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Evening star., 1933-08-26
High Lights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

balance maintained by any appreciable
influx from other sectors.
Within the past decade, however. It
Is likely that much more practical at
tentlon has been given this sorrowful
spectacle, which has persisted despite
the advances in sanitation and medi-
cal science. There is one feature, un-
fortunately which cannot be much i'm
proved or even changed. and that is
the climate. There is prevalent belief
that pepole thrive best in the regions
where they first saw the light. but It
must be remembered that a consider
able part Of our population are not of
the aboriginal or indigenous strain. Not
much more than third may be said
to be OF prehistoric native stock: how
ever, their offspring seem not much
more immune to the infantile maladies
which have demanded such terrible tolls
among those of Spanish and other in
trinsically foreign strains.
For one thing. the children of no
class can be said to be rightly nour-
1shed. There is a dreadful paucity of
milk, the natural food of children, and
OF good milk there is scarcely any.
Mothers of the poorer classes work
hard. and have themselves insufficient
and improper food In multitudes of
cases they are unable to nourish their
infants through the first critical months
Of their lives. For artificial feeding
there is available in a majority of homes
milk not only unpaSteuriZed, but too
often adulterated. Small wonder that
the little ones cannot long contend
against such odds The cure for all
these evils is constantly being sought.
and will eventually be found In the
meantime, a new method has been sug-
gested by sociologists, and even by ply
sicians, for combating directly infan-
tile mortality. This cult argues that
no babies should be born! Instead of
many dying, none should live at all.
What paradox of purpose!
Evening star., 1933-08-26
SHOOTING STARS.
Hy PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Inevitable Emergency

Inevitable Emergency.
We've got to step out and be doing again
To clear out the wreckage about us,
Nor waste precious hours as we pause
to complain
OF the way in which Fortune may
f1out US.
There's no use OF seeking a foeman to
chide
We must struggle and all get together
There's a general call that cannot be
denied
When there's no one to blame but
the weather.
1t is something worthwhile to discover
at times
How the meeting of strength with
endeavor
Await through the earth with its vari-
GUS climes.
AS it has done and will do forever
When emotions are threatening tempest
anew
We don't inquire "wherefore?" or
Whether"
We must offer our aid just the same
as we do
When there's no one to blame but
the weather.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Closed Shop or ''Open"?
From the Milwaukee Journal

From the Milwaukee Journal.
The question of labor organization
looms larger and larger in shaping the
industrial codes. 1t is reaching its
peak in the problems involving the
open shop policy of the automobile
factories and the company union"
plan of the steel trade.
So far as national policy is con-
cerred that is set forth in the law.
Section z of the industrial recovery act
specifies as one of the conditions for
the formation Of code:
"1) That employees shall have the
right to organize and bargain collec-
lively through representatives of their
own choosing, and shall be free from
of employers of labor, or their agents,
in the designation of such representa-
tives. or In self-organization, or in other
concerted activities for the purpose of
collective bargaining or other mutual
aid or protection; (2) that no en-
ploye and no one seeking employment
shall be required as condition of en-
ployment to join any company union
or to refrain from joining, organizing,
or assisting a labor organization OF
his own choosing ="
p That is both clear and conprehen-
sive. 1t is law, with a stiff penalty
for violation. But there has remained
for National Recovery Administration
the question of interpreting it as to
trends. Is it merely protective clause,
or is it policy on that point, and
we think rightly, in these words:
1T has been repeatedly said that 1t
is not the function of N. r. A. to or
ganize either industry or labor. To OBJ
tain the benefits of this act it is not
necessary for workers to join either
company unions or any particular Ia
borS unions"
In other words, the administration
is concerned with Unemployment, hours
and wages. 1t need not be concerned
with promoting organization. except
that 1t must preserve the principle OF
collective bargaining.
Evening star., 1933-08-26

