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Evening star., 1939-09-12

your own schools faculty are taking
care of that little matter-and you'll
be smart II you pay attention to
them. But we do want to point out
what this new year can mean to you
in improving your personality, in
creasing your popularity, developing
you into a charming young modern
whom it's fun to know.
First of all, you have a chance to
make yourself stand out from the
crowd, to become an individual in
stead Of just one more member of
the sophomore or the senior class.
How? BY doing things! 1t doesn't
matter much what activity you take
up, except that it should be some
thing you like and enjoy doing.
Football or some other sport, publi-
cation work, debating, playing in
the band or orchestra, singing in the
glee club or chorus, trying out for
the class play, class politics, language
clubs-any one of the many activ-
tiles which modern high schools
provide for their students.
Remember That
You're an Individual.
The advantages Of such a program
are many. When your name is men,
toned, other students will say, Joe
Jones? Oh, sure. He plays the
tuba in the orchestra" Or DOT
Smith? She's secretary of the
French club" At once you are
identified. You are a part of the
school. You belong!
Moreover, such activities bring you
into active association with other
students in friendly. informal way.
Your circle of acquaintance is wild
ened. More people get to know you,
not just as that big, blond boy or
that dark-haired little girl who sits
across the aisle in chemistry, but as
a real person who is fun to work
with and to play with. And you are
thrown into contact with the school
leaders, the fellows and girls who
are alert and alive and ambitious,
the ones who are going to be in the
thick of things both as students and
as graduates.
So get into something! You don't
have to be a star half-back, vice
president of your class, or editor of
the Weekly Wall. Just to be out
for something, to be doing some
thing, is the important thing,
whether you make the grade or not.
The most popular man in our class
in college was out for football for
three years, and never got into
game. He tried out for manager of
Evening star., 1939-09-12

as reading and a desk lamp. She
will also need bookcases and dress
ing table, as the chests of drawers
are usually so high that the bow
on the top of her head is all she
can see. After this you are down
to the odds and ends. A good, tough
bedspread must be nice looking and
able to stand the wear and tear of
at least five girls sitting with their
feet on it. Draperies should add
color and interest to the room, but
must also be sunfast and washable.
Every College Room
Has Triple Use
Every college room is a combina-
ton of hobby shop, bedroom and
office. 1t is useful only when all
these points are considered and 1t
becomes a frame for the work that
goes on there. Your daughters
major" is her hobby, and whether
that interest Is history, music or
art the room must be planned
around It.
If the study of music is her aim,
her room will be built around the
best radio-victrola that you can
afford. Her practicing will not be
done in her room, but she will want
comfortable chair for the hours
Of studying scores and listening to
recordings. Also, deep cabinets for
the storage of records and port
folios is a requirement. She will
enjoy deep, heavy draperies at her
windows and possibly one other wall
curtained with heavy fabric as this
will improve the quality of the music
in her small room.
If she majors in art, her drawing
board will occupy the important
space before her window. Close at
hand will be a table or chest for
materials at height that she may
easily reach from her work stool.
She will also need space for the
storage of portfolios and a long
cork strip above her bookcase for the
display and study Of her sketches.
The girl who is interested in lit
erature and writing will build her
whole room around her library and
desk. A typewriter table is also
must" and space for papers and
books to spill over is an added
luxury.
For the many other girls who are
just going to college" with no def
mite avocation and who are def
nitely inclined to sociability, there
should be room with seating space
for six to ten other girls. They de-
mand tea table and equipment for
the preparation of snacks in a room
that is charming and restful in color
and arrangement.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

width. Pointed revers flare back,
under your chin, to give your face a
young, appealing look.
Make this frock of faille, taffeta,
fiat crepe or thin wool and see If
it isn't one of the most f1attering
you ever wore.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1780-B
is designed for sizes II, IA, 16, 49,,
20 and 40. Corresponding bust meas
urements 80, 80, "a, 36, SO and 40.
Size IA (32) requires yards Of
39-inch material. One-third yard
contrasting.
Special extra! Send Is cents today
for your new Fall Pattern Book with
stunning selection of q hundred
perfect patterns for all shapes and
sizes. Save money and know the
keen satisfaction of personally
planned, perfectly fitted garments
by making your own frocks with
these smart, carefully cut designs.
You can't 60 wrong-every pattern
includes q step-by-step sew chart to
guide beginners.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

