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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29

Norman Thomas, Socialist candi-
dat for president of the United
States will be the speaker at mass
meeting Monday night at Eagles Hall
which all colored citizens are in
vited. The admission is free.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29

The Misses Hattie Proctor and
Erna Tanner of Tacoma were guests
of Miss Yvonne Chatters for the
week end.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29

Mr.. Julian Hinson returned Sun
day from a visit to Yakima.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29

Mrs. Sally Harris will be hostess
at her home Tuesday evening for the
meeting of the o. N. o. Club.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-29

DR.. Andrew King treats all spinal
and nerve diseases.
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CLAIRgOYANT
Your fortune told by real cialrvOyant.
Ten questions answered for $1.0O.
Mrs. Arlitt, Box APO Readind, Mass.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Excessive Rents Cause
Of Many Vacant Garages
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
So much has been published recently
about the poor garage owners, how
about . few words from the other side
Of the question?
A few years back I purchased my
first automobile. and, like many others,
considered 1t an investment, and sought
q garage in the neighborhood. finally
secured one within block Of my home
for the small sum Of SIS per month.
After two years continuous tenancy.
the owner very graciously reduced the
rent to $l3 per month. This for a
metal garage without any heat or light.
I kept this garage several years, and
then, like thousands Of other car own
ers, realizing the exorbitant rent I was
paying, gave up the garage and became
one Of the multitude Of street parkerS.
Today there are by count 10 vacant
garages out of a total Of about 20 IN
this alley. Why? Because the owners
will not reduce the rent to reasonable
figure. The garage I gave up two years
ago has not been rented since. Had
the rent been put at an amount could
afford to pay. I would still be occupy
ing it. I don't like my car to stand
out In the weather any more than lot
Of other owners do. Neither do like
] am not familiar with the cost OF
garages, but I doubt very much that a
single metal garage, without heat or
light, costs such as to justify q rental
Of $3.50 per annum.
Let's hear some more from this side
of the question. CARL BISHOP.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Changed Sentiment on Beer
In Congress Is Impressive

be sold by service out Of a bottle to
seated thirsts. There have been a few
who have ventured to bring out the old
plea Tor the bar room as the poor mans
club. The omission Of an anti-saloon
clause in the Collier bill was not an
oversight or matter Of neglect. Sena-
tor Bingham's esTLer beer bill, and
others Introduce at the previous ses-
sion OF Congress sought to ban the bar
as a concession to the sentiment some
times described as moist or near-wet.
But since the election the advocates OF
beer have grown bolder." This view is
upheld also by the Danbury Evening
News.
"It doesn't mean much to our State"
AYERS the Oklahoma City Times, with
constitutional prohibition, which lists
beer with the forbidden beverages, and
a bone-dry law meant to curb all traffic
in mtoxicantS. but other States which
lack such provisions in statutes or basic
law must adjust themselves 10 the
change. The results of this modiflca-
ton will have a bearing on later at
tempts to repeal the eighteenth amend
ment. With a three-fourthS majority
OF the States required for ratification
Of repeal, that change in our liquor
regulations seems much less likely than
legaGzed beer The last election proved
q change In sentiment toward prohibi-
tion on the part Of many people, the
more evident because several States re-
pealed their own prohibition measures.
1t IS doubtful, however, If the swing
will prove sufflcient to make a wet
majority In three-fourths Of the States"
Evening star., 1932-12-30

no arrests, that there win be special
grace for the procrastinators through
extension Of time, or perhaps that even
II arrests are made they individually
will have fair chance to escape police
attention.
There should be no extension Of time
and there should be no special dispen-
sation. True, no particular harm is
done by the use Of q 1892 tag for q few
days Of 1898. Nobody is grievously in
jured by the hold-over Of driving au-
thority--that is, injured physically.
But. on the other hand, nobody is bene-
fited and bad habit Is encouraged
with every grant Of additional time
beyond the limit, the habit of post
ponement, which Is best cured by .
penalty.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
The Hospital Nurse
Who Made a Mistake