in the Fulton street fish market. had
little formal education, dragged himself
up by his own bootstraps to an emf
nence recognized only q few weeks ago
by an honorary degree from the Ma
TONS oldest institution Of higher learn
ing. A hostile environment did not de-
stroy his character, did not embitter
him against the human race. did not
make him a cheat, a thief or muir
derer. Mr.. Shepherds friend Miller ex-
aggerates. In effect, he libels large
proportion of American youth.
And Mr.. Shepherd himself makes the
mistake of getting so close to the woods
that he cannot see the trees. No one
seriously doubts the secondary effect OF
environmental influences. They are
operative. and it would be folly to neg
lect them. But turnip does not be-
come an orchid simply by being
exhibited in florists window. The
law of heredity also is a functioning
principle in city life Men and women
come into the world with an innate
strength, an inborn robustness of ethi-
cal health, and, though they perforce
may reside in the sin-infested pur-
lieus of great metropolis, they do not
seek to initiate AL Capone or Legs
Diamond. Crime is not so attractive
as it occasionally has been made to
seem. 1t is a dangerous sport, and
rational people do not love peril for its
own sake. Furthermore, it is ugly;
and sensible people eschew its brutality
cruelty and sordid meanness.
Mr.. Shepherd would have his readers
believe that .yangsters are heroes to
the average slum-dwelling boy. The
notion may be challenged without hesi-
tation. Children are too realistic to be
so deceived. They know that the end
OF the gangster trail is prison or sud-
den extinction. They very properly
have normal fear of both. Easy
wealth and certain hectic theatrical
glamour may be the lot of the pro-
fessional thug, but that type of for
tune does not last. Each days news
papers educate the Nations youth in
the doctrine that crime does not pay
and that is a factor in environment
which Mr.. Shepherd has overlooked.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Recovery Call to the Heart,
From the Detroit News

From the Detroit News.
For O call upon the heart to CO.
operate for recovery under the Blue
Eagle, take the stories OF these two
women Not q penny was left for MES.
Anna Mantyla. 28, and the sheriff put
her out Of her humble home in Elmont.
Long Island. Long out Of work. her
husband had deserted her. She set
forth unto this world Of heartaches, not
knowing where to 60. with her three
little boys in one baby carriage. The
children were 18 months and and
4 years old. Seven miles, past the
homes of millionaireS at Garden City,
she pushed the laden carriage, her feet
bursting from her worn Shoes. Shy
and proud. she would not stop any one
to ask for help. It was when uni
formed doorman at great apartment
hotel suspected her distress and ques-
toned her that she told her plight.
And so, through the police Of Mineola,
her story came out. A haven was
found for her through the Nassau
County Organization for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Children.
News readers will remember another
case; little detail of the Detroit story
needs be repeated here. No money LETT,
nothing for breakfast for her three
babies, except q little jelly the mother
fed them the jelly mixed with insect
poison. In her torture she thought it
best that they die than live In such a
world. Happily, their lives were saved,
for, As the children grew sick, she
could not bear to see them suffer and
she called for help. Cause: the hus-
bands intermittent employment.
Is It said that these moving single
cases are always with us? No; not in
such numbers. for the one cause. Like
stories are being told, let us remember.
in the papers Of the big cities almost
daily. There must be an end of the
conditions that multiply them. Char
ity alone. the so-called relief" can
not do more than soften the hardships
here and there. Appalling facts sum-
mon us to join. as President Roosevelt
asks, in preventing again in this coun-
try another such Winter as last Winter
was.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
No Imitation Planned.

