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they arrived by steamer. The
boxes were slowed on the English
mans river boat and the return
journey began. Alive with curl
osity, some of the natives opened
one Of the boxes.
Out jumped rabbit.
And, with a wild Shrek of ter
ror, overheard went the Ethio-
plans! Only with the greatest of
difficulty did the Englishman ever
entice his men back on deck.
They listened to his explanation of
the rabbits and their harmless
qualities.
But the Philippians were uncon-
WINGED. They claimed the rabbit
was bewitched and therefore
dangerous. For any animal that
twitched its nose like a tarantula,
had ears like donkey and a tail
like a goat was certainly be-
Witched!
TINE aristocracy dress in white.
~ They are completely covered
to all intents and purposes, in
great contrast to their fellow ma
tiveS. Their costumes are of cot
ton or of silk-the silk denoting
usually either a rich man or a
noble. The tunic is tight the
sleeves long. The trousers look not
unlike Indian jodhpurs.
Over all this comes long man
tie, wrapped around the shoulders
and throat and extending down to
knee level. 1t makes the wearerS
look as though they have kits.
When you see lean, athletic
looking upper class Amharic wear
ing these pure white clothes, you
see worthwhile picture of a
splendid human specimen. When
the clothes are dirty-and that's
often-they look awful.
Differences in caste are recorded
by the number OF colored bands
round the throat and the colors
themselves. At other times, the
way the mantle is worn conveys
the indication of what type of in
dividual is the Wearer.
The ignorant-the ordinary
Johnnie @. Publics as it were-are
not allowed to ape the higher-ups.
They are bareheaded, barefooted
and often bare in a lot of other
places, tool
Still, when the upper class Eth
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Your Health
: BY DIR. MORRIS FISKBEIN-

Il HE liver is the largest organ in the body. 1t
Il weighs three of four pounds and is really the
factory in which good deal of the most important
chemistry of the body is carried out.
Blood vessels come into the liver bringing ma
terals from the bowels, which the liver then works
over into useful substances. One of the main pur-
poses of the liver is to from the body good
deal of poisonous material 1t also develops sugar
materials.
Your gallbadder is situated just under cover of
the lower border of your liver The galbadder is not
a very big organ 1t holds or two ounces of bile
The liver forms the bile and passes good deal
OF 1T into the inteStineS, but Of it is stored
in the gallbladder.
nNE Of the most serious diseases that can affect
~ the liver is cirrhosis, hardening. This comes
from various types of poisoning, including alcoholic
poisoning.
The most serious acute disease that can occur
in the liver is development of abSceSs either from
ordinary bacteria from such organisms as cause
dySentery The amebic absceSS of the liver is aSso-
ciated with amebic dysentery.
once it thought that most of the common ILL
neSSeS of mankind due to deficient functioning
of the liver. Liver pills consumed in great
amounts. the difficulty being, however, not with the
liver, but with action of the intestines.
Most liver pills merely laxative or cathartic
pills which Speeded up the bowel action.
Fortunately the human body is built with factors
of safety We have about seven times much liver
as is needed to carry the work of the body
Therefore. damage to the liver may go on for some
time without loss of life.
1t is we'll, however to take of such Condi-
tons promptly because progressive damage of the
liver is certain to result in death.
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Times Books

