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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-17

hope, young lady, that you're no,
planning to go back to work."
mot this summer, of course, out
if Joel stays in the east, expect
1 will in the autumn. Russell has
been pretty fine about it." Russell
had been pretty fine about every
thing, sending her flowers anc
books and writing her CHEEKY little
notes, telephoning frequently anc
offering his services for anything
they might be put to. "Joel un-
derstands about my job. He knows
that 1 need something to keep me
occupied"
"There'd be nothing like a small
Paynter to keep you occupied p
Martha contributed.
Janet didn't answer until she
said, tits almost noon, darling
and Joel will be here for lunch. ]
want to be all packed before he
comes. He simply loathes last
minute packing"
Janet Paynter, you stop think
ing of Joel and think Of yourself
for once"
But Janet could no more have
stopped thinking of Joel and
started thinking Of herself than
she could have changed the color
of her eyes.
She was thinking of him when
Russell Bede came to her and made
an offer that was to be the triumph
of her business life.
He told her that he had been
waiting for her recovery to tell her
the important news that he was
opening a shop in New York, that
the financial results of her work
and help had been so great that it
was only fair to offer her a part
nership in the New York shop and
salary of $4,000 year to run it.
He didn't want to burden her
while she was i'll but he wanted
her to consider it during the sum-
mer and plan to start in the
autumn with the opening. He had
planned an imposing, four-foor
shop on East Fifty-seventh street.
When Janet realized what it
meant, it was what that security
would mean to Joel if he were to
stay in the east in the theater and
not her triumph that flied her
mind.
She told Russell how happy he
had made her and said that she
would have to talk it over with
Joel.
Joers show was closing a few
days after that conversation and
Joel was moody. She decided to
wait until he had a new show or
made a professional move, before
she preached the subject.
Nevertheless, she cherished the
idea. The honor for Janet Paynter
to have quietly carved a career on
her own, to have achieved the dis
tinction of being offered partner
ship in a shop destined for great
success. was a nobler accomplish
ment than she had ever dreamed
in those far off days when she had
been an assistant buyer in a de-
partment store.
How proud OF her her fathev
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-17
CHAPTER Al

JANET sprinkled moth powder
on her sweaters, folded her tweed
skirts and her old polo coat and
handed them to Martha.
ct don't think I'll need these
shoes either" she said, picking up
her sturdy boots and looking at
them with a fond farewell glance.
She was packing away the things
that she had worn the last en-
chanted weeks.
"Pn keep them right here in
this closet, Janet, and they'll al
ways be there. 1t isn't as though
you were going far away. At
least not yet"
Janet sat down in the small
rocker. Martha, sometimes I
don't think I'm the same girl I
used to be at all. Here 1 am just
living for today without thought
Of tomorrow. Somehow it doesn't
seem right"
"It seems all right to me. What
have you got to worry about?"
Janet shook her head. Moth
ing and yet everything. I'm
healthy and happy and We'll al
ways have enough money to take
care of nc from the income of the
trust fl...> Cut I'm thinking of
Joel without plans. The play is
closing next month, on the tenth of
June to be exact, and don't know
what we're going to do then. Once
or twice I've started to ask Joel
what he plans to do about going
back to the coast but he has been
so interested in getting worm on
a fshline or wedding the garden,
that he hasn't even heard me-"
Maybe, he won't want to go
back to the coast" Martha said
from the closet.
"Won't want to! Of course, he
will. The truth is, Martha, that
Joel is not great actor. We
haven't talked about it and I don't
believe that Joel actually knows he
isn't, but I do. I'm glad that he
will want to go back to California
because it will give him a chance
to make lots more money. This
time I'll see that he saves lots
more. Then, maybe We'll go
around the world some day and do
other wonderful things. We're
really not old. Joel is only 35 and
I'm not yet 80"
"Humph" Martha grunted non
commitally.
1--WE haven't saved very much
this winter. Joel was only getting
half what he did on the coast and
our bills have been tremendous.
I'd like to sub-let the apartment
and live out here for part Of the
summer and go to the Cape for
another part of it. Joel has never
even seen our little theater at
Grannis."
'"Then why don't you?" Martha
asked reasonably.
"Oh, We'll have to be in New
York so that Joel can be where
things are going on. Then, I'll
have lots Of things to do Also"
Martha stood arms akimbo. II
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-17


n automobile
formulate
AMELIA, NOW ON 'ROUND-W FLIGHT, AT CONTROLS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-17

