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Evening star., 1933-11-08
Gang Crimes.

Washington had two experiences yes
terday which savored of the Chicago
style of gang enterprise. A merchant
heard window smashed and ran
downstairs to find that a bomb had
been thrown into his store, with a
sputtering fuse. He extinguished the
spark in time to prevent an explosion
that would have wrecked the place and
perhaps destroyed lives. 1t was evi-
IDENTITY the work of would-be black
mailers who had been seeking TO ex-
tort money from him by threats. At
about the same time man with bad
police record was put on the spot
and slain in night club
The bomb throwing was similar to
the work OF the "black hand opera
tions in New York some years ago
wien scores of honest citizens were
certified into submission to extortion-
lists with the death penalty for refusal
10 pay. Many lives were sacrificed in
this sequence of criminal enterprises
and Finally the gangs were 'outet
Evening star., 1933-11-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

leries collins of the Senate and Dom
aldson of the House,. So far William
C. Murphy, jr., of the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger is unopposed for the presi-
dency, the blue ribbon post Of Wash
ington journalism. For vice president,
Mark Foote, dignified representative of
the Booth papers in Michigan, popular
member of the club for 20 years and
veteran worker on its committees, is
opposed by Lee Poe Hart of the New
York Journal of Commerce, active young
club member. There's one post to which
election probably will be by acclama-
ton, the treasureship, long filled by
Charles A. Hamilton of the Troy Times,
a Washington correspondent for more
than SO years.
4 x
William Adams, an actor, who seeks
faithfully to impersonate President
Roosevelt's oratorical mannerisms on a
coast-to-coast radio program of Time
Magazine, states that F. D. r. employs
three distinct styles of speech and
varies his pitch in a range of five full
musical tones Mr. Adams says: 1.-THE
Chief Executive has three distinct ways
OF speaking. One is the dramatic style
that he employs when making a formal
address. Another is the intensely sin
cere and warm voice he uses In his
fireside radio reports to the Nation
And still another is the casual and
friendly voice the President uses in
ordinary conversation. There is an
actual difference of some five musical
tones between the first and third
styles"
X X
1t is more or less an open secret
that the administration, especially Sec
retary Hull, would like something tc
States TO recognize Cuban government
before the Pan-American Conference In
Uruguay In December. If President
Grau San Martin could mobilize the
support of two or three factions in ad-
dition to the soldier student group, now
practically his sole backing, thus sup
plying evidence that his regime is not
playing a lone hand, his status al
Washington might be heightened sufi-
GENTLY to justify prompt recognition
Pan American authorities are certain
that Uncle Sans prestige at the Monte
video conference would be vastly i'm
proved II Cuba by that time is more OIL
less normalized and Yankee inter-
vention" definitely out of the picture.
y
In diplomatic quarters it's suggested
that one Of the reasons the United
States fleet at this time may have been
ordered to come back to the Atlantic
Ocean next year was a desire to let
Japanese Ambassador Debuchi leave
Washington in something like a halo OF
glory. His militarist superiors at Toxic
may even think that the Yankee feet
transfer, for which they have been
yelling for year and more, COM
pensates Japan for the development
signif1ed by Mr.. Litvinoff's visit to the
United States.
(Copyright, 1933)
Evening star., 1933-11-08
SOthern Is Awarded Place
Among Great of the Drama

