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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-25
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 Q. What are instincts?
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 c. State the population of the Philippines and of Hawaii.
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Horoscope
JANUARY %

General Indications of the Day
 For Everybody
 The late morning and early after noon hours bring to Q head the turbulent conditions brewing. Do not allow the whirlpool of stellar emotions to engulf you. Try to rec main calm.
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The old problem of what to do with our ex-presidents seems to have solved itself. Let 'en criticize the other fellows.
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Whats in a name? The fellow who used to drive an old skate now drives an old crate.
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Daily Nhav.~y4T Rnras1ra Washington -.-s-- s s ---S-~ --~ ------ TAMMANY GROOMS SMITH
 FOR NEW YORK MAYOR
ng DREW PEARSON an9 ROBERT .. ALLE

Washington, January 25 - Inside word among Al Smiths close friends is that he is being groomed by Tammany to be Mayor of New York in 10S7 AIS Liberty League speech is the tCuch-on in this drive.
 Tanany leaders, bitter at Roosevelt because of the way he has played ball with Mayor LaCuardia in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-25

TO-DAYs COMMON ERROR Never say, "A crowd of girls and myself went to the theater"; say, "A crowd of girls and l."
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A Thought for Today

The Ylch man shall lIe down but he shall not he gathered; he openeth his eyes and he ls not --yOb 27;1o.
 He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.-5ocrates.
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A. The 1880 census enumerated 12,0e2,36 in the Philippines, and 368, ,336 in Hawaii. c. DO American citizens require passports to visit Canada?
 A. No.
 c. What is the number of unen- ployed in the U. 6. as estimated by the national industrial conference board?
 A. The November estimate was 9,177000.
 c. How many incorporated libra- ries are there in the U. S.?
 A. About ten thousand.
 e. What is the largest breed of American poultry?
 A. Jersey Black Giants.
 Q. When was the salary of the the governor of New Jersey increased from $l0,O00 to $20.000 @ year.
 A. Tn 1880.
 c. Is there a book that contains a record of lost mines?
 A. "Coronado's Children" by J. Frank Dobie.
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c. Was the travel allowance for members of congress increased in the last session of congress?
 A. No. Representative Mitchell of Tennessee offered an amendment to abolish the mileage allowance. but it was voted down.
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Varied 0eaIu

Short ehrdift: Arturo Toscanini hes come back to New York to de fel. the Philharmonic.
 Shirley Grey. the movie actress. has arrived here after Q long siege ln the motion picture studies oi England.
Evening star., 1936-07-23
GRAIN BELT FACES
CONTINUED HEAT.
Corn Yield Estimates Fall
ing Daily as Drought
Persists.

Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July ga spotty
weather map presaged more drought
aggravating heat in some sections OF
the corn belt today to test the forti-
tude of farmers already counting
their grain losses in terms of millions
OF bushels.
Scattered local thundershowers,
with no immediate prospect of gen.
eral relief, we're predicted by Fore
caster j. r. Lloyd at Chicago.
In Nebraska, wehere temperatures
generally exceeded 100 yesterday and
ranged up to ITO at Ainsworth, Crop
StatiStician A. E. Anderson said corn
could not Withstand more than an
other rainleSs week.
He declared that in some parts
of the State conditions already were
worse than in the 1884 drought. when
Nebraska produced only 20,000,000
bushels, compared with a normal 226,-
100000. The weather outlook today
was generally fair.
Iowa's Tall Corn Hit.
Charles D. Reed. Iowa meterolo-
gist, estimated the corn yield expec-
tation in that State had been re-
duced by 100 to 140 million bushels.
Local thundershowers were forecast.
Rising temperatures, after two days
in which light scattered rains held
down the mercury, were indicated in
Oklahoma, where a National Emer-
Evening star., 1936-07-23

swept across q mile Of green timber
and into the dry woods Of the Lake
Betsy region. Other fires burned east
of ManiStique.
Two hundred men battled seven
hours to stop prairie fire In the
vicinity Of Ainsworth, Nebr. Range
pasturage and 100 tons Of hay were
destroyed.
Illinois farmers, on whose behalf
Gov. Henry Horner yesterday asked
Federal relief, had a prospect OF local
thundershowers, but more heat was the
outlook in the southern part.
Eastern and southern Missouri faced
warmer weather. Fair skies were pre-
dicted for the DakotaS. Kansas,
Evening star., 1936-07-23

gency Council survey estimated an 30
per cent loss in corn.
Southern Indiana's outlook was
warmer, but local thundershowers were
predicted in the northern part Of the
State. A survey showed the probable
corn loss already had reached $12,000,-
900, with the field reduced an average
of four bushels per acre.
Rains, the first since late June In
most sections, fell in the upper Michi-
gan peninsula yesterday and the
northern part of the lower peninsula.
Detroit remained rainless since July 4.
Dry Forests Blaze.
At Newberry, Mich, fire fighters
brought under control a blaze which
Evening star., 1936-07-23

