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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

citizens. He is DR.. Taraknath Das,
who spoke on President Roosevelt's
Foreign Policy in Europe, Latin
America and the Far East" as the
guest of DR.. Herbert Wright, head Of
the Department Of Politics. Under a
Supreme Court Interpretation Of the
Constitution Hindus are no longer
eligible to citizenship.
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headquarters these days patronage
and politics are the twin issues that
absorb the time and energies of Emil
E. Hurja, who, as Chairman Far
ley's assistant, is temporarily running
the Democratic pie counter. Jobs on
the various newly constituted Federal
commissions-securities, communica-
tons. housing and the rest of them
are being hungrily sought. Appli-
cants must produce not only local
political credentials, but also evidence
Of fitness for the places in which they
yearn to serve Uncle Sam. Daily
scenes at the Hurja Office indicate
that the unemployment problem is
still acute.
Assistant Secretary of State Fran
els B. Sayre, who is in charge of the
Roosevelt Hull tariff bargaining pro-
gram. is sailing this week in an
American freighter from New York to
Leningrad, for a homespun vacation
cruise and a fieeting visit in the So
Wet Union. He will come back i'm
mediately on the same ships turn
about homeward trip. Woodrow Will
sons son-in-law, who happens to
bear striking facial resemblance to
the World War President, is crossing
on a freighter In order to enjoy a
do-as-you-please ocean existence. free
from the full-dress frills of fancy
liners. He will be accompanied BY
his daughter.
When President Roosevelt visits
Wisconsin next month he will find in
fun operation there the country's first
compulsory unemployment insurance
law. which has just gone into effect.
Benefits are limited to $40 a week for
not more than ten weeks of any one
year. Neither the State nor the wage
Garner is required to make any con-
tributions, all of which are paid by
employers, at the rate of 2 per cent
Of their annual pay rolls for the re-
serve fund, and two-tenths of l per
cent for administration expense. The
law assumes that involuntary unem-
ployment is the burden of industry.
Farm labor, personal or domestic
service, government and relief work,
teaching and interstate railroad en-
ployment are exempt from the laws
provisions. To permit accumulation
Of reserve fund, unemployment ben
efits will not begin until July, 1885.
Copyright. 1934l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
Munitions Makers as
FOmenters of War

To the Editor OF The Star:
Nobody thinks the less of a person
who vigorously defends his actions or
those Of the organization which he
serves in an executive capacity. But
it would appear that Mr.. Irenne du
Pont In letter recently widely pub
lished was trying to becloud the issue
and chagrin those DESTROYS of the in
yestigation of the practices Of NUM-
lions makers by styling them as either
communists or paciflst idealists. Posi-
bly, and probably some of each of the
aforesaid enumerated groups are to
be found as hackers of the investiga-
ton. But it is the general type of the
group as an entity which must be
looked to in leveling accusations II
they are to find their mark No proof
of this type Of affiliation has SO far
been presented, and, on the contrary,
the type Of men at the forefront Of
the enactment Of the Legislation pro-
viding for the investigation, is not
ASA liable on this point.
The speech of Senator Nye Of
March 6, 1884, as published by the
Government Printing ONCE, covers IS
pages and only three of these con-
Germs American manufacturers of
munitions (word used in the broad
sense). The rest is devoted to &C
cusations about the roles of European
munitions makers, including Krupp Of
Germany, England's Vickers-Arm-
strongs. Czech's Skoda and the
Comite des FORCES de France. Sena-
tor Nye made as his major point the
reason of failure Of concerted action
toward disarmament, quoting Lord
Robert Cecil, There is very sinister
feature to all the disarmament dis
cussions. I refer to the tremendous
power welded against all the pro-
posals by armament firms. We must
aim at getting rid of this immense
instrument IN the maintenance OF
suspicion"
The Senator from Michigan, Mr..
vandenberg. introduced resolution
in February upon the subject Of
manufacture of munitions. It would
take a great stretch Of the magma
ton to place him in any Of the three
groups enumerated in MFR. du Points
letter.
Mr.. Bernard M. Baruch, q very
pratical business man and intimately
associated with the Wilson admins
tration during the greatest war Of oil
times, advocated "the elimination Of
profiteering and. above all. the proflt
incentive OF war" Mr.. Baruch ats
tackled the problem from q different
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
Favor Supreme Court Test
OF Senate's Power to Punish

