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Evening star., 1935-12-02
Treaty Nayies.

Secretary Swanson renders a timely
service in emphasizing the doubt sur
rounding the outcome of the London
Naval Conference. He takes occasion
to do so in his annual report, which
reiterates previous strong recommends
tions that the United States Navy be
built up to the full strength authorized
in the Washington and London agree
mentS. "The situation in regard to
treaties for limitation of naval arma-
ments," Mr.. Swanson points out, still
remains uncertain, and it is impossible
to predict the nature of future treaties,
If any"
1t is in the final words of that passage
in the Secretarys report-'if any"-that
significance lies. 1t implies the candid
fear that, world conditions and rivalries
being what they are, the last may have
been heard of treaty navies. There is
an ominous suggestion in the Secretary's
observation, founded, as it is, on the
present disturbed state of things, that
far from any hope OF new pacts to keep
ornaments within bounds. the more
likely prospect is that the nations are
headed toward another competitive era
of expanded, rather than curtailed, fleets.
The United States has, a clear con-
science on this score. AS Secretary
Swanson explains, American naval
policy is unchanged. This country,
under existing arrangements, is allotted
o gross tonnage of 1,125, 500. Plans, all
too tardily undertaken, are now under
way to build vessels that will by 1912
Riye the fleet the full strength to which
1t Is entitled. The civilian head OF the
Navy favors uninterrupted progress in
the completion of that program. 1t in
CludeS eighty-Six ships totaling $3.50
tons now building and appropriated for.
At the moment the United States has
more construction in hand than either
Great Britain or Japan, but that is be-
cause successive economy waves at
Washington compelled America to lag
behind its associates in the 5-5-3 ratio
compact. While they built, Uncle Sam
stood still.
Our delegates to the London Confer
ence are under instructions to do their
utmost to prevent bigger navies. They
will leave no stone unturned not only
to preserve existing ratios, but to sup
port any efforts that promise to lead
to substantial, proportionate reduction
of ornaments. With Asia the scene of
fresh Japanese aggression in China; with
Mussolini threatening war in Europe as
Italy faces deadly economic sanctions,
and with virtually all the powers plan
ming extensive new construction, not
even the most peace-minded devotee OF
naval disarmament can reasonably hope
for real achievements in that direction
at London this month.
Earnestly do the Government and
people of the United States wish that
the future held brighter promise.
Darkened as the horizon is. there is no
course for this country to pursue other
than the one Secretary Swanson advo-
cates-to build and man with minimum
of delay the American Navy that is
authorized. National safety at this in
calculable international hour lies in no
other direction.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

