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Evening star., 1934-12-16
Christmas Leaves Hold
Interest Of Midshipmen
Movies Only Diversion at Academy-Mrs. John
R. Van Naeel of San Diego. Calf,
to Visit Annapolis.

worth have arrived from Panama and
were the week end guests of Capt. and
Mrs. John B. Pollard. Capt. and Mrs.
Pollard gave buffet supper Saturday
evening, December 8, in their honor.
Sunday Comdr. and Mrs. James A.
Logan gave lunch party in honor of
Comdr. and Mrs. Ainsworth and Sun
day evening Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs.
John B. Farrior gave supper party
for them. At the latter party Comdr.
and Mrs. Frank Slingluff Of WASH
mgton and Mrs. Slingluff's father, Mr..
Robert Floyd-Jones, were among the
out-of-town guests.
Miss Sally Holmes, daughter Of the
commandant of midshipmen, Capt.
Ralston S. Holmes, and Mrs. Holmes
gave dinner party Saturday even
ing, December 5, in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Stevenson of Washing
ton and Miss Evelyn Gould of New
York, who were her guests over Sun
day.
Miss Eunice Wilson, daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. Russell Wilson, had
as her week end guests Miss Emma
Louise Danielson, daughter of Mai.
Danielson. U. S. Army, now on duty
in Washington; Miss Helen VanHook,
daughter of Comdr. and Mrs. Clifford
VanHook, also of Washington; Miss
Alice Van Meekin of Philadelphia and
Miss Barbara Wilson, cousin of Miss
Wilson. Miss Wilson gave a din
ner party Saturday evening for her
guests. Miss DanielSon and Miss
Meekin were classmates of Miss Will
son at Mount Holyoke College.
Mrs. Shoemaker, wife of Capt. Harry
Shoemaker, now in command of the
U. S. S. Northampton, arrived in An
napolis Monday and is the guest of
Mrs. Middleton Semmes Guest at
Wardour. She will also visit while
here Mrs. Carryl H. Bryan. Monday
afternoon Mrs. Guest gave a small
card party in honor of Mrs. Shoe
maker.
Lieut.. and Mrs. John L. Curry and
children have been the guests of Mrs.
Curry's parents, DR.. and Mrs. Edward
Darlington johnson, at St. Anne's
rectory. Lieut.. Curry, U. S. M. c., is
on duty at Washington.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

ANNAPOLIS, Md, December 15.-
Moving pictures at Mahan Hall this
evening are the only diversion at the
Naval Academy. The midshipmen
are now looking forward to the
Christmas leave and there will not
be any more hops this month given
by the midshipmen.
Mrs. John r. Van Nagell, ST., of
San Diego, Calf, has arrived in Bos-
Mrs. Van Nagell is at present with
her son, Lieut.. John r. Van Nagell,
who is on duty at the Boston Navy
Yard. Mrs. Van Nagell and Lieut..
Van Nagell will spend several weeks,
including Christmas, with Mrs. John
r. Van Nagell, jr., wife of Lieut.. Van
Nagell, in the home of her grand
parents, DR.. and Mrs. Frederic J.
Cotton, at San Rocco at Waterbury,
near Annapolis. where Mrs. Van
Nagell, jr., and her young son, Wood
ward Phelps, spent the Autumn and
are remaining through the early
Winter.
Mrs. Grafton Dichman Of Garden
City, N. Y, will be the guest for
the Christmas holidays of Capt. and
Mrs. Guy Baker. Capt. Baker is head
Of the department of languages at
the Naval Academy. and with Mrs.
Baker will also have as their guests
for the Christmas holidays Comdr.
and Mrs. Edward Hanson of New
port, r. T., and Capt. Herbert Taylor,
Royal Navy, and Mrs. Taylor of New
York City.
Mrs. Edward Davis Of New York
was the guest over Sunday of Capt.
and Mrs. Lewis Mcbride. Mrs. Davis
was formerly Miss Eleanor Goodrich,
daughter of the late Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Goodrich, and has many
friends in Annapolis, where with her
parents she formerly lived. Mrs.
Davis went to Charlottesville, Va,
where she Is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Grant Campbell.
Mrs. Riedel, wife of Comdr. Walter
A. Riedel, has returned after a visit
to her sister, Mrs. William Muller, at
Atlantic City, N. j.
Colndr. and Mrs. Walden L. Aims
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Engagements Announced
Interesting IN Capital


Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Froelich of 359
Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, N. j.,
have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Helen Patricia
Froelich, to DR.. John J. Flanagan, son
of Mrs. Mary D. Flanagan of Wash
ington. Miss Froelich is a graduate
Of Trinity College, Washington. DR..
Flanagan was graduated in medicine
from Georgetown University and is
now practicing in Newark, N. j.
OF interest to Washington and Vir-
ginia society is the news of the en-
gagement of Miss Marian Crockett
Bristow of Richmond to Mr.. Edward
Jerome Geraci of this city. Miss Bris-
tow is of a prominent old Virginia
family and is the daughter of Prof.
F. M. Bristow of Richmond. She
was educated at Sacred Heart School,
In Virginia. She is an accomplished
dancer.
Mr.. Geraci is the son of Mrs. Rose
Geraci and the late Mr.. Frank Geraci
of 4819 Iowa avenue. He is a gradu-
ate of Georgetown University. No
date has been set for the wedding.
Mrs. Thomas Francis Keane an
nounces the engagement Of her daugh-
ter Antoinette Katherine to Mr.. Der
mot Anthony Nee, son of Mrs. Peter
Joseph Nee Of Washington. The we'd
ding of Miss Keane and Mr.. Nee will
take place in the Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Edward Crum Of
Charleroi, Pa, announce the engage
ment Of their daughter Catherine
Elizabeth to Mr. William Baldwin
Buchanan, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Martin Buchanan Of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bowers Of Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter Mary
Lillian to Mr.. William F. Berens of
Washington. The wedding is to take
nlare In the near future
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Indianans Will Meet.

A special meeting of the Indiana
Society has been called for 8 o'clock
this afternoon, John j. Richard, Ex-
ecutive Committee chairman, an
nounced. The meeting will be held
in the caucus room, Old House Once
Building. Officers will be elected.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Club Plans Banquet.

A banquet will be held Thursday
at $50 pm. by the Transportation
Club at the Raleigh Hotel. The busi-
ness session will be the annual meet
ing and officers will be elected.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

Miss Mary Stuart, daughter of
Capt. Harry A. Stuart, United States
Navy, will leave Thursday for st.
Louis. where she will spend two weeks
Of the Christmas holidays as the guest
Of Miss Helen Franklin. who is max
ing her debut In st. Louis this season.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

turn Friday from the University Of
Pennsylvania, and their daughter,
Miss Frances Cuthbert van Keuren,
who will return the same day from
Bryn Mawr College.
Capt. Henry L. Wyman, United
States Navy, and Mrs. Wyman will
return today from Milwaukee, where
they have been visiting for over o
week,
Evening star., 1934-12-16

Maj. and Mrs. Dabury o. Elliott Of
Cincinnati, with their daughter Anne,
will arrive Saturday. December %, to
spend 10 days with Mrs. Elliott's par
ents, DR.. and Mrs. Louis w. Eugster.
Capt. and Mrs. Cornelius G. Jad-
win, ID, and their son Edgar are
visiting Capt. Jadwin's mother, Mrs.
Jadwin, widow Of the late Lieut.. Gen.
Edgar Jadwin Of 2540 Massachusetts,
avenue.
Capt. Jadwin Is member Of the
United States Army horse show team
and has just return from the National
Horse Show at Madison Square Gar
den, New York City, and the Royal
Mounties' Fair at Toronto, Canada.
Capt. and Mrs. John H. Gibbons
have left for Palm Beach after SPEND
Evening star., 1934-01-17
Use of Surplus Revenues.

