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Evening star., 1933-09-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC BILLIAM VILE.

have signed dozens of different petit
tions for the same job. This repre-
hensible practice, Tydings says, moves
him to amusement, pity and disgust"
He claims to have on file $4,000 petit
tons for approximately 100 jobs.
x
Anybody who wants an idea of the
battling variety of business transacted
20 N. r. A. has only to cast him lamps
over the following partial list of in
duStry codes submitted in one day
wiping cloth, wood heel, lye. rabbit fur
dyelng. cement gun contracting,
bleached shellac, stereotype dry mat,
baby chick hatchery, tea. preserves and
mince meat coke, anti-friction bearings,
tanning extract. food desserts, radio
broadcasting, pretzels and oyster shell
cruSherS.
Baltimore is organizing the first N.
R. A. marine pageant, to be held on
Defenders day. September IL, off Fort
McHenry, under the auspices of the
city of Baltimore and the Maryland
Yacht Club. President Roosevelt has
been invited to lead the pageant either
dental yacht Sequoia.
Prof. william E. Dodd. our new
Ambassador to Germany, who presented
his credentials to President Won Hinden-
burg last week, has just taken possess
sion of the new American embassy in
Berlin. 1t is a dignifled residence of
handsome appointments in the ultra
fashionable Tiergarten district. The
house was built and occupied many
years ago by branch Of the Warburg
banking family The United States
owns an elaborate embassy in Berlin.
the famous Bleucher palace on Unter
den Linden. purchased on the Govern
ment'S behalf by former Ambassador
Sackett. The property was seriously
damaged by fire before it was ready for
embassy purposes. but. according to the
Berlin newspapers, necessary renovation
costs are held UP by the economy pro-
gram at Washington. So Ambassador
Dodd's first job in Berlin a few weeks
ago was to go house hunting.
x X x x
Albin Johnson. American newspaper
correspondent at the League of Nations,
who is visitor to Washington after a
tour of the Far East, carries a remark
able silver cigarette case. He calls it
his letter of introduction. The case
bears the engraved autographs of lead
ing world statesmen. They wrote their
names in pencil. and then johnson had
a jeweler trace them over with a utenSil
that indelibly inscribes the signatures.
every one of which. johnson says, repre-
sents an important newspaper story
Among ths autographs are those OF
Macdonald. Herriot. Stresemann, BRAND
Tardieu. kellogg. Davis. De Valera,
King Feisal of Irao. Emperor Pu vi
of Manchukuo. Sir John Simon
Stimson. Litvinoff. Ishii and Grandi.
In Washington last week Secretary Hull
added his John Hancock" to the
collection.
Copyright. 1933)
Evening star., 1933-09-04
National Call Is Broadcast
For Rescue of Menaced Elms

Progress the capital P kind that old
settlers deplore in their immediate en-
vironment. Protest was made. But now
come bacteria, akin to the chestnut
blight, that like elr1s too we'll And the
local elInS are joining too many Of their
brothers in other parts of the country
in succumbing. An enemy has arisen
that puts even Progress in the back
ground"
at is exceedingly important. in the
opinion of the Department of Agricul-
ture' reports the Atlanta Journal,
that persons interested in trees be on
guard against this fungus, which, if
it should spread. would prove even more
destructive than the chestnut blight"
The Journal also advises that anyone
whose elm trees show a premature wilt
ing yellowing or browning of the leaves,
along with brownish streaks in the
young wood, will do well to get in
touch with competent forester" That
paper quotes an authority as saying
that apparently no species of elm tree
is immune"
"One hates to imagine" remarks the
Hartford Times. what many city
street and highway vista would look
like with the towering elms destroyed"
The Times continues: The Dutch sun
disease was first discovered in Holland
13 years ago. 1t has wrought havoc
with elms in that country and in Ger
many and England. Three years ago it
was noted on a few trees in Cleveland
and Cincinnati. Fewer than a dozen
trees were affected and these were
promptly cut down and destroyed. No
more has been noticed of the disease
IN
140 trees were found infected in North
ern Jersey. whence its spread is feared.
1t will pay to keep an eye on this new
enemy. *"
With a tribute to the value Of these
trees. the Hazleton Standard Sentinel
offers the advice: Importers and others
who resent quarantines and embargoes
would render more useful service if they
criticized the negligence which permit
ted the Dutch elm disease and Japanese
beetle to get by the deadline. ."
Evening star., 1933-09-04
Real Estate Values.
on the Greensboro Record.

