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Evening star., 1933-10-04
Gelatin Custard.

Two ounces Of gelatin, three eggs,
three cupfuls Of milk, and sugar. Dis
solve the gelatin in a oupful Of cold
water, letting it scak for about an hour.
Put the milk, the beaten eggs. and
sugar enough to sweeten in the double
boiler and boil until it thickens. Then,
while it is boiling hot. stir into it the
dissolved gelatin. Add any f1avoring
desired Put the mixture into a mold,
and when it is cold pour it out onto a
pretty serving dish and serve with
cream,
Evening star., 1933-10-04
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.

Grapes. Wheat Cereal with Cream
Shirred Eggs, Bacon
Cornmeal. Griddle Cakes
Maple Sirup. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Spinach. with Hard Cooked Egg
French Bread, Pineapple Tapioca
Waters. Tea.
DINNER.
Cream Of Onion Soup
Lambs Chops. Spanish Style
Baked Potatoes. String Beans,
Waldorf Salad
Cottage Pudding. Coffee.
GRIDDLE CAKES.
Mix one cup cornmeal with one
teaspoon salt and two teaspoons
sugar, and scald with three-quar-
tiers of a cup of boiling water.
Beat one egg until light. add
half cup cold. sweet milk,
and combine the two mixtures;
then stir in one teaspoon baking
powder, we'll mixed with one cup
white -four. Beat well and bake
on not grlQQle.
PINEAPPLE TAPIOCA.
Soak one cup tapioca overnight.
In morning put on stove in dou-
BILE boiler, and when boiling hot
add one cup sugar and boil un-
til clear. Add one small cup
grated or chopped pineapple. Stir
well and chill. Serve with
whipped cream.
LAMB CHOPS.
Crop three small onions and
two sweet green peppers, and cook
until tender in one-Quarter cup
butter; stir in two tablespoons
flour, seasoned with one teaspoon
curry powder and one teaspoon
salt, add slowly one and one-half
cups stock and one cup cooked
tomatoes. and stir and cook 10
minutes. Brown two pounds
lamb chops on both sides, place
them in a baking pan, pour the
sauce over them and bake until
done.
oCop-r:g-t. 1"33o 4
Evening star., 1933-10-04

to a game contract.
E i t h e r we are
checked by signofs
so that We stop at
two in a suit Cor
sometimes at one
no trump) or else
finding the signals
are not against us,
we go on to game.
We like to take
C o n s / d e r able
chances for games
once we are not
halted by singofs;
for under these
conditions there is
no question of a
misft. and there
fore no danger OF
a serious penalty.
Evening star., 1933-10-04
Reddy Learns Respect.
Who doth his adversary scorn
An error makes that he will mourn.


~ EDDY FOX had been hunted so
often, and so often had out
II witted the Dogs who had chased
i him, that he had grown to feel
that he was too smart for any
of them. For one only had he any
real respect and that one was Bowser
the Hound. wise old Bowser who, from
long experience, has learned the way
Of Foxes and is not easy to fool. But
even Bowser, Reddy didn't really fear,
for they had been neighbors so long
and Bowser had followed him so often
that Reddy had learned just what tricks
would fool BoWser. So Reddy was in
clined to scorn all Dogs.
Now mad come to the neghborhood
q new Dog, young black-andw white
Hound with just as good a nose as
Bowser's. who was just as wise in the
ways of Foxes and who could run faster
than Bowser ever could. The first time
Evening star., 1933-10-04

General Principle.
1t is true that a: times we bid to,
but not beyond. three in a suit: but
this is exceptional. the bidding being
then dropped because the strong trump
suit is found to be duplication. both
of the partners being unable to continue
because in each case they have too
many losers outside the suit, and needed
to hear bid Of no trumps or a second
suit in order to account for some of
the losers in the off suits and so give
an apparent game chance based on the
approximate count of losers. At that,
we usually go On to game in rubber
play; under match-point scoring It is
often advisable to stop at three and
accept Ear on the bidding, hoping for
little luck in the play. One is so
often allowed to make four when one
has bid only three. whereas had four
been bid. the defense would make no
mistake in gathering in four tricks.
You Already Know the Theory.
When Sims player opens the bid
ding as dealer or in second position
he does so because his hand contains
either natural rebid or rebid material
Either he can rebid his suit or bid a
Evening star., 1933-10-04
N A T u r E. S
C. HI IL d r E N
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
Black Walnut.

