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The Washington times., 1934-02-20
SENATE TOPUSH
12B|LLS IN WAR
ON RACKETS
Br International News Service

Bv International News Service
A congressional drive to sup
press crime by inflicting heavier
penalties on racketeers and plug
ging legal loopholes was pledged
today by Administration leaders
cooperating with the Department
Of Justice.
Prompt Senate action was
promised on a dozen bills, drafted
by the department, together
with other anti-crime measures
drawn by the Copeland anti
racket committee.
Bills Before Committee
Those aimed at kidnapers and
organized bands of criminals
will be enacted at this session.
The crime bills were being
studied in committee while the
Senate prepared to open debate
on the 570-million-dollar bill to
build the Navy to treaty strength.
Action on restoring full pay to
Federal workers and pre-economy
compensation rates to disabled
war veterans will be taken later
In the week.
Speedier Justice Sought
The enactment of a law making
It q Federal crime to transport
kidnaOinC victims across a State
line or to use the mails in de-
manding ransoms appeared to
have had little effect in deterring
snatch" racketeers, Senators said,
and additional legislative weapons
will be provided.
Senator Ashurst D) Of Arizona,
chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said:
"There is ample room for
speedier action in the handling
Of criminal cases in our courts"
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
DEATH Of WIFE
HOLDS SPOUSE

Police are holding for investi-
cation Fred Carte, 80, of the
1000 block Thirteenth st. N. w.,
in connection with the death of
his wife, Mrs. Pearl Carte, %.
Of the 1900 block M st. N. w.
Mrs. Carte was found dead
yesterday in an alley at the rear
Of her home. She suffered a
broken jay. She spoke vaguely
about "a fight"
Detective Sergt. Jerry Flaherty
left today for Charleston, w. Va,
to interview Mrs. Carte'S mother,
Mrs. Anna Osborne.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
SUGAR RPROGRAM
BEFORE HOUSE
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
A three-point program for ad-
justment of the sugar industry
was laid before the House Agrl-
culture Department.
The committee is conducting
hearings on a bill by Representa-
tive Jones CD Of Texas making
sugar a basic commodity under
the agricultural adjustment act.
The program outlined by Mr..
Weaver includes:
/. Security a fair exchange
value for producers.
2. Elimination Of excessive
competitive costs Of producers
through marketing agreements.
3. Regulation of shipments
from various producing areas
into the American market.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
DR.. Charles Gordon
Takes Lead in PIay

DR.. Charles Gordon will take
the lead in the Jewish Dramatic
Society's presentation of King
Lear Sunday night at the Ma
sonic Temple, Thirteenth and
New York Avenue Northwest
Proceeds will go to the George
town Hebrew School.
Others in the cast are Mrs
Freda Alpher, Miss Luba Dubrow
Miss Helen Gardenhouse, Mrs
Ida Brownstein, Solomon Golden
berg and Benjamin Manchester
Morris Segal is directing the per-
formance.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
THE SIGNS
OF ACID STOMACH
WHAT 70 no FOR IT

TAKE "a TeaspoonfulS
Of Phillips Milk of Mag
nesia in a glass Of water
every morning when you
get up. Take another tea
spoonful thirty minutes
after eating. And another
before you 60 to bed.
oR-You can take Phil
lips Milk of Magnesia
Tablets, substituting one
tablet for each teaspoon
full directed above.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
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The Washington times., 1934-02-20

\A/HEN nervous
w and rundown
and in need of a
blood tonic, when
you're anemic, feel
tired out and weak,
take DR.. Pierce's
"GMD" to restore
your strength. Read
this: 81 lost several
pounds in weight, be-
came thin and anemic
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

that done b y
t he assistant
corpor a 10 n
council assign
ed to P u b i C
Utilities c a S e S
was a duplica-
ton Of effort
and a waste Of
public fun d S,
t h e Ii nc In
P ark Citizens
Assoc ia t ion,
meeting la S t
night in t h e
Bryant School,
adopted resolu-
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
BY A. ]. DRISCOLL
Citirena Association Editor

