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Evening star., 1936-10-18
"DESERT" PEOPLE

TN MANY parts Of the world there are great
/ deserts upon which nothing can grow. Why?
/ Because water Is lacking. The soil Is often
i very rich and fertile in these places, but
because it is too dry, plants cannot thrive there.
If water is brought In, as IL has been in many
parts Of the American desert, the arid WASTES are
transformed into glorious garden spots.
There are = lot Of people in the world who
are much like desert land. They have within
them all the qualities Of very rich soil, but they
lack one thing: the water" that will make them
Evening star., 1936-10-18

Gimme, Gimme!
COMPASS the butter.
~ Mother-If what?
Son-If you can reach 1t.
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Foot Ball

Continued From First page)
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INSTALLMENT II.

S6C THAT'S what happened
Larry North related. II sat
on the bench for the rest
~ of the afternoon, and he
Evening star., 1936-10-18
ANSWERS.

1. Fruit tree puzzle solution.
Evening star., 1936-10-18

:. The diamond is o, art, ascot,
orchard. toady, try, D.
3. Lea. Leaf, lead, leap and lean.
1. Crossword puzzle solution.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

caves were cold and we were
hungry. There before us lay the
jungle. The jungle was like q
great door that opened into all
we needed.
There was food in the jungle
and warm furS and riches and a
mate. But there was also danger
That was the CLOSED" side Of
the jungle door. There were wild
beasts in the jungle and hostile
tribes and mysterious diseases.
The jungle invited - but the
jungle also repelled. Should we go
in? Or should we stay out? That
was the question the jungle put up
to us. And a mans test lay in his
answer.
Life is a door half opened, half
closed. With each new day we
meet that challenge afreSh. Shall
we 60 in? Shall we stay out?
There's the test of the stuff that's
in us.
Most of us waste years waiting
for life to open it's door full. But
life never will.
The perfect opportunity - the
opportunity that carries no risk
with it, no inconvenience or pain
never comes. Always the door is
half shut as well as half open.
Always there are as many reH-
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
HIS DEFINITION

Officials of the Commerce De
partment were recently very
much bothered by a young man
who had been discharged from
one of the New Deal agencies and
was in search of a job.
One afternoon he breezed into
the office of one Of the Com
merce officials and cheerfully an
nounced:
81 have q permanent job"
Very pleased at being rid Of
the job-seeker the official said:
That's fine. Where is the
pOsitiOn?"
He was told:
"In the BituminOus Coal
Commission.
The official demanded to know
if the young man did not realize
that the Coal Commission might
shortly be invalidated if the SUI
preme Court declares the Guffey
Coal Act unconstitutional.
The young man replied:
"The court won't declare It
unconstitutional before March
Is and, believe me, job that
lasts that long in this Govern
ment is permanent"
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
Miles Above Us

When the air they better travellers than
men, declares less authority than American Air Lines
after study Of the moods and Of its passengers
Of the female Of the species it is said:
She relaxes more quickly her first fgh-doesnt try
hold the plane up most men do
She doesn't worry much about bad weather.
She follows Instructions sometimes
She is careful about cigarette ashes
Reverse the foregoing and you will have picture Of the
average when he flies.
And further counts in the indictment against him. he de-
ands and attention asks foolish questions
and gets restless sooner.
But let male suggest that it's natural
woman to 60 up in the air than it is for a
Not for publication, anyway.
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Os S1AS
of the house, who admitted them.
The dread "black vonit" came
to TortugaS in the late summer.
Mosquitoes and rats were plent1-
full. The tropical heat was in
tense. The food was terrible, even
for the officers, and the sanitary
conditions even worse for the en-
listed men and for the prisoners
of Fort Jefferson, the massive
pile of masonry which sprawled
over the entire seven and onehalf
acres of the coral island.
One Of the men was bitten by
a mosquito. He killed the pest or
brushed 1t away as he had done q
hundred times a day. But this
was a particular bite. Soon he be-
gan to run a fever, with the usual
flush Of face and watery eyes. In
a day or two the flush had gone,
his temperature had dropped be-
low normal, his pulse faded and
his skin grew cold and the color
Of a lemon. yellow Jack had ar
rived.
DIR. SAMUEL MUDD
In the above paragraphs you
have the background, the setting
for the drama which marked the
life Of DR.. Samuel Mudd, story
which the motion picture people
have seized upon in their present
Unsuitable quest for the historical
and the biographical as mediums
for the silver screen.
The two riders Of the night
were John Wilkes Booth, Of the
.-3ooths Of the stage, and David
E, Herold, a young druggists
clerk. The house in Maryland was
DR.. Mudd's. and the time was
early on the morning Of Satur-
day, April is, 1865. All night
theJ had ridden, Booth with a
broken leg received when his spur
had caught in an American flag
as he dropped from a box to the
stage Of Ford's Theater in Wash
ington. ,..
One story has it that DR.. Mudd
treated the injured man, not
knowing whence the injury had
come, and sent him away inmedi-
ately.
In any event, Samuel Mudd
stood trial with eight others for
the cC-lspiracy to kill Abraham
Lincoln. The assassin Booth had
been shot to death in the barn in
Virginia to which he set fire when
trapped by a detachment Of
soldiers.
Mudd's guilt, If any, was in CIV
ing aid and succor to the muir.
derer, in being an accessory after
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Three-Minute Journeys

