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Evening star., 1934-01-13
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
BY HERBERT PLUMMER.

intensity the fight in Congress for
cheaper dollar"
If he is right in his prediction that
the President has opened the door TO
all the various forms of monetary ex-
pansion," there is no telling what will
happen.
These are only a few of the contro-
versial issues likely to arise There are
others such as patronage, banking legis-
lation, criticisms of the numerous recov-
cry agencies-any one Of which is Ca
pable of prolonging the session indefi-
nitely
Hopes of an early adjournment,
whether entertained by either House
or Senate leaders, can't be so very
high, however pressing may be the need
to get back home and strengthen po-
litical fences.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
DELI lML OlO1llLO W. Burgess

but I don't believe in working more
than is necessary. Any one with eyes
could see that that hole was old and
that meant that that grub had been
in there long time. That fellow was
a borer, and naturally he hadn't re.
manned right in one place. He had
been boring his. way farther and far
ther in, so naturally the thing to 40 was
to find out how far he had bored ana
just where he was and then cut straight
in to that spot and get him. Thats
what I did. You saw me do it.
Sammy nodded. Yes, yes, saw you
40 it," said he impatiently, land must
ADMIT you made nice job of 1t. sup
pose it was a lucky guess that enabled
you to cut straight into him at the first
try r
Hairy Indignantly. People who know
their Jobs don't guess. l knew exactly
where that fellow was and the short
est way to reach him."
But how did you know? How could
you know" persisted Sammy.
BY first finding out" replied Hairy
provokingly.
BY this time Sammy Jay was fairly
dancing up and down with impatience
But how? HoW?" he cried.
gu saw HE tapping OH dAouAiu eAioe
branch after I found that little entrance
hole, didn't you?" asked Hairy, who was
enjoying Sammy's impatience.
"Of course I did" snapped Sammy
II Was right here and I'm not blind" )"
We'll that was the way / found
out" explained Hairy. Il could tell
bv the sound of my blows how that
borer'S tunnel went and when had
reached the end of it. Naturally that
borer would be right there probably
asleep for the Winter. So I got him
end he was worth the trouble 1t was
very simple. Sammy Jay. Most things
are when you know the facts"
Sammy shook his head He was
never had felt before. 1T may have
been simple to you but I still think 1t
, was wonderful" said he. Il suppose
you'll admit now that I do pay for
any suet Farmer Browns boy gives
me-" said Hairy.
Sammy thoughtfully scratched his
bill. NO" said he. I don't see that. p"
You wouldn't retorted Hairy tartly.
well. when got that borer I helped
save this tree for Farmer Browns boy.
Borers are among the worst enemies
trees have. They ruin tree after a
while. So every time I get one of those
borers have helped save the tree. and
if that isn't paying for little suet I
don't know what is"
Neither do l." replied Sammy Jay
Unexpectedly.
tCopyright. ,1934)
Evening star., 1934-01-13
N AT U R E. S
C H IL d r E N
Honey Ants.
Myrmecocystus.
By LILLIAN cox ATHEF.