FROM the GREENSBORO RECORD.
Real estate prices, in country and
town, scared to ridiculously high levels
in boom days, dropping, when depres-
sion came, to levels almost unbelievably
low. The value of real estate is tangible
and inherent. Land was too high in
the lush days of prosperity and too low
during the slump. There is happy
medium between the extremes. Real
estate is going to strike it one OF these
days: in fact it is already beginning
to do so.
Real estate is coming back. With
wages going up. prices of farm COM
modities advancing and business gen.
orally improving, land values, naturally,
are rising, too. 1t would seem that the
person who has farm, a house and lot
or other property in town would do
well, even in these days of high taxes,
to swing on to his holdings.
1t will take time for real estate to
come back. In fact, much of it may
never, at least not within the life of the
present generation. reach the boom-day
figures of a few years ago. But it will
certainly come back.
Evening star., 1933-09-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

A pleasant enough habit is to have at
hand some small book, any small book,
in which one may open to pages at
random, when there is nothing else
to do.
In this way the reader keeps alive his
interest in books, and, happily, often
runs across good bits which otherwise
would make no impression upon him.
Such a volume may be the vest
pocket-size Little Book q Nature
Thoughts" from the writings of Walt
Whitman, selected by Anne Montgom-
erie Traubel and published by the late
Thomas B. Mosher in Portland, Me-, IN
1906.
This small book by chance came open
at page 80, and thereon We read, in
Whitman's curiously involved prose:
Butterflies and butterflies (taking
the place of the bunblebeeS of three
months since, who have quite dlsap-
peared), continue to fit to and fro, all
sorts. white yellow, brown, purple-noW
and then some gorgeous fellows flashing
laZily by on wings like artists palettes
dabbled with every colour.
"OVer the breast of the pond I
noticed many white ones, crossing, pur-
suing their idle. capricious flight. Near
where sit grows a tall-stemmed weed
topped with a profusion of rich scarlet
blossoms, on which the snowy insects
alight and daily, sometimes four or five
of them at time.
by and by a humming bird visits
the same, and 1 watch him coming and
going, daintily balancing and simmer
ing about.
These white butterflies give new
beautiful contrasts to the pure greens
of the August foliage eve have had
some copious rains lately), and over
the glistening bronze of the pond sur
face.
You can tame even such insects;
I have one big and handsome moth
down here. knows and comes to me-
likes me to hold him up on my ex-
tended hand"
There speaks, ladies and gentlemen,
4 voice long stilled, but as new as to-
day.
All of us have seen the butterflies of
1888. even if we have not paid much
attention to them.
There are, for those alive. always
Augusts and butterflies, although not
for all of us are there ponds beside
which We may sit and train the in
sects to come to hand
1t is a pleasant picture, rightly con-
sidered, this. of the white bearded poet.
sitting by the water, holding aloft his
fingers to attract "one big and hand
some moth"
Whitman was ever the free man, In
nothing more so than in his word ar
rangementS.
Most of us. writing of similar things,
would probably say "a big handsome
moth"
1t is in such little differences that
the poet shows his individuality.
Butterflies with wings like artists
palettes dabbled with every colour" are
the common sort in our garden.
Seldom during the last month was.
a pure white one seen. Maybe such
prefer ponds.
They had copious rains in the days
Of long ago evidently, too.
Rains and storms and high winds are
nothing new in the world, although at
the time humanity bows beneath them
as Of old
If we were to go to Whitman's pond,
no doubt we would find its glistening
bronze surface the same as ever
Whitman had the poetic eye. and the
ability to put colorful pictures in a
Evening star., 1933-09-04
New Deal in Agriculture.

