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Evening star., 1939-08-04

mour murmurs piteously after read
ing an item about herself In the To-
cal press: II wish I weren't so mis-
understood. I thought only mar
ried men said that.
X
How marital splitup rumor
starts >. Ronald Colman had prom
ised to take wife Bonita Hume to a
party. When the actual moment
arrived he was too tired to 20.
Bonita had bought a new dress for
the occasion, had her hair coiffured,
etc, etc. Ronnie did the sensible
thing-told Bonita to go without
him. The next day the town was
full of their impending divorce!
Which Is utter nonsense, of course.
To quote Nigel Bruce, close friend
OF the Colmans, "Ronnie and Bonita
are appallingly happy"
Mary Martin whose heart now be-
longs to Paramount, is dead ringer
for Claudette Colbert in her movie
makeup. Miss Martin is one of the
more popular girls in this village.
She is friendly, without fawning
considerate of her fellow workers,
Evening star., 1939-08-04

promptly gives him a Bronx cheer
A fan recently sent Greta a
cake. But before attempting to eat
it, she had it analyzed by the studio
chemist. BY which time it was
unfit for consumption There
will be no pictures for Miliza Korjus
until she has lost her excess pound
age. The poor gal loves to eat :.
jeanette Macdonald on the other
side of the scale, has been ordered
by her doctor to fatten up. She
is too gaunt at the moment. In
cidentally, one of the lesser-known
clauses in Jeanette's new contract
was the right to choose her own
film stories-she wants to guard
against another Broadway Sere-
made"
Marlene Dietrich, arch exponent
OF glamour, was asked in Paris for
Evening star., 1939-08-04

and definitely one of the better gifts
from Broadway to Hollywood. But I
suggest they change her make.
up. Resemblance to another star
Is a career hindrance Richard
Greene's mother telephoned the
Leslie Howard home to ask if Rich
ard was there She was answered
by the slightly embittered young
daughter of the house, who said, "If
you want to know where he is, ask
Virginia Field" When Eddie
Albert has to make love to Zorina
in "On Your Toes" her husband,
George Ballachine. leaves the set
at the request Of Mr.. Albert.
Fun at the studio :. Greta Garbo
solemnly hands Melvyn Douglas a
cigarette. Melvyn thanks his lead
ing lady, lights the cigarette which
Evening star., 1939-08-04

nance, but the latter is now escort
ing Wendy Barrie. =. William Pow
ell does a perfect take-off of Nat
Pendleton on the Thin Man" set,
and Pendleton grumbles: IF any
other Guy had done that I'd have
knocked his block off," The
French Consul here caused a minor
international situation by walking
out of the Beau Geste" premiere.
He objected to the camera -ized bru-
tality of the Foreign Legion. I
doubt whether this picture can be
shown in France. Dorothy La
Evening star., 1939-08-04

N e on Eddy
wears a dia-
phragm support
er-but not es-
sentially for rea-
sons of vanity
his sin 6 / n 6
teacher a d v o.
Gates the gar
ment.
Lana Turner
and Greg Baut-
zer no longer feel
that way about
each other. Lana
is marking time
before taking on
not her ro-
Evening star., 1939-08-04

spell happiness for soul as sensitive
as Olivia'S Underwear note
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Pioneer in Rubber
To Live in Film

One Of the strangest laboratories
figuring in mans progress will bs
seen In "The Story of Charles Good
year." first of the short films in
which Columbia will honor the
achievements of Fools Who Made
History"
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Romances of the Film Folk
Dominate Today's Notes
But There Are Other Things Afoot,
Including Franks on the Set
By Garbo the Aloof
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Howard Hughes tells all his girl friends to refer to him Jones'
The list includes Mary Hea Olivia De Havand Katharine
burn BY the Miss De Havand friendship with Tim
Duran the of Sister
toursome (other member Alex Stener
obterate
q he ferninjn dtn:.=
Evening star., 1939-08-04
THE EVENING WASHINGTON c. FRIDAY AUGUST 1882
Betty Cradle Warns Up, Too,
On a Sultry Afternoon
Young Star of the Earle's Stage Bill
Grows Tactful Over the Weather;
Enthusiastic Over Her Future
BY JAY CARMODY, y

