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Evening star., 1934-09-08

ing; he may fail But be his destiny
victory or catastrophe defeat, it will
matter little to the man himself He
has had his moment, and it was
automatically glorious. The stage was
of his own choosing. the chorus of
his own selecting, the spotlight di-
rected according to his own wish
One of the most richly colorful of
he cast himself in his
favorite role of leader of the people,
expositor of doctrines which he has
persuaded thousands to indorse and
exponent of reforms which he has
taught still other thousands to want.
He sold" himself to the limit, and
presumably sold" portions of his
philosophy. And at the end he went
away with smile on his lips. Come
good or i'll on election day, he will be
content. He will have the memory
of yesterdays triumph, and that will
be a proper reward in his judgment
He has talked to the universe, and the
universe has listened.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Liberty League of America as the
Defender of the i. S. Constitution

To the Editor of The Star:
Nothing within recent months has
been more encouraging than the or
ganization of the Liberty League of
America, pledged to uphold the Con-
stitution of the United States. From
the aims of this league no one can dis
sent. One may believe that our Con-
stitution is imperfect and that it needs
amending, but no one can justify
belief that the Supreme Court should
place strained and unnatural con-
struction on the Constitution in order
to uphold radical legislation, or a be-
lief that the legislative and executive
branches of our Government should
disregard the true meaning of the
Constitution.
Every public official is sworn to sup
port the Constitution of the United
States and one who betrays the Consti-
tuition is guilty of treason. We may
expect every public official, therefore,
to pay at least lip service to the Con-
stitution, regardless of whether he
really believes in the Constitution. An
effort has been made to disparage the
league by attempting to make it ap-
pear that the league differentiates be-
tween human and property rights
We, of course, all know, or should have
sense enough to know, that the only
rights recognized in the Constitution
are human rights. The right to own
ones home. farm or store, which one
has bought and paid for by hard work.
may be referred to as property right
by demagogues, but it is essentially a
human right-the right of person to
the property he has produced or ac-
quired.
There would not be so much con-
Evening star., 1934-09-08
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The Moro Castle Disaster.

Ranking with some of the great
marine disasters, the loss of the
steamship Moro Castle early this
morning off the coast of New Jersey
demonstrates that despite all modern
advances in steamship construction
and in navigation and the develop
ment of means of saving lives, when
the forces of nature strike there is
always menace on the sea.
The accounts of the catastrophe are
still incomplete as this is written. 1t
is suggested, however, that the ship
was struck by a lightning bolt which
ignited a fuel oil tank and caused the
explosion, another report indicating
that a fire, originating in the ships
library, spread too rapidly to be over
come and caused the disaster. The
stroke came at an hour when the
ships company was mostly asleep.
There was little chance for escape.
Nevertheless some survivors have
reached shore and probably some
others will be succored The prayer
of all is that the loss of life may not
be as great as now seems likely.
In such an assemblage of passengers
there is always the chance that resi-
dents of this city are included, Thus
Washington may have particular cause
for sorrow in the loss of some of its
own people Not until the passenger
list is fully recorded and the roster of
those saved is at hand can this fear
be dispelled or confirmed. Memory of
the distressing hours following the
sinking Of the Titanic and the Lusi-
tania is revived by this catastrophe,
which is so fraught with possibilities
Of heavy loss and sorrow.
Evening star., 1934-09-08