Kerry, Ireland. is survived by her
husband, James A. Dixon; three
daughters and two sons by a former
marriage, Mrs. c. w. Flaherty, Miss
Nora T. Flowers, Mrs. Elizabeth Day
and John E. Flowers, all of this city,
and William G. Flowers, naval avia-
tion mechanic stationed at Pensacola.
Fla; nine grandchildren, brother,
Timothy Nelligan. and a sister, Mrs.
Margaret O'Brien, both of this city.
Funeral services will be held at 8
am. Saturday in st. Teresa's Cath
olic Church. following brief services
at the residence. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-07-23
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON THURSDAY JULY

prices for butter as O result Of the
drought.
The drought began to damage pas
lures and hay crops in June and fur
ther cut down milk production in July.
Butter and cheese prices have risen
rapidly during the month, the bureau
said.
Milk production on July was re-
ported per cent below the average for
that date.
Evening star., 1936-07-23
Ulster Takes to Gliding.

Gliding is becoming popular In Ul-
ster and the membership Of the Ulster
Gliding and Aviation Club has grown
rapidly this year. The club has just
been registered as a limited liability
company in order to qualify for the
subsidy which is available from the
British government for such organiza-
tions. Mrs. Kathleen Mackie Of Bel
fast, Northern Ireland, Is a director.
Evening star., 1936-07-23

where many farmers had cut their
corn for ensilage, was in line for more
heat instead of the rain necessary to
produce late crop.
Evening star., 1936-07-23
MRS. NORA T. DIXON, 81,
DIETITIAN, DIES HERE
Services to Be Held Saturday at
st. Teresa'-Burial in
Mount Oliyet,

Mrs. Nora Theresa Dixon, 81, die
titan at st. Elizabeth's Hospital and
for more than 40 years a resident Of
this city, died yesterday at her home,
1888 u street southeast.
Mrs. Dixon, a native Of County
Evening star., 1936-07-23

Cuba has announced that it has no
intention of changing existing sugar
legislation.
Evening star., 1936-07-23
BUTTER PRICES DUE
FOR FURTHER RISE
Drought Damage to Pastures Is
Blamed for Higher Milk
Products Cost.
a. the Associated Press.

b the Associated freSS.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics said today consumers probably
would have to pay somewhat higher
Evening star., 1936-07-23

Beautiful, pink, soft, tender,
fIeshy fyers-the finest thot
money con buy. Scientifically
roised end freshly killed right
here in Washington.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

values were less in each case than the
actual departures. On the whole Winter
forecasts were less satisfactory than those
for any other season.
There is a correlation of IT between
Spring temperatures in this region and
the combined presSures the previous
Summer at Midway Island, west of Ha-
waii. and Lagos, Nigeria. For Is OF the
II years for which records were avail
able the prediction of temperature pres
sure was correct in sign" In any of
those years it would have been possible
to forecast a Spring colder or warmer
than normal. There is complete agree
ment in each year where either the
actual or the forecast variation from
normal is greater than one degree.
For the Summer correlation they used
the pressure departures for 40 years the
previous Winter at Toxic and the pre-
vious Autumn at Rio de Janeiro. The
multiple correlation was go. The fore
casts agreed in sign with the actual tenn
peratures 70 per cent of the time. When
the computed departure was more than
one degree there was agreement 81 per
cent of the time.
The statistics are complicated-may
look more optimistic than they actually
are.
The Weather Bureau is not ready to
make any long-range forecasts on the
strength of them. But when all the
antiquities are removed they mean that
it is now possible to predict whether a
season will be warmer or colder than
6o, b1y,
Such a prediction still would be a
guess-but a guess with 80 per cent
chance in it's favor. No gambler could
ask a better percentage in game OF
chance. The farmer who plans his crops
a few seasons ahead is to very con-
siderable extent gambling on the weather.
Hitherto his chances have been exactly
$3.50. Now they may be third better
than that.
The correlations will be extended to
cover the entire country, but the work
involved is enormous. A P. w. A. appro-
priation has been granted the Weather
Bureau to carry out part of it.
In attacking the problem of long range
forecasting from this angle the Weather
Bureau has reversed the usual procedure.
1t is working from effect to cause, rather
than from cause to effect. Nobody has
any very clear idea why the barometric
pressure during the Winter months at
Toxic should affect the temperature at
Minneapolis the next Summer. The cor
relations show that it does. The me-
teorologists can look for the cause after
ward.
For years calculations from cause to
effect have failed. 1t would be logical,
for example. to surmise that the Winter
thickness of ice in the Arctic would
modify the Spring temperatures over
the United States, but years of statistical
work have not revealed any noteworthy
correlation.
From the correlations actually found,
says Mr.. Weightman, it probably will be
possible in years to come to work out
general laws. First it is necessary to
find them, and an excellent beginning
has been made.
Evening star., 1936-01-16

