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Evening star., 1936-11-15
GAS TAX lie GALLON
Decatur, Ala, Has Record, but It
Was Formerly 12Mc.

The. highest gasoline tax in. the
United States now is being collected
in the police jurisdiction Of Decatur,
Ala, lying within Limestone, County.
Once l21a cents per gallon; it now is
IL cents.
A few years ago motorists buying
gasoline at Decatur paid q 1la-cent
Federal tax. q Scent State tax, q s.
cent county tax and 2-cent city tax.
or 12la cents In all. However, the
Federal levy was reduced to cent
per gallon. and the city levy was cut
to cent. so that today the motorists
pay 1-cent Federal tax. q 6-cent
State tax. Scent county tax and .
1-cent local tax, or II cents total.
Evening star., 1936-11-15

so lar as the
public Is con-
cerned.
Each year, with
unfainng regu-
larity, notordorn
parades the crea-
tions of its en-
engineers and de-
signers before the
discr i'm mating
Mr.. and Mrs.
John @. Public.
And each year,
with the same
consistency, Mr..
and Mrs. Public
examine them
Evening star., 1936-11-15
AUTO SHOW OPENS
AND BIG ID. C.. CROWD
Halls 1887 MODELS
New Safety Features and
Greater Refinements Features
OF New Machines
BY G. ADAMS HOWARD,
Automobile Editor.

prosperity hand of the distant future the Ma
ona Capital yesterday enthusiastically greeted the opening the
held this
Hail. opposite the shoreham Hotel
Local motordom Of its the the
traffic fatalities and the largest sales Of history greeted products
Association, president
Evening star., 1936-11-15
Collisions in Cities.

Seven per cent Of the city motor
vehicle deaths are caused BY collision
with other than motor vehicles, while
only 8 per cent are 20 caused in the
country. - ---4s
Evening star., 1936-11-15
Carbon Dioxide Volume.

The burning Of gasoline in automo.
biles produces enough carbon dioxide
each year TO make leo. .ooo. 900 tons OF
dry icAs
Evening star., 1936-11-15
CAR MAKERS VIE
IN KEEN RIVALRY
Auto Show Has Become
Fixed Institution in
Washington.
BYR. CDICK"l MURPHY.

BY r. ]. ("DICK") MURPHY,
Manager. Washington Automotive Trade
Association.
An integral part in the social and
commercial life of the National Cap
ital, the annual automobile show has
come to be virtually fixed institution
Evening star., 1936-11-15
MARKED ADVANCES
SEEN In AUTO SHOWS
NEW CAR OFFERINGS
Motor Industry Shows Determi-
nation Not to Rest on Last
Years Laurels.
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

Born Of the election and bstng with surprise features certain
help mold history the 1887 automobile
marked
happened intriguing
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE w. SPROWLS.


TEN or fifteen years ago the psyche
logistS began in earnest to study
personality. They scrapped practi-
cally all the older theories which had
been gathering since the days Of Ga
Thoroughly 1900 years.
News seems to travel much more
rapidly than formerly. And the news
leaked out that a perfectly balanced
personality is the veriest of SUPPOSE
tions. A balanced personality" is
something that does not exist. Once
accepted, this fact of unbalanced per-
sonality began to attract attention.
What, it was asked, causes the unbal-
ance?
Certain educational psychologists,
jumping as they usually do to unwar-
ranted conclusions, proposed that un-
balanced personalities were caused by
lack of intelligence. A low general in
telligence meant an unbalance in ones
customary reactions. The lower the
intelligence, the greater the unbalance.
But most stories have two sides;
especially those stories about human
nature. 1t just seems that human ma
ture cannot be fathomed. Personality
is. after all, the biggest fact and the
biggest riddle in the universe. -
Anyway, here is what is probably,
the latest on the subject: There are
probably more normal personalit>sr,
among those of low than among thosl-
of high intelligence. High intelligence
sets high goals for achievement, which
require strong qualities in all the COM
ponents of personality" 80
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Culinary History.

