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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18
| EMF ANT. AVENUE
NAME SUGGESTED
Columbia Heights Forum
Adopts Motion to Honor
Capital Palmer.

The naming of one of the proposed
memorial avenues in Washington for
Maj. Pierre L'Enfant, who laid out
the National Capital, was suggested by
members of the Citizens Forum OF
Columbia Heights by motion passed
at the meeting of the group last night
at Wilson Teachers College, Eleventh
and Harvard streets.
The suggestion came in response to
questionnaira sent out by the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations asking for
such suggestions, or for the appoint
ment of committees which would give
the matter consideration. No other
names for the proposed avenuS were
discussed at the meeting.
Another request made in the queS-
tionnaire was that the association, along
with the other member associations OF
the federation, name a committee to
meet with the Streets Committee of the
federation SOM. time in the Spring to
discuss highway needs in and about
Washington. No committee was named.
but the association favored the pro-
posal, and will name committee
later,
Henry Gilligan. member of the Board
of Education of the District, was
speaker of the evening at the meeting.
Mr.. Gilligan, who is also president of
the North Capitol Citizens Association,
talked on varied subjects. stressing in
particular the need for a foundation in
relisiOn for character training Of chill
dren in the home and schools. Edgar
Lee Masters, latest biCgrapher of Lin
coin, and other writer's Of the type, who
tear Gown tha character" Of national
figures, were raped by the speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18
ID. C. COURT RECEIVES
CONDEMNATION SUM
Department of Justice Pays ST.
290,871 for Property on Avenue
Between 9th and 10th Streets.

The Department of Justice yesterday
paid into the registry of the District
Supreme Court Treasury warrant for
So, 290,871 The sum represents the re-
cent award of a condemnation commits
sion for the property included in the
area lying between Ninth and Tenth
streets, Pennsylvania avenue and B
street which had not been acquired
by private purchase. as a site for the
new Offices of the Department of
Justice.
The warrant was drawn to the order
of Frank E, Cunningham, clerk of the
District Court of the United States for
the District of Columbia, and was in
dorsed by Mrs. RS. Wayland. assistant
clerk, and deposited in the Treasury to
the credit of the court clerk. Disburse-
ments from the fund will be made on
court order after satisfactory proof of
title by the several owners
Assistant Attorney General Henry H.
Classic and Special Assistant United
States Attorney Alexander H. Bell, jr.,
filed notice with the court of the Gov
ernment'S intention to TAX over pos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18
Margaret Roses Give Funds.

In honor of Princess Margaret Rose
daughter of the Duke and Duchess of
York, who was born at Glamis, Scot
land, all women and girls bearing the
name of Margaret Rose have subscribed
to a fund to provide cots for babies in
the Edinburgh Royal Ms ternity and
Simpson Memorial Hospital at Edin-
burgh. The cots will be known as the
Margaret Rose cots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18
The Oysters Enemies.

The enemies of the oyster as it re-
poses in the bed are a sea snail
which bores through the shell and
sucks out the meat, and the starfsh,
which embraces its victim with its five
strong arms and smothers it until it
cpers its shell and then the starfish
feaStS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18

has taken in Federal problems of edit
cation and the material aid he has rem
dered in the development of the United
States ONCE of Education and the in
crease in its usefulness during the time
he has had charge of its appropriations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18

session of the property March IS and
asked a rule on all the owners to file
cause why they may not be required to
vacate by that date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18
CRAMTON is HONORED
Many Educators Attend Cooper's

Luncheon for representative.
Tho heads Of many important educa-
tional institutions attended luncheon
yesterday given by DR.. william John
Cooper. commissioner of the ONCE of
Education. in honor of Representative
Louis C. Cramton of Michigan at the
Cosmos Club.
This luncheon was given in recogni-
ton of the interest which Mr.. Cramton
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as chairman Of the subcommittee han.
ding the Interior Department appropri-
alton bill.
Amateur photography Is becoming
craze in North China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-18
WILL ADDRESS CITIZENS
Miss Sybil Bakers Subject to Be
Community Center Work.

