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Evening star., 1934-09-21
I'VE Must Not Let
1t Happen Again!"
To the Editor Of The STR:

NA-~ ~NANSA Va hc SbNt.
l see in a headline in The Sunday
Star: Fire traps at sea must go; Gov
ernment, operators and builders
shocked to action by the Moro Castle
disaster"
Why were such fire traps not abol-
ished before? 1t was perfectly well
known beforehand that they were
dangerous. But the companies and
the authorities will not put a stop
to such conditions until an accident
has happened and q lot of people
have been killed. Then they are
shocked by the disaster" Then they
hypocritically say: I'VE are so sorry.
These dead must not have died in
vain. We will prevent such things
from happening again."
II they can prevent future ones,
they should have prevented this one.
The burning Of the Gen. Slocum
excursion steamer in New York, years
ago, was just such a case. Authorities
and owners connived in manslaughter,
because 1t paid the owners and the
authorities. That was warning enough
against the Morro Castle case. This
line Of talk about not letting it happen
again is mere hypocrisy, or begging OF
from blame justly due.
Sailors on that ship said the fire drill
here was perfunctory, though in Eng
land they had to 60 through it with
thoroughness. Those national fanatics
who hate England, If they lost friends
in this fire, may reflect how much
better they like to have American
ways than English.
Americans are such hypocrites They
worship the flag and hate the reds and
break the laws and make money at
the expense of their country and then
plume themselves on being the best
nation in the world. We elect grating
officials, and we admire gangsters:
yet never mind, we are not like those
awful Germans and Russians. The
Irish will add, we are not like those
awful English.
How superior we are! We may not
be Nordics like the Germans, but we
are white, and above all, we are Amer
ican. We do not care for the law,
but we stand up when "The Star
Spangled Banner" Is played. And
when our greed has led to wholesale
death, I'VE must not let it happen
again" WILLIAM G. LEE.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Undue Excitement in Japan.


Headline excitement is rampant in
Toxic over late news from Washing
ton. The occasion is the Navy De-
partment's announcement that the
United States feet in 1885 will en-
gage in extensive maneuvers in the
Northern Pacific, within the area
known as the Hawaii-Puget Sound
Alaska triangle" The decision to
develop the Alaskan angle" of our
national defense is in line with the
Navy's policy of holding large-scale
fleet maneuvers in regions contiguous
to American territorial waters.
japanese excitement is due to the
fact that there has never before been
a real concentration of American
force in Alaskan waters. During the
past ten years maneuverS have been
confined to Hawaiian, Californian,
Canal Zone or Caribbean waters. But
the area of next years operations is
no less within the legitimate sphere
of the United States Navy than our
Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. In
maneuvering there the fleet will be
at work in waters which are within
its natural defensive domain. The
1885 problem to be set it will be the
protection of Alaska against a the
oretical" enemy invading fleet. The
Navy's role will be that of defending
force. The maneuvers, as Secretary
Swanson points out, will give the
eeet experience which might be neces-
Evening star., 1934-09-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

