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ment Of research, can find no evidence
of gambling. Hence the conclusion:
Gambling should be legalized. A perfect
syilogism.
Theodore Roosevelt, when police COM
missioner in New York City, reasoned
somewhat similarly, though with a Diff
ference, in respect to the enforcement
of the laws against certain vices, such
as gambling. He found these laws on
the statute books and he proceeded as
the head of the enforcement body to
make them effective. His idea was that
if the law was a good one it should be
enforced. If it was not good law at
tempts to enforce it would lead to its
repeal. At all events it should be prose-
statute books. His vigorous efforts led
to some degree of housekeeping and to
some repeal enactmentS.
Mr.. Bundle, the beadle in "Oliver
Twist" remarked: "If the law suppoSes
that, the law is an ass, an idiot" II
the law in Prince Georges County sup
poses that the way to enforce law is
to repeal it when 1t is dificult to OBJ
tain evidence, then it is rendering itself
subject to Mr.. BUNDLES indictment, and
its exponents may well, and with pos
sible profit, pursue their literary re-
searches further and ponder the dilemma
of Dogberry, who bewailed that he had
not been properly writ down."
Evening star., 1935-10-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

day practice of rewarding friends and
Furnishing enemies on their records in
ofhce-national State or local. 1t is not
yet clear what effect the A. F. of LIS
Endorsement of New Deal constitutional
amendment will have on the 1886 cam
paign. Some authorities think it is bound
to spur the Democrats to advocate con-
stitutional change. especially if impend-
ing Supreme Court decisions deal addi-
tional blows to the Roosevelt program.
Miss Sonia Branting of Stockholm will
be guest of honor at a dinner of the
Quota Club of Washington tomorrow eve
ming. She is famous Swedish jurist and
specialist in courts of domestic relations.
The daughter of former prime minister
of Sweden and the sister of prominent
member of the Upper House of the Riks-
dag, Miss Branting is in the midst of a
speaking trip in the United States deal
ing with the European situation and the
plight of political prisoners.
&* **
Our railroad executives are exceedingly
proud of their safety record, particularly
as compared with the terrible toll of
human life that is taken by automobiles.
John j. Pelley. president of the Associa-
ton of American Railroads, has just an
nounced that not one passenger was
killed in a train accident in the United
States during the first six months of
1885. 1t is the third time within the last
four years that the railroads have scored
a perfect record during the first half of
the year. The announcement comedies
with publication of statistics showing
that American automobile fatalities rose
to new high in 1884, with 1880 persons
killed in or by motor cars, a death rate
of 269 per 100000 of population. New
Hampshire, Delaware and Kansas made
the best auto safety records.
Among the new members just enrolled
in the Military Order of the World War
is Mai. Gen. Michael PleShkoff. formerly
of the imperial Russian Army. He comes
from an ancient military family, his an
cestors having fought and been decorated
in the battle of Poltava in 1709. The
general himself was an officer of the
famous st. Petersburg Cavalry Guards
and later commanded the Cars 18th
Hussars. In 1917 Pleshkoff served in
Admiral Kolchak's White Russian Army
in Siberia After arrest by the Bolshe-
viks he escaped to the United States and
became a naturalized American citizen
in 1926.
Copyright. 1889
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again to the present state Of the back
OF his neck or his throat or his eyes
or arms and legs. This system was in
vented by a Chicago physician, who
elaborated his theory in large volume
published by the University of Chicago
press. In recent years a small popular
condensation has been presented for the
general reader
There are times, however, especially
when one perverSely insists on awaking
just a half hour or perhaps an hour
before the usual rising time, when a dull
book is the best of all.
Just what one means by the term
dull book" must be left to the individual.
What is a dull work for one will not
be for another.
The admirer Of the novels of Jane
Austen, for instance, may find one of
them terribly dull. We refer, of course,
10 Sense and Sensibility."
1t Is quite possible for a reader to
think her Emma" and Mansfield Park
the best novels of their type ever writ
ten, at the same time to regard Sense
and SenSibility" as only good because
the great Jane wrote it, not because she
did good job with it.
Jane is in it, of course, as every good
writer is in everything written. So it is
not the author alone who is dull, perhaps.
The reader who is fair will be willing
to admit, at least TO himself, that if
he finds work dull he may be as much
at fault as the writer.
Whoever may or may not be guilty,
one finds a book dull.
This means, if it is work of fiction,
that it does mot quite come off," to use
the prevailing fayorite phrase of the
reviewers.
Something misses fire.
Maybe it is the conversation or the
plot or, again, the reader.
Whoever or whatever it may be, it is
enough to make one yaWn.
The spark of interest, well called
divine, has not been set off.
This sort of book, when fiction is more
deadly in sophorific effects than the
most weighty of studies.
The sleepless may read philosophy
with light heart bounding along mer-
rily, but a dull novel, however famous
its author, is something else. 1t bores
beyond expression. 1t has a way about
it more Sleep-compelling than any drug
1t is in truth, drug of no mean order,
though its name is not included in either
the Pharmacoepia or other book of
standards.
And this brings up another point the
sheer physical weight of the book. Large
heavy volumes ought never to be used
for this purpose. The reader keeps
himself awake in the mere physical exer-
else of holding them. They bore into
the chest, compelling attention to their
physical if not to their intellectual
qualities.
A small book. preferably printed on
feather-weight paper, is so little in itself
that it offers no hindrance to its dull
ness, if that is its quality.
When sleep finally overcomes, it rolls
out of the fingers and drops to the floor
without wakening any one, even the
reader-or. better, sleeper.
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Transit Service.

