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Evening star., 1941-04-03
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

Young men and young women in
China, as we'll as children, treat
their parents with high honor. 1t
is part of their religion to do SO.
Long ago-almost $500 years
there was a man in China named
Confucius. He was a great thinker
and teacher. Among the things he
taught was that a person should
honor his father and mother.
To this day, many millions of
persons in China follow the teach
ings of that olden thinker. They
speak of ''holy books" and one of
the volumes contains the words Of
Confucius. Three other holy books
are filled with writings Of men who
were among his early followers.
There is a religion today called
"Confucianism." About 230,000,000
persons belong to it. In large part,
it is made up of rules of life which
members are supposed to follow.
Yet there are certain gods to whom
they pray. These include the god
of the stove, the god of the door,
way, the god of the soil and the
spirit of the well. Another one,
the god of war, has the Chinese
name of Kuan WI Ii.
The followers of Confucius and
other persons in China pray to
spirits of the dead. This is called
"ancestor worship"
When father or mother or
Evening star., 1941-04-03

West shifted to a spade after TAX
ing his diamond ace. and sat back to
collect three trump tricks at his
leisure. But he had a long wait
ahead of him!
South was positive, from the dou-
BILE and Vests assured manner,
that all the missing trumps we're
in the West hand. The only chance
to make the hand, therefore, lay in
forcing West to lead trumps event.
ually.
He won the second trick with the
king of spades, ruffed a diamond in
the dummy, took the ace of spades,
and ruffed spade in the dummy.
Next he cashed the two top clubs,
diScarding his last two losers, and
ruffed club in his own hand.
South now led low trump from
his own hand! West won with the
jack and eXited safely with his only
non-trump, diamond. South
ruffed and led another low trump.
At this point West had to win
with the queen of hearts and lead
away from the king-four of trumps
up to South's ace-ten!
This will teach you to stop doub-
Evening star., 1941-04-03
-Chinese Worship Spirit of Well

The color of mourning in China
Is white. This seems odd to us,
since we think of black clothing as
proper for mourning.
After the funeral is over, the
family does not forget the one who
has passed away. From time to
time, prayers are offered to him,
and to other ancestors.
Some families wait for the new
moon and the full moon to worship
ancestors. At the time of the short
est day of the year-the winter
solstice-a special service takes
place in most homes. The table is
spread with food and chairs are
placed on one side of it for certain
ancestors. The members of the
family gather on the other side. If
they are true believers, they sup
pose that the spirits of the ances-
tors join them at the meal.
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Evening star., 1941-04-03

grandparent dies, others in the
family light candles and burn in
cense. They also make an offering
of food. Images of servants are
burned, along with paper money.
There is a strange fancy that the
burning of the money will help the
spirit in the next world
When the old Chinese custom is
kept, the funeral is marked by loud
music. The fife is played and GYM
balls are crashed together. In some
cases, brass bands of foreign style
are hired.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Winning Contract
BY THE -FOUR ACES.
UNDER SCRUTINY

tDavid Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D.
Maier. Oswald Jacoby and Howard
Schenken, worlds leading team-of-
four. inventors Of the system that
has beaten every other system in
Evening star., 1941-04-03

you'd like to double a higher bid,
but you must make sure OF a big
penalty for fear of letting them get
away Cheaply.
Score 100 per cent for double, 80
per cent for pass.
Question No. 724.
Today you hold the same hand,
but the bidding is different:
Maier You Jacoby Schenken
4 Pass 2 o Pass
2 A CD
What do you bid? (AnsWer to-
morrow
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
A Million Stores To
 Sell Defense Stamps
''Retaiers for Defense" Week, Sept lS-2O to In-
 { augurate Intensive Sales Campaign

Apart from the fact that retailers lare extremely anxious to play their full part in the national defense pro- gram by htlping the government to meet its financial obligations in this way, there is another reason for par ticipation by the retailers that might come under the head of enlightened self Interest.
 Thoughtful merchants through out the land are looking ahead to the time when the war will be over and the country will be confronted with the problems growing out of the post-war economy. The best thing that could happen to retail distribution would be for merchants to find that their customers, instead o fbeing debt-ridden, were prepared with a nest-egg of savings they had accumulated through the purchase of defense stamps and bonds and in that way were able to maintain a more stable economic structure"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

