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Evening star., 1933-05-24
''Hoover Dam" Change
An UngenerOus Action

To the Editor of The Star.
I am pleased to note the letter of Mr.,
Marvin E. Williams in Fridays issue.
Mr.. Williams voices the sentiment
and indignation of millions of people
when he says that the act of Mr.. IckeS
cannot injure the generous, fine, patri-
otic spirit of Mr.. Hoover and that even
tually it will not aid the Democrats. Mr..
IckeS' act is small, ungenerous and
petty, and is just another Of those acts
of the Democratic administration which
are doing it no good.
And wish to emphasize also Mr..
Williams statement that If the Demo-
Gratis had been one whit patriotic dur
ing the last two years, measures far, far
have been enacted and the country we'll
on the upgrade toward prosperity. In
stead unemployment is appallingly on
the increase, according to Mr.. Green's
statement in your paper the other
night, and the administration is adding
to it by leaps and bounds for no
good reason at all, except perhaps
to later re-employ their own in
order to build up political machine,
which again isn't going to aid the DEM
ocrats. This country of ours is still for
the people, by the people and of the
people. Or is it? The farmers say they
are much more alarmed than pleased
over the administrations farm policies,
that the administration closed the
banks and opened the saloons; business
has gone to hell and the administra-
ton is sending America after it.
WILLIAM j. PETERSEN.
Evening star., 1933-05-24
California Gas Rate Decision
Credited With National Effect

tain this profit as he did when the pro-
ductiOn costs were obviously higher
Here Is discrepancy that requires adj
justment."
1.-THE courts attitude sets q, prece-
dent and enunciates the principle Of
rate readjustment," declares the Louis
vile Courier journal, while the New
York Times offers the conclusion that
$50 long as the utility commissions
after giving such weight to original
cost and reproduction cost as they see
fit, have determined reasonable value
of the property at the time it is being
used for the public and have allowed
the company to earn fair return on
that property. the court will not inter-
fere." The Wall Street Journal sug-
gests that 1T is comforting to see that
when State commissions know their
business, they can make fair utility
rates, not in spite of the courts, but
with their assistance" With full dis
cussion of the proper return to the
company, the Baltimore Sun brings out
the fact that "in validating a reduction
in Los Angeles, predicated upon VAL
uation which came within what it re-
garded as permissible limits Of flex-
bility, the court found it impossible to
hold that return of per cent Is so
low as to be confiscatory.'
Evening star., 1933-05-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

a generous Government. Most OF tnem
accented enrolment in the Civilian
Conservation Corps, and those who re-
fused got a railroad ticket home and
godspeed from the Roosevelt admins
tration. Meantime the day when the
veterans bonus certificates will be paid
in full in cash is enither nearer nor
further away than before.
Progressive defiation of the Recon-
,, struction Finance Corporation seems 70
be the order of the day. BY executive
order, the President transferred to his
administrator of farm relief, Mr.. Nor
genthau, all of the varied agricultural
credit activities of the r. F. c. The
Wagner $500,OO0, 900 direct relief bill
transferred from the r. F. c. to the new
Federal Emergency Relief administrator
the business of distributing Federal
funds to the States for unemployment
relief. The control of industry bill. now
before Congress, takes away from the
r. F. C. the business of loans for self
liquidating projects. This leaves the
R. F. C. with the business of bank loans,
insurance loans and railroad loans, with
rapidly diminishing volume in all
three of these categories. The time
looks to be not far off when the r. F. C.
will be relegated to the position of
merely liquidating agent Of the two
billion dollars of loans already on its
books.
Hoover After Dinner" Is now of
the press in a de luxe edition at SIS
and a popular edition at 81, a COM
pilation of eight hitherto unpublished
addresses made by the former Presi-
dent at Gridiron Club dinners, plus a
few others, notably one to Boy Scouts,
one on fishing and one on Mr.. Hoover's
own boyhood. The compiler was Theo-
dore Joslin, who contributes a prefa-
tory foreword; the publisher Scribner
Sons Co. of New York. Mr.. Hoover
not only sanctioned the publication,
but, according to ex-Secretary Joslin,
1t was his chiefs" wish that these
informal but human and self-revealing
utterances be preserved for posterity In
book form. Herbert Hoover has a gift
of humor and vein of whimSicality
of which scarcely hint has ever ap-
peared," observes Mr.. Joslin in his in
PRODUCTION, yet between the covers of
this book Q44 pages is ample proof
of it,"
The untimely death Of French Stro-
ther, Mr.. Hoover's literary secretary
disrupted well-laid plans of Mr.. Hoo
vers associates for the early prepara-
ton and publication of book review
ing Mr. Hoover's four years in the
White House and presenting a new
picture of our only living ex-President
and the titular leader of the Republican
party. Plans for such book are mere
ly postponed. not abandoned. Mean
time, the collection and editing of all
of the Hoover state papers and their
preparation for publication is making
rapid progress under the direction Of
Mr.. Hoover's loyal lieutenant, Larry
Richey.
Evening star., 1933-05-24
Work in Progress for
Old-Age Pension Law
To the Editor of The Star

