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MEN WHO CAN'T COME BACK
TOLD At THE EXPL ORERS' CLUB"
Jean Rendlen.
BY w. E. Aughinbaugh

What he did with his money no one knew What
he thought cared Thus he lived for the
nine years he was with the company
In the sixth year of his service. he sprained
his ankle by jumping from shifting engine in
the yards attended him. but he refused to go
to the hospital, preferring to remain in his hut
by the sea, During the first few days of his ILL.,
ness, came down the mountain to treat him
and was conscious that my minstrations were
being appreciated. Although he was decidedly
taciturn, it apparent that he had had a
thorough education. recall him quoting Omar
Khayyam, another time Thanatopsis, once Virgil
and also Confucius.
TWICE a week after his recovery he would
send me live fish In the water tank of the
engine, for we had no ice, and once in a while
large lobster These were the nearest approaches
to friendship which he made toward anyone. Ny
repeated efforts to get him to spend Sunday or
the weekend with me were politely declined. To
the CONSUL the only other American in the town.
he was distant and cold
One day case of plague that dreaded tropi-
cal disease was reported at the port. Before the
week ended, there were three hundred new vic
Tins and the Angel of the Darker Drink" was
gathering a rich harvest. The town was suffer-
ing from its usual epidemic, which this year was
attacking Europeans and Americans and was
of particularly violent type
The engineer of one of the ''up-trains' sent
note saying that Whites old Indian servant
had hobbled to the cab door to tell him that her
senor was complaining, and she asked that be
notified had the operator telegraph White
asking how he felt, and received an assuring
reply. The evening train brought up large
lobster as proof of his ability to be around The
next day he did not report for duty. telegraphed
again and was informed that he felt all right
About midnight the watchman came to the hos
pital with orders from the general manager for
me to meet the light engine which would arrive
shortly and accompany it to the port, where |
was to attend White, who was reported in a pre-
carious condition from the disease then so pre-
valent
I can never forget that night ride down the
Two o'clock in the morning found me at Whites
bedside. His was typical case of plague and 1t
was apparent that medicine could do nothing to
aid him. told him of the seriousness of his con-
dition and stated that dissolution was usually
preceded by period of coma, from which one
passed into the great beyond. Have you any
message to send? Do you wish to make will
You can trust me-" urged
Telling me where to get paper. ink and pen,
he dictated his last testament leaving his money
to daughter, whom he named and whose ad-
dress he supplied After signing the document,
he turned to me and said:
doc. my name is not White. 1t is, as you see.
-. | was the manager of the (here he
named famous Latin American road) gradu-
ated from Cornell married beautiful girl from
my home town and took her with me to live in a
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you refuse, because your improved health will
bring to,you charm of existence you rarely
knew in the days when you had all too little
sleep!
Night clubs are grand for the tourist or trav-
eler seeking relief from monotony, but taken
as a steady diet by the man woman living
in town will soon break the strongest health
and moral constitution.
Another form of charmer is the man or woman
who tells you that the idea of a home is old
. fashioned, and that romance is dead. Avoid this
man as you would plague from India Romance
and love are much alive today as ever, and
certainly there is no finer place in the world
than a real home where the simple graces of
living are observed and where walls are covered
with good books!
can Rendlen.
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WESTBROOK PEGLER

a strange composite of personalities =. at
times more Hitler than the man himself .
reeking with idoms and synonyms like King
Carol of Rumania physically of the appear
ance of Sinclair lRed) Lewis :. and reminis-
cent verbally of Sam Goldwyn.
Tall, lanky angular, with but little personal
charm but certain magnetism in his writ
ing which draws men to him.
Usually is driven to work in a large foreign
make car now that prosperity has visited
him and takes his cue on how to act with
Palm Beachtes, from Freddie Benham who
does publicity for the sib-sidewalk grille of
West SOS hotel
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Pictured An Old Print Showing An

