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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05

A deal at whist party in Reading,
England recently resulted in each of
the four players having Is cards OF
one suit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05

A GHERKIN IS A NATIVE WHO
RUNS AFTER PEOPLE WITH A
KNIFE.
Cyanide is SO poisonous that one drop
Of it on dogs tongue will kill the
strongest man.
How do frogs pass the Winter? They
get together in groups and hop south.
The cow is domestic animal all COW
cred with leather. Her tail, which hangs
at the end, has brush in order to shoe
off flies, or else they would fall in the
milk. The head is in front. and has
horns growing on each side and allows
room for the mouth. The horns are
used for fighting and the mouth to roar
with. When the food is good she gives
good milk, but when it thunders she
goes sou
The elastic tragedy was different from
the modern drama, as all the action &C.
CURED off-stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
BY HERBERT PLuMMER.

HEY tried hard TO make a mystery
man of that affable and philo-
sophical gentleman one sees from time
to time around the executive Offices Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05

Wilson and Coolidge administrations.
Furthermore, he rescntS any such i'm
piication.
Any one anxious to know his status
around the White House has only TO
ask him personally. He will quickly
and emphatic2lly answer that he is a
personal friend and close adviser of
President Hoover
And that's all
Burke has no title and no Official
connection with the Government. He
is a lawyer, who for 40 years or more
has been interested in politics. Ten of
these years were spent as a member
Of the House, but he quit because he
was tired of holding public Office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05
THE STARS
DAILY PATTERN
SERVICE

A circular founce lengthens this
simple one-piece dress Of smart
sophistieation.
It's a plaided linen in yellow and
soft cocoa brown shade The cutest
idea about it is the subtle indication
of the normal waistline, achieved
through shirring at each side seam.
The deep scalloped collar in plain
brown linen is accented by yellow gros-
grain ribbon bows.
It's a splendid dress for the grow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05

Financially independent, his friends
here say that he hopes for no re-
ward that he told Mr.. Hoover at the
outset there was no post at home or
abroad that he sought or would accept.
Ten years in the House, from 1905
to 1915, during which he rose to the
place of Republican whip under Speaker
Uncle Joe" Cannon, were enough. He
still remembers those days and is fond
it today.
I'VE might not have done as much
work or worked even as hard as legis-
lators of today he says, but the coun-
try conceded lis a respect that it does
not give Congress now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05

Outside of occasional games of golf,
politics is about his only form of recrea-
ton
He dabbles in politics because he
loves it. He gets a tremendous kick
out Of comforting with politicians, main
tanning intimate contact with the Pres
ident and diScharging this and that
task.
Republicans from all sections Of the
country Know him, call him Jim" talk
intimately with him about party affairs.
He works quietly. and. unless you
should be on the lookout for him, prob
ably you would be unaware of his
presence.
The nearest thing to an official title
he has is general counsel of the Re-
publican National Committee He has
been that for several years He divides
his tine between Washington and Pitts
burgh-attempts to keep no regular
hours at either place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-05

How do frogs pass the Winter? They
get together in groups and hop south.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-15
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION.

HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR TREE. 70
dYst ten applicants for lessons. Apply At
once Only ST per week. National Studios
OF Music Il Dance. 2979 i4th. Adams $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-15
PARK EQUIPMENT LOAN
TO YORKTOWN PLANNED
Col. Grant Arranges to Furnish
800 Chairs and F1agpoles
to Fete Commission.

Lieut.. Col. q. 9. Grant, ID, director
Of Public Buildings and Public Parks
arranged with the Yorktown SeoQui-
centennial Commission today TO fur
nish It with park equipment for the
celebration to be held next month et
Yorktown, Va.
The commission will be loaned large
portable bandstands so It's maSsed con-
cert program may 60 forward at the
OF the surrender Of CORVALLIS.
About 800 folding chairs and 100 nag:
poles also win be loaned to the COM
mission by Col. Grants ONCE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-15
MANY DUTIES KEEP
BISHOP VERY BUSY
Washington PreIate Looks
After rs Parishes and
Two Big Schools.

