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Also extra or extras.
ePaid last year.
Quotations furnished by National Asso-
citation of Securities Dealers, Inc. which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers, but
should indicate approximate prices.
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New York Bur Silver

NEW YORK, Feb. ~ (P.-Bar sill
yer, 343z, unchanged.
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Cott0nseed Oil.
BIeachable cottonseed oil futures closed
81 lower. Sales 5S contracts. May,
6.60b: July, 6.60b; September, 6.66b; Octo-
Der, $50.
New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 81 R.-Cotton
futures weakened here today under long
realizing and hedge selling. The market
closed 4 to points net lower.
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No 4. s6ss Corn No. yellow, $685. 4-6234;
No. 4, 5734-591a: No. 5, 5512-5794; No. 4
white. 52A-554. Oats, No. l mixed,
heavy, 37A; No. / red, 81; No. l red
heavy, 37I2; sample grade feed. 35: No. L
heavy, 3sAla; sample grade, white. 1896
Barley. mailing, 53-65l2, nominal; feed,
4!;52, nominal. Soy, beans. No. 3 yellow,
weight, nominal; timothy, 400; alsike,
9.50-12 90; fancy red top. 1905. .oO. red
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Chicago Stock Market

CHICAGO Feb 81 GP.-FolloWing is the
complete list of transactions on the Chi
cago Stock EXchange today:
Sales STOCKS High Low Close
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Cottonseed oil closed steady. Bleachable
prime summer yellow, 500 asked. Prime
crude, 520b. March. sob: May, 6.01b:
July. Glib: September. Glib: October.
619b. Bid. n Nominal.
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Winnipeg Prices.
WINNIPEG, Feb. 27 LPl.-Grain ran

Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 81 (Pl.-Wheat. No.
2 red winter, .garlicky, spot domestic, 93la
February. 93h
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T R { A S U R Y.

HOME OWNERS LOAN.
y s 1851 l02 100 1923
NEW YORK CITY BONDS.
q 1QSO 1nOa. I0OI. IOOL
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Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK. Feb. - LPl.-l
sociation Securities Dealers,
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Middling, spot, 1O.9On: off 1.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
What 1t Means to Be an Ex>President

