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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Haste Made Waste for Mears.

Undue haste in setting oil Oh ms
proposed air journey around the world
by plane caused the collapse OF John
Henry Mears' second project OF this
character yesterday morning. He was
all set for the start at Harbor Grace.
The plane was perfectly. tuned; ssso-
line was aboard; everything was IN
shape. Lets CO." said Mears, to his
pilot, Henry Brown. Those who knew
the local field advised against SO early
a start, before the dawn, when the
course was dimmed in darkness. But
Mears would not wait. He was on his
way around the world, to set new
record, to regain the triumph of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

This newspaper puts at your disposal
q corps Of trained researchers in Wash
ington who will answer questions for
you. They have access to the Govern
ment departments, the libraries, n1u-
seums, galleries and public buildings,
and to the numerous associations which
maintain headquarters IN the Nations
Capital. II they can be Of assistance
to you, write your question plainly, and
send with two cents in coin or stamps
to The washington star Information
Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, director,
Washington, D. C.
@. What is Earl CAROLS real name?
IT. e
A. This is the producers real name.
He has never used nom de theatre.
@. Is the point at which Washington
crossed the Delaware marked in any
way?-T. j. l..
A. There is park on either side of
the river above Trenton and a memorial
bridge is contemplated
@. How much does a baby actually
Sleep?-H. G. F.
A. A newborn infant may sleep as
much as "a hours out of the "a; at the
age of 1 year this sleep period has
dropped 10 1SA hours.
@. Please describe the rabbit punch
r. c.
A. Spalding on boxing says: THE
rabbit punch Is a chop usually do
livered with the right hand to the base
Of the skull or the back Of the neck
when the opposing boxer is bent over in
a clinch or when going down with a
blow previously delivered 1t is un-
scientific, unsightly and unsportsman-
like. 1t was barred In New York under
letic Commission emitted to place it on
the list of foul blows"
@. Who designs the commemorative
Stamps?-E. S.
A. In issuing commemorative stamp
the Post ONCE Department as far as is
practical to do so uses the designs sub
mitted by the SponsorSSof the event to
be commemorated.
@. What causes a mirage of water in
the deSert?-T. X.
A. The layer of air next to the
ground becomes heated, usually because
the sun overheats the ground, and this
heats the air next to it. This hot layer
of air bends back the rays OF hight just
as though 1t were mirror, so IL re-
AAOSbS eAAO AASie VI Vic oAy JuSt hN q
water surface would.
@. Where is the ice mine in Penn
Sylvania?-L. w.
A. There is a natural ice mine Just
outside of Coudersport, Pa.
@. Did some of the we'll known roads
through the Appalachians have their
origin in Indian trails?-D. L. G.
A. A century after the first settle
ments were established it was evident
that the future of the country depended
upon overcoming the barrier of the APP
palachian Mountains and the great
forests which clothed them. New
colonists pushed inland along the rivers
and later. struck into the mighty
forests from the head of navigation.
They followed the Indian trails which
they found and these trails came into
general use. Thus Nemacolin's path
which Washington followed on his mis-
sion to the French U754) was the fore
runner of Braddocks trail 1755) and
the national road The Kittanning
path UP the Juniata to the Allegheny
furnished the route of Forbes trail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

