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national defense IN both a novel
and extremely important matter.
The Bureau of Agricultural Chem
istry and Engineering has recently
report that the United States need
not be dependent upon the import
of any of our essential raw materials.
Perfected. or in the course Of
development now, are methods by
which the following synthetics can
be produced: Starch from sweet
potatoes, tanning materials from
our Western hep-ock tree; wool
from milk casein, drying oils out of
linSeed instead of tung and perilEs
which comes from the Orient;
sugar from corn, beets and sorghum,
camphor and soap from the
Southern pine tree: rubber from
sugar and synthetic gasoline from
corn and other grains.
From corn and other vegetables
and even animal fats the bureau
chemists are perfecting plastics,
currently in use in a wide number
of identiflable household articles,
DuI WHICH soon may De mOlCeQ l1Uo
automobiles and airplanes.
Ready to Aid.
In the laboratories, which were
expanded partly to work on these
synthetics, experiments with more
deadly potions are also under way.
1t has informed the Defense Com
mission that It's chemists are ready
to aid in or supervise the production.
if necessary, of poison gases, liquid
fire, incendiary bombs, and variety
of potent explosives, 1941 model.
In respect to defense, the chemists
report they are also in a position
to aid in the manufacture of activ-
ated carbons, which are used in
gas masks.
The list of defense work being
carried on by other branches Of the
Department of Agriculture could go
on and on.
This is an idea, however, Of how
the department is facing what Pres
ident Roosevelt has termed the
greatest danger to our civilization
"since jamestown and Plymouth
Rock"
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By William Austin.

Alone of all of natures widely
diversified gifts to man, trees are
capable of providing him with all
three of the absolute essentials OF
living-food, clothing and shelter.
Except for occasional admiration OF
their beauty however, or gratitude
for their shade on torrid days, their
existence carries an impact upon the
consciousness wholly disproportion-
ate to its Importance. Trees are
taken for granted. They are beau
tiful and useful. And there, all too
universally, is an end of the matter.
But Uncle Sam takes a more
realistic view, and through the For
est Service Of his Department OF
Agriculture ne Systematically strives
not only to perpetuate the priceless
heritage of trees, but to extend their
value and usefulness to mankind. A
part of this work consists of making
the Nation aware why forests bulk
large in the national economy, and
in the carrying forward of this cru
sade come disclosures of the aston
ishing diversity of the forests con-
tribution to the welfare of all.
If the upsurge of the metal age,
currently sharply emphasized by the
preoccupation of most of the world
in metal articles of destruction, has
obscured to many the enduring i'm
portance of trees, a recent survey by
the Forest Service should disperse
the clouds. Under the calm title of
Products Of American Forests" ="
this arm of the Government has
compressed a notable assemblage of
information. Impressively it demon
strates why wood maintains its posi-
ton in countless fields in spite of
the onslaughts of rival products
and outlines the varied new uses
which constantly are being found
for it.
The vast range of the uses of
wood is indicated by the fact that
an attempted census of its employ
ment once reached a count of more
than 4,50O before it was realized that
an exhaustive classification had not
even been approached. From tooth
picks to huge derrick booms, from
loWly mine timbering to the finest
products Of the cabinetmaker it
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Acts. Carrying with them a total
and modest appropriation of S64 ,000
the acts together formed the blue
prints and the contract for the
building of the new Federal struc-
ture.
Thus, to the sound of cannons
and the cry of men locked in an in
ternecine combat, in a land tainted
with the acrid smell of gunpowder
and blood, was the new agency born.
1t was no accident that its genesis
was at this time. The Union sorely
needed more production, particu-
larly of food and fiber stuffs. The
shortage of cotton was a serious
threat and President Lincoln knew
that European credits could be OBJ
tained only by a large and pros
porous export trade.
The department was starting with
two strikes on it already. 1t had
no armies of technicians and field
workers, it had little or no money
after its own necessary material
expenses were met. But it had
hope.
Isaac Newton, a scholarly gentle
man who looked ever so much like
Samuel johnson, was the first COM
missioner, and he had hope and
courage.
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Gathered Prestige.

