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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
OFFICERS TO BE SLATED
Prince Georges Federation Nom
mating Committee Named.
By stan Correspondent of The star.

b stan Correspondent of The star.
SEABROOK. Md, November Is
w. A. Link of Cheveriy, George w.
Morgan of Seabrook and William
Frerte Of Bladensburg we're appointed
Is q nominating committee at the No
yember meeting of the Prince Georges
County Federation of Citizens Asso-
cations. The committee will bring in
q slate Of officers for 1881 at the Janu-
airy meeting.
Fred w. Cast of Cheverly, chairman
OF the Public Utilities Committee, was
directed TO investigate the various gas
charges in effect IN the county, follow
Ing report that the washington Gas
Light Co. Is proposing to serve gas In
some sections ut lower rates than are
now charged = tie naetrorhlitAn ara.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
PASTOR PLANS MISSION
Dispatch to The star.

MDe1iai Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Nd, November
15<-Rev. Arlington A. McCallum, rector
of st Paul's Church, Washington, will
conduct preaching mission In Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church here be-
ginning tomorrow and continuing
cf the Episcopal Church &C Iceland.
Groom and Brandywine win Join that
~ Trinity Church II the mission.
m addition 10 the usual Sunday serv-
lees there win be services every day
OF the week at 10 am, $3.50 pm. and
3 pm. The mission win Be held along
With those IN progress throughout the
Giecsaa Of washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
TO CONDUCT MISSION
Capital Pastor Will Hold Services
in Episcopal Churches in Bowie.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOWIE, Md, November 15.--Rev.
Edward Gabler of washington, d. c..
will conduct q mission In the Episcopal
churches in this community next week
beginning Sunday evening and contin-
uing each evening, except Saturday,
through the following Sunday.
His subjects will be:
Sunday, What and Who Is God?";
Monday, 1.-THE Temple of cod; Tues
day, I'm Tune With Cod; Wednes-
day, Lacking Elements In Many Lives;
Thursday. Temptation and SIN; Fri
day, THE Challenge of q Great Task;
Sunday, November 20, where We
Stand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
Drifted In On the Tide
Seaman Bred in Sums Proves His Metle by Leapng
Overheard to Save His Dog While
Atlantic Storm RACES.

boy carried on grimly, afraid to make
q mess Of his first mans Job.
The relief found him unconscious
in q pool of his own blood and car
lied him below.
Soaped Lightning.
She Sunugtenko, for New York, was
steaning out of San Francisco as Chief
Steward Frank Brook, dressed only in
shirt, shoes and trousers, rushed to the
end Of the pier, stared at the depart
ing ship and gave vent to his feelings.
He had missed his boat and on 1t
were his clothes, his money, and his
papers.
There was only one way to get back
to that ship. The Sunugtenko takes
% days to reach New York. Brook
had to hitch-hike and beat the boat
to port. Panhandling got him his grub.
Fast freights and automobiles carried
him across the continent He had
plenty Of company-eig tramps, one
Of whom discussed Nietzsche across 900
miles of prairie.
It took Brook 10 days TO make the
trip and he beat the Sunugtenko by
10 days.
The Power Of Song.
Some philanthropic society gave q
party to group Of sailors few nights
ago and the women present were much
interested in life at sea. They made
the grevious error of calling ordinary
seamen common sailors.
One sailor, q boy Of Is, bit better
dressed than the others, was asked to
sing song. A woman asked: Els he
one of the common sailors?" The boy
flushed and broke into a song written
As years ago by some unknown
troubador:
Talking Of men ashore, you never
hear them say.
He's common this or he's common
that,
Be his calling what it may, be he
tinker, toiler, scavenger or. sweep,
Then why despise us hearty boys
Who toll the raging Deep"
The song went on for seven verses.
At the finish the boy chanted:
Then don't call us common sailors
any more, any more.
Fine things to you we bring,
Don't call us common men
We're good as any man that's on
the shore"
The applause came mostly from mas
culine threats. The woman who had
made the unfortunate remark apollo
(CopyriEht 1907
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16

'Weenies" of the American variety
have gained great popularity among
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16

