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Evening star., 1936-08-01


- has been a hard struggle for
us 20 get along at all as my husband
had bad health and lost job after job,
but We worked shoulder TO shoulder
together. I nursed him when he was
sick, cooked for him, washed for him,
kept up his morale and helped earn
the living when he was not able to
work In those days my husband was
devoted to me. affectionate, kind. ten
der. praised me for my management
and told me what help was to him,
always wanted me with him and never
went out to any place of amusement
without me. Now he has suddenly got
rich and his attitude toward me has
completely changed. He is cross and
surly to me. He shows me in every
way that he is tired Of me and leaves
me at home while he goes off to gay
parties with a wild crowd I am
heartbroken and do not know what to
do What would you advise?
DISCONSOLATE WIFE.
Evening star., 1936-08-01

. EAR MISS DIX: My husband
and l have been married 20
years. Most Of this time it
- has been a hard struggle for
Evening star., 1936-08-01
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD.

7 EAT is upon us except for
. thundershoWers and mo-
ments before electric fans.
Puppies who first saw the
Evening star., 1936-08-01

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- really wise man or woman
The Washington times., 1936-03-05
DIFFERING PAY
PROTESTED

FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, Va,
March 5.-Charges that Fairfax
county is unable to utilize funds
allocated to it through the Works
Progress Administration because
Of existing discrepancies in the
county and Federal wage scale
were made before the Fairfax
county board yesterday by County
Purchasing Agent R. M. Lough-
borough.
Pointing out that Federal prof.
ects at Fort Myer and Arlington
Cemetery are paying their labor
much more than county projects,
Loughborough declared it unfair
to ask a man to work under the
Fairfax county wages and hours.
In comparing the county and
Federal wages, he said:
"In Fairfax county a labOrer'S
monthly earning rate is $24,
compared with the rate Of un.
skilled labor on Federal projects
of $3.50. The intermediate rate
on a monthly basis is S38 in the
county and $50 in Fort Myer.
Skilled labor is paid S48 in the
county and S6S in Fort Myer."
Loughborough suggested that
the county rate be set at Is cents
an hour and that the men be al
lowed to make up the maximum
of 140 hours month as soon as
possible in order not to be forced
to go back and forth so much.
The Washington times., 1936-03-05
BLAST L00SED
ONANTI-CHAIN
STORE BILL

AS approximately 1,500 minute
men," independent retail mer-
chants, swooped down on the
Capitol today to lobby for the
Robinson-Patman anti-chain store
bill. opponents of the measure un-
looSed a blast in which the legis-
lation is branded as another hid
den tax aimed at the working
mans pocketbook."
The lobbying activities and the
assault on the bill followed the
meeting last night in the May
flower Hotel of the militant inde-
pendentS. There they heard
speeches in which they were de-
scribed as saviorS Of the nation,
breakers of monopolies and the
pride of their communities.
SO Bread Taxes Cited
Today's blast at the Robinson
Patman measure came from the
Institute Of Distribution which
has headquarters in New York.
The institute declared:
eat least So different taxes
have been found concealed in
the price a housewife pays for
a loaf of bread. Statistics show
that out of a working mans
S2S-aweek pay envelope, at
least One-fifth, or $5, has gone
to pay these and other hidden
taxes.
"The measure as drawn would
prevent manufacturerS and pro-
ducers from giving rebates and
allowances to their retail Gus
toners who buy In prOfitably
large quantities. The ultimate
effect would be the reduction
Of the savings to the consumer
public.
QUANTITY BUYING
"A merchant who places suf-
ficiently big orders with grocery
producers may save the house
wife a consequential sum which
she in turn may apply to the
purchase Of shoes, stockings
and other commodities for her
family. A merchant who buys
trainlOad Of electric refrig-
orators should get a better
price for them from the manu-
facturer than the retailer who
orders only one refrigerator at
a time. BY selling more units,
the manufacturer Is able to
employ more wOrkmen, and
everyone along the line is bene-
fitted.
"The Robinson Patman bill
would, in the long run, work
to the disadvantage Of small
volume retailers who now be-
lieve they would be helped.
Under present conditions, the
way is open for progressive
merchants to cooperate and, as
a large buying group, them
selves enjoy factory rebates
and allowances, and sell more
goods"
The Washington times., 1936-03-05
q. w. Hatchet Editor
HANGED i'm EffiSy

