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tations, refused to appear with him.
Ida Lupino didn't want the talented
Mr.. Bogart In 1.-THE Gentle People"
with her, either. Warmers offered
him nice, fat part in Bad Men of
Missouri" but he would have none
of it, and was suspended.
y
John LOveton, producer Of "The
Court of Missing Heirs" insists that
actors in mob scenes say sane, per-
tinent words. He had his lesson long
ago; he was part Of a mob scene
on a radio drama broadcast, and
when an unexpected silence fell on
the air his voice doomed out, shout
ing "GObble! Gobble! GObbIew
He's never acted since, but as a d.
rector he cracks down on anyone
who doesn't contribute something
sensible to those background muir
murs and mutterings.
-
Paramount believes that a new
Jean Harlow, or Clara Bow, has
been discovered in the person of
"sultry, blonde" Veronica Lake, Ito
quote a press AGENT who is fea-
tured in 81 Wanted Wings" mot
since Greta Carlo leaped to over
night fame in her first picture, THE
Torrent" have New York movie
critics lavished such acclaim upon a
newcomer" to quote another press
release. Maybe so. but the low cut
of Miss Lakes necklines made such
an impression on a good many peo-
pie that they hadn't great deal to
say about her acting.
ODDS AND ENDS Unirersai has taken
an option on The screen services OI Baby
Sandy's brOfhPT-tUhO is one ueek old
The March OF Times latest, The +. y. l.
1871" shOi0S hOiC the Federal Bureau
OF Inresugdfion is concentrating on he
prevention Oj espionage and sabotage in
industry MumaFs The Peoples Play.
house" heard Tuesdays and Thursdays,
presents dramatic sketches based on ideas
submitted By the public RKO is
screening parachute Battalion" rcifh
Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly and Harry
Carer YouU see Tommy Harmon.
AH-Ameuoan half.baok. in Harmon OF
Hichigcn"
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4sk Me 4nother
Q A General Quiz
The Questions

/. Which science has been called
the dismal science?
2. Whose inventions made the
motion picture an accomplished
fact?
3. What makes a fish 30 slip
perry?
4. What IL the explanation OF
sun dogs?
5. In what naval battle did Cleo.
patra figure?
TT. A...
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-25

who can stand prosperity, there
are hundred that will stand adj
versity. -Carlyle.
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FEMININE headgear usually
holds its shape best if it rests
right side up on a stand that fits
inside the crown, but this is not
true Of a mans hat. Its dashing
lines may be preserved by plac-
ing it upside down in holder.
All of which is worth remember
ing when you are fixing up "his"
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Getting a screen test isn't too
easy, and Richard Wallace, director
OF Harold Lloyds first production
for RKO, "a Girl, Guy and a
Cob" explained why the other day.
He computes the cost of a test at
from 81 500 to $4,000. The candidate
is brought to Hollywood, makeup
artists 60 to work, hairdressers and
wardrobe department heads are
called in. An experienced actor is
selected to appear opposite the can
didate-and there are the salaries
OF the director, cameraman, cleo
tricians, sound men, etc. Then the
candidate may be no good!
4
George Raft, who has one of the
II
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-25

George Raft, who has one of the
largest and most expensive ward
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-25

Ray Milland is moving right
ahead, and fast After turning in a
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-25

ship wreckers and wins the girl.
John Wayne has the other stellar
male role-that of sea captain who
also wants the girl. And all in Tech
nicolor.
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Browns Are Happy.

George BrOWn, the other home-
gong man, lives IN the same crowded
block with the Smiths He and Ann
pay the same rent for the same
space. But there the similarity be-
tween the two families ceases. Ann
has a girl and a boy; and she and
their father rejoice in them and love
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a MONG those ready to affirm that
- a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country, Leon M.
Henderson, director of price stabili-
Evening star., 1941-01-11

conference between the German and
Italian military high commands
was called at Rome, presumably
to bolster up Italian resistance in
Libya, though what specific aid Ger
many can extend its axis partner in
North Africa beyond airplanes is hard
to see, in view of the British naval
blockade.
Over Vichy, likewise, the fog bank
is equally dense. Rumors of German
ultimatums to Marshal Petain and
demands for the use of Frances
North African bases circulate freely,
but these tales have been heard many
times before. Perhaps our newly ar
rived Ambassador, Admiral Leahy,
may have learned something definite
by this time. For the rest of us, the
chronic uncertainty about Frances
position and prospects Stubbornly
persists.
How long this strange interlude will
continue is hard to say. The most
likely assumption is that it will be
broken by fresh German offensive,
military, diplomatic, or both. For
Hitler still has the ball" With in
terror lines and fully 100000 crack
troops ready to 60 wherever he
orders, the initiative is in his hands.
And there is scant doubt that he will
use it at what he deems the psyche
logical moment.
Evening star., 1941-01-11

