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Evening star., 1936-02-29
Lessons i'm Manners From
Past Generations Needed
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your correspondent, 8. H. Mumfefd,
is recent issue asks why car riders
Sneeze promiscuously and do not guard
against injecting their neighbors by in
terposing hand or handkerchief. He
gives one reason, that of laziness and
indifference. There is another reason,
the same that permits riders to cross
their legs and sprawl into the aisle, SO
that they can polish their shoes on the
clothing of passersby. Gentlemen and
ladies do not, any more than they sneeze
in the faces of others.
Z, had q friend who held that ladies
and gentlemen did not travel on street
cars, but think that Is bit broad and
pointless, as one could say with equal
truth that they did not travel in auto
mobiles. My experience at street cross
ings has thoroughly convinced me Of
that.
When one has travelled about bit
where there are public assemblages,
whether indoor or out, it becomes evi-
dent that q course In good manners
would be an excellent addition to the
public school curriculum, all the way
from kindergarten to college and uni
versity. Possibly, In time, we could raise
another generation like some of the
earlier ones we read about, which even
though they did not practice the golden
rule, Roberts rules of order or the
Marquis of Queensberry rules, would at
least make pretenSe at doing 1t. If
there is or are any good manners taught
in school at present, 1t Is evident that
the instruction is inadequate. To be
true, America Is a melting pot and lots
of dross has been put in, but the Nation
should be improving in courtesy and
manners after $50 years. But it looks
as If the common people" will have
to do their own reforming, as the habits
Of too many of our leaders, as reported
by the press, are far from being good
examples. When was boy we seemed
to have lot to be proud of in this
country, but we appear to have copied
some of the European bad habits as
we'll as taken in some Of its bad element,
and children, left unframed by their
parents, grow up roughnecked and So
cially indifferent, to show their inde-
pendence and superiority by acting like
Doors in public, whether it be in making
up their toilets and affecting careless
ness in the one sex or having no toilets
and acting insolently in the other. Ask
a civil question of adult or child in the
street and what kind of an answer gram
matically and mannerly does one get in
q large percentage Of cases.
To be sure, If one Is in the Far North
or in Canada, one is apt to get gram
matical and considerate reply, but Wash
ington, as the seat of the United States
Government, ought to have some good
standing in public and social ethics and
practices outside of the school rooms
and religious institutions. But there will
have to be a general awakening and
practicing Of 1t by the masses-and the
public leaders-in imitation of George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln, for
instance. w. E. ALLEN.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES &. TRACEWELL,

Use of "good clean garbage" in feeding
the birds is advocated by local woman
who spends part Of her time in Virginia
Her letter follows:
Dear Sir: have been very much
interested in your new line, birds, as
was In fish. It will do some birds lot
Of good.
II want to tell you about my birds, as
call them, for those that go away
come back every Spring, and always let
me know they have come, as 60 to
Virginia every Spring, sometimes early,
sometimes later.
II stay there until Christmas, and
always feed the birds. My birds come
to the same place, and feed them on
the ground. at the south corner of the
porch, behind a very big SNOWFALL tree.
II find the redbird and the sparrows
like to feed at the same place. At the
same time the back yard will be cov-
cred with other kinds that like to 60
together. The sparrows live under the
shelter the house gives. While the others
fly away.
IT find the birds like lot of things
Always feed oatmeal, it does not cost
SO much.
IF every one would lay out good, clean
garbage, the birds would not starve.
Il love all birds, and wish you could
hear them sing to me. Every place
have lived I have made friends with
them. Out in Nebraska, where a mock
ingbird is almost unknown, one came
back every Spring and sang for me
from the top of a windmill.
when I call the redbird he will come
to the window and try to find me, as
can call any bird in his own song.
But let me tell how the sparrows eat
my garden. AS soon as they see me
making garden they are on the job.
They love peas as well as do, and !
have never been able to raise any in
Virginia.
IF you love things they will do we'll
for you. Here is the idea: If you feed
the sparrows near the house others
won't bother them. Sometimes they
steal in and grab piece of bread and
fly away or into big tree and eat 1t,
or divide it with others of their kind.
"The mockingbird is my best friend.
Also have wild canaries. Have a peach
tree close to the house, and early 1t
will be full of the birds that come every
Spring. During the coolest weather, and
when the snow was deep, would open
the kitchen window, and drop all kinds
of food close to the wall and they got
every bit of it.
MY flowers and birds are comfort,
as am over II years old and all alone,
as far as people 60.
you had better start in on bulbs and
shrubs. A lot of people have no room
for even plant and it is comfort to
read about them. Sincerely, MRS. H."
X
Selected bits from the garbage do make
good bird feed during the Winter, when
most birds hereabouts are glad to get
anything at all to eat.
The only danger in such usage lies in
the possible attraction Of the starlings.
those interesting but mostly unwanted
visitors to local gardens.
Starlings are not particular as to what
they eat.
Only the other day we were talking
to gentleman who as yet has developed
no interest in feeding the wild birds.
(He will in time)
He said that the lid had been left
of the garbage can, and that morning
he had seen dozen "blackbirds," as he
called them, 'feasting out of 1t.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

