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Evening star., 1938-02-06

Those Who Will
Benefit by This Course
l. Persons whose business, political
or social connections make it nee
essary for them to address groups
of people but who are uncomfort-
able and self-conscious while doing
it and uneasy about the results.
2. People occupying positions of i'm
portance, whose reputation and
prestige suffer because of ineffec-
tlveness in addressing groups of
people.
3. Those who are already speakers,
but realize that guided practice
will smooth off rough edges.
4. Those with ideas but who have
never received recognition because
they have been kept in their shells
by timidity.
5. Teachers will benefit from this
course and should urge advanced
students who show signs of leader
ship to avail themselves of this op-
portunity.
6. Statesmen should be especially in
terested. Charles M. Schwab de-
clared: 1--WE are all statesmen every
day OF our life. We are selling our
ideas, our plans, our energy, our
enthusiasm to those with whom we
come in contact"
Evening star., 1938-02-06
CONE TO THE PRELIMINARY
MEET|NG-See for Yourself
West BALL ROOM, ShoREhAM HOTEL
Thursday Evening, Feb. 10th, at 8 O'Clock
NO CHARGE NO OBLIGATION
Preliminary Meeting Last

VOU will see former students-Business and Profess
l. sonal Men of Washington demonstrate how easy
it is to think your feet to express thoughts with
compelling force and clarity. Once you have learned
to do these, you will know the secret Of holding an
audience You ,ci lose the inhibng fear hch has
held glued your chair in meeting after meeting ile
those of less ability dominated the because of
competence speak in convincing You will learn
to organize and express your arguments in
own particular proposition to marshal them in logi-
cal sequence and to put the closing punch at the
psychological moment
You will hear this demonstrated by those who year
ago, were suffering under the same limitations
Evening star., 1938-02-06

Washington Business and Pro-
fessionoI Men Who Have Taken
This Training Soy:
"7his course not osiy trains teoble to think on
their feet and get out Of their shell, but it fpes
fhem practical training j" the psychology Of
dealing uifh people,"
Robert H. DriskiII
Attorney
Woodward Buidinq
"A fao.hsfed course that generates a new degree
Of self confidence and enthusiasm. A Practical
training for dealing wifh individuals as ueH as
yifh eronbs.''
l. S. Webster
Employment Director,
Peoples Drug Stores, Inc.
"The Granville B. Jacobs Course is Of sueh
great practical uaiae that it woald be sound in.
uesfmexf at foe times its cost"
chorIes B. QuorIe.
Assistont Manager,
Moekubin, Less & Company
Woodward Building.
"This training i. sfraishf.fo,ward thinking and
foreetal expression has been most palaable to
me-"
Harry H. SteidIe
Bureau Of Stondords
"Ineredibie as it may seem, the Granville B.
Jacobs Is ueeks course in Effective Speaking is
equivalent to many two.year courses Of com.
parable xafare."
}. o. BIokeIy
Soes Monoeer,
Merchandising Division, Amereon Oil Company.
BoIhmore, MoYIond.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW said: There Is no other
accomplishment which any man can have which
will 50 quickly make for him career and secure
recognition Is the ability to speak acceptably"
Evening star., 1938-01-27
D. c. POWERFUL
SEEN RATE CLUB"
District Bill, as Reported,
Asks Public and Private
Needs Survey.
BY DON S. WARREN,

