Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1931, Page 12

WOMAN’S-PAGE. Model in White or Colored Cotton 3 BY MARY repeats itself in fashion in other matters, and tne fashion titfons seldom come separately. D1 t revivol of cottons reminds us of tie tremendous vogue for cottons that took place following: the French Revo- lution in France, when women wore muslins and other sheer cotton mate- rials similar to those that are so fash- ionable at the present time. Interest- ingly enough there are other features of the present fashion situation that remind us strongly of the fashions that followed the French Revolution. Many MARSHALL. of the new long, slender evening dresses are distinctly reminiscent of those days prints of the Directoire period in France to see definite similarities between the modes of those days and of our own. Today we have a far wider variety of fine cotton materials from which to choose. One has but to visit the dress goods depertment of any well stocked department store to be lm&resud by their charm. Having seen these lovely fabries you will want to buy enough for one dress at least. Today's sketch suggests how to make a white or colored cotton dress. The flounce on the skirt measures about 14 inches in depth, and the pleats are about an inch and a half in width. You can easily lay them yourself, then baste down and press carefully. The frill on the bodics is made from a 3-inch plece o material laid in pleats about an inch wide. Instead of extending the frilling around the back it is best to let jt terminate at the shoulder seams. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. ‘WEATHER Partly fair. SISSIETY PAGE Mr. Shorty Judge has got tired of waiting for it to rain and has started t5 wear his new raincoat around any- ways. ltyfl.ss Mary Watkins the well known charity werker expects to start a home for homeless cats as soon as ghe can find somebody that’s aloud to vse their cellar or & spare rom in their house. Starting next week Miss Maud Jon- son is sippose to make her own bed every Sattiday and Sunday, but she dont think her mother will be able to stand it more than one Sattiday and Sunday. SHORT STORY BY LEROY SHOOSTER A Awful Moment A fly stood still and looked thawtful. “What's a matter?” asked a frend. “Life'’s too short to waist, why dont you get bizzy and annoy peeple?” “There's a elefant standing on my instep and Im afraid if I asked him to move over he mite axsidently move the wrong way,” ansered the fly. ‘The end BIZNESS OPPORTUNITIES For Sale or Exchange—A mixed pile of red dert and pebbles. Big bargain | on account of owner not aloud to keep | it after Sattiday. See Puds Simkins | any time before next Sattiday. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS Neck Bleach. Dear Miss Le2ds—I am a close fol- lower of .your daily writings and ncw I have a problem of my own. Would you kindly suggest what one can do with a red neck? It is expcsed 10 the air a great deal, as I slways wear & low-necked dress and keep my coat open. My skin is fair but !re:kl!d.n H. 8. Answer — There are several things which will benefit a red neck. If the skin is inclined to be dry also you will find the following treatment effective: Mix two ounces of oil of sweet almonds cr olive with a few drops of simple tinc- ture of min. ' Warm the mixture and apply it t9Mhe skin with a clean piece of absorbent cotton after the nightly leansing. Allow the oil to remain on e skin overnight. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE | 3.One of chic’s greatest enemies is physical discomfort. ect to appear chic if one is not orap: rly dressed? And for a warm Summer afterncol what could be more appropriate tha & cool looking printed chiffon voile? Here it is! And when it's so easily made, why not have it? And it tubs " 0 well, so will give excellent scrvice. ™ style No. 3154 may be had in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18,20 years, 35 and 33 inches st. Exlet batiste is lovely in sellow e. ! Shantung in dusty pink worn with Brown patent leathor belt is sportive. 