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Evening star., 1933-10-08
Pays on Loan Promptly

THE nrst repayment on . loan from the land
] bank commissioner Office was made ~
. 7s-year- farm owner just Is days after
he received the loan.
The loan was 5000. to be paid OF in equal
installments over q period Of 13 years. but
the farmer, Harry E. Brown Of Mount Carmel,
III, because Of his advanced age, vas anxious
to wipe the Indebtedness OF his farm as rapidly
as possible and returned $500 Of the amoant
borrowed almost Immediately. The farm on
which the advance was made has been u his
possession since 1896.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
OYSTERS Irritation and Pearl

REARIS are found in shellfsh Of various
7 kinds but usually in the pearl oyster. Oys-
ter shells are lined with a smooth coating OF
mother of pearl, or nacre. Layer by layer the
oyster builds it up. When a foreign substance
enters the oysters tissue the little animal stops
the irritation by surrounding the object with
coating Of nacre. or perhaps several coats. 80
that 1t can do him no injury. These protective
balls Of pearl are taken from the oyster to be
used as jewels
OF all the pearl fisheries. those near Ceyion
are the greatest. Diving for pearls Is resu-
Lar business employing . great many workers.
Each oyster boat usually has five divers. They
70 down repeatedly, each time taking . basket
fastened to q rope. When the diver reaches
the bottom he scoops up the shells with his
basket.
The dangers Of such an occupation are not
trivial. Sometimes the men are stamg by Jelly
fish, Again they may stay down too long. and.
overestfmating their ability to 60 without
breath, will be brought up dead. The divers
hold their noses when they descend. An Arab
can stay under from 80 to 90 seconds. but
Tamil diver usually not so long.
A pearl divers pay consists of one-third a
the oysters he brings up. Then he may hunt
through them for the prizes and By selling the
pearls make his wages. The days catch On
an oyster boat IS taken to . rot*tng ground
where the oysters Lie in piles for . week q %
and are allowed to decay before the pearls aEe
picked out.
The pearls that are gathered vary greatly IN
she and shape They are sorted ~ being
sifted througi, holes in little pans that look
Hike ash trays.
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colonels major. I captain. II Ieutenants.
ensgns. 10 sergeants, 155 rank and file,
horses, wounded
Names Of Ofhcers Killed and Wounded.
'Killed-S5th Light Infantry. Capt d. 8.
Hamilton, Lieut.. Codd 4th, or Kings Own,
Lieut. Woodward.
"Wounded-S5th Light Infantry. Col Thorn
ton. Lieut.. Col. Wood, and Maj. Brown. sew.
(an left at Bladensburg) .-2lst. Capt. Rennie,
sew. (not dAng) ).-4th. Lieut.. Hopkins. sew:
Lieut.. Mackenzie. 81; Lieut. Stavely, rev. Oeit
at Bladensbrg); Lieuts. Boulby and Field 81
2lst. Lieut.. Grace, d.-s5th Lieuts. williams
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and Burrel, sew: r. Maunsen, ST.: O'Conner
and Gascoyne. sew; Hickson and 0leig, ST.;
Couchley, sev-th, Ems. Buchanan, sew. Cleft
at Bladensbmg; Ensign Reddock, severely"
Gen. Ross added glory, achieved by the
capture Of Washington, was short-lived. for
on September IL he was killed at Baltimore
by . chance shot while accommodating that
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town" His remains were inferred in st. Paul's
churchyard, Halifax, on September 20. under
. discharge of half minute guns, and followed
to the grave by the grenadier company Of the
e4th. by all the principal naval and military
o6acess and q large number Of Inhabitants"
THE burning Of Washington was not entirely
! approved in England, and when the ques-
ton vas up In Parliament on the approval of
the Prince Regents report on the Affairs Of the
government. Lord Grenvile said that the
speech spoke only Of new burthens, Of severe
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additions: no economy. no husbanding, no re-
duction. He reprobated the manner In which
the war was pursued against America. AT
Warrington we had destroyed buildings not
connected with military purposes, though in
Europe they had always been spared during
the last 20 years"
In the House Of Commons, Mr.. White
Evening star., 1933-10-08

