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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-14
PROBATION REPORT
HELD VALUABLE
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.,
Praises Findings of Wicker
sham Commission.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 14.-Charles
Evans Hughes, jr., president of the Ma
tional Probation Association, yester-
day characterized as "one Of the most
valuable reports on the subject ever
issued in this country" the report on
probation recently completed by the
Wickersham Commission on law op-
servance and Enforcement.
Hughes said the Wickersham report,
which stressed the need for State
supervision of probation to develop uni
form standards, would be of great
value in aiding the association in its
work of extending and improving pro-
baton in the United States
This report" Hughes said at a dl-
rectors meeting, recommends
that no man shall be sent TO pena!
institution until it is definitely deter
mined that he is not a fit subject for
probation. To this end it urges that
every effort be made TO broaden the
powers of courts in using probation"
He added that its recommendations
were 1.-The identical thing our asso-
citation, since its beginning IS years
ago, has been seeking to put into
effect"
There are in the United States to-
day IA States without the services of
adult probation and enc State, Wyo-
ming, without juvenile probation. These
States should make provision for this
service In no State, however, with
the possible exception of Massachusetts,
which requires by law paid probation
officer in every court. has probation
system developed on a Statewide
basis"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-14
VISITING NURSES
WORK INCREASING
Total Patients for Summer
26 Per Cent Higher Than
in 1880.

A marked increase in the work OF
the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
during the quarter ending last Septem-
Der was reported at the first Fall meet
ing of the Board of Governors yester-
day at headquarters office, $40 Albee
Building. Mrs. Whitman Cross, presi-
dent, presided.
According to the report Of the four
Summer months, 1854 patients were or
the rolls Of the society, an increase OF
1853 patients or 26 per cent over the
number carried in the same month last
year. A total Of 49, 1856 visits were made
by the staff. This is an increase of
10,067 visits over the same length OF
time in 1880.
The work Of the society for these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-14
FIRE DAMAGES MUSEUM
Ancient Arms Display That In
spired Longfellow Is Saved.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, October IA
P-The Small Arms Museum of the
United States Armory which formed
the basis for LongfelloW's poem The
Arsenal" was badly damaged by fire
last night
Its collection of medieval armament
and small arms. considered enc OF the
finest in the world, was saved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-14

to have been held here late this month,
was postponed yesterday for one month
to permit more time for preparations.
The local committee cabled the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association at WASH
ington asking permission to hold the
meeting November % to December 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-14
Law Fraternity TO Meet.

The first Fall meeting OF Sigma Nu
Phi, legal fraternity of National Uni
versity Law School, will be held to-
night at the Hay-Adams House. w. A.
Klutz, chancellor. will preside. w. T.
Cardwell and A. e. Otto are vice chan
cellorS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-14
| Mcclellan, Mrs, keith Merrill, Mr.

MCCLELLAN, Mrs. Keith Merrill, MT.
George H. Myers. Mrs. Cresson New
bold. Mr.. and Mrs. Ord Preston. Mrs.
David Reed. Mrs. John M. Sternhagen,
Mrs. b. w. Thoron, Mrs. J. w. Iur-
rentine, Mrs. Charles F. Wilson, Walter
Bruce Howe, Mrs. Harlan F. Stone, Col.
j. Miller Kenyon, Lloyd B. Wilson and
Miss Gertrude II. Bowling, director.
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
DIET AND HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendining-

own beds, keep their own
quarters clean, wait on table,
etc.
What particularly attracts
me is your statement that
meat is sound food. Camps
preach noisily that a limited
amount of meat once per day
is all that is food for a child,
Just today a camp counselor
described the main meal of
the day for a child as: soup,
vegetables, a cup of cocoa and
a banana, an orange or
prunes. This was for a boy
of IL to is, active and out of
doors"
Investigate the Camp!
realize that these statements
do not apply to all camps, but
they are sufficiently true of
many of them, to make a care
full selection imperative. The
idea is prevalent that just TO
send a child to a summer camp,
where it will be leading q
healthy out-of-doors life, is nee
essarily wholesome. Whether it
is true or not depends on the
camp.
The remarks about the re-
striction of meat naturally ap-
peal to me. The doctrine that
meat is not a healthful food
and should be restricted in all
diets has been dinned into peo-
pie by food fadd1sts so much
that little account is taken OF
the harm it can do. Most chill
dren like meat and instinctlvely
eat a great deal of it. I believe
their instinct is sound.
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
By Fannie Hurst
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland.

