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Evening star., 1935-08-19
Trend of Industry.

Daniel Creamer has announced the
results of an interesting study Of in
dustrial trends which he has made under
the patronage of the University of Penn
sylvania. There is movement he finds,
from small towns to large ones, and the
to little villages, proposed by advocates
Of subsistence homestead programs,
would be Revolutionary reversal Of
q policy operating during more than
thirty years in the United States.
The problem, of course, is vastly COM
plicated. 1t need not be argued that it
requires further study. To illustrate
single angle Of the difficulty, consider
the case of the Ford motor works. In
1900 the population of Detroit was
2S5, ,704, in 1890 it was 1,568,662. Such
growth can have no other explanation
than that of the development of the
automotive industry, centering in the
Ford plant, but including many COM
petitive and subsidiary establishments.
A metropolis came into being in con-
sonance with q natural law of evolution
which no arbitrary fiat of government
could stop.
The instance of Los Angeles also is
worthy of consideration. When the city
was chartered, in 1851, its population was
1910. Today, including its immediate
environs, it is the home Of 2,318,526
people. The cinema and oil industries,
obviously, are responsible for the ex-
pansion, and each depends upon natu-
raj resource which cannot conveniently
be removed elsewhere to oblige any
school Of sociologists, however altruistic.
Granted that it is to be desired that
industry be distributed over as wide an
area as possible, 1t should be remembered
that the mathematics of cause and effect
are involved. William Morris certainly
could set up his famous printing works
at Kelmscott, in the Upper Thames VAL
ley, without regard to the technical dis
advantages of such location, but Josiah
Wedgwood had no choice about his cele-
brated ceramics facbry-he was obliged
Evening star., 1935-08-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

much advice given, by everybody, ~
all times, and on all subjects, Is that few
persons to whom it is given ever take 1t!
At any rate, every cne last Spring had
ideas about chickweed growing in the
lawn. and just what to do about it.
Our personal idea. freely expressed
here, was to let 1t alone, cutting the lawn
rather close, and raking up the flower
ing heads Of the chickweed.
This, we declared. ought to kill out
the weed, without resort to back-break-
ing labor and undignified crawling
around on all fours like monkey.
1t is pleasant to say that the one lawn
we know best Is in better shape today
than 1t has been in years.
Never has the grass been 30 thick and
so free from bare spots.
No fertilizer at all has been used,
which, while we cannot recommend 1t,
seems to have worked out all right, 30
far.
General sprinkling has not been used.
All that has been done has been to give
water to spots that began to dry out, as
manifested from time to time by the
dying of the gress there.
The response Of grass to adequate
watering is almost magic. That is the
way it always has seemed to many, at
least. even when they know perfectly
the speed with which most dried-out
roots accept and respond to water,
either from the heavens, hose or water
ing pot.
Home gardeners who handle flowers
and vegetables In a small way only
nevertheless should keep an extra good
lookout for the remainder Of the season
for all signs of worms and caterpillars.
Trees, especially, need much care.
This is likely to be a hard season
on them coming after two exceptionally
cold Winters.
Already many trees are brown in
spots, the foliage on certain sides having
died out.
Normandy poplars, which were reliable
here until last Winter have succumbed
in numbers throughout the District Of
Columbia and nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
Efforts have been made, by topping,
to restore them to their old vigor, but
so far the results seem to be negligible.
Those interested in such things will
watch these topped trees closely, to see
II fresh shoots will begin to grow out.
So far nothing has happened on the
trees under inspection. 1t may be that
the topping was done too late in the
year.
While the writer here is no particu-
lar admirer Of the Normandy poplar, 1t
cannot be gainSaid that 1t has its uses,
and to some may appear very pretty.
1t is a particular tree for a particular
use; perhaps all that is the matter with
it is that too often it is not used
properly.
Trees, lawns and shrubs-these afford
the home gardener material for o life
time Of study. Their idiosyncraSieS are
interesting and worth all the time he
can give them. Even then he will be
Stumped, from time to time. by some
caterpillar he finds on one of them.
One should not grumble too much over
insects and other pests. They are
part Of the garden picture as much as
any. The city and suburban gardener
does not depend upon his garden, in
most cases nowadays. for anything ex-
cept beauty and interest, and such ex-
perience as an honest investigation OF
Nature, even on a limited scale, can
give him.
Evening star., 1935-08-19
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The Hearts Outcry

