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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14

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the families of possible can
diddtes for President of the
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BY SIGRID ARNE
AP Feature Service Writer +
Washingtou-Burton X. Wheel-
er, the Western white hope for
1910, met Mrs. Burton X. Wheeler
under most adverse circumstances
for the good, old-fashioned ROM
ance that followed.
He was just tall, sandy-haired
STRIPPING with New England
twang. From house to house, he
sold a book on Household Medi-
cine and Remedies"
He rang one bell in Albany, Ill.
The door was opened by a smil-
ing, busting matron. Over her
shoulder peered a pert, young
face with bright blue eyes and
curling, yellow hair. 1t was the
daughter, Lulu White. 8
The young salesman still had
two years of college to finish for.
a 1905 diploma, and two years of
work to do. But the girl waited.
To this day, Wheeler spends every
leisure minute with his wife.
They're one of the outstandingly
happy couples in Washingtor.'
Nowadays, he affectionately calls
her "The Side Kick or "Pard-,
ner."
Home A Debating Club :
She likes her home much bet
ter than rafting around to WASH
ington's social affairs. She has Ia
quantity matronly air about her,
wears middle-age hats, middle
age dresses, even though she has
kept her slim figure, delicate oval
face and bright smile.
The Wheeler home has been
more interesting than most. For
one thing, there were six children,
five boys and a girl. The dinner
table was like a debating society.
The Wheeler youngsters cut their
conversational teeth on utilities,
monopolies and taxes.
They live in an ordinary s'nice
neighborhood." The home is full
of books. Sunshine floods the live
ing room. Wheeler can go out and
push the lawn-mower without
shocking the people next door.
The family only entertains guests
chosen for their brains and their
ability to talk. That's unusual in
this town where talk is mostly
"small."
Wheeler can be an uncomfort-
able guest at a plushy affair. He
swings too easily into serious talk.
He'll suddenly become vehem5
ent critic or defender, bayoneting
his finger as he drives home facts
that he's remembered for 20
years. He usually winds up by
calling somthing he dislikes
Jasmine" It's his favorite ac-
cusation. Mrs. Wheeler looks on
with an amused smile. She sch
dom enters the fracas.
Plain PrOfiteering' 81
Wheeler's pugnaciouS battle
through public life springs from
an unusual background. His fam
lily were Quakers. There were ten
children. Wheeler was only l8
when he began to show his mettR.
He landed a job as a stenogT4-
pher at SIS a week. He was me
envy of all his friends. But
Wheeler demanded $18 a week.
His employer gasped, called it
''plain profiteering.''
Wheeler quit&But he had been
cautious. He had $3.50 in the bank,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
THE NEXT FIRST FAMILY?
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Mrs, Wheeler and all Their Children
Share Father IS Interest in Affairs

This Is the seventh in q
series of articles dealing tcith
the fanilies of possible can
diddtes for President of the
United States.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
Redwood Falls Light & Power Company

pendent children themselves.
These benefits are payable until
the children reach 16, or 18 if still
III school.
For further information call or
write Social Security Board, Red
wood Falls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-14
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WHAT'S NEW IN COOKING
Surface Cookery For Two

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Surface cookery the modern electric will be
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the bride and the experienced
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Baked Potatoes
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ing certain heat and the potatoes will
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Here for a surface cooked dinner for two
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Braised Pork Chops
Baked Potatoes Fried Apple Rings
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Evening star., 1940-01-03

Ahau, 8 Cumhu. Mrs. Stirling, who
was making the actual calculation,
announced that the date on the stone
corresponded to November 4, 291 BIC.
This, then, was the earliest recorded
date ever found in the New World
one hundred and ninety-three years
earlier than that of the archeolog-
ically famous Tuxtla statuette, dis
covered more than forty years ago
in the same vicinity. This statuette
is now in the National Museum here.
Mr.. Stirling returned to this coun-
try last spring, after depositing the
dated stone in the National Museum
at Mexico City. But he left behind
so many unexplored mounds and
ruins-so many stones unturned-
that he could not resist the urge to
60 back and continue his investiga-
tions. He and Mrs. Stirling, who has
proved to be valuable assistant,
left Washington Saturday for a re-
mote section of Veracruz province.
There they hope to find other cryptic
dots and dashes that will unfold even
further the fascinating story Of
lost American civilization.
Evening star., 1940-01-03

