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Evening star., 1939-11-24
Protests Leasing Of
Ordnance Plant.
TO the Editor Of The Star:


President Roosevelt should have
changed the officer personnel of the
Navy Department and appointed some
one like Harry Hopkins or Robert Fech-
ner as Secretary. In the last war, be-
cause the steel trust was gouging on
armor- plate contracts, the Navy built
the best ordnance plant in the world
at Charleston, w. Va, costing over $685.
100000. Workmen were paid living wages
and armor plate was made for $240 a
ton less than the price of many con-
tractors. The Navy officials turned a
deaf ear to congressional and civic lead
ers when appeals were made to reopen
this plant, yet now that the Navy needs
armor for the new battleships, this plant
has been leased to the United States
Steel Corp, which seems strange.
Bradberry, Md. JOHN RIGGLES.
November 20. ## :. -.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
MoryIond's Capital

Maryland's justifiable pride in the
new eight-hundred-thousa dollar
State office building at Annapolis is
marred by the pickering between
Baltimore and Annapolis over what
departments shall be transferred
there. Temporarily, at least, Balti-
more seems to have won. For the
magnificent new structure will have
far from capacity house when it
opens for business within the next
few days. Only eleven State depart
ments, most of them small units of
the government, will move in at first.
The others will continue to pay Of
flee rent in Baltimore.
The most remarkable feature of the
situation is that outside of the few
politicians and State employees con-
cerned, nobody seems much aroused
over the obvious waste of the tax
payers money. Reports from An
napolis say that only about seventy
five employees will be housed, at least
at first, in the structure that was
built to accommodate several hun
dred
There has been a squabble over
who should occupy the building ever
since the plan to erect it was first
brought before the Legislature. The
prediction even was made at the time
the proposal was before the Assembly
that the structure would be mil
lion-dollar mausoleum." Annapolis
legislators, anxious to get the appro-
priation without arousing too much
legislative opposition, were forced to
omit statutory designation of the
departments which were to occupy
the new building. The choice was
left up to the State Board of Public
Works.
AS the structure was being erected
much public sentiment, probably in
spired, was registered to keep various
departments in Baltimore. The
usual argument raised was that An
napolis was too inaccessible and not
the population center OF the State.
Realizing State employees were reluc-
tant to leave Baltimore, Governor
O'Conor announced he had found
Annapolis a delightful" place to live.
Many believe the Board of Public
Works now should 60 further and
Evening star., 1939-11-24
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce,Dell.

The catfish winked several times at
Templeton Jones, who, quite charmed by
the performance, stood in front of the
aquarium.
1t was one Of many tanks In a busy
5-and-10-cent store, in a corner apart
from the great aquarium loaded with
goldfshes
In this corner few persons paused
except dyed-in-the-wool tropical fish
collectors.
Jones hadn't been there for many day
A few years ago he had given over his
fishes, and permitted his tanks to gather
dust in the basement.
In order to resist the urge. he care
fully had kept away from all places
where these charmers might be seen.
On this particular day, at his lunch
hour, with destiny plainly in the wind
he had walked straight to this store
pushed several assorted fat ladies out of
his way, and made for the corner.
There he looked over the guppies, the
swordtails, the angel fishes, and many
another, known to collectors, utterly
unknown to those who are not active
members of great hobby.
Today he marveled anew, as he had
many years ago, over the odd-shaped
angel fishes, familiarly known to addicts
as the scalarie.
These specimens were about weeks
old, or at the most, with round bodies
the size of scent piece, and as fiat,
almost, as sheet of paper
Their pectoral fins, or feelers, hung
down as they swan with that strange
ineffective air of anything in nature
which has no function.
Those persons who may not have seen
catfish wink will wonder about this.
Ordinary North American river catfish
do not wink.
Small South American catfish do OF
course, it is not winking, in the human
sense, but sheer goggling of the eye
which strikes every beholder as amusing.
This fitting of the orb Of sight, as it
has sometimes been called, is done when
the fish is resting on the sand with its
head toward the front glass.
1t was one Of these little fellows which
SO pleased Templeton Jones, as he stood
there flirting with the idea of buying
fish.
In tank of about gallons, containing
some two or three dozen angels. the tiny
catfish seemed odd, indeed.
Scarcely an inch long, and part of
that tail and whiskers, the Corydoras
swan placidly back and forth, OCCASION
ally taking long dive to the surface, a
popularity of the species.
When it was not swimming it was
sitting on its fins on the sand, another
popularity. This sitting or resting, or
standing, however one chooses to call it,
has an all about it not found in other
fishes. While most of them rest on the
Evening star., 1939-11-24

