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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
Now Brooklyn has another girl po-
et. It seems only like yesterday
that little Nathalia Crane, who be-
gan writing at the age of nine, as-
tonished experts with her book of
verses about the janitor’s boy and
others. Miss Crane is grown up
now but in her place comes Miss
Katharine Carossa. Miss Carossa
will not be fourteen for 12 days
yet. But her second book of poems
is just off the press. * The book,
“Crystal Arabesques,” contains 70
poems. The imagery, smoothness
and wording suggest maturity. Nev-
ertheless Miss Carossa suggests
Miss Crane. She’s considerably
darker and a little taller than Na-
thalia was back in those days when
I went over to Brooklyn to inter-
view her. But she’s also shy, re-
served and attractive. She started
writing when she was in the fourth
grade. A poem of hers so im-
pressed a teacher that he encour-
aged her to continue. Now she’s in
her fourth term of the Brooklyn
Girl’s high school. She’s usually first
in all her studies. But she doesn’t
engage in athletics. She prefers to
go home and write.
* * •
On her mother’s side, Miss Ca-
rossa is Russian and on her fa-
ther’s, Spanish. Her father is a
court interpreter and holds a Ph. D.
degree from the University of Ge-
neva. His library consists of 16,000
volumes. Miss Carossa spends
much time among her father’s
hooks. When she isn’t doing that
and when she isn’t writing, she is
at her piano. For years, she has
practiced three hours a day. Her
favorite composers are Brahms,
Beethoven and Chopin, and one of
her poems is entitled “Chopin
Valse.” In fact, her love of music
such that it has placed her in
something of a dilemma. At the mo-
ment, she cannot decide whether
she will go to college and continue
with her writing or to the Juillard
school and perfect herself in music.
However, at fourteen, even though
she has written two books, there
seems to be time for her to make
up her mind.
* « *
A short time ago there was re-
corded in this space a piece about
a black and white warbler that
mothered an orphan starling in Rob-
ert J. Week’s back yard in Old
Greenwich. Writes Albert Stoll, Jr.,
conservation editor of the Detroit
News:
“So far as I know, this is very
unusual. I do know that in Michi-
gan, the cowbird frequently lays its
eggs in the nest of the chipping
sparrow and although the bird and
eggs are about half the size of the
chipping sparrow, the latter will in-
cubate the eggs and raise the mixed
brood of cowbirds and sparrows to
maturity. This is not at all un-
usual.
“The only experience I have had
along this line was at one time when
I had an injured yellow-billed
cuckoo in a cage in which I placed
a fledgling martin that had fallen
out of its nest. The cuckoo did
attempt to feed the martin but with-
out any degree of success/’
* * *
Speaking of birds, as I was shav-
ing this morning, I heard a bird
singing over in Central park. Maybe
it was a wild canary or possibly a
song sparrow. It’s been so long
since I’ve heard a bird sing that I
couldn’t make an identification. But
be that as it may, that song of .a
little wild creature in the midst of
intensely urban settings so thrilled
me that I stood there motionless
while the lather caked on my face.
Tonight I’m going to a band con-
c -rt right over there where that
1 d proclaimed its joy at being
_ * * *
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by William Bruckart
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Washington, D. C.
Washington.—Wall Street and the
securities market generally have
been undergoing a
Bad Case of bad case of the
Jitters jitters. It has
been several years
since those dealing in money and
shares of stock have been so un-
certain as to the future and this
uncertainty obviously is the cause of
the jitters among all people who
dabble in the stock market, whether
the dabbling be small or large, on
margin or for cash.
It seems a proper time, there-
fore, to examine the picture and
try to see what lies beneath. And,
let me hasten to say at the very out-
set that anyone who makes a posi-
tive statement about the securities
market these days must be either
a fool or a superman—and thus far
the supermen who have lived on this
earth number only one.
But that fact does not destroy the
value of an examination of a con-
dition which exists as a fact. In-
deed, I think a review of the various
factors and influences at work now
can provide a clarification of gen-
eral conditions even though it may
fail utterly to show why men and
women act as they do with respect
to stock market investments.
