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Evening star., 1935-01-01

what 1t means in the dissemination OF
news can be realized in the fact that
San Francisco papers can print pic
ture Of what happens in Washington
almost as quickly as a Washington
paper can print 1t. And there are
twenty-five cities and thirty-eight
linked together by the As
sociated Press in the undertaking.
Radio and telephoto pictures have
been known to the public for several
years. The new wirephoto service
inaugurated by the Associated Press
remarkable advance in the
technical transmission of pictures
the transmitted pic
lures are almost as clear as the origi-
mails. What is more important still is
the direct tie-up between picture and
news transmission, both news and
Photographic transmission being main
tanned for and by newspapers and
their readers.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
Some Lessons to Be Learned
In the Suppression of Crime

something equally entertaining must
be provided. These may be puppet
shows, amateur theatricals, more play
grounds, and everything that child
study can develop to absorb the atten-
tion and interest of the alert. observ-
ant child turned into the street by
overworked. or negligent mothers. The
Hollywood alarm, which protest has
led to make some measure of reform,
is nothing to rely on. as reliable re-
port Is that the intention is to make
good plays so fiat" that there will be
demand for the old type to return.
The great lesson of worldwide de-
preston is our putting money into and
our emphasis upon what has been
wasteful, futile and demoralizing. We
are reaping in our bandits and kid
naperS what we have soWn. Our news
paper headlines, always emphasizing
details of crime; our lurid, cheap mag
azines, which affect the imagination of
young folks, must bear share of the
responsibility of the moral and men,
tai setback that we have suffered
since the insane wholesale slaughter
of our own species ended at the close
of a war which Secretary Dern has
said was failure, victory for no
one" Let those who have been inert
and dumb let Washington know that
the Costigan anti-lynching bill must
pass to lessen the extent of our hid
eous, savage lynchings-the worst of
all our crimes. And let physicians
have the legal right to prevent pro-
creation of the morons and criminal
classes which have so augmented our
national problems
LUCIA AMES MEAD.
BOSTON AosS
Evening star., 1935-01-01
American Voters i'm
The Saar Plebiscite
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
On the editorial page of Sundays
issue reference is made to the "indis-
Greet young American" who has been
imprisoned for her expression of views
regarding Hitler and his regime. This
German American, like 700 other Ger
man-AmericanS. returns to her native
land to vote illegally in a German
election. We read that these 700
German Americans entrained for Eu-
rope bearing the United States flag,
the German national ensign ard the
swastica, thus practically indorsing
HitleriSm and the altogether illegal
voting in the private affairs of an
other nation. "Once a German, al
ways a German" What about their
American citizenship? AS Americans
have they the right to drag the Amer
ican flag into the muck and mire Of
alien politics? 1t is dangerous and
should not be permitted No wonder
we are beset behind and before by
Communists and NaZis. No wonder
there are Investigations under way
concerning the safety of our Govern
ment. If these people are American
citizens they forfeit their German al
legiance. If they are German citizens
they have no right to carry the Amer
ican flag. The American Ambassador
should take steps to halt these So
called Americans on the threshold OF
German soil. Such should not be
allowed to return to America, having
forfeited their right to citizenship
Above all things, this Government
Should take no steps to safeguard
either the young woman languishing
in jail, or any Of the TOO leaving this
country on their national errand.
E. T. SMITH,
Lexington, XIV.
Evening star., 1935-01-01