THE claim has been made that our troops
] lacked ammunition at the battle Of Bladens-
burg, and maybe this is true. Undoubtedly it
k 20 from our standpoint But here is what
1lr. Ross writes home:
Total amount of cannon taken, 206; 500
barrels of powder, 100000 rounds Of musket
ball cartridges. 40 barrels Of hne-grained
powder, a large quantity Of ammunition OF
different natures made up.
'The navy yard and arsenal having been set
On fire by the enemy before they retired, an
immense quantity Of stores Of every description
was destroyed Of which no account could be
taken; seven or eight very heavy explosions
during the night denoted that there had been
large magazines Of powder.
IN. B.-The remains of near 10000 stand
Of arms were discovered which had been de-
stxoyed by the enemy"
But 1t really did cost Gen. Ross more than
one would expect under the circumstances,
for IN his return of his casualties he enumerates
the following:
Return of Killed Wounded, and Missing,
on the oath Of August.
~One captain, 2 lieutenants, s. sergeants, Sc
1ank and file. 10 horses, knleds 2 lieutenant
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05
T0mboy Of Pictures
Turns Ritzie Lady in
"BlOndie Johnson

Joan Blondell, the wise-cracking
hoyden Of the movies, has gone ritzie.
For the first time in her moving pic
ture career she is all decked out like
Christmas tree in the First Ma
tional production, Blonde johnson, "
which comes to the Paramount The
atre tomorrow only!
It just SO happened that in all the
picture roles she has played her part
has not called for dressed up doll
She was a stranded chorus girl, flat
broke, in Central Park" Union
Depot" and big City Blues" In
Miss Pinkerton" she was a nurse !;
in THE Famous Ferguson Case" q
reporter.
Not that she is a society leader In
Blonde Johnson Far from it..
She is the brains and the directing
force behind a band Of bold racke-
teers, driving them by the strength
OF her personality. But she grows
rich from the plumber. and dresses
the part Of wealthy woman of the
underworld.
But fine clothes cannot hide Joan's
personality. She Is the same gay,
reckless hoyden beneath all her trap
pings, the same reasonable, likable
Joan. Chester Morris plays opposite
Joan, and others In the cast include
Allen jenkins, Claire Dodd, Earle
Foxe and Mae Busch. The screen
play Is by Earl Baldwin and the d.
rection by Ray Enright.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05
AT THE MOVIES
Comedians Are Novel
Delegates to Geneva

It isn't often movie makers are for
tunate enough to Coordinate catchy
musical numbers In such a pleasing
way with well-sustained but non
sensical plot as in "Diplomaniacs"
which opened yesterday at the Cap
ttol Theatre.
The new RKO-Radio Picture has
the irresistible appeal of broad bur-
1esque, opening on an Indian Reser-
walton where those side-splitting
comedians, Bert Wheeler and Robert
Woolsey, are commissioned to repre-
sent the Indians at the Peace Con-
ference in Geneva.
The redskins believe Willy Nilly
and Horatio Club are dumb enough
to make good diplomats. Their ad-
ventures in Switzerland, where
group Of ammunition makers attempt
to balk their efforts to get a peace
pact signed, and their romance with
e pair of hired Partisan vamps whose
kisses make men swoon and smoke
about the collar, make lively action
and riotous comedy.
The sequeac which take place
in what purports to be the Peace
Conference hall are sublimely ridi-
culous. Machine guns, mallets, and
bombs take the place of yelled in
nuendos and ironic notes. The whole
affair turns into riot of fun and
music when Wheeler and Woolsey
enlist the entire delegation in an
impromptu hlack-face minstrel act.
Marjorie White and Phyllis Barry
give the art Of making Holsters out
Of men a new verve. with Just the
proper amount Of nonsense.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05

Motor vehicle property In the Unit
ed States has valuation of more
than $4,000 000. 900. on which an an
nual tax OF more than billion dollars
Is paid, according to the American
Automobile Association.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05

