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Evening star., 1933-08-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

From now on you will see women
streaming through the streets Of our
fair city grasping in their hands huge
punches Of bright pods.
These they will take home, to plunge
into cases to make bright spots In the
gloomy weather Of the cold days to
come.
They are fortunate, indeed, II they
have some silvery moonwort to combine
with them. The combination Is q very
pleasing one.
Strawflowers - helichrysum - remain
ever popular with old old-fashioned
gardeners. New strains have been in
are becoming more popular with gar
deners who pride themselves on being
strictly up to the minute.
These everlaStings, as they are some
times called, need to be cut with long
stems, and hung head downward in
a dry place until cured. The drying
room must be dark, according to ira
dition.
The great State of California makes
speciality Of strawfiowers, shipping
carloads of them East for sale. The
chances are that the ones you buy dried
have made long trip.
indoor ornaments, but q great many
people remember when no "parlor" was
complete without q great jar Of them
by the mantel.
Usually the umbrella jar was brought
inside, and filled with the curious heads,
most often hand picked from some
nearby marsh.
Pampas grass elways has its dew
otees. It is said that in California 1t
grows from to 10 feet high, but 1t
does very we'll in most Of our States,
especially in the Midwest.
| The rustic Of these dried grasses IN
Jars Is an aural memory Of thousands
of persons Today they are not used
as much as once they were, but there
are fashions in such things. and pam
pas grass may come back" in a most
surprising way some day. Many
clumps Of 1t are to be seen dried by
nature outdoors in and near the District
| of Columbia.
Eryngium, or sea holly. Is another
plant useful for drying. The heads are
thistlelike in character and are blue in
color.
As a mixer" statice is held in es-
TEEN by some. The feathery clusters
of Insignificant flowers 60 we'll with the
from their colors. but rather intensity
ing them.
The so-called winged everlasting.
| ammobium. which develops silvery
white flowers with yellow disks. Is a
favorite with some>specialists.
A very ld-timey dried flower Is
celosia plumosa-you have guessed it
the feathered cockscomb. In this class
| comes the favorite Chinese wooldower.
These are not all, but certainly the
| favorite, flowers for drying
No matter how much styles in interior
decoration change, there always seems
a place for a well-chosen vase filled
with these old friends of the garden
Nothing could be more in keeping
with a strictly modern living room. for
instance, than a chromium vase filled
with the pods of Chinese lantern plant
Or dull black vase carrying a few
lunaria seed pod Innings. shining like
| platinum money in bankers dream.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