"Did those blackbirds have very short
tails?" we asked.
"They had no tails at ALL" he said.
Then they were starlings," we replied
why thought starlings were little
BIRDS" he exclaimed.
s"No, they are good sized fellows"
"Well," he s,lrmised, If I had known
they were starlings would have run
them away
So we were glad he didn't know, be-
cause, as a correspondent said some time
ago, starlings are as hungry as any other
birds.
"If you love things, they will do we'll
for you"
One may believe. and hope, that this
is true, not because of any mystical link,
perhaps, but simply because If you love
something you will put more time, effort
and care, as well as intelligence, into
1t than If you did not ' s-x
There are few things an active, in
quiring mind can approach which will
not develop broadly and widely, the more
one knows.
Just how any one is to know, at be-
ginning, whether he loves thing is
cOIACtllAl6 EloG. ~ 1lCIC tlldt uC.
termination plays its part, and also the
is worth doing at all it is worth doing
we'll.
Our correspondent is fortunate in
being able to initiate the calls of the
wild birds.
Certainly this would be an invaluable
asset, in the outdoor Indoor occupation
of bird feeding in this climate during the
snow and cold.
There are, of course, various whistles
which may be bought, for this purpose,
but it is questionable whether any of
them is as natural as the human voice,
or, in this case, whistle.
Our correspondent admonishes us to
start in on bulbs and shrubs" because
"a lot of people have no room for even
a plant and 1t is a comfort to read about
them"
This is encouraging, and, better, 1t is
true.
We know better than most, perhaps,
owing to letters received, how many
persons there are in a large city who
are more or less denied the pleasures of
gardening, but who, nevertheless, like
to read about gardens, and their everyday
problems.
One never knows, of course, Just when
q garden may eventuate, in the given
life, but even if it never does, for one
reason or another, the things of the
garden, the fresh smell of earth, the
budding flowers and shrubs and trees.
the hundred and one, the thousand and
one problems, are all dear to right
minded people.
Nor does this mean that one must be
a dirt gardener, in the real sense. There
are few occupations which will allow
one to enter is so painlessly as gardening.
One must never forget that thousands
of city persons have never been trained
in growing plants Of any kind, and that
when they take it up in middle age,
perhaps, it does not come natural to
them at all.
Yet even such, despite their failings,
can enjoy gardens and gardening, even
If they do no more than read about it.,
and take a stroll occasionally down
friends friendly path.
This is one of the glories OF garden
ing, and why the American people an
nually can absorb SO much garden writ
ing of one kind and another. 1t is
true, too, of bird feeding. ANY one
can feed the birds, and always find
interest and happiness in it.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