14 Pastel flat washable silk crepe, chif- fon prints and self-patterned crgandie mske up spiendidly in this model. |, Size 16 requires 4% yards 39-inch. i) For a pattern of this style, d_15 cents in stamps or coin divectly to The ashington Star's New York Fishion ureau, Fifth IV;!I\IE and Twanty-ninth rk. s are hers again' i S0 nsa you to er wardrobe. % We've prepared a book to help you flan for the most coloriul fashion period of the year. A book that offers the best selection of styles for the season for fhe adult, miss, stout and child, and Relps the reader to economize. ¥ You can save $10 by spending 10 cents for this book. The edition is limited so we suggest that you send 10 cents in stamps or coin today for your copy to fashion department. Price of 1 LEEDS. wash with water that has been softened with almond meal, oatmeal or cornmeal. Apply your skin tonic, allow it to dry on the skin and dust with face powder. Another treatment which is especially | good for a sensitive skin.is made as | follows: One pint sweet milk, one ounce | carbonate of soda, one ounce glycerin, | two drams powdered b-rax, two drams | boric acid. Heat the milk to the boiling point and draw itto cne side, add the | drop by drop, and mix thoroughly. Ap-. ply the lotion at bedtime and leave on overnight. LOIS LEEDS. 0. J. G—Your weight and measure- In the morning | How can one ex-| ,ment are very good. They comparg | very favorably with the measurements <f the American Venus who, of course, is considered a model. LOIS LEEDS. V. H. G—Your weight is correct for your height end age. Your bust measure is about two inches less than that con- sidered fect’ for cne of ycur age, but on the whole I would consider that your proportions are very 5 LOIS LEEDS. Mcther of Four—You have tried to reduce altogether too fast and that ac- counts for -the wrinkles and also for the weakness. You may continue to cut down on sweets and starches, but re- member that a certain amount cf food is abolutely necessary to health. I should not advise you to try to lose more than one pound a week. That should be no particular hardship and it will not caust wrinkles nor that worn- out feeling which was unavoidable with the limited diet on which you were try- ing to exist. Please send stamped, self- atidressed envelope with a request for my leaflet, on how t> lose weight. It will give you advice which is safe to follow. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1931.) ‘Trading Luxuries. “No,” ‘sald Mrs. ‘Lately-Wed sadly, “we can't afford to go away this year. No matter kow we figure it, G 'S income simply won't stretch.” She interested me at once, bécause I knew that George was making a pretty com- fortable living, and that neighbors, some of whom had less to spend, had their “two weeks” planped. Here are some of the reasons that George couldn't see his way clear. He was still making payments on an ex- pensive car and radio set, and he had discovered of late that he was too tired, when he came home, to mow the lawn, or” water the bushes, grass plots and. flower beds. S0 he had hired a “house man” at $i8 a week and board. He had changed his tailor because his old one wasn't up-to-date enough, and the change cost him $30 a suit. Friend wife had played bridge all | Winter and Spring with rather disas- | trous results. When she wasn't losing | money she was spending it on refresh- | ments and luncheons. Spe had sisted upon having a membership at the. country club, though she never i played go'f, and as George's wife she | had all the privileges she required. Be- cause of her social activities, she found | that she needed a maid for -little | Susen, and she had to have her en- gagement ring reset because it was “so old-fashioned.” 3 1 didn't wonder any longer why George coulén't afford to spend his two weeks of freedom from the office in a8 pew ee‘ting. Yet this family ien't different from many others. How many families co you suppose will fore- 20 their Summer vacaticn this year ;b:cause of a Fall, Winter, or Spring extravaganee? It will do any family |'good to get away from home for & | couple of weeks, even if it just means { tourirg in a flivver, or camping out ‘in some rustic spot. g Of course. many women will ory, “But I didn't sacrifice my vacation by buying that or doing that! Well, the answer is Ev nd one has but to see old fashion |this year I ni borax, carbonate of soda and boric acid. | AlI“W to cool and then add the glycerin, | Straight Talks to Women About Mone BY MARY ILIZAB_ETH ALLEN. % in- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931 Household Methods BY BETSY flAl.iJlfll. “What shall T do with my blankets?” asks Mrs. K. “Last Spring I put them away before - moths . weré , _but | lected to do so. have kept house only three years and have never had them clearfed. Now I would like to have them cleaned if it. is not too expensive, and would like to know | the best way to go about it, so that melymwmmlymhanmcndw moths.” The best thing to do is to send them to a first-class cleaner and have them done for you. You may even arrange to have them wrapped and sealed for you in heavy wra paj 80 that there will be no chance moths at- tacking them. To wash blankets in the ordinary way or to trust them to an unskilled laundress is ral::nemv- agence. The better the, 't the more likely is is to be