10 the Editor Of The Star
Your story Home From the Poor
house" in Sundays Star might be sup
plemented by announcing that while we
nave no old-age pension law for the
District OF Columbia, fully half dozen
pills OF that nature have been intro
duced In the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives during the past few years,
OUT none OF them seems to have gotten
very far toward adoption.
Last year a committee was formed
from the various civic organizations of
the District to consider and sift these
bills and to produce one especially ap-
plicable to Washington City and one
That would meet the approval of all of
our citizens and be worth pushing to-
ward favorable action in Congress.
washington is peculiarly situated as
70 needs for the poor and aged In the
nrst place. large number of Washing
tonlanS are Government clerks and will
be provided for in the future by Uncle
Sam. Secondly, we will have to contend
with the large floating element that
drifts into Washington as an easy place
to beg a living. Thirdly, our laboring
population is comparatively small, as
compared with other cities or States, so
that the cost Of the old-age pensions
act will rest lightly in our city when
adopted
The measure is covered by Senate bill
No. 1873, introduced by Senator Cope
land, and House bill No. $500. intro
duced by Representative Loring M
Black. both of them being New Workers.
whose State was the first where legis-
lation along this line was attempted,
and the bills were introduced at the re-
quest of the local committee
The subcommittee to prepare the bill
comprised Mrs. Richard Hogue Mrs
Elizabeth T. Sullivan. Mrs George A.
Kicker, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Lei
fur Magnusson, James F. Duhamel and
Walter S. Ufford.
Efforts will be Immediately made to
enlist the cooperation of the various
civic bodies Of the city in a campaign
TO secure congressional hearing and
early action by Congress at the coming
session this Winter.
JAMES F. DUHAMEL.
Evening star., 1933-05-24
Brooklyn Bridge Jubilee.

Fifty years ago today Brooklyn
Bridge was opened to service. One of
the structural wonders of the modern
world, its induction was reported at
detailed length in The Star of May
IS, 1888. Inspection of the yellowed
pages of a bound file of the paper,
carefully preserved, calls up the scene
in the imagination President Arthur
attended the dedication, and included in
the list of others present was Gov.
Cleveland. shortly to be Mr.. Arthur's
successor as Chief Executive of the
United States. The bridge, no less
than these eminent men. symbolized
the era.
The half century which has passed
since the two communities. New York
and Brooklyn, joined hands across the
busy East River has been period
whose outstanding characteristic has
been that OF change. II has witnessed
an icceieration of pace unprecedented
Evening star., 1933-05-24
More Facilities for
Tennis Players Asked
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star.
Through the columns of your paper
may I, as tennis enthusiast. have the
privilege to ask the Welfare and Recrea-
tional Association of Public Buildings
and Grounds, Inc, If there is way to
increase the number of tennis courts in
the National Capital?
Every year find that those who love
the sport are increasing and that the
present number of tennis courts in the
city Is not sufficient to meet this in
crease. Therefore, that as a means OF
raising funds to build more Of these
courts I should like to suggest that dur
ing some evenings in the Summer the
cement courts at the Monument
Grounds may be thrown open for
dancing or otherwise for tennisers and
others and that q charge Of SO cents or
more may be levied on q gentleman,
ladies free think this is q good idea
in some way to drive depression away In
Washington and at the same time at
fording every one . recreation that Is
wholesome at 3 moderate expense.
JpAN q. R0LDAN.
Evening star., 1933-05-24

