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II there are bad givers, there also
are bad receivers. The ability to &C.
cept q service or gift gracefully y
less common than its opposite.
There are plenty OF people who car
give happily, but few who possess the
ability to receive without offense, eithel
manifest or secret.
This is one Of the mysteries Of hui
man conduct.
Offhand it might seem that any one
would be able to accept q gift or service
in the best spirit in the world.
No doubt that is the ideal OF most
persons, but common observation shows
how short of it they fall.
In theory one should be grateful, but
in practice one may be no such thing
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The art of giving has had many
commentators.
Seneca. great Roman, wrote at length
upon the subject, presenting many anc
happy sentences to show how laudablt
benefits may be both to giver and re-
ceiver.
The general practice Of giving has
received the commentator both OF
church and state alike. Today giving
Is in the aScendancy.
Wealthy men give largely OF Their
Foundations and other organizations
designed to do good. Such gifts are to
the people at large.
Community chests specialize IN put
ting generosity to work along Sclentlnc
modern lines, rather than in the hap
hazard ways which formerly dis
tinguished everyday philanthropy.
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Receiving, however, has had no Bos-
wells.
Perhaps this Is not to be wondered
at, yet it has its aspects Of mystery,
since mankind is undoubtedly more in
terested in getting than in giving.
Many must be urged to give, but few
to accept. ;.
The Lord loves a generous giver; 1t
pleasant receiver.
The very language has taught char
ity. The words "giver" and donor
are more graceful than receiver" and
recipient"
On every side the necessities Of CIV
ing are stressed to the detrlment OF
receiving.
Perhaps the time has come, in the
history of nations, when stress should
be placed on the receiving end. II a
scientific commission should look into
the matter, and find out why ana now
resentment arises, no doubt benefac-
lions would be tripled.
Thus benevolence should begin at the
other end. Modern philanthropy would
require that those who give should look
thoroughly into the minds and hearts
Of those who receive.
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Receiving, as an art, as well as a
practice. falls generally into two classes,
the receiving of gifts from a superior
and the receiving of them from an
equal. e..
One so seldom gets anything from
another whom society, as organized
has labeled inferior" that this much
misjudged individual may be left out OF
account. - 49,
In leaving him out, however, the
world makes mistake, for tnere Is Ilo
vyav of telling whether he has or has
not certain superior traits. This IS one
of the many faulty ways mankind MAJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Scope of International
Trade Balances Wide

From the Buffalo Evenings News.
There was a time when international
trade balances were considered only In
terms of commodities exchanged, with
some incidental references to money
transfers made in the course OF settle
ment. In Mr.. Hoover's regime as Sec
rotary Of Commerce the fact was rec
ognized that international intercourse
covers much more than the exports and
imports of goods and gold. The an
nual report of the Commerce Depart
ment, Just issued, presents the story in
O manner so comprehensive that the
commodities exchange becomes only a
chapter and the war debts payments
are hardly more than minor incident.
To be sure, there is a balance OF
$3.50, 000, 900 in favor Of this country on
commodities, and that is a gain from
$685., 600, 900 last year. Tourist expendi-
lures. however, amounted to $525 ,00O,-
900 and immigrant and missionary re-
mittances reached o total Of $241,-
100000. These two items alone more
than paid the balance due from other
countries on account of the purchase Of
goods and answer all anxious questions
as to how the United States is to be
paid for what it sells unless it buys an
approximately equal amount OF good:
from other countries.
Inc new pOSlLlOn OF CI1c OIlLeo 0IdIS'
as a creditor Nation, moreover, ha:
added loans and interest payments II
make up the SUM total Of transactions
The United States drew from cthel
countries on account of interest anC
deposits on private investments $780,
600, 900. It received as payments OF
war debts $210,000,0 900, and is credited
with some $67,000,000 more on miscel'
laneous items.
On the other side Of the ledger In
terest payments by Americans to for
eign investors came to 1853 200, 900, for
eign payments by the Government to
tailed ST., 900, 900, and freight payments
to foreign carriers were $84, 100000.
theoretically, that still left so larg'
q sum to be paid to the United States
that 1t might have looked in the alb
stract like ruinous stagnation for othel
countries and equally ruinous imitation
in the United States, but no such re-
suits occurred The balance was much
more than Offset by $962,000,000 OF
loans and new investments by Amer
leans.
So the entire record becomes one fol
satisfaction rather than alarm. Thi.
country is neither harming itself mol
endangering any other country by its
prosperity. It has been primary source
Of world rehabilitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Links Enforcement
With July a Quiet