ST. GERMAN EN- LAYE, France
R.-France's first railroad from Paris
to st. Germain, set a precedent for
slowness and thereby added "pommes
de terre souf1ees" to the resources of
the worlds cooks. Both institutions
still flourish and their centenary is to
be celebrated in 1887.
King Louis Philippe, who presided
over the inaugural banquet at st.
German, had special fondness for
French fried potatoes and Collinet, the
great chef, had prepared substantial
supply. But the first train was late
and he took them of the fire.
When his majesty finally appeared
the chef put the potatoes back and
the miracle happened. The crust
swelled, each slice turned into crisp
little golden cushion and delectable
''pommes souuees" were born.
Evening star., 1936-03-16

sible for the first time. BY this Is
meant that every particle of soap
residue, or shall we say, soap scum" |"
is removed. Every time that you wash
anything with soap and water a GER
tain amount of dirty soap scum"
adheres to the thing washed, whether
the water is hard or soft. Evidences
appear in the murkiness on top of the
water and in the ring left around the
basin. And certainly you have felt
1t In the stubborn sickness Of your
hair after a home shampoo.
Soap scum" in your hair, although
invisible, dulls the luster that the hair
should have. Furthermore, it Is in
furious to the hair. The new ingredi-
ent when added to water will dissolve
this deposit and leave the hair and
scalp perfectly clean and shining
with flattering loveliness. The YER
satility Of this product is amazing.
For manicures and pedicures it leaves
the hands and feet odorless, soft and
really clean.
Ask to have this special water
conditioner used the next time you
60 to the hairdresser AS yet this
product is only obtainable at beauty
salons. but very soon it will be for
sale at most cosmetic counters.
A ND now still another step for
ward in science. This one has to
do with iodine and its use as a mar
velous scalp stimulant and destroyer
Of excessive dandruff and other ab-
normal scalp conditions. Tincture of
iodine has long been known as pos
sibly one of the finest medications
for the scalp. However, in the tincture
form 1t stains, burns and is poisonous
to a great many people. For this rea-
son it was impossible to adopt it even
in minute quantities, as a person sus-
ceptible to iodine poisoning would be
affected by even the smallest quantity
In compound.
In the colloidal form, however,
iodine is ''vaporized" by high fire.
quency electrical current, and during
the process of manufacture, the burn
ing, staining. poisonous properties are
removed, leaving the finished prod
uct in the same state as 1t is found
in vegetables, fish and in the human
body. Thus it Is harmless and can
be used externally or taken internally
with only beneficial results.
In this form it is proving invalu-
able as a pre-conditioner for perma-
nent waving. A series of treatments
will add new life and elasticity to the
hair and prove to be a marvellous
Spring tonic. This treatment is now
being given In q number of Washing
ton shop and one Of its unusual fea-
lures is that the various ingredients
required for each treatment are sealed
In small containers holding only q
SUFFICIENT quantity for an individual
application. This eliminates all chance
Of error on the part of an operator
and insures absolute sanitation.
For information concerning items
mentioned in this column call Ma
tional 5000, extension 3S6, between 10
and IL am,
Evening star., 1936-03-16
SuDed Fruits Have Been Dietary Standby for Many Cenur
Excellent for Children
When Put in Lunch Box
For BetWeen-MealS Bite
Natural Sugar and Other Food Values Build
Up and Sustain the Overworked
System.

