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Evening star., 1943-04-11

sequins and dusky rose yelling. Her
flowers were pink sweet peas.
Sergt. Wade Hobbs served as Mr..
Leech's best man and the ushers
were Mr.. Jack Smith, brother of the
bride, and Mr.. Wade Leech, brother
Of the bridegroom.
The mother Of the bride wore a
gray-blue dress with black acces-
sories. Mrs. Leech, mother of the
bridegroom. wore a beige suit with
black accessories. Both wore cor
sages of gardenias.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Leech left for
their wedding trip to New York, the
bride wearing a gray dress with
a black hat and coat and black ac-
cessories. She also wore a mink
scarf which was wedding gift from
the bridegroom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leech will make their
home in Washington.
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Engagement
Announced

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard E. Griffith
will entertain at tea at their home
this afternoon for their relatives and
friends to announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Margaret
Ann Griffith, to 1t. Robert H. San
ford, jr., U. S. A. 1t. Sanford is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H.
Sanford of Chevy Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford will assist
in receiving the guests. Alternating
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at the tea table will be Miss Hope
Griffith. sister of the bride elect;
Miss Mary E. O'Connel, Miss Mar
guerite Conner, Miss Jean Addison,
Miss Margaret Gourlay, Miss Marian
Samen. Miss Margaret Myers. Miss
Nan Najarian, Miss Audrey Wood
ford and Miss Bette Lansdale.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1943-04-11
TODAY

Ensign William Thornton Davies,
U. S. N, and Mrs. Davies of Raven
wood will leave today for Prince
ton University where Ensign Davies
will take an advanced naval course.
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Locate in Arlington

Corpl Julian Ray Walters, U. S. A.
and Mrs. Walters, who were married
recently, are making their home
with Mrs. Walters parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Poe Allen at 307 George
Mason drive in Arlington,
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Mrs. Tuttle Here

Capt. Louis c. Spencer, U. s. A.,
and Mrs. Spencer have Mrs. l.. c.
Tuttle Of Englewood, NJ j., as a
guest at their home in Chesterbrook.
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Weekend Guests

Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Altemus Of
Potomac, Md, are weekend guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. N. de Lashmutt
at Evergreen Farms, The Plains, Va.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

country is, do they really appreciate her
- this castle BY the sea-"
AS you may have guessed, l am
Blanchard" - who found that in Amer
ica there were great libraries where every
one might enter without question as to
nationality, class, rank, religion; that
there were gardens from which no one was
excluded; that here you might have COM
plete privacy and respect in two rooms.
Whereas in Europe the loss of my fortune
would have stripped me of everything
held dear, in America with very little
money might still have it ALL
am one man. There are Others who fled
Europe in the confagration. You have
seen the names of some of them, the ia
nous writer's and artists. They believed in
democracy; otherwise they would not have
fled the Nazis. When they return to
Europe - as they will some day, for the
ties of birth and native land cannot be re-
sisted - they will be carrying gift with
them They will be carrying realistic
understanding of what democracy is.
In Europe, they thought and wrote of
democracy as from an ivory tower. Here,
they have lived with it in the streets.
Do you wonder that they, that l, love
America - this castle by the sea?
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come from the boys who still want
to do their bit.
NEW. In busy Washington to be
bumped off" no longer means to
be taken for a ride - it means to
lose ride. Government officials
are bumped off when they lose their
seat on a plane to someone with
higher travel priority
REPAYMENT. Recently, in Nor
way, a farmer was arrested by the
Nazis for contributing to fund
raised to help families of imprls-
oned Norwegians. When he was
brought before the German court he
said he did not know it was wrong
to help those in distress: after the
last war he had taken four under
nourished German children and
given them home, food, clothing.
The Norwegian farmer is now in
prison. M,
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slDEllNEs