From the Charlotte Observer.
1t was a South Carolina banker
farmer who gave the agricultural in
terests the doubtful benefit of new
variety of cotton that grows five pockets
where only four grew before. and it is
South Carolina farmer who now
comes forward with something both in
teresting and profitable. He has been
experimenting with crossing the tomato
plant with the nuisance known as the
jimson weed and has succeeded in max
ing the latter produce tomatoes as well
as brrrs. He shows one jimson stem
upon which three perfectly good toma-
toes are growing, and declares, as an
additional virtue, that tomatoes grown
on this weed are free from blight or
wilt or any of the other ailments to
which the tomato plants are liable-and
at rate of this kind are We progressing
in the new deal for agriculture.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

The announcement by Author H. G..
Wells that there will be war in 1940
at least leaves the prediction seven
years to run, and in that length OF time
the most carefully constructed calcula-
tionS may run out Of motor fuel.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

A fight for temperance will undoubt-
edly be renewed but the word ''prohibi-
tion" will cease to have significance as
a strategic force in politics. Illicit rum
may continue. but it should be easier
and less expensive to get moon
sinner" than it has been to apprehend
and convict a bootlegger.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

The former Kaiser has called on all
German Americans to support N. R. A
There is no use of quibbling over good
advice, although it might be suggested
that there are no German Americans
over here. There are only Americans.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

There need be no long discussion OF
osen or closed shop 1t has been SO
otNen debated in all possible aspects
that no more need be done than to
dig into the files.
Evening star., 1933-09-04
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Cured?

From the Cincinnati Tmes-Star.
Borah, recovering from an operation
and approving the administration, gives
the impression that the treatment might
work wonders with other insurgents.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

In the commerce of mankind a new
deal is sure to be regarded with dis
favor by those who do not happen to
get the more promising hands.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

It may be wrong to judge Huey Long
harshly. If his affairs come to an
issue he Is at least entitled to de-
fence by Clarence DarroW.
Evening star., 1933-09-04
The Bicycle Built for Two.

From the Toledo Blade
Equal rights women may have to meet
and pass resolution fixing the status
of the back seat of the tandem bicycle
Evening star., 1933-09-04
Ozark Boom.

From the Chicago Daily News.
Among the indications of prosperity
in the Ozarks is the resumption of
hoss tradin' and the rebuilding Of hitch
ing racks. -
Evening star., 1933-09-04
Horses Honest, At Least.

From the, Chicago Daily News.
At least it cannot be said that any
.-,orse ccrruptly threw a race.
Evening star., 1933-09-04
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Evening star., 1933-09-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Political ri.

Political Pi.
Unto my printer friend I sent
A little line of sentiment
Intended good advice to bring
In politics and everything.
Now is the time"-it's thought was
hearty
For each good man to aid his party,
But there are times of speed and stress
And this is how it went to press:
Evening star., 1933-09-04
Exaggerated Awe.

Exaggerated Awe.
do your constituents still regard you
with respect?"
TOO much respect" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum Some that used to call
me by my first name now write Dear
Sir and seem to think have as much
authority as the Postmaster General
himself"
Jud Tunkins says he's in favor of
keepin cheerful. Even a little dancin'
is better than draggin' your feet.
Action.
Of labor we talk till the mind starts to
balk,
But some day no longer we'll fret it.
But We'll 60 on our way and have no
more TO say,
Well all go to work and forget it.
Business.
What course have you decided on
in this economic crisis?" asked the
counselor.
II want to consult you about that"
answered Mr.. Dustin StaX. What
course do you think will give me the
most advantageous publicity?"
1--WE permit ourselves to be flattered,"
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown,
accepting even an undeserved compli-
ment as tribute to real or suspected
power"
Evening star., 1933-09-04
Observation-Disclosures

Friend Printer, you are still exalt.
You go beyond my simple fact.
Though you observe my phrase refined
You Clearly show my State of Mind.
Evening star., 1933-09-04
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Evening star., 1933-09-04
Supply and Demand.

