Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1937, Page 4

A4 CITIZENS CONDEMN REPORT OF JACOBS Southeast Group, at Special Meeting, Brands Findings “Unreasonable.” A resolution branding the Jacobs Committee report on fiscal relations as “unfair and unreasonable” Wwas unanimously adopted at a special meeting of the Southeast Citizens Association last night in the fifth police precinct station, Fifth and E streets southeast. The resolution, as submitted by Vernis Absher, stated that “the con- tribution by the Federal Government 1o the District government, as recom- mended by the Jacobs Committee, is unfair and unreasonable and we (the association) earnestly desire that Con- | gress be asked to increase the said | contribution.” The secretary was instructed to send copies of the resolution to the Dis- trict Commissioners, the Federation of Citizens' Associations and the chair- men of the Senate and House Appm-i priations Committee. | Prior to the action taken by the | organization, members were addressed | association in the inaugural and sup- port of the President’s birthday ball, January 30. Earlier, the association was ad- dressed by Capt. Joseph C. Morgan of the fifth precint. He extended an invitation to the association to meet at the station at any time. The cap- tain praised the association’s activities and urged co-operation of members | in obatining necessary projects needed | in_Southeast. It was decided to hold all future meetings of the association in the | precinct station. Previously the group held its meetings in the Hine Junior High School, Seventh and C streets southeast. EXPORT RECORD IS SET [ IN AVIATION PRODUCTS 'Shipments During First 11 Months of Last Year Valued at $10,572,910. | United States exports of aviation products during 1936 were the highest on record, it was reported today by the automotive-aeronautics trade di- vision, Commerce Department. Shipments of airplanes, engines and accessories during the first 11 months of last year were valued at $19,572,910, as compared with $13,502,137 during the same months of 1935, or an ine crease of 45 per cent. Exports of complete aircraft reached THE Young Washington EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D C. SATURDAY, Nature’s JANTUARY 16, 1937. Children Common Cod (Gadus Callarias). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ID you know the common cod’s llkeness was placed upon s Nova Scotian bank | note at one time and aiso the legend, “Success to the Fisheries?” In January, the cod hasten to their spawning grounds. The largest ones being on the New England Coast. They travel in schools and move off or toward the shore according to the temperature of the water. The parents are seeking shallow water in which to lay their eggs and sometimes they have to make & very long journey to find what they consider favorable places for their offspring to begin Iite, | The cod is one of our most prolific | fishes. A mother weighing about 21 | pounds will lay over 2,700,000 eggs, | while an older female will tip the les at 75 pounds and produce about ' So don't look down upon the cod, 9,100,000 eggs. The egg is very amall, abouf. one-seventh of an inch in diameter. It takes 337,000 to All & quart. True, cod are very plentiful, but . '5’/ —— - thousands and thousands of eggs help to nourish other fish and thus the ocean is kept from being overfilled by | this productive creature. ‘This fish is responsible for about 10,000 men being employed. At least 750 vessels are used and the value of the cod catch is about $3,000,000. in apite of the song that ‘codfish balls | were sold a penny each.” Another interesting thing to know is that the cod is propagated arti- ficially on a more ambitious scale than any other sea fish. | 11 you live along the North Atlantic | or travel on both coasts, south to France and Virginia, you will find that | the cod is the best known, as well as the most important fish caught. ( In fact, it is sai¢ that vessels from 1 England visited the fishing grounds near Iceland in about 1415 and that centuries before Columbus made his discovery, the Basques knew weil the banks of Newfoundland, | The cod feeds upon almost any- | thing that comes his way. He enjoys small sea animals which are listed as crustaceans, small fishes and mol- lusks. He enjoys & meal of Irish | moss and other vegetation close by. He apparently has acquired the habit of following vessels and thrives on polato peelings, corn cobs and even teething rings, bits of jewelry lost overboard and scissors have been among the strange things found in the stomachs of cods. | those who are merely * Usually the sides and hack have roundish brown dots upon them. The fins are dark and the lateral line most white. If you wish to go codfishing, you may use trawl or hand lines. Bai® them with squid or other fsn, any= thing seems to tempt an everready ap- petite. You can fish from a small boat or from the side of tne deck of & vessel. As cods are rather husky fellows and rather eager to keep their freedom, you may have a very ex- citing time, and furnish the same for ‘watching.” (Copyright, 1937.) SR i Two Droughts in Year. ‘There were two separate droughts in_the South in 1936. Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th end “L" GROUP MEETINGS DAILY Grace Gray De Long, Reader Personal intery: for spiritual help and guidance may be arranged by s visit to the Cou; | This fellow is & greenish or brown- A il Houss or Telephons ish color, but may vary greatly. i Metropolitan WOODWARD & LOTHROP 10™1I™F anp G STREETS ProNe DIsmricr §300 by Thomas Ellis Lodge, president of | total value of $9,311,550 during the the Federation of Citizens’ Associa-NInulry-Novambcr period last year, v tions. Speaking in disfavor of the report, Lodge stated that he disagreed with the comparable city basis men- tioned by the committee. He further declared that as he had previously prophesied, many members of Con- gress will not accept the report as it now stands. “I want to leave the impression with you members, he said, that although there are & great many things of merit in the general report, I do not agree with the conclusions reached by the committee. “I hope that a full and compre- hensive hearing will be given by Con- gress and that the citizens of the District will look upon the Jacobs Committee findings with an unbiased opinion in rendering their decisions.” Lodge asked the co-operation of the or an increase of 50 per cent. Engines reached a total of $4,336,217, or an increase of 81 per cent. Parts and accessories were valued at $5,643,262, an increase of 18 per cent. American aviation products were | purchased by 83 countries during the | | 11 months. China was the outstand- | ing foreign market, accounting for | $6,872,877 of the total, compared with | her purchases of $2,203,973 during the | same period of 1935, | Potomac Light Extinguished. NORFOLK, Va. January 16 (fl.—; ‘The Lighthouse Service of the Depart- | ment of Commerce here has been no- | tified that Smith Creek Light 2, in the Potomac River, has been extinguished. | The point will be relighted. DAILY SHORT STOR An angler’s aide is Gerald Steinberg, 10, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Steinberg, 4214 Sizteenth street, a pupil in grade 5-B at West School. He is looking at a fishing chart he made for his Monday: Eugene Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. schoolmates. Charles Smith, Park View School. —Star Staff Photo. Bgdtime Sthi_es Farmer Brown’s Boy Understands BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Who has the understanding neary BUM PATTERN | By G. C. Coler. 'HE lower male stratum of so- is generally into one and ciety, Jumped aggregafion designated impar- tially as hobos, tramps and bums, which is & mistake. The hobo is merely & migratory work- er, the tramp 1is only a migratory man and the bum is neither migra- tory nor much of & man. It is difficult to define exactly Henry Moore's po- gition between the Jatter two. Once he had had an in- satiable thirst for wandering and none whatever for Jabor. But now he wanted neitner very strongly. Years of bumming his way about the continent had caused the wanderlust to lie satiated and dormant in his breast. Now he was just a bum and didn’t care particularly who knew it. He could have worked. Years of outdoor Jife had preserved his health, kept him strong. But it was too easy to drop in at the mission and get & free meal, which cost only a few minutes of listening to soul-saving words and a few psalms. Good things, however, are prover- bially impermanent, and so it is that we find our hero in profitless argu- | ment with Mr. Barstow, the chief of the mission. * Kk K % "Bm listen, Mr. Barstow, I'm hungry and I need a place to sleep to- night. Can't you let me in just once more?” Henry was ordinarily con- vincing when he was on the “stem.” The chief knew him of old. “I'm afraid not, Henry.” He was refused. “It has been almost a year now since you've been hanging around here and I know for & fact that you haven't even looked for a job. We need the room for unfortunate men who are willing to work!” Henry saw his hopes go glimmering and refiected that it was now