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Evening star., 1934-08-03
Movies Bad Because
Untrue to Real Life
To the Editor o. The Star:

To the Editor o. The Star:
II we were to undertake q serious
criticism of some movies as they move
it would be directed against their
unnaturalness, their infidelity to the
fundamental impulses and unchange-
able sequences Of real life and the
false education of audiences resulting
therefrom.
Too often rascality and crime are
rewarded with happiness after a su-
perhcial and obviously impossible re-
pentance in the last act. The convict
turns into hero, the libertine be-
comes a moral model, the vampire
acquires amazing virtue, the wicked
husband or wife has a sanity finish.
Such things do not often happen
in life. They occur so frequently in
the movies that young men and girls
are in danger of receiving and adopt
ing wholly false ideas of human re-
lations with irrevocable and inescapa-
BILE moral laws. Many utterly bad
things are often condoned on the
screen; the natural progress of char
acter, good or bad, is too often per-
verted. The result, 50 far as i'm
mature minds are concerned, can be
only a distorted and untrue concep-
ton Of the values of life and conduct.
1t Is to correct this trend that criticism
should be directed. In my opinion.
JACK KIMBALL.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

been the change In character Of
newspapers themselves IN the past fifty
years. rejecting the constantly tn
creasing recognition BY editors and
publishers Of their responsibility 70
the public welfare as against the
personal Journalism" which marked
the organs Of parties or cliques or
special interests Of an earlier day.
II has been the good fortune Of
Editor a. Publisher 10 have taken
part In this half century of progress
and TO round out a good fifty years at
time when even greater material
and spiritual growth Of the American
press lies tust ahead
Evening star., 1934-08-03
Urgent Need for Traffic
Lights on Columbia Rd.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Along with this movement to make
automobile traffic safer for pedes-
trians, should like to call attention
to the very great need of traffic lights
on Columbia road between Sixteenth
and Eighteenth streets. am re-
ferring, especially, to Ontario road, as
that is where the largest number of
persons alight from the street car;
you practically take your life in your
hands when you step of the car and
attempt to cross the street. Quarry
road Is almost as bad, but the former
Is much worse, as autoists whirl
around the corner without slowing UP
whatsoever.
Some time ago called the attention
Of the traffic department to this need
Of lights, but I was told at the time
that they had no funds for that pur-
pose. Now that this effort is being
made to make the city a safer place
in which to live, I sincerely hope
that some funds will be found with
which to install these very necessary
lights MABEL G. LATIMER.
Evening star., 1934-08-03
A Golden Anniversary.

Editor g. Publisher, weekly maga-
zine devoted to the interests of the
newspaper business, celebrates its
fiftieth anniversary with the issue
of golden jubilee number, which con-
tains In its 322 pages an interest
ing review of American journalism
of the past half century. The maga-
zine deserves the countless messages
Of congratulatory esteem which it
has received on its birthday, and its
anniversary edition itself is evidence
of the material progress of that
fourth estate" Of which 1t is OBJ
server and recorder.
While Editor g. Publisher itself
came into being early in this century
and Is the result OF combinations by
purchase of other publications, its
forerunner, the Journalist, was es-
tabliShed in 1884. That was Just q
century after establishment of the
first American daily newspaper. the
American Daily Advertiser of Phila-
delphia. But it has been In the
past nifty years that American jour-
nAIiSm has grown and developed to
its present stature.
What this development has been
might be measured In terms of cir
culation gain. Fifty years ago Amer
lean newspapers had q combined
circulation of about 100000. Today
that combined circulation is 3s.425.-
600. Fifty years ago there was q
newspaper for every twelve persons in
the country. Today there is one for
every four. Mechanical progress, OF
course. has been the major factor II
this tremendous growth in newspaper
circulation, and Editor q Publisher
devotes many Of the interesting, in
formative pages OF its anniversary
edition to discussion Of the wonder
wrought by mechanical invention
But Of even greater significance has
Evening star., 1934-08-03