ruined by this sort of treatment.. You may quite safely wash them at home if you observe certain rules. Re- member that very hot water or very cold water should be avoided. Wash one blanket at a ‘time,. whether you wash them in a washing machine or an ordinary wash tub. Use plenty of good soap or soap chips, but do not use it directly on the blanket. Dissolve the soap or chips in boiling water and then add it to the moderately warm water tart going is put in and keep it going for 20 minutes. If you wash them in a tub, sozzle them up and down for 5 or 6 minutes—longer if you have patience. Some authorities say that a blanket should not be put | through the wringer, but if the rollers | are loosened slightly and the blankets |put through in even folds no harm will be done. Each blanket should be | rinsed thoroughly in clear, lukewarm | water. It should be dried in the open |plan is to pin it on two clothes lines | running _ parallel blanket apart. This makes it possible | that the water will not run down ‘to |or in an alry place indcors. A good the width of the to dry them in a horizontal position so | the ends and sides of the blankets. NATURE’S BY LILLIAN COX. ATHEY. CHILDREN Tiustrations by Mary Foley. XLIL THE INCH WORM. GEOMETRIDAE FAMILY. § ITH measured step and ¢ slow” go the earth meas- urers. No child ever looked less like its parents v - than this unusual worm. She _strolls along as if she had no fear atall of enemies. Her behavior is very different when she is on the branch.of a tree. Let one of her archenemies ap- | | pear—the lizard or a bird—and she will' stiffen her slender body quickly. swirg | L out, and hold herself in this posit'on for hours, if need be. Because she has no middle legs, this is most helpful in imitating a twig. The warts on her body look like the bud scars and it takes a wise bird or #izard to know the dif- ference. She clings to the branch with her tail claspers and stands on her hind pro-legs. It has been said that she also spins a thread of silk and fastens this to a nearby branch for steadying puf- poses. Her body is brown or gray. Usually she is found upon the tree or grass she resembles most in coloring. In walking she holds tightly to the surface with her strong front legs. Then she draws her body up into a loop and, using her tail claspers and pro-legs, holds this position while she measures her length before releasing her clasp and grasping the next hold. ‘The mother and father of this worm are the Geometrid moths. Early in the Spring the wingless moth, - dressed in gray, will climb slowly up the trunk of the tree where the year before she has eaten freely Of its.tender leaves. Here in the late -vznl? the strong winged male moths will flit about. After the mating the mother will hide her eggs under the loose bark of the tree. One month later the tiny measuring worms | erawl out of the eggs and go as fast as they can for the tender leaves. I many moth mothers have used the same tree it will look as if it had been through a fire in a few weeks after these worms have helped themselves. After a month of greedy eating the measuring worm will drop to the ground on a silken rope and begin to make a cell in the earth. Then there is a change into pupa, remaining until the ne;gl Spring, and walking out a grown m Place' & band of sticky fly paper around the trunk of the tree which had inch worms the year befose and trap the moths as they climb up the trunk. Watch them. Should there be very many, it has been known that the young lady moth will crawl over the dead body of her sister in order to reach the branches of the tree and meet the gen- tleman moths. (Copyright, 1931 available that year. If part of that in- come isn't reserved for the Summer vacation, it is obvious that the family will lose out. Around June or July a bag full of money isn't going to drop from the ceiling when the family circle is trying to find ways and means. ‘There’s no use crying now about the vacation lost to you this Summer. You must make ‘the best of it, however un- satisfactory that may be. Plan ahead for next Summer, and learn from this year's mistakes. You can't .sqaunder money through the year, ald expect your ple to return to be eaten again. SONNYSAYINGS . BY FANNY Y. CORY. I 0| jud 15 il ufe"b:.