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Evening star., 1940-03-07
When the Frogs Begin
to Sino

All day long the birds have fitted in and
out among the trees,
All day their songs have reached me,
born on every vagrant breeze;
Sparrow. cardinal and bluebird. robin
with his rosy vest.
Even domineering blue jay, each one vie
Ing with the rest;
Each one singing, Winters overl" But
the surest sign Of spring
Is down yonder in the hollow, when the
frogs begin to sing.
Every grass blade crowding upward with
Its green Of vivid hue,
Every tree with swelling leaf buds lifted
toward the sky's deep blue.
Every fieecy, floating cloudlet. every saucy
sunbeam bold
Seeking out the first shy crocuSes to cheer
their hearts of gold;
All these indicate the season, but I'm
sure that it is spring
When down yonder in the hollow, all the !.
frogs begin to sing.
BESSIE sCHENCK HuNTElG J,
Evening star., 1940-03-07

and disabled unemployed is calculated
on the basis of Public Employment Cen
ter figures and the figures of the local
w. P. A. showing how many persons are
waiting for assignment to w. P. A. We
offer this figure to Mr.. Bondy. If it is
too much. the surplus amount could be
used for another survey. If it is too little
then he can ask Congress for more next
year. But, meanwhile. hundreds of slowly
starving District of Columbia residents
will have been fed.
PHILLIP BONOSKY.
President, District Workers Alliance.
March l.
Evening star., 1940-03-07

Brazil has appointed a commission
to study the possibility Of making a
plastic from coffee beans. A lot Of
US can remember certain cooks who
came darned near Il.
Evening star., 1940-03-07
Urgent Need for More
Policemen Seen.

To the Editor Of The Star:
agree heartily with Mr.. Henry F..
Ash's article in The Star recommend
ing an increase of the police force. The
Commissioners should ask Congress at
once for an appropriation large enough
to give Maj Brown 300 or not less than
200 extra men.
Night and day women have been
beaten most brutally and robbed in their
homes and on the streets. Drastic means
should be adopted at once to arrest
and to convict these criminals.
have been in London, Paris, Berlin,
Vienna and Cuba, and I can state con-
scientiously that the Metropolitan Police
force here compares most favorably with
the police of any city that have visited.
Mr.. Frederic Haskin in The Star for
February 10 writes: Population of the
Washington metropolitan area has in
creased to approximately 95O.000 COM
pared with only 621,059 in the 1880
Federal census" One can see with a
population Of nearly million people
there are not enough policemen to
combat crime here.
I do not know Maj. Brown, nor do I
know any Of his officers, so I have no
motive, other than that Of believing
that our women should be protected.
Congress should pass law which
would give holdup men 10 years in the
penitentiary at hard labor. Perhaps
this might strike terror in them.
If We only had Senator and two
members in Congress to represent the
people in the District Of Columbia, then
perhaps we would get results.
March ). TALBOT Q. PULlZZI.
Evening star., 1940-03-07
Expresses Approval
OF Weekly Radio Chart.

70 the Editor Of The Star:
Mrs. Ury and I congratulate The
Sunday Star on the Complete Radio
Programs Scheduled for The Coming
Week" which we have been longing for
in Washington newspaper for years.
Keep up the good work.
March ). FELIX A. URY.
Evening star., 1940-03-07
Cites Effect Of Race Track
On Providence.


70 the Editor Of The Star:
A few years ago Rhode Island legalized
race track gambling. The Pawtucket race
track was the immediate fruit Of the
law. An oticial report Of the gambling
company showed $12,000,0O0 received.
OF this amount $S11,872 was paid to the
State; one million paid for the track
and money in bank. Some citizen with
an insurgent curiosity investigated the
effect on general business in Providence.
It was found that hotels, restaurants
and transportation companies had been
benefited by the races. But as to
general business: One big store reported
a IS per cent drop in sales; a
used car dealer lost $4,000 q week;
apartment owners and landlords re-
ported their rents unpaid for 80 days;
gas and light bills were unpaid; the
banks admitted loss of 100000 in
savings accounts. j. w. THOMPSON.
March s.
Evening star., 1940-03-07
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credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
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Entered As second -class matter post ONCE,
washington. q. c.
Evening star., 1940-03-07
By Thomas r. Henry.

