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Evening star., 1939-02-27
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles +. TraceDeH.
ITO rude words, deaf ears" goes an

ITO rude words, deaf ears" goes an
old French proverb.
Here is where the naturally impolite
person has an advantage.
He or she can refuse to hear with
equanimity, whereas the really courteous
person, not wishing to offend, must ad-
NIT that he has heard "the first time"
Older people sometimes pretend deaf
ness, with equally good results. Yet it
is common observation that all such can
hear remarkably we'll anything which
one depends upon their not hearing!
X X
Naturally courteous persons are in a
perpetual stew about what to do when
some one or other says something to
them they would rather overlook.
Feeling it incumbent upon them to
make some reply, they invariably say
something they wish they had not said,
whereas the person who really doesn't
care whoop, one way or other, simply
makes no reply at all.
This, of course, Is certainly not the
same as the good old Victorian policy
of turning the subject of conversation !"
Nowadays, they won't let you turn it!
Since many such remarks are based on
personality, there is not much chance
Of refusing to understand, after all.
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What mikes you look so pale today?"
This question, fired in crowded ele-
vator. is not very likely to be mistaken
for Beautiful morning, isn't it?"
Psychology is involved, rather than
weather.
Everybody looks to see if you are pale,
and cocks an ear to hear why.
To rude words, however, deaf ears!
A fine old proverb, but not always easy
of application.
That, of course, is the trouble with
proverbs.
They are escaped fragments of wis
dom, almost always meant for a particu-
lar situation, but which somehow have
managed to escape to the general
There they masquerade as having far
greater value than they possess. For al
most every proverb there can be found
a counter proverb
Consider IF bird won't sing, make
him sing
The counter to this is, You can lead
horse to water, but you can't make him
drink"
If proverbs have their negations, what
good are they?
No matter, they usually point to a
moral and sum up the simple wisdom
of the run of men.
They point to experience
Learning by experience, sometimes
called the school of hard knocks. is still
as good as ever it was. Doctors call it
empiric and tend to froWn upon it. but
use it quite as much as anybody else.
They try a remedy; If it works they
tend to try 1t on their next patient.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
National View of Cotton

Secretary Wallaces two-price plan
for solving the American cotton
problem neglects the American con-
sumer, whose feeds should be the
chief consideration, while it offers
benefits to the foreign consumer and
the American grower. The Secretary,
with 100000 bales of surplus cot
ton on his hands, wants to reduce
this excessive supply through sales
abroad at low prices while at home
the price is held high. This proposal
is in keeping with the history of the
New Deals cotton panacea program,
which invariably has provided the
grower with questionable direct as
sistance at the expense of the gen.
eral public.
The dWindling foreign markets for
American cotton can be recaptured
by more honest methods than
through an opportunistic system of
dumping abroad and selling dear at
at home. The abandonment of the
loan program itself would be long
step toward fattening the record of
our foreign sales. Since the Govern
ment loan has been a figure above
the world price quotation, the grow
er's natural instinct has been to bor-
row from the Government. So dur
ing the first four months of the cur
rent marketing year, from August
through November, 1888, we sold only
forty-four per cent of the worlds
exported cotton, where during the
same four months in 1887 we sold
sixty-two per cent.
European purchases Of American
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Tin Fish