To the Editor of The Star:
Fourth OF July! Who would believe
1t? awakened to O silence deeper
than the usual Sunday Quiet-a pitiful
quiet, as one remembers the children
Personally, I don't like it. Looking
Of my childhood, when Fourth Of July
was second only to Christmas In o
child's heart, can remember the pop
ping Of crackers and the delightful
smell Of gunpowder and the general
hilarity, and the feeling that the day
belonged to the children. A day of
Joy and freedom, with some patriotism
mixed In.
MY SO years have shown me also the
dangers Of the old mode Of celebration,
but show me, Of you can, any good I'M
mixed with danger. knew Of wom-
an prominent on the stage, whose name
slips my memory, who died from drink
ing glass of milk. Yet who would by
law Danish milk from our daily living?
People have died from falling out of
bed. Yet the great mass Of the worlds
citizens go calmly to bed each night.
So Of course In the old days, when
Fourth Of July" was, from early morn
till bedtime, one long riot of noise and
smell Of gunpowder, accidents were
bound to occur.
But loved 1t all as q child. I love
| its memory now and think am in full
sympathy with those Of my generation
who do not forget their own childhood
with its joys.
We were promised a quiet day. We
have 1t! Quiet to mournfulness, and
we wonder what we are celebrating
independence?
I think of the children-so many
more Of them than of the sick-to be
disturbed by noise.
look out at the quiet street, almost
empty OF children, and wonder where
they all are, and how they have man
aged it-and don't like it?
But, since 1t is so, let us not close
our eyes to the lesson of the day, which
is that any law can be enforced.
It has been claimed that prohibition
law cannot be enforced.
That is because we look to the wrong
source for enforcement. We expect
police officers to do the work, whereas
the real authority lies in the homes.
When parents do their duty by per-
sonal observance and family enforce
ment and patriotic teaching, and when
each citizen realizes his duty to him.
self, his neighbor and the land he pro-
fesses to love, there will be little left
for the law to do.
A child who can be taught to refrain
from the noise dear to the child'S heart
can be taught obedience to any law. And
this Is our lesson from this quiet
Fourth" which many Of us observe,
but do not like.
LOUISA 8. WEIGHTMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Five-Day Week Presents
Problem of Spare Time

From the Toledo Blade.
Mayor Casassa announces that erl-
ployes in the city hall at Revere, Mass,
will work or a ive-day-a-week basis,
beginning July 1. The city offices will
be manned by skeleton crews on Sat
uriay, and those who work on that day
will be given some other week day of
duty.
It is believed that Revere is the first
city to adopt officially the flve-day week,
which is becoming rapidly more popular
in industry. Workers can earn rea-
sonably sufficient income on the five
day basis, and employees agree upon
the new plan In partial solution Of the
menacing unemployment problem as q
consequence of massed production In
mechanical industry.
The Federal Bureau OF labor reports
that 80 per cent of workers in the auto
motive industries were on the new basis
last year. More than IA per cent Of all
the vast army of building trades en-
pioyeS work only five days q week, and
$50, 900 more building craftsmen in New
York City and suburbs will be on the
new schedule January /. Workers In
the stone, printing, shoe, textile, leather,
garment, iron and steel industries also
are falling in line rapidly, and more
employers are acceding to their de-
mands for the shorter working week.
Since the commandment has been
revised, Five days shalt thou labor and
do all thy work." the important ques-
ton becomes, How can we best make
use of our greater leisure2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Air Age Is Unfolding,
Latest Figures Show
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Next Monday, marking the third
anniversary Of the aeronautics branch
of the United States Department of
Commerce, will find 10000 miles of air
ways Illuminated for night flying. It
will score a total Of 100000 transport
miles flown during the first half of 1929
as against 10,500,000 during the whole
Of 1928, $4,000 during 1927 and
4,S18, 900 during 1925. It will bring the
total of air mail carried during the
first half of 1929 to more than 3,400, 900
pounds, as compared with some 811 900
pounds carried during the entirety of
1926. And it will give greatly increased
significance to the fact that whereas
the value of aircraft and their
accessories produced In the year 1925
amounted to S17,694000, those pro-
duced in 1928 exceeded $64, $3.50, 900.
These official figures, though they give
but faint idea of the vigor with which
the art and science and business Of
aviation are sweeping forward, serve to
show something Of their tangible gains.
Truly, the air age is unfolding!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Psychologists Solve
Puzzle for Engineers
BY =. e. FREE, PH. d.