A revealing insight into the busy and
complex life Of twentieth century
churchman Is afforded by the recently
published Journal Of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocesan Convention, In
which appears the ofdcial diary Of the
Right Rev. James z. Freeman, Bishop
Of Washington. The record covers the
| calendar year 1890.
Either Bishop Freeman is an excep-
| ton to the rule, or the traditional lay
theory that Q bishopric Is happy sine
cure with only nominal duties Is a mis-
conception, for the facts and figures
provided by the new journal show that
modern prince Of the church not only
Is obliged to carry q huge burden Of re-
sponsibility, but also Is committed to q
routine Of labor fully occupies every
waking minute Of his existence.
Bishop Freeman Is first Of all the
parishes. He has under his guidance
100 clergymen and a large corps Of lay
| readers, not to mention several hundred
volunteer workers scattered throughout
| a territory exceeding 1898 square miles
in area. He has In his charge 112
churches and chapels, with all their
manifold enterprises Of religion. educa-
ton and charity.
Two Schools In His Care.
Two widely famous preparatory
schools, the National Cathedral School
for Girls and st. Adams, the National
Cathedral School for Boys, are in his
care: and he shares with the Right Rev.
Philip M. Rhinelander, former Bishop
Of Pennsylvania, the direction of the
College Of Preachers, an institution for
the postgraduate training Of the
clergy.
Institutions Of charity in his diocese
include the Episcopal Church Home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-15
ToDAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

Gaysty-Burlesque. Big Revue" at
AIS and e:l5 pm.
Metropolitan AN American TrAg.
edy." second week. at 1874 an. 1:l6
S:16, Sis, 1:20 and 9:22 pm.
RAAltO-"The Great Lover" at 1855
am, 1850, $3.50, $3.50, 1850 and $3.50 pm
PAleee-"Pardon U.s." at l1:l0 am,
2. 4:35. 7:20 and 9:45 pm. Stage shows
at lao, 4, $40 and 9:05 pm.
COIumbla-'This Modern Age" sec.
ord week, at l1:55 am, 1:65, 1855
$50, 1850 and $50 pm.
Fox-"Merely Mary Ann" at l1:5s
am. AIS, 4:31, 1886 and 9:52 pm
Stage shows ut 1888, s:S4, $3.50 and
e:l5 pm.
E-K-O Kelth's 80 fifty Fathoms
Deep" at 1850 am, LAS, $40, 0:45
1850 and 10 pm.
EArie-"The Bargain" at 1880 am.
1862. 4:33, 1882 and 1908 pm. Stage
shows at l2:5S. 3:37, 6:36 and o:09 pm
Tivoai-"The Reckless Hour" ct 2:35
4:2o, $40. 7:s5 and 9:45 pm
Central-"Night Nurse" II am. tc
IL pm.
Enthusiastically Bargain" at 6:15
sos and e:5S pm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Columbus Might Have
Saved Mayan Culture

II the United States lacks culture, 1t
can be blamed upon Columbus, ac-
cording to Gregory Mason, explorer.
writing In Country Home. Had Co
lumbus followed his original route on
his subsequent trips, the civilization
that Is now the United States might
have been founded upon the Mayan
race, which represents the Oldest civil
lization In the world.
Mason declares that Columbus, on
his fourth voyage In 1902, encountered
a Maya merchant off the coast Of
Honduras, but instead of going to the
merchants land, he turned his prov
in another direction and left it to de-
spelling Spaniards of another day to
find and crush the last remnants of
a great civilization that once thrived
there.
The Mayas, says the writer, were
the most highly civilized of all the
red-skinned natives Of America before
the white men came, and might have
provided the ready-made foundation
for new white race, whereas the
hardly settlers of the north had to
carve out their own foundations from
the wilderness.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohis
Endorsed by the Middletown Tradee
and Labor Council Of Middletewn. o.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1881
THE ONE BRIGHT SPOT

