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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

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@. What production started Vernon
Castle on the road to SUCCESSIVE. S. T.
A. A small dance part in THE Girl
Behind the Counter" given to the late
dancer and aviator by Lew Fields In
1907, was the beginning Of Vernon Cas-
ties career.
@. How many buildings in Washing
ton, D. c., are owned by the Govern
ment? How many are rented?-R. e. S.
A. There are los Government-owned
buildings, exclusive of the Executive
Mansion, the Capitol, the Senate and
House Office Buildings, the Capitol
Power Plant and the Library Of Con-
gress, in Washington, D. G. Fifty-two
buildings are rented in Washington by
the Federal Government. The annual
rental Is $l,2lO,53o.6S.
@. Why aren't trucks made Of light
material, like aluminium, thereby reduc-
ing the weight of the machine and
permitting the engine to carry a heavier
load?-M. M. o.
A. It has not been practical CONNER
cially. The time Is near at hand when
such trucks will be practical and when
railroad cars can be built Of aluminium
at saving in weight without exorbi-
tant rise in price.
O. Are there presentations at the
Dutch Court as there are at the Eng
lish?-H M. s. S.
A. The Dutch Court has only occa-
sioaal presentations. It does not have
the regular presentations that are held
In England.
9. What is the standing Of Lola
Ridge?-W. G.
A. She is one of possibly three woman
poets who hold first rank in this
country.
@. How long has barbed wire been
manufactureda-R. L. M.
A, The practical beginning Of the
barbed wire industry was in the patent
issued to Joseph F. Glidden of De Kalb,
ILL.,, in 1874. This patent was issued
Tor barbed fence wire. during the same
year a patent was issued to Mr.. Gid
den and Phineas w. Vaughan having
a machine to manufacture it. The de-
velopment of the barbed wire industry
was accelerated by the introduction of
the mild steel. The approximate pro-
duction in the United States, showing
figures of the years indicated, Is as fol-
lows: 1874, tons; 1880, 10000 tons;
1890, 100000 tons; 1924, 100000 tons;
1927, 10000 tons.
@. How long has the Metropolitan
Opera House been at Thirty-ninth and
Broadway?-G. v. H.
A. It was opened on october "a, 1883,
at its present location.
Q. How many Negroes are there IN
the United States Navy?-F. J.
A. There are TOO at the present time.
@. What does Watts painting,
Hope" signify?-I. @.
A. The theme is symbolized by the
figure of q woman seated with bowed
head. She still clings to her Tyre, all
the strings of which, with the exception
of one, are broken. This is to suggest
the dominant quality of hope. which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Survival of Fittest
In War Is Denied
From the Cincinnati rimes-star.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
In dedicating a fireplace in a fra
ternity house to the memory Of Joyce
Kilmer, Prof. John Erskine recently
said that had Kilmer lived he would
today be the greatest of living poets. 1t
is a statement, truly, that no one can
affirm or deny. 1t belongs to the cate
CORY of fulsome praise that such an oc-
casion almost justif1es.
Whether Joyce Kiln1er would have
proved our greatest poet If he had lived
is a question on which there could be
only moot argument. It is akin to the
question of how much greater Keats
would have become If tuberculosis had
not terminated his career at rs years.
Joyce Kilmer was graceful poet OF
much promise, and his death at an
early age brings home poignantly to US
the great loss the world suffered in the
sacrifice of so many young men during
the war. We shall feel that loss in all
the arts and sciences throughout the
present generation and, in truth, during
generations to come. War has a way
of taking the most promising youth of
nation. The brave and the impulsive
are the first to reach the front and the
first to be consumed IN the fires OF war.
What change would nave been
wrought in English literature II Shakes
great Elizabethan sea dogs in his youth
and had been killed in action. Our Ian
guage would have been robbed OF its
greatest possession. But. we do not
know that q greater than Shakespeare
may not have been sacrificed by Fate.
1t is difficult to appreciate the great
loss to literature If Milton had been
forced to mount the scaffold after the
return Of the Stuarts to the English
throne. English literature would have
been deprived Of paradise Lost" which
directed the main current OF poetry for
q century and half. Yet a Cavalier
or Roundhead of greater poetic poten-
TALLY than Milton may have been
killed at Naseby or in Marston Moor.
The fate of young men who are pre-
vented by war from realizing their rich
promise is more tragic than that OF the
village Hampden or the mute Milton OF
Grey's "Elegy." The village Hampden
and the mute Milton had their oppor-
tunity, but preferred rustic obscurity.
A man like Joyce Kilmer was frustrated
by death from giving to his generation
all that life had apparently given to
him. War In which death is admin
istered with prodigal hand by men to
men Is far from being survival Of the
dtteSt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
New Schools.

