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Evening star., 1934-07-22
Swimming Party for
Chattanooga Visitors

A swimming party was given for
Miss Sarah Louise Russell and Miss
Eleanor Russell at Carroll Springs Inn
Friday
The Girls the from Chattanooga.
Tenn, and are visiting their aunt.
Mrs. J. r. Henderson, of l400 New
Hampshire avenue.
Evening star., 1934-08-05

panies and subject to the same sub
sides. If necessary or desired.
3. Cancellation of all existing ocean
mail contracts, and reversion to the
straight 'poundage" basis, either with
or without a slight favoritism in
rate toward American ships carrying
American mails.
That's where sentiment Is trending.
Certainly one thing is plain: 1t is, as
President Roosevelt has said, a foolish
'Subterfuge" to continue the present
set-up. Some new plan must be de-
viSed. And what do We wish?
Sir Stafford CrippS in the House of
Commons. in London, on July II. the
date of President RooSevelt's execu-
tive order. sounded this warning:
The pouring out of money in this
way (subsidiesl must, in the long run.
distress the national finances. More
over, policy of subsidies defeats its
own ends, because it is a system of
bribeS to keep at1oat excess shipping.
The giving of subsidies here would be
stimulus to other countries to give
similar subsidies elsewhere, and I can
envisage q world war of subsidies TO
follow the world war of tariffs a I'd
quotas. The right course is
not 70 initiate foreign subsidies, but to
attack them directly"
In the last II years the American
taxpayer has sent nearly $4,000, 00o.-
600 down TO the seas in ships.
Do we now want a new shipping
hz m SfRh<fSScx yxyfTh .
tendant drains on already overhur-
dened tax revenues?
What do you think?
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racy. It was Just before the election
OF Speaker, and Mclean and Joe
Hickey, sporting gentleman Of st.
Louis, we're talking about the pros
poets. Hickey wanted Mclean to bet.
Mclean refused, saying he knew
nothing about the contest and was
not interested in it. Hickey insinuated
that Mclean was afraid and that the
Cincinnati Enquirer was easily oiuffed.
Mclean replied that he was never
afraid to bet on an even thing, that
If Hickey was really bound to bet he
would give him chance. With that
he pulled out a silver dollar, laid it
on the counter, and covered 1t with
his hand. Nov, Joe Hickey" he said,
III match you for $500. If you are
so anxious to bet, there is your
chance"
Hickey looked little funny at this,
but finally replied. "All right" f1shed
a quarter out of his pocket and laid it
on the counter beside the hand of
John Mclean. Mclean then asked,
"Is the money to be paid in cash or
drafts?" Drafts on New York." said
Hickey. He then continued, keeping
his hand over his coin, well are you
matching me, or am matching you?"
II am matching you" replied hickey.
"All right" said Mclean, and he re-
moved his hand. The tail of Rickey's
quarter lay side by side with the
head of McLean'S dollar, and Mclean
won his bet. Hickey made out
draft, handed it over to Mclean and
the two went of together.
A Great Preacher.
Robert Collyer preached at "All
Souls Church" last Sunday on the
subject of ideals of life, and he made
his sermon somewhat autobiographi-
cal. During the discourse he remarked
that his Goth birthday occurred on
Sunday last and he went on to say:
"Thirty-four years ago was work
ing at blacksmith's forge in Eng
land. My prospects we're dark, and l
looked toward America. My ideal
future was not great one. only
wanted a place where could have
little home of my own, with books to
read and the chance to educate my
children. I remember I pictured to
myself some quiet little cottage in a
Pennsylvania village, where I should
live with my wife and the children
yet to come. I think I counted seven
children sufficient then, but the Lord
has given me nine. In the picture
I painted a pretty library, plenty of
books and a garden. told my de-
sires to my friends. They all tried to
dissuade me from them. They offered
me letters to get work anywhere but
in America. At last started, and, as
I expected, when I got here found
every one ready to help me along. At
my first Thanksgiving dinner I had
a great turkey smoking on my table
a bird, which in England I no more
thought should ever eat Of than
should have thought of roasting the
American eagle. The Lord has pros
pertd me here beyond my widest ex-
pectations, and so He will every one
Evening star., 1934-08-05
Japanese Landlord Is Crieved
When Rent Is Paid i'm Advance