The Hearts Outcry
I might not weep nor might faint or
die
Should we In some dark hour say good
by.
Rather in heartbreak I would try to
laugh,
To utter badinage and light-toned chan.
You who are strong save me from that
sad mifth,
Safeguard my joy while yet am on
earth.
Within your arms, laughter can always
be
No hollow sham but sweet reality.
Even II your great tenderness should die,
Voice cold and bitter words-but not
goodby.
Evening star., 1935-08-19
OF No Practical Benefit

"You don't seem to regret the fact that
a number of people speak unkindly of
YOU"
NO" replied Senator Sorghum, "the
only kind words that ever secure unan-
imous Endorsement are those that COM
pose an epitaph.'
Evening star., 1935-08-19
Optimism.

what you need in this town." said
the genial stranger, lis more opti-
mism."
There's plenty of optimism in Grim
son Gulch," replied Broncho Bob. There
isn't a man in the place who isn't an
optimist during the first twenty minutes
of a poker game"
Evening star., 1935-08-19

Superficial reading fails to reveal
whether Mussolini's Ethiopian aggres-
sions are prompted by practical economic
reasons or just natural dislike.
Evening star., 1935-08-19
An Old Saw Refuted.

From the Paducah Ky.) sun-Democrat.
1t becomes increasingly noteworthy
how many who once were convinced that
two could live as cheaply as one are now
finding out that even one cart do It.
Evening star., 1935-08-19
Keeping Up Appearances.

"The clothes don't make the man."
'Mebbe not" replied Farmer Corn
tossel. But q lot of our Summer
boarders wouldn't think I was regu-
lar farmer If I didn't grow chin whis-
kers every Spring an wear my pants
tucked in my boots"
Evening star., 1935-08-19
The Voice.

IT'S the voice of the people! I hear the
acclaim,
Like the voice of an umpire, deciding the
game,
When you think that q home run Is
yours without doubt,
All fercely conclusive: Strike three!
You are out!"
Evening star., 1935-08-19
The Staggering Cost.

There may be little chance Of peace
Through warning and advice;
But war is pretty sure to cease
When no one has the price.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

Small coins with holes in them will
not be put in circulation. This fact
avoids return to one feature Of aborig-
inal times, which made a string OF beads
acceptable in a cash transaction.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

Elaborate pension plans have been
considered by all countries. An age re-
tirement for dictators smight not be
bad idea.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

When asked whether he would be
candidate, Mr.. Hoover indicated quite
plainly that a statesman is not neces-
sarily q fortune teller.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

Hog calling" used to provide anus
ing contest. 1t is now being taken up
by the Department of Agriculture with
a response that so far is disappointing.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

An epic of almost classical interest
might be written for the Congressional
Record, beginning The Sergeant at
Arms and His Man"
Evening star., 1935-08-19

Mussolini claims to be benevolent in
his purpose, his plan being drastic i'm
provement in African suburban real
estate.
Evening star., 1935-08-19
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Evening star., 1935-08-19

Opinions of Hitler vary greatly. Some
regard him as pre-eminent; others as
only incorrigible.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

'De man dat sells de dice" said Uncle
Eben, "is de only one dat makes sure
money out'n Q crap game" q
Evening star., 1935-08-19
Poor Diet.

Poor Diet.
From the Paducah (Ky) sun-Demccrat
Among the causes of incorrect diet are
ignorance, poverty and payments on the.
cans
Evening star., 1935-08-19

@. Who characterized the Virgin
Islands as a poorhouse2-H. p.
A. In 1881 President Hoover referred
to the islands as an effective poor
house"
Evening star., 1935-08-19

weigh?-K. T.
A. An average bunch weighs about 25
pounds. Some punches, however, exceed
40 pounds in weight.
Evening star., 1935-08-19

