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Evening star., 1937-01-17
SEEKS BUMPER LAW

BOSTON. January 16 UP.-Among
500 bills offered today in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, Is one that would
require all automobiles in the State
to have bumpers At the same height
from the ground-to facilitate push
ing, the author, Representative Ed
ward D. Siros, Democrat Of Lawrence,
explained.
In another proposed measure. hat
check and cigarette girls working on
q salary basis and passing tips along
to employees would have to wear Q sign
cAutioning customers Just where the
tips 50.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
LEOPOLD TO VISIT CONGO

BRUSSELS. January Is (R-
Belgium laid plans today to strengthen
her empire bonds with the Congo in
the face Of revived moves to satisfy
Germany's territorial dreams.
King Leopold III was planning his
first visit to the rich African territory
since he assembled the throne, but
the date for the visit had not been set.
Although Belgium has held the
Congo for . half century, Belgians
believe Germany always has been
jealous Of the vast African territory.
and are determined the Congo shall
never be given up to satisfy the Reich's
political and ec6nouic ambitions.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
u. S. LIST OF DAMAGE
IN SPAIN INCREASES
Wrecking of Malaga Consulate by
Airplane Bombs Is Latest

By the Associated Press.
The United States has added its
Malaga consulate. wrecked by an air
plane bomb, to list of damaged prop
erty for which Spain may get a bill
when peace is restored.
The consulate was unoccupied, but
no details Of the bombing, not even
to the date, were given in the State
Department report received yesterday
from Herbert o. Williams, United
States Consul at Gibraltar. Malaga
is a Mediterranean seaport.
The consulate had been closed and
Americans willing to leave the city
had been evacuated September 20.
How many Americans are left there
Is not known.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
ARIZONA PICKS RECEIVER
FOR PACIFIC MUTUAL
Company Ordered to Show Cause
Why Permanent Appointment
Should Not Be Made.

By the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. January 16.-
Judge G. A. Rodgers Of Maricopa
County Superior Court appointed Rob-
ert w. Redwine temporary receiver
today for Arizona properties Of the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of
California.
The company's holdings in Arizona
include an estimated 100000 in real
estate mortgages.
The action was taken on the COM
plant of Pauline Robertson. who said
she held policy issued by the COM
pany.
. Judge Rodgers ordered the COM
pany representatives to appear jan
uary n and show why q permanent
receiver should not be appointed.
The company was recently reor-
gani5ed in California.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Four Pickets Arrested.

PHILADELPHIA, January 16 R.-
Police arrested two men and two
women In dispensing group of about
40 pickets who marched today In
front Of building where the italian
Consul has his ofice.
The pickets carried signs reading,
Protesting the Fascist Crime In
Spatn."
Evening star., 1937-01-17
GRANTS SEPARATION
Court Awards Wife of Al Smith,
Jr., 5000 Monthly and Costs.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, January Is OP).
Supreme Court Justice James T.
Gross Of Rome today granted a separa-
ton decree TO Mrs. Bertha Gott Smith
Of Syracuse in her action against Al
fred z. Smith, jr, of New York, son
OF the former Governor.
The decree provides for an alimony
allowance Of 5000 a month and the
justice also assessed sl05.25 in costs
against Smith.
Mrs. Smiths action, in which she
charged cruel and inhuman treatment
and nonsupport. was tried here last
October. Smith did not contest the
suit.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
Confesses Sins, Plunges to Death

CHICAGO, January Is (P.-An-
thony Odzinski. So. having confessed
his sins in st. Stanislaus' Church.
climbed to the fourth-floor fire escape
landing on the adjoining auditorium
today and plunged to his death.
The Rev. Henry Jasinski. who had
heard the confession, administered
the church's last rites.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
BRITISH SHIP DELAYED
BY BOILER ROOM FIRE
Fuel Oil on Aircraft Carrier
Bursts Into Flames-Crew
Uninjured.

Uninjured.
By the Associated Press.
DEVONPORT, England, January is.
Fuel oil in the boiler room Of the
aircraft carrier Furious suddenly
burst into flames today, preventing
the ships departure with other units
of the home fleet for the Spring
Mediterranean cruise.
The fire was extinguished quickly
and no one was injured.
A full inquiry into the cause OF
the blaze has been called. the CON-
mander in chief said. He said the
vessel would sail Monday.
The incident recalled various cases
Of alleged sabotage on government
naval craft and the recent dismis-
sal Of five dockyard workers, pre-
sumably for supposed connection with
the damage to the ships.
Evening star., 1937-01-17

Fresh pineapples that cannot be
marketed profitably in the United
States will be used by Cuba's new can
ming industry.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
ERIC M'NAIR'S WIFE DIES
Young Mother of 9-Day-Old Boy
Succumbs in Mississippi.

