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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
Around The World
...In One City Block

On First Floor conveniently assembled the lovely things you
would select you make tour Of the World the newest
and things from the Continent and the Orient many
them personally selected by buyerand showing the good
taste characteristic of Woodward & Lohrop merchandise.
Many Of these beautiful things were personally selected by our
buyers Europe this past SUMMER hundreds of others by our
foreign representatives who keep supplied continually with
foreign creations appropriate to patrons needs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
France Contributes

OVELY gloves from the smartest French houses evening
l. handkechefs of sheere chiffon rhinestone court jewels
earrings of marcasite 1--WE sketch pair 500 enameed
cigarette boxes dainty boudor clocks evening bags of
seed pearls and velve Partisan perfumes and powders the
smartest scents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Christening Planet Number Nine

Christening Planet Number Nine.
Suggestions for a name for Number
Nine Planet, recently deserted in the
heavens, have been almost as inappro-
pirate as they have been varied. They
have ranged from that of the poet
vergfllius - usually styled Virgil - to
such absurdities as "Percival," Chris
tan name of its theoretical discoverer.
It would be most unwise were the
series of NEUROLOGICAL names for these
sun-children to be broken by the addition
of that Of any mortal. Already they are
known the world round by the names
of gods and goddesses of antiquity
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars Neptune, Uranus,
Venus and Mercury. with even Vulcan,
Ceres and others thrown in for those
of lesser size or vague identity.
"Cronos," son of Uranus, has been
suggested: so has Minerva" The
relative unimportance Of this new find
might appear to make it undeserving
of such prominent names, not that
many additional planets are likely to
be located. 1t appears to some that this
would be a splendid chance to honor
Bacchus. Construed according to their
respective opinions and hopes, such a
title would, be likely to delight vets and
dryS alike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Seventh Street Site Urged
For New Farmers Market
To the Editor OF The star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The Farmers Market should be To-
Gated on square No. 446 on the east
side of Seventh street. The District of
Columbia now owns 100000 square feet
of this square, 800 feet front on Seventh
street and $40 feet front on o and p
streets. This ground is now occupied
by the old Central High School, 'front.'
ing o street, the Polk School fronting
P street on the northeast corner and
the old Henry School on the northwest
corner at Seventh and P streets. The
Fairgrounds are on Seventh street op-
posite the o street market. Some of
these schoolhouses could be used for
Office and other purposes in connection
with the markets. o street, p street
and Seventh street are all business
streets, so the site is not a suitable one
for school purposes. The buildings are
all of the old f1re-trap construction and
in the nature of things will soon be
abandoned-the sooner, the better.
The same conditions apply to this
site for market purposes as were cited
for the new Center Market.
To place these markets on these
squares will clean up this old central
part of the city, will not iniure any
vested interest; on the contrary, will
greatly enhance values in all this sec
ton, and, in fact, greatly improve the
city as a whole. If put to a vote of
those who will use the markets I feel
sure they would all be favorable to the
proposition and that Washington's
markets would be one of the places most
talked OF by visitors to the great Cap
ltal CITY. A. M. PROCTOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
To LOAF for a Week.

