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Evening star., 1934-04-08

lilies. The largest is in Northern Wis
consin and has 400 families. It is
called Wisconsin est-Farm Home
steads. So far, 100000 has been lent
to the community. Sums ranging
from $125 900 at the Decatur project
to 100000 each for the projects
known as Charlottesville Homesteads
in Georgia and Penderlea Farms in
North Carolina have been advanced.
The shorter work day and work
week being effected under the ma
tional recovery codes are, in part, re-
sponsible for the huge scheme. 1t IS
recognized that workers will have
more spare time and a part OF the
plan seeks TO capitalize on this. AT
each project workers will raise their
own produce on tracts set aside for
them. This will provide Substan-
tial addition to income from real
wages. The worker, it is argued, will
be less at the mercy of cycles of in
dustry. He at least will be able to
subsist during long lay-offs.
The Arthurdale Community at
Reedsville, w. Va, and the West
moreland Homesteads in Mount
Pleasant Township, Pa, are excellent
examples of the wholesale nature Of
the projects. In both regions great
many miners were left without means
of livelihood because Of the closing
down of the coal mines. The decline
in industrial use of coal brought about
by the decline in industrial activity
generally and also by the substitu-
ton of oil fuel or electricity has caused
the abandonment of many mines.
Trained only in coal mining, many
workers were completely at a loss.
They were on public relief rolls and
a constant burden with, it appeared,
very poor prospects of betterment.
When it is stated that 35 per cent Of
all the farmers in Randolph County,
w. Va, were in receipt Of public re-
lief, the need for drastic steps looking
to permanent rather than emergency
handling becomes apparent.
Plan Adapted TO Locality.
Each local corporation selects the
members of the community. In gen
eral an effort will be made to select
those having some sort of agricultural
background, but that is not an abso-
lutte requisite. The different projects
are not following the same plan. In
each case there have been adaptations
to suit special requirements. For ex-
ample, the Arthurdale community is
divided into 5-acre tracts, while in
Indiana and at the HightstoWn, N. j.,
projects the tracts are only acre.
The New Jersey project has not been
able to follow the plan of selecting
families with a recent agricultural
background, inasmuch as it is de-
signed especially for INDECENT mem
bers of the needle trades Of New
Yorks great garment industry. These
persons are all of the Jewish race and
while their original, traditional back
ground was pastoral, SO many CEN
turieS have intervened that little
traces remain. Prominent Jews Of
New York have interested themselves
in the HightStown project. and the
community will have its own garment
factory, furnishing employment to
community members.
1t is the first time anything Of the
sort ever was attempted by the Fed
eral Government. If a full measure
of success meets the efforts it is pos
sible that hundreds of these made-to-
order towns will come into existence,
materially changing the whole order
of American life.
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neglect and far-country living, once
you have the will to return to the
ways of rectitude and obedience the
Father will meet you more than half
way" Some one has called this:
Conversion by expectation; regener-
alton by appreciation.
Two purposes marked the ministry
of Christ-first to more fully reveal
the purpose Of God concerning us
and, secondly, to more completely and
fully reveal to us our own divine ca
pacities and potentialities. No one
ever appraised human life more high
ly than did He. He invested man
with a new hope, gave him a better
understanding Of the purpose Of life,
and quickened his desire to be worthy
of the eternal Fathers love and
mercy:
"There's a Wilderness in Gods mercy
Like the wilderness Of the sea;
There's kindness in His justice
Which is more than liberty.
For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of mans mind;
And the heart of the Eternal
Is more infinitely kind"
Where the stern judgments passed
upon life seem to fail, the winsome-
ness of ChriSt's Interpretation of the
extent of Gods love overcomes and
breaks down all our conceits, preju-
dices and unbeliefs The word of
another comes to us where he says:
1.-THE law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better hope
did" The application of all this to
our world today is pertinent and i'm
mediate. The spirit of despair and
hopelessness has produced conditions
that overcast our skies and take from
us at times courage to carry on. From
childhood to old age We need the
note of hope which stimulates and
encourages us to better things.
While he was yet a great way off
his father saw him" This is Gods
way, Gods method of meeting us
more than half way.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Frances Economy Program.

