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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12
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Safety Chalk Talks
By Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, director
Of The Stars school safety program
and former" chief OF detectives, Is
giving series of chalk talks on
safety to pupils of elementary, jun
ior and senior high schools. The
talks are presented under sponsor
ship of The Junior Star in CO.
operation with school authorities OF
the District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia. This weeks schedule:
Monday, HE'S am, Silver Sprins
Intermediary: Tuesday, HIS am.
Woodside Elementary; 2:15 pm.
Parkside Elementary; Wednesday
HIS am, Kensington Elementary
2:15 pm, East Silver Spring Ele-
mentary; Thursday. HIS am, -Four
Corners Elementary. and Friday
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Inc taueSt mountain peak In
North America Is Mount Mckinley
Its height is given as 10000 feet,
which means that it rises almost
four miles above sea level.
An attempt to climb that peak
was made in 1912, but the party had
to give up when they reached q point
a few hundred feet from the top
In. the next year, however, q party
led by Hudson Stuck managed to
reach the summit.
The Andes Mountains OF South
America have several peaks which
are slightly taller than Mount Nc
Kinley. One of these Is Aconcagua,
well over four miles high. It was
scaled for the first time in 1897 by
the Fitzgerald expedition.
If we want to find higher peaks
than those of the Andes, there Is
only one place to 60, and that is
Asia.
Five peaks III the Himalaya Noun
tains are more than five miles above
sea level, and tallest Of them all Is
Mount Everest. This mighty peak
is on the border Of Tibet and India.
Mount Everest was named In
honor Of Sir George Everest, Q Brit
ish surveyor who spent 81 years
making surveys Of India. A little
more than q century ago he located
the peak and figured its Height.
With the help Of surveying instru-
ments, it is possible to estimate 4
mountains height without going to
the top. Sir George never reached
the highest part Of Mount Everest,
but the height he gave was close to
what Is accepted today. The latest
estimate Is 29,l41 feet, or just over
I'VE and q half miles.
With peak Of that height exist
ing In the world. 1t Is little wonder
that men should have tried to
climb It.
Any man In good health, and with
. supply Of oxygen, might climb
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There's No Place
Like WASHINGTON

By Vera Bloom. putnam.
$780, \
Drawn from the memories of its
authors 20 years in the Capital as
a member of oficial society, this
Is a book which Washingtonians
will certainly be reading.
Vera Bloom is the daughter of
Representative Sol Bloom Of New
York and has been a newspaper
writer. She knows her Washington,
as one puts it, and she has written
the sort of book which Washington
people like-a book about them
selves, their charms and follies,
their gossip (naturally), their habits
and taboos and in general the fac
tors which make Washington itself.
She has wisely not attempted to
draw any sweeping conclusions or
prove anything. She has just told
Of some things which she saw hap
pen. And 1t should be said to her
lasting credit that she has not yield
ed to that temptation which has
overcome 50 many writers who have
done the same thing-she has not
engaged in malice to make her story
sensational. Though her book deals
with the socially prominent in the
city, and calls them by their names,
It is still no LET Elm Eat Caviar"
It describes the advent of the
Bloom family in the Capital from
the Representatives first nomination
in 1928, when, as the daughter re-
lates with charming frankness, from
her background of a cultured and
scholarly household she was thrown
into dismay at the thought of a
descent into the vulgarity of poll
tics. Then follow descriptions Of
the social order which prevailed in
those days and continued up to the
beginning Of the New Deal with
anecdotes and sketches 81 the then
leading figures, including the Presi-
dents and their ladies. In much the
same way, Miss Bloom deals with
Washington under the <new social
regime instituted by the Roose-
velts. Protocol, gate crashers, Cos
sip writers, fortune hunters, visit
ing celebrities-all the familiar phe-
nomena are duly gotten into the &C
count.
Interspersed with the strictly
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Reviewing he New Books
The Green Years
By Moyy.Ca AFTER Roberts