There is definite thrill as James has indi
Gated, in having an 'unbribed soul"-a 'manlier
Indifference"
1t is splendid, too-the feeling of knowing that
those who respect you do so BECAUSE OF
WHAT YOU ARE. Not because of what you
have
Sometimes it seems that the marts of trade
and commerce are almost ancient courtyards
with their ffe-playing charmers laughing at the
weakness of those who are willing to crawl to
make an impression. 1t is high time for men and
women to stand on their feet and be them
selves
Most of us are too weak We are tempted by
the groups that drink too many cocktails-just
because its being done'l
Then. too there are those who would deceive
us about this new freedom" this release from
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bungalow facing the sea. Our happiness was
ideal. girl was born to whom have left every
thing
My assistant was Jamaican = half-caste
with sufficient Negro blood 10 make him posi-
lively handsome. He was as 1.-THE as a deer and
strummed guitar as he sang romantic songs of
Spain. II was the old story The spell of the
tropics came over my wife IL a woman Is to go
wrong and hundred men are to know H. her
husbands number Is one hundred and one
came home one day and the mother of my baby
was gone So was the jamaican. When I ex-
pressed surprise, everyone intimated that they
had expected such thing Tor year or more
Il took our baby home and left II with nv
sister. who has devoted her life To raising and
educating her. Then came back TO locate the
woman who had scared my soul and the man
who had wooed her from me. I knew I'd and
them with some railway In these dago lands, and
so wandered for four years from road to road
seeking them
AT last, In the mountains OF Peru. I found
them In the dead Of night. with the winds
howling requiem and the snowfiakes To soften
my approach, ! entered their home Sleep was
heavy on their eyes they lay together and.
by God, I cut their throatsi''
CAN never erase from my mind the dramatic
] fervor of the man his tense emotion as
tremblingly he raised himself from the bed and
with glaring eyes and shaking hand and raspine
breath, drew an imaginary dagger across their
throats The moan Of the wind through the palm
trees. the lisping. sobbing waters as they Tapped
the shore, and the shimmcring light of the
tropical moon. all added a nocturnal aoeompanl-
ment that intensified the scene
Then, after pause he resumed
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my work that night. With the coming Of day |
made my escape from the scene and walked
and walked, haunted man. through the back.
woods of Peru Bolivia. Ecuador. COLOMBIA for
nearly six years, until found myself here and
secured the position I now hold Every month
send draft TO the little daughter that carried
home in my arms She has nov grown 10 early
womanhood. l have never seen hef ana don't
want to. for she is a replica. ! am told of the
mother in beauty and mannerisms She does not
Know that live. That is why have kept from
my fellow men and from you That i why each
night sought forgetfulness and solaee in drink
have but one favor 10 ask = promise never To
tell my family name To anyone
When the sun rose its rays Uttered thr.,,,,e
the window blinds and rested on the quiet form
OF White p peaceful In the majesty Of death
And l, his only friend, the only one 10 whom he
had confded his life's secret. fulfilled his every
wish and buried him and kept my promise
True Stories From
Told N ibe Explorer CiAbs
COURTESY Albert Charles Boni. Inc.
fPsbbb1f = Ne. York1
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@F ALL that knew in my twenty years
- practice of medicine, the one that surges to
the front when think of these is White
at least, that is what we called him, but we
knew it was not his right name. In the outposts
of civilization it does not behoove one to be un-
duly inquisitive. knew him as white" for
nine years and learned his real name only two
hours before his tired spirit entered the next
country.
was the surgeon of railway in Latin
American country which out Of respect to the
memory of White shall be nameless. The road
from typical coast town on the Caribbean
Sea, with its pastel-shaded adobe houses up
through coffee haciendas, perched high on the
side of yerdant mountains, and on into the rich
hnterland. It's termni were the capital in a
valley of the interior, and the port have Just
spoken of, which is today, as it was then, hot
bed for beri-beri, bubonic plague and yellow
fever epidemcs. The hospital Of which I was In
charge situated halfway up the mountain
as to be readily accessible to both ends of the
line and In order that the patients might benefit
by the salubrious air.
The station-master at the port end had Just
died of yellow fever when White walked into the
Office of the general manager and applied for
the vacancy. He spoke Spanish perfectly, was
well built, deeply tanned and heavily bearded.
His clothes were torn and trave-worn. He told
the road official that he had walked over the
mountain into the city. A few questions elected
that he was experienced railroad man, and,
despite the fact that he without testimonials
or references, he was employed, for men were
hard to get who would stay in the heated inferno
of the port
The new station master made no friends The
English-speaking engineers, conductors and
others could not fathom him. He was polite but
distant, and had no confdant among them. He
knew his business kept the docks free of
cargo and ran the trains on time - and that
was all that was expected of him.
His alm-thatched adobe hut was in a COCO
nut grove. close to the beach that during the
equinoctial storms IL was often spashed by the
spray from the restless, troubled sea. It's furni-
ture was meagre. An old hag of Indian
woman cooked his scanty meals and spread the
news around that each night, after the cares of
the day were over the senor drank rum until he
became fnaudlin drunk and then alternately
talking and crying. went to sleep. He was always
the first to be up and around the railway yard
in the morning. however. and none the worse for
his debauch
He never received any mail. He never Nbor-
rowed books asked for papers from the States,
the one thing that outcast men crave Once each
month he would give the chief engineer of
ship that came from New York letter to post.
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Is 1t A Sin To
Be Poor? Isn't
Joy Universal?