worlds knowledge, which is the oldest
university in the world, and upon
what specific date was Harvard Uni
versity founded. This you gloss over
with wave of the hand, hoping to
bring him to closer subjects. You
ask him what do japanese girl stu
dents do with their knowledge of in
tegral calculus once they have ac-
quired it, and he smiles. You don't
get the answer, unless it is that
smile.
Next he wants to know if there are
any Socialists in the United States, so
you duck this question out of respect
for the dangerous thoughts" laws,
for to speak of Socialism, even to a
landlord, might lead to the unjust
suspicion that perhaps you, too, are a
Socialist
The range of questions extends
from the founding of Harvard to an
cient Buddhist temples in Peiping,
Kyoto, India and North Manchuria,
and so by devious routes back to the
immediate question Of occupancy Of
pect warnings about broken windows,
about watering the lawn, about keep
ing the bushes and shrubs trimmed,
but the landlord has no such-thought
in mind. Instead he Says in his
most gracious manner and in his
difficult English:
Il wish to call your attention to a
little error. I am sorry. You see
you have paid me one months rent
in advance on this house. In future
please pay your rent at the end of
each month and not in advance.
Hence, having paid for the month of
June. you need not pay again until
the last day of July
He then rises, shakes your hand,
ignores the presence of the hostess
and begs you to call upon him TO
return the visit. You take him to
the front door-really a person like
this should never be permitted to
leave the premises-you bow: then
you escort him to the front gate and
you bow again. In the middle dis
tance, he pauseS, and again you both
bow.
1t is a gracious. soul-warming event.
Perhaps your wife can call upon the
landlords wife some day and tell her
the exact date of the founding Of
wellesley.
Copyright. le34)
Evening star., 1934-08-05
Manchukuo Shadow
Lies Over Peiping

PEIPNG, China.-Peiping Is q city
waiting for blow. It does not know
when it is coming. It does not know
what it viii be when it comes. But
it can see no present indications war
ranting hope that North China can
avoid tragic consequences from the
impact Of Japan and Manchukuo.
That summary does not apply to
the outlook of every one here Not all
the Peiping populace has even an ele-
mentary grasp Of the web of circum-
stances in which North China has
been caught. Among people who do
see what is going on there are many
minds, many shades Of pessimism or
optimism, many views as to what
course China would take with Japan.
But most articulate opinion among
patriots in Peiping and North China
generally is that grief is ahead. The
grief. indeed, Is here now. Japan has
not occupied North China: most sober
judges Of her policy believe that she
does not now want to occupy it. But
the logical sequence of her setting up
of the state Of Manchukuo>is all too
apparent TO many Chinese. The
shadow Of the 'puppet state" lies
darkly south of the Great Wall.
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Caviar One of Soviet's
Best-Paying Trades

AsTRAKHAN, U. s. s. R-The
caviar packing trade, centering here
at ancient Astrakhan, is one Of the
Soviet's most profitable and one of
its most distinguished businesses.
Every year this district bordering on
the Caspian Sea produces 900 tons
Of caviar of all qualities, both black
and red, including large amounts of
beluga caviar, the choicest produced.
One establishment alone furnished
go tons last year.
At the peak of the 1929 boom the
Soviet sold 789 tons Of black caviar
abroad for a price of $1,000, 900. Now
it exports only about 800 tons year.
Caviar, down here, Is not sold by
the ounce. The fishermen who bring
it in, inside the living fish, receive l
ruble so kopeks for kilogram, which
comes to 1850 rubles a metric ton.
The local packing houses sell 1t TO the
central trust for about 1880 rubles a
metric ton, in the case Of the finest
beluga caviar, and according TO Soviet
export statistics the trust sells it
abroad at about 1868 gold rubles per
ton. All in all, pretty profitable
business for the government.
(Copyrisht, 1034.)
Evening star., 1934-08-05