Miss Sybil Baker, in charge of Com
munity Center work in the District, will
be the speaker at the Southwest Citi-
zens' Association meeting this evening
at 8 O'Clock at the Farbrother School,
Tenth and E streets southwest.
Opportunities for Community Center
work in Southwest Washington when
the new jefferson Junior High School
is completed" will be Miss Bakers topic
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Honor Well Bestowed
on Chief Justice Taft

One day, along about midwinter,
Joseph Tumulty, former secretary
to President Woodrow Wilson, was
taking his constitutional across the
million-dollar bridge on Connect
cut avenue when he saw a we'll
known and gigantic figure strolling
ahead of him. Before Mr. Tumul-
ty had a chance to quicken his
own stride and catch up, as he usu-
ally did, a stranger in a small mud
dy auto bearing an Ohio license
drew up beside the huge figure
ahead.
"Say, guyl Could you tell me
how to get to 700 California ave-
nue?'
The large man stopped, smiled,
went to the side of the muddy fliv-
yer and explained carefully and in
detail how the stranger could reach
the desired destination.
AS he finished, the man from
Ohio started his engine and called
gratefully to the polite Washing
tOnian:
Thanks, Chiefw and drove
away.
Little did the stranger know how
nearly he had hit the truth when,
in his impersonal gratitude, he had
called the late Chief Justice VIII
liam Howard Taft "Chief. Col
lier's Weekly.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Sailors Refuge

Robert Richard Randall was the
founder of Snug Harbor. Randall
was sea captain who retired from
the sea in the late Eighteenth CEN
fury and settled down on a large
farm on the edge of which is now
Greenwich village. When he died
he left his property to an institu-
tion known as Sailors Snug Har-
Dor for Ancient and Decrepit Sea-
men. His relatives did all they
could to break the will. but in 1881,
over thirty years after the captains
death, the Supreme court upheld
the bequest. In the meantime the
city of New York had grown so
enormously that the trustees de-
cided it would be better to lease
the land contained in the Randall
farm and locate the seamen's home
on Staten island At the time of
the captains death or prior, his
farm brought in an annual income
of about $4,000 at the time the
trustees made the change it was
yielding $4,000 Today it is esti-
mated that the annual earnings of
the property are about 100000.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Vergil More Than Match
for "Devylls of He'll"

There are several stories tell
ing how Vergil became acquainted
with the "devylls of hell.' Accord
ing to one German legend, Vergil
was one day digging in his gar
den when he came upon a glass
filled with what appeared to be
wriggling earthworms. But voice
came from the glass begging Vergil
to open 1t and promising to teach
him many arts. "Teach me the
arts" replied vergil cannily, land
I will break the bottle and set you
free.' So they taught him all they
knew, and when he opened the bot
tie, Y devils crawled out and dis
appeared.
In another version a single devil
promised to give Vergil the
magical book Of Solomon if he
would release him from the bottle.
Vergil did, but, frightened by the
size of the liberated spirit, tricked
him into returning to the bottle in
the same way as the fisherman in
the Arabian Nights tricked the
Jim. "Surely you can't make
yourself as small as the bottle
again." said Vergil. Easily re-
piled the devil, and to prove it, re-
turned to the flask. Vergil prompt
ly put in the stopper and kept him
prisoner forever.-Baltimore Sun.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Precocity, or Coaching?

There are in existence but the
most meager threads of informal
ton concerning the youth of Fran
els Bacon. Up to his thirty-first
year there is scarcely one fact of
his life which is of Importance to
biographer.
Upon one occasion Sir Nicholas
is said to have taken Francis to
court and presented him to the
queen. Elizabeth fondled his hair,
called him my young lord keep
err and asked him his age. To this
question the child answered, "Just
two years younger than your maj
esty's happy reignp To some
biographers this precocious reply
has seemed a prophecy of Francis
Bacons later skill at flattering roy
atty; to others, however, it seems
but a tribute to the coaching abil-
tiles of Sir Nicholas.-Frol "Sir
Francis Bacon" by Byron Steel.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Ingenious Methods of
Making Use of Suction