but he also stood constant to the stand
ards of good taste and to the inner
code Of q gentleman. His passing re-
minds us anew and poignantly OF glortes
that have been"
Perhaps Mr. Sothern, in dying. had
time to chuckle,p suggests the Balti-
more Sun, with, the remark that I'VE
find the wise men Of the theater con-
fidently declaring that already the new
realism has begun to wane, and the
romantic mode to wax anew" The
Danbury News Times adds the thought
that it was quite enormously sup
posed that the age Of romance had
been succeeded by the age Of realism,
and insists that "the modern drama.
with its heroes in the, air, on the
water, under the water, In trench. in
dirigible, in anchored balloon. Is as
romantic as heroism Of old"
He achieved greatness, but It was
through continued effort and serious
study, and his steady love for and de-
votion to his art, rather than through
the inborn spark Of what the world
calls genius" thinks the Providence
Journal. The journal adds that the
joining Of his histrionic fortunes with
those Of Julia Marlowe was, in all re-
spectS, one Of the most felicitous part
nerships the American theater has ever
known"
His influence as model for others
and an inspiration inevitably viii carry
farther than his hfe," in the opinion of
the Hartford Times, while the Newark
Evening News calls him -the last OF
the giants swearing fealty to the stage
as 1t was understood in the early part
of the century" and feels that 'he
represented all that was considered best
in superlatiye day" The Rochester
Times Union records that ''he had long
deplored the aScendency Of the realistic
drama" and the Jersey City Journal
comments: '.Modernity has substituted
a different sort of drama and different
actorS-lesS theatrical less stately, less
sonorouSly eloquent. Style in dress, IN
manners, in acting, in writing, Is not a
constant thing. It is continually IN
constant. The ceaseless cycles of style
may re-enthrone the sort of entertain
ment which graced the boards when E.
H. Sothern and his colleagues were In
their heyday Many still living must
reflect with a pang that grace and
romance have yielded to reality, the
measured and modulated speech TO the
strident utterance, the talk OF gentle
folk to the lingo Of racketeers."
Evening star., 1933-11-08
A Tribute to Judges
By a District Juror

To the Editor OF The Star:
have Just completed q thirty-day
service as a juror in District Supreme
Court, Criminal Division No. /.
do not know what the judges are
paid per annum. I do know, however,
that it Is not enough. Men who can
listen day after day, month after month
and year after year to what these
gentlemen have to listen to and still
retain their sense of balance are real
men. They are real men mentally,
spiritually and physically, for the strain
on all three powers is inevitably terrific.
All the weaknesses and base passions
with which frail mankind Is afflicted
are daily paraded before them In AL
their sordid details. For one thing,
just think Of the nausesting spectacle
constantly being presented to these
gentlemen of witness after witness
| blithely and obviously committing per-
| Juryi They slap their hands on the
Bible and take an oath before God to
tell the whole truth and nothing but the
| truth and then go ON the stand and
tell everything but the truth. For all
| 1t means to them. they might as well
/ have their hands on a brick. and the
clerk, instead of swearing them, might
| as well be singing Turkey in the
Straw" Old campaimers, both men
and women, being tried for assault with
dangerous weapon, take the stand.
| They carry all over their features the
sears of ancient battle wounds won in
| ignoble combat. Some are minus an eye
Some have an ear missing A great
many faces are so marred with old scars
| that they look like caricatureS. But
listen to them on the stand! Voices
pitched low, eyes virtuously downcast,
| -5,.sA Ia H.,
| their mouths and they wouldn't know a
weapon If they saw one. Following
them come others being tried for
murder, arson, white slaving, joy-riding
robbery and larceny, both petty and
I grand. In almost every case there are
| prevaricators that would make Annanias
hang his head in shame, And then
there are the young fellows who have
made their first slip in taking liberties
| with other peoples property The hon
| orable justices of these courts have to
be mentally alert and good Judges of
character. 1t is tremendous RESPONSE
bility which is theirs. They are sworn
| to administer justice and yet, being
| human, they must frequently be
| harassed and torn by doubts as to
whether to temper that justice with
mercy. In other words, they, and they
| alone, are compelled to decide whether
men and women who have been con-
victed by the jury still have something
good in them and can be safely put on
probation or whether they should be
removed from society for a short time
or long time. Then there is the strain
of being constantly alert to bar inad-
missible evidence and to interpret the
| law.
These gentlemen who preside over the
deliberations in Criminal Court are men
of whom we can all be justly proud. If
any one has any doubt about it let him
| the next time he gets jury summons
do his duty and serve his 80 days in
stead of lying and using his pull to
slirk it. S. H. MUMFORD.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Debt Negotiations End.

