Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1936, Page 31

- SAUL WILL ASSIST RED CROSS DRIVE Former Trade Board Head to Direct Compaign in i Business Circles. John Saul, real estate map and Smmediate past president of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, took charge today of the campaign to solicit business circles during the twentieth annual District Red Cross member- ;t‘up drive, September 27 to October Saul and 30 associates will start their canvass Monday, aiming to con- tribute substantially to the 65,000 membership for which the District Red Cross Chapter is driving. Designation of Saul to supervise business enroliment is the seventh appointment made by Lloyd B. Wilson, general chairman of the roll call Others were Robert V. Fleming, financial chairman; Maj. Gen. Fred W. Boschen, Government chairman; David A. Skinner, utilities; Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, house to house; Charles H. Doing, jr., campaign treasurer, and Mrs. Ernest J. Swift, volunteers. In order to cover local business circles completely, Saul has divided his group into three divisions, with Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the Washington Board of Trade, flower, coal merchant, division B, and Preston W. Perkinson, classified advertising manager of the Washing- ton Times, division C. In addition, these divisions have been subdivided into sections headed by the following: Division A—Herbert Gill, Star B and vicinity, section 1; J. Hawley Smith, Southwest area, sec~ tion 2; W. Gwynn Gardiner, Four- teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, sectior. 3; Earl Ready, Fourteenth © 1936, King Peavres Syodcae, bnc, Word nghi rwerved See how folks turns t' look at us, baby, on account ob you got that heading division A; James E. Colli- ' string hangin’ out ob yer mouth! Bedtime Stories Chatterer Investigates. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS, It's always well and always best Before you leap to make a test. —Chatterer the Red Squirrel. HATTERER the Red Squirrel had returned at daylight to the scene of his old home. That home was no more, for the tree in which it had been was cut down. He had returned because nearby were all his food supplies. He didn’t know where else to get any- thing to eat, for the ground was cov- ered with snow. Right away he had made a discovery. In a tree, quite high above the ground, was a house. It was a bird house. That house had ot been there the day before. ‘What was more, Chatterer could see some- thing that loked very like a part of his bed hanging from the dorway of that house. Now, Chatterer is by nature suspi- eious. People who themselves are mischievous are quite likely to be suspicious. Chatterer climbed the tree next to the one in which that house wxs fastened. He sat there for & Jong \ime, studying that house. Finally he went to one of his storehouses and got his breakfast. Then he returned to the tree he had been sitting in and once more climbed it. Once more he began to study that house. «I wonder what it means,” said Chatterer, talking to himself. “There never was a house in that tree be- fore, and now there is one. If it were Spring now I would understand it. I would think it had been put up for the birds coming back to nest. It that doorway were bigger I would think that that house might have been put up there for Spooky the Screech Owl, but that' doorway isn’t big enough for him. It is queer that that house should have been put up there on the very day that my home was destroyed. I wonder if that is really a house or if it is some kind of a trap.” Chatterer spent some time wonder- ing. Then he decided to investigate more closely. He ran out on a Imb of the tree he was in and jumped over to the limb of the next tree. He was now in the tree with the house. You should have seen Chatterer. My, how suspicious he was! He approached that house as if he thought it was something alive that was going to jump and grab him. He looked it over from all sides. When he got around to the front there hung some of his bedding. It was hanging out of the doorway. He knew it was his bedding, taken from his home in the tree that had been cut down and split open. There was no doubt about it, it was Nature’s part of that snug, warm bed he had had. He guessed that the rest was inside this house. “It's mine, all right,” said Chat- terer, as he reached up and sniffed at the bedding hanging out of the doorway. “Now, what was it put over here for? I suppose it was Farmer Brown's Boy who put this house here and put my bedding in it. That looks as if he meant it for me, but if he did put this here for me, what did he destroy my old home for? It just doesn’t make sense.” After a long time Chatterer ven- tured to climb up to the doorway and poke his nose inside. Of course, nothing happened. After a while he pushed back the bedding that was hanging out and then poked his whole head in, Nothing happened. Of course not. There was nothing to happen. Then Chatterer ventured wholly inside. There was no one in HE SAT THERE FOR A LONG TIME, STUDYING THAT HOUSE. there, and there was nothing but his bedding in there. Everything seemed all right. It was a nice, snug house, and with all that good bedding it would be warm and comfortable in there even in the coldest weather. It would be just as comfortable as his old home had been. Chatterer went to the doorway and poked his head outside. He could see the places where some of his food supplies were stored. If he remained in this house he would have nothing to worry about so far as having plenty to eat through the Winter was con- cerned. Suddenly Chatterer gave a joyful little bark. Then he turned and began to make up his bed. “This new home was meant for me,” said he. And Chatterer was right. «Copyright, 1936.) Children Common Badger of America (Taxidea taxus). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ELLOW members of Wildlife Protection, the badger needs your assistance. He does his duty well to keep down the gophers, ground-squirrels, mice and insects, and he has been hunted, trapped and driven from his old haunts, because of his handsome sil- wvery coat. In the early days, there were at feast one badger for every square mile in Manitoba, where the dry prairies were high and badger fur not in de- mand. It is said that over six thou- sand badger skins are marketed an- nually, and that we have slightly over 60,000 left of these famous dig- gers . Wisconsin is known as the Badger State, and here, where there are roll- ing prairies and gravelly soil, and where ground-squirrels are plentiful, you will find the quiet, non-aggres- sive badger. If you have the opportunity to see the night traveler from his castle, he will look as if he had been rolled over by a heavy truck. His general color is a soft silvery gray. Each single hair is yellowish white at the base, then black with s white tip. There is & bar on each cheek, and on the back of the ear, of black. His feet are s dull black, and his tail brown, tinged with yellow. His thick-set body, short tail, short lJegs, and the powerful front feet, equipped with long claws, indicate that the dweller of the subways has been built along lines adequate for digging for one's, living. A badger may live to a ripe old age, reaching 9 or 13 years, in your neigh- borhood without his neighbors being aware of his existence. Ul food 1s scarce, badgers remain in oné range. They can sink a house in & few minutes. Being of & sociable nature, badgers shun living & single life. They are devoted to a wife and children, and lth-.ldmti!mluunmfie,lt soon remarries, and if this is impos- sible, two bachelors will “room” to- It is also known that married cou- ples even enjoy the company of their relatives and neighbors. So perhaps you will be lucky enough to see & whole company stroll from a large ang yoomy apartment, when they go for an evening’s stroll, or severally to their own homes. It is said that a badger will make a burrow every 24 hours, in search of food. All the exertion needed to do the amount of excavating would call for an abundance of food. The babies are born in late May or June. There are twins and some- times triplets. They are easily tamed, and seem to have grand dispositions. They can travel in reverse as fast as in high, and prefer to back into their burrows. This may be all right in most cases, but not so good if the burrow happened to be occupied by a foe. It has not been generally believed that this interesting subterranean engineer could swim or climb, but he can and does, when the occasion de- mands he should. He is a member of the famous “Seven Sleeper Club.” Don't frust THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936 and F streets, section 4; Thornton W. Owen, Thirteenth and P streets, sec- tion 5; Diller B. Groff, Eleventh and | Upper G streets, section 6; James B. Ed- munds, New York avenue, Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets, section 7; Loren L. Cluster, Fourteenth and Park road and Sherman avenue, section 15; William H. Press, Georgia avenue and Brightwood, section 16. Washington Circls, section 11; John P. Schiotterbeck, Mayflower Hotel and vicinity, section 12; Ford E. Young, Connecticut avenue, section 13; lumbia road, section 14; Frank Bell, miscellaneous, section 19; Milton H. Schiosser, Union Station, section 22; Robert C. Varels, Seventh and P streets, section 23; Edward E. Swan, Seventh and K streets south, section 24; Karl Jarrell, Ninth and P streets south, section 35. DR. THONE TO SPEAK “Mother Earth Gets a Facial” to Be Topic Friday. Dr. Frank Thone, biology editor of Sclence Service, will speak on “lfothe er Earth Gets a Facial” at the camp~ Beach drive and the foot of Tilden street, on Priday evening at 8 o’clock. ‘The talk will be iilustrated, and com- munity singing will be held. On Sunday morning from 6 to 7:30 o'clock, at Roaches Run on the Mount naturalist A special bus will leave 1416 F street EDWARD ACHESON GETS POST ON G. W. FACULTY Brother of Former Treasury Offi- cial Will Lecture in Economics. at 5:30 am. A tree walk over the|‘ the Capitol will be held on 230 to 5 Edward Acheson, brother of former Undersecretary of Treasury Dean Acheson, has been appointed to the faculty of George Washington Uni- versity as lecturer in economics, the university announced yesterday. A graduate of Willlams College and a student at the London School of Economics, Acheson is regarded as & ing will continue his research into monetary experiments in the United States from 1929 to 1934. Acheson had been in Europe since 1929, devoting special attention to & study of Soviet monetary and eco= nomic theory. He is a vetersn newse paper man, having served i various capacities with newspapers here and in Hartford, Conn. Afrway companies of Australia are consolidating. 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