In the dogs behavior which have q
bearing on his adjustment to a new
situation. 1t is a test both of the
animals brains and of his emotions.
Here also the marks" are rigidly
standardized. The final test comes when
the dog is 13 months old. He is placed
in wire cage with four wooden doors.
Three of these doors are locked The
fourth can be pushed open. It is never
the same door in two successive tests.
Outside, within sight of the hungry
dog, is some meat. He is first shown that
one door always can be opened. The
animal is marked" on the number of
trials above two which he requires to
find the unlocked door.
The ideal solution of the problem of
getting out would be to try only three
doors each time. This would require
that the subject realize that the same
door is never left unlocked twice in sue
cession. Both children and monkeys
have advanced to this stage. Thus far
none Of Mr.. Dawson's dogs has shown
this much intelligence. The next best
solution would be always to try four
doors in succession. Some of the most
Intelligent Of the CANNES have reached
this stage. Most of them do more or
less fumbling, trying two doors twice
before pushing against a third, etc.
Every tumble knocks a point of the
mark for that particular trial. Each
animal is given IA trials and the final
mark-essentially the dogs I. Q.-,is
based on the average of all. Naturally,
as the dog thinks his way" toward
discarding waste motions, his marx
goes up.
Evening star., 1940-01-14

But why didn't you come at once
to Twenty-three?" she cried.
Il did," he said. DO you think I
didn't come right away? l vent
straight up. Nobody stopped me. 1t
was as easy as anything. The doors
weren't even locked"
MY door was" she said.
mo door l touched was locked. l
began to wonder why you hadn't just
walked out"
Il was locked in." she said.
'Iopened that door" He pointed to
a door. And l went in. Marjorie,
there's an old man lying dead there in
his bed. dressed up in his evening
clothes"
Dead" she whispered hoarsely.
Evening star., 1940-01-14

Come and see." he said quietly.
Everything was quiet in the hotel.
The corridors were empty and no one
was in sight. He led her to side door
of the suite. As he said, it was open,
and they went in easily enough through
two rooms, one of them an empty
pantry, into an empty dining room
and then into a great bedroom, where
upon a bed lay the fat old man. He
was dead.
''How Who killed him? she whis-
pered.
Antony shook his head. "Timc for
him to die, maybe" he said.
They stood for one more terrifying,
sickening second. Then he said. WED
(CoDtisvsd on pogs 1o)
Evening star., 1940-01-14

shoulders, he went to the door.
please calm yourself, mademoi-
selle," he said formally. Il assure you
that you we're only put here because
you we're rather quickly overcome.
shall say. by the liqueur. We were
quite amused by your naivete, and
Louise brought you here herself to
this room, which l assure you is moth
ing but guest room of my suite. Pray
stay as long as you are not yourself"
He went out, and bowling slightly.
closed the door. But when moment
later she rose and tried the door, it was
locked. 1t was then she had telephoned
not second too soon. for she
had barely heard Antony's voice and
told him where she was when the
telephone was cut off, and though she
tried again and again, it remained cut
off. She could only wait, trying to
make up her mind to pound on the
door, to scream and call for help. She
Evening star., 1940-01-14
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

telephone later, no one had answered
from the switchboard. however often
she had rung. The thing now was to
try to find him. But how? He would
have left the instant she telephoned.
He would not be at home. Strange, she
thought. that he had not come with
police behind him to find her And
then, like a shadow, he had stepped
out from behind turn in corridor
of the suite, not ten feet from the door
she had just left. "Antony!" she cried.
But he drew her arm quickly into
his.
Marjorie. I'm in JAM" he NUT
tered. "I've been hanging around
waiting, trying to think how to get at
you"
Evening star., 1940-01-14


on, laughing. I couldn't never get him
to marry me. l was already marie
when he fell in love with me. and after
/ was a widow we'll - it was hold
him any way l could
''She was getting chummy now.
ma'am, when she thinks is her way
clear. The girl don't say nothin =
just wants to get out quick. So she
puts on her coat and comes out. In
the other room there is nobody, and
the girl remembers it was there they
was drinkin' the night before. But she
don't say nothin'. only, so long -
see you for breakfast in an hour, and
the stepmother says. I'll wait here
for him to wake up, and I'll tell him
you'll be back for breakfast. Then the
girl goes out and shuts the door"
She had not heard a word from
Antony. But then she had not ex-
pected it. When she had tried the
Evening star., 1940-01-14
MRS. W1ITTAKER'S SECRET
Continued from preceding pogs

