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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
BY WILLIAM A. BELL, Jr.

The fish, when he's exposed to air,
Loses all trace of savoir faire.
But in the water regains his balance
And exploits all his manly talents"
Ogden Nash.
TN THE water Of 81 Illuminated
tanks set up in the Commerce
Department Aquarium, about SO
L guppy couples displayed their
manly and womanly talents last
night for the inspection of three
judges at the annual guppy show of
the National Aquarium Society.
The foreign entries-from Baltimore.
East Falls Church and West Falls
Church-swam away with most of the
prizes. Likewise, it was mems night.
for the female guppies don't count.
They're just put in the tanks to keep
the men folk looking their spriest.
Individual honors went to a Mr..
Robert v. Holland of Baltimore. who
imported seven aquariumS for the &C.
casion and won four prizes. One of
his awards was a tank of common or
garden goldfish. He has an aquarium
in his home with 1000 fish and said
he'd be darned If he was going to
carry Goals to Newcastle, or, rather,
goldfish to Baltimore. So he left this
prize with Mrs. Grace L. Costinett,
society president.
The judges were two members of the
Baltimore Aquarium Society Ito elimi-
nate the possibility of sectional preju-
dice, what?) and Charles L. DeBarry,
Treasury Department architect
with an expert eye for streamlining in
fishes as well as post offices.
Tells Of Private Lives.
While they were examining the tiny
guppyi plural for Lebistes Reticu-
latus), their noses pressed against the
glass tank sides, Fred Orsinger, di-
rector Of the Commerce Aquarium,
explained to the uninitiated q few
facts about the exhibits.
In the first place, by comparison
with the production records of
guppyi, Mr.. and Mrs. Dionne Of
CALENDER, Ont. are practically child
less. Female guppyi can produce lit
tiers Of 80. 40 and SO at the rate OF
once every six weeks. One fertiliza-
ton Is good for three Itters. The
species Is viviparous-that is, their
young are born alive and in small
si1ed edition Of the full.grown adult,
compared to oviparous hsh, which lay
eggs.
Domesticity rules the guppy life, q
life that is just one round Of love
making and child bearing. When the
males are wooing their mates they
turn black half way up their tiny
bodies. This manifestation Of young
man In love disappears when interest
ceases.
At this point Mr.. Holland walked
over to report that guppy menfolk
were unfaithful, jealous and often
bullyish. He doesn't believe in leav-
ing them overlong in o tank with
the shes.
The guppy." he announced, sis
sadly neglected fish. Anybody thinks
babies can breed 'em. Any baby can
breed guppies, but they can't breed
CLASSY guppies. No, sir!"
Holland said he ought to know. He's
been raising hsh since he was 2. "aud
nrst stole . pair Of goldfish from .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
MRS. TElLA E. DUNCAN
DIES AT AGE OF 81
Widow of Kansas Pioneer Had
Been Resident Of Washington
for As Years.

Mrs. leila Emnger Duncan, 81, for
many years a resident Of this city.
died today after long illness at her
home In the Wyoming Apartments.
Mrs. Duncan was the widow Of
Charles Convers Duncan, q pioneer In
Kansas and at one time q member
of the State Legislature. Mrs. Dun
can came here about As years ago,
some time after the death Of her hus-
band. She was q native Of Lancas-
ter. Ohio.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Mary Duncan Able and Mrs.
Adeline Ragsdale, both Of the Wyo-
ming Apartments, and q sister, Mrs.
George Webb, Lancaster.
Funeral services and burial will be
at Lancaster Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
METHODIST UNION
PLAN ADVANCED
Baltimore Conference to
Hear Bishop Hughes and
Dr.. Cherrington.