the boxing team, and missed, He
was on the art staff of the comic
magazine, but another man got the
job of art editor. He was in dra-
matics, but never played a leading
role. Yet he ended up with badges
from half-dozen honorary socie-
ties and huge circle of friends
that stretched from one end Of the
campus to the other.
High school can also be a labora-
tory where you can conduct expert
ments and learn lessons in social
and personal relationships. Form
the habit Of being friendly to the
casual acquaintances you meet in
the corridors and on the walks.
Take sincere interest in them, and
show it with smile and few words
of greeting. Attend school dances
and parties, practicing the tips on
manners that We give you In this
column. Broaden your horizons, seek
new friends and new experiences, do
new things. That's the tried and
true formula for making yourself q
more vital, alive and interesting
person.
Postscript for
Club Members.
If your club Of fellow high school,
ers has gone to pieces during the hot
weather, now is the time to revive 1t.
Call the members together arSi out
line a program of fall and winter
activities. Plan some parties. Set
goal in some line of personal,
group, or school improvement.
If you don't belong to a club al
ready, or if your school or commu-
nifty is short on clubs you'd like to
join, why not start one yourself?
The first step is to have a purpose
reason for being. The next Is to
pick small group of congenial,
hard-working boys or girls, or both,
who can form the nucleus of the Or
ganization. Clubs are fun-and
they can do you a lot of good. If we
can be Of any help in getting you
started, or in helping pep up a club
that is faltering, drop us a line.
Here's big news! We have q
new booklet ready for you-and
it's one you can't afford to miss.
The title is Pointers on Popu-
larity,' and 1t contains dozens Of
invaluable suggestions on how
to make yourself q popular, lik-
able person. It's yours for . g.
cent stamp. JLst write US, In
care of The Evening Star.
Irnnurirht 1QaaA
Evening star., 1939-09-12

also nave W tuiIl IltCIlOI dcSoI deoi
as soon as your child gets one look
at her room and you might just as
well face the situation now.
If daughter is going to your alma
mater and for sentimental reasons Is
going to live in the same dormitory
where her mother made records, she
may find the room exactly as mother
left it and you will know just what
1t needs. If she isn't and you have
not had the opportunity to visit the
school and see her room, you have
probably received plan of the
dormitory which shows the location
of the room, the fact that it is
about IL by IS feet and, crowning
Joy, has double window and win
dow seat! Along with this comes a
little notice that none of the COL
lege furniture may be painted,
stained or upholstered. No nails or
tacks may be put in the walls or
the woodwork, and no piece of electric
wire may be longer than feet nor
may it hide under the rug. And you
may count that the room will have
a bed, chest of drawers, a desk with
straight chair and closet. The rest
of it is up to you.
Roomy Desk Very
Important Item.
First of all you must consider these
essentials: If the desk Is small, and
many of them are, it must be re-
placed, for no matter what her
course she will spend most of her
study time at her desk. If you pur-
chase one get a good working
mans" desk with a large cleared
top, minus gadgets, drawers, cubby
holes or other encumbrance. Plenty
of drawer space is joy, too. Next
in Importance is big, comfortable
chair with a footstool, and beside
this a large chairside table, big
enough for a pile of books, notebook
and pen and ink. Select two good
lamps, one standing that may be
adjusted for room lighting as well
Evening star., 1939-09-12
BY BARBARA BELL.

