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North Florida Shows Dust Bowl Symptons, but Natives Recall Only One Drought—a Mighty Damp One!

SOUTHERN GEORGIA, Feb. 20.—Today we drove up through north Central Florida into Georgia. That part of Forida is not like the winter resort area. It is plain old -deep South, except that it isn’t as good loo t lacks the luxuriant vegetation, the greenness and freshness. It is a land of gray sandy soil, of brown scrub pines, of little farms, many Negroes (and many shacks. It is country that makes you melancholy. The wind was blowing a steady, insistent gale. You couldn’t hold the car straight. It was hot with an uncanny, foreboding heat. You had a feeling that this wind would slowly, relentlessly blow north Florida away. Queer clouds were in the sky. And then we began to run through dust storms. From every open field the dust streamed across the road. From big fields it rose high into gray clouds. We had to keep running the windows up, and still we: were soon dusty all over and grit was in our teeth. It was never as bad as I've seen it in west Kansas. We stopped in a town for lunch. I asked the woman at the counter if it blew like this every spring. | She said, “Oh, no, this is the first wind we’ve had.” ; I talked to two farmers about the possibility of this sectiomr blowing away. “No, no,” they said, “this don’t amount to nothin’. Next month will be worse than this, but this country ain’t blowing away. We get lots of rain here, better than 50 inches a year.” - This is corn, tobacco and peanut country. I put one last question: . h “Have you ever had any bad droughts around ere?” | “No sir,” one of them said, “we've never had a single one, except once. That was pretty bad. The water got up over the highway, and they had to rebuild | the road. It drowned out all the crops. Ths water was even right up in the streets here in wn.” A That seemed to settle it. I had intended asking him if they ever had any floods, but after that I didn’t see any sense in it.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20,

F.D.Rs Popularity Levels Off

~ National Defense and’ WPA Appropriation Among Problems

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP ™

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

EW YORK, Feb. 20. — , President Roosevelt's pop--ularity, which had been rising sharply since the November midterm elections, has levelled off this month in the Presidential index of the American Institute of Public Opinion. At the present time, after six weeks of the new “independent” Congress, the Institute index shows that President Roosevelt has 58 per cent of the major party voters supporting him—just what he had when Congress began—as compared’ with 551 per cent early in December.

The month-by-month trend since the November elections has been:

% of Major Party Vote for Roosevelt

November .....cco0ce00.. 544% December ....ce.oce0se0e 55.5 JANUATY ..ccoerevssocesse 58.0 February .c.ccceeeeeceececss 58.0

The President is not as popular as he was on election day, 1936, when he polled 62.5 per cent of the major party vote. But he still holds a substantial following, despite the tendency of rank and file Democrats to become more conservative over the

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By Anton Scherrer

Being a Bit of Research Into Art Of Mixing Drinks as Taken From Green's Manual Printed in 1894.

N these perplexing days when no two Martinis taste the same, almost my only : comfort is a little book called ‘Mixed a Drinks: A Manual for Bar Clerks Up tc . Date,” written by Herbert W. Green of InEUROPEAN : a ‘WAR CRISIS dianapolis, in 1894, when he ran the Dem son House Bar. : If you're old enough (seasoned enough, too) te remember what the inside of the old Denison House

looked like, you’ll recall that the ¢ drinks served over its bar never varied by as much as a nuance. Well, here’s the reason: Mr. Green’s Sahil was the bartenders’ style-

kK. With his first sentences Mr. Green brings back to the world a forgotten order and security. “I have been in this line of business many years,” he writes, “an active 5 and observant worker, commencing Mr. Scherrer my career with Messrs. Chapin 0 and ‘Gore. Amid the ebb and flow of life in th palace of conviviality, between drinks, as it were, 1 have taken a great many notes mentally, and I now commit them to paper to be launched out upon the sea of literature, a craft bearing the secrets of the saloon as revealed in book form, comprising the art of tending bar, the mystery of mixing drinks, the etiquette of the saloon, the conduct of bar clerks and proprietors, the literature of beverages and many tabulated statements and scraps of information never before published, but very useful to the man behind the counter.” : Mr. Green is as good as his word and reveals the secret of no less than 169 mixed drinks called for by habitues of the Denison House Bar back in the days when it was going good. The Gen. Harrison Egg Nogg went like this, for instance: “Fill