A new element enters the already COM
plex situation with regard to the han
ding Of the bus traffic on Connecticut
avenue which has given the residents of
the region around the District-Maryland
boundary much concern recently. The
State of Maryland, into whose territory
the traffic extends, now demands that
all vehicles which cross the line at the
midpoint terminal be licensed with Mary
land, as well as District, tags. 1t is
evident that the State has the basis for
a claim of Jurisdiction, despite the fact
that only few yards of Maryland terri
tory are occupied by those busses which
are routed to the circle.
One of the contentious of the dwellers
in that area is that the bus service for
the area beyond the circle is not ade-
quate, that too many of the busses are
stopped at the circle and turned back to
town from there, or, conversely, that too
few are sent through to the lake station,
adoption of which as terminal would
solve the problem of the parking of
vehicles at the District line. If Maryland
is to require a license for each of the
busses running into the State, regardless
of the number or the distance of entry,
the transit company might as well set up
Its Maryland service on large scale,
adequate to care for all the trafic. This
Evening star., 1935-10-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

For those wakeful hours which come
to most persons at times, what is better
than a very dull book?
Every reader has some one author
with at least one book he simply cannot
get through.
1t is the best possible reading In the
world for wakeful moments.
Its first very practical use Is to put
the reader to sleep again.
This reverses the entire reason Tor
beings Of books. They are intended to
interest.
To say that book kept me up until
am" Is the very highest praise most
persons can give.
Il could not put 1t down until I had
finished it."
Such is great praise, indeed.
+
The book, on the other hand, that
puts itself down, as 1t were, by falling
literally out of hand, is the one to select
for wakeful hours.
The latter can come through any num-
Der of reasons.
Wakefulness Is thing in itself, as
well as a state Of mind and body induced
by great many diversified causes.
The kindly person will wake up early
If he has in his mind the recollection of
an ungracious deed or word, no matter
how innocently he may have stumbled
into the first or uttered the latter.
No one in the world will know, perhaps,
but he will know, and it is enough, 1t is
too much, in fact.
Il
WakefulneSS arrives.
What to do then?
All the writer's upon the sutherland
there have not been many-agree that
to think of being awake is the worst
possible thing.
Think of anything, except the fact
that you are awake, because awareness
invariably leads to worry and worry to
more worry.
From then on the chain or cycle Is
complete, Until at last it is utterly
impossible for the victim to sleep at all.
Therefore for many years it has been
fashionable to recommend counting
sheep" and the like, or almost any
mental occupation which will keep the
mind of the SleeplesS one from the fact
Of his sleeplessness.
Many Of these occupations are silly
enough. but If they help some souls they
are to be accounted good.
Unfortunately there are hundreds of
victims of occasional sleeplessness whom
they not only do not enable TO
go TO sleep again but whom they even
harm by setting up quite unnecessary
nervous tension.
AS result there has arisen a new
school OF thought in this matter which
relies on physical relaxation, or the
complete removal of tension from the
entire body.
This occupation requires the attention
of the mind, often with the most happy
results in preventing the victim from
thinking about himself as awake.
In busily relaxing his entire body, one
part after another, he forgets all about
being awake
Kidding his body of residual tension
as it is called, recalls him time and time
Evening star., 1935-10-23
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Idle DaY.