300 yards of red brussels carpet, or
namented with blue flowers, cover the
floor. The desks have been rearranged
and the 325 members of Congress sit
in a crescent made of two wedge
shaped rows of desks running back
from the Speakers stand as CEN
ter. At their rear is little 2ence of
navy blue cloth hung on brass rail-
ing. and the little great men rise tier
above tier, posing in their seats in
various attitudes, until, in the back
row, they can lean their heads against
the blue curtains. Many of them, es-
pecially the new members, have an air
Of great importance, and they cast an
eye now and then at the great crowds
in the galleries. They remind me of
the new Congressman who said: "On
the first day I looked around on that
magnificent body of Congressman and
wondered how in the dickens I got
here. But after I had been here two
months I looked around again, and
then I wondered how in the dickens
the other fellows got here"
Mr.. John G. Carlisle understands
his business, and his hoarse gutteral
tones, aided by the continual rapping
of his ivory gavel, keep pretty good
order. He fully appreciates the dig
nifty of his position. When he took his
seat on Monday. led thereto by ex-
Speakers Keifer and Randall, his face
was as pale as the blank paper on
which this page is printed, and l
know his heart was in his throat when
he took the oath. Still, he enunciated
well as, looking the House bravely In
the eye, he swore to do his best Tor
God and his country. John q.
Carlisle is a high-minded man and
whatever be his views on certain
economical questions, the cause OF
right has gained by his election.
AS he spoke Monday, I had good
chance to watch Samuel j. Randall,
the man who two weeks ago. 1t was
generally conceded, would occupy the
Speakers chair. During the whole OF
Carlisles speech he watched him with
keen eyes, and firmly closed lips, his
rigid face moving hardly a muscle
during the speech. Toward its close
he folded his arms, and thought l
could see in his face the iron that
must have gone into his soul at the
cheering given his opponent. During
the speech I doubt not Randall went
over his contest and cursed his self
confidence when all seemed to be in
his favor, and when the newspapers
from one end of the country to the
other were assuring him Of his easy
election.
Little Sunset" Cox took his med
icine much more philosophically. His
Jaws moved nervously while the
Speaker was addressing the House
but a smile now and then fitted
across his cheeks of ruddy brown, and
at its close, he turned it from his
milsl with jest to Randolph Tucker
of Virginia, who was sitting beside
him.
In Willard's Hotel the other night,
I saw young John Mclean who owns
the Cincinnati Enquirer and who
bosses one-half of the Ohio Democ-
Evening star., 1934-08-05