‘:%fl: Now, ‘en; Baby, nmougfiuhml o W a 3 g 1he®'sdar ust " what. incorne. F Bt 2l o el A4 PARIS Qrdanse, in fer lats- st collection. shows ls white crife =—=OF THE MOMENT Dl:AR MISS DIX—Three years after my marriage I had developed into & neurotic fault-finder and magnified my husband’s failings and matrimony’'s minor irritations to a preposterous point where every- thing he did or didn't do dissatisfied me. Finally I wrote a long letter of ‘complaint to my mother, listing the various items in m: ment against him and wound up by telling her I was going to take our two children and come home to her. Mother’s answer was to express a fervent wish that she had spanked some sense into me when I was a child and informing me that sh» would not welcome me back. 1 care- Jessly left her letter and mine, which sne had returned to me, on- & table. My husband read them and before I knew what was happening * he swung me over his knee and gave. me the first. and worst spanking of our joint acquaintance. 1t cured me and made me respect him, for I realized I had a man to deal with and that I was not to be humored and would have to behave myself. We have got along beautifully since then and I am a happy and contented wife instead of being a miserable divorcee. A SPANKED SPQUSE. NSWER—AIlas, I fear that we are too highly clvilized for any one to dare to put forth the propaganda recommendln{, remedy for divorce, but there is no manner of doubt t! spanking as a at it would be highly efficacious. I have seen many a peevish, fretful, whining wife that T have felt could be applied. reformed and regenerated by having a hairl I have seen.many 8 selfish, fault-finding, irritable, grouchy hus- band, whom his wife tried in vain to please, who simply cried aloud to be taken to the woodshed, like a bad little boy, and thrashed into decency and a respect for other people’s rights and feelings. Undoubtedly when grown-u| sbould be dealt with on that conventions of soclety and a maudlin sentimentality do to do so. ?eovle act like spoiled children they t: , and the pity of it is that the not permit us Of course, everybody will call your husband 'a wife-beater and a brute, which he is not, and throw up hands of horror over his chastising you for your sins, although its result was to shock you into a realization of how wrong and foolishly you were acting and to save your home and happiness. But your letter is not the only one that I have had bearing testimony to the virtue of spanking. I have received many letters from other wives who have had the same exrerlencn, and every one of them kissed the hand that smote them and tol d practically the same tale, that they loved their husbands better for makipg them .behave themselves and that the spanking they got had literal saved their souls. All of which is perfectly logical, for no woman loves the man she doesn’t_respect and no woman respects a man she can run roughshod over. Every woman has a contempt for the husband who submits to her henpecking or who meekly endures her nagging or who lets her ruin him with her exiravagance or who gets up and gets his own breakfast while she lies in bed of a morning. The man a woman really loves is the man who is stronger than she is, who will be kind and indulgent to her, but who will expect her to act like an adult human being and not a moronic child and do her part of the work and bear her share of the burdens in their matrimonial partnership. The person in this triangle that I particularly wish to pay tribute to is the mother who refused to become accessory before the fact to her daughter’s careless divorce. If there were more mothers who had the backbone to tell their married daughters to stick to their husbands and their homes and do their duty instead of “poor-Marying” them and encouraging them to quit because they found marriage was not all their romantic fancy painted, it would do more than any one thing to DOROTHY (Copyrisht, 1931.) cut down divorces. - DIX. Arrangement of Indoor Porch BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. B )\ \'§ LTI The indeor porch is a blessing to those who are obliged to remain at home during the heat of Summer. Those who live in houses, even in big cities, can avail themselves of its comfort since it simply involves the proper ration of some one of the rooms. a sunksn porch may be constructed from one of the store- rooms or a screened-off corner of the open cellar. v Clear the room, or the s:ction of the well-cemented cellar, and in it put porch ‘Thesz may be the sim- tures, hangings, mi wall-flower holders. Have awnings for windows, and arrange win- dow boxes below the window sills either outside or indoors. The reason for low- EGe_rydly Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS, Brain and Intellect. About 100 yéars ago it was assumed that both the brain and the intellect attained their full size by the eighth year of life. While the cupposition was false, it nevertheless found its way iy PR SR, Sl our’ knowledge of brain @nd & itional, expectation of youth. What I want to ay, as a m"lfltlur of in- formation, is this: The brain grows very rapidly