fusion in the public mind if we had
not allowed ourselves to be carried
away with the idea that so-called
liberal judges should be appointed to
the Supreme Court, possessed with
the notion that it is their duty to
warp the Constitution to fit it in with
modern life and to place a strained
Interpretation upon its plain pro-
visions in order to uphold legislation
which according to their lights would
be best for the public. Our minds
nave been so poisoned with this doc
tr1ne that we listen with liberation
to President who refers to our Con-
st1tution as being resilient" and who
states that Ito consolidate what we
are doing to make our economic and
social structure capable of dealing
with modern life is the joint task of
the legislative, the judicial and ex-
ecutive branches of the National Gov
ernment"
The league is on sound ground
when it takes the stand that the
Constitution should be upheld and
that. if it is to be amended, the
amendment should be made by the
people themselves in the manner pro-
Vlded in the Constitution. Every one
who believes in democracy should take
the stand that it is for the people
themselves to make our Constitution
capable of dealing with modern
life" by appropriate amendments, and
that it is not the function of the
legislative, the judicial and executive
branches of the Government to make
our economic and social structure
capable of dealing with modern life
in disregard of the Constitution
adopted by the people. G. w. BUTT.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Value Received.
From the San Antonio Evening News.

From the San Antonio Evening News.
BY the latest accounting, enroll
ment in the Civilian Conservation
Corps had reached 1862, 900, setting q
new high mark Only 5000 addi-
tional recruits were needed to bring
the organization up to the full strength
legally authorized. The rolls include
10000 young men in the drought ter
rltory, enlisted as q relief measure.
AS reports from various sources have
indicated, the C. C. C. is giving the
people more for their money than
perhaps any other New Deal" agency.
Ofdcials estimate that the forest
workers are sending 61a million dol
lars month to SOC, 900 needy families.
Considering that showing, one regrets
that the entire Government relief
scheme could not have been organized
on the C. C. C. model.
Whether engaged in road building,
landScaping, fire prevention or soil
conservation the forest worker earns
his pay. AS every forester and all
conservationists know, this country
needs enough such work to keep at
least 100000 strong, young men busy
indefinitely. 1t is a pity so many
citizens should be in enforced idle
ness while priceless natural resources,
which they might save, go to waste
The C. c. C. should be maintained
indefinitely; the Government could
have no more profitable investment.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Apex.

Upton Sinclair, Democratic candi-
date for Governor of California,
Wednesday reached what well may be
considered the absolute apex of his
career. He was the guest of the Ma
tipnal Press Club at luncheon, and
the occasion brought him a degree of
fame such as he never had known
before or, perchance, every may know
&gain. In the room was assembled
the whole of the Fourth Estate. The
great national and international news
agencies, the leading journals of fifty
capitals, even the smallest and least
important Of country weeklies, we're
represented in the throng which
crowded to hear the apostle of
E. P. L. C.
And it was good show. Mr.. Sim
clair is witty and apt, and he loves
debate. The keener the question, the
more brittle and incisive his retort.
He understood his opportunity, and,
like clever actor, he played" it for
all it was worth. Over the heads of
his audience he saw the waiting mil
lions of earth's puzzled children, the
hitherto forgotten" multitude of
metaphorical underdogs who have
served the old order which he so often
and SO bitterly has excoriated. To
speak to them through the con-
venience of their agents of newspaper
dom was a chance which he had
sought through three tedious decades
of pamphleteering. Instinctively he
realized that he had reached the front
page at laSt-attained the goal of all
his efforts and, more important,
achieved it on his own terms. Small
wonder that he was at his best per-
forming for such an audience!
His political fate remains to be de-
termined. He may win the guberna-
torial seat for which he is campaign
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Not a Streamlined Crime
From the New York Times.

from the New YORK Times.
Even If the Brooklyn robber gang
seems to have vanished into thin air
with $427,000 in cash, it is still per-
miSsible to question whether it was
perfect" crime. The raid on the
armored car was successful, but was
it art?
1t was not art by accepted stand
ards. The machinery of the plot
automobiles, speed boats, even the
suggestion Of an airplane-was too
cumbersome It should have, theoreti-
cally, broken down in any number of
places even if actually it did not. The
number Of men in the gang-between
half q dozen and a dozen-defieS the
rules of economy of effort. The police
seemed justified In saying that the
size of the gang would prove its un-
doing
Decidedly 1t was not a streamlined
crime even if it made awfuly good
speed. There were too many angles
offering resistance to the air. 1t
seems like borrowing trouble when a
disguised as a peddler
lounges for hours on the scene of the
crime with a machine gun under a
cover in his cart, inviting accidental
detection. Too elaborate" must be
the verdict. But from the police. of
course, we have a right to expect
something more than esthetic criti-
cism.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
BY Request.

