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plication which may arise, even
when a child is in full posses
sion of this required knowledge,
and that is, especially in a very
young child, that he may get
excited, cry and be unable to
tell the person to whom he is
talking any of these things
which he has recited so glibly
in the quiet of his home.
So with the tiny youngSter,
say two to five years old. it may
not be amiSS to follow the sug-
geStion of a mother know, who
had a small Identification tag
made with her child's name, ad-
dress and telephone n u m b e r
stamped on it.
1t is well t. prepare a child
for this emergency, which fire.
quently occurs, particularly in
stores. by saying: IF it should
ever happen that you become
separated from mother, ask any
of the clerks at the counters
how to get the information desk
Cor women'S rest room). Go
there and wait. Mother will
come to you as quickly as she
can"
Teach a child that the sepa-
ration will not be of long dura.
ton, that you will get to him
with all possible speed, and he
will take it calmly and with un.
concern.
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TOday's True
StOrU

THE drizzly rain came stead.
lily down as only March
rain can fall in seaport towns.
It didn't splash when it hit
the pavement. It just seemed
to ooze its way into the muck
and motor grease and slime
Of State Street.
Beyond, in Battery Park, the
lights twinkled hazily. and out
beyond the park, in the dim
haze Of water traffic, where
the Hudson Swirled into the
East River, other lights. in
Pickering relief against the
ghostly forms Of ships, moved
up and down the currents.
The girl came walking out
Of Pearl Street, turned toward
Bridge and then halted, look
ing out there toward the gray.
ness Of the river.
Phinney came walking out
of Bridge Street, turned toward
Pearl and stopped, looking at
nothing much, but cursing soft
ly under his breath.
The two of them. each un.
conscious of the other, began
to move slowly toward the CEN
ter of the block.
The girl wore q close felt
hat. a cloth coat. She had no
rubberS or galoSheS. She was
Of Shivering, Sodden caricature
Of a girl.
Phinney'S felt hat pulled low
over his face. The steady
dripping Of the rain had soaked
the hat and from its brim the
drops sank into his overcoat.
A chill wind sweeping in
from the upper bay made it
colder there on State Street
than it had been on the other
streets that led down to the
end Of land. He stepped into
a doorway. The girl, when she,
too, sought that shelter. started
when she saw him. She start
ed to turn away.
Gee" said Phinney, "ain't
1t a heluva night?"
The girl just nodded.
She looked out toward the
river. Phinney thought he
understood.
Gee, kid" he half ques-
toned, sit can't be as tough
as that?"
you don't know" the girl
said, alphabetically.
st got a half said Phinney:
"let's get coffee"
SheN didn't protest. They
walked together to a sand
wich car. a block back on
Bridge Street.
II been out Of a job a week"
said Phinney, by way Of break.
ing the ice. He didn't tell
her how long 1t really had
been since he had worked at
any honest job.
The girls story was Just the
usual orr Of a small town girl
who sought big things in a big
city. "A story Of a girl who
chose to quit a job rather than
accept the attention Of an en-
ployer who paid too much at
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we're goin' in Miss Bates room
for MUSIC ;oday. Aw, gee-theSe
Of scuffled things"
She kicked viciously at the
offending shoes. Her aim was
unfortunate and landed Oil Paul
who wheeled with q roar.
Aunt Stel put down the
threatened riot by the simple
expedient Of raising her ;oice
higher thar their own.
"Shut Up, you kids, or TIL
give you somethin' to below
for! Here comes Tom! Want
he shol;lt' hear you scrappin'?
He'll knock your heads off"
The car took his place at
the table amid Sullen silence.
Conversation became laconic,
punctuated by dark looks.
More coffee, Mom." But
teri" "Goin' t. keep the sugar
all day? Give somebody else q
chance, can'tcher?"
Harsh UngraciouS
Ardeth felt her heart shrink
within her.
Tom was gone: showing back
his chair with a grunt. His
mother picked up the soiled
napkin which dropped from his
lap. She hustled the others,
cracking the verbal whip over
them even as Simon Legree had
lashed the slaves. With the last
one out of the house she
would be able to shove back the
soiled dishes, plant her fat
elbows on the table and lose
herself in the daily beauty
hints Of the newspaper.
when Ardeth and Bet
emerged from the house early
fog still flooded the street.
They squeezed themselves into
the packed street car. An anx.
iouS. time conscious crowd,
smelling of damp overcoats and
cold lunches.
The depression Of the Harri.
son flat followed Ardeth as far
as the transfer point, where
, Bet left her. Bet worked in an
insurance office further down.
town. /
Once she was alone a weight
slid from her mind. The sense
Of some brave, bright adventure
just ahead, seized her again.
She was coming into her own
world once more.
Ardeth liked the store where
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silks, the FURNISHED braSses.
the ascending blue spirals Of
incense she could dream.
AS yet, her feelings for Ken
Gleason were too vague to be
called love. This was only the
first gentle flush in the sky
before sunrise. A time when
she was happy merely remem-
bering little things-the way
the morning sun had glanced
on his hair until it shone like
a metal helmet. Remem.
bering the strange long glance
he had given her. Eyes Of
blue. fighting blue.
Had she read that somewhere?
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By FAY KING

