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Evening star., 1937-01-21
Americans In Oil.

In this mechanical and motorized age
oil is playing an increasingly influential
role in international relations. For mill
tary and naval purposes it has become an
all-essentisl munition. Without assur-
ance of ample supplies, especially for
automotive transport, nations today en-
gage in war at grave risk and peril.
It is just about year ago that the
League of Nations was contemplating
imposing upon italy oil sanctions which
would have crippled her ability to con-
tinue hostilities against Ethiopia. Be-
cause of the danger to his cause. which
such an embargo would have constituted,
Mussolini let it be understood that he
would regard it as an unfriendly act and
be governed accordingly. Even though
the British Navy was mobilized in the
Mediterranean athwart the Fascist path
to Africa, the London government did
not press for oil sanctions. II Duce's
conquest of Ethiopia took its victorious
course.
That historic demonstration Of the i'm
portance of oil in world politics clothes
with special interest the negotiations just
completed by American corporations for
vast oil concessions in Afghanistan and
in Iran. Hitherto American capital
looking for petroleum investments abroad
has been largely confined to Mexico,
Venezuela and Colombia. Now various
elements identified with such factors in
the industry as Standard Oil, the Texas
Corporation, Seaboard Oil and CO.
related interests have determined to ex-
tend their development operations to
Central Asia and the Near East. The
Afghanistan concession covers period
of seventy-five years and 100000 square
miles OF oil land. In Iran the group has
acquired rights embracing 100000 square
miles, spreading across six provinces.
The grant includes a franchise to build
a 1,700-mile pipe line, which will be the
worlds longest, to carry oil from both
Afghanistan and Iran to refinery and
distribution points.
At present the foreign oil market is
dominated by the Anglo-Persian and
Royal Dutch Shell combinations, though
Standard and other American groups
have certain participating interests in
them. 1t looks as If American capital
were now inclined to dispute control of
the world oil situation with European
rivals. The magnitude of the Iranian
deal alone is indicated by plans to step
up production in the Persian fields to
100000 barrels year. The Afghan
concession, which embraces territory
adjacent to the Persian grant, will
eventually yield similar output.
The globe-wide struggle for supremacy
in oil is obviously now on. 1t conjures
up immense and dramatic economic and
political opportunities. They are not al
together devoid of possible international
complications. The prize at stake is an
immeasurably rich one. Uncle Sam
signals his intention to be formidable
competitor in the race to win it. OIL
power in very literal sense has become
world power.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

uses to which an auditorium could be
put. They have been listed before and
perhaps demand no repetition. Mr..
Roosevelt himself, the officers of his ad-
ministration. Congress and the national
public simply are asked to consider at
the present moment the self-evident
truth that a large assembly place is
wanted in the city which at least once
in every four years is the home town Of
every citizen. If the projected Thomas
Jefferson Memorial cannot be an audi
torium, some equally effective plan should
be executed to that end.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Critique on the Parade.

The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
and Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania-con-
tributed a noble gesture to the parade
yesterday by riding in open cars, shar-
ing the rain with the common hordes
parked along the curbing. Nothing else
they could have done was so surely des-
. tined to endear them to the sodden
multitude.
Not so the occupants of other cars in
the interminable procession which
formed the vehicular van of the parade.
Admiral Grayson, as chairman OF the
Inaugural Committee, should prepare a
memorandum on the subject of closed
automobiles in a parade and nle it away
Evening star., 1937-01-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

