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The Washington times., 1935-01-26

Senting Verdi's
opera. La Ira.
viata" at Con-
Stitution H al |
n e Xt Tuesday
night at $3.50 p.
m.-the frs t
opera ever to be
given in that
halls particu-
larly stressing
t h e dramatic
qualities Of this
unique produc-
tion as we'll as
it's musical val
ueS.
The Washington times., 1935-01-26
ia Traviata'
Opera Here
Tuesday

Max Rabinoff, general director
of the Cosmopolitan Opera Asso.
citation of New York, which is pre-.
The Washington times., 1935-01-26
Long Film Preparations

More than three years. prepara-
tion, including a camera expedi-
tion to India, have preceded the
filming of Paramount's Lives of
a Bengal Lancer"
The Washington times., 1935-01-26

Hotels and Supper Clubs Thrive
With Patrons Who Defy Weather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Screens at Bus Windows

Yesterday two buses on one of the
suburban lines met in q sideswipe that
in itself was not important. But to q
passenger on one of the buses it was
disastrous, perhaps fatal. He was sit
ting on the side of the collision, with
his left arm hanging out of the window
and in the crash it was torn from his
body.
This mishap, for. which the sufferer
must bear the chief blame for his i'm
prudent exposure of his arm, suggests
that the buses should be protected
against similar mishaps to passengers
by the placement of wire screens at the
windows on the left side. Such screens
were required upon the street cars long
ago. after accidents had proved their
need. In some cases the screens were
fixed to the body Of the car, in others
they were part Of the window frames,
folding down into the sides Of the car
when the windows were closed and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

that the hard-hitting brigadier may be
intending to make his debut in the ma
tional arena. Aspirations to a United
States Senate seat from Oklahoma are
now and then attributed to Gen. John
son.
Joseph p. Kennedy's resignation as
chairman of the Securities and Elk
change Commission, long foreshadowed,
evokes the liveliest regret throughout
the financial and investment world.
Wall Street awaited the enforcement
Of the new securities law in fear and
trembling. but its sane administration
under Kennedy'S direction obliterated
all anxieties. Eloquent evidences Of the
money worlds confidence in the COM
mission is the fact that more than
81, 900 900 900 in new financing has been
brought out thus far in 1885. Mr. Ken
nedy was one of the original and most
generous angels" of the Roosevelt
for-President movement before and in
1892. Because of his fondness for F.
D. r. his continued interest in the New
Deal is assured. Friends predict that
he will not always remain outside the
administration family.
y
Joseph c. Grew, American Ambas-
sador to Japan. has Just left WASH
ington on the first leg of his journey
back to his post in Toxic He will sail
this week for Europe to visit one of his
daughters, who is married to a secre-
tary of the United States Embassy in
Paris, and about the middle of October
will embark for the Far East via the
Suez Canal. Mr.. Grew has supplied
the administration with up-to-date re-
ports on political. economic, military
and naval conditions in Japan and
been given complete picture of our
attitude toward developments on the
other side Of the globe The Ambassador
Is at the outset of his thirty-second
consecutive year in the foreign service,
which he entered as a clerk in the
American consulate general at Cairo
in 1904. He ranks high in seniority
among our career diplomats.
At Annapolis on October 10 the
United States Naval Academy will cele-
brate its Goth anniversary. A guest Of
honor at the festivities will be DR..
Wilder D. Bancroft, professor Of chem
Aoty az SNhCAl OAlNClSlty3 WIOSC
grandfather, George Bancroft, Secre-
tary Of the Navy under President Polk,
became known as father of the acad-
envy" incidental to its foundation in
1845. Bancroft Hall is named after him.
Manuel Quezon, just elected President
of the Philippines. boasts of a wide
acquaintance among American politi-
clans, Democrats and Republicans alike.
1t extends over the past IS years and
Is based on his periodical appearances
with other leading Filipino politicos be-
fore the Platform Committees Of the
national conventions of both parties.
The debonair little Manila statesman
pleaded eloquently and increasingly for
independence planks and returned hope
fully to the attack every four years.
Vice President-elect Osmena is also well
and favorably known to our political
fraternity.
(Copyright, 1857
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
The Memel Threat.

