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Evening star., 1939-05-20
Says Uncle Eben.

Sun goes loafin' down de sky
Says to me, an winks his eye,
Tain no use to hurry along!
Lemme hear dat robins song.
Lemme see de flowers in bloom:
Lemme smell de sweet perfume.
In dem wintry days gone by
Used to hurry cross de sky;
But likes to 1inger now
Jes' as long as knows how"
This material Das prepared for
publication BY Mr.. johnson before
he ,oas stricken with pneun,ontd.)
Evening star., 1939-05-20

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Evening star., 1939-05-20
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON

The Misanthrope.
II don't possess" the cynic said,
"A single friend on earth"
And then he lifted up his head
And smiled in chilly mirth.
IT hear no scandal" he explained.
II get no tips that fail;
I mourn no comradeship disdained;
I hear no hard luck tale"
II hide away, lest may strike
Some folly or some sham
And live quite happy-happy like
An oyster or a clam"
Cagey.
why do you give that man encour-
agement in offering you so much ad-
vice?"
II have something I want to say to
him." replied Senator Sorghum. II am
just letting him go ahead until I get a
good opening"
"Hi Hats baby resembles his father"
said Hi Ho the sage Of Chinatown. "He
keeps shouting at the top of his voice
without ever saying anything in par
ticular."
Evening star., 1939-05-20

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Evening star., 1939-05-20
Unreasonable.

Twas not drowning accident
Through which the bather bold was
lost;
Too scantily attired he went
And met his finish by the frost.
Evening star., 1939-05-20
Financial Caution.

F1nanClaI Caution.
Charley, DEAR" said young Mrs. Tor
kins, did you say you we're in the stock
market?"
Eyes, on a margin"
"Oh! That's different I was afraid
you'd gotten excited and plunged all the
way in."
Evening star., 1939-05-20
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Evening star., 1939-05-20
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Limitations.
THAT dictator does not appear to be
a man of great intelligence"
WELL" answered the American states
man, what would you expect from a
man who uses pack Of cards for telling
fortunes instead Of playing poker?"
Evening star., 1939-05-20

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Evening star., 1939-10-16
'Peacemakers' Sunday
Is Urqed on Ministers

An appeal to 10000 ministers Of
IA denominations to observe next
Sunday as "Peacemakers' Sunday"
was announced today by the National
Council for Prevention of War.
Clergymen forwarding the request
to churches of their sects included
DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick of River
side Church in New York, Northern
Baptist, and the Rev. E. H. Pruden
Of the First Baptist Church here,
Southern Baptist.
The letter sent to the Episcopal
pastors specifically urged that ain
the present emergency" the United
States should take these steps:
Take the initiative In consoli-
dating bloc of neutral nations to
press upon all belligerents the i'm
perative need for world peace and
to offer our services for mediation.
Avoid assistance to war and eco
nomic ENHANCEMENT by retaining in
our present neutrality law the en-
barge against export of arms and
instruments of war to belligerents
and also by enacting provisions to
restrict the exports of other COM
modities to cash and carry and to
keep American shipping and travel
ers out OF the war zone"
Evening star., 1939-10-16

an old man who lived down the
street said to him one day, Pete,
you're too intense to be a brick
layer. Have you ever thought of
doing anything else?"
And young Pietro, only half be-
Heving it himself. said, Il am writ
ing"
Receives Contract.
Those 80 pages, the story of his
fathers death. made the old mans
prim little wife weep. The story
was sold, a publisher gave him
contract to make it into a book.
The day the publishers were to
decide whether or not to accept the
book. the day after he bought his
new tools because he had so little
to base his faith on, he kept mur-
muring on his job Say yes, say yes"
The other bricklayers looked at their
young friend Pete and thought he
had gone crazy.
Now with the movies interested
in his book, with his sisters and
brothers on their way to careers,
with the Group Theater planning to
produce the book as a play and
with another book beginning, he
can forget about bricklaying.
But he's not going to. I'm going
back to the job at least for a few
months every year." he declared
in his hotel room here today. ut
makes you feel clean and construc-
tive. as if you were justifying your
existence"
Even now young Pietro isn't quite
sure. He still carries his union card
in his breast pocket.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
u. ). Latin Trade Outlook
Bright, Mayors Says

