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Real Meaning of Farm Relief.

Charles C. league of California, the
Pacific Coast representative on the new
Federal Farm Board, utters a timely
word on the eve of starting for wash
nuton. He reminds the country that
the agricultural marketing act should
be considered simply as emergency leg
Station. Its design is to help agrlcul-
lure temporarily over the rough spots"
In other words, the law under which
the Farm Board is about to function
S not devised to be "a panacea or cure
al for the ills of agriculture"
Undoubtedly that was not the pur-
bose of Congress in making generous
provision, on President Hoover's recon-
mendation, for the distressed American
farming community. Congress and the
Nation at large recognized the pro-
priety and desirability of affording the
american farmer that aid for which
he has stood in sore need since the
CONCLUSION of the war But there was
no intention to stabilize the farmers
dependence upon the Treasury The
establishment of revolving fund of
$500 900 900, of which 0,000,00 is
to be made Immediately available for
the benefit of this years crops, is a
properly determined attempt upon the
part of the Government to rescue
basic industry which has languished
ever since its postwar defiation set in.
But the farm relief law is not perma-
nent Christmas tree.
It is the Nations hope and its
Expectation that the marketing act will
enable agriculture, in Mr.. leagues Ian
guage, ito work out its fundamental
problems on basis not requiring con-
8tinued financial assistance from the
Government" Anything else would be
d system tantamount to pauperization of
agriculture. The problems which the
American farmer has to solve If his
need for Treasury aid on impending
hines is not to become chronic are
numerous and serious, but not insur-
mountable.
He must go in for Investigation Of
crops. He must abandon his age-old
habit of buying more land than he can
sprofitably till. He must avoid surplus
sowing, as we'll as ownership of superfiu-
Gus acreage. He must identify himself
in increasing degree with the cooper
alive marketing movement. He must
emulate the merchant and the manu-
.facturer in scientific study Of market
conditions. He must adjust himself
systematically to them and to their
as other business men do.
A wise and prosperous Uncle Sam
has stepped into the breach with his
great financial resources and said to the
horny handed sons of the soil that as
Rome was not built in day, agricul-
ture cannot normalize itself overnight.
II will take time. While the recon-
struction process is under way the Gov
eminent stands by with material aid
in the shape Of money and with aux
iliary machinery in the form Of the
Federal Farm Board. That much
having been provided, the rest Is up to
agriculture itself. 1t is not an infant
industry and it must not expect in
definitely governmental assistance. God
helps him who helps himself (runs a
homespun proverb), including the
farmer.
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This latter duty may belong to the
one in error, or to him who points
out the failing, or 1t may rightly fall
to humanity at large to make the
change.
It is asking too much of any one to
expect him to both see and to do in
such matters. No doubt an occasional
individual may combine both, but for
the generality of mankind 1t is not pos
sible. Christ founded the Christian re.
ligion, but st. Paul carried 1t on.
Evil and the correction of evil are
not simple things. Neither is the de-
lection of evil simple thing. Often
vice presents a f1owery face, tending
to blind the eyes of the pure.
Those clear-seeing persons who do
not pretend to set people right but do
see that they are often wrong, are
necessary ingredient in the body polite
of any nation.
The more hustling, the more success
is for them, for the very success and
hustle upon which every one prides
himself is the very point of failure.
Success tends to breed intolerance.
and a man who becomes intolerant OF
criticism is on the first step OF the
downward ladder.
He has a right undoubtedly, to want
to know II the criticism Is honest. but
once convinced of that rather important
point, he must by no means be offended
at him who criticizes.
Some men are able to criticize with
out giving much offense, whereas others
are not so lucky Emerson said things
which in the mouths or from the pens
of other men would have left sting.
Yet it is not on record that any one ever
ranked much over any OF Emerson s
criticisms, so filled were they with a
certain spirit of kindness and knowl-
edge. =,
Those who resent oppositions Of all
kinds ought to take stock OF themselves
and see whether their resentment is not
the result of prejudice.
They have a right, of course, to expect
the one who criticiZes to be correct in
his criticism, just as they have a right
to ask that the other be honest in the
matter.
Convinced of his honesty, their next
thought is to be as to his correctness of
opinion. If such criticisms prove to be
unfounded time and time again. TO be
opinions tickle and changing with every
wind, those who oppose his views have
the plain duty OF criticizing In their
turn.
Thus the whole matter, it would
seem, resolves itself as so many do, into
a question of correctness. The popular
cry against the critic, whether of life,
morals, manner or what-not, is wrong
to the extent that 1t is based on false
optimism which blindly pushes aside
facts.
Certainly one may not like facts, but
, they often have an unpleasant way OF
making themselves felt. Spleen for
their retailer, therefore, should be
spleen against facts.
If one does not like criticism, let him
realize that what he really does not like
are facts granting always, of course,
that they really are facts. II he re-
sents the one who does the criticizing,
let him know that such one is only a
mouthpiece. The real fault. the true
offender, lies farther back. often, alas
the fault lies in ones self, the real Of
fender!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10
Reserve Major Says
Walter Reed Is OK.