With the opening today Of the new
Adams Elementary School, at Columbia
road and Nineteenth street northwest,
Washington's overcrowded public school
system will begin to feel some Of that
relief promised by provision OF new
school buildings during the 1929-l93o
school terms. The Adams is the first
of four new buildings opening their
doors between now and the middle Of
March.
The Adams will take care Of pupils
from the Morgan School, the latter later
to be enlarged by an eight-room addi-
ton and turned over to colored students.
It will also receive seventh and eighth
grade pupils from the old Force School,
on Massachusetts, avenue, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
destined soon to receive students from
the ancient Adams, at Seventeenth and
r streets, which Is to be closed, having
been recommended for abandonment
some years previous to the birth Of
many Of its recent graduates.
Closely following the opening OF the
new Adams, the Paul Junior High, the
Langdon Elementary and the w. B.
Powell Elementary will receive pupils.
The Paul Junior High, at Concord ave-
nue. and Eighth street northwest, viii
relieve conditions in the Brightwood
Junior High Annex, the mcfarland
Junior High and the Takoma and Keene
Elementary Schools. The Langdon VIII
replace the old frame building at Twen-
tieth and Franklin streets northeast,
and the w. B. Powell, at Fourteenth and
Upshur. will take students from that
general neighborhood.
Some of the congestion In the CEN
trail northwest portion Of the city and
in sections served by Georgia avenue
northwest and Rhode Island avenue
northeast is thus being relieved. But
the reduction of the total Of new class
rooms needed to eliminate portable
schools, reduce overcrowded and part
time classes and abandon unsuitable
buildings, is, relatively speaking, small.
OllC tOluAAlC Va ASVUSAo SsAASs
statements emitted recently in explana-
ton Of the failure of Congress or the
failure of somebody else to reach the
fine detectives outlined for the FIVE
year school building program, WASH
ington as whole feels that had there
been as earnest and as consistent an ef-
fort to build more schools as there has
been to explain why more schools have
not been built, the school system would
be better of than it is today. Instead
Of endeavoring to become highly en-
comiastic over the opening of q few
schools, Washington and Congress
should be exchanging congratulations
and compliments today on the fact that
the Capital of the worlds richest Ma
ton provides seat for every school
child every day in the school year, and
does it without overcrowding class
rooms, overburdening teachers, or re-
quiring children to take the leftover
morsels of the school day when and
where they can be found.
Unfortunately for Washington, that
condition of affairs remains desid-
eratum and not fact. The goal re-
mains still far in front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
A Hotel Passes.
FROM the omaha World-Herald.

