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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

vile was stationed at Chita, as
American military observer accredited
to the Far Eastern republic. His
knowledge of conditions in that part
Of the world is unrivaled.
y
Prof. Raymond Moley, former As
sistant Secretary of State, one-time
key man of the brain trust, university
don, criminologist and magazine edi-
tor, has now been assigned a brand
new role, and a fat one. The courts
have just appointed him receiver Of
the famous Hotel st. Regis in New
York City, under the foreclosure suit
brought by his publishing partner,
Vincent Aston, because of default in
payment Of interest and principal on
$4,000, 900 mortgage. Prof. Moley
was ordered to file bond for $780,
900. The editor to Today is expected
to figure conspicuously in the formu-
lation of social insurance legislation
to be submitted to Congress next
Winter.
While official confirmation is lack
ing for reports that President Roose-
welt will confer with high Japanese
officials at Honolulu this Summer, it's
been known for long time that the
President lays great stress upon
clarifying and, II possible, improving
American-Japaneser relations. Not long
ago story was current that he was
thinking of sending q well known
and trusted investigator to Toxic to
make special survey Of the situation
for his confidential information.
Japanese conditions in Hawaii itself
are sure to command the Presidents
attention. In June, 1882, it was esti-
mated that there we're 146,1 Japa-
nese residents out of o total popula-
ton of 380,507. The japanese con-
stitute by far the largest racial group
in the islands. Filipinos are next
with roundly IS 900.
IS x*
Administration publicity strategists
are receiving credit for the sudden
emergence OF the Roosevelt social leg
islation scheme at the tail end of the
session Of Congress. The reputed OBJ
ject of trotting it out last week was
to counter without delay the new
Republican creed and crowd it off
the front pages. besides putting for
ward an appealing platform for the
Democratic congressional campaign
in rejoinder to the declaration of
principles just adopted by the G. o. p.
It's an open secret that a good
many members of Congress are going
back to their more or less loving con-
stituents in fear and trembling. Dis
tricts and States which have not re-
ceived as generous cuts of relief and
public works pie as they demanded
are looking for scapegoats. Demo-
cratic Senators and Representatives
will come in for more of this sort
OF censure than their Republican
brethren. Stormy welcomes also
await Democratic statesmen who have
not contrived to bring home sll the
patronage bacon that was expected.
Feeling runs so high that more than
one member who fails of reelection
In November viii be able to attribute
his defeat to soreness among the folks
back home on these various counts.
Copyright. 1934.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

No event In the current and chaotic
European political situation outstrips
in Importance and possibilities this
weeks projected meeting at Venice or
some nearby Adriatic point between
Premier. Mussolini and Chancellor
Hitler. 1t will be the first time that
the Black Shirt dictator of Italy and
the Brown Shirt dictator of Germany
have come together. That they have
1t in mind to discuss international
business Of the first magnitude may
safely be taken for granted.
As the German Fascist movement
swung INTO full tide a year and a
half ago. there we're plentiful indi-
cations of a close community of
spirit and political viewpoint between
the Nazis and Mussolini. II Duce
was, like the Germans, an outspoken
advocate of revising the territorial
provisions of the treaty of Versailles,
and at one time it looked as IL the
Reich and Italy might make common
and aggressive cause in favor of recti-
flying postwar settlements and from
tiers to their advantage.
Then came the Nazis' unconcealed
designs on Austria, leading eventually
to unmistakable warning from Rome
that Italy would not look with equi-
nimity upon German absorption of
the decrepit Hapsburg state. As q
result, the entente between Herr Hitler
and Signor Mussolini cooled of to
the vanishing point, though Ger
many's desertion Of the League Of Ma
tons on the arms equality issue was
designed to evoke the sympathy of
the Italian leader, who has come to
hold the Geneva organization In
whitening contempt.
Western Europe's two most power
full dictators will confer at a moment
of acute tension throughout the Old
World. Conditions akin to the ex-
plosive pre-war atmosphere of 1914
prevail. The Disarmament Confer
ence is in a state of coma bordering
on collapse. New balances of power.
euphoniously described as pacts Of
aggression and mutual assistance.
have been concluded in all directions,
mainly under Franco-Soviet leader
ship. Their undisguised purpose is to
hem in a rearmed Germany and ward
of the peril resident in expressed Nazi
ambitions to expand the frontiers
of the Reich so as to include all
Germans now living beyond them.
The grave economic and financial
plight of Germany is yet another dis
quieting factor.
1t is amid such a setting that Premier
Mussolini and Chancellor Hitler are
about to exchange views. Europe
awaits the outcome of their discus
sion with bated breath. 1t may be
the turning point in q crisis that
can easily lead to disaster unless
craftsmanship develops the wit and
the determination to grapple with it
betimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
THIS AND THAT


