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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
Saturday Half Days
Cause Leave Question
TO the Editor Of The star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Quoting from The Star on the ruling
OF Solicitor General Thacher." in Re
saturdays held as half work day for
annual leave, but, count as full days
when figuring sick time" The star re-
ports HE (Thacher) ruled that .
Federal employee absent all day on
Saturday should have four hours Of
vacation taken from his total annual
leaVe, but in computing sick leave.
saturday morning off would be counted
as full day. Each Government en-
ploye is allowed 80 days annual leave
and 80 days sick leave''
Thousands of Federal employees. most
ly women and girls, of the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing, now being cut
three days in pay each month, are all
lowed 80 days annual leave. but no
annual sick leave (the only bureau of
the Treasury Department not allowed
annual sick leave). This Is making
flesh Of the major number Of Federal
employees, and some OF these in the bu-
reau, and f1sh OF minor number. Why?
Now, as Solicitor General Thatcher
makes distinction between annual
leave and sick leave, as to -four hours
vacation" or no -four hours va
cation" and bureau employees are al
lowed annual leave, but no annual sick
leave, under which ruling do these bu-
reau employees come? AS they have so
days annual leave, but no annual sick
leave, are they to be charged as absent,
If absent and sick on a Saturday, four
hours only or full day? If they have
uSSd up their annual leave and are sick
on a Saturday are they to lose q full
days wage or a half days wage?
am OF the opinion that Solicitor
General Thatcher was not cognizant Of
the fact that thousands Of Engraving
and Printing Bureau employees are de-
prived of all annual sick leave. So with
these facts here set down, an addendum
opinion, covering these thousands OF
bureau Federal employees, would be most
welcome to them. All of Saturdays
being charged off against sick leave may
be of little moment to employees who
are allowed 80 days annual leave plus
80 days sick leave, but it is of great
moment to the thousands of women
now being cut in wage three days each
month. w. E. RYAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
Preparedness Wins in Iowa,

CustomArily the country does not
look for lead in such matters as ma
tionAl defense to the regions Of the
Midwest, far removed from salt water
or the borders. Yet from Iowa, heart
Of the corn belt, has come news de-
signed TO hearten those forces ct
Washington which always must be on
their guard against the elements sleep
lessly at work to nibble the Army and
Navy into impotence.
For many months the State Legisla-
ture at Des Moines has been discussing
the REPRESENTATION bill which was
designed to make military training in
Immigrant colleges purely optional.
The pacinst brigade in Iowa and be-
yond actively fomented the measure.
Deaf to It's urgent pleadings, the
Hawkeye House Of Representatives by
vote Of SO to AZ defeated the bill,
which means its collapse. Hencefor-
ward, as in the past, young men who
avail themselves Of the advantages Of
inexpensive education at Immigrant
colleges will have to take the mild
course in military training there pro-
vided, unless there are valid physical or
conscientious barriers.
The attempt 10 DO away with such
education by law originated q few years
ago in Wisconsin, where the State
Legislature abolished II. In the United
States Congress, in one form or an
other, drives against military training
In schools or colleges are incessant
During the late Congress there was
warded Of at the eleventh hour an
insidious effort to cut down the APP
preparations providing pay for retired
Army officers assigned TO instructors
duty.
The Davenport Daily Times, which
was In the forefront of the fight to
rout the pacifists in Iowa, declares that
''the House vote will be a painful shock
to many we.l-meaning but misguided
souls who fatuously cherish the belief
that it is the mission OF Uncle Sam
to go about the world turning the
other cheek as a contribution to the
peace Of the world The young
man who is unwilling to devote the
hours which military drill entails to
qualifying himself to take his place in
the fighting forces Of the Nation when
an emergency arises Is unworthy Of
the expenditure which his education
requires. The Iowa House has per-
formed a patriotic service in refusing to
be stampeded by the pacif1st lobbyists.
whose expenditure Of efforts suggests
nothing as much as an incapacity TO
come to grips with reality"
Bravo, the corn belt!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25

