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rector of Eli Lilly & Co., in ad-
dresses to custodians and engi-
neers, says the ideal fuels are, in
order, gas, oil, coke, hard coal, soft
coal, and wood.
"Coke can be burned almost
smokelesSly by unskilled firemen
and with excellent economy by
skilled f1remen.
When it comes to coal, particu-
larly our Midwest highly volatile
coal, believe that you can't fire
by hand without making consid-
cradle smoke. There is a way to
fire Midwest coal that doesn't
make smoke and satisfies every
body who mines Indiana and Illi-
nois coal. It is to fire with a
Stoker.
HOAL, he says, when put into
~ boiler or furnace goes four
places: Up the stack if you
crowd the fire, into the basement
room, part of it into the building
you try to heat, and the remain
der into the ash pit.
IF you wish to get most of the
heat from the coal into build
ing and not into the ash pit, up
the stack, or in the boiler room
you must feed Indiana coal with
slow regularity he says.
Mr.. Hanley estimates that as
high as 80 per cent of a fuel bill
can be saved by the use of
stokers. He points to Indianapolis
school buildings using stokers as
examples of fuel savings.
'It is to be regretted" Mr..
Hanley says, that every owner
of an apartment building or
public building does not know he
is losing money in trying to burn
ordinary soft coal by hand firing.
Using a stoker and Indiana coal,
he can unquestionably save
money in his annual fuel bill, save
the feelings of his neighbors and
the appearance of his and other
buildings and prevent polluted air
which is a menace to health and
destructive to property"
Mr.. Popp, in relating the many
needs for diplomacy in enforcing
the indianapolis ordinances, tells
how even the suggestion that a
boiler should be fired with a
stoker brings back the reply,
What stoker company are you
working for?"
Mr.. Popp points out how easy
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NTAsHINGTON, March I'll
w TRIBE - A Administrator

NIASHINGTON, March I'll
" Triple = A Administrator
Chester Davis can have the job of
bossing the new farm program
when he returns from his Euro
pean junket, but insiders don't
believe he will take it. Instead,
he is expected to step out of the
Agriculture Department complete
ly and be placed in charge of the
Presidents reelection campaign
in the farm belt. John Ham
ilton, 44-year-old generalissimo
of Gov. ALT Landon's forces, once
was opposed by Landon when
Hamilton ran for the Kansas
gubernatorial nomination.
During the argument on the Guf-
fey Coal Act before tn supreme
Court, Justice McReynolds, who
has opposed every New Deal meas
ure considered by the tribunal,
sent out for copy of who's
Who" and spent considerable time
thumbing its pages. The or
der Slashing railroad and Pull
man rates brought the Interstate
Commerce Commission a new ex-
perience. Instead of the protests
and complaints usually flooding it
after one of its DEGREES, the Com
mission received hundreds of COM
plimentary messages. Due to
remarkable success of the United
States Mediation Board in set
ting railroad labor disputes-153
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Just an Ordinary Mug

4 NCE ashore our hero discovers that he does not
- belong to the class of gaudy itinerant Amer
leans who are always passing through town with
money to spend on duck dinners and wine and
suites at the Grand Hotel, but is member of the
working classes too poor to smoke his wonted brand
OF 12cent American gaspers because they cost any,
Wnere from 90 cents to dollar abroad He may
have owned a car of some kind when he was home
but that would be a fantastic luxury in his new
condition, and it does not take long to learn that
he can't afford to belong to the Socalled American
colony.
More often than not this is a break for him
however, because the average American colony in a
foreign capital is dominated by curious type of
pest male and female who undertake to inter-
pref to their foreign friends land which they have
summed Tor many years and who blush for other
Americans as being too American.
Our subject will discover that his day off is Just
a humorous figure of speech and will lie awake
nights doing little problems in mental arithmetic to
American journalists enjoyed the legal rights
as their Italian colleagues, who draw double pay for
working the seventh day.
There a time after the war when the Amer
lean service abroad highly enchanting and that
era produced some very spectacular barflies who
have now vanished from the scene, however leaving
the field 10 working types whose existence is neither
picturesque nor even prosperous
The rlcture of Europe today as presented to
American readers is not observed in the backbar
mirror of a saloon or through the bottom of glass;
and the scene in bureau is merely that of young
reporters and desk men doing their job good deal
the same as similar tasks done at the other end
of the cable. 1t takes lively imagination to per-
ceive in this work of preparing copy and showing it
along the romantic allure of the foreign service which
exists in the vision of the journalism student at CO.
lunlbia or Ohio State
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLIE,

