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The Washington times., 1937-08-20
FRENCH DOUBTS.
WIFE IS SINCERE.
in PEACE OFFER.
Can't Forget She Once
Called Him Skunk
By DOROTHY KILGALLEN

BY DOROTHY KHGALLEN
NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 20
Q.N.S0.-Frank o. French who
scorns the glittering mansion Of
his son-in.law, John Jacob Astor,
3d., embraces the rustic life here
today as things reached a pretty
pass-well, make it impasse-in
his domestic life.
The question became this: Is
you skunk" a term Of endear.
ment?
Rumors were flying thick and
fast through the Newport fog to
the effect that Mary Cleneay
French, the rugged individualist's
estranged wife. who left him re.
Gently, was returning to his humble
one room in a cottage on the
fringe of things. But French be-
lieved she had quit him for good.
CALLED HIM SKUNK
II don't thinks she wants any
part of me-" he said cheerfully.
after all, she called me u
skunk, didn't she? Does that
sound like she likes me?"
The reporter admitted this did
not sound like a pet name. Said
French:
II think she got mad at me
for becoming bankrupt. She has
society ideas, too, poor girl. She
was once in the social register
in Cincinnati"
Despite the multi-million wealth
Of his son-in-law, French recently
entered a bankruptcy plea listing,
among other liabilities, a small
charge from a Chinese laundry.
man,
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DROVE TAXICAB

Cheerfully, he contemplateS writ
ing a volume dealing with activi-
ties in society's uppercrust. Sew
eral years ago he sought to sup
plement his depleted income by
driving a taxicab in New York
City,
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danger Of suffocation were rescued
during January from shallow lakes
In Rice and LeSueur counties, ac-
cording to George Weaver, state
superintendent of fisheries.
Nearly all OF the fish rescued
were crappies, with smaller NUM-
bers of sunfish and bullheads. The
fish were moved from Rice Lake,
Lake Dora, and Mud lake in Rice
county to Hunts lake, Lake Teton
ka, and Horseshoe lake in Rice and
LeSueur counties.
Mr.. Weaver pointed out that res
cue work is also carried on by COM
mercial fishermen. Present rough
fish removal contracts provide that
where there is reason to believe
that game fish will die because of
shallowness of water the contract
tors must transport them without
charge to the state or any body of
water designated by the director of
game and fish.
$1,5OO Paid For Confiscated Furs
Nearly $1,500 was paid by fur
dealers last week for furs confiscat-
ed by the state division of game
and fish.
Included among the pelts were GO
beaver, 48 mink, 227 muskrats, 16
raccoon, "a skunk, 81 wease1s, 20
wolves, and 13 fox. Bidding was re-
ported brisk.
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should 60 on. We have long known
what was needed to stop it. Thirty
years ago the Inland Waterways
Commission painted this same pic
ture, pointed out that every river
is a unit from its source to its
mouth and must be treated as such,
and urged headwater as well as
lower-stream control.
But the engineers denied the ef-
feet of forest and sod on the run
off Of streams, denied the need to
quarantine the floods at the head
waters, and went right on building
hospitals and spillways to
confine the floods after they came.
You know the result.
The fact is that hospitals and
quarantines both are required. The
present flood has certainly shown
that engineering works along the
lower rivers are not enough, even
though $1,000 100000 have been
spent upon them in the last few
years. Quite probably the damage
from this single flood will be as
much as the whole cost of the levee
system since the time when the In
land Waterway ommission point
ed out the only sure method OF
flood control.
No Mystery concerning What
Must Be Done.
There is no mystery about what
is required. We need to stop forest
devastation at the headwaters, and
for that we must control the
logging and the fires. We need to
replant or protect the natural re,
growth on lands better suited to the
forest than the plow.
We need to stop making erosion
worse by plowing uphill and down
hill, and so providing channels tc
carry off the soil. Instead we must
plow in level lines around the
slope, as they have learned to do in
the South.
We need to return many acres
to soil-conserving soil-protect-$$,$xt
to( soil-conserving and soil-protect
ing crops. We need to preven
orevgrazing. We need terraces il
places, and planting for soil pro
lection on bare slopes.
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We need many little dams to
hold back the waters of little
streams. We must control and re-
pair erosion that is already under
way. And we need, Of course, not
only these and other related
measures at the headwaters, but
also the continuance and improve
ment Of levees and other engi-
nering works lower down. We
ought to do the one and stop leav-
ing theother undone.
I repeat that we know what
needs to be done. All that remains
undetermined is the mechanics Of
how to get it done. Just how the
cost and the responsibility shall be
divided between the States and the
Nation is still to be decided. Are
We going to let that stop US?
What then are we actually going
to do about it? The present flood
has put us on notice. Are we 60
ing once more to forget about the
little waters when this gigantic
calamity has passed into history,
and so make sure Of even greater
calamities hereafter? Are we go
ing to leta the rivers keep on wash
ing our future into the sea? when
our soils are gone, we too must
go"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1937-02-11
Out-of-Doors
Downtown NimrOds Organize Club
To Feed Game Birds