Some call it hourglass. Others
say It's like an inverted champagne
glass, with stemlike waist. But
everybody agrees and every one
wants the kind of figure that dimin-
ishes to practically nothing at the
middle and is softly curved above.
Here's dress that will be a big help
In giving you this coveted waistline.
Above it the bodice is shirred and
gathered to give a full bustline and
the sleeves give smart shoulder
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Dear Dorothy Dix: What do you
think about vacationing wives,
especially those going on long cruises
alone, where a woman Is thrown
in contact with men with whom she
talks and walks, sings, dances and
drinks with and sits up with late
at night in the moonlight and, at
the end of the cruise. has her pic
ture taken with one of them? This
is what my brothers wife did.
Should he feel humiliated by her
conduct, or just take it along with
the wallops handed out by fate? He
is very fond of his wife and very
indulgent with her, and he doesn't
seem able to recover properly from
the shock it gave him to find out
that she seems to have forgotten
that she had husband at home
while on this trip. He grieves over
it until it has become an obession
and it interferes with his efficiency
and his health. His wife says there
is nothing to it and that he just
has a complex on the matter. If
so, what should be done about it?
He would never have been incon-
siderate enough to treat her as she
treated him. RICHARD.
Answer-I thing that your brother
should be fair enough to give his
wife the benefit of the doubt. If
she has been true and faithful to
him all during their marriage he
might trust her enough to believe
that not even a cruise could shake
her morals. Honor and loyalty are
not matter of environment. They
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Ny Neighbor Says:

Strained honey mixed with
soft butter makes a delicious
topping for hot cinnamon toast.
1t is good, too, on other hot
breads. 1t may be poured from
pitcher for use on pancakes.
To freshen a bouquet place
several cubes Of ice in the
bowl. That will do the trick
without making it necessary to
move or rearrange the flowers.
Potatoes will be more mealy
when baked If the ends are cut
of before putting into the oven.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

The leaflet, Beauty at Small
Cost" tells girls how to groom
for little money. Inclose SELF
addressed, stamped (3-cent en-
velope II you ask for 1t. Write
me care Of this paper.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Plans for the College Girls Room Center Around Her Principal nees
Increase Your Popularity
At School or College by
Interest in Activities
Going Out for an Organization
Or One Particular Sport Will
Make You Fun to Know
By KAY CALDWELL and ALDEN HARRISON

heard for the long vacations
school students
designed help them from all
orators IN June and orfy
duge Of dos and dons which descends them 60
classes in September ' o. ~ W.
We're not going add single deuge as far 4. vor
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Art, Music or Writing May
Influence Decorations;
Practicability Vital
Requirements of the School
Are Met Before Individual
Adornments Are Added
By MARGARET NOVEL;.

Now that daughters wardrobe for going away to school selected
the
weeks sit quietly comfortable chair and figure out what
decorating minute
abe designer glorifed
with
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
CHILD HEALTH DAY. 1899
A Proclamation by TIE President
9 afthsSt United States Of &c
Il -. Kmerica

WHEREAS the Congress by
joint resolution of May lS, 1925
I! CAS- Stat. GID, has authorized
| and requested the President OF
+, the United States to issue an.
nually a proclamation setting
apart May 1 as Child Health
Day, and
WHEREAS the heath of chill
dren is of great concern TO all
citizens:
NOW, THEREFORE l, FRANK
LIN D. ROOSEVELT, President
of the United States of America,
do hereby designate May 1889,
as child health day, and urge
each community to consider how
the knowledge of the best me-
thods of promoting health may
be spread among all those res
ponsible for the care of children
and how proper provision may be
made to insure care for the
health of all children. And l
also call upo nsthe children Of
each community to celebrate
this years gains in health and
gowth, and to consider how they
may do their part in promoting
their own health and the health
of the nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF l
have set herunto my hand and
caused the seal of the. United
States to be affixe
DONE at the city of Washing
ton this fourth day of April,
in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and thi1'ty-nine, and
of the independence of the Uni
ted States of America the one
hundred and sixty-third.
FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT
By the President
CORDELL HULL, Ssc'y of State
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
W.Va.State to
Hold Big Event
NOTICE.!

The week of May LIST to May
9th, inclusive, has been de-
sigrated by t he Common
Council of tie City of Key
stone as
CLEAN UP WEEK
All residents and property
owners are hereby notified
to clean their premises of all
rubbish and other unsanitary
and unsightly materials or
substance and place it on the
street in a convenient place
where it vii be trucked away
by ttr City employees free
CT charge to the owner.
Everyone is urged to take
advantage of t his FREE
SERVICE which is offered
to our citizens as an induce
ment to begin the summer
with a clean and attractive
City.
J. ]. STUART Mayor.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28

