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Evening star., 1939-05-14

well acquainted with them in going
to their house often for fittings
and coffee-and accompanying them
on several picnics and dancing par
ties. The contagious laughter and
the sociability Of these three dark
Italian girls were always a pleasure.
But we could never discover that
they ever thought or talked about
anything so vital as present-day pol
itics and current events. Our ques-
tions on these subjects were always
met with shrug and shy laugh
and we had to be contented with
chatting about Harle's dresses, the
movies, or some new dance music.
Fascists Trying to Change That.
MY sisters don't read the papers
or study politics-they're not inter-
ested," Pietro explained once when
we asked Clarissa question and
got the stock shrug and smile.
The Fascists are trying to modify
the position of women. The extent
of their attempt Is, so far, merely to
educate italian girls to become good
Fascist mothers. This they do
through the schools and the girls
branch of the Italian Youth of the
Lictor ("Gil,' as it Is called, the
government-operated youth move
ment.
The authorities say there are
about 2500,0OO girls, from to 81
years old, enrolled in the various de-
partments of the Gil-about half
the number of boys enrolled. Every
Saturday one can see troops Of them
marching along the roads singing
martial songs, others playing games
on the athletic fields. or bus loads
OF them bound on some excursion
connected with their social studies.
We were much attracted by their
simple uniforms of black skirts,
black capes and white blouses Their
laughing, pretty faces always add
to the holiday spirit Of the Italian
week end.
Inc Contrast.
Does Anna belong to the Clip"
we asked Pietro once when we
passed such group.
Certainly not" was his quick
answer. Il wouldn't let her if she
wanted to. Such things are not for
women. Marching like that
BAH"
At the Fascist party headquarters
in Rome we got further evidence of
how far Fascist plans for the mod
ification of women's rights go. We
had gone there to arrange to visit
girls school in Orvieto.
You will be much Interested"
the director assured us. You will
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see many well-trained athletes out

see many well-trained athletes out
there"
He hesitated and then gave q
short, apologetic laugh.
They will make very fine wives
and mothers, too"
In Pietro's house one day we
picked up a popular picture maga-
zine. On one page were four pic
lures taken in America. One was
Of group of Girl Scouts. Another
was OF woman electioneering. The
third was group of co-eds in caps
and gowns receiving their degrees
at commencement time. The last
was of Mrs. Roosevelt in front of a
microphone. The page opposite
simply was devoted to a photograph
Of a young Italian woman nursing
her baby.
tcopyrisht 1899, by T. L. Dammann3
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the noon hour or in the late after
noon to get further illustration
At most Of the tables where mixed
company is drinking coffee or an
apertif the men will be busily oc-
cupied reading the latest editions
OF the newspapers while the Wom-
en- idly sip their drinks, watch the
passers-by or steal glances at the
backs of their companions papers.
Occasionally we have thought
that the peasant woman enjoys
In our American sense-the greatest
freedom of women in Italy. She,
at least, shares the equality of be-
ing toiler of the soil with her male
companion. But when the hours
for recreation come the men con-
gregate in the wine cellars to set
tie the affairs of the world"
Hard to Meet Italian Girls.
Because of this position of women
it has not been easy for us to meet
Italian subsequently, in the low
er middle class families. In Siena
we learned that our friend Pietro
Ricci, who operates a cafe there,
has three sisters. One day we told
him that we wanted some dresses
made for Harle and asked if he
knew any one who could make them
for us. AS we had hoped, he quick
ly replied:
"Oh, my sisters are very clever;
they can sew anything. They would
love to do it,
Thus we gained entrance to their
home, which we found icy cold, but
large and comfortable otherwise.
Everything was spotlessly clean. On
the walls in the girls room hung a
cruciflx and pictures of the Ma
donna, Mussolini, the King, their
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Service, A La Carte

CHARLESTON, S. c., May 13 LAp.
"A carpenter fell from a. tall build
ing.
There was no time for an am
bulance.
A city dump truck, with horn
open, sped him to a hospital.
The driver pulled a lever and ex-
pertly dumped him on a stretcher
The carpenter is expected to re-
cover
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two soldier brothers ). and three
photographs. of Robert Taylor. The
young women always sat us in the
dining room, where We toasted our
toes over large brazier of Goals
and drank muddy black coffee and
a delicious liquer which they made
themselves.
Clarissa, %, and Maria, %, are
the housekeepers and dressmakers.
Anna, who is II, was not often pres
ent, for she is studying to become a
teacher of languages. We became
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To Receive Honor Decree