their eyes-but through their
imaginations!
Nobody would want to put
woman back into the stuffy
cocoon of mid-Victorian con.
ventionality. Nobody would care
to wrap her up in the cotton
batting of mock modeSty. or
the sickly sentimentality of an
age that invented candy hearts
and lace paper valentines.
But, in rushing to the other
extreme, blaring up the bands
of her soul and Haunting all
her emotions out of the front
window, she has overadvertised
herself. And, how can a man
work up any romance about a
being whose thoughts, emotions,
reactions, knees, kisses and verte-
brae are a commonplace and
familiar to him as bacon and
eggs on the hotel menu?
Fortunately, woman IS the
only thing that the Lord made
for men to love and marry.
Men must still have women in
their lives-but they don't need
romance. 1t is women who
must have romance, and who is
wailing that there is a "love.
famine"
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
When will Women Wake Up?

When will Women Wake Up?
If there is a love-famine in
the larger cities of this fair
land, as has been asserted, it
is only what I have been pre-
dieting with tears in my eyes)
for several years.
A famine always follows a
FEAST, just as a panic always
follows a grand spree Of pros
perity and wild betting on the
stock market.
Many superficial reasons have
been offered for the present
dearth of romance and Romeos.
Hard times, lack of privacy in
modern apartments. the diff
culties of meeting the fright
people" in big towns. All of
which is boSh and nonsense and
hooey!
The real reason for the love-
depression is a psychological
one, far deeper than any Of
these. And it's middle class
name is prodigality. safety
TOO MUCH WOMEN!
When a man has had enough
of anything-food or drink or
love-he doesn't want any
MORE. That's natural. Too
much emphasis on sex-appeal,
too much dalliance along the
rose-colored way, too much free
and easy love-making-these
have deadened the average
mans senses and sent his
imagination into a coma.
Too much frank camaraderie
with women has killed his
curiosity. The love-feast spread
out for his eternal delectation
has robbed him of his appetite
and given him emotional nau-
sea.
Woman, whom Michelet once
called "the Sunday of Man."
has become just as common
place as the Monday morning
wash-lne! When will women
WAKE UP. and learn that all
the physical beauty in the
world will not stir a mans
imagination, when it is spread
before his eyes as frankly as
the Monday wash?
And, nothing that does not
appeal to the imagination will
awaken romance. Because men
do not fall in love through
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

pleased to call them, will some
day be two Of the most power
full men in America"
More In Detail
II tell you I need to be alone,
Mother. To find myself"
"Oh-Avery-"
II know! I sound like a letter
to newspaper. Well, I'm capa-
BILE of writing one like this:
Editor, Daily Bunk, Dear Sir:
What should a young man of
II years of age do who simply
cannot get interested in life as
he sees it about him. I cannot
find myself. Everything be-
comes disguStingly monotonous.
Not interesting enough to call
for any real effort.
I'm a perfect failure to date,
and unless I pull out, may re-
main so for the rest of my days
on this supposedly glorious
earth. Everything about me is
as interesting as a morgue,
where I am concerned. What's
wrong with this picture?"
Letter from Editor to Morbid
Young man: Your symptoms,
young man, include indifference
to whatever you do and the
belief that a congenial task
would reveal your hitherto un-
appreciated values. AS you see
the world, it is sadly out of
joint and you wonder why
others are so indifferent to the
pearl of great price hidden in
your personality. Young man,
behind your inability to con-
meet with life turks an eyre
gious self-centeredness and an
exaggerated idea of your own
consequence"
avery, can't bear it. You
are too funny to be borne. Stop
it, idiot! How can one take
you seriously?"
But I am serious, mother.
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The nearness of summer
makes us begin to do some
planning for vacations. Rela-
tive to summer camps, the fol
lowing letter is provocative. I
do not vouch for the accuracy
of the statements, but from
what I can learn it must be
true of many camps. 1t should
certainly give parents pause and
require them to make a careful
investigation of a camp before
sending children there:
From this community ap-
proximately 200 children go off
to camp each summer and re-
turn much the worse for the
experience, underfed and over
driven. This has forced us to
study camps in general and the
desirability of creating our own
summer home for our children.
Limitation of Camps
"The disabilities of camps
come under the following sew
eral heads:
q. Limited sanitary facili-
ties in nine out of ten, below
the standards of decency.
"2. Underfeeding. Most of
the camps boast of a dietician
whose job is to determine at
what least expense life can be
kept in the child's body. Die
ticians achieved their greatest
vogue in almshouses, peniten-
tiaries and children's camps.
"3. Lack of cleanliness in
dining room and sleeping quar-
ters. Most of the camps re-
quire the boys to make their
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
I'm clowning Hamlet for you."
How slenderly handsome he

