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Evening star., 1935-01-27
WOMEN OF THE MOOSE

Columbia Chapter met at the Moose
Hall, 1414 street. Being past regents
night all stations were filled with past
regents, as follows: Mrs. Ethel
Phythian, senior regent; Mrs. Leona
Blankenship, junior regent; Mrs. Anr
ma Wagner, chaplain; Mrs. Flora
Hamilton, past regent; Mrs. Grace
Clark, recorder; Mrs. Anna Nally,
treasurer: Mrs. Elenor Conover, sem
tinel; Mrs. Anna Sabate and Mrs.
Pauline Ketner, guides. Senior Regent
Deegan presented each with q corsage
Of roses. The Entertainment Com
mittee furnished q program and rsr
freshments.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
JEWISH WAR VETERANS

Washington Post, No. So, Jewish
War Veterans of the United States,
will meet tomorrow at the Jewish
Community Center, with DR.. Ivy Pelz-
man, commander, presiding.
One of the major objectives of the
current year is the creation Of a
junior band, drum and bugle corps,
whose personnel will consist Of or
phaned boys and the sons Of members
of the post.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
RADIO BROADCAST
SLATED BY VT. v.
National Commander to Be
in Charge of Initiation Of
Many Candidates.
Meetings This Week.

Monday: 8 pm, Front Line
Post, No. 1401, 1l05 Sixteenth
street. Washington Post, No. 1854,
1903 Fourteenth street. Follow
Me Post, No. 1880, Ambassador
Hotel. Front Line Post Auxiliary.
Confederate Memorial Hall, 1922
Vermont avenue.
Wednesday: 8 pm, overseas
Military Band, Drum and Bugle
Corps, National Guard Armory.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
POTOMAC G. A. r. LADIES
WILL OPEN CONVENTION
BANQUET to Be Held Tomorrow
Honoring A. E. Stacey, Com
mander in Chief.

The Department of the Potomac,
Ladies Of the G. A. r., will open the
departments annual convention to-
morrow evening with a banquet at
2400 Sixteenth street, to be given in
honor of Alfred E. Stacey, commander
in chief Of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and Mrs. Pearl C. Cook of
Chicago, national president of the
Ladies of the G. A. R.
Department president, Mrs. May D.
Lightfoot, will preside.
Music for the evening will be by
Clement A Gable, who will be ac-
companled by Miss Helen Regan.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
SPANISH WAR UNIT
|NSTALLSLEADERS
Gen. NJ. Emmett UreII Camp
Also Joins Auxiliary for
Ceremony.

MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
Auxiliaries.
Monday-Col. James s. Petit,
Naval Lodge hall.
Friday-Gen. Henry w. Law
ton, $50 H street.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

Constitution Chapter met at the
Burlington Hotel, with the regent,
Mrs. Thomas Hariie Seay, presiding.
Mrs. Lewis Battle was voted mem
Der. Appropriations were made to
the State fund for good citizenship
medals for Junior high school pupils,
Evening star., 1935-01-27

The State Radio Committee, Mrs.
Earl Fuller, chairman, announces Mrs
z. Lewis Dalby, State chairman of
the Magazine Committee, will speak
over Station WRC January 80, from
lis to 1870 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

Dominic Doll Society, C. A. R., had
a party with Norma Doll and Joan
Marie Thomas at their home, 2O24
North Capitol street. Mary Schaller
presided. There was candy for each
member from Mrs. Gary E. Walters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30

