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Evening star., 1938-02-20
Protests Distortion of
History in "The Bucaneer."

History in "The Bucaneer."
To the Editor of The Star:
CINCE millions of Americans will accept
Cecil De Miles picture, The Buc-
cancer" as a substantially accurate account
of the Battle of New Orleans when, as a
matter of fact, it is not, ask space to
call attention to its distortions:
l. The outstanding character of the
picture, Jean Lafitte, the pirate leader, was
not q deciding factor in the victory of
jackson at New Orleans. Indeed, Lafitte
himself never laid claim to any such role,
nor did he ever boast openly, as he does in
the picture, or use the phrase, Il leave you,
an American, New Orleans"
2. He did not command the center Of
Jacksons army. Jackson's center corps
was commanded by Gen. william Carroll.
3. Lafitte never leveled pistol at Andrew
jackson and demanded an audience with
him. He asked for an interview and was
granted one.
4. Jackson's chief use Of Lafltte's men,
and they must be given credit for their
services, was Is intelligence units, giving
valuable information as to the position of
the enemy, and Lafitte's chief contrihu-
tion to the victory personally was advice
relayed to American headquarters BY Ed.
ward Livingston to extend the American
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lines on the left to swamp land, thus pre-
venting q turning Of the American left
flank by the enemy IT, and In the event,
Pakenham's frontal attack had been sue
ceSsful.
In no case-and not an iota of evidence
has been unearthed to the contrary-can 1t
be truthfully said that Lafitte's contribu-
ton to the Battle Of New Orleans was q
major factor, much less a deciding factor,
in Jacksons brilliant victory. And it is
unfortunate that contrary impression Is
going out to the American public generally
by way of this picture
There was . dramatic battle at New
Orleans 1913 years ago that deserves
reasonably accurate portrayal. Only within
recent times have we learned many Of the
facts about 1t. Indeed, the school books
claimed 1t was unnecessary, on the ground
that the Treaty of Client had already been
signed. Now we know that had Pakenham
won, the British would have claimed all of
the Louisiana Purchase The peace treaty
had been signed, but it was notify its
own terms-to take effect until after it had
been ratified by both parties. And the
United States did not ratify it until 40
days after the battle
HUGH RUSSELL FRASER,
President Andrew jackson Society
Of Tennessee
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to the lowest level Tor regimentation.
These vermin, burrowing in darkness, dis
like anything healthy and wholesome, max
ing for pleasure and happiness, vigor and
power in an existing system.
Was there British effort to get the
United States to boycott Japan several
months ago? seem to recall some sharps
observing the British would be ready to
pick up the Japanese business we dumped
overheard The Olympic boycott now, with
Communist support, may be merely
flank attack Of the same commercial in
terests. The British tradesman is boy
cotting athletics, not trade
CLARENCE A. BUSH.
Chicago, Ill.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Urges Boycott
OF Aggress0r Nations.
T0 the Editor 0f The Star.

Urges Boycott
OF Aggress0r Nations.
To the Editor Of The Star:
BOYCOTT the aeeressor nations. If some
employees are thrown out of work in
silk mills. they can be taken care Of in
other industries If work is adjusted and
divided sensibly.
And If some have to go on relief, 1t
will have to be so If the right thing is
done. Better a few more Of our people
on relief than to continue to provide Japan
with the means to keep on killing helpless
children in China.
Tit is right to stop and punish any n,ur-
derer. 1t Is right 80 stop the murderers Of
Chinese and Spanish children.
Mrs. SAM BROWN.
Bull Run, Va.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
IN REGARD to q general sales tax, Chair
man Nichols Of the House District Sub
committee is absolutely correct. If the
people on whom such tax would fall most
heavily-those with low incomes-really
understood the effect of a sales tax and
had an opportunity to vote, the result would
be foregone conclusion.
Naturally, business groups are for this
tax in lieu Of other taxes on their businesses
Neither is it surprising that citizen groups
from Chevy Chase and other of the more
well-to-do sections Of the District are in
favor of this tax.
The fairest tax would be an income tax,
which probably could be worked out in
spite of difficulties, provided there could be
found enough social-minded, unselfish
leaders to see 1t through.
PAUL RUSSELL.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
From The Stars Letter Mail
Labor Spy Gives His Side of
ofNew Orleans-Views on IocaT Taxes.

