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Evening star., 1935-09-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
They say you can't get something for

They say you can't get something for
nothing.
A radio seems to give 1t to you, but
you have to pay for the receiving set,
and so on.
Still, how about the philatelic scav-
enger.
This young man haunts waste paper
baskets to find postage stamps
You will see him in every large Office
building, hurrying through the trash be-
fore the elevator arrives to carry the
baskets to the basement.
Aside from the little expenditure of
energy involved in leaning over, the COL
lection of these stamps costs absolutely
nothing.
There is a real pleasure in it, too, for
the stamp collector.
4
A great many persons declare they do
not understand how any one can be
interested in stamps but it is easy.
Philately is an intellectual pastime, Just
as is the tropical fish hobby.
Neither of these makes any appeal to
the emotions.
They are like the ancient game Of
chess, in that their appeal is mainly to
the mind.
1t is the mind, after all, that is able
to get something for nothing" in this
life The mind can do it if anything can.
Yet if we look little further we will
find that many strange occupations are
really nothing but attempts to get some
thing for nothing. and often enough with
some appearances of success.
There is the tinfoil collector, for in
hA u,hn ornI1Nd
with pointed stick, taking up bits of
paper. There is the fellow who picks
up-and smokeS-old cigar butts and
discarded cigarettes. He seems to get
something for nothing.
The use of animal wastes in agriculture
is one of the oldest attempts along this
from observation alone, by noting the
extra growth of pasture grass
A striking instance of the benefits of
well-rotted cow manure was shown a
year or so ago at Chevy Chase Circle
circumference.
Each tree was given a good dose OF
such fertilizer. The next Spring the
grass encroached on the plots imme-
diately around the trees and grew a
circle was making an inch or two in
growth.
y n
The surest source of something for
nothing in the best sense is the human
mind, that inexhaustible well of the ages.
Pure intellect is not what we mean.
We mean the human mind with its side
issues, as it were, all the hundred and
one factors involving every side of the
human creature.
1t is impossible to divorce emotion from
thinking, or thinking from emotion,
really.
Even if philately and the tropical fish
hobby, for instance, are classed as intel
lectual pursuits, which is correct, still
they involve many reaches of the emo
tions.
1t is impossible to contemplate the
sickness or death of an old fish in an
aquarium. something you have tended
and fed for three to five years, without
finding the emotions involved, not to the
extent of tears or anything of the kind,
but more subtle. reaching back to the
springs of life and death. /.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
Her name was Lady Six Monkey.

Her name was Lady Six Monkey.
She was a warrior queen who raised
and led armies, consulted Soothsayers,
was courted and married in Southern
Mexico long before the discovery of the
New World by Columbus.
Lady Six Monkey is the most CLAM
orous figure to emerge from the cryptic
pages Of the Selden Codex ancient Mexi-
can manuscript in the Bodleian Library
of oxford University and one of the few
to survive the Spanish conquest. 1t is
a history in picture writing, on long
strips of prepared deer skin. The pic
lures are extremely difficult to translate,
but this has been in part accomplished
by Dr. Herbert j. Spinden of the Brook
lyn Museum who describes some of his
findings in a report just published by
the Smithsonian Institution.
The manuscript, DR.. Spinden is con-
vinced, was a genuine historical record.
Otherwise the story of Lady Six Monkey,
with its intensely human aspects, might
pass for fiction.
Her mother was Nine Wind and her
father Ten Eagle. Three warrior brothers
apparently were killed, leaving this girl
the successor to the throne of her parents.
hand, bearing costly gifts. Six Monkey
had will of her own and resolutely re-
fused these youths in opposition to her
parents.
She apparently was taken under the
protection of an old priest named Ten
Lizard. He may have acted as her tutor
for the royal duties that awaited her.
Once she is shown in conversation with
Ten Eagle and another priest. apparently
a mighty SoothSayer. He tells her that
she will die IA years hence. From this
point her footsteps are shown leading
downward into the underworld.
But Six Monkey was too busy girl
to become morbid over this dire prog
nostication. Shortly afterward she met
boy she liked-one Eleven Wind. The
two went together to gruesome skull
temple to consult Nine Herb, an ugly
old lady who probably was reputed to
be a sorcereSs. They brought the old
hag an assortment of jewels. Perhaps
they came to her as fortune teller,
perhaps for some spell which would over
come obstacles to their marriage.
Evidently the interview was satisfac-
tory. The next picture shows their mar
riage-or rather the two bathing to-
gether which was one Of the picture
symbols of marriage. Six years had
elapsed since the death prophecy OF the
old soothsayer. Six Monkey had still
eight years before she must take the
direful journey to the world OF spirits.
They were eight busy and eventful
years. One pictured episode is that of
Evening star., 1935-09-19
it is sent to him next year, remains to