Supply on hand exceeds demand
In one case-and it always will.
More candidates in waiting stand
Than there are Offices to fill.
Evening star., 1933-09-04

de greatest danger bout mistake"
said Uncle Eben.~ sis tryin' to bluff it
through an make people think it was
a good job"
Evening star., 1933-09-04

@. How does the number of motor
boats licensed this year compare with
that of last year?-M. B. L.
A. The Department of Commerce
licensed 281 ,443 motor boats during the
fiscal year 1888, compared with 263 ,599
for the year 1892
Evening star., 1933-09-04


1t isn't often that 'fusicn" gets any
where in its efforts to down the Tam
many tiger.
With James Roosevelt, the Presidents
son, handling Federal patronage in
Massachusetts over the heads of SEN
ator Walsh, Gov. Ely and the rest of
the leading Democrats of the State, the
politicians up there are asking each
other if young Roosevelt has designs on
the governorship. Under the State law,
however, to be a candidate for Governor
a man must have been a resident of
Massachusetts, for seven years prior to
his candidacy That it is said, would
cut the Presidents son out of the gov
ernorship race for another four or five
years at least.
The soreness which has developed in
Democratic senatorial ranks over lack
of cooperation by some of the heads of
executive departments and new Govern
mcnt agencies in the distribution of
patronage" has not abated in recent
days It is problem to which the
President may be compelled to give at
tention before long. There is nothing
more sensitive than the patronage nerve
in the senatorial makeup. The mem
bcr of the Upper House who has been
ignored and Sighted by the Chief Exec
utive or his assistants in the selection
of men and women to appoint to Fed
erai office is always potential enemy
to administration measures when they
come before the Senate for considera-
tion The next session of Congress may
be different affair from the first, spe-
cial session, which rushed measures de-
manded by the President through at an
unheard of speed.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
OWNERS FIGHT.
LAND SALES

LURAY, Va, Nov. 1O.-Own.
ers Of land in the Shenandoah
National Park, opposing condem-
nation of their holdings by the
Federal Government, have Of
fered testimony in court here that
the territory is rich in gold, plat
mum, diamonds and rubies.
Scouting these assertions, a
Federal geologist and park super
visor yesterday in court denied
that the land has any timber or
mineral value. One land owner,
Jay Miller, of New York, testified
that with others he held an OPP
ton on certain land for over $780,
900, and that radium had recently
been discovered within the con-
fines of his holdings.
Upon this statement, one wag
stated in court that he expected
testimony would be offered at any
moment to show that a portion of
the Great Wall of China has been
dug up in the park. Judges with
held a decision on the condemna-
ton proceedings, although hear
ingS were concluded yesterday.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
HIS AIM PEACE,
HITLER AYERS
IN AIR TALK

BERLIN, Nov. 10 U.N.S).-Re-
asserting Germany's determine
ton to achieve arms equality
with the world, Chancellor Adolf
Hitler today issued a ringing
challenge to statesmen who
plunge the world into war with
out knowledge or experience OF
its horrors.
In a speech broadcast to the
United States, he said:
ut is madness to think that
1 favor war. / fought for four
and One-half years, and I know
war. / should like to know how
many foreign statesmen did the
same"
The chancellor advocated peace,
freedom and equality for Germans
and the German nation. He said:
1--WE will never again attend
an international conference I'M
less we are treated as a equal"
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
DOUGLAS WARS
ON LAVISH U.s.,
BUILDINGS

