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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Employment Puzzle.
From the Bangor Daily News.

EEOm inc oduBOE OdHy NEWS
Last October President Roosevelt I'M
dertook what was described as a per
sonal survey" to determine why employ
ment and pay rolls had not kept pace
with the upward trend of industrial pro-
duction since 1888. The President admit
ted that figures on unemployment were
incomplete. He cited a chart which
showed how production in industry had
recovered to 80 per cent of the base
average, while the number of persons
employed had risen only to 50 per cent.
The President decided to ask industry
for the reason.
Ten months after that Survey was
begun the administration is no closer to
q correct analysis Of present unemploy-
ment. Harry Hopkins last Fall esti-
mated that private enterprise would have
to hire 10000 persons every day for a
year before all the unemployed were
absorbed. Then the movement was well
begun to convince people that with
machines business had raised its output
without hiring proportionate number of
workers. Only last May Assistant w. P.
A. Administrator Corrington Gill an
nounced that figures were being collected
on displaced workers; that the mechani-
zation of industry was under scrutiny,
and that maybe by the end of this year
the findings would be issued.
Government figures, meanwhile, reflect
the lack Of precise gauge of employment
in relation to production. The August
survey of Current Business shows COM
parative figures on jobs and production
for the month of June for the last eight
years. The figures are adjusted for sea-
sonal variation. II last June be COM
pared with June, 1885, manufacturing
production rose more than % per cent,
while employment went up only Is per
cent.
A much greater variation is found when
last June's figures from Washington are
compared with those for June, 1892. The
comparison shows a gain of 10 per cent in
prod. 1882. and q gain of 40
per .ser of factory employees.
Thi lg until 1929 figures are
con tst June manufacturing
prod,- rs 10 per cent under that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Union Station types-in the waiting
room, the concourse, under the umbrella
sheds-are always a source Of interest
to the student Of humanity.
A trip to the depot is worth while at any
time, but is especially enjoyable If the
party with which one happens to be Is
ahead of schedule.
This gives more opportunity to watch
the people.
Getting to the station we'll ahead Of
train time is the mark Of a nervous per-
son, of course, but 1t is becoming to be
recognized rather broadly that such
people are the salt of the earth, after all.
These stoical folk who manage to get
to the station just a minute before their
train pulls out-they are SO terribly
normal that it may turn out they are the
most abnormal of all!
Fortunately there are all types on
hand, just as there are all degrees Of
rank and wealth.
A railroad station waiting room is the
most democratic place on earth.
From the little pickaninny, proud Of
his too-wide and too-long trousers, to the
staid gentleman who sits watching him,
there is every sort of human being repre-
scented here.
There is the red-faced man who just
can't keep his eyes from the ladies legs,
although legs have been well known for
many years now.
There is the bored gentleman who posi-
lively doesn't see anything or any one,
he is so intent on his own business.
He Is very normal, evidently. 1t is not
two minutes before he leaps up, straight
for the train and the last one sees of him
is a wild figure beating 1t along the train
side.
No doubt he swings aboard just as the
conductor calls, "Al aboard"
How the heart responds to the cry.
AL aboard
MelOdious, loud, clear 1t Is the con-
ductors solo, his part in this symphony
Of the railroad.
Most Of the time he is very busy man,
but now, with watch in hand. one foot on
the steps, the other down on the plat
form, he sings.
In his neat blue suit and his trim blue
hat, with just suspicion of gray hair
showing beneath it, he bids us come.
"All aboardl"
AS long as there are railroads his song
will do something to us. will stir the
blood. will give the most sedentary, Il only
for moment, taste of journeying afar.
Above these trains are queer electric
wires and great insulators. but steam
seems to be coming out of them, too,
down below, just above the tracks.
That clear hiss of steam is part Of
the music.
1t has a fragrance all its own. this
steam, so much part and parcel of rail-
reading. The train may be electric, but
evidently it still needs steam. and We
are glad.
The people surge up the steps and into
the chair car, where neat little tables
and equally neat lamps upon them give
feeling of being at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Agri Culture.

