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Evening star., 1935-09-16
UnsOund Policy.

A scientific and non-partiSan inquiry
into the agricultural adjustment act and
its operation diScloSes that it does not
make sense. Further than that, it dis
closes that in the long run, If the policy
of scarcity is maintained to force higher
prices, the farmers themselves will be
among the chief sufferers. The inquiry
was made by the Brookings Institution.
For temporary advantage, obtained
through Government checks handed to
the farmers for not producing crops, the
producers are endangering their future
and that Of the country.
At the same time the American Lib
erty League issued a blast attacking the
latest A. A. A. wrinkle, the potato con-
troll act, as un-American and more So
cialistic and despotic than anything
tried by the Russian Soviet.
Notwithstanding these attacks and
others, the administration and the farm
ers are both reported to be ready to go
forward with the A. A. A. and its re-
kIIlCIlN6 DOllCltS. 4LlC 4dA lAlSAo CIV nAAA
ing to go ahead because they receive the
Government checks and have prices
higher than in 1882. The administration
Is anxious to perpetuate this part OF the
New Deal if it can. Further, it believes
that it means votes among the farmers
In one part of its reports on the A.
A. A. the Brookings Institution main
tains that higher prices are really due
to the drought that affected agriculture,
rather than to the Government policy.
Studies of the live stock and dairying
industries by the institutions experts re-
suited in this deduction. At the same
time the financial benefits to the farm
ers for not producing live stock and
crops come, and will continue to come,
from the pocketbooks of the American
taxpayers, through the processing taxes.
Some day the administration may wake
I'D to the fact that the taxpayers are the
American people-not just one small seq
ment of the people. The processing tax
on pork, on cotton, ETC., reaches into
the pockets of all the consumers OF those
articles. And the idea that taxes are
paid to the Federal Government only by
those who pay income taxes is not only
unsound, but futile.
Paying any one for not doing anything
Is economically unsound. If carried to
the last degree it would mean complete
halt in production. The farmers them
selves are not unmindfu Of this truth.
They have been led to support such
program, however, because they are the
immediate beneficiaries; because they
receive the checks. If they must have
q subsidy, then it would be better in the
long run to pay them direct bounty
on their exportable surpluses than to
pay them for not producing. At least
then the subsidy would be paid for pro-
duction and not for failing to produce.
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Salespeople who not only do not recog-
niZe old customers, after many meetings,
but sometimes salespeople who plainly
indicate their dislike for the very persons
who are helping them earn their bread
and butter.
Human nature, of course, is something
the finest sort of management Is helpless
against, at times.
There are all sorts Of rules and regu-
lations. orders and instructions but be-
tween issuing them and seeing that they
are carried out there is big gulf some
times.
It all goes back, no doubt, to the innate
differences between man and man.
Let us consider the friendly man, for
he is pleasant to consider.
He finds, If not to the extent Of the
late viii Rogers, something to like in
almost every man. Will said he never
knew a man he did not like. Few can
go that far but perhaps it isn't necessary.
II we can find trait or two which Is
likable. let us concentrate on that, If it
is at all possible.
Often it is not possible.
The other person won't let usl
And every one has seen customers
in stores. customers who simply would
not permit the clerk to be courteous, but
practically forced the poor girl to be
disagreeable
Wherefore. 1t would seem, it is all the
more important that all statesmen be
kindly and gentle with the mass Of the
people, who ask nothing more than a
little honest interest in their wants. a
little recognition, now and then, and a
few kind words.
This type Of person prevails in the
buying public. No one expects the i'm
possible of clerk. Hundreds and thou
sands of persons come their way every
day. They cannot be expected to recog-
niZe all Of them later. 1t would seem
to the average day-by day purchaser,
however, that they might have a word
Of greeting for the steady customer,
whether the latter is striking, in some
physical way, or not. The money Of the
inconspicuous, quiet customer is quite as
good, to put it mildly, as that Of the
flashy person who has some physical
trait so distinctive that it is easy to re-
member him.
Friendly people are the same every
where. To find friends, II has been said,
one must be friend. 1t is an honest
maxim and has great deal of truth in 1t.
1t is not necessary to go as far or as
high as friendship, however
Just plain friendliness will do.
How rare it is, after all, may be seen
on any public conveyance, where often
one sees a great lack of 1t.
An attempt by friendly man to make
conversation with a stranger often is
met by the famous cold shoulder" He
is put in his place." because he has not
been introduced"
True friendlinesS, which is beautiful
thing, does otherwise.
1t accepts other humans as equal until
proved otherwise. 1t has no fears and
therefore is able to go ahead on the
basis of mutual understanding
1t is not to be wondered at that those
persons who exemplify this virtue are
able to recall the faces, and even names,
Of persons they have met just a few
times, or even just once.
Memory, friendliness and faith 60 to-
gether. and make a great team.
Evening star., 1935-09-16
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Sunday.