An idle day comes driftin' by
An gifts you jes' to wonderin' why;
A-wonderin' why the sky is blue,
Why blossoms fade, to bloom anew;
Why sunshine has to melt away
To make room fur cloudy day;
Why leaves a-wavin' on the tree
Must quit some day, like you an me:
Why noises, managed right or wrong.
Will make discord or a song;
The questions come a-buzzin' past
Until they wear you out at last
An make you seek your ploddin' task
With Joy; because you needn't ask
Yourself no questions such IS leave
Much wiser folks than you to grieve.
An idle day-it amt much fun;
You're sort O. glad when it is done,
An you are called your strength to try
'Thout lookin' of an wonderin' why.
Evening star., 1935-10-23

Latest report is that Jimmy Walker
will return to New York, but will keep
out of local politics. The use he has
made of his time in studying affairs
calls renewed attention to the educa-
tional advantages an American can en-
Joy through a sojourn in Europe.
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
NOmadic Charm

NOmadic Charm
Is 1t your soft. unruly hair,
Or your melodious line of chaff,
Or Just your nonchalant, gay air
That moves my heart, yet makes me
laugh?
Is it your 1.-the, untethered grace,
With its light-footed, gypsy gait,
That brings strong color to my face
Half envious of your errant fate?
Is it your dusky. earth-brown eyes,
That call to mind the harvest time,
Long sylvan trails and starry skies,
The russet leaves and wild sweet
thyme?
Whatever your allure-my goal
Is to possess your nomad soul.
Evening star., 1935-10-23

Collegiate influence would be more
secure if there were no differences OF
opinion or purpose which could not be
fought out in open daylight on the foot
ball field.
Evening star., 1935-10-23

The world will be happier when Italy
resumes its custom of supplying opera
singers and African art resumes interest
in giving the world more and better
banjo players
Evening star., 1935-10-23

A parade of pink elephants might be
introduced in the campaign in conces-
sion to the theory that the old G. o. p.
elephant may survive, but will never
look the same.
Evening star., 1935-10-23

Economies suggest themselves In
startling ways. There are thrifty souls
who think there must be war because
of the large sums invested in munitions
and machinery.
Evening star., 1935-10-23

If Uncle Sam has to forecloSe too
many mortgages his budget complica-
tions may find him drifting toward a
state which expert realtors describe as
land poor"
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Evening star., 1935-10-23

Successful civilization has always been
measured less by its pictures and sculp-
ture than by the ability to produce an
abundance of comparatively contented
taxpayers.
Evening star., 1935-10-23
COlOring the Facts.

"A great orator should be a skillful
word painter"
Sometimes" replied Senator Sor-
ghum; land sometimes he is . skillful
word whiteWaSher."
Evening star., 1935-10-23

The Presidents ship managed to ride
in ahead of hurricane 1t is intimated
that he expects to do something like it
in the next campaign.
Evening star., 1935-10-23
Exhausted Patience.

A mule seems kind as well as strong
Until his disposition sticks
At something that he deems dead wrong
Beware the optimist who kicks.
Evening star., 1935-10-23
A Rural PhilolOgist.

n TAI 1IfUIOgISt
1--WE don't say farmin' any more"
remarked Farmer Corntossel. I'VE say
agriculture
Whats the difference?"
"'Agriculture' has four syllables an
'farmin'' has two; the significance bein'
that there is jes' twice as much con-
versation along with the one as with the
other"
Evening star., 1935-10-23
Summing Up Results.

did your garden help you out any
with your supplies for the Winter"
"Yes. Some Of the tools will make
pretty good implements for tending the
furnace"
Evening star., 1935-10-23
Shocked.

Shocked.
From the Buffalo Times.
Hollywood man stepped into tele-
phone booth, deposited nickel, dialed
and fell dead He must have gotten the
right number.
Evening star., 1935-10-23
The Soft Answer.

