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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Oath of Allegiance
For Teachers Urged
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
have just read an editorial in The
Star captioned Facts About Com
munism." read also the opinion of
the corporation counsel that teachers
in the District public schools could cite
to their youthful pupils the doctrine of
Communism, but the teacher was not to
teach 1t. 1t is reported the District
Commissioners o. KID the corporation
counsels ruling upon rider" to the
District appropriation bill.
The Board of Education of the District
is independent from the District Com
miSsionerS or the legal opinion in regard
to what public school teachers may cite
as to the government of Soviet Russia
or the Hitler German government or
the Mexican government by the cor
poration counsel of the District. Your
editorial concludes. "Mr. Prettyman does
not say that he has consulted any of
the youngsters, but 1t may be that he
did. II So he can be confident that they
will be able to take care Of themselves
in the event of any attempt to deliver
them over to Lenin and Trotsky, to
MuSSolini and Hitler. Nor are the
teachers themselves the fanatic radicals
that some would have us believe"
IF SO they will be able to take
care of themselves" etc. VIII they?
Does not the corporation counsel, and
The Star should know that the citing
OF these forms of government will be
accepted by many young boys and girls
as actually teaching it? Nor are the
teachers themselves the fanatic radicals
that some would have us believe" Let
us see about that. About one year ago
I wrote a letter to The Evening Star
stating that all public school, parochial
school and private school teachers in the
District be required to take the oath of
allegiance to the United StateS-to the
Declaration of Independence, the bill of
rights, the Constitution. A day or SO
later The Star published letters from
District public school teachers opposing
the taking Of such an oath. Shortly
after my letter appeared in The Star
member Of Congress introduced bill
in the House covering the subject.
Today the States Of New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts ct al. have passed
laws that all public school teachers must
take the oath of allegiance TO the United
States. I believe ! was the first Ameri-
can citizen to suggest that public,
parochial and private school teachers be
obliged to take the oath Of allegiance.
Teachers themselves are not the radicals
that some would have us believe" If
not radicals" why do teachers object
to taking the oath of allegiance to the
United States? w. E. RYAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Keeping the Lights On.

When installation of the traffic lights
was begun several years ago the Gus
tom was initiated of turning them of
after midnight and, as the number OF
lights has increased each year, the GUS
tom has been perpetuated in modified
form.
Is it not time to consider the adj
visibility of continuing their operation
twenty-four hours OF the day? AS
every one who drives around town after
midnight knows, the flashing lights
warn of street intersections, but the
warning is too often disregarded. Some
of the bus drivers say that the most
dangerous time to drive is after the
lights go off. Drivers, freed of the curb
imposed by the lights, take too many
risks with the right Of way.
The inconvenience Of waiting at some
desolate street corner after midnight for
a light to change, with no traffic in
sight, is, of course, to be considered.
But there are certain streets where traf-
fc is relatively heavy all the time. 1t
might be found that the matter OF
safety, on these streets especially, out
weighs the inconvenience. And moth
ing that adds safety to the highways
should be neglected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
the United States. Reading the immortal

the United States. Reading the immortal
document, signed one hundred and forty
eight years ago today, stranger COM
petent to Judge would be apt to decide
that there is expressed in it a certain
community intelligence and, equally i'm
portant, o certain community passion.
The one element is thought; the other
feeling. Separated, neither would be
enough. 1t is the correlation Of the two
factors which produces the result which
Lafayette and Gladstone, each in his
own place, time and msnner, SO CRATE
fully commended. The text Is alive. 1t
signifies freedom and order, hope and
confidence, aspiration and caution. But
it is the interplay of ideas, the amalga-
nation of convictions and ideals which
makes its impact so remarkably effective.
The citizen, perusing its contents, re-
ceives its thought into his brain, engraves
it in his memory and coincidentally
takes 1t into his heart and embraces 1t
among the values that he loves. The
effect defies analysis, evadeS summation
in an epigram. A hundred and thirty
million souls, however, are influenced by
it. 1t is what they are, what their
fathers have been. The genius Of Amer
lea, virile and brave, is in it and in those
who appreciate it and, please God, will
defend it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress i'm Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

male and the Neanderthaler. They
might easily deceive one who did not
take the other characters of the skull
into consideration. The skull. says DR..