In human annals. Granted that much
of the alteration has been questionably
wise and that much of it has been
ephemeral, enough authentic gain has
been registered to justify the tribute
implied in the phrase fifty years OF
progress" The Nation, even in sea-
son of depression, is vastly richer now
than it was in 1888; cultural develop
ment has prospered., mechanical science
has expanded beyond all visionary an
ticipation, and there has been spir-
itual growth among the people meas
urably adequate in the circumstances.
The river and the bridge remain. Over
them pass federated millions in the
long parade out of the past into the
future. Like Walt Whitman, perhaps
they "hear America marching"
other bridges have been constructed
since the Brooklyn span was framed OF
steel and stone, and many OF them are
longer and higher But each has been
in some manner indebted to the genius
of John A. and Washington Roebling,
father and son, who, against back
ground of Hegel and Emerson, con-
ceived the Gothic towers and reaches
of what contemporary orator called
"a durable monument to democracy
itself"
Such fabrics. it is obvious, may be
erected only by and between friends;
they are the creation of cooperating,
friendly minds. SoAviewed, they are
symbolic of the mutual interest. the
neiehborliness, the liberality and the
nationality which are inherent IN the
best ideals of civilization.
Evening star., 1933-05-24
The Time of Roses.

Now is the time of roses, and the
gardens Of Washington are bright and
fragrant with millions of them. Each
is a miracle of nature, a marvel OF
loveliness and grace. Man, with all
his skill in science, stands wondering,
questioning, before the spectacle of such
beauty, drawn up from dark earth
and down from the ruddy sun to con-
stitute living jewels breathing perfume
on thorny briars. But the question is
beyond an answer The blossom which
most nearly approaches architectural
perfection, which most truly approM-
mates mathematical precision, defies
explanation. symbolizing in itself the
eternal mystery of creation. The philos-
opher, however. reads the riddle when
he discerns that the seeming contradic-
ton, the presumptive puzzle, is really
no problem at all. is actually only
another restatement Of the everlast-
ing truth. Ralph Hodgson, in his poem,
The Mystery" summed up the thought
in the lines:
I did not pray Him to lay bare
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose as Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.
But no bard ever has sung the rose
with complete satisfaction. A thousand
have felt its charm, but words are not
competent to tell its glory. Chaucer
Marlowe and Shakespeare, loving the
flower. tried again and again. each in
his time and place, to do Il Justice
John Milton and George Herbert. Ed
Evening star., 1933-05-24
New Shoes an Agent
For Rehabilitation
70 the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Sunday just past you published an
editorial on New Shoes"
New shoes have always been my
hobby. During the 20 years have been
president of the Prisoners Relief So
ciety we have given away to needy re-
leased ex-convicts more than $4,000
pairs of new shoes, and am glad to
Join you in saying that new shoes do
more than almost anything else to en-
able a discouraged man or woman to
square shoulders, brace up and make a
supreme effort to regain lost estate.
Next to shoes Is hat, then q clean
shirt, collar and tie.
A charitable institution can buy re-
jects in new shoes at very low figure
and they serve in this connection as
well as q shoe that has no scratches.
A reject in a shoe means the slightest
imperfection and as rule does not
hurt the wearing quality.
z. E. D<IDDIN0
Evening star., 1933-05-24
ssHoover Dam" and
"ROOsevelt island,

To the Editor of The Star.
A letter to the editor appeared In The
Star May 10, 1888, under the heading,
Indignant at Change of Name Of
Hoover DAM" and the writer asks what
is the purpose of Secretary Ickes in re.
fusing the name Hoover to the dam.
Perhaps the reason Is the same which
prompted 9. band OF gallant gentlemen
to change the name Of Roosevelt Islaisa
to Theodore Roosevelt Island q few
months ago. There is disrespect fcs
you.
1t is true, as the writer states, that
Mr.; Hoover deserves the respect Of
millions Of his countrymen, but / submit
SO also does our present great leader.
1t was just as distastefW to we DEM
ocrats to have the name Theodore added
to Roosevelt Island as It was to Repub-
ncans to change the name Of Hoover
Dam. But the simple fact remains "as
ye SOW, so shall ye reap
III CRAWFORD
Evening star., 1933-05-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

