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Evening star., 1936-08-20
Shop and Save . Friday Bargain Day
N RnnsN D o Accepted
Silk Slips Reduced

Silk Slips Reduced
Silk Slips in tearose and white. Regularly $1le,
rTlOdy
Silk Pongee Slips, small sizes only. Regularly
81, Friday bargain price-------59 59c
Lace-trmmed Silk Gowns, in tearose only wee
neckine all sizes. Regularly 81 .95, Friday, $1.29
Silk Underwear 4. .. Third Floor.
Chiffon Hose -59c pair
Full-fashioned hose, with picot hens, cra-
die soles and plated heels. Fall colors.
All sizes.
Hosiery .. First Floor.
WOmen's Shoes --$l.59
Originally 81 to $6.75
So pairs white, brown and white and pas
tel patent shoes, with high heels only.
Broken sizes from regular stocks.
Misses Buster Brown Oxfords. In brown and
white, beige and black. Broken sizes. Regularly
S219 Friday 40
Women's Blue Kid Ties. 81 pair in broken sizes.
A few pumps and T-straps included Originally
$685. Friday
Shoes -. Second Floor.
Evening star., 1936-08-20

This item, has been
thoroughly checked by
our Merchandise Board
for Fashion, Quality and
Price 1t is, in their
opinion, q guaranteed
Udlue,
Evening star., 1936-08-20
Martha Washington
Curtains SLIP pair

$50 pairs floral and colored ruffled pat
terms, in fine quality materials.
Tapestry Squares. Better quality tapestry. suit
able for dining room chair seats or backs. They
were cut from s2.95 to s4-95 tapestry bolts. Size
25x25 inches. Friday ony-------------------22c
Chair Slip Covers. For dining room chairs.
Jaspe or homespun pleated, with cord welted
seams in contrasting colors-
Drapery Damask. 50-inch. Plain figured pat
terms in S to 20 yard lengths. Friday only,
Curtain and Drapery Remnants. Usable lengths
left from our regular stocks, Friday----------5c
Draberies . Second Floor.
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Coat Sets -------$3.Y5
Regularly S6.95, sizes to IL
Coat Suit size 16. Regularly $685. Friday Sc
Sleeveless Sweaters sizes to 16 Regularly
$1.19, Friday Bargain price
Is Eton Suits, sizes to 6. Regularly $l.79.
SO Cotton Shirts long sleeves, sizes to S. Reg
uarly 29c, Friday
Children's Wear -. Third Floor.
Evening star., 1936-03-12
Standardizing English.

Professor Lloyd James. teacher Of pho
netics at London University, is in the
United States to study current trends
toward the standardization Of spoken
English. The written language, he
finds, has been tremendously standard
lied" But the linguistic habits of the
people still are anarchistic. In effect,
the result is q bi-lingual character Of
folk utterance. Few persons write as
they speak.
But the case is not hopeless. Dr..
James relies upon the radio and the
talking film to promote a renaissance of
disciplined diction. Yet he does not
lack appreciation of Yankee twangs,
Southern drawls and corn-belt caco-
phony." Everybody" he says, seems
to be terribly afraid of the standardiza-
ton of the spoken language. Perhaps
1t is natural to desire to retain local
flavor In that, as in ether aspects of
everyday life. Perhaps such standardiza-
ton is looked upon as just one more
milestone in the disappearance Of local
distinctions, traditions, color. But
modern communications demand stand
Evening star., 1936-03-12
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

hitherto inexperienced obstacle arose
they had no means Of overcoming it.
Discovery of three new minerals
rare and hitherto unknown constituents
Of the earth's surface-has Just been
announced from the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
The first, which was collected and
studied by Edward P. Henderson, min
eralogist of the National Museum staff,
is bright, canary-yellow powdery min
eral. It came from the uranium vanad-
ium-bearing sandstone along the north
wall of the Gypsum Valley in Colorado,
where it was found in cracks in limited
quantities.
The new mineral has been named
steigerite, in honor of DR.. George Steiger,
former chief chemist of the United
States Geological Survey. Chemical
analysis shows 1t to be q combination Of
vanadium, aluminium oxides and water.
To the unaided eye it has a powdery
appearance. Closer examination reveals
a waxy luster and very fine crystalline
f1brous structure resembling chalcedony.
1t is strikingly different in appearance
from the vanadium- bearing sandstone
with which it is found, the latter having
a mottled brown to purplish black color.
Steigerite is easily decomposed by min
eral acids and produces solution with
a deep cherry-red color.
The other two minerals were an
nounced by william F. Foshag of the
museum staff. Both were found near
Franklin Furnace, N. j. One Is a vari-
ETY. of rare mineral known as gano-
phyllite, first described In Sweden more
than 40 years ago.
The second is described by'Dr. Foshag
as a "zincian amphibole"-a form of the
mineral known as amphibole but which
contains an unusual amount both Of zinc
and manganese.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