The tollotoinD letter comes to The
Star through Mr.. H. N. Findley, So
West Fitty-seuenth street, New York
City. Uho informs The Star that the
writer identified here only by his
cryptic signature "GT-99," is a tor-
mer labor spy," .Uhose desire for
anonymity is understandable. The
Star prints the letter as an interest,"
ing sideli0ht on controversial ques-
tiOn
Evening star., 1938-02-20

To the Editor Of The Star:
THE only tax worthy Of mention in con-
nection with equity is q tax on land
values. The value of land is not due to own
ership, but to the presence and activities of
the people round about The more of them
there are the higher the value mounts. It
Is therefore q social value and its taking
for social uses will rob no man.
The city of Sydney, Australia COM
parable in size to Boston, pays practically
all Of its municipal expenses by tax on
land values alone, at a rate of something
over per cent as compared with our 1a4
per cent on land and Improvements. 1t is q
model city. having no slums
In the District and city Of Canberra,
capital of Australia. private landholding is
limited to leases at rental on the basis of
land values as determined from time to
time. A great number of cities, towns and
other communities in Australia, New Zea-
land, South Africa, Northwest Canada and
in Denmark throughout, land values are
wholly or largely the basis of taxation as
inducement to adequate improvements and
prevention or clearance of slums or shoddy
and unsanitary living conditions.
OF all cities in the United States, WASH
ington. its Capital should be the model,
and it may be made 50 simply by adoption
of an up-to-date system Of taxation, which
would also reduce the cost of living to all
of its inhabitants.
WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

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CHAPTER XI

The following day, the Peterboro
left the lake and shortly passed the
mouth of the Nipiw, the River OF
Death, which marks the hunting
dead line between the Fort Chino
Naskapi and the Caribou People.
According to Napayo, they were
now within two days travel Of the
high terraces that mark the west
ern slope of the valley at the mouth
of the River of Skulls. At noon,
they reached a wide rocky gorge
where the river had cut through the
strata to race over limestone ledges
in a succession of chutes and white
water reaches, broken by pools hun
dreds of yards in extent. For hours
the four men toiled carrying ca
noe and supplies to the foot Of the
impossible water where the canoe
might again be launched. When
John McCord appeared, bending
double under the last huge load sus-
pended by the tump-line over his
head, he asked:
Did you men notice the salmon
in those pools back there? There's
a big hatch of flies coming down
stream and the pools are alive with
feeding winninish.
What do you say we camp here
and set metz" suggested the prac-
teal Alan.
McCord looked pityingly at his
friend. "Set a metz" he groaned.
"And you with Scotch blood in your
veins? Of course, a nets all right,
boy, when we need grub for our
selves and the dogs. But back
there's the best fy-fshing in Can
ada, just waiting for me. You peo-
pie make camp while l have go
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the granite and limestone, streaked
with quartz veins carrying pyrites,
that Aleck Drummond found on the
River of Skulls"
They passed the. mouths of large
rivers flowing from the east, and
the canoe again entered lake filled
with islands trimmed with boulders
that were strewn along beaches Of
sand and pebble. 1t was late after
noon of the second day and the
canoemen were tired from the con-
slant toll Of carrying around falls
and impossible whitewater, so it
was decided to make an early camp
among the islands. Kneeling be-
side his small clothes bag on the
sand beach, Alan got out his steel
mirror, soap and razor for he
shaved and took plunge into the
cold water of the Koksoak when
ever opportunity offered. In the
clothes bag with his few personal
belongings was a small parcel
wrapped in deer parchment to pro-
tect it from moisture. Squatted on
his heels, beside his bag, Alan's
eyes rested on the fiat parcel and
he took it from the bag and un-
wound the skin envelope. Inside
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Point" Most Thrilling Part of Field
Trial With Dogs Preparing for Service

