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Evening star., 1932-01-08

the courts. Every important order by
the Public Utilities Commission event
ually goes into the courts. And while
the case is awaiting disposition by the
courts, along comes the House Of Rep
resentatives and passes q resolution ask
ing Gen. Patrick to rescind the meter
installation order. Gen. Patrick at first
replies defending the commissions meter
order, but assuring Congress that the
commission will OF course, obey any
congressional mandate. Then, after q
visit to the Capitol with counsel for the
commission, Gen. Patrick postponed the
effective date of the order for meter
installation until sixty days after the
court renders its decision-providing, Of
course, that the decision backs up the
Public Utilities Commission.
Suppose the court backs up the Pub
lie Utilities Commission? VIII the taxi
cab operators purchase meters and go
to the expense of installing them when
they know that the House will stand
behind them in their refusal to comply?
OF course not!
If one or both houses Of Congress
is to act as the Public Utilities Commits
sion and issue orders or countermand
commission orders without investigation,
public hearings or arguments on the
merits OF issues, why not abolish the
Public Utilities Commission? Why con-
tinue the expense Of maintaining
Public Utilities Commission when Con-
gress chooses to take over its functions?
The taxicabs should be required to
respond to the same sort Of regulation
that now extends to other common car
riers in the District, and Congress should
make it its business to see that there is
legislation to enforce such regulations
through the Public Utilities Commis-
sion or some other body to which 1t
may delegate its powers.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Il. TRACEWELL.

"Old trees" says Emerson, in the
continuation Of his hodge -podge Jotting.
IT is not to be wondered at that this
wise man. doing something which was
rare with him-that is. simply singing
thoughts together without connectlves-
should have hit upon old trees next.
Somehow. old trees and old books go
together. One likes to think OF a f1ne
| old library, with cases running TO the
| ceiling filled with books, while outside
some great oaks cast pleasant snadoWs
over the windows.
Yet how careleSSly old trees are
treated! 1t is no rare sight to go down
a residence street. and see Wnere Tree
butchers have done what tney can
"tonning" In such cases this topping
is rather "two-thirdsing If the tree
lives and grows again, it will be due
entirely to the grace OF God.
There has come to be, however, on
the mart of all sensible people, much
better appreciation Of the part good
trees play in the city beautiful. De
sDite the ravageS of those who insist
on "nrogress as they call 1t, at the
expense of everything else, young and
old trees today are appreciated at
their true worth, especially in and
around the city. In the Natlonal Gapl-
tai in particular, the cult OF tne Tree
has grown, although mucn sun re-
mains to be done in fostering pLoper
planting, especially OF trees OF SUM
cient size to make themselves SEEN
n X
mAnd a boat" said Emerson.
Perhaps the philosopher never owned
q boat hut that made no difference.
He knew better than most the hold
which a boat has upon the magma
tionx of the children Of men. Ihe
first boat was discovered when cave
man. so-called, got thrown into the
water. and there seized upon noat-
ing log. A. suoos - MAJ,
have gone forth in boats When thelr
physical bodies have not been aole 10
do 80 Because q man does not possess
a boat is no reason at all why he can
not and does not love the idea Of
boat, the theme of q boat, the picture
of a boat, the sight OF boat:
No man could be philosopher Oh the
stature of Ralph Waldo Emerson with
out thinking great deal OF boats OF
all sorts, and making them part OF
the invisible philosophy which he 1ots
down. perhaps incoherently, from time
to time.
"a friend" said he, as II summing
I'D the half dozen of his own selec-
ton.
Are we to think that he had some
thing definite in mind, that he was
displaying the successive ingredients of
picnic, or something?
Taking along friend and some old
books, all possessed Of good health,
they went forth in boat, when the
South wind was blowing, and slid
down the river between great trees
growing on the banks.
Well, maybe, but it is not likely that
Emerson wanted to paint such pic
ture, as pleasant as 1t would be. He
seldom INDUCED in just pictures.
We prefer to think that he merely
jotted down a half dozen pleasant
ideas which came to him. He dealt
in ideas rather than in pictures.
The idea of health, the idea OF the
South wind, the ideas OF books and
old trees, of a boat, and of a friend
these came to him one after the other
and he let them stand. And we let
them stand.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