By A. j. Cronin. little Brown $780, U@
Although this novel minor thing
other Of fiction
to from Its authors previously
Cronn generally had social theme which
his characters necessarily
however wholly book about people While
popularity minded
about beings time She doubts somehow that
heights easily
very simple little thing lacking not only the social
bur also complicated structure which past
work It Just the story boy growing older It begins with It's hero
aged and about college written In the
person and the intimacy and which Dr. conn brings
the youngsters problems make read like autobiography More
than the reviewer had the impression that the experiences
which befe Robert those which had himself
undergone in boyhood
Robert the orphaned
an IRISH Catholic father AS the book live with his
Scotch grandparents small provincial
M up then in Dublin He has been reared Catholic and his Scotch
relatives think Of him Irish they
able affection Robert is however duty They take him
dour home and do their dour best by him.
struggles his
d religion his friendships enm
higher educaorthese make
treatment indicates
which make his attainment of
painful business He gives vivid
and It's characters and at the
adoscent the
bewildering, and basicany bewildering ways
~ nice Joo ana no one VINO would like
like WELL -
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locale "of endless conflict between
brown river and blue gulf" Mr..
Kane has found beauty In rich
profusion and turbulence" Around
this he paints vivid portrait, woven
through with accounts Of the adven-
turous lives Of shrimp fishermen, lily
growers, oyster men, muskrat trap
pers, Chinese s,nugglers. Dalmatians,
parish priests, political bosses and
sugar planters.
Author of two best sellers, LOU
isiana Hayride" and The Bay
Gus Of louisiana" Mr.. Kane In this
new book of a region richer In color
and strangeness than any other part
of the State, has done his finest
writing.
Never has the story of the con-
struction Of Capt. James B. Eads'
famous jetties been better told. 1t is
the story of the harness placed in
the mouth of the river that had
defied all efforts to control its flow
for two centuries. Called the most
deciding factor in shaping the trans
port and commercial routes Of the
American interior, next to the Civil
War" the full account Of this great
feat of modern engineering as told
by Mr.. Kane Is thrilling drama.
This newest addition to the Amer
lean Folkway Series embraces the
area from New Orleans to the Gulf
of Mexico, where the Mississippi's
deep delta spreads for lis miles or
so. In this region the great water
way is said to have left the States,
and according to Mr. Kane "the ter
rain and the population alter before
| the. eye. @For thats matter, be
writes, 'in this locale, where many
things are not what they seem, the
Mississippi itself becomes a changed
stream" 40 ''~' a. e'"~ -r''l
Few writer's know deep delta
country as well as Mr.. Kane. a
New Orleans Newspaper man, and
in this region to which the river
has brought the richest soil that
the world knows he has recreated
the life Of the great sugar planta-
tons and has documented the long
and colorful history Of a land that
has been both battle-ground and
paradise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12
By John Selby.

Pigeons never meant much in my
life until read book called "Cou-
riers of the Sky" by Mary Graham
Bonner. In the old days, a pigeon
was just a bird that emitted a
curious cooling clucking sort of sound
at intervals, and was occasionally
served as food when very young.
Now I know a lot better.
Pigeons have been one of mans
closest friends since history began,
Miss Bonner writes, and probably
for long before that vague date. The
friendship has never been altered,
nor has the usefulness of the pigeon
IN other than gastronomic fields
lessened. Even today, when we have
everything from the international
cable system to walkie -talkies,
pigeons still are useful as message
bearers.
Nor is just any pigeon adequate
for just any task. Racing pigeons
should never be white, because
hawks can see them too easily.
Pigeons used for racing, or homing
pigeons, must have all IL of their
tail feathers to fly eflciently, and
should you want to buy a start of
homers, you should make the pur-
chase when the birds are not more
than four weeks old. Otherwise, you
are quite likely to have nothing left
but nest when they are first given
liberty.
Miss Bonner gives more than the
history and habits of the birds-she
tells simply, and very well, how to
care for pigeons and how to house
them. It is interesting that the
Chinese used to tie whistles and bells
to pigeons to brighten away the
hawks, but it is probably more i'm
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be of much use to us as such,
but because, in dealing with for
eigners, If one knows beforehand
the fixed ideas they have about one
one gets forward with less trouble
We are having to deal with the
British great deal just now, and
DR.. Brogan's book appears to be pre-
cisely summing up OF British fixed
ideas on what we are. It really
should be called "A British View OF
the American Character"
The reviewer does not mean by
this that the book is compilation
Of inaccurate information. On the
contrary, she found only one error
of fact In it-Dr. Brogan says that
Huckleberry Finn was subjected to
civili1ng processes at the hands
Of Tom Sawyer's aunt. AS the re-
viewer remembers, it was not Aunt
Polly who undertook Huck's regen-
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Girl of Five Hobbies
Sums Them Up in
One Word-'Life'
PRIZE Contribution
By Beatrice M. Gxssin, IS,
Roosevelt High School.