Sunday.
A day of rest! The church bells ring
With sweet and friendly call
To bid us from our shoulders fling
The burdens great and small.
The purse, the weapon and the pen,
The signs Of earthly power,
From these we turn and look again
Beyond the present hour.
With accents measured, soft and low.
1t sets the air a-thrill,
To music as 1t bids us know
All men are brethren still.
Though we must pant and strive anew
A moment let US dwell
In reverent peace and hark unto
The music OF the bell.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

maries and to continue through county
and State political units up to and in
cluding the national convention. Some
where along the line, he insists. the
constitutional Democrats will win out.
1t will be an amazing thing If they do,
in the face of the Roosevelt organization
with all the money it has back Of It,.
However, it was an amazing thing that
q Republican, Representative Risk. won
the congressional election In Rhode
Island on August by Q big margin over
his Democ1atic opponsu&.
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The Bee.


A busy bee
Once buzzed around.
He toiled with glee
In peace profound,
Until one day
He thought 1t fun
To cause dismay
And sting some one.
All honeyless,
For home he hied,
In deep distress,
With injured pride.
The foerlan he
Had slain (almost)
He found to be
A wooden post.
Those who had cheered
His diligence
Now laughed and jeered
At his expense.
No tears are wrung
In solacing
One who has stung
His final sting!
Evening star., 1935-09-16
A Blue.Eyed Youngster

When Jim left his Alma Mater
Mother Earth had given him
Muscle-making bumps in foot ball,
sky-blue eyes and headlong vim.
With q whistle on his lip,
And the towns strategic gaming
Caught the youngster on the hip.
All its tactics were confusing,
Ethics, strife and mental din,
Till Jim wished his Alma Mater
Would reach out and haul him In.
Yet he plugged on, hitsing, missir
In the game that deviled him
Eyes like blue steel st the finish,
Earth viii have . man In Jim.
Evening star., 1935-09-16
A Friendly Suxxestion.

TFIeHuIy ouBBcstIOHs
81 want to speak to you as one Of the
plain people"
Don't do it," replied Farmer Corn
tossel. "You want to realize that times
have changed and q prosperous agricul-
turist looks on himself as somebody
rather special"
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Lessons.

There are many valuable lessons to
be learned from defeat"
YES" replied Senator Sorghum, "but
they aren't any good unless you can
teach them to the other fellow"
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His Status.

"Were you q bull or bear In Wall
Street,"
"I wasn't either. I was the man
who has to run for a tree when the
menagerie breaks loose"
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Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication OF special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

Delaware brings the whipping post into
action, although there is still question
of its desirability as q surviving feature
of the old horse-and- buggy days.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

An advantage enjoyed by "G-men" in
social improvement is the fast work
permitted by the use of as few initials
as possible.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

Conquest of Ethiopia is not regarded
ms in itself a difficult enterprise. 1t is
the pre-war strategy that calls for Mus
solini's chief demonstration of ability
at present.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

Some Of the communications not suit
able for the record have naturally gone
into the waste basket.
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Statisticians are still figuring on
whether anybody ever makes enough out
of a war to pay for it afterward.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

Assassination reduces red corpuscles
to the value of white chips in game
of treachery.
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The Unconsidered.

