davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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will eventually receive about $4,000


which is a high return for a small
investment. But, of course, that IS
only hypothesis, subject to breaks in
the chain, which are practically GER
tain to occur. For there are many
people who are by nature opposed to
anonymous appeals of any sort and
who are also opposed to any form
of gambling.
1t is claimed on behalf of the chain
letter that it puts money in circula-
tion. 1t assuredly does that-literally.
But it is obvious that if a chain is
continuous this money will not be in
circulation in the sense of being put
to work at once, for it will keep on
going through the mails over and
over again. OF course, the day comes
when some of it will be spent. Easy
money is usually easily wasted.
If and when any of those who are
now bulging the mail bags with chain
letters should be rewarded with a
small fortune. he surely should make
his identity known, as do the lucky
ones who make big winnings in the
sweepstakes.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
The American Sweepstakes,

Just who started the chain letters
that are now sweeping to and fro over
the country, each asking that sum
of money be sent to a named person
with the prospect of reward in re-
ceipt of dimes or quarters or dollars
from hundreds, perhaps thousands. of
other people, will probably never be
known. But whoever did it certainly
started something that has grown to
immense proportions and has brought
in a very large sum to the postal rev.
enues. It Is not altogether new
scheme, In one form or another it
has heretofore appeared, usually with
out any monetary factor. Chain let
ters of good wishes have run their
course in the past, sometimes with the
sinister accompaniment of menace OF
Ill fortune if the chain Is broken.
In its last analysis the cash-chain
letter is a gamble. The person who
responds by sending coin or bill
to the one named first in the list
which heads the communication,
adding his own name at the bottom, is
taking chances that all of those
named in the letters next to be writ
ten will comply with the request. It
has been computed that if this hap
pens-on the dollar basis-each donor
Evening star., 1935-05-13
Why Conservative?

Because John D. NJ Hamilton. Re-
publican national committeeman for
Kansas, has decreed that Simon Fish
man, State Senator who has ac-
cepted e-months appointment as
field lecturer for the A. A. A., is not
to go as delegate to the Republican
Midwest conference in Springfield, Ill,
it Is Immediately charged that the G.
o. P is going conservative. While
the G. o. P. conceivably might go
conservative, it is idle to predict such
a course for the Republican party
merely because a man who is sup
porting the Roosevelt farm program
as a lecturer in the field is to be ex-
cluded from Republican party coun-
ellis, When the G. o. P. goes into
battle with the Roosevelt Democrats
next year it will get nowhere If it is
to praise the Roosevelt policies.
An attack on Roosevelt policies
should not stamp an individual or
political party as necessarily conserv-
ative. No one, for example, would be
likely to charge Senator Huey P. Long
of Louisiana with being conservative,
yet he has thrown more bricks at the
Roosevelt policies and administration
than have any of the Republican
critics. Attacks on bureaucracy and
augmentation, upon interference with
the rights of individuals to conduct
their business as they see fit, all of
which are found in the sounding
national and economic planning of
the New Dealers, also need not come
only from conservatives.
The Roosevelt administration has
millions of dollars to hand out to
wheat farmers, cotton farmers, to-
bacco farmers, corn and hog farmers,
to the destitute and to industries. 1t
has been able to prevail upon a great
number of the people to go along
with it in its experiments. Mr..
Fishman, in advocating the continu-
ance of the A. A. A. program, par
ticularly as it relates to wheat, is
only doing what thousands Of others
are doing who have received their
Evening star., 1935-05-13
Wanted-$1.2O.