situation and he appeals to the citizenry
Of America to address itself to the
restoration of peace, through the reform
of the laws and the practices of the
courts and the administration Of the
statutes.
There is indeed, as Mr.. Hoover said,
a crying need for leadership in the
mobilization of every possible defensive
and offensive weapon Of public opinion,
public vengeance, public courage and pub
lie willingness to carry on relentlessly and
without surcease battle to the death
against the multifold minions Of crime"
The truth Of the situation must be real
lied in every community to the end that
corrupt officers of the law, shameless
alliance between certain branches Of the
legal profession and the criminals, and
dangerous sentimentality of sympathy
for the offenders who prey upon the
persons and property of the people
be met with an unflinching hostility in
the name Of peace and security.
In his address in New York Mr.. Hoover
stated the case directly and explicitly.
The American people, he said, "can grid
themselves for long and difficult fight
upon armed forces of crime which num-
ber more than three million active par
ticipants and by so doing can set them
selves free from the dominance of this
underworld army" He further said:
'If you do not care to do this, then you
can make up your mind to submit to
what really amounts to an actual armed
invasion of America"
This is the most important issue before
the American people today. 1t is not a
partisan question, not local, but one
that bears upon the salvation of the
country from the most demoralizing,
dangerous and costly abuse of the privi-
lese Of citizenship from which any land
ever suffered.
Evening star., 1936-03-12
Americas Domestic War,

This country is at peace with the
world. 1t is, however, at war with itself.
"A yeritable revolution against the law,
against the peace and the lives and the
property of its people is raging. During
the past year more than 1900 murders
and an estimated total altogether Of
very nearly million and half major
crimes were committed. The per capita
cost to the country is calculated at more
than fifteen billions of dollars, q per
capita tax upon the citizens of more
than S12o year. And practically moth
ing Is done about 1t.
This distressing picture of the state
Of the Nation is painted by J. Edgar
Hoover, director Of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation Of the Department of
Justice, In round table" talk In New
York. He is in a position to know the
Evening star., 1936-03-12