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‘BREATHING

Mr. Pyle

President’s Popularity at % Key Points in Last 5 Years

Roosevelt's % Major Party Vote Roosevelt Elected 59% Figst Institute Survey 69 Congress Adjourns, After Debate on _Air Mail Contracts, Gold Clause, NRA, Ete. ann 8 After Debate on $4,880,000,000 Relief Bill 53 Lowest Point for FDR 50.5

She Came Away Convinced

I certainly don’t want to get mixed up in any argument over the status of the Negro in the South. But I've got a little story. This morning I went into the Ocala postoffice. Just ahead of me was an old Negro woman. She must have been a hundred, for her face was wrinkled like the pictures you see of old Indians. She had baked a cake and was mailing it to relatives in

: last two years.

And apparantly the Congressional ruckfis over foreign policy and national defense has had little effect on his popular standing —one way.or the other—in spite of the battle-cry of many Republicans that the President is lead-

Business in “Breathing Spell” . . 53 Beginning of Presidential Campaign 55.8 Roosevelt Re-elected 62.5 Before Supreme Court Fight 65.5 After Court Fight . .... . ..... . 60.2 After 8 Months of Business Slump.. 54.4 After Peace Pleasito Hitler 59.6 616t Monthly Roosevelt Survey 58

large lemonade-glass full of fine ice, one large ‘spoon= ful sugar, one egg, fill with cider. Shake thoroughly; strain in thin glass, nutmeg on top.” And to end all bickerings, here, finally, in Mr, Green’s own words is the honest-to-goodness. recipe for making the celebrated Denison Casino Sour: “Fill mixing-glass two-thirds full of fine ice, one large spoonful sugar, juice one-half lemon, two dashes

.Jamaica rum, one jigger whisky. Shake well; strain

in star-champagne glass, add fruits of the season.”

Tallahassee.

She fretted and fussed and worried over whether the cake would get there. She asked the postal clerk if he was sure it would get there. He was goodnatured. : “It'll sure get there, Auntie,” he said, “I'll take personal charge of it.” ] But even after paying the postage, she was reluctant. She just didn’t think it would get there. After reassuring her several times, the postal clerk himself began to be doubtful. He felt of the box all over, and looked’ at the clock. ; “Well I don’t known Auntie,” he said. “This don’t look to me like it’s wrapped any too good. This string looks awful weak. It might come undone right while I'm handling it.” : He looked again at the clock. “It’s gettin’ pretty close to lunch time, and I sure always did like pound

ing the United States “along the road to war.” :

Political observers will be watching closely for signs of President Roosevelt's strength with the voters during the remainder of this session of Congress. What they see may have a lot to do with the fate of the Democratic Party in 1940, as well as with the President’s plans to dominate the 1940 convention and name his successor. . The Institute has measured the President’s popularity every month for 61 months, and has found that F. D. R. usually : declines while Congress is in session, especially when he is sending difficult and controversial legislation to Capitol Hill. The single exception was in the early months of 1¢36, with the election looming, when the President sent little cake. Maybe you better not mail it after all, Auntie.” new legisiaion to Congress. The President's popularity + And Auntie said “Aw, pshaw!” and took her 100 ? years out of the postoffice, making funny noises to . 8.8 herself, and just so tickled and pleased she was about | Jfiddle Income Group May Be

to split. ass Seat or. Battleground of Next Election

Moral—none whatever. Except you'd never see anybody spend five minutes joshing old Auntie north : of the Potomac River, where Negroes are equal, DAY'S Institute survey, which is based on a scientifically selected cross-section of the voting population in all parts of the country, shows that the Président’s

