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~ the Green Forest. He saw his
big cousins, Happy Jack and
Gray Squirrel, and Rusty the Fox
Squirrel, scampering as fast as they
could, each trying to be first to reach
the nut trees to hunt for the few nuts
they had failed to find the day before.
Chatterer grinned as he thought OF
how hard they would have to work for
little gain and then Of the loaded tree,
his tree he called it, which he had
found and which he was sure no one
else knew Of
Then he started off through the tree
tops in quite another direction from
the one he should have txken 70 go
straight to that tree. Presently he
stopped and waited to make sure he
wasn't being followed. Sure of this, he
turned and made straight for that tree
as fast as he could travel,
This is going to be my busy day,
thought he. 81 ought to get that old
hollow stump pretty well filled by night.
At least I will get good start on filling
it, for ! will have all those nuts to
myself I won't have to share them
with anybody. for I'm absolutely sure
that those cousins Of mine haven't
found that tree"
He chuckled as he thought how, after
the harvest was over, he would boast OF
his riches while his cousins had so little,
and how enviouS this would make them.
You see, he was greedy and selfish, and
he considered himself very smart for
having found that tree and kept it a
secret.
"Minei All mine!" he chuckled. II
won't have to share them with any
body. Rusty and Happy Jack think
they are smart, but they will find that
I am smarter"
So, with such pleasant thoughts, he
raced through the treetopS as only he
can, making flying leaps from tree to
tree, and only now and then having to
come down to the ground when trees
were too far apart for him to jump
across from one to another.
So at last he came in sight of the big
beech tree with the full crop of nuts,
and right then and there he received
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.hISTLET TOE

about 100000 acres across the Rocky
Mountain region there were millions of
yellow pine trees mistletoe infected. A
ride through the South, either by train
or automobile, will bring to your atten-
tion the success of this parasite.
The mistletoe serves neither pollen
nor nectar In order to spread her fam
lily. True to her nature. she tries to
get something for nothing. The mi
grating birds who happen to stop on
her tree, step on her wax berries. They
are sticky and hold fast to the feet of
the bird. Upon reaching the next tree,
the traveller sees to it the sticky rider
is removed. The seed clings to It's new
host and begins to develop at the ex-
pense of the tree upon which it now
lives. and later may kill
Though great festoons of mistletoe
are gathered for the markets each year,
there is difficulty in gathering and mar
keting it.
The holly needs protection but the
mistletoe should be wiped out.
Copyright, 1927
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UNCLE RAYS CORNER

year we have exported more than half
a million tons of frozen beefl We also
raise great crops of wheat and we have
huge mills to turn the wheat into
-four"
Leaving Buenos Aires, we fly west
across Northern Argentina. Late in
the afternoon we make landing on
ranch and arrange to stay overnight
Fifteen thousand cattle and nine thou
sand sheep roam about this ranch.
They are watched over by 'gauchos -
or cowboys, as we might say We OBJ
serve one of these cowboys-dressed in
his best outfit-mounting a horse.
(For Travel" section Of your scrap
book) UNCLE RAY.
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Wnen zen. CnG-
MORO staged a coup d'etat and took
over the government of the country.
Sacasa then left the country for Mexico
and Guatemala.
His departure changed the political
course of his country and perhaps the
policy of the American Government to-
ward Nicaragua.
Sacasa'S absence led to the recogni-
ton by the United States of the govern
ment under the presidency of Diaz.
Under the Nicaraguan constitution,
which provided that upon the absence
of the President and vice president, the
Congress shall designate one of its
members to complete the unexpired
term, Diaz was recognized by the United
States. Sacasa contended that he was
the constitutional president.
It is interesting to speculate. now that
it is all over, just what would have hap
pened had Saeasa managed to remain
in his native country back in 1925.
He might have assembled to the presi-
dency then instead of seven years later.
The United States might have given
him moral If not actual physical sup
port to hold on to his government.
United States Marines might not have
been dispatched to supervise subsequent
elections in that country.
Henry L. Stimson might not have
been sent into Nicaragua as personal
representative of President Coolidge.
And had he not brought peace be-
tween warning factions there he would
not have been rewarded by being made
Governor General of the Philippines
and Secretary of State.
But Sacasa. despite his being bit
tardy in realizing his ambition to be-
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come President of Nicaragua, in the
meantime has not been left out en-
tirely.
In the elections, supervised by Amer
ican Marines, his old friend and COL
league, Moncada, was elected Presi-
dent Moncada named him Nicaraguan
Minister to washington.
And it must be soothing to any old
wounds that he might have, to know
that he was elected President in the
recent elections over his two old politi-
cal enemies-Diaz for President and
Chamorro for Vice President.
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N A T u r. E > S
C. H IL ID R E N
By LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
MISTLETOE.
Phoradendron fiavescens.