nothing dispassionate about this book. Stowe wants to tell Americans what everything he saw means to America. Even If you think he is wrong. you won't be able to ques- tion bis sincerity or his eye-wit- ness knowledge after reading his book.
 Cuba, perhaps more sympathe.. tic to the United States than any Latin American nation, has had less than itS share of books about the Americas to the south. So it's nigh time that Havana Manana" Random: $2). by COnsueIo Herm-
 a" and Marjorie May, appeared.
 sound travel, shopping and whoO- .iee information is combined with . lot of extremely practical hints on how to get along with Cubans, together with simple rules for a. welding making 2 jackass of yOur- self.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

f New York, Sept. I2-Direct and impressive aid to the Government in the sale of Defense Savings Stamps was decided upon last month in Washington with the appointment of . Retail Advisory Committee oi Che United States Treasury's De- 9ense Savings Staff, headed by Ben- aamin H. Namrn as Chairman.
 The creation of this committed Followed e meeting at the Treasury Department in which executives from twelve of the leading retail as- sociations participated, representing approximately 1000, 900 stores. These officials pledged their member stores o an intensive selling campaign, uring and after ''Retailers for De-
 snse" Week (Sept. 15-20)
 MT. Namm, who Is also National Chairman of ''Retaifers for Defense, speaking of the forthcoming large- scale sale of stamps through retail outlets, said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
CIVIL WAR CAPITAL

Washington was a sleepy southern community when 1t was startled out of its humdrum existence by the Civil War. The story of the city dur ing those years is told in authentic style by Margaret Leech in "Reveil- le in washington" (1arpers: $3.50).
 The capital was a city deserted fin panic soon after the war start- ed, then 6 barracks overrun with soldiers, 6 vast base hospital for broken men, and then a city of war prosperity and hysterical re- action to prolonged conflict.
 The social life, the Negroes. pol- RticS, and crime wave are all re- counted here. Here Lincoln was de- spised and later honored. then plotted against and murdered. On D small stage the great drama of a nation in rebellion unfolds.
 A l2-YEAR.OLD Irish colleen
 packs moro into her diary, "The Book of Maggie Owen" (Bobbs-
 Merrill: $2), than many heavy thinkers load into hundred pages of fine print. It's . typically Irish,
 typicalIy girlish account of three adolescent love affairs (sure and
 they have love affairs at 12), splced with the fierce hates, supp
 erStitions and religion of the Emerald Isle. It should make the banshees laugh, not howl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

more than de luxe travelogs and pretty picture books.
 A WAR book minus the grime and glory of air raids should be welcome. Stella Morton has pro- duced such work fin "Shadow of Wings" (Harpers: $2.5O). g picture of an English country family live ing in the shadow of onrushing war, and 8 very human account of how any of us might exist under such circumstances.
 Primitive murderers atoned for their misbehavior by compensating relatives of the victim--maybe they gave them new stone ax-or by suffering banishment. The killer pays his debt today with banish- ment to a prison cell or electric chair.
 In "The Quest for Law" (Knopf: $5), William Seagle, practicing law yer and legal researcher. writes of homicide, but his big job is hacking through the maze that is law and its history to open 8 clearer view for judge, jury, attorney and plain John Doe, significant legal figure, jerked up for going through a red light.
 A wealth of scholarship and good writing went into this book, a val uable account of the growth and conceptions of law explained and facts, not thinning theories.
 Rise of the big business bar Ons and the turbulent life behind the false front of decaying puri. tanisHm during the not-so-gay Gay '90s gave Chard Powers Smith background for Ladies Day (Scribners: $2.75), a novel of how Race KirkwoOd won power by methods which would funk Bet ter BuSiness Bureau test.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

and prairie wind, so much cornfield and barbersllop."
 Mackail writes a nfelike DOT trait of Barrie which makes the author of Peter Pan, Quality Street and other famous books and plays
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

guitar, turned newspaperman with
 Scripps' Chicago Day Book, and then worked for NEA Service. Fame came tlate but great 10 this
 thoroughly American" man in
 whom there is ''so much prairie soil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

in ITle and the present stone strCc-
 ture in 17S0. In the graveyard the sandstone markers are inscribed in Tow" Dutch, which is untranslat- able to any except experts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

tound. So his Strictly P er- sonal" Double day, Doran $2.50) ould stand with his other work T h e impact of the war on this artist, the early bunbling of the British, " ha [ Vaughan ex- poets for post war England, make this prob- ah1v his time. YazL RR-..l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

there is too much preaching, es- roro tLo 5a 1a | pecaly you don't like stowe's pretty picture books
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

