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Evening star., 1935-07-22
SAlLPLANE RECORD SET

WASSERKUPPE, Germany. July %
P.-A new worlds record for a SAIL
plane distance flight was claimed
today by a German, Ludwig Hoff-
mann, after a flight of about 500
kilometers (about 300 miles,.
Hoffman, in an alderman glider
competition, reported landing close to
Oskovice, Czechoslovakia. breaking the
former record Of 375 kilometers held
by Helni Dittmat.
Evening star., 1935-07-22
FLOOD WATERS RECEDE

BLANCA. Colo. July % tP).-Flood
waters from the heaviest cloudburst in
this vicinitys history receded today,
leaving the business district of this
Southern Colorado town covered with
mud.
Because the waters did not flow
swiftly. damage was not so heavy as
it might have been. Easements OF
business establishments were flooded,
however.
The heaviest loss was in destroyed
crops.
Evening star., 1935-07-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Meeting. Municipal Council, Royal
Arcanum, $50 H street, 8 pm.
Bingo party. Esther Rebecca Lodge
No. 5. I. o. o. F., 419 Seventh street,
$50 pm.
Smoker, Variety Club, Willard Hotel,
pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon. Washington Credit Men,
Raleigh Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Trade Executives Associ-
alton, La Fayette Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, Kismet Council, Royal
Arcanum. $50 H street, 8 pm.
Meeting, Daughters of 9S, National
Auxiliary, United Spanish War Vet
Grams, Carlton Hotel, 8 pm.
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traditions. Consistency, I have
been informed, is a treasure be-
yond price.
All right-you can have my .
share!
TO ME, THE GREATEST
THING IN LIFE IS NOT TO
HOLD TO ONE OPINION BUT
TO EXPERIENCE AS MANY
NEW OPINIONS AS POSI-
BILE WHILE THE OPINION.
ING is GOOD.
Growing things aren't static.
. Growing things move, change,
adjust, take on new forms from
one minute to another.
GROWING
I'm a growing thing. Why
should I be at 10 what I was
at five? Why should I think
at IS what I thought at 20?
Or why should I believe today
what I believed yesterday?
Twenty-four hours of expert
ence have flowed by me since
yesterday hours in which, if I
am mentally awake, I have
seen long reaches of human
drama.
I have seen love in that time,
and hate and treachery and
tenderness and despair. have
seen men broken by circum-
stances. And have seen circum-
stances broken by-men. I have
seen beauty and ugliness and
courage and fear and gobs of
cussedness. I have seen things
arise in the human heart-par-
ticularly in my own heart-that
have given me the surprise of
my life.
All this happened to me in
the last "a hours. All this
happens to anyone of us in any
"a hours, if we have the wit
to perceive it.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF
ANY LIFE WILL MAKE ANY
HUMAN BEING OVER IF HE'S
WILING TO BE MADE
OVER.
Each day comes booming in
like great flood tide, bringing
a salty deluge from the infinite
sources Of life, cleaning away
the flotsam and jetsam of all
the days that have gone before.
Why should a human being stay
the same, stay consistent, in the
face Of such ebb and flow?
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Why Feed Alien AgitatOrs?

Ours is the only country in the world which extends relief
to citizens of other countries.
Those countries do support aliens in distress They
DEPORT them.
We make distinction between hungry alien and hungry
American We feed them alike and maybe throw in in
eurythmc dancing boondoggng ancient Egyptian beer
making to take their minds off their troubles.
Lawabdng aliens who here for the purpose Of beco
ing American citizens ought to get the treatment
Americans to boondoggng they want it. They intend
to be Americans the laws permit and Americans wei
come their intention.
BUT-aliens who do not intend to become citizens have
business relief rolls ought removed And cr
nal aliens Of whom relief ought not only be
removed from the rolls but elected from the country
AS for criminal aliens many of whom allowed to remain
through the sentimental or political interference of the Depart
of Labor with the deportation laws everyone who is
rounded be rounded ought to be put boat and
shipped back home forthwith.
We squander enough money trying to solve
problems of poverty and crime.
To squande of IMPORTED problems of the
kind downright unacy and the American people not
lunatics though of their public officials to think
they
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How does one get into a good
conversation, or even get to
listen to good conversation?
BY conversation" I mean "ar-
gument," a good, Touchdown
and-drag-out argument, only
not about Huey Long. 1t
should be high class.
Most of the arguments to
which I am a party fall some
what short of being impressive,
owing to the fact that neither
I nor my opponent knows what
we are talking about. I find
myself raising my voice and
shaking my finger, while he
sneers and makes a sweeping
gesture of disgust; but, to the
onlooker, the thing must lack
a certain authenticity.
And is there anything more
fatuous than a loud argument
in which you are not taking
part? You sit and smile in a
superior fashion at the two de-
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Give Us Our Share