Phoradendron fiavescens.
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall
And the holly branch hung on the old oak
wall;
Keeping their Christmas holiday.
~ KLAHOMA chose the mistletoe
4 for her State flower. and is the
only one to adopt one that
~ was parasitic in its habits.
Mistletoe has more romance
and legends woven about it than any
other plant, and holly and mistletoe
are always linked together at Christ
mas time.
There are many superstitious rites
which the British Druids believed in,
and the Scandinavians had lovely ma
ture myths. The better known one is
that CT Odin, whose son was named
Balder, beloved darling of the gods,
so fair that the whitest of flowers
were likened unto him. He had bad
dream. Balder. being much concerned.
told Mamma, his mother, about 1t, and
she, being much alarmed, made every
living thing and object promise her
faithfully they would not harm him.
She forgot to swear the mistletoe! F!
Loki. Balder's enemy, coaXed Balder's
brother to stage a game and use the
mistletoe bough as an arrow. Balder
was killed and the god of light became
thereafter the emblem of purity and
innocence.
The miStletoe was promptly present.
ed to the goddess of love, who decreed
that whoever passed under the mistle-
toe must kiss each other as proof Of
their love and not of vengeance. To-
day the custom of hanging a bough
overhead is perpetuating an old Scan
dinavian custom!
There are over 400 species Of this
plant. Most of them are parasitic and
nearly all of them tropical. They have
a wide distribution in America, and the
loss of trees amounts to many millions
annually by the course taken by this
plant.
In 1926 it was estimated that on
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Minister to the
United States and
Just elected Presi-
dent of that re-
public.
The lanky Mica
raguan, who re-
ceived his educa-
ton in the United
States and who is
fond of saying that
this is his second
native land" thus
returns to govern
a country whence
he fed seven years
ago.
SacaSa was vice
president of Mica
re qua back in 1925.
x1rhp11 Con Th-
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Star
T. a t t & rn s
Pufed Dance Frock.

An exciting dress! For that special
occasion from dusk to dawn, this gown
would be the envy of all Soft f1attering
lines, supple skirt, puff sleeves and a
tie-in-back blouse make this dress the
answer to that age-old question, What
shall I wear?"
Lovely in satin or crepe, but luscious
IN velvet, in any Of those new delectable
colors, fuchsia, blue, wine red, always
smart in black or brown. Try 1t and
you will be amazed with the results.
1t Is No. 965.
Designed in sizes IA, Is, 18 and 81 to
20. Size 16 requires As yards So to 80
inch fabrics, skirt marked crosswise.
Evening star., 1932-11-21

r. NOTABLE covers in filet en-
l. broidery are totsHy new. They
7 will solve the problems of many
IL a perplexed woman who is max
ing gifts to present family or
friends this Christmas. Since these ar
ucles in this development have not been
known before, they Immediately sug-
gest themselves as just the things to
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GhOO4NA - 4440 AAOAs01.
country, but in Buenos Aires we find
persons who can talk English; and they
seem glad to answer our questions,
"Buenos Aires" says one of them,
covers rs square miles Of ground and
contains more than 100000 people.
1t is the largest city in South America.
"Yes, we are proud Of our city. 1t is
the capital Of our country, and we think
that it compares well with any city in
Europe or North America"
After looking at the public buildings,
at the theaters and broad streets, we
decide that the people have reason to
be proud of Buenos Aires.
Another man tells us about the
country in general.
Argentina" he says, has more miles
of railroads than all other countries in
South America combined. Our greatest
industries are cattle raising, sheep
raising and meat packing. In a single
Evening star., 1932-11-21
A WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BIZ HERBERT PLU1IMER.