Human Observation-Disclosures 1t may
be that makes one person act differently
from another in similar circumstances
lis more than q combination of chem
. ical secretions.
A serious blow to glandular-person-
ality theories, which have had wide
popularity in recent years, Is seen in the
results of studies just reported from st.
Elizabeth'S Hospital here on the actual
weights of the glands found in cases of
mental disease.
These results are reported in the An
nails of Internal Medicine by DR.. Walter
Freeman, director of the Blackburn
Laboratory and professor of neurology
at George Washington University.
The theory has been that minute
amounts of extremely powerful chemical
substances, the so-called hormones ex-
creted from such glands as the thyroid
and pituitary, determined the person.
ality of the individual. Persons have
been classified according to 'glandular
type" Thus Abraham Lincoln has been
described as typical pituitary indi-
vidual and Woodrow Wilson as typical
thyroid individual
The studies at st. Elizabeth's seem to
show clearly that the personality pat
tern is far more fundamental. The
glandular secretions may exaggerate It,
but they do not create it.
y X
First, DR.. Freeman made classifica-
tion of personalities according to four
broad reaction types, as follows:
The cycloid-extraverted, industrious,
subject to fluctuations in mood, active
and athletic.
The paranoid-reserved, suspicious,
antagonistic, embittered and calculating
The chizoid-introverted, retiring,
self lf-depreciatory, studious, meticulous
and low in physical vitality.
The epileptoid- pedantic, de-
vout and subject to paroxysmal head
aches, RACES, etc.
Probably the majority of men and
women do not fall precisely into any
of these types, but combine characters
of all four. But many individuals have
certain traits so clearly dominant in
their behavior that they can be CLASH
fled.
In a few the dominant type of reac-
tion gets out of control altogether. There
is a great ,exaggeration of the charac-
teristic behavior which, in controlled
form, is common to thousands of normal
persons. Take, for example, the cycloid.
A great majority, it is likely, have their
emotional ups and downs-days when
everything goes we'll and the world seems
rosy, followed by days when everything
goes wrong and the world seems drab
and hopeless. A few steps beyond this
is the manic-depreSsive psychosis-
essentially an extreme exaggeration OF
the up-and-down feeling. Periods Of
elation are filled with incessant, wild,
uncontrolled activity and periods Of de-
preston by constant weeping. But
manic-depressive insanity is quite clearly
the characteristic reaction pattern of the
cycloid personality with all restraints
removed.
The paranoid personality also is quite
!, common. Probably many individuals
E can recognize certain of its traits In
themselves-especially when they won-
der, without much tangible reason,
whether somebody may not be deceiving
them or talking about them behind their
backs. But when the reaction pattern
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Jigsaw Mural Paintings.

Nobody denies that the likeness OF
Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone adorns
the sketch for an allegorical mural
painting for the walls Of the Attorney
Generals office, whether or not Justice
Stone knew anything about it. And no.
body can deny that the likeness of JUS
tice Stone is used accurately in a SYM
bolic portrayal of justice giving helping
hand to the underprivileged, although
there would be an argument, of course,
if Associate Justice McReynolds like
ness. for instance, were selected in an
allegorical perturbation of the New
Deals getting poke in the jaw.
But the use of living characters In
murals is a little dangerous until his
tory and tradition have combined to
cement, with some degree of permanence,
halo around their heads. Suppose, for
instance, that the noble features of
Secretary Wallace and Professor Tugwell
were painted into murals designed to
show the farmer being led from the
wilderness and the forgotten man"
looking for the first time upon the More
Abundant Life. AS long as the New
Deal lasted such murals would be highly
esteemed as accurate representations of
great events. But should the Republican
party again come into power. with new
platforms and new planks, the murals
would undergo mutilation on the ground
of having given the Young Idea a wrong
slant on history.
Mural artists might take hint from
the jigsaw puzzle designs, fitting into
the painted allegories the heads and fea-
lures Of current prophets and heroes,
but doing it so that they may be neatly
lifted out and replaced by new prophets
and heroes cast on the beach by the
changing tides of opinion and points of
view. The beauty of this idea, which is
offered free of charge, is that the back
ground and the theme of the allegory
could always remain unchanged.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

Old Parson Weems dressed George
Washington up as juvenile character
with even more gentle fascination than
Tiny Tim, whose motto breathed affec-
ton for humanity at large without per-
sonally assuming moral responsibility.
1t took courage to create, even in fiction.
a prodigy who could base political
career on the statement, II can not tell
a lie"
Evening star., 1936-02-29
As He Preferred.