To the Editor Of The Star:
Because Of the amount Of publicity
In Washington papers regarding the
unfortunate accident that occurred re-
Gently tn New York hospital, through
which three babies died, Is might be d
interest to your readers % know little
more regarding the circun tances.
The nurse, whom, by tt1 way, the
coroner's jury has refused to indict,
has long record Of exceptional eff
cheney and carefulneSS. Had 1t not
been for her own honesty in reporting
the mistake the death of the babies
all Of whom had little chance to su>.
vive anyway, could not possibly have
been attributed to her. Fully conscious
OF this fact, she chose to take the blamt
because she had made a mistake d
spite Of careful training in the admin
istration Of drugs and other agents IN
the care Of the sick, nurses are human
beings and even long years Of careful
habits will sometimes fail them. There
are many people who think they could
not make such mistake, but it is well
known that there are few persons who
have not misread q label or whose
habits have not led them to reach for
a coEtainer in a familiar spot without
verifying the contents. The truly safe
nurse is the one who has had the
shock Of learning that she, too, Is
human in this respect. Admiration for
the moral courage of the nurse should.
in the minds Of your readers, be added
to sympathy for the parents Of the
babies and to interest In the efforts
of the hospital authorities to deal Justly
with the nurse and with the hospitals
clients. JULIA G. STIMSON,
Major, Army Nurse Corps, Super
intendent.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
"Lord Larceny"

Lord Larceny" Is dead. His real
name was Edward Arden Noblett, and
he was one Of the smoothest confidence
men that ever operated in New York.
For more than t1fty years. it is said. he
devoted his exceptional talents to the
systematic fleeing Of gullible individ-
uals lured into his net by skillful adver-
tising. That he was possessed OF .
certain weird genius is made manifest
in the fact the number Of arrests ana
complaints on his record exceeded by
more than thirty the number OF his
convictions.
Noblett began by swindling boys who
replied to his advertisements of jobs.
By 1893 he had been in court on
grand larceny charge. Escaping that
indictment by the kindness Of the pre-
siding magistrate, he managed to avoid
punishment until 1901, when he was
sent to Sing Sing for eight years. That
was in the era of shaved heads, striped
suits and the lockstep. but even under
those hampering conditions he found
opportunity to do q little business
among his fellow prisoners. Returning
to the metropolis IN 1910, he was ar
rested six or seven times, but hii
canny methods made presentation i'm
possible" He laughed at policemen
and district attorneys, and got away
with it.
He advertised to lend money at low
rate Of interest. the Joker being his
custom Of charging exorbitant apprai'
sal fees on property offered Is security
He sold bogus stock In mines. He
vtctimised {wax veterans. He suhlet
Evening star., 1932-12-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The manager had heard that. . long
time ago, and though he had seen
enough to make him certain Of the fal-
lacy Of the statement, he still believed
that, in theory at least, It was good
business.
1T he wants EN- that way. AK EN-
that way" said he at last, whitening
the counterman with q look Tell the
Chef"
The coupterman went behind the
partition, where evidently he fell into
conference with the chief cook and
bottle washer.
The customer retired triumphantly.
after his labors, to the sanctity OF .
table, where he waited patiently for his
two eggs and his two pancakes.
Surely he should have known better.
In orthodox lines the unorthodox Is
well, the unorthodox.
Instead OF his poached egg on q pam
cake, danked by another poached egg
on another pancake, here Is what he
received at last:
Three pancakes, one on top OF the
other, with two eggs reposing on the
top Of the top cake!
The customer sighed and said nothing.
What was the use?
He sighed and thought Of eggs, hen
merry eggs in all their glory and use
fulness.
Maybe It was wrong to combine ther1
with pancakes, after all. Perhaps the
chef and the counterman and the man
ager were right.
Yet poached eggs on toast had been
standard for years upon years.
He recalled the time he scsndalized
all his friends by declaring that he was
going to have wafiles, and nothing but
waffies, for Christmas dinner.
What! Wafies for Chrtstmas?"
The usual thing, the accepted thing,
Is somehow fright" with the majority
Of persons. This Is particularly true In
establishments where minute orders are
given as to how everything Is to be
done, and anything that calls for the
slightest difference likewise demands
new instructions.
To think of eggs and all their pos
sible ways of cooking and serving!
The customer had several very den-
mite favorites as no doubt most perDons
have.
Poached, as the reader might suspect,
and scrambled.
Hard-boiled, In the form Of so-called
deviled eggs, he tolerated.
He had seen a great many ome1ets
and the like, but none Of them appealed
to him.
Raw eggs he thought terrible. fit only
as a drink for house cats. ct is not
generally known that many domestic
cats refuse both milk and water, but
will take raw egg)
A good poached egg just hit the spot.
especially II slightly soft, but not too
much so. Here was a nice point for
the cook Too hard. he still ate them;
too "runny," he still ate them; but he
liked them best only in a certain state
which few outside eating places ever
Appropriated.
Nor was toast exactly the thing to
60 with them. according to his taste
Most toast was too hard White bread
Cno brown) was best. Pancakes or waf-
hes-well, why not?
When really hungry, nothing in the
egg line so appealed to him as well
scrambled aggregation, slightly salted.
And then there were fried eggs, of
course, horribly wrong in theory, but
very good to the taste, especially when
accompanied, as they should be. by the
best bacon. Fried eggs and bacon
what Is better. II one Is very. very hun
cry? But be sure to be very. very
hungry.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Tag Procrastinators.

