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Evening star., 1938-04-15
Plans for Wedding
Are Changed.

Plans for the wedding of Miss Bar
bara E. Boss, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry K. Boss, and Mr.. Alexander
M. Heron, son of Mr. and Mrs Alex
ander P. Heron, have been altered
owing to the death of the brides
grandmother, Mrs. A. F. Eberly The
ceremony, which was scheduled for
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
tie Bethlehem Chapel of the Cathe-
dral of st. Peter and Paul, will be
performed at the same hour but in
the home Of the brides parents at
1908 Forty-fifth street, Colony Hill.
The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith will
ofaciate. Only members of the i'm
mediate families will attend.
Evening star., 1938-04-15
TINE Georgia State Society will
hold its April dance tomorrow
evening in the west ballroom

evening in the west ballroom
Of the Shoreham Hotel. An
entertainment program will be pre-
sented at o'clock by Georgians now
residing in Washington.
Preceding the musicale numbers
Representative Frank Whelchel. presi-
dent Of the society. will introduce the
speaker OF the evening. Senator Wal
ter F. George. Mrs. Roy NJ North
will play violin solo, accompanied at
the piano by Mrs. Paul Smith. Next
on the program will be several dance
numbers presented by pupils of the
Alice Louise Hunter School of the
Dance. Further entertainment will be
given by Mrs. Lily Garrett, vocalist,
and Miss Ramona Ruth North. pianist,
daughter OF Deputy Third Assistant
Postmaster General and Mrs North.
Dancing will begin promptly at $50
o'clock. Guest tickets may be obtained
at the door.
THE Iowa State Society of Wash
ington will hold an entertainment
and dance Easter Monday at the
Shoreham Hotel at $50 O'Clock.
The Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j.,
vice president Of Georgetown Univer-
sity and regent of the School OF For
eign Service will be the guest speaker.
A number of Iowans who will be
visiting in the city at that time will
attend the meeting and all members
of Congress from Iowa are especially
invited to attend this meeting. They
include Senator Guy M. Gillette, the
president of the society and Mrs. Gill
lette, Senator Clyde Herring, Repre-
sentative and Mrs Lloyd Thurston,
Representative and Mrs. Fred Gill
christ, Representative and Mrs E. c.
Eicher, Representative and Mrs. Fred
Biermann. Representative and Mrs.
Otha D. Wearin, Representative and
Mrs. j. Gwynne, Representative and
Mrs. c. c. Dowell, Representative and
Mrs. Vincent F. Harrington and Rep
rese . tive William S. Jacobsen.
Maj. Gen. H. E. Ely Is chairman Of
of the Floor Committee and will be
assisted by Col. J. A. Green. Mr.. Leo
Evening star., 1938-04-15

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Evening star., 1938-04-15
Painting Exhibit.

Several of the paintings Of Senior
Henrique Medine. prominent Portu-
guese portrait painter who Is spend
ing month with the Minister Of
Portugal and Senhora de Bianchi,
are now being exhibited in the Tenth
street and Constitution avenue en-
trance hall of the National Museum.
Evening star., 1938-04-15

tSee CLUBS, Page B-4.)
Evening star., 1938-04-15
Residential
Society in
The News
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
Are Guests of
The Dials.

