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Evening star., 1936-01-20
Teach Child
That Life Is
No Problem
Cynical and Morbid
Views Not Good for
Young Ears.
BY ANGELO PATRI..
MOTHER will you buy me a pair
Of roller skateS?"

BY ANGELO PATNI.'
"NToTHER, will you buy me a pair
of roller skates?"
ROLLER skates? For such = little
boy as you? You couldn't stand on
them, much less skate on them"
Eyes, I could. Ronnie has = pair,
and I tried them on and they fitted
me Just right-and I could skate
on them, too. They are little boys
skates, mother"
well. anyway, even If they are.
] can't buy them. ! don't dare spend
q cent, or make a move, these days.
No income from investments; salaries
cut, food sky high. I can't imagine
what is going to happen to u.s." Here
she turned to an old lady: Il didn't
sleep a wink last night, grandmother;
did you?"
Some But I can't help worrying.
What is to become of this poor. mno-
cent child in a world like this? What
is life coming to that we have to
worry night and day just to get
along. The poor child. But. as you
say, you don't dare spend a penny.
You don't know what's going to hap
pen tomorrow"
Mother and granny had quite for
gotten the little chap, who sat look
Ing up at them from his place on the
rug. A troubled expression clouded his
face and one eyebrow lifted toward
his hair line as If anxiously seeking
signs. He drew big sigh and went
to look out of the window, all thought
of Joining his friends in play blotted
out by the vague fear that had taken
hold o. MIN. Nobody noticed. So often
IL happens that children are made
fearful of life by some such defeatist
expression of the grown-ups who are
the pillars of his world. II the pillars
tremble, what of the child?
Life is troubled and uncertain, but
Is that news? The fact is that life
is certain to be uncertain. We long
above all to feel secure in it, and in
stead of seeking security where it is
to be found in the spiritual phases
of our being. we seek it in the mate
rial, uncertain things. We pile up
money and it melts away. We build
fortresses for security and the sea
rises and wipes them out. We make
laws in defense of our cherished be-
longings and tomorrow brings an un-
heard-of situation and the laws are
useless.
We cannot live peacefully on this
earth without faith in life. We can
not make progress in any direction
without faith in the rightness of the
principles governing every movement.
Taking our selfish desires as a guide,
praying that they may be granted us
for our own names sake is about as
useless gesture as we can make. Not
until we accept the eternal principles
Of truth. not until we establish our
faith in the ultimate goodness of life
Is there any hope for US.
In dealing with children then 1t is
best to teach them by example as well
as precept that life is no problem. We
are the problems. Live in the faith
of wholesome successful cooperation
with rightness and live one day at a
time joyfully. This world needs no
pushing from any of US. All it needs
is our harmonious cooperation. Teach
the children just that.
Copyright. 1936)
Evening star., 1936-01-20

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Interesting and exclusive fashions for
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for the most particular young women
and matrons and other patterns for
special occasions are all to be found
in the Barbara Bell Pattern BOOK.
Send IS cents today for your copy.
Evening star., 1936-01-20

I have been re-
luctant to make
any suggestions
along these lines.
However, espe-
cially in houses
where there are
children, there is
. definite need
for large, sub
stantial break
fasts whether
mother joins In
their consump-
ton or whether
she is able to
absorb frosted
nrn~ra {,,toa onA
Evening star., 1936-01-20
BY BETSY CASWELL.

TT SEEMS to me that we have been
rather neglecting breakfasts. As
q matter of fact, have some
L what "steered clear" of the SUBJ
ject, because it has been my expert
ence that no two people view break
fast eye to eye. This being the case,
Evening star., 1936-01-20

Especially and inexpensive obtain them The pair Of
. combination according
Of
and inclosed.
incose IS
Address Editor Of Evening Star
Evening star., 1936-01-20
MY husband earns s27a week.
but | always look wen-dressed'

.TAST YEAR we both
IL lived on $18 a week
this year it's $27. My
clothes allowance is only
$3.50 a week. l couldn't
manage without Lux.
II can't afford cleaning
bills, and wouldn't dare
use an ordinary soap be-
cause a faded dress or
shrunken sweater would
be a tragedy. So l Lux
almost everything.
"With Lux, I've never
had a washing failure. Lux
keeps even my bargain
clothes new looking for
several seasons. OF course,
1 Lux my stockings and
lingerie, too. It's the
worlds best clothes econ
'''' (vM>5Ar~U-a
Evening star., 1936-01-20

