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What are likely to be the results?


First would put the rise prices It is likely that the
general level of prices living costs will be raised
shortage of wheat and in other the SURPRISES will be
cut down Thus while farszed and cotton crops are
still possible jumped the limit yesterday for trading
period and cotton has been climbing steadily.
Grass and other forage being curtailed
shortage of grain and other feed affects dairy products
such milk and butter.
Livestock have be shipped slaughtered This eventu
ally affects the supply of hides, fats, and meats.
Then the various substitutes rise in price, such as vegetable
oils.
In this connection that the surplus stocks of
many commodities have been dcngng and much smaller
than 193for example, wheat and cotton This makes
sharp rise in prices much more probable.
Furthermore the initiation of the that has been 60
ing on is there like finder waiting be touched off N The
dollar has been undervaued by the Roosevelt crowd (2)
Excessive bank credit has been piled up by the Roosevelt
borrow-andspend policy.
If crop shortages and rising prices become all
this potential initiation may be touched off by Of
precautionary and speculative buying.
Already an average of IL commodity futures has jumped
back the highest since August 1884 and average OF
Is spot prices is up to the level of October, 1885
Other arreachn effects become possible Of course
purchasing power will be reduced This likely to hurt the
sale of farm implements, mail order merchandise etc.
The railways which the droughsrcken will
suffer- The dealers and handlers of the will suffer
Exports of farm products will be reduced.
In ways, business recovery may be retarded
rain does not come very SOON
Then there are the political effects
The worse the drought becomes the farm discomfort
there will be-
The higher the of living RISES and the unempoy
ment there u.s. the labor discomfort there will be-
Of course the New Dealers will pour out their borrowed
funds like water. But it will not be water. No gentle rain
of Government checks atone.
In fact the performance will make spectacle of the folly
of those who have claimed that Government planning and
spending create security and prosperity.
It will be driven home to the minds of farmers and aborers
that acreagejuggng, pigkling ynkerng Govern
ment is panacea They will ask, did WE plan that
way?"
Truly, the little who promises abundant life to
from political DEAL assumes great RESPONSE
bility.
But all is lost. Many winter wheat rasers making
killing, and spring wheat in Washington and Oregon is
still good There shortage of cotton. Higher prices
thanks to the good old law Of supply and demandare
partial offset to farmers Meat packers vegetable oil
ducers all those who have inventories will benefit If
Canada helped, she buy of manufactures
And maybe before the July Is dead ne rain will be sent
by the power that rules the destiny of manbo before and
afte New Deal.
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By LEWIS HANEY

Professor Of Economics, New York University
Evidently going to have to settle down to deal with
another drought problem
The facts are that large Of the country the rainfall
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the death house i've months and q
half ago, her hair has turned white
and she has been unable to take any
exercise whatsoever. Her limbs stif-
fened by sciatic pains which prison
doctors said were induced by nervous
fear, she has remained bedridden,
eating but one scanty meal q day.
Her vocal cords also are benumbed.
Guards said she muttered occasionally
and once in q while was able to speak
. coherent sentence aloud.
Applegate. however. has evinced lit
tie concern over the impending execu-
ton. He has steadfastly denied help
ing Mrs. Creighton put the lethal po-
ton in the "nourishing" egg drink for
his 220-pound wife.
At the joint trial Of the two, the
State sought to show that Applegate
had been intimate with Ruth Creigh-
ton, and that learning Of this. Mrs.
Creighton had plotted with him to
poison Mrs. Applegate 80 that he
would be free to marry Ruth.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
WOMAN SLAYER
TOD|E THURSDAY
Mrs. Creighton, ParaIyzed,
Hopes for Last-Minute
Intervention.
Ry the Associated Press.

~ tslS AeSOCtdIcQ FIeSS.
OSSINING. N. Y, July litter
ally paralyZed and almost speechless
from fear. Mrs. Mary Frances Creigh-
ton, 36, mother of two, tossed on a
cot in Sing Sings sweitering death
house tonight as prison officials made
arrangements to carry her bodily to
the electric chair Thursday night.
Mrs. Creighton was sentenced to die
with Everett Applegate for the poison
egg-nog murder of Applegate's pom
derous wife, Ada, last october.
Attendants disclosed that physi-
clans had satisfied themselves. by
thrusting pins into Mrs. Creighton's
legs, that she was not shamming. The
pin pricks brought no reaction what
ever, they said
Asked how she felt, Mrs. Creighton
tnoaned, very miserable"
In another cell, Mrs. Dorothy Sher-
wood, 20, rejoiced at news that the
Court of Appeals had granted her a
new trial on a charge Of drowning
her 2-year-old son, Jackie She will
be removed from the death house
soon.
As the hour for Mrs. Creighton's ex-
ecution neared, her only remaining
hope Of reprieve lay with Gov. Herbert
Lehman. Some prison attendants
thought last-minute physical exam
ination might be made in efforts to
gain a communication of her sentence to
life imprisonment.
Attorneys for both Mrs. Creighton
and Applegate appealed the death sem
tences. but the Court of Appeals ruled
against them. Last week petition
for a new trial by Mrs. Creighton was
Evening star., 1936-07-12
BUSINESS MEN TO HOLD
OUTING ON THURSDAY
Hazen and McConihe Will Be
Guests at Estate on Chesa.
peake Bay.