With all the warnings that have been
given, there remain 50 many thousands
Of untagged motorists in the District
en this last day Of the year available
for this service that it Is certain that
the new year will find many thousands
Of car owners liable to the law on Sun
day for Lack Of registration plates. For
several weeks past the District license
bureau has been open daily, during long
hours, to accommodate those intend
ing to continue the operation OF their
cars in 1898. From day to day and
from week to week this necessary step
has been postponed. Perhaps the funds
were not Immediately available. Per
haps 1t was inconvenient to spare the
short time required. More likely 1t
was Just sheer procrasttnation- - the
putting on until another day OF some
thing that had to be done, but not
instantly.
This happens every year. Annually
the warnings 60 forth The days are
counted. Implorations are made to DO
now that which must eventually be
done. And on the eve Of the new year
there are thousands who have failed and
who are in peril of arrest II they ven
turecupon the streets with old tags.
TheS probably think that there Will ~
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Prosperity Will Return
If Congress Lays OFF
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Due to the lack Of intelligent lead
ership In both Houses of Congress, it
is . waste Of time and money for Con-
gress to continue to try solving the
economic problem. It is an established
fact that every time Congress attempts
to remedy the economic ills. through
legislation 1t only results in plunging
the country deeper into the depression.
I do not claim to be q know-all, but
it is my belief that If the psuedo
economists. statesmen and calamity
howlers will Just keep quiet for short
while and also cease their futile efforts
to aid the forgotten man" and give
the people q chance to find the road
back to good times through their own
efforts the worst Of our economic
troubles will vanish.
That Is my plan. and II the psuedo
economists and demagogic statesmen
can think up one better I would like
to hear Of 1t. So far they have only
intensified and prolonged this depres-
sion by creating confusion in the minds
OF the people EDw. LYLE.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

apartments he had not leased Is well
as apartments he actually did control
but which he had no intention Of sur
rendering. While awaiting trial in the
Tomhs Prison, In 1912, he had the fol-
lowing advertisement published:
WILL guarantee to furnish $4,000 to
$4,000 for legitimate business to
any one furnishing me $500 bonds
man. Address: Successful Financier.
At the moment his available capital
consisted Of fifteen cents, but he soon
added to his resources BY fraudulently
obtaining three hundred dollars from
other inmates Of the jail. Again in
Sing Sing. in 1913. he furnished to the
authorities the names Of participants
in . penitentiary riot. thereby promot-
ing a second outbreak. He keLt faith
with no one, but, brought to trial, he
could hoodwink Judges and juries into
restoring him to liberty. Again and
again he slipped out Of trouble into new
crimes and, inevitably, new diniculties.
SA4so6CeA'V3t AC SCAVCu WV A0A& tCAAAS
and parts Of two terms in Sing Sing.
His last sentence was for fifteen years,
"as habitual criminal" That stopped
him. He died in the prison hospital.
Magazine writer's invented his title
Lord Larceny" It was devised In an
effort to picture the man In a phrase.
He was suave and cultivated. exceed
ingly convincing in conversation,
smooth as oil and dangerous as dyna-
mite. He kept himself in good physi-
cal condition, was well dressed, and In
general looked the part of a respectable
business man. Had he insisted that he
was a born aristocrat, no one would
have questioned his claim. He had the
air Of one.
What explanation has the young SCI
ence Of psychology for such an individ-
ual? Obviously. there must be some-
thing drastically out Of order about q
mind like Noblett's. He was not a
normal person. He was freak. Even
his ability to deceive was exceptional.
The ordinary man has little talent for
that sort Of mischief.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Government Reform
Must Start at Top
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Allow me to thank you for publishing
Senator Hiram Bingham's radio speech
Of December 19 on Reconstruction of
the United States Government" q copy
Of which received through him.
Government reconstruction, I think,
should start at the top, II 1t starts at
all; but unless 1t Is general in the
United States, including educational in
stitutions schools, colleges and uni
versities), taxes will not be appreciably
reduced. The Federal Government
takes ~ cents Of each tax dollar. The
rest goes to State and local govern
ments and schools.
For the past several decades educa-
tional institutions throughout the coun-
try have expanded to the point Of mere
diffuseness in numerical category Of So
called studies" Competition seems to
have narrowed to mere number and
variety. They have Travelled abreast of
Government In the ascending scale of
socialistic progression. They are equally
in the limelight of high taxes.
When considering high Government
cost, its ally is standing there next to it.
WILLIAM A. ROEBUCK.
Hinsdale, H.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