men the mind Of the Master, to give
them an understanding of the deep
and satisfying values of life, to teach
them rightly to employ the means
necessary to salvation is the high
and holy privilege of the Christian
ministry. To this end this college
is founded in the sure confidence
that the bulwark and sustaining
strength of the Nation is an abiding
and unchanging practice of the
Christian religion"
A layman-AleXander Smith Coch-
ran-provided the money needed for
the construction of the college build
ing, a beautiful Gothic structure on
Woodley road The gift now made
by Mrs. Stewart in her husbands
memory will constitute a precious
experimentation of the equipment
already in use. But the contribution
should be acknowledged with appre-
citation by the whole community of
Washington, not merely by members
of the Episcopal denomination. Such
gifts add to the cultural and spiritual
stature of the Nations Capital with
out regard to sectarian boundaries
or philoSophic limitations
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Believes TABLES Are Turned"
Since Crisis of 1914-19I7.

To the Editor of The STAR
The position of President Wilson in the
crucial days of the first World War from
August 4, 1914, to April 6, 1917, and the
situation of President Roosevelt in the
present crisis are similar in many par
ticulars; with this difference, however,
that: President Wilson talked directly to
the German government, while President
Roosevelt talks about the Nazis.
President Wilson spoke in words, the
meaning of which could not be mistaken,
saying that he would "hold the German
government to a strict accountability"
for any attack upon the rights and lib
critics of the American people. Today
under President Roosevelt the tables are
turned. 1t is the axis powers that are
telling Mr. Roosevelt that they are hold
ing the United States to a strict ac-
countability under our own neutrality
law for any harm that this country might
do them in their campaign of conquest.
1t appears that the neutrality law,
made in Washington, D. c., in 1885, is the
"blg stick" that Hitler, Mussolini and the
Emperor of Japan flourish about Uncle
Sans head to keep the United States
ION the spot until they complete the
destruction of Great Britain.
What then?
WILLIAM H. HARGROVE.
Pierce City, Mo.
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Bishop Stewards Books

Twelve thousand volumes from the
personal library of the late Right
Reverend George Craig Stewart,
Bishop of Chicago from 1880 until
his death last May, have been given
by his widow to the College of
Preachers at Washington Cathedral.
Serving as practical memorial to
a minister of the Gospel who was
himself an eminent scholar, these
books are to be made available to
theological students following in the
footsteps Of their former owner.
They will implement the work of
the only institution of its kind in
the world-a School of the Prophets"
for the post-ordination training of
the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Bishop Stewart, as it happened,
became interested in the college
when it first was opened in 1929.
Visioned by the original sponsor of
the Cathedral enterprise and brought
to fulfllment under the leadership
of his successor, the Right Reverend
James E. Freeman, third Bishop of
Washington, it represents the doc
trine that: "The supreme end and
purpose of the Christian religion is
the enfranchisement and enrichment
of the human soul. To interpret to
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Deplores Reports Showing
Only Minority Voted.

To the Editor of The Star:
The Associated Press tabulation of the
vote cast in the November elections
startles us by the revelation that most
of our Southern States gave evidence of
a political situation that parallels the
elections of Germany, Italy or Russia.
We talk much of a free electorate
where the people go to the ballot box
and select rulers of their own choosing.
Yet the Representatives of the people
in Congress from most of the Southern
States are elected by only per cent to
25 per cent of the populations.
In South Carolina only So per cent
of the population voted. In Mississippi,
per cent voted. Georgia. Arkansas and
Alabama voted 10 per cent, 1913 per cent
and 10.4 per cent, in that order Virginia
comes next with 1923 per cent, then Loui-
siana with 15.7 per cent Texas 1862 per
cent, Tennessee 17.9 per cent, North Car
olina 23.3 per cent, Florida 25.7 per cent,
Kentucky 341 per cent and Oklahoma
353 per cent
The national average was 38 per cent.
Just think of boasted Democratic Vir-
ginia sending Representatives to Con-
gress who are voted for by only one
eighth of its population! OF course, the
reason is the use of the poll tax, which
makes a travesty of democracy. The
Geyer anti-poll tax bill certainly should
be given every consideration, especially
now, when we are prone to condemn the
voting technique of totalitarians and
boast of our democratic process
E. B. HENDERSON.
Falls Church Va
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Boo! !!

