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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-07
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Evening star., 1940-04-21
wAsHNeroN, e. XpRn a. 1e4o,PARr ONE

every serious Government scandal
since the Civil War has occurred
under . Republican administration,
and that the underlying Republican
leadership the groups and chques
which have always owned the Re-
publican party-are still Just as much
In the saddle Of ownership Is they
were Ia the. old days.
Finally, they tell you that they
will perform an amazing miracle
that they Will give everybody jobs
that they viii maintain relief
that they will give work to the un-
employed-that they will meet the
needs Of the national defense that
they will reduce your taxes-and
that they will do all kinds of un-
known things for the farmers-and
that with all, the total Of the ex-
penditures Of the Federal Govern
ment will 60 down 50 much that
they will have q surplus in the
Treasury. And you and I know,
from long experience. when We ask
them how are you going to do It.,
that their only answer Is the vague
assertion that they will repeal all
OF the sordid and nerve-racking re-
strictions on private business and
Evening star., 1940-04-21

think that We have Accomplished
much, but that q great deal remains
to be done by way Of accomplish
ments In relation to existing prob
lens and that the next administra-
ton will have to devise ways and
means, In liberal and progressive
spirit, to meet difficulties which We
are only just beginning to appre-
ciate and to analyze.
say to you, therefore, that the
young people Of the United States
young Democrats and all The others
have another magnificent opppr-
tunity to support Government Of
proven liberal action rather than to
switch over and take a long chance
with party historically founded on
conservatism, no matter what the
glitter Of their studied generalities
trumpeted forth In an election year.
Young people, and all of us for
that matter, know what sticky fly
paper looks like. We will be most
careful to keep our feet and our
heads away from the f1ypaper all
this coming summer and fall, be-
cause we are possessed of good, cid
fashioned average American COM
mon sense.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

lot private business do the rest.
In other words, all that the ccun-
try Is being promised to date IL q
return Of the old days Of -, when
America went speculation mad
when half the families Of the land
were sucked into an orgy Of over
production, OF stock gambling, while
at the very moment Of 1t unemploy-
ment was increasing, farm prices
were decreasing and We were riding
for the worst social and economic
fall the country had ever known.
Sees Voter firing Of
Cries Of Alarmist.
Speaking as an American, am
sorry that q campaign, which should
be pitched on q level of intelligent
argument, has fallen into such low
estate Is early as this. Speaking as q
partisan, I rejoice, because I am
confident that the average voter In
the United States is already some
what tired Of the view with alarm
outcries Of the Republican candi-
dates.
do not think that the campaign
Of Democrats should be hitched or
the old. level Of Just pointing with
pride. During these seven years
Evening star., 1940-04-21

relatively small minority groups In
our country, said that this. Ad-
ministratton was striving to up
hold the integrity Of the morals 81
our democracy. and that attacks
(by government) on the misuse of
concentrated power have been dis
torted into attacks on -" our
whole system of private profit and
private enterprise" And to illus
trate I pointed out that at that
time $500, ,000, 900 worth OF owner
ship Of electric utilities securities
held substantial control over $l3.-
600 ,000, 900 worth Of all electric utili-
ties securities-and I said, by way
Of illustration here Is a 06-inch dog
being wagged by a 4-inch tail"
This year the Nation faces very
much the same kind Of an electoral
campaign as it did In 1882 and 1895.
It seems to me very obvious that
II the Democratic party is to de-
feat the Republican party next No.
vember we must nominate q liberal
pair OF candidates, running on a
liberal and forward looking plat.
form. .,
Wants Nation to Help
Post War Recovery.
I am not speaking tonight OF
world affairs. Your Government
is keeping q cool head and q steady
hand. We are keeping out Of the
wars that are going on In Europe
and in Asia, but I do not subscribe
to the preachment of Republican
aspirant for the presidency who
tells you. in effect, that the United
States and the people Of United
States should do nothing to try to
bring about a better order, a more
secure order of world peace when
the time comes.
1t is the domestic scene which I
stress tonight. During the next four
years there will be new problems to
face. We need a national govern
ment with enough imagination and
enough courage to meet those new
problems with concrete, specific
remedies-just as we have met many
problems that were new during the
past seven years, with imagination
and courage and practical idealism.
I do not say that the machinery
that we have used or are using is
perfect or that it cannot be I'M
proved-but you need practical
idealism to make the present ma
chinery function better. r.
On the other side,a the pre-con-
vention campaign, up to date, has
resolved itself roughly into three
parts. none OF which appeals great
ly to my intelligence.
First. our opponents are seeking
to frighten the country-by telling
people that the present administra-
ton is deliberately trying to put this
Nation into war or that 1t Is newt
ably drifting into war. You know
better than that.
Scandals Of Rep1blican
Regimes Pointed Out.
Second, they are telling you that
many Of the measures Of the past
seven years are good but that they
would carry them out with greater
efficiency If they were In power. I
do not think that we can, swallow
that assertion because, quite aside
from millions Of fine citizens who
normally vote the Republican ticket
year in and year out. We and they
must acknowledge that practically
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Rumania 10 Receive
Nazi Munitions and
Planes for Wheat
King Carol Gronts Trade
Concessions to Avoid
Greater Demands !.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, April 2o.-Fearful
Rumania, continually preparing
against the possibility Of involve
ment in the spreading European
war, today extracted from Germany
q promise to ship huge quantities
OF munitions and fighting planes
to this country in exchange for
minor commercial advantages.
Rumanian negotiators. signed a
trade treaty amendment with DR..
Karl Clodius, German trade nego-
tiator.
Aides of King Carol explained
privately they were attempting to
stall of greater German demands
with comparatively minor conces-
sions while at the same time get
ting weapons to strengthen the
army 50 that the country ultimately
could refuse greater demands from
the Reich.
Rumanian contracts with the
Skoda Munitions Works, In former
Czecho-Slovakia, were confirmed in
the agreement and the Nazis agreed
to speed up delivery.
Also, a gentleman's agreement
pledged Germany to send 100 Mes
serschmitt pursuit planes to Ru-
mania. e..
Germany obtained promise from
Rumania to fulfill wheat contracts
concluded before the recent Ru-
manian embargo on wheat exports.
The contracts were reported to in
volve about 100000 worth of
wheat, delivery Of which will pinch
Rumania, since she Is facing q
shortage.
Hungary also is facing q severe
crop failure. In addition to the
damage caused by floods, frost and
late snow, crop experts predicted
further injury to the wheat crop
IN a sudden heat wave.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

Thomas Bryne, Fires oldest COOP
er, who died in Gurrane at the age
Of %, was q familiar figure ut fairs
and markets for 10 years.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

They all want to borrow money from the
bank"
What for?"
Mostly to kill each other with, nowadays"
he said The Japs want loans to buy guns to
shoot at the Chinese, and the Chinese want
loans to buy guns to shoot at the japanese"
''You don't give it to them, I hope
mot if their security isn't good enough"
he said and tasted his wine.
Henry, don't think you ought to give
it to them, anyway, just to kill each other
with - especially the Japanese she said.
What they do with the money l don't
consider my business he replied.
The word business" was always sufficient
to shut Mrs. Whitaker up for the rest of the
meal. But the next time she saw Madame
Rubin she remembered and said pleased to
have something of her own to impart, BY the
way, by the oldest coincidence, my husband
knows the Chinese gentleman. He came to try
to secure loan."
HE did?" Madame Rubin cried. Even then
(Continved on pose 12)
Evening star., 1940-01-21

good, and so they like the servants better.
"Well, ma'am, he gets the job after
coupla years and they come over and here
they are now She don't know what is the
job, but it got plenty of money. They have
the suite, ma am, on the twelft' floor of the
hotel. Now, ma am - if you will step to the
drier, pliz." She met Mrs. Whittaker's eyes in
the mirror. "Is interestin' how is the world,"
she remarked
MRs. Whitaker, in her usual dearth of din
ner conversation, recounted to MIR. Whitaker
that evening the story Madame Rubin had
told her in the morning, not as information
but as small talk. To her surprise he added
something to it.
Must be the fellow that came down to see
me the other day"
"Why, Henry" she exclaimed. "You never
told me you had Chinese come to see you!"
You never asked me, he retorted. Il have
all kinds of people coming to see me-"
What do they want?" she asked.
Same thing - money, he answered drily.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

Farmer, Mrs Whitaker murmured. I'VE
don't have peasants in America
Madame Rubin did not hear her. She went
on. so is she kinda sick of cows and cookin'
and goes to the next town to find a job. She's
seventeen, and maybe kinda pretty then -
though no more, poor soul, after the dysen-
teries and maarias has she had in where she's
been livin' in China. And was coupla young
men from China studyin' in the univoisity
at this little city, and comes to eat at where
is she workin' and one little smart fella
always sits at her table and gets to like her
quietness and no talk, and after while PROPOSE
tons her, ma am if you please, like Christian
instead of heathen!'
MADAME Rubin gave one of her large winks,
laughed, and went on again with relish: 80!
But she's good girl and says no, not unless
she's married. and he says is that all she
wants, is nothin' to him, he can do it, and so
they marry wit preacher and she has her
marriage lines He tells her that his father is
a rich man and can she 60 to China she will
live in a jade palace. So she is dazzled like and
does it.
"She goes to China and lives in Shang gal,
and it amt so bad, ma am. He amt 50 rich
like he said, but his fathers house is good
brick house and there is plenty of servants
and she don't have to do nothin'. But the old
folks over there don't like it, either, when she
comes in. Seems like they kinda feel like her
own folks, only it's white they don't want.
Amt it human nature?
''She don't go down with the old folks, and
50 this husband, he says pretty soon ne s going
to rent an apartment over in the French part
of the city. They do, and then is things bet
ter, because she's got two servants and only
four rooms to clean and he has job teaching
the other Chinese English in school, and so
is something like home.
Pretty soon she has a cute little girl looks
like the daddy but is more blond, too, and
80 she writes to the folks in Iowa is everythin'
swell, and don't tell em how often he gets
mad at her. 1t seems the old folks in China
don't think so much of girls, so they kinda
don't pay attention to the baby, but she
don't care And two years after she has boy.
WAS the man not good to her?' Mrs.
Whitaker asked in tone of deep horror.
well, l asked her, too, ma am, putin 1t
kinda delicater, and she kinda lets me know
that since she don't see such lot of him she
gets along if she's careful. He is away all
day and goes out a lot at night. and when she
says she is lonesome, he says he's got to go
with his friends because he is tryin' to get
himself swell job in the government and
maybe if he gets it they can take trip
abroad to Europe and America, and so she
don't say nothin' more. She's getting kinda
homesick by this time. And the children talk
Chinese and she can't seem to learn 1t
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue

Il Short Story Complete in This Issue
On HER little beauty shop, in the interstlces
of facas and permanents Madame Rubin
1 scanned each mornings newspaper from
the first column to the last, omitting nothing
Nor did she merely read What her eyes fell
UPON she comprehended after her peculiar
dramatic fashion. which drew everything into
the cud of her own digesting thought. Thus
Mussoni, or Mawssolinni, as she called HIM,
was as familiar to her as her own brother-ln-
law and equally despised. Hitler she dis
coursed upon frequently and always with
anger mixed with amazement.
But what was really astonishing to Mrs
Whitaker, one of the most faithful patrons
of the beauty shop, was Madame Rubin's
intense admiration for people so remote as
the Chinese Anything more contrary to the
extremes of Madame Rubin's own nature
than the calm and philosophy of that people
could scarcely be imagined; yet Mrs.
Whitaker was compelled to admit that Ma
dame Rubins understanding of what was
going on even in China at the present moment
was lar DeyOnQ lleI OWL
Neither Madame Rubin nor Mrs. Whitaker,
however, was prepared for something that
happened during the winter of the second
wear of the Japanese war in China. 1t was an
affair never mentioned in the newspapers.
When Mrs. Whitaker went into the beauty
shop one morning, rather pallid woman
went out. She noticed the woman because she
was dressed in costume OF handsome,
foreign-looking silk, brocaded in small pat
tern of the same gray-blue color But the fine
material was badly cut and hung shapelessy
on the small plain creature who wore 1t.
Itwas somehow difficult to tell her national
ity. She was a blonde, her hair fair and her
eyes misty blue She looked strange and
timid, and when she spoke to Madame Rubin
hurriedly about jar of cream, her speech was
a mixture of midwestern American and some
thing else. She spoke with hesitation, as
though for long time she had been hearing
language other than her own Madame Rubin
looked after her with astonishment, her hands
on her hips as she stared.
Good morning" Mrs. Whitaker said gen.
tly.
Madame Rubin recalled herself with
start: ''Oh, a'am, good mornin', pliz! Is
somethin' funny here don't know is what"
"Indeed?" Mrs. Whitaker followed Ma
dame Rubin into booth and sat down.
rs Chinese silk" Madame Rubin said.
"She comes in here now regular, Tor two
mont's past, every time wit different silk
on. Some is GORGEOUS, maam, and she is put
out like candle, poor one! She is nothin'
little country girl, ma am, picked up, like.
She's told it to me how was she workln' IN
restaurant once in Iowa, and her father a
peasant"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

It's only a broken milk bottle;
never mind, the creamery furnish
es them How many articles in
common use. like the milk bottle,
are counted as costing nothing?
The American people are the
greatest MASTERS in the world.
Nov consider this despised milk
bottle. The bureau of dairy indus
try in the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has been
watching the milk bottles. And it
recently gave out some figures
that prove the annual loss from
broken or misplaced bottles totals
lose to $3,009,000 That is what
niFt bottle carelessness costs.
Who pays it? Somebody has to
tand for that loss. The bottles
cost a little more than a nickel
apiece. The manufacturers get
their price for the bottles. Prob
ably the farmers who sell the milk
get a little less for their product
The bottles have to be paid for
and something over S00,000,0O0 OF
them will be broken or lost in the
course of this year
And the part Of the 100000
loss that can not be charged back
to the farmer must be paid by the
consumer. Somebody has to pay
the losses of a going concern.
There is no profit in waste.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01
ADULT EDUCATION
INCREASED PROGRAM
Sum of $4,000 In Gov.
O'ConOr's Budget; Safe
ty for County Students

The provision of $4,000 in Gov
ernor O'Con0rs budget. the School
Department reports, for evening
school work, became available on
October /. 1899. The Department
is using this money for an increas-
ed program Of adult education to
provide classes for the unemploy-
ed and people in temporary jobs
who seek opportunities to prepare
themselves for employment in
other occupations and for people
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

One of the most essential ele-
ments in success is the ability to
7alk and write in a persuasive way.
A man may be a wonder in the
work he does and the service he
lenders. But if he is not able to
convince people Of the merits OF
MS work and the goods he sells,
ne may not attain much success.
Nor is it necessary that a person
be an eloquent talker or a gifted
writer to gain this power. The
facts comprise the thing that has
rhe most persuasive force. If a
merchant has an article which
usually sells for dollar, but
which for some special reason he
is willing to sell for seventy-five
cents, this fact has all the per
suasive power imaginable.
All he has to do is to state it
in a newspaper advertisement, and
add few words telling why and
how he has decided to make this
offer. Such facts count more in
any business message than elo-
quence.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

All, March. we know thou art,
kind-hearted, spite Of ugly looks
and threats
and outof sight, art nursing
Apriil5 viTlets
50 wrote Helen Hunt Jackson,
paving tribute less to the benevO-
lence Of March than to the capac-
5ty of right-midend humans to look
Beyond immediate troubles to
noped-tbr better times ahead.
March often has been accused
OF fickleness and disappointing
conduct because of the eagerness
OF people to be done with winter
and to gget on to spring. March
is not a spring month except in
that small part that lies beyond
the vernal equinox which comes
regularly about the GWenty-first.
50 it often happens that in March
northern ATTITUDES experience some
OF the coolest weather of the year
and some Of the heaviest snow
storms.
Nevertheless, March is d month
Of promises. The sun is climbing
higher and shadows shorten and
impart a sense Of impending
spring even when the air is chilly
And the trees and shrubs and the
bulbs sense the change and get
ready for the grand opening in
Nhi II the decorations will be re-
splendeAt with buds and blossoms.
SO treasure the hopes Of March,
although at times thep may seem
alusiye Hope is the mainstay of
he human spirit in this world of
-YOuble.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