Ibe kept open permanently for
visitors.
And then there is the lovely
John Rolfe property, owned by the
son of Pocahontas and 81. Thomas
Rolfe. This estate, too, has been
restored by Mr.. Rockefeller and is
now open permanently as an ex-
hibit, both charming and interest
ing.
Around Charlottesville there are
a number of historic houses open
to visitors, including Monticello
the home of Thomas jefferson
and Ash Lawn, the home Of James
Monroe. One can also visit CaSle
Hill and Bremo, a lovely old
mansion and one Of the best pre-
served of the ancient plantations
to be found in the beautiful South.
Brandon, Claremont and West
over, the home of william Byrd
II, founder of the City Of Rich
mond, are some of the fine man.
sions and estates which line the
James river.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
The Human Side of the NeusI
By Edwin C. Hill

sthe fact. It Is certain he was nc
party to Booths wild schemes be
fore the murder.
Accused with him were Herold
Lewis Powell, moronic youne
giant, who almost murdered Sec
retary of State Seward on that
fatal Good Friday night; Atzerodt
a blockade runner; Mrs. Mary E
Surratt, boarding house keeper
her son, John, and Samuel Arnold
and Michael OLoughlin, Mary
lind seceSsioniStS. One Spangler
a scene Shifter in Ford's Theater
was a minor party, while John
Surratt, who escaped to Europe
did not go to trial until 1857
when the jury disagreed. But his
mother was hanged along with
Powell, Herold and Atzerodt.
Arnold pretty well established
that there had been a conspiracy
to kidnap Lincoln to which he
was party. The end Of the war
decided him against the idea and
he was working in Virginia when
Booth, who had the run Of the
theater, stole into the President s
box and shot him in the head,
OLoughlin. too, was in on the
kidnapping plot. Mudd, Arnold
and OLoughlin were sentenced
to life Imprisonment, and spang.
Ter to a term Of years.
To Tortugas, the Devils Island
Of the day, they were taken,
YELLOW FEVER
They had been there two years
when the yellow fever broke out.
Men dropped like fleas. Half OF
the garrison was sent to Key
West. but Of the remaining 200
officers and men. 81 died in the
two months Of the epidemic.
Only two Of the 50 prisoners
persisted. Among the first stricken
was the surgeon, Major Smith. a
kindly and humane man. The
commandant was forced to go to
Mudd's dungeon and beg him to
administer to the sick. Mudd
agreed on condition that he be
given a free hand.
Night and day he worked, fight.
ing the battle alone. He tried
desperately to save Major Smith,
but failed. He did save Mrs.
Smith. Not an officer or an off.
GERS wife would go near them,
only the outcaSt convict.
Mudd had walls broken down to
let the breezes sweep the fortress
He stopped the removal of bodies,
burying the dead in lime. He
checked the disease. Other medi.
cal help arrived. and finally. when
only two convalescent cases re.
manned, Mudd himself was
stricken.
The government doctor from
New York would not treat him
and he was left to the care Of
Arnold and Spangler. OLoughlin
having died. The two watched
over him every minute and pulled
him through.
Two more years elapsed before
the story of DR.. Mudd reached
Washington to win him a pardon
But the TortugaS and Yellow Jack
had been too much, and he soon
died. Arnold and Spangler were
pardoned, too, and Arnold waited
80 years to tell the tale, which he
did in 1902.
Copyright. 1885, King Feature
Sypdlcatss mC.) -
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

ernment'S buSI- hep' 80 l. AlnAnA"
ness went on in all the quarters
around him.
In addition, he Is given police
guard because the Government
maintains its own police in each
building in which it functions.
AS Tinkham told a colleague:
THE police think they must
act as my personal bOdyguard.
The other night I answered a
knock at my door and one Of
the guards asked:
"Mr. Tinkham, there is q
man outside who says he must
see you and / want to know
whether I should let him in
Tinkham talked to the man but
he contends that he has the best
protective service Of any man In
the House.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