BY Request.
It's fine to hear robin sing
Up yonder in the tree;
The mocking bird a joy will bring
From any discord free.
Yet there's one singer who is hid,
But not forever lost
I'd like to hear the katydid
A-singin' bout the frost.
The Summers ever genial ray
Brings forth full many a trill,
Until as daylight fades away
We hear the whippoorwill.
But of them all we'll we'll be rid
When August counts their cost
I'd rather hear the katydid
A-singin' bout the frost.
Evening star., 1934-09-08

sion and the Fine Arts Commission
to discuss in advance the project and
the arrangements of liaison between
the various interested organizations so
that it may be maintained as the
plans progress.
What is needed at the District Build
ing is somebody to take charge of
this project at the very beginning and
arrange for its efficient completion,
with a minimum of delay. Commit
tees may be necessary, but they some
times have an unfortunate tendency
to wander in circles.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Roper's ''Profit Motive" Speech
Viewed as Timely Assurance

of the fact that the impetus to sus-
tanned recovery must come from pri-
vate enterprise; the Government can
not hope to take the place Of this
powerful force. But knowing this
truth, it fails to act fully on the
knowledge and tender definite reas-
surances."
THE words are reassuring so far
as they go. but how far do they go?"
asks the Wall Street Journal The
Baltimore Sun finds serious obstacle
to recovery in apprehension about the
future of the dollar. Somehow the
word statistics has lost its power to
charm; it is too vague, too meaning
less, takes in too much territory"
says the Baltimore paper. Business
men may well retort that what busi-
ness needs is confidence, not statistics
confidence that a dollar of today
will be worth q dollar day after to-
morrow, confidence growing out of
reasonable assurance as to what an
investment now made will represent
six months hence, confidence as to
what the administration intends to
do and where it will stand next week
or next month or a year from now"
Evening star., 1934-09-08

Where do the small exotic fishes
kept in the home aquarium come
from, after all?
Is the angel fish really from the
Amazon?
Did the Barbus from Sumatra ever
see that delectable isle?
Does the Rasbora, with its delicate
triangle of porcelain blue, recall the
waters of India?
The tropical fish fan" well may
speculate upon the individual speci-
mems in his tanks, for the chances
are that they came from the Bronx,
having been bred there in tanks.
Still, one may feel fairly sure that
the Rasbora came from abroad, at
least from Germany, since not many
of them have been raised in this
country.
If the fishes are good specimens, ii
makes little difference, after all
whence they came.
No doubt there are literally tens of
thousands of angel fish (Scalare)
distributed all over the United States
ers' and fanciers' tanks.
They are, to all intentS and pur-
poses, permanent exiles from their
native waters.
They have never known the river,
the shady pool, the clear stream of
Nature.
Their little lives have been bound
for all time by invisible glass walls.
We often have Speculated what an
aquarium fish must think of his
boundaries.
Some may say he does not think at
all, but one who has observed these
interesting animals for any length of
time will feel quite sure that they do
think, after their fashion.
Just what they think must remain
a mystery as long as life lasts.
Just what all the animals think,
whether clad in fur or scales, is equally
a mystery to mankind.
At times one may believe he knows
what a fayorite dog or cat thinks about
things, but then again he may disbe-
heve his own ideas.
Behind those solemn eyes. he feels
sure, lies brain which does some
elementary sort of thinking. That
there is any self consciousness to this
process he may doubt: that it repre-
sents some real approach to mans
sort of intelligence he feels sure.
The aquarium fish. with its round
eye, will appeal to the enthusiast as
a thinking animal.
To him the round eye, without lid,
is not repulsive in any sense.
He comes in time to see beauty in
that eye, with its black center and
sometimes colored iris.
There is no high light in the pupil,
although up until about a year ago
almost all pen-and-ink artists depicted
such light in the center of a fish's
eye.
A distinguished American ichthyol-
ogist called attention to this fact,
borne out by every camera study of a
fish, since which time all artists
have left out the high light, to the
betterment of their sketches.
X X 4 X
IL does not take the average accli-
mated aquarium fish very long to get
onto the fact that the glass walls of
the tank are something which no
longer concern him.
He simply accepts them, as man ac-
cepts so many natural facts. Both
f1sh and man have discovered that
there is not much use bothering about
things that cannot be helped or
changed.
Sometimes a fish will swim excitedly
up and down behind the glass, usually
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Control 1t, Not
Contend Against 1t
From The Charlotte Observer.