Has any one seen stray subma-
rine knocking aimlessly about? The
British submarine L-2l, with no one
aboard, was being towed to Ireland.
Well-knoWn center of the scrapping
industry, to be broken up and junked.
In the midst of a storm, the tow
rope broke. and the prize got away.
Lloyd's of London has issued a gen.
eral warning to all hands to watch
out for it, as there is no telling where
or when it will turn up. On the
chance that it may drift into Rome or
Toxic and start war, the admiralty
is extremely anxious to get 1t back.
Any one finding it is requested to
put an ad in the local paper and/or
communicate with the nearest
branch of the British Empire, who
will call up the service department
and send some one around for it.
While it is still q derelict 1t offers
an unparalleled opportunity for
sportsmen. The big iron fish will be
somewhat difficult to catch, but the
angler who gets away with 1t is fixed
for life. With complacent arrogance
he can swagger into any group, and
be sure that his unwilling audience
will writhe In vain. None will be
able to top him-not even Jonah,
and with such an incentive. many
fishermen are already studying the
problem. A submarine Is q tricky
thing to corral: it is impervious to
harpoons, apt to tear up nets and
positively refuses to bite on a hook.
It has. however. one fatal weakness.
Being made of steel. it will go for
magnet like moth for flame. The
best way to take it. then. is to troll
along the ocean with a magnet for
bait. If enough anglers try 1t, sooner
or later the L-21 will come within
range Of one. Tired of drifting aim
lessly and shifting the magnetism
from afar, it will wake up. Tingling
with induction, it will roll over few
times to shake off barnacles, turn
around and wallow clumsily after the
alluring bait, like an aged Californian
after thirty dollars a week. When
caught, it will probably not put up
much of a fight, as submarines,
though valuable, are not very game.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Maybe 1t isn't scientific, but 1t Is very

Maybe IL 1SnC Sclentlnc, puC IL Is very
human.
There is an old English proverb about
a green hedge making good neighbors.
This is based upon generations of ex-
perience. Without marked boundary
line, there is likely to be dispute.
With a hedge, or fence, the thing is
settled, and both parties can no longer
dispute about boundaries. The fixing
and placing of the hedge settles the
matter.
George Herbert, the English divine who
wrote rather obtuse poetry, made up for
1t by collecting rather sharp pointed
proverbs from his countryside.
That one about the hedge is typical.
If Herbert had used these bits of mellow
wisdom in his poems, his name might
be more widely known today.
His collection of aphorisms contains
many gems. all based on the common ex-
perience of everyday people 1t is no.
ticeable in all such compilations that
only the sensible sort of thing tends to
persist long enough to find its way into
them.
All the nations of the world have these
proverbs, and the amazing thing is the
universally of all of them.
Hindu proverbs, for instance, may be
taken into the hearts of Americans quite
as we'll as our own homely wise saving
and saws.
II
The necessity of finishing what one
starts out to do-this is theme in many
proverbs of all nations
The French have several on the sub
ject. He who stops at every stone" we
are Informed, never comes to his jour-
ney's end
Another along the same line is, He
who begins and does not finish loses his
labor"
The latter perhaps applies most to the
mental side of the matter. How often
we see some one start something with a
flourish, giving the impression to every
one that the thing will be done instantly!
Yet by nightfall the matter is no nearer
completion than before. because the
strong starter went no farther with the
matter.
The time he had spent on making his
little speech was really wasted. He
might as we'll not have said it. Such
persons often fool even their best friends.
No doubt it was experience with this
type which led to the proverb about the
road to hell being paved with good in
tentions.
Proverbs fit when they fit, that is all
The world has so well recognized this
that they no longer hold the place they
did. They have come to be regarded as
felicities. rather than real counsel. Yet
now and then an old saying plumps right
between the eyes, and strikes one as
somehow holding the very essence OF
everyday wisdom.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Shooting Stors
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.

Up to Date.
And will you write to me-" he sighed,
when am far away?"
In earnest accents she replied,
I'll write you every day!"
She really meant each word Of 1t,
If simple truth were known.
But, It's a prosy task to sit
And scribble, all alone.
And so she smiles, serenely bland,
And thinks her duty done.
She bought lot Of post cards and
Just mailed them, one by one.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
HitIer's Broken PIedoe