Agri Culture.
Professor, dear, long to hear
Your words of wisdom true;
With problems on this earthly sphere
I know not what to do.
know not why a butterfly
Such beauty should display,
Although he was in hours gone by
A grub that brought dismay.
Oh, please to show how food may grow
To cheer these worldly scenes,
And why a-hungering we must 60
If you should spill the beans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

The human element in aviation Is re-
garded by experts as responsible for many
crashes. Nerves and muscles cannot be
always in correct form. A medical ex-
animation preceding each flight, student
or professional. might easily be worth
the expense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Nations arming for defense need wise
craftsmanship to prevent an impression
that desire to convince the taxpayers that
they are getting their moneys worth
requires a chip on the shoulder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Iransacting business in gold fish bowl
Is another idea that goes back of Alice
in Wonderland and belongs to Mother
Goose days. Although when Simple
Simon went a-fishing he at least insisted
on enough water to fill pail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

American labor is divided in its theories
OF collective bargaining, but this fact does
not prevent some Of its members from
taking time of from family quarrels to
offer house-top chats on partisan ma
tional politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

A number of rugged mountaineers are
probably wondering why several Senators
are sending out postcards calling for gen.
eral rejoicing because a few Wall Street.
ers are making so much money in spite
Of retail prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Finish Of a B. 1.

Finish Of a B. L.
A bright idea once appeared,
The world was filled with glee.
The poet cheered The cynic sneered
In conversation free.
At last it faded quite away
And ceased to strive for breath;
The doctors and the nurses say
That it was talked to death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Japan may find it easy to take charge
of China, but history may have a new
story to tell when the Orient's yellow
giant, like CULVER, wakes up to what
has happened.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

The Landon campaigners do not hesi-
tate to show figures to prove that the
letters G. O. p. are holding their own in
the race Of initials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

If James A. Farley succeeds in putting
the New Deal across, every Woodworking
mail employe will naturally hope for a
raise in pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

College professors who advise in states
manship sometimes seem to favor the
assumption that the letters A. B. stand
for "a billion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Hitler and MuSSolini are said to be
working together. There may be efforts
to bargain, but it is hard job of sales
manship either way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Some Semblance Of the Blue Eagle
may be revived, but it will never seem the
near relation to bird Of paradise that
fancy once portrayed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

Many distinguished explorers have
visited Africa. SelaSsie is now exploring
Europe to find the League of Nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

From the Bay City tMich.) Times.
A problem that the trailer brings with
1t is how to keep hitchhikers out Of the
icebox.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Ending the Argument,

Ending the Argument.
A college boy
Expresses Joy
And 50 does a coed.
With wisdom great
They'll guide the state
When all is done and said.
A foot ball game
Brings more acclaim
Than medicine or law.
A student wise
Will compromise
And just say, "Rah! rah! rah!"
"Nind yoh teacher. son." said Uncle
Eben, and don't git discouraged be-
cause some teachers pretends to know
more than others and starts arguments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Summers Driftage.

The river, by the Autumn sunset kissed,
Became a stream Of gold and amethyst.
Adown it sailed, by gay winds set afioat,
A cluster of red leaves-a fairy boat.
And to the boat, prismatic wings low
hung,
A dragonf1y from Summer vainly chung.
watched the frail leaf-raft drift round
a bend
Half-envious of the fiy's sun-submerged
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

A new airport is expected for this city.
but the duty of building it will hardly
be entrusted to w. P. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Cynical Biology,

do you like dogs?" asked the man
endeavoring to make conversation.
Every much" said Miss Cayenne.
"Cats?"
eyes. When see what some of our
gentle four footed friends can do for
birth rate statistics really don't see why
we should make SO much over the Dionne
Quins."
I'VE cannot fathom the future" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, except
to know that no mortal is permitted life
long enough to see its eventual relation
ship to present occurrences"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
Social Success.