Two comforting assurances came out
of the Presidents conferences yesterday
with Secretary of the Treasury Woodt
and Budget Director Douglas. Secre-
tary Woodin told the newspaper men
! that imitation was not discussed in his
talk with the President over early
Government financing for the public
works program, and the President told
Mr.. Douglas to keep the 1885 budget
estimates to the level of the 1894 ex-
penditures-the expenditures in this
current year.
Thus the good ship of State is seen
steering away. from the treacherous
shoals of initiation and currency de-
basement and charting a safer course
The President is still intent on raising
prices, but his efforts are being directed
toward influencing commodities rather
than cheapening. by direct action to
that end, the currency in which price
Of commodities is measured 1t is true
that the Federal Reserve Board is,
ernment securities, embarking on an
other experiment in credit imitation
The system has increased its purchases
in the last week to $35,OOO 900, as COM
pared with the previous rate Of around
$l0,000000. At one time they reached
$100, 100000 week. The result of this
is that the member banks increase their
reserves, available for commercial
credit. Whether the credit will be used
by commerce and industry is another
thing entirely. So far the experiments
in this direction do not seem to have
been marked with much success. But
this open-market policy, expanding
credit, is not the imitation which re-
suits from issue of fiat money or an
otherwise directly debased currency.
The N. r. A. and the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration are at the
height of their activity, and currency
debasement would serve to wreck both
plans. The Government within the
next six months must obtain something
like two billion dollars to carry forward
the public works program, and currency
debasement would play havoc with that
program. But as assuring as anything
is the word to Mr.. Douglas over the
next fiscal years budget estimates. If
currency debasement is attempted, the
budget will of course be swollen out of
all semblance of parity with current
expenditures. The President is obvi.
ously determined to- keep governmental
expenditures down, as far as ordinary
expenditures are concerned, and such a
policy cannot be pursued along with
currency debasement, which would shoot
Government costs, along with others,
out of sight.
Whether these ordinary costs of gov
ernment can as practical matter be
kept down to the level of 1894, Is an
other question. They have been kept
down in part this fiscal year because
of the aid furnished through the Public
Works Administration, which has ad-
vanced money to Government agencies
stricken by the economy program. But
the effort to keep them down and under
strict control is the important thing,
and this effort will be continued, avoid
ing the delusive and dangerous short
cuts invited by imitation.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Criminals From Environment.

! Does environment make criminals?
The question is raised again by an
article from the pen of William G..
Shepherd IN the current issue OF Col
aier'S. The author, in search OF an
explanation of gangsterism in Chicago,
interviews Davy Miller, an intimate OF
the underworld fringe who has one
brother who has killed policemen and
gone scot free" and another who is
policeman and has shot gangsters. This
"expert" on the subject attempts to
answer the query, How do gangsters
Rrow?" He says:
They can't help growing, the way
things are here in this town or in any
other big town. = 1t isn't in KID
who's born and lives in one OF these
gang districts not to be some sort OF
gangster, if he's lively and lucky
enough. It's about the only thing kid
can get chance to be.
It would be difficult to find rankel
example of sophistry than such ar
opinion. If it were true, it would bt
an indictment of civilization too hor'
rible to present in ordinary language
But of course, it is false. Tens OF thou.
sands of boys grow up in slum environ
ments without running afoul OF the
law, It is a fractional minority of th'
sons of the poor who develop int
enemies of society. The whole histor!
of the United States is chronicle o.
triumph over circumstance. Consider
for a moment the case of Alfred E
Smith, beloved leader of American
democracy; he was born on the Eas
Side of New York, was reared amont
the humble and poverty stricken chill
6ren ot the submerged tenth," worket
Evening star., 1933-08-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL,

Now, II others out In the storm
failed to note this delightful odor, the
fault lay with their noses.
Either their olifactory organs were
not sensitive enough or they were toc
busy looking around them.
To be able to smell fully and to look
completely at one and the same time
is beyond many persons. just as work
ing and greeting friends at the same
time Is cut OF their reach.
Many q perfectly friendly person
earns for himself the name OF an oio
crouch by going on about his work as
II he did not see friend.
The fault Is not his. He sincere
In what he seems to utter, tnat ne
cannot do his work and be frienoiy u
the same time.
Maybe it is too bad that work al
fects anv one so, but that is another
question. There Is always time Tor 9
smile and a word, II one>sees 1t 80, but
All too often the friendliest persons
let their work cause them to be I'M
polite.
Even In this darkness one can see
the yard and what the storm has oone
to its perfect neatness.
Thousands Of leaves are on tne
grass. together with hundreds OF smaA'
branches and scores Of larger ones.
Zinnia plants, just coming into gooo
bloom beneath the trees, are spfa"ieo
PERHAPS they can be pushed back
into the soil in the morning, ana tnesi
stalks held upright with stakes.
Thus they may go along oioomins
as usual. No one who values garden
flowers should permit himself TO pe
nonplussed by plants blown over pS
the wind. II stalks are broken On
sharply. SO that most OF the leaves als
lost, the plant may as well pe aDe,'
doned, but in many cases suano"
rooted plants simply need to be pusheo
back into the soil, the earth nrmeo
around them and artlnclal suppoi'
given If necessary.
Il X 4
In this darkness it is impossible te
see II any Of the trees have been Dam.
aged. sordinarily one might feel tna'
if the trunk is standing, the Tree Is a.
right. but with such storm as thls
there can be no telling until day
break.
Tree trunks often grow at quite an
angle. II Is impossible, in this wlne
and rain still quite violent, although
perceptibly slackened, to fnd ou'
whether the inclination OF this par
ticular trunk is more than 1t was pe'
fore the storm
Light will tell.
The growth of trees, from every
aspect. is one of Natures perpetua
miracles. How t.:ese giants manage
to stand In storms ruzzles the specu,
lative. Especially these shallow rooteo
trees-their roots are not enough te
give them safe anchorage, yet they
commonly grow go to 30 feet high.
Why do they grow SO tall, seeing
that Nature herself has not provided
for their retention?
It is a mystery, indeed. Yet there
they stand, swaying in the high WIND
seemingly as safe as an oak or otnei
deep-rooted variety.
Nature is queer, no doubt OF tnat
especially when in such a mood. Wher
cne contemplates all this fury. ane
realizes that 1t Is not a tenth OF the
possible fury. one wonders how man
kind has managed to stay on the earth
so long.
Nature Is queer. Out Of this wind
this water, this little chaos. she pres.
emily distills the odor OF apples anc
spreads it all around.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
New Encouragement for Geneva.