To the Editor of The Star:
Apropos of the report in your issue
recently of the criticism and investiga-
ton of Walter Reed Hospital, permit me
to state my observations and expert
ences as a patient there three times in
the past four years, covering IS weeks
in all, End where am now recovering
from two major operations.
/. The hospital is fortunate in hav-
ing the services Of Col. Keller, whom I
believe to be one Of the greatest sur
geons in this country. He is assisted
by corps of surgeons and physicians
who are the equal of those in any hos
pital in the United States.
2. There is no hospital in the country
where a patient receives more care and
attention, or that has better corps of
nurses.
3. Personally, have never received
anything but the most efficient atten-
ton and kindly and courteous consid-
Grafton from the highest official to the
lowliest subordinate.
4. Never have heard from any one
in the hospital a word of disrespect or
disparagement of the veterans, and it
thing, more attention than the regular
officers.
S. The food served to me is all any
one could desire. For quality, quantity
and preparation it Is far superior to
the food served in the average eating
places in the City of Washington, and
is particularly adapted to the needs of
the individual patient.
6. regard Walter Reed as one of the
best hospitals in the country, and am
confident there is no other hospital
where a, patient gets as much capable,
thoughtful and kindly attention and
consideration.
7. No other country in the world does
so much for its disabled veterans and
fighting men as dear old Uncle Sam,
and, for one, am truly grateful.
8. There are some peonle who would
criticize and find fault with Heaven if
they ever get there
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER,
Major, o. r. c., u. S. A.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.
II do not pretend to set people right,
but do see that they are often wrong"
Mary Crawford.

II do not pretend to set people right,
but I do see that they are often wrong"
Mary Crawford.
There is disposition in this country
on the part of the majority of people
to feel that criticism is somehow wrong.
This is usually coupled with the idea
that one has no right at all to criticize
unless a remedy of some sort Is offered.
He who would meet the appreciation
OF all these persons is therefore, faced
with the twofold necessity of criti-
cizing gently. If at all, and invariably
with cure attached.
Yet 1t would seem that no apology
ought to be offered for fault-finding,
and especially that no remedy is
needed.
There is no more interesting occu-
patton than criticism, no matter how
ugly or unnecessary 1t may be, and
often 1t Is neither.
That it is universal is proved by the
fact that all people, good, bad or in
different, think critically, even II they
do not speak so.
Many kindly person, who by no
means would say aloud what he thinks,
sees the errors in the conduct and
speech. of others; and If some sort of
magic recording machine could spy on
his brain, every one would be surprised
at the record.
Perhaps the only sort of person who
Is really honest is one like Miss CraW-
ford, who does not pretend to set peo-
pie right, but does see that they are
often wrong.
OF course, they are wrong.
Is it possible for any one, no matter
how optimistic, to believe that as many
people can live together as in modern
communities without many of them
doing and saying foolish things?
Is it humanity possible for every one
to be right all the time, or even part
of the time?
Human society is so complex that
even great men err upon occasion, es-
pecially when they step out Of their
Specialties.
There is arising disposition to speak
against specialization, on the ground
that it tends to drive away the benefits
OF civilization, to withhold the human
mind from the contemplation of the
human scene as whole.
Those who grub away too steadily at
their Specialties. no matter how impos-
ing their contributions to humanity, run
a great danger Of losing those humane
sentiments WHICH civilization alone
brings to mankind.
It must be confessed, however, that
for the present there is much more
sentiment in favor of specialization than
its opposite, and that this belief is
based, in the last analysis, upon reali-
zation that such specialization reduces
human error.
Those who survey the entire scene of
man, as Pope called it. are in danger
of making errors or arriving at false
judgments.
When they do, it is necessary for
some one, or perhaps many some ones,
to set them right, if by no more than
the initial work of pointing out that
they are wrong.
X II
The realization of the error is all
that is necessary. Neither he who is
in error. or he who sees the error, needs
be worried by the necessity Of setting
the thing right.
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Ban on Prohibition Pamphlets
Meets With General Approval