during the first seven years. But it kee) sure, until ey vear. even some wth until the for- Heth. " After - that 1t begins to lose mmht. About an ounce every 10 years 40. te these facts, some of which not altogether g;oud, the hu- tellect seems to just as good between 40 and 50 as it ever was. Adults learn just as readily as ado- lescents. Of course,'np one knows just has much allowance should be made for education and general experience. (Copyright, 1931.) NANCY PAGE Closing House for Summer Not Difficult BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The Lee family were sailing for a three-months stay in Europe. This was such an ordinary procedure for them the maids knew just what should be done before the hcuse was closed. But because Mrs. Lee, Nancy’s mother, had to make & spscial and hurried trip to ‘Washington before she sailed, Nancy volunteered to superviss the closing of the house. Most cf the chairs had slip covers, but some of these were of really beautiful material, s0 a sheet was pin- ned in place over each one. The lamp shades were covered with specially made covers of rubberized stk or where these were lacking, with large pieces of glazed tarlatan or Argentine cloth. These were fastened at the bottom to allow little dust to creep up. The silver was put into its canton flannel cases. These cases were rolled and tied and taken to the safety deposit department of the bank. The canion flannel bags keep them from tarnishing and the storage in the bank keeps them from thieves. Keys were tagged so that they could be identified easily on the return of the family. ‘Tags were put on bexes and on these tags were numbers. A corresponding number cn a card ingex fi'e brought forth the card on which were listed the contents of the boxes. Foods such as cereals were given away, since warm weather brings weevils with it. ‘The curtains and draperies were taken down. Washable curtains were left rough dried. Beds were left un- made after thorough ai . Pillows were protected by a sheet. Shades were drawn. Tollets were flushed with a strong, hot washing soda solution. The ‘rlwer was shut off at the main inlet P (Copyright. 1931.) Daily Diet Recipe WHOLEWHEAT GINGER BREAD. Butter, one-third cup: boiling water, two-thirds cup: dark mo- lasses, one cup; egg, one; whole- wheat flour, two and three- quarter cups; baking soda, three teaspoons; salt, one-half tea- spoon; cinnamon, one teaspoon; ginger, one teaspoon; powdered cloves, one-quarter teaspoon. MAKES TWO 1-POUND CAKES. Melt butter in the boiling water; add the molasses, stir un- til dissolved. Take from fire and cool. Then add the egg well beaten. Thoroughly mix together the wholewheat flour, cooking soda, salt and spices. Add these dry ingredients to the liquid mix- ture, beat “well and pour into greased small bread pans. Bake in a moderate oven 30 to 40 min- utes. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, starch, sugar and fat. Much lime and ‘iron present, also some vitamins. A and B, though vitamins are af- fected adversely by action of the baking soda. Can be given in moderation to children 8 years and over. Can be eaten by nor- mal adults of average or under welght. v FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLIE MONROE. Good Salads. String beans and diced raw celery on lettuce leaves with Prench dressing. Canned or pitted fresh cherries with cottage cheese on lettuce with French dressing. Shredded cabbage, chopped olives and pimientos with mayonnaise on lettuce. Sliced oranges and sliced onions with rrors, etc., and uryolfrench dressing on lettuce with strips | 8l imiento. ced candied pineapple, sliced raw tomatoes on lettuce with mayol ced‘:h mmfibmd dates, English apples, cl ates, walnuts on lettuce with mayonnaise mixed with whipped cream. FEATUR ES. - The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. She is now married 20 one of America’s famous authors. Homesick Speeders. aciresses are told that it costs less to live there than it does in the East. CAr. | cool. year round. Take a bathing suit, they tell you, a little sweater and skirt (sweaters and skirts are always called little even when they're for the tallest | ho, woman). And take an evening dress. And they assure you that's all youll need. So simple. To people in New York,. this sounds inviting. New Yorkers after they get out here. To begin with, they find the mild Cali- fornia climate very. cold at first. All hnuulhnrenuhnmdbymnuflg:. At the end of one New Yorker's first month in Hollywood, a representative BEDTIME STORIE Peekaboo and Popup. The child who doth his parents heed Doth prove that he is wise indeed. —Old Mother Nature. Two of the children of Yap Yap the Prairie-Dog. had