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Evening star., 1935-10-09
Calm i'm the Balkans.

Today marks the first anniversary Of
the assassination of King Alexander OF
Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister
Barthou at Marseille. There could be
no more striking tribute to the memory
of the martyred monarch than the period
of tranquility in the Balkans which has
ensued since his passage from that tradi-
ditionally turbulent scene. The young
King had devoted his comparatively brief
reign not only to the consolidation OF
peace within his own realm, torn with
racial animosities, but especially to the
promotion of friendship among the states
whose ancient strife long caused the
Balkans to be regarded as the cockpit and
powder barrel OF Europe. That unsavory
reputation seemed to be indelibly fastened
upon the southeastern corner Of the con-
tinent after It supplied the spark which
ignited the World War.
King Alexander essayed as his first
task the liberation of the Balkan States
from the tutelage of the great powers,
whose rivalries and ambitions in the
Near East created the perennial Balkan
question" He threw his whole influence
into the creation of the Little Entente
alliance of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and
Yugoslavia. Representing population
of more than fifty million, the group now
constitutes "the fifth great power in
Europe" and is a weighty factor in the
maintenance of peace. Later King Alex
ander turned his attention to the Balkan
peninsula and becameehiefly responsible
for the treaty that brought Greece,
Rumania, Turkey and Yugoslavia into
an agreement for common assistance
against aggression from without, setting
up the principle Of "the Balkans for the
Balkan peoples"
The Little Entente and the Balkan
pact are King Alexander's enduring
monument. The policies they typify
have been carried out by successive Yugo-
slavian governments in filial respect for
his memory. Today, with Europe in
turmoil and terror, 1t Is fitting to recall
in grateful terms the pillars Of peace
which Alexander reared. The complete
calm that has prevailed in the Balkans
for a year, amid conditions seething with
unrest on all sides of them, testifies to
the thoroughness with which he labored.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

protest against such minor injuries as
being stuck with safety pins; ten-year-
old Echoolboy feels absolutely sinned
against if he is not provided with jack
knife. and q girl without doll is q
miserable soul.
All of which is evidence of civilization.
Indeed, the history of human progress
might be written in terms Of little things,
small comforts or conveniences, invent
ed, perfected, distributed to the millions.
The struggle Of mankind, it seems, has
been largely toward the conquest Of cir
cumstance, and among the very greatest
victories have been those which have
given the masses such assets as clothing,
eyeglasses, the compass, scissors, the
fountain pen, coffee, anesthetics, the
toothbrush, books and the gasoline
motor.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

potato war: There are first the farmers
who want the act of Congress- veritable
act even though enacted by dint Of Incl
dental amendment to a major measure
enforced and q potato control set up
to regulate the production and reward
the producers for not producing. There
are the consumers who do not want the
price of potatoes raised by this artificial
respiration method. There is the admin
istration Of the Department Of Agricul-
ture, which does not want to enforce
the law and pleads that its war chest Is
empty because, forsooth, the great fili-
buster killed the deficiency bill and cut
of the fiscal supplies.
From day to day the battle RACES.
Now the administration gains ground.
1t definitely declares that it will not
enforce the law. Then the farmers
regain the lost ground and the admins
tration announces that 1t will proceed
to enforce the law, If some means can be
found to pay the cost of the campaign.
That chances to be the latest status.
Just what will be the situation during
the coming week is as unguessable as
the outcome of the stress in Europe
and the exact location of Mussolini's
avengers of italian honor in Ethiopia.
There is possible, however, truce In
the tuber tempest. Not much can be
done in the way of enforcement during
the next three or four months, for po-
tatoes are not a Winter crop and there
will be no occasion to watch the plant
ings and to count the contents Of the
hills for half q year to come. So it is
limited that the administration will play
'possum and wait until Congress convenes
and try for an amendment to the amend
ment that will cut this Gordian knot
and rid it of a most disagreeable and
unwelcome responsibility.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