OBLIGATION. One of the nations
largest induction centers is Man
hattan's Grand Central Palace.
Out of the hundreds of selectees,
many are classified 4-F, rejected
because of physical reasons. But
not one of those boys fails to stop by
the office of the Red Cross on his
way out to give his name as volun-
teer and. if approved, to make his
donation to the blood bank. Fifty
to rs pints of blood day have
Evening star., 1943-06-27
SUN FUN

vITANIN D: THIS WEEKS cover
is dedicated to the summer sun
which drenches you with Vitamin
D -. helps you to be cheerful, ex-
hilarated, quicker on the mental
up-take and out-give. Any doctor
will tell you this. As for the baby,
a daily sun bath seeps health into
his bones - children of the tropics
tit is well known) who run next-to-
naked out-of-doors all year rarely
have ricketts,.
Ultraviolet rays in the sunlight do
this - and more. These rays are too
short to be visible to the human eye,
and they make up only one-tenth of
the suns radiation. Yet they are
essential not only to health but to
life itself. If they could be shut off
completely from the earth, you
might not see any difference in the
look of the sunlight - but you
would probably not be here long to
see anything at all, for it is believed
that animal life would cease to
exist.
UlgRATIoNED by government
rulings. your ultraviolet Vitamin D
is easy to take. All you need is as
much bare skin as the neighbors
and the law allow and unobstruct-
ed sunlight. Ultraviolet cannot pen
citrate ordinary window glass; is
partly screened out by city smoke
1t is most intense at the seashore
or in the mountains - but you can
get plenty in the backyard, on the
terrace. or on the roof.
How to bask: if you happen to
have an allergy for sun or to suffer
from a pathological condition, con-
suit your doctor about sun baths -
they probably are not for you.
Otherwise. here's what you do:
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Blanchard, l think this thought would
pass through his head: "You are living
in a silken cocoon. What would happen
to you if one day it broker"
Well, we know what happened. The
storm clouds opened and the food rushed
over Europe. The fortunate few escaped.
Blanchard's friend was one of them.
WHEN this friend reached America. it
gave him shock to hear that Blanchard
also made his escape successfully. For
Blanchard and the life he had led all
seemed to him to be thing of the past,
another world, now crushed to death.
Almost as one would 60 to see ghost,
he went to see the old man.
For Blanchard by now, he thought,
must be nearly eighty; and the catastrophe
must have left him feeble, embittered
wrath of himself.
He dreaded seeing him.
He might have saved himself the con-
Germ. For Blanchard's hand shaking his
was firm, and his eyes - they had always
been bright blue - shone. An old man,
but not crushed, embittered one.
Yet this place, where Blanchard now
lived, was no castle on the Mediterranean.
1t was tiny two-room apartment.
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loved to taste, the wines OF Bor-
deaux and the Cote d'Or?"
He poured the wine. Taste
that" he said. Not bad? I'm dis
covering new vintages - American
seventy-nine cents bottle!
Look here" he said, you've
asked if | miss my castle by the sea
After you have been here awhile, !
want you to tell me something
Do these Americans know what this
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1t bewildered the friend so much that,
after Blanchard had told him how he had
managed to get to America, ne asked:
But don't you miss all you've lost?
Your castle. your books, your gardens?'
"My castle?" Blanchard said. why,
/ still have it. My books? have them -
more of them than ever! My gardens? |
still take my walk in them every morning, :"
AT THAT moment, the friend looked at
him with suspicion. Could he be blamed
for thinking that perhaps all Blanchard
had endured had touched his mind?
What is any CASTLE" the old man
continued, but place where you can be
sure of privacy? This is my castle now -
here, these two rooms - all the solitude
and privacy in the world, if | wish it,
with no secret police to rap on the door"
He rose and brought out two glasses
and a bottle of port.
MY library? The public library -
around the corner My gardens? Central
Park - three blocks away. The wines ]
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Expose yourself gradually, begin
ming with a brief 10 to 15-minute
session in the sun, and working up
to two or three hours. Babies should
have their summing prescribed by
the doctor. Avoid extreme s,mburn
= it won't benefit you; will be pain
full: may be serious. Brunets can
rush the sun better than blonds
can. Extreme blonds may never
be able to take it squarely on the
skin. Prescription for them is to
stretch out in the shade. but under
the open sky. -S. |. NORTH
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N HIS is the true story of man named
Blanchard - let US call him that for
- the time being; it is not his real name
that matters 50 much as what happened to
him. To many people, daresay, he was a
man to be envied, not only for the life
he led but for the long and successful
career that had given him public acclaim
- and wealth.
There were few of the good things OF
the world that he could not possess if he
desired them. His home, for example
1t was in the South of France, beside the
Mediterranean a kind of palace, con-
tanning many lovely rooms and vaulted
dining hall in which, if he wished. he could
seat hundred and fifty guests.
1t was known far and wide in that sec
ton as "the castle by the sea-" The work
of years had gone into it, and into the
library of thousands of volumes, the care
fully collected paintings and objets dart
that furnished it.
Blanchard relished to the full the beauty
of his own private world, the world he had
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built. He was a connoisseur of all
good things - music, art, litera-
ture; food and wines too.
One friend in particular often Wis
tied Blanchard. They would walk
together in the gardens; beneath
them was the gorgeous Mediterra-
mean, peaceful sea then: and in the
morning sunshine all around was
the scent of flowers and blossoming
vines. But as the friend looked at
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THIS WEEK
N AGAIN e -