According to an official spokesman
Of the Marking regime, the educated
young people Of China are the most ac-
tive among the Communists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
STOLEN SAFE FOUND
IN GLENMONT WOODS
Strong Box Taken at Silver Spring
Broken Open, but Paper
Contents Left.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, November
15.-The 500-pound safe containing
valuable papers which was stolen from
the home Of Charles N. Fraser of Lin
den, Nd. on October %, was found
this morning in the woods near Glen
mont, broken open.
Nothing was missing except three
children's rings of little value. Stock
certificates valued at 81 500 and other
papers were still in the strong box. The
safe was found by Arthur M. Haley
of Silver Spring, who was hunting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16

The Japanese government has grant
ed q subsidy of $144,000 for petroleum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16

boy carried on grimly, afraid TO make
q mess of his first mans job.
The relief found him unconscious
lied him below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20

sue certain observations Of keen In
terest to him concerning the life Of the
American people. He likes America and
this present plan to return here for oc-
casional and possibly frequent visits Is
the result of that feeling of friendship.
Only two other British representatives
have remained longer at this post than
Sir Esme Howard, Viscount Bryce and
Lord Pauncefote, each of whom re-
manned in Washington for slightly more
than six years, while the now retiring
Ambassador would have completed ex-
actly six years of duty here on Saturday
next. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice very nearly
equaled the stay of Sir Esme Howard.
Thus these four Ambassadors have, in
their total years of service, represented
Great Britain at this Capital for about a
quarter Of century.
A new dean of the diplomatic corps
automatically appears, in the person Of
DR.. Herman Valarde, Ambassador Of
Peru. who came to Washington In 1924,
a short time after Sir Esme Howard. He
will be the first of the South American
representatives at this Capital to act in
this unoficisl but highly important role.
His familiarity with Washington, his
thorough acquaintance with the per-
sonnet of Government and his natural
capacity for effective adjustment of diff
ficult and delicate affairs qualify him
for this duty, which at times is one Of
greatest Importance in preserving the
social balances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20

post Of responsibility at st. Peters at
the age Of fifty-four.
Though he has spent relatively few
years In the papal high command
cardinal Pacelli has a distinguished
career to his credit. A Roman by birth,
ne comes Of family which has many
connections with the Vatican. His
father, Filippo Pacelli, was dean Of the
consistorial bar. His brother Francesca
was prominently concerned in the ne
EQUATIONS resulting in the Lateran
treaties and is now a marquis and
councillor Of the Vatican State.
Ordained priest in 1899, the new
cardinal secretary of state entered al
most at once upon a diplomatic career
by being employed in the Sacred Con-
gregation Of Extraordinary Ecclesiasti-
cal Affairs. During this period he came
under the notice of Cardinal Gasparri,
VINO formed a very high opinion of his
talent. In 1914 Cardinal Pacelli was
appointed secretary of the congregation
by Pope Plus x, and Benedict XIV con-
nrmed him in that office. At the same
time, Cardinal Pacelli elaborated
closely with Cardinal Gasparri in his
great work Of codihcation of canon
law.
In the intervening years between
World War days and current times
Cardinal Pacelli, functioning alternately
as papal nuncio in Munich and Berlin,
contrived to establish concordatS be-
tween the governments of Bavaria and
Prussia and the Holy See. So he as
sumes diplomatic command at the Vati-
can as a seasoned campaigner in the
work Of cementing the Pope's temporal
foreign affairs.
The United States is the one great
power which does not maintain official
relations with st. Peters. There is no
probability that these will be estab-
lished. But in the ordinary course of
the worldwide ramifications Of Ameri-
can interests, this country is likely ever
and anon to encounter the diplomacy
of the Church of Rome. Quite evil
IDENTIFY its conduct has been intrusted
to observation-disclosures in whom the
Vatican reposes the utmost confidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
The Air Mail.
rom the Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade.
No less an authority than Walter F.
Brown, Postmaster General. says that
every "a hours the air mails are flown
40.500 miles. Some $50 pilots. some
200 planes and some IS contractors are
engaged IN seeing that the air mails get
through.
The air lines through which these
skilled pilots fly aggregate about l4,400
miles. There's something dramatic
about the business. THE show must
go on" actors say of the stage. 1.-THE
Marines have landed and have the
situation well in hand" are sentences
spoken OF confidence in the soldier
sailor branch of a Government service.
And that 1.-The mails must go through"
is taken as a certainty by the air.
minded OF this country, a group that
Is increasing rapidly.
The sky pilots work while we sleep.
Sixty per cent Of their flying is done
at night. The business of carrying the
mails by air Is being stabilized slowly.
The pilots themselves are working
toward unionization, to keep the pay in
proportion to the risks. Postmaster
General Brown says there are inequali-
ties in paying for the work to contrac-
tors that must be changed. He says
that the system in vogue of paying by
the pound without taking into consid-
Grafton distance flown is unsound.
Most will agree with him.
However, there is no r----.' ~ s,Sr
that, given a little time, Ial st OF the
existing inequalities win be ironed out
and proper readjustments made, and
that q model aircraft will result, the
human cogs dovetailing and meshing
exactly with the mechanical ines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20