First, it should be said that Wall
Street, as the term is commonly
used, is not unanimous within it-
self. The violent fluctuation of mar-
ket securities in the last several
weeks might easily be said to be
due to the war crises in Europe and
in the Far East. Only, those fluctu-
ations are not traceable to war con-
ditions. Rather, the war conditions
are used by some individuals as an
excuse—an alibi to themselves be-
cause they fail to fathom the vari-
ous influences and factors now at
work.
i said that Wall Street lacked
unanimity within itself. That is true
because within Wall Street there
are all kinds of selfish groups oper-
ating. For example, an influence
like inflation is highly pleasing to
the brokers and dealers in shares
while the same influence frightens
bankers and likewise gives a sick-
ening feeling to those who must
buy raw products. Bankers and
sound investors as well as tax pay-
ers generally would be quite happy
to see the Federal Treasury’s budget
balanced because if that were done
there would be a much greater
sense of security, of safety for those
Investments.
• # *
A dozen other illustrations could
Se given to thus illustrate the point
and show why
Black Case Wall Street can-
Involved not agree. They
do not show, how-
ever, why there is so much uncer-
tainty and why the bulls or the
bears have been unable to adjust
themselves to the future probabili-
ties. The reasons, therefore, must
lie deeper. It is possible that the
appointment of Hugo Black of Ala-
bama as an associate justice of
the Supreme court of the United
States has had more effect on the
business world than any of us real-
ize. I have heard a number of cor-
poration executives say that they
hope they will never be involved in
litigation which will carry their cor-
porations before the court on which
Mr. Black sits. If they entertained
that fear before, undoubtedly the
fear is deeper-seated and more
widespread now that Mr. Justice
Black has been publicly accused of
holding a life membership in the Ku
Klux Klan. Certainly the expose of
the typhoon that is swirling around
the head of the neyt associate jus-
tice cannot have any soothing ef-
fect upon the minds of those busi-
ness men who, as corporation exec-
utives, are trustees of vast sums of
the people’s money. Undoubtedly,
unless Mr. Black can prove that he
is not affiliated with the Ku Klux
Klan, few litigants will feel safe be-
fore the Supreme court.
Then, there comes the resignation
of James M. Landis as chairman of
the securities and exchange com-
mission which regulates operations
of the great stock exchanges. Mr.
Landis has been regarded as rather
fair, rather just, in his dealings re-
'ating to stock market operations.
Ms retirement to return to a pro-
fessorship in Harvard, of course,
opens up the question as to his suc-
cessor. This is to say that most of
the financial world is hoping and
praying that the new chairman will
not go off at a tangent; that he will
avoid extreme radicalism and that
he will not blame the whole finan-
cial structure for the crookedness of
a part of it.
Thus, it becomes easy to see how
this minor factor may have weight
with some individuals dealing in
corporate shares and bonds. Wil-
liam O. Douglas, a member of the
commission, has been slated to be-
come chairman but developments in
recent weeks give considerable
doubt over that result. Mr. Doug-
las is recorded as being a radical.
Bankers and investors in many
parts of the country fear that if he
is made chairman he will become
not unlike the famous bull in a china
cabinet. But, according to the un-
dercurrent of gossip around Wash-
ington Mr. Douglas has done some-
thing to offend Postmaster General
Farley, and no man can draw an
appointment as important qs the
chairmanship of a great commis-
sion without Mr. Farley’s approval.
Aside from personalities, various
phases of President Roosevelt’s
monetary policies continue to be dis-
turbing and in addition to these
there is the certainty that new taxes
must be levied. That is, new taxes
must be levied if we are ever going
to balance the federal budget and
begin paying off the gigantic nation-
al debt which now amounts to more
than 38 billion. With a debt at the
highest point our United States ever
has known, a great many people,
including bankers, have become
fearful of what they might get for
United States bonds that they now
hold. It is obvious that this influ-
ence adds to the general uncertainty
although it is difficult to measure
the ex "ft ir+uence of this condition,
or to see whether it is a .major or
a minor factor.
