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Evening star., 1935-04-16
Lynchings a Reproach
To American Civilization
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Current discussion of the Costigan-
Wagner anti-lynching bill shows that
some people still place credence in
the old fallacy that the crime Of
lynching originates in the righteous
indignation Of reputable citizens at
the slow processes of the law or
miscarriage Of justice. However, the
facts indicate that lynch mobs do
not uphold, but violate the law, JUS
tice and civilization.
Murder by a mob is still murder,
but its effects are worse because the
active participation Of many persons
debauches entire communities and
plunges them into anarchy. The
lynch mob solves no problems of per-
sonal, social or economic maladjust-
ment, but institutes a reign Of terror
and lawlessness and sets an example
of immunity for the brutal and de-
generate.
In the last so years there have
been 5,073 recorded lynchings, both
white and colored, Of whom SO were
women. In many instances the crime
was trivial, and in only small per-
centage Of cases was there the charge
| of rape or murder. The methods OF
execution have included beating to
death, hanging, shooting, burning
and prolonged and obscene tortures.
States where lynchings most fire.
| quently occur have taken no steps
to prevent them. so 1t devolves upon
the Federal Government to enforce
the amendment to the Constitution
which guarantees to all citizens the
equal protection of the law. Each
year when there has been a cam
paign for Federal legislation against
lynching the number has decreased
during the time Congress was in ses-
sion. When Congress adjourned with
out action on anti-lynching bills the
weeks following brought renewed out
breaks of this crime
Americas lynch record is better
known in other parts of the world
than to many of our own citizens
and our proclamations on the rights
of small nations and minority races
are regarded as hypocritical so long
as the Federal Government abandons
those within our own borders to bar
baric torture and death at the hands
of mobs
The Senate Committee on the Ju-
dietary considers the Costigan-Wag-
ner anti-lynching bill constitutional
and has recommended its enactment
as appropriate legislation" The
facts regarding lynching, as disclosed
at a recent hearing, will probably
astonish many of our citizens, and
suggest that they try to get this
information and then urge Congress
to pass law which will discourage
and punish lynchers.
GERTRUDE B. STONE.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Pope's Warning of War Peril
Echoed i'm Press of America

The press of this country acclaims
and echoes the denunciation of war
by Pope Piux XI in his address to
an aSsemblage of cardinals.
THE churches may not be able
to prevent war in the present age -
says the Winston-Salem IN. c.
Journal. "s the causes of
war are deep and complicated and
the mere desire for peace does not
wipe out those economic necessities
which plead for war" But, the Jour-
nal concludes, "the churches can lay
the foundations of broad philosophy
of peace which will bear fruit with
the passing years"
Pope Plus" the Youngstown Vim
dicator declares, lis universally rec
ognized as one Of the strongest men
who have guided the affairs of the
church. It is not to be expected that,
in case of another war, he would
be silent. In the World War the
church was content to let its COM
municants follow the dictates of their
national leaders. Should another war
come within the next few years, or
within the lifetime Of the present
Pontiff, we should look to the Vati-
can to take vigorous steps to pre-
vent it."
"The Pope's moving denunciation
Of war, his manifest anguish of soul
at the thought that the peoples of
the world could again be forced to
face the horrors of modern warfare,
intensified by unremitting labor since
the armiStice in devising new agencies
of destruction" accordi ng to the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. will
be echoed by every other lover of
mankind. The prayers which he has
ordered to avert such calamity will
strengthen the moral forces which
are at work to prevent such a calam-
ity to mankind. In addition to such
moral forces there are, as Pope Plus
points out, physical and material
factors that make war at this time
inconceivable. All the world knows
what these are. Europe admittedly
is in a state of apprehension which
is beginning to cause competitive
arming, an all-around strengthening
Of national defenSeS."
"After 2,000 years Of precept and
prayer" observes the San Francisco
Chronicle, "the consent of mankind
to receive the message Of the Prince
Of Peace has not yet been attained.
The processes Of conversion, as the
Pope takes pains to point out, may
once more be too slow for the
processes Of modern mobilization.
The timetable Of the last war was
three weeks. German plans were
set to decide the war in that time.
When Belgian resistance and British
strategy slowed 1t to six weeks the
timetable changed to over four
years and gave the victory then to
the other side. Now the French fear
that the timetable Of the new war
will be three hours. Only q miracle
could speed the infiltration Of the
grace of God into the hearts Of repro
bate men to outrun that schedule.
s"s The only final peace Is the
one the Pope prays for-the peace
Of God. And even he Is far from
sure Of the early arrival Of that
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Answers Mr.. Steer on
Rights of Pedestrians