I'm clowning Hamlet for you"
How slenderly handsome he
was, his fathers son around
the eyes and brow, but son Of
his mother in the lean, 1.-THE
figure. AS he sat there on the
edge of the table, dangling one
long, cleverly clad leg and
showing, as if to excellent stage
direction, his clean blade of
profile, he was like one of those
wellmade youths in English So
ciety comedies.
avery, I simply must go.
My advice to you is to pack
yourself back to college without
even letting your father know
about this-brainstorm."
Mother, I'm in hell"
'"Then you are in some trou-
BILE, son." she cried out, a sud-
den terror darting to her eyes.
"I know, Mother, I know, it
all sounds like tommy-rot," he
cried, and struck his breast
with a gesture that immedi-
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actly like this. She wanted to
take him in her arms Ra-
mon was waiting.
Mother, dear, be a brick.
Put it up to Father before I
have to face the music. Make
him see that I need a couple Of
years away--to myself"
IT simply must go, son."
Hell never understand,
Mother. Coming from me, the
suggestion will only antagonfze
him. I can't be myself with
Father-any more than I some
times think he can be with me-"
Hush, Avery"
There was one principle Of
hers which Jenny had never
even bent, much less broken.
She could not bring herself to
discuss her husbands Shortcom-
ings with his children.
II must go!" she cried, wild
ly. "If you insist upon coming
home from college with such
ideas, son, it is manlier that
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
YOUR RULING
STAR
William Shwader-
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those Whose Birthday
Is May II

If May Il is your birthday,
the coming year is apt to be
an active one. With Saturn
favorable to the Sun you should
benefit through association
with older people or those in
higher positions. Work SySte-
matically and persistently. Don't
be too hasty in matters affect
ing the emotions. Important
dates: Refrain from excesSes
of all kinds, take no risks from
May % to %, June 6 to 8,
July 81 to %, August 20 to %,
October Is to 81. Watch your
finances, avoid legal contro-
versies from october % to No
vember 80, December to 20.
Good for general affairs, make
efforts to establish yourself,
seek the advice of elders from
May IA to 81, June / to IA,
December to 25. Good for
social and artistic matters from
June 4 to 6, July is to %.
September u to IA, % to 80,
December II to 10, January 5
to 8, II to 13. Contradictory
dates show two opposing in
fluences.
A child born May IA will be
active, persevering and versa
tile. He should gain through a
business or professional career.
Any tendency toward egotism,
overambition and pride should
be discouraged, and stress put
on appreciation for others and
a spirit of cooperation.
Tendencies for May IS: The
moon in friendly relation to
Neptune and Mercury favorS
literary work-selling, inter
views, also those dealing in
produce, liquids and chemicals.
Copyright, 1881, Premier
Syndicate, 1AAS
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

ately became sophomore to her,
once he followed it up with
words. But can't you under
stand? The hell is here inside
me. must get away. Alone. To
think-it out It's too clut-
tered up here. can't stand the
clutter. I'm sick of being me.
And doing the things a fellow
has to do if he is me. Give me
a year or two on my own,
Mother. Get Father to. I want
to think. I want to think my
way out :"
"Of what?"
Eager to Go
How do I know? How can I
try to tell it, when you sit there
thinking of other things. When
you won't understand"
How dear he was! How mex
pressibly dear. Hurtingly young.
Silly, sensitive, sophomore
dreamer. She had never seen
him like this. At least not ex-
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

