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rules. In any good
cook book you will
find directions to
guide you in the
way you should go
when roasting tur-
key. In general
they are
Prepare the bird
as you would a
chicken for roast
ing. That Is, SINCE
1t, dress and wash
it, and wipe it with
a clean damp cloth.
Fill the turkey with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

when, unless We
watch them, the
youngsters viii In
dulge TO excess in
rich foods and
sweets and defeat
our very preventive
purpose
Science has come
to realize that the
common cold may
become an uncom
monty serious mat
ter among both
adults and chill
dren. In the first
place, it may be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

WE have been told to forget that
ancient teaching to stuff q cold, :"
and to observe ever so carefully the
rules laid down for sane and balanced
menus.
Fortunate that we are launched upon
this subject just before Thanksgiving,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

eat the whole wheat bread they
do not like. Certified Wheat
Bread is delicious. At your gro
GERS. Fresh daily.
SEE TIE GOLD AND GREER WRAPPER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
THE CHEF SUGGESTS
BY JOSEPH BoGGIA.

WHEN one recalls the great differ
ence in flavor achieved by cooks
when roasting turkey, it is strange to
see how simple are the fundamental
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

10, 10 years, 80, SO. 40 and a inches
bust.
It viii make most acceptable Christ
mas gift.
Size SO requires III yards 3s-inch,
with 3k yards binding.
For q pattern Of this style send is
cents In stamps or coin directly to The
washington Stars New York Fashion
Bureau. Fifth avenue and Twenty ninth
street, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
BEAUTY =
is NOT IN
JUST A GIFT

For every woman who inherits
beauty, there are five who 4Vin
charm and good looks. Without
health, there can be little natural
beauty. And a serious handicap
to health is constipation.
This widespread ailment often
causes headaches, Hstlessness,
sallow skins, pimples-under-
mining both health and beauty.
Yet constipation can be over
come by eating Kellogg's
ALL-BRAN. This delicious cereal
provides "bulk," which gently
clears out the wastes. And Vita
min B to tone up the intestinal
tract. The bulk" in ALL-BRAN
is much like that in lettuce.
Try two tablespoonfuis daily
usually sufficient for most
types Of constipation. If you
suffer from intestinal trouble
not relieved this
r way, consult your
ia TEEI doctor.
3se&gHSe ALL-BRAN sup
IN plies iron for the
Isll - blood. At all gro
GERS. Made by
- Kellogg in Battle
Ns---------- Greek.
HELPS KEEP YOU FIT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

Renovating the Furnishings

Best Results Achieved by Definite Plan in Arrange
ment of Rooms-Harmony Between Wood
work and Furniture, Rugs and Floors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

HELPS KEEP YOU FIT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20

A LTHOUGH 1t viii take more
time, it Is in the end far more
satisfactory TO work out a defl--
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Parking Space for Bees.

WashingtonS parking problems may
seem hectic at times, but they do not
as yet include that of the busy bee. In
Brooklyn certain candy manufacturers
are complaining because bees from a
nearby apiary are swarming on their
fresh taffy, butterscotch and bonbons.
Hence, whether a bee has a right to
park on taffy is the serious question
now confronting the health office, rather
than the traftic bureau, for as yet this
latter department OF modern urban life
has not undertaken to tell the bees
where to get off.
If ordinances do not yield a salts
factory section, whereby the authorities
limits, it would seem that the next
move would be that of the candy
makers. Perhaps common sense might
solve the problem, after all. For bees
are so busy, according to all traditions,
that they do not swarm for long and
are too much occupied the remainder Of
their lives to cause much trouble.
1t would seem that a few screens
might go a long way toward keeping
the bees off taffy, butterscotch or bon
bons. Particularly the bonbonS. On
the other hand, perhaps no one should
take the sparkling problem too seri-
ously. Maybe there was only one case
of 1t.
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brella. Comparing the scanty value Of
a general customs federation with the
immediate, positive and far-reaching
advantages of RACED German and
Austrian tariff walls, Berlin and Vienna
will in all likelihood choose to follow
the furrow they have laid out for them
selves.
BRAND realizes that. politically neces-
sary and desirable as it may be to
smash the German-Austrian customs
merger. world opinion will demand that
the wreckers come forward with some
thing to take its place. Painfully con-
scious that the scheme is a definite,
far-reaching advance toward his own
ideal of European economic dis
armament, BRAND is obviously bestir-
ring himself to devise an alternative.
He is not constrained to remain on the
horns of the dilemma to which Ger
manic diplomacy-duplicity, according
to the French-has hoisted him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
A Futile Flight.

