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Evening star., 1934-09-16
,. .:n.,s ~ WHERE You LIVE
BY EMILY C.. DAVIS.

4 ALL depends on where you live, whether
you are crazy not.
Now, If you went to live with the Dobu
Islanders-never mind you can't re-
member where they are-you would very
likely seem crazy to the islanders. That is
II you have a nice sunny disposition and like
to help other people, you would be crazy there
Love thy neighbor' is not the theme song OF
Dobu.
There are plenty of other places in this topsy-
turvy world where q sane American would
rate a padded cell.
On the other hand of course, a Dobu Island
er who came to New York, bringing his fears
and suspicious with him. would act too queerly
to suit the New Yorkers In no time, the
unfortunate islander would be clapped into an
observation ward and psychiatrist would be
learnedly looking him over and saying, Para
noia q pronounced case"
In other words, being sane is all matter
of what the neighbors think of you. 1t always
has been. But in the future science may
change that.
Dr. Ruth Benedict, an anthropologist at Co.
lumba University, who specializes in observing
primitive tribes, has put this question up to
psychologists:
Can't we find out what is normal behavior
for human beings?
BY that DR.. Benedict means normal be-
havior for the whole human race, the two
billion-odd human bipeds scattered over the
earth.
1t Is high time, she believes, that anthropolo-
gists should set out for islands and deserts
and other out-of-the-way places where people
have escaped being drawn into civilization and
made to fit its stereotyped pattern. Trained
scientific observers should learn what Is nor
NAL behavior as 1t seems to Fiji Islanders,
Arab nomads and African jungle folk.
VA jE WILL never know what a truly normal
w being is until we have studied people
over and compared results" So DIR. Benedict
declares in the Journal of General Psychology.
Every form of insanity that you can find in
text books of mental diseases, from delusions of
grandeur to the sadistic desire to hurt people,
is regarded as normal behavior in some Of
the world. That applies to the United States
too.
Among the abnormal types that pass for USE
ful citizens in this country, DR. Benedict men,
tions these:
The heavy handed father who lays down the
law to family, and gets his way, right or
wrong.
The clustering officer of the law who enjoys
q sense of being important by bawling out and
bullying unimportant, but luckless,
offender
The unreasonable business man who must
have every one throughout the Office jump at
his call
Modern civilization happens not to consider
these egoists crazy. But in any absolute rating
of normal behavior they would line up on the
wrong side
such individuals" says DR.. Benedict, "are
probably mentally warped to o greater degree
than many inmates Of our institutions"
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in terms of insult by the people Of tssess
primitive Indian tribes.
man went round with chip lightly bal-
anced on his shoulder looking for trouble from
man and nature. II a canoe overturned and
an Indian got ducking. his first thought was
to get even, to wipe out the shame of that
humiliating incident.
An insulted Indian could get even by dis
tributing enough property to show that he
was still great man on top of the world. Or,
he could 60 head hunting so that somebody
else would be made to mourn.
If a seriously insulted Indian had no money
to distribute and was a total loss at head
hunting, he had still one way left to get back
his self esteem. He could commit suicide. That
might seem like insulting himself, to some
one unused to the tribal lines of reasoning But
apparently not to the Indian.
1t all sounds weird and it is weird to people
reared in different society. The psychiatrists
have name for this distorted way of looking
at life which characterized the pillars of So
ciety in the coast villages. The mental disease
name would be megalomania with paranoid
tendency, or, in simpler words, a person suffer-
ing from egotism so strong that it becomes .
mania with him, and further possessed by feara
and suspicious.
NET these northwest coast Indians managed
to get along with their super-proud leaders,
just as we manage to get along with the super-
egoists of civilized life. scarcely thinking them
strange.
In fact, Dr. Benedict writes, these northwest
coast Indians represented zone of the MOST
vigorous and zestful Of the aboriginal cultures
Of North America, with complex crafts and
ceremonials and elaborate and striking arts.
It certainly had none of the earmarks of a sick
civilization"
There are societies that give their greatest
honors to people who are erratic and unstable.
Medicine men of Siberia, South Africa and
many another part of the world are apt to be
extreme mystics who go into frances and fan
down in cataleptic seizures.
people into positions where they have to guide
other people and direct their affairs? Not 90
that the anthropologists can notice it. The
curious thing Is that where society chooses to
treat abnormal types as useful beings those in
dividuals seem to rise to the occasion and per-
form their social duties to the satisfaction OF
every one.
The fact that these cases reveal Is that an
abnormal, warped type Is still abnormal and
warped whether society shuts him up or makes
a leader Of him. But the abnormal person
fgowned upon by society has the added burden
Of feeling that he is out Of step and that every
thing is wrong with his life. The abnormas
person approved by his neighbors Is not trou-
bled by battle between himself and the world.
That makes big difference 1t Is the reason
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Continued o. Fifteenth Page.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

