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Tip for Republicans
Legend That Gracious Letters Will Induce Skunlks
to Move Provides Idea for PARTY.

/ at her entrance and placed Q fash
| light to shine upon 1t 30 that she
could easily read It. Next morning
she and her kittens had moved out,
am quite sure without feeling the
slightest resentment toward me.
Everything depends, Of course, upon
the terms Of the note. Skunks are
highly intelligent; they will not meekly
endure brueque treatment and they are
extremely annoyed by stupidity. You
will have no difnculty In dealing With
your guest II you write him the facts
OF the situation, and, Of course, pro-
vide a light SO he can read your note. i"
Mrs. Lanes letter mystined me. /
could not be sure whether she meant
me to take her seriously. Usually, I
know II I am being kidded-I have
been kidded by persons expert In the
art, including a presently exalted per-
sonage.
Another Urges Same Method.
To the solution of my doubt came
another letter from another part of
the country. A correspondent in
Northern New Jersey wrote me:
"All you have to do is write a very
polite - indeed, af1ectionate - little
note, explaining your appreciation OF
your skunk's beauty, his splendid be-
haVior and high type OF gentility;
that you really have enjoyed his
acquaintance, etc, ETC.: but now the
time has come for you to suggest, and
even request, that he seek another
home, where he would find even
greater happiness than you can give
him. Sign your name, fold the note,
place it under your front porch and
watch results. Honestly, believe it or
not, Mr.. Sullivan, I have known this
method to work"
Clearly here is a bit of American
folklore, new to me, and, so far as I
know, not hitherto recorded in print.
How widespread is this quaint belief?
What is its origin?
In addition to its interest as folk
lore. it has practical possibilities. II
there Is such a magic as eviction by
an amiably composed letter, q tech
nique OF epistolary custer. any person
who knowns the art should find wide
demand for his services. All sorts Of
people would like all sorts of other
people to move-persons annoyed by
radio-mad neighbors; swains whose
love affairs are impeded by rivals;
subordinates in the hierarchies of
church, business and politics whose
ambitions are thwarted by superiors
who hang on: all the "outs" every
where who would like to be in. Prac-
tically every person thinks the world
would be better ordered If certain other
persons were absent from where they
now are.
As I reflect on the possibilities, one
notion keeps intruding upon me. II
there Is anywhere any expert in
epistolary graciousness who actually
can bring about cessation OF tenure by
writing letter. what wouldn't the
Republican party be willing to pay for
his services? In their last effort at
eviction by the ordinary method they
spent $4,000, 900 and did not succeed.
(copyrisht. 1e3s)
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INSTITUTE OF ROSES
Will OPEN TONIGHT
Members of 21 Clubs in Washing.
ton Region to Hear Growing
Problems discussed

