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Evening star., 1939-12-17
lying ofices may send in their gifts
by office messengers.

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by office messengers.
Leadership at the Park and Plan
ming Commission was assumed for
the second year by Mrs. Helen K.
Jeffers. Collection baskets have been
placed in the commission conference
room. AS at w. P. A., a number of
contributions were made on the first
day.
A benefit dance will be held by
General Accounting Office employees
and friends from to 8 pm. Wednes-
day in Hotel 2400 Sixteenth street
N.W.-with admission one new toy
or Is cents for The Stars appeal.
Justice Departments drive, under
j. Leighton Cornwell. will end Fri
day with round Of nine parties
beginning at 10 m. Attorney Gen.
eral Murphy is expected as a guest
at each.
Contributions to spread the sea-
sons cheer to direly distressed homes
are also being collected in each of
the following Government agencies:
Navy Department. with Verne
Simkins as campaign representa-
tive.
Agriculture Department, whose
agent is Miss Gertrude Rest.
State Department, with Edward
Yardley in charge.
War Department. where Miss
Mary Oliver is collection agent.
Treasury Department, with Harry
N. Jones as agent.
Labor Department., with Chief
Clerk Samuel Gompers accepting
cash gifts and George r. Hersey
collecting goods.
Interior Department., where Ed
ward Kelly is representative.
Commerce Department., with Mrs
Frances Kelley as leader.
Post once Department, wher.
Chief Clerk Owen Keen is represen.
| tative.
Veterans Administration, with
Chief Clerk w. c. Black as agent
Senate Once Building, where viii.
liam R. Kavanaugh is representative
Evening star., 1939-12-17

the branches of production immedi-
ately concerned, in agriculture and
In industry, are amply safeguarded.
"T.he existing law-the Trade
Agreements Act-provides the best
method OF attaining precisely these
objectives, and has successfully stood
the test of practical application in
the % agreements already negoti-
ated.
ITO abandon the trade-agreement
method in the present emergency
and to adopt your formula would,
in effect. be a return, under the
guise of scientific tariff adjustment,
to Hawley-Smoot embargoes, or their
equivalent. If experience counts for
anything at all, it surely shows that
such q course would be tragic one
for the Nation"
Bulow Hits Program.
Meanwhile, Senator Bulow, Demo-
ocrat, of South Dakota added his
support yesterday to the opposition
developing on Capitol Hill to con-
tinuation of the reciprocal trade
program.
II would be in favor of an amend
ment to require Senate ratification
OF the agreements before they could
take effect" the South Dakota Sen
ator said.
In the absence of such an amend
ment he said he would be inclined
to vote against extension of the
act.
IT steps could be taken to re-
store the purchasing power of the
farmers, the industries in this coun-
try would not have to seek these
foreign markets." Senator Bulow
added.
The Senator also declared he is
mot in favor of Congress going hay
wire on the subject of national de-
tense. I do not think we are In any
danger OF attack"
Evening star., 1939-12-17

proper points of distribution for all
Washington.
To make sure the right toy was
sent of to the right youngster, VOL
unteers ripped off original wrap
pings and piled each toy with others
OF its kind. Skates went to one
table, plush teddy bears to second,
footballs to third.
Toys Assigned. -..
Consulting endless list, workers
assigned each toy to some boy or
girl Of q suitable age-and it was
on its way. About 1000 playthings
had left the toy center by close OF
the day, with thousands more to
be sent out this week.
To so schools vent 1000 toys, in
autos of Parent Teacher Associa-
ton members. In some schools as
many as 200 children are lonely
for plaything-and each of them
will get one, after it has been care
fully rewrapped this week and de-
livered to parent.
The flow of toy matinee gifts
surged out also to American Legion
posts and such welfare agencies as
the Childrens Protective Associa-
ton. Police precincts and play
grounds will likewise serve the
cause of Kris Kringle.
The youngsters and grownups
who attended the toy matinees will
never know just who got the toys
brought to the theaters, but this
they can be sure of-because Of
them, because they shared thei,
Christmas, thousands of otherwise
empty Christmas stockings will be
full at yuletide.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
WI A. and National
Park Commission
Join yu|e Campaign
Stur-Worner Bros. m. &c,
Drive Being Aided by
IS Federal Agencies