erent seeking to enforce blockade
to abide by every letter Of interna-
tional law. This fact is appreciated
in the United States, and infractions
arising from real military necessity
may we'll be viewed with tolerance,
but it by no means follows that the
American people or the American
Government will condone the fla
grant disregard Of this Nations
rights which appears to be involved
in the seizure by the British of large
quantities of mail on American and
neutral vessels bound for non-bellig-
erent countries.
The State Department is to be
commended for protesting vigorously
to the British government against
these unlawful practices and for de-
manding assurances that there will
be no repetition of them. This for
NAL note of protest was delivered In
London on December %, but no reply
has been received as yet, and this
delay on Britain's part adds to the
interest with which the people of the
United States will await London's
explanation of the reasons for past
offenses and the nature of the assur-
RANGES to be given with respect to the
future.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Congress Assemblies

On the day when the Congress of
the United States reconvenes there
is one single thought which surely
should be worthy of the attention of
the American people 1t is this: That
the National Legislature meets in
freedom.
No dictator summons the House
and the Senate to ratify his deci-
sions; no party line" controls the
judgment of their members; no arbi-
trary dogma forbids honorable diff
ference of opinion among them; no
fixed and immutable pattern of pro-
cedure grants to the majority any
license to suppress minority objec-
ton; no dead hand" inhibits prog
reSs; no fear of an enraged populace
intervenes to prevent debate; no
favored class of constituents success
fully demands preference for its in
terests; no religious restriction bars
the participation of any elected
delegate; no racial discrimination
prevails.
1t is nothing but the solemn truth,
as Dr. William Bennett Munro af-
firms in his classic study of the
Government of the United States,
that Congress is the organ through
which the people frame, declare and
supervise the policies of the Nation"
And the people to whom he refers
are the whole people. The only ex-
ception to the rule is the dis
franchised citizenry of the District of
Columbia. In every other respect
the population of the country is con-
cerned directly with the making of
laws, the administration of justice,
the management of public business
At the start, century and half
ago, the American system might have
been considered an experiment. To-
day it is proven success. And there
is in this fact cause for rejoicing the
world around. Democracy is not dis
credited, certainly it is not defeated,
so long as the Congress of the United
States continues to meet in the spirit
and under the conditions provided
for it by the Constitution.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
NO Stone Unturned'

