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A Policy That Worked.

A large ma jority of the bonus seekers
encgmped at Fort Hunt have vindicated
the Presidents confidence in them as
reasonable men. responsive to consider
ate treatment and knowing a good bar
gain when they see one Most Of
them are accepting the Governments
proposal that they join the foresters
and obtain employment, food, housing
and thirty dollars a month until such
time as other jobs will be available. A
few Of them may continue to shout for
the bonus payment, but they will dis
credit themselves in the eyes Of every
body and provide adequate demonstra-
ton OF the fact that the opportunity
to shout. and not the hope of relief
from their difficulties, brought them to
Washington.
The President has from the beginning
followed a policy in dealing with the
bonus seekers that by its sincerity and
fairness has left them completely dis
armed. Coming to Washington, they
were not only provided with good food
and comfortable housing and facilities
for holding their meetings, but were
furnished free transportation to and
from camp. They have been given a
reasonable time in which to transact
the business which brought them here,
and, as that time draws to an end, have
been given the alternative Of working
in the forests or peacefully going home
At no time have threats or hints of
compulsion been brought to bear in in
fiuencing their action. They have been
honored by visit from the First Lady
and their leaders cordially received at
the White House by the President.
The President and his advisers knew
that such a policy was uncertain. They
were following a course that had not
been followed before. There may have
been doubts, on their part, whether the
plan would work or whether the bel
ligerent attitude of some of the pro-
fessional agitators would be transmitted
to the men in the ranks, with resulting
trouble and disorder. The bonus
marchers have removed these fears by
their own response to fair and con-
siderate treatment. They have not
only vindicated the Presidents good
judgment, but themselves as we'll.
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referred to the currency a. "dixies.
New Orleans thus became Dixie Town,
or Dixie City, and the bank the Dixie
Bank. Eventually the whole South was
known as Dixie. There may be merit
in this hypothetical genealogy Of the
title.
But no one knows positively. In the
circumstances, one guess may be as good
as another. Some authorities are con-
tent to believe that Dixie is merely that
section which lies to the south Of
Mason and Dixon's line. and that Is
all there is to the matter-a notion
that constitutes the surveyor the par
ent OF the word.
In any case. 1t was Dan Emmett, the
minstrel. who made the song popular.
and 1t is grand and glorious tune.
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dislikes what every one else does, or
general principles, has no place here.
Those who belong to our first classi-
flcation would not like the idea, per-
haps, that any one would think them
lacking in essential curiosity.
They have what might be called a
limited curiosity. If in some way 1t
impinges on their jobs, or their plan
of living, they are interested in 1t.
If it is outside these. or seems to be
outside them. they are not interested
in 1t, and often save themselves "a
refusing to pay any attention to it.
The members OF our other class,
which we cannot help but think the
superior group, belong to the order OF
those who want to know, regardless OF
what such knowledge brings them.
~ ~
A. philosophy OF living is not the
same in practice as in theory, at least
not necessarily so.
A man may theoretically approve OF
intellectual curiosity who yet, in his
everyday life, seldom shows any.
He may not want to bother himself
with things that do not concern him, u
as he might say.
1t is very satisfying way to live, no
doubt of 1t, If one possesses the exact
temperament to make 1t natural and
therefore beneficial.
The process of learning Is often sad.
No one can ever tell when q few
words will cause him to be discounted.
y 4 X
The intellectually curious man may
be said to be q braver man, because he
is not afraid of words or the ideas for
which they stand.
He does not put a comfortable life
above knowledge.
He somehow believes that the truth
never yet really hurt any one, although
1t might make him feel vastly uncom-
Portable for a time.
The happy thing is that the hurt
wears off, the good remains, If there is
any good. There may not always be
good, no one makes such a claim, that
is where the members of the other
group commonly err.
"Oh, looking at everything that comes
ones way never gets one any place!"
1t all depends on whether one must
necessarily get" somewhere all the
time.
Is 1t not desirable, now and then, to
feel that one is under no necessity
whatsoever Of getting" any place at all?
II one Is to call a tangible, evident
and easily proved gain" Of some sort
the only worthwhile urge toward in
spection, then there might be some
point in blanket refusal to look at
anything outside the daily routine.
There are many gains, however which
are not to be boiled down to such pro-
portions. There are many things in
every mans philosophy which others
have not dreamed Of.
If they will not credit them, perhaps
that is their loss.
We would make an appeal, therefore,
for the careful inspection Of all
brochures, documents, pamphlets, trea-
tiseS, booklets and the like.
There is time enough to throw them
into the waste paper basket after you
have looked at them. Suppose the man
. Is crazy? What of it?
He may have an idea or two in the
back of his head which have escaped
more normal minds. Then. again, he
may not be crazy at all Commonly,
the man who is crazy" is the man who
does not agree with us. and he is the
very one we need the most.
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Dixie y