uncomfortably cold sleeping on a park bench, with papers for blankets. “I'd work, if T only had something to do, honestly I would!” Henry feit safe in preserving his innocence now, since he could lose nothing. The mis- sionary inspected him quizzically. “I'd like to believe you, Henry. You're healthy and well built, and evidently you've gotten an education somewhere,” he catalogued. “But you're lazy and shiftless. However, I| have a good mind to give you the job T've just gotten and see just what you are!” “A . . . job?” Henry {altered. *“What kind of a job?" “I have a very old and very dear friend. She is crippled and past mid- dle age, but she has money and can treat her employes very well, if they work. And her handy man has just quit!” Henry's eyes fell before the chief's searching, questioning gaze. “Well, if you mean you want me to take the job, I guess I can do as well as the next man,” Henry blurted out. He mentally cursed the chief for hav- ing put him so neatly on the spot. AR o "W!:'LL see, Henry! Remember, she's a personal friend of mine” Mr. Barstow admonished. Henry knew then that if he didn't imake out, the soup kitchen would be forever closed to him anyway. And %0, much against his will, Henry took the job, with the idea in the back of his mind that, if the worst occured, ke could always quit. The first week he found that the 666 LIQUID - TABLETS - USE PREVE Place 666 Salve or 666 Nose Drops in nostrils night and morning and takg 666 Liquid “I need a place to sleep tonight” | work wasn't so| bad, after all. He took care of the | gardens and lawns, | prepared them for the approaching Winter. He ran| errands in the sta- | tion wagon for tne | housekeeper and daily drove old | Mrs. Hawleyaround | the park for an airing. And in re- | turn he was| clothed, fed and| g0t & very comtor | table salary, m-‘ deed, which he| carefully saved | against eventuali- | ties. The increas- | ing bulge in nis| trousers’ pocket was more and| more reassuring as | the months wnt{ Pleasantly by. | By the time that Spring finally | came and Henry had made the pre- liminary planting of grass seed and | early plants, he found that, queerly | enough, he was content. Whereas the new Spring had usually meant a fierce desire for travel, or more late | ! terly a pleasant expectation of an easy | ’Summer, he was not stirred & bit now | by any of these familiarly seasonal } phenomena. | * x % % | BY THIS time he had been discov- | | ered as a capabie secretary by the | | infirm old Mrs. Hawley and Henry | had added to the scope of his duties. | | He was now, in additlon to handy | man, a sort of confidential secretary | i and adviser to his employer. | And so it was that he one day re- | minded her of the impending arrival | of her niece from England. Henry, the | ex-bum, found a very satisfying vicari- | ous pleasure in attending to the family | affairs of the Hawley menage. With- out family himself, he actually wor- | ried over its affairs and now he was | almost as excited as his employer over | the advent of one of the family. Early in the morning he arose and polished the motor until it was a | triwnph of gleaming enamel and glis- | tening chromium. He called hourly to make sure the train wouldn't be de- layed. And 20 minutes before train time he had managed to drive old | Mrs. Hawley down to the huge barn of a station and give a final, loving in- spection to the equipage of the Wel- | coming Committee. * % ¥ % 3’1‘PmN. brushing his already spot- lessly neat uniform, he left the ear and walked to the tracks and looked down them. The huge engines al- ready in their stalls gave off pungent odors of mingled coal smoke and hot oil and grease. The champ of the fast locomotives puffing impatiently im- pinged in the old, well remembered way upon his ears. He glanced curi- ously about. For the first time in aix months he was near anything approxi- mating a railroad and he found it | vaguely disconcerting and exciting. | ‘The immense crack express finally | roared into sight and rolled to a | smooth stop with the engine softly snorting ahead. Passengers poured off and stood in a confused mass waiting for red caps or friends. The conduetor signaled and the long train eased with swiftly increasing speed out | of the station. | Finally the platform was quite bare. That s, except for Janice Hawley, Who | stood perplexedly in the center of her half dozen pieces of luggage. And Henry Moore, a huge sign of satisfaction on his face, sheltered his | face against the wind whipping over | the “blind” . . . he was on the crack transcontinental train, going West. (Copyright, 