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Evening star., 1933-03-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACENELL.

persons must have been forced to leave
their great big car in the garage that
morning and have been brought down
to this. Ho, hum! Well, one must
make the best of 1t, one supposes. One
looks around disgustedly.
Look at that young impudence there,
daring to keep the blind by his seat
up, when the horrible sun Is glaring
in fit to kill He should pull it down.
Does he think he owns this car?
Frown at him, then-frown at him
horribly.
Maybe that will put him in his place,
the young upstart, who dares to permit
nasty sunshine to come into this place.
Any fool can get all the sunshine he
wants out In the street, why does he
insist on dragging it in here? Surely
he ought to know that sun is not good
for rheumatism.
x* \
Templeton Jones is one Of the most
peaceful Aen alive. but there is one
thing he insists on in q street car.
He Is determined to manage his own
blind.
Fat women may tread on his toes,
slim ones poke their paper bags OF
lunch into his ribs, old gentlemen
cough oil over him. but no man, woman
or child can reach over his shoulder
and yank down the blind beside his
seat without so much as q "by your
leave" thank you, Or
They can yank it, Of course, but
Jones can yank 1t back up again even
quicker, and has done so more than
once. he says.
How many seats have you paid for?'
hA 0nk a1 III
The gentleman made no reply
Evidently" said Jones, only he
didn't say 1t aloud, "only one"
Ordinarily Mr.. Jones contented him
self with seizing the handle of the
blind and giving 1t flip.
This flip shot the sun obscurer clear
to the top, so that twice as much
sunlight came into the car as before.
Then Jones glared around him
Indignantly.
What mean fellow was Templetor
Jones. to be sure.
His new story went this way:
He had taken his favorite seat with
blind neatly at the proper halfway
point.
A woman got in with paraphernalia
Have you ever seen a lady in a street
car with paraphernalia? There are
handbags, and paper bags, and shawls
and canes, end heaven knows what all!
No sooner had this laden lady got
seated than she began to frown fero-
ciously.
A timid beam of sun, playful in q
raw universe. had dared to smile upon
her sacred being.
Down with you, you presumptious
brat!" shrieked she to the sunbeam
metaphorically, at least.
Templeton Jones swears she said 1t,
but no doubt he was dreaming.
At any rate, the lady pranced out OF
her seat and yanked down. the blind
just ahead Of Jones Then she hounced
back, frowning even more menacingly
at all sunbeams.
Alas, one was coming through Jones
window! An elderly gentleman. on the
side seat ahead, caught various wig
waggings.
Calamity he arose. came to where
Jones sat-and pulled down the blind
Templeton Jones popped it up again.
whats the big idea?" he grouched,
falling into the vernacular, as he does
50 easily, despite his erudition. or,
maybe. because OF it. You're the old
Kentucky colonel, aren't you?" he
went on.
And he frowned terribly.
Evening star., 1933-03-25
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Dreams.
I thought one early morning at the
dreamy, drowsy hour
I heard little bird that sang with
strange, melodious power.
1t tilted on willow twig, then sailed
across the sky
More swiftly than the fieecy cloud that
lightly foated by.
And then 1t came and sang again, a
tune SO loud and strong
That the sunbeams on the water danced
in rhythm to the song
Bing! Bing! went the alarm clock as it
spoiled another dream!
That song was Just the radiator loading
up with steam!
I dosed again. I thought the south
wind softly hovered near,
The sunshine, turned to ether, trembled
in the atmosphere,
And 1t called the world to Summer. As
the hours went drifting by
Each blossom breathed in perfume its
life story to the sky.
And every leaf that fluttered in its Ian
guor seemed to say:
II shall not stir again upon this listless,
lazy day
Bing! Bing! went the alarm clock.
Once again it spoiled q dream!
The janitor was pushing on an extra
charge Of steam.
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A gentle tinge Of humor pervades the
comment Of Secretary Woodin even
when hard work is on hand. Financial
conditions may be liberalized to q de-
gree that will prevent one or two radio
comedians from monopolizing the fun
concession.
Evening star., 1933-03-25