With the enactment of the Presidents huge pubicwor
relief with its $48SOooo appropriation to put the
relief army work. there should be ACTIVE INTEREST
SHOWN IN THE DISTRICTS PECULIAR RELIEF PROB
LEM
In this city ninety per cent of the relief are
in the unsed labor class Ten per cent said to have
some skill in the mechanical arts such would be necessary
in building.
It would merely practical the Districts workreef
projects of the that would absorb the large
Der of unsed workers who dependent for their
daily bread direct cash relief
Commissioner George Allen devised plan whereby most
Of the Districts relief army could be put to work city
wide housing plan.
It is said to have had the approval Of Harry Hopkins
Federal Relief Administrator and not put into effect
merely because of the wording Of Of the old laws which
smother the District like fog.
Comptroller General MCar responsible for having thrown
the monkey wrench into the machinery just Commissioner
Allen about to start it going.
The city filling up with lobbyists for special projects
AL Of them want huge milondollar slices Of the huge
public-work fund.
Undoubtedly close check will be kept the allotment
Of this fund.- especially since President Roosevelt to have
the final OK on the spending
Let hope then that the highest intelligence will be used
in administering the fund for the District of Columbia
to PUT THE LARGEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF MEN TO
WORK with the best possible results to the city at large
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Just Another Item

President Roosevelt has been provided with data compiled
by the Treasury Department relative the fiscal relations of
the Federal Government with its Federal City of the District
of Columbia.
He asked for this that he might inform Congress
whether the Federal Governments share of the cost of opera
ing the local Government should be increased decreased
Meanwhile before the House Crime Investigating Committee
District police head has testified that five from the
traffic bureau taken from him last fall and have been
duty at the White House since.
Salaries of these paid from the District appropra
ons BILL and while they the White House there cry
from the czenry and police department heads for police
men to aid in wping crime out of the National Capital
This is small item perhaps, but added to the many others
to time are revealed not appear that Mr.
Roosevelt should have have fiscal study made deter
mine that the Federal Government should substantially increase
its share of financing the local Government.
And certainly he should act speedily before the pending a
preparations bill is passed.
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In the World of Science
By Hiram Perez Maxim