To Feed Game Birds
Approximately 1,7O0 members of
the Downtown Outdoor Sportsmen's
Club, recently organized in Mime
apolis, are doing more than their
bit to feed game birds in Minnesota
this winter.
The plan for the club was devel-
oped several weeks ago by Jimmy
Robinson, trapshooting and skeet
editor of Sports Afield and outdoor
editor of the Minneapolis Star.
Members of the club pay an an
nual fee of 81. Funds collected are
used to purchase feed for game
birds. The club cooperates with
game wardens and sportsmen's or
CARNATIONS throughout the state,
sending money for grain to areas
where the need is greatest. Feed
has already been sent to several
game wardens.
The club is growing very rapidly,
according to Mr.. Robinson. AL
though the present membership is
concentrated chiefly in Minneapo-
lis, sportsmen throughout the state
are invited to join the club by con-
tributing the 81 fee.
$4,000 Game Fish Rescued In
January
More than $4,000 game fish in
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Fashions Editor of

take that lovely old lavalier or
chain and locket out of it's hiding
place and wear it to your greater
beauty and fashionable rightness.
1t also means that clips and brooch
es will be better than ever.
Blouses and separate skirts will
be important for spring wear. You
can wear them now under your
winter coat, a little later with your
spring coat and when it is sum-
mer, without amy coat. The skirts
are pastel colored flannels or
smooth woolen fabrics. Some of
them cling to the straight Silhouette
while even more of them fit snug
ly over the hips and flare at the
hemline. Gored skirts will be very
fashionable. You will see a goodly
number of belts just like father
wears, worn with these skirts.
Blouses for this type of costume
are naturally tailored. White is the
favorite for the blouse. A very
smart costume seen last week con-
sisted of a powder blue flannel
flared skirt worn with a tailored
blouse of silk in blue to match the
skirt. The mannish belt was natlIr-
al pigskin leather. The off-the-face
felt hat was beige and could be
worn withaalmost any costume.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1937-02-11
"Babe," His Pal and Helper.
Ate Fifty Bales of Hay
Between Meals

DAUL BUNYAN, mythical giant
i Of the northwest lumber camps
who, according to song and legend,
fused to pick his teeth with a pine
log and fell whole forests with one
stroke Of his mighty arm," has been
translated into reality in the form
Of towering lotion concrete sta
tue at Bemidji, Mimi, according to
an article in the current issue Of
Life magazine, which, published to-
day, describes the feats of the re-
doubtable woodchopper and repro
duces photographs Of the Bemidji
statues honoring not only Paul but
his faithful Blue Ok. the equally his
toric "Babe."
Bunyan, according to legends of
the lumberjacks, lived near Bemidji,
the Life article reveals, and citizens
of the town, staging a winter sports
carnival, erected the huge statue,
moulded in concrete over q steel
frame. The moustache Of the gigan-
tic Paul is solid pine log, and
with the aid of modern technology
the. statue was fitted. with a public
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layer Of mud that is part Of the
stolen wealth of eroded fields.
Do you want to assure yourself
as to how far erosion has gone al
ready? They cross the continent
by air in daylight, as I did, the pic
ture of a great nation not merely
suffering from the results of long
train Of neglect and disaster, but in
danger because it has been too busy
to think even little way ahead.
You will Sc for yourself, If you
have the seing eye, how little wa
ters have washed the better soil
from little elevations in uncounted
fields; how, where the land is roll
ing, great gashes have been cut into
the hillsides; how stream beds are
checked with the sand and the
gravel that remain after the fertile
soil has been carried to the sea.
Immediate Flood Damage Not the
Greater Loss.
The flood damage, vast as it may
be, is not the only loss, nor even
the greater loss. The loss of fertile
soil, carried away from farms and
forests, from mountain slopes and
fertile fields, is the greatest loss of
all, and the most permanent. For
this soil, on which our very life de-
pends, can not be replaced for gen.
erations or for tens of hundreds of
generations, while homes can be re-
built and cities will rise again.
Flof. T. G. Chamberlin estimated
at 10000 years the average time re-
quired to reproduce one foot of the
soil we have wasted so freely. AL
ready, am told, something like a
quarter of it is gone. And as Cham
berlin said: when our soils are
gone, we to must CO."
Unchecked erosion is a clear case
of heads win, tails you lose. The
uplands lose and the lowlands lose
The whole nation loses. What made
the wealth of field and forest soils
higher up turns into destruction
lower down. There is no good in i,
for any man, from the mountains tt
the sea. Everybody loses when the
floods are out.
And there is no possible reasor
why this double-acting calamity
The Sauk Centre herald., 1937-02-11
S P O r T S
BY DICK CULLUM
Sports Editor Of