"A soft answer turns away wrath, you
know"
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne: "but you
want to beware of the person who has
sufficiently to be always able to give one" !"
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Inevitable Delay.

No wonder that the law seems slow
In settling any matter;
Some Latin phrase each case must show,
Instead of modern chatter.
The argument that greets our ears
We cannot swiftly end it.
We must 60 back 1000 years
Before we comprehend it!
Evening star., 1935-10-23

II got my suspicious" said Uncle Eben,
"dat Satan ain bliged to lay in wait foh
a whole lot of people. Dey takes DER
checkbooks in hand an natchelly posters
him to name his own price fob tempta-
tions"
Evening star., 1935-10-23

beauty-l0V1ng race, Win universal
appreciation of the artistic and re-
markable gift for translating everything
that is to be seen or handled into a
work of art.
In preparing this handsome volume
about Japan it has been the purpose of
the artist-author to analyze the peculiar
genius of its people for beauty and to
present in q profuSion Of illustrative
| sketches examples of the adeptneSs with
which art has been applied to every
phase of life and of construction within
the Island Empire.
Mr. Wainwright is an American, born
and brought up in Japan. He learned
the language along with his own tongue,
and the people and their customs were
more familiar to him in his youth than
were those of his own race. He Is an
writer, so that the combination of these
qualifications gives his work q clarity
and beauty that is unique.
Facing the decorative title page is an
exquisite color plate indicative of the
quality and attractiveness of the book.
A young girl has come to the we'll and
found q blooming vine entwined in the
chain and feStooned over the bucket.
She is entranced with its beauty. The
caption, expressing SO aptly the reverence
of the Japanese for beauty, is: THE
morning glory has taken the well bucket.
will 60 borrow water"
More than two hundred illustrations
by the author accompany the text, and
the volume is dressed in an artistic bind
ing in keeping with the nature of its
contents. The book is in itself
work of art and one that should be
given q warm welcome by all lovers OF
books that are authentic and interesting
as well aS beautiful.
Evening star., 1935-10-23

soldier must be at least feet 8 inches.
less than Is years old, unmarried. free
from all bodily Disagreement, and
Roman Catholic.
@. Who comprise the jury of award
for the 1885 Carnegie International?
&C. A. N.
A. Alexander Brook of New York, John
Curry of Westport, Conn; Colin Gill of
London. Jonas Lie of New York. Hendrix
Lund of Oslo. Norway. and Isidore
Opsomer of Antwerp.
@. Does the use Of Schoolboy patrols
help to solve the accident problem?
"A. S. A.
A. In the eight years that schoolboy
patrols have been on the streets Of
Washington, D. c., traffic fatalities to
school children have decreased 80 per
cent
@. Please give some information about
an early almanac published by AmeS?
e. G.
A. In 1725, when but II years old,
Nathaniel Ames published the first num-
Der of his almanac, which he continued
to issue annually until his death. It
was the most famous New England
almanac of the day, with a circulation
running as high as $4,000 copies. In
form and arrangement it became the
general pattern for American almanacs.
@. Who was the first person to swim
the English Channel2-F. s.
A. Matthew Webb swan the channel
first in 1875
@. Is "Whcs Who in America" pub.
lished every year?-P. r.
A. It Is published once IN two years.
The next edition viii be 1861
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QUESTIONS
BY Frederic ]. Hoskin.

reader can get the ansuer to am
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-08-02

