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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

man of the House committee on for
eign affairs, Is Drawing the tropical
heat of Central America on official
business. Porter is the head of the
Joint congressional committee on
American legation and consulate
buildings abroad. He is now investi-
eating conditions in Nicaragua, Hon.
duras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and
Panama, in all of which countries
Congress has voted to build Uncle
Sans own homes. Keith Merrill of the
buildings division of the State Depart
ment is accompanying Mr.. Porter.
X X X
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States. is in the midst of her
third successive tour as chautauqua
lecturer. She hit the brown-tent trail
on July 6 and will be doing one-night
stands in New York State until the
middle of August. "Portia's" topic
is law enforcement, and she Is en-
livening 1t with some of her thrill
ing experiences at the Department
of Justice during the past six years.
Three very vital branches of Federal
jurisdiction are under Mrs. Willie.
brandt's care-prosecution Of prohi.
bition violations, apprehension of tax
dodgers and supervision of United
States prisons. In her spare time
"Portia" regulates the activities of
the 81 United States attorneys scat
tered throughout the Union. Her
friends still hope Mrs. Withdrawals
fine career will be capped with eleva-
ton to the Federal bench in her home
area on the Pacific Coast.
Mere absence on the other side of
the world doesn't prevent a certain
lmeliSht.chasing Eastern member of
Congress from fomenting his repu.
tation as the champion self-advertiser
of Capitol Hill. Incidentally, he is
crowding Tom Hef1in for first honors
as eXplOiter of the ranking privi-
leges enabling Representatives and
Senators to clog the United States
mails with their vainglorious vapor.
ings. The sprig of the lower branch
here under gentle discussion is &C.
customed to drench the 600-odd men,
bers of the press gallery with un.
ceasing and oracular handouts" on
nearly every subject under the politi.
cal sun. He left for Europe three
weeks ago, but his mimeograph at
Washington is still working. Cor.
respondents count that day lost which
doesn't witness some new contribu-
ton to their waste baskets from the
Barnum of the House.
tCopyright. 1877
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

be found nowhere else in the world.
Surely the elemental feel" Of the
sea is known to all who have ever
been upon it or by it's side. Here life
began, the scientists tell us, and who
can doubt it?
This Is home.
Here, where the great white clouds
roll over green.blue waves, changing
daily, almost hourly, in tint and shade.
life sprang into being. crept forth on
the sand, thence into the forests.
Here by the sea one is free at last
from trees.
Not that we do not love the trees.
too, but here one Is glad there arc
none, for the time being.
To stand on the shore and look fd:
out, to see the smoke of a steamer
no bigger than ones little finger: to
feel that nothing Is between one and
tout there" is to love the seashore.
This sense of utmost freedom Is not
to be found in forests, in dimly lit
places, where great trunks oppose one
at every step, with masses OF leaves
concealing one knows not what enc.
mics.
Here, on the sea and by its side, one
can see everything!
X u y n
Water, sun, wind, clouds, sand, fog,
thunder, lightning
These are the immortal ingredients
of the seashore, served up to it's lovers
in battle and other array.
What is more sweet than the rest
full sleep of the shore, lulled by the
monotonous crashing of the waves, as
they roll endlessly in?
They do not seem water, merely, or
their noise the crude result of me-
chanical action. The pounding break
ers take on the aspect of old friends.
Suddenly, waking. one listens-and
hears no noise. He is worried, for the
| briefest second only, for soon a wave
breaks and rolls up the beach with the
purr all it's own. One turns over and
goes to sleep again.
The waves are breaking.
1t is Mother Oceans lullaby to
those, all her children, who love her.
In wilder aspect the seashore Is
| no less enthralling. Dark clouds mass
in the northeast. Lightning splits
the heavens.
Great waves, oily and black, push
in at an angle, cutting out the beach,
so that one is forced to jump down as
from shelf to go in bathing, If one
is fool enough to go at all.
Fog, the navigator's fear, whether
in ship or plane, wraps sea and sand
in mantle of mystery.
Moon, rising bloodred from the
waves.
Sand, blowing in a gale, covering
everything to the depth of a foot.
Salt moisture everywhere, on the
skin, in the hair, in clothes.
Salt tang in ones nostrils, clean,
healthful.
What visions you bring, little boy,
playing in big pan with little boat,
on a hot downtown street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Regulate the Guides!