The amending battle between optl-
mism and pessimism Is nothing new
AS long ago as 1S41 Emerson wrote in
his journal:
do not waste yourself in rejection;
do not bark against the bad, but chant
the beauty Of the good"
To be pessinistic is. in fact, to In
dulge in rejection; it involves a choice
between several things, some OF which
one finds good, some bad.
1t is difficult to see how any one car
practice true optimism, such as Ralph
Waldo Emerson practiced, without re-
jecting much that one does not like.
The power of discrimination must be
brought into play before one can claim
to be either optimist or pessimist. AS 9
matter of fact, all men are both.
There Is no such thing as q hard-and-
fast optimist. although some men, by
much talking. attempt to set them
selves up as such.
There is no such person as a universal
pessimist.
The term means nothing, except to
mirror the opinion of some one against
some one else.
The dyed-in the wool optimist likes
to call the man who disagrees with him
'pessimist," thereby testifying to all
and sundry that he has bit OF the
same quality himself.
~
The cult Of the optimist. as such, is
dying quietly in the land, as people
everywhere are coming to see that per-
haps the most good Is done, In the end,
by the pessimiSts.
To shout the glories of ones self
ones State. city. land is all very well
but 1t leaves great deal unsaid-except
by those who visit America and go back
home to write us up"
The valuable cult of the pessimist
too is going out of style. The trouble
with the professional pessimist, as with
his brother, the incurable' optimist is
that they are so one-sided. Every one
realizes that in time.
The reader gets no true picture of
life from either, but a distorted repre-
sentation as lop-Sided as q human
mind can make anything when it goes
of at tangent.
Thus we find that both our popular
handy men fall down on us. The OPP
timist fools us on one hand, and the
pessipiSt on the other.
It IS only in our own minds that we
can get at any fair picture of what-is-
what and who-is-who.
* X X
The main thesis of Emerson, that
ton, may be accepted gratefully as a
wise bit of direction from a true mas
ter mind. Emerson was peculiarly
able to stand up to direct the Ameri-
can people, because his peculiar COM
bination of mental qualities enabled
him to furnish them with what they
so often lacked.
He possessed something of their
hurry and hustle along with the calm
ness of the Eastern temperament
do not waste yourself in rejection, y
he said, and he meant it then, when
he wrote it-and he means it today.
Rejection may be spelled today:
Criticism" A little learning has
been, indeed, dangerous thing for
thousands of persons, as they have
aSpired to set themselves up as critics
Of every branch of art and living.
Thus men who succeed largely in one
line of endeavor Immediately set them
selves up as critics in others, and at
tempt to tell the whole world what they
should do and how they should do it.
The thing would be laughable if it
were not serious. The same attitude
gets itself introduced in all walks of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Historians now declare that the Pu-
ritans founded Boston simply because
is was good place to get clear, cold.
pure drink Of water, and for no other
reason. One reason is as good as an
other for a perpetual base ball tail
ender
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

The companies which make china
mugs certainly play it both ways and
must be cording up money. Few fore
fingers can penetrate the average han
ole, and think of the clay saved there
If by chance one does, 1t has such
dificulty in extricating itself that the
breakage is something tremendous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

A single shot kills the twenty-foot
escaped python which had kept vaca-
tionists housebound up near Rochester
for a week. That fellow should be
given a field gun and stationed along
the coast somewhere to PUNK the sea
serpent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Career.
He started in in early life
To do the best he could,
Avoiding all unnecessary strife
And trying to be good.
And though sometimes without avail
He sought the narrow way,
In one thing he would never fail
He always drew his pay.
When others shouted for reform,
And enmities aroused.
He still remembered he was warm
And comfortably housed.
He said, Let others fill the land
With protest and dismay;
I'll do the duty that's at hand
I'll bravely draw my pay"
And when promotions came along
He wasn't left behind.
They said that he was of the strong
And ever-steady kind.
do just one thing, and do 1t well"
I've often heard him say.
He was consistent, truth to tell
He simply drew his pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
land and Air Limitation.

whenever Viscount Ce"il of Chel-
vood-best known in this country IS
Lord Robert Cecil-discusses world
peace. he is assured of a wide and
syrnro.!aeti audience, for sincerity. as
vel as profound international Snowi-
edge1aad tr-r7-@-c.lt lnnani-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

A recent headline states that thirty
gamblers, ssampeded by detectives, ran
through closed door and escaped. But
it does seem as if they simply must
have opened it first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Britain is said to be suffering from
"the blues" according to a doleful dis
patch from London. Far better 1.-THE
blues" than "the reds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Chicago gangsters' idea of gallantry
does not preclude shooting an enemy
when he is driving with his wife, but
they chivalrously, out of respect to the
lady, shoot him in the legs only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Philatelists are puzzled over a strange
coin, just discovered, which is abso-
lutely smooth on both sides, without
mark of any kind. The Arkansas Ga
zette pithly remarks, They cannot
make heads or tails of it," Only one
thing is definitely known-if it got
that way by wear, it is not ancient
Scottish; they are not passed around
fast enough in the Land of Cakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

More time for the pedestrian in
traffic light switches means more time
for him here on earth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Now chemists plan to make breakfast
food from whisky mash. Who remem-
bers Sunny jim?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all news cis-
ratches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local Lews
published herein All rights Of publication Of
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Test for Sherlock Holmes.