Every time parade goes down Penn
sylvania avenue and the bands play
the stirring strains Of Dixie" the ques-
ton is asked: How does it happen
that the South is called Dixie Land'?"
There long has been curiosity about
the origin of the nickname. Certain
scholars have made a serious search
for its source. But as yet there Is no
agreement on the subject, and it may
be that there never will be a univer-
sally accepted opinion. Dixie" is one
of the mysteries of history.
According to one theory, the word
in New York, Mr.. Dizzy, whose prac-
tice 1t was to fatten slaves he was
about to sell by giving them plenty Of
food and no work When they had at
tanned the desired ponderosity, they
were disposed of by weight Dixy's
reputation spread throughout the coun-
try. His cognomen became a synonym
for plenty Of good things to eat and
nothing to DO. PreSumptlVely, the South
was imagined to be that kind Of para
dise-a garden of delectable edibles and
little labor. But, since 1t was not ex-
actly that sort of territory, there is a
good deal Of doubt about this suggested
explanation of the familiar term.
Another theory is that Dixie" comes
from species Of banknote sponsored
by the Banque des Citoyens the Citi-
zens' Bank Of Louisiana, with head
quarters at New Orleans. French was
the language Of the Crescent City In
those days, and the notes, therefore.
were printed in French the word dix"
being used for ten" on some of the
most common bills. Rivermen mis-
pronounced the phrase - normally
spoken as though spelled "dee"-and
Evening star., 1933-05-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