who desire a general cultural
course. Eighty such classes Of
not fewer than 20 students each
have been organized prior to the
submission Of the report.
The third major objective in the
schools of the counties is the fur
Their development of a program Of
safety education. Particularly in
several counties of the Eastern
Shore the work done along this
line in recent years has been
splendid, but since the Inaugural
ton last September Of Governor
O'Conors Maryland Traffic Safety
Committee, State superintendent
Albert S. Cook, as a member Of
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

tice a new coquetry in French
women. They are dressing for one
man, not for many. It's the new
and interesting sophistication."
1t is impossible to go into de-
tail about the alluring blouses, the
silhouettes, Molyneaux for day and
Schiaparelli for evening, the hips
that melt away by day and the
curves under candlelight, the eXcit
ing colors" and all the other tricks
Of style, the halo hats and the rest
OF the frippery.
But if the style magnates will
make women to be again ,'divinely
alluring, feminine and elegantly
modest mere man shall be deep
ly indebted and deeply grateful,
and as WOrshipful as ever.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

From now on women are going
10 be women. The new fashions
are divinely allming, feminine and
elegantly modest" says the editor
Of a popular woman's magazine in
broadcast from Paris as she dis
cusses the Paris openings of 1910.
Mrs. Carmel Snow says: 4
feel that modesty has new sex
appeal. l found emphasized too.
that it is not the fashion any long
er to be dramatic in your dressing.
Impairment chic that was so chic
is now as dead as the dodo. I no.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-03-01

the Safety Executive Committee,
has cOoperated Fundamentally in
bringing to the attention of all of
the county students the import
ance of greater safety in driving
and among school children on
their way to and from school,
Programs are being worked out
for the County Elementary and
High Schools so that the lesson
Of safety may be presented contin.
uously in the manner best suited
to the ages Of the children in
structed.
1T PAYS TO ADVERTISE
IN rTLIk' (SI 1RE
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-03-14
FOR LESS MEDDLING

Editor Askov American:
Will you please publish the fol-
lowing editorial from The Hinckley
News of March 2, 1910, as an answer
to Mrs. Borchardt of Willow River,
who had an article in your Opinions
of Others" column two weeks ago:
"In the county papers last week
Tin The News this issue) was letter
from Mrs. Borchardt of Willow River,
in which she endeavors to discredit
the editor of this paper, relative to
recent remarks anent school aids, and
at the same time speaks disdainfully
of mud" Mrs. Borchardt is the wife
of the chairman of the Pine County
Farmer-Labor Association, and so her
remarks might be 1--WE wouldn't say
they were, they just might be) attri-
buted to political rather than school
interest motives.
Governor Stassen, in his inaugural
message to the Legislature in jan
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-03-14
PRAISES OLD FOLKS

uOilClty, w lCiiltd, TAdTS.
Our Topeka correspondent makes
an explanation to an un-conscientious
objector to the Townsend-Downey
old age Senate pension bill, No. 1885,
that ought to hold U. S. Senator An
drews for a long, long time. Here
it is: amy person who objects to
giving our old citizens the justice due
them, must be devoid of respect for
his own mother 1t is a self evident
fact that during the last so years
the aged citizens of this nation created
just about all the real wealth in these
United States-Gt was impossible for
others to have done it,)-and the
compensation for that service rem
dered is indeed too long overdue
them. Compensations for services
rendered by our elderly citizens has
a prior constitutional right over all
other claims" Keep this clear in
your mind that the word pension is
defined as ''a subSidy-an un-earned
value" and it is an insult to refer
to this word relative to the compen-
sation due our aged people for serv-
ices long ago rendered.