Without a law for the licensing Of
guides through the Government build
ings and other points of interest in
and around Washington there can be
no effective regulation of this traffic
or trade and there will always be diff.
Guilty IN preventing extortion and i'm
position upon visitors to the Capital.
Just at present there is much COM
plant regarding the activities of the
self-appointed guides who importune
tourists, often displaying badges bear
ing inscriptions which indicate that
they are Official" conductors of sight
seeing parties or individuals. The dis
play of such badge is, of course, a
trick and has no warrant whatever
inasmuch as the only Official guides
are those in the Capitol Building, who
are named by the authorities there
and who have an exclusive privilege
of guiding visitors. Regarding these
Capitol guides there has always been
much controversy and a feeling pre-.
walls that those who are designated
as official guides should give their
services free and should be compen-
stated by the Government rather than
by their charges whom they conduct
through the building.
1t is important that there should be
some regulation of the guide system.
Otherwise visitors to the city may be
imposed upon in excessive charges or
perhaps in improper treatment. AS it
is, anybody with the nerve to assume
the character of an Official guide,
perhaps with the aid of a badge that
can be bought, it would seem, cheaply
at a shop, can go into the business OF
conducting parties through the city
and around the points of interest with
out any responsibility. There is no
way of checking up on the informa-
ton or misinformation or the eff
cheney with which the service Is rem.
dered.
There should be a law under which
guides are licensed, perhaps on pay
ment of fee, with regard to their
character and competence. 1t should
be possible to identify by his number
any guide who is employed under such
a system so that if a fraud Is prac-
ticed or excessive charges are i'm
posed the offender can be designated
and disciplined, perhaps deprived of
this license.
Washington is visited by many
thousands of people annually who
come here to see the Sights" There
should be no graft upon them under
the guise of guide fees that are not
honestly earned and do not represent
real Service. They should be given
correct information and not be stuffed
with nonsense. The sightseeing com.
panies operating BUSES are careful in
the selection of their lecturers and in
the main the information given by
them is correct and instructive. It is
possible when any improperly occurs
on the part of any Of the employees of
these companies to obtain redress and
correction. But the self-appointed. un-
regulated guides, who are in most
cases poorly qualified and who are
under no restraint, whatever as to
fees, constitute nuisance that should
be cured by the establishment Of a
licensing system that would insure
regularity and reliability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

more money it takes! John Joy Ed.
son, chairman of the committee, needs
more money to maintain the local
camps through the Summer. Unless
it is Forthcoming, the season at the
camps, now in full swing in Rock
Creek Park and at Blue Plains, will
have to be curtailed.
To all mothers may be given this
message:
These children are your children.
Not so by law or nature, of course,
but by that higher bond Of feeling
which makes a mothers heart go out
to every little child that cries in the
night.
To these little ones beyond the
soothing touch of your hand, whom
you will never know or see, but whose
helpless innocence appeals so might.
lily. every mother may send help.
A check for dollar, or any other
amount, made payable to the Summer
Outings Committee, care of The Star,
or Social Service House, 1922 Eleventh
street, becomes more than a bit of
paper. 1t turns, as the drab cocoon
does. into a beautiful butterfly, into
a mothers soft voice and soothing
hands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Midsummer Magic.

A baby cries from the heat, and
mother tries to soothe it. A child
wakes in tears, and a mother rushes
to give words Of comfort. This Is the
blessed duty and prerogative Of
mothers.
The heart Of every mother every
where goes out to all children, espe.
cially to those less fortunate than her
own.
And at this time of the year, when
little ones suffer much from the heat,
every mother thinks, at times. of
those babiesc who cannot be taken
away to the seashore or to the
country.
In these moments. when she has
leisure from the demands of her own
to think of other peoples children,
she often wonders how the little ones
Of those less fortunately situated in
respect to the worlds goods stand
it" all Summer long in the stuffy city.
Often enough they do not stand it
very well. But a helpful agency,
known as the Summer Outings Com
mittee, for many years has main
tanned two camps, Camp Good Will
and Camp Plea SAINT, where mothers
and children are taken for vacations
varying from one to two weeks, or
even longer in cases of need.
1t takes money to maintain these
camps. Everything takes money
of course. Sometimes it seems that
the finer the work in hand the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Remedies for the Farmers Ills.