This has been a cold winter in
Wyoming. Scarcely any one there
has felt warm, least of all thousands
of sheep which were shorn of their
wool. Unlike the taxpayer, who
seems to survive somehow without
special attention, a shorn sheep re-
quires 1t until he can grow a new
crop. Hitherto the special atten-
ton has consisted mainly of pro-
viding them with inclosed shelters,
which in turn necessitated also the
provision of fodder. A cheaper
method, just developed, is to clothe
them in cotton coats and let them
forage for themselves on the free
range. So says a dispatch from the
Southern Regional Research Labora-
tory of the Department of Agricul-
ture. One branch of that great de-
partment has rushed to the defense
of another, overcoming all technical
difficulties in a new art, tailoring for
sheep. The animals may look and
feel sheepish in their outfits, but
at least they will survive.
Evening star., 1941-01-11
The Lamps of London Town

The lamps of London Town are dark,
The lanes lie black and still,
st. Martins Lane and Maiden Lane,
Dove Court and Fish Street Hill.
Whitehall stands Shadowed in the fire
That lights Trafalgar Square,
The Horse Guards plumes and helmets
No longer blazon there.
Down Pudding Lane and Regent Street,
The alien sirens scream,
The distant dome Of old st. Pauls
Reflects the ghastly gleam.
The fishermen from Billingsgate,
The common folk who go
From Hyde Park to far Kensington
Are huddled there below.
Say, you who in the darkness wait
While death hurls down its flames,
Does rosemary still flower bright
In gardens at ST. James?
Oh, we across the ocean weep,
Whose hearts remember still
The cloisters of st. Margaret's,
The curve of Fish Street Hill.
KATHARINE KENNEDY.
Evening star., 1941-01-11

The cat, for It's friends, has way all
its own of showing friendship.
Once you have been granted this boon,
you come about as close to friendship
with the animals as is possible, although
no doubt the dog boosters and the horse
boosters will not agree
1t is part of the lure of the cat that it
causes disputes, and thus draws to itself
the loyalty of those who stand up for it.
People have been hung for friendship
to cats
People still are hung, in very mild
form of disfavor, for protesting active
interest in them.
Yet when We look around the world
today, and see what human beings are
doing-some of them-we can realize as
never before just how good cats are, and
just how good dogs are, and birds, and
tropical fish-and maybe Mary Rogue
New readers of this column never
heard of Mary. She goes back about Is
years or SO.
Mary was little Miss FiXit," who, no
doubt, seemed terribly SNUG to some
readers. 1t was this SmugnesS which
fascinated her creator
She had all he did not have
How good a bit of smugness would be,
in such world as this! Now, more than
ever, one needs smugness, or its equiva-
lent.
Cats come in all shapes, colorS and
varieties.
Most friends know only the Persian
and the plain alley cat variety, called
short hair, in the cat club documents.
Most of the friends of cats who recall
the cat pieces which appeared here for
several years know only the common cat.
1t is called common, but it can be
infinite in variety, quite uncommon in
intellectual content. For cats have
brains. They know how to get what they
want They share with dogs the dis
tinction of having kept one foot safely
with their own tribe while with the
other they have advanced one paw
toward man.
Whether dogs and cats showed good
judgment in coming into our homes is a
matter for the centuries to decide.
The cats and dogs decided long ago
The horses didn't do it. The COWS
didn't. The pigs and the goats and the
squirrels and the elephants and the bears
are glad to stay out
They would all run away. even after
We reached out and dragged them in
Only the dogs and cats, out of all that
ever lived come freely to us and live with
us because they want to live with US 1t
will not do to say the dog, alone, comes
because he loves US. but that the cat
remains just to get something to eat.
"Hokum," says Penny. the cat, speak
ing for her kind I'VE like you. too, only
we don't care to show it like those dirty
dogs"
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Tells of "BuSinesslike" Way
For BritOns to Borrow Money.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star
A gentleman entered a Western bank
and the following conversation ensued:
'Mr. President, must have 100000 at
once or my company will fail" To which
the President replied, John, I have
known you for years. I want to help you
as far as possible, but must remember
that the money in the bank does not be-
long to me. Your failure might harm the
bank as your concern now owes us con-
siderable money. I must protect our GUS
toners money. Can't you supply some
securities that we can hold in our vaults
as collateral?" The man did have salts
factory security and the loan was made.
OF course, the borrower was more than
pleased. He did not believe that the
banker was trying to take advantage Of
him because he was in financial diff
Guilty.
John Bull has requested help. Why
not reply in a businesslike way, along
the same line as the president of the
bank? EDWARD P. HUBBELL.
Evening star., 1941-01-11
War Foq Over Europe