stores. schools, hospitals and homes were
cloaked in Stygian shadow, their deni-
zens suddenly plunged into night OF the
kind John Milton meant when he wrote
of the eldest of things" Crowds in the
streets struggled from point to point in
a chaotic confusion of traffic overcast
with an atmosphere of weird frustra-
ton. Multitudes felt in their hearts that
which is involved in swimming against
tide They were conscious of being
robbed of a capital imperative for
progress.
But the throngs on the sidewalks were
more fortunate than those trapped in the
SubwayS or in tall buildings. In the
former, trains stood still; in the latter,
cars were halted between floors and
could be neither raised nor lowered.
Meanwhile, movie theaters ceased to oper-
ate, radio entertainment suspended and
physicians concluded the treatment of
patients in such illumination as was
provided by matches held in the fingers
of nurses trembling with excitement
Humble candles, coincidentally, Jumped"
to fifty cents each in price.
Yet there was no panic. The millions
waited for the return of normal condi-
tions with little anxiety. Granted the
emergency was diSconcerting, there was
faith enough to quiet any fear. And
therein lies the significance of the Incl
dent. The human race, puzzled on occa-
sion though it may be, is not skeptical
of the future. 1t understands, perhaps
without thinking of it, that the genius
which "snatched the thunderbolt from
heaven" and harneSsed the lightning,
can and surely will solve problems less
or equally great. Providence, it knows,
has lit light within the soul of man
which may be interrupted but which
cannot die.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
The Local Relief Problem.

Commissioner Allen very properly has
transferred back to the Board of Public
Welfare the responsibility of direction
of the emergency relief program of the
District Government now that the Fed
eral Government has halted the dole.
The District has been thrown back on
ITS own resources so far as relief is con-
cerned. 1t would have perpetuated an
emergency set-up on permanent basis
had Commissioner Allen retained per-
sonal control.
The Commissioner, therefore, is to be
commended for his clear perspective on
the situation in asking the citizen vol.
unteers who make up the Board of Pub
lie Welfare again to take charge. just as
was the case prior to starting the Fed
eral dole.
It should be remembered that the other
Commissioners are not in any wise evad-
ing responsibility for the solution of the
problem. They could not if they desired.
They are the administrative heads of
the District Government and still have
due responsibility. What has happened
is merely an administrative change. The
citizens who comprise the Welfare
Board, instead of one Commissioner, now
will plan the relief policies.
The move, however, centers partic-
ular attention upon the present emer-
gency relief needs of the District. Fred
erick w. McReynolds, chairman of the
Welfare Board, in a statement ac-
cepting control of District relief, em-
phasized the need of longtime plan
ming for the aid of those left in dis
tress by the economic unheavals of
the past few years. He also pointed
to the necessity for large supplemental
appropriation to care for the needs
of some 10000 relief clients between
now and July l, the beginning of the
new fiscal year. Present District relief
funds face exhaustion well in advance
of that date.
No doubt the Board of Public We'll
the amount that must be sought from
Congress to meet that need. Commits
sioner Allen has estimated roughly that
100000 or more must be provided.
Chairman McReynolds, in his statement,
suggested the need of $5Oo,O0O to $780,
600. The latter was not final calcu-
lation, and from all available indica-
tions is decidedly below the sum that
will, in the final analysis, be found to be
essential to cope with the relief problem
of the District in its entirety.
1t is to be assumed that the board will
give most careful consideration to the
matter, to the end that there will be
no unnecessary hardship on unfortu-
mates here. The board also will give its
best efforts to plan methods of meet
ing the relief problem in the future.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Each one Of us, though no mental
giant, can make up little personal list
Of dos and don'ts in this matter and
keep 1t Intellectually handy, so that in
case Of need it may be drawn on at will
Especially those of us who may be in
tereSted In Nature study of one kind or
another must learn to take everything
as we find it.
That is the essence of this game. and
often the happy fact is that what worries
us, one way or another, which may strike
our strictly man-made reasoning as wrong
or hurtful or in some way not to our
liking turns out to be the very thing
needful.
It was so with the pigeons and it will
be so with many another thing about
which the mind finds it necessary to go
into fits of worry and perplexity.
The person who takes up the feeding
of the wild birds, for instance, will find
much about their behavior which per-
plexes and puzzles, at first, until he finally
realizes that they are responding to
stimuli wholly outside his own knowl-
edge.
If the squirrels squat in the feeders all
day long they will be resented by the
newcomer to the art of bird feeding.
81 did not invite them," he will fume,
attempting to drive them away. only to
find at last that it is hopeless and i'm
possible task.
After a time he will discover that al
though the rodents eat considerable seed
they also knock down great quantities of
it to the ground beneath the feeder,
where scores of little birds feed unmo
Tested.
What great worry the starlings are
to many who take up bird feeding
Yet in time they come to see that these
birds are not half as bad as they have
been painted and that, generally speak
ing, they do not altogether fancy the hard
seeds commonly used in bird seed mix
lures. Being soft-billed birds, they prefer
suet, bread and salmon. The way one
householder found out they love salmon
was when he placed a plateful of it on
the back porch for feline guest. Before
the arrival Of the latter a flock of
dozen starlings discovered the plate and
came up on the porch, surrounded the
plate and swept it clean in few min
utes. Just as they were finishing a
hungry dog poked his head above the
top step. When the StarlingS saw the
dog they few up and away with great
futter of wings, directly over the dog,
who was amazed and scared at the turn
events had taken.
Underneath are the everlasting arms"
We are guided in small and large affairs
by wisdom we dimly comprehend,
helped by an aid that never falters, made
secure by forces without which life could
not exist for single second. The least
and the greatest are beneficiaries of
wisdom, aid and forces which mankind
is only beginning dinly to understand.
But man always has known, seemingly,
that this wisdom, help and power have
existed, whether he rightly understood
them or not. If we worry more than we
should it is our privilege, but it is not
good thing to do. as even so small things
as five pigeons in the grass may show us.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
The balance of Nature is an interesting