A SCHOLARLY and affable man, a
4 familiar figure around the Capital
| for a number of years, more than likely
has set down as his favorite maxim
| "All comes to him who waits"
| He is DIR. Juan B. Sacasa, Nicaraguan
Evening star., 1932-11-21

' n cnOSe 10 SpeIlQ our WccA clo
here 1t has population, by
the latest figures, of 100000, and 1t is
the capital of Uruguay.
Uruguay is a small country, but 1t Is
progressive. Much public money is
spent for schools and the people take
pride in the education which they give
to their children.
Uruguay has fine climate and Is
one Of the few very healthful countries
in South America. We should like to
spend more time in pleasant Monte
video, but we must be on our way. We
have much more ground to cover this
week
Next we fly across a very wide river
the Rio de la Plata-or the River
Plate" as we may call it. At the place
where it empties into the ocean this
river measures 143 miles from side to
side!
On the other side of the river we
reach Argentina and pause at Buenos
Aires. The name Of this city means
Good Airs"
Argentina Is a Spanish-Speaking
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marked Mrs. Lightfoot Chatterer said
nothing. 1t had come over him that IL
he was to have even share of those
nuts there was no time to lose. Never
in his life had he felt more chagrined
than he cid as he realized that in all
but Squirrels have a taste for beech
nuts. He ground his teeth as he re-
membered that in his greed to get a
share of the nuts his cousins were hunt
ing, for he had let the one whole day
pass since Jack Frost had opened the
burrS for these other folks to feast on
these nuts he had counted as his own.
tCopyright, 1922
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ARGENTINA.

a ONTEVIDEO proves to be just
Nh as fine city as we have heard
IVb it was, and We are glad We
1 4 chose to spend our week end
bere II has a DODulatiOn bv
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HATTERER the Red Squirrel
was up and out as soon as the
Black Shadows started TO leave
the Green Forest. He saw his
big cousins, Happy Jack and
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The mistletoe hung in the castle hall
And the holly branch hung on the old oak
wall;
The baron's retainers were blithe and gay
Keeping their Christmas holiday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28

weapon and catalogues battleships and
aircraft carriers rs defensive. Great
Britain and Japan agree 10 far Is bat
tleships 60, but the lesser nations de-
clare hig-gun battleships to be offensive.
Argentina, while looking upon bat
tleships as offensive arms, Endorses In
general the American and British posi-
ton on aircraft carriers. Japan, Po-
land and Finland-a strange combina-
tion-demand retention Of the sub
marine unqualinedly. Japan, Soviet
Russia, Germany, Poland, Spain, Fin
land, Italy, Holland, Norway and
Sweden as unqualifedly reject the air.
craft carrier, contending that it lit
orally carries ot1ense, as against de-
tense.
There are fifty-seven countries repre-
sented at Geneva and almost flfty-seven
varieties Of views. Ambassador Gibson
hes need for all the optimism he can
muster If he really expects that out OF
this seething cauldron Of conflicting
attitudes practical disarmament pact
can be expected. But in pressing for
action to that end, the American spokes-
man Is on the right ground, bleak as
may be the outlook for getting any
where from it. The longer world eco
nomic distress prevails, the stronger
becomes the probability that sooner OF
later the worlds crushing needs, If not
its intelligence, will compel the nations
to sign on the dotted line Of an arms
reduction treaty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28

tainment enjoyed by the populace Of
the great area Of farming territory.
The motor car has been the primary
cause Of the decadence Of the county
fair. For the motor car brought good
roads, and with good roads came q
closer contact with the cities, and with
this contact came q decline In interest
in the annual shows Of agricultural
produce and live stock, and also in the
special entertainment features. No
longer were the people isolated and de-
pendent for their amusement and di-
versions upon the occasional offerings
Of these shows. Furthermore, farms
diminished in size and in number
Farming declined as an industry. The
breeding Of fine stock 1essened. But the
climaxtng misfortune Of the county fair
came when betting on horse racing was
banned BY law, or was reduced to q
mechanical basis. and the glamour Of
these meetings was dissipated.
The Montgomery County Agricultural
Society has been heavily in debt for a
number Of years, the financial condi-
ton growing gradually worse until the
decision to close the record with Just
one more fair was reached few days
ago, with prospect of balancing the
books by the sale Of the fair grounds
property to the county for school pur-
poses.
There will be genuine regret at that
passing Of this long cherished institu-
ton. In the past 1t stimulated COM
petitive enterprise on the part of a
large community. 1t has furnished en-
tertainment to countless multitudes,
spanning nearly three generations. Now
1t will pass into history after this last
show, another Sign of the times" that
has vanished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28
A Critic of ssBuy British"
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch

EiOll Vic o. LOulS EUSt-DlSpdtCH.
Buy British" is a slogan that has
reused stolid Englishmen to crusading
fervor. The way out Of the depression
and to restoration Of imperial glories Is
pointed out by street banners, wall
posters windshield stickers, newspaper
advertisements and public addresses
Foreign wares are largely taboo, British
films are favored by the cinemas, and
even radio concerts are given over to q
preponderance of British music. A
critic now makes his voice heard in the
patriotic uproar. He is Baron Kirkland,
in his presidential address to the Com
mercial Travellers Association. He said
of the campaign:
However justified it may be In time
of crisis, with an unfaverable balance of
trade, it has in it real elements of dam
ger in normal times. especially for q
nation as dependent as ours on imports
of raw materials and foods. 1t Is the
first step ON the road to economic
nationalism"
It is quite possible that this warning
against commercial provincialism will go
unheeded, even after Britain succeeds
in her traditional 'muddling through"
and that the fortnight baron will be
set down as traitor to the cause. Yet
he recognizes that commerce is not a
local affair, but an international matter,
in which all the nations are mutually
interdependent. So great an exporting
nation as England stands to lose BUSH
ness and good win abroad should she
continue her refusal to buy from her
customers. Even now England cannot
be economically independent, for large
share Of her foodstuffs must come from
abroad, yet Danish butter and Dutch
eggs are viewed, as unpatriotic fare for
John Bull. In tariff barriers and such
campaigns as the Buy British" drive
lie important obstacles to resumption Of
world prosperity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28
Japanese Premier's Death
Laid to Resentful Jingoes

the desire Of the soldiers to put to use
the magnificent machine of destruction
they had created" The New Orleans
Times-Picayune observes IAN attempt
by this blow at thoughtful regime to
strike down conservatism" and voices
the hope as to the influence Of the
slain official that "the old statesman's
leadership will have established a sufi-
Gent following of his own kind to hold
head against the inordinate ambitions
that have sprouted in the younger mill
tary soil"
"The nature Of the modern world is
all against the militarists' success
AYERS the Dayton Daily News. They
have control of the instruments of de-
Struction and can COW and conquer their
people, but they cannot operate or COM
pei the operation CT the complicated
economic machine by which they, along
with the rest of the people, must live.
1t has been evident for months that the
maddened militarists of Japan were
leading their country into misery, If not
ruin. The costs of their adventure of
the last eight months have been of
bankrupting weight"
Declaring the events In Japan have
the judgment as to the climax: Since
the conservative premier's assassins were
members of reactionary terror group,
perhaps the Young Officers Association,
which is miltarist and Fascist in its
theology, it is obvious that the Old Fcx'
was not murdered because he was too
hard on the Chinese. On the contrary,
it seems probable that his death has
some connection with the decision
to withdraw soldiers from Shanghai
Fanatics pledged to the eternal hatred
of all foreigners would hardly have con-
sidered the citation of foreign odium as
a reason fer such retreat. That these
young zealots found the premier's ex-
PLANTATION a national humiliation neces-
stating vengeance upon the man who
made it possible is far from impossible
The policies of an Old Fox who may
have sought to distract odium from
Manchuria by conceding it in respect
to Shanghai, would be too subtle for
Oriental Hitlerites."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28
Gulf Stream Cleared
In Weather's Nagaries