she worked. It's brisk bright
ness was stimulating after the
drab untldiness of the Fell
Street flat. She liked the color
the motion-the sure decisive
pattern Of it. Somehow decent
it was; putting order in ones
life.
Most of all she liked the
Oriental art department where
she worked. It was a snug
work of beauty closing comfort
ingly about her. The cloiSonne
vaSeS-the BengaleSe braSSeS-
the little bronze BuddaS and
Chinese embroideries-these
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The shrilling voice Of the
alarm clock stabbing through
sleep. Aunt Stel's strident
tones: "How many times have
I got to tell you to get up2
II you'd get in at a decent hour
at night you wouldn't be- so
dog-tired next day!"
Grey reality closing in on
her bright dreams as Ardeth
lurched out Of bed and groped
sleepy eyed for the under
things she had tossed at q
chair the night before.
The rush for the bathroom.
Grimy soap dissolving in a
scummy pool-ugh! Someone
had left the cap off the tube
Of toothpaste again and it had
hardened to something akin to
cement.
DiScord. There was always
discord on Monday morning.
BET! You've been wearing
my stockings again!"
"Well, for gosh sakeS. don't
have q fit about it! I didn't
have a clean pair yesterday
and I couldn't go barefoot,
could II"
But it's the second time!
And they were my new ShoeS"
"Oh, don't be SO stingy!
When Mama lets you live here
with us so cheap the least you
could do is loosen up now and
then"
"You girls, stop your cightin'
an get Oui here to your break
fast. Think I can wait all
day"
Out into the cluttered Kitchen
where grey fog pressed against
the grimI window panes. Torn
oil cloth m the table. Bacon,
rapidly congealing to grease on
cold plate, The air, blue with
the acri.. smell of burnt toast
and the Sutter melted to a salty
paste to make it spread.
Paul Lad forgotten where he
had Slung his school books last
Friday Afternoon. His dark looks
at Fan told that he suspected
her of III worst
Fan-vi.ining to wear her
best shoes. Jaw, see-why can't
I? Huh. Nom? Mabel Sneider
wears ners all the time. An
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lovely exotic things helped her
dream. They were removed
from the grey reality of life.
They were a fitting setting for
dreams of Ken Gleason.
Ever since she had wakened
this morning, Ardeth had been
fighting off the thought Of
him. The memory Of yester-
day was a warming glow deep
in her heart. In the grey dis
cord Of the Harrison home, she
had withheld her thoughts de-
terminedly. Incon 6 ruous to
think Of him there. But
here. in this quiet colorful
corner-here with the gleam Of
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very demon Of jealousy. Jeal-
ousy of her younger sister. Ce-
Gle, who was the beauty Of
the family and the favorite Of
her parents.
jeanette hid her true feelings
well. Watching her smoking
now, with that easy air OF half"
scornful amusement, no one
would have guessed she was raw
with wounded pride. Cecile had
Shone at q dance last night,
totally eclipsing her older sister.
and jeanette was out for re-
venge. Revenge, which Ardeth
Carroll, all unknowingly, was to
help her get.
Ito Be Continued Monday
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scious she was, that she was a
member Of the wealthy Cali
fornia Parkers. Conscious, as
well, of the correctness Of her
smart tweed enSemble-of the
richness Of her furS.
jeanette posed at being "dif-
'ferent." In this role it had
pleased her fancy to strike UP
a casual friendship with Ardeth
Carroll, q friendship patroniz-
ing on Jeanette's part; frankly
admiring on the part Of the
other girl.
1t was this last quality which
stimulated the affair, for ad-
miration was very sweet to
jeanette. Under her carefully
maintained cool poise lurked a
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A Story of Life
In the City