GOOD REASONS
And they're excellent reasons
safe and sane" reasons that will
rationalize any cowardice or
SelfishneSs or stupidity.
If you're really afraid to go in
through that half opened door,
you have a thousand alihiS- prob.
ably applaud them. For we're all
towards at heart.
On the other hand, if you de-
eide to go in. you may not be able
to offer one high-proof argument
in your defense. And people will
boo you, and get mad at you be-
cause your courage makes their
cowardice seem contemplate.
Well, which are you going to
do-go in or stay out? Play it
safe or take a chance?
OLD PROBLEM
That's the question that faced
the caveman. That's the ques.
ton that is facing you, in the
dark, narrow cave Of yourself.
The cavemen that went into the
jungle found plenty. But they
also paid plenty for finding it.
They knew pain, and soon, Ger.
tain death. But they also knew
the thrill and glory of adven-
ture. And they built civilization
although that probably didn't do
them much good, being dead.
But, at all events, whatever
there was they were in the thick
Of it. And, to some men, that's
everything.
And the other cavemen, they
chose safety. They passed up the
adventures-but they also passed
up the risks. And to some men,
that's everything.
So there you are, with a door
before you. No matter how rich
you are or how poor you are
there's always a door before you.
Half opened, on opportunity. Half
closed, against danger. Will you
go in-or stay out? It's up to
you.
Copyright, 1885, King Feature
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
VIRGINIA

It is nice to know that the
exquisite gardens and historic
homes of beautiful Virginia are
attracting ever-increasing throngs
Of tourists.
It is only during the last few
years that these shrines have
been open to the public. Now
each year finds more lovely spots
open to visitors.
Williamsburg, which has been
restored through the generosity
of John D. Rockefeller, jr., is
well worthy of a long visit. At
a cost of millions, the governors S
palace and gardens, the Capitol
the ITO court house, the Raleigh
Tavern have all been restored.
The Wren Building, Oldest college
structure in America; the CO.
lonial powder magazine, James
City court house. Wythe House,
the Market Square Tavern have
also been restored and are to
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

a p a rtment in
the Washington
hotel which the
G ov rn ment
took over for
official pur-
poses but he
has now a po-
lice guard as
we'll.
Tinkham, as
Is well known,
was allowed to
keep his apart
ment in which
he lived even
though the Gov.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
LandOn Makes Sense
Plain People Understand Him

Plain People Understand Him
Governor Landons nationwide radio address last week
struck the note that all Americans except confirmed Tories
Congenital Communists have oeen eager to hear.
That is the of fair mindedness of Of
patriotism above partisanship
"In my Judgment" said the Governor "the policy Of
cOndenning everything the opposition party does has
neUer produced better government.
"Nor I one Uho believes that the Republican
party has a patriotism and intelligence.
"We should go into the campaign prepared to be
fair cOncedng the good points of the opposition
We courageous to point out Whdt consider it's
errors"
Abraham Lincoln might have said that It sets a new
high in political debate.
For simplicity cearness and honesty it would be hard to
excel these salient paragraphs from the Governors speech
"Lt has been said that demands for relief haze i'm
Perilled the Federal finances That is ONLY HALF
TRUTH The money actually reaching the unemployed
has not rocked the Treasury but all too many relief
and Work projects haze been denied adequate aid be-
has .9ten 4n too nTeh Of the tI"d'
CHEAPER, SIMPLER AND MORE RESPONSIBLE RE-
LIEF ADMINISTRATION.
"Tke purpose of the tariff is protect UOorkers and
Sf i VH% 4E 1PSS5 PSo
TEcTI0N.
"TAere are people today calling thenselUes liberal
WhO regard any suggestion of economy re0cOndTy.
They to think that willingness to thrOw other
peoples money around GUthOut any confederation of
Oalue received is peculiar sign Of heart They
0hOuU too little consideration for the toll which millions
Of American and WOn1en uOW haze to undergo in
order to off the debt gai!y incurred ALREADY
ITS INCOME FOR TAXES, WHETHER THE FAMILY
KNOWS 1T OR NOT. 1t uiH take THAT MUCH
MORE than that to pay the bill which political uUusters
"WhGt nation really needs today is better pOliti
cal housekeeping. Our could shOuO the uO0y.
They hGOe had more successful experience than any
political spendthrift in getting full abundance out of
LiUing and IN managing to put by something for a
rainy day.
The good uOhcat be separated from the great
stack of Nev Deal chaff. The national platform
Of the Republican Party should be Straightforward
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