Don't you think some of your remarks
might be classified as cheap WITT" asked
the close friend.
That's the way want 'em to be con-
sidered," answered Senator Sorghum.
Nobody is in favor of anything that
suggests expense. People seem even to
like their wit better if it can be tagged
Cheap"
Evening star., 1936-02-29
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton


Safety.
Don't let me fall in love. Nor thru
Such blundering break bond with you.
Our friendship is joyous thing,
And love can only sorrow bring.
The petals fail from every flower, &c
And shadows dim q perfect hour: .c
The dusk is followed by the night
And daybreak Is not always bright. =
Goodwill in friendship-let it rest. =
The quiet bond we know is best;
Naught to regret and naught to rue
dare not fall In love with you!
Evening star., 1936-02-29

monsters. In the end, under the influ-
ence Of perfected skill, he anticipated the
invention of rational being" Mean
while, his productions roamed the
island-reverting to original type.
Nothing could prevent the consequences
when the Beast People had tasted blood.
They rose against their god and mur-
dered him.
The fable is psychologically true.
Never since written records initially were
kept has there been any instance Of
success for schemes of social mutation,
consciously projected. The evolution of
the race proceeds along natural lines,
and wherever and whenever the normal
trend has been interrupted the result
has been tragedy. Called by whatever
name, sponsored by whatever idealism,
utopias are vain, costly and disappoint-
ing adventures. 1t simply is not possible
to improve society by purposeful magic.
Planned economies, whether Communist,
Socialist, single tax or New Deal in
character, are born a-dy1ng. They are
synthetic, and in that fact lies the prom
ise of their destruction.
OF course, there must be many earnest
souls who wish that it were otherwise.
1t would be wonderful If Heaven could
be erected on earth by processes of hope
and altruism. But the dream is an
empty lure. Instead, fate dictates slow,
even tedious growth. The modern
equivalents of DR.. Moreau, therefore,
must be regarded as enemies, not friends
of the human species.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Antidote for Dictatorship.

From the Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette.
Dictatorship il. this country will never
work very long. Not that there is a
scarcity Of would-be dictators, but when
they start debating everybody starts to
take walk"
Evening star., 1936-02-29

One of the recreations most affected
by New Deal statesmen, next to golf, is
pulling slapstick and going after H. L.
Mencken. Many critics regard it as the
latest form of boondoggling.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Headless Drivers.

From the Owensboro tKy) Messenger.
Automobiles without drivers have
caused six traffic accidents in Des Moines
this year, while during the same period
drivers without heads have caused any
number in other cities.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Il Clever Work.

From the Kansas City Star.
A friend called up the other night to
tell us his car had been stolen. II sup
pose the police will find it." he said, but
what I want to know is how did the
thieves get it to start?"
Evening star., 1936-02-29

Many students feel that the require
ments of school book reference to "com-
munism" would be fully met by mention
OF it as one of the greatest failures in
human history.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
: The Franco-Soviet Pact.