MERIDIAN. Miss. January Is (P).
Mrs. Mildren Kimbrell McNair, "a,
wife of Eric McNair. a member of
the Boston American League base
ball team, died here today.
She is survived by her husband,
. 9-day-old son. her parents and sew
eral brothers and sisters. Pneumonia
and complications caused her death.
Evening star., 1937-01-17
CHICHESTER ELECTED
D. A. V. COMMANDER
New Head of Veterans Group
Served in Medical Corps
During War.
John T. Chichester yesterday was
elected department commander of the
Disabled American Veterans of the

World War. He
for m erly was
senior vice COM
mander.
The new head
of the veterans
group served in
the M e d C a ]
Corps during the
war and incurred
isabilities which
resulted in q long
disqualification.
He has been
active in organ
ization work and
holds Offices in
the United Civil
Evening star., 1937-01-17

Service Employees, the Army and Navy
Union and the American Federation
of Government Employees. He also Is
a member Of the American Legion.
Evening star., 1937-05-22
the
Wheels Go
A r O u n d
Consider the Teacher
First, and All the
Rest Will Follow.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

D1 aNOLLO "A nj
THE key man in the school Is the
grade teacher. not the head, not
the trustee, not anybody but the
teacher. After the board of education
has settled the budget, after the spe-
cialists have agreed on the curriculum,
after the head has assigned the teach
ers and laid out the work, the children
gather about the teacher in a class
room and the door is shut. After that
the teacher dominates the education
and the growth Of the children in that
group.
That is forgotten too often. It is
50 easy to sit in a quiet room sur
rounded by books and papers, a tele-
phone at hand, couple Of secretaries
anxious to forward ones slightest wish,
nobody to oppose an idea, nobody to
argue point, and send out orders
like utterances from Sinai That is
easy, too easy. What about that
teacher struggling to weld forty-odd
personalities into one forward moving
spirit? What about her difficulties
with the child who won't be welded,
or the one who can't be directed. or
the one who is too sick to be talked
to? And all the others in their vary
ing degrees of ability. purpose and
background?
The teacher takes them all She
must win the balky one, find way
to reach the dull one, a cure for the
ailing one, way out for each and all
OF the forty-odd. She must take the
mass as they come. but she Is required
to account for them one by one, and
with very little help from anybody
most Of the time.
I am asking now for q little con-
sideration OF a grade teachers tasks
When classes are formed the register
Is just a number. Each class gets
about the same number 50 as to be
'fair" to the teacher. If that number
Is just number on the sheet, If that
group Of children has not been con-
sidered individually, the teacher is
likely to have an unfair burden placed
upon her. You can get along we'll
enough with 40 children whose in
telligence is standard quality, whose
behavior Is likewise. But II among
that group there are four or five who
are not standard, who deviate from
1t in health, or mentality, or be-
havior, or degree of deprivation, So
cial and otherwise, the teachers task
Is made well nigh impossible. The
plan won't work and the whole edu-
cAtional scheme Is AskeW.
In organizing any class, laying out
any educational scheme, thought must
be given to the teacher. How will she
do this work Has she the time, the
material, the, equipment, the place for
the work that Is necessary in the per-
formance of her assigned task? Too
often no thought is given the actual
performance of prescribed duty.
Teachers are usually willing work
ers, usually we'll prepared for their pro-
fession. What they need is enlight-
ened leadership In details of class
room performance There must be
some one whose duty it is to provide
The right conditions for the teaching
service. Too often the leadership and
the supervision stop at the class room
door.
want to point out that the real
work, the functioning Of the costly
school systems of the world, goes on
In the class rooms between teacher
and pupil. Consider the teacher first
and all the rest will follow.
CCopyright. 1887
Evening star., 1937-05-22