Odtnereu freStlge.
The department apparently gath
cred prestige rather swiftly, for by
1871, the second commissioner, Hor-
ace Capror, was hired by the Japa-
nese government to direct improved
methods of farming in Nippon.
Five years later, in 1876 a crisis
in the form of grasshoppers-by the
ton-popped up to worry the grow
ing agency. Apparently research
in combating insects had not gone
far at that time, for it is recorded
that the only remedy taken con-
sisted in appropriating 100000 for
seeds to be rushed to the farms
devastated by the hungry 'hoppers
The simple method of replenish-
ment must have worked, however,
for no further appropriations we're
requested by the commissioner, then
the third, Frederick Watts.
The first large-scale fight of the
department commenced in 1864
when the Bureau of Animal Indus
try was established by Congress and
presented with $150,000 to crusade
against pleuro-pneumonia, a dis
ease that was taking terrible toll
of American cattle. The infection
had started some 40 years previous
ly when a COW suffering with the
malady was bought from an Eng
lish ship by New York dairymar.
leuro-pneumonia spread from
herd to herd along the Eastern
States as only contagion can spread
and soon not only our domestic
cattle and milk market was suffer-
ing. but our export trade as well.
England, which was unwittingly re-
Sponsible for the introduction of
the disease, decreed that all Amer
lean cattle arriving in English ports
should be slaughtered within linn
tied time, thus bring the price of
our cattle we'll below that of the
cattle of other exporting countries.
Bureau at Work.
The new bureau set to work and
by 1887, with the cooperation of
State agencies, it had inspected 3OO,-
600 head of cattle and slaughtered
infected animals. At the same time
it began to study such other diseases
as tick fever, hog cholera, and bo-
vine tuberculosis, and was aided in
ifs work nv a further grant of half
a million dollars.
BY the end of March, 1892, the
bureau reported that there was no
more pleuro-pneumonia among the
country's cattle. automatically
but scientifically and thoroughly
the Department Of Agriculture had
saved the Nations rapidly expand
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Aid Society Bazaar
Opens Thursday in
All Souls Church

The bazaar to be given by the
Rectors Aid Society for the bene-
fit of All Souls Church will open
Thursday.
Guests will be welcomed by the
rector and Mrs. H. H. D. Sterrett,
Mrs. Wayne Wirgman. general
chairman, and the chairmen of
units. who are Mrs. Daniel H.
Fowler. Miss Ethyl Clarke. Mrs.
Christopher S. Sargent, the Misses
Kerslake. Broadbent and Gormley;
Mrs. John w. Burke and Mrs
Charles Martin.
Others assisting are Mrs. William
Quinter. Mrs. S. R. Broadbent, Mrs.
Paul Henderson, Mrs. Clifford
Bangs. Mrs. H c. Whitehurst. Mrs.
H. R. Kerslake, Mrs. George T. Dun
lop. Miss Clara Lane Vessels. Miss
Pauline Block. Mrs. Warren Grimes,
Mrs. Harry Grove, Mrs. Huntington
Turner. Mrs. Thomas T. Howerton
and Mrs. J. Robert Grove.
Special interest centers in the
arts and crafts booth of Unit No
3, Mrs Sargent, chairman. and her
% assistants, having been busy for
weeks decorating novel and useful
articles for sale at the bazaar, Mrs
Sargent recently returned 10. live
in Washington and is making her
home on Springland lane, a street
carved from and named for her
ancestral home, Springland.
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About Well>Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics ..
Local Bookshops Are Aglow With
Christmas Books; Art of Cookery
In Colonial Virginia
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

The bookshops alive with fascinating Christmas
taking bindings them
little
Miller Crowe called Childhood
Christmas n
the life of little girl
homesick Washington
laid in big white Colonial Mlemore down
of the
a
family
o. ante
a will jolly
while little girl
possum
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Parties Mark the Week End
In Takoma, Silver Spring
Hostesses Entertain Delightfully."-;
Mrs. w. J. Kettler Leaves for Miami;
Several See Army.Navy Game