NEW edition Of the Modern Medical Home
n Adviser" Doubleday, Doran; $500 by DR.. Nor
rs Fishbein Indianapolis Times medical writer ano
American Medical Association Journal editor, has
just been published
Among the % prominent physicians who colabo-
rated with DR.. Fishbein in preparing the book, are
Dr. William W. Duke, st. Mary's Hospital, Kansas
City Mo; Dr. Newell C. Gilbert, Northwestern Uni
versity Medical School; Dr. Elliott P Joslin Harvard
Medical School; Dr. Walter Tmme Columbia UNI
versity, and DrS. Dwight L. Wilbur and Russell w.
Wilder Of the Mayo Clinic.
The publishers state that the book is not meant
to supplement or replace the work personal ad-
vice of tthe family physician bot is published mere
ly to contribute to the knowledge Of the general
laity in regard to scientific medicine and hygiene.
A wide range of subjects is covered by the
Adviser including child and prenatal care. diets
and diseases anatomy and physiology DR.. Fishbein,
in writing The Choice of a Physician" in the
book advises readers choose carefully their family
doctor and then rely completely on him not on'y
as medical al ser but also friend and
counsellor.
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opianS instituted the use of i'm
ported umbrellas for themselves,
they were kind enough to allow
the hoi-polloi to ape them to the
extent of straw SunShadeS.
TIME European who thinks he
u is going to get any special def
erence because he is white will
get rude awakening. The AM
harics adjudge themselves just as
good as any one else in the world.
And the only time they will pay
homage is when they find out
that homage is actually due and
warranted.
Perhaps this may be the reason
for such hauteur. They have seen
many white men come into their
midst in their time down through
the ages. There were the Portu-
guese in the Sixteenth Century.
There were the renegadeS of all
races. There were the ArmenianS
and the Greeks, who fled from
their countries to escape death
from the hands of revolutioniStS
or religious prosecutors, and
settled in Ethiopia. They mixed
freely with the AmharicS, inter-
married, and so infused their
Caucasian blood with all the other
types of blood running through
the veins of these ancient people.
And so Ethiopia is a strange
mixture of goodness and badness,
of rules and laWlesSneSs, of
mediaevalism and modernism-a
land of startling contrasts.
Side by side in Adds Ababa
stand squat mud huts and modern
stone buildings.
Side by side in Adds Ababa
move mules, cattle, sheep, rickety
carts and rakish, streamlined
American automobiles, consuming
gasoline at $40 a gallon!
This is the strange city of con-
trasts that has become the focal
point of the worlds interest.
1t may be here that Fate may
decide whether or not the youth
of the world will be able to finish
out the days of his youth in the
pursuits of peace or stretched out,
a corpse, on some bloody battle
field.
Tomorrow-The Actors, Past and
Present.
Copyright. 1885, Telegraph Press,
Harrisburg, Pa.
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modernize the country. The ma
jcrity are not. They don't under
stand. Some American farm i'm
plements lay for weeks in Adds
Ababa without being used No
one knew how to use them for one
thing, and secondly no one wanted
to. They were afraid to. They
feared some evil spirit would seize
them if they tried to learn.
The first time an airplane ever
appeared in Adds Ababa it was
considered a devil sent to spy out
upon the natives-and an evil
spirit for daring to insult God by
using His sky and His air for its
gyrationS.
T IKE a great many ignorant
- people, the natives of Abys-
sinia believe in Witchcraft. They
think, for instance, that black
smiths are purveyors of black
magic, and that a blacksmith can
change himself instantly into a
hyena.
II a young girl should be so
foolhardy and reckless as to turn
thumbs down on a handsome
young blacksmith, he will gain his
revenge by bewitching the lady:
He changes himself into hyena,
serenades the girl outside her
front door with blood curdling
howls and flesh-creeping laughs,
The girl will, unless restrained
physically by her relatives or
friends, creep out of the house on
all tours to her demon lover, who
is supposed to seize her, carry her
off into the forest and devour her!
The cure is an amulet of hyena
hair worn against the neck. This
is devils spirit and goes under
the name of Bouda.
n
NR again, Abyssinians are
" scared of such harmless ami
mails as rabbits. In the southwest
of AbySsinia, there is a trading
station at Gambelia.
An Engishman, living there,
wrote home asking for some rab-
bits to be shipped out from Eng
land, so that he might raise them,
both for eating and for what per-
haps he might make out of the
sale of their fur.
He, in company with his men,
went to collect the Dummies when
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BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY
Times staff Writer

NTASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-
w War may not solve any
economic problems, but it often
postpone Sthem.
King Cotton's throne was saved
by the World War, which pulled
the South from the Buy a Bale
of Cotton" slump to boom times.
With war again at hand overseas,
history may repeat.
But such price is, indeed, great.
The most ardent champion of
King Cotton's rule in the South
would be unwilling to say that
periodic warfare is preferable to
crop Investigation as means of
solving an economic problem.
Southern editors long have
preached abandonment of the
one-crop program as the only
permanent solution for the prob
lens of Dixie agriculture.
One of the most outstanding
said:
In my opinion, the South must
learn to live without cotton, the
same as the livery stable owners
had to learn to live when the au-
tomobile came forth"
THE magazine Fortune holds
Il that Japans entrance into
the cotton textile field will finally
force the South to this position
In Texas return to cattle-rais-
ing is urged in places now plowed
into cotton fields. Unless tariff
barriers can be removed and world
trade restored, cotton will continue
to pile up and even the govern
ment will not be able to hold back
a price slump and complete dis
aSter, such advocates contend.
Writing in the Magazine of Wall
Street, c. S. Burton urges the
growing of flax as an escape from
the cotton dilemma. He declares
that flax may be spun in a cotton
mill with miner technical adapta-
tions.'
Flax production requires crop
rotation and this also would be a
good thing for the South, he
points out.
HERE are some figures show
l. l. ing what has happened
to our cotton export trade:
Average annual consumption of
American cotton throughout the
world from 1919 to 1929 was 49,
1910 bales, while that of
foreign grown cotton was 1884,
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EIIllOpld.
For in the pool, maybe at
noontime, maybe in the late
afternoon, half a hundred
or more men and women-all as
naked as the day they were born
splash about, and wash to the
accompaniment Of yowls and
shrieks.
And the nudists in the United
States claim that there is never
the slightest indication of self
consciousness in their backto-
nature land mosquitoes camps -
but they ought to go to Adds
Ababa to see how it's really done.
That woman'S woman and
mans a man, when without
clothes, doesn't seem to penetrate
the Ethiopian mind while bathing
in the public pool.
IF the European stays out after
Il 8 o'clock, then let him keep his
eyes peeled for robbers. For they
are plentiful. Also lepers walk
about creating as much general
concern as fly.
Ethiopia is not land of prohi-
bition. The drinks have the dyna-
mite of mules hind leg, and
there is no shortage. Drunks are
common sights. Selassie doesn't
like it. So one of his new rules
is that all drinking emporiums
are to shut down at 8 o'clock.
This was patterned after the
English rule, where bars close up
at certain hour at night--re-
open in the morning, close again
around noon, and then open up
again a short time before evening.
So the willy ones who like their
liquor in Adds Ababa get around
the law neatly and effectively
When the doors are locked at 8
oclock-they just simply stay in
side and imbibe to their hearts
content all night. Clever, these
Philippians!
TINE sight of three or four men
chained to another Eman,
coming down the street leads the
uninitiated to believe that here
comes cop and his three prison
ers. Not so. 1t is creditor, lead
ing his three debtors.
If the creditor in Ethiopia be-
lieves that his debtor is likely to
beat a sudden retreat before he
pays his bill, he has the debtor
chained up to him, so as to make
certain he won't get away. Do
nestle and debt slavery is the rule
in Ethiopia.
Court proceedings, before SeIas-
sic made an effort to establish all
orderly system of justice were of
the impromptu variety. In fact,
outside Of Adds Ababa, they are
still as simple, direct and elemen-
tai as ever.
Court may be held suddenly on
the street corner, in the gutter or
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Fields Sometimes OUerIup

DUT there remain many important fields where
- the industrial type of union is inappropriate
and unavoidable. This is whenever there is no
organized national industry with which to deal as
in the building trades except in citieS) and in all
the service misunderstanding and dyeing BARRIERS
etc
The two fields sometimes overlap in the case
of brcklayerS in the mining industry who might not
belong to the bricklayerS' craft union.
To layman, at least. the solution seems too sim
pie to quarrel about-use both types, each where it
fits best, With industry rapidly forming into great
organized groups, labor hasn't got a ChinamanS
chance unless it organizes on the same pattern.
Copyright 1885, by United Feature Syndicate IncJ
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belong TO a mine workers
union. Every union brickIayer
belongs to that craft union
whatever his particular indus
try.
Where an industry is ma
tional and highly integrated like
the automobile or steel or tex
tile industries, there is not the
slightest question that the in
dustrial union is best for labor,
management and the public.
Working conditions and
wages have to be fairly uniform
throughout an industry. for the
low cnoditions tend always to
pull down the high. COMPETE
ton for costs between companies
does this. If labor pressure
can only be eXerted against a
single company, its competition
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picture Of himself.