Great satisfaction is expressed in
Paris over the news that American Am
bassador at Large Davis is returning to
the Geneva conference with instruc-
tions from President Roosevelt to sup
port the French proposal for setting up
a system of armaments control
throughout the world French official
quarters profess to believe that Mr..
Roosevelt's adherence to that plan will
galvanize the disarmament negotiations
with new life at the moment of their
gloomiest aspect, the consequence of
disturbed conditions in Central Europe,
and will actually lead to worthwhile
results
The French scheme for a permanent
commission of supervision Of arma-
ments in all countries, once these are
limited by international agreement,
would supplement the Macdonald plan
to restrict military establishments to
demonstrable defensive necessities on
quota baSis-"police status" in effect
and strip them entirely of weapons
obviously only of offensive value, such
as tanks, long-range artillery, bombing
planes and poison gas. With the Brit
ish thesis Mr. Roosevelt has also ex-
pressed his agreement
1t remains to be seen whether the
additional manifestation of the United
States desire to cooperate in promot
ing disarmament will be any more
fruitful than President Roosevelts con-
sultative pact gesture made at Geneva
through Mr.. Davis last Spring. That
offer-to sit in with other powers, when
peace is threatened, and take part in
the determination Of the aggressor-
did not turn Europe, notably the
French, dizzy with enthusiasm because
it carried rider that such consulta-
tion would in no respect commit this
country to join in subsequent wariike
measures against the aggressor, beyond
a possible economic boycott. AS Frank
H. Simonds never ceases to point out
in his penetrating reviews of European
World powers really want from Uncle
Sam is not mere talk when war clouds
gather lover there" but what they got
from him in 7-18-namely, armed
assistance without stint That. Mr..
Roosevelt has left Europe in no doubt,
is something on which it would be very
foolish to count.
Mr.. Davis told the President at Hyde
Park this week that the outlook for
agreement at Geneva, despite current
storm signals, is far from hopeless. Our
rowing Ambassador remains persuaded
that enlightened self-interest impelled
by the crushing economic burdens of
swollen military establishments, Is driv-
ing Europe toward disarmament faster
than she may realize. He may be de-
pended upon to exploit to the limit the
new instructions he carries, in order to
hasten results hitherto lamentabN con-
Spicuous by their absence.
From this remote point of observa-
tion, Nazi Germany would seem to hold
the key to the situation. AS long as
the Hitler government keeps Europe on
tenterhooks by menacing the inde
bendence of Austria, demanding arms
equality and clustering, on all possible
occasions, that destruction of the
treaties of Versailles and st. German
is the Nazis' unalterable program, Ger
tnany's neighbors are extremely unlike
iy to let their powder go damp or their
bayonets rust.
Evening star., 1933-08-26