Study of possibilities of development
OF q municipality owned power plant,
proposed in the 1899 District supply
bill now before the House, was de-
scribed today In one quarter on Capt.
tol Hill as Club" to be held over
the Potomac Electric Power Co. In the
interest Of reduced rates.
Meanwhile the Public Utilities Com
mission, acting in proceeding pre-
viously started, ordered reduction Of
the basic rate of return allowed the
Pepco from 65 to per cent, which
will mean consumer rate saving this
year Of some S769,000.
For the proposed new study of
municipal power plant, the subcom-
mittee asks an appropriation out Of
District revenues of $4,000. While
at first it was assumed this study
would consider only power production
needed by the District and Federal
Government, the wording of the pend
ing District supply bill emissions pos
sible sale of current to the public also.
The record shows that many times
IN the past decade or so proposals have
been considered both in and out Of Con-
gress for development of a municipal
power plant. particularly in connection
with suggestions for hydroelectric de-
velopment at Great Falls. So far moth
ing has beer approved finally, al
though one engineering study cost the
District $50,0O0. This was as recent
as 1888.
Little r. v. A. Idea Suggested.
The possibilities of such develop
ment have been argued for years.
One Of the most recent proposals was
q bill offered two years ago by Repre-
sentative Rankin, Democrat. OF Mis-
sissippi, proposing application OF the
basic idea back of the Tennessee
Valley Authority for the Potomac
Valley. The suggestion was shelved
after President Roosevelt cast bit OF
cold water on this comprehensive
regional plan by suggesting that 1t
was not his intention, then, Of devel-
oping all large rivers as T. v. A.
scheme.
But most serious attention has been
given by Congress at least twice to
hydroelectric developments at Great
Falls in relatively recent years. Fol-
lowing the 1921 report of Maj. NJ. G.
Tyler. United States Army engineer,
Congress considered, but did not
finally approve, suggestions Of the
economic possibilities of District power
development at Great Falls. Again,
in 1882. another report on a similar
engineering study was submitted by
o. NJ. Rau to former Dis rict Engineer
Commissioner John c. Gotwals. in
keeping with a congressional authori-
cation.
Plans Develop Reaction.
While at first the results of these
studies created sentiment for such q
power development. reaction developed.
The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission several times has
registered its view that Great Falls
should be preserved as park area
Of great value to the National Capital.
More recently. Secretary Of Interior
Ickes has taken a similar view.
Evening star., 1938-01-27

planted in the tropical and subtropical
regions, and the plants are in many
places grown in tubs in greenhouses
for residence, lawn and porch decora-
ton. Here their unusual leaves and
very formal appearance add much to
the decorative scheme. This is the
plan for the older ones. The younger
pandanus types make beautiful plants
for table decoration or very small plate
or rock gardens, planned on minia-
ture scale. g..
You may obtain the tiny plants
from florists, as they are grown by
them on a very large scale. They are
not very difficult to manage, so long as
you give them an abundance of water
and heat. They begin really to wake
up In January and start growing.
They need lots of moisture at this time.
and must be given compost Of fibrous
loan - four parts well-decomposed
manure and leaf mold and enough
sand to make the combination porous
The roots must be given plenty Of
roomA The drainage must be carefully
watched, as bad water will soon make
your screw-pine sick.
In February. and from this month
on. the pandanus must have all the
sun she can get, an abundance Of
water. and temperature of 65 or 10
at night. Through the summer they
must have all the water they need,
and in the autumn and winter they
cease to demand as much. Ventila-
ton is absolutely essential.
In order to increase your plants you
take out a few suckers from the main
stem. These may be gently removed
and, with a few bottom leaves, placed
singly in small pots. Use equal parts
OF sand loan and peat. Then place
the pot in a warm propagating bed.
where the new plant may be kept
warm and cozy while getting its start.
Evening star., 1938-01-27

This is best done in January, when
the heat can be regulated in the green-
house..
However, many prefer to plant the
seeds. II you wish to help them along,
soak the seed in warm water for "a
hours. so that they will germinate more
quickly. Use the same formula Of
sand, peat and loan as for the suck
ers. Cover and press down firmly, SO
the young roots can take hold when
they push their way out of the seed.
Water and keep in the shade.
In some Of the countries in which
the screw-pine is a native the long,
ringed trunks, the bracing roots and
the crowns Of dracena- like foliage are
as familiar as our evergreens.
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-01-27
Natures Children
Screw-Pine
(Pandanus utilis).
By LILLIAN cox ATHEY,

BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
TN THE family Pandanaceae there
are three genera. The name pan
danus" is Latinized form Of a
L Malayan name. The members are
tropical plants that sometimes reach
the dignity of a tree. When seeing
one for the first time, your reaction
Is that the poor thing has been de-
Evening star., 1938-01-27

prived of its privacy by having all the
soil removed from its roots, leaving it
high and dry and exposed.
1t is rot long, however, before you
zee that it is the little quirk in the
family, setting it apart from the neigh
bors. for the silt like aerial roots and
the perfect spiral arrangement of the
long, sword like leaves reveal unusual
ness to the observer.
The pandanus or screw-pine is
The Washington times., 1938-02-15

Imagine! 82-inch wide priscil-
las for only SOC a pair! Cur
tains at this price are usually
only So inches wide! Made of
ivory cotton marquisette with
wide dotted ruffles.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
1900 ITALIANS SAIL
FOR AFRICAN COLONY
10000 Tons Of Food and 81. 900
Gallons Of Wine Loaded for
Libyan Settlers.