Wnen 10 leave q man diOne.
said. a man to me the other day, land
to that fact I owe my bachelor free
DOM --". -'. 'f
when I was young chap" he went
on, II was engaged to a beautiful and
charming young woman and we should
have been married II she had only let
me alone, but she couldn't do it. When
ever we were together she was straight
ening my tie, or smoothing my hair,
or exploring my pockets, or making
some other gesture that indicated that
1 belonged to her until it got SO much
on my nerves that l felt like scream
ing. II I started of. somewhere by
myself, she followed me. II was out
OF her presence, I had to furnish an
alibi for every moment of my time.
I couldn't even sit down and read
without her interrupting me every
few moments.
Evening star., 1936-01-20
Cooks Corner
BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
@ BREAKFAST,

BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
BREAKFAST.
Grapejruit
Cooked Corn Cereal
Buttered Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Oyster Soup Crackers
Plum Sauce Tea
''e. DINNER.
Chill Con Carne
Vegetable Medley
Toasted Biscuits
81. Celery Curls
Cottage Pudding, Pineapple Sauce
Coffee
/ CHILL CON CARNE.
"a pound beef. "a teaspoon chilli
diced powder
; tablespoons
bacon fat "a teaspoon
l cup cooked paprika
kidney beans
3 tablespoons "a teaspoon salt
chopped celery u cup water
! tablespoon "a cup tomatoes
chopped onions
Brown beef in fat, melted in fry
ing pan. Add rest Of ingredients.
Cover and simmer 80 minutes. Stir
frequently.
VEGE. 9 MEDLEY.
l cup diced 2 tablespoons
cooked chopped
potatoes pimientos
teaspoon salt
u cup cooked " teaspoon
peas chopped
parsley
"a cup dried 3 tablespoons
cooked carrots butter
MIX ingredients and cook slowly 4
minutes. Leftovers can be used.
COTTAGE PUDDING.
z tablespoons l cup -four
melted fat 2 teaspoons
baking powder
" teaspoon Il teaspoon salt
vanilla "a cup sugar
u teaspoon / egg
lemon extract u cup milk
Mix ingredients and beat well. Pour
into creased shallow pan and bake
Is minutes In uaod94ate oven.
Evening star., 1936-01-20

NHE thing that women need
to know more than any
thing else in the world is
when tn leave a man alone"
Evening star., 1936-09-14

house in the last year is q matter Of
conjecture. Certain 1t Is that not
more than once or twice have her
travels carried her further than
across the road to the Dafoe nursery
and her five babies. According to
local report, the last time she was In
North Bay, nine miles away, was late
In 1894 to buy handbag for her trip
to the Chicago Worlds Fair.
Since the arrival Of the new baby
whose life was signed away to news
paper syndicate long before it began
she has not had the time to visic
her cuintuplets SO frequently. But
she used to 60 every day, and, after
each visit would hurry back home
across the road, stout, shy, rretty-
faced girl, her plump legs speeding
under her gingham dress, her head
ducked low to hide the tears that
rolled down her pallid face. A neigh
Dor said the tears dropped like blood
In the dust, and you could follow
her afternoon trail until dusk" by
them.
Goes Out More Often.
Olivia Dionne goes out more often.
He has had two new cheap cars since
the babies were born two years ago
and he has used them frequently, but
he -dopts q curious defense in his
travels. He just doesn't look at any
body. He keeps his eyes downward
and tries desperately to see as little
as possible Of what is going on around
him. In this way he has, perhaps
unconsciously. "cut" so many Of his
lifelong friends that few Of them even
say hello" to him any more.
Financially, the revolution In the
life of the Dionnes has been even
more complete. But Olivia seems to
have reacted to the swift, dazzling
pour of gold with native French
shrewdness and curious stubbornness.
Local gossip is still speculating
wildly on just how much money the
quintuplets have brought to their
parents. Olivia himself says that his
total cash intake the first eight
months after the babies were born
Evening star., 1936-09-14