There is to be neither immediate set
tlement nor default Of the British debt
That Is the sum and substance of an
announcement made simultaneously on
Tuesday at the White House and in
the House of Commons. In lieu of the
installment of Silt 100000 due on De-
cember Is under the existing agree
ment, the British Will tender another
''token" payment of s7.5oo,ooO In Amer
lean currency. Thus, in the Presi-
dents words, the recent negotiations in
Evening star., 1933-11-08

Jimmy" Walker said New York poll
tics made him feel like a fire horse who
heard the bell. Perhaps his feelings
will be relieved as he reflects that re-
cent signals have seemed less like fire
alarm than riot call.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

Mussolini wants everybody to get
married Human sentiment, whether re-
lating to the home in peace or a ma
tion's prowess in battle, has always been
the foundation of political power.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

A small amount of currency can serve
for the transaction of an immense
volume of business If it can be made to
move fast enough. The dollar that de-
cides to go ON strike may have its share
as an influence in delaying prosperity.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

North Carolina has voted ON different
occasions In a way to suggest that she
regards the eighteenth amendment un-
favorably as a moral influence, but with
approval as means of throwing
political cold water.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Freedom of Speech

AOCuVEH VI UPtttHs
My Radio! My Radiol
By many a wise grafton
You've taught the citizen to know
The temper of the Nation.
You favor any one disposed
OF truth to be a seeker,
And the speakeasy will be closed
BY aid of the loud speaker.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

v. p. becomes a new study in initials
when Vox Populi demands to know
about the emoluments collected by high
finance vice presidents.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

Einstein has submitted ideas that few
can understand and is compelled to ad-
NIT that there are things in human ma
ture he cannot understand himself.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Quality, Not Quantity, Counts.

From the Macon telegraph.
If, as reported, a whale has brain
100 times as large as mans, how is it
that more whales are captured by men
than men captured by whales?
Evening star., 1933-11-08

At the outset Litvinoff makes a
favorable impression by seeking to buy
and sell instead of borrowing.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

For the moment Fiorello La Guardia
eclipses even Al Smith as sidewalks
of New York performer.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Nature Cuts Acreage.

From the Springfield Republican.
Killing frosts for the cranberry crop
are almost as effective as reducing
acreage
Evening star., 1933-11-08
So Do Woodpeckers.
rom the Miami Daf4y New

From the Miami Datfy News.
A sports promoter says wrestler re-
quires very few brains. And yet some
of those rough boys surely do use their
heads.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
An Art Term.

From the Pasadena Post
One may never have called 81 900
grand" but must admit that at short
range it would look that way.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
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Evening star., 1933-11-08

1T looks to me-" said Uncle Eben,
"like folks has simply got to have
shorter workin' hours in order to leave
'em time to tend to de immense and
increasin' amount of votin' dey has on
hand"
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Let's Choose lin Side.

From the Detroit News.
Numbering the backs OF the uniforms
OF the Cuban presidents would be
enough, as they are pointed that way.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Nobody Turns One Down.

FROM the Toledo Blade.
Depression Is enlightening In a way.
There Is less superstition about o 81
Evening star., 1933-11-08
No Wild Oats Bonus.
rrom tha roledo nlade.

From the Toledo Blaze.
Virtue Is its own reward. The Gov
ernment gives no bonus for plowing
under wild o4ls.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Machinery.