General disapproval of any attempt
to introduce propaganda into public
schools of the country is reflected in
favorable comment on President Hoo
ver's recent ban against plan in the
Federal Prohibition Bureau to distribute
pamphlets among the schools. The
press also notes with satisfaction the
action of the National Education Asso-
citation in including a declaration
against propaganda in its unanimously
adopted code of ethics.
When the schools are turned over to
the propagandistS, religious political or
commercial" the Columbus Ohio State
Journal declares. 1.-The ideals on which
the American public school system are
based will topple."
The Akron Beacon Journal finds itself
In agreement with the President, also,
in "overruling his overzealous subordi-
nate" and thus saving the cause of the
schools"
Keep the Schools Out of It" is the
headline of an editorial in the New
York Sun, one of the statements in
which Is, Practically, 1t is one thing
to point out to children the physio-
logical effects of abuse of alcohol and
quite another to try to win their respect
Tor law which may be flouted by their
also in the Albany Evening News, that
paper saying: 1T is a controversial
question and is best kept out of the
schools. School pupils would be arrayed
against one another. according to what
they might have heard in their homes"
X X X X
The Youngstown Daily Vindicator is
OF the opinion that "the minute we give
over the schools to propaganda of any
sort whatever their usefulness is ended.
FanaticiSm enters where peace and
quiet should reign; the Vindicator con-
tinues. "the people are divided against
themselves and the children are made
instead Of being taught the fundamen,
tails without which all further learning
is useless"
Taking the position that prohibition
is mooted political question of a
highly inf1ammatory nature" the Co
lumbuS Dispatch declares it can "think
OF no question that would stir up more
genuine trouble for educators If it were
introduced into the schools" The Fort
Wayne NewS-Sentinel also sees the pro-
hibition question as having become 80
deeply involved in both politics and re-
hgion that it is not proper subject for
our public schools
In the opinion of the Nashville Ban
ner, 'it would be manifest intrusion
upon the rights of the States for the
Federal Government to seek to intro
duce into the course of study publica-
tons upon any question of governmental
policy In the domain Of political de-
bates"
So also the Jersey City Journal,
which contends that "the Federal Gov,
eminent has no more right to permit
itself to be used for such q purpose
than would the Association Against the
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good ground for suspecting that certain
things were lacking and other things
left undone.
Deplorable as the loss of the British
HAT is, these Casualties of service"
have one undoubted value: They tend
to incite professional sailors to bend
their efforts INCREASINGLY in the direc-
ton of reducing the perils Of the sub
marine to the lowest minimum which
scientific ingenuity can devise. More
S-4 and Hat incidents are bound to
whet the demand for world agreement
to Danish from the seas altogether a
weapon that earned such detestation
in the World War.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