From the Detroit Free Press.
1t would be pretty hard to convince
Sherlock Holmes that Mr.. Doyle has
returned from the spirit world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Now New Zealand boosts her tariff.
Is there no mercy or pity anywhere for
Door old Uncle Samuel?
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Unenthusiastic.

care you going to entertain next
Winter?"
mo" answered Mr.. Cumrox. I'VE
are going to keep on inviting a lot o.
people to the house. But don't expect
that they'll be any more entertained
than usual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Preparation.

lis your son Josh going back to col
lege?"
Yes" answered Farmer Corntossel,
I'm going to give him another term.
He amt athletic enough yet to do q
full days work in harvest time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
And Appoint a Commission.

4hPPUIIII NUIIIIIIssIU1'
From the st. Louis Times
The President on his trip In the
West will spend some time at Medicine
Lake. He may come across the gov
ernmental panacs3 there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

"One reason why troubles don't come
singly," said Uncle Eben, "is dat de
foolishness dat fus' introduces man
to troubles IS liable to Ia, chronic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Question Of Accuracy.
From the Florence (Ala) Herald.
An exchange tells of newborn
baby that weighed % pounds On the
iceman's scales.
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a Great Saying.

Always think before you speak.
II this you will recall
You'll very oft discover that
You needn't speak at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Am Other States and Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Rate by MaiI-Payable i'm Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Compensation.

When censure has unjustly raised
It's voice, don't quit the fight;
Some day, perhaps, you will be praised
With quite as little right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Locating the Frenzy.

What is frenzied finance?"
"Frenzied finance" replied the Wall
street man. sis condition Of affairs
IN which small investors lose their heads
while we remain perfectly self-possessed
and take the money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Fame.

"Is that Government official going to
retire to private life?"
mo. He has accepted the manage
ment Of big corporation, so that he
can be more prominent in the public
eye"
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hand, are clamoring for distinctly wet
plank.
Four States hold party primary cleo
tons tomorrow. They are Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Virginia and West Virginia. Two
days later come the primaries in Ten
nessee, and then on August IL Alabama,
Arkansas, Nebraska and Ohio. Out on
the Kansas prairies it locks as though
Henry Allen, now serving as Senator
under appointment. would win the Re-
publican nomination. The opposition
to him is split three ways.
The Tennessee primary promises to
give Senator Brock. Democrat, the
nomination for the short term" the
remainder of the uneXpired term of the
late Senator Tyson, which ends next
March. He has opposition for the
short term. but not very real. Repre-
sentative Cordell Hull, on the other
hand, who Is running for the Demo-
cratic nomination for the long term, is
having some very real opposition from
Andrew w. Todd, former presiding OFF,
Ger Of the State Senate. The general
| supposition, however. is that Mr.. Hull
will win the nomination. Mr.. Hull has
long been prominent in the Democratic
party, both in his State and nationally
He served as chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee for time,
and has served with distinction in the
House for many years.
y \
The Presidents letter to B. Carroll
Reece, member of the House from the
first Tennessee district. a Republican
stronghold, praising him for the stand
ne took against the Norris resolution for
Government operation Of Muscle Shoals.
is aiding Reece, 1t Is said. The district
ID both Republican and conservative. A
defeat OF Reece would be hailed by OPP
ponents of the administration as q blow
at President Hoover.
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disclosed. The procedure is I'm.
heard of and novel, and people are
inqulring if county attorney has
1t within his discretion to decide
outside of the court and jury what
penalty may be found for murder.
II this be the law then he could
Jeopardlze a person committing
murder by filing a third degree
manslaughter charge. People see
In this charge an effort on the
part of the County Attorney 10
secure plea of guilty, and pro-
tect the Hasses by smothering
Wanda's story.
VIM. Hass, Immediately after
the homicide spent a lot of time
In the County Attorneys office
for some purpose or other. And
1t is generally understood that ne
exercises lot of influence over
Blackwell. In fact it is stated that
he secured a dismissal of a per-
jury charge against one Omar. on
which there was a complete anC
perfect case Immediately after he
assumed the duties of his office
causing an immense amount OF
adverse criticism in the Outlook
country where the facts were
! known.
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Whats Whot@ Washin8ton

