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Everyday Psychology
Conflict.
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

It's impossible to live life Of COM
plete mental ease and satisfaction. One
has to fight more or less for living.
Every Illustration means a mental hest
fancy. The door not-do feeling is a
common experience. One idea is set
over again another. The psychological
term for the situation is called con-
f1ict
There are two sorts of mental con-
f1icts-the ones we know all about and
the ones we know nothing about. To
put it in still other language-some OF
our conflicts reside in the conscious,
others in the unconscious mind.
Conflicts usually start in the con-
scious mind If we can't settle them
any other way, we make some effort
to forget them. This willful sort of for
getting is called repression. BY repress-
ing our baff1ementS. We are able to get
temporary relief.
But the relief through repression is
only temporary. You can't actively
thrust a set OF antagonistic ideas out
of your mind without getting them
mixed up with your emotions or feel
ings. And when a conflict reaches the
emotional stage we begin to fight it out
on a losing battlefield. The emotional
life doesn't know defeat. 1t will resort
to anything in order to have its way
The best way to avoid emotional
conflicts is to settle them while you are
still conscious of what the trouble is.
Copyright, 1880.
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example, the situation when the Reichs-
bank had just about concluded ar
rangements for a S100,000,000 loan
with the Bank of England. the Bank
of France, the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York and the Bank for Interna-
tional Settlements at Basel.
Newspaper men assigned to the
Treasury, where the Reserve Board is
CHARTERED, besieged Meyer with ques-
lions as to whether such credit had
been approved. They were met by a
smiling, pleasant and affable governor
men?" he asked. What credit do you
refer TOP"
That is as far as they could get with
him. He joked with them. appeared
surprised at their questions. told them
nothing. During all the negotiations
he kept silent. And even after ar
nouncement that the loan had been
consunmated he declined to talk.
This dark-eyed, dark-haired man of
SIS is serving in a place of great re-
sponsibility under his fourth admins
tration. Woodrow Wilson made him
director of the War Finance Corpora
idge gave him the third appointment to
this post and later selected him ito
reorganize the Federal Farm Loan
Board. President Hoover named him
to the post he now holds.
He has a reputation for energy and
force. He is an indefatigable worker
who spends many hours on the job.
His methods do not always please
every one. The Senate debated several
days before his appointment to the
Federal Reserve Board was finally ap-
proved.
But the Meyer personality makes
friends easily. He has been able in the
past to induce leaders in the financial
world to serve in his organization with
out compensation.
He has travelled in all parts Of the
world If he is not at his desk in the
Treasury Department more than likely
he will be found playing golf or riding
horseback.
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Without Interest.

please tell me where I can get a
loan of just few hundred dollars at
a low rate of interest"
This is the most common of all APP
pealS which come in the correspondence
of people who are known to have So
cial interest in money matters.
Most often it is from young people,
and some others not so young, who feel
the need of more education, yet have
been unable to finance it. Parents who
have been handicapped by sickness
or unemployment are very frequent
writer's. People whose savings and con-
fidence have been swept away by dis
asJrouS investment. or business failure,
want some help to get on their feet
without having to struggle against the
cumulating cost of usurious interest
Then there are widows, a sprinkling of
dead beats" and a few who seem to
have a chronic incapacity for making
both ends meet.
Some of these people, 1t is true, are
financial wrecks who couldn't be
'foated" successfully with any amount
of money. But the other kind, who,
after all, are in the great majority,
really deserve an opportunity. They
don't want charity, yet they. haven't
what is known as commercial credit,
so are absolutely unable to borrow
funds at a reasonable rate OF interest.
In olden times when all borrowing
vas for consumption purposes and not
for business. Understanding was pro-
hibited by law as unfair to people who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
DOROTHY .DK'S LETTER BOX