The and Silver Spring communities Is
with probably largest
calendar the bridge luncheon which Mrs Harry Carver
L. Snson OF Takoma Park are
KennedyWarren for about SO guests
r. Palthorp and Mr. Mrs
Peter Remsen formers home in Takoma Park the
second series parties the couples
A. Axe Takoma Park hosts Foay evening
at the first n dessert bridge parties.
unchons Friday Mrs Ella M Stuart
Mca joint hostesses at Mrs Stuarts
home in Takoma Park Whomb who entertained at
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her home in Seven Oaks Manor.
Among those who entertained last
evening were Mr.. and Mrs. victor
F. Grotlisch, who were hosts to their
bridge club at supper and cards at
their Woodside Park home, and MISS
Mildred Getty of Forest Glen, VINO
gave bridge party.
Mrs. Frank L. Hewitt has issued
Invitations for luncheon ana
bridge party tomorrow at the Manor
Club.
Mrs. William ]. Kettler
Leaves for Miami.
Mrs. William J. Kettler left yes
terday for Miami, Fla, where sne
will visit her cousin, Ensign Richard
L. Mellen, and Mrs. Mellen for sew
eral weeks. She will be joined over
next week end by her husband, DR..
Kettler.
Attending the Army-Navy football
game in Philadelphia YESTERDAY
were Mai. and Mrs. Samuel H.
Harris of Silver Spring, Mrs. Walter
H. Mitchell and her daughter, MISS
Carol Mitchell of Takoma Park, who
were joined there by Mrs. Mitchells
son. Cadet Walter G. Mitchell, Jr..
of West Point; Mr.. Roy Schnelter
and Mr.. Sidney B. Lyon OF South
Woodside Park.
Judge and Mrs Herman c. He'll
ner are returning tonight from,
Tyrone. Pa, where they celebrated
the Thanksgiving holidays with
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Clyde Black Their son,
Mr.. Harold C. Heffner, and his
brother-in-law Mr.. Ralph Brown,
left today for Tyrone. where they
will spend this week deer hunting.
Students Are Visiting
Parents Over Week End.
Hylton r. Brown. jr, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Hylton R. Brown, and
George Tilghman, jr,. son Of MI.
and Mrs. George Tilghman. are
spending the week end in North
Woodside with their parents. Both
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an Account of Health Drinking;
Some Considerations on the OBJ
servation of Christmas in Virginia,
With Traditional Recipes for the
Season. etc. etc. Mrs. Bullock's
delectable Christmas gift is bound
in antique leather. with illustrations
of old taverns, kitchens and glimpses
of herb gardens.
Many people - especially those
native to the bluegrass soil-think
Kentucky eggnog is much better
than the Virginia variety, because
in Kentucky there are no whites of
eggs put in the drink, but only the
heaviest whipped cream is used in
stead. Marse Henry Watterson's
toast when raising his glass to
drink health in eggnog was.
The gods looked down from Mount
Olympus and gave it their benedic-
ton"
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MarjOry Souby
To Give Tea Today

Miss Marjory Souby will be
hostess at tea this afternoon.
entertaining a group of young
people in the apartment of her
parents, MI and Mrs. James
NJ. Souby, at 2l0l Connecticut
avenue.
Miss Souby will be assisted
during the reception hours by
Miss Delphine Turner Colquitt,
who was presented Thursday by
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
c. H. Colquitt; Miss Gloria Gros-
venor, Miss Beverley Marshall.
Miss Sybilla Clayton, Miss
Achsah Dorsey. Miss Julia Mills
and Miss Patricia Grady.
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where they were guests Of her
mother, Mrs. Nellie Doud.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert M Young
have been entertaining Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas E. Holmes, former
residents of Takoma Park, who are
en- route from Pennsylvania State
College to their winter home in
Sarasota, Fla.
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Clubwomen to Hear
DR.. Aase G. Skard

DR.. Aase Gruda Skard, daughter
Of the former Norwegian foreign
minister, who is making her home
here. will be guest speaker at
meeting Thursday of the Petworth
Womans Club "Norway's Fight
Today will be her subject.
The program also will include
singing of Christmas carols by the
club. with Mrs. D. L. Selks as piano
accompanist. Members will bring
donations of canned goods. jellies
and money for Christmas baskets to
be distributed to the needy.
The meeting will be held at the
Petworth Methodist Church at l
pm. fc"0v..'"~ ? luNcheon at noon.
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young men are students at Pennsyl-
vania State College
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Bayles,
former residents of Arlington, Va,
are now making their home in
Woodside Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Shaw have
visiting them Mrs. L. M. johnson of
Greensboro, N c
Mrs. Ralph E. Torrey and her
daughter Elizabeth have returned
to their home in Argyle Park from
Elmira, N. Y, where they visited
Mrs. Torrey's sister. Mrs. Stella
Walker, and from Covington, Pa,
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Miss T. Maxine Cuff
Married at Ashton