The three-day Institute of Rose
Growing sponsored by the Potomac
Rose Society and George Washington
University will open at o'clock to.
night in the schools Building D, 201;
G street NV.
Members Of 81 Washington, Mary.
land and Virginia garden clubs will
hear discussions of problems in grow.
ing roses in this area. Speakers will
include scientists from the Depart
ment of Agriculture, nursery special
lists and university botanists.
At tonight's session Mrs. Whitman
Cross, president of the society, ano
DR.. Cloyd H. Marvin, president Of
the university, will greet the guests
Mrs. E. H. Klaber will talk on Roses
and Rose Gardens" and Robert oyle
OF West Grove, Pa, will discuss "Se.
lecting and Buying Roses" Mayor
r. L. Ruffner of Alexandria, Va.
vice president of the society; A. H
Hanson and j. w. Staalman will take
part in the panel discussion. B. Y
Morrison, chief of the Division ol
Plant Exploration and Introduction Of
the Department Of Agriculture, will
preside as chairman.
Other sessions will be held tomor.
row and Thursday nights at thu
building.
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the less recognizable.
Mr.. Johnson has a farm, legal and
political background, all reasons for
his present position. His father was
an early Wyoming pioneer. Mr.. john
son was born in Green River, Wyo., in
1881. He lived for eight years on a
Nebraska farm as boy AS he rolls
his own cigarettes, Western fashion,
he recalls the early days when he
worked for his A. B. and law degrees
at the University of Nebraska, worked
summers in the harvest fields, the
thermometer standing at 110 degrees
in the shade. For % years thereafter
he practiced law in Rock Springs,
Wyo, becoming a member OF the
State Board Of Law Examiners, county
and city attorney. Mr.. johnson has
never been afraid of work and con-
tinues to have sturdy repute for it.
In 1928 he backed "Al' Smith as
regional director of the eight Rocky
Mountain States that extend from
Canada to Mexico. He plunged into
the 1882 campaign, piled up some i'm
pressive majorities for Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, backed by the same organi-
zation that had functioned in 1928.
The public domain practically all
lies. with the exception of three coastal
States, in those same eight Rocky
Mountain States with which Mr.. john
son is so familiar. Time was when tho
Public Land ONCE, established in 1912,
was, it Is said. practically a gigantic
real estate office acting for the United
States in the sale of the public do
main" Various laws have gradually
cinched the girth of loose-saddled
national land policy. But not before
some two billion acres had been
Whitfield down to ITO million acres, Of
which approximately 100 million acres
are under leases for grazing, leaving
about so millions in the United States
proper. Since the passage of the
Taylor Grazing Act of 1884. with subse.
quent amendments, the public lands
may now be disposed OF only after
appropriate classifications." The policy
now is conservation and not disposal.
Homesteading is negligible. The
handling of oil and gas leases on the
public lands is, Commissioner johnson
says, the big issue now"
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traps in which the little fellow could
be caught without injury; bore a
hole in the porch floor, put funnel
in hole, pour ammonia in."
All urged me to practice kindness;
many urged me not to disturb the
skunk at all. Nearly everybody shared
my own high regard for mephitis as a
species. I found, indeed that there
Is something like a cult Of persons
who have learned that mephitis. when
understood, has attractive traits OF
character coupled with ingratiating
personality. Mr.. Thornton w. Burgess,
the nature writer, wrote gratefully of
my support of his own lone voice
crying in the wilderness for justice to
the independent little fellow in black
and white" The editor of Antiques,
MT Homer Eaton keyes, sent me a
drawing of an early American Colonial
flag, apocryphal, presume, bearing
the figure of skunk rampant, with
the motto, II Mind My Bizness; You
Mind Yourn," analogue to the au-
thentic rattle snake flag and its motto.
Don't Tread on Me" Mr.. Nicholas
Biddle, head of the Pennsylvania State
Game Commission, lauded my support
for an animal not only handsome but
very useful, upon which the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature has put protection
for eight months Of each year.
Better Method Suggested.
Among suggested devices for accom-
plishing a humane and courteous re-
moval Of my skunk, the most novel
and arresting came from a Well-known
writer, Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane, author
OF Free Land" running currently in
the Saturday Evening Post, and, some
years ago, co-author, with Frederick
O'Brien, of White Shadows in the
South Seas" Mrs. Lane wrote me
I condense:
THE way to persuade a skunk to
move is to write it note suitable to
the circumstances. Some three years
ago q plumber removed some stones
from the foundation of my farmhouse
in the Ozarks. Through the hole a
mother skunk with family of kittens
entered and made their home under
my living room. had always heard
that the way to deal with skunk was
to write 1t a note. My household
hooted, but I wrote Mrs. Skunk, ex-
pressing my pleasure in her neighbor-
illness and my admiration Of her
charming children, and saying that
unfortunately workmen were coming
to repair the foundation with masonry
next morning. set this note at night
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1t IS interesting because Mr.. Baruch
more than any other man in America
is a stanch Democrat, a faithful
follower of the party and probably
has given more Of his personal fortune
over the last quarter Of a century than
has anybody else.
When such man, after virtually
a f1ve-year silence, decides to speak
out, it means something For here is
not an enemy of the party, not an
enemy of the President, but a devoted
friend who asks that the White House
recognize its responsibility for the
recession and do the sensible thing
that many business men are pointing
out should be done to put an end to
that same recession.
(Copyright. 193s)
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By MARK SULLIVAN,