Austin (Tex.) American remarks that
Let George do It. Is as dead rs the
dodo; now the slogan Is, Let the
Supreme Court do IT," The Rich
mond News Leader observes: "Quite
obviously, II this is sound law. It
simply puts q premium on the de-
struction OF discriminating records as
means of refusing to testify before
legislative body. Unless such action
be made felony, punishable with i'm
prisonment, the legislative power Of
inquisition is sadly crippled"
"MacCracken gets a ruling that
the Senate had no business to SEN
tence} him." says the San Francisco
Chronicle. This Is probably I'M
portant, but unfortunately all the
preliminaries happened so long ago
that most folks supposed MacCracken
had done his 10 days and forgotten
1t. The significance Is that the
Senate, In It's high-handed way with
witnesses, can be shown to 60 be-
yond its powers II q witness Is de-
termined enough and persistent
enough to see the thing through, as
MacCracken is doing"
THE decision" declares the In
dianapolis News, may become q
notable victory for the courts and
an equally notable defeat for iegis-
lative bodies that would set them
selves up as prosecutor and Judge In
cases involving the liberty Of a citizen.
4" . The question is important. I'm
doubtedly the Senate shollld have
some way to compel witnesses to
testify, and to produce such material
as may be germane to the subject.
But to bestow on a political body the
right to accuse, prosecute and judge
a citizen is going too far. Obviously
this power can be used by vindictive
politicians, and probably it win be
used II the courts do not check them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES q. TRACEHELL.

Two baby thrushes sit on bough
not 4 feet from the glass. all unmind-
/ fui of the human face with its peer
/ ing eyes.
What round heads they have, to be
sure. and what fat little fluffy bodies
| Each is q duplicate of its parents
except for the intangible differences
which 60 with a little age.
Given few more months, each will
1 be q big thrush. in some ways the
/ prettiest and most charming Of all
I birds.
Now they sit about feet apart, on
different boughs, each trying its
morning song.
Neither has yet acquired the ability
to sing the beautiful thrush song.
That will come later.
| Now each little bird practices on a
/ few of the clucks and semi-musical
gratings which are part of the
thrush song.
| Even bird lovers DO not always
realize that the song OF the wood
! iii Anll 10 diA PulE AllElOOys hS IL
so often seems, especially when heard
at some distance.
II is almost as II nature could not
bear the thought of sheer musical
outpouring without crude admixture.
There is something In Nature, call
1t what one will, which eternally
fights against the perfect.
Or, should We say, against the per-
! feet as man would have it?
The four-part song of the thrush is
as lovely an outpouring as one will
hear in a days journey. (The happy
thing is that one does not have to
travel; one can hear it right at home.)
Yet for all Of its beauty there are
strange clickings and gratings between
each strain of three pure notes, at
once high. loud and clear.
1t Is only from the earpoint of man,
a would-be seeker after perfection,
that such SOUNDS are unmusical.
The bird knows nothing Of crate or
grit; 1t sings as its nature is, and let's
mankind define the pure and the
impure.
1t is not bothered about standards
at all. but sings right on. in the way
its ancestors sung.
These baby thruShes indulge only In
soft gurgleS, in juvenile clackS and
clicks.
Far below a cat PAGES yard, intent
on his own business.
The young thrushes peer down at
him. as If seeing him. Maybe they
do. who can say?
There is a wisdom among birds
definitely connected with sight, even
more so than among us. We have
minds to correct faulty vision. or to
tell us that all is not what it seems.
The birds rest secure in first i'm
pressions, or they do not rest at all
They must see danger as their danger,
and nothing else.
One of the thrushes flies to a nearby
limb. but not far away The other
continues to practice his song. The
onlooker wonders how the full song
will come to hin-will it be all at
once, or will he perfect himself, bit
by bit, in strain after strain?
Even the ornithologists cannot tell
us that. They may get disk record
thing compared with the real song.
1t Is as nothing compared with the
sight and song of the real bird, seen
from window at the head of the
| stairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20

