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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

often the scene
of the first Sun
day school, was
a part of the
warp and the
wool Of the win
ming of the
West. Whatever
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sc h ools may
have lacked in
physical equip
ment, they were
the strongest or
ganized forces of
their time in the
character devel-
opment of young
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Four Added to Faculty

Col. John c. Boggs Of Randolph
Macon Military Academy, an
nounced yesterday the addition Of
four new faculty members for the
year beginning September 20. They
are Frank D. White, who will teach
mathematics; Bernard Rue, director
Of music: Maj. Francis G. Arm
strong, dean of the academy, and
Capt. John D. Evans, French and
Spanish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
St. Johns High
| Adopts New
| Drill Rules

St. Johns College High School,
semi military college preparatory
school, will instruct its gray and
scarlet clad cadets this year in the
new Army drill regulations.
Sergt. Peter McGurn, professor Of
military science and tactics At st.
Johns, has announced the new drill
regulation Of the Army, which is
calculated to give more strength and
greater mobility to the platoon, will
be adopted this year when the Cadet
Corps has been organized. st.
Johns opens tomorrow.
The new drill regulations provide
a platoon with only three squads of
IL men each instead Of the four
squads as formerly used. The new
platoon will be three deep in man
power instead of the old two-deep
platoon.
The cadets drill three days 4 week
on Vermont avenue between Thomas
Circle and N street NV. A high
point in the school year is the an
nual competitive drill, held the last
week of school on the Monument
Grounds.
This year a waiting list has been
established due to extremely heavy
registration at the school, it was
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
MEMBER
POLITE WAR ON
THE WESTERN FRONT

Americans, safe in their armchairs,
are inclined to be a bit critical of the
slow pace with which Europe's war is
moving on the Western Front.
"Why don't England and France do
something" is the commonest question
of all among those who are discussing
the war.
The answer, of course, is that England
and France are waiting for Germany to
do something-and not caring particu-
larly whether she does or not.
The longer the allies can stay in their
trenches and forts, the fewer lives they
will lose. The sooner Germany launches
an attack against the Maginot line, the
more lives she will lose, and the more
money she will spend
The allies did not go into the war for
spectacular reasons. They went in to
humble Hitler. They announced when
war was declared that it will last at
least three years. The last time they
thought it would be over in six weeks.
France and Germany are not interested
in losing their own men, exposing their
own flanks and eXpending a lot of energy
uselessly. They are not, for that matter,
particularly interested IN taking a lot
of German lives, nor inflicting a lot of
material damage on Germany. Not yet,
at least.
They believe they can win the war by
starving the German people into revolu-
ton, and so getting rid of Hitler without
major losses themselves. Their war now
| is war of isolation, not war of great
battles.
The longer the war lasts, the Stronger
the allies will be, comparatively speak.
| ing. Whereas Germany will in time ex-
haust her resources (Russia cannot sup
ply her complete needs), Britain and
France have endless reserves to call up
on, both at home and in their colonies.
Whereas a long war would greatly de-
plete Germany's mechanical forces, it
would see those of the allies inceased
and strengthened through speeded up
production The longer Germany must
dig into her food reserves, the less food
she will have. Rations do not worry the
allies. They have more than enough.
The allies might win the war by action,
but they believe they can win just as sure
ly by inaction. Not as rapidly, perhaps
but with a much smaller loss of life
and property.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
PUBLICITY BATHROOM

The Countess Barbara Hutton Haug
witz Reventlow, much-married heiress
to a five-and-ten cent store fortune, is
trying to lease a 21-room apartment in
New York in which one bathroom is fur
nished with 19-carat gold-plate fixtures,
news dispatch says
The countess, whose wealth would do
lot more good if somebody else had it,
could buy her publicity more cheaply,
one is inclined to believe if she would
purchase few full page ads in the news
papers Or she would deserve it lot
more if she scrubbed in an ordinary bath
room and spent the money, instead, pro-
viding additional ordinary bathrooms
for poverty-stricken slum residents of
the big city, who take their baths (if any
out of washtubs.
The countess is the kind of young rich
woman who furnishes Communists with
converts-because she has never been
made to realize that money carries with
it great responsibilities, as well as great
opportunities. Fortunately she is an eX
ception. The young rich women, and men
too, who know how to handle their money
wisely seldom make the headlines be-
cause of gold-plated bathrooms.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
CALL FOR A
THOROUGH INQUIRY
[ Sacramento Bee)