O. When a person is a house guest
who suggests the time for retiring, the
hostess or the guest?-C. E.
A. There is no hard and fast rule. A
guest in the home does not ask to be
excused while visitors are being enter
tanned, or while a game is in progress
Usually, however, the hostess suggests
the approach of bedtime.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
INCOME TAX PASSES
IN DELAWARE HOUSE
Receipts of 500 a Year Up Are
to Be Assessed Under Ap-
proved Measure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOVER, Del, January ga tax on
incomes In New Castle County from
500 year up was passed yesterday
by the House Of Representatives. 1t Is
designed to raise unemployment re-
lief funds.
The minimum was set at 500, leg
islators said, to make sure that every
one with unencumbered income, no
matter how small, would be reached.
Although the measure exempts married
men with incomes up to $1,000, the
bills sponsors explained the minimum
would cover persons who received
annuities, stock dividends or income
from estates.
On incomes up to $1,000, the tax Is
l per cent; from $4,000 to $4,000, 2
per cent. and from $4,000 up, 3 per
cent. Corporations are exempt.
The House acted after caucuses Of
both parties. despite opposition from
the City Council of Wilmington. The
Council wanted $4,000 as the mini
mum.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
.OUSTEDAE.L. UNIT.
FIGHTS FUND SUIT.
DisoWned Department Head
Hits Injunction Action
by Federation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
M. j. McDonough, president of the
American Federation of Labor Build
ing Trades Department, which the
federation disowns, today forecast a
stiff court fight on the recognized"
departments attempt to take his out
fits records and funds.
On the eve of the federation's Ex-
ecutive Council meeting, the recog-
nized department asked District Su-
preme Court to enjoin McDonough
and fellow officers from acting as
officers. 1t also asked the court to
require the disowned department to
surrender its records and about $50,-
600 in funds.
Disturbed by Suit.
McDonough today expressed him
self as particularly disturbed that
j. w. Williams, president of the recog-
nized department, had chosen an in
junction suit.
"The A. F. of L." he said, has
fought the injunction for years, and
now they are using it against their
own members.
President Green himself not long
ago said The injunction is repre-
hensible to labor"
Elected Last Mnoth.
Williams was elected president Of
the department at special conven-
tion last month which McDonough
and IL unions supporting him refused
to attend. McDonough had been
elected president at the regular de-
partment convention in San Fran
cisco.
The federation declared the San
Francisco convention illegal" after
it had refused to seat delegates from
four large unions in the department
These four unions opposed reelection
of McDonough.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
MONK CAUSES LAWSUIT

PITTSBURGH CP.-William c.
Pearce bought q monkey as q part
of theater spectacle, but the monk
made a spectacle out Of him, he
claims, so he wants $4,000.
Pearce testified he tried to put
"Jim," the monk, in the theater lobby
to attract trade and as he did so
Jim bit him II times.
Defendant Michael A. Maiorana
told the court Jim was extra tame"
when he left the pet shop.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
WALLACE ADVISES
TEST FOR court
Economic Body to Inform
Electorate Held Needed.
Urges Popular Rule.
Copyright 1885 by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)

Newspaper Alliance Incl
Secretary Wallace. author of pro-
posal for an economic Supreme
Court" proposed today that it be tried
out within single State.
Declaring that the United States
has some terribly significant decisions
to make" within the next few years
and that "the people should be let in
on the choice" he has suggested crea-
ton of a powerful group of four men
who would pass on key questions of
national policy and submit them to
popular vote. The decision of the
people then would be binding even on
the Supreme Court.
Chuckles at Criticism.
Considerable criticism has been
aimed at the proposal since he voiced
it last week. Today the Secretary. with
a chuckle, remarked that evidently
many critics had not read his plan
through.
st said" he declared, "that on such
matters as tariffs. debts and land
policy there can be no unanimity Of
opinion, but that we need now as
never before some new way to shake
our minds awake and new means to
express more thoughtful resolutions
In the light of the facts.
There is certainly no threat to
democracy in a plan which would
make true democracy possible. Some
people seem to fear that an economic
council would submit to the people
every wild scheme which was proposed
by some pressure group.
Aim to Tell Facts.
81 do not believe, for instance. that
four economic councillors of the type
I have in mind-intelligent, soundly
grounded and ar-sighted men-would
ever approve such scheme as the
Townsend plan and submit 1t to the
vote of the people. Their job would be
to tell the people the whole truth.
with the seamy sides all turned out
ward"
He suggested that some State might
try the plan as an experiment, saying
its experiences would make excellent
background for future development" 7"
Evening star., 1935-01-29
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS.

