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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XJEW Boyd, YORK.—Miss wandering far Louise from sun¬ A.
ny San Rafael in California, pushes
farther up the East Greenland coast
.. than any Ameri-
Venturesome can ever went be _
Louise Boyd fore. She was a
Modest Soul comely woman of
30, skilled in the
rubric of serving tea and all the
niceties of Victorian etiquette be¬
fore she shoved into the ice pack
and began pot-shooting polar bears
—nine in one day. She might have
felt like the late William James
who, free from a long stretch at a
Wisconsin Chautauqua, asked pass-
ersby if they could direct him to a
nice Armenian massacre.
For the last 12 years she has been
equipping stout little Norwegian
sealers for her Arctic expeditions.
She has trained herself in scientific
observations and her findings are
published under scientific auspices.
She holds decorations from two for¬
eign governments and the American
Geographical society has published
two of her books. She surveyed a
stretch of the Greenland coast, pre¬
viously uncharted, and for this the
Danish government named the area
Miss Boyd Land. She has ventured
farther north than any other white
woman.
She dislikes publicity and has
little of the histrionic sense
common to explorers. So far as
the reporters are concerned,
she might just as well make an
expedition to Flatbush. At great
labor and expense it has been
ascertained, however, that she
takes a nice wardrobe north
with her and that she always
powders her nose before going
on deck. She probably was
trapped into these indiscreet ad¬
missions as she has made it
clear that all this is nobody’s
business.
Weaving through ice packs on an
Atlantic voyage gave her her big
idea. One of her chief interests on
her northern voyages is photog¬
raphy. She is the daughter of John
Boyd, wealthy Californian. The old
manse at San Rafael, which this
writer has seen on occasion, is a
citadel of decorum, from which, it
would seem, none would ever wan¬
der, so far and so dangerously,
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’T'HOSE A who liked Thomas Mann’s
“The Coming of Democracy,"
will find in Dr. Cyrus Adler, who
celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday
Ur. r» C. n Adler a j i just tbe other day,
Embodiment of a living statement
of Herr Mann’s
Mann's Theme the ™- A scholar
and humanist, he
has given his life to an exempli¬
fication of democracy as an ethical
and cultural aspiration and not a
political formula—which is Thomas
Mann’s impassioned thesis. This
writer thought of that when he read
the book, and spotted up Doctor
Adler’s birthday in the future book
for attention here.
He is the only president of
two colleges, Dropsie college of
Philadelphia and the Jewish
Theological Seminary of New
York. A fellow of Johns Hop¬
kins university, where he ob¬
tained his doctorate, he taught
at the University of Baltimore.
He has been a stanch defender
i of science and the humanities
against bigotry and insularity
through the more than half-
,1 century of his teaching, writing
I and speaking.
At his retreat at Woods Hole,
Mass., he is still creative, alert and
vigorous. He is saluted here as the
proprietor of one of our most im¬
portant birthdays.
iHR. GEORGE D. BIRKHOFF,
il professor of mathematics at
Harvard, seems to be the first to
note the competition in the academ
Prof. _ , Btrkhoff , rr ic world from
the influx ot
Warns of Influx super intellectu-
Of Intellectuals ' al refugees
from Europe.
As the doctor sees it, mathemati¬
cians won’t be worth a dime a dozen
if these highly gifted men k«ep on
coming. However, his observations
indicate no narrow insularity on his
part. He is all for the enrichment of
our intellectual life, but notes that
somebody may have to ride on the
running board with all this over¬
crowding.
When Einstein began batting
his hot relativity grounders this
way, Doctor Birkhoff was one of
the few men in America who
could field them. He is a pro¬
lific writer in the overlapping
zone of mathematics and phil¬
osophy, one of the most heavily
garlanded men in the scholastic
world, a distinguished Catholic
layman holding high papal hon¬
ors for scholarship. He is a
native of Michigan, educated at
the University of Chicago and
Harvard.
C Consolidated News Feature!.
WNU Service.