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Herbert Cuff of
Ashton. Md, announce the marriage
of their daughter. Miss T. Maxine
Cuff, to Mr.. Ralph Dorsey Quillen.
jr., on November q at the parsonage
of the Ashton Methodist Church.
The Rev. B. Frank Auld officiated
Mr. Quillen is the son of Mrs.
r. D. Quillen and the late Dr..
Quillen of Baltimore.
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ture they brought back and en-
broidered for her benefit-and, JOY
OF joys, she was allowed to stay up
for the 'possum supper after the
killing.
Exciting Preparations
For Christmas.
Mrs. Crowell's description of
Christmas Eve and the preparations
in the big kitchen for the great day
are exciting. A trip to the forest
with little girls" mother, Maybelle,
the nurse. and Duck, Maybelle's s
brother, and her cousin Os going
along TO cut the tree and the green's
=. the pause at the persimmon tree
for the luscious frost-ripe fruit .
the pungent smoke of burning leaves
:. the hounds barking and yelping
at the 'possum they had treed . .
the music of the hunting dogs echo
ing in the distance . floating and
flying in the grapevine swing which
stretched itself between two giant
oaks was there anything ever
more joyous?
Mrs. Crowell. assistant chief of
the Division of Press Intelligence.
executive Office of the President, is
the wife of Mr.. Chester T. Crowell,
nationally known magazine writer
and a former special assistant to the
Secretary of the Treasury. She is
also a magazine writer of note. con-
tributing to Harper's. New Yorker,
Readers Digest, Survey and other
publications.
Collection of Recipes
For Virginia Cooking.
1t makes ones mouth water and
say ''yum-yum' just to glance
through Mrs. Helen Bullock'S The
Williamsburg Art of Cookery, or
Accomplish Gentlewoman's Com
panion" this being "A Collection
of Upwards of Five Hundred of the
Most Ancient &; Approval Recipes
in Virginia Cookery" The formal
was modelled after the first Amer
lean cookery book, The Compleat
Housewife, or Accomplish Gentle
voman's Companion which was
printed by William Parks in Will
liamsburg in 1742. Parks was Vir-
ginias first printer and paper
maker.
Mrs. Bullock with infinite care
and authenticity as to contents and
detail has made a most valuable
contribution to Colonial literature
by preserving to present and future
generations not only the old cookery
recipes. many of them handWritten
and handed down in old Virginia
families. but a delightful record of
the customs and manners of the
time. She evidently has delicious
sense of humor. her essays on the
eating and drinking habits of the
Virginians are rare and racy. espe-
cially those on Christmas viandS,
eggnogs and punches. Then she
has a collection of drinks and dishes
suitable for funerals. Rum and
Funeral Wines were as necessary
part Of the Funeral as the corpse"
The title page also includes "A
Table of Favorite Williamsburg
Garden Herbs" Also An Account
of Virginia Hospitality; Treatises
on Various Branches of Cookery;
Evening star., 1941-11-30
SenOr Zarate
Here From Peru

Senor Rodrigo Zarate, men,
Der of the Lower House Of the
Peruvian Congress. is spending
several days in Washington and
is staying at the Shoreham.
Sonora de Zarate, who accom-
panied him to this country. re-
manned in New York and before
returning to Peru she will give
a number of lectures in this
country. She is secretary of the
Federation of Peruvian Women.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-30
No MINCTNG OF
WORDS ON JAPAN