The leaves Of poison ivy are ar
ranged alternately on the stem and
each leaf has three leaflets. After
contact with poison ivy, the skin
should be washed several times with
hot water and ordinary kitchen or
laundry soap.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05

The japanese, by skillful pruning,
tying and bending Of the branches,
grow miniature reproductions Of an
cient, wind-blown trees.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05

A species Of trapdoor spider, which
Is native to India, Australia; Africa
and South America, kills small birds
and sucks their blood. 1t Is the larg-
est Of all spiders.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-05

J. M. Barrie, In Dear Brutus" said
there were three things which man
can never recall: The spoken word,
TIE past life. and the neglected oppor-
tunttv.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20

homes will be desolated by loss Of their savings,
while men at the top depore conditions aid prom
Use to do better soon as business conditions war
rant.
Holding companies were venerated few years
ago as a necessary means of cheap super-power
operation. Greater efficiency was promised, cheaper
money for subsidiaries, greater safety in invest
ments. Instead, the federal trade commission, COM
pairing promises with actual practices has discov-
cred that holding companies are little more than
device for bleeding the rate-payng public Of more
money.
They join together widely scattered properties
instead Of building unified system Of intercon-
Meeting power lines. They borrow money at per
cent and loan it to their subsidiaries at per cent
They borrow back the money from the subsidiaries
and pay only per cent.
They issue securities so attenuated-with so lit
tie actual relation tn the operating companies at the
base of the structue-tha the slightest drop in an
nual revenues makes them worthless
Through the device Of collecting large fees for
alleged services to their subsidiaries thew drain off
millions of dollars Of money which is not necessary
part OF operating costs Of operating companies In
many cases, one company is paying fee greater
than the cost Of rendering services to an entire
utility system.
Mr.. Young did not propose putting an end to the
fee system, nor has any other spokesman for the
utility fnanciers. The investing public and the
paying public will be guilty of ridiculous folly if
they permit promises Of halfway, future reforms
to divert them from the very real need of govern
ment intervention at the present time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20

turn an economic issue into a
moral one. I was convinced firmly
that the half dollar which my
father had would be changed over
night into a quarter and that my
own dime would become nickel
If Bryan were elected.
Men who wore the emblem of a
little silver bug upon their coat
lapelS seemed to me no better than
pickpockets.
And there are still men think
ing and talking along the same
lines. 1t may be highly inexpedi-
ent to go off the gold standard,
but if occasion arises we can do
so without sin.
Strangely enough, some of the
most ardent supporters of gold and
nothing but gold are doing their
best to make it's maintenance i'm
possible. If we succeeded in COL
lecting every last penny of the war
debts, we would have just about
all the gold in the world.
We then would be the only
country on that standard, and our
supply of the metal would be use
full only for gliding picture frames,
making anklets for chorus girls,
and cases for watches.
Personally, I'm not going to
grow passionate in favor of the
gold standard until somebody de-
vises a way in which it can be
eaten.
Copyright. 1898. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
MONDAY. FEB. 20. 1888.
FINANCING TAXES

Many citizens will find it difficult to pay their
taxes this spring Many may lose their homes or
their farms unless relief is given.
Joseph Cain, deputy treasurer, has brought for
ward plan by which they will have another chance
He would authorize the acceptance Of notes which
bonds could be sold, the notes to be paid in INSTALL
ments the next ten years
Many organizations favor the plan. 1t recog-
nizes the need of money for government 1t is based
on the belief that there is money seeking investment
in safe enterprises 1t would solve the problem of
delinquencies, if it works
The only obstacle would seem to be the possible
inability of officials to sell bonds upon such tax
notes. Backers of the plan state that they have as
surances that there will be no difficulty in this
matter.
If that be the situation the plan should be given
trial. These are unusual times. The state and
county and cities must have money for necessary
services The people who have been thrifty in the
past find themselves in trouble and many will
lose their savings of lifetime, as represented IN
homes and in farms.
Any plan that will solve both problems at once
deserves consideration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
THE REPEAL CONVENTION

