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Evening star., 1933-11-28
Germany's Church War.

According TO Berlin dispatch to the
Associated Press, "the world may soon
forget Germanys withdrawal from the
League of Nations and the arms parley,
her attitude on the Jews and her con-
centration camps, as 1t becomes fasci-
mated by the gigantic attempt of Hitler
to make even religion Subservient to
Nazi totalitarian claims"
Circumstantial evidence of this ven-
tlre is forthcoming this week, which
finds secession from the NaZi German
Christian" Church rampant on a wide
scale, with corresponding schism In
the Protestant cult. The German Chris
tian movement was organized by the
Nazi leaders last Summer after bitter
struggle with Protestant fundanentalists,
led by former Reichbishop Friedrich Won
Bodelschwingh. In his stead Chancellor
Hitler's supporters placed Dr. Ludwig
Mueller, who subscribes unreservedly to
the doctrine of church under the gov
ernment yoke. Together with Hitler"
Bishop Mueller declared ON Sunday, I'VE
will build new German church." To
what extent passions are already
aroused Is discernible from Bishop
Mueller's charge that opponents of the
Nazi Christian movement are criminals
against the unity Of the German ma
ton"
"If Adolf Hitler could have his way"
the Associated Press reports, "he would
consolidate all Germans, Catholic and
Protestant, in one Christian faith. Just
as he has united them pol. r. Il
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Wallace Speeches in West
Open New Farm.Aid Debate

eral program of resettlement would be
attended with huge difficulties. A uni
fled land policy on the part of the Fed
eral Government would be good step
to begin with. Further than that land
control is likely to meet with over
whelming opposition on the part of the
people who would be most benfted
by such plan"
THE Secretary is trying to translate
the administration visions into real
tiles" says the indianapolis News,
adding that the outcome of the plan
may not be clear yet, but 1t has con-
trlbuted much to true understanding
of the cause" The News also remarks
that tariff advocates have for years
sought to build up the home farm
market. but the new plan goes farther,
and asks the farmer to cut production,
not because he cannot sell his surplus,
but deliberately in order to create a
high price" The Hartford Times. how
ever, advises that nothing is gained
by telling the farmer that he can be
helped by letting in a flood of foreign
goods" The Haverhill Gazette takes
up the proposal by the Secretary that
lone course be adopted and adhered
to for period longer than the average
life Of an administration" and replies
that this comes near to urging the i'm
possible" The Goshen Daily News
Times offers the criticism: Tariffs
aimed at foreign importations are some
thing which cannot be blamed on Mr..
Wallace. II he had his way, so he
says. they would be done away with.
But Mr.. Wallace's own gricultural pro-
gram is nothing less than an intensi-
fled tariff policy. The processing taxes,
the destruction Of growing crops, the
reduction in acreage are all artificial
measures designed to raise the price of
farm products, just as the tariff is de-
signed to raise the domestic price OF
both farm and industrial products"
Evening star., 1933-11-28
The Tariff Truce.
From the New York Times