1t is an interesting note on modern
life that the old coffee house" of DR..
Johnson's time has been revived in
countless morning coffee clubs OF a
strictly informal character.
Each of these clubs is formed of a
few persons engaged in the same line Of
business. They take time out" for a
few minutes in which to meet together,
drink coffee, and talk things over.
Which is the most important part Of
this program is hard to say. Some men,
bers of these strictly informal gather
ings find it expedient to combine break
fast with these ingredients, but mostly
that is simply sop to the mind brought
up too strenuously on routine.
The honest club member realizes that
no part of his working day is more i'm
portant than this, because the period is
stimulating, both mentally and physi-
cally, and helps keep alive the spirit OF
organization better than many fancy
devices long tried and found wanting.
It was not for nothing that coffee, in
the old days, was sometimes called the
intellectual drink"
Many persons will be found today to be
willing to swear that this hot drink helps
keep alive such wit and intelligence as
they possess.
1t helps put one in trim for the days
work. especially if this work be Of a
mental nature.
That the meeting together, for a few
minutes, the talking things over, includ-
ing the days news, has part in the good
results, can scarcely be gainsaid, for
there is something in comradeship in
any form, which is helpful and stimulat-
ing to men, in particular.
The truth is that anything said at
these necessarily brief gatherings is
worthwhile, for there is never any telling
Just what trend Of thought will be struck
in the mind of some listener.
These happenings are among the many
invisible things of this life, happenings
which some might declare have no real
ity, because no one can see them, but
they are very much in evidence later in
at least one life.
So nothing goes to waste.
That is one of the very finest things
about talk tests" whether held at morn
ing, noon or night.
There is never any telling which words,
which thoughts, will bloom in the latter
days.
Every one has had this experience,
whether the vehicle is called Morning
Coffee Club or not. There is something
in good talk, talk honestly put forth,
which is stimulating.
A cup of coffee, like cigarette, gives
one something to do. Mankind is hope
lessly sold" and properly enough, on the
desirability of keeping busy. even in the
hours of ease Knitting, for example.
The joke is that positively any action
whatsoever is business enough for a
man, If he can inveigle his comrades
into accepting the same standards.
Consider the pipe smoker. What a
solemn owl he is. putting away there.
giving the whole world the impression
that he is in deepest thought!
Without that pipe, he would appear
to be veritable dreamer, but with that
securely in his grip, he strikes the entire
Evening star., 1937-01-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Youngsters.

often drive out past the home of my
childhood;
A low, rambling house with its face
to the sun;
A precipitous footpath that leads to the
wildwood
Down whose winding trail we two chill
dren would run
Till we reached a wide stream, flowing
free on its pebbles,
Where, 'gainst orders, we'd shed shoes
and stockings-young rebels.
Clothes rolled to our waistlines, we'd
wade in the water,
Dive after the minnowS, run races to
win;
Till Adams descendant and Ewes reck-
less daughter
With cold, sparkling wavelets were
drenched to the skin;
Then, shoes again donned and wet gar
ments unfolded,
We'd trail home more slowly-to be dosed
and scolded.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Some of the most delightful incidents
of this city's social life are in the nature
of private theatricals. Reports that Will
Hays will again interest himself in poll
tics may lead to a discreet revelation of
new found talent on the Hollywood
screen.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

A playful attitude toward his invita-
ton to attend his own Inauguration
shows President Roosevelt in a genial
mood which enables him to appreciate
an old-time club motto. LET us gener-
ously assist one another in not taking
ourselves too seriously"
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Pedestrians are being blamed for mo-
tor crashes and there is proposition to
punish parents who struggle to pay a
kidnaper his ransom fee. It may be at
tempted to clarity a turgid situation by
an order to arrest all innocent bystanders
on sight.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Many visitors will admire Washington,
D. c. None of them will want to go
back to the home town and render
themselves voteless and without repre-
sentation in Congress. Among the many
things the Nations Capital presents with
pride is an example Of patience and
answering loyalty.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Poets have many times described the
hardships Of the professional jester. Cur
rent print discloses those traditional
targets of satire. the politicians, as
laughing merrily. while the photog-
rapher finds the professional columnist
as looking seriously apprehensive if not
seriously scared.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Air fields are being studied by avia-
ton experts in conference. In case of
boss politics" few crates" and a
group of amateur flyers would be con-
venient method of Furnishing a locality
suspected of not voting right" Much
of the troubles experienced by the rail-
roads were due to their insistence on
getting into practical politics.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Thanks to radio it is possible to restore
government to a form of classic sim
plicity in which the entire electorate is
addressed by single orator. AS fashions
change the silk hat and frock coat may,
in the course of reversion to type, be
replaced by the wreath and the toga.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Donkeys are not to be allowed in the
inaugural parade. Riding donkey
might be a good way to pay an eccentric
bet, but the energetic but kindly Jim
Farley has announced that there will
be no repriSals.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Pants and Strikes.