A new edition of his "Ashenden" Doubleday, Doran: $250), a fic- tionized account of Maugham,s work with the British Secret Service in World War I, complements Strict ly Personal" "Ashenden," by the way, is required reading for pres ent-day British secret agents.
 LIVES
 THAT LIVE
 Two better biographies of men who did much to make modern lit- erature more than shelf-filler are Karl Detzer's earl Sandburg'' (Harcourt Brace: $2), and Barrie, The Story of J. M. B." (Scribners: $3.75), by Denis Mackail.
 Detzer studies the personality and background of the gaunt poet biographer whose "Prairie Years: and ''War Years" gave a real Lin- coin back to the people who had hallowed him clear out of sight. eDtzer takes Americas second sing CT of the people through his Illinois youth, his early fascination with Lincoln, or as the hoboing minstrel who explored the country with a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

a giant of our times. Almost per- feet from 6 printing and binding standpoint, it is probably the most complete and readable biography of Barrie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
CHURCH 22S YEARS OLD

Fishkill, N. Y. = CUP) The "Old Dutch" church, used as a pri- son during the American Revolution, is celebrating its 225th anniversary. The first wooden building was built
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12

c o n c l u s i o ns. But no one can re ad h 1 s in- tiInate stories of F n n insh a n d c r e e k heorisnl without fe el ing that s 0 m e day some h 0 W the aggressors W il l b e r o u n d l y beaten by peo- pie W 1 t h the same " II to fight and & lit- tie m o r e to fight with.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
MORE
 FROM VAUGHAN

When w. Somerset Vaughan shakes the literary tree, down falls about the most palatable fruit to be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
} HIeRLIeHTs FROM LATEST BOOKS
Stowe's Story, Maugha1m's World
 Make Good Reading For Autumn

Stowe foreign correspondent happen Rumania, He confirmed isolaonis America titles Other Freedom however he hardly refers the road isolation
 This book Knopf $3 is stirring Perhaps will think
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
CITY Eg GROWING

Population of Indainapolis, 7l9. increased from 1g30's figtns e 364,161 to S86.170 in 1e40. 1s G the 2Oth largest city in tho United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-12
WPA
 WRITES FMS

A FEW WPA roads may be full of chuck holes and some workers may have leaned too energetically upon their shovels, but the Ameri- can Guide Series, one project ac- claimed by friend and foe, is now completed and probably will with stand tough time better than any enterprise of that lusty New Deal agency.
 The series last two volumes, s'West Virginia" (Oxford: $2:75) and sArkansas" (Iastings: $2.50), main Nain the stnadard that makes these
Evening star., 1941-02-16

Webster is one of Our clients - All right!
All right Go ahead and get nasty" he said,
noting the storm, the virtuous, loyal storm
brewing on Miss Ogilvie's face. And where
will it get you? Eh? Where? Tell me that!'
WHO'S getting nasty?" said Miss Ogilvie.
The point is this" the man said, quickly.
''You can earn five-buck bill every week by
stopping by to make, say a telephone call in
that little row of booths at the Madison
Avenue exit - you know, just opposite the
door to the bar. That's all, Miss Ogilvie You
just stop there with Peter, say, every We'd
nesday afternoon at 4:20, say. You just leave
Evening star., 1941-02-16

toward the Bijou on Thursday evening,
which was her day off, man fell in step be-
side her. He was small, slight man. with
big nose.
He asked, Miss Ogilvie?" as though he
knew very well she was Miss Ogilvie. You
don't know me, but please listen to me-"
'You go fly a kite" said Miss Ogilvie,
who knew very we'll that strange men who
accosted girls on the street were up to no
good, and was thoroughly prepared to cope
with such villains.
I'D like to-" said the big-nosed man.
"And how! But I'm too busy, Miss Ogilvie -
I'm with the Acme Detective Agency. Mr..
Evening star., 1941-02-16


