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Evening star., 1937-02-13

the figure question in her current
article in Liberty-that is, she discusses
how to gain instead Of how to lose
flesh, and how to gain today is a
matter that interests comparatively
few women. We have only to look at
the lovely anemic, undernourished Miss
Dietrich, dropping listleSsly through a
picture, and then read Of her bushels
of fan mail to realize that one may be
skinny and still be considered with
Justice, too) a beauty. But not so
Evening star., 1937-02-13
NON-FICTION.
| DECLARATION OF INTERDE-
PENDENCE. By H. A. Over
street, New York; w. w. Nor

"A PENDENCE. By H. A. Over
street, New York; W. w. Nor
ton g. Co.
A professor writes book Of social
philosophy, explaining how we must
renounce independence for the addi-
tional syllable.
VIEWED WITHOUT ALARM. By
Walter Mills. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co.
An author looks at Europe and sums
up optimistically in small volume.
Dictators are people after all, he finds.
A BEGINNERS BOOK OF YOGA.
From the writings Of L. Adams
Beck. New York: Farrar g. Rine-
hart.
A short, simple introduction to the
study Of Yoga philosophy.
ART AND SOCIETY. BY Herbert
Read. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
A consideration Of the fundamen-
tails of art in relation to society and
demand for a new concept of art
to coincide with modern social de-
velopments.
MEET YOURSELF AS YOU REALLY
ARE. BY Prince Leopold Loewen-
stein and William Gerhardi. Phila-
delphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
A system of character analysis
which you can apply to yourself
if you want to.
THE LEARNED BLACKSMITH. BY
Merle Curti. New York: Wilson,
Evening star., 1937-02-13
By Robert B. Phillips, T.
S LITTLE as like to start an

s LITTLE as ike 10 start an
~ argument with the ballad
~ writer's, be it said herewith
a that down in the Ohio Valley
and Mississippi flood regions a re-
porter's best friend is not his mother.
1t is the Red Cross and the Coast
Guard, singly or together. This is
purely a superfluous remark and has
very little to do with the story I am
attempting to write. After watching
both the Red Cross and the Coast
Guard save lives, aid the stricken and
cheer the desolate for a couple of
weeks, however, 1 felt that they ought
to get mentioned somewhere in any
tale about the floods. The sooner the
better, and the more credit they are
given the closer you will come to
doing them justice. Now that incident
is cared for and We can pass on to
other matters.
Last Saturday night after I returned
from the flood country wearing boots
that reached up to the hips and a
beard that reached down to the boots
somebody looked me squarely in the
eye and said: why don't you write a
piece for the papers about your ex-
perienceS in Paducah and Louisville?"
Somebody Is always looking a news
paper reporter in the eye and saying:
why don't you write a piece for the
papers about this or about that, or
maybe about the other thing" and the
newspaper reporter invariably says:
Sure, it sounds like a good idea"
I said, Sure, it sounds like a good
idea," and. still playing according to
the rules, went home to catch up on
some sleep.
WHEN woke up late Tuesday
afternoon and asked for the
river gauge reading the weather fore
cast and an aspirin, the prospect Of
writing that piecS stared me straight
in the face. There seemed to be no
logical or easy way out of it, and the
thing that worried me was the fact
most of the incidents I could recall
were Of a humorous or grisly nature.
That seemed incongrous, for as any
one knows who has seen one, a flood
is neither funny nor bloody. It is
dismal. The water comes up into
peaceful homes and makes a shambles
Of them. The people either run away
before the water comes in or wait
until time and tide and cold force
them out. In either case they all have
the same look of pathetic resignation.
For some reason the cruel ruin that
comes on them this way does not make
them cry. I saw thousands of refu-
gees, or "rivergees" as they are called
in the present catastrophe, and I saw
only one person cry. That was a
woman who weighed $50 pounds if she
weighed an ounce and she was crying
because We had to make her leave
a school building with her children.
She was afraid the children would get
a disease in the refugee centers, and
she did not realize that it was 10
times more dangerous If she stayed
where she was without pure water and
sanitation and medical care when it
was needed.
THE look Of stunned defeat is on
all the faces, say, but you can
not make up newspaper stories about
1t. You can write II saw John Jones,
who is a laborer, and he looks
stunned and miserable because his
one-story house and all that ne owns
Is ruined" and you can also say Il
saw Bill Smith, who owns big fac
Evening star., 1937-02-13
RARE FLOOD TALES
Intimate Bits From Kentucky Remind One
of Some Choice Products of
Imaginative Minds.