~ ORMER SENATOR AND MRS.
- NATHANIEL DIAL have with
them over Easter their son-in-
law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Ogden Smiht, jr., Of Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. and Mrs w. r. Yaw of Pom
tiac, Mich. are at the Mayflower while
in Washington until Sunday. Mrs.
Yaw is the daughter OF the late Sena-
tor James Couzens OF Michigan.
Mr. Charles Mason Remey has left
Washington for a motor trip of sew
eral weeks in the South.
Mrs. Charles Redding Williams has
left the Capital by plane for Ber-
muda, where she will spend several
weeks at Crossways, Somerset Bridge.
Mrs. M. Lucia Corey and her sister,
Miss Fannie l.. Naylor, who have been
spending the winter in Louisville, will
make their home with Mrs. Corey's
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs
Carl E. Krautter. who have recently
purchased the Meadows, an old es-
tate at Anchorage, KY a Louisville
suburb. They have renamed the place
Kinlock after the old Naylor estate
in Virginia.
Mrs. Corey was active in social and
club life in Washington and in Fair
fax County Chapter. N. S. D. Ar.
Mrs. Krautter will be remembered
in musical circles as Miss Frances
Corey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G. Yonker Of
the Shoreham have as their guests
their daughter, Mrs. Fergus L. Lloyd,
and granddaughter, Mabel Blair
Lloyd Of Oakland, Calf.
Miss Agnes Mullaly will go to New
York today to remain over Easter, re-
turning here the first of the week.
Miss Barbara Davis Hoffman has
gone to Leesburg. Fla, where she will
be the executive secretary for the
chapter of the American Red Cross,
located in Lake County in that State.
Miss Hoffman is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Grifith Hoffman
and is a graduate of Hood College,
Frederick, Md.
Mrs. M. H. Bloedorn and her daugh-
ter, Helen May Bloedorn, will spend
the Easter holidays at the New Will
lard Hotel. arriving Thursday. April
"A, from Williamsburg, Va. where Miss
Bloedorn is student at William and
Mary College.
DR.. and Mrs r. S. Tillotson OF
Sacramento, Calf, and their family
have come East on spring vacation
and are at the Wardnfan Park Hotel
while in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs Milton Tibbetts OF
Detroit are at the Carlton while in
town for a several days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar B. Howard OF
Bryn Mawr, Pa, are at the Wardman
Park Hotel for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. THOMPSON
OF Toronto, Canada, are spending a
brief time at the Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred l.. Barnes of
Walpole. Mass, are stopping at the
Dodge while in the Capital.
Evening star., 1938-04-15
Darling.Groves
Wedding Told.

Mrs. Alfred James Taber of Indian
Head announces the marriage of her
daughter. Miss Elva Groves. to Mr..
Gordon Padgett Darling of this city
Sunday, April 3, at Bel Air, Md.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Economical Department

With all the money spent by Congress, it is strange that so little is given to the State Department, which is today our first line of defense in Asia and Europe and of first importance in Pan-American relations. It is eking out an existence on $16,000,000 year. That pays for our whole diplomatic and consular service throughout the world, along with activi- ties at the headquarters in Washington. The head of the department is, in theory and practice, the head of the whole cab inet, and his job is bigger than it ever was before. But Congress is notoriously stingy in that direction.
 T shall never be able to understand" writes Oswald Garrison Willard in the Nation, "why President Roosevelt him. self has not demanded large increase in the sum allotted to the department. He has not hesitated to ask for authoriza- tions and appropriations for the navy, which come to approximately $2,6O0, ,0O0,- 900. l understand that the State De- partment has not an adequate library, is even lacking in desirable periodicals in other words, is deprived of the tools of its trade" He wishes every congressman knew what fine work our permanent state officials of that department are doing today in Europe, China, Japan and Latin America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16

The New York City school system is experimenting in new idea for black boards. If the new type works out we may see an end of the familiar black slate one running the length of the school room on one side and frequently across the front in back of teachers desk The slate blackboard seems a part of the school room In fact it is hard to visual ize a room without one Think of the thrill you got the first day you were in- vited to stay after school (not for punish ment) but for the honor of washing down the board. And recall, too, the first time you scrawled your newly learned letters, standing on small wooden stool so that you could reach high enough. Yes, the old slate blackboard is a public school institution, and much of ones early life is associated with parsing sen- tence, adding sum or drawing a flower border on it's smooth black surface. The new type contemplated would be white of glass foundation, on which one would have to write in black chalk. However, the idea is still experimental, so we won't start ripping out the old boards yet awhile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Two In One