Roosevelt High School.
My hobby is life" That may
sound strange, but that is exactly
what it is.
My whole family Is artistic, but
none Of US except my younger
brother and I have followed this
talent. Although I wear glasses
for weak vision, my eyes are sensis
tive to the beauty in things around
me. They study and remember
This habit of making mental pic
lures OF things I have seen has
helped me greatly with my drawing
For the past five years I have been
tracing pictures from comic books
and magazines, which has helped
me to gain . sense of proportion
and to profit by the experience and
talent Of the artist whose work
copied.
This interest has led me to traveI
about the city to see the different
kinds Of buildings, people, trees anc
flowers. This is not enough; I woulc
like to see the world, not for the
reason most people have, but to SET
the people and homes Of other lands
know their customs and learn thei,
history.
My other Notwithstanding, pho.
Biography. collecting autographs
photographs and post cards-all tie
in with this one great hobby. BY
drawing and photography, I can cap.
ture on paper what some peopl,
fail to capture by sight. BY col.
lecting autographs, I can look a
the handwriting of some noted per
sonality and say to myself: Here
on paper, is q part of . certain
person" Somehow, that seems tt
make the person part Of me. Ane
so my hobby Is really . part Of m.
and I am part Of 1t. It Is really
q lifetime hobby!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12

East's double Of four hearts was
based on the fact that, knowing his
partner to be safe bidder, he be-
lieved she must have two. and one
half and probably three high honor
tricks, when on the second round
she called two diamonds. He had a
singleton diamond and probably two
heart tricks, certainly one and good
prospects for another, which would
set the contract.
West opened the ace and king of
diamonds and on the third lead of
that suit East trumped. South over
trumped and led small heart to
his ace in dummy. West showed q
void and South continued with q
heart, on which East played the jack
and South was obliged to win with
the king, which told West that the
queen was held by her partner. South
then led his singleton club to the
king in dummy and West, holding
the ace, allowed the king to win.
Declarer then had three good spades
and two small hearts. while East
held only the queen of trumps,
which he was able to make, but 1t
was then too late to set the contract,
for declarer had no more clubs. He
made four doubled, and East and
West lost the board because West
thought that, by passing one club,
declarer could be set two tricks. It
does not pay to be too greedy.
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New Books for Children

portant to modern youngsters about
to raise pigeons that under no cir
cumstances must their owner forget
to keep iodized salt where they can
get at 1t. (Knopf; $1.50)
I can't say how James Thurber's
juveniles appeal to children, but
certainly they are amusing for an
adult. The new one is called THE
Great Outflow" it is about q toy
maker who saved his village from
the depredations Of q giant named
Hunder in very special way, and
the book is illustrated wonderfully in
plentiful color by one OF our most
gifted painters-Doris Lee. (Har-
court, Brace; So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12
Best Sellers
FICTION.

Forever Amber, by Kathleen
Winsor.
Green Dolphin Street, by
Elizabeth Goudge.
The Raxor's Edge, by w. Som.
erset Maugham.
Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
Earth and High Heaven, by
0wethalyn Graham.
NONFICTION.
Lees Lieutenants, Vol. III, by
Douglas Southall Freeman.
Ranger Mosby, by Virgil Car
rington Jones.
Yankee From Olympus by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
/ Never Left Home, by Bob
Hope.
The World Of Warrington
Irving, by Van Wyck Brooks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12

