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Evening star., 1937-03-08
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.


~HERE was queer little Mouse
in the attic of Farmer Browns
house. He didn't think he was
L queer, but his brothers did. his
sisters did. His father and mother
did. He didn't look queer. Not at all.
He looked quite like the rest OF them.
It wasn't how he looked, but what ne
did that made him seem queer to MS
family. He sang. Yes. sir, that nttle
Mouse sang. None Of the others did.
None of them could. Nibbler and
Mrs. Nibbler had had many children,
but never before one who could sing.
His parents had been astonished
and a little upset when they had ols-
covered who the singer in the attic
was. At first they had thought that
1t was a bird, though how bird could
be in the attic they couldn't under
stand Rounding the end of trunk
from behind which the notes seemed
to come, they found only this young
son of theirs, looking little confused.
Where" demanded his mother, lis
that bird we just heard?"
There isn't any bird here" squeaked
the young Mouse, looking more con-
fused than ever.
But we just heard one declared
Nibbler.
The young Mouse shook his head.
II guess you heard me-" he explained.
YOU" cried his mother. Who
ever heard of Mouse making such
sounds as that? A Mouse with the
voice of a bird! Why. that is impos-
sible. If that was you, let's hear you
do 1t again
So the young Mouse sang for his
mother and father 1t wasn't much
Of a song, but it was real song and
in rather a sweet voice, instead of the
usual sharp, squeaky voice of the
average Mouse.
Mrs Nibbler turned to stare at Nib
Ter, and Nibbler stared back at Mrs.
Nibbler. Il never heard of such
thing" said she.
Nor l." replied Nibbler, He GER
tainly doesn't get 1t from my side OF
the house"
IF you mean by that that he gets
It from my side of the house I'm right
here to say that he doesn't" retorted
Mrs. Nibbler sharply. If he doesn't
Evening star., 1937-03-08
he AIDED little warbling and tinkling

he AIDED little warbling and tinkling
notes.
Next to eating. he enjoyed singing.
He would rather sing than play. His
brothers and sisters couldn't UNDER
stand this at all. He certainly was
queer, and growing more queer. They
didn't want anything to do with him.
They acted as If they thought 1t a dis
grace that ne should be so different
from themselves. So they kept out of
his way. Alas, how often 1t Is just that
way throughout the Great World when
genius or talent appears!
Evening star., 1937-03-08
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

North America, Mexico or Central
America. you can find garter
L snake, and no matter where you
come across him, he is harmless. a
friend of ours, and worth knowing.
Toward the last of March, when
there are warm, sunny days, do not
be surprised if you come across
large gathering of them, basking In
the sunshine. They have been hiber-
mating close by Even in some places
where there will be snow still in drifts
that are sizable, and the nights are
very chilly, these strong, hardy rep
tiles come forth every sunny day for
their sun bath Perhaps you recall
seeing some garter snakes in this loca-
ton last Summer. They often burrow
down into the soft, pliable soil with
a Southern exposure, or use the spaces
between the rocks or wide crevices
in which to 60 at the approach Of
cold weather.
1t is always so much more inter-
esting to know where the outdoor folks
are all the year round. During the
Winter, when you came to this very
spot, you might also have realized
Evening star., 1937-03-08
Bedtime Stories
Left Alone.

to practice singing. Once when he was
downstairs between the walls he heard
the canary singing. After that he
practiced more than ever. until at last
he could trill, too. From time to time
Evening star., 1937-03-08

20 willing to be on friendly terms
with those who understand them.
Once good weather is established
there is no real need to go into a
huddle each night in the Winter quar-
ters to keep warm. The garter snakes
scatter far and wide from their Win
ter camp. They 60 into the thickets.
ravines and may be found along the
Evening star., 1937-03-08
Natures Children
Garter Snake (Eutaenia sirtalis) :.

that you were walking over the roofs
sheltering garter snakes.
There Is another thing Of interest
about these reptiles-they get along
20 nicely among themselves, and are
Evening star., 1937-03-08
THERE ISN'T ANY BIRD HERE"
SOUEAKED THE YOUNG MOUSE

get it from you, he certainly doesn't
get It from me. There never was a
singer in my family. The idea of a
Mouse with the voice Of bird! Tit
well, it just isn't right. 1t is queer.
That's what 1t is-queer."
Now you will find that all through
life one who can do something that
no one else can do is regarded as
queer by his fellows. They may ad-
mire him. and sometimes honor him,
but for all that they think him little
bit queer. Why this is do not know.
It was just 50 in the case of the young
Mouse who could sing. His brothers
and sisters, and even his parents, re-
earded him with something very like
suspicion, and all because they thought
him queer for doing something that
not one of them could do
They left him very much to himself.
They had as little as possible to do
with him. He never was invited 20
join them when they scampered down
between the walls to Mother Browns
pantry. So the young Mouse was left
alone most of the time. He didn't
seem to mind it. 1t gave him chance
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
ATOM SMASHER
RISES HERE