Then it was Jail. No matter where
he went he was still in!
Standard headdress of the muzzle
variety is made of leather covered
wiring, leaving room for the wearer
to open his mouth, a very necessary
function. A dog perspires to cool off,
He opens his mouth to perspire. Two
and two make four, at least they used
to. Different shaped heads demand
muzzles arranged accordingly. Proper
procedure in purchasing demands that
the dog be fitted in the first person.
and presented with an ice cream cone,
Lacking the time or transportation
necessary to take the pup to the
muzzle, one should trot out the tape
measure, please, place the end at the
tip of his nose and measure to this
point where his skull connects up
with his neck.
There is a difference in width, &C.
cording to breed, so run the tape
measure around the jaws and make
note Of it along with the length
Muzzles created for collie won't ds
as far as a Sealyham is concerned. Il
the breed is one Of those things that
the neighbors guess at, hit the nearest
answer and take all information to .
reputable canine haberdashery. TheJ
WHY do the rest.
Evening star., 1937-05-22
Dorothy Dix Says
It Is Dangerous to Marry Outside of Your
Social and Age Class.

put and the girl wife wants to CAD
about He wants to nurse his rheuma-
tism and she wants to dance. The
scholar is bored stiff by his dumb wife
and she yaWns in his face when he
wants to discuss Euripides instead Of
Robert Taylor. The polished man Of
the world is Inundated by the social
errors Of his unsophisticated wife The
girl who has been reared in all the
reflnements and elegancies Of social
conventions is shocked at the breaches
of etiquette that her plainly brought
up husband commits.
Because men can pick and choose
their wives, they oftener marry out Of
their own class than women do. A
man attracted by the youth of girl
will marry one young enough to be
his daughter. Or a brilliant man
allured by = pretty face will marry a
stupid and uneducated woman. Or an
aristocratic man will marry q girl Of
lowly origin because she has some
passing attraction for him No spec
tacle is commoner than to see men
who are mated to women who are so
vastly their interiors that every one
wonders why they did it.
In such cases the public sympathy
invariably goes to the husband and
we say how lonely he must be married
to woman who doesn't even know
what he is talking about: or to a wife
whe never wants to do the things he
wants to do; or how humiliated he
must be to have a wife who doesn't
know how to dress or eat or talk to
people
But our real sympathy should go
to the wife who has been taken out
Of her class and put into another
where she never feels at home, where
she Is never comfortable or happy.
She is just as tired Of her old hus-
band as he could be Of her.
Keep in your own class Is the best
advice you can give anybody who Is
going to marry.
Evening star., 1937-05-22


that the nurse has been putting
things away for the Summer and the
entire house smells like mammoth
moth ball-or that there are a dozen
and one good reasons why I shouldn't
try throwing party at that particular
time. No, l don't stop to think-and
that's the main trouble
Well-better get out the old paper
and pencil and check the people al
ready asked-So that the others may
be duly called by telephone. Now
did l ask the TWiffles? l can't re-
member for the life of me-I was talk
ing to Mrs Twiffle in the hall at the
Wunches', and she was so busy telling
me about what Junior said about her
new hat that she didn't give me time
to tell her what my son said about
mine-and I'm sure l forgot complete
ly to mention the party WE'LL guess
I had better call her up to make sure.
-. didn't ask her last time. and 1
thought she was too sweet about it
when l saw fer a day or SO later.
I SUPPOSE I have to have the
Yowsers-they've been little cool
since that contretemps over their dog
and my lawn. I still think people
who don't train their dogs to stay off
lawns deserve all the trouble they
get-but it won't do any good to keep
on being frosty. III ask them, and
let them see how lovely the grass is
when its been let alone Heres hop
Ing the new crop will be up by them
THERE think I've got 'em all
listed Let's count don't want a
big party this time-only about 20 or
so-the terrace won't hold any more,
and it is too nice weather to stay in
doors-besides, I want Mrs. Squiff to
Evening star., 1937-05-22