"It's a splendid fog, and others
made it for u.s." Those words, spoken
smilingly by a Berlin official spokeS-
man to an American neWspaperman
well describe not only the attitude
of the German government but also
the general situation in Europe at
this moment. Perhaps never before
during the present war have both the
diplomatic and military setups there
been so shrouded in mystery. Not
even in the calculated calms which
preceded Germanys lightning thruStS
at Norway and on the western front
last spring was the veil of secrecy
quite so dense.
That this is the proverbial lull be-
fore another great storm is well nigh
certain. AS German troops pour
ceaselessly into Rumania, deploying
along the Danube and building up a
vast striking force, the Balkans are
described as being in a state OF acute
unrest, with rumors flying thick as
winter SnoWflakeS. In YugoSlavla,
the Orthodox Christmas was a
sombre affair, and in Bulgaria it was
hardly better. That little nation IS
anxiously awaiting its fate, presum-
ably discussed in conferences held
between it's Premier Philoff and Nazi
statesmen. Ostensibly. MIR. Philoff
went to Vienna for his health,
but he is known to have consulted
with at least one unorthodox phy-
sician-'Doctor" Joachim Won Rib
bentrop-the German Foreign Min
lister.
Meanwhile, nearly all of Soviet
Russia's ranking diplomats in the
Balkans have been hastily summoned
home for consultation. The purpose
can only be surmised, because Mos
COW is as tight-lipped as Berlin
simultaneously, another momentous
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Census and Police

Inc census Bureaus S analysis vi
population trends in the District of
Columbia during the past decade
should be of special interest to Con-
greSS in considering local police eStl-
mates for 1912, recently submitted
by the District Commissioners. Since
1880 Washington's population has
risen from 486 1863 to 663091, an in
crease of 36.2 per cent. In that same
period the Metropolitan Police De-
partment's personnel has grown from
1852 to 1,437, an increase of only IA
per cent. In 1880 there we're 2.5
policemen per 1000 residents; today
there are only % per 1000 residents.
The analysis supports Police Super
lntendent Ernest w. Browns repeated
needs at least 100 additional police
men to afford the city the protection
to which its residents are entitled.
Among the areas for which Major
Brown long has sought more men are
the denSely populated Second, Ninth
and Tenth Precincts. The census
report reveals that these precincts
lead all others in number of inhab-
itants. The Second and Tenth Pre-
cincts, in the Northwest section, have
62,824 and 1885 residents, respec-
lively, and the Ninth Precinct has
76,405. The Eleventh Precinct, while
seventh on the list in population
density, covers so much territory
everything east of the Anacostia
River-that Major Brown is seeking
to divide it into two precincts, with
new station in the Benning area.
Size of police commands in these
important precincts varies as follows:
Second, eighty-seven policemen, or
IL per 1000 residents; Ninth, seventy
policemen, or less than one per 1000
residents; Tenth, seventysix police
men, or less than one per 1000 resi-
dents; Eleventh, seventy-three, or IA
per 1000 residents. Many authorities
hold that it is poor police practice
to have less than two patrolmen for
each 1000 inhabitants, and most
cities maintain larger ratios.
Washington's police force should
have been expanded by 282 men
during the past decade, in order to
maintain the ratio of policemen to
population. But Major Brown, in
his budget estimates, asked for
modest increase of 100 officers. The
Commissioners, in their efforts to
keep the budget balanced, cut this
estimate to twenty men, but made
provision for five additional clerks to
relieve five policemen now assigned
to clerical duties The police super
intendents request for new pre-
cinct station on Benning road north
east was eliminated. In the light
of the data just announced by the
Census Bureau Congress would be
fully justified in granting far more
policemen than the Commissioners,
on the basis of information then in
their possession, saw fit to recon-
mend,
Evening star., 1941-01-11
THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles E. Trdce1oeH.