cation on q large scale Of what has
been universal practice ON farm
steads," and the, New Haven Jour-
nal-Courier agrees that ''the positive
benefits Of such a program, as proved
on a much smaller scale, are many
and impressive"
"Stupendous" is the adjective used
by the Hartford Daily Times TO de-
scribe the venture. while the Omaha
World Herald declares that 'the plan
gives new hope to the Midwest,
strengthening the farmers confidence
in an administration which has met
their burdensome problems with
emergency aid extended into programs
of lasting benefit.'' The Wall Street
Journal is convinced that this great
reforestation project is one Of the
steps that appear necessary to pre-
serve the country's principal food
producing areas from serious deterior-
alton and perhaps worse" The Can
ton (Ohio) Repository says that, "Vast
as the plan is, it is only fraction
Of what the United States must do
eventually to compensate for the dam
age done when trees were merely OBJ
jects to be destroyed. never to be
saved"
"a is expected to take 10 years for
development" states the Minneapolis
Journal, "and during that period its
promoters viii have 10 face great diff
ficJ$sies, not the least Of which will
be that of making trees survive the
lack of water they are later expected
to conserve" This point Is also
brought out by the Wichita Eagle,
the Buffalo Evening News and the st.
Paul Pioneer Press.
To objections that this sort Of for
estry will not add to the beauty of the
landscape, the Nashville Tennesseean
answers: ''Of course, this vast under
taking has not been planned as q
project to relieve the monotony of the
landscape. But even so, we venture
the opinion that rows Of green trees
are better to look at than endless
plains, whose soil. bereft of its cover,
has become so loose through constant,
working that it blows about almost
like sand dunes"
Evening star., 1934-08-03
High School Fraternities
Survive Despite Congress
ro the Editor u The 30:

To the Editor Of The Star:
As q member OF one Of our numer-
ous secret high school fraternities It
has always been to me a source Of
wonderment TO find people. mostly
parents and guardians. so opposed to
fraternal organizations as found !n
many Of this country's high schools.
Many arguments have been offered
pro and con as to the benefits or
harm derived by membership in one
Of these organizations and many
moves made to abolish them. The
greatest such move to be made was
by Congress back in 1926 when, in its
unerring perspicacity, 1t saw At to
pass an act whereby all members of
these secret high school organizations
were denied the privilege of taking
part In any extra-curricular activity,
such as sports, school play. etc.
Needless to say. Congress failed in
its attempt, because such q doing
verged on the impossible. Most of
these groups had existed for many
in existence these past 43 years and,
with the passage of time. continues to
grow larger and stronger. II is q
very difficult task to attempt the
breaking down of such weIl-estab-
lished groups, but Congress had tried
and succeeded in many things hither-
to and saw no reason for failure in
this movement.
But Congress in all its power and
glory-and of this we fraternity
brothers are proud-failed miserably
in its purpose because the opposition
was composed of character-forming
organizations intent upon reaping the
benefits that may be gained from
group life. These groups had learned
from precedent and well-established
theory that there can be no such
thing as individual existence. That
was and is the theory of fraternity.
No man can do his part in this life
without the aid Of others.
Can't parents and guardians who
are opposed to such groups see the
necessity of permitting their children
to become associated with such q
group? Can't they understand that
this age demands that a man be
made of the "sterner stuff" and that
the constructive criticisms and ideas
Of his fellow-men can help him to
achieve such an end?
If Congress had been right in its
contention that secret high school
organizations were harmful 1t would
have long since succeeded in its
attempt. But high school fraternities
still go on, growing larger and better
with the passage Of time, and on the
whole are proving a godsend to boys
on the threshold of life who are in
need of companionship and friendly
aid. May fraternal organizations
thrive and live on forever.
HARRY J. MACINNIS,
Evening star., 1934-08-03
Repeal Not Followed
By Reduction of Taxes
70 the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Secretary Morgenthau and Liquor
Administrator Choate both complain
that the liquor revenue Is disap-
pointing. The Governor Of Psnnsyl-
vania and the liquor administrators
Of Oregon also lifted up their voices
and wept because the people didn't
drink enough to pay the hoped-for
revenue. Now Gov. Lehman of New
York laments that liquor revenue is
less than half the pre-repeal estimate.
SO please excuse me while ] shed a
few scalding tears, for was enthusi-
aszicaiiy promised that II repeal came
my taxes would be greatly reduced.
Repeal came, but tax reduction didn't,
w. O. CALDERWOOD.
Minneapolis MINI.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