1t seems a pity that almost as soon as
a flyer becomes proficient In his art he
begins to turn his thoughts to an At
lantic crossing in desire to emulate
the immortal feat Of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh. Many have done so and
later carried their plans into execution,
but few have succeeded, and the fatality
toll has steadily mounted.
The latest TO feel the lure Of New
York-to-Paris attempt is Miss Ruth
Nichols. who has set up enviable FEM
mime records for flying. Holder of the
transcol tinental mark for speed and for
speed on a measured course. this plucky
woman flyer, conceded to be one OF
the best OF the fair sex, has announced
that within the next few weeks she viii
set out on the hazardous flight in a
borrowed 200-mile-sn-hour plane to
beat the Lindbsrgh time to Paris.
Miss Nichols personal courage is not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Brands Dilemma.

Aristide BRAND, whose dream OF sue
ceeding CASTOR Doumergue as President
of France this year is said to be wrecked
on the rocks of the proposed German
Austrian customs union, is evidently
determined TO salvage his prestige II he
can. The master of French foreign
policy has made two moves in that
direction. He appears to have per-
suaded Austria TO drop all negotiations
with Germany until after next months
meeting of the League Council at Geneva
has weighed the proposition. But a
second and more concrete form Of
counter offensive Is M Brands pro-
jected Offset TO German Austrian
tariff alliance He has initiated a plan
for reciprocity arrangement between
agricultural Middle and Southern
Europe and the industrial North and
West. As even the Germans and Aus
trians themselves could hope to profit by
this wider customs union, BRAND in
dulges the thought that they might, in
conceivable circumstances, prefer it to
their bi-lateral tariff merger
The crafty veteran Of the Quai
d'Orsay probably reckons without his
Teutonic host. Europe, with what DR.
Julius Klein calls its 5000 miles OF
barbed-wire tariff entanglements." has
relatively few points of customs contact
upon which the Continental nations
could crowd under one reciprocity UNI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