Memel, that tiny patch of Baltic Sea
coast detached from East Prussia by the
treaty of Versailles and subsequently
given to Lithuania, has suddenly become
bone of contention threatening COM
plications in Northeastern Europe. The
territory, which was granted autonomy
under Lithuanian sovereignty, will elect
its Diet on September 90. Although the
population is overwhelmingly German,
the Berlin government has long charged
that Lithuania Systematically subjects
the German element to persecution.
Chancellor Hitler in his recent ReichStag
speech Numbered that these tactics are
intolerable and limited strongly at
reprisals.
Berlin's remonstrance has now taken
more categorical form. The Reich for
eign office bluntly warns all concerned
that Germany cannot be held respon-
sible for the acts of East Prussians" if a
free election is not assured in Memel
next Sunday. AS Great Britain, France
and Italy joined in guaranteeing the
statute under which the Memel state
was created, Germany called upon those
governments to force Lithuania to
cease alleged oppressive activities. Lon
don announces that satisfactory pledges
from Lithuania have been received.
Following Germany's recovery of the
saar last Spring there was vigorous
recrudescence of the demand that other
territory taken from Germany after the
World War must also be restored. Alsace-
Lorraine was not included in this pro-
gram, but former German lands now
under Czechoslovakian, Polish, Belgian,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Danish and Lithuanian control were spe-
officially in mind. In both Danzig and
Memel Nazi agitation with view to re-
incorporation of those regions under
German rule has been unceaSing. Hitler
sent Goering, Goebbels and other Nazi
big shots into Danzig for the late Diet
elections there, but the campaign went
against the Germans and hopes Of plant
ing the swastika in the Polish Corridor
had to be indefinitely postponed. Nazi
political leaders have intruded into the
current Mcneil campaign, through pub
lished appeals to the German element
to stand unf1inchingly against the Lith-
uanian "tyrant."
1t is in Berlin's undiSguiSed threat that
neighboring East Prussians" may take
the law into their own hands If German
rights" are flouted in Memel that real
peril lies. The German foreign office
declares, significantly, that while the
Reich is preserving strict neutrality in
the Italo- Ethiopian controversy, it does
not intend to let Lithuania take advan-
tage of Anglo French italian absorption
in that affair ito walk off with Mcneil"
President Smetona of Lithuania, en-
phasizing the Importance of Memel as
Lithuanias only seaport, indicates her
determination to curb Nazi propaganda
for return of the territory to Germany.
There is plenty of gunpowder in the
situation and the possibility of its critical
development, while Europe has its eyes
turned toward the Mediterranean, cam
not be excluded. Hitler may see chance
to fish In troubled waters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
rising into position when they were

rising into position when they were
opened.
In the light Of this accident, however
the burden of responsibility may rest
upon the victim, there should be i'm
mediate precaution against repetition.
Warnings to passengers, no matter how
conspicuously posted in the vehicles-and
they are absent from many Of those now
in service-will not serve to keep them
from leaning or thrusting their arms out
of windows. This is particularly true of
children. Only the positive barrier Of
q screen will prevent sccidents of this
nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Constitutional Government.

Senator William E. Borah of Idaho,
student and always champion OF the
Constitution, warns the country against
partisan political attacks on the funda-
mental law of the Nation and the
Supreme Court. The success Of such
attacks, as the Idaho Senator points
out, would inevitably result in the
breakdown of constitutional government
and the loss of liberty to American
citizens.
The Supreme Court is the final bull
Nark of constitutional government. 1t
has been so regarded for years. 1t be-
comes today more apparent than at
any time since the days of the Civil
War and the reconstruction period
thereafter that the people must look
to this great judicial body for protec-
ton in their rights. Senator Borahs
address, therefore, delivered over the
radio, is the more pertinent.
Although Senator Borah has been
prominently put forward as a Repub-
lican presidential possibility for 1896,
he does not hesitate to charge the
Republican party, as well as the Demo-
cratic party, with attempts in the past
to run roughShod over the ConStitu-
ton, for political advantage and for
the personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF party
leaders. He says: THE greatest danger
onvornn01nt the most
tnsldious enemy of our dual system OF
State and Federal sovereignty, is that
intense partisanship which sometimes
places party interests above country,
which surrenders conscience, abdicates
reason and compromises patriotism that
the party's hold may be strengthened
and the party reign extended"
The partisanship of the so-called New
Dealers has grown more intense as the
years have passed. But, added to this
group of partisans is another, those
members of the Democratic party who
have no faith in New Deal principles or
acts, but who, merely in order to keep
their party in power and themselves in
Office, surrender their own convictions
with regard to government and the lib
critics of the individual Americans. This
latter group is unworthy. 1t exemplifies
the truth of Mr.. Borahs charge that
for partisan political advantage, for
added power, men are willing to attack
the principles of free government.
The battle lines are forming in this
country. The people will have an OPP
portunity to express themselves at the
polls. There seems no reasonable doubt
that the issue of constitutional govern
ment as understood by the American
people for generations will be clearly
developed by the time the campaign is
in full swing next year. The Supreme
Court of the United States already has
unanimously declared one Of the prin-
cipal acts of the New Deal to be uncon-
stitutional 1t has rejected the idea that
the President of the United States may
throw out of Office men against whose
records no charges have been brought
and who have been appointed for stated
terms under the law. 1t may be ex-
pected to hold other acts of the New
Deal unconstitutional. Surely the Nation
as whole will have been fully in
formed of the issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