To the Editor of The Star:
have read with interest the letter
OF Henry B. Steer in The Star headed
Pedestrians Prone to Ignore Traffic
Lights" I have just returned from
a trip of over a thousand miles, in
the course Of which I visited a num-
ber Of cities and observed the traffic
situation. It is a serious problem
in all cities and the District of Co.
lumbia is no worse than any other
Of the same size and population. The
statement Of Mr.. Steer that the
pedestrians dare the automobile
drivers to hit them is plain apple
sauce. No sane person wants to go
to the hospital. I suggest to the
gentleman who has been driving a
car for five years to leave his car
in the garage and take a walk with
me in the busy hours of traffic.
will prove to him that he is talking
as car sitter and chaf1ng under the
collar about waiting few seconds.
God help the people Of Washington
II they do not obey the lights. There
would not be enough hospitals in the
District Of Columbia to take care of
the injured. Try to make the cross
ing at Ninth and K streets during
the busy hours! You move when
the green light appears. Here come
flock of cars down Ninth street
making the turn in front of you.
Thus delayed. you get halfway over
when the lights change and another
flock Of cars comes racing at you. The
same condition exists at Seventh
street and Mount Vernon place.
These are only two of the many
dangerous spots for pedestrians.
Some of these drivers when facing
the red light cannot hold their cars
still, but keep inching up to hold
the pedestrian from crossing. OF
course there are number of drivers
who are nervous, others are suffering
with mental trouble. There should
be a mental examination Of all op-
orators of automobile trucks and cars.
One taxi driver was arrested four times
for speeding. His brother -in-law
visited the court and refused to pay
his fine until he promised to give up
driving car. Taxis in every section
Of the city cut corners on the green
light, endangering the lives and limbs
Of those who step down. The fact
that pedestrians cannot make the
opposite curb in time does not give
driver the right to run them down.
The drivers showed more respect for
pedestrians when the traffic police
were on the job, for the knew they
were watched.
WILLIAM G. CONNOR.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

We speak not Of those extraordinary
persons, with the memories of ele-
phants, who are supposed to be able
| to recall faces-and names-of persons
seen but once q quarter Of a century
ago.
There is always some particular
reason, such as duty or gain, which
impellS them to train memory al
ready tenacious Of such things.
We speak only of the average per-
son who, walking a downtown street,
on business or pleasure bent, happens
to meet some one he saw years ago.
Every day, no doubt, he does the
same thing. but often he forgets, does
not recognize, perhaps does not even
see.
This time his eyes look at a par
says to his mind, Why, know that
man-let me See"
! X Il ~
It goes without saying that the
person hugely immersed in what are
known popularity as his own affairs
will scarce be in a position to recog-
nize any one.
These "own affairs" often are moth
ing but moodineSs, although their
holder may regard them as sacred.
Every one knows the clutter of ideas
| generally regarded as sacred to the
holder.
1t is with the mind, however, as
with old shelves in cupboards, often
it holds things doing nobody any good,
least of all the owner.
He who dashes through traffic, often
at peril to his life, without once
noticing any one he meets, is losing
something out of an otherwise inter-
esting life.
Opportunity ought to be taken by
every one, when compelled to thread
our dangerous streets, to get the most
out of the experience.
Not only will interest in ones fel-
low pedestrians achieve this end, to
a certain extent, but it may be the
means of saving ones very life.
This business of going along with
the head down is dangerous.
X y 4 y
The curious thing about meeting a
known face is that one Is pleased with
the face of somebody one does not
like.
Just for a second, the famous split
second" the pedestrian finds himself
mildly thrilled with recognition which
does away completely with all hates,
! dislikes, resentmentS.
/ Tf fkic aattll Re 4
! for a time. what revolutions might
not be wrought in this world of envy,
spleen, disaster.
| One speculates idly, going along
If the mood of pleasant surprise can
| be attained at all, even for the part
| of second. why cannot 1t be stretched
to twice the length? If it could be
prolonged two or three times might
| it not be given an additional life, as
it were-might it not even become
permanent?
| 1t might, of course, but 1t seldom
does. The thread of illusion snaps.
| The feeling of wonder over recogni-
ton gives way to doubt
why, he isn't stranger-I know
| him!"
Even in the moment of recognition,
the pleasure of knowing this one face
out of so many unknown faces, leads
but on to the reality Of hate.
The unknown, giving way to the
known, almost instantly becomes the
unknown again, that terrible igno-
rance and misunderstanding Of each
other which is the bane of humanity
! and religion.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
The Shipping Bill.

