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The Washington times., 1936-01-14
WEDDING GIFT

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
"My husband and l have re-
ceived an invitation to q church
wedding. The girls father has
been a friend Of ours for years,
though never an especially
close friend. We have met the
girl and her mother only twice,
and then quite casually.
please tell me if it is neces-
Sary for US to acknowledge
this i-~statiOn in any way, and
If it is necessary for US to
send q wedding present. We
cannot attend the wedding,
since we have q previous en-
gagement. And we cannot at.
ford to spend much on a we'd
ding gift. READER"
If. as I Judge, the invitation Il
q formal invitation to the church
ceremony only-an invitation that
requests the honor of your pres
ence"-it is not necessary to &C
knowledge it. But If you also are
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
PEANUT BUTTERsCoTCH
4 tablespoons minute tapioca

4 tablespoons minute Caploca
1-8 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk Scalded
tablespoon butter
"a cup brown sugar, firmly
packed.
u cup peanuts chopped very
fine.
Add tapioca and salt to milk
and cook in double boiler is min
utes or until tapioca is clear,
stirring frequently. Melt butter
and sugar in saucepan and cook
until brown, then stir into tapioca
mixture and cook until butter
scotch is dissolved. Chill.
Add peanuts. Serve plain or
with cream. Serves four.
Submitted by Mrs. Allen Hide
brand, Falls Church, Va.
Please 1Drite on one side of the
paper only and be sure to include
your name and address under
each recipe entered. 1t is not
necessary to include the tngre'
dientS used In your salad dress
ING unless it is a Uery unusual
type of dressing that makes" the
salad.
The final hour for mailing en-
tries is midnight, January IL
Send to Miss Jean Green, The
Washington Times. 1917 II St
N. w.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
FaVOrite

If you are interested in t0tnntng
extra money, then cash IN on
your culinary skill and enter some
of your prize recipes In this
weeks FGuorite Recipe contest.
It's 1Ointer salads. To enter the
contest tDrite out clearly Just HON
you use in salads those fruits and
vegetables you find available now
at your market.
/ am sure you haze grand
original ideaS for such salads and
for them you stand good
chance of thinning one OF the
prizes giUen for the sir best
recipes submitted before January
II. Mail your entries early. Rules
for the contest are 0iven belot0.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14

DUT1uR J0e IdSI lew years. COI'
leges and churches all over these
United States have been offering
courses which, under various
titles, may be boiled down to
"how to choose a wife" or "how
to choose a husband"
And, while girls have been
warned against the gambler, the
spendthrift, the philanderer and
the contemplative gentleman who
doesn't want or cannot hold a
job, this appears to be the first
warning issued against the dumb
but beautiful Adonis.
AS, a riddle, the Sphinx is
nothing compared to the average
husband, and no woman can tell
before marriage what strange and
uncharted currents Of disposition
and character she Is going to en-
counter in the lover who seems
so perfect.
Plague Of Troubles
This lady who wrote to me, as
many another, was charmed by
a faultless profile and an ath-
lete's towering figure. But these
projections have brought a plague
Of troubles in their wake.
It goes without saying that
q man "handsomer than any
cinema star" is a born philan-
derer.
Other ladies, multitudes of
them in fact, have been as keenly
attracted by this Adonis as was
his wife. They pursue him, write
letters to him, embroider his
handkerchiefs, send him silk
stockings and gifts Of homemade
candy produced especially for
him.
Naturally, he has never done a
days work since his wife married
him. At that time the job-like
depression prosperity-was just
around the corner. But it has con
tinued to remain in hiding.
And the Woodworking wife
comes home to find him sampline
the homemade candy, trying or
the handmade neckties and flour
iShing the initiated handkerchiefs
Difficulties
Being only human, this drives
her wild. And she says, with a
dash Of NORWOOD favored with
gall:
II feel like those people who
put personals in the paper say.
ing they would like to give away
a magnificent, thoroughbred Per.
sian cat, that has taken many
beauty prizes in cat shows"
OF course, she doesn't feel that
way at all, because every other
line of her letter reveals how
proud and devoted she is to her
beautiful but dumb" spouse.
Only the loot the ladies send
him gets on her nerves, and she
wishes to heaven she did not have
to earn the bacon and cook it be
fore she goes to work and after
she comes home, too.
For Adonis has no gifts of use
fulness around the house at all
And she admits that he does 'look
silly drying the dishes or showing
the vacuum cleaner"
She asks if I have any Sugges
tons to offer, and must say hel
The Washington times., 1936-01-14

