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Evening star., 1933-01-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

entire garden Of poorly developed
blossoms
He loves more by loving less.
In this simple philosophy his purse
gladly co-operates with his mind and
hand.
The philosophy of the seed cata-
logue, too he Is convinced. as he
spends delightful minutes over it and
| its brothers, is much the same, al
though seemingly different
On the surface, the books present a
surfeit.
They show everything.
And practically everything is 'the
best" and "the finest" Of course.
An outsider might wonder how the
fan" finds his way amid these enor-
nous lists Of plants and varieties, each
apparently so enticing.
How does he resist this endless lure?
A little experience in the garden is
all that Is necessary in order that one
may tread the true paths Of never too
much"
In the garden as elsewhere, there IS
a school Of hard knocks, as some one
called experience.
One soon discovers that there are
two real limitations. first the old
pocketbook, and, second, ones indi-
VIuudl likes anu OiSlikcS.
Both Of these operate powerfully to
keep the amateur gardener within
bounds, else he might leap the fence
and take unto himself thousand-acre
| farm on q city lot purse.
| He is like the newcomer to the de-
lightful hobby of keeping tropical
fishes, who discovers at last that tank
with few perfect specimens in 1t Is
| far better than the same aquarium
| filled with many sick animals.
The gardener soon learns that the
! limitation of his purchasing power.
while at times disconcerting, mostly
| operates for his own good in steering
him clear of the danger of cluttering
his yard with specimens too much
alike.
He also learns. what. perhaps he
should have known anyway, but mostly
| doesn't, that no amount of catalogues,
or books, or magazines, or other per-
sons. can take the place Of his own
| tastes In his own garden.
ties OF the gladiolus, or the iris, or
the rose, will offset the lure OF scores
Of other flowers
In time he may even find Che often
does) that the beauty of one par
ticular variety Of any one of these Is 50
great In his case that he can confine
| his activities to 1t alone.
| At the same time, If he Is wise, he
will keep alive in his breast willing
ness to experiment with new things.
! This does not mean that he will still
want to order one packet Of every
flower or vegetable in every catalogue
he picks up.
He will do better He will let the
/ photographs and the descriptions sink
into his being, until he Is ready to
make up his mind as to the new things
he wishes to plant this coming Spring.
Not very long now, that SPRING. Just
over the horizon, as 1t were.
No matter how few new things he
grows. or attempts to grow, undoubt-
edly he will find that he has made
a few mistakes. Perhaps one flower
will not be as fine as he thought it
would be. Another may not please him
by its habits Of growth.
The gardener is used to this. Per-
lection is no more the rule in Nature
than in man. Everywhere he sees
things falling short Of the ideal, and
he can do no less: Even his roses may
fail, or his gladioh get the thrips. The
January sky Is very depressing.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

Now that the big seed catalogues
have begun to come in, the fireside
gardener has plenty Of material tc
work with.
Gray skies of January might seem
to be poor setting for this annual
diversion, but. by contrast, they are
eminently fitting.
Leafiess trees melt beneath the radi-
ance of great glowing tomatoes. pic
tured with superb artistry on page 46
Of this latest volume.
Bare boughs Of the lilac bloom again
in their glory
Here are all the old favorites, with
many new ones, set down in fashion
to make the mouth of the garden en-
thusiaSt water at the sight. =
Perhaps few addicts to this form of
literature have been able to solve clear
ly in their own minds just what sys-
tenn the makers use in deciding which
flowers and vegetables to give the dis
tinction of colored plates each year.
Seldom is there one of these books,
however, without the red, ripe tomato
holding down a page all its own.
Most properly SO, too, one decides,
even If he questions the girth, as many
a home gardener will do, when he COM
pares it with his own miserable produc-
tions.
Such flowers as roses and gladioh,
too, almost always get into the color
plates.
This, too, is right.
All flowers are beautiful, but none
more so than these.
They are such universal faVoriteS
that they claim, merit and receive the
most generous treatment in return.
They scarcely can be pictured too
much. Their beauty not only attracts
perpetual friends and devbtees, but al
ways makes converts.
Thus new hosts of friends are made
for them year after year, and the
happy thing is that these are true
friends forever
Such friendships are not broken by
carelessly spoken words, showing how
thin the veneer of civilization Is, after
all
The liking for a particular flower,
once it has been born in mind ana
heart. is endless.
Nothing ever changes It, Fortunately
the flowers cannot speak, and thus are
saved the misfortune of saying the
wrong thing at the wrong time.
They cannot hear. therefore they
are never harassed by unkindness,
thoughtlessness and the like.
He who has sworn his devotion to q
rose will find his love returned on every
branch In Summer.
Here is a supreme interest, one in
which the gardener never tires.
No matter how often he decides that
roses are too much trouble" and de-
signed only for experts to grow, he
returns to them each year.
In time he may come to approach
them more temperately than he did in
his younger days.
Then, alas, he rushed in where
angels might have feared to tread.
Now he goes softly, knowing that a
few well-grown roses are worth whole
beds Of lesser breeds.
His enthusiasm for the queen of
flowers, far from cooling. has become
tempered by facts
Every enthusiasm needs such toning
down, and, indeed, most Of them get
it, in time
Few hobbies are able to resist the
wear and tear of facts, as applied over
the years.
The sensible man comes in time to
realize that numbers, after all, mean
little here.
He sees that one rose, one perfect
flower, is more to be desired than an
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Hitler and the Hohenzollerns.