was Sill in government relief money
and that he was forced by poverty
to undertake q personal appearance
tour the Chicago Worlds Fair
where he made "a little money. q few
dollars" Since then he has received
$100 q month from the government
and, 1t is said, $2,500 from q news
syndicate for picture rights. That's
the total Of 1t all"
Has New Car.
Certainly he has made few changes
in his standard Of living. A girl to
help Mrs. Dionne in the house, .
new car Che has driven cars Tor
years, at least since 1931), better
clothes for the six children who re,
main at home with him.
But local gossip is not satisfied that
that's the total Of 1t ALL" Local gos-
sip remembers when the Dionne house
became so overloaded with gifts from
the world over that the overflow filled
the porch and the front yard, and
local gossip remembers the thousands
Of letters that poured In on him daily
for months. One Of these letters. says
q man who assisted Olivia in &C.
mowledging them. came from Henry
Ford. Nov, a man like Ford" he
added, couldn't send less than 500,
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on which the profit Is considerable. In
this place, 5-and-10-cent articles sell
for 40 cents and Il, toast and coffee
costs rs cents, penny postcards are two
for is cents.
Olivia has another important source
Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. A small booth
has been erected In the rear Of the
store, and In it Dionne sits behind q
bridge table. signing his name on
articles purchased at the stand at IS
cents signature. Tns line outside
the booth Is long and patient and
Olivia, writing in his careful slow way
and stufing quarters into all his pock-
cts, averages about 400 signatures a
day, or $700 a week.
But Olivia stands only on the outer
Evening star., 1936-09-14

edge Of the gold fields. As father Of
the quintuplets, he has been invited
in, even urged in. But he clings
warily. stubbornly. even violently to
the rim. He wants all or nothing,
and has consistently rebuffed the gov
ernment in its hundreds of attempts
to give him q large part and save the
rest for the quints. He wants to be
boss. and the Legislature of Ontario
feels that he has not demonstrated
sufncient capacity for running what
amounts to big business. They feel
that he will fall into the hands Of
unscrupulous promoters and that not
only he, but the quintuplets them
selves, will suffer.
On the other hand, Olivia Is con-
Evening star., 1936-09-14
BY IRA WOLFERT.

l S@~>
~ ALLANDER. Ontario. septem-
Der 14.-Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe
and Olivia Dionne are men
- who, as distances 60 in this
country. have lived practically side
by side all, their lives.
Their homes are less than 3 miles
apart, and that, in a region where
people travel 100 miles for an eve
ning's entertainment is but step.
Hundreds of times their paths
crossed and three times they met in
the roles of obstetrician and new
father. The fourth time that hap
pened was the night the quintuplets
were born.
On both their lives, the impact Of
that birth was shattering. On both
their lives, the babies laid rude, strong
hands, remodeling the fixed obits Of
two lifetimes, breaking what did not
bend.
DR.. Dafoe, speaking of that night,
says he was "too tired to grasp 1t; it
passed like a dream"
Olivia Dionne says he felt as if he
had been punched"
Today, 32-year old Olivia Dionne
and his young wife-now only 81
live as If in a prison, and DR.. Dafoe,
In his own words, lives ION spot. I
have shouldered the entire respon-
sibility for them and If anything goes
wrong I am the one who will be
blamed"
House Doors Closed.
The Dionne family still occupies
the crude, 33-year-old frame house
in which Olivia was born, but now
the shades are drawn all day and all
night, the doors closed, the front lawn
gonex to weeds for want of any one
willing to pow it in the binding glare
Of tourists eyes, and high wooden
fence has ben erected around the
back to provide private playyard
for the children who remain at home.
They have the only pulley operated
clothes line in' the district. t was
necessary in order to enable Mrs.
Dionne to hang the family wash in
side the house and pulley it Ito the
sunlight without becoming the object
Of vast throng of prying eyes.
How often Mrs. Dionne has left the
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' -
could he?" Stranger things than that
have happened. but Callander remains
unconvinced. -
The best local opinion Is that. while
on the night of May 20. 1894, his cash
resources wouldn't tot up into q sizable
grocery bill, Olivia was worth some
thing between 1900 and SIS. 200 carly
in August when he entered into So
so partnership with Dan Saya, North
Bay druggist, to erect a souvenir stand
The generai oelief Is that Olivia Lgreed
to supply the money and Saya the
management. At any rate, Saya
manages and Olivia writes the checks
in payment Of the bills.
An expert estimate Of the gross bus
mess done daily at this stand is $700,
Evening star., 1936-09-14
life OF D|0NNES
IS |SREvOLUT|ON|zED
Father Stranger to Former
Friends-Makes Money
at Stard.