| Thousands OF Government expert
| are working constantly for the benefii
Of all citizens OF the United States
They will work directly for you If YOU
will call for the fruits Of their labori
| through our washington bureau. STATE
your Inquiry briefly, write clearly and
| inclosing 2-cent stamp for personal
letter In reply. address The Evening
| Star Information Bureau. Frederic j
Eiaskin, director, washington, D. @.
@. What per cent Of men are bald
headed and what per cent are red
headed?-H. N.
A. About SO per cent are more OF
less bald. Two per cent have red hair
@. How many adjusted service GER
tificates are held by veterans in the
state Of New York? In California;
A. Three hundred and sixty thousand
six hundred and ninety-nine certificates
are held in the State OF New York and
1sl ,o3s in California.
@. How many Of our Marines are
now in Nicaragua?-C. II.
A. There are about q thousand. It
is planned TO withdraw about half Of
them by June.
Q. Please describe the Victory and
LittlemAc midget cars.-R. 8. O.
A. The Victory has q wheel base Of
rs inches and weighs Gao pounds. It
is So inches in tread width and has q
four-cylinder engine. 1t is to have q
seating capacity OF three. Among its
novel features are the absence Of con-
ventional chassis frame members and
the elimination Of springs and axles.
The base of the body takes the place
of the usual metal frame members The
Littlemac has wheel base Of 50 inches
and is AZ inches wide. It has an 81
cubic-inch motor and four cylinder en-
CINE. tits q coupe model.
Q. Did the late Frank Munsey make
all his money in the publishing busi-
ness?-T. H.
A. Munsey laid the foundation Of
his fortune in the publishing business,
but he Is reported to have made q great
deal Of money by investing in the stock
Of the United States Steel Corporation.
@. How much Is the new Dorchester
Hotel In London to cost?-R. L.
A. It Is said to have cost approx
mately $10,000,000 and will contain
many large public rooms, but only 800
bed rooms and sitting rooms. It will
be opened in April in the presence Of
King George v and Queen Mary.
Q. How much did the new snake
house in the washington Zoo COST
H. @. p.
A. 1t cost about 100000.
O. When his mistress, Nine. rompa-
dour, died, Louis XIV made q very Gym
zeal remark apropos Of her funeral.
cannot find the exact words credited to
him. Can you supply them?-F. D. A.
A. It was cold, rainy day when the
body of the Pompadour was taken from
Versailles to Paris for burial. Louis did
not accompany the cortege. He stood
at q palace window as the procession
started and without any expression Of
regret or sorrow said TO an attendant,
The marquise will have q very dis
agreeable day for her journey"
Q. Is It true that the restaurants are
now socialized in Russia?-K. @.
A. The use Of these restaurants is
increasing rapidly, the fundamental
Idea being to eliminate the wastefulness
of home cooking. In 1929-30 about
three million meals were prepared daily,
and 1t Is planned to increase this rate
to e0o,5oo,ooo in 1sso-31. Large kitchen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25

! Then, IL they prove themselves to him
! he may order them in quantity the next
! year.
In many cases he will discover what
! his common sense told him before he
ordered theH-that they have positive
! drawbacks. They may be poor grow.
ers, requiring q particular kind Of soil
They may not flower under certain con-
ditions, or may be subject to certain
pests and blights.
Even when they do well, many of the
| less well known flowers will be discov.
cred to have no particular merit over
other and more familiar plants.
Often they lack just the certain dis
tinction which keeps their better known
brothers and sisters in the gardens OF
the land.
BY all means let the home gardener
do bit of experimenting.
Maybe one or two new flowers may
satisfy him.
His choice may be a new annual
biennial, perennial. shrub, evergreen
tree. He may go in for a new sort of
grass seed. He may try some of the
large Towering cannas Of the softer
shades Of pink and yellow, If he has
always longed for cannas but has fought
shy Of the blazing red varieties so often
seen.
An hour spent with any enc of the
growers catalogues, or in any of the
shops devoted to garden supplies, will
give the ambitious experimenter more
ideas than he can use In the remainder
Of his gardening days.
4 ~
In the main, however, he will do well
to stick to the cid, familiar flowers.
This must be said deliberately, for
there are some gardeners who seem to
think it expedient to apologize for the
ever-faithful flowers OF everyday gar
dens. They grow zinnias, but they grew
them with o faint heart, instead of
being proud of them.
The Ennia needs no apology. Any
human being with a we'll balanced
sense Of proportion, who welcomes the
dependable as well as the beautiful, will
plant zinnias. He will find them as
good this year as they were last, and
just as beautiful in their faithful way.
He will not sheer at their stiffness,
in comparison with the wavy frillS Of
sweet peas, the silky petals Of iris or
gladiolus, but will wish the latter we're
as sure to do well in half-shady places.
+ x 4
The time-tried ANIMALS and peren-
mails, with favorite shrubs and ever
green's, must comprise the basis OF
every worthwhile garden, on the aver
age scale. The grass and the trees are
departments by themselves.
Favorite things are favorites. in the
last analysis, because they are worthy.
Let us never forget that. The fact
that they are, in most cases, easy to
grow is but one Of the factors enter
ing into their wide selection.
Mostly they have Intangible quail
tiles, which have endeared them to
generations, and which make sure that
as long as men love gardens they will
plant these old things which are for
ever new.
In doing this. however, they may
make sure of added pleasure and gar
den interest If they will take the time,
trouble and money to plant each season
q few things which are new to them.
A rose by any other name will be as
sweet, and there are many other little
roses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