From the Omaha world-Herald.
Many who have never patronized it
will feel a pang of vicarious regret az
the Hotel de Gink passes into oblivion.
marching almost in gooSe-step with
its tony contemporary, the Waldorf-As-
toria.
The Hotel de Gink was free hosiery
for hoboes, in Buffalo. It's very name
was redolent Of the road. 1t reeked OF
the obscene banter of the jungles, the
class-conSciouS camaraderie of the
roads. It called to mind the indolent,
irreverent tramp of another era, the
gentleman of frowsy couture and
patched pants who was a favorite of
newspaper and magazine cartoons
decade or two ago.
Except for an occasional bitter
ender or throwback, that tramp has
vanished. No more are the jungles
crowded in Autumn, like ponds along
the line of flight of migrant ducks. No
more are there mysterious campf1res in
the night, surrounded by romantic
figures drinking and eating from bat
tered tin cans, swapping preposterous
yarns and deViSing new chicanery for
bamboozling the charitable.
Instead there is the mendicant hitch
mixer with petit larcenous tendencies.
and the furtive habitue of the dop
houses. Gone is the fortnight pride
Of race and pride of profession which
marked the authentic hobo. His mod
ern prototype has become merely pitt
full subject for sociologic clinics.
AS the tramp of legend disappeared,
the Hotel de Gink, symbol of his race,
was doomed. On Christmas day it was
closed, victim Of the same malady which
claimed the Waldorf - inability to
change with It's changing race. Each
proved too costly; each was too generous
of its space and service to win the smiles
of efficiency engineers.
In place of the Waldorf are larger,
more impersonal institutions with
standardized equipment. In the place
of the Hotel de Gink Is organized
charity. It will provide food and lodg-
ings for the destitute and do 1t more
cheaply, more efficiently.
It is all wholly admirable. But per-
hapS one may be pardoned for casting
a last, fond glance at the grimy and
contemptuously independent race which
glorified the tin can.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

agencies to confer with him on organi-
cation and personnel of the proposed
committee of medical authorities.
The matter is one Of extreme impor-
lance in so far as the gullibility OF the
radio public is concerned. If fraudulent
claims are permitted advertising time
on the air. some persons are certain to
take them seriously. The possibility OF
fraud and chicanery is too great to per-
NIT extension of quackery. Now is the
time to stop It, before it has gone too
far.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

prevails under even the most adverse
circumstances.
Q. Is hair dyeing dangerous prac-
tice?-E. B.
A. Dyes, like other chemical COM
pounds. should be handled by experts
and are dangerous when used by mex
perienced operators.
Q. Why is the capital letter q some
tin = written V?-K. v. 8.
q. The letter u is form Of v, with
aich it was formerly used interchange
! ably. In the eleventh century v came
to be used by preference as the capital
form. In dictionaries they were not
given separate alphabetical positions
until 1900. The v form is still fire.
quently used in inscriptions.
Q. Is Evelyn a girls name or boys
name?-A. NJ. T.
A. 1t is both. In America boys are
seldom called Evelyn, but in England
boys often bear this name.
@. Why is folystone so called?-H 8.
A. The word holystone denotes a
piece of soft stone used in scrubbing
decks. The term is supposed to be de-
rived from the fact that decks were
usually scrubbed on Saturday as a
preparation for Sunday inspection,
church, etc.; hence, the phrase, holy
stone and holystoning.
@. Please define a spy.-M H. L.
A. The principal characteristic of this
offense is cladestine Discrimination of
the true object sought, which object is
an endeavor to obtain information with
the intention of communicating 1t to
the hostile party.
@. What is Helen Keller's denomina-
tional affiliation?-W. M. T.
A. Miss Keller is a Swedenborgian.
Q. Who has supervision over the wa
ters of the Rio Grande and Colorado
River which flow in both Mexican and
American territory?-L. N.
A. The International Water Com
mission, United States and Mexico, has
been appointed to work out a plan pro-
viding for the equitable division Of the
waters of the Rio Grande, Colorado
River and Tia Juana River, streams
which flow on both sides Of the inter-
national boundary.
@. What Is the name of the man
who taught Charles Francis Adams,
Secretary of the Navy. to sail boat?-
c. A. L.
A. Bill Gavin of Quincy. Mass, is
said to have taught Secretary Adams
| 10 uldIldSe q SdLDOdG.
@. Is there a demand for laborers
| for plantations In Hawaii?-C. r.
A. The Department Of Commerce
says that in Hawaii the supply OF native
labor Is plentiful for work on the plan
/ tations. The wages are much lower
than those received in this country.
@. What organization is offering q
prize for the best hymn on peace. @.
A. The Hymn Society, a national or
ganization of hymn writers and COM
posers, will award a 500 prize for the
best hymn on peace. An announcement
made recently by the president OF the
society," DR.. Benjamin S. Winchester,
was to the effect that the contest would
close on May l, 1890. The hymns
may be sent to Miss Caroline Parker,
$50 Fourth avenue, New York City.
@. What makes a comet have taila
w. T.
A. The Naval Observatory says that
the tail is composed of matter elected
by the comet under the influence of
the radiation of the sun and, of course,
more abundantly the nearer the comet
l gets to the sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Electric Fans Proposed
To Drive Out Starlings
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
If you permit me, I shall give you an
idea about the Startling warfare"
"Smudge pots" will spoil the buildings
facade, load of buckshot" also, and
moreover are dangerous.
I am almost sure that some electric
fan" rightly placed, will give the best
result, because of disturbing effects,
draught and cold, each things for which
birds, and even any volatile. are not
very fond Of. All Summer used them
against moth" with real success.
j. REHBOCK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Same Old We,