Cut the chicken into small
pieces, but do not n1ince. Season
with salt and pepper. If you
have two cups of meat, add five
tablespoons of sherry wine and
let it stand until you make a
sauce of one tablespoon of butter,
one tablespoon of flour and cup
of cream or rich milk. Add a
tablespoon of minced onion and
salt,
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
Beauty
Questions and
Answers
By DONNA GRACE
By DONNA GRACE


Dear Donna Grace:
Since your advice Is always
helpful, I should like to present
my problem to you.
81 shaved my legs and the hair
has grown back long and bristly.
What will remove it entirely?
Il have a bad breath when ]
get up in the morning. / am being
married soon and would like to
correct these things beforehand.
DORIS L."
Dear Doris:
There is no way to stop the
growth Of superfluous hair per
manently except by electrolysis
DepilatorieS have a tendency to
discourage the growth and will
not make the hair coarse.
Brush your teeth we'll and use
a mouth wash and do not eat be
fore going to bed. You may need
some change of diet or to see you:
dentist.
~. .. D. Jul AuCoGAO1Ao So4AA4Ol
be answered at this time. Repeat
them and enclose stamped, self
addressed envelope for your reply
Dear Donna Grace:
II am 16 years old. am S feet
inches tall. feel like giant
and am seIf-consciOus. How should
I walk and what kind of clothes
should wear? What about the
shoe heel?-A. M. G."
Dear A. M. G.: First, do not be
self-conscious about your height
No doubt you are quite attractive
All show girls" in musical shows
are very tall. The sports styles
are nice for tall girls. Waists ano
skirts of contrasting colors have
tendency to break the height
Wear low heels.
You may have the Milk Facial
the Weight and Measurement
Charts, Treatment for the Teeth
and Advice on SuperfluouS Hair
If you will inclOse a stamped, self
addressed envelope for each treat
ment and address Donna Grace
Beauty Editor Of this paper.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
Correct Manners


invited to a wedding reception
then this should be formally
acknowledged.
There is no rule about the send
ing of wedding presents, except
that we send one if we wish ana
don't if we don't wish to. And
under the circumstances, don't
see that it would be especially
necessary for you to send a pres
ent. However, if you wish to
acknowledge the compliment that
these people have paid you ana
your husband. by sending you an
invitation, you might send sim
pie gift of some kind appropriate
to a new home.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14

Heat a can of mushrooms, cut
into pieces, saute in butter, and
add them to the cream sauce.
Pour this sauce over the chicken,
mix well, fill shells and sprinkle
with bread crumbs dotting with
butter.
Put into a moderate oven and
cook until butter is melted and
crumbs are Drowned.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
Net Over Satin

Locked out Of the fashion pic:
ture for several seasons, net posed
over satin is back again. A new
evening model is of dark brown
net posed over shiny dark brown
slipper satin. The skirt Is very
full. the bodice simple.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
Casserole CookeryHand
And Economical
BY JEAN GREEN

types of French pottery casseroes and glassware
shown certain Washington shops emphasize the convenience
this kind of cookery Adapted to the preparation Of
tain cheaper cuts of meat it not only effects saving in
butcher bills but also in gas or electricity.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
Creole Reel pes

The foloOino recipe is from NeW Orleans lady tOho
is famous for the decqcies her hospitality has long Gf
forded her fortunate guests The Times will print one
of these recipes every day.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14

problem presents many difficult
ties.
If he belonged to me, I'd try to
get him in the movies or make a
mannikin Of him-they have male
mannikins these days, who display
clothes in Observation-Disclosures fail.
ing this, should teach him to
be useful around the house.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
sAvoRY ENTREES A LA CREOLE

The Creole cook always has hand COLLECTION Of smells
in which to savory entrees other dishes The follow
ing ds served in Shells made from leftover chicken
NAV ha snhstitnted
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
TX Warns Girls Against beautiful But Dumb Husbands
Often Handsome Hubby
Is Object of Pursuit
Bv Other Ladies
Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Famous Authority on Problems of Love and Marriage
Copyright. Features Syndicate. 1nc)
The mornings mail brings letter from lady bewaing
the fact that she has married who is beautiful but
dumb She goes on say that description is just ap
pcabe to men women, and quite disastrous in picking
q mate.
The Washington times., 1936-01-14
Neutral and Gay Colors
Mix in the Spring
Color Scheme
Bv WILMA LAVILLE