Some people are much too free with
psychological terms.
Having picked up several of them
somewhere, they delight in swinging
them freely at the heads of acquaint-
anceS.
Perhaps no particular harm is done,
since in the majority of cases the VIC
tim does not know what the merry
maker is talking about.
Words are words, however, and ugly
words are ugly words
One who unlimbers a medical die
tionary on his unsuspecting friends
ought to be very sure that he knows
enough about both words and friends
to use them properly.
X x X
We heard a woman the other day
call a friend a paranoiac who by no
means deserved such a fearful epithet.
Yet this haARens to be one of the
favorites of these people who deal so
familiarly with these big psychiatric
words.
The man in question was no more a
paranoiac than a squirrel.
Paranoia, according to the diction-
airy, is a chronic form of insanity
characterized by very gradual impair
menu OF bIl6 1IlJSllcCG, anu usually NY
decisions of persecution. "CrankS" of
! all sorts often are paranoiacs.
Such victims of mental arrangement
usually show evidences Of bodily and
nervous degeneration, We are told by the
authorities.
They have hallucinations of sight and
hearing.
Now, it must be evident to a child
that no one but an expert (and by ex-
pert we mean a real one) has any bust
ness monkeying with such terms.
When one gets to talking about in
sanity in any of its forms, one ought
to be pretty sure that he knows exactly
| what he is talking about.
Even the real experts can't be too
sure. Their science is too new in the
| world, and the peculiar inability of
mankind to actually peer into a brain
is too we'll known.
Yet it is sure that there is no word
which many human beings like better
to hurl at their petty enemies Of every
day than the resounding one of crazy"
A significant look a wink of the eye,
tapping of the forehead-each one of
these may be used in lieu Of the word
itself.
ooh, she's crazy; don't mind herl" is
heard a hundred times a day. Hes a
| nuti" some one says, merely out of
malice, and soon the fellow is given a
genuine reputation for being crank
X X X X =
Our point (and we believe it really
| Is point) that such words, medical in
character, and, therefore, demanding
sure knowledge, ought to be confined
solely to the use of those who have
studied long and well.
The average person, who maybe has
read book or two on psychiatrics or
attended few lectures on psychology,
does not know enough to use them
properly. One might as well expect a
man of the street to get into the cab
of great transcontinental express and
pilot it successfully across the noun
tains.
A shining example Of this comes with
the popular word ''paranoia." No doubt
1t has quite a sound to 1t. It simply
floors the average mortal. He does not
know what the user is talking about,
but he deduces that it must be some
thing quite fearsome.
The average layman must be on his
guard against accepting such haphaZard
| and essentially cruel diagnoses from
irresponsible persons.
1t should be realized that mental de-
rangements of all sorts are elusive phe-
nomena, demanding a lifetime of study
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Old Ranin.