I'm lending 1t to you, see? And
when you get all set again, you
can pay me back"
She shook her head. but
Phinney, under other circum-
stances. would have been q
c-lendid salesman. The wind.
UP Of it was she took a crisp
ten-dollar bill from him and
tucked it in her pocketbook.
"Ill see you here, tomorrow
night at six, and tell you about
progress" said the girl.
That was the beginning.
And it was on the fourth
day that she told him., radiant
with smiles, that she had found
a job.
And next week I can pay
you back part of those tens"
she said.
Neither Of them noticed, as
they left the lunch cart, the
figure Of Policeman Jerry Claf-
fee, standing on the corner.
But Claffee noticed and went
tagging after Phinney when he
and the girl had parted on the
corner.
$50 you're out again." said
Claffee. And the papers are
chuck fun Of all the stories of
the shoe store bandits and the
Cinderella Girl decoy. I guess
maybe you'd better walk along
with me and see the sergeant"
I'm going straight" said
Phinney, looking at the cop
he'd gone to school with, but
who went straight" in the
years that followed after. This
girl, Jerry, I amt doing her
dirt. She's just a kid that was
thinking of the river, cause
she'd lost her job. I gave her
q little jack and she went out
and found another. She amt
wrong. You check her I'D.
And I'll be here tomorrow, hon
est"
He told the cop who'd been a
boyhood friend where the girl
said she was working. And
Claffee, who was still too young
to be as hardboiled as q cop
must be by regulations, agreed
to pass up the walk to the sta.
ton for a day.
He found, by telephone, that
the girl wasn't the gungirl of
the shoe store mob" He kept
his part of the rendezvous next
day.
"But Phinney," he told his
old-time friend, you won't go
straight If you stick around the
corners. Beat it, see? You've
been a Boy Scout for q week.
You've kept up your good deed
a day. But get off my beat,
and stay off, before I remem.
ber I'm q cop"
Phinney nodded.
And the girl, that night, at
6, wondered why she ate alone
there on the stool In the lunch
wagon. She wondered even
more when the policeman on
the beat told her as she left:
your boy friend said to tell
you he had to 60 out West in
. hurry, He said he might
write to you at the place where
you work"
And the girl, as weeks and
months passed on, never did
know Just where Phinney went,
nor why.
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In the middle Of the after
noon she was jolted from her
dreamy calm. Her heart gave
a pound. Coming down the
aisle was jeanette Parker
jeanette, who had been in the
same group with Ken yester-
dayl
Ardeth was busy with an
other customer, but jeanette
waved at her. 'I1l wait-want
to talk to YOU" She seated .-er-
self on q teakwood tabourette
and drew q cigarette case from
her hand bag.
She was o dark, almost sui
len looking girl. Quite con-
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IN THE FOG

go back to Kingston and admit
I was a flop"
Listen, kid" said Phinney.
You're just blue. I'm going to
stake you. I want you to get a
nice warm room. Get dried
out. Get a good breakfast In
the morning. Maybe it will be
sunShiny. And start over. I
amt giving you the money.
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tention to her fresh young
beauty.
And now" she said in a flat
monotone, lit seems as though
there are no other jobs. I've
walked until my feet ache, an.
Swering ads. I've used what
little I've saved. Tonight sort
Of thought about the gray place
out there. I just wouldn't
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What Do You KnOw?
Questions on Editorial Page
ANSWERS TO TODAy's TEST

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collars and hats with brims tailored girls and girls
wearing spangled hats in the middle Of the day.
Jewey Of every sort Low heels and high heels sheerest
stockings with clocks, and woolen stockings
The point that impressed everybody seemed to be
in style.
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She Qefied Convention to
Win the Man She Loved

Ardetk 1Uorks III a shop and is being s0ooed By Neil
Burke Her home life is far from pleasant. She hDes
NTH an aunt and shopping girl cousin Neil all right
until she spies q "stOeA" riding a horse. &
CHAPTER
RDETH hated Monday mornings-hated them with the
hopeless rebellion which ugliness and discord could
- always rouse in her.
After the comparative leisure Of Sundays Mondays
and &anua
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Long skirts and short skirts

kind Of hat fur and Dress Long skirts and short skirts
everywhere.
capes and muffs, and several pairs Of high
shoes, with black stockings
ANY number Of smarty dressed women had high tight
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(TO Be Continued Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
MARCH INCOME TAX
COLLECTIONS DROP
Surplus on March 81 Gains and Re-
ceipts This Fiscal Year
Also Are Higher.