* • *
Having enumerated a few cf the
influences known to be at work, we
, come now to that
Business condition which
Conditions ' heretofore always
has been basic. I'
refer to general business conditions.
New Deal press agents have tried
valiantly t.o make it appear that
business is booming; that prosperity
is here instead of around the cor-
ner; and that the country has noth-
ing to fear. Careful examination of
official figures, however, show the
prosperity statements to be true
only in parts. The official statistics
disclose vepr definitely how some
lines of business are enjoying a vol-
ume of trade or production higher
even than 1929. They show on the
other hand a vast number of fail-
ures, an increasing number of big
businesses which are barely getting
by—which can continue providing
their present volume of business is
maintained. If the volume of busi-
ness slips, however, that category
of business is going into a +ailspin
as sure as the sun shines, if a
part of the business of the country
begins to sink—well, a part of it
began to sink in August, 1929, and
within two years the whole struc-
ture had fallen like a house of cards.
I am not saying that we are con-
fronted with another depression. I
do say, however, that we are facing
a condition that is not at all satis-
factory—a condition that can lead
to a depression as easily as it can
lead to sound prosperity in com-
merce and industry.
Astute observers and business
men in the larger centers decide
their courses upon the outlook for
the whole country, not for any par-
ticular line of business or any par-
ticular section. The number of in-
dividuals who see the picture I have
attempted to outline in the above
paragraph is increasing. As that
number increases obviously the
wave of uncertainty expands.
So, if one is compelled to make a
guess why Wall Street is so con-
cerned or so jittery, it would seem
that the explanation must lie in the
combination of circumstances. No
one of them, except possibly the ad-
verse business outlook, could ac-
complish as much doubt about the
future.
Anyone talking with a hundred
different individuals will hear these
various factors and influences men-
tioned. He will hear different
weight given by each individual to
each factor.
• * *
We have been dealing with causes.
Let us look at possible effects. It
will be remem-
Now, as bered how Presi-
to Effects dent Hoover was
blamed for the de-
pression. He and the Republican
party were punished on that ac-
count and badly licked in the elec-
tions. It ought to be said in Mr.
Hoover’s behalf that the conditions
which led to the depression had
their beginning long before he was
elected President. Indeed, they had
their real beginning in the World
war.
President Roosevelt came into of-
fice as a result. He started doing
things and gaining the confidence
of the country to such an extent
that he was re-elected last year.
Probably he was re-elected largely
because of the bulk of the voters
feeling he was restoring prosperity
I doubt, however, that Mr. Roose-
velt was any more responsible fo*
the return of a superficial prosper-
ity than Mr. Hoover was responsi-
ble for the depression.
But we are coming to another
election. If conditions should be-
come worse and business should de-
cline perceptibly again, Mr. Roose-
velt will be held responsible just as
definitely as was Mr. Hoover. He
will be charged with having made a
mess of government and any at-
tempt on his part to prove the con-
dition was natural will be regarded
as an alibi. The whole thing seems
to be in the lap of the gods and no
amount of political strategy or at-
tempts to amend the law of supply
and demand will alter events.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Household Hints
By BETTY WELLS
“ T FORGET to count my blessings
sometimes,” confided Ruth K.,
“especially on wash day when my
work is more than cut in two by my
washer and mangle.
“But for some reason or other, I
never fail to be impressed with the
wonders of my machines when I
have a big batch of curtains to do.
We have about a million windows—
well nearly! And you know what
work it is to wash and iron cur-
tains by hand. Now I swish them
through the washer, then put them
through the mangle . . . when you
get on to doing curtains with the
mangle, it’s easy and does them
beautifully. The trick in putting
curtains through the mangle is not
to fold them. Put them through
the full width from each selvege.
“I’ve been getting very expert at
tinting my curtains, too. I love to
experiment with tints and have
had the grandest luck mixing them.
