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Evening star., 1937-04-11
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Prince Georges Group TeIe-
graphs Gov. Nice 0ppo-
Siti0n to Bill.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

opcSihl blepdtCl 10 Inc star.
CAPITOL HILLS, Nd, April To-
First local organized opposition to
legalized bookmaking in Prince Georges
County was voiced last night in
telegram sent to Gov. Nice by the
county's Women's Christian Temper
ance Union.
Ofhcers of the union, meeting at
the home Of Mrs. A. L. Powells here.
unanimously voted to wire the Gov
ernor in urging his veto Of the meas
ure. They said they feared that OPEN
house bookmaking would mean the
spread Of slot machines and other
gambling devices throughout the
county.
Meanwhile, Nice was awaiting the
answer Of the attorney general on his
power to veto the bookmaking section
of the relief bill. He said that If his
signature were affixed to the bill as
1t now stands, his approval Of the
measure would be given with the
greatest reluctance"
According to the Associated Press,
Nice declared he has had fewer pro-
tests or approvals of this particular
item" than he receives on most i'm
portant measures. Majority of the
protests, he said, asked simply that
he veto gambling.
Kent Mullikin of Laurel majority
floor leader of the House of Delegates,
said today he believed the Governor
must either sign or veto the relief
bill as a whole, according to the
Associated Press. GAS I see it," Multi
kin asserted, "the Governor has either
to accept the relief bill or reject it."
Evening star., 1937-04-11
COTTON ESTIMATES
OPPOSED IN SENATE
Subcommittee Completes Inquiry
Into Neutrality-suspicious..
mendation Made.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate's two-year Investigation
OF cotton marketing yesterday pro-
duced 10 recommendations for legis-
lation, including a proposal to elm
mate or curtail Government crop es-
Inmates.
Among the other recommendations
to be studied by the Senate Agricul-
ture Committee tomorrow, were elm
ination or reduction Of Southern de-
!iveries, prohibitions on the extension
OF marginal credits and limitations on
the amount of interest any one firm
may have on futures exchanges at
one time.
A confidential copy Of the report
drafted by the subcommittee headed
by Chairman Smith, Democrat, of
South Carolina, which conducted the
inquiry, has been turned over to mem.
bers OF the full committee for study
over the week end
The subcommittee struck at what
1t termed tremendous concentration"
OF the cotton trade in the hands of
two f1rms-Anderson Clayton g. Co.
OF Houston, Tex, and George H. Nc
Fadden & Bros. of Philadelphia.
This tremendous concentration of
the spot and futures business in the
hands Of two firms presents situation
which is far from healthy" the sub
committees report said, especially
when we consider the vast facilities
which they have for conducting their
business, as compared to the facilities
OF the smaller merchants"
Evening star., 1937-04-11
STUDENTS OF FRENCH
TO COMPETE MAY |
Contestants in Event to Be Sc
lected From Junior and
Senior High Schools.

The third annual competition OF
students of French will be held May
at $50 am. at Corcoran Hall, George
Washington University, it was an
nounced yesterday at meeting of the
American Association of Teachers Of
French at the Hay-Adams House.
The contestants are drawn from
junior high school, second, third and
fourth year of senior high school. Six
contestants are selected from each
group.
The purpose of the contest is to Sc
lect the student who has the highest
rating in French based on compost
ton, grammar and diction. Members
of the Contest Committee, selected
last night, are as follows:
Merle Protzman, chairman; Andre
Liotard of Maryland University, JOS
eph Barbecot and Leon Dostert of
Georgetown University and Mrs. An
dree Strong of Chevy Chase Junior
College.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Modern Eoljean
Be Returned to
Complete Sentence
Wife to Conduct Lumber
Business Until He
Comes Back.
~ the Associated Press.

PINEVILLE, KY, April 10.-Mrs.
Cecil Miracle will wait for her husband
until he comes back, she said today.
But she hopes it doesn't take too long.
Miracle. 35-year-old modern Jean
Vatican, is to be returned to Mont
gomery, Ala, to serve out three-year
prison sentence. He escaped in 1929
after serving seven months.
His arrest revealed he also had
escaped San Quentin Penitentiary in
California while serving life term
and had scaled the wall of a Florida
prison while serving five-year auto
mobile theft sentence.
Known here as prominent and
respected lumberman, Miracle married
Ada Mason following his return to
his native Bell County in 1888 But
he didn't tell her of his record.
Mrs. Miracle said today:
Il have made all arrangements to
carry on CeciPs business while he is
away. I will wait for him until he
comes back.
II hope they do not make him serve
any time in California or Florida. We
need him here" They have a oaby
daughter.
Miracle said he was glad, in way,
that It's over" He added: 1--WE
learned my lesson. I'm going to Ala
bama and make model prisoner"
Evening star., 1937-04-11
JEFFERSON TRIBUTE
AT BASIN ASSAILED
Mt. Pleasant Citizens Oppose Con-
templated Uprooting Of
Cherry Trees.