The confidence and determination
with which the administration pro-
ceeds is a reminder Of the spirit in
which the United States Government
was founded. Uncle Sam started in
early to demonstrate that the first
requisite for solving problems is not to
be afraid Of them.
Evening star., 1933-03-25

There is already question about the
employment Of barmaids. If beer Is
really to be no more Intoxicating than
soda water. the matter has already been
settled.
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Miraculous" Is the adjective applied
by European craftsmanship to what
Uncle Sam Is modestly inclined to refer
to as q demonstration Of plain common
sense
Evening star., 1933-03-25

Such words as bootleg" and speak
easy" have been forcing themselves into
polite usage. Recent legislation may
have the desirable effect Of retiring
them to their native underworld
vocabulary.
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A highly idealised state Of civilization
might eliminate some bf the suburban
area taxation, and not permit = man
to claim to be owning a farm unless he
Is able to run 1t.
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AL Capone intends to organize q big
brewery business. Brewers have been
solid, self-respecting citizens and 1t may
be doubted whether he would be eligible
to a new guild.
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Perhaps the most depressing feature
Of the income tax in the estimation OF
the plain paying citizen Is the facility
it affords an unscrupulous accountant
to figure as an expert evasionist.
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they have no time left for writing. The
literary racket may be pleasant for
those extroverted personalities who like
it, but writing is, after all, q solitary
occupation not carried On at teas and
Evening star., 1933-03-25

It was thought that Franklin D..
Roosevelt would need q rest after the
Summers endeavor. It appears that
the campaign was only q workout pre-
vious to the great effort.
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Desire to return to monarchy might
imply an impression on the part of
Germany that having tested out all
kinds OF trouble she might as well start
the list all over again.
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Motor Words.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
Now that the 10 most beautiful and
10 ugliest words have been selected. let's
pick out the 10 most popular words to
use when the batteries are too weak to
turn the uQtae QGeA
Evening star., 1933-03-25
Experts at Fault.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Where these contract bridge teachers
fall down is in not showing us how
to shuttle the cards so as to get the
kind of hands they use in their illus
trations.
Evening star., 1933-03-25

Congress has been able to take care
Of ideas more rapidly through the
simple process Of giving them out to it
one at q time.
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As United States Treasurer, Nellie
Tayloe Ross will be complimented to
an unprecedented extent by demands
for her autograph.
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Puzzlers.

From the Haverhill Evening Gazette.
One thing can be said for jig-saw
puzzlers-they havAc to have . sense Of
The 11tnA0 Of thtnxk
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discriminating.

THAT was terrible slip Of the pencil
my stenographer made" said Senator
Sorghum.
I'm the speech you recently had
printed?"
Eyes. I said was guided by Vox
Populi. She had 1t written 'Vox Pocket
bookP"
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Music Of the Day.

In days Of old such songs we heard
As Listen to the Mocking Bird"
Light melodies their magic lent
To grace some tender sentiment.
And when they sought . lively key
They warbled "Dixie" with great glee.
Alas! Their tastes were very slow
Back in the days of long ago.
But now such dizzy rhymes they sing
That grandma to her chair will cling
And say in accents far from bland
She hopes she does not understand!
Some day, when fashion brings once
more
The customs of those days Of yore.
She may revive the simple charm
OF songs that pleased and meant no
harm. gS -L.-lnl<l
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The Chansmr Modes.

The statesman, once SO gay and glad,
May be betrayed by Fashions vile,
And find, with feelings grim and sad,
His last years speech is out of style.
Evening star., 1933-03-25
Economy.