ardization. Our railway gauges are
standardized, our voltages are stand
ardized. The motor industry could not
have achieved its energy or have
brought us the benefits we have enjoyed
from It without Standardization"
Yet there is another side to the argu-
ment. Automobile manufacturer, for
example, devote their energies to the
production Of different and not identic
cars. Each separate type of machine Is
deliberately designed to excel It's rivals.
And the same principle is operative In
every distinctive field Of human enter
prise. The basic issue involved, it seems,
is that Of the individual versus the mass.
A man probably has to be as much like
his fellows as is necessary to permit sur
vival and as much different from them
as Is necessary to prevent slavish
subsection.
And the creative as opposed to the
gregarious instinct is worthy of preserva-
ton. The speech of the English race
has been much more largely developed
by personal genius than it has been by
mass repetition. Shakespeare. notably,
invented the vernacular of Britain
and America. Few, doubtless, are
conscious of the fact, but the evi-
dence is incontrovertible. And the same
claim may be made for Daniel Defoe,
Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens and
George Bernard Shaw, 'not to mention
Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Mark
Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, H. l..
Mencken and an army Of sports writer's,
of whom Ring -Lardner may be cited
as symbol.
But, Of course, no apology should be
offered for ignorance or carelessness.
David Belasco was well advised when he
obliged the Girl Of the Golden West"
to pronounce the name Of the author
Of the Divine Comedy as though it con-
sisted Of only one syllable. He knew
that the trick would demonstrate the
speakers cultural poverty. A practical
measure Of standardization, then, is
wanted; regimentation, as DR.. James
suggests, would be resisted.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Mrs. Coolidge's honey bees, purging
their ranks by yearly mass guillotinings,
have been rescued from suffocation
caused by the heads of their victims.
In the National Museum there is q
glass-inclosed beehive through whose
windows visitors can watch all the
operations of the insects. 1t Is con-
nected with the outside by long pas
sageway through which the workers 60
to gather pollen.
During the Coolidge administration
this hive aroused the exceptional in
terest Of the mistress of the White
House. She was q frequent visitor and
brought parties Of friends to watch the
little creatures at work.
One day they swarmed. They chose
for their lighting place a tree in the
White House yard. Their angry buzzing
made visitors and attaches nervous.
Mrs. Coolidge insisted that they be re.
moved Immediately in spite OF the
implied compliment that they had come
to the White House to be near one whom
they recognized as friend.
After this episode it was necessary to
take precautions against their swarming
again. The queen was placed in an
upper compartment of the hive, shut on
from below by parallel wires strung 30
close together that the large BODY OF
the mother of the swarm could not get
through, although the smaller workers
Gould pass back and forth easily.
The insects would not swarm without
q queen. The device seemed to work
perfectly. Now and then museum en-
ployes would notice headless bodies OF
bees on the lawn outside and wonder
what had happened.
This Winter the bees were noted In
the hive tanning restlessly as If they
were trying to create air circulation
Because Of this it was decided to
take the hive apart to see what was
the matter. It was found that the
spaces between the wires were almost
completely plugged up by heads, strung
along like parallel rows Of beads. There
waS very little space left through which
air could get through to the queen.
AS is well known, once a year the
workers in a hive massacre the drones.
Then they carry out the bodies OF their
victims, one at time, 30 that they will
not pollute the dwelling place.
Now droneS are larger than workers.
There apparently had been considerable
difficulty In getting the corpses through
the narrow interstices between the wires
With much tugging, it appears, it had
been possible to pull through the soft
bodies, conipressible up to tha hard,
chitinized heads. These could not be
dragged through. The workers simply
had to tug until the bodies were pulled
loose and the heads left behind.
The workers had been wise enough
to leave spaces by which they could get
in and out, but all the time it was
getting stufier and stuffier inside. More
and more constant effort was required
to keep the queens quarters ventilated
by tanning until finally the situation
was becoming uncomfortable.
It apparently was beyond the engi-
neering ability Of the insects to devise
any way by which the heads could be
gotten through the wires. They were
driven by an age-old instinct to get the
corpses out Of the hive and when q
Evening star., 1936-03-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. rRAcEwELL.

It is not necessary to make O cam
paign of 1t, either.
All that Is essential Is that one try
to see the good side of others.
Especially Of those one does not like
But It goes much farther. Occasions
come up hundred times day when
by giving the other fellow credit for
good motives, instead of the reverse,
we can find material for praise.
Let us take the common situation OF
man waiting on the corner for bus.
Another comes along.
whats the matter?" he asks. "You
too lazy to walk down to the next cor
nerq"
Just the usual banter, of course, but
1t wasn't that at all, but the plain
knowledge, on the part of the first gen.
tleman, that If he attempted to walk he
would be caught halfway between stops.
He had tried 1t before. He was DEM
onstrating common sense and should
have been praised for it.
This is a very small example from
everyday life of the harmful thinking
indulged in by most persons. Call it
"fun" or kidding" or what you will, the
net result is small trouble, based on q
plain endeavor to see something to criti-
cize rather than praise.
II II
II the average run of mankind would
honestly attempt to see the good side
Of everything, instead Of the lesser side,
a great, unconscious reform would be
worked overnight.
Since this will never come about, the
next best thing is for the individual to
attend to his knitting, in this respect,
the best he can.
In time he will realize that all these
years he has been passing over count
less opportunities to bring happiness to
others.
Happiness is not Just something which
comes from great good events, but,
rather, a composite Of many small hap
penings and words. No, we will not
forget the words. Words have their
share in bringing happiness.
Especially in regard to praise, words
are mighty. A few words, rightly placed,
and you have brought happiness which
will last all day, and maybe for many
days.
For the person who says There is
talk Of happiness-and, especially. bring
Ing IL 10 OCIlerS-DuL 90 QOC KNOW now
to do it" there is no plan, scheme or
taking thought to equal the one pro-
posed here.
1t brings happiness to the giver as
well as to the famous "other fellow"
In time the person who makes a deter
mined effort to find good in others will
be able to do So He will discover that
he has made himself happier, as well as
other people. Part Of this is reflex,
when he meets the kindly glances of
those he has helped. He may rest
assured that no praise, small or large.
was ever thrown away completely, al
though sometimes it may seem to be so.
Nor Is one ever hypocrite in seeming
to 60 out of the way to find something
to praise in others. Let it be a game,
II need be, but at least 1t causes smiles
and that warming sensation Of mind and
heart which the world has long agreed
to call happiness. 1t is constructive, not
destructive; it is affirmative, not mega
tive; 1t is warming, not freezing. Just
few words. remember, are enough to
make somebody happy all day. Shall
we not all try It tomorrow, or even today?
Evening star., 1936-03-12
Roads to Peace.