By the Associated Press.
GENOA, Oct. 28.-Genoa bade fes-
tive farewell today to $4,000 colonists
sailing for African Libya, which the
Fascist Grand Council this week Or
dered changed from a colony to q
status Of provincial district.
More than 1000 were In the first
group to arrive here.
Naples and Syracuse similarly hon.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
WALLACE ATTACKS
'B|G.MONEY BOSSES
I Don't Think You Will Let Them
Fool YOU Secretary Tells
Pennsylvanians.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
READING, Pa, Oct. 28.-The Re-
publican forces once in control in
Pennsylvania were pictured today by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as
seeking to turn the State back to the
hig-money bosses playing the
game of powerful and entrenched in
terests."
The Secretary. l of 10 top-flight
New Dealers firing political blasts in
the closing days of the fall campaign,
told a group of Berks County Demo-
Gratis, however, that II don't think
you are going to let them fool you"
II think you are going to take your
stand for the kind of sane program
progress the Democratic party, under
the leadership of President Roosevelt,
has given you," he declared last
night, ''and vote for George H. Earle
for Senator and Alvin Jones for Co..
ernor and for the men who are asso-
ciated with them on the Democratic
ticket"
He will be followed into the State
tomorrow by Attorney General Cum
mings and Senator Barkley, Demo-
crat, of Kentucky.
Secretary Wallace declared that the
interest being shown by Republicans
in the farm problem was a hollow
one" that would be forgotten "as soon
as the votes are counted"
The Republicans lack of interest"
in these problems was shown, he said,
by action of Senate Republicans who
he declared tried to "hamstring" the
present legislation with impossible"
amendments when it was up for con-
sideration.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
RELIEF FUND LAW
IS SEEN BY HOLT
w. P. A. Scandals to Brinu
Bans on Political Uses,
Senator Believes. 4.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Holt, Democrat, OF West
Virginia predicted today that COM
plants of w. P. A. activities in the
election campaign would lead Congress
to prohibit use Of relief money for
political purposes.
Senator Holt, a critic Of the w. P.
A., charged that manipulation of re-
lief funds to influence voters had be-
come "a national scandal that should
lead to some grand jury indictments" "
He praised the work of the Senate
Campaign Expenditures Committee,
which has investigated charges that
the w. P. A. was being used for the
benefit of candidates. The committee
has criticized relief officials in some
States.
Certainly" Senator Holt declared,
mo one can say that Senator Shep-
pard. who is chairman of the commit
tee, is not an administration supporter
And no one can say that the committee
has been biased in any way in in
vestigating these charges"
Senator Sheppard's conbnittee will
meet again next Wednesday and
Thursday to hear final reports on in
vestigations in half dozen States.
The chairman said further informa-
ton on charges of w. P. A. political
activity in Pennsylvania, North Dakota,
Tennessee, Kentucky and New Jersey
would be included, along with reports
on other Investigations in Ohio and
Illinois.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
HUNT z IN HOLD-UP
OF LIQUOR STORE
Police Seek Bandits Who
Forced Three Into Ice Box
and Took SIPS.

Police today were searching for two
hold-up men who took $125 from the
proprietor Of liquor store at $40
Kennedy street NV. last night and
forced him, along with two others, into
the stores ice box.
The victim Of the robbery was
Maurice Lustine, AZ. The bandits
walked into the store about l0:45 pm,
and asked for a quart OF whisky.
When Mr.. Lustine turned his back one
man pulled sawed-on shotgun from
under his coat.
He ordered Mr.. Lustine and Julian
Sanford Of Takoma Park, who had
come to collect the stores receipts for
bank, into q large ice box. The
captives watched through a glass door
while the bandits emptied the cash
register. The stores colored delivery
boy came in while the robbery was in
progress, and also was forced into the
ice box.
The victims were able to free them
selves without difficulty, police said.
They gave description of the robbers,
believed to be the same who held up
an ice cream store in the 300 block Of
Kennedy street NV. several weeks ago.
Three colored youths confessed last
night, police say, to the hold-up few
hours earlier Of Robert E. Phelps Of
lot Shepard street, Chevy Chase, Md,
in the 2400 block Of Thirty-ninth place
NV.
The suspects, who were held for in
vestigation, gave their names as Irving
c. Wright, II. of the 600 block of New
Hampshire avenue NV; Theodore
Persons, %, and Norman Owens, II,
both OF the 900 block of Twenty-sev-
enth street NV.
Evening star., 1938-10-28

