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Evening star., 1934-05-29
A Productive District Day.

Yesterday the House Of Representa-
tives. acting as branch OF the
Districts legislature, passed twenty
two bills and rejected one. 1t was a
field day for local enactments, a
record of accomplishment being estab-
lshed. Most of the measures that
received approval were passed with
out discussion other than that re-
quired for explanation. The most
important of them was that which
provides for the discontinuance OF
the use as dwellings of buildings
situated in alleys of the District, a
measure that has been long pending
and the enactment of which will per-
init the carrying out of a program OF
alley clearance and the provision of
housing accommodations elsewhere
for those thus evicted. II this work
is carried out in accordance with the
plans outlined in the measure Just
passed. the Senate having already
acted In approval, save for amend
ments to which there is no substan-
tial objection, the National Capital
will be ridded Of conditions that have
Evening star., 1934-05-29
A Call to the Nation to Dedicate
Itself to War Against Crime

We acknowledge a difference in
theological opinion, but the Protest
ants. Catholics and Jews can work
together for reverence for God. and
His laws, and for brotherhood and
fair dealing. Let us stand together
as we would in time of war. and, no
matter how small our influence. have
for a definite aim better observance
OF law and order and the desire for
greater interest in religion.
Calvin Coolidge said:
II have tried to point out a great
many times and in great many diff
ferent ways the fundamental impor-
tance of religion in sustaining our
present civilization and Government
The whole fabric CT society rests
upon it.
Il do not see any method Of i'm
proving our social and economic rela-
tions except through the teachings of
religion. In fact. it is my belief that
we have gone as far as we can in
progress and reform until we have a
more general acceptance of the truths
of religion. If these are permitted to
slip away from us the progress and
reform which we have already accom-
plished will vanish with them"
As we stand on Memorial day on
hallowed ground and pay respect to
the honored dead, let us rededicate
ourselves to our country's cause, and
to the cause of Righteousness, that the
shackles of sin may be broken Real
izing the gravity of the situation,
may we stand united In a fight for
law observance and renewed interest
in religion.
CLARA BOYNTON HADLEY.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Anti.Vivisectionists
Protest Pasteur Film

To the Editor Of The Star:
Humanitarians throughout the Uni
ted States and Canada, who have
been protesting to the Fox Film Co..
the projected film, Humanity First"
in which Warner Baxter would be cast
as Pasteur, appreciate the following
telegram to Mrs. c. N. Millard, Erie
County Anti-vivisection Society, Buf-
falo, N. Y.
Il wholly sympathize with spirit
prompting Pasteur picture protest.
Will never willingly sanction any act
condoning cruel treatment of animals.
Have explained my attitude In this
matter to studio officials. Will appre-
ciate your communicating this mes
sage to individuals and groups to
whom you have protested film.
(Signed) WARNER BAXTER"
Pasteur's principal claim to fame
rests. in the belief Of many scientists,
on discoveries cribbed from his fellow
countryman and contemporary, Be-
champ. Pasteur's germ theory of
disease-which has never been proved
was due entirely to a misunder-
standing of scientific theory which
had been propounded by Prof.
Bechamp,"-has resulted in the most
diabolic torture of countless numbers
of animals-lncreasing daily. 'Labo-
ratory rabies"-Pasteur's purely arti-
fetal production of rabies-rates first
rank in the black art of vivisection.
Perhaps in years to come a film,
'"The Great Mistake" will feature
PaSteur in another and q truer light.
Mrs. ARTHUR ADAMS,
District Chairman,
Viviscetion Investigation League,
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Mr.. Ash Answers Critics
of His Views on Parking
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
AS resident of Washington for
more than 10 years and a taxpayer
for the past SO years, of which I feel
proud, permit me through the columns
of your valuable paper to express my
hearty approval of the course the
traffic director, William A. Van
Duzen. and the Supt. of Police. Maj
Ernest w. Brown, are pursuing rela-
tive to all-night parking on the
streets of Washington. Their course
is highly commendable. and I believe
they have the unanimous support of
the property owners, as well as
many and many others who are not
holders of real estate, in their effort
to rid the streets of the unwise. un-
reasonable, undesirable and unsightly
practice of the many owners of
automobiles who insist on using the
thoroughfares for housing. repairing
and cleaning their cars, thus avoiding
the payment of small and reason
able garage rent. I trust there will
be no retreat or retraction on the
part of the two officials named, or
on the part of the citizens aSSocia-
tions and the many and many prop
erty owners, who are agitating and
advocating the banning Of these
practices. The good fight must go
forward, and be pressed. with more
vigor to be successful. There must
not be one iota of a backward move
or let-up until the fight is won and
victory is assured, the verdict being
abolishment of the streets for all
purposes, other than daily and neces-
sary uses.
The ones that are doing the most
shouting and clamoring for the use
of the streets for parking purposes are
those who are the least concerned
when the upkeep Of the city has to
be reckoned with. who want every
thing possible to be supplied gratis.
This latter assertion. I think, might
apply to some of my recent critics
who in several instances tried to twist,
shift and distort honest and true
statements, as we'll as facts, from truth
to untruths. AS far as am concerned,
that was their privilege. However.
will leave the matter under discussion
up to the public and the readers of
The Star to decide which in their
opinion is the most authentic, also
truthful explanations and statements.
AS well as the most deserving.
HENRY F. ASH.
Evening star., 1934-05-29