In a recent finding by Coroner James Corrigan of New Haven it was claimed that the recent fatal shooting of New Haven patrolman might not have occur red had he not been making his rounds in a cruising car alone. The official finding recommended that patrolmen travel in pairs at all times, even in making the most routine of arrests. This advice would seem to be borne out, of course, by what actually tranSpired i'll New Haven.
 And to back up the coronerS claim comes the story from Hartford by way of official police channels that the policy of one man to cruiser car may be abolished, even though it only has been in effect a short time. This is due to claim advanced by prisoner in police court up there. He criticized the police for only assigning one man to car and stated that such policy gave marau- ders or miScreants better chance to escape. His particular crime was alleg- edly stealing an automobile, which he said would not have been attempted had he known that police cruiser cars con- tained two patrolmen.
 The logic of the idea is quickly appar ent to anyone And the obvious need of offering protection to solitary police officers who are forced to patrol wide areas, particularly during the night hours, also is apparent. Waterbury has found it better to use two men in the patrol cars and even any thought of economy must give way before the humane thought of providing the armed forces of the law with maximum of pro- lection in the performance of their duties
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
It's Anybody's Nomination

Although the elections of 1888 TOT state and Congress haven't even been started vet, there is still tendency to leap over this coming event and seize the presl- dential election of 1940 by the horns. Two years before this big event comes off there must be anywhere from lo up to 100 potential candidates in the field Democratic, Republican, Socialist, Labor, and what not The election bids falr to be the most exciting of this century, II not the closest, although that of l9lo, when the late Woodrow Wilson just noseo out Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes ofter forty-eight hours of breathless waiting for California to make up her mind, will be hard to surpass
 Almost any notable in the Democratic party is eligible for the 1940 nomination, according to what one reads and hears. You can start with President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself. Even the third-term bugaboo doesn't seem to offer much re- sistance to his enthusiastic supporters. And next in line would naturally come ice-PreSident John N. Garner. It's problematical if the astute John N would care to take the nomination himself, but he might like to be instrumental in dlc- tating the choice of the party.
 Right now there's much mention Of .,ooms for James A. Farley. These are never far from the surface and probably make Genial Jin' more or less of candidate for some job like the New York governorship rather than the presidency. And our newest ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph F. Kennedy, is coming nome on dual mission right now to the accompaniment of y-for-president talk. Over in London they all talk about him as the next president, so impressed by him have they been in his short stay there.
 And that's only scratching the surface of the Democratic party. When you move into other political circles you stir up a veritable shower of candidates. By the end of 1889 they will have been pretty we'll sifted down to a few. And by that time, too, we'll know if it's going to be a battle between the Democrats and Repub- licans, or if therell be new and powerful forces in the ring, spelling the difference between failure and success for old-liners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, June 16-Chubby Rich ard Timber leads a famous or chestra. Yet 1t is as an amateur magician that Timber is best known to his cronies along the Rialto.
 Small hours of the night find Timber in Broadway places, dem- onstrating his card tricks to such assorted friends as Sam Boston, the betting commissioner, Jockey Charley Kurtsinger, Songwriter Ted dy Powell and other habitues of the late beat on Times Square.
 As matter of fact, Timber was telling us the other day, 1t was his fondness for legerdermain that made him bandleader! Once the pit of the Paramount Theater was the mecca of all instrumentaHsts. Him. Der was no exception, but the method he used to get a job was unique. Paul Ash was boss there, and Timber went to Ash and per- formed card tricks for almost an hour. Then he asked for g job. as a fiddler. Ash, overwhelmed by the unorthodox approach, hired him.
 About a year later, a lad named Rudy ,sNallee opened at that theater.: Timber, seeing po- tentialities in the curly headed tyro, got 8 job as vallee's. busi- ness manager. Later 1t occurred to him that If he could make money for. other bandsnen, he might do the same for himself. And so he did. 3 ,sssF r
 Despite, his knack for sleight- of-hand. incidentally, Timber never has learned how to hold baton properly or wave it aloft with a professional flourish.
 Crime in Vienna
 We spoke the other day to a refugee from Vienna = man who fled the Nazi regime soon after anchluss. He was a com- poser by trade in that lovely city of the drei-viertel takt, and at first he intended to remain there and stick out the political gale.
 What changed. his mind was a brief interrogation to which he was subjected by petty Nazi official.
 What is your occupation" he was asked.
 Composer" he replied.
 Composer" came the rejoin- der. What kind of songs do you writer" /
 The refugee replied, Mostly waltzes."
 A deep frown settled upon the official brow. That's bad," he parked. ~. s And our man fled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Ordered Training

