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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-02-11

turkey buzzard or the grave-rob-
bling hyena would be so appropri-
ate.
Fierce winters and devastating
floods may be curing us here on
this side of the water, but at least
we have been spared the aff1iction
OF having for our next-door neigh
borS certain nations.
Evening star., 1937-12-26

dren in their reading tends to slow
down their mental processes.
Action Supplants Talk.
Action takes the place of talk in
this experiment for which English has
been divided into two distinct sections
an eye language In which muteness
issessential, and the oral language in
which loquaciousness is permitted.
To determine II there Is compre-
hension Of what the eyes see, the
Jacks" must be as nimble and quick
as the Old Mother Goose rhyme sug-
gests, and while they don't Jump over
any candlesticks, they do see plenty
Of action.
They put the cat "a synthetic one)
where the teacher thinks the cat
should be.
They run to shut the doors. They
close the windows. They pour no!
chocolate-when some tiny tot is hav.
ing birthday anniversary-they beat
drums and they blow up toy balloons
They hop to the windows and they
sit under tables.
These and dozens Of other act!
concerning things the children hav'
been reading about in silence follow
Evening star., 1937-12-26

he was very willing to share. from
the depths Of the Baltimore Sun
boardroom's easiest chair in an In
terview.
One is that the curse Of magazine
and book publishing is the kept
idealist." The kept idealist Is the
publisher with fortune behind him
who is publishing because 1t Is "a
nice, clean way to make living"
Declared . Sport.
Another is that publishing is not q
business-it's sport.
AN auto tire dealer who delib-
erately loaded up on tire he didn't
feel sure of would be fool; yet q
publisher doesn't honestly think half
his books will pay their way. He is
an artist and all artists are insane.
THAT goes for musicians and paint
ers as we'll as writer's. I talked with q
musician the other day who classes
Sibelius with Bach and Beethoven.
What bilge-he's about Mendelssohn's
rank.
This is like T. S. Eliot's former
fad for reading 18th century bishops:
I've read lot OF these chaps. and
Evening star., 1937-12-26
they write beautifully. But they're as

they write beautifully. But they're as
hollow as Bunyan-"
Mr.. Mencken also has learned that
critics, like poets. must be young.
Its q mistake to think erudition
is essential for critic" he says. light
ing the same cigar for the eleventh
time. Critics need gusto, enterprise
and charm. Nothing Is so dreadful as
an old critic, for q new idea after so
is rare. I know about that, for all
the critics were old when began
in 1908. Living had stopped being .
battle for them"
Assails Gertrude Stein.
Mr. Mencken also has learned that
Gertrude Stein Is quack; he told
Yale so the other day and got himself
gently hazed for his pains.
ITS true" he insists. She'll be
wholly forgotten in IS years-1she had
no ideas to start with"
Our present "flashy education"
thinks MIR. Mencken, turns out yearn-
ing authors. The best of these, he
believes, open garages eventually.
Some, like a grandmother he knows,
write all their life.
This determined lady was 60-odd
when last Mr.. Mencken saw her, and
Evening star., 1937-12-26

kind Of glorifled movie existence. sur
rounded by nude models, wickedness
and velvet smocks.
"They don't realize that being .
libertine is expensive. What the aver
age painter Cor writer either) needs
is good-looking woman who is deaf
and durpb and good cook"
Distrusts Altruists.
Mr.. Mencken has decided to distrust
altruists C'They are either insane or
they are fooling themselves"D, politi-
clans, Socialists ("I've not got enough
respect or money to be Socialist")
and men who amass much.
After you have money enough to
live decently and have privacy, each
dollar is only worth about Is cents" ."
And finally Mr.. Mencken, throwing
away the somewhat tattered cigar
which never had been really we'll
lighted anyway, delivered the final
pronounceinent. He distrusts and dis"
likes most of all that publishing in
stitution, the literary tea."
Il never went to but one" says he
vehemently, land I was shared into
that under false pretenses."
Yes-Mr. Mencken is no longer in
terested in books.
Evening star., 1937-12-26