According to rumors, instigation
for the hanging" lay in an edi-
torial written by Haley which ap-
peared in the Hatchet today.
Haley had castigated the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity for fail
ing to appear Saturday night at a
scheduled bowling match with
Acacia, the fraternity of which
the student-newsman is a member.
Asked whether the deed was the
work of the maligned S. A. ELS,
Haley replied:
"My list Of suspects Is so long
it would be futile to trace them
down. If anybody was offended
with what I wrote, don't give
. damn. I suppose, however,
that the s. A. E.'s would have q
reasonable and justifiable ex-
cuSe for hanging me-"
The Washington times., 1936-03-05

What was interpreted as inter
fraternity warfare broke out at
George washington University
yesterday when a stuffed figure
labeled Haley" was discovered
hanging from the limb Of a tree
on the campus at Twenty-first and
G Streets.
The figure was said by students
to be an effigy of James w. Haley,
associate editor of The Univer'
sity Hatchet," official student
publication.
Reports that a man had been
hanged brought scout car officers
j. L. Rockford and r. B. Rector
to the scene. The policemen sew
cred the rope and carried their
scare-crow prize to precinct Three
station,
The Washington times., 1936-03-05
E. OF E. STAGES
SPORTS FETE

BIG PINES, Cal, March 4,
The Los Angeles Junior Chamber
Of Commerce, which always does
things in a big way, has descended
on this winter resort and Is stag
ing its annual winter sports
carnival.
Wolfgang Lert, a student at the
University of California at Los
Angeles, who is the son of Vicky
Baum, novelist, has won the col
lege pentathlon and the congratu.
la@ons Of Charlotte Hallaran,
queen of the snow carnival.
The Washington times., 1936-03-05

DIR. FRANCIS g. NICHOLAS Qeft) provost Of the
American International Academy has been brought into
Gov. Harold g. Hoffmans investigation Of the Lndbergh
kidnapping study the philosophical phase Of the This
revealed by Robert W. Hicks (ght Of Washington,
consulting Criminologst for the New jersey governor
International News Photo.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
CROPS AND ELECTIONS

+ The Democratic party IS dubi-
L Gus about the 1886 election it
may be because of the drought.
History of our political CAM
paigns indicates that the size of
crops has an important bearing Gu
national elections. In other words,
if there be a scarcity of farm prod
ucts, the party in power is turned
out of Office.
None can say that this is an in
fallible rule, yet there are notable
periods and events which tend to
prove its truth. A seven years.
drought, for example, starting in
1888, is the first widespread de-
struction of crops of which there
is record. At the end of it, Martin
Van Buren, was voted out of office
and the Wings came in with {. great
show of strength.
A second drought occurred short
ly before the Civil war, but the
latter event dominated, of course,
every trend of political develop
ment for that period. In 1874 there
was a large Republican majority
in the lower branch of congress
but there had been drought
years Immediately preceding, and
Democratic congressman were
elected in droves.
Beginning in 1887, ten years
showed a deficiency of rainfall and
crops naturally suffered. 1t was
during this period, perhaps more
than in any other, that the Ameri-
can voter practiced assiduously his
right to vote parties in and out Of
power.
Conditions may be changed today.
The Democratic party, which hap
pens to be in the saddle, has sur
vived one of the country's worst
crop years, 1884. There are politi-
cal observers who assert that we
are too much an industrial nation
today for Old Man Weather to lay
such a heavy hand on political for
tunes.
Only time will tell if this estimate
of the situation is correct. When
this is written, however, indications
point clearly that burning, dry
winds have destroyed a large part
of the spring wheat crop in the
Dakotas and Montana.
Industrial nation or not, it is at
least an even bet that when the
campaign warns up particular at
tention will be paid to those three
states by Messrs. Hamilton and
Farley-not to mention Congress
man Lemke, who halls from that
area himself.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
THE BIG SHOW COSTS