There were two events In Germany
on Sunday, each ominously significant
In Its way. In the legislative elections
Of the small state Of Lippe-Detmold, In
the northwest section Of the Reich, Hit
ler's National Fascists made striking
gains. At Berlin the new chancellor
dictator, Gen. Won Schleicher. addressed
a fervid war veterans meeting in the
presence Of President vor Hindenburg
and former Crown Prince Friedrich
Wilhelm, the trio responding together
to the plaudits of the multitude.
or the twenty-one seats in the Lippe-
Detmold Parliament the ''Nazis" cap
tured nine. From the previous cleo
tions they emerged without q single
seat. Little further proof Is necessary
to uproot the theory that Hitler is
through" and that his te-getting
powers reached the peak with the
Reichstag elections Of last November,
which materially decreased the number
of Hitler's supporters. With the aid Of
III bAAC AhPPS-
Detmold Diet the Hitlerites round out
a Rightist bloc which will control the
states affairs against a minority Of
Social Democrats and Communists.
Chancellor Won Schleicher, now that
the holiday political truce is about to
end, presumably plans the early con-
vening of the Reichstag. The interval
has been busily employed by him in
the task of attempting to form coali-
ton majority which would work with
the Hindenburg- -Schleicher government.
II that once more proves impossible,
Gen. Won Schleicher. still armed with
his emergency dissolution decree, would
unquestionably not shrink from ordain-
ing yet another Reichstag election, the
third within a year.
With the Lippe- Detmold returns at
hand TO show that the "Nazi'' cause
still noirishes. Hitler. on his part, will
be encouraged to face another nation
wide test at te polls with revived hope.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Senate Proposal for Repeal
Runs Gauntlet of Criticism

Of protection for the States which may
elect to remain dry, and sufficient mem
bers were pledged to oppose legislation
without these safeguards as to deny
the requisite two-thirds expression"
The Salt Lake Deseret News holds that
"manifestly States that vote dry should
be protected from interstate commerce
in intoxicants by all the power OF the
Federal Government" and that paper
points out that lit was the saloon that
created the intense feeling over the
Nation that resulted in prohibition"
That there are Senators who Will
insist on independence in this matter"
according to the Springfield (Mass)
Republican, should not be wondered at.
Indeed, If State conventions should be
used as the ratifying instrumentality
instead Of Legislatures, the delegates
thereto would not be chosen as party
representatives; they would stand for
election as delegates either as cham
pions or opponents of the constitutional
amendment presented to the people. In
this fact members of Congress may find
some justification for approaching the
question of prohibition repeal with a
certain detachment from obligation to
be governed by campaign slogan"
~
obviously program Ln2L cOnIhcJS
so sharply with the views of the vets,
and which offers nothing to the drys, Is
not even an intelligent compromise"
asserts the Asbury Park Evening Press,
while the Rutland Herald is convinced
that "the most courageous thing q
lame-duck Congress could do would be
to recognize the will of the people as
expressed by $4,000 900 votes" The
Akron Beacon Journal calls the reSolu-
ton "a weak compromise" and the
Boston Transcript. "a denial Of the
peoples right" The Morgantown Do
minion News protests 'perpeeustion Of
Federal power"
There is no prospect of the resolu-
tion being adopted by this Congress-"
in the judgment Of the Newark Evening
News, while the Scranton Times feels
that many Senators ordinarily favor
able to repeal are uncertain with re-
Spect to the resolution" The Hartford
Times concludes that "clear-cut action
ON the matter is likely to await the next
Congress" and the Louisville Courier
Journal predicts that such resolution
as was voted on in the House viii get
through the new Congress"
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Progress.