There Is no way Of telling, just by
looking at them, which one was given
adequate instruction and help, and
which one was not.
Yet for an older to regard one OF
them as an unmitigated little crouch,
without knowing all that priority, is
to be unfair to the fellow.
Hence we switch our viewpoint
Squarely about to the problem Of the
older man in meeting and helping.
if possible, these young sad faces.
1t is not altogether task for min
isters and the like 1t is, rather, one
| of the many everyday problems. in
which sometimes adequate aid can
be given without parade, or even the
victim suspecting anything.
These modern youngsters are very
much afraid of lessons" They have
had it drummed into them that there
is, or at least was, something very
staggering about life, and that to
| pretend that one is not afraid of it
is somehow very brave and very
manniSh.
Sometimes a good laugh, brought
about by really good Joke with a
point to it, will do far Ilore to lifting
the wrath Of gloomineSS from the
shoulders of one of these terribly de-
presSed-and depresSing-young men
than all the good words in the world.
Come to think of 1t. there are many
stories without points, so it is the
duty of every one who attempts to
raise the laughter level of others to
tell only stories with real points to
them.
Then there are new points of view,
which may be given young men
merely by talking assiduously about
them. The youngsters will never
admit, for a moment, that they are
being given new points of view, but
their absorptive powers are good, and
in time they will be repeating. with
an air of wisdom, just what you told
them the other day.
1t is all very interesting to watch
ones priced thoughts come bounding
back at one in the most unexpected
way.
The older man. then, must be
silent, as on a peak in Darien.
He must be glad that he has given
new point Of view, something or
other TO take the youngsters mind
off himself.
That is the big thing. to take
it off ones self and put it upon
something else, especially another
human being.
1t has been the salvation of the
race, and it will be the continuing
salvation of every young man.
Christmas is good, If for no other
reason than to prove anew, at least
once a year, that gifts you receive
are just-well, articles, whereas those
you gave away are the only ones
worth while to you.
Not to those who received them!
They may be worth nothing to them,
but they we're and are very much
worth while to the giver.
1t is the old wisdom, coming to
life in every heart and mind (wish
humanity could get rid of that heart
business, it is only very wonderful
pump. 1t is the mind that knows,
that realizes, at last, that the only
thing one keeps is what one gives
away.
Therefore, help the moody young
man. if by no more than giving him
the benefit of smile, when you
feel that really he does not deserve
one.
He needs one.
Evening star., 1935-01-01

$4,000 square miles Of territory, an
area roughly equivalent to the size of
North Carolina. During 1884 the
Paraguayan Army took forty-nine
Bolivian forts, aside from minor posts.
Prisoners to the number of $50 officers
and 1911 privates fell into Para
guayan hands, bringing to a total Of
more than 10000 the Bolivians taken
since the war began.
Paraguay does not disclose what
these trophies of triumph have cost
her, but she estimates that Bolivia
lost 1880 dead and wounded during
the past year. AS fighting during the
previous year and a half was little
less furious, it may safely be reckoned
that Bolivian casualties to date are
probably not far from $4,000. Para
guayan losses perhaps amount to
$4,000 or 10000 Allowing for exag-
geration in these figures, they yet tell
the gruesome story of the most SAN
culinary struggle in Latin American
history.
In these days, when the relationship
between the munitions industry and
war is so prolific a theme of discus
sion, it is particularly worthy of note
that the Psraguayans boast of hav-
ing seized altogether more than
$4,000, 900 worth of Bolivian NUM-
tions, and concluded the year by fir
ing on the Bolivians with Bolivia's
own ammunition. Searching inter-
national inquiry to determine where
all this merchandise of death" is
coming from and why the traffic in
it remains unchecked might, to some
extent. explain the failure of Euro
pean- American craftsmanship to stop
the carnage in the Chaco.
The sister Americas in 1885 face no
more urgent task than to require
Paraguay and Bolivia, in the name of
civilization and Pan-American fra
ternity, to quit bleeding each other
white.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
Prosecutor Pays Tribute
To Late Officer Sinclair