The United States has definite
opportunity" to expand its trade in
Latin American markets, H. w. D.
Mayors. member of the staff of the
Pan-American Union. declared yes
terday in an address before the
Adult Forum of the Universalist
National Memorial Church in the
first of series of six lectures on
Latin America.
Speaking on Aspects of Latin
American Trade" Mr.. Mayors said:
with the spread of isms in
Europe and with the outbreak of
European war, the United States is
now in a position to consolidate her
gain in the republics to the south.
Cordell Hull's commercial policy of
reciprocal trade agreements has
done more to bring about amicable
trade relations than any other
factor"
Mr.. Mayors said the way to Latin
trade expansion for this country
will be made easier IF Great Britain
and France can keep their sea lanes
to Latin America open. In this man.
ner," he continued, "the Latin
American republics will find a mar
ket for their basic raw materials and
consequently will be able to possess
the exchange with which to buy in
the United States markets"
The speaker said long-term credits
by American businessmen and loans
by the Export Import Bank will be
necessary for trade expansion In
Latin America and predicted these
factors evidently will be carefully
considered by all exporters and busi-
nessmen interested in the trade ex-
pansion.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Civic 1heater Continues
Membership Drive

The Washington Civic Theater
will continue it's membership drive
with public meeting from 8 to 9
o'clock tonight at the Roosevelt
High School auditorium. A number
of civic and business leaders are
scheduled to speak.
In announcing the meeting, the
Civic Theater also made public a
list of some of the Washington
citizens who already have signed
as patron and sustaining members.
The list included Mr. and Mrs.
George Hewitt Myers. Robert Lee
O'Brien, jr.; Theodore w. Noyes,
Mrs Charles A. Baker, Mrs. Sybil
Baker. Mr.. and Mrs. Landon Ban
field, Mrs. Breckenridge Bayne, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee D. Butler, Mrs. Avery
Coonley. Miss Barbara Donald Mr..
and Mrs. Waldron Faulkner, Oliver
Gaschp Mr.. and Mrs. Christian
Heurich.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Karrick, Mr..
and Mrs. Milton w. King. Mrs.
Casenove Lee, jr.: Lady Bradford
Leslie, Mrs. Howell Moorhead, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward S. Pardoe, Mr..
and Mrs. John Garland Pollard, jr;
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Remon, Mr.
and Mrs. L. M. C. Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, Philip Young
and John Victor.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Roosevelt Seeks
Revamp Action
Al Next Session
Randolph Pledges
Effort to Speed
LocuI Measure

President Roosevelt. is going to
insist upon the enactment of legisla-
ton at the next regular session of
Congress to reorganize the govern
ment of the District of Columbia.
The President made this known
today during a talk at the White
House with Representative Jennings
Randolph of West Virginia, chair
man Of the House District Commit
tee. Mr. Randolph said the Presi-
dent discussed no details but that
the President himself brought up
the subject during their talk. Mr..
Randolph assured the President that
he personally would do everything
he could as chairman of the Dis
trict Committee to expedite the
handling of the reorganization bill
when the time comes at the regular
session.
In the meantime, the President
is depending upon George E. Allen
whom he reappointed to the Board
of Commissioners for the purpose
of working out a reorganization
plan to introduce as soon as possi-
BILE after the regular session con-
venes on January g.
Commissioner Allen has the help
of several aides, a so-called Kitchen
cabinet" in working out a definite
plan to reduce overlapping of au-
thority and duplication of effort and
to promote efficiency and economy.
So far Commissioner Allen and the
kitchen cabinet" are reported to
have started plan which reduces
the number of departments of the
District government with view to
enlarging the power of the Com
missioners. The plan also is re-
ported to call for the creation of
municipal civil service department,
the taking away from the Federal
Budget Bureau the handling of the
District estimates, the creation of
a District budget officer, and the
creation of an executive assistant
to the Board of Commissioners.
Chairman Randolph said that
even though the regular session of
Congress would be busy one, the
reorganization legislation should
have good chance to pass.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
BrickIoyer, 28, Bought Tools
After Writing Best Seller
Christ in Concrete
Author Had Little
Hope Of Success
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