He felt, as all true artists must, that
a mixture of methods is probably bet
ter from all standpoints than slavish
adherence to just one form.
According, he mixed his desk ar
rangements.
He tried to balance his short row
of books with his telephone, and stacks
Of letters with each other.
He kept his blotter pad squarely in
the center of the desk, with its lines
running due north and south, east and
west.
Unless somebody logged 1t with an
unthinking elbow that pad always sat
due north, as much so as If Jones had
located 1t with q compass.
The old book which he used as a
paper weight, however, was strictly
another matter.
That book, somehow, should sit
nor'east by sou'west. and Templcton
Jones insisted upon it.
1t became matter Of deep principle
with him.
Its slanted edges, as regarded the
lines Of the blotter, desk, room, were
not just SO much stubbornness, but
summed up the decorative philosophy
Of T. Jones, esq, and all those who
believed with him that too much of
anything Is bad.
Straight lines-yes-let there be
plenty Of them. but let them go askew,
now and then. If for nothing more
than to satisfy the divine sense Of
relief.
Templeton Jones found the straight
lines the eternally straight lines Of
ancient Egyptian architecture weary
ing to his soul.
Much of the architecture Of the
great new Federal buildings on the
Mall made him feel the same way.
An Egyptian sameness-you could
feel it when looking at the new
Archives Building, particularly, es-
pecially from certain vantage points.
A little more frivolity in some OF
these new buildings. bit Of lightness
and grace, would please Jones better.
He was glad he did not have to work
In them. They were too big, they op-
pressed the newcomer and numbed
th> old-timer.
Jones regarded his aslant book with
the fine fury Of any man who fights
for symbol.
~
Evening after evening he put his
book slightly slantwise, and morning
after morning he came down to the
office to find 1t placed Straightly.
His ash tray, too was always moved
| slightly to one side, but Jones didn't
mind the tray.
1t was the book that summed up his
principles, and accordingly every eve
ming. just before he left for uptown,
he saw to 1t that the book was placed
as it should be-
And every evening, somewhat later,
the Invisible Woman saw to 1t that
the book was replaced as it should be!
One morning, after about q month
| Of this. Templeton Jones walked into
his office. The desk looked the same,
his pet fly looked the same. The latter
was buzzing around, waiting for his
morning lemon drop.
But Jones knew that something
was changed. Could it be-could it
be-he dashed over to the blotter.
Sure enough his book was untouched.
No profane hand had changed it. It
lay beautifully aslant, as book should
which was more than a book, which
was a philosophy of beautysa as well
as symbol of victory over the harsh
| theory of perpendicularity.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Two to One for the Cup.

When Skipper Sopwith's Endeavour
won the first race in the Americas
Cup competition last Tuesday, the first
time a British challenger had scored
since 1920, there was an unmistakable
feeling of qualification in this country,
inspired by a sort of under dog"
sentiment and coupled with a feeling
of regret that Sir Thomas Upton
could not have been present to witness
what promised to be final success in
the cause for which he had striven so
gallantly. When the next day En-
deavour repeated and ran away from
Evening star., 1934-09-21
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Job Hunters All.

Job Hunters All.
He says he's looking for a job
While travelling on his way.
His tale of sorrow made me sob, u
He vows he needs the pay. 4
And when a job he has secured {
His luck he says is tough.
1t cannot be for long endured. -
The pay is not enough.
II he collects q thousand bucks
Per month, the whole year through
He tells us, as his job he chucks,
He should be getting two.
Ambitions grow, as well we know:
They make our pulses throb.
And every mortal here below
Is looking for a job.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Nearing a Solution.

