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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Balky locks, now.
Every home has them and every home
has its amateur locksmith, too.
One of the oldest of trades, it is,
nevertheless, one the average household
handy man never hesitates to tackle.
He may never have seen the inside
of lock in his life, but he is fully con-
WINGED in his own mind that he can set
any balky one right in few minutes.
Before he is finished hours will have
elapsed, still it will not do to remind
him of 1t.
He has put SO much labor and per-
haps a little swearing upon the recalci-
trant device, especially that bad one
on the back door.
Back door locks seldom work.
If they do work it is only after much
juggling of the key.
Time develops some mighty queer
locks of which number the specimens
on back doors invariably are the worst
One of the most common troubles may
be described as a combination of the
shakes and the pulls.
1t is not possible now to open the
door merely by turning the key. AL
that is past.
A combined shake and pull is neceS-
sary in order that something or other
inside the lock may fall just so.
Not until this is done. evidently. will
the thing open for any one.
AS in most such everyday troubles
the more. force that is used the more
stubbornly the lock refuses to work.
Hence the impatient man has a time
of it.
The impatient man always has time
of it, of course, whether it is locks or
new screening to put in the screen doors,
garden hose to mend or the hundred
and one things to be done around a
house
Handy man, some call him, but often
his hands run all to thumbs and then
he jiggles balky locks in vain, threat
ening at last to pull the door down II
the thing does not open.
Sometimes he makes his announce
ment aloud, no doubt to the vast con-
Sternation of the lock which, never
theless, refuses to be coerced.
Locks, perhaps, dislike being sworn
at as much as any one.
At any rate, they stick their fastest
in all such cases.
Then along comes a patient hand,
which, after giving the key the requisite
number of turns to the right, like
number OF jiggles to the left, then sud-
denly gives yank-
And the bolt turns or shoots or comes
loose or whatever it is that sticky, balky
locks finally do.
Lack of oil, dirt, swelling of wood
work. these are few OF the causes OF
household locks which will not work.
Door jams and castings, pulling away
just little, throw strain on other
wise dependable mechanisms.
Practically no one, not even the
household handy man, ever thinks to
give locks an occasional dose OF oil.
This procedure might prevent many
of the balky locks encountered in most
households.
Then again it might not, for back
doors and side doors, in particular, TO
say nothing of closet doors, have an
old persistent habit of going bad after
a few years
Careless handling may account. for
some of this tendency on the part OF
locks in even the best households, but
no doubt the blame in the last analysis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

alike from the hands of the Roosevelt
administration. Nor is there any indi-
cation that the people will be salts
fed to follow the leadership OF those
who, few years ago, were closely identi-
fed with the Old Guard.
The frequent mention Of the name OF
the senior Senator from Idaho as the
Republican candidate for President.
under all the circumstances, is not sur
prising. No Republican OF today is more
widely known. His grea6 powers OF era
tory and his personality would make him
stand out, even above his long career
in the Senate as defender Of the Con-
stitution and all things American. Unz
doubtedly the candidacy OF Borah in the
West would arouse enthusiasm. Nor
would it be confined to that section.
A fly in the ointment is Senator BorahS
past advocacy of a measure of currency
imitation. His views in this respect do not
conform to the traditional sound money"
policies of the Republican party. And
there are other Westerners and Middle
Westerners mentioned for the presidency
among them Vandenberg of Michigan,
Knox of Illinois and Landon of Kansas.
Within the past six months the Re-
publican nomination for President in
1886 has become a far more desirable
prize than it seemed a year ago. The
scramble is likely to grow more and more
intense as the months pass. Where it
will end no one can say today with GER
tainty. The Republicans have their OPP
portunity. They may make the most of
it or kick it away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