tempt to provide anything like
complete anti-aircraft defense for
the United States, or even its many
vital areas, more comprehensive
defensive organization than we pos
sess today would seem to be in ac-
cord with the dictates of common
prudence.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
Argentinu's Trade

Argentlnas new import policy,
which aims to direct trade more
and more into British and French
channels, presumably at the expense
OF the United States, is an echo of
the drastic curtailment the Buenos
Aires government imposed upon
American trade last February, and
indicates that all is not right with
the reciprocal trade negotiations in
the Argentine capital.
Last winter Argentina placed re-
strictions on American trade with
the avowed purpose of looping some
forty per cent, or $31 100000, off Ar
gentine purchases of American goods
and in the ensuing months, through
limited grants of foreign exchange
for American goods, this countrys
exports to Argentina shrank by some
thirty-five per cent, from $66,2O9 900
to S43,446,000, for the first nine
months of 1888 and 1889, respectively.
At the same time American imports
of Argentine goods increased by some
thirty per cent, from $29,259OO0 to
42,64O,OO0 for the nine months
periods. The goal of balanced trade
has virtually been achieved.
In spite of barriers Argentina was
raising to American goods, or per-
hapS because of them, the United
States undertook to negotiate a
reciprocal trade agreement with Ar
gentina. State Department officials
have been bargaining in the Argen-
tine capital for several weeks.
If Argentina had announced such
new policy in the midst of nego-
tiations while peace rather than war
prevailed, the only inference would
be that the Buenos Aires govern
ment was using the threat of trade
curtallment as bargaining weapon
to force the United States to yield to
Its demands.
But now that possibility is &C
companied by another even more
discouraging prospect, namely that
Argentina is seeking to take profit
able advantage of war-created mar
kets for her foodstuffs in Europe,
which she can utilize to the full only
by buying more allied products, and
that the American negotiators are
being told indirectly through the
new import policy that the United
States will have to provide as good
a market for Argentine goods as
could be found in the unnaturally
expanded markets of the allies.
Argentina is threatening to pursue
a course which not only vitiates all
the declarations of liberalized inter
national trade to which Argentina
has been party in Pan-American
Conferences ever since the confer
ence in Montevideo in 1884, but also
disturbs normal and natural trade
channels by development of economic
relations based upon war needs, a
system which is likely to topple once
the conflict is over and Argentina is
forced to rely once again on peace
time trade.
At moment when economic eX-
perts of the American republics are
consulting in Washington on means
for cushioning the effect of the war,
and when American negotiators are
in Buenos Aires seeking a trade
agreement, Argentina's maneuver
certainly will create apprehensions
in Washington.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
Traffic Ideas