descendant, also stand and
gaze and wonder.
Although this uncouth an
cestor lived $4,000 years ago, in
his day Betelgeuse still was at
Orion's head, Rigel at his foot,
and the last faint light in his
sword was fuzzy, just as it is
today.
All down the centuries of
human trouble and suffering
these stars have swung across
the night sky, night after night,
a reaSsuring example of de-
pendability.
We men and women are too
absorbed with our petty trou-
bleS, quarres, successes and
failures. Our mightiest efforts,
our Smartest political intrigue,
our greatest sorrows and our
most poignant disappointments
are trivial in reality.
The great plan will 60 on to-
morrow, the next day, and mil
lions of days to come, whether
our little affairs go this way or
that.
Often, while in this frame of
thought, I return to that age
old question: Where do we fit
into the Great Plan? Just why
are we here? What part are
we playing?
TO WHAT PURPOSE?
Surely our Sun is not the
only one with a satellite where
time and temperature have
been favorable to the develop
ment of life.
If any other satellites or plan
cts exist, and possess favorable
conditions for life, they cannot
have escaped having life appear
upon them. Life gives every
evidence of being one of the
natural characteristics of coSmic
procedure.
But supposing there is life,
and there are intelligent beings
on countless worlds, what can
be their purpose? We living in
telligences must be part Of the
cosmic scheme, else certainly we
would not be here. What can
our role be?
Whatever it is, the transcend
ent spectacle we see in the sky
at night is a wholesome thing
upon which to mediate. The
psychologist may well suggest
the study Of astronomy as a cure
for those beset with petty wor.
ries.
Copyright. 1895. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
peared each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday. The subject Of
the next one will be "Your
Radios Vacuum Tube"
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time of year, I choose the
constellation of Orion. I like
to watch it swing majestically
toward the western horizon, as
this Earth upon which I stand
revolves and carries me with
it. Great Betelgeuse, larger
than Earth's orbit, stands at
Orion's head, and Rigel, 500
light years away and $4,000
times brighter than our sun,
at it's foot.
Sirius, with it's amazing but
invisible faint companion, a
cubic inch of which weighs a
ton, follows along on the road
westward. Alderbaran, only 81
light years distant, but 80
times brighter than our sun,
guards the northern flank,
while Procyon, only 10 light
years distant, and but five
times brighter than our sun,
guards the southern.
IMPOSING SPECTACLE
lowering in the outskirts is
huge Capella. Toward the
east, Arcturus, 100 times
brighter than the Sun and
just 40 light years distant,
shines out and reminds me that
it was the light from him that
left during the Chicago Worlds
Fair in 1893, and was used,
when it arrived on Earth, to
throw the switch that opened
the Century of Progress Fair
in 1888, just 40 years there
after.
When I gaze at this impos-
ing spectacle, vending it's way
across the sky from east to
west, I picture a rough and
hairy ancestor, standing at the
entrance to his cave in the
long ago. gazing at the sky
and wondering, just as I, his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-10
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Many of the provisions would
open waterways to traffic SO
that freight formerly handled
by railroads could be shipped
by barge.
Dredging and deepening of
channels and harbOrS might
affect the railroads materially.
Consequently the railroads
have no particular love for the
measure and did considerable
lobbying here and there.
RiverS and hGrborS legiSlG-
ton has alWGyS been good for
UoteS, however, and the men,
berS couldn't Very WeU Uote
against it.
AS someone remarked. though,
when rivers and harborS money
was termed pork:
ut used to be pork until they
started passing 1880 million
dollar work relief bills.
Former Representative Loring
M. Black, bantam Brooklynite,
was around the Capitol the
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1nlS means
that the United States must be
at al times prepared to protect
it's lines of communication with
these sources of supply as well
as repel invasion. To do this
it must have a well-balanced
system Of national defense.
Its Army and Navy, including
the air forces of both, must be
able to perform the missions
afield and afloat for which they
are maintained. One of these
missions involves the protection
of those lines of transport on
sea and land upon which this
country is dependent for raw
materials.
SAFEGUARDS
In an address which closed
the observance in the Federal
City of Army Day, Senator Nor
ris Sheppard of Texas, the able
and patriotic chairman Of the
Senate Committee on Military
Affairs, emphasized the fact
that under existing world con-
ditions "war between two or
three nations anywhere on the
globe may bring to any other
nation, whose vital transport
and trade conditions with the
outside are suspended, disasters
beyond control or calculation"
These might force other nations
not involved in the original out
break of hostilities into the con-
flict.
Under such circumstances
Senator Sheppard pointed out
that "the nation without ade-
quatc means of preserving and
defending its sources of supply
will lose its power to maintain
for its people decent standards
of existence, its power to pre-
serve them from economic deg
radiation, its power to retain
its own independent identity"
And the patriotic senior Sena-
tor from Texas added
Possession of that power is
the surest safeguard of a nation
against war. The possession of
such power by the United States
is the surest safeguard Of the
world against war"
How many Americans realize
this country of ours uses about
one-half of the important raw
materials of the entire world"
and that "our American civiliza-
ton cannot continue without
them?"
What some of these essential
raw materials are Senator Shep-
pard wisely selected the ma
tional observance of Army Day
to illuminate.
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day when the Chief Justice Hughes
Chief Justice left the court, the
other justices subjected Mr..
Hughes, jr., to a thorough ques-
tioning.
They attacked his arguments
and seemed to concentrate on
attempting to confuse him.
1t did not faze Mr.. Hughes,
however.
when the 167-million-dOllar
Rivers and HarbOrS bill was
taken up by the House there
was little opposition to the
measure itself.
Of course Representative Mer.
lin Hull made the remark that
so much money of the so-called
pork barrel" measure was 60
ing to seven States that there
was scarcely a mess of picked
pigs feet for the rest.
The opposition 1D1s not made
on the floor but there has been
some rather definite lobbying
against features of the bill.
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De la Mare: 1 suppose you
think that Shelley wasn't a
subjective poet.
Freeman: Yeah? What about
Shelley?
Moore: Aw, you're both crazy!
Freeman: Subjective, Objec-
tive; what do you mean? Do
you know the difference?
Moore: Do 1 know the diff
ference? Do you know the diff
ference, you mean.
Freeman: Don't worry, I know
the difference.
Moore: Well, then, talk as
If you did. suppose you think
that Milton was an objective
poet?
De Ia Mare: In just about
everything he ever wrote, that's
all!
Freeman: Yeah, Walters
right!
Moore: You keep out Of this!
Tony: WhatTl you gentlemen
have to drink? This is on the
house!
(All laugh, and order a pitcher
Of Black Velvet.)
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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BulWarks of Peace
By James T. Williams, T.