tory, and he looks as If he had been
poled with an AK because all his ma
chinery and his stock went under
with the flood" After that you have
about finished. The only things you
have left over are the anecdotes you
heard or saw yourself, and some ex-
ceedingly unpleasant reflections you
have no especial desire to perpetuate
in your own memory or the mind Of
any one else.
A BOUT the first story heard after
landing in Paducah was told mo
by a newspaper man who had been
padding his own canoe around town.
He swore up and down that he had
seen man way up in the south end
of town standing neck deep in water.
He yelled to the fellow and the fellow
answered.
The reporter said, "Hey, brother,
don't you want some help?" and the
man in the water said No"
Brother" the newspaper man said,
"I think you're crazy. You better
come on and get in this canoe with
me and get to dry land"
Nav, don't you bother about me-"
the fellow called. I'm all right. But
listen, buddy, If you're going where
they have any big boats. tell 'em to
send one out here, because I think
somebody ought to do something
about this horse I'm sitting on"
At the time thought this was q
lie and I told the reporter so, but he
stuck to his story. and q few nights
later when went by a feed mill in
the cold fog and saw some people
leaning out the door. feeding ears Of
corn to mules that were I'D to their
backs in water, was ready to believe
anything.
THAT was one reason why didn't
doubt the yarn told me by o
Coast Guardsman who had just been
up in the colored section OF town
evacuating residents from the attics
Of houses. He said they came 70 one
AtSN6S WAA~AO hA4I4C was SA1IOAS CO4l4A11S
out OF a stovepipe stuck through the
roof, and they pulled in. They yelled
and woman came to the window.
Sorry" they said. "but you'll have
to come out. Now"
The woman began to look very un.
happy. She said "Mistah, I can't
come out Of here. 7 can't leave
pappy"
"Pappy's gotta come. too" the
guardsmen said.
"Oh. he can't, he can't" the woman
said.
At that point one of the boys
stepped up on the side of the boat,
swung over the window ledge and
went inside. There was water on the
floor, about 2 feet deep. And pappy
was floating in it. He was dead.
II Just had to keep him here" the
woman said. II Just couldn't 90 or
and leave him. And the insurance
man won't be up here until lawd
knows when"
They took her out and sent the
body to the morgue.
Evening star., 1937-02-13

III
the secretary remembers as a "lovable
character and one Of the most demo-
cratic Of mem; Mr. Dawes he de-
scribes as "affable and popular among
Senate officials and employees; Vice
President Coolidge once told him, in
speaking of the Senate pages, that
these boys have a great many advan-
tages over the boys OF his day, stating
that he had himself lived so far from
q railroad in his boyhood that "he
could only hear the whistle of the
train when the wind was favorable"
The present secretary Of the Senate
is the nephew of the distinguished
John Warwick Daniel, who was Rep
resentative and Senator from Vir-
ginia and great orator in his day.
Senator Daniel was -elected as a
Democrat TO the Forty-ninth Con-
Evening star., 1937-02-13
CRUEL TO CRITICS
Valentine Art Gives New Style Publication of Once Unattrac
tive Covers-1nside Talk About Russian
Charges of Crime.

Sylvia, who admits reverence for abso-
lutely nothing.
Says she, try two days liquid diet
with exercise. And gain on this, OBJ.
serve. Gain, not lose.
She seems willing to stake her repu-
tation on it, for she outlines the liquid
diet and the exercises, too. The latter
include swimming, tap dancing, skip
ping rope. Russian dance and riding
the bicycle. Fat girls ought to read
this with a good bit Of glee.
Evening star., 1937-02-13
Deep Soil Cracks.

THE cracking of soil in dry weather
and the mounding in wet weather
which many have believed to be due
to the nature of the soil itself is due,
rather to the depth of the soil,
experiments conducted by the Soil
Survey indicate,
Evening star., 1937-09-09

A special purchase of just
$50 Thrift Shop street
dresses in q grand variety
Of styles for every one.
Sizes IL to 20 and SO to
a..
Third Floor-Cotton Dress
Shop-The Hecht Co.
Evening star., 1937-09-06

sinister expression. The large head
with its great, wide mouth and Jaws
armed with rows Of sharp, cruel teeth,
seems like nightmare coming from
the deep. fathomless ocean.
Working together, these whales even
attack other whales. 1t is known
that they swallow small seals and
porpoises. Neighbor whales are fret
attacked by the killer in tearing
away their lips and tongues, then
the pack" gathers around the VIC
time like pack Of hungry wolves.
No one knows how old whales live
to be. There are some that have been
recognized by definite skin scars to
be 20 years old. Each year the whales
travel toward the Equator to meet
their mates and have their babies
When Junior or sister is years old
another baby is born in the family.
The nostrils are located high up on
the head and very close together.
They are 50 situated as to permit
the whale to breathe without showing
his head. The spout of moisture sent
up from the blow holes has been
wrongly thought to be water taken
in by the whale. but 1t is really "mois-
ture from the highly heated breath,
which condenses upon being exhaled
into the cool atmosphere" And since
we know that whales are mammals.
they must breathe air. They have
Evening star., 1937-09-06

