Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 35

OR J0BL MINERS 15 URGED Secretary of Friends’ SOcieiy Tells of Need After Visit | to Morgantown. By the Assoclated Press. Ald for the adult unemployed in soft oal mining communities of West Vir- ginia, Kentucky, and parts of Tennessee, Tllinols and Pennsylvania, was said by Miss Margaret E. Jones, tary of the Washington Friends Society, to be in- evitable. From Morgantown, W. Va., where she went to deliver clothing for chlidren, Miss Jones returned to describe condi- tions of acute distress and to predict relief must be avgilable to the parents of the boys and girls who are now being cared for by the Ameri- can_ Friends Service Committee. “In tfe vicinity of Morgantown, there @are nine mining camps in which fathers mre permanently out of work, and their families are destitute,” he said. “I saw children barefoot on & cold #ay and without underclothing. One mother told me if she had even black or white cotton thread she could do| ing 0 much toward clothing her famil ‘The school children have no soa) pencils, tablets and few books. watched 60 of them fed at an aver- sge cost of 5 cents per meal. “And Morgantown is just a sample of what is happening in the soft coal Santa Makes Dream Kingdom Peopled en in Which Wild Life By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November.6.—Santa's hair is growing whiter and the wrinkles in his jovial brow deeper as' hd and his millions of workmen labor to make the cry of a baby doll, the growl of a teddy bear and the mechanics of s play train more realistic for this year's crop of Christmas children. ‘The little lead soldiers that marched to a make-believe war, the china doll and the wooden trains of a generation | ago won't do. Modern youngsters want | airplanes that fly, dolls that feel d | look and talk like humans, electrically | operated playthings and complicated. | constructive toys that set the adult | brain awhirl. Science and phychology have played a large part in the manufacture of modern toys. The results accomplished have been fascinating, Philip L. Kirk- ham, vice president of one of Man- in l&hndl the Friends have undermkm the task of caring for an estimated 25,000. children of the ap- proximately 200,000. unemployed among | ‘:lhfdxsmm miners in. the Mmminous‘ e) The appeal for their aid was first | made by representatives of the Federal | and cowbo. THE EVENING Toy World Science Aids Good Old Fellow in Creating Child’s by Little Men and Wom- and Mechanics Move. ‘hattan’s largest toy concerns, explained yesterday. Some of the most interesting toys this year are actually doses of educa- tion “sugar-coated” with gay paint and realism in design, he said. Our chil- dren would be bored with the mys that used to delight us. Little girls used to dream of wax dolls and little boys beg- ged for slaizv cotton Indian suits. To- dav thev want the real thing. Dolls with a skin as soft as a rose petal »nd rosthmes of leather with real Indian fe~thers, P till like tn plav soldier. pirate Girls still like to plav house, mothe~ their dolls, and teach school. Mr. Phillips said. Thev only want these playthings more like the life around them. More than 300 new toys have been created this year and this season’s toy business will be better than last year's, he said. Already eager children are wide-eyed and wistfully at the wyu on display. Johnny is thinking up his let- ter to Santa, wishing for a model road- ster with balloon tires. the boy sized sailboat and electrically run boat. He wants an airplane in which he can sit and run the nropeller and roll over the sidewalk as if he were flying. Wants Large Doll House. Betty would sdore the doll house ! WASHINGTON. in modern She would love to give her ler dollies a real shower in the beautiful new tile tubs with shower equipment. And dolly's ward- ;obe will need xwlmhh'nx There are jeather a togs, fur coats, um- hrelln, Kkid, gloves, rubber overshoes, kid és and even eyeglasses. The stork brought two new baby dolls et ‘One has a rubber body shlp'd 80 rellmlull}’ one could almost count on its growing up to be a little lady like its mother. The other is just big enough to cuddle in tiny arms. The STAR, D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. 6, - 1931. pink pigs, actual wool m bears and al celluloid Trudy Ederle swims wlfiwu& aid through a tank of water and two divers with magnets sink for trmurel at the bot- tom of the sea and rise A musical clock with a lltfle black- smith hammering away the minutes, & cookie plate that tinkles a pleasant tune and a lullaby-playing pillow for sleepy heads are other new devices to intrigue and delight Hfl.le boys and ¢1m who still believe in newest doll has a skin wig and an elfish | Claus. face. There are drug stores, delicatessens, rooms, racing stables, garages and farms ali big enough to look real to little men and women. There is a light house with a mecharically op- ented light and a little man who opens & door and comes out on’watch at in- tervals. Little Green Houses. ‘The young horticulturist may have a lovely green house in which to watch his plants grow. And there is a seed germinator under glass where he may watch the interesting processes of plant life. There 18 a clock-making device, railroad and train construction plant d a film-developing set. ‘The crocodiles this year creep about and fiip their tails left and right the while they open cavernous mouths, there is a water-spouting whale and & swimming pike/ A flierce leopard in real skin crouches and roars, ele- muw-y- across the floor, a kangazoo a toad croaks and jumps. - COUPLE SUE FOR $20,000 Man and Wife Seek Damage Judg- ment Against Autoist. Oharles A. Henderson, 1102 Fifth street, has filed suit for $20,000 dam- ages against Louis Pfoutz, 2028 M street, Ior injuries alleged to have been received by himself and his wife, Brightie Henderson, in an automobile collision August 8 last. Attorney Calman Mayer appeared for the plaintiff. Jury Acquits Crying Boy. NORRISTOWN, Pa—George Caull, 17, was on trial for stealing apples. Throughout the proceedings he wept noisily. The court cautioned him. “Yot are too big a boy,” said the court, “to act that way.” He was acquitted. Santa | PETITION FOR DRY LAW CHANGES CIRCULATED Group Here Seeking Signers at 10 Cents Each, Solicitors Keeping Half of Funds. Petitions are being circulated in Washington by the Constitutional Rights Association of America, Inc., de- scribed as a non-profit arnninuon. claiming national scope, campaigning for “modification of the Volstead and kindred acts.” Ten cents is collected from each signer. Solicitors retain 50 per cent of the collections as fee for their efforts, they explained. Samuel M. Shultz, whose office in the Barr Building is the headquarters of the organization, is national secretary of the association. He said the petition would be presented to Congress and that regular officers of the organization will be chosen shortly from the ranks of a national advisory board composed of persons residing in several States, in- cluding Connecticut, South Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois and Maryland. 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