Director of the Budget Lewis
w. Douglas pressure to curb
lavish expenditures for Federal
court buildings and postofficeS
has delayed action on many i'm
portant projects, members of Con-
greSs were informed today.
Douglas, it was reported, has
been Joined by Secretary of the
Interior Ickes, administrator of
the public works fund, while the
present policy is defended vigor-
ously by architects and other
public buildings officials.
Roosevelt To Decide
The question, it was said in
congressional circles, will be de-
cided by President Roosevelt.
There were indications the
Chief Executive already has taken
steps to settle the quarrel, and
announcement Of use of public
works funds for additional post
offices was said to be imminent.
Thus far only $39,198,000 has
been allotted for public buildings.
Cuts of 20 to 80 per cent in
appropriations proposed by archi-
tects for buildings in several
large cities have been urged by
Douglas, on the ground that
money is wasted in ornamental
work.
High Costs Cited
The $16,OO0,OO Commerce Build
ing here, erected during the
Hoover administration, and the
new $10,000,O00 Supreme Court
building are being cited as "hor-
rible examples" by the advocates
Of economy.
Figures have been gathered to
show that in many smaller cities
where the Government has spent
100000 on a postoffice building,
the additional cost of mainten-
ance has made the building far
more expensive than renting.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
j. 8. MAY RAISE
ACE LIMITS

Removal of age limits generally
from civil service examinations
for jobs which do not require
arduouS physical effort may fol-
low the raising of the stenog-
rapher-typist age limit by the
Civil Service Commission to So
years, it was indicated today.
Opponents of the 4O-year limit
for this examination, which has
now been rescinded, pointed out
that low age limits were placed
on applicants for a number of
other jobs, notably taubulating
and machine operators, junior
graduate nurses and home eco
Monies teachers in Indian schools.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
Eagles Flight
Scars Price of
Turkeys

Flight of the Eagle will cause
the price Of turkeys to soar this
year.
Which is just another way of
saying that the MIRA will cause
the price Of turkeys this year to
be substantially higher than last.
Whereas turkeys last year sold
at an average of 81 cents pound,
a canvass of dealers discloses that
the price this year will be at least
20 cents a pound and in most
cases 80 and 81.
The present farm strike, dealers
point out. will show its effect in
turkey price-boosting.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
VeLn1a Allen Elected
Fairfax 4-H Leader

Velma Allen has been elected
president of the newly formed
Fairfax Station (Va0 All Club, it
was announced today.
Other officers of the organiza-
ton are Doris Steele, vice presi-
dent; Bernice Riggles, secretary;
Audrey Wells. treasurer; Helen
Rector, reporter; Priscilla Riggles,
recreation leader, and Barbara
Allen, song leader.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
Crusader to Honor
UnknOUn Soldier

Mona Cutler, 20, free lance
peace crusader, will place a wreath
on the Tomb Of the Unknown
Soldier in Arlington Cemetery on
Armistice Day. The wreath will
represent Eastern universities and
colleges. Miss Cutler will address
the annual service of the Wash
ington Youth Peace Council at 10
a. m. tomorrow at the tomb.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
Anti-Lynching Meet
To Convene TOniqht

Charles L. Houston, dean Of
Howard University, will be one
Of the principal speakers at a
mass conference at 8 o'clock to-
night at Phyllis Wheatley Y. w.
C. A., Ninth Street and Rhode
Island Avenue Northwest.
The conference was called by
the Washington Provisional Com
mittee Against Lynching, which
was formed following the recent
lynching Of George Armwood,
colored, at Princess Anne, Md.
Bernard AIDES, international La
Dor Defense counsel, will also
speak.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
Federal Architects
Hail Robert at Fete

L. w. Robert, jr., Assistant Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, was the
guest Of honor and guest speaker
at the annual banquet Of the Asso-
citation Of Federal Architects last
night at the Army-Navy Country
Club,
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
Bureau Lodge Plans
Membership Drive

Plans for an intensive member
ship drive were outlined at last
nights meeting of Bureau Of En-
craving Lodge, No. 20, Of the Amer.
lean Federation of Government
Employees.
The Washington times., 1933-11-10
KHAN TO MEET

Speeches by Maryland Klans-
men will feature the opening
meeting of the Knights of the
Ku Klux Khan, tomorrow evening,
at 8 p. M, at the Wolfsville, Md,
Odd Fellows Hall.