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Evening star., 1935-05-24

in this fast-stepping revue. The
screen features Mary Astor and Lyle
Talbot in Red Hot Tires" There
will be two midnight shows, tomorrow
and Wednesday nights.
Evening star., 1935-05-24
Grace MoOre's New Film
Attracts Much Attention
"Love Me Forever" Scheduled for June
Showing at the Earle-"In Caliente," Star
ring Dolores Del Rio, Next Week.
BY Z. de s. MELCHER.

~RACE MooRES fm Love Me Forever" will be shown
at the within the Announcement
of today the Warner Bros who at the
~ same time sponsoring mammoth June Jubilee.
picture however whether early or late
calendar Che exact day isn't known yet
doubtedy heads the telephone, the mail
and telegraph have thick with queries
The includes Spring Byngon
Leo Garlic Michael Bartlett Robert Allen Luis Abern.
yIoto Co 1irnpto od
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

awakened and his eyes were be-
wildered and furious, as well
they might be, for he couldn't
move an inch! While he slept
the tiny people had sneaked up
on him and bound him fast.
Not with ordinary shackles, for
these they could not handle
but by countless filaments no
thicker than cobwebs, which
held him tighter than chains.
How strange, you thought, for
a big man to be bound by such
tiny things! But do you still
think it's strange? Not if
you've lived much. LONG BE-
FORE THIS YOU'VE DIS
COVERED THAT COBWEBS
CAN BIND A MAN FASTER
THAN SHIP CABLES!
SHACKLED
Like CULVER, we all start out
feeling that nothing can hold
US. We look contemptuously
at the shackled lives around
us-men and women who are
held fast in the clutch of some
vicious habit or bad mistake.
So the years pass while we
follow our prudent trail. We
resist temptations. We avoid
plumbers. BY all the rules this
program should lead to power
and success. But gradually it
daWnS upon us that it's doing
no such thing.
Instead of getting ahead
we're sticking year after year,
in the same rut. Why? What's
holding us?
We ask that question and any
stranger could tell us the an
swer. But most of us don't
really want to know the answer.
The simple truth is we're not
going ahead because we CAN'T.
We're bound-as CULVER was
bound-by pigmies.
THEY ARE THE PETTY
WEAKNESSES WITHIN OUR
SELVES. AND THEY HAVE
BOUND US, NOT WITH THE
OBVIOUS SHACKLES OF BIG
BLUNDERS BUT WITH THE
COBW FILAMENTS OF
THOUGHT AND HABIT.
There's your own life. Long
ago that binding process
started-perhaps when you were
a child-in incidents so trivial
they didn't seem to matter.
For years, now, you've prob
ably been proud of being a
careful person and openly
ContemptuouS of persons who
weren't. But THOSE persons
are going ahead. YeS-they
make mistakeA Get into awful
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Army Day, Peace Day

Army Day, next Saturday, will be observed here
greater scale than before, and rightly.
Its main purpose to focus the attention of the public
the need for national defense.
Public attention needs focusing that subject at this
time.
Europe is marching steadily nearer to war.
IF THERE IS A WAR EVERY SANE AMERICAN
WANTS THIS COUNTRY KEPT OUT OF IT.
And every American knows that the only way keep
out is to be prepared to keep out.
With adequate army navy and air force the United
States veto any attempts to draw into foreign braw
Without them it can't and won't
That ought to be seevden to any normal intelligence
It certainly should be sefevdent anyone whose memory
goes back to 1917, whether he is intelligent
Yet noisy minority breaches unpreparedne wants this
country to disarm while others arng to the teeth bonn
bards Congress with protests against every strengthen
forces and makes the silly demand that cancel
naval in the Pacific because they might hurt
the feelings of dear Japan.
The proverbal ostrich with his head in the sand is far
sighted bird compared with these myopc specimens homo
Sapens.
HENCE ARMY DAY-A DAY ON WHICH THE AMER
1CAN PEOPLE SHOULD REMIND THEMSELVES THAT
DEFENSE IS THEIR ONLY GUARANTY OF PEACE
Peace costs money but its cost is not tenth of
cent of the cost of war;
Think of that April g. when you're the Avenue watching
the parade.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Owl Data
BIZ Robert BenchLey

