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Evening star., 1938-12-26

1900
pennsylvania 1t Kennedys parties
the President had his first real talk with Thomas
although Missy Leland had
for the President at the White
The truth s the President observed
House while Washington Chief
always dine at his table Undecretary State Sumner
Weles has had him at Hill accepted invitations
from suggested himself other ubordnates But Harold
1ckes Headwaers Farm, Olney the first
since Mr. Kennedys Marwood President has gone
with regularity.
The doughty Secretary
Portable with big bookned living which chairs
grouped around huge fireplace The place with its ITO
White House Mrs Ick is charming hostess and probably
most ardent New Dealer in the Ickes himself
from mlcrophone salty but phosophc take with
good stories And the President likes
Farm for evening before the fire Sometimes
sastake poker Sometimes there general conversation
Among the usual Frank Walker New Deal fat
and Roosevelt Col PA" Watson military
and anecdost almost with the late
Harry Hopkins closest of Roosevelt Ickes enemy
but ally Whoever is asked, the small intimate
AS happens gathering the President
going the other evening" the
wanted small talk cards solemn discussion the
of Mr. Ickes' anti NaN outbursts
The Presidents liking for Mr. Ickes house is only
indication of the
administration far from
President Is only fond of Mr. Ickes; he finds him useful
And IT the German instant
the ckes attacks Nazm his of being
useful they sadly mistaken Icke likes nothing
more than giving vent to good tearing fit of thoroughly
he will be approved by the President only
More elbow
The Cleveland speech causing trouble
OF series OF similar 1ck blasts From the start the ckes
Evening star., 1938-12-26
The Night After Christmas
BY John Jay DAILY

Twas the night after Christmas, the children abed-
The living room looked like junk-deale shed;
The train was agog-gog half off of the track
doll baby, armless, lay fiat on its back;
An elephant sat with hole in his side
And the drum had slit in its head, long and wide
The cavalry troop, horses, riders and all,
Were pitched on their faces-a terrible fall.
The dump truck was dumped with its load the floor
And the headlights burned out to be lit never more.
The whiskers were pulled from the cat and the dog
Was bespattered with candy-and was the frog;
The airplane had crashed with its to the wall,
And the bugle quite dented, was past all recall;
The bus and the tractor the donkeys hee-haw,
Had all been demolished by hammer and saw.
The Christmas tree stood in the corner, like stone
And lighted the wreckage, forlorn and alone;
Poor mother, with poultices placed on her head
Fell asleep on chair before going to bed,
And father, for playing from morning till night
Was paying the penalty serving him right.
The house was in havoc, the servants were gone
With no one to clear up the debris till morn;
And this Is the picture as I understand,
OF the night after Christmas all over the land
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-26

| merce. AS far as this observer is
concerned, any talk of Harry Hop
kins or anybody else for the next
Democratic nomination must be ac-
companied by big "if." That is to
say, it is the conviction of this COL
umn that the White House incum-
bent is, and for the indefinite future
intends to remain, in third-term
mood. F.. D. R. may take time by
the forelock to dispose of his state
papers and literary estate before
January, 1941, and indulge in var
ious n-committal activities, ver-
bal and otherwise, suggesting a de
sire" to lay down the burdens of
Office. But until he becomes as cat
egorical as William TecumSeh Sher-
man did on a celebrated occasion
II will not accept if nominated, or
serve if elected" it is my judgment
that the President will continue to
be open to persuasion that the pres
ervation Of the New Deal requires
four more years of Roosevelt.
There's some expectation he may get
down to cases on the third-term
business in his Jackson Day speech
couple of weeks hence.
Should Mr. Hopkins promotion
to the cabinet be followed by the
appointment of Gov. Frank Murphy
to either the Attorney General
ship, the Secretaryship of War or
the Secretaryship Of Labor, to say
nothing of the Michigander's ap-
pointment to the Supreme Court,
business will be in state of high
dungeon. Resentment of a social
worker in the commercial portfolio
of the Presidents cabinet is bitter
enough. But to invite into the
administration or onto the high
court bench the man who incurred
the venomous hostility of the busi-
ness world, because of his attitude
during the Michigan sit-down
strikes, would be heaping the cup
to overfowing. Rightly or wrongly,
capital and industry held that Gov.
Murphy was in unholy alliance with
the c. I. O., and therefore an alder
nAio dUCICOl VI lUS tdCIlCS UuIulS lIl6
upheaval in the motor trade. Should
Murphys name be sent to the Sem
ate for confirmation in any ca
pacity. therell rage around his head
of red as fierce a storm as is now
brewing with respect to Harry
Hopkins.
AS soon as the Nazi government at
Berlin begins dickering with George
Rublee, the United States repre-
sentative on the nter-governmenta
Committee on refugees, Hitler and
his henchmen will find themselves
doing business with one of the lit
orally biggest Americans they've
ever SEEN Rublee is easily 6 feet
4 inches in height, with shoulders
and torso that 60 with it. He has a
distinguished public service record
member of the Federal Trade Com
mission in 19l5-1916, member of
President Wilson'S commission on
the Adamson eight-hour law, war
time special counsel for the Treas
Evening star., 1938-12-26
.HeudIineF Folk
And What
They Do
His Name Isn't News
But He Represents
Passing Era
BY LEMUEL F.PARTON.

