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stems hand. Einstein counted it, too, and
told the conductor that he was wrong. Then
they both counted it, and the conductor was
right.
The conductor looked at him pityingly
The trouble with you" he said, lis that
you don't know much about figures
He does other strange things, too. Before
her death. Elsa Einstein told this: Once, as he
was reading. the mail was brought. and in it
was check for $l,2OO. He was absorbed in
the book he was reading, and when he finished
he absent -mindedly put the check in as a
book-mark. In few days the book was lost.
He thought of writing to have them forward
him another check. but could not remember
the name of the company. A bit later some
other correspondence came in and Frau Elm
stein found the company which had sent the
check. She wrote and everything was happily
Strengthened out. The company was the
Rockefeller Foundation. Frau Einstein took
this check straight to the bank.
One evening in California, Frau and Pro-
fessor Eiqstein were invited to a party where
many evening suits were moving about One
of the guests, knowing that Eistein played
the violin, brought an instrument and asked
him to play.
Einstein could not resist; he played num-
Der and the self-centeredness with which he
enters into everything he does laid hold of
him and he pulled off his coat.
This was unfortunate, for his shirtsleeves
had been cut off at the elbow, and one of
them was distinctly frayed. It shocked the
good people.
Meantime Einstein, who didn't know he
had lost the battle, played on.
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4 SHORT COURSE
m CHAR0L0GY

l'HE next time you can't get seat in bus
or street car remember that for many Gen.
turies the chair was the exclusive emblem of
power and of state; it was intended for and
used only by kings and high dignitaries. To
this day it remains the symbol of authority,
for at meetings that are conducted according
10 formal rules we still address the chair"
Previous to the sixteenth century, benches,
stools and chests were the seats of the CON-
mon people The Renaissance, however,
brought the chair into more general use and
thereafter it reflected the modes and trends
of the periods.
In the time of billowing petticoats and full
some robes the chair took on broad proper
tions to accommodate these romantic FASH
ions. During the eighteenth century and the
early part of the nineteenth the ''oonversa-
ton chair" enjoyed much favor with the
gentlemen This narrow, armless chair per-
mitted the dandy to sit astride with his face
to the back of the chair, his precious coat
tails hanging unimpeded over the front.
"A. R. ARMSTRONG
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bY HOMER CR0Y

critics do not rank him as the greatest of
our generals.
III tell you about man who has no ability
to win the skirmishes of day-by- day life. As a
boy he was considered stupid; there was some
doubt that his brain was all it should be. This
was augmented by the fact that he was a
little slow of speech, and had difficulty in say
ing exactly what he meant.
He wanted to be schoolteacher and made
three efforts, but each time he lost his job.
At last, through the ministrations of a friend.
he got job in patent Office where he did
routine work ). but it came out all right,
for the young man was Albert Einstein. He
and his fellow employees were forbidden to
do any outside work during Office hours &.
this turned out all right, too. for now and
then he put down on pieces of paper what
seemed to be casual figures and stuffed the
notes into his pocket. Three years went by:
then he wrote on three sheets of ordinary
letter-size paper the ideas that had been
running through his mind. This also turned
out all right - at least no one has been able
to tell him he wasted his time, for this was
the all-important Relatively Theory.
Friends have to keep an eagle watch on
Einstein. for almost anyone can impose on
him. Other people are 50 much smarter; al
most any promoter. who can get to him. can
sell him anything Also he is handicapped by
thinking that most people mean we'll by him.
Once man who had discovered" perpetual
motion wormed his way in and took up two
hours explaining why it would work.
One time he got On street car in Berlin
and gave the conductor a large coin. The
conductor counted the change back into Elm
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PIXu.ATED PROVERBS

THE following proverbs are quite familiar to
you, if you can find your way through the
dense overgrowth of verbiage:
l. A sup9abundance of culinary experts
causes impairment of the liquid in which
meat. and often barley, rice, vegetables, or
the like. have been gently boiled.
2. Embark upon matrimony precipitately
and suffer compnction during period Of
unengaged time.
3. Do not estimate your total offspring of
gallinaceous fowl prior to their incubation.
4. A latrant canine never seizes with hil
teeth so as to pinch, crush, cut. rend or
lacerate.
5. Every collection of visible vapor sus-
pended in the air at considerable altitude
above the earth has an argent stratifcation.
If any of these stump you, look on page Is.
-OAND S&1UlMAN
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SEEING Is DECEIVNG