Those who enjoy taking alarm clocks
apart might try their hand on Lunaria
biennis, commonly called Honesty
This hardy biennial is one of Ma
lures surprise packets.
As flower 1t is not much, but its
silvery seed pouches give it a distinc-
ton scarcely equaled elsewhere In the
garden.
The lining Of the pods Is the portion
which confers upon the plant its other
common names. such as Moonwort,
Peters Pence, and Peters Money.
1t Is this which must be discovered
by investigating hands at this time Of
the year.
The plants have been allowed to 60
to seed. and die back outdoors.
This has left rather distressing look
ing spot in some border but the results
are worth it. especially If there is
some lady around the house who fancies
such work
Drying flowers for indoor decoration
in Winter still is part Of woman's
work, popularity supposed to be never
done Especially by the, ladies them
selves).
Women handle these things much
them, to begin with, and possess the
infinite patience to do the work cor
rectly.
Consider Lunaria, for instance.
Most gardeners of the male persua-
sion will balk at permitting the old
plants to die down.
What are those old things over
fhnrQ ic "a Ead
Honesty" comes the succinct answer
Drying for its pods"
will they have to stay there long?'
Until they dry, I guess"
Surely their drying takes long time
But at last the great day arrives and
the plants are ruthlessly torn up or set
aside In another location, after the
stalks are removed.
Clever fingers deftly remove the outer
coverings of each pod. revealing holly
hock-like seeds, leaving the mica-like
silVery ovals
The revelation Of these disks, snugly
inside the ugly outer coverings, always
causes pleased surprise, even to those
used to working with dried flowers.
To those who have never seen the
beautiful lining to the seed pods the
bright ovalS Will stand forth in almost
startling fashion.
They will prove sensation" as our
modern language calls almost every
thing, SO why not these?
X
As one looks at these silvery rounds
1t is easy enough to see why they have
been called by the name of money.
Perhaps it was just such a thing as
this which originally. in mankind S
dawn. gave the idea for coins of metal.
The disks of Lunaria are particularly
attractive when combined with the
bright orange-scarlet fruits of Physalis
francheti, popularly known as the Chi
neSe lantern plant.
Even the person who is most garden
unminded knows these dried lantern
shaped fruits, to be bought in early Fall
il all florists shops. In department
stores and in 5 and 10 cent stores.
|
The strictly feminine mind dotes or
| the Chinese lantern plant.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
U. S. Should Return
Graf Zeppelin's Calls
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The contemplated visit to this coun-
try by the Graf Zeppelin in October,
as announced in The Star on August
20, reminds us that the United States
as yet has not repaid any one of the
former visits of this world-famed air
vessel. Interest is always attached to
the frequent flights of the Graf between
Germany and South America, or else
where, and its efficiency needs no COM
ment, nor does the ability of DR.. Hugh
Eckener and his associates.
What Is the matter with the United
States? Navy officials are reported
planning a flight by fleet of airplanes
to Italy, as a return call, occasioned by
the recent visit here of Gen. Balbo.
These little exchanges of courtesies"
should not be overlooked. The breach
of etiquette to Germany has been too
long delayed. Why not have the Ma
con attend to this matter for US? Let
us have it attended to before the Graf
comes again. or we will get so far be-
hind in paying calls we could not
catch up, no matter how much the
desire. CARL G. ANDERSON.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Fogelman's S Farewell.
III . UfO VOIIs
From the Greensboro Record

rTOIn the GREENSBORO RECORD.
In gloomy cell in States prison
with just one hour to live-Clay Fogel-
man, who died in the electric chair for
d crime he swore he did not commit
wrote:
August 4, $50 a.m.-One hour be-
fore my death. I am going to die for
something I didn't do. They made a
mistake and don't know it. I want to
say that have had a hard time in my
life. I got started wrong and I have
done many wrong things. I hope my
death will cause boys to be careful, and
avoid dealing in whisky and violating
the law when they are young When a
person makes bad name for himself,
people do moi believe him. That is why
I have got to die now
Much has been said-column after
column has been written - about the
Fogelman case. Was he guilty, or in
nocent? Who knows?
Few care, or dare. to enter the por-
tails Of the Great Unknown with q lie
on their lips. Yet, Fogelman, dying.
protesting his innocence, may have ex-
pected last-minute communication. Who
KNOWS?
However these things may be. Clay
Fogelman, at the brink of eternity. pen
ming farewell message, left a sermon
more arrest.ng. more impra aSsive-cer-
tainly more realistic-than any min
lister could preach.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
American Eyes Are Friendly
AS Cuba Begins New Regime

tionately taxed every industry In Cuba.
Tobacco for instance, was made a state
monopoly and was taxed so heavily
that often the growers let their crops
60 unharvested rather than pay the
tax. Every year the Cubans were COM
PEELED to pay $4,000 900 to $4,000 900
in taxes Of which only 100000 was
spent for internal Improvements in
Cuba and not cent for education. An
example of the use of the tax money
was as follows: Twelve million dollars
to pay interest on Spanish standing
debt, S7000,000 to maintain the Spanish
Army and Navy, $4,000 900 to pay sal
aries of Spanish officials in and out Of
Cuba. 1t has been estimated that
Spanish officials grated as perquisites,
about 40 per cent of the Cuban taxes.
Spanish officials took measures in en-
forcing authority that approximated the
horrible Spanish Inquisition. Charges
were brought against citizens and the
most inhuman tortures applied in ef-
fort to force them to confess. Some
died under the tortures. Some were
executed for imaginary offenses to
which under torture they confessed, but
Of which they were innocent Ameri-
can soldiers ended this century void
reign of brutality and tyranny. The
in Cuba or in the Philippines, have
consciousness that they rendered a
service not unlike that of the embat-
tied farmers who stood at the bridge
that arched the flood and fired the
shot heard round the world"
X *x
Observing that one feature Of the
present situation is the return of DO
litical exiles. the Charleston Evening
Post remarks that some of those from
South and Central America are very
active while in this country. and adds
as to the existing situation: while.
Machado and his associates in Cuban
politics are refugees in foreign parts,
the large number of exiles of the op-
position parties who have been living
as best they could in the United States
and elsewhere are moving back to Cuba.
Former President Menocal. who has
been directing a revolutionary junta
from his Florida residence, will soon
be on the ground in Havana and he
will almost certainly take leading part
in the political changes that are due
to come. He has been in the game
for a long time and, although he is
getting along in years, he is not yet
through"
Evening star., 1933-08-24
The Watch on the Inn.