critical juncture. True, Illinois nor
mally is Republican and. in a way,
she ought to carry it anyhow-but
this years circumstances are pecu-
liar; it would be a terrible jolt for the
G. o. P. to have the Democrats win
it
And, like her politics or not, there
is no getting away from Mrs. McCor-
mick's ability. She is smarter than
chain lightning, she has personality
to burn and she understands the po-
litical game backward.
She gives every indication of being
mighty practical politician.
There is no prospect that she will
add to the senate's idealism. or be a
particle of comfort to the progressive
element always on the supposition
that she vanquishes J. Hamilton
Lewis). But she certainly will put
some color into senate proceedings.
OUCH publicity as Mrs. Mccormick
~ (once elected) is assured of
would be worth the U. S. treasury to
any politician of the masculine per-
suasion-but naturally he cannot get
it, for never, never can a politician
of the masculine persuasion be the
| first woman ever elected to the u. S.
senate.
What. however, should be it's presi-
Dental worth to Mrs. Mccormick?
AS much as it would be to a man?
One persons guess is as good as
another's.
Tor one thing, it is impossible to
L judge of a woman candidates
potentialities drumming for the coun-
try's highest office) as a vote-getter
among women, let alone men.
Curiously enough, 1 heard this
point raised at as feministic strong
hold as headquarters of the Woman's
National party.
Women can be elected to congress
and to governorships-bea too,
for that matter. But the presidency?
After all, the choice of a woman to
run a states affairs, or as a repre-
sentative or senator, can be regarded
as an experiment; to put one in the
White House would be going decid-
edly beyond the experimental stage;
would be a regular commitment, and
a radical one-or so some folk would
be bound to consider it. And women,
even more than men, have a reputa-
ton for conservatism.
One thinks Of women as voting en-
masse for a woman presidential can
didate-and so the Woman's Ma
tional party leaders would, to listen
to them talk about it, but they them
selves say they are dubious concern
ing the vast majority Of women the
country over.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-25

Senator, anii feels that o,.,.
should not run for that offio Y'' :
ne Is too valuable a man ii. y
where he is. He SAYS when 6 1,snl
became chief of police. ever O o,Sa
place in PlentywOOd. was T D..s
porous speakeasy, but that s siO..
taking two years of him. then s,''; 4
not a bOOtlegger in town: n
starved to death along with tIs
other business men. Two v. "'
more say Albert and Oscar. ' ~
use the lawn mower on Mss
street. PlentywOod grows WiEs,
and wilder. Why the roses ' sro.
wild out of the cracks in the s ill.,
walks. No Oscar is too gm M,
man to send to the Senate: for I
ne left us who would pick Il,
wildflOwers along the curb Stones
When you have a good man n ,
good place, keep him there. ,,s
Just as well go to the Senate
mn!
All those Shrinking" hypOcras
says DIR. Martin should take acrar,
salts" it is indicated for HelitOsis
mn!
John Stahlberg sure knows al
about bulls-says they make re,t
bullOna.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-25
REPORT LEON
TROTSKY MAY RE-
TURN TO RUSSIA