That was a queer mixture which
Emerson jotted down in his journal in
the year 1847, when he was 43 years
old
Health, South wind, books, old trees,
a boat, a friend"
The second component was used, sew
ersl years ago, as the title OF novel
At least, Norman Douglas its author,
called it q novel. 1t is, rather, dis
cussion among friends.
It is a curious fact that mankind has
attributed health to the South wind
while severely refusing 1t to wind
from the East.
The peoples of almost all nations
have a superstition-it is scarcely pos
sible to call it anything elSe-that the
East wind is an unhealthy wind
The interested reader will find q
jingle to that effect in Mother Goose
* 4
The South wind has been the favor
ite breeze of Washingtonians since the
foundation Of the District of Columbia
Right up the river, of course.
The Washington Channel runs d.
rectly North and South.
Get out your map, and look 1t up,
and you will see that the river, after
it Widens out, runs due North, and that
Connecticut avenue, beginning at Chevy
Chase Circle. and hence into Maryland,
does the same.
Many people have superstitions about
the way they sleep. Perhaps 1t makes
no difference at all.
Many, however, refuse to sleep with
their head to the South, but prefer to
point North, as it were, like compass.
For those who are f1nicky about
which way they point when asleep it
may be suggested that they purchase a
house whose corners lie to the points
of the compass, and thus they will
point North by East, and so on.
x \ 4
There can be little doubt that the
East wind got its unenviable reputation,
at least in many localities, because 1t
is the rarest of all the winds. And the
unknown Is feared.
The wind from the North blows 10
times as often. During Winter, in
Washington the West wind Is probably
the prevailing one.
The East wind, too, most often brings
rain, and falling water Is not conducive
to the health, not SO much In and OF
itself, but more because so many human
beings will not take the trouble to pro-
tect themselves from 1t.
The third element Of Emerson's half
dozen random thoughts was that magic
one, books. These need no introduction.
Books are old friends to most people.
They solace the quiet hour, bring new
horizons help pass time, soothe sick
ness, help in time of need.
More books are printed today than
at any time in the history of printing.
Whether that helps matters any is mat
ter for debate. The book business itself
has its doubts. 1t seems to many a
friend OF books that far too many
people who have no right to be at
tempting books are doing 1t, or trying
to do it. We read, or tried to read, not
long ago, biography of great woman
writer. The author did not know how
to write She had gathered her mate
rial, but 1t should have been turned over
to some one else.
Those who have the most respect for
books feel that something more than
a mere ability to gather material
should go into them. A book, prop
erly speaking should be the highest
attainment of those who write. AS 1t
is today, too often a book is trash.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
First Public Concert
Held 200 Years Ago
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your readers may be interested in
the following, which records the first
public concert in America, 200 years
ago.
In December, 1881, the Boston News
Letter carried the following:
"On Thursday the thirtieth OF this
instant December, there will be per-
formed a concert of music on sundry
instruments at MIR. Pelham's great
room, being the house Of the late DR..
Noyes near Sun Tavern.
Tickets to be delivered at the place
of performance at five shillings each:
The concert to begin at 6 O'Clock. and
no tickets will be delivered after the
day of the performance.
IN. B. There will be no Ambulance
after 6"
Peter Pelham, In whose room the
concert was held. was dancing master,
manager of the subscription assembly,
boarding school keeper, instructor In
writing, reading, painting on glass, an
engraVer and dealer in the best VT-
ginia tobacco"
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Women Previously
Held Key Positions

TO the Editor of The Star:
In recent issue of The Star In the
weekly communication of Mr.. Frederic
William VILE, wherein he discusses the
recognition of women in this admins
tration by appointment to responsible
positions, Is the statement that women
have been appointed "for the first time"
to administrative posts in the ofices
of education and Indian affairs.
This statement, as far as the Indian
ONCE is concerned, Is not true, as
women have been appointed to respon-
sible positions to my knowledge covering
a period of 80 years. Miss Estelle Reele
some years ago held the position of
superintendent Of education. Miss
Elsie Newton was a supervisor of home
economics and a number of women
were superintendents of Indian schools
and Indian agencies.
During my administration Miss Gregg
was appointed supervisor of nurses and
Miss Graves supervisor of home eco
nomics, and understand both are still
holding these positions.
CHAS. II. BURKE,
Former Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM FILE.