To the Editor of The Star:
Through the columns of your paper,
I should like to pay my respects to
Raymond v. Sinclair, one of Washing
tons outstanding motor cycle officers,
whose tragic death is regretted by all
citizens.
Oficer Sinclair loved his work. and
without question this was a major
reason for his success. Fear formed
no part of his makeup. His duty
was his only guide. He never side
stepped his responsibilities. even
though in the discharge of them he
constantly was confronted with dan
gerous situations. one of which but
Thursday claimed his life.
His efforts were spent in making
our streets safe for human life. In
times like the present. when the auto
mobile death rate is mounting daily,
it can, indeed. be said that he was
engaged in a most noble work
AS prosecutor. in my capacity Of
assistant corporation counsel. it has
been my lot to present to the court
a good many of Officer Sinclair's
cases. Invariably, the testimony bore
out his case. While Officer Sinclair
was sincere, energetic, and honest in
the performance of his duties, he. at
the same time. was human. More
than once has Officer Sinclair spoken
a good word for a traffic violator in
destitute economic circumstances.
Officer Sinclair is gone, but his
memory will linger on. If. because of
the part he played in the enforce
ment Of our traffic regulations, TO-
gether with his untimely death, our
motorists have come to realize more
keenly that it doesn't pay to disregard
the law and the rights of others. but
that the safe and wise policy is one
of care. caution. and consideration in
the operation of an automobile. then
truly it can be said Officer Sinclair
labored and died not in vain.
GEORGE DARRELL NELSON.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
Another Wonder Wrought.

Some seventy years ago telegraph
instrument in the Supreme Court room
at the Capitol clicked the message,
"What hath God wrought"
A few minutes passed, and the mes
sage was acknowledged from far-away
b. 1timore and repeated to Washing
ton. Thus the Morse telegraph came
into operation.
Today, on the third floor of The
Star Building, a man talked into
wire mesh covered hole In a box and
asked San Francisco about the filing
of pictures on the Rose Bowl game
Los Angeles answered, and Miami
chimed in with some comment. Chi
cago offered a few words of advice,
and Dallas, Tex, wanted to be sure
that New York understood about some
earlier pictures. Like the voices of
men sitting around a table-men in
twenty-four cities of the United
States-casual chatter and serious
comment came over the wires. And
when the voices ceased there came
from another machine the sound of
an intermittent whistle, now shrill,
now low-depending on white or black
in the negatives a cylinder re-
volved at the rate of about 100 revolu-
tions minute. The whistles accom-
panied electric impulses that, sent over
q network of ten thousand miles of
wires that tie the continental United
States together, transmit Photographic
negatives. Eight minutes after ma
chine in San Francisco begins sending
a news photograph its reception has
been completed in Washington. Twenty
minutes later the negative is devel-
oped. A few minutes for the artists
to "retouch" the negative, twenty-five
minutes for the engraver, and what
happened in San Francisco an hour or
50 earlier is pictured in The Star!
Inauguration of the Associated Press
Wirephoto today marks another great
step in the progress of journalism.
For the first time the feat of Illus
trating news stories by photographs,
transmitted with the speed Of the
words themselves, has become possible.
The wonder Of the achievement and
Evening star., 1935-01-01
Pedestrians and the
Amber Crossing Lights
TO the Editor Of T'he Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The recent fatal accident at Con-
necticut avenue and Calvert street
could not have happened If pedes-
trians were kept out of the streets
when the motorists have the right to
move their cars. Perhaps traffic ofh-
Ger, or some one knowing more about
it than do, will answer this question.
What Is wrong about letting the
pedestrian have the right of way, in
all directions, when the amber light
is on; motorists to have the right OF
way when green light flashes, green
to have two-thirds of the time, amber
one-third; motorists crossing on amber
to be arrested regardless of station and
pedestrians injured when lights are
green to be denied any standing in
court: also those crossing in the mid
die of the square. BY enforcing sane
regulations all will soon develop self
control and fewer accidents will occur.
a EUGENE @. RICE.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
New Year.