'Do you still regard the machine age
with apprehension"
''I do answered Senator Sorghum,
Nothing hurts my feelings more than
to see a good old political machine
wrecked by reform sabotage"
Jud Tunkins says its gettin' so folks
go to night club to doze and when
they want to keep awake nights they
stay at home and listen to the radio.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Time Honored Ievjty

The Carolinas intervene
With jestful intimations
About the length of time between
Convivial libationsl
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Refinement of Speech.

did the Gulch vote for repeal?"
yes" answered Cactus Joe. For
artistic and literary reasons. We think
the old word 'moonshiner' sounds much
more refined than 'bootlegger.'
Men engage in long and sometimes
violent arguments over the laws they
shall have" said Hi Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown. whether they intend to
obey them or not
Evening star., 1933-11-08

No Energy Wasted, Either.
From the Chicago Daily News.
Motion, some physicists assert, can be
transformed into solid matter, but in
politics solid ivory Is developed some
times without any sign OF movement.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
Recurrent Demonstrations.

From the Rochester Times-Union.
The government at Havana still lives
and every once In while begins shoot
ing to prove it.
Evening star., 1933-11-08
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Evening star., 1933-11-08

@. How much are the fire losses re-
duced by fire protection in the national
forestS?-E c.
A. In the national forests wherever
intensive protection has been estab-
lished, the losses in burned-over areas
have been reduced to per cent OF the
land protected; on unprotected land the
losses are as high as 20 per cent Of the
unprotected area.
Evening star., 1933-11-08

@. Was the year 1900 In the last
century or in the present one?-R. E. l..
A. It was the last year of the nine
teenth century. The twentieth century
began with 1901.
@. Does red clover have taproot 6
feet fong?-D. G.
A. The Office Of forage crops says
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31

are pictured-that there Is more good
than evil in the world-much more.
had heard good deal about Mack
before / met him. He was certainly
the hard-boiled citizen, l was given to
understand. He had a nasty tongue
in his cheek, it was said; he had COM
mitted all sorts of Irregularities. He
might with propriety have been one
of the leading citizens of Nazareth,
had given credence to half that was
alleged about him. In reality his loud
talk was barrage to conceal his self
consciousness and embarrassment.
Brown was pledged to an organiza-
ton soon after he entered college and
shortly afterward he came to me to
say that he was quite dissatisfied with
his choice. He didn't like some of the
fellows and he was minded to break
his pledge. Don't do it," / suggested,
for month at least, and during that
time try to forget the things which
have annoyed you and to find in these
young fellows the fine qualities which
am sure they possess. haven't any
doubt but that the things which irri-
tate you and make you dissatisfied are
superficial and will disappear when
you know the men better"
1t was quite so. At the end of the
month the men whom he had liked the
least were his closest friends because
he had come to value them for the
sterling qualities which they really
possessed.
Had we lived in Nazareth am sure
we should have found many very ad-
mirable people
g. 1898. Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31

ing with strife" In these days of
curtailment there is sense Of refresh
ment in the words. In many homes
when money was plentiful, there was
feasting. If it was enjoyed with
peaceful spirit, If true pleasure
abounded as well as good food, then
there was mental and spiritual quiet
ness, tending to soothe as well as sus
tain. But if hilarity only accompanied
the good things to eat on which so
much money had been spent. and un
derneath all there was sense of TN
easiness, of living on the surface in
apparent harmony which crusted over
a volcano of discord which would
break forth eventually, there was
.'feasting with strife" and 1t was. de
void of actual pleasure and of hap
piness.
There is no discOunting the value of
money in the world as it is, or the
equivalent of gold and silver should
some other form of exchange in fu-
ture years be substituted. But with
in the past two years there has come
in many homes, the realization that
money is not everything, to use trite
term. Members of family who. when
money was abundant. could 20 their
own ways independently of one an
other, whose interests clashed, or were
so divided that they scarcely touched,
made "a house divided against ITSELF"
When such strife enters in, the dec
laration is lit cannot stand" Better
is dry morsel. with quietness there
with, than a house in which there is
lack of unity and consequent unhap-
piness. even though Id it there is
abundance of worldly substance and
SuStenance.
1t is when a common bond of inter.
est exists, binding all members togeth
er, that clashing diversions sink to
their level of insignificance In a fam
lily.
c. 1898 Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
There has been considerable talk Of