Some are protected more or less
BY ornamental uselessness.
The robin sings in peace complete
Because he is too small to eat.
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'De man dat brags," said Uncle Eben,
mos generally don't mean no harm an
mebbe you orter be complimented dat
he's goin' to such pains 70 get you
interested In i'm" k.
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
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Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
n..A a.aA NiRniuia

All Other States and Canada.
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@. Who Is called the father Of Ameri-
can pomology?-E. C.
A. William Coke Q762-l63D, whose
experiments had a pronounced effect on
the early development Of pomology in
America,
Evening star., 1935-09-16

@. Why was China once called seres?
w. w.
A. The ancient name was derived from
a word meaning silk.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

@. Where is Peace River?-L. L.
A. 1t rises in West Central Canada
west of the Rockies and flows east and
northeast about l 900 miles to Great Slave
River, just north of Athabasca Lake.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

President Roosevelt was at his best
as a politician extraordinary in ending
the Ickes-H Hopkins feud. AIS quiet
again on the work relief front, and there
will be no designations. thanks to an
other masterpiece Of Rooseveltian con.
ciliation.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

@. Why is a certain kind OF corn
bread called hoecake?-B. C.
A. This thin corn meal bread was
originally baked on the blade OF a hoe.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

@. Who built the first schooner?-M r.
A. The first schooner was built at
Gloucester, Mass, in l7l3, by Capt.
Andrew Robinson.
Evening star., 1935-09-16

against the New Deal becomes very pro-
nounced among the Democrats Of the
South 1t is reasonable to expect that the
Roosevelt Democrats will begin to pic
ture the President as the greatest up
holder of the Constitution since the days
OF George Washington. They will find
lot to say along that line, undoubtedly.
Gov. Talmadge of Georgia Is said to
be leader in the constitutional" Demo-
cratic movement. The Georgia Gov
ernor has become an even more out
standing figure in the ranks opposing the
denomination OF President Roosevelt in
the South since the death of Huey Long
OF Louisiana. Indeed, q great deal Of
that opposition is expected to turn to
Talmadge for leadership. He is becom-
ing more and more active. He will de-
liver flve speeches this week-in New
Orleans Bloomington, Ill; Des Moines,
Iowa, and Lincoln and Sewar, Nebr. In
all of them he will direct his attacks
against the New Deal and President
Roosevelt. The Georgia Governor Is not
willing to 60 along with Representative
Maloney of Louisiana, who has declared
that now that Huey Long is dead 1t is
right and proper that louisiana, o Dem
ocratic State, should 60 along with q
Democratic administration, the RooSe-
welt administration, in Washington. Tai
madge said in an interview that he
wanted to be sure that 1--WE have q Dem
ocratic President and not one masquer-
aiding under the name only"
It will be interesting to see how the
constitutional Democrats come out in
their fight for delegates opposed to
Roosevelt. This contest for delegates
will begin in many Of the States before
very long. In PREPARATION for the con-
test, Kirby said that his organization
Intends to begin with the prsenet pri-
Evening star., 1935-04-21

answering politely and in a tone OF voice that
speaking to anyone who is either talking or
listening
The first is hard enough to teach a little
child; and to teach it not to talk to Mother,
when some one else is speaking and Mother
herself is saying not word, is indeed an
achievement.
Although as rule children are not supposed
to appear at grown-up parties, they do as
matter of fact not only appear but some
times take part at the most oeremonious ones
possible. Children, for instance, are always in
vited to the weddings of members of their
families and often to those of the more in
innate friends of their parents; often in fact
very little children serve as the brides attend
ants. In this last case they are of course
especially rehearsed. 50 that they shall walk
50 and stand thus during the ceremony and
again take their places in the recessional
exactly as they have been shown.
But when they are at home, nothing is
better training than to let them come into the
room at tea time, whether their mother is
ordinarily receiving friends, or whether she
has had bridge party. Small boys and girls
alike are taught to place the individual tables,
hand plates and tea and pass sandwiches and
cakes.
When everybody has been helped, the chill
dren are perhaps allowed a piece of cake.
which they put on tea-plate, and sit down
and eat nicely. If many people are present
and the children are not spoken to, they
either sit still and listen or else they leave the
room unobtrusively.
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This undertaking Of a childs admirable
intentions is. it seems to me, one of the COM
mon causes of wilfully bad manners.
When he fails to do something really i'm.
portant. then reminder is perhaps neoes-
sary; but even 30 it is best if possible to let it
60 and tell him about it afterwards. If he
must be reminded, then the message should
be between him and you and not told to all
the visitors: glance in the direction of the
door would mean "open the door for Mrs.
Neighbor who is leaving" If Mary lies
stretched on sofa or in the deepest chair
absorbed in book when visitor enters or
stands, to say Mary" mot in the tone of a
command but as though about to tell her
something quite casually should be enough to
remind her to stand up too.
The manners of child who finds himself
(or HERSELF at grown-up party, consist of
little more than standing up when grown
people enter a room or prepare to leave,
Evening star., 1935-04-21

