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Evening star., 1935-01-04
Farm Wives and the A.A.A,

From the Louisville Courier-Journsl.
The A. A. A. evidently knows its
limitations. It has been approached
by a great number of persons asking
that it attempt production control Of
this crop and that, and 1t has made
ventures into a number of fields
where angels feared to tread, but it
has drawn the line at a most appro-
pirate point. 1t will not try to regu-
late poultry production.
No official pronouncement has been
issued upon this subject, but it is
noticeable that A. A. A. officials have
turned a deaf ear to all suggestions.
The A. A. A. heads apparently know
that 80 per cent of the Nations poul-
try production is in the hands of the
wives of farmers.
Imagine, if one can, an A. A. A.
agent approaching a husky farmers
wife and telling her that she must 60
out to the hen house, lift Biddy on
the nest and smash one-fourth of the
setting eggs. Or conjure up what
might happen to a mere Government
male who should try to tell the head
of the farm poultry department to
wiring the necks Of Is per cent of the
fluffy yellow chicks which had just
Matched out of her incubator. What,
if you can guess, might occur to any
administrations voting strength at the
polls If some whippersnapper from
Washington should order the woman
folks to kill of one-third Of their
laying hens and one-half of their
young chickens before they reached
the broiler stage and feed them to
the hogs? Can any one picture the
reception accorded Government
agent if he were to order farm wife
to kill of a third of her turkey poults
after she had nursed them through a
rainy Spring by feeding them chopped
hard boiled egg and pepper and keep
ing them in o flannel-lined box under
the kitchen stove?
Yes, the A. A. A. Is 10 be cons
graduated. It knows It's limitations.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

holding in Washington on January 1s
its first meeting away from the
Northampton campus since 1929. The
reunion will bring together Smith
graduates from all parts of the coun-
try. Because Smith maintains ex-
change student arrangements with
their respective countries Ambassador
de Laboulaye and Nine de La
boulaye of France and Ambassador
Rosso of Italy will be special guests
at the dinner which will be one of
the gala events of the meeting. An
other guest whom the daughters of
Smith will honor is DR.. William Allan
Nelson, president of the college since
1917, Scotsman by birth, but identified
with higher education In. the United
States for the past 81 years. Under
the general Craftsmanship of Mrs. r.
M. Kaufman, an elaborate program
has been arranged for the Smith con-
clave. Mrs. Roosevelt will receive
the alumnae at the White House
Mrs. John w. Guider, president of the
Washington Smith Club, will preside
over an alumnae luncheon, at which
Mrs. w. Chaplin Huntington of Wash
ington, president of the national asso-
citation. and Miss Marjorie Nicholson
dean of the college, will speak. At a
tea in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank j. Hogan, President Nelson
will comment on the Hogan collection
of rare books. Smith alumnae are
particularly proud of their alma
matters activity in the new movement
for adult and alumni education, in
which she was pioneer among wom-
ems colleges.
Senator Huey Longs notification,
formally proclaimed amid general glee
at the opening session of the Senate,
that he will seize his earliest oppor-
tunity to discuss Washington's atti-
tude toward the Louisiana DICTATOR
ship. indicates that the Kingfish in
tends to retain his place in the con-
gressional limeight. There's little
doubt that Long Is a big drawing card
on Capitol Hill. Advance announce
ment that he's going to perform is
usually an assurance of standing room
only In Senate galleries, for he never
fails to put on the kind of a show
the crowd likes. A resourceful and
fearless scrapper, who knows every
trick Of the parliamentary trade, it
would be rash to predict that the ses-
sion will end without traces of his
legislative agility.
X X r X
Despite their helplessness, there's a
small but determined band of Re-
publican Senators who are expected
to ignore no opportunity for hard
hitting opposition to the New Deal.
The group includes men like Austin
Of Vermont. Barbour of New Jersey,
White of Maine, Hastings and Town
send of Delaware, Dickinson of Iowa
and others. They are said to be ac-
tuated not so much by blind partisan
ship as by conviction that the
identity of the Republican party as
an organization Of militant oppoSi-
tion must be preserved at all costs, in
order that the two-party system may
be maintained. The group feels that
II 1t does not enact the requisite role
other elements In Congress are ready
to do so and establish a party which
might automatically blot the g. o. P.
out of existence.
Copyright, 1935.)
Evening star., 1935-01-04
The man who never gives you credit