said, can find and report to the police
evil practices that endanger every
one of the 1000 school children of
the area.
Ever since the settlement house
started operating, late in 1921, Mrs.
SCOTS main drive has been toward
breaking up the gangs that breed de-
linquency. providing q place where
the people Of the community could
escape from the sordid trappings of
their lives and return to their homes
with something of the wholesomeness,
the elements of sanitary living they
find at the settlement.
Community to Blame.
In the spring of 1921 a 17-year-old
girl living in the Southwest area was
sentenced to death for killing a man.
Mrs. Scott was sent to investigate the
case in an effort to commute the
sentence to life Imprisonment. What
she saw there drove her back to the
organization that had sent her with
new idea.
She placed the responsibility for
the tragedy squarely on the shoulders
Of the whole community. II the girl
had had some place to 60, some one
to turn to in her desperation, the
step she had taken might have been
averted.
The settlement, started just . few
- ~ -
has moved three times as it has ex-
panded, until 1t now occupies a
three-story building at SOL Second
street S.W.
The building is old. Gaping holes
expose the shoddy siding. The chill
dren's nursery beds are lined up
against damp walls, yellowed and
dingy with age.
In once place directly over child's
Evening star., 1938-10-28
TEACHERS ASSEMBLE

BALTIMORE, Oct. % (P.-Mary-
lands school children enjoyed a hou-
day today as some 1000 school teachers
gathered here for two-day program
Of the list meeting Of the Maryland
State Teachers Association. A BAN
quet tonight will be one Of the high
lights Of the program.
General meetings will be held at the
Polytechnic Institute.
President Charles L. Kopp Of Cum
berland will preside.
Evening star., 1938-10-28

bed the plaster has fallen. The child
had left the bed just five minutes
before the entire ceiling caved in.
In the basement beams at odd angles
keep the floor from collapsing.
'-''~''~''N''t the house pictures done
by the art class make pitiful effort
W Over s..aggnng cracks IN the wall.
More than 40 youngsters from to
5 years of age are in the nursery
school. They arrive at 7 am. and
stay till pm. They are given three
meals, all many Of them get. Each
one drinks a quart Of milk, and they
have their afternoon maps on real beds
with mattresses, between clean sheets
A piano teacher, paid by a friend,
teaches 40 children a week. There
are art, cooking, sewing, speech. dra-
matics and carpentry classes and study
clubs. Approximately 900 such young
sters are on the rolls OF the settle
ment,
Evening star., 1938-10-28
lighthouse of Southwest
To Be Di1nmed If Chest Fails
Community House, Only One for
Colored Children in Area, Has
Quota of $4,000.

The Lighthouse of Southwest
Washington, as many neighborhood
residents speak of Southwest Com
munity House, will be a light sadly
dimmed if the Community Chest fails
to meet its quota in the November
campaign.
The settlement house, the only one
for colored children in the whole
Southwest area, is Chest agency
that has little hope Of reaching its
modest $4,000 budget under the new
designation scheme. 1t was inspected
yesterday by visitors on the Chests
"go-and-see" tour.
If the Chest goes over its quota
Southwest House will be given its en-
tire budget Otherwise it will be
forced to turn to the agencies which
have been designated funds in ex-
cess of their approved budget.
Every agency will be taken care Of,
the Chest promises, but in some cases
they will have to curtail their pro-
grams.
May Go without Milk.
Curtailment Of Southwest House
would mean, perhaps. cutting down
on the amount Of milk each child is
giveen day. Or sacrificing the case
worker requested for the 'frst time in
this years budget.
I'VE can't do the children any
permanent good" explained Mrs. Al
ma r Srott fot,pder md <,,v,aYi,.
tendent of the settlement house, IF
they are surrounded by criminal,
vicious things the minute they leave
here"
Petty stealing, she pointed out, Is
a tangible thing she can deal with,
but the vice that stalks through the
alleys of the Southwest is beyond her
control. A case worker, whose visits
are unannounced and unexpected, she
Evening star., 1938-10-28
C0CKR0ACH INTERESTS
MRS. ALICELONGWORTH
Its History Runs Back So Far 1T
Fairly Takes Your Breath
Away She Lectures.