spirit of bitterness on the part
of Brown toward Miss King
has not been thoroughly verif-
ed. Only Brown says Lille King
made advances toward him,
threatening to cut him, where
upon he reached for a gun in
the dresser drawer Ca 80 calibre
Smith and Wesson revolver).
Three shots were fired and two
of them took effect in her breast
causing instant death. Drs.
Evans and Brown were summon
ed at once and pronounced her
dead. Arrival Of h er brothers
on the scene ordered the sum-
moniHg of Kimball Undertaking
company ambulance, which ar
rived in a j;Ty. Prosecuting
Attorney Samuel Christie, Sher-
if Ray and a number of his De-
puties quickly appeared on the
scene and with the presence Of
DIR. Brown went into an exhaust
i've examination and investiga-
ton Of the crimcymiY.
tContiuued on Page Four,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
FRATERNITY PLANS FOR
EDUCATION FOR CITIZEN
SHIP WEEK ACTIVITY

In accordance with the policy
of the national organization, the
Alphi Phi Alpha fraternity,
chapters in the state will hold
its week of education for citi-
zenship," a as part of the fra
ternity's national program thru
out the United States during the
week May IT, inclusively, cha
piers of the fraternity will carry
on campaigns stressing this
phase of education for Negro
youth.
The following week, May ID,
Dr. Hayford Logan, National
Educational Director, Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity and Head
of the Department of History at
Howard university will be the
guest speaker at Charleston and
at West Virginia State college.
This phase of the program is
sponsored by Alpha zeta ychapt-
ter atr6he college. ;aaGo l., q
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
Lilly King Shot and
Killed Last Night

Lily King was shot and killed
instantly in Keystone last night.
Tom Brown fired the shots that
ended her life. She is from Eek
man and he is from Gillian.
The shooting occurred Wednes
day evening at 7 o'clock in a
room on the second floor of a
local building owned by j. L.
Finney rented and Occupied by
Brown the past three months or
more. Tom Brown had been
sub-renting a room from Min
ME lavender.
Cause for such an unhallowed
scene as took place is at this
time mystery to the whole Of
Keystone. Some of n facts
leading up to- The tragedy are
as follow, Lilly King, accompani
ed by Laura Johnon, also of Eek
man, seemed to have been visit
ing ordinarily in the city. They
made a special visit to the home
of Mr.. Brown, apparently a
social friend to both ladies.
Whatever it W a s that caused
"a diipfisfsftfiPn pr 4Teatqg a
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
Tau Chapter and Alumni of
Charleston Met April goth

TIL @ Tau Chapter and the
Charleston Alumni Chapter of
the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity
will present DR.. Rufus f. Gle
ment, President of Atlanta u,
Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday,
April %, 1889, in a double Ma
ional Guide Right program. The
first meeting will convene at
300 pm. in the first Baptist
church in Charlesto, under the
auspices of the local chapter of
the NAACP. The second meet
ing will be held in the West Va,
State college auditorium.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
Coal Operators Urge
Negotiators Deny ).
UniOn'S Demands
ll3,9S5 MINERS DESTITUTE.
UNION CLAIMS; OPERAT-
ORS FEEDING IDLE MEN
Lincoln Ayers Idle Miners Are
Being Taken Care of; Utilities
Being Paid and Script Adranc-
cd for Food

John J. Lincoln. president of
the Pocat Ontas Operators asso
citation. Tuesday evening ques-
toned the accuracy of the re-
port by the United Mine Work
crS of America of District No. II
which showed that ll3.985 per
sons in the region had been made
destitute by reason Of the coal
product on suspension.
Lincoln said that he could not
Spcake for the district as "A whole
but as far as the pocahontas-
Tug River district is concerned,
there had been little if any
real suffering for the lack of
the real necessities of life"
The associations president
laid that with exception Of few
isolated cases all companies
affiliated with t h e assoc alton
had been taking care of their
men during the mine suspen-
sion" - :,
He reported special scrip was
being issued, good for food only,
an d that miners house rents
and utilities were beng paid.
The companies are paying as
high as 81 or So a week to the
large families, Lincoln asserted,
and about So a week to some
unmarried men by that method.
He said that the companies
were encouraging the unmarri-
Ell men 10 get out ana try to
take care of themselves, and
asserted that no iron-cla1 rule
could be followed in the distri-
button of hep to the antilles. He
pointed out that in some of the
smaller families where there
was sicknss that these families
were receiving as much as tho
larger families, circumstances
gverning all cases.
Mr.. Lincoln said that some of
the miners had not sought any
aid whatever from the companies
as they were living on savings.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
Mary Ruby McLemore Rites

