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Evening star., 1935-10-06
Poe's Boyhood

for his precocity and for his beauty.
To the seeing eye. he was a child set
apart, thing dimly realized by him.
self even then, as he testifles in his
poem alone"
From childhood's hour I have not
been
AS others were-I have not seen
AS others saw could not bring
My passions from common spring
And all lov'd-I lov'd alone
Then-in my childhood-in the dawn
OF most stormy hfe-was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and i'll
The mystery which binds me still"
Returning to Richmond Edgar. at
tended Master Clarke's School for
Boys and as he grew more and more
into a youth became even more of a
dreamer and a poet. 1t would be in
teresting to know all that had stimu-
lated this zest for poetry. Who told
this child that his destiny was to be
that of poet? Did he know it by
intuition or did some master recognize
the genius inherent in his schoolboy
verses? Certainly. John Allan never
saw the poet that was to be in his
foster son, and the growing rift be-
tween the two was widened in after
years because of Poe's poetry.
CTILL Allan preserved a childish
poem of Poe-at least it is thought
to be that of Edgar Allan Poe and it
can be seen in the Ellis and Allan
papers in the Library today. 1t read:
Flow softly-gently-vital stream;
Ye crimson life drops stay:
Indulge me with this pleasing dream
Thro' an eternal day.
See-see-my soul, her agonyl
See how her eyeballs glare
Those shrieks delightful harmony
Proclaim her deep despair.
Rise, rise internal spirits, rise,
Swift dart across her brain
Thou horror with blood chilling cries
Lead in thy hideous train.
o, feast my soul, revenge is sweet.
Louisa, take my scorn-
Curs'd was the hour that saw us meet
The hour when we were born.
These lines are Poesque indeed and
saw an early dawning of Poe's sense
Of the wierd and horrible.
On st. Valentines day, February
IA, 1926, Edgar Allan Poe, then II,
was enrolled in the University of Vir-
ginia by John Allan. The visitor to
the University of Virginia today sees
a tablet over room 13, west range,
stating in Latin that this was "the
small house of great poet" Inside
the room has been preserved much
as 1t was when Edgar Allan Poe lived
there for less than year. Through
a disagreement with his foster father,
debts contracted at the gaming table,
Poe Withdrew from the university in
December, 1926, and his college days
were over.
After the death of his foster mother.
the first Mrs. Allan, and John Allan's
remarriage, Poe's break with the Rich
mond merchant was almost complete.
Glimpses of this misunderstanding
may be seen here and there In letters
in the Ellis and Allan papers. Oc.
casionally after the youth left his
home Allan would aid Poe with few
stray dollars.
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Piano Needed.
THE Community Center Departme

THE Community Center Department
is in need of a new piano for its
Winter work. The department can
make good use of more than one in
strument. for its rapidly increasing
number of choral groups and its many
community dances in both the white
and the colored centers in the city.
Mrs. E. K. Peoples, director of the
department, will be glad to learn Of
any person or persons who may have a
piano for which they have no further
use and which they are willing to
donate to the community work in the
Capital City.
A telephone call TO Mrs. Peoples Of
fering piano to the department will
be gratefully appreciated.
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Precise Time on Air.

RESIDES taking the lead in radio
programming and transmission,
as well as in developing television and
facsimile broadcasts, American radio
stations are now broadcasting the
most accurate time in the world
thanks to the newly developed meth
DDS of Uncle Sans time makers at
the Naval Observatory.
So precise Is the time that any one
who picks up Arlington time signals,
broadcast precisely on the hour 20
times every day, can be certain that
the signal is no more than one-thou-
sandth of a second of the mark,
unless reception is from a point so
far from Washington that the distance
creates lag due to the time required
for the signal to travel at the rate of
10000 miles a second.
It was just a year ago that Capt.
J. F. Hellweg, superintendent of the
Naval Observatory, got Uncle Sans
time apparatus perfected to its present
accuracy. In the attainment of this
precision was involved years of pains
taking study and research, culminat-
ing in the perfection of time-making
gadget so complicated that Capt.
Hellweg hasn't been able to think up
q name for it.
There are two processes involved In
giving the world its finest time. First,
the time has to be made. Second, it
must be divulged to an eager world
that operates at furious speed day
in and day out-and that is where
radio comes in.
To find out when noon, for example,
really is noSn and not couple thou
sandths of q second before or after,
Capt. Hellweg's time producers use q
foolproof system that he has devel-
oped. This system depends on me-
chanical devices, entirely eliminating
the human element. For the chief
time recorder long ago discovered that
human beings just can't think or act
fast enough to produce the kind OF
time he wants the world to have. A
muddy cup of coffee or q slightly
tainted breakfast egg is enough to
spoil scientists observations for the
day, and thus the whole world can be
running on faulty time for a while.
But here's the way it's done! An
automatic camera snaps photographs
as a star-whatever star it happens to
be aimed at-crosSes meridian. The
exact time at which 1t crosses Is re-
corded. Calculators already have fig
ured out when the star really should
cross. A calculating machine shows
In jig-time Just how far OF the mas
ter clock is-and there you have your
correct tiMA
Evening star., 1935-10-06
HE Rubinstein Club will hold
its first morning rehearsal
Tuesday at II at the Willard