washington for an indefinite sojourn
Somebody asked him why he doesn't
HE himself to Rushville, his home
town, and take things easy and COM
fortablelike. His own State Is no
place for a Senator to vegetate in,
retorted the sunny Jim. There are
too many postmasterships and other
jobs waiting to be filled"
x 4
What's in a nameP Try to say
what's in this one: The air attache
Of the British embassy at Washington
Is Wing Comdr. the Hon. L. j. E.
Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes. He Is q
son of the fifteenth Baron Saye and
Sele. The Sage and Seles go in for
names. Twistleton- Wykeham's elder
brother and heir TO the title is the
Hon. Godfrey Rupert Cecil Twistleton-
Wykeham. The family traces back TO
the fifteenth century, apparently pick
ing up names all the way.
81
Just OF the press in New York Is a
book of timely value, in connection
with the Austro-German customs union,
which has all Europe by the ears. Its
author is a young American, John Q.
Crane, younger son OF Charles r. Crane,
millionaire philanthropist, diplomat and
BlODc LOILeIJ OnCC uPOll O bAiLO hAAlaoDSA
to China. The book, entitled The
Little Entente" deals with the political
alliance between Czechoslovakia, Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia. Mr.. Crane writes
from the inside. For several years he
was private secretary to DR.. Thomas @.
Masaryk, perennial president of Czecho-
slovakia. Crane declares that Ansch-
lusS (the Austro-German uniflcatton
scheme) is anatheGna in the eyes OF the
Little Entente and that its opposition
has the firm backing OF France and
Italy.
The Interior Department Is breath
leSsly awaiting returns from the "illite-
racy clinic" opened 10 days ago on the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Mon
tana. The object is to determine how
much adult literate Indians can learn
in two weeks under specially trained
teachers. Two hundred redskins, men
and women, among them Chief Bird
Rather, Fish-Wolf- Robe, and Mary
-the-Water, are pupils. All
have a good average of intelligence and
are undergoing intensive training in
readin' and Writin', with a touch of
'rithmetic. The textbook was prepared
under the auspices Of the National Ad-
visory Committee on Illiteracy, Of which
Secretary Wilbur is chairman. Its 70
lessons are intended to enable the
ilIiterate Indian to read THE Blackfeet
News" which has been published dur
ing the clinic" Many Of the students
have seen their names in print for the
first time. 1t was decided not to initiate
them into the mysteries of the comic
strip or the crossword puzzle.
(Copyrisht, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

factories are built in many industrial
centers. catering TO workers as well a.
their families. Family subscription
coupons are sold ct reduced rates, and
special dining rooms for children are
being organized.
@. They say that republics ere un-
grateful. but didn't Colombia give
Simon Bolivar big pensions-0. Il.
a. The Colombian Congress- voted
Bolivar pension OF $4,000, but he
did not accept it.
q. How does Turkey compare IN sire
with some Of the American statesi-
A. Turkey in Europe is now slightly
larger than Massachusetts,. and the en-
tire Turkish Republic is siightly larger
than New Mexico and California COM
bined.
! @. How many Bibles are cold an
nually in the world7--J. n. Q.
A. According to a survey made IN
1890, there were sold in the year 1879
throughout the world approximately
| 80 SOC. 900 Bibles or parts Of Bibles. The
American Bible Society In this year sold
| IL 100. 664 Bibles or parts Of Bibles.
The cheaper editions predominated and
tsingle books Of the New Testament ard
the Psalms are the greatest sellers.
Operating from 1915. the American
Bible Society has sold 2Ie,1se,siS Bibles
or parts Of Bibles.
q. How many words are there IN the
English language2--T. Y. y.
A. The language Is growing constant
ly. The latest edition Of Websters New
International Dictionary includes over
400 900 words. Thirty-six pages Of the
volume are devoted to new words which
have come into use within the past few
years.
@. Who described architecture as
frozen music?-I. O.
A. Goethe.
Q: How many golf courses are there
in the United States?--L. c..
A. A survey in November, 1880,
showed that some $500 golf courses had
been built In the United States.
@. what does the Pullman Co. do
with it's cars when they become UNIT
A. when cars become unit for fur
Their service, rather than run any
chance Of their being utilised In any
way Whatsoever for transportation pur-
poses as o safety measure the ears are
destroyed. In other words. when the
cars reach the point Of retirement, they
NA2AAAeAAAbACA Se~oN
any salvage value and the remainder
Of the cars burned or otherwise de-
stroyed.
q. When was the story Of Cinderella
invented?--T. A. Y.
A. Long before the Christian ere q
version Of Cinderella was known to the
Egyptians. The story was also familiar
to the Greeks. It Is found in German
folktales Of the sixteenth century. The
Grimm brothers populAriSed the story
Of Cinderella. The English versions,
however, are derived from the narrative
Of Charles PerrAult
@. Where should one go to see the
midnight sun In Alaska?-D. r.
A. The midnight sun OF Alaska may
best be seen from the extreme north
ern part, in the vicinity Of Point Bar
row, but, since this is almost inaccessible
even in Midsummer, visitors to Alaska
usually see this phenomenon from the
region about Nome, in the Seward
Peninsula. The best time Is Midsum-
mer, since Il Is at this time that the
days are longest and the sun remains
higher IN the sky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
Fact Stranger Than Fiction
In Story of Wendell Family