Take steel, for example. 1t is
the basis of the railroad, the
factory, the production Of mod.
ern agricultural implements, the
giant structures which house
business, education, art, the en-
terprises of benevolence and
finance. To interrupt the pro-
duction of steel in this country
would be to shake the founda.
ton of American supremacy in
the world of industry.
But the fabrication of Ameri-
can steel is dependent on foreign
countries because not a pound
of steel can be manufactured
without the use of ferro-man.
ganeSe, and more than 80 per
per cent of the ferro-manganese
used in this country must be OBJ.
tanned from Russia, India, the
Gold Coast of Africa and Brazil.
Rubber offers another
example of the dependence of
American prosperity on raw
materials from overseas. It's
fundamental place in industrial
processes too numerous to de-
tail cannot be supplied by any
substitute yet developed. And
almost our entire supply of
rubber comes from overseas
from Ceylon, the Dutch East
Indies, the Malay States and
Brazil. Although this country
uses almost 10 per cent Of all
the rubber produced in the
world, it produces only from
l to 2 per cent of the rubber
this country requires.
Tin is a commodity used for
the preservation and shipment
of food and for other vital pur-
poses in peace and war. But a
sufficient quantity to supply
the needs of this country is not
produced within it's borders.
We must look to the Straights
Settlements and to Bolivia for
the additional supply of tin
that we require.
So also with chromium, an
essential fire-resiStant element
for steel furnaces. This we get
from southern Rhodesia, from
Russia, New Caledonia, India
and Cuba and we are the
worlds largest users OF
chromium.
LINES OF SUPPLY
So also with anthony upon
which printing is dependent
and the manufacture of glass.
Manila fibre for rope and
sisal for binder Irvine we have
to get from the tropics. Half of
our raw wool comes from
foreign countries. Also most of
our sugar, all of our coffee and
tea and all of our natural silk,
"a material which is abso
lutely essential for parachutes.
This does not nearly exhaust
the list of essential raw ma.
terials for which the United
States looks to foreign countries,
but Senator Sheppard cited a
sufficient number to illustrate
effectively his point that If the
United States maintains an
Army and Navy strong enough
to protect "itS own far.flung
lines of supply and of surplus
disposal" it will not only pro
tect the peace of the United
States but will make an effec-
tive contribution to the peace
of the world.
Copyright, 1895. The Washington
TiroeSN
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Literary Forum
By Robert BenchLey