This Is a Christmas story about
a man OF good will. Walter Sim
mons, proprietor of one of the last
grocery stores of the A. B. Frost
pictorial rendering, is shutting up
shop and going to live with his son
on farm in New Jersey. Mr.. SIM
mons and his grocery would rate a
story any day. They are especially
appropriate at Yuletide, for they are
IN ana OF an era which survives
mostly on picture cards.
The bell-bottomed stove In the
grocery bears the date 1870. which
is about Mr.. Simmons date. too.
For many, many years, Mr.. Sim
mons has rendered kindly, patient
service to his community, not only
as merchant, but as one who meets
emergencies. If you were detained
IN town and the pipes were going
TO freeze If the furnace wasn't fed.
or II the hot-Water heater had been
left on and the house was going to
blow up, or if you forgot to feed
the cat, Mr.. Simmons was the man
10 pry open the cellar window and
attend to everything.
In a world gone quite generally
cock-a-hoop, Mr.. Simmons store
has been a quiet eddy of tolerance.
Shocking headlines in the news
papers, which he handles, some
times provoke an argument, but, if
Slmmy" joins in, he is always sure
that everything will come out all
right; that things aren't as bad as
they seem.
Town Is Crossroads.
A momentary depression is neces.
sary to put Mr.. Simmons in his
setting.
Our Town"-quotation by Thorn
ton Wilder-is quite literally a
crossroads. The old dirt road north
and south has become great roar
ing highway: The transverse road
is about as it was when George
Washington used to traverse it when
he lived at the De Wint House, 2
miles west, during the trial of
Andre at Tappan. That, incident
ally, was in 1870, when the American
forces were losing. Two years later.
we had won and Washington gave
a grand dinner in the De Wint
House to Sir Guy Carleton, British
commander in chief, with whom he
arranged for the evacuation of
American troops. The De Wint
House, built in 100, is unchanged.
In front of Mr.. Simmons grocery
at the road intersection we have
probably the tallest wooden flagpole
anywhere, set up in 1865, as a mon
ument to the salvation of the Ma
ton.
Chains Brought Near.
We are several miles from the
railroad, but automobiles have
! brought the chain stores near. Even
if he hadn't been so intent on Civ
ing himself the short end of every
thing, Mr.. Simmons probably would
have been sunk, just the same, al
though it is primarily bad debts
which have caused all his trouble.
There are many illustrious citizens
of the headline type usually chron-
icled in this corner who spend the
summer months off and on in the
old houses in our pre-Revolutionary
village. Some of these have re-
garded Mr.. Simmons as quaint" :"
in keeping with the old village, and
have consistently rocked, trimmed
and gouged him.
Our town likes to play itself down,
but for the sake of the record 1t is
Palisades, Rockland County, N. Y
(Copyrignt, 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-26
| |AnpIone Ride
| Arranged for
| Tired Bird
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 26.-Here's
good news for tired migratory
birds:
The Erie County S. P. c. A. ar
ranged for an airliner to take along
a young robin that flew exhausted
into Buffalo window. The bird is
en- route to Dallas, where is will be
released.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Driver Speeds to Find
Quarter for Cos Meter

By the Associated Press.
HOLLAND, Mich, Dec. 60
'Where's the flre?" demanded
Police Officer Jay Dalman yester-
day of speeding motorist.
Halted at the curb, the motorist
replied:
1--WE have a quarter meter on our
gas stove and we ran out of change
right in the middle of cooking
Christmas dinner. My wife's trying
to keep the dinner hot while 1
drive downtown and get quarter" +"
Ofncer Dalman gallantly waved
him on.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
White Lead Firm Head
Dies in Florida
By the Associated Press.