A graduate student in the
ornithology department Of Cor
nell University is looking for
data on horned owls. He is
writing a thesis for his doctorate
on "Is the Horned Owl a Friend
or an Enemy of the Farmer"
and wants people to send in
their experiences.
I do not know so much about
the farming end of it, but I can
testify that the horned owls in
my room are definitely unfriend-
ly. I sometimes wish that 1 had
never let them in.
There are only two of them,
and so I don't suppose that any
extensive conclusions can be
drawn. They may just be two
particularly unfriendly owls by
nature. I, too, may not be
doing my part. 1t takes two, or
three, to make a quarrel.
Possibly if I were to throw
them a smile now and then
they would be more chummy.
But l don't feel like smiling
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

jams. Nevertheless, bit by bit,
they're forging on and getting
a lot out of life as they do so.
BUT EVERY DAY YOU ARE
MORE FIRMLY BOUND BY
THE INVISIBLE FILAMENTS
OF YOUR OWN FEAR.
PETTY HABITS
Fear isn't the only blind.
There's LAZINE IS. What
beautiful excuses we can find
for being lazy!
Sentimentality-that PERM
cious sugar coating for inertia
of body and soul! CONCEIT-
most of us have enough of that
to bind a dozen Gullivers!
MALICE-SELF INDULGENCE
the list is endless.
They all sneak up on us while
we sleep, as the midgets did
on CULVER. And we wake
to find ourselves held fast by
the things we thought didn't
matter-the petty habits we
were sure We could break
whenever we wished!
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

book appears) wrote me letters
sometimes not quite so kind
in which they exposed my ignor-
ance about all the many things
I did not know.
1 am conscious of my ignor-
ance, just as I am conscious OF
my size. I realize that my ig-
norance consists of the many
bits of wisdom I failed to find
in other peoples books. should
have plundered a little more
thoroughly and then there
would not have been quite so
many mistakes. But in every
book there are not only the in
excusable errors but also those
I would like to call the unavoid-
able mistakes-thoSe which no
human being could help making
because there is nobody who
could have told him better. Let
me give you an example.
PROOF PROVIDED
If you are going to write a
guide to New York there is no
excuse for not giving the Empire
State Building its correct loca-
ton. There is no excuse for not
knowing how high it is. AL
Smith will tell you.
But there is every excuse for
your calling that modest little
edifice the Empire State build
ing when overnight the Board
of Elevatormen have decided to
call it Eye Olde Mole Hill"
Now something of that sort
is happening almost every day
within the realm of geography,
to the great annoyance of all
honest photographers and postal
clerks. You go to bed, having
read a swell story about the re-
construction of the Acropolis,
which, as all the world knows, is
situated on the Parthenon in
the ancient city of Athens. But
behold, in the morning you read
that there has been new cabi-
net, entirely composed of ex-
bootleggers and fruit peddlers in
the city of Athenisi or Atheneni
or Athensi.
Only a short while ago Mis-
ter Renal Pasha (the Greeks
used to run ten miles to get
away from this KemaD in
formed the public that hence
forth all letters addressed
to Constantinople would be
thrown into the Golden Horn.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
By Nelson Harding

at them. They don't inspire
friendliness. They just sit and
look at me all night and sleep
all day. 1 have even tried Sleep
ing during the day myself and
going out at night, just to get
away from their everlasting
scrutiny, but that isn't a natu-
raj way to live.
I can't rearrange my whole
life just for a couple of horned
owls.
I asked Mr.. MacGregor what
to do about them, and he said
that he didn't know.
SIS that all you've got to say?"
/ asked him.
"It's all for the present." he
replied. He didn't seem to want
to talk about them very much.
do you think we'd like them
any better if they we're stuffed?"
/ asked.
"NO," he said, shortly.
So I dropped the subject and
tried to forget. The owls were
sitting on top of bookcase at
the time, and I put screen up
in front of them. This helped
little, but it was almost worse at
night to look at the screen and
know that they we're sitting be-
hind there with their eyes wide
open, even though I couldn't see
them. A couple of nights even
thought I heard them whisper
ing.
Finally, one day I said to
MacGregor:
II don't think you're doing
very much to help this Situa-
ton"
What situation is that?" he
asked.
"The owl situation" I said.
Had you hOught of
moving to another hOuse?' he
asked. Mr.. MacGregOr doesn't
sleep here, and so the thing had
not reached the proportions in
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