Tne Dalance OF NATURE Is al Interesting
thing. .
The way it works out is theoretical
enough in discussion, but eminently prac-
tical in everyday life.
Here's how, in one case:
A Washingtonian who had assumed the
task of feeding the wild birds in his gar
den came to lament the presence of five
pigeons in the yard.
Surely they were no good, he thought,
except to drive away the smaller birds
and to eat the seeds put out for the
latter.
One morning the bird enthusiast no
ticed great drift of seeds on the ground
beneath one of the feeders.
On examination he found they were
not seeds, but husks, as shelled out by
the cardinals, nuthatches, woodpeckers,
mockingbirds and other feathered guests.
~ ~
"I must get out and rake all that up"
he told himself.
On returning home that evening he
looked out into the yard, expecting to
see the mass of husks larger than ever.
The plot of ground had been swept
clean.
On asking about it he was told that the
much-despised pigeons, instead of being
nuisance, had consumed all the huSkS.
They had swept the grass as clean of
them as if much manual labor had been
put on the plot with rake and shovel.
1t was Natures balance in operation.
1t Is thus, and in no other way, that the
great woods are clean, that the sweeps
of sandy beach are fit for bare feet, that
the streams and oceans do not kill
batherS.
Despite the pollution by man, there are
vast forces at work everywhere to keep
life sanitary.
The gigantic battle of the centuries is
not some man-made show, petty in COM
parison, but this change and interchange
that is going on all the time.
From bacteria to winds, from microbes
and germs to jackals and buzzards, the
immense sanitary police Of Nature are
doing their work ceaSeleSSly.
There is something to consume every
thing, with the result that it is possible
to walk where otherwise only piles of
offal would greet the eyes and nose.
x* xx
There is a certain real mental satisfac-
tion in the contemplation OF Natures
resources, in addition to the plain
physical benefits demonstrated on every
side.
Much of mans worry is over Natures
steps, but if he learns to understand
something of her balance he may cease
to take the universe on his shoulders, in
an intellectual sense.
1t would be an interesting diversion
for great mind to undertake to analyze
mans worries, to determine which part
of them are wholly civilized and which
proceed from Nature.
If this could be done a map or chart
of mankinds perpleXities might be con-
structed, so that It would be possible Tor
the intelligent person to give over worry
ing about the things which proceed en-
tirely from Nature and which. therefore,
cannot be changed or remedied to any
material extent.