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Evening star., 1935-05-08

Memories Of covered wagon days
when the American frontier was NOV
ing westward are aroused by the Gov
ernment's move, as a part Of its
relief program, to coloniZe some of
sending Middle-Western farm families
to occupy ready-made homes In the
fertile Matanuska Valley.
Commenting on the initial steps
now being taken, the Asheville. N. C.,
Times explains that 200 farm fam
lilies from Michigan. Wisconsin and
Minnesota, aided by the Government.
are on their way into the region 125
miles north Of Seward" and adds:
There is room for $50 more families
in the same area, with 40 acres to
each farm and 80 years to pay for it.
Several hundred transient unem-
ployed have prepared substantial
homes for these new homesteaders. at
a cost of about $4,000 each equipped
with running water but without baths
and electricity. The settlers have
been carefully selected for bodily
strength and knowledge of farming
al SOlo AAiNy iAoFC bC$h
warned that life will be hard, and
that it will be long way back to the
old home. But these Americans and
others prefer such hardships in new
land to the breadlines at home. Such
stories remind us that opportunity has
rot departed from us, and that neither
is the old American spirit dead"
Thousands of the covered wagon
heroes who made the American West"
says the Philadelphia Evening Bulle-
tin. would have preferred the oppor-
tunity the Government is giving
drought-Smitten farmers who are re-
moving to the Matanuska Valley, with
Federal aid Alaska has about 65,-
100000 fertile acres that have not
been titled. Some million acres have
been surveyed in the MatanuSka VAL
ley, one of the most fertile of the
general character of SuSitna, Koyu-
LUX, Copper River and the Tanana,
where Alaskan farmers raise vege-
tables for Alaskan consumption. The
Matanuska River region has great coal
deposits, abundant game. far-f1ung
forests. The climate will be some
thing like the home variety to the
Minnesotans bound for their new
homes on the Alaska Railroad about
so miles from Anchorage. The valley
has had no drought in its recorded
history and that fact should cheer
refugees from sunbaked lands"
"The 'coloniSts' will ride to the
Pacific Coast on tickets furnished by
the Government" explains the Chat
tanooga CTenn) Times. There they
will be transferred to boat and taken
to Alaska at Government expense.
Having arrived at Seward, they will
entrain, once more at Government
expense, for Anchorage. near the Mat
anuska Valley, in which they will be
settled. Once in the valley, each fam
ily or settler will be allotted land, will
be provided with live stock and neces-
sary modern agricultural implements
and given a drawing account of $4,000,
all by the Government"
ALASKA is coming into prominence,
after many years Of struggle" com.
ments the Pasadena (Calf) Star
News, recalling that mo one In the
past half century has attempted to
argue that the United States made a
bad deal with Russia when the Ter
ritory was acquired"
These people," thinks the Water
town IN. " Daily Times, may find
new courage and new wealth in the
North. and certainly 1t Is to be hoped
Evening star., 1935-05-08
Face Powder at the Polls.