The Rt. Rev. Eugene j. Connolly.
pastor OF st. Peters Church, will
receive the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws from Mount st. Mary's
College at the 131st commence
ment exercises there June 7. Msgr.
Connolly will also preach the bac-
calaureate sermon May 26 in the
college chapel.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Publisher Is Elected
Toe. O. P. Committee
BY the Associated Press.

by Cne ASSOCIateu PfeSS.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, May 13.-
Dan MILESTONE, veteran Cut Bank
(Mont0 newspaper publisher, was
elected national committeeman from
Montana today at a meeting of the
State Republican Executive Com
mittee.
Mr.. MILESTONE succeeds Joseph D.
Seaman of Miles Sith, who resigned
recently.
Evening star., 1939-05-14
Southern Baptists
To Meet Tomorrow:
Unification Opposed
10000 Delegates Due
To Attend Sessions at
Oklahoma City
D. the Associated Press.

D. the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 13.-The
Southern Baptist convention meets
here next week to reafflrm its tradi-
tional independence in the face OF
what some church leaders called a
''unionizing world"
Approximately 10000 delegates,
officially termed messengers, will at
tend various sessions starting Mon
day and ending May 81.
Eighteen States and the District
of Columbia, from Maryland to Ari-
Zona through the South and as far
north as Southern Illinois, will be
represented.
The convention will hear of gains
during the last year from its statis-
tical secretary, E. P. Alldredge,
Nashville, Tenn. The number of
churches increased from 24,844 to
24,932; the membership from
4595 ,602. to 4,770,185, and baptisms
in 1888 were 23,243 more than in
1887.
Unification Not Wished.
While each church in the South
ern Baptist Convention is autono-
nous the convention organization,
devoted to the propagation of the
gospel by the denomination, dates
from 1845. In that year the $50 900
members of Southern Baptist
churches, including 100000 slaves,
separated from the Triennial Con-
vention in which they were united
with what became the Northern
Baptist group.
There is little sentiment for uni
fication among the Southern Bap-
tist churches. Their stand has been
explained as determination to
pursue IAN unshakable loyalty to
fundamental principles
A statement of the Southern Bap-
tist position presented at the last
convention said in part:
I'VE hold the immemorial posi-
ton of Baptists. that all true be-
levers in Christ as their personal
Saviour are saved .. There
fore we rejoice in our spiritual union
with all who love the Lord Jesus
in sincerity and truth. This
spiritual union does not depend on
organizations, or forms, or ritual
Our message to our brethren
of other communions is that since
the present divided condition of
Christendom is unquestionably the
result of departures from the SIM
pie teachings of the Scriptures the
only possible road to organic union
is back to the Scriptures fairly in
terpreted."
Scarborough Due to Win.
The convention is simply a me-
dium for cooperative efforts in mis-
sionary. education and benevolent
works for the individual churches.
DR.. L. R. Scarborough. Fort
Worth. Tex, president of the South
western Baptist Theological Semi
nary, is also president of the con-
vention. Church leaders believe he
will be reelected in conformity with
precedent giving three years serv-
ice to the presiding officer.
Among the reports to be present.
ed to the convention will be those
of the Foreign Missions Board by
DR.. Charles E. Maddry, executive
secretary, Richmond, Va. and of the
Social Service Commission, of which
DR.. A. j. Barton, Wilmington, N.
c., is chairman. The last will deal
with the questions of war, intem-
perance, gambling and social and
economic evils.
Memphis, Tenn, is planning to in
vite the convention for 1910.
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BY TOM and HARLE DAMMANN