On day like yesterday the weather virtually thing
talk about People slowly ckng
nothing slowly tkng
subject conversation between Betty
when down for of the
who will feature this weeks Earle stage
Evening star., 1939-09-30

tary cooperation, Hitler would well
come the arrival on Reich soil of q
great Soviet army capable of in
filtrating the German people with
Communist doctrine, while helping
Hitler's war machine smash the
Maginot Line.
Finally, how keen is Stain to bring
peace to the warning capitals"
powers? It Is notoriously the Soviet's
dream that Western Europe may re-
main in perpetual internecine con-
flict, against the day when 1t bleeds
itself white and permits Red Russia
to achieve its all-time goal of world
revolution.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Asks II America Is
Real Democracy.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Constant references in the press of
the United States to "democracies" raise
certain questions. Taking, for example,
The Washington Star Is representative
of the American press. and as pointing
with pride to such so-called democracy"
may inquire:
!. If this is indeed a democracy, why
are more than . score of pages of ex-
pensive newsprint devoted each week to
"society"-to the solemn recording of
the activities of q group, small in num-
bers, considered important because Of
wealth or ancestry?
2. II this Is indeed q "democracy''-if
indeed all men are created free and
equal-how does the American press
justify the disenfranchisement of mil
lions Of free born native Negroes, of free
born white persons who are denied the
ballot because of inability to pay a
poll tax, and the disenfranchised Dis
trict Of Columbia?
3. If this be indeed a democracy"
with the freedom Of speech and assem-
bly, Of which we hear 80 much, how
about recent occurrences in San An
tonic, Tex; Harlan County, KY; even
here in Washington in the Marion An
derSon case? BEWIlDERED.
September IS.
Evening star., 1939-09-30

Single-push walking does not involve
any such decided turning.
If the left foot is selected, remember,
the right side of the body is turned very
slightly. This is done mostly by hunch-
ing the right shoulder little forward.
The face is kept straight ahead. No.
body else could detect the slightly ad-
vanced right side.
Now comes the single push.
The position makes 1t very easy to
give q decided push with the left foot,
while holding the right foot in the air
just q little longer than would be pos
sible If the sideways position were not
adopted.
"Just try 1t and see," says Templeton
Jones.
He finds 1t advantageous to change
from left push to right push every few
blocks.
OF course, double push would be pos
sible, and Is exactly what is known as
heel-and-toe walking, but such walking
Is a genuine athletic feat.
The Templeton Jones single push
method Of walking is easy, pleasant and
offers no hardships whatever.
What is the use making walking dif-
ficult?
After you get the layers of fat of your
middle-aged stomach, walking is sheer
fun and Jones believes his method makes
1t more pleasant still.
-
Those who advocate schemes ought to
know the difficulties better than any one
else.
Accordingly, Templeton Jones offers
the following warning, in connection with
his single-push method of walking.
IT this type of walking makes you
nervous, he says, give it up at once.
Walking ought to be pleasant in every
way, and If concentrating on giving a
slight extra push with one foot tends to
worry you, don't do it.!
Don't push, then; don't make yourself
nervous
Just forget about your feet and walk.
But If little thought on the subject
doesn't make you nervous, he adds, you
will find that his way of walking is a
real gain.
Lean slightly forward and push out
with the other foot, keeping the foot on
the leaning side in the air just little
longer than usual. This is all there
is to 1t.
After one has walked a half block in
this way. it becomes more or less auto
matte, until the pedestrian decides to
change to decided push with the other
foot
Walking speed is increased, and with
1t really floating carriage achieved,
which makes pedestrianism something
altogether different and better than old
fashioned clump- -clump walking.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Comments on Use Of
False Passports.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
One Of your contemporaries (the New
York Herald Tribune) yesterday con-
tanned long article on its editorial page
commenting on the admission, by one
time candidate for the presidency Of
the United States on the Communist
ticket before the Dies Committee, that
"he had travelled abroad in the last two
years on false passport" although on
constitutional grounds" he declined to
reveal the name under which he had
Travelled.
Do not political platform and the
promises made by a candidate in order
to attain Representative" office become
his passport" once he has been elected?
Should We concern ourselves primarily
with whether Mr.. Browder used false
name on an American passport or
whether an elected person remains true
to his passport after he has attained
office? HARRISON TIIGHMAN.
Easton, Md.
September 26.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Fixing the Fix"