long been recognized as unwholesome.
The House divided on the subject
of motor car insurance, passing the
bill which requires insurance before
renewal Of driving licenses forfeited
for certain causes, but rejected
that which would compel financial
responsibility in the case of the
operators of taxicabs. On this latter
bill the House, after a lively and
protracted debate. voted 1877 to 100
to reject the measure, thus definitely
ending it for this Congress.
Taken altogether it was a very
District day" in respect
to the amount of business transacted.
1t disposed of a number of items
that have been clogging the District
calendar for a long time. To the
extent that the Senate has already
agreed or will later concur at this
session it will have set in motion ac-
tions that will make for the better
ment Of the community.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
II Duce Tells Us.
From the Cleveland News.

From the Cleveland news.
Benito Mussolini sees the early de-
cline and fall of the American peo-
pie.
His official paper, Popolo D'Italia,
cites three reasons why this Nation
and its skyscrapers are doomed to
crumble soon.
One Is the paralysis of energy"
which we take to mean the recent
inactivity of American industries,
due to unemployment. Another is
the decrease in production. The
third is the "decadence of agricul-
ture." All three come about, II
Duce says, through a decline in our
birth rate.
Mussolini Is all wrong The Amer
ican population, aided by new blood
assimilated from Europe, is sufficient
with its normal birth rate for some
generations, and by the time 1t begins
to thin out, we may lower our immi-
grafton bars again. Agriculture and
industry have been overproducing
rather than underproducing, but are
getting back into their stride. One
reason why agriculture is somewhat
"decadent" just now is that foreign
customers lack the money with which
to buy our products.
America is all right. More par
ticularly Americas form of govern
ment is all right And there is the
point of Mussolinis criticism. He
would have it that no democratic
people can survive. Americans know
better. They'll show their heels to
dictator-ridden Europe in any trade
race of other contest of an economic
nature for many years to come.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
In answer to the contention of the
writer, published in The Star for
Thursday CMay 24), that a free
money budget would make feasible
the collection Of foreign debts. an ex-
pert of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce has said that
tariffs would interfere.
The answer to this is that it is the
very virtue of freer money situation
that it would ease the demand for
tariffs or other restrictions on foreign
trade by restoring domestic employ
ment so that competition with foreign
enterprise is not on so brutal a basis.
Tariff making could then become a
national plan instead of a hodge,
podge of political log-rolling, for i'm
ports would raise instead of lower
the American standard of living,
particularly as they came in payment
of loans In the main American
tariffs are no longer needed for the
development of infant industries, but
only for protection against the un-
certainties of foreign dumping, and
1t is getting the cart before the horse
involving all the confusion that such
procedure entails. to try to condition
our domestic recovery upon tariff
policy. We should first get our own
house In order.
There is also involved a reversal
Of cause and effect-a treatment Of
symptoms. instead of cure for
disease-in the effort to prevent. by
direct legislation, the dire results of
speculation as now conducted. Specu-
lation in future values as distinct
from prices Is essential to an efficient
economy. This distinction between
prices and values ought not to exist,
but, under our free-money system Of
commercial bank loans It does exist,
and restrictive market legislation, fail.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Price Index Not Profits
As Sound Monetary Guide

ing to draw this distinction. curbs
legitimate as well as illegitimate
trading. This is fatal defect that
can be remedied only by the indirect
monetary approach to the problem.
New money should come into use
through free-money budget that uses
price-index, in place of profits. as
monetary guide. New money issued
through bank loans facilitates specu-
lation in prices Gas distinct from
values) because clients profiting in
prices cannot be distinguished from
those profiting in legitimate values.
Indeed, the clients themselves often
cannot distinguish the source Of their
profits in this respect, and the profit
motive as a guide in production dn-
cluding distribution) becomes con-
fused and industrial activity CORE
spondingly distorted. Hence arise the
fallacies of MARKHAM philosophy as to
surplus values" as a cause of over
production, unemployment, etc, that
are tickling the new deal pink and
causing the neo-socialistic brainstorms
that are cooking up our alphabetical
soup. ALDEN A. POTTER.
Evening star., 1934-05-29