The man who never gives you credit
for anything Is not an uncommon type.
He Is, alas, all too frequently met,
for the best self-esteem.
Every one, Of course, or at least
practically every one, likes to believe
that what he has to say Is worth
listening to, to some degree.
There are very few persons who like
to feel that their words are totally
wasted.
An impression, as the phrase Is, Is
the desire, spoken or unspoken, OF
every human being, no matter his
worldly state.
He likes to feel that others are
listening to him when he speaks. Part
of the popularity of the family, as an
institution, Is that the home Je-
hovah," as some one has called the
father, has such a ready audience.
The man who never gives you
credit for being able to say anything
good Is gay deceiver, in that you
may talk to him for many years with
out realizing that this is his speciality.
He rather fools you by lending an
ear. readily enough, but he goes no
further.
If you were to counter some Of his
remarks with the wit Of the ages or
the best classical illusions stolen
wholesale from the ancients as well
as the modern, he would not wink
an eye.
You can try it on him. and see. 1t
will be an interesting experience, as
we'll as an eye-opener. For the curious
thing is that you may know the man
for years without once realizing just
what it is ne does or doesn't do to
make conversation with him so un-
attractive.
A feeling of futility, when talking
to the wight, has long overcome you
but somehow you never stopped to
place your finger precisely on the
trouble.
At last one day, when you have
made really good point, without his
turning a mental hair. or giving a
sign of recognition. you hold some
such dialog as the following with your
self:
That was a really good remark Of
mine, wasn't it?"
Yes, it was extremely good"
1T was good enough to evoke
smile, at the least. wasn't it?"
1T surely was!"
But this guy never so much as rec
ognized 1t, at least as far as could
see"
mo, he didn't"
1T couldn't be, could 1t, because he
did not understand it?'
mo, he is much too smart for that"
Then he must have ignored it pur-
posely"
1T would seem So"
"He doesn't want to give me credit
for anything. eh2"
That's it."
Sure enough, that's it.
It comes as a blow to the average
person, to discover that some one Ii
failing to appreciate his best sallies.
Not exactly failing, of course. fol-
the fellow is too clever not to appre-
ciate them, but simply failing to reg
lister any interest in them.
Ignoring them. il fact, because he
wants to do all the shining himself.
This strikes at the very basis Of all
good talk.
That is the big defect in it, not that
it fails to give credit where credit Is
due,
Evening star., 1935-01-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

The latter may be q minor matter,
after all. but good conversation is
vital.
Some sad blows have been struck
at the old art Of good talk during the
past decade.
One of them Is the speed habit OF
the age.
The desire for pep" has led to fast
talking as well as to fast riding.
Under the guise of romance" and
several other misapplied words, speed
has become our god. so that II is highly
questionable to say a word against 1t
Speed leads to casualties. however
not the less so In conversation.
The desire to hurry through with II
sometimes is caused by the feeling on
the part Of one member to the talk
that the other simply cannot say any
thing worthy of needing.
Occasionally this is based upon the
bitter truth. But for every person SO
constituted that he positively cannot
say anything worth remembering, in
q chat, there are 80 persons of average
ability who occasionally strike of
something worth listening to, a few
words appropriate and sometimes even
glistening.
k& ~
The man who never gives you credit
for your best bright remarks is usually
in such vast hurry to listen to that
paragon, himself, that he unconscious
ly strikes blow at the very vitals OF
the conversational art.
Not every group of takers contains
a great orator, great financier, a
great writer. q great businessman, a
great executive, but almost every such
group contains more than one man
who is perfectly able to follow the drift
OF things, and, given a little encour-
agement, perfectly able to coin a few
phrases which may be labeled neat
But this man acts as If no one save
himself could say a good thing.
Extended conversations with the
man who will not give you credit for
good one" is most depressing.
After a time he has you groggy
calling for air. and willing to believe
that you must be the dumbest person
alive.
That is the effect he has. unless
you resist his wiles with all your
heart and soul.
Use OF the brain in this emergency
Is almost worse than useless. for have
we not said that no matter how bril-
liant you wax. he will pay no atten-
ton to you?
Once you get on to this type OF
human being, you will cease to strug-
gle with him.
You will, in time, become as dumb
before him as the OK on its way to
the slaughter.
There is no need in talking, or at
tempting to think with him
All good conversation is a pardner-
ship, meeting of minds, one leading
the other on, with some tangible re-
suits. We have never seen a really
cne-sided conversation. for If a person
is as brilliant as he thinks he is. he
will lead even the most benighted
person into saying something worth
listening to, at least once in a while
So it may be realized that the man
who never gives you credit for know
ing anything, or being able to say any
thing worth listening to, is himself
dumb oaf. who perhaps has mastered
bit of repartee. but who really is a
gross conversational failure, since he
is unable to bring out the best in
others.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
Uncle Sam Should Paw
Debts Before He Spends