The Senate, in session for many
weeks, plugging along at the passage of
a tariff bill, is tired 1t has done con-
siderable business in addition to the
tariff legislation. 1t has passed num-
Der of miscellaneous measures. Its
committees have been at work on a
variety of items, and especially In the
line of investigations. Sometimes two
or three committees have been probing
simultaneously. Senators have hoped
from committee rooms and hearings
rooms to Senate chamber to answer
roll calls and make speeches, and back
again. The mileage of these transits
would reckon up into a considerable
total. Altogether it has been trying
and fatigulng session.
So it is not surprising, nor should it
arouse the ire of critics of the Upper
House of Congress, to find the Senate
adjourning yesterday, as it did upon
molten of Senator Watson, Republican
leader, to Friday, with the understand
ing that on that day it should adjourn
again Immediately to Tuesday. Cues
toned as to the program, Senator
Watson acknowledged that it was the
plan to have the Senate loaf for a
week. To stress the frankness of &C.
acknowledgement the Republican leader
spelled out the horrid word, "l-o-a-f,"
and the Senate thereupon adjourned In
accord with that program.
1t is just as well that this weeks adj
journment should be avowed as loaf
ing spell. 1t will do the Senate good
to loaf awhile. 1t may do the country
good to have it loaf for week. Per-
haps it will help to restore better
feeling on both sides. There have been
asperities of public criticism of the
tariff procedure. There have been some
decidedly frank expressions of belief in
the dispensable nature of the Senate.
Of course. at heart nobody thinks so
i'll Of the Senate as much of the COM
ment of the past three months or SO
may indicate. 1t has its virtues as an
institution of government and it has
its decidedly meritorious records of past
performances. And as for loafing, it
has earned its right to a weeks rest,
whatever may be the worth of the bill
on which it has spent so many months
of toll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Readers Crave Books
That Give ENJOYMENT

From the New York Times.
Only small proportion of books pub
lished today are genuinely enjoyable.
This is not to say that there are no
humorists. Some of them attain their
end, though humorists are born, not
made.
Passing them by, readers crave more
books conceived and written so as to
give real enjoyment. The degree of
entertainment may vary. One DOES not
demand that history and biography be
entertaining. But both should be en-
joyable reading. Too often does it seem
to be the sole object of the present-day
worker in these fields to put together.
the facts he has collected and to feel
that then he has discharged his whole
duty to the reader. And in fiction the
situation is still more disheartening.
Is it that the world is too much with
the authors? No wonder that Dumas
is the writer of fiction most in demand
at the public libraries. People must
have relief from the analyses and
psychoSes so largely the preoccupatiorf
of modern fiction. Yet, perhaps, IL a
wrong to say modern. Thirty years ago
Kipling was mourning the passing Of
the "three-decker" novels which in more
halcyon days had been taking tired
people to the Islands of the BEST"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Still Healthy--and Alive!

The Associated Press records the
noteworthy fact that James D. Preston,
otherwise known merely as "Jim," has
Just celebrated the thirty-third ami
versary of the date upon which he de-
cided to dedicate his life to the Nation
and make the world better place for
newspaper men to live in. In other
words, the superintendent of the Senate
press gallery has been on the job for
thirty-three years.
Those who have seen him at work
and the statement carries no ironic i'm
plication that there are none such--won-
der more at the fact that Mr.. Preston
is still alive and sound in body and
mind than that he has merely passed
his thirty-third milestone in the Senate
press gallery. If he had been able to
remain within the relatively safe and
sane confines of the gallery, his work
would have been rather simple and less
subject to the stresses and strains that
have been his.
But he has not been allowed so to
remain. If newspaper men want N
arrange golf match, Jim" does the
arranging. II accommodations must be
made for the press at q national con-
vention, he is elected. If any large body
of newspaper men are to be turned loose
on any big story, MIR. Preston is awarded
the delicate job of seeing that they al
turn up at the right time, that they
are properly clothed, supplied with papel
and pencil, given Ne speeches IN adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Taxi Driver Urges
Lower Rates of Fare
TO the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
see a great amount of newspaper
comment lately in regard to the taxi
cab situation in Washington. Most oil
it is written by people who evidently
know very little about the subject. All
Of this comment has been brought about
by recent competition-for the first time
in the business.
For years there has been little or nc
competition in Washington in the taxi
cab business. Now this is all changed
and there is real competition for the
first time.
An attempt is even being made By
short-sighted people to stop this compe-
tition by law. In other words, Congress
is being asked TO pass misguided laws
which, If enacted and upheld by the
courts, would deny the people of this
city the benefits Of loW-rate taxicat
transportation.
Some parts of the city are poorIy
lighted and perhaps are none too safe
alter dark. Many people, both male and
female, are timid-With cause-about
walking from the car lines or buses OF
bus stops to their homes after dark in
these sections. Such people often have
very little money TO spend for the very
safe transportation which a taxicab al
fords. These advocated laws, if enacted
would make the taXlcab luxury tC
these people. Many people, perhaps
would never be able to use taxicab.
This writer has earned living in the
taxicab business for 10 years and he
hopes no such laws will ever be passed
or even seriously considered by Con-
gress. In fact, he would like to see the
taxicab fares cheap enough SO that
everybody could afford to use q taxicah
at least once in a while.
want to say also that I think taxi
cab fares have been too high in this
city in the recent past. If rates had
been cut year ago, it would have Gre
ated thousands of new riders and great
~ speeded up the business.
In conclusion I want to say that Con-
greSS and the newspapers should be on
guard to see that no unfair laws are
enacted which would create monopoly
in the business and leave the riders at
the mercy of greedy corporation.
The sick, the crippled and the aged,
who find that taxicabS cost only a frac-
ton Of the price Of ambulances, and to
whom cheap taxicabs are a blessing,
should receive consideration ahead OF
some corporations greed.
BERNARD L. HENNING.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
Expanding the Building Program