BY TOM and HARLE DAMMANN.
FLORENCE.-Mrs. Roosevelt out
ranks President Roosevelt in the
scale of italian resentment. Dis
like of the President. which has to
be famed constantly by the gov
ernment-controlled press. is based
on political and theological disputes.
Dislike of Mrs. Roosevelt springs
from something far more inherent in
Italian nature.
What kind of a woman is she,
anyway, running around talking on
the radio about politics, interna-
tional affairs and all those things?"
young friend sneered What does
she know about these things? She
ought to stay at home and take
care OF her husbands house like
every good woman should"
What Mrs Roosevelt does and the
independence for her sex which she
SO we'll represents are things SIM
ply not understood here Our young
friends remarks are an accurate
summary of the common Italian
feeling regarding the position of
women in modern society We num-
Der many women and girls among
our friends here, but by their very
acquiescence they concur in this
opinion of their menfolk.
"Oh, I am so in love with the
way you Americans bring up your
girls" Sonora Benvuniti remarked
to us one night in Florence. You
educate them so that they can be
real companions to their husbands
so that they can share in men S
intellectual enjoyments as well as
their simpler pleasures.
Merely Household Equipment.
Here it is so different. Our
men love us, treat us sweetly and
kindly-nobody could be sweeter
than my husband. But they put
us aside as something especially at
tacned to the house. We mustn t
get involved in the interesting out
side world; we must stay only at
home to take care of the children
and the house. My husband is sweet
to me, kind and gentle, yes. But
whenever he wants to talk about
interesting things he goes down to
the cafe with his men friends.
This is not Fascist; it is Latin
Italian
One has only to sit in a cafe at
Evening star., 1939-05-14

The ,tollo1cing is one of a
series OF 1Oeekly articles 1Uhich
1DiN appear in The Star bu
Thomas L. Ddmmdnn and his
1Dife Harle. These t1Uo young
people are travelling in Europe
and 1Uriting as they 90 OF 1Uhat
they find interesting, and The
Star prints their articles as the
impressions OF tWo young Amer
leans. Mr.. Dammann, a Hdrpard
graduate, pdS business manager
OF the HarUard Crimson and
gained experience as a reporter
in Chicago and Nashville. He
and Mrs. Dammann haze trap
eled 1Didely.
Evening star., 1939-06-19
man, British and Italian substitutes
for other requirements.


man, British and Italian substitutes
for other requirements.
Loses Big Contract
The day that Congress debated
the question of whether the Navy
should buy Argentine canned meat,
salesman acquaintance of mine,
not having seen the late editions
Of the local papers, called on the
purchasing agent of a government
railroad here to sign the contract
for delivery of $4,000, 900 worth of
rolling stock from q Middle-West-
ern mill.
The contract, he was CURLY in
formed, had been let to a German
firm.
1T went out the window as far
as we were concerned" said the
salesman. He tossed his cigar from
the smoker in which we were riding.
The stub vanished in a quick
shower Of sparks.
1T would be easier to get that
cigar back" he said, than next
years contract"
But you can't beat salesman. I
offered him one of my cigars, and
he took 1t! He even grinned when
he lighted It!
If this cigar came from WASH
ington." he said, heres to the pol
iticians!"
He made q wry face. I don't know
If it was the tobacco or the thought
of the politicians which got him!
Evening star., 1939-06-19
Canadian Minister
Urges Cooperation
Between Nations
Owe 1t to Safety,
He Tells Kiwonions
At Convention
4y the Associated Preks

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 19-Five thousand
delegates to the 23d annual conven-
ton Of Kiwanis International were
warned today by the Right Rev. Err
nest Lapointe, minister of justice of
Canada: If the world is to survive,
some reasonable basis for interna-
tional cooperation must be found" i"
The United States and Canada, he
said In q prepared speech, "owe it
to their own safety to contribute to
the peoples of the earth a deter
mination to work for the abolition Of
the instruments of war and for the
establishment of peace, not only as
a national policy, but as an inter-
national program"
H. G. Hatfield of Oklahoma City,
Okla, president of Kiwanis Inter-
national, said: 1--WE should all take
more interest in policies and trends
Of government. We should think
more of patriotism and less of par
ty-ism; more of personality in public
life and less of partisanship."
Legitimate business must work
with Government in supporting the
functions of government" he said,
and government. in turn, must
give It's protection to legitimate busi-
ness, otherwise there can be no ex-
pansion or program with its re-
sulting prosperity"
Declaring the United States has
a part to play in maintaining world
peace, DR.. Daniel A. Polling of Phila-
delphia last night told the conven-
tion this nation no longer could
consider itself isolated.
Evening star., 1939-06-19
HoIdup Probers Wonde,
If Barking Dog Bites

The question whether a barking
dog bites was troubling the police
and Woo Hing today.
A colored robber entered Woo
Kings store, at 467 Florida avenue
NV, last night about 10 O'Clock,
fired a pistol into the floor and
demanded cash. He obtained SIG
from the cash register and ran out
the back door.
There was great barking in the
back yard as the Chinese mer-
chants police watch dog came to
life at last The Chinese leans to
the belief that, barks or not, his
dog bit the robber and so police are
looking for . slightly chewed COL
ored man.
Evening star., 1939-06-19