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Moths i'm Clothes Put Away Late
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

form OF steam from a fiat iron. This
Is practical with materials that can be
pressed but not with such things as fur
or feathers. Place a damp cloth over
the garment and apply hot iron.
After drying, put away in pepper, tar
paper, etc.
Combing fur vigorously with a small
STEEL fur comb IS helpful in diSlodging
and destroying moth eggs. This is best
done after garments are well aired and
summed. While 1t is more risky to en-
ploy home storage for furs than cloth
goods delayed in their putting away, it
can b, done often with success If all
the corners of pockets are turned inside
out and the cloth steam pressed, as well
as the fur combed. Pepper literally
spr. mixed, or moth balls we'll distrib-
uted are very important. Newspaper Is
the recommended wrapping, as this
paper contains ink, which, in itself, is
uncongenial to the insect
1t is of the utmost Importance that
a garment should be put away in as
clean condition as possible. Not only
does cleaning in itself r-move moth
traces, but the foreign substance con-
tanned in spots is what first attracts
moth to make inroadS. When the gar
ments delayed in having moth pre-
ventive agents applied are put away
clean instead of even slightly soiled,
there is an added precaution to insure
their reSuming their usefulness in the
best condition possible.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
Straight Talks to Women About Money
BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

were trying to catch up with their
financial needs. Now, of course, prac-
tically all loans are interest loans, and
we seem to have gone to the other eX-
treme. Because most borrowing is for
profit-making purposes, we require even
the neediest of people to pay back in
interest as we'll as principal. And the
needier they are the higher the n
tereSt!
Perhaps competitive business can't be
operated any other way. But philan-
thropy could easily be broadened to in
clude deserving loans as well as pau
perizing gifts. There certainly is an
unwarranted gap in our social financial
arrangements when the poor must
choose between paying usurious interest
at the pawn shop and accepting out
right gifts from charity.
It is refreshing to know that at least
one organization has stepped in and
succeeded with a system of free loans
to the deserving poor. This is the He
brew Free Loan Society in New York
City. Although sponsored by the Jews,
these funds are available to ALL and
every type of needy person has bene-
flied by the plan. Practically the only
cost of this philanthropy is its over
head" because experience has proved
that 90 per cent of the loans are repaid
scrupulously. A person may borrow
from SIS to $500 without interest and
without price; and this free bank has
succeeded so we'll along these lines that
two branches have already been estab-
lished. The idea is worth considering in
other places.
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normal rest. On top of that my Old love
for designing clothes has come back TO
me and / have no way of lettering
myself in this small town.
would it be sporting of me to slip
away out of his life and try to fight
for a place In my line of work and
take care of mother and father and
my husband, too, If he ever needs it?
For, in spite of the fact that he has
willfully ruined himself by his weak
ness, I care for him. He has an in
come from his family.
II want to be square by everybody,
but I cannot see being nurse for the
rest of my useful days to liquor fiend.
1 have kept his condition from his
mother, for she Is one of the finest
and don't want to worry her.
know, however, that it is only matter
Of time until my nerves will go 20
pieces. GENEVIEVE."
Drunkenness is not always a sign of
weakness so much as it is an lndica-
ton of deep maladjustment TO life.
Your husband has some basic unhappi-
ness that has nothing to do with you.
You are probably not helping him
much in your present state of mind.
Thinking yourself martyr has a bad
effect on the person you are trying to
help. 1t makes him rebellious.
If you think that you can do better
for him and for yourself by going away
and doing your own kind of work, do it.
You can always go back, if he really
needs you.
tCopyrIgnt, 1881
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BY BETSY CALLISTER.