"HIS is our most patriotic tree.
Here are a few of Its achieve
mcnts during the World War:
In the form of gun stocks it was
in the first-line trenches, IN the
air as plane 'propellers, on the battle
fields as steering wheels for trucks and
ambulances. The shells of the nuts
were used in the manufacture of carbon
for gas masks and the juice Of the
green hulls for stains used In ca
mouf1age.
You can see why the black walnut is
being planted by the thousands as
memorial trees. Could any tree be
more fitting?
After so mar years of faithful serv-
ice to the wo, j, the tree is coming into
Evening star., 1933-10-04

you think would amuse her
My dear Mrs. POST am going to
college this Fall and would like to know
now what is expected of boy when he
invites a girl from cut of town to any
Of the house parties or dances at school.
Evening star., 1933-10-04
Crossing the Rubicon.

TN the Sims system there is a great
gulf fixed between contracts for
two odd in a suit and contracts
/ above that When by constructive
bidding Gas distinguished from
competitive bidding against bidding
opponents) we go beyond this stage of
two odd, we nearly always continue
Evening star., 1933-10-04
Concerning the Young

~ EAR Mrs. Post-Should a
IS young girl Of IS pay
party call after dining with
strangers, although tn e
hostess daughter is a
schoo,mate of hers? And should she
leave a visiting card? After such an
invitation. is there anything girl OF
this age can possibly do to return the
Evening star., 1933-10-04

Shanghai Building Gains.
Building activity in Shanghai, China
Is increasing
Evening star., 1933-10-04

Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con-
tract that are addressed to this newspaper
with self-addressed stamped envelope.
Evening star., 1933-03-22
High Price Levels and
Government Paw Cuts
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
Before the administration proceeds
with any drastic slash in. the salaries
Of Federal employees on duty in Wash
ington, it would be well to give serious
consideration tc one angle of the situa-
ton which has evidently been given
little thought. That is that price levels
in Washington have not come down
as they have In other cities of the
country.
For instance-rentals Of homes and
apartments have been maintained
virtually at the wartime level-in many
instances higher. This is undoubtedly
due to colluSion among the large real
estate owners. the operations of shylock
mortgage companies. watered stock and
other elements of fictitious "cost" which
are. of course. passed on to the lucklesS
yictim-the fellow who pays the rent.
While food prices here have dropped
to some extent, they are still high in
comparison with other cities. ANY one
who doubts this will get much illumi-
mating information by a perusal of the
food advertisements in out-of- town
newspapers. Whether or not the
answer to this is that the Washington
food market is artifically controlled, I
am unable to say. Certainly, the evi-
dence seems to point in that direction
Clothing is about the only COM
modify in which We of Washington
seem to have received any substantial
beneht from the generally lowered scale
OF prices throughout the country.
I sincerely trust these matters will
be given consideration before any whole
sale salary reduction program is mapped
out for the Federal employees of WASH
mgton. CARLIN F. WALKER,
Evening star., 1933-03-22

pean historians were hostile: their own
codices were wantonly destroyed: their
race perished by the double process Of
massacre and misrepresentation.
But the excavation Of sculptured
pyramids and obelisks, temples and
palaces. may serve to cleanse their
memory. Meanwhile the application Of
modicum Of logic to the problem Of
their character may be helpful. Is 1t
likely that Q people undeniably skilled
in most, If not all, of the arts Of civ
ilization, as the term is used today.
were also at one and the same time
stepped In cruel ignorance, sunk In
hideous superstition? Would such
people very long have suffered the
tyranny Of heather priests who prac-
ticed systematic murder? Granted that
the religious ideals Of the Mayans were
primitive, does it inevitably follow that
they were degenerate? These questions
answer themselves. The romanticists
who have blackened their name have
performed . disservice to the human
species.
Evening star., 1933-03-22