When children are themselves hosts or
hostesses, modem parents let them take as
much responsibility as possible, because of the
invaluable experience in social ease that at
tempting to solve their own problems of
hospitality necessarily gives them.
There is one last point in this general SUBJ
ject of children who are brought into contact
with grown-up visitors that should like to
underscore: This is the very conspicuous
before company fault of certain parents
who fail to notice the resentment that every
intelligent child shows in being publicly
prompted to do what it had every intention
of doing without prompting.
Dozens of times we have all seen smiling
eager young faces freeze over when needlessly
told:
LET Mrs. Jones 60 first" Say how do
you do, DR.. Smith, "Say thank you, Uncle
jim" "Offer the cakes and don't help yourself
first"
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Emily Post in Every Issue!

Beginning Emily Post whose on all matters
of etiquette and home decoration regarded everywhere % be-
regular contributor to This Week magazine For thirteen
Mrs Post has been offering suggestions and advice ampoant
subjects Her book Eette the Blue Book of Social Usage has
distinction the modern social Baedeke Her wenown and
popular THE Personality of the House has been widely read and
studied by people interested correctly furnishing and maintaining
the individuality of the home Every week watch for Emily Posts
Good Taste Today page in this magazine.
Evening star., 1935-04-21

4%sSs SN,s1s * NM tangible OeneI1tS
''a ~ MN known as early ad-
vantages, which
contribute ease and charm and instructive
social grace, are in greatest measure due to
having been accustomed since earliest child
hood to the practice of proper department
under all social circumstances.
1t is true that children do not appear at
formal dinners or at balls nor any other
evening parties, but they experience exactly
the same training - or should - every time
they are brought into contact with com
pany." The difference between proper BE-
havior when with their parents alone. or when
do3en strangers are present, shows only in
the degree to which they may come forward
because given principal part, or must on
the contrary stay in the background, and be
audience, because company is always given
the principal part.
But little by little, day after day, the child
is taught to mderstudy all the roles played
by the stars. At every meal every day he is
taught to eat as neatly and behave as nicely
as though half dozen grown people were at
table. The mother who lets her child develop
bad table manners, when alone, can never
.hope to have them better than his very worst,
when her attention is occupied by visitors.
That is obvious.
If he is allowed to rush into the dining
room first and pull out his own chair and fall
into it, it is not going to be natural for him
to stand aside for Mrs. Company. or to pull
out her chair (f no other person is doing it,
or to show whatever attentions are expected
of all well behaved people. If he is allowed
to interrupt Mother and Father when they
are talking, he will certainly interrupt Mother
and Father when they are talking to COM
pany.
Training children 50 that they shall be
beautifully behaved when they find them
selves at gown-up party does require a
certain practice which is perhaps most easily
begun as a game. when they are very little.
There is the age-old game of dressing up and
playing house - played by children the world
over-in which one pretends to be the
=. mother and another the father and the
Others either their children or members of
another family coming to visit the first.
This game, in which children are invariably
delighted to have Mother or Dad or Aunt
Mary take part as visitors (or as children
while the children play grown-ups), has un-
ending possibilities for imaginative parents
who unexpectedly teach company behavior
50 thoroughly that, when visitors of their own
arrive, the children naturally "play the game"
much as it has been practised.
In one definite game that l myself re-
member, an aunt who was clever mimic
always played the part of Nippy Nuisance, a
horrible child who initiated every bad habit
the real children had. The aunt's caricatwes
were 50 vivid and Nippy Nuisance such a
pest, that no one ever continued the fault,
whatever it was that Nippy illustrated.
Leila Lovely was the contrasting character
played by Mother. And in the game the child
whose turn it was to play the mother of Nippy
was often 50 upset that, as I remember it.
Nippy Nuisance eventually became an
orphan.
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EARE not
apt to
n
of chill.

