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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

The day after Christmas is the Su-
preme let-down day of the year.
Now something of the special spirit
built up so carefully through many days
vaniShes almost overnight.
We are back in the world Of every
day once more. The stars still shine on
the Christmas trees, but Santa Claus
has gone back to the North Pole!
We are left with lot Of ties we don't
! like, and some that We do.
The fact that we do not care for the
ones with great green and red spots
alternating really has nothing to dc
with the case, after all.
They were given with the best spirit
| in the world, and it was that spirit
which counted on Christmas day.
It was because of that spirit that the
Christmas of 1880 was just as great 9
success as the Christmas of 1929.
Have you ever stopped to think Of the
success of Christmas?
It is a never-failing success, because
it Is built on and around that which
never faileth.
The day after Christmas, too, comes
but once year.
We come down the staircase In the
morning, half expecting things to be the
same, somehow, as they were the day
before.
But they are not.
The furnace needs attending to and
the milk has to be taken in from the
back porch.
The hundred and one. homely chores
of the everyday begin at once, and one
knows instinctively that they will not
cease for another year or whereabouts.
One of the glories of Christmas IS
that 1t gets into your blood.
Old Scrooge learned that many years
ago, In Charles Dickens Carol" but
the remainder of us learn it anew every
year.
No matter how much we said, before
Christmas, "Oh, Christmas means moth
ing to mel" We discovered by Christmas
eve that it did.
Even if we looked at some of our gifts
beforehand, in defiance of tradition, We
discovered that no harm was done, es-
pecially If we were careful to put the
wrapping paper back the way we found
1t, and to pretend that we had not
looked.
Christmas demanded a special spirit,
and now we let 1t get away from us. It
Is really too bad. If we could only keen
it, how much better of the world would
be! But it Is too good for us. It is
better than humanity is, we suppose
and We cannot stand the strain.
We must relapse into niggardliness
and suspicion, and selfishneSs, and hate
and worse, largely because those things
seem more natural to human beings
It Is too bad.
1t takes Christmas to shake us out
Of them, and we relapse pretty quickly
But the hope is, although it is a very
old one now, that some time the world
Of men will wake up to itself and make
good on its specialized ideas and
thoughts. When that time arrives there
will be no Christmas day, perhaps, be-
cause all the days will be Christmas.
x X X
The day after Christmas leaves most
of us with a stuffy feeling of having
eaten too much. Will humanity never
get over its animal heritage? We began
on Thanksgiving a shameless gorging
with most folks. Every one you met
on the day after Thanksgiving admitted,
with a mixture of shame and pride,
that he had eaten too much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
The Price of Health.

DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur gives a well
come holiday greeting to the country
when he announces that the national
"Committee on the Costs Of Medical
Care" is approaching the end Of its
task--a five-year survey of the field
eomprehended by the committees title.
BY September, 1891, the chairman
states, the inquiry will have proceeded
b a point where full light can be
shed on what most people today con-
slider the Unfortunately high expense Of
keeping or getting well
DR.. Wilbur says that Americas an
hual budget for the eradication of Ill
health is i've billion dollars, or some
thing Ike forty dollars per capita. If the
possibility Of death and Of permanent
impairment be taken into account, the
total, the committee estimates, may
well reach three times that amount, or
over fifteen billions. Our whole ma
tional debt is only seventeen billions
@arsay. here Is goal worth attaining
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing to our InfoRma-
ton Bureau In Washington, d. @. This
offer applies strictly to Information.
The bureau cannot give advice on legal,
medical and financial matters. It
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, or undertake exhaustive re-
search on any subject. Write your QueS-
ton plainly and briefly. Give full
name and address and inclose 2 cents
in coin or stamps for return postage.
The reply Is sent direct to the inquirer.
Address The Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. HaSkin, director,
Washington, d. G.
@. What should an airport have in
the way of first-aid equipment?-S. w.
A. First-aid equipment at a landing
field should include an ambulance, or
some vehicle that can be used as an
ambulance, equipped with crowbar, wire
cutters, hack saw, AK, cloth-cutting
shears, fire extinguishers, and two lit
tiers, and the following supplies should
be available: Twelve assorted bandageS,
IL sterile dressings, 2 tourniquetS, and
first-aid dressings for burns, either
tincture Of iodine or mercurochrome
aromatic spirits Of ammonia, and paper
or glass cups.
Q. How many photographers are
there in the United States?-H. G. r.
A. There are about $4,000 profes-
! sional photographers in the. United
States, while the number of amateurs
runs into the millions.
@. When will the play, an the
Meantime" which was recently at the
National Theater in Washington, D. c.,
be in New York; R.
A. I'm the Meantime Is scheduled
to open at the Guild Theater In New
York on December 20. It's name, how
ever, will be changed to Midnight"
Q. What country is the leader in
furs?-H. w. P.
A. The United States has displaced
London as the fur center Of the world,
according to the latest Government re-
ports. There are no accurate figures for
the domestic fur catch in the United
States, but its annual value Is estimated
at from $45 100000 to $4,000, 900, and
most Of this comes from the Mississippi
Valley, which is the largest -produc-
ing area In the world, with double the
catch Of Russia and three times that of
Canada. The four outstanding domestic
commercial fIlrs are muslIrat, opoSsum,
skunk and raccoon.
Q. How many men did it take to
build the Great Pyramid?-Q.
A. Herodotus estimated that 100, 900
men were engaged for 20 years in build
ing it.
@. How much money does the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing put out per
day?-M. o. s.
A. The daily average of notes made at
the bureau is 3,360,0 900 pieces, the money
value of which is $13 $40, 900.
Q. Will gasoline and water mix?-
F. H.
A. Gasoline and water are so nearly
| tmmiscible that neither will dissolve
| more than few hundredthS Of a per
cent Of the other. The solubility Is so
light that the liquids are usually said to
be insoluble in one another.
Q. How many children has Knute
Rockne2-E. j.
A. The Rocknes have four children
William, Knute, Maryjean and John.
Q. Where Is Mary, Queen of Scots,
| buried?-E. w. G.
A. The body of Mary, Queen Of Scots,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

i've months after her death was buried
at Peterboro. In 1912 It was removed
to King Henry Wis chapel, In West
minister Abbey. The body still lies
there in a sumptuouS tomb erected by
her son.
@. Please name two prominent Anax-
leans who were killed in duelS.--A. q.
A Alexander Hamilton and STEPHAN
Decatur.
@. Can q producing oil well be cap
ped? How many oil wells are there In
the United States?-W. H. B.
A. It Is possible to cap an oil wen and
stop the flow of oil for a given period
Of time without injury to the wells pro-
ducing capacities. There are approx
mately $4,000 producing oil wells In the
United States.
O. Where did Hampton Roads get its
name2-M. G. B.
A. The towns Of Hampton and Halnp-
ton Roads derived their present names
from the Earl Of Southampton, one OF
| the leaders of the Virginia Co. and
friend or patron of Shakespeare. The
name was probably abbreviated to
Hampton"
@. Please inform me Of the signifi-
canoe of long narrow boards painted
red, or striped red and white, suspended
| overhead at the ends Of the platforms
of the subway and elevated stations in
New York and Brooklyn. j. G.
A. The New York Rapid Transit Cor
| poration says that the long narrow
boards painted red or striped red and
white, located at the ends of platforms
OF subway and elevated stations, tndi-
cate to trainmen that certain car doors
should not be opened. This Is neces-
Sary because some Of the trains are
longer than the station platforms and at
times motormen are required 10 stop
trains with certain cars outside the
limits of the station platforms.
@. When was Washington's birthday
| first celebrated?-T. v.
A. The first recorded mention Of
| the celebration of WaShington's birth
day Is said to be one In the Virginia
Gazette or the American Advertiser
Of Richmond, Va, the day being Febru-
dar not having then been everywhere
and for every purpose abandoned.
Q. What is meant by the expression
about coming into court with clean
hands?-S. D. v.
n 4HoIe Is legal uldAIL1, E4S WHO
| seeks equity must come with clean
| hands" AS explained in Bowman's
Handbook Of Elementary Law, tris
mearB that "a plaintiff who has been
guilty of inequitable conduct in the
same matter concerning which he asks
relief against the defendants inequi-
table conduct will be- denied relief"
An illustration cited Is that q plaintiff
who sues to restrain the defendant
from infringing his trade mark viii
be denied relief where the trade mark
Is itself untruthful and misleading to
the public. A somewhat similar maxim
is, He who seeks equity must do
equity"
@. What does the word Eureka"
mean?-R. s. A.
A. It is Greek, more correctly
"Heureka," meaning st have found it,"
1t Is an exclamation of delight, appro-
pirate when q discovery has been made.
Eureka Is the motto of California, in
allusion to the gold discovered there.
Q. Who wrote "The Birds Christ
mas Caror?-S. A. @.
| A. Kate Douglas Wiggtn Q659-le2a).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