FLEMINGTON, N. j., January 20
(N.A.N.A).-The probability Is that
never in the history Of law courts
anywhere has there been q scene as
feverish, as hysterical, as senselessly
slow and senselessly hurried as Is the
scene of this kidnapping trial. Day by
day the crowds increase in number
and In desperate urgency; the court
room remains half full even during the
noon recess, and women-plain, sober
looking, middle-aged women-are in
tears at the side door because they
are refused admittance. In the re-
porters' gallery, family parties pass
sandwiches and thermos bottles.
Whatever the effort to get here cost
them, in pressure and privilege, lies
and waiting, the audience is getting
its moneys worth. Hauptmann is be-
ing cross-examined by David T.
Wilentz, the attorney general. and Mr..
Wilentz is not inclined to spare him.
Again and again the defense attor-
neys are on their feet, again and again
their II object!" rings through the
room, but the unhappy business goes
on-one slim young man, pale and
strained. in the witness chair; the
other, suave and dark and sure of
himself, hammering home his am
munition with the relentless precision
Of a machine gun. The breathless
session has proved the most sensa-
tional day of all these 10 days.
Armed With Accounts.
Mr.. Wilentz has armed himself with
Hauptmann's account books, with
Cancelled checks, with bank records
Behind Hauptmann, as he sits cross
legged, his hands pressed one on tor
of the other. hang the damning charts
upon which enlarged copies of his
admitted writing and specimens Of
the ransom notes are displayed. There
is a fearful similarity between them
Mr.. Wilentz points it out as he puts
letter after letter into the defend
ants hands, uses a teachers pointer
to call his attention to the charts.
Even a casual spectator can grasp
the damaging significance of these
written words, the continual confusion
of consonants in such words as might
and Light" and signature; the
shape of capital "N," an *" ~
It is impossible for any one to remain
unimpressed by them; what is the
jury thinking as it sits silent and i'm
passive SO near them?
Hauptmann admits, under murder
Gus cross-fire, that he already had a
large sum of money in his home in
the Bronx when he discovered that
his one-time partner. Fisch. departing
for Germany, left with him a box
Evening star., 1935-01-29
new DISEASE KILLS
BABIES IN HOSPITAL
0bstetrical Department Closed
When Eight Infants Die in
Five Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TEANECK, N. j., January 29.-The
obstetrical department Of Holy Name
Hospital was closed yesterday while
physicians sought to classify strange
disease resembling intestinal influenza
which had killed eight babies in five
days.
Half of the 40 infants born at the
hospital since January contracted
the disease, DR.. F. c. Mccormack,
medical director, said, but IL are re-
covering. All the mothers escaped in
fection.
The hospitals milk supply has been
thoroughly tested in laboratories here
and In New York, DR.. Mccormack
said, and found free of contamination.
Health officials have absolved the hos
pital of blame, he said, and pathol-
ogists In st. Luke's and Willard Parker
Hospitals in New York have sought
to determine the nature Of the germ
without success.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
DRYSLAUNCHF|GHT
ON VETS IN SOUTH
Repeal Advocates Face
Struggle in State
Legislatures.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, January 29.-As liquor
law repeal advocates in a half-dozen
long dry Southern States pressed
numerous legislative measures to the
front, they were faced today with
growing opposition.
Four of the six States where meas
ures have been introduced to change
existing liquor laws have served no.
tice that organized action has started.
The other two commonwealths have
not announced concerted efforts to
battle the wet forces, but it is known
the dry forces have not been sleeping.
In Alabama, where Senate members
vote today on bill, already adopted
by the House, to provide a referendum
on the question in accordance with
an expressed desire of Gov. Bibb
Graves, all dry forces have organized
in an alliance against repeal.
Carolina Opposition.
North Carolina drys served notice
on legislators that they would have
something to say at the committee
hearing on a bill, already introduced,
to legalize the sale of whisky.
The initiative in organizing a fight
against the liquor legalization bill al
ready sent to special committee of
the Arkansas Legislature has been
taken by the Arkansas State Baptist
Convention. The convention adopted
resolutions to sponsor a drive to force
a referendum.
McAlister Opposed.
Gov. Hill McAlister Of Tennessee
has said he is opposed to a referendum.
Dry forces in Tennessee have not an
nounced plans for an organized fight
against efforts being made to change
the statutes. but evidence of work by
prohibitionists has been noted since
the Legislature convened.
Likewise, nothing definite has been
announced by the drys in South
Carolina.
The consolidated forces for prohibi-
tion in Georgia have begun a series Of
meetings with prominent dry crusaders
as speakers.
Georgia legislators have several
bills, designed to legalize the sale of
beer and whisky, before committees.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
LETTERS ASK CLEMENCY
FOR MAS AND LEGENZA
Mother and Lawyer, However,
Fail to Appear in Effort to
Save Gangsters.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, January 29.-
Communication of the death sentences
Of gangsters Robert Mais and Walter
Legenza to life imprisonment is re-
quested in dozen or more letters on
the desk of Gov. Peery today.
The gangsters are sentenced to die
between sunrise and sunset Saturday
for participation In the murder of E.
M. Huband, Richmond Federal Re-
serve Bank truck driver.
The letters were laid on the Gov
ernor's desk pending an interview with
M. Haley Shelton, counsel, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Mais, mother Of Mais, who
had not appeared for an announced
conference with the Governor.
The Governor said they neither had
arrived ct his ofice nor made any
appointment.
Evening star., 1935-01-29
audience Gets Moneys Worth
In Prosecution of Hauptmann
Yesterdays Session Most Sensational
Since Start of TriaLTestimony on
Ransom Bills Adds to States Case.