Claiming the work performed
by the Peoples Council of the
Public Utilities Commission and
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
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Evening star., 1934-02-06

then, SO she curled up in the hope
of having a nap and so forgetting for
a little while the great hunger that
had been growing more and more
hard to bear. Reddy started of
that travel was difficult and wholly
discouraging
Perhaps" thought Reddy grimly,
'if can hold out long enough may
grow light enough to walk on the sur
face instead of breaking through and
having to wade"
1t was hard going and no mistake.
1t was very. very firing. Reddy could
go only short distance without hav-
ing to sit down to rest. Once he saw
mouse dart over the snow and dis
appear down little hole. He hurried
to the spot as best he could and fran
tically dug down to the ground. How
he did make the snow fly! But 1t was
in vain. He was too late. That mouse
had scampered to safety along one of
his little tunnels Reddy sat down to
rest. Never in his life had he felt
more discouraged. Never had he felt
more hopeless.
There must be food somewhere
that a starving fox can get, but
where?" thought he.
AS if in answer something whistled
over his head and fell. plop, into the
snow short distance beyond. Star
tied, Reddy jumped to his feet ready
to run should there be need. He
stared curiously at the place where
that thing had fallen in the snow.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
BEDTIME STORIES b. B. zhs,s,e" E%,,s.,

1t was quite buried. AS he stared he
thought he saw movement over there.
Very cautiously he approached. Yes,
something was moving there In the
snow. In a moment a head and
slender neck appeared above the snow.
Reddy hesitated no longer. That was
a bird, and good-sized bird!
Two more bounds and his heart
seemed to fairly leap for joy. That
was duck, or If it wasn't a duck it
looked lot like one-all but the bill.
Each second he expected to see 1t rise
out Of the snow and disappear ON
swift wings. But it did nothing Of
the kind. Painting with eagerness,
Reddy foundered forward A last
leap and he had a dinner that lit
orally had fallen from the sky.
1t was a Grebe, a water bird that
save for its bill and feet, the toes Of
which are not Joined by webs but big
flaps Of skin called lobes between
them. looks much like Duck and Is
as much at home on or in the water
as any member of the Duck family.
This one had foolishly remained in
some open water farther north until
it had frozen over. Then the bird had
taken TO its stout wings to go in
search Of the nearest water as yet un-
frozen. It had flown and flown with
out finding any until at last it had
become too exhausted to fly further
and had fallen to furnish Reddy a
meal.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
Sports Talk.

THERE is language Of sport and
hearty, healthy boys and girls
talk that language on the play
L field and in the dressing rooms.
and wherever two or more OF
their kind gather.
Some careful people frown on this
department of our speech and say that
it defiles the general structure. I
don't see how that can be. Good Ian
guage is nothing more than fitting
language When you speak OF a spade,
you know, it really can be called q
spade without affront to anybody.
Boys and girls like to tell about the
happenings of the playground. That
is where they enjoy the most vital
hours of their day. Their interests
here are keener than in almost any
other direction In their recital they
use the words of the sports vocabulary.
And was Logging it for home when
he slams homer"
George, how many times have I
told you not to use slang at the dinner
table? Or anywhere else for that
matter. Now talk English"
ma, that's English. He slammed
a homer and Mickie came romping
home. Some smacker that baby"
Its too bad that you have to asso-
ciate with such a lot of rowdies
You'll soon have neither manners nor
speech. I can see that. The only
thing to do with you is to take you
out of that school"
Gee, you can't say word in this
house Somebody's all the time jump
ing on your neck"
There. You hear yourself? Talk
ing to your mother like that"
The boy does not understand what
Is the matter with people who talk
Evening star., 1934-02-06
N A T u r E. S
CHILD r E N
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
Sugar Cane.

