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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08
Unkind to
Fate

Probing calmly but tenderely
into the depths of two hearts
that beat strangely together on
the fringe of the near great,
Ursula PARROT has brought forth
a novel as pure in it's beauty as
it is gracious in its understand
ingS.
Curiously enough, Christopher
Tyler and Cicely spent enough
of their short but active young
lives away from each other to
make the desperateness Of their
love count fully as much as its
constancy. Christopher was a
foreign correspondent on a New
York newspaper and Cicely won
her way to fame on the stage
and in the motion pictures.
On this bare framework Miss
Parrot has woven her love story
that gathers strength in a noble
fight to carry true sentiment over
the monuments to puerile Senti
mentality.
Strictly speaking, it is a story
of the clash between their happy
home life together and the excit-
ing enactments Of their careers
which keep them apart physically
to the end.
1t would have been like many
another book built on this motif
except for one exception. In the
lives of Christopher and Cicely
there were never any flowers left
to wither as a mark Of their de-
feats. Life held them firmly in
the grip of their careers.
Each time they parted the hope
lessnesS Of their coming together
again accounted for the poignant
hurt in their reunions. 1t was al
ways more that they were unkind
to fate than that fate had been
unkind to them.
1t will truly carry you forward
with its warm, friendly spirit, and
is we'll worth careful consideration
on your list of fiction.
C'Nert Time We Ltve," romantic
noDeE, By Ursula Parrot; published
by Lon0ndnS, Green & Co..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08

Under terms of this resolution,
the dream of some day grouping
the portraits of American heroes
and heroines, statesmen and bellies,
in one historical gallery would be
well on the way to realization.
Senator David I. Walsh Cd Of
Massachusetts,, author of the reso-
luton, proposes creation of ma
tional portrait gallery building
commission, which would draw up
plans and specifications for the
gallery to be presented at the next
Congress. The Senate Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds
has already favorably reported the
measure.
Artistic Value
The % World War portraits
were painted shortly after the sign
ing of the Armistice by five out
standing artists who we're sent to
Europe and all around the coun-
try.
The paintings, all of which have
a marked art value, include por.
traits of President Wilson, Gen.
John J. Pershing. commander-in-
chief of the American Expedition
airy Forces; Admiral william S.
Sims, commander of the Ameri-
can naval operations during the
war; former President Herbert C.
Hoover, United States food admin
istrator at the time the portrait
was painted; the late King Albert
of Belgium, Marshal Joseph Joffre,
commander.in-chief of the French
armies during the war; Marshal
Ferdinand Foch, wartime COM
mander-in-chief Of the Allies, and
others who figured prominently
in the four years Of strife.
There is also q large painting
there entitled Signing the Peace
Treaty, June %, 1919" by John
C. Johansen, which includes many
of the outstanding figures in war
time and postwar proceedings.
The idea for the National Por-
trait Gallery originated in the
spring of 1919, when it became
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08
A Bouncing
Farce
STEPHEN DECATUR

"RipeneSS Is All" is sort Of q
comic brainstorm in which q par
eel of tried and true situations
blossom into new life. It's what
the dramatic critics call a bounc-
ing farce, and it has just enough
of the saltier side of wit to keep
it highly seasoned to the end.
The author, Mr.. Eric Linklater,
modeStly CLOSES over such anus
ing attributes by calling his brain
child "a simple domestic comedy"
But this, as the book jacket points
out. is gross understatement.
At that, the book jacket is right.
Mr.. Linklater directs his Satiric
eye on everything from golf to
modern verse and his interpreta-
ton of the English scene and a
certain group of tea-drinking Brit
ishers occasionally surpasses Mr..
Noel Coward in even his most mel
low mood.
Sir Francis Bacon's observation
that children are the ripeness Of
the Tree of Life, supplemented by
Shakespeare's classic remark that
"Ripeness Is ALL" starts the story
Keeling on its way.
Jonathan Gander, the coffee
king. could think of but one way
to increase the ranks Of his de-
scendants and that to leave his
legacy to the one producing the
greatest number of progeny born
in holy wedlock.
This leads to the most aston.
ishing set of nursery stakes with
10000 pounds awaiting the winner
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08