Institute of Washington, leading Or
ganization in this field.
Hoover's face lights up with enthusi-
asm when he talks of the manifold pos
sibilities opened up by such remarkable
recent developments as the cyclotron
atom smasher," step toward releasing
the energy imprisoned in matter; the
electron microscope, which reveals infin-
itesimal bits of matter; and the cathode
ray tube.
One of Hoover's pendants has always
been collecting facts and statistics, and
he has carried this over into his private
life in the active avocation of gathering
significant public records.
During the war he realized that things
were happening so fast that future gen.
erations would have difficulty recon-
structing the chain of events, and he
spent his spare moments dashing around
collecting almost any contemporary doc
uments people were willing to part with
Government papers, propaganda ma
terial, newspapers, pamphlets and mis-
cellaneous records by the ton, which he
added to the nucleus of his own records
and has been augmenting ever since at
a cost of hundreds CT thousands of
dollars contributed by himself and
friends.
The collection, now an important
source for students, has been set up at
Stanford as the Hoover Library of War,
Peace and Revolution, in a beautiful new
tower building just dedicated, and is
one of Hoover's major interests.
Has Morning Walk.
Hoover gets up every morning early
hattan's concrete canyons. He is seldom
recognized. Through most of his waking
hours he is occupied in his Office. Occa-
sionally he gets away for week end in
the country with friends or on fishing
trip-remember Rapidan?
Although the only Quaker congrega-
ton around is inaccessible, he goes to
some church fairly regularly. When he
is occupied in New York for long
stretches, Mrs. Hoover sometimes comes
on from Palo Alto and stays with him.
His only plan for the future is "to be
of service" in whatever way arises. Re
garding active politics, he indicates, with
an allusion to his age, that he has pretty
much put the matter out of his mind.
At the Republican convention in Phil
adelphia year ago there was little
Hoover nomination furry, with cam
paign buttons and leaflets, which Hoover
ascribes to well-meaning but unauthor-
ized supporters. He says he did not
want the nomination, made no pre-con-
vention canvass for delegates, and went
to some trouble to keep his name of
the convention floor; nowadays, he says
he does not even see any politicians for
months at time.
But Hoover has no idea of giving up
his many present interests and retiring
to an easy chair-a rather inconceivable
picture for a man who has been so active
all his life
Retirement" he philosophers. lis an
illusion
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speaking of have to be pleaded with and
reminded that they have scarcely
touched the delicious creamed chicken on
toast that was cooked especially for them.
They must be warned that their favo-
riate dessert is going to follow, but that
they will not be told what it is or per-
nitted to touch it until they have cleaned
up everything on their plate.
Children who have no appetite worth
speaking of look at you reproachfully,
too. They do not think that you are
trying to starve them, but they suspect
hat you merely delight in torturing them
by trying to make them eat what they
do not want to eat
So that is that; between the children
with appetites and the children without
them, there is little peace for others in
the house. 1t seems too bad that, with
all the progress that has been made in
our knowledge of food values, no one
yet has hit upon means of removing
appetites from children who do not
need them and bestowing them upon the
children who do.
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Hoover asked him not to make it too
evident that he needed haircut, lest
Mrs. Hoover twit him for not having
taken time to get to a barber shop.
When he talks, with the same con-
scious formality with which he would
address an assemblage of $4,000, Hoover
gazes straight ahead across the room,
as if he were mentally trying to pierce
distant uncertainties and untangle the
confused future. He is uneasy with
strangers. still evincing the uncertainty
about public relations that marked him
in public Office. On leaving the White
House he enunciated policy of confin-
ing political comments to public ad-
dresses. articles and formal statements,
and today he stipulates mo direct quo
tation" of private conversations.
Voice of Opposition.
For more than two years after leav-
ing Office, Hoover was, after a discreet
silence during the early days of the New
Deal, an outstanding voice of the "op-
position"-an institution he believes
vital to democracy-and while his utter
ances struck some as carping or political,
no less a parsonage than Felix Frank
furter, of the New Deal inner circle,
publicly appraised Hoover as the most
conscientious and useful of New Deal
critics
Whether Hoover had dreams of being
renominated in 1886 is a secret that
probably will remain locked behind his
inscrutable countenance.
When 1886 came Hoover was still
politically liability. At the Republi-
can convention his name was cheered
Justify, but, as one Republican COM
mented since, it was the kind of un-
Stinted acclaim generally reserved for
those safely out of the way.
After the election in 1886, the seeth-
ing foreign situation drew national at
tention abroad, and Hoover's interests
moved with it.
In the spring of 1887 he spent two
months touring IA European countries,
in the course of which he talked for As
minutes with Hitler, topics undisclosed.
On his return Hoover delivered to the
Foreign Policy Association in New York
all oOO1 pIGlcU III some WaSn-
1ngton circles as an overture toward the
1910 Republican nomination-in which
he reviewed his World War and post
war experience in Europe. reported the
observations of his trip, and advocated
a national policy aimed at keeping out
of the European imbroglio.
Opposes Conveys.
He has been developing this theme,
as events unfolded, ever since-a kind
of isolationism, but less extreme in
thought and action than the America
First group. He has, for instance rec
commended even greater material aid to
Britain than that in effect-a speech
that brought response of 10000 letters
to him; but has opposed such action as
conveys on the ground that the United
States is not prepared to back it up.
When the war started in September,
1899, Hoover came back into the lime
light - the leader in European relief
efforts.
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closed his eyes and drew a picture of a
pig, starting at the resting spot. The idea
was that when you had finished, you took
q wild stab at drawing in his tail. must
confess that my pig was crummy look
ing one but, as it was symbolic of the
Jerry I had brought down, I returned
home feeling quite proud of myself.
On the day that had my second fight.
I was pouring lead into Dornier 215
when my Hurricane was damaged by
enemy fire, which punctured my glycol
tank.
The glycol, as you probably know, is
the liquid used in our engine cooling
system. The glyco1 escaped, the engine
overheated, thick smoke escaping from
the engine into my cockpit.
was blinded and coughing, half suf-
focated and, as it seemed the engine was
on fire, I had to abandon the fight. So,
diving through the clouds which eX-
tended from 10000 to 5000 feet, came
down and down until was at 5000 feet,
when 1 should have been out of the
clouds.
Yet couldn't see anything. Thinking
that it might be caused by the smoke,
I rubbed the inside of the glass. could
now see bit of green below.
I finally got to 1000 feet, opened my
cockpit and landed in nice big clover
field with the wheels up.
I slid for a few yards and no sooner
had the aircraft stopped than I jumped
out of the cockpit, running away or.
should I say, sprinting away from the
aircraft. very thick smoke was still
pouring out of the engine. I thought
there was fire under the cowlings and
didn't especially care to be there if
my tanks exploded.
But. in my hurry to get away, had
forgotten that the three-quarter- Inch
tube that connects the gas mask-which
is part of the flying helmet-to the oxy-
gen bottle, was still hooked to the air
craft.
So that. as I was running away from
the aircraft the oxygen tube nearly
pulled me right back into the cockpit.
Luckily the tube broke and managed
to get away. The farmer in whose field
I had landed came up with his shotgun
I was very careful to keep both my hands
in plain view and not to move them too
suddenly while I identified myself.
1t was about o'clock in the afternoon
and the farmer took me home for tea
He then drove me to the nearest Royal
Air Force station. There I got out OF
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He organized, with the assistance of
the Nations newspapers, the Finnish
Embarrassing campaign, which probably
was unprecedented in scope and speed
raising million dollars in a little over
a month (s4O0O,oOO to date.
He also launched the Polish and Bel
gian relief organizations, and later,
after other groups had organized Dutch
and Norwegian relief committees, be-
came head of their combined effort, the
National Committee on Food for the
Five Small Democracies.
Except in the case of Finland, the
problem was not money (Which was
available from the respective govern
mentS but getting food through the
British blockade and distributing it.
Last August, while visiting Wendell
Willkie in Colorado Springs, Hoover pub
licly broached the matter of getting the
blockade relaxed for this purpose, as
was done in the World War
Two months later he repeated the pro-
posal. His suggestions were opposed
by British officials and by number of
prominent Americans.
Proposed Food Test.
The crux of the issue is whether you
can feed people in German controlled
territory without helping the Germans
militarily. Hoover says food can be dis
tributed under such close supervision
that it only keeps nom -combatants from
starving and does not aid their con-
querors, and points out that this was
done to nearly every ones satisfaction in
the World War. Opponents say such as
sistance now is bound to benefit the
Germans directly or indirectly and that
maintenance of a tight blockade is
much more important military factor
than it was in the World War.
Last February Hoover proposed test:
An abbreviated system of soup kitchens
in Belgium, with supplies going through
the blockade one ship at time-to pre-
vent any appreciable German gain by
violation-and with the Germans sup
plying breadstuffs to 60 with the soup.
This proposal the British rejected also,
and the project is now at more or less
of a StandStill. Hoover is counting on
public opinion, as the distress becomes
more evident, to break the impasse.
This hiatus does not leave Hoover idle.
He works about 16 hours a day He
is chairman of the board of the Boys
Clubs of America, chairman of the Com
mission for the Relief of Belgium Edu-
cational Fund. philanthropic out
growth of the World War commission
he organized, and a trustee of Stanford
and Mills College.
His interest in his original profession
of engineering, which he has not prac-
ticed since the World War, has broad
ened into an interest in science as a
whole
He feels that permanent social sta
bility depends on chronological progress,
on the use of new machines and meth
DDS and discoveries to give people bet
ter living He Is trustee Of the Carnegie
Evening star., 1941-06-22
By GLADDEN. Hill.