Sometimes Robbie Is bossy and then
Ernie gets angry at her.
Robbie is the one that gets away
with her naughtiness. Ernie is too
good and usually gets the seedlings.
They are identical twins. Once a
little boy asked them, which is
which," Robbie angrily replied,
I'm not witch!"
Twins have disadvantages as we'll
as advantages. The advantages are
that they always have each other
to play with, and don't need any
other playmates. and they're always
Ill around the same time, and they
recover together, so they can play
with each other in the sick room.
My sisters disadvantages are they
don't get as many birthday and
Christmas gifts as they would other
wise, because, being identical, they
want things alike. So people have
to buy two gifts Of the same kind,
and on Christmas morning, we al.
ways see things double.
Sometimes, one twin gets the
punishment that the other deserves.
Here's story:
Robbie broke a vase In the living
room and ran out of the front door.
A little later, Ernie came in. As
she stood looking at the broken vase
my mother also walked into the
room. OF course, Ernie got the
scolding that Robbie deserved. Also,
many times in school, the teacher
mixes them up and Furnishes the
wrong twin.
Another time, Robbie and Ernie
went to the dentists ofice. Ernie
was helped first, so Robbie waited in
the reception room. Presently, .
woman came in and spoke to Rob-
bic. She showed Robbie some mag
azines and Robbie told her all about
her pets at home. ....
1 A little later, Robbie was called to
have her teeth fixed, and Ernie came
into the waiting room. The woman
now saw Ernie and, thinking it was
Robbie, continued her talk about the
magazines and the pets. But Ernie.
of course, knew nothing Of Robbie's
talk, and the woman must have
thought her a very odd person when
she gave such funny answers.
Later, mother and Robbie came
out, and then the woman talked to
mother and understood that Robbie
and Ernie are twins. We all had q
good laugh.
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Night Unto Night
By Philip Willie.

By Philip Wylie. (Fdrrdr d
Rtnehdrt. $2.75.)
This novel delivers, in fiction
form, about the same thunderous
sermon which Mr.. Wylie hurled
forth from the nonfiction pulpit
In his last book, Generation OF
Vipers.' Those who read the for
mer volume will know what that
means. Those who did not read 1t
will probably find the novel puzzling.
Mr.. Wylie is in revolt against the
shocking degeneration which has
come about In American ideals and
spiritual stamina since Standard
cation became the national passion.
He sees what anybody can see, which
Is that, when standardization be-
comes the ideal, standards 60 out.
Standards, of course, are of the man:
standardization is of the mob. He
utters a terrific blast, therefore, at
the folly of destroying men to create
mobs. While his novel makes the
text Of the sermon vigorously plain,
its plot is melodramatic and con-
tainS a number of unrelated ele-
ments which are never brought to-
gether as we'll as some vestigal sub
plots which are just dropped, out
midway, But it would be- folly to
say that the book is not remark
ably interesting. 1t is a powerful
piece Of writing. 1t comes, after all,
from a, veteran's hand - II. the hand
takes extraordinary liberties, 1t still
knows its craft. ,-s....
The. elements of the story are SO
various that it is impossible to Of
fer a synopsis. One can say, how
ever, that they include commune
cation with the dead, psychoanaly-
sis, the effect of epilepsy on char
acter, free love as an escape mech
anism and a Florida hurricane
Nothing seems to have any partic-
ular relation to anything else, and
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Uncle Rays Corner