Along the River Inn, which forms
part of the border between Austria and
Bavaria, Chancellor Dollfuss is pre-
pairing to station more than thousand
picked rif1emen of his Heimwehr (Home
Guard as a measure of defense against
Nazi raids from Germany. There could
be no more ominous indication of the
tensity which Austro-German relations
have reached than the precautions
which Vienna has thus found it neces-
sary to take against the Hitlerite
menace.
The governments action came on
the receipt of military intelligence that
the Nazis, fomenting trouble along the
frontier, are planning raids across it
into Austria, and even large-scale in
vasions next month. Many Austrian
Nazis fed into adjacent Bavaria when
Dollfuss outlawed the party in Austria
last month, hence the military intel
ligence reports of plans for border raids
may refer to eXled Austrians rather
than German Nazis. They are said to
number six or eight thousand and own
their unabashed allegiance to Hitler
and his Fascist dictatorship. At pres
ent Dollfuss' riflemen's defense corps
is merely in process of mobilization, but
1t is proposed to have it available for
emergency service at the German bor-
der on a moments notice. Only highly
skilled marksmen will be drafted for
the purpose. They will reinforce regu-
lar Austrian troops, which for some
time have been patrolling the frontier
region border as result of the Nazis'
anti-Dollfuss campaign.
1t is indicated at Vienna that these
military arrangements have the full ap-
proval of the French, British and
Italian governments, which are also
understood to look with favor upon
the desire of Chancellor Dollfuss to
increase his present army of $4,000 to
10000, the limit authorized by the st.
Germain peace treaty. The Vienna
government believes that such an ex-
pansion of its military strength would
suffice to guard Austria adequately
against such a threat as that now re-
ported from the Bavarian border.
simultaneously, Austria's allied friends,
who recently engineered for her a
League Of Nations loan of 100000, 900
schillings (nominally s47,40o,o0O) are
hopeful that this financial support,
along with the lifting of certain quota
restrictions against Austrian exports,
will revive Austrian trade and tide the
country over the necessarily protracted
discussions of an economic union or
close commercial alliance among Aus
tria, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Rumania
and Czechoslovakia. 1t is the definite
determination of all these countries. as
well as of France, Great Britain and
Italy, to Illustrate forcible absorption
Of Austria into Hitler's Reich. Ap-
parently the immediate program is to
enable Austria to help herself, in both
a military and an economic sense. II
she does not prove self sufficient, such
outside aid as she requires will un-
doubtedly be forthcoming.
In the face of that assurance it
would be supposed that Hitler will
ponder carefully before resorting to
rash recourses against Austria, yet 1t
becomes disturbingly clearer from day
to day that Central Europe is once
again becoming a cockpit reeking with
grave and immeasurable possibilities
for the breaking of the peace of the
world
Evening star., 1933-08-24
It Might Have Been Worse.