those that have as depositors large num-
bers OF small tradesmen. whose ac-
counts, though not individually great,
are vitality consequential to the patrons.
These people, in most cases ignorant
Of banking methods and principles, are
quick to suspect danger and to act i'm
pulsively in defense.
So tense is the situation, even now,
that bank officials have instructed their
employees to refrain from discussing
either at home or in public the affairs
of their banks or any other institutions.
This is intended to cut of any supply
Of inside information" that may have
been heretofore reaching the radicals
engaged In this campaign.
There is every reason to believe in
the possibility that such a campaign
Is in progress. Whether inspired
directly from Moscow or acting upon
their own impulses, the Communists
in this country, aiming at the destruc-
ton of the Capitalist" system, are
known to be seeking to break down
public faith in all of the institutions
of Government and finance and trade.
Their public demonstrations are frankly
destructive. Their proclamations de-
clare for revolution" They openly
avow their purpose to sweep away all
the landmarks of American civiliza-
ton to make way for a new order,
based upon the Russian principles of
state and society. So there is no rea-
son to doubt the campaign to break
the banks, and indeed every reason to
believe that it is under way. With this
knowledge the forces Of law and order
should be able to meet the menace
and prevent disaster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Observance of Christmas has been
generous and sincere. Much that is new
in manners and strange in ideas has
become conspicuous Doubts are enter
tanned as to the permanence of the
social scheme which has long prevailed.
The assurance comes every year that
we go on thinking as our forefathers
thought and cherishing the spirit of the
home as they did in spite of the mar
velous strides invention has made and
the Improvements in industrial methods
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pHnANDER JOHNSON.

True Philosopher.
A little boy will write note
To Santa Claus. He will devote
Pages in telling his desires;
Then wait for what he so admires.
Now Santa is busy saint;
Letters in memory may grow faint.
But none the less, the gifts he'll find
The boy greets with joyous mind.
He thinks Of benefits received.
BY what he missed he is not grieved.
If men could be, they'd gain new JOY,
Philosophers, like the small boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Decrease in Forest Loss.
From the jackson Citizen Patriot.

Statistics on practically everything
show lower totals for this year than
for last, and in most cases these low
cred totals are disquieting. But one
case has just come to light where the
decrease is very gratifying. That is in
the figures on the loss from forest fires.
The Forest Service at Washington
announces that fire damage to national
forest lands this year was held to $751;
370-a reduction of more than 80 per
cent from 1929. This reduction was
made in spite of the dryness of the
weather, which made the fire hazard
more dangerous than usual.
We are accustomed to seeing those
forest fire figures high in the millions.
This great reduction is something over
which we can rejoice nightly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Easily the Chief.