Many dog lovers are probably un-
familiar with the workings of field
trial. Some may get the impress
sion the dogs compete in pairs and
that the event resembles more of
race than competition in which ap-
pointed judges rate them in accord
ance to their hunting ability. The
younger dogs are grouped in a
derby class or stake and only
the ranging of the puppies is de-
sired by the judges.
However, the older dogs are re-
quired to produce game, which
means they should locate birds and
point them. The point" is the most
thrilling part of field trial, writes
George Butz in the Philadelphia
Inquirer. There is nothing more in
teresting than to watch a pointer
or setter come briskly to sudden
halt and stand rigid as an image
within few feet of a pheasant or
a quail. In short-the dog points
the game and satisfies the judges as
to his finding ability.
While on point, the dog is required
to hold steady until his owner or
handler fires a blank shot to startle
the bird, which naturally takes off
and flies into the air. Should the
dog be too anxious and rush in after
the bird before the firing of the
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er and she saw the bow Of the ca
noe disappear behind the point of
boulders.
Savagely Alan Cameron drove the
canoe back to camp. He had blum
dered stupidity but, after all, it was
not his fault.
At supper he avoided Heather's
eyes and listened while Noel talked
to the Naskapi, but, to Alan's sur
prise, there was no change in her
manner toward him. After the meal
he went to her, where she sat play
ing on the beach with the puppies.
rolling them on their backs, max
ing them open their cavernous jaws
filed with white tusks.
81 didn't know-today." he began,
diffidently. I'm very sorry!
thought you were at the camp, here.
heard noise in the water and
thought it was deer"
She met his embarrassed eyes
frankly, but her brown face was
dark with color as she said: 1T
doesn't matter. Nothing matters!"
"Oh, yes it does!" he said i'm
pulsively. We've been such good
friends. You're not going to spoil
it all? We're still going to be the
same"
THAT girls picture you carry"
Heather suddenly interrupted. "She
she's the one at Fort George Noel
told me about?"
YES"
but Noel says there's a man
there-that she didn't treat you well
after you went north to get the dogs.
That was because of u.s."
Noel shouldn't talk about it.
But l asked him, and he's my
friend. 1t was because you met
father and me and denied it, and
instead of staying at Fort George,
went north for the dogs, that she
let you go away. unhappy. Noel
has told mel"
1T doesn't matter, Heather" he
objected, i'll at ease.
1T does matter. You're unhap-
py, now, thinking about her. Per-
haps, when you come back to Fort
George with gold-perhaps she will
change"
"She is not like that, Heather.
But she made you unhappy and
Il hate her!"
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gun, this move is termed a ''fush"
and discredits the performance.
The judges at a field trial score
the competing dogs under the same
conditions which would actually pre-
vail when gunner is afield seeking
game birds.
Obedience to the commands of the
owner is a prime requisite while
stress is also laid upon hunting
ability. This would include the dogs
aptitude to be thorough in covering
the places where pheasant or quail
are located, his speed in ranging the
course, his steadiness on point and
subsequent rigidity while being shot
over.
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Horse Sense About
Winter Oil Change

Cold weather creates new prob
lens in fabrication. To overcome
damaging wear, the motor oil
must possess three essential char
acteristics: Cd low cold test to
assure quick easy starts (2) abil-
ity to lubricate at all driving
speeds 90 durability to stand up
for reasonable mileage. Curiously
enough these requirements are
contradictory in that to assure one
factor it is very easy to unbalance
another.
The only safe rule to follow in
preparing your car for Winter is
to buy the very best motor oil,
Acid-Free Quaker State.
The refners of Quaker State
were pioneers in developing motor
oils for Winter use. Today in four
great modern refineries the most
modern equipment and methods
transform the finest Pennsylvania
grade crude into motor oils which
make automobiles, trucks and
tractors run better, last longer,
the year round.
The low cold test of Quaker
State Winter Oil assures smooth
easy starts. It's purity frees you
of worry about sludge, carbon and
corrosion. It's ability to stand up
is unequalled you 60 farther
before you need to add quart.
1t is merely commonsense to
practice economy. And the ac-
cumulated experience Of car man.
ufacturers, engineers, and most
car owners proves that the use Of
high quality motor oil is genuine
economy. 1t is conservatively es-
timated by authorities that 30 to
80 per cent of all repairs to an
automobile are caused by faulty
or incorrect fabrication.
A wise man once said: F'It takes
II months and sometimes longer
to correct a mistake on farm. !"
Just so, five minutes running with
the wrong oil in the engine of your
car the first cold morning this
Winter can cause more wear and
damage than all the miles you
drove this past Summer.
Play safe with your motor in
vestment. Ask your dealer to pre-
pare your car for Winter with
Acid-Free Quaker State Winter
Oil of the proper grade for your
community.-Adv.
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WHAT to EAT and WHY

eat generously of fruits to fOrtify
the body against fall and winter
ills. Their tart flavor helps to
stimulate appetite and their fruit
acids promote intestinal tone.
Neither the maturity nor variety
of the fruit appears to have any
influence on the vitamin content,
and even when cooked, as whole
fruit sauce, they retain from rs to
80 per cent of the original vitamin
c content of the fruit. Cranber-
ries are also a fair source Of vita
min A which is not impaired by
cooking, and they contain iodine,
iron, copper and manganese.
Because they are such a versa
tile fruit, cranberries can be uti-
lized throughout the menu and at
any meal. Thus orange and to-
mato juice may be varied at
breakfast by serving a cranberry
conserve, jelly or sauce, or cram
berry juice cocktail. For lunch or
dinner, this same fruit may be
served as an appetizer; with the
meat course; or used to make a
variety of attractive desserts.
If vitamin C-cOntaining foods
are included generously in the
daily diet, the hOmemaker may
well feel that she has provided
her family with an important
form of health insurance.
@-WNU-C. Houston Goudiss-1938-37
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while in a scOrbutic animal, they
contain practically none.
Pyorrhea and Vi+amin G