TALLY Red Cross question. Since its
birth, in 1864, the famous organization
for mercy has cleared for action on both
sides of every war throughout the world.
william C.. Deming, former president
Of the Civil Service Commission, has
presented the Library Of Congress with
q book published in England more than
so years ago entitled "Brain-Fag From
Mental Worry and Overwork-Its Pathol-
ogy, Symptoms and Combined Treatment
by Homeopathy and Hydropathy." Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Deming. who Is now editing
his newspapers at Cheyenne, Wyo. thinks
an authoritative work on brain-fag has
q ready-made Washington reading public
after two and a half New Deal years.
The Library acknowledged the book as
welcome addition" to its collection.
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Two members of the cabinet, Secretary
Of the Treasury Morgenthau and Attor-
ney General Cummings, will shortly re-
turn with first-hand impressions of con-
ditions in war-menaced Europe, where
they have been for several weeks.
Apropos revived suggestions of American
entry into the League of Nations, it's
noteworthy that four one-time ardent
Wilsonians and pro-Leaguers are mem
bers Of the Roosevelt of1icial family-Sec-
retary of State Hull, Secretary Of the
Navy Swanson, Attorney General Cum
mings and Secretary of Commerce. Roper.
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Former Secretary Of State Henry l..
Stimson, chairman Of the Leonard Wood
Memorial, established to perpetuate Gen.
Woods interest in the care and treatment
of lepers while he was governor general
Of the Philippines, announces q world
wide campaign against leprosy. It will
be conducted with the aid of governments
and scientific agencies in all countries
where the dreaded disease Is q problem.
There are now about 100000 lepers in
the world. The malady exists to only q
very limited extent in the United States,
but Is spread throughout South America,
Mexico, Central America and the West
Indies. Centers of infection are in
Japan, China, the Philippines, Indo-
China, the Malay States, Java, India and
parts of Africa. Cases are extant as far
north as Iceland and as far south as
Australia. The campaign now to be
waged will include study of leprosy's
cause and cure, how it is communicated
and why it persists in certain regions.
Il
It's taken for granted that the posi-
bility of having to transfer a portion Of
the United States fleet to the Atlantic,
on account of conditions in Europe. was
thoroughly canvassed while President
Roosevelt was recently on the West Coast.
At present no such move is in sight. Be-
cause of the incalculable situation in the
Far East there is always hesitation to
denude our watch on the Pacific.
Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1935-10-09
The Air Crash Mystery.

The mystery of the airliner crash near
Cheyenne early Monday morning, caus-
ing the death of twelve persons, all OF
those on board, may never be solved.
The ship was approaching the airport,
the pilot having ascertained the landing
conditions by radio Just about two min
utes before the crash, and In that COM
munication made no mention Of bad
flying conditions. The wreck was so
complete that examination has failed to
reveal any mechanical cause for the
crash, If one existed. The conclusion
appears inevitable that the pilot mis-
judged his altitude and struck an eleva-
ton of the ground Of which he was
unaware. This conclusion runs counter
to the reputation of the pilot, who was
judged one Of the safest and most de-
pendable men in the air today. He had
q flying record extending back to the
Word War, when he was in the Army
Air Corps. His score Of thousands OF
hours of flying time was unmarried by
mishap. He was known among his fel-
low pilots as mo Collision Collision" be-
cause of that record. And yet, it would
seem, he failed to gauge the height of
his plane in the approach to port and
crashed, if indeed that was the actual
cause of the disaster.
So great has been the advance in the
technique Of flying, so precise have be-
come the instrumental aids to the pilot
in determining elevation, weather and
location that the so-called human factor
of danger in the air has been reduced to
the point at which it no longer deters
patronage of the aircraft for ordinary
travel. That confidence Is not likely to
be materially affected by single crash,
however costly and mysterious. The mis-
fortune is that the precise cause ap-
parently cannot be determined. For 1t is
from such misfortunes, errors, faults and
failures that advance is achieved toward
greater and even greater safety in the air.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Small Comforts.