While the estimates as presented by
the Bureau Of the Budget would pile up
q large revenue surplus to the credit
of the District in 1885, and, from such
surplus, the District could afford" a
million dollars or so to start the first
unit of the Municipal Center, Auditor
Donovan points out that larger appro-
priations would be required to continue
the work In 1896 and 1887.
That, of course is true. An equally
important element to be considered by
the Commissioners Is whether 1t would
not be better to receive from Congress
some guarantee of Federal participa-
ton in the Municipal Center project
participation that practically everybody
has agreed should be forthcoming-be
fore any additional local funds are
spent on a project that has already
sunk some six millions Of local tax
funds in this gigantic undertaking. with
no prospect of even immediate return.
The Commissioners are absolutely
right in proposing to send along sup
Elementary estimates to reduce an un-
necessary surplus Of District revenues
in 1885. The question is whether it
would not be wiser to spend this money
on much needed schools and other
projects more pressing now than the
Municipal Center. A courts building
is urgently needed. But the obliga-
ton Of the United States to partici-
pate in the Municipal Center, SO gen.
orally recognized, should be stated in
unequivocal terms, so the local tax
payers will know where they are going
before they start Municipal Center
building again.
Evening star., 1934-01-17
0ne-Way Traffic Experiments.

NAoIly w ocAiAiSlOIl duIOliiOUllC OlNClo
who habitually use Sixteenth street to
come downtown in the morning were
obviously delighted today with the
new one-way traffic experiment on
Thirteenth street, especially if they
came down Thirteenth street before the
traffic had reached its peak. One item
of news which probably added to their
satisfaction was contained in yester-
days Star, in which it was asserted that
funds are lacking now for the lnstalla-
tion of traffic lights on Thirteenth street.
May this particular shortage of funds
not be merely temporary!
Too much attention cannot be given
to the demands of one-way traffic,
that is, the heavy flow of traffic that
at certain hours of the day moves in
one direction. Lights on Sixteenth
street and Massachusetts, avenue are
not timed during the rush hours to favor
the predominating flow of traffic, and
these arteries are in consequence more
congested than they should be. The
contrast of speed between Thirteenth
street traffic and Sixteenth street traf-
fic today was enlightening, and the
greater speed on Thirteenth street was
due in large measure to the absence OF
lights. Commissioner Hazen is to be
congratulated in beginning such expert
ments, and they should continue Some
of them may not work, but. If they dc
not, they can be quickly abandoned.
Evening star., 1934-01-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Treasury to become chairman of the
board OF Chicago's biggest bank, the
Continental Illinois National Bank e.
Trust Co., gets the job for which the
bank previously had selected a man
who IS years ago was a young bank
clerk with Cummings in Chicago. The
other chap is George A Ranney, Inter
hand man Of the late Alexander Legge
Cummings was a clerk in the old
illinois 1,b t ,ns his sank ub;o h0I
he is to head. while Ranney was a
teller in the Chicago branch of the
Bank Of Montreal. Cummings was put
in as chairman of the ContinentaTs
board by the r. F. c., following the
latter's purchase of $4,000 900 of the
banks new preferred stock.
One Of the commonest inquiries at
the Capitol these days is when Senator
Carter Glass is going to take the floor
and sail into the Roosevelt monetary
program. He is assured a capacity
audience, as he's expected to make the
speech of his career. Now that the
Federal Reserve, of which he was one
OF the founders. Is so conspicuously in
the picture. Glass interest in the situ-
alton is keener than ever. The vet
eran Virginian has been steaming up
for months, and current events have
just about caused him to boil over It
is sure to be one of the big days" in
the Senate when he decides the time
has come to clear for action. Senator
Glass scorns the use of notes on i'm
portant occasions and let's himself 20
extemporaneously. Despite his vocal
one of the most forceful and eloquent
men in the chamber No one is his
match In financial debate.
Van Wyck Brooks. distinguished lit
erary critic and author, has arrived in
Washington at the outset of q period
of research in the Library of Congress
in connection with series of seven
volumes which he has been commits
stoned to write on The History of
first comprehensive work of its kind
ever undertaken. Mr.. Brooks has spe-
cialized in biographies of American
James, Ralph Waldo Emerson and
others. He made a reputation with his
first book, The Wine of the Puritans,"
in 1909 His Americas Coming-of-
Age" attracted wide attention in 1915.
Mr.. Brooks IS native of New Jersey
and Phi Beta Kappa Harvard man.
1t was Texas DAY in the Senate yes
terday, with the two Lone Star Solons
dividing the honors. First came Senator
Morris Sheppard with his annual glori-
fication of the eighteenth amendment.
Even though it savored of a funeral
Grafton, it was delivered with old-time
fervor by the father of late national
prohibition There was deep conviction
in his tone when Sheppard declaimed
at the outset that prohibition will in
evitably return" and in his peroration,
when he declared that 'liquor should be
returned to the jungles and haunts of
outlawry to which the eighteenth
amendment consigned it IA years ago"
Senator Connally, the other Texan,
starred later in the day with his COM
nlittee report on LongOverton political
conditions in Louisiana.
X X X
A Congressional wit says F. D. r. S
gold policy aims eventually at the
restoration Of the pre-Warren dollar.
(CopyriRht, 1e34)
Evening star., 1934-01-17
Still in the Air.