What happens to the pamphlets, doc
uments, brochures and the like sent
out in such vast numbers all over
America?
Most of them 60 into the waste paper
basket. we are afraid. The depression
has done nothing to slow up this deluge,
but rather increased it.
A gentleman tore open an envelope,
hastily looked at the leaf1et extracted,
then threw it away.
Il wonder why they keep on sending
me these things?" he asked.
An associate could have answered.
but he did not. He might have said.
Because they credited you with more
curiosity than you have"
1t remains a question, of course. how
much miscalculation goes into such
things. all around.
Thousands Of dollars are spent on
such booklets many of them being little
short works Of art.
The intelligence put into some Of
them IS evidently large.
No one would 60 to such labor II
he did not think that it would receive
a fair hearing
He knows. probably as we'll as the
next one, that 1t Is asking something
of stranger. when he expects him to
be interested in something he probably
does not care about particularly.
x **
He hopes to secure what Is called
reader interest" curious commercial
term of some appropriateness.
What he must take his chances on.
of course, is the possible readers mental
curiosity.
The man may be an excellent fel-
low IN every way, but one who Is in
terested only in his own work and
ideas, not in the work and ideas of
others.
He may have an ordinary amount Of
curiosity, but not what some call mental
curiosity.
There is difference.
Plain curiosity is just something
most persons possess. in the face of
something which intrigues them
It must be something which intrigues
them however.
Mental curiosity is the state Of mind
which welcomes the chance of learning
something new, anything at all. no
matter what it may turn out to be.
All mankind might be divided into
two on this basis.
The largest section would be COM
posed Of those who have the ordinary
everyday garden variety of curiosity.
The very much smaller section would
comprise those who are mentally curl
Gus about everything.
Members of the first group generally
would throw into the waste basket
the thousands of booklets which yearly
find their Office desks.
As they cast them into that oblivion,
they would wonder to themselves, If
they did not ask aloud, why do they
send them?"
Members of the second group will
find time to give, such publications an
honest inspection, If for no other rea-
son than to attempt to find out what
the senders were up to in sending them.
They are mentally curious, they
see all sides to every question, they
are willing to look into anything what
soever just because 1t Is something
to look into!
Between these two tempers there Is
no attempt to judge.
Each has its place, and each person
acts as seems best to him. The COM
mon brand of personal criticism, which
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Of the National Legislature. Never Ia
his own capacity was he entitled to rise
and speak. Instead, for sixty-five years
he gave his time and energy to the
preservation Of other mems judgments,
other mems opinions. In the truest
sense of the phrase. he wrote his coun-
try's annals during those six and half
decades, and not once. 1t is said, was his
accuracy ever challenged.
The Senate reporters are a distin-
guished group OF writers. That has
been noticed on many occasions. But
among them Mr.. Shuey easily held first
place. He was their dean. their father.
They loved him, and the affection which.
they entertained was mirrored by the
Senate personnel and by the press gal
lery and all those other newspaper
people who, while not assigned to that
post, are in more or less constant con-
tact with 1t.
The nimblest fingers and the quick
est brain" were his possessions, the
constituent elements Of his genius.
Even the most rapid and tempera-
mentally exuberant speakers were not
beyond his powers. When discussion
reached its most violent apex. he would
sit unperturbed in the center of the
storm, calmly recording every syllable
of the oratorical tempest, and when
Senators came to read over their ut
terances they sometimes marveled at
their own ability, their own mastery
of English and their own forensic ca
pacity. dimly conscious of the debt in
which they stood to their stenographer.
But it was part of his function to be
uuobtrusive, and he was incapable of
presumption. He symbolized the good
manners, the judgment and the mod
esty, as we'll as the skill, of the group
to which he belonged.
Mr.. Shuey surely deserves mention
in one of those footnotes to history
which often enough are more interest
ing than the formal text. All the his
torians of the period between 1858 and
the present year must be aware of their
obligation to him. He was the beau
ideal Of legislative amanuensis. Those
who knew him well will miss him,
those who knew him not at all will
salute his memory with appreciation.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
Coordination of Education.
From the Oklahoma City Times.

From the Oklahoma City Times.
MANY friends of education will watch
DEVELOPMENTS of Gov. Murray's plan
for the coordination of institutions OF
higher learning into one greater UNI
versity of Oklahoma, before giving 1t
whole hearted approval. This pro-
gram contemplateS coordination OF
sectarian schools as well as OF the tax
supported institutions. A part OF the
tentative program is the establishment
of a foundation from which all schools
would benefit. One chancellor and
board of regents would have authority
over certain features of curricula and
educational standards, but it is the pur-
pose of the plan that the independence
of the participating schools shall not
be abridged except in provisions de-
manding a standard Of education that
will strengthen the prestige of such a
greater university. Some OF the ideas
involved are in operation in European
universities. and the University of To-
ronto. perhaps, bears closest reseni-
blance to the super-university planned
for Oklahoma.
Sponsors of the change feel 1t can
be inaugurated without additional cost
of any consequence, although oppo-
nents of the plan see 1t as an enter
ing wedge for struggling private and
sectar1an schools to secure some meas
ure of public support No such support
is provided in the bill that now fosters
the program, however, and those who
fear it is an effort to strengthen
church influence in State schools ad-
nit there is no more than a shadowy
basis for their misgivings. There are
constitutional safeguards against any
union of church and State, and this Is
no effort to nullify basic law.
The plan would be more impressive
if it contemplated more consolidation,
along with the coordination; certainly
more appealing from an economic
standpoint But, even with this law.
the plan is still in a somewhat nebu-
lous state, and only results will accu-
rately gauge its worth or weakness. 1t
is a change of policy that has posi-
bilities of improvement. That may be
faint praise. but, now that the move
ment is legally launched. 1t becomes
the concern of all who are interested
in education. deserves their interest and
their best efforts to make 1t notable
as well as change. A
new co-ordinating group is to be Sc
lected. and care should be exercised in
an effort to include the ablest pro-
gressive educators Of the State.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Hez Draws q Line.