since last July 1.-The organized
aviation pilots are seeking legis-
lation giving the agency jurisdic-
ton over controversies arising be-
tween them and the airlines. The
bill has passed the Senate, is now
pending in the House.
= Il
TINE Postoffice Department has
l. turned down request by
Harvard-the Presidents alma
mater-for a special stamp to
commemorate its three hundredtn
anniversary. Reason given for
the rejection: The department
did not want to establish the
precedent of putting out spe-
cial stamp issues for universities.
The first proposal in six
point farm program for the Re-
publican Party, outlined by Sena-
tor Arthur Capper in the latest
issue of the Young Republican"
calls for exactly the same kind
of plan the Administration put
through Congress following the
loss of the AAA. When Rep.
Sol Bloom, socially ambitious
Tammanyite, entertains, he takes
no chances that the news won't
get to the press. He sends out a
formal release listing his guests.
-. The Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corp. is working on plans
under which some so financially
unstable banks will be merged
with stronger institutions.
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and in each case, he says, the
suits were dropped and the vio-
lator rectifled the nuisance.
Mr.. Hurd admits his office did
not desire to press industry dur
ing its lean years and equally con-
tends that the city is much clean
er than it used to be. He sees in
an increased force in the smoke
abatement department a possibil-
ity of further educating the pub
lie and the home-owner in the
proper method Of firing.
HOAL consumption increased
~ in the winter of 1885 to
the highest point in the last eight
years.
Pneumonia death rates in In
dianapolis in 1885 were 159 for
each 100000 population, the high
est death rate for the disease
since 1920.
Business indexes report in
creased industrial activity and
factories increasing hours worked
and hours in which boiler fires
are kept lighted.
Department stores, hotels,
building operators and homes re-
port continued losses from SCOT
damage that is conservatively es-
timated to reach $5,O00,OO0 in de-
struction and waste yearly.
And the bill is paid, whether
through a child's cold or the
pocketbook of every citizen of In
dianapolis.
THE END
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WE educated them and then
w if We found a bull headed
one, why we brought him up on
the carpet" says the hard-hitting
Irishman.
Mr.. Liddy's carpet, as reported
by observers, is full of blunt Ian
guage and an offender may find
!, himself being vacuumed into
three-to-five-day suspension with
out pay.
Telling of indifference at times
to smoke abatement pleas, Mr..
Liddy recites how one industrial
list said, Say, I can't afford to do
anything. I'm having hard
enough time as it is without 60
ing to more expense.
Them continued the business
man, "at least I'm working some
men and there's a lot idle, you
know. You know we could shut
down."
well, why don't you give the
idle people some of that money
going out of your stack, then" re-
torted Mr.. Liddy.
He views smoke regulation from
railroader's viewpoint He de-
clares it is harder properly to fire
locomotives boiler than that of
an apartment or factory.
Factories don't get up full
steam and run into a red block
like an engine does in the yard"
be explains.
EDUCATION Of engineers and
H. flremen of city apartment
houses and business buildings to
fire boilers properly is carried on
yearly by the Smoke Abatement
League and Mr.. Popp.
The league is composed of 300
citizens and firms who believe
smoke can be abated in Indian
apolis and are willing to support
efforts in that direction out of
their own pockets.
Lectures are given in Cropsey
Auditorium to building custodians
and others interested in firing.
Examinations are given and diplo-
mas rendered those who receive
good grades.
Throughout the year Mr.. Popp
aids industries in solving firing
and combustion problems. A gas
analyzer is used to determine
whether improper adaptation of
fuel, improper equipment, or i'm
proper firing is resulting in i'm
proper combustion.
Indianapolis burns highly VOL
atile fuel, Indiana bituminous
coal.
DUT Mr.. Popp says the average
- homeowned and unskilled
fireman builds fire wrong nine
times out of ten when using Indi-
ana soft coal.
This is the correct way: Cover
the CRATES with several inches
thickness of raw fuel. On top of
this raw fuel place paper and
liberal amount of kindling. After
the Nkindling is burning briskly,
add a small amount of fuel, taking
care not to smother the blaze.
When the coal below the kindling
is we'll ignited, more fuel may be
added with care that the blaze is
never smothered.
If burning coke or anthracite,
the common method of building a
blaze of paper, kindling and fuel
can be used.
w. A. Handley, engineering di-
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tailed discussion OF policy, the d.
rectors have joined in a formal
declaration emphasizing tn e
growing necessitv" of concen-
trating national effort and re-
sourcefulness upon revival, in or
der to end continuing acquisitions
for relief. The directors recog-
nized that this can not be &C
complished either by government
or by business management alone.
This declaration is a thin piece
of meat for any one to sink his
teeth into. yet it recognizes that
business has direct interest in
atternntinC to hiring about re-
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may look With envy on the lucky
corps of oversee correspondents.
1t is shocking experience to
a young and tender soul to come
abroad on a big, fast steamboat,
spending a weeks time and six
months savings in the bar in the
company of buyers, promoters
and the halfwit scions of rich
American families, to land in the
strict routine of Office work in a
foreign country.
Reality sets in the minute the
boat makes fast to the dock in
Europe, and this reality consists
not only of monotonous toll.
probably at night, but of close
economy as well, for the Americ
nowadays, and there aren't many
yelOpe. ANYWAY.
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Roosevelt Appeal
May Bring Results
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