over this country?" she asked. That Is
the big idea, it was explained. Well, "
the dear lady wanted to know, won't
you have to talk terribly loud to be
heard all the way across the ocean?"
And Secretary Wilbur wants us to be-
lieve that Uncle Sam spent $4,000, ,000,-
900 on education In 1881!
Mai. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy, U. S. A.,
who is to represent America on the
neutral commission of inquiry In Man
churia, Is coming to be the Govern
ment'S handy man. He was drafted In
1928 to supervise the Nicaraguan cleo
tions, and when that job was creditably
performed Gen. Mccoy was assigned to
preside over the Paraguayan- Bolivian
arbitration at Washington. He's NO
stranger to the Far East. Many years
of service in the Philippines stand to
his credit. The general should be par
ticularly acceptable to Japan on the
present occasion because he commanded
the American relief commission to that
country during the great earthquake of
1923, Mccoy at the time being assistant
to Gov Gen. Leonard Wood at Manila.
In 1919 he was chief Of staff to the
American military mission to Armenia.
~
DR.. Mary Emma Woolley, world wom-
ankind'S representative at the Geneva
Disarmament Conference, will make her
first public utterance on the subject
since President Hoover appointed her an
American delegate In Washington next
Sunday. The occasion will be the ma
tional disarmament mass meeting Or
ganiZed by the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom. An
other speaker Of distinction will be Ruth
Nichols, aviatrix.
1t required no fewer than l3 liners to
carry American tourists ON cruises to
Bermuda and West Indies over the re-
cent holidays. A sailor who describes
himself as one OF the TOO men recently
laiG off from the Leviathan bemoanS
the fact that not one ship of the tourist
feet flew the American flag. Five were
British, two Dutch, two French, two
German, one Italian and one Swedish
The unemployed seaman wants to know
why 1t is that 1850, 900 tons of shipping
found 1t profitable and possible to sail
nerrily out past Sandy Hook, with the
flags Of half dozen European countries
Tapping gayly astern" while American
liners are laid up at Hoboken. Is it
possibly because the European liners
operate bars? Perish the thirsty thought!
(Copyright. lss2D
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Economy in State Finances
Held to Be Great Necessity

State debt than Michigan, but nearly
80 times that of Wisconsin, which, In
this as in many things, Is well gov
erned State. Arkansas has five times
the per capita State debt OF Kansas.
There Is a wide variation among the
States in the amount of debt they have
contracted for one purpose or another"
THE upward turn began at the close
OF the war;" according to the New York
Sun. THE urge for good roads and
the dollar matching legislation Of the
Federal Government helped the States
to increase their bond issues. In New
York there was demand for new pub
lie buildings and the elimination OF
grade crossings. Not all the States,
however, have been unwary. Neighbor
Connecticut, which had a per capita
debt of 1924 in 1915, has reduced 1t to
rs cents. Florida owes only II cents q
person. Nebraska's debt has been neg
ligible for many years. Kentucky owes
II cents per capita, while its neighbor,
Tennessee, has gone from $3.50 to s32.3A
since 1915. Arkansas takes the medal
for bond issues, its per capita debt ris-
ing from $1.33 in 1925 to $6503 in
1880. That is load far too heavy for
a poor State, but the floods and the
drought are partly to blame. Vermont
also had to combat floods, which ac-
counts for the rise of its debt from
81 1.02 head in 1915, to $26 90 in 1890"
One factor In local costs which Is
emphasized by the Atlanta Journal Is
''the excessive number of counties"
That paper commends the present
movement for the merging of county
units, and concludes: surely, 1t is time
for Georgia, with her 159 counties, the
great majority of which are far from
self-sustaining, to move for tax econ
omy in this vital respect Millions Of
dollars now spent on these needless
units Of government can be saved by
well considered plan of consolidation.
Every citizen who wants lighter tax
load should work for this sensible
reform"
Evening star., 1932-01-08
failing of Hungry
Man Is Protested

To the Editor of The Star:
I have read of nothing so inhuman
as fining a man $25, and, if unable to
pay it, to serve 80 days in Jail for beg
ging 10 cents for bite to eat" If
we have any laws which sanction such
treatment, they should be repealed In
the interest of humanity.
MARIA w. CARTER.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