The proposed Thomas Jefferson
Memorial plan was assailed before the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Association
last night by Dr. Edward w. Thomp-
son, who urged action designed to pre-
vent the contemplated uprooting Of
the cherry trees and the tearing
up Of the Tidal Basin.
DR.. Thompson, president of Martha
Washington Seminary and Lady
Washington College, also declared the
proposed memorial was not in keep
ing with the man and that jefferson,
II alive, would be the first to protest
against the tearing up of the cherry
trees
The association, meeting at Martha
Washington Seminary, also heard
lecture on Eastern National PARKS"
by DR.. F. G. Potter, associate geologist
in the naturalist division of the Ma
tional Park Service. DR.. Potter showed
slides of Arcadia National Park,
Shenandoah, the Great Smokes and
the proposed Everglade National Park
in Florida.
The Great Smokes Park in Ter
nessee and North Carolina is among
the best preserved, DR.. Potter said,
because of its ruggedness, which makes
it difficult for lumber industries to
penetrate. Its inhabitants, he de-
clared, are much more primitive than
those in the other Eastern parks
The meeting was the first held at
the seminary since April 7, 1923, ac-
cording to John Delamater, secretary
OF the association.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Reviewed 5000 Scouts.

During the great jamboree at Del
hi, India, Chief Scout Baden-Powell
reviewed 5000 Boy Scouts represent
ing 350,000 Of their comrades in all
parts OF the country.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Capt. A.C. Read, First to Fly
atlantic. Still Uses Planes

The NC-4 was a crack plane of its
day, but many modern pilot would
be appalled, at the idea Of attempting
q long flight with it. The engines
couldn't compare with modern power
plants. Guy wires stretched across,
creating strong wind resistance. The
many present-day aids to bind flying
were virtually unknown.
The ships cruising speed was n
miles an hour, its top speed 95, hardly
half that Of modern flying boat
Read is short, slight of figure with
firm, sharply chiseled face. His
work keeps him close to his desk in the
Navy Department here. Since that
first Atlantic crossing he has COM
manded two ships. He came to his
present post last May from the U. S. S.
Wright, a seaplane tender.
Shore duty has given him a chance
to catch up on his golflng-he shoots
in the low 80s-and to see more OF
his family. He and Mrs. Read have
q son, 18, and daughter, 16.
Other hobbies aside from golf are
bowling and poker, at which, his Navy
associates say, he is as successful as
1e Is at flying.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
PROSECUTION UNDER
F.D.I. C. LAW UPHELD
Deposit Insurance Law Declared
Valid in Case Of 5 Southern
Indianans.

by the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 10.-Fed-
eral prosecution of State bank off,
GERS under provisions of the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corp. law
gained approval of Federal Judge
Robert c. Baltzell here today.
The decision, District Attorney Val
Nolan said was the first test Of this
phase Of the F. D. I. c. law in the
country.
Attorneys for five Southern In
diana bankers and business men, in
dicted for Federal banking law vio-
lation, had argued Federal prosecu-
ton OF officers Of banks not mem
bers Of the Federal reserve was an in
fringement on States rights.
Judge Baltzell said, There is no
doubt but that the statute (the F. D. I.
c. law is perfectly valid and gives
the Government the right to proceed
under criminal statutes"
Following the ruling, Lynn Craig,
Evening star., 1937-04-11
By the Associated Press.

The man who was first to fly the
Atlantic has not made q long flight
since.
He is Capt. Albert G. Read, now as
sistant chief Of the Navy Bureau Of
Aeronautics. Sea duty and admins
trative posts have kept him from long
air flights since May Of 1919, when he
piloted the naval seaplane NC-4
across the Atlantic. He does his stint
of nine hours Of flying a month reg
ularly, however.
Read, now gray, is nearing so. He
was 80 and a lieutenant commander
on May 16 when the naval seaplanes
NC-1, NC-3 and NC-4, set out from
Newfoundland for Europe by way Of
the Azores. Eleven, days later his
ship, the NC-4, landed at Lisbon
Read had commanded the expedition.
He looks back on the flight with fond
reminiscence, but modestly disclaims
that it was feat Of particular courage.
II suppose ours was the valor Of ig-
norance," he says. I'VE wouldn't have
been 50 keen for the flight If we had
known Is much about flying then as
We do now"
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Man Lends II "Wives."