OpPOoloAOll, IIlC SlldIHUCI HAS
ratified the five-year pact of mutual
assistance between France and the
Soviet Union. Following concurrent
approval by the Senate, the agreement
will come into formal effect, though
doubt exists whether final action can
ensue before the end of the present
legislative session. When the pact be-
comes an actuality, it will constitute for
all practical purposes renewal of the
pre-19l4 Franco Russian alliance, which,
in the opinion of more than one student
of European history, was one of the
underlying factors which led to the
World War, because of its "encirclement"
of Germany.
Europe on that account is anxiously
weighing the pact's possible influence
upon Nal policy. Ratification was Bit
terly opposed in the Chamber on the
ground that the arrangement would
promptly goad the Germans into retalia-
tory action in the form of remilitariza
ton of the Rhineland. The plea was
also advanced that the agreement would
: bind France to Communist state
strongly suspected of motives and aims
beyond its own frontiers and which has
as an avowed objective the destruction
of capitalistic government. Opposition
sprang further from fears that Franco
Soviet entente would impel both Italy
and Germany to denounce the Locarno
pact, which safeguards Frances Eastern
frontier AS yet another argument
against it, the agreement was construed
as a iuridical violation of the Locarno
treaty.
To counter these various alarms and
alleged drawbacks the Flandin govern
ment contended that the supreme virtue
of the deal is that it offers France
maximum of protection and safety in the
event of attack, in which connection, of
course, Germany almost exclusively is in
mind After a graphic portrayal OF the
powerful aid that would be rendered
France in the hour of need by the vast
new Soviet army and air force, the
governments program at length pre-
vailed by an overwhelming majority.
! The Chamber acted in the midst of the
military insurrection in Japan, with its
revived peril of a. Soviet-Japanese war.
But even the hypothesis that Germany
might take advantage of Russia's pre-
occupation in Asia to attack the Soviet's
western territory and thus embroil
France did not prevent the ratifying
vote. 1t was pointed out that the agree
ment specifically provides for French
assistance to the Soviet in the sole case
of aggression by European state. The
case for the pact's approval was clinched
with the argument that it applies only in
the event of "unprovoked aggression"
that it therefore menaces no peacefully
minded country, and that it is simply
another link in system of collective
security.
Whether Germany and Italy, latterly
suspected of completing plans to pool
their interests against "encirclement"
regroupings in Europe, will view the
Franco Soviet pact as being as innocent
in its purposes as its sponsors claim
should be speedily determined by re-
actions in Berlin and Rome. The pos
sibility plainly must be reckoned with
that the agreement will give fresh i'm
petus to the discredited pre-war system
of balances of power which proved to be
q definite breeder of war.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

b Several revolutions are threatened. A
few of them might have better chance
Of successful outcome if they had a
George Washington as director.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
The Kansas Boom.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The nurse of Gov. Landon's infancy
has just celebrated her 83rd birthday.
It is hardly likely that the grade school
teacher and the high school principal
will lag behind much longer.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Hats in the Rings.

From the indianapolis Star.
The hat bill of presidential candidate
will he considerable if he tosses the GUS
tomary headgear into many State pri-
maries.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Musical Counter Irritant.

From the Springfeld Illinois State journal.
DIR. Toyohiko Kagawa can't understand
why we don't improve our terrible Sum
day school songs. Well, we have to have
some antidote for the product Of Tinpan
Alley.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

In world finance the money goes
round and round with no responsible
indication as to where 1t comes out.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Another Definition

"F'ather," said the small boy, what Is
q demogogue?"
"A demagogue, my son, is a man who
can rock the boat himself and persuade
everybody that there's terrible storm
at sea-"
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Praise and Performance.

fE3ISe aHu EcfI0IIHdHccs
George Washington, on you we gaze,
Revealed again in honor great;
One whom so many often praise
And all too seldom initiate.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
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Evening star., 1936-02-29

IT ain gineter argue" said Uncle Eben.
''If . man insists on bein' wrong. dom
feel called on to risk fight tryin' to %
him do favor Of putin him right"
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Year of Peril.

From the Glendale News Press
While 1896 may be break for the girls,
It's Just another leap year for pedestrians.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

"The sure way to get the worst OF life,"
said Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown, lis
to sit idly by, hoping for the best"
Evening star., 1936-02-29
To Be Envied.

TO Be Envied.
There is one little compliment
A friend Of mine is earning. a
Amid the clouds of discomfort
He sees the sun returning.
His share of fame is rather dim;
His wealth's Of low condition;
Yet I can't keep from envying him
His gentle disposition.
~
He knows the skies will soon be warm
And flowers will be blooming;
So he defies the passing storm
With courage unassuming.
Though others splendid treasures boast,
make this odd admission:
Among them all envy most
This gentle disposition.