containing an enormous sum. Haupt-
mann had q treasure trove of his own
in money at the time, locked in q
trunk that was locked in a closet,
because he and his wife were hard
working, thrifty and usually successful
folk. They saved money, thought about
1t, tried endless modest ventures in
speculation and investment. And
yet
And yet he asserts that, when he
accidentally discovered that the box
Fisch had left in his care contained
money-masses of money in gold and
notes-he did not count that money;
he says he put 1t casually in basket,
and left that basket unprotected and
that money uncounted in his garage
for many days.
Is 1t credible? Not to me. cannot
make myself believe that any simple
peasant, finding his way unlimited to
new world, gaining and saving and
prospering in that world beyond his
widest dreams, would toss money
about in this casual fashion, fashion
we Americans, extravagant and i'm
provident as we are, were not prac-
ticing in 1881. Rockefeller wouldn't
have done it; Mellon wouldn't have
done it; Barbara Mdivani wouldn't
have done 1t.
Form Powerful Case.
These extraordinary statements,
added to the weight Of the handwrit-
ing testimony, the unquestioned pos
session of ransom money, the prison
record, the scribbled telephone num-
Der on a door jamb, all help to form
as powerful whole as ever daunted
the hearts Of defense attorneys. One
thinks of the classic murder mys-
teries of the last hundred years, of
Madeleine Smith, Lizzie Borden, Ade-
laide Bartlett, Constance Kent. Added
together, the evidence against them
all fades into insignificance beside
what we have here before us.
And yet it's poor sport to sit here
and watch him, and watch the attor-
ney general batting him, parrying
with him, circling about him with all
the quick, cautious pouncing of a
snake. Mr.. Wilentz has a habit OF
lazily scanning the court with his
handsome black eyes as he poses a
question. He speaks to the prisoner
but he glances afield, to get the full
impression of his own cleverness upon
his hearers. He has nothing to lose,
but the other man is fighting with
pathetic desperation for that mouth
full of breath that we call life and
overprize so generally. One wonders
if being a prosecuting attorney doesn't
develop certain refined savagery in
man.
(Copyright 1885 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc.)
Evening star., 1935-01-29
BATTLE TO SAVE BABY
WITHOUT THROAT FAILS
Opening Closed by Structure at
Birth-Kept Alive With
's-I-
Tube in Stomach.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, January ga 16-
day fight for life by baby girl, born
without throat opening, was ended
yesterday by death.
When physicians at the Maryland
General Hospital found the throat
Of the infant closed at birth by a
congenital structure they inserted a
rubber tube throat" through an in
cision in the stomach in an attempt
to save the child's life.
For some time the child appeared
to be doing well, taking food through
the tube, but it was unable to over
come its handicap and lost its "50-50'
light for life.
Had the child lived the physicians
would have attempted to give it nor
NAL throat functions by dilating the
closed esophagus, or throat.