rTOm tne NeW 1Ork IlmeS.
Great Britain's withdrawal from thu
international tariff truce is largely SEN
timental in significance. At no time
since it was first proposed by the Amer
ican Government, on the eve of the
London conference, has the truce been
genuinely effective. Sxty-one nations
agreed to it, pledging themselves not to
adopt "any new initiatives" which would
create further obstacles to trade. But
they retained full liberty of action to
perfect such controls as were already
in existence. How little the truce meant
in these circumstances, Is suggested by
the fact that the United States, despite
its authorship of the plan, is entirely
free to levy additional duties or put
quotas" on foreign goods, If they are
needed to protect the domestic codes
established under the N. T.. A. 1t was
the d0-nOthing nature OF the truce
which persuaded the Netherlands to
renounce it in September. Other coun-
tries, including France and Sweden. fol-
lowed suit. The action Of the British
government means q further loss OF
prestige for it.
That 1893 has been a bad year for
international collaboration is apparent
from the record. The tariff truce has
disappointed those who saw in it the
promise OF a real armiStice in the I'M
rcmitting war which the nations of the
world still wage on one anothers COM
merce The World Economic Confer
ence was fiat failure. Little more
can be said thus far for the Geneva
Conference on ornaments. Both Ger
many and Japan, pursuing separatist
policies, have announced their inten-
ton to withdraw from the League Of
Nations. The elaborate Washington
conversations of last Spring seem now
in retrospect to have confused the sit
uation they were meant to simplify.
Public opinion In both creditor and
debtor countries still blocks rational
discussion of the war debts. The new
deal in American tariff policy. so en-
Enthusiastically promised by the Demo-
cratic party, is conspicuous for its alb
sence. Originally critical of the Re-
publican dogma of economic isolation.
q new Government in the United
States Is experimenting with the doc
trine of economic intranationalism.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Surplus Cats and Baskets
Deserve Consideration

To the Editor OF The Star:
This business of our paternalistic
and generous Uncle Samuel buying UP
the piggies and sows from the farmers
is liable to bring about serious compli-
cations and charges of class discrimina-
colored woman in Washington who
makes a business OF raising cats for
sale. Just the common, back-fence
breed OF cats, which she sells as
salaries the Government employees are
eating up their food so closely these
days that no scraps are left lying
around. Consequently the mice have
been eliminated by a process of slow
starvation. This has caused a serious
situation in the business of the cat
raising woman. In fact. her business
is about to go into the red. She has a
house full of cats and unless she can
get Government relief soon she very
much fears that cat cannibalism is
going to be the result. She naturally
feels that the taxpayers would not OBJ
ject to the Government buying her
surplus cats. She contends that there
must be many others throughout the
country in her predicament. Her idea
is that the Government can give the
cat skins to everybody who is suffer-
ing with cold feet these hectic days.
Her only fear is that there may not
be l2O,0O0,00O skins. The cat meat
could. of course, be turned into more
"bologny.'
The mountaineers down near Luray
who make baskets for sale are also
complaining. Nowadays nobody has
anything to carry in basket. This
leaves these basket makers with lot
of baskets on hand. They want the
Government to buy these baskets. The
only difficulty is they don't know what
the Government could do with them.
That's easy. They would make swell
waste baskets and therefore excellent
receptacles for the 10000 plans orig
mated by the brain trust" for speedy
economic recovery.
Right at the present time I can think
of no other industries that need gov
ernmental aid unless it Is the manu-
facturers of women's bustles or the
poor buggy whip makers. Probably we
shall hear from them later on. Give
them time. S. H. MUMFORD.
Evening star., 1933-11-28

is an open secret that Reichsbishop Won
the gap between Catholicism and Pro-
testantism. So certain was he of Sue
cess that he advised Chancellor Hitler.
Roman Catholic. to join the National
Evangelical Church. 1t was thought
that the magnetism of Hitler's per-
sonality would sweep even the Catholics
of their feet and carry them into the
one united German church.
The Nazis tried to carry out this idea
by holding union services. but the Cath
| olic Church vehementsf Sbjected.
Despite Catholic opposition, Herr Hit
Ter has not given up the plans he and
the Nazi reichsbshop cherish. To a
recent delegation Of Catholic clergymen
the chancellor is reported to have full
minated: "If Rome wants 'Kultur-
kampf,' am ready for it,"
"Kulturkampf" is the name by which
Bismarck's historic struggle with the
Vatican is known. The Iron Chancellor
sought to control German Catholic edu-
, cational aid ecclesiastical appointments
in the interest of political Capitalization
He enforced his program in 1873. but
papal opposition was unceasing, and by
1887 Bismarck had assented to new laws
which virtually conceded the Catholic
viewpoint
Today the "Kulturkampf" is directed
not at Catholics but at rebellious Prot
! e~,...its. 1t Is q struggle for supremacy
! between NaA Protestants in official
favor as German Christians" and
ProteStants who object to state control
of religion. The Associated Press ac-
count of the feud points out that revolts
are either threatening or already in
progress from three sides: % Disunion
among the German Christians them
selves, as regards both policy and dog
ma; CD determination by non-Nazi
Protestants TO resist the claims Of the
German Christians; and CD a new Nazi
movement which decries Christianity as
noE- German and favOrs instead Ger
manic cult" which is gaining ground
steadily
Plainly there are the seeds of grim
conflict in this many -pronged strife. 1t
involves thirty-five million Protestants
If the non-Nazis among them join
hands with Germanys twenty-five mil
lion Roman Catholics in common
front against religious RECOMMENDATION.
Chancellor Hitler, miracle man though
he has proved himself as a welder of
political forces. may find that he has
essayed task beyond even his amazing
powers in attempting to Nazify the
church.
Evening star., 1933-11-28