proved 50 futile. to get rid Of the alley
dwellings at one blow, so to speak. by
the simple expedient Of tearing them
down. The war brought complications
which interfered with the original plan,
and when the war was over another
difficulty presented itself-this being
that nothing had been done to house
the alley dwellcrs If they were deprived
Of their alley homes.
The American Institute Of Architects
has proposed a new plan for alley clear
ance and conversion, founded on the
r. F. C.'s policy Of lending money for
such projects. The plan proposes the
creation of housing commission. en-
powered to condemn land, and the
formation Of limited dividend corpora
tions that would build homes for rental
at moderate rates, converting alley prop
erty to other uses. This plan has been
approved by the Park and Planning
Commission and others who have inter-
ested themselves in Washington's alley
problem. The new Congress, 50 much
to be engaged with all types of recon-
struction work, would do well to con-
slider the merits Of the legislation
necessary to make the plan effective.
Evening star., 1933-03-22
More Mayan Monuments.

The scientists Of the Carnegie 1nSti-
tuition group in Mexico continue to re-
port discoveries of Mayan remains.
Gradually, step by step, site by site, a
whole empire is being brought to light.
A rich and amazingly vigorous civiliza-
ton must have existed in Mexico proper
and in Yucatan at q period which in
vestigators estimate at twelve centuries
ago. Such magnificent monuments as
those thus far retrieved from the jungle
could have been reared by none but
a talented and well-organized people.
The cultural development of the
Mayan nation must have been excep-
tional. They had q highly gifted art
sense, broadly socialized. They had
science, also generally democratized.
They had government, law and order.
They had religion. Because their de-
signs are bizarre and unusual. in the
Judgment Of critics working in the
Western tradition, they have been de-
nominated barbarian, and because their
political and theological ideas are
strange they have been stigmatized as
savage, but the charges Of human sac
riflce, cannibalSm and the like which
have been brought against them by fic-
tionists and other irresponsible writer's
remain to be proved. Their first E2rs-
Evening star., 1933-03-22
Apply Economies to
Officials Higher Up
the Editor Tho Star.

To the Editor OF The Star:
In the list of needed economies, sug-
gested by the President, there is no
mention Of cutting his own salary, nor
that Of his cabinet, nor yet again that
of the Supreme Court judges, although
we read of "slashing reductions in the
pay Of the different services" Why Is
this? Why, again, with the drastic
measures planned for the Army, are the
members of Congress allowed to 60 to
Walter Reed Hospital, at $50 monthly,
when they are certainly able to pay at
other hospitals?
It would, indeed. seem that, given q
high seat in Washington, those In
power consider 1t their right to squeeze
every one but themselves. Uncle Sam
has already cut his lighting branches
more than 8 per cent, but what else has
he done? Would 1t not be fair for Mr.
Roosevelt to take his own medicine, and
give some to his friends? And how
about Congress giving up public hair
cutting, as well as headache tablets
and other things that cost the Govern
ment money. Why not really balance
the budget, starting with "the man
farther up" In washington.
ALFRED G. JOYCE.
Evening star., 1933-03-22

