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Plan Surprise
For Scouts

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a> % Is q surprise party gotten up
Dl Mrs John Park for the girI
scouts Of Troop /, under Captain
Eva Warner and Lieutenant Va
nes>a Collins and who are now
In camp at Bugs Castle on Big
Pine Key was the request made
by those furnishing the lnforma-
uun
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puslnE group VIII leave Key
Wp>t ion the camping grounds.
and VIII carry ice and cool drinks
which have been donded by
friends. and although Captain
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PERSONAL

MCN OLD AT 40! GET PEP.
lUEIV New Ostrcx Tonic Tab
lets contain raw oyster invig
orators and other stlmulants.
One dose starts new pep. Value
S100 Special price 89c Call
write Gardeners Pharmacy.
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HOTELS

BRING YOUR VISITING friends
in need Of a good nights rest to
OVERSEAS HOTEL. Clean
rooms, innerspring mattresses.
Under new management OF
Fleming ST julyl8-tf
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

BAND INSTRUMENTS Manu-
featured by c G G Conn and
Pan-AmcrIcan Cash or easy
terms Ralph Garcia 423 81
monton street. augl3-lmo
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Like A Cracking Whip

\ NKROM gave no ground d.
1 / "That1l be just eight hours
too late, he sand.
The shcrinrs face went purple
with rage; 1T may be too late 10
do Hcttlc any good. but Itn leave
ample time 10 settle gotr ac-
count"
You haven't got the CUTS TO set
tie my account
Haven't got the-Why you dry
gulchjN' KILLER
That was as far as Ratchford
got Ankrom's fist smashed hard
against the SherlfT's lips with a
force that sent HIM sprawling. He
got up, one hand tugGing at the
shoulder-holstcred pistol beneath
ms coat
A0krom' posture did not change
until the weapon came IN sight
Then his hand went swapping
down. Like cracking whip his
gun spraDg clear Of leather; spat!
Ten>cly, and with bullying eyes
in a face gone white. Tom Ratch-
ford stared stupidity NJ the numbed
fingers Of his shaking hand. His
gum WaS in the sand a good eight
feet away. ITS mechanism TANNED
ley Ankrom $ load
You was Sayln'. shcr.f-9
RatcHtoydS lids dropped. but
NO: before Arkrom had seen The
new caution flooding their smoky
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Peasant Bandanas Protect
Hair; No Desk SLOUGH;
Other Points In New
Coed Technique
BY BETTY CLARKE
APP Feature Service Writer

SO you're gong to college
Watch your classroom chic
Don't let it be just by accident
that you look your best for that
eight o'clock Make it a point to
give yourself a precious few cN-
ira minutes for
Putting your makeup on cor
rectly Get the powder on smooth
~. all over your face and well
down under your chin. No rouge,
unless you're extremely pale and
think you need a faint blush
Lipstick that's becoming. bat not
hardening (Thc danger hes IN
getting II too dark
Brush And Comb
Fixing your hair in its most
becoming and easy to keep
fashion Half a dozen hicks with
a comb won't do this year You'll
have to brush and comb carefully
to bring out the life IN your hair
Wear hat or one OF the new
bandanas tied pcaSant-fashlon
under your chm for protection
against wind damage
Then check IN your mirror 10
see that both stocking seams are
straight your Slip isn't showing
and sweater and skirt arc to-
qGthCT Men are crank. ON those
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PERSONAL MENTION

l. l. Hunter employee of tho
postofllce IN Miami and Mrs
Hunter. arrived In Key Wc>t
Sunday for VI>it with rci
atiVcs They were accompanied
by Mrs Hunter mother. Alr,
Charles Rosam. ~ daughter
Miss Elizabeth Roe1u. Who haJ
been visiting ln Miami
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Mrs Henry jerks and baby
were passengers ON the early hu,
going to their home IN Clantun.
Alabama. for a visit with Iy.-
atlvcs and friends.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
Let 1t Rest.