But in common with many less gifted
people, he has no patent remedy to
apply. The ancient axiom, the devil
will find work for idle hands" he knows
is predicated upon truth. The diff
Guilty is that of persuading people to
spend their leisure conStructively. 1t
cannot be denied that they do spend
it-some. unquestionably, like to idle:
others, just as surely, want 10 be en-
tertained Few, it is agreed, want to
labor at fun. Like the monarch who
necessarily wished to be amused. the
vast majority of people would far rather
relax than put themselves to any effort.
But that does not mean that 1t Is
hopeless to try to interest men and
women, boys and girls in pastimes and
hobbies which require physical and
mental exercise. The multitudes are
not Stolidly unresponsive. All that Is
needed is the stimulation Of the initial
impulse. For example, no one can
doubt that the boys CLUBS now pro-
posed for Washington would be used il
they were built. 1t is as certain as
anything can be that their facilities
will be taxed to the utmost. The same
principle applies in the instance OF
public Fairgrounds, community centers
and Libraries. They are used abun-
dainty enough to satisfy any doubter.
The problem, then, may not be SO
hard to solve as it may seem. Let
State and municipal authorities make
available every conceivable device for
the socialization of leisure which ex-
perience has shown to be popular, and
the people will respond to the oppor-
tunities they afford. The alternative Is
to spend increasing millions on prisons
and penitentiaries.
Evening star., 1933-11-28

All bird lovers. however. are the
benf1ciaries of It.
Did any one think that to be a bene-
ficiary necessarily involved money?
| Or that gold in some way must be
tied up with gift?
Every man. woman or child who ap.
preciates the beautiful cardinal, the
proud blue jay, the happy goldfnches
or the lovely small tuncos. and ever
the Jaunty arrogance of the starlings,
Is beneficiary as sure as any.
| 4 n 4
We often have wondered If the
Startling problem, for instance could
not be attacked from q new angle.
II there were plenty to eat in Rock
Greek Park, for instance, we cannot
imagine the startling choosing to remain
downtown, where they are not exactly
wanted
II food to their liking were provided
in liberal quantities in Rock Greek
Park these birds would go there and
stay there. without hurt to anything
Only good, indeed, would come of them
Forest preserves are never injured by
| birds Of any sort. Nature takes care OF
| everything. Those factors which seem
SO inimical in the confines OF stone and
concrete are Supremely natural and
wholesome amid trees and shrubs The
! good earth, which produces all. accepts
all without angry cry or reproach.
! This Is that mill Of the gods, which
according to tradition. grinds slow, but
"grinds exceeding fine"
| 4
| Whether city. or country. or suburbs
in between. there Is no place but knows
few birds.
| II one has the plain, common sense
shall we say, to look for entertainment
from these capable players, he will
never want for pleasure during his
spare hours.
Such songs as these small musicians
make! Such mimic battles as they
hight! Such incompatible pictures OF
domesticity!
When human being learns to sing
as well as a bird can, he is made over
and praised, and often manages to be-
come wealthy as the result of his gifts
| But the birds have been able to sing
as well and better since the dawn of
creation.
Men who, after thousands of years of
predecessors, invented machines to imi-
tate bird flight, are among the heroes
of humanity
But any sparrow can do a better
! job.
Every one has seen the downtown
sparrows.
Not every one has watched them care
lully. Every one who has had the time
to do so land what a real privilege it
Is to have time to do what one wants
10 DOB knows their marvellous ability
at eluding automobiles.
Inc most starved, scrawny speci-
mems can fly directly into the path of
car. and remain on the concrete until
the tire almost touches them. before
ny1ng upward to safety
These much abused birds show a
contempt for automobilists which is
accounted for only by their powerful
wing muscles and their instructive
ability at great outdoor sport.
II to marvel is necessary, in such a
world as this. to keep alive the spiri.
/ OF wonder and worship. one might as
well begin with birds, nor wait to be
astounded with some made marvel
which Is. after all. thousands of wears
behind time in the eternal procession.
II We cannot see and appreciate the
thlngs that cost nothing. we are Door.
lnoeeo, as our correspondent says. The
fortunate thing is that, in this respect,
there are a great many more wealthy
men and women than the banks know
anything about.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