Rupert Brooke, gifted British poet,
who died in the Gallipoli campaign, once
wrote lengthy ballad in praise of little
things that he had enjoyed. But from
the list, curiously enough, he omitted
certain small comforts which certainly
merit appreciation.
An overcoat, for example, on the first
frosty morning Of Autumn surely is de-
serving of a sonnet. The lack of one,
anyway, is an aggravation, and many a
man. shivering and shaking en- route
from home to Office, has reproached him
self for failing to observe the gradual
change in temperature which constitutes
sufficient warning Of the approach of
Winter, the bundle-up season of the
year.
Subject to similar classification also
are gloves, warm socks, congenial shoes,
mufiers, and even on occasion old-fash-
toned earmuffs. Life, of course, is pos
sible without them, but it is not nearly
50 pleasant in their absence.
And the same rule applies in q home.
Domestic felicity is not impracticable
in house which boasts no central heat
ing system, electric light, telephone, nor
automatic refrigerator; but numerous
couples are ready to testify that these
modern conveniences are conducive to
harmony. The woman who labors in q
Stone Age kitchen from dawn to dusk
has ample excuse, presumably, for being
shrewish and irritable of evenings.
Children, too, are affected by relatively
inconsequential difficulties. Babies. for
instance, have been known to utter vocal
Evening star., 1935-10-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

dening mind has been accustomed to
sneer ut it, in the past, for in the last few
years, thanks to the devoted activities
Of thousands Of interested persons, this
attitude bids fair to change permanently.
People everywhere who are interested
In gardens are coming to see more and
more that many plants, once ostracized,
II looked at with seeing eyes demand
some place In the cultivated plots Of
ground we call gardens"
1t is only custom which has ruled them
out in many cases. Seeing eyes" really
mean seeing, or understanding, minds.
When one knows the history and legend
much better position to Judge than when
one knows neither.
There is many a person who, no doubt,
seeing q chrysanthemum plant in full
bloom in q vacant lot, would pass 1t by
without further glance or comment, but
would rave over the same specimen in a
friends garden.
Nor would he be altogether to blame
for this. Even the fairest gem serene
glows the brighter for proper setting.
Hardy chrysanthemums now are in
bud. Varieties and colors Of these are
legion.
Almost all of them are named, but
surely they are just as sweet when the
name is unknown.
With the exception Of susceptibility
to inroads of black spider, the garden
chrysanthemum lives up to its good
title Of hardy"
When leaves begin to tumble down
from the trees and the first real winds
of the season toss them over the ground,
the bright blossoms of the NUNS f1t
beautifully into the changed landscape.
All flowers, at their proper seasons,
so blend, but it is a question whether
any other does a better job of 1t, or
even quite 50 good, as the chrySan-
themum.
Let us have an eye to them, then. as
we 60 along sidewalks. Gardeners put
them In unexpected corners where they
will not interfere, from May onward,
with other things in bloom.
Now Is their time, however, when
almost all the Summer flowers have
left US for another year.
Great dahlias and cannas, still in
bloom. show positively that not all the
old flowers are gone.
Japanese anemones, in white and pink,
make pastel splotches in many garden.
This is an interesting flower which makes
the theory come alive that some persons
are Just plain fortunate in growing flow
ers. One gardener will have no success
with these. despite great care put upon
them, while the next without worry or
particular thought has them in beau
tiful profusion.
White ageratum now assumes the pro-
portions of vine, growing to feet
high. What Is it about white flowers
which makes them want to assume
heavenly proportions? Those proper
groundlings, the petunias, will grow
feet tall In some of the white varieties
Scarlet sage still makes the garden
vivid. Not so snowy, but preferred by
some is its cousin, the blue sage.
The Aztec glory, tithonia, properly,
mods its dahlialike buds dozen feet from
the ground. There is not much chance
Of them blooming now, although a warm
spell of several weeks might do 1t,
after all.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