4 VONDALE, Chester County,
~ Pa.-Some while ago asked
~ readers to give me suggestions
4 = about a personal problem. A
skunk had taken up his home under
the front porch Of my house here on
the farm. I wished to bring about his
absence. made clear that liked
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the little animal,
had high appre-
citation Of his
character an d
personality. But
there was always
the risk that his
presence might
give rise to some
development un-
fortunate to the
friendly little
animal himself or
to some Of my
human guests.
! received many
suggestions: Care
f.,yf
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credited with establishing the present
association.
Mrs. Elizabeth Magruder, chairman
Of the Finance Board, reported the
County Welfare Board had allotted
$4,000 from the Community Chest
funds Of the original budget for visit
ing nurse work.
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Navy Concert Cancelled.

The regular Tuesday evening con-
cert Of the United States Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra has been can
celed for this evening because of
the annual Navy relief ball to be held
at the Sail Loft at that time.
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counsel table, Messrs
With this shewd brilliant
Senator Wheeler
drastic policy leading monopot
Moreover he might have much
Within the Democratic party, the lines being clearly
betn NeD
tdedlic politicians
fight leadership put in strategic posi-
realistic they Jailed try to bring
who adept
on their hook with the
together after the Senator
Copyright nane Incl
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thing to keep out Of. British
"perfidy" has long been proverbial
in France; here we have assumed,
perhaps too loosely, that the same
nation which habitually bombed
Arab babies in 1raq and Arabia was
somehow a pillar Of world de-
mocracy because it had parlia-
mentary government 1t Westmin-
lister. Perhaps some Of the heady
enthusiasm for making common
cause with England for the defense
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Fof example, the Works Progress
Works Administration and other
OF teephonng congressional NeW
their districts before publicly
Representative able glorious word his home
newspapers and take credit to himself
From the instant OF his first courtb opposition
mas been denied the privilege of the
and enemy Senator James
bring And when
dramatic the situation mentioning
of all the great public works n State
But everything month";
the W. p A. increased
Miles, officially w. A.
for the White House
additional
Of other pap has also
In the matter OF patronage,
been promptly complied Although nou
only to drop hint get good place Sor
needy supporter And this
being out before Murray Representative Jerry
OConneA another bitter Wheeler invariably
Most astonishing of all, the the
New
pestenty
ILL., and could not accept telephone
These small things. but of
politics BY such things these the quotations
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physical ressm-
blance to the Sec-
retary. M q a y
have recognized
it. To analyze it
is as dimcult As
to analyye the
new crop control
bill. 1t may we'll
be the physique,
the shape Of the
head. the Arm
mouth, the glass.
es through which
keen eyes miss
little. 1t Ii elus-
We on close
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Mr. b a r u c n
held during war
time a position of
responsibility Sec
ond only to that
Of Gen. Pershing.
To him was in
trusted the task
Of mobilizing the
industrial re-
sources Of the
Nation in fighting
the war. He had
the opportunity
to impose excess
sive regulation, to
Use ex t e nSi v e
powers arbitrari.
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An American
You Should
Know
Frederick W. johnson
Reflects Policies
of Ickes.
BY DELLA PyNCHON.

BY DELLA PXNCHCN.
" YYOMlNG's Frederick ".
\A/ johnson, commissioner Of
Wv the General Land Once,
' quite naturally reflects tho
conservation policies OF his chief, Sec
rotary Of Interior Ickes.
More amazing Is Mr.. Johnson's
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OF democracy except
vanish the
postwar British politics has
Fascist holiday
thoroughly foreign
democracy the better for all Eden fall
an
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THE opinions Of tho this page are their oon not
T,. Hsfcsary sc % TIE Sar such opntons presented
readers although such opinions contradictory among
thenselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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We, the People
Eden's Osng Declared Lesson for u. S. That British
Democracy Il Not Like Americas.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.