Same Old Year.
Just the same old sunny day;
Or the same old cloud!
Here's lonely shadow gray
There's laughing crowd.
Now a message brings smile,
Then there comes a tear.
Changing every little while,
It's the same old year.
New acquaintance will unfold
Promise to the view.
These may fail, while friendships old
Faithful prove and true.
Though we spoke of future dreams
With song of cheer,
In few short days 1t seems
Just the same old year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Talents are often sadly misapplied
The cleverness shown in making an
explosive package to deal indiscrinlinate
destruction represents wasted earning
CAPACITY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Numerous cities are demanding more
economical methods in public affairs.
They are not quite in step with the
experts in finance who are favoring a
larger popular purchasing capacity.
Economy is necessary, but it needs good
management.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Demands for law enforcement are so
earnest that some method should soon
be discovered for prompt and reliable
means Of accomplishing the praise
worthy end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

It is generally believed that 1880 will
be good year for business. This belief
does not carry with it any encourage
ment to margin speculation, which,
strictly speaking, is not classified as
regular business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Many able men like to read detective
stories. The supply of sleuth fiction
has become so enormous that 1t would
be encouraging to regard it as indi-
eating q supply Of able men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

The current year will claim a place
in history as an era of tax reduction.
1t should attain honor IN the minds
Of the public even beyond that which
attaches to the splendors of conquest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

A bomb planter reverts to the type
Of savagery that spares neither women
nor children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Nebraska has developed determine
ton to give Senator Norris hard fight,
even If it has to call in the Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Terrible Times.

From the Hayerhill Evening Gazette.
The most impressive evidence Of the
fearful effects of q drought comes from
Utah in the form of dispatch to the
effect that water Is 50 scarce makeks
Of liquor are having difficulty in operaSs
ing their stills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

As a preliminary to service, a certain
few agents assigned to the pursuit of
rum runners should be required to sign
q total abstinence pledge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Wall Street reports that money Is
easy" The guessing, however. is as
hard as ever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use Tor republication Of ell news dis
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published herein. All rights OF publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Justifable Larceny.

| From the Tulsa World.
The man who stole II radio machines
may have doGe 1t merely to get them
| out Of circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
A Sure-Fire Forecast

From the Worcester Evening Gazette.
Snow or rain, predicts the weather
man: He would have made his prophecy
absolutely inpregnable II he had cast
q: Snow or rain or clear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Rate nv Carrier Within the CITY
Rate by MaiI-Payable I'm Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia,

All Other States and Canada.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Bruin Did His Bit.