Transfer to London of the conference
of Locarno treaty powers and OF the
League Council meeting which Is to deal
with the Illicit remilitarization of the
Rhineland is harbinger that the Euro
pean crisis is taking peaceful trend.
Great Britains powerful influence con-
tinues to be cast against war. London's
selection as the scene for discussion of
Germany's provocative action augurs for
a calm that would be improbable in
either Paris or Geneva. France and
Britain are still far apart as to what
should be done to rebuke the Nazis, but
the outlook for negotiated solution is
improved Europe shudders at the
thought of war. Ways and means Of
averting it are bound to be discovered.
France has the worlds unqualified
sympathy. Her disinclination to treat
with Hitler while his troops are de-
ployed throughout the prohibited area is
logical and dignified. Her desire to pun
ish Germany now, before Nazi military
might is fully established, is under
standable. France is Loyalty supported
by her allies-the Little Entente nations,
Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugo-
slavia--by Poland, by Belgium, by Soviet
Russia and by Italy, though Mussolini's
backing is conditional on French readi-
ness to assure generous treatment for the
Fascists in impending negotiations to end
the war in Ethiopia. Only Great Britain
holds aloof from the French demand
that there be no dealings with Germany
for new peace" agreements while Nazi
forces occupy the Rhineland in violation
of Locarno.
British abstention from collective pu-
nitive measures against the Reich would
almost certainly reduce them to imprac-
ticability. Hitler could be relied upon TO
exploit such breach in the anti-Ger-
man wall to the undoing Of France and
her associates, no matter how formidable
military front they presented. Under
the circumstances France may well
bring herself, however reluctantly, to a
realistic evaluation Of the situation. She
has asked the League to condemn the
Nazis recent conduct. That will un-
questionably be done, with whole
hearted British concurrence. But a
resolutely peace-minded Europe is alto
gether unlikely as next step to resort
to war. StateSmanship's task rather will
be to evolve a method of guaranteeing
that the Germans do not march from
the Rhineland infraction to outright
aggression against any of their neigh
bors.
It is reasonable to assume that sooner
or later the Reich would have obtained
by peaceful means the rights which Hit
Ter has just seized by mailed-flst tactics.
A nation as powerful as Germany corld
not eternally be prevented from order
ing her military destinies within her own
domain. But it remains within the
capacity of a menaced Europe to say:
so far. and no farther!" Germans un-
derstand and respect the language Of
force. If they are warned in terms that
brook no possible misunderstanding that
united Europe stands ready forcibly to
oppose any aggressive move to extend
the Reichs borders, the catastrophe
consequences threatening to flow from
the Rhineland episode will be averted.
Uncompromising firmness for the future,
not acrimonious recklessneSs over the
past, is Europeis paramount need.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Making people happy?
The easiest way Is to praise them.
This is 50 obvious that commonly 1t Is
overlooked.
"Applesauce," It was called once. in
slang, but whatever it is called It ia
simply praise, Of one sort or another.
How many chances all Of US mum
every day in refusing to give praise
where praise is due!
We miss chances every hour. every
few minutes Of the day, to bring happi-
ness to others.
just brief word, in praise. and the
thing would be done.
How carefully most Of us refrain,
howeverl
We are bashful: we refuse to give
credit where credit Is due; we shrink
from being misunderstood.
1t is a great deal easier, evidently, to
not give praise to others than to give it.
Always so ready to talk, about moth
ing, when it comes to something In the
line of praise, we shrink away as II we
could not stand the strain.
Yet this simple formula leads on to
something really fine.
It brings immediate happiness-some
thing sorely needed in such q world as
this, where we are like the grass, cut
down in q moment, as we were told so
long ago.
Praise is given so seldom to some
that it always brings flush of evident
happiness.
Even to those accustomed to praise,
however, 1t always brings happiness
The most usual example is the COM
pliment to woman on new dress.
No matter how many persons have
told her how nicely she looks, she in
variably will be glad to hear it again.
This is something that no amount Of
cynicism will destroy.
Like Cleopatra herself, age will not
stale it nor repetition dull.
It is common knowledge that nobody
ever resents praise as to beauty, appeal
or the like.
It is not quite SO well known, evi-
IDENTIFY, that absolutely any sort of
praise, If well done, is eagerly accepted.
There are a few persons, Of course,
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compliment.
Such person Is either a pathological
case or a pretender.
Such persons like praise as well as
any one else. but simply like to make
out that they do not Just why they
ARE that way" would require individual
study and, after all, it makes no dif-
ference.
What matters Is the praise, simple or
complex, in single or multiple doses.
. Such praise need not be "applesauce"
or soft SOAP" in any real sense. Those
slang phrases, after ALL were the inven-
tions of timid persons who through Ger
tain national traits wanted to make out
that they did not like praise.
They did not, perhaps, wish to feel
"beholden" to another.
But it makes no difference. An honest
word Of praise never comes amiss, and
he or she who will not accept 1t as meant
is not often met, thank heavens.
One simply can throw out of the win
dow the feeling that there is much
chance of offending by honest praise,
i,Idicio,isIv given
Evening star., 1936-03-12
Shooting Stars.
BY pHuANDER JOHNSON.
Humanity.

