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upon the position Of the chimney
and the gas supply line. The flue
connection itself costs only 50 or SO.
The burner is f1rebrick-lined and
we'll insulated, SO it won't radiate
heat, which would be nuisance in
summertime.
These same burners are available
without the gas connection. when
the garbage can be disposed Of by
merely applying match to the ma
terial itself. If there is a predomi-
nance of wet material, however,
few sticks of dry wood should be
added to aid combustion. The day
after your order from the depart
ment or grocery store arrives, when
you have plenty of paper, boxes and
crates to get rid of, you won't need
that extra kindling wood.
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doing over the lighting fixtures Of
your house.
A Distinctive Roofing ShinKle.

A Distinctive Roofing ShinEle.
It won't be long now before the
snow moves of your roof TO stay.
One sign of spring is an increased
consciousness Of the roof over your
head.
If you are thinking of new roof
this year, you will be interested to
hear that a well-known maker of
insulation, sheathing, lath and in
terror finish has distinctive roofing
shingle on the market today. It is
of the asphalt family and comes in
q wide choice Of weathered blends.
These shingles give an impression
of weathered wood and deep shad-
ows when installed on top Of your
house.
The shingles are sealed three times
against weather and wear. First the
felt base is filled from one side only
with hot asphalt, which tends to
drive air and moisture out the other
side. Second, it is dipped to seal
the outside of the felt. Lastly, tenn
pered mineral-filled asphalt coating
Is applied, thus forming a durable
third seal. Thus the asphalt shingle
is inner, outer and face sealed
against the elements.
The colors range from green-gray
hues of bright spring to autumnal
tones of red and browns. The shin
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liar to that obtained by a forced
draft. This speeds up the burning
and you don't have to use a great
deal of gas to dispose of large can
Of garbage.
Cost of Installation.
In most small and medium sized
homes as a matter of fact the burn
ers are used every other day for from
10 to 20 minutes. Since the gas
consumed is 40 cubic feet an hour
for sizes appropriate to houses OF
from six to eight rooms, and gas
costs on an average of $1.20 a thou
sand cubic feet east of the Mis-
sissippi, you'can figure out for your
self that such a burner would not
be costly to operate.
The burner can be installed at a
cost Of from S. to So, depending
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giles are easy to install and inexpen.
sive in price.
An inexpensive Incinerafor.

An inexpensive Incinerafor.
The problem Of disposing of gar
bage is always with us, but never
does the idea Of finally dispensing
with the problem come so oppor-
tunely as at this time Of the year,
when we think about going to the
country for the summer~going, per-
haps, to some retreat far from the
garbage-collection service we are ac-
customed to in the winter time.
A garbage disposal plant isn't
nearly as expensive as many people
think. We have found one this week
which ranges in price from $50 for a
six-room house to $l70 for a 20
room house. 1t is a gas-burning
garbage burner, but it will operate
on bottled gas, If your house is not
within reach of city gas lines.
The chief feature of these burners
is the position of the lower air port
with relation to the smoke outlet
which sounds no end complicated
but what it means is that, because
Of its construction, the air is sucked
through the air port by the flue
connection and produces results sim.
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pirate In the small suburban and
city house. And If you need more
than nine fixtures, you might add to
the "package'-and still find your
self with a saving on the cost of
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BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