OUR "CASTIE BY THE SEA-. 2
BY Maurice MosfssIinek
AT FIVE AN. ...................
BY Gorth ond EIverdo Spencer
YOUTH i. RUNNING WILD. ........
by J. Edgor Hoover
THE LOVE LETTER. .................. 3
BY Morsof Neville
LAND FALLS. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ~
by Jerry Moson
Emily Post. II, WoiIy's
Wooon. IA, Food. rs
Cover by Posono
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OUR "CASTLE BY THE SCI"

Do we appreciate our American democracy?
We can learn about it from this story Of a
man who once had Everything" in Europe
hv Maurice Maefexlinck
Evening star., 1943-06-27

Names and descriptions of all characters in
fiction stories and semi-fiction articles In this
magazine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same as that Of any
person. living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
THE BRIGHTER SIDE

starts to tell me something and
prefaces his remarks with that
off the record" business, I stop
him and tell him nothing is
"off the record" with me il II
is news. II he does not care to
have his information published
or even repeated, he should
keep it to himself.
ONE fellow in public life who
" ought to abolish that off
the record thing is the leading
contender at this time for the
Republican nomination for pres
ident, Wendell Willkie.
He is the greatest off the
record" man alive. He even
holds off the record" press con-
ferences and reporter who at
tends one of those is reniss in
his duty to his newspaper.
IF he knows in advance he is
going TO hear an "off the rec
ord statement, he ought 10
remain away and get the news
second hand so he can publish
il without compunctions of con-
science, because as even Willkie
must know, everything Sc says
is quickly passed around by
word Of mouth.
Copyright 1913. by King Features
Distributed by international News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
MARCH OF EVENTS
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

for dictatorship that was in the
minds II Jefferson and Jack
son when they warned the
people against the dangers of
constant re-eligibllIty of the
president
There is nothing that a man
or woman in a public job will
not do 10 hold that job chats
human nature). And when such
iobholding men and women run
into the millions you can see
that If they ever organize in
the interests of the higher-ups
who gave them the Jobs well,
the answer might be revolu-
ton and the coming up Of an
olgarchic dictatorship.
THE New York Daily News
Il was recently perturbed be-
cause IT could not find the
origin of the saying The only
lesson we learn from history is
that we learn no lesson from
history" This seems TO be a
paraphrase Of what the famous
Prof. Hegel Cl77O-1S31 said in
his Philosophy of History;
Peoples and governments
never have learned anything
from history or acted on prin-
cipleS deduced from It,"
This is. generally speaking,
true because We do not inherit
ideas or wisdom. We inherit
emotions. instincts and charac-
ter. a pacifist, for instance. is
not a persons who hates war
because OF the horrors Of past
wars but because his nature is
peace full.
DUT Hegel and the News are
ID only partly right. The
founding fathers did learn a lot
from history. and they put what
they learned into the Declara-
ton of independence and the
Constitution Most peoples learn
from history because the great
masses know nothing about IL.
They arc history-dumb.
But the open-brained student
OF history learns a great deal,
and mainly, that Cd any gov
eminent that allies itself with
any other\ government politically
ar economically is headed for
war: (2) that liberty is not a
lollypop. II is a sword. 10 be
used, and finally CD that the
L.. S. A. will be absorbed by
Europe and Asia II we do not
take a postwar stand for the
nationalism of Washington and
Jefferson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
By DAMON RUNYON-