days; the final cure Is given in the
shade. All dried fruit Is sprayed with
water before packing, to insure its per-
feet freedom from dust and dirt.
A PRICOTS-originally "apricocks"
from the Low Greek 'praikok-
ion," meaning early ripe"-flowered
early in the year it its native Arme-
mia. The fruit was brought to Amer
lea by the Spanish missionaries, and
British traveller to this country in
1892 tells of seeing apricot trees bios
soming beautifully at the Santa Clara
Mission in California. Methods used
in drying apricots are much the same
as those employed for peaches. The
pits are dried separately, then cracked,
and the kernals used in manufacturing
flavorings.
Figs were brought in the very olden
times from Araby to Syria and thence
to Israel. The early Phoenician
traders took them to their colonies on
the African Mediterranean. The
Greeks planted fig trees throughout
their part of the world and at the
beginning of the Christian era the
Romans carried the "fiscus," or fig,
to all the temperate regions of Europe.
AS far as America is concerned, it
Is believed that the French first
brought them here, to New Orleans.
About six years prior to the Amer
ican Revolution the missionaries plant
ed the first fig trees in California
and it is said that some of these
original trees are still bearing fruit!
Like prunes, figs are not picked from
the trees, but are allowed to ripen
until they are heavy with sugar,
partially dried and drop by them
selves. They are gathered, spread on
the drying trays in the sun and al
lowed to finish their cure
DRIED pears are not as familiar
to most Of us as are the other
fruits. They are. however, delicate
and delicious. They are picked by
hand, washed, sorted for size, cut
lengthwise and placed on the trays.
After brief exposure to sulphur, they
are dried in the sun for IL hours.
Ten days in the shade and they are
ready for the packing house.
AS for dried apples, they are one
of our childhood's foundations. They
are picked by hand, dehydrated in
kilns by artificial heat, exposed to
sulphur, graded and packed, usually
in slices or quarters. And in. this
connection, I shall never forget my
indignation, when at the age of II
my uncle caught me asking for third
helping at dinner. (He had seen
me, only 80 minutes before, consum-
ing large quantities of bread and
butter) With withering courtesy he
turned to my mother and remarked:
UNLESS you are prepared to go to
the poorhouse. my dear, should rec
ommend a barrel of dried apples and
a barrel of water a day for that child.
Nothing else. apparently, can fill her
up!"
(And you know what dried apples
do when soaked in water! I found
out, because I tried little of the
combination-much to my uncle's de-
lightD
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Rice Claims
A Deserved
Popularity
Also Considered One
of the Most Plentiful
of Foods.
BY EDITH M. BARBER.

"THE worlds most popular food"
Guess what? You're probably
wrong. 1t isn't beef, and it isn't po-
tatoes-it's rice.
Perhaps popular is not exactly the
right adjective. Perhaps plentiful Is
the better term. In many countries
life depends upon money enough to
buy rice. In this country. where food
is so varied, we make use of rice in
our menu plans as an accessory food,
because We like its texture and its
flavor. We use it as vegetable with
meat and usually feel that there
should be gravy with it. We COM
bine it with meat, fish, cheese and
highly favored vegetables for lunch
con dishes, and we use it for dessert.
The white hulled rice is used far
more than the brown rice and the
wild rice which are more highly
favored. Brown rice is the unrefined
product of the same plant which pro-
duces the staple white or polished
rice. Wild rice, unlike the other, IS
a blush purple in color and is the
seed of a native grass. As it is more
expensive, because it is not so plenti-
full. it is much less used than stand
ard rice. 1t is particularly good with
game and in the opinion of epicures,
worth what 1t costs for occasional
service with meat.
There are innumerable right" ways
to cook rice. One Is as good as the
other if it produces dry, f1aky prod
uct, each grain of which stands out
from the other. I usually use the
method which was taught me by
Chinese woman, although know that
there are just as many ways OF cooking
it in the Eastern world as there are
here. It is quick-enough metnoo
to be used by the business woman
housekeeper and for this reason I am
printing the recipe today.
CHINESE METHOD OF COOKING
RICE.
/ cup rice.
- teaspoon salt.
2 cups cold water.
Add rice and salt to the water,
cover and bring to boil in top part
of double boiler. Let boil 10 minutes.
BY that time the water should be
absorbed. Then set the top part of
the double boiler over hot water 10
or is minutes. Remove the cover a
few minutes before serving to let out
steam.
Evening star., 1936-03-16

For Mental
Ailments S
New Institutional Re-
gine Proves Great
Success.
BY JAMES M. BARTON, M. D.