GAZE at this staircase for while and you will
discover that it has two strangely different
appearances. At first sight it may look like
normal stairway running up and down like
any other stairway. Then suddenly the posi-
ton will be reversed and the stairs will be up
side down. A moment later they may be right
side up again. And so on.
This illusion is said to be caused by fluctua-
tion of attention. Apparently the eye, like the
mind, is somewhat emotional. It refuses to see
anything in an eternal way. 1t is moody and
will take one attitude and then another. And
it will do this despite the most stubborn con-
centration to prevent it.
Try the following experiment. Look at the
staircase and try to keep it right side up. And
when it Unexpectedly reverses itself, try to
pull it back. The superman doesn't live
who can master a situation like this.
Perhaps you have noted this same peculiar
habit of the eye in gazing at tile floor and
seeing various patterns of squares and dia-
monds, one changing into another for no good
reason. Perhaps you have gazed at the moon
and seen it alternately as a round globe and a
fiat disk
These are entirely normal experiences and
a constant reminder that your vision is as
temperamental as you are and equally given
to fights of inconsistency.
-FAseR B,ReEN
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HAVE among my acQualntanceS man who
moves with mighty step in world know
. little about - the world of business. He is
what is called a big business man, and when
his name is spoken it is spoken with respect:
sometimes it IS even pronounced with awe.
When he talks business it is in terms that
set my head a bit awhirl, for he deals not only
with the immediate matter of money, but in
trends and movements and world markets.
When his company has deal in Europe that
it wishes to place in safe hands, he is the one
who is chosen to go; there he meets important
people and they wrestle with important
problems.
In his Office his word is law, he rules with
an iron hand, and his employees lower their
voices little when they speak to him.
In his home he is different man. He is
always losing the little battles: his wishes are
the last to be considered; his wife and children
dominate him. am told that at his clubs he
is the one who is imposed on, the one who gets
the worst of it in committee meeting, the
one who is pushed around by the crowd in the
locker room.
These are small matters to him; his ego gets
its satisfaction at the office 50 that he doesn't
have to carry it home and force it on someone
else. He has the ability to distinguish between
the important and the trivial; he loses all the
little battles.
In contrast to him know clerk in large
office, who is always at the beck of Others.
who comes by the clock and departs the
same way.
But ali When that man gets home he is a
very different person indeed. He is the boss
there.
His word is law, and his wishes are the ones
that are catered to. He is the one who says
whether it's too hot, or too cold, in the room;
he's the one who says whether the family
will go to the movies tonight And when he
is called to the telephone he makes everybody
be as quiet as a country chrnchyard at the
stroke of midnight; but when somebody else
in the family is on the wire he makes as
much noise as goat on tin roof He wins
every little battle.
And right here lies most important matter
- the ability to distinguish between the small
battles of life and the large ones.
Don't be afraid to lose the little engage
ments; win the big ones and that viii be
enough.
The British have this saying: England
always loses all the battles except the last one"
And, of course, that is all that is necessary.
Ifyou are normal human being. you must
expect to lose certain number of contests;
but don't worry about them. Keep your eye
on the big ones; then get out your heavy
artillery.
In the matter of real battles, some of the