recklessly, unnecessarily. But 1t was
always the same. When danger
threatened he became afraid, nause-
ated. The thing looked hopeless.
1t was in late October thai the thing
happened. Steve King and Val were
alone high up on a network OF steel
work with a stiff breeze tugging at
their trousers. Suddenly there was
shout from below Val looked down.
but crosspiece obstructed his vision
so he couldn't see what happened. He
saw only Steve King. Steve's face
had gone suddenly white. He swayed,
clutching frantically at erder.
Val sprang up beside him. What
happened?'
Steve's lip trembled. walt. He
slipped and--and-"
4 x
Wal saw the big mans knees buckle.
He grasped the foreman beneath
the arms and held him with a Her
culean effort. Presently strength
flowed back into Steve's body. He
shook himself, grinned sickly. Val
said, Steve! You're scared"
Steve looked at him curiously.
Who isn't? You bet I'm scared.
Every man on this job is scared. We're
not kidding anybody. It's fight
against being scared every minute"
Val bllnked. Something in him
went cold, then burned brightly. Steve
King scared! Every man on the Job
scared! Everybody fighting against
the very thing that he had always
believed was something that was his
alone to cope with. Every one Just
like him, only he didn't know. He
was as courageous as any of them,
The thing struck him like blow.
Val and Kate Pritchard walked up
the hill and found a seat on the
boulder where they had often sat
watching the moon Val lighted
cigarettes and they smoked in silence.
Presently he turned to her.
you know what I'm thinking.
Kate. You know love you. IL
will you marry me?"
She caught her breath. She
started to reply, turned quickly auav.
shook her head. Il can't, Val. Don't
you understand? Every minute would
be torment, thinking of you up there,
wondering Tiff you're to be next.
There wouldn't be any happiness. only
the torment Of waiting and expecting.
1 can't marry you, VAL so long as
you're working on such a job.
Val smiled happily, and drew her
into his arms. Then" he said, "it's
settled. I quit that lousy Job two
hours ago. I'm through-throush
with being scared"
(Copyright, 1872
Evening star., 1937-09-06

had a fight on his hands. He had to
fight fear, because fear was part
of him, an instinct. The conviction
grew with the years. No man can,
or at least wants to live without the
respect of his fellows, and Val knew
that no one respected coward.
He thought it all out one night after
he graduated from college. The best
thing to do was to 60 about it sys-
tematically, keep at it until the thing
was behind him. So he began.
He was an engineer and he got a
lob out at Boulder Dam because he'd
heard it was dangerous. 1t was. No
one ever observed exactly how many
men lost their lives on that under
taking.
Val saw the first victim tumble to
his death the second week. 1t sick
ened him. He closed his eyes and
clung to his precarious perch for five
minutes before the sense of dizziness
passed. Thereafter every minute on
the job was torture. every day the
beginning Of a new fight against the
thing that he knew he must whip if
ever he was to know q moment S
peace.
Steve King became his idol. Steve
was big and good-na tured and knew
gang of iron workers. and the way he
swung around the scaffolding turned
Walls blood to ice. But he wanted to
be like big Steve. He had to be like
big Steve.
IT WAS in September with the tem-
perature hitting around lis, that
Val first saw Kate Pritchard. She
was waiting on tables at newly
opened restaurant in Boulder City.
She was blond and blue-eyed and
looked cool and refreshing in bright
eingham dress. Val looked at her
and without premeditated reasoning
said: you're new here. Suppose you
let me show you around tonight?"
Kate Pritchard had her own idea
Of construction workers, but she an
swered with the same disregard Of
reasoning or explaining. I'D like to-"
she said.
They walked out into the hot desert
night. They climbed hill and looked
at the moon. The mushroom town
sprawled out at their feet. A SEM
blance of a breeze brushed their faces.
It was absurd to think that he was
falling in love so soon so completely,
but Val knew it was so. He thought
how ridiculous SHE would think him
If she knew his thoughts. He took
pains not to let her guess.
There were many nights after that.
Evening star., 1937-09-06
Opens Beer on Alarm Box.