A ship subsidy bill, designed to meet
the recommendations of President
Roosevelt that the present system OF
government aid to the American
merchant marine be scrapped for a
frankly stated subsidy" was intro
duced in the Senate and House yes
terday. The measure. sponsored in
the Senate by Senator Copeland Of
New York and in the House by Repre-
sentative Bland of Virginia, provides
for three forms of subsidy to American
shipping. There is to be Government
aid for construction of ships, for
operation of ships in overseas COM
merce and for the development and
promotion Of trade.
Under the terms Of the bill a new
agency is to be set UP to handle the
government Of shipping. The present
Evening star., 1935-04-16

peace. BY the experience OF 1000
years. he knows how slow the pace
is when it has to work through so
refractory a medium as the human
heart"
The Pontiff's plea in the opinion
Of the Birmingham (Ala.) News,
ought to have high moral effect
on statesmen, as well as on the
people, at a time when moral lead
ership against war is needed" The
New York Sun AYERS: 1T was
stern warning to those willing 70
push to suicide, to ruin and ex-
termination not only their own nation,
but a great part of humanity The
climax of the allocution came In the
declaration of the Pope that II the
desire to commit the 'nefarious crime
persisted he could only pray God
TO scatter those peoples who desire
war"
Pope Plus can do much to shame
nations out of war" thinks the Tulsa
(Okla.) World, while the Scranton
(PaD Times holds that European
statesmen are certain to pause and
consider his observations. The New
Haven Journal-Courier is convinced
that I'VE know in our hearts that
the civilization we have built can
hardly survive another general en-
gagement."
He eEdesvors," according to the
Topeka (Kans) Daily Capital, &c
rally the scattered and Intellectual
forces Of ChriStendom to the stand.
ard of the Prince of Peace. But
ruling governments give 1t small note
in their egoistic schemes of place
and power. Two thousand years,
after all. are but as yesterday when
it has passed. or a watch in the
night in the long course Of human
history"
Evening star., 1935-04-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
As History Repeats,

As History Repeats.
Every year
A man makes resolutions fine,
Then breaks EN- all without a sign
OF grim remorse or prudent fear.
He vows he'll skip the April chill
That marks the opening base ball
thrill.
Yet he's among the first to cheer
Every year.
Every year
He rents q place and tells his wife
That here they'll settle down for life,
And still the moving van draws
near.
We think our destinies We'll change
And yet We find as forth we range
The same old laugh, the same old
tear.
Every year.
Evening star., 1935-04-16