will be remembered for the gentleness,
the kindness, the humility, the un-
assuming generosity and liberality which
were her distinguishing talents from
first to last.
And it happens. providentially, that
the influence of such noble careers is
growing with the years. The facilities
of modern civilization democratize their
values. Newspapers and magazines.
cinema and radio combine to tell their
story. 1t follows, then, that they are re-
ceived into every home. into every re-
ceptive mind. And If finally they are
accorded universal tribute of grief it
is by reason Of their elemental merit
that they are so recognized. Surely
there must be hope for race which is
willing and able to join in sorrow for the
departure of those who have deserved
such reward. Even in death, it may be
supposed, Astrid of Belgium is drawing
the nations together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
Replies to Mr.. Beebe's
Comment on the Ballet
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Who is Lucius Beebe? I have just
read his outburSt in The Star OF August
10 against the Monte Carlo Ballet, and
while I do not "seethe with apathy" one
of the neateSt tricks of the week, I can
not but feel that steps must be taken.
The American Ballet is an excellent
organization, but so also is the Monte
Carlo Ballet and to write of the latter
as Mr.. Beebe has written, simply adds
another load to the burden that must
be borne by all balletarians.
In the first place, to say that any
audience awaited anybody'S "entrechats
royals" breathlessly. is ridiculols. There
is nothing the least BREATH taking about
that step, whether done by Nijinsky, or
any second year student. In the second
place, to say that the first dancers of
the Monte Carlo or any other ballet
would fall fiat on their faces if they had
to do an off to Buffalo" is to say that
either Mr.. Beebe doesn't know a first
dancer when he sees one, or else that he
regards that step with the same sublime
ignorance that he bestows upon entire
chats royals"
The American ballet stands high
enough in the world of art not to need
boosting at the hands of Mr.. Beebe, nor
does it help any organization to run down
its competitors.
We Of the ballet are getting pretty
tired of seeing SO much balderdash writ
ten about the dance and feel that the
time has come for each good dancer to
go to the aid Of the dance.
LISA GARDINER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
Budget.Balancing Talk.

An article by George Creel, in Golfers,
predicting a balanced budget by 1899
and the substitution of a surplus of
revenues for recurring and increased
deficits evokes interest in the views of
one commonly understood to have
friendly access to the President. Mr..
Creel does not enjoy the reputation of
an infallible forecaster of coming events,
but the opinions in his article are some
what strengthened by unconfirmed re-
ports in Washington that Secretary Nor
genthau has himself become firm
apostle of budget balancing and intends
to do something about it.
Something may be done about it, of
course, without achieving the interesting
pattern for budget balancing so attrac-
lively presented by Mr.. Creel. And what
is done will depend largely on the sort
of budget submitted to- Congress for the
next fiscal year and the Presidents
accompanying recommendations. Await
ing the decision of the next session of
Congress in January is a formidable
array of spending and imitation plans,
including the $2,10O00O,00o bonus pay
off. There is also lurking in the corri-
doris the ghost of FraZier-Lemke mort
gage refinancing. Inflationary plans
were postponed at the past session in
return for adjournment and unob-
structed passage Of the tax bill. They
will be revived with new vigor as soon
as Congress sits through the reading
of the Presidents budget message.
That message, and the nature of the
estimates which accompany it, might
strike the key to whatever plans the
President and Secretary Morgenthau
have for beginning budget balancing
program. But any great Roadway in
that direction, in a year following a
session of Congress which appropriated
some ten billion dollars and in the year
which is to witness another election,
cannot be regarded optimistically. For
budget balancing, or the adoption of q
workable program toward budget bal
ancing, is accomplished only through
sharp retrenchments in Government
costs coupled with revenue raising taxa
ton. And neither of these moves is
apt to be injected into the normal COM
plications of campaign year.
The time for applying the brakes to
the still active imitation sentiment and
moving toward serious attempt to
bring Government OUTLAWS into balance
with income was in the past session. One
opportunity was provided in the tax bill,
through Senator La Follettes wise but
painful surtax schedules. Congress hav-
ing not only missed the opportunity in
the past session, but having run from 1t
in manifest terror at the prospect, its
contributions to budget balancing in the
next session cannot be counted on very
heavily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
Speed the Real Danger
On the Defense Highway

To the Editor of The Star:
Your articles on the danger of the De-
Tense Highway, as well as the photos,
are very Illuminating. There is one
practical method by which the driving
danger on that highway can be consid-
erably reduced, and that is by reducing
the speed limit to- say, 80 miles per hour.
A 45-mile limit on wide road, such as
the Mount Vernon Highway land it has
many curves may not be unsafe. A
narrow road with dangerous curves does
not warrant 45-mile speed limit.
It is the speed. not the road, which
causes the bad accidents. Motorists will
not agree generally with me, but know
1t to be a fact. I have driven motor
car for years, but do not use the Defense
Highway, and others of similar kind,
at more than 80 miles per hour, and in
some parts 35 miles. This is my maxi.
mum limit. On the Mount Vernon High
way 40 miles is my limit. Within these
limits my car is always in safe control.
If you really desire remedy on the
Defense Highway. and those who use it
do, agitate a reduction of the speed
limit. Many motorists always exceed the
limit anyhow, and they can be found
going so to SIS miles on the Defense and
other highways. The simple, common
sense remedy is a reduction and rigid
enforcement of the speed limit. Will it
be done? Probably not. and we will go
on having the unnecessary accidents in
like number as in the past. The So
called dangerous curves are not the
whole evil. Excessive speed is deaths
messenger on the out-of-town highways.
JOHN A. SMITHSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
WASHINGTON. OBSERVATIONS