goes back to those who chose cheap
locks, in the first place.
Some persons seem to believe that any
old sort Of lock mechanism will do for
a side or back door. Front door locks
normally function years after the others.
90 bad or open only to a formula or
certain setting.
Almost every back door we ever have
encountered has different combination.
One must be turned violently six
times then given yank.
Another demands just the opposite
treatment. You must fool it in order
to get it to open of its own accord.
Harsh tactics with this lock is not
unlocking it, but locking it all the
tighter. If you sneak up on it, applying
a little oil and honey, as it were, it
apparently forgetS 1t is stubborn lock
and comes open easily.
Just a few def touches, jiggles that
are feather Highland open it comes,
whereas any amount of raving and
pulling and beating upon it will never
open it. We know!
The serious side of bad locks. eSpe-
cially on outside doors, would come II
one were in terrible hurry to get out
and could not get the door open quickly
enough.
1t is for this reason that all such locks
should be put in good ordinary con-
dition.
Locks are not complicated, at least
the ordinary kind are not. SO that any
person with a little mechanical in
genuity is able to fix them.
But what of the householder who hap
pens to have no mechanical ability?
Then he must turn this work over to
some one who has. A good carpenter
will do. A good carpenter is a handy
man in many ways. but especially is he
good at solving recalcitrant locks and
window cords.
A householder will wonder, after all
these hundreds of years of building.
why some bright soul has not invented
a window cord that simply could not
get off the roller.
They still jump the track. and when
they do many an average householder
has been nonplussed by the apparently
simple problem of getting EN- back
again.
OF course, all one has to do is remove
two strips of wood, one on each side Of
the window, remove the sash. and so on:
still this procedure Is very VexatlouS TO
certain temperaments.
Then it is that the carpenter, handy
man of handy men, seems a weather
tanned angel from woodworking para
disc.
With the assurance of long familiarity
he does to that window what ought to
be done to it. in the simplest and most
approved ways
Before the admiring audience has had
time to grasp the irnards Of window
frame, he has the whole back together
again and begins sliding the window
up and down like mad.
"See?" he says. giving 1t an extra
savage push. to show just how well ne
has fixed it."
One fears that one more such push
and he will undo all he has done.
He has no such fear.
That's all right, eh?" he states,
rather than inquiries.
And he slams the window down so
that every atom of glass ShlVers In its
putty. a sure way to make cable jump
its roller, in inexperienced hands. but
not in those of the man who thoroughly
understands windows and locks.
The householder looks admiringly at
him.
Surely, this Is the man to tackle that
back door lock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
Hotel Rates Included
Meals in Olden DAYS

To the Editor of The Star:
Referring back to 1881, Mr.. John
Clagett Proctor says: A room at the Riggs
House cost s. day, at the Arlington
and Ebbitt, $3.50; Willard (old, "a.
These prices Of half century ago COM
pare favorably with those of today, which
shows that hotel room rent has not ad-
vanced much, If any, during that long
period.
Yes, but those places were conducted
on the American plan, unless / am very
much mistaken. In addition to the
room, you got three square meals. Now
adays hotels are run on the European
system. Your room rent covers the
room, and that's all. AS for the eats,
well, as far as mine host cares, you. may
feast on the exhaust of the rad3ator.
Quite q difference! FRED VETTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
In Homage.

In Homage.
Oh, flaming youth, I see once more
For you world of care.
I smile and I do not deplore
My Father William hair.
1t makes a cushion, you'll agree,
To shun a painful frown
When I'm stood on my head to see
A world gone upside down.
I'll reverence the youth that learns
For age to make amends.
The fame is useless when it burns
The candle at both ends.
Where age has failed you'll strive anew
To lead the world to truth.
And SO my hat is of to you,
Once more, friend flaming youth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
Mars. the Excursionist.

The Mediterranean shows as OF yore
Contentious 'twixt northern and SOUTH
erly shore.
The African mountains brought numer-
Gus thrills
Because of reports, there is gold in
those hills"
Some gallant adventure was often dis
played
BY ships as they travelled in courtShip
or trade.
The reason for so many fights seems
to be
Folks wouldn't stay on their own side
of the sea.
I'VE are all lookin' fob de land Of
promise" said Uncle Eben. Before
we arrives we must find our way through
Q land Of promises"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
One Mans Prayer

Lord, make me humble in my daily task,
Nor let me be purse proud in what I
ask;
BY every human contact let me thrive,
And while live keep me alert! alivel
Keep thou my brain active, untaxed and
free,
My spirit from decline or apathy.
hands
What's mine-my chosen work, my love
and lands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