OF course, it would be Paris, Of all
places, where they would say it with
face powder-and that is exactly what
Frances intrepid advocates of votes
for women did at the municipal elec-
tionS last Sunday as means of en-
forcing their demands. The French
have not kept pace with the British
and American democracies in bestow-
ing political equality upon women.
Resorting for the first time to "di-
rect action" to call public attention
to their claims, Parisiennes who seek
the ballot marched to the polls armed
with vanity cases well filled with face
powder. When police sought to
thwart their plans, the suffragists
showered them with powder and held
them at bay long enough to permit
thousands of straw votes to be de-
posted in make-believe ballot boxes
The demonstration was staged un-
der the direction of Nine. Louise
Weiss, widely known editor and one
time associate of the late M. BRAND.
Her purpose was to bring about q
symbolic vote" to prove her conten-
tion that most of the French people
favor woman suffrage. Nine. Weiss
herself campaigned in the Montmartre
district of Paris as an unofficial can
didate for the Municipal Council.
At each polling place in the district her
supporters set up hat boxes of paste
board-another little feminine touch
with Sits in the covers. Police
promptly ordered the removal of the
boxes and warned Nine. Weiss and
her cohorts against disturbing the
peace" On their refusal to yield their
ground or their hat boxes, the police
charged into the suffragists, only to
encounter q barrage Of face powder,
Evening star., 1935-05-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Chickweed is an interesting little
plant, even when it insists on living
In the lawn.
In such situations, however, it will
not be welcomed by the home owner
Not exactly.
He will look around to find ways
and means of getting rid of it.
1t is the same with the so-called
crab grass, the dandelions and several
other weeds.
Once in they are very hard to gel
rid of. causing no end of worry to the
lawn-conscious person.
Since a good lawn is the very
foundation Of home gardening, it Il
not to be wondered at that many
persons find gardening temporarily
spoiled for them, as they behold a
fine visitation of chickweed.
In this, as in so many other matters
a policy of watchful waiting Is not te
be despised.
Instead of spending hours over the
grass, attempting to pull the Villains
up by the roots, the gardener may
try going at them easily, but surely
This will mean, in most instances
that he is willing to give the weeds
plants where they are not wanted
their hour In the sun.
Let this hour be not too long, how
ever!
Give them their chance, but see
that their seeds are gathered up. OF
otherwise disposed of, before they
have an opportunity to increase the
inimical plantation next year.
Chickweed, for instance, Is nc
particular harm this early. 1t flowers
about this time, after which it dies
and, in most cases, grass blades of the
prevailing sort In the lawn generally
replace it for the rest of the Summer
X X
Let this weed flower, but NOW the
grass Immediately. and then carefully
rake up the Towering tops, as far as
possible.
After this is done, sow grass seed
amid the chickweed. but not until the
infected areas have been jabbed with
some small instrument which will
make series of small holes at least
one-fourth of an inch deep.
Sprinkling grass seed on the ground
without providing these lodging places
is simply wasting nine-tenths of it.
Seed cannot germinate unless it is
covered We say cannot; probably
will not" is better
Especially when the grass seed must
compete with such a thriving plant as
the chickweed, every aid must be
given it.
So planted, it will germinate in from
three to seven days, and, with the
demise OF the chickWeed shortly, will
be in a position to grow Justify 1t
must be kept in mind that, in all
likelihood, grass roots already in the
ground, but prevented from sending
up blades by the quick starting weed,
now will find things more to their
liking.
1t will do no harm. however. to SOW
more seed as suggested, so that if the
dormant roots do not come through"
the new ones will.
There is a chickweed eradicator on
the market this season, but since We
know nothing about it we hesitate to
recommend it, Such products always
make interesting experiments. 1t IS
necessary in using such products to
read the directions carefully and to
follow them to the letter.
Often the failure to observe some
seemingly minor point causes failure,
naturally laid to the product, but
which properly belongs to the user
So most careful reading of directions
is essential, since if this is not done
the new user may miss a point of
application of the utmost Importance.
Those who do not care to experi-
Evening star., 1935-05-08
italy Prepares for War.