The cats, not to be outdone by the
birds, have sent in the following, through
an efficient secretary:
Hail, good friend that uster wuz!
Time we cats gave you buzz.
Erst you wrote of us full oft:
Then we found the going soft.
Folks who once had socked us sore
Needed YOU, and socked no more.
Ate the wicked words they'd said,
Gave us food, and drink, and bed.
But you turned to fancy fish
We prefer them plain, in dish.
Afterwards, came Mary Rogue.
How we prayed that she might choque!
Now it seems the birds are tops
And we felines fearful f1ops.
Birds are good, cooked or raw,
Though for cats without the law,
Saved from us by humans who
Stalk, and kill, and eat them, too.
But we, too, need your protection,
Feeling keenly your detection.
Place aux dames Tell more of Penny,
OF her didoes, tough and many.
Tell of Quincy, fat and yellow,
Tell of Tiger, quite fellow!
Mind not scientific dub
Grousing from the Cosmos Club.
On your job! Time moves apace,
Ever thine, THE FELINE RACE.
The person who likes cats-and he
belongs to far-f1ung tribe, both in time
and space-will often wonder why he
likes 'em.
There it sits, Tom or Tabby-although
as far as we know no cat has been named
Tabby for half a century-without doing
lick OF work.
It never makes a business of bounding
up to you, as the dog does, although now
and then 1t will, just to show you that it
can.
It expects service at all times, and gets
it, if it is in the right home.
1t seldom does what one wants it to do;
often it does just the opposite. although
here again you can never be sure.
X y
Perhaps it is this very capriciousness
which endears the house cat to its
friends
1t seldom rescues anybody. Dogs are
famous for barking at the right time
(although many of them are quiet as
mice when they should be roaring their
heads off. We seldom hear about the
latterD
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Quotes Religious Paper
On "Indiscrir1inate Bombing"

To the Editor of The Star:
I thought you might find space in your
valued paper to print the following
article which appeared on page 26l
of the November, 1910. issue of the
Monthly Record of the Free Church of
Scotland:
Much has been spoken and written of
the pros and cons of the indiscriminate
bombing of German towns and villages.
For ourselves we are gratifed, from the
moral point of view as much as from
the military one, that our Air Ministry
has decided to restrict bombing to mill
tary objectives. Much is being written
of the German psychology and the Ger
man inability to withstand hard knocks
for any length of time. This aspect of
the case can be overstated. though it is
significant that the Gestapo stand night
and day keeping watch lest news of de-
struction by British bombs may reach
German ears. 1t is probable that the
morale of present-day Germany, artifi-
cially strengthened by terror and stim-
ulated by series of fairly cheap vic
knowledge that they have to accept blow
for blow, and when the Nazi morale is
weakened, there will be an opportunity
for such sane opinion as still exists in
Germany to rise.in revolt. But the Nazi
morale will receive its most shattering
blow only as it sees its colossal military
machine being dislocated and destroyed,
and We therefore regard the present
policy of our air force as good stratagem
as it is also the most likely to commend
itself to Christian opinion in this coun-
try. The policy of reprisals is not only
wrong in itself, it is degrading to those
who adopt it and of no practical value.
Let those who favor such a policy ask
themselves how Britain, at the success
full termination of this war, could raise
its voice in urging upon the world
sane and more humane way of life, if
its own records were stained by the
horrors of indiscriminate bombing"
G. F.
Evening star., 1941-01-11
Falls Church, Va.
Cites Opinion That Two Wars
Are Related in Probable Outcome,
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
If the following paragraph, quoted
from The Stars January story by
Glenn Babb, Japan strives vainly to end
bogged-down war in China" is true, is it
not of such tremendous Importance to
the American people that it should be
brought home to them in our press? Spe-
cifically, first in an article celebrating
the point by Mr.. Babb.
I quote him:
Neutral experts who have followed the
Eastern conflict believe that if Hitler
crushed Britain, China's chances of in
dependent survival would vanish, that
the two wars might end simultaneously
in the victory Of one world group or the
other" THEODORE RHOADES.