Business grew brisker, all men must
agree,
When Christmas came with loud and
CHEEKY call,
And old friend Santa Claus again we
see
The highest high-power statesmen of
them all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Use of wheat for fuel takes care of an
emergency. 1t shows conclusively, how
ever, that an economic system which
compels family to burn what is meant
for food to take the place of wood, coal
or oil is working under miscalculation.
Einstein might be appealed to in an
effort to have the matter Strengthened
out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Santa Claus Is only a myth. Men
have for ages devoted vast fortunes
to the glorifcation of some crea-
ture of imagination. After all, there is
nothing in the world more expensive
than a myth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

California raises fine grapes in
abundance. An understandable bunch
of grapes is more disappointing than a
measure of wheat or an ear of corn.
The grapes cannot even be used as fuel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

AS between Mr.. Lucas and Mr.. Norris
It Is regarded as a pretty fight as it
stands, with no need of drawing in a
third eminent official to make it more
exciting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Occasionally Tammany is accused of
playing games that make old-fashioned
politics, with all the charges made
against it, look like comparatively in
nocent pastime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Getting Senator Norris sidetracked
may call for new political surveys to
decide which is the side track and
which is the main line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

The next scheduled greeting is Happy
New Year" The public can ask no
more than that it will be as truly a
success as Merry Christmas"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

If there must be party strife, now is
the time to have it. An election needs a
preface of party harmony as an essen
tial detail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Missed Something?

From the GAINESVILLE Gazette.
About the only secret that has not
been shown on the New York stage is
the personal life Of a goldfish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Discreet diners discount their good
resolutions as to beverages for a few
days and make them useful for Christ
mas as well as New Year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Jud Tunkins says genuinely merry
Christmas is one that leaves no mis-
givings that next day you will have to
look over the menu card and send a
letter of apology to Santa Claus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Busy Congress.

From the Worcester Daily Telegram.
Apparently Congress is to use up most
of the next three months discussing
whether or not there ought to be an
extra session In the Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Bob.White Unafraid.

From the fan Antonio Evening News
The bob-white whistles atAdawn as II
he didn't care a hang fof the open
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Honest Kindness.

Honest Kindness.
Little children will one day mention
your name with deepest respect"
"I hope" answered Senator Sorghum,
they will let the children alone with
their Aladdins and Jack the Giant killer
and not bother them with efforts to
understand my speeches"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Drawing a Conclusion.

Are the Smithers children proper
playmates for our little grip" asked the
careful mother.
81 doubt it," replied the vigilant
father. "They laughed at her when she
smoked a cigarette, thereby showing
that her parents are taking no pains to
educate her in the ways of the fash
ionable world"
HE who takes no holidays" said Hi
Ho, the sage Of Chinatown, will find
many ways of spending working days
in idleneSs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Avoiding All misunderstanding

They say we cannot comprehend what
Einstein has TO say;
And maybe it is better far for things
to be that way.
Some mathematical remark folks might
not understand
And instead of an ovation we might
have a row on hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

ITS g'ineter to turn over new Leaf"
said Uncle Eben, IAN try to keep out Of
temptation. has turned too many new
leaves dat didn't have nufhn' on EN-
but de same old story
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

THEODORE W. MOVES. :. Editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

@. Where Is Mary, Queen of Scots,
buried?-E. w. G.
A. The body of Mary. Queen Of Scots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Rase bv carrier within the CITY.

New York once: ITO East 4Znd St.
Chicago once Lake Michigan Building.
European once: IA Regent st., London
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Collection made at the end Of each month.
Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone
National 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Q. Who wrote "The Birds Christ
mas Carol"?-S. A. @.
A. Kate Douglas Wiggin 185s-le23).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

Q. How many children has Knute
Rockne2-E. j.
A. The Rocknes have four children
William, Knute, Maryjean and John.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

@. Where did Hampton Roads get its
name?-M. G. B.
A. The towns Of Hampton and Harnp-
ton Roads derived their present names
from the Earl Of Southampton, one OF
the leaders of the Virginia Co. and
friend or patron Of Shakespeare. The
name was probably abbreviated to
Hampton"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