EQUAL Distribution.
boy in a school was a rather bad boy.
Though his mother would never
admit it.
In mischief his time he would often
employ
And they couldn't persuade him to
quit it.
When punishment came he admitted no
blame,
But mentioned lifes plots as they
thicken;
He merely remarked it was all in the
game,
It was his turn for takin' lickin'.
He tried to be good; did the best that
he could
He'd listen to erudite speeches
OF things passed around with plan
understood
As one which equality teaches.
IT have laughed" he declared, when
the pleasure shared,
With sorrow why should be stricken,
And let my sad spirit be caught unpre-
pared
When it's my turn for takin' lickih'."
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Money. it is plain from President
Roosevelt's Atlanta keynote speech, Is
going to be as big an issue in 1886 as 1t
was in the Mckinley Bryan campaign.
Controversy will not revolve around the
currency question, as it did then, but
will concern Federal expenditure. F. d.
r. leaves no doubt that he is ready to
accept the Republicans challenge OF New
Deal waste and extravaganza in financing
recovery. The administrations general
argument will be that the end JuStlhed
the means, no matter how expensive the
means were. The President is obviously
prepared to defend the results OF the
spending program as against the gen
tlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked
clubs" who aSSail the cost OF work relief
and other colossal drafts on the country S
pocketbookS. Radio listeners detected a
special note of belligerency in nearly all
of Mr. RooSevelt's thruSts at big business
elements. He raised his voice emphati-
cally when he referred to the abolition
of "ly-by- night" securities and "regula-
ton of the great interstate public utility
companies"
Politicians can prove almost anything
by statistics. especially those relating to
Federal finance. so it may be expected
that the G. o. P. will promptly tear into
the Presidents figures dealing with the
public debt and plans for its retirement,
along with deficit reduction. One con-
troversy already in sight revolves around
Mr.. RooSeVelt'S statement that bankers
told him in 1888 that the country could
safely stand national debt OF between
SIS 900, 100000 and $4,000, 100000. New
York bankers are quick to declare they
we're not guilty and are reported in mood
to challenge the White House to make
public the names of financiers who ever
gave such assurances. Some Wall Street.
ers think the Atlanta statement may
have been a Rooseveltian repriSal for
certain anti-New Deal manifestations
at the recent New Orleans convention
of the American Bankers Association.
Georgia's two United States Senators,
who spoke briefly just before President
Roosevelts address, did not puSSyfoot
about the antiTalmadge character OF
the love feast. Senator Russell, who
opened proceedings. declared that Geor-
gia's Democratic flag has never been
hauled down in a national campaign and
the record will not be marred next year.
He added, amid a tornado of cheers,
that Georgia will not be taken by as
sault from without or delivered by forces
from within" Senator George, proclaim
ing Georgia Democrats unfaltering 10y
atty to the President, asserted that there
is mo Benedict Arnold" in the State
solid Democratic delegation in Congress.
The Literary Digest's latest report on
its New Deal poll shows that Georgia
leads all States so far tabulated, in sup
port of Roosevelt policies, with a per-
centage of 67.55 favorable and 32.45 op-
posed.
X r
There was conspicuous absence at
Atlanta of any reference to the constl-
tutional controversy. The omission is
seen as fresh evidence Of the President s
lack of purpose to take the horse and
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Few pursuits offer more sidelines than

Few pursuits offer more sidelines than
gard hing.
Placing seeds or plants in the back
yard is Just the beginning of an ever
widening enjoyment.
Study OF plants and shrubs and trees
Is merely preliminary.
Ore may decide on q pool, and then
comes consideration of concrete mixing,
and its application. forms, and so on.
The gardener may not realize what
he Is doing when he stocks his new pool
with few goldfishes, but perhaps he Is
leading himself onward to an entire new
realm of life.
The study of tropical fishes in the
indoor aquarium is the next step, and
this in turn leads to the investigation
of a special type of plant, the aquatic
and the various enemies of fish life.
The latter causes the gardener-for he
Is always that-to study microscopic
forms of life, and this leads on to new
appreciation of the microscope.
~
Science in many forms enters now.
The fish culturist, who became so by
way of his garden and small goldfish
pool becomes interested in the relative
alkalinity and acidity of water.
He will investigate the PHI of water
written Just so, with view TO dlScov-
ering the exact type of water best suited
to his various fishes.
Water, to him, becomes not just water
as it is to most persons, but an ever
varying medium, not only in its chemical
but also in regard to its electrical COM
position, and variation Of the hydrogen
lion"
The feeding Of fishes offers an entire
field OF investigation to itself, one In
which numerous private and commercial
studies are being made, aided by scien-
tiflc investigation OF the various Gov
ernment bureaus devoted to fish and
fisheries.
Every one who takes up fish culture
in even the smallest way, hopes at last
to make it pay, and often this is possible
in a small way, though not many persons
are able to make their hobby earn their
bread and butter for them. There is
here, as in many other lines, a great
deal of false beginners enthusiasm
which too often results In loss of money
and enthusiasm. 1t is better, if one de-
termined to make money out of hobby
to get in touch with professionals and
ask their opinion of the chances OF
success.
Few persons take up gardening, even
In little, without being intrigued by
scientific nomenclature.
AS a result of tracing down the mean
ings of some of the long scientific names
of plants and animals, the amateur gar
dener comes to a great appreciation OF
the work of all scientists, and just what
they add to life by their exactitude and
their way of thinking.
There is romance, too, in the way
plants get their names. Who that did
not know would suspect that the common
zinnia is named after a staid old pro-
fessor, Herr DR.. Zinn, of great German
university?
Or that the dahlia, so popular in our
gardens, received its name because hon.
oring DR.. Dahl?
That the poinsetth, favorite Christ
mas decoration, honors it its name a
great American Ambassador to Mexico?
These are a few of the thousands of
interesting namings of plants familiar
to all.
Few persons, too, take up gardening
without at some time or other becoming
Evening star., 1935-12-02
Class Appeal.