EDITORS note: For eight gears
Herbert HooDer has been the Nations
only living er-PreSident. Intermit-
tent headlines haze giDen an indicu-
ton of his activities, but the tuH,
complete story remained to be told.
Here it is . 1Dhdt he is doing today
in his many activities, 1Ohat he is
like, his plans and many other in
tereSting detauS.)
The presidency of the United States
has been appraised as the hardest job
in the world. A job approaching it in
difficulty if not Importance, is the re-
lated position of ex-President of the
United States.
What is an ex-President to do? After
receiving the greatest honor and trust
his country can bestoW, he suddenly finds
himself unemployed and relatively for
gotten. Anything he does is likely to
seem anti-climactical. Theodore Roose-
welt ran unavailingly for Office again;
Taft went to the Supreme Court; but
down the long corridor of American his
tory, the deeds of former Chief Execu-
tives echo as a pindrop.
This tradition of st-presidential OBJ
iivion is currently being energetically
combated by the Nations only living ex-
President, Herbert Clark Hoover, who
has now been out of Office some eight
years.
Hoover's legal residence is still his old
home on the Stanford University campus
at Palo Alto, Calf, but the G. H. O. Of
his present activities is a four-room suite
80 floors up in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Apartments on Park avenue, where
Hoover spends a good part of his time.
In the outer room of the suite, two
female secretaries busily pound typewrit-
ers, answer telephones and shuttle papers.
Eoovers private office is an adjoining
average hotel room, his desk a small
table with an ash tray, telephone and
buzzer on it, set diagonally across
corner of the room and f1anked by win
dows that look out on the surrounding
skyscrapers and cast light on both sides
of the ex-President's time-worn but still
ruddy face.
Registers Age.
Hoover Is 66 years old, and In the slight
degree that his stolid figure registers
age at all, shows those years. His gray
hair is thinning; his eyebrows have the
bushy fullness of the elderly man; his
eyes, obscured by his cliff-like forehead.
look tired; and his throat-locked voice
drops, in reflective conversation, to
husky near-croak.
His dress reflects by-gone era-still
the stiff collar and high black shoes,
plain dark suit, austere white shirt and
somber tie.
In action he is energetic.
He stands erect and moves with re-
strained strength.
When he is seated, his hands are con-
stantly moving, as if eager for action,
one constantly manipulating one OF the
two pipes he alternates, the other nerv-
ously toying with a book of matches or
stroking the arm of his chair.
As he posed for an artist last week,
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Strange Appetites