Sports Editor Q
TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL

eight high school coaches In Min
neapolis are Minnesota graduates.
Somewhere in the school system
there appears to be opposition to
the employment Of Minnesota boys,
but that opposition is gradually be-
ing broken down. Certainly public
sentiment favors the employment
of former Gophers, and certainly
the kind of football they teach is
helpful to any institution that en-
ployes them.
In Minneapolis today there is a
strange union between football
and boxing. 1t is made by Eddie
Hart, Of Princeton, who has been
placed at tackle on every all-time-
all American team ever selected. A
wealthy man he heads a syndi-
cate of New York millionaires or
ganized to develop a new heavy
weight boxing champion of a high
type. Their aim is to purge the box
ing game of racketeering by bring
ing out great fighter, ,whowillalso
be gentleman and sportsman.
They have selected Ralph O'Dell
of Ottumwa, Iowa, a University OF
Southern California football play.
er, marvellous physical speciman
a lad of splendid character and
sound fighting heart. Hart and
O'Dell are in Minneapolis now TAX.
ing a course of training to prepare
him for a fighting career. Although
the youngster has had but two
fights, winning both by knockouts
he has impressed expert observers
as one of the finest prospects even
to step into a ring.
He stands six feet, two inches
weighs 205 pounds, carries a terrif
ic punch and flaming courage anG
ambition. He has been in training
, for a year. 1t has already cost tn,
syndicate $4,000 in expenses ant
he has earned $500 in purses; bu
at this stage of his tr'aining, incom,
is no object. His hackers want t,
give him a high polish and complet
mastery of the boxing technique
before sending him into big fights
It may be two or three years befor
he is permitted to engage in a figh
important enough to command {
siZeable purse.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1937-02-11

Minneapolis, Mimi, Fef. 8.-Min-
neSota football remains in the head
lines. The following figures out Of
present or past Minnesota football
were recently in the news:
Pat Boland: Moved from little
Miani University in Florida to big
Iowa University to serve as line
coach under LrH Tubbs.
Clark Shaughnessy: Announced
he would remain as head coach at
the University of Chicago and that
Chicago would remain in the Big
Ten. Also announced the virtual
abandonment of spring practice.
Bud Wilkinson: Accepted APP
pointment as backfield coach under
Ossie Solem at the University OF
Syracuse.
Bud Svendsen: Considered an Of
fer from Syracuse and another from
the Phoenix, Arizona high school
which offers an unusually high sal
ary. Also considered joining the
University of Minnesota staff.
Ossie Solem: Met his Syracuse
squad, promised to make it inter
esting next fall for Colgate which
is Syracuse's bitterest rival, ad-
vanced plans for spring practice.
Clarence Mum: Resigned as ath-
letic director and head coach al
Albright College in Pennsylvania
and accepted appointment as line
coach at Syracuse.
Bernie Bierman: Called his fresh
men and reserves out for light
practice in the field house. Appear
ing on a national broadcast with
Rudy Valee, ne said prospects fol
1887 were satisfactory but did
not believe the freshmen squad was
quite as strong as past freshmen
squads.
These men have been making
most of the football news Of the
winter. Solem finished his football
career at Minnesota in 1912
Shaughnessy in 1918, Bierman ir
1915, Mum and Boland in 1881
Wilkinson and Svendsen in 1886.
There are now over 200 former
football players from Minnesota
active in the coaching profession
and most of them are doing well
Strange to relate, only two of the
The Sauk Centre herald., 1937-02-11
Ta4&ion4
By MARJORIE ELLIS McCRADY
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL


Minneapolis, Feb. S.-The coron-
alton May IL in England will be the
big fashion event of the season so
it is only natural to wonder about
the coronation trends that will in
fluence practically all apparel and
accessory fashions.
Strangely enough the Duke of
Kent considered England's best
dressed man and certainly a person
more interested in clothes than tine
King), will influence our spring
wardrobe. Feminine versions of his
beautifully tailored suits will be the
tops for us. Likewise, do designers
look to the Duke for inspiration for
tailored shirtwaists, ascot scarfs
and one button gloves.
Coronation colors will be high
fashion, including scarlet, royal
purple, gold, forest green and Eng
lish lavender. Regimental stripes
reminding one of flags, the English
coat of arms, etc., will be in favor.
Printed fabrics will show corona
ton motifs in crowns, thistles,
English roses and so forth.
A fashion word you will hear Of
ten is Dirndl pronounced deerndiD.
It is German word and refers to
the very full over aprons Of peasant
costumes. We use it in today's fa-
shions vocabulary to denote the
peasant styles of very full skirts
shirred at the waistline and worn
with tight or shirred blouses. The
fashion is simple and different. 1t
makes the waistline look small and
the weaIer young and almost child
like.
The high necklines are decidedly
coming down. This means you can
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address system, so that 1t an
nounced the winter carnival events
in a booming Paul Bunyan voice.
The saga of Paul Bunyan is that
Of a lumberjack Of the early days
who performed feats Of incredible
strength and valors The stories al
ways described him as accompanied
by his blue OK, "Babe," an animal
which. measured seven axe handles
between the eyes" and was so big
and hungry that "it ate 80 bales of
hay between meals and required six
men to pick the bale wire from its
cud." It was with Babes help, Life
reports, that Bunyan is reputed to
have cleared both Dakotas Of tim.
Der in one summer"
Another Of the famous Paul Bun.
yam stories recounts "the winter Of
the blue snow" when the giant
lived near Bemidjf during such In.
tense cold that words he spoke froZe
as they came from his mouth,
"thawing out the next Fourth Of
July with a great din."
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PAGE SEVEN

and Elmo Matthiesen and Glenn
Uphus spent Sunday evening at
the Anton Bentfield home.
Miss Arvilla Uphus is spending
couple weeks visiting Miss Isa-
dore Scanlon in Sauk Centre.
Miss Millie Bentfield spent last
week visiting relatives and friends
in St Paul.
Miss Marie Matthiesen was an
overnight guest of Miss Isadore
Scanlon Tuesday night.
Miss Martha Minette spent Sun
day at the Albert Marthaler home.
Miss Arvilla Uphus was dinner
guest of Mrs. AL Liebel Friday.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1937-02-11

Miss Marie Matthiesen is spend
ing several days visiting her friend,
Miss Marion Myers, at Willard.
Miss Martha Minette spent the
week end with relatives and friends
in st. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marthaler
and sons, Vernon and James, Mr..
and Mrs. Nick Marthaler, Russell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-28

recalls great celebration Washing
ton City staged just so years ago
when the town reached the proper
tons Of a metropolis with a popula-
ton Of 100000.
That was the time when young
Charlie Bush-fresh from the farm
took up railroading as a career and
became brakeman. Since he had
little schooling, he could not spell
brakeman. So when they told him
to break car he did just that. One
day he uncoupled a car and let it
loose down hill. 1t ran into a lime
shed. The boss said: If you call
breaking up cars 'braking,' you're
good at it."
Strange as it may seem, that was
about the first and last accident this
engineer-to-be had. In IS years ir
the cabs of the highest powered loco.
motives his pride is. that not a pas
senger was ever killed behind him
He had accidents, yes. They were
on freight trains when he was getting
his start. but he never had a major
accident.
That is why Charlie Bush, when
he steps down from the cab tomorrow
night at Union Station, will be hailed
as one Of the greatest engineers that
ever drove locomotives over the roads
and he gets a pass to ride any
where over the system for life.
First place Mr. Bush intends to 20
after his long stretch of riding the
rails is to a little farm in North
Carolina, down near Chowan County
where he was born.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-28
BANKS RECEIVER
PREPARED TO PAY
Closed Seventh Street Saw.
ings to Start Distribution
December s.