COME presidential candidates are
- waited into Office on a cloud Of
smoke while the aspirations of 9TH
ers are dashed to oblivion by the
same breeze.
All of which is by way of saying
that the cigar-making industry is
due for boom, now that presi-
dental election year is with us.
AS far back as 1888 when Harrison
was elected the astounding num-
Der of 100000 more cigars were
manufactured than the preceding
year. BY 1920 and it's increased
population the boost in cigar max
ing for the presidential year came
to the tidy total of $40, O00,0 900 above
that of 1919.
The astonishing thing about the
big, countrywide show of an cleo
ton is that the Havana filler the
politician stuffs into your mouth is
merely an item in the whole cam
paign and election costs. The lat
ter, it has been estimated by COM
petent and conservative observers,
reaches $40,000,000.
In addition to that huge sum there
are other millions impossible to
compute.
Out of all this spending it is
perhaps fortunate for the Ameri-
can public that usually more good
than merely the choosing of Pres
ident is the result.
For one thing, hundreds of thou
sands of persons are employed
not the least of them being news
paper workers who figure briefly
but actively in compiling election
returns.
In Chicago, for example, the bust
ness of collecting returns is in
the hands of the police. An Off
Ger visits each precinct, obtains
two results of the vote. One Of
these he speeds to the board of
election commissioners, the other
to the City News Bureau which has
moved bodily into Chicago's coun-
Gil chambers for the evening.
Rents are paid out for organiza-
ton quarters, down to the smallest
precinct; spellbinders are en-
ployed, with all expenses paid;
bands are hired; banquets are
spread and the politicians
pass out cigars.
Did we say $40,000,0 900 expense?
Well, it's a conservative estimate,
anyway.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
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to keep his schedule and report
'All's Well'-to Little America,
lest his silence cause his COM
rades to risk their lives coming
to his rescue in the darkness.
For months of the bitterest aver
age cold ever endured, he hung
precariously on the edge of the
abyss. Untold suffering did not
compel him to alter his decision
By a miracle he was spared"
In % branches of scientific
knowledge the world is richer be-
cause Byrd and his comrades adj
ventured into the Antarctic. But
far beyond this the world is en-
riched by the character of these
courageous men led by a
man who silently challenged
death in one of the great deeds
of all time 1t is in enduring
recognition of such rare leader
ship that the medal presented to
him is inscribed "Dick Byrd
Gallant Gentleman"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

Swingin' down the lane with a
bit of zip and full quota OF
what it takes, this smartly simple
frock goes places without effort
an engagingly youthful and chic
affair which can be made in a
trice first cousin to a jiffy) and
make you the belle of the
campus.
Its simplicity is totally disarm-
ing, yet it has all the aplomb of
a professor in English - just one
of those frocks which can't miss.
Delightfully."- cool and as clipper
as breeze, it requires just seven
simple pieces in the making, in
any fabric from the AS to the
rs. The yoke and sleeves cut in
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
MNnhNM q
g OUNMNC

A mixture of one part vinegar
and two parts linseed oil, applied
with soft cloth to suitcases and
bags will clean and polish them.
A large piece of plotting paper
placed on the closet floor will alb
sorb moisture from wet rubbers
that may be placed in closet.
Scorch on cotton or linen may
be removed with soap and water.
Wet the spot with water and ex-
pose to the sun for a day or
longer if necessary. The scorch
disappears more rapidly if the
material is moistened first.
If your garden peas get too
hard for serving in the regular
way, cook them until tender,
press through a sieve and use the
pulp in soup.
If you wish to boil a cracked
egg place a little vinegar in the
water in which it is boiled. This
will keep the egg from seeping
through the crack in the shell.
If you want your glassware to
sparkle, add a little lemon juice
to the water in which it is rinsed.
To make white curtains ecru
dip in solution made by boiling
one tablespoon of black tea in one
quart of water. Strain solution
before using.
g Associated Newspapers.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

This theatrical agent was one of
the important ones, and his waiting
room was usually filed with people
clamoring for work. Keeping them
from storming the inner Office was
Hammerstein's main duty. He did
his job as bouncer very effectively
and some of the people he threw
out later made good-among them
Richard Dix, Chester Morris N d
Ben Lyons!
q
ODDS AND ENDS Her admirers
are declaring that Norma Shearer's per.
Torrance in Romeo and Juliet" makes
her the greatest American actress. bar
none, on stage or screen MarLen(
Dietrich says she'll neuer return to Ger
many, not because OF troubles pith the
government, but because the German peo-
pie don't like her in pictures NotV
it's Donald Woods toho has gone on strike
on the Warner Brothers lot :. Wonder
l0hat is causing that epidemic Il. Bette
Davis must be glad that she W0lked out
on Gods Country and the Woman; the
company has been hauing run Of acct
dents on location.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
STAR
DUST
Movie . Radio
**+ By VIRGINIA VALE **A