written by famous Washington SOL
der, Col. Arthur Conger, a member of
Gen. Pershing'S original headquarters
stan In France. Conger retired from
the Army in 1928 after 80 years service.
In The Rise of U. S. Grant" he paints
an entirely new picture of Grant, the
soldier. It differs in cardinal respects
from the portrait which biographers and
historians have been drawing for half
century. The striking feature of Col.
Congers Grant" is that the soldier
statesman Is made to tell his story in
his own wordS-in the exact phrases
inscribed by him in handwritten mes
SageS and documents. The author set
nlmSeII the task of answering the cues
ton. Were Grants honors really
earned or owed to chance?" Thereupon.
IN 400 gripping pages. Conger brilliantly
anaIyzes the major strategy of the
Clvll War. Prediction is made that
tne book will arouse widespread con-
troversial interest.
senator Arthur H. Vandenberp. Young
Guard Republican of MICHIGAN who &c
crossing the, Pacific for a look-see in
I5ie Faf East, addressed the Hawaiian
Rouse OF Representatives at Honolulu
t.i S oIner gay. He paid a glowing
10
SSpearhead of American national defe,1se
III The Pacific" The Wolverine stataSo
man also envisioned the territory as the
natural outpost of the United States
expanding trade interests in the Orient
Wnereupon he christened the land Of
Aloha" the Spearhead of American
prosperity. as we'll" He pledged the
territory the hearty support of Congress
IN developing its vast economic pos
sloliltles. Senator Vandenberg deposes
and says that no people in the world
nave mastered the art of hospitality as
the HawaiianS have.
\
WlSecrack making the rounds of the
washington diplomatic corps: What is
diplomacy? Diplomacy is the art of
permitting the other fellow to have
your way.
Copyright, 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Broadcasting of Crime
News Seen as Menace
To the Editor Of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
Apropos your editorial Fiction and
Fact of Crime" wish to say that even
the solution of each and all crimes,
when successful, the evils resulting from
broadcasting the detailed accounts far
outweigh the mere ostracization. or
even the punishment, of the so-called
criminal Thus the real criminal Is the
irresponsible habit of picturing the
methods of crimes, as we'll as the care
less production of circumstances on the
part of society, that gives occasion Tor
an otherwise good citizen to not only
kill and rob others, commit suicide. but
even kill his own often innocent little
children. HelaS, that the pride of in
tellect now controlling all branches OF
learning will not admit its own inabil-
ity to adequately solve vital problems
of the nation, and is ready to brand
every genius who would dare to take the
field as a crank" because he Is per-
haps too original a thinker to work with
obsolete methods!
This writer is not financial genius.
He has not developed this faculty most
priced by the average man, and If
financial geniuSeS are patriotic enough
to see to it that there is food and work
for every man or woman, I do humbly,
but with full knowledge OF my mental
capacity to accomplish the task, pro-
pose to undertake to- produce a moral
and mental revolution (to the glory of
American free libraries which have
equipped mel to the extent of not only
reducing crime to a very minimum. but
even TO reduce the number of divorces,
labor contentious and bring about such
a change of thought that prohibition"
or thou shalt nots" will not be neces-
Sary in this great Nation. 4
PHILIP CALPAKIAN,
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questioned. Neither Is her skill as a
pilot nor the airworthiness of her
plane. But what is to be gained by
such a fi'ghtP There should be no
controversy as to the answer. Exactly
nothing Suppose she does succeed in
making the long trip. What will it
prove? That a woman has the stamina
to sit at the controls Of ship. for
thirty hours, or that the plane of 1881
is faster than the Lindbergh plane of
1927? These facts have already been
amply proved. In endurance flying
women have succeeded in staying aloft
longer than the time necessary for a
Paris trip, and Miss Nichols herself has
sped through the air at better than
2l0 miles an hour, faster by nearly a
hundred miles an hour than the Spirit
of ST. Louis ever achieved.
Personal glory, of course, will be hers
If she succeeds in her attempt, but it
seems rather futile to match the
chances of personal glory against the
ever-clutching forces of the elements ON
a three thousand mile over-water flight.
Miss Nichols should by all means
abandon her plans and stick to more
prosaic forms of achievement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
PinchOt Effort to Reform
State Letters Commended