Traffic Ideas
One Of the effects of concentrat-
ed campaign to reduce traffic acci-
dents is the bringing forth of a
multiplicity of suggestions, many of
them good, few inadequate, some
faulty because Of insufficient study
and others merely ridiculous. Fall
Ing in the first classification are the
proposals laid before the Board of
Trade by its Traffic Committee.
These include courses in safety in
the schools, prohibition of ticket fix
ing, complete overhauling of the
streets to engineer" accident causes
out of them, elimination of many
taXicabs and studies of the parking
problem
Some of these proposals are so
obviously desirable that they call for
no further comment, but, lest wrong
impression arise, others require full
discussion.
washington is witnessing an effort
to eliminate the evil of ticket fixing.
The publication of names has re-
vealed so few, if any, cases of actual
fixing that the term must be re-
garded as misleading. Adjustments
coming under this classification
should not be discouraged in the in
terest of justice, and if, as has been
charged, the publication of such ad-
justments induces other individuals
to ask for similar consideration, they
should receive it. The publication of
the weekly list, however, should be
continued, not as means of holding
up to scorn those whose names ap-
pear in it, but as means of dis
couraging abuses by which real vio-
lators would be deferred from "beg-
ging off"
Gradual elimination Of nearly
third of the taxicabs by restricting
the issuance of new licenses should
receive serious consideration, and
while the number, as compared with
the total number of cars on the
streets, is not great, the reduction
would be large proportionately, since
each cab averages three times as long
a driving day as each private car.
However, the taxi situation is COM
plicated by more than mere numbers.
The Capital soon must decide
whether its cabs are to operate on
call basis or by cruising. If large
sections of available parking space
are to be segregated for cab stands,
cruising should be prohibited. And,
conversely, if cruising is to be per-
mitted, idle cabs should be subject to
the same parking restrictions as
private machines.
Many progressive communities
have found partial safety success in
the channelizing of their streets,
keeping traffic moving within segre-
gated lanes. Washington could ex-
tend the system to a greater extent
than now exists. 1t is true that streets
could be designed for still greater
safety, highways ninety per cent
foolproof being possible. But such
overhauling is not Immediately pos
sible, although much still can be
done ineXpensively here to reduce
accidents without complete redesign-
ing, the cost Of which easily could
mount into millions of dollars.
Enforcement in Washington is
costly. but it can be effective. Edu-
cation is progressing. Engineering,
by forethought and ingenuity, can
accomplish great deal. But safety
is not matter of one or the other;
it is combination of the three, and
clear view of the entire scene must
be borne in mind at all times.
Evening star., 1939-11-24

Two stalwart high school co-cap-
tains out in Oklahoma fled in dis
may when pretty football queen"
puckered her lips for the traditional
kiss, following receipt of a bouquet.
This is the most deplorable wrong
way running seen on any gridiron
since the reverse by Roy Riegels in
the Rose Bowl.
Evening star., 1939-11-24

It is not yet decided whether "cat
and mouse" or "the hot foot" best
describes the game the President is
playing with the newshawks on the
third-term question.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
Crises Build Strength
Tar Eu<nro

To the Editor Of The Star:
The following is an original quotation
Of mine, which is being published in
Original Quotations:
Let us be thankful for each crisis
we pass in that its experience shall
build pillar of strength for our fu-
ture." FRANK VANDERHOOF.
November "A.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
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paper and also the local news published herein
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Evening star., 1939-11-24
Wants u. s. to Lead
Effort to End War.
tn the Editor Of The Star.
November II.

No one has >-"eater adherence Of
war, nor realizes more fully its futility
Ii the age In which ws are living than
Evening star., 1939-11-24
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Entered as second-class matter post ONCE
Washington. D c.
Evening star., 1939-11-24


Negro towns in the United States
j. S. M.
A. The Negro Year Book gives a COM
plete list of Negro towns and settlements
in the United States A few of these
are as follows: Plateau, Ala: BROOKLYN.
ILL.,; Fairmont Heights, Md; Mound
Bayou, Miss; Lawnside. N. j.; Tulla-
hassee, Okla; Darby, Pa; Institute,
w. Va, and Sites, ILL.,
G. How can suede bag be kept clean?
H. T. R.
A. The best method is by using a dry
rubber sponge. Rubbed across the sur
face OF the bag, 1t restores the color and
life to the leather and also helps to take
OIL some of the surface color to avoid
soiling the clothing
Q. Where may information be obtained
about starting a local branch of the
National Hot Stove League?-C. H.B.
A. The secretary of the National Hot
Stove League is A. E. Gray, so2 Mabry
street, Selma, Ala.
u. is 1t true that a submarine was
used in the Revolutionary War?-H.
A. The first submarine used in war
was built by David Bushnell, a colonist,
during the Revolutionary War. The
craft was propelled by oars and called
the Turtle. This boat was submerged
and brought under the hull of British
ship in New York harbor, but the oper-
ator found it impossible to drill through
the bottom of the ship and had to aban-
don his vessel.
@. How may I obtain recipes for
making fancy candies2-A. NV.
A. See Page Az Of today's Star.
Evening star., 1939-11-24

Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02
BOY
SCOUT WEEK
Smyrna Troop To Join With
Others All Over the
United States
THEIR 29TH JUBILEE

Next week, as many informed
folk know, is Boy Scout Week,
celebrating from February s to Ia.
the 29th birthday of the Boy
Scouts Of America, a movement
that has already appealed to g.
100000 American boys and men.
Such success as the Boy Scout
scheme has had is due chiefly,
aside from its inherent magma
tive appeal for boys, to the fact
that thousands of devoted men
have given time and money but
chiefly time-quite unselfshly in
order that the boys who became
Scouts might have the advantage
of their counsel and experience.
No similar social agency in the
history of the world has ever en-
gagged so many men as volunteers
and their willingness and desire to
be of some use is a tribute to the
sort Of unselfshness which is a
component of the essential Amer
lean character.
These Scout leaders have not
given in vain, for there is ample
evidence that the Boy Scouts Of
America have becme among those
consistently active in carrying out
the service motive in our national
life. This has always been amply
demonstrated in times of emerg-
ency and is likewise to be discov-
cred in ordinary days by many
signs. Not the least of them is
the fact that many, in fact, most
Of those becoming Boy Scout lead
ers in the past several years have
previously been Scouts and are
seizing upon that way of repay
ing the debt due their own Scout
masters. This is significant evi-
dence that the Scout creed of help
fulness to others is a working doc
trine
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02
MOTORING FORTY YEARS AGO

The extended report of the mo-
tor vehicle exhibition at the Tuil-
cries will open the eyes of many
on this side of the Atlantic. The
exhibition comprised over 700 mo-
tor vehicles and more than $50 ex-
hibitors, revealing in magnitude and
interest the most successful cycle
shows of the Partisan trade.
so far as the lessons to be
learned from this remarkable eX-
hibition are concerned, the most
important for the progressive
American is the rapid advance
ment of the new art in France and
the hardness Of its development
here"
Horseless Age" July, 1898.
Several motor carriages are in
use in Cleveland, Ohio, and the cit
izens are beginning to complain of
the excessive speed at which arey
are run. The sensations attending
the operation of a motor carriage
are SO strangely exhilirating, and
the sense of reserve power so
great, that it is hard for the driver
of the motor to restrain himself
and keep the every day jog of the
horse in mind, but in the interests
of all it must be done. There is
particular danger in dashing
around corners, an error which the
motorman is likely to commit be-
cause his vehicle is lower and cas-
ier controlled than the horse We
hicle."
THE Horseless Age" July, 1898.
"The Automobile Club of Great
Britain now has 800 members,
while that of France has nearly
1 500"
THE Horseless Age" July, 1898.
THE member of the French AS
sembly who proposed tax on mo-
tor vehicles, was not reelected, his
place being filled by an enthusias-
tic chauffeur"
THE Horseless Age" Ju.y 1893.
III. c. Sergeant. Westfie Nj,
recently rode in his Winton car
riage IN Westfeld to Easton,
Pennsylvania, and return over a
very hlly road. He recommends
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02
x SUCCESSFUL CHICKEN
HATCHERY

A visit to the hatchery of Hen
~ S. Anthony two and one-half
miles west Of this town is one that
cannot be put an object Of inter
est A day or two ago with sew
eral other gentlemen we visited
Mr. Anthony's chicken establish
ment and spent an hour most
pleasantly in following UP the diff
ferent problems in the study Of,
"a home without a mother" Here
was an asylum where were some
2OOO little orphans who never
knew what it was to have moth
er to bring them into life other
than a box and an oil lamp. Yet
they were the most contented and
happy family Of chicks that we
ever saw, even if they hadn't a
mother to cluck and scratch for
them. They ranged in size from
those taken from the incubator
yesterday to those thirteen weeks
old. They are divided off accord
ing to age and size into apart
ments separated by wire. Through
these the whole extent of the long
building run four steam pipes that
furnished the warmth. A box
three feet wide covers these, from
the sides of which drops the can
vas, like a curtain to the floor
This the little chicks by instinct
recognize as their mother, for un-
der its folds they collect at night,
the warm pipes furnishing as sat
isfactory warmth as that which
would be afforded by the mother
hen. They seem to recognize it
Continued on Page Seven
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02