viSed: Mrs. Norton
"My husband Is a philanderer
and is playing around with
another woman. What in the
world should / dO?"
Mrs. Norton said the woman
was somewhat astounded when
she advised:
"Let him go ahead and run
around all he wishes.
"He will get tired Of the game
and come home"
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

mlttee, contends
that there is
no advice which
constituents will
not seek from
m e m b ers Of
Congress.
To substanti.
ate her state
ment, she re-
calls a recent
day on which
she was forced
to give "advice
to the love
lorn."
A wnnnAn adj
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

That's life.
Always W e'r e
facing a door
ha t's h alf
o p e n e d a n d
half closed and
W on d eri n G
which side to
choose.
Long ago we
b e 6 a n that.
Began it when
we were cave
m e n, peering
C a u t ou 81 y
from the mar
row creviceS of
mir CIenS Our
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

SIQe. AC laSC
t h e foremost
horSeman rein
ed his mount
before a dark
ened h u S e.
His companion,
d r a W in 6 up
alongside, help
ed him from
the saddle and
half C rri e d,
half-d r a g 6 e d
him to the en-
trance. Th e y
raped on the
I~ oIryoLnn-
A. AzAA~
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
VACANT PLACE

Long after his death, no por.
trait of the late Speaker Henry
T. Rainey hangs in the House
Portraits Of all other Speakers
of recent generations have been
given to the House, but Rainey's
is absent.
And it is all because Represen.
tative Kent Keller CD of Illinois,
Chairman Of the Committee on
Library, believes he should select
the portrait.
Usually the family of the
Speaker selects the likeness,
Mrs. Rainey wants one por.
trait which has been painted
to go to the House. Keller wants
another.
Consequently. no painting is in
the Speakers lobby.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
PERIOD

Just the other day Representa-
tive Phil Ferguson CD of Okla.
homa, received q letter from a
constituent who apparently wrote
with o pen Of fire,
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
Electric Rate Cut

BY ordering the initial of of the Potomac Electric
Power Company from per cent 65 Per cent by
cutting million dollars from the base which the rate Of
return is computed Public Utilities Commission used
courageous common
WashingtOnians proud of the fact that electric
rates here among the IOwes in the country, due
largely to the annual .eadjustent Of the rates by
agreement betWeen the Company and the commission.
DESPITE THESE Low RATES THE COMPANY HAS
ENJOYED A TREMENDOUS PROSPERITY.
It will continue to be prosperous under the sashes
ordered by the Commission in the present
The rate of allowed the company doesn't much
unless the upon which is computed watched
fully.
Apparently the Commission willing to let the base for
rate making purposes get out of hand.
That is the that it has off two million dollars.
That order that power in the District will be
saved 65 per cent of the two million dollars
THAT IS A WORTHWHILE SAVING AND ONE OF
WHICH THE COMMISSION MAY PROPERLY BE PROUD.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

relief money has been wasted who holds the singular
heresy that his party has sometimes made mistakes
That's not Old Partisan language
But it is AMERICAN language language that any
American outside of the Union League Club the Raw Deal
can appreciate and UNDERSTAND.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
A MOVIE PLOT

The two figures rode furiously
through the night along the dirt
roads Of the Maryland country
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

All this makes 1t is the opposite Of Brain Trust
Nonsense.
It is that Old Guard Republicans who die but never
surrender may find little admire in candidate who
fuses to paint Democrats all back-or all red who ad
is that farmers have rights who does not believe that ALL
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
"HETL CONE BACK"

Representative Mary T. Norton
CD of New Jersey and chair
man Of the House District Com
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
WELL GUARDED

Representative George Holden
Tinkham (RD Of Massachusetts,
not only has refused to vacate his
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

NEW hOLE
Since Representative John S
McGroarty CD of California
lost his overcoat to a thief
in the Speakers lobby Of the
House, visitors have been deprived
Of the pleasure Of seeing that color.
full section of the Capitol.
Before the theft of McGroarty's
overcoat tourists were permitted
to wander through the lobby when
the House was not in session.
McGroarty, incidentally, has
never found the expensive over
coat his wife bought him to with.
stand the chill of Washington
winter.
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
The Greatest Show On Earth
Now Going On
By John Snure, Jr.