The packaging of various products
that go into the home certainly Is
the trend which future historians
of the building industry will set
down as one of the most outstand-
ing developments of the 193Os. Al
ready fabricated windows, doors,
wall panels, and the like are we'll
known to most of us. But did you
know you can buy lighting fixtures
by the package, too?
Let's say you have been casting
a dubious eye at the fixtures which
hang from your walls or ceilings.
wishing you could do something
about modernizing them. without
too much trouble and at not too
great expense. Well, you can order
a whole set of new fixtures for every
room for lump-sum price. Sew
eral manufacturers are offering a
line of assorted fixtures suitable for
dining room, living room, kitchen,
bedrooms, entrances and halls, at
prices ranging from Sl8 through
s19.95, s2495 and 1896, to 1896
for nine fixtures They save you
the trouble of selecting each sep
arately, and are cheaper when
bought in groups than when or
dered individually.
They are not elaborate, but they
are we'll designed, sturdy and espe-
cially selected to give the proper
amount of light for the rooms in
which they will be used Because
they are made by modern factory
methods and sold in quantities, they
are available at these reasonable
prices. If the styles suit your in
terror scheme, you couldn't do bet
ter than to get package of fix
lures.
Least Expensive Package.
The least expensive package in
cludes dining room light of the
hanging variety, with reflector in
side which allows part of the light
to go upward; living room light
which is indirect and has an ivory
like bow shade throwing the glare
to the ceiling, out of the eyes Of
those in the room; the kitchen fix
ture is the familiar white-glass bowl
over 100 to $50 watt bulb; three
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oO AdI dS llllS
courier knows, the suggestion by
Maj. James r. Randolph that
rockets may replace heavy artillery,
for long-range bombardment of
cities, is the first official recognition
Of their possible use in warfare. He
specifically cites the work Of DR..
Goddard, at time when DR.. God
dard is piling up new patents and
getting some Of his biggest sizzlers
under control. 1t is also the time
when the tiny. motored plane, evolv-
ing from the toy, and controlled by
radio. is absorbing the interest Of
the Army experimenters as a pos
sible bomb-dropper.
At Roswell, N. Mex, financed by
the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation,
DR.. Goddard has a unique desert
laboratory with plenty of elbow
room and sky room. He now has
gyro steering mechanism on his
rockets, by which they may be ac-
curately aimed; he has devised a
parachute by which they will no
longer come down like stick" but
drop gently, without being smashed
up: he has gained 80 per cent in
range over his best shots of two
years ago and is now forcing his
rockets to a speed of 700 miles per
hour.
His most valuable contribution to
rocketeering, noted by Maj. Ran
dolph, is his continuous flow of
power, instead of the single initial
explosion. Gasoline and oxygen,
mixing and exploding as they issue
from tail nozzle. give steady pro-
pulsion. The rudder, connected with
the gyro controls. is in this exhaust
stream, making possible ground ad-
justments which set the course.
DR.. Goddard, an amiable, unas-
suming, baldish man, began his
rocket experiments at Clark Univer-
sity in 1914. He is a physicist, alb
soroed in pure science, admitting
that we might hit the moon with a
rocket if we wanted to spend that
much power, but so far he keeps
down to earth on immediate and
specific problems-and makes prog
ress. But there is at hand sensa-
tional evidence that rocket age is
dawning.
(Copyright, 1e3e)
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Washington Observations
Garner Casts Picturesque Glow Of Authority
Over New Downing on Capitol Hill

!, tation the sex has acquired in Con-
gress. In fact, during the past
decade, the number has steadily
diminished. Its peak was nine men,
bers Of the House. In the Congress
which took office yesterday there are
only five women, one fewer than in
the preceding Congress. They are
Senator Caraway and Representa-
tives Rogers, Norton and O'Day, and
q newcomer, Miss Jessie Sumner of
Illinois. Representatives Jenckes of
Indiana and Honeyman of Oregon
fell by the wayside in the 1888 elec-
tions. Bess Furnan, able publicity
director of the League Of Women
Voters, thinks the reason women are
not reaching Congress in larger
numbers is that they don't take the
trouble to get onto the curves of
practical politics.
Suggestions are heard that King
George and Queen Elizabeth during
their sojourn in Washington, or at
its end, may be invited to inspect
Colonial Williamsburg, the magnifi-
cent restoration project sponsored
by John D. Rockefeller, jr., at a
reputed cost of $4,000, 900 and which
has resulted in the creation Of the
most beautiful and authentic bit of
Americana on this continent. No
other single spot in the United
States is SO picturesquely redolent
of the English parentage of the Re-
public. Even WILLIAMSBURG prox-
unity to Yorktown probably would
not minimize the exalted visitors
interest in the amazing reproduction
of Colonial England which Mr..
Rockefeller and his collaborators
have contrived to produce.
X
Father John F. O'Hara, c. S. c.,
president of the University of Notre
Dame, who was one of our delegates
at Lima, is now touring South Amer
lea for the purpose of sealing United
States-Latin-American cultural ties.
He will discuss with various colleges
and universities the possibilities of
locating scholars and teachers who
are being displaced in Europe. Notre
Danes own experience in this re-
gard has proved highly gratifying,
and President O'Hara is confident
other educators will be interested
in it. Several of Central Europe's
most noted scientists and philoso-
pliers havs joined the Irish" faculty
within the past three yeats. In 1920.
as dean OF Notre Danes college of
commerce, DR.. OHara visited South
America to arrange for mutual
recognition Of college credits and to
make provisions for exchange of
students. His current plans include
establishment of academic scholar
ships paralleling those offered in
practical work by some of this coun-
try's major industrial plants.
(copyright. 1939)
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| Nickel Coffee
Fight Won on
Capitol Hill