The day before 28-year-old Pietro
di Donates best-selling Christ in
Concrete was accepted, he went
out and bought himself a new set
of bricklaying tools. He was that
unsure, he recalled in an interview
today at the Harrington Hotel.
He had no reason to be confident.
After all, he'd only gone to gram
mar school. Ever since he was 13
he had laid bricks to support his
widowed mother and his seven sis
ters and brothers. He was a mas
ter craftsman as a bricklayer, but
writing book was something else.
There was only one thing he
really knew about. bricklaying and
the men who did it, His father had
been a bricklayer. had been buried
alive in a falling building He knew
that he, too. or the man at his side.
might be crumpled by a collapsing
beam or fall from q scaffold.
He wanted to write about those
men, but he wasn't sure of himself.
EiHdHy otdTLS "TitlHE.
When his fatherless family was
living on 10-cent food tickets and
moving from one railroad fiat to an
other because nobody wanted large
Italian family with only little
boy to support it, when his small
est brother and sister were in an
orphans home, when he had to
dodge truant officers because he was
only l3 and had to work, he wasn't
sure of anything.
Finally, he started writing because
he couldn't help himself. There was
building depression in 1897 and
he had more time to read and
think. In the little Long Island
town to which he had taken his
family after his mother died of can
Ger, there was a library with books
donated by the residents. Among
them, he found Zola and Balzac,
Turgenev and Dostoevski. He be-
gan to realize how much words could
mean.
He thought about the men he
worked with and tried to find stories
about them, what they said and
what they left unsaid. He couldn't
find 1t, so he decided to write what
he wanted to read. He would make
it his Bible and keep adding to it
as he grew older.
When he had some 80 pages done,
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Motorists Are Warned
To Have Cars INSPECTED

Warning was given today by the
Police. Department to approx
mately 1000 motorists who have
failed to answer summons to have
their cars inspected.
All drivers of automobiles with
tags from 100000 to 1863 900 who do
not have inspection stickers on their
windshields are subject to arrest in
the campaign. Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, chief of police, said, however,
that he had instructed his men not
to arrest any one who had "rea-
sonable excuse" for not having Wis
tied the inspection stations.
The drive was ordered after the
Traffic Bureau had notified police
that all owners of cars with tags
100000 to 10000 had been given
sufficient time to report for inspec-
ton.
These tag numbers, the first issued
this year, were the first called for
inspection. Police will stop the driv-
ers of the cars if they do not have
stickers on the windshields.
Cars with tag numbers under 100,-
600 will be summoned for inspection
next, Maj. Brown said. Later he
expects to receive a complete list
Of inspection dodgers and begin
rounding them up in earnest.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Eastern Stur Home
Marks Anniversary

The 33d anniversary of the dedi-
cation of the Masonic and Eastern
Star Home, 5000 New Hampshire
avenue NE, was observed yester-
day by officials and members of
the District orders. Leonard P.
Stewart, past grand master of Dis
trict Masons, was master of cere-
monies.
Dedication of a tree in memory
Of Clayton, v. Speakman, past mas
ter of Myron M. Parker Lodge. No.
48. opened the program. A con-
cert by the Metropolitan Boys Club
Band and talks by Mrs. Helen D.
Robbins, past worthy grand matron
of the Order of the Eastern Star, and
William Montgomery, president Of
Acacia Mutual Life Insurance, sup
plemented the exercises. A tea and
reception followed in Royal Arch
Hall Of the home.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
White House Denies
Rumor Of D. T.. Court
Appointment
Roosevelt Planning No
Announcement During
Neutrality Fight

The White House today denied
rumors that President Roosevelt has
appointed a District Court successor
to the late Justice Joseph w. Cox
This was taken as denial of more
specific rumors that the appoint
ment would go to Judge Floyd Rob-
erts of Virginia.
1t was stated that the President
will delay announcement of his
choice until the Senate fight over
the arms embargo repeal is out Of
the way. Judge Roberts, at the in
stance of Senators Glass and Byrd
of Virginia. was turned down by
the Senate last summer for the post
of district judge in Virginia to which
Mr.. Roosevelt had appointed him.
Attorney General Murphy is un-
derstood to have indicated that a
selection has been made for the
Cox vacancy and If this is so the
name has been very closely guarded.
In the event that Mr. Roberts name
should come before the White House
as Department of Justice recon-
mendation before the embargo fight
in the Senate is over, political as
sociates of the President say they
will try to have the papers side
tracked and urge the President to
postpone action.
Despite the reports regarding At
torney General Murphy having
picked a man, the White House
denial should indicate that the fill
ing of this vacancy is still undecided.
This would mean that David A.
Pine. United States attorney for
the District of Columbia, who has
the Endorsement of the District Bar
Association and various civic or
ganizaticns, is not out of the run
ming.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Community Chest
Opens Go-and-See
Tours Today
Demonstration Will Be
Given by League
At MoyfIower Hotel

