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Evening star., 1935-10-18
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Remorse.
You didn' show forbearance an you didn'
act polite
When Summer was lingerin' round
de door.
You blamed her in de mornin' an you
scolded in de night,
Till reckon she ain comm round no
more.
She seemed to wish you'd smile at her
an ak her foh to stay
An help revive de blossoms round
about.
But nobody seems to like her, so I guess
she's on her way
Cause she knows dat she has wore her
welcome out.
Oh, you'll miss de sunny welcome dat de
mornin' used to bring:
An you'll miss de big bouquets she used
to make
An de songs she used to teach de birds
out yonder foh to sing.
Where de trees begin to shiver and to
shake.
When de Winter comes q shoutin' where
her voice was soft and low
An a stompin' where her footstep was
50 light
You'll be grievin' an complainin' fob de
days 50 long ago
An reckon maybe it will serve you
right.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
Less Milk Consumed
Since Repeal Was Voted

To the Editor OF The Star:
Since repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment a Government survey finds that
in SO leading cities of the United States
there has been decrease of q per cent
in the consumption of milk. This in spite
of the fact that there are several million
more babies to feed.
In the State of New York this decrease
amounts to approximately 5000 900
quarts per month. To produce this 5000,
600 quarts of milk per month requires
$4,000 cows If these cows were strung
out in line along highway allowing 10
feet per COW, they would cover 47lq miles
of road and If they were MIXED by hand
it would take about 1000 men to milk
and care for them and 100 two-ton trucks,
not counting weight OF containers. with
100 men to haul the milk to market in
5000 10-gallon cans.
At 20 cents per gallon this decrease in
the consumption of milk in New York
means a cash loss TO the farmers of
$3.50 900 per year.
1t requires about 10 times as much
grain to feed these cows as is used in pro-
ducing the same quantity of beer. and
for grain fed to his livestock the farmer
realizes twice as much as for grain sold
on the open market. The brewer gets,
relatively, four times as much for his
beer, an artificial product with no food
value. as the farmer gets for his milk, a
natural product with the greatest food
value of anything the Lord has created
OF course, New York is an exceptional
State, in point of population. but divide
these figures by and multiple by 48 and
you will arrive at approximately the loss
repeal means to the dairy industry of
the farmers in the United States.
And this is not all. for the man who
drinks beer and so cannot buy milk for
his babies, cannot buy bread or meat or
shoes or clothing or pay his rent, and
his family must 60 on charity for sup
port.
The near three billion dollars spent for
booze in 1894, If used in normal channels
would 60 long way toward relieving de-
preston and reducing taxes.
CHAS. M. PIDGEON.
Evening star., 1935-10-18