"Was your political barbecue a sue
cess?"
"A perfect success" answered Senator
Sorghum. Everybody stood up, so that
there could be no argument about who
were to occupy the seats of honor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29

of 1929, and the number of factory en-
ployes was also 10 per cent below that
of 1929. Thus, at last, equality In
reached, and the student Of New Deal
statistics remains bafYied.
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ton. But there they are, with DR.. Town
send and Father Coughlin bitterly de-
nouncing the President and saying that
he must not be reelected. They may
hold the balance of power in some of
the States.
It has been finally announced that the
Senatorial Campaign Committee headed
by Senator LOnergan of Connecticut,
Democrat, will not hold any public hear
ingS on charges of political corruption
through the w. P. A. until after the
election. Despite the countless charges
that have gone up from several States
for weeks and months, it was foregone
conclusion that no public hearings in the
activities of w. p. A. would be permitted
by this Democratic controlled Senate In
vestigating Committee. Indeed, it is re-
ported that Senator Lonergan was told
that there must be no such public in
vestigation before he was ever named
chairman of the committee. That the sit
uation is extremely diStaSteful to the Con-
necticut Senator no one who knows him
has the slightest doubt. The powers that
be in the New Deal party, however, are
taking no chances on what might be
shown, for example, in Pennsylvania, If
public hearing was given at this time.
The end justifles the means, in the
minds of New Dealers conducting this
campaign. The reports of many of their
activities are to be credited. In earlier
days there were machine bosses in a
number of the big cities of the country
who worked in the same principal in
elections. But this idea Is being tried
out on national scale this time.
Evening star., 1936-05-13


only locally but outside the city for
excellent work as choral group.
Last evening they duplicated their
success in a program wherein favorite
numbers of other appearances and
newly studied songs served as medium
of a real feeling for style and inter-
pretation. The young men and women
bring true enthusiasm to their work
which carries their performance along
with spirit and which is the fine
foundation on which DR.. Harmon has
been able to mold a singing group
capable of achieving artistic results.
Whatever the young singers do is
crisp and clear-cut. with no dragging
tempt or ragged balance of parts.
The distinctness of diction is an ad-
dltional credit to their excellent train
ing, for it is seldom that one is able
to follow the text so thoroughly when
so many mixed voices are singing.
Especially is this delightful in pianis-
simo passages, for the singers under
stand the correct manner of subduing
the volume without sacrifice of clarity.
All the numbers chosen for this
years program had some point where
by the artistic stamina of the organi-
zation could be judged and whether as
individual choruseS or as combined
group, they met the test easily and
with that particular touch which de-
notes a sound understanding of what
artistry means 1t proves that the
objective of their training is not
merely to provide a pleasurable pas
time but to inculcate the elements of
true musical feeling.
The alumni male chorus began the
program with the customary Prayer
of Thanksgiving" by Kremser, fol-
lowed by Handels "Wher'er You
Walk and finishing with the rousing
Evening star., 1936-05-13

voices smoothly and fiexibly handled
in varied effects. The Women's Club re-
peated several songs sung last year and
In the final List, the Cherubic Hour"
the vibrant voice of Robert Frederick
Freund was heard In the solo part.
The concert concluded with the
Chorus of Returning Pilgrims" from
"Tannhauser," the "Inflammatus"
from Rossini's "Stabat Mater" with
Margery League as soloist and Ruben
STEMS "Kamenoi 'Ostrow."
The program began half an hour
late and moved slowly, but in spite of
the delay encores were demanded
after the finish Of each group. Very
sympathetic and nicely adjusted ac-
compartments were played by Paul D.
Long at the piano.
Evening star., 1936-05-13

Border Ballad" by Protheroe. The
second group sung by the mixed
chorus contained some of the finest
songs on the program, Bortniansky's
"Cherubic Hymn" Mendelssohn's
THE Lark Song" Sullivans % Glad
some Light" and Praise to the Lord"
by Christianson, number in which
the different parts were sustained
with beautiful distinctness through
the fugue-like measures. The vocal
quality of this mixed chorus is fresh,
true and resonant. and their singing
is marked by refreshing alertness
and elasticity.
The Mems Club did especially ar
tistic work in Vittoria's Ave Maria, u
the first of group of four songs. the
Evening star., 1936-05-13
Flower Carries Bad Omen.

