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Evening star., 1936-12-14

Rundown houses. yards nothing but
clay, etc.
Sometimes such conditions prevail in
. neighborhood, to . certain extent, ut
least, without any one consciously caus-
ing them.
That is. lack Of sun will cause the
growing Of grass to become . genuine
task. One neighbor after smother finds 1t
out. The problem Is further complicated
by the fact that many such yards in the
famous city proper are 80 small that
nothing really good can be achieved. at
the best.
Hence q lethargy creeps into the sit
uation, probably without any conscious
effort at all by anybody or any group Of
anybodies.
1t requires real willpower, then, for any
one person to arise in his might in .
horticultural sense and assert himself.
Yet only the other day an observer saw
where such a man had arisen, had as
serted himself. had planted q very fine
little evergreen in an otherwise perfectly
bare yard.
In time that one specimen may grow
to several, grass may appear where only
clay was before, the example may become
contagious. others may buy evergreens,
become interested In green grass, may
make real efforts to secure the same, with
the result that in time an entire block
may be transformed.
Going from door to door lecturing these
people. telling them that property value
Is enhanced by good foundation plant
ings and 50 on, would do no good at all.
It simply would set" the householders
against improvement.
cared for, If it is cared for, in time may
do what all exhortations could not do.
The observer will felicitate himself on
seeing such determinations toward good.
He sees them where others see abSo-
lutely nothing. He is able to be in the
van Of progress, which has more depart
ments than are known Of in some phi
losophies. Planting q new dogwood also
is good deed in naughty world. Some
one has to do the planting. or those who
tear down and destroy finally would tear
down and destroy everything.
Often no bands play when good is be-
ing done. Sometimes 1t seems as if it Is
always the other way. But the con-
scious observer of small deeds of good
ness, to be seen and caught on the fly
everywhere. will know better than most
men just why 1t is that destruction never
seems to 60 quite as far as some fear
1t may. 1t Is because there Is always.
and at all times. and in all places, spirit
Of construction. of building up, of doing
good in little. to offset the forces Of evil
and destruction.
We know this to be so, but often we do
not realize just why 1t is so. II we do not
We are unable to give credit where credit
is due, but will be cajoled into believing
that only those who blow their own horns
loudest, and talk about themselves the
most, are the doers of good and the
achievers of bulwark against the inim-
1cal forces which at times threaten to
overwhelm us all.
Not 50! Give credit to innumerable
small persons who do innumerable small
deeds Of goodness. Let us not be ashamed
Of even such a phrase as sweetness and
light" but feel assured that the wise man
who coined that phrase knew it meant
something. We may. too, If We look hard
enough.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

Some references have been made to
modern society as revealing "barnyard
morals" No person intelligently related
to the Department Of Agriculture will
indorse the reproof. The management
of barnyard requires scientific knowl-
edge which shows when to impose re-
straints and when to relax them. A
moral point may be perfectly clear vet
mixed metaphor may weaken its ex-
preston.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Elizabeth.

The abdication of her uncle, Edward
VIII. and the accession of her father,
George vi. brings the little Princess
Elizabeth within single brief step of
the royal and imperial throne. She is
but ten years of age, yet she. is heir
apparent to the heaviest crown in the
world. Any slight mischance that would
shorten the life Of the former Duke of
York would have the effect of placing
aae scepter in her hands.
But such an event was anticipated at
her birth, with the result that Elizabeth
already has received competent training
for the role that she may play. Even
rs baby, she was put to school to her
inherited responsibilities. Her mother,
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of
the fourteenth Earl of Strathmore, real
lied from the start her obligation to
bring up the child in manner and
according to routine fitted to her sta
ton. The same regimen was adopted for
Princess Margaret Rose, born in 1890.
Both youngsters have been educated for
the service of England and the empire.
Their natural simplicity and charm,
however, have not been spoiled. Queen
Mary, their grandmother, is said to have
insisted that they should be protected
from any and all influence that might
render them unhappily old beyond their
years. So, they have had their toys and
dolls like other little girls. And lessons,
too--the familiar three R's-have been
directed by tutors and governesses en-
powered with authority enough to con-
stitute the nursery class room. The
children, in that regard at least, have
had q theoretically average bringing up.
But Elizabeth knows. perhaps instinc-
lively, the difference between herself and
her small contemporaries. Her we'll
Evening star., 1936-12-14