T ALL depends on where you live, whether
you are crazy or not.
Now, If you went to live with the Dobu
Islanders-never mind If you can't re-
member where they are-you would very
likely seem crazy to the islanders. That is,
Evening star., 1934-08-05

adventure by singing and dancing his way
around the globe.
Somewhere, however. along his life route, he
had touched the Olympian hill and brought
away Herculean heritage, for he had the
strength of two men his size This hidden
power had served him well upon occasion, when
his boyish mien and shock of curls had mis-
takenly stamped him as a young dummy to
crooks whose arrest he had afterward caused.
ATS O'CLOCK that night spiffs was thread
ing his way with old-tme dancing agility
through the Broadway theater trafic, and
caught the Long Island express by illustrating
his assumption that there were Just two
classes of pedestrians the quick and the dead.
once settled on the train, he scanned the
innocent commuters with a pseudo detective
eye, but none appeared fshy. Unless one could
except their wall-eyed grins as during the jour-
ney they regarded him
That they were viewing. in his black-and-
white checks, the original cubist conception of
day and night, sailors dawn in his ruby neck
tie and the inSigne Of a ward politician in his
brown derby, was easier comprehension than
the boyish poker face'-mask- like inscrutable
framed by curls which a half hour before
had been painstakingly plastered, and were
now fringing out in straw-colored spirals from
under the cooked brim of his hat.
Unaware Of their amused glances, Splits
ahghted at the Ferndale station and was di-
rected cross country to the Hunt estate. And
although the way held obstacles and obstruc-
tons, they were as nothing compared to the
attendant posted at the Hunt gate
Refused entrance, Spills walked up the road
and made his way informally over the prickly
hedge into the grounds AS he reached the
house, two girls shrank from the intruder that
he was and fed. His ring brought a hveried
footman who scanned Splits invitation-and
Spiffsl
"Just n minute, sir, I'll"
Here, give me thatl I'm no gate craSher.
This here's a" Splits recovered his invita-
ton.
Evening star., 1934-08-05

