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Evening star., 1933-12-29
Women's Struggle
For Equal Rights
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Those not especially familiar with
Women's struggle for equal rights are
often puzzled by what appears to be
contradictory attitudes. so that q few
words may help to clear up the matter
fights in the the battle Of G universal aver: p prog M
reSs, has been, and still is, carried on
mainly by q relatively few who shoulder
the burden and break the trail As al
work toward it, usually with little honor
and with much personal loss.
This group believes in equal rights
for women Equal rights means rights
natural and unhampered in civic. po-
Htical, economic and domestic spheres
Most persons are not especially in
formed about the matter and are not
sufficiently interested to take part one
way or another I believe most men to
be neutral and willing to accept women
at the appraisal they place upon them
selves. As for women. most OF them
are not opposed to equal rights but are
ready and willing to utilize every right
that comes to them.
The Indifferent and the neutral offer
no great obstacle to progress and the
are not opposed to equal rights, but are
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against them the arguments Of logic,
justice. humanity and fairness can be
advanced with telling success. There
are no honest arguments for inequality
The most unfortunate and difficult
enemy Is the person, often a woman,
who pretends to favor women by ap-
proving all sorts of laws designed to
protect women and give them advan-
tages over men. Women do not want
nor need protection nor favor but only
simple equality. Such laws as these
are but cloaks that shield designs to
keep women In an unequal status, which
always means an inferior status The
real friend Of women seeks only equality
and rightly so.
As human beings, women are entitled
to equal rights and they will obtain
these rights sooner or later because all
future progress awaits this develop
ment. warn those interested not to
be misled into supposing that they are
helping when they demand unequal
rights. either more nor less than men.
I warn them especially against the pre-
tense of women who seek to retard the
great movement by cloaking their de-
signs behind laws that keep the in
equality alive. Equal rights are the
only rights that women are entitled to
and the only rights that they wish.
HELEN JEFFTRS GARLAND.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
Two Public School Experiments.

Availability of Federal funds for re-
lief nov permits two experiments in our
public school system that will be
watched with great interest. The first
is in furnishing hot and nutritive
lunches to about 1000 children, who
now go without them or who are de-
pendent upon private charity for their
midday meals. The second is the es-
tablishment Of ten nursery kinder
gartens In different sections Of the
city for children of pre-school age.
Both Of these undertakings are high
ly praiseworthy and will meet real
demand AS long as the Federal Gov
eminent is engaged in direct relief ac-
tivities, 1t would be difficult to select
two more laudable forms Of relief.
But both experiments. one more than
the other, mark departures from the
traditional concept of the public school
SYSTEMS functions. The chief purpose
Of the public school system has been
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an extension Of that function and
means a new responsibility. While some
instruction is furnished the children of
pre-school age. the nursery kindergar-
tens will be utilized by many mothers
who want to work, but who cannot
leave their children alone.
The free lunch idea and the nursery
kindergarten should be viewed now as
demonstrations, aside from their roles
in meeting the demand for relief dur
ing the emergency. The tendency will
be to enlarge both activities, and to
make them regular parts of the school
system. If that is done. the cost of
public education will be increased. The
experiments now should serve to dem
onstrate the expense and the tangible
benefits Of free school lunches and
nursery kindergartens. so that these
may be weighed in later years against
the Importance of other activities that
are now being restricted by budget
limitations
Evening star., 1933-12-29

are better forgotten. Dwelling upon
them but adds to their sting. Pain and
sorrow. nursed in the heart. poison the
soul, and the philosopher pragmatically
realizes the danger and protects him
self against it. He cultivates the talent
to reject what 1t is MOI helpful to re-
member. He cleans the garden of his
mind of its weeds.
And the process assures the prosperity
of happier conceptions. Joy recalled
promotes Joy, stimulates the Will,
strengthens confidence, renders labor
less arduous, prepares the way for vic
tory. The psychological adjustment at
New Year should include the elimina-
ton of any impediment Of continued
striving, the preservation Of any aid
toward success. Tennyson again echoed
the truth when he sang: "Ring In the
valiant man and free!" He knew full
well that no man can be either cour-
ageous or enfranchised who is bound
by the fetters of negative thought.
The skilled musician understands the
necessity for banishing faults Of tone
from the range Of his instrument. He
tunes his violin, his piano. to some
approximation of a universal harmony.
Again and again he tries the singing
strings, listening with all his powers of
concentration for exactly the right
response. And only then, when the
cords are set and tensed as he wishes
them to be, does he essay to play.
While the curtain of 1888 descends
there will be many. surely, who will
want to be in tune with God and their
fellow men. The last moments of the
year furnish the opportunity for pur-
poseful endeavor in that direction.
Evening star., 1933-12-29