From the Akron Beacon Journal.
Don't give Mr.. Mellon all the credit
for reducing 1929 income taxes. The
bears helped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

The Better Role.
From the Toledo Blade.
It Is more blessed to give than to be
held UP at the point Of gun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Arts Of Oratory.

what do you intend to say about the
tariff"
st haven't made up my mind"
answered Senator Sorghum. '"I don't
know whether to try to make the sub
ject clear or to express myself in Ian
guage that no one will take the trouble
to understand"
Jud Tunkins says he takes so much
good advice that he has trouble paying
for all the wonderful things statesmen
persuade him to buy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Extensive Undertaking.
There are so many laws,
I'll do a perfect part
If lengthily Ill pause
To learn them all by hearth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06

Old Nineteen Twenty-nine slipped by
And Nineteen Thirty greets the eye.
The earth speeds on; 1t cannot lag,
And gets q grand new license tag.
"A politician" said Uncle Eben, "has
a way Of convincin' me dat he kin worry
bout my troubles batter dan kin do II
fob myselk."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
Not In Recentive Mood.

II lengthlIy III pause
To learn them all by hearth
Not in Receptive Mood.
"I can tell you how to make a
hundred thousand dollars In the stock
market!''
Don't do it," pleaded the weary
looking citizen. Listening to that kind
of conversation is what caused me to
say farewell to my last seven hundred
and nifty dollars"
wealth." said HI Ho. the sage Of
Chinatown, brings fear of loss that
offsets the happiness Of possession"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-16

feather belief. III the fur and
feather Of a bird or animal is un-
usually heavy, it is thought that
a severe winter is ahead. On the
other hand. 1t Is thought that II
fur and feather is thin. then the
winter will be mild.
But don't you believe It. says
science. While the fur and feather
indications IRE not wholly fall
lacious, they may not be followed
with any degree of accuracy.
A sign that Is not much in evil
dence in the Valley is the one de-
scribed in the following ccuplet:
Rainbow in the morning, sailors
take warning:
Rainbow at night. sailors delight
However, rainbows are not en-
tirely unknown here. so you may
remember this weather truth. For
IL Is true. science has found.
Now the stars
Now VT come to the stars. We
haven't seen much OF the stars dur
ing the past week in the Valley
but just the same We will and here:
a way to predict weather by the
twinklers.
when the big stars seem larger
and shine family with a milky light
ard the little stars have disappeared
from sight. watch out for fou
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-16

warm Cold
scientific fact. Some Of these were
brought together in verse sup
posedly by Dr. Jenner, discoverer Of
vaccination
How to Tell
In his verse, Dr.. Jenner combines
al the accurate signs for predict
uig rain. The verse is as follows.
Last night the Sun went pale
TO bed.
The Moon in halos hid her head.
The boding shepherd heaves
a sigh.
For see! a rainbow spans the sky.
Hark how the chairs and tables
crack
Old Betty's joints are on the
rack:
Her corns with shooting pains
torment her:
And to her bed untinely send her:
Loud quack the ducks, the pea
cocks cry.
The distant hills are looking nigh;
How restless are the snorting
swine!
The busy flies disturb the kline.
Low DER the grass the swallow
wings;
The cricket, too. how sharp he
sings
In fiery red the sun Goth rise.
Then wades through clouds to
mount the skies.
Twill surely rain-I see with sor-
row
Our jaunt must be put off toTnor-
row
Example Given
DO you recognize any OF these
signs? For example, 1t had been
raining for seven days steadily AZ
the time OF writing. Almost six
inches total precipitation had been
recorded. And on the night pre-
ceding the start Of the heavy rain.
an enormous halo appeared around
the moon The night was clear,
the moon very bright. But still
there was a large halo surrounding
II.
That's a concrete and local ex-
ample Of weather signs predicting
accurately. That's why grandpa
hurried home from under the elm
tree.
Many is the time the sun has
SCI IL a gray haze in the Valley.
the only remark made BY those who
saw IL being oh. how pretty"
Old-timers. however. knew that this
meant rain in the near future, and
acted accordingly.
Flies a Sign
Another sign common in the VAL
ley is the paucity Of flies preceding