Professor Mapheus Smith of the Uni versity of Kansas reports in the Scientific Monthly set of recent findings as to what college training does for man. In 1899, it seems, 58.2 per cent of the men eligible for places in Who's Who were col lege graduates. By 1884 the percentage had risen to TAT. Self-made men of eminence sufficient to make Who's Who were 10.6 per cent of the whole number in 1899 and only 7.2 per cent in 1884.
 The college mans chances of making the grade are about 160 times as great as those of the self-made man. The reasons for this, Professor Smith believes, are that they have learned to specialize, they have leisure, guidance and more ordered train ing than the men who have to depend for training and education upon themselves.
 It is likely that the phrase more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16

miniStration, whatever his job, has the right to vote in any election for any candidate he chooses"
 To some Southern Negoes this language carried an entirely dif- ferent meaning than intended by Hopkins. They have bombarded the WPA with queries as' to whether his statement meant they had at last obtained full and free suffrage.
 "I live in county where colored people don't vote," one Mississippi Negro wrote. Docs this notice mean they are going to allow colored people to vote in Mississippi this year? Please let me know so can be ready when the time comes"
 From Alabama came this jubilant letter: Praise the Lord. I always said you were the black mans friend. We are all looking forward to vote so we can vote for you."
 From states with poll taxes. white WPA workers have written to ask whether the Hopkins let ter meant they could now vote tax free.
 Merry-Go-ROund
 Future budgets of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will prob- ably include a reserve fund" for use in special cases such as as the Cash Kidnapping. Attorney General Cumimngs recommended such a fund several months ago, but the powers in Congress did nothing about it. Next year special sum will be included in the FBI budget when it is sent to congress Senator Will liam Smathers, New Jersey New Dealer, has received several thou sand letters urging him to lead a revolt against the Mayor Hague Governor Moore leadership of the Democratic party in New ,Jersey. Many of the writers assured Smathers that both Republican and Democrats would rally behind him if he opened war on the two Jersey Czars .. Ted F. Silvey. secretary of the Ohio c. I. O. has sent 6 warning to members of the organization not to stage hostile demonstrations at Governor Da- veys' political meetings. We are against the Governor of Ohio" Silvey told his followers, but we must uphold the right of free speech not only for ourselves but for our enemies"
 Copyright, 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16

Coroner James J. Corrigan of New Haven county, in issuing a finding on the shooting of Patrol- man Edward H. Wendland of New Haven, remarks that the city police department ought to have train ing school for officers which would impress upon every policeman the necessity for caution in making even the routine arrest. Wendland was shot while taking a man to the station who had been arrested in a stolen car case. The coroner reports that Thomas Coyne and Frank Bed narcyzk were responsible for the killing, but also holds that the ar- resting officer, Patrolman Leslie Leigh, should have searched his prisoner, Coyne, for weapons before the police cruiser, driven by Patrol man Wendland, arrived on the scene. Wendland, says the coroner, had the right to assume that this had been done when the man was plac- ed in the car to be conveyed to the police station. The coroner also states that the patrol car should have been manned by two officers,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Training Policemen
Utmost Caution in Making Most Routine Arrests Urged by New Haven County Coroner
 in Finding on Recent Shooting.
NEW LONDON DAY

1 instead of one man as is the cus- tom in New Haven. Then Coyne would have had much less oppor- tulity to draw a gun and shoot the patrolman, who was more or less absorbed with the job of driving the car and could not watch his prisoner closely all the time. tf
 Perhaps a training school for po- licemen would have prevented this crime in New Haven, but some com- munities that have operated train- ing schools have had the same sort of thing happen because of pure carelessness. It behooves the police officer, trained or untrained, to be constantly on the alert when he arrests, or even questions, a suspect. He should not for an instant allow his attention to wander, particular ly until he is certain that the sus- pected person is not armed. But years of police work, with no such accidents, tend to make some off, cers careless.
 The most humiliating experience in which we ever say an officer be- come involved happened some years ago in Connecticut city. The pa trolman was bringing man ar rested for vagrancy into the station house one summers day. The en- trance to the station was equipped with a screen door swinging both ways. The officer pushed his pris- oner through the door and prepar- ed to follow, but the man seized the screen door and banged it violently in the officers face, cross section of wood striking the police- man in the nose and knocking him down. Before the astonished eyes of desk sergeant, the accused man ran through the building and es- caped by a hack door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16