A scent like that Of apples filled the
darkened air.
Never had suburbia bsen 30 dark.
indeed.
The great storm, in addition to strip
ping the trees Of thousands Of their
leaves, had deprived the community OF
electricity.
Hundreds Of refrigerators stopped in
their tracks.
Lights never came on at all that
night.
And through all the streets and over
all the lawns hung the blessed odor
Of apple blossoms.
Just what aspect Of the storm Gre
ated that illusion was impossible TO
say. but every one abroad that evening
noticed It.
probably 1t came from the hundreds
Of leaves lying everywhere, blown ana
plastered to the side Of houses. cover
ing the walks
Entire branches Of trees. notably
from the locusts, lay across drive
ways.
The combined wind and rain had
washed every particle Of dust. II there
had been any, out Of the air.
The fresh odor-scent Of memory
might have resulted from some Quirk
of minute elemental changes IN the
very composition Of the air itself.
Stranger things have happened.
As darkness came on-and 1t was
really dark this night, because there
were no lights at all-the wind dlnln-
ished perceptibly.
Home barometers stood at the lowest
point on the dial in years.
Cautious pedestrians VINO went
forth. after noting this fact, kept
wary lookout for possible 1ailns
branches.
It is no fun to be hit ON the head
by a branch, even OF the most slehoef
proportions.
And. besides cne wanted to keep
intact some of the sense of fear which
God gave His creatures, but when
civilization has tended to breed out OF
mankind In urban communities.
Thousands of persons, one knew
were calling the light company to ask
when will the lights be on again
when the company itself didn't know:
Snugly housed, human beings tended
to forget the power of Nature on a
rampage. =.
out here in the dark. however, 1t
was easy enough to remember 1t.
Every now and then q gust OF vino
would roar through the trees as II
bent on wrecking every one OF them.
4
This was real darkness.
Only an occasional glimmer OF nght
showed in some home where an am
bilious soul had lighted candles.
The street lights, few and far be
tween at their best, were completely
out.
Even the sky was dark. except tnat
portion Immediately overhead, which
was light only in comparison with the
rest
Thick shadowy shapes were houses
or trees. the latter bending and sway
ing wildly at their tops as If about 70
come down.
The Normandy poplars did the most
swaying. Their tops bent over so lar
that If one had net been acquainted
with the trees he would have thought
their downfall imminent.
As it was the morning was TO snow
distinct list to the southeast,
whether permanent or not only the
succeeding days could tell.
over all was the scent Of apples.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Kidnapers Feel Heavy Hand
AS Federal Power Is Shown

this record has been piled up since
the Federal authorities came into the
picture on a cooperative basis points
plainly to the chief factor in its max
ing. As Joseph B. Keenan,, assistant
to Attorney General Cummings in
charge OF this type Of Department OF
Justice activity. announced fortnight
ago. the Federal agents are instructed
to get their man or men-and some
women have been got as well-first,
and leave the question to be determined
later whether the case Is one for the
Federal courts under the Lndbergh
law or for the State courts under their
statutes respecting kidnapping. That is
cooperation on the right basis, and the
results speak for themselves"
Evening star., 1933-08-26

It needed only an ocean storm to send
The Atlantic Coast resort season as lar
from bad to worse as possible. The
Summer of '33 will be remembered as
the year when everybody was hopeful
for the best on the theory that no one
can go on forever getting the worst
of it.
Evening star., 1933-08-26

Thrifty and highly intelligent In
dams who are prominent in the Ma
tion's citizenship could not be blamed
If they were to suggest that the North
American continent might be better
off if the Europeans had remained at
home and allowed 1t to be run by the
original population.
Evening star., 1933-08-26

The public is patient with conditions
which are being dealt with energetically
and sincerely. The assuranceSof po-
lice officials that crime is not a neces-
sary evil promises a welcome relaxation
Of patience long tried A law-abiding
citizenship ilas another opportunity to
say I'VE do our part"
Evening star., 1933-08-26

The farmer, once represented as a
patient victim, has been aroused to
indignant inquiry as to whether those
old gold brick and bunco transactions
have not been developed on too large
scale.
Evening star., 1933-08-26

insult is wanted in Chicago. He
might execute stroke of thrift by ap-
pearing for afew weeks at high salary
as a reminder of one or two features
a century of progress. could have done
without.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Forfeited.

From the Rochester TImes-Union.
News comes Of Western man, wait
ing in Jail for sentence to be pro-
nounced, who used the time In writing
q poem Of 1000 lines. thus forfeiting
all claim for reduction Of sentence be-
cause of good behavior.