5h miles above sea level, II he could
go up a firm, gentle slope in the
midst OF good weather. That Is far
from the kind Of slope on Everest!
On that mountain a person is chilled
by air which Is far colder than ice
He must cross snowfields and
glaciers, and there is danger of a
landslide or avalanche.
The year 1922 saw strong efforts
to reach the top Of Everest. A party
climbed to a height Of $4,000 feet
and made q camp there. The
leaders Of the party were British,
but with them went a number of
mountaineers who had been hired
Tor the purpose.
It was the month of May, the best
time of the year to make the at
tempt.
One day II men left the camp
and climbed upward for some dis
lance. They moved in little groups
OF four or five, the members Of each
group being roped together. sud
denly they felt the ground moving
under their feetl It was q land
slide!
Two groups Of the men were
carried over an ice cli6 80 feet high.
Seven members Of those groups lost
their lives, but the two others were
rescued. The eight men who did
not slide over the clin had narrow
escapes, some Of them being moved
$50 feet by the landslide.
In 1924 anew attempt to scale
Mount Everest was made. This
time two men went ahead Of the
Others and reached . point about
600 feet from the summit when they
last were seen They were given up
for dead . few days later, after the
failure Of al Efforts Of the rest Of
the party TO locate them.
mime years later-in lo33-two
British airplanes made the first
night over the top Of the worlds
'tallest mountain.
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growth OF o u r
Nation from the
discovery to the
pre- S e n t, and
even on into the
future. AS he
has a good swift
moving style, he
is easy to read
and the reviewer
commends read
ing him. Not,
she has to admit,
because she be-
lieves that DR..
Brogan's inter-
probation of our
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Father OF Wa
ters, carrying
soil swept down
from half the
s t a t es Of the
u MON, flo s
with weird and
terrible pow e r
into the Gulf Of
Mexico.
The scene, &C
cording to an
earlier writ err,
Nv Guild hay We
given Dante SUI
perb material for
another I n I err
poO INT IN this
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Bridge!
Bv Frank b. Lord.

National bridge players will be
back on the boardwalk ct Atlantic
City December I to 10. when the
American Contract Bridge League
holds It's 18th annual tournament
there. Many Of the big hotels were
Communicated by the Government
for war purposes, but the Brighton,
where the tourney will take place,
has been especially fitted up for the
comfort and convenience Of the
devotees Of the game, and q large
contingent from the National Capt.
tai Is expected to participate.
The Philadelphia Whist Associa-
ton has practically taken over the
job Of providing the arrangements.
and Its president, George Kessler,
jr, has been named chairman OF
the Tournament Committee, with
Mrs. Oliver Peterson assisting "a
chairman Of the women's events
Until the war came on, the league
had met annually In summer
tournament ut Asbury Park, but
during the past two years 1t has
been obliged to hold forth In New
York City. The coming meet will
be the first that has gone to Amer
ica's great seaside pleasure resort.
The program calls for the follow
ing events:
December 5, first session of the
women's pair match, also the mixed
pairs. The second session Of these
games will take place on the follow
ing day. December will see the
mixed pairs In their finals in the
afternoon and the first session Of
the open teams of four in the eve
ming. On December the. second
session Of the open teams Of four
will be played in the afternoon and
their finals the same evening. The
open pairs will play their FIRST ses-
sion December 9 and the finals on
the same evening. The national
amateur pairs metal will occur on
the afternoon Of Sunday, December
10, in seminal session, and the
finals in the evening.
On Monday evening, December 4,
the tournament will open with a
cocktail party, following which there
will be little not-too- serious bridge
for practice purposes.
Defenders Of the several national
championships won last year are
Mrs. e. J. Seligman and Mrs. Ruth
Goldberg. national open pairs;
Charles H. Goren, Sidney Silodor,
Mrs. A. M. Sobel and B. Jay Becker,
national teams of four; Mrs. Olive
Peterson and Charles 0oren, ma
tional mixed pairs; Mrs. A. M. Sobel,
Mrs. Wilkerson Wagar, Mrs. r. C..
Young and Mrs. J. e. Folline, ma
tional women's teams, and DR.. Max
Mitchell and Herbert Stein, national
amateur pairs.
1t. Rudolph Ashton and Mrs.
Dora Schwarts took the honors at
the monthly master point game Of
the Federal Bridge League. winning
by a margin of 20 points over Mr..
and Mrs. H. j. Vanderslaus, who
were second. Jack Roster and r. E.
Mullen were third.
In any bridge game, especially 9
duplicate game, it Is generally I'm.
wise for an adversary to refuse tt
take the setting trick when an op.
portunity to do 50 is offered, in the
hope OF putting the declarer down
two tricks instead of one. Frequently
he makes his contract by reason oil
such failure. 1t was so in a recent
Federal League match, and the play
kept the negligent pair from win.
ming ut least second place and per-
haps the first place in the contest. -
, 81 his> was the deal: oqqu7 aes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12

Saved by q Sinner
Where did you get that black
eye?"
Trying to save . little boy from
getting licked"
That's nice. Who was the little
boy?"
Me"