In an interview carried in The Sun
day Star, Dr. Rutland, the new health
officer emphasizes the Importance of
safeguarding the health of individ-
uals as the essential element in safe
guarding the health of the COM
| munlty. Washingtons disgracefully
high death rate from tuberculosis and
the high prevalence of tuberculosis
here do not result so much from any
peculiar physical disabilities of the
city, such as location, climate and ele-
mentS of population, as from the lack
of proper facilities for reaching the
individual for examination and later
preventive treatment. And this fail
ure is remedied best by the provision
OF adequate funds to engage medical
and other personnel and proper equip
ment.
One of DR.. RuhlandS first under
takingS as public health officer has
been the widespread drive among all
school children-a campaign which
will result in physical and other ex-
amlnationS to determine tuberculosis
infection among large portion of the
population in time to check later raw
ages by necessary treatment and fol-
loW-up work in the homes. It NAV
require years to demonstrate Statis-
tically the adequacy of this step in
lowering the death rate from this
single disease, but it is a step that
can hardly fail to produce excellent
results.
DR.. Rutland does not conceive of
public health protection as requiring
the use of involved and mysterious
methods understood only by physicians
and beyond the ken of general public
understanding. Any public health
program has for its chief objective
the reaching of individuals who are
otherwise not reached by the private
physician. 1t is largely work of pre-
Vention and also a work of edu-
eating the general public in the ad-
vantages as we'll as the necessity of
precautionary measures. And the
ability OF public health department
TO undertake and make effective such
programs depends upon its possession
of adequate personnel and equipment.
DR.. Rutland has been confronted
with no great mystery in seeking the
explanation Of certain defects in the
city'S health. There is no great mys-
terry in why there should exist a spe-
cial hazard from diphtheria in a city
where public funds for the purchase
of preventive serums have been ex-
hausted. If Washingtons per capita
expenditure for public health is eighty
cents. while the desirable standard
has been found to be two dollars. it
does not require extended research to
find why Washington lacks certain
protective devices found in other pro-
greSsive American cities.
One of the first objectives of
sound public health program for
Washington must be to obtain that
dollar and twenty cents. representing
the difference between adequate and
inadequate public health insurance.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
Sweeping Attack on New Deal
Deprecated by Many Observers

Although conceding that the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
reflects the attitude of conservative
business toward many phases of the
New Deal, newspapers generally do
not by any means indorse the sweep
ing attack on the administration voted
by the chamber at its annual meeting.
Criticizing the extreme position
taken by the organization, the Buffalo
IN. " Evening News contends: In
its resolutions on the N. R. A. and So
cial security the convention failed en-
tirely to clarity its position and ac-
cordingly harmed the conservative po-
sition. Some of its members, vigor-
ously denouncing the principle of old
age pensions. thereby created the false
and unfortunate impression that this
important aggregation Of business and
industrial leaders has no concern for
the plight of the worklesS aged whom
the modern machinery of production
has cast aside"
There could be no objection" ac-
cording to the Birmingham CAlaD
News. ito honest criticism designed to
be constructive or to open discussion
of sincere differences. Evidently the
committees of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States had Striven
for the adoption of such an attitude.
But the convention itself went far be-
yond that. 1t sang a hymn of OBJ
struction, if not of hate. Its extreme
ness is deplorable, and the business
men attending the session will find on
returning to their homes that the
public is not in sympathy with the
drastic nature of the chambers
actions"
Declaring that "the part of fore
sighted business leadership is not to
obstruct endeavors for the common
good" the Atlanta Journal declares;
Some of those who today are lOudost
in attacking the New Deal were call
ing to it for help as recently as the
Spring of 1898. They had done moth
ing to avert or to mitigate the darkest
depression in our history, and they
had no adequate ideas of their own for
the future. They could only stand
and cry, Save us, or We sink! 1t Ill
becomes such leaders to attempt now
to tell the President and Congress
what the country needs for economic
security and social justice. A Cham
ber of Commerce, though it call itself
national does not and cannot speak
for the American people"
Neither the country nor Congress"
says the Kansas City Star, lis ready
at this time to join in such a sweeping
and undiScriminating attack upon the
New Deal program as that of the
chamber" The Star also states: "Un-
doubtedly the chamber was encouraged
to adopt its aggressive attitude by the
feeling that the President had slipped
in popularity. But this slipping has
by no means gone so far as to indi-
cate a wave of popular approval for
the conditions that helped bring on
the depression" The youngstown
(Ohio) Vindicator believes that so
far Mr.. Roosevelt's course has been
one of moderation"
OF what has been accomplished,
however, the Boise Idaho Statesman
remarks that prosperity has returned,
or is returning, in substantial form
Evening star., 1935-05-13