Here in this part Of the country,
which includes the Atlantic seaboard
north of Hatteras. violent storms that
reach hurricane proportions are of such
comparative rarity that one gains
feeling of immunity, which Is not dis
turbed by the occasional Summer tor
nadoeS. moving in restricted path and
of short duration. Yesterdays Storm
as violent as it was and as widespread
as the damage left in its wake, seemed
all the more violent because it struck
a part Of the country unused to ana
unprepared for such disturbances A
hurricane like the one yesterday might
have been accepted as something more
than a brisk breeze by Florida and the
Caribbean countries, but In the history
of hurricanes 1t would hardly receive
passing mention.
The Atlantic seaboard from the New
Jersey coast south to Cape Hatteras has
borne the brunt of this storm. Inland
Washington, despite the discontinue
caused by flooded streets and cellars
and no electricity, trees blown down,
stalled automobiles and damaged boats
torn from their harbor moorings, es-
caped lightly in comparison with near
bv Baltimore and Norfolk. The SUM-
mer colonies on Chesapeake Bay and lts
estuaries and along the Eastern Snore
of Maryland will probably write the
largest amount of property damage IN
this yicinity-and certainly their in
habitants will have the most v1vld &C
counts to tell of the force OF the W1no.
For along the coast the storm, though
q product of hurricane moving north-
ward from the Caribbean, took on the
fearful aspects Of vicious nor CASTER
than which, along the Chesapeake
western shoreline, there Is notmns
worse. The storm moved nortn, lIS
center passing almost over Washington.
But the wind was characteristnally
from the northeast, as the low area
covered by the hurricane itself was OF
wide extent, the winds moving IN q
counter-clockwise direction around the
core. circling far out to sea and mead
ing back toward the coast from north
east direction. The coast had its f1rst
taste of trouble Sunday afternoon. when
an unheralded blow played havoc with
shipping, especially of the New Jersey
resorts. On Monday morning there
were new warnings, and notice was
given Of the possible consequences
when the real hurricane struck the
coast. On Monday and Monday night
the northeaster grew In violence, and
along the coast probably reached its
height near midday Of yesterday. The
deluge of rain, breaking all known
records in some vicinities, was probably
the cause of as much damage inland
as the wind was on the coast.
Today the rubbish is being cleared
from the streets, the broken telephone
and electric cables mended, water
Is being pumped from cellars and
anxious boat owners are bailing the
water from stranded craft preparatory
to getting them af1oat. The automobile
mechanics are drying out wet wires and
motors that left their owners stranded
yesterday are coughing and sputtering
into life again. But the worst storm
in the memory of most Washingtonians
has passed over the city and there has
been no death Only those who have
experienced the horror Of a real
hurricane can realize how fortunate
they have been.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Hats

OF fashions we must still take heed
AS frequently they change,
And some of which just now We read
Appear as passing strange.
And now as women set the pace
They warn that for a while
In cultivating proper grace
High hats are out of style
The hint is one men can't neglect:
The proud and lofty way
Is one that no one should neglect
In this momentous day.
We meet our neighbors, man to man,
And try to wear smile.
Remembering in this modern plan
The high hats out of style.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

The admirably arranged and con-
Vincing radio program Of the D. c.
police authorities points a practical
way to organization by law-abiding
citizens. Its sincere patriotism may have
q valuable persuasive influence on some
of the racketeers themselves if they
can be induced to listen in every
Monday.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

Former President Hoover was gener-
GUS in speech during the campaign and
does not hesitate to intimate to the
Detroit authorities that for awhile he
will be content to retire on his laurels
as a man who has had his say
Evening star., 1933-08-24

There Is no headway to be made by
those who try to show that the Blue
Eagle will not function. People in the
past have wasted valuable years OF
their lives in trying to prove that such
things as airplanes and radio were i'm
practical.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Determinations.

This faithful old electric light,
Which Edison has sent,
Before at last he got 1t right
Took long experiment.
His great example we must heed
In testing brain and skill;
If one attempt does not succeed,
We know another will.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

Mention has been made Of January
/ as the date for the full completion
of Gen. Hugh Johnson's National In
dustrial Recovery program. and all the
world is waiting to wish him happy
New Year.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

If old war debts remain unsettled,
Uncle Sam will at least be free from
applications for loans to finance more
fighting. It should be for others to
vince. His doorbeu should remain
unrung.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
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Evening star., 1933-08-24

One Of the benefits already disclosed
by N R. A. is the demonstration that
the American public Is prepared to line
up with confident sincerity to meet any
| exigency.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
YEUES WIENER TAGBLATT. vi
enna.-The Young Pathfind-
ers" boy Scouts) and similar
juvenile organizations are being