President Roosevelt recently
warned Japan pointblank that
she faces war with the United
States If she makes a move to
seize the Dutch East Indies as
source of oil. The ultimatum at
tracted hardly any attention
here, but it was noted carefully
by certain gentlemen in Tokyo
who had reason in June, 1910. to
expect message of that kind.
At that time France had just
fallen. The British had barely
evacuated the remnants of their
BEF through Dunkerque. Hol-
land had surrendered and Queen
Wilhelmina had fled to Eng
land. None of those three pow
ers WAS in shape to wage war
against the Japs in the Far
East. The only nation with a
strong naval force in the area
was the United States. So the
inference is clear that this coun-
try will declare or begin war
with Japan II she tries to cap
ture either Singapore or the
Dutch possessions IN which so
large a part of the investment
is British. And +. d. r. policy
holds for tomorrow and for a
long time TO come.
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FDR received word of this
trouble almost a year ago. The
New York corporation involved
is one which has fought the New
Deals domestic power program
from start to finish. Roosevelt
sent ]. A. krug. IVA manager
recently engaged by OPM as
power manager. to investigate.
The latter reported that the pow
er interests are charging all the
traffic will bear In one of the
most important republics to the
south. Krug told the president
that the situation has reached
such a state that provincial and
local officials might be over
thrown on this issue.
German interests are pointing
TO this exploitation as evidence of
the dollar diplomacy policy of
the u. s. In their propaganda
they try to create the impress
sion that the private utility firm.
like IVA, is an agency of the
Washington government. Now
the Hitler representatives are
trying TO have the New York
company ousted on the prom
Use they will reduce power rates
by half u the industry is placed
in their hands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-30
Mr. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN thu col
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer Only initials
vii Be published when requested.
Mr.. Fixit: Are draftee. allow
ed 70 marry n 80. wat pro-
eedure. II any. must they 20
through ALLEN.
A draftee is Just another
soldier for the time ne Is In the
army. so The same rules apply
TO him. II he Is = staff sergeant
or higher. he can marry without
question because his pay is con-
sidered sufficient to support
wife. II a soldier il below that
grade. he must get permission
OF his company commander,
based on proof that he has SUI
ficient means for a family.
Mr.. FIxIt: What Is the caloric
content of n bottle of pop and
fountain cokes Il there a real
"cure" for dandruff or are tho
dandruff removers merely sup
posed to remove IL for the time
belngs NJ. X. {.
A regular IA -ounce OF the
kind Of pop favored with a fruit
syrup contains an average of 123
cslories. Tests show $50 calor-
les In a cup of ordinary ginger
ale. Figures are not available
for the coke" formula. but that
should give you the idea. If you
were looking for a comparison,
you might note that a cup of
whole milk has 10 calories.
SKINNED milk %.
Your doctor or barber will tell
you there Is no great mystery
about dandruff. Undoubtedly II
can be cured, but like many such
things can return IL the same
conditions which caused 1t are
permitted to return.
Mr.. Fixit: We have a rhodo-
dendron planted In our yard.
The leaves on II are dried up and
IL seems like IL Is dying. Could
you or any of your readers kind
~ tell me what 20 do TO this
plant rs l want to keep it,
MRS. J. Il.
The best suggestion we can
think of Is that you keep the
plant watered heavily. The
trouble probably goes back to in
sufficient water last year. A lot
of II now may save II for next
year. II you have been cultivat-
ing around it, that should stop
Immediately except possibly a
little surface scratching. Rhodo-
dendron feeder roots are almost
at the surface. Your seed deal
err also can provide you with an
acid fertilizer, which is another
necessity.
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NEED To DEVELOP
OWN ENERGIES

Editor. The Times: Science
teaches US that every element
that goes to make up the uni
verse floats freely in the al that
we breath every day. That the
difference IN elements Is merely
a difference in vibrations and II
arrangement. These scientists
tell US that by the power of our
thought We can change electrical
energy, spirii. into electrical sub
stance, matter. And that by so
doing man can precipitate out
OF the air We breathe objects
OF physical substance. This is
done by Encouragement or
rather a capitalization Of the
electrons in the atmosphere.
I have a picture Of a teapot
that IS said TO have been pre-
cipitsted IN this manner by the
great occultist. Madam Blavst-
sky. For my part I do not doubt
the authenticity Of the story Of
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Diet by Taxation

warning against the increasing use of federal
taxes an economic instrument Is sounded in
recent issue of the Journal of the American Medi-
cal association. Under the title diet by Taxa
ton" the journal refers to proposed tax on white
bread, and outlines what field such type of tax
might cover much to the loss of the ultimate con-
sumers. Said the Journal:
Hardly a person alive remembers the time when
federal taxes levied alone for the simple purpose of
raising II required genius to discover that
the power of taxation be put to other Although
the supreme court of the United States in memorable
decision declared that the TO tax is the power to
destroy, few citizens much attention to the impca
tons of that statement.
in national life the evyng of taxes is being in
creasngy used economic instrument. Taxation is
becoming the favore tool of economic groups who
desire lqudae other pressure The dairy IN
terests for example have been conspicuous their employ
ment of taxation suppress competing articles of food
Perhaps this example suggested the idea that people could
be compelled by taxation to eat what good for them
In article Fertilization of Foodsuffs tScence
94:3 July ID 1941) the proposal is made to compel the
of whole wheat bread by placing tax white bread
and by offering subsidy for the manufacture
of whole wheat bread
Perhaps some one will next propose the taxation of
beef with subsidy for the pork packers because pork
richer in vamin B1. The government could put similar
levy grapefruit with subsidy for orange Juice because
the latter contains little vitamn C. Producers of
sugar might ask for taxation of because
sugar sweeter sheep raisers might tax
on cotton goods because wooens warmer.
IF it not that the power of taxation has been
frequently and outrageousy employed could hardly
take the latest proposal seriously