The defeat in Congress Of the Nor
ris resolution, proposing constitu-
tional amendment to abolish the elec-
toral college, is treated by the press
as a relatively unimportant incident.
Before the vote was taken the resolu-
ton had been so altered as to elm
mate the Nebraska Senator's main
object-the election of Presidents by
popular vote, without regard to State
lines. Much of the editorial discus
sion centers' about the merits or de-
merits of the original proposal.
IF those who are so desirous OF
radically changing the Constitution, so
that there would be nothing left OF 1t,
finally have their way warns the
Portland CMe.) Press Herald. I'VE will
have here in the United States exactly
the same political conditions as now
exist in France and in some other
European countries, where there are
a great many parties, each one led by
ambitious men, seeking elevation to
places of power. The result IS con-
stand turmoil, inefficient government,
a succession of revolutions and finally
the reputation of democracy alto
pether. as has occurred in Germany.
Perhaps this is what the statesman
from Nebraska sees in the offing and
what he and his followers really de-
sire"
Declaring, however. that the defeat
ed amendment did not "go far
enough" the Roanoke World-News
argues: cit is very good to propose
abolishing the electoral college and
to favor reducing prohibitive election
costs. 1t is important also to see that
no election system remains which
makes 1t possible for a minority can
didate to be elected
Observing that the object OF the
proposed change was Ito eliminate
personal factors in electoral decisions
and "to encourage greater multiplicity
of presidential candidates" the Syra-
cuse Herald states: THE latter in
fuence would work within narrow
lines, inasmuch as the existing sys-
tenn of State units Of representation
in determining the result would be
preserved, save in the very rare cases.
where the leading candidate in a
given State had failed to obtain a
plurality of IS per cent Of the total
vote. Such a result could only fol-
low an extraordinary distribution Of
the State ballots among minor candi-
dates. The closeness Of the Senate's
constitutional alignment will doubt
less be a signal for Senator Norris
perseverance in a decidedly trif1ing en-
terprise. One searches the text of his
amendment in vain for any substan-
tial reason why the States should be
enlisted in an attempt to recast In
a largely technical way an electoral
system which was wisely shaped"
The Austin (Tex.) American pre-
diets further attempts to pass the
legislation, because Senator Norris, at
the time of the defeat of the amend
ment, entered a motion for recon-
sideration." The South Bend Tribune
adds: "The intention of Senator Nor
ris apparently Is preserved to greater
extent in the Lea resolution in the
other House of Congress. That reso-
luton would abolish the electoral vote
system and give to each nominee elec-
toral votes or fractions in proportion
to the popular votes actually polled.
That, Of course. would not mean ac-
tual direct election Of the President
Evening star., 1934-05-29

Prof. Cremin, director of New York
schools, advocates playing slow waltzes
as a means of quieting Toledo rioters.
1t might be an Immediately successful
idea If the ladies of the community
were to insist on breaking into the
situation with a band. But it would
have to be a good band. Some of the
current music would be more irritat-
ing than soothing. A sense OF humor
is a saving grace, but in so serious a
state of affairs so absurd a suggestion
is not even crudely comic.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Planetarium for Washington.