Hez Draws q Line.
Il won't keep cheerin' all the time, -
Said Hezekiah Bings.
Il won't say everything's sublime
That some one says or sings,
So many arguments disclose
A superabundant shout.
Just what he's talkin' bout.
My generous mood I'm goin' to drop
And give myself guess,
I'll take little time to stop
And think before I yes"
I'll bark to reason or to rhyme
That patient study brings
And not keep cheerin' all the time
Said Hezekiah Bings
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Humor i'm Rivera's Red Art
Features Public Comment

deserved only to be summarily sup
pressed" says the Port Huron Times
Herald, while the New York Sun ana
lyzes the situation with the statement:
"It no more belongs in public build
ing in the center of Manhattan than q
panel with Mark Hanna benevolently
Joining the hands of capital and labor
would befit the walls of the Kremlin.
If the sincere and industrious Vladimir
Ilyich were stiQ in the flesh this attempt
of his Mexican admirer to immortalize
him on the battlements of capitalism
would bring a smile from his grim
lips"
Neither side" advises the Baltimore
Sun, has any need to get excited. The
way is still open for Rivera to sell his
painting elsewhere and the way is still
open for the Rockefeller Center to get
an artist to its own liking to do the
projected frescoes."
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Theodore F. Shuey.

So much an institution that his
friends considered him an almost pei
manent fixture in the Senate chamber,
Theodore F. Shuey nevertheless was
distinct personality, richly endowed with
his own peculiar qualities of unpre-
tending integrity and dignity. He was
quiet man, self-possessed, at once
proper trifle remote and detached, but
always generously helpful. AS an oficial
reporter Of debate, he was a shadow Of
the craftsmanship of the Upper House
Evening star., 1933-05-20

Co. bulletin reports a prize contest for
librarians on the question, Name in the
order of your preference 20 living au-
thors whose biographies you would in
clude in a supplement to Living
Authors Ca valuable reference book,
by the way. Pearl Buck took first
place by substantial margin, with 164
votes The next three we're Stuart
Chase, with 116; James Truelow Adams,
with l08, and Charles Morgan, author
Of THE Fountain" with l02.
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Reaching a Solution.

How are you doing your part toward
solving the economic problems before
us?"
"By patient and careful calculation, y
answered Senator Sorghum. Il don't
undertake to announce every answer
offhand. I don't assume to be light
ming calculator"
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Reporting Progress.

So here we are! Though distant still
From wishes we would fain fulfill.
And yet we find on glancing back
We've made some progress on the track
That marks the course we must pursue
To leave the false and reach the true.
At least we've got from there TO here.
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statesmen into the grocery refrigerator
escaped with only s136. They con-
siderately left the refrigerator door un-
locked, thus avoiding new and pain
full problem in frozen assets.
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A sales tax is favored by organized
labor along with an increased income
tax. The idea, assuming ability to pay,
simplifies the situation. With enough
different kinds Of taxes, any deficit may
be met.
Evening star., 1933-05-20

Jud Tunkins says before another
campaign arrives he hopes, in order to
keep peace in the family, they'll have
two radios in every home, one Demo-
cratic and the other Republican.
Evening star., 1933-05-20

The recent remarks Of Hitler develop
a line Of comment which would have
been even more valuable II he had
thought of it earlier.
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A Broken Precedent.

From the Omaha Evening World Herald.
One of Omaha's new commissioners
skaters precedent by getting his pic
ture In the papers holding Q baby-after
election. y
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The Perennial Kick.

From the Dayton Daily News
It's contrary old world and when
times do get back to the boom stage
you'll hear the same old kicks about the
long freight trains tying up the street
cars.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
Discrimination.