you tell them to take a look at them
selves in the mirror
An equally serious household problem
is children who have no appetite worth
speaking of. They do not eat enough
to feed sparrow, and just play with
their food. Every day they get to look
more like the picture of grandma's little
brother who died at an early age. Their
diet should be supplemented with rich
milk. But. very likely, they do not like
milk. In that case the milk has to be
forced down them.
Children who have no appetite worth
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Toronto Star Newspaper Service.

Toronto star Newspaper Service.
BY the time pulled out of my dive
the fight was far away and I was close
to the ground.
Running short of petrol I landed at a
British airdrome to refuel The squad
ron intelligence officer was very kind
This had been my first fight. My throat
was extremely dry and asked the Off
Ger for glass of water. Unfortunately
that airdrome had been bombed a few
days previously and the water mains
had been damaged. so he suggested that
I go to his place nearby where his wife
would gladly give me a bottle of beer.
This sounded rather tempting, so
ambled over. His wife received me gra-
ciously and, while I was slipping my beer,
she asked me if I had got Nazi When
I told her had knocked one down, she
insisted I sign souvenir book kept by
herself and the wife of Spitfire squad
ron leader.
Everybody who had shot a Jerry down
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up dish of peas, inquire 'Is that alp"
When you admit that there aren't any
more, they order bread and peanut butter
to fill up on. They are truly hurt, for
they suspect that you are trying to starve
them to death.
OF course, you do not want to starve
them to death; but, at the same time,
you are getting alarmed over the way
food vanishes. You are perfectly willing
for them to have enough food, but not
that they should make pigs of them
selves.
Something obviously must be done to
curb their appetites. 1t may be sug-
gested to them delicately that perhaps
they have a tapeworm. If this does not
frighten them into eating less, they may
be reminded that they are developing
double chins or are getting as fat as
bu.terballs.
Perhaps such insults, delivered straight
from the shoulder, will encourage them to
mend their ways. But, more than likely,
they will go right on eating and simply
stop weighing and refuse to obey when
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Fairey battle bomber of the Royal Air
Force and returned home, three crest
fallen and bitterly disappointed pilots.
The squadrons eagerness to expert
ence the real thing was soon to be full
filled. The next day we encountered a
formation of Junkers JU88 bombers. The
Germans were about 5000 feet below us
and another British squadron was dog
fighting all over the sky with an enemy
fighter formation, presumably the bomb
ers' escort.
While the fighters were busy, we dived
in to attack the bombers. I was in the
first section to attack. The fellow ahead
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And what do you do?" asked Otto.
well" said Fritz, every morning
climb up to the top of the Eiffel Tower
and watch London with a pair of binoc-
ulars. My instructions are that the mo-
ment the people of London run up the
white flag, I am to dash down from the
tower and Immediately tell Hitler"
But, does it pay well?" asked his
friend
mo-" said Fritz, "but it's for life"
Like several other members of No 1
Fighter Squadron joined the Royal Ca
madam Air Force few years before war
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Courage Broke Up Huge Luftwaffe Air R;

