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Evening star., 1943-12-29
suburban Neus
OF Interest

Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Marks
entertained at a Christmas party
Sunday evening at their home In
Silver Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kyle Goodman OF
Silver Spring were hosts at dinner
party last evening at their home In
Silver Spring.
| Also entertaining yesterday was
Miss Betty Garner of Silver Spring
who entertained at dessert bridge
party Miss Garner is student al
the University OF Maryland and is
home for the holidays.
! Mr.. and Mrs Donald Ford and the
latters mother, Mrs. Blair Read
/ were hosts at a large "at home
Sunday evening at their home In
Northwood Park.
Pvt. Paul Smith of the United
States Marine Corps is spending the
/ Christmas holidays with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank F. Smith of Sill
yer Spring.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John McShane of
/ oii'cI opI lllS clllcI JdlIlcu dE al cSS =
nog party Saturday.
Miss Diane Dietrich entertained
at a formal dance Monday night at
the home Of her parents. Comdr.
and Mrs. Neil K. Dietrich, in South
Arlington Her guests included
Misses Jane Mckee, Claudia Smed-
berg, Joan Stevens. Peggy Sham
bora, Vivian Gale, Kitty Royal,
Robin Rau. Patsy Birge. Jean Gal
iaher, also William Shambora, Whit
ney Stevens. Robert Stevens, Will
liam Lalor, Webster Gokey, Brad
ford Patterson, William Hamilton,
Louis Reinken. Len Malbury, Ted
Elliot and Charles Stanley.
Mr.. and Mrs. william J. de Butts
of Country Club Grove had as
guests over the Christmas week
end Mr.. de Butts brother and sis
ter-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
F. de Butts and their daughter
Helen, Of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
German Initiation
is Recalled
|Bv Mrs. Robbins
By Gretchen Smith.

The suffering caused by imitation
was described by Mrs. Warren
Delano Robbins recalling memories
of days in Berlin 20 years ago, in
a talk before the Womens National
Press Club yesterday.
Though the subject of her talk
centered on her experiences super
vising the decorating and furnish
ing Of approximately "a American
Embassies and Legations throughout
the world. Mrs. Robbins digressed
long enough in describing the EN-
bassy In Berlin to sound a serious
note Of warning to American house
wives.
II hope we will not see the hor-
rors Of imitation come after this war
which I saw in Berlin in 1928" she
declared. The average housewife
does not realize that while she may
be receiving higher wages today
she must spend so much more for
what she buys. Instead Of asking
for higher wages, workers should
help more in keeping prices down
she continued. Higher wages means
higher prices and it is just vicious
circle which leads to imitation"
The speaker, whose husband, the
late Warren Delano Robbins was a
cousin of President Roosevelt and
counsellor of the American Embassy
in Berlin in the early 20s, told how
imitation went to such heights it was
impossible to keep track of the value
of the German mark
I'm June, 1922, 500 was worth
27,525 marks" she explained. MY
house bill that month amounted to
10000 marks" she continued. I'm
November that year. my house bill
had risen to 2,710,000 marks and
in October 1923, it amounted to
1.413 1857 100000 marks" she said
The greatest sufferers of imitation
Mrs. Robbins commented, were
widows with pensions or retired
people living on small incomes.
Mrs. Robbins described the le-
cations and embassies whose fur
nishing and decorations she has
directed, with a. certain amount OF
reluctance, explaining she had re-
signed her post as assistant to the
chief of the Foreign Service Build
ings Office last month and that she
was no longer in charge Of the work
She conceded that the American
Embassy in Rio de Janeiro is one
of the handsomest of the Nation S
foreign homes but that added funds
are needed to complete the build
ings furnishings. The Embassy in
Rio. from where she returned in
October, was the last to be fur
nished and decorated under Mrs.
Robbins direction. most of the
furnishings and materials having
been ordered before the war.
The difficulties of shipping since
the war has made it impossible to
complete the furnishing of the
handsome new Georgian building
which houses the United States rep
resentatlve in Canberra, Australia,
Mrs Robbins said.
Mrs. Cordell Hull. wife of the
Secretary of State, and Mrs Henry
A. Wallace. wife of the Vice Presi-
dent, headed the list of distin-
guished guests attending the lunch
con. Others, members of the Dip
lomatic Corps. included Mrs. H. B
Butler, wife of the Minister at the
British Embassy: Lady Bajpai. wife
Of the Agent General of India. Lady
Dixon. wife of the Minister from
Australia. Madame Wei. wife OF the
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Officer to We'd
Chicago Girl