~
~ their Winter supply Of honey
~ dew. The jugs are to be found
hanging to the ceiling of the
wine cellar, and in order to OBJ
tain drink the members of the ant
city must climb to the ceiling and ask
for wee drop. Now. Of course. no one
ever heard of asking jug for drop
OF liquid, but these jugs are alive!
The ants of this genus are found in
the parched regions of the Southwest.
from the City of Mexico to Southern
California and Denver, Colo. The living
containers, or pots, are known as re-
pletes. When these containers are
filled with honeydew, collected from
nectar-excreting gals to be found on
scrub oaks, from aphids and coccidS,
their distended bodies are about the size
of a pea and translucent.
The prosperity Of an ant city may be
Judged by the number of jugs to be
found hanging to the ceiling of the
storeroom Mother Nature has con-
veyed to this busy little people the in
formation that they must leave the sur
face of the storeroom ceiling rough. in
order that the faithful little jugs may
have secure foothold. 1t is not at all
unusual for the jugs to hang in this
position for months.
The workers usually go forth at night
to collect the nectar to be found on the
oak gals. Sometimes they must travel
some distance The gals are made by
an industrious little gall wasp She
consumes the sap from the leaf and
&, sAssxS9a ALE.HoREY- poEAKr.
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0AhoAt x1Ao " CA
~ EAR boys and girls, beware of
the smart answer II is never
as smart as you think 1t is /,
- 1t doesn't give you the wise
gcown-up air you hope it will
when you think it up and hurl it for
a fast one to the home plate. You see
the grown-up people have heard all
these smart answers before, in fact,
they have used most of them themselves
and don't think so much of them as
they used to do.
Keep in line, boys Don't jump the
stairs" says the teacher on duty.
Oh, yeah?" says Smart Alec, safely by
the teacher, of course, and everybody
laughs. Something right funny in say
ing "Oh, yeah" to a teacher trying to
get children out of the school building
in safety.
Now Peter listen to me- I'm older
than you. I've seen all these things.
I've heard all these stories, long ego
Boys and girls who want to go off in
corners, park by roadsides to neck and
pet aren't doing any good 70 themselves.
They are looking for trouble, and they're
going to get it."
You telling me?", says Peter. and
considers that under the circumstances
he has come off with flying colors
Something neat and decisive in that
answer, You telling me- Smart of
him to have thought of it in time, yes?
Harriet, do wish that you'd attend
to your own room before you leave in
the morning. Give little more heed to
what's needed here at home. I have the
children to get ready for school, all
the marketing and the housework and
everything You ought to try to re-
lieve me Of some of it. A girl of your
age ought to be thinking of something
else besides powdering her nose and
rouging her lips"
rs that so? Why don't you stop talk
ing and give your tongue a rest? II
didn't wish the young and growing fam
lily on you. You don't want daughter,
you want goat"
There's really nothing clever. nothing
smart about these answers. They are
the cheap chatter of weak minds. They
mark those who use them as inferior in
breeding, manners and intelligence as
well as education. No cultured, no we'll
use such talk to anybody, much less
teachers and mothers and fathers.
Let me warn you especially about
using such talk, about harboring the
thought that is behind such talk. in
your mothers presence. She means
far more to you than you can know just
now, in your ineXperience and ignorance.
The day is coming when her true value,
her real meaning for you, will come on
you full force. When that day comes,
every word you spoke in Scorn or anger,
every slight you made your mother suf-
fer will scourge your smarting spirit as
with thousand lashes. What you have
said you can never unSay. The scars
you leave on the souls of those who
love and serve you can never be wiped
cut.
Then. for your own sake, if not for
those whose feelings you wound daily,
put guard on your tongue and a
charm on your actions. Few people
have been sorry for the smart answer
they never uttered Nobody has ever
regretted kindness done for his
mother. Many many sorrow-stricken
men and women have repented them
selves in sackcloth and ashes for the
pain they caused her. There are times,
my children, when 1t is smart not to
be so smart.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Conquering Contract
By P. HAL SIMS

bidding it at all unless it is headed by
the ace. If your partner has only a
doubleton, opponents can balk his play
of the hand and of the suit by holding
off with the ace. K @ j X Is bad
holding with which to bid two over one.
feel you should hold at least A K 10
or A @ j x in order to fulfill the re-
quirements outlined sbove Thus. if
my partner bid spade, and I held
r; r; r ! + 9, 'sor & 49, r.. I'll,
my response would be one no trump,
to protect you at all if you get to
three no trumps and the leader has
j 10 X in hearts and gets busy on
that suit. Only if your partner can
bid two no trumps over your sign off
Of one no trump, can you feel secure in
three no trumps. Unless your partner
has either the king small, or X X in
your suit, your holding of A @ may
prove broken reed in three no trumps,
particularly if you get there mainly be-
cause you have bid that suit. 1t may
furnish only one entry and only one
stopper However, if your partner had
bid spade and you held
sKp, or 81 kEx Ok
Hts A 10
the response of two hearts is perfect
If your partner bids two no trumps,
you can point the way to safety by bid
ding three spades it is now up to him
to bid three no trumps or four spades
or even to make a slam try if the in
formation he now possesses justifles 1t.
II he bids three no trumps over three
spades. you should bid four spades with
the four spades and singleton, but pass
with the K spade support and the
ooubleton in diamonds. With four
spades to the queen and a singleton,
the hearts and clubs being the same,
you should take the strain of him by
bidding four spades over two no trumps.
Your second bid of three spades Tin
stead of three no trumps). tells your
partner that your heart suit may be
very patchy.
Copyright. 1934)
Mr.. Sims will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed to this news
paper with self-addressed, stamped en-
velope.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