The courage of the people of London,
throughout their ordeal, matched that
of the Royal Air Force pilots who pro-
vided that venerable city with a protec-
tive shield of splitting guns. Never did
they falter in this determination to carry
on to the end Never was London to
surrender to the might of German aerial
warfare.
There is the story of two German SOL
diers who met in occupied Paris. Fritz
told his friend Otto that he was on spe-
cial duty.
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of me fired at bomber and the right
hand engine began to smoke.
followed him in close and let 60 with
my guns. The damaged engine burst
into flames and the bomber fell away and
plunged into the sea.
took a quick look behind me and
some one was on my tail. I took no
chances on waiting around to see
whether he was friend or foe. I pushed
the nose down and went into steep diving
turns to shake him off. We had knocked
down three bombers in all and had badly
damaged couple of others.
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Bv FHqM 1t. J. p. DesiOpes.

1t was my privilege to participate In
the early stages Of the war as a Hurri-
cane pilot
1t was also my misfortune to be
knocked out of action in the first round
So If I write in somewhat glowing
terms of these warriors of the sky, you
will understand that I am not vaunting
any heroism of my own
To fly and fight with those boys was an
honor
I admired them when I was with them,
I thrilled with pride when I lay in
hospital reading of their exploits in the
newspapers and there is nothing would
like better than to be one of their num-
ber again.
That first stage of the battle of Britain
was duel between a David and a Co.
Hath.
Germany's air generals tried to con-
quer the air force of the British COM
monwealth by sheer weight of numbers
and to bully the British people into
submission by succession of indiscrimi-
nate and murderous onslaughts of an ex-
tent never before unleashed upon any
nation.
The LuftWaffe failed in both objectives.
British courage and tenacity kept the
morale of England secure.
Daring rode the sky in those Spitfires
and Hurricanes, as one against five, one
against 10, our fighters, their motors
screaming and their eight machine guns
blazing, dived into those fabulous forma-
tions of enemy bombers and fighters
with a reckless dash which Uttered the
beautiful English countryside with the
smoking wrecks of increasing numbers
of the German air armada
Weary Pilots Fought.
Day by day, the struggle continued
without respite Weary fighter pilots
flew and fought from dawn to dusk, re-
turning reluctantly to earth from time
to time to replenish their fuel supply,
refill their machine gun belts, and eat
hasty sandwich while bullet holes in
their battle-scarred aircraft were patched
over.
The men on the ground were superb.
Earthbound as they were, they never
theless contributed just as much to
victory as the men who flew the air.
craft and pressed the triggers.
Sometimes, they worked sleepless
through the night to prepare battered
aircraft for the next days flying, and
then went through heavy day of work
without faltering their duty. If there
was lull in the fighting they stood by
the aircraft in rain or shine, keeping
it ready to go up. the instant the squad
ron leader called to his pilots to
scramble"
These men took personal interest
and pride in the aircraft they were car
ing for and in the men who were flying
them. Teamwork was the keynote of
our air force.
The combination of better planes, bet
ter armament and better spirit was
something that the Germans could not
overcome.
The Luftwaffe struck at London with
out mercy, by day and by night, for
weeks on end, but itself took such a
battering that, eventually. it had to take
breathing spell which lasted through
late fall and winter.
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what our destiny would be. 1t looked as
if the war might be over. Would Britain
fight all alone? Could she fight alone?
Our ship changed course. We thought
it might mean that we were going back
to Canada, but actually we we're only
zigzagging because we were in the sub
marine zone.
All doubt was dispelled when the coast
of Ireland loomed ahead, and shortly
after. we set foot on English soil. On
arrival, we found everybody-women and
children as well as soldiers, sailors and
airmen-imbued with a grim determina-
ton to carry on. England was fortress,