Young japanese with cameras were
taking entirely innocent pictures such
as any traveller might desire as souvenirs.
In times of general suspicion, even the
camera may require an alibi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

With storms bringing intense appeal
to human sympathy. talking about the
weather ceases to be an idle tea table
pastime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

After looking the situation over, Post
master General Farley evidently feels an
advantage over the Republicans in being
able to concentrate on one particular
candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

Italy declines to meet Ethiopia on
terms of equality in the League of Ma
lions. 1t is a pity that the questions
involved are too grave to be settled by
the tactful yet positive determinations
of society experts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

Disasters at sea, on land and in the
air may call for some scientific method
of dealing on economic terms with what
amounts almost to an epidemic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

Russian recognition was all fine for
the purpose of hand shaking on early
acquaintance. But in the progress
toward friendship arguments developed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

. Ben Franklin had sense Of humor.
But there is not a chance that he could
laugh at an economic situation like the
present one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

Government men hold racketeers in
terror. Crime does not pay in spite OF
the heavy expense it imposes on the
taxpayer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

Farm study contemplates a new deal
for the hogs that will provide enough
meat to sell over Tie grocery counter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

If there are any oil prospects worth
while in Ethiopia MuSsolini will look
them over, and maybe take charge OF
them himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
Shutting the Pack.

The king of kings in anxious gloom
Was seated in his counting room.
The queen of queens was looking for
A costume suitable to war;,
In measuring how each behaves
Do not forget some knave or knaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
manners.

Paris still assumes to be setting the
fashions in clothes, if not always in
manners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
Confidential.

Much money in the new Crimson
Gulch bank?" asked the G man.
Not a dollar" said Mesa Bill. 1--WE
feel perfectly able to capture any out
laws who can be induced to visit our
fair city. We need machine guns Tor
our own use. That shack labeled bank
is a decoy."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
New Customers.

New Customers.
whats your idea OF dividing the
wealth around?"
More revenue" said Senator Sor-
ghum. 1.-The rich have learned lot
about tax evasion. The previously poor
won't be nearly so hard to collect FROM"
Jud Tunkins says anybody who COM
plains about ordinary changes of eli
mate ought to be ashamed of himself
when he reads the hurricane news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

@. Over what international boundary
is there the most travel?-W. H.
A. Travel across the United States
Canadian border is the heaviest in
the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

A reader can get the ansUer to any
question OF fact by 1urittng The Washing
ton Euening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Hdskin. Director, Washing
ton, d. c. Please tncIose stamp for reply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06

@. How many lions has Halle Sc
lassie?-A. F.
A. The Emperor now has IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
Rate BY MaiI-PayabIe in Advance.


MARYLAND and virgini
Evening star., 1935-11-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

= TODAY.
e. Dance, Georgetown Visitation Con-
vent, Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
. Supper and bazaar, Bell Club. st.
. James Catholic Church Auditorium,
. Mount Rainier, Md, 4:30 pm.
Dinner. Southern Women's Educa-
tional Alliance, Mayflower Hotel, 7
pm.
Meeting. American War Mothers,
Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, State Library Committee,
: d. A. R., Willard Hotel, pm.
: Lecture, Episcopal Church Home,
: Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Card party, st. Francis De Sales
Church Auditorium, $50 pm.
Dance, card and bingo party, Holy
Comforter Church Hall, 8 pm.
Meeting, Banneker Recreation
: Council, Howard University Gymna-
- sium, pm.
: Dance and card party, Curley Club.
Shoreham Hotel, pm.
Dinner. University Of Michigan
alumni, University Club. pm.
. Meeting, City-Wide Playground
Council, 2l5 District Building, SPIN.
Dinner. University of Southern CAL
: ifornia alumni, Sholl's Cafe, $50 pm.
Dance, card and bingo party, Con-
gress Heights Community Center, at
school, pm.
Dinner, zonta Club, Dodge Hotel,
$50 pm.
: Meeting, ]. o. U. A. NJ, Raleigh
Hotel, 8 pm.
Capital City Forum, 1902 Fourteenth
street, Sis pm.
Meeting, Washington Council,
American Youth Congress. Phyllis
Wheatley Y. w. C. A., pm.
Dance. Chevy Chase Community
Center, Ben w. Murcn Scn0ol, $3.50
pm.
Dance, Langley Community Center,
Langley Junior High School, 7 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Harvard Club, University
Club, lis pm.
N1..+;, rr;l;o. <,,,. 1r,;,,a
Hotel, IL pm.
Dinner, University of Indiana, Uni
versity Club, 1880 pm.
Meeting, Philosophical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, S:15 pm.
Banquet, Wilson Teachers College,
Mayfiower Hotel, pm.
Bingo and card party. Lincoln
Evening star., 1935-11-08
HERBERT GAYLORD
DIES IN CHICAGO
Special Agent for Fruit Growers
Express Was on Business
Trim.