Prohibition Amendment have to dis
seminate its wet propaganda at the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A.
The San Antonio Evening News
quotes Commissioner Doran of the
Prohibition Enforcement Bureau as
having himself acknowledged that "the
public schools are under State control"
and that it is the State and local au-
thorities' duty to prescribe what shall
be taught"
The Louisville Courier journal is puz-
zled as to how the plan got such head
way, if the head of the bureau knew
nothing of it, and asks, IF Commits
sioner Doran. the head of the Bureau
of Prohibition, knows nothing of. it's
work and designs until they are dis
closed in the newspapers, why is it con-
sldered necessary for the bureau to
have head?" Claiming that IAN OBJ
scure and unimportant Government
employe has been made the official
goat in the disclaimers issued by the
bureau, the st. Louis Post Dispatch
asks: rs it reasonable to suppose that
a minor employee would venture to es-
tabllsh so radical Government policy
on her own initiative? Is it possible
that her superior did not know of the
campaign she had so carefully plan
ned?"
The Bangor Daily Commercial calls
the bureau disclaimer an "afterthought
rather than a forethought." while the
Springfield, Ohio, Sun frankly exclains
concerning the prohibition unit, This
unit, it has been found, is closely In
touch with the Anti-Saloon League off,
Gals, from whom it takes what are vir-
tually orders" and in its latest project
was in fair way to hang itself with
the rope allowed" The Tulsa Daily
World also suggests that "the so-called
organization really undertook TO force
the Government to take up its CAM
paign."
In all these discussions, the necessity
of teaching the children the duty of
law observance is recognized. since
schools are places where character and
citizenship are supposed to be devel-
oped, among other things, responsible
ity for observance of law does not ap-
pear to be a subject which school
teachers should be required to Shun,"
says the Ann Arbor Daily News, an
opinion shared by the Savannah Morn
ing News, which thinks that, while mo
special law need be picked out for en-
phasis, certainly the public schools
ganda, that it is the duty of good citi-
zens to obey the laws, and that, If the
citizens do not like a certain law, there
is q legally constituted method of
changing or repeating 1t"
The Raleigh News and Observer.
calling attention to the many informa.
tive pamphlets issued by the Govern
ment, asks, eff this can be done, where
is the need for all this sballyhoo' be-
cause It Is proposed to teach that the
Constitution has merit and its violation
is injurious?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10
Traffic ARRESTS. F"

In Mondays intense heat nearly $50
men and women were subjected to the
inconvenience of appearing in court for
violations of the traffic code.
Throughout the morning the small
courtroom where these cases are tried
was crowded with luckless motorists
and witnesses-so crowded, in fact, that
there was actual physical suffering.
Meanwhile policemen made 334 traffic
arrests in the streets outside, establish
ing record for single day in their
present campaign to enforce the code
and reduce the number of accidents.
These two developments of the Sum-
mer's hottest day bring to the fore a
problem which sooner or later must be
solved-that of the administration of
justice in traffic cases. A partially sat-
isfactory solution might be reached by
providing more adequate Trafhc Court
quarters. This doubtless will be neces-
sary. The conditions under which traf-
fic violators are herded into court like
a pre-prohibition week-end's harvest of
DRINKS is hardly tolerable.
Whether an improvement in the
physical condition of TRAFFIC Court
would afford permanent solution may
be questioned. The problem is more
fundamental, possibly involving far
reaching sociological effects on the pop
ulace at large which cannot be ignored
The administration Of the traflc code
under the present system may be break
ing down the line which separates the
criminal class from the great mass d
decent and 1aw-abiding citizens. THE
final solution of the problem, it seems
likely, must be reached on a broader
basis than that involved in actual traf.
fic conditions themselves.
odhand suggestions as to the proper
solution would be absurd. The problem
! is one that calls for intensive study ant
thought in which human relations mus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10
Situations Regarding
Amendments Different