Old Banjo.
The old banjo hangs on the wall"
They told us long ago.
Just now the people for it call
When lights are all aglow.
They've trimmed it with a pearly CLEAN,
And other fancy things
Until they make that banjo seem
A harp with golden strings.
It's welcomed as an instrument
That must be played with skill.
The famed musician is content
To sound it with a will.
The changes that our times will show
Are very far from small.
Since songsters said, "The Old Banjo
Is Hangin' on the Wall"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20

New recruits, the Yard announces,
must be at least % years old, under 80
years o1age, feet inches in height
as the minimum, and of good general
physique. Preference will be given to
applicants who are strong on tact"
For the most part, the London lady
cops" conf1ne their constabulary duties
to the apprehension of members of their
own sex plying forbidden trade in
the streets. ..
Az Englishman who remembers Her
bert Hoover from his pre-war en-
cheering days in London is well
known city solicitor with the vibrant
name of John Broad. Long an adorn-
ment Of the legal profession, Broad
once upon a time represented clients
who were on the opposite side of a
lawsuit in which Hoover was interested.
States lost the case. He admired
Broad's conduct of it so much that
Hoover asked the solicitor to become
his personal counsel He accepted the
retainer and the two men became
bosom friends. Now and then John
Broad hears from the White House
He has expressed the opinion that Her
bert Hoover was in his time the keenest
organizing mind In London.
y
Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife Of the
British chancellor of the excheuuer.
who has been so prime factor in her
distinguished husbands career, calls
herself northumberland. She as
cribes it to the fact that she has made
no fewer than 10 separate lecture tours
in the United States. One of Mrs
Snowden'S warmest American friends is
Mrs. DeSha Breckenridge of Lexington,
KY, and Nantucket, Mass. The Breck-
lnr1dgeS, 1t appears, have a racing
stable. Not long ago, Mrs. Breckin-
ridge wrote Mrs. Snowden that she
had named a horse after the charming
chatelaine OF No. 10 Downing Street.
The name is RoSalind. Mrs. Snowden's
given name is not Rosalind, but Mrs
Breckenridge insists that the English
woman is so much like the leading lady
in LAS You Like It" in character and in
what Shakespeare must have conceived
to be her looks that she long has
known the chancellor of the exchequer's
lady by no other name.
x X X
M. Georges Leagues, French minister
OF marine, and one of Frances four
delegates to the Naval Conference looks
enough like Georges Clemenceau to be
the shadow of the Tiger" AS Ley
CUES sits at the conference table, with
his walrus mustache, bald head and
rather severe mien, everybody's men,
DRY travels back TO the peace confer
ence at Versailles and imagines 1t is
Clemenceau coene back to life. M.
Leygues (who pronounces his name like
Legge Of the Federal Farm Board at
Washington Is Frances naval minister
eternal. He has been in the same port
folio for the past seven or eight years,
surviving all the changes in French
cabinets with apparently no intention of
not weathering any number of others.
Copyright, 193o)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
Advice on Cotton Planting
Is Made Subject Of Debate

wearied figure of King Cotton descend
Ing the economic ladder will be ar.
rested and begin to retrieve the rungs
he has lost"
Demand for cotton has fallen or"
explains the Raleigh News and OBJ
server, because women have discarded
numerous petticoasS made of cotton,
and rayon and silk have become strong
competitors But the automobile indus
try has supplied large demand. Other
new demands are cotton airplane pro-
pe!lers, cotton plane wings, cotton
parachuteS and cotton street markers.
A new use also has come in road build
ing, consisting of layer Of cotton
fabric, topped by gravel and tar. It Is
the purpose OF the Textile Institute, in
cooperation with manufacturers, to
create new demands, to introduce
greater flexibility"
With reduced cotton acreage" re-
marks the Admission Star, the farmer
has land to plant in other crops that
will provide feed for his live stock and
food for the family, and help him to be
somewhat independent Of the cotton
crop. The plan of restricted acreage
and that of diversified farming and
larger yields on the acre go hand in
hand, Tor large cotton crop means
less time and land for other crops. But
with reasonable sized cotton crop and
TIME and acreage devoted to other crops,
farmers not only help to improve the
cotton situation and help themselves in
mat way, but they also benefit by the
otner commodities produced for the
market and for home consumption"
Considering the marginal man.
the one who must seek new OCCUPATION
the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat
argues: The average cotton farmer
must have certain amount of reve-
nue. each year, unless he can placate the
banker, the merchant the TAXPAYER ct
al. He must have either quantity or
quality production-that is, he must
produce so many bales of cotton or he
must produce fewer bales at lower cost.
The latter process generally is the re-
suit of long and painful Experimenting.
The former, deplorable though the
fact may be, is the more natural, hence
Is more popular. All of which inspires
this question, which we believe is per-
tment: Just which farmers shall be
designated marginal farmers, and by
whom? We might add this inquiry:
II we adopt the suggestion and place
the farmer in another occupation,
where will we find the other occupa-
tion?"
Considering general agricultural con-
ditions," the Terre Haute Star says:
The farmer who has been educated to
produce q surplus must now be educated
to restrict his output, because American
machines and methods of cultivation
are creating competing SURPRISES in
other countries"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
Sir Esme Howard Departs.