My D A Y strength is still coming chiefly from the lower income

group and from city voters particularly, while the opposiBy Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

- : tion is strongest in Teacher Acts as Administrator RECENT FDR TREND

How to Mix a Sholly Molly

To compound a Sholly Molly and make it taste anything like it did in the Denison: “Put two or three lumps of ice in thin lemonade-glass, one wine-glass claret, fill with ordinary soda water.” Mr. Green’s . Whisky and Glycerin consisted of a tablespoonful of pure glycerin and a jigger of whisky. “This a most excellent remedy for a cold or any disease of the . throat or lungs,” he advises. “When possible it should’ be taken a spoonful at a time at intervals of a half hour, letting it trickle down the throat. If the taste is not agreeable, a teaspoonful of wintergreen essences will entirely change the flavor.” The Lillian Russell went like this: “Fill lemonadeglass two-thirds full of fine ice, one barspoonful Cu_racao, one barspoonful Maraschino, fill. with Cook's Imperial.” One pint of champagne will make two servings, says Mr. Green. A Stone Fence was a plain whisky substituting cider for water on the side. And according to Mr. Green a White Plush starts with the same base but ends with milk as the chaser. And listen to this one: To make a Highball, says Mr. Green, “put in thin ale-glass two or three lumps of ice, fill with syphon seltzer to within an inch of the top, then float one-half jigger of whisky.” : That shows the topsy-turvy world we're living in now. Let a modern bartender have his way and, sure as shootin’, he'll put in the whisky first and lump in the water on top of it. I don’t know what the world is coming to. ;

FOR FIVE YEARS, month by month, the American Institute of Public Opinion has measured the popularity of President Roosevelt with the rank and file voters of the United States. The above chart shows the President’s standing today (58%) as compared with the last 60 months. Except in 1936, the Institute has found that President Roosevelt's popularity declines when Congress is in session, rises when it goes home.

President’s principle of helping the democracies of -Europe—short of going to war ourselves—if they are involved with Germany and Italy.

The President’s appointment of Prof. Felix Frankfurter to Justice Cardozo’s seat on the Supreme Court was LT also popular... Eighty-two per cent of those with opinions in American Institute of Public Opinion political on the Frankfurter appointment thought the Harvard law

cross-section of the voting population in all states. : . 8 # = Within each state the Institute reaches Demo- Institute Has Measured FDR’s crats, Republicans and third party voters, farm, city Po pularily for Five Years

and small-town voters and persons in all age and : income levels, in proportion to their numbers in ODAY'S survey marks the fifth anniversary of the Inthé voting population. To = . stitute’s month-by-month barometer of President : Roosevelt's popularity, as the illustration indicates. Roosevelt Popularity Never during that time has the President sunk below

the 50-50 line which marks the difference between a popu--Percentage of major party vote for Roosevelt lar majority and a minority. The closest Mr. Roosevelt : (Today) ssssesssssseesssnnsssnsssseves 98.0% :

ever came, the Institute index shows, was in September, 1935, when he reached 50.5 per cent following a long sesLast Month .........cc...00000vvvnneees..58.0 sion of Congress and after the defeat of NRA in the courts. Previous Institute survey (Dec.) sesessse..55.5 1936 Election .............................625

The Political Barometer

The following is a summary of reported figures

Will the President remain above the 50-50 line to the end of his term? ’ The question is important because last November, when Roosevelt's popularity dropped to only 54.4 there was a

the upper income In Experimental Class for Girls.