There has been considerable talk Of
late of the Metropolitan opera, now in
dire financial distress, moving to the
magic Rockefeller development and
trying for a new start, although the
operas "old guard" has conniption
fit every time the suggestion is offered.
If opera should move overland the
development was originally planned
with view to making opera its heart
and center-it is believed the best in
theaters might follow.
Others think Fifth avenue, which so
far has stood adamant against en-
croachment by the theaters might
eventually capitulate and sacrifice
some of its dignity to the towns cry
ing need for new amusement center
Stranger things have happened.
Wherever it is to be-. though, the
town must have new land of max
believe. 1t is written-so say those
in the know.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31

cares for the comfort of her guests.
It is surprising how many of the vir-
tues of good entertaining are negative.
The do nots" are almost as numerous
as the dos" The rule do not make
your guest uncomfortable" includes
many details. Do not let the running
Of the household be felt any more
than absolutely necessary. do not
spread word of any friction. If the
wrong order is sent from the store.
let it only be very lightly mentioned,
If ii is necessary to do so at all. A
guest would rather eat less impOs-
ing meal in comfort, than to know of
elaborate plans gone wrong. Some
times, to very intimate friends, it may
be mentioned with humor and en-.
joyed as a joke. but even this may
not prove as merry as not mentioning
it at all. Give the burden of your dis.
pleasure, not to the guest in your
home, but to the one responsible for
the mistake. If such it was.
Clements Home Harmony
There is an old proverb which says
Better is dry morsel, and quietness
Herewith, than house full of feast
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
Veteran Sure There Is
Something in a Name

whats in a name?" asks the
skeptic, and Stephen o. Slaughter,
chairman of the Kansas City central
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Legion, replies, "a heck of 4
lot" Mr.. Slaughter, sometimes
called rs. o. S." Slaughter, becausd
Of his initials, related this expert
ence recently.
The scene was base hospital in
France in the World war. Mr..
Slaughter, wounded and gassed, lay
on hospital cot. His chart with his
name and initials was fixed to the
bed.
A hospital surgeon, major, was
inspecting the ward. CHANGING at the
men as he passed, his eye rested on
the name, IS. O. Slaughter He
paused.
eff you use the first initial you can
make that into IS. O. s. Laughter
he remarked.
SubconsciOusly, he reached for the
wounded mans wrist to feel his
pulse. His attitude suddenly became
grave. He called for nurse and Mr..
Slaughter was rushed to the operat-
ing room, where he was given
blood TRANSMISSION.
"Ten minutes later and it might
have been too late" the doctor OBJ
served.
"What if he hadn't seen the ini-
tials?' Mr.. Slaughter mused.-Kan-
sas City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
Broadway Nears End Of
Old Glory and Glamour

be heard block away. What would
the producer, proud Of his Broadway,
think of the street today, old timers
who knew him often wonder.
And yet there are those who still
love the old one-time COW trail for all
its shabbiness and lack of spirit.
Those convinced that Broadway is
doomed are already casting about for
possible successor to the city's erst-
while parade street." Some think
that Radio City. now growing up along
Fifth avenue few blocks below Cen
trail park. may in time get to be the
city's new famous Gay White Way"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
Salt Rheulnl Formed
Water BIiSteHts
on Baby
Healed by Cuticura

"My sixteen months old baby was
bothered with salt rheum. 1t started
with a rash and then formed water
blister, and the more he scratched
the more it itched until the blister
was broken. Then it would break
out in another place. AS soon as Iput
his night clothes on he kept up
steady whine and could not sleep. 1t
affected his whole body and he was
q sight.
"My druggist told me about Cutl
cura Soap and Ointment. purchased
some and after using them monVh
or two my baby was healed" (Signed)
a1rs. Doris Hardy, 10 High ST., Bos-
cawen, N. H., August IL, 1882.
Cuticura Soap 25c. Ointment 25c
and SOC. Talcum 25c. Sold every
where. One sample each free. Adj
dress: "Cuticura Laboratories, Dept.
R. Maiden, Mass."-Adv.