is. sounds more ike prayer tnan
No one familiar with the Senate
dares predict what it will do. 1t could,
of course, get away early. But will 1t?
Despite the fact that one-third of
the Senators will be up for reelection
next year and, therefore, anxious to
get home and start campaigning, there
are other considerations to keep In
mind.
Those from the farm States, for ex-
ample, will have lot to get of their
chests about the administrations agri-
cultural program. Discomfort in the
farm area, while apparently not so
acute as it was earlier, Is st11l q factor
Secretary Ickes and the Public Works
Administration have aroused the ire OF
others There are those who feel they
have been slighted in the allotments
of the more than $4,000, 600 900 they
voted in the special session and will
welcome the opportunity to air their
grievances There will be attempts to
enlarge the p. w. A. which promise
endless debates.
The battle over money" may result
In anything. Despite the Presidents
latest monetary move as regards silver.
there are many who still believe Bit
ter struggle Is In prospect.
Senator Thomas Of Oklahoma, leader
Of the infiationists, takes the view that
the new stlver-coinase policy VIII only
Evening star., 1934-01-13

always eats more than she can hold,
SO that it oozes out through her little
porous home. The tiny beads taste like
honey and have a dainty favor.
know I sampled them as a little girl
ana felt rather uncomfortable later
when I found out what made them.
The busy little ants lap up as much
of the sweet liquid as they can hold and
be able to make the return trip. When
they reach home they must climb up
the mound to the city in order to enter
the funnel-like entrance. Sister ants,
who are placed as guards at the city
gates, often have to assist the heavy
laden sister up the incline. Once in
side the worker is escorted to the pam
try. She climbs to the ceiling and re-
mains there or regurgitiates her supply
to a replete. who can hold more than
she can. and she returns to the source
of supply again.
When the nurse ants or workers need
food, they go to the replete, stroke her
gently with their antenna and the
"jug" responds at once. The unwritten
| law among ants is never to refuse
sister food. II the nurse ant has sought
the living container, she accepts the
| wee drop from her and goes back to
feed the hungry infant. OF course, all
feeding is from mouth 10 mouth.
You will find these mounds where
these ants are to be seen with pile
of dirt about the funnel-like entrance.
These grains were brought out one by
one when the mound was being built
From l8 to 20 inches from the entrance
door the wine cellar is located. 1t is
always close to the nursery and kinder
garten. The ant babies, as you know,
| are kent tn themselves
If death from any cause should over
take the replete, group of ants sur
round her and removes her head. The
body is then rolled to the cemetery and
given formal burial Not for any
thing would the ants touch the liquid
the departed one had so faithfully stored
for them.
| In some villages in Mexico these little
/ nectar-fllled ants are considered great
delicacy and are served at weddings and
| special feasts. In Colorado the Indian
| children are taught to hunt them and
the wee honeypots are served as a first
course or for dessert.
| Copyright. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-01-13
A Little Saturday Talk.