levels and with farmers and small YDE PARK, N. Y., Sunday.—Miss Flora Rose has : inaugurated a class for a group of girls in the College of Home Economics at Ithaca. She insists that she is not “giving” a class, but is administering” one. Miss Rose invites different people to talk to the girls-and then have a discussion with them. She expects that the girls will develop this course themselves. : E From my point of view, it is one of the most interesting courses for a young girl and I think a similar one should be given to young men. The idea is to develop the relationship of the individual to the family and the community and to discover what makes for a satisfactory adjustment to the different responsibilities of life. You can well see that this e of course would lead one down many paths. A method by which the young people themselves do the exploring is very excellent, for it will develop thought end expression. In one of the schools I saw during the past week, someone asked me whether I believed in teaching foreign languages to boys and girls in public school. This is a perennial question and I am obliged to answer it in a rather roundabout way, for I do believe foreign languages are most valuable.

Present Methods Criticized :

It is quite obvious that in developing trade and good feeling in South America, a knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese is valuable, and a knowledge of French will be helpful to anyone who travels abroad in any country. Each added language, German, Italian or? Russian, will mean that if one visits the country one will have tools which will provide not only greater enJjoyment, but far greater benefits from the educational standpoint. To teach foreign languages, however, as they are ordinarily taught in our public or private schools, has always seemed to me a waste of time. So few young people can talk a language after many years’ of Study and, after all, that is what most of us need 0 do. A rather interesting letter came to me the other day from a woman who says she has been giving les- | sons in French in a Canadian paper for some timeéand that her method of teaching will insure a student the ability to pronounce properly and to be able to talk in a short time. She is anxious to start what she calls a " “French corner” in a number of American newspapers.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service : ? ELIUM, the next to the lightest element in the universe, although deprived of the job of holding giant airships aloft (because the U. S. A. has none), is about to find a new job underground. This sun-element is ready to help rescue men made ill by the high air pressures necessary when working in caissons and in subaqueous tunnels. The Navy has shown through 10 years of research that use of an atmosphere of helium and oxygen instead of the natural one of nitrogen and oxygen allows divers to work at pressures equivalent to 500 feet. Previously with ordinary compressed’ air the diving record was 306 feet made during salvage operations of a sunken submarine. The advantage of helium over nitrogen is that less of it is dissolved. in the diver’s blood and tissues. He is less likely to get the “bends,” as compressed air illness is called. This same technique could be used on underpressure construction by filling caisson or tunnel with helium. But this would cost prohibitively. What Dr. Yandell Henderson, Yale physiologist and authority on such helium utilization, recommends to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is - that helium-oxygen mixture be used in the so-called “medical lock,” a chamber used for putting the worker under pressure again if he becomes ill while heme, decompressed, that is, while slowly coming oul

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the East

town voters:

For Roosevelt Per Cent Major Party Group

- Upper Income

Group .coeeee 31%

Middle Income Group ....... 53

Lower Income Group sess ocoe 5

A struggle for the vote of the middle income group, consisting of voters earning between $20

and $40 a week, is indicated by the fact that the group is almost evenly divided today between those who are “pro” Roosevelt and those who are “anti.”

Section by section the President has gained slightly in

the last few weeks, while losing ground in the Middle West and West:

For Roosevelt : Points of TODAY JAN. CHANGE

New England States....i..... 53%

Middle Atlantic States ....... 58 East Central States «.eceoecee 54 West Central States ccoceoces 54 South sess esses essssssessssssss OB West sesssssnsasssssesssvassse 63

Side Glances

51% +2 57 +1 55 -1 56 = 68 0 64 |

Third-Term Sentiment Favoring third-term for Roosevelt (Feb.) . .319% Previous Institute survey (Dec) ...........30

Popular Favorites for 1940

Democrats (Dec.) ....1. Vice. President Garner -2. Secretary Hull 3. Postmaster General Farley Republicans (Feb.) ..1. Thomas E. Dewey 2. Senator Vandenberg 3. Senator Taft

coinciding drop in Democratic Paréy strength’ and the Democratic majority in Congress was sharply reduced.