to practically every country in the
world, and the United States lags so
far behind that If Uncle Sam should
suddenly withdraw Federal relief, we
should be worse off than in the dark
days of early 1929"
The Chicago Journal Of Commerce
asks: What will Mr. Roosevelt do?
Can he make the fight for reform, at
the expense of recovery. alone-with-
out the assistance, willingly given,
that he has come to expect from
business? Mr.. Roosevelt is a tena-
ciouS man, but he is also a shreWd
bargainer. If he sees that he can't
get any further in reform, it is pos
sible that he may call a halt now and
really become a useful Chief Execu-
tive. He might even fulfill the prom
iSeS of the platform on which he was
elected to his high office"
In demanding that reform wait on
recovery, the chamber expresses the
hopes of the great body Of our citi-
zens." says the Boston Transcript
While the New York Times holds
that Washington is standing in the
way of normal business recovery" and
the New York Sun suggests as to the
administration officials: Their attl-
tude toward the chambers suggestions
will be like that of the man who
rejected new diet without examining
it. I wouldn't like it, he said, even
if it was good"
Organizations representing the
business and industrial interests of
the country" thinks the Chattanooga
CTenn) Times, must be given credit
for having spoken from experience
and after intelligent consideration Of
the situation and the proposals in
volved" The Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin argues: There would be far
less need of Federal dole. in cash or
in jobs, if private enterprise were
given its opportunity and assured its
continuance without a continuation
Of experimental and menacing pro-
grams"
Evening star., 1935-05-13

As the zero hour in the White
House-Senate bonus battle ap-
proaches, Washington is immersed in
the biggest guessing contest of the
New Deal in a frenzied effort to fore
cast whether President Roosevelt or
the bonusites will win the day. Prl-
vate polls still indicate that veto
will be sustained by satisfactory
margin. Roosevelt leaders are hope
full that at least four or five Senatoss,
having gone on roll-call record Tor
the bonus, will now feel at liberty to
stand by" the President as they
previously stood by the veterans.
The necessary switches are expected
among both Democrats and Repub-
licans, but until there is an actual
vote on the veto no one can fore
shadow with certainty just what S
going to happen. r. F. c. Chairman
Jones' statement that the bonus can
be paid without imposing an "un-
bearable burden" upon the Nations
finances has had the effect Of a
bombshell in administration quarters
because of the fear that it may in
fluence just enough wavering Senators
to permit a veto to be oyerrldden.
What Carter Glass Of Virginia
thinks should be a United States
Senator's creed is set forth in his ac-
ceptance of a medal for "distin-
guished service" just conferred upon
him by the National Institute of So
cial Sciences in recognition of his
contributions to banking reforms.
Senator Glass said: II have a dis
tinct distaste for the modern-day in
terpretation of the phrase public
servant To me it was never in
tended to mean abject subservience
to the popular will, however unin-
formed or miSdirected. l prefer to
think of a United States Senator as
the representatives of the sovereignty
of his State and subject every mo-
ment to the promptings of his own
conscience and the preservation of
his own intellectual integrity. l
learned long ago-indeed, 1 did not
have to learn, because it is a self
evident propoSition-that the public
man who permits himself to pause
long enough to inquire whether
thing is popular or unpopular, in
stead of seeking to know whether 1t
is right or wrong, is not only use
less. but dangerous to his country
He is a coward, to begin with, and a
menace always"
Gen. Hugh S. johnson recently ad-
dressed what was described as DEM
ocratic rally at Mayfield, KY, which
is apparently the first time during the
New Deal that he has taken to the
platform under political auspices. 1t
NAV be that the former keeper of the
Blue Eagle means thus to signalize his
entry into the party arena and to
betoken his reputed ambition some
day to come to the United States Sen
ate from Oklahoma. johnson told
the Kentucky Democrats that the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Is right in asking for relief from
business uncertainty, but is wrong in
opposing pending legislation in Con-
gress. especially the project to prolong
the life of N. R. A.
X X X X
Former Senator Moses Of New
HAMPSHIRE thinks the Republicans are
likely to nominate dark horse for
President in 1886, rather than any
of the men now out in front. One
of the very darkest horses yet trotted
out is Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Justice George Wendell Maxey. Ac-
cording to a story circulating in
Washington, he enjoys the favor of
former Secretary of the Treasury Og-
Evening star., 1935-05-13