A rainy Sunday Is appreciated by
the home gardener as well as by his
plants. especially after q long dry
hot spell.
Failing water means cooler air.
fresher air. saturated roots. refreshed
foliage-also something peaceful done
TO the soul Of man.
Rain is a primitive thing. There
Is always peace in its wings. unless It
becomes too unmerciful. 1t falls so
far to do so much good below.
Many thousands Of feet 1t falls, but
for all the fuss 1t makes about 1t the
rain might tust as well have come
from the top Of yonder trees, distilled
like dew out Of the very leaves.
This absence OF pother helps make
the rain a thing Of peace and beauty,
for the most peaceful things are the
most beautiful, despite the claims of
some TO the contrary. Storm and
stress possess no such loveliness as
this Of the quiet afternoon rain.
Quiet souls, whom Longfellow called
home loving hearts," like nothing so
much as the rain which sets in early
in the morning and lasts all day, even
far into the night.
Perhaps they are fond Of this type
of rain because it most nearly fits into
their own nature, but mostly one
may believe, simply because 1t Is so
good for the shrubs and plants they
love.
This quiet raining does more good
than all the thunderstorms of Sum-
mer.
every drGp counting for something.
There is no wasted effort. no wasted
water. Every drop does good. Every
drop goes home.
After the softening process, the
rainfall strikes directly into the
ground, trickling between the earth
grains. bringing new life to roots in a
Semi-comatoSe state. Yes, the roots
of plants, during prolonged dry spell,
must be half alivI, about ready TO
give up the job, but still hanging 70
life, knowing with the old insensible
vegetable intelligence that the sky is
always about to perform a miracle.
-
This rescue Of the half-dead roots
is one Of the remaining miracles.
A sudden and brief thunderstorm is
so violent that most of the water
rushes away before 1t has time to do
any good
The prolonged gentle rain, even If it
does not seem as If much water is
falling, has time TO achieve the
miracle, because each drop remains
where it falls.
1t is a sort of pudding. keeping
Practically none of its runs away in
such a rain, whether it comes on
Sunday or any other day.
If it comes on Sunday, however,
the average home gardener has a
chance to see it, to watch it at work,
an opportunity he may not have any
other time in the week.
Now this is distinctly worth While.
It is one thing to appreciate some
thing, and quite another to have the
time to watch while appreciating.s
One may think that appreciation
is never half so good as when COM
bined with a happy watchful waiting.
4 \
What does the gardener wait for?
In this case he waits for Monday
in order to see what good the rain
has done.
He knows, even as 1t is falling,
that it is helping things immensely,
but he wants to see the evidence with
his own eyes.
He is able to get foretaste Of
horticultural paradise, by envisioning
the good which is coming to his
plants. He knows this will ensue, and
particularly SO if the rain extends into
Evening star., 1934-08-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Headgear.
The monarch with a crown Of golc
Seeks to be standing pat,
But Soldier Heiny, as of old,
Is wearing his tin hat.
A silken tile Of polished style
Becomes the diplomat,
But Soldier Heiny all the while
Is wearing his tin hat.
Munitions makers gather round
For confidential chat
Bare-headed. Heiny will be found
Still wearing his tin hat.
Evening star., 1934-08-03
The Battle Of New Orleans.

The curious nESure Of the situation
In New Orleans, which leaves the dis
tant observer puzzled as 20 whether It
Is civil war, revolution or merely an
other monkeyshine by the Kingfish, is
emphasized by the oroer Of the Civil
District Court demanding that SEN
ator Long Immediately demobrize the
National Guard. This ORDER was
served on the Senator yesterday, as he
sat in his guarded fortress in a suite
Of the Roosevelt Hotel The order
is returnable next Tuesday. 1t was
prepared, the Associated Press re-
ports, at a conference Of some thirty
lawyers.
But Huey Long is a United States
Senator. He has no authority to call
out the National Guard. How can he
order the Guard to demobilize? These
are the prerogatives of the Governor
OF Louisiana, and the Governor, who
declared martial law and brought out
the troops. has not been served with
a court order. Petitioners took cogni-
zance Of the anomaly when they told
the court that although the Senator
is not a peace officer Of the city or
the State, he had secured the "serVile
consent and approval of the Governor
TO take over the Governors powers
and "is himself exercising and per-
forming the same unlawfully, tyrani-
caIly and high-handedly." Whether
the court will agree and Senator
Longs dictatorship thus be judicially
recognized, is another matter.
In the meantime, however, Louisi-
ana and New Orleans have success
fully taken the spotlight from the
various imbroglioS of other suffering,
but less afflicted, States this Sum
mer. Louisiana Guardsmen, with
machine guns and bayonets, drawn
up in battle array facing city po-
ncemen, add the highly colorful
touch to the even more dramatic
progress OF the Senator in taking
over the City of New Orleans. lock,
stock and barrel. The move which
precipitated the court order was the
Senator's seizure, in effect, OF the
city's taxing powers by causing the
appointment of State property assess
ors, who would supersede the City
Assessment Board duly elected by the
citizens of New Orleans last Winter.
With Senator Long, as voters in
New Orleans have been forewarned,
the power to tax is the power to
destroy.
Upon what meat doth this our
Caesar feed that he is grown so
great2" Wen, whatever it has been,
its qualities have sustaining powers
that by now have surpassed all ex-
pectations. For the Senator the sky
seems to be the limit. He has gone
'too far" so often that prophets falter
in reckoning his downfall The ele-
ment which will bear. watching now
is Mr.. John Doe, city taxpayer of
New Orleans. His relative silence,
up to this time, has been amazing.
far more dit1cult to understand than
the gyrations Of pro and anti Long
other taxpayers, he will go so far
and no farther. The limits of his
patience, however, are yet to be
clearly defined
Evening star., 1934-08-03