1t was Vice President Marshall
who once remarked that all Ameri-
ca needed was a good scent cigar
In more recent years the plea Of
members of Congress has been for g
good scent cup of coffee in the
House restaurant. The coffee has
been good, but the price has been
dime.
Now the House restaurant offers
good cup of coffee for a nickel
Refills, however, cost another nickel
incidentally, cup of coffee Is
about the only thing that has
dropped in price this year in the
House restaurant. Bean soup costs
Is cents bowl and pie Is cents a
slice.
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Traveller to Lecture
On National Parks

Anton Baumann, world traveller,
will give public illustrated lecture
under the auspices of the National
Park Service in the Departmental
Auditorium, Constitution avenue
between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets NV, at pm. today on
American national parks.
He will conduct Photographic
visit" to Yellowstone, Glacier, Crater
Lake, Bryce Canon and Grand Can
yon National Parks and Casa
Grande National Monument. He
also will show scenes of Banf Ma
tional Park, Canada: Point Lobos
State Park, Calf; the old Span
ish missions, Grand Coulee and
Bonneville Dams and cities of his
torical interest. A group of Indian
pictures also will be shown.
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policies with the least giving up Of
New Deal policies.

New Deal policies.
Frank Murphy will make an excel
lent Attorney General. What he
did as Governor of Michigan in
handling sit-down strikes has been
repudiated by the voters of his State,
but his record otherwise is liberal
and constructive. He may surprise
businessmen by running the De-
partment of Justice himself without
the meddling of amateur advisers
who have been brought in from
the universities and colleges to
attempt novelties in law enforce
ment which were not sanctioned by
Congress.
Anyway, the session starts out with
plenty of potential fireworks of the
political sort, and yet the scope of
the political warfare depends on the
Presidents ability to keep from
giving his opponents too much am
munition. The Republicans, of
course, have a real Job on their
hands to play the minority party
role with skill, too. If they become
too partisan, they drive the inde-
pendent Democrats back into the
New Deal fold, especially if the
President follows the Garner lead on
compromising certain legislative
points to attract conservative Demo-
cratic support. If the Republicans
adopt the legislative custom of fore
ing inquiries and Investigations, de-
pending on the attendant publicity
to make a bad showing for the New
Dealers, they will be following in
the footsteps of the Democrats when
they were in the minority. Within a
few days the Jackson Day dinner
will be held by the Democrats, at
which the harmony note will be the
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the Democratic winds during the
past year have made it almost para
mount. 1t is Dear Alben" Barkley
who will lead, but it is Cactus
Jack" who will direct. In the House
of Representatives the Garner sway
may be less apparent, but it will be
none the less powerful. Let it not
be forgotten that Texas Sam Ray
burn, majority leader in the lower
branch, Is as close to the Vice Presi-
dent as Gamers own shirt. Rayburn
had more to do than anybody else
with putting Garner where he is
today, for the Lone Star Representa-
tive was in charge of the Garner
forces at Chicago in 1882 and con-
Quoted the back-stage negotiations
with the Roosevelt Adoo- Hearst
leaders which led to the nomination
OF Uvalde's favorite son for second
place.
II any indication were needed that
the White House recognizes the as
cendancy of the Garner star in the
legislative armament, 1t was supplied
on the eve of the session by the
procession of administration and
other political leaders to the Vice
Presidents Office. Secretaries Wal
lace and Hopkins headed the big
parade. Other Rooseveltian ennis
saries were in the cavalcade, charged
with the special mission of gaining
the V. P.'s assurance that no serious
opposition to the confirmation of
Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce
or OF Murphy as Attorney General
might be expected. The chances are
that Garner has a pretty good ink
ling who Is slated for the Supreme
Court vacancy, and that F. D. r.
has assured himself, through the
vice presidential channel, that the
successor to Justice Cardozo also
will encounter no devastating storm
when his nomination reaches the
Senate. Texas has a candidate in
the person Of Federal Judge Hutche-
son. but there's been no hint that
Garner went to bat for him. This
observers money continues to be on
Judge Harold M. Stephens OF Utah,
now OF the U. S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia.
Attorney General Murphy may
thank his lucky stars there's no Jim
Reed in the Senate today. The last
time a Michigan lawyer, the late
Charles Beecher Warren of Detroit,
tried to become the head of the De-
partment Of Justice it was the oppo-
sition said to have been engineered
chiefly by the former Missouri Demo-
crat of silver and acid tongue that
produced the celebrated tie vote on
conflrmation-resulting in Warren's
rejection because Vice President
Dawes happened to be asleep. not
at the switch on the Senate rostrum,
but IN his downtown hotel apart
ment. When President Coolidge
nominated Warren to succeed Har-
Ian F. Stone on the latter's elevation
to the Supreme Court, Jim Reed told
Capitol newspaper men that nothing
since the League of Nations had
filled him so full Of fight as the pro-
posal to make the lawyer of the
sugar trust" the chief law officer of
the Federal Government. Warren
was witness some years previous
IN Senate sugar investigation and
rlled Reed by his "supercihous"
manner.
Women have had the vote now for
the better part of 20 years, but you
wouldn't know it to observe the
mere handful of feminine represen-
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Texas to Honor Hero