administration monetary plans in
general.
Fears find expression that IL any,
thing like a filibuster develops in Con-
gress over changes in the tax structure,
1t might not be possible to have the
forms for 1888 tax returns issued soon
enough to make new rates applicable
to this years incomes and profits. If
revision should be delayed as long as,
say. February IS or later, the internal
proper forms in taxpayers hands in
time for March IS returns. This might
mean that existing tax rates would
prevail for another year.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. Re-
publican. Of Michigan is one of the
''grinds" of Congress. He has a pen
chant for digging exhaustively into
complicated subjects like economics and
monetary problems and devours about
every book on those subjects that he
find it difficult to persuade the Senator
to desert research for society" VAN
denberg Is beginning to be talked about
as G. o. P. presidential timber. He is
one Of the real orators Of the party and
a recognized authority on money and
banking.
The National Labor Board. Of which
Senator Robert F. Wagner. Democrat.
OF New York, IS chairman, winds up
the year with an impressive record of
conciliation. It has settled roundly 200
disputes, but an even more remarkable
fact Is that agreements were arrived at
in all cases by unanimous decision. The
employer members of the National La
Dor Board are Walter c. Teagle, Gerard
Swope and Louis E. KRISTEN, while DR..
Leo Wolman, John Lewis and William
Green represent labor. The young gen.
eral counsel Of the board, Milton Han
dler, Is Columbia law faculty mem
Der, and once upon a time was private
secretary to Supreme Court Justice Har-
Ian F. Stone.
Charles L. Holt, young Washing
tonian who was once a Central High
School boy and later was graduated
from George Washington University
and the University of Missouri School
of Journalism, has just returned from
31a- year tour of duty in Toxic, where
he was business manager Of the Amer
ican-owned Japan Advertiser. He says
that Japan, due mainly to the depre-
ciated yen. is enjoying boom, total
foreign trade for the IL months since
January, 1888, showing an increase Of
more than SO per cent in both exports
and imports over the same period a
year ago, with a satisfactory export
excess. The japanese, who have been
deluging the American market with
cheap electric light bulbs, lead pencils
and rubber-soled footwear are keenly
watching tariff developments in Wash
1ngton, Mr.. Holt says, in the anxious
hope that nothing will happen to check
the fat business they've built up for
these low-cost products in the United
States.
(Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1933-12-29

of many Of the Republicans from
the central section Of the country, the
great Middle West. It Is quite easy IN
understand, in view of his statement,
that the Republican leaders of the
Senate and House are likely to 81
lightly when 1t comes to launching q
partisan political attack upon the ad-
ministration and its policies. They
would have difficulty in bringing their
followers into line
The attitude Of Republicans like Mr.,
administrators program comparatively
easy In the coming session of Congress.
If the President is to have the support
Of an appreciable number of Repub-
licans in Congress, or at least to be free
from attacks by them, it seems as
though he might count on the support
of the Democrats, who are, by the way,
in control of both Houses Of Congress
by huge majorities. No President in
recent years has had an easier time
dealing with the legislative branch and
probably none has had such an easy
time, except President Wilson, when
the country was at war. The prospect
seems good, therefore, for session of
Congress that will perhaps be vocifer-
GUS, but will nevertheless be tractable.
A change in the feeling of the country
toward Mr.. Roosevelt, If it should come,
might bring its reaction in the Con-
gress. But at present, as Mr. Capper
says. the country seems to be on the
side of the President.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