AApoAulHS WIG 0utANAA6 AANS ANNA'
Yesterday, just before adjournment
for its week of rest the Senate passed
the Keyes-Elliott bill, already passed by
the House, providing for the continual
ton and expansion of the public build
ing program, in Washington and else
where. Certain amendments were
adopted, (which will require action by
the House in acceptance or possibly a
conference for adjustment. But the
final enactment of the measure, IN a
short time, is assured.
This means that the building program
will continue without interruption OF
delay. and that the area Of use for
public constructions will be expanded
It will include the greater part of the
triangle south of the Mall, correspond
ING to that within which new buildings
for Government use are now rising
with more to come in the near future
until the entire space is utilized. 1t
will also assure the taking Of lands
fronting on Lafayette Square, on the
east, for the continuation of the Treas
ury annex to H street.
Changes in the immediate building
program are made from time to time,
though not in a way to disarrange the
eventual project. Thus, decision has
recently been reached to omit the new
construction for the Department of
Justice from the next group of works
within the Pennsylvania avenue-Mall
triangle That, however, signifies
merely postponement to permit a
brief extension of life for the Center
Market, pending decision as to its
successor, whether publicly or privately
built.
An addition to the group next to be
undertaken is home for the Public
Health Service, not heretofore specifi-
cally included in the program. 1t is to
90 on site that will be acquired under
the terms of the Reyes Elliott bill, just
reaching enactment stage, in the neigh
borhood of the Naval Hospital, north of
Potomac Park. Other items Of the
group are the new home of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, within the
triangle, and remodeling of the State,
War and Navy Building, Immediately
west of the White House. Following
shortly will come the new housing for
the Department of Labor, which will be
intellectually akin to the Interstate
Commerce structure. This would prob
ably be included in the immediate pro-
gram but for delay in securing posses
sion of the site allocated to it within
the triangle.
Thus the great project is developing
regularly, and even more speedily than
was at first indicated. An economic
pressure is felt for the Fastening of
these works to give employment to the
largest possible number of men. In all
likelihood the constructions now in view,
in both Of the triangles, north and south
of the Mall. viii spread over a period of
ten, perhaps fifteen, years. New homes
for the War and Navy departments are
to come, for example, with various mis-
cellaneous structures. The. transition
of washington is merely in the first
stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
A Farmers Thoughts
About the Markets
10 the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Now that an effort is afoot to replace
the old Center Market somewhere north
of the Avenue at a cost of over mil
lion dollars / would like to make sug-
gestion which will, in my opinion, not
only save a considerable portion of that
million dollars, but at the same time
give the consumers better service.
MY idea is, instead of one central mar
ket, make four master retail markets
located as centrally as possible, and not
neglect any of the smaller markets. !
believe we already have, or have In the
making, foJfr or Ave markets which with
a little help from time to time will meet
the need that will arise from the loss
of our old friend, Center Market.
Beginning with the Eastern Market
at Seventh and G streets southeast,
which already has much more space
than is occupied and can readily take its
share of farmers and dealers now doing
business in the old Center Market. The
Fourteenth Street Market I know little
of other than it seems located right. l
suppose the Patterson tract farmers
market, now under construction SEEM
ingly in defiance of Congress, could fill
the purpose of Northeast retail mar
wholesale market, and since it is pri-
vate party affair would suggest that
none of Senator Capper's $l,500,000 be
invested in it until thoroughly tested
out. One Northeast market seems never
overprosperous. However, it, too may
have it's day when Center Market is
RACED. To complete this four-cornered
market system, there's nothing else to
do only build in the Southwest, near the
Wholesale Market.
All through this market fight I've CIV
en- it as my opinion from farmer S
standpoint that we'd be better off with
out the Farmers Retail Market in close
proximity to the Wholesale Market.
That's still my conviction, but I've
maintained all along that retail mar
ket would prosper there. would sug-
gest an up-to-date market there for
dealers only; by keeping out the retail
farmers the dealers would have a chance
to do business and keep Specialties for
accommodate the main thing to be re-
gretted in the downfall of the old mar
ket. We cannot expect our market deal
erS to handle wide variety of produce,
much of which they may lose money
on, unless they get some encourage
ment from the public. In closing would
suggest if possible permit no chain store
to operate in the immediate vicinity of a
public market.
trust the people will see the i'm
portance Of taking an active interest in
the retail market system and keep the
question alive, even If they do make the
mistake of squandering million dollars
for some high-priced buildings to raze.
PERRY F. SKINNER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