every day Of her Nfe she retired to
her room and there wrote for some
hours.
And she never, in all those go
years, had line published in any
thing better than q class-day book
or q lemon-squeezing anthology"
Mr.. Mencken has discovered, also,
that ANY decently written article on
a subject Of general interest can be
sold in an hour"-but he didn't say
where. He Is still getting five or six
manuscripts week, though no longer
an editor; these teach him that the
first and perhaps worst fault Of young
writer's is that they press for publi-
cation too young.
Write Million Words.
Nobody has right to expect pub
lication until he has written q million
words"
And Mr.. Mencken also has dis
covered that the public still thinks
there Is Bohemia, Just as it still be-
lieves in Santa.
But am glad to note" he adds.
that these persons believe there is
most glamour in the painters life
perhaps thanks to Puccini's La
Boheme.' They think painters live a
Evening star., 1937-12-26

instructions silently written on the
blackboards by their teachers.
The educators behind the scheme
call.1t the look and act" method, a.
distinguished from the old-time look
and say style Of oral reading. In
the newer method they profess to sec
elimination Of slow and poor reading.
when . child learning to read sees
printed word (the new language) he
must never hear it said or say it him.
self (the old language, said Dr.. John.
son. 1T is the printed word as the
eye sees it which We wish to saturate
with meaning. In this experiment We
are not to translate print into spoken
or ear language, but keep it from the
first an eye language"
Evening star., 1937-12-26
Man Saves Pay Roll.

Sensing danger, NJ Antoine Coves, q
commissionaie, tucked his firms pay
roll in his hip pocket before he left q
bank in Paris. Bandits thugged him,
went through his money bag and ned
when they found nothing. M. Coves
was taken to hospital still carrying
the 5000.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
CHILDREN TAUGHT
BY NEW METHOD
Action Takes Place of Talk
in Experiment Used in
Chicago Schools.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-More than
5000 Of Chicago's first and second
graders are learning to read by keep
ing their mouths closed.
Golden silence is the rule for them
in a new experiment designed to teach
reading without what Supt. of Schools
DR.. William H. johnson describes "the
hindrance of the spoken word"
Behind the plar is the theory that
use of the vocal organs by young chill
Evening star., 1937-12-26
MENCKEN ASSA|LS
BOOK PUBLISHERS
Says "Kept Idea|ist," Man
With Fortune to Spend,
Is Business Curse.
BY JOHN SELBY,
Press Arts Editor.

H. L. Mencken is no longer interest
ID in books.
He says so himself: once he stuck
his nose into" every book of impor-
tance published in this country and
for IS years reviewed many. Once he
edited the American Mercury: he has
written for decades in the Baltimore
Sun. He has written quite a few
books himself
All this has taught him some things
Evening star., 1937-12-26

K 467 Pairs of Reg $3.50 "Dre,v" Arch-Rest
X 383 Pairs of Reg. $3.50 "VANI-TREDS"
X Is Beautiful Styles-Pumps, Ties, Straps, Orfort
year, just after Christmas offer exceptional values in
successful shoe styles This year offering
stock hand Of popular Drew AchRest Shoes plus special
of the famous swami Shoes
Tired Nurses oxods black only alhouh mention the
one -. of soft kidskns suedes and eabardnes %.
black, brown, gray and blue continental, cuban
and low heels .. Sizes ~ to 10, AAA to D in
the
Evening star., 1937-01-14