The proposed merger of the three
branches Of the Methodist Church adj
vanced another step today, as two
prominent members Of the Northern
branch were scheduled to occupy
prominent positions on the program
Of the Baltimore Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Bishop Edwin H.. Hughes, retired,
Of Washington was to speak this aft
ern0on on Christian education, and
Rev. DR.. E. H. Cherrington, executive
secretary Of the Methodist Board of
Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals will speak tonight in Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal
Church, where the conference Is in
session.
The program will continue tomor-
row with the annual feast for elderly
ministers at 8 am; the Sunday morn
ing service at IL. with Bishop Edwin
D. Mouzon of Charlotte, N. c., deliv-
ering the sermon; a memorial service
for 10 ministers who died during the
last year, and service at 7:30 pm.
~ WAAASAA oioAloP w. Z 1G1OWCl, &c.
tired. Of Washington will preach. The
sessions will conclude Monday with
announcement of assignments for the
coming year.
Indication of Success.
The conferences action Yesterday
to speed UP the proposed merger of
the three branches of the church
by agreeing to vote at the 1887 ses-
sion, instead of waiting until the
quadrennial session of the. general
conference in 1898, was regarded by
many as another indication that the
merger would be effected after years
of delay.
The uniflcation would weld into one
Methodist Episcopal Church, gener-
ally termed the northern branch,
with a membership of about ALSO 900:
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. with membership Of approx
mately 100000, and the Methodist
Protestant Church, with some 400, 900
members, total of about 5000, 900.
The branch now known as the
Methodist Protestant Church sep
arated from the general conference in
1921 over question of administra-
ton, and has since maintained a
policy of electing presidents at con-
ference sessions to serve definite
terms, instead Of electing bishops to
serve for life. Although the Eastern
Conference rejected the proposed
merger at its meeting yesterday in
Atlantic City, N. j., other conferences
are expected to approve the proposal
Two bishops would be allotted to the
group by the terms of the proposed
merger.
Separation Over Policy.
The separation between the branches
now known as the North and South
came rs years after the first separa-
ton. directly over question of policy,
indirectly over slavery. In 1874,
Bishop James Osgood Andrews mar
ried a widow who owned several hun
dred slaves. The general conference
board ordered him to trial on the
charge of violating a church law pro-
hibiting ministers from owning slaves,
passed some 20 years before. The
bishop claimed the slaves We're the
property of his wife over which he
had no power or authority, and de-
MED the right Of the general confer
ence to interfere in his private affairs.
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Dratha.

CLLRICH. LILLIAN. After a long ILL
ness. LILLIAN daughter OF the late viii
liam and Katherine Ullrich and sister Of
Mrs. Lottie BelitZ OF Milwaukee. Wis,
and Mrs: Annie McCreieht of Washing
Larkin st.. Milwaukee where burial
services will be held October ~. 1886.
IL
WILLIAMS. MARGARET. On Thursday.
October 3. 1896. at Gallinger Hospital
MARGARET WILLIAMS daughter Of the
late Hayes and Gertrude Williams. She
is also survived by one sister. Miss Helen
Payne: two brothers. Raymond and
and q host of other relatives and friends.
Remains may be viewed after 9 pm
Saturday. October 10. at Bentley g.
Fla. ave. NV Funeral Monday. Oc-
tober IL. at ! pm. from the above
funeral home. Interment Lincoln Me-
mortal Cemetery, IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
ADVANCE SCORED r
BY ADVERTISING
Weeks Total in 81 Major
Cities Is Ga Per Cent
Above Year Ago.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CHICAGO, October 10.-For the
week ended September 26 the volume
Of advertising placed in newspapers
by retailers in 81 major American
cities was ga per cent greater than
during the corresponding week of 1885,
Advertising Age. national advertising
newspaper, reported today.
In the ST measured cities, total
of 18,745, TAB lines of retail advertis-
ing was placed during that week,
gain Of l,l35,809 lines over the 1885
figure. e.
For the year to date, retail adver-
Using in these 81 cities has totaled
649,941,918 lines, the publication re-
ports, compared with 614,287, 1893 lines
in 1885. This is a gain Of 81, 654, 58S
lines, or So per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL. October 10 R.-Ney
BY the wheat futures market here today.
Prices closed l lad to 4d higher on yes-
terday's strength in the Argentine and
shippers offers.
Cotton futures held steady today. with
eu{ ayns o. Of
offsetting hedge selling. Bullish senti-
nsnt predominated. The closing range
was points lower 70 hlGner. -
London and Paris closed.
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LIVERPOOL Quotations.