Theirs are decided differences OF
opinion as to the right of the United
States Senate to accuse, prosecute
and Judge" q citizen, but mostN news
paper observers are agreed ON the
point that the Supreme Court should
pass upon the case of william p. Mac
Cracker, the former Assistant Score
tary of Commerce, who won in the
Court of Appeals Of the District OF
Columbia his fight against To-day
jail sentence imposed by the Senate
because he failed to produce certain
papers called for In the airmail con-
troversy.
"The Government ITSELF" thinks
the Milwaukee Journal, Should APP
peal the MacCrackeH case so that the
people may know what the highest
court will say about it. II the Sen
ate has departed from sound pro-
cedure, the Nation should know It.
That is more important even than the
guilt or innocence of Mr.. Mac
Cracker"
"MacCracken defied the Senate
committee investigating airmail con-
tracts" says the Newark Evening
News, "by sending away. after he had
been subpoenaed, certain papers the
committee had ordered produced be-
fore it. Before the Senate got around
to sentencing him for contempt OF
itself. MacCracken turned up the pa
pers. To say that purged him seems
tantamount to saying that any after
the-fact compliance or disclaimer
wipes out affront to senatorial dig
nifty. That is pretty far reaching.
Were this opinion to go unchallenged
it might mean that henceforth con-
tempt of any legislative body could,
for the time being, be INDUCED in
ad lib. The court was explicit In
maintaining the Senate's normal pow
er to try for contempt. That was
scarcely necessary, since both houses
of Parliament for centuries, and later
of the American Congress and most
State Legislatures. have, from the be-
ginning, possessed this power. The
MacCracken case should be taken on
certiorari to the highest court. He Is
not vet out Of the woods"
The process Of appeal is advocated
also by the Oklahoma News, bastng the
Judgment on the belief that 1T is
important that the power Of con-
gressional committees to do their
work should net be impaired" The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20

aspect and probably the more feasible,
namely, compelling industry during a
war as well as men to share the burden
and to take the profit out Of war.
The address of Mr.. Baruch attracted
the attention of the world.
For one I candidly admit am in
terested In Just what the Senate In
vestigational Committee will turn up.
Americans, like other nationalities are
stepped in the idea Of national patriot
ism from their youth. Consequently 1t
is natural that the American citizen
will pay heed to the findings TO
ascertain whether wars have and
are being fomented and artificial
national hatreds famed by manufac-
turers of munitions for private profits.
Maybe the accusations made viii
prove utterly without foundation in
50 far as the precipitation Of wars
is concerned. But the data. In all
justice TO the people, should be
opened up to the public, for the en-
tire population is subject to the call
Of the Nation in the event OF HOSTILE
ties. PAUL d. BOONE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20

A window at the head Of q stair
case Is interesting beyond ordinary
windows
1t transforms what otherwise would
be a dark well into pathway toward
the light.
The light is there. pouring In and
down. as one comes up.
Somehow that seems supremely
natural, even more so than the old
fashioned bay windows of memory.
The typical Victorian bay window
has gone "out." along with many
other gracious things now regarded
as too old-faShioned
II will come in again, though, there
Is no doubt Of that, because 1t Offers
a beautiful interior grouping and ar
interesting exterior addition 70 break
up the monotony OF the straight wal
line
The bay window of the old days
mostly was used as a place for keep
ing ported plants. When It was con-
structed with a window seat IL be-
came a sort of reading nook. now I'M
happily seldom found in a home.
Today the old bay offers unusual
possibilities in keeping canaries and
tropical fishes in their cages and
glass aquaria Neither of these con-
flicts with the use of such a window
for plants or for reading purposes
Fishes, in particular, being noiseless
offer wonderful possibilities for the
bay windows of the future.
X "
The window at the head of the
stairs is rather a looking post into
the great outdoors than anything
else.
Ordinarily one does not sit there
or stand there very long.
Just a glimpse into the trees, into
the life of another world than ours
Such is the world of the birds
those strange little creatures We &C
cept as part of our own lives and
our own world, but which know us
not. except for quick glance from
round, bright eyes.
If we put out food and create
drinking places for them. they seem
to know US, but really they do not
they simply eat the food and drink
the water, or take a bath.
The pride Of humanity makes us
say that they are grateful, but nc
doubt they know us not. and the
question remains, why should
they7"
What are we, great long-legged
creatures, that the birds should mind
us?
No, it is just the other way around
we mind them, we pay attention tt
them, delight in their pretty colors
as Charles Dickens did, on his first
trip to America, when he called the
bluejays flying flowers"
There is no better post to watch
bird life than that old familiar win
dow at the head of the stairs.
1t may be large, 1t may be small
1t may be square or oblong, or round
or even half moon, as the custom
once was, but unless it is glazed with
colored panes it offers about the best
gazing post on bird life In the house
For there is no concourse of hui
mainly at this window.
People come and go, up and down
the steps, but only the occasional
person will stop to look out.
That is why, among other reasons
this Is a precious window, because
to the person who knows it rightly
it becomes a personal window, one;
very own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Vacation.

Vacation.
Travelin' here and travelin' there
'Crost the hills or 'crost the sea,
Gettin' news from everywhere,
LIES not what it ought to be.
Everybody puts a sign
On the door in big display
Where the sunbeams brightly shine
Going on holiday!"
Static in the radio
Interrupts the news that flies.
Folks won't pay us what they owe,
Strikes in various towns arise.
Where we thought of rural bliss
Where the hours are gently gay,
What we get is mostly this
'Hotcha-zing boom-oo-lee-ay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
Rock Creek Connecting Parkway.