ouSdI Oduc.
TT IS not so easy to grow sugar
cane for sugar as 1t is for sirup.
i grown for the making OF s1rup
are restricted in the United
States to the Southern States.
those bordering the Gulf OF Mexico
mainly. It is only in the southern part
Of Louisiana and parts Of Florida and
Texas that cane to be made into sugar
can be grown profitably. Where cane
is grown for sugar you will see great
sugar plantations, expensive sugar
mills and everything done on a large
scale.
Not so with the cane grown to be
made into sirup, for this is a small
farm enterprise. There may be only
q small plot Of ground set out to cane
or enough planted to send the surplus
to a nearby market. Sometimes there
will be 20 acres planted to cane-an
ambitious undertaking. But 1t Is in
teresting to note that these small units
are about equal to that used In the
more systematic method OF growing
the cane for the sugar mills.
Sugar cane Is tall rather stout
grass of tropical and subtropical re-
gions. 1t is the principal source OF
our sugar Of commerce and Is often
mistaken for Indian corn and sorghum.
Sometimes the cane will reach Q
height Of 20 feet.
The native country Of the sugar
cane Is unknown. 1t was introduced
by the Venetians, about the twelfth
century, from India into the islands
of the Mediterranean. 1t came to
America from Spain and Portugal and
by the middle of the sixteenth century
was we'll established here.
Within the last 10 years the varieties
Evening star., 1934-02-06

start willing to play at four spades,
trusting that there would not be five
trumps massed in one hostile hand
against you. You still do not like to
abandon ali hopes of slam. as If your
partner held the king of diamonds. he
could still have bid no differently, but
that would be the slam card Never
theless, with this kind of suit group
ing
You Cannot Probe for That King
because your partner could not
read four diamond bid on your part
as a probe bid; he would rightly
think that you had 5-4-4-O distribu-
tion, and were compelling him to
choose the eventual trump suit for
you. If your hand were of this pat
tern-convert the singleton club into
small dlamonC-yOu would bid in
just this manner, would you not, in
order to ascertain whether your part
ner held four small diamonds? You
cannot use this same bidding at one
time to fish for four small diamonds,
and at another time to probe for the
king. Consequently with this hand
you cannot bid for slam except as an
out-andout gamble You have no
assurance that you can get into dunn
my even once. To catch the king of
diamonds, assuming 1t to be on your
night, you would have to lead that
suit twice. Unless the opponents
chuck the defense, it may not help
you at all If diamond king is on your
right. Consequently, the slam would
n,IC
times the gamble would be tempting
For instance, if your opponents were
reasonably sure to lead diamonds
blindly. just because you had bid the
other three suits, your chances of slam
would be very promising You would
now need merely not to be unlucky
in the spade distribution, and also to
lind the jack of hearts in dummy or
else TO be able to ruff the small hearts
before either opponent could outrutf
or oVerrutf the dummy, in order TO
make six spades. losing only the club.
Technically. you would be wrong to
slam the hand; psychologically there
might be good reasons to risk it if
your partner had bid clubs. OF course,
II he had bid no trumps and not
but a club lead, and then you might
be in difficulties even if playing at
only four spades, as you will be re-
duced to four trumps right away
Could Your Partner Take the
Strain OF You?
OF course your partner does not
hold both the ace of clubs and the
king CT diamonds. otherwise he could
have bid three no trumpS at once or,
with five clubs and these two high
cards bid four no trumps over your
repld OF three hearts or possibly rebid
his clubs. However, he may have the
material for a small slam and be able
to signify this by making an ultimate
move for you on grounds which 1
will explain tomorrow.
Copyright. 1934)
Mr.. Sims will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed to this news
paper with self-addressed stamped en-
yelope.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
How 1t Started
BY JEAN NEWTON.
Zone Small Head"

How can one small head carry all
you knOW?" A reader points out that
this expression, this comparing the
size of the head with what is in it,
is SO frequently heard, that it "smacks
Of some special origin"
1t is in an affectionately Satirical
or at least humorous vein that these
words are most commonly used in
modern speech. And they are indeed
not mere words of chance They are
quotation from Oliver Goldsmith.
1t is in his lovely poem, 1.-The De-
serted Village" that We find the source
of this expression in the following
lines:
In arguing too, the parson own'd his
skill
For cen though vanquish'd he could
argue still;
While words of learned length and
laundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd
around
And still they gaz'd. and still the
wonder grew
That one SO small head could carry
all he knew"
(Copyrisht. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-02-06
Scrapple.