All the fashion authorities talking about color. about
the anv and gay coors that will be used for spring. and
about the neutras that will be used background for
tones nnanv times
The Washington times., 1936-01-14

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Evening star., 1936-09-14
UNIFORM FLOOD
CONTROL IS URGED
Groups in 81 States Ask Develop
ment on Lines of Ma.
tional Act.
By the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y, September
14-Officers and regional representa-
tives of the United States Flood Con-
troll Federation recommended yester-
day continuation of the national flood
control policy under the general out
lines of the 1886 flood control act.
Representing flood control groups
IN 81 States, they decided in an in
formal two-day conference that the
United States Flood Control Fedora
ton should present to Congress and
the Legislatures of the various States
. program of State and national leg
islation broadly predicated upon the
following points: ..-
1. Uniform State laws in 30 far
q compatible with constitutional lin
ltations in the various States.
2. Opposition to any politically ap-
pointed Government body supplant-
ing the corps of United States Army
engineers in the prosecution OF the
Federal flood control program in the
United States.
3. Divorcement of the Army engi-
neers from interference by other agen-
cies OF Federal Government.
4. Agreement that first attention OF
the Federal Government in the inter-
est of safety and economy is In ef-
fectiveness of positive and immediate
food control works, rather than
methods which are indirect, uncer-
tain or deferred in effectiveness"
Evening star., 1936-09-14


is strong enough to increase the
Hoover majority of 1882 from $4,000
to about $4,000 as a minimum, and
that it might go much higher. In
the heyday of Republican tides, the
1928 election, Hoover carried the
State by about $4,000. so it may be
judged how strongly $4,000 victory
for Gov. Landon would indicate q
return Of those Republicans who
strayed in 1882.
Dislike New Deal.
Reasons for the rise of the Repub-
lican tide have more to do with
dissatisfaction over New Deal policies
than with Gov. Landon's pronounce
nents though, to be sure, Vermont
which was the native State of Calvin
coolidge, is bound to admire the
saHle 4ua,ILIes in Landon - the
kansas Coolidge"-as were exhibited
by the man who with similar lack OF
drama or emotional effort presided
over the destinies of the United States
from 1928 to 1928-admittedly the
most prosperous era in American
history.
There is in Landon's appeal to New
England as exemplifi 1 by his speech
at Portland, Me, Saturday night
something of the same simplicity
which characterized Coolidges public
addresses. 1t is best classified as
quiet dignity-a lack of dependence on
oratorial or Evolutionary effects, but
reliance on common sense and
fundamental Americanism.
Mr.. Coolidge would have been a
poor radio speaker had the radio been
IN such widespread use when he was a
candidate for the presidency in 1924
as it is today. Mr.. Coolidge, more
over, would have declined to try to
change his personality to At the cam
paign.
Style Wins New England.
So Landon, by insistence on retain
ing his own character or role, so to
speak, and refusing to try to initiate
some other personality on the air, Is
winning votes in New England, where
they understand both forthrightness
and common sense.
AS 40 AiaCAi al W 4lIlQ, llOWSNcI, llSTS
that the anti-New Deal sentiment is
much stronger even than the pro-
Landon feeling. That's because of the
enormous Government spending pro-
gram, so little of which has touched
Vermont. This is one of the States
which is among those that received
the least from the Federal Govern
ment, but is going to pay among the
top group of States. For Vermont by
thrift and enterprise has invested her
savings and pays large Federal taxes.
Vermont is today enjoying a rela-
tive degree of economic prosperity.
There is feeling here that things
would be better but for the Canadian
reciprocity treaty and the A. A. A.
program. The former has opened up
competition in dairy products for
which this State is famous, and the
latter has served to increase the
prices of grains needed for feed.
The Democrats have not yet begun
to put on campaign of organization,
though the Republicans have been in
.ensifying their organization work
here for more than year. Perhaps
the New Deal is ready to concede
Vermont, anyhow.
Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Wulldn a e T
White and his colleagues present to
the country.
When Mr.. Murphy tells the country
it can add cubits to its stature by TAX
ing thought, he speaks with authority.
as that is just what he did. Suffering
an injury of the spine at 18, he de.
cided, at the age of 48, than an effor
of will could and would remedy his
STOPPING posture, the doctors having
failed. He Strengthened himself out
and he says agriculture can do the
same.
In 1921, when agriculture was all
but sunk, he engaged and paid an
expensive staff of agriculture experts
to diagnose and prescribe the agrarian
ills. Then he flared out their findings
in his newspaper. He sent out scout.
to find and organize successful farm
ers, not the losers, maintaining that
you can build success only out Of sue
cess material. The resulting scientific
diversification of farming buttressed
the Northwest against the depression
years.
Mr.. Murphy was one Of President
Roosevelt's three representatives at
the International Grain Conference at
Rome in 1888. Never an oodurate
partisan, he has announced his read
iness to cooperate with the admin
istration in any possible way, but now
strings with the Republicans.
His huge farm at Femco, MINI, is
an agrarian laboratory 1t is by such
localized, intensive. scientific inquiry
that the farmers will win, says Mr
Murphy, and not by the opposite eX-
treme of widely generalized, federal
lied effort.
After his graduation from Notre
Dame University, he entered the me-
chanical department of the Tribune
owned by his elder brother.
(Copyright 1889
Evening star., 1936-09-14