Recurrent rumors that the ill-starred
reorganization bill was about to be resur-
rected from its unexpected place Of en-
tombment in the House, appear to have
been pretty well discounted with the
statement Of Representative Rayburn,
Democrat, of Texas, House majority
leader, that-although the legislation
was discussed at the White House-it
was not tagged with q presidential
must"
The theory back of the suggested re-
vival was that some of the House mem
bers who had voted for interment by
recommittal, had seen the light" and
wanted a chance to redeem themselves
and the President undoubtedly would
welcome a new deal.
BY the same token, however, some Of
those who went along" and voted in
favor of the measure, no doubt are well
satisfied with the fate that overlook it,
and do not intend to stick their necks
out" again. And this would apply to the
Senate equally with the House.
The country will be just as well salts
fed If the matter is dropped for the time
being. No one will dispute the fact that
the sprawlins Government machine
Evening star., 1938-05-17

words, the court is not going to hold the
Governments quasi-judicial agencies to
hard and fast rules Of procedure. A
certain amount Of leeway will be per-
mitted provided defendants are not de-
prived Of such fundamental rights as
reasonable opportunity to know the
charge against them and a reasonable
opportunity to meet it..
The Mackay decision has been inter-
preted as indicating that the court will
side with the board in its current contro-
versies with Republic Steel Corporation
and the Ford Motor Company. In both
OF those cases the boards procedure, al
legedly identical with that in the Mackay
case, has been under fire in the lower
courts, but If there actually was no SUBJ
stantial procedural difference 1t seems
unlikely now that the Supreme Court
will set aside the boards findings against
either the steel corporation or the motor
company.
Evening star., 1938-05-17

This looks like the healthiest year the
United States has ever known.
A record low death rate for the first
three months is reported both by the
United States Public Health Service and
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
which keeps a rigid check of the NOR
tality among its policyholders from all
causes.
For the first three months of 1898, the
companys figures reveal, the cumula-
tive death rate dropped to 8.5 per thou
sand, by far the lowest for the first
quarter of any year In history. The
nearest approach was a rate OF 9.3 for
the first quarter Of 1892. There is an
almost 10 per cent difference.
These figures are based on the records
of nearly $4,000, 900 persons. The rate Is
expected to be considerably higher for
the entire population, but proportion
ately just as low compared to other
years. Almost every month, in fact. has
set a new low record since May, 1887.
The first quarter Of the year is usually
the worst. It falls entirely in the winter
months when the respiratory diseases are
taking their heavy toll. But for the
month of March alone this year the NOR
tality rate dropped to the record low of
84 a thousand. The nearest approach
to this was 81 for March, 1888.
Reports from all over the United
States, says bulletin issued by the COM
pany, show that the year has gotten of
to an excellent start. Up to the week
ended April 16 all the large industrial
life insurance companies combined had
paid more than q 600 fewer death claims
than during the same period Of last
year. In the general population Of SO
large American cities deaths up to the
week ended April 16 were more than
$4,000 less than over q similar stretch
in 1927.
The improved health extends to Cam
ada. Out of 1,25O,000 policyholders in
the Dominion the death rate thus far
this year has been more than per cent
lower than during the first quarter Of
1897.
Part of the improvement, the life in.
surance statisticians believe. has been
due to unusually favorable winter
weather. Most parts of the country have
been dry with moderate Temperatures.
A hot. dry summer or an epidemic of
some Infectious disease may knock out
the record which seems in prospect.
The most important development
seems to have been the drop in the death
rate from tuberculosis. For the large
cross-section of the population repre-
sented by insured policyholders in all
companies it seems assured that the
mortality from this disease will have
sunk by the end of the year below so
per 100000. It has been only ATT for
the first three months, when it usually
is highest.
Thus far there has been no wide
spread epidemic of influenza. A con-
siderable drop in the mortality from this
disease, and also from pneumonia, had
been expected due to the large death
rate for which they were responsible in
1887. There has actually been recorded
drop of 46 per cent for the two dis
eases combined, II per cent for influenza
and SO per cent for pneumonia. The
latter figure may indicate that this
scourge of the cold, wet months is on
Evening star., 1938-05-17
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
RY THOMAS r. HENRY