Nou amused al this picture of the ancient
snake charmer In the courtyard of an an
cent temple and think that IL has no relation
to you affairs of today. but assure you that
the world abounds in men who could charm more
than snakes by their soft musical voices and
persuasion-men who would paint glowing pic
lures of wealth obtained by devious crooked
means-o. credit which extends beyond the abil.
ity of man to pay. PITY the humble worker in
the hands of such
WE DESCEND TO THE LEVEL OF CRAWL
ING THINGS WHEN WE DOuBLECROSS a
PARTNER TO GAIN WEALTH IN WHICH
TO BE SPLENDID AT THE SACRIFICE OF
THAT WHICH is FINE AND JUST - AMI
POOR
William James one of the most brilliant meu
in this country before his death. used to say
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We
despse any one who elects to be poor in o.dei
to simplify and save his inner life We have lost
the power of even imagining what the ancient
idealization of poverty could have meant. tho
liberation from material attachments. the un-
bribed soul, the manlier indifference. the paying
our way by what are to do, and not by Wha,
we have, the right to fling away our lie IT am
moment irresponsby-the more athletic trim.
in short, the moral lighting shape Il is etain
that the preraienf lea, OF poverty among ihe
educated classes is the ioorsi moral disease from
Uhich our ciUilisdtion suffers
Why do we fear physical discomfort? AS a
matter of fact. many of our poorest who SIT
about a fireplace, who cook their own meals.
who never see a night club who drink modestly,
perhaps an occasional glass of wine holiday
or celebration, have tasted joy that few of our
hotel dwellers can boast
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adays =. and his neyer-ending interest 4. :. in
learning of things new gives mental delight
to even his harshest critics.
Though we have known him two decades
ne is ever the frank, firm. straightforward
friend giving to the best of his knowledge
and belief the kind of advice he thinks
would actually benefit And he is the same
with all men and women and children whom
he meets the eager. excited school boy
with mischievousness twinSlng roguishy from
both eyes.
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life that way every single
day.
Harsh words, oaths. WISE
cracks have no place in
conversation when wo-
men are present is an
other of his recipes. He
smokes little has been a
teetotaler always fences
boxes. wrestles with the best
of them. :. is the most whole.
souled. truthfully honest per
son we have ever known
and seems to derive more out
of life than anyone else we
have ever met.
His almost childlike mai
yete is a pleasure now
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"THUMBPRINTS
OF THE GREAT"
BY Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
DOUG" FAIRBANKS

4 FOUNTAINS were made to be scaled :.
NJ rivers forded the desert overcome ;.
and all intricate obstacles of life conquered. ;.
That Is his psychology of life and he lives
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has left its principal actor stranded these
foreign shores l know that could fill book
with the pathetic stories told me by these world
weary ones in their faltering journey to meet
mine host of the inn at the end of the road.
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moral obligations. In this class fall those who
become easy victims to the theory that lone
must have expression" Gaily coored books and
magazines that feature the morbid. emotional
story published by men, who had they lived in
ancient times would probably have taken an
unhoy delight in charming crawling things, are
another form of life contributing tor the chaotic
condition of the world today
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What to do about it?
BE MEN AND WOMEN!
DO YOUR OWN THINKING!

If you can't afford to do thing, don't let
either friend or an enemy persuade you to do
it. If your health won't stand parties running
to the small hours of the morning, DON'T GO
TO THEM!
Don't think, either. that life will be dull If
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Healing Service.