After flying around in the air long
enough to establish new endurance
record-seven years or more-those in
charge of the good ship National Capt.
tai Airport Project" decided to land
Here is a good place." said one pilot,
pointing to the high-tension wires and
the Military road that are landmarks
of the existing airport, "and when it is
improved by suitable additions of land
and the closing of the highway 1t Will
be the finest in the country
The ship was about to begin a long
glide when another pilot took over the
controls
do not land there" he said, "for the
best place to land when the Washing
ton Channel has been dredged as 1t
should be, is Gravelly Point. and, be-
sides it will be cheaper"
mo, not Gravelly Point said a third
pilot, for that is not an appropriate
place and will take too long to finish.
Let us have the District and the Fed
eral Government share the expense and
improve the airport we have"
That will never do" said still an
other pilot, who spoke with obvious au-
thority, "for the District of Columbia
has no money to spend on airports. We
have accumulated needs amounting to
many millions of dollars which should
be met before We begin spending money
on airports, as desirable as airports
are"
And" said still another pilot "if
there is thought of getting money from
the Public Works Administration to
build this airport, the thought is merely
an idle dream, for this is not as much
an airport building scheme as it is a
land buying proposition"
while speaking of a land-buylng
proposition" said yet another pilot,
reaching for the controls, remember
that the Arlington National Cemetery
must expand, for the burial space there
Is limited already. and within twenty
five years we must extend it, and now Is
none too early to begin planning for
such extensions.
Both Gravelly Point and Hoover Air
port are impossible" said several pilots,
speaking at the same time and reach
ing for blue prints, and we have here
several nice little pieces of property,
cheap as dirt, that we will be glad to
donate. at small profit, for airport
purposes"
So, there being no agreement among
the pilots, the good ship National Capt.
tai Airport Project continued to pile
up additional endurance records.
In the meantime, however, the exist
ing airport, while generally condemned
as among the worst in the country,
claims one great distinction. 1t is
probably the only airport in the world
that furnishes travelled highway run
ming across the landing field, allowing
free and unrestricted competition be-
tween automobiles and airplanes at the
same time.
Evening star., 1934-01-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