The arrest Wednesday in New York
of a man who from the most definite
evidence took $50 900 of ransom money
for the return of the Lindbergh baby
, two and a half years ago may lead
to the final solution of that crime,
which shocked the country profoundly.
That he was the kidnaper as we'll as
the receiver of the funds is suggested
by the fact that the ladder found at
the Lindbergh home, presumably used
for the taking of the child, was made
of material marked with the symbol
of a lumber yard in which he was en-
ployed at the time. Furthermore, there
is correspondence between the first
demand note received by Col. Lind
bergh and the writings that passed
later leading to the futile effort at
ransom.
This is all circumstantial evidence,
possibly to be supplemented later by
more positive proof of identity. If
not, there would appear to have been
two crimes, the stealing of the child
and his murder by the kidnaper and
the taking of $50 900 upon promise to
disclose the hiding place of the hostage
The hope is that this arrest, effected
through patient, persistent and skill
II hyyf Iaa of in
vestigation engaged in the case, will
lead to the final solution Of the myS-
terry. The prisoner is identified as the
man who took the money from Dr.
Condon-whose name is seemingly
cleared of all suspicion of completely,
which at one time prevailed-and a
considerable portion of the actual cur
rency itself has been recovered from a
hiding place at his home. ShrewdneSS
on the part of a filling station en-
ploye in taking the license number of
the car driven by the man who ten
dered gold certificate in payment for
fuel, closed the final gap between the
extortioner and police.
1t is noted that the enactment of
a strictly economic Federal law, in
nowise related to the crime, for
bidding the "hoarding' Of gold. in
effect led to the capture of Haupt-
mann. The kidnapping itself caused
another enactment which, if it had
been on the books at the time the
child was stolen and slain, would
have given the Federal authorities
jurisdiction over the case, with per-
haps an immediate solution.
The crime of kidnapping and murder
q was committed in New Jersey. The
taking of the ransom money, for
which Hauptmann is now held,
occurred in New York. If the two
crimes were committed by the same
person the graver charge will prevail,
but until there is evidence of the
participation of the man now held
. III lIldL CRIME lie IluSL De IIedleO
merely as one who sought TO gain from
1t by ghoulish enterprise.
The feelings of horror and anger
that swept over the land when the
child was taken, intensified later when
its pitiful remains were found, were
due in some part to the prominence
OF the father, held in the highest
esteem and affection by all Americans.
But the crime would have been as
sheinous had the hostage been of less
eminent parentage. 1t was a shock
ing evidence of the utter depravity
of class of people who have lost
all regard for the sanctity of life in
this day of supposed highly advanced
civilization.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Templeton Jones had never seen
her, that was the reason he named
her the Invisible Woman.
Most people would have called her
the charlady, but Jones had a poetic
streak.
Though he had never seen her, he
daily saw marks of her handiwork.
His blotter on his big office desk
was all nicely busted.
And the book which he invariably
placed at an angle across one corner
was as invariably placed straight.
4 4 ~
Every evening Jones would put the
book just the way he wanted 1t.
A few hours later the Invisible
Woman would turn it just enough to
make its edges coincide with the
rectangular form of the blotter.
Jones would find 1t so upon arriving
at his desk next morning.
At first he mechanically turned the
book back to the position which he
favored.
He thought nothing of it, for sew
eral days, until one morning it began
to dawn upon him that there was
method in somebody's madness.
No doubt the good charwoman felt
much the same way about it.
Perhaps she, too, simply turned the
book to correspond with the general
lines Of the blotter, the desk, the room
itself.
Then, maybe, days later she decided
that Mr.. Jones ought to be spoken to
about it.
Templeton Jones at first felt that
he ought to do something about it.
Why could he not leave a note,
something along this order:
Please leave this book the way
have placed it."
Upon second thought he realized
that this would never do. 1t would be
undignified, in the first place, and
probably wouldn't do any good in the
second.
He pictured the Invisible Lady, who
though invisible she might remain.
nevertheless always showed her hand
sitting down at that desk, pencil in
hand-Jones always left one QUITO
indite some such message as follows:
Dear Sir: Your theory of desk ar
rangement is not my theory. All the
experts are against you. When arrang-
ing square desk, place articles upon
it squarely. AS long as am in charge
Of your desk I must insist on the
severely rectangular method. With
my best regards, I remain, my dear
sir, your sincere servant, Susie Haw-
kinS."
He never found such note, of
course, but had plenty of opportunity
to admire the woman's persistence.
Not once for at least 80 days did
she miss changing the book.
Not once in that time. either, did
Jones miss placing it at an acute
angle.
Templeton Jones admired order
more than most men.
He had a perfect passion for regu-
larity in all its usual forms, but
when 1t came to the arrangement OF
his desk he insisted on that good ir-
regularity which he chose to believe
the only proper arrangement.
Things placed with perfect square
ness, one to another, and all to the
lines of the desk, the blotter, the room
gave him the same feeling mentally
that some people experience physically
when they rub their fingers over q
peach.
Il II Il
Jones was no slave TO his method
however
Evening star., 1934-09-21

war, but there will always be weapons
available to insane hatreds, even If
they depend on sharpening sticks and
throwing rocks. War, after all. must
depend on mental attitude more than
physical equipment.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Japanese farmers are to be accorded
protection from bomb throwers in
the Salt River Valley. The excite
ment Is such that some of the old
timers evidently made the mistake
that Japanese neighbors were getting
Arizona confused with Manchuria,
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Upton Sinclair is in q position to
"steal the show" from the regular pol
iticians if he can demonstrate that
as an author his influence is as great
as that of the lady who wrote Uncle
Toms Cabin"
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Colleges are neglecting the nations
literary future. Even II some Of their
economic theories appear complex, the
students publications will continue to
sponsor an enlightening line Of pic
torial print,
Evening star., 1934-09-21

The Associated Press is exclusively en-.
Titled to the use for republication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not other
wise credited in this paper and also the
publication of special dispatches herein
are also reserved
Evening star., 1934-09-21

What goes on in the Capital is Of
no importance" says Henry Ford. Evil
dentiy he knows but little of the gas
wars and parking problems in the
District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Carter's Choice.
From the Roanoke Times.