Homes for homeless babies, ref
uges for the sick and the aged, and
a score OF other Community Chest
services will be demonstrated to
Washington givers during a two
week period of "Go-and-S See" tours,
preceded by an exhibit of Chest
agencies in the Mayflower Hotel to-
day.
The go ahead" signal for the
Forthcoming Chest campaign was to
be given at the same time, at the
annual luncheon sponsored by the
Community Chest League, which
also is responsible for the "Go-and-
See" tours. The luncheon was
scheduled for 1890 pm. in the May
flower Hotel, with Robert Cutler,
Boston Chest leader, as speaker.
Guests at the luncheon as well as
the public were to get a chance to
see where Chest dollars go by visit
ing the exhibit in the hotel prom
enade.
Demonstrations Are Planned.
The exhibition, put on by 80 of
the 81 agencies participating in the
Chest, was to include several real
life demonstrations. including a half
dozen youngsters from St. AIMS In
FAINT Asylum going through a kin
dergarten routine and class of
girls from st. Vincent's Home and
School offering a domestic science
exhibit.
The exhibit and the Go-and- See
tours, affording an opportunity to
Washingtonians to learn the needs
OF Chest agencies as we'll as the work
they do, mark the opening of an in
tensive two weeks of educational
work prior to the formal start of
the annual campaign for funds to
keep the agencies going.
Beginning tomorrow, three or four
groups a day will hold open house.
Free transportation to the Chest
agencies for groups of four or more
will be arranged through Chest
headquarters The motor corps of
the Community Chest League, under
the Craftsmanship of Mrs. Charles
Carroll Glover, jr., is donating its
cars for the tours.
Urges Visits to Agencies.
Mrs. Stanley Reed, chairman of
the league, in urging visits to the
various Chest agencies, said today:
"Glvers and friends who wish to
broaden their knowledge of how
human needs are met through the
Chest member agencies will have an
unrivaled opportunity between now
and November 3, if they will only
take advantage of it."
Four trips are scheduled for to-
morrow. Visitors will be given an
opportunity to see the Phyllis
Wheatley Y. w. c. A. from pm.
to 10 pm; st. Joseph's Home and
School, from pm. to 4 pm: the
Episcopal Home for Children, from
2 pm. to pm, and the Girls Club
OF Alexandria, from $3.50 pm. to
pm.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Academy AIumnoe
To Hold Annual Dinner

The annual dinner of the alumnae
of the Immaculate Conception
Academy will be held at the Fuhr-
man Studio, 2100 Massachusetts, ave-
niue NV. tomorrow night as the
first Of q series of events COM
memorating the 18th anniversary Of
the founding of the academy.
Miss Kathryn E. Bowers is chair
man for the dinner which is held
for the benefit of the alumnae
Scholarship Fund established to give
a deserving student four-year high
school course at the academy. Miss
Bowers viii be assisted by Mrs.
Thomas J. Fitzgerald, president OF
the alumnae group, and Miss Mary
Ellen Quill, treasurer.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Chess Set Made
From A. E. F.
Shells
By the Associated Press.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Oct. 49,
Mayor Harry Irvine's chessnen
make a strange monument to the
World Wars unknown dead.
From pawns to kings, each piece
was hammered and modelled care
fully from riffs and machine gun
shells picked up during the Argonne
offensive; the base of each piece is
a button, torn from the underwear
OF dead enemy soldier.
The chess-board is a square from
the fuselage of an enemy plane, shot
down over the allied lines.
The story of the weird collection
goes back some 81 years, when the
A. E. F. was "mopping up in the
Argonne, and DR.. Julian Sibley,
Mayor Irvine's brother in law.
found time heavy on his hands.
An Army dentist, one-Jime
machinist and a lover of chess and
checkers, DR.. Sibley felt a chess set
would help him forget times, places
and circumstances. So he set to
work, sometimes using his dental
tools.
Long rifle shells produced kings,
queens and pawns, each adorned
with indlvidualistic shapes. Shorter
machine gun shells were raw mate
rial for knights, rocks and bishops.
But they wouldn't stand up.
That's where the buttons come in.
Unfortunately, Mayor. Irvine sug-
gests, they probably were easy to
find.
Nobody, he added. knows who the
buttons belonged to-but, during a
hard-fought game, a player can't
help but speculate.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Eight Killed in Week
In Maryland Traffic