The Treasury said today that income
tax collections as OF March 81 amounted
to $31, 372, $50, a drop of $15,955,861 as
compared to the same day last year.
Total collections for the month also
showed a drop for the same number Of
days in March, 1929.
For the first 81 days of the present
month the collections have totaled
$491, TOO, 1896, while in March. 1929. the
collections aggregated $526, 088, 1927, max
ing a decrease of 100000.
The Treasury statement showed, how
ever. that on March 81 there was a
surplus of $105,869,734, while on the
same day year ago the surplus
amounted to only $3.438, $50. Income
tax collections for the fiscal year start
ing last July showed an increase Of
$133, 100000 over the similar period of
the previous fiscal year, totaling $1,744,-
335.l38
Total receipts of the Government this
fiscal year also were larger than last
year, aggregating $2939, 038 ,034, as COM
pared to $4,000, 442,59S last year. Ex-
penditures were slightly larger than last
year, amounting to $2.833, l68, 299 this
year, as compared to $2,801, 004,0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
DIVING BOMBER, LOADED,
is PUT THROUGH TESTS
Pilot Drops Approximately Mile
in Series Of Demon
STATIONS.

Carrying a 1,000-pound bomb and
full load Of gasoline and oil, William H.
McEvoy, chief test pilot of the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
today put the new Navy Martin diving
bomber through series Of vertical
power dives and acrobaticS at the Ana
costa Naval Air Station.
The demonstration was part of the
Official tests of the plane, which is ex-
pected to revolutionize the method of
bombardment attacks on naval vessels.
McEvoy dove approximately mile sew
eral times, starting from an altitude Of
about 10000 feet.
At the same time, altitude tests Of
the new Boeing high-wing all-metal
pursuit monoplane, also under flight
tests at Anacostia, were being made by
Lieut.. F. M. Trapnell OF the flight test
section. Trapnell carried oxygen
breathing apparatus and full military
load in the little combat plane, which is
the first monoplane ever tested by the
Navy Tor fighting purposes. Figures on
the altitude reached are withheld by
the Navy as military secrets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
NAVY WILL LOSE DIPLOMAT
WHEN ADMIRAL LONG RETIRES
Noted Linguist viii Leave
Service April 6 on
Reaching 81.
Distinguished Career of Of
fiCer Extended Over
AZ Years.

