Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1940, Page 43

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940. ORLD AT ITS WORST FLYIN' JENNY —By Gluyas Williams (Fellow Flyis’ Jenny in the Colored Comic Section Every Sanday.) YOU ARRANGED o MEET YOUR WIFE AT THE CAR IN -THE PARKING LOT Released by The Bell Syndicste. Inc CROSS-WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL. . To loiter, 20. Appellation 33..To offer. . Former . Journey. of Athena. 34. Pronoun. South Amer- . Unthinking. | 21. Printer’s 35. Place. 1candmde- Noun: An official bulletin; a radio| 15 Slick. measure. 31. Syncopated. pendency. Jormance. * Ttalien 22. Bitter vetch. 38. Beverage. (Repeated by Request.) 23. CHARLIE CHAN crguisss, crgatea BY THE TIME THE SUNS RAYS TOUCH HAVE INK SFOT FIND CORPULENT SELF OFF THE DYNAMITE, | ON SOUL NOTHING| | OBUTERATED! PERHAPS TLL BE FAR AWAY CAN ERASE! FRoM HERE! §-1 Pon’t Take My ord for It By FRANK COLBY. rogram HAH! PERHAPS ANCIENT CLOCK WILL BE MEANS . Deer. . To give forth, capital. b, 39. German title. | 53. To rip. It is my personal opinion that the | 14. Lamb's pen- | 27. Fuel. ¢ . Period of A 29. To strok 40. Receptacle. i ost unlovely human utterance is | name. | 29. To stroke. ¥ time. e common mispronunciation of t . New Zealand | 30. Part of 41. Preposition. . To_diminish. hy's word, ‘pro-gr'm.” The grunt- | bird. | flower. 42. Kind of . Irritates, h” smothering of the second syl- | 16. Persuasive. 31. Article. horse. . Sodium ble is as slovenly as it is erroneous. . To obscure. !32. Negative. 44. Rime, chloride. The -gram of program and tele- VERTICAL. immls L8 xci.(:;t))cal -]gx;:r; OICTS;;: . Branch. | 17. French 30. Farm animal. | 43. King of EE C T, R, | 2. Fiber-plant. | article. 32. To tell. | Bashan. Tr:say “ m‘i T and “tele-gr'm” . Clearings. | 19. Preposition. 33. To capture. . Temporary HOWDY THAR YoLAIG as abssrd gan incorrect as it . To clip. 22. Consume. 36. Teutonic fashions. FELLER Y WE 1S THE ould be to say “mono-grm, dia- | 2 GYPSY- 34, Eronout, deity. . Rail. BOSSES OF THIS HERE 3 B, X . To make 25. To handle- | 37. Slender fish. A FACTORY HOW 1S ‘m, epi-gr'm, ana-grm, cable- known., roughly. . Positive . River-duck. INES A Gow P 'm,” or to speak of something as . Pares. 26. Instead. poles. R et WELL -WE | | Yoo MEAN WRITIN' LETTERS | PR HERE You 1S FOLKS?/ | TAAR-THET'S TH' WAY” | ARE’ WE/RE.| [TO FOLKS ABOUT BUYIA COUGH| | TRy A PACK o' srcoo;;v" \now egs vge‘e_ %u:za -SELLIN KING OAL | | PROPSZ ShECKS- THET AINT | | BROTHERS COLGH °) FELLE! T . 2 WORKIM NO WAY TO SELL STLFF -* OALly A NICKLE// AN GITTO WNORK! GOOD, BIR I'M THE SALES MANAGER AND THIS 1S AAY eighing several “gr'ms.” I am told that many teachers clip pis column for classwork. To them | send this plea: Let us stamp out pis ugly mispronunciation from the jmerican vocabulary. Let us em- asize and re-emphasize that the rams of program and telegram ust rhyme with ham and never ith hum or “h'm.” The elimination of the widespread ror “pro-gr'm” would be, I am | pnvinced, an extremely important hievement in promoting the prin- ples of better speech in America. f Correct pronunciation: PRO- am. (Capitals indicate syllables to be cented.) For personal answer to your questions about words, send a stamped (3-cent), self-addressed lenvelope to Frank Colby, care 'he Evening Star. oints for Parents Iy EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE. It is sometimes advisable to set e stage for confidences. “Mary acts as though ething is worrying her. Why t you take Bill to the basket- game and give her a chance to Daughter: “Mother . pother .. . I ...er... Mother: “Speak up and say what ou want to. I