From the Omaha Evening World Herald.
The other day the forces of nature
undertook a slight rearrangement Of
the mountains of Nevada; pushed them
little higher, made them, in certain
spots. little sleeper.
The change wasn't actually very
great. You could measure 1t with a
yardstick. 1t was Just a slight move
ment of the rocks, a slight piling up,
a slight increase in altitude. Compared
with the readjustments which have, in
the course OF few millions of years.
produced the Alps and Everest, the Slip
ping Of the Nevada fault was hardly
worth chronicling.
Yet It was accompanied by terrific
shudders that seemed to shake the
earth to its very core. People Of four
States felt the walls and floors of their
homes tremble. Many fed into the
open fearing that great natural ca
tastrophe was about to strike.
But it was not catastrophe. It was
progress. The world on which we live
was changing; moving forward on the
path Of its destiny.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
King Pin in the Making.

Passage by the House of the Jones
farm bill and the possibility. as faint
as it might appear now, that it will be
passed by the Senate ought to make
President-elect Roosevelt's choice of a
Secretary of Agriculture one of the
burning questions of the day. Com
pared with his choice of q Secretary
Of Agriculture, his choice Of Secre-
tary OF State. Secretary of the Treas
ury or Attorney General appears trivial
and unimportant, about as interesting
now as the condition of the weather
on the Fourth of July four years
hence.
For, If the House farm bill should
become law, there obviously must be a
re-ranking of members of the cabinet
The Secretary Of Agriculture will lead
all the rest. Matters of social prece-
dence will in large measure be settled
automatically, although there will
doubtless be some dispute over whether
the Secretary of Agriculture should sit
on q raised dais at social functions or
merely wear an ermine robe and be-
jeweled crown.
Certain 1t is that the Secretary of
Agriculture will be the most powerful
figure in the land, possessed of the
authority for handing out negotiable
Treasury certificates to the producers of
wheat, butter-fat, rice, cotton, peanuts,
tobacco and hogs who reduce, or say
they have reduced, acreage or tonnage
OF hogs twenty per cent. And 1t will lie
with the Secretary to proclaim the
value of the certificates to be paid
the farmers. He it will be who pos
sesses power unequaled by any other
Government official in the matter of
bonus distribution and tax levying. But
more important still is the fact that he
will be commander in chief of new
army of -givers-out, the size
Of which will in time be numbered as
were numbered the locusts Of Egypt.
Imagine his taskl The census re-
ports, for the year 1880, that there are
in the United States:
3,535,ll9 farms raising hogs.
1,2o8,368 farms raising wheat.
1.ss6,726 farms raising cotton.
432,s75 farms raising tobacco.
326,253 farms raising peanuts.
s,s45 farms raising rice.
And goodness only knows how MANY
farms producing butter fat.
Not including butter fat-producing
farms, these total something in excess
Of six and half million farms. The
farmers who run them will apply for
certificates, or most Of them will. But
before they can get redeemable certifl-
Gates 1t must be shown to the salts
faction of the Secretary of Agriculture
that they have not only reduced their
planting or hog tonnage by twenty per
cent, but have not planted the twenty
per cent reduced acreage 'for the pro-
duction OF any commodity Of which, In
the opinion Of the Secretary, there is
normally produced, or Is likely to be
produced, an exportable surplus" The
Secretary OF Agriculture is, indeed,
going to be big man, no matter who
is chosen by President Roosevelt. If
he can administer this bill however, he
must be more than a mere man. He
will have to be a wizard.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
SHOOTING STARS.
Roses
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Roses.
The wintry day when skies were gray
Once We would seriously deplore.
Wed lock about and sadly say,
There are no roses any more"
And then what blossoming we see!
1t starts in the cosmetic shop.
Yet very cautious We must be;
So to examine it We stop.
A patriot anything must dare.
And SO We have to take a chance.
The roses in your cheeks so fair
Oh, lady, were they made In France?"
Evening star., 1933-01-16