however. He is a telephone
converSationalist.
He has one acquaintance who
calls him almost every day.
At least a half hour is con-
sumed in talk.
Probably a record, however,
was a recent conversation with
Peoples Counsel William A.
Roberts.
At 3::45 the other afternoon
Bill called.
At 4:45 the conversation
ended.
And Mr.. Classics attractive
red-headed secretary murmured:
And they say women talk
on the telephone!"
Senator Huey P. Long has al
lDdyS contended that 1Dhe11 he
UGnted something he tDent after
it and didn't stop until he got
it.
Whether it was for the State
of Louisiana or for the King
fish" he made every effort to
secure that which he wanted.
Huey's claim was upheld the
other day.
He went to New York and
stayed at the Hotel New
Ate .r.~r,r. +A.-. two
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
In the World of Science
By Hiram PERCY Maxim
Hummng Birds Silent Music = the original sound of

the original sound of the birds
singing could be heard. The
latter was above audibility, and
any reproduction of it would
also be above audibility.
To bring the frequency down
where it would be inside the
range of the human ear, an eX-
pedient used in radio reception
was utilized. It is called "heter-
odyning." It amounts to set
ting up another and separate
sound of similar loudness, but
of slightly different frequency
from the one under investiga-
ton.
These two sounds, not being
of the same frequency, get in
and out of step with each
other. When they are in step,
they add together and make a
louder sound. When they are
exactly one-half out of step,
they neutralize each other and
produce no sound at all.
INAUDIBLE SOUNDS
Since they give a louder
sound only when in step, and
also since they fall into step
at relatively long intervals, a
lower frequency of these louder
sounds is given off, and, this
being considerably lower, is
audible. The song Of the hum
ming bird may then be listened
to, but at a lower pitch than
natural.
Other small creatures have
had their voices made audible
to human ears. Among these
are various kinds of crickets,
katydidS, ants and beetles.
In these very small creatures
the song is not musical. 1t is
not sung, but is a sound created
by the scratching Of wings or
legs or feelers together. These
members are made rough, so
that an extremely high fire.
quency squeak is created when
they are rubbed across each
other.
1t is the male which makes
the noises. He scratches and
squeaks until his program Ap-
peals to the female and leads
her to approach. The females
appear to have no sound pro-
ducing organs.
There is every reason to be-
lieve that a whole world Of
sound exists of which we hui
mans are entirely ignorant.
The song of the humming bird
is just on the boundary of hui
man audibility.
There probably are thou
sands of tiny creatures which
sing and make curious noises
which are far higher in fire.
quency than the humming bird,
giving to the forest an en-
tirely different character than
we dream.
Copyright 1898. by King Features
~
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
No Place to Economic

There has been criticism before official bodies of the Of
free lunches in of the Districts schools Mrs John
Boyle r, chairman of the Washington Consumers Council
has ably to the defense of the present program
Its purpose to that children who to school with
out lunches who undernourshed through fault Of
their their parents get nourshing food
Surely this little enough to do for those whom the
Nations future 1t would be good investment it did moth
ing than reinforce chds faith in his elders
soundness of the society in which he lives.
Hunger breeds radcalsm Worse breeds despair Disi
lusonmen early enough Let's be kind the citys
children. At least, let us be fair.
With the spending that is going all u.s. school
lunches should not be the first place economz They should
come last if at all.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

From that moment on Con-
stantinople was to be IStam-
boul or STEAMBOAT. Nobody
knew exactly why.
The new Turkish Republic
having made itself a complete
menace and nuisance to the
rest of the world by it's atti-
tude towards aviation, had
merely discovered another way
to attract attention to it's in.
creasing charms as an indie
pendent dictatorship.
The more or less civilized
nations have not been quite as
drastic but equally bewildering
by their choice of new names.
During the war st. Petersburg
had been changed to Petrograd.
That was done so as to make
the city truly Russian. Peters.
burg sounded too German to
please sound Slavonic ears.
The eminent Firms across the
Bay of KronStadt, in their at
tempts to de-Swede their home
land, have also favored us with
some extraordinary new names,
but the postal authorities Of
that intelligent country treat our
mail respectfully and respect
fully.
SAME STORY
Sweden, being eminently GER
tain of itself as behooveS a true
gentleman, has not bothered to
disturb the stamp collectors, but
Norway, for a short while de-
livered into the hands of its
professors. has become a weird
new countr. of battling names.
Formerly these names had
sounded the way the rocks Of
the country looked, if you get
what I mean. The professors
apparently did not get it, and
now we have to learn all about
Oslo and Nidaros (unless it has
been changed again since last
week.. And that is rather a
pity, for Trondhjem and Chris
tiania had infinitely more char.
acter.
Human patriotism, like all of
the other primary emotions, is
not subject to debate, so sup
pose we say that the Norwe-
gianS probably like it that way
and let it go at that.
England, although the House
Hanover became Windsor and
Battenberg transposed itself
into Mount Batten, remained
completely unruffled. London
is still London and has not yet
become some mysterious pre-
Roman, pre-Celtic Lhundh. But
across the Irish Channel, the
dear brethren are having a
grand old time being "agin"
all the old names and the new
books.
1t is the same story all over
and all around the map. Most
of these changes are completely
artificial and have been devised
by some patriotic brain after
the seventh pint of some truly
native beverage, without which,
alas, great deal of that sort
of local patriotism would be
quite impossible.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

