Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1932, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUTY 24 1932, 13 Sunday Morning Among the Cross- Words ACROSS. . Fur gatherer. 8. According to fash- ion. . Poiverse. . Accept. . Princess beloved by Zeus. . Thin scales. .Put in a row. . Pertaining to bodies at rest. . Large street; Sp. . Nourished. . Curl. . Sharpshooters. . Wire measure. . Market. . Lukewarm. . Delicate. . Front. . Babylonian deity. . Spirits of dead ancestors. . Mounds. . Member of a mixed tribe in Russia. . East Indian island. . Wax candle. . Japanese land measure. . Taverns. . Legal holdings. . Tumult. . Wager. . European wild goose. . Eastern market place. . Emerging. . Taxed. "City in Delaware. . Largest island in Japan. . Light brown. . Revise. 2. Challenged. Greasy. . Famous Roman patriot. . Tinkled. . Cut. . Abode of the dead. . Mahometan sale 81. East Indian nut. . Pertaining to the frogs. . Unbeliever. 5. Omits. Doascribzs mi- nutely. . Reins. . A metal. . Stratagems. . Perplexing situa- tion. . Part of the verb . French measure of length. . Hinders. 3. Back bone of an animal. . Political clique. . Prophets. . Carousal. .Swarm. . Places of contest. 2. City in Germany. .Italian city; Lat. . Australian bird. . Windflowers. . Decrease; &s & vein of ore. . Abraham’s nephew. . Medley. . Coins minted un- der Charles I. 5. A contribution. . Raised. 28. A Scotch come- dian. . Finder. .Rat catchers. . Occupy. . Click beetles. DOWN. . Commerce. . Liberate. . Sourness. . Wooden pin. . Measure of ca- pacity. 6. To turn inside out. 7. Ransom. 8. Province in Sicily. 9. Begone. 10. Small drink. 11. Greek letters. 12. Ardor. 13. Instruments for dressing hemp. 14. Blazes. agreement. . Unit of work. . Dried leaves of cassia. 15. Black bird. . Sign. . Get by labor. . Enspirit. . Fundamental. . Traders. . Gaiters. . Snow runners. . Recovering. . Corrupt. . Deities of destiny. . Vexed. . Took by force. . City in Japan. . Necessity; var. . Bellow. . Resolute. 2.No good; abbr. . Symbol of tanta- Jum. . Armored cars. . Clear, dazzling lights. . Comment. . To vindicate. . The north wind. .Island in the Mediterranean. . Printing type. . Swimming. 5. Goblins. . Beginning. . River in Russia. . Rhythmic move- ment. . Holder of a grant. .Tea or coffee box. . Fish net. . Social lions. . Soldier employed in digging mines. . A short stalk or support. . Brewer's yeast. . Peruse. . Level. . Mixed type. . Physician; abbr. . Capital of Oregon. Succinet. 2. Plotter. . Creature of the imagination. . Small stream. . Single eyeglass. . Breathe. . Curve in mathe- matics. . Wrath. .The son of Reu; . Further away. . Slate workers. . Natives of mixed blood. 105. The promised land. 107. Decide. Py o 1o O 113. Fluid in French 119. Lake in Texas. Bib. oil of orange blos- soms. 116. Poker su‘ike. 117. Carbonate of 124. Support. 126. Nocturnal flying DON’T BE AN IMITATOR, SAYS JACKIE COOPER Continued from Ninth Page that. Maybe I let him be too fresh at times, but I hope not. “He is sweet and generous. He loves to share his things with his playmates. It doesn't seem to have occurred to him yet that he is famous. But he has a nasty temper and Is often forward. When I punish him or scold him, he is always contrite. “‘Don’t you wish you had a good little boy like Bobby Cocogan instead of a bad one like me?” he said last night when I was putting him to bed. “Of course, I told him tkat he was the little boy I wanted, whether he was bad or good, because mothers always love their own little boys best. ““But wouldn't it have been nice if I'd been like Bobby?' he insisted. “I explained that while Bobby is always a good boy when we see him, perhaps there may bz times when Bobby is at home with his mother when he isn't quite such a good boy. He probably has his bad moments. Maybe Bobby’s mother thinks Jack is a good boy. People who see him just now and then have no chance to judge. I told him I didn't expect him to be perfect; all I expected was that he would try.” HAT Robert Sh::#wood calls “Jackie’s un- explainable genius” has been evident since the child was 2 years old. When he was barely 30 months of age he could sing or recite both sides of every record the family owned. He used to amuse friends who came to the house by “clowning” for them between renditions. He was too tiny to be self-conscious, and he could imitate any one he had ever