picture of himself.
The city is a city of smells Until few years ago,
it had dranage-the system in there now being
of the results of Seasse travels into the outside
world.
Public health is wagng an uphill battle The public
baths of Adds Ababa would bring CONSERVATION to those
bright custodans of Americas public morals nudsm
and nudiss camps if they to suddenly bob up in
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but he was general. Years later
I looked up his military record,
and now l never mention him. But
about half century ago, when
we lived in broWnstone house in
w 87th-St, l was taught to say:
My great-great-gr grandfather fought
in the American Revolution
I didn't pull it very much and
only under provocation. My chum,
Winnie Frank, down the block, used
to tell me that his people were spe-
cially chosen by God. And at such
times I used to trot out Gen. Stir
ling. l regarded it then, as I re-
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termentS it can make. But where a whole industry
deals with uniform rates for all companies it can
be far liberal without running any particular
company.
AS matter of fact, in this case the industrial
form of union is not merely the better fornl-it is
the only logical from.
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By Courtesy of The General

CTILL the general was good enough to keep us in
- the Daughters of the Revolution. We couldn't
dig up anybody through the male line because my
father English He didn't seem to take the
Daughters very seriously. When they held their
meeting at our house in the afternoon ne often
Trained from coming home for dinner But if he did
he never failed to pull a outstanding WheeZe
Were there many killed." he would ask politely.
My brother and l thought that very funny
but in the course of years my mother got a little
bored with it, In all fairness to her and to the rest
Of the Daughters l must admit that they didn't raise
much hell around the house. And even if they
had I would have been in no position to complain,
because my mother refused when I asked
Can I have the Silent Nine meet here next Thurs
day night?'
However, my brother and myself did have grudge
against the Daughters. We would be told to play
outside Or at any rate, not to make much noise
during their sessions They met in the dining ROOM
and from behind the pantry door you could get
pretty GOOD view of what was going and also SWipe
the ice cream which people left upon their plates
Cakes and Conversation
TRYING and I got bored with the proceedings
Il pretty early The activities seemed to be almost
entirely cultural People read poems and papers, and
! believe of the ladies played the piano and sew
eral sang But you could hear much better songs at
Percy G.. Williams Circle Theaer any Monday after
for quarter. 1t exciting only when they
were eectng second vice president something
Then some of them would raise their voices and wave
their arms. Still my father only joking when he
used to ask, Were there many killed?'
AT the age of 10 did not take the Daughters of
the Revolution very seriously. If they had under
taken to discuss politics and hand out ukaseS as to
how the country should be saved would have been
just about as shocked if they had told dirty
stories. May I add hastily that the Daughters did
neither? And l still think that it would be an ex-
cellent idea for the D. A. r. to go back to poems,
soprano solos and lady fingers
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Continued From Page Onel

though the British stamp the head
of their king on seals, official docu-
ments and postage stamps, Selassie
prefers the lion, rather than a
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of comeback, although in those days I did not know
that the general led one of the most pell-mell re-
treats IN the entire war; galoping like mad at the
head OF his troops until baWed out by George Wash
inptOn
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years, American cotton dropped
to 81 per cent and a year later
below so per cent. Thus foreign
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The My/JeeA
bY
GENHUGHSJOHNSON

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-The American Fedora
ton Of Labor seems divided against itself on
the question of industrial craft" unions.
typical industrial" union is the United Mine
Workers. All union men who work in coal mines
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600 bales. In short, 60 per cent
American and 30 per cent foreign.
In 1929-30, Federal Farm Board
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grown cotton exceeded American
in world consumption for the first
time since the Civil War.
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Weather and War Help Keep Status Quo for Cotton,
But DKeand Sees It's Future as a Question Mark

This is the last of three articles on
cotton.
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BROUN