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 4 (P.-The
State of Texas will decorate Alvin
Granger, 32-year-old Orange man
tomorrow. He was the rescuer OF
five persons whose car plunged into
10 feet of water in a canal near
Orange last week.
Mr.. Granger rescued E. A. Clocum
of Baton Rouge and four members
OF his family by plunging into the
water. kicking the windows out OF
the submerged car and extricating
the passengers.
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longer presented with measures
to enacted quickly possible Instead broad policies will
suggested The committees House and Senate will asked
not policies but their translation
into bill will just the kind OF independence its
admirers word that the President
infringe independence for his
project, the national defense program
will be social security ago, the
pension losing This
Half the population Of the Pacific
oil pick
Through the plains and Mdweern States DR.. Town
ends selling better than Kan night
shirts do. Maine where the ctzeny call themselves
hardheaded regular ToWnsende paradise The situation
threequarters OF the Republican
promised allegiance gray
temptation President
amored congressional independence
precisely offended demagogues
the Hill.
temptation agree
the Social Security Board Advisory Council what
should Both
violent controversies If extremists
of the income with than
would be needed social security
servaives umphd nothing substantial would be
b by dreadful administrative difficulties
getting roll taxes from million migratory farm workers
temptation announcing that he would merely state his obecve
the and let He
responsibilities leadership Perhaps
the imagination picture
Majority Aben Barkey deciding
shall conservative Democrats being cautious fellows
their the Republicans
firmly mpaled the old dilemma of promise and performance
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Spider Stops Troin

BOONE, Iowa, Jan. P.-A
spider was blamed for halting three
Northwestern railroad trains on the
Sioux City division yesterday.
The spider crawled through a
crack in the glass container on a
train-control device, spinning a web
between the contact points and
putting the instrument out of COM
mission.
The spider was found dead.
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u1A1 dSc 1cucCtluB
the glo " in g
countenance +
the master poll
tician who, by
common consent,
will come near to
ruling the roost
IN both House
and Senate dur
ing the next two
years. His name
is Jack Garner.
The Vice Presi-
dents influence
In the Senate
always has been
potent. Shifts in
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And What
They Do
Dr.. Goddard Keeping
Down to Earth in
Rocket Studies
By LEMUEL F. PARTON,

DR.. Robert H. Goddard, expert.
menting with rockets for the last
"a years. and steadily making prog
ress, has had as his goal the pene-
tration Of the higher atmosphere,
the possible catapulting Of messages
across the ocean and sundry scientific
inquiries to which he has thought
his unique gunnery might supply
the answer. Although much Jules
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Vernish stuff
has been written
about his rock.
cts to the moon"
and about shoot
Ing people across
the Atlantic in
a few minutes,
he has been an
aloof and pa
tient scientist,
intent on seeing
only what he
sees and not
m a k ing an y
handsome prom
ises.
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happening in the
National Capital
this week.
M a n e u v e r.
ing has started
q nd jockeying
for political po-
sition seems to
be apparent in
most all Of the
m yes being
made. And when
it comes to ma
neuvering, there
is one man in
the pic t u r e
whose ShreWd-
roSS opd Skjl1 is
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Special Election Called