The fact that an early morning mo-
torist found and captured coyote on
Sixteenth street Is not so surprising ss
to learn that two WaShingtonians have
recently lost such an animal. And, by
the way, does. one buy a regular dog
tag for q pet wolf?
Evening star., 1932-01-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Gentle Germ.
Or, gentle Germ! We feared you years
And fear you still, but not so much
as then.
Though you are bad, we have been
made to know
That worse than you can threaten
mortal men.
Oh, Germ! When you attack us and
lay low.
Our happiness and spoil our sleep
and food,
You do so not In wrath nor pompous
show
But In your dull, unthinking habi-
tude.
But man, when he assails with brain
and arm
His fellow man in rage-then, we
affirm,
Compared to him, with all his hurt
and harm,
You seem a perfect gentleman, oh,
Germ!
Evening star., 1932-01-08

A "cycloElyph," it seems, is some
thing in stone equivalent to pano-
rama in painting. And, no matter how
one chooses to pronounce this harsh
word, 1t Just seems to fit that dingus
that runs around the old Pension ONCE
Building.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

Connecticut in the old days used to
accept Indian wsmpum in tax pay
ments. II the Federal Government Of
today were but willing to accept cotton,
wheat, etc, for the same purpose, this
would be a tremendous step in some
direction or other.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

The height of ingratitude: A Los
Angeles business man married for
eign dancer who came here under an
immigration permit good for only six
months in order that she could fill out
her fat contract Now she has accused
him of Improper conduct"
Evening star., 1932-01-08

Traffic authorities must wish they
could get title and tag patrons to flock
in as early, as enthusiastically and in
as large numbers as do prospective
purchasers Of new special stamp issues
for their collections.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

"Britons never, never shall be slaves.
runs one of the popular anthems Of
their country. Yet, under their present
staggering load of taxation, lot Of
them must sing the song these days
somewhat qusveringly.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

$50 sorry" does not help much in
healing the bruises and cuts on Consul
Chamberlain'S person. Nor is 1t much
comfort to future diplomatic and con-
sular runners OF the same risk which
he innocently hazarded.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
70 the use for republication of all EewS DIS
patches credited to 1t Or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein All rights OF publication OF
special dispatches herein are also deserved.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Eyes Needed for Bills.
From the Miami nai,v MAN..

from the Miami Daily News.
mat ]eweler who says he can repair
watch blindfolded protably removes
tne oandages from his eyes before tao
king the more. important task OF max
ing out the blu. -.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
borrowing Unnecessary.

There's no use borrowing trouble"
said the philosophic citizen.
You don't have to borrow It," replied
Mr.. Growcher. Somebody Is always
willing to come along and hand it to
you gratis"
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Long Range Heaters.

From the Dayton Daily News.
Having invented device that will de-
tect the heat of candle 80 miles away
some scientist has earned the undying
gratitude of apartment house janitors
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Prize for Peace Soldiers.

FROM the Fort Worth star-Teiesram.
Ii peace has its victories as well as
war, how about a Croix de Pax for
tnose peace soldiers who have been sit
ting on the lid as though nothing were
happening since 1929?
Evening star., 1932-01-08

The Sahara Desert, 1t is estimated, is
nearly three times ss large as the So
called Great American Desert. Aha!
but we have more oases.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Hon to LII

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
Plans are being made by the Bureau
of Entomology in preparation for an
effort to check the ravages of grass
hoppers In the West next Summer. The
bureau hopes to get the jump on them.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
PermAnencc.

The morning light is cold and gray
AS night is followed by the dawn;
In turn the daytime fades away
And still the arguments 90 on.
The snow gives place to gentle showers,
The blossoms smile and soon are
gone,
The fruit succeeds the glorious flowers
And still the arguments go on.
Empires arose to tax and fight;
The student, to their ruins drawn,
Brings ancient records to the light
Still the old arguments go on.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

The ungrsteful Japanese! Think Of
their beating up one of our consular
representatives after we have given
them the best thing we had-base ball
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Deadly Kansas Music

From the Roanoke Times
A Kansas small town brass Dano
scared mule to death. Ihats al we
want to know about the kind of bands
they have out In Kansas.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Competence.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel
Some researchers have DECIDED tnat
a man becomes unfit to drive a motor
car when he attains the age Oh oo. Our
own idea is that a motorlst VINO lives
10 be so has established claim to COM
niets dtnexA
Evening star., 1932-01-08
A L0afer.

n LOdtcfs
The busy bee Ia often made
To serve as an example fair
To folk whose toll may be delayed
BY passing pleasures, here and there.
And yet the bee SIN idler dwellS,
Excepting in the Summer glow,
And dozes 'mongst his honey cells
And never has to shovel snow!
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Easier.