Matthew w. Stirling, chief of the
Bureau of American Ethnology of
the Smithsonian Institution, has
found that it pays to leave no stone
unturned-especial1y if one is an
archeologist. Because he turned a
relatively uninteresting stone nearly
a year ago and found inscribed upon
it some extraordinarily interesting
dots and dashes, he has just been
awarded Franklin L. Burr prize of
one thousand dollars for archeologi-
cal research. The award was an
nounced by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor,
president of the National Geographic
Society, coincident with a similar
award to Bradford Washburn of
Cambridge, Massachusetts,, for aerial
exploration in Alaska.
Mr.. Stirling told the story of his
dot-dash discovery, and explained
its significance, in the August issue
of the National Geographic Maga-
zine. AS leader of a National Geo.
graphic Society-Smithsonian Insti-
tuition expedition to Veracruz last
January, he had completed excava-
ton of several important stone carv-
ings of ancient Mayan origin and
was searching for more artifacts
when a native directed his attention
to broken stone projecting slightly
from a freshly ploughed clearing in
the jungle near the Mexican village
of Tres Zapotes. Summoning
crew of native workmen, Mr.. Stir
ling uncovered enough of the stone
to see that apparently it was a piece
of a Mayan stella, the carvings Of
which we're so mutilated as to make
the stone seem comparatively unim-
portant. The day was extremely
hot and the natives were tired, but
Archeologist Stirling, overcoming his
initial feeling of disappointment,
ordered the digging to continue
until the three-foot-long fragment
could be pried up and turned over.
This task accomplished, a workman
who had been assigned to clean the
mud from the back of the carved
boulder suddenly exclaimed, Chief,
here are numbers" Mr. Stirling saw
the row of dots and vertical dashes
even as the laborer spoke. Numbers
they were; Mayan numbers-three
dashes, a dot, another three dashes,
another dot, a dash, a dot, three
dashes.
The big thrill of the expedition
came when the numbers were de-
ciphered according to the Spinden
calendric correlation, by which
Mayan dates are calculated. The
numbers on the stone represented,
by time periods, the number of days
that had passed since the starting
point of Mayan time, about i've
thousand years ago, denoted as 4
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Letters to the Editor
Tribute Paid to the
Sand Man.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I withhold no measure of acclaim
from the brave fireman-than whom
there is none more welcome when the
yellow flames of destruction threaten
our person and property with extinc-
ton. Nor do I fail in appreciation of
the blue-coated officer on the beat
whose solid tread in the dark mystic
rious moments of the night brings a
feeling of pleasing security. In fact,
all OF our civic workers are deserving
of much praise that is not always be-
slowed as generously as it should be-
But, among them all, from Commits
sioner to garbage man, the one who
should receive the highest appreciation
the one who most completely merits
a medal of purest gold-is he who,
posed like the ancient Colossus of
Rhodes, stands astride his open truck
these winter days and shovels sand on
we motorists, creeping along in fear
and trembling over a glaze of slick
pavement, may not skid straight for
the nearest hospital door.
If I may be so bold, nominate the
street sander as our Public Hero No. l,
even though no monuments have, as
vet, been erected to his honor SUBJ
nit, sir, that this great benefactor, dis
pensing priceless service, has been
shamefully unheralded and unsung.
ROGER GISH McDARE.
December 81.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
THIS AND THAT
Bz Charles z. Trdce1Dell.

Young birds. experiencing their first
snow sat helplessly in the rose vine until
the older birds showed them how to dig
for the seed spread there,
The swirling white stuff, covering the
food at the usual place, puzzled them
no end.
You could tell it by the very way they
perched.
1t was not long, however, before their
more experienced elders made all plain
to them.
With swoop the older sparrows
plunged in, making the white dust fly.
Each bird came up with a seed.
Soon the feeding place beneath the
vine was comparatively clear, despite
the continuing fall Of snow, which
made each cane of the vine fairyland
rope of purity uncongealed.
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Now the young birds, born last spring
and summer, began to get the idea.
You could tell their age by slighter
build, and lighter coloring, not so sooty
as their parents.
One by one they planeq to the ground
and dug in for a seed or a bit of grain,
in excellent imitation of the older song
sters.
Two bright male cardinals Joined
them, flaming spots OF red in the snowy
background, providing one OF the high
lights of the early hour. I.
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This was the first year an elevated
feeder, with hopper and roof, had not
been used.
In previous winters the food had been
protected from the weather.
How would the bare ground work out
this time?
Would the birds come the same as
usual? And would they be able to get
through the snowfall?
1t required but few minutes to
show that the birds which wintered in
this particular yard would come just
the same as ever.
They proved that they could get to the
seed the same as if there had been no
snow.
At times it was comical to watch
them scratch through the drift, making
the particles fly like white dust or salt
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The biggest snow disturber, however,
was squirrel, a particularly fat one,
the same which few days previous had
destroyed in half an hour "foodstick"
hung near the house.
This is portly rodent, much fatter
than the three or four others which
make the yard headquarters.
AS the light came on outlining the
garage and trees, this squirrel made a
dash for the feeding place.
Once there, he began to dig in.
Unlike the young birds, the young
squirrel knew exactly what to do.
Using those uncanny paws, so like
human hands, he quickly dug himself
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Finnish Aid Discussed
By Senator Burk|ey
Majority Leader Urges Full
Study Of Possible
implications