Hrlicka, in a report Of his study pub
ished in the American Journal Of Physi-
cal Anthropology. does not indicate the
existence of Neanderthal man in Amer
lea. but rather IAN ancestral connec-
ton with the Neanderthalers somewhere
outside America"
I'VE are justified" he says, Gin re-
garding such occurrences as reminis-
censes. more or less. Of early stages in
the evolution Of the human skull but not
as uninterrupted connections and espe-
cially not as a safe index of antiquity
of the specimens that show such char
acterS.
Brother Reynard, william OF SO many
children's stories, may have O reputa-
ton he doesn't deserve.
Such is the implication of a report
to the American Society of Mammalog-
lists on the food habits of Midwest foxes
by Paul L. Errington of Iowa State Col
lege.
Says Mr.. Errington: "a great deal
of the widely advertised destructiveness
of foxes to poultry proves upon investi-
cation to be overdrawn. Foxes are in
terested in dead chickens thrown
out in the fields and certain
amount of the chicken material found
at dens is known not to represent killed
prey. One farmer admitted to warden
checking up a complaint that poultry
debris about a den came mostly from
chicken carcasseS thrown out during the
Winter. In another instance farmer
had watched fox carrying to its den
a number of chicken carcaSSes which
somebody had dumped beside a highway.
"Poultrymen may at times have real
grievance against foxes. Aside from
losses Of an odd chicken now and then.
depredations upon vulnerably-situ
hocks may be severe, especially when
Midsummer family groups of foxes raid
farm yards. The worst depredations,
however, occur on farms which lack a
good dog and on which extensive con-
cealing vegetation allows the foxes to
steal close to the buildings. Corn fields
planted right up to the farm yards fur
niSh excellent opportunities for I'M
observed approach. All in all, the ma
jority of severe depredations seem pre-
ventable, If only through the possession
Of an active dog.
Doubtless much of the damage to pigs
charged against foxes does not represent
depreciation at all, but carrion feeding.
Practically all the really authentic cases
were those in which foxes had preyed
upon small pigs narrowed under semi
wild conditions, at considerable distances
from buildings"
The favorite food Of the foxes, Mr..
Errington found, consisted of pheaSantS
and cottontail rabbits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Confusion and Redundancy
I'm District LEGISLATION
no NC Editor of INC star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
Somebody got the idea that policemen
and firemen be permitted to live outside
the District, thereby opening up an
other way to take out Of the District
and spend elsewhere some more of the
District taxpayers money. There had
to be law for it and Congress enacted It,.
Section 452, title 20. 1929, Code, D. c.,
sets forth that the Metropolitan Police
district of the District of Columbia shall
be co-eXtenSive with the District of CO.
lumbia" Section 483, same title, requires
policemen to live with the Metropolitan
Police district.
To make the change 1t was necessary
only to limit the outside distance. The
bill as reported gave permission to re-
side anywhere within the Washington,
D. c., metropolitan district. That was
too vague to be definite. The bill was
amended in the House by defining "the
Washington. D. c., metropolitan district"
for purposes Of the act, as the District
of Columbia and the territory within a
radius Of IL miles from the United States
Capitol Building"-an amendment Of
futility, inaccuracy and redundancy, for
it was necessary only to enact that such
residence may be within a radius of IL
miles from the United States Capitol
Building"
Publishing q map, The Stars explana-
ton is that under new act of Congress
District policemen and flremen may live
anywhere in the metropolitan area"
This is a departure from the language
of the act and adds another confusing
and inaccurate futile designation. Now
there are metropolitan triplets-the
Metropolitan Police district, the Wash
ington. D. c., metropolitan district and
the metropolitan area and only one
accurately located.
Common sense suggests that the met
ropolitan area" comprises the land
within the lawful limits of the metropolis.