general consensus of opinion that the
social troubles, which are already bad
enough, will be deepened. For the
cotton economy is peculiar one. 1t
grew up on slavery; it continued after
lost war, the problems Of which
have never to this day been liquidated.
Cotton was one of the two main crops
in a country ruined by war. The
share cropping system, which has
been the theme of so many novels,
plays. articles, and recently Of a
March of Time movie, was the at
tempt of that ruined and defeated
economy based on slavery, to readjust
itself to the post-bellum world. 1t Is
difficult to find an enlightened planter
in the South who will defend it as a
good system. Competent farmers will
tell you that 1t would be infinitely
more profitable for them to work their
land with hired labor as machinery.
But many hundreds Of thousands of
white men and Negroes are at work in
the system, and the displacement Of
any large fraction of them without a
program for their rehabilitation would
confront the country with a very Sc
rious social problem. For the share
croppers are already discontented, al
ready they are one of the most fertile
soil for agitation. The cotton share
cropper belongs to a real agriculture
proletariat, and If we can trust his
tory-and read the message Of cur
rent events in Spain-an infiamed
and desperate agricultural proletriat
are the most violent of all rebels once
aroused.
Greatest Of Cash Crops.
There are many facts to the prob
lem, and one Of them Is the state of
cotton itself. Cotton Is the principal
crop on a fourth Of all American
farms. Cotton accounts for a ninth
Of all the acreage planted on all parts
OF all farms in the United States. And
taking into account the seed crop for
the mules that cultivate the land,
cotton is responsible for one-fifth of
the total crop acreage in the country.
1t is the greatest of all our cash crops.
Cotton and cotton seed combined,
normally produce one-fourth Of the
total cash farm income. And cotton
is a dying crop, declining because
American cotton growers are losing
both their domestic and foreign mar
Evening star., 1936-09-14
CottoninNeed
of Answer to
Problems
Advent of Picker, Status
of Workers Demand
Readjustments.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

A RECENT demonstration of the
~ Rust cotton picker again
~ served to remind the country
\ that in the great cotton belt
Of the South we have an urgent social
and economic problem. The cotton
picker is not yet, according to wit
nesses, perfected. 1t does q clumsy
Evening star., 1936-09-14

forced to-when it prove too late
The only hope OF successful conservative
lies fusion Of independent business farmers
skilled laboers The Republican only
the first OF these three groups
The extraordinary agriculture
the Cleveland convention ndorsed admittedly designed
weather. farmers the
to the Republicans they believe that possible establish
socialism in agriculture and
dustry)
How well the Republicans attempt
the we-todo farmers will not be until
little doubt that the New Deal will be saunch
the dHinheried reiefers.
schooboy Republican campaign
doomed without the skilled
Organization
common labor and relief labor for the
in
welt
backing Landon make with
this price for victory Apparently the
which should be by the fact
other batter slipped
All this howeuer cannot be accomplished at onceobaby
not before 193Snd the being decided
BY 1888 the G. p find the federation entirely
and Mr.. Vol be longer wtth
the Republicans want
Evening star., 1936-09-14

reached decision privately week their petition against
conutonaiy decision lowering despite all the
decided
If they
there question OF constitutional
this
precedent. railroads believe the
pardize the property OF stockholders that
question reach the Supreme Court.
be short Of within months.
which the Vatican
failed Vatican
point
Catholic authorities explain situation
Coughlns
without effect
Evening star., 1936-09-14