In the beggars' own newspaper at
Budapest, Hungary, an editorial article
reveals that the mendicants stimulate
generosity with borrowed wives" and
babies and that one man has II
wives" of this type whom he lends
on business basis Mendicants who
have gone out of business offer to dis
pose of crutches or glass eyes at rea-
sonable prices. Hand organs, with or
without monkeys, may be hired by the
day, week or month.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
PEPPER URGES SUPPORT
FOR CHILD AID BILL
Florida Senator Holds Federal
System Is Injustice to
Crippled Children.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Claude Pepper, Florida
Democrat, said last night the Gov
ernment's system of benefit payments
does an injustice to physically handi-
capped children.
He broadcast an address in sup
port Of his bill to appropriate SILL
$4,000 for Federal help in the edu-
cation Of handicapped children.
Other Federal laws, he said, pro-
vided for adults who are deaf, blind,
speeches. or crippled. Hospitaliza-
ton can be furnished to handicapped
children, he said, but there is no
provision by which the Government
can contribute to the special educa-
ton they need If their cases are in
curable
Evening star., 1937-04-11
STRIKE QUIZZ SLATED
AT REMINGT0N.RAND
Federal Grand Jury Probe to Re-
ceive Evidence From Jus.
tice Department,

BY the Associated Press.
A Federal grand jury will conduct
an inquiry into events connected with
1886 strike at the Remington Rand
plant in Middletown, Conn, the
Justice Department announced yes
terday.
1t said that special assistants to the
Attorney General would go to New
Haven tomorrow to present to the
grand jury "alI facts indicating a
violation of the Byrnes act" which
prohibits transportation of strike
breakers across State lines.
Evening star., 1937-04-11

Raymond Korte and Roland Weir
pleaded guilty to embezzlement, con-
spiracy to violate the F. D. 1. C. law,
misapplication Of bank funds and
making false entries in F. D. 1. C.
reports. Judge Baltzell said he prob
ably would sentence the men Friday
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Paul Hindemith Is Applauded
As SOlOist at Music Festival
Audience Rises to Pay Tribute-Con,.
poser 4 ppears to Haze Made about
Face IN Manner of Expression.

offered were stressed with well-propor-
toned dynamics. The work is written
in convincing manner and is a valu-
able addition to ensemble litera ture.
A large and distinguished audience
with many notable out-of- town visi-
tors, gave generous acclaim to the
artist.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
MAN HURT AT RACES
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Gustave c. Webber, Employe at
Fish Wharf, Feared Suffering
Fractured Skull.

Gustave c. Weber, 43, of 1907 Sew
ententh street, was seriously injured
during the races at Bowie yesterday
when he fell from rail in the grand
stand. At Emergency Hospital it was
said he may have suffered a skull
fracture.
Bystanders said Webber was lean
ing over a railing of a stairway which
leads from the grandstand to the bet
ting ring when he lost his balance
and fell 20 feet to the concrete walk
below. He was taken to the track hos
pital and later removed to Emergency
when he failed to respond to treat
ment. Last night he was reported as
still unconscious
Weber is employed by firm of sea
food merchants at the Municipal Fish
Wharf.
Evening star., 1937-11-21
by EMILY Post

could belong to the nice man l meet
frequently in the elevator.
The subject have long hoped to
find when | turn to your column on
Sundays is the unavodably rasped
nerves caused by the fragrant thought
lessness of people living in congested
quarters Now that everything is
silent can just picture the wife of the
man upstairs - who perhaps berated
him for his 'disorderly behavior and
to whom he no doubt made a violent
answer! Tomorrow morning this man,
feeling embarrassed. will probably be
less pleasant to the rest of his neigh
bOrs in the elevator And so. dear
Mrs. Post, are there no established
regulations that may be learned by
rote and practiced along with man.
ners at the table, or in the street. or
elevator? And yet. what are we who
have children to do about them?"
In answer to this would say there
are lots of things you can do. First
of all, unless you live on the ground
floor and have no one under you, you
must not have bare floors! Second,
make the children take off their thick
soled shoes and put on thin ones when
they come in the house - to stay
Third, don't allow them to climb upon
the furniture and jump down on the
floor. 1t isn't good for the furniture
anyway. Fourth, don't give them iron
toys which might be dropped or noisily
dragged over an edge of bare floor
On the other hand, tin mechanical
Evening star., 1937-11-21