Funny Octogenarian G. B. Shaw,
coarsely referred to in horse race circles
as "Heebie-G. b." names . feminine
character in an impromptu newsical
comedy Daisy Bell" That was the name
OF the song heroine who was assured.
you'll look sweet on the seat q.
OF a bicycle built for two!" Such a
bicycle is as hard to get back to as the
old hoss n buggy.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

Mon0t0ny.
"why did you tell him not to come
to see you again?"
'He talks of nothing except himself"
answered Miss Cayenne.
"But he has had interesting expert
ences."
, every true. It's none the less tire
some to feel as If he had mistaken you
for q stenographer and was debating his
autobiography"
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Shooting Stars.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.

Conversations Power.
Just talking things over
BY night and by day
Well all be in clover
At last in that way.
A luncheon so hearty:
Perhaps a cigar:
A neat little party
And friends, there you arei
For men and for nations
There's nothing in life
Like plain conversations
To keep us from strife.
No more a swift rover
The Peace Dove will roam.
Just talking things over
Will keep her at home.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Sky Radiance.

When the city had shed the noisy cars,
In the silent hour near dawn,
From my window gazed ut the vault
of stars
Feeling small As chessboerd pawn:
And wondering If. in our balm unrest,
We had simply failed 70 sight
An answer TO our eternal quest
In these quiet points Of light
These asteroids In the vast night sky
Seemed torches to light the way
For great procession passing by
To y clearer. finer day
Evening star., 1936-12-14

AS "reminiscences crowd in Theodore
RooSevelt's "Ananias Club" cannot he
forgotten. Neither can George AIDES
satirical creation, the "I-knew -him-when
Club"
Evening star., 1936-12-14

About all the reliable information that
has come out of the London crisis is that
somebody has been deferring definite
announcement in the hope Dat some
body Is going to change his mind.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
No Logical Candidate.

No Logical Candidate.
Were you what is called q logical
candidate?"
Il tried not to be-" declared Senator
Sorghum. "Out where I come from logic
isn't nearly rs influential as free lunch
and 4 brass band"
Evening star., 1936-12-14

Amateur actors come in for a great
deal Of harsh criticism, but there is an
unlimited ovation always awaiting the
industrial chief who really knows how to
play Santa Claus.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

working days per week are subject
to close calculation, but when q social
and political crisis arises in government
the week ends may reveal the most
significant industry.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

A return Of the old base ball game
Is being requested by old-timers. There
Is also wish for Salvini and Henry
Irving in the theater.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
A Sober Truth.

Prom the jamestown IN. ~ Journal.
Saving clippings and souvenirs Is easy.
The hard part is to remember. a year
later, why you thought them worth
saving.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Ind0mitable.

Ind0mitabIe.
Old Man Worry
I hsve tried to send away.
He manages to scurry
Through even scenes 50 gay.
He hinders all dances
And interrupts the song,
Embracing any chances
To keep things going wrong.
Though he pretends to hurry,
Moved by my warning wise,
Old Man Worry
Always has . new disguise.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
All Other States and Canada,
Member of the Associated Press.

. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to it not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
herein also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Coming Fashions.

From tbs Indianapolis Star.
n the long range weather predictions
are correct, 1t will be smart to be caught
IN red fianneE.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
M Inertia
No Inertia.
Good times or bad times
Still require endeavor.
Gay times or sad times
Cannot last forever.