circular plate with an attached
pin protruding through the
smoke pipe. Its position should
be such as to permit uniform
amount of air to flow through
the fuel bed, making a brisk
fire. This position is as nearly
closed as possible - up to the
point where fumes from the
burning coal do not back into the
basement.
If this turn damper is located
between the check damper and
the chimney, it is in the wrong
place, because as the check dam
per opens, the turn damper will
act as battle in the smoke pipe,
permitting the fumes of the
burning coal to escape into the
basement through the open check
damper.
If there are any doubts as to
the correct position or location
of the turn damper in your fur
mace, ask your local coal dealer
to inspect your heating plant.
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02
Radiant Living
AS ONE OF THE
KINGS SONS
BY Rev. c. M. Griffeth
Methodist Pastor of
Deals Island, Maryland

When David ascended to the
throne of the Israelites he was
particularly anxious to do some
thing to sow his love for Jonathan,
the son of his late enemy, King
Saul.
AS the result of the search made
at the request of King David, it
was discovered that Jonathan was
survived by crippled son whose
name was Mephibosheth. Upon
this son King David conferred
special honor by providing a place
for him at his own table.
He shall eat at my table," de-
clared King David, "as one of the
Kings sons"
In Mephibosheth we discover a
type of ourselves.
Unworthy as we are, we too
have been highly honored by the
great King of Kings who has
adopted us into His family and
permitted us to eat at His table
"as one of the Kings sons"
Who has not been impressed
with the evultant statement of st.
John: Beloved now are we the
sons of God, and it doeth not yet
appear what we shall be-"
Should we not therefore contin-
ually remind ourselves that we are
one of the Kin's sons Should we
ont therefore vail ourselves of our
privilege to eat, not the common
fare of the worlds table, but the
rich and costly dainties of the
Kings table? Should we not
avail ourselves of our privilege,
not to wear the filthy rags of self
righteousness, but to ware the royal
garments of white, typical of the
purity of life? Should we not
avail ourselves of our privilege as
one of the Kings sons to walk,
not in the filthy alleys of the
worlds low living, but in the gor-
geous gardens of the King?
Today let me live as one of the
Kings sons-and heirs!
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Report of Church Services FO;
Next Sunday

First Churcn Of Christ, Scientist
Wilmington, at Park Place and
Van Buren Street: morning service
il a. M, Sunday School IL a. m,
evening service 500 p. nj, Wed
nesday evening service at 8 p. m
Christian Science Society, Milford
meeting at Grange Hall: Morning
service II a. M, also meets on first
Wednesday evening Of each
month at p. m. Subject for Sun
day, January %: Spirit Golden
Eext: Corinthians 3:17. Where the
Spirit Of the Lord is, there is lib
erty. A bible citation from the
lesson n-sermon: Romans 8:5,6. For
they that are after the flesh do
mind the things Of the flesh; but
they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit For to be
carnally minded is death; but to
be spiritually minded is life and
peace. Correlative from the Text
book, Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" by Mary
Baker Eddy: THE flesh and Spirit
can no more unite in action, than
good can coincide with evil. 1t is
not wise to take a halting and
halfway position or to expect to
work equally with Spirit and mat
ter, Truth and error. There is but
one namely, God and His
idea-w which leads to spiritual be-
ing"
Smyrna times., 1939-02-02

sallie Alice, a sister of the bride
ard the groom. The organ was
presided over by Miss Addie Haz-
zard, who rendered the wedding
march. At the altar, which was
tasteful and prettily decorated with
growing flowers and pot plants,
the procession was met by Rev. w.
c. Alexander, of Forest Presbyter-
ian Church, and Rev. R. H. Adams
pastor of the M E. Church. Mr..
Adams, assisted by the other de-
vine, quivkly but impressively pro-
nounced them man and wife. The
bride wore a pretty mahogany
plush and silk attire, and carried
a large bouquet Of flowers. After
the ceremony the happy couple
were driven to the station where
they took the sos train for brief
wedding trip.