evident to several lovers of Amer
lean art that there was great
need for a pictorial record. of the
World War to be painted for and
kept in the United States.
Objective
In the catalogue announcing
the first showing of the World
War portraits at the National
Museum, it was said:
with the Endorsement of the
Smithsonian Institution as Gus
tOdian of the National Gallery
of Art, the American Federation
of Arts, and the American Mis-
sion to Negotiate Peace then in
session at Paris, the National
Art committee came into being
for the purpose of carrying out
this idea and thus initiating and
establishing at Washington the
National Portrait Gallery"
There are few full-length
statues of George Washington,
one of them showing him in the
act of resigning his command of
the Revolutionary Armies; there
are some buSts of Benjamin
Franklin. Thomas Jefferson, vii.
liam Cullen Bryant, Abraham Lin
coin, P. T. Barnum and others
who have contributed to American
history.
Art lovers, Government officials
and Sightseers are evincing great
interest in the large exhibition of
oils and water colors at the Ma
tional Museum in which all the
work was done by young Civilian
Conservation Corps artists.
Designed to be a pictorial record
OF the CCC camps, many of these
paintings are remarkably we'll
done and show that there is great
talent latent among some Amer
lean young men who are willing to
suffer great cold in the Northwest
and extreme heat in the South IN
order to have an opportunity to
paint.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08
The Best
Sellers
FICTION

F1O 11ON
Nov in November" by
Josephine Johnson, Simon
& Schuster.
Green Light" by Lloyd
G. Douglas, Houghton,
Mifflin.
Time Out of Mind" by
Rachel Field, Macmillan.
National Velvet" by
Enid Bagnold, Morrow.
Man Who Had Every
thing" by Louis Brom-
field, Harper,
"0f Time and the
River" by Thom1s Wolfe,
Scribner.
NONFICTION
Mind and Society" 4
vols, by Vilfredo Pareto,
Harcourt.
Road to War" by Wal
ter Mills, Houghton, Mif-
film.
"Forerunners Of Ameri-
can Fascism," by Ramona
Swing, Messner.
Catherine" by Gina
Knaus, Viking.
"The Autobiography of
John Hays Hammond" 2
vols, Farrar & Rinehart,
"R. E. Lee" 4 vols, by
Douglas s. Free nan,
Scribner.
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Notes

The Macmillan Company has
just published The Tragedy of
Man." by Imre M a d a c h. Hun
garian philosopher-poet. 1t is a
dramatic poem and has been pro-
duced in some of Europe's most
famous theaters. 1t has been trans
lated into English by Charles H.
Meltzer and Paul Vajada.
Doubleday, Doran will publish
shortly, TEST Pilot" by Jimmy
Collins, the test pilot who lost his
life recently in a crash
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08
BLADENSBURG TOUR
Pioneer Town Was Once
Thriving Port For
European Trade
European
BY JULIA A. BoNWIT

Shadows Of the romantic past will Badensburg
tomorrow.
Out Of the past will the shadows Of Badensburgs
Beautiful girls powdered hair and huge skirts and her
OhvaOus who died her historic duelng grounds in
dOfsnsS of her fair women and their fair
Days when George Washington stopped long enough
to give his name inn when Commodore Stephen De-
catur and Barron shot their dispute at 20 PAGES
when Bladensburg outpost of international trade will
mass in review.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08
War Portraits Nucleus of
National Gallery

In the rotunda of the National Museum under its DOME
there hangs the nucleus of National Portrait Gallery
Especially earmarked for National Portrait Gallery
early 1921 there twenty-five portraits of World War
heroes which would built the dream the
of the Walsh resolution before the Senate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-08
loseph Conrad

Dutton will publish Joseph
Conrad and His Circle" in Septem-
Der. It Is being written by Jessie
Conrad, widow Of the famous au-
thor.
Evening star., 1935-05-17
LIMESTONE BUILDINGS
HERE CALLED "UNFIT"
Representative o'Connor Joins
Criticism in Behalf of
Granite Workers.

