Evening star., 1937-04-18

QUERY.
Speaking OF photographers, ne
mould Ike to ask the hocus focus
boys OF our tUo local morning
sheets Just Whnt happened to De-
tectipe John Cation Dhen he Dds
shot in that gun fight NTH trio
OF young bandits recently. One
paper carried a picture OF Detec-
tiue Cation being uisited at the hos
pitdl by Commissioner Melpin
Hdsen and Others, and in the photo
Cation Dds seen to be Dounded in
the left cheek and the right arm.
The other sheet, NTH obviously er-
actly the same setting and time OF
exposure, sho,Ded poor Mr.. Cation
NTH his right cheek and left arm.
in bdnddges.
All Ue hope Is that both OF them
are not right.
AxH
STANDING in the store Of a down.
town coffee merchant the other
day, We were tapping up education
reading such items as Talleyrand's re-
mark that coffee must be pure as an
angel, strong As love, black as the
devil and hot as hell" and Disraeli's
observation that the history of coffee
is often that of the manners. morals
and politics Of the people" eve
didn't know big shots went around en-
dorsing things in those days..
This was all very instructive, and we
looked about for more inscriptions
Found one all right. 1t said that in
the sixteenth century, 4 wifes refusal
to give her husband q second cup OF
coffee was considered grounds" for
divorce. Oi OF Of! i!
THE fellow who located "Wayside,
Va" for us now follows up with
the information that there are about
10 more spots with the same name,
same roadside signs to mark them
down in the Old Dominion. Some in
South Carolina too. all being developed
by the National Park Service Of the
Interior Department.
The plan is to arrange a few dozen
havens for the weary motorist, where
he may pause, partake of picnic
lunch. find tables and benches for his
use, drink from a clean water supply
and afterward sit about, stuffed to the
gills. rejecting upon his extraordinary
good luck in not having been smashed
to bits by lotion truck-as yet.
Most of the work on the waysides
is done by relief work Chat include.
us), although the one we first wrote
Of, near Stafford Court House, wa.
built by the Civilian Conservation
Corps. For your information, there
are crannies OF this description around
Pulaski, Hanover, Amherst, Mecklen.
burg, Fauquier and Pittsylvanis
Counties.
DOUBLE.
Complicatin1 both their lipes 10
the fact that Eduard v. Murphy
and Senator Walsh OF Massachu-
setts look very, very much alike.
Mr.. Murphy is reporter of de-
bates in the Senate and is forever
being approached by people who
mould like to speak to hin, about a
little matter OF Boy State political
business. Senator Walsh, for his
share, Is constantly buttonholed by
citizens Uho wdnt to ask Dhat 1t
Uas Senator So-and- So said in the
debate on the Whatsis bill on such
date. Would he please look in
his notes and find the quotdtion7
They both are still able to take
these errors IN good humor, but,
porkino at the same plant, haze
not as yet been able to figure what
should be done about the future OF
the situation.
y i y \
RELATED.
WILLIAM (ABERCROMBIE ABER-
w CROMBIE) SHIPPEN. who y
not The Stars racing expert, was &
somewhat disinterested spectator n
Havre de Grace race track the othe,
day. Disinterested, that Is, until Z
very long shot named Addis Ababba
which was carrying some Of Mr.. Ship
pens money, suddenly turned up in
the lead at the top OF the home
stretch.