From the Kansas City Star.
Thus far we can see only one element
Of our former prosperity that might be
restored by an epidemic of sit-down
strikes. That Is the two-pants suit.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

interest, if the controversy finally comes
to rest in Washington. Certainly the
workers may be expected to give great
weight to proposals advanced by the
White House, 4 any are made.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

A multiplication of administrative
Offices may assist in keeping this Nation
out of war, but it will not prevent an
increase in the supply of domestic argu-
ments.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Trading Material.

From the Grand Island Independent
Harvard has been willed 1000 volumes
for the library, but she would probably
exchange them for couple of good halt.
backs.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
The Sad DAYS.

From the Kalamazoo Gazette.
These must be gloomy days for foot
ball coaches. They must now wait nine
more months before they can do any
character building again.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

A mild January climate naturally pro-
notes the fear of precedent and a Sus-
picion that the weather man may be
holding out a blizzard for Inauguration
day.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
End of the Season.

From the Indianapolis News.
There is a growing belief that the
foot ball season should end at the end
of the foot ball season.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

One of the destinations of base ball lies
in the fact that an umpire can render
binding decisions without conference
with q brain trust.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Rapid Pace.

From the Omaha World Herald.
The world is in such a state that even
the widest rumor seems to lag behind
the facts.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
The Exact Majority.

From the Seattle Star.
Complete final returns show President
Roosevelt elected by an 1l,070,433 ma
jority. It's nice to know for sure.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

There has not yet been q demand
for comfortably cushioned chairs for use
in the event of sit-down strike.
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Intimations are circulated that Will
Hays will resume his interest in politics.
He will be q power indeed If he can
deliver the movie fan vote.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
A Need for Television.

A Need for TeleviSiOn.
When television comes at last,
A fond ambition of the past
Will be made possible to me,
For then Ill be allowed to see
Just how, when reading from his books
A radio announcer looks.
I long to see the joyous face
He wears when due to make the pace
With Hello, Everybody" clear,
To bid listening world draw near.
It will be we'll worth while to meet
One with such genial charm replete!
de more a man knows" said Uncle
Eben, "de better of he is, unless hes
been careless in pickin' up de kind Of
knowledge dat might interest Dc police.'
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Adequate.

From the New York Sun.
A 102-ye& old Virginians description
Of the Tight of the Monitor and Mer-
J rinac, reQvifing little editing: Il saw it"
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Eorbearance.

would you kick q man when he's
DOWN."
NO" answered Cactus Joe. "The truth
is wouldn't kick man even when het
standin' up. However much may dis
like a feller, I haven't any crouch agin'
his hip flask"
Evening star., 1937-01-21

ITO speak i'll of friend" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, lis to begin a
habit which must soon leave you without
friends worth speaking Of"
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Oratorical Impulse,

OTdtOIICdI 1IHPuhScs
Since human beings learned to walk
Erect, their fault was this un;
Each individual tried to talk
And no one cared to listen.
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So Proceeds the Debate.

mo doubt you have had to consider
some delicate questions"
Many of them," answered Senator
Sorghum. But they have never caused
me the slightest embarrassment. 1t is
always possible to meet one delicate ques-
ton with another still more delicate and
let the other fellow do the guessing"
Evening star., 1937-01-21

Jud Tunkins says you can work too
hard for your pleasures. When he was
boy he carried water to the elephant
at circus and got SO tired he slept
through the entire show.
Evening star., 1937-01-21
Editor
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Rate by Carrier-City and Suburban.