Mr., and Mrs. Cyrus Hall Adams
tr, Of Chicago and Lake Forest
announce the engagement of thell
daughter, Miss Mary Seymou,
Adams, to 1t. d. g. George Berkeley
Young of Washington. son of Mrs
Karl Young of New Haven and the
late Professor Young of Yale Uni
versity.
Miss Adams attended Dobbs Ferry
ana she was introduced to society in
Chicago in 1887. She also is a mem
Der OF the Chicago Junior League.
1t. Young was eraduat ted in 1884
from Yale College, where he was a
member of Elihu, and from the Yale
Graduate School in 1899.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Numerous Parties Are Gipeu
For Girls Home for HOLIDAYS

The members of the literally stealing
from their elders these
attend during their brief vacations
Todays calendar full with luncheon
Club given Shumaker
Smith College,
Louise Gore will be hostess compliment
guest, Miss Anne Kerr, College,
the officers midweek dance the Sugrave
be preceded by dinner parties
Tomorrows program a given
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Debut Tea Planned

Miss Ann Farley, daughter of the
former Postmaster General and Mrs.
James A. Farley, will be presented
to society in New York at a tea to
be given by her parents January )
at the Waldorf-Astoria. Miss Farley
Is freshman at Wellesley College
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Miss Foster Here

Col. and Mrs Eugene M. Foster
have with them for the holidays
their daughter. Miss Patricia Ann
Foster, who came from Mount Hol-
yoke College.
Evening star., 1943-12-29

Chinese Ambassador: Madame Dia-
mantopoulos. wife of the Greek Min
lister; Madame Loudon. wife OF the
Minister from the Netherlands;
Madame Ciechanowska. wife of the
Polish Minister, and Madame Erte-
gun, wife of the Turkish Ambassa-
dor.
Mrs. Elisabeth May Craig, club
president. presided and introduced
the speaker.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Entertained Sunday

Col. and Mrs. Martin A. Comp.
ton entertained at buffet supper
party Sunday night at their home
in North Arlington. The Is guests
were members OF Col Compton'S
staff in the Surgeon Generals Of
flee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
They Lack Bang

COMEHOW in the camps where
- 1 served, the sergeants didn't
think that fast--but I know they
did at the camps nearby-because
sometimes at night as we lay
around in the barracks some OF
the boys would speak up and
tell yeu the latest about certain
unnamed sergeants and what
they had said either to the
rockies or TO the second looies.
OF course, there are general
stories and colonel stories and
captain stories, but they lack
the bang, the whip-snap Of the
sergeant stories.
One of the oldest general
stories-one that reaches back
to the Spanish-American War
concerns the buck private who
halted a passing general, and
said:
How about n light, bud 20
The general obliged-and then
said gently:
"Son, you're lucky it was mo
you stopped. Suppose it had
been a second lieutenant.
OF course, there have been q
dozen variations of that one
but personally, / don't think 10
measures up TO the lightning ad
Ibis OF the typical sergeant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
IN THE REALM OF BOOKS = By Benjamin DeCassere
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Here is a print that sold like
war extras" 1t is the battle
between John c. Herman and
Tom Sayers in England. The
battle went TO az rounds and
lasted two hours and 20 minutes.
The mob then rushed the fight
ers and ended the bare-fist bar
becue.
In Kiss Me Quick Currier
e. Ives came the nearest TO
being wicked" A fellow dressed
up TO look like Ed Wynn on Sum
day is kissing a gal who is
pushing down the hats over two
kids so that they don't see this
wicked feat of oscillation.
Here's George Washington.
too. There's no rouge on
Georges lips. He's as white as
milk, and looks as if he's tell
ing the chiSellerS in the CONT
mental Congress where they can
60 TO.
There are 1872 prints-many
in color in this Currier e. Ives
book on all sorts Of subjects
from dude Injuns 10 Horace
Greeley. But 1t is all sound Amer
icana and il tells us more about
what the masses liked in grand
dads time than a dozen books.
These prints were the comic
strips Of an age when we were
children-or aren't we still7
Copyright. 1913. hy King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
The Manicure Gao