Herbert A. Gaylord, ST, of 4207 Ell
licott street. died yesterday in a hos
pital in Chicago, having gone to the
Illinois city three weeks ago on bus.-
ness trip. Relatives here SAID he had
suffered with a weak heart for the past
year.
Mr.. Gaylord, who was born in New
York, came to Washington in 1922 as
a special agent for the Fruit Growers
Express Co. He was veteran of the
Spanish American War and during the
. World War served as an investigator
for the American Railway Association.
An active Mason, Mr.. Gaylord was
&c . member of the Knights Templar. He
also belonged to the Non-Sectarian
Church.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs Alice
j. Gaylord, and two daughters, Edith
and Marion Gaylord.
The body is to arrive from Chicago
today for funeral services at the resi-
dence at 8 pm. Burial will be in
Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, to-
= morrow.
Evening star., 1935-11-08

Women's Relief Corps, No. s, Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club, l0l5 l.
street, 8 pm.
Banquet, Washington Sales Repre-
sentatives' Association, Willard Hotel,
Z pm.
Evening star., 1935-11-08

Dinner meeting, j. o. U. A. NJ,
Raleigh Hotel. Z pm.
Dance, Fort Stevens Post, No. 80,
Sons of the American Legion, Indian
Spring Country Club, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1935-11-08
ARKANSAS LEADER DIES
William E. Atkinson Was Former
ATTORNEY General.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, November 8
R).-Chancellor William E. Atkinson,
80, of Conway, former Arkansas at
torney general, died at Little Rock
hospital early today after an opera
tion last Monday
The widely known attorney and
jurist-a leader in the State and
Southern Baptists' conventions and in
the causes of education and temper
ance-received treatment for several
months prior to the operation.
Evening star., 1935-04-18
STUDENTS IN SHOW

Students Of Roosevelt High School
presented Q vaudeville entertainment
In the school auditorium yesterday.
There were dancing skits and fash
ion features. tumbling and acrobatics,
boxing and wrestling, fenc-
ing, song and dance novelties and
cadet specialties, as well as music by
the school orchestra. Lynn Wood
worth Of the faculty directed the
Evening star., 1935-04-18

fashionable st. Thomas' Episcopal
Church on Fifth avenue. The couple
had planned Q quick ceremony at the
Municipal Chapel, but the clerk re-
fused to marry them unless Miss
Schuster could show o certificate that
she was Al.
The bridegroom Is connected with
a travel agency. The couple plans
to live in New York.
Miss Schuster's engagement to Rich
ard A. Jones, jr., noted amateur golfer,
was announced in September. 1888,
and was terminated by mutual con-
sent later.
Evening star., 1935-04-18

ernment were publicized here today.
Though the President has already
designated Secretary of War Dern as
his representative at the ceremonies,
Guillermo Villueva, o representative
in the Philippine Legislature, an
nounced he would present a resolution
inviting the President to attend In
person to the special session of the
Legislature expected to meet May 81.
Inauguration of the new govern
ment is planned some time during the
present year.
Evening star., 1935-04-18

month. was sentenced TO- 1 to 8 years
imprisonment yesterday despite q plea
for mercy.
Dillon said that after he was re-
leased from Indiana State Penitentiary
he came to Colorado and entered
engineering school. but when his funds
ran out he turned again to robbery.
When Dillon was captured in Gree
ley by Patrolman vern Clause after
an exchange of gun fire, police re-
ported he said:
Certainly I would have killed the
officer. His life is no better than
mine"
Evening star., 1935-04-18
BETTY SCHUSTER WE'D