His emphatic assertions that he
knows more about banking than Carter
Glass himself has not led any vociferous
group to mention Huey Long for Sec
retary of the Treasury.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

Reference by Mr.. Farley to an "inher-
itance of chaos" is rendered the more
discouraging by the fact that there is
no way Of imposing inheritance taxes
on figures Of speech.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

Nations by appealing each to its own
population to buy at home reduce tariff
discussion directly to a question of
whether it is possible to put sentiment
in control of business.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

An oratorical contest may have to
be decided as a draw, with Hiram john
son rated as the Demosthenes of Cali
fornia and Senator Borah as the Cicero
Of Idaho.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

When the Philippines were taken.
question Immediately arose as to what
Uncle Sam would do with them. The
question Is still being discussed.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

The only slight service the under
world has done the police is that of re-
minding the public that there can be
no thought of economy by a reduction
of the force.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Leaving 1t 10 Ofherx

Economy I advocate.
One thing I've never gotten straight
Is, what seems easy for the rest,
For me should prove SO tough test.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Metal Dollars Pretty Snappy,

From the Macon Telegraph.
Scientists who propose to change IN
an electric dollar would be surprised to
know how much of a shock we get out
Of the possession Of the kind now in use
Evening star., 1933-01-16

A large demand for human inteln-
gence exists even in this mechanical
era. Some Of the old political machines
have begun to squeak and rattle.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
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Evening star., 1933-01-16
A lip to the Skeptical.

from the Sioux Falls Daily Arsua Leader.
professor says that within the nAx4
hundred generations the various races
OF humanity will merge. leaving oaN
one race. II you don't believe him, uAk
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Fifty-Fifty.

From the Nashville Banner.
The population seems fairly well sss-
Vloeo between people who are AFRAID
congress VIII do something and those
who fear it won't.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Wash0ut.

The water which in stocks they found
Caused frozen assets to abound.
And then with deep coAsern we saw
A deluge when they had to thaw.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Scrip.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
II this municipal scrip craze con-
tinues, the advice not to take any
wooden nickels may come tc have a
literal meaning.
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Unexpected Response.

Did you hold your audience SPELL
bound?"
What do you mean?" asked Senator
Sorghum.
Did you move your hearers?"
They moved sure enough. But it was
in my direction and my friends had to
hold 'em while I got away"
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Conflicting Requirements.

You should try to be agreeable"
1T isn't always so easy" said Miss
Cayenne. In certain gatherings you
can't make yourself agreeable to some
people without saying disagreeable
things about Others"
Evening star., 1933-01-16
Vocabulary.

From the Miami Daily News.
One way of learning new words Ia 70
ask tns taxi driver n change a Ten.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

Some folks" said Uncle Eben, seems
likes dey wants to 60 to heaven mostly
SOS to be on hand to keep DER enemies
out" rE
Evening star., 1933-01-16
No Static Currency.

From the New York sun.
Maybe 1t isn't an electric dollar that
10 neeoeo so much as an elastic dollar
Evening star., 1933-01-16

Reforms" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, often lead us to change cur
expressions Of opinion without departing
from our usual course of conduct"
Evening star., 1933-01-16

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Evening star., 1933-01-16

Jud Tunkins says when he was a boy
geography was one of the hardest things
he had to study and, owing to political
changes, 1t Is yet.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

Talk persists about recognition of
Russia soon after Franklin D. Roose-
welt enters the White House. From a
usually well informed quarter comes
the statement that the opening wedge
for recognition viii be the stationing
Of an official United States trade COM
missioner at Moscow. Some of our
more internationally minded wiseacres
Evening star., 1933-01-16