The Federal Works Projects Ad-
ministration and the National Capt.
tai Park ard Planning Commission
yesterday announced they are join
ing The Star Warner Bros.-N. B. c.
Christmas campaign-bringing to IS
the number of Government agencies
which now give it support.
Chief Clerk Harry l.. Kinnear will
lead the w. P. A. appeal for yuletide
aid to the needy. Headquarters
for contributions of cash, toys,
clothing and non-perishable food
will be in room 116 of the Walker
johnson Building. 1884 New York
avenue N.W.-but employees In out
Evening star., 1939-12-17

The Christmas Heart Fund gives
you opportunity to spread the sea-
sons Joy to some one needing aid.
Send your cash contribution to
The Start viii 70 . long way.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Mrs. Roosevelt to Speak !,
At College for CoIcred
' the Associated PfesS,

By the ASSociated PfelS. -"
DAYTONA BEACH. Fla, Dec. 16.
President Mary Mcleod Bethune
Of BAhune Goodman College for
Colored, announced today Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt would speak
at q celebration of the 35th ami.
versary Of the college February 18.
Mrs. Roosevelt will fly to Day.
tona Beach for the occasion and
will inspect the school.
President Bethune said Gov. Conc
and other State officials, leading
educators and representatives OF
women's clubs would be invited.
Evening star., 1939-12-17

Miss Martha FeatherStone is kneedeep in
Center Eighteenth and streets NW where the gifts collected
theaters during The Star Matinee
brought Mrs Max Dobn president Of GrantWeightman
ParentTeacher Association Girl Mary
Troop Miss Featherstone assisted arranging the toys
for distribution.
Evening star., 1939-12-17
Is Yours d Christmas Heart?

If a feeling at Yuetide o
needy child wooy
that child needs most-then Christmas heart
Of Christmas
pennies Christmas
will the the Council Of Social Agencies distribute
trained Washington families
your gift, be bleak indeed.
lis of M
Evening star., 1939-08-08

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no Of
Evening star., 1939-08-08

This item has been thor.
osshiy checked BY our Mer.
chdndise Board for Fashion,
Quality and Price 1t is.
il their opinion, a gawan.
teed paine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
Maybe Life Really Begins at 40

TITS young mans country careessly say. Youth
will be served"
But is it?
Not if the National Association of Manufacturers is
right There has been decline in the percentage of in
dustral employment at the age of DO 1929 survey
by the N. A. NJ indicated.
Not only that but the association found that industry
rates its Older workers very highly
In 1888 the percentage of workers between 40 and 40
actually showed gain. Of total employees reported 2043
cent in that group Even between so and SO,
the older workers still accounting for 103 cent of
Total employment.
Is possible get job after 40? The survey
had returns from $50 companies indicating that workers
of 90 and added to the payrs 1887 accounted for
"a per cent of their total employment.
Steadier, more regular in attendance more pride
and greater interest in their work. of the bou
uet tossed at older workers by the companies reporting
Any insurance company will verify that people live
longer the than they used to live Any social
statistics will show that greater proportion of the popua
ton each year is made up of older people.
Nothing could be more natural than to find great
ducve work But in the meantime what is happening to
the muudes of young people who school every
Many of them finding it hard to get their first job
Some young men reach the of % "a without
having had regular job or learned any trade
The end of school, couple of years of loang year
at CCC camp two or three half dozen fiddlng little
jobs at which they learned Skill nothing of value and
young is in his md-twenties before he has start
His grandfather often solid business WELL
grounded workman at his trade by that time.
Life begins later today than did for grandfather but
also ends later 1t is just another of the establishments
which apparently must be made in changing world.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
The Sword Is Poised!