fairy tales is far more interesting TO
model than the important lady who
fears the artist is not making her as
beautiful as she pictures herself"
THIS talented young woman loves
to do portraits, but she says there
is little demand for them, and that
is one reason she has taken up this
new branch of sculpture. She became
intrigued with this new ceramic art
while student at the Playhouse in
the Hills at Cummington, Mass.
In 1888 she became a member Of
the unique and unusual Deerfield
studios in the historic old town Of
Deerfeld, Mass, noted for it's COM
munity handicraftS. She spends a
part Of each year at DeerAeld Here
the director, Randolph w. Johnston,
internationally known sculptor, and
his associates create beautiful pottery,
sculpture; do wood carving, painting,
casting in bronze and maintain a
school for students in these arts
The Deerfield studios are extraordinary
in that the entire equipment for pot
terry making is complete under one
roof. Our greatest bugaboo," Miss
Broxton said lis glazing the pottery.
Careful chemical work is necessary,
for the glaze, made from oxides chosen
for the colors, must also have the
ingredients of glass The owners of
Deerfleld studios are constantly ex-
perimenting with glazes, especially
cobalt blue.
Another unusual feature of this
sculpture studio is the full equipment
for casting in bronze, particularly by
the method known as the lost wax
process, a manner employed by the
ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese
and japanese, but lost for centuries
until revived by Benvenuto Cellini dur
ing the Italian Renaissance.
MISS BROXTON belongs to a FAM
lily of artists. Her maternal
grandmother, Elizabeth T. Hume and
her uncle, Alfred James Howard
Hulme, both Of Shropshire, England.
are famous artists. At the early age
of II this young woman was a student
at the Institute of Art in Chicago. At
20 she was a member of the Corcoran
Art Schools class of sculpture, and
in 1929 won the first prize of s10O
and bronze medal offered by Charles
c. Glover for the most noteworthy
work in her class.
She has studied with j. Maxwell
Miller, and assisted Carl Nose while
he was working on the Washington
Cathedral sculpture For several
Summers she worked and studied at
the Playhouse in the Hills at Cum
mington, Mass. and she was at one
time instructor in sculpture at the
Art League in Washington.
She has exhibited in Boston and
Springfield, Mass; New Haven Conn;
| the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, the OBrien Galleries in Chi
cago, the Virginia Academy of Fine
Arts in Richmond, the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery
| and the New National Museum, this
| city
Talented though she is, Miss Brox-
| ton is modest in discussing her
| achievements. She says she finds more
| pleasure in her work than spending
her time at the movies or other places
Of amusement. Despite her youthful
ness she has already gone far in her
| chosen branch of sculpture. But
whether ever become famous or not"
| she says, Il am happy in my work"
Evening star., 1937-05-22

see how much prettier my window
boxes are than hers. She was SO in
sufferable about hers last year-never
would talk about anything else. Now,
don't talk much about mine, but
they really are lovely, so full Of bloom.
Those new plants are the best yet,
I'll have to recommend that nursery
man to all my friends Help him
along, too-and he deserves it. He fol-
lowed my specifications about colors
beautifully-and I do think have an
artistic eye! But I won't talk about
my window boXes-much!
NOV, how many is it? Thirty live
-forty-forty-two? Oh, it's not
possible-Ill cut it down, I'll weed it
out. I1l-I'l just give up, guess. Oh
well, maybe it'll be cooler indoors, and,
of course, it might rain. I don't see
how that lisc could have gotten so
big though-and I'm terribly afraid
I've asked other people that I've for
gotten about. Oh, dear.
What on earth shall have to eat?
That is always a terrible problem.
This business of being-supposedly-
an authority on food is wearing me
down. I can't think up something
new and exciting for every party-it
just can't be done! And yet everyone
expects it of me. I've exhausted every
possibility, I think, this year-there
doesn't seem to be good new idea
within 10 miles of me. Everything I
can think of I've had beforehand
they all expect something new. Oh,
dear, oh dear Shrimps are definitely
out can't look one in the face any
more I've served curried things in
patty shells until I feel an Indian
complex coming on. I've seen more
black olives and radish roses floating
in my glass bowl with tired and melted
ice than I can bear to contemplate.
If the hot dogs consumed in my house
were laid end to end I could use em
as direct wire to New York. can't
bear the thought of popcorn-I can't
face another cucumber sandwich . {.
What to do? Get out every cook
book in the library and start hunting,
suppose. Ideas Of my own are nil
don't know, though-how about
some sort of a special cottage cheese
concoction, with those red potato
chips 1 saw the other day-and per-
haps an extra fancy sauce to dunk
spiced artichokes in-hey, where's
that pencil and paper?
Maybe Well go to town after ALL
Evening star., 1937-05-22
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD.

)AME the dawn! Pups poked
I his head out of the doorway
~ Up the street amhled Chang,
furnishing motivating power
for his boss. Hmmmm, at that hour
Of the morning too. A glance across
the street revealed Beauty, the
Samoyede of Samoyedes, trotting
along, dragging a lead behind him.
Fgoodness sakes. what was this any
way. Guess he'd better find a news
paper and get a look at the date.
May! No wonder. That's what
he got for reading nothing but funny
papers. Wonder he wasn't locked up
long before this. According to the
law, a dog must be attached to a
lead or cover his face with muzzle
whenever appearing In public from
May til the first of October. Well he
guessed that he had better trot up
stairs, wake up the missus and dig
out that lead. Certainly did put a
crimp in q dogs style, waiting around
for folks to dress before fellow could
do his morning inspection. One
thing sure. He wasn't going to wear
. muzzle! As far as he was concerned.
q muzzle was space surrounded by
bars til tho head misplaced the air,
Evening star., 1937-05-22