~ to meet at house. I'm not sure it was the
authentic D. A. r. AS I remember, my mother be-
longed TO a bootleg branch simply called the Daugh-
ters Of the Revolution. 1t was easier to get into
one organization demanded that you present an
ancestor on both male and female sides while with
us Just one revolutionist sufficient to make you
eligible
We could find only one of our clan who had
Evening star., 1935-12-08

concert series at the D. A. r. Audi
torium.
Early in the past week Mr.. Rach-
maninoff announced complete
change in the program of his Wash
ington recital, substituting in its place
the program that aroused so much
enthusiasm at his New York recital
early in November, and which Gre
ated equal enthusiasm when he played
at Boston last Sunday.
The new Rachmaninoff program
opens with Beethoven's "Thirty-two
Variations in c Minor" 1t next offers
three sonatas from the pen of Scar
latti and concludes its first half of the
bill with Chopins impressive "B Minor
S )nata."
Immediately after the intermission
Mr. Rachmaninoff will play two
Scriabin compositions: "Poeme" and
"Etude." Then comes Medtner's
Fairy Tale" Borodin's "Scherzo, Vi
the "Barcarolle" of Rubinstein, two
pieces of Rachmaninoff himself:
"Etude" and Prelude" mot otherwise
identifed), and the recital closes with
Dohnanyi's "Etude Caprice"
Mrs Dorsey announces that seats
are still available at her concert
bureau, in Droop's, 1900 G street
northwest and will be available at
Constitution Hall Tuesday evening. II
any remain unsold by that time.
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and
Philadelphia
Orch S ira
Famous Violinist Will
Be Soloist on Second
Concert Program.

THE second concert of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, Leopold Sto-
kowski, conducting, on Thursday eve
ming, December 10, at Constitution
Hail. will bring Fritz Kreisler, the
world-renowned vioIinist, as soloist.
The program will include the Bach
"Fugue in G. Minor" and "Es ist Voll-
bracht," followed by the Bach choral,
Elm Feste Burg" and the little-known
'Komm Susser Tod" The last of the
Bach group will be the "Passacaglia."
After the intermission Kreisler will
play the Brahms Concerto in D." for
violin and orchestra. A recent concert
in New York when the same concerto
was performed brought to the artist
even greater glory than heretofore
known, seeming, as it did, to display
richer work in technique, interpreta-
ton and performance as a whole.
Kreisler, as a man. is a surprising
person, with interesting hobbies and
accomplishments He is a voracious
reader of old and classical works and
he takes a small library along when
he travels. A lover of rare books, he
collects incunabla and is a thorough
connoiSSeur.
He Is fond. Of reading Latin and
Greek, loves the Bible and actually
peruses the medieval books he buys.
AT one time he read a great deal Of
philosophy Among the moderns he
likes Roman ROLAND, Anatole France
and Galsworthy and he takes especial
delight in Bernard Shaw. He con-
fesSes that the brilliant style of Shaw
so captivates him that ne does not
care what it says
The science of mathematics is an
enjoyable pastime to Kreisler and he
illustrates vividly the mysterious afin-
alton between music and mathematics,
Curiously this same dual interest oper-
ates in the case of his close friend,
Prof Albert EinStein, who Is an excel
lent amateur fiddler. The Kreislers
often see the great physicist in Berlin.
The violinist adores children and
their noise does not jar his serenity.
On the day of an important concert
he wants to be alone. He wanders for
a walk or to movie or spends time
at the piano. He never practices on
the day of concert.
Tickets for the Philadelphia Orches-
ira concert are on sale at the T.
Arthur Smith Concert Bureau elo G
street northwest.
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Christmas Program.

THE choral group of the Arts Club
= will give its Christmas concert in
the auditorium of the club Wednesday
evening, December Is, with repeti-
ton of the program at the Washington
Club on Friday evening, December 20.
The chorus includes many soloists
and has its full quota of members.
Otto Torney Simon is director, with
Katherine Morrison solo pianist and
accompanist.
'Sleepers, Bach
Thou That TeIiest Good Tfdinss" Haendei
HIS Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Is -,
Light Haendel
lift Up Your Heads. o Ye Gates" Haendel
20 Magnum Mysterium" -Vittoria
Three Kings Have Journeyed" ed"--Cornenus
Soloist--Fulton Lewis
10, How Rose E er Blooming" Praetortus
'Hallelujah" 150 Psaim1---Cesar FrancK
Piano solo by Miss Morrison will be
"Pastorale." /" by Haendel, and Choral,
by Bach, arranged by Harold Bauer