A Partisan radio listener recently
presented the radio engineers Of that
city with puzzling problenA Unsolved
by them, the mystery was explained
by the psychologists. The listener, ad-
mittedly quite honest, claimed that not
only could he hear from his radio re-
ceiver the music Of church services
broadcast from the Cathedral of Notre
Dame, but that he could smell at the
same time the smoke OF the candle
burnt during the ceremony. Might IL
not be possible, he asked, that smells
were picked up by the radio waves and
broadcast to suitable receivers, just as
sounds are broadcast? The radio en-
gineers thought not, but confessed
ignorance and called in the psycnoio-
gistS. These experts were ready with
an explanation. Although the SMELL
sensitiye listener Is quite honest in be-
lieving that he really smells the candle
smoke, that, they report, is an hallucl-
nation In his mind, not a wrath OF
broadcast odor. Either Of two well
known mental abnormalitieS can eX-
plain, the psychologists report, this con-
fusion Of smell sensations with SOUNDS.
One Of these Is an exceptionally active
mental association, so that when the
notes Of the musical service are heard
they call wildly to mind the smell
which the nearer has been in the habit
Of associating with them in church.
The other explanation, applicable only
to certain abnormal individuals, is what
is called "synaesthesia, q condition IN
which messages entering by one sense
are confused In the brain with those
from other senses. A few individuals
have q variety Of this disorder called
color hearing" in which sounds cause
apparent sensations Of color. SINH
larry sounds may cause sensations Of
smell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Recognition of Career Men,
Is Urged as Fletcher Retires

distinction from the career of the aver
age American diplomat, who is declared
such because he has money and polit-
1ca1 af1Iations."
Henry Pfather Fletcher, retiring on
his own motion from the United States
diplomatic service, is an outstanding
son of Pennsylvania, on whom 1t Is not
unlikely the Nation or State will call
| for further responsibilities" remarks
the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, with
the further informing statement, His
name has been mentioned among gu
bernatorial and senatorial possibilities,
and, except he shall be insistent on his
right to follow his personal interests,
| it is not likely that he is coming back
to final retirement from public ca
reer." The Altoona Mirror also records
that "rumor has made him the next
governor, the next United States Sen
ator from Pennsylvania and assigned
him other positions Of dignity and
honor"
The Scranton Times expresses the
view that, in the senatorial race, ''he
will be backed by the Mellon group,
which just now seems to have the DOM
! inant hand in the party in the State"
The Harrisburg Telegraph is convinced
that che would be serious contender
Tor any office TO which ne mlgnG as
pire," and makes this appraisal of his
service: mot since the days of Frank
lin has Pennsylvania given to the dip
| Iomatic service one who has rendered
better account of himself abroad"
Suggesting Mr.. Fletcher for Senator
and former State Treasurer S. S. Lewis
for governor, or vice versa, the Lam
caster Intelligencer-Journa feels that
"in either event they would be very
hard to defeat. either at the primary
or at the general election"
His retirement is a national loss in
the foreign field which, however, may
be Offset by gain to American do
nestle life" in the opinion Of the Buff
falo Courier-ExpresS. The Brooklyn
Daily Eagle advises that "the people Of
PENNSYLVANIA would do well to elect
him either as Senator or Governor"
and the Lexington Leader holds that in
Congress he would be credit to his
State and lend luster to the Senate"
"He would be particularly well fitted
| for a place on the important foreign
relations committee" advises the Flint
Daily Journal, while the Asbury Park
Press observes that "he is still in his
prime and before him lie many years
which the electorate Of Pennsylvania
might well employ"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEwELL.