Mrs. Arthur White has returned |
home after a visit with relatives in
Laurel, Del
Miss Frances Hudson, of Willis
Wharf, Va, is visiting Miss Ernes-
tine Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mills left Sat-
urday for a visit with Mrs. Ethel
Fitzgerald and Mr.. Walter Sharpley
at Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. Harold McCleary and daugh-
tiers, Eta and Sara Lou, spent last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Mel
vim, on Chincoteague, Va.
Mr.. Cleveland Sharpley returned
home from the Marine Hospital at
Norfolk, Va, on Friday. We are sor-
ry to say he is very little improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kelley, of
Philadelphia, Pa, are spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Collins.
Mrs. John E. Pruitt spent Friday in
Philadelphia, Pa, where she visited
her daughter, Ruth in the M. E. Hos
pital. She is improving nicely and
hopes to be home soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor and
daughter, Marilyn, of Oxford, Nd,
spent last weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sharpley.
Mrs. Wilfred Mason and daughter,
Sara, have returned after spending
some time with Mr.. Mason in Will
mington, Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Adams of East
vile, Va, spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. John E.. Pruitt. They were
accompanied here by Miss Helenl
Pruitt who has spent the past two
weeks with them
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Tarr spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. George Gus
tbs at Allen, Md.
Mrs. Sara Brown and Leonard
Brown spent last week with relatives
on Chincoteague.
Mrs. August Bartlin and Mrs. Her.
man Marshall were called to Marion
Station, Md, by the death of Mr.. Mar
ion Dryden last week.
Misses Mary Frances and Anna Mae
Stewart and Mr.. William Stewart
spent part of last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. William Beebe on Chincoteague.
Miss Dora Outten of Portersville,
Va, is spending this week with Mr..
and Mrs. Eldon Sharpley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ward and |
daughter, Esther of Snow Hill, Md,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. |
Hearthway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wimbrow and
children of Porterville, Md, spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. e. Mumford.
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weekend with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. C. Chapman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Brimer and
son, of Pocomoke, Nd, spent last
Thursday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Brimer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ward from
Bowers Beach, Del, spent part of last
week with his brother, Mr.. Elton Ward
and Mrs. Ward.
Miss Lillian Birmingham is spend
ing this week with her aunt, Miss Ly-
dia Birmingham in Snow Hill, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leighton Joseph, of
Lewis, Del, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mr.. Logan Taylor
Charles and Clifford Matthews spent
last week with Mr.. and Mrs. Harlem
Bowden on Chincoteague, Va.
Miss Effie Marshall spent last week
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-08-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Parsons and
daughter, Maud, Of Porterville, Nd,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Ards
Sunday.
Miss Adelaide Bevans, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, is spending her vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. E.
Bevans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Trader of Sal
isbury, Nd, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. w. D. Pilchard.
Misses Louise and Gladys Finnegan,
of Cambden, N. j., are spending some
time with Mr.. and Mr.. Franklin
Sharpley.
Mr.. Harry Kelley of Wilmington,
Del, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. j. Tull.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Chapman and
son, of Wilmington, Del, spent the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-08-02
SUNDAY DINNER
SUGGESTIONS !.

By ANN PAGE

PEACHES are almost as plentiful
this week as last and plums even more
so. Various kinds of melons are es-
pecially choice and inexpensive. The
first Bartlett pears have arrived. Low
er prices are anticipated as soon as
they are more abundant.
Corn and lima beans, peas and green
beans, red and white cabbage, beets
and carrots are all moderately priced
or even cheap. Lettuce is lower and
tomatoes plentiful though somewhat
affected by the humid hot weather.
Lamb is the best meat buy and pork
of all kinds the highest. N ew crop
broiling chickens are choice and I'M
uually good value.
Here are three menus made up from
seasonable foods adapted to different
budget levels:
Low Cost Dinner
Veal Chops Dreamed Potatoes
Green Beans
Bread and Butter
Stewed Plums Cup Cakes
Tea or Coffee Milk
Medium Cost Dinner
Cold Fried Chicken Tomatoes
Pea, Green and Lima Bean Salad
Hot Rolls and Butter
Peach Roly Poly
Tea or Coffee Milk
Very Special Dinner
Melon
Roast Beef
Parsley Dreamed Potatoes
Corn on the Cob
Lettuce and Cucumber Salad
Rolls and Butter
Plum Ice Sponge Cake
Coffee
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with Mr.. and Mrs. George Holloway
on Chincoteague, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Hancock and
daughters, of Pocomoke, Md, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Walton
Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ward, of
Bowers Beach, DEL, Mr.. and Mrs. FL
ton Ward and children, spent Wednes-
day evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Pilchard near town.
Mrs. Cora Porter is spending this
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Holstein at Girdletree, Md.
Mrs. S. B. Merritt spent Tuesday
afternoon with her father, Mr.. john
son in Snow Hill, Md.
Miss Marian Sturgis spent last week
end with Miss Lorene Kelley at New
Church, Va.