1t Is a matter Of more than mere
appearance, however.
They are larger.
The greater amount of water per fish
permits them to stretch themselves, as
1t were; their fins stand more upright
and the entire creature is greater in a
very evident way.
Since the mosaic Gourami is an ac-
commodating creature. these changes
show up very plainly-if one happens to
be good piscatorial observer.
Being a fish observer, of course, is
something in itself.
One might be good observer of plays
or of wrestling matches: one might excel
at observing paintings and statuary and
still be lamentable failure at observing
small fishes.
Most persons, when they come up to
an aquarium see it as a whole, and the
fishes as incidental notes in the water.
That, of course, is exactly the wrong
way.
The real piscatorial observer sees each
fish, first Of all, one by one, then he goes
on TO the aquarium as composition.
The fish, no matter how many are
present, is the main thing.
Each fish, in its turn.
Thus the real observer is in ten times
as good position TO know whether a
fish changes, in any way, from moment
TO moment and from day to day, as
the man or woman whose only interest
Is in the aquarium as picture.
Our mosaic Gourami really has very
fine time in the average tank and that
is feature which helps make him the
good fish he is, for it is something not
every fish displays.
There are. unfortunately many small
animals called popularity tropical fishes"
which really have no places in small
tanks.
Many Of them succumb, even under
the best conditions, because they have
not been acclimated and never will be
acclimated. Yet they live long enough
for many persons to regard themselves
as vastly clever at tank management.
Then there are many more which,
though able to live in confinement do
not enjoy life. This is another case
where the observer must know his fishes
before he can pronounce judgment. The
fish out Of place in a tank always shows
it plainly enough to the educated eye.
He lives, but he is not enjoying life.
The mosaic Gourami, on the other
hand, lives and enjoys living.
His very method of swimming at once
alert yet discriminating. shows this At
no time is he i'll at ease. Always he
seems to have some definite place in
mind to swim to, although his journey
may be no longer than 20 inches at the
best.
Yet he takes this tiny swim with real
gusto, so that it is pleasure to watch
him at it.
1t is impossible to catch him dissatis-
fed. That is one factor which makes
him we'll worth a place in the home
aquarium. He loves life. this fellow. So
he is worthy of addition to any tank
which is to be observed closely.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Further acquaintance with the mosaic
Gourami. one Of the best OF the newer
introductions to the home aquarium,
rates it higher than first thought
Beautiful, we'll behaved, intelligent,
even humorous. Is this Gourami, q men,
ber Of the great bubble nest builder
family. At times 1t is a veritable clown.
How can a fish be humorous?
1t Is easily answered: BY actions, Of
course, since it cannot speak.
There Is a tropical fish called "clown
fish," but this name was given on nothing
more than several large colored spots,
which the manner thought resembled the
colored balloons sometimes painted on
clown costumes.
Our Gourami, on the other fin, Is
true clown in its actions.
Friendly to degree he never hides
himself in the plants. but swims right
out in front where what he does can
be seen easily and completely.
E*E+
One of his favorite humorous diver
sions is butting the rubber tube which
carries compressed air down 10 an aerator
stone, through which II is blown and
thereby broken up into millions OF little
bubbles.
Just why this tube should excite the
attentions of the mosaic, or butterfly
Gourami. as 1t had better been named,
is hard to say, since few other fishes pay
any attention TO it at all.
Our subject however, finds real fun
in ramming his shoulder. II fish can
be said to have such, against the tube.
He does this with a swift flip OF his
entire body, which rapidly takes him
about inches away. Then he looks
steadily at the tube, SWims carefully
near-and gives 1t another butt.
Occasionally he does this with his
snout, pushing the tube an inch or more
out of line.
1t is not possible for even the most
careful observer TO say that the express
sion of the fish's face changes any.
1t would be interesting TO say that,
but it would not be true. What may be
said is that the fish really seems pleased
with his action.
1t can be imagined that the casual
observer would find it difficult to join
in this judgment. To him, no doubt,
the fish would have exactly the same
look" one time as another. Even at
feeding time, TO such a person, there
would be no change whatever in the
fish face.
1t can be imagined, too that the person
who has spent many minutes watching
fishes in the home aquarium may be able
to find something there that the other
has not. 1t is SO. He often discovers
changes in piscatorial faces one time
from another. He would not say exactly
that the flsh's expression changes. 1t
iS moro glIhf1e PprhanS the owes dilatp q
slightly or the fish holds its fins just a
little more taut
Better tank conditions uniformly reg
lister in the better carriage" of the fishes.
This is noticed especially when group
of fishes are taken from a small tank
and placed in a larger one.
Invariably they look larger.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
Whistles for Speeders.

A court official at White Plains, NJ Y,
offers a suggestion for the cure of the
speed habit that is the cause of the
majority of motor accidents. He pro-
poses that whistles be so attached to
the cars that they will blow when the
speed rises above a certain point, say
forty-five or fifty miles an hour. He
thus expresses the idea:
Put whistle on them, like my wife
has on her tea kettle to let her know
when the waters boiling 1t would serve
as a warning to the driver who forgets
himself and would also warn others on
the road against speeding driver"
1t sounds plausible, but it may be
feared that it would not work. At any
rate not sufficiently to cure the real
speed fiends, who not only know when
they are going faster than they should,
but seek that speed purposely. The
driver who unconsciously runs his car
up to dangerous speed might be checked
by the footing of whistle of reminder.
And yet it would have to be pretty
loud whistle to strike his attention, what
with the ordinary noise of the motor
and the clash of traffic.
A sharper penalty than a bit of din
In the ear is needed to cure the speeder;
that is to say, the chronic speeder, who
regards traffic rules as merely something
to ignore. He is not himself afraid of
speed. He believes that he is capable
of managing car at forty-f or fifty
miles an hour in city traffic and at a
Evening star., 1935-10-18

higher rate on the country road. And,
moreover, he likes to speed. There is
nothing unconscious about it.
The motorist who is temperamentally
incapable of obeying the regulations in
respect to lights, the rights of others on
the road and the speed limits should not
be permitted to drive. His discovery
through repeated arrests for improper
driving should result in his elimination
through. revocation of license. For
sooner or later, with that vicious habit
of speed, he will do irreparable damage
to others. And then it will be too late
to apply an adequate penalty.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
Art in the Mall.