UT HEAR" said the sergeant,
you were a big shot re-
porter before you came into tho
army"
YES" says the newcomer.
"Oksy, let's see how quick
you can report 10 Corporal
Smith for fatigue duty
Could general think OF thatY
"J'ever get n manicure, bud %
asks the sergeant.
"Sure. Lotsa times"
Swell. Go over to the corral
and manicure n few Of those
mules"
No colonel or captain ever
frightened up the rockies day
by making up a neat little joke
for him.
Dear and beloved customers, I
hate TO think Of the army plod-
ding on 10 its monotonous BUSH
ness Of wiping up the enemy
without the gay uplift Of the
sergeant and his funny sayings
don't you?
Copyright. 1913. b. King rss,urs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

many other sewers or parallels
and eXhalerS of aphorismS, Doc
tor Lin has a clarifying and
extremely valuable introduction
to the man and his work.
Here Doctor Lin is on his
home grounds and shines with
far more luster than when he
dabbles in this war or tells us
what's the matter with uS-as
if we didn't know what's the
matter with us. And we also
know what's the matter with
the Orient. With India and
China it is too much Nirvana
and with Japan too much anti
Nirvana. AS to what Nirvana
is I recommend Doctor Lin
lucid exposition Of it, which is
about the best I've read.
Nirvana is, in word. the
impersonal, bodilesS God, which
was best defined, 1 think. by the
wisest man of the West. Spinoza.
But il whole people try 10
achieve Nirvana they will be
exterminated by Germans and
Japs. who believe in nothing but
physical force.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Parafroop Quip

ZONE to think Of 1t. at one
~ point in my army career, I
was a sergeant, too, but I can't
remember ever having been
smart enough to say to rookie:
you're a jockey, you ride.
don't your"
And when the soldier boy an
swered yes, I wasn't the one who
said softly but firmly:
well, suppose you ride that
wagon over to the mess hall and
pick up the garbage"
I know I wasn't the one. be-
cause I saw that in a comic strip
and the sergeant in the panels
certainly didn't look anything
like me.
There were no smart serReantS
like the one Bennett Cert has In
his new book of war humor-
the one who, when a recruit at
the Fl. Benning school for para
chute troops inquired:
suppose the parachute doesn't
open" snapped: THAT II called
jumping to q conclusion"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

to keep the people ignorant
those who seek to rule a
country by knowledge are the
nations curse" We'll, now,
let's think that over. Doesn't
sound so wise" to me-
There are also Chinese tales,
proverbs. history and fables IN
Doctor Lin's book. 1t is 100
pages of Wisdom la carte.
But there is very little that
you will not find in our western
w s q m in some form, for
SchopenhaVer. for instance, was
the Occidental Buddha-at least
on paper-and Machiavelli and
La Rochefoucauld Tin manner)
were our Laotse. But Doctor
Lin would say all our wisdom
was first ASiatic. 1 will not
gainsay him. There's something
in that.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

seen on American wallScall over
the land with God Bless Our
Home" came the burning Of the
Lexington, which went down off
Long Island in 1910 with a loss
of 100 lives.
This flaming print put Currier
e. Ives on their feet for keeps.
The sale of the Lexington ran
into hundreds OF thousands. 1t
appeared in all the newspapers
and American color-print art
was born.
l have been looking over lot
of these prints in Harry +.
Peters book, "Currier e. Ives:
Printmakers to the American
People" doubleday Doran).
They held the public eye for
more than 50 years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

Il went over 10 MS Tarm
to set spell and we got to talking
and drinking until II turned into fuss.
Elmore tried to run me of the place
with a gun--but j got him first"
"You don't look as though you've
been drinking much" suggested Mays
shrewdly. when did all this happen:"
About g o'clock this EVENING""
anybody see the argument?"
"NO-there was nobody there but
the two OF us. Recs' wife had gone to
HilIsdaie 10 a dance with one OF the
musicians"
The sheriff led the confessed slayer
TO cell.
In front of the house man sprawled
on his face.
Elmore Recs had been blasted from
behind. The shotgun wound was so
devastating that the Hungarian probably
never knew what struck him.
The sheriff turned his attention to
The house Nowhere could he find EVIL
dence of riotous drinking.
Mays phoned the coroner to remove
the body.
After darkening the house he drove
his car off the road into clump OF
into the hayloft OF the barn from whose
opd haar avervthinp in the ward below.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Twas Always Thus