THE Washington, D. c., metropolitan
district" is the District of Columbia, in
which district its metropolitan city is
found. Such district cannot reasonably
be beyond lawful District boundaries for
local purposes, under the United States
Constitution, for Congress has no mu-
nicipal jurisdiction over Maryland and
Virginia.
Through such labyrinthian maze Of
confusion, inaccuracy and redundancy,
the public Is led to find out that District
policemen and firemen may live within
a radius Of IL miles from the United
States Capitol Buildings conspicuous
circumlocutionary excursion along the
way Of how not to do It,"
JOSEPH w. CHENEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Nearing the Climax.

Events at Geneva are marching from
crisis to climax. Cancellation having COL
lapsed in the face Of MussoliniS refusal
to consider any form Of compromise that
would cheat him of military glory, the
League powers are at length confronted
with the necessity of invoking those pro-
visions of the covenant applicable to a
nation which commits wanton aggression.
A week of discussion of the Italo-
Ethiopian conflict in the Council and
the Assembly has produced an eXtraor-
binary solidarity of view. One after
another, small states like Ireland, Pam
ANA, Haiti, Sweden, the Netherlands,
Belgium and South Africa have rallied
around the dominant League members
Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia
in demanding that the principle of
collective resistance to aggressive war
be upheld at all costs. The condemna-
ton of Italy's threat to peace is uni
verSal. No single voice has been raised
in defense of her plans for subjugation
of Ethiopia and the grabbing Of her land.
Unanimity of opinion at Geneva is
all important because covenant article
Is, concerning sanctions, provides that II
any League member resorts to aggression
in disregard of its obligations, it shall
be deemed to have committed an act
of war against all members Of the League.
Member nations then would undertake
forthwith to subject the offending state
to severance of all trade and financial
relations. They are pledged to support
one another in any measures invoked.
While no specific plan for bringing
economic pressure to bear on Italy has
yet been put forth, practical considera-
ton of that recourse is now imperative.
Under British leadership exploratory dis
cuSSion is under way. 1t contemplates
a general trade embargo. Once the
Fascist state is adjudged an aggressor
which will presumably not be until
Mussolini's troops actually invade or
attack Ethiopia-it is proposed that not
only should there be immediate and
complete cessation of sale of goods to
Italy, but a simultaneous boycott Of all
purchases from her. Thus both Italian
import and export trade would be auto
matically throttled.
MuSsolini'S reserve supplies Of raw
materials probably would permit him to
wage war for brief period but it could
only be a question of time before both
the population at home and the army
at the front would feel the pinch of the
economic blockade. Under no illusions
on that score, MuSSolini declaims that
sanctions mean war" But Italy could
neither fight nor exist Indefinitely, shut
off from imports of necessities like coal,
iron, steel, petroleum, cotton and various
foodstuffs obtainable only from foreign
sources.
Grim realization of what such condi-
tions sooner or later would mean for the
Italian people may yet, despite II Duce's
thunderings, give him pause. Nor can
he be unmindful Of what the ultimate
effect upon his dictatorship might be.
Starvation, unemployment and despera-
ton are the inevitable consequences of
industrial Strangulation and the natural
parents of revolution. That they would
ensue in Italy, if that country were long
the victim of worldwide economic
embargo can hardly be doubted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Persons who won't give others q
chance are one Of the main troubles In
q troubled world.
Human society is split into innumer-
able lines of conflict, without war once
being declared or any particular signs
Of hostility being raised.
The unspoken warfare Of dislike goes
on everywhere just the same.
Shots are fired, and most OF them are
wholly unnecessary.
This aimless firing is done by those
who, once having made a snap judg-
ment about others, refuse to give those
others O. chance with them.
They either freeze up at the approach
of the misjudged or keep going an
eternal line of banter or sarcasm.
Either is unnecessary.
1t is the unnecessary, in this world,
which causes SO much OF the everyday
trouble.
A whole world Of suspicion semi-hate,
semi-anger is created every hour Of
every day by an unnecessary tendency
toward dislike of others.