With the departure of Sir Esme and
Lady Isabella Howard Washington loses
two diplomatic guests who have endeared
themselves in the course Of their six
year sojourn at the Capital. The British
AmbaSsadorship was never more agree
ably or efficiently filed than by the ac-
complished, urbane, kindly man who
now returns to London to enter upon
his retirement. He reached the age of
relief from active duty some months ago,
but was held at this post by his govern
ment pending the arrangements for the
London Naval Conference, in the pre-
hminaries for which he rendered valu-
able service.
Great Britain has been exceptionally
fortunate in the men who have served
in Washington as diplomatic representa-
tives. They have been men Of ability,
thoroughly familiar with the history OF
the negotiations and dealings between
the two countries, and adept in the
maintenance of effectively cordial per-
sonal relations with the members of the
American Government with whom they
have dealt. In no instance has this
been more truly the case than in the
now retiring Ambassador, who has taker
part in the social activities of Washing
ton, with the gracefully effective aid Of
his consort, in q manner to win for him
the high esteem of the Capital, and, In
deed, Of the American people.
Il is gratifying 10 learn that Sir Esmt
Howard win, after his retirement, coca
sionaliy visit the United States in |
personal capacity, returning here to pur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC j. HASKIN.

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The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing
ton, D. G.
O. What is the name of Nina Wilcox
Putnam's last husband?-C. p.
A. 1t was announced recently that
this writer married Capt. Frank Monroe
Upton, a flyer and member Of the
Explorers Club of New York.
Q. How many pairs of American
shoes are exported in q year?-A. w. d.
A. In 1921 we exported 4,807,212
pairs. OF these, L731,s65 pairs were
women's shoes.
Q. Why is a Yale lock or Yale key so
called?-T. w. D.
A. It is named for its inventor, Linus
Yale.
@. How far is a league2-J. S.
A. The league Is an old measure of
length varying at different times and
in different countries from "a to 46
miles.
Q. How does the concert choir Of st.
Olaf's College get the pitch when
changing from one song to another IN
different key?-L. P.
A. 1t is so trained that it can strike
its pitch without outside tuning.
@. What power is being exerted to
keep the earth rotating upon its axis?-
j. M. j..
A. The Naval Observatory says that
no energy at all Is being exerted TO keep
the earth rotating on its axis. All that
is necessary for continued motion is
that no force be acting to stop it, and
that is the case, except that the tides
have a retarding effect, which is so
minute that it is only within the last
100 years that astronomers succeeded
in detecting it.
@. What Is the derivation of "yegg,"
meaning a robber?-J. G. w,
A. The term seems to have referred
first to a tramp who made a business
Of robbery, and was taken from gypsy
! argot. When particularly clever thief
was found among gypsy tribe he was
selected as the yegg. or chief thief, the
name having come from one John
Yegg.
Q. What is a jug band?-K. s.
A. 1t is a band which uses tugs for
musical isntruments. Musical tones
are produced by expert blowing into
the jugs.
g: Why is "a always followed by
'u"?-E. r.
A. The letter "u" is used after the
letter "a for the sake of euphony.
9. Where is Ann Rutledge's grave?
II. G. B.
A. The grave of Lincoln's betrothed
is In Oakland Cemetery, near New
Salem, Ill. A monument OF granite
marks the spot. Carved on it are
these lines: Out Of me, unworthy and
unknown, the vibrations of deathless
music. With malice toward none,
with charity for all" Out of me, for
giveness Of millions toward millions.