Are you going to plant any potatoes
In your garden?"
mo. I'll plant only seeds. Sticking
potatoes into the ground looks like such
. waste Of good food"
Evening star., 1933-03-25

also used the word.
DR.. Devine hopes for return of
religious influence in this modern
world. He says: In view of the rift
between organized religion and some
spokesmen for progressive social move
ments throughout the world, it may
seem fantastic to suggest that the
leadership which the nations collec-
lively and severally need in the present
crisis may come from the churches
rather than from statesmen, scientists,
labor leaders or business men," The
great need of the hour, he says, Is
leadership. The abolition of poverty
Is possible, but in an emergency relief
of the unemployed needs safeguards.
The schools should be used to produce
citizens who cannot be exploited. Social
education must precede any cure of our
crime problem, for 'the spirit of the
law IS not in us" and "even in the
enforcement of laws we countenance
lawless methods" The feeling for world
citizenship is rapidly developing. The
cooperative movement has great pos
sibilities. The farmers are q sore need
Of economic leadership. Theoo ore some
Of the statements which d. Devine
throws out for consideration.
*H
Helen Hull, author of Hardy Peren-
nial," who has for the past ten years
been teaching writing at Columbia and
writing novels herself, is often asked by
young people whether she advises Civ
ing up other Jobs and trying writing
and wether 1t is necessary to come to
New York to make literary contacts.
To both questions she answers mo-"
She says: writing should be considered
an avocation until it sprouts a few
ieaves of professional success And as
for the second question: have seen
people rushing about 20 furiously in
their attempt to meet critics. column
nigts. edttogs md 1AmQus Apthoz that
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makes the stratostat significant. 1t
marks the emergence, as both fliers
pointed out, of the Soviet Union into
the field of technical construction,
science and scientific manufacture.
In this respect the Soviet Union, one
country with one united working
class, was easily made to demonstrate
the superiority of its system over
that of capitalism. Such an expedi-
ton would not have been dreamed
OF in pre-revolutionary Russia. 1t
would have been impossible There
would not have been the technical
base for it.
Godunoff and Prokofiev paid high
honor to whole group of workers
and engineers who labored on the
building of the Stratostat. There
were workers, men and women both,
who spent all night sometimes on
the intricate calculations and expert
ments, and at critical stages of the
building of the gas bag and gondola.
They mentioned especially the
woman foreman, Kirilova, in the
Cauchuk factory, where the gas bag
was made, and the woman worker
and Young Communist League mem
Der, Malevich, who not only worked
overtime so much that they had to
be stopped by administrative order.
but made many practical proposals
for the adaptation Of new materials
to the use Of the stratostat. So much
so that the chemically treated bag
OF Soviet grown and manufactured
cotton stood every test Though on
the flight, many samples of other
materials special tissues, chemically
prepared according to receipts of So
Wet chemists, were carried along for
comparison, and improvements NAV
still be made.
Prokofiev and Godunov mentioned
again the workers of the Scientific
Institute of the Rubber Industry, who
worked with such enthusiasm pre-
pairing the rubberized coating of the
fabric of the gas bag. They told how
two other women engineers, Levitina
and KuSma, refused to leave the lob
for "a hours, while they were putting
special compounds on the fabric of
the balloon. These two women in
vented this chemical treatment. Its
Importance lies partly in the fact that
the very strong radiations Of the sun
and presence in the stratosphere OF
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other rays that do not reach the
earth, may damage ordinary sub
stances that might be used. (Inci-
dentally, who ever heard of women
engineers in America?")
THE two fliers paid tribute to the
scientists who. invented, on new
principles, the. automatic machinery
that kept arpennanent record of
moisture pressure. density, tempera-
ture of the air. and the strength of
various rays at all times during the
flight Of the stratostat.
They likewise iauded their fellow
member of the crew, the radio ez-
pert, Birnbaum, who kept in constant
touch with the earth. They pointed
out that this was the first time radio
apparatus Git was q short wave set)
had ever been carried to the stratos-
sphere. One +ofr-their findings was
that radio communication became
clearer the higher they went.
The story of the flight itself is like
a voyage of discovery into uncharted
seas. The actual flight started at
$40 am. At~a-45 the first entry in
the log was made by Prokofiey: 1000
meters high; Birnbaum at the radio.
while Godunoy 8, and I watch the
flight. The only noise is from the
cover and the registering machines. ."
Then, every five or ten minutes.
new entries, the height, the tempera-
ture, which remained fairly constant
within and fell rapidly outside the
gondola. Birnbaum continually was
busy with the radio. They went up
rapidly to 1880 meters, where q
balance occurred between the lifting
power of the gas and the weight of
the stratstat. -
Throughout. the flight they could
see Moscow clearly, could identity
rivers and canals, could look off
across the country without glasses to
a distance Of As SO miles.
The lanky, creased balloon filled
out, as pressure outside diminished,
until it was a round ball. They we're
continually informed by radio that
they could be seen very well from
obServatories on the earth. The sky
in this upper region was dark violet
color-they even had a mechanism
for measuring the coloration.
The only accident on the flight was
the bursting, from air pressure from
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within, of glass cover Of an in
5trument called ''hermetic baro-
graph" The other instruments we're
unaffected.
DRESSURE of air inside the cabin
rose, so they let out little of it,
as they had intended to do, and for
which purpose they had provided a
stop clock.
How did you feelP" the cores
pondents asked.
Gust the way we do now" laughed
Prokofiev. He explained that they
did not need artificial light, the sun
light was even little too strong for
comfort. Next time Wen take dark
glasses"
About II o'clock they threw out
ballast, and rose to the maximum
height. The log reads;
"12;55 pm. Pressure 49.7 to so
millimeters (of mercury. The indi-
Gator on the altimeter varies nearly
10 meters"
With these laconic words they. es-
tablished 8 new record, the highest
that man has ever flown above the
earth
Shortly afterwards they began to
descend, and landed at pm. near
Kolomna, about go miles southeast of
Moscow, and near a factory whose
workers greeted them warmly STRAIT
ostat, balloon and gondola both, and
instruments and crew, we're in per-
feet condition.
A couple of days later the crew re-
eciyed a message Of congratulations
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Stage and Screen
Daniel Fr0hmuH, Maurice
SchUdrtz, To Produce Eng
ltsh Version OF "Yoske KoIb"