toys that sound quite squeaky in the
room are not hearable through floor
A big soft ball is quite silent - but
small rubber ball bounced up and
down or thrown for dog to fetch is
loud. Voices are not heard at all unless
raised to screaming shrillness. Dogs
running around on the carpet are not
heard. but children and dogs racing
are
If the children or you yourself prac-
tice - or even play much on the piano
- then at least put a heavy rug under
it, with double lining under that,
and glass non-conductors (sold every
where for this purpose) under each of
its legs When children practice, the
loud pedal ought to have block put
under it always. If you would be really
courteous to the people living on the
floor below you, you might ask them
at what time daily practice least dis
turbs them and try to arrange your
hours accordingly if you can.
1t must be granted that it isn't
possible to ask little children never to
do anything that makes a noise, never
to romp, never to shout, never to cry.
But there are certain restrictions that
must be put on those who live in
apartments. For that matter, all very
little children should be taught that
screaming from room to room, in
stead of going near enough to speak in
an ordinary voice, is not only incon-
siderate of the neighbors, but very bad
manners
Evening star., 1937-11-21
Mogozine Section
9

At times all of US - at least most Of
us - do something which is disturb
ing to a neighbor. For example, the
radio that we believe is turned on very
low has extraordinary carrying quail
ity. However, if we are sitting near it
and it is turned down to the lowest
point at which we can hear it clearly.
this is all, think. that can be reason
ably asked But if it is turned on loud
enough for lis to hear it as we 60
through various rooms of our apart
ment, it cannot possibly faii to blaj4
through the rooms of our neighbors
Copyright, 1887. by Emily Post
Evening star., 1937-11-21

stood entranced in the doorway. When
the piece was finished, he walked over
and, taking a little box from between
the logs, emptied few pennies it con-
tained and, placing these with the
silver dollar, said, Mister. I'll give
you all that for your fiddle"
"Why, Sonny" said the Senator,
that is your own fiddle. All you have
to do is to put it in tune and learn how
to play it."
So, with the stupid child, the
average or the genius, the sole task of
education is to put the mind-strings,
the heart-strings and the body-strings
of each one into tune and teach it how
to play its part in the great symphony
of human life. But if we neglect the
leader of the orchestra - that one
with the exalted powers to whom men
have given the magic name of genius"
- the symphony will never be COM
plete.
Evening star., 1937-11-21

of their lease, they meet with land
lords refusal to renew. And it will be
partly their fault if the mo children"
sign is hung on their building. Every
sign reading children and dogs not
allowed" means Noisy children and
dogs have lived here and we don't
want any more
Personally l should like to put up
signs against any number of noises
that are far more disturbing than cry
ing babies. shouting children and even
barking dogs. I'll take a chance on
them. in preference to those who are
learning to play the piano, the saxo-
phone or the trap drum - to say
nothing of one ambitious to become
an operate soprano!
By that curious coincidence which
SO often happens, my secretary has
this moment handed me the following
letter on this very subject:
81 don't know whether you welcome
suggestions from readers. dear Mrs.
Post, but subject that wish you
would write about has burst upon me-
! was sitting here this evening in our
living room in typically tall apart
ment building
Suddenly up the alcove from one
of the lower floors came the full blast
of radio. Apparently someone above
us had a bad day A Tarzan voice
thundered downward past our win
dow: Turn that n radio down
whosever it is' The voice sent chills
up my spine wondered whether it
Evening star., 1937-11-21
Bending the Twis

Now is the time to teach children
good manners - not tomorrow whom
they ore Older. Mrs. Posts ieoflsf
answers questions thot mothers have
osked obovt child monnsrs. To ssf IL.
send q fhrss-esnf stomp Ito cover
the cost Of moilins), with your r.
guest to This Week Mooozine, in
core Of this nswspopsr.
Evening star., 1937-11-21
Forgotten Prodigies
Continued from poss
Continued from poss six