Government workers are the first
victims of the drastic series of econo-
mics ordained by the French min
istry in order to effect sweeping cur
tailment of the budget. In addition
to retiring at a stroke $500 civil
servants, a presidential decree cuts
all salaries, from that of the Presi-
dent down, so as to effect an esti-
mated total saving of 100000, 900
francs currently s190,520,00O).
A second swing of the economy axe
will be aimed at World War veterans,
whose pensions and allowances are to
be heavily reduced. The French eX-
service men have often declared that
they would accept cuts if others
would do so.
American Government workers will
be interested in the stagger system
proposed for cutting the pay of
French civil servants. The Presi-
dents salary is slashed twenty per
cent, while the salaries Of cabinet
members are reduced fifteen per cent.
All other salaries over 100000 francs
(S6,590) are decreased ten per cent,
and below that amount five per cent
This last provision will hit severely
the immense group of 100000 civil
servants of all grades who receive
less than 10000 francs (S79O.8O) a
year. If there is to be anything
savoring of a revolt against the econ
omy program it will come from those
quarters.
1t is not only in cuts of pay to
government workers and in allow
ances to war veterans that the
Doumergue cabinet is taking a leaf
out of the Roosevelt book. The task
of French fiscal restoration is to be
accompanied by a vast P. w. A. pro-
gram to solve the unemployment
problem and to increase purchasing
power. A six-year project contem-
plates the expenditure of 1898 500 900
on public works.
In what spirit the vast army of
French civil servants will accept the
governments retrenchment program
remains to be seen. Threats Of
strikes on May day, particularly by
Communists, are already rife. There
is notoriously red sprinkling among
employees in the postal, telephone and
telegraph services, all government
operated That the authorities are
aware of the smoldering unrest in
Paris and the provinces is indicated
by the police roundup of all persons
and places suspected of concealing
arms, an alarming array of which
has already been discovered.
The Doumergue government has two
major fiscal problems to solve-to
balance a budget now registering
four billion franc deficit and to pre-
vent the franc from slipping off the
gold standard. But over and above
these problems looms the major issue
of preserving domestic peace and
averting civil war. The next few
weeks may bristle with grave develop
ments in France.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Made.tO.Order Towns
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