dren-especially
little ones as hav-
ing any place in
grown-up society,
and yet those in
tangible benefits
known as early ad-
} vantages, which
The Washington times., 1935-11-29
Landon Defended
Bv Oil Group Head

FORT WORTH, Tex, Nov. 20
UN.S0 Charles F. Roesser. presi.
dent of the Independent Pc
troleum Association of America,
today vigorously defended Gov.
ALI Landon Of Kansas, following
an attack on the Kansar1's
record by former Senator Smith
Brookhart of Iowa.
Brookhart was quoted as charg-
ing Landon was the candidate of
Standard OIL"
The Washington times., 1935-02-11
BRIDGE EXPERT
SOUNDS PRAISE
Of P|NOCHLE

auction PinOchle is one Of
Che two finest games that have
ever been invented. In fact, 1t
was the inspiration not only Of
auction bridge but Of contract
bridge. and combines the best
features of both games"
This statement is made by P,
Hal Sims, foremost authority on
bridge, in his ! a t e S t boo k,
"Pinochle Pointers" just off the
press. Mr.. Sims is general direc'
tor of The washington Times
championship pinochle tourna'
ment, one Of Is such tournaments
being held to determine the
pinochle champion Of the United
States.
Bishop in Charge
The Washington tournament is
sponsored by The Washington
Times and will be under the
direction of George Bishop, who
will be Mr.. Sims personal repre-
sentative.
The Washington tournament
opens February Is at the Ward
man Park Hotel and will continue
three weeks. There will be nine
sessions Of play. The game will
be two-handed pinochle and will
be for games, not points, and
1000 points constitute a game.
Prizes offered by The Wash.
ington Times in the local pino
chile tournament are: first prize
$500; second, 500; third, $500,
with so additional prizes of auto.
graphed copies of "Pinochle
Pointers" by P. Hal Sims for the
so next highest scores.
Trip to New York
In addition to the cash award
Of $500, the Washington winner
will receive a free trip to New
York, and an opportunity to com
pete for the national champion
ship award of $1,000. While in
New York, he will stay at the
Waldorf-Astoria where the ma
tional play will be held.
The contest is open to the pub
lie. The only requirement is that
you clip the entry blank pub
lished elsewhere in this paper
sign and send it to the Pinochle
Tournament Manager, The Wash
ington Times. Cards, rules and
score sheets will be provided free
of charge.
The Washington times., 1935-02-11
PinOchle Ideal Card Game to Alternate
with Bridge, Experts and Fans Declare
Pnoche tournaments here and in fifteen other leading
cities evidence of rapidly mounting interest in game

~1TY pinochle tournaments opening here
and in fifteen other leading cities next
week, accurately reflect the new vogue in card
playing that has taken America by storm.
Everywhere, coast to coast, more and more
people are playing pinochle. Bridge players by
the thousands have adopted pinochle as the
ideal card game to alternate with contract, and
now play both games regularly.
Whether you've been playing pinochle one
year or many years, you're invited to enter the
The Washington times., 1935-02-11
HOLLYWOOD BABY

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. II G.N.SJ.
Hollywood today boosted a new
baby that ought to have a fine
inherited talent for writing. The
baby, a daughter, arrived at
the home of Howard Smith, noted
scenarist, and his wife, known pro-
fessionally as Jane Hilton, play
wright.
The Washington times., 1935-02-11
Flower Buds Hint
Springs On Way

DR.. Henry Stokes Wanderbirds
Hiking Club members today re-
ported that they have seen indica-
tions of spring in a number of
flower buds, known as skunk cab
bage," flourishing on the banks
of Barnaby Run.
The Washington times., 1935-02-11

tournament to compete for the city champion
ship and $500 in cash prizes. Win or lose, you're
bound to have good time and lot of fun.
Secure your entry blank from any store where
playing cards are sold, or clip coupon printed
on another page of this newspaper. Meanwhile,
get P. Hal Sims new booklet, Official Pinochle
Rules" included with every pinochle pack of
U. S. Playing Cards and brush up on your
game! The United States Playing Card Com
pany, Cincinnati, Ohio.