To the Editor Of The Star:
The courts have held "a man must
be Just before he Is generous" This
means that he must pay his debts
before he gives away money. If true
of a man, it is true of a group of
men, a corporation or a nation. Uncle
Sam should be just before he is gen.
erous. He should pay of the national
debt before he gives away money. !
wish this right principle could be
blazoned in the halls of Congress,
where legislators could see 1t forever,
or, better still, written into the Con-
stitution itself.
ERNEST HAVILAND HOBBS.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
A New Deal for Canada.

Reports current for some time that
Canada was flirting with the idea of
patterning after certain features of
the Roosevelt evolution" have at
length been authoritatively confirmed
In the first of series of radio talks
he proposes to deliver on the subject,
Prime Minister Bennett has just de-
clared that he "raises the issue square,
ly." in order to determine what forces
are aligned in opposition to his plan
OF progress" Without mincing words,
MIR. Bennett says that reform means
government supervision-"the end Of
laissez faire." Without such reform,
he Is convinced. there can be no per-
manent recovery.
There are numerous indications of
Rooseveltian inspiration in the Do
minion prime minister's scheme for a
Canadian new deal. Deploring the
fact that "some man with vision" did
not long ago discern the abyss toward
which the world was rushing, Mr..
Bennett declares the time has come
for Canadians to examine their eco
noinic system thoroughly and without
prejudice. 1--WE neither hate it nor
love it," he argues. 1T is here to do
us service. That IS its only purpose.
II II has failed, we must change It."
The prime minister, in other terms
that have familiar ring to American
ears, tells Canadians that "free COM
petition and the open market place, as
they existed in the olden days, have
no more Justification in the system,
and the only substitute in these
modern times is government regulation
and control"
And then these further leaves from
r. D. RS notebook: "At all times
faults In the system have been seized
upon by the unscrupulous and greedy
as vantage points in their battle for
self.advancement. We will be dealing
thoroughly and practically with the
matter If we remove these faults so as
to put final stop to the unfair prac-
tices they made possible"
Incidentally, Mr.. Bennett frowns
Evening star., 1935-01-04
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.
A reader can get the answer to
my question Of tcct by priting The