seen. “Now we don't encourage him to imitate any one,” commented his mother. “We think he has a definite personality of his own and we'd rather he didn’t lose it.” Jackie’s father had left them before the child was a year old, so his mother earned the family living as a pianist and violinist, playing vaudeville with another girl, while Mrs. Leonard, her mother, looked after the baby. When Jack was nearly 5, the partner decided to go abroad and asked Mabcl to accompany her. “But I couldn’t, Jack was beginning to be big enough to miss me and need me. I felt that when I was in this country I could get back to him swiftly, but I couldn’t bear to put an ocean between us. So I came back tlo Hollywood. “Talkies were just coming in and I managed to get a job as accompanist for signers taking tests at Fox Studios. Presently I made tests for the hundreds of players who were to work in Fox Movietcne Follies. There was a chil- dren’s number in that, in which a tiny boy and girl were to sing the leads and others do the chorus. They found the girl right away, but had trouble getting the boy. They made 200 tests for the part. “At last I told my mother to bring Jack to take a test, but not to say he was my baby. I wanted him to win on his own merits, and I was afraid, too, that if for some reason he failed he’d feel badly, because he’'d think he Survey Will Help HE question of reforestation which already has crept into the presidential campaign is one on which the Nation will have accurate figures when a survey now being conducted by the Department of Agriculture is completed. The survey is to be Nation-wide in its scope and is being carried on by authority of Congress and in co-operation with the various States. At the present time the timber cruisers are wading In cypress swamps, pushing through briar patches, making headway against any obstacles which stand in the way of a straight line as they carry on their activities in a 6,000,000-acre section in the South. Already 3,000,000 acres of upland timber have been counted in Mississippi. When the survey is completed the people of the United States will know with reasonable accuracy for the first time the extent and loca- tion of timber suitable for lumber, pulpwood, naval stores and other products and the prob- Needed in Gold Mines NE of the most profitable branches of work for the mining .engineer in the next 20 yesgs will be gold mining, in the opinicn of Scott Turner, director of the United States Br-eau of Mines. I3ecaute <. the increasing demand for gold which is cipected to continue to grow, it be- comes more and more vital to find new gold deposits and perfect methods to bring about profitable extraction from old workings not now profitably in production. There are nearly 3,500 non-ferrous mines in the United States at the present time, and of these 2,134 are principally and primarily gold producers. It is considered likely that North America will continue to be the greatest source of gold for some time to come, with Mexico and Canada making up for the lost production in this country. Other forms of mining activity such as cop- per, zinc, lead and iron also are expected to offer profitable employment for mining engineers for the next 20 years or so, for the increasing need for eccnomical operation offers a great oppor- tunity for them. Cupid Slows Up HERE must be considerable skepticism in Ohio over the old saying that two can live as cheaply as one, for the marriages last year fell off from 60,312 in 1930 to 42,319. Divorces also were fewer in the State, approxi- mating 906G less than in 1930. had failed me. Deep in my heart I knew he could do it, but he was so little and so many things can happen to frighten a child. He won. “Before the picture was released, we took in Reforestation able rate of growth and reproducticn of the forests. The extent of fire damage, loss by flood, insect attacks and tree diseases also will be better known. The present extent of naval- stores activities and trees available for cupping will be shown. The Forest Service will compile and make public information for basing eco- nomic estimates, public forestry programs and the annual forest crop possibilities. The cruisers run the lines 10 miles apart, stopping at every eighth mile to count and measure the trees on a i -acre plot. Measure- ments and records on these quarter-acres will be accurate and detailed, covering