come to the front in politics in either
party in the Bay State in recent years.
One item at least for which the tariff
thinkers provided no protective duty is
that of false teeth. American dentists
have no fear of foreign competition
indeed, it appears that last year the
United States exported 25,700,000 false
teeth to Europe, Asia, Africa and to our
sister republic in the Western Henri
sphere. Another export item is S368,066
worth of rubber eraSers, and more than
q million dollars worth of toy balloons
and bathing caps. Bicycles, shoe polish,
garters, souvenir postcards and phono-
graph records also bulk large in our
export trade.
Who can supply a copy of Holmes
blue-backed speller, edition of 1860?
This plant has gone out from Ray
Tucker, Washington correspondent and
one of the contestants in the National
Press Club spelling bee between club
members and Congressman. The words
on which the schoolmaster, Senator Tess
of Ohio will try to trip up the spoilers
will be taken from Holmes book, and
Tucker writes: Members Of the Press
Club tean-especially the author of
this appeel-wood like to brush up on
some of the red school house pusslers."
Several "copeys" of the book are in
the Congressional Library but Tucker
understands these have been taken out
by Prof. FeSs and Representative Rob-
ert Luce of Massachusetts"
X X X X
The National Geographic Society is
proposing a royal welcome for Admiral
Byrd and the members of his Ant
arctic expedition when they reach their
native shores in May It has been
suggested to Mr.. Hoover that they be
met by and transferred to a United
States cruiser on the high seas and
brought direct to Washington for a gala
demonstration here prior to the New
York reception being arranged by
Mayor Walker and his silk hat COM
mittee. similar procedure was fol-
lowed when Col. Lindbergh returned
from his epoch-making transatlantic
flight. Admiral Byrds sponsors want
to make his homecoming just as hearty.
The President is said TO look with favor
on the program.
(Copyright, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26