Discipline in prison is a problem that
defieS final solution. But one thing mod
ern penologistS are agreed upon is that
corporal punishment in any form is not
the answer.
SO the straitjacket has been abolished
in all civilized lands.
And along with it have gone other
instruments condemned as cruel and in
human relics of the Dark Ages, whether
used inside or outside the prison walls.
Hence, Governor Olson has complete
justification in demanding an unbiased
but thorough investigation into charges
that there has been a reverSion toward
such practices in San Quentin prison.
Just how far they have gone is yet
to be determined.
The evidence is contradictory and con-
fusing.
But it is admitted that certain of the
guards used a piece of garden hose and
heavy leather strap to administer beat
ings to convicts. They seek to dignity
the practice by describing it as spank
ings"; but the whole business smacks
leans had supposed was confined to the
concentration camps of nazi Germany
or communist Russia.
The citizenry will be happy to note,
however, that Warden Court Smith him.
self declares these floggings had been
carried on without either his knowledge
or consent.
They are, in fact, directly contrary to
his known devotion to humanitarianism
and decency in the administration of the
prison.
But they ought to be stopped here and
now.
Nor should any guard be allowed to
determine what penalties should be in
flicted for violation of the prison rules.
That is not his function. And it is bound
to lead to just such misuse of authority
as has occurred at San Quentin.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON.-Out of the pre-
sent work of the Dies Committee
on un- American activities there will
eventually come the most deter
mined move yet made in this coun-
try to drive the Communist party out
of existence.
With it there Will be compan-
ion move to destroy the German
American Bund as well. But the
main program is aimed at the Com
unist party, for no other reason
than that its activities and influ-
ence have been greater.
Congressman Martin Dies, chair
man of the committee, has been
putting together an amazingly de-
tailed picture of the Communist
work in the United States.
With all of this as a background
and it makes a far more factual
and effective background than any
thing the committee has dug up in
previous yearS-legislation will be
introduced in Congress early in
January which, if passed, would
either destroy the party in the
the United States or reduce it to
impotence.
In substance. according to pre-
sent plans, this legislation would
compel any organization affiliated
with any international organiza-
tion to file periodical reports with
the secretary of state, giving the
true names Of all its members and
officers and presenting a complete
statement of its finances.
With such a law on the books
and with the publicity which would
result from it. it is believed that
the party would be pretty thorough
ly crippled.
Present indications are that such
a law could be got through the
House of Representatives without
much trouble. 1t would have more
difficulty in the senate.
For one thing, the signing Of the
Russian German treaty has caused
a great change of feeling.
The capital is waiting with some
uneasineSs TO know just what
Chairman Dies much talked-of
list of Communists in government
amounts to. 1t is doubted that he
will be able to show that anything
like the 28OO government employees
claimed to be on that list are ac-
tually members of the party. Com
munist sources insist that the par
tvs total membership in the entire
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
THE new DEAL IN 1910?
Sacramento UniOn)

One thing the European war, with its
reflected upswing in business in Ameri-
ca, has done is to lessen the danger of
a split in the Democratic party and also
lessen the chances of the Republicans
electing a president in 1910.
The boom, being felt largely in the
industrial centers, has served to partly
divert attention of workers from the un-
employment question; and war, too, has
raised the old bugaboo of changing par
ties in the middle of crisis.
Added to war, of course, is the rightist
swing of Roosevelt himself in his atti-
tude toward labor and industry; his OBJ
vious change has won back many of the
Bourbon Democrats who had drifted
away from his fold.
No one yet knows how deep the change
within the Democratic party runs. The
wisest Democrat politicians are with
holding judgment, watching the swing
of public opinion hopefully.
The Republicans are refusing to admit
that the war and Roosevelt's changes in
New Deal policies are having any effect
on their 1910 chances; but the wiseacreS
in Washington and Wall Street, those
men who watch the ebb and flow of par
ties impartially, are swinging to the con-
viction that the New Deal policies, not
necessarily in the person of Roosevelt,
will be continued in 1910.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Famous Sayings