The recently authorized dividend Of
10 per cent will be paid to depositors
Of the closed Seventh Street Savings
Bank beginning Monday, December 8,
it was announced last night by Justus
S. Wardell, receiver of the institution.
Checks will be made available to
depositors at the old bank location on
Seventh street, now occupied by a
branch of the Hamilton National
Bank, Mr.. Wardell explained, but they
will not be available at the ONCE of
the receiver. 1906 G street NV.
Post cards will be sent by the re-
ceiver to all ISIS depositors of the
Seventh Street Savings Bank, notify
ing them what day to call at the insti-
tuition for their checks. The payment
totals sl,059,200 and brings the total
dividends from this bank up to 80
per cent.
Checks have all been written for the
dividend Of 20 per cent to be paid 800
depositors of the Washington Savings
Bank, which will bring their dividends
up to 100 per cent. But it had not been
decided last night when the receiver
would be ready to deliver these checks
to depositors. The dividend amounts
to $350,0O0.
Checks are being written for the
10 per cent dividend to 8,704 depositors
of the District National Bank, amount
ing to a total of s3,868, 500. Receiver
Wardell will notify these depositors
when to call for their money.
In announcing the authorizat ton for
three dividends in these three banks,
Controller of the Currency j. F. r.
OConnor requested that "depositors of
the banks involved not communicate
with the receiver by phone or other
wise, concerning the distribution of
dividends, as such communications will
only serve to delay preparations for
payment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-28

explained. 1.-THE white pupils just
didn't seem to take to that kind Of
work." :..:
Later on, Mrs. Steele hopes to have
two more housekeeping units in swing.
Meanwhile, however, she Is pushing
plans for "a new and different form
of housekeeping aid" The idea, a. she
outlined it, Is this:
When the mother Of . family on
relief becomes i'll, everything Is likely
to 60 to pot. We propose to kill two
birds with one store, 20 to speak, by
engaging other women who are on re-
lief to 60 to such homes and take over
the housework- cooking, cleaning,
everything that ordinarily would be
done by the mother.
Thus, you see, We would be render
ing an important service to the Ill
woman and her family. and at thu same
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-28
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
DEDICATION TODAY
Model Settlement to Be
Opened at S Pm. at 619
D Street Sc.

The new quarters of Friendship
House, model settlement recon-
structed from the Briggs Mansion,
will be dedicated at S pm. today at
619 D street Sc. This will open a
week of special ceremonies and festiv-
tiles to acquaint Washington with the
model settlement
At the dedication today the speak
ers will include the Rev. o. F. Black
welder Of the United Lutheran Ref
ormation Church, the Rev. Ulysses
G. B. Pierce of the Unitarian Church,
the Rev. Francis Sullivan of st. Peters
Church, Louis Gutenberg and Miss
Lydia Burklin, head resident of
Friendship House
The new quarters were made posi-
bic by special gift Of an anonymous
frieEd. Community Chest gifts will
pay the operating costs of the new
house, as they did Of the old one at
1923 Virginia avenue Sc.
There will be home coming pro-
gram Monday afternoon from to 5
O'Clock, when guest OF honor will be
Mrs. Helen Luckett. president of the
Friendship House Mothers Club.
An opening tea for representatives
Of all mems and womens service
clubs will be held on Tuesday AFTER
noon. when Girl Reserves dressed in
authentic peasant costumes will give
a series Of folk dances. The house will
be open for inspection by club mem
beers from 8 am. to 9 pm.
On Wednesday the board members
of the settlement will give a dinner
for volunteers and friends. Follow
ing the dinner the settlement young
people will give play, Seven Old
Ladies of Lavender Town." and an
operetta, 1.-THE Lad Of Stratford."
Thursday will be neighbors' evening
for all persons living within one block
of the new Friendship House. On
Friday afternoon all members of par
ent-teacher associations living in the
Southeast will be invited to visit the
house and learn of the services avail
able to all children ir this section.
A dance, the first in many years in the
historic ballroom of the house, will
be held for all young people in the
neighborhood Friday night.
A children's party will be given
Saturday afternoon, at which Mrs.
Waldo Emerson Fawcett, volunteer
worker, will entertain the children
with her marionettes.
Regular settlement clubs and &C
tivities have continued throughout
the period of moving into the new
location, Miss Burklin reported, but
now that the moving has been COM
pleted these activities will be ex-
banded as rapidly as possible.