Women in International Spotlight
1—Mrs. Raquel de la Guardia de Boyd, wife of the Panamanian minister to the United States, christens the
8. S. Panama, first fireproof steamship ever built in the United States. The ship is the first of three to be built
for the Panama Railroad Steamship line and will ply between New York and the Canal Zone. 2—Miss Sirkka
Salonen, winner of the title of Miss Europe, was expelled from the teachers’ training college in her native
Finland because she took part in the beauty contest. 3—Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, wife of Britain’s busy prime
minister, returns to No. 10 Downing street after her customary morning walk.
Another Short Skirt Era Is Here
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Fashion experts’ predictions that the knee-length skirts of the flapper
era are on their way back appear a little late. They have already
arrived, judging from this Miami street scene.
WORKING HIS WAY
Bill DeCorrevent, sensational high
6chool football star from Chicago
who is now a freshman at North¬
western university, finds time when
not attending classes or playing
frosh football to work in the kitchen
of the Sigma Chi fraternity house.
In this way he helps pay his way
through college.
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Loyal members of the Amalgamated Order of Steamshovel Watchers, Des Moines Local 19, watch the
excavations for the new home office of the Bankers Life company from a platform especially built for
them after onlookers complained because the contractor had fenced in the excavation site. The platform is
inside the fence and is protected from flying debris.
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938
PASSING
JUDGMENT
•. . on others can often get
us into "hot water" when we
do not know all the circum¬
stances.
—By WINIFRED WILLARD—
^ AN, orange and bunch of boys
* on the lower East Side of New
York. The man tossed the orange
to see the boys scramble for it
One chap, about 10, fought like a
young tiger, tooth and nail, eyes
flashing, face grim, fists hitting fu¬
riously—all for an orange. The
man who had tossed it told his wife
at home: “I saw the meanest boy
in the world this morning. Didn’t
care for anybody or anything except
to hog an orange himself.”
Business took that man later the
same day to a pitifully poor room.
On a cot in the corner a little girl’s
cheeks flamed with fever and her
body was wasted with suffering. The
door flew open. In bolted that little
chap, the “meanest boy in the
world.” Breathless with running, he
tiptoed up to his sister’s bed and
whispered excitedly, “Here’s an or¬
ange I brung ye, Sis; fought for it
’cause I thought ye’d like it.” How
her eyes sparkled! Tiny hands
eagerly for it. Parched
little lips craved the refreshment it
offered.
The man went home, sat long
slumped in his chair. Then he called
his wife and with shame and regret
struggling in his voice blurted out:
“You’ve married the meanest man
that ever lived. That little shaver
I told you about, the one I said was
the meanest boy in the world, fought
for my orange to take to his sick
sister and I’m lookin’ for somebody
to kick me round the block!” He
didn’t know the whole story before
he sat in judgment; that’s all.
Flimsy Evidence
A big bishop spoke rather caus¬
tically and disparagingly about a
woman in public life who traveled
the nation and who had an excep¬
tional salary. “Why doesn’t she
wear better clothes?” he asked,
“same old things season in and
out; that hat certainly’s been on the
road winter and summer two solid
years.” It had. She knew it better
than the bishop. But he just didn’t
know that her money was spent in¬
stead for nurses and comforts for
her sick father whom she adored.
What did a new hat matter if father
needed what the cost ef a hat could
provide? Just judging on flimsy
evidence!
For months two people dodged
each other. Each knew the other
was haughty, unapproachable, cold
and undesirable. Finally they met.
Didn’t want to; tried to avoid it and
couldn’t. Almost at once barriers
began to fall. From the dislike of
misunderstanding, they got proper
appraisals of each other; to their
surprised satisfaction, each began
to enjoy, then to admire the other.
For the first time they saw behind
the scenes and found only what was
good. Nearly always so!
Case of the Railroad Man
It seemed strange that the man
who lived in Washington breakfast¬
ed ungodly early, walked four long
blocks, took a street car across city,
then rode the tiresome train every
day to his Baltimore office. We
could all have told him how much
shorter, simpler and more sensible
for him to step into the bus in front
of his house and out at hie office;
most anybody would know enough
to do it this easier, quicker way
Then we learned that he is of the
railroad staff and it is his profes¬
sional responsibility to take the
train. Buses weren’t his line.