Don't they hurt right heref" he asks,
hopefully, touching the right toe.
NO" is the rejoinder. What makes
you think they hurt there?"
"Well-" and this Is accompanied
with the most critical air-"this toe Is
very badly worn here"
You look down at the offending toe.
Yes, 1t Is q bit scuffed there, but
Eyes," he continues, triumphantly,
you need q size larger"
You tell him that you have brick side
walks out your way, that they are sup
posed to be artistic, much better than
those "glaring" concrete walks 80 hor-
ribly common because they are good
and that daily tripping over the bricks
has resulted in scuffed toes.
The man refuses the information.
To him scuffed toes mean too-short
shoes and nothing else.
yes, you need . size longer" he
asserts, fiatly.
How does it happen that, after have
been wearing the same size shoe for 20
years, you suddenly tell me I need .
larger one?"
ones feet do grow, he declares.
Suddenly, at the end Of 20 years, or
all during the period?"
He regards the toe painfully and dis
dams to reply.
And how does it happen" you con-
tinue, relentlessly, that you have fitted
my shoes for all those 20 years and
did not make this great discovery before?"
Whereupon deponent sayeth nothing.
Somebody ought to do something about
the fiendish desire Of shoe clerks to
give you shoes o size. or at least q half
size, too big for you.
1t may be true that small shoes are
the bane Of humanity, especially the
feminine side of it, but the truth is that
too-large shoes are even worse.
Not only do they wrinkle across the
uppers, or whatever that part of q shoe
is called, but they make one uncon-
sciously push the feet forward in order
to keep the shoes from falling OF. That
Is the effect at any rate, and probably
the fact. Thus the toes are pushed
against the front Of the shoe, with the
result that more harm comes to the foot
than If the shoes were too short, almost.
Wool socks take up a great deal of
the slack, in such an event, and make
too-large shoe almost fit.
At the same time they do not take up
so much room in a small shoe that they
make them much shorter than usual.
In the properly fitted shoe, which is
neither too large or small. the wool sock
Is exactly right in all weathers.
In the Winter they tend to keep feet
warm, especially If one INDUCES in that
standard city pastime Of spending many
minutes q day waiting for public
transport.
In the Summer they tend to exert a
cooling effect on the feet through the
time -honored absorbent and ventilating
qualities Of wool.
Above ALL however, they permit the
man who wears EN- to do as he pleases,
which is no small thing In such q world
as this, where. If one is q motion picture
actor, wearing wool socks the year round
Is merely a pleasant and interesting
foible, but If one happens to be an ordi-
nary mortal, the same habit is likely to
assume, in the eyes Of ones friends, the
aspects of silly idiosyncrasy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Gary Cooper wears wool socks all year
round, we see.
Well, you don't sayl
We have been doing that for 20 years,
but never thought it worth mentioning.
Now that Gary gets q little publicity
of it, however, there Is no reason why
other all-year wearers of wool socks
shouldn't come out into the open.
If he can get away with it, others
should, without facing the fine scorn Of
their friends.
What! Wear wool socks all through
the Summer?
You can just hear people sneer. can't
you?
For Just ordinary folks, 1t seems that
the most terrible thing they can do is
something contrary to the popular usage.
II the custom for men is to change
to silk socks during the Spring and Sum-
mer, then the man who dares wear wool
the year around is held to be sort Of
nut" or crank"
Nobody regards the great Mr.. Cooper.
however, as either, so perhaps the time
Is at hand for the rest Of us to VOW our
adherence to wool.
The truth is that II one type Of cloth
ing is grateful to the skin at any sea-
son, it is kind to it at another.
There are those who say they can't
wear wool, in any form, but most wool
socks have little silk or cotton in them,
for the very purpose of making them
wearable.
When the modern city man speaks of
wool socks, or Sox, as the manufacturers
like to call 'em, he means something
far different from the old-fashioned
thick articles worn in wartime.
They are wool, all right, but softened
up and softened down for the city dwell
Ter, the man who thinks room tempera-
ture of 66 is pretty cold"
One must have temperate feet, how
ever, to indulge in an-the-year- around
wool.
Persons with hoofs inclined to become
too warm, or even too cold, for that
matter, must use some other material
when the air Is warm.
People with fortunate feet-for such
they are-can wear anything the year
round and get by with health and
comfort
Usually these persons will be found to
be utterly free from corn, bunion, or
callus, which Is q very fine freedom,
indeed.
The use of wool socks in warm weather
Is confined almost exclusively to these
fortunate persons.
Many human who does not regard
himself as particularly blessed, never
theless is very fortunate to have more
or less perfect feet.
He must not take the opinion of shoe
clerks or Of those in shoe repairing
parlors.
Often they want to air q knowledge
they do not possess, so commonly profess
to find various things the matter with
the most perfect feet.
1t is amusing but somewhat discon-
certing, for one who has never had the
slightest foot ailment, to hear one Of
these experts run off at the mouth.
Your feet hurt you, don't they?" Is
the usual opening.
NO" is the reply. II wouldn't know I
had feet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Attainment.