up... ."It's all my fouIf, Amy" he said
Peter outside the booth, where he - mean
from where you can see the bar, and go into
the telephone booth, say, for ten minutes.
That's all there is to it = and the next day
you get five-buck bill in the mail, no ques-
tions asked"
Miss Ogilvie, striding steadily toward the
Bijou, said, 1--WE got good mind to have
you arrested. Trying to bribe mew
who, me?" the big-nosed man said ME?
Sister, I'm not trying to bribe you. All you
have to do is bring Peter to the telephone
booths, at, say 42O on Wednesday, and pre-
tend to make telephone call for, say, ten
minutes - Me trying to bribe you?" He
laughed, deprecating little laugh. SISTER,
don't be ridic"
Miss Ogilvie strobe steadily onward.
you're wasting your time" she said firmly
I'm have no hand in such thing"
The little man shrugged. That's UP to
you, sister. But, if you get Peter there, for
ten minutes next Wednesday afternoon,
there'll be fve-buck bill in your mall
1t irritated Miss Ogilvie that he was so
knowingly repetitious. AS though she'd go
into any such business! She lifted her nose
slightly and ignored him.
well, so long," he said. ''You think it
over" He stopped, in the stream of pedes-
trian traffic on 42nd Street, and drifted easily
Continued on Ipose y
Evening star., 1941-02-16

I've got to make telephone CALI - well,
if she chose to do that, what was wrong with
it?
Nothing, of course. Miss Ogilvie wouldn't
dream of doing anything wrong
And it, the next day, letter came ad-
dressed to Miss Emma Ogilvie, Harden
House, N. Y.," and there was a crisp five
dollar bill inside it, wrapped in blank sheet
of note paper, what was wrong with that?
Whom did it hurt?
Nothing, and nobody, of course.
So Miss Ogilvie's conscience was clear,
perfectly clear. She often told herself so.
1t was two years now since, walking
Evening star., 1941-02-16

W Vies, at any rate. Considering the
ado afterwards in the lobby - after the
large, portly gentleman came charging out
of the bar, with his eyes on his watch and
his mind on the 4:28 out of Grand Central
for LarChmont, and knocked over a small boy,
sending him reeling against the wall, be-
tween two pOtted palms - considering that
the boy was only stunned, the great upset
was all out of proportion to the slightness
of the accident.
AS lady guest remarked, after learning
the cause of the crowd and the hustle, You'd
think somebody had been killed. But really!
All this fuss!'' For there was Dr. Finger, the
hotel physician, with his stethoscope and
bag. There was the large, portly gentleman,
whose 4:28 had gone without him, saying
penitently, Il didn't see him. He must have
run right under my feet from behind palm.
l never saw him at all. " And, from the street
outside, came the alarming siren of an ambu-
lance.
There was slender young man in shiny
blue serge saying, 1T was my fault. All my
fault" But when the policeman arrived with
tern, and the policeman said, 'Eh? You
knocked him down, did you?" - when he
asked that sane question, the young man
shook his head and said, insanely, mo, not
me. He was staring at small, lovely woman
who stared back at him.
And young woman, Miss Ogilvie. home
ly girl in checked jacket and blue skirt,
governess, was saying, hysterically, Il just
stopped to make telephone call, that's all
did. That's all! And then this man came out
i was just making a telephone call!' AS
though that was important. As though, she
thought, it had anything to do with the situa-
ton.
DR.. Finger, CRAVING, suave, was saying,
Its really very slight. The boy will be all
right He's coming out now Thank you. doc
tor" - to the ambulance intern - but |
think we can handle this ourselves. Thank
you"
The cluster of people at the scene of the
accident had grown to swarm - a noisy,
bustling swarm. What happened" Some
body tainted, l hear" Somebody took a
fit" It's just kid he slipped and fell
"A fellow knocked him down - stewed to
the ears, they say" SIS he dead?" mo, just
scratch on his head.
The swarm dwindled to cluster. The
cluster diminished disappointedly. All smoke,
no fire. The last of them echoed the sentiment
of the lady who. after learning the cause and
effect, said disgustedly: well! Is that all?'
That was all. A boy
knocked down hut not
Evening star., 1941-02-16

That was all. A boy
knocked down, but not
seriously hurt. Moth
ing important. A lot of
people saying crazy
things, as people will
do under excitement.
That was all.
Miss EMMA oclLvIE
felt - and very prop
erly, too - that there
was nothing wrong in
this Wednesday after
noon business. A gov
eness had some rights,
didn't she? And if a
governess chose to
bring her charge into
Harden House lobby
at 4:20 every Wednes-
day afternoon, and
steer him to a spot just
outside the door of the
bar, and say, Wait
here a minute, Peter,
Evening star., 1941-02-16
TEN MINUTES A WEEK

When a conmoion brings police to the lobby of a great
metropolitan hotel, there's bound be drama behind it,
This time it sudden drama shook three lives
by Joseph Harrington
by ArhvS SurnH
Evening star., 1941-02-16
n Short Story Complete in This Issue