The Federation of Business Mems
Associations will hold its annual out
ing Thursday on the estate Of Martin
Hysong at Broadwater Beach, Chesa-
peake Bay.
Honor guests will be Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen and Malcolm Nc
Conihe, Democratic national commit
teeman. Members Of the Georgia Ave-
nue., Central and Brookland- Wood
ridge Business Mems Associations will
also attend as guests.
Entertainment will include base ball
a tug-of-war, races. boating. bathing,
fishing. grabbing and horseshoes, fol-
lowed by sea food dinner at 6 pm.
Those attending will drive down in a
group with q police escort Members
are asked to assemble at Thirteenth
and N streets at 2 pm. Reservations
should be sent in before Tuesday. 1t
was announced,
Evening star., 1936-07-12

also ruled out. 1t was sought because
Mrs. Creighton's l6-year- daugh-
ter, Ruth, had written a letter saying
Evening star., 1936-07-12

that Applegate had told her he alone
was going to poison Mrs. Applegate.
Since Mrs. Creighton was brought to
Evening star., 1936-06-07
APPROACHES TO TRUTH
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E FREEMAN d. d, IL d, D. L.
BISHOP

Pilgrims in the Region of Faith" Is
the title of an engaging book given me
by its author many years ago. 1t deals
with men who, while not protesting a
Christian faith, were so close to its
ideals that all unconsciously they were
on the frontiers of that conception Of
life given to the world by Jesus Christ.
In the characters he portrays the author
indicates not only the doubts but the
faith of those who in sincerity were
seeking for light on pathways that
seemed obscure and uncertain. 1t is
probably true of all men that they come
to their religious faith ard convictions
by devious ways and more often than
not with much Of speculation and mis-
giving. AS a matter Of fact, those, who
come at length to the satisfaction of
their deepest, spiritual yearnings do so
by ways that are difficult and confusing.
Jesus was ever generous and respon-
Sive TO men and women Of this type. On
one occasion a man Of this temper came
to Him acknowledging His high claims
as teacher and affirming His allegiance
to the ancient Jewish law. He was not
ready to become an adherent Of the
Masters but he did accept in part at
least the deep principles Jesus had come
to proclaim. He was not repelled be-
cause of lis limited faith nor was he
rejected for lack of complete obedience
to Christ's will. On the contrary he re-
ceived encouragement to further prose-
cute his search for truth by Christ's
hopeful word to him: Thou art not
far from the Kingdom Of God"
In all His contacts with men and
women there was always the note of ex-
pectancy in Christ's reaSsuring word.
He stimulated faith in clouded minds
by the generosity of His understanding
of the limitations under which man ap-
preached Him. 1t was only from those
whose insincerity was apparent that He
turned away. However feeble the ex-
preston of faith in Him might be. He
stimulated 1t by His ready response to
its appeal. Where an approach was
made to Him that was characterized by
genuineness and sincerity of purpose it
found Him glad to recognize its merits
Evening star., 1936-06-07

and to be generous to its defects. Re
peatedly in long ministry that has had
to do with all sorts and conditions Of
men, have found the way Of Christ the
only way of dealing with those whose
partial religious faith was born either
of ignorance or of doubts. I recall the
instance Of one Of the great editors and
journalists to whom I was called years
ago, who strikingly illustrates this. The
man in question was of strong INTEL
lectual type. widely read and of COM
manding distinction. Upon first ap-
proach to him he admoniShed me that
he had long since thought through his
religious convictions and that what he
held of Christian faith was obscured in
the mists of many doubts. My repeated
visits to him, for he was an invalid, af-
forded opportunity for friendly discus
sions Of his mental reactions to Christian
truth. At no time did we employ argu-
ment or unduly press the claims of the
Christian religion. We accepted what
he had Of faith with due respect for its
limitations. Quite unconsciously he was
nearer the Kingdom Of God than he
realized. The period Of our conversa-
tions was long and to me always illumi-
mating.
One day he sent for me and with evi-
dent deep satisfaction told me his doubts
had all been diSsipated, his vision
cleared and he was prepared to acknowl-
edge the Saviorhood of Christ His
baptism. at an advanced age, was one
Of the most exhilarating experiences
have ever known. He had been brought
to an obedient discipleship, not through
argument, but through the Masters
method Of encouragement. Thousands
Of men and women. like this intellectual
journalist, are as pilgrims in the re-
gion of truth" They will hardly be
moved by excess of argument or per-
Suasion, they will respond to a persistent
presentation of Him whose winsomeness
is compelling and irresistible. The
strongest argument for Christs way of
life is Christ Himself To some faith
may be "the bright serenity Of an I'M
clouded vision; to others it is the angel
Of an agony, the boon Of daily and
hourly conflict.
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Author of a Deathless Song.