From the Pasadena Post.
A woman talked from the congress
sional gallery and they put her out
Nothing was done to the man on the
floor. He went right on talking.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
An Alternative.

From the indianapolis News
Instead Of placing one-third of the
American Nays ships In the reserve
as an economy measure, the Navy might
go on a 30-hour week.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
Harvard's New Prexy.

From the indianapolis News.
Harvard University's new president is
chemist, which may mean that some
attention will be given to the possibil-
ties of synthetic endowment fund.
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Back to the Dark Ages.

From the Boston Transcript.
Perhaps the burning of pernicious
books by the Germans means simply
that they have hankering to restora
the good old times of eve centuries ago.
Evening star., 1933-05-20

Weapon carrying is proving a hard
practice to supervise, not only in COM
munities. but also among nations.
Evening star., 1933-05-20

As an economist Charles E. Mitchell
is charged with going little too far
in trying to save the expense of book
keeping.
Evening star., 1933-05-20

The season for straw hats arrived
without seriously clashing with the de-
mand for umbrellas and overshoes.
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M.mber Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entltheo
"a re use for republication Of all news DIS
matches credited to II or not otherwise cree
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Evening star., 1933-05-20
Debate Renewed.

The frogs are calling once again.
It sounds Just like the old refrain
That frogs have sung In days Of yore--
Even for centuries before.
The big frog tells each little one
Another season has begun.
Thus they assemble every year
And try to make their problems clear
"I once knew a p1itical gemman,
said Uncle Eben, dat started by tryin'
to set everybody right an finished by
goin' wrong hisse6."
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Religion Stressed
TO Combat Nati0nalism.

Egyptian Gazette. Alexandria.-We
have in The Religious Foundations of
Internationalism, q Study of Interna-
tional Relationships Through the Ages"
the English version of the first course
OF lectures delivered by Norman Bent
wich in Jerusalem as the Weizmann
professor OF international law in the
University of Palestine. 1t Is peculiarly
fitting that these discourses should have
been given In Jerusalem--that Is, In the
ancient Uru Salim-the City Of Peace"
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Sometimes" said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown,s civilization ceases to
march onward, but dances in careless
gayety; moving backward or forward
caring not whose toes may be trodden
on and eventually getting nowhere"
Evening star., 1933-05-20
Spelling Reform.

"Are you in favor OF spelling reform?"
''In some degree" answered Miss
Cayenne. Il am still an advocate of
politeness in print. There are some
words which should never be spelled
at ah"
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talk, but he knows his subject matter,
which is so full of color and action
that imagination is hardly needed.
SHORT STORY HITS: 1882. An In
terpretative Anthology Ed. by
Thomas H Uzzell. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
The arrangement of the stories in this
anthology, by former editor of Golfers
Weekly and the author of Narrative
Technique" is somewhat unusual. Mr..
UzZell does not group the stories accord
ing to type. as mystery, love, western,
sugary-sweet, adventure. problem, etc.
but according to the type OF magazine
in which they appeared. So there are
three parts: All-fiction magazines, big
circulation magazines and literary mag
azines. This is practical classifica-
ton; reader can tell Immediately in
which group he will be most likely to
find something to suit his taste. In the
first group are such stories as With the
Night Mail" by Leland Jameson, and
Dragon Smoke" by James w. Bennett.
The second group contains "Honesty's
Policy" by Faith Baldwin, and big
Girl" by Katharine Brush. In the third
group are "A Sick Call" by Morley
Callaghan; ITO the Pure" by Kay
Boyle, and Silent Snow, Secret Snow"
by Conrad Aiken. Mr.. UZzell's critical
comments in his foreward and in his
long appendix contain his principles OF
selection. He also gives in the appendix
suggestions for students of the short
story, presumably those who study In
order to write, and technical analysis
of each story included in the volume.
supplementary list of other stories, from
the three magazine groups, and list OF
the magazines used in his fiction survey
are supplied after the foreword. Fifty
seven magazines we're consulted.
A recent issue Of the H. w. Wilson
Evening star., 1933-05-20

A recent issue Of the H. W. Wilson