hallowed spot. These statistics, which
have been kept only since April /, 1880,
when Lieut.. La Mont A Williams be-
came assistant superintendent of the
cemetery, with the care of the amphi-
theater and the Unknown Soldiers Tomb
as part of his duties, show that since
that time there have been nearly $780,
900 visitors to the Tomb. The number
this year, more than 100000 in each of
the past two months, will far surpaSs
that of last year, when for the first time
it exceeded the million mark. The largest
number recorded on a single day was
on April %, 1884, when the count showed
Still persons of whom 1900 were in
one delegation. Between 200 and 300
wreaths, plaques and other tributes are
placed each year on the tomb. No sign
Lest We Forget" need be placed there
\
Exhibits showing the activities of the
various departments of the Government
are frequently prepared and sent out for
display at expositions and fairs. These
cover wide range from the far-flung
work of the State Department in the
international field to the efforts of the
United States Public Health Service in
GAyA1lS W NlACSh IAlC oHICdQ VI OISCdSC
and from the trade-promoting methods
of the Department of Commerce to the
humane endeavorS of the Bureau
of Mines to increase the safety of
men employed in the industry with
which they are concerned. No depart
ment of the Government, however, sends
out as many exhibits as does the De-
partment of Agriculture, which at pres
ent has displays ready to be shown at
numerous State fairs in various parts
of the country in early September.
X X X
AS frequently happens when a prom
inent official of foreign government is
about to visit the United States, his
coming is preceded by the arrival here
of the American Ambassador or Minister
to that country. The announced return
to the United States of Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, Minister to Denmark, who is
scheduled to sail from Europe Septem-
Der Is. will bring her to Washington
shortly before the landing on these
shores of Theodor Staining, premier of
Denmark, who comes to discuss trade
matters with this Government.
y X
Tea drinking in the United States is
to be stimulated, according to a report
just received by the Department of
Commerce from c. Grant Isaacs, its
trade commissioner in Calcutta. An
appropriation of more than 100000
annually, large proportion of which is
to be expended in this country, has been
allotted by the international committee
in charge of the projected campaign to
promote the use of their product. The
tea industries of India, Ceylon and The
Netherlands East Indies are reported as
interested in the move. They aim prin-
cipally, it is stated, at the tempting
American market.
(Couvriebt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
Mr.. Henning Replies
To Mr.. Richardson

To the Editor Of The Star:
I got a real "kick" out Of reading Mr..
Joseph A. Richardson's interesting letter
published in The Star August n. take
it for granted that the intent Of his let
ter was to defend the local car and bus
monopoly, known as the Capital Transit
Co., and to criticize me for calling to the
attention of the public and our public
officials, the fact that the local transit
monopoly was doing an enormous volume
of business, spending money like a
drunken sailor" was apparently making
too much profit, was plainly charging
too much for the inadequate service 1t
was giving, ard that, therefore, some
effort should be made by local civic or
CARNATIONS to make the monopoly re-
duce the VIGOROUSLY high prices~it Is
charging car and bus patrons.
Now, of course did not expect stock
holders of the transit monopoly to en-
dorSe my suggestion that car and bus
fares are too high and should be reduced.
However, if any one reads my letters and
then compares them with his letter, it
will be found that he admits that the
transit monopoly is spending money as
I said it was-"like a drunken sailor"
Star erroneous impressions, such as that
I was opposed to the transit monopoly
giving its faithful employees wage in
crease, and that am opposed to rails
ing taxicab fares. The truth Is, that
am, and always have been, an advocate
of raising wages and increasing the
prices-notoriouSly too low-charged by
the local rental cab operators.
There is only one phase Of his letter
in which I find myself in agreement.
His charges against the local rental cab
operators are exactly correct. If he
knows anything about me and my work
he must know that I have spent my time
and money for years fighting to elimi-
nate the rental cab racketeer from the
local cab industry.
However, I again charge that the
p U. C. order requiring all cabs to
operate on the rental rate system and
to charge 10 cents for each, passenger in
excess of two on every trip, short or long,
was plainly designed and already has
increased street car and bus patronage.
and consequently decreased the number
of cab riders
BERNARD L. HENNING.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
Jimmy Car Return.