baters, and even wink at other
nonparticipants to show that
at least you are keeping your
head in this embroglio.
Just for the fun of it, I should
like to have heard George Moore,
Freeman and De la Mare argu-
ing on the test of pure poetry.
On second thought, I take that
back, I bet that it wouldn't be
any fun at all. It might have
been more fun had they used
the debating technique in vogue
in the little circle of great
minds that I move in. Their
knowledge and our technique.
Subject: Test of Pure Poetry.
Rules: Marquis of Queensberry.
Moore: A true poem is some
thing which a poet creates out
side his own personality.
De la Mare: That's what you
think!
Moore: That's what I say!
Subjective poetry is not true
poetry, and whaddya think of
that?
De Ia Mare: Merits!
Moore: suppose you think
that settles it!
De Ia Mare: 1t settles it as far
as / am concerned. There never
was anything to be settled.
pause while each one thinks
up a crack.)
De Ia Mare: What about
Shelley?
Moore: Well, what about
Shelley?
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I do not
t h i n k t h e
same thi n g
t W o We a RS
in succession
nor e We n
t W o days in
succession
An d if I
c a tch m y
self doing so
I'm going to
boot myself
ut of t.
I re a Ii re
that this at
t i t u d e Vio-
lateS our best
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United States
a g a in S t in
vasion. They
are either ig-
norant of or
Indifferent to
the fact that
this country
is dependent
on forei g n
S o u &c e S of
supply for a
c o n siderable
n u m b er of
v / t a lily eS-
Sential ra W
materials.
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possible pur-
pose, h e i r
size, t h elr
age; compare
y GU r affairs
W i t h theirs.
Mayhap your
troubles will
shrink in o
CO imperative
i n S i g n i IT,
canoe, and a
certain CO m
fort will be
yours.
For tn i S
purpose, if it
is the right
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-10

It is the
pra ctice of
t h e C h i eff
Justice to stay
out of court
when his son
appears in a
case.
Not only
d oe S he re-
fra in from
listening to
the pleadings
but he has no
hand in the
final decision.
T h e other
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other day but
on a S o m e.
W h a t differ
e n t mission
than those of
former days.
H e W a S
scheduled to
make his first
appeara n C e
before t h e
United States
S u p r e m e
Court.
Ready and
waiting to go
before t h e
fri hi n a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-10

When Charles E. Hughes, jr.,
New York corporation lawyer,
appeared before the United
States Supreme Court recently
as receiver of the Manhattan
Railway Company of New York
his august father Chief Justice
Hughes abSented himself from
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Listen, World
Blu Elsie Robinson

And yet most Of us do stay
the same and take great credit
to ourselves for doing so. We
close our minds and harden our
imaginationS and glorify the
process by calling it consist
ency."
CONSISTENCY"
Change your mind!
Change it often!
Abhor an unchanged mind as
you would abhor any other stale
ness, as you would abhor un-
changed linen or stagnant water
or aged eggs.
Stop being afraid to be diff
ferent.
Be as different as you posi-
bly, can, as often as you posi-
bly, can.
Growth is always different.
Growth never stays at one given
point. GROW!
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Gr o U n a I, AOEIHs NJ D1HCK
Blacks case was delayed and
his worries continued.
He said:
at is much easier to talk to
435 members of the House than
to speak before those nine
justices.
Copyright, 1885, The Washington
Times)
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Too many people think Of
the Army and Navy as being
maintained solely to protect the
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Be Consistent

I am not consistent
AND I GLORY IN THE
FACTI
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OLD FAVORITES
DiSdain Returned

DiSdGin Returned BY Thomas Carew
He that loves rosy cheek
Or coral lip admires,
Or from starlike eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires:
AS old Time makes these decay
So his flames must waste away.
But smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thoughts, and calm DESIRES
Hearts with equal love combined
Kindle never-dying fires
Where these not despise
Lovely cheeks or lips, eyes.
No tears Celia shall win
My resolved heart to return;
have searched thy soul within,
And find naught but pride and scorn;
have learned thy arts, and
Can dsdan much thou
Some power in my revenge, convey
That love to her cast away.
IRecders vted to send to the editor their sugges-
tions of old fGvortes among the for reprntig in
this spGce.(
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The Stars Are ConsOling

When your perspective be-
comes distorted by worldly
worries, step outdoors and look
at the stars. Consider their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-10

Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
peared each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday. The subject Of
the next one will be "Your
Radios Vacuum Tube"