Some of our readers probably are
old enough to remember the first
vacuum cleaners and the interest
aroused when it was found that a
carpet could be cleaned of dust
without broom being used. Coal
is now unloaded by suction. The
pipe used is made of steel and is
L inches in diameter, the nozzle is
a box three feet long and something
more than foot wide, and the most
ingenious part of the invention is
an arrangement to prevent the
whole thing getting choked by coal
dust. The latest invention in this
direction is a marvellous fish trap.
In this case, a pipe of great size
is lowered from the fishing vessel
deep into the sea, the air is exhaust
ed, and the water rushes up, carry
ing with 1t the fish. The fish are
kept, the water goes back. One
move use for this kind of device is
the war against locusts In Pales-
tine, where there was a plague Of
these ravenous creatures, gigantic
vacuum cleaners fixed on motor We
hicles were used and the locusts
drawn up by the millions.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Modern Music Made No
Hit With Lord BaIfour

In music Lord Balfour took a
great delight and was an enthusi-
astfe lover of the old masters, es-
pecially Handel. Modern music
had little charm, if any. for him.
Il remember how patiently he
would sit through dinner at his fa-
vorite restaurant in Paris until most
of the clients had left and the noise
of jazz and jingle had ceased" re-
calls Sir Ian Malcolm in his per-
sonal memoirs of Balfour, "and
would then ask the chef d'orchestre
Ia very gifted young Polish violin
ist) to play him some Eighteenth
century French music"
Then during the nine months
Lord Balfour remained in Paris for
the peace conference his house was
the scene of many brilliant musical
evenings.
Il remember one evening" says
Sir Ian, when Charles Hendi was
going to sing, he inquired delicately
whether anybody present objected
to German songs. The chief (Bal-
four) promptly replied:
7 don't. I will take them as part
of the reparations that they owe
u.s. kansas City Times.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Mankind Never Able to
Change Nature of Cat

It seems that the houseeat of TO-
day behaves in much the same man.
ner as it did in the byg0ne ages.
The animals association with man
has not changed its habits in one
particular. It goes about in its own
way and takes its own time and all
efforts to make it take some part
in the operations of the household
have failed. The animal resents
any interference with its coming
and going. Miss A. S. Firkins of
Columbia university has put the cat
to an intelligence test. Seventy
eight cats were secured from a pet
show and put through a series of
tests. The first problem put before
the cats was how to reach foed
placed inside an Enclosure. Most
of the cats solved this by stepping
upon plate which opened the way.
The problems were then in
creased in difficulty. the hardest be-
ing one which required the cats to
touch seven plates. one after an
other. to get the food. Only two
of the contestants were smart
enough to do this. One of the con-
illusions arrived at was that male
cats are smarter than the females.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
LAS, 256 BUSHELS OF
WHEAT STORED IN STATE

Helena, Mont, July SUPP
Wheat held in public warehouses
and exclusive of farm storage
wheat, totaled 1,445,2 bushels as
of June l, the state division of
grain grading and marketing an
nounced last week.
In addition to the storage bonds
held as security for these out
standing storage tickets, there
was 2,395,822 bushels of wheat on
hand, with 358,856 bushels held at
terminals and 366,581 bushels in
transit. The total was 1921, 1853
bushels.
Other classes of grain in ele-
vators and storage tickets follow;
Flax: Outstanding storage tic
kets, 54,s89 bushels; held in eleva-
tors, 172,049 bushels.
Barley: Outstanding storage
tickets, $500 bushels; held in ele-
vators, 71,067 bushels.
Rye, Outstanding storage tic
kets 1889 bushels; held in eleva-
tors, 1886 bushels.
Oats: Outstanding storage tic
kets, $500 bushels; held in eleva-
tors, 86,512 bushels.
The total of advances allowed
upon stored grain on hand June l,
was shown as $382,390.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Early American CoIonist

Edward Maria Winfield was an
English merchant and colonist in
America. He was born at Stone
ley, Huntingdonshire. He served
in the English army, both in Ire
land and in the Low countries. Be
coming interested in schemes for
American colonization, he was one
of those to whom the patent Of Vir-
ginia was granted, April 6, 1909. He
was the only one of the patentees
who sailed to America with the
first colonists, and was named in
the sealed instructions a member
of the council, of which he was
elected the first president. He
quarreled with the other members
of the council, and with Capt. John
Smith in particular. His Catholi-
cism threw suspicion upon his 10y
atty and he was soon deposed both
from the council and governorship,
in September 1907. In 1908 he re-
turned to England.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Royal Friend of Dogs