~Hab faith In human nature said
Uncle Ehen, "but don't carry 1t 80 fur as
to make yoh'sef de final custodian of
all de counterfeit money In de neigh
borhoodS
Evening star., 1936-12-14

"You are sometimes led by too great
sense Of Importance" said Hi Ho. the
sage Of Chinatown, ito imagine enemies
among those who have forgotten YOU"
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Financial Botany,

Financial Botany.
The root Of evil, money is.
This warning oft you'll strike it, I
And yet you need it in your biz
And most folks seem to like 1t.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

The Republican National Committee is
to meet in Chicago at the call Of Chair
man John Hamilton on Thursday. He
has announced he will submit his resig-
nation as chairman at that time. Judg-
ing from the many expressions Of sup
port which have come from members Of
the committee, as well as from other
Republican leaders, Hamilton's resigna-
ton viii not be accepted, unless he him.
self announces that he Will not con-
slider going on in the once Of national
chairman.
Former President Herbert Hoover was
In Washington for one day last week,
attending meeting Of the board Of the
Carnegie Institution, Of which he Is =
member. He would not talk politics.
However, there Is reason to believe that
the former President does not consider
the Republican party dead by any
means. But . party which merely seeks
to run parallel to the New Deal Demo-
cratic party VIII not get very feF.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
THE POLITICAL
MILL
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Roosevelt returns to WASH
ington this week to tackle the job Of
formulating for Congress his recommen-
dations for legislation. He has on his
hands, also, awaiting action, the ap-
pointments to many important ofices
in the Government. Despite great deal
Of early rumor about his cabinet for the
second term. beginning January 20, there
is growing belief that the President
will not disturb his ofiicial family greatly
and If changes are to come they will
come later.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Rate by Mail-PayabIe in Advance.

Maryland and virginia.
Evening star., 1936-04-22
FOUR ARE ORPHANED
BY HIGHWAY CRASH
Boy. 10, Left to Comfort Three
Younger Sisters as Mother
and Father Die.

A 10-year-old orphan boy was at
tempting to comfort three younger sis
ters today as the aftermath of tragic
accident on the Baltimore Boulevard
last Saturday night, when their moth
er was killed instantly and their faith
er fatally injured.
The orphans are children Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Eckloff, 2842 Belair
place, passengers in the car which COL
lided with truck as it pulled away
from the side of road near Water
loo, Md. Eckloff died in St Agnes
Hospital, in Baltimore, Monday, less
than two days after his wife died on
the highway.
The driver Of the car, Bernard
Reidy, "a. Of AIT Sixth street south
east, was reported in an improved
condition. He is receiving treatment
at the Baltimore hospital for internal
injuries.
The small boy and three girls left
orphans by the tragedy are Charles
Eckloff, jr., 10, ard his sisters, Mary
Ellen. 9; Joan Winfred, Z, and Eve
lyn, 5. They will witness double fu-
neral services for their parents at their
home tomorrow.
Evening star., 1936-04-22
100 TO ATTEND
c. j. CELEBRATION
Assistant Secretary OF
State Carr to be Honored
at Founders Day.