they have passed all the terrors Of
disease and accidents which have
ruthlessly blotted out the lives of 20
many millions.
The term "old man" is not a term
OF contempt; indeed. 1t is used affec-
tionately by younger men.
II used simply as comparative, to
distinguish an older man from a
younger man, no person need be hurt
by 1t.
To be an old man is to have sur
vived, to have done what millions
could not do, to have shown a stamina
Of mind, body and heart.
It Is difncult to see why any one
should be offended by the term, but
nothing Is surer than that they are.
The toe-trampler will not use the
word unthinkingly, therefore. but
with decent reference to facts, and
If 1t fits, he will use it, when he
pleases and how he pleases.
n y
No, you can never tell when another
human being Is going to unkink one
and throw 1t back into your face-so
what is the use of worrying?
Two men, talking face to face. have
| their own reactions to what each
says-and which one of the two has
the right to question the thoughts Of
the other?
Two men talk together, with no
other thought than to be friendly.
One launches into a narrative, and
speaks of a third party as IAN old
buddy of NINE"
The other stiffens Immediately.
although he says nothing. What he
says to himself is this: well, If he
Is q buddy Of his, then he will never
be buddy of mine"
No one can dictate the likes and
dislikes of another. That seems plain
enough, but many think they can.
Il y y
These inner springs of like and dis
like. of friendliness and antagonism,
whence do they come, and how? No
doubt a finger might be placed on
each and every one, II any one had
the time. the patience and the incen-
tive for figuring them out, but no one
has, there Is only time to give them
full credence as they arise in mind
and heart, although most often in
civilization they never emerge into
words or actions.
Let US not be afraid Of our thoughts.
So many people are! They refuse to
look at them, try to hide them, repu-
date them If some psychologically
astute person dares to penetrate them
and to point them out.
Let no man be afraid OF what life
brings. or the terms it brings with 1t
for descriptive and other useful pur-
poses. He might as well not be afraid,
for life will bring its changes Just the
same. and then. in addition to them,
there Is added this self-made change,
this change from the calm acceptance
of the child to this ostrich-lik policy
which is entirely self-made.
A "self-made man" Is self made in
more ways than just in regard to sue
cess in money matters. There Is many
q self-made man who had better left
| his making to other hands.
Accept yourself for what you are,
no matter how or what you are, and
try not to be so sensitive. II you find
yourself offended at what another
says, think after all he may be doing
you great deal Of good by pointing
out to you what funny looking toes
you possess. and how you ought to
take steps to mend them. rather than
forever use them just to kick back
with. He could not trample on your
toes If you did not have toes to tram
pie on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
i. S. Fleet Review Hailed
As Symbol Of Preparedness

by Americans all, from the admiral
whose nag futtered far above the
deck to the oiler performing his duties
In the depths beneath 1t. The feet is
in. It deserves the message OF the
President, its commander IN chief:
Well done, and good fuckP"
Not since the postwar review OF
1879 has there been such q parade Of
American naval power" states the
Schenectady Gazette, while the Long
Beach Press-Telegram speaks Of the
visit Of the Navy rs an historic oc-
casion." To the Troy Record, "a re-
view such as that Of yesterday In in
spring and reassuring." The Charles
ton (w. va) Mail feels that "the fact
that the nation does have such mighty
guardians Of its independence TO call
upon should the need come, causes 4
comfortable feeling" The New York
Sun remarks that beyond the feet
that now lies ut anchor, impressive
rs 1t Is, can be seen the feet that 10
to be. q few years hence"
It is this aspect with which the
Buffalo Evening News Is concerned.
Says this paper: "It Is easy for any
uhkOl W sec bile MutAT1SClc mQLc
in another nations eye. But to Judge
whether the United States itself is
beginning to hob-nob with Mars Is
another matter, for accessions OF mill
tary strength are usually accompanied
by protestations Of peaceful inten-
TONS" On the whole IL 10 convinced
that "the American big-Navy era In
. matter Of present fact" The Bergen
IN. - Evening Record regards the
battleships rs o monument to the
blind nationalism which is leading the
world 10 catastrophe"
On the other hand. pointing out
that the London naval treaty viii soon
expire, the Alliance (Ohio) Review
maintains that while this situation
endures It would not be aniss for the
country to take stock Of world affairs
and greet with approval each OF the
projected 102 new ships ~ they ara
launched within the next few years"
and the Lansing (Xich.) State Jour-
nal calls attention to the fact that
"the purpose Of the feet In not prima.
rily to blast other ships out Of the
water" but Ito keep the dissident
forces Of the world in awe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