can’t stand here all y. I'm busy.” Daughter: “I wasn’t going to say ything.” NCLE RAY’S COR Soon after the 1914-1918 World ar broke out, the German Kaiser pd his generals took a step which urt a little country in Western Eu- bpe. The country was Belgium. A German message was sent to e Belgian government: “We want pu to let our soldiers pass through pur country,” the message said in flect. “We do not want to make on you, but simply desire to 1Ty out our war against France.” Belgium replied, “You cannot go ough our country.” ‘The reply brought on an attack. e Germdns had not expected to told they could go through Bel- ium, and they were ready with full lans to cut across the country. At that time the King of Belgium fas 39-year-old Albert I. He had leen giving much of his time to try- g to bring about better laws in his ountry. With the outbreak of war, e took part in the command of the elgian Army. On hot August days in 1914, Ger- an cannon pounded Belgian forts. e forts were strong, but the huge ells broke them up. . Connected. 27. To cut. . Moslem name. | 28. Poker stake. . Evil. . Seed con- tainer. Modern Puzzles By GERALD L. KAUFMAN. Can You Draw a Square? If you think you can, we advise you to place a bit of tissue paper or tracing paper over the diagram be- low, as you're not likely fo succeed in the first few tries. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DRAW A PERFECT SQUARE WHICH HAS ONE OF THESE FOUR DOTS IN EACH OF ITS SIDES, AND NONE OF THESE SIDES TOUCHING ANY OF THE WORDS PRINTED HERE? ) Solution temorrow. (Copyright, 1839.) . New Zealand | 48. Chalice. tribesman, . Mineral, . Conjunc- . Writing Answer to ;iuzzle for May 6: Five- Ring Bull's-Eye: €y AR e d’@fii VLR -8 Gratitude Bounces In Form of Check GARDEN CITY, Kans—W. H. Streeter purchased a couple of meals and located a job for a tramp. The fellow came back to express his gratitude and insisted on paying for the dinners. He tendered a $7 check he said he had earned. Mr. Streeter de- ducted the price of the meals and gave him the change. The check bounced—a neat forgery. Construction of 19 churches, schools and other public buildings was started in Belfast, Northern Ire- land, last year. WIWWumMMIMMM o fi‘mmmm KING ALBERT DURING THE WORLD WAR OF 1914-1918. into Northern France. They hoped to capture Paris within a few weeks. Shortly after Belgium was in- vaded, Great Britain entered the war, British troops were sent to France, and helped to hold back the *A part of Belgium was conquered, nd German soldiers passed through German tide, The World War lasted about four NER —Belgium Was ‘Captive’ in War years and four months. It proved to be the worst war of modern times, and brought the deaths of millions of German, Russian, French, British, Australian, Canadian, Belgian, Ital- ian and other soldiers. The United States entered the war in 1917, but American losses were not large com- pr.iud to those of other major coun- tries. During most of the war Belgium was held a “captive country.” Much of the land was in German hands, but Belgian soldiers kept on fighting to help the allies. After the war was over Belgium built new forts. Their present de- fence system has been called “the little Maginot Line,” and has been compared to the big Maginot Line in Northern France. sorFSE Travel or History section of your “Wyon want a free copy of the illustrated leaflet, “Your Body at Work,” send me a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope, in care of The Evening Star. Umete Ry Tomorrow: Belgian Customs. Boys and Girls, Read the Junior Star Every Sunday. [ b THOSE ARE THE ONLY DUDS YOU GOT, AIN'T THEY? i Trademark Avpited For U. 5. Patent Office "R