greatest generals have lost and lost heavily.
George Washington among them. The only
American commander who never lost battle
was General Winfield Scott, and military
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Sarssi by AUGUSTUS MUIR
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TIE Man OF MANY FACES Es..
sssss aesy BY MILO RAY PHELPS
How Few Tires? 10
BY HAROLD HART
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GloeifYlhso The AMERICAN SUMNER 900. -
BY GRACE TURNER
Cover Photograph i" Color by Paul Hess.
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Tks end dssustisas q sN ekoroessss hios oseer
n ssf ssiss, ssrss set ssnlfisa ssfess h THIS WEEK
MAGAZINE sss wholly h<''t'ess. Any Of so.s which
hssss"s 70 b 'hs some es fhof Of e"y ssses living .,
dsod, Is snfissiy eoiseitesAoi.
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Telephone Greenbelt 3l57
Vol. 2, 10. %
published weekly by the creenbelt. Co
operator Publi shinI ASS ociati on under
the auspices OF the Creerbelt5 Journal
istic Club. Its sphere and policies
arc IS follows.
|. 4 ION profit enterprise.
2. Nonparti san in politics.
3. Ncutra1.in reli Gus .1attars.
4. An open forum for civic affairs.
STAFF
Editor in Chi eff. IT. R. Volcl1hausen
Assistant Editor IS. Maryn
News Editor Howard G. Custer
Business Manager .,orris Coff
Treasurer . John Mc.Ii llia-1s
Production llama er TON Howard
%onen's Editor elizabeth Little
Children's Editor. Dorothy EAST
Sports EDITOR George Car1les
Illustrator Jac2c Patz1lin
REPORTERS
Community Government. Louis 3esserer
Creenbelt Stores. .illia., P. Poole
CooperatiTes. .enry Little
Health Ian. Rae Sowell
Credit Union Bernard Lxell7od
Police, Fire Dept. Vernon Hitchcock
Church and Garden. .1.arvin Nevius
2ecrcati0n, Pic2ics. james Duna!uy
visitors to CreenbeIt. Shiela Cone
County News .. g.. Dorothy Didor
Theater -. .. John P. liurray
Calender Of Events. Fan Schein
Babies :. Toni Larmore
Inquiring Reporter .Papline Trattlor
TYPTSTS
Catherine Scaoob Faye Howard
Martha ,-all1in Pauline Trattlor
larita Freeman Sylvia Fleisir
!tadeline Conklyn Lillian Schwartz
Annette coff Herb 7Teether0y
Theodore Nilsson
ASSEMBLIES
ARTHUR, Cline Ealrah Srlec+n1.
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Nth this issue 2.\olo7hausep;> Cd
itor Of tho Cooporator, Wo@ag>S5oon
guiding its destiny since llafsR 2, 1888,
bids US goodbye. 1r. Volcklausen is
leeTin" rs end 1reonbe1t for g three
Months' absence, going first to lassa-
c}usctts for Q short vacation and thence
TO the University Of II Sc nsin, where
nc Will enroll FOR the sumner course.
Hhon Mr.. Tolclchauson assumed office,
the paper, despite the fact that it had
already one through Fourteen i issues and
had made considerable progress, was still
largely il IT'S formative stare. Such
depart IS IS the Childron's Page and
High Scho1 Page, for instance, were
lacking 1t was, thanks mostly to the
editors efforts that those and many
othor valuable features ~oro added. The
matter Of distri butt on Of the paper uas
in 9 rather preoarious state when Er.
To1ckoauacn ! Z the roins. He it
UUs who established the present system of
distri button through the boy scouts, with
the result that Circulation increased
thereafter nd has remained GOOD over
since, rhilc also providing uniforms for
seven boy scouts todato. TO a1r. Volcl1-
hauso1, also, thanks arc due for the plan
re- ar6ing romunoration for those work.
IN On The paper.
Few, except those who have worked
shoulder i. a11ouldor with tho editor can
appreciate what a tremendous tasl: Yves =
his. Exporter, mano ging editor, and
ra1-e-Up man in edition to his regular
job as editor, 1r. Tolclz1auson has worked
many Saturday night, clear thru to
the next morning.
Bon Voyage. 2r. Volc2hauson. 7o
SHALL miss you, but VIC draw consolation
from the fact that VIC will havo you
again with next fall.
P. S. Ho concur H.C.C.
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Agriculture