All QOupC tnaI lIaly expects war
with Abyssinia seems to be dissi-
pated by Mussolini's latest military
measures. In the presence of II
Duce and amid scenes of fervid mar
tial enthusiasm government spokes-
man on Tuesday informed the Cham
ber of Deputies at Rome that Italys
force of 100000 soldiers in East Africa
will be doubled in order to cope with
the Ethiopian situation. -Four more
divisions will be mobilized at home
and in the colonies in order to bring
the force available for operations
against Abyssinia to total of 200,O 900
men. Naturally, there is no official
admission that this powerful army is
being made ready to engage in ag-
gressive war 1t is depicted as a
measure necessary "to guarantee the
security of our East African possess
sions."
4llC Ildo
been Simmering without important
developments during the past few
weeks. Negotiations of one sort or
another have been in progress through
diplomatic channels and there was
fruitless attempt to have the League
of Nations compose the conflict.
Meantime, Italy alleges that European
arms factories have furnished Abys-
sinians with notable" quantities Of
munitions, that the Ethiopian gov
ernment has taken definite steps OF
mobilization" and that Emperor Halle
Selassie recently made a provocative
speech to his Parliament at Adds
Ababa. Finally. and as a general
justification for its extensive military
moves, Italy contends that it is con-
fronted by "a problem of vast i'm
portance. embracing the whole Euro
pean civilizing mission"
Whatever may be the specific merits
of the Italians quarrel with Abys-
sinia-unprovoked assaults on Italy's
frontier guards and other typical bor-
der incidentS-the world at large cam
not escape the conclusion that Mus
solini bankers for expansion of his
colonial empire, and is going about
the business of accomplishing 1t on
old fashioned land grabbing lines
Italy can doubtless throw a formid-
able modern force upon the Abyssinian
border, but whether it would suffice
to overcome the hOrdes of armed
tribesmen whom Halle Selassie would |
mobilize for defense purposes only
the actual course of campaign could
decide Italy has painful memories of
her disastrous attempt to conquer the |
Ethiopians thirty-nine years ago.
Despite the accelerated pace of !
preparations on both sides, no i'm
mediate hostilities are in prospect |
Summer rains, which have already set
in, will render the terrain impossible
for the next three months, as far as
large-scale troop operations are con-
cerned. With the rival governments |
determined to utilize the rainy season |
for strengthening their respective
military positions, the outlook for
peace before September is not bright.
MuSsolini's African mobilization, it is
asserted. will in no respect weaken
Italy's home defense, but any ag-
gravation of the European crisis would |
be sure to dampen II Duce's ardor |
for overseas adventures.
Evening star., 1935-05-08
. Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Early Rapture

Magnolia trees in fragrant sweep
Along the radiant way
Will lose the bloom they long to keep.
Springtide does not stay.
The grass with its bright emerald
sheen
Dewy at end Of day
viii deepen to o darker green.
Springtide does not stay.
And those who meet when life is
young
They, too, may go their way
After their destined song q sung
springtide does not stay.
Evening star., 1935-05-08

Quotations from the Scripture may
not settle any questions of modern
theory, but they are undeniably re-
liable suggestions of lines of research
whose influence cannot fail to be val
liable
Evening star., 1935-05-08
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

A reader c1n get the 1nsUer to
any question OF fact by Driting The
Washington Euening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, d. c. Please incLose
stamp for reply.
@. How many people travel with
the Ringing Bros Circus?-B. c.
A. The management states that
the big show this season carries 1900
people, $50 horses and $50 wild ami
mails. The circus is transported on
100 cars divided into four trains.
@. What industries are being
helped by the Government in the
Virgin Islands?-C. F. McF.
A. The Virgin Islands Corp, char
tered in the Spring of 1884 with a
capital of $1,O00,0O0 from P. w. A.
funds, and administered by Secretary
of the Interior Ickes, Gov. Paul M.
Pearson and Charles Taussig, was
established to promote the general
welfare of the people. 1t began by
purchasing 81 900 acres of sugar land
and taking over certain old distil-
leries. Sugar, st. Croix rum and
bay rum will be marketed.
@. When was the trudgen stroke
invented in swimming?-R. J. P.
A. j. Trudgen made this stroke
prominent in England in 1873, but
the stroke had been discovered by
elias. a writer on swimming, in 1925.
1t was then referred to as thrust.
@. Please give some data about
Louis Cyr, the strong man of Can
ada. l..
A. Louis Cyr was 6 feet tall,
weighed nearly 300 pounds, had a
normal chest measurement of So
inches and biceps 26 inches around.
Some of his achievements we're said
to be: The lifting with his two
hands of a barrel of cement weigh
ing 1870 pounds, lifting 975 pounds
from the floor with one hand, raising
543 pounds with his little finger and
with his right arm putting UP a
l56-pound dumbbell SO times in sue
cesSion.
@. Since the earth is not a perfect
sphere, what term describes its
shape?-G. E. C..
A. 1t is approximately an oblate
spheroid.
@. How long has agricultural drain
tile been used in this country?-C. N.
A. 1t was introduced in 1885, when
John Johnston imported some from
Scotland and installed it on his farm
near Geneva, N. Y.
@. How are the hurdles placed in
a 400-meter hurdle race?-S. G.
A. AS run in the Olympics at Los
Angeles in 1882, 10 hurdles were used.
These hurdles are feet in height.
In the 440-yard and 400-meter hurdle
races the first hurdle shall be placed
IS meters (49213 yards) from the
scratch mark and the remaining hur-
dies shall be placed 35 meters (38.277
yards) apart.
@. What is a blind advertisement?
W. H.
"a ~ 10 OliC WllICl UOcS IlUL ulSClOSe
the name of the person or firm adver-
tising nor the nature of its business.
@. What allusion is intended in the
expression, the birds of Ganymede"?
e. D.
A. Eagles are meant. Ganymede,
Trojan youth, who in Greek mythology
became cupbearer to Zeus, rode to
Olympus on an eagles back.
@. Whose efforts were referred to as
dollar diplomacy?-M. r.
A. The attempt of Philander Chase
Knox to use the influence of the State
Department to encourage and extend
American financial and commercial
interests, especially in Latin America,
Evening star., 1935-05-08
the Near East and the Far East, was
criticized as dollar diplomacy.