When the President set sail for
Hawaii 80 days ago he lifted Donald
Richberg out of the N. r. A. and
made him chairman of a new Inter-
Cabinet Committee which was pic
tured as designed to exercise a sort
of regency government during Mr..
Roosevelt's absence. Mr.. Richberg
was momentarily blazoned as "as-
sistant President or temporary
President" A day or two later the
dynamic general counsel of the N. R.
A. departed for a well-earned vaca.
ton in New England, from which he
is not yet returned. Neither the In
ter-Cabinet Committee nor the larger
National Emergency Council, so far
as appears, has held any meetings in
the Presidents absence. The only
acting President has been the lean
visaged but ever-smiling Mac" (full
name and title, Marvin H. Mcintyre,
assistant secretary to the President) Z.
Mac" has had no vacation yet. He
has been on the job at his White
House desk bearing the full brunt of
the deluge of cables, radios, phones,
kilograms and letters, handing out
executive orders originating on the
battle cruiser Houston. receiving dele
cations and diplomats, transmitting
communications and in general max
ing himself mighty useful.
Julean Arnold, our commercial at
tache in China, now in Washington
on leave and feted by the Overseas
Writers Club at a luncheon here this
week, is a veteran of our foreign Serv-
ice-a career man in every sense Of
the word. He was commissioned by
President Theodore Roosevelt in July,
| 19o2--32 years ago last month-to
be student interpreter at the Ameri-
can Legation in Peiping, the first Of
such ever to be officially so named.
Mr.. Arnold has remained in our for
eign service and in China, with SUM-
dry interludes in Japan, ever since,
through all the various ups and downs
of the past three decades in the Far
East and the changing vicissitudes in
the State Department at home. Need
less to say, he now rates as premier
authority on economic and trade
problems of the Far East.
The r. v. A. is the victim Of the
Roosevelt economy ak. if there be
any such implement. T. ". AS pro-
spective allotment of $48 1000 ad-
ditional cash from the new public
works emergency relief billion-dollar
appropriation has been cut to S25,-
| 600, 900. This reduction, according to
the T. V. A, will put considerable
crimp in its plans for starting sew
eral additional power dams in the
Tennessee Valley this year. To date,
T. v. A. has actually expended con-
Siderably less than half of its orig
inal $50,000,o 900 granted to it by
Congress at the outset year ago, but
the balance of this $50, 900, 600 is all
earmarked and obligated, and T. v.
AS 1885 budget showed S48, 600, 900
more needed this year to make both
| ends meet. The President was re-
puted to have tacitly approved their
budget, but when the day came to
split up the new billion dollar T. v.
| A. found its slice only half the size
| anticipated.
Oliver P. Newman, widely known
Democratic Washingtonian, who is
helping TO establish q new deal for
Santo Domingo in the role of fiscal
adviser to the Dominion Republic,
brings back a wealth of interesting
sidehghts respecting Gen. Rafael
Leonides Trujillo. the President Of the
Evening star., 1934-08-03
Roadside Beauties.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A distinguished writer, after touring
the United States, says that two OF
the chief characteristics of our coun-
tryside are shacks and junk piles
Can it be that he mistook some of our
antiquated automobiles for both of
them?
Evening star., 1934-08-03