it is sent to him next year, remains to
be seen.
X X
Because the President is to make only
two formal addresses in the West, II his
present plans hold, does not necessarily
mean that he will not make a large
number of informal talks to people where
his train stops. The West is section
of the country for which the Democratic
high command is playing strongly in
the coming national campaign. The
avalanche of criticism of the New Deal
that has developed in recent months
from Republican and other sources the
President will have an opportunity 10
answer if he desires in his talks to the
people of the West What he may say
there, however, will be widely read and
heard by people of the East also. Many
are wondering what he will say, If any
thing, about the need Of constitutional
changes.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
Shooting Stars.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

AS the World Moves.
When the sunshine is bright and the
day rolls along
At a pace that is CHEEKY and steady and
strong;
When the minutes like pictures we pass
on the way
And we lightly approve of the shifting
display;
When the travel is smooth and we're
fain to go ON
BY the light Of the stars when the SUM-
shine is gone;
When pleasure is all that its travels re-
veal,
Oh, this world moves along like an
automobile!
When you're up in the air and your
pace is so fast
That you take no account Of the miles
you have passed. .
When nerves tensely quiver as dashing
you go,
Disdaining the caution that mortals
should show;
When you halt now and then in your
hah-frenzied mirth,
And wonder if safely you'll get back to
earth,
This world, onward flying, both early
and late,
Will seem like an airship. defiant of
fate.
But when time dumbly plods at a gait
that is slow
And the journey seems rougher each
mile that you go;
When the briars are thick on an ILL
chosen road
And Duty grows faint with the weight
of the load;
When a creaking wheel utters a protest
so Shrill,
And the way seems forever a swamp or
a hill,
This world, which for some moves mid
laughter and song,
Is only wheelbarrow-push it along!
Evening star., 1935-09-19

Reading comes very near to grand
and glorious something for nothing"
1t is only because we find it so COM
monplace that we may be inclined to
think otherwise, recalling all the years
of effort spent in school. (And many of
us do not read very well even nowD
Yet what is this creation of whole
world peopled by characters who come
alive" to use the rather silly phrase of
the reviewers, which we possess on the
reading of a good novel?
The elation of fine poem-what is
that but something out of nothing, in
the best sense?
This evocation of mood is part of
intelligence.
The unintelligent person cannot do it..
The person SO slow minded that he can
not fuse the essential parts OF a word
picture cannot do it, either.
He may make bluff of doing it, but
the truth is that he will never like to
read" as he says. He is thousands, Of
course. Not only does he not like to read,
but, more to the point, he does not read.
ANY one who sincerely likes to read,
as the phrase has it, is of a higher intel
ligent quotient and may pride himself
on it.
He may not possess the gift of making
money out of it, for that is something
else again, but he surely knows how to
evoke mental pictures from what he
reads
That is why you see people so absorbed
in newspapers. Some persons find it
expedient to criticize newspaper reading,
but those who have the ability to make
pictures for themselves as they read
know better Reading about the tragedy
of Huey Long, hot off the griddle, was
the same as reading Shakespeare S
Julius Caesar"
One of the meanings of "evoke" is to
call up spirits from the dead.
In literal sense that is what reading
does. The assassination of the great
Julius is enacted in the capitol at Rome:
the killing of the great Huey, in the
corridor of the capitol at Baton Rouge.
Hundreds of years separate the two kill
ings. in time, but in the mind of the
reader they are the same sort of thing,
and now bring up similar pictures.
*
This is the magic of getting something
for nothing in a real and in a very good
sense. 1t means that the quality Of re-
sulting product is out of all proportion TO
the energy spent.
People who love the films feel the same
way about them, for they, too, enable
people to evoke pictures out of the vaSty
deeps of time and space and peoples and
countries.
Something of the wonder of it is in
every face uplifted to the screen. The
paltry sum OF money they have paid is
as nothing to what they get. Such. evi-
dently, is their feeling, if they would
stop to think about it.
The book man can understand this
His books for him have given him the
same thing since he began to read, many
years ago, as a child. with childish pic
lures of his own creation.
One need not feel ashamed of ones
mind, as one sometimes unhappily is,
SO long as it possesses the power to evoke.
to make alive, to bridge time and space,
to cause wonderful pictures such as man
alone has dreamed. out of all life, to be
framed forever within the confines of
few inches of bony skull This is mans
real triumph, and even the humslest OF
us can be proud of it.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
No Small Sorrows,