BY JAMES NJ. BARTON, M. ID.
SOME months ago the statement was
~ made that if the number Of
patients with mental ailments contin-
ued to increase at its present rate,
one-half of the worlds population
would be confined to mental hospitals
with the other half supporting them
there Now there is no question but
that mental ailments are actually in
creasing, but not perhaps as rapidly
as is thought, because practically all
cases are known now and receiving
treatment.
Further, there are cases admitted to
mental hospitals which formerly were
being cared for at home. These cases
are sent to hospital now because hos
pital treatment is considered best by the
family, and, of course. many families
are now unable to carry the financial
burden of having the patient cared
for at home.
Our mental specialists now believe,
however, that the number of mental
cases may be actually reduced in the
coming year. One of the first methods
of treatment to give results was what
is called occupational therapy. This
treatment consists in having the pa
tient do some form Of work during
which time, of course, he doesn't think
about himself. and by doing some ac-
tual or useful work loses some of his
inferiority complex and may thus be
enabled to go back and take his place
at work or business.
So successful has occupational ther-
apy become in the treatment Of mental
ailments that Drs. G. c. Burlingame
and Carl Phillip Wagner, Hartford,
Conn, report that they have gone
beyond the simple occupations in
which patients were allowed to engage,
and have actually started school or
institution with the selected patients
and have made the surroundings just
as much like ordinary school as pos
sible. AS you know, mental patients
have as much brains as those OF us
outside the institution, but they are
inside" the institution because they
can't adjust themselves to or get along
with some people.
The treatment consists in having
all doctors, nurses, teachers. attend
ants treating the patients as II they
were normal. There is daily program
requiring regular hours Of study in
what the normal patient likes or may
need-personal and correspondence
instruction.
As this mehod enables the patient
to mix with normal people. he "
gradually made ready to 60 back and
uaix entirely with those wins aye normal
Evening star., 1936-03-16

ern woman's dressing table en-
semble is dainty silk scarf
- which protects both the front
and back of ones dress or neghgee. 1t
falls longer in front so that woman
sitting at her dressing table will have
even her lap protected when applying
makeup or combing her hair, Pow
der can now be whisked about as gaily
as one pleases without the slightest
danger Of the merest fieck spotting the
gown.
1t is easily folded into small
square so that it can be tucked into a
corner of a makeup or a week end
case, or kept in the drawer Of a dress
ing table Finished in a delicate
washable peach tinted silk. this new
scarf is sure to find permanent place
in every boudoir. 1t is priced at 81.
y X
A T THIS time Of the year there is
apt to be a great deal Of uneasi-
ness about the condition of our scalps
Wearing close felt hats so much OF
the time during the Winter is none
too good for the hair, and when the
permanent wave begins to loosen up
and straighten out. it is well to begin
some reconditioning treatments to put
more life into it before We have to
have another wave.
There are many ways Of stimulating
circulation of the scalp. You may
massage vigorously or have some one
do it for you; you may brush energet-
ically and Systematically. Then. too
electricity is proving to be very bene-
ficial Regular scalp treatments are
bound to produce good results as the
hair usually responds quickly to extra
stimulation, but in the long run these
treatments often prove rather expen-
sive. We have made discovery that
will make electric scalp treatments
easy for you to give yourself at home.
There Is a new electric comb which
has recently appeared in a local shop
that provides an easy means of stimu-
lation with about minutes use
night and morning. This new device
has two rows of steel wire teeth set
into a round black tube with metal
handle which contains a small bat
terry that generates the current. When
the handle is screwed in tightly the
current is on and ready for use. Just
comb your hair as you would ordi-
narily, but be systematic. 1t is said
to produce good results which will be
noticeable after a few weeks.
This comb has been indorsed by
leading beauty and hair experts and
mention has been made of it in many
of the most widely read women s
magazines.
X X n
WE HAVE two more interesting
w items for you this time which
also relate to beauty Of the hair. One
of these is a water conditioner, which
added to soap and water will really
cleanse the hair perfectly.
This new scientific achievement Is
said to make genuine cleanliness pos
Evening star., 1936-03-16