Queen Victoria's love of animals
"a characteristic inherited by all
her descendants) is shown in sew
eral passages Of her recently pub
lished letters. In August, 1886,
when everybody in London was in
fected with an unreasonable fear
Of mad dogs, she wrote a long mem
orandum on cruelty to animals
which might almost be described as
the Magma Charta Of mans four
footed pensioners. "As regards her
poor dear friends runs the first
clause, "she would repeat that no
dogs should ever be killed by po-
lice unless the veterinary surgeon
declared they were mad. That dogs,
who were close to their masters or
mistresses or their house door, poor
quiet dogs should be left alone and
not molested.'
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Desert Explorers Find
Odd Things of Interest

The Libyan desert expedition in
search of the lost oasis Of Zerzura
under the leadership of Major Bag
mold, returned to Cairo unsuccess-
full, so far as its primary object
was concerned. The expedition dis
covered northeast Of owenat a re-
markable circle of stones standing
three feet high and nine yards
across, similar in formation to
Stonehenge. This circle is in the
desert 80 miles from the nearest
water. They then returned to
Selma, and for the first time the
journey was made across the des-
ert to Assiut on the Nile by way of
the Kharga oasis, following the
northern part of the Arabian way
the old slave trade route from OAR
fur to Assiut, altogether over 1000
miles long, which used to be
traversed by camels in about 40
days. the distance from Selma to
Assiut being about 400 miles. Major
Bagnold stated that the slave track
was clearly marked by the skele-
tons of camels, and that there were
over 200 camel skeletons to every
mile. Although it had not been
used for so years, in certain parts
the tracks of the eamels were
plainly visible.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Posters Long in Use

Actually the poster or placard
can trace its ancestry back almost
to the dawn of civilization. Egyp-
tian wall paintings, mural decora-
tions and inscriptions, produced
more than 5000 years B. c., have
been discovered by archeolngists.
The modern poster began with
Jules Cheret, a Frenchman, born
in Paris in 1886, self-taught as a
draughtsman. He served his APP
premiership as photographer in
England, and when thirty years old
became interested In announce
ments Of theatrical managers and
placards put out about that time
urging recruiting for armies. In
1867 the world saw the first mod
ern poster of Cheret's, an announce
ment of play enacted by Sarah
Bernhard, then twenty-five years
old. The poster announced fairy
play, entitled LA Biehe au Bots"
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Bowling Old Pastime

Bowling has been played for cen
turtles in Germany and the Low
Countries, where it is still in high
favor, but attains its greatest pop
ularity in the United States, whence
it was introduced in Colonial
times from Holland. The Dutch
inhabitants of New Amsterdam,
new New York. we're much addict
ed to it, and from 1923 to 1910 it
was played on the green, the prin-
cipal resort of the bowlers being
the square just north of the Bat
terry, still called Bowling Green. The
first covered alleys were made of
hardened clay or of slate, but the
modern alleys are built up of strips
of pine or maple wood about | by 8
inches in size. set on edge, and fas-
tened together and to the bed of
the alley, the surface being care
fully leveled and polished.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09

until candy is dissolved Pour over
slightly beaten egg, beating con-
stantly. Return to double boiler
and cook minutes. Cool, then
freeze with mixture of / part salt
to 6 parts Clipped ice. Yield: 6
servings.
White Cake
1A cups pastry tbsp. evaporated
flour milk
tsp. baking 6 tbsp. water
powder ! tsp. lemon ex-
u cup fat thalf " tsp. almond
butter) extract
l cup fine sugar " cup egg whites
Sift flour, then measure. Resift
with baking powder and salt.
Cream fat until plastic, then add
sugar gradually and continue
Dreaming until white and smooth.
Add dry ingredients and milk that
has been combined with the water
alternately, beginning and ending
with dry ingredients. Then add
ilavoring. Beat egg whites until
stiff but not until they have lost
their shiny appearance. Cut and
fold egg whites carefully into the
batter. After cutting and folding,
stir batter three or four times.
Turn Immediately into square or
rectangular pan lined with waxed
paper. Bake in a moderate oven
(3500F.). Cut into tiny squares and
frost with pink icing.
Pink Icing
| ID. confection- tbsp. evaporated
er's sugar milk
Add confectioners sugar to
evaporated milk until soft enough
to spread easily. Tint delicately
with pink vegetable coloring.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
STRIPED TWO-PIECE