COMEHOW or other. generals
- and captains and shavetails
never deliver their lines with the
pointed quip, the delicate whip
of words-neither do corporals
nor privates first class. 1t ap-
pears only the sergeants are the
caustic wits.
1t was that way in the last
war-but IL was just my hard
luck never to meet one of these
brilliant sergeants. Always the
sharp sallies, the punchy word
lashings were delivered by a
sergeant in some camp some
where else-or in the funny
papers or joke books.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

cded assigned deputy search the county and church
birth records Bertha Gunter'S middle initial
Late the deputy brought back OF the
birth certificate which read Bertha IneZ GunterI
Sheriff Mays had Elmer Mabry brought to his office and
him his shirt The youth hung his mead as
Mays studied the urgy red scars on his arm.
the truth shall have Bertha Recs
brought this brandt" asked the sheriff.
ell tell" mumbled Mabry.
"a short the old HALEY farm
that
anything farming used to advise
lin him hand In n while ~
she around 20 commit murder don't know
except telling anything happened
to husband could plead sefdefense
night the her leave and she
kept looking without saying word But knew what that
look meant
got shotgun and waited behind tree until
Of the house. Then sneaked behind him
and fred" -
Mabry pleaded guilty waived trial and sentenced to 40
years in prison.
Bertha got Is years in the state penitentary.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31


he left il was a signal for the others
10 disperse.
- When all was silent again an auto
mobile approached from the direction
OF HillsdaIe and entered the yard.
woman slipped out soundlessly; then the
car swung around and was gone.
The sheriff heard a knock on door.
II opened and light went on IN the
kitchen.
Mays descended from his perch and
Knocked on the door. The woman greeted
him; her tired face made her look every
day OF her IS years. She motioned him
10 come in.
81 understand you've been over to
HiIlsdale tonight 20 n dance. Mrs. Recs.
Ia that right" the officer asked.
When the woman nodded he asked
her whom she went with.
fryTith- jim Martin, ono OF the
musicians" she answered weakly. Then
she added. But IL was with my hus-
bands permission"
"Do you know what happened TO
your husband:'
Mrs Recs swallowed hard and shook
her head.
srxIa mas shot IN death this evening
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Picture Of Lincoln

uOW naive. respectable and
IL cut-and-dried these prints
of our Victorian days arel Here
is a picture of Lincoln with his
lips rouged to a fiery red. It
makes you blush - Old Abe
painted up TO look like a lady
of uneasy virtue! "Drunkard's
Progress: From the First Glass
10 the Grave" is a classic Of UNI
conscious humor. II probably
started many a teetotaler on a
hellbender just as prohibition
did later on,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
A Surprise Confession.

Frank Mays relaxing his office at
O'clock night October when his door opened and tall
husky farm youth walked in and announced:
"Niy Elmer Mabry. I want to give myself up"
"What for:"
81 killed EImore tried to 50 I
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

The woman stiffened with indigna-
ton
"You have been listening to gossipy
neighbors. Why, Elmer Is only boy"
Late the following morning Mays
was about 10 visit Mabry in his cell
when the jailer entered his office and
announced:
sheriff, that farm boy asked IL he
could take bath this morning so
took him TO the showers.
when he stripped off his shirt he
was standing sideways to me and L
noticed something on his bare left arm
near the shoulder that I've never seen
on A human before. He's been branded.
sheriff, branded like n steer! The
initials B. 1. M are burned right into
his flesh!"
Mays decided that the M most
likely stood for Mabry.- As he focused
his attention on the first letter "B,' the
name OF Bertha" kept recurring to
him.
Could the brand be an irradicable
love link between two death-plotting
lovers?
The middle initial 81" would most
ILe1v ansyer this question. MAYS de-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
New Deal Advice

IN A word, Laotse says that
Il the less the government
does the better people become.
New Dealers, please copy
He also advised the government
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

WHAT is WISDOM 1t is the
w quality Of being wise, in
telligei.t. 1t is the gift Of look
ing through the wells of things
into the essential, eternal fact.
Has the East more wisdom
than the West? From the num-
Der of books that are published
on the wisdom" of the Orient,
II seems that many persons
think so. Hes any one got to-
gether a volume on the wisdom
of the West? Well, l never
heard of it, although much
wisdom" has been put on
paper from Heraclitus and Soc
rates TO Herbert Spencer and
Emerson.
1t is curious in this regard,
is it not. that our most famous
wise" books, the books that
have influenced the Western
world most, are purely Oriental
literature-the Old and the New
Testaments?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Pungent Pups

WHEN there is the story, apoc-
Il ryphal or otherwise, of Irwin
Shaw's first day in the army.
at understand you write
pretty good" said the sergeant
WELL" replied Shaw, mod
estly, 81 write for living
'Tzzatso 2" exclaimed the SER
geant, "welI, how about going to
the Iatrine--and cleaning IL up
right--for the army"
Yes, there is no doubt that our
sergeants are fellows quick on
the uptake. speedy on the re-
tort, soldiers who not only whip
our lads into the best fighters In
the world. but never give an
order without putting a punch
line in II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Currier & Ives