HE spulon Of Mr. Anthony Eden EngIands foreign
from the British cabinet recalls
foreign minister
resignation that the
Kaisers particular
hni anything substantial temporary
the British government will be q diplomatic
The European problem debate imperial.
Ism without bjecting
EdenS departure the London
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Wise Advice
Given by
, Baruch
Urges Reform Not Be
Put Ahead of Re.
covery.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

w YORDS Of wisdom, words Of
AA/ friendly advice for Presi-
w dent Roosevelt, words un-
tainted by any political
ambition or selfish purpose have
been spoken by Bernard M. Baruch
to the Senate committee investigating
the causes OF unemployment.
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PATRIARCHS TO MEET
Regular Monthly Session at Old
Engine House Tomorrow.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Association Of Oldest Inhabitants Of
the District Of Columbia will be held
tomorrow night at the Old Union En-
gine House. beginning at 7:30.
A special report of the Finance
Committee is one of the subjects
scheduled for early consideration at
the session.
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political exchange are always de-
termined.
It's undeniable that the effort
to tempt Senator Wheeler back into
the fold is in progress. The mean
ing Of the effort is more doubtful
matter. The likelihood is that the
effort originates not with the Presi-
dent, but with the group of his
advisers represented by the men
at the Electric Bond and Share
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Of the
result His group
Of London and Paris
settlement with the growing claim
realistic" than the earlier
conference 1919? not possible that
Grafton English
with the dropping eyds and the rheumacs
British
do not know the Some observers tell that all de-
signed the decks Hits
all gigantic
English newspaper
believe the Chamberlain policy png
hateful British public opinion that there
Chamberlain could find
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The Capital Parade
New Dealers Striving to Lure Senator Wheeler Back
Into Fold-Baits Held Before Montanan.

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
DELICATE effort being K
Wheeler Of Montana
~ month the bats patronage
quietly but nstently dangled before
fight opposition
From the Of his first attack BILL
Senator Wheeler the sce
other outstanding
the feeling
projects his
recognition.
Now all that
friendly invitation
Robert
poness meaningless however Senator
Wheeler, chief sponsor o
Holding Company al u 4. n NEKTHNG
right the kAWN1KHNN VW kSZ CONES 70
NM M4O
tor have been MCESNSH"\
s.
A
patronage = /-Mn
the juicy AOH
helgammtes to hooks for HV
politicians. Lately these 4n>> ##$atH Z .M
been coming Ill W t#33 SWAEkltJ
with a frequency WIZ Mp
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MRS. JAPHET RENAMED
NURSING SERVICE HEAD
Director Of Arlington County Unit
Credited With Founding Visit
ing Association There.

Mrs. Viola Japhet was reelected
executive director Of the Arlington
County Visiting Nurse Association at
its February meeting, 1t YVES announced
yesterday.
Mrs. Japhet, . registered nurse, has
been associated with nursing activities
for several years. She is a graduate
Of the Cleveland (Ohio) City Hospital
and studied public health nursing at
Western Reserve University. When
she came to Arlington County she
made . study Of nursing needs and Is
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ltAliAn diplomatic victory: the re-
constitution of the Four-Power
Pact-the so-called "stresa Front"
OF England, France, Italy and Ger
many offers . graceful line Of re-
treat TO the middle-aged synthetic
Caesar.
Ths whole thing represents a
triumph Of that cynical irisincerity
which diplomats call realism"
England and France, on the whole,
are still governed by the same set
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eight-hour working day to preparing
his lectures. marking papers and
grading the students.
As q teacher he will be responsible
for discipline in the class and this,
prison ofIicials recognize. can be a
delicate problem. A keeper is avail
able on each floor. but, in practice
teachers settle discipline problems
themselves, unless they assume riot
proportions. The prison population
has no use for . "squealer."
Whitney has behaved with such
rigid adherence to the rules that he
has slipped completely into the ano-
nymity of being = number among
nearly 5000 other numbers. He had
a dificult problem to face in the
first few weeks, when inmates used
to invent excuses for coming down
the hill to get look at the almost
legendary Wall Street figure. He met
1t, as the probationary officer pre-
dicted he would, with sportsman
ship remaining genial under what
was rough. even If whispered,
riding"
Faces New Problem.
That problem has disappeared, it
was learned, but he is now struggling
with an even more harassing one.
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Whitney Teaching at Prison.;
Pay Doubled, Gets 6Oc a Week

Specia! Dispatch to The Star.
OSSINING. N. Y. May . (NA
MAJ Richard Whitney. the former
president of the New York Stock Elk
change who was sentenced to from S
to 10 years for grand larceny. has ad-
justed himself to the gray round Of
life here at Sing Sing and today looks
as we'll as when he entered the prison
last month.
When seen yesterday afternoon he
was standing among q small. scat
tered group watching inmates shay
flies. which is all that was left Of a
scheduled baseball game washed out
by threatening weather He made an
odd-looking figure as he stood quietly
among quiet little men, most of them
much younger and much shorter
than he.
Infrequently. a quip or a jibe or
a frank Boy, you're lousy" would toss
back and forth with the baseball. but
Whitney did not join in. He stood
squirting into the sunlight, q tall,
heaVy-faced man in gray trousers, q
gray sweater that had been sent to
him from home and white shirt open
at the neck. BY some trick of stand
Ing solidly with lifted face and arms
at graceful ease, he managed to re-
tain some OF his personality and look
like what he is-a Groton and Har-
ward bred man whose income had
once been $4,000 a week.
Whjtnov uyLo rt.l 49, ,ooo
as financial figure of national promi-
nence. will end it as a 60-cents-a-week
Instructor in the prison school. This
represents a 100 per cent rise in nav
since he entered the prison. For the
two weeks which followed his "recep-
ton period into prison life he earned
cents day on the cleanup squad
IN the 114-year-old cell block, clean
ing windows and latrines and hopping
floors. The superintendent of the
school asked Warden Lawes to assign
Whitney to replace a teacher who had
been graduated" into the outside
world. The warden did so because, he
explained, Il didn't see why I
shouldn't. 1t is all according to
routine and there's no reason I know
OF why the man should be discrimi-
mated against"
Begins New Job.
Whitney started his new work TODAY,
taking charge of course known as
visual education" This is an elective
and cultural course and is ranked
as the most popular of it's type in
the school. Only the vocational courses
are more in demand He will operate
lantern slide protector. flashing
scenes Of geographic or historic i'm
portance on q screen. and lecture on
them. He will have four classes a
day OF about IS men each and will
devote the balance of Sing SINGS
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As one informant phrased 1t, "Toadies
and wheedlers, anxious to make a
contact that they expect to prove
useful In the outside world. have tried
to attach themselves to him in one
way or another, and even run errands
for him. They call him Mr.. Whitney.
He has been discouraging them. You
know. prison has its society too, and
Whitney seems to realize that getting
into prison society is a matter OF
not being seen with the wrong people.
tCopyfiaht, 1888. by the North America,
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) q.
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.SlEEP WALKER FALLS

Failing 20 feet from a porch while
waking in her sleep, Mrs. Mary F.
Mann, II, of SIP Georgia avenue
NV. was only slightly injured last
night, police reported.
The woman. who lives with her son
William A. Mann, fell after she walked
Through a bedroom, climbed out a
~1ndow and onto porch. She
landed on a lawn, suffering only
shock.
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Cat in Organ.

BUFFALO, May 9 (P).-Church Or
eanist Abram Butler. jr., started to
rehearse his Sunday service.
rS-s-s-s-s. meouw, sph-ph-t-t," re-
sponded the organ.
Butler looked inside and saw a
highly indignant cat and five kittens.
The S. P. c. A. had to remove part
Of the organ to get the cats out.
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Church. North Capitol street and
Florida avenue, tied herself up.
Detective Sergt. j. X. Baker said
he understood the girl had been in
poor health, due to . nervous dis
order. She was taken to Casualty
Hospital after she was found by .
janitor. clad in her undergarments
and with q stocking tied across her
mouth and an elastic garter looped
over he wrists.
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DR.. Shepherd to Sneak.

+pr w. T. Shepherd will speak or
the Evolution of Religion" at a meet.
ing Of the Society for Philosophical
Inquiry at 4:45 pm. tomorrow in the
National Museum. Officers of the so.
eiety are DR.. Edward E. Richardson
president; DR.. Shepherd, vice gpresi
dent; Maj. E. L. Dyer, treasurer, ano
Grace E. Willoughby, secretary.