The blitne Jimmy Walker, erstwhile
mayor of Greater New York, can now
come home without fear of being prose-
cuted by the United States Government
for irregularities in his income tax re-
turns. Announcement was made yeSter-
day to that effect by the Department of
Justice, which has approved the find
ings of the United States attorney in
the southern district of New York that
after exhaustive investigation there has
not been found sufficient evidence to
justify prosecution for a criminal Of
Tense"
Jimmy is now in Ireland. When told
of the action of the Attorney General
he said that his plans, which included
eventual return to the United States,
had never been influenced by any in
quiry. When he feels able to work he
will return. He will be welcomed by
those who admire his blithe spirit. That
he will contribute to the gayety of the
Nation as Of yore is not assured. For
he is not quite the same old Jimmy who
cavorted up and down Broadway and
who as mayor of the big town WIS
Americas leading playboy.
There are no hard feelings about
Jimmy. Just pity for a clever man who.
utterly lacking in a sense of RESPONSE
bility. took his important Office lightly,
accepted loans and gifts from friends
without the least conjunction and then,
caught in a jam, resigned his position
and skipped to foreign shores. pathetic
figure. He has certain talents, mainly
for good fellowship, and they will stand
him in stead if and when he returns to
his native land. though he will probably
never again figure in the political scene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30
Kentuckian Protests
Relief FavOritism
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
From reliable sources we learn that
relief funds designed for the unemployed
are given to married women whose huS-
bands are profitably employed. This
Is a miscarriage of justice and a misap-
preparation of the taxpayers money.
Many of these men are Government en-
ployes who have given their wives and
their friends positions that should have
been paSSed on to those for whom the
appropriation was made.
It is crying injustice to the needy
who have nothing-unless it be the
"dole"-for the support of dependents.
These are standing in line. so willing to
work. There is great distress among
them. This should be investigated with
out delay. We fancied there is a law
against it. We are willing to contribute
to funds for the placing of the unem-
ployed in positions, but protest most
strenuously being mulcted for the benfit
of the well-to-do who are pooling salaries
among families and friends.
z. T. SMITH.
Lexington, KY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30

OF Congress-not because Of the in
herent soundness Of such views. but be-
cause they are presented by members
of Congress.
Under the circumstances, the Commits
sioners might well accompany their final
decision with a memorandum setting
forth for the information of the public
the source of Endorsements of both can
didates and the considerations which
moved them to final choice. The point
is that the Commissioners, and no one
else, should make the appointment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30

Queen Astrid of the Belgians was a
stranger to Americans. But news of
her tragic death has brought sorrow to
:. thousands of citizens of the United
States. Granted that she was known
on the western side of the Atlantic only
through the press and the movies, it
nevertheless was true that she was ap-
preciated and admired by multitude
of anonymous friends. AS a princess
and as the. consort Of a King, as a
daughter, wife and mother, she had
won the respect of a worldwide public.
And the grief over her passing is cir
: 'cumstance worthy of comment.
~ Numerous forces divide mankind.
Only a relative few have a cohesive or
unifying effect. But among the latter
the fellowship of tears must be counted.
Those who have shared a heart-deep
sorrow have a bond which nothing can
sever, tie which nothing can break.
And the proper name for such fra
ternity is love. The explanation is OBJ
vious. People, afflicted as they are with
troubles of their own, do not weep for
the loss of men or women who are
strangers unless they have felt in one
i. way or another the power OF their
spiritual genius. Astrid is mourned be-
p cause she was possessed Of gifts which
humanity has learned to applaud. She
lived with a grace that was lovely to
3. see. Every instinct Of her nature was
dedicated to the work she was called
to do, the purposes she was summoned
to serve. Not every individual could
have achieved equal success in position
so difficult. The beautiful Snow Princess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30