Man is preparing for another
tilt with nature, Planning to train
the force of five million volts of
electricity on an atom.
Now under construction at 5241
Broad Branch Rd. is a pear
shaped structure which will serve
as a laboratory for the depart
ment Of terrestrial magnetism of
the Carnegie Institution.
At present the scientists are
working in a smaller laboratory
which generates a much lesser
voltage, but it is expected that the
new laboratory will produce new
and more startling scientific finds
In fact, the new apparatus will
be giant atom cannon, and its
goal will be to break up the force
that binds the nuclei of atoms
together.
This force is $4,000, 900, 900 ,OO0,,
900, 900 (quintillionS) greater than
gravity, and the demolition of this
force is expected to provide man
with new weapons in the battle of
science VS.. nature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
8 u. 5. UNIONS
RATIFYC.I.0.

Eight unions have formally rati.
fled affiliation with the C. I. O.'S
United Federal Workers of Amer
lea after referendums, President
Jacob Baker revealed today.
Latest to apply for a charter
was the Washington Social Secur-
ity Board Union, m e m bers Of
which voted for C. I. o. affilia-
ton by a margin of "a per cent.
The union will be known as Local
No. 10. Baker announced.
A total of 16 Identification num-
bers have been issued, Baker said,
but eight of them have not been
announced pending formal appli-
cation of their officers for a char
ter. All have completed favorable
referendum votes, however.
Works Progress Administration
Lodge, formerly of the American
Federation of Government EN-
ployeS, has been awarded the
"honor spot" as Local No. /. No.
3 is composed of congressional
secretaries, No. 4, Resettlement
Administration; No. g., Rural Elec-
trification Administration; No. 9.
National Research Project of
Philadelphia; No. IA, Farm Credit
Administration, and No. 16, Home
Owners Loan Corporation office
Of San Francisco.
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to their fuel tanks, indicating that
the fuel was leaking out. They
can speak no English and only
shrugged at the questions hurled
at them by the amazed townspeo
pie who gathered.
The first person to greet the
filters was Peter Etchelberry, who
owns the pasture land.
Saw Plane. Land
He had heard the ship roaring
over his house and had looked out
Just in time to see it toss up turf
isnd soil as it bounded over the
ground, sending frightened cows
SQUIRTING to safety.
Etchelberry ran to the plane and
helped the airmen out.
He then notified the constable
Of San Jacinto who in turn called
the U. S. Army Signal Corps, at
March Field, near Riverside, about
Is miles from San Jacinto.
American army officers and
men Immediately took off by plane
and auto from March Field for
San Jacinto.
In the meantime hundreds of
residents of San Jacinto and fruit
growers and farmers for miles
around gathered around the plane.
AS the filters grew more adept
at their sign language they Signi-
fled definitely that a leaking fuel
tank forced them to land.
When the soldiers from March
Field got to the pasture they threw
a Gordon around the plane and
protected it from souvenir hunt
ers. The soldiers said the ship
did not seem to be damaged.
Major H. v. Strahm, U. S. A.
took charge of the plane and in
vited the Russians to accompany
him by motor back to March Field
Ask Food, Drink
They indicated they wanted food
and something to drink, and then
would go with Major Strahm.
Farmer Etchelberry took the
Russians to his house and set out
food and coffee and cigarettes.
His guests ate heartily, drank
the same way and smoked with
deep satisfaction as they lounged
back in their chairs.
They sighed and Slumped to
indicate their fatigue, but shook
their heads when Etchelberry in
dicated that they were welcome
to sleep in the farm house.
Gregori Goldman, acting Soviet
consul at San Francisco, who had
spent the night and morning
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
HEARINGS Sc I
ON PERMITS

SILVER SPRING, Md, July IA.
Hearings on three application for
permits to sell beer and light
wines have been set for August 2
by the Montgomery County Liquor
Control Board.
The applications were filed by
Roy Galloway for a place of bust
ness at Brooks Avenue and the
Frederick Rockville Road in Gath
ersburg; from Randolph Martin,
for the Little Dutch Inn at Rock
vile, and from Earl Plummer, for
place of business at 621 Sligo
Avenue, Silver Spring.
Protests against issuance Of the
permits may be entered at public
hearings in the Liquor Dispensary
Building on ColeSville Road.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
RUSSIAN filters DOWN

searching for his fellow-country-
men, telephoned from San Diego
that he would fly at once to San
Jacinto to greet the fliers in the
name of Russia and prepare for
their care.
He had flown 500 miles from
Oakland down the San Joaquin
Valley, with a stop at Bakersfield,
and on to San Diego where he
thought the landing might be
made.
The last that had been heard
from the filters was shortly after
midnight when they were sighted
near Oakland by another plane.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
Harvester Mine
Strike Is Settled