Like black Aragonese bull, Spain stands pricked with
banderos head lowered eyes boodshot waiting for the
sword Of the matador In the stands the world looks
Perhaps it will turn its head the great Iberian animal
drops to its knees in the carmne pool its life arteries have
spurted into the sands.
Perhaps the world will turn its head to miss the last
uesparing look of the worried animal brought defty
slaughter under the bright heavens Perhaps it will
ITSELF Tha the affair of this great animal 1t born
to die after the torture of the cador and the bandero
born to receive in its spine the clean sword of the hero
fnatador."
Perhaps the world will say that this great proud animal
died magnfcenty defending itself in the buring arranged
by master showmen 1t is not to be thought that the
world files out of the stands another performance
there will be who murmur, Shame"
One would not expect the little girl there holding the
hand of her father she walks out of the tier of expensive
seats-the sombra-to look up at him with tear-shinng
and ask Daddy, why did they have to kill the bu?
Great Spain is staggering the sword of the matador
poised experty (here must applaud the skill of that
trained ARM for the last thrust
The people the stands know that the corrida de
almost In the seats they already eye
ing the exits anxiousy Cast Sunday there such
at the exits that they may get home and sip their
and remind each other of how awkward that tall pcador
his name Ricardo Hooked when the bull Quilted his
horse One would not expect murmur in the stands of
Shame tears in the of the little girl sitting prmy
In the sombra.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor. Journal OF the American
Medical Association, and of
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
drinks because he is sorry for
himself.
The social drinker drinks be-
cause he feels better and be-
cause he thinks it peeps him up,
but he is not the kind of drinker
who permits his drinking to in
terfere with his business. How
ever, as soon as the social
drinker ceases to take food and
begins to depend more and more
on drink, he becomes a candi-
date for chronic alcoholism.
Since in recent times a great
many studies have been made of
the alcoholic, the evidence indi-
Gates that most chronic alco-
holics have enlarged livers, that
the liver is frequently damaged
and that as result of this dam
age, the person has secondary
symptoms which are serious.
Among these are anemias be-
cause of the breakdown of the
blood. and neuritis which is
brought about by a lack of GER
tain vitamins In food resulting
from a lack of food which has
been replaced by alcohol. Hence
the modern treatment of alco-
holism involves suitable nutri-
ton of these patients to build
them up after their deficient
diets have broken them down.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
. STORIES
IN STAMPS
Recalling the Democracy
Of Jockson's Doy

TALL, rawboned Andrew Jack
son. the Hero of New Or
leans walked into the White
House March 4, 1929. as the first
peoples President. AS such he
brought the country a new hra-,d
of political democracy.
Il was reflected Immediately on
the day of the Inauguration.
Hardly had the guns doomed on
that sunny morning of March 4.
when a good-natured mob" took
over the executive mansion. Thou
sands literally swar,ned into The
White House.
So great was the crowd that
even the stalwart old jackson
himself was forced to escape
through the back door. But that
was all right with his guests, who
merrily went about breaking Chi
ma. tracking mud across the pol
iShed floors and making speeches
from plush covered chairs. One
Mortified observer wrote later that
he had seen spectators eating -
jelley with a gold spoon.
But the democracy of Andrew
jackson was a natural brand. Be-
tween the end of Jefferson's pres
idency in 1909 and Jackson's first
term, the frontier had become
moving. clamorous force in ma
t,onal life. Jackson was true
son of this great frontier and he
carried the sweep of it with him
10 the highest Office in the land.
Moreover, he carried it back
with him when he retired al the
end of his second term. He was
cheered like q returning con-
queror when he rode home TO
Nashville jackson is shown above
on stamp Of the Y. s. issue of
1890, enlarged. Il is purple. aft~-
a profile bust by Powers.
Copyright. 1919. NEA Service. 1nc.l
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
QUESTIONS TO TeS 7
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
l. What is a pedologist ?
2. Name the capital of the
American Virgin Islands.
3. Is the Tropic of Cancer
north or south of the Equator ?
4. Who wrote THE Count Of
Monte Cristo"
5. What is the correct pro-
nunciation of the word junker ?
6. Who was appoin I d by
President Roosevelt to fill the
office of attorney general of the
L. S., to succeed Homer S. Cum
mings?
7. What is ranarium?
s. Name the principal tribu-
tary of the Rio Grande.
8. What is the name for the
largest antelope found in Africa?
10. Near which ty is Mt.
Vesuvius?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
MONDAY, JAN. 30. 1899