left home very early in life, but two still remained. These were Peekabco and Popup, so named because they were forever poking their heads out of the doorway of their home and then dodging back at every unexpected sound. They hadn't grown so fast as the two who had left home, and so were not ready’ quite so soon’ to venture out into the Great World to shift for them- selves. But they were growing fast now, and Yap Yap knew that it would not be long beéfore they, too, would some day go out exploring and not return. So he was taking great pains t teach them the things they should know. Every morning he had Mrs. Yap Yap led them out to get their breakfast. At first they did not go far from the doorstep, but gradually the grass eaten down so close that they had to go farther. Over and over they were told that the first thing to do was to make sure that no enemy was in sight. Pirst Yap Yap would sit u? on the doorstep and look carefully in all directions. Then Mrs. Yap Yap would do the same thing, Then the two youngsters would | come out together and do the same thing, trying to lcok vrey wise. If every- thing appeared all right Yap Yap would lead the way to the nearest patch of tender grass. “There is only one safe place in time of danger, e that is underground. Don't forget th2t. Don't fcrget it for even one little minutes,” Yap Yap would say. “We won't forget,’ Peekaboo and Pop- up would reply. “When ycu have to change your feed- .ing ground, first make sure where the nearest house is, and if there is an alarm, run for that house, eveg if- it isn’t your own,” Mrs, Yap Yap would warn. “Yes'm,” the two would reply meekly. “Never wait to find out what the danger is.” warned Yap Yap. “There is always t‘me encugh to nnd that out later. Don't think of anything but reaching the nearest house.” 1“We'11 remember,” the two would re- Pl y. “Don’t forget that danger may come from the sky, as well as llE;Irn elney'her!. Hawks are very fond cf young Prairie- dogs,” their mother would say. But you should hear these | gas company came to her meter. 'He He sald to her: looked it over and it's all right. Your bill was so big the gas compan; thought your meter must be leaking.” She had merely been burn‘ng a lot of gas to try to kwss Lr:m <hivering in what is known out e as the Sunny Southland. a trifie. The worst disillu« examine “T've ne But that’ sion is the wardrobe. To be sure, you use‘the same wardrobe the year around. But it has to have as much in it as your Spring, Summer and Winter out- fits in the East. Mornings are cool You need some fairly warm. Aft- ernoons are hot. You need something Evenings are cold. You need & fur coat. So in any one day you need & Spring, Summer and Winter wardrobe, ‘There's not much to do in Hollywood at night. There are few theaters. You hear and see so much =bout the movies that you don't care to go out to see one, even though you went often at me. There are not many places to walk. As a consequence people go to each otber’s houses. Tha‘ means many dinners, many parties. These call for large houses. And large houses need many servants. And the houses are built so spaciously. This is alluring to people who coms from New York spartments. But the bills at the end of the morth are not was | alluring at all. (Copyright, 1931) By Thornton W. Burgess. “Yes'm,” would be the prompt re- sponse. So it went on day after day, the same old lessons over and over. It grew tire- some to the two young Prairie-dogs. When they were by themselves they didn’t hseitate to say so. “‘Here we are really quite able to care for ourgelves, and they tell us the same old things over and over, just as if we “WE WON'T FORGET,” PEEKABOO AND POPUP WOULD REPLY. had never put foot outside the house,” complained Peekaboo. “For my part,” declared Popup, “I'm ready to go out int> the Great World | any time. I'm not afraid. I'll be glad when I don't have to listen to what I should and shouldn’t do. I want a little | adventure. - T don't see any sense in this everlasting watchfulness. I, for one, would like to know what T am running from, instead of rushing headlong for the house, just because some cne else has got excited over something. Listen to that! Some cne has seen his shadow and the whole neighbornood must run.” Yap Yap suddenly barked a sharp warning. “Come on, children!” he bark- ed. “Don’t you hear the alarm?" Popup made a funny face at Peeka« boo, and the two obediently raced for the home, only to find by the time they got there that it was all a fe alse alarm. “What did I tell you?” mumbled Popup. (Copyright. 