Not all of the people Of the Western
agricultural States believe in the prin-
ciples Of the McNary-Haugen farm
relief bill. Not by a jugful. Presi-
dent Coolidge, who vetoed the McNary-
Haugen bill at the last session Of Con-
gress and has brought down the walls
of wrath upon his head, is hearing
now from some of the Western
farmers who think he was right. Even
some Of those who supported the
farm relief bill in the past are talking
Of other remedies. among them dele
cation from the Farm Belt Federation.
This delegation. which called upon
the President yesterday at the Sum-
mer White House, talked particularly
Of the need of broader cooperative
marketing facilities. This, by the way,
Is one Of the remedies which the
President himself suggests. The great
difficulty, however, has been to get all
the farmers to cooperate" Probably
a certain percentage never would join
a cooperative movement, being either
indifferent. or too lazy, or believing
in their own individual competence to
handle their crops. But there seems
little doubt that the marketing prob
fem is the most serious which con-
fronts the American farmer today.
The President heard also from
Western authority on diversifcation
of crops. Frederick E. Murphy, pub
fisher Of the Minneapolis Tribune.
Mr.. Murphy is convinced that through
diversification of crops the surplus
problem can largely be solved, to the
great benefit of the farmer. For years
Mr.. Murphy has preached the gospel
Of Investigation of crops to the
farmers Of Minnesota and adjacent
States. He was able to tell the Presi.
dent that through Investigation
much of the farmers trouble had been
eliminated, although the farmer is by
no means out of the woods yet. Presi-
dent Coolidge has been himself an
advocate Of diversification of crops as
q real solution Of the surplus wheat
and corn crop problem.
The McNary- Haugenites had their
fling at st. Paul. They denounced the
President for his veto of the farm
relief bill and went on record as
favoring its repassage by Congress
with certain notifications next
Winter. Now, It appears, the West
erners who believe in other remedies
for the farmers ills are to be heard.
One great difficulty in the past has
been to learn from the farmers what
they all, or even majority, need and
want.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
Congress Broadcasting Idea
Discussed i'm Humorous Vein

Santa Barbara News. "the installa-
ton of such a system would put an
end to the filibuster tactics which
take up so much of til. time of the
Senate on many occasions. The time
wasting tactics of both houses, even
when there is no actual tilibuster In
progress. would arouse the wrath OF
the public if they could listen over
the radio to the performance for
which they are paving. The
Lafayette Journal and Courier asks.
"And what would the public do to the
Senate after getting out of the air
about two weeks Of typical fill
buster?"
"The Senator's plan should be re-
Versed," affirms the Williamsport
Sun. "Some scheme should be de-
vised whereby the members of Con.
gress could be kept in touch with
what the people of the Nation are
saying and doing" That paper, how
ever. believes that "the public might
be coaxed to listen in if a hookup
could be arranged whereby the dis
cussions at a White House breakfast
or secret conference between dom
inant congressional leaders might be
put on the air. Nevertheless. the
Aotty lily
that "a great many would undoubt-
edly tune in to hear the voices of
the men that are responsible for the
laws and measures enacted for the
country as whole"
X y X X
Congress should be careful,
warns the Fort Worth StarTelegram.
I'm it's arrogance it may destroy
itself. If the public has to listen to
all Congressman, 1t soon will be send
ing only deaf and dumb men to
Washington" And the Kalamazoo
Gazette asserts that the greater part
OF the speechmakirg is about as dull
ana undressing as any discourse
can be-" with the result that "a radio
audience would welcome it only as
cure for insomnia"
Far be it from any one to inter-
fere with progress" says the Albany
Evening News. but somehow most
folk will feel that they have been able
to get along SO far with the Con-
gressional Record, and they will not
be enthusiastic about having the air
hlled with Congress a large part of
the year." The Charleston Evening
Post suspects that "Hefiin would
probably even be ready to advocate
OH diIlcIiuHleHC 10 the CONSTITUTION re-
quirinS every citizen to listen in dur
ing certain specified hours upon the
proceedings. All objections, me-
chanical and legal, in the opinion of
the Evening Post. could be met by
the simple prescription that for a
fixed period of the day or night, or
both. the loud speaker from Alabama
should have the undefended ear of
the American people. Against which
only the thin barrier of the Constitu-
ton now stands, in its prohibition Of
cruel and unusual punishment"
THE people really want less of
Congress rather than more of it," i'm
the opinion of the Birmingham News.
and the Milwaukee Journal rema. IS
with enthusiasm. Think of the
pleasure of turning the little knobs
which would cut Washington off the
radio map and restore Jazz to its
place In our homes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Drawings for Nations huge draft
Army take 161a hours. Secretary
Baker opens ceremonies and draws
"25S" as first number. Solemn scene
at Capitol as numbers are drawn.
In some cities men stand in
line all night to find numbers. No
disorder anywhere. Pershing
leaves Paris for extended tour of
British lines to study methods used
by British to combat enemy. Sibert
and staff officers meanwhile will study
French maneuvering methods.
President moves to end shipbuilding
row. Demands action, but hopes to
keep both Goethals and Denman in
office. Germany's latest sub.
marines, capable of submerging 200
feet and withstanding Of water pres
sure at that depth, add new problem
for allies to solve. Secretary
Baker, replying to criticisms made re.
Garding location of National Guard
training camps in South. says warmer
climate is necessary for Winter quar-
ters and also says that the questions
Of economy and procuring tonnage to
tt ansport soldiers were involved in the
decisions made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