The woman admired the fine bushes
with their purplish-red stems and berries
and great leaves situated near the gate
Of large estate.
She spoke to a campanion about them
and then went on.
No doubt she would have been amazed
II she had known they were Just poke
weeds.
This sturdy old wilding Of country lanes
had been given q prominent place by .
discerning property owner.
In the Autumn landscape the poke Is
as pretty thing as is to be seen In local
gardens.
This use of such material at the front
Of large property bespeaks the open
mind.
DR.. Liberty Hyde Bailey, the famous
horticulturist, once wrote of the value
Of the dock as dooryard decoration. -
He advised home owners who found
them growing there to leave them alone,
properly pointing out their decorative
value.
Flying weed seeds take root in many
queer places and the wise gardener lets
them grow, at times, If he can do SO
without loss to his ornamental paintings.
Often he will find it profitable to move
some of them to make clump. Obvi-
ously this was what had been done in
the case Of the poke weeds.
The New England asters, now begin
ming to flower along country roads, and
in many q fine garden, no doubt in the
past were regarded IS mere weeds by
thousands.
Today they occupy a favorite status
everywhere. Surely there is no more sat-
isfactory Fall flower, unless 1t is the
famous chrysanthemum.
Just how it was Nature evolved Autumn
bloomers Is q question. But 1t is appar-
ent she meant to have flowers In bloom
almost all the year around in this cli-
mate. Hence we have the tiny crocus,
which flowers 50 early in the Spring,
and then another type crocus which
blooms in the Fall.
The witch hazel, famous shrub OF
legend, is not planted as much in and
around cities as its tradition demands
More and more, people are coming to
believe in the powers Of the witch hazel
divining rod. The latest advices are to
the effect that science itself Is willing to
believe in them. Certainly there are
many persons who say they have seen
case after case of success in finding wells
with a stick Of witch hazel.
There is q great deal to be said for
the use Of unusual plants in cultivated
gardens.
The weeds, so called, are everywhere.
While not all of them can be trans
planted successfully some of them can,
and often these are high spots of average
gardens.
We have become so used to what we
call cultivated flowers that at times 1t is
rather dificult for the mind to accept the
wild things, once so common all over
America.
The eye always accepts them.
II the human eye were left to itself,
at times, mankind would be better of.
This is particularly true of ornamental
plants. Just because a thing has been
classified as wild or weed" the mind
Is accustomed to sneer at it for gar
den use.
Perhaps We should say that the gar
Evening star., 1935-10-09

William Jennings Bryan Is recalled
with much respect. No subsequent effort
at epigram has been as influential as
his reference to labor with crown Of
thorns and mankind crucified on cross
Of gold. At present, however, it must be
observed that gold has been retired from
circulation and labor is asking no SYM
pathy, especially from Communists.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

Art valtes are uncertain. but there
must be doubts as to whether loss Of an
art gallery gift by Andrew Mellon can be
compensated for by modern inspiration
working on Government relief time.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

Science easily detects alcohol in the
blood. Motor drivers on roads or in the
air might be willing to submit to occa-
sional tests before setting out to de-
termine whether personal carrying
capacity ought to be figured on in the
immediate enterprise.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Prayer to Love

When prayed in other twilights
Every plea was sent above.
Kneeling In the ebbing daylight,
whispering that God is love.
Since your hand has come to guide me,
As a pilgrims way I plod,
Prayers are said to you beside me- :
For I've learned that Love Is God.
In the aftermath of sunset
Comes. the moment when kneel
At the sound Of your loved footstep s
Whispering the words that heal; Z
Prayer that sweeping me to heaven
As dusk merges into night
Frees me from all earthly leaven :.
In your arms, In Gods starlight. n
Evening star., 1935-10-09

A new building for the United States
Supreme Court will provide electric lights
abundantly. Some of the best of the
country's jurists worked with candles or
even pine knots.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Sad Prospect.