CASTOR Hall, at Georgetown Uni
versity, will be crowded with alumni
and special guests tonight for per-
haps the largest founders day cele-
bration the institution has yet OBJ
served.
Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j..
president, will bestow academic hon.
ors at $3.50 o'clock upon a distin-
guished law alumnus, Wilbur J. Carr,
Assistant Secretary of State, and also
upon Right Rev. Msgr. Fulton ]. Sheen
Of the Catholic University, an out
standing theologian and philosophical
writer.
Upward of 1,70o alumni and friends
Of the university will attend the cere-
mony and the reception that follows
in the Carroll parlor. This is the
first founders day since DR.. O'Leary
native Washingtonian, took office last
Fall. For the reason that founders
day falls on March 25, date of the
landing of the Lord Baltimore colo
nists in Maryland. the celebration was
postponed from the Lenten season
until now.
Prominent State Department OFF,
cials, members of the diplomatic
corps and Catholic clergy will be
among the guests honoring Carr and
Msgr. Sheen. The historic church
bell of old ST. Marys City, Md, dating
to 1884. will be taken from the col
lege archives in honor of the celebra-
ton tonight AS the name of Arch
bishop John Carroll and the other
founders are read, the bell will be
tolled in their memory.
Many alumni and some of the re-
gents from out of town have come for
the exercises and will remain over for
the varsity &c" dinner tomorrow
night at the Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star., 1936-04-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Lecture, DR.. William A. White,
Jewish Community Center, Sixteenth
and @ streets, 8 pm.
Dinner, Retail Credit Mems Asso-
citation, Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Dance. North Carolina State So
ciety, Shoreham Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting. Washington PhilatelIc So
ciety, Carlton Hotel.
Card Party and dance. Phi Gamma
Pi Sorority, Broadmoor Hotel, 10 pm
Dance. Indiana State Society, Ward
man Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Meeting, Geological Society OF
Washington, Cosmos Club, 8 pm.
Dinner. Shakespeare Society. VIII
lard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting and buffet supper, Sons Of
the Revolution, willard Hotel, 8:l5
pm.
Dinner meeting, Rotary Club, Will
lard Hotel, 6 pm.
Meeting, Washington Lodge No. IS,
3. p. o. Elks, 919 H street, pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club, Carl
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Kiwanis Club, Mayhower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Sigma Delta Kappa Fra
ternity, Harrington Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, English Speaking Union,
Willard Hotel, l pm.
Card party, st. Vincent de Paul So
ciety, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Pennsylvania Democratic
Club, Willard Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Poetry Group, District
Federation Wonen's Clubs, Raleigh
Hotel, pm.
Supper dance, Jacob Jones Post No.
2, American Legion, Broadmoor Ho-
tel, $50 pm.
Meeting and dance, Patriotic Society,
La Fayette Hotel, 9 pm.
Modern and square dance, benefit
Triumph Council, Daughters Of
America, 523 Eighth street northeast,
8 pm.
Evening star., 1936-04-22
BUILDING A REPUTATION

No amount of advertising
could possibly have built the
reputation and success that Fa-
ther Johns Medicine has earned
and maintained for eighty years
unless it had proven value and
merit as treatment for colds
and a body builder. Don't wait
be prepared-get it today.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-10-23
A LICK IN TIME
Yaldez Aliner)

dluGZ MIuEI
 Another monstrosity in the way of postage stamps has come to town and is being dispensed at three licks for three cents by Postmaster Nancy Meals The stamp, which is too large to lick. but must be coaxed on the letters, represents the cele- bration of the Arkansas centennial. the state being 100 years old this year. Just why Alaskans should spread their mouths and stick their tongues down to their briskets to honor Arkansas being 100 years old, We have not as yet been informed: {: but anyway. a state that old should know better. The stamp was a life size reproduction of the old state house in Arkansas, the White House and the famous old Arkansas for tress, designed to protect the settlers from the inroads of hostile Indians. The stamps are twice the size of the regular three centers, and it takes a chaw and a half of tobacco to moisten one so it will stay put. The man who can lick 25 of the blasted things is entitled to a Carnegie med al for heroism. If we go by size ii is to be hoped Alaska will never ask for a special stamp, as it would be as large as a blanket.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-10-23
HISTORIC MURDER