A bright spot in 1880 (the year
needed bright spots) was progress in
labor legislation, despite the small
number of regular sessions of law
making bodies.
During the year the legislatures OF
nine states and two insular posses
sions added to their labor codes laws
dealing with workmen's compensa.
tion,, old age pensions, safety anc
health, regulation of working hours
regulation of private employment
agencies, unemployment relief, or la.
Dor law administration. Congress con
tinued the vocational rehabilitation
act and made half-hearted contribu-
tion to unemployment legislation by
authorizing the collection Of unem.
ployment statistics. Unfortunately
no appropriation was made to carry
this last piece of legislation into
effect.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

true, but there are no grounds for
believing that nonrail competition is
doing all the damage. Yet to hear
some railroad executives talk one
might easily get the impression that
busses, airplanes, and waterways
were almost solely responsible. As a
matter of fact, old general depres-
sion" is probably the chief cause OF
declining revenues. Economists ia
miliar with the railroad situation are
saying that the rail lines will stage q
"come back" when general business
improves.
There is much to be said for the
railroads demand that other means
of interstate transportation be sub
jected to the same kind of regulation
as rail lines. But regulation of com.
petition will not solve the railroads
problem. Bending every energy tc
meet this competition will get then
farther than crying about it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
CHURCHES JOIN
To Plan For Permanent Pre-.
ventiOn of Idleness

Washington, ID. C. (ILNS)-Plans
are well under way for the conference
on Permanent Preventives of Unem-
plyoment," sponsored by the social
justice committee of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, the
social service commission of the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Christ
in America, and the social actino de-
partment of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference which will be
held in Washington, D. c., at the
Hamilton Hotel, January 26-27.
The executive committee in charge
of the program met in Washington
during the week to complete the plans
for the conference. Announcement
was made by the chairman of the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Charm and Incarnation
Used to Fi0ht Witches

While the nrst of May was a time
for merrymaking In some countries in
ancient times, it was not altogether
so In Ireland. There were too many
dangers. too. many omens, too many
witches and fairies about-more on
May eve than on any other day in the
year, except Halloween. The old Irish
year began on the first Of May. and
like the old Biblical people 1t was
the time Of spring cleaning. For weeks
before, the Irish housewives cleaned
their houses, changing every corner.
and fumigating the rooms with juni-
per. This was a strong preventive
against the witches.
When the great day arrived-in
fact before midnight-each family was
well prepared. All the fires had been
extinguished, awaiting the great Bel
tame fires which the kings of Ireland
lighted on the mountains, and from
which the peasants rekindled their
own hearthf1res. With the first light
of May day the men of the house
made din with the pots and pans,
pals and COW bells. The half-starved
dogs were let loose and howled about
the house. The women lit censers OF
herbs and waved them here and there.
and everyone chanted, "Witch fee.
fee from here or it will go ill with
hee."-Boston Herald.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09

committee that this conference will
endeavor to attract thinking people
who feel the responsibility of deter
mining the causes and remedies for
the recurring tragedy of unemploy-
ment"
Prominent among the speakers
whose names appear on the program
are DR.. John r. Commons, well known
economist from the University of
Wisconsin, and John E. Edgerton,
president of the anti-union National
Association of Manufacturers, both of
whom will-speak at the session of the
conference devoted to "Unemploy-
ment Insurance"
Robert F. Wagner, United States
senator from New York; d. j. Me-
serole, president of the National IN
employment League, and Edward E..
Hunt, of the United States depart
ment of commerce, will discuss pub
lie Works and Construction Pro-
grams" Other speakers will include
Rabbi Sdward l.. Israel, of Baltimore,
and DR.. John a. Ryan, of the Catholic
University.
The sessions of the conference will
be open to the public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09

on day-by-day consumption-prices
will be reduced and greater consump-
tion and more work will result.
Sterilization advocates do not point
out that scientific processes, auto
matte machinery and speed-up meth,
DDS are continuous. Thess processes
enlarge the unemployed army and re.
duce the number of buyers.
The job seeker is not interested in
prices. He wants work TO secure pur-
chasing power to take advantage OF
lower prices.
President Green reminds stabilizers
that higher wages will permit dispo-
sition of output and shorter hours
will lessen unemployment. If these
facts are ignored, the forces that
brought the present crisis will de
velop another
Sterilization is the phase of the
movement toward automatic machin
cry, scientific processes, chain stores
mergers and a general lessening o.
employed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09