When The Star early In February
| commented on the refugee conversa-
tions just concluded at Berlin be-
tween Mr. Rublee and the Nazi au-
thorities, its editorial on the sub
| ject bore the caption Nazi Conces-
sions? The Interrogation point was
advisedly used. 1t was meant to reg
lister doubt as to the intrinsic worth
and the dependability of arrange
ments which, as it was here carefully
pointed out, were not based on any
binding agreements on the German
governments part.
The ntergovernmental Committee
at London nevertheless proceeded to
gear its machinery to loyal fulfiN-
ment of the ameliorating conditions
to which it supposed the Nazis had
assented. Broadly, these provided
for removal of 10000 young Jews
from Germany in the first year of
the schemes operation and for the
establishment of a 100000 900 pri-
vate international corporation to
finance five-year emigration plan.
Neither The Star nor anybody else
IN the United States could have i'm
agined that within less than month
of the evolvement of this plan for
orderly evacuation of the Reichs un-
wanted minority the German govern
ment would sink it without trace.
Today the Nazis will inaugurate
new, intensive drive to rid Germany
OF Jews. The Jewish community in
Berlin received orders during the
week end to produce daily henceforth
the names of one hundred of it's
members who will then be given two
weeks notice to leave the country.
Presumably the daily quota Of COM
pulsory and peremptory emigration
will be syst e m tically applied
throughout Germany It has thrown
added CONSERVATION into already
demoralized and distracted Jewish
ranks, which were only recently
encouraged by hope that the Rublee
plan, which also provides for cessa-
ton of prosecutions, would be
crowned with success. Jewish leaders
explain that while they can probably
produce one hundred persons daily
for the first three or four days-per-
sons for whom departure arrange
ments, including havens abroad, have
already been made, continued COM
pliance with the newest decree of
their oppressors is utterly beyond
them. In consequence, as the Asso-
ciated Press Berlin correspondent
bluntly puts it, Germany's Jews "see
only tragedy"
This latest heartlessness at Berlin
passes comprehension, as does the
ruthless and unexplained violation
Of the Rublee understanding. The
lamented death of Charge dAffaires
Prentiss Gilbert at Berlin has revived
unofficial discussion of the return of
Ambassador Wilson to the post from
which he was withdrawn in Novem-
Der. That recall, stripped of any
technical explanation, was a protest
by the United States Government
against Nazi derogation of ele-
mentary human rights. Today's anti
Semitic brutality at Berlin, which
merely continues the pogrom of
November 10, is not designed to
galvanize this Nation with any en-
thusiasm for early renewal of am
! basSadOrial rela tons with the Reich.
Evening star., 1939-02-27

A Mobile (Ala.) contractor found
that he had put a new roof on the
wrong schoolhouse, situated several
miles away. That sounds like boom
doggling supreme. except that In this
case he and not the taxpayers will
have to foot the bill.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Chairman Randolph OF the HOUSE

District Committee tells the Fedora
ton of Businessmen's Association
that when the sales tax was intro
duced in his State 95 per cent of it's
citizens were opposed thereto and
that, after a fair trial, almost ex-
actly the same proportion were in its
favor. This particular form of levy
is sort of like. Horatio Alger hero;
every one against 1t to begin with,
and everybody for 1t In the end.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Journeys End