1931.) : A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. l\lmvm JOSEPH MAAS, that husky member of Congress from Minne- sota, is an ex-Marine. And he is dis- glnying at present characteristics that ave -made that branch of the service famous as fighters. target is the lease policy of the Post Office De- partment. Long ago he was convinced that he had found - the | spigot through which part of the huge postal deficit dribbled away. He asked for a sweep- ing inquiry into the circumstances of post office leases of valwly owned buildings all over the country. A Benate com- mittee, headed .by Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, is en- gaged in this task now. e Representative Maas became aroused over the situation when he was in- formed that in his own city of St. Paul Uncle Sam contracted to pay $120,000 8 year as rental for a post office “com- mercial station” on a property ap- praised at $317,000 by a commission appointed by a Federal court. He 'minced no- words when he brought the subject up on the floor of the House. Nor did he confine his at- tentions to the St. Paul case. He took Angeles, Chicago and other its West, where he alleged post of- ice leases should be investigated. An investigation was ordered. Post- master General Brown, in a radio speech recently, claimed that no evi- dence of fraud or irregularity in’ mak- ing post office leases had been disclosed by Blaine's committee. “Devildog” Maas promptly delivered himself of some sarcastic and scating ol tions on Postmaster 1 rown and his department generally. t was a direct frontal attack in regu- lar Marine fashion. ,Maas was an enlisted Marine aviator during the World War. At present he is a captain in the Marine Corps Re- se: < In Washington he is known as the “flying Congressman.” He is the only congresional aviator still in the busi- ness of flying himself about. P'""l’.' T oeidentaily. in 11 Blography he sup- ly, e ] sup- plied the Congresional Directory, fle said that he “never contended ‘far any political office” until he !mfi;l'lg contended his way into the Seventic k11 B =~ and later the Seventy-first and Sevene ty-second Congresses. Most, Senators and Representatives talk of “seeking” office and “running” f:l‘; 'Coldx;PH. dBut not Maas. 3 “‘contended” an bably that's what he did. ) s i A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Heredity as an Alibi. “What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set_on edge?"—Ezekiel, xviii.2 This ancient proverb is also very vmodern. As in the days of Ezekiel, it is still pleaded as en alibi for all sorts of wrongdoing. When we find chil- dren whose teeth are set on edge, there are some who -are always ready to charge it up to sour grapes eaten by their fathers, forgetting that the chil- dren themselves might possibly have eaten a few sour grapes. Heredity, as a factor in human life and conduct, is not to be denied. But to admit it as the all-controlling fac- tor would make it equivalent to fatal- ism. Many of our modern physiolo- gists take that extreme view; and they make heredity a scapegoat, an apology, for all of a man’s shortcomings. Any morbid condition, any vice, any crime, is considered a case of heredity. This view has been propagated until it has become one of the most danger- ous propaganda forces of our time. The result can be none other than destruc- tion of the sense of moral responsi- bility, thus opening the way for whole- sale wrongdoing of every conceivable Too bad if ene's father has eaten sour grapes. Yet his father’s example ought to be a warning to him to let sour grapes alone. No matter what & man’s father has done, when he him- zelf does wrong he is consclous that he does not have to do it. We do not deny the possibility of hereditary ten- dencies to evil; but, however strongly such tendencies may manifest them- selves in one's life, his first step in evil is invariabiy one of choice. And after that first step, as he goes on in evil, he has to fight against conscience and his better judgment, and he has to brush’ aside innumerable wamings that are thrown before him to turn him back. Moreover, he has to set his face against God. for all the while God confronts him with offers.of His grace and help. I do not understand the Bibls > teach that God holds all men alike {mbnl::u?lé :{ dfo understand it to olds every man respon- sible according to his ability and chances, and that he makes every man responsible for the acceptance or re- Jection of His spirit and proffered aid. Whatever weaknesses a man has in- herited, if he will do the best he can and trust God for the balance, he can surely master of self, Neither in Scripture nor science can we find any ground for exempting a man from his _moral basis of heredity. - warrantable folly an alibi for the evil doings of men. The Anime-nm Entomological Society