brains, their memories and their vo-
cabularies in efforts to find proper
substitutes for the conventional and
time-worn expressions. Gov. Plnchot
would win fame and lasting honor II
he succeeded in revolutionizing public
and business letter writing. Even his
wars on predatory public utilities and
corrupt political machines are holiday
affairs compared with that which he
has started to effect stylistic and lin
guistic reforms"
He is approaching the task like a
good forester removing underbrush and
dead wood in the opinion of the New
York Herald Tribune, which. however.
critically examines the purpose of the
Pennsylvania effort: 'If Mr.. Pinchots
young men are going entirely modern
1t Is OK. with us, but they will have
to get along without most Of the die
tlonary. reason assigned for the
Pinchct drive for breyity is to save
time. In theory, yes; but the stereo-
typed expressions run on so easily in
dictation that it takes more time to
remember to omit them than to let
them go full tilt. If Mr.. Pinchot sets
MS staff to graphing for laconic style
ne may have them sitting at their desks
Tor hours on end searching like Senti-
mental Tommy for the right word. No
letters at all might be too brief, though
not always. Mayor Gaynor, who was
born to write letters, said: What is
the best way to write things? you ask.
Often the best way is not to write
them If it seems simple to get away
from the bromideS condemned at Har-
risburg, consider the opening of a
typical Gaynor letter, I thank you
Tor your favor of July g.
he Is encouraging a form of econ
omy which enriches rather than i'm
poverishes," declares the Columbia
Record, with the conclusion, why an
intelligent person of independent mind
will suffer himself to fall into IRA
slons Is incomprehenSible The New
London Day offeds the energetic sup
port OF the idea: These worn-out
phrases have for years entered into the
general business letter to the disgust of
the readers and, while some persons
have even gone so far as to blame the
econorllc depression onto them, that
should be taken with some of the well
known Gandhi material. There is no
doubt, however, that about 80 per cent
OF the average business letter is pure
bunk, bilge, irrelevant trash, wasted
lineage, sloppineSs, plain verbosity, or
whatever one may choose to label it.
Other matters crying for attention will
go unheeded in this latest move to i'm
prove the drool of letter writer's. Many
OF US will be glad to see these terms
eliminated If only for a few years. II
they should be revived, mayhap. they
would strike us as fresh and original,
but just now they certainly are tire
some and may Gov. Pinchot scalp a
few of them from his own letters and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Letters Help People,
Says Reader of Star
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The fairness with which you throw
open your columns to us common folk
who cannot hire hall or own a news
paper is something on which you
should be commended and the public
congratulated. Perhaps it may have
the same soothing effect as the priv
leges granted to soap-box orators In
Hyde Park-a chance to blow Of steam.
In the very nature of things, you
cannot offer space to all who wrltsS fSQ
as have no doubt the MEMBERSHIP @
the Something Ought to = Be-Done.
Abcut-It-Club' is very great, may l tell
an actual happening? 1t may help.
Many years ago, when farming IN
Virginia was a mighty lean living. my
father, who was a practicing New YORK
attorney, undertook to become Scien-
tific farmer and show the natives now
it should be done. A.,
Fortunately for the family, he did
not give up his law practice, otnerwlss
we would have starved, but instead
sent down all the latest laoor-Savlng
devices-and a small volume coulo De
written about our experiences.
With these devices came farmers
scientific farmers" "practlcaL IaIm-
ers." theoretical farmers"-tne Ell
ficiency farmer was still In the onne
Of a man named Holland-that Is: ne
was a giant physically, and wonoerIuiy
useful in lifting farm carts out OF the
Virginia mud, but "above the ears, as
they saw, we all thought he was not so
The happy, lazy Farmland, quite in
different to the stimulus OF responsible
ity. at first puzzled him. then irritated
him and finally reduced poor Holland
to a state of fault-finding with every
thing and everybody till he was quite
beside himself most of the time.
This continued for quite Whlle,
during which time he "cussed every,
thing from the sacred soil OF virginia
TO the Governor. Then it suddenly
stopped. A..
A few weeks later Holland went the
way of his predecessors. but, so far as
his outbursts of temper went. seem
ingly, a changed man, and it was sew
pral DAYS before we learned the truth.
Tn a large closet opening Oil his room
we found over two bushels OF let
tiers. stamped and addressed in clear
neat hand to the President OF the
United States-sealed and ready for
the postmar.
At the risk OF robbing the mails some
were opened, and they were all COM
personal, some general.
some that were couched In diplomatic
language and some that would have
made an angry longshoreman feel his
had been neglected.
They had evidently served their pur-
pose. the steam pressure" had been re-
lieyed. and for one have often won
dered whether Holland was as weak
"up stairs" as we had thought him.
CHAS. MORGAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22
Advantages of Angle
Parking Enumerated