Attainment.
The tale some wan and wistful vagrant
told,
To interest or cheer the idle throng
That loitered near the caravan of old,
Survives in cherished precept or in
song.
The distant star, upheaved with forces
vast,
Through myriad miles sends forth q
subtle ray,
And all unnoted does some share at last
To ease the hardship of q travellers
way.
So of the smallest or the greatest task
We may not claim too speedy benefit.
1t is not always ours to know or ask
How Use will find a time and place
for it.
Jud Tunkins says he knows q man
whose idea of personal success is singin'
on the key so loud that the rest Of the
choir has to give up.
Divided Opinion.
It has been 50 since ancient days,
So let no cruel comment shock.
For every man whom some men praise,
Some other men will surely knock.
Don't pride yohsef on bein' thin
skinned" said Uncle Eben. $50 Is an
onion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

OracIes.
An oracle was something which, when
Greece in classic thought was rich,
expounded prophecies and sich."
Upon occasions rare.
The rising vapors made them choke. The
people did not growl nor joke.
They only murmured, Holy
smoke!"
And listened with great care.
Those oracles were rather few. In caves
remote they mostly grew. They
never told quite all they knew.
Those oracles were wise.
From far and near the people came, with
fuel for the sacred fame and paid
the fee the boss might claim,
No matter what the size.
What great improvement now we see!
I'm very glad, 'twixt you and me,
things are not like they used to be,
When wisdom is our quest.
You do not have to leave your home and
through the distant mountains
roam to get yourself little "pome,"
Ambiguous at best.
Now oracles come out in droves. They
fill the highways and the groves
and each dispenses as he roves,
His cogitations grand.
Although the prices touch the sky, for
meat and eggs and corn and rye,
we've an abundance to supply
The oracle demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Mussolini complains that he has more
deserts than he knows what to do with.
Modern science might suggest to him
that it is cheaper to irrigate than to
fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Many a kind word is spoken Of Huey
Long. 1t is a word wasted now, as it
would have been when he was alive. An
epitaph often signifies only sense of
relief because q fighter is no longer to
be feared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

The constitutional guarantee of free
speech is what enables a side street
cafe to enthuse over international af-
fairs. Communism still does a share
toward supporting the government
when 1t pays cover charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton


I've the spirit of rover,
Sunlit roads are calling me,
And my feet would fain be free,
And my restless heart would fee
To the forest and the sea.
But frail hand tethers me.
A tether that is lighter
Than the foam upon the sea,
Or wind across the lea,
Or the leaf blown from o tree.
Strange that IL should harness me
I, who roved 30 far and free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

There may be cannibals in darkest
Africa. They will find little epicurean
encouragement in a prospect of in
vasion by foes who have been especially
selected for their toughness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

The United States Constitution was
written by exceedingly able men who
still manage to hold their own against
best seller publicity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Every big prize fight calls attention to
the encouraging fact that distributed
among the public there is much good
money that is not being boarded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Attention concentrates on A. A. A. to
an extent that threatens to deprive the
rest of the alphabet of its fair share of
consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

1t is not admitted that street buSses
will be a hit because they have to put
up Standing room only" signs.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Relief money is hustled for with an
activity which obviates fear Of its being
accepted supinely as a dole"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

Geneva might add to its inducements
for hotel patronage a greeter who is an
authority on parliamentary procedure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

An old song is seriously recalled by
Geneva delegates who walked right in
and turned around and walked right out
again."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Ponpadours.

From the worcester (Mass.l Evening Gazette.
Somebody predicts that the pompadour
hair cut for men will become popular
again next Winter. But unless the wig
makers get busy it obviously won't be
popular on the heads where 1t once was
popular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Copyright. 1889
Rug Treatment.

From the Terre Haute star.
New York cleaner can treat rugs so
they look like antiques. A far simpler
method, though, is to hang them on the
line and wait for hubby to beat them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23

popularity IL waning In the Bay State.
along with the popularity Of the Roose-
welt New Deal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
Watching His Step.

Watching His Step.
mo doubt you will leave footprints
on the sands of time"
II don't know" answered Senator
Sorghum. Politics out my way has been
requiring too much gum-shoe work to
make the footprint prospect very favor
able"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
A Lawless Sow.

From the indianapolis News.
Another friend Of the people-but not
Of the A. A. Ais the Michigan SOW
that gave birth to 10 pigs.
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