Senator George w. Norris
Senator George w. Norris, indie.
pendent of Nebraska, urges the
senate that President Roosevelt's
supreme court proposal go for
ward but that a move for a con-
stitutional amendment, which he
favors, be made at the same time.
The senator is seen here as q
member of the judiciary commit
tee listening to pro and con argu-
ments on the presidents proposal,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-17

"Apple Bilp Mack, "a, of Knox
vile, Tenn, plans to quit selling
apples and eating a few. For
apple Bill" has learned that his
third wife, who died recently, had
left bank deposits totaling more
than $4,000. apple Bill" says
he married the third Mrs. Mack
as a poor woman needing help.
not knowing she then had $4,000
on deposit. Bank failures reduced
that figure to the $4,000.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-17

Whatta pan, did you say? Wen.
students at Texas Christian uni
versity, Fort Worth, Tex. think
Joe Frederick is the "ugliest"
man on the campus, for thew SCI
lected him as such. But Joe il
proud Of his victory and now chal.
lenges the whole state of Texas
and yes. the U. S., too, for dis.
puta.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
District Health Conditions.

The recent statement by the Assistant
Surgeon General in charge OF the cur
rent survey OF District health conditions
that the DEtrict Health Department
compares favorably with any in the
country" adds further emphasis to the
fact that the investigation is not critical
but an effort to provide health yard
stick for the Nations Capital.
Following up the idea that the COM
munity may have the health program
for which it is willing to pay, Washing
ton will be able to see the health situa-
ton on the basis OF what the commu-
nifty now pays and also the cost of rails
Ing the level to what 1t ought to be.
The survey will show what health is
needed and how to get 1t. The rest will
be up to the District.
Under the vigorous and competent
strokes of the artist, the Public Health
Service, the Capital health picture should
be finally drawn. 1t should further be
realistic and natural work uncolored by
partiality or distorted by prejudice It
should show us ourselves as others see us.
Evening star., 1937-12-18

in exchange, with a consequent material
increase in American trade with that
country.
Ironically, trade did increase, but
principally in the form of Chinese silver
bullion shipped here for sale at the stable
and profitable price established by the
program. Denuded of its currency base,
China then abandoned its silver standard
and introduced managed currency. No
more is the Chinese trade argument
advanced.
Meanwhile, the "silver staters" were
thoroughly aware that their domestic
producers were receiving q Federal
subsidy of more than thirty cents an
ounce above the foreign silver price.
Turning this fact to forensic advantage,
they now argue that the money ex-
pended in the domestic purchase pro-
gram has served to give employment to
100000 silver miners who otherwise would
become a burden through the relief
rolls.
In another respect, also, the silver
purchase plan has fallen short of It's
objective. namely, to establish monetary
stocks in the proportion of three -fourths
of gold and one-fourth of silver. In June,
1884, such proportions called for $780,
100000 ounces of silver. AS the Nations
gold stock shot upward because of an
other attractive buying program, the
amount of silver needed to maintain the
above proportions more than doubled,
with the result that after purchase Of
l,500,0O0,o00 ounces of the white metal
the Treasury is still short 1900, 900 900
ounces of the 8 to balance.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

thus has a double source OF vigorous
population needing all the vitality
possible.
In contrast to this superabundance
OF children in the South is the extra
ordinary deficiency in standard food
products essential to vitality and health.
In milk and eggs the deficiency is such
that one could plausibly be led to believe
that many of our low standards and
lnefnciencies might be due to dietetic
deficiencies as we'll as to hereditary and
economic factors. The facts reveal the
South with low per capita milk produc-
ton and there are many areas in the
Southeast where milk appears almost
unobtalnable to any reasonable extent.
The estimated production of milk in the
southeastern States in 1929 was 1921, :
43o,0Z3 gallons. This is a deficit of 121
oo0.00O gallons of the national annual
average per capita consumption obtained
in this area.
Based upon the minimum dietary
standard Of 10 eggs week, these States
average nearly 100000 dozen deficit
rs compared with their actual production
record. The percentage increase neces-
sary to meet this standard ranges from
30 per cent in Virginia to 375 per cent in
South Carolina"
Evening star., 1937-12-18
No Alibis Will Be Accepted
Prom the Boston Transcript