such things as present use of the land, quantity and kind of merchantable timber expressed in board feet, by species, its quality in log grades, extent of turpentining, quantity of cull, extent and kind of young growth, rate of growth and the rapid- ity with which cut-over lands are being re- stocked. Speaker’s Ga vels Continued from Eleventh Page any other gavel in his possession, the presiding officer of the Hcuse expressed his appreciation. That he was skeptical can easily be understood for the Senators explained that 48 per cent of the material used for making the gavel was cotton. Any lumberman would be interested in the various species of wood which contribute to the order of the House of Representatives. Foreign countries are represented in the assortment, with olive wood from the Holy Land, cocobola wood from Africa, mahogany wood from the Philippines and Australian pine. The dual use of the fruit tree is evident in the orange, grape- fruit and cherrywood gavels from California. There are also Alabama hickory, myrtlewood, ironwood, walnut, oak. madier and pine gavels. One entire cabinet of four shelves is de- voted entirely to the 50 or more gavels, each claiming the distinction at one time or another of being first on a program which has in- cluded speeches by outstanding lawmakers in the country. Two of the collection have places outside the cabinet. One marked, “To Our Jack, From the Old Home Town,” takes up the larger part of an end of the Speaker’s office. Perched atop the head of the world’s largest gavel is a tiny mallet no longer than the little finer. “And that’s from Rhode Island,” the Speak- er will tell you, hastening to explain that the inference relates only to the size of the State. him out to the Roach Studios to try to get him into Our Gang comedies, but they said he wouldn't do at all Later, when they saw him in other pictures, they came to us and asked us to sign a contrart. Then when they wanted him for ‘Skippy’ they made us sign a five-year contract before they'd lend him. The producers of his new play had to buy that contract before he could come here.” Jackie, coming from the locket scene. joined us at that moment. He swung on a fire plug gravely, his eyes on the grass below. He leaped back and forth over the p'i3. Then he said: “No. I don't get nervous. I never did. It's nothing to be scared of, working in pictures. First time I worked, I wasn't very old—I was 51,—and I didn't know anything. I heard them tell the other kids not to look at the camera, but they did anyway, and then they told me not to and I did. They call that ‘camera-conscious,” and it's what you got not to be. see? Pretty soon I stopped doing it. Sometimes you got to remember to stick your face in the camera, but not look right at it, but they always tell you when to do that. ' 1|T ain't hard to learn lines. I read them over three or four times and I know them, My mother cues me after that to see if I've got them right. No, 1 don't bother about what they make me say, I just learn what's there. They don't care if you wouldn't say those things yourself. That's the director’s business. If you're in a picture, you have to say what he tells you to say and not be telling him how it ought to be, you know? “I see the preview of the picture when it's done, and then we usually have to go to the opening to see what they've cut out. No, I don't worry about what they've cut. Some- times people go to a picture they workedq in and they ain’'t in it at all any more. But that's up to the producer or the director or the supervisor. They don't care what any actor thinks about it. So you might as well make up your mind not to fuss. “Everybody asks me how I cry. I just think about sad things. If whatever's happening in the picture is sad enough, I think of that. If it ain't really sad, I think of something that is. Like a dog dying or my mother going away or something.” Jackie is temperamental about only one thing. He will not have outsiders on the set when he cries. It's not a thing for a boy to be doing, he thinks, and the fewer specta- tors the better. He is sufficiently the normal small boy to have to be reminded to say good-by to his guest. But his firm handclasp and emphatic, “Gee, come over again!” is worth all the pretty man- ners ever taught in dancing school. Yes, I'm sold on Jackie Cooper. You would be, too! (Copyright, 1932.)