Daniel Frohman, who has been in
active for many years, announces
that he will present, in association
with Maurice Schwartz, an English
version Of "Yoshe Kalb" The play
will be presented on Broadway next
month with cast Of some sixty &C.
tors, directed by Schwartz. The
English version was prepared by Fritz
Block and has twenty-six scenes. The
Yiddish version is now being played
on week days at the Yiddish Art
Theatre.
"A Piper's Son." new drama by
Allan Scott, will be produced by
Guthrie McClintic some time later
this season. McClintic is now direct
ing Romeo and Juliet" THE Bar
retts Of Wimpole Street" and Can
dide" for his wife Katherine Cornell,
who will take the three plays on
tour.
Lennon RobinSon's new comedy,
rs Life Worth Living" will have it's
American premiere this evening az
the Masque Theatre. Robinson, who
is the director Of the famous Abbey
Theatre in Dublin, staged the pro-
duction. The principal players are
Whitford Kane, Margaret Wycherly.
jerome LAWYER, Octavia Kenmore
and Mary Ricard.
'Birthright," new play by Rich
ard Maibaum, is announced for the
week Of Nov. 20, at a Broadway
theatre. Sylvia Field, That's Lawton,
Harold Elliot and Alan Bunce head
the cast.
The New Amsterdam Theatre will
house Gowns By Roberta" the new
musical play by jerome Kern and
Otto Harbach. The musical, which
is based on a story by Alice Duer
Miller, will open on Nov. ID.
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"Oniy Yesterday" Opens At
Radio City Today