TOLEDO. Ohio, September 6 (P.-
Franklin st. German, 20, opened a
bottle OF beer, and two minutes
later fire apparatus from two engine
houses screamed through North To-
ledo.
st. German, arrested after an au-
tomobile and foot race, told officers
he had opened his beer on the alarm
box. He was charged with reckless
driving and turning In q false flre
alarm
Evening star., 1937-09-06
FIRST COURSE OFFERED
IN FOOD SANITATION
By staff Correspondent Of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, September
GA new course in food sanitation
will be held at the University Of Mary
land, it was announced today by DR..
Lawrence Henry James, head of the
Department of BacterloIogy and AMI
NAL Pathology.
The course, DR.. James said, is de-
signed to acquaint the student with all
the modern precautions taken by COM
mercial food industries and will be
conducted by both lectures and field
studies. This is the only course of its
kind ever attempted, it was claimed by
university officials.
Evening star., 1937-09-06
Chairs, s49.'0

These chairs made for people sit n-t the moxium
comfort is subtle way Of extending hosptoIir-
this having than enough Deep restu chairs Ad Of
course your will look fresher and brighter with or
two pieces Of furniture in the house, Get the chairs that
mind the costond you will enjoy these chairs for years
come
you prefer other covers you may choose your own type of
from selection Of three hundred potterns
koturoI|y enough, there is slight vorioton in price,
FuRNuu SIXTH
Evening star., 1937-09-06
CHINA MAKES MORE IRON

China gradually Is expanding pro-
duction Of iron and steel, despite the
fact two Of its four steel mills are
Japanese-owned, the Commerce De-
partnent reported Saturday.
All four mills are In the Shanghai
area.
The department said plans for other
producing units are being drafted to
utilize China's iron ore deposits.
Evening star., 1937-09-06
Natures Children
GRAY GRAMPUs.
Grampus griseus.
nv Hv1Y YvAN, <,~~x a-,v-~,
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
w YHEN you use the word
M whale" everyone expects
Y Y something big. You are
not disappointed in this
respect when you see the gray gram
pH or killer whale. These whales or
giants OF the sea are greatly feared,
for they are not only extremely fierce,
but they are 20 strong they can over
power any animal which they attack.
To the Eskimos living on the Alas
kan coast Of the Bering Sea the killer
whales are supposed to be great wolves
that have been created in this form
to rove the sea. Some Of the simple
folk Of this coast even believe that
the killers can change their form
and travel over the land. However,
1t Is bad enough to know they are
In the sea without being told they
can continue their terrible acts on
land.
The grampus belongs to = sub-order
which includes the sperm whale, the
dolphins and porpoises. Like all
mammals. whales bring forth their
Evening star., 1937-09-06
DENIES TOXIC CHARGES
Moscow Declares Reports Troops
Enter Manchukuo Are False.

MOSCOW, September 8 R.-
Toxic newspaper reports that Soviet
troops landed from gunboats on the
Manchukuo shore Of the Ussuri River
and carried away to Siberia inhabi-
tants fleeing Chinese bandits were
denied Saturday in an official commu-
nique. The denial said the reports
were IAN invention without Z word
OF truth"
Evening star., 1937-09-06
FIGHT ON HIS HANDS
There were eve
nings at the moviei
o~A - - l.

There were eve.
nings at the movies
and orse back
rides Sundays and
exploring. They
talked easily about
themselves, about
each other. They
talked Of every
thing but what
was in their hearts.
Val was sure now
how he felt, and 1t
made him more
miserable. He still
had his fight, his
inherent enemy to
conquer. No girl
would marry q
coward.
He went about
the task Of over
coming his fear
With a grimness.
determination.
He exposed himself
Evening star., 1937-09-06

4 methodical lot. for they swim side
by side, keeping abreast In perfect
order. The swimming army is so
spaced that you can watch the large
black f1ns cutting swiftly through the
water. The timing is perfect, the
amount Of fms exposed exactly the
same by each killer. Watching them
rs they march" steadily forward,
you gladly close your eyes, trying to
blot out the ugly picture.
The small eyes have q strange,
Evening star., 1937-09-06

babies perfectly formed and nourish
them on milk ~ do land animals.
Whales roam generally tho SETS Of
the world. All species, with the ex-
ceptton Of the right" whales, are
believed to migrate from the north
ern to the southern hemisphere.
The grampus or killer loves TO
travel and hunt in schools" There
may be only three In the hunting
party or q dozen. The are apparently
Evening star., 1937-09-06
TT MUST. have
happened before

ne was OLD enough
to remember-the
thing that scared
him. 1.-THE in
herent fear OF
things-greW up
with him. He first
realized it when he
was 13. He was
swimming with a
bunch of kids in
the mill stream
and Butch Carney
climbed half way
up the Ice chute
and dived off.
Butch dared the
other kids to fol-
low and they all
did but Val. Val
couldn't. He was
too scared.
From that point
m Val kOeu he
Evening star., 1937-09-06

to come to the surface about every
10 minutes for q supply OF fresh air,
and when it has been used-up goes
the spout!
tCopyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-09-06
Jolly Polly
a Little Chat on English
BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH.