1890 abolished the then existing Tariff
Commission and recreated new COM
mission Expiration of the terms Of the
present members Of the commission are
as follows: Ornburn, Democrat, 1888;
Coulter. Republican. 1884; Page. Demo-
crat, 1895; O'Brien. Republican tpres-
ent chairman), 1886, and Broussard,
Republican. 1888. The term to which
Mr.. Crisp had been named expired In
1887 All expirations come In June Of
each year.
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles OF VIII
mington, Del, is the newly elected
chairman Of the National Woman's
Party. She succeeds Mrs. Harvey w.
Wiley, widow of the famed crusader for
pure food and drugs in the earlier
Rooseveltian era Mrs. Hilles comes Of
q long and distinguished line OF Demo-
Gratis and her advent to high place in
the councils Of the National Woman's
Party comedies nicely with the dawn
of the new Democratic national ad-
ministration in Washington. The new
chairman is the daughter Of Thomas F.
Bayard, former United States Senator.
Five generations Of the Bayard family
have occupied Democratic seats in the
Senate Mrs Hilles' great-great-grand-
father, Richard Bassett, claimed the
distinction Of being the first elected
member Of the first Senate in the first
Congress, since his State Of Delaware
was the first State to ratify the Con-
stitution.
Plans are now well advanced for the
celebration next year by the National
Press Club of its silver jubilee, mark
ing its twenty-f1fth anniversary. Like
the washington Bicentennial celebra-
tion, the Press Clubs silver jubilee Is
not to be an affair Of day or a week,
but to extend over the entire year, with
series Of notable events. The first
will occur on March 20, the date when
the clubs constitution was adopted.
President-elect Roosevelt will be invited
to grace with his presence a banquet
on that date At later celebration, on
May 2, commemorating the opening of
the first club rooms, ex-President Cool
idge, who laid the corner stone for the
present ten million-dollar National
Press Club building, will be invited to
be the guest Of honor.
(Copyright. 1922
Evening star., 1932-12-30