zxocOGIuVcO
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 26.-Merrick
Arthur Richardson, 81, president OF
the Inland White Lead Co. Of Chi
cago, died yesterday after a brief
illness.
He came here a month ago from
his River Forest, ILL.,, home to spend
the winter The widow and two sons
survive. Burial will take place in
Woodlawn Park Cemetery. Miami
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Frank N. Hoffstot Dies:
Headed Car Componv
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Frank N,
Hoffstot. II, once president and later
receiver of the Pressed Steel Car
Co., died yesterday. He had been
in poor health since his retirement
in 1884.
A native of Pittsburgh, he held
important posts in the car company
for 80 years, being president from
1908 until 1888. At his death, he
was a director of the New York
Trust Co.
He is survived by his widow; a
daughter and two sons, Henry P
Hoffstot of Pittsburgh and John G
Hoffstot of Greensburg, Pa.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

lin D. Roose-
velt's preference
candidate for
the 1910 Demo-
cratic presiden-
tial nomination.
Politicians of all
h u e S S e e m
agreed that no
other interpre-
tation is to be
placed upon the
Presidents ele-
vation of the
worlds cham
pion spender to
the Secretary
shin of Com.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Women Push
Peace Plans
At Lima
Lotin Diplomats Fail
To Understand
Lobbyists

Former United States Senator
Henry J. Allen of Kansas, er-
perienced newspaper and maga-
zine correspondent, is 1Driting q
series OF background articles on
the Pan = American Conference
for The Star. He is publisher OF
the Topeka State Journal.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

has have them stopped appeals
the President has been highly
e should submitted advance censorship
all avail
only possible finds
say things
to but do himself
antFac feeling at the White House and the Presidents
personal inimaeS all Ickes
Copyright,
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Harry Myers, Veteran
Film Comedian, Dies
BY the Associated Press,

BY the ASsoclated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Dec. 26.-
Harry Myers, Sc, veteran film COM
edian who rose to prominence in
silent pictures, died yesterday of
pneumonia. He had been Ill three
days.
Both Mr.. Myers and his widow,
Rosemary Theby, were among the
screens early players. The actor
was best known for his portrayal
in the star role of "A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
Evening star., 1938-12-26

and that Of man about town in
Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights"
He had smaller parts in "Missis-
sippi," a Bing Crosby feature, and
Hollywood Boulevard" and recent
ly had been appearing as a dress
extra.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

greSS. These are
all American
women and they
do not under
stand the Latin
statesman very
well. They but
tonhole hi m,
talk to him in
bad Spanish and
wonder why he
Is not more re-
sponsive. One of
them called on
the President of
a republic and
asked him when
l;o ro~
Evening star., 1938-12-26
277,000 Attend Lectures

Over 1000 lectures, delivered on
political, scientific, literary and anti
religious subjects in Donets Basin
Of Russia were attended by 1900
miners and members of their fam
lilies, according to Moscow reports.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
The Capital Parade
lckes' Speeches Believed to Reflect
Views of President

BY JOSEPH ALSOP AND ROBERT KNTNER.
The President prefers his hosts be rough takers
Kennedy Harold 1ckes have little In
nation to upurous language Yet the house
been the Presidents avorite place evening
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Washington Observations
Observer Believes Roos,
Is in Third-Term Mood
BY FREDERIC

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
When the Senate sharpshooters
turn their muskets on Harry L.
Hopkins 10 days or a fortnight
hence, they'll be aiming at Frank
Evening star., 1938-12-26

early III tne New Deal, When
citizens to starve for lack OF
honest work, these homesteads
were established, mainly for the
benefit of stranded coal miners.
The projects did not contain
enough farmland to make the
settlers agriculturally independ-
ent and 1t was proposed to find
industrial employment for them.
At Arthurdale, w. Va, q vacuum
cleaner factory under General
Electric MANAGEMENT was all
Evening star., 1938-12-26