A retentive memory must be great
blessing.
Those who lack 1t may envy its for
tunate possessors.
1t is something which, despite claims
that 1t may be cultivated, seems to be
as near to an instinct as any.
A good memory is human instinct;
one either has 1t or does not, and no
amount of taking thought will make
anything but poor limitations.
Possessors of good memories are
distinguished by their grasp of the
least detail of everything they hear
or read
Most persons can recall the high
spots" Of conversations or books, but
only owners of really fine memories
are able to remember instinctively the
lesser points.
X X X
Perhaps in no way is the retentive
memory such a help as in regard to
books.
In a sense, of course, it makes not
the slightest difference whether the
reader recalls what he reads
1t is generally held the test Of in
telligence, not whether one remembers
exactly, but whether one knows where
to look
Recollection which goes no farther
than the source of thoughts dimly held
in mind is supposed to be enough.
just as long as reader knows ne
has read something or other, and can
put his finger on it." he is held TO
be astute enough for all ordinary pur-
poses.
Yet it may be submitted that one
thus loses something.
Surely the reader who can recall
every word. if necessary. of what he
has read has in his possession some
thing not even dreamed of by those
who remember only the high lights.
1t is something to know where to
look. A great many persons are not
even gifted to that extent What they
read goes in one eye and out the other.
They are never sure where they read
something.
Taking thought, in this matter. Is
scarcely to be commended. for 1t
means that too mathematical an ap-
proach must be made to something
which, in the first and last analysis,
is strictly non-mathematical.
The instinct comes in here.
He who remembers, simply because
he remembers, is doing it in the right
way, without stress or strain where
the essence of the matter calls for no
stress and strain.
He who attempts TO recall by force
Of will, in the same way that one
hammers home nail, is going to be a
loser in the long run.
Thus We preach a doctrine of help
leSSneSS, when 1t comes to memory,
and we believe we are absolutely right
in the matter.
We have been observing the differ
ence between those who by their very
natures have good memories, and
those who have attempted, by taking
thought, to force themselves TO recall
what they ought to recall.
And the victory hes with the former
group.
They are so far ahead. in their abil-
ity to use what they know, and in the
sheer Joy of their Knowing, that there
is no comparison.
Our observation is that he who
strives is lost, or at least loses so much
of the joy of memory that he might
as well save himself the trouble, or re-
Evening star., 1935-05-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Intellectual Triumph.

Intellectual Triumph.
Farmer sat upon a fence;
He would think and whittle.
Though his weight was not immense
That top rail was brittle
Though he sometimes had a spill.
He showed zeal increasing;
Had his trusty jacknife still,
And whitfield on unceasing.
Farmer went from year to year,
Holding to his habit.
Agriculture" brought him cheer,
AS his word he'd grab it.
His Department" he would make
Source Of all opinion.
Whiting on he'd overtake
A supreme dominion.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

sort to series of note books, or some
other type of bookkeeping.
It would be easy, II one might say
that the whole trouble of a poor
memory is due to the fact that one
is attempting to deal with matters not
congenial.
If 1t were only that easily disposed
of. a course of re-education, or a
change of scene and occupation, might
end the troubles of every man when
it comes to poor memory.
Such is not the case.
II is well known that many per-
fectly intelligent people have the
hardest time imaginable recalling what
some one or other said or wrote.
Many persons become tremendously
interested in botany, for instance,
without thereby being able to work up
diligent recollection of what they
read.
They forever are stumbling over
details.
Their grasp OF the science Of bot
any may be good-better than that
of some friend who knows less but
recollects more.
Yet. in the face of quizz, they
would seem to be far less we'll read.
Is it the seeming, then, wherein the
erroT lies?
We may we'll think it is.
What one can demonstrate some
times is not as important as what
one can know.
What one has, for ones self, whether
able to prove it to another or not, is
really what counts for life satisfaction.
On every side. however, the un-
happy human scene is confronted by
the plain fact that Just the opposite
Is popularly held.
Gain is the criterion, and too often
the only criterion.
He who dares assert otherwise is
held the dreamer, the visionary, the
impractical one.
He who has a poor memory may
console himself with the belief that
retention of every detail of a subject
is a gift. at the best, or a trick, at
the worst.
1t is a habit with some people.
Those who have it not. or who do
not seem to be able TO acquire it,
need not thereby lament too strongly
their failure.
1t is something, indeed. to know
where to look!
The vast reservoirs of knowledge
are open to the earnest seeker.
Perhaps it is just as well, too, for
the eminently honest person TO be
perfectly honost with himself in this
matter.
If he realizes his own failure-and
he has much company-he Will be
charitable toward the faults of others.
He will not SCOld or otherwise display
a bad temper when some one else
makes a blunder through lack of re-
membrance.
Those who say they forget" may
have done so.
Il forgot" is not in good standing
as an excuse. but often it is the truth,
so long held up to yeneration.
He is a brave man who is able to
say L do not know" when he does
not. So. too. should be regarded the
man who says, Il forgot" when, in
deed, he did.
A man without an ear or an eye is
recognized by every one. but because
a memory is invisible all are supposed
to have one. But memory is not like
an ear, which one either has or has
not: memory may be large, small,
good. bad or Indifferent and varying
through all degrees in the same
person. according to the temperament,
education, background and many other
matters.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
Marshal Pilsudski.