~ URING the past five days we
have had stories about the
Frozen South, with special ref
- erence to Capt. Scott, one OF
the five men who died during
the return from a successful trip TO
the South Pole
Scott was a bold explorer. and it
was a blow to those who knew about
his journey when they learned that he
had fallen victim to the Antarctic. The
men who came to the rescue months
later. and found the remains OF the
explorers, declared that the last camp
had been only II miles from a supply
depot where food could have been OBJ
tanned There were several places where
supplies were left during the trip
toward the pole, and this depot" was
one of them.
1t was lack of food. as well as the
coldness of the weather, which led to
the death of the explorers. A pathetic
story was found in the diaries about
a member of the party named Coates.
1t seems that he decided that there
was not enough food left for all, and
that he would help the others by taking
himself from the scene. One day he
wandered away from camp, to die in
the binding blizzard.
That deed may be taken as the act
of a hero, for in it was the effort to
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Hairy Wins Respect.

~ AMMY JAY was not at all BASH
- full. Not a bit of it. He knows
how to use his tongue and he
does use it. He did now He
watched Hairy the Woodpecker
drill deep into branch of tree and
bring out fat, yellowish grub, which
he ate with a great show of satl5fac-
ton. Now, Sammy was full of ques-
tions. There were things he wanted
to know.
How" he demanded, did you know
that grub was in there?"
Right around on the other side, a
little higher up, is a little hole where
he entered" replied Hairy the Wood
pecker.
Il know. I've got eyes. I saw it."
retorted Sammy Jay impatiently. But
how did you know that grub was still
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Baked Meat.

Boil some meat in plenty Of water
until very tender. Put in skillet or
baking dish and spread over the top
of the meat the following sauce: Half
a cupful of liquid that the meat was
boiled in, thickene7 with flour until 1t
resembles paste. Eeason this with an
abundance Of black pepper. also celery
seed or sage, if desired. Brown quickly
in the top of the hot oven. Strong
or tough cuts of meat are very good
used this way. The remaining liquid
is fine for SOupS.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
WHO ARE YOU?
The Romance of Your Name
BY RUBY HAsKINs ELLIS.

fifth generation from Thomas. William
was clerk Of the Bishops Court IN
Cambridge, England. He joined a Com
pany OF Pilgrims, came to Connecticut,
and was signer of the Plantation
Covenant at Guilford in $780, Leetes
Island, of which he was proprietor.
was named for him. He became an
important figure in all affairs of his
time and became Governor of the Con-
necticut colony in 1876. He died in
Office In 1888
Descendants of this family have
scattered to many parts of the country
Many of them are to be found in
Florida, where the Rev. Memo Smith
Leete was a pioneer Methodist Episcopal
minister and was one of the founders
of the town of Deland
The Leete family was well known in
England. William Leete was the pro-
tector of Goffe and Whalley, judges OF
Charles I.
Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Those Four-Card Suit Takeouts.

7 HAD a definite purpose in giving
these takeouts only a brief treat
ment in the earlier articles, and
i in reserving until now my full. de-
tailed discussion of this part of
my system I felt that you would find
it fer more easy to follow me in what I
consider an advanced department of
bidding, if you had already familiarized
yourselves with the other bidding situa-
tions which We have considered. To
handle these takeoutS deftly. you must
be quite at ease in trusting the rebid
material promised by your partners
opening bid You must be free from
that fear Of a premature pass which
wrecks the bidding of so many players
to whom contract bidding was first pre-
sented in auction form. When your
rebellion against unSOund forcing BIDS
and responses has become instructive,
then you will find it natural and easy
to share my view of four-card suit
takeoutS.
Are You Bidding the Suit or the Hand?
If your justification for making re-
sponse lies almost entirely in your four
card suit, do not bid that suit unless
it is very strong. How strong? Ger
tain to take at least two tricks even if
it is not trumps; certain to provide
two quick entries if the hand is played
in no trumpS: not only sure to stop at
least two leads of that suit if you play
in no trumps, but also sure to give the
enemy no advantage in attacking the
suit. This latter factor is especially
important if your partner bids a spade
and you respond with two hearts. His
failure to support hearts, and your fail
IRE to rebid them, clearly indicate a
heart lead to the opponent on declar-
er's left, unless he has an automatic
lead in minor suit. He will play you
for weak heart shoppers, and If that is
all you have, he may wreck the hand
by that lead. A minor suit bid by you
would not convey the same indications
to the defense, or not so positively,
since even with fine support for that
suit, the opening bidder would still
tend to bid no trumps and would sell
dom have cause to actually raise your
minor suit. as we saw in previous artl-
cles on that particular point.
If You Are Bidding Suit.
When bidding the suit only, avoid
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in there and why did you come around
to drill a hole in the opposite side in
solid wood?"
Hairy's eyes twinkled 1T is my buSi-
ness to know when grubs are in a tree"
said he If there had been no grub in
there, there would have been larger
hole where the beetle that grub would
have become had come out of the tree.
Simple, isn't it?"
Sammy nodded That's all right"
said he, but it isn't telling me how
you knew Just where that grub was.
Why didn't you cut in at that little
hole where that fellow went in?"
Because it would have been waste
of time replied Hairy, land lot of
useless work. I am not afraid of work,
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Coffee Custard.