~ EAR MISS DIX: I am 10
years of age, in my third year
at college. have no father.
- My mother is working very
hard in order to keep me in school and
am trying to the best Of my ability
to take advantage Of the opportunity
offered me. I want to be a doctor,
but 1t will be necessary for me to get
a teachers certificate first and teach
four or five years in order to obtain
enough money to return to college to
get a degree. I am in love with
very nice girl who finishes high school
this year and the problem that con-
fronts me is: When should we marry?
I love her enough to marry her now
and am quite sure that she also loves
me. M. M. u.
Answer-It takes a lot more than
love to marry on, son. 1t takes money,
and unless you are going to dump your
wife on your mother to be supported
it will be long, long time before you
will be in the market for q wedding
ring.
TT WILL be . year or two more be-
fore you get that teachers certifi-
cate, then the four or five years OF
teaching and saving up money to get
your degree as q doctor, then a couple
of years Of internship, then the weary
waiting while you establish prac-
tice, and that adds up to 10 or IL years,
doesn't 1t, even with the best of luck.
You haven't any right to ask girl to
wait that long for you. You haven't
any right to ask her to marry you be-
fore you can at least offer her bread
and cheese with your kisses.
And in the meantime you will have
grown up. In the 10 or IL years you
will have changed from boy into q
man. You will have been thrown with
q different class of people from the
ones with whom you have always as
sociated. You will have met many
women, educated, cultivated, sophis-
ticated. It is a hundred chances to
one that your taste in girls will have
changed as completely as your taste
in fosd, in books, in amusements, and
that the girl who attracts you now
will no more appeal to you than the
chocolate sundaes you used to find SO
ravishing.
THERE are few things in life more
pathetic than these boy-and-girl
engagements that have to run an end.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Cooks S Corner

! By MRS ALExA DER GEORGE.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit
Scrambled Eggs
Broiled Bacon
Buttered Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Cream OF Celery Soup
Crackers Pickles
Sliced Bananas Tea
DINNER.
Ham Timbales
Creunted Asparagus
Buttered Parsnips
Ice Boz Rolls Currant Jelly
Custdr Pie Coffee
HAM T1MBALES.
(Other meat can be used)
cup chopped u teaspoon
cooked ham. chopped
1 cup milk parsley
u cup soft "a teaspoon
bread crumbs celery salt.
u teaspoon salt "a teaspoon
u teaspoon chopped onion.
pepper. 3 eggs, beaten.
Soak crumbs minutes in milk.
Add rest Of ingredients and mix thor
oughly. Fill buttered custard dishes
or timbale molds, bake 80 minutes in
, pan hot water in moderately slow
oven. Let stand minutes in pans,
carefully remove and surround with
creamed asparagus, mushrooms or
egg sauce.
ICE BOX ROLLS.
] cake COM u cup fat,
pressed yeast. melted.
3 tablespoons / egg.
lukewa1m 125 cups luke
water. warm milk.
! teaspoon salt z cups flcur.
u cup sugar
Crumble yeast and add water. Let
stand minutes, add salt, sugar, fat,
egg, milk and 4 cups of -four. Beat
minutes, add rest of -four. cover
and let rise until doubled in bulk.
Punch down and store in ice box.
Break Of bits of dough and shape
into rolls, place on creased baking
sheet and let rise until doubled in
bulk. This will require 81 to 4
hours in room Of moderate tempera-
ture tabout 70 degrees. Bake 10
minutes In moderate oven.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Dorothy Dix Says
It Takes Lot More Than Just Love to
Marry on-and Make the Ven
ture a Success.

less course Of waiting. They rub all
the freshness and glamour of love.
They strain nerves to the breaking
point. They handicap the boy because
they take his mind of his studies or
his work and slow him down in his
climb to success.
They cut the girl out of the joy and
fun-making that should be part Of
her youth because she doesn't belong
anywhere. She is neither bond nor
free, and only too often when the
man does get ready to marry her, he
has outgrown her or got tired of her
and drags himself reluctantly to the
altar just because he feels in honor
bound to marry her because he has
kept her from marrying somebody
else.
And certainly you wouldn't be selfish
enough to lay another heavy burden
on your mothers bowed shoulders. 1t
would be poor return for all the work
and sacrifice she has made to educate
you for you to bring home your wife
for her to support.
My earnest advice to you is to forget
all about this girl you think you are
in love with and put all thoughts OF
marriage out Of your mind until you
are able to afford it. Don't make your
mother pay for your romance.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright. 1850