At least, the words were very
soaring.
At the end Of the letter, the
constituent wrote:
Il don't intend to sign my
name.
II don't want any argument
out of you"
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

declaration that O forth the careful thought and
serious cOnOictiOns of person bat of many.
BEHIND THAT PLATFORM MUST BE AN HONEST
INTENTION TO REDEEM ITS PLEDGES, NOT TO
THROW IT ON THE JUNK PILE THE DAY AFTER
ELECTION"
The Washington times., 1936-02-03

This line in the ads caught
me-"The door was half opened
yet half clOsed-and he was
oR-oSIO
The Washington times., 1936-02-03
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

"A DooR-HALF OPENED-HALF CLOSED
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1936-04-10

are not only content with the pres
ent form Of government, but are So
well satisfied with the present OFF,
cials that they re-elect them fronl
time to time without opposition,
This deep-seeded satisfaction grown
out Of the fact that the town Is adj
ministratod go efficiently that, even
though Il is modern and progressive.
taxes are kept az q minirgum and
the bonded Indebtedness is perhaps
the smallest of any progressive
town of It's size in the State.
That the early settlers Of Mills
bOrO were Interested in education
and determined that 1t should not be
buried with them, is evident from
the fact that soon a school was es-
tablished which has slowly grown
into the present efficient, frst-class
system. The old buildings in which
the children were housed were very
crude at first, but continued to inn
prove each time fl was necessary to
build a new one; thus evOluting
through the various typles of one
room buildings and the twO-story
frame structure stage to the mod
crn brick building Of which Mills
bOrO boasts today,
The residents of AlillsbOrO have
always been \ religious, law-abid-
ing people. Therefore, soon after a
settlement was made two church
were erected-one by the
Methodist and the other by the
EpiscOpalians. As practically all the
people Of MillsbOrO still belong to
.hcse TWO denominations, no other
churches have ever been established |
IN this town. In fact the people OF /
MillsbOro are so tolerant of each (
others religious views. and cooper !
ltiOn existing between these two de-
so ideal that services
lave been arranged so that the chill
lren may attend Sunday school at
10th churches; and some have even
rentured to predict that the time
nay soon come when the people of
.IillsborO will construct g union
hurch and all Worship together. Be
his as it may, today on the banks
# old Indian River, amidst scenic
,eauty, there dwells a quiet, friend
Y and peacs-lOving people-the des-
endants Of those hardy pioneers.
rho left their mother country to
uild homes i'm this land Of freedom.
there they and their posterity could
I'VE more abundantly.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1936-04-10
BETHEL

Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Thompson and
son. Billy. of Seaford, were dinner
guests Of the latteT's parents. Mr.
and Mrs. William Massey.
Bobby Bell Of Philadelphia Is
spending the Easter vacation with
bis grandmother, Mrs Maggie Rig
gin.
Messrs. John Massey, Jacob Can
non left Monday for Wilmington
where they have secured employ
ment with the American Car and
Foundry Company.
Miss Blanche Spicer entertained
the members of the Count On Me
Club" at her home on Tuesday night.
Mrs. Florence J. Furniss returned
to her home here last week after
spending the winter months in Clay
ton and Philadelphia.
Mrs. Levin Moore visited her
husband ON Sunday at the Delaware
Hospital in Wilmington. His many
friends hope FOR a speedy recovery.
Mrs Harvey Spence and son Ger
aid have returned home after spen-
ding some time with her parents,
Capt. and Mrs. Thomas Eggers in
Philadelphia.
Miss Grace MessiCk was a dinner
guest on Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy TOadvine Mt Sharptown, Nd
Normal CouibOurn who is employ
cd in Salisbury. Nd, spent the week
end at his home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Hastings and
family, also Mrs. Lulu Massey spent
Wednesday in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Smith OF
Salisbury, Md, we're town visitors
on Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. /. L. Powell and
son Don spent Wednesday at Bish-
opville, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mcclure of Col
lingswood, N. J., we're Sunday guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Hastings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tmory Owens and
family Of Wilmington were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Bell on Satur-
day.
Mrs. Harley G.. Hastings was one
of the group of delegates from Lali-
rel High School to attend the State
p. T. A. held at Smyrna last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Marian Cubbage is spending
some time at Viola.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Knowles OF
Wilmington were town visitors on
Sunday