These public buildings in the City
of Washington. 1t is apparent to any
one who has taken an interest in art,
are not fit for capital city, because
they are built of Indiana limestone
Representative John ]. O'Connor Of
New York, chairman of the important
House Rules Committee, told his COL
leagues during debate in the House
yesterday.
He and Representative Florence p.
Kahn. Republican, Of California. sup
ported the plea Of Representative
Richard Wigglesworth, Republican, of
Massachusetts, that relief be afforded
to the important granite industry, now
in desperate" circumstances, that
50.000 American granite workers be
given the privilege Of alternate bids
on Federal building projects.
Granite is produced in no less than
Is States in the Union, and in 10 it
is leading industry, and there are
granite cutting plants in every State
including the District of Columbia, I"
Representative Wigglesworth empha-
sized.
He put into the Congressional
Record a list of projected Federal
buildings which showed that of 234
projects in SO States, ZIG are to be
built without the use of any granite.
Evening star., 1935-05-17
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The Franco-Soviet assistance pact"
which in plain English means a mill
tary alliance. is now an accomplished
fact The details of the alliance are
not known but to a few insiders in
France and in Russia. The only thing
that is generally known is that the
understanding is directed at Germany
and that the two powers have agreed
to intensity their military prepara-
tions and bring their armies to war
strength as quickly as possible.
There is no doubt that the French
are preparing themselves for war be-
cause they are scared. The people Of
France, in an overwhelming number,
are desirious to avoid a fight in which
they have little to gain and much to
lose.
The point of view of the Russians
is different. The Moscow leaders con-
slider Hitler a permanent menace to
the Soviets and believe that by COM
bined quick action Of France, Russia
and Czechoslovakia the Hitler regime
could be disposed Of in no time.
Evening star., 1935-05-17

NSOlIluucO FTOul cISL FdSe.J
their own Qualification. They told
Richberg they would not need him
again until the committee opens hear
ings on the resolution next week.
Meanwhile, a proposal which Rich
berg suggested for turning over en-
forcement OF N. r. A. codes to the
Federal Trade Commission was get
ting serious consideration.
Would Permit "Desist" Orders.
His idea, as outlined by the House
committeeman. was this:
Let the Federal Trade Commission
issue cease and desist" orders under
the Federal trade commission act
against practices which the commits
sion of a court already had held to
be unfair competition Also allow
the commission to issue such orders
against practices described as unfair
in a code accepted voluntarily by the
industry concerned.
This, it was contended, would re-
move doubt as to the legality of en-
forcement by the N. r. A. itself.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, N. r. A. foe, assailed in the SEN
ate yesterday Richberg's criticism of
the Senate's 10-month plan as "the
most arrogant since the days Of the
Roman empire"
Clark lashed at Richberg as Mus
solini'' and asked, by what means
has our Caesar grown so great?"
Evening star., 1935-05-17
This Changing World
Franco Soviet Military Alliance Is Directed
at Germany.