According to astrology ad-
verse aspects are active today.
1t is well to delay money-making
ventures.
Speculation may be most un-
fortunate under this sway which
is believed to encourage interest
in false get-rich-quick schemes.
Horse racing and betting this
season may inspire large trans
fers of money
Accidents and disappointments
are indicated under this rule of
the stars. Caution should be
exercised in all forms of trans
portatlon.
Although the week in business
begins under evil portents, there
are promising signs for persons
who possess the good things of
life. Those that have will get
more, according to the seers,
who predict greater fortune for
men who have attained success.
The president of the United
States should be especially bene-
fitted.
Women should find the eve
ming most favorable TO social
activities American hostesses
will exercise influence through
dinners and other Inequalities,
II is foretold
Espionage is to be carried on
successfully in many American
cities by unsupported persons
moving in exclusive society.
Persons whose birthdate II is
have the augury OF a year of
perpleNities. They sh Q u ] d
neither borrow nor lend money.
Children born on this DAY
probably will be Of twofold ma
ture. inclined toward opposing
aims. These subjects of Aqua
RUS may be highly intelligent
and possessed of attractive per-
sonalities.
Walter Savage Lander, poet,
was born on this day, IT'S.
Others who have celebrated it
as a birthday include George
Alfred Townsend, journalist,
ls41: Walter Damrosch, musl-
clan, 1862.
Copyright. 1887
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
DEFAMATORY LETTERS


It is a wise man who writes
no i'll about his neighbor. 1t is
not true, however, that a libel
suit can pc brought every time
a defamatory letter is mailed
Armstrong owned 40 per cent
of the stock in the Ferris hotel.
Things were not going to suit
him. He wrote a hot letter to
the other stockholders in which
he berated the manager as
worthless drunk, thief, and vii
lain. and demanded he be dis
charged.
The manager obtained posses
sion of the letter and filed suit
against Armstrong.
In a recent decision the su-
preme court of Wisconsin ruled
that the letter was privileged
and did not amount to libel. Said
the court:
In those cases where one
person has an interest in the
subject matter of the communi-
cation and the person to whom
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
:: YOUR HOROSCOPE :.
SUNDAY, JAN. 80. 1899

SUNDAY, JAN. 30. 1899
After the early morning hours
of this day benefic aspects rule.
II is a day favorable to study,
meditation and making plans.
There may be strong in
clination toward dependency or
discomfort after awakening.
There is sign encouraging
fearless facing of facts concern
ing oneself
The stars sharpen perception
and encourage keen Judgment
regarding world affairs and the
nations foreign relations. The
configuration should encourage
strong expressions from Amer
lean pulpits.
While most churches will pros
per through the winter, some
will assume heavy social re-
sponsibilities which will deplete
their treasures.
The clergy will cooperate in
many peace movements, but the
stars indicate q lack of inter-
national accord through the
year.
Both 1910 and 1912 are to be
critical years in the history of
civilization.
This is an suspicious date for
writing letters. Those addressed
TO persons with power TO extend
favors should be successful.
The United States government
comes under a planetary direc-
ton which will bring TO il many
varied appeals, including re-
quests for loans and sbrogation
of agreements.
Persons whose birthdate II Is
have the sugury of year OF
prosperity in financial matters.
They may be emotional and I'M
settled in mental outlook,
Children born on this day may
be strong -willed, persistent and
we'll balanced. These subjects OF
Aquarius may be reticent and
intuitive. Many a I ain high
places.
Emanuel Swendenborg, mys-
tic, was born on this day, 1888.
Others who have celebrated II
as a birthday include Thomas
Paine, free thinker and author.
1887; Albert Gallatin, onetime
secretary Of the treasury. 176l.
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report. He next forwarded 1t TO
Budget Director Bell for the lat
ters comment on the financial
problems involved. Meanwhile.
FDR was repudiating the idea
that Guam was his baby-that
he knew of the Vinson bill. But
when the measure returned to
Carl without either negative or
affirmative statement from the
budget bureau, he introduced II
without more ado. Not till then
did Roosevelt formally and pub
licly endorse the proposition.
The Roosevelts' el s h I III
friendliness and informality cap
ture the hearts even of their poll
teal enemies, but they give head
aches to the secret service men
charged with safeguarding the
privacy of the lands first family.
Ever since two participants in
a "scavenger hunt"-a boy and
girl-crashed the upstairs floor
during the holiday season, the
secret service have been trying
to devise a system that will pre-
vent such an occurrence. But
they can't under the Roosevelt
dispensation of hospitality. The
holiday invaders got by the door
because Secretary Morgenthau
the big boss of the secret
service. incidentally - told the
doorman that his youngsters
would be along later, and to send
them right up. When the
strangers appeared, they were
mistaken for the Morgenthau
children.
II can happen here--and again.
For the President or Mrs. Roose-
welt frequently notifies Head
Usher Muir that "one of Johns
Tor Franklin's1 friends" will be
knocking at the door soon. and
TO send them on up. Now. since
the secret service can't carry
around photographs OF the cas-
ual visitors, they have no way of
telling whether they're phoney
or the Roosevelt McCoys. And.
after all, you can't fingerprint a
presidential guest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
Keeping Up With The Law