L Hotel. The evening rehearsal
will be at Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church at 8 o'clock. All mem
bers are expected to be present at
one or the other of these meetings.
Those desiring information as to
membership requirements should call
Mrs. Iorwerth ]. Roberts, president.
Claude Robson is director and Adele
Robinson Bush is accompanist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Potter will give
an organ and voice recital in Balti-
more at the st. Marks Methodist
Chuch, Garrison boulevard and Lib
erty Heights avenue, at o'clock Fri
day afternoon. Mr.. Potter will play
Bach group, prelude from Second
Symphony by Vierne, "Sposalizio" by
Liszt, and "Finlandia," by Sibelius.
Mrs. Potter will sing from oratorios
and sacred songs.
Elsa Louise Raner, violinist, has re-
sumed teaching in her studio at l43O
Belmont street northwest, after spend
ing the Summer visiting friends in
New Jersey. Connecticut and Pennsyl-
vania. Miss Raner gave a recital in
Essex Fells, N. j., the latter part OF
August.
Esther Linkins. voice teacher and
choral director. announces the open
ing Of downtown studio at 1908
street in addition to her residence
studio. Miss Linkins will begin her
Children's Community Chorus re-
hearsals during the coming week In
terested parents may phone for full
information.
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Received payment,
Phillip Thornton,

Received payment,
Phillip Thornton.
inexpensive but effectual medical
service, that.
Perhaps John Allan deserves more
credit than his later treatment of Poe
wins for him in his tolerance of the
new ruler of the women of his family.
The waits good looks, warm heart
and ability to sing and recite aroused
a pride in his foster father that per-
haps his associates in business knew
more about than his immediate family.
But there always was wall of re-
serve between this man and gifted
boy, even in the heyday of favor. The
sensitive child may have felt this,
although there is no direct evidence
that this is a fact. Anyway. while
he permitted the child to be baptized
Edgar Allan Poe" and consented to
his remaining permanently in his
home, he refused to adopt him for
mally. Yet, in every other sense Of
the word the lad was the son of the
Allan household and regarded as such
by the people of the town.
John Allan saw to it that Poe had
good educational advantages. Receipt
after receipt for bills paid for his tut
ton appear in the Ellis and Allan
papers, mute witnesses to this kindness
on his foster fathers part.
IN JUNE, 1915, the Allans with little
Edgar, then years old, sailed for
England. 1t was a voyage that took
almost a month at that time and in
a letter from Mr.. Allan to his partner
in Richmond now in the Ellis and
Allan papers we get glimpse of
Edgar's first touch of NAL de mere.
THE ladies were very SICK" wrote Mr..
Allan. Edgar was little sick but had
recovered"
In the collection is a quaint love
letter to Edgar from his first sweet
heart, Catherine Potiaux, then 7
or 8 years old. It was Edgar's first
love letter and probably John Allan
preserved it out of sentiment.
It is dated Richmond, 1916, and
reads:
Give my love to Edgar and tell him
I want to see him very much. I ex-
cect Edgar does not know what to
make of such large city as London;
tell him Josephine and all the children
want to see him!"
In 1918, John Allan wrote to a Mr..
william Erwin of Richmond, concern
ing his young charge: Edgar is fine
boy and I have no reason to complain
Of his progress"
Much Of Edgar's time in England
and Scotland was passed in school,
where he received q sound training in
the classics which stood him in good
stead for the remainder Of his life.
Even IN bis childhood be was noted
Evening star., 1935-10-06
Bureou Changes Name.