If any one has really done anything
against another, there is some cause for
dislike, active dislike.
It Is natural, at least.
This thing Of taking dislike to an
other, however, based on nothing much,
or positively on nothing at all. is emf
nently unnatural, especially in civili-
cation.
Live and let live is the slogan Of civ
ilized man.
Under civilization 1t is realized that
m c oriac Qnd
the like simply because they hold diff
ferent views from the generality of men.
They may hold such views as they
please, so long as they mind their own
business, do not attempt to overthrow
the state, and do not make nuiSanceS
of themselves.
Dictatorship always seems to run of
on the tangent Of personal glorif1cation.
If dictator might arise, in any really
civilized country, who would make and
enforce laws to compel all persons to let
all other persons alone, he might in
future years be hailed as supremely
great.
He would have done something all
laws and ethics do not yet seem to have
been able to accomplish.
He would add to the sum total Of
good in world which needs it sorely.
The great single achievement would
lie in compelling intolerant people to
give others chance with them.
They would find, much to their amaze
ment, that the very people they went
around "despising," as they believed,
really weren't a bad sort, after all.
They would discover that they really
didn't know what they were talking
about, that those whom they thought
they disliked they liked very much,
indeed, after they got to know them.
1t Is an amazing thing, If you stop to
look at II. how just ordinary folk, with
out any particular merits or gifts them
selves, can pretend to look down on, or
dislike, or even pay no attention to.
great many other persons who are very
much in the same boat with them.
You see it everywhere.
The man. at the head Of the works
is affable, kindly, tolerant, but the I'M
derlings are so obsessed with their little
eminences such as they are, that they
are unwilling to be kindly, charitable,
happy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17

"all the unconstitutionality in the world"
would not lay q basis for the action,
which he regarded as premature.
Justice ODonoghue suggested that the
case would later be heard on its merits
after the Governments answer to the
petition for permanent injunction. That
will presumably come some time after
the tax becomes effective, on Novem-
Der /. At that time the prospect Is for
a real test of the conStituticnality Of
the Guffey law, test that probably
exceeds III Importance any of the New
Deal litigation, including even the A.
A. A. For if the Government, as pro-
vided in the Guffey act, can use its
taxing power directly to gain control
over wages, hours and production in the
coal industry, that power may similarly
be used to gain control over practically
any industry. Once the plea is made
that such control is advisable, the New
Deal tendency would be to make 1t i'm
mediately effective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17

Thus they cut themselves OF from
much that would be helpful TO them,
much that would prove stimulative and
educational.
And it is Just too bad!
They need those qualities, and many
more; they want the polish that comes
from understanding and sympathy, the
inner glow Of being fair to others.
1t is really too bad about them, and
no one need shed crocodile tears, either.
They simply deprive themselves of
good. because they will not admit good
about others.
That is the basis Of it, the eternal
basis Of 1t, about which there shall be
no quibbling in the days to come
The past is gone, the present is con-
fused, but the future may be sure.
%**+
In the days to come, maybe, we will
have no such spectacle as that of the
human being who, for no reason at all
or very silly one, at best, persists in
holding a needless grudge against
another.
In that day the scorn Of the despiser,
and the hidden hurt of the despised
will be no more, for more just dispen-
sation will have come to hand, in order
that sneering and sarcasm, old universal
weapons of the nasty side of mans mind,
will have been replaced by tolerance and
fair play.
Every one will be the gamer then.
Most of all, however, will the gain be
to him who has laid aside malice in the
everyday affairs of life.
1t is these affairs, and not the mo-
mentous ones, which make or break
human life.
The little borings of the everyday the
sullen looks where smiles might be, take
the glory out OF life.
Life is like silver, easily furnished.
The dizziness of everyday existence, of
which We hear SO much, comes about
daily, hour by hour minute by minute,
not by great leaps or bounds Of time.
We tarnish the face of life's silver
coins when we insist, all unnecessarily,
on having 1t in" for others who do not
have it in" for us.