A reader cdn get the dnsDer to
any question OF tcct by ipriting The
Washington Epening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Hastin, Director,
Warrington. D. c. Please inclose
stamp for reply.
@. Do the landing wheels of air.
planes move when the plane Is fly
ing?-A. M.
A. II the wheels of an airplane are
not inclosed in tenders, they do not
spin in flight. II they are so inclosed
they spin at high speed. The upper
three -quarter. of the wheels are pro-
tected but the lower quarter is ex-
posed to an air current which may
have a speed of more than 100 miles
an hour. This constant powerful
pressure on the lower surfaces of the
wheels would cause them to revolve
rapidly.
@. How many Of the 5000, 600 men
inducted into the service for the
World War are receiving pensions?
r. N.
A. On September 80, 1884, 337,39S
veterans were receiving compensation
for wartime disabilities, and 99,942
dependents were receiving payments
for veterans who died in or as a re-
suit of wartime service. There were
3l.671 veterans receiving pensions for
disabilities not due to service, and
dependents of 1876 veterans whose
deaths were not the result of service
@. Who was the man who lived in
cage in Africa in order to study
monkeys?-J. T. B.
A. The explorer was Richard Lynch
Garner, who died in 1920. From his
early youth he was interested in what
he termed the speech of monkeys and
in 1893 set out for tropical Africa
where in location about degrees
south Of the Equator on the southern
side of Lake Fenan Vaz in the ter
ritory Of the Nkami tribe he devised
a cage of steel wire woven into a lat
tice with mesh ~ inches wide. The
structure was painted a dingy green,
invisible in the foliage. Its object was
to afford the observer protection from
surprise attacks. Garner spent much
of his time in this cage, studying the
habits of apes and monkeys. remain
ing there ll2 days and nights aito-
gether.
@. How many planetaria are there
in Europe?-H. r.
A. There are 1s in operation.
O. When was the first almanac
printed?-W. F.
A. The first was printed in Vienna
in 1457. The earliest American al
manac was published by William
Bradford in Philadelphia in 1887. Ben
jamin Franklin's Poor Richards Al
manac" was published from 1892 to
1857.
@. Who said Statistics are like
alienists-they will testify for either
side?"-N. B.
A. The Home Book of Quotation"
gives this as Q quotation of Mayor
La Guardia's.
@. Who Is the new grand master of
the Women Freemasons of England?-
L. A.
A. Mrs. Seton -Challen. The Hon.
durable Fraternity Of Freemasons was
founded in 1913. 1t is the only wo-
mems Masonic society in England.
@. How long have orcheStraS been
known?-E. H.
A. Until the seventeenth century,
composers had employed various in
struments. but merely to accompany
vocal recitative. The first opera per-
formed in public was Peri's Euridice in
1895 and was scored for lutte, harpsi-
chord, theorbo, Tyre and flutes.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
Epigrams.

The soul of nation or the spirit OF
an age may be evaluated by the char
acter of the epigranls which epitomize
the thought Of the people of that
place or time. And, so judged, the
American race In the twentieth CEN
tury Is not altogether moronic. A
little book entitled $50 Say the Wise," +"
edited by Hazel Cooley and Norman
L. Corwin, illustrates the point 1t Is
a volume packed with mental foot
notes to current history.
Glancing through the pages the
casual reader finds evidence Of the
introspective capacity Of the multi
tude in such an apothegem as 1--WE
Americans are the best-informed peo-
pie in the world. We know a little
about everything credited to Henry
Seidel Candy. A worse condition, it
would seem, would be to know nothing
about anything.
But, further examination indicates,
Western civilization, however intel
ligent or stupid, is somewhat over
burdened with legislation. Chief JUS
tice Hughes is represented as saying,
"The United States is the greatest law
factory the world has ever known" "
and President Nicholas Murray Butler
of Columbia University Is quoted to
the effect that: "The mob spirit and
what call conformitarianism are
abroad in the land, crushing out in
dividual judgment and action and
silencing courage"
One not altogether inpracticable
corrective for conditions as they are is
offered by Calvin Coolidge in the
suggestion, IF we could surround our
selves with forms of beauty, the evil
things in life would tend to dis
appear"-a remark which might have
been sponsored by John Ruskin and
which ought to be cited to those
who vainly imagine that New Eng
landers are q spiritless lot. The late
President had for his philosophy the
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Pennington, N. j., is having one Of
those problems on hand which arise
when small town is suddenly re-
quired to function as a metropolis
without hope of establishing a perma-
nent real estate boom.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

College editors have such excellent
ideas that glowing hopes arise con-
corning the editorial influence they
may exercise after a full course of
education.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Physicians are discussing compen-
sation for medical care. None of
them goes so far as to demand a code
that will reduce their working hours
regardless of emergencies.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Some Of the motion picture pro-
ducers say that business is falling
away. This may be only a transient
impression due to the fact that films,
however deserving. could not appeal
to holiday shoppers.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
@. Are Keats and Shelley buried In
the same cemeterY2-M r