others whom I have talked with, Maj.
Mckinley is especially happy over the
result. met the major in the Ebbitt
House tonight and asked him what he
thought the election meant. He re-
piled: "It means that the chief issue
for the next presidential contest is de-
cided upon. That issue is to be a
clear-cut fight between tariff for pro-
lection and a simple revenue tariff or
free trade. The fight between Carlisle
and Randall was made upon that is
sue. 1t has been no secret, but has
been openly avowed on both sides.
The result shows that the Democrats
are three to. one in favor of free
trade"
A Southwestern Congressman dur
ing the later hours of Friday evening
came staggering into the Ebbitt
House, his face rosy with weather or
with wine and his plug hat cooked
over his ear. With a jaunty, devil
may-care air, he pranced up to Mai
Calkins and, putting his hands on his
hips, raising one heel a little and
thrusting out his fat abdomen, he said
in a laundering tone, so that every
one in the lobby could hear him: I'm
a Congressman, by CAD, from a wild
Western district, by CAD, and I'm the
widest steer in the district, by gad."
Verify" said Calkins, politics
makes strange bedfellows"
Col. Ellsworth. who built the Reed
House at Erie, Pa, has been here sew
eral days. Ellsworth is fine-looking
gray-bearded patriarch who has made
a fortune in bookkeeping, though he
is now out of it. "One of the secrets
of my success" he said, was that
furnished each of my guests with a
copy of the morning daily before they
got out of their beds. During the last
two years of my bookkeeping paid
out more than $4,000 for daily papers
had the only hotel in the United
States which furnished the morning
paper to its guests. 1t paid better
than any investment ever made"
The Forty eighth Session.
The Forty eighth Congress is nov
in session and as I write this the new
House sits before me. The chambers
have been put in new clothing and
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Continued Prom First PageD
for FIRST class letter mail. was the
difference between "a cents pound
= tfor United States snipsl and 2l cents
q pound tfor foreign ships.
II gas a nice handout--tor In the
past fiscal year. ending July /. ac-
cordinE 70 summaries just complied
by the Post Ofloe Department. IL
amounted to si.44e.254.e3. which, as
you viii see. would total ei4, ,4S2, $40 80
over io-year period.
More Pitlful Appeals.
Two years now pass. II Is 1923
Once more the specter Of subsidy"
ghosts through our legislative halls.
There are more pitlful appeals for aid
80 the Jones' White bill was passed
and ocean mail contracts" came into
being. based on rates Of from Sii3
70 si2 per mile that each ship tray-
eled on It's outward bound Journey
with American mails on board
The contracts" we're to be let by
competitive bidding" So the Post
Once Department designed specifca-
tions covering types Of ships TO be
used on each trade route. advertised
for BIDS. and 1t wasn't their fault. they
say. that only one concern made
bid for each route save in two or
three instances.
The net result, however. is salu-
brious in one way. For 1t is averred
that every American shipping concern
now operating a passenger service In
foreign trade, and in some instances
in intercoastal trade, has one or more
mail contracts.
Like many things. IL started small
CSC .o0o. 900 annually and grew big
$3.50 o,0e0, 900 annually. Note. in the
following figures, the rapid rise Of the
totals, even during depression" years:
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TOXIC, Japan.-"The call of the
landlord" is a formula that must be
gone through and is as interesting as
it is provocative of thought.
The cook-amah, that is to say, cook
and general housemald without whose
administration it is practically i'm
possible for foreigner to live in
Japan except in a hotel, who cannot
talk English but who, nevertheless.
can make herself understood, informs
you by sign and symbol, but deep
gutturals and winning smiles, that
the landlord has asked her to ask the
master of the house if he, the land
lord, may call this afternoon. Natu-
rally you say yes" You expect him
to enter. to minutely inspect the fur
niture of his new tenant, to give you
a receipt for the current months rent
and then TO go out in i'll humor.
Such might well be the case in any
other country, but not in Japan. Here
things work differently and smoothly.
You have already learned a few
though you have rented his house
you have not met him personally.
You have learned, for instance, that
he is quite young. that he is a Bud
dhist priest. an ex-army officer and a
professor of mathematics in a girls
college. You also have been told that
he cannot speak English. that he has
two girl babies and a pleasant wife,
who speaks English. Neither the girls
nor the wife are to be present at this
social meeting.
The landlord enters in a snappy
gray foreign-style outfit, blue tie
held with gold stickpin, a pair OF
tan shoes and straw hat. You meet
him at the door and inform him in
English. trusting he might perhaps
understand, not TO remove his shoes.
In the parlor you introduce him to
your wife, whom he promptly and
gravely neglects TO notice II would
not be courteous of him TO notice her /;
besides, you have committed a social
blunder in having her present. You
offer beer. whisky. brandy, soda and
tea. He accepts tea, rejects the prof
fered cigarettes Then the man who
cannot talk English launches into a
conversation the words of which are
Suspicicusly like the English Ian
guage.
He asks you. in his survey Of this
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who creates a noble ideal of life and
tries to encompass 1t"
Robert Collyer is now in his prime.
I never heard him preach better than
yesterday. and during the sermon he
made his audience laugh and cry
alternately. Mr.. Collyer is a big man
all over-big physically. big morally
and big intellectually. He stands
fully 6 feet in his stockings and
must weigh much more than 200
pounds. His hands are like cut of
beef, and his arms are as large around
as the thighs of most men. His head
would fit Goliath, and his large blue
eyes look honestly out of it under
heavy brows of a bushy white. He
has high forehead, thick gray hair,
which flows back upon his neck in a
name, like Henry Ward Beacher's, and
full, large nose. Robert Collyer
commenced life, as above stated, at
the blacksmith's anvil. His first
preaching was as a Methodist ex-
horter, during which time he still made
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Total ......... Si2O. .3s9. .7s2 90

And In the last year a much smaller
volume of mail was carried, but--oh,
well, what's $1,000 900 these days?
Now then, these ships and ship
owners which received these 120-odd
millions. actually carried mail. But
II that mail had been paid for at the
= former rate (Which included the orig
inal subsidy 1t would have cost the
Government only sl5677, ,678.7s, the
Post once Department says. The re-
naming sl04,7l2, ,l03.18 was lust plain
} donation, gift--or what have you-
: and il is SO admitted,
Evening star., 1934-08-05

TINE Republicans are well satis-
fed with the election of Car
Isle as Speaker, and as yet I
Il have not been able to find a
Republican Congressman who
does not think the outlook for the
easy success Of his party more assured
today than it has been at any time
during the past four years. Among
Evening star., 1934-08-05