Many Washingtonians must have been
happy to hear of the unveiling of mon
urnent to James ryder Randall at
Augusta, Ga, recently. The Federal
City has certain claim to be interested
in any movement to honor his life and
work. He was educated at Georgetown
College and, in later years, was secre-
tary to Representative w. H. Fleming
and Senator Joseph E. Brown and also
Capital correspondent for several South
ern newspapers.
But his fame depends upon his DEATH
less Song-the ever-beautiful, ever-in-
spring, Maryland, My Maryland" most
widely and durably popular of all State
ballads. The Dictionary of American
Biography tells the story of its genesis
as follows: From Florida, he moved in
1859 to New Orleans, where he was a
clerk In the office of ship broker, using
his leisure time for writing. The next
year he was invited to- become tutor in
Evening star., 1936-06-07

English and Latin in Poydras College,
Creole school in Pointe Coupee Parish,
and accepted the appointment. Here, in
April, 1861 he read the news of the at
tack on the Sixth Massachusetts, as it
marched through Baltimore and the
wounding of one Of his classmates when
the troops fired on the crowd. Deeply
stirred, he was unable to sleep, and rose
at midnight to jot down the lines begin
ming, The despot's heel is on thy shore
Next morning he read them to his pupils
and was urged to send the poem to the
New Orleans Delta. 1t appeared in the
Sunday edition, April 26, and was imme-
diately reprinted all over the South"
Misses Jennie and Hetty Cary adapt
ed the words to the music of an old
German folk melody. Within d few
weeks everybody in Dixie was singing the
schoolmaster's contribution to the Con-
federate cause. 1t spurred legions into
battle.
Yet Randall himself, modest and I'M
oooCAAAAAASJ NOuAO CAp1dlll llAo Illdo-
terpiece. Like Edgar Allan Poe and Sid
ney Lanier, he had theory of art, but
no vast confidence in its accuracy. In
stead, he was content merely to say that
his fingers were privileged to hold the
pen for Power vastly greater than any
human force. The divine spark glowed
in his heart for a multitude to see, but
who planted and famed the flame re-
mains an insoluble question. Meanwhile.
the world saluted the instrument, and
he, bashfully, accepted the applause with
gentle depreciation. A monument, doubt
less, would please him-if it encouraged
renewed faith in his faith, love for his
love of his native sod But his song is
his real glory, and there is every expecta-
ton that it will survive even the marble
of his efigy.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Old Man Trouble.

Olu NAN IrOu0le,
Old Man Trouble come a-knockin' at de
door.
Says, "You's had some bother an you
gineter hab some more.
See dat sun a-shinin' bright an warm up
in de sky?
He gineter git so hot he'll nearly melt
you by an by.
See dem little flowers a-bloomin' modest
and SO fair?
Deyll soon be hidden by de weeds
a-growin' everywhere.
De bird dat keeps a-singin', though it
helps to cheer you somo-
You'll never hear i'm warble when de
skeeter starts to hum.
Old Man Trouble, he siddown an rest
his hat.
But We had to move i'm 'roun' to brush
de ashes of de mat.
De way he KEEP a-talkin it would poster
ate a saint.
De things he says will happen is enough
to make you faint.
But We raped i'm wifi broomstick an
We splashed i'm wifi mop.
We spread de paint an whitewash every
where he tried to stop
Till Old Man Trouble says, III bid good
day to you.
1t amt no chance to visit when dars so
much work to do"
Evening star., 1936-06-07
DisharmOny.

The American electorate is now wit
Messing repetition of one of the phe-
nomena of politics apt to puzzle the Man
from Mars, the seventeen-year locusts
and others who have not been around
for long time. Out in Cleveland, on
the eve of a convention that must
choose a candidate strong enough to
wrest the rule from the Democrats, the
air is full of brickbats and other ugly
missiles hurled at the head of the lead
ing candidate. Hurled by Democrats?
No, by Republicans.
From the Borah camp statement is
issued, digging back into the past for
matter with which to smear Landon by
throwing In his face his letter to the
Evening star., 1936-06-07