the same cemetery?-M. r.
A. Shelley's body was washed ashore
from the Bay Of Spezzia and was
burned near the spot, in accordance
with Italian law. The ashes and the
unconsumed heart were buried in the
beautiful Protestant Cemetery at
Rome, not far from where Keats was
buried the previous year. On the
modest stone which marks Keats
grave there was placed at his request:
Here lies one whose name was writ
in water"
@. What South American State
was formerly called New Granada?-
j. G.
"A. This name was applied to Co
lumbia.
Q. What are vegetable colors made
from?-S. M.
A. They include heart woods, barks,
dried leaves, lichens, roots and the
like.
@. Does 1t take as much red squill
to kill female rat as 1t does to kill
the male?-R. T. T.
A. Experiments show that female
rats are killed by doses about half
the size needed for males. The finer
the powder, the more toxic 1t becomes.
The average lethal dose for males is
so grammes and for females 81
grammes, while squill (used for me-
dicinal purposes) is useless as q rat
poison.
c. Where was the oldest hotel on
Staten Islands,. T.
A. Local historians say that 1t was
on the site of the old Pavilion Hotel,
built in 1915, later 6urned and re-
placed by a school building. The tav-
ern was built about 1910.
@. What kingdoms were united
when Ferdinand and Isabella ruled
Spain?-C. B.
A. Ferdinand inherited the crown
Of Aragon and Isabella that of CASTLE.
@. How long ago was the Wall
street bomb explosion?-S. w.
A. Fourteen years ago. It hap.
pened on September Is, 1920. Thirty
people were killed, 100 were injured,
and the property damage amounted
to 100000.
@. When human blood is normal,
what per cent acid should 1t con.
tain?-N. S.
A. In normal condition. blood is
about 20 per cent acid and 80 per
cent alkaline.
@. Who built the Casino at Monte
CarIo?-C. M.
A. While there were already some
gaming tables at Monte Carlo, it was
Francois Blanc who, in the early
1865, obtained 50-year concession
for gambling privileges from the
Prince Of MonsEo and built the
Casino.
@. When was Borax Lake dis.
covered?-E. T. j.
A. Borax Lake, 80 miles north Of
San Francisco, was discovered in 1856.
@. Where Is the author Of Home,
Sweet Home" buried?-T. T.
A. John Howard Payne lies in Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D. c. He
died in 1852 while consul at Tunis
and was buried there. Thirty years
later, w. w. Corcoran brought his
body back, had it inferred. and erected
a monument to his memory.
O. How is the name Of the island,
Galapagos, pronounced?-T. B.
A. The as have the sound Of ah,
and the go is Like the word, 60. The
accent falls ON la.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

The Department of the Interior has
asserted itself in a manner which
prevents the Department of Agricul-
ture from focusing most Of the popu-
lar interest.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Morbid spectators crowd Fleming
ton, N. j. The inclination to gather
outside jail where an execution Is
going on is related to this kind of
interest. Art may pass unnoted, but
crime never lacks an audience.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

The crowded accommodations make
it clear that the Hauptmann trial will
look to Europe like another great
American literary event.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Bad Outlook for Pedestrians. =,
From the williamsport CPa) Sun.
A Californian has invented an au-
tomobile which he claims can Jump
so feet. The poor pedestrian will
have to practice jumping farther and
quicker,
Evening star., 1935-01-04
Poverty in Florida.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Properties sold for taxes in Miami
are being bought In by the city for
the use of the poor. We had sup
posed that all the poor who can af-
ford to visit Winter resorts were in
California.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Only Nationwide sales tax could
avoid trade dissensions across State
lines where bargain hunters are sure
to congregate.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Postmaster General Farley is sure
the G. o. p. is sick, but recognizes
the authoritative reminders that its
symptoms do not include "cold feet"
Evening star., 1935-01-04

A distribution Of patronage some
times involves chances that make a
ballot look little like a plain old
lottery ticket.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Trotsky has no official rank. This
fact does not prevent him from an
noying Stain with the same old ofice
politics.
Evening star., 1935-01-04

Photographers take an unlimited
number Of pictures, but many are
delayed that might have been of
service in the rogues' gallery.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
A Hoosier Classification.

A Hoosier Classification.
From the indianapolis News.
Indiana residents are divided into
two classes--those who have been ap-
pointed colonels on the Kentucky
Governors star. and those who
haven't.
Evening star., 1935-01-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
Common Humanity.

Common Humanity.
When life was all serene and sure
And ! could dwell in sheltered ease
Gainst every word Of blame secure,
Since none would speak, except to
please,
Some blunder. whether great or small,
Awakened me to cares anew,
Reminding me that after all
Each has his share of work to do.
In gratitude I still reflect
Upon the days of idle cheer,
That often moved me to neglect
The simple friendship that drew
near.
A human need to sympathize
In our adversely awakes;
I'm thankful for each impulse wise,
I'm thankful, too, for my mistakes.