The U. S. department of agricul-
lures efforts to export surplus
wheat have never enjoyed the state
departments sympathy, since for
eign wheat-growing nations would
be angry if their domestic prices
were depressed by U. S. dumping of
surplus grain. Although Secretary
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
now admits the export subsidy plan
is not efficient, his department is
committed to disposing of part of
the U. S. surplus in this manner.
Meanwhile Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull has held his breath, hop
ing these exports will not injure in
ternational relations, especially with
South American nations.
This was the situation when Frank
A. Theis, Kansas City grain broker,
appeared at Rio de Janeiro to sell
100000 bushels of U. S. wheat in
Brazil. That nation was not imme-
diately hostile but a strong protest
came from Argentina, which now
supplies all of Brazips wheat. Al
though Brazilians could use cheap
wheat to make cheap bread, Argen-
tina is good customer of the U. S.
Upshot was protest to the state
department, delivered in Washing
ton by Argentina's Ambassador Don
Felipe Espel. The problems crux:
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Suspicious Middle Class
Is Good for q Democracy

The sum total of the situation, as
regards the middle classes, is that
they have become critical again.
They followed Mr.. Roosevelt un-
swervingly (speaking, now, of the
majority and they accepted his
statements that ''we have planned
it that way" But when the depres-
sion of 1887 came on them and it
hit as hard as that of 1880, they
found doubt in their minds. He
could not have planned it that way,
they reasoned. So there followed
the natural sequence of criticism,
and the country began to think that
criticism was legitimate despite the
New Dealers barrage of propagan-
da that the criticism, itself, was
propaganda. With the middle
classes back in the suspicious mood
that is good for democracy, they
are again occupying their rightful
role in government. There are
many times more of them than any
other group; they are the majority,
and they showed it again this year
by the sharp division of votes.
The New Deal, with the aid of
old line Jeffersonian Democrats,
will control the congress for the next
two years. But their control is not
of such a character as to permit
denial of rights to any individual
representative or senator or any
group of them. There can be no
mailed fist or "must" orders. In
stead, if Majority Leader Barley
in the senate and Majority Leader
Rayburn in the house want to get
their programs through, there must
be moderation. Extremes will spell
defeat and revolt, and it is conceiv-
able that policies of a too radical
type could send the old line Demo-
Gratis over to the aid of the Repub-
icans and into a coalition to de-
stroy the New Deal utterly and eff
fectively. There can be no more
rubber stamp business. New Deal
tactics must change, and the sooner
the bunch of so-called intellectuals,
the high brows, learn this lesson, the
better it will be for Mr.. Roosevelt,
politically.
I am told by number of politi-
cally important personages that the
election already has increased the
courage of some of the conservative
Democrats who were not outspoken
heretofore. It is predicted that
these will feel free now to tell the
President when they disagree. None
can foretell how far that situation
will develop. 1t is part, how
ever, of the thought that modera.
ton must be the rule.
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If Argentina could prove the agri-
culture department was assisting
Mr.. Theis in selling his wheat to
Brazil, Buenos Aires would consider
it equivalent to an international in
cident." Mr.. Hull issued an inmedi-
ate denial of official U. S. irnplica-
ton in the scheme.
So did Mr.. Wallace, but he could
not refrain from worrying publicly
about the U. S. agricultural prob
lem. Since future international in
cidents" will almost inevitably re-
suit if the U. S. tries to sell any
more wheat abroad, Mr.. Wallace
must now concentrate on solving the
problem domestically. The recent
elections rebuffed his 1888 farm bill
but he promises to defend it before
the next congress. He has even in
vited newly-elected congressman to
offer their suggestions. Meanwhile,
little more is heard of the two-price
plan for domestic dumping, under
which low-income families would
buy surplus commodities at special
rates.
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Must Become Statesmen,
Quit Their Den1agoguery