@. What does the word Eureka"
mean?-R. s. A.
A. It is Greek, more correctly
'Heureka," meaning st have found it."
It Is an exclamation of delight, appro-
pirate when a discovery has been made.
Eureka Is the motto Of California, in
allusion to the gold discovered there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
The Tariff Bill

The senate, after months Of debate, has
completed its work the HawleySmoot tariff bill.
The house began the task of revision with hearings
before the ways and means committee some fourteen
months ago.
AS it energies from the senate on it's way to con-
ference between the two chambers, the bill would
impose the highest tariff duties in the history of the
country Little, if any, improvement has been made
in the measure that raroaded through the house
1t Is true that higher duties are imposed on many
farm products but these are for the most part in
effective At the time industrial schedules have
been elevated generally.
1t is estimated the bill as it stands would take
from the pockets of consumers a billion dollars a
year. Duties sugar, lumber, wool, cement. brick
and numerous other basic commodities have been
increased largely The senate put shoes and hides
back on the free list but duty had been voted by
the house and may be restored in conference
The senate bill is not the sort of measure promised
by President Hoover during his campaign. He pro-
posed limited revision to help agriculture and in
dustries in genuine distress. The product thus far
is anything but that 1t gives farmers increases of
dubious value, and at the same time would collect
huge toll from them and the rest of the consumers
through higher industrial schedules
Enactment of the bill in the senate was accom-
panied by open log-rolng and trading which de-
Stroyed much of the good the coalitionists had
been able to accomplish earlier. Senator Joseph r.
Grundy, the countrys leading lobbyist and campaign
fund collector able to influence the bill power
fully after he had obtained his senate seat.
The bill faces rocky path in conference. Not
only is there objection to rates. but the administrative
features will provoke debate. Liberals object to the
censorship authority granted to customs officers;
conservatives will fight to throw out the debenture
plan inserted by the senate
There is wide disagreement the flexible pro-
visions, and on Senator Norris amendment to deny
tariff protection to any industry not maintaining fulI
conditions Of unrestraned competition"
1t is difficult to predict what may happen in con-
ference that it is beyond the power of the
ferees to alter the bill in any radical degree. They
can not make Of the present measure anything that
will meet the conditions named by the President.
They can not convert it-or so it seems to us
into legislation to which the President would be
willing to af1x his signature
There is of course some possibility of stalemate
between the two houses, resulting in tariff
legislation whatever. Which might be the best way
out for all concerned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
A Parole for a Girl

II NAV matter little to society in general as 70
whether Daisy Sullivan, the young Bloomfield gr1'
is held or released 4Aom the wonans prison.
Readers Of The Times remember her story. Nearly
wear ago she forged a check so clunsly as TO 1901
M one. She was hungry. She obtained $780, she
t % cents for oranges and had eaten but two When
the law put out its strong hand and grabbed her.
She is under sentence Of from two 70 fourteen
Years in penitentiary at time when girls OF her
age are dreaming their dreams are loyouSy LOOKING
at life in its most colorful hues.
She had been without mothers care ana gulo-
ance She came from home Of privation- hers
had boen life of hard work and Of few advantages
She received exactly the same sentence given 70
bankers who robbed those who trusted them WIN
tbsir dollars and who had stolen, in the same way
that Dais- obtained two oranges, the money Oh thelr
friends. .,.--. kox
The picture Of a young girl in penitentiary 1or
obtaining two oranges is not pleasant one 1t might
o,, SUGGEST the summit of stupidity on the part OF
organized society that knows Of no better way =
protect itself.
Now the father of the girl asks for mercy for her
Tho stste crime commission should be interested in
bs case It might find it profitable to investigate
mt whether Daisy should be liberated but the con-
tons that led this great state to send young girl
n a penitentiary 1t sounds so medieval to put II
crsr,tabIv. In a work Of fiction it might be calieo
cr,eI Perhaps it was Just plain stupid Or calious