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Oct. is ~
Eight perosns were killed in auto
mobile accidents during the first
week of October, five less than the
same week in 1888, and Gov. O'Conor
today gave credit for the reduction
to the recently launched traffic
safety campaign.
Results of this first week were
decidedly beyond even our best
hopes" Gov. OConor said. "It is a
satisfaction to think that we may
have been at least partly respon-
sible for saving five lives :. -"
He said an even more intensive
program was planned for the next
safety week, the first week in No
vember.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Sunday School Convention
Will Open Tonight 7

The forty-sixth annual conven-
ton of the District Sunday School
Association will be held tonight and
tomorrow night at the Petworth
Methodist Church. New Hampshire
avenue at Grant Circle, with Presi-
dent Charles E. Resser presiding.
Both sessions will open at 7:45
o'clock.
Speakers tonight will include DR..
Frank Steelman, pastor of the Pet
worth Church, who will welcome
the delegates; the Rev. John A.
Trader of Lewis Memorial Meth
odist Church, the Right Rev. James
E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington,
and DR.. E. H. Pruden, president of
the Washington Federation of
Churches, who will pronounce the
benediction.
On the speaking program tomor-
row are the Rev. Howard Stone An
derson of the First Congregation
Church, DR.. Resser, the Rev. Ross
Slower of the Messiah Lutheran
Church, Philadelphia, and the Rev.
William A. Reese of the Metropol-
itan Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
10 Persons Register
For Niqht Glasses

More than ITO persons have regis
tered at night school classes for
adults at the Montgomery Blair
Senior High School, Silver Spring.
Md. Registration will continue this
week.
Glasses which have already been
organized include shopwork, art and
metal craft, wood carving and wood
working, bookkeeping and CONNER
cial arithmetic, shorthand and typ
ing, child study, sewing and the
making of slip covers and drapes,
the making of hooked rugs and
business English and public speak
ing.
A class in landscape gardening is
planned, but several more enrollees
are needed.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Plea to Ban Company
From Name Use Denied

The United States Court of Ap-
peals today denied an injunction
sought by the Lawyers Title Insur-
ance Co. against the Lawyers Title
Insurance Corp, sought because Of
the similarity of names.
The court held that because Of
the experienced and discriminating
clientele of the companies and be-
cause the corporation had taken care
to add distinguishing matter to its
name when used in advertising, the
probability of confusion was reduced
Attorney H. Cecil Fitzpatrick Of
Washington and Andrew D. Chris
tian Of Richmond, Va, represented
the corporation.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Leeds ChupeI Services

DR.. Edward j. Helms, founder of
Goodwill Industries, will be in
charge of the industries chapel
services during this week, which
opens the fall session of the train
ing school. Morning observances,
which are to be union services of
the employees of Goodwill Industries
and of the training school, will be
held at 8:15 o'clock Monday through
Friday at 12lS New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
District Women's Bar
To Meet Toniuht

The Women's Bar Association of
the District will hold its first meet
ing OF the season at pm. tomorrow
in the Mayf1ower Hotel. Reports of
committees will be presented by the
newly appointed chairmen.
Reports also will be made by men,
bers who attended the American
Bar Association Convention in San
Francisco and the Women LAWYERS
Convention in Berkeley, Calf.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Shoe Store Manager
Is Robbed of S13

A colored youth about II years
old this morning held up Ray
Brown, manager of the Thorn
Mean shoe store, 1924 Seventh street
NV, and escaped with $13 from
the cash register. The youth forced
Mr.. Brown into a rear room while
he took the money.
The manager said he believed the
robber was the same one who held
up the store several months ago.