that the Federal Government can pump
into the stream Of purchasing power?
The limit is imposed by the attitude
the Federal Government have their
money for spending.
AS for the theory that large deficit
expenditures are supposed to stir up
business activity. Increased business
activity means increased profits, and in
creased profits lead to higher tax re-
turns. With increasing business profits
and larger revenues, the time comes
when the Government can decrease its
expenditures and let business take over
the load.
Mr.. Roosevelt thinks that q big part
of this shift could have occurred in the
present year if the Supreme Court had
not upset his plans by over-ruling the
A. A. A.-thereby putting an $500 ,000, 900
hole in his budget-and If Congress had
not ordered payment of the soldiers
bonus.
Actually, the experience of the last
three years shows that the Federal
Government, venturing on a vast pro-
gram of bounties and subsidies, is unable
to regain control over its expenditures
because of group pressures on Congress.
Instead of decreasing once recovery
gets under way-as they were supposed
to do-the New Deal expenditures have
risen each year, even when counting
out the soldiers bonus, and they are
scheduled to increase again in the fiscal
year starting July l.
Harry Hopkins has the job Of repre-
senting that experiment in recovery
through spending. The country will
vote him up or down. His program
symbolizes the principal campaign issue.
tOcpyr!ght, 1850
Evening star., 1936-06-07

AN interesting case was recently de-
cided by the Court of Claims" says The
Star of June
Marine Band Not 12. 1886. which
Recognized in Law. - re ~ q n
the Marine Band has no legal existence
as such an organization. A man named
John Bond brought suit against the
United States for extra compensation as
a member of the Marine Band. He en-
listed in the Marine Corps at the Marine
Barracks october 29, 1879 as private
and was assigned to duty with the Marine
Band at the time of his enlistment, and
performed duty with the band as
private until May /, 1851, when he was
rated as musician. Between the date
of his enlistment and May !. 1881, the
Marine Band performed under proper
order on the Capitol Grounds and the
Presidents grounds. but the claimant
received no additional compensation
until he was rated as musician. The
court in deciding that he was entitled
to such compensation stated that section
1896 describes the organization of the
Marine Corps as consisting of certain
number of officers, non-commissioned
officers and privates, together with a
drum major, a principal musician, thirty
musicians, sixty drummers and sixty
fiferS, while section 1913 directs that
when the band is ordered to play on
the Capitol or White House grounds
extra compensation shall be given. The
accounting officers have ruled that addi-
tional pay could only be given to those
rated as musicians.
The Marine Corps was established in
ITS. and its band is one of the best
known organizations of the character in
the country. but. curiouSly, this band has
never had formal statutory recognition.
Drums and flies were provided for the
Navy as long ago as 1894 while in 1898
musicians then understood to mean
drummers and fiferS, were given to the
Marine Corps Other provisions similar
in character have been made from time
to time but no mention is made of q
musical organization until the laws now
condensed in section 1913 of the Revised
Statutes. That section reads as follows:
The Marines who compose the corps of
musicians known as the Marine Band
shall be entitled to receive at the rate
of 81 a month each in addition to their
pay as on-commissioned officers, musi-
clans or privates of the Marine Corps
so long as they shall perform by order
of the Secretary of the Navy or other
superior officer on the Capitol grounds
or the Presidents grounds The statute
does not say that the members of the
Marine Band shall receive extra COM
pensation. for no such band is known
to the law; but the pay is given to those
Marines who compose the corps of musi-
clans known as the Marine Band The
only other provision looking even in
directly to musical organization is that
of section 1896 allowing a drum ajor,
a principal musician, thirty musicians,
sixty drummers and sixty fifers. The
court decided that the claimant, pri-
vate in the Marine Corps, was one Of the
Marines who composed the organization
known as the Marine Band and was en-
titled to additional pay"
Evening star., 1936-06-07

President, in 1884, calling the civil works
program one of the "soundest, most con-
structive policies of your administration. +"
From George Moses comes more care
fully worded utterance against those who
indulge in tall talk about nomination
on the first ballot, which might indicate
that the convention will not be truly
deliberative body and that Frank Knox
will not be chosen. There will be more
such statements, and replies to state
ments. There will be more slurs on Lam
don, Borah, Knox, Taft ct al. There will
be whispering campaigns and shouting
campaigns and the use of every device
designed to belittle one candidate as
against the other.
But, unless Senator Borah chooses to
take a walk, week from today all the
name-calling and the mud singing will
have ceased and beautiful and sweet
harmony will have taken their places.
The candidate, sneered at today, will be
"our leader" tomorrow. Where there
was strife and bitterness, there will be
the strength of determined union. And
from the point of view Of the Republic
ans, the quicker there is-choice of cam
didate the better itwill be. A flrst-bal-
lot nomination is impressive enough to
carry weight psychologically. The more
fuss and bother over a candidate at
Cleveland, the more marked the contrast
with happy gathering at Philadelphia
a fortnight later.