in every respect. 1t takes only a
short trip through neighboring cities
to realize the excellence Of the local
installation, as lights in many COM
munities seem to have been placed in
a haphazard manner, either strung on
wires, hanging from trees or regulated
so that there appears to be no rhyme
or reason for their use. In the Ma
tional Capital, however, a we'll de-
signed and artistic plan is being car
ried to a logical and successful con-
clusion.
1t is to be noted in the report of
the traffic director that F and G streets.
two of Washington's busiest shopping
thoroughfares, are not included, al
though the original plans called for
lights on these streets. 1t has been
almost the universal practice for
cities to install signals in the congested
sections first and in the residential
and outlying sections later. There
fore, it would seem as If the omission
of these two streets from the list of
Washington projects requires eXplana'
ton.
1t would appear that congested traf-
fic should be the first to need regu-
lation of this kind and that both F and
G. streets should be we'll up on the list
for the installation of signals. The gen
eral public will await with interest
some word from the authorities as to
the reason for excluding these streets
from the automatic system. No pri-
vate business should be allowed to in
terfere with plans which will give
benefits to the majority, and if this is
the explanation, reconsideration should
take place Immediately, so that Wash
ington motorists will have automatic
regulation at points where they need
it most.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

On the sidewalk of a downtown
street sat barefoot boy.
He had a galvanized iron pan of
large dimensions, such as housewife
might keep beneath a very large re.
frigerator
The pan was filled with water, and
on the waves of this miniature inner
sea the boy was sailing small boat.
The sight of this boy making the
best of conditions on a hot Summer
day, playing boats" in his iron bound
ocean, brought to many passerby
visions of long, lost seas.
Is not childhood's ocean forever
lost?
When will come again those first
days at the seashore, when, without
responsibility or thought, one ran and
played on the yellow sands, beneath a
shining golden sun?
Never.
1t is the only answer that can be
given.
Just as the boy with his tub and
sailboat will not be able to play so a
few years from now, so we are not
able to attain childhood's joy in the
seashore.
oiIS IIldy ~ again, IL IS dIu
stop at the best hotels, and all that
sort Of thing, but it is not exactly the
same.
The glamour of it is not there
Yet, some tinge of it yet remains!
If it had not been for those early days
one would not be dreaming of the sea
in the hot city
Do the fiddler crabs still run up
and down the beach?
What strange fellows they were.
with their long legs, and their little
eyes sitting up on sticks!
There were thousands Of them then,
of all sizes and presumably ages. At
first one was rather intimidated by
the f1ddlers. but soon came to have a
sort of friendship for them.
Dogs delighted to chase after them,
and would hurrow almost out of sight,
sending the sand out behind them
In a veritable stream as they dug
after the elusive ones.
Often enough the digger would seize
his prey, and come to the surface with
it, where he would proceed to tear off
a few legs, but it made no difference,
for shortly the crab would grow itself
new ones.
Sand crabs possess marvellous
ability in this respect, being able even
to grow themselves new eyes, If one
is lost.
Their ability to walk in any direc-
ton, and to turn those curious eyes,
is almost unique in creation. Their
speed, too, Is of no mean order. II is
to be regretted that civilization has
chased them from the beaches, for
they are interesting creatures.
X X X
The wind of the seashore whistles
through the memory for a lifetime.
Even the mountain breeze must
yield place to the cool blowing Of the
seashore wind, fresh off the ocean.
come to land from thousand miles
and more, bringing healing salt in it's
wings, and that inimitable tang to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