Leon Trotzky, former war
= commissioner in the Soviet
= Union, is returning to Russia
+ according to a Berlin dispatch
= published in The Industrial
= Worker of Seattle.
According to the story,
: Trotzky has been in constant
= touch with Stain, General
= Secretary of the Communist
< Party of the Soviet Union
= and that Stain now needs his
4 support against the right wing
: elements in the Party.
; While Berlin dispatches re-
garding Russia are not al
ways reliable there is pos
sibility that the report may
be authentic. The return of
Trotsky to a position of influ-
< ence in the Soviet Union would
be welcomed by every radical
worker turnout the world. No
= body, outside of Lenin played
a bigger role than Trotsky in
the Notwithstanding events that
planted the Red Flag of So
cialism over one-sixth of the
earth's surface. Since his en-
forced residence in Turkey,
TrOtsky has written volumin-
= ously about the situation in
Russia and it cannot be sue
cessfully denied that Stain
+ has adopted most of his sug-
gestions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-25
.SPLINTERS
FROM THE FLEETWOOD SCHOOLS

Happy Blue-Bird Club" at her
home Tuesday, April 10th. After
many games were played, Mrs. ID
sen surprised them by serving a
delicious dinner. The Happy Blue
Birds" greatly appreciate the hos
pitality shown them by Mrs. Ib-
sen and her family.
Mrs. Loucks visited the fifth
grade Wednesday, April 18th.
Five of the Camp Fire girls
from Miss Nordgren's room enter
tanned the fifth grade the last hall
hour Monday, April 21st, wher
they presented the play "The The.
atre Party" The play was well
given. The aim of the play was
to show the value of being trust
worthy.
Thursday afternoon the Sixth
grade history class made clay
models of the Sphinx, pyramids
and Egyptian weapons. Two OF
the pupils brought the clay from
the hills.
The following pupils made a
perfect score in the arithmetic
drill given Monday: Rudolph John.
son, Hazel Rasmussen, Margaret
Edahl and Lloyd Bolster.
In the same drill the "Sky Roc.
kets" scored the highest, having
an average of nine points.
At the Y. C. S. meeting in the
eighth grade new officers were
elected: President, Lewis Thinner
man; Vice President, Everett Oh
son; Treasurer, Alice Brabec
Secretary, Lester Guenther; Re.
porter, Shirley Backer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-25

ney Wellington D. Rankin. who
had been subpoenaed as a witness
Tor Miss Hass, was unable =, =
cure leave of absence from the
SION at Great Falls, with a huge
federal court which is now in SEES
calendar, with Judge Bourouin
presiding In place of Judge PRAY
who is Ill, to come to brentwood
at this time as a witness. Attor-
ney Rankin had acted as attorney
Tor Miss Hass during the negotia-
lions in January 1927, that are re
ported to have terminated in 1he
signing of an agreement of some
KIND between the Hass brothers.
represented by VIM. Hass. and
Wanda, reported to have had to
do with the payments of money
the failure to keep such agree
ment finally resulting in the 6om-
icide. VIC noill-
1t was also rumored Monday
evening that Wanda had made nm
ner mind to plead guilty and "take
ner medicine 'and leave at once
Tor the penitentiary at Deer
Lodge. 1t seems that she is verr,
reluctant about going THROUGH The
oF9eal OF defense. Wanda seems
very proud and does not relish the
necessary revealing of details of
her life and sometimes seems -
prefer to bury herself in the oolIS
Oh the prison and forget # oil
Sne says she has nothing more 70
said. uleo' II is
Wanda's father and mother M,
and Mrs. Albert Hass of Kenr,a ~
came over the middle of last weeI,
ana spent several days here visit
ing with their daughter ON sav l0as
occasions and discussing With = la q.
me affairs of her lifeob,t - nc; =
Sald that she holds evervtb;n 20
PACK from them and refuses re
AXE her parents into her conf;
dence. They returned ~ Konno $3.50
Saturday. " Nenmare
county Atty. Blackwell did not.
however, as it was rumored that
ne would, amend the information
against Wanda ", to first degree
murder. This has caused consider
apie discussion as to how it is nos
s si nor the county attorney to
rme q charge of second degree
murder In a case where, upon it,
very 1ace' first degree murder Is