@. What Is a corroboree?-H. K. J.
A. A corroboree Is a ceremonial
dance, Of a more or less public char
acter, in vogue among the Australian
aborigines. It Is generally held at
night, the men doing the dancing and
the women furnishing the music
This dance is the nearest approach to
national institution among these
primitive people. II serves also as
peace ratification and as q means Of
intercommunication. Hence, the term
is applied to any noisy or disorderly
celebration.
@. How OLD was the author of II
Have Rendezvous With Death" when
he died?-H. w.
A. Alan Seeger was killed in the
World War in 1915 at the age of 28.
He was an American living in France
and joined the French Foreign Legion
when the war started.
@. Who we're the first members Of
the American Academy of Arts and
Letters?-C. B. j.
A. The first seven members Of the
American Academy Of Arts and Let
ters were selected by the National In
stitute of Arts and Letters from its
own body ir 1904 by ballot The
seven we're William Dean Howells,
Augustus Saint -Gaudens, Edmund
Clarence Stedman. John La Fargo,
| Samuel L. Clemens, John Hay and
Edward MacDowell. In order to be-
come eligible to the American Acad-
emy one must first be a member of
| the National Institute Of Arts and
Letters.
@. What kind of pavement is tel
ford?-R. E. N.
A. 1t is built by laying pieces OF
broken stone or 8 inches in
diameter upon the road foundation,
packing them with smaller pieces,
covering them with gravel and rolling
hard and smooth.
@. How many virgins tended the
perpetual fire on the altar in the
Temple of Venus in Rome?-W. T.
A. Six vestal virgins tended the
flame.
! @. What proportion of the homes in
America are without bathtubs?-H. C.
A. About 40 per cent has neither
bathtubs nor showers
@. What sort of place is the Mata-
nuska Valley In Alaska?-B. T.
A. The climate Of the Matanuska
Valley. where the rehabilitation prof.
ect is under way, is considered to be
fery mild. The soil is very rich and
the valley is reported to be extremely
productive.
@. How much did Grants Tomb
cost?-F. S.
A. About 100000.
@. When are strawberries shipped
TO Northern markets from Florida?-
S. C. D.
A. Strawberries ripen in Florida and
are shipped to Northern markets from
the first of December until he last of
March.
@. How was the Dr. Van Fleet rose
changed into a monthly bloomer?-
G. K. H.
A. 1t was accidental Some of these
climbers had to be sacrificed to make
way for new road. A fll buried
some of the roots. Finally shoot
forced its way through the gravel and
bloomed recurrently from June until
frost. This sport was the New Dawn,
the first of the roses which received
the first plant patent
@. Please give description of Ju-
Illus CaeSar.-B. j.
A Caesar was tall and rather thin,
with thoughtful, pale face. His eyes
were black, he wore no beard, and in
the latter part of his life he was bald.
Evening star., 1935-05-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Administration leaders have consist
emily intimated that cash payment of
the bonus in any form would lead to a
demand for new taxes.
X X
John G. Palfrey of Boston, executor
Of the will Of the late Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and Prof. Felix
Frankfurter of the Harvard Law
School have issued a public appeal to
persons who possess Holmes letters
which may fifty be made available
for publication. They will be in
corporated in authoritative volumes
concerning Justice Holmes life and
work. His will left with its executor
the use and disposal Of the Justices
correspondence, papers and men,
oranda, including his rights in letters
written by him. Material contributed
for publication will be copied and
original documents returned to their
owners.
It is news that Grace Goodhue
Coolidge has had her hair bobbed,
but she desired to undergo such an
operation as long ago as her earliest
days in the White House, when the
style was first obtaining popular
vogue. Mrs. Coolidge explained to
woman friends that as the wife of the
President she was not sure it was the
right thing for her to adopt a mode
of hairdressing which many people
looked upon as almost as radical as
cigarette smoking by women. The
gracious first lady frequently admired
and envied the hobs" of other women
and expressed lively regret that she
did not feel quite at liberty to follow
suit.
Politically m n ded Washington,
training its eyes upon 1896 more
eagerly from day to day, thinks the
Republicans, If they mean to go lib
eral. may possibly derive some inspira-
ton from the lineup in this weeks
Supreme Court decision on the rail-
road pension law. The presence of
Chief Justice Hughes and Justice
Stone in the minority group suggests
to at least one eminent Republican
side-line observer that the G. o. P.
might 60 farther and do worse than
look in the direction Of one Of these
eminent jurists for presidential tim
Der. Both have figured in the long
range gossip over Republican posi-
bilities.
It was Napoleon, Clausewitz or some
other master of military tactics who
said that "divide and conquer" is the
best strategy against the foe. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is seen as an apostle
Of that school of battle thought in his
present hostilities with big business.
He at any rate lost no time in devel-
oping for public benefit that the recent
anti-New Deal onslaughts of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
do not represent big business as q
ber's guns was still echoing across
Washington, F. D. r. was hobnobbing
with commercial, industrial and finan-
cial leaders, who left him with COM
forting assurances that substantial
segment of business approves Of N. r.
A., social security and other recovery
measures. Democrats think the Presi-
dent has shrewdly split big business
into rival camps.
''The American Messiahs," by the
anonymous "Unondcial Observer" who
wrote 1.-The New Dealers" in 1884. is
the name Of q book to be published at
trSA ~ xxrfn ha n
Evening star., 1935-05-08