From the Charlotte Observer,
The social and progressive will of
the American people is running today
at f1oodtide.
Never before has it so rampantly
leaped the old parapetS of conserva-
tism and reactionaryism and swept
old PHILOSOPHERS aside.
In political tests being made this
social determination is paramount.
AS witness the rising of Upton Sin
clair in California, a brazen Socialist
who interprets the great vote which
he received for Governor of that State
as a vindication of the New Deal and
not at all due to his own personality
or capacity.
And there are so many evidences
of the strength and surging resources
>of this new purpose that is in the
mind of the American people that the
thoughtful public may as well realize
the necessity that We come to terms
with this overflow of social aspirations
of our countrymen in matters of
politics and industry.
1t would be unfair to interpret these
forces that are SO freshly running
through America as a presage of the
eventual coming of socialism or of
communism in this country. While
there is fear in the hearts of a great
many wise leaders of the land that
this precisely is about to happen, it is
ipconceivable that such vagaries are
to receive the sanction of the American
people.
What is happening, however, is a
breaking away from the old order and
all that it suggests. Roosevelt in
carnates the new spirit and the new
philosophy of government which is
trying to make social and human
rights ascendant to property and
capitalistic rights.
Mr. Roosevelt does not want social
ism. He keeps no company with
communism. He believes in democ-
racy, a progressive, advanced and
liberaliSed democracy, and such he
Evening star., 1934-09-08

has been seeking to put in practice.
What is especially needed at this
time is consolidation of those forces
and factors and influences which are
tearfully witnessing the demolition of
the old order to the end that they
may take hold of this moulten tide of
social purposes and groove it into
safe and constructive channels.
Far better that this be done than
that the American Liberty League
should be organized to make its ap-
peal to all the conservatism in Amer
lea as out and out against the liberali-
cations of the New Deal.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The Eve
ming Star Information Bureau. Fred
eric j. Haskin. Director, Washington,
D. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
@. When more than one pronuncia-
ton of word is given in a die
tionary is the first one preferred?-
N. H.
A. In most dictionaries this is
true. The first is preferred by the
compilers of the dictionary, but the
other pronunciations are sanctioned
as being in good usage.
@. During the depression years
have more people, who have jobs,
been absent on account of illness
than before the depression?-R. T.
A. On the contrary, illness fire.
quency rate has declined l9 per cent,
but severity rate has risen 4 per cent.
@. Is Yiddish more nearly allied
to Hebrew or to German?-D. B.
A. DR.. j. D. Isaacs Of Harvard
says that the popular language of
the Jewish people of today is Yiddish,
which is approximately 10 per cent
of modern high German, 20 per cent
of Hebrew and 10 per cent of Slavic.
1t is written In the square Hebrew
characters.
@. Is Sir John Simon, British
foreign secretary, a Jew?-H. B.
A. The American Hebrew publishes
Sir Johns statement that he Is not
descended from Jews.
@. What became of the railroad
car in which the armistice was
signed?-A. w. c.
A. Immediately after the war the
car was moved to the Hotel des In
valides, Paris, where it was kept on
track. Recently it was returned to
the spot near the town of Rethondes
where the armistice was signed. A
marble building was constructed over
it, making it a permanent memorial.
@. Please give the method by which
it is possible to see the wind.-P. B.
A. The Weather Bureau says that
to see the wind hold any fiat. smooth
surface having a straight edge "a
straight backed handsaw is excellent
for this purpose) against the wind.
but inclined to the vertical, with the
straight edge uppermoSt and leaning
with the wind, then sight along this
straight upper edge towards q white
object. If the wind is moderately
strong one will see it pouring over
the straight edge like water over a
dam. This phenomenon is owing to
irregular densities in the air which
in turn cause irregular refractions
of the transmitted light.
@. What is the name Of the office
having supervision over Alaska and
Hawaii?-H. A.
A. 1t is known as the Division of
Territories and Island Possessions. 1t
has supervision over Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Interior. DR.. Ernest Gruenfng is its
new director.
@. What is the inscription that
President von Hindenburg wished on
his tombstone?-S. H. T.
| A. According to his wish, the fol-
lowing are all the data which are to
appear: Paul Won Hindenburg-
| 1847 to 1884.
Q. When was neon invented?-
r. s.
A. Neon was discovered by Sir
William Ramsey and w. M. Travers
in 1898. The development Of a
gaseous conductor tube employing
neon gas dates back to about 1911,
but the use of neon in commercial
advertising is comparatively recent.
@. How much wine can person
make for home consumption?-G. L.
Evening star., 1934-09-08
Somebody Must Take Charge.