THE opinions OF the ,oriters page are their o0n not
,s necessarily a TIE Stars Such opinions presented
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

dUVClIUC1co III lIIC IIcIu Ul 1UIclBI
policy have driven the State De-
partment to the brink of dis
traction. His refusal to release
helium for export to Germany,
for example, so irritated Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull that,
when Mr.. Ickes returned from
his honeymoon last spring, Mr..
Hull would not congratulate him
at q cabinet meeting. AS for the
IckeS speeches. the department
Evening star., 1938-12-26

ton away from the White House.
In the old days, before Joe
Kennedy got an ambassadorship
and lost his White House stand
ing, his big house on the Potomac
was often honored. The Presi-
dent, would slip out to Mar
wood, as the place was called.
Mr.. Kennedy would get together
party of truStable cronies. And
for a couple of hours the Presi-
dent would forget that there
Evening star., 1938-12-26
By HENRY ], ALLEN,

LIMA.-The Latin diplomats do
not comprehend the women's lobby
which is numerously represented
here at the Pan-American Con-
Evening star., 1938-12-26
We, the People
EIIiott's Ruling on Cooperative
Looms Called Reversal of Policy
Ry lay FRANKLIN.

wish to understand the reorganization bills
abolish the Controller decision
ruling that Security
subsistence homesteads
Evening star., 1938-12-26

thorzed by John r. MCar then Controller
Elliott the acting Controller General
factory and pants factory certain
garment factory was allowed at Hghtstown,
With this established background
Farm Security officials negotiations Arthur Paul of
the Dexdae Hosiery Mills at Landale
TO expand his factory and looking capital Security
needed to provide economic living
sence homeeads located in various parts southern
highlands Otherwise the to their
investment IN economic rehabilitation
to make that there would
was loaned under the authority of the to five
co-operatives organized projects The
money has been paid binding
and the factories being
At this point Mr. Elliott
1 factories are unauthorized by law that they
WIN private industry and that they will
competition with cotton the chief agricultural the
His argument for egay opinion that
the Re Act OF 1888
ALLEGATION by the Secretary Of Agriculture
henry A. wallace could make the
ed though otherwise the language
which ne and Mr. McCarl had held
industry made in the face industry involved
expanding Mr. Eotts competition is valid It
amounts to don't the
For 1t is impossible which the
could engage which would
on and thus compete with another
AS for competition with cotton" Elliott is not an
East in exchange for silk and that expansion of the silk
industry will help the cotton
amount competition between
stockings is so slight as to be negligible.
SO the Farm Security people that Elot's
decision not possessed OF magical qualities recall
Evening star., 1938-12-26

money already loaned as author
lied by law, that it lacks the
power to violate the, validity of
contracts guaranteed by the Con-
stitution, and that it will not of
itself reverse the economics of
our cotton-silk trade with the
Far East. Instead, they believe
that he will see the force of their
arguments and will content him.
self with the partisan backfire
that his utterances may build I'D
Evening star., 1938-12-26

in Congress head off highly political
Office
In this very fact the New Dealers the strongest
ment purg1ng
Government out OF already and
balances.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

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Evening star., 1938-09-18
Japan Hides War Pfivati;0ns
But True Picture Gradually Reveals Itself.
By Clark Lee.
Correspondence of the Associated Press,

Since the danger Of a general war grow
ing out of the Changkufeng border Incl
dent has passed, Tight control" restrictions
which turned out three-fourths of the lights
in Toxic each night have been removed.
An ominous reminder that the long
range Russian bombers are only 600 miles
away at Vladivostok is given, however, in
the warning that light control and practice
"blackout" may be resumed at any time
Black curtains hanging in Office and
store windows constantly call to mind
Tokio's greatest fear-a Soviet air attack.
A search for night life leads very soon
to the conclusion that Toxic is good place
dancing allowed, even in private homes, ex-
cept in taxi" dance halls and the patrons
there are required to sign register, giving
their names, occupations and reasons for
seeking diversion.
Most foreign motion pictures have been
banned, including American, and the Ger
man and Italian films are equally unattrac-
tive to japanese and foreigners.
Radios Limited to Two Tubes.
In only one restaurant is there music,
and it is supplied by nondescript string
sextet. It is against the law to have
radio set with more than two tubes, so the
American cannot hope to listen to his home
land by short wave. :.
Deprived Of his normal nighttime
amusements, the average Toxic citizen re-
lakes in the evening by walking on the
Gina, the city's Broadway. When Eight
control" Is not in effect, he can enjoy the
window displays and purchase for his chill
dren some Of the new war toys sold at the
stands lining the sidewalks.
Newspapers tell very little Of the progress
Of the war In China-except when the
japanese score decisive victory-but they
are full of stories of the arrests OF pronteers
and violators Of price-control regulations,
and Of the governments program for
strengthening the spiritual fiber" Of the
nation.
Every moment of his daily life, every
thing he wears, eats and uses is affected
by the wartime restrictions, his private
words are closely checked on by secret
agents, yet the average japanese shows no
sign Of discomfort with his situation or the
policies Of his military-controlled govern
ment.
Evening star., 1938-09-18