And, next, if the Republican lead
ership has good sense, it will dis
play its best brand. 1t will tell its
followers to become statesmen and
quit their demagoguery. The OPP
portunity awaits them to be con-
structive and if they fail to put for
ward sound proposals, they will
have justified the country in refus-
ing to give them control as was
done in 1886.
It is proper to say, of course,
that the Republicans will not be in
control of either the senate or the
house. That means, they can have
no management of legislative ma
chinery. That machinery, which is
an-important in carrying forward
political party policies, remains in
the hands of the New Deal. But
the absence of control for the Re-
publicans can not destroy the re-
sponsibility which they have as
sumed in electing as many mem
bers of the congress as is recorded.
They dare not dodge that response
bility.
Just ahead, therefore, lies the ne
cessity for Mr.. Roosevelt to realize
that there is a new public temper
which does not like extremes, and
for Chairman John Hamilton of the
Republican national committee, and
Republican Leader McNary in the
senate, and Republican Leader Mar
tin in the house, there is the oppor-
tunity to fight for reasonable legis-
lation all of the way. These three
Republican leaders must have
something to offer besides criticism
of the New Deal.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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Bruckarts Washington Digest
Tumult and Shouting Are Over;
So Now What Does 1t ALI Mean?
For Months to Come the Results Will Be Subjected to Meas
urement; More Thinking and Less Emotion Seems
To Be the Rule; Middle Class in Revolt.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington D. C.

power which Mr.. Roosevelt so often
attributed to few whom he has
called the economic royalists.
The New Dealers completely capitu-
lated to organized labor of the c. I.
0. type, and used the numbers of
votes there to bulwark its assault
on business. The middle classes
which embrace the backbone and
the salt of the earth of any nation
haven't had much consideration
from the New Deal thinkers. They
have been the forgotten men" (and
women) about which Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke when campaigning in 1892. It
is quite clear that the middle classes
have grown tired of government
playing into the hands of a single
class. They are tired, as they were
in 1882, when the Republicans had
played too much into the hands of
big business.
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WASHINGTON. - The period of
distorted claims by the winners and
the equally distorted alibis of the
losers seems to be about over. We
have heard all of the tumult and the
shouting of an election time. The
total vote has been tabulated, and
it shows greater number-83 new
ones-of Republicans in the house
OF representatives and eight new Re-
publican senators. Some Ia more
states have Republican governors
ready to take over from the Demo-
Gratis they have displaced. There
were what may be called important
numerical gains for the Republican
party label.
But while the total vote has been
tabulated and served as the basis
for the claims of the winners and
the alibis of the losers, those fig
ures will be forgotten soon. The
thing that is important is the result.
We will be measuring the results for
months to come.
It is quite unimportant, in my
mind, to appraise what the swing of
few votes may have meant. 1t
is, however, mighty important to
note that there were hard and close
fights for scores of candidates, in
this 1888 election. There were hard
and close fights in the whole of New
England; there were bitter strug-
giles in New York, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and else
where. They were fought out largely
on major issues because, generally
speaking, local questions did not
provide the fundamental issue in the
states that are so important politi-
cally as those mentioned.
What does it mean? What is the
portent? Other writers and analysts
have given and are giving their
views. I guess there is no prohibit
ton against mine.
I firmly believe the votes cast in
the 1888 election were the express
sion of an opposition to further ex-
Fermentation by government in the
field of unsound theories; the ex-
preston was against further use of
the American people as guinea pigs,
and it was definitely for middle-of-
the-road national policy. 1t was,
therefore, showing, a proof, of
the necessity for our traditional two
party system of government, and
surely, to that extent, the nation
and national life benefited by the
poll taken on November 8, 1888.
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Religion

In times of stress men are known
to seek solace in religion. But even
religions solace becomes difficult
when men are prosecuted for their
faith and race. That is the plight
now facing all German opponents
of Nazidom's socialistic theology,
which dictates that the state must
come first, that religion must take
what is left. Thus, in less than a
weeks time, German Jews were
prosecuted numerically and driven
back to medieval ghetto style of liv-
ing, while German Catholics also
found themselves on the defensive.
Though the Vatican has long been
outspoken against Germany's five
year persecution of Jews, outright
hostility did not come until last
months Nazi storming of Theodore
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land storm area. Other purchases
included 1,407, 900 bushels of fresh
vegetables, 227, 900 boxes of oranges,
397 800 bushels of white potatoes,
$4,000 bushels of sweet potatoes.
$4,000 pounds of dry peaches, 297,
SIT cases of canned grapefruit juice
1921 lunches of celery, 1857, 00c
pounds of butter, and 2,947, 900
quarts of milk.
No breakdown was available on
purchases in the "a states, which in
cluded Michigan, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Ohio, and Illinois.