Suo 4OUy mugs WIN HTOteSQue races. =
Seldom do people" she explained,
"care to have expensive marble or
plaster busts Of Father or Aunt Fanny
as the center OF attraction in the liv-
ing room. But this new art Is differ
en. It flts into the home and people
can live with and use small and fas-
cinating pieces Of pottery, as well as
afford them"
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
attracted to this young sculptors work
recently at the art auction staged by
Washington artists for the benefit of
food sufferers in local department
store. Although the First Lady lost
her bid on dainty little glazed bunny,
the work OF Miss Broxton, she later
bought little porcelain jackrabbit,
which she called "Scamper.' She
sent the little rabbit to her grand
daughter, 'Sistie" Dali, whose mother
wrote the children's book about
"Scamper," fictitious little rabbit
who all but ran the White House.
MISS BROXTON is particularly
A'A fond Of animals, and she models
them from life, usually in action. One
little rabbit, with ears plaStered back
to its head, fairly gallops along. She
modelled her pet cat, Ben, in various
poses. Ben is conceited and loves to
be admired" the artist said. He
makes q splendid model and will sit
or lie still for long time, much longer
than a child would" A bronze figure
Of Ben won popular prize in sculp-
ture IN the Metropolitan State art
contest held last year at the New Ma
tional Museum. This year, in the
same kind OF contest, two OF Miss
Broxton's glazed pottery figures,
charming studies of "Yum-Yum" and
"Nanki-Pooh," representing char
acters in the "Mikadc," won honorable
mention.
The making of pottery mold is
a tedious job. Every step in the proc
ess. from the first plasticine model to
the last firing, requires great patience,
ingenuity and technical knowledge, as
well as the skill and feeling of a
sculptor.
Although Miss Broxton makes many
Of her models and patterns in her
studio at Lyon Village. she does not
fire" her work there, but takes it to
the Kathleen Wheeler Studio in
Somerset, Md, or to the Deerfeld
Studios at Deerf1eld, Mass, where she
spends a part Of each year.
But ceramic sculpture is only part
OF Miss Broxton's work. In her local
studio she has several really fine por-
traits in plaster and bronze The por-
traits Of Hilda Conkling the poetess.
and Mary Taylor Of Pittsburgh, noted
pianist, are sensitive and we'll poised
A Negro head in bronze, called "Old
Man Adams Child" is an expressive,
poignant study Of class chara cter.
Her reliefs are just as sensitively
modelled. Children, always difficult to
| do, retain their charm in Margot S
work, because she brings out the soft
delicacy Of their features. More in
| ciSed and bolder in relief is the por-
trait Of the late Henry T. Rainey,
| Speaker of the House, which she
modelled while the venerable states
man worked at his desk in the Capt.
tol. Her theory is to have her sub
jects appear natural, and she usually
models them at their accustomed
work. Men and children are easy to
do" Miss Broxton said "A child
| who wiggles like worm and demands
Evening star., 1937-05-22

tragic story Of girl who
married a man more than
~ 20 years older than she, and
who belonged to a different class from
hers. My husband is professional
man with seven years of college train
ing, while have little education, and
my only training has been to prepare
me for work. I have tried to develop
and educate myself through reading
and study, but self education works
only where both are in the same
situation and age He and his friends
have background Of 20 years Of
culture that I lack I show my ig-
norance every time open my mouth
and to keep still makes me appear
dumb. My husbands friends all bore
me and SO do the things he wants to
do. My friends and the things I
want to do bore him. We have moth
ing in common. As a result, both OF
us are terribly lonely and unhappy
and yet We could have been happy
within our own types. I suppose we
will have to carry on, but there is
W lOl wa u w.
SADLY DISILLUSIONED.
We may think that love or fasclna-
ton or some peculiar circumstance
can bridge the gulf of years that lie
between a man and woman, or make
of no account the difference in
mentality and culture, or of social
status. Strong in this faith and be-
lieving that our own case is going to
be the exception to the general rule,
the old man marries flapper or the
old woman buys her boy husband.
The scholar takes wife who has
never read q book in her life. The
highborn marries a pretty girl from
the slums, or the socialite girl elopes
with her chauffeur.
PUT not once in a thousand times
do such marriages work out hap
PLY. The old husband wants to stay