Of dealing with mankind. Short Of
paradise, there is little to be done
about 1t.
In all too many cases there seems to
be kind Of restraint set up between
giver and receiver. It will not do to
place all the blame on the donor, and
say that it Is incumbent upon him to
make the other feel at ease.
Often enough the real trouble lies
with the receiver, who Is not able to
| accept as generously az the other has
given.
There is a generosity In receiving as
well as in giving. Many persons receive
with physical hands, but without put
ting their heart and mind into the
reception.
They are the reverse side of the
medal of life upon which Is depicted
the so-called Indian giver," one who
gives and then takes back.
This common practice Of children
has more merit to 1t than most people
would admit.
He who gives has right, by reason
recipient. II the latter does not display
ordinary gratitude, the former may take
back his gift.
II the one who has received goes out
of his way to display inner resentment
at the gift, the giver may take It back,
If he believes in the virtues OF indian
It may be admitted that such incon-
stance in giving puts the. onus on
him who receives, thereby pointing TO
the plain duty of this party to the
transaction.
II In defense of poor receivers it Is
declared that they C. en- receive wnen
they want nothing, and gifts which
they do not want it may be offered IN
rebuttal that a giver has no second
sight, or means of knowing just what
another would like, or when.
Such SubtletieS may be left to those
who specialize in giving for reason
or for a return. These givers nave
their reward, and are not included in
this discussion. We consider only the
honest giver, as well as the bona noe
receiver.
It is the plain duty Of the latter TO
be grateful. Perhaps the average gar
den variety of receiver falls In TINS
respect more than in any other. NO
donor would ask another human being
to get down on hands and knees ana
kiss the ground, upon the receipt OF q
gift or service, but certainly every sucn
one would expect certain friendiiness
in return.
An excess Of friendship is the only
possible sort of payment for COCO
deed well done, the only one Mt 70 De
offered and certainly the only kind
which may be accepted.
Such kindness wipes out immedi-
ately all thought of debt, sorry thing
at best for no one is ever IN debt, but
only under obligation-and there Is a
great difference.
proper receiving requires thought
and a determination to make the most
of both giver and gift, whether 1t be
book, article or service. Very few per-
sons naturally are able to be both
graceful and grateful; most OF us Will
both giving and receiving, the one that
we may not offend in the giving and
the other that we may not offend In
the receiving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05

granted and passes them along. There
are probably many weird and gruesome
tales that go the rounds at Walter Reed,
the origin of which could be traced to
a hard-boiled egg for breakfast. luke
warm coffee and cold piece Of toast.
Having found that water, milk and
SOUP are lacking from the full-diet
menu at Walter Reed; that eggs orig
inally intended to be served as soft
boiled became hard-boiled because they
were in the bottoms of the boilers;
that scrambled eggs became egg custard;
that food has not been always warm
when served and that hot cakes and
toast were cold because with large
mess of this kind" It is doubted If the
service of hot cakes and hot toast
would be practical" the War Depart
ment will be expected to take the steps
that remedy the deficiencies and cor
rect the faults.
Walter Reed Is the largest service
hospital in the country and the tax
payers are spending millions of dollars
in buildings and equipment that will
make 1t model hospital of It's kind
for the world. But no group of build
ings, no matter how beautiful; no corps
of surgeons, no matter how skilled;
no ward or operating room, no matter
how spotless, can make up for the de-
feet that lies in hot cake turned cold.
There is no doubt of the unanimity
Of opinion concerning the need of good
food and plenty of it for the soldiers
and veterans at Walter Reed. It is
difficult to conceive of any question
upon which there could be more gen.
eral and whole-souled agreement. At
Walter Reed everybody's business, in the
matter of hot meals and good meals,
may have become nobody's business. If
that was the case the War Department
may now be counted on to have COR
rected the trouble. If not, there is no
one more inclined to speak his mind,
frankly and fully, than a poorly fed,
sick soldier. Absence of further criticism
will denote the perfection for which
Walter Reed should strive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
Ry FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