1OKIO.-Japan hides from the first
curious glances of a newcomer the
sacrifices, restrictions and hard
ships through which each of the
nations 100000 citizens at home is
doing his share to provide fuel for the
war machine smashing up the Yangtze
toward Hankow.
Outwardly, at first, Toxic gives few signs
of being the capital of a nation engaged
with one hand in a desperate struggle on
the Asiatic Continent and preparing with
the other for a war with Russia which
most japanese feel Is inevitable
To the traveller who expects to find q
spy behind his shower curtain and die
taphone under his coffee cup wartime
Toxic will prove a disappointment, for
the city appears normal metropolis at
first
Only occasionally is soldier seen on
the streets. The departures for the front
are arranged late at night, and the city is
still asleep in the early morning when the
ashes Of the soldier dead are brought
back for enshrinement.
1t becomes apparent only gradually that
although there are no actual signs of
warfare, no screams of air raid sirens or
roar of cannon, Japan is fighting the war
with China no less at home than on the
battlef1elds Of the Yangtze
Few Young Men on Street.
The comparatively small number Of
young men on the streets tells the story
Of thousands Of the nations youth dying
to "pacify" China, and that other hordes
of khaki-clad youngsters are being massed
In Manchukuo and Korea in preparation
for the day when Russia and Japan again
test their strength in a struggle for
mastery Of the Orient.
The automobile seems to have been re-
placed by the bicycle as the principal
means of transport for the capitals 6,000,-
000.people- result Of restrictions on the
consumption Of fuel. Few private automo-
biles are in circulation because the fuel
rationing system allows only 2 gallons of
gasoline day, and taxis are forbidden to
cruise because Of limited supplies.
The bare skeletons Of steel girders tell
Of building operations intermittently halted
by the lack OF materials. Concrete which
was formerly Used for buildings Is being
sent to the Asiatic continent to build run
ways for bombing and fighting planes, steel
= needed for tanks; railroads and bullets.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Twenty Minutes With the President
Artist Finds His Charm Irresistible and DANGEROUS

fThis article by a famous artist and
author is the prize -,ptnning paper,
hitherto unpublished, in the eleventh
annual contest OF the International
Mark TUdin Society on presidents of
the United States Haze Seen, Heard
Speak, or Met" Personal accounts of
all the Presidents from Abraham Lin
coin on ,oere submitted. Stephen Led
cock, the noted humorist, ,Das chairman
OF the judges)
Evening star., 1938-09-18

magnetism is dangerous. All power is
dangerous-in man. Unless he is inspired
by the gods that be. Is Roosevelt? I
don't know. Neither do you
But I do know that have met many
men-but Franklin Roosevelt stands out
and to hell with politics-wat a minute
Evening star., 1938-09-18

I'll tell you in a word-1 couldn't sit with
him without smiling at him with affection! |!
And-he said:
Il couldn't 90 on with this Job If I
didn't have a sense Of humorl"
Copyright 1898. by the North American News
paper Alliance. Inc)
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
Still Coughing?

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your common
cough, chest cold, or bronchial irri-
tation, you may get relief now with
CreomulSion. Serious trouble may
be brewing and you cannot afford
to take a chance with any remedy
less potent than CreomulSion, which
goes right to the seat of the trouble
and aids nature to soothe and heal
the inf1amed mucous membranes
and to loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm.
Even if other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomul-
sion. Your druggist Is authorized to
refund your money if you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene-
fits obtained. CreomulSion is one
word, ask for it plainly, see that the
name on the bottle Is Creomulsion,
and you'll get the genuine product
and the relief you want. (Adv0
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08
How Women
i'm Their 4O'S
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for woman during her
change usually from 38 to 52), who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, hrs. sleep and II you
need good general system tonic take LYDIA
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
especially for s0omen. 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
iittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-08

Control of Self
The secret of satisfaction in life
is self-control.- Frank Crane.