the communication is made has
a corresponding interest, every
communication honestly made in
order to protect such common
interest is privileged by reason
of the occasion.
THE communication must not
be excessive, either as to the
extent of its publication or as
to the character of the language
used. 1t must not go beyond
the requirements of the occa-
Sion"
1t is a matter of Importance
to the stockholders of corpor-
alton whether their manager is
reliable or not. Ms dishonesty
may result in loss of profits
or other damage, and a letter
between them in good faith is
excused if erroneous. Where the
writer is actuated by malicious
desire to injure his victim, even
though ne writes to a fellow
stakeholder, he is still guilty of
libel (Slyvester VS.. Armstrong,
Wyoming
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
IN NEW YORK
BY GEORGE ROSS

NEW YORK; New Yorker
will remember 1888 as the year
that =.
Society girl singers in caba-
rets zoomed TO new numeri-
cal high. including among their
ranks Sally Clark, sister-in-law
of the presidents son, and the
stagestruck niece of Vice Presi-
dent John Nance Garner.
Mike Romanoff, the Gotham
tuXedo-and-tails Gypsy. went
professional via a paying job on
the Hollywood front.
More newspaper space than
editors care to remember was
devoted to the naming of an
actress to play character
tagged Scarlet O'Hara.
The name of Orson Welles be-
came known from Bangkok to
Bayonne overnight.
The radio failed to spawn an
outstanding personality who had
not had benefit of previous stage
or screen accomplishment.
Candid. camera fanaticism al
most threatened to displace
baseball as the U. S. national
sport.
Tobacco Road" rolled into its
sixth consecutive year at Broad
ways Forrest theater.
George Bernard Shaw re-
marked that he'd show the west
coast film tycoons how to make
a motion picture and did-with
his superb treatment of "Pyg-
malion.'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
Your HEALTH

When alcohol Is taken into the
body in moderate amounts, it
produces a sense of warmth. 1t
also produces depression of in
hibitory activities of the brain.
Thus one develops what is called
a sense of euphoria or we'll
being.
DR.. E. Il. Allen has pointed
out that the alcoholic is an indi-
vidual who is weaker than his
fellow men in his emotional de
velopment. He has never been
able TO rely entirely upon him
self and he turns to alcohol as
the escape from his problems.
The alcoholic is person who
lives entirely in the present and
takes little thought of the
future.
DR.. Allen mentions two out
standing types of alcoholics,
both of which are composed of
inadequate personalities: There
is the psychopathic alcoholic
who Is inadequate from youth,
who starts drinking when young
and never accomplishes anything
worthwhile; the other type Is the
neurotic alcoholic who shows in
adequacies in youth. but who
generally over-compensates in
business, in the arts or in
science.
The problem drinker is the
one. according to DR.. Allen, who
drinks in response to an inner
urge In his nature, of which he
is unaware. This is the type of
person who drinks to overcome
embarrassment and self : con-
seriousness. If he is going to
make a speech, he drinks to
overcome his stage fright. If he
drinks before going to a dance,
he is suppressing his doubt as
to finding suitable partners. If
ne drinks when he is alone, he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-30
SCIENCE NEWS

Two tiny hghtbeams, 200th of
an inch thick. have speeded up
the finishing step in cotton man
ufacture by three times. In the
finishing step il is necessary TO
straighten the crosswise threads
at exact right angles to the
lengthwise threads. Production
of cotton, no matter what the
width, has been limited TO q mile
and a third an hour in previous
operations, due to the manual
process required in correcting
the roll when it gets out of line.
The new lghtbeams, however,
which are set underneath spin
ming fabric. regulate an auto
matte straightener the instant
they detect the threads off
angle