From the Roanoke Times.
Just before sailing for Europe, Sen
ator Carter Glass declared: II am q
Democrat-and I intend to remain q
Democrat" And he'll keep his word,
regardless of how lonesome he may
become.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

The farmers who found 1t profitable
not to plant are now arguing with the
hired man who believes he ought to
be paid for not working.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
The Eternal Balance.

From the Paterson Evening News.
A biology professor says that the
male is no longer stronger than the
female. Nature eliminates q charac-
teristic when it is no longer needed.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

The songs of a nation are still pow
erful. Many a musician will deny
that even MusSolini is as great a man
as Verdi was.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Percussive.

From the wichita Eagle.
That munitions manufacturing in
vestigation promises to have more de-
donations than . burning munitions
factory.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Keeping Them Busy.

From the Pasadena Post.
Enough parties are likely to be born
to keep political doctors working over
time.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
No Leg Pulling.

From the Boston Herald.
We see no great objection to the old
hands-across-the-sea idea as long as
Uncle Sam keeps his leg beyond their
grasp.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Stock market values do not move
rapidly enough to simplify specula-
ton by putting In a pari-mutuel sys-
tenn
Evening star., 1934-09-21
rhs Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business ONCE.

11th st. and Pennsylvania Ave
New York once: 10 East ANA St
Chicago once: Lake Michigan Bulldine'
European once: IA Regent St.. London.
ENGLAND.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Nemesis.

From the Muskeeon Chronicle.
A former French fashion czar now
is on Paris relief rolls. Seems like
poetic justice, after all the American
husbands he probably put in the same
AZ.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
Undiplomatic.

From the Omaha World-Herald.
Dr. Wiggam says man is the best
home ruler. But it is bad tactics to
say 50, doctor.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
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Futility.

From the Sacramento Bee.
Similie for futility-a gambler In
Germany trying to get an election bet.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Pylondectomy.
The lady aviator speeds along
And puts a little style on.
She thinks that there is really MOTH
ing wrong
In cutting out a pylon.
Perhaps a trained nurse she has
been of yore
With honorable mention,
And thinks a "pylon' Just some
thing more
For surgical attention.
Children ought to obey their par
ents," said Uncle Eben, "even when
de teachin' of de grandparents Is
bein' shown mighty little respect"
Evening star., 1934-09-21
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Evening star., 1934-09-21

One Investigation Treads Upon An
others Heels.
When an Investigations due
We murmur Can such things be
true?"
The lawyers then slow down the pace
OF what seemed a terrific case.
Before it is we'll under way,
Some horror new is on display,
Which seems of all the very worst
And so we soon forget the first.
Evening star., 1934-09-21
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Evening star., 1934-09-21

Money Question.
What kind Of money do you pre-
fer?" inquired the economist.
"Your question is apropos," rejoined
Senator Sorghum. 'I am considering
my campaign fund. What kind
have you?"
Jud Tunkins says he likes music,
but he dislikes to see the jazz boys
kept hard at work merely to keep
people awake longer SOS they can
buy more drinks.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Classification.
"Are women good politicians?"
"We do not differ from the men in
public service" answered Miss Cay
enne. Some Of us are good politi-
clans and some are wicked politicians. Z"
Wise men," said Hi Ho, the sage
OF Chinatown, have written many
books which other wise men busy
themselves with contradicting.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Q. When was the tunnel between
Chile and Argentina on the Trans
Andine Railroad completed?-S. T.
A. The tunnel was completed in
1910. 1t is nearly 2 miles long and
drilled through the mountains at an
altitude Of 10000 feet.
Evening star., 1934-09-21

Q. What IS the snake which spits
poiSon?-B. G.
A. 1t is the Egyptian Splitting Cobra.
The mechanism of this splitting ap-
pears to be that by compression of
the poison glands the venom is forced
out through the fangs, and at the
same time q blast of air Is exhaled.
Evening star., 1934-02-07
WINTER
BY d. c. PEATTIE.
Poplars and Willows.