COCIETE DES CONCERTS IN
~ TIMES, Elena de Sayn, director,
announces change of name to the
more convenient form of Concerts
Intimes. The bureau will sponsor
three concerts this season on Tuesday
afternoons at the Shoreham Hotel.
The series will be inavgurated by Jan
Kubelik, celebrated Bohemian violinist,
in recital on December 3. followed by
Egon Petri, Dutch pianist. on January
IA. and Andreas Segovia. guitar virtu-
oso, on February 4. Segovia's first
appearance in Washington last Feb
ruary took place under the old name
OF the bureau.
Societe des Concerts Intimes has
been active in the managerial field in
Washington since 1923. In the Spring
of the year of the Schubert Centen-
nial, a group of Washington artists
gave series of three chamber music
concerts under the patronage of the
German Ambassador. This group be-
came known as Societe des Concerts
IntimeS.
The following year the same group
gave second festival of three con-
certs under the patronage of Prince
de Ligne. Belgian Ambassador to the
United States. American music has
been represented In subsequent years.
Jointly with Elena de Sayn, violinist;
John Powell. American composer, made
his first Washington appearance under
the management of the Societe des
Concerts Intimes in a reading of his
sonata. "Virgianesque On the pro-
gram was also Mrs. A. A. H. Beach
and Walter Kramer, each of whom
presented major work for violin and
piano upon this occasion, assisted by
Miss de Sayn.
Season tickets on the three concerts
this season are on sale at the Willard
Hotel Ticket Agency; mail orders,
Concerts Intimes Direction, 927 Fiji
teenth street northwest.
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Cobb Sidned.

HUMORIST IRWIN S. COBB, who
made his feature film bow with
the late Will Rogers in the current
Twentieth Centi1ry-Fox Film. Steam
boat Round the Bend" has been
signed to a long-term contract by
Daryl F. Zanuck and will make his
first appearance under the agreement
in the featured role of Everybody S
Old Man"
Evening star., 1935-10-06
w. M. |. Faculty Recital

X URT HETZEL, pianist, and Joan
c. van Hulsteyn, violinist, inter-
nationally known artists, will open a
series OF faculty recitals at the Wash
lngton Musical Institute. S31 Eight
eenth street, on Wednesday evening.
October l6, at $3.50 o'clock.
A limited number of guest cards
are offered to the public and NAV be
had on application to the school Office.
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conductor before an audience OF regu-
lar Philadelphia Orchestra patrons. he
is by no means stranger to music
lovers of that city. For the past three
seasons he has conducted Summer
concerts presented by the orchestra in
Robin Hood Dell. He conducted sew
eral Of these outdoor concerts last
June.
WHILE DR.. Kinder is in Philadel-
w phia his place here will be taken
by William van Hoogstraaten, con-
.ductor of the Portland, Greg, Sym
phony Orchestra, and of the stadium
concerts in New York. He will con-
duct on october 81, presenting as
soloist the young pianist. Grace Cas-
tagnetta. Two days afterward he will
conduct the orchestra when it plays
Evening star., 1935-10-06
Society Honors Schumonn.

THE 125th anniversary of the birth
of Robert Schumann will be OBJ
served by the German Literary So
ciety at its opening meeting on Sat-
urday, October H. A prologue writ
ten by modern German poet to a
piano accompaniment Of excerpts from
Schumann's works and his song cycle,
"Frauenliebe and Leben," will be fea-
lures Of the program.
Evening star., 1935-10-06

cally since the days of Jenny Lind.
The number of prominent artists has
increased and the appreciation of
music is more universal than at her
time. But has this progress brought
with it either the same religious dedi-
cation to his profession by the artist
or the same spontaneous reaction from
the public, as was experienced by
Jenny Lind? Neither the practice
nor the appreciation of music is of
much value if the sentiments of the
hearts are not warmed to more ac-
tivity by its means.
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Morlene's Desire. "