Not since the days Of old Rome
have stripes been SO enormously i'm
portant. If you like plaid, but think
it's being overdone, then you're just
the person to get something striped.
You don't see stripes on everyone. SO
when you do they're very striking.
Here, thin stripes of black on wine
colored cotton are emphasized by a
black belt, buttons and monogram. By
the way, the monogram should only be
worn in line with the breast pocket if
you are young and slim. If you're the
not-so-slim type, place it near the belt.
Then invest in white pull-on gloves,
linen shoes and tilted sailor hat.
Pictorial Printed Pattern No. 5618
Sizes IA to 4S, ~ ,-..... Monogram
No. 546, 8 inches high, 60 cents.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Origin of Expression
THAT Beats the Dutch"

"An American Glossary" by
Thornton, gives examples of the use
of the expression THAT beats the
Dutch" as early as 1875, the line
Our cargoes of meat, drink and
cloaths beat the Dutch" appearing
in a Revolutionary Song" by Bar
lett of that date. In the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger of February 6,
1887, occurs this statement: THAT
beats the Dutch, saith the proyerb;
meaning that, as the Dutch beat
Old Nick, it is something of
an exploit to beat them" Vizetelly
and De Bekker's Deskbook of Idi-
oms states that the phrase origi-
mated in the days when bitter en-
nifty prevailed between the Dutch
and other nations. In this connec-
ton, however, it is worthy of no.
tice that most of the expressions
that arose out of the struggle be-
tween the English and the Dutch
in the Seventeenth century were
derogatory or derisive; among
these are Dutch courage; to talk
double Dutch; Dutch comfort;
I'm a Dutchman if I do; Dutch
treat; Dutch goldl talk like
Dutch uncle" The saying "That
beats the Dutch" is not derogatory
and is an American and not an
English one, so that it possibly ex-
presses admiration for the fighting
qualities of the Dutch in their long
struggle with Spain and later with
England. Again, as the name
Dutch" is also applied to Ger
mans, 1t may be a reference to the
German mercenary troops Of Colo
NAL days.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09

Mrs. Mabel Williams contributes
charming little episode in the life
of three-year-old Patty who was
visiting her grandparents near Riv-
erside. She watched her grand
mother plucking a turkey and finally
asked.
Granny, what are you pulling
those hen leaves off the turkey
for?"
A little later in the day Patty
was shown the big flock of turkeys
and In passing among them, acci-
dentally stepped on big gobbler's
foot. Little Patty looked the big
gobbler in the eye and said con-
tritely:
pardon me-" - Los Angeles
Times.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Babylonian Lawgiver

Hammurabi was the most illus
trious of all the Babylonian kings.
He was the sixth of the Amoritic or
West Semitic dynasty and reigned
43 years between 2067 and 2025
B. C. Hammurabi promulgated for
use throughout his empire one of
the greatest legal codes ever de-
vised. A fairly complete copy of
the code was found about the
Twelfth century at Susa inscribed
on d diorite stella eight feet high.
Apparently the stone had been
taken to Elan as plumber by in
vaders during the later period
of Babylons decline.-Pathfnder
Magazine.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Old-World Melody

A New Yorker in London was
strolling past Lincoln's inn. one
of the old domiciles, which figures
In Charles Dickens "Bleak House"
Out of the old building came ia
miliar strains of music.
Meditating, as he walked. on the
old-worldliness of this inn built cen
turtles ago, the tune was slow In
identifying itself.
1t wasn't until the last line Of the
song that the words came to mind.
They were. "I'll never 90 there any
more" and the song, of course. was
the one that starts: 1.-THE Bowery,
the Ruwery."
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
Seventh-Day Believers

The name Seventh Day Advent
lists" which is the official designa-
ton of a Christian sect, refers to
two different beliefs or doctrines.
"Adventism" is the doctrine that
the second coming of Christ and
the end of the world are near at
hand, and an Adventist is one who
believes in this doctrine. Seventh
day" refers to the fact that the
Seventh Day Adventists also be-
lieye that the seventh day of the
week rather than the first is the
true Sabbath, and accordingly they
regard Saturday as the Sabbath.