its way out due to the increasing use
of pneumonia serums which are saving
cases that otherwise would have been
hopeless.
One of the most notable developments
recorded for these three months has
been the drop in child birth mortality.
The rate has been declining steadily
! since 1927, although it remains abnor-
mally high for the United States COM
pared with some European countries. A
factor in the decrease. the Metropolitan
report points out, has been a falling
birth rate, but there has also been a
decided drop in the mortality of mothers
per 1000 live births.
Other diseases which show noteworthy
Improvements in their death rates COM
pared to last year are scarlet fever,
whooping cough. diabetes. heart disease
and chronic kidney ailments. These
last two declines are considered especial
ly noteworthy, since the maladies them
selves have become the leading causes
of death in the country. Smaller de-
clines are in evidence for cancer, cerebral
hemorrhage and appendicitis. Measles
and diseases of the coronary arteries are
the only conditions to show increased
death rates over last year. This hap
pens to have been one of the periodic
measles years."
The health improvement seems to have
been both physiological and mental.
There has been slight drop in the sui
eide rate, an extension of a decline
which has been continuous ever since
the depression reached its depths in 1882.
Homicides also have been fewer than
during the first three months of 1887.
For all forms Of accidents there has
been a per cent drop and for auto
mobile fatalities the decline in the cumu-
lative rate has been II per cent.
Generally, Public Health Service Off
cials are convinced, there will be a
slight up-anddown fluctuation of the
Nations death rate for the next few
years before it becomes definitely estab-
lShed at a new low level.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
Burr Award.

Hundreds of their friends and still
more numerous strangers will rejoice to
hear that the Franklin L. Burr Prize of
the National Geographic Society has
been awarded to DR.. and Mrs. William
M. Mann in recognition Of the success OF
their expedition to the Netherlands
Indies last year.
The money may be inconsequential.
but it serves as tangible evidence OF
gratitude for especially meritorious work
in the field Of geographic science"-ap-
probation widely and sincerely felt. Any
citizen who has ventured to transport
even a relatively respectable poodle dog
by sea will understand without being told
the difficulties which Dr. and Mrs. Mann
must have experienced with the floating
menagerie which they brought almost
around the world to the Washington
Zoo. Intelligence, courage, patience and
q keen enthusiasm were wanted for the
performance of such q task.
But both of the recipients of the Burr
Prize desire that their staff of assistants
also shall be remembered with share
Of public applause. Every one who par
ticipated in the labor of the expedition
is entitled to thanks for the successful
completion Of the voyage. The whole
enterprise was cooperative in character,
and DR.. and Mrs. Mann would wish to
have that fact recalled at the present
moment and whenever in the future the
history of the effort shall be written.
Evening star., 1938-05-17

needs revamping, but the fury that was
stirred by the administration measure,
even though to some extent uncalled
for, demonstrated that reshaping is
demanded.
The issue is one that the next Congress
well may deal with and in the mean
time 1t would be a good idea for the
lawmakers to take one remedy they have
at hand for cutting down the number Of
Federal establishments, and refuse to
create any more.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
Mexican Volcano.