1--WE must all sacrifice things that
cost money these days.
IF We cannot see and appreciate the
things that cost nothing, we are poor
indeed"
So ends a letter which this column
has received from former Washington
ian now living in the South.
The tone of it is SO wholesome that
We are glad to reproduce part OF
1t here, for the benefit of all persons
of like mind.
MY father left me wonderful heri-
tage. I think" says the writer.
He was not wealthy and his estate
was practically nothing when he died
but all during my early years at home
he taught me to see and appreciate
the humble things in life-Nature,
books, friends and simple home life that
did not include much financial outlay.
"Often ON a Summers morning he
and l would get up at dawn and take
long walk through the fields and
woods in the country.
He would study the birds and their
songs. for that was his chief interest
and I would explore the tiny streams
and gather the ferns and flowers from
their banks
L have always loved reading.
Il remember so well getting through
a huge edition of Victor Hugo's Les
Miserables' during long illness that
kept me In bed several months. ]
did not read every word Of the novel,
for some of the chapters. especially ones
in which Hugo spoke on French slang
and its origin. were too much to under
stand. but l did read enough to become
thoroughly acquainted with his inter
esting characters and to learn great
deal OF the gamin Of Paris.
Il
''We made our own pleasure at home
I'VE could not afford expensive
games, but We always had our evening
around the dining room table Saturday
night after dinner, with the children
and my father and mother all together
Mother made little fudge, or else
would buy about 10 cents worth of
chocolate candies. and while We played
writing and guessing games or some
simple card games we passed around
the candy.
mo gathering of young folks at ex-
pensive cafe and dance, slipping their
liquor and eating all sorts Of expensive
stuff, could possibly find a greater thrill
than We children did during these home
gatherings together.
Father taught me that we must
make our own happiness in life, that 1t
did not come wholly from without.
He always felt that If one could not
be content with simple things. he would
not long be satisfied with anything else
that might come his way later.
1T has been a wonderful philosophy
to hold before me during the depression.
We must all sacrifice things that cost
money these days. II We cannot see
and appreciate the things that cost
nothing. we are poor. indeed"
There are then. great many mental
paupers in the world.
There are. too, on the other hand,
great many mental millionaires
Those who love the birds, for in
stance. have at hand at all seasons and
in all weathers, material for happy OBJ
Servation.
They possess a pageant whose tiny
actors come and go. making great
speeches" and uttering their songs"
at intervals.
The background of this mighty drama
is that strange thing, migration. studied
for years by scientists with little
progress.
Migration still remains a mystery
Evening star., 1933-11-28
High Lights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