At Atlanta on Friday last President
Roosevelt appealed for class support for
his administration. That, in any event,
is a fair inference to draw from his
speech. The things he said and his
manner of saying them had the effect
of making an arbitrary distinction be-
tween rich and poor, between city dwell
ers and country dwellers and between
those who follow him and those who do
not.
With regard to bankers, for example,
he did not mince words. "Mammon," he
insisted, ruled America" in 1924. Hence
the troubles of 1929. leading up to the
crisis of March, 1888, when many Of the
great bankers of the United States
fiocked to Washington to get help Of
their Government in the saving of their
banks from insolvency"
But the President did not name "the
great bankers" who sought his assistance
and who, he charged, thought the coun-
try could stand a debt of fifty-f1ve to
seventy billion dollars" Thus he left
bankers as a class under suspicion and,
presumptively, in disrepute. And with
them he pilloried "speculators" and "the
great interstate public utility companies
of our country"
Certainly, he was conscious of what
he was doing. Indeed, ne had forecast
his purpose when some weeks ago he
told his friends: THE people who ride
in the Pullmans are against me, but the
people who ride in the day coaches are
for me-" His campaign for reelection.
it has been indicated, is planned along
those lines, and the Atlanta address was
the opening gun. Apparently he hopes
Evening star., 1935-12-02

OF course the charming editorial from
the New York Sun Of Dana days will be
reprinted as an incident of Christmas
spirit. For the sake Of sentiment AL
Smith will not be encouraged to repeat
his intimations that there may be rather
too much Santa Claus.
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Illustrious

lllustrlOus
Beloved, she has no lovers;
Welded, she is no wife;
Mystery round her hovers,
Unknown her codes of life.
Few ever cross her portal.
And yet within its shrine
A masters rule immortal
Links her with love divine.
versed in It's quiet mandate,
She lives q Spartan creed;
Whatever 1t may dictate
She does not weep or plead.
Art is her stern dictator,
Art her appointed mate
A deep-eyed, fair creator,
Hers is a lonely fate.
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ping are diminishing rapidly. Threats
of war may be heard from all points
of the compass But, as AL Smith sapi-
Claus"
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when it reaches the floors Of the House
and the Senate is a problem for both
Republicans and Democrats, politically
speaking. 1t may be that in the end
the Congress will pass such a measure
over a presidential veto ito save Mr..
Roosevelt" They have more than two
thirds of the membership of both Senate
and House.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

Suburban racketeers are now accused
of exercising debasing influence over
the morals Of a large city. Farmers who
have been given so much moral and
economic responsibility should look into
this.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

Homicide still enables emotional re-
porting to make demands on intelligent
attention which should be bestowed on
economic problems of the highest i'm
portance.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

Whatever may happen in regal circles,
authoritative arrangements should be
possible by which humble family quar-
rels can be conducted without the use
of weapons.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

A scarcity sought In potatoes may en-
able the splendid liveried potato bug to
feel that he is in his own way working
in cooperation with the Government.
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p War must be regarded as a matter OF
political pressure. when not a person
who engages in it will actually admit
that he approves of 1t.
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Winter.

We're threatened with a snowdrift
And we're threatened with q freeze,
A high drift or low drift
Either leaves us i'll at ease.
We may be chill and lonely
AS the climates rough and raw.
Life's q frozen asset only
And we'll wait for 1t to thaw.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

Around Christmas time the words OF
Tiny Tim will be repeated. Whatever
the differences of purpose or opinions
may be, they serve as a universal prayer.
Evening star., 1935-12-02
DecOy.