XTASHINGTON, March 21.-There are indica-
tons that President Roosevelts appeal to bust
ness leaders to cooperate in their respective indus
tries toward accelerating Unemployment may bear
some fruit.
Directors of the United States Chamber of Com
merce planning the program for the annual conven-
ton of the Chamber here next MONTH have placed
unemployment at the head of the list of mao prob
lens to be considered. Without venturing into de-
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tnat IS Houston, Tex. OF course,
the fortnight could be used to inn
prove my mind, but I don't think
I'll do that.
Unfortunately, it is wholly i'm
possible to pick any date at which
nothing is happening concerning
which you think you ought to be
writing. For instance, I'd like
to get into the campaign to urge
all American colleges to stay away
from the Heidelberg festival.
There is even less excuse for our
being represented there than at
the Olympic Games. A Yale cor
respondent tells me that Herr
Rnctnt. C.rnln itnua ri o blu rI.na re q
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Problem
BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY


Secretary American Bridge League
r HAVE told you on several oc-
i casions that the possibilities of
the new defensive suit directing
signal" almost are unlimited.
Benedict Jarmel, one of the
younger stars of New York, gave
me today's hand, played in a re-
cent duplicate game.
Jarmel sat in the East. His
partner opened the ace of clubs.
Now you can see the situation
that confronts East. He holds the
singleton king of trunps, which he
would like to make, and there is
only one chance to make it. That
is for declarer to be forced to lead
from his own hand.
Jarmel reasoned that declarer
might easily lay down an honor
and take the finesse in spades, in
which case his king would make.
As South had opened the bidding,
it was not unreasonable to figure
that he must have the ace of
hearts.
So, even though dummy was voic
of hearts, Jarmel decided to employ
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EhZnough
by
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

Darts, March Alt gives pain to have to
throw ashes on anybodys slide, but I have been
observing the contrast between and reality
in the foreign department of American journalism
and believe it is no than fair to expose the
facts of life to the young reporters at home who
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II Seems bM
by
REYWO0D.BROUN

NEW YORK, March 21.-Getting ready to go on
vacation is fearful strain because, first of
ALL there Is that business of making up your mind
wish it were possible just to go to ticket window
and say: Send me a vacation wherever this
money will take me. Oh, and don't forget return
ticket"
At first I thought of making two-weeks' tour
OF American tracks, but it's long jump from
Miami to Hot Springs. Ark and the next spot after
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Ball Clubs Well Covered