vance, furnished with red, white or blue
ribbons ana badges indicating their sta
ton; fed, watered and put TO bed on
time.
The remarkable thing about Mr.. Pres
ton is that he does 1t. He has never
been known 70 lose a reporter. He in
variably has a satisfactory reply to such
queries and remarks as "Jim, where's
my typewriter9"; Jim, where am to
sit?'; Jim. this soup is cold" Jim,
where is that handcut?"; "Jim, I have
putter and mashie-find me a
driver; Jim, want you to get seat
for the cousin of my managing editors
niece" or "Jim, / will not sleep in this
upper berth; get me lower, and, by the
way, have YOU seen my necktie?"
Nothing reminds one so much of the
Old Lady Who Lived in Shoe as Jim
Preston with a string Of wild reporters
in tow. Somehow he manages to live
through It. May he keep on!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26

interesting to the shipping people, how
ever, is the fact that, in addition ia
placing in the Atlantic service these
two fine new ships. the North German
Lloyd, which owns them, has just an
nounced merger with the Hamburg
American. In place of cutthroat COM
petition, which marked the pre-war
rivalry of these two lines, they have
entered a cooperative alliance that
connotes determined effort to chal-
lepge all in other things as well as
picturesque speed.
Germany's achievement which no one
begrudges should spur American and
British shipbuilders to their best. Here
in America we cannot afford to sit
back comfortably and watch the race.
Our own ships must be in it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26

Thornton Wilder in his new novel
1.-THE Woman of Andres" when speak
ing of life, instances its power of cast
ing up from time to time on the waves
of tedious circumstance such Star-like
persons"
Here we have the truth in poetical
form, wonderful combination, perhaps
as good an explanation as any OF the
charm of MIR. Wlder's prose, Incl
dentally.
In verse it reads;
Life
Its power of casting up
From time to time
on the waves of tedious circumstance
Such star-like
Persons"
He is an unfortunate man who has
not met such people. Mostly they are
of the so-called opposite sex, but that
is only chance, and by no means a
necessity of the case.
They shine to the inner light which
man names mind. and are thereby called
stars" in mans eternal search for the
poetry of life.
The waves of tedious circumstance
are too we'll known by most persons to
need detailed description. They in
clude the average daily life as it is lived
today by the bulk Of civilized human
/ beings.
Now and then one meets some one
of the "go-getter" type who so sums up
tediousness IN a single man that he may
be described with some profit
He is the exact opposite of the ''star-
like" person.
In him there is no surprise, no ap-
peal, no great X or unknown factor.
The dollar to him is the Great
Known, and is all he wants to know.
Unfortunately, he appears to believe
that all other human beings are in the
same queer boat with him: that all he
has to do is play tune on the adding
machine and the remainder will fall in
line, chops drooling with mathematical
hunger.
He is mistaken; that is all some of
us care to say. We wouldn't be like
him If we could, and we can't, so what's
the use?
Casting around for a comparison,
writers find the stars handy, despite
their distance.
Perhaps it is that very distance which
makes them useful in the emergency.
Ordinary standards fail when one is
confronted with an unusual person.
Perhaps it is only fair to all con-
CeIlleu 10 say JLldJ QulCe C1Jen the
'star-like person" is not star-like In
and of herself or himself.
Much of the celestial aspect is put
on prettily by the beholder. Wherefore,
no such person ought to take pride unto
himself for the effect he has upon
another.
Sometimes all the glow and wonder
is in the beholding mind.
X 4 \,
Mrs. Rachael Taylor in her book of
last year, Leonardo the Florentine."
devotes chapter to a poetical lauda-
ton of her hero as a Star-like person,
and succeeds in making out a very good
case for him.
Yet the average reader may be for
given for sllspecting that the mighty
da Vinci did not so appeal to his
contemporaries, nor did, indeed, deserve
such fine treatment in and of himself.
1t took mind thoroughly imbued
with the renaissance, sold" completely
on the times and manners, to read into
the manner of man Leonardo was some
aspects of man he was not A read
ing of the Romance of Leonardo da
Vfnci," by Merejkowski, the Russian
novelist, gives perhaps a truer picture,
showing man of indecisive character