The review Of the feet In New Yorl
Harbor meets with enthusiastic ap'
proval on the part of the press. Re.
garded equally impressive rs nava
pageantry and as . symbol Of pre-.
paredness, observers declare the dis.
play was well-timed.
Concentration of the feet ut New
York for review by the President,
says the Indianapolis News, Els q
notable event In the peacetime nava
history. 1t marks the return to At.
lantic waters Of the battle feet and q
new attitude toward the Navy"
policy, the New Orleans Times.
Picayune declares: Like every really
wise statesman, President Roosevelt
has shown himself q friend Of peace
and proven his faith by works. How
ever, aware OF what that fleet mean,
to US and to the world, sponsor Of the
magnificent gesture that recently
brought It back to the East, he anG
millions Of other Americans will see
in this grim parade the surest guaranty
for keeping the Nation out Of war
1t Is the opinion Of the Cincinnati
Times-Star that mo President In thu
Nations history has been more
resolutely determined to maintain fol
the United States q Navy second te
none, adding that Gin the present
troubled and unsettled world. thai
determination is o source of deer
satisfaction to his countrymen."
I'm the matter of naval prepared.
ness, the United States stands with
Great Britain and Japan above all the
other powers" observes the Hartford
Times, but adds that ain the far
more vital concern Of leadership In
International effort for the preserva-
ton of world peace, for the elimina-
ton Of war as probable recurring
curse to civilization, the place Of our
country stands by no means 30 high. y
The New York Times, however, pic
lures 'the deep satisfaction Of Amer
leans In getting visible evidence that
the fleet Is today strong enopgh, and
formidable enough under Its competent
command, to discharge any duty that
patriotic demand may lay upon It.
The winston-Salem Journal calls the
spectacle Impressive and heartenins
to those spectators, questionless, who
glory In the ability of America to de-
fend itself against the foreign az
gressor."
"Yet this demonstration Of power
hailed as the greatest In the peace
time history Of the Nation, mocks our
four years OF impotence In the task
Of putting down depression" asserts
the Concord Monitor and New Hamp-
shire Patriot. at emphasizes anew
the comparative ease with which man
can master machinery. but stresses
too his continued inability to master
himself"
"There was the beauty Of the spec
tacle as well as It's evidence OF power"
points out the Boston Transcript.
"There was pride IN the skin Of oficers
and men who could handle their float
ing and flying battalions with mill
tary precision. There was the knowl-
edge that the ships, small and great,
were products of American technical
and constructive ability. and handled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANpER JOHNSON.

Debts.
When I find I'm in debt
1t compels me to fret,
While look up the dates with much
I feel i'll at ease
And I say, "If you please"
In the hope of a courtesy fair.
Just hundred or so
Will reduce me to woe,
While figures for others run high
Into billions, perhaps. ...
Scattered all through the maps
I am wondering how they got by!
When q curtail make
For propriety's sake,
On note that Is running too long,
never make bold
To grow distant and cold
Or show indignation too strong.
Yet debts far more great
Will move men to crate
Till the echoes come back from the sky.
No envy feel,
Yet I cannot conceal
That I'm wondering how they got by!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
Adjournment.