Select three pounds Of bony pieces
of pork. Simmer in three quarts of
water until the meat drops from the
bone. Strain off the broth, remove
the bone, taking care to get out all
the tiny pieces. and chop the meat
fine. There should be about two
quarts of broth and, if necessary, add
water to make this quantity. Bring
the broth to the boiling point. slowly
add two cupfuls of cornmeal, cook
the mixture until it is thick mush
and stir almost constantly. Add the
chopped meat, salt. and any other
seasoning desired, such as onion juice,
sage and thyme. Pour the hot scrapple
into cblong enamelware pans, which
have been rinsed with cold water
Let stand until cold and firm; slice
and brown in a hot skillet. If the
scrapple is rich with fat, no more
fat is needed for frying.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
WHO ARE YOU?
The Romance of Your Name
BY RUBY HAsKINs ELLIS.

life Of Hereward the Saxon. The
synonymous Dutch name Is 'Iigt-
voet."
The Lightfoot family In America
has been since the earliest times
very distinguished one. The Virgin
ians of this name are descendants
of Rev. Richard Lightfoot Of North
ampton County. England, born IN
1868. He is the first of the family
Of whom there is authentic record
He was for "a years rector Of Stoke
Bruain Parish, where there is placed
a memorial tablet in his name. This
tablet records the fact of his having
died in his pastorate.
The first of the family In America
was Col John Lightfoot, who was
a vestryman at Petesworth Parish, in
Virginia. He married Anne Good
rich There are descendants of this
family in various other States today.
The Hon. Philip Lightfoot Of York
town, Va, was known as the "Mer-
chant Prince" of the colony. He
owned large estates in several coun-
ties and gave generously to the well
fare of church and state.
Copyright. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-02-06
OUR CHILDREN
BY ANGELO PATRI.

to him that way. He is using the
tention to be unmannerly than the
scientist has when he talks in the
language of his laboratory. And the
children's sports talk is as meaningful
to them as the scientists Is to him
And, If you will permit me, quite as
respectable
Please honor the sports talk Let
the children talk of the dribbled ball,
the grounder, the smacker, the spit
ball, and the bellyaching groucher
who panned the umpire. Listen to
the language of the sports the chill
dren play so that you understand their
talk and appreciate their enjoyment
of the play. 1t isn't smart not to
know the difference between a puck
and a divot, grounder and a twiSter
1t isn't purity of speech that makes
you deaf to such terms as dud, duffer,
whiz and champ. 1t is ignorance of
an important field Of human activity
one especially vital in the lives of
the children and youth of the world
There Is one tongue for the play
ground and another for the dining
room and drawing room. Social eff
cheney demands that you have suit
able tongue for all occasions. con-
fess to q shadow Of impatience when
I hear a prissy- -and-prunes pronounce
ment against the use Of sporting
terms.
There is nothing vulgar In such
speech. Any lady can use it and listen
to 1t, If she has developed her play
instincts. Vulgar speech Is a vocabu-
larry of another order. It fits nowhere
and its place is nowhere. But that
has nothing to do with sports talk. A
good sportsman is gentleman or
lady. His sport has helped to make
(Copyrtght. 1e34.)
Evening star., 1934-02-06
Uncle Rays
Corner
Your Body at Work.
The Bones.