"HE only trees that retain any
thing like as much beauty in
| Winter as in the gentler sea-
i sons are the willows and
poplars.
The general opinion of our highest
counsellors on city tree planting Is
all against willows and poplars. They
allege the following high crimes: That
willows and poplars are short lived,
that their wood is SO brittle and soft
that every wind storm and ice storm
/ breaks them down. littering the streets
with debris and leaving an unsightly
J tree en- which surgery cannot easily
be practiced; that when you want to
get rid of one Of them and cut it
down. its roots send up thousands
| of suckers which break sidewalks and
ruin lawns: that their roots, notori-
GUS water seekers. even break into
water mains and sewers, causing dam
age and stoppage. In short, that
they are plebeian. quick-groWing,
quick dying. f1imsy and worthless.
I'm afraid all these charges must
be admitted, except that they are not
worthless. For how much can be
said in their favor! What other trees
have beautiful branches and twigs
that put color into the sad Winter
grays? What other trees, except
naples, begin to bloom and to leaf out
almost before the Winter is gone?
Why. even their buds are handsome!
Did you ever plant an oak or an
elm and wait for it to grow? If SO.
you are still waiting for shade and
/ cI, 70 70 hou
gratitude surely for ouick-groWing
trees that so swiftly produce fine
effects.
Some of the white poplars around
Washington are nearly ready to bloom.
The white poplar is one of the trees
least recommended by high authority.
But I know of no other with such
beautiful leaves. very like olive leaves.
dark above. silvery beneath, so that
the tree changes color whenever the
wind blows. With its beautiful silvery
gray bark on the young growth. it
is always cheerful to behold. 1t grows
to great height, and spreads out in
a sheltering. graceful way, often with
hundreds of picturesquely braided
branches. so that enc tree, seen from
a distance, looks like whole grove
of trees. Lombardy poplars are
unique; the Italian black poplar and
our Carolina cottonwood have Won
derful, rainy sounding, lisping. liv-
ing, talking foliage. and the Tacha-
hac poplar and Balm -Gilead pop
lar have their charms.
So. too. with the willows. The
white willow is one of the gayest OF
trees; the crack willow endlessly de-
lights children with its wood so easily
broken off and worked into bows and
arrows; the yellow poplar twigs are
superb just now, as the sap rises in
them while the various little willow
bushes or osiers make stunning Winter
effects with the bright red twigs.
Already. the pussy willows are pre-
pairing to burst the bonds of Winter.
bringing in the first promise of Spring
upon the way.
Evening star., 1934-02-07
Everyday Psychology
Attracting Attention.
BY DR.. JESSE ". SPROwLS.

Some time ago. a young man wrote
me. complaining of the fact that peo-
pie didn't seem to pay much atten-
ton to him. He thought there might.
perhaps. be some way for him to ex-
press his lego" as he put it. He
surmised that he must have hidden
abilities" which some one might teach
him to use in order to attract at
tention.
I take it that the young man must
be an only child However. I do not
know. But his case indicates as
much. Indicates a person who. in
childhood and youth must have been
a sort of ruler of the realm. At any
rate. he seems to have a distorted
notion of his own Importance. In
this connection. it is worth while
to point out that only the unusual
person attracts attention, the one
who does the unusual as If it were the
logical thing OF do.
Why should any one expect much
attention from other persons? The
vast ma ajority of us are so busy with
our own affairs that we do not have
the time to shower attention upon
others Even if we had the time,
We wouldn't know how to do it. We
also have our own egos, which We
try to make the most of in our own
way.
The person who goes in for at
tracing attention usually fails. Most
human beings prefer to choose their
own amusements.
(Copyright 1934)