Adjournment.
Adjournment of the present ses-
sion of Congress has become kind
Of will-o'-the- wisp. The Democratic
congressional leaders have seen it OF
nearly seen it for weeks. On each
occasion, however, 1t has eluded them.
And now they are creeping upon it,
or so believe, once more, with the
tentative date for quitting set for
Saturday. The man who has been
principally responsible for the re-
peated delay of the getaway Of the
Congress is the President of the
United States. His recommendations
for legislation have grown in number
from week to week. He has followed
his plan of last session, sending his
proposals piecemeal. While this
method of dealing with Congress has
the advantage of focusing attention
on one or two measures at time. it
has it's disadvantages. If an entire
program. or nearly all of 1t, is pre-
sented at the beginning of a session
Of Congress the leaders know what to
expect. Also, the congressional COM
mittees can get down to work imme-
diately to whip the legislation into
shape. The delay in getting the COM
mittees to work on new bills, due to
the Presidents plan of operation, mat
tered little when Congress was in the
mood. as it was last year, to rush
through anything that had the stamp
of approval of the White House To-
day it is different, and that is another
reason for the delayed adjournment
Even now the possibility Of an ad-
journment by Saturday night depends
upon the decision of the President
regarding the Wagner labor bill, set
ting up a national industrial adjust
ment board. 1t is frankly admitted
that If this legislation is taken up
week or two beyond next Saturday.
This labor bill, Notwithstanding the
fact that it has been modified to some
degree, will cause much discussion.
Frankly the leaders admit that if the
Wagner bill is a sine qua non for ad-
journment, then adjournment again
must be deferred.
The administration housing bill,
which has been reported to the House
and will be reported to the Senate
probably today, has its possibilities as
an adjournment postponer, although
the leaders speak hopefully of includ-
Ing that measure in the program for
this week.
Many of the members Of Congress,
who have been in Washington since
last January, are anxious to get away.
There is campaign in the ofing.
But with the President keeping noses
firmly to the grindstone. this has been
impossible. This urge to get away
does not apply entirely to the Repub-
licans, who regard Congress as a
sounding board from which the criti-
cisms Of Democratic measures and
men can be heard all over the coun-
try. Take it all in all, there does not
seem to be that hurry to get away
which often makes a speedy adjourn
ment of Congress possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11


The American theater has been de-
pieted as struggling for q new deal.
The exigency has even been described
as reverting to terms of classic SIM
plicity. The following dialogue,
automatically reported, breathes art
significance:
Senator Fess-( Resentful Of certain
idealisms.) Did you ever see dream
walking?
Senator Borah-No! But heard a
dream talking.
1t needed only the means of repro
ducing musical notation in type to
enable the Congressional Record to
blazon this interchange as the birth
of a native opera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

The motto come up and see me
some time" is all well enough for
political purposes until the visitors are
likely to become so numerous that all
the available time Is in danger Of
being consumed in preliminary hand
shaking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

The person who tramples on the
toes of other people at least Is not
afraid of life.
He serves q useful purpose In so
ciety, on the order of Socrates, who
regarded himself as the gadfiy OF
Athens.
He makes people aware Of toes.
He is the antithesis of those queer
persons who seldom dare say SO much
as hello" to acquaintance.
Every office of any size has one or
two of these, nearly always men,
who seldom II ever say good
morning"
They simply do not speak, that
Is all.
Close-mouthed, tight-lipped, they
go through life speaking only when
spoken to, and then just as few words
as possible.
There is an inclination sometime:
to laud them, on the belief that
silence Is golden, and that still waters
run deep, and the like.
To others they will seem men Sc
afraid of life that they dare not
trust themselves to say a thing. for
fear that these others will not under.
stand them, or will misinterpret what
they do say.
OF course, many people will mis-
interpret and not understand.
They wouldn't be people" If they
didn't.
He who is not afraid. either of life
In the large, or of human beings al
individuals, will expect to be mis-
understood.
He knows, better than most. the
complexities Of mind and heart which
go to make up the man, the woman.
He does not expect everything that
he says to meet with approval.
He does not ask it.
He does not refrain from speaking
as he chooses, within reason and as
decently as he knows how. His antith-
esis may do so. on the fear that what
he says will be misunderstood.
The toe-treader has as many toes
as any one else, and gets them trod on
constantly. Sometimes they hurt ter
ribly-and 1t is good for them. And
him.
He realizes that there is a great
deal more to life than just trying to
please other people.
\ n y 4
Nothing is more trying. really, than
to spend a lifetime attempting TO say
things which please alone.
Even then tho soyar 6ndc ha
some portion of what he says does
not please at all.
Shall he, then, as this craven, shut
his mouth tight. except in an emer-
gency?
He shall not, at any rate he will
not. He is not afraid of life. as mani
Testing itself in his contemporaries
What he says to them they may
say to him. and no doubt will, with
interest added.
He has too much to say, too little
time in which to say it, to spend
much Of 1t trying to figure out In
advance all the aforementioned COM
plexities Of mind and heart, and at
tempting to decide, in advance
whether such and such phrasing will
offend some one who, at least to his
way Of thinking, ought not to be
so sensitive.
q Il
Why should man worry about
the word "old" as applied to him, for
instance?
Yet nothing is more sure than that
many Of them resent it.
But men dor grow old, and they
ought to congratulate themselves that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