I1tn st and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Once: 110 East 42nd St
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Evening star., 1937-01-21

@. In the Carnegie Foundations re-
port some time ago what proportion of
college athletes were subsidized?-E. G.
A. The 1929 report charged that about
one in seven athletes in 130 colleges were
subsidized.
Evening star., 1937-01-21


ways with such controversies, from
Grover Cleveland down the line.
x*
One legislative act, the AdamSon eight
| hour law, was direct result OF a great
| railroad strike during the administra-
| ton of President Roosevelt. Congress
put through the law, affecting interstate
carriers. Because of the undeniable fact
that the workers were engaged in inter-
state commerce, the law was unaSSailable
| on constitutional grounds. What kind
| of a law, however, could be put through
| Congress relating to the workers in auto
| mobile plants, under previous decisions
| of the Supreme Court relating to what
| is and what is not interstate commerce
| and therefor amenable to the Federal
| Government because Of the interstate
commerce clause of the Constitution, is
| not quite so clear
| Automobile workers in the construc-
ton plants have been considered on the
whole well paid For that reason, the
strike on the part of the workers has
| not struck an entirely sympathetic chord
among many of the people. However,
the workers in the plants which manu-
facture automobile parts and accessories
are less we'll paid than the workers in
general plants where the cars are
actually put together. And it is in such
| plants that the strike has originated.
With the shut down of these plants max
ing parts, the production of the general
plants has been seriously affected.
The attitude Of the administration In
this strike viii b wasched With great
Evening star., 1937-01-21

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Evening star., 1937-01-21

@. Please name a few of the Hollywood
stars who are art collectors?-J. w.
A. Edward G. Robinson, Katharine
Hepburn, Warner GLAND and Miriam
Hopkins are among the stars who are
collectors.
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NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Twenty-four Hours A Day, by
Baldwin.
The Laurels are Cut Down, by
Binns.
The Outward Room by Brand.
The Citadel by Cronin.
The Langworthy Family by Cor
bett.
Poirot Loses Client by Christie,
Life with Mother, by Day.
Bugles Blow No More by Dow
dey.
OF Great Riches by Franken.
Song Of the World by Giono.
Wind from the Mountains by
Gulbranssen.
Together and Apart by Kenne-
dy.
Gentlemen from England by
Lovelace.
Let Me Die Tuesday by Miller.
Conservation at Midnight by
Millay.
Midnight on the Desert by
Priestly.
Seven Who Died, Prokosch.
Education of Hyman Kaplan by
Ross.
Little Children by Saroyan.
Animal Treasure by Sanderson.
And so-Victoria by wilkins.
To the Hit by Wren.
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SAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, MINI.
neapolis Tuesday evening.