- LIVERPOOL; October 10 aP.-cotton.
Spot prices / point higher. Quotations
IN pence: American. strict good middling,
5;57: good middling. 7.27: strict mid
oiias; 1.0a; middling, 6;S7: strict low
good ordinary, 6.07; good ordinary. SIT.
Futures closed steady: October. $50; De-
May. $50: July, 6.56.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL October 10 R.-Silver
futures closed steady and UNCHANGED; No
March f4 Gns Ms s,a' 445s ee% ri: msrR MARKET
will be closed Monday. Columbus day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
MRS. B0GARDUS DIES
Services Set Today for Alexandra
Widow.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The star
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October TO-
Mrs. Mary Couch Bogardus, y.
widow of Washington A. II. b.
gardus, died yesterday ut her home,
sos Cameron street. Services were %
be held this afternoon 1t the Wheatley
funeral home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10

Britain Is exporting more hard.
surface floor coverings than 1t any
time IN It's history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

the complete official list of transactions in
stocks on the Chicago Stock Exchange to-
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10
Put Money in Real Estate.

In French Morocco investors are
putting their money into real estate
as hedge against devaluation Of the
franc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-10

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady. October, s.sob; De-
cember, l005b; January, 1015-l6;
March, lo.23b, and May, 1o.25b. Sales,
81 contracts. Bid.
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INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK. october 10 LP.-New
York Security Dealers Association:
Moon ouotationS1
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CottonSeed Oil.

Spot quiet; middling. 1921.
Nominal
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Germany Is unifying its docu-
mentary tax laws.
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IiyerpooI Wheat Prices.


LIVERPOOL, october 10 OP,.-whest
futures closed frm.
Evening star., 1936-06-24

home lovers to protect and preserve
their firesides?
The fight for freedom in the past
three years has been the same fight
that Thomas Jefferson made in 1776
for the freedom of the common man,
that Lincoln made for the freedom
of race.
Back of Hoover's cry for freedom
at Cleveland stood the immemol ial
pawnbrokers of the Republican party
who shout with glee that they have
experienced counterfeit conversion.
Back of him stood the Republican
partys holding company, the Ameci-
can Liberty League, which, if it had
existed in 1916 as now officered and
manned. would have been against thc
Declaration of independence, the Rev.
olutionary War and the Constitution
of the United States.
Back of him stood every interest
which seeks to coin the flesh and blood
of human beings into profits, every
ck-jobber, every monopolist of privi-
lege and power, every propagandist for
the discredited and defunct alliance
between politics and pef. Back Of
him stood the figure of William Ran
dolph Hearst, whose twin discoveries
constitute the Republican ticket nomi-
mated at Cleveland.
Yes, We have destroyed a certain
type of liberty in this country.
We have destroyed the liberty of
small groups to pick the pockets of
the American people, the liberty of
organized greed to pervert the agen-
cies of government to their own en-
richment, the liberty of great financial
wizards to engulf this Nation in the
flood waters of frenzied speculation,
the liberty of SNUG groups of self
satisfied parasites to pull the strings
Evening star., 1936-06-24