Philanthropists do not always 90
far enough INTO details. Henry Ford's
idea is obviously to give the people all
the automobiles they want regardless
OF parking space and liability insur-
ance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

Chairman Fletcher desires a Pro-
gressive G. o. p. that will recall the
methods of Theodore Roosevelt. This
looks like going back rather than
forward In order to take new observa-
tons from the old landmark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
by vREDERlc ]. HlsKIN.


@ What kind Of nag was carried
by the patriots nj the battle Oh
Bunker Hill?-A. w. L.
A. A blue nag with q union OF
xhtts imam which was a reA eroaa
With a nine tree IN the ,Inner derter
quarter next the stan flowed at the
battle of Bunker Hiii, June II, TITS,
and another fiag Of the same pattern,
except that the fieId was red rs well
rs the cross, was also used at the
same battle, bearing these inecrtp-
tons: On one aide. "An Appeal 10
u..v.rn ana an tha other so,Ii
Trsnstn,,t s,,stinst. neaninK hs Who
transported win sustain.
q. no" long mas pissinum oeen
knoWnI-o. n.
A. Ats exlstence va nrss MAGE
Known In Europe ~ ANTONIO oe ono&
in 11S6.
reAss sNe osI@p-t' =. 49, S-,,
ara one.ioAn' Ine army toos
player whose meek was D1pAen n
game VIA q ss.r.a s
- s-a.. ~. am.,,.t. TG.er.ts1
.Atsu iroul 'ne nusuoO V
inent IN athletics ana stident actiyi.
ties n, Inn. m Il ana He was lieuten-
ant colonel Of the cadet corps Of the
college, the highest cadet position.
and won letters In foot BAH ana
basket ball during his stay az the
two-year college. He was president OF
the freshman class and treasurer OF
the Reguisr Army soon after his
rradudatior from the above school
and after training at Fort Benning,
Ca, Is O member Of the Howitzer
Company Of the 10th Infantry, and
a. the training school of Furt Nc.
pn.-son &c hs r.s.ad tina sxarn.
..i s ~ -. - 5000
i iIs]on LoL s. - yoso
W.. s.s ScS ~. - LII IN - ,..ra.s. tro,,
az 80 h,,t AZ ,ot 49, IN. var
:ity team IN either sport . an1i i. is 20.
.,sct.S rr..,S.nt ~ nj. cl.ss an nm
,,s,,sf distsnctsor far . man entering
Wet Point an he aid from the Army.
He would have araduated In 1888. He
mas ~ wears NJ age when he died an
0ctoh.r az 1oa1
q. why are certain parts Of Amer
lea called prairies?-T. T.
A. The name was first given BY the
early French explorers to the north
part OF the Mississippi Valley because
French word was derived from the
Latin word which meant meadow.
Q. why isn't noise eliminated from
atrplanes?-A. B. II.
A. The principal sources Of noise IN
airplanes In order Of Importance are
the propeller, the exhaust, engine
clatter and whistiing wires. Tne
noise energy OF any one Oh tnese Is
50 great tnat even large Ieouctions IN
that energy result In only what sp-
pear to be small reductions In the
noise heard.
- No., ,,n. ~. ~. a. c.or,.
INV .s . :, ~ - S.nse
fA1.eA IA Dio0Aisn' w. =" Den SuA'''
y.
a. Inc noeei et: 1eotse Wa nullt
IN 1850 Dy OapI. Mnikm 1unDriose,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

A plan for social insurance to make
the families Of citizens secure may be
resented as an insidious attack on the
gentlemanly agents now engaged in
selling insurance as a means of
livelihood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11

Many q shot on the golf links will
be missed this Summer because of
the mental preoccupation of players
who are studying the Presidents pro-
gram for the future.