T HAD thought little of ambling down to Florida
n and watching ~ )all players at the training
camps, but there wo~.1 be nc utility in that since
the doings OF the professional athletes are much
more fully and ably reported than the activities of
the labor leaders Prof White of Oklahoma found
that many of the students gave minute details
about Joe Louis. They knew his height, weight and
color. They also knew how many fights he has had
and how many of his opponents he has knocked
out"
1T is not" the professor adds plaintvey, "a re.
nectlon on college students much as it is on our
contemporary American civilization We devote an
enormous amount of time, energy and enthusiasm to
trivial matters and neglect things that are really
important"
wish had not come across that letter Just be-
lore taking a vacation which originally was to
include few lays for longshots at Hot Springs and
maybe week in Hollywood For instance, if were
not going away just now, could write long column
OH play which really is important When 1 first
saw Saint joan thought it the finest play
written by any living author. After visiting the
revival l am confirmed in this opinion. Moreover
the play profits now by the performance of Miss
Katherine Cornell as Joan, and it will be a long
time before we will see better piece of acting.
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BY ARCH STEINEL

by Arch ineL
BY ARCH STEINEL
TAXPAYERS of Indianapolis spend $4,000 yearly to rid
the city of 100000 annual waste that pours out of
its chmneys, lowering resistance to disease injuring
buildings, destroying realty values depreciatng merchan
disc, and increasing laundry COSTS
The $4,000 is the salary paid to the lone city smoke
combustion engineer, George R. Popp Jr
Mr.. Popp collects half his salary fees He supervised
the installation of 9O91 in heating equipment in
1885.
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These LefUis' Confusing

assistant professor of economics at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma has a right to feel that
newspapers and newspaper commentators are doing
less than their full duty in keeping their readers
acquainted with happenings in the labor world At
any rate he writes:
Occasionally give my classes an incidental test
on general information. The first thing on the test
was Identify Cd John L. Lewis; CD Sinclair Lewis;
CD Joe Louis, Fifty papers selected at ran
dom and graded Every of the so students
knew rather definitely the identity of Joe Louis
Ihirty-eight of the so identified Sinclair Lewis,
most OF them rather vaguely but they at least knew
that he was famous American novelist Only
eight of the so had any recognizable idea of the
identity OF John l.. Lewis. One answered this
by writing, John l.. Lewis is United States Sen
ator with pink whskers'"
Now what right have I to be in Houston betting
on race horses when potential readers near at hand
and college students at that think that the presi-
dent OF the United Mine Workers of America has
pink whiskers?
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Naz uniform when addressing what is still called
the faculty, although 1870 of the original 200 mem
bers have been replaced
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THE CITY OF SMOKE
900 Wasted Each Year by Improper Handling of Furnace

SteineL
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as well, Tor the American dollar is down
and there aren't many dollars in the en-
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Interest in Bal Boheme
Boxes Reserved Indicate Many Gay
Parties for 18th Annual Event.

Pembroke Pitt, Mrs William Hamilton
Bayly, Mrs. Margaret Scully zimmele,
Mrs. L. M. Leisinring, Miss Frances
Benjamin Johnston, and Miss john
ston's guests. including Mrs. Walter
Beh of Green Lawn, Long Island.
and Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis Willis.
Mrs. Fulton Lewis will entertain a
box party at the Bal Boheme, and
others who will occupy boxes will be
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Remon, Mrs.
Thomas M. Myers, and Mrs. Helen
Ray Hagner. Box reservations should
be made at once to the committee for
the Bal at The Arts Club, but may
also be made at the Hotel Willard and
the Hotel Shoreham, where tickets for
the Bal are on sale as well as at all
leading hotels.
The supper is one Of the delights Of
the Bal Boheme, for at supper hour
many prominent Washingtonians meet
and gaiety reigns.
The judges of costumes this season
will not require lengthy procession
Of costumed marchers round and
round the room, but will keenly OBJ
serve each and every person entering
the ball room from II O'Clock, when
the official party makes its entrance.
The winners will be announced, and
the prizes awarded at the Bal that
night. Prior to the entrance of the
judges and of the famous Floor COM
mittee of 80 headed by DR.. Charles
s. Piggot. there will be general dane
ing to the finest music the Capital
affords, and this dancing and merry
making will extend far into the wee
sma' hours of Tuesday morning.
Evening star., 1936-01-18