One of the topics for consideration
by the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, which is meeting to-
day and tomorrow, is that of the place.
ment OF the gallery to be donated to the
Nation by Andrew w. Mellon to house
his rich collection of paintings. A site
is quite definitely in view and it's formal
designation is likely to be made by the
commission. 1t is the space of the Mall
opposite the Labor Interstate Commerce
Building, now occupied by greenhouses
OF the Department of Agriculture. 1t
is logical site, appropriate in that it
lies virtually adjacent to the National
Museum, which houses the present
National Gallery of Art, for which q
permanent adequate home is proposed
for placement in the SPACE lying be-
tween the present structure and that on
which it is now planned to erect to ac-
commodate the Mellon collection. Thus
if this contemplated site is determined
upon and definitely approved by Con-
greSs, the assent of which will be
requisite, there will be in prospect for
early consummation group of art CEN
ters unsurpassed, if indeed equaled, in
the world. 1t will include within a mar
row compass the truly National Gallery
maintained by the Government, the
Mellon Gallery with its richest of art
works, the Freer Gallery, a gem Of rare
quality as to both housing and contents,
and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, notable
as a permanent collection and as the
scene of the biennial exhibition of con-
temporary art.
This grouping is so definitely desirable
that there should be no question Of its
Evening star., 1935-10-18

Alumni" of the World War Industries
Board have just been notified that the
chief" Chairman Bernard M. Baruch,
has decided to hold another triennial
reunion of the group. 1t is scheduled for
Armistice day in New York City. The
merry get-togethers generally include
midday breakfast meeting and dinner
at the home of Mr.. Baruch, followed by
a theater party and entertainment at
which he is also host Usually about
hundred survivors of 1917-18 days at
Washington assemble for these orgies
of reminiscence and a discussion of the
state of the Union.
Chairman Lands of the Securities and
Exchange Commission made his Wash
ington oratorical debut this week in an
off -the-record talk before the National
Press Club The youthful new keeper
Of the bulls and bears is a forceful and
fluent speaker. He has an eloquent jaw
which he juts out at psychological mo-
ments to emphasize important points.
Although Jim" Lands has spent nearly
all his professional life in law class
rooms, one gets the impression he would
be an uncommonly effective figure in
court, especially before jury.
X
Washington political quarters note
with interest Father Coughlin's message
to the New York Times, denying reports
that he is going to wind up the National
Union for Social Justice and support
President Roosevelt. His organization,
the broadcaSting priest says. is intent
upon increasing its membership during
the coming year, particularly through
radio campaigns in the West. L am
neither supporting President Roosevelt
nor opposing him." Father Coughlin
states. II am determined to support
principles and not men. The major
principle is the naturalization of credit. ,"
4 4
Almost every day produces evidence
that the Republicans plan to stress New
Deal spending as their paramount issue.
On October 81 Representative James w.
Wadsworth, Republican. of New York.
long an honorably mentioned G. o. P.
presidential possibility, will speak at a
National Economy League Manhattan
luncheon meeting on the subject of
who Pays for All This?" Col. Frank
Knox. avowed Republican White House
aspirant, will deliver blast on the same
subject under similar auspices at big
New York dinner in January. 1t prob
ably will mark the formal opening of the
Chicago publishers pre-convention cam
paign in the East
X X X X
American Legionnaires who recently
fraternized with him in st. Louis gath
cred the impression that Gov. McNutt,
Democrat, of Indiana, has definite bee
buzzing in his ite-thatched and dis
tinguished looking bonnet. For the mo-
ment. it is a vice presidential bee. with
designs on second place in case, for any
reason not yet disclosed, Jack" Garner
decides not to aspire to reorganization.
II it is Roosevelt and Garner again in
SO, the former Legion national COM
mander's comrades think the Hoosier
will set his cap for first place in 1910.
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1935-10-18