Col. Daniel 1. Sultan, the new En-
gineer Commissioner. comes to the
District Building with fine record as
q man of action. He has the reputa-
ton for getting things done, and get
ting them done efficiently. He should
be much interested in one of the most
important CT District construction
projects, the adult tuberculosis hos
pital at Glenn Dale.
1t is hoped that he will see to it
that the history of the building of the
Children's Sanatorium at Glenn Dale
is not repeated in the construction of
the adult tuberculosis hospital The
history of the former is not impressive.
1t was authorized more than six years
ago, under President Coolidge. 1t is
not yet open. One delay has followed
another. A lot of time was spent in
preparing the plans, with competent
medical advice. Yet the plans were
not followed in building the hospital.
One important feature, an adequate
solarium on the roof, has been neg
lected almost entirely, and the ele-
vators do not run to the roof. There
has been trouble about water supply,
although plenty of water is available.
Whether the delays have been due to
faulty engineering surveys, faulty en-
gineering supervision, faulty work by
contractors or mere aimlessness, The
Star does not know. But while there
are always ready excuses for the de-
LAYS. none of them has sounded par
ticularly convincing as explanations.
Yet, in the preliminary work on the
adult hospital, there are indications
that the story of building the chill
dren's hospital will be repeated, in
part, at least. The first action of the
Commissioners, for instance, has been
to select a committee of municipal
officials to study preparation of plans.
The next step will be to send the COM
mittee, or some of its members, on
tours to inspect other hospitals in
other cities. Why this is necessary
Is known only to the officials who will
be sent on visits, expenses borne by
the taxpayers. The United States
Government has been building hoSpi-
tails. and the plans are, of course,
available to anybody who wants to
study them. The United States Pub
lie Health Service has made a study
of tuberculosis hospitals, and is
equipped to furnish the information
on plans and the most improved lay
outs 1t should not take one compe-
tent District official a week to assemble
from Government agencies-at no cost
to the District-more data on modern
tuberculosis hospital construction than
ever will be needed.
1t is estimated that the preparation
OF plans will consume six months. 1t
might easily require that long to COM
plete the plans and specifications fol-
submission to bidding contractors
But it would seem sensible to invite
ut the very outset conferences with
representatives of the medical society
with the experts of the Public Health
Service and the Veterans Bureau
with the Park and Planning Commits.