Tuesday of this week was the 127th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Toms Cabin" In honor of same group of Negro pastors, teachers and students made an annual pilgrimage to the Hall of Fame at New York University where a cere- mony was held before the bust of Mrs. Stowe, who, born in Litchfield, our neighbor, wrote one of the worlds most famous books championing the cause of the slave
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Press sConnent
GOOD OLD GIBBON!
New York Herald Tribune)

(New York Herald -Tribune)
 How many persons have read Gibbon through in the last quarter century? The feat is almost incon- ceivable in our time unless perform ed in some hospital bed of the chronic or accident ward by some one perverse enough to isolate him. self somehow from the monthly, weekly, daily tidal waves of journal ism. Yet the patient, student or man of leisure, voluntary or other wise, who submerged in "The De- cline and Fall" for the necessary length of time would at last come up for air not in the least alienated from modern times and perhaps better prepared for them and the future than if he had spent the same length of time keeping up." The tender-minded, especially, would benefit from the realization that recorded history, past or ill the making, is-a good part of it-futile intrigue, persecution, massacre, as- sassination, insurrection, dragon made, revolution, battle, murder and sudden death.
 Gibbons pomp and eloquence once accepted (after all, we accuStom ourselves to radio announcers who employ the. grand style less appro-i priately to praise proprietary ar- ticles), his text and irony begin to seem very modern. Youngsters being hardened of in the cold frame of post-adolescene could substitute Gib- bon, with hardly loss, for current illustrated weeklies and tabloids. The longer perspective on human nature. red in tooth and claw like its moth- CT, moreover, would breed stoicism of lasting kind and prepare youth hardening to maturity to prize be- yond measure such decency, good faith, good will and nobility even as are still at large in a wicked world, doing their work also.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16

ordered training" holds the real key. The college man spends four years not only in acquiring Knowledge anyone can read and acquire that = but in sorting out the knowledge, getting what he needs into usable shape. The man who tries to educate himself is too apt to get hetero- geneous mass of information into his head, without much head or tail to it. The college man is taught to look for basic principles first, and to relate items of information to those principles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 10:44 D. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:19 a. m.; sets BPS p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Something tells me that this is an off year for latmia folia, mountain laurel. The dis play along the Chase Park Boulevard can't be compared to last years and we presume the same is true in other places around the state. although Winsted Aas been sending out all sorts of invitations to come up and see the shrubs in blossom in its vicinity this week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
and
 Answers
By Frederick M. Kerby

Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- ton of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given. nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad-. dressed to the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington. D. C.
 THE EDITOR
 Q. What other substance beside sand has been used in hour-glasses? A. The Romans made water clock. called "clepsydra," which al- lowed water to trickle from one con- tainer to another, on the same prin- ciple as a sand-glass. Also mercury is occasionally used instead of sand. o. Is the expression you alp correct when addressing single person?
 A. Webster says that it is correct when addressing two or more per- sons, and sometimes when address ing one person as representing an- other or others. ,r. ... c. From what part of Africa did the American negroes come?
 A. More than half of all the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-16
Selected Poem
VAGABOND

Dorothy Livingston Ulrich in
 the New York Times) Cover me with moonlight,
 spatter me with foam drift the sky with stardust
 and I shall call 1t home. Dip me in a darkness
 slashed with light above, gather me the wind songs and I shall call it love. Stif1e me with sunlight,
 drown me in the rain, smother me with snowstorms
 and I shall call it pain. Bare me from the moon sheets, take the glad winds breath, shut me in parlor
 and I shall call 1t death.