For several years Washington has
experienced series Of hopeful but
sporadic campaigns against the "fix-
ing" of traffic tickets. At one time
the matter progressed to the point
OF a congressional investigation, but
IN spite of all past efforts, the prac-
tice, so far as officials are able to
estimate, has increased.
The latest step toward stamping
out the "fix" gives greater promise
than any in the past. Corporation
Counsel Elwood Seal, around whose
office the whole problem revolves,
has issued strict orders against the
practice, with a warning that in the
future the names of all persons in
volved and the reasons advanced for
invalidating traffic summonses will
be made public. This penalty, the
severest possible, promises to put an
end to most of the fixing" which
is justified only by reason Of pull"
or position.
There are circumstances in which
adjusting tickets-a term more accu-
rate and charitable justified.
And in such cases the principals
would have no reason to fear any
publicity attending the act. It is
the dangerous practice Of preventing
the prosecution of serious charges
merely because the accused driver
knows the right people or works in
the right place that will suffer
under Mr.. Seals plan.
In recent years, Washington has
made progress, in spite of the growth
of the practice. When the system of
making out tickets in triplicate was
inaugurated, it closed many loop
holes. Later fixing" prior to action
by the prosecutors Office was linn
tied to captains Of the police pre-
cincts. These two steps, to the credit
OF the police department, greatly
curtailed the quashing OF charges
involving the more serious offenses,
such as speeding. Today, the great
bulk of fixes" involve nothing more
serious than overtime parking, and
even escape from charges of parking
in restricted zones is more difficult
than formerly.
There is more involved in the
question than the mere matter of
abuse of privilege and the natural
resentment of the ordinary driver
against those in a position to get
away with It," Cities which have
clamped down on fixing" have
shown an immediate improvement
in their traffic records. This was one
OF the important phases of Kansas
City's safety campaign of the past
year, and was one of the central
pivots of the famous Evanston and
Milwaukee safety drives a few years
ago. Other cities, too, have benefited
by eliminating politics from traffic
prosecutions.
If Mr.. Seal is able to carry out his
plan without molestation, he will
have made an important contribu-
ton to the safety of Washing
tons streets.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles Z. Tyacetcen..

Some day We hope to inveigle Temple
ton Jones into giving the details Of his
reducing procedure, on which in four
months he reduced his weight from 174
to ls5 pounds. with vastly increased
health and happiness.
He says the reason that he does not
like to talk about 1t Is that he plans to
write . book about his experiences.
First, he reduced: then he started
reading books about reducing, and dis
covered that not . one Of them suited
him.
So he is going to write q book Of his
own on one Of Americas most popular
subjects.
In the meantime, he lets US in on his
newly discovered single-push method OF
walking.
Too much fat around the waist. ac-
cording to Jones, reduces the speed In
walking.
And walking without speed is neither
fun nor profit.
Once the pedestrian gets the fat of
around his midriff, he finds himself
stepping out naturally.
He notices 1t, and those who walk with
him note it, too.
They 1ind 1t hard to keep up with him
Without thinking about 1t, our hero
found himself evolving q more pleasant
way Of walking.
All his life he had just stuck one foot
out after the other, with resulting jog
to his spinal cord each step he took.
Now he discovered that he was drift
ing along at an increased gait without
the slightest jarring.
Drifting down the road!
You have to live out Jones' way to
understand about the road
The road is winding, tree lined, with
out sidewalks, real road Of the type
not common nowadays
Despite the increased trafic, 1t is still
pleasure to walk down it, q never-end- =
ing source of amusement to the people
Of the neighborhood.
Here are the fresh scents of the coun-
try, practically right in the city, a COM
bination not often found any more.
II
Jones now drifts down this road by
use OF his own exclusive single push
method of walking.
Here is the how Of it:
First, adopt one or the other foot as
the pusher
Suppose left push is decided upon.
The body-while walking-is turned
slightly to the right, in crab fashion.
Ever see . fiddler crab running over
the sand?
1t can and does 60 in any direction.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Army SesquicentenniuI