consummation Mr.. MELONS gift to the
Nation, structure and collection, should
be placed with regard for its own dignity
as well as for the public convenience
of access. It will not constitute q ma
tional gallery" such as has been already
established and is at present unsuitably
and inconveniently housed in the
Museum collection which, when space
is afforded, will have high value as
contribution to American history.
The use of the Mall for the placement
of such establishments as scientific in
stitutions and galleries Of art is in no
wise contrary to the spirit of Capital
making which has produced the WASH
ington of large parks and open spaces.
1t is unfortunate that an intrusion upon
the park area for purely administrative
uses occurred more than half a century
ago. when the first home of the then
Bureau of Agriculture - afterward ex-
panded into a Department" - was
erected within the Mall lines, an error
unwisely perpetuated when the perma-
nent home of that Department was
erected.
When the then so-called five square
site for Government construction at the
west end of the Mall-Avenue triangle was
acquired it was proposed to build thereon
three separate structures for as many
Government units. That quickly proving
unsuitable because of inadequate space.
the suggestion was advanced to place
one of the three department buildings on
the park area, to the south. That was
vigorously and successfully resisted on
the ground that further trespass upon
the Mall for departmental uses would
endanger its integrity as park. Later
developments proved the wisdom Of the
final choice of another site and the ulti-
mate utilization of other land than the
triangle and the Mall for these public
service housings.
To the assemblage in the Mall OF scien-
tific and cultural establishments such as
the Smithsonian and its branches, the
Freer Gallery and now the national gall
lery. which for immediate Identification
must be known by the name of the donor,
there can and will be no objections in
the light of the general trend of park
development. Rather, indeed is it to be
heartily approved in the interest of a
balanced, systematic and harmonious
Capital evolution.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
Justice as Defined by
Craven Inscriptions

To the Editor of The Star:
Equal justice under law" is the work
of the chiseler Tin stone) high above
the front door of the new building erected
for the United States Supreme Court.
This adds on public edifices to the nu-
merous production of sloganeers or
makers of ponderous aphorisms calcu-
lated to catch the eye and soak into the
consciousness of Uncle Sans quite nu-
merous family.
Analysis of the wording brings forth a
question as to whether there would be
any Justice at all in unequal" justice.
If not, equal" seems redundant.
Further, can there be any justice under
unjust law? Is there no unjust law?
This raises further questions: What is
law? What is justice?
The whole doctrine of law has been
reduced to three principles: That we
should live honestly, should hurt nobody
and should render every one his due"
These constitute the law of nature, which
has origin in the God of the universe
And Sir william Blackstone has said
that alongside of the pronouncements of
the Almighty, no contrary human laws
are of any validity.
judgments founded upon valid laws
must be true and righteous altogether to
mete out that justice which is deeply
imbedded In the soul and the conscience
of man.
Perhaps a revelation of the justice
promised above the front door is found
In the lettering on the rear of this new
edifice. High above the back door is
chiseled in stone these words: Justice,
the guardian of liberty"
Though circumscribed by the law of
the Constitution, by acts of Congress
made in pursuance thereof, by treaties
made with other nations (these three
constituting the supreme law ,of the
land"o, yet mindful that the dommon
law of England Is the basis for American
jurisprudence, we read again the 'front.'
door promise and the back-door inter-
pretation, and may have faith that our
highest court ever will strive to establish
justice, so far as humanity attainable,
throughout this broad land for al the
inhabitants thereof.
JOSEPH w. CHENEY.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
AnglO.French Crisis.