At the home OF Mrs. Claude A.
Swanson. wife OF the Secretary OF the
Navy, the hostess, wearing a gown Of
fuschia-color crepe. trimmed with
flowers at the neckline. was assisted
in receiving BY Mrs. woodrow WilSon,
Evening star., 1937-01-14
Afternoon Receptions and Teas Add Daily Round of Functions
By the Way-
Beth Blaine

afternoon late found scaling
artistic heights the
to
continue their
Washington will
hightoned atmosphere popu
gather
capable laughing
toward the es shortcomings
Upon arrtng hospitable door, prepared
the hectic coloru dsarray,
genius surprise studio q comfy
a laden punch goodies"
A. Punkett
and Michael Vyan both Of the British
tea whereupon Mr. excellent Bostonian
listeners
Scotch" Of
the British Embassy Mache
Bnkenhorn
becoming animated little Charlie
the social maad
dinner stricken
literally with the first cocktail.
Budny o Embassy
Rdtdt Lepkous ho until Polish counsel
designating
blond,
addition the diplomatic Leaning the manepece uh the
we
neighbor desertng
Alice Solers Wells Rebecd
Patterson
wal pove the last time the hospabe
We
America Well
will continue to feel that way about it and return
Evening star., 1937-01-14
The White House Scene
Of Dinner Toni ight
Honoring the Speaker
Mrs. Roosevelt Hostess at Luncheon Yester
day-Secretary of War Returns to
Capital From Kansas Trip.

President and Mrs Roosevelt will entertain at the
state dinner tonight at the Executive Mansion in honor
the Speaker of the House.
Evening star., 1937-01-14
Cabinet Ladies Receive
Mrs. Morgenthau, Mrs. Swanson and
Mrs. Wallace at Home Yesterday.

Mrs. William D. Leahy. wife of the
new chief Of naval operations; Mrs.
Adolphus Andrews, Mrs. Thomas Hol-
combe. Mrs. George Barnett, Mrs.
Mahlon Pitney, Mrs. Louis Mccartney
Little, Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, Mrs
John Beardall. Mrs Wade Hampton
Ellis. Mrs. E. L. Woods. Mrs. Albert P.
Niblack, Mrs. Loren johnson. Mrs.
Douglas Woods and Miss Lisa Lindsey.
Oficiating at the tea table. which
was decorated with iris, jonquils and
daisies, were Nine. Saito, Nine.
Rajamaitri, Mrs. Ralph Close, Nine.
Munthe de Morgenstierne, Mrs Walter
Schoellkopf. Miss Josephine Patton,
Mrs. Chauncey Depew and Mrs. w. w.
Howes.
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife Of the
Secretary Of Agriculture, had receiv-
ing with her her sister-in-law, Nine.
Per Wijkman. Mrs Robert jackson,
Mrs. Louis Caldwell, Mrs. Wilson
Compton and Mrs James lie Cron.
Mrs. Wallace wore lovely green velvet
gown with dull gold ornaments at the
neck and on the belt.
In the drawing room were bowls Of
tea roses and vases Of deep garnet car
nations and in the dining room the tea
table had centerpiece of carnations.
roses. gladioli and sprays OF small pink,
Evening star., 1937-01-14
Miss Thompson
Engaged to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Caspar Morris Thomp-
engagement of their daughter, Mary
Swan. to Cadet Ivan Wilson McElroy.
Mr.. McElroy is first class man at
the United States Military Academy.
West Point, N. Y, and Is the son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest McElroy Of Aus
tin. Tex. The wedding will take place
in Mansfield in June. Miss Thompson
Is the granddaughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Gideon A. Lyon of Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1937-01-14
Residential Social News
Mr.. and Mrs. Amory S. Carhart on
New York Visit.