"DESIRE" has been set as the final
title for Marlene Dietrich's
next Paramount picture, heretofore
called THE Pearl Necklace" Added
yesterday to the cast. which has Gary
Cooper opposite Miss Dietrich. was
Alan MoWbray.
Evening star., 1935-10-06
ANNIVERSARY OF GREAT SINGER; HER ART AND APPEAL
DR.. Kinder to Conduct
Philadelphia Concerts
Chosen for Four Appearances in Academy
of fMusic-Oregon Leader to Be Guest
in Engagements Here.

r KINDER. National Symphony Orchestra
this month Philadelphia Academy Of Music it
scheduled October 25
takes the baton again during
the following Kinder's
KndlerS
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Birthday of Jenny Lind
Dedicated to Great Soul
Austere, Simple Woman, Who Put Mind
and Heart Into Song, Stirred
Audiences to Emotion.
Bv Alice EverSman.

the anniversary Of the birth OF Jenny Lind one hundred
November 1887 England Two of those ST
the United States which eliminated in her
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Continued From Fifth Page.)

Continued From Fifth Page.)
bill incurred for treating the youngster
in an attack of the Group.
Here 1t is:
Mr.. John Allan.
To P. Thornton.
1912
May ALTO visit and medicine to
child -s1.5 so
May 22-To visit and medicine to
child Observation-Disclosures 100
May 23-To visit and vial pectoral
mint Observation-Disclosures 1.5o
Evening star., 1935-10-06
In Local Music Circles

Music notices intended for
publication in The Sunday Star
should be received by the Music
Editor not later than Thursday
morning at 9 o'clock and they
should be typewriter If possible.
Evening star., 1935-10-06

CHARLES L. BOYD
ktoloncello Instructor. ia Willow Ave
Iakoma Park. Lessons at pupils icu'
Evening star., 1935-05-07
ent immigration laws came 80 years
too late.
Quality Desired.

what we want is quality" said
the speaker. I'VE want the best men,
tai capacity, physical stamina and
moral fiber"
After deploring the tendency Of i'm
migrants to congregate, she cited ex-
amples of German cities. Italian cities,
Russian cities within the Nation and
said these destroy the unity of Amer
lean civilization.
"Only dying nation permits new
Evening star., 1935-05-07

Travellers Well Fed.
More than 100000 meals were
served on British railway trains last
year.
Evening star., 1935-05-07
D. C. SCOUT COUNCIL
SPONSORS BOAT TRIP
Excursion May Is to Raise Funds
to Equip Camp-Music
to Be Feature.

In an effort to raise funds for equip
ment and improvements at Camp
Roosevelt, the District Boy Scout
Council will sponsor q moonlight ex-
cursion on the Wilson Line May 16.
One Of the lines regular Potomac
excursion boats will leave the Sew.
enth Street wharves promptly at 7:30
pm, returning about 10:45. The boat
will accommodate 1900 persons. Tick
cts may be obtained from any Boy
Scout or at Boy Scout headquarters.
1918 Vermont avenue.
Dance music on the trip will be
furnished by q regular orchestra. aug.
mented by q 15-piece accordion group.
Arrangements for the excursion are
in charge of Linn c. Drake. Scout
executive Of the council. who Is being
aided by committees headed by LOUIS
r. Nickel and Jack Gates.
II the boat Is filled on the night
of the excursion, persons unable to
find room on board will be allowed
to use their tickets on the following
two nights.
Camp Roosevelt, located about 4
miles above Chesapeake Beach, Is one
Of the largest Scout camps in the
South. The camp has accommoda-
tions for 300 Scouts and has been
In use since 1914.
Evening star., 1935-05-07

ranging in age from I to 40, some In
school and others employed, some
parents like Mrs. McKibben herself,
contributed funds in return for the
benefits of the club organization.
Those who could not contribute were
included anyway. And this Spring a
donation was received from the funds
raised by the Presidents birthday
parties held throughout the country.
Wants Own Building.
With its membership constantly in
creasing, the club has now become
incorporated as the Midwest Polio
Club. Polio Is an abbreviation for
poliomyelitis. which, in turn. Is more
generally known as infantile paralysis.
The next plan is to raise funds 30
the club may erect its own building,
have its own pool, increase its pro-
gram and its beneficiaries. Eventually,
Mrs. McKibben said, it is their hope
that the idea may spread with SIM
liar clubs being formed in many cities.
1t was to help the idea spread that
Mrs. McKibben decided to combine
attendance at the convention with q
visit to her mother and the familiar
area Of Washington and Virginia.
Evening star., 1935-05-07
comers to dictate its policies" Mrs.