idly at the plow! Without this accident
we might have lost the greatest name
in English science
Think of Victor Cousin. the noted
French philosopher, accidentally dis
covered by rich lady when he
thrashed big bully who had cuffed
her boy. At ten gutter snipe. at
eighteen carrying off all the prizes in
the University of Paris!
Yes, you can veto genius, but isn't
that equally true of all human excel
lence and ability? To my mind the
whole duty of education is summed up
in the story that Bob" Taylor. the
''fddling senator" from Tennessee.
used to tell.
Out campaigning with companion
in the mountains. they heard strange.
screeching noises coming from hut.
On entering, they found ragged,
fourteen-year-old boy saving on an
old fiddle, all out of tune. Taking out
a silver dollar, the Senator said.
Here, Sonny. run down and get US a
bucket of water"
Then the Senator tuned the instru-
ment and began playing some won
derful melody. AS the boy returned he
Evening star., 1937-11-21

not even in the top tenth. Nearly
all of these top-quarter students could
have learned two or three languages in
childhood. and even have written fair
poetry, if they had got interested in it.
Many of them have built ingenious
radios or become group leaders or
made interesting collections of birds
or bugs But these achievements do
not get their pictures into the news
papers like writing poetry or learning
languages. They we're. however. supe-
rior children, and easily compete with
the newspaper child prodigy who now
is merely one of them.
Only the extraordinary prodigy
among brodigies is really true genius
- and probably half of them are
never even discovered, because their
intellectual power is held down by
economic. social and even educational
conditions. As ]. McKeen Cattell,
pioneer psychologist, has said, "You
cannot create genius, but you can
easily veto it.
Think of Sir Isaac Newton. farm
boy, accidentally discovered by his
scholar uncle reading book on higher
mathematics while his horses stood
Evening star., 1937-11-21

detected little figure, is tagging in the
rear. and beside him the equally de-
jected dog is sitting wearily on the
sidewalk. The mother, advancing
eagerly toward the entrance of big
apartment house. exclaims: "Oh, this
one looks nice" To this door
man. very correct as to uniform,
but very naughty as to manner,
points to sign and says: Sorry,
madam, children and dogs not al
lowed"
Unhappily this is not just a flippant
glbe at the high hat" attitude of
would be exclusive apartment owner.
1t is a scene that the home-hunting
Hibrows, as we'll as the Jones family.
are likely to encounter many times.
Moreover the mo children signs are
steadily so they say - increasing
in numbers. And the problem of COM
munal dwelling grows each year more
serious.
The point of today's subject. there
Tore, becomes that of the obligations
which the parents of young children
and the owners of dogs owe to their
neighbors | should like to point out,
to those who have succeeded in their
search for pleasing apartment, that
it will be their own fault if. at the end
Evening star., 1937-11-21

.,heir years AS Professor Terman said
to me, Child pushing is sorry busi-
ness"
Proper child training and enriched
programs" for brilliant children are
quite different thing. The mentally
overstuffed children, of course. never
get anywhere in adult life.
But, as Doctor Lorge maintains, the
chief reason why child prodigies do
not maintain the pace in adult life is
because most of them are not real
prodigies at all They are superior
children - but only about as superior
as the top quarter of college graduates.
AS children they learn readily. often
have an unusual vocabulary, read
widely and often write poetry and
even compose music They seem extra
ordinary because they have little COM
petition.
In high school the child prodigy
meets others like himself and becomes
merely bright pupil"
BY the end of college the competi-
tion has become keener and only the
truly extraordinary ones are still
prodigies Most of those who were
superior children are in the top quarter
Evening star., 1937-11-21
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moment Is q
cartoon which
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youngest child,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31
VARIOUS CONCERNS
 DISPLAY INTEREST
 IN CANNED SALMON

Many concerns and groups not di- rectly connected with the Alaska salmon canning industry have dem- onstrated their interest in Alaska's salmon and in the picturesque sal mon run and fishing activities dur ing the last year.
 The Standard Oil Company of California in their Bulletin for Feb ruary, distributed to 10000 employ ees of the company, carried a pro- fusely illustrated story under the title of For the Pantry Shelves of the World" which described the catching and canning of Alaska sal mon.
 The Northern Pacific Railroad printed similar story in their monthly bulletin which is distribut- ed to all their employees, and to all country agricultural agents in the territory served by his railroad.
 The Linen Thread Company, the U. s. Printing and Autograph Com pany, the Machinist Union, nation al publication, and the Washington State Labor News, annual, also car- ried stories of Alaska's salmon and the fishing industry.
 Two grocery publications, Chain Store Management and New Eng land Grocery & Marget Magazine, with a combined circulation cover ing 55,O0O grocery employees and officials, have also carried interest ing stories on the background of the fishing industry and the excitement of the salmon run.