John D. Rockefeller worked hard,
made fortune and, no doubt, appre-
ciates the filial duty which seeks to
provide the best possible entertain
ment while he sits on the front porch
and listens to the radio.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

When Uncle Sam hears Of q war
investment, previous experience viii
warrant him IN adopting the ia
vorite phrase Of the superior business
man, Il am not interested"
Evening star., 1934-08-03

The motor vehicle that warns driv-
ers how TO avoid motor accidents Is
heard with far more approval than
the loud and peremptory signal Of
the ambulance.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

Hiram johnson is honored by Hugh
johnson by being privileged TO use
the Blue Eagle on campaign literature
If he so desires.
Evening star., 1934-08-03
Thumbs in Danger.
th. As,,v.,s.o Ssrt,r.i

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
To our unscientiflc thought, it seems
quite possible that the ailment known
as 'housemaid's knee" may be super
seded by a similar af1iiction which
may be described as "hitch hikers'
thumb
Evening star., 1934-08-03

Suspicion Of propaganda in school
books may account for the large
numbers Of students who prefer the
foot ball coach to the professor.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

There are many divorces that have
nothing to DO with Hollywood, but
none Of them is so well preSs-agented
as those Of film land.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

New Orleans is delightful place
with many citizens who hope. no
doubt, that the Long -walmsley feud
can be cleared away before next Mardi
Gras.
Evening star., 1934-08-03
The Y. P.,s Prernratire.

Prom the Detroit News.
If the Commander IN Chief rates
9 cruiser for his holiday. surely the
Navy could extend the Vice President
the use Of q Life preserver,
Evening star., 1934-08-03

At present the studies of political
economy are being complicated by
questions relating to geography. eth
nology and mass psychology.
Evening star., 1934-08-03
Ante-Historic Relief,

From the Des Moines Tribune.
An officer of q western association
Of wardens says that nature VIII at
tend to our outlaws. Sure, the next
Ice age will cover them up.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

In conducting a new deal it is only
proper to use some vigilance TO pre-
vent anybody from holding old cards
up his sleeve.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

Strikes are being settled with in
telligent effort to avoid the mistakes
which make an adjustment a new
basis of misunderstanding.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

No Anarchist.
An anarchist would not be
For anything on earth.
On certain laws we must agree
To give this life some worth.
I favor laws, mid great applause,
For which the people call,
And then in selfishness I pause
To disobey them all.
Evening star., 1934-08-03

Parties.
"Are you going into society next
winter?"
i suppose So" answered Senator
Sorghum.
Wont that interrupt your work."
Possibly. But when my wife de-
cides to have a party, old-style po-
ntical parties are Of no consequence
whatever"
Jud Tunkins says he wishes the old
Saengerbund would start up again
and drown out Hell Hitler" with
"Hi-lee, Hi-lol"
Evening star., 1934-08-03
Forbearance Ceased.

Forbearance Ceased
Have you a political boss in Grim
son Gulch?"
Not now" answered Cactus Joe.
I'VE had one, but he got tired of
being blamed for everything that went
wrong"
The tombs of my ancestors" said
HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, dis
play many honorable epitaphs, but in
the rush of a real estate development
nobody pauses to read them"
At the Post Office Window.
A dear old song is sounding from the
echo of the past.
As I stand in the post Office, day
by day.
Successful was the party for which
votes often cast,
It's banner is triumphant on dis
play.
A job I nave requested. Just a
postage stamp so small
Would bring the message which
humbly claim.
In patience still I've waited from the
Sprtngtime till the Fall,
But the letter that I longed for
never came.
Vacations" said Uncle Eben, els
what leaves de Office chair empty
while de boss is doin' special hard
work somewhere else"
Evening star., 1934-08-03

Oliver P. Newman, widely known
Democratic Washingtonlan. who is
helping 70 establish a new deal for
Santo Domingo in the role of fiscal
adviser to the Dominion Republic,
brings back a wealth of interesting
sidehghts respecting Gen. Rafael
Leonides Trujillo. the President Of the
republic, Truiillo began life IS
Evening star., 1934-08-03
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Evening star., 1934-08-03

@. Have there been any expert
ments in freezing corn on the COBB
F. p.
A. Corn frozen on the cob Is one
Of the new developments in the pres
ervation of vegetables. The frozen
corn is found to be free from cob
flavor often associated with corn pre-
served on the cob. It also retains its
sweetness.