1t would be difficult for this man
to cash in some of Ford's predictions
at his grocery store or to pay a doc
tors bill with them. One wonders
why some of these intelligent inter
viewers do not have on tap some con-
crete cases of this sort and put real
question to Ford in the course of an
interview.
That is probably unlikely to hap
pen. These interviews are largely
framed and faxed up and nothing SO
untoward as an embarrassing ques-
tion is likely to confront billionaire
manufacturer whose products are SO
extensively advertised.-By the Way
in |. L. N Service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
FORD'S PREDICTIONS

Henry Ford is not helping the sit
uation in Detroit by his publicity
stunts through interviews or ghost
written articles in which he is saying
that in 20 years wages will be S35
a day.
Recently Mr.. Ford gave his en-
ployes a long vacation" without pay.
1t was a shutdown that stripped
workers of their savings, plunged
many of them into debt, some of them
hopelessly. A correspondent writes
he has worked in Ford's factory Is
years and that his wages are now
$24 a week, and his family had to
live during the period of the closed
factory, and as consequence he is
several hundred dollars in debt.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
FIVE-DAY WEEK
Planned By Omaha Unions
to Aid Unemployed

Omaha, Neb. (ILNS) - Omaha
trade unions, after considerable pre-
liminary discussion in local unions.
have taken definite actino toward es-
tablishment of the shorter work week.
In response to an invitation issued
by the Business Agents Association,
executive officers of nearly all the
largest unions of Omaha met at la
Dor temple to discuss plans for the
establishment of the five-day week at
an early date.
Representative of every union
present made it clear that no increase
of hourly pay is sought, but merely
shortening of tn eworking week in
order to provide work for the mem
bers of the unions now on part time
or wholly unemployed.
A spirit of fairness was in evidence
also as regards the interests of con-
| tractors and employers, SO that intro
duction of the shorter week can be
| harmoniously worked out, and when a
contractor takes on a job he will find
all crafts cooperating on an equal
basis. He will not be confronted with
one group working five days and an
other insisting on an extra half day
| Saturday.
AS a first step toward carrying out
the program of the meeting, Local
No. 109, Painters and Decorators of
America, changed its laws to make
the workweek 40 hours in place of "A,
which has prevailed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
medicine Woman" Still
Has Faith of Mexicans

More curious types, echoes out of
the long past, exist in Mexico than in
any other country In Latin America.
One Of these Is the medicine woman"
who, more than four centuries ago,
was an institution through the land
and since then all have continued to
depend on her to fight disease, real
or imaginary. But the medicine wom-
an has ever been more than vendor
OF medicinal herbs. She was and still
is believed to possess the power Of
witchcraft and this power she gives
to certain of the herbs she offers for
sale. She Is, therefore, a strange and
potently important parsonage in the
lives of the masses of ignorant Mex
lean Indians and peasants and not
infrequently she is held In respect
by middle class families. The medicine
woman Is still an institution from one
end OF Mexico to the other, and where
the native Indian languages are still
spoken, approximately 30 per cent OF
Mexico, she has lost little If any Of
her pre-conquest prestige.
Barley From SauPs Town
Samples of grain found by the Chi
cago Field museum, Oxford university
expedition to Mesopotamia In 1928, In
the ruins of the buried city of Kish.
''the first city founded after the flood"
have been declared by experts of the
IInifod Syafas Danartmpnf of ortcul
ture to be barley. Three jars of grain
were found In two ancient buildings
that had been buried for thousands Of
years below the original surface. One
building was In stratum just above
the level where traces of flood were
discovered, which. according TO archie
illogical evidence, occurred about 5000
B. G. The grain Is now practically
pure charcoal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
DISCUSSING 1881
Happy New Year!

