest rate ever recorded for cities in
the United States. we appreciate our national progress.
In 1927. during days Of greater prosperity, the record
ed rate was 64e.
Fifteen years ago the rate was near 100. Today it
has fallen until It Is only two-thirds Of what it was
just after the World War started.
We are approaching. more and more, the sacrifice
and cost which are involved in the creation Of human
life. AS we grow more enlightened we are enacting
laws for the promotion Of the welfare Of hygiene Of
maternity and infancy.
It Is interesting 10 note that a great deal Of the
legislative work along this line has come about dur
ing the last ten years, since women have received the
ballot. They are responsible to q large degree for
the passage Of the famous Shep~pard-Towner Act
which established a federal bureau TO carry on ma
terniry research work and isseminate helpful knowl-
edge.
SO long as we are placing a high premium on life.
endeavoring to save 1t. and succeeding in that en-
deavor. our progress Is upward.
Other conditions will improve. They always have.
II we can keep the health OF the nation sound and
continue TO cut down the infant mortality rate, which
used to be such a dragon in our forest, we are pro-
ceeding up the mountain slope Of achievement.
We are not there, by any matter OF means. Sixty
six and a fraction deaths from every thousand is far
too many. But we have the satisfaction Of knowing
that in spite Of the economical bumps and bruises
Of the present day. we are all agreed that life is dis
tinctly worth saving.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-25

Alfalfa Bill Murray scored a great comeback In his
race for the democratic nomination for governor Of
Oklahoma. II led his nearest rival by a tremendous
majority. His election In November Is a certainty.
He was swept to the head Of the column Of candi-
dates by the democratic farmers Of Oklahoma. This
is his pledge:
Il am going to rent the executive mansion to q
high class tenant and make my home and official
headquarters In the garage on the capitol grounds"
Thomas p. Gore was nosed out Of first place In the
senatorial race by G. ]. Wrightman.
1t goes without saying that there are Texans who
viii feel very much at home when they visit Oklaho-
ma City to pay their respects to Alfalfa Bill In his
bizarre garage establishment on the capitol campus
Of Oklahoma. It Is said Of Alfalfa Bill that he is hon.
est to the core, that he keeps his word. that he isn't
much for looks or dress. but that he has been loyal
at al times to the best interest Of the people and that
he has never acknowledged q boss. There is no land
like this.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-25

Over In India. the British officials are objecting TO
American movies. They are blaming the length Of
our kisses. the meandering love Of our theme-songs.
and the way in which our heroes and heroines Of
the silver screen do a grand fade-out TO live happily
ever after. for the fact that there is discomfort In
India.
Just what all Of this has got to do with Gandhis
desire TO make salt from the sea water is rather a
problem. Just how the fact that somebody's love story
ended with wedding bells should encourage an up
rising in Calcutta or any other eastern city. we do
not know.
It would rather seem that this objection is a COM
plinent to American life as thrown on the screen.
Life in India. as the last few years have revealed. is
certainly not gliding along like a story In a book Of
fairy tales. It is unhappy. struggling, uncertain.
Life as shown by our films, for the most part, man
ages to give people q little happiness for their money.
II the people % India have decided that we must
be a land Of happiness which they would like to fol-
low, and think that uprisings will bring them the Joy
sn which theme-songs are based. it Is not our fault.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-25
A|'M!5NEW'SYORK IS

Japan was the Manhattan, from
this then busting sea town.
That this was quite a promising
village long before the American
Revolution.
That the British held the village
In l777 and that one colonel Meigs,
making an expedition Of reprisal,
defeated the Redcoats, burnin- II
brigs and sloops.
That Captain Kidd slipped into
the sheltering bays hereabouts with
his treasure and used GARDENERS
Island. Of the coast. as a cache.
That the first Arctic whaling
venture set sail from here under
Captain Thomas Royce and re-
turned in 80 days with a rich cargo
OF sperm.
That the town was shelled by
British ships In the War of 1912
and the first torpedo constructed
to attack a British frigate lying In
the harbor.
And. wandering over the gertle
hills and about the winding lanes,
one comes upon the various histor-
ical markers.
Or. listening to the tales OF the
grandparents to children you'll hear
tales OF the CAV shindigs staged
In the historic Fordham inns.
You'll hear OF the revels that fol-
lowed the news Of CORVALLIS sur
render and Burgoyne's defeat.
OF how John Paul Jones found
in the town whalers the backbone
Of his marine force in 1912. Of
Decatur and Porter and Hull and
Lawrence-all OF Waterman stock.
or the adventurous lads who
came from every part OF the nation
70 seek their fortunes as whaling
men. and OF the time when the Cali
fornia gold rush sent most Of them
scurrying westward.
OF Meeting House Hill with its
whipping post and ducking stoo'
ami stocks.
And a thousand and me colorful
moments in this nations lifetime
hat will make YOUR motor car s-c-
-nc-e commonplace than ever as yor
Whizs away " smoothly paved
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-25

II You Like TO Hear About "The
Days When," Visit Sag Harbor and
Soak Yourself In the Air
OF Bygone America
SAG HARBOR. N. Y. aug. u.s.
Notes from the log book Of a rowing
vacationer:
There's a certain story-book-land
quality about old folks who have
spent their lives in towns saturated
by romance G. I tradition. A cer-
tain sparkle q taches to the most
doddering Of the ancients, and I
invariably am possessed with q
small boy desire 70 squat on a cou-
pie Of pillows and plead, Grandma,
tell me another one"
Perhaps II you ever visit this pio-
neer whaling town. it will be your
good fortune to come across Miss
French, 80. the assistant librarian.
Or Ann Sleight, IS, whose family
has been here year upon end. Or,
If you SEE a huge old fellow loung-
ing IN front OF the American House
he may turn out to be Frank w~de.
who will soon be whisking you
over the earth In ancient wind
TANNERS. putting in at sar-away
isles where a white man had never
before been seen.
Browsing along the main street.
you might drop up to the second
floor OF the old town hall and fall
into conversation with the county
clerk, who coubles as chief inform
alton purveyor.
In which case you'll come away
with a miscellaneous assortment Of
information something like this:
That Andrew Carnegie arrived IN
Sag Harbor on the old whaler Wis
casset -
That James Fenimore Cooper be-
gan his first novel in Duke" Ford
hams ancient tavern.
That the first missionaries TO the
Sandwich Isles set sail from this
port In the whaler Thames. and le
rotting bones Of this old craft some
times NAV be sighted az l~w tide
rom Co-i-l,-'s -cint.
That the first American shi- -
enter the then forbidden POI Of