KANSAS CITY R).-On the way to
church, where he teaches q boys class.
Frederick Grifith stopped in a park
TO pick q Mothers day flower. He
needed a colored one, to show his
mother was living. Failing to find
one, he took white blossom and dis
missed slight feeling of uneasiness.
His mother died in the afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-05-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Meeting, Anglo-SaXon Federation
of America, Wardman Park Hotel,
7p.m.
Meeting, Washington Philatelic So
eiety, Carlton Hotel, pm.
Meeting. 1zaak Walton League, Raj
eigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Executive Committee, Tall
Cedars of Lebanon, Raleigh Hotel,
pm.
Dinner Board of Trustees, Columbus
University, Mayhower Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Lions Club, Mayflower Ho-
tel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Sigma Delta Kappa Fra
ternity, Harrington Hotel, 8:15 pm.
Dinner, National sojourners, la
Fayette Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting Washington Photographic
Society, Central High School, s pm.
Meeting and initiation, Washing
ton Lodge, B. P. o. Elks, 919 H street,
7:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Sigma Delta Kappa Fra
ternity, Harrington Hotel 1880 pm
Luncheon, Military Order Of the
World War. Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Mayf1ower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club, Carl
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, Poetry Group District
Federation of Womens Clubs, Raleigh
Hotel, 4 pm.
Dinner meeting, Cosmopolitan Club,
Carlton Hotel, pm.
Dinner. Reciprocity Club. Mayf1ower
Hotel. $50 pm.
Dinner, Georgetown University Law
School, Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Producers Council of
Washington, Lafayette Hotel, 7 pm.
Banquet, Alpha Delta Pi Sorority,
ehoreham Hotel, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1936-05-13
CIV. University Glee Clubs
Heard in Fine Concert
Splendid Training of Young Singers Shown
In Well-Selected Program in
Willard Ballroom
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.


innovation
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Harmon
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Frisco Memory

Which, somehow or other,
brings me to San Francisco. This
was at time when 1 was very
friendly with Ashton Stevens,
then critic on a Frisco paper and
since one of the great drama
commentators of the Middle
West. One night after the show
went to place on the Barbary
Coast. 1t was called "The Bucket
of Blood" 1 had heard you could
get the finest steam beer in the
world there. So in 1 walked in
my stage costume, top hat, dress
suit, Inverness coat.
When I entered there was a sud.
den and ominouS silence. ordered
drinks for the house. I was still
being glared at. Then CASH
Stevens came in. The tension
went. He was greeted with shouts
and laughter. He then introduced
me as friend of his and every
thing was all right. The owner
an eXpoliceman, long afterwards
told me that the thugs who fire
quented the place, had already in
their minds divided up the posses
Sions I had on. One was going tc
get my cuff links, another my
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-06
On New Career