safety and protection We have au-
thorized.
Not the consumers of electric en-
ergy for whom we have provided an
honest yardstick.
Not the honest business man who
asks nothing of government except
the assurance that he shall be per-
mitted to compete with others on a
basis of honesty and justice.
Not the great moral leaders and
apostles of America who have seen
at last some Of the sacred precepts Of
the Golden Rule applied to the prac-
tices, motives and powers Of govern
ment.
America is in peril" say the plat
form fabricators of the Republican
Old Guard. 1t would indeed be true
If they should ever again regain con-
troll.
THE powers of Congress have been
usurped by the President" say Hearst
and Mills and Moses and Bingham and
Hoover. The same was said of Wash
ington and jackson and Lincoln. The
American people expect their President
to be leader. not a craven dummy
in the lap of some ventriloquist.
Regulated monopoly has displaced
free enterprise" say these who put
together Joseph's coat at Cleveland.
When under their domination did
anybody see or hear of free enter
prise? Uncontrolled monopoly was
their middle name.
THE New Deal administration con-
stantly seeks to usurp the rights of
the States" say these master build
ers. But for nearly a century and a
half they have sought to hamper both
State and national authority when
directed against their pampered pets
in politics and business.
ut has dishonored our country by
repudiating its most solemn obliga-
tions," and on that platform they
nominated candidate who, three
years ago, urged the payment of pub
lie and private debts in money of the
printing press, redeemable in neither
silver nor gold.
1T has created a vast multitude of
new Offices" So runs the monoto-
nous refrain.
Government Adds Workers
For Increased Tasks.
If We had continued the Republi-
can policy Of doing nothing about
relief, nothing about the farm crisis,
nothing for labor or business. moth
ing for homes and farms burdened
with debt, nothing for one-fourth of
the distressed population of this Ma
ton, it would have been possible not
to create new Offices. But you cannot
double the tasks of government and
not increase the number of employees
If this is Republican condemnation
Of doing something as opposed to
Evening star., 1936-06-24

cause it invades the rights of private
property. I presume this progressive
and logical course will soon lead us to
the conclusion that private property
cannot do it, because it violates the
law of gravitation.
What We need Is new definition
and a new Interpretation of interstate
commerce. Every article that is grown
or mined or fabricated in one State
and destined for another by whatever
means of transportation is an object
of interstate commerce. 1t is in COM
petition with every other similar article
originating in or destined for other
States. Commerce, like water. seeks
its own level. Like the wind. it goeth
where it listeth; and you can no more
divide this Nation into 48 air-tight
and water-tight economic compart-
ments than you can parcel off the
heavens to control the winds or the
rains.
Over against the Hosanahs of Hoo
yer for the tortured Interpretation of
the Constitution I place the tortured
SOulS dllu DOQleS OF men VINO WOrK
and pray, of women whose God-given
right is not fulfilled in a sweatshop,
and of children whom we have sought
to restore to the school room and the
playground. One day all these will
thank God for Franklin Roosevelt.
But We were told at Cleveland. and
will be told until November, that we
have taken away the liberties of the
people; that We have bound them in
chains. and that they are fettered in
the dungeons of moral and economic
slavery.
Oh, for another Lincoln to strike
these shackles from our feet!
What is this freedom which we have
crucifled? This liberty we have slain?
Is it the freedom of workers to free
collective bargaining? Is it the free
dom of farmers to escape the loath-
some peonage imposed on them by
land and produce spectators? Is it
the freedom of investors to circumvent
the secret devices of stock manipula-
tors?
Is it the freedom of bank depositors
from the fear of loss of their savings?
Is it the freedom of home owners and
Evening star., 1936-06-24

industry have been saved from bank
ruptcy. but that faith in banking and
industry have been revived.
The answer to that enigma of
denunciation by some Of those who
have been saved and others who may
not have needed it is as old as Hamil-
tonian reaction and Jeffersonian
democracy. This has been balanced
recovery. Benefits have been bestowed
upon all groups with as even a hand
as government can assure.
But there are other gains which
have been recorded in the past three
years of which I am thinking, and
of which the American people are
thinking.
These are the moral and spiritual
contributions we have made to the
life of our people which are beyond
computation by the standards of the
dollar.
We talk of the gold standard, the
gold content of the dollar. and men
who do not know the history or the
significance Of money talk about the
gold dollar and the so-called return
to gold, denying the obvious truth
that the American dollar, with
larger reserve of gold behind it today
than ever before, is the soundest
medium of exchange among all the
nations Of the world today.
But I am thinking of those i'm
mortal reserves of character which
partake of the essence of the heart
and soul of nation which have been
strengthened and perpetuated by what
we have been trying to do.
am thinking that while We have
preserved homes and acres and rail-
roads and banks and insurance COM
panies and factories and all the
tangible and corporal symbols of the
peoples wealth, we have also pre-
served the Intangible and i'm
measurable values that take form in
the realms of pride and service and
honor.
We have preserved and stimulated
respect for law and the rights of the
average man.
We have increased the loyalty of
the people to the Government, which
should be their servant.
We have restored the faith from
which must spring the defenders of
the flag and of the Constitution.
We have cultivated a study of the
science of government and its truest
functions among millions to whom
government was something apart and
detached and without meaning.
We have renewed and reinforced
the belief that after all government
and trusted leaders may hear and
heed the cry Of the humblest
worshiper at the shrine of equality.
We have rekindled the vanishing
Evening star., 1936-06-24