Nothing will take the conceit out
of a man quite so much as walking
around large city.
There are so many persons one does
not know!
Hundreds of faces, thousands of
faces, all equally strange.
1t gives one a queer mental feeling
to realize that of these thousands of
faces one probably will never see any
of them again.
The city resident given to walking
in traffic might pass this way once a
day for the rest of his life and never
recognize a face.
There is something solemn about
such a thought.
1t tells us once again the old fact
that, in the last analysis, every one
must live his life alone.
Surely, one Is never quite so lone
some as when walking with, in and OF
the crowds.
The fact that here and there men
will be seen standing and talking
laughing together, brings home to the
pedestrian his solitariness. He is
aware more than ever that he is alone
How happy, then, the sight of a
face he knows!
This is little enough experience
still if one happens to think of it in
its true light, at the very time it is
happening, he is sure to be just a
little thrilled at the encounter, as
tame and everyday as it may strike
some.
If thing is going to strike one at
all, it might better be from the angle
of its good side or sides.
X X X
One of the beauties of these chance
encounters is that it makes no differ
ence whether one likes the fellow or
not
Thus the mean little differences
evolved in living, differences of opin-
ion which often shame one, are swept
aside as easily as a walker walks
All one sees, in yonder approaching
face. is something familiar.
Now, every human being ought to
seem familiar to every other. and
does, in a sense, but when it comes to
the exact arrangement of features
commonly called familiar" the thing
is different
A face is a face, but the face we
know, whether to speak to or not, is
something different. We may not
even know the man, but we have seen
him before, some place or other; we
hail him inwardly, at least; bell is
pushed that seems to play a tune we
have heard.
X X
Many have speculated from time to
time, on just exactly what it is, in
the familiar face, which makes it
familiar.
A mouth, a nose, two eyes-every
one has these. along with ears.
Perhaps it is not so much the fea-
ture, after all, as the general carriage,
the set of head or neck, the general
thickness or thinness. which one
recognizes in crowd, and in hurry.
The mouth and the eyes, undoubt-
edly, stand out as leaders of all the
features.
These are what we look to, and at,
to determine If we know the passerby.
If familiar, they seem to push a
call button. and We say to ourself,
Where have I seen him?"
This is what is known as a good
memory for faces. The person who
has a good memory in this way will
be able to recognize instantly faces
seen but once, and perhaps as long
ago as 10 years.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Laughter.

No one, says News-Week, ever has
heard Adolph Hitler laugh. The
statement, of course, may be an ex-
aggeration. Even a dictator must have
moments when the comedy of life is
compelling enough to prompt the ordi-
nary natural reaction. 1t happens
that laughter is a normal manifesto
ton Of comprehension of the ludicrous,
and there is much in the world that
properly may be so described. Thomas
Carlyle believed that there is a patho-
logical explanation for those who are
habitually and conspicuously sober.
''The man who cannot laugh" he de-
eided, "is not only fit for treasons,
strategems and spoils, but his whole
life is already a treason and a strate-
gem" And William Makepeace
Thackeray supported the historians
contention in the remark: People
who do not know how to laugh are
always pompous and self-conceited."
But there is another side to the
question. Lord Chesterfield, a gal
liant master of manners who was not
at all a misanthrope, told his biog-
rapher: IT am sure that since I had
the use Of my reason no human being
has ever heard me laugh" Francis
0uarles likewise put himself on record
to much the same effect when he
wrote:
Wrinkle not thy face with too much
laughter, lest thou become ridiculous;
neither wanton thy heart with too
much mirth, lest thou become vain;
the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and
profuseness of laughter is the city OF
fools.
Doubtless, a certain sweet reason
ableness Is what is wanted in the
circumstances. Leigh Hunt was wise
Evening star., 1935-04-16
The D. A. R.

The Daughters of the American
Revolution are assembled for another
continental congress. For at least a
week members of the organization and
their friends will be in Washington,
and 1t is not too much to say that the
city will be theirs during every moment
Of their stay. They are not strangers
and stand in need of no special well
come. On the contrary, it was here
that their order was established,
October IL, 1890, and for that reason
they may claim TO be home folks" in
the true and accurate meaning of that
phrase.
But there may be an occasional in
dividual who does not understand the
fundamental importance of the
D. A. R., and for his benefit, if for
none other it may be explained that
the society is composed of women who
are descendants of those who with
unfailing loyalty rendered material aid
10 the cause of independence as a
recognized patriot, as soldier or sailor
or as a civil officer in one of the
several colonies or States" Sum-
married In epigramatic form, its pur-
poses are:
To perpetuate the memory of the
spirit of the men and women who
achieved American independence; to
promote institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge; to cherish
maintain and extend the institutions
Of American freedom; to foster true
patriotism and love of country; and
to aid in securing for mankind all the
blessings of liberty.
And these objects, it is we'll to
remember, are served most effectively
in and through the homes of the
land. It was among domestic scenes
that the fame of liberty first fiuttered
into life--the background of the
struggle for emancipation from Brit
ish tyranny was that of thousands
Of simple, unpretending f1resides
around which not merely the men,
but also the women and the chill
dren of the unborn Republic gathered
to discuss the destiny Of the new
civilization of which they were part
Nor could the revolving Americans
have succeeded in their endeavor to
throw off the yoke of alien misrule
had they lacked that social founda-
ton. It was, in sober truth, the
homes of America that rose against
George III. From their resources
came the spiritual as we'll as the
physical, endowment of new Ma
tion, conceived in liberty and dedi-
Gated to the proposition that all men
are created equal"
Furthermore, it is from the homes
that the power to maintain and ex-
tend the institutions of American
freedom" must be derived. The an
nual meeting of the D. A. r. demon
srates both the principle and the
practice of the democracy without
which the United States could not
survive. The Daughters, it happens,
likewise are wives and mothers, and
in those characters are the guardians
OF the national hearth. They keep
the traditions and protect the ideals
Of the glorious past in the interest
Of an equally glorious future. The
Nations Capital, obviously. is the
proper place for their work to be
centered and correlated.
Evening star., 1935-04-16