One hundred and ten years ago a man was murdered and as a direct result of that crime we now have, every four years, national conyen- tions of delegates from every state and territory in the Union to nom mate candidates for President and vice-president. Here's how it came about
 In 1926 William Morgan of Batavia N. '. published a book which pur- ported to reveal the secrets of Freemasonry. Soon afterwards he disappeared and the Masons were not only accused of having kidnap- ed him and drowned him in the Niagara river but also of blocking a proper investigation of his disap- pearance. From western New York. opposition to the Masons spread to other states and several demagog1c young politicians, among them Thurlow Weed and William H. Se- ward of New York and Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, seized upon the movement to promote their own ambitions.
 The result was the organization of the Anti-Masonic party and in September, 1880, the first Anti-Ma- sonic convention, the first national convention of any party, was held in Philadelphia, attended by 96 dele gates from ten states. It was decided to hold another convention the next year to nominate candidates for President and viee-president and this meeting was to be composed of as many delegates from each state as there were representatives in both houses of congress.
 Accordingly in September, 1881, the convention was held in Baltt- more and it nominated for President William Wirt of Maryland, who had been attorney-general in Monroe s cabinet, and for yice-presldent Amos Ellmaker of New York. In the elec- tion of 1882 these candidates wou only the electoral vote of Vermont Later this party was absorbed by the Wings and lost it's identity, ex- cept in Pennsylvania where it cleo ted a governor in 1885 and contin, ued as a separate party for a few years.
 But during the Anti-Masonic par. tvs short existence it had pointed the way for others to follow in the method of choosing candidates. Il gave them the national nominating convention and while convention procedure has since been changed in many ways, from that day to this the fundamental principle upor which it was based has remained unchanged - democratic representa-. tion of the party constituency.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-10-23

which persevered through a cam paign was delivered at the Demo cratic convention of 1916 and la- ter events made a farce out of it.
 That keynote was delivered in fa- vor of Woodrow Wilson; the man who voiced it was Martin H. Glynn of New York.
 Like the Three Long Years which Republicans emphasized in 1886. Glynn's keynote beat the tom toms for Wilson's achievements in avoiding war in 1914, 1915 and 1916. ending each recital with the assertion. But we didn't go to war;
 seizing upon the then atchy phrase. which set convention dele gates on their ears. the Democratic national committee made the race on the slogan of. He kept us out of war" It barely lasted to re-elect Wilson. for two months after begin ming his second term the United States was in the war.
 Success of a keynote in this par tieular instance was made at least partially possible by the pussyfoot- ing tactics of the rival party. They didn't want 10 discuss the war. But the American voters were talking about nothing else.
 One other keynote has found a place in our permanent political his tory. It was delivered by imposing Albert J. Beyeridge of Indiana at the Bull Moose convention of 1912 which brought Theodore Roosevelt back into the spotlight.
 Said Beveridge: "The peoples s government has been usurped by the invisible government. and the peo- pies government must be given back to the people again"
 Even today. with history record ing a Bull Moose defeat, there IS something about this well-turned phrase which accounts for the per petuity which has fallen to it.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-10-23
PICTURE RELEASE REFUSED
(Ketchikan Chronicle)

It will be a while yet before the people of Ketchikan know what their new federal building is to look like. For the past several months. The Chronicle has been endeayoring to get a picture of the architects sketch. Our Washington represen- tatives made several visits to the treasury department for that pur- pose. Finally formal requests were lodged with the secretary of the treasury and the postmaster general whose approval was necessary.
 The latest from Washington is this: Sorry it took so long to cut the red tape" but it seems the building will be altered rather than constructed in accordance with the original sketch. No new sketch will be made. Therefore, the government refuses to release the original sketch, saying it will not look like the building when completed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-10-23
PIONEER NEWsPAPERMAN
 WILL MAKE HOME IN SEATTLE

Charles F. Sandford. L. s. Com missioner at Hyder since 1913. has resigned that office due to i'll health. and with his younger daughter Frances. left Hyder this week for Seattle to make his home with another daughter, Mrs Charles K. Smith formerly of Wrangell.
 After many years spent in news paper work in Southern California. Mr. Sandford went to Nome in 1900 where he was associated with the Gold Digger Daily and later with the Nome Nugget. He went 10 Hydef in 1923 and published the Hyder Herald until 1884.