they did not stop until they were half
a block away.
He could see them hopping around in
somebody elseS yard, seeking q similar
hospitality there Jones knew they
would be disappointed. Old Brown never
put out grass seed. either for himself
the birds.
Templeton came in. to take up his
station by the dining room windows.
The juncos, he thought, would be
back again shortly.
Five minutes went by, and no bird
showed itself. Ten minutes, and Tenn
pleton Jones began to worry.
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Maybe he had frightened them away
for good.
He had about given them up, on the
quarter hour, when small shape fitted
to the top Of the Jonesian fence.
It was the advance guard
From the top rail it hoped down into
the border, and once there proceeded to
dig industriously for seed.
Why wouldn't the silly creature hop
little farther and gather it some good
bread crumbs?
Surely it would shorty, Jones thought.
because Of all the ! IS none had any
more sense than the small Snowbird.
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Pretty soon. sure enough, the advance
guard hoped over closer and closer to
the widespread circle Of crumbs
Now" said Jones, breathlessly, "he
will spy them"
The bird turned it's back on the feast.
just as it came up to it, and went on
digging for seed.
This was too much, Jones felt like
leaning out the window and giving di-
rections, but he contained himself.
knowing that, with birds, discretion is
not only part, but all. of valor.
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More snowbirds arrived Some OF
these were not so reticent They hoped
Immediately into the magic circle, flew
away with large chunks of bread de-
pending from their strong bills.
Soon they were all back again, divid-
ing their time between the favorite seed,
hidden in the grass, and the bread, Of
which they were slightly suspicious
They did not have the table to them
selves very long. however
A magnificent red shape suddenly
shone on tree limb at the back Of the
yard. 1t was followed by less glowing
creature, its wife, and soon the pair Of
cardinals hoped directly to the banquet.
Each seized piece of bread and few
away.
Two English sparrows we're not slow
to realize the exact state of affairs.
They few down, their mottled brown
coats contrasting nicely with the more
sedate colors of the busy snowbirds
| Templeton Jones was pleased with
the sparrows. He had always liked
sparrows, but not always had he real
lied, as now, just what pretty colorings
they possessed.
A magnificent gray and blue bird few
down.
1t was a blue jay, Of course. Who else
could stand so high. so dignified, so
chestily before the world. in all the
glory Of his crest and coloration?
But ah! what is that-and that
and that-and that? As big as pigeons,
with stubby tails and glossy black coats,
the starlings had arrived!
Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!
In half a minute every crumb was
! gone. The board was swept clean, and
the starlings had gone, leaving the jun
cos to their seeds in the grass, and the
| contemplation of Jones in his window.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
Laxity in Poison
Sale Is Indicated
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In connection with the recent dog
poisoning cases which have occurred IL
the area Of Twentieth street, Belmont
road, Ashmead and Allen place north
west and caused great sorrow among
the residents of this section who
have lost their pets. mostly pedi-
greed dogs, have come to the conclu-
sion that after thorough investiga-
ton by the police and agents Of the
Humane Society with no tangible re-
suits, there must exist . Axsy Of drug
control, particularly the purchase OF
the deadly strychnine, which has been
resorted to in these poison cases.
It is very evident that more drastic
law should be applied to the purchase
of this drug where fictitious names and
addresses are given to conceal the pur-
pose for which it Is intended. On the
other hand a close check-up should be
made of the Government laboratories
where commercial strychnine is fire.
quently used. The killing OF innocent
pets in this manner, one OF the most
cowardly and despicable crimes that
can be INDUCED In by human beingA
cannot be too severely condemned.
HERMAN c. RAKEMANN.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
Securities Act, Under Fire,
Has Friends as Well as Foes

Rutland Herald advises that some OF
the pains and penalties Of the act are
so unavoidable that legitimate financing
Of legitimate, job-creating enterprises
has been made difficult and in some
cases has been given up" The San Jose
Mercury Herald AYERS that "the trouble
was. directors of corporations were un-
willing to incur the risk of personal
liability imposed" and that stopping
the flow Of capital into business activ-
tiles needing permanent capital or loans
for period of years has deprived mil
Mercury Herald believes that the act
was framed apparently on the theory
that punishment for past sins was de-
served" but the legislators overlooked
the fact that these would not have been
committed but for the shameful neglect
of the New York State government,
under whose Jurisdiction was the finan-
cial center of the United States" That
paper adds that had 1t performed its
constitutional duty, as did the State OF
Massachusetts,, investors would not have
been fieeced."
"A contributory cause Of the drying
up Of the new securities Market" as
viewed by the Cincinnati T1mes-Star
Yet, though the ultimate value Of the
pound Is equally in doubt, the British
market Is booming. More than $780,
100000 in new corporate securities were
issued in London during the first IL
months of 1888. 10 per cent gain
over the total for the corresponding
period of last year. The only convincing
explanation for the virtual stoppage OF
new corporate issues in the United
States is law whose drastic prohibi-
tions and penalties have paralyzed
initiative" "One Of the main causes
of paralysis" says the Springfield
Union, "has lain in the strict penalties
for errors or misstatements in reports
or prospectuses of companies, liability
in this regard extending to corporation
directors, security dealers and statesmen.
The law has put investment bankers In
such uncomfortable position that they
have refused to take risks"
1t is contended by the Wall Street
Journal that Injury to the credit and
earning power Of a corporation spreads
through almost the entire population,
through the medium of the savings
bank, the insurance company and
similar institutional investors" and
that, rightly or wrongly, there is
strong body Of opinion that certain
features Of the securities act of 1898 are
among the most important obstacles to
a more rapid recuperation Of business"
Evening star., 1933-12-29