Some of my curtains I have in a very
sunny peach color that I got by mix-
ing yellow and pink. And pink with
a little sky blue tint added gives a
lovely off-pink that’s just the thing
★ **★★***★★* *•* * * * ** *
-k
Deanna Durbin
“I’m Always Impressed With My
Laundry Equipment When I Hava
to Do Curtains.”
this season. Another color that’s
nice for curtains is chartreuse . . .
you get that by adding a lot of ex-
tra yellow to the green tint or else
by toning yellow with blue. Anyway
the fun of it is that you never get
quite the same tone twice—some-
times it will run more toward yel-
low and sometimes more toward
green. All of them are nice. Straight
yellow is a good color for curtains if
you want a sunny effect. In mixing
tints, be careful not to mix too
large a batch of tint at the time
or the colors may gray up.
“I think ninon is the best material
to use because it hangs in such
,f=oft beautiful folds. White dress
voile is nice too and so is theatri-
cal gadze. I try to keep to fabrics
that don’t-need starchy That’s where""
you really get into trouble with cur-
tains, so I steer clear of such fab-
rics. Then I like to paint the rods
and hardware the same color as
the woodwork and curtains.”
We take Ruth’s word about cur-
tains because hers always look so
fresh and pretty.
* * *
Unexpected Fate.
“Nobody ever warned me of my
fate,” laughed Esther M. “So I
certainly didn’t expect to turn out
to be a farmer’s wife! But funnily
enough I rather like it.”
Esther lives on a farm in a plain
little square bungalow with no par-
ticular architectural distinction, and
she hasn’t much in the way of mon-
ey to do things with it. But she
and Joe are a hard-working young
pair with ideas and they’re clever
with hammer and paint brush.
The changes they’ve achieved in
three years make us want to pin a
medal on the two of them. They
painted the house white with a bright
blue roof and a bright blue door.
Inside they’ve taken out the colon-
ade effect that originally separated
the living room from the dining
room, so now they have one big
room. A sunny hot room a good
part of the time it is; so they paint-
ed walls and woodwork in white
with just a touch of light blue in it.
Then Esther M. got plain white
“Nobody Warned Me of My Fate.”
voile curtains, made them to hang
straight and tailored, and always
dips them in an over-dose of bluing
to give them that same suggestion
of blue that the walls have. Their
furniture was mostly old and oak,
originally belonging to Esther’s
mother, but they did a grand job of
rejuvenating it. First they took gen-
erations of varnish off with a good
paint remover. That left it a fash-
ionable blonde color and they added
only a thin coat of clear shellac.
The old oblong dining table was
placed at right hngles to a pair of
double windows in the part of the
room that had formerly been the
dining end. The sofa and chairs
were grouped at the other end of
the room. But a large jaspe rug
in shades of grayed rose extended
the full length of the big room. The
sofa and one chair got a slip cover
of soft blue and another chair was
upholstered in a flowered material
with quite a bit of rose in the pat-
tern. A pair of little extra cush-
ions of this same flowered fabric
added their bit to the two corners of
the sofa.
© By Betty Wells.—WNU Service.
STAR
DUST
jMLovie • Radio
^★★By VIRGINIA VALE
TF YOU thought Deanna Dur-
i- bin a remarkably talented
youngster last year when you
saw her in “Three Smart Girls,”
you will think she
is nothing short
of a baby genius
when you see
“One Hundred
Men and a Girl.”
Her voice, always
good, has devel-
oped so amazing-
ly that she ranks
with the best of
screen prima
donnas. Even
more startling is the develop-
ment of this quiet fourteen-year-
old as an actress. She plays come-
dy, farce or tragedy with the deft
assurance of a veteran. Supported
by Stokowski, that most brilliant of
conductors, no nervous qualms
weaken her voice, and in scenes
with Alice Brady, Adolph Menjou,
and Mischa Auer, those persistent
scene stealers, she more than holds
her own.
—-fc—
RKO has already finished the
screen version of “Stage Door” with
Katherine Hepburn and Ginger
Rogers in the leads. The dialogue,
everyone says, simply sparkles, and
although Hepburn and Rogers are
at their very best in it, Andrea
Leeds and Lucille Ball, who play
small roles, draw a big share of the
enthusiastic comment.