1.-TWO poached eggs on pancakes" de-
manded the customer, looking the
counterman squarely In the eye.
The man in the white jacket was nom
plussed.
He had heard Of posched eggs on
toast, and he had heard Of pancakes,
known to him as stack O. wheat" but
who had ever heard Of any one wanting
eggs on pancakes?
"One egg on one pancake" continued
the cuctomer, "and the other egg on
the ether pancake"
Even this explicit direction, account
ing minutely for the entire amount OF
desired foodstufIs, did not seem to ease
the glazed look in the counterman's
eyes.
No cne, evidently, had ever ordered
such a combination before in his entire
life presiding behind a restaurant
counter.
There was no precedent for such an
order.
What would the chef think?
Above all, what would the manager
Evidently it never struck the counter
man that the hungry customer literally
wanted what he asked fora poached
egg on pancake, poached egg on a
pancake.
In this world, curiously enough, 1t is
very easy to think the other fellow
doesn't know what he Is talking about.
Also it Is mere pleasant, upon some
occasions, to make inferences, to Jump
to conclusions, rather than accept a
statement at its face value.
The customer said two poached eggs
on pancakes. but the sap couldn't have
meant that!
Who on earth ever heard Of any one
eating eggs on pancakes?
Why, pancakes were supposed to take
butter, up to the quantity one could
inveigle out Of the cock.
They were good to swim In maple
sirup, If one liked sirup, which Is not
universal, by any means.
But surely no one ever heard Of them
as supports for poached eggs.
II the counterman had considered the
matter calmly, outside his line Of duty,
he might have come t. the conclusion
with rather large possit titles Of turn
ing into an acceptable and tasty dish.
He had to think as counterman,
ing between the chef. behind the parti-
stack O. wheat an two poached," +"
he beloved at last, CHANGING it.
mot at ALL" firmly interposed the
customer who now saw that he would
have to be patient.
What I ordered was two poached
eggs on two pancakes, one egg on top
of cne pancake, the other egg on top
Of the other Is that plain?"
No, 1t evidently was not.
The counterman's eyes took on
new glazed look.
He went into conference with the
manager.
Both worthless looked over at the
absurd, at the foolish, customer, the
man who had dared to order scme-
thing slightly different.
The manager looked witheringly at
the offender. then sternly at the enor-
nous lists OF edibles in plain type above
the shining coffee urnS.
Was there a single line there which
proclaimed such ridiculous combina-
ton as eggs on pancakes?
Eggs en- toast, toast with eggs, pan
cake5 with butter butter on pancakes.
pancakes with map.e sirup-
What more could feller ask?
The fool customer was supposed, how
ever. in some mysterious way, to be
right about everything.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

Greece is turning to insult as a man
OF capacity for financial exploitation
Some Of the new theories of finance
abroad might find practical encourage
ment by communicating with Ponzi, who
evolved SO interesting an idea Of profit
by an endless chain series Of debt post
ponements.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

1t is assumed that foreign manufac-
ture IS so cheap that the rule buy
American" cannot be applied. The
American tourist can at least remain in
his own home town for year or two
and have the merchandise delivered at
his door.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

Merging Government departments
cannot be expected to prove an easy en-
terprtse. considering the amount Of
complicated detail involved in the mer-
ger Of two comparatively small street
railways in the Nations Capital.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

Cleveland, Ohio, is making war on
commercial racketeers, thus reminding
patient citizens that there may be worse
rackets than those invented by politi-
clans.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Page the White Mule.

From the Nashville Banner.
News dispatches from Europe tell Of
the discovery Of q liquid that will make
q rabbit spit in bulldogs eye. People
who live In easy reaching distance Of
the Tennessee Mountains have known
about somewhat similar stun Tor 0s0.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

A motion picture actress knocked
senseless by falling lamp will not in
terrupt her studies. Art knows no five
day working weeks.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

The old Russian town once known as
st. Petersburg is still under observation
for political symptoms that will cause
another change Of name to be pre-
scribed
Evening star., 1932-12-30

"Technocracy" is a new word, still
wanting a clear definition, which holds
out to an anxious public unlimited time
to do crossword puzzles and engage in
slogan contests.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

Mechanistic theorists are now pro-
posing to make electric machines do all
the reform work that political machines
have so long advertised to turn out.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

1t is to Admiral Grayson that the
country looks with confidence as the
man who will steer the ship Of state for
the next two months to a successful
Inauguration day.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Going and Coming,

From the Rockford REGISTER Republic.
spendthrift is one who spends his
money. "A tightwad IS one who saves
1t Tor somebody else to spend.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

II opera singers desire to maintain
the old-time wage scale they may have
to find something to advertise and 20
on the radio.
Evening star., 1932-12-30

A sales tax will at least do away with
the expert accounting necessary to pro-
vide rebates on income tax payments.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Beer Keg Label Wrong.

From the New York Sun.
It appears that do Not Open Until
Christmas" was put on the beer keg by
mistake.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
Absence Becomes News.

From the Dayton Daily News.
It was only after he ceased to be
mayor that Jimmy walkers absence
from New York was considered news.
Evening star., 1932-12-30
French Error.

From the Roanoke Times. !
Twenty miNidn Frenchmen can be
wrong after aUtt seems.