would have done all three if it had
not been that her stepmother had
brought her here She was afraid of
her stepmother's temper. When. at
last, the door opened she turned, and
there her stepmother stood Where is
he?" her stepmother demanded.
He went away" she whispered. II
screamed -"
She had seen her stepmother angry
before, but never like this. "You silly!
she cried. Hes one of the richest men
in the world. He was crazy about you
the moment he saw you. l can make
him marry you"
They faced each other Suddenly the
daughter felt that she had been given
a key to all that she had not for many
years understood - her lonely con-
vent-bred childhood, when after her
father had died the woman he had
married was all he had left to his
child: the strange two years she had
been with her stepmother since she
was sixteen; nights when she was alone
until dawn. without knowing where
her stepmother was. Beyond her bursts
of irritable temper now and then, her
stepmother was never actively unkind
to her. but she seemed always to be
thinking of something else. or someone
else. Now the girl understood of whom
she was thinking this man, for whom
she kept herself so painted, tried so
hard to seem young
''I'll kill myself first" the girl said.
Her mouth went dry and she began to
tremble. She saw her stepmother's
face grow furious.
you may as we'll get ready for it
anyway" her stepmother said bru-
tally. Hes been supporting you ever
since your father died. If you don't
marry him, you'll starve."
"You mean - paying my bills
Paying all our bills. How do you
think we We lived?"
Il don't know. suppose thought
Father -"
HE didn't leave me anything but
you." her stepmother told her con-
temptuously.
Staring at the hard, painted face.
the girl felt sick with what she heard.
But how could she escape? Not by
giving up to despair! She wet her lips,
and then somehow dragged out of the
Evening star., 1940-01-14

shop to get treatment l says, If
she comes, III give you ring.
'Thenk you,' she says. and looks at
me hard. Amt seen you before" she
says. I've had the pleasure | says.
In Twenty-three.' l says. oh. yes,
she says. Call me there when my
dawtah comes. Tell her I'm waiting
Yes. ma am,' says. So she goes out.
well, ma am. begin to see some
thing. l amt one to get fooled too
long. can see through the wall quick
as the President of the United States.
So l 90 back to the young girl. She
amt shiverin' any more. She's sittin'
there. straight and cold.
81 see you know my stepmother,
she says.
81 kinda do l agrees to her.
She's waitin' for you in Twenty-three.
"'I must think quick she says.
She'll sit there. waiting for him to
come out - and he won't come out -
never. And she'll be there when the
police come. maybe. They'll arrest her
Il must think of that - and still I
must think about Antony He didn't
do it, though - he didn't. he didn't!
He would have, perhaps, but the man
was dead
Ma am, | turned the drier on quick
to make a noise while she was whis-
perrin this to me. so nobody don't
catch breath.
"'How can help your l says.
Then she begins to cry again, and
take her in my arms. little child. I
didn't know it, she sobs. I didn't
know the man even, but my STEP
mother said it was party, and an old
friend of hers who had wanted long
time to meet me. And can't remem-
Der hardly anything after l went there.
| must have been drunk - She looks
at me kinda sick. 4 never was before,
she tells me.
When woke up, my stepmother
was gone says she. 1T was nearly
dawn
She had called, she told Madame
Rubin, as loudly as she could. for her
stepmother She was lying on satin
covered bed. still dressed in her even
ing gown. But the room was strange
and not the one where she had met
the old man who was her stepmother's
Evening star., 1940-01-14

friend. She called,
as loudly as she
could, her step
mothers S name
Louise. Her step
mother had never
t h er S a y
mother" The
door opened. But
instead of her
steplnother the
old man came in.
Louise will be
back soon, my
DEAR" he said.
He came over to
the bed and sat
down. The mo-
ment she felt him
near, she caught,
like a miasma, the
evil of his being
and she began to
scream, Louise
Louise!"
Heput his hand
on her shoulders.
BE quiet!" he
whispered fercely.
But she pushed
him away, and
inst tantly he
changed. Smiling.
chruoUin0 his
Evening star., 1940-01-14

emptiness within
her a laugh ..
well. the girl
is smart" Ma
dame Rubin told
Mrs. Whitaker.
$50 while her
heart breaks in
side her she says
carelesslike, Why
0lQn I you say IL
before? l thought
he was just a fat
old business man.
Ill 60 down to
the beauty shop
and fix up
"Her step
mother laughs
then. Good girl
she says, 1 knew
you was up to the
scratch. 1t won't
be so bad mar
ried to him. You
can 60 abroad;
you'll have good
position, and l
must say h e S
generous. You
won't be sorry
we'll just change
nlaroS che ones
The guardian., 1940-12-21