Mrs. Hubert Bradford of Gunters-
vile, Ala, is in Washington visiting
Judge and Mrs. Charles Edward Stew
art at their suite at the Argofne
She came to Washington to attend
the judiciary reception at the White
House Tuesday night.
DR. H. J. Russell McNitt Of 3058
Porter street has returned from a
six months tour of observation OF
hospitals in a dozen European coun-
Continued on Fourth Page)
Evening star., 1937-01-14

ER. AND MRS. AMORY S.
M CARHART are in New York
VI and last evening were guests
4 at dinner Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel A. Freeman. jr., at the Ritz
Carlton. The other guests were Mr..
and Mrs. George Prentiss Butler, Mrs.
Samuel Sloan Colt. Mrs. Donald B.
Percy, Mr.. Charles Clark and Mr..
Bulkeley L. Wells.
Mrs. Walter Hinton entertained at
luncheon yesterday at the Shoreham
in honor of Mrs. Bennett Champ
Clark, wife of Senator Clark. and Mrs.
Richard P. Butrick, wife of the
United States consul at Shanghai.
Mrs. J. Doak Roberts of Dallas, Tex,
is in Washington, stopping at the
Mayfiower until after Inauguration
Mrs. Roberts is well known both here
and in her own State and holds the
position of president Of the Texas
Democratic Women. She is on the exec
utive board of the State Federation OF
Women's Clubs. and a member of the
board of directors of the College OF
Industrial Art, the Texas State Col
lege for women.
Evening star., 1937-01-14

Bostrom, who are so popular and have
legion of friends here, are greatly
missed at the many functions, both
large and small, which are crowding
the social calendar of this busy
sea son.
Evening star., 1937-01-14
Swedish Minister
And Nine. Bostrom
Are Not Receiving

Though the Swedish Minister and
Nine. Bostrom are in Washington,
they are not receiving this Winter,
nor are they accepting invitations,
since they are in mourning for their
daughter who died in Sweden last
Summer. The Minister and Nine
Evening star., 1937-01-14

President Mrs Roosevelt will entertain at the annual
state dinner tonight at the Executive Mansion In honor OF
i the Speaker Of the House.
Roosevelt hostess at luncheon yesterday when
the ranking guests Labouaye wife of the French
Nine Saito wife of the Ambassador of Japan
included Mrs Daniel Roper the Secretary of Labor
Miss Perkins, Sonora Castillo Naera Countess Poocka
Sonora de los Rios Nine Banche Nine Haersma de With
Castro Raamatri Biman Sonora de Busk
Sonora Guachaa Nine Hurban Mrs Walter F. George
Josiah Bailey Bulow Carl A. Hatch Mrs A.
Harry Moore Charles Clifford Mllard Caldwell Mrs
Thomas Paul Brown Mrs Scott W. Lucas Mrs Earl
Mchener Miss Mary Hornaday Mrs R. H. Jordan Mrs Angus
D. Mc1ay Mrs Izeta Jewell Miller Charlotte Noand
George r. Spaldng and Mrs James M. Helm
War; Mr. Harry A. Woodring has returned to
Washington Topeka attended the naugura
tion of the new Governor Mr.. Walter Huxman.
The French Ambassador Laboulaye entertained
night The the Belgian Ambassador
italian Ambas
sador Sgnora Suvch Hungarian Minister Nine
Peleny oeet the Charge dfaes
of Germany and Frau Thomson Cary
Wnship United Ambassador to
Spain Laughin Lima u. nSmith
Capt and Mrs Paul Bastedo Mr. and Mrs j. Holmes and
wilkins Carroll Glover Mr. and Mrs Felix
Morely Miss Boyle and Mile de Labouaye daughter of the
hosts.
saito, of Japanese not be at
home tomorrow afternoon and she will observe her Friday
afternoons at home during this month.
Nine Eregun wife of the Turkish Ambassador
athomes January o. February 10 and March 49,
The Chinese Ambassador and Nine SEE the guests In
whose Bowie Chapman entertained at
night their residence Woodland drive.
daughter Ambassador of Chile
has cocktail party which will place
afternoon at the Embassy
The Minister of Lithuana and Nine zadeks entertained 10
guests luncheon today McKenney
During Minister upon McKenney
a decoration from the Lithuanian government
Mllard Tydings spending
In New York City, where they stopping at the Hotel New
Weston
Representative Ralph
for dinner honor Of the newly elected Republican Governor Of
Maine and Mrs Lewis Barrows Thursday evening" January 2 at
the Sugrave Club Governor and Mrs Barow will be at the Carl
ton during the Inauguration festivities
Representative and Hayward Mahon, r, Greenvile
c. have taken apartment the
With them their daughters Elizabeth Mahon
graduated from RandophMacon Woman College last
Mary Brown Mahon who attending the John Eaton
School Miss Elizabeth Mahon made debut in Greenve
the assembly ball three years ago.
The first secretary of the Norwegian Legation Irgens
have returned Washington after Norway
Great Britain They have taken house Hudekoper
the Winter
Col and Mrs c. w. Exton and their daughter Miss Jacquelne
Exton who arrived in the Capital recently
ment at the Brighton Hotel for indefinite stay.
Evening star., 1937-01-14