The bell brought the butler, Hawkes. whose
eyes widened slightly. "HIll care for him." in
cockney English to the footman. Then i'm
pressively to Splits: Have you h'invitation?"
Splits fiourished the engraved card. Hawkes.
turned to the footman. "See to the salads"
Then to Splits. with a flicker Of recognition:
This way, please"
AS he followed Hawkes. down the, wide hall,
hung with medieval embroideries and ancient
armor and lighted by massive iron lamps sus-
pended from the arched ceiling, Splits glimpsed
on his left a reception room wherein were de-
posted the mems wraps, and back of that the
library. On his right were the drawing rooms.
and adjoining, the dining salon, where around
an elaborately decorated table sat the unem-
ployed guests.
At THE end of the hall Hawkes. opened q
door under the black marble staircase and
beckoned him. Across the service entry to the
dining salon. through which footmen were
bearing silver trays of green salads. Hawkes.
opened another door that led into the sun room,
which was directly back of the dining salon,
and which opened into it through palm screened
glass doors
Whats the idea Spiffs?" Hawkes. asked in
American, closing the entry door,
This invitation? A gent dropped it and it
sayin unemployed-gosh. is that them?" Splits
smiled-at the jewels and white ties beyond the
palm-screened glass. THAT fellow at the gate
said they wasn't expectin' mel But say is there
a Clare Staining and Herbert Akers here?"
That's her-that pretty young lady standing
there by the door. and Akers-he's prince"
Hawkes. enthused Too bad he's named in
this jewel"
rs Staining here?"
"On Madame's right"
Look at Papa's red carnationl"
Hes q gay old gent. but he doesn't wear
red flowers to church."
Who's the mermaid sittin' next him2" Splits
indicated a lacquered blonde In shimmering
green and silver sequins. and wearing a neck
lace Of magnificent emeralds: her long, nervous
Evening star., 1934-09-07
PARKING In MALL
DRIVES UNDER BAN
Finnan Announces Opening Of
Roadways Between Third
and Seventh Streets.

Parking will be banned, on the In
ner roadways in the Mall from Third
to Seventh streets, C. Marshall Finnan.
superintendent of the National Capital
Parks. has announced. The drives
were opened to the public yesterday.
Mr.. Finnan has inspected the work
of the contractor and accepted 1t on
behalf of the Government.
Capt. P. j. Carroll, head Of the
United States Park Police, has erected
signs on the inner roadways notifying
the public that parking will be pro-
hibited.
On the north and south driveways.
which are the outer roadways, parallel
parking will be permitted for the
transaction of Government business
and for sightseers. The National Park
Service takes the position that no
highway constructed as park drive
should be given over to parking.
Temporary buildings on the Mall
are soon to be torn down, thus per-
mitting additional road construction
to carry out the program of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission to have four roadways.
running from near the Capitol to
Fourteenth street, affording vista to
the Washington Monument.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
MOVING, PACKING q STORAGE.

WANTED-LoAD OR PART LOAD FOR
Pittsburgh Columbus. South Bend, Indian
apolis 1,000-foot insured van Leaving
Washineton Sept. II or 18th Phone
Acme Moving & Storage Co.. Geo. 1000.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
NAz|S HEAR FOOD
POLICIES PRAISED
Nation Is Independent of
Imports, Darre Tells
Party ConcIave.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NURNBERG, Germany, September
mo "untoward happening, such as
war or boycott, could starve the Ger
man people," Walter Dare, minister
of foods and agriculture, told the Nazi
party convention today.
Germany is now independent Of
foreign countries for grain, Darre said
in his discussion of the Nazi agrarian
policies.
"The significance Of our policies OF
shifting the center Of gravity from the
world to the domestic market will be-
come evident whenever foreign coun-
tries, for some reason or other, are
unwilling to place their resources at
our disposal" the minister asserted. .
Shows Imports Declining.
Dare said importation of other
agrariAn products, like oilcake, eggs.
meat, fruit, butter and vegetables, is
declining sharply. The only importa-
tions which have increased are animal
1dI anu SOuiS IL oA'o AAoAiA NoAeAA
Europe.
THE process of making ourselves
independent of foreign nations has
proceeded in a manner that formerly
would not have been deemed possible" {"
he said While in 1928 the excess Of
imports of agrarian products over ex-
ports totaled 4,820, 100000 marks, it
probably will not exceed 1000, ,0o0, 900
marks this year.
This striving for independence,
Dare said, does not mean hostility
to foreign importation. Agricultural
imports would be welcome in ex-
change for German industrial ex-
ports, he asserted.
To Parade for Hitler.
Under the leadership of Robert
Ley, the delegates will stand at at
tention before Chancellor Hitler to-
night and then form for a torch
light procession.
AS the party conclave moved from
one emotional climax to another it
appeared that Nazis who were ex-
pecting Hitler to announce the name
of his political heir" are doomed to
disappointment.
The law does not specify when he
shall make the appointment. An i'm
preston grew today that Hitler will
leave the question of q successor to
his will.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Mortgage Holder
Gets COrnstalks
When Crops Fail