a delinquent In q public institution a
L. F.
A. 1t requires about $400 q year to
care for delinquent and about $500 to
maintain an adult prisoner.
@. When was Charles Downing's
book, Fruits and Fruit Trees of
America" first published?-H. B.
A. This is a very old standard work,
originally written by Andrew jackson
Downing. Charles Downing is a sort OF
co-author. having added to the book
in later editions. The first date of pub
lication of which there is record Is l846,
while the most recent publication Is that
Of 1900.
@. At what three American ports are
the most ships registered?-T. w.
A. Seattle, Wash, leads with / 1853;
Juneau, Alaska, second with 927, and
New York third with 261 vessels.
O. Why is milk so much harder to
churn at some times?-E. L. M.
A. 1t is well known fact that milk
from COW which is far advanced in the
period of lactation is harder to churn
than that from COW which has more
q
gradual change which occurs in the
COW as the period Of lactation pro-
crosses. The effects may be at least
partially overcome by adding before
ripening scme cream from COW that is
not far advanced in the period Of lac
tation.
@ Had the Greeks a legend concern
ing the deluge?-G. T.
A. Deucalion's Flood is the Greek
legend When Zeus sent the deluge
Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were
saved in ship he had built. When
the storm subsided the boat came to
rest on Mount Parnassus. The oracle
at Themis told him to cast the bones
of his mother behind him. He inter-
preted this as stones of mother Earth.
| The pebbles he cast became men and
| those Pyrrha cast became women, and
thus was the world repeopled.
@. Did Emily Dickinson write any
| long poems?-S. S.
| A Her poems are all very short and
were not published until after her death
@. How many people saw President
Roosevelt make his speech at the
| twenty-flfth anniversary meeting Of the
I IcUtIdl SOuIlCll VI SIluICIlcS ID II.
A. About 1000 were assembled in
Constitution Hall. Washington, D. c..
where the speech was made. 1t Is
estimated that 81 per cent Of the H.
100000 radio receiving sets in the
country were able to tune in effectively
upon the program.
O. How does the Weather Bureau
determine the number of inches Of
rainfall?-P. J. G.
Weather Bureau are made from the
common rain gage, an instrument de-
viSed to collect the rain in such man.
ner that the actual rainfall is magnified
ten times for ease of measurement.
@. Should small children be allowed
to eat peanuts?-N. S.
A. Because Of their concentrated food
value and their hard structure, pea
nuts require thorough chewing and
mastication for their best digestion.
Children are likely not to chew pea
nuts thoroughly. For this reason and
because of their high fat content pea
nuts are not an especially good food TO
give young children. For older children
and adults they are wholesome, par
ticularly when they are eaten as a part
of the days diet rather than as a con-
fection or between-meal accessory.
@. What is a buIl-boat?-S T
A. 1t is a type Of boat which was
used by the Indians as a ferry. 1t was
made by stretching buffalo hides across
an oval wooden frame.
Evening star., 1934-01-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
not If he could smell with the same
nose the other possesses.

not If he could smell with the same
nose the other possesses.
X
No doubt the mentalities Of human
beings have something to do with their
reception of the various smells Of the
world.
The artistic man or woman Will be
more inclined to resent any odor which
has an inimical appeal.
One would not carry this idea too
far. or put too much stress on 1t, but
perhaps there is something In 1t. 1t
resembles the idea that artistic persons
usually prefer cats to dogs, although
they may have a fondness for dogs, too.
There are exceptions, Of course.
Here Is q man who dislikes the odor
Of burning leaves. To him it is acrid:
The majority of persons, If querled
about this, no doubt would state real
liking for such an odor. To them,
especially in the Autumn. 1t becomes
almost an aroma.
The connection between odors and
memories is well known.
Popular novelists of the old school
recognized this fact in their stories, in
which the heroine invariably used a
certain scent, which was brought in by
word description from time to time.
The power Of scents to invoke faces,
or voices, or places, often works out In
strange ways.
Those who possess the power OF
as they say.
They can tell, upon the instant,
what that smell is" no matter If they
have smelled it but once before.
1t may be believed that this Is q
gift, far more acute in some persons
than in others; that all human beings
are gifted the same with regard to the
powers of smell is an error.
It may be felt that there is more poor
smelling than good smelling, that be-
cause one does not smell something or
other which another claims to smell Is
no proof at all that the smell does not
exist
He whose nose is not quick should
not believe for an instant that his pow
ers of scent are the criterion for others,
but that, unfortunately, is exactly the
case SO many times, when persons re-
fuse to admit that another can smell
something that they do not.
There are few real tests for such
things and no way OF applying them, no
one seems to doubt his own abilities
along these lines, but feels evidently
that they are perfect. =.
r *S+
Perhaps there is a trace of envy in
this, the world is SO filled with glorious
odors, the scents of Springtime flowers,
the glorious tang of the sea air, the
frosty something in the cold morning
air, which people once called "ozone.
Every one wants to have all these
and more. since the senses are the
senses and people are not afraid OF
them nowadays as they used to be, OF
at least pretended to be.
The drawback to keen powers oi
smell, however, are apparent. He who
detects the first whiff of Spring will
not be able to escape the first twinges
of decay. He will have more right than
most to speak of the melancholy Au.
tumn" and to frown at the horrible
black stuff which snow becomes on city
streets.
The person with keen nose, as We
say. ought to be accorded more appre-
citation than he commonly receives
He is not Just a faultfinder, or kill
JOY, as so many seem to prefer to re-
gard him. but one who is more perfect
ly attuned to the world around him.