Wilson might have called "a little band
OF W1llful men," i.e., the quartet which
voted against the Roosevelt economy
bill. Senator Patrick A. McCarran of
Nevada is as senatorial-looking a
gentleman as adorns the new chamber
He has a fine shock of wavy iron gray
hair, cut and worn in a statesmanlike
bob. and is altogether an impressive
figure. Like his colleague. Senator Kew
Plttman, he took part in the Tonopah
and Goldfield mining booms. Senator
McCarran ranks among Nevada's emf.
nent Jurists, having been for many
years an associate justice of the State
supreme Court and part of the time
chlef Justice. He was born and lives
at Reno.
Perhaps Washington is soon to make
the acquaintance Of brand-new lobby
one representing railroad stockholders
ana bondholderS. The PENNSYLVANIA
railroad Co., in distributing its recent
one per cent dividend, invites its stock
holders to assist in securing relief from
those unfair advantages now favorine
competitive and subsidized transporta. .
tlon agencies" The railroads. it saws.
ask only for fair, reasonable and sound
feoeral and State regulation of all forms
OF transportation as being essential for
tne protection of the railroad invest.
ment. IN the public interest. and neces-
Sary TO bring. about a more EQUITABLE
distribution Of the burdens, in the form
OF taxation, now imposed upon the rail-
roads to defray the expense of building
ana maintaining highways and the tre-
tion.'
r r ~
One OF New York's tabloid papers has
Iound IT the part of good taste to start
public subscription for the installation
of swimming pool at the White House
SO that President Roosevelt may con-
tmue his aquatic exercises. The paper
itsen mas subscribed 81 900, and the plan
Is to accept small contributions of even
pennies or stamps from New Yorkers,
mainly children
In Latin American diplomatic quar-
terS some eyebrows have been raised
over the appointment of Josephus Daniels
eS Ambassador to Mexico. The North
carolina editor was Secretary of the
Navy when President Wilson ordered a
united States fleet to take Vera Cruz
and. on another occasion. to demand an
apologetic salute to the Stars and
Strlpes. Mr.. Daniels presumably was
the one who actually gave the fleet its
instructions. President Roosevelt was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the
tlme. nevertheless and Notwithstanding,
Mexico has pronounced the World War
head OF the Navy Department ambassa-
dorially persona gratissima.
X X
President Roosevelt was asked by a
caller one day this week what he
thought about joining the new peace
club which Macdonald and Mussolini
have just formed. It was indicated that
the White House would fTst like to
know what the dues are.
(Copyright 1Q33l
Evening star., 1933-03-22

Great literature is living. cropping
up In the most unexpected places and
ways. 1t has q way Of taking care
Of itself at all times.
There Is new and good book on
the market which perhaps not every
reader will recognize as deriving from
Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass"
And the author Of this new book no
more copied old Walt than the latter
copied Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Each writer. in turn, struck by the
being his literary blood brother, in the
spiritual sense. used the other as
base to work from, that was all.
Emerson was the granddAddy Of this
intellectual line, Whitman the father
and Max Miller, author Of He Went
Away for Awhile" the son.
Solidly at the bottom stands the
great Emerson, upon whose independ-
ent straightforward thinking a queer
fellow by the name Of Walt Whitman
erected an unusual literary building.
This edifice, least well known of
great American books, at least as far
as the so-called general public is con-
cerned, Is called Leaves of Grass"
Almost every one who pretends to
any knowledge of American literature
at all has heard the title, but an amaz-
ingly large number Of such persons
have never read word of the book
itself.
At this point. let there be an inter-
lude, an interjection. an aside, a di-
gression.
Why are so many readers afraid of
the term literature" and especially of
great literature?"
One would think these words pos
sessed teeth, and were fully capable
of biting the intrepid person who dared
to pronounce their names
Great literature, forsooth!
1t seems as If there is a section of
mankind, especially in our modern
America, terribly afraid of calling any,
thing great which is great.
To speak Of book as literature"
is to reveal ones curious self as old
fashioned, behind the times. To dare
to insinuate that 1t is just as easy to
read a good book as poor one is to
bring down upon ones head the laugh
ter of those who know better.
There is, however, nothing mysterious
about the words great literature"
nothing which any one need be afraid
OF, or ashamed Of: the truth Is that
any one of any discrimination at all
knows which are the books deserving
the title and which not-after they
are fifty or a hundred years old, or
thereabouts.
Allowing for the enthusiasm of Ger
tain persons who, for reasons of their
own, may fancy book just as another
man may fancy tropical fishes. there
still remain the millions of readers who
are united on the real books of the
world
While their judgments, and especially
their likings, would differ greatly, most
Of them would be willing to admit that
certain collection Of. books deserved
to be known as great literature"
There would be nothing mysterious
about it, and especially nothing high
brow" So many persons today have
such a repugnance to the high brow"
whatever that Is. that they would be
willing to forswear their own judg-
ments to avoid it.
X
Even those who have not read
Leaves Of Grass are willing, in most
cases. to admit it into the honored
ranks Of real literature.
Evening star., 1933-03-22
High Wages a Bar to
RenOvizing Property
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
am one Of those property owners
who believes in your articles about reno
VIKING old property, as I have a few
houses and am still trying to keep them
In good shape.
believe the real basic reason why
some property owners are not doing the
same is because Of the fact that our
laborers, carpenters, br1cklayers, etc.,
still maintain their high rates for their
labor.
I. for one. can rel. .e.nber back in 1880
to 1900 when the car. t5nters were get
ting $l.50 to - q day. Bricklayers,
$3.50 to IS q day, and others who
were working for less than that.
Now, about this excuse that some Of
them give as to the high cost Of living
Today it is much cheaper to live than
in those days.
higher IN those days; take wearing ap-
parel for instance, whoever saw such
prices as there are now? I remember
back in 1895 paid $50 for dress suit
and now you can buy one for SIS to
$40. Another thing I can recall back
In those dayS-When wanted to buy
my wife a birthday present my sister
suggested a nice hat, SO she and went
downtown and chose hat that cost
me the sum of $l8 Now you can buy
hat as cheap as 95 cents and a very
good one for q little less than IS. I
really don't see how people can be talk
ing about the high cost Of living. Where
does 1t come In?
Let's take some other things into
consideration. IN those days the poorer
class of people didn't have the money
to spend on radios, automobiles, tele-
phones. gas, electric power, and garages,
as they do nowadays.
Another thing: We had some hard
Winters but the people managed to save
a little for a rainy day, but now they
can't save because they can't get the
work as owners are not going to pa
high wages.
I really believe that If the labcrers
would work for less that there would
be more work for them.
My reason for believing this is not
because I am an advocate of cheap
labor for believe in good living wages.
However, 1t can be readily understood
that property owners would be better
able to have repairs made if labor
were more reasonable.
For instance, If properties In Wash
lngton, D. c., were kept up better a
good impression would be made on all
visitors. and people would wish to make
their homes in such a nice. clean, up
to-date city. whereas, now, no doubt
remarks are made as to the horrid
and dirty looking houses in some Sec
tions Of Washington.
Another thing which I know, and
which we all know. is that the rents
are little high. II the Government
would come down on the assessed value
of property We wouldn't have such
high property taxes to pay and then
the rents could come down. As it is
now. how can We come down with
rents when the assessments on prop
erty are IS and Sc foot and you
can't get So foot if you sell? If this
can be cut. We, the property owners, can
In turn cut our rents to balance our in
come and expenses
WILLIAM PEEL.
Evening star., 1933-03-22
A Mans Views as to
Women's High Heels
To the Editor Of The Star.