The United States Army is one
hundred and fifty years old-and
still growing. It was just a century
and half ago that Congress-, acting
on the recommendation of President
Washington, formally created an
establishment for the troops in the
service of the United States" and
blanketed into that establishment
about six hundred riflemen and
officers of the militia. Prior to that
there had been temporary regular
armies of small strength, augmented
by State militiamen. The first of
these short-lived armies was author
lied by the Continental Congress in
June, ITS. It consisted of ten COM
panies of riflemen to serve one year.
With General Washington as COM
mander in chief, this army formed
the nucleus of the Revolutionary
forces, which, with militia and volun-
teers, numbered nearly 100000 men.
The Continental Army was quickly
disbanded after the war, however,
with only two regular detachments
totaling one hundred men remaining
under arms.
It has never been the policy of the
American Government to maintain
large standing army. Emergencies
have been met by quickly expanding
the military establishment with the
help of the State militia and volun-
teers. The first expansion after the
Revolution was in 1884, when Con-
gress organized regiment Of seven
hundred men to fight the Indians.
This regiment was continued in
service from year to year until Con-
gress transformed it into the coun-
try's first standing Army on Septem-
ber 20, 1889. From that time on the
Army has fiuctuated in strength as
national emergencies have come and
gone-all the while gaining in basic
stature. In 1912, when the British
captured Washington, there were
$4,000 regulars, in contrast to nearly
half a million militiamen and volun-
teers. During the Indian wars that
followed, the regular force varied
from 900 to 1880 and it jumped to
1000 men in the Mexican War. OF
the more than two and a half mil
lion Union soldiers in the Civil War,
only $1,000 were regulars. When the
Spanish-American War began, the
Regular Army consisted of only $4,000
men, but this regular force was more
than doubled for that conflict and
! supplemented by 223,000 volunteers
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Would Retain Ban on
Sale Of Arms.


Sale Of Arms.
To the Editor Of The Star:
We, an average American family i'm
bued with sincerity and high purpose,
a deep patriotism for our beloved coun-
try and its people, and a strong desire
to promote and protect true democracy,
desire you to know our opinions on the
pending neutrality legislation:
Neutrality can only have one meaning.
We can sell to no warning nation and
lay claim to neutrality. If we, as q
country, are sincere and wish to dis
courage war, we must be firm in our pur-
pose Of not supplying implements Of
war to any nation. England's present
plight is fragrant example of the lack
OF sincerity of purpose of that nation.
Already too many dollars stained with
the blood of innocent Chinese women
and children repose in this country, due
to our materialistic viewpoint and the
result of our selling scrap iron to Japan,
knowing it would be used to make i'm
plements Of war to be used against those
innocent ones. We can rise to great
heights amid war-mad world, If a true
love OF humanity and a firm desire to
help its progress rather than to deter it,
for our own material gains, inspires US
to maintain q true neutrality.
FRANCES H. JENKINS.
September a.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Calls Attention to
Incorrect Report.

~ tiie 1uItor OF Inc star:
The attention of our entire associa-
ton has been drawn to an article appear
ing on the sport page of your paper on
Sunday, September II, to the effect that
baseball game played between Detroit
and Birmingham in the amateur tourna-
ment was umpired by American League
umplres and for the first time during
the tournament pickering was kept at
minimum.
In this connection and for your infor-
nation you are informed that the above
mentioned article was not correct. Dur
ing the course of the tournament lust
concluded our umpires worked 48 games
no game was protested, nor was it found
necessary to eject any player from a
single game. A majority of the man
ayers and players informed me person.
ally that the umpiring in the tourna-
ment had been better than any they had
encountered in any of the various cities
represented by those teams.
Our members did not resent in any
way the use Of the major league umpires
who were furnished through the courtesy
OF Mr.. Harridge, president of the Amer
lean League. 1t was felt that such a
gesture would add prestige to the ANA
teur Baseball Federation and we were
happy to cooperate to that end.
We do, however, feel that it was un-
necessary, unfair and without founda-
ton to leave the impression that our
association had not lived up to the repu-
tation 1t has been building during the
last - years as one of the best organiza-
tlons of its kind to be found in this
country. GEORGE WATT
President, District of Columbia
Umpires' Association.
September 10.
Editors note-The Stars article was
not intended in any way as a reflection
on the members of the District of Column
ola UmpireS Association, but sought to
point out that the presence of the "bie
league umpires had subduing effect
on some players.)
Evening star., 1939-09-30