HIBBING, Mimi, July IA.
More than 400 men returned
to work here yesterday at the four
International Harvester Company
mines on the MeSaba range, fol-
lowing the end of a six-day
strike.
Settlement of the strike was
agreed to by the C. I. O.. the
company and the Employees AS
ISOLATION of the International
Harvester Company. James Bat
ten, Washington, D. c.. trial ex-
aminer Of the National Labor
Relations Board, announced the
settlement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
ADVERTISEMENT
A Case of "Neves"

GROWING girls
and many wom-
en- often are suffer-
ers from female ir-
regularities, periodic
pains and nervous
ness due to function
al disturbances. DR..
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription is a
hene6cial fnnic at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
LaIoux, Architect
And Teacher, Dies

PARIS, July IA G.N.S0.-French
artistic and architectural circles
incurred today for Victor Laloux,
famous architect and teacher, who
died at his home here at the age
of 81.
A director of the school Of Amer
lean art at Fontainebleau, he
taught a large number of Ameri-
can architects and served as con-
sultant in designing the United
States chancellery in the Place
de Ia Concorde.
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WRITER GIVES
PICTURE OF
ROBINSON
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Arkansas about his pants or any.
thing else except the point he was
trying to make-and usually did.
Striding into the Senate cham
Der of q noonday-and Joe Robin
son always seemed to stride, walk
ing heavily on his heels-he would
proceed to his seat without look.
ing to right or left, or stopping to
shake hands. It wasn't Snobbish-
ness. He was merely saving energy.
It's Senate habit. Few Senators
have the energy or the time to
observe what in other circles would
be commonplace of human rela-
tionS. And besides, as another
Senator once put it:
"YOu can waste an awful lot
Of time around here just shak-
ing hands,"
But once the days work was
done, or in the informal intervals
which always punctuate Senate
debate, Joe Robinson would be
found with his fellows relaxing in
the back corridors or cloakroom,
putting at a cigar and exuding the
friendlinesS which was in him.
When the American delegation
went to London in 1880 for the
naval conference of that year, it
was Joe Robinson, much to every
body'S surprise, including perhaps
his own, whose personality most
intrigued the British.
POlish-NO Veneer
A man of education, of poiSe,
he had somehow managed to re-
tain the flavor of the good earth,
in his long years of public Serv-
ice, bringing with it opportunities
for association with cosmopoliteS
of his own and other countries,
he never became cluttered up with
culture" He possessed polish,
but no veneer. Joe Robinson was
a solid slab of Arkansas pine,
worn smooth by the years.
In taste a bit of an Epicurean,
he liked nothing so much as a
tasty dish Of roast duck, mayhap
time and oft disappeared down
the river to some private club to
shoot ducks over the weekend.
He could handle gun well.
Woodrow Wilson once said that
some men who come to Washing
ton grow, and grow, and grow"
while other swell, and swell, and
swell" He divided them into the
two categorieS. Joe Robinson be-
longed in the first group.
A Genuine Leader
It Is difficult to define the quail
tiles Of leadership. Mems methods
differ. Mems personalities bear an
individual stamp. Joe Robinson
was Q leader for several reasons.
First, he was able in debate. Sec
ond, he was Sternly in earnest
when in the midst of his many
fights. Third, he could think fast,
and at the same time think sound
ly. And, far from least, he drew
men to him. His colleagues liked
him and respected him-and that
carried a lot of weight.
And now he is gone. Yesterday
he was the leader of the Senate.
Today he is dead.
But if in some far Vahalla the
spirit of Joe Robinson PAGES rest
leSSly through immortal halls, won
dering, it may be, what earth
bound folk think of one so recently
departed, he need have no fears.
Across the chasm, from a world
in which men once more play a
part in great events, the words
spoken of a Senator of ancient
times resound once more:
This was the nObleSt Roman
of them all"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
Light Fingered Gentry
Steal 6 Tons Of Metal

Light fingered" gentry have
done a swell job of sneak thiev-
ing at the Potomac Electric
Power Company power plant at
Wisconsin Avenue and K st.
N. w.
Some six tons of brass, copper
and lead, valued at $1,000. have
disappeared. Noting their loss,
Harry Steinbraker, plant super
intendent, notified police. who
arrested three men for inveSti-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14

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! decided to take Dr. Pierce'S Favorite Pre-
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
Junior Swimmers in Meet

A Junior Swimming Meet will
be held under the auspices Of the
Garden Pool A. C. at Maryland
Club Gardens on Saturday after
noon, July II,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14

Helen Reminsky, IL, and Stella
Merko, 10, were hospitalized from
injuries as a result of their fall
from the top of a ferris wheel
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14
Dallas Games Free