Civil service ratings receive predomi-
nant consideration in Police Department
promotions up to the rank of captain.
But the Commissioners appoint in
spectorS from the captains without
regard to seniority or ratings. This IS
presumably due to the theory that civil
service ratings or other conditions might
tie the hands of the Commissioners in
selecting the best qualified man from the
captains to fill the rare vacancies that
occur among the inspectors. A captain
may be better qualified by temperament
and experience for the duties of higher
command, although a fellow captain has
the better of him in seniority and in
previous ratings
But, as shown in the difference of
opinion at the District Building now
over the relative qualifications of two
captains being considered to succeed
Inspector Headley, whose retirement is
imminent, the system has. certain dis
advantages which can be overcome only
by the Commissioners determination to
select the most able man, regardless of
the various sorts of pressure brought
to bear by influences outside the Police
Department. Some members of Con-
gress who served on the Crime Investi-
eating Subcommittee of the House Dis
trict Committee are reported to have
urged the selection of Captain Holmes.
Captain Bobo, the other candidate, has
strong backing at the District Building
and has about five years more service
on the force than Captain Holmes.
The members of Congress are reported
to have formed their opinion of the
candidates on the basis of the testimony
given by the two captains before the COM
mittee. There is nothing wrong in pre-
senting to the Commissioners their re-
.sulting opinion as to the best qualified
man. The danger is that the Commits
sioners may allow their own judgment
to be swayed by the views of members
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-30

Recent war games In New York State
developed a comical though painful
twist with the illness Of more than a
hundred troopers due to drinking
lemonade.
They were suffering from ptomaine
poisoning, it was stated, but advocates
of the diet system which groups foods
according to their compatibility thought
they knew better.
They were suffering from Indigestion,
nothing more nor less. according to the
latter, who have proved in their own
experience that it is possible to rid ones
self completely of indigestion by stick
ing to the right food combinations.
The average layman is inclined to look
upon any attempt to use the mind in
regard to eating as mere Quackely or
worse.
Medical men, unfortunately, seem to
feel much the same way about it.
Therefore 1t is not strange that this
system Of eating, widely publicized dur
ing the past three years. should be as
much frowned upon by those who alike
know nothing about 1t and those who
think they know something about It.
Advocates Of the plan put the illness
Vi tIlc SOlOlClo az LllC wal BhLllCo uUWIl
to absolute indigestion caused by pour
ing huge quantities Of ice cold lemonade
down on equally large quantities of
starch foods.
When It comes to eating. the world
of men may be divided into two great
classes, those who can digest anything
and get away with it" and those who
cannot.
The latter are fortunate, in a sense,
since their Stomachs compel them TO
use their brains in regard to what
they eat.
But commonly this does not occur
to them, except after many years of
indigestion, sick stomach" and feel
ing of undue fullness after meals.
The late DR.. Woods Hutchinson, one
of the first of the writing doctors, said
that the best way to live to a ripe old
age was to get some chronic illness and
take good care OF 1t.
BY that he meant nothing more than
that a person so afflicted would be COM
PEELED to study his own case and find
out something about it for himself He
would be forced, by lack of vitality, to
conserve such vitality as he had.
Such combination of circumstances,
necessities and lacks often spells the
use Of the intelligence, wherein some
modicum of relief is secured all by ones
self, a highly satisfactory state of affairs
for persons who happen to be built
that way"
The system of eating considered here
Is at bottom nothing but common sense.
1t enables an average individual at
middle age, or later, who may happen
to be the possessor of what used to be
called "a delicate stomach" to do three
things for himself:
l. Cut down on the amount of
starches eaten.
2. Keep the amount of protein within
proper scientific limitations.
3. Eliminate indigestion
When one stops to think of the
millions Of soda mint and other tablets
taken after meals, with the one pur-
pose Of cutting down on the internal
pains commonly ascribed to indigestion,
it is a wonder that people everywhere
would laugh at any scheme which at
tempts to end these pains by natural
means.
When this plan carries with It COM
plete proof to any but those who simply