NOU may think that it would
L be all too easy to break into
the movies if you were related to
a star. But-well, just see what
Florence Eldridge has to say
about it.
In private life she is Mrs. Fred
ric March. In public life she had
been a well known actress on the
stage for some years before they
were married. When he decided on
movies instead of the stage, she
went along to Hollywood, because
being a good wife is more impor-
tant to her than having career OF
her own.
Came the time when RKO was
casting "Mary of Scotland" in
which Katherine Hepburn and
Fredric March are co-starred
(and a swell picture it isD. Miss
Eldridge wanted the role of Queen
Elizabeth.
II was selected only after every
other candidate for the part had
been tested and rejected for one
reason or another" says she. She
finally got it, of course, and turned
in an excellent performance.
&
Gertrude Michael was the target
for lot of demonstrating when she
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

IN UNITED TRIBUTE TO REAR
ADMIRAL RICHARD EVELYN BYRD.
U. S. N. (Ret.) six hundred mem
bers of American industrial and
scientific groups met at dinner
on June 9Th. They presented to
Admiral Byrd a gold medal in
scribed american Industry's
Tribute"
On the reverse side, this medal
commentaries the silent courage
of an heroic leader who kept alone
ga six months vigil for meteoro-
logical observation at the worlds
southernmost outpost. Before the
middle of the long Antarctic night
he was stricken desperately i'll
from the poisonous fumes of
faulty oil stove. Survival seemed
impossible. He deliberately chose
to die rather than tap out an
S. o. S. on his radio. In fact, he
squandered his strength and les
sened his chance for survival by
painfully hand-cranking his radio
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
A SmdrtlY Simple Frock

one and the collar is just long
enough to take the prize.
Send for Barbara Bell Pattern
No. 1888 designed for sizes IL,
IA, Is, IS and 20-bust 80 to 38.
Size IA requires a yards of 49,
inch fabric. Send is cents in
coins.
Send for the Fall Pattern Book
containing Barbara Bell we'll
planned, easy-to-make patterns.
Exclusive fashions for children,
young women and matrons. Send
Is cents for your copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 247 w.
Forty-third St., New York, N. Y.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

! e + t Paramount;
there were people
Who said she'd find
that free = lancing
was a lot worse
than sticking with a
big company, even
though that COM
pany didn't seem to
be doing a great
deal for you. Some
of them predicted
that she'd be COM
pletely out Of pic
lures, f r S t thing
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

Whereupon she signed up with
RKO and now she's headed straight
for the top-and the head shakers
aren't saying much of anything.
That brand new motion picture
company, Grand National, has just
signed up a young man who looks
like big star material. His name
is Brilliant Chapman, and he's
dancer-has appeared in solo num-
berS for the past four years with
the Boston SYMPHONY Orchestra.
Recently he has been dancing at
night club in New York, and now
he's off to Europe on a vacation,
before he starts work before the
camera.
Lily Pons is all set to begin pic
ture work again, although she has
said that she doesn't care too much
about it. She spent her vacation
in Connecticut, it's climax being the
arrival of her mother from France.
&
John Mccormack, the famous
Irish tenor, sang Killarney and
believe Me, If All Those En-
dearing Young Charms" in England
the other day for Goth Century,
Fox's ''Wings of the Morning" =
and if you see the picture you'll
see the famous singer in natural
color-it's the first Technicolor pic
ture produced in England.
The football broadcasts are being
lined up, so that all of us who don't
want to go to games, or can't make
it, can sit at home this fall and
hear what's happening on the grid
iron. An oil company is acting as
sponsor for the broadcasts of one
hundred major games, over thirty
six stations on the coast. Don Will
son, whom you've heard doing an
other sort of announcements with
Jack Benny, will do some of the
announcing.
r.
If you listen to the Music Hall of
the Air, on the radio, you probably
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
occurants of the Mayfiower

The occupations of the Mayfiower
passengers included the following:
Merchant, steward-servant, servant
man, servant-boy, ladies' maid,
bound-boy, printer and publisher,
physician, jailer, tradesman, wool
carder, farmer, lay reader, silk
worker, husbandman, carpenter,
cooper, seaman. Some were at
some time teachers, accountants,
linquists, writers, etc. Some had
formerly practiced handicrafts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

ideal of strengthen
ing inter racial
friendships through
competitive sport.
But when, in dis
patches from Ber-
lin a f e ! | ow
reads of disputed
d e C i S i o n S, ques-
toned reversals, al
] e G e d discrimina-
tions against some
winning contestants
IN account Of color
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
GROWING TO MANHOOD