To the Editor Of The Star:
voice my opinion that the prohi-
bition of angle parking on specially Wloe
streets and requirement of parallel park
ing (where I observe that each car
occupies the space that would accommo-
date three parked at an angle) is
harassment of the public and unneces-
sary, especially in conjunction with the
prohibition of parking before $50 In
the morning, -,
I have had more difficulties in driv-
ing out from the curb from parallel
parking than have ever had moving
from an angle-parked position. AS 10
the traffic stream, there Is only frac-
ton more time involved in moving from
an angle-parked position than from tne
one parallel to the curb and it has the
element of greater safety, because the
movement in backing out is one which
is clearly apparent and unmiStakable,
whereas have struck cars moving out
from a parallel-parked position because
the motion was not apparent in its
initial stages. and have observed many
narrow escapes. I have never been in
an accident connected with movement
from an angle-parked position OF my
own or another car and have not wit
messed any.
If there were a solid stream Of
traffic-that is, where a continuous
train of vehicles at the closest practi-
cable interval is moving-there might
be objection to any parking. But with
the electric signal control there are
intermittent lulls which the motorists
may take advantage of to move from
angle-parked position without material
interference with traffic.
There is but little purpose in widened
streets if parallel parking is to be re-
quired where the widening gives more
than a four-lane clearway between
parked cars under present conditions
in the downtown district, because at
present the traffic in the wide streets
like Thirteenth is only that derived
from and destined for a comparatively
few two-lane streets for the most part,
except in early morning, and the added
space serves only to permit the enjoy
ment of liberal "vistas through" and
irresponsible meandering.
H. L. WOODWARD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-22

The dandelions came up overnight
and by noon there were hundreds of
them scattered like stars throughout the
lawn.
Fortunate was the householder who
had got over worrying about these
, weedy flowers.
For beautiful they are, in their hum
BILE way, and harmless enough, If one
knows what to do with them.
Tearing up their taproots is not nee
essary. Often 1t is not possible to get
all of it, even when a digging instru-
ment is used, and If there is even so
little as an eighth Of an inch of 1t left
there will soon be another dandelion
plant.
The proper procedure is to enjoy the
bright flowers and let the hardy tap
root alone.
Pull off the blossoms before they go
to seed and remove the spraying
No plant, not even weed, can live
without leaves, especially at this time OF
year.
The third step, and perhaps the most
important, in dandelion control, is to
drop grass seed Immediately into tf1e
small space where the removed leaves
show the bare ground.
This renders the removal Of the root.
with consequent tearing of the earth,
and usually an unSightly spot, totally
unnecessary.
If grass seed is put in the ground at
once, the dandelion root will IND Itself
literally smothered.
The competition which the one root
will have to face with several score or
maybe hundreds of fresh young grass
plants will be too much for 1t.
This, Of course, Is the theory, which
often enough works out perfectly under
practical growing conditions.
It is q much better system than that
commonly adopted. Of tearing out the
plants by the roots, or permitting the
yellow lions teeth" to go into those
white pufts which the least touch Will
scatter.
Then each tiny seed goes riding away
on the wind, to light on somebody elses
lawn a block or a mile away, perhaps.
He who righteously destroys the dam
delions on his own plot OF ground Will
act as a benefactor to scores OF persons
unknown to him.
He, In his turn will receive the flying
seed from blocks around; thus the good
which he does shall be returned 10 MIN
in full measure, heaped up and pressed
for the Spring Of 1882.
The Spring of 1892!
Here at the gateway of the growing
season Of 1881 we can afford to turn
our eyes ahead for a few minutes.
This present Spring is here in full
blast. Small now seems the damage
done by the drought. If similarly in
imical conditions prevail this Spring
and Summer, all will not be so well
with the Spring Of 1882.
Then garden affairs will not be as
good as they are today. but as the
present Spring bowers the land with
Towering trees and shrubs, and brings
back the old-time greenness to the
grass, it is difficult to think pessimis-
tically Of the seasons to come.
Let us rejoice in the Spring at hand.
unusually early, perhaps the earliest for
a decade. Let us be glad that it has
come in April, not in June. and hope
for rains, in order that every growing
thing may get a good start
Warm suns demand plenty of rain at
this time of year If the rains do not
follow the question will be, How will