OMAHA, Nebr. R.-Frank d.
Himberger, Fremont, Nebr., who
holds q mortgage on the farm Of
Marinus Nelson, near Millard,
told the District Court that
Nelson last year obtained a mora
torium under which he was to
turn over two-flfths Of this years
corn crop to Himberger.
But the drought ruined Mel
sons corn crop.
On Himberger's request, the
court ordered Nelson to turn over
two-fifths of his cornstalks. Him
berger said they are worth $6
a ton.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

Gold Worth $4,000 900.
Nearly nine tons of South African
gold, valued at $4,000, 900, was landed
at Southampton, England. from a sin
ole vessel
Evening star., 1934-09-07
VIRGINIA.

In the Mountains Of Virginia
September and October the Most
Beautiful Months.
Bryce's Hotel and Hillside Cottages,
near Orkney SPRINGS, just of famous
Shenandoah Valley. Turn west at Mt
Jackson. Va, come ten miles. Splendid
roads. Unique resort, magnifeent seem
Best fresh home grown food artesian
wells, medicinal waters, iron and sulphur
baths. a acres Fairgrounds. Dancing,
bowling, pool, swimming, tennis, free
American plan-$2.5O per day, SI5 90
week (single). SI2.5O (double). Special
rate for children. Low rate possible only
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. r.. Bryce, owners. Posi-
ofi, RaSye. Va
Evening star., 1934-09-07
AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE DAYS.
(Continued.l
THOs. J. OWEN & SON, AUCTIONEERS
1431 EYE ST. NV.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IJNrN6-
PRovED REAL ESTATE. SITUATE AT
AND HARRISON STREETS.
recorded IN Li6er No s4so sS Il folio fus 4ss su q
Columbia, and at the request Of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned trustees
VIII sell at public auction. in front of the
PEENfH DAY @ oF gEPTEARER THI EiNs Iss4
AT FOUR-THIRTY O'CLOCK PM, the
following described land and premises. situ-
ate IN the District Of Columbia, and desig-
mated as and being part of tract of land
called Mount Airy" described by metes
and s bounds: as follows, to wit: Besinning
south line Of Harrison street Ssixty feet sat
widel and the west line of Thirty-ninth
along said line of Harrson street one
hundred and twenty Q20) feet; thence
south and parallel with said Thirty ninth
sure street one hundred 900 feet; thence east
hundred and twenty (12O) feet to the west
line of Thirty ninth street, and thence
one hundred GO0l feet to Harrison street.
ana the place Of beginning being now
to bndnq as i91 SS IN square u l755 subject
covenants and restrictions Of record.
Terms Of sale: One-third of the purchase
represented by notes Of purchaser, payable
years. with interest at six per centum per
sale, secured by first deed Of trust upon
the property sold, or all cash, at the option
of the purchaser. deposit Of $500 will
be required at time Of sale. All convey
ancing, recording. internal revenue stamps
on deed etc, at cost of purchaser. Terms Of
sale to be complied with within fifteen days
from day Of sale. otherwise the trustees
reserve the right TO- resell the property at
the risk and cost of defaulting purchaser
after five days advertisement OF such resale
IN some newspaper published in Washing
ton. D. c.
GEORGE E. HAMILTON.
WILLIAM L. MILLER.
se7-d&ds,exSu Trustees
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Se1-d&oS,exSu Trustees.
THOS. J. OWEN & SON AUCTIONEERS
1431 EYE ST. NV.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
ESTATE IMPROVED BY THREE
NH0K kSo%N s%SE As AsP psEMsEs sH5MaEE
20Il WYOMING AVENUE NORTH
BY virtue of a certain deed of trust, duly
recorded in Lber No. 6016. folio 467 ct
sea-. Of the land records of the District of
Columbia, and at the request Of the party
secured thereby the undersigned trustee
pTsmlSssi% pEN4M % on OF TUESDAY S2AYi THE E1GaT- dgr
lowing described land and premises situate
in the District Of Columbia, and designated
as and being part Of lot numbered two (2l.
Loveday Pairo Of part tu Of widows hs sesi Mte
as per plat recorded in Liber r. NJ. H. Fl,
Of coumbia Sbe besnnins for the
same at the southwest corner of said lot
and. and running 1s thence easterly along the
thence. northerly. and parallel with the
westerly and parallel with wyoming avenue
thence, southerly with said west line to
the place of beginning; subject. to the
condition that the true building line shall
be 40 feet from the north line Of Wyoming
avenue, and subject to the right of the
United States TO maintain a subterranean
Terms Of sale: one-fifth Of the purchase
money to be paid in cash. balance in four
equal installments. payable in one. two.
tAllCC AOu4 WIN SiA
per centum per annum, payable semi-an-
nually from day Of sale, secured by FIRST
deed Of trust upon the property sold. or
A deposit OF $1,000 viii be required at time
of sale. All conveyancing. recording. rev.
snue stamps. etc. at cost Of purchaser
thirty days from day Of sale. otherwise
the trustee reserves the right to resell the
property at the risk and cost of defaulting
purchaser after five days advertisement
Of such resale in some newspaper published
in Washington: p; C; ~
TRUST COMPANY. Trustee.
By VIM. L. BEALE.
Vice President.
(Seal) Attest:
A. H. SHILLINGTON.
se7-d&ds exSu Assistant Secretary.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY
the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Navy Department Washington, D. G., until
10 O'Clock am. September Is. 1884. for
furnishing radial drill, corrosion-resisting
steel rollers, rosin. alcohol linseed oil,
Kerosene. coke and until 10 O'Clock am.
September 21. 1884, for furnishing chrome
green. litharge. sodium m-cyanide. aircraft
drift sights. to the Navy Yard. Washing
ton, D. c.. etc. Apply for proposals to
the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
G. J. PEOPLES. Paymaster General of the
Navy. Se7,14
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Exports to U. s. Gain.