10 the Edltor OF The Star:
I thoroughly agree with Ella May
Powell on her stand on high heels and
wish that this world of ours had more
girls like her-sensible girls who think
more Of their health than they think
Of their style dictators.
Every time I see girl wearing low
heel shoes I unccnsciously think
there goes a sensible girl"
Many times I have gotten into ar
guments with girl friends over this is
sue of heels. once one girl wanted to
know If heels meant more to me than
the girl herself. While this argument
quieted down. there still are times when
we do not agree and we will only agree
when low heels come back to stay.
Since Mrs Roosevelt is deeply inter-
ested in the Girl Scouts and the
physical welfare of the girls of this
great Nation, it is not too much to ex-
pect her to lead the movement to low
heels for all kinds of dress. She is
broad-minded enough to realize that
physical welfare and bodily comfort are
much more to be desired than stylish
effects.
While have never bought any foot
gear for any young lady, I often stop
to gaze In the windows of shoe stores
and only see the latest high-heel STYLES
on display. There is no doubt that
the predetermined young woman will
have a difficult time finding the right
shoes. BY using the wrong shoes the
people help industry. BY this mean
they help the drug stores to sell articles
for foot comfort; aid the chiropodists,
but ruin their own health.
But as long as women choose to fol-
low the style in vogue high heels will
undermine their health. In time they
may grow hoofs, but ths tendency is
SO slow that it may be thousands of
years before they will be aware of this
effect.
Nothing has yet been found that will
create a new style quicker than that OF
following nationally known figures
Mrs. Roosevelt would make no mistake
in leading the 1ow-heel parade
have often walked with different
girl friends and notice that those wear
ing low heels always withstand the
rigors Of long walk much better than
the high-heeled shod girls.
Can you imagine how women wearing
trousers can be told from the men?
Just look at their shoes; If they are
wearing "stilts" you will be sure that
they are women. ANDY MACK.