When Secretary Morgenthau told the
Academy of Political Science that the
Treasury Department would resist fur
ther excessive governmental spending, he
put the Roosevelt administration in q
position from which there should be no
retreat and from which, indeed, no hon.
orable retreat is possible. The Secre-
tary's thesis was sound, his promise clear
and definite. but the practical mainte-
nance OF the one and the fulfillment of
the other will impose upon the Presi-
dent q responsibility as difficult as any he
has faced In many months. The real test
OF his leadership, as well as of his sin
certify, is about to come.
Already it is apparent, for example.
that some Senators and Representatives.
returning for the special session of Con-
gress, are determined to have the Gov
ernment embark on another spending
spree. 1nasmuch as most Of them are
soon to seek reelection it is fair to say
that their present motives may not be
entirely above suspicion. The fact re-
mains, however, that they constitute q
force which will have to be met and over
come II economies are to be effected. It
will be Mr., Roosevelt's duty to see that
their efforts are defeated II it is neces-
sary to beat them into submission let the
pressure from the White House be ap-
piled in generous measure. If they will
submit only to an aroused public opinion,
the President can take that course with
full assurance that the public Is behind
him.
But when it is all over there must be
no condition which will permit the decla-
ration that 1t was Congress which pre-
vented the attainment Of a nationally
sought objective. In the face of positive
pronouncements In favor of Federal
economy, the American people will not
be satisfied with halfway measures or
in a mood to accept excuses. The Nor
genthau pledge must have had the Presi-
dents support and it cannot have been
given lightly or made without full un-
derstanding of the obstacles to be faced
In Congress.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
The Silver Program.

Expiration this month Of the inter-
national silver agreement and the prom
ise of a statement from the White House
on future administration policy on silver
purchases focuses attention on the shift
in arguments advanced by the silver
State members of Congress in behalf of
the present program.
-Four years ago, when the policy was
established by which the Government
agreed to buy newly mined domestic
silver at price Of seyenty-seven and
one-half cents an ounce, as compared
to foreign silver purchases at forty-five
cents. supporters for the program argued
that Its greatest benefit would be to
increase the value OF Chinese currency
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Problems of Progress.

With the issuance recently Of the
most voluminous patent ever granted by
the Patent ONCE, chronological advance
takes another step forward to the ac-
compartment of new problems.
According to reports simple pressing
OF button now will start a machine
capable OF turning out twenty-six COM
plete stocking blanks at time in a
repeating process. Between the blank"
and the finished product lies only the
operation Of sewing up seam.
At first glance, this machine, said to
contain more than 100000 parts of such
intricacy that it required a patent ex-
aminer three weeks to comprehend its
operation, might seem q dangerous means
Of cutting down employment and a step
nearer the day when single person can
run an entire knitting mill from q lone
control booth. In retrospect, however,
it is obvious that inventions Of even
greater importance have been made, and
for nearly every chronological improve
ment mans ingenuity has devised some
new product or method of increasing the
demand 50 that the result was more
production and not less employment.
1t is claimed for this invention that
1t should reduce hosiery prices. Who can
say that this and other factors will not
contrive to increase the demand for
stockings to the point where not fewer
Evening star., 1937-12-18