neapolis Tuesday evening.
Bud Berry went fishing to De-
troit Lakes with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Allen. They left Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kortan, Jr,
entertained last Wednesday night
at supper: Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
johnson, Of Auburn, Calf, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. johnson and baby,
of st. Cloud, Mrs. Paul Lembke,
of st. Cloud, and Rubin Eckberg.
Miss Marvel Berry returned TO
her home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Smith called
on Mr.. and Mrs. John Steinbauer
Saturday.
s. c. Bjone, Oscar Bjone and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foss and Pet
er had dinner with Mr.. and Mrs.
Gust Emblom Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kurcher
spent Sunday at the Steinbauer
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Emblom and
Mr.. Peterson were callers at the
Arthur Jacobs home Monday.
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Nelson, Jesse Martin and Lucille
LaForge, Mrs. Paul Rachey and
daughter and son helped Mrs.
Lester Trumble celebrate her
birthday anniversary Saturday.
Mrs. John Steinbauer was q call
err at the Wesley Martin home FRI
day morning.
Miss Inez Jerk visited school on
Friday.
Supt. Miss Robertson visited the
school Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Stegnel
and daughter, were visitors at
the Paul Zerk home Monday.
Herman Holmes spent Sunday
with Orville Martin.
Jesse Martin and Lucille La
Forge were supper guests at the
Wesley Martin home Sunday.
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Donald and Russell Emblom
spent Saturday with their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gust EN-
blom.
Gust Otto called at the Otto
Blank home Sunday.
Mr.. Peterson, Of Fort Peck
Mont, visited at the Gust Emblom
home Monday and Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Fossen and
the Misses Gladys and Hazel Eos
sen visited Sunday evening at the
Jones Eckberg home.
Art and Joseph Ecklund called
on Alvin Blank Sunday.
Those that visited at the Mrs
Paul Zurk Sunday were: Mr.. Pc.
ter Foss and his mother, Mrs. Gust
Emblom and Mrs. Otto Blank, and
daughters, Dorothy and Betty Lou
1t was Mrs. turks birthday.
Henry Blank was busy cutting
corn for Marvin Becker last week
Mrs. Jones Eckberg and son at
tended the birthday club at the J
c. Hanson home Thursday even
ing. The other parties attending
were all Sank Centre people.
Rubin Eckberg visited with
friends in Little Sank Sunday.
Mrs. Gust Emblom and Mr.. Pet
erson visited Virginia Enblom':
school at Osakis Monday.
Vernon Berry started school or
Friday.
Miss Ellen Ecklund visited with
Miss Virginia Emblom Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Wagner, Of Mel
rose, called on Mrs. Otto Blank
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Jacobson
and Charles spent Friday evening
at the Gust Emblom home.
Louis Sogge called at the c
Ecklund home Sunday.
C. Ecklund has been cutting
corn for Helmer SEVERN during
the past week.
s. c. Bjone and Oscar Bjone
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foss and son
Peder, were dinner guests at the
Gust Emblom home Sunday.
Ellen Ecklund spent Sunday
with Virginia Emblom.
Andrew Freeberg called at the
C. Ecklund home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Schau-
mann, Of Paynesville, spent Sun
day evening at the home Of the
lady's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Trones.
Mrs. John Steinbauer had bad
luck Friday while she was can
ming. A tap broke from a glass jar
and she got her arm badly cut.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry N. johnson,
of Auburn. Calf, spent Wednes-
day and Thursday at the John
Kortan, Jr. home. The former Is q
brother OF Mrs. Kortan.
G. M. Berry returned from Min
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Art and Bine Pangburn visited
at the Henry Ahrens home Sun
day.
Frank Debill and son, Bud, were
callers at the Simon Holmes home
Sunday.
August Gettil spent Sunday with
Orville Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Engle and
Carl Ecklund were visitors at the
Henry Ahrens home Sunday.
iMr. and Mrs. Paul Zerk and
Inez and Mrs. Henry Martin spent
Saturday afternoon and were sup
per guests at the Clayton Stegner
home.
Ernie and Melvin Steuck called
at the VIM. Thomas home Friday.
Ralph Martin spent Sunday with
his sister, Mrs. Lester Trumble.
Mrs. VIM. Bellinger and son, Hi
ram, and granddaughter, Dolores
Crandall. spent Saturday afternoon
at the VIM. Thomas home.
Dolores Rehkamp spent Sunday
afternoon with Bernice Thompson.
Harold Truax called at the WIN.
Schley home Saturday.
Mr.. VIM. Bellinger and grand
daughter, Dolores Crandall, spent
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. VIM.
Thomas.
Vivian Holmes and Enid Martin
spent Sunday with Title Martin
at the Robert johnson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. Cummings
and daughters visited at the Wes-
ley Martin home Sunday.
Charles Michels called at the Joe
Ingersoll home Friday.
Victor Nelson was a caller at the
Wesley Martin home Thursday.
Mrs. Wesley Martin and daugh-
ter, Enid, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold