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Evening star., 1940-02-25
Rare Support
Given Red
Cross Benefit
Luise Rainer
Expected to Draw
Notable Audience

When the evening of March 10
arrives an unprecedented crowd may
be expected at the Belasco Theater
for the combination of Louise Rainer,
foremost cinema star; Bernard
Shaw's great play, Saint joan;
the shining cause Of the Red Cross
relief, and brilliant list of patrons
Is attracting much attention in the
Capital.
Already reservations are pouring
In at the Offices of the Washington
Civic Iheater, where Mrs. Emil
Hurja, chairman of the benefit, and
members of her committee have
taken up temporary headquarters.
Among the subscribers to date are
the Ambassador of Japan and Nine.
Horinouchi, the Minister of Bulgaria
and Nine. Naoumoff, the Minister
of the Netherlands and Nine. LOU
don, the Minister of Finland, Mr..
Hjalmar j. Procope; the Attorney
General and Mrs. Robert H. Jackson,
Senator Arthur Capper, Senator and
Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Senator
Carl A. Hatch, Representative and
Mrs. Fritz Lanham, the Chairman of
the Red Cross and Mrs. Norman
Davis, Miss Mabel T. Boardman,
Surg. Gen. and Mrs. Hugh S.
Cumming, Gen. and Mrs. William
Crozier, the Counselor of the Argen-
tine Embassy and Sonora de Bunge,
the Commercial Secretary of the
British Embassy and Mrs. Leaner
Mccormick -Goodhart, the Commis-
sioner of immigration and Mrs. j.
Lawrence Houghteling, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest G. Draper and Capt. and
Nine. Fortunate Porotto.
Also Mrs. Truxtun Beale, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. Mrs.
Hennen Jennings, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherman Flint, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Garland Pollard, jr.; Mrs. j. Pierre
pont Moffat, Mrs. William Corcoran
Eustis, Mrs Robert B. Fleming, Mr..
and Mrs Charles Warren, Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Carroll Glover. jr.; Mrs
Edward Walsh Mclean, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter G. Distler, Miss Janet
T lSll, 1S1l D. w oil Cll OClolio 4OOObiAio,
Mrs. Luke I. Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Clement Dunn, Mr.. Robert
Lincoln O'Brien, Mr.. and Mrs. Reg
inald Huidekoper. Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Corrn Strong, Mrs. John R. Will
liams, Mrs Joseph Letter, Mrs. Ed
ward Dudley Kenna, Miss Lydia
Loring, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe,
Mrs. James M Helm, Mrs. Paul H.
Bastedo, Mr.. and Mrs. Hurja, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee D. Butler, Mrs. Will
liam Mckee Dunn, Mrs. Ridgely
Hunt, Princess Margaret Boncom-
pagni and host of others.
In fact, so great is the demand for
seats for the gala opening of Saint
Joan" that many will have to be
content with other than first-night
seats. However, the performance
will continue through Saturday,
March 16, with two matinees, and
reservations for the week may be
made now at the Washington Civic
Theater, 918 Fourteenth street.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Thrift Shop
Ball Plans
Elaborate
Entertainment
Is Assured
To Be Varied

Mrs. r. Moran McConihe, chair
man Of the Leap Year Girls" Com
mittee for the Thrift Shop ball at
Sulgrave Club Wednesday evening,
March 8, has on her committee a
large group Of debutantes, post-debs
and young matrons who will have
charge Of the various booths and
entertainment features for this an
nual benefit for children's charities.
Miss Alice Barry, Miss Nancy Lut-
trell, Miss Nancy Weller, Miss Mar
ion Shouse, Miss Yolanda Alfaro,
the Misses Edith and Mary Wright,
Miss Nancy Glover, Miss Helen
Marie De Limur, Miss Eleanor Meem
and Miss Anne Wilkinson have been
selling advertisements for the SOU
venir program.
Posters Distributed
About Washington.
Miss Mary Wilson and another
group have been distributing posters
all about town, and in the group
are Miss Sylvia Szechenyi, the
Misses Marie and Eleanor Won Rath,
Miss Jane Acheson, Miss Angelica
Lloyd and Mrs. A. Y. p. Garnett, jr.
Others on Mrs. McConihe's various
committees are Miss Nancy Letter,
Miss Ivy Bacon, Miss Marilynn
Hines, Miss Peggy Townsend, Mrs.
Godfrey w. Kauffmapn, Mrs. Rodg-
ers Parker, Mrs. Eugene c. Carusi,
Miss Emily Davis, Mrs. Jean De ST.
bour, Mrs. Gale Mclean, Mrs. John
F. Wilkins, jr.:: Mrs. Joseph K. Nc
Cannon, Miss Patricia Hurley, Miss
Billie Byrd West, Mrs Lauriston B.
Hardin, Miss Theodore Sedgwick,
Miss Nancy Ordway, Mrs. William
Beverly Mason. jr; Miss Stellita Sta
pleton, Mrs. Richard Grimm, Miss
Elizabeth Shouse, Miss Patricia Grif-
fin, Miss Beatrice Phillips and Mrs.
Robert McIlvaine.
There will be music for dancing
by Sidney and his orchestra, a floor
show, flower booths, milk and coca
cola bars, games and opportunities. /"
Evening star., 1940-02-25

ceive with Dean and Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, Dean and Mrs. Will
liam C. Van Week, Dean and Mrs.
Frederick M. Feiker, Dean and Mrs.
Elmer Louis Kayser, Dean and Mrs.
William Crane Johnstone, jr.; Prof.
and Mrs. Harold G. Sutton, Mrs.
Albert Barrows and Mrs. Clifton Lee.
Hostesses will be Miss Peggy
Kletchka, Miss Edith Houbert, Miss
Dorothy Handloff, Miss Doris Cum
ningham and Miss Paulette Montesi.
At the tea table will be Miss Irma
Silman, Miss Virginia Stevens, Miss
Camilla Binder, Miss Lynn Wear,
Miss Hshoti Yeh, Miss Amarah For
tune, Miss Mary Maude Moss, Miss
Marian Kinsell, Miss Agnes Evans,
Miss Allida Haller, Miss Barbara
Backrath, Miss Dorothy Ames, Miss
Peggy Cass and Miss Dorothy Walsh.
Mr.. Milton Salkin and Mr.. Jerry
Rosey will give a program of piano
music during the afternoon.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

before joining her family at Silver
Sands, the Bartlett winter home at
Pass-a-Grille, Fla. Mrs. Uriah
Griffith also has her grandchildren,
Betty and Billy Shearman of Man
hassett, N. Y, with her for the week
end.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Future Debutantes
By Catherine HambIey

On May 81 followed by q dinner dance will given
honor of Margaret Tuckerman parents
Mrs Walter R. Tuckerman Miss Tuckman
in December Coon January
at the junior dinner dance in Philadelphia.
Uncommonly tall and handsome, "Tuky- thoroughly
markable original She finger pies
she continually skating polo paywrtng
waltzng and being busy editor Earnest
Evening star., 1940-02-25

uberant spirit She is excellent conveaona
being good hostess and altogether
member OF the sudeb contingent evening
Clothes Thackery the matches at Forest Hills
duck the OF Walter Scott
graduating Girls she hopes to
join the Civic Theaer and for fall Bryn
study English With the exception of this
regular participant in the
passed at the Long
Island, where she enjoys contacts
and
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Woman Students
Entertain G. w. u.
Faculty Today

The faculty of George Washington
University will be the guests Of
honor at the tea this afternoon
from 4 to 7 o'clock when the woman
students who are residents of Strong
Hall will entertain.
The president of the university
and Mrs. Cloyd H. Marvin will re-
Evening star., 1940-02-25

Chile shipped more products to
the United States last year than to
any other country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
Hartford Takes Lead

Initiation of the food stamp plan in
Hartford this week probably means that
before many months have passed good
MANY Connecticut communities will have
shown their complete approval of this
New Deal plan of combating economic
conditions With Hartford leading the
way it is not inconceivable that New
Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and other
large centerS, where relief conditions are
particularly acute, will likewise adopt the
plan, national administration officials
being willing
At least 5000 Hartford families may be
benefitting by the stamp plan by the end
of the first week. That is something to
think about and other towns can well
afford to send their representatives to
Hartford for first-hand picture of how
the scheme works and what its advan-
tages might be locally, Basically the plan
is adopted to benefit WPA workers, recip-
tents of direct relief persons receiving
widows aid, old age assistance, aid for
the blind or payments from Connecticut's
fund for veterans.
The Federal Surplus Commodities Cor
poration is the agency that makes food
stamps possible. BY buying up quantl-
ties of food staples when particular mar
kets are glutted it enables the market
to remain fixed rather than to fluctuate
madly or to drop to a point where the
producer gets almost nothing for his
raw crop. Unlike the former Federal
Farm Board, however, the FSCC can sell
the foodstuffs it acquires and what better
way to do so than through community
cooperative plan that enables those in
dire need to benefit the most.
A person buys definite amount of
orange-colored stamps for cash and re-
ceives with them 50-cents worth of blue
stamps for each dollars worth of the
others. These stamps are cashed at
stores cooperating in the plan and prac-
tically all of them do. Orange stamps
purchase any good commodity; blue are
for surplus products only. Gaining
ground in every city where 1t has been
inaugurated the stamp plan bids fair to
erect one more lasting monument to New
Deal accomplishment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14

william Green, president Of the A. F. OF
L., and his associates are passing up one
of the best chances they ever had to en-
list sympathy for their cause. Instead OF
conceding that abuses do exist in the
building trades unions and offering to
help the governments antitrust staff to
clean up the racketS, Green has decided
to fight Thurman Arnold; assistant U.
s. district attorney and inStigator of the
nationwide investigation into building
trade Irregularities.
It's not altogether satisfactory to have
someone else point out the rubbish in
your own backyard; but, If that's what
has happened, the most graceful thing
to do is to concede that it is there and to
offer to remove 1t. The racketeering and
dishonesty that has crept into the A. F.
of L. was inevitable and is not the fault
of the millions of honest men and women
and the dozens of honest labor leaders in
the organization. The refusal of the lead
ership to assist in getting rid of the rub
bish, however, necessarily reflects un-
favorably upon the rank and file,
The present attack is not directed sole
ly against unicn men. Contractors and
building supply men are also being made
targets. The announced purpose of the
entire probe is to "clea. out" the indus
try, which means that the broom will be
applied wherever there is dirt. What Mr..
Arnold hopes to accomplish, and what
has already been done in some places, is
to reduce building costs. When the excess
prices are trimmed off, more people will
build homes and more union men will
get jobs.
II is not an invasion of Democratic
rights to indite and punish men guilty OF
fraudulent practices. If building prices are
too high because some contractors, and
some union men are entering into collu-
sion, prospective home builders and union
have right to know about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14

Meriden may have found the secret OF
repairing or patching hard-surfaced
streets and roads ravaged by winter of
snow and ice. Like so many other COM
munities in this climate Meriden has
been accustomed to utilize so-called cold
patches in the spring of the year to make
smooth travelling for the notorist on
those thoroughfares which were broken
by frost and passing automobile wheels.
A, new type of cold patch is now being
used in Meriden, reported to Withstand
the assaults of wheels much better. 1t
has a base of stone and gravel and If
allowed to set for time stands up much
better. It may be street departments
answer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
Gobble! Gobble!

The Red tide moves across Europe. Tiny
Finland, doughty, determined, but lacking
manpower and the sinews of war to resist
attacks from the air, yields hard-won
heritage to the Soviet Union. The Fin
nish- Russian war is at an end. Thous-
ands of countrymen from both sides lie
buried in the deep SHOWS of the Finnish
countryside, their bodies not to be re-
covered until springs thaws have released
the icy coffin in which they were hurled.
To them the settlement of this unde-
clared war means nothing. They were
sacrificed that an Unsuitable force might
work its will on tiny neighbor.
To the United States, in particular, the
capitulation of the Firms Is a tragedy.
Many Americans wondered that the ma
ton could hold out so long against such
overwhelming odds. We were heart and
soul with the little fellow and underdog.
But facts must be faced. Evidently
Americans like good many Europeans
didn't want to face them. They were
simple ones Finland needed men to
shoulder arms, to fire artillery, to man
trucks and tanks and airplanes. Then 1t
needed supplies of war and foodstuffS and
money. They failed to materialize in
numbers sufficient to beat off the Red
hordeS
The Scandinavian nations may event.
unlly rue the day they did not throw in
their lot with Finland, but behind the
shelter of a rich and powerful nation it
is easy for us to look complacently on the
wreckage of once potent European
power. England and France, too, may
well worry over this dramatic end to
conflict which possibly took some of the
fire out of the Nazi guns. Shifting of
boundaries won't cease with acquisition
Of Finnish territory by the Soviet. The
war-lords of Europe haven't yet drunk
their fill at the spring of Mars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14

Four years ago at this time the Con-
necticut River was on the rampage.
Hartford was experiencing it's worst flood
in many year. Up and down the river
valley destruction was being caused as
the waters of the river slowly but steadily
pushed their way into Easements, fac
tories, streets, everything that lay in It's
path. And today the Connecticut River
is at it's lowest point in years. It's so low,
in fact, that the depth gauges along the
Hartford waterfront don't register. Boats
passing up and down the channel have
been going aground, so low is the stream.
This condition doesn't produce the DAM
age that high waters do, but it does mean
trouble. It means that unless we have
abnormally big spring freshets low water
may run through the summer months.
Low water in the Connecticut means low
water in all of it's tributaries. 1t means
low water in our ponds and lakes; it
means low water in our reservoirs. There's
where real trouble awaits us, unless???
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
DON'T SNUB THE CENSUS
TAKER
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
BY a curious circumstance 1t was
mistakenly stated in q usually re-
liable journal recently, and unfor-
tunately repeated in these columns,
that no law required a person in the
United States to answer the ques-
tons of census taker.
The gathering Of information in a
decennial census Is such public
service that probably almost no citi-
zen ever thinks otherwise than OF
wishing to be helpful In the UNDER
taking. Yet the director Of the CEN
sus, william L. Austin, has issued q
memorandum pointing out that q
person may be fined up to 500 or
sentenced to so days In jail for re-
fusal to answer q census question,
or may pay q still higher penalty
for giving Intentionally incorrect
information. At the same time CEN
sus employees are strictly required to
keep such information confidential.
A fine Of $1,000 or two years i'm
prisonment or both might follow
the divulging Of personal data TO
an outsider.
Under these conditions II is not
worth the price to try to keep q
secret from the census taker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14

q friend Of Mrs. Roosevelt's and
also close to Myron Taylor, ex-
chairman Of United States Steel
and now American peace negoti-
ator at the Vatican.
Pickett's appointment as am
bassadOr TO Germany 10 being
promoted by these two powerful
friends ON the ground that the
United States needs someone I'm
Berlin who Is in touch not mere
ly with Nazi OfficialdOm, but
with the German people.
Pickett for many years has
helped maintain a Friends CEN
ter In both Berlin and Vienna.
This dates back to the days i'm
mediately after the Armistice,
when the Quakers sent relief mis-
sions to Austria and Germany,
at one time was feeding most
Of the children IN both countries.
Ever since, the Friends centers
in Berlin and Vienna have been
given great freedom-even UNI
der Hitler.
MINERS FRIENDS
Pickett now heads all of the
Quaker relief work, and has been
active not merely in Europe, but
particularly among the unem-
ployed in the United States. It
was he who initiated the attempt
to settle unemployed coal miners
at Arthurdale, w. Va, later TAX
en- over by Rural Resettlement
and now one Of Mrs. Roosevelt's
pet projects.
Mrs. Roosevelt has given all
Of her radio income and part Of
her newspaper income to this
and other American Friends Ser
vice Committee work. Myron
Taylor, when chairman Of the
u. s. Steel Corporation, also
was interested in unemployment
among miners and contributed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14

You can't fool Mother Nature. And
mankind has a hard time improving
upon it sometimes. For example, take
the recent field trials that were held in
Virginia Hand-reared quail were re-
leased from boxes, the idea being to give
the sporting dogs fine chance for some
pointing. But the idea petered out be-
cause the dogs wouldn't point these hand
reared quail. The birds were whistling
and flying all over the field, but the dogs
just weren't interested And the cause
was that the quail didn't smell right to
the dogs. Pointers and settlers are accus-
toned to definite odor from quail and
other sporting birds which the hand
reared ones had not acquired
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
Banning Political Pressure

There was plenty of evidence last sum-
mer that the Hatch bill wasn't piece OF
legislation entirely welcome among those
federal elective officials who were count
ing bit on help from the boys in govern
ment jobs. The new Hatch bill, TO extend
the provisions OF the original and to bar
eral funds from participating In politics,
Is having tough fight.
However, the battle on the Hatch bill
comes out, the deslrablllty Of some meas
ure 10 protect government jobholders
from becoming the pawns OF political
bosses rs apparent. Political control
welded through federal agencies doesn't
% the cause OF democracy any good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
Selected Poem
MASTER CRAFTSMAN

(Harold Willard Gleason in the New York Times)
You noticed, first, his eyes were blue-Maine blue,
Steady and keen-appraising, sympathetic;
Squared shoulders showed the self-reliance too,
OF outdoor men, alert and energetic
Come Spring, with trout-arched rod with shotguns
heft
Come Fall and at his Introductory We'll, sir"
What fears you may have harbored up and left
He chased your headache like glass Of seltzerl
Those strong blunt-fingered hands, you knew,
wound find
What allied your engne-make 1t 1T and proper:
He'd cure It's megrims with quiet mind;
And as for pay-you'd learn that not q copper
Above his Just deserving would he take -.
Such masters homespun heritage can makeI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
. HlGHLlGHTS FROM
LATEST BOOKS
DR.. Rauschnigg Sees
Hitler as Abnormal

Hermann Rauschning, who as presi-
dent of the Danzig Senate, was
Hitler's cOnfidant for three years
up to 1885, correctly predicted
Hitler's moves RUSSIAN alliance,
etc., in his amazing "Revolu-
ton of Nihilism." Now he paints
a full portrait Of Hitler and his
henchmei1, largely from actual
conversations taken down inn
mediately following party meet
ings, in "The Voice of Destruc-
tom (Putnam's: 2.75). It is a
frightful story, depicting fren-
zied, hypnotic dictator deter
mined to spread his Naziism to
the world. Just a jOt Of DR..
Rauschning's shocking picture Is
excepted here:
Is Hitler mad?
I think everyone who has met
the Fuehrer two or three times must
have asked himself this ques ton
Anyone who has seen this man fact
to face, has met the uncertain
glance, without depth or warmth
from eyes that seem hard and re-
mote, and has seen that gaze grow
rigid, will certainly have experienced
the uncanny feeling: THAT man Is
not normal ;"
Everything about him Is "spasm"
to use a favorite word of his. Moth
ing about him Is natural. His pro-
fessed love of children and animals
is a mere pose -.
He loves solitary walks. The
mountain forests intoxicate him. He
watches the passing clouds, listens
to the moisture dripping from the
pines. He hears voices. I have met
him in this mood. He recognizes mo-
body E.
He has acquired the most surioui
habits. He can only get to sleep Il
his bed has been made In a partic-
ular way. The quilt must lie folded
exactly as prescribed. Men whom he
trusts must make the bed. ). Hit
Ter wakes at night with convulsivt
shrieks. He shouts for help. He sits
on the edge OF the bed, as n UNI
able TO stir. He shakes with fear
making the whole bed vibrate. HI
shouts confused, totally unintelli.
gible phrases. He gasps, as II mag
ming himself 10 be suffocating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14

$4,000 annually to Pickett for
three years for their relief.
Failure Of the United States
to keep an ambassador in Berlin
was one Of the things for which
Hitler is reported to have scolded
Sumner Welles. Subsequently,
Welles worked out a plan whereby
Ambassador Dieckhoff, former
German ambassador here, would
return to Washington.
AMERICAS STEP CHILDREN
Secretary Ickes Is having a
tough time getting someone to
head his Division Of Territories
and Island Possessions. No less
than four people have been Of
fered the job since the promotion
Of DR.. Ernest Gruening to be gov
ernor Of Alaska. Everyone of
them turned 1t down.
The first was Admiral Harry E.
Yarnell, just after he retired from
the Navy and from his spectacu-
lar mission as commander of the
<AoAdIAC 4ACVVs 44ACAA ANhOo OAACAVA
1t to Wayne Taylor, former as
sistant secretary Of the treasury
and now an official of the Ameri-
can Red Cross. Taylor also thought
it was too much Of a headache.
Wayne Coy, secretary to Paul
McNutt, next got an invitation.
Coy was with McNutt when he
was high commissioner to the
Philippines and was considered
well qualified for the post. But
he refused. Next Ickes offered the
job to George A. Malcolm, attor-
ney general Of Puerto Rico. Still
no luck.
Meanwhile, the people in these
possessions are chatting over the
delay in naming an administrator
over their affairs.
Copyright, 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-14
CONNECTICUT AND NEW
INDUSTRIES
(New Britain TIerald)

(New Britain Herald)
During 1899 Connecticut enjoyed
the arrival Of 100 new industries
from elsewhere. That does not mean
100 huge industrial plans, but 100
enterprises Of various sorts, some
Of them small, q few Of them fairly
large. This is according to the re-
port Of the Connecticut Development
Commission.
The New York Times told its
readers the other day that there
was O general exodus" Of business
men from New York to Connecticut.
The paper ascribed this to the "be
kind to industry" policy Of the
Baldwin administration. But-it is
Just as likely to be dueto the lack
Of excessive taxation In Connecticut
the lack OF a personal state income
tax, and lower expenses generally.