English sparrow" or maybe smaller, he
will be helped considerably.
He will save himself q great deal Of
time and confusion.
1nstinctively he will leave out Of con-
ideration, for the time being, all birds
which are too large.
II he believes lis unknown specimen
is as large as a robin, or maybe larger,
he will not bother with small birds.
So he narrows his list considerably,
and soon is able to hnd what he wants,
the bird he has seen but does not know.
Noting points of difference Is another
salient necessity in amateur bird identi-
fication.
Those who know just q little about
the birds are often helpless when asked
to identify some specimen from verbal
description. not only because the OBJ
server hadn't the slightest idea OF its
relative size in the scale of bird life,
but also because he did not pick out
the one or two points of difference from
other birds somewhat resembling 1t.
If the approximate size of a bird is
known, that Is a great help, but even
more important is the sure detection of
the slight differences between it and
other birds.
Consider the junco, once universally
called the snowbird.
This little fellow is given as 8 inches
long from bill to end of tail, out
stretcheO which will seem to the anna
teur as much too long, until he realizes
that the "oficiar length of the English
sparrow is 5% inches.
This slate-colored junco is truly slate
gray on top and wings, with a soft vest
Of white.
Sometimes its tail appears doubled
but it Is not-the outer-most feathers
are white, that is ALL
The bill Is pinkish.
This small bird always gives the strict
amateur q great deal Of trouble the
first time he notes it in his yard with
eyes Of understanding.
+ \
Let no one be ashamed of not knowing
q slate~colored junco when he sees it.
Millions do not.
It is q specialized knowledge to know
birds on sight, just as knowing the works
Of Beethoven is a specialized knowledge
Young people normally have no use
for Beethoven.
They think him all sound and fury,
signifying little if anything
Somehow, when one gets between the
ages Of 40 and so years, or there
abouts, Beethoven becomes living
force.
This is strange phenomenon, but not
one to be ashamed Of, that one never
cared much for his works before.
1t is sign Of growth, that is all.
Much the same holds true OF bird
observation. We 60 through life without
any thought of or consideration for the
1eathered life all around us. until sud-
denly one day We begin, for reason or
whim. to pay attention to them.
Then we find q whole new world OF
beauty and interest expanding before
our eyes, Our very eyes, as people some
times say.
These very eyes" are our true eyes,
which really see with intelligence; the
point in the eye which actually sees Is
prolongation Of the brain itself.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Criticism Is Contrary to
Good Neighbor Interests

To the Editor Of The Star:
The criticism aimed at Brazil because
of the change in her form OF government
should cease. The people Of the United
States have good reason to value the
long-continued friendship of Brazil for
the United States. When the World War
had all Of civilization in turmoil, Bra
I'll waited to find out which way the
United States would 60 and she promptly
followed the lead of this country into
the conflict
While the majority Of the other South
American countries we're referring con-
temptuously of the Colossus Of the
North" and impunging the motives of
this country at every turn, Brazil made
1t point to show her friendship for
the United States. without exception. A
good friend is not to be sneezed at. The
criticisms of Brazil emanate mostly from
those groups who are quite indifferent to
the growth OF Communistic propaganda
In our own country.
r. G. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Faxed Passports.

The case of the fraudulent passports
has all the elements of best-seller mys-
terry novel on international intrigue, with
ghoulish ramifications of truth-is-
stranger r-than- fiction aspect.
Who are the evanescent "Robinsons"
and why did they appropriate the names
OF persons long dead in passport for
gerry plot that has baff1ed investigators on
two continents?
How did they obtain the faxed birth
certificates by which they duped the
State Department into granting them
credentials?
Are they American citizens or foreign
ers, cosmopolites with flair for adven-
ture or secret agents engaged in some
nefarious game OF international espion-
age?
Federal Investigators are trying to find
the answers to these questions, as rumors
fly regarding an "anti-stalin plot" al
legedly engineered by subversive interests
in the United States.
A question that also should be an
swered-and possibly it is more impor-
tant than the immediate problem at
issue-is why there cannot be a more
effective system of identification of pass
port applicants.
State Department officials undoubtedly
exercise the greatest care possible under
existing routine in granting papers to
applicants. They require birth certif-
Gates and photographs. But birth GER
tif1cates, as evidenced in the Robinson"
case, can be counterfeited or stolen, and
passport photographs seldom look like
the person they are supposed to depict.
Why not use the one infallible method
of personal Observation-Disclosures
1t might be argued that fngerprinting of
the "Robinsons" would not have ham
pered them in perpetrating their passport
hoax. On the other hand, if they are
criminals or have police records of any
kind, they would have shied at the pros
pect Of being fingerprinted.
If an applicants fingerprints were af-
fixed to his passport, he would be safe
guarded against its illegal use in the event
it were stolen or lost. A thief might
tamper with the photograph or signature,
but he could not duplicate another per-
sons fingerprints.
Fingerprinting no longer carries with
it the stigma OF criminality with which it
was so long associated. In recent years
personal Identification by hngerprints
has become widely used in business
houses, hospitals and other non criminal
institutions. More than 100000 law
abiding citizens voluntarily have placed
their prints on file at the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation for civil Identification
purposes.
Extension of the fingerprint identifica-
ton system to the passport field would
inconvenience no one but the person
engaged in Illicit enterprises and might
accord upright citizens measure Of pro-
lection against impostors of the Robin
son" type.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Parking Ban a Hardship
On Non-Carage Owners
70 the Editor Of The 0tar

