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1t Is fortunate for the birds that
their eggs are not large enough to
be eaten by man, else they might vie
with the popular hens egg in human
diet.
Songbirds are not steady layers, like
hens, so their eggs could only be eaten,
at the best-or worse-in the spring.
What saves them, however, is that
their eggs are too few, too small, and
would require too much effort to find.
Who would want to search through
trees, even to the tops, to find few
eggs so small that it would take many
of them to make up the composition of
one hens egg?
Hen fruit, as it is sometimes called
in the vernacular, lies right there in the
nest, ready to be picked up.
&EF
An average hens egg weighs about 2
ounces, and comprises one of the supreme
food packages of the ages.
1t Is no wonder that millions upon
millions of them are eaten every year
They contain much water, but have so
in them that they make one of the best
foods
About IL per cent Of the egg is shell.
So per cent the white, and 80 per cent
the yellow, or yoke.
An average egg contains about 6
grams of protein, and as much fat.
1t contains the vitamins A, B and D,
but little if any vitamin C. 1t supple
ments milk very well, since the latter
usually has little D, naturally; milk
supplements eggs, because the latter
have so little vitamin c.
Modern research shows that many of
the old natural combinations are based
on something more than whim.
Bread and milk supplement each
other.
Eggs supply iron, sulphur, calcium,
chlorine and magnesium.
The iron in eggs is especially desirable
If one likes milk, because milk con-
tains so little iron as to be negligible
Even the old type of vegetarian would
eat eggs, even when he would not take
milk to get his protein supplies.
Despite the universal popularity of
eggs, there still are many persons who
think they cannot eat them. While it
is true that some persons find them
selves unable to take them, they might
be surprised to discover that if they
ate more of them they would go very
well.
Sometimes one egg will seem difficult
of digestion, whereas two of them at
the same time go much better.
Some consumers claim that the dark
shelled eggs are richer, but our old
poultry man says there is no difference
since all his hens get the same feed
and If they all get the same feed, he
goes on, why should there be any
difference?
The word poultry is from the French
for poulet, diminutive for poule, fowl.
Our English word, poult, means a
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what his foreign policies would be at
this time? AS regards the exchange of
destroyers for Naval bases, would he
have waited for Congress to pass upon
the delivery of the destroyers?
Does Mr.. Willkie believe that the rich
economic royalists preferred to see Mr..
Roosevelt's administration fail? Could
these captains of industry improve the
unemployment situation by being less
selfish?
Whenever industry has shown this
spirit, we find a prosperous and con-
tented people. Endicott and Johnson
in Endicott, New York, and Hershey in
Hershey, Pa, give more than living
wages and their working people have
something to show for it.
don't believe in slavery of any
people, but how many slaves were buried
in Potters Field, before Mr.. Roosevelt
found way to improve the situation,
much to the displeasure of the heartless?
Baltimore, GUY STONESTREET.
october %.
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THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trdce1Dell.

young chicken, partridge, or grouse.
poulterer, as we all know, is one who
deals in poultry, but we would be wrong
in thinking that poultice has any
thing to do with hens. This word comes
from the Latin pulls, thick pap. How
right most of our words are! How
proud we should be of our language,
which contains all languages, like our
country!
And how annoying dictionaries!
If we want to find out what a pullet
is, we have to thumb through all the
words beginning with pr" an amaz-
ingly long list.
Some day, some where, some diction-
airy maker is going to put all related
words together, so that users will not
have to look SO long.
The word pullet, meaning a young
hen, should be right after, or at least
with, the definition of poultry. Why
not?
They have been making dictionaries
all these years, but still they do not
make them SO that they are easy to
handle.
What dictionary ought to do is to
invite you, to lure you, literally to compel
you, through very fascination, to use it
AS it is people use dictionaries only
when they have to, like going to the
dentist.
The dictionary of the future will con-
tain verbal it," some real glamour. or
glamor, however it chooses to spell it
%&4
Once you get started on a dictionary
however, you forget all about eggs, OF
whatever it was you were looking for.
Here is pounce, noun, not the verb
transitive or intransitive.
Bet you don't know what it means
We surely had never heard of a pounce
pounce was fine powder formerly
used to absorb ink on manuscript. o.
it was a colored powder for making pat
terms through perforated designs.
To pounce was to sprinkle or rub with
| pounce, sure enough, and quite properly
There is another pounce, too, meaning
the claw or talon of bird of prey. Sc
We are getting back to the birds again
To pounce, in the popular sense used
today, literally means to strike or seize
with talons, to fall suddenly and seizt
as If with claws. This usage is otter
flgurative, of course
Pounced, the adjective, means fur.
nished with claws or talons.
| 1t would be all right to say that q
hawk is a bounced bird, but few hearers
would know what you meant
But hold-we are not through with
pounce yet, or at least the dictionary
isn't.
A pouncet box was box with a per.
forated lid, for sprinkling pounce, OF
for holding perfumes. What was tn,
powder which was pounce, in the day.
when gentleman sprinkled their manu-
script?
Maybe there is clue in the fact tha
pounce, the article, comes from tn,
! French pumice.
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Keats

He was so young to die, 30 hurt by life,
That the cool and quiet grave must
have seemed rest.
Ignored, distraught, his days O constant
strife,
With death forever clutching ut his
breast,
And yet how few have climbed as he
could climb
To grasp the golden eagle, muscled,
tense,
Then turn to bring it down to pen in
rhyme
The ecstasy of high experience.
o golden feathered bird, that one so young
Could lay firm hold upon your glitter
ing grace,
And capture you as up and out you swung
Above the distant crags of time and
space,
To cage you here, proud comrade of the
stars,
Within the slender books frail golden
bars!
GRACE NoLL CRoWE1I.
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Shares Views
OF Ambassador Kennedy.
To the Editor of The Star.

OF Ambassador Kennedy.
To the Editor of The Star:
About 40 per cent of the American
voters are irrevocably for Willkie and
40 per cent for Roosevelt. because they
are Republicans or Democrats, or are
rankly conservative or radical.
The other 20 per cent is open to per-
suasion, divided between those who
believe the conduct of domestic affairs
comes first and those who believe the
conduct of foreign affairs is the pre-
dominant issue. The latter in this
crisis are more numerous and hold the
balance of the power.
Both candidates come close to repre-
senting the predominant sentiment of
the American people in their attitude
toward helping Britain, even at the risk
of war. Both are men of courage.
But which, Roosevelt or Willkie, can
most certainly override the isolationists
= and command prompt answering sup
port of full aid to Britain and the pro-
lection of our rights at home and
abroad? Which can most steadfastly
hold America to the policy: peace can
not be won by appeasing dictators, their
defeat offers the best chance of avoiding
war and is essential to Americas well
fare, safety and peace?
Many of us who most strongly hold
this latter view hate the third term,
dislike the reorganization of the New
Deal but will vote for Roosevelt only
because of his attitude, skill and ex-
perience and that of his associates
Stimson, Knox and particularly Hull
in the conduct of foreign affairs.
October rs. HENRY Z. COTTON.
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Blames Roosevelt
For Blaming Republicans.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
President Roosevelt has dominated
every department of the Government
for nearly eight years with subservient
Congress eating out of his hand, and
yet in his speech last night he had the
temerity to blame the Republican party
for his failure to provide for the ma
tional defense.
Furthermore, didn't he try to get the
Congress to adjourn last June before
any appropriations had been made for
the national defense, and before the
Draft Act was passed, which, by the
way, was drawn and sponsored by Rep
resentative Wadsworth, a Republican,
who was ably assisted by Senator Burke,
a real Democrat
ALEXANDER s. LANIER.
October 20,
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General George C. Marshall told re-
porters at the fire that somewhat
similar system is planned for the
War Department. The sooner this
safeguard against unauthorized in
truders is adopted, the better. Any
laxity in vigilance now might betray
us to an enemy later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

Among recent registrants in the
selective service draft was a profess
sional fat man who weighs 800
pounds. Do not laugh too quickly; is
not Uncle Hermann Goering getting
along all right?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

Department of Commerce officials
announce that the per capita in
come for the United States rose five
per cent in 1889 over the previous
years figure. Yes, and we know who
eventually got that five per cent.
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the tCriter, although the use OF
pSeudony1 for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
q UieiD to condensation.
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Add American fables: Once there
appeared a new model automobile
which had the precise proportionate
dimensions of its picture in the ad-
vertiSementS.
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Objects to
Burning Leaves.
To the Editor of The Star:
Hundreds of thoughtless, careless peo-
pie are deliberately burning leaves in the
public streets and alleys and on private
grounds. There ought to be an enforced
law prohibiting such action
CHARLES M. WESNER.
October a.
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Questions Willkie
And Comments on. Slavery.
To the Editor of The Star:
Does Mr.. Willkie claim to know more
about the present diplomacy and the
present foreign policies than Mr.. Roose-
velt7 VIII Mr.. Willkie state specincly
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@. What caused the death of Henri
Christophe, the Black King of HAITI
M. D. E.
A. He was stricken with paralysis in
his last years and took his own life with
a golden bullet which he had had pre-
pared against the time of need.
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@. Please give the name of an au--
thority on marriage?-L. T. S.
A. Among the foremost authorities on
the subject are DR.. Ernest Rutherford
Groves of Chapel Hill, N. c., who estab-
lished the first university credit course
in preparation for marriage, and DR..
Paul Popenoe of Altadena, Calf, author
of Modern Marriage"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

@. Is tea actually stimulant2-C. B.
A. Yes, and as recent exhaustive tests
undertaken at McGill University show,
1t is unique in that it has no after eff
fects. Further, it serves as a mental
stimulant and is now being served in
more than 200 business Offices in New
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Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

preached her, with spirit, eff you
could have seen the crying and 60
ings-on-f you could have known
how we all felt! Ma was up all
night, and Joe kept coming in and
QUIT was something awful!
"And then yesterday-Ma, that
was only yesterdayI-then yester-
day, Judge and Mrs. Nc Cam
came"
WELL" Sheila said, with a hard
little laugh, "it seems that you
mustn't let yourself get kidnapped
by bootleggers these days"
Gertrude Keane has been terri
bly, Sick" Angela went on in the
accusing, tender tone she had used
all through the conversation, "she's
simply prostrated-"
Her brother Joe came quietly in:
she was in his arms, crying and
Laughing.
"Joe, Joe, you're not against me,
are you? They said you stood to me,
Joe! You don't think I'm bad; YOU
believe me, don't your"
He looked worried and serious.
pushed the silky fringe of hair from
her forehead, keeping a brotherly
arm about her, but not smiling, not
kissing her.
"Of course I'll stand to you, dear.
But-my God, what you've put us
through, Sheilal"
He sat down, and she dragged a
chair near his, still clinging to his
hand.
Frank Nc Cam and gave the
marriage to the papers this noon.
Ma" he said, signing. "It seemed
the best way. Even Judge Nc Cam
advised it-though it broke his
heart"
DISTRICT attorney and ally" the
mother demanded fearfully.
Everything. It was a Justice of
the peace, Ma"
"What marriage?" Sheila ex-
claimed, very white.
"Yours, dear. It was the only
way"
but, Joe-Joe-we're not mar
riedl"
mot by the Church. no. But you
will be"
1--WE aren't married at all, Joel
We never were married. You'll have
to stop the papers!"
Listen, Joe! We were kidnapped.
Kidnapped by bootleggers, do you
see? And they took us up to Con.
necticut, or somewhere, we don't
know where"
"Wait a minute" Joe said, i'm
pressed in spite of himself by her
desperate earnestness. 'Begin At
the beginning, Sheila. Where did
you and Peter Nc Cam meet ON
Saturday."
Sheila gulped.
"At q law library on Broadway,
joel"
RIO BE CONTINUED,
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

ssWhat business was that OF
yours?" Mrs. Carscadden demand
ed unsympathetically. YOU'D DO
much better to kape out OF police
stations as things are"
"Well, if don't think I'm In .
bad dream!" said Sheila.
"The Nc Cams reported it to the
police" her sister said.
"The Nc Cams did"
eyes, they were so worried about
Peter. He had half a dozen appoint
ments for Saturday and he didn't
keep one of them. And there was
big party Saturday night"
81 know. The Cahills."
"Wen, wherever it was. And when,
he didn't get home to dress for that,
they all got perfectly crazy and
they telephoned around everywhere,
And at about ten o'clock Mr.. Frank
Nc Cam came out here"
Frank Nc Cam did"
Eyes. Because it seems that Pc
ter had told his mother and Ger
trude that he had known you up at
Tiller's Beach last summer, and he
had even talked to them about you,
after he got home"
"And we didn't know anything, OF
course, except that you weren't
home. Ma didn't take her clothes
off that night-did you, MAJ"
81 did not" said Ma.
Mrs. Nc Cam talked to Ma
Saturday afternoon about our may
be living over in Astoria or some
where, where Ma could have vege-
tables and everything!" Angela Ia
mented. "And now-now they'll nev-
er want to see us again! She seemed
so different yesterday, so sad and
quiet, and she'd been crying, and
he looked as if he had been, too, and
everything was terrible-Joe got so
mad, and he stood up for you"
"Well," Sheila said with irony,
''you all had a swell time"
"You wouldn't think it was so fun
ny, Sheila Carscadden," Angela re-
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

81 think you would be lucky il
you could"
"Oh, I could, all right" Ker
boosted, gloomily. He went to gel
her a drink of water, and she stood
drinking it and laughing, and pant.
ing against the background of snowy
hills and barred trees and blue, high
winter sky.
The truck came duly chuggine
down the new road few minutes
later, the men hanging on like mon
keys, watching the track as the
great toboggan tires flattened the
snow.
To them the gently rolling, snowy
hills all about, the occasional dis
tant cluster of roofs and farmhouse
columns of smoke, the road deep in
dry white shining powder, were ex-
actly what they had been seeing for
the past two hours. But Ken was
now bidding them good-by.
walk to the top of that hill there,
and there ought to be a village
about mile below. On your way!"
he said.
He did not look at Sheila. He
walked about the truck in the snow
and climbed up on the front seat,
and she saw one of the other men
get down upon the rough floor of the
vehicle and roll himself up in blan-
ket there.
The rest was a fioundering walk
in the snow, more like three miles
than two, and long, dreary, empty
wait at an empty station. The sign
over the station said Capitol juno
ton; there was no house near by.
But toward the middle of the after
noon a rickety train did rattle by,
and Sheila and Peter boarded it. The
conductor sleepily informed them
that they were in northern Con-
necticut and obliged them with tick
cts to New York. There was no din
er on the train, but when they trans
ferred to a roaring leviathan far
Their on, they thankfully went into a
brightly lighted buffet-car and had
club sandwiches and coffee.
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

wished that it was over. She dread
ed the explanations
It seemed odd to see the night
streets busting as usual, down un-
der the train; curb carts surrounded
by shoppers, children racing and
screaming in the dirty snow.
81 get out at One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth, Peter"
He reused himself from a sort of
dream at the window.
"Nixl" he protested. We've got
to 60 home first. We've got to turn
in a report at police station"
81 don't" she said. 'I'm going
straight home to my mother"
"I'n get out with you, it's just as
near for me. But we've got to 60 to
a station, right off the batl"
'sWhat for?"
"To catch them. The police won't
want to lose a minute"
"You don't think for one minute
you can catch theml"
st know darned well we can catch
them. We know where they started
from, don't we? We can send 'em
right to that fake studio where we
found 'em, can't we? It'll only take
a minute, and then I'll run you
home in a taxi" Peter argued.
In the end she actually did find
herself in the Monday evening
quiet of a police station, answering
the questions of a kindly sergeant,
with only another old officer for
audience, except for a sympathetic
young man who observed excitedly
that he would bet it was Olla's gang,
and who, with q sort Of tinseled
light globe held a1oft, took a snap
shot Of the latest victims Of gang
mystery.
And then the familiar streets were
rushing by Sheila's taxi, and her
heart was humping harder and
faster, and Ma, and home. and safe
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27
CHAPTER TX

When they were finally approach
ing the city, and the theater adj
vertisements and the multiplying
apartment houses warned them that
their long trip was almost over,
Sheila was conscious of a sudden
lassitude, WEAKNESS that seemed
to have as much to do with the
soul as the body. Wonderful as it
would be to get home to Ma and
Angela and Joe and have the first
thrilling conversation with them, she
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27
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Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

for Grove when he
was at his best. /
can see Feller's fast
one, even if I don't
hit too wen-but I
C o u ! d n t S e e
Groves"
81 never saw
johnson work." Joe
Gordon said, land I
never saw Grove at
his best, at the top.
But I'll string with
Bob Teller. He is
fast enough for me.
A. fA
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

TOR our first fall needlework
= what could be more appropri.
ate than making some new pan
holders? Gay flower faces, hen
and rooster, Toby jugs and a par.
rot handle holder, etc. Why, even
the smallest scrap bag would SUD.
ply enough material, for some Of
these are pieced. Bazaars and
gifts will take inexpensive toll Of
any you aren't needing yourself,
Transfer Z8976. IS cents. gives motif,
for ten holders. Send orders to;
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27
The Detroit Mystery

July. This gave both
Veterans a chance
to save their legs.
Then the sun baked
out all diamonds
and what a differ
ence this makes to
older legs"
ct h j S is true
enough" Bartell
told me. II was a
kid again as long as
I had soft ground
under my feet. But
these hard hoLad
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27
I5oi!4!l3TI|

TN THE Yankee clubhouse they
were talking about the fastest
pitcher. The argument got down to
Lefty Grove and Bob Teller. ! ran
in my nomination-a fellow named
Walter johnson.
81 never batted against johnson"
Bill Dickey said, "but my vote goes
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27
Speech of the Soul

Utterance is not confined to
words. Our souls speak as sig
nificantly by looks, tones, or ges-
tures-the subtle vehicles of our
more delicate emotions, as they do
by set words and phrases. Indeed,
the soul has a thousand ways Of
communicating itsef.-Turnbull.
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

out diamonds are rough on your legs.
could begin to feel the difference
in a few days-sore ligaments, sore
feet"
Bartell was one of the main fac
tors in Detroit's early summer
charge. Both his spirit and his play
were major factors in the Tiger
drive. And the same goes for Geh-
ringer, who stands out as one of the
great second basemen of all time.
When these two begin to skid the
Tiger infield began to look porous.
Figure this one OUT" one of the
Yankees said. 1--WE all know the
value of big, powerful hands in base
ball. Hands like Wagner's and La
joie's-but one of the best infielders
I've seen in long time has the
smallest pair of hands in either
league"
Meaning whom?" we asked.
"Boudreau, the Cleveland short
STOP" he answered. "BOudreau has
extremely small hands. They are
delicate looking. But I don't know
Of a better shortstop anywhere to-
day. He has been one Of the main
reasons for Cleveland's success.
When he gets either hand ON q ball
1t sticks with him."
The Eternal argument
'I'n tell you something" one of
the Cleveland veterans said. sold
timers are always talking about the
play OF the stars who once made the
headlines. They talk about more
scientific game. I'd like to see
some of these old-timers handle the
ball they hit at you today-infeld or
outfeld.
The game today is twice as fast,
This modern ball comes at you like
rifle shot many times. You can't
afford to lose split second. The
same Is true in the outfield where
line drives come whistling by, II
takes much better starting speed to
handle the new, faster ball, no mat
ter what position you play. Those
old-timers were lucky when It came
to handling much slower ball, one
that gave you more time to cover
your ground.
Baseball today is far harder on
the nerves. You have to be alert
every second a man is at bat. You
are tense all the time in any close
game. The old-time game may
have been more scientific, but the
game today is largely matter of
speed and power"
Pitchers Us. Hitters
The clubhouse chitchat drifted
around to the comparative value of
pitching and hitting.
"n you had your choice" asked
one Of the veterans, "who would you
take-Ruth, Cobb, Wagner and Fox
-or johnson, Alexander, Teller and
Grove-each at his peak?"
81 don't have to wait on that one.' %
be said. ''Td take the four pitchers,
Give me those four pitchers and I'm
give yea any four big hitteFs yoa
night name h any baseball league,
anywhere"