A CLEVER young woman whose huS-
"A band had found that in this hard
Summer he must stick close to bust
ness decided to stay at home with him
and her children. rather than go away
without him. They would both be hap
pier and she could make things just
as pleasant for the children.
Some of the money she saved she
put into play equipment for the chill
dren-a swing and a paddle pool and
slide and sand box. And some OF 1t
che put into new cretonne for her bed
room.
She chose lovely color combination
and design. And" she said, Il feel
just as If I'd been away. No hotel
room could be as lovely as my own
room. And it is different and gives me
new thrill every time I come into 1t.
I shant get used to it for weeks"
The new cretonnes are most at
tractive. They may be had in small
patterns-of the conventional English
chintz sort-or in most moderniStic geo.
metric designs or in big figures of the
French, English or American sort. The
big French figures often show architec-
tural and garden motifS-you know
those designs with trees and fallen pill
lars, archways and little lakes. These
big designs are beautiful in the large,
rather formal room. The small English
chintz designs are especially good in
small rooms and make lovely cottage
hangings. The big modern designs,
worked out in this country in beautiful
colors, are somehow especially in keep
ing with our present-day tastes and are
chosen by many women for living room
as we'll as bed room.
salesman the other day gave this
advice to the buyer of cretonne:
Never buy cretonne as it lies on the
counter or hangs in the store If you're
going to use it for window curtains.
Ask to have it held up to the light.
Some cretonne is beautiful with the
light shining against it-as it is against
window curtains at night, when it is
dark outside and lights are lighted in
the room-but it is fiat and colorless
when it is hung up for the light to
shine through.
Such cretonne may be quite salts
factorily used for window curtains, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. d.
Boys Should Box.

II had my way every boy in gram
mar school would be required to show
reasonable proficiency in boxing as
the art is taught in school, and every
girl would be required to show reason
able proficiency in dancing as that art
is taught in school as a requisite for
graduation. I would have every boy
prepared to settle his dispute or diff
ferences with other boys by an encoun-
ter in the ring under proper super
vision. I would have every girl blessed
with the gracefulness and the self
confidence which comes from the physi-
cal training that goes with the study
of dancing. Both boys and girls, be-
lieve. should be required to know how
to swim and, of course, how to resusci-
tate before they are allowed to pass on
to high school,
To narrow old pedagogues who had
no such physical education and who
cannot appreciate its importance or
value, this will seem absurd. Whatever
the old-timers may think about these
newfangled fads and foibleS, 1t is aSSur-
ing to nc that our new school build
ings, be II grammar schools and high
school,, Sie splurging more and more
on the equipment for this side of the
childs education, and even now in a
few schools the physical education
teachers are almost on plane with the
teachers who train 'em from the neck
up. In the less progressive schools,
however, the physical education depart
ment still takes the SnubS and bides its
day.
Parents of the peasant class do not
understand what it is all about. To
them-aS to Anticipated pedagogues-
all this gymnasium, swimming and field
activity is a crazy fad, and accordingly
such parents readily conSpire with chill
dren who seek to evade this part of
school work. There are still too many
doctors. too, who are quite ready to give
certificate or excuse to help some mis-
guided boy or girl dodge gym class. I
am sure doctors who do this are igno-
rant of the harm they do; they do not
realize they are helping the dumb
youngster dodge what is perhaps the
most valuable part of his education. a
training which may make all the diff
ference between success and failure in
life
Mothers fathers, uncles, aunts, grand
parents, appeal to you in behalf of
the children under your care. Let them
skip unimportant classes now and then,
but don't let them skip any of the
physical education they are fortunate
enough to be exposed to while in school.
Above all, beware of the weak heart"
dodge. If childs heart is really dis
eaSed. only the physician can advise
whether any exercise will do good. And
mothers particularly should beware of
cultivating weakness" complex in the
mind of a growing daughter. The girl
well .nough to attend school on her
own power Is always well enough and
stronf enough to attend her gym classes,
and the mere fact that she is young
woman is no good reason for her to skip
the class.
The best schools today are the schools
with the best provision for physical edu-
cation, and the best people are favoring
and insisting on such schools.
(Copyright, 193D.
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Striking Design and Color