Tiny Electric Motor Runs Robot Weather Observer

By Science Service |X 7ASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—An improved lighter robot weather observer or radiometeorograph for reporting weather conditions in the upper atmosphere has been

Defense Policy

Approved

fonts,

He was beaten in his attempt to have Congress kee his full deficiency relief recommendation of 815 million Public opinion tests recently showed that the e in the mood for economy, and that even 46 per Democrats think the Government has been

dollars.

cent of the spending too much.

But there can be no douht that the President’s -

opening message to Congress, early in January, with its challenge to the dictators, was well received by the public, and a recent preliminary Institute survey shows that about 60 per cent of the voters approve the

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icken farm.

every time he

N the six weeks. since the previous Institute report on Mr. Roosevelt the President has been fighting on several

developed by scientists of the National Bureau of Standards here in co-operation with the U. S. Weather Bureau. A tiny electric motor weighing but two ounces controls the radio transmitter for flashing back temperature, pressure and humidity data to ground receiving sets. The recording apparatus, the radio transmitter and the motor are sent aloft attached to a small balloon. By operating the radio only at the instants signals are flashed back to the earth, the motor cuts the drain on the radio B batteries. Therefore, a shorter-lived, but more powerful, battery may be used. This results in a stronger signal and a lighter installation. The motor operates for several days on current from a “fountain pen” flashlight battery. The motor drives a rotary electric contactor. As its

arms touch pressure, temperature and humidity elements, it keys a small radio transmitter. :

KNOWLEDGE

1—What is a rip-tide? 2—What language was spoken ‘in ancient Rome? 3—Name the judge who was recently nominated by President Roosevelt for the Federal bench of Virginia, and rejected by the Senate. : 4—Where is the Valley of: Ten | F Thousand Smokes? ~~ = 6—How many aveirdupois pounds are in one short ton? 6—Which State is nicknamed ‘the “Apache State?” : 7—Who was generally considered the most famous tenor of modern times? 2 o 2

Answers 1—Water roughened by confiicting tides or currents. 2—Latin. : : 3—Judge Floyd Roberts. 4—Alaska. ; vl

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Jane Jordan—

Divorcee, 36, Mother of Four, Told She Need Not Exclude Romance.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been divorced for six years. I am not so old, just 36, but I feel much older. Some day I want to be married again. 1 have four children and they do not want me to

‘keep company with any man, for they do not want a -stepfather.

I get very lonesome for company. The children’s ages are 11, 12, 14 and 17. Do you think that a woman 36 years old should mind her children, or should she have company? My oldest girl is married and I am just wondering if the rest will do the same ‘thing and leave me when I am so ol¢ I won’t want to go any place. Yet after all the children are the spirit of my life. * = JUST WONDERING.

Answer—Yes, of course the children will get mare ried and leave you. And they should. But what they should not do is to prevent you from looking after your own future. Your children are not old enough or wise enough to understand your problems. They cannot fill your life completely nor supply the adult. companionship which you need. You are old enough, and should be wise enough, however, to understand your children’s problems, You must realize that the divorce of their parents de--stroys their sense of security in life and makes them doubt the changeless love of their parents. If their faith in their own father has been-badly shaken, we cannot ‘expect them to regard a prospective stepfather with enthusiasm. : The utmost tact and consideration on your part is necessary. if you are to reconcile your children to the fact that it is to their advantage as well as your own, for you to have some life apart from them, and to the fact this life must of necessity include men friends of your own age. The children’ have had you all to themselves for six years and it won't. be easy for them to share you with anybody else. A favorite fantasy among children is to reverse their tions with their parents. They like to preténd that\through some magic they have become the parents ang that the parents have become the children. This is one reason why your children : would like so well to have you mind them. £3 If you are faif to them, and not afraid to exer cise your authority over them with justice and kindness, you can make them trust your decisions. And if you decide to go out with a man whose attitude toward them is friendly is fair, you may have to put up with many minor jealousies. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer dren A estions in this column daily.

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