Tremendous interest in the Bal
Boheme. and q heavy demand for
tickets and boxes for Monday night
at the Hotel Willard. presage one Of
the biggest successes in the history OF
these annual colorful spectacles. The
Bal participants will go into action at
IL o'clock. with presentation Of '"The
Lost OPAL" featuring the pet super
stitions of many lands in many ages.
Mr.. Harold Allen Long. is chairman
of this thirteenth annual Bal Boheme,
for which Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor has
taken two boxes and will entertain a
large party, and Mrs. Jacob Leander
Loose also will entertain distinguished
party. Others occupying boxes on the
east side Of the ball room will be Mrs.
James P. McKane, Mrs. John Ruther-
foord, Mrs. o. B. Campbell, Mrs.
Samuel S. Koones, Miss Elizabeth
Woodward. and the Chevy Chase
School.
On the west side Of the ball room
will be the judges box. with Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford K. Bergman. Mr.. and
Mrs. Percy Crosby, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert johnson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Lahey. There will be also
the official box, with the officers OF
the Arts Club. and the outstanding
chairmen and vice chairmen Of the
Bal Boheme Committee. On this side
of the room also there will be box par
ties entertained by Miss Mary B.
Adams, Mars. Christian Heurich, Mrs.
B. Frank Murphy, Mrs. Robert Lee
Keyser, Or. Ray Lyman Sexton. Mai.
and Mrs. Richard La Garde, Mrs.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Interesting
News of the
Officials S
President and Mrs
Roosevelt Away.
Others Entertain.

The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
left for New York today, where the
President will take part in the dedi-
cation of the Roosevelt wing of the
Museum of National History. which
Is named for the .lrst President Roose-
welt.
Mrs. Morgenthau, wife of the Sec
retary of the Treasury. has gone to
New York to attend the funeral serv-
ices OF her young cousin, Mr.. Charles
AltSchul. who vas killed in the recent
airplane disaster in Arizona.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Dern we're the guests in whose honor
the Chief of Staff and Mrs. Malin
Craig entertained at dinner last
evening.
Mr. Justice and Mrs Harlan Fiske
Stone will entertain a company at
dinner this evening.
Senator and Mrs. Park Trammell
of Florida. who have been to the
Philippines, where they attended the
Inauguration Of the new government,
have returned to Washington and are
again occupying their apartment at
1858 Sixteenth street.
Representative and Mrs. J. W.
Boehne, jr.. of Indiana have come to
Washington and taken a house at
3215 Newark street. They have with
them their son, Charles H. Boehne,
and will be joined next week by their
older son, Mr.. John w. Boehne, Sd.
Representative and Mrs. M. j. Mas
Of st. Paul. Mimi, have leased an
apartment at the Fairfax for the
season.
Brig. Gen. and aMrs. Walter P.
Story of Los Angeles, with Brig. Gen.
H. H. Morehead, the adjutant general
of the California National Guard, are
stopping at the Shoreham and expect
to remain, in the Capital a week or
more before going to New York. Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Story visited in the
Capital last Winter and have a host
of friends in the city.
Lieut.. anG Mrs. Russell H. Grifith
recently arrived in California from
Honolulu, where the former has been
on duty They came east by motor,
stopping in Louisville to visit his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grif-
fifth, and then motored to Washing
ton. where they are guests of Mrs.
Grifith's brother and sister-in- law,
Mr.. and Mrs. g. Clark Brant, jr., in
their home at 1919 Nineteenth street
for few days. Lieut.. and Mrs. Grit
fifth will motor from here to West
Point 70 visit her brother, Cadet Phil
lip Delano Brant, who is a second
claSsman at the Military Academy.
From ehere they will motor to Barks-
dale Field in Louisiana to be guests
of Mrs. Grifith's parents, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs G Clark Brant, the former
in command of the field.
Lieut. and Mrs. Griffith will then
motor to Texas, where the former
has been transferred to duty.