he asks girl to marry him?
I have regular job, but it is
hard to save if want to take
my girl around any before we
are married. She likes to go
to shows and dances. Don't
you think if we were married,
she would be glad to stay
home and save.
BILL.
It all depends on the girl,
what she's accustomed to, and
how thrifty she is. Have you
ever talked this matter of econ
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
Vexed by Date-Breaker
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
There is a certain boy I care
a lot about. In fact, / believe
I love him, although I don't
know whether he cares as
much for me or not. He treats
me fine and is always ready
to go wherever I want to go,
but sometimes he breaks dates
and doesn't call me up when
he says he will. I know I've
let him find out how much I
care about him. Should I try
to get him out of my mind or
continue to put up with his
breaking dates? H. B.
BY all the rules of the game
and game" I mean girls de-
manding courteous treatment
date-breakers should be dropped,
but it's always a question
whether the punisher doesn't
hurt herself more than the
youth to whom she is trying to
teach good manners. And it's
never good policy to let them
know that you care too much
about them. Keep them guess
ing" is a good policy.
How Much Should He
Have?
DEAR MIS- FAIRFAX:
How much do you think a
boy should have saved before
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

you should face your father
yourself. Tell him just what
you have told me-"
"I can't! I can't! You know
that"
"Then begin to learn now.
I cannot always be buffer be-
tween you. Tell him what
you've told me-"
Here He Comes"
mot in a thousand years.
He'll want facts. I haven't
any"
Here he comes. Tell him
now"
Mother. for Cos saked!
You wouldn't do that -"
Copyright. 1881. by Fannie Hurst,
Distributed by King Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
does Avery summon up
courage to tell his father what
he has told his mother? Read
tomOrrOw'S interesting install,
ment.)
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
Beatrice Fairfax Advises LOUelOrn

omy out with her, and told her,
just as you tell me, that it's
hard to get ahead if you spend
money on shows and dances?
Whether she is willing to stay
home after she is married, de-
pends on whether or not she is
a domestic type? Some girls
enjoy their homes and like to
stay in them, and are happy
making pretty things-center-
pieces, table runners, embroid-
ering initials on towels. Other
girls regard their homes as a
telephone and mailing address.
And it's just as well to discover
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
Answers To Todoys Test

AnsWevs To TOdGy's Test
Questions On Editorial Page
/. Passes between the sun
and the earth. 2. Daguer-
reotype. 8. Purest knight. 4.
Canada. S. The largest river
in the world. 6. Henry w."
Z. Macbeth" 8. "AS You Like
It." 9. "Othello." 10. '"The
Tempest" IL. Romeo and
Juliet" IL. Hamlet" 10.
Twelfth Night" Il. King
Lear" Is. Midsummer Nights
Dream"
Copyright. 1881, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

which type your girl belongs to
before you marry her. AS to
how much should be saved
against the rainy day-it seems
to me five hundred dollars at
least.
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
THE BEAUTY
BOX

Details of the beauty routine
should be pleasurable habits,
not .~bothers, to be hurried
through. The warm bath at
night should be taken leisurely,
enjoyed with a feeling of lux
ury. The brushing of the 'oair.
the amounting of the complex
ion, the polishing of the finger
nails, are delightful tasks, re-
freShing to the soul. After half
an hour of beauty rites, nerves
lose their tension and the sup
plicant for good looks is in bet
ter condition to sleep than if
she rolled into bed with un-
combed hair and an unwashed
face.
There is a new orchid-col-
ored powder that the blondettes
are falling for. It is used with
a blue-pink rouge. The combi-
nation looks best on delicate
fair, colorless skins.
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

How take Life? the which do hangs
the tale Of happiness Some Of us were cut from pattern
bitter smile like it. Others of and can't
to help it, matter ladies preach to
undertake with other problem under the
for mastering living Life others of hide
from Life We head under pillow shut to
pleasant truths in the eOncOcOn and ward off the with
resistance that would mountains
in that direction. Those Of afraid of Life Afraid of
drinking it
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