Despite cost of $50, 900, the Pan
games at Dallas, July
1913, will be free to spectators.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-14

One Dies, Two Hurt in Fall
EDMONTON, Alta, July IA
U.N.SO.-Mrs. Mary Bishop, %,
was dead today and two girls,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

1. What state did the Indians
give outright to one man?
2. What is intercolonial time?
8. In the early days of railroad
building, how much land was do
mated to the railroad companies?
4. What writer is said to have
aroused the American public to
the necessity for the Declaration
of independence and the Constitu-
ton?
5. What is the total value of all
farm machinery manufactured in
the United States last year?
6. How much did the late Sir
Thomas Upton spend on Ameri-
cas- Cup races?
7. How is the word "saith" pro-
nounced, in one or two syllables?
Answers
1. Rhode Island to Roger Will
iiams.
2. A standard time, an hour
faster than eastern standard, in
use in the extreme eastern prov
inces of Canada.
3. Approximately $4,000, 600
acres of land was donated to the
railroads by the federal govern
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
GOOD TASTE
n TO-DAY y
by
REMILY POSTD
Worlds Foremost Authority
on Etiquette
g Emily Post.
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School Is Training
Ground for Manners

n EAR Mrs. Post: Will you please
II tell me whether my son, who is
fourteen. ought to continue to give
up his seat on the school bus to
girls going back and forth f. ON high
school? He complained the other
day that if he has to continue this
practice he will have to stand all
spring since the bus is tor small
to provide seats for everyone?
Answer: Since school bus can
hardly be rated as a public convey
ance, am afraid that as long as
the seating is inadequate to take
care of everyone, the boys will all
have to give up their seats to the
girls standing near them-and espe-
cially is this true if they know the
girls. This seems very unfair,
know, but it would really be de-
moralizing to his social training
were he to do otherwise. Even in
a public bus a man who is a gentle
man would not think of remaining
seated if the woman standing in
front of him were someone he knew.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Too Much Drainage Plays
Hob With German Land

Berim.-Drainage of areas bet
ter left as lake or swamp is prov
ing difficulty in Germany no less
than in the United States.
For every area thus recovered
and put to agricultural use, there is
a l,eighboring area that is damaged
through the lowering of it's water
table and the consequent disturb
arce of its biotic balance, declares
Alvin Seifert in the German con-
servation journal, Naturschutz.
Digging drainage bitches is prin-
cipal occupation of the German Ar
beitsdienst, which is the equivalent
of the American c. c. C. Herr
Seifert is convinced that they are
turning a good thing into a bad, by
carrying it too far.
Another land reclamation project
that comes under question is the
Strengthening and deepening of
stream channels, to reduce floods.
This necessarily involves the de-
struction of a great deal of timber
in the streamside belts, as well as
troublesome lowering of the water
table.
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ment and approximately 100000
600 acres by the various states.
4. Thomas Paine's pamphlet,
Common Sense" is said to have
had great influence on the draw
ing up of these documents.
5. $487 ,273, 900.
6. From 1899 to 1880 the tea
magnate raced five Shamrocks
and spent more than $4,000,000.
7. Saith" the archaic form of
the verb "say," in its present
tense, a singular number, third
person and indicative mood, cor
responds to "says," and is cor
rectly pronounced "seth," to
rhyme with "beth." It is erro-
neously pronounced in two sylla-
bles, "say-eth."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Cosmic Ray Balloon
Tracked to Earth
by an Airplane

Westinghouse star fell on a
tobacco row at a farm near the
little town of Aquasco, Md,
some 30 miles from Washing
ton. Moreover an airplane
chased the star to earth.
Or at least that is what Franklin
Irwin Gibbons thought as he stopped
hoeing his tobacco recently and
watched a plane following shining
object coming down from the sky
into his nearby cornfeld.
"The "star" was a radio balloon
sent aloft by DR.. L. F. Curtiss of
the national bureau of standards,
which assembled some II miles and
transmitted, back to earth, cosmic
ray data. The looming airplane was
from the United States naval air
station, flown by w. B. Fuller, radio
man first class, and O. T. Cooper,
chief radioman. They noted the
shining bag of the radio balloon
falling at the rate of about $50 miles
an hour at an altitude of 5000 feet
and dove to follow it to its landing.
The coincidence is the first ever
known to occur in the new field of
radio meteorography by which sci
entists are now probing the upper
air to learn its weather and cosmic
ray secrets.
Tiny radio transmitting sets car
ried aloft in small, unnamed bal
looms are reaching far beyond the
limits of human flight in either air.
planes or balloons. The particular
'star" which farmer Gibbons re-
covered had gone UP nearly $4,000
feet. Other and similar instruments
sent up by DR.. Curtiss have reached
attitudes of Is miles or about 132,-
600 feet.
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