We Americans take our citizen
ship pretty casually.
To most of us it is a common
place. It came to us through no
effort of our own but was ours
merely by the accident of birth.
We sacrificed nothing to gain what
the men of Valley Forge fought
and froze and starved to gain-the
right to be Americans.
Thus accepting as a matter OF
course the boon of citizenship, we
have too often taken just as casu-
ally the duties that go with it
the duty to take an active, intelli-
gent interest in public affairs; the
duty to vote with the public welfare
in mind: the duty to give freely a
reasonable measure of cooperation
in social matters.
Since 1929 there has been a
change. Conditions have been such
as to show even the Indifferent that
public affairs really do matter. Cir
cumstances have placed the nation
al government on every mans door
step, and interest in public affairs
has mounted. The same thing has
become doubly true since Europe S
long mismanagement has finally
brought that continent once again
to war. Now as never before, pub
lie affairs matter.
1t is inspiring, therefore, to see
new citizens flocking to the courts
to take the oath of allegiance tc
the government of the United
States. Anyone who has had the
least touch with the process oi
naturalization, and seen the glow
ing eyes and upraised heads of those
who take that oath for the firS'
time, knows how valuable the great
majority of these new citizens are
to the Republic. For the time has
passed when passive acquiescence tt
the law is enough. The Republic
needs active, loyal work in its be-
half as it has not needed it fol
many years. 1t needs the firm
intelligent guidance that can come
only from an alert, informed, loya
and determined citizenship. 1t needs
not blind and unthinking cannon
fodder citizens, but free men ant
women who will gladly and volun.
tarily play their part as citizens
of a free Republic.
How long has it been since you
native-born Americans, have repeat
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

pelling ship without depending
upon the wind Finally, he hit on
the screw propeller, and took a
model to the British Admiralty. The
wise lords, who knew all about
ships, looked at it and said, Its
impractical. You can't put the pro-
pelling power of ship at the end
It must be in the middle The in
ventor's name was John Ericsson
Now all the ships are propelled by
a screw at the end where the wise
lords said it wouldn't work.
A woman in Chicago needed mo-
ney. She had been housewife all
her life, and she knew nothing
about business. She looked out the
window one day and saw some
children returning from school. The
idea came to her that she could
make candy and sell it to them
She told her friends about it. The
same old chorus: "It can't be done
You'll fail"
But she bought some sugar AND
eggs. and made candy on her cook
stove, and sold it to those children
on the way home from school. She
sold S1.2O worth, and the next day
she made some more.
TT can't last" the chorus said
Better give it up before YOU lose
what money you have"
But Mrs. Ora H. Snyder kept on
You've heard of her candy stores
in Chicago, Ill, and in Oak Park
and Evanston. She now has IA.
What would have happened tC
the young mechanic working in al
abandoned Methodist church II
Santa Ana, California, if he hac
paid attention to such croakings
This foolish young man had al
idea that he could build machine
that would fly. SO he rented thu
church, ripped out the door, put IL
a big entrance, and started to work
People laughed. They scoffed. why
it took a genius to build an air
plane-what chance for a bo'
working in a garage? He let en
croak while he hammered ant
pounded and constructed his dream
One day he wheeled a lugubriou
thing ont the big door-and it flew
That young man? Glenn L. Mar
tin who builds the China Clippers
Three years after the close o
the Civil War a man named JOIN
Coopersmith was arrested becaus
he was trying to sell stock in a de
vice which would carry the human
voice over a wire Not only did peo
pie yelp it couldn't be done, bu
even the newspapers wrote editor
ials denouncing the crazy man. H
called the thing a telephone!
An so it goes. If you have som
idea you believe in, don't listel
to the croaking chorus. Listen onl
to what your own inner voice tell
you!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
When Value Of Citizenship is Appreciated