The service of Christian healing
at the Church of st. Stephen and
the Incarnation will be held Tuesday
evening. Rev. Paul Wilbur, rector,
will have charge.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
UnitarianS
Will Hear
DR.. Cornish
Association President
to Speak Tomorrow
at All Souls.
mr. LOUIS C. CORNISH. president

DR. LOUIS C. CORNISH. president
~ of the American Unitarian Asso-
ciation, will occupy the pulpit OF All
Souls Unitarian Church at the IL
o'clock service.
At the Adult Glass in Current Prob
lens Dr.. Martha M. Eliot of the Chill
dren's Bureau, who has just returned
from Geneva. will speak OF the child
welfare work of the League of Nations.
Mai. C. l. Kephart will be the speaker
at the Adult Glass in Comparative
Religions. At $50 will be review OF
Mine Old Men" by Pearson and
Allen, to be given by Albert Levitt.
The speaker for the Young People S
Fireside Circle meeting at $50 will
be Miss jeanette Rankin. At the
motion picture hour in Pierce Hall at
730 the feature will be Things to
Come"
DR.. Ulysses c. B. Pierce will have
charge of the Membership Glass,
meeting Monday at 8 o'clock. Tues
day evening the Board of Trustees will
meet. At the Unitarian Thought
Study Group meeting Wednesday eve
ming Edward P. Kimball of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
will speak.
The feature at the foreign language
cinema in Pierce Hall March 13 will
be the German Ski-opera "GrenZ-
feuer." This evening it is the German
comedy Der Muede Theodor."
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TOPICS CHOSEN

The Lords Supper will be observed
tomorrow morning at Bethany Baptist
The communion address Of Rev. M. P.
German is The Loneliness of Jesus. "
In the evening he will speak or "A
Preventive Religion"
Senator M. M. Logan of Kentucky
will be the teacher for the Stevenson
Bible Class. The subject for discus
sion is Life Through Christ" The
Junior church will be conducted by
Mrs. Jaeger.
A study course on practical evangel-
ism will be held every evening next
week except Saturday. The speakers
are Rev. Glenn Faucet, DR.. e. H
Pruden, John Ruthven. Mrs. M. P.
German and the pastor.
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DR.. Bali S
Sermon on
"WhOCares"
Metropolitan Baptist
Pastor to Speak
Tomorrow.

DR. JOHN COMPTON BALL. pastor
Of Metropolitan Baptist Church,
will speak tomorrow morning on
who Cares?" The ordinance Of the
Lords Supper will be observed. In
the evening his subject will be Jesus
and the Old Home Folks" This is one
of the series OF Dr. Balls pre-Easter
sermons.
The Adult Union meets at 6:45 pm.
Ralph Gross will lead. Subject: Gods
Gift of knowledge"
The Phi Gamma Kappa viii hold q
business and social meeting Tuesday
evening. Wilbur Quigley will conduct
the meeting.
The Through the Bible Study Class
meets Tuesday at o'clock. Mrs.
William Hasker Is teaching.
Prayer service Thursday evening
will be led by the Senior B. Y. p. q.
The subject is "Our Missions in the
Home Land" Lloyd Bramble will
lead.
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Ohio Bishop
Will Speak
At Epiphany
Rt. Rev. Warren l..
Rogers Well Known
in Washington.

light REV. WARREN L. ROGERS,
~ Bishop of Ohio, will be the special
MONDAY preacher at the Church Of
the Epiphany next week
Bishop Rogers, who has been at
Epiphany during Lent for several
years, is well known in Washington
as one of the most brilliant preachers
in the Episcopal church, presenting
unusually practical sermons in an ex-
ceptionally vivid and interesting fash
ion. He will preach at Epiphany each
day, Monday through Friday, from
1905 to 1890.
DR.. Phillips. rector of Epiphany,
will preach tomorrow at the service
of holy communion at II o'clock. At
8 pm. Rev. Mr. Cartmell will discuss
Some Questions Asked About the
Creeds."
Confirmation lectures for adults are
given every Friday at pm. by DR..
Phillips. The Junior Confirmation
Glass meets every Friday afternoon at
4 pm.
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Fourth Talk
In Series
Is Planned
DR.. Rasmussen Lists
Theme at Luther
Place Memorial.

DR. CARL c. RASMUSSEN. pastor
Of Luther Place Memorial Church,
announces that. continuing the gen.
eral trend which has characterized
his three previous Lenten sermons.
he will tomorrow present "The Self
Vindication Of the Church"
Harold H. Rowland, jr., will lead
the intermediate Luther League at s
o'clock. His theme will be Listening
to the Inner Voice"
The Babe Of Bethlehem Society will
meet in the church parlors Wednes-
day from l to 5, to sew for the needy.
A social of the Young Peoples Fell
lowship will be held Tuesday evening
in the church parlors. The enter
tainment is in charge of a committee
of which Mrs. Laura Drye is chairman
Continuing his midveek Lenten
studies, Rev. Edgar D. Ziegler will
speak Thursday at 7:50 on THE
Discipline of the Servant of the Lord .
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Services to
Prepare for
Confirmation
Grace Lutheran Ser
mon to Lenten in
Character.