UecOy.
"Do you have q bank in Crimson
Gulch?"
"Yes," said Mesa Bill. "But there's
no money in it. A good many bandits
happen along this way and the G-men
are persuading us to keep it open as a
decoy."
Evening star., 1935-12-02
In the Ring.

In the Ring.
'Is your hat in the ring?"
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum, 'I
have felt called on to do bit Of clowning
lately. Maybe it's only in the circus
ring"
Jud Tunkins says maybe one of the
reasons people talk about communism
so freely is that it Is a means Of getting
them a heavier cut in the distribution
of wealth than the ordinary neighbor
enjoys.
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Potato Mine.

Potato mine, a badge you wear,
I view it with obsequious care.
At breakfast I shall pass you by
While spinach claims my patient eye.
I've seen you baked or boiled or fried,
Or maybe just plain petrified.
A jewel next you may become
Mounted in gold or platinum. -.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

"Some folks look foh new promises
FUN different politicians" said Uncle
Eben, purity much de same as dey
changes of FUN one fortune teller to
another"
Evening star., 1935-12-02

@. How long does it take to train q
carrier pigeon to transport news photo
graphs?-R. K.
A. 1t takes at least a year to train
the pigeons for this work.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

A reader can get the anstDer to any
question of fact BY tcriting The Washing
ton Euening Star information Bureau.
Frederic J. HdsEin, Director, Washing
ton, d. C. Please inclose stamp for repIy,
Evening star., 1935-12-02

@. How many postal money orders are
issued in a year2-C. M.
A. The Post ONCE Department issues
almost 200 million money orders an
nually.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

O. How many Bibles were printed last
year?-E. J. S.
A. 1t is estimated that in the year 1894
over 2l,000,000 Bibles or parts of Bibles
were published by the British and For
eign Bible Society, the American Bible
Society and two or three more of the
larger Bible houses Of other countries.
Evening star., 1935-12-02

LnaI KIM dCTOSS. 1ney nope TO aVOlQ
the criticism that they have increased
the public debt by the passage of such
bill, which would only require the
issuance of sufficient Treasury notes to
pay of the veterans. But the charge
of Imitation" Of the currency is some
thing else, which would follow the enact
ment of such a law.
When Col. Frank Knox, expected con-
tender for the Republican presidential
nomination, said that he favored the
immediate payment of the soldiers bonus
out of the $4,880, 900 900 relief act passed
by Congress at its last session, it was
certain that he would draw the fire of
some of the anti-bonus group. 1t has
brought him into opposition with the
National Economy League, headed by
Henry H. Curran, and caused the mutual
determination that Knox is not to speak
before the league at its annual dinner
in New York, January Is. Whether it
will bring Knox the support of the
veterans is another matter. Knox is a
veteran himself. He has in the past
been against the immediate cash pay
ment of the bonus, not due in law until
1945. But he insists that the Roosevelt
administration, when 1t cast aside all
thought of Government economy and
went on a spending spree, should not
have neglected the veterans. In his
opinion, it would be well for the country
If half of the big relief fund appro-
priated by Congress should be used to
pay the veterans. The New Deal Demo-
Gratis would, in his opinion, then, have
Just that much less money with which
to finance the re-election-through relief
of various kindS-of President Roosevelt.
What to do about the soldiers bonus
Evening star., 1935-04-03
TICKET F|XER IDEA
MEETS OPPOSITION
Columbia Heights Citizens
Association Protests Sug.
gestion of Hazen.