ed the oath that is being taken
every day by new citizens? 1t would
not hurt every one of us to read 1t
through and accept, mentally but
consciously, the responsibilities 1t
implies. Here is that oath. i.
"I do solemnly declare, on oath,
that will absolutely and entirely
renounce and abjure all allegiance
and fidelity to any foreign prince,
potentate, state, or sovereignty; that
1 will support and defend the Con-
stit,tion and Laws of the United
States of America against all en-
emies, foreign and domestic, and
that 1 will bear true faith and ALE
glance to the same. So help me
God!"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Washington Baltimore area does
not exceed 1000.
That Dies does have tolerably
accurate list of government en-
ployes who have been active in
various Communicated front" or
ganizations is certain. In addition,
he has a list of senator's and con-
gressmen who have been receiving
the Daily Worker, official party
newspaper.
The only trouble with such lists
is that by no means all of the 'front.'
organization people are Commu-
nists, and that the Daily Worker
recipients include number of
stout anti-Communists who read
the paper merely to see what the
party is up to-to say nothing of
some who have been receiving the
paper without having subscribed to
it and toss it unopened in the
wastebasket.
For instance: copy of the Daily
Worker has been going to Senator
Nye regularly. His secretary recog-
nizes it in its wrapper, by now, and
drops it calmly into the Wastebasket
without opening it. Another who
gets an unsolicited copy regularly
is Senator Capper; he occasionally
reads it to see what the radicals are
up to. Still another who gets it is
Congressman Jerry Voohris. who is
himself member of the Dies COM
mittee and who is about as con-
fired a foe of Communism as con-
gress contains.
So that to publish list of con-
gressional recipients of the Commu-
mist newspaper, with the inference
that people on the list were Com
munist sympathizers, would be to
convey a completely misleading i'm
preston.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

ahead. for almost
everyone in the
world who ever
started anything
worth while has
had someone tell
him t h a t h e
couldn't succeed.
A young Eng
lishman inventor
had an idea. It
was to work out
a method for pro-
80
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Today'S Horoscope

If your birthday is today, you
may look forward to favorable
year. If you are young it will bring
you a happy love affair, courtship
and marriage. The child born on
this date will have an unusually
quick intelligence, but may develop
some undesirable traits of character
unless carefully trained.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Hints on Etiquette

If your boy friend has traded
dances with another couple, and
the other man is shorter than you
or otherwise the type of person
YOU do not care to dance with
you cannot refuse to dance with
him unless you wish to be rude.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

The Panama canal is the latest
area to undergo a nightly "black-
out" Begins to look as though
Thomas A. Edison, who invented
the electric light bulb, wasted his
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Hornscone for SUNDAY

Through membership in societies
and association with others you will
enjoy good fortune in the twelve
months just beginning for you to-
day-your birthday. Be careful in
your dealings with elders, and safe
guard your health during this time.
The child born on this date will be
sincere, loyal and faithful. but Will
possess a somewhat complex ma
ture-rather difficult to understand.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Dale
CARNEGIE

Have you ever started something
YOU wished very much to do and
then had somebody croak, You'll
fail 1t can't be done"
That's the very time to plunge
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Occupation has good deal to
do with the incidence of common
colds. Office workers, in proxim-
ity to one another, have nine times
as many colds as taxi drivers who
work independently.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Hungarian scientists announce
that they have succeeded in man
ufacturing honest-to-goodness rain.
Well, Hungary isn't, by long shot,
the only European country that's all
wet.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Discoverer of a death ray says
he will keep it a secret in the inter-
ests of saving humanity. Now If
somebody had only kept Hitler a
secret.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Photographs

AS it is impossible to tell what
path a tornado will take, the United
States weather bureau does not send
out tornado warnings.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Russia wants peace, says an edl-
torial. Maybe so, but all those small
country diplomats rushing to and
from Moscow aren't tourists.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