"A man likes big and heroic enter
prises."
That's right" replied Mrs. Corntossel.
Alexander wept because there were no
more worlds to conquer. But you never
hear of a man sheddin' a tear because
there's no more wood to chop or water
to carry"
"'Taint de time he loses goin' f1shin',"
said Uncle Eben, dat counts up as
much as de time he vases tellin' about
it afterwards"
Evening star., 1935-09-19
Substitution.

eff were you," my friend observes
With good intent that never Swerves-
Ger his advice might enthuSe
If it were something I could use.
If you were I, oh, friend of mine,
My old mistakes would stand in line
In memory and with cruel glee
Be mocking you, as they mock me.
Since you are you, It's easy quite
For you to lift guiding light.
If you were I, you'd have to bear
My faults and follies as your share.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The Flower

Where, tides ran low in froth and mud
A vagrant flower took root.
Amid seaweed and tangled grass
And random green tree shoot
The flower, white as foaming sea,
Gave of its honey to bee
And with the rising of the tide
Broke from its stem at dusk, and died.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

The great European family quarrel
threatens to reassert itself. There is
no expectation, however, that Uncle Sam
will again figure as the bright boy who
left the old home and after making good
in Wall Street came back and assumed
all the mortgages.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

Terms in which wealth is expressed
have been modified. King Solomon's
mines are regarded as fiction, but Ethi-
opian oil wells mean something.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

Remembrance of the United States
Constitution is still keen enough to make
"unconstitutional" the first word young
attorney thinks of on going into court.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
Benighted Huntsmeni

From the Wilkes-Barre CPaD Record
Two Seattle men have gone into the
woods armed only with hunting knives to
demonstrate how easy it is to live a full
month off Mother Nature. If they were
looking for something easy why didn't they
try the Government?
Evening star., 1935-09-19

p 1t may be easier to revive the influence
of a philosopher and statesman if it is
remembered that he had homely wit
Of his own ready for use on occasion.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

A Geneva conference must have a
hard time if parts of the audience insist
on walking out when the performance
gets most interesting.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
One-Sided Issue.

From the watertown IN. " Times
Saving the Constitution sounds good
as a campaign slogan, but it's little
hard to find anybody to take the opposite
side.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

Canoe accidents still occur. Their
record is small as compared with that
of ships on the ocean and in the air.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
Ask Any Angler.

From the Watertown IN. " Times.
Japanese scientists claim bamboo can be
grown 10 feet tall In six weeks. Perhaps
we've known fish on the end of bamboo
poles to grow faster than that.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

One worthy citizen who is obviously in
danger of being overworked is the
undertaken.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
The Potato Problem.

From the Toledo Blade.
1t is believed the Government may
have considerable trouble regulating the
number of potatoes in a hill.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
New Deal Evolution.

From the. Winston-salem IN. c. Journal.
Who says there's no biological evolu-
ton? The once humble porker has now
become the cock of the walk.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
Reversal of Custom.

did you ever meet a lobbyist?"
eyes," replied Senator Sorghum.
did he offer you money!"
mo. I was already convinced of the
merits of his proposition. He borrowed
ten dollars"
Sometimes the effect of 1abor-saving
devices is to fool man into the idea
that he can loaf all day and still get
his work done.
Evening star., 1935-09-19
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Evening star., 1935-09-19
Vocal LEGISLATORS.

From the Chicago Daily News
Cheers of House members greeted the
suggestion that Congress adjourn. Who
says Congressmen are dumb?
Evening star., 1935-09-19

@. Was Charles A. Dana, the editor, a
member of the Brook Farm Commu-
nity?-L. j.
A. Mr. Dana was member and man
aging trustee of the community, where
he remained five years.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

reader can get the dnsUer to any
question Of fact by tDrtttng The Washing
ton EUening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. HGSkin, Director, Washing
ton, D. c. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

@. Is Magdalen College at Oxford or
Cambridge University2-S. T.
A. Both universities have colleges
whose names are pronounced "Modlin."
At oxford it is spelled Magdalen; at
Cambridge it is spelled Magdalene.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

Q. When were motor cycles first made?
B. E, j.
A.. Bicycles were first propelled by mo-
tor about 1895. The powered cycle be-
came dependable and popular shortly
after 1900.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