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your telegram concerning the posi-
bility of loan to Finland. presumably
by the Government Of the United States,
to enable that nation to purchase mill
tary supplies, was received during my
absence from home and it was there
fore, impossible for me to reply promptly
by telegraph.
I deeply appreciate your very natural
and commendable sympathy for the peo-
pie Of Finland, which I fully share, and
which I think the American people al
most unanimously share.
But whether that sympathy should
take the form of a direct loan by the
Government of the United States to the
government of Finland is matter Of
serious moment and calls for cool and
serious thought.
The legal ability of the Government to
do it may be involved The possibility
of such loan involving a violation of
our neutrality laws is involved. While
the President has issued no proclamation
that state of war exists between Fin
land and Russia, everybody knows that
such a war does exist, and while it is
not likely to do it, Congress could under
the law by resolution declare the ex-
istence of state of war, whereupon all
the machinery of the Neutrality Act
would go into effect.
There is another question which arises
in this connection. Finland is only one
of the small nations of Europe which
have been ruthlessly overrun and BUTCH
cred. There is Austria, Czecho- Slovakia,
Albania. Poland. Our national sympa-
thies ran and still run very strongly in
favor Of these little nations. But we did
not lend or propose to lend them any
money with which to defend themselves
or to preserve their existence, and If
such loan had been proposed it would
not have heen consummated.
We may feel, and do feel, somewhat
differently toward Finland. because she
has paid her debt to us promptly, and has
been the only nation to do so. But I
doubt whether we can afford to put our
sympathy on mercenary basis, so as to
be thought to be willing to help those
who pay us what they owe and deny it to
others, although the fundamental and
eternal principles of liberty and the right
to Self-government are as vital and
sacred in one country as another.
These are all questions which I think
we must answer In our hearts and con-
sciences before we undertake to give di-
rect financial aid out of the Treasury to
any nation in Europe Because of these
questions I do not feel at liberty to sug-
gest that such loan be made at this
time, or until all the implications and
consequences have been thoroughly con-
sidered. ALBEN w. BARKLEY.
December 30.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Columbia 1O1

Believed to be the oldest labor Or
ganization in continuous existence in
the Western Hemisphere, and per-
hapS in the world, Columbia Typo
graphical Union, Number 1O1, next
Sunday will celebrate its one hundred
and twenty-f1fth anniversary. More
convincing evidence of its antiquity
than mere reference to the date
of its founding, January 7, 1915,
is to be discovered in the first by
laws, which set the meeting time as
Saturdays at early candle lighting"
Originally known as the Columbia
Society, its early functions, planned
to assist its members and improve
the craft, embraced cultural and
civic activities as we'll One of the
first of these was the Society's par
ticipation in "a public celebration
commemorating the late glorious
revolution in France" the restoration
of the Bourbons shortly before the
return of Napoleon from Elba.
Printing, more than any other
trade, has carefully preserved the
traditions of it's past while it has
progressed to highly technical art.
Names of its great masters are pre-
served as designations Of type faces;
its history is one of the fundamentals
which must be mastered by every
apprentice; terms of medieval origin
whose meaning is lost in general use
are commonplace in printing shops;
even the units within a union are
known officially as chapels, reflec-
ton of the days when the presses
which produced incunabula were set
up in vacant spaces of monasteries
and palaces of Western Germany,
France and Northern Italy.
These and later traditions OF
printing have been preserved in
Washington by Columbia" while it
has carried forward a program of
improvement for it's members and
the industry which employs them.
Thus, in its earliest years 1t stand
ardized the working day and the pay
scale; in 1850 it reduced the work
week to sixty hours and achieved an
increase in pay from ten to twelve
dollars week. 1t strove successfully
for better health conditions in print
ing shops, particularly in reference
to ting tuberculosis. Uniting
with similar societies in other cities,
Columbia joined the National Typo
graphical Union in 1867, an organiza
ton which later became the Inter-
national. 1t was a pioneer in the
field of woman's equality, admitting
its first woman member in 1870 with
a proclamation insisting on equal
pay for equal work"
A policy based upon the mutual
interests Of employers and employees
has kept it's labor difficulties to a
minimum and made Columbia 101 an
outstanding example of effective
trade unionism.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
Replies to Letters of
Orme and Williams.
To the Editor Of The Star:

I was very much interested in the let
ters you have published from Mr.. E. D..
Williams and Mr.. Harry Orne, COM
menting on my own communication con-
corning Senator Lundeen's proposal to
make Europe pay war debts"
Mr.. Williams has a badly distorted
conception of international relations.
He seems to think that the demand of
the United States for payment of an
cient and neglected war obligations Is
on q par with robbery and murder.
Evidently Mr.. Williams believes that
America, after lending money to carry
on the most inexcusable war in human
history, should kiss the money good-by
and tell its debtors that it expects moth
ing back.
I was gratif1ed to observe the reason
able and sensible position taken by Mr..
Orme, which is quite contrary to that Of
Mr.. Williams. Mr. Orme looks at matters
in sensible and sane way, while Mr..
Williams indulges in hysteria, which
indicates that he is very impulsive
man Of very hasty judgment.
December 80. VERNA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1940-01-03
C0mmends Invocation
For Peace.
To the TI{tNr ~ rhA 6t>,.

For Peace.
To the Editor of The Star:
The Evening Star is to be commended
for publishing a letter of December %,
from one of its readers, appealing to all
men and women of good will to usher in
the New Year by the use of the great
peace invocation. Such an invocation as
that, used earnestly every day by mill
lions over the world, could not help but
have effects
The average man and woman has no
say in international peace proposals
and commissions, but can surely help to
be the unseen, moral force behind them.
The forces in the world that make for
light and good will stand in need more
than ever before of united action and
prayer!
Let the forces of light bring illumina-
ton to mankind.
Let the spirit Of peace be abroad
May men of good will everywhere join
in the spirit of cooperation.
Let the spirit of forgiveness be invoked
by men everywhere, one toward the
other
Let power attend the efforts of the great
servers of humanity.
ELISABETH E. DOWDEN.
December 20.
Evening star., 1940-01-03

out Of sight, nothing being visible ex-
cept that great plume Of tail.
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Once the birds got to the seed, the
ever-falling flakes hindered them not
at all; more and more songsters came,
until the ground for space eight feet
in diameter was quite black
It was restless, moving black, with
birds coming and going, some flying
across the yard where the old battered
trough feeder still did duty.
Some of the birds found for the first
time neat house-like station which
had been put on stake in the rho
dodendrons, to replace the "foodstick'
literally torn to pieces by the fat squir-
rel.
He. gorged with sunfower seed, found
the elevated feeding station, too.
Up cane of the rhodes he dashed,
making them wave in the wind.
inside the house, he fairly filled it,
with not enough room for his tail This,
extending into the open, waved pleas
antly as the snowflakes fell upon it
and slid of, so powerfully oiled and
electrically charged was each hair.
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It is always a good plan to supple
ment seed and grain and suet with
bread on snowy mornings.
1t is interesting to watch how auto
matically the starlings arrive, if you do.
They love bread.
Not starting had been seen in the
yard for months, but within 10 minutes
after the bread had been put out, be-
meath the maple, eight of these glisten-
ing fellows were waddling along the
driveway.
Another bread eater was Pat, the
Irish setter.
He was seen licking the chops fugi-
lively, with a really guilty expression,
as though he realized he should not be
eating the birds breakfast
Many of the sparrows left the feed
ing place and flew to the center of the
lawn.
There they Topped their wings in
earth's white covering
!, Were they bathing in the snow or
just trying to uncover more seed?
Perhaps they fan the ground with
their wings in order to reveal the food
they suspect is there beneath.
Their return to the proper feeding
ground on a snowy morning does not
so much show their sense of smell as of
location.
Patiently they perch in the vine, if
some one has forgotten to put out seed
the evening before.
Snowy, icy weather makes plain the
good in covered food boxes, or stations,
placed two or three feet of the ground.
If they are not used. 1t is a good plan
to sally forth, two or three times day,
and see that the regular place is swept
clean of snow and the supply of food
renewed. The birds will find it any way,
but it is easier for them if the place is
cleared.