Humanity.
There often comes O time in the affairs
Of all humanity
Which calls on u to cease all wrath
and cultivate urbanity.
Forgetful Of the obstinacy that amounts
to mulishness,
The lack Of common sense and, maybe
even downright foolishness;
A time when we must study men with
no desire to criticize,
Dismissing inclinations to sarcasticate
or witticize.
Though faults are ever present, do not
mention them abusively.
Permit them to retire into the back
ground unobtrusively,
For when the wind is blowing unrelent-
ingly and frigidly.
Where leaves and blossoms started,
icicles are growing rigidly,
And instead Of lifting praises to mag
nif1cence importunate,
Let's join and give attention to the call
of the unfortunate.
Don't tell o fellow mortal when distress
has overtaken him
He gets what he deserves because his
wisdom had forsaken him.
Be something like this humble rhyme,
with no superior attitude.
Do what you can to help and do not
pause to ask for gratitude.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Racing officials threaten to ground
Jockey Meade for irregular financial
transactions. When the integrity of sport
is involved abrupt discipline is possible
without the preliminary of congress
sional investigation.
Evening star., 1936-03-12
Generous Silence.

"You don't want your income tax made
public?"
mo-" declared Mr.. Dustin Stax.
Everybody ought to be as cheerful as
possible these days and prefer to keep
my troubles to myself"
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Enthusiasm is reported among Nazi
troops. It Is scientifically designated
as a self-induced state Of mind and not
in the nature Of logical response to
exterior suggestion.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Friendship of England. France and
Germany is suggested as a matter Of
discretion, although sentiment implying
complete and undying affection can
hardly be demanded.
Evening star., 1936-03-12
Two Bad Memories.

From the Grand Island Independent.
A husband whose wife suddenly re-
membered that she had forgotten to
turn off the electric iron put her at ease
by informing her that nothing would
burn because he forgot to turn of the
water in the bathtub.
Evening star., 1936-03-12
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Honsilton
An Old Song.

<AA OAu 1OASs
Some one was singing an old song,
A low, familiar strain;
To one 1t brought glad memories,
To one touch Of pain.
While others caught the melody
And knew the pulse Of peace,
Still others conned the sweet old words
And In them found surcease.
Only en- old, familiar song,
A simple, well-known lay:
And listening hearts swoke to Il,
Each IN different way.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

"Boondoggling" has been Endorsed as q
perfectly good word. Grammarians have
to admit that some of the words spon-
taneously passed along with it are not
so good.
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Radio advertising depends on LIBERAL
minded public that refuses to permit g
lecturers political opinions to interfere
with an honest valuation of the article
he happens incidentally to be exploiting
Evening star., 1936-03-12

Abyssinia has been the means Of call
ing attention to the optical deficiencies
which render bombers unable to see
the red cross on hospital.