Charles Lamb on an appropriate oc-
casion remarked that mo one ever
regarded the first of January with in
difference" 1t is of the very nature
of the day that it enlists attention.
For some, its congenial qualities Of
friendship and fellowship have par
ticular attraction; for others, its deeply
personal or introspective values are
especially engaging. Traditionally, it
is q time for expressing love and af-
fection and, coincidentally, a time for
attempting happier, more effec-
lively comfortable relation between
ones self and ones environment. Both
aspects, it may be supposed, appeal to
those who appreciate the privilege of
living and desire to use honorably the
opportunities of existence which Provi-
dence grants to them.
Cynics, however, pretend to imagine
that there is no such thing as new
start. In their warped judgment good
resolutions are framed only to be
broken. But it probably has escaped
their notice that there must be COM
nnendable impulses in the heart of
race which even momentarily enter
tains the dream of men like gods" in
habiting "a new Eden in a new earth"
The hope of peace and progress which
millions feel at New Year surely is in
itself an evidence Of spiritual aspira-
ton. Granted, it may be crushed by
the pressure of cruel circumstance;
1t may be trampled In the dust by re-
lentless invading accident. But the
fact will remain that men and women
have held 1t dear, and that is i'm
portant.
A race doomed to fail would be
incapable of wanting improvement,
and, if the logic of the doctrine be
sound. it would follow that a people
dCSI1AlCo 10 SuCCSSO WILL VIII NlCIOTleS
measurably commensurate with its
longing. No prophet is available to
guarantee unprecedented achievement
in 1885, but there are many observers
who agree in the verdict that multi
tudes yearn as never in the past for
triumph over the ills to which human
ity. theoretically is heir. War and
revolution, social injustice and class
strife, poverty and famine, disease and
crime, mankind has learned in stern
school to know for what they are. And
therein is the gain of the sad decades
most recently gone. The nations have
suffered that they might distinguish
between good and bad, right and
wrong.
The New Year may not bring the
marching masses to their viSioned goal
in Zion, but 1t will afford them oppor-
tunity for further advance in that di-
rection. AS men think, so shall they
be, and as the world community
aspires, so shall it conquer.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
Three Suggestions
For Traffic Safety
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
There are many things I could say
about Washington traffic, but I shall
mention only three. Holder Of driv-
ing license since 1905 in Mexico,
North and South America and Eu-
rope, and once traffic official in
one of our worst problem cities. I
am not without experience.
The traffic light cycle is responsible
for many crossing accidents here, be-
cause the green stays on with the
amber. Even though a driver knows
amber is a caution light, meant to
stop the flow of auto traffic while
pedestrians cross, his instinct says to
keep going on the green. The green
light should go dark when the amber
comes on. even if il costs consider
able sum to change the connections.
Few are so reckless as to go against
the red, or even the amber If not
seemingly contradicted.
There are several intersections at
sharp angles in this city where out
of-town drivers are confused by un-
screened lights on their route, and
Just of it, but so close that they
seem to contradict them. Some re-
setting and some hoods would help
this.
MY third comment is on a letter
from A. v. Dumaine in your issue
of Friday, who thinks it safer for left
turns to be made around the center
of The intersection, as this sharper
f,,r c1n pt,f
it also results in the car making that
turn crossing the path of car max
ing left turn from the opposite di-
rection. twice instead of not at all,
which is a reason for abandoning the
practice. The fault here is in gross
negligence in cutting corners. In a
four-lane street two lanes belong TO
traffic in each direction. The car
turning left must be on the left of
the two lanes assigned to its general
direction and must leave two clear
lines for traffic coming toward it,
thus turning close to but just inside
of the center OF the intersection. I
have noted it as a common and dan
gerous practice here, that cars turn
ing left edge over into the opposed
traffic lane long before the interSec-
ton and make the turn too fast and
in the lane belonging to traffic head
ed toward them, if that space is clear
at the moment. So anxious are some
of them to save a second and cut
of a few feet that I believe they
would use the sidewalk if it were not
for the jolt over the curb. This is
dangerous to other cars and very dam
gerous to pedestrians, who are trained
to look in the direction from which
autos are expected. and not also where
they have no right to be.
r. P. ELLIOT.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