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
For the last several years the marked
changes in climate, both in the North
American continent and in the coun-
tries of the North Atlantic. have been
charged to the vagaries of the Gulf
Stream. One specific charge has been
made that American development in the
region of the Florida Keys has served
to defect the route formerly followed
by the warm ocean current, thereby
increasing the temperature and thick
ness of the London fogs and building
up another layer to the wall of ice sur
rounding Greenland and Iceland during
the long Winters of that region.
But recent announcements diSpel all
those theories and at the same time
discount the notion that we shall be
having Summarizes years" because the
cauldron in the Caribbean Sea wherein
the water is warmed by all-the-year
direct rays of the sun, for the use of
the Gulf Stream has been thrown of
its schedule by 'sun spots" No less
authority than the Merchant Marine
Bulletin says the Gulf Stream neither
Is changing its course nor its normal
ity average" of temperature.
Then the scientific explanation is
given. The we'll known ocean current
came into being because of the thou
sands of years activities of the trade
winds. The motion. once started, be-
came Immediately Influenced by the
topography of the bottom of the ocean.
When the movement reached its maxi
mum activity it meant, simply. that it
had followed the lines of least resistance
as among the tides. the hills and VAL
leys OF the ocean bed and the resistless
influence of the trade winds, now in
one direction at a fixed rate of speed
and then in the opposite one
the ocean currents are within the
mass Of still water very much as rivers
are in the land areas. The volume of
water constantly moving through the
fixed channel of the Gulf Stream Is
estimated to be equal to the volume of
fresh water In all of the world. multi
piled by %. As the water begins its
tourney the replacement comes from
the wall OF water surrounding it and
the pressure Of the ocean proper along
It's sides treats the stream somewhat as
though 1t were passing through a hose.
We are told that the process has been
going on since the year which saw the
American and European continents as
sumo their present shapes and the
ocean NIL the low ground between. The
suggestion that railroad embankment
frcm the tip of Florida out to Key West
could influence that force appears to
have given the scientists their equiva-
lent OF "a laugh"
The interesting article fails to inform
US what is the real reason for the
upside down climatic conditions. but We
esream is not the culprit.
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Jones had a clam.
He had it in his new pool in the gar
den, by the big tree, behind the garage
It was peaceful there, just suited to
clam, Jones thought.
water lily in IL tub, and put in the
goldfish, the tadpoles and the snails, he
had pined for clam.
No pool, he had read, was quite COM
plete without one.
He had asked several enthusiasts
about the advisability of putting one
into q pool, but none of the Fans
seemed to have heard Of mussels, or
fresh-water clans.
None seemed to think them necessary,
but Templeton Jones, latest recruit to
the gentle art Of water gardening, held
to his belief in clans.
He had been amazed at the number
OF persons he met everywhere who sud-
denly popped up as greatly interested in
garden pools.
Men met him on the street and hailed
him as long-lost brother.
saw IN the paper" they usually
began, that you had pool
Jones beamed acquiescence,
They were all brothers in the bond OF
water lilies.
How mutual subject brings hu-
mainly together! Here was old Bill
Smith, a regular crab If there ever was
one, Jones had thought, who now
proved himself to be the most amiable
OF men in discussing the pleasures and
trials OF a lily pool in the back yard.
Smith had no use for clans, however
They were unnecessary, he said, with
great and particular emphasis on the
Here is the way his statement sounded
to Jones:
CLANS are unnecessary"
Templeton Jones grinned to himself
at this spectacle of two good citizens
solemnly standing on PENNSYLVANIA
avenue and discussing clans.
AT one end Of the Avenue sat a
busy National Legislature, engaged in
the discussion of very weighty mat
tiers. At the other end of the same
thoroughfare a harassed man consid-
cred equally heavy subjects.
All in between, down the whole
street, were hundreds Of men and
women. each and all busy about lesser
matters, perhaps, from the national
and international political standpoint,
but each and all Of vast Importance
to those who talked about them.
@sASAA SelAAAiOo AoACNSA hCCp tllclI IuLllQS
on grand strategy. That way mad
ness lies," as Melville said.
Templeton Jones was willing to sug-
gest clans, as a relief topic. Should
a clam go into lily pool, or should
it not?
He thought it should: old Bill Smith
thought it had no place there.
j. Nicholson Thomasberry. who has
nice line of goods uptown. said he
could see no particular reason for a
clam.
"Of course" he admitted, IF one
wants a clam
And then he let the sentence drift
in that irritating way some people
have. which says as plainly as any
words could, What on earth do you
want with clom, anyway"
Jones scarce could have explained
to himself his enthusiasm for one, but
all at once it seemed to him that nc
pool, no matter how small. could be
considered complete without at least
one clam. He must have a clam.
Theoretically, these bivalves were
supposed to filter the water free from
sediment, thus helping to keep it clear
at all times
Actually. Templeton Jones wanted q
clam because he wanted a clam.
Every time some one came up tt
him and told him that he, too, was g
water lily enthusiast, Jones fell tt
talking clans.