that he has tried to get Long on the
telephone to talk things over.
Are the Progressive Republicans
those who followed Roosevelt in the
last campaign-to be recognized in the
Roosevelt cabinet? Also is the Presi-
dent-elect to place q woman-the first
of her sex in such a poSition-in the
cabinet? Woodrow Wilson, q Progress
sive Democrat, did neither. 1t is true
that Mr.. Wilson, when he had to ap-
point Republicans" to the various BIZ
partisan commissions and independent
agencies Of the Government, according
to the law, chose Progressive Republi-
cans" men who had not followed Taft
in 1912 and who had helped to make
the Wilson victory certain. But he
cabinet-not even during the World
War. Republican Presidents, however,
have sometimes placed Democrats in
their official families. President Hoover
today has a Democratic Attorney Gen.
eral, Mr.. Mitchell. 1t is true that Mr..
Mitchell has been suspected to being a
'Hoovercrat" in 1923, but nevertheless
he Is rated Democrat If Mr.. Roose-
velt should pick a Progressive Re-
publican" for the job of Attorney Gen
eral it surely would tickle the Progress
SiveS.
The claim is not made that the
women elected MIR. Roosevelt to the
presidency. On the other hand, it is
quite true that huge number of them
voted for the Democratic candidate,
now President-elect. Would 1t be a
good political move to take a woman
into the cabinet circle? The sugges-
ton has gone the rounds for a long
time that q woman would be named
Secretary Of Labor. II so there will be
lot Of sore labor leaders.
Evening star., 1933-01-16

While the House has already defeated
repeal" says the Oakland Tribune "if
Is to be remembered the measure called
for outright action, with no assurance
Evening star., 1933-01-16

@. What Is the derivation Of the
word neighbor?-M. Z.
A. It is from the Anglo-Saxon, neah.
meaning nigh or near, and gubor,
meaning dweller or farmer.
The Washington times., 1933-09-23
Next Weeks Movie Programs al
Neishborhood Theaters

Pin "Fugitive." Tuesday-June Clyde
and George Lewis in Her Resale Value"
Wednesday and Thursday-James Dunn
and Boots Mallory in Hello Sister," Fri
day-Patricia O'Brien and Lloyd Whit
lock in Justice Takes a Holiday"
Saturday-D u b Q Feature-"Strictly
Personal" with Marjorie Rambeau and
Eddie Quillan. Madge Bellamy and Pat
O'Malley in "Riot Squad"
SYLVAN-S n a y d Monday
James Dunn and Sally Eilers in Hold
Ne Tight" Coortone Revue. Cartoon.
Tuesday and Wednesday-"Peg o. My
Heart" with Marion Davies and Onslow
Stevens. Comedy. Merry Melody. Thurs
day-"Strictly Personal" with Dorothy
Jordan and Eddie Quillan. Ruth Eft
ing Variety. Friday-"Dangerous Cross
roads,. with "Chic" Sale and Diane Sim
clair. Comedy. Chapter 9-"The Lost
Special. Saturday - Double Feature
"When Strangers Marry" with Jack
Holt and Lillian Bond. Sunset Pass"
with Randolph Scott and Tom Keene.
Chapter No 11-'The whispering
Shadow" Matinee at p. m.
TAKOMA-s unday and Monday
Helen Hayesand Robert Montgomery in
Another Language" Tuesday and
Wednesday-Cary Grant in Gambling
Ship" and Ann Harding in Double
Harness" Thursday and Friday-Bar-
bara Stanwyck in Baby Face" Satur-
day-Double Feature-Marion Nixon and
Buddy" Rogers in "Best of Enemies" "
and Buck Jones in Unknown Valley"
The Washington times., 1933-09-23
REGATTA OPENS
On THURSDAY

Virtually all plans for the sev-
enth Annual Presidents Cup Re-
gatta, to be held in the Potomac
Piver off Hains Point for four
days beginning Thursday, were
completed today.
The entry lists. which include
some of the fastest boats and
drivers in the world, arc COM
plete, plans for handling the
visitors have been taken care Of,
and arrangements for spectators
have been made.
New Timing Device
Among innovations to be wit
messed at this years race will be
a new timing device to clock the
boats. The superiority of this de-
vice over human judges lies in the
fact that it times to the one
hundredth of a second and also
provides a motion picture record
Of the finish of the event.
Those intending to witness the
races will able to hear announce
ments, entries and other interest
ing information much better this
year than before due to the
application of the shortest
possible radio wave-lengths in
connection with the loud speakers.
Pageant Planned
Friday night has been set as
the time for a might Pageant
and Marine Parade Night" An
official Queen of the Pageant"
will be selected and crowned by
a high Government official, and
elaborate decorations will turn
Washington's waterfront into
scene of beauty. Planes will per-
form overhead.
Additional attractions in the
form of swimming, rowing and
canoeing events has been added
to the program. These events
will take place on Sunday, the
closing day.