/ lonely. OF al the fruits Of life, Of love
and luxury and friendships and fame,
how few her wealth purchased for her!
Beyond the money that brought her the
bare necessities OF life with which 70
sustain her simple existence, the mil
lions Of dollars to her account e. well
might have been millions Of pebbles.
| One wonders II she found It possible to
suppress the reflection that she had
| done with her life little more than TO
live It."
her sisters" according to the Science
tady Gazette, would need TO be han
died by Charlotte Bronte to seem any
thing but preposterous and overdrawn.
That six sisters, in this day Of advanced
civilization, could be so dominated BY q
brother that even after his death their
lives remained In the same narrow
grooves which he had ordained for them,
Is an instance OF the power Of one
mind over another Is startling as any
which history records Possibly the
restricted educational advantages Of the
six sisters had something 10 do with
their acquiescence. Their father, the
second John Wendell, son Of that John
who, in partnership with the first John
Jacob Aston, founded the family fortune
by trading In ftlrs, believed that reading,
writing and arithmetic composed
well rounded education for any young
woman"
The Baltimore Sun sees mot only the
material but the exact form Of q Bron-
tesque novel; observing that there are
reports of q reputed niece who "died
In the poorhouse," and that there are
said to be surviving descendants. The
Sun says: "The one side Of the marriage
goes the way OF the poorhouse and
the scraggly farm, the other the way Of
death in a brown-stone mansion breath
ing the decay Of years. Contrived by
an author 1t would, indeed, seem to US
too pat, too ironic, as once Hardy's
ending TO Jude was thought too ironic.
Yet, little by little the story draws out,
and true or untrue 1t is temporarily q
part of flesh and blood and courtroom
reality. 'Menander and Life, Menander
and Life Greek once asked in honor
Of the great dramatist, which of you
two copied the other?' The story of the
Wendels only renews the question"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
Traffic Revision.

Both the Commissioners and the traf-
fic officials are to be congratulated on
their decision to go ahead with the re-
vision Of the trafic code without wait
ing for the end of the fiscal year on
June 80, when the Commissioners, un-
der the new act just passed by Congress,
take over the reins Of traffic manage
ment Of the District. Probably nine
tenths OF the changes that are to Be
made can be effected under the present
code, and it is much to the benefit of
Washington that they should be put
into force gradually during the coming
months instead of being dropped en-
masse into the laps OF Washingtonians
after July /.
Two installments Of revision have al
ready been made. These concern the es-
Enlistment by colored curb markings Of
loading zones in the downtown section,
the abolition Of angle parking-an ex-
tremely desirable move and one that
has been practiced In most Of the large
cities OF the country-the clearing up Of
safety zones by additional restrictions
on parking between the zones and the
sidewalks, creation Of new boulevard
streets and the barring Of u turns ct
certain congssted points.
The next batch Of changes Is now
being prepared at the trafac ONCE and
Will concern parking In the business
district. From Seventh street to FIJI
tenth street and from New York ave-
nue. to Pennsylvania avenue viii hence
forward be considered the central bust
ness zone and parking Of one hour viii
be permitted after nine-thirty in tbs
morning, change from the nine-nfteer
limit now in effect, in order TO DO away
with the all-day parker. Surrounding
this zone will be another zone in which
one-hour parking viii be permitted eli
day and around that another with q
two-hour parking limit.
Following these parking revisions viii
appear what are considered the most
important changes in washington'l
traffic system. They will have to dc
with rules Of the road and will consist
CT change from til. rotary turn to the
Hoover left-hand turn, modification OF
the right-side-passing regulation and
other important rules to promote 8
Nationwide uniformity in automobile
operation.
All Of these changes will come about
| as the result Of the intensive trafhc in
vestigations conducted during the past
year and are In thorough conformity
with the findings Of the National Con-
ference on Street and Highway Safety
which Is sponsored by the Department
Of Commerce and which was initiated
by Herbert Hoover when he was secre-
| tary Of Commerce. The National Capt.
tai will, therefore, take its place with
other large cities in the practice Of traf.
fic regulations that have been founc
from Nationwide use the best that car
be devised, and by doing % viii hAster
the time when a motortst viii operate
his car in exactly the sane manner ir
so far as fundamental rules are con-
cerned in the East or the West or the
North or the South.