Men never grow up into man.
hood as an acorn grows into an
oak tree. Men come to it by re-
births in every faculty, again, and
again, and again. a5jsi
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

feel that you know
Ted Hammerstein;
he is the grandson
of the late Oscar
Hammerstein, one
of Americas most
j l ] u S t T j o u S
theatrical figures.
Ted tells t III i S
story about himself.
He broke into the
theatrical business
by working for a
Broadway booking
agent
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

In this tiny hut, buried under ice
fields, Admiral Byrd lived alone
through months of darkness, with the
temperature 80 below zero.
We are frankly proud to point out
Phillips Delicious Foods among the
vital supplies in this hut. When every
ounce of food carried has to justify its
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

weight when morale and life itself
depend upon the quality of the food
. :. supplies are selected only after
the most rigorous tests. By such tests
Phillips Delicious Foods were ap.
proved and carried on both the 1928
and 1888 Byrd Antarctic Expeditions.
They have never had endorsement
that pleased us more. -o
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
uJt%t Q
S.(IIcobiib
Nivvlb1 about
Woes of French Hotelkeepers.

woes OF FreucH nVtcAhCoPCAS'
ICANTA MONICA, CALF
~ AS he gazes forth on a boule-
ward full of rampaging Reds and
thinks about his empty bedrooms,
I'LL bet there isn't hotel keeper
in Paris who wouldn't trade a
great gross of assorted French
communists, including all the
standardized grades, such as the
comparatively rare slick type, the
partly haired-over hybrid and the
common fur-bearing variety, tor
lust one old-fashioned easy-going
american visitor-the kind that
was too carefree to check up the
weekly bill. -. +.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
The Spanish Extravaganza.

IN GALOW p1ShS uP Vic PoPCA
"A and reads in the news dis
patches from Spain that the Loyal
lists licked the Royalists, or vice
versa; and the Leftists tied into
the Nationalist again-or maybe
they're both the same.
Whereas the insurgents walloped
the radicals, but elsewhere the gov
eminent forces drove back the reb-
els; and meanwhile the Reds or the
Centrists or somebody did some
thing unpleasant to the Republican
outfit, as opposed to the monar-
chial group; and at all points south
and west the anti-clericals and the
church, the Agrarian party, the
Fascists and the Communists, the
besiegers and the defenders, the
peasants and the townspeople, the
laboring classes and the aristocrats,
the landowners and the tenants,
etc., etc., ETC., were Snarled into
various hard knots. So what?
If, after all, there are but two
main sides engaged = only /
wouldn't know about that-the cor
respondents could confer great
boon by just naming one set the
Hatfields and the other set the Nc
Coys. Or would you prefer calling
them the Galatians and the Muir
phys?
IRWIN S. COBB.
W-WNU aA-via4
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

and the unnecessarily brutal pub
jlicity, or so it appeared at long
distance, that was given to the dis
ciplining of an indiscreet woman
athlete; and then the threatened
Withdrawals of aggrieved teams
from certain Latin countries, he
gets to thinking, the reader does,
that maybe it would be better if
each national group held its own
little private Olympian show on the
home grounds and barred out the
riffraff, meaning by that, all for
! eigners.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28

Private Olympic Games.
lNRIGINALLY these Olymplar
~ games we're based upon the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-08-28
Uncle Sans Alien Burdens

MO matter which party controls
L congress, watch at the next
term for this: A campaign for legis-
lation opening the doors to millions
of aliens now barred out under the
quota laws, which also would legal
ize the presence here of a great
mass of the foreign-born, some of
them criminals, some misfits and
malcontents, some avowed enemies
of our government, some paupers
on Federal relief, who already are
hiding amongst us through whole
sale snuggling-in, through fraudu-
lent immigration papers, through
carelessness-to use a gentle term
on the part of public servants
charged with the duty of guarding
at the gate. -
In the years before us, it will be
a sufficiently heavy burden to care
for such of our own worthy home
folks, whether native or naturalized,
as otherwise would go destitute.