Trains were! We sat in judgment
without knowing what we were talk¬
ing about.
So easy to turn our imaginations
loose on any pretext or person; so
easy to see what isn’t there; to
misunderstand and misinterpret; to
see the little lad fighting for an or¬
ange for his sick sister as “meanest
boy in the world”; so easy to be
critical instead of kind; to tangle
human threads that need straight¬
ening, not snarling, and thus to spoil
many a lovely pattern of life.
A world of saving wisdom abides
in the old philosophy that reveals
“there’s so much good in the worst
of us and so much bad in the best
of us that it scarcely behooves any
of us to say things against the rest
of us.” Just another way of sug¬
gesting that it’s better all around to
“judge not.” It keeps things from
hoomeranging on us!
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Palms In Coat of Arms
The palm is in the coat of arms
of South Carolina. Legends have
it that the Virgin Mary commanded
the palm to bend its leaves over
Christ during the trip into Egypt.
Palms were known to have supplied
tribes not only with food, but also
oil, fuel and shelter. One of the
superstitions pertaining to palms,
notes a writer in the Rural New-
Yorker, is that if one would make
a cross of leaves he would be free
from injury during a heavy storm.
People in some sections of the coun¬
try believe that it will drive mice
away from granaries; that if leaves
are eaten it will cure fever, or that
if a palm leaf is put behind the
picture of Virgin Mary on Easter
morning it will drive away all ani
mals without bones.
FARM GIRL CHAMP
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Hazel Drysdale, 19-year-old girl of
Altaloma, Calif., was crowned the
American farm girl champion at the
Los Angeles county fair, winning the
highest points in the milking and
butter churning contests. She is pic¬
tured with the cow she milked her
way to victory with.
After White House Consultation
Photograph shows Secretary of State Cordell Hull (center) followed
by newsmen as he left the White House after a conference with President
Roosevelt on the European situation.
Rug From Old Coat
And Scrap s of Felt
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
TpHE directions my ^-sewing, for making th» r ;
the Home Decorator, havl 0
brought many letters from read net
ers to describing rugs that ar e rZ
me and very interestng
reader who shares with us this
idea for using pieces ’
woolen and of taeK hea
he scraps of felt,
r rug to the side of the S house
and took a snapshot of it
she sent me. cn
The finished rug is 34 bv w
inches. . Half
of it is shown here
at the upper left The foundation
(1) is made of the back width of
a very heavy old coat. An allow
ance was made for a hem to add
1DARK SLUE
2YELLOW ON GRAY
3 BRIGHT BLUE ON RED
4YELLOW ON
BRIGHT BLUE
5 GRAY ON RED
6 BRIGHT BLUE
7 RED
weight to the edge. The founda-
tion may be pieced if a large sec¬
tion of heavy cloth is not avail-
able or felt purchased by the yard
may be used for it.
Next, circles of felt in two col¬
ors, cut from old hats and dis¬
carded school pennants, are sewn
together with heavy black thread
as at A. These are then sewn
in place as at B beginning at
the center of the foundation. The
large circles in the three center
rows are two inches in diameter.
Those in the next two rows are
2% inches. All the small circles
are one inch.
You can make slipcovers, all
types of curtains and many other
things for the house with the help
of Book 1— SEWING for the Home
Decorator. Just follow the pic¬
tures. Step by step you learn to
make the lovely things you have
been wanting for your home. Book
2—Gifts, Novelties and Embroid¬
ery—illustrates 90 stitches; also
dozens of things you can make in
your spare time to use or to sell.
Books are 25 cents each. If you
order both books leaflet on crazy-
patch quilts will be included free.
Address: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
plaines St., Chicago, 111.
NERVOUS?
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those dearest to you?
If your nerves are on edge and you feel
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nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often ac¬
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Why not give it a chance to help YOU?
Over one million women have written In
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Obedient First
He who obeys with modesty ap¬
pears worthy of being some day
a commander.—Cicero.
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