it must be lined. If you don't want to
go to the expense and trouble of lining
then you must choose a cretonne that
shows its color and design even when
the light is shining through it as out
door light shines through curtains as
they hang at the window"
Sateen in plain color-one OF the
shades of the cretonne-iS usually
chosen for the lining. In rather dark
room a lining of soft yellow is excel
lent. 1t augments what sunlight there
is, and if there isn't sunlight, Sug-
gests it.
However, it is often possible to find
just what you want in a cretonne that
is Opaque. Some of them, in fact, are
both Opaque and double faced, so that
they need no lining and look as well
from outside as inside the room.
The lining, besides harmonizing with
the colors in the cretonne, must, of
course, work into the general color
scheme of the room.
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Mastoiditis.

In most cases of gathering in the
ear in which the drum ruptureS, per-
hitting discharge of matter from the
cavity within, or is lanced for that pur-
pose by the ooctor. there is more or
less Inflammation of the spaces inside the
mastoid bone back of the outer ear
canal, and this Inflammation is called
mastoiditis.
So, If the doctor begins muttering
something about mastoiditis when one
of the children has acute Inflammation
in the ear (otitiS media, as it is called,
don't get excited. Just keep the cotton
and stuff out of the child's ear unless
the doctor insists on Cbstructing VEN
tilation and drainage that way. Mind,
I'm not advising you to neglect using
any drops or other medicine the doctor
prescribes; I merely offer the hint that
cotton never did anything but harm in
the presence of infection in the ear
Heat applied in or around the ear is
an excellent remedy for any acute ear
ache where Inflammation is presumably
the cause. Glycerin and other medi-
cines dropped in the ear canal or
applied to the drum by means of very
thin twisted cotton or gauze wick, will
often do good. But dent stuff bales
of cotton in inflamed ears
still believe. though may be the only
doctor in North America who believes,
that a hot mustard foot bath is the
best of all f1rSt-aid remedies for acute
earache-and if our Arkansas reader
happens to see this he will kindly re-
frain from asking me if a hot mustard
ear bath wouldn't be relief for his
toe ache. I don't want to go into
discussion of the length of the mans
ears again. 1t cost me fine customer
last time.
You see the Inflammation easily spreads
from the lining of the ear cavity within
the drum to the lining of the air spaces
in the mastoid bone-the maStoid proc
esS of the temporal bone. which you
can feel as a hard rounded knob right
behind your ear. if you can reach that
far without getting dizzy. These air
spaces are in direct communication
with the air space of the ear cavity,
and that in turn communicates with
the Eustachian tube, and that with the
nose and throat passage. So there you
have it all complete. At first its Just
little cri some friend hands you gratis.
Most cases of mastoiditis progress
uneventfully to complete recovery II
not maltreated.
You can't judge the severity of mas
toiditis by the tenderness of the mas
told process to touch, nor by the swell
ing, for very grave mastoid infection
may be present without either sign,
and without any pain behind the ear.
Any acute earache followed by very
profuse ear discharge rather indicates
mastoiditiS. A discharge which pull
safes is certainly from maStoiditis.
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The use of too much milk in the
child's diet often destroys his desire Tor
solid foods This symptom is observed
frequently in the child over one year OF
age who is still an addict to bottles. He
is quantities of milk but refuses to
eat other foods.
Quite as undesirable result may
come about if the child is given too large
quantities of solid food, so that at the
averse to drinking his formula or his
cup of milk IN both cases the diet
needs better balancing of the essential
elements.
Mothers having this trouble may have
one of my feeding leaf1ets to check the
amounts of the various foods the chill
dren are getting against balanced diet
SO that better adjustment OF amounts
of solids and liquids is achieved. A self
addressed, stamped envelope should ac-
company each request for leaf1et and
the child's age must be mentioned in
order that the correct feeding schedule
may b. sent.
Mrs. H. WIS baby is only six and one
half months old and she is getting
more than the maximum amount OF
milk advised for child of any age,
one quart. The result has been loss
of appetite. The mothers letter fol-
lows:
DO you think am doing rightly?
My baby is six and ons-half months old
and gets whole milk now with one table
spoon Of malt sugar daily. She weighs
Is pounds, but does not want to drink
all her milk after she has eaten her
solid foods I give her eight ounces OF
milk at 6 am; cereal and seven ounces
of milk at 10 am. Slowed vegetables
and seven ounces of milk at pm.
Cereal and seven ounces of milk at 6
pm. and eight ounces of milk at 10
pm. She also gets orange juice and
cod liver oil. Shall continue the oil
in warm weather."
Usually when a baby this young still
gets five feelings in the "a hours, as
your baby does, then 80 ounces of milk
plus 10 ounces of water and some sugar,
usually about one ounce, is used in the
formula and this divided into five
bottles. If only four bottles are used.
then whole milk is in order, as this
makes up the 80 ounces or one quart
daily.
would suggest that since the child
+ already on whole milk that you use
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
THE STARS
DAILY PATTERN
SERVICE