—+—
Bill Powell paused in New York
briefly on his way to the Scandina-
vian countries for a
much - needed vaca-
tion. He has been
near collapse ever
since the death of
Jean Harlow, to
whom he was en-
gaged to be mar-
ried. When he comes
back, he and Myrna
Loy will make an-
other sequel to the
“Thin Man.” Far
from _fcieing tired of
the *,o'les t h a t'
brought them their biggest success,
he says that they enjoy them more
than audiences do.
Myrna Loy
m
Very few actors enjoy success in
Hollywood for more than five years,
but producers never find a newcom-
er who can handle Alan Hale roles..
He has just signed to play Little
John in the new version of “Robiil
Hood” with Errol Flynn. It is the
same role he played 15 years ago
when Douglas Fairbanks made the
picture.
—*—
It looks as if all Hollywood will
be trying to congregate on the Bing
Crosby set soon, for Bee Lillie, the
elegaqt Lady Peel no less, is going
to play opposite him. If you missed
Bee on a recent Vallee hour, you
should shed one tear at lbast. She
gave the sketch that she has done
innumerable times — “Two dozen
double damask dinner napkins,
please,” and it was even funnier
than before.
—-K—
Maybe Eddie Cantor is awfully
smart to switch his radio program
from Sunday nights
to Wednesday, be-
cause the Sunday
night competition is
going to be even
more fierce than
usual this winter.
There will be Jack
Benny, of course,
Phil Baker, and Joe
Penner, but in addi-
tion there will be
two big screen fa-
vorites with new
programs—Rosalin d
Russell and Tyrone Power. Robert
Taylor had better hurry back from
England if he doesn’t want Tyrone
to displace him as Matinee Idol
Number One of the younger set.
—-K—
Humphrey Bogart is getting to be
so popular on the screen that pro-
ducers are toying with the idea of
making a hero of him, but every
time they bring up the subject,
Humphrey takes to his heels and
runs away. He played a smirking
hero once, back in 1930, and neither
audiences nor directors wanted to
see him again. It wasn’t until he
played the murderous Duke Mantee
in “Petrified Forest” that they for-
gave him. Since then he has spe-
cialized in the deepest-dyed villainy
in “Black Legion” and “Bullets or
Ballots.” In “Dead End” he is so
magnificently villainous that hero
and heroine, Joel McCrea and Sylvia
Sidney, have a hard time distract-
ing attention from him.
ODDS AND ENDS—Constance Bennett
is, going to make another goofy comedy
like “Topper’ as soon as she and Count-
ess di Frasso launch their cosmetic com-
pany . . . Erin O’Brien Moore, who plays
"Nana” in “The Life of Emile Zola,” is
being boomed by thousands of admirers
for the much-disputed role of Scarlett in
‘Gone With the Wind”
© Western Newspaper Union
Eddie Cantor
Jlsk Me .Another
H A General Quiz
1. Which is greater, the diam-
eter of the earth from pole to pole,
or the diameter between two
points on the equator?
2. What is meant by the gentlest
art?
3. Who was called the scourge of
God?
4. Do United States vessels pay
toll when passing through the Pan-
ama canal?
5. What is meant by a repeating
decimal?
6. Does the United States have
a woman ambassador or minister
to a foreign government?
7. What are the seven follies of
science?
8. How may one change Centi-
grade temperature into the equiv-
alent Fahrenheit temperature?
Answers
1. The latter, since the earth i&
slightly flattened at the poles.
2. The term refers to letter writ-
ing.
3. Attila, king of the Huns in the
Fifth century, so styled himself.
4. No.
5. It is one in which a figure is
repeated without end, such as
.66666 + .
6. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the
only one, is minister to Norway.
7. The so-called follies of sci-
ence are the quadrature of the cir-
cle, the duplication of the cube,
trisection of the angle, perpetual
motion, transmutation of metals,
fixation of mercury, the elixir of
life.
8. Multiply by 9-5 and add 32 to
the product. To change Fahren-
heit into Centigrade, subtract 32
and multiply the remainder by 5-9.
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