comers to dictate its policies" Mrs.
Bacon added. s4.N
The selective quota policy has been
IN existence IL years ana the laws
should not only be revised, but codi-
fed to stop the loopholes, she said,
giving illustrations Of how immigrants
beat the law with the aid Of Ameri-
cans. The immigration committees OF
both houses of Congress should be 100
per cent American, "as well as those
who administer the laws" she de-
clared.
The objective Of new laws TO take
the place of what the speaker called
patchwork-should be "the produc-
ticn of better Americans in each sue
ceeding generation" Mrs. Bacon as
serted.
Asylum Idea Decried.
Mrs. Bacon decried the idea that
America should be looked upon as an
asylum for the poor and the desti-
tute, slogan which she said should
be discarded. Instead, the immigrant
should be looked upon as an asset.
ITO be kind to the alien may be
cruel to the native" she said.
About the pending bill in Congress.
introduced by Representative John H.
Kerr Of North Carolina, the speaker
had little praise, pointing to what
she declared to be defects In its vari-
GUS sections. She said the heart Of
the bill was in section 4, which "con-
fers broad powers on the Secretary
Of Labor" permitting many things
"if the Secretary Of Labor finds it in
the public interest"
Mrs. Harry Null presided at the
meeting. y-s. Henry Albert, chairman
Of the program committee, introduced
Mrs. Bacon. Mrs Henry Parsons Err
win sang several solos, her accom-
panist Henry Fletcher Smith.
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MRS. BACON URGES
IMMIGRATION CARE
Revisions Held Needed, but
Criticism LeveIed at
Pending Bill.

Mrs. Robert L. Bacon, wife Of the
Representative from New York. yes
terday reviewed the question Of immi-
grafton before . distinguished gather
ing Of members and guests Of the
Women's Republican League In the
Chinese garden at the Maydower.
What race and family stocks will
inherit American" Mrs. Bacon asked.
pointing to the immigration problem
as the greatest that now confronts the
country. She said there had been less
immigration since the depression; that
not all quotas are filled, and that I'VE
don't need any more immigrants. !"
so, this h the time really to study
the question" she declared. I'VE are
still an immigrant receiving Nation.
II we have prosperity again. they'll
come In" Now Is the time to set the
standards for future immigrants, Mrs
Bacon declared, stating that the pres
Evening star., 1935-05-07
St. Louis Club for Crippled
Described BY Former Vmiginian
Daughter 0fD.C. Woman
Helps MOue for Polio
Victims.
Unusual Group No,U
Seeking Money for O,Vn
House and Pool.

A native Of Virginia returned to
the East yesterday to tell the Inter-
national Society for Crippled Children
what st. Louis Is doing for its In
fantile paralysis victims.
Mrs. Mary Larkin McKibben, whose
mother now lives on Twenty-ninth
street in this city, was born In Manas-
sas, Va. Stricken with infantile
paralysis when an infant, she has
been a cripple ever since. Allowing
it to influence her life as little as pos
sible, however, she entered the news
paper profession when she was II.
From wheel chair, she did editorial
work In the office Of the Manassas
Journal for several years. In 1928
she left the paper to be married, NOV
ing soon after to st. Louis.
About year ago, Mrs. McKibben
became interested in a proposal to
form q club of infantile paralysis
victims in st. Louis. The originator
Of the idea was q Francis M. Dun
ford, himself a victim who had tust
returned from the Warm Springs
Foundation in Georgia, enthusiastic
over the work Of that organization.
Members Swim.
The club was formed with Mrs. Nc
Kibben putting her newspaper ex-
perience at work in the position of
publicity officer. Making use Of q
Y. M. G. A. swimming pool, the group
devoted its principal attention to
swimming, although it has a three
fold objective Of physical, educational
and social stimulation to the club
members.
With most Of the members being
unable to swim upon joining, the
club engaged 20 swimming instructors
and 3 physiotherapists. Members,