New spectator sports types are en-
gaging our attention-new snappy mod
els are equally chic for town.
Exceedingly attractive is today's dress
of creepy shantung print in dusty pink
1t offers something quite unusual in
capelet. opened on either shoulder part
way, its double breasted closing effect,
and fitted peplum hipline.
It's dress that will give excellent
service
Style No. 3l79 may be had in sizes
Is, l8 years. So, 38, 40 and AZ inches
bust. Size SO requires yards 35-inch.
In a printed crepe silk, this model
is also very lovely for town or resort.
Cotton mesh, plain, printed or eye
let linen and mems shirting silk are
interesting suggestions.
For a pattern of this style, send Is
cents in stamps or coin directly to The
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Presidents while running and no
freight train is allowed on any siding
adjacent to the tracks on which the
presidential special will pass.
Hitches in these carefully laid plans
seldom occur When they do. usually
they are minor. But there was one, for
example, recently when President
Hoover was en- route to North Carolina
to visit his son at Asheville.
A dining car was being attached to
the special at some terminal point about
3 O'Clock in the morning. At least a
dozen of the highest railway officials OF
The division were out that morning to see
that the Job was well done. They were
standing around giving advice and
issuing orders. From all appearances it
looked as if that diner would be at
taached in perfect fashion.
The locomotive was backing at a
snails pace down the track, easing the
diner to the drawhead by inches as the
officials seemed to hold their breadth.
Just when it seemed as If the coupling
had been made, something slipped. The
diner literally lunged into the coupling.
Dishes were heard dropping in the
diner. Secret service men came bound
ing out of the train to see what had
happened. Newspaper men accompany
ing the President leapeo 10 the uooF'
sensing big story.
However, the meticulous care and
attention given to such minor miShaps
is evidence of the watchfulness the
railroads exercise in handling pres1-
dental trains
Even the dining car steward feels a
deep personal interest in these trains,
and any one of the group on trains run
ming out of the Capital can tell you
almost to the last detail President
Hoover's likes and dislikes concerning
food.
These stewards anticipate what the
President would enjoy and provide it.
Thus, on a recent trip a whole case OF
oranges was put aboard.
Before the trip ended, the juice OF 80
dozen oranges had been sent to the
Presidents car, and the steward had
won another bet that he knew what
Mr.. Hoover liked.
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quickly and yet muffled the sound. j..
Then, after this was on, she had
Peter do something else. Her 3-year-
old son kept latching the door from the
inside and shutting out the people who
wanted to come in. She had Peter put
the catch up high, beyond her young
sons reach and that ended her screen
door troubles for awhile.
She made a study Of screen doors
before she left the subject. She found
they could be purchased with a wooden
part for the bottom panel. This kept
children from poking sharp things
through the screen mesh. But this
kept out so much air Then she found
another type that reinforced the lower