AIlleIlCd1l III p II e curing
Spain's travail of civil war were bit
terly divided. Today they merge into
universal paean of qualification
that after two years, seven months
and one week of murderous strife,
vast devastation and spiritual wreck
age, the fratricidal carnage is at
length at an end.
The Loyalist government, whose
cause was hopelessly doomed with
the loss of Catalonia, has agreed to
surrender the Madrid -Valencia-Ali
cante area, constituting that one
quarter of Spain which Insurgent
forces had not yet overrun. All that
now remains, apparently, is for the
regime personified by President
Negrin to negotiate with General
Franco, either directly or through
France and Great Britain, the de-
tailed terms of capitulation. The
nationalist generalissino is under
stood. doubtless under Anglo-French
pressure, finally to have yielded to
Loyalist demands for guarantees of
non-reprisals against government
leaders and sympathizers and of a
Spain free from German or Italian
domination.
Having achieved his victory, the
world waits anXiously, and hopefully,
for some indication of the quality of
craftsmanship with which Franco
will undertake the task of re-uniting
Spain.
That is the idealistic problem In
surgent Spain faces. It's "ideological'
problem conjures up difficulties and
complications perhaps even more
formidable, for they concern issues
of which Spaniards cannot be the
sole arbiters. Frances banners float
In triumph from Barcelona to Ceuta
because of the military assistance
troops, armaments and munitions
which from the outset he received
from Italy and Germany.
The Loyalists at one time had out
side help, too, but at no stage, either
from Russia, France or elsewhere, on
that continuous and organized scale
which alone permitted Franco to
keep up the fighting and eventually
to win. He has more than once pro-
claimed he would never yield Span
ish territory in payment of his obli-
cations to his Fascist benefactors.
Whether Mussolini and Hitler are
prepared to withdraw from the pic
ture with mere glory as their portion
Is something that decidedly remains
to be developed. The laws of human
nature are all against such pros
pect.
No comment on the end of the
blood-letting in Spain would be COM
plete without tribute to the epochal
resistance of the Loyalists. Often
since 1896 1t was said that little
world war" was being waged on the
Peninsula. 1t is literally true that
the republic succumbed not to a
domestic revolutionary movement,
but to foreign INVASION Its escut-
cheon did not remain untarnished,
especially in the early days of the
conflict but history will not deny
Loyalist Spain an honored place
in the scroll of mems struggles to
preserve duly constituted institu-
tions, conceived in the democratic
spirit and gallantly defended against
insuperable odds by men and women
who devoutly and devotedly believed
In them.
Francisco Franco will honor him
self by honoring the memory, deeds
and ideals of those whom the tenac-
ity and bravery of his own forces
finally brought to submission.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Credits Author
OF Tribute to DR.. Wilson.

Credits AuthOf
OF Tribute to DR.. Wilson.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The tribute to DR.. Clarence True Will
son, which appeared In The Star on
Tuesday over my signature, was paper
written by DR.. Frank A. Collier and
unanimously adopted by the Washington
Methodist Episcopal Preachers Meet
ing, Of which happen to be president.
Arlington, Va. w. CLARK MAIN.
February ~, 1889.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
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the for republication of all news dispatches
c.edlted to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
AL rights Of publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Getting Ready.

Young man." inquired the motorist,
why are you cutting down those fine
trees?"
Stranger" replied the lumberman, Ito
make stumps for the lady speakers in the
next campaign"
Evening star., 1939-02-27
WrOng Tactics.

"Have you done anything to popularize
yourself?"
"Yes," answered the youthful poll
tician, "but in vain. can't get the pub
lie to call me by my first name or make
fun of my funny clothes"
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Cagey.

"You will make some speeches on the
tariff, I suppose?"
NO." answered Senator Sorghum, "the
tariff is one of those topics that people
are likely to give you credit for knowing
all about If you don't try to explain it,"
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1Uriter, although the use OF
a pSeudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be briet!
Evening star., 1939-02-27

pie" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, 'is something everybody likes him.
self, but thinks is bad for everybody else -
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Out Of Luck.

The bird that tried to welcome sprini
Unfortunate his plight is.
He hides his head beneath his wing,
He's gotten tonsilitis.
Evening star., 1939-02-27

Oars still boot-leggin' goin' on" said
Uncle Eben, "but de penalty foh it ain
been made hahd enough. De boot-legger
ought to be made to drink his own
uckex."
Evening star., 1939-02-27

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@. Where in Pennsylvania is there
boarding school that teaches mechanical
trades free?-E. J. H.
A. The Williamson Free School of Me-
chanical Trades is in Delaware County
The benefits of the school are entirely
free, including boarding, instruction and
clothing. The institution has it's own
post Office and railroad station, William
son School.
@. What is cummerbund?-T. j. r.
A. 1t is sash or band worn around
the waist.
@. How many fights has Joe Louis had
with Bob Pastor?-C. D.
A. Joe Louis has had only one fight
with Bob Pastor. That bout occurred
January o. 1887, in New York City.
Louis won the match in the 10th round
@. Is it true that red, white and blue
buoy marks the spot where Francis
Scott Key wrote THE Star Spangled
Banner"?-L. B. E.
A. A buoy painted red, white and blue
was used from September S, 1914, to No
vember of the same year to mark the
spot where the ship was anchored the
night Francis Scott Key composed The
Star Spangled Banner" However, this
was only special period of celebration
and its use was discontinued after No
vember. 1t was the only buoy in the
waters Of the United States which has
been so painted
@. Where can I obtain brief histori-
cal sketch of the Presidents of the United
States?-C. H. j.
A. Sec Haskins advertisement on page
Az Of today's Star.
Evening star., 1939-02-27