Templeton Jones did not forget his
bird friends at Christmas.
A simple repast Of bread crumbs was
as good as any feast to them.
If Jones had been in possession OF
beef suet or sunflower seed he would
have put them out, but. lacking these,
he was not overcome
that the birds, at least, in the whole
line of creation, firmly believed In the
maxim that content is continual
feast
A little to eat, with them, goes long
way.
They do not demand many courses,
with fine drinks between. but are sat
isfied with dry bread, If nothing better
offers.
The juncos, those charming, fat lit
tie fellows. began it.
All on the Christmas afternoon they
hoped into the shade of the house in
the back yard. deserting the sunny por-
tions farther back.
Jones saw at once that they were
after the grass seed which providently
he had put out for them last Septem-
ber.
1t had been a bright Fall day when
Jones planted the seed.
Some of them terminated and grew
into good grass plants, which now
helped the appearance OF the entire
rear garden.
Many of the seeds, however, lay dor
mant. Even the best seedsmen guaran-
tee only certain percentage of germi-
nation.
Rain and wind had beaten these into
the earth. where they snuggled among
the old grass blades, waiting their Pc
riod of usefulness at last.
Perhaps they knew that December
would come, and with it the juncos,
little fat birds with slate gray backs
and white stomechs.
At any rate, the seed was there. so
that the sharp bills of the snowbirds
could find it, nesting amid the old
blades Of grass.
Into the yard hoped one snowbird.
then another. then another so that
soon seven of them were busily at it,
seeking seed OF every side.
1t was an impromptu Christmas aft
ernoon dinner, cne all the happier
Jones thought. as he looked out the
window. because there had been no
particular preparation for it.
Nobody had stood over hot oven
for this feast. No one had whipped va
rious foodstuffs until arms were tired
No one had been afraid something or
other would be O failure
Here was plenty Of food. and the
guests thoroughly appreciated it, too.
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It was human of Jones, and entirely
unnecessary, to think of bread crumbs
The birds were having a fine time
with the old grass seed. but Templeton
Jones insisted on introducing the hu-
man element.
He had to add morei
Bread crumbs, he thought. would
round out the little fellows Christmas
spread.
They would give a finishing touch
provide dessert, as it were.
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But no sooner had Jones stepped
gingerly out on the back porch to
throw multitude of crumbs to the
snowbirds than those lively feathered
friends flew away
He could see them going the white
underneath flashing in the sun, and
Evening star., 1933-12-29
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.

Sez Hez.
"Of course, we don't want any war"
Says Hezekiah Bings.
Mankind was not created for
Such mdeserved things
As going out at some command
To do . desperate deed
Where very few can understand
The purpose or the need.
For such protection we will try
As may seem Just and right,
In case somebody, by and by.
Should seek to force q fight.
No prince should be . realtor
Who still to profit clings.
OF course, we don't want any war"
Says Hezekiah Bings.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
Senator Capper to Back Roosevelt.

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas has
returned to Washington, announcing
that he intends to support President
Roosevelt further in his recovery pro-
gram. The Kansas Senator frankly
says that there is no question that the
President still has the people with
him" Coming as q Republican from
a State which has been In the main
strongly Republican in the past, the
statements made by Mr.. Capper are
significant. Republicans are not chant
ing the praises Of President Roose-
velt because they particularly like to
extol a Democratic President. 1t is
easily conceivable that they would
rather take a very different tack. They
seem to have accepted the view Of
Mr.. Roosevelt, which Is to the effect
that the country has faced an emer-
gency similar to that Of wartime and
that 1t is the duty OF the people gen.
orally to rally to the support Of the
recovery program.
Not all Of the Republicans In the
Senate and House feel or talk as does
Mr.. Capper. There are those who be-
lieve that the minority party should
become Immediately aggressive and at
tack the Roosevelt administration and
the policies of the President whenever
opportunity presents, or at least when
they consider that it is their duty to
do so because the program conflicts
with their beliefs as to what is good
for the country and for the people
Frequently it is easy for q public man
to convince himself that the program
Of q political opponent Is not conducive
| to the welfare of the Nation. How
ever, Mr. capper's attitude - that
Evening star., 1933-12-29
Last DAYS of the Year.

The final days Of the year, 1t would
seem, are q proper time for a kind Of
psychological housecleaning, q certain
clearing Of the mental decks for action.
There is a precedent of ancient origin
for the custom Of winding up loose
ends. balancing books, terminating un-
finished business in the last week before
the beginning of a new quarter. The
poet Tennyson had the thought before
him when he wrote: Ring out the
old, ring in the new!"
Symbolic it as one will, the idea Is
opt and timely In any guise. Memory.
Cor example, ought to be discriminating.
Ehere are incidents In every life which