Happy New Year
Some say as matter
and prosperous
Happand prosperous that folks couple these
thoughts
happiness poverty that with
5 enough but it good deal of tpe
of happiness where there
wbeng than there where poverty has placed its load
carea md its specter of want.
The unemployed happier and still happier if
they had good jobs.
newspaper labor happiness
economic safety and wellbeng for 1881
Happy with work and decent
But we go deeper than hope
need for bringing of order and sanity
cooperation into its house
Industry organizations
and between organizations of workers and
employers the field which workers and employers
deal mutually interesting and important matters
like those the minds of the mill
of Danvile, o disappear
which play part genuine cooperation
with like the Baltimore Ohio railroad have best weathered the
industrial
Cooperation full recognition of ab inherent rights
sentimental thing Intelligence always
Stupidity jealousy uspcionhe relics of darker days
and the They liabilities
1884, will get out of the witch doctor
of the crystal gazing class
today the happier between Daniel
Willard and Harry Fitzgerald?
purpofuly
democratic lines
the workers and them fully and honestly
world material but in
spiritual
that makes stand admitted admired leadership
among all the peoples of the world
the record
for and its brilliant
of
of
democracy more of co-opera
enrolled Greed will abdicate
they a be
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Minnesota,s BOUNDARY

The northern boundary of Mime
sofa was settled by the treaty Of
Ghent terminating the War Of 1872.
BY 1t the Lake of Woods was to be
the northern boundary. AT the time,
it was supposed that there were many
rivers flowing from the lake eastward,
and the United States was to have the
land drained by them. When the ac-
tuai survey was made, 1t was found
that there were no rivers flowing east
ward, and, so, because of the inten-
tion, and after many surveys had been
made, and commission appointed to
settle the matter the small piece OF
land called the Northern Peninsula
was ceded to the United States in
1873 and the question finally settled
by the United States and England
In 1877.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Many and Varied Tricks
Known to Fur Trader

ZAnOWn 10 OK 4I00CIo
Unlike the American fur crop, the
greatest part of which is taken of
ordinary farms, Canada's fur harvest
apart from that Of the fur ranches
lis still gathered at the cost Of hard
ship and life from the great open
spaces and thickly wooded forests.
And it Is here, strictly speaking, that
romance is forever lurking around the
corner.
The first collecting Of these skins
when the ambitious trader pushes as
far into the wilderness as he dares,
for instance-in order to meet the
outcoming Indian family. usually de-
velops into a battle Of wits and words.
And the buyer, in many cases, must get
up mighty early In the morning II he
hopes to circumvent the breeds cum
ming and trickery. Many pale, fifteen
dollar marten is transformed into q
dark, fifty dollar skin by the skillfUl
application Of a little balsam smoke.
More than one black hOusecat finds
Its way amongst the hundred dollar
fishers, while mink and lynx skins
having damaged flanks and shoulders
are conveniently turned with the fur
inside and the leather side out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Concentration

Catherine, age five, was invited to
a little friends house for dinner.
GATHERINGS mother very carefully told
the little girl everything she should
and should not do.
"And be sure" her mother said,
knowing GATHERINGS fondness for pas
try, mot to ask for second piece Of
cake"
When Catherine came home her
mother asked her all about the visit.
"And did you have only one piece Of
cake, like I told your she said.
ooh, no." replied Catherine. II re-
membered what you said, so | didn't
eat any cake at all. ate two pieces
Of pie instead"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
ECONOMIST IGNORES
BASIC FACTS

Prof. Wilford |. King, professor of
economics, New York University, is
against shorter hours for wage work
ers.
He acknowledges that "it has been
impossible to sell, at the prices quot
ed, all the products of some of our
farms and factories" but explains
that we are in the midst of "buy-
ers' strike" and that people are
pessimistic. AS soon as this change
to optimism, he says, depression will
gradually give way to prosperity and
unemployment will diminish"
Prof. King does not give the rea-
son for "a buyers strike" and for
pessimism.
The economist applies the same
fippant reasoning" to the farm
problem. He says there is too much
wheat and suggests that if they (the
farmers) "shift their energies to pro-
ducing things people are willing to
pay for, the better it will be for all
concerned"
He fails to list commodities that
the people "are willing to pay for"
nor does he explain how, when and
where farmers will make this change.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-09
Rural Mail Boxes

The postals laws and regulations
say that the posts or other supports
upon which rural mail boxes are erect
ed shall be Of neat design, and may
be Of wood, metal, or concrete, Of suit
able strength and dimensions; may be
either round or square, plain or orna-
mental, with or without fixed or NOV
able arm, and shall be painted white.
The use of effigies as Supports or OF
supports intended to represent figures
or mechanical objects, either gr0tesque
or otherwise, is prohibited.