Don't you want to be a leader of the
people?"
Its hard work to be a real leader, -
commented Senator Sorghum. Its
usually easier to get along by jollying
the crowd"
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Rate by Carrier Within the City.
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia,

All Other States and Canada.
Evening star., 1932-01-08
Chicago Employees in Dilemma

Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Chicago city employees no doubt often
muse on the question of whether 1t Is
better to be unpaid and unemployed
than unpaid and employed.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business once:
lith st. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York once: ITO East 42nd ST.
ChicaKo once: Lake Michigan Building.
European once: IA Regent 1T, London,
England.
Evening star., 1932-01-08

Experience Is de best teacher" said
Uncle Eben, but gittin' arrested ain
no way to study law"
Evening star., 1932-01-08

wAsHIN GToN, D. C.
FRIDAY. January 8, 1882
Evening star., 1932-01-08

w. MOVES. .. Editor
Evening star., 1932-01-08

@. When were modern lead pencils
first used?-P. S.
A. The first allusion to the use Of
pencils in the modern sense of a solid
rod of marking material used for writ
ing and drawing, either incased in
Evening star., 1932-01-08

Believe it or not, this observer has
just survived the following experience.
He was remarking to the wife Of Gov
eminent official that within a month he
will be broadcasting to the United
stAsss from the Geneva Naval Confer
encs. will pour voice be heard all
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07
HOMER NEWS
(By special correspondence)

(By special correspondence)
 w. F. Peck and son Bill, with their guest Alton Palmer, have moved into the Kohler cabin for the winter. Bill expects to trap and break in his new dog team.
 x
 The Alaska Guides sent 26 horses to be Wintered at Homer by their packers. Carl OlmSted and A. M. (Slim) Crocker.
 Lee Hancock and Victor Kelly made the trip to Homer from Mi nilchik with their Motorgo. Lee will carry the mail from Homer to
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07

Ninilchik during the winter, mak- ing four trips between the 18th of December and the 31st of March He is carrying it for the Pacific Alaska AirWays, who have the con- tract.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Putnam are the proud parents of a girl born to them at the Stone Steps" From all reports mother and child are doing nicely.
 x * *
 Fro Walli has just received a new horse from the States which pro- mises to be fine saddle horse.
 < x <
 Star Nielsen returned home from Saw Mill Bay, LatOuche Island, re- gently. He left early last Spring on his gasboat for Cordova and from there went to the Westward, stop ping at Kodiak and Latouche on his return. Altogether he had a good season but he put his boat up most Of the season at Latouche Is- land.
 * * < <
 Jack Harrington has entered a sanitarlum at Banning, Calif, where he is doing nicely, and sends his best regards to all his friends. Miss Margaret Richardson, Ho-
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07
.DEI EGATE ANNOUNCES
 NAVAL Al TERNATEs

Announcement was made by James Wickershom, Delegate to Congress, of his selections as alter mates to take examinations for en- trance to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
 Theselections are Aaron John son of Nome, first alternate, and Donald A. Fowler of Nenana, sec ond alternate.
 Selection of Harry Lundell of Dougles, principal, was announced by the Delegate a few weeks ago.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07

Send your laundry to the Seward Steam Laundry and benefit from the Winter Special Rate at the Seward Steam Laundry. Cheaper than you can do it at home.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07

mer's former teacher, expected to spend the winter at Homer but now writes that she will stay at Chig- nix. Never having spent the win ter there before, it will be a new experience.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07

With all sole and heel jobs the rips in the uppers are sewed and shoes cleaned and polished with out extra charge You will find more comfort in walking with straight soles and heels.
 SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07

Mrs. E. A. Leschen of Nome was one of the 230 passengers on the last trip Of the season of the SS Victoria from Nome to Seattle. It was Mrs. Lescher's first trip to the Statse in 32 years.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-12-07

Old papers; z5c Fer bundle At The Gateway office. Write, phone or call.