He had thought to say to the young
man, "Cheer UP, old boy, the world
can't be half as bad for any one as
1t seems to be for you"
He did no such thing.
What was the use?
Life is something each human being
must solve for himself as far as he
Is able.
Being gloomy, or "blue," is just one
way Of trying.
There was that poor young fellow
who killed himself because, as he
said, if there were anything good in
the world he could not find it.
No doubt he was perfectly sincere.
He couldn't find it.
X y X X
The curious thing was that it never
occurred to him, evidently, to question
his own ability at finding.
Might it not have occurred to him,
even in a glimpse, and if only for a
few seconds now and then, that maybe
he was not very good finder?
That II he couldn't find anything
good about life, it did not mean that
there was nothing good, but only that
he, poor fellow, had not looked long
enough, or hard enough, or in the
right places.
But the thoughts of youth are long,
long thoughts, as Longfellow said at
second hand (and now here it is at
third. but what's the differenceD.
If a young man is moody, let him
be moody, but also let him have a
thought for others at times.
Especially for older men, who have
been through all he is going through,
in all likelihood, and who ought not
to be so forcibly reminded of it.
They are only too happy to forget
their own dismal periods of times past.
To tie ones mind up in a knot, and
then pretend that there is no un-
raveling of it-surely that is a very
human, an essentially juvenile thing,
to do.
Mere growth has the happy faculty
of largely preventing one from doing
1t, that is all.
One is no wiser, perhaps-eXcept
in that-one is no better, really, but
one is far more sensible.
There are many ways Of keeping
the mind Strengthened out.
One is the religious way. and it is
very good one, from very prac-
tical viewpoint. to go no further
If the faith that has moved noun
tains needs you, you need it. 1t is a
very comforting thought. II any one
asks exactly what We mean by that,
we reply that We do not know exactly
what we mean. Words prevent exacti-
tude. They permit us to come SO far,
and that is all. If avenues of thought
are indicated, the traveller can ask no
more. Who can say. as he sees a man
peering along a road, what the man
sees down the way? No one can an
sWer except himself.
Few can cheer you up, young fel-
low. except yourself.
Sadness often is simply a bad state
of mind. Sometimes young men are
mentally belabored for being Doors and
surly, when all the time the thing they
suffer from is an excess of timidity.
There is no telling. not even in these
times, what youngster has gone
through, where he has been, especially
where he has come from.
He wears the same sort of suit,
collar and tie as the young man who
comes from a totally different en-
vironment.
Evening star., 1935-01-01
An Important Project
For Uncle Sam to Handle
To the Editor of The Star:

To the EDITOR OF Inc STAR
Do you know what erosion is doing
to the channel of the Chesapeake Bay?
The earth from the shores of the
Chesapeake Bay is filling up the chan
mel, and in a Very short period OF years
will be a menace to navigation.
Uncle Sam is now dredging Craig
Hill Channel opposite the shores of
Gibson Island at a cost of half-million
dollars 80 as to enable ships to reach
Baltimore Harbor. Stop the shore
erosion and you stop expense of
dredging. A half million dollars would
build sea walls with either cement or
creosoted timber for at least 10 miles.
At Sandy Point the bay is only 3
miles wide from west shore to Kent
Island on the Eastern Shore. ConSe-
ouently at this narrow location the
erosion is filling the channel much
faster than any other section on the
Chesapeake Bay.
The Patapsco River, once navigable
for a 400-ton vessel as far up as Elk
ridge Landing, 30-mile stretch, has
been choked up by erosion, and at the
present time you could not float
row boat over the section. This has
all happened within a very short
period. Private shore property cannot
be protected without Government aid.
People that own shore property could
pay for the entire project If they could
secure a Is or 20 year loan from our
Federal Government at low rate OF
interest. It has been suggested by
many of our prominent people that the
Government should 60 $3.50 with the
property owner and save this terrific
waste of valuable land.
Uncle Sam, why don't you put
people to work on the Chesapeake
Bay? This project will take people
off the dole The Federal Government
will get back money spent and the
men employed get back their self
respect and it will pep up the mems
morale.
When the naval radio towers were
built at Greenbury Point on Severn
River they were built back on main
land at least 1000 feet from the shore
Of the Severn River. This has been