OF punishment. W. n. SniPpeh' IT,
One encounters him (though not so
frequently as in previous years, I'm
told) on steamers, in hotel lobbies
and the smoking rooms of railway
trains.
He's still grinning, and able to
crack a good joke, but one gets the
impression that it isn't the Pullman
smoker story. told by the man who's S
done good days work, sold his
quota and now is relaxing-rather,
it's by the fellow who's whistling
in the dark, who's done his best,
and still is wondering if he has his
job, if the sales manager back home
is satisfied enough with his showing
to send a regular remittance to the
wife and kids.
Broadcasts Hurt Sales.
Perhaps it's been chance, but
most of the statesmen I've bumped
into down here are from the Middle
West-farm machinery, automobiles,
rolling stock. They have the kind
of goods that the Argentine wants,
anu 10 Wlllll1s dllu dOlC W pay 4OA
he's been doing it for years. But
political broadcasts from the States
kill sales, they say, which customers
here are willing to negotiate despite
the duty barrier.
A Middle Western statesman gets
up in Washington to discuss. for eX-
ample, the attempt by the Navy to
buy canned beef from the Argentine.
Perhaps he's talking for home
consumption, for the farm voters
who sent him to Congress-perhaps
he hasn't thought, or doesn't care,
what effect his words will have out
side the States.
Yet his remarks, along with va
rious amplifications, are printed in
full by Buenos Aires newspapers
down to the last word Here's an
American statesman slandering the
product of the Argentine-beef-
on an issue no more important than
the buying of few thousand dol
lars worth of timed meat.
Propaganda Kept Going.
A German, italian or British sales
man is doubly armed with such a
clipping in his pocket. The politi-
clans here, it is said. do what they
can to keep anti-American propa-
ganda going. 1t helps them to ex-
plain to public which wants to buy
American automobiles and farm ma
chinery the high duties and other
restrictions they put on these prod
ucts-for example, the low-interest
government bonds which American
importers of automobiles had to buy
before they could obtain permits tc
do further business.
The sanitary agreement, by which
the Argentine and the United States
could exchange meats, under dua
government inspection for possible
importation of diseases, apparently
is still far from ratification by Con-
gress. This is another talking point
for foreign salesmen. They seem
to be giving their competitors from
the United States pretty thorough
going over.
For example, just try to buy a
| popular brand of United States Gig
arctic here, or safety razor, OF
soap-any of dozen standard
things people have grown accus-
toned to in the States. Cigarettes
it's true, are bootlegged. except for
one brand. which has established its
! own factory here, and there are Ger
Evening star., 1939-06-19
Col. Wilson Reelected
By Columbia Alumni

1t. Col. lester G. Wilson was re-
elected president of the Columbia
University Alumni Club of Wash
ington at a supper meeting yester-
day at the Army and Navy Club.
Joseph w. Burns, DR.. Stephen
Patrick Burke and Alfred Anthony
were elected vice presidents; Archie
r. Sabin was reelected treasurer,
and Herald L. Stendel was named
secretary.
The Executive Council includes
DR.. John S. Noffsinger. chairman;
Maj. Edwin N. Lewis, DR.. Frederick
l.. Benton, Edwin L. Rogers and
Judge Melvin H. Dalberg.
Evening star., 1939-06-19

sticking power
have overcome
my own feeble
sales resistance
too often to deny
t h a t; in ad-
dition, I have
watched him at
work on people
whose purchases
a m o u n t e d to
something.
The American
salesman hasn't
been beaten here
yet, but he's alb
SOrbinp nlenty
Evening star., 1939-06-19
BURNING
ACHING FEET

"Oil your feet" ordered Napoleon
to his soldiers before a battle or a
long march-he was clever man.
Sore, aching, burning feet probably
cause more misery-more distress
more bad temper and cursing than
most any other human ailment.
Many a time-overnight-yo can
take out the Sting-the soreneSs-the
burning and aching from your poor
distressed feet by giving them good
rubbing with penetrating medicated
OMEGA OIL.
Sleep sounder and tomorrow morning
1oot agony is on its way-thousands know
thls-you ought to know it-35 cents
Evening star., 1939-06-19
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Evening star., 1939-06-19
Statesmen Blamed
For Drop in Sales
In South America
Speeches, Possibly for
'Bock Home,' Declared
Hurting Business
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.,
Star Staff Correspondent.