Although total exports from Hong
kong have been declining for more
than six months, its exports. to the
United States have been increasing.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Pool to Cost $4,000.

Southgate, England, is to build at a
cost of $3l5,000 a swimming pool,
suitable for use all the year round,
with Sln-bathing Enclosures.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
$10,50O,00O FOR RELIEF
Pennsylvania Gets Allotment on
Governors Promise.

Harry Hopkins, relief administrator,
has announced Pennsylvania has
been allotted $1o,5oo,Oo0 for its
September relief needs.
The allotment was made as a result
Of Gov. Pinchot's announced intention
OF calling special session of the
State Legislature in response to Hop
kinS' insistence that the State pro-
vide "a fair share" Of the relief funds
needed. Hopkins announcement came
after a conference with Eric H. Biddle,
State emergency relief director.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Static Being Studied.

Guatemala is studying static inter-
ference during the rainy season, May
to November, when long wave radio
reception is almost impossible.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Cooperative Group to Entertain.

An entertainment will be given at
Friendship House, Third street and
Virginia avenue southeast, at 7:30
o'clock tonight, by the Southeast Co.
operative League, organized to aid the
UNEMPLOYED.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
164.70O Houses Built.

Houses built with state aid In Scot
land from 1919. when the plan was
inaugurated. to the end of 1888, num-
bered 164, 700.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
PROPOSALS.

vice PRESIDENT.
(Seal) Attest:
A. H. SHILLINGTON.
se7-d&ds. .exSu Assistant Secretary.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Wears Walters Jacket.