London carpenters have received
$400, 900 for the jubilee stands which
have been erected for the millions
who witnessed the royal procession,
while 100000 workers of all classes
have a jubilee bonus from their en-
ployers to celebrate ''f1ttingly" the
Kings 25th anniversary.
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While the war clouds hang heavily
over Europe, creating depressing
feeling from Calais to Istanbul, the
people of Great Britain are temporarily
forgetting war dangers, the menace Of
airplane raids and economic depres-
sion. giving themselves entirely to the
celebration of good rule which has
lasted now for Is years.
The British peace advocates say
that If the example of the British
people were followed by those who
live on the European continent the
war strain may diminish and with it
the economic hardships.
Evening star., 1935-05-17
BIa7,tOn Offers
Dicksteir, Fight
On House Floor
Texan Leaps to His Feet
When Scored by
NetC Yorker.
Hy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
There were fighting words on the
House floor yesterday between two
Democratic members, Blanton of Texas
and Dickstein of New York.
Dickstein told the House that be-
cause he had criticized Blanton for
opposing an immigration bill, the
Texan had said to him in a cloak room
just of the House floor that "he
would thrash me so hard my mother
wouldn't recognize me-"
Blanton, listening to Dickstein's ac-
count of the incident, hoped to his
feet to snap:
"Yes, and I'll do it here if the
gentleman doesn't stop saying these
things about me-"
There followed some talk between
the two about waiting over in the
gymnasium" but at this point Repre-
sentative Boileau, Progressive, OF Wis
consin stepped in with a parliament
tary motion to expunge all their re-
marks from the Record. Dickstein
said he'd take back his remarks if
Blanton would. Blanton agreed and
the Congressional Record went to press
without the story of the sQuabple
Evening star., 1935-05-17
BIG THREE PLEDGE
WORK PLAN SPEED
Ickes, Hopkins and Walker
Tell Radio Audience Re.
lief Schedule.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The big Three" of the work relief
program-Secretary Ickes, Harry L.
Hopkins and Frank C. Walker-went
on the air last night to say they would
seek to carry it out swiftly and without
political log-rolling"
Soon after the Presidents Allotment
Board recommended $l,09l, ,802 200
worth OF projects. the triumvirate of
officials appealed for public co-opera-
ton.
In our new program, just as with
the one which is now drawing to a
close, there will be no place for political
log-rolling," said Ickes, the Allotment
Board chairman.
There never has been an inside
track to public works money and there
will be no back door entrance to works.
relief allotments and projects" he
added.
Programs Objective.
Walker, head of the division of
applications and information, declared
the program has one objective:
1T must take $500, 900 persons from
their dole-receiving status of today
and place them at work upon publicly
useful projects"
He said consideration must be given
to 'the undertaking of projects on
the simple basis that they will provide
employment at places easily accessible
to- the millions now obliged to exist
on outright grants of relief"
IUolkor opur,Gratol afhar
in the "yardstick" which, he said, will
be applied to all proposed projects
Work done. he said, must be useful,
of nature which will produce maxi
mum employment for the money
spent, and "as far as possible" capa-
BILE of returning to the Treasury a
part Of its cost
Funds allotted under the act must
be promptly spent and not permitted
to stagnate over a period of years."
he declared.
Decentralizing Activity.
Hopkins promised a "decentraliza-
ton of activity and responsibility, with
a constant supervision and check from
Washington" in the Works Progress
Administration he now Is setting up.
He said the work will be done
promptly, efficiently"
The relief administrator explained
that the State works progress directors
would be charged with carrying for
ward as well as initiating small and
useful projects designed to expand the
number of jobs that might be pro-
Vided needV unemDlOVed
Hopkins outlined some Of the
duties of his Progress Division as:
To check each project that is put
forward. To determine the number
of workers that might be employed
Furnish these workers from the
unemployed on relief rolls.
Require uniform reports of the
progress of each project
Recommend methods of eliminating
delay.
Recommend the wages that shall be
paid.
Evening star., 1935-05-17
CHAIN LETTERS WANING
REPORTS POST OFFICE
Less Than 100 Letters a Day
forwarded Here for Probe,
Against 200 at First.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The .send-a-dime letter fad is on
the wane.
That is the opinion, at least, OF
Post Office Department officials in
charge of investigating the latest
get-rich-quick scheme
In absence of formal reports from
sections of the West and Middle West
hardest hit by the craze" officials
predicate their conviction on the les
sening number of letters forwarded
here for investigation. The letters
have fallen from 200 to less than
100 day.
President Roosevelt received about
so letters day at the height of the
fad, but now receives mere hand
full
Evening star., 1935-05-17
GEN. BALB0 IS AWARDED
FLYING CROSS OF U. S.
Decoration Honors italian Leader
of Fleet Of Planes Which
Visited America in 1888.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TRIPOLI. Libya, May 17.-Gen.
Italo Balbo, Colonial Governor of Lbya,
was the posscssor today of The United
States Congressional Flying Cross.
honoring his leadership of the Italian
air armada's flight to the United States
In 1888.
The presentation was made last
night by Breckenridge Long. United
States Ambassador to Italy, following
a dinner in the Governors palace.
Long said he was proud to be able
to bestow the decoration in the name
of President Roosevelt in recognition
Of a memorable aeronautical feat
which was an honor not only to Italy
but to the whole world.
Evening star., 1935-05-17
VAST WORK RELIEF
PUBLICITY MAPPED
New Deal Treads Softly in
Setting Up propaganda"
System.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Treading softly because OF recent
criticism of administration "propa-
eanda." the New Deal is setting out
to establish the most elaborate and
intricate New Deal publicity unit that
this Capital has yet seen.
The bureau, administration spokes-
men say, will explain the complexities
of the $4,000, 100000 work program.
Instructions have gone forth from
the Office of Chairman Frank c. Wal
ker of the National Emergency Coun-
Gil and one of the boss men of the
work program. to use available ad-
ministration publicity personnel as far
rs possible, because of contentious
published and spoken-that the New
Deal had employed hundred or so
newspaper men for press agent pur-
poses.
Private Phone System Planned.
Centrally located on the first floor
of the Commercial Bank Building, the
Work Program Bureau is to have its
private telephone system to contact
the 6O-odd agencies involved IN tne
work-relief set-up.
In each of the 60 scattered agencies
a man will be delegated to give infor-
nation to the clearing house
Morton L. Milford, F. E. r. A. pub
licity chief, is to be the guiding hand
for the publicity mechanism, co-orol-
mating such information as the P. W..
A., F. E. r. A., rural electriflcatlon,
homestead, housing, and various other
agencies and departments think should
be given out. The Offices are In
building a stones throw from the
Treasury, with rails built to bar the
public, private Offices for the public
relations" men; big slots on a circular
table for press releases, and a room
for reporters.
The Governments practice OF en-
ploying newspaper men has been as
sailed and defended on Capitol Hill
and in publications.
Glass Among Directors.
Senator Glass, Democrat, Of Vir-
ginia, critic of several other admins
tration ideas, is among those to voice
protest over some phases of the ad-
ministration's publicity efforts. He
has said administrative departments
have mo lawful right to expend the
money of the Government" for the
hiring of publicity men without Spe-
cific authorization
"It is common knowledge" Senator
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri declares.
'that many very highly paid eminent
men in the newspaper profession have
left responsible positions with great
newspapers to take over publicity con-
nections or relations with various bu-
reau and departments of the Govern
ment."
Theodore Joslin, secretary to for
mer President Hoover, said check
had shown 129 former reporters had
been employed by the administration.
This was disputed by Stephen Early,
secretary to President Roosevelt, who
claimed some had not been employed
for presentations work.
Evening star., 1935-05-17