Hardly anybody seems able to dis
cuss with complete gravity Senator
Thomas Hefiin's suggestion that pro-
ceedings of Congress be broadcast on a
countrywide radio hook-up. The idea
strikes a great many funnybones as
commenting editors seek to visualize
it's possibilities.
"The plan is we'll worth consider
ing" observes the Chicago Daily News,
with the prophetic statement that the
Senators and Representatives would
be compelled to reform their respective
rules, adopt modern style of oratory,
boil things down, and make themselves
interesting to listeners who would be
under no compulsion to suffer from
profitless garrulity. They would be
free at any time to tune out dull
congressional orator and seek better
entertainer" The Asheville Times
thinks, in fact. that there is the dan
ger that the citizen, after tuning in on
Congress a few times, would be so un-
failingly bored that he would not even
tune in when he might listen to some
thing that would interest him."
The Hartford Times presents an
imaginary broadcast: This is Blk,
broadcasting from the Capitol at
Washington. The gentleman from
Alabama is now taking the floor. He
has large quantity of papers in his
hand and is prepared to cope with the
situation at length. Awk, awk! A
wicked left hook to the chin has
fioored the gentleman from Alabama.
He is taking the count. The gong
saves him. This is Blanton's round"
The Times continues: THE gayety of
the nations is not yet all that it should
be, but there is hope that it may be if
Senator Hetlin's thoughtful idea meets
with approval and is carried out.
Perhaps it would be a good way to
insure more orderly behavior in Con-
crosses and improve their grammar,
but it would be death blow to the
speeches in the Congressional Record.
Nobody would have time any longer to
read them"
The added suggestion that night
sessions should be held is considered
by the Louisville Courier-Journal with
the remark: THE experiment would be
more than disastrous. What the peO-
pie would hear instead of speeches in
the Senate. would be the sounds of
scuffiing for the privilege of the air.
Night sessions would interfere with
concert programs worse than static
ever did. Congress never would adj
journ till every member had dis
charged upon the vibrant ether the
burden of his chest" The further
handicap that impresses the Duluth
Herald is that IF, every time an i'm.
portant issue were up, every speaker
in both houses had a feeling that per-
haps everybody back in the home dis
trict was listening ins there would be
10 times more demagpgic hokum than
there is now. And there Is plenty of
that now"
'One thing is certain" predicts the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDLR JOHNSON.

Love Song.
I know it was a simple strain,
That old-time serenade;
An oft.repeated love refrain
To gentle music played.
I know it was an idle phrase
That brought so sweet a thrill;
And yet, through many weary days
1t fingers with me still.
know it is no splendid lay
Yet, through the years so long,
/ hope I ne'er shall reach the day
When I forget the song.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

Hints of barn burnings in reprisal,
should witnesses testify adversely.
cannot impede the justice admins
tered by courts, although they may
possibly increase rates Of fire in
surance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20

A bullet in Nicaragua penetrated
a flyers gas tank. The flyer merely
stopped long enough to mend the
puncture and then flew on. The great
test in aviation, which takes perfect
mechanism for granted, is human re-.
sourcefulness.