Richard Dabson, q London waiter,
wears his walters jacket when con-
ducting his own musical compositions
at q Bournemouth pavilion.
Evening star., 1934-04-05
GLAMOUR TO MARK.
SOVIET FUNCTION.
House.Warming of New En-.
voy to Recall Embassy's
Most Splendid Days.

A house warming for the Ambassa-
dor Of the Union Of Socialist Soviet
Republics and Mrs. Troyanovsky,
scheduled for April 10, will mark the
first party to be given in the gay old
Russian embassy since the World War.
After four months of intensive
changing. the Soviet Ambassador and
his family moved into the embassy
building the other day from their tenn
porary quarters in the Massachusetts,
avenue home where Boris Skvirsky
had been trade representative in the
pre-recognition days.
Affair to Be Exclusive.
The first social function Of Soviet
Russia will be marked by the glamor
that goes with the word exclusive.
Anglers for invitations had no luck.
The word that went out from the en-
bassy was that the guest list had to
be held down to "the usual off1cial and
diplomatic groups"
In spite Of the redecorating, in spite
Of the democratic simplicity of the
Ambassador and Mrs. Troyanovsky,
their guests next Tuesday night prob
ably will feel they are stepping straight
into the covers of a book of bygone
days.
They will be greeted with some Of
the splendor of the old Russian
regime-purely as a matter Of present.
day economy. The Russians already
Evening star., 1934-04-05

had an embassy and the practical
thing was to use Il. Eugene 6choen,
the architect chosen to make It hab-
table. reasoned that the money at
his disposal had best be spent on
modern heating. cooling, kitchenry.
Original splendor Remains.
Soto use his own phrase saved
the original splendor of the mansion
ito the last hair Of the last cupid. /"
The Soviet republics guests win
sweep up q grand stairway, or ornate
metal-work balustrade. They will be
ushered into . reception room al
white and gold and mirror refiec-
tions and parquetry floor. Their re-
freshments will be served In q state
dining room Of exquisite wood
paneling.
And the tapestry walls beside the
stairway will have q diamond plan de-
sign that looks very much like the
late Mr.. Pullman had, years ago, In
all the plush Of all his sleeping cars
For the mansion Is the one that he
built.
Evening star., 1934-04-05

Maryland" Nelly Bly," "Oh, Suzan-
nah," when You and I Were Young,
Maggie; Ben Bolt" Log Cabin in
the Lane" "Shoo Fly" "On the
Beach at Long Branch" "Finnegan's
Wake" "TasseS on the Boots" Coal
Oil Johnny" Down in the Coal
Mine" Silver Threads Among the
Gold" "Grandfather' Clock "Aileen
Alanna,'' 'Goodby Sweetheart, Good
by; "Mulligan Guards" Captain
Jinks." THE Man on the Flying
Trapeze, Champagne Charlie" Baby
Mine" and Paddle Your Own Canoe :"
John Clagett Proctor was presiding
officer for the evening. The associa-
tion officially adopted resolution
favoring old-time music as opposed
to modern jazz Two new members
elected were Pinckney c. Hilton and
Henry NJ. Fry.
Evening star., 1934-04-05
TELEGRAPH INDUSTRY
HEARINGS SUSPENDED
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N. r. A. hearings on q code for the
telegraph industry were suspended
yesterday until April 18, when the
administration hopes to be able to
present a draft for a pact to regulate
communications
The adjournment was taken after
I J. c. Willever. first vice president of
Western Union. presented a general
rebuttal statement to the attacks made
Evening star., 1934-04-05

upon his company by Postal Tele-
graph and labor spokesmen.
Under questioning by N. r. A. ON
cials. Willever agreed that the Ameri-
can Telephone & Telegraph Co.'S wire
printer service to individual business
might involve some unfair practices
but he questioned whether the busi-
ness of the telephone company could
be regulated under the code.