T THINK press conferences
tend to destroy reportorial
initiative. A reporter ought to
go out and get his news on his
own hook without waiting to
have il passed out TO him at
press conference, usually with
restrictions. When he gets ii
himself he can use it without
restriction.
The press conference has
reached a stage where the most
astounding nonentities are call
ing them. Small caliber Off
Gals. ham actors and other in
consequential jobbies of every
kind dare calling press confer
ences and the surprise 10 me is
the press bothers with some of
them.
For that matter, It is a sur
prise TO me the press bothers
with many Of the officials in
Washington who call press con-
ferences.
AS reporter. I made il
point to avoid press conferences
because l learned that too much
was said at them that was off
the record.
To this day whenever a man
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
One Word Led 10 Another
BY ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER-

Labor turnover So Ra pd The Boss Is Dizzy
1 see where the Western Union wants men over so
for boys
They don't call them that They now communi-
cations carriers Sort of Typhoid Marys of messages.
Men scarce now that nobody requires any more
references than couple of boxops for packages of break
fast food. Anything with signature on 1T.
And the labor turnover is rapid that the personnel
manager doesn't ask, who did you work for last? He
says, who do you expect to work for next?"
And he's right The Western Union will let you
any uniform you want to. In that case promotion
should be rapid. Right I'm their first fve-star
communications carrier. And I'm still my first errand
when the stars come out.
But they don't call it errand any A
munications carrier is fattopped information courier.
He is minister pentpotentary equipped with letters of
marque and reprisal. His ambition baked in slow
You work fultme, overtime, parttime two
time. You hold another job and just your lunch
at the Western Union. you just tip your hat to
the manager he will give you two weeks vacation with
pay.
And if he catches you awake ne will promote
you.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09

I MUST heartily applaud the
action of one of the govern
ment officials in Washington,
Mr. Fly, in disseminating his
press conferences on the ground
they were uninteresting and I'M
important, He said the report
ers asked fatuous questions.
I think nearly all press con-
ferences are an unmitigated
bore, including that of the Presi-
dent, and should be discontinued
as regular program affairs. A
press conference should be
called only when news Of the
greatest Importance is to be an
nounced.
The term press conference is
a misnomer. anyway. A confer
ence is supposed to be formal
meeting for deliberation and
consultation on some official
matter and the so-called press
conference is nothing of the
sort. The reporters are sum-
moned to an august presence
and tossed a few grains of in
formation of no great moment
and, while they may ask ques-
tons. they certainly do not par
ticipate in any elaboration and
consultation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09

ficlent brains to know that black
stockings have the most appeal7
"2-Short evening gowns look
ridiculous even on women with
beautiful legs.
"3-Why don't grown women
stop using such baby talk as
'pAnties, 'nighties,' 'sOckies,
1.-The present style Of hair
do looks wonderful in the front
and terrible and stringy In tho
back.
"5-Why the long red talOnsr
Why don't our wives leave this
long. ugly nail style To tho
Hollywood tiger and panther
women:
THAT is all for now, more
next week"
DEOPLE who have a lot OF
small accidents like slipping
on rugs, running into chairs,
dropping dishes, etc. are very
likely to have at least one ma
jor accident. SO state accident
insurance experts who claim
that most accidents are not just
bad luck but that the characters
of those involved is the greatest
factor.
For example, most automobile
accidents result from the COM
bination of wild drivers and
careless or absent-minded Pc
destrians.
Note il stated by a man who
should know better that Cleo
patra was a redhead and an
Egyptian. Cleopatra was bru-
net. Although she did become
queen of Egypt she was born In
Greece.
Zim Pearce of Seattle writes:
81 am the proud father of
three children and my wife
taught them the little prayer
you had in your column some
time ago"
So you see this department
really does a little something
worth while now and then.
Copyright, ls43. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
TO-DAY IN SCIENCE
: By GOBIND BEHARI LALr
DREDICTION that synthetic