Now that it is certain that the question of re-
pealing the eighteenth amendment will be put up
to conventions whose membership will be elected for
the sole purpose of passing the matter the ques
ton of method of selection of delegates important
This convention should have more power than
Sthe electoral college. 1t will meet to do just
thing It's delegates should have judgment of
their after the people speak.
Since the convention will speak for all of Indi
ana, the delegates should represent all of Indiana
There must be chance of Misrepresentation
through division into districts under which it might
be possible for majority Of the popular vote to be
overthrow by geographical injuStces
The people should vote as a state on all the dele
gates to that convention. Preferably they should
have the chance to vote direct for against
peal with state officials charged with the duty of
recording that decision.
There should be no gerrymanders and no jockey
ing The majority decision must be translated with
little cost and be final
Neither vets nor drys should be permitted to in
ject smart practices trickery Here is one cues
ton on which the people must rule.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
HUNGER RELIEF QUICKLY

The long fight for direct federal unemployment
relief apparently is almost won in congress-
In the senate which votes today the issue has
ceased to be relief versus no relief. Many who
opposed federal aid a year ago now are its cham
pions.
Testimony from city officials and social work
ers all over the country, 10 inadequacy of private
and local relief funds, has revealed that only fed
eral money prevent widespread starvation.
The senate will choose today between two meth
DDS, one proposed by the La Toilette ostigan bill
and the other by the Wagner bill, which has been
offered as a substitute for the former measure
Both include $15,OOOOOO fund for the care of
transients, under much more intelligent and eco
nomical civilian plan than the $22OOOO0O military
camp appropriation now held up in a senate-house
conference.
Both the La Toilette Costgan and Wagner plans
also include the same liberalization of construction
loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
to combat unemployment.
Important differences exist, however, in the
terms of direct hunger relief. Senator Wagner
would have the R. F. c. loan to states an additional
$30OOO0O0O for that purpose. The La Toilette
Costigan bill would make an outright grant to the
states of $5OOOOOOOO through new federal emer-
gency relief board
On each of the three points of disagreement
it seems to us, the La Follette-Costigan plan is
preferable. Direct grants better than loans;
because many, if not most of the states and munic
qualities have exhausted their actual borrowing
capacity and justice requires that the national gov
eminent carry part OF the burden of problem
which is national in origin and scope.
The Job can not be done with $500 100000, per-
haps not even with $5OOOOOOoO. The R. F. c.
busy with other duties-has been neither efficient
nor sympathetic in administering relief funds dur
ing the last year. certainly specialized and eX
pert board could get more and better results with
the relief fund.
With the senate expected to pass hunger re-
lief bill this afternoon, the Democratic house
should be prepared to add its approval the
measure can be speeded to the White House.
Despite the misgivings Of relief advocates, we
can not believe that President Hoover will be cruel
enough to block relief by withholding his signature
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
Just Plain Sense
: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DOWN upon my poor head comes deluge of
~ protests that women who insist that keeping
a husband means eternal vigilance and perpetual
fight.
The funny thing about them is that nearly all
admit before they finish that, although the battles
have been valiant, they seldom have been won.
Reading between the lines one that the harder
the struggle has been the surer is that friend hus
band will walk off on the last page.
So I come right around to my original contention
the guy who has to be guarded from temptation
like an orchid from the wntry blast might as we'll
be thrown out in the first place Like the orchid he
will fail you sooner or later. Hence, all the hard
fighting will be for nothing.
Think of the wasted effort expended by these
poor girls and women who have deluded themselves
into thinking that one can keep husband as one
holds poodle on a chain, that true love must
depend upon Establishments, fulsome batteries, and
vulgar allurements
I'd HATE to think that American manhood had
dropped to such new low levels. still believe
that men are more valuable than their stocks and
bonds and little more dependable
Women take love too seriously. That's the
trouble. For years we had nothing sensible to put
our minds on. We passed through a period of
luxurious leisure in which had to entertain our
selves hiring gigolos and got nervous prostration
playing bridge.
We did not all do this of course-but those who
did set the standards for those Of S who did not
Gradually we came to put entir.v zoo much i'm
portance on the sex side of marriage. And most of
TIE time we didn't know exactly what we were Talk
ing about
The majority of us don't yet know what true
sexual mating means. We confuse it with senti-
mentality
And in too many instances we have cut our
selves of from reality and have not cultivated the
true loyalties that can hold men. For the decent
virtues substituted cheap tricks.
For the warming, wholesome, stable qualities that
have been our heritage through the ages, we have
set up inlsy, trivial and impermanent lures which
can not and never will attract enduring love-
May it not be possible that men, even our hus-
bands, sometimes hold us cheaply because we have
made ourselves cheap?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
MR.. YOUNG'S REFORMS