his mind that it had in mine.
He has no owls out where he
sleeps.
That's all very well for you
to say" I snapped back, my
nerves finally giving way, "but
how are we going to move the
book case? Who's going to
take the screen down in the
first place."
81 guess you're right" said
MacGregOr, and turned and
walked away.
That is where the matter
stands today. I am afraid that
haven't been able to give much
help to the Cornell student, but
I will give him two horned owls
if he wants them-if he will
come and get them,
Copyright, 1888, by'King Features
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
She Lives to Fly

The Flying Duchess Of Bedford safe after having
missing for five days.
Britans 69year old noblewoman is much at home on
the world remote airways most in their
Kitchens unaraid darkest Africa as some girls
their teens at street intersection.
More power to the Duchess
Long may she fly, in comfort and safety
She's found the way to keep young.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

ing S h o u | d
h a v e b e e n
S h u t off at
this boundary
is a mystery
bound up in
the past.
The human
eye also has
its linn i t a
tions. What
made it blind
below the red
and above the
violet? B e.
yon d these
limits t h e r e
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

feel even Sor-
rier for my
self if I had
to do what
they have got
to do.
T W o years
a g o 1 p u b.
lished a geog-
r a p h y. I
tried to make
it as u p t o.
d a tie as I
could. Kind
friends Zone
h a S h o u
sands of them
nNnru finnn q
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

in t n e De-
partment of
Justice.
A big man,
ply 81 ally
and mentally,
he m ov e S
around h e
n e W Justice
Building with
alacrity and
ever y t h j II g
that he hears
is S t or e d in
h S retentive
memory.
Mr.. Classic
has one fault,
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

How your eyes
popped out at
that unforget-
table picture
of Gul liv e r
bound!
T h e re he
lay, fl a t on
his back, look
ing as big as
c a r n e r a -
with the mid
G e t Lillipu-
tians swarm
ing over him
by the thou
S a n d S. He
b q 4 / II 9 !
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
A Safe Anchorage

Owen Young has coined formula which may rank with
the old that charity begins at home.
The home says Mr. Young, is 1.-The anchorage of social
security
eff a home he has the Uauable, the
n1Ost ABSOLUTE the most UiOate property the World"
One may paraphrase the idea Owned homes are the
firm anchors of good citizens.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

ager and told him he liked
his bed so we'll he wanted it
shipped to Washington to him.
1t was.
Down in the AAA the girls on
the 4 til IL SHIFT are Dery much
concerned over one of their ser
1Dho is employed there.
A middle-aged woman, she in
dicates by her demeanor that
she once held a position OF
prominence.
From the time she reports to
work until she leaves she re-
fuses to take off her hat.
The girls come from all over
the AAA wondering if tea is to
be served.
The men around the building
on the same shift are not so
concerned about the woman
who wears the hat continuously.
They are much more inter
eSted in the girl who is working
there now but once was one of
Mack Sennett's bathing beauties.
TalkntiUe Tom Bldnton, Rep
reSentdttae from Abilene, Ter,
has encountered q man 1Uith q
tongue that is almost as c1uSttc
as his.
That man is Ellis Belts, Cap
itol elevator operator and cor
respondent for a Georgia weekly
paper.
On the elevator the other
day. "Tawm" demanded:
Belts, did you file your in
come tax?"
Belts replied:
"YOu all have cut my salary
so UGH don't have to worry
about income taxes"
Tom said:
90 didn't know they had done
that to you"
Belts barked:
''NO! That's the trouble with
you. You don't bother to find
out what is going on"
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
When Every Days a Month

The astronomers have discovered applying brakes
the spin Of the earth Some day days will be month
long.
"The day." says Prof. Nicholson, of California" is
frightening at the rate of One-thOusandth of
second per century,"
That may be the why hours the office so long
But guess the real is that Spring is here.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Russia Uses Forks

Russia is exutng appears that the Russians begin
ming shave Themselves and brush their teeth and-wonde
Of wondersto forks well knives when they eat
That's swell Now if the Russians get something to stick
their forks ino if they get little solid food they will only
have dozen to go to reach the status of the
poorest Americans.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Some Queer Changes
BIZ Hendrix WiIIem van Loon

I feel sorry for the postal
clerks who have got to handle
the foreign mail. And I would
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Are You a Bound CULVER?