BY ALLEGATIONS of funds from the
public works appropriations. in two
sums totaling $685. 900, a project
which has been many years in the
making in the District is assured of
completion. This is the connecting
parkway between Potomac and Rock
Greek Parks, which was proposed soon
after those two reservations of lands
were established, the former by recla-
nation of the fats and the latter by
purchase. A singular combination of
causes delayed this work season after
standardization OF appropriations.
difficulties in the acquisition of land
and contests over title. Section after
section was completed, with varia-
lions from the original plan, but in
general conformity with the principle
OF preserving the creek valley
throughout, as against the proposal,
az one time considered, TO cover it
and conduct the waters Of the stream
TO the river by tunnel. In one re-
spect this delay caused an unfor-
tunste situation-that at the intersec-
ton Of the parkway with the extern
sion of Massachusetts avenue. where
the road below was carried through
the bridge structure by tunnel. al
together too narrow and SO situated
as TO cause dangerous condition.
Now it is planned to correct this con-
dition by constructing an additional
underpaSs at that point, to divide the
traffic into two streams.
1t is highly gratifying that at Ions
last this project is on the point Of
completion. The opportunity afforded
by the public works fund for this de-
velopment has been grasped. with
credit to the District Commissioners
the Park and Planning Commission
and the head of the Public Work,
Administration. Secretary Ickes. whit
has recognized In this work an i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
Rats \, MaIl--Payable m Adyapce.
San Franchises Victory.

Again the force Of public opinion
has won a victory. The calling of
OF the general strike In San Fran
cisco Is a tribute 10 the common
sense and the sense OF justice of the
people OF California. San Francisco
has been known for years as a strong
union labor town. 1t is clear. how
ever, that labor itself has not been
convinced that a general strike is
good medicine Before the gen.
eral strike was ended by vote OF
the strike committee last night
workers, both union and non-union,
were going back to their tasks.
The longshoremen's strike, which
set the whole ball rolling in San
Francisco, has still to be settled. 1t
Is now believed confidently that an
adjustment of the differences be-
tween the union and the ship owners
can be reached, and that the Long
shore Board, appointed by the Presi-
dent recently under the terms of the
new labor adjustments act, will prob
ably be the body which will conduct
the work of arbitration and media
ton 10 successful issue.
The more radical element. which
seemed for time to be in control of
the strike situation in the California
city, has lost ground rapidly. 1t has
lost ground because the people OF San
Francisco would not stand for the
radicals or their plans. That means
that the great majority of the work.
ers themselves have declined to fol-
low the radicals. Indeed, the "vigi-
lantes" who raided the Communist
and other headquarters the other day
were in large part members of labor
organizations. The police followed
the raid with the arrest of 800 of
the radicals as reds. The national
administration, through the Secretary
of Labor, Miss Perkins, has promised
to deport undesirable aliens taken in
the roundup.
The changing situation in Califor-
MIA, where the clouds of industrial
strife have been so black in recent
days, is tribute to the stamina Of
the people there. The State and local
authorities acted promptly to preserve
law and order, and in the main that
has been accomplished. Certainly
peace has been preserved to a de-
gree that at one time was not ex-
pected.
1t is refreshing. too, that the peo-
pie themselves and their own local
authorities have been able to handle
the situation. The Federal Govern
ment has stood ready to back up the
local authorities II it proved neces-
sary. The Federal Labor Board has
used its good offices, officials of the
Government, including Assistant Sec
rotary Of Labor McGrady, have been
on the spot doing all they could to
bring peace. In the end, however, it
has been the force of public opin-
ion that has prevailed against violence
demanded by a radical group The
people were in no mood to stand for
such tactics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
Revolution" on WAY
For Past Dozen Years
To the Editor Of The Star:

In the July II issue Of The Star
Mr.. @. w. Hancock states In an
article that during the last admin
istration there were fewer strikes than
in any other similar period Of our
country's history"
would like to say that Mr.. Han
cock Is absolutely right In making
such an assertion, for the very few
people who had work had neither the
spirit nor courage TO strike for more
money. What the great majority
needed was work at any price.
He says this Is Roosevelt revo-
luton" If so, it has been coming on
for the last twelve years and not two
and one-haf years. as he says.
II it had been Hoover revolution"
the effects would have been far more
disastrous for it would have been for
bread, and not more money for work
MRS. M. G. BEAHM.