1937.) | SALVE - NOSE DROPS AS A : NTION or 666 Tablets eyery morning, | ARMER BROWN'S BOY guzed thoughtfully across the lce-| Is quick to take anothers par’ I crusted Green Meadows to the Old Pasture. He had watched Reddy Fox, a red spot in the distance, | disappear up there. He had just wit- nessed an unusual sight, had Farmer Brown's Boy. Looking out the win- dow, he had seen Reddy Fox bluff Flip the Terrier and run away with a meaty bone which had been given Flip in the dooryard. Straight home Reddy had taken that bone. Anyway, he had taken it to the Old Pasture, and his home was there. “If this were the Spring, instead of the middle of Winter, I would think | that Reddy had a family over there | nd had taken that bone home for the | youngsters to gnaw on," thought | i i W “SO THAT'S IT!" SAID HE UNDER HIS BREATH. Farmer Brown's Boy. “He wanted it badly. to take such a chance to get | it. He got & good meal over here yes- | terday morning, so he couldn't be| starving. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't think so much of his bold- | ness today. I know where his home is, and I have a notion to go over | there and see what he has done with | that bone.” | The crust was strong enough to bear his weight and Farmer Brown's Boy had no trouble in crossing the Green Meadows. When he reached the Old | Pasture he began to move very slowly | and very carefully, so as to make no sound. He did not head straight for Reddy’s home. Instead, first making sure that the wind would not give him away, he circled widely so as to reach a certain big rock some little distance back of and above Reddy's home. He knew that from this rock he could | look down on the entrance to the underground den that was the home | of Reddy Fox and Mrs. Reddy. From | there he had more than once watched | Reddy’s children when they were lit- | tle, playing about on that doorstep. He reached the rock. He lay flat on REC. u.3. pay, SPECIAL DRY-SKIN M.I'JETURE part of its formy|, 4 a. at a saving, Towrmiss, Arsig 13, Pasz Froon, D & LOTHRoOp WOODWAR 10™ 11" F o> G Srazevs * Vitamin D Do have ifc | this and worked his way to & point from which he could get & clear view. At once he saw Reddy. Also he saw | that bone Reddy had so cleverly taken from Flip the Terrier. He had ex- | pected to see Reddy gnawing on that | bone. He didn't. Reddy didn't have | | that bone. Some one else had it -m‘l‘ Was gnawing at it, tearing the shreds of meat from it as if famished. It was | Mrs. Reddy. Reddy was sitting close | by, watching her with every appear- ance of satisfaction. Presently he lay down beside her and began to lick one of her legs. A few minutes later Mrs. | Reddy moved, and Farmer Brown's Boy saw that something was wrong | with her. Instantly he understood. | “So that's it” sald he under his breath. “Reddy didn't take that bone for himself. She has been hurt and he has to get the food for her as well as for himself. In this weather it must be hard enough to get enough for one, to say nothing of two. From the way she gnaws at that bone she | must be starving. I wonder what is the matter with her. I wonder if she was shot. How any one can shoot any living creature under such conditions as the present is something 1 cannot understand at all. He must be utterly heartless.” Farmer Brown's Boy made his way home in the same roundabout manner that he had reached that big rock. He didn’'t want to disturb Reddy or Mrs. Reddy. He didn't want to add & new worry to their troubles, and he knew that they would worry if they knew that he had been watching them. “I've got to do something about this,” said he to himself as he tramped | homeward. “Of course, I can't do any- thing in the way of treatment of Mrs. Reddy's wounds, for she would go down in her den at my approach, and | there is no way for me w get her down in there. I'll have to leave her to the care of Old Mother Nature so0 | far as her wounds are concerned. But | I can see that she has enough to eat. | She must depend on Reddy for every- | thing she eats, and where he will be able to get enough for both I don't know. He will be driven to taking chances trying to get a hen somewhere and perhaps be shot and killed. If farmers would keep their hens and | chickens properly shut up, and if in | such times as this if they would pus | out some food to keep Foxes from starving. they would have a lot fewer losses of poultry. (Copyright. 1837.) Preparation. Day and Even- ing Clas Coeducational Send for 30th Year Book. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION BLDG. 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