Scald two cupfuls of milk. Add
three egg yolks beaten until light with
half cup of sugar. pinch of salt
and half cup. of clear coffee. Cook
for two minutes, add orle-fourth tea
spoon of vanilla, and strain into
custard cups. Stand these in pan
of hot water. Bake in a moderate
oven until firm. If desired, serve with
whipped cream.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Birthday Cake.

Cream two cupfuls of powdered sugar
with one cupful of butter, and add one
teaspoonful of almond extract or lemon
extract. Alternate three cupfuls OF
sifted flour with one cupful of sweet
milk. beating thoroughly. after sitting
three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
with the flour three times. Then fold
in five beaten egg whites. Bake in two
layers or solid for As minutes. Cover
with boiled icing.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Fried Duck.

Prepare duck as for baking Place
tn utensil of cold water, together with
sliced white potato Zone medium size
potato for each duck)> and boil until
tender. When cold, cut into pieces,
roll in flour, and fry like chicken. In
this way you can have fried duck which
is not only quite tender but also free
from the strong wild taste" which Is
common in this type OF wild game.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

pleted by early
Spring. April is is
the date set by
Rainey. Byrns be-
lieves it can be
done by April /.
Thus far only
one Senate leader
has commented on
the subject pub
licly. Senator Joe
Robinson has ex-
pressed the hope
that adjournment
can be effected in
the Spring.
Robinson's esti-
mate, veteran of
the Senate as he
Evening star., 1934-01-13
leete

TINE word leete is an old English
term for meeting place. The
l best authorities hold that it
i meant a meeting of crossroads.
There was another use. as in
court -leet, and borough-leet, as applied
to an assembly or convention.
The name Leete was first used as a
surname by one Thomas Leete Of
Darlington. England, during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth.
The first of the Leete family in Amer
ica was William, the son of John Leete,
Evening star., 1934-01-13

WHILE House leaders have been free
w in their predictions that the pres
ent session of Congress will be a short
one, Senate bosses have been rather
chary in their views.
Both Speaker Rainey and Floor
Leader Byrns have said they see no
reason why the job shouldn't be COM
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Corn Pudding.

Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and
cook one large green pepper thoroughly,
but do not let it get brown. Mix one
fourth cupful of -four with one cupfu1
of milk and one cupful of grated cheese: !:
add one can of corn; beat the yolkS and
whites of two eggs separately; fold the
whites, which have been beaten very
stiff, into the corn, then put into
buttered baking dish and bake in a
moderate oven for 80 minutes.
Evening star., 1934-01-13
Chewing Tobacco Taxed.

The Dominion Republic has placed
"sales, use and consumption" tax on
chewing tobacco.
Evening star., 1934-01-13

Mr.. Sims is universally acclaimed the
greatest liUino contract and auction
player. He 10as captain of the re-
nouned -Four HorSemen" team nOw
diSbanded, and has non "a national
championships since 1924. These ar
ticles are based on the Sims system,
Thtch includes the one-ODer-one prin-
ciple Which the Sims group of players
1DaS the first to employ and deDelop.