This famous story has been
made into talking picture by
MetrO-G o ldwy n-Mayer with
Marion Davies in the leading
fOle.)
Mother, dear, you mustn't
take it that way! Let me ex'
pain"
Ramon was waiting.
listen, dear, 7 must"
Mother, I haven't hoped
on to this decision today or
yesterday. I'm everybody's total
loss at college, dear"
That's a pretty dishearten-
ing thing to have to hear, after
the long wrangle had with
your father, who wanted a
state university. Really AV-
cry -"
IT'D be no go at college,
Mother. It's hard as the devil
to try to explain-even to
you"
Eyes, Avery" she said, mash
ing out a cigarette off which
she had taken two puffs, and
trying to bite down an i'm
patience that was almost q
renzy within her: Il should
think it might be-" Ramon was
waiting. o,
"Mother, what do you think?"
81 can't. I DON'T" she said
and pressed her eyeballs.
A Revelation
Mother, for the last six
months I've been carrying only
one course at college. You
might as we'll know and have
it over with"
you've made excellent con-
nections. Donnie Chattenfield
told Jennifer that Hal is in
viting you to Whitecastle for
the Christmas holidays"
Mother. doesn't that sur
prise you?"
"Why should it? The Chat
tenfields weren't always as So
cially secure as they are now
i"
IT mean, doesn't it surprise
YOU that I've only carried one
course, and that dead-cat one
in current events?"
"Of course, it does"
Tt doesn't really, old dar-
ling, because you've never
thought about it one way or an
other. But anyway-even my
address at college has been a
fake one, Mother. I've faxed"
II haven't lived on the
campus for six months. The
college canning factory began
to tin my brains, so I moved
out of it. I've rooms up on the
hill with an artist and his
wife"
"Why, Avery Rarick, how
could you'll"
The Only Way
"It's the only thing I could
do, Mother. I'm not cut out for
the college factory. Matter of
fact, if I am cut out for much
of anything, I haven't found
out yet what it is. That's what
I want to talk about. You've
been such a brick getting Father
to put up with me, that it's
kind of rotten to bring this
home to you after the way you
maneuvered for Eastern. But
it would have been the same at
Penn. or whatever State uni
versity it was Father preferred.
It isn't that 7 haven't been
working. I have - after a
fashion-worked, if you'd call
it that"
"Oh, Avery. don't meander.
Talk to the point"
Right, Mother. I mean, I've
been scribbling. Writing a lit
tie. Verse and stuff. Pretty
rotten. Wouldn't like to see
it, would you? Might give you
a better idea of why I think
a couple of years on my own
knocking about Europe-alone
-alone-alone-would put me
Straight-with things. Mother,
you're not listening!"
She lifted her tormented eyes
to him, which for the mo.
ment she had closed against
the milling of her inner frenzy,
and made the pretense of hav-
ing heard.
''That is all stuff and non-
sense, Avery. You are to bide
your time at college, and next
summer take that trip to Nor
way and Sweden with the Stan
ley-Blake twins"
"I don't give a damn for
those saps, Mother"
Those sapS,' as you are
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
AUeryShrinks from Barring
His Hopes and Dreams
To His Father
What Has Happened So Far

G. millions chain store operator:
His wife, shortly after their marriage lent him $5OO al
she had when failure and out Of this money he built
riches rents his farfrOmmpOsng appearance and
longer feels real love for him. Rark buys magnificent
Fifth Avenue but secretly finds himself hating his WIFE
This his temperamenta inability to get
close Avery children Rarck nstas odd
genius Felix in his home Jenny objects and bitter
follows in which Rack delivers the ulmatum that Gerks
remain Jennier and cOmpeS her to cancel
dinner engagement to dine with Geres Jennfer finds him In
eresting intrigued with Ramon youthful
ggolO makes her and finally kisses her ardenty
Avery school to beg his mother to help him
father to have couple of to himself
Jenny yst with mnimizes the seriousness
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

its stingng, rainbOwed, dia
honeyswee gallber magic flavor Some of shut
to like the taste Others find
stuff and have fine taste for it, when brings
the tears to eyes!
Life "giggle water" But do not call it
shadow substance and wOrmwOOd!
many blame young
the ordinary problems of Life faces truths and
the of the of their mouths
child the beauties of Life, and it will to
cover the bitternesseS. NELL BRTNKLEY
The Washington times., 1931-05-13
By Anne Adams

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The Washington times., 1931-05-13
NOLU Go On With the Story
By Fannie Hurst

Whose her place the foremost Of
writerS.)
The Washington times., 1931-05-13

(This famous story has been
made into q talking picture by
Metro G Oldwy n-Mayer with
Marion Davies in the leading
fOle.)