"Oally Yesterday" Is the new screen
feature opening today at the Radio
City Music Hall. Margaret Sullivan
and John Boles play the leading
roles.
A panorama OF old New York, in
five scenes, is the principal stage
feature this week. The number was
designed by Vincente Minnelh, art
director OF Radio City Theatres and
will have Belle Flower, Viola Philo,
the ballet and the ensemble in the
cast.
Invitations are going out today for
the special invitation showing on
Friday night Of the new Soviet Yid-
dish talkie, Laughter Through
Tears" which will open this Saturday
at the Acme Theatre.
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Unit 5, Section 1, Communist Party,
has raised $l45 for the Daily Worker
and is still going strong. Unit 5
wants to know what is the matter
with the other units in Section l that
they are so slow in the Drive to save
our Daily Worker.
r. Babchik, member Womens
Council No. 40, Brighton Beach, N.
Y, collected s2.4o for the Daily
Worker at a celebration of Louis Ber-
kovitz's great grandchild Berkovitz,
who is 30 years old, gave the first
quarter.
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How the Soviet Union Conquered the Stratosbhere
B alloon Was Built
Completely With
Soviet Material

signed by Stain, Molotov, Voroshiiov
and Kaganovich, notifying them that
these leaders would propose to the
Central Executive Committee Of the
Soviet Union that the crew receive
the Order Of Lenin.
"You can say that the French
Radio Agency's report that our in
struments were wrong and that we
went up only 1900 meters instead
Of $4,000 is Just rubbish" Prokofiev
stated Not only we're our instru-
ments carefully made, checked by
the best scientists, but some Of them
were placed outside the gondola and
beyond the reach Of any member of
the crew. To open the Theoretically
sealed gondola," he had explained in
another connection, would have
meant instant death"
Then" he added, "the stratostat
was in view ard under constant OBJ
servation through astronomical in
struments from the earth, and by
a well known process of "triangula
ton" its height was very well checked
from below. (The calculation used
is the same as that in astronomy,
surveying and range finding for artil-
lery; it is quite accurate) The fig
ures calculated by astronomical meth
DDS from the ground showed that at
the top Of the flight we reached a
height of 1900 meters. They agree
with the figures Of the instruments
in the stratostat"
Prokofiev and Godonuv smiled
again when q news item in IZvestia
was mentioned, which said that the
American Lieutenant Settle hoped to
rise to the shakespeare the next week,
but did not expect to beat the So
Wet record. 1t spoke volumes for the
victory Of Soviet technique in the
year 1898.
THEY laughed outright when in
L formed that first reports in capt.
talist papers called both of them
professors"
1--WE are workers." they said, work
ers of the Soviet Union have shown
that they can do what capitalists
think only gray-haired professors are
capable of. That is because Of the
conditions here, where workers, scien-
fists, and Red commanders can work
as friends together for a common
goal, and where the Communist
Party and the government give every
opportunity for them to do So"
- 80 -
they gave a few details.
Prokofiev said: Il was grown and
brought UP in the Young Communist
League and the Communist Party"
He was through with school in 1918.
He was sent by the Party to work
in the army as political commissar.
He studied military science like the
other political leaders in the army,
and was finally transferred to be
commander.
Godunov spoke up: Il want to say
that Commander Prokofiev was the
nerve center and leader of the whole
construction and flight Of the STRAIT
ostat"
Prokofies is 81 years old. Godunov
is Al. GOuuilOV Is SllSIiIly Ilic oul6il-
er of the two, very energetic. He
graduated from the Military Aero
nautics Academy, and has been an
engineer ever since. His father was
a peasant In the Central Black Soil
Region.
Birnbaum was a private In the
Czarist army, is also graduate Of
the Aeronautics School, after the
revolution.
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BIG THEATRE NIGHT Auspices OF
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TUNING I'm

NEW YORK-The Workers Short
Wave Club will meet tonight at $50
at TAO Prospect Ave. Cbasement)
Bronx.
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Paul Luttlnger, Master OF Ceremonies.
Dancing till 3 am. Professional entertain
ment. 30 native West African Dancers.
Taylor Gordon, FS.U. Balalaika Orchestra.
Variety Artists. Adm soc. at Webster Hall,
i1o Z. 18th St., at $50 pm. Auspices FS.U.
New York District
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TONIGHTS PROGRAMS

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TOO p. M.--Mountaineers Music
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