The man at the next desk says
that now he knows why Hitler
blows up all buildings and towns
during blitzskrieg. He just pants
to create more "llving room," that's
all.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. Are there more red stripes or
white stripes in the United States
flag?
2. What is the City of the
Saints?
8. Which is larger, Alaska or
Texas?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

The worst of the nightmare which
Europe is experiencing is that for
some of the smaller nations there
will be no awakening.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

This has been a banner week
for the lost and found bureau, what
with the Bremen mystery finally
solved and reports sitting through
that the League Of Nations is turn
ing up again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Almost a million more sheep and
lambs were killed in New York
last year than in the Chicago pack
ing center. Can it be the bulls and
the bears are on the loose again?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Switzerland RuSheS Troops to
Border = headline. All = a Swiss
movement behind the Watch on
the Rhine.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Hitler's dove of peace" and the
German Condor legion-birdS of a
feather?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

In his old fashioned get-up of
heavy mustache and big pipe, Stain
looks like town constable. Striding
into the small Battles, he seems
to be usurping the county sheriff's
duties.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Words of Wisdom

A thousand years scarce serve
to form a state, an hour may lay
it in the duSt.-Lord Byron.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

One Minute Test Answers
/. Red. The flag has seven red
nd six white stripes.
2. Salt Lake City, Utah.
8. Alaska.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Thoughts for the Day

Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must
needs be that offenses come but woe to that man
by whom the offenSe cometh-St. Matthew 1871
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
You re Telling Me-

The fashionable European woman
already has started to shop around,
no doubt,.>for her 1910 model gas
mask.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22
Barbs

OF course the light may be bad,
but from here the Nazi dove of
peace looks strangely like vulture.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-22

Approximately 5000 cross ties are
used for each mile of railroad track
in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-07
MARKET QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, FEB. 7. CUP) -
Stocks, bonds, the dollar. wheat and
cotton drifted lower today. Trading
in stocks dwindled sharply.
Utilities joined the decline and
their failure to hold gains had &
dampening effect on sentiment.
Traders Ignored favorable news,
preferring TO await Spanish war de-
velopments which took an uneX-
pected turn when the Loyalists re
fused unconditional surrender and
announced they would cOtinue the
civil war in central Spain.
London reported British and Ger
man industrialists holding discus
sions with a view of Improving
trade relations. An authoritative
source said Russia and Italy were
ear ar accord on a trade agree
ment.
Domestic news confined such
items as better steel operations al
Pittsburgh and increasing railroad
buying of steel.
Losses in utility stocks. caused
mostly by profit-taking, ranged tc
a point in common stocks and u
more than point in preferreds
Exceptions included Columbia Gas
preferred issues and Federal Light
and traction preferred which ad .
vanced to new highs. America
Telephone weakened early and then
made up a loss Of more than a point
near the close
Railroad and steel issues had de
clines ranging 10 more than a point
Motor and tire shares softeneG
Small declines were noted in oils.
merchantile shares and cOppers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-07
Todays Sports Parade

won two games all year.
Now McKechnie and Warren
Giles, the Reds general manager,
are banking on Grissom to give
Cincinnati the leagues strongest
pitching staff and a strong con-
tender. Grissom signed his con-
tract in Cincinnati the other day.
He said he was in prime shape.
Reminded that he was paid for
fishing last year, Grissom said
I'm not going to be tough to sign,
but wait until 1 have a good year.
If 1 can't pitch this year I'm 60
ing to pack up and go home"
McKechnie has no fears about
Grissom's arm. 1t came around IN
season after a few treatments
by DR.. Van Rock, of Philadelphia,
who snapped something in place.
GriSSom never was bothered by the
arm afterethat.
He weighs 200 pounds and is 8
feet, inches tall, In 1887 he look
ed like the greatest young pitcher
in the league, but he overWorked
himself in the last two months OF
the season and contracted the sore
arm which plagued him from the
beginning OF spring training last
year