The long gathering storm appears 10
be breaking over Mexico. Already
clashes between students of the Uni
versity of Mexico and the Socialist
Youth coupled with rumors OF impend-
ing revolt in the state OF San Luis
Potosi bespeak the heightening tension.
Predictions after the oil appropriations
In March that President Cardenas had
stubbed his toe and was headed for
downfall as soon as the economic and
financial effect was felt may have seemed
a little too harsh then, for CardenaS
evoked degree of popular support such
as Mexico had never known. But the
outlook is now so dark that more serious
outbreaks may not be delayed more than
few weeks.
There is scarcely glimmer OF hope
that Mexico may soon find the solution
to its problems, for they are funda-
mental and represent basic con-
flict of interests within Mexico itself.
In brief President Cardenas is faced
with the following dilemma: Pressure OF
labor and agrarian demands aggra-
yated by discomfort of propertied inter-
ests, army and religion; extreme budget
difficulties heightened by large losses OF
revenue from taxation as a result OF
cessation of oil expectation and criti-
cal position of the peso made worse by
heavy flight of domestic and foreign
capital and severe drain on the favor
able balance of trade which served to
replenish the backing for the peso.
Labor is insisting upon greater i'm
petus to social reform, and oil workers
particularly complain that they have
not received from the government the
benefits they sought from the companies
before appropriation; the agrarians are
crying for greater land distributions and
expansion of credits: the army is dis
contented with its subordination to labor
as a directing force in MeXicos political
destiny, and throughout the whole is
infused the dynamite of the religious
issue.
The United States finds itself in po-
sition of grave responsibility for the
outcome. 1t has plunged so spiritedly
into the effort for appeasement through
out Latin America and has already
supported the Cardenas regime to such
an extent that it is inevitably associated
with the issue of peace or war below the
Rio Grande.
Far more than the good neighbor'
policy Is at stake. 1t is the question OF
having at our back door civil war
which, because of the peak to which
passions have been aroused might be as
terrible as the Spanish conflict. Aside
from the political social and economic
effects of such conflict nearby, the
general unsettlement would provide the
ideal opportunity for Intervention by
Fascist agents from Europe and Asia,
which have already shown disposition
to fish in troubled waters throughout
the world. So it is a. vital question of
self-defense for the United States that
the prospect of civil war in Mexico
raises.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
Substantial Rights.

The Supreme Court, in upholding the
procedure of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board in its case against the
Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., dealt
rather literally with the Federal agency,
but it cannot be said that the principles
enunciated in the decision are apt to
deprive employers of any substantial
rights.
Without doubt the boards procedure
was imperfect in that the defendant
company was not furnished with the
customary intermediate report Of the
Aial examiners findings. That omis-
sion, made in the interest of speed, was
not commendable, and in all probability
the board will cure that defect in future
proceedings.
Despite the failure to submit the inter-
mediate report, however, the court found
that the company knew the nature OF
the charge it was facing-discrimination
against certain employees because OF
their union activities. That being the
case, said the court, the omission Of the
intermediate report-a technical pro-
cedural defect-was not important since
it did not operate to the disadvantage
Of the company or deprive 1t Of the due
process of law guaranteed in the Fifth
Amendment.
The justices summed the matter up
nicely when they called attention to the
fact that the Fifth Amendment "guaran-
tees no particular form Of procedure; it
protects substantial rights" In other
Evening star., 1938-05-17
SILVER SPRING, Md.