Naturally having been most Of
my life on or near the stage, few
playWrights intrude their wit on
my memory. I remember Edward
Sheldon, the great playwright. He
was a great wit. AS a matter Of
fact, it was his wit which en-
barked me on a ShakeSpearean
career.
We were going together to the
New York Zoo and passed by a
cage of insects. Inside the glass
case there was a big, red, taran-
tula. It was the ugliest looking
thing I had even seen, with big,
bald red spot on its back, and the
ugliest collection Of legs one would
be likely to meet.
at looks" said Sheldon, like
Richard the Third. Why don't
you play him?"
laughed, but the idea started
from there and resulted in a
Broadway production of the Shake
speare play shortly afterward.
Playing Shakespeare, of course,
reminds me of one of the funny
experiences in my life. It was
while playing Hamlet" in London
fell heir to an old English valet
who had been Sir Herbert Beer
bohm Trees man. He was jewel.
I decided to take him back to
America with me.
One night, just before sailing,
I came back from the theater and
found big box awaiting me in
my hotel room. AS 1 looked the
box began to jump about. I
thought I was seeing things. Then,
after shaking my head, I saw it
was no hallucination. The box
had jumped. I caught it, opened
it up, to find a small monkey in
side. Some Shakespeare fan had
sent it to me. I christened her
Claire" Claire" and the valet
we're sworn enemies at first, but
by the time we arrived in Califor-
mia they were bosom friends. And
that's how We all went Hollywood.
TIE most exciting memories of
all must necessarily be the recent
ones. To me, playing Shakespeare
was always a great challenge and
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a thrilling experience. To have
played Hamlet" successfully be-
fore the supercritical London au-
dience was one of the great mo-
meuts of my life. And now I
almost regret that Romeo and
Juliet" is finished. This, my most
recent memory, is perhaps the
most exciting.
To have worked with Irving
Thalberg, George zukor and with
a company of actors like Norma
Shearer, Leslie Howard and Basil
Rathbone in making the first real
Shakespeare film is an experience
I shall never forget.
And, mark my words, with all
the great JulietS in mind, Julia
Marlcwe, Jane Cowl. Katharine
Cornell, Eva LeGallienne, Norma
Shsarer'S will stand out. And
then. It was no small task to play
Mercutio with the memory Of my
fathers great performance in my
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watch, and so on when they rolled
me out into the alley.
But to go from the funny to the
sublime, my memory seems to re-
turn very often to the great paint
er, John Sargent. He was my close
friend. Time and again when I
looked at his great portraits Of
famous people, I used to wish that
I could afford to commission him
to do one # me. It wasn't for
many years, however, that I could
afford his fee.
One day when I felt rich enough,
I approached him with the idea.
Imagine my CONSERVATION on find
ing that he had recently vowed
never to do another portrait again.
I was disappointed beyond words.
But just four months later a large
package reached me in Hollywood.
It contained a portrait of myself
by John Sargent. Accompanying
it was a letter in which he said
that I could not pay him for it.
The point was, he hadn't broken
his VOW because he hadn't been
paid. And it has remained the gift
which treasure beyond all others.
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From Forty on
By IDA JEAN KAHN

IN 1000 makes MIN overweight.
According to the weight tables,
between the ages Of 40 and SIS you
should not gain more than 10
pounds. When you gain that
amount in one year there is over
whelming evidence that you are
eating more food than your physi.
cal activity warrants.
Up to the age Of Is, statistics
further indicate, you can get away
with excess pounds. At 80, how
ever, you run risk with more
than IS pounds overweight, and
from 40 on there is a sharp rise in
the mortality rate, which increases
with the amount of overweight.
Ten pounds of excess weight is
not serious, but Is or more pounds
creates a condition which becomes
dangerous with advancing years.
You will be interested in life in
surance statistics, in which 1000
policies on persons IS or more
pounds above maximum weight re-
vealed a 40 per cent mortality in
crease.
There is a definite physiological
relationship between increased
weight and increased mortality.
Fat deposits first take place in the
simultaneous tissues about the alb
domen and practically all body
tissues. AS fat storage increases.
the muscles, including those Of the
heart, are filtrated and weakened.
New blood vessels form to nourish
this fatty tissue, which adds to
the work of the heart and greatly
raises the blood pressure.
The fat man no longer has any
defenders. With the doctor, the
StatiStician and the life insurance
broker all against him, he is forced
to sit up and take notice OF his
overweight instead of trying to
laugh it off.
If you are Is or more pounds
overweight and serious about re-
ducing this liability, send for the
"Man-Size Reducing Menus" and
the "Calorie Chart" Your calorie
excess may be in the quantity, but
it is more likely to be in the richer
quality of your food.
You will not get weak or de-
pressed on scientific reducing
menus which cut calories only in
fats and carbohydrates. These
menus include normal amounts