The funeral of Mary McLe-
morxw was held in the Keystone
Presbyterian church Sunday at
100 o'clock pm. tThe church
was crowded to it's capacity,
people stood in the aisle, sat on
pulpit floor, in the ante rooms,
vestibule, out doors, room in the
front CT church and between
Little Queen building and the
church was just as crowded as
the inside. Never have we wit
messed such a crowd at any
funeral much less a small child.
Rev. j. A. Davis, the pastor,
was in charge. The Northfork
Glee Club, the Junior High
Quartet, Heavenly Bells Quar-
tett and little Juanita Smith
rendered the music. The pail
bearers were little boys of the
community and the flower girls
her little playmates and school
mates.
DR.. Brown, her physician,
talked briefly as he knew her
A child in age but an adult in
thought and wisdom. A short
while before her passing she
S a d, Mother, l wish l had
strength to write you and DR..
Brown a letter telling you how
| appreciate all you have done
for me so you could read it at
the church. You have been nice
but all you can do now is just
pray. / don't want any more
medicine, no more anything, [
lust want to rest" So she slip
ped away with her armsaround
her mothers neck and a smile
on her face.
So on Sunday afternoon a
long string of cars from t h e
church down to the middle Of
keystone bearing young and
old who were her friends follow
ed her to her last resting place.
Little Mary Ruby McLemore
was born in Northfork, West
Virginia, September Ia, 1926.
Continued on Page Four)
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28

and hours too hort, and
other conditions too burden
some on both the companies
and the miners to enable Ur
mines TO operate steadily in
the face Of labOrlesss com
petition, We all agree to sup
port your position as negO-
tiatOrs in Offering to renew
the last prevailing wage CON
tract and nothing more and
without changes in basic or
district agreements"
Union Raps Producers
At the same time the union
issued a statement blaming the
general coal shutdown, now in
its fourth week, on the represent
tatives of the operators who are
deadlocked with the UMWA in
New York.
Continued on Psge Four
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-04-28
Garner Absence from Ander-
son Concert May Cost High

~" NoSAS "ioS >oSt iiiSu
Washington, AH at-ln their
syRdicated column ~washington
Merry Go Round" Drew Pear
son and Robertrs.e Allen assfx
It h e fact that Vice-President
Garner failed to attend the Mar
ian Anderson cocer before the
Licoln Memorial, or even to ac-
knowledge the invitation, may
runined his chances for the
presidency"
The section of the column deal
ing with this topic is entitled
Garner and Negroes, and fol-
lows in full:
Little things sometimes
swing the tide of political events.
I'm 1916 it was Charles Evan
Hughes failure to shake hands
with Hiram Joneson of Cali
fornia that probably cost him the
election to Woodrow Wilson. And
tday the fact that Vice-Presi-
dent Garner failed to attend the
Marian Anderson concert be-
fore the Lincoln Memorial, or
even acknowledge the invita-
ton, may ruin his chances for the
presidency.
The colored vote can swing
an election one way or another
in such key states as New York,
Pennsylvania, Miouri, and Hi
nois, and Jack Garner, one of
the shewdest politicians in the
country is quite aware of the
fact.
"Greatly worried, Garner has
told Senate colleagues that he
never received an invitation, and
claims Secretary Ickes did not
send him one. On the latter point
Garner is correct, but only on
a technicality. The invitation
was sent not by Ickes, but by
his Assistant Secretary, Oscar
Chapman in cooperation with
Caroline O'Day, Congrcsswo-
man from New York, Western
Unuion has a signed receipt
showing the telegram was de-
livered April 3, six days before
the concert.
1.-TWO days late, Walter
White, secretary the NAACP,
called Gamers office and asked
why he had not answered the
invitation. White talked to l..
Friday, competant clerk to the
Vce-President and got definite
rundown. Friday said Garner
had no intention Of lending his
anne to the concert"