The world is dealing with big figures
and various economists apparently
assume that it might be we'll to pay
the bonus for the sake of preventing
it from interfering with arguments
on more important topics.
Evening star., 1935-05-08

The possession OF a big-shot gam
bier is an evidence of big-city develop
ment that every law-abiding resident
would rather be without.
Evening star., 1935-05-08
5 to 4.

'The odds are five to four" said the
man who was reading the paper.
What are you talking about" asked
Senator Sorghum wearily, "a horse race
or a Supreme Court decision?"
Evening star., 1935-05-08
Same Source.

Same Source.
From the Indianapolis News.
Maybe the "send-a-d dime" letter
scheme was originated by the same
economist who figured that all tbs
people can get rich by taxing the
other fellow.
Evening star., 1935-05-08

The principal objection to a big
shot gambler is that some of his as
sociates may fall into the machine
gun habit.
Evening star., 1935-05-08
The Needful Hundred.
the st. Joseph News-Press.

From the st. Joseph News-Press.
Young people should not hesitate to
marry ON an income Of 500 a month.
says an educator. The young people
say they're willing, but where would
they get the 500?
Evening star., 1935-05-08
Fashion Note.

From the Los Angeles Times
More rustling petticoats, furry suits,
fluffy blouses, navy blue, tiger lily.
shrimp pink and smoky grays were
in evidence in Spring garments this
year than for some seasons past.
Even the skirts are picking up.