This Is the fourteenth of series
OF Deekly articles on interesting
persons and eDentS in the National
Capital during the sos, By Frank
G. Carpenter, 1Dorld famous author
and trGUeleT. The merit chapter in
the series i1iH be published merit
Sunday in The Star.
Evening star., 1934-08-05
CHAPTER XIV.
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

(Copyright, 1894 by The Evening Star
NeWSpaper Col
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Continued From Third Page.)
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The Forty eighth Congress is now
in session and as write this the new
House sits before me. The chambers
have been put in new clothing and
Evening star., 1934-06-16
SILVER QUOTATIONS.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. June Is GP.-Bar sill
yer quiet; Is lower at 447s.
Evening star., 1934-06-16
Business Trend
Still Irregular,
Review States
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, June l6.-In its
weekly summary of the general busi-
ness situation. the Standard Statis-
ments as follows:
Business conditions continue ex-
tremely irregular. as indicated by the
items composing the Standard Stats
tics Co. iLdex of industrial produc-
ton. AS estimated for June. sub
stantial increases in activity are being
shown in pig iron. cement, slaughter
ing tobacco. sugar and silk. compared
with a month ago. The largest de-
clineS are occurring in chemicals,
automobiles, trucks. tires, lumber,
cotton and wool. Output of petrol
cum has increased, but supplies of
gasoline are being consumed at a
satisfactory rate.
Production of motor cars and
trucks in this country and Canada
in May is estimated at about 10 per
cent below the April figure. and the
large stocks in dealers hands indi-
cate further curtailment. Output of
electric power recovered sharply
after the Memorial day decline. but
currently is only 73 per cent above
the corresponding 1888 level. while
in the New England district it is
below a year ago
Maintenance OF freight car load
ings and other basic items which
reflect wide scale use encourages the
belief that the general level of activity
will continue to be well sustained,
despite considerable irregularity in
individual lines. The lack of a uni
form trend at this time is reaSsuring
since the normal tendency would be
toward a general recession"
Evening star., 1934-06-16
STOCKS ARE FIRM
AT END OF WEEK
Numerous Advances Range
From Fractions to Two
Points.
BY VICTOR EUBANK.
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, June 16-With the
threatened steel strike off, at least for
the moment, and the national law
makers about to quit for the Sum-
mer. stocks resumed their advance in
today'S brief market. While trading
was relatively dull numerous gains Of
fractions to around 2 points were re-
corded. The close was firm. Trans
fers approximated 100000 shares
The declaration of temporary peace
in the important steel industry had
been fairly well discounted, but
brokerage houses reported that senti-
ment for equities. as a whole, was
noticeably improved.
That the wrinkles in the highly
complicated labor situations through
out the country may be ironed out
soon was believed probable. The
financial district was cheered by the
House approval of the substitute
Wagner bill containing the admin
istrations proposal for dealing with
labor disputes
The German debt moratorium
seemingly failed a. market deterrent
although some international bankers
felt that the final word in this stu
alton has yet to be said.
Grains dipped around midday un-
der realizing based largely on further
weather reports in the drought dis
tricts- Wheat and corn both showed
losses of nearly l cent bushel. 9th
er cereals Jagged. Cotton was not
especially enthusiastic and silver fu-
lures barely moved. Rubber improved.
Bonds were quiet. but various secon-
dairy loans were higher. German IS
sues steadied Only slight changes
were recorded by foreign currencies.
Shares of American Beet Sugar
common got up more than a point to
new high for the year and the COM
pany's preferred stock advanced more
than 3 points. Stocks up around ! 70
2 included American Telephone,
American Can. United States Steel,
Columbian Carbon. Vanadium Beth
lehem Steel, Westinghouse. Case, Du
Pont. Johns Manville. Santa Fe. New
York Central Delaware g. Hudson.
Consolidated Gas. North American.
Allied Chemical. United States Smelt-
ing. Howe Sound and Cerro de Pasco.
General Motors and Chrysler were
slightly higher and the oil. alcohol
and dairy groups were narrow.
W. the adjournment of Congress
and adjustment of the principal labor
controversies. Wall Street commenta-
tors expressed the opinion that the
trend of business and industry prob
ably would be the dominating market
influence over the next several
months.