The Navy will lose one Of its out
standing diplomats and linguists when
Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, U. S. NJ.
retires from the service on April 6, upon
reaching the age of "a years, Acting
Secretary Ernest Lee Jahncke an
nounced today in inaugurating new
policy at the Navy Department, under
which he proposes to give each out
standing officer leaving the service a
farewell message.
at Is with deep regret that an
nounce the retirement of Rear Admiral
Andrew T. Long, u. S. N, on April 8,
1880, after a distinguished career of
At years on the active list of the Navy
said Mr.. Jahncke in his offlcial an
nouncement.
Naval Attache at Paris.
Admiral Long was born in Iredell
County, N. c., April 6, 1866. He was
graduated from the Naval Academy IN
1888 and during his service, before be-
coming a captain in 1913, he had
mastered French, Italian and Spanish,
as well as devoting himself to German.
and was on duty as naval attache in
Rome and in Paris.
During the World War Admiral Long
served as commanding officer of the
u. S. S. Connecticut and later of the
U. S. S. Nevada and co-operated with
the British feet in Barry Bay, Ireland
The distinguished Service Medal was
bestowed upon him for this service.
He was liaiSon offlcer in Paris with
the supreme war council from october,
1918, until after the armistice.
He served as director of naval intelli-
gence, with chief of staff of the United
States Atlantic fleet and hoisted his
flag as vice admiral, commanding forces
In European waters, on the U. S. S.
Utah. This duty enabled Admiral Long
to give further expression to his ability
as a diplomat
AS chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
in July, 1928, Admiral Long began a
tour of duty in Washington that will
close with his retirement He was a
member Of the General Board Of the
Navy and in August, 1928, became its
executive committee chairman.
In 1925 Admiral Long was a delegate
to the conference on traf1ic in arms at
Geneva and In 1926, 1927 and 1928 he
was naval adviser to the Geneva pre-
paratory commission for disarmament.
In 1927 he also was technical adviser
in the three-power conference at
Geneva.
HonOred by other Nations.
In November President Hoover APP
proved the nomination of Admiral
Long as the United States Government
candidate to fill the vacancy on the
board of directors of the International
Photographic Bureau at Monaco, which
resulted from the death of Rear Admi-
raj A. P. Niblack, U. S. NJ, retired.
Portugal, Belgium and France as well
as his own Government have bestowed
decorations upon Admiral Long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
ATTACKS POLITICS
IN FRAMING TARIFF
Ramseyer, in House, Urges
Removal to Sphere of
Economics.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A demand that tariff revision be
transferred from the sphere of politics
to the sphere of economies" was voiced
today by Representative Ramseyer, Re
publican, of Iowa, member Of the
House ways and means committee
Taking the floor of the House as the
Senate undertook final action on the
pending tariff BILL the Iowan urged that
both the Republicans and Democrats
consider the tariff from non-political
standpoint and enable the Federal tariff
commission to employ the best econo-
mist of the country to deal with the
problem.
Ramseyer said the time when the
tariff aroused intense partisan feeling
had passed.
protection to American agriculture,
industry and labor has become fixed
national policy" the Iowan said. There
are not many free-traders left in this
country and there are but few Demo-
Gratis in Congress who still advocate the
policy of a tariff for revenue only.
Origin of Practice Traced.
'"The practice Of political parties to
take this attitude or that attitude on
so vital q problem as a matter Of strate-
gy and tactics rather than of conviction
SnOuI0 De condemned py every Well
wiSher of the Republic"
Ramseyer scored the practice, which,
he said, was begun IS years ago by
the late Fernando Wood, q Tammany
Democrat. then chairman Of the House
ways and means committee, of not per-
hitting the minority members of the
committee TO participate in the for
mutation of tariff bills.
Attitude Condemned.
"I have no sympathy" he said, with
the attitude of the minority either on
the pending tariff bill or on any tariff
bill that has been reported under this
practice in absolving themselves from
all feeling of duty and responsibility
to present their views in q concrete
form and to do all in their power to
get their views before the country and
enacted into law. The party In the
minority should seek to help and to
serve and to promote the public in
terest."
He added that there was no justi-
fication for the practice of excluding
the minority members because their
participation would eliminate charges
of Interior purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24

CONTINUED From First Page.)
and Clifford Mcmillan, American COM
mercial pilot.
Mcmillan, who has flown in air der
bies in this country plans New York.
London flight, crossing not before
made, and If successful may continue
on around the world. Mears' and
Fahy's crossings from Newfoundland to
London would be only stages in world
flights. Col. Leon plans New York
Paris hop, along the trail that Lind
bergh blazed. All Of the flights are
dependent on developments, financial
and other.
The total of announced flights this
year is far below that of any other
Spring since Lindbergh made ocean fly
ing fashionable and the announcements
draw little attention. The famous
Field, once the object Of awed attention
of visitors, is now Just another runway
although still one Of the longest In the
country and in much better condition
than it was when the flying colonel
headed nose toward Paris.
Fahy Would Take Wife.
None of the flights this year will be
solo, so far as now planned. Fahy
plans to take mis- wife. Mears pilot
Col. Leon, a navigator, and Mcmillan
probably both navigator and radio
operator.
Among other long-distance flights for
this year are nonstop, refueling flight
from New Haven Conn, to Buenos
Aires, a short-stage flight from Berlin
to New York via Moscow, the Aleutian
Island and Seattle, a Pacific Coast
Toxic flight, New Bermuda hop
to test the Armstrong seadrome, and
three or more planned air journeys
across the South Atlantic, where wealth.
er conditions are ideal much of the
time and where many already have sue
ceeded, with few failures.