The most pretentious experiment in
artificial placing of populations prob
ably ever attempted now is being con-
Quoted in the United States by the
subsistence homesteads division of the
Department of the Interior. Whole
groups are being moved bodily into
made-to- order towns in an effort TO
bring permanent relief and better liv-
ing and working conditions. If the
experiment is as successful as 1t Is
hoped, the map may be substantially
changed.
concentration Of population has gone
forward with acceleration. The rural
population has moved steadily into
the cities and this development has
produced a whole train Of new eco
nomic conditions, many of which
have raised problems difficult to cope
with. The subsistence homesteads
were undertaken at this time as
part of the emergency relief work be-
ing carried on by the Federal Gov
ernment, but it is the plan to con-
tinue the work indefinitely to the end
that decentralization may be accom-
plished.
There are five general types of
communities being built. The first is
the workers garden suburb. These
suburbs are being located in the
neighborhood of small industrial CEN
ters. Then there is a second type
adapted for larger industrial centers,
where the work Is of such type that
decentralization cannot be expected.
This second type is associated espe-
cially with the heavy industries such
as steel.
A third type is designed for what
are termed stranded industrial popu-
lations. One effect of the depression
has been to close down whole groups
Of plants. leaving thousands of work.
ers without their accustomed source
of income. Having little or no finan-
cial background, these people have
been unable to remove to places where
they might find work. They are
literally stranded.
The depression has given rise to
new type of community. which has
been given the name of rural slum.
Never before in American history did
this particular sort Of community
exist. The wearing out Of farm land
through generations of cultivation and
failure to maintain the soil by con-
slant refertilization has found fam
lies which once were able to make
good living now scarcely able to exist
on even a poverty basis. These COM
munities are being moved to better
lands. Still another type calls for
wholesale moving of populations liv-
ing precariously on submarginal recla-
nation project lands.
Theory Put Into Practice.
The sum Of SIS 900 900 has been
set aside from the appropriation of
the Public Works Administration to
be used in the establishment of the
communities, the movement of fami-
lies to them. In every locality where
1t is proposed to establish one of the
projects a local corporation will be
organized. These corporations will
borrow from the parent organization,
paying per cent interest to the Gov
ernment. Individuals then will bor-
row at a slightly higher rate.
Work already has begun and there
now are II subsistence homesteads in
existence. The smallest is at Deca-
tur, Ind. 1t consists of only 48 fam
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the country. But in spite of all this,
the movement has made no sensible
impart upon the public mind.
1t is possible to live in London. as
I do, or for that matter in any part
of the country, without being aware
Of the existence of organized faScism.
1t is frowned on by every party and
has not attracted a single first-class
political personality to it's banner.
Even the wayward Lord Rothermere
had no sooner plunged for fascism
than he recanted, with the naive ex-
PLANTATION that his spasm of support
had represented not policy but ''an
incident"
Broadly speaking, it may be said
that the battle of the shirts has not
yet been transferred to this side of
the English Channel. say this in
spite of the struggle which is going
on in Ireland between President de
Valera and the blue shirts. That
struggle is now in a most critical
stage. De Valera's attempt to sup
press the wearing of the blue shirt has
failed in the courts, and has now been
blocked in the Senate. De Valera has
retaliated by threat to abolish the
Senate. That threat will take time
to implement-if it is ever imple-
mented-and in the meantime the
blue shirt is legitimate wear
But this does not mean that faScism
is a force in Ireland any more than
in England. The blue shirt Is not
the badge of dictatorship as the black
shirt is in Italy and the brown shirt
is in Germany. If it were, people
like Cosgrave, MacDermott and Dill
Ion would not be associated with Gen.
O'Duffy. 1t is not standard raised
against democracy and constitutional
government. 1t is only the uniform
foolish or otherwise-of the party op-
posed to the De Valera government.
If there is a peril of dictatorship in
Ireland it will come from the armed
I. r. A. Qrish Republican Army
making democratic government i'm
possible, and not from deliberate
attempt to overthrow constitutional
rule.
In the same way, Fascism IS un-
likely to become a serious menace in
English politics unless there is a
really formidable attack on the par
liamentary principles from the Left.
The best asset of Sir Oswald Mosley
is Sir Stafford Cripps, whose advo-
cacy of government by administrative
decree would, if it became the policy
OF Labor, cause landslide to Fascism.
But the main current of Labor is
thoroughly loyal to Parliament and
knows that dictatorship, whether of
the Fascist or Soviet variety, would
be fatal to its freedom and its inter-
ests. While that is so, and while
public opinion is so firmly with STAN
ley Baldwin in his 'denunciation of
private armies" for the furtherance
of political aims, there is little likeli-
hood that the shirt" question will
become anything more than a sub
ject of amusement on this side of the
English Channel.
Bulow once said to friend Of mine,
some years before the war, that there
was only one country in Europe where
democracy had its roots so deep in
the soil that it would survive any
conceivable tornado. That country
was great Britain. Elsewhere, he
said, democracy was too shallow a
growth to resist the storm that was
imminent. One-half of his diagnosis
is proved by events, and the other
half Is well on the way to proof.
(Copyright, 1934.)
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Gossip.
Where's the gossip plain old-fashionet
Who was busy as could be,
With cookie she was rationed,
And another cup of teal"
My gracious!" one would mutter:
And another sighed, We'll! Well!'
Words of caution next were uttered
you must never, never tell"
Now the gossip's innuendo
Scorns the surreptitious hint.
Scandal speaks in shrill crescendo
And is even fit to print.
With music and with banners
Chatter will be advertised.
Even gossip's old bad manners
Are still more demoralized!
Evening star., 1934-04-08
PearY at the Pole.