S com.
middle.
with
men,
!, the
lildren
'ybOdy
uaker,
book
NJ 10.
it Of
Ie The
peace
Evening star., 1940-12-01

various tribes were students at
Hampton.
In the fierce and bloody Indian
wars in the Middle West, which
ended around 1875, many Indian
insurgents were captured and held
prisoners. After three years Of
confinement, some humanitarian
minded officer decided that the
Indians should be given Better treat
ment and an opportunity to secure
an education.
So from their prison forts in
various sections of the West came
some of the Indian warriors and
their children to Hampton as the
wards of the Government.
: There were Sacs, Foxes, Winnie
bagoes, Wyandottes, Potawatomies,
Senecas, Kiowas, Comanches, Chey-
ennes, Arickarees, Arapahoes,
Pawnees, Navajos, Pimas, Apaches,
Cherokees, Sioux, Penobscots, Onon-
dagas, Oneidas, Omahas-some of
the proudest Indians that ever rode
the plains of the Midwest or hunted
the forests of the East.
These Indians were among the
greatest athletes and students at
the school, returning to do mis-
sionary work among their own folk
Among the most noted athletes IN
this group was Fred Bender, brother
of the famous Philadelphia Athletic
pitcher, Chief Albert Bender. An
other brother and q sister are also
listed as Hampton graduates, George
and Elizabeth Bender. Elizabeth
Bender u now married to Henry Roo
Cloud, who has charge Of the famous
Evening star., 1940-12-01
Bv A. E. White

Hampton Institute, down in Tide
water Virginia, was a recent center
of interest, when in joint celebra-
ton, the sixth president of the in
stitution was inaugurated and
two-day conference conducted on
'"The Participation of the Negro in
National Defense
DR.. Malcolm S. MacLean, from the
University of Minnesota, formally
took over the administration of the
70-year-old institution as a number
of celebrities, white and colored,
witnessed the simple, though digni-
fled services in Ogden Hall.
Immediately after the ceremonies,
the groups divided into smaller units
for the conference sessions, which at
this particular time aroused consid-
erable interest in the findings.
Some 200 authorities on various
subjects discussed the problems and
participation of the Negro in ma
tional defense, with theme based
on National Unity"
Mr.. Newbold Morris, New York
City; Aubrey Williams, director
of the National Youth Administra-
ton; DR.. Rachel Du Bois, consultant
in the United States Office of Edu-
cation; DR.. Harold j. Benjamin, dean
of the University of Maryland; DR..
Charming H. Tobias of the national
council of the Y. M. G. A., and
the Very Rev. Chester B. Emer-
son, dean of Trinity Cathedral
Cleveland, Ohio, were among the key
speakers.
Besides military and naval defense
problems, 10 other topics were dis
Evening star., 1940-12-01

Haskell Institute, an Indian school
in Oklahoma.
Although the Government with
drew its support for Indians at
Hampton in 1912, with the founding
of Indian schools closer to reserva-
tions and different ideals of teach
ing, there were Indians at Hampton
as late as 1923.
Many noted Negroes have claimed
Hampton as alma mater. Included
in this group are Booker T. WASH
ington, founder of Tuskegee Institute
and a recognized leader Of the Negro
race; DR.. Robert r. Motion, WASH
ingtonis successor at Tuskegee, and
also recognized as an educator,
author and leader among his people;
Robert S. Abbott, publisher Of the
Chicago Defender. one of the better
known Negro publications, and more
recently, the sensational soprano.
Dorothy Maynor. Hundreds Of others
have achieved local fame in various
sections of the country.
Gives Higher Education.
While Hampton is largely regarded
as trade, industrial, and vocational
training school, it offers courses in
higher education as well.
The trade school offers Is trades
automobile mechanics, brick
masonry, cabinet making, car
pentry, electricity, forging and
welding, printing, sheetmetal and
roofing, tailoring and dry. cleaning.
painting and decorating, >plumbing
and heating, and upholstering. 1t
also co-operates with the national
defense program IN Offering courses
Evening star., 1940-12-01