6lLvEkG xtAANSS AvAN'
Dear Sir: Knowing your interest IN
birds, I want to tell you what real
pleasure we have been having this
month in watching the building OF
nest.
Robins wrens, sparrows and blue
birds have built nests about our house
and garden, but these nests have not
been noticed until they were ready Tor
tenants.
This time a pair Of mocking birds
with all the trees, vines and bushes to
choose from, decided to build in the
briariest vine around the porch-the
Van Fleet rose vine, and in full view
Of curious watchers.
For three or four days they, or rather
she. carried twigs and small sticks. and
dropped them carelcssly onto crossed
section Of the vine, many of these drift
ing down onto the porch. but she kept
on with the building while her mate, on
the chimney top Of the next house,
whistled and sang through his repertoire
OF bird calls, then flew up showing the
white markings on the underside Of his
wings, and the white feathers of his tail,
then down again to his high perch to
repeat the concert. No wonder she was
inspired to greater effort and kept bring
ing twigs, each Of which was as heavy
for her as large plank would be for a
human.
when enough of the sticks had lodged
to form a platform, he came to her aid
in building the real nest.
"They carried rootlets, straws, strips
of bark, dried grass.
I'VE. wanting to help, put out some
bits of colored yarn, but evidently such
decoration was not the fashion in Mock
erdom, for they are still blowing from
TIE branches.
These birds do not use mud as the
robins do so their nest is not as clumsy,
yet not as neat and compact as many
birds build.
"The top edge is almost even with the
caves Of the porch so we cannot see into
the nest and know how many eggs have
been laid.
I'VE have been surprised at the time
it has taken to build this nest, and at
the fearlessness Of the mocking birds.
Yours sincerely, E. M. H."
The mocking bird is one Of the most
interesting OF all birds
And this despite what any one thinks
of him, personally.
Not every bird watcher is friend of
the mocking bird.
Although some of these birds stay
with us here the year around. they are
not an unmitigated Joy at the bird feeder
in winter.
Often the specimens which stay with
us are very belligerent, and will drive
away all other birds from the feeding
box
Since these stations are set up for all
birds, they do not do their duty toward
just one or two Knockers.
Bread of various kinds is a favorite
of mocking birds in winter. so if this
sort of food is not used. there will not
be so many chances of attracting one of
these battlesome fellows.
X
The variety of song of this bird is
amazing.
It initiates almost every other COM
mon bird with the exception Of the wood
thrush.
We have never heard a mocking bird
Evening star., 1938-05-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRACEWELL.

try to initiate this thrush puC once, ana
that time he made & very poor job OF 1t,
indeed. Still, 1t was plainly an attempt.
but SO creaking that no wood thrush
would have owned 1t.
The mocker's attempt to initiate the
thrush sounded more like rusty hinge
than anything else.
In the main, the mocking bird is not
the best imitator of any Of the songs he
Apes.
He gives the listener the impression
that he could do much better II he
wanted to, but that he does not want to.
He is, shall we say, swinging?
Perhaps the mocking bird Is the origi-
nal Swing" musician. fellow who Is
not straight" player, in any sense, but
one who swings freely away from the
songs of other birds as they are sung.
The mocking bird throws back his
head, and "lets go" as his fancy dictates.
|, Now he adds notes, now he leaves
them out. He is not a "long- haired mu-
sician" in any sense, but bright young
fellow who knows perfectly we'll that
music Is sound, not notes on paper,
and that the spirit of music Is greater
than the letters thereof.
Hence the mocking bird is entirely
modern. He loves to sing, for the sake
of the song, and not to win anybodys
applause.
He sings because 1t is in him to sing.
Not for him q music stand. and some
body's ideas Of the Interpretation.
That is why even the rusty version OF
the thrush's beautiful melody has
keen interest for the musically minded
listener.
"All real composers and true mu-
sicians," some one has said, "know that
theirs is not static, but living art,
dependent not upon musty old papers,
but upon what living people do to it by
playing It,"
The great Beethoven when he wrote
his first symphony opened 1t with real
dissonance for its day. THAT was 18O0)
The music critics frothed at the mouth.
"Horrible!" they asserted. This young
man has much to learn
They said that, let us keep in mind, OF
the young man whom God had taught
all in the beginning.
Today We listen to his first symphony
without any ear hurt whatever, for many
musicians since his day have made us
used to such "dissonance."
X
Many people criticize the bluejay for
its belligerency. but mocking bird is
really much worse, in this respect.
In nesting time the Knockers are per-
feet fiends. They will chase enemies for
hours at time. and not only animal
enemies, but other birds which they
think may have designs upon their nest
and eggs.
1t must never be forgotten that birds
are among the worst enemies of birds.
Many species will deliberately throw out
of nest the eggs of another species be-
fore they have Matched.
Even the tiny wren has been known to
seek out another wrens nest, and cast
down from it the eggs which have been
laid.
This is not an isolated instance in
birdland. Many birds indulge in such
tactics. Knavery is not confined alone
to one species, or to any family Of ami
mails. All groups know kindness and
meanness. Life runs according to pat
tern in all generic groups. There are
saints and sinners in all families.