With the leans out and
rained out for this lifetime shelter
in dooways they stand without
Finally into Charlotte Neumen knowin0 Presidential luck
hare already dispatches saying the rain stopped
presidential they
it does it stadium
the stadium the speakers stand continues President
his clothing soaked rain his smiling The audience
soaked Then stops the President speaks about
lures and still wa oorkng In little interpretations about the
water the red roads thereabouts hoe stuff fit the locality
II spent life the Southland" You
and women Millions fellow Americans "You
and II Newsmen rainbow the
handiwork the
Selves Great stun perfect can't beat it, Thus to the
tra the train and the White
made that Mr. Roosevelt will his campaign speech the New
York State Democratic Convention at Syracuse September 2s
Nothing like the complete evacuation Of the Spanish Embassy has
Embassy their
minds time
walters remained behind photographer called other
The custom is that after Government such
occurred Madrid last week. the ncumbens until their
Evening star., 1936-09-14

and untidy job.
But when one Of
the Rust brothers
said that the cot
ton picker was a
better machine
for the purpose
than the original
Ford, compared
to the modern
m o tor car. he
probably told the
truth. One may
certainly expect
to see q cotton
picker perfected.
And II and when
IL. is there Is a
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Instead OF meeting the demands labor raising
hreddoore
like Father Coughn weaken
workers and the underpripieged
This that the
terms which would destroy
industrial relations
a concession
well be
Evening star., 1936-09-14

electoral vote, 1Or
that seems as
sured, but the
tide of the voting.
Does Gov. Lam
don seem stronger
than Mr.. Hoover
was four years
ago? This was
the question I
a SIX e d well-i in
formed persons.
The concensus
seemed to be not
only here, but in
other parts of the
s t a e visited,
that Gov. Landon
Evening star., 1936-09-14

in the Northwest
with such success
that he has be-
come not only a
leading agrono-
mist but a power
full political force
in that section. A
vigorous support
er of Gov. Ian
don, he has no
Old Guard amlia
tions and Is in
the dead center
of the picture OF
liberalized Repub-
licanisnl W hic h
William A1ler
Evening star., 1936-09-14
ART EXHIBIT SCHEDULED

PITTSBURGH, September IA Up.
The artists of the world will display
their masterpieces in Pittsburgh be-
ginning October 16.
The date-for the opening Of the
1886 international exhibition-was
announced by officials OF Carnegie
Institute today.
Evening star., 1936-09-14
Music School Head Quits.

PITTSBURGH. September IL P).
DIR. Frank j. Brosky resigned yes
terday as dean Of the Duquesne Uni
versity School Of Music, because, he
said. he found 1t impossible to work
with the present administration"
Evening star., 1936-09-14
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Minneapolis Publisher Is
One of Gov. Landon's
Ace Supporters.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON,

FREDERICK e. MURPHY OF
- Minneapolis, jousting with Gov.
Landon in the Maine tourney,
L is one of the Governors ace
cards in the farm regions. As the
publisher Of the Minneapolis Tribune
and as the owner of a 5,000-acre farm,
he has pioneered diversified farming
Evening star., 1936-09-14
35,0ooLa1,don
Victory Seen
in Vermont
Anti-New Dea1ism and
Admiration for New
"Coolidge," :" Factors.

Today's dispatch deals ,cith YER
mont, the fourteenth out OF the
10 States being uisited BY Daptd
Laurence In his nationwide survey
OF the trends of political sentiment.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

mobile magnates-to engage in
real collective bargaining with the
A. F. Of L. craft unions.
Instead Of playing labor politics.
the G. o. P. appears to be play
ing politics with labor. Instead of
advocating the "closed shop"
shorter hours and higher wages
i.e., giving skilled labor what it
wants - the Republicans are
fomenting fight within the
ranks of ORGANIZED labor
Evening star., 1936-09-14
News Behind the News
Presidents Trip Is Held Good Job of Not Campaign.
ing-Spanish Embassy Fears Fall of Madrid.
BY PAUL MALLON.

REsENT ROOSEVELT not campaigning
- thought good political doing on his
Southern trip when he not doing it his
Boh thought revealing examples
technique Here's the closeup picture the bakseat
caught it down South.
The presidential motorcade Charlotte The roa