r. F. D.-"He is feet inches in
height not HE is foot inches" A
yard is 3 feet, not foot. We say,
however, s-foot man, a 3-foot rule, a
l0-foot plank, etc. Notice that height
ends in t, not tn, and is pronounced
hite, nor hiteth. Send a return en-
velope for the leafet "l20 Common
Words Often Mispronounced."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-30
SUCCESS LOOMS
 IN APPEAL HERE
Over Subscription of Pale. stine Fund Expected By
 Local Committee

oversbscription of the s3,oOo goal of the United Palestine Appeal which starts Monday with a meeting at Waterbury Hebrew Institute, was anticipated by leaders today. The local campaign will Do cooperative with branches of the National Workers Alliance, Mizrachi and Zionist organizations participating.
 Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf was named chairman at Q meeting last night of the Waterbury Zionist dis- trict, Rabbi William P. Qreenfeld and Aaron D. Solomon, vice-chair. man. The money raised will 90 to the Palestine Foundation fund rseren Hayesod, and the Jewish Na- tional fund, land building organiS. ation of WoEld Zionist.
 Other officers chosen are:
 Joseph 0aber, treasurer; Charles Rosengarten, secretary. The com. mittee includes: La2er KuperInan, Hyman Ross, Joseph Singer and Frank Slomowitz, representing the Jewish National Workers Alliance: Simon Goldman, Abraham Kramer. Abraham MatZkin and Paul Mar golls, representing MiMachi; Per- " Fraicerstein, Morris Bardash. Israel Heifrand, Samuel Llpetz Sam. uel Henes, Joseph PlutSik, Benjamin Robb, Benjamin Ba9dash, Joseph Ruskin, Samuel 0lickWan and Sam. uel Steinhorn.
 George 0reenspun, field director of the United Palestine appeal, spoke at the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-30
YSTAFF REVIEWS
 WORK IN SHANGHAI
Secretary in China Writes of Accomplishments in
 Refugee Camps

The Waterbury Y. M. 0. A. stan reviewed this morning, an account of the refugee work carried on among the homeless Chinese civil fans in the Shanghai area. The ace count came via the China Clipper, from J. O. Oliver, one of the twelve North American Y. M. 0. A. sec- retarieS In China.
 There are more than 140 refugee camps In Shanghai providing food and shelter. The problems of relief is . major one, and all agencies such as Y. M. 0. A., churches, etc., are cooperating.
 The headquarters of the Interna. tional Relief Committee iS in the new Y. M. o. A. building in Shang- hai, and all agencies are cooperat- ing. For instance, the Catholic church is operating Q camp, the Salvation Army another and the '. M. 0. A. another. Agencies like the Boy and Girl Scouts are fur. nishing many volunteer workers.
 The Chinese Y. M. o. A., because of It's experience in organizing to meet emergency situations during floods and famines, and more re- gently In the service to Chinese soldiers. has been asked to help train the staffs for this large nun. Der of refugee camps, around Shanghai and the other affected cities.
 Secretary Oliver described e typl- cal relief camp. It is c long mat shed divided into rooms 22 by 2b feet, each accommodating 50 per- sons, and there being many rooms in each shed.
 There are 1l5 Y. M. c. As in China with 286 Chinese secretaries and l2 North American secretaries The full force of this organization Is thrown into the relief problem. O. T. Wang, Chinese ambassador to the U. s. was formerly National Y. M. O.. A. secretary for China. He was the main speaker ct the Y. M. 0. A. international dinner in New York last week, ct which Waterbury was represented by Director Chase Kimball and Secretary Herbert S. Smith. He said: "In the midst of war and strife. strong men in my country are coming forward and assuming leadership in the Y. M. O. A. But, we Christians will not stop forging links across national and racial boundaries, and when the war comes to an end, the work of reconstruction will be ours"
 Secretary Smith states that there gre 0,803 Y. M. 0. A" ' "1 coun- tries. these include {. and student Y. M. 0. / policy of America has bee Id out secretaries who train lir national secretaries in each nation, and make each Y. M. o. A. self-govern. ing and self-supporting.