B, the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 28.-Even the
lowly cockroach is "absorbingly inter-
esting" from biologists point Of view,
says Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
Princess Alice" of the White House
when Theodore Roosevelt was Presi-
dent
Here as lecturer, Mrs Longworth
remarked that she had pursued the
study Of geology and fossils in recent
years.
Il find it absorbingly interesting to
consider the cockroach," she said.
How ancient is his history! In a
straight line We can see it runs back
50 far into the past that it fairly takes
your breath away" Geology demon
strates, she said, that evolution, which
has gone on 50 long, will continue.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
WILL 'AIR' PRAYERS

Cleveland Radio Station VIII
Close With Supplications.
CLEVELAND, Oct. % P).-Cleve-
land clergymen are going to put radio
station wears listeners to bed with
prayer.
Manager John Patt said yesterday
he feels the world needs prayer. Since
pastors normally are asleep at am,
when the station signs off, Mr.. Patt
said they would record their supplica-
tions at more normal hours.
The transcriptions, starting Novem-
ber I, will carry the voices of Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish faiths.
Evening star., 1938-10-28

ored 1000 who were to start from.
those cities on this 10th anniversary
Of Fascism.
Thirty thousand tons OF food and
$4,000 gallons of wine were loaded
on seven ships in the Genoa harbor,
Today's emigres came chiefly from
the Northern provinces. Each family
had its home already allotted, 80 to
l23 acres, three-room dwelling and
q well.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
JUDGE TEAGUE'S DEATH
LEAVES SLATE OPEN
Was Only Candidate in Race for
Congress in North Carolina
Sixth District.

By the Associated Press
HIGH POINT, N. c., Oct. 2s.-The
death Of Judge Lewis E. league Of
High Point left the 9Th congressional
district without a nominee today In
the general election.
The 9Th District Democratic Com
mittee is expected to meet within
few days to name the Democrats con-
gressional candidate, who will be un-
opposed.
Judge league was victor in run-off
primary July with Oscar G. Barker
Of Durham.
Judge league died late yesterday a
few hours after he suffered a stroke of
paralysis in his Office. He had been
judge of the High Point Municipal
Court since it was created in 1927.
Evening star., 1938-12-01
Chi Signas to Fete
National Council

The National Council of Chi
Sigma, national sorority, which is
to meet in Washington during the
week end, will be entertained by the
Alpha Province at a luncheon Sat-
urday at 1:30 pm. at the Harrington
Hotel.
Lillie-Marie Jones of Baltimore is
the national president, Dorothy Wal
ker of Camden, N. j., national vice
president: Mabel Biddle of Little
Rock, Ark, national secretary, and
Josephine Sullivan of Washington,
national treasurer.
The province officers are: Loretta
McCleery, president: Marjorie Mertz,
first vice president; Eileen Hays,
second vice president; Dorothy
Luckett, corresponding secretary;
Irene Edwards, recording secretary;
Julia Yokum, treasurer; Margaret
Moore, historian, and Mary Hou
Grimes, parliamentarian.
Evening star., 1938-12-01
Autographed Ball
OF Army Team to
Be Prize at Fete

A football autographed by the
members of the winning Army team
in the great football battle last
week between the West Pointers
and the Midshipmen will be the
prize awarded to the winner in a
game called picking the pigskin"
at the tea dance and carnival Sat-
urday. The Medical Branch of the
Army Relief Society has arranged
this carnival and dance for the
benefit of its work for the coming
winter, and the fete will be held
in the Sternberg Auditorium at the
Army Medical Center at S o'clock.
The Army Band will play for the
dancing, and refreshments are ip-
cluded in the price of admission.
Ample parking space has been re-
served for patrons of the carnival,
and among the many attractions
for this benefit party will be a
shooting gallery, an indoor golf
tournament and other games, for
which prizes will be awarded. Pa
irons of the carnival and tea dance
are not limited to those in service
circles. but others in the National
Capital are invited to attend.
Evening star., 1938-12-01
State Society
Dance Tomorrow

The South Carolina Society is hav-
ing its first dance and party OF the
season at the Shoreham Hotel to-
morrow night.
Mr.. Harry Slattery, Undersecre-
tary of the Department of Interior
will be the guest of honor, accom-
panied by his sister, Miss Mary
Slattery.
Col. j. Monroe johnson, Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce, also will
be guest.
Mr.. Edgar Morris, former presi-
dent of the Washington Board OF
Trade and now chairman OF the
Executive Committee of the Greater
National Capital Committee, is pres
ident of the society.