"a YHAT actually happened was of small
W. account, and no fault of Miss Ogil-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22

READER.HOME SERVICE
SIS Sixth Ave. New York CITY
Enclose 10 cents in coin for your
copy Of THE NEW WAY TO A
YOUTHFUL FIGURE.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
Various Wishes

Anger wishes that all mankind
had only one neck; love, that It
had only one heart; grief, two
tear-glands; and pride, two bent
kneeS.-Richter.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
New Way to a Youthful Figure

BY limiting food calories to
around 1900 a day, she not only
loses-as much as "a pounds in
three months-but feels radiantly
younger. And the lovely part Is
that while reducing you eat az
much as ever!
Have q graceful. girlish new figure
soonl Our 32-page booklet gives q tasty
low-calory menus. a newly enlarged calory
chart. Also tells how to gain. For q copy,
send your order to:
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1941-12-05
Union Bars Negro
Travelling Stage
Hands For Army
Camp Show

NEW YORK-The Interna.ion'
al Alliance Of Theatrical Stage
Employees union has refua,d to
grant permission for Negro stage
hands to travel with the all-Ne-
gro theatrical troupe to make a
tour of army camps beginning De-
cemher 6. Thu union is said to
have refused to issue travelling
union ealds to Negroes for the
tour.
The troupe was called together
by Nobel Sissle, a member Of the
Board of Camp Shows, Inc a
subsidiary Of the USO, Sissle, in
attempting to get colored stage
hands to travel with the show was
told that Steve Miller and Fred
Marshall, the men available could
not be permitted to go and tha'
white stage hands would have to
be selected,
A segregated union set-up Is
maintained here, whereby colorec
stage hands are allowed to worl
only at the Apollo theatre in Har'
lem. which features stage shows
See UNION BARS, Page 8
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1941-12-05
CLIO Transfers Anti
Negro Organizers In
Aviation Plant

COLUMBUS, Ohio--Swift ac-
ton was taken by the CLIO in
transferring to another region.
Carl Copeland, organizer who stat
ed during the strike Of tool and
die workers at the Curtiss
Wright airplane plant here recent
" that Negroes should be segre-
gated" The workers are reported
to have walked out because a col
ored worker was placed in their
department by the company in
compliance with the Presidents
Executive Order of June %, the
NAACP stated this week.
According to let5er to the AS
ISOLATION from r. j. Thomas, presi-
dent of the international Union
Of the UAW-CIO, Copeland is
from the South and che has in
his makeup the Southern preju-
dices which have been built VI
during the years" Richard Frank
ensteen Of Detroit, National Avia.
ton Director for the CID was sent
to Columbus to investigate the
situation.
). The strika, which was not of
- was ended lsS. week, an'
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1941-12-05
1000 New
Members
Are Sought
(By Frances Sampson)

MONTlCELLO-An all out
drive toward complete and
full organization of Negroes
got underway here Sunday
evening as a mass meeting
held at the Pilgrims Rest
African Methodist Episcopal
church when twenty-three
persons joined the Committee
on Negro Organization.
Membership Campaign
A membership campaign
for one thousand new men,
bers by Dec. rs, brought a
one dollar membership from
Mrs. Amelia Deweese, eighty
year-old widow, and long time
resident of Wilmar.
Nine school teachers inspired by
a fighting speech made by W.
See SEEKS MEMBERS Pays 6
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1941-12-05
N.A.A. C.P. Starts
Court Action For
Teachers In
Eight States

NEW YORK-With the filing OF
teachers salary cases in Birmlng-
ham, Ala, and Atlanta, Ga, last
week. school boards in q total OF
eight Southern states have mad TO
defend their practice Of paying M
equal salaries for equal work and
rcouiremants, the NAACP an
nounced this week,
In Birmingham, Arthur D.
Shores, local NAACP attorney, and
Thurgood Marshall, spec''l rf"1-
sci, have filed petition vi h the
school board as a preliminary step
TO legal action.
In Atlanta, A, T. Walden is
handling The case with tie ad ice
and assistance Of Mr., Marshall
Other states where co,oreo
teachers have taken court &C on
on their right to be paid dee mt
ralaries ere Maryland, Virgil ia
Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and
Louisi9na.
Involving an approximate to-
tol Of S2o5 600 annually, the equal
raw case in New Orleans, b. is
under advisem-ne nv the Court and
n decision is expected in about tive
weeks.