Ground was broken yesterday for
the planetarium of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History, New York
The third of its kind in the United
States, 1t has been made possible by
the gift of Charles Hayden and the
issuance of bonds by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation. If WASH
ingtonians read the news of the cere-
mony with envy, the circumstance is
understandable, for the Nations Cap
ital certainly needs such an institu-
ton quite as much as Chicago, Phila-
delphia or the metropolis of trade at
the mouth of the Hudson.
A planetarium, it may be explained,
is a dramatization of the heavens.
The New York establishment will be
a three-story edifice with a dome
rs feet in diameter for projecting
replcas of the sky under all known
conditions. The basement will be
used for an exhibit of meteorites and
the first floor for the Copernican
planetary exhibit, a mechanical ar
rangement for showing consultations
In their orbits and other astronomical
exhibits"
One need not be a scientist, skilled
in knowledge of the empyrean, to
comprehend the idea. It is simple
enough to engage the enthusiasm of
child. But it teaches the basic
elements of astronomy and has the
imponderable spiritual value Of re-
producing the poetry; the majesty
and the grandeur Of infinite phe-
nomena-it stirs the heart like .
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Says Marschal Designed
the COnfederacy's Flag
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The statement in your issue Of May
s, 1884. that Orren Randolph Smith
was the designer Of the first nag Of
the Confederacy was news to mean
Alabamian.
When Alabama seeded from the
Union my 19-year -old father buckled
on his sword and answered the first
call to arms, and as Alice Longworth
says In her Crowded Hours" that
"she could hardly recollect a time
when she was not aware Of politics
and politicians" I can say that I can
hardly recollect a time when I was
not aware of the stories of our men
in gray and of that genius Nicoli
Marschan who had designed the first
flag Of the Confederacy-known
throughout the world as "The Stars
and Bars"
In February, 1851, Mrs. Napoleon
Lockett. an ardent "rebel," sought
Nicoli Marschall in his studio where
he was teaching art at the Female
Seminary in Marion, Ala, and said:
"Mr. Marschall. seven Of the Southern
States have seeded from the Union
and we want q flag designed, will
you do 1t? We do not want it too
much unlike the United States flap. ("
Hesitating a moment Mrs. Lockett
added. "Will you design the uniforms.
too?" To this he also consented. He
took a piece of cardboard and sketched
and colored three designs for the flags
which he gave to her. The uniforms
with their various insignia of rank
were completed the following day.
When the flags and uniform designs
were submitted to the Confederate
States Congress at Montgomery. Ala,
the first Capital of the Confederacy,
the Congress accepted the uniform
and one flag design-the flag of the
Conference.-The stars and bars"
Mrs. Lockett then began looking for
material to make the flag. Due to
conditions at the time and Inadequate
means for procuring the material Mrs.
Sumpter Lea, bride living in Marion.
gave her wedding gown, and this, with
other material gathered, made the
first Confederate flag.
In Memoirs of Jefferson Davis" by
his wife. volume 2, page SO, Mrs. Davis
says: He was adverse to relinquish-
ing the old flag and insisted that a
different battle flag would make dis
tinction enough between the combat
ants, but he was overruled and a new
one was submitted with a blue union
containing the stars in white; the flag
had one broad white and two red
stripes the same width" The flag
described by Mrs. Davis was the first
flag of the Confederacy-designed by
Nicoli Marschall!
If Orren Randolph Smith Of North
Carolina designed the Confederate flag
on February 1c, 1861, that was before
North Carolina had made any move
to secede North Carolina seeded
April 20), and Alabama, only waiting
for Virginia to make her decision as to
where she would fight, seeded JIM
uary IL, 1861.
Jefferson Davis took the oath of
Office on February 18. 1861. On March
4, 1861, Miss Letitia Tyler, daughter of
Col. Robert Tyler and granddaughter
of John Tyler. former President Of
the United States, raised the flag de-
signed by Nicoli Marschall to the
summit of the staff on the Capitol
grounds in Mont -omery. Ala.
MINNIE REESE RICHARDSON.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Byrd VS.. A. A. A,

Vlrginia'S Democratic Senators have
difficult time stomaching some of
the proposals of the Roosevelt new
deal. Their concept of a democratic
form Of government does not run on
all fours with the concept of the
"plannerS" and brain trusters. +"
Senator Carter Glass, the senior SEN
ator from Virginia, while he has sup
ported the President on many occa-
sions since March 4, 1898, and on
occasions when some of the Demo-
Gratis dubbed more liberal" have not
stood with the Chief Executive, has
been unable to agree with several of
the administration proposals regard
ing the monetary system of the Ma
tion, not to mention the regulation
of the securities markets. And now
his colleague, Senator Harry Flood
Byrd, has taken the warpath against
administration proposals to strengthen
the powers TO the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the A. A. A.
To agree to the amendments to the
agricultural adjustment act which
have been demanded of Congress. ac-
cording to Senator Byrd, would be to
make Secretary Wallace a Hitler of
American agriculture" and to reduce
American farmers ito the status of
peasants in Soviet Russia" The re-
marks of the Virginia Senator are
reminiscent of the charges made not
so long ago by DR.. William A. Writ,
Gary, Ind, educator, who charged
that the brain trusters, particularly
in the Department of Agriculture,
were planning to do just what Sen
ator Byrd now declares this new bill,
sponsored by the officials of the Agri-
culture Department, would do.
Senator Byrd, speaking over the
radio last night, said of the program:
One of the proposed amendments
to the agricultural adjustment act
will give to the Secretary of Agri-
culture the arbitrary power to con-
troll every farmer who obtains a
benefit payment for a reduction in
specific crop as to what such farmer
can plant and produce on his entire
farm, even down to chickens and tur-
keys. At present the Secretary only
has the power to say what shall be
produced on the land that he leases
and removes from cultivation.
Another amendment proposes to
license food producers, handlers and
distributors and deny the right of
shipment of goods in interstate COM
merce if the Secretary of Agriculture
declines to issue a license. This pro-
posal, Senator Byrd contends, is even
more drastic and is calculated to
destroy the liberty Of, action of
American farmers and handlers of
farm products.
Faced with a growing opposition
among Senate agricultural leaders, the
officials of the A. A. A. are pulling in
their horns. Already they have agreed
to some notifications of the amend
ments of the agricultural adjustment
act asked originally. Indeed, it has
become clear that unless there are i'm
portant notifications, insistence by
the administration on the passage of
this bill would delay for a considerable
period the adjournment of the present
session Of Congress, which has become
an end much desired in administration
circles.