Sapient comment has been ventured
about the experiment of giving this
country back to the American Indians.
Indian traditions as preserved by Tam
many braves will not encourage the
idea,
Evening star., 1935-04-16

It is the opinion of Secretary Nor
genthau that the financial jam is
broken. Expert study is devoted to
seeing who, if anybody, gets his fingers
into the jam pot.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Identification.

From the Macon (Ga) Telegraph.
An Illinois parent wants to have
his 5-year-old twin daughters finger
printed so that he won't spank the
wrong one, but some authorities hold
that in a case of that sort there
amt no wrong one.
Evening star., 1935-04-16

The D. A. r. has always had vigor-
Gus contests within its ranks as a
proper reminder that the fighting
spirit survives within the Nation.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Laughter.

Here's to the laugh that seems to tell
OF a state of mind where all is well;
The laugh that rippleS with hun1or gay
Like a flash Of sun on gloomy day!
But who shall echo the laugh that
shows
A'friends mistake or a foeman's woes,
The laugh that is empty and insincere,
The laugh that only conceals sneer?
Evening star., 1935-04-16

A new brand Of craftsmanship sug-
gests a situation showing the populace
lined up at the United States Treasury
With meal tickets to be punched at
discretion.
Evening star., 1935-04-16

It is feared that the Government
may be in practical ownership of all
industry. The right to levy taxes Of
all kinds implies an elemental pro-
prietary interest.
Evening star., 1935-04-16

mon inheritance from a remote past.
Others are due almost entirely, he
believes, to the changes in way Of
life brought about by mans lengthen-
ing childhood. 80.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
The Habit of COmnlaint.

IHc hdUHV VI OOIHIpfufHGs
II suppose you were thankful for
the heavy rain"
"Oh, yes" replied Farmer Corn
tossel: though I don't see why them
weather folks couldn't pervide to keep
it in the fields instead of lettin' 1t
stray around, muddin' up the roads"
Evening star., 1935-04-16

Hitler enforces his argument that
Germany should be permitted to re-
arm by calling attention to the fact
that she has already done so.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Superhuity.

you never admit having made a
mistake!"
Whats the use?" asked Senator
Sorghum. when I make a mistake
there are always plenty of people to
talk about it without my joining in"
Evening star., 1935-04-16

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news dispatches credited to it or not other
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local news published herein. All rights Of
publication Of special dispatches herein
are also reserved.
Evening star., 1935-04-16
No Relief Rolls Then.

From the Cincinnati Times-star. p
Prehistoric American horses seem
to have had four toes; In those barren
old days everything had to scratch
for o living. -
Evening star., 1935-04-16
Suitability.

Aren't some of the hats women
wear absurd?"
YES" replied Miss. Cayenne; "and
yet when some people put them on
they Do look So appropriate"
Evening star., 1935-04-16
A Rhyme at Twilighhll
By :;
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Just a Song

Just a Song &fs
Lend me the melod::' OF your low voice
In song, at end Of day. *
I like to watch you while your tender
hands
Over the ivories stray. SFa
In this dim room, where books ana
music vie, So
And where you sing, 20
With curtains drawn to shut the wide
world out, SIS
! am your king. -
- -
Evening star., 1935-04-16
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