designed to help overcome the
shortage of skilled workers in key
industries.
The other schools offer courses
in business, education, home eco
nomics, and agriculture. There Is
also q summer school
Hampton has the usual athletic
programs for boys and girls. In
cultural activities, Hampton Is
taking q definite lead in giving
experimental courses In teaching
plastic art to the blind; creative
dance group under Charles H. VIII
liams has enjoyed a tremendous
success, and Hampton's music has
been famous for years and years.
1t is reported that Virginia Hall" :"
at one time the show place Of the
institute, was sung up" by Hamp-
ton choirs which travelled from one
end of the country to the other,
raising funds to carry on the work
of the institute.
Under the administration Of DR..
MacLean, Hampton Institute has
already experienced q renaissance
in the fields she serves, and looks
for a closer alliance between the
racial groups in the areas where
Hampton graduates carry the mes
sage that Hampton endeavors to
give its proud sons and daughters.
Already these innovations have
shown q new understanding Of the
Negroes problems, and, these sup
plementing the findings Of the
recent conference, are expected to
help In their solution, since they,
in the past, have proved stumbling
blocks along the way Of democracy.
Evening star., 1940-12-01

so along the Richmond and Peters,
burg lines. In conjunction with the
chapels were Sunday Schools and
Bible classes, also circulating Ii
braries. literary societies and Y. M.
G. A. meetings. Some soldiers, as
a result, learned to read and write
and others branched of into ad-
vanced studies of Latin, Greek,
mathematics, French and German.
The Rev. Pvt. Jones admitted at
the same time that the Army was
not entirely free of "wickedness,"
despite the exposure to religion.
He often noticed, he said, men sit
ting off in corners during revivals
and playing cards. Sometimes,
after religious session, he heard
them discussing among themselves
not heaven but giving vent to pro-
fame oaths."
Red Cross in Cuba.
The Red Cross was largely in
trusted with ministering to the
morale Of the armies in Cuba during
the Spanish-American War. Cloth
ing, nursing, food and pats on
wounded mems foreheads were in
cluded in their duties.
The largest scale work in morale
in this period, however, was done
when the boys returned by the
Women's National War Relief As
sociation. Thousands of the wounded
and fever-stricken poured into New
York and Long Island at the con-
clusion of hostilities and were met
by a horde Of enthusiastic and
energetic women of this organiza-
ton.
They piled the veterans with
clothing, medicine and food and an
array of inconsequentials which aid
the sagging spirits of sick men.
Among the greatest ports of de-
barkation was Montauk Point, Long
Island, and there, story has it, many
men were made sick all over again
by well-meaning ladies who doled
out quantities of candy, sweets and
rich edibles of a character more
lethal than the Spaniards' Mausers.
Morale work, as in the Revolu-
tionary War, fell also upon the
doctors and their nurses, for sun
stroke, malaria and typhoid fever
were making appalling inroads in
the United States Army. In the
camps in this country alone more
than 10000 cases of typhoid were
reported.
But, after all these exposures to
the vast potentialities of morale as
definite auxiliary to an army's
actual rifles and cannon, the
telling" did not occur until the
Evening star., 1940-12-01

the admonitions to heart is not
known, but the appeal to individual
reason has become one of today's
most powerful weapons of propa-'
ganda. The Germans loud-speaker
offensive, which was directed across
the Rhine at the Maginot Line all
last winter, took a similar task in
asking the French ''in spirit OF
comradeship" to drop their arms
and make separate peace. 1t may
have had part in the eventual
weakening of the French Army's
will to resist, in the collapse of its
morale.
The Roman morale work was
built around the teaching that there
are worse things than death to fear.
1t was, and is, sound doctrine,
and people today are threatened
with enslavements no less brutal
and degrading than were people OF
ancient times But the drilling of
the Roman soldiers was rigid to the
point of brutality and the fear OF
leaders and of executions was among
the worse things"
Morale men today know there are
far better ways to overcome, at
least in part, the fear of death with
out recourse to doglike training.
Of more pertinent interest is the
study of morale in the armies of the
United States. In the Revolution
airy War the men apparently had
little time to do anything but fight
and nurse their wounds between
battles.
Continental Days.
From what scant information is
available on this phase of the War
of independence it would appear
that the nearest approach to morale
work was carried out in the few
hospitals which harbored the sick
and wounded of the Continental
Army. In these institutions various
religious groups, such as the Mora
vians, did the sort of work that
the Red Cross, the Y. M. G. A.,
the Knights of Columbus, ETC., did
at a later date, by supplying the
men with blankets and clothes,
nursing them and generally minis
tering to their tagging spirits.
But in the Civil War the roots
of the morale division are found
taking more positive shape. In 1861