Germany is today the key to nearly
everything that happens in Europe
Round her and across her alliances
are forming. Every one counts and
measures its air forces against hers.
Young Frenchmen are compelled to
spend more time In barracks because
of her. What is actually going on
in the Reich is difficult to fathom be-
cause of the strict Hitler censorship.
Everybody wants to know what the
sc, 900 900 Germans are actually think
ing while Europe stiffens and arms
against them.
1t appears certain from what in
telligent and reliable observers re-
port, that the German nation is still
lined up solidly-more solidly than
any other behind der Fuehrer. 1t Is
proud that he is defiantly facing the
powers that crushed Germany.
The tearing up of the Versailles
treaty has consoled the Germans for
much that is hard to bear in their
daily life.
The return to compulsory military
service was received by the popula-
ton with satisfaction. 1t has br1dgeo
the gulf between the old empire and
the third Reich.
The efficient Hitler propaganda has
convinced even the most intelligent
Germans that every nation in the
world is bent on destroying Germany
and on keeping its people in continual
servitude. The German people have
been told-and they have no means
of controlling what the standardized
government press Is writing-that
10000 airplanes are around the
Reich's frontier, ready to play havoc
with the German towns and factories
where the German are earning a
livelihood.
Real wages have sunk, since Hitler
came into power by Is per cent; the
standard of living has sunk. Eggs and
butter are rare luxury for the Ger
man wage and salary Garner. But
the specter of a united Europe ready to
cross the air frontiers of Germany
and bring about destruction makes the
German people bear every conceivable
hardship.
The silver jubilee Of King George
Of England is a gold jubilee for the
British workers. The great festival,
celebrated by millions of English peo-
pie, has caused the circulation Of vast
Evening star., 1935-05-17
FLAGS WEAR RAPIDLY

Never-say-die patriots can believe
that "Old Glory will float on high
forever, but officials of the National
Parks Service know better, statiSti-
cally speaking.
AS custodians of Government build
ings, they have found a well-stitched
flag will fly for three months under
clear skies, but in inclement weather
Is reduced to tatters in six weeks.
Evening star., 1935-05-17
Referendum POSTPONED.

LAUREL. Md. May II Especially -
The Mayor and City Council have
decided that the Sunday movie refer
endum should be postponed until the
next regular election. The vote will
include Sunday base ball and basket
ball.
Evening star., 1935-05-17

sums of money, which would not
otherwise have been spent. The banks
have issued during the celebration no
less than $150,00o, 900 extra currency.
and almost every section Of Britain's
industrial and commercial life has
benefited by this expenditure.
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The Lancashire mills, which have
been having a hard time owing to
japanese competition, have now been
working overtime to fill orders for
flags, streamers and bunting.
Millions OF extra globes have been
produced by the electric lamp manu-
facturers, while the pottery industries
have produced no less than 5000, 900
jubilee mugs for the children.