NlEht Final EuIIIOH.
Night Final and Sunday Star----70c per month
Collection made at the end of each month.
Orders may be sent BIZ mail or telephone Ma
ffnnal 6OnO
Evening star., 1935-09-19
@. What is the origin Of lighthouses9


A. The earliest lighthouses of which
records exist were the towers built by
the Libyans and CuShiteS in Lower
Egypt, beacon fires being maintained in
some of them by priests. Lesches, a
Greek poet 1850 B.C0, mentions light
house at Sigeum, now Cape Incihisari, in
the Troad, which appears to have been
the first light regularly maintained for
mariners. The famous Pharos of Alex
andria was regarded as one of the Won
ders of the world. The tower is stated
to have been 600 feet in height. 1t was
destroyed by earthquake in the thir-
teenth century but remains are said to
have been visible as late at 1850. The
name Pharos became the general term
for all lighthouses, and the term pharol-
ogy has been used for the science Of
lighthouse construction.
Evening star., 1935-09-19

votes, while his Republican opponent,
City Controller S. Davis Wilson, polled
l68 lO6, and his nearest opponent in the
Republican primary, City Treasurer Will
B. Hadley, received las, 5,205. There were
10 candidates for the Republican NOM
ination. If the Republicans are able
to unite their strength, it would look as
though the Democrats did not have
much chance in the city election which
is to come. They have been pretty we'll
shot to- pieces from an organization
point Of view in the last year or two
In Philadelphia. They may be able to
get together again.
The control of Philadelphia City Hall
is a big stake for which the Democrats
are playing. 1t has been in the hands
of the Republicans for many years. The
contest is not without its national sig
niflcance by any means.
President Roosevelt'S approaching
Western trip holds plenty of political
dynamite. After comforting with party
leaders, the President has decided to
make only two formal speeches, one at
Boulder Dam and the other at San
Diego. He is not going to visit the
American Legion Convention in St. Louis,
September 1926, for press of work will
keep him in Washington until too late
for him to reach the convention, it is
said. Just what the President could
have told the Legionnaires about the
bonus is a question. His own party
leaders in the Senate and House have
promised the veterans another vote on
cash payment of the bonus soon after
Congress reconvenes in January. The
President during the last session of
Congress vetoed, with a strong message,
the Patman "greenback" soldiers bonus
bill. His veto was sustained by the
Senate. What he may do about more
Evening star., 1935-09-19

@. Who is the Ethiopian representa-
tive in this country?-T. D. K.
A John H. Shaw has recently been
appointed first Ethiopian consul general
IN the United States. Prior to this ap-
pointment Ethiopia had no diplomatic OF
consular representative in this country.
The Washington times., 1935-09-14
Washington Stocks

SALES
Potomac Electric 5l2 per cent
pfd, 5@113h.
National Savings and Trust Co.,
7@100, 2@100.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas SIS 1860, $1,000
@117.
Capital Transit Co., 10@17A,
25@1712. 15@1712.
City and Suburban SIS. 81, 1,000@
90, $1,O0O@92, $1,OO0@92, $1,000
@92.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio pfd 1O@10512, 10@lO512, SO
105l2.
Capital Traction IS, $500@97A.
Public Utility Bonds Bid Ask
The Washington times., 1935-09-14

Constitution Day, celebrating
the one hundred and forty-eighth
anniversary of the adoption of
the Constitution on September II.
1887, will be observed in four
Columbia Broadcasting System
broadcaSts.
AS preliminary, Bainbridge
Colby, Secretary of State under
President Wilson, will speak un-
der Daughters of American Revo-
luton auspices tomorrow, on
WJSV from 10 to 10:30 p. M,
on THE Constitution"
Tuesday, from 2:30 to 3 p. m,
Senator Frederick w. Steiwer of
Oregon will address a meeting OF
the Women's National Republican
Club. A number of other speakers,
including Mrs. Theodore Roose-
velt, ST., may be heard during the
broadcast.
The other address Tuesday will
be made by Senator Elbert
Thomas at 10 p. m. on the sub
ject, THE Constitution and What
it Means"
Representative Sol Bloom of
New York will comment on all
remarks and opinions he has
heard during the week in relation
to the Constitution, on Station
WJSV at 7:30 p. M, Saturday,
September 81. His talk is called
Constitutional Misconceptions
A new series of Jewish pro-
grams, directed by Rabbi Jonah
B. Wise, and entitled "The Mes
sage of israel" will be inaugurated
on WMAL tonight at $50 o'clock.
Rabbi Wise, of the Central Syna-
gogue in New York city is a vet
eran broadcaster. The Message
of Israel, under his direction, will
be conducted as religious serv-
ice and will include ritualistic
music.
The works of celebrated Russian
composers presented by Knushe-
vitsky, 'cellist; Natalia Bozhdest-
venskaja and G.. Abramov, vio-
linist, will be heard on WRC at
$50 a. m, during an international
broadcast from Moscow. The pro
gram will include Rimsky-Korsa-
koff's Serenade and The Darken-
ing West" "Everywhere" and a
Song of Love" by Vassilenko.
The Washington times., 1935-09-14