Marshal Pilsudski.
Chaotic and perturbed Europe faces
new and incalculable complicat tons
with the passing of Poland's iron
man" Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, die
tator at Warsaw for the past nine
years. BY the irony of coincidence,
he disappears on the exact ami
versary of his accession to supreme
authority in 1926.
Bestridlng the scene with the re-
lentless force invoked by MuSsolini in
Italy and Hitler in Germany. PilSud-
ski shared with his fellow dictatorS
their contempt for democratic insti-
tutions and lived to see his personal
control of Poland become omnipotent.
His last political achievement the
passage of the constitutional reform
bill in March, wiped out all vestige
crowned the veteran soldier-stateSman
RutOcrat
Pllsudski's rise to power set in after
collapse of Poland's nl-starred efforts
in which IgnaCe PadereWSki was
leading factor to maintain democratic
government under a parliamentary
system AS cabinet after cabinet
ANONYMOUSLY toppled, amid chronic
chaos and turmoil, Pilsudski, emerg-
ing from retirement, appeared in
Warsaw on May IL, 1926, at the head
of a formidable military force and
proceeded to make himself master of
the situation. He was offered the
presidency, but chose to accept the
posts of premier, minister of war and
inspector general of the army. In
those key capacities he arrogated to
himself the authority of a dictator
and as such continued to direct Po-
lands destines unchallenged to the
end. The cOuntry'S internal condition
was steadily strengthened and its in
ternational prestige enhanced. A SOL
der and patriot who had undergone
exile to Siberia in czarist days and
fought CALAMITY for independence
against Germany in the World War,
Pilsudski won the love and devotion
of his people, who came to feel that
in his stern hands their fate could
safely be reposed
Europe's interest in the marshals
death is concerned with its effect
upon Poland'S foreign relations. The
late dictator ranked as Germanophile
m his sympathies following his con-
clusion of a ten-year non-aggression
pact with Hitler in 1884 Since then
the Poles ardor for France has per-
ceptibly cooled, despite the continu-
ance Of the Franco-PoliSh military
alliance. Only this week end saw
the presence in Warsaw of Foreign
MIulSleT Laval, WHO, en- route 10 MOS
COW to seal the Soviet-French entente,
desired to assure Marshal Pilsudski
that the new treaty is in no way de-
signed to weaken Frances ties with
Poland.
What Europe now waits anxiously to
zee is whether Poland without its
strong man will drift further into
Nazi Germany's arms or decide that
its interests lie in cooperation with
Russia and France. Many Poles real
ize that Germany has only postponed
not abandoned, her purpose some day
10 recover Danzig and the Corridor
Now that the iron hand of the die
tator is withdrawn, the republic may
determine that it is to powers other
than the Nazi Reich that Poland will
do best to look for its salvation and
future development. A keen compe-
tition for Polish favor looms as the
next move on Europes fevered chess
board
Evening star., 1935-05-13

It is the business of a brain trust
to come as near as possible in demon
strating that government is just as
easy to run as a Western farm when
all the scientific arrangements are
completed.