faith in the survival CT the best az
well as the fittest. x
We have reVitalized the answer to-
the question which has rung through
all the ages Am 1 my brothers
keeper?"
We have sought to confound the
cynics who despise the moral con-
ceptionS Of the more abundant life
for which the Master lived and died.
We have under the leadership Of
a man Of rare and superb courage
endeayored not TO tear down what
others have legitimately constructed,
not to destroy the material rewards
Of honest toll of mind or body. but
to establish a fairer, juster order
that Will give to every man, woman
and child in this Republic the right
to stand erect in pride and self re-
| spect, to see the stars on high and
share the glory Of the sun
We meet here within the shadow
of Liberty Hall, in this City of Brother-
ly Love, in this State Of William Penn,
where eight score years ego Thomas
Jefferson gave to the world an un-
familiar creed of human freedom. Is
was here that he became tire spokes-
man of the drawers of water and
hewers Of wood. 1t was here that the
foundations Of our faith were laid.
1t is here again. in the midst Of
these historic scenes that We invoke
the spirits of departed patriots, re-
kindle our belief in the nobility Of
their cause, and rededicate ourselves
to its complete fulfillment
1t is here, with such a leadership,
in such cause, with such a record.
that We accept the challenge and
hasten our feet to the field of battle.
My conclude with with quotation:
No greater thing could come to
our land today than a revival of the
spirit of religion-a revival that would
sweep through the homes Of the Ma
ton and stir the hearts of men and
women of all faiths to a realization
Of their belief in God and their dedi-
cation to His will for themselves and
for their world 1 doubt if there is
any problem-social, political or eco
nomic-that would not melt before
the fire of such spiritual awaken
ing"
The American people are not afraid
to follow. they will follow, the man
who spoke those words He is the
present and the next President Of the
United States, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1936-06-24
Halsey Clears Way and Takes
Fun Out of Con1olly's Crashing

doorkeepers Of that Democratic gath
ering.
Connolly recalled yesterday how he
first got into the hall at Houston by
walking up to the gate with broom
and asking the ticket takers to move
aside while he brushed away the lit
ter of ticket stubs on the floor.
The officials of that convention at
last disposed of the problem by giving
Connolly badge, which he saved and
used to gain admittance to the 1892
convention at Chicago.
Now comes the sad part Of the
story, from gate crasher's point of
view. When Connolly came to the
present convention he found that Col.
Halsey had already appointed him an
honorary assistant sergeant at arms.
What could he do but put the bright
colored badge on his coat and pass
through the gate in the conventional
manner of one who belongs there?
Evening star., 1936-06-24
BY Stan Correspondent of The Star.

PHILADELPHIA, June 24-"One-
eyed" Connolly, Americas No. 1 gate
crasher, got into the Democratic Ma
tional Convention yesterday, but it
was humiliating day in his long and
successful career.
When a man bites a dog. that's
news. And when "One-eyed" Con-
molly finds himself ushered in to
national event without having to use
his ingenuity, it falls in the same
category. His nemesis at Philadel-
phia was Col Edwin A. Halsey, Sec
retary of the United States Senate
and sergeant at arms of the con-
vention.
Perhaps Col. Halsey remembered
what happened at Houston, Tex, in
1928, when Connolly rose to unusual
heights of strategy in outwitting the