Remember when you were a
little tad and discovered that
old book of "Gulliver's Travels?
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

Special Assistant to the At
torney General Henry H. Classic
is one of the most energetic men
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

Most of us are stone deaf to
sounds above $4,000 vibrations
per second. Just why our hear
The Washington times., 1935-04-01


unseen and unnamed colors.
In summer a pair of humming
birds nest near my house.
Every now and again one of
them alights on the telephone
wire. When the male sings I
can hear only parts of his song.
I believe he is singing steadily
because his beak and throat
move; but I cannot hear his
high notes, and I am sorry, for
he has sweet song.
His vocal cords are so small
and light that many of the
sounds he makes have a fire.
quency above audibility. Many
times ave I wondered what his
song might be, and whether it
might not be worth recording.
Prof. George w. Pierce and
Miss Jane Prouty of Harvard
University, I discovered, won
dered also, and they have in
vestigated the subject. The
problem was a difficult one, as
may be imagined.
They took advantage of the
knowledge that certain crystals,
when properly cut. vibrate at
certain definite frequencies. For
example, a given quartz crystal
will vibrate at just one particu-
lar frequency. A given Roch-
ellie salt crystal will vibrate at
many frequencies. Both will
generate a feeble oscillating cur
rent of electricity when they
Vibrate.
The Washington times., 1935-04-01
"HETERODYNING"

A sound collecting horn was
set up and a thin Rochelle salt
crystal was placed at the small
end between metal plates. Any
sound within the vibrating
limits of the crystal generated
an electrical current having a
frequency identical with that OF
the sound. BY means of vacuum
tubes this current was ampli-
fled.
However, Notwithstanding this
modification, the current could
produce no sound that the hu-
man ear could hear in a tele-
The Washington times., 1935-04-01

nights he went to the man.
ager and told him he liked
his bed so we'll he wanted it
shipped to Washington to him.
1t was.
Evening star., 1935-12-06

ish-born film comedian, both were In
London last night.
Lita Grey arrived last week, and
Mildred Harris reached Southampton
yesterday. Both will appear on the
London stage.
Chaplin, who planned to visit Lon
don over Christmas, has Cancelled the
Evening star., 1935-12-06

incoming yesterday with her third hus-
band. All three were brothers.
AS young woman, Miss Eta Woods
married George Richardson. After
his death she wed his brother Alfred,
who died 10 years ago.
She married the third brother, John
H. Richardson, at Reno Monday.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
Snow Above Apple Blossoms.

So much snow has fallen In the re-
gion Of the Zugspitze Mountain, in
Upper Bavaria, that skiing has al
ready become possible. And down in
the valleys chestnuts and apple trees
have Just burst into bloom for the
second time this year.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
BRIDGE WORKER KILLED

Victim Of Fall Is 18th to Lose
Life on California Span.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 6 up.
Ed Corell, 81. San Francisco, fell 70
Evening star., 1935-12-06
WEDs THIRD BROTHER

Woman Has Been Married to
Three in Same Family.
j WOODLAND, Calf, December 6
Up. Mrs. Eta Richardson was honey
Evening star., 1935-12-06
CHAPLIN CANCELS TRIP

Comedian Einds Both Former
Wives in London.
LONDON, December R.-The
former wives Of Charles Chaplin, Brit
Evening star., 1935-12-06
Generosity Costly.

An innkeeper in Glasgow, Scotland,
has been fined for giving too-gener-
GUS measure Of beer.
Evening star., 1935-12-06

his death from the East Bay cantilever
Of the San Francisco Oakland Bay
Bridge yesterday.
His was the seventeenth fatality
since start of construction of the
S7S, ,0o0,o 900 structure,
Evening star., 1935-12-06

proposed trip, his film company an.
nounced.
Evening star., 1935-12-06

Foot ball is now popular in Russia.