VI ers" tBoy Scouts) and similar
1 juvenile organizations are being
dissolved in Germany. and all
their former members welded into a
centralized movement to be called the
Union Of German Youth. Boys and
girls of all ages up to 20 will be ex-
pected by the Nazis to join the re-
spective division of this association to
which their gender naturally assigns
them.
The naive theory Of the Nazis is that
their party should be the sole pro-
prietor and exploiter Of all German
youth: that only by such dominating
guidance can the perpetuity of National
Socialist ideals be assured. In Bavaria
the trend is very much resented, for
the strong Catholic hierarchy considers
the new project unwarranted interfer-
ence with the religious freedom guar
anteed under the old German constitu-
ton More than a million Catholic
children, Of ages from 10 to 18, are
enrolled in various recreational and re-
ligiouS activities sponsored by the
church. and 1t is feared they may be
alienated from their religion II obliged
to merge into purely secular aSsocia-
ton.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

The human appetite Is a mysterious
influence in affairs. When Gandhi con-
sents to have a square meal everybody
feels better.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Friendliness to Aliens
Urged by Milan Writer.

|
Corriere Della Sera, Milan-It !.
usual, and perhaps natural, for us tt
| judge whole nations from an observa.
ton of the conduct and estimate of the
character of some few specimens of the
various peoples with whom we have hao
contact or acquaintance.
We Italians have suffered as severely
and perhaps even more than any other
race for inWdious comparisons made
| between certain of our nationals and ma
| tive citizens Of the land in which they
| find themselves sojourning. Conversely
| we look frequently with disfavor upon
newcomers among us, and so the in
justice is in some degree counter
| balanced.
Would it not be more reasonable in
both instances to restrict our criticisms
| and condemnations to the individuals
| actually deserving of them? Nothing is
| more unjust than to abuse whole
population of worthy and decent people
| because of the derelictions Of few
It Is an affront to national feeling, and
can only result in q continuance Of the
MISUNDERSTANDING and resentments
| which have been ever the cause OF so
much animosity, and even hatred and
bloodshed, through the ages.
| It should not be forgotten that emf
grants to alien countries are seldom
the most desirable of any native popula-
! ton. Their conditions are such in theil
own lands that they hope for a larger
freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Toe
often they care little how they attain
their ambitions. But those who, in the
pursuit of their objectives in foreign
| fields, show themselves not only proper.
ly ambitious and energetic, but bring
in addition to their efforts, the desire
to attain wealth and station by Nolence
and oppression, should never be ad.
| Judged the typical examples Of thu
nation which produced them.
There are good and there are bat
among every nation, but 1t must bt
recognized as an axiom that the great
ma ;ority in every country are righteou.
and law-abiding, else these same ma.
tions would not long exist. We do no
mean to say that all are idealists bu
at least in docility and quietude they
| strive to live and perform their dutie.
without aggression and voracity.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

Austria, mobilizing troops ut the
Bavarian border, evidently feels that it
has become her duty to organize on a
large scale for the suppression of
crime
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Boy Scouts Headed for
Hungarian Session.

Evening Times, Glasgow.-"On to
Hungary" is the watchword Of more
than 1000 Boy Scouts.
They are completing preparations for
journey across Europe to Hungary
where they will camp with nearly
10000 other Scouts from all parts of
the world
Some SO foreign countries as well as
all parts of the British Empire will be
represented
Many Of the ancient Magyar customs
and ceremonies will be revived.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

Municipal Coordination.
From the Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader
This Is q fast world. Pavement laid
In Minneapolis one day was torn up
the next day to allow gas mains to be
installed.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Story About Colts
Origin Is Amusing.

Evening Standard London - An
American writer has produced theory
of the origin of golf which is new to
me. In 1892" he says. "a shepherd
boy named Johnny Golf was walking
by the North Sea about II miles from
Dundee. The shepherds crook which
he carried upside down, accidentally
struck a round piece of rock. The rock
rolled few yards into a crawfish hole
Johnny began to play this new game
with other shepherds, who christened it
after his surname"
The story has the merits of simplicity
and plausibility. I imagine, however
that some of the vast army of Scots
professionals who have migrated to the
States have been doing little patriotic
leg-pulling. Scots will have no diff
Guilty in identifying the spot on the
North Sea coast with Carnousite, the
real cradle of American golf