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Among the awful things that loom be-
fore us is the terrible, fear -impelling,
much-dreaded slogan that it's so and so
many days until Christmas. But it's
coming and, gee, how we dread It.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

Every startling event creates demand
for q monument to somebody, although
art critics are generally agreed that
there are already too many monuments.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

New York's anti-noise campaign has
not undertaken to curb useless and irri-
tating sorority transmitted into the
home by radio.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
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Evening star., 1935-10-09

Calm estimation must admit that the
italian soldiers are more becomingly at
tired than the Ethiopian warriors.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Decadence.

Uecadence.
From the Pasadena Post.
In q political argument In st. Louis
four participants were wounded, but
none killed. Public-spirited officials that
way do not seem to lack zeal, but they
are poor shots.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Excusable.

From the Philadelphis Evening Bulletin.
Woman who pulled fire alarm box in
IN effort to mail letter was perhaps
writing 70 IN old flame.
Evening star., 1935-10-09

Amoeba.
This thing called Money men will call
To worship or deride;
To reproduce, q dollar small
Need only subdivide.
Wealth still piles up wondrous store
And seeks to shun distress,
Yet folks who get it more and more,
Enjoy It less and less.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Bird Lore.

Bird Lore.
Mosquitoes ride in airplanes great,
With germs from foreign climes;
Such are, the scientists relate,
The perils of our times.
The friendly parrot will reveal
Infection which afirights-
But even iron birds conceal
A crew of parasites.
II never talks back to policeman
said Uncle Eben. even If I have q good
argumsut he's too busy 10 listen"
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Jig-Saw Geography.
Those hoss and buggy days, we see
With recollection gay;
Though scrambled now they seem to be,
They will come back some day.
A jig-saw puzzle now appears
To daunt the human race;
Well strive to get, mid hopes and fears,
The pieces all in place.
When once the puzzle seems complete,
We feel a proper pride;
And then a sudden shock we meet
It will not thus abide.
And when the picture seems secure,
In aspect fair and plain,
Some ruthless hand is almost sure
To scramble it again.
Olive Branch Blight.
Europe is studying its oil supply" said
the geologist.
eyes," said Senator Sorghum. days
were happier when Mediterranean people
took pride in their olive oil instead of
looking for petroleum"
Jud Tunkins says you can't please
everybody any more than you can expect
everybody to join in and try to please
you.
Evening star., 1935-10-09
Mechanistic Literature.

Mechanistic Literature.
Crimson Gulch ought to have a news
paper" said the travelling salesman.
I'VE had one" answered Mesa Bill.
'"The editor was wel-meaning but i'm
practical. He was good with a typewriter,
but too slow with six-shooter."
Evening star., 1935-10-09

the mortar WHICH Is CduSlIlS IL W
crumble and thereby weakening the noble
monument indicative Of individual en-
terprise and success.
Bankers, boards of directors and capi-
talists in action, the middle classes at
work, the slumS in their misery, those
living on the dole, the young men and
women and the children OF all classes
described specifically in the conditions
which surround them are laid out In
panorama of present-day life in Eng
land that leaves no phase Of society un-
covered or untouched. The threads OF
all these numerous unrelated lives spin
into stuff of equally as many varieties
of texture. Yet every thread Is woven
and interlaced into the pattern OF the
novel so that it meets and crosses each
of the other threads and becomes an es-
sential part of'the whole fabric. As the
story moves toward its climax the rela-
tionship of lives becomes nearer and
nearer until the eventual and appalling
crisis brings them all to the same level.
II X 4
As q whole the book may be 1kened
to an enormous tapestry into which every
known variety of thread has been woven,
or a huge canvas upon which every
thing from house paint to the finest art
coloring material has been daubed in
hit miss fashion. 1t has design
that is fundamentally good, but the
ultra -futuristic manner of presenting it
makes it difficult to trace. The subject
matter is one in which all thinking peo-
pie in the industrial countries Of the
world are deeply interested, But whether
or not this unconventional method Of
propounding 1t will be warmly welcomed
Is as problematical as q vaccination.
Maybe 1t will take" and maybe IT
Will not. .'-l@''.i-;s ss'.7'stss's 9 9
Evening star., 1935-10-09

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Mechanically o. X; good tires.
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