Eastern stock: supplies light; demand
moderate; market steady. Maryland, =
quart climax baskets L. s. No /, table
stock Concords 1Oc; 12-hushel baskets
baskets Concords best, 29c: poorer, 20
0221.c.
Pears-No carlot arrivals; . broken and
? unbroken cars on track. Eastern
crate market steady. New York hushel
baskets Rartletts, U. $. No l, s212.25.
mostly So: No. ., s1.sO@1.75; busheI
baskets Seckels. u s. No l. 81.
. broken and 1 unbroken cars nm track.
Supplies moderate: demand moderate:
market steady. Colorado. pony crates,
s1.75.
Curumbers-Supplies moderate: de-
mand moderate; market dull New York,
bushel baskets, $1.50@2.
TOmatOes-Supplies moderate demand
moderate; market steady. Nearby sec
tions. 1abushel hampers Asa Csc, as to
condition.
Oranges-Two California arrived; 2
cars diverted; broken and nm
broken cras track. California.
boxes, valencias, &395, according to
grade and size.
LemOns-Californa boxes. &4a5. ac-
cording to grade and size.
Grapefruit-Tsle OF Pines, boxes. Red
Spanish. s45O@5. as to size.
Zealand type soc
Kale-Maryland, bushel baskets. 35 "a
45c.
Peaches-One New York arrived: l
broken and l unbroken cars on track.
New York. 1a-bushel baskets, sl9110;
Idaho. lugs. s5c@$1.
DamsOns-New York, bushel baskets
H.SOG2: u bushel baskets mostly
around 81.
Huckleberries-North Carolina, 81
quart crates, $3.50 per crate.
Crabapples-New York, bushel bas-
kets, $1.5O@1.75.
AvOCadOs-Florida, boxes, Csc 81,
according to condition.
Peppers-New Jersey, busheI basekts,
o5T4Oc.
Beets-Pennsylvania punched 25c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. punched. 15c.
Figs-California. flats, 75c.
FlOrida-125 lugs avocados: 81 lugs
lines: 90 bushel crates lines.
CalifOrnia-65 10-pound boxes figs.
North CarOlina-Five 32-quart crates
huckleberries: 6s 12-bushel baskets okra;
80 bushel baskets akha; 27 bushel bas-
ke+s peppers.
virginia-six S2-quart crates buckle
berries: 5 barrels watercress.
GeOrgia-1O crates persimmons.
Texas-Five crates persimmons.
The Washington times., 1935-09-14
AIR PROGRAMS
T0H0N0RU. s.
CONSTITUTION
ToDAY's FEATURES

WRC Representative Vir-
ginia Jenckes, "The American
Flag Act and the COnstitu-
tion," 5:45-6:0O p. m. Chateau
Program, Ginger Rogers, $3.50
$3.50 p. m.
WMAL Country Hi-Jinks,
8:0O-8:3O p. m. Ray Mobiles
Orchestra, 1O:3O-11:OO p. m.
WJSV-CalifOrnia Melodies,
8:3O-9:OO p. m. Abe Lyman's
Orchestra, 10:15-1O:SO p. m.
The Old Barn Loft, 11-12 p. m.
VOL Tea Dance Tunes,
4:30- 500 p. m. ReviSta Rogue,
9:OO-9:3O p. m. Victor Her.
bert "reminiscences, 11:OO-
11:15 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-09-14
Berger Will Head
LinCoIn's Board

George I, Berger has been
elected to the board of directors
of the Lincoln National Bank, &C.
cording to announcement yester.
day.
The new Lincoln director has
been actively engaged in the real
estate business here for 80 years
and was for many years con-
nected with the late James F.
Shea and succeeded to the busi-
ness upon the death of Mr.. Shea.
He is a member of the District
of Columbia bar and a director
in the Enterprise Serial Building
ASSocia ton.