Many investigators have discov-
cred that a deficiency of vitamin
G causes profound changes, not
only in the gums, but also in the
enamel and dentine of the teeth.
1t has been suggested that pyOr-
rhea may be associated directly
with a vitamin C deficiency.
Certainly, there is enough con-
vincing evidence, as a result of
work with both children and
adults, to indicate the Importance
of an adequate supply of vitamin
c in maintaining healthy teeth.
Sources Of This Body Regulator
Vitamin C is produced by plants
during their growth. 1t is found
in juicy stems, bulbs, roots, tu-
bers and fruits.
Outstanding among the fruits
are the citrus family, including or
anges, lemons and grapefruit; to-
matoes and cranberries. Raw
cabbage is a good source as is
WatercresS.
So important is vitamin C that
one or more generous portions O.
a vitamin erich food should be
consumed daily, preferably at ev-
cry meal.
Orange and tomato juice have
been used interchangeably for
quite some time as a convenient
and easily available source of vi
tamin c. In recent years, some
experiments performed at lead
ing university have given a high
ranking to cranberries on this
score, so that they, too, may be
ranked as a significant source of
vitamin c.
These brilliant little red berries
come into market in the fall-the
very time when it is important to
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because of their high acid con-
tent, these two foods retain their
vitamin c to a remarkable de-
gree, when commercially canned
or when cooked quickly in the
home.
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Hudson's Bay Company Ruled

For nearly 200 years the Hudson's
Bay company ruled huge portions Of
Canada. Wherever it established
trading post it had the right to gov
ern, says the Washington Post.
Company men trapped and hunted
for some furs, bartered with saw
age Indians for others. They lived
in isolated fort-like posts, often saw
other white men only twice year.
They had to be fighters. Disgrun-
tied Indians, competing traders fre'
Quently attacked their posts.
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You passed the River of Skulls
on the way up the KoksOak?"

was the Photographic print Of girl
with a wealth of dark hair, her
hand on the massive head Of great
black-and-white husky who looked
up into her face.
Temporarily obliviouS of his sur
roundings, Alan gazed at the like
ness of Berthe Dessane. Then he
was aware that someone stood be-
hind him and turning saw Heather
stumble blindly toward her tent.
He watched her crawl into the
tent, then he wrapped the print in
its parchment and put it back in his
bag. There was nothing to do about
it. She had seen him unwrap the
snapshot of Berthe, looked at it
over his shoulder, gone to her tent.
What he had for some time senSed
was true. And it had come about
through no fault of his. 1t was just
life.
Finishing shaving, Alan took the
canoe and with Noel set the gill-net
in a thoroughfare between the is
land and one behind it, then, with
Rough in the boat, went for a swim
and cleanup in a secluded cove.
while Noel and Napayo hung deer
meat over a smoke fire.
It was a warm afternoon without
wind and the sun was still high.
The cool, Ungava twilight was hours
away and, leaving the singing wa
ter, Alan beat the circulation back
into his arms and legs, then lay on
the sand to enjoy the sunshine. But
as the sun bathed his glistening
skin his thoughts were of the girl
who had sought the solace of her
tent to lie alone with her heart
ache. Heather cared for him. There
was nothing to be done about it. 1t
had been evident for weeks, but he
had refused to see it. He wondered
if John knew.
Dressing, Alan started around the
island back to the camp with Rougn
in the bow. He was idling along,
occupied with his thoughts, when
from behind a point of boulders
came the sound of an animal walk
ing in the water.
Alan reached for his rife, rested
it across his legs, then quietly
worked the canoe out to the point of
boulders thrusting into the lake.
Again he heard the thrashing in the
water from the far side of the point.
The boat reached the tip of the
point and the sand beach beyond
opened into view.
For an instant, paralyzed by sur
prise, Alan stared. At the edge of
the water, glorious girl was dane
ing; her arms waving high to start
the circulation in her superb white
body. Then, of a sudden, she stood
motionless, with arms extended to
the sky, blonde head thrown back in
the attitude of a suppliant. The pic
ture of perfectly modelled breast
and torso, of symmetrical hip and
thigh reached Alan's startled eyes
before his paddle drove the canoe
backward out of sight. But the
whine of Rough, followed By yelp.
had drawn the attention of the oath.
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In order to maintain top health,
it therefore must be furnished
in the diet every day. Second,
the c vitamin is more easily
destroyed than some of the
others, for it is oxidized upon
exposure to the air, and is
usually partially destroyed in
cooking. That accounts for the
Well-known rule that it is usually
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desirable to in
clude in the daily
diet some raw
foods, such as cab
bage or citrus
fruits. The rule
may be waived,
however, when to-
mato juice or cram
berry sauce are in
cluded in the
menu. For careful
experiments have
determined that,
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c. Houston Goudiss Describes The Body's
Vital Need for Vitamin c; Names Most
SIGNIFICANT Sources Of This Substance
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS

OF ALL the vamns that should be included in the diet
~ every day, none, perhaps, is important
frequently provided nadequatey, than vitamin C.
There are believe, reasons for this. First unlike
of the other vitamins vtamin by the
body, that it impossible build up reserve supply