DREDICTFON that synthetic
i rubber of a new kind. SUI
pcrlor in elasticity and durabil-
ity 10 natural rubber, Will result
from rubber research now under
way was m d by DR.. r. p.
Dinsmore, chen ist and vice
president OF the Goodyear lab
oratories.
Discussing the latest advances
in the science and technology of
rubber and plaStics before the
Society of the Plastic Industry
meeting. Or. Dinsmore forecast
new developments of plastics
and synthetic rubbers thus:
I'VE may expect the appear
ance, on the one hand, of plas- .
tics as transparent and hard as
glass, although much less frag-
lie. and on the other, rubbers
more truly elastic than natural
rubber. also more extensible and
durable"
DOTH the plastics and the
- rubbers belong 10 a common
class of chemical products called
the resins. From the point Of
view of properties. plastics and
rubbers are. so TO say, two ends
of the same chain.
A plastic is something which.
in its true" form, is easily
moulded into a desired shape
under pressure, and usually
under heat and pressure but.
once cast into a certain shape il
remains stable, Interchangeable.
A rubber. while plastic during
its formation. in the final state
remains rightly stretchable. and
elastic, so that II returns 70 its
original shape after being de-
formed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
BETTER HEALTH


THE Father OF Medicine. Hip
L pocrates. paid a good deal
OF attention 10 the influence Of
the weather on disease. One Of
his works is called "Of Waters,
Airs, and Places. He always
insisted that his healing temples
be placed in n salubrious climate
between mountains. sea and
river.
But when medicine got so
scientific and germs were dis
covered as the definite cause OF
many diseases, the idea sort of
got pushed into the background.
There are only two men in
the United States who write to
any extent about the weather
and human health-one is DR..
Clarence Mills of Cincinnati and
the other. William r. Petersen
of Ann Arbor.
1HR PETERSEN has just pub
~ lished a fascinating book
about Lincoln. Douglas and the
Weather as Destiny" seeking 10
show that the weather changes
that occurred during their lives
influenced their fortunes. their
successes and their destinies. He
has been 10 an enormous amount
of trouble 10 dig out old weather
reports.
According 10 DR.. Petersen's
theory. the two types of human
body. as represented by Lincoln
and Douglas, respectively. react
differently 10 hot and cold
weather. Lincoln was the long.
thin type with most OF his
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09

blood in his internal organs.
When the weather got hot, the
blood came out 10 the surface
OF his body and made him feel
alive and well
Douglas, being Of the broad
type with his blood al the sur
face most Of the time anyway,
was made miserable by the sur
face congestion brought on by
hot weather. couldn't think
clearly or speak impreSsively
under such circumstances and
cut a poor figures beside the
brilliant exposition of Lincoln
Such are the consequences of
Man as Cosmic Resonator.
OTHER incidents Of Lincoln's
~ career are adduced 10 show
this influence. The fatal first"
of January. 1s4l, was the day
on which ne broke his engage
ment TO Mary Todd The weather
was cold and damp and Lin
coins nature was not in the
mood for love or marriage.
When, then, was IL likely that
Mary Todd would be able 10
marry him? In the good old
summer time" Which is just
when she did
! do not know that l can
subscribe 10 all OF Or PeterSens
theories in detail. They are IN
teresting and unqueStionably
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09

THE millions Of Roosevelt
Il iobholders could force a
fourth-term on Mr.. Roosevelt
even If the President did not
wish il. That is the opinion Of
Charles Hurd. veteran Wash
ington correspondent. in an
article in the American Mer-
curry. Says Mr.. Hurd:
Even II the President wished
10 retire the decision IL vir-
tually out of his hands. The
vast array OF his camp follow
ers, knowing that they are out
on their collective ears when
the President goes either by de-
feat or retirement. are capable
Of generating an enormous pres
sure"
The danger 10 a democratic
republic like ours never was
more clearly presented than in
those few words II was this
clairvoyant sensing Of a coup