On MAY Is. 1885, at 2 a. m,
" the Planters Hotel of New
Orleans fell in while burning,
burying a number of persons.
That was the subject Of the
first Currier e. Ives print. These
prints used 10 sell for 3 cents
and s cents. They now bring.
rated on their scarcity. as high
as $1,000 apiece! Following the
The Ruins of the Planters
Hotel" in colors, which could be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
NEW YORK |
.CAVALCADE|
Louis Sobol'"nna

HAVE come TO the conclusion
Il that this would he a mighty
dull war without the sergeant.
Come 10 think of il. the last
world brawl was pretty much or
n sergeant's war, too. The SER
geant is the bright fellow Of the
army. All the wisecracks, caus-
tic rebukes, bitter sallies, sar-
castle jibes are tossed by the
sergeant.
Only the other day, a news
paper reported that Red Ruffing.
the baseballer. was hailed by q
sergeant who piped:
"Hey, Buddy. I hear you pitch
pretty good ball. That rightf"
That's right" was Rulings
reply.
"Okay, Bud, let's see how fast
you can pitch a tent"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Latest Is Best

TvHE latest anthology of East
Il ern wise men" is the best.
II Is DR.. Lin Yutangs The
Wisdom OF China and India"
(Random Housed. Before in
PRODUCING Buddha. the Hindu
books, Laotse. Confucius and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
TRUE DETECTIVE STORY
p, Terry, No uuuuuuru,uuuuru

IT is far from the sleepy little town Of Stuart at the foot
Mountains southwestern Virginia, to the
tawdy of Broadway night club This transition
accomplished by Bertha Gnter attractive Stuart girl who
1926 husband and child achieve her desire
This desire paronize her former chuns OF the
prompting 1886 i2yearod Elmore
Hungarian had S40 from his earnings
This girl who 49, had long
lived from hand to mouth.
After short honeymoon Bertha suggested that they move to
Virginia where they could buy farm and settle down.
protested wies beauty and her lazy deceitl
longer Early in 1887 he bought small
farm Stuart but Bertha got her
butterfly wife found she after the vire
form OF Elmer Mabr 21yearod OF neighborlng farmer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

nv your neghbor, Mhbry!" .
The woman appeared stunned at first then wept Mays as
her how well she knew her husbands slayer. -
ct hardly knew the boyle my husbands frieno''
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Discuss Her 'Carryines-On'

few minutes the yard filled with cars Ihongn only
officer, they enough
reveal that discussing the OF
enough with boy young enough to be
her
The coroner presently arrived 70 the bodyand when
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31
Denies She Is the Motive

Mays eyed her narrowly
couldn't been the motive for the ing oouo sou'
Recs?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-31

bushes Then he climbed into the hayloft OF the
upper door he could see and hear everything IN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-06-17
Miss Putnam Becomes !
Bride of Lieut.. Dewitt
In Texas Ceremony

In an evening ceremony, May 8, at
First Presbyterian church, Waco.
Texas, Miss Patria Putnam, daughter
of Mrs. j. NJ. Robinson, Newport,
Texas, exchanged wedding vows with
Lieut.. Abel f. Dewitt, Camp Hood,
Texas, son of Mrs. William E. Nern
Parkersburg, w. Va, formerly of
Oakland. The Rev Thomas Gallaher
pastor, performed the marriage cere-
mony.
Mrs. c. X. White, Waco, was the
only guest. For the occasion the bride
wore blue dress with white acces-
sories and corsage of orchids
She was graduated from Wichita
Falls, Texas High School and studied
X-ray and laboratory work at the
University Hospital, Oklahoma City.
Since then she has worked in medicine
with Major J. Hoyle Carlock, T. S.
Army Medical Corps in Ardmore, and
in Colorado Springs as assistant lab
oratOry technlcian in the Printers
Home, and more recently has been as
ISOLATED with clinic in Dallas.
In Ardmore she was a member of
the Y w. c. A., Business and Profess
sional Club quarette and served as
President of the First Baptist church
choir
Lieutenant Dewitt is a graduate of
the University of West Virginia, Nor
gantown, where he did post graduate
work. Until 1871 he taught in the
high schools of his home state of
Maryland. He entered military serv-
ice that year and is now a first lieu
tenant in a tank destroyer battalion
at Camp Hood. The couple will be at
home for the present in Temple