peach and magenta blossoms. Pouring
tea were Mrs. J. Boardman Hartman,
Mrs Edward B. Meigs, Mrs. Bennett
Champ Clark, Mrs. N L. Wilson. Mrs.
Charles Hamlin andsMrs. Stanley Reed.
Evening star., 1937-01-14

TINE balmy air Of q premature
Spring day enticed many out
Of doors yesterday, and the
homes Of the three cabinet
hosteSSes who were receiving in the
afternoon were crowded with callers
from official, diplomatic and residen-
tial society.
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau. jr.. wife
Of the Secretary OF the Treasury. re-
ceived her guests in the long drawing
room of her r street residence wear
ing a gown the shade Of wisteria.
She was assisted by Mrs Wayne
Chatfield-Taylor, Mrs. Stephen B.
Gibbons and Miss Josephine Roche.
In the dining room the table had
an effective centerpiece Of pale pur-
pie iris and white flowers. Nine
Peter. wife Of the Swiss Minister,
and Nine. Fotitch. wife Of the Yugo-
slav Minister. poured tea and alter
mating with them were Mrs Morri-
son Shafroth, Mrs. William Franklin
Sands. Mrs Breckenridge Long and
Mrs. Henry Flood.
At the home OF Mrs. Claude A.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-05
Honest Concern

Many have expressed concern and
rightfully so, as to whether the fed
eral government will pursue cold
business methods in collection of
the seed and feed loans from farm
ers this fall because of the harvest
ing of their first good crop in many
years. Farmers, during the past sew
eral years, have not only labored in
the face of tragic economic odds but
likewise in the face of tragedy from
the elements. For the first time in
many years there are to be gen.
orally good crops throughout the
middle west and northwest and this
one crop will be only drop in the
bucket" if all obligations are to be
paid.
Therefore it is seen that a liberal
policy must at least be pursued by
the federal government in its settle
ment of seed and feed loan obliga-
tons. The rank and file of the farm
population want to meet their just
debts and will if the hand of fortune
and a little more of break in eco
nomic conditions will favor them.
Uncle Sam should thus be careful
with his bread basket and not tip
it over completely.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-05

United States, Great Britain and
France; Italy abstained from signing
the new treaty, mostly, it was said,
because Great Britain and France
had been leaders in the effort to
stop the Italian war against Eth
opia by applying economic sanctions.
Ratification.
Now the 1886 treaty has been rati-
fled by the national assemblies of
the three signatory powers, but it
is very interesting to see that it does
not provide for limitation or reduc-
ton of ships and tonnage, merely
stipulates the dimensions of the guns
used aboard naval vessels. The most
conclusive evidence that the naval
treaties have been not much more
substantial than thin air comes from
the interested powers themselves:
They are increasing their navies at
a rate never heretofore seen. There
is no hope for disarmament discern
ible from any of the three powers;
they have firmly made up their minds
that their navies be augmented all
the time, so, as the situation now ap-
pears to be, there is no possibility of
limitation or reduction of sea power.
That means that the dangers of a
major clash between the great navies
of the world have grown more SER
iouS than before.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-05
Hog Prices Are
At A New High
Fed Cattle About Steady
Here; Hogs Are Higher;
Lambs Mostly Steady.