No one can quarrel with the utility industry re-
forms proposed at the insult hearings by Owen D.
Young. He is quite right when he says corporate
structures should be simpliAed so that not more
than one holding company is imposed on operating
companies and that operating companies should
make no more loans to the holding companies above
them These reforms should be put into effect.
But the fact that Mr.. Young proposes them
should not mislead any regarding the probable
ity of speedy accomplishment unless the federal
government takes a hand in the matter. Every
naughty child about to take spanking would pre-
fer to get of with promise of future reform.
And this does not mean that Mr. Youngs own
intentions in the matter not perfectly sincere.
If the new administration is content to hold
federal regulation Of holding companies in abey-
lance while attempts are made at selfreform' more
,Insun tragedies almost certainly win occur. More
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20

ONCE upon a time-perhapS it
~ was in the future rather than
in the past-the three heads of
government finance of England
and America and France got to-
gether and decided that the
method of storing gold in some
urban sub-cellar was cumbersome
and in certain circumstances even
dangerous.
They decided to take the gold
supply of the three nations to
lonely island in the middle of
the Pacific. There it was stored
under a small guard.
Not much protection was needed,
since only the head men and the
guards were informed as to the
plan and the location Of the island.
The island was equipped with
radio receiving set, but it had no
means of sending messages.
For ten years everything pro-
ceeded TRANQUILITY enough. Inter
national obligations were salts
fed by the simple device of send
ing a wireless saying, "Earmark
nineteen million of the French
gold for the United States" or vice
versa.
At the end of ten years the three
financial heads decided to look in
On the island to see how things
were getting along. They just
wanted to be on the safe side. A
fast cruiser under sealed orders
transported them to the spot.
But there was no island. Some
disturbance at the bottom of the
seas had sucked down the little
coral eminence, and with it went
the gold supply of three great ma
lions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
Tale of Lost Island

TWO of the flnanciers were
Il aghaSt. Woe is mel" said
one, and the other exclaimed,
Ibis is the greatest tragedy in
the history of civilization"
But the eldest of the trio was
not much perturbed. He paid a
passing, though rather perfume
tory, tribute to the unfortunate
guards who had died at their post,
but he went on to say, THE gold
that is gone is nothing"
His companions looked at him
with incredulity. But how is in
ternational trade to go on?" they
asked. Just as before" he an
Swered. I'VE can still send Wire
less messages and order earmark-
ing. Who will be the wiser?"
L will confess that I borrowed
the anecdote from Morris L.
Ernst, and that I doubt that the
incident ever occurred, and yet it
is basically a true story. The
sanctity of the gold standard is
largely a state of mind rather than
state of matter.
Of course, the economists have
pointed out that the supply of the
metal is somewhat limited, and
that the rate Of new production
varies only slightly. Still, there is
no sure guarantee that an even
greater Klondike might not be dis
covered suddenly some fine after
noon and vitality change that sit
uation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20

cold, outdoor air is beneficial to
their health.
There is evidence that such ex-
posure actually is beneficial, and
two British Investigators found
that the efficiency of children at
tending unheated, open-air schools
was about one-half that of chill
dren in ordinary heated schools.
From the scientific point of
view, it is extremely difficult to
separate the effects Of other fac
tors, such as good nutrition, rest,
proper medical care and attention
from the effects Of climate and
exposure.
Moreover. few, # any, children
remain with exactly the same tenn
perature conditions over a period
Of twenty-four hours, changing
constantly from school to home to
outdoors and to other places.
For this reason the question is
one of the most difficult that SCI
entific medicine is t@ing to an
SWer.