DOVER, Del, Jan. 4 (P,.-Lt. Gov.
Edward w. Gooch called yesterday
for special election in the second
senatorial district, Wilmington, to
choose a successor to Daniel E. Kelly,
fatally injured in a fall December 20.
The balloting is to be within five
dayS,
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most dominant-for the President
knows his biggest political task is to
bring the factions in his own party
together. With the involuntary help
OF the Republicans, he may accom-
plish it.
(Copyright, 1e39.)
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really hair-raising mess is the
probable result. Then the Presi-
dent will have the last laugh, but
unfortunately the joke will be on
the country.
Smart fellows, like Senator
Burton K. Wheeler of Montana,
have already seen the trouble
ahead. Last session, the President
used Wheeler's supposed in
transigence as an excuse for toss
ing the thOrnv rai1rOad nrohleno
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alone. They return to It, ike the
dog OF Scripture, and today are
prepared to grapple boldly with q
alternating dragon. This is be-
cause the sit-down strikes aroused
intense resentment among all
groups save those who work in
factories for their daily bread. On
the eve Of last November's elec-
tions Representative Martin Dies
OF Texas found it worth his politi-
cal while to build up an emotional
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The Capital Parade
Roosevelt Is Likely to Leove Legislative Intiotivs
To Congress, With Security First Test

by JOSEPH ALSOP ana HOBEHT kINTNEK
Congress today hears the Presidents
Union The in the dngy chamber of the House
striking with the President at the the
crowded in the below
with goggng onookers This Presidents departure sgnalzes
eventhe
Of making laws for the United States.
test the value OF the independence" Congress
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We, the People
Congress Would Be Wise to Let Sit-Down
Strike Issue Alone, Says Writer
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Early In 1887
pooucon industries and left the business beach srewn with
union contracts After months
there scattered instances this
action national todaynearly two
years atert arge-scae industry
public life
Yet Congress- cannot leave
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in Congress lap And this fall
problem telling
that he would be glad let the President designate
Deash fellow Truman
railroad legislation AS chairman
tee he promised full
dent last week
who will profit mosten like Wheeler daring opponents
the White
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issue IN Michigan which defeated Murphy able and
Governor, by q margin. ~ ~ ~ ~ e'S
Now that President Roosevelt has appointed Murphy to
nigh administrative post requiring confirmation the
issue will be openly debated floor No eoretan
recang Sheans march, could resurrecting
.he Lost Cause than the politicians pubcs
VINO Will seriously argue that Mphy failure
the t-doWn strikers is evidence
This issue will in the discussions looking the amend
ment OF the Wagner Labor Relations
tne Dies committee asks for acv-
tes 1t Will crop up when the La Toilette Liberties Com
ee asks 10 nave Its work continued being
sa1ey over the political controversy effective
against type of reform
from the narrow and immediate view this is shrewd
poht IT TOOK bold politician when
the was sweeping the country votes might
eecuons Today the anti-labor prejudice professional
kups can I cohea INTO votes Just the Northern politicians
10 g maJor1es by the old bloody slogan Not every Demo-
c'a' vas was a Ieoel put every rebel was Democrat!"
rom the point of
10 revive Old controversies
Is dangerous to focus attention st-down method
ms is because the st-down tactics
OCCUPATION OF factories by strikers pro-
the object of American prevents
h e smuggling @ @ OF kebreakers past picket lines
e use OF violence as dangerous to capital
a1down violence cannot be INDUCED riskng the
machinery ana equipment Of the
Oh expensive machinery destruction
SlDe II the strikers are rendered
a fact nd
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By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

That ruddy haze which overcast
Capitol Hill yesterday as Congress
swung back into action was no mere
atmospheric phenomenon. It was a
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Presidential
Campaign Is
Under Wuy
Roosevelt. to PIuy
Waiting Come
With Congress
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Congress has reconvened and the
1910 presidential campaign has just
been begun. That's about the most
succinct way to describe what is
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HE optnons of the ,Drtters on this page o,o not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented n
The Stars effort sides OF questions interest to It's
readers although opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.