decent cooperation between employer
and employe, giving lead to private
enterprise in the country.
Two Leaders Praised
For Changing Minds.
Irish Independent. Dublin-At Wa
terford. alderman Corish, mayor of
Wexford, said he was now disillu-
stoned by protection" On the same
occasion the lord mayor of Cork, Al
derman French. spoke in the highest
praise of the city managerial system.
of which. he admitted, he was one of
the greatest opponents in the Dali.
These public men have both set an
excellent headline. All too rarely do
politicians frankly admit that expert
ence has taught them to modify earlier
opinions. In this country, in the name
of consistency, We are far too stubborn
in cl1nging to theories and policies
which time has exploded. 1t would
be a good thing If public men were
more ready to confess their errors of
judgment.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
California and Maryland Lynchings

Horrible though the murueI VI hiu-
naped man in California was, the
lynching of the slayers by MOB at
San Jose. with the benediction OF the
Governor of the State, was even more
shocking, more dangerous to the pubic
security. Mob justice can be tolerated
and condoned in any degree only when
there is justifiable fear that the law
will be defeated by delay and oostruc-
ton. In the California case there
was no ground for such fear. The case
against the accused men was as per-
feet as possible. They had confessed
the body OF their victim had been
found and there was no reason what
ever to expect an escape from convic-
tion and penalty. In mad moment
mob formed, the Jail was stormed and
the accused were taken and lynched,
in the presence Of a multitude, in
Guiding women and children, who
cheered the lynchers. Immediately the
Governor Of the State, in what was
virtually an official proclamation,
pledged that the perpetrators of this
outrage would not be punished and
that he would pardon any who might
be arrested for completely IN the lynch
ing
While this was happening the Gov
ernOr Of Maryland set about to assure
the arrest Of a group of men who had
been identified as the lynchers of a
man accused of an atrocious crime
and of whose orderly trial, conviction
and legal punishment there was no
doubt. To do this required courage
for 1t ran counter to a strong local
sentiment in the area of the crimes
the original one and the later breach
of the law involved In the lynching.
That there is too much delay in the
trial of persons accused Of crime is gen.
orally recognized. There was no sug-
gestion. however. that justice would be
defeated, or its execution unduly de-
layed in California The legal case
against the accused had only just been
established definitely with the discovery
OF the body of the victim when the mob
formed and stormed the jail and
wreaked vengeance. All the due proc
esses OF the law were swept aside.
In some degree the Maryland case dif-
fered from that in California. There
had been delay in Maryland, in some
measure due to the fear that a legal,
orderly trial could not be had in the
region of the crime. AS between the
two cases, there was more justification
for mob vengeance-if there Is ever
justification for tin Maryland than
in California. Yet the Governor Of the
latter State proclaims the deed as
righteous, while the Governor of Mary
land insists upon the prosecution OF
those guilty of taking the law into
their own hands.
These two instances may bring about
a sober consideration of the evil and
the danger of lynching in this country.
II this is to be land of law and not
of mob crime in the name of public
justice there must be a reconstruction
of the processes, to the end Of swifter,
surer and more actually corrective
process of trial and punishment. There
can be no safety in a system of cor
rection which depends upon the pas
sions OF the mob. especially when, as in
California, it is given the support of
the highest authorities in the State.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Tariff Commission
Should Consider Gloves

To the Editor Of The Star.
My daughter went shopping last week
in the Washington stores for pair OF
gloves, but was unable to get pair Of
fabric gloves made in this country. The
stores seem to be flooded with fabric
gloves of foreign make ranging in price
from so cents to q dollar. but none
may be obtained of American manu-
facture, even at a higher price. Is it
possible that American manufacturers
cannot compete in this field with for
eign manufacturers and are entirely
eliminated as competitors? If this is the
situation. it seems that 1t is time for
the Tariff Commission to look into the
matter so that person desiring to
buy American-made goods may do so.
T. MARhNS.