From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital.
The Tribune would naturally be last
to put question mark behind the gen.
eral purpose of the fourteenth and If
tenth amendments. But nothing but
muddled thinking will follow an attempt
to treat these amendments and the
EIGHTEENTH amendment as the same. :
The fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments are merely negative orders to the
States concerning suffrage. The State
NAV not deprive anybody OF suffrage
because of race or color. And the state
that denies" suffrage to any body OF
its citizens shall not be represented IN
Congress. The States have evaded ooth
amendments by setting up other condl-
lions of suffrage that keep most OF the
colored voters from the polls.
We need 90 no further than the
Michigan decision of the Supreme Court
that the primary election, even where
United States Senators are to be named,
Is not under national control, to recog-
nize how futile 1t will be to try to
regulate State-controlled suffrage by
national authority. If the State can
confine the primary to the white voter,
how is the general purpose OF the four
tenth and fifteenth amendments to be
worked out?
The eighteenth amendment takes the
LIQUOR problem over and makes 1t ma
tional. If every State in the Union
should refuse to use State authority in
enforcement, the national obligation
would be the same, and under an en-
forcing administration the failure or
refusal of the State would amount to
nothing.
The trouble with the situation is that
the States were not enough weaned
from State sovereignty at the close OF
the Civil War to permit suffrage to be
made national, as unquestionably it
should be. The fourteenth amendment
did not feven propose Negro suffrage,
and the fifteenth did not propose it in
a national way. The trainers of each
went as far as they dared, with the
States still regarded as supreme.
The danger Is, If the debate Is forced
on the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments and support for the eighteenth
amendment is refused unless 1t Is given
to the others in equal measure, that the
people at large, and even Congress, will
amendments stand on q totally different
footing and create wholly different OBJ
legation for Congress.
The suffrage debate. when it comes
should be on wholly different lines from
! enforcing the war amendments. 1t
should be, and that not solely on &C
count Of the colored man, to make suf-
frage national. If anything should be
| national in this new era, citizenship
with all its rights and privileges. should
| be national. We shall never get any,
where trying to force the States to dc
something they do not want to do. Il
some Of our States were really hostile
to woman suffrage, We should find this
out with the nineteenth amendment
which is also negative order to the
sovereign State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHmANDER JOHNSON.

ConvivialitieS.
Oh, who would hesitate to aid
An alcoholic friend!
BY sawed-off shotguns he's betrayed
To an untimely end!
Cornwall songs Of long ago
Are canned" with no release,
Where once we sang "Hi Lee, Hi Lo,"
We call for the police!
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Homes for che Drama.
Independence DAYS.

From the Paterson Press-G Guardian.
The small boy in the suburbs already
Is manifesting his opinion that one DAY
is totally insufficient time in which to
celebrate the Fourth.
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Year Without Summer.

From the Springfield (MassJ Daily Repub-
lean.
Perhaps. afser all, It was next year
that the prophets were sure was to be q
year without @ Summer.
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Railroad travel is linking up with
airship transportation. In a little
while the plane pilot will probably be
telling the locomotive engineer where
he gets of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

Dollar bills will be smaller. Interest
centers on the question of whether their
purchasing power can be rendered
larger.
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A Sweet Victory.

From the Sioux Falls Daily Arsus-Leader.
A candy manufacturer is elected pres
ident of a church association. The
Sunday school vote, 1t Is likely, was the
deciding factor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

1t might be easier for Trotsky to find
comfortable refuge If he would consent
to throw his typewriter away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

Golf is q good game. Anybody who
doubts the Dement'S Of open air and sun
shine need only turn his attention to
John D. Rockefeller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

The japanese beetle is gorgeous bug.
There are times when beauty Il not
appreciated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

Aviation tempts intrepid genius.
Lindbergh continues to set the mark Of
simple and conscientious endeavor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10

Even the most eminent public officiaI
may have q bad days fishing. Fish
cannot be tanned.
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Literary Aspiration.
"You have printed a great deal In
the Congressional Record"
yes" answered Senator Sorghum.
I'm thinking maybe I'll manage to
break out of politics and get to be what
they call 'colyumist.'"