w We ARE likely to think of
w g: :: :: en- sa' T. Ss: g.: ';2 :: Sss:; S:
space for marrow have
tiny tubes or canals" Some of the
canals can be seen only with the
help Of microscope. The smallest
of them measure less than one
thousandth of inch across
Bones in a living person are alive.
Nerves and blood vessels enter tiny
canals in the bones. In a healthy
state. bone is little sensitive to pain
A cut in the flesh will hurt. but If
the cut goes into the bone it will not
add much to the immediate pain. Let
a bone become 'inflamed," however,
and it will cause extreme pain. Bones
sometimes grow in special manner,
as in the case of q coal worker who
had bone "buttress" about his elbow
joint. as result of so much shovel
ing Of coal.
A broken bone is a serious thing,
and should be attended to by a good
doctor without delay. X-ray pictures
should be taken of bones when it
seems likely that they have been
broken
Before X-ray machines became
common. many a broken bone les
pecially in the foot and the forearm
was treated as "sprain.' In a case
of that kind the bone parts may knit
together, but not in the right way
If broken bones are set correctly,
they are almost sure to knit together
and become strong again. Nature
takes care of wounds when she is
helped along; but the best thing is
not to break your bones! A broken
leg may mean weeks or months in a
hospital, without a single minute for
outdoor play.
Boys and girls would suffer more
broken bones than they do if their
bones did not bend under strain more
easily than those of grown folks. The
older person becomes, the less easily
his bones can be bent. They are
strong but they are brittle, and more
likely to break under severe strain.
Because the bones of children are
only partly formed. there is special
danger Of the disease called "rickets."
This leads to bones being bent out of
shape. 1t is most common before the
age of 3, though it may occur after
that age. Sunshine is natures method
OF saving children from the disease.
A proper diet including milk, orange
juice and cod liver Oil will do much
to guard babies against it. Cod liver
oil contains vitamin D, which is a
special protection.
Some bones are dense. containing
only tiny tubes of the kind I have
described: but others contain many
holes and are called porous" Even
Evening star., 1934-02-06

that had proved SO dependable have
almost all been supplanted by varieties
that are not so susceptible to sugar
cane diseases. There was a disease
imported accidentally. 1t is known
as the mosaic and cost the sugar in
dustry during the last 10 years over
sl00,000,O 900 before it was brought
under control. Only varieties of sugar
cane that could resist the disease were
| planted in the place of the old Varie-
ties. At present there are 217,OOO
acres planted to the new variety in
Louisiana. The new variety is also
being planted in the sirup belt of
Texas and Florida.
1t is obtained from sprouting the
true seed Of the cane tassel. Tasseling
occurs in Southern Florida and cross
pollinating and combining the new
seeding with the virtues of the desir-
able parents takes place. Much care
and untiring labor must be spent in
bringing to perfection sugar cane that
Will resist disease and flourish in the
soils and climate in which it is to be
introduced
Hundreds of new seedlings are sent
each year to the departments sirup
cane field station near Cairo, Ga, and
other experiment stations.
There are five species of sugar cane
| that have economic importance in
the sugar and sirup industries.
| Throughout the State where sugar
cane is grown for sirup production the
planting Is usually done in the Spring.
However, farmers of the South are
planting Fall crop. and where it is
grown for sugor the greater part of
the crop is planted in October and
November.
The crop natures in the Fall The
sugar is rapidly stored in the stalks at
this time. The harvesting and grind
ing take place by the latter part of
October, though smaller crops are
taken care of later. Frost causes
rapid deterioration and therefore when
the sugar cane natures or has reached
stage in its development where it is
| suitable for making the best sirup it
| is harvested
The yield of sugar cane per acre is
dependent upon soil, climate. weather
conditions. fertilizer and variety of
cane planted. Under good conditions
| the yield is from 20 to 25 tons per
| acre. This means cane stripped and
topped. Greater yields are obtained
under more favorable conditions in
Southern Louisiana and Florida. This
estimate Is based on the first crop
from planting.
(Copyright lQ34)