The heapy responsibility that
has come to DR.. Allan Roy Defoe
and the changes In the personality
and ,pays OF life OF Oliua Dionne
that haze been brought By the
quintuplets are described here In
the fifth of q series OF sepen dis
patches giuing a closeup uiew OF
the Callander scene and the chief
actors in it.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

WINGED the government Is engaged in
q persistent campaign Of persecution
against him. As examples, he cites
the gasoline tanks they made him
take out Of his property because they
did not want inflammable material
so near the nursery, and the fact that
"they poisoned" three of his cows.
It seems that. short while ago, the
cows drank solution government
road builders had been using to tenn
per their drills.
tcepyright. 1886. By the Norm American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-09-14

South Africa is to have q factory
for manufacture Of tear gas.
Evening star., 1936-09-14
133o-I346 FLORIDA AVENUE
A Complete cIeanins Institution

Every Type Laundry Service Guaranteed Dry Cleaning Guaranteed
Rug and Fur Cleaning Repairing and Remodlns
Santzng Curtain Drapey and Porter Cleaning Furniture
Seat Cover Cleaning Moth proof Storage Vaults for
Furs Clothing, Drapees, Poriers Curtains and Blankets
Evening star., 1936-11-20
BLOW TORCH USE
MAY AID RAIDERS
Ways to Get Through Steel
Doors Discussed in
Gambling Drive.

Use of an acetylene torch to cut
through steel doors of gambling es-
tablishments was discussed as posi-
bility at police headquarters today
after failure of an attempt to invoke
the building regulations against an
alleged resort in the HOO block of
Fourteenth street.
Decision to use the building regu-
lations as a weapon in the campaign
against gambling was made yesterday
during a conference between Com
missioner Melvin C. Hazen, Police
Supt. Ernest w. Brown and Lieut..
George M. Little, head Of the police
gambling squad.
On orders from Commissioner Hazen
two members of the staff of Col. John
w. Oehmann, District building in
spector, visited the Fourteenth street
place this morning, but were unable
to gain admittance. The 41a-story
structure, occupied by a pool room
and an athletic club. was locked and
deserted.
Hazen ordered the inspection after
Brown and Little complained their
present powers are insufficient to cope
with the gambling situation.
"If we find there are any violations
in any building in which police suspect
gambling operations" Hazen said, I'VE
will consider recommendations to close
the building until conditions have been
corrected"
Following the conference with HAGEN
and Brown, Little. accompanied by
Sergt. George Deyoe and Pvt. William
McEwan, visited the Fourteenth street
structure, but failed to gain entrance
In a raid on the establishment earlier
in the week, they said, they forced
their way through steel doors.
"We've never found place yet that
we couldn't crash into" Little de-
clared, "but an acetylene torch would
make things easier"
Evening star., 1936-11-20
10 Leading U. S. Inventors
Of Past Will Be HOnOred
Secret Committee Selects List of Those
Most Eminent for Celebration
of Patent System.

The centennial celebration of the
American patent system here next
Monday will be climaxed by announce
ment of the 10 deceased inventors
judged to have contributed most to
American progress.
A secret committee is now selecting
the list of honor from the great men
who gave the world electric power,
radio. the automobile. the typewriter,
the airplane, the fast printing press,
the telephone, new textiles and plas-
tics, agricultural machinery and thou
sands of other devices.
Commissioner Of Patents Conway P.
Coe will read the "all-American" list
of inventors at the patented dinner"
which is to close the celebration here
Monday night. The dinner will be
held in the May1ower Hotel. and DR..
Charles F. Kettering, president OF the
General Motors Research Corp, will be
POSTMASTER.
The committeeman selecting the 10
inventors to be honored know only
the chairman. Thomas Midgley, 1r.,
and send to him their personal selec-
tions. The country's greatest in.
ventors will be chosen from votes cast
independently.
A program of industrial motion pic
lures. with an accompaniment OF mod
ern orchestral music, will be shown
Evening star., 1936-11-20