There is an old saying that you can't
get out of thing any more than you
put into it, and while some seem to have
been able to violate that, to a certain
cAIcHC IL ID 4OIdDly CIuC 4OI tLlC 4dAlA
and file.
When another Is thinking aloud, in
your presence. an act commonly defined
as conversation, and is giving his ideas
Of something or other, do not say, when
he ends his little speech, II am glad
to learn that. hadn't realized it,
Do not say that, provided you accom-
pany it with sheer or sarcasm which
says as plainly as words: What really
mean is that you are bromide, and your
Interpretation entirely sophomore"
Give the other fellow credit for know
ing quite as well as you do that his
utterances on the spur of the moment,
are not fraught with greatness.
One has no right to expect ordinary
conversation TO be priceless, different
and deathless.
To demand such in everyday life is
to be captious. and unnecessarily so, and
to sully the daily living of all of us. For
the nastineSs thrown upon this man shall
spill over onto the next, and so on I'M
ending. AS long as men in everyday
life cannot be peaceful one with an
other, how can nations, mere aggrega-
tions of men, be at peace?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Farewell to Summer.
Summer came a-Smilin' when the sky
was soft an blue.
The roses were a-bloomin' an the leaves
were bright with dew;
She was all dressed up so neatly
An she smiled at us so sweetly
That we lost our hearts completely
There was nothin' else to do!
But she wasn't quite so gentle, later on,
she can't deny.
She made it warm for every one, her
temper got SO high!
When she lost her disposition
We were in sad condition
An we're glad to get permission
To be biddin' her good-by.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Finds Sentiment FavOrs
LOw.Fare Ferry for Bay
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
I am glad to see Talbot Countys
Chamber Of Commerce, as well as our
county commissioners, has begun to take
an active part In condemning the pro-
posed Upper Bay bridge and have asked
Mr.. Jesse Jones of the r. F. c. not to
furnish the desired funds for this haz-
ardous and unwise project. Personally,
I have written to each head Of the
various fountains Of cash from which
money flows, and that have been men,
toned as source from which the bridge
company was expecting the funds, con-
demning and giving reasons why money
should not be furnished, and from the
President down the line have had aSSur-
ance that protests would be given due
consideration before money was fur
nished. I recently sent a QUESTIONABLE
to all county commissioners, except Kent,
on the Eastern Shore, including Della
ware and Virginia, asking for q vote
whether for or against the bridge, also
for or against State-owned ferry. The
votes that came in, which were SUM-
Gent to show the sentiment, with one
exception, were against the bridge and
in favor of State-owned ferry with low
fares. The county that failed to register
its protest or approval did not vote for
either, stating 1t had reasons for not
doing so.
What a boost and boom 1t would be
to the whole Eastern Shore-Baltimore,
Washington and Annapolis. as well as
the United States traffic generally-for
properly located State-owned ferries
with low fares to be inaugurated. How the
stars put in the Gov. Nice crown would
shine and the cost would be insignificant
compared to the proposed bridge What do
you think would have happened to the
proposed sky-scraping bridge If struck
by tidal wave similar to that which
swept the Key West region in Florida?
1t would most likely have cost millions
to remove the wreckage and obstruction
to navigation from the Chesapeake.
My advice would be for Uncle Sam
to keep his hand on the peoples purse
when such selfish schemers clanor for
public funds. w. Z. VALIANT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
The Test Postponed.

The Carter Coal Co. of West Virginia
filed a suit attacking the constitution
atty of the Guffey coal law within
twenty-four hours after the President
had signed the bill When the case came
up for hearing yesterday the board which
will administer the act was still to be
appointed by the President, the code
which the act prescribes was yet to be
drawn and the taxes to be levied were
yet to be collected. Under these cir
cumstances it is difficult to see how JUS
tice ODonoghue could have ruled
otherwise than he did in dismiSSing the
petition for a temporary injunction
which would have restrained effective
ness of the act As pointed out by John
Dickinson. Assistant Attorney General,