South st. Paul, Mimi, August 2,
1887 GU. S. D. Az: The cattle run
of 1000 at the weeks opening was
somewhat larger than a week ago
and while fed steers were scarce
and held steady grassy kinds sold
Csc or more lower, supply of such
kinds being increased. Stockers and
feeders sold steady to strong. Choice
fed steers were lacking, a few good
grades making $1,000 to S14.OO. med
ium grassers and warmed-up steers
$1,000 to S11.00, plain grassers $3.50
to $500. Plain grassy heifers made
$500 to 1925, four loads $3.50, grass
fat beef cows S625 to SIPS or more,
plain kinds down to S5.25, bulk cut
ter and low cutter cows S3.75 to $500,
common and medium sausage bulls
$3.50 to $3.50, few fat bulls S6.75
to SIPS. Vealers were steady to
weak, spots lower, good and choice
$3.50 to $1,000, a few S11O0, Gull to
medium $500 to $500. Plain and
medium stock steers and calves
earned $3.50 to $3.50, few good and
cnOlce So.UU 10 S9.UU.
Hog prices advanced 15c to Csc to
reach new high levels for the sea-
son, most 16O to 24O pounds $3.50
to S12.8O, 240 to 800 pounds S1165 to
S12.65, 200 to $50 pounds SLIPS to
$1,000, light lights S11.75 to $3.50,
good sows $50 pounds down S11.1O
to SLIPS, $50 to 425 pounds $1,000
to S1l.1O, bigweights less, good stays
S11.00 to S11.50. Most feeding sows
made S10.75 to S11OO. Feeder pigs
sold at S1175 to $3.50, one lot of
so pound pigs S13.25.
Lambs were mostly steady, bulk
fat natives S11.00, some westerns
held higher, medium to good slaugh-
ter yearlings $3.50 to S8.25, slaughter
ewes $3.50 to $500. Thin native
lambs went as feeders at $500 to
1925, yearling breeding ewes $3.50
down.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-05
INTERNES in CITY GOVERNMENT
(St. Paul Dispatch)

(St. Paul Dispatch)
The interest which Mayor LaGuar-
dia of New York city possesses in
the improvement of municipal govern
ment personnel extends not only to
the present of his own adminiStra-
ton but to the future of city govern
ment in general. He is this summer
carrying out an interesting expert
ment in providing opportunities for
students aiming to enter the public
service to gain practical training and
first-hand experience in municipal
administration.
Eighteen college undergraduates
have been taken into the various de-
partmentS of the New York city
government as ''internes" or ap-
prentices." They are spending their
vacations on scholarships of so dol
lars a month learning the ms and
outs, the why's and wherefOres of mu-
nicipal administration, not only in
the particular division to which they
are attached, but through lectures
by the heads of other departments,
in the whole completely which is the
government of great modern me-
tropolis. Such program of train
ing for superior students is bound to
pay dividends in better public service.
1t could well be initiated elsewhere.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-05
Gardeners Nook
By GARDEN CLUB EDITOR
THE VILLAGE STREET
Ru Evelyn Lewis Mills.

Oh, let my feet at Life's sunset hour
Find a village street where tall
trees tower
And form an arch DER this quiet way
Where peace descends at the close
of day.
Oh, let me live on village street
Where everyone is friend l meet,
Where quaint white houses with
clean-swept walks
Lead up to doors banked with hol-
lyhocks.
And through the trees let me glimpse
the sea,
Blue as the sky, and as wild and
free
AS the gulls that dip and swoop in its
brine
Deep as this very heart of mine.
So, at the sunset of my day,
Let my feet find quiet way
Where the grass is soft, and tall trees
meet
Over a quiet village street.