It Is now twenty-five years since
Admiral Robert E. Peary's discovery
of the North Pole.
1t was on April 6, 1909, that the
intrepid explorer stood at last on the
top of the world-the point which
for twenty three years he had striven
to attain. In n sense It was one of
the great moments in history. Men
had penetrated Natures supposedly
most inaccessible fastness. He had
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Reports differ as to whether Presi-
dent Roosevelt is catching any fish.
At any rate, there Is satisfaction in
knowing that no news leakage on this
matter can be utilized for private
benefit In the stock market.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Progress.

do you ever have lynchings in
Crimson Gulch?"
II should say not" answered Cactus
Joe. THE old Gulch is just as refined
and progressive as Chicago. When in
dignation is aroused we don't trife
with a hoss and a rope. We get an
automobile and machine gun"
Evening star., 1934-04-08
The High Halter.

Have you ever high-hatted any
body?"
mot for long time" answered
Senator Sorghum. Not since I used
to make faces at the class when the
teacher required me to wear a tall,
conical Ounce cap"
Evening star., 1934-04-08

the adoption Of the code for the min
ing of soft coal and for a number Of
the allied subordinate industries-the
wholesale and retail coal and the
coal-dock industries which take care
of distribution-it is evident that this
long depressed soft coal industry has
actually begun to see light ahead after
many years of disturbance and at
time Of virtual chaos.
copyright. 1884,
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Every dietitian now warns against
overweight. Repeal cannot be ex-
pected fully to restore the pre-prohi-
bition spirit. 1t is safe to predict
that there will never again be Jolly
Fat Mems Club"
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Patient Congressional Audience.
Out from the Record wisdom filings
The words with anger fraught,
Yet sympathy sincerely clings
Unto the listeners caught
Where they must hear a lot of things
That never should be thought.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Financial perception is not re-
stricted to old limitations. Aviation
promoters are now represented as
turning their gaze skyward and say
ing "Thar,s gold in them thar clouds -
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Information as to how many fish
the President catches is not authenti-
Gated. There are times when even
fishing should be done in executive
session.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

A deadlocked jury is as good as
an acquittal for practical purposes.
But in case it leads to several encores
1t proves a rather expensive per-
formance.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Wealth tends to distribute it.
SELF" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town. "One who attains even the
semblance of riches must employ
many servants to write letters and
answer the door bell''
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Russia is always suspected of propa-
ganda, but it would be better IL it
were expressed more in terms of the
magnificent old Ballet Russo and less
in soap-box defamation.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

A high-power lobbyist is at a dis
advantage just now. His extra power
may tempt him to exceed the speed
limits and run past signals.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Suspicious of propaganda have
grown so strong that even our after
dinner speakers are being taken
seriously.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Communism does not become really
offensive until a crowd gets so rest
less that it refuses to listen to a soap
box speech.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

A situation such as has developed
in Minneapolis is sufficient to move
thoughtful people to tears without the
use of gas bombs.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