satisfy him, and If that is 50, who else
Is there to please?
Certainly not one whose ideas are diff
ferent. After all, whose garden is it?
| Here is the gardener who believes In
round flower beds literally sprinkled
around
He likes 'em.
Now comes this other fellow. who
does not like them. The weight oi
garden authority, he declares, Is
against them.
He is right, of course-but is he right
for the man who likes 'em?
In other words, 1t would seem much
better to garden as one pleases, nc
matter if wrong, according to others
than to worry ones self with an at
tempt to keep up with the weight OF
opinion"
Such opinion, no matter how good, is
very apt to be weighty, indeed. 1t pos
sesses certain heaviness to be found
in all masses of opinion forced on a
reluctant mind.
Freedom of opinion must be priced,
in the garden as elsewhere. 1t is not
something to be given up lightly, just
because some expert" probably self
| dpkOllltCo dO Illdty dll4lSuAlSNo a JhA6
ment.
Intellectual growth does not come
about through the mere acceptance of
opinions. but rather through the build
ing up of an opinion of ones own.
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| Not even intellectual studies, we be-
lieve. can manifest this better than the
garden.
| h.
he arrives at a conclusion like or ap-
preaching that Of the real experts, the
men and women who, equipped with
good minds and appreciation of beauty
have arrived at conclusions, too.
It is amazing how persons of similar
equipment and opportunities. working
on problems, come to much the same
conclusions. Every one knows how
often inventors, in various lines, have
made practically the same discoveries
independently, as 1t Is called. They
may live half the world apart and
never have seen or even heard of each
other, yet in the main arrive at pre-
cisely the same conclusions, which re-
suit in almost the same invention
Thus have arisen most of the disputes
about priority in the world Of inven-
ton, as attested by numerous lawsuits
y
The little world of the garden is big
enough, after all, to occupy any one a
lifetime, and more if he had it. Good
| taste reigns there, and Is amazingly
| the same, now and forever.
If one starts with certain units and
adds others to them in an attempt to
arrive at beauty and its satisfactions
through the things of the garden, the
chances are very large that he will
build much the same as similar Gre
ators of beauty have builded before
him, and as they are building else
where, and as they will build hereafter.
One need not be a great authority,
in any generally accepted sense, to be
able to find his own opinions in these
matters coinciding with the better
opinions of the real experts, whoever
they are.
He will read in book, or elsewhere.
words which show him that he does
| not knock in vain on the door Of gar
den beauty. He has proflted, he knows,
from using his eyes and his head. He
is guided by taste, that glorious, in
tangible tangible. He is aided by COM
mon sense and his sound belief In the
| golden mean Of mot too much OF any
thing"
Evening star., 1933-05-24

Gardeners have their factions, too.
One set Is composed Of those who be-
lieve in much pruning. and those who
go in for as little trimming as possible
Another set of opposing factions COM
prises those who grow flowers to cut fol
interior decoration, and those who dis
like to cut a single blossom.
Seemingly, there Is no reconciline
these evidenced opinions
1t will be realized at once, however
that these are not necessarily hard-and-
fast beliefs, never violated on either
side.
The man who may believe in as little
shrub pruning as possible. nevertheless
is willing to admit that there are times
when shrubs do need some attention.
He who likes to cut and slash, never
theless may feel, at times. that he does
too much of it, especially when he dis
covers that his snowberries. cut severely
require complete year to look decent
again.
Even the gardener who prefers to
leave every single blossom on its plant
will cut bouquet upon occasion; he
who wants to snip a flower from its
stalk the moment it appears will be
willing at times to let them be.
X X X
A vast reasonableness must imbue the
man or woman who wants to get the
most out Of gardening.
The same might be said Of any activ-
ity, but 1t seems particularly true OF
this one
And it is very pleasant thing to say
and to believe. that no one Of these
splits OF opinion ever leads to overt acts
as so often similar differences do in al
most all other activities of life.
The quietness of the garden carries
over into the mental activity connect
ed with it. There is no rancor, no hate
no uneemly passion. but all is, or al
least ought to be, calmness and "quiet
breathing" as the poet said.
Every one here has his own ideas
but he Is perfectly willing to let the
other man have his, nor call him a
fool for them
The other man may be right, after all
AS strange as 1t may seem. the man
who differs with you, in a garden, may
be right!
1t is an unheard-of act in other
walks OF this devious life, for any one
to ever admit the possibility of error
on his own part
He may be willing to believe others
wrong, but scarcely himself; somehow
he is protected from the common lia-
bility toward error: he moves in a su-
preme aura Of rightness forever.
Happily the home gardener is able to
live and let live. 1t is his biggest stock
in trade, in the philosophical way.
X x X
He sees that there Is an element of
truth in every wrong, and an element
of fallacy in every truth.
Too far one way springs the balance
in the other direction.
The man who believes in the use of
the saw and pruning shears is right, up
to certain point
He who does not believe in unneces-
sary pruning is right-up to a certain
point.
He who grows flowers only for the
garden perhaps is as far of the center
as he who necessarily clips them one
by one as they bloom.
*.*
Nowhere is a golden mean more de-
sirable, and few places, one may feel
sure. is it more certainly attained than
in the home garden.
Everybodys garden plans are as good
as any, in theory at least. That is, they
Evening star., 1933-05-24