@. What language is spoken by the
soldiers in the motion picture version Of =
idiots Delight"?-G. K. J.
A. Esperanto.
Evening star., 1939-02-27

WASHINGT TON. d. c.
MONDAY February 27, 1889
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-23

under a measure passed by the
y. ). senate and now pending in
the house of representatives.
This statement WAS made TODAY
by the American Automobile as
ISOLATION with reference to the bill
sponsored by Senator Harry s.
Truman ID. Mo-, and designed
10 encourage states to set definite
requirements for those who drive.
Pointing out that the measure
should be accepted as a precedent
for federal regulation of motorists
and is not effective until four years
after the date of enactment. the
national motoring body said that
II is obviously notice to the states
tnat congress is alert To the need
FOR better standards Of driving and
is DESTROYS that the states take
The necessary steps 10 fix those
to be met by operators of motor
vehicles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-23
CRAY POPULAR
0LDS COL OR

Gray cars stand second only 10
black in the preference of Oldsmo-
BILE purchasers, according to d.
f. Ralston. general sales manager.
Black remains the most popu-
lar car finish. Ralston said 1T
is chosen by approximately 30
buyers IN every 100 But gray is
running a very close second with
a preference of % per cent This
last figure. however, includes two
different shades. light gray and
a dark gray.
1T is interesting to note that
the two grays have traded places
In the popularity rating. During
the 1889 model year, dark gray
represented 1872 per cent of our
deliveries, against 1863 per cent
for light gray. Our latest color
report shows dark gray is cur
rently accounting for Is per cent
against only IL per cent for light
gray. The next most popular colors
arc light blue. green and dark blue.
respectively. Trailing on the color
popularity chart are brown. ma
room, red and cream.
In the matter of body STYLES.
the Oldsmobile four-door sedans
sell all other models in the medium
priced 20 and so series. More than
10 per cent of series so purchasers
select the four-door sedan. Slightly
over one-half of all series 20 buy- |
ers choose the four-door sedan. |
The two-door is second choice in
both of these series In the series
Do, which Oldsmobile recently in
trodnced into the low price field,
the two-door sedan leads the four
ioor. 43 per cent to So per cent"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-23
HOlLer.,

William f. Holler. general sales
manager Chevrolet Motor Divis-
ION. General Motors Corporation.
VIII be the guest speaker at the
annual banquet of the National
Automobile Dealers association 10
be held in San Francisco Wednes-
DAY, April 10, 1t was announced
today by l.. e. Cargile. chairman
OF NADIA. convention committee
The banquet will be held in con-
junction with the 22d annual
NADIA. convention which starts
on Monday. April II. A large at
tendance of automobile dealers is
expected at this years convention
because of the opportunity pre-
scented to visit the Golden Gate
Exposition at the same time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-23

the signed ard itsmixxd sheglubri-
cstion receipt every time ths ear
IL sefsieed sbeiIuDrscaslon IL the
0nly bpkffp Asrstee which gives
receipt showing every operation
performed and every point iubri.
Gated. fnese receipts, kept in me
portfolio IN Chronological order.
make up health csrtifseate for
the car a case history ~ ia life
and proof 81 the upsesp received.
The ns@ Documentary KhslIIb-
Fieation record In made 10 1T tne
dashboard compartment where IL
can re kept out II the way hut
Instantly available 10 prove extra
value shsH the car IL traded in.
Many motorists are calling al
sheilubfiea;lon stations 70 get
these portfolios