70 the Editor Of The otar:
Your recent editorial regarding the
current ban on all-night parking on i'm
portant streets dealt fairly with both
sides of the question. However, rs q
citizen vitally affected by the police de-
partment's restriction, may point out
the unfairness Of the same. Like thou
sands Of others, my salary permits me
and my family to enjoy life's necessities
and few luxuries, among the latter be-
ing an automobile. The cost OF living in
Washington being the highest Of all
American cities, we save very little, and
must strive at times to make ends meet.
I would far prefer, II could AFFORD 1t, to
keep my car in q garage and protect it
from the elements but this is out Of the
question because of the exhorbitancy OF
storage rates and because there is no
garage within several blocks OF my home.
Consequently, park my car on the
street, adding one moro to the thousands
OF others whose owners are IN similar
circumstances.
With the current restriction on street
parking from 2 to am, I, frankly,
don't know where to keep my car. The
ruling would seem more plausible If 1t
were effective only at times of heavy
snow falls, when most car owners would
be willing to keep their cars out of the
weather garage space being available)
but to face this parking worry for the
next three months-even though sim
gle fake of snow might not fall-seems
most unfair and unwarranted. I can
appreciate the city's desire to keep the
streets cleared at all times, but isn't 1t
ironic to note that in my immediate
vicinity is large municipal park, cap
able Of storing every vehicle within a
radius of perhaps ten blocks, which will
be virtually deserted and unused all win
ter long? How can this restrictive action
be reconciled in the face of the city
fathers failure to provide space to care
for the cars they outlaw from the streets?
Certainly 1t invites fragrant violation,
which previous bans have met It's easy
enough to say, Get those cars of the
streets" but it's not SO easy to answer
Where are we going to put them?" I
believe most car owners would gladly
patronize municipal or private parking
facilities at rates of cents or 10 cents
q day, but the present rates As laid down
by the parking lot and garage rack
etters' will certainly get no more than
q thumbed nose from me.
H. c. WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1937-12-18
Parking Ban Urged to
End High Death Rate

To the Editor of The Star
The parking situation in this city
causes lot of Investigations. q lot of
signs and a lot Of deaths, and that is all
there is to it.
How in the wild world can a person
drive car safely when he has got to
keep on the lookout for signs, lights and
parked cars? The city is utterly Uttered
with signs. 1t is the greatest mess I
ever saw in my life. Cars are parked
365 days a year on the street.
The traffic director and the Commis-
sioners hold lot Of investigations, but
how in the world do they ever expect to
parked all over the streets? 1t Is diff
cult to see person crossing the street.
Any one who can afford a car can af-
ford to pay 25c day for a garage II
not, they had better use the street cars.
In Baltimore it is a pleasure to drive.
No signs, and every one knows that the
streets are not public garage.
The A. A. A. knows that streets plas-
tered with parked cars are unsafe.
People buy cars in the belief that the
garage Is the public streets. So they just
keep them on the street 365 days a year.
read about Congressman who wants
to let the people store their cars on
empty lots free" Something free soon
demonstrates what ungrateful hogs peo-
pie are.
A street is made to drive on and not to
kill people on. So here is hoping 1898
will really awaken the authorities and
the public to the fact that the only way
to put an end to the increase in
death rate from accidents is to limit
parking all over the city and to make car
owners provide places to put their cars
up at night. Then we will have a safe
city and not a madhouse.
JAMES D. j. GALLAGHER.