Once Engaged to Golfer, Marries
Charles B. Harjes Instead.
NEW YORK, April 18 @.-Miss
Betty Schuster. daughter Of Mrs. Ro-
land Douglas Of New York, was mar
ried yesterday to Charles B. Harjes.
son of Mrs. Henry Herman Harjes Of
Philadelphia, Pa, and the late Col.
Harjes.
The ceremony was performed at the
Evening star., 1935-04-18
C0NvICT-STUDENT GETS
new TERM IN PRISON
Plea for Mercy Fails After Arrest
During Which He Shot
at Officer.

DENVER, April 10 R.-George
Donald Dillon, 28, former college
student-convct who attempted to
shoot his way out of arrest on
burglary charge in Greeley. Colo, last
Evening star., 1935-04-18
ROOSEVELT TO Be ASKED
TO PHILIPPINE FUNCTION
Representative in Legislature
Plans to Introduce Resolu-
tion of Invitation.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA. Philippine Islands, April
18.-Plans to invite President Roose-
welt to attend the Inauguration of the
Philippines new commonwealth gov
Evening star., 1935-04-18

Complete stocks of
other anti-rattlers;
a ! SO replacement
door bumpers for
most all cars. at {
The Washington times., 1935-05-20
'If'-Oh, We'll, Just Read
How Justice Slipped!
EDWIN DOVE

stands Can old police custom) they
wouldn't have had their records
marred for arresting the wrong
man.
IF" they hadn't entered the
park Edwin Dove, 26, no doubt,
would have continued to be the
unobtrusive and slightly known
efficient secretary to Police In
spector Frank S. w. Burke, chief
of detectives.
And "if" they hadn't gone to
the ball park these two agents
would have saved the expense of
a round-trip taxicab ride from the
park to the Second precinct sta
ton, and Director J. Edgar Hoover
would not have been compelled to
report IAN unfortunate incident" :"
The unfortunate incident" de-
veloped when the two Federal
agents, here from out-of-town as
signmentS, spotted the mild-man-
nered Dove in the stands and
was sure he was Thomas H.
Robinson, jr., the much7sought
kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Stoll,
Louisville society matron.
Dove protested he was not Rob-
inson but the agents insisted he
do his explaining at the police
station. Even there his claims
of being a civilian employe of the
police department were not veri-
fled. The station house force
did not know him. He even
showed some letters addressed to
him. The agents called head
quarters and asked a description
of Dove. It tailed with that of
their prisoner and they apollo
gized and returned to the ball
park, with Dove as their guest.
The Washington times., 1935-05-20
To HELP
GARNETT

Moving in defense of District
Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, rec
commended for dismissal by the
House crime subcommittee, Rep
resentative Schuyler Otis Bland
D) of Virginia today appealed
for permission to defend the
prosecutor before the House Dis
trict Committee, which takes up
the crime report Wednesday.
Acting as spokesman for the
Virginia delegation, Representa-
tive Bland asked Representative
Mary T. Norton CD of New
Jersey, chairman of the House
District Committee, to permit
him to appear in Garnett's lie
fense.
Other members of the Virginia
group, who will join the march
to aid Garnett, are Representa-.
tives Howard L. Smith, Thomas
G. Burch, Colgate w. Darden, jr.,
John w. Flanagan, jr., and
Andrew j. Montague. Others Of
the delegation also are expected
at the meeting.
Will Act Decisively
The District committee is ex-
pected to act deciSively on the
crime report Wednesday and the
Virginia members hope that they
can stave off the acceptance of
at least that portion of the re-
port which suggests that the
District Attorney be removed
from office.
At the Wednesday meeting they
say they will show that Garnett'S
record vindicates him and that
the Crime report consequently is
not justified.
Causing more commotion than
almost any other report made on
District matters in recent years,
the Crime subcommittee sug-.
gestions have resulted in general
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