and the status Of that country Is IN.
determinate, resting with the Council
of the League Of Nations.
O. How is room perfumed from q
rose jar?-T w.
A. The jar should be kept closed
usually but when a room is to be per-
fumed add few drops of alcohol and
leave the cover of the jar off,
O. What Is a Chinese tong?-B. B.
A. A tong is Chinese form of Sc
cret society. The word is derived from
the Chinese word meaning hall or
private meeting place The tongs are
largely represented among the Chinese
population of America and frequently
carry on long and bitter conflicts.
@. Is butter different made from Diff
ferent breeds of cows?-T. w.
A. There is no difference in the quail
ity of butter manufactured from the
milk of two different breeds of cows,
when the diet and process Of manufac-
ture have been the same.
of all the daily papers in the United
States?-C. 5
A. 1t is estimated at about 38.862 900.
@. To what church did John and
Charles Wesley belong before founding
the Methodist Church?-P. NJ.
A. Both were formerly members Of
the Church of England, which Is SIM
liar to the Episcopal Church in the
United States.
@. What acid is used for diSsolvins
bone and flesh in manufacturing fer
tilizer?-F. S.
A. The Bureau of Chemistry says
that sulphuric acid was formerly used
considerably in the fertilizer business
in order to dissolve bone and animae
flesh and convert them into super
phosphate. Now, however, superphos-
phate may be more cheaply produced
from phosphate rock, and the bone
brings better price as bone meal in q
ground condition.
@ Does it waste electric current to
turn an electric bulb in the socket In
stead of switching off the nght2-R. z.
A. 1t does not waste current. but Is
not practicable method, since the bulb
is often too hot to touch.
@. Is it possible to prepare Q ma
hogany-stained wooden article to b
painted white, to prevent bleeding
through" of the mahogany stain?-
H c. w.
A. Using two or three coats 1t
orange shellac over the stain Is recon-
mended.
@. How large reservation does Fort
Myer occupy? Why was it given this
name?-R. S.
A Fort Myer, Va, is United States
military post, occupying a reservation
OF 1876 acres on the western bank Of
the Potomac River, opposite Washing
ton, D. c. The post was named after
Gen. A. j. Myer the founder of the
Signal Service of the United States
Army.
O. When was King Alfonso XIII Of
Spain deposed?-R. E. T.
"A. King Alfonso XIII was deposed
April IA. 1881, on demand Of the oppo-
sition leaders, who proclaimed a re-
public under the presidency of Niceto
Alcala Zamora, former Liberal Mon
archist. Alfonso in a manifesto said he
was deliberately "suspending the exer-
else Of the royal power" pending real
expression of the collective opinion Of
the people" The overwhelming NUM-
cipal elections of April IL had imme-
diately resulted in the resignation on
the following day of the premier, Ad-
miral Juan Aznar, following which the
republic was established. 1t was con-
f1rmed by the election of a Cortez on
June 20. The Socialists had the largest
bloc.