Opposition to appointment of an
Official ticket flXer," as proposed un-
der a plan by Commissioner Melvin
C. Hazen, was voiced last night IN
resolution adopted by the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association, meeting
in the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
The resolution asked that all viola
tors of traffic regulations be treated
alike.
Commissioner Hazen is expected to
confer shortly with Corporation Coun-
sci E. Barrett Prettyman and Police
Supt. Ernest F. Brown on a plan to
select some one in authority to fix"
tickets in worthy cases.
Mrs. Worrell Nominated.
Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell,
president of the association, was nom
mated for reelection. w. l. SWanton,
secretary, and William c. Strauss,
treasurer also were named for re-
election. Miss Lillian Chenoweth and
Frank M. Barnes were nominated for
first vice president and Alton B. Carly,
George H. Brown and Marie Flynn
Maddox as delegates to the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations.
Representative Moritz of Pennsyl-
vania addressed the association,
recommending adoption of the Pitts
burgh tax plan for washington. Un-
der the plan. he explained, real prop
erty is taxed $40 per $1,000 and
houses $40, thereby relieving the tax
burden on small home owners and
placing it on big real estate opera
tors. He explained this tax obviates
personal and so-called nuisance
taxes"
Service Charge Protested.
The Public Utilities Commission
was urged to compel the various
utilities companies to cease their
practice of charging for reinstalling
service in all cases where an original
charge has been paid.
Approving efforts of Health Officer
George C. Rutland to increase the
efficiency of the Health Department,
the association urged cooperation of
officials and residents toward this end.
1t was also asked that his office be
given adequate funds to meet require
ments.
Representative Randolph of West
Virginia was extended the apprecia-
ton of the association for having rec
commended re-establishment of the old
No. 2 precinct, formerly located on
Fifth street between M and N streets.
Evening star., 1935-04-03
ASSOCIATION BACKS
PURE FOOD BILL
North Cleveland Park Citizens
Delay Character Educa-
ton Action.

At the suggestion of DR.. H. ~ Rob-
erts, the North Cleveland Park
Citizens Association last night unami-
mously Endorsed the new pure food
and drug bill sponsored by Senator
Copeland of New York DR.. Roberts
said existing legislation is inadequate
to protect the public against fradu-
lently Labeled goods, and that the new
bill covers cosmetics, now the happy
hunting ground of the quacks.
The question of character educa-
ton in the schools was brought up
when r. L. Bland, chairman of an
investigating committee. recommended
that it be Endorsed. Action was de-
ferred until more detailed explana-
ton of the SYSTEMS workings could
be laid before the association.
Licensed gambling for the District
was opposed by the association. John
K. Bresnahan announced that the
North Cleveland Park Police precinct
had received a clean bill of health at
the last inspection
A request from the Junior Board of
Commerce asking the group to indorSe
daylight saving time for the District
this year was denied.
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turn yesterday when Mrs. Lewisohn
obtained from Supreme Court Justice
Alfred Frankenthaler a civil order d.
recting the sheriff of any county in
New York State to arrest the writer.
Lewisohn obtained divorce at
Juarez, Mexico. last February 2l.
Mrs. Lewisohn, however, insists she
Is still the authors wife and claims
$4,000 back payments due under q
Evening star., 1935-04-03

The one food which Is extremely rich
in them is the new Fleischmann's Yeast.
When it Is fed regularly to patients with
chronic constipation and related ills,
results are truly remarkable.
In one American hospital, for ex-
ample, 93% of constipation cases were
corrected. Indigestion cases also re-
sponded astonishingly.
What this ney fresh yeast does
This new fresh yeast increases the flow
of your stomach juices-tones and
stimulates your whole digestive tract.
Soon, you digest your meals better
pass off wastes more easily.
You feel better. You no longer have
discomfort and gas after eating. Your
skin clears up. You have more energy.
But-of course-you must eat this
Evening star., 1935-04-03

premiere Of the film Sanders of the
River" starring Paul Robson, with
the better seats selling for $50 each.
Many Americans who were not in
London bought seats, helping to net
$4,000 for a newspaper press fund.
United States Ambassador Robert w.
Bingham and the former Queen Of
Spain were present.
Evening star., 1935-04-03
WHALEN OUT OF RACE

NEW YORK, April (PN.-Grover
Whalen, former police commissioner
of New York, denied yesterday he will
be candidate for mayor in 1887.
The principal speaker at luncheon
of the Motion Picture Club, he was
introduced by Louis Nizer, member
of the Motion Picture Code Authority,
as "the next mayor of New York" -"
Harry Hershfield, friend of Whalen's,
said coalition to elect him was be-
ing formed. That brought the denial.