and militiamen. BY 1915 the number
OF officers and men in the standing
Army had reached about 10000, but
this force was ordered doubled by
authority Of the National Defense
Act of that year. When the United
States entered the World War, the
establishment totaled about 10000
men. The Army mushroomed to
more than 3,000,0 600 before the great
war ended, but returned to peace
time strength Of less than 100000
men in 1920.
The Regular Army today numbers
slightly more than 100000 enlisted
men, officers, cadets, nurses and
Philippine Scouts. A recruiting cam
paign for 1900 additional men is
under way. Huge sums are being
spent on war planes, guns and am
munition. In short, another in q
long series Of national emergencies
is causing the Army to expand again.
This time, however, the improve
ments are being made not under the
stress Of actual conflict, but well in
advance of any threat to our national
security. After century and half
OF experimentation, America is
learning that adequate military pre-
paredness by lovers of peace is abso-
lutely essential in a world too fire.
quently disrupted by followers of the
sword. It is well that the Armys
sesquicentennial finds 1t not a de-
crepit skeleton with creaking joints,
but an up and coming, rejuvenated,
stream-lined organization-intent on
affording maximum protection to the
people of the United States in a time
OF cataclysmic world events.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Lurkspur GIimmers in the Dusk

From her hearts blown chalice slips
All the magic Of her lips,
An Elysian chant of loveliness,
Silver, clear, she sings.
Whortleberries hung with dew,
Alder, clematis and rue,
In labyrinth Of misty bloom,
Enshrine her song.
Larkspur glimmers in the dusk
Like candles Of the moon. The musk
OF heliotrope and white moss rose
Makes incense there.
And notes still fall, a peal of bells
On night-hushed pools. Love tells
His beads beside that ruined gate,
No football sounds.
MARY d. CASTLES.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Joins Protest Against
School Practices,

To the Editor Of The Star:
want to join the Parent who wrote
IN your paper of September Is about
politics in public schools. My son, who
is years old, came home from school
one day very excited. When I asked
him what had happened he said that it
was all about the Communists The
teacher told the children that the King
and Queen of England had just arrived,
and that the United States Government
has assigned special G-men to protect
them. One of the children asked her:
ITO protect them from whom?" She
said so that the Communists would not
kill them. 1t would take too much space
to discuss the accuracy of this statement
and 1t is not my purpose to do so.
what can't see is how any supposedly
intelligent person can take advantage of
S-year-old children by telling them
something they have not enough knowl-
edge to deny.
Surely public school should be the
last place to misinform or antagonize
children. BESSIE PlOTNrCK
September 26.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Deplores "Indiscrlminate" Admission
OF Aliens to Citizenship.

Depl0res ~lndiscriminate" Admission
OF Aliens to Citizenship.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Our Government has permitted hun
dreds Of thousands Of foreigners to enter
this country and at the same time remain
loyal to their native lands, and to send
American-earned money back home not
only to families left behind but even as
contributions to their government. Now
they fear that they may be called upon
to fight for the mad dictators, and to
avoid it, thousands upon thousands are
beating on the doors Of naturalization
offices and pleading for citizenship. Many
Of them have spent half lifetime en-
joying Americas freedom and yet have
never by attitude or action contributed
one mite toward making America q bet
ter country. On the contrary many Of
them have been connected with organi-
cations in this country in harmony with
their native homeland, subversive to the
very nature and structure Of our Con-
gtttuaon. Those now applying for cd
Evening star., 1939-09-30
DR.. BrunsOn Commended
BY Traffic Council.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The object of this letter Is to express
appreciation of the Traffic Advisory
Council for having DR.. George E. Brun-
son appear at our last meeting and ad-
dress the same with respect to the kind
Of safety program which is now in
progress under the auspices of your pub
Hcation. We are very grateful for the
fine cooperation The Star has always
given In matters relating to public
safety.
We are hoping that the work of DR..
Brunson will render q great service to
the city of Washington, and more espe-
cially the children who are now attend
ing the schools.
We also wish to say that this subject
has been referred to the Committee on
Safety Promotion, a. such committee is
very much interested in all matters Of
this kind. WHITNEY LEARY,
Chairman, Trafnc Advisory Council.
September "a.
Evening star., 1939-09-30

An eye expert declares that an
average Of at least eighty per cent
of vision is essential for motorists If
we wish to cut our traffic toll. Surely,
and the same percentage of common
sense and good manners will not hurt
any, either.