A series of unusual experiments and
displays will be conducted by DR..
Thomas. One of them will demon
strate how the light of the star Arc
turus was used to start the Chicago
Century of Progress Fair. miniature
apparatus being used to duplicate the
performance. He also will play a
marimba by means of light beams. Dr.
Thomas is noted for his work on radio
broadcast equipment and in designing
electro-static condensers.
Picture to Be Shown.
The program will be opened by
Robertson and will include showing
of a motion picture film. The New
Frontiers"
Edgar Morris. president of the board,
will preside. A buffet supper will be
served following the meeting. Because
of the large attendance anticipated
for this meeting. no invitations for
guests will be available, it was an
nounced today by the board.
Among the guests of honor will be
Rear Admiral Charles Conard, Rear
Admiral Harold Bowen. Charles Leon
ard. chancellor of the Belgian En-
bassy: Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen,
Vice Presidents A. E. Allen, H. N
Gansman, r. B. Clark and N. G. Sy-
monds of the Westinghouse company
and DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, president
of the National Geographic Society.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
IN SAFETY CONTEST

Frances Reeves. a pupil at Holy
Comforter School, won first prize in
the eleventh essay contest on safety
conducted by the Highway Education
Board, it was announced yesterday.
First prize is a gold medal and check
for SIS.
Second prize went to Mary Claire
Maloy of st. Gabriel's School. She
received $40 and q silver medal
Two third prizes consisting of bronze
medals and IS each we're awarded to
Margaret Cummings of st. Gabriel's
School and Marie Cotton of st. Au-
gustine's School.
Sister M. Providentia, o. S. p, of
ct. Augustine's School, won first
honors for the District in q national
contest sponsored among teachers
Her lesson, teaching children the
fundamentals of safe conduct on the
streets and highways, will be entered
in competition with the best lesson
from each State. The first national
prize Is $500 and trip to Washing
ton. Second and third prizes will be
$500 and 5000, respectively.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

TINE playing Of musical instru-
ments by light beams, the use
of the light from star to start
Il an electrical display. and other
Developments in the electrical engi-
neering field, will be demonstrated at
a meeting of the Washington Board
of Trade at 8 O'Clock tonight in the
Willard Hotel.
The demonstrations will be made
by engineers of the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Co. The
speakers will be A. W. Robertson.
chairman of the board; DR.. l.. War
rington Chubb. director of research,
and DR.. Phillips Thomas, research en-
gineer of the Westinghouse company.
Developments to Be Traced.
DR.. Chubb, in an address on the in
dustrial progress made possible by
science and research developments,
will trace scientific developments
through history and show their places
in industrial life. He will present the
history of engineering developments
and outline scientific Improvements
expected in the near future. During
the World War DR.. Chubb invented
method of detecting submarines. de-
veloped new types of underwater
mines and bombs and submarine stor-
age batteries and solved many manu-
featuring problems on small rifles, gas
masks and treatment Of shells.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

for the benefit OF the public at the
Commerce Department Auditorium on
Monday in connection with the cele-
bration. One feature of the sound
pictures will be the linking Of modern
music by the Detroit Symphony Or
chestra with a film showing the
stamping, welding. fitting and finish
ing of automobiles.
Leading American business men ex-
pected to attend the celebration in
clude Walter S. Clifford, president of
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co.; William A. Irwin, president of the
United States Steel Corp; Gerard
Swope, president of the General Elec-
trio Co.; Thomas j. Watson, president
Of the International Business Ma
chimes Corp; W. A. Hartman, chair
man of the board of the Union Pacific
Railroad; Jammot du Pont. president
of the E. 1. du Pont de Nemours Co.,
and Harper Sibley. president of the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States.
DR.. Edward Barlow, president of the
American Chemical Society; William
L. Bait, president of the Society of
Mechanical Engineers: Colby M. Ches-
ter, president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, and Walter S.
Tower, executive secretary Of the
American Iron and Steel Institute.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

until after the trial, so as to prevent
their injury or death.
Both men vigorously maintained
through their attorneys, Myron Ehr-
lich and J. Joseph Donohue, that they
do not want to be protected any
longer. regardless of what they may
have said when the plan first was
suggested. The ''unwelcome" COM
panionship Of the police is about to
ruin both their health and business,
they asserted.
There were IA men in the three cars.
Brown related. Upon sighting O'Brien
they, poured out, knocked him down
and shot him. 1t was asserted, force
ably taking Behrle away with them
as they escaped. Carpenter allegedly
was with O'Brien at the time. The
victim is now able to get about on
crutches.
Representing the chief Of police In
court yesterday we're Assistant United
States Attorneys David A. Pine and
Irwin I. Goldstein and Assistant Cor
poration Counsel :. Gillespiel walsh.