BUENOS AIRES.-It takes a lot
of encouragement to beat down an
American salesman.
His optimism. persuasiveness and
Evening star., 1939-01-01

His first art job was as cartoonist
for a Kansas City motion picture
company.
The West called him again and
he went back to his homestead. but
stayed hardly long enough to get the
feel OF the saddle before he returned
to Kansas City. Then followed a
period of work with an art studio.
Since the days as COW puncher
and those spent in Kansas City,
Harman has been married and has
Travelled in all parts of the United
States. Hollywood held his atten-
tion for five years. ST. Paul kept
him for three years, New York and
California have known him but
between all these stops he has drift
ed back to the old homestead, where
he has built large log cabin studio.
Fred's hobbies are fishing, hunting
and getting outdoors. Better than
anything else he likes to saddle up
and with pack outfit hit out for
spots beyond the trails around his
home country to study Indian life.
The Utes, the Navajos, the Apaches,
abound not far from his log cabin
studio and each tribe, he has found
lives differently. From a friendship
with little Navajo boy sprang
Little Beaver" who plays an i'm
portant part in the Red Ryder"
adventures of the Old West.
Harman's exhibits on Western life
have been shown in many galleries
| of the larger cities. His drawings
on pony express riders are accepted
as authentic and his illustrations of
Western life have been featured in
many magazines with the larger
circulatiook
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Italy
Continued From First Page J

want to evade henceforth the ir-
revocable problems of compensations
promised Italy in 1915"
In 1915 Italy deserted Germany
and Austro- Hungary after France
and Great Britain promised her sat-
isfaction if they won African colo
nles from Germany.
Premier Benito Mussolini's con-
tention that France reneged on her
pledge when the spoils were divided
augmented the current Italo-FTench
impasse.
Some diplomats believed settle
ment of the Italo-French issue
would play much the same role in
1899 history as Czecho- -Slovakia
played in that of 1898.
The Fascist press halted abruptly
today its bitter anti-French cam
paign of the last month, leading to
the belief in diplomatic quarters
that the moderated tone indicated
an italian desire to win greater
British sympathy for Italy's natural
aspirations" before British Prime
Minister Chamberlain visits Rome
January IL.
That visit, it was said, may offer
an occasion for Italy to make formal
demands for French territory fol-
lowing the informal newspaper agi-
tation that has re-echoed since No
vember 80 for Tunisia, Corsica, Nice
and Savoy.
Indications have been seen that
Italy, however, rather than hoping
for the annexation of some of that
French territory at present, really is
after a share in the control of the
Suez Canal, concessions at Djibouti,
the French-oWned Gulf of Alden,
port and front door of italian Ethi-
opia, and possibly concessions re-
garding Italians in Tunisia, which
might be valuable in some future
maneuver.
Italy enters the new year pur-
suing policy of, more intense ma
tionalism. The past year was
marked by increased tightening of
the Rome-Berlin axis, to which Off
cial and newspaper utterances daily
have reafflrmed adherence.
The quickened italian nationalism
has included redoubled efforts to
achieve economic self -sufficiency
Evening star., 1939-01-01
New Star Comic Page Artist
is Native of the Old West

Fred Harman, known as one of
the best cowboy artists in the coun-
try, and who draws The Stars
new Sunday adventure page, Ped
Ryder" )" which begins today in the
Comic Section, came out of the old
West, which Is the answer to why
his Western sketches are true to
life.
In his rise to fame Harman
learned the hard way He learned
how a horse bucks, for instance, by
riding bucking horses. He worked
on his fathers homestead in the
wild country and as ranch hand
until he was full grown.
Harman was as tough as the next
one, and though he took many
broken bones with laugh, the life
of ranch hand was not for him.
His family heritage-the ability to
sketch-told him that there were
better things than s4O-a-month
ranch jobs.
Fred is the oldest of two living
children. His brother Hugh is part
of the firm of Harman-Ising, which
produces the M-G-M short subjects,
Happy Harmonies." His father
strangely combined the profession
of lawyer in Kansas City and pio-
neering in the old West.
At II Fred went from ranch to
Kansas City, where he worked as
a f1yboy in the pressroom of the
Kansas City Star To that con-
nection he attributes his start as
an artist, for the artists on the staff
(of the Star took an interest In him
Ind helped him develop his talents.