Crisis succeeds crisis with stagger-
ing confusion in the Ethiopian
conflict. A few days ago it was the
grave situation at Geneva, resultant
from differences over sanctions, that
threatened League solidarity IN plans
to thwart MuSsolini. Then Anglo
Italian tension in the Mediterranean
clouded European skies, as 1t still does.
Now comes a violent clash between
British and French policy, rivaling IN
bitterness the celebrated controversy
over Fashoda, which brought Britain and
France tc the brink of war, in the days
before the entente cordiale. Only II
Ducc can view with equanimlty the
souabbe agitating the two leading
League powers, though he doubtless
recognizes that it can only postpone
the day of reckoning for him.
London and Paris are at loggerheadS
over Premier Lavals reluctance to yleld
to Britains demand for the assistance OF
the French if there is an Italian attack
on the British feet in the Medlter-
ranean. What is particularly asked Is
that French dockyards be placed at the
disposal of British ships. Cooperation
of French war vessels is apparently not
stressed. London insists 1t IS calling
upon France only to do her duty under
the covenant, now that the League has
4oI,
sanctions.
As the hour for punitive measures ap-
proaches with mounting evidence that
the burden of enforcing them will rest
on its fleet Britain requires yes or no
answer from the French. France, caught
between the two fires of her loyalty to
the League and her fear of alternating
Italian friendship, heSitates She de-
mands that Britain give binding pledges
of reciprocity-that if France goes to
her aid in the Mediterranean, the British
will come to Frances ala in the event of
certain aggressive developments IN
Europe. London interprets French hes
itation as proItalian trend, intolerable
under present circumstances. Along
with it, the British discern hostile per
fdious Albion" tone cryStallizing in
French public opinion, for inspiring
which they are inclined to hold the Qual
d'Orsay responsible. The net result IS
an atmosphere highly charged with ex-
ploSiveness on both sides of the Channel.
France perpetually and incorrigibly has
the German menace on her eastern
frontier in mind. Hence, her difficulty
Of choosing between Britain and Italy.
If she casts her lot against MusSollnl
and goes to full lengths with Britain in
suppressing him, she fears the time may
come when she would face hostile Nazi
Reich allied with Italy. If she repudiates
Britain France must reckon not only
uoon confronting Hitler with lukewarm
and inadequate Italian support, but per-
haps even an Anglo-German combina-
ton, of which there have recently been
hints.
M Laval's dilemma is thus immense
and perpleXing. He is dealing with a
strongly anti-War minded France in no
mood to be drawn into European con-
fagration as pawn in Britains deter
mination to be supreme in the Mediter-
ranean. Frances answer to London is
due during the next fewshours. On its
tenor may once again well depend the
issue of war or peace in Europe, which
for the moment transcends the fate of
Ethiopia and Italian aggression there
The powder barrel needs only a spark to
envision.
Evening star., 1935-10-18

When Woodrow Wilson was credited
with determination to keep us out of
war, he uttered one of the slogans which,
though Intellectual at the moment, comes
up after the lapse of years for an encore
Evening star., 1935-10-18
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Toward Home

The faces at the close of day
In streams of homing cars
Give their divergent thoughts away
As dusk removes the bars.
A banker has seraphic smile.
A clerk jots numbers down.
A merchant maps In the brief mile,
A farmer stares at town.
Turning from commerce in the dusk
Hearthstones the common goal
Faces are stripped Of every husk
n the cars homeward roll.
Evening star., 1935-10-18

As the processes of natural selection,
survival of the fittest and other great
natural programs go on, the mysterious
intention to make humanity happy by
making everybody miserable continuous
ly asserts itself.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
SeIf-Sacrihce.

de man dat reaches foh de biggest Of
everything" said Philosopher Sam, "allus
gets left"
"Al right" replied Mr.. Erastus Pinkley,
"I'll take de worst of it. You kin hab dis
small cucumber an I'll take de big water
melon"
Evening star., 1935-10-18
ENCOURAGEMENT.

"Your speeches have the right ring to
them," said the admiring constituent.
"You think so?" asked Senator Sor.
ghum.
Yes, sir. You keep on practicin' and
you'll get somethin' thatu do for a regu-
lar lecture"
Evening star., 1935-10-18

AS Winter comes something may be
done to keep the old Blue Eagle from
looking as homeless as a snowbird.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
Strange Collection

The family album is book
Where any visitor may look
And see our grandsires decked with care
In curious clothes and startling hair.
Evening star., 1935-10-18
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Evening star., 1935-10-18

Jud Tunkins says that as a rule he
wouldn't object so much to seeing a man
play the piano if he could keep from
watching the expression of his face.