CERVICES at Grace Lutheran
- Church tomorrow will be Lenten
in character, preparatory for con-
firmation and the reception OF new
members on Palm Sunday and Easter.
The pastor, Rev. G. ElensN, will
continue his sermon series on the
Apostles Creek and will preach on
THE Jesus We Confess.
instruction. for confirmantS and
others uniting with the church will be
conducted at pm.
The Church Council will meet Mon
day in the church Office.
The pastor will preach Wednesday
at pm. on How Sinners Are Re-
deemed" Visiting ministers will be
heard on following Wednesday eve
ningS in Lent.
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Talk Series
For Youth
To Continue
Rev. w. S. Abernethy
to Speak Tomorrow
to Young People.

REv. w. 8. ABERNETHY. minister
at Calvary Baptist Church, will
preach tomorrow morning on 1.-THE
High Cost of Following Christ" Com
munion service will be held at the
close. He will give the second in the
special series to young people in the
evening, Young People and the
Church"
Rev Frank E. Johnston, jr.. min
ister's assistant, will continue his
series Of talks on the Lords Prayer
at the junior church service.
The Sunday school class organized
by Miss Florence NJ Brown, and now
bearing her name, is celebrating it.
25th anniversary this month. Miss
Elsie E. Green, the present teacher,
was an associate and pupil of Miss
Brown in the Y w. C. A.
The class will conduct the morning
exercises tomorrow of the adult de.
partment of the Sunday school. Mrs
Ella S. Orr, president, will be in charge
Of the exercises and will give review
Of the history of the class.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
CAUSE OF CROSS
SERMON TOPIC

THE Cause of the Cross will be
the subject of the Lenten sermon in
the Sixth Presbyterian Church tomor-
row morning by Rev. J. H. Garner,
At 7:45 pm the subject will be, The
Dimensions of Stewardship"
The Board of Trustees will meet in
the minister's study Monday evening.
The Every Member Canvass Com
mittee and church council members
will have banquet Thursday at pm.
to complete plans for the every mem
ber canvass, March IA.
The Winsome Crusade Workers will
meet in the chapel Friday at pm.
The session will hold brief meet
Ing Immediately after the morning
worship in the minister's study.
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Lincoln CONGREGATIONAL.

DR.. R. w. Brooks will speak tomor-
row on Keeping Ones Faith in Good
ness in a World of Hate The Mems
Brotherhood will be addressed at 10
am. by Thomas E. Hawkins. assistant
dean of men, Howard University, who
will discuss The Challenge of the
Community to the Christian" Men
and women are invited.
The forum will be addressed at 6
pm. by DR.. Emmett E. Dorsey, de-
partment of political science, on 80
vietism and Social Reconstruction.
The Young Peoples Clut at 6 pm.
James Hicks will Lead the general dis
cussion, THE Ideals of Work and
Play"
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Concord Cabin John NJ. Z.

At Concord. River road, above Will
son lane. Sunday school at 2:15 pm.
At 3 pm. Dr.. G. Ellis Williams, dis
trict superintendent. will preach and
administer the sacrament of holy
communion. Following this service
the fourth quarterly conference will
be held
At Cabin John. Sunday school at
l0:15 am; church service at s pm
Rev Frank Edwards Sutch will preach
on "CompanionShip."
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Ryland Methodist.

Continuing his sermon series. For
Whom Christ Died" Rev. Newell will
preach at IL am. on Martha, Whom
Routine Had Conquered" Holy COM
munion will be administered At 7:30
pm. the theme is. "A Portrait of a
Worthy Life" A fellowship will fol-
low, featuring a Bible test.
The EpWorth League at o'clock
will be led by Alvin De Atley The
intermediate League meets also at 7
o'clock, Junior League Thursday at
3:l5.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference,
with DR.. G. Ellis Williams presiding.
will meet Friday evening.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
SUBJECT CHOSEN
BY DIR. MILLER
Sermon at National City
Church on Gods Ban
uuet House" ="

Gods Banquet House" is the sub
ject of the sermon DR.. Raphael Har-
wood Miller will deliver at the Ma
tional City Christian Church tomor-
row morning. At the evening service
he Will speak on The Divine Man, "
in line with his popular unconven-
tional discussions.
DR. Miller's seminar subject at the
Thursday fellowship dinner is Pre-
pairing for Witnessing" This will be
preceded by dinner Public invited.
Dinner by reservation This week is
designated as "All States" night and
friends from all over the country are
invited.