many cases on the contingent basis.
The Vacuum Oil Co. has just recovered
$4,120,OO0; the Standard Oh OF New
York, $3,068, 900; the Middle States OH
Corporation, $4,583,000; the New YORK
Life Insurance Co., 50 1894, 900, and the
Aluminium Co. of America, $l,2ST'U0O.
Every once in q while some OF the
higher-ups of the Internal Revenue
Bureaus legal force are snapped up by
metropolitan law firms as specialists In
tax matters, to be promptly retained by
big corporations in quest OF refunds or
In other litigation with the Treasury.
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske,
u. s. N, retired, who's just won
100000 damage suit against the Navy
Department for infringement Of his
torpedo-plane patent, is fighting
youngster of rs. He attained his three
score and fifteen last month on the
verge of the verdict awarded him IN the
District of Columbia Supreme Court.
Fiske has been bucking the Navy In the
courts for three years. He's ready to
buck it three, or 80, more II necessary,
and wouldn't be surprised II he had to,
as his initial victory is almost sure to
be appealed eventually to the Supreme
Court. AS the navigator Of q. S. S.
Petrol at Manila, Fiske was commended
by Admiral Dewey for heroic conduct.
He was graduated at Annapolis the year
Herbert Hoover was born-1874. The
admiral's principal grievance (now that
he's sunk the Navy is his eviction from
his old haunts, the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel, where he lived for many years
and until its demolition began the other
day.
Il y x 4
"The Lead Pencil Institute" Is Wash
ington's very latest organization for the
propagation of a faith. The faith in
this instance Is faith in lead pencils.
The institute, which has Just set up
headquarters on Jackson place opposite
the White House, represents SO per cent
Of the pencil industry. Eberhard Faber
Is chairman of the board, and the preSi-
dent is Nelson B. Gaskill, former chair
man of the Federal Trade Commission.
Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Cold Cakes at Walter Reed.

As a whole Walter Reed has wealth
cred the storm Of criticism that led
Senator David Reed to demand an In
vestigation. The most serious charges
have been found without foundation.
But other complaints were justified,
and the Secretary of War has been
commercially frank in making them
public. The nature of facts unearthed
by the inquiry explains much Of the
criticism. A patient who has been
served one hard-boiled egg and cold
hot cakes and soggy toast for breakfast
Is apt to see the world through jaun-
diced eyes. The man whose food ID cold
when set before him may well believe
every bad thing that he hears about the
institution that served him a colo meal.
Selievina ii !, he tskes tH1n for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05

Radio is represented as threatening
to take over the movies, including the
talkies, and do away with the magnifi-
cent star salaries. Art impulse may
find itself in a position similar to that
OF patient agricultural production. With
a system of reduced wages in pictures,
there viii be little remaining induce
ment for the young woman in the
home to practice "Silvery Waves" on
the piano or vocalize in terms of do,
re, mi"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Holds Beauty of Trees
Near Homes Essential

From the San Francisco Call and Post.
Over in Mill Valley Is beautiful, tall,
redwood tree that worries those who
drive automobiles too fast. Unless peo-
pie who love permanent beauty more
than heeting thrills object forcibly, that
tree is almost certain to come down.
And why should that tree-or any
other tree in residence district, any
where-be cut down? Speed in home
neighborhood Is never essential, but
beauty is. WARNINGS can be posted at
corners, accidents can be prevented in
that way, but nothing can be done 70
restore the magnificent beauty that
dies by the ak. The Redwood League
might say word in this case, as 1t
says many for the sake Of our mountain
trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
Information Is Given
On WOOdley Purchase

To the Editor Of The Star.
Permit me to call attention to what
think is a misstatement in the article
on "Woodley' in a recent issue Of The
Star. The Middletons purchased the
place from my grandfather, Gen Lo-
reno Thomas who resided there until
shortly before the Civil War.
ELIZABETH HULINGS OFFUTT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05

Automobile experts say that Wash
ington, D. c., traffic is hard to regu-
late. When Maj. L'Enfant planned the
city he was credited with ideas Of beauty
and utility. His circles and intersec-
lions now cause confusion. He could
not foresee the rapid course of the
automobile.