The following news item in The
Star of April 9, 1884. tells of the be-
Beginning ture that stood for
Landmark. many years as a
landmark in down
town Washington. and the site Of
which is now part of the plaza in
the triangular park north of the new
Department of Commerce Building:
The plans for the new Washington
Light Infantry armory and opera
house. to be located at the corner of
Fifteenth and E streets northwest.
have been laid before Mr.. Entwisle.
inspector of buildings, by MesSrs. Gray
& Page. the architects. Mr.. Ent-
wisle, after carefully looking them
over, stated to a Star reporter that,
with the exception Of some slight
notifications he deems necessary to
secure the safety of the public, the
plans showed most excellent construc-
ton, ranking among the best in the
District. A permit will soon be ap-
piled for"
In pursuance of its campaign for
the burial Of all electric wires, The
Overhead Wires of Apri1 ri 10 10 1854, 1854
and Isolation. says:
The storm Of
yesterday served to give people in this
section of the country realizing
sense of the comparative disadvan-
tages under which our forefathers la
bored. 1t also called to mind the
condition of affairs here at the out
break of the rebellion. The railroads,
to be sure, worked as usual yesterday,
but the wires were incapacitated Sc
riously. For a time all telegraphic
communication with the North was
cut off, and to community which
has learned to depend so completely
on the modern appliances of civili-
Zation, this sense of isolation seemed
singular and not altogether agreeable.
When the time arrives, as arrive it
must, for a general interment of the
wires, such Inconvenience will become
thing of the past, and the comfort
and business of the community will
no longer be at the mercy of the every
freak of the elements"
AN excellent reform" says The
Star of April IL, 1884, has been inau-
gurated by the
folcemen anu new municipal
Circus porodes aut til critics of
Philadelphia 1t
is to the effect that hereafter no de-
tail of policemen will be allowed TO
escort circuses and other like shows
on their advertising parades through
the streets of the city. This sensible
action is respectfully commended to
the attention of the authorities of this
district. Aside from the manifest i'm
propriety of assigning policemen to
this duty, the practice is grossly un-
just to the community. There Is no
danger that a circus procession will
get lost on its way or that it will be
stolen by the horde of curbstone idlers
who usually watch its proud course;
whereas the times when such a crowd
is occupying the streets are exactly
those which are chosen by sneak
thieves and other criminals for plying
their trade in other parts of the city.
But whether this be SO or not, acting
as guard of honor to show parades
is no part Of policeman's duty. He
is paid by the public for a far more
useful and appropriate service"
Evening star., 1934-04-08
High Hats and Rabbits.
,reat magician gave a show.

n STedG HldSlCldu gave q SIlOW.
A high hat and a rabbit
Made bunnies new appear to grow
AS perpetual habit.
We thought that he had found way
To make mankind a winner,
Providing rabbit stew each day
For every mortal sinner.
But one day some unruly man
Reached boldly out to grab it;
Pursuing nefarious plan,
He simply stole the rabbit.
And so we see how things that seem
A state of grand profusion,
May swiftly vanish like dream
An optical Illusion.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Jud Tunkins says a man who burns
the candle at both ends is liable to
be remembered only as a grease spot.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
British Black Shirts
Make Poor Beginning
BY A. G.. GARDINER.

LONDON, April THE first clash
of Sir Oswald Mosleys Black Shirts
with the authorities is a subject of
laughter rather than alarm. 1t has
arisen out of the tithe war, which
has been a source of disturbance in
rural England for some time past and
has been aggravated by the agricul-
tural depression consequent on the
worl1 economic slump. In many dis
tricts the farmers have organized re-
sistance to the levying of the tithe
and have combined to make the
forced sales of effects unproductive
The Black Shirts, looking around
for cause in which they could make
their debut as an active force in the
country, decided to strike a blow on
behalf of the farmers. They sent
down detachments of men into the
eastern countries to help, by digging
trenches and telling trees, to hold
up the sale of goods by auction on
certain farm premises. They promptly
found themselves in conflict with the
police, were arrested for conSpiring
to obstruct the law and were COM
mitted for trial to the high court.
There they made lamentably un-
heroic appearance.
X 4 y X
They pleaded guilty, protested that
they had no intention of breaking the
law and explained that they thought
that in telling trees and digging
trenches with the consent of the
farmers they were doing no legal
wrong. In short, they wore the
white sheet of the penitent over their
black shirts and promised never to be
led astray in this way again. The
Judge accepted their undertaking,
gave them a fatherly talk, bound
them over to be of good behavior, and
warned them that if they obstructed
the execution of the law again they
would be severely punished. With
that they filed from the court under
the august eye Of Sir Oswald him
self.
Sir Oswald Mosley has fashioned
his black shirts strictly on the Italian
model and has put into the enter
prise all the resources of his great
wealth and his undeniable gifts OF
spell-binding He has established
Fascist